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Sandy, Fire Kimberly Grant!! As the architect of this failed strategy, she is utmost responsible for the mess we're in. And her lap dog MIKE RODER is the single most unqualified, worst damaging person I can think of in the time I've been with Ruby's. Fire them both and watch the stock go up! I'll personally buy 10,000 shares. Please send a message to shareholders that new leadership is coming, and that it is safe to invest in RT. Ruby's employees, please share your thoughts and experiences with these two arrogant idiots and keep this post at the top. Lets send a message to Sandy that it's time for a new vision at Ruby's.
Mike Roder is the reason why I am no longer with Ruby Tuesday - What was once an Awsome company with a huge future turned into one that is only focussed on one thing - $$$$
Treating your team like furniture does not create a following!
"you choose how you treat people are they building stones or stepping stones. They are the same stones with different results!"-Bob Baldini
"Not everything that can be counted counts"-Rob L.
Roder is a joke........even I know that.
RT has had leadership issues for a long time. The leader of the company is an accountant and the company direction comes from the home office. This is NOT an OPS driven company. They are out of touch and out of time!!! They value the profit line more than any other aspect of the business. This company has lost more talented people in the past 10 years than you could imagine. Most of these people are now high level performers in many of the top restaurant companies in America. The only people left are these tools that manage through fear and prey on weak individuals that are too scared to go work somewhere else. This ship is sinking. Someone once said "the best swimmers leave the sinking ship first!"
Mike Roder = Douche Bag
Bring back people like Bart Fricks!!!!
It's Bush's fault
Short all stocks. Get out now! The Sky is falling!!!
$16,800 in shares.. I'm sure that RT is going to take great heed of what all you little weeners say.
Wow, what is your cost basis for the $16.8k? Of course, that value fluctuates, how many shares? You must of gotten creamed!
Let me provide some perspective on the chances of this company surviving. Go back to RTs financial results for the 3rd quarter of last year. To stay out of trouble, I will not be specific, but in general terms, calculate the current sales trend (down 10.8 in the first quarter 2008)and then apply the same cost structure as the previous year and you could see significant losses. This is not a model that can repay this huge amount of debt. I don't see it happening. This is simple math and it does not add up. If this business did not have a huge component called occupancy that is a fixed cost to the business because of over 700 separate sites, they could decrease their cost structure additionally and continue to repay debt. In this situation, they must close many stores and they need to do this in Jan, Feb of 2009. They are in a very tough spot. At the end of the day, an investor in RT is risking their money on the belief that this company can bring back customers and build the business again. That is the only way out of this. In 2004, average unit volumes were 2.177 million per store. In 2006, it was 2.068. In 2008, their average unit volumes were 1.907. In 2009 ??? Unit level economics are what this is all about. Do the same exercise with other brands, and they have the volumes that keep the unit level numbers in a good place. Put your money in those business!there are some good deals out there!
Do you not read? That's exactly what they are doing.
Use your simple math, 1.907 x 700 stores is 1334.9. Subtract 70 store closing losing money. Now divide 1334.9 by 630 and you get 2.119 mil per store. Back to the 2004 level.
What are you griping about? I don't get it. You want profitable stores closed?
Seems like someone is more disgruntled than constructive --
Sorry I sound disgruntled. I guess I am considering that RTs failed strategies forced them to close down the store I was working, along with a lot of good people, at three weeks before Christmas.
I really like the new way RT is trying to save money. They are eliminating the buying of white bread, which is used for only one menu item, kids grilled cheese. This will probably save each store about $10 a month. That is really going to help keep the company going through the recession. There are so many things which are wasted all the time at RT that cost much more then $2 a piece, like a loaf of bread. Management needs to get a clue.
With the value of Sandy's stock now, he could probably cash in for a few nights at the Inn.
AGREED... Been with RT almost 12 years and this is by far the worst work environment I have ever seen. KG has been cracking her whip all the way to Chapter 11 and got a 50K raise this year...??? Mike Roder is the most demoralizing, Arrogant guy out there. He adds absolutely ZERO value. Get back to what we are great at.. a 10 dollar check average per guest and FUN!!! Everyone I know that works for RT HATES their job and that is gonna get us No Where. Quit the gimmicks, Free Burgers, fry refills etc and lower Prices and put the damn fruit back on the Salad Bar YES I SAID SALAD BAR NOT GARDEN BAR..... We built 700 restaurants on a 10 dollar check and focus on Top line sales and obtainable profit goals. How many are we building now??? Focus on TRAINING and get back to the basics of a running a FUN, Profitable Company not a Sweat Shop with Impossible goals set by Impossible People. NO Compassion, just Numbers.. It is all BS! The Guest could care less about anything except Great Food and Service. The decor, the uniforms or the position of the wine bottles are meaningless! Sandy, If you can hear me Get Kimberly and these VPOPS out they are KILLING YOUR COMPANY!!
I was part of great a store and Roder wanted to fire me for for something that happens all the time. A terrible leader and does nothing for our company. My director is great and profesional and even admits to not liking him. Hes destroying our great company
I think there are greater issues than just Kimberly to address. I think the company has reached a point where it is time for a change. They had always been a leader in that area until recently. I think the fact that Sandy has allowed such decisions to occur, and that no one has reeled him in with his outlandish ideas has led to the companies downfall. It might be time to give him the golden parachute as well and restructure the upper management all together. (Let him have some nice stock options as a forced retirement package, where they will expire before the value is actually worth anything. That is what they did with many of the awards they gave us partners.) When some of the core people who have supported and worked for the company for years at the corporate office are looking for other work, it is a sign that things are not healthy. The changes upper management is now making are in desperation to grab the last life preserver on a sinking ship. They are throwing out ideas to try to save themselves, and none of them are working because they have not invested their usual resources or thought into guaranteeing their success. They recently gave out coupons for free apps with no requirements... No company would do that. It is amazing how many free apps and glasses of water are buying people lunch... They are not buying anything else, because they dont need to. It is not driving sales, or enticing them to buy that item in the future. It was amazing last week you had the choice of buying a burger at Ruby Tuesday, or you could get six shares of their stock for the same price. I would rather go to McDonalds and get Six burgers for that price... because at least it will be a better value, and I wont have to worry about pissing money down the drain in a company on the verge of bankruptcy. The company has halted growth, and cannot retain their quality staff, and they are now demoting people to save a dime on expenses... I think it is too little too late, and it is time to look towards the future and who that should not include. Hopefully a buyout will be a Christmas gift before Chapt 11 ruins those who foolishly invested their life savings into one company.


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While in Italy I had a pasta sauce that was made with mascarpone and almonds (the almonds were ground fine) it had the look of Alfredo sauce. I cannot recall the name of the sauce. I have searched far and wide for such a recipe. Is anyone familiar with this sauce? If so, would you PLEASE share the name?
Try searching for "mascarpone e salsa di mandorle"
Here's an example recipe that I found. http://www.subitoricette.it/ricetta-spaghetti-mascarpone-mandorle/
No mention of almonds in this recipe, but everything I have tried from this site has been absolutely fantastic. You could likely add finely ground almonds to this and arrive at something similar to what you had in Italy: http://www.italianfoodforever.com/2012/02/pasta-with-mascarpone-chicken-sun-dried-tomatoes-spinach/


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Congratulations to our NAHS Bulldogs for their 45- 9 blowout over the Rosa Fort Lions last Friday and with their win, they now have the most wins in school history. The Bulldogs (12-0), have advanced to the 2nd round of the playoffs and will play away this Friday against the Kosciusko Whippets(8-5).
This past weekend our NAHS cross country team went to Jackson to compete for the state meet. Daniel Drummond made the All-State Team, the boys came in 3rd overall, and the girls came in 4th. Runners included: Graham Collins, Ray Cooper, Jimbo Waldrop, Daniel Drummond, Harrison Harding , William Harding , Dalton Hall, Adrian Crockett, Haven Boyd, Kimberly Hardy, Sarah Cathryn Cagle, Mattie Carter, Andrea Hall,Lauren Boyd.
Basketball season tipped-off this Monday against the Ingomar Falcons and will play against the Myrtle Hawks this Thursday. Soccer season also started Tuesday at home against Saltillo. The first home basketball game will be Nov. 16 against Kossuth. Between the boys and girls games, we will be honoring our veterans with a program. Anyone with a military ID gets in free, we invite everyone to come out and join us for this special occasion.
On Thursday, Oct. 28, Mrs. Rhonda Nichols visited the NAHS Life Skills class and showed the students how to make decorated cupcakes for Halloween. On Wednesday, November 3 the Life Skills class enjoyed lunch at George's after their weekly trip to Wal-Mart. Mrs. Amee Cox's Life Skills class cooks every Thursdays as part of their transition to independent living program. This week the class made 7 Layer Mexican Dip served with chips.
The Junior Civitan club met on Thursday, Nov. 4 in the high school media center to hold officer elections. Officers for the 2010-2011 school year are President: Madi Van Zile, Vice President: Micha Washington, Secretary: Lori Beth Watts, and Treasurer: Quin'shay Perkins. Junior Civitans is still looking for new members. Anyone who would like to join is invited to their next meeting on November 18 at 7:20 a.m. in the library. Progress reports will go out Thursday, Nov. 11, this marks the halfway point of our second nine weeks. Thanks to the New Albany Elementary School for putting on a pep rally for the football team and coaches.
Yearbooks will be on sale for $50 until November 30, 2010 and will go up to $55.00 after this date. Please get one early to receive this discount.
To order please contact Tamara Waldrop or any member of the Vista staff at New Albany High School at 534-1805. So surprise your student this holiday with a yearbook gift certificate. They will make great stocking stuffers. These memories will last a lifetime, get yours today.
On Nov. 5, 2010, we were notified that for the second year in a row, the Career and Technical students of New Albany High, have been accepted as a 2010-11 High Schools United with NASA to Create Hardware (HUNCH) Team! These students will be given an engineering challenge by NASA, and work to solve that challenge. They will have to work as a team to problem solve and generate 2-D and 3-D computerized drawings to represent their work. Other team members will have the responsibility of preparing progress reports for NASA and making an animated presentation to be displayed at the HUNCH recognition ceremony at the end of the project. We will also be soliciting businesses and companies who might be willing to assist the team with their expertise, equipment and/or fund raising to help with any expenses or materials.
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Hip hop, specifically gangsta rap music, reflects a stereotypical black masculine aesthetic. The notion of a strong black male—irreverent, angry, defiant and many times violent—is pervasive in gangsta rap music. This badman trope, as characterized by Robin Kelley (1996), oftentimes encompasses hypermasculinity, misogyny, and homophobia. It should come as no surprise that this genre of rap music is rife with sexist themes and lyrics. Yet, what has not been fully explored are the progressive ways that male rappers express themselves towards others considered comrades or "homies." Homosociality (Bird 1996; Sedgwick 1995), non-sexual positive social bonds, exists in gangsta rap music between men. This study explores the notion of homosociality in this genre of music, analyzing the lyrics of male rap artists who have sold one million or more of their compact discs, for a total of 478 songs. I attempt to further unpack the idea of hegemonic black masculinity, presenting an alternative understanding of its deployment and manifestation in this music.
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Event-Driven Programming with Twisted and Python
In the beginning, there were forking servers and then came threaded servers. Although they manage a few concurrent connections well, when network sessions reach into the hundreds or even thousands, forking and threading servers spawn too many separate, resource-consuming processes to be efficient. Today, there is a better way, asynchronous servers. A new breed of frameworks for third-generation languages is taming the once complex world of event-driven programming.
A rising star in the Python community has been Twisted, which makes asynchronous programming simple and elegant while providing a massive library of event-driven utility classes. In this article, I discuss asynchronous event-driven programming and how it's done in Twisted. Because reading about code only gets you so far, I cite examples from a real Twisted application developed for this article: a simple proxy server that blocks unwanted cookies, images and connections. Instructions on how to get the complete source code are in the on-line Resources.
The Twisted Project has been gaining popularity as a powerful and increasingly stable way of implementing networked applications. At its core, Twisted is an asynchronous networking framework. But unlike other such frameworks, Twisted boasts a rich set of integrated libraries for handling common protocols and programming tasks, such as user authentication and even remote object brokering. One of the philosophies behind Twisted is breaking down traditional separations among toolkits, as the same server that serves Web content could resolve DNS lookups. Although the package itself is quite large, applications need not import all the components of Twisted, so run-time overhead is kept to a minimum.
As with Python, Twisted's user base has been expanding from its academic roots to the commercial and government sectors. At Zoto, we're using Twisted in a distributed photo storage and management application, because it enables us to develop scalable network software quickly in a famously productive language, Python. Programming day to day, I appreciate Twisted for its impressive toolkit and supportive community. And as with all community-oriented open-source projects, Twisted is a safe business bet, because its existence doesn't hinge on the continued support of any single company or institution.
Have you ever been standing in the express lane of a grocery store, buying a single bottle of water, only to have the customer in front of you challenge the price of an item, causing you and everyone behind you to wait five minutes for the price to be verified? Plenty of explanations of asynchronous programming exist, but I think the best way to understand its benefits is to wait in line with an idle cashier. If the cashier were asynchronous, he or she would put the person in front of you on hold and conduct your transaction while waiting for the price check. Unfortunately, cashiers are seldom asynchronous. In the world of software, however, event-driven servers make the best use of available resources, because there are no threads holding up valuable memory waiting for traffic on a socket. Following the grocery store metaphor, a threaded server solves the problem of long lines by adding more cashiers, while an asynchronous model lets each cashier help more than one customer at a time.
This isn't to say there aren't benefits to a threaded model. For instance, with microthreads, the amount of resources used by any particular thread is reduced substantially. There's an inherent complexity in asynchronous programming, especially when you need to do many blocking operations in succession. In Python, however, the benefits of threading are diminished by Python's Global Interpreter Lock (GIL). Threaded programming in Python is refreshingly simple, because all internal Python operations are thread-safe. To add an item to a list or set a dictionary key, no locks are required, so as to avoid race conditions among threads. Unfortunately, this is implemented through an interpreter-wide lock that Python's interpreter uses liberally. So, although two threads safely can append to the same list at the same time, if they're appending to two different lists, the same lock is used. Because threaded Python applications suffer a resulting performance hit, asynchronous single-thread programming is all the more desirable for a language such as Python.
Great article... problems with proxy script
First off, great article exposing the features of Twisted and your neat proxy program. I have been interested in a particular aspect of proxies that has not been focused on in FOSS or commercial proxies, and this article/code is as an excellent educational base for this endeavor.
I installed python2.3-twisted and python2.3-twisted conch on my debian woody box and launched the program, accessing the Internet from a Win32 machine running Firefox 1.0. I noticed right off that pages like slashdot and even interactive.linuxjournal.com were stripped of ads, and that it didn't seem to be any slower on loading (yay!).
Then I decided to hit some really popular sites like msn (more people than you think's default webpage), yahoo, cnn, etc. I found that almost all links off of yahoo's front page left my browser sitting idly as though the server is timing out. The problems seem to be even worse on msn.com. The common trait between these sites that don't work is that their urls (at least at first) are all generated with some kind of hash so the user can be identified when they hit the link. ex: http://www.yahoo.com/_ylh=X3oDMTEwdnZjMjFhBF9TAzI3MTYxNDkEdGVzdAMwBHRtcG...
as opposed to "http://sports.yahoo.com/gamepreview"
In addition, I have been getting error msgs from python during program operation:
(preceded by traceback through various parts of twisted)
File "./SimpleDujunkingProxy.py", line 593, in clientConnectionFailed
self.defer.errback(Failure(reason, ProxyLostConnectionError))
exceptions.NameError: global name 'ProxyLostConnectionError' is not defined
These errors are printed to stdout but not necessarily at the same time as when the pages won't load correctly. Thanks again for the thought provoking article!
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Musicals: UCLA goes to Dogpatch, USA
Senior and middle-aged Angelenos who grew up on the wonderfully satirical "Li'l Abner" comic strip can get their nostalgia fix as the denizens of Dogpatch USA cavort on the stage of UCLA's Freud Playhouse through Feb. 17.
For youngsters, "L'il Abner," one of the most widely produced musicals in the world, will introduce the muscular hillbilly hero of the title, his amorous but perpetually frustrated Daisy Mae, Mammy and Pappy Yokum, evil capitalist Bullmoose, Appassionata Von Climax, and the statue of the town's war hero, General Jubilation T. Cornpone.
The UCLA production, part of the annual Reprise series of Broadway classics, features lyrics by Johnny Mercer, music by Gene de Paul, book by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank, and some of Michael Kidd's original choreography.
The man who populated Dogpatch with its characters was Al Capp, one of the Jewish comic strip creators of the 1930s and subsequent decades, who compensated for the nebbishness of their youth by fantasizing a world of strapping heroes.
Among their number were Jerome Siegel and Joe Shuster ("Superman"), Bob Kane ("Batman"), Will Eisner ("The Spirit") and Jack Kirby ("Captain America").
Capp, born Alfred Gerald Caplin in New Haven, was arguably the most brilliant cartoonist of the lot, according to TV writer and comic strip historian Mark Evanier, whose book, "Kirby: King of Comics," is due out next month.
Young Capp was early struck by personal misfortune when he lost a leg in a trolley car accident at age 9. He reached great fame and success -- at its height "Li'l Abner" had 70 million readers out of a population of 180 million -- but later fell into disrepute through a series of sex scandals and a growing obsession with right-wing demagogery.
"Al was a non practicing Jew who spoke a little Yiddish, but he expressed his background by giving a structure of Jewish family values to his cartoon creations," Evanier said.
When Capp created the strip in the mid-1930s, it carried strong liberal undertones of compassion for the poor. But by the 1960s, with fame and wealth, Capp turned into an ultra-conservative speaker on television and college campuses who belittled the underdog. The musical performances are Tuesday-Sunday evenings, plus weekend matinees. Tickets are $70-$75, with student/senior rush tickets offered 15 minutes before showtime at $20.
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Jeff Burroughs
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- Born:
- March 7, 1951
- Bats:
- Right
- Throws:
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- Height:
- 6' 1"
- Weight:
- 200 lbs
- Major League Debut:
- 7-20-1970 with WS2
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Jeff Burroughs
In the first few years after the Senators moved to Texas, Rangers fans had very little to cheer about. Most of the time their team was a laughingstock that more resembled a circus than a ballclub. But first round draft pick Jeff Burroughs gave them something to rally around when he began launching home runs. In his first full season, as a 22-year old, the big, right-handed slugger belted 30 homers. The following season he hit 25 and drove in a league-leading 118 runs, as he won the American League's Most Valuable Player Award. But after two more productive seasons, the Rangers traded him to Atlanta for five players and $250,000. The deal was financially motivated and unpopular with Texas fans. It was all the more frustrating to Rangers rooters after Burroughs hit 41 homers for his new team. Just 26 years old, Burroughs had nearly 150 home runs to his credit, but his best seasons were behind him. He spent his last few seasons back in the AL as a designated hitter, primarily facing left-handed pitching. After a promising few seasons in his early and mid-20s, Burroughs retired with 240 homers.
Best Season: 1974
Despite playing in a tough hitters park, Burroughs slugged 25 home runs. Despite playing for a team that was unspectacular, hge drove in 118 runs. He also hit .301 with 33 doubles, 84 runs scored, 91 walks, and a .397 on-base percentage. He was just 23 years old and his future seemed very bright. He was named AL MVP.
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Finally, in his last season, Burroughs got into the post-season, with the Blue Jays. He got into just one game of the LCS, pinch-hitting. He made an out, and it was the last at-bat of his career.
Jeffrey Alan (Jeff) Burroughs (born March 7, 1951 in Long Beach, California) is a former player in Major League Baseball. From 1970 through 1985, he played for the Washington Senators (1970–71), Texas Rangers (1972–76), Atlanta Braves (1977–80), Seattle Mariners (1981), Oakland Athletics (1982–84) and Toronto Blue Jays (1985). Burroughs batted and threw right-handed. He is the father of major league third baseman Sean Burroughs. In a 16-season career, Burroughs posted a .261 batting average with 240 home runs and 882 RBIs in 1689 games.
Burroughs was selected by the Washington Senators in the 1st round (1st pick) of the June 1969 draft. Late in the year, he joined the Senators at age of 19. Considered a "good bat-no field" kind of player, Burroughs was a considerable slugging threat during his playing days. Defensively, he was capable but slow.
In four full seasons with the Texas Rangers, Burroughs averaged 25.5 home runs a year with a high of 30 homers in 1973. His most productive season came in 1974, when he batted .301 with 25 home runs and a league-leading and career-high 118 RBIs and was selected the American League MVP, making him one of only six overall number-one picks to win the MVP title (the others are Chipper Jones, Alex Rodriguez, Ken Griffey, Jr., Joe Mauer and Josh Hamilton) and the first Ranger to win the award. During the 1974 season, Burroughs was at the center of the violent Ten Cent Beer Night debacle in Cleveland, where Burroughs was one of the targets of thrown objects and a few punches by unruly and inebriated Cleveland fans, in a game that was forfeited to Texas.
Burroughs was selected an All-Star in both 1974 with the Rangers and 1978 as a member of the Atlanta Braves, when he entered the All-Star break with a National League leading .324 Batting Average. Burroughs was also named AL Player of the Year and selected as an OF on the AL All-Star team by The Sporting News his MVP season of 1974.
As a member of the Atlanta Braves, in 1977 Burroughs collected 114 RBIs and hit 41 home runs, the latter number surpassed only by Cincinnati Reds outfielder George Foster (52). Burroughs had fans who maintained a large banner below the right field deck titled "Jeff's Jackpot", which displayed his home run total for the season plus one.
Late in his career, Burroughs was still a valuable hitter, being used mainly as a DH and pinch hitter. After he retired, Burroughs later coached his son's Little League team, the Long Beach All-Stars; with Sean as their star player, these teams won the Little League World Series in both 1992 (they actually lost the championship game, but were later awarded the title by forfeit after their opponents were found to have used no fewer than 14 ineligible players) and 1993.
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The wealthy and beautiful 15-year-old Hamilton triplets-impetuous Lexington, pragmatic Park, and mini-mogul Madison-have it all and Manhattan is their playground. At a fundraiser for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the sisters have a troublesome encounter with a zealous paparazzo that leads them to discover the dead body of a famous fashion magazine editor. When Lexington is implicated in the murder, the teens set out to solve the case themselves. Full of snobbery, cattiness, sexual encounters, and underage drinking, this book tries very hard to be like Cecily von Ziegesar's "Gossip Girl" series (Little, Brown) and Bennett Madison's "Lulu Dark" mysteries (Sleuth/Razorbill), but it has none of the wit and knowing sarcasm that make those books so entertaining. The mystery starts off well for these wannabe Nancy Drews but it is so drawn out that, by the end, readers will lose interest in whodunit and why. Because the story is written in alternating chapters about different characters, readers don't get to know the stereotypical sisters, their boyfriends, and their employees, but since they are all so unlikable and smug, no one is likely to care.
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On the Avenue (Celebutantes Series #1)by Antonio Pagliarulo
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The Hamilton Triplets—Madison, Park, and Lexington—are accustomed to living in the public eye. Heiresses to a billion-dollar media empire, they have been raised in New York's most elite social circles and, at 16, know firsthand the demands of being celebutantes. There are people to impress, appearances to make, and paparazzi to outrun. Not to mention high school to finish.
But when fashion editor Zahara Bell is found dead in a one-of-a-kind frock from Lex's unreleased clothing line, and then the priceless Avenue Diamond goes missing, getting to class is as far from the triplets' minds as their first pair of Manolos. One of the girls is a suspect, and the sisters find themselves in the middle of a scandal that could sink their reputations and their father's companies for good. And the press is ready, willing, and able to lend a hand.
The Hamilton sisters need to stick closer than ever before. The killer is still out there, and if they don't solve the case their threesome could become a twosome quicker than you can say Cartier.
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- Publisher:
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- Publication date:
- 03/12/2009
- Series:
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You Can Find It on Lex
Night fell cool and crazy over Manhattan, the streets buzzing with the first hint of spring. It was a Friday in May. Lights pulsed along the skyline and traffic clogged the streets. The air was thick with the anticipation of all that can happen in the city on a warm spring night.
Lexington Hamilton stood rigidly at her bedroom window, staring down at the busy stretch of Fifth Avenue. People were definitely in a partying mood. Crowds were thickening by the minute, and there wasn't a free cab in sight. East and west, north and south, clubs and bars were opening their doors and cranking up their sound systems. It was almost eight o'clock. Lex couldn't believe she was still dressed in her red and white school uniform with the tacky St. Cecilia's Prep logo emblazoned on the lapel. She hated the damn thing, but after cutting out of last period she had rushed over to Saks for makeup and Bendel's for a new pair of shoes. The hours had simply slipped through her fingers. Now she was itching to doll herself up.
She turned away from the window and locked her eyes on the garment bag lying across her bed. It held her newest creation--a dress fashioned especially for the sexy and the savvy. Lex had designed it herself two weeks ago and had recently decided to add it to her growing clothing label. There were expensive names in her closet, but she favored her own creations above all others. She used versatile, striking patterns and only the best fabrics. Risky, funky, and tastefully sexy, her collection would be big news one day soon. She had dozens of sketches on her desk--skirts, jeans, jackets, suits, bras, underwear, well-cut lingerie--and she knew it was only a matter of time before her aptly titled Triple Threat label went global. But the first order of business was getting noticed without anyone realizing that you wanted to get noticed.
She walked over to the bed, eyeing the garment bag. No one had seen her bring it home. She held it up, drew the zipper down, and smiled. The dress was amazing. White silk and cut well above the knee, it practically screamed her name. And the shoes were a perfect match. Christian Louboutins, their cream color accentuated the dress's fringed hem, and the trademark crimson soles were the perfect contrast. She hadn't been invited to this evening's gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but she'd make one hell of an entrance when she arrived.
The very thought of it made Lex giggle. Her triplet sisters, Madison and Park, thought she was under the covers nursing a stomach flu. They had spent the afternoon preening for the gala, too wrapped up in their own worlds to acknowledge Lex's mounting anger. Why should she stay home while they attended the star-studded event? It didn't make sense. Well . . . it did, but the truth wasn't a good enough reason. The truth was that Madison--with her coiffed hair, classic gowns, and altogether refined manner--was better suited to represent Hamilton Holdings, Inc., at a snooty, conservative gala. Madison always got invited to the boring high-brow functions. Lex, on the other hand, found herself on the wilder, trendier A-lists, where loud music, hot guys, and good booze were in abundance. Park was happy to tag along in either case. Wide-eyed, calm to a fault, and nauseatingly cheerful, Park was the self-appointed peacemaker of the family.
Lex pressed her ear to the closed bedroom door and listened. The long hallway was silent. Lupe, their housekeeper, was busy banging pots in the kitchen. Madison and Park had already left.
All was in readiness.
Smiling broadly, Lex headed for her bathroom and flicked on the light. She tore off the uniform, chucked the skirt and blouse to the floor, and revved up the Jacuzzi. She added a splash of her favorite Mario Badescu body wash to the water and lit one of the Toumbac candles she'd bought in bulk from A.P.C. As the bubbles rose and undulated, she climbed inside, savoring the heat that enveloped her muscles and the scent of Parisian flowers that now filled the bathroom. She was too tense. The anger and frustration of the day had wound her up. She still couldn't believe that their father, Trevor Hamilton, had allowed Madison and Park to go along without her tonight. When Lex had broached the subject last week, he'd simply given her the same spiel about good manners and proper behavior.
You haven't earned the right to attend these types of functions, Lex. Every time I open a newspaper and read through the gossip columns, there you are--dancing on a table at some nightclub, causing a stir at a premiere. I can trust Madison to behave herself. And with me away for a whole week, the company will have to be represented accordingly.
The company, Lex thought bitterly. It was always about the company. A media empire that encompassed three television stations, a radio network, and several real estate branches, Hamilton Holdings, Inc., was their father's first baby. Trevor Hamilton had built it from nothing, deal by vicious deal. Over the years, he had been touted in the press as a ruthless businessman and a tireless philanthropist. In truth, he was an odd mix of both. He was also as much of a celebrity as any Oscar-winning actor. From New York to Beverly Hills, Paris to London, Dubai to Sydney, the Hamilton name was respected, revered, and occasionally despised. It all came with living life in the constant glare of the media.
Lex understood the importance of keeping a good profile, but she hadn't done anything that bad in recent months. Yeah, she liked having fun. Yeah, she was a party girl. Where was the crime in that? After all, it wasn't her fault the media enjoyed following her around and snapping her picture everywhere she went. It just happened. Like last year, at the annual Memorial Day bash in the Hamptons. She had gone to Tavern and hooked up with William Bondurant, a senior at St. Cecilia's and one of the most stunning creations on God's green earth. They'd slipped around to the back of the club, over by the wooded parking lot, and had a little rendezvous. William took his shirt off, Lex took her bikini top off, they were laughing and kissing and groping when boom--a flash illuminated the darkness. They'd both looked up, stunned and mussed in the heat of the moment. Next morning, the grainy black-and-white photo appeared in a dozen papers: Lex cuddled in William's arms, her bare breasts two inches from his smiling face. Trevor Hamilton had been less than pleased, but Lex had shrugged the episode off without a twinge of embarrassment. And besides, some good had come out of it. She and William had dated for nearly three months.
Since then, Lex had courted trouble only a handful of times. This past winter she'd been mentioned in the tabloids sporadically, and for minor incidents. Skipping a day of school to attend the unveiling of Chanel's spring collection. Being quoted on page six of the New York Post saying she hated wearing underwear. Slipping a bartender at Bungalow 8 fifty bucks for a peach martini. Silly things like that. She had been branded the official bad girl of the very public Hamilton family, and wherever she went, scandal followed.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Meet the Author
Antonio Pagliarulo lives in New York City. This is his second book for young readers.
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This book combines a girly sense of fashion and yet it still has murder and mystery. I highly suggest this to any girl who loves to read because I am sure it will have something you like. It trulely is wonderful because it's like Paris Hilton and James Bond all put together.
Being a celebutante isn't all it's cracked up to be. Sure, you get to live a very rich lifestyle with all the cool parties, nice clothes, hot dates, and special privileges. But being a suspect in a murder trial does not make being a celebutante worth it.
Triplets Madison, Park, and Lexington Hamilton know this firsthand, and wearing a tight dress with the perfect pumps just won't get them out of this one.
A murder has happened at one of the many social events that Madison has organized -- and it isn't very pretty. Well, the scarf tied around fashion editor Zahra Bell isn't, that is. Along with Zahra, the Avenue Diamond, the most prized possession that can work miracles, is gone. Unfortunately, the Hamilton triplets were at the wrong place at the wrong time. Who knew that being discovered in the same closet as the murder victim would automatically make you a suspect?
And now, since the police are taking forever to find who the killer is, it's up to the Hamilton triplets to save the day, and their name. There is just one drawback to this investigation. Let's just say that Zahra Bell wasn't the most well-liked person on the universe and anyone could have wanted her dead. And having tons of secrets spilling out that hurts reputations doesn't exactly make things progress faster. But the sisters can't worry about that too much, since their entire wardrobe is on the line, and being the next victim is becoming more and more of a possibility.
Take three Nancy Drews and put them into a GOSSIP GIRL situation and what successfully comes out is THE CELEBUTANTES: ON THE AVENUE. Antonio Pagliarulo makes us see that the rich and famous can solve mysteries, too, except in style. With a bond like the Charmed sisters, the Hamilton triplets are literature's newest "It Girls." THE CELEBUTANTES is the series that everyone should keep an eye on.
i loved this book it keeps you wanting to know who did it you wont know until the end.. you will never suspect the person who killed Zahara!
I'm not the type who writes reviews but I can just say here that this novel was great! I didn't expect it to be soo good and I am definitely a fan of this series. great characters and romance, and the mystery blew me away. it's a winner!
okay well i agree with the other two reviews about this book because i loved it too. i like the main characterss because they have brains. theyre not air-headed girls who act like bitches all the time even though they're famous and rich. the mystery was really good too. i agree that this is better than gossip girl which i used to read but got tired of. so i'm lookin forward to the next book in this series.
I agree that this is a great book and a great new series. I read it in less than two days and loved it. The characters are awesome and so is the whodunit. I also loved the writing style. I totally recommend this book to anyone who likes a great story. Dont' miss it.
I really loved this book. Reminded me a lot of Gossip Girl because the main characters are rich and famous and there's a lot of cool fashion reference stuff but this book is a lot BETTER than Gossip Girl and Clique because this is an actual story. it's a mystery a really good one too, I couldn't figure it out at all. the three main characters are Madison, Park and Lex Hamilton and they rule New York City. I love that these sisters are funny and smart and that they know how to solve the crime. even tho' they're beautiful and famous, they have brains. i found myself laughing out loud at some parts and I love the romance between Madison and her boyfriend. parts of the book were hot, and then there was a lot of suspense which had me turning the pages. i can't wait for the second book!


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Megan Fox will have to claw her way into another role.
The sexy starlet, next seen in the thriller Jennifer's Body, has not been cast as Catwoman by Warner Bros., PEOPLE confirms.
"It's rumor. It's not true," said a studio rep. "There is no script. There is no project to be cast in."
A British tabloid reported that the Transformers star would be following in the footsteps of Michelle Pfeiffer and Halle Berry – donning a catsuit in the next Batman film by director Christopher Nolan – which understandably but unduly created a stir on the Internet.
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Blue Revolution: Unmaking America's Water Crisisby Cynthia Barnett
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Americans see water as abundant and cheap: we turn on the faucet and out it gushes, for less than a penny a gallon. We use more water than any other culture in the world, much to quench what's now our largest crop—the lawn. Yet most Americans cannot name the river or aquifer that flows to our taps, irrigates our food, and produces our electricity. And most don't realize these freshwater sources are in deep trouble.
Blue Revolution exposes the truth about the water crisis—driven not as much by lawn sprinklers as by a tradition that has encouraged everyone, from homeowners to farmers to utilities, to tap more and more. But the book also offers much reason for hope. Award-winning journalist Cynthia Barnett argues that the best solution is also the simplest and least expensive: a water ethic for America. Just as the green movement helped build awareness about energy and sustainability, so a blue movement will reconnect Americans to their water, helping us value and conserve our most life-giving resource. Avoiding past mistakes, living within our water means, and turning to "local water" as we do local foods are all part of this new, blue revolution.
Reporting from across the country and around the globe, Barnett shows how people, businesses, and governments have come together to dramatically reduce water use and reverse the water crisis. Entire metro areas, such as San Antonio, Texas, have halved per capita water use. Singapore's "closed water loop" recycles every drop. New technologies can slash agricultural irrigation in half: businesses can save a lot of water—and a lot of money—with designs as simple as recycling air-conditioning condensate.
The first book to call for a national water ethic, Blue Revolution is also a powerful meditation on water and community in America.
Editorial Reviews
"Journalist Barnett explores a simple solution to the growing water crisis in the US, where we use more water than any other culture in the world. That solution: a water ethic. She notes that the green movement has helped raise awareness of the importance of energy and sustainability, and that a blue movement would do much the same: help Americans rediscover their relationship with water, and learn to conserve/recycle and manage it more effectively. And, she adds, it is entirely possible to reverse the damage done by the indiscriminate use of water through those measures and new technologies that can cut agricultural irrigation in half."—Book News Inc.
"It's a call to action. Barnett takes us back to the origins of our water in much the same way, with much the same vividness and compassion as Michael Pollan led us from our kitchens to potato fields and feed lots of modern agribusiness."—Los Angeles Times
"Barnett does not come off as a Cassandra, shrieking about looming cataclysm and dumping figures over her readers' heads. In Blue Revolution she is part journalist, part mom, part historian, and part optimist, and as a result her text comes off as anything but a polemic."—The Boston Globe
"Our future depends on the Blue Revolution that Cynthia Barnett advocates, for, as the ancients knew long before modern science did, 'Water is life.'"—New York Journal of Books
"Thorough and packed with data."—Kirkus Reviews
"Barnett's clarion call to her fellow citizens imagines an America where it's ethically wrong to waste water. Using compelling stories from around the globe, she shows that America's future depends upon our coming to value water – not only in the price we pay, but with profound appreciation for each drop."—Robert Glennon, author of Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What to Do About It
"The roots of a new water ethic are found in the practices of millions of individuals, businesses, and other organizations around the world. Barnett shows how good water use practices can go viral, with massive benefits for society and nature. Blue Revolution offers affordable, practical, down-to-earth solutions for America's water crisis."—Stephen R. Carpenter, Director of the Center for Limnology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Winner of the 2011 Stockholm Water Prize
"The book provides an eye-opening overview of the complexity of our water-use problems and offers optimistic but practical solutions."—Publishers Weekly
"As Aldo Leopold is to the land ethic, Cynthia Barnett is to the water ethic. Her important and hopeful new book is rich with stories about innovative water projects around the world, demonstrating that we can choose thrift over waste, water gardens over cement ditches, local projects over mega-industries, smart over incredibly, stubbornly, self-destructively stupid. She calls us to a respectful water use that restores our spirits, even as it creates thriving biocultural communities. If you use water, you should read Blue Revolution."—Kathleen Dean Moore, coeditor of Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril
"Aldo Leopold helped found twentieth-century American environmental thinking with his call for a land ethic. Barnett has done a great service by calling for a twenty-first-century water ethic. She tackles America's illusion of water abundance in the way past thinkers attacked our old ideas about an endless western frontier. Of the new crop of books on water, this one may be the most important."—Fred Pearce, author of When the Rivers Run Dry
Water, water everywhere. Or not.
"Somehow, America's green craze has missed the blue," writes environmental journalist Barnett (Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S., 2007). A good citizen of Sacramento wouldn't dream of throwing a plastic bottle in the trash, and yet, California's capital, which calls itself "Sustainable Sacramento," uses 300 gallons of water per person per day, 8.5 times the consumption of watery Holland, and about four times the consumption of similarly dry Perth, Australia. Small wonder that reservoirs such as Lake Mead, on which Las Vegas depends, are rapidly being drawn down to the sand—though, admittedly, drought and climate change have as much to do with it as careless drinkers. The problem is endemic, writes the author. It's not just the arid West that is suffering, since even moist places such as Florida are rapidly using up their groundwater supplies. As with so much else, it all comes down to human actions: Conserving water and changing how we manage it would do a great deal to relieve the ever-accelerating crisis. Yet "using water ethically" in this way, as she puts it, faces formidable challenges, among them the "water-industrial complex" and its powerful lobby, aimed at preserving the huge profits that come with the control of one of the few things that humans actually need to live. Other enemies of progress, writes Barnett, are the squabbles over water fought by "lawyers billing by the hour rather than by communities drawn together in a shared ethic"; agricultural subsidies seemingly designed to encourage major users of water to be profligate; and politicians who resist the notion that Americans should have to curb their appetites at all. The subject is ripe for moralizing, but Barnett generally keeps the conversation at a practical level, noting, helpfully, that no American set out deliberately to exhaust the nation's water supply any more than the Soviets "set out to create the disaster of the Aral Sea."
Thorough and packed with data but a touch dry. General readers will find much of the same information in Brian Fagan's more engaging bookElixir (2011).
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From Chapter 1
The Illusion of Water Abundance
During America's retreat to the suburbs in the 1950s, large home lots, disposable incomes, and a nifty concrete spray called gunite gave families a new marker of success: the backyard swimming pool. For the rest of the twentieth century, residential pools symbolized upward mobility and offered a sense of seclusion not possible at city pools or even private clubs.
The following decades redefined our relationship with water itself—from essence of life to emblem of luxury. By the time of the twenty-first-century housing run-up, even the plain blue pool had lost its luster. Adornments were needed. Aquatic affluence meant floating fire pits, glass portholes, and vanishing edges, which create the illusion of never-ending water.
The amenity to envy was no longer the diving board. The musthave, now, was the waterfall.
No community glorified the trend like Granite Bay, California.
Granite Bay is nestled on the north shores of Folsom Lake, commuting distance east of Sacramento. The upscale suburb is named for the Cretaceous age rock that underlies this region in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. But during the housing boom, Granite Bay's developers were determined to upstage the area's natural geologic outcroppings.
In Granite Bay's best backyards, rocky waterfalls cascade artfully into boulder-lined swimming pools, set off with grottoes, swim-up bars, and built-in hot tubs. Thick bushes and trees bearing flowers and fruit adorn the watery wonders, making a place naturally dominated by needlegrass and sedge look more like Fiji. Precisely groomed lawns, a quarter acre and larger, complete the sublimely unnatural tableau.
On Waterford Drive, a beige ranch home with a trim green carpet out front only hints at the tropical excess out back: a pair of waterfalls flow into a clear-blue lagoon, with large rocks positioned for sunning and for diving. This is one of the more subdued motifs. Sacramento landscape architect Ronald Allison tells of a two-and-a-half-acre residential design in Granite Bay with a waterfall, a grotto, a cave, six fountains, a pool with a bridge and an island, and a ninety-foot water slide: "It's fun for the grandkids."
Such fun has helped push average water use in Granite Bay to among the highest on Earth. Its residents use nearly five hundred gallons of water a person every day—more than three times the national average. Even when drought conditions cut federal water deliveries to California farmers and closed the state's salmon fisheries, Granite Bay residents continued to consume water as if it were as plentiful as air. After three consecutive years of California drought, Folsom Lake—actually a reservoir created by a dam on the American River—was so dry, it looked like a moonscape. As water levels plummeted in summer 2009, officials from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which manages the lake, ordered all boats removed from the Folsom Marina. Yet the San Juan Water District, which supplies Granite Bay from the reservoir, informed its customers that summer they would have to endure no mandatory water restrictions.
Spectacular squander in the middle of a water crisis is not much of a shock in the United States, where we use about half our daily household water bounty outdoors. The dryer the conditions, the more we tend to pour. What is surprising, however, is to find some of the world's worst waste in the Sacramento metropolitan area. That's because Greater Sacramento has become a national leader in finding solutions to America's energy and climate challenges—and in working to solve other problems brought about by suburban growth. Sacramento glitters with all things green. But when it comes to water, the city represents a national blind spot.
Somehow, America's green craze has missed the blue.
California's capital likes to call itself "Sustainable Sacramento." The progressive municipal government is spending heavily on light rail and constructing only green city buildings. The utility generates solar, wind, biomass, and hydro power for customers willing to pay more for renewable energy. Sacramento's citizens choose to do so at some of the highest rates in the nation.
The city is so green, it provides organic food to public school children, bike racks to businesses, and free trees to residents who want to cool their homes with natural shade.
But with water, Sacramento isn't so enlightened. The metropolitan area, which lands regularly on lists of top green cities, smart cities, and livable cities, also has earned this startling ranking: it squanders more water than anywhere else in California. That distinction makes it one of the most water-wasting places in the United States. And that makes it one of the most water-wasting places on the planet.
Residents of the metro region use nearly 300 gallons of water per person every day—double the national average. By comparison, the equally affluent residents of Perth, Australia, use about 75 gallons per day. Londoners tap about 42 gallons per day. The water-rich Dutch use about 33 gallons daily.
Grottoed communities such as Granite Bay aren't solely to blame. Some of the same politicians who forged the new path for energy in Sacramento fought for the city's right to keep to the old road for water. The city is one of the last major metro areas in the nation to hold on to flat rates that charge residents the same no matter how much water they use. In 1920, Sacramento had amended its charter to declare that "no water meters shall ever be attached to residential water service pipes." Only an act of the state assembly, which requires the measuring of water use statewide by 2025, has the city installing meters these days.
Sacramento is by no means unique. Even as our green consciousness evolves, we often manage to ignore water not only on a global level but also in our own backyards. The Copenhagen climate accord, negotiated by the United Nations in 2010, did not mention the most immediate threat from a changing climate—the worldwide freshwater crisis. Across the United States, we give little thought to our water use even as we replace lightbulbs with compact fluorescents and SUVs with hybrids.
The conscientious consumer who plunks down $25,000 for a Prius may still wash it every weekend in the driveway. The office manager who rallies every department to recycle paper is unaware of the millions of gallons of water a year that could be recycled from the building's air-conditioning system.
How is that?
One part of the answer is the illusion of water abundance. When we twist the tap, we're rewarded with a gush of fresh, clean water. It's been that way since the turn of the twentieth century, when Americans perfected municipal waterworks, indoor plumbing, and wastewater disposal as a response to diseases like cholera or typhoid fever.
Water is also our cheapest necessity. Four-dollar-a-gallon gasoline helped drive consumers to cars that cost them less to operate. Lower fossil fuel consumption and reduced carbon emissions are fringe benefits to protecting our pocketbooks. No equivalent economic incentive makes us think about our water waste. In fact, our water is so subsidized that many Americans pay less than a tenth of a penny a gallon for clean freshwater delivered right into our homes.
"As a society, from a water standpoint, we're fat, dumb, and happy," says Tom Gohring, executive director of the Sacramento Water Forum, a coalition of business, environmental, and other competing water interests that work together to find solutions to the region's water woes. "In the history of our country, we've had some serious water shortages, but very, very seldom have people been told that they cannot turn on the taps but for an hour in the afternoon, or that they must boil water.
"Water is just too easy to take for granted," Gohring says. "It's always there."
This is true in Sustainable Sacramento, and it's true in the scorched Southwest. The most conspicuous water consumption in America is often found in those parts of the country where water shortages are most serious. Nationwide, we use an average of 147 gallons each day. In wet Florida, the average hits 158 gallons. In Las Vegas, it's 227 gallons per person—in one of the most water-scarce metro areas of the United States, where water managers lose sleep at night thinking about what will happen when the level in Lake Mead drops below the intake pipes that carry water to the city.
Vegas swimming pools—with their glass walls, underwater sound systems, sushi bars, and stripper poles—make Granite Bay's look like they came from the Kmart garden department. But in both locales, the extreme illusion of abundance makes it all but impossible for people who live and play there to notice their personal connection to the nation's water crisis—to understand how wasteful water use in one house, in one backyard, multiplied by 310 million Americans, equals trouble for the generations to come.
Profligate water use today will imperil future generations, the same as profligate use of oil, destruction of forests, and other environmental tipping points will. But water is much more important to our future than oil. That's because there are no alternatives to it, no new substitute for life's essential ingredient being cooked from corn, french fry grease, or algae.
Like our other great, national illusions—say, the unending bull market, or upward-only housing prices—the illusion of water abundance is a beautiful bubble doomed to pop. With petroleum, those $4 gas prices sparked a collective "Aha!" moment for Americans. But there's been no "Aha!" in the case of water, even though the largest of our waterworks are beginning to show a few cracks.
Let's put it this way: It will not be fun for the grandkids.
Meet the Author
Cynthia Barnett is a long-time journalist whose awards include a national Sigma Delta Chi prize for investigative magazine reporting and eight Green Eyeshades, which recognize outstanding journalism in the Southeast. Her first book, Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S., won the gold medal for best nonfiction in the Florida Book Awards and was a "One Region/One Book" selection in thirty Florida counties. Barnett earned a master's degree in environmental history and was a Knight-Wallace Fellow at the University of Michigan, where she spent a year studying water. She lives with her family in Gainesville, Florida.
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I'm building a small web game which involves the player pulling down 6 public images from Instagram in relation to a tag.
I don't want the player to have to log into Instagram in order to play.
The Instagram API documentation seems to be leaning heavily towards a user log in.
I found an Instagram class on GitHub (linked below) which is the closest thing to what I'm looking for that I've found. However it is mostly for a user login, it does have bits for public access.
I've got the Instagram Object but I can't use it
I'm new to all API so the answer may be obvious.
Sites Pulling in Public images http://searchinstagram.com/ http://london-now.jit.su/
Question ? Could someone show me a way of pulling down images from Instagram related to a tag, using PHP?


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jfControl Remote HD - Allround Control
By digitalsirup GmbH
Open iTunes to buy and download apps.
jfControl HD
With this app you are able to remotely control your computer (You need a Mac, Windows PC is not supported) from anywhere in your apartment.
Switch it off from the bedroom, turn up the volume from the kitchen, control a full keynote presentation or just start a video sitting on the couch in front of your mac mini that is connected to your HDTV.
No hassling around with IP addresses, nothing to config, it just works. Thank you bonjour.
Please note:
Wi-Fi required, this remote control does only work with OS X 10.4 or higher.
You have to install a free application on your mac. Download it from http://www.digitalsirup.com/jfcontrol
If the remote does not work, chances are something (i.e. firewall) is blocking the traffic. Contact me and we will figure this out. (I'm not able to respond to reviews)
* Controls iTunes, EyeTV, DVD Player, FrontRow, Plex, Boxee, QT Player, VLC Player, MPLayer, Finder, Keynote, Powerpoint and Safari
* Change the system volume, start any application, send your mac to sleep or turn it off.
* Uses Wi-Fi. No line-of-sight to your mac needed.
* Very easy to setup. There is nothing to config.
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Compatibility: Requires iOS 3.2 or later. Compatible with iPad.


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Fractures is in many ways similar to both hyphae and network. The process is described in more detail in this section of my text on generative algorithms.
Differential Line
The Differential Line [github] algorithm is inspired by the way a number of biological things in nature grows. Among other things it is made to mimic the growth of the human brain, as well as a great number of plants. In brief; we start of with a number of connected nodes in a circle. Gradually we introduce new nodes on the line—prioritizing segments where the curve bends more sharply. Over time the curve grows increasingly intricate, but it never self-intersects.
If we start with a different shape, and draw the outside position of the object for each growth step, we can get an entirely different kind of system. This system shares the 3d like illusion created by the Orbitals algorithm.
Leaf3 [github] is a three dimensional implementation of the algorithm that was the inspiration behind the various network algorithms I've been working with.
Differential Surface
Differential Surface [github] is a three dimensional implementation of the same ideas (more or less) that inspired the Differential algorithm, which I wrote a while back.
The faces of the mesh are affected by their neighboring faces over time—rejecting non-neighboring faces that are too close, and keeping a comfortable distance to their actual neighbors. The surface is gradually remeshed to account for it's growing surface area.
Another interesting addition to this system is to let the system grow towards an imagined nutrition source, or light source, of some kind. This results in strange fungi-like objects.
Orbitals [github] is inspired by the naive optimization process that Jared Tarbell has implemented in his "Happy Place" algorithm. Nodes are created in some, more or less structured arangement, before they start to make friends with their neighbors. Gradually the nodes make an effort to get closer to their friends, whilst at the same time keeping a comfortable distance from the nodes they have not befriended. The visualization is made by drawing lines betweeen pairs of friends as they walk around the canvas. Thus the final image is a history of all the friendships.
Meshx [github] is my first attempt at a three dimensional generative algorithm. The algorithm can grow from any number of seeds; either along another surface geometry, or freely in any direction. The algorithm grows by choosing random triangles on the surface of the structure and appending a triangular pyramid to that face. This gives the resulting geometry a ragged-looking appearance. I had no particular biological process in mind when I wrote this algorithm, but it turns out that it creates structures that look a lot like corals.
One of the first attempts I made at generative algorithms was a copy of this great little application. Recently I decided it was about time that I revisited this project, and below are a few of the results. As opposed to the algorithm in the link, my trees are generated pixel by pixel. That is, there are no pre-drawn parts. [github]
As you can see, if you examine the images a little, the trees take shapes that er neither realistic nor possible. Yet they look very much like trees at first glance.
The background is another algorithm of mine called Linetrace.
Differential Mesh
Differential Mesh [github] is an extension of the Hyphae algorithm. I started working on it with the intention of mimicking the growth of (certain types of) lichen. The results, to me, are equal parts crystal-like and biological.
Hyphae [github] is an algorithm I wrote in an attempt to mimick the growth of roots. You can see a video of how the algorithm grows here. The algorithm centers around letting circles grow "next to each other" in such a way that no two circles overlap. The results are incredibly intricate and fractal-like, and they can be tweaked in a great number of ways.
After watching John Franzen drawing his incredibly fascinating "Each Line One Breath" drawings, I wanted to try doing somthing similar using code. After many failed results, I also ended up with a few versions I rather liked. They can hardly be said to behave in the same way as Franzen's drawings, as was the initial goal, however I find them equally interesting.
At some point I stumbled upon this great algorithm by Adam Runions et al. I have since spent some time replicating the algorithm itself, as well as trying to recreate the behaviour in other ways. As usual some of the results are similar, whereas others ... not so much.


text: The headline-grabbing revolutions that gripped the Middle East in early 2011 brought the promise of an "Arab Spring," a new dawn for democracy in a region with a history of autocracy. But the real result, as it turned out, was in many cases almost the opposite: a wave of violence, repression and civil war. One shining exception has been Tunisia. That Northern African nation's peaceful transition from Islamist rule and adoption of a new democratic constitution brought important recognition to four civil society groups that have worked to achieve peaceful political dialogue:


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Patient Comments: MRSA - Describe Your Experience
Please describe your experience with MRSA.
Comment from: skippy, 35-44 Female (Patient) Published: October 24
I developed MRSA in October 2012 and have had 6 recurring infections since then. The most recent, in the past week, has been the worst on my right top thigh that had a red, swollen, hot area near the abscess that extended to the middle of the thigh to my hip. My doctor put me on 10 days of Bactrim twice daily and 10 days of cephalexin four times daily and it is clearing up nicely. He did, however, explain it may or will happen again, so I need to contact him as soon as something pops up that's sore or expands to any extent quickly, so he can treat it immediately. Thank goodness, because I was able to avoid the surgeon--this time.
Comment from: PrettySenshi, 25-34 Female (Patient) Published: October 18
I started getting these cysts several years ago, and had one on my chin, which I was able to drain myself, luckily. My doctor wasn't able to determine if it was MRSA or not, but a couple years later, I got another one on my chest, which the doctor lanced, tested it, and it was confirmed positive for MRSA. Little did she know, there were actually two cysts on top of each other that I only discovered after I started streaking red. Ended up getting it busted and drained myself, but extremely painful. I have one on my forehead in between my eyes right now, and one on my cheek and it's extremely painful. My head is pounding and it's pressing on one of my eyes, but because of its location, the doctor can't lance it and test it to be 100% its MRSA, but due to my history, it's strongly believed to be. I am starting on two different antibiotics and I hope this takes care of it. MRSA does not play around. You can notice a bump one day, and the next, it's a size of a silver dollar. Definitely get it checked out if you think you may have it. Not only can I get MRSA, but I am also a carrier a swell.
Comment from: Boppy, 75 or over Male (Patient) Published: October 15
I had a scab on my knee. Fell on a gravel path at a dog park. Knee bled but I ignored it as it was very minor. It seemed to "heal" but about 4 or 5 days later when I tried to get out of bed in the morning I had pain in my back and legs so bad my wife called 911 and ambulance took me to a hospital. I don't remember the next four days but my wife said a doctor there took samples of my blood for a 2-day test and determined I had MRSA. It was attacking my lower spine. They performed surgery and "removed" the growing MRSA. Recovery was 7 weeks in rehab to learn to walk.
Comment from: Euodia, 19-24 Female (Caregiver) Published: March 18
I am a nurse who was giving wound care services at home. The patient"s postoperative ORIF (open reduction andinternal fixation) last year turned into a diagnosis of osteomyelitis and after tests of blood and pus culture, results were found to be MRSA. A few days ago when I was taking care of his wound, I got splashed in the eyes, with the pus from the patient. Then I immediately stopped my work and washed my eyes immediately with water. The next day I had sore throat, runny nose and headache, but no fever. My mucus changed color to dark yellow for 2 days, I did not take antibiotics, only consumed a lot of fruits and vegetables and took a multivitamin. Now I still have itchy throat, mucus has changed color to white.
Comment from: Tarhe54, 75 or over Male (Patient) Published: January 17
I had a sore in my nose and used Polysporin on it, which seemed to cure my problem. At the recent doctor visit, he wanted to test it and it came back as MRSA. The doctor prescribed SMZ-TMP DS 800/160, a sulfur drug and rifampin capsules 300mg, which I am taking two per day for 14 days. The rifampin causes dizziness and almost unbearable bad stomach pain.
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I have been quite sick since August, 2012. In December 2012 I was hospitalized for surgery. Within days, of being back home, recuperating from surgery, I saw two red raised sores on my abdomen; then on my right upper arm, then the sores spread to my other arm, and both legs, which I was told was cellulitis, on my legs, It took weeks to heal the legs, but now, almost one year later I have MRSA like sores all over both arms and my abdomen again; I was swabbed on one area a few months ago and it came back I had a staph infection, I was put on antibiotics and antibiotic cream and the sores went away, but only for a short while. Now the sores are all over both arms! I am very concerned as I have the chills frequently and low grade temperature and generally do not feel well!
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I'm creating a multithread chat in java. When user u1 sends a message to user u2 but user u2 is not connected, user u1 sends the message to the server and user u2 will receive the message once he connects to the server. The messages who are not sent are added to an ArrayList. Once a user connects, he checks if he's the recipient of a pending message. If he is, the message is sent to him and then removed from the pending messages list. This is how I do it:
for(Iterator<String> itpendingmsgs = pendingmsgs.iterator(); itpendingmsgs.hasNext();) {
String pendingmsg = itpendingmsgs.next();
String dest = pendingmsg.substring(4);
if (protocol.author.equals(dest)) {
this is what I get:
Exception in thread "Thread-3" java.util.ConcurrentModificationException
at java.util.AbstractList$Itr.checkForComodification(Unknown Source)
at java.util.AbstractList$Itr.next(Unknown Source)
at ChatServer$ClientConnection.run(ChatServer.java:383)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
How do I fix it? Is it because I'm using the iterator?