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Notes from the couch: Jersey Couture edition.
et voilà!
New spring break pullover! It's stripy and wonderful — and super quick to knit. Dreamy, eh? All for only 3.5 skeins of Noro Taiyo in a kinda crazy set of colors.
I was inspired by the Equinox Raglan, but, in the end, the two don't have much in common. And I'm okay with that. This one was knit with aran-weight yarn on US10.5/6.5mm needles — so a loose, almost airy kind of fabric that bloomed up very nicely after a quick soak.
(Okay, it might still be a bit damp …)
That's my sweater, kitteh!
socks! glorious socks!
Another pair of slouchy socks. This time in Cascade 220 turquoise pebble (darker) and pacific (lighter).
And a bit of morning sunshine to show them off.
At the moment, these socks are all I really want to knit. They're so simple, so fun, so budget-friendly … and so quick. Pretty much everything it feels like the rest of my life isn't. I mean, dissertations take forever. So a sock in an evening or two? That feels like accomplishment.
A row here, a row there: voilà! a finished sock. I find it all very satisfying.
These are destined to be a gift. And I'm not sure there's anything cozier than worsted socks. Even on a Monday …
Alice approves
They started out life as that extra yarn my advisor gave me. A box-full of Cascade 220 in various heathered shades … one or two skeins of each color, so not a lot to work with in terms of cardigans or large projects or what have you. I dithered. Finally, last week it hit me: socks! Cozy, woolly, slouchy worsted socks.
The King of Socks, if you will
And I decided to get stripy with it. Kind of a melting transition pattern from the main color into the contrasting color, which is how they got their name: turtle + celery. They are quick, easy, cheap, and totally addictive. My pair for ladies' feet took less that one skein of two colors.
I've already got at least two other pairs planned … just from the advisor yarn.
p.s. I promise to stop with the Hipster-vision soon. Hipster-panorama.
new favorite thing
ho hum.
The blue table is back! It's a glorious sunny day here in Nashville — which feels a bit odd after a couple of weeks of Washington winter drear — and I decided to take full advantage of the surprise.
What you might not be able to see: this is the almost end of the last chart of Leaves of Grass … so close to the knit-on edging. So very far from a finished shawl.
I really am in love with this yarn. It's woolly and colorful and very tweedy. Perfect.
I bought some more in another color — thistle, a slightly shocking purple — and am already daydreaming about one more gigantic shawl. Or maybe a cardigan. Or pullover.
everyone wins …
merry happy!
From my corner of the world to yours: here's to relaxing, restoring holidays full of woolly love, handknit warmth, and maybe a festive cocktail or two!
Alice had to stay behind in Nashville, unfortunately, so no Northwest Christmas for her … though I doubt she would have relished the opportunity to meet my parents' gigantic (but very sweet and flail-y) new dog.
Life in Washington is trucking along … and it's good to be back. Catching up on neighborhood gossip and all those "do you remember so-and-so from high school?" stories. Even though I haven't really lived here since heading off for college (in 1998! oh, how time flies), it's still home. And I suspect it always will be, this damp old mill town.
As always, thanks for reading. Over the years (5: how could that be?!) this space has become another little home, so important to me and my crafty life in so many delightful, surprising ways. So onward into 2012!


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Power play: Chrysler 300C SRT8
Figuring 340 horses from the 5.7-liter, V-8 HEMI wasn't enough, Chrysler turned the 300C over to its Street and Racing Technology unit. Its first step: boring out the cylinders to provide 6.1 liters of displacement, a 6400 rpm redline and 420 pound-feet of torque at 4800 rpm. Oh, and another 85 horses. That brings the total to a whopping 425 hp.
Even more remarkable: The 300C SRT8 has a base price just south of $40,000 and should be in showrooms this spring.
The SRT8 gets a number of exterior design changes to set it apart from the rest of the clan. Most obvious are the body-colored bumpers, door handles and mirrors, as well as special SRT badging. A more practical change comes in the form of redesigned front and rear fascia to provide air ducting for brake cooling.
Whoever said you shouldn't mess with success didn't work for SRT. The gang at Chrysler's tuner division changed virtually everything about the already great V-8 HEMI that powers the 300C. From the block to the intake to the exhaust, everything gets reworked. All of these improvements get an anticipated 0-to-60 time under 5 seconds and a quarter mile in under 14 seconds, according to Chrysler. In a nice tip of the cap to the original HEMIs of the '60s and '70s, the engine gets an orange-painted cylinder block and black valve covers. The only transmission offered is a five-speed AutoStick providing fully automatic or manual shifting.
Suspension, Tires & Brakes
Lots of Mercedes-Benz technology went into the 300 from the outset. But all that extra power prompted some changes. The SRT team used larger anti-sway bars, Bilstein dampers and Brembo four-piston disc brakes fore and aft. The 20-inch forged aluminum wheels are shod with Goodyear F1 three-season tires. The overall ride height has been lowered as well.
For the price, the 300C already comes with a nicely appointed interior. It's not exactly Mercedes quality, but Chrysler clearly is spending a few more bucks to upgrade interiors, something Detroit's other two automakers could learn from. Upgrades for the SRT8 include suede seat inserts, an adjustable pedal cluster and textured leather trim on the steering wheel, shifter and door pulls. And a speedometer that reaches 180 mph.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: www.chrysler.com
Upping the ante
When Bentley's Continental GT debuted last year as the luxury automaker's "entry-level" coupe, the fastest and sexiest Bentley ever was the hottest car on the market. It quickly sold out of its first-year production run, leaving such luminaries as addled rocker Ozzy Osbourne scrambling to buy one.
Even as dealers continue to talk of getting premiums on the new 2005 model, Volkswagen-owned Bentley is raising the stakes with a super-luxe treatment from its Mulliner custom coachwork division.
The new Mulliner Driving Specification package which Bentley says was driven by customer demand for a sportier look includes 20-inch, two-piece alloy sports wheels; sportier treatments inside; indented hide for the roof headlining; diamond-quilted hides for the seats, doors and rear quarter panels; and a choice of piano black or dark-stained burr walnut veneer.
The Continental GT lists at $155,990; the Mulliner treatment adds a mere $11,000. Here's a quick look at what else you get with the Continental GT.
Based on the VW Phaeton's steel platform, the Continental weighs in at a hefty 5,358 pounds. Atop that frame sits a Bentley body like no other: a beautifully aerodynamic two-door that is thoroughly modern though retains Bentley styling cues from decades past. One look and you know wht they say you ride in a Rolls, but you drive a Bentley. This car screams, "Drive me!"
If the exterior has you fooled, just slip inside and you will know you are in a Bentley. With the Mulliner Driving Specification, the cockpit now features drilled alloy sport pedals and a new gear level featuring a Bentley-logo knob and aluminum surround. Exquisite leather also gets the full winged logo treatment, as well as the classic Bentley diamond-quilted hides found in the Arnage T.
The 6-liter, twin-turbo W-12 produces an impessive 551 horsepower at 6,100 rpm and 479 pound-feet of torque at a mere 1,600 rpm, more than enough to compensate for the car's heft. If you want Ferrari-like acceleration look elsewhere; but if 0 to 60 in 4.7 seconds and a top speed of 198 mph is sufficient, then the Continental will get you where you need to be on time.
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Kissing cousins
If that's truly the case, then the arrival last year of the VW Touareg and Porsche Cayenne comprises the perfect one-two combination. To keep costs down, the companies shared development costs, engineering resources and production efficiencies. While neither automaker would call the SUVs the same, they are certainly kissing cousins.
The new vehicles are big and risky bets by both carmakers. The Cayenne moves Porsche beyond its revered status as a premier maker of two-seat sports cars into the hottest auto segment, providing the added financial safety of a broader product line. As former Porsche Cars North America CEO Fred Schwab says, the Cayenne is a "bet-the-company SUV." Working in Porsche's favor: 40 percent of its customer base also owns SUVs. The Touareg, along with the upcoming Phaeton sedan, marks VW's foray into the luxury car segment under its own badge (it owns Audi, Bentley, Bugatti, Lamborghini and Rolls-Royce). Maker of the world's top-selling car the decidedly unluxurious Golf VW wants a piece of car buyers' seemingly insatiable appetite for luxury.
For anyone who hasn't taken the SUV plunge, the Cayenne and Touareg offer amazing performance along a remarkably broad range of price points. An entry-level 2004 Touareg starts at about $35,000 while the heartier and recommended V8 starts at $41,000. The 2004 Cayenne S starts at $55,000 while the '04 Turbo can easily add up to $95,000 with options. Below we take a look at the Touareg, which has made just about every Top 10 list (including being named Motor Trend's' 2004 SUV of the Year) and the Cayenne Turbo, which is, well, a Porsche and the fastest SUV on the planet.
Porsche Cayenne Turbo
The Turbo a $33,000 price bump from the base S model boasts a twin-turbo, 4.5-liter V8 delivering 450 hp at 6000 rpm, enough to get the Cayenne's 5,100-plus pounds from 0 to 60 in slightly more than 5 seconds, just a step behind a nonturbo 911 Carrera. Top speed: 165 mph.
While the Cayenne may lack a Porsche's classic looks, from the front, the family resemblance is obvious. Ride height has a range from 4.56 inches up to a maximum ground clearance of 10.75 inches and automatically lowers as the vehicle's speed increases (1.5 inches lower at 130 mph).
The exterior may be unfamiliar, but the inside is pure Porsche. Copious amounts of leather and suede are accented by aluminum trim and the familiar Porsche instrumentation. Five people fit snugly with room behind the rear seats for a modest amount of luggage.
Volkswagen Touareg
The entry-level model's V6 delivers only 220 hp but is surprisingly responsive thanks to a sharp six-speed automatic transmission. Wisely stepping up to the V8 gets you the same 310 hp engine that powers the Audi A8. VW plans to offer a version with the Phaeton's 414 hp W12 engine.
The name may be silly (say TOO-regg), but the look is refined, taking cues from the Passat. Overall size is on par with far pricier offerings from BMW, Lexus and Range Rover. Underneath, you get 11.8 inches of ground clearance and the ability to ford 22.8 inches of water for really rainy days.
Once inside, you are treated to a pleasing mix of real wood, aluminum, leather trim and sensible instrumentation. Don't expect to haul the soccer team around: the Touareg seats only five. But it is still spacious, thanks to unibody construction, which allows for a lower floor.
Luxe life
Luxury sedans
Believe it or not, the Lexus LS is about to embark on its fourth generation. The sedan that forever changed the luxury car market in North America gets major improvements from sheet metal to drivetrain to interiors.
As you will gather from its new moniker, the LS460 sports an even larger V-8 engine, displacing 4.6 liters while generating 380hp and 370 lb. ft. of torque, thanks in part to a duel fuel induction system that combines port and direct fuel injection. The larger engine is linked to a first-ever eight-speed automatic transmission; together, they get you from 0 to 60 in 5.5 seconds.
The list of special features on the LS460 is too long to print, but highlights include a 19-speaker Mark Levinson audio system with a hard drive that holds 4,000 digital songs, a hands-free parking system that requires minimal driver input and climate sensors that measure cabin and passenger body temperatures.
"I've been afraid to ask where that sensor goes," quipped Toyota Motor Sales President Jim Press at the car's debut.
The long wheelbase version at 203 inches comes with optional reclining rear seats with an ottoman with a built-in massager. All of this is wrapped in a new skin that is surprisingly daring for a Lexus-badged vehicle. No pricing has been set.
Mercedes-Benz also has overhauled its flagship sedan, the best-selling car in its class and the prototypical executive sedan. The ninth-generation Mercedes-Benz S-Class, unveiled in the latter half of last year, is a sensible evolution from the previous model, sporting a little more aggressive look, a slightly bigger size and a new entry-level model (the S350).
The first thing you will note about the new S-Class is the much-needed update in its exterior styling, giving it a sleeker look reminiscent of the gorgeous CLS-Class four-door coupe. But more notable is the upgrade under the hood.
While the new entry-level S350 will get the 3.5-liter, 268-hp V-6 from the SLK350, the S450 and S550 sport all-new V-8s. The S450 gets a 4.6-liter version pumping out 335 hp and 339 lb.-ft. of torque; the S550 lands a 5.5-liter version rated at 382 hp and 391 lb-ft.
For the executive in a hurry, the S600 boasts an improved 5.5-liter, twin-turbo V-12 generating a nifty 510 hp and 612 lb.-ft. of torque. The new V-8s are paired with an all-new seven-speed automatic transmission, while the S600 keeps a five-speed auto tranny.
The S550 will hit showrooms first, followed by the 350 and 600 models. MSRP is expected to range from about $75,000 to $130,000.
Luxury coupes
If two-door transportation is more to your liking, you are in luck this car-buying season. Two of Germany's great performance automakers Porsche and BMW have seen fit to develop hard-hat versions of popular roadsters.
The Cayman S enters the Porsche line firmly between the Boxster S, which gave it birth, and the iconic 911, which gave it an engine. So what do you get when you cross a 911 with a Boxster?
Fifteen more horses, twice the stiffness and a base price of $59,695. That's 10 grand cheaper than a 911, but nearly $6,000 more than the Boxster S.
With 11 fewer pounds than a Boxster, the Cayman S gets from 0 to 60 in 5.1 seconds in manual (a mere third of a second less than a base 911) and 5.8 with the Tiptronic automatic. In case you don't have a calculator, that's about $3,300 for each 10th of a second.
The mid-engine layout eliminates the back seat, but Porsche says the hatchback will accommodate two golf bags, which is useful if you are late for your tee time.
Our second new coupe comes from BMW in the form of the Z4 Coupe concept, which debuted last fall in Frankfort but is quickly on its way to American showrooms, not only as a standard model but also thank you, BMW as an M Coupe.
The Z4 Coupe, which gains structural rigidity from the addition of a hard top, will get a new 3-liter, in-line six generating 261 hp and an anticipated dash to 60 in 5.7 seconds. The look is sleek: the A-pillar curves its way through the roof to the rear end, where it merges with a hatchback in place of the roadster's trunk. No price is set.
For drivers who prefer a little wind in their hair, the Jaguar XK Convertible made its debut in January as well. While the XK Coupe made the rounds late last year, it's the drop-top everyone has been looking for; its sales have consistently outsold the hardtop.
And with this convertible adding a mere 88 pounds to the equation, you can see why. It's only a 10th of a second slower than the coupe while getting from 0 to 60 in six seconds flat thanks to an all-new 4.2-liter V-8 pulling 300 hp. Mercifully, the much maligned J-gate shifter is gone in favor of a new six-speed auto with Sequential Shift and paddle-shifters on the steering wheel.
MSRP is $75,500 for the coupe and $81,500 for the convertible.
Luxury SUVs
Just when you thought the SUV market couldn't take any more competition, here come premium automakers with all-new models: Audi with the Q7 and Mercedes-Benz with the GL Class.
The Audi Q7 borrows the same platform as the successful Porsche Cayenne and Volkswagen Touareg, but offers more of the right thing (space for seven) and less of the wrong (hundreds of pounds of weight). It also offers great Audi engines and the Quattro all-wheel drive system.
The first model rolling off production lines will feature a 4.2-liter V-8 FSI engine that uses, essentially, variable fuel injection to maximize performance and economy. A 3.6-liter V-6 model will follow and, possibly, a V-10.
Options include a three-panel panoramic roof, four-zone climate control and adaptive air suspension. MSRP starts at $49,900 for the 4.2 model.
Just when you thought the three-pointed star was ready to retire the boxy G-wagon, the carmaker changed its mind, making the Mercedes-Benz GL Class its third SUV and first to offer optional seating for seven.
The GL450 should meet just about any family's need, from standard Mercedes luxury inside to an optional and serious off-road package with low-range gear, locking center and rear differentials and larger tires. Power comes from a 325-hp, 4.7-liter V-8 matched to a seven-speed automatic with full-time all-wheel drive (4MATIC). No price has been set.
As long as we're talking about giant SUVs, we should note that General Motors has seen fit to beef up the Cadillac Escalade, which now sports a 403-hp, 6.2-liter V-8, six-speed auto tranny, power lift gate and power running boards. ESV and EXT version will follow. No price set.
Luxury concepts
We would be remiss if we did not mention some of the stunning concept cars that have been recently unveiled.
Toping our list is the head-turning Rapide concept from Aston Martin. The odd name is the only thing amiss with this crowd-pleasing sedan, which draws strongly on the sleek lines of Aston Martin's DB9 coupe. Skeptics may wonder why Aston Martin needs a four-door, but all you have to do is look as far as Porsche's 2009-targeted Panamera concept and Maserati's gorgeous (and successful) Quattroporte to find your answer.
An increasing number of high-end buyers want more room along with their luxury and performance. And they are more than willing to pay for it. In the case of the Aston Martin, a cool quarter of a million should do the job.
Further out on the horizon is an all-new Infiniti G35, which was presaged in the Infiniti Coupe Concept unveiled in Detroit. The current G35 was MotorTrend's 2003 Car of the Year, so there's a lot riding on the next incarnation. If the concept is any indication, you can expect a more muscular yet refined look riding on 20-inch tires.
The powertrain remains a mystery, but expect an improved version of Nissan's already strong 3.5-liter V-6. Just don't expect to find it in showrooms before 2007.
Best new cars of 2005
Mercedes Benz CLS 500 | $67,000 base
Described by its maker as a "four-door coupe," the Mercedes-Benz CLS500 is the most visually stunning car from the three-pointed star in 50 years.
Built on the E Class platform, this four-door indeed sports the sleek lines of a coupe, yet manages to provide sufficient room in back for two full-grown adults, thanks in part to scooped-out backs on the front seats. Once inside, you will be comforted by copious amounts of leather and wood trim, as well as four-zone climate control. If the looks don't get you, Mercedes' workhorse 5-liter, aluminum V-8 will. This smooth-sounding 24-valve unit delivers a seemingly low 302 hp, but thanks to a flat torque curve, it delivers more than enough power, especially off the mark with a 0 to 60 time of 5.9 seconds. The engine is mated to Mercedes' ground-breaking 7-speed automatic transmission, which delivers smoother acceleration and better mileage. All of this rides atop 18-inch, low-profile, Continental run flat tires.
In the end, though, the CLS500 is as much about looks as anything else. And we can attest that it attracted more compliments and white-glove treatment from valets than just about any car we've tested in the last couple of years. It always feels good to be noticed.
Maserati Quattroporte | $101,000
The 2005 Quattroporte offers voluptuous curves reminiscent of another great Italian export: Sophia Loren. For that you can thank Sergio Pininfarina, who has put his ageless design skills back to work on a Maserati for the first time in 50 years.
The designer of every famous Ferrari for the past six decades, Pininfarina mixes equal parts elegance and aggression to create an instant classic. The power comes from a 4.2-liter, aluminum V-8 that delivers 394 hp and 333 lb.-ft. of torque, enough to launch its 4,255 pounds from 0 to 60 in 5.2 seconds. Top speed: 171 mph.
BMW 3 Series | $31,000 base
A collective sigh of relief greeted the unveiling of the long-awaited fifth generation of the best-selling luxury car in the world. On the outside, the new 3 Series balances tradition with the new BMW look. Underneath, it reraises the bar with a more powerful inline six-cylinder engine tuned differently for the 325i and 330i models. The use of magnesium the only large-scale production engine to do so helps lower the engine's weight 30 percent. Overall length is up by 2.2 inches (including 1.4 inches in the wheelbase), while width has grown a healthy 3 inches.
Chevrolet Corvette Z06 | $66,000 base
With 505 hp, a top speed of 198 mph and a 0 to 60 time of 3.6 seconds, the new Z06 is the fastest, baddest 'Vette ever. Those numbers put it on even footing with the Ford GT and the new Ferrari F430. But at about $70,000, you could have a pair of Z06s for the price of the other supercars, if you could even get one. The Z06 was designed side-by-side with the C6R race car and thus shares much of its technology and construction tricks. All that speed comes from a new 7.0-liter, small-block V-8 that delivers 407 lb. ft. of torque at 4800 rpm and a weight of only 3,147 pounds.
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Picking a favorite from this crowd was no easy task. But for some reason, we keep coming back to the Mini Cooper, brilliantly resurrected by BMW Group in March 2002.
It's hard to look at a Mini and not smile. Sit behind the wheel and put it through its paces and that smile turns into a huge grin.
Skip the base model's anemic 1.6-liter, four-cylinder engine and upgrade to the supercharged Cooper S (base MSRP: $19,500), which delivers 163 hp and 0 to 60 in under 7 seconds. That's not all that impressive, but the Mini is not about speed; it's about handling.
A "bulldog" build, multi-link rear suspension, rigid body and cornering brake control keep a tight grip on the road through the sharpest turns. And don't let its size fool you. The Mini provides ample room for passengers and 5.8 cubic feet of trunk space (expandable to 21.4).
Ford Focus SVT | $18,500
Got a tree-hugger for a grad? The new 2.3-liter PZEV (Partial Zero Emissions Vehicle) engine reduces harmful exhaust gases and improves performance, though it is available only in limited areas. Like other cars in this group, the Focus boasts quick response and agile handling. The SVT hatchback features sport-tuned suspensions and a 2.0-liter, 170-hp engine, delivering economy and performance fun in one package.
VW New Beetle Convertible | $20,900
The original retro car reintroduced in 1998 finally gets the convertible it's been needing. Who didn't have at least one friend with a drop-top bug? If your grad is looking for a ragtop that can stand up to long distances, this is the car. The top folds easily (in about 12 seconds), yet provides solid insulation from wind and road noise thanks to three-layer construction. And for the safety conscious, OnStar telematics are now optional on the New Beetle.
Mazda RX-8 | $25,180
Don't let the stunning looks especially the "suicide" doors worry you. Junior won't break too many speed laws, although the twin-rotor Wankel engine delivers a respectable 238 horsepower and 0 to 60 in 6 seconds. Like the Mini, this car was made for driving, not racing. Remarkably even weight distribution and a sport-tuned suspension insure crisp handling in turns, while the overall ride proves pleasant enough for daily use.
Welcome to the revolution
As chief evangelist for Apple Computers Macintosh division, Guy Kawasaki was present at the creation of an entirely new kind of computer. But a funny thing happened on the way to the first great computer revolution: They had it all wrong.
Apple was out to make a better business computer, one that would run spreadsheets, databases and word processing, according to Kawasaki. By accident, it created just the opposite: the quintessential machine for the creative crowd. Apple made a number of critical mistakes that kept its revolution from taking hold, most important, its failure to pursue long-term market share at the expense of short-term profits.
Drawing on experience, Kawasaki has become the self-appointed chief evangelist for all revolutionaries. He has written a book, Rules for Revolutionaries, and formed Garage.com, an Internet-based venture capital organization that raises seed money for emerging, technology-based businesses.
Those efforts brought him to Cleveland in May to address venture capitalists and entrepreneurs participating in Innovest 99, the Midwests largest venture capital conference. Here are Kawasakis slimmed down rules for leading your own revolution.
1. Get off the curve that youre on and get on the next curve. Better yet, create the next curve. Do not, Kawasaki urges, think that you are riding the wave of the future. Thats what the ice harvesters thought before ice factories replaced them. Refrigerator makers replaced the factories. Whats next? Biotechnology-based solutions that eliminate the need for refrigeration.
2. Dont worry, be crappy. If you wait for your revolution to be perfect, Kawasaki says, youll be too late. Instead, once your revolution is an order of magnitude better than what exists, take action. His favorite example is that toilet paper is an order of magnitude greater than crumbled leaves. If you can claim the same revolution, you ship your product.
3. Churn, baby, churn. In other words, it is not OK to stay crappy. Its as important to move fast as it is to jump ahead. Microsofts secret, Kawasaki says, is its ability to churn. It is relentlessly making a better product.
4. Get ready to break down barriers. Ignorance. Inertia. Complexity. Price. These are all barriers to a successful revolution. To lead a successful revolution you must do one of two things: enable people to test-drive your revolution, or glom onto a bandwagon (such as the Internet) that will give it sufficient exposure.
5. Make evangelists, not sales. Evangelists create a cause out of a product or service, Kawasaki says. This creates a vision. They turn facts into emotion.
6. Let a thousand flowers bloom. The Macintosh computer was built to run spreadsheet, database and word processing programs, Kawasaki explains. It struck out on all three fronts. But it is far and away the leading platform for desktop publishing, thanks in large part to Adobe Corp.s groundbreaking Pagemaker software. Pagemaker was a field of flowers that grew into a forest that saved Apple Computer. When other people take your revolution and pervert it, he adds, thank God.
7. Never ask people to do something you would not do. If your product requires a four-week training program, you have a problem. If your free Web site requires users to fill in 60 fields of information to get access, you have a problem. Eat your own dog food, Kawasaki preaches. If you wouldnt put up with your own demands, why would others?
8. Eat like a bird. A hummingbird eats 50 percent of its body weight a day, Kawasaki says. Im not telling you to eat a lot. Im telling you to eat a lot of information. Read voraciously and read outside your area. You need to become a research librarian, or suck up to one.
9. Poop like an elephant. Take all that information youve gained and spread it out, Kawasaki says. Share it with people in the company and with your colleagues. But also share it with your competitors, because when you start a revolution, acceptance is more important than market share.
10. Think digital, but act analog. Use all the digital tools available to you, he says, but they are just a means to an end. For example, Ritz-Carlton Hotels uses sophisticated technology to track customer preferences. If you ask for your down pillows to be replaced because you are allergic, that information goes into a database. The next time you stay at a Ritz-Carlton, you will not get down pillows. They compile all these preferences and act on them without you knowing it. Revolutions are analog processes. The point is an analog relationship with your customer.
11. Never let the bozos grind you down. The more dramatic the revolution, the more the bozos will try to drive you down. In fact, the more bozos that attack you, the more important your revolution is. Some famous bozos: IBM boss Thomas Watson, who predicted the worldwide demand for computers would peak at five; Digital Equipment Corp. CEO Kenneth Olsen, who insisted there was absolutely no use for computers in the home; and Bill Gates, who once said 640k of memory ought to be enough for anyone.
How to reach: Garage.com, (650) 470-0950, www.garage.com; the Rules for Revolutionaries Web site is www.kickbutt.com (or www.kickbut.com for those whose corporate intranets dont allow access to sites using the word butt.)


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Although I have written extensively and passionately on the subject of the infantry in regards to gender integration, I've stayed away from getting sucked into tit-for-tat exchanges with so-and-so over the arguments for and against the whole thing. I've found that the main arguments have been, for the most part, exhausted. I've met no one who has argued that training standards should be lowered in order to allow women to serve in combat arms.
And then yesterday I saw this article by Rowan Scarborough pop up with fiery rage on social media and beyond: "Double Standard: Pentagon hints at changes to allow more women in ground combat."
Whoa, I said to myself, what happened?
And then I read the article and realized nothing happened. The article is a lay-analysis of comments from key military leaders on the topic and interviews with folks who hold the strong belief that women do not belong in combat arms.
The article suggests that something has been discovered or something has changed. Nothing has changed. And I intend to show that right here.
A review of news conferences and congressional testimony shows that the top brass repeatedly use the word "validate" — not necessarily "retain" — when talking about ongoing studies of tasks to qualify for infantry, armored and special operations jobs.
In other words, some physical standards would be lowered for men and women on the argument that certain tasks are outdated or irrelevant.
Who did this review? And okay, the word 'validate' is used instead of 'retain.' So what? How does that necessarily lead to the conclusion that "in other words, some physical standards would be lowered for men and women on the arrangement that certain tasks are outdated or irrelevant?"
Standards need to be validated precisely because they have never been validated before because there was never a reason to validate them in the first place. How long does it take an average squad of infantrymen to fill 100 sandbags? We don't know, because we never really had to test it. Men signed up for the infantry, learned some skills, passed some gates, drank the grog, and earned their crossed rifles.
Senior officers for the first time also are stressing the mental aspect of ground combat, not just physical strength and endurance. Analysts say that is another sign that the military is looking at different ways to ensure that women qualify.
For the first time? That's wrong. When the services released their plans for integrating women into combat arms almost two months ago, they stated directly in their publicly released memos what they would be looking for. The Army, for example, writes:
1. TRADOC Analysis Center (TRAC) is conducting a study of institutional and cultural factors associated with integration of women into previously closed Military Occupational Specialties and units. The gender integration study draws upon literature reviews, surveys, focus groups, interviews, and process mapping to identify potential factors affecting integration. TRAC is also engaging Soldiers and leaders throughout the Army to ensure that their perspectives are evaluated. This study was initiated in January 2013 and is projected to close by January 2015.
The article then goes on to quote Robert Maginnis, a former artillery officer who is fervently against women in combat units. He just wrote a book titled "Deadly Consequences: How Cowards Are Pushing Women Into Combat." He says:
"It will begin as an 'experiment,' and meanwhile there will be a whittling away of standards — gender-norming — regarding what is required to graduate from certain schools, such as Army Rangers," Mr. Maginnis said. "The administration and its ideological radical feminist soul mates are willing to accept less effectiveness at the point of the spear in order to put women into every last military occupational specialty."
Nice. Mr. Maginnis states the future eroding of standards as fact. It is to be because he has predicted it. There is no use in arguing with someone with that kind of an opinion because it is absolutist. He has a firm belief and he has staked himself on it.
Scarborough then goes on to quote some key leaders and ends with what has now become an infamous quote from GEN Dempsey. Scarborough punches up the quote by making it seem like General Dempsey was slamming his fist on the table to the service branches, writing that they "had better have a good argument for keeping it [the standard.]"
Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters in January that if a standard keeps women out of a combat job, the military branch had better have a good argument for keeping it.
"If we do decide that a particular standard is so high that a woman couldn't make it, the burden is now on the service to come back and explain to the secretary, 'Why is it that high?'" Gen. Dempsey said. "Does it really have to be that high? With the direct combat exclusion provision in place, we never had to have that conversation."
Folks jumped on that line the moment it left the General's lips. A few days later, aware of the negative backlash it was generating, General Dempsey penned a blog post clarifying what he meant:
I want to address some misperceptions about the decision to rescind the direct combat rule for women. Some fear that this decision will lower standards in our military. That is simply not the case. The services will carefully examine current standards to ensure we have them right, taking into consideration lessons learned from a decade of war and changes in equipment, tactics and technology. We will study each closed occupational field or unit to determine where women are able to serve.
Let me be clear: The standards will be gender-neutral — the same for men and women. This assessment will take time, and the Joint Chiefs and I are committed to making sure that this is done correctly.
Of course, opponents of women in combat arms would argue that the whole idea of "carefully examining current standards" is code for lowering standards to allow women in. And if that's what you believe, there is nothing I can do for you. If you can't take the CJCS at his word, than you are far beyond the wall.
This quote is perhaps my favorite in the article.


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With and Not Against: Canonical Collaborates on Chrome OS
The Chrome OS announcement caused speculation from many sides as to what effect the Google platform would have on other Linux distros. At least Canonical could benefit from it.
Chris Kenyon, who is responsible at Canonical for its OEM business, in a recent blog entry congratulated Google on its source code release and also answered a few questions about Ubuntu's relationship with Google. In it he announced, "Canonical is contributing engineering to Google under contract." That is, Canonical is helping finance certain work on Chrome OS and some other Google components.
Kenyon also makes clear in the blog that cooperation is at least as important as competition in the open source market. Also that Google's Sundar Pichai and Linus Upson repeatedly emphasized that Google as much as possible wants to "build on existing components and tools from the open source community without unnecessary re-invention." Canonical thus sees Chrome OS not so much as competition than as an enhanced Linux product.
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Jonathan Gabb has been announced as the winner of the Saatchi Art "In Glorious Colour" Showdown competition. With 6,440 entries in a period of just 12 days, the competition, presented in partnership with the Saatchi Gallery and Winsor & Newton, received the highest number of submissions of any previous art prize. In an interview with Studio International, Gabb described how his sculptural paintings "reveal layers of colour and worlds of colour" and how he "want[s] people to delve into them or to want to delve into them."
The works of the 10 finalists are on show at the Griffin Gallery, London, until 18 April and can be seen online at www.saatchiart.com
Architecturally inspired sculptor Alice Aycock says she hoped to capture the "energy of thought and ideas colliding and being transmitted outward" in her series Paper Chase Park Avenue, consisting of seven painted aluminium and fibreglass sculptures recalling wind currents, whirlpools and spinning tops and referencing paper models made by architects and the Russian Constructivists. The exhibit follows on the heels of a major retrospective of her drawings shown in New York in 2013 and travelling to the University of California, Santa Barbara, this year.
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Following its premiere outside his native China at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art last year, multimedia artist Xu Bing's vast sculpture Phoenix (2008-2010), consisting of male and female bird figures built with cast-offs gleaned from urban construction sites in China, is coming to New York, where the birds will take flight from the nave of a towering Gothic Revival church on the city's Upper West Side. Weighing 12 tonnes each, the two birds represent the dignity of migrant workers, the artefacts of their daily lives, and the growing divide between the material and the spiritual in his country.
Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York, 1 March 2014 – January 2015
John Zinsser's engagement with the formal and aesthetic dimensions of American abstraction has become, over the years, a commitment to its enduring relevance and potential to expand the boundaries of painting practice. Zinsser has written about and championed other artists exploring similar territory while making and exhibiting his own characteristically elegant, expertly crafted works. For Paintings and File Studies, he has selected a group of large oils on canvas and the drawings and collages that served as source material. - Cindi Di Marzo.
James Graham & Sons, New York, 14 February – 29 March 2014
"Artists should live experimentally," says 2012 Turner Prize nominee Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, formerly known as "Spartacus", after the Roman soldier who led a slave rebellion against the Roman republic. Chetwynd's multimedia explorations involve wild rides through art history (Giotto) and literature (Dante's Inferno), as well as playful deconstructions of identity by changing her own name. This self-titled first solo exhibition of her work at a public gallery in Britain, led by a guide dressed as the Addams Family's cousin Itt, includes a selection of paintings from her Bat Opera series.
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK, 25 January – 23 March 2014
Bohemia may be a state of mind, but it found its most attractive enactment in fin de siècle Paris, inspired by Henry Murger's 1851 classic Scènes de la Vie de Bohème. Ironically, the poor-but-carefree lifestyle depicted in Murger's novel attracted young artists, writers and thinkers from wealthy families, who rejected convention, prioritising art over money and comfort. Esprit Montmartre: Bohemian Life in Paris Around 1900 celebrates the community that emerged on Montmartre hill, with some 150 paintings by Picasso, Bonnard, Degas, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec and others who lived there at its most exciting period of ferment.
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 7 February – 1 June 2014
Anishinaabe expressionist artist George Morrison (1919-2000) was born on the Grand Portage Indian Reservation in Minnesota, but his quest as an artist took him far, both literally – he studied in France, Italy and Spain and at the Art Students League of New York, painted on Cape Code and taught at the Rhode Island School of Design – and figuratively – he became friends with Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning and other prominent action painters and abstract expressionists. While his aesthetic drew on their modernist vision, he embraced nature as his religion, inspired by the rocks, trees, woods and wide horizon surrounding his birthplace as well as his people's legends. Modern Spirit: The Art of George Morrison, a touring retrospective of his exquisite paintings, elemental totemic sculpture, and drawings and prints, highlights the romantic, spiritual dimensions of his art.
National Museum of the American Indian, New York City, 24 October 2013 – 23 February 2014 and travelling to six museums during 2015.
Māori photographer John Miller won the 2003 Media Peace Prize Lifetime Award for his promotion of peace through his work. He describes himself as a "sympathetic observer", but the power of his images indicates a reflective yet acute study of civil rights issues, particularly apartheid, as well as anti-nuclear and Māori demonstrations. John Miller: Tour Scrums brings together his black-and-white photographs of anti-apartheid protests in 1970s Wellington and the 2007 Tour Scrums: Protesting Black and Blue project, twin-screen colour work documenting the 1981 Springbok rugby tour conflicts in New Zealand.
Deane Gallery, City Gallery of Wellington, New Zealand, 1 February – 13 April 2014
The Musée d'art contemporain (MACM) marks 50 years as one of Montreal's major cultural institutions by joining forces with the city's other great repository of art, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) for this exhibition, offered to the public free of charge. When Collections Collide: The Musée d'art contemporain at The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts concentrates on contemporary works, arranged as an "aesthetic conversation" between collections. The show spotlights individual strengths – installations, multimedia and photography by Canadians for MACM, painting and sculpture from at home and abroad for MMFA – while reinforcing the need for partnership and community.
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada, 22 February – 15 June 2014
While economic hardship and escalating political tensions in the 1930s made life difficult for people around the globe, the 1929 Wall Street crash and Hitler's rise to power did not dampen the fashion industry. Edwardian stiffness and conventionality were cast aside in favour of a modern, streamlined aesthetic. Elegance in an Age of Crisis highlights breakthroughs in style, materials and manufacturing through an array of beautiful examples of haute couture, men's tailoring, Hollywood costumes and sportswear created in the major fashion centres of the world for an international clientele.
The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City, 7 February – 19 April 2014
Among the most interesting experiments into how images are replicated, rearranged and transmitted through time and space, thus fracturing and conflating visual experiences, Atlas: How to Carry the World on One's Back, curated by French art historian and philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman and first shown at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid in 2010, riffs on work done by German cultural theorist Aby Warburg a century ago for his Mnemosyne Atlas. Afteratlas, a new iteration of the project presented by the Beirut Art Centre, is an Atlas-based photographic essay by Austrian photographer Arno Gisinger in collaboration with Didi-Huberman that keeps the images coming.
Beirut Art Centre, Beirut, Lebanon, 23 January – 22 March 2014
Born in Portland, Oregon, and raised in San Francisco's Chinatown, painter Martin Wong made New York City's Lower East Side his adopted home. From 1978 until his death in 1999, Wong also collected art and antiques, notably the world's largest assembly of graffiti art. Donated by him to the Museum of the City of New York in 1994, his archive consists of hundreds of works on paper and canvas and photographs documenting this vibrant ephemeral art form made by outsiders learning their craft on the streets. City as Canvas exhibits many of these works, some by Keith Haring, Lady Pink and Lee Quiñones, for the first time.
Museum of the City of New York, 4 February – 24 August 2014
Canadian experimental film-maker and former jazz musician Michael Snow (Wavelength, Corpus Callosum) has just turned 84, but his multidisciplinary explorations into the nature of perception remain energised and engaging, his inquiries into the limits of representation precise and discerning. In addition to film and music, Snow has been a prolific painter, sculptor and writer. Michael Snow: Photo-Centric presents photographs taken between 1962 and 2003, in which the artist breaches the border between 2D and 3D and uses framing techniques to transform the medium into art.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, 1 February – 27 April 2014
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Stalin: Meticulous with His Word, Shaper of Faulty Information Systems
Historians Sarah Davies and James Harris spoke about their recent research in Stalin's personal archive, discussing how the Soviet dictator used words and the way in which he processed incoming information, respectively.
Contrary to expectations, the release of the personal archives of a number of Soviet leaders influential in the 1930s showed "a shockingly small gap between what they said in public and what they said in private."
International Institute, UCLA, April 5, 2013—A careful editor of official and personal documents, Stalin was consumed by the task of editing, said historian Sarah Davies. So great was his attention to words, she said, that "in some senses, Stalin's words were his deeds."
Comparing incoming intelligence found in his personal archive against formal published Party decisions, historian James Harris concluded that the Soviet leader poisoned the well of intelligence gathering due to his perceptions and misperceptions of security threats—domestic and international.
Davies and Harris discussed their recent research in Stalin's personal archive at a lecture organized by the Center for European and Eurasian Studies on April 5. Moderator Arch Getty, Professor of History at UCLA, set the stage by explaining that new materials were added to the public Stalin personal archive (known as inventory, or opis', 11) about five years ago. These materials include Stalin's correspondence; edits of his speeches and books, as well as of documents authored by others; incoming telegrams and diplomatic materials.
The dilemma for historians, noted Getty, is that they don't know what exactly the current archive is—the materials differ considerably from the largely inconsequential historical materials (e.g., badges worn by Stalin) previously made available to the public. We don't know, he explained, why these materials were selected to be made public or who made this decision.
Davies noted that the new materials in the archive gave historians their first chance to see unpublished texts by Stalin, as well as his edits of both his own published works and the writings of others.
"At the apex of a system in which extraordinary political importance was attached to the correct usage of words and phrases," she said, "Stalin spent a remarkable amount of time on the business of words. He—and not only he—evidently considered his power over the verbal realm essential to his power in general."
Soviet society, pointed out Davies, was a society of words and word games, with invented categories such as "kulak" (rich peasant) and "middle peasant" made real by the Soviet dictatorship. Identifying Stalin as the ultimate guardian of Soviet texts, Davies noted that no one was allowed to publish Stalin's speeches or works—even if they had been previously published—without his express permission.
She related an incident captured in the archives that grew out of a May 1934 "Izvestiia" article by Nikolai Bukharin. In the article, Bukharin used the words "agrarian revolution" and "expropriation of the kulaks." He was immediately attacked by Aleksei Stetsky (of the Central Committee Department on Culture and Propaganda) and Lev Mekhlis (then editor of "Pravda") for using unorthodox language (the Communist Party then prescribed the expressions "collectivization" and "liquidation of the kulak class").
In a letter to Stalin, Stetsky even specified that he was worried about Bukharin's words ("rubbery words")—not his ideas. After a back-and-forth of letters to Stalin from both men, Stalin wrote to the Politburo in support of Stetsky, concurring that, "The Bolsheviks do not need a game of new little words."
Davies concluded that the incident was not simply an attempt to put Bukharin in his place as a former "oppositionist." "It was also," she said, designed to communicate a strong message about the need for verbal uniformity—for all to speak in the authorized idioms of Bolsheviks, of which by now Stalin was the anointed Custodian in Chief."
Stalin's ability to set the parameters of what could and could not be said about certain subjects could be seen in his approach to the working class. Beginning in the 1930s, said Davies, Stalin moved steadily to de-emphasize the central Bolshevik symbol of the manual laborer in favor of formulations of the "Soviet people" and the "Soviet intelligentsia"—a personal invention of Stalin that, she argued, became the key symbol of Soviet political discourse.
James Harris began his talk by remarking, "It is worth remembering that the Bolshevik state generally, and the Stalinist state in particular, was profoundly secretive." Recalling the Bolsheviks' expectations of foreign invasion by capitalist powers and their pre-revolutionary experience with "experienced conspirators," he stressed that Stalin was not the only author of the institutional paranoia that characterized the Soviet regime, although he argued that the dictator contributed greatly to its spread and influence.
The controversy over whether the Soviet system was chaotic or whether it effectively served Stalin's interests did not disappear with the sudden availability of enormous archival sources in the 1990s. Harris claimed that the then newly opened Communist Party archives showed evidence of a state characterized by both great chaos and by great personal control on the part of Stalin.
Contrary to expectations, the release of the personal archives of a number of Soviet leaders influential in the 1930s (among them, Molotov, Kaganovich, Mikoyan, and Ordzhonikidze), showed that there was, in Harris's words, "a shockingly small gap between what Soviet leaders said in public and what they said in private."
According to his reading of the archives, the Soviet state under Stalin was unambiguously strong, with Stalin able to mobilize resources on an epic scale and to promote and kill millions of people. At the same time, however, Stalin perceived that the Soviet state was weak, surrounded by enemies (at home and abroad) and enjoyed weak support at home. Ultimately, Harris argued that it became impossible for Soviet intelligence gatherers to present information at odds with Stalin's perceptions.
The unreliability of political police intelligence based on circumstantial evidence and confessions obtained under torture, combined with the Bolshevik dictate that those who were not with them were against them, led to a fundamental misperception of the domestic threat posed by spies, wreckers and saboteurs, said Harris.
A similar situation prevailed with respect to foreign affairs, where the highest priority of the secret police was also to identify threats to the Soviet regime. Time and again in the 1930s, recounted Harris, Soviet intelligence gatherers misread attempts to contain Germany as efforts to build an anti-communist alliance, despite withering criticism of such conspiracy-based interpretations by Commissar of Foreign Affairs Georgii Chicherin.
Stalin's perceptions and misperceptions also affected how he interpreted information about fulfillment of the five-year plans of the Soviet economy. In the 1930s, for example, Stalin declared that officials could not cite objective reasons for failing to fulfill plan targets 100 percent, claiming the Party did not simply adapt to objective conditions because the Party could influence and change those conditions.
As a result, said Harris, Stalin never grasped that the actions of Soviet officials to mislead the center and subvert central directives were a direct consequence of over-ambitious plans. "Throughout the 1930s, Stalin railed against the two-faced Soviet officials (dvulichnye) who supported Soviet policy in public, but worked to subvert it practice." Despite three years of solid economic growth between 1934 and 1937, continued Harris, he moved to "rip the heart out of the economic apparatus" in order to wipe out the practices that his own policies had engendered.
"The information-gathering system that he inherited should have kept Stalin extremely well-informed and confident in the security of his position and the growing strength of the USSR," concluded Harris. "Instead, it gave him a consistent, detailed and compelling picture of pervasive threat and vulnerability. How Stalin received and processed information is critical, in my view, to an understanding of Stalin's vision and to an understanding of the Stalin era more broadly."
Sarah Davies is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, Durham University, UK. Her first book,"Popular Opinion in Stalin's Russia" (Cambridge, 1997) was awarded the Alec Nove prize. James Harris is Senior Lecturer in Modern European History, University of Leeds, UK. His first book, "The Great Urals: Regionalism and the Evolution of the Soviet System" (Cornell, 1999), explored the relationship between the seat of Soviet power in Moscow and the regional party elites during the first two decades of Soviet power. Their forthcoming monograph, "Stalin on Stalinism: The Dictator on His World," is due to be published in 2013. Arch Getty is Professor of History at UCLA. His publications include "Origins of the Great Purges" (Cambridge, 1985), "The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks, 1932–39 (Yale, 1999), and "Yezhov: The Rise of Stalin's 'Iron Fist'" (Yale, 2008).
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According to an estimate, China and India reported 39 million and 30 million cases respectively. The U.S. follows with 21 million sufferers of the more common Type 2 diabetes.
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- jen said...
Your hotel is gorgeous.where are you staying?
- February 6, 2012 at 7:51 PM
- Lori said...
I think you are cool...
Have a fabulous time tomorrow!!!
- February 6, 2012 at 8:22 PM
- E. Jane said...
How exciting and wonderful! Enjoy every minute...
- February 6, 2012 at 8:33 PM
It's working for me now!! lol....just wanted to thank you for keeping us abreast of what's going on ... I know you are going to do GREAT tomorrow...remember to have fun too!
- February 6, 2012 at 8:46 PM
Well I'm glad to see that our Aussie 60 Minutes is putting you up in style. I can't wait to see your interview. Have a fantastic time.
- February 7, 2012 at 12:14 AM
- Shelley said...
Awesome - I love it, and I love that you are enjoying everything!!! No worries (mate)(there, I spoke Aussie to you) - you will look fab. Can't wait to hear more.
- February 7, 2012 at 12:53 AM
I am heading to NY today via the train and I am now thinking about you this morning. You will do fantastic this morning I am sure and can't wait to hear more about the show and outcome. Take a sigh, smile and enjoy this wonderful day! You keep me motivated and for that I sincerely thank you.
- February 7, 2012 at 7:53 AM
What a fun adventure Lynn! You'll do great!
- February 7, 2012 at 8:20 PM
- PJ Geek said...
woo hoo ..represent !
- February 7, 2012 at 11:38 PM
- Saphrael said...
Enjoy the experience, Lynn! Way to go!
- February 8, 2012 at 12:06 AM
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Oh goodie! I love to read about your trips! You are going to be speaking to Australians, not New Yorkers. You always look great to me!
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Well, GW disappointed in some ways, but he did not try to completely "transform" the USA by trashing the Constitution (although a lot of the Patriot Act AND the creation of Homeland Security are pretty bad).This came to mind when i read this line in an essay on Thucydides´ Peloponnesian War, by W. Robert Connor, musing about the status of Athens following the death of Pericles: "From a city adrift and leaderless to one driven by demagogues is but a small transition."
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He was also a proponent of open borders. But oh gosh you couldn´t say anything bad about him on this site without being labeled a troll.
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Retrofitting the American Dream in a flat world
I hate the over developed suburban wasteland, having grown up in a small town in eastern PA. Shortly after developers cut down the apple orchard at the end of my street to build more houses I escaped to art school. Ironically I grew up in a town that had a lot of history & culture — where American folk artist Edward Hicks painted the Peaceable Kingdom. In that Newtown, which is a very old American town, I learned a few things. If we combine a time for work (the lion), a time for home (the lamb) and a time for culture (the horse) we will rediscover the American Dream. Our Dream just needs a little pruning to flourish.
I agree with Ellen Dunham's optimistic ideas for retrofitting suburbia. She touches on the idea of people having a third place to go to after the home and the workplace. We need to develop this idea. The only thing I would add to Ellen's summary is to build equestrian centers on public land through out the American suburban landscape to add culture to the town centers. People need a place to meet and reconnect. We need to get back on the horse and rediscover our culture.
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Lively Atmosphere – Great place for a unique experience. I was pleasantly surprised with the fire dancers, live music, and great atmosphere. The drink menu doesn't have a price list. You may want to ask beforehand to avoid surprises, but the food was pretty good. I'd definitely come back with a group of friends next time!
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Best place in South Beach – THis place is amazing. From the moment I walked through the door I was amazed at the the exotic decor. The scallops and prawn appetizer was so sweet and delicious. The Kobe steak was the best I ever had. The music and live musicians was a real treat. It reminds of the supperclubs me and my husband used to enjoy in New York.
Great experience – I loved everything about this place. The ambiance, the decor and the entertainment. The food was amazing, the service was outstanding and my overall experience was great. I reccomend this fantastic venue for anyone from locals to vacationers.
The Worst Service in South Beach – As a Concierge for 3 years in Houston, Texas and being a regular visitor to the Miami Area one of my favorite places to go is "Touch". I really enjoy the atmosphere combined with the food which makes Touch the quintessential restaurant in South Beach. However things went a little differently when I was there recently. I made my resvervations for 5 for May 12, 2007 at 9:45pm. As soon as I entered my table was the furthest from the stage, which was kind of annoying however, I let it go because I understand how busy they are. As the waitress came, we told her we wanted waters and the desert menu because I truly enjoyed their deserts.
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This shows Touch looked at me a dollar sign not as a prospective client who was coming to enjoy the chefs culinary skills. As a Concierge in Houston, TX and being a Foodie I will go where the best food is regardless of the atmosphere and I was shocked for there complete disregard for the customer. They basically told me that those people are more important because they are going to spend $300 rather than your $70. This is not the way any restaurant that truly enjoys serving food should operate. I have eaten at some of the greatest restaurant in Houston and the service and the food go hand in hand. I still cannot believe the service was so bad that they did not serve me water or did not even stop me when I was leaving. I was completely disrespected that Touch and will never return.
Great Ambience, service and food in a very trendy area – Wanted to go to a great restaurant during our first visit to Miami. Everything from service to food was great. I had the grouper filet and my husband had the Ahi Tuna Steak which was incredible. If you are willing to spend $$ for a memorable night of feasting, this is it. The ambience was beautiful. The only thing I could have done without is the loud New Age Music, but they did have a live sax player and a belly dancer that was not at all cheesy. I would come back.
FANTASTIC menu! – Touch offers the best of both worlds - you can just sit outside and chill, watching the craziness that is south beach, or you can go inside for a beautiful classy dining/lounge experience. A lot of the places on Lincoln Road can't offer both. The menu is GREAT. So many different things to choose from and I like the unique ingredients each one has to offer. The shrimp salad has a spicy side - something you don't find regularly. And, there is even an interesting vegetarian main course - I didn't try it but I can't wait to go try it!
Great food,great service and great time! – I was there last night with a group of 10.The food was IMPRESSIVE! We had the Black Grouper Filet, it was delicious. I also loved the Tuna Tar-Tar and the desserts.WE HAD A GREAT TIME! defenetly our favorite spot in Miami Beach.
Great Food – I went to Touch to celebrate my birthday with my best friend. We had a lot of fun. The live music was fabulous and the staff was wonderful. Great service and good food! They made my birthday very special.
BAD...BAD...BAD – First of all, the food was fine. Not great or even very good - just fine. HOWEVER - my husband found a SCREW in his salad! Being not into eating metal - we called the manager over who seemed surprised and made light of it by saying "would you like another salad, we wouldn't want to screw you". Funny but little remorse or apology. Then when the bill came - we were charged for the new salad. We called the manager back over and he then apologized and took it off the bill BUT i would think any other restaurant would have offered to take off his meal or as a courtesy would present a round of drinks or desserts...it just displayed a total lack of customer service or grace. It's all about the principal of the situation. After the screw and the way they handled it - we would never return to Touch.
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