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Four Luxury Upgrades You Need for Your Home
Dec 2 2013
Today's upscale remodel focuses on ways to increase a home's tranquility and reduce its environmental impact. The focus is on green construction, which emits fewer harmful gases and is more energy efficient, and on fully integrating the outside of the home as part of its interior design.
Turn Your Master Bathroom into a Soothing Spa-Like Retreat
Today's luxury bathrooms are designed to be places where the owners can take time to relax away from the demands of their busy lives. Amenities that soothe and comfort, therefore, are the primary focus. Saunas, heated floors, fireplaces, and windows that artfully frame the views outside without compromising privacy all give a sense of indulgence.
Erase the Boundary Between Indoor and Outdoor Spaces
Glass wall systems are a great luxury upgrade. These systems give the illusion of no barrier between inside and outside spaces. Using the natural lay of your property to create a series of additional rooms is a way to subtly emphasize the environmental focus of your design and to make your home seem much more spacious. A pool-side guesthouse may incorporate luxury spas and hot tubs in its design, giving the homeowner a special destination to which they can retreat as well as the perfect place to host informal parties.
Install an Outdoor Kitchen
Just as an indoor kitchen is the gathering place inside your house, the focal point of your outdoor space should be a great outdoor kitchen. Chef-grade stovetops, wood-fired pizza ovens, dishwashers, mini wine storage units, granite or slate countertops -- the emphasis is on creating an efficient and sumptuous space in which one can produce a meal without even needing to go inside.
Computer-controlled Sensor Panels
Imagine a home that can be programmed from your smart phone or office computer so that the garage door can be closed from a remote location, lights are on where you want them, and the pool is heated to perfection. Imagine being able to check your surveillance cameras with one click. Wiring the whole home to a centralized computer control system maximizes energy efficiency and gives tremendous peace of mind, which is why it is one of the hottest luxury upgrades on the market today.
The emphasis in today's luxury upgrades is energy efficiency and spa-like indulgence. Using green materials and incorporating the outdoor space into the inside design are both winning ways to optimize your home remodel.
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The Super Bowl Shuffle coaching tree
Published: January 14th, 2009 | Tags: Jeff Fisher, Mike Singletary, Super Bowl Shuffle
Turns out that Chicago's all-time great Super-Bowl Shuffle defense could dance and it could coach.
There might not be a single defensive unit in NFL history that produced more NFL head coaches or head coaches in training.
Just look at this year's coaching search.
Vikings defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier, a defensive back on that great Bears defense, is a finalist for the Rams and Lions' head-coaching jobs.
Chargers defensive coordinator Ron Rivera, a linebacker on that great Bears defense, is interviewing today for the Lions' head-coaching job.
49ers head coach Mike Singletary, the heart of that great Bears defense, already has had the interim tag dropped from his title.
Titans head coach Jeff Fisher, a defensive back on that great Bears defense, has perenially been one of the league's best coaches.
So, already the 1985 Bears have given the NFL three head coaches, with more quite possibly on the way, giving a modern-day meaning to The Shuffle.
And now we know the truth. As good as Mike Ditka might have been, he had a lot of dance partners.


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Students at Coleg Llandrillo in Rhos-on-Sea will start studying for the international-style Welsh Baccalaureate this summer.
The aim of the qualification, which is set to replace A-levels among 16 to 18-year-olds, is to create a broad, diverse and distinctive study curriculum for students with a wider mix of subjects.
The college is one of 19 schools and colleges appointed by the Welsh Assembly to introduce the scheme across Wales in September 2003.
Principal Huw Evans said he was delighted to help pioneer the programme and build relevant employability skills for students.
"The Welsh Baccalaureate is an exciting programme of study," he said.
"It enables students pursuing A-levels, BTEC Nationals and AVCE to add to their qualifications.
"Students will have the opportunity to broaden and expand their studies so as to better equip them for university or the world of work," he added.
As well as core exams, the Welsh Bac also places emphasis on non-academic areas, such as key skills and work experience, to create well-rounded students for potential employers.
'Proudly Welsh'
Education Minister Jane Davidson said the award was "distinctive, modern and proudly Welsh".
"It will help students show key skills and centres on learning-by-doing," she said.
"It will be the first ever distinctive programme for 16 to19-year-olds in Wales," she added.
The Welsh Joint Education Committee (WJEC) has been holding talks with the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) about the accreditation of points to the Welsh Bac qualification.
A presentation will be held at Llandrillo College at 1830 GMT on Thursday, and will also include a talk on the International Baccalaureate which the college has been running for 10 years.


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"If you are a composer in this area, there are not a lot of opportunities to hear your music played," says Conrad Kehn, founding director of the Playground Ensemble, a chamber group dedicated to modern music, especially by living composers. So in 2007, the act started the Colorado Composers Concert as a way "to be a service organization to those who are writing music in this area," he explains.
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This year's program features eleven local composers, two of whom are high-school students. While some pieces lean toward the avant-garde, the program also includes everything from electro-acoustic pieces that mix electronics and standard instrumentation to straightforward, pretty works. "The genre of the music itself is not something that actually matters to us so much as the quality and whether it fits our instrumentation," Kehn says. "When we send out a call for scores, we say, 'These are the instruments you can write for.' So it has to match our instrumentation."
An hour before the 7:30 p.m. concert, four of the program's composers will discuss their work and take questions. It all happens at the King Center for Performing Arts, 855 Lawrence Way on the Auraria campus. Reserve tickets — $10 general admission, $8 for seniors and $5 for students (Metropolitan State students get in free with ID) — at ahec.edu/kingcenter/boxoffice.htm; for information, go to playgroundensemble.org.
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U.S. handle rises 11.6 percent in August; race days increase 9.3 percent
Wagering on U.S. races during the month of August increased 11.6 percent compared to wagering during August of last year, according to figures released Wednesday by Equibase, but the jump was tempered by a nearly equivalent rise in race days.
While betting on U.S. races during the month rose from $982 million to $1.096 billion, the number of race days increased from 527 in August of last year to 576 in August 2012, a rise of 9.3 percent. On average, handle per race day in August of this year was $1.90 million, compared to $1.86 million last year, a difference of 2.1 percent.
Total purse distribution in U.S. races during the month of August was $117.1 million, a 21.4 percent jump over purses distributed in August of last year, according to the figures. The jump of nearly $21 million was largely attributable to purse increases at Saratoga Race Course, which received supplements from casino revenues for the first time this year, along with the higher number of race days. This year at Saratoga, which opened in late July and closed after Labor Day weekend, total purse distribution was $37.8 million over 40 days, compared to $26.9 million over the 40-day meet last year.
For the year, handle is up 2.3 percent, according to Equibase, while purses are up 8.4 percent. The number of U.S. race days is up 1.8 percent.


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Every aspect of a Nechville banjo has been designed for acoustic superiority, convenience, comfort and aesthetics. You'll benefit from the finely crafted details and artistic approach that goes into all Nechville instruments, and you'll have plenty of reasons for pride when owning a Classic.
When you pick up a Nechville Classic, you will be immediately struck by a sensation of high quality. You'll wonder why your left hand slides so smoothly and effortlessly over the ebony and fancy maple neck on the Classic. You'll notice that the wide polished frets are smooth and comfortable to the touch. You'll discover that the silky smooth and durable Nechville finish makes your left hand slide faster. You'll especially be pleased next time you bring your banjo in from the cold, because the finish on the Classic WILL NOT CRACK like traditional Lacquer finishes.
The carefully crafted 7 to 12" compound radius of the fretboard surface helps with noting the accuracy and clarity of tone. This neck's shape gives you the slimmest feel with maximum structural integrity for strength of tone. Not only is it easier to form chords and left hand positions, but you'll get clean distinctive and full bodied musical notes without buzzing or other sonic interference common in traditional banjos. The Classic's slightly wider profile gives you plenty of room for chokes and slides while the fat frets form a secure foundation for the string's anchor point on the fretboard, translating into incredible musical power from every note and frets the last twice as long before needing a fret job.
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KLETTWITZ / ARNHEM – Letters and packages are soon to travel electrically in Germany. In collaboration with Deutsche Post DHL, StreetScooter GmbH and institutes of RWTH Aachen University have developed an electric vehicle that is specially tailored to the needs of letter and package delivery services. After tests in the laboratories of DEKRA Testing and Certification in Arnhem, the Netherlands, and at the DEKRA Automobile Test Center (DATC) in Klettwitz, Germany, the first of 50 vehicles has now received its individual operating licence.
The experts in Arnhem undertook a thorough investigation of the vehicle's electromagnetic compatibility (EMC). These tests were followed by the technical acceptance inspection in Klettwitz, which lasted several days. In the inspection, the components relevant to driving safety, such as the brakes and steering, were examined first. With measurement equipment on board, the vehicle had to demonstrate its driving safety on the demanding test tracks of the DATC. Subsequently, the experts examined the safety of many more aspects such as lighting, mirrors, field of vision and outer edges, ensuring they complied with the regulations. As the StreetScooter is an electric vehicle, the otherwise mandatory emission test was not performed. However, the electric safety of the vehicle was tested with extensive measurements in order to rule out any hazards that may be caused by the high voltage in the vehicle.
A total of 50 vehicles will be tested by the DEKRA experts in Arnhem and Klettwitz and then approved in the individual registration procedure before they enter endurance testing under everyday conditions at Deutsche Post DHL. In letter and package delivery service, the vehicles must be able to perform up to 200 stops and starting processes every day and are in use for up to 300 days per year. The 50 vehicles will be used in the pilot project "Carbon neutral delivery in Bonn" as well as at various delivery bases throughout Germany.
During the development phase, DEKRA had already assisted the developers in an advisory role. "As an expert organisation, we are involved quite consciously in many different areas in the field of electromobility," says Clemens Klinke, a member of the DEKRA SE Management Board and responsible for the Automotive business unit. "The use of such vehicles under everyday conditions is a crucial requirement to allow them to be continually developed further. Only in this way can electromobility prevail in the long term."
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DEKRA SE is one of the world's leading expert organisations. The company currently runs activities in more than 50 countries. More than 28,000 employees are committed to ensuring long-term safety, quality and environmental protection. The DEKRA Business Units "Automotive", "Industrial" and "Personnel" provide professional and innovative services in the fields of vehicle testing, expert appraisals, international claims settlement, consulting, industrial testing, product testing, certification, environmental protection, qualification as well as temporary work. In 2012, DEKRA generated sales totalling almost 2.2 billion euros.
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(CBS) - It's hard being the leader of a first-world country. Long hours, endless headaches, and worst of all, not enough pens! Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, knows what that's like. That might explain why he pilfered a pen at a recent meeting in Chile. Czech television - Cesca Televize - was on the scene and provides the video.
It's the gleeful smile he gives once the pen is safely in his pocket that really seals it. Oh, Vaclav, you rascal. To be fair, organizers probably would have let him keep the pen anyway. But where's the fun in that? Maybe he just likes Czech journalist Nora Fridrichova making (what we assume are) witty comments at his expense. Nail him, Nora!


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'Few years' since Hewitt felt so good
Pain free for the first time in years and still with the kind of Jack Russell endeavour that spurs him to chase balls into the car park, Lleyton Hewitt begins another home summer with ambitions to rock the boat of some big names at the Australian Open.
But that plan could come unstuck just on the first day of 2013, when the Australian veteran makes his Brisbane International debut tonight against Radek Stepanek, the awkward Czech who seems to grow another leg on Pat Rafter Arena.
The meeting between Hewitt, 31, and Stepanek, 34, is hardly a collision of the bright young things of the men's tour. But for someone like Hewitt, Stepanek is proof in a polo shirt that the singles draw can remain a worthy pursuit on the wrong side of 30.
A canny craftsman on the court who has managed to upset the power games of any number of higher ranked opponents in recent years, Stepanek won the Brisbane event in 2009 before reaching the final in 2010, losing to Andy Roddick.
He made the semi finals in 2011, succumbing to a sublime Robin Soderling, and enters this year's event ranked 31 in the world, 50 places above an Australian opponent enjoying the freedom of training and playing without grimacing.
"He's probably the best shape he's been in a long time, in terms of her being injury free, which has enabled him to have a good month of solid practice," said Hewitt's coach Tony Roche.
"He's been hitting the ball well and is looking forward to the Australian summer. If he gets the right draw and can play his way into the tournament, he can do some damage."
Hewitt's best guess since he felt this good was: "Don't know. Few years." It's an indication of how long he's been on the roundabout of stunted play surgery, rehab, repeat.
He's picked out the Australian Open and Wimbledon as his best two Grand Slam opportunities, or at least the ones where he can draw some seeds into extended contests. At least there, in fifth sets were will matters as much as conditioning, Hewitt always believes he's a chance.
"You know, for me, the priority is obviously the Grand Slams. The Australian Open and Wimbledon are my two main priorities. That's where I want to play my best tennis," Hewitt said.
"I think I've got my chance of playing my best tennis over five sets in those two majors with a little bit of luck with the draw as well. Then obviously Davis Cup.
"So I will work the rest of my schedule around those events. Right at the moment I haven't thought too much past Melbourne and doing everything right for there. "
A few games in Brisbane would be a handy start for Hewitt, who lost his most recent match against Stepanek despite some promising results overs the years.
"Yeah, it's going to be a tough match. Always played pretty well against him and then lost to him a couple months ago in Shanghai. He played really well," Hewitt said.
"He's a tough competitor. He gives 100 per cent every time he's on the court. He's got an awkward game style to a lot of other guys out there."
As is the upside for athletes suffering perennial injuries, the time off is difficult but extends battery life. And so it is for Hewitt, who finds himself refreshed in Brisbane due to his lack of extended grind on the tour.
"I've been able to freshen up though the last few years in terms of there has been four or five months at a time where I've had surgeries and had to recover," Hewitt said.
"I love competing, obviously. For me it's all about scheduling and not playing too many tournaments and obviously trying to play well where I want to play well."
Leave it to Roche to sum up the enduring key to Hewitt, a Wimbledon and US Open champion and former world number one who seemed to get there through sheer bloody mindedness rather than God-given talent.
"It's a tough match for Lleyton," Roche said of Stepanek. "But he's not afraid of anybody."
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With a stay at Bed & Breakfast Le Cavallerizze in Naples (Chiaia), you'll be minutes from Piazza dei Martiri and Palazzo delle Arti Napoli. This bed & breakfast is within close proximity of Naples Aquarium and Villa Pignatelli.
Make yourself at home in one of the 3 guestrooms. Rooms have private balconies. Complimentary wireless Internet access is available to keep you connected. Detached private bathrooms with bathtubs or showers feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers.
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Parmesan-Crusted Chicken Recipe
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
- 2 boneless skinless chicken breast halves (6 ounces each)
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- 1. In a shallow bowl, combine the flour, salt and garlic powder. In another bowl, beat the egg. Place the Parmesan cheese in a third bowl. Coat chicken in flour mixture, then dip in egg and roll in cheese.
- 2. In a skillet, brown chicken in oil on both sides. Transfer to a shallow 1-qt. baking dish coated with cooking spray; drizzle with lemon juice. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 18-20 minutes or until juices run clear. Yield: 2 servings.
Nutritional Facts
1 each: 394 calories, 18g fat (6g saturated fat), 173mg cholesterol, 830mg sodium, 11g carbohydrate (1g sugars, 0 fiber), 45g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 5 lean meat, 2 fat, 1 starch.
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"I'm unemployed and broke. I had no breadcrumbs.This is an awesome dish for what I had in the kitchen.Is so good!!!!I made the chicken and also boiled some noodles.Put the noodles and sauce in a baking pan and then added the chicken after I fried it.I love it !!! And will still make it when I find a job."
"This was good. I ended up adding extra seasoning. I just baked the chicken and all the crust stayed on. I will make again."
"All the complaints about the coating sticking to frying pan, use a non stick frying pan and you won't have a problem."
"I've made a very similar chicken dish like this before, with a few differences.. a little cayenne pepper & onion powder to the flour mixture...then I never fry it! bake at 400 for 30 minutes and mmmm....mmmmm...it's golden brown and tastes like it's fried! I make a lemon butter sauce with tarragon to drizzle over and serve with lemon butter asparagus."
"Okay, I worked in commercial kitchens for six years and while I am not the most creative ad libbing in the kitchen, I have solid fundamental skills. I thawed some chicken and prepared to make this for my girlfriend and I. We had other options, but this recipe sounded great.Followed the recipe to a tee and like a couple others, all of the Parmesan goodness hardened to a crusty mess at the bottom of my all clad sautée pan. No crust left whatsoever. Seeing as I had just detailed the kitchen the day previous, I was livid. Perhaps the recipe really calls for the powdered Parmesan cheese topping, I grated my own cheese and made a mess. The chicken, of course, was then bland coming out of the baking dish. I dumped some canned tomato sauce on top and ate my angry feelings. Be forewarned!"
"I added 1/2 tsp Italian seasoning to the flour mixture, for more flavor. However, I've never made such a messy dish as this one. All of the cheese stuck to the pan instead of the chicken. I won't make this dish again."
"This was simple to put together. The chicken had great flavore and was very tender. This is a recipe I will be using often! Thank you!"
"I did half grated parmesan, half shredded. Pretty tasty, though it needed more spice."
"As a single guy, I'm always looking for quick and easy meals. This is a breeze to make and very tasty. Only changes I made were to mix some plain bread crumbs in with the flour, and added a little thyme. Didn't have shredded parm so I used grated instead-but next time I'll use shredded. Will definitely be making this often- thanks for sharing."
"This recipe is a keeper! I was looking for a simple Sunday night meal and this fit the description perfectly. The cooking time did need to be increased by at least five minutes. I would highly recommend serving this chicken with mashed potatoes :)"
"I made this recipe tonight after searching for recipe that did NOT involve bread crumps because I didn't feel like going out to the store. This was really good and it was light verses the heavy breadings of the some of the recipes that I have tried before. I did use some oregano and parsley mixed in with the flour mixture and seasoned my chicken with a little sea salt. I will certainly make this recipe again."
"Good recipe. We made it for 4 people, and the baking time could probably be a bit longer. We baked it for an extra 5 minutes, and maybe even longer than that. It probably depends on your oven, but just thought I'd mention our experience. Other than that, I thought that this was pretty good!"
"This is a great way to change up chicken cutlets. I thoroughly enjoyed them as did my husband. This went great with the Parmesan Noodle side dish."
"This is one of our very favorite dinners and we have it at least several times a month. So easy and so delicious. I highly recommend this recipe."
"I make this for my husband and me quite often. It is very tasty and the chicken stays juicy and tender on the inside. Could easily increase this to serve 4."


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Girls state championship game in Alabama features stall-o-rama, 15-2 final score
I've been privileged to see some really great high school basketball games. I've also seen some games that weren't so great.
But I've haven't sat through anything like the Alabama 3A state championship that was played Tuesday.
Final score: 15-2.
The losing team knew that it was overmatched, so it tried to stall to stay in the game. It worked for a while, but then …
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The winning team hit what turned out to be the game-winning 3-pointer on its opening possession. A truly back-breaking 3-0 run.


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GOP candidate calling for Obama's hanging gets called out by Gov, called in by Secret Service
Say you're a rookie political candidate eager to raise your profile. Here's one sure way to do that that you DO NOT want to try: Publicly call for the president of the United States to be hanged.
That's what Republican state House candidate Joshua Black did on Twitter yesterday. It generated an widely read article in the Tampa Bay Times, a lot of new Twitter followers, a call from Anderson Cooper's guest booker, an interview for Political Connections on Bay News 9 and, naturally, a visit from the Secret Service.
Black, a taxi driver, told Al Ruechel and me this afternoon that Secret Service representatives were waiting for him at his house while he taped the Political Connections interview.
"It was not a threat," said Black, insisting that his tweet - "I'm past impeachment. It's time to arrest and hang him high" - was merely expressing outrage over the president killing U.S. citizens with drone attacks and without due process.
Black said he resigned from the Pinellas County Republican Executive Committee at the request of county chairman Michael Guju. But he dismissed a tweet from Gov. Rick Scott Tuesday that Black "immediately withdraw his candidacy to represent families of Pinellas County."
"I do not take orders from the governor, I'm staying in the race," Black said.


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NEIGHBORHOOD REPORT: FORDHAM; Of Rooflines and Ravens
By LAUREN PORCARO
Published: June 25, 2006
''UNDERGROUND bathrooms -- really bad idea,'' the architect Toshiko Mori was saying the other day in her sunny, loftlike offices on Varick Street. ''We always thought that we'd run into some creature or somebody underneath there.''
Ms. Mori, 54, who is chairwoman of the architecture department at Harvard's Graduate School of Design and principal of Toshiko Mori Architect, was describing one of the challenges of a current project of hers, construction of a visitors' center for Poe Park in the Bronx.
The park, on the Grand Concourse at East Kingsbridge Road, is anchored at one end by the small wood-frame cottage that was Edgar Allan Poe's last home, and at the other by an 80-year-old bandstand that is used for summer jazz concerts and a farmers' market. At a low point during the 1990's, rampant drug use made local parents wary of letting their children near the place. But in recent years, the grass has been reclaimed, and now a wrought-iron fence cordons off Poe's white-shingled cottage, which sits in a glade of ancient oaks.
The visitors' center was the brainchild of John Reilly, executive director of the Fordham Bedford Housing Corporation. It will be built on top of defunct subterranean restrooms, which were added to the park in 1926. The new building, a contemporary structure of 2,400 square feet, features a large glass window that will neatly frame a view of Poe cottage, 50 yards away. The center will house an exhibition space, an information desk and new bathrooms. Plans received preliminary approval from the city's Art Commission last month, and construction of the center, which will cost $2.3 million, is expected to begin this winter and to take 18 months.
In addition, there are plans for a $233,000 restoration of the cottage. Poe moved into the cottage in the spring of 1846, and his wife, Virginia, died there of tuberculosis the following winter, at the age of 24.
In the restoration, the exterior of the building would be stripped down to the wood and the interior would be replastered and painted. A deep crack in the wall over Poe's light-blue painted fireplace hints at the needed repairs.
Ms. Mori specializes in sites with legacies -- she is also designing a visitor center for Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin D. Martin House Complex, in Buffalo -- by tracing what she calls a place's ''architectural genealogy.'' In this case, she said, the challenge was ''how to translate Poe and not make it into a Halloween, trite statement.''
''It's easy to do Gothic details, the description of the House of Usher,'' she said. ''But it would just become Disney.''
To help inform her thinking, Ms. Mori began by reading Poe's horror stories and literary criticism, and by soliciting opinions from a range of people, from park workers to the Ravens, a local group of park volunteers.
One person with definite thoughts about what the restoration should involve is Edward Schneider, a retired junior high school history teacher who conducts tours of the house for the Bronx County Historical Society. The other morning, as Mr. Schneider waited in the cottage's low-ceilinged kitchen for a school group to arrive, he ticked off a few ideas, including ''somebody here to welcome you, maybe dressed in the period of the 19th century,'' and better living quarters for a caretaker.
The caretaker's current quarters could hardly be more modest. Matthew Mercier, 31, a graduate student at Hunter College, has lived in the basement of the cottage for the past four years, with the goal of deterring vandals.
Mr. Mercier, a short-story writer, spoke of Poe's eerie influence over him. ''I have to be cautious,'' Mr. Mercier said of living in the cottage, ''because I start writing in a 19th-century tone. High fancy. I'd start talking like Robert Louis Stevenson.''
The architects, by contrast, managed to keep their psychic distance.
''In the end,'' said Alexandra Barker, an architect with Ms. Mori's firm who worked on the design for the center, ''we decided to be more abstract, and used concepts in Gothic literature like suspense and mystery -- for example, how to elongate and dramatize the entry sequence.'' Visitors will enter through hallways canted at an angle just inside the door, a design element, Ms. Barker said, that is intended to create the sense that they are ''sliding between the walls.''
An architectural model of the center shows a single-story structure that in the aerial view is slightly bent into a V; the shape is meant to direct visitors toward the original cottage, at the park's north end, or, alternatively, toward the bandstand.
''The roof is slightly V-shaped and slightly like a wing,'' Ms. Mori said. ''Maybe the Ravens will meet there?''
PICKING up the model, she peered through the front hallway to examine a sight line. ''It's a raven, but it's also kind of rising,'' she said, referring to the structure's overall shape. ''Not a falling bird. It's a pretty tough building.''
Plans call for covering the walls of the visitors' center in dark gray slate shingles, which, Ms. Mori said, are durable and graffiti-proof but have a touch of the uncanny. Rummaging around her studio, she found two shingles and held them up side by side. ''When they overlap,'' she said, ''feathers.''
Walking through the park on a recent morning, Pat Logan, director of development at the Fordham Bedford Housing Corporation, recalled a story about a previous owner of the cottage who had displayed a painted raven on an outside wall -- it apparently was a dentist, E. J. Chauvet, who was advertising his practice in an odd way -- until Poe aficionados demanded that the image be removed, because the poem ''The Raven'' had been written in Manhattan.
''But have you heard about the shingles?'' Mr. Logan said. ''The raven's coming back, on the down low.''
Photos: EERIE -- Poe's last home, above, in 2001, anchors one end of Poe Park. It is to get a $233,000 renovation. (Photo by Associated Press); ARTFUL -- The challenge in designing the visitors' center, above, was ''to translate Poe and not make it into a Halloween, trite statement,'' said the architect, Toshiko Mori. (Photo by Michelle Kim and Amy Yang/Toshiko Mori Architect); (Photo by Vincent Laforet/The New York Times)


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Rob Styles has written an article regarding how semantic technologies can be effectively applied to the third V of Big Data: variety. (The other two Vs are volume and velocity.) Styles writes, "That third V of the Big Data puzzle is where I've been helping people use graphs of data (and that's what RDF is, a graph model). Graphs are great where you have a variety of data that you want to link up. Especially if you want to extend the data often and if you want to extend the data programmatically — i.e. you don't want to commit to a complete, constraining schema up-front. The other aspect of that variety in data that graphs help with is querying. As Jem Rayfield (BBC News & Sport) explains, using a graph makes the model simpler to develop and query."
He continues, "Graph data models can reach higher levels of variety in the data before they become unwieldy. This allows more data to be mixed and queried together. Mixing in more data adds more context and more context adds allows for more insight. Insight is what we're ultimately trying to get at with any data analysis. That's why the intelligence communities have been using graphs for many years now. What we're seeing now, with the combination of Big Data and graph technologies, is the ability to add value inside the enterprise. Graphs are useful for data analysis even if you don't intend to publish the data on the semantic web. Maybe even especially then."
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The big Dutch "gable" on the wall, painted with easy-to-wipe oil paint, acts as a decorative backsplash. A slab of travertine serves as a work surface. Professional series cooktop by Viking.
The dining table is 11 feet long and made out of reclaimed teak by Verellen. Veltman designed the hanging light fixture. "I wanted it to look effortless, as if you had just strung something together," he says. He also designed the bronze sconces.
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Student activist relives 1961 Freedom Rides
PBS selects MSU junior for 50th anniversary tour
By Tara Cavanaugh
Originally printed 5/5/2011 (Issue 1918 - Between The Lines News)
Erica Shekell is about to go on the ride of a lifetime.
The Michigan State University junior was selected among 1,000 applicants to take part in the PBS American Experience 2011 Freedom Ride. The ride celebrates the 50th anniversary of the 1961 Freedom Rides, during which a diverse group of men and women peacefully protested racism and segregation by riding together on busses through the Deep South. On their well-publicized journey, they faced violence, discrimination and even imprisonment. Their story is the subject of a PBS documentary, "Freedom Riders," that will air on PBS's American Experience program on May 16 at 9 p.m.
Shekell and 39 other students will travel along the same route as the original Freedom Riders from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans from May 6 to May 16. Shekell said she's particularly excited to meet some of the original riders who are making the trip with the students.
"I'm also really interested in getting to know the other students, because a lot of them have done absolutely incredible things on their campuses and in their communities," Shekell said.
Shekell, who first became interested in civil rights as a high school student in Howell, has an impressive resume like the rest of the students on the trip. The journalism and media arts major is enrolled in the Honor's College and is an active member of MSU's PRIDE - People Respecting Individuality, Diversity and Equality. She's also on MSU's planning committee for the 2011 Midwest Bisexual Lesbian Gay Transgender and Allies College Conference. Thanks to the committee, MSU will host the conference in 2013.
Shekell said what prompted an associate dean and a professor to recommend her to apply for the ride was her work with social media, which she uses as tools for activism.
"It can reach people who you would never be able to reach through word of mouth, mailing letters or phone calls," she said. "It gets the word out very fast - you can use Facebook to create an event for a protest or even create a Facebook group for contacting your representative in Congress."
Shekell, whose Twitter handle is @eshekell, will tweet about her experiences during her 10-day ride. PBS will also tweet about the trip @pbsamex and @FreedomRidePBS, and share updates at http://www.facebook.com/ride. The Twitter hashtag for the ride is #pbsbus.
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After six months of intense training with the Directorate, Sienna Nealon finds herself on her first assignment - tracking a dangerous meta across the upper midwest. With Scott Byerly and Kat Forrest at her side, she'll face new enemies and receive help from unlikely allies as she stumbles across the truth behind the shadowy organization known only as Omega.
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I'm impressed with this author. I've thoroughly enjoyed this steroid this far. The narration is good, almost but not quite great. A few idiosyncrasies tried to pull me out of the story however they were few and the writing managed to pull me back in.
A bookworm since a child. Love audible books.
"Boot Camp for the Girl in the Box"
About 6/10. This series is different than most of the books that I have read.
Vampires fighting Metahumans.
There is more emotional content added when it is read, but I would purchase the Kindle version first before purchasing the audible version. It is sometimes cheaper doing that and Whispersync adds to the enjoyment of the book.
No, but it was a fun diversion when I was commuting, ect. This series is unsual and interesting, but it is more geared to older teenagers and adults due to the battles among the characters. Also, the "B' word is used occasionally.
Readers needs to read book 1 and 2 before reading this book. The books are interconnected and it would be difficult for a reader just jumping into book 3 to understand where the character is coming from and the plot of the story. I think the characters start to be better developed in book 3 than in 1 and 2. This book series is unusual enough be keep one's attention and interest.
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This is from the leftist Washington Post, of all places. Not the place you would normally look for knowledge of basic economics.
The [restaurant / fast food] industry could be ready for another jolt as a ballot initiative to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour nears in the District and as other campaigns to boost wages gain traction around the country. About 30 percent of the restaurant industry's costs come from salaries, so burger-flipping robots — or at least super-fast ovens that expedite the process — become that much more cost-competitive if the current federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour is doubled.
[…]Many chains are already at work looking for ingenious ways to take humans out of the picture, threatening workers in an industry that employs 2.4 million wait staffers, nearly 3 million cooks and food preparers and many of the nation's 3.3 million cashiers.
[…]Labor isn't the only ingredient that factors into the price of a Big Mac: There's also real estate, which has been getting more expensive, especially in the hot urban markets where restaurants are seeking to locate. Wholesale food costs, meanwhile, have escalated 25 percent over the past five years.
The avalanche of rising costs is why franchisers are aggressively looking for technology that can allow them to produce more food faster with higher quality and lower waste. Dave Brewer is chief operating officer with Middleby Corp., which owns dozens of kitchen equipment brands, and is constantly developing new ways to optimize performance and minimize cost.
"The miracle is, the wage increase is driving the interest," Brewer said. "But the innovation and the automation, they're going after it even before the wages go up. Why wait?"
All that innovation helps restaurants streamline other parts of their operations — and draw more customers. Electronic menus can be constantly updated so that items that are out of stock can be removed. Connecting the point of the sale to the oven's operating system allows precise amounts of food to be cooked, which helps cut down on costs. Other inventions save energy, reduce maintenance and better dispose of grease. On the digital side, restaurants are working on apps that include reward systems and location tracking that prompt customers to eat with them more frequently.
[…]The labor-saving technology that has so far been rolled out most extensively — kiosk and tablet-based ordering — could be used to replace cashiers and the part of the wait staff's job that involves taking orders and bringing checks. Olive Garden said earlier this year that it would roll out the Ziosk system at all its restaurants, which means that all a server has to do is bring out the food.
Robots can even help cut down on the need for high-skilled workers such as sushi chefs. A number of high-end restaurants use machines for rolling rice out on sheets of nori, a relatively menial task that takes lots of time. Even though sushi chefs tend to make more than $15 an hour, they could be on the chopping block if servers need to make $15 an hour, too.
"For our operation, we're not buying entry-level labor, but if entry-level labor goes up a huge amount, everything goes up," said Robert Bleu, the president of True World Group, a seafood distributor and consultant that also owns a sushi restaurant in Chicago. "I don't consider rice-forming a high art. You can escape some of the drudgery."
Let's review the facts on minimum wage.
Abstract from new National Bureau of Economic Research study:
We estimate the minimum wage's effects on low-skilled workers' employment and income trajectories. Our approach exploits two dimensions of the data we analyze. First, we compare workers in states that were bound by recent increases in the federal minimum wage to workers in states that were not. Second, we use 12 months of baseline data to divide low-skilled workers into a "target" group, whose baseline wage rates were directly affected, and a "within-state control" group with slightly higher baseline wage rates. Over three subsequent years, we find that binding minimum wage increases had significant, negative effects on the employment and income growth of targeted workers.
[…]Over the late 2000s, the average effective minimum wage rose by 30 percent across the United States. We estimate that these minimum wage increases reduced the national employment-to-population ratio by 0.7 percentage point.
That comes out to 1.4 million workers who lost their jobs, thanks to minimum wage mandates. And those are primarily young, unskilled workers who are affected – people trying to get a start in the workplace and build their resumes, so they can move up.
Harvard economist Greg Mankiw explains the top 14 views that a majority professional economists agree on, and here's #12:
12. A minimum wage increases unemployment among young and unskilled workers. (79%)
And these facts affect more than the restaurant / fast food business. Here's an example from ABC News of another business that is having to shut its doors: independent bookstores. It always seems that the people on the lowest "start" rungs of the economic-independence ladder are most affected by bad liberal economic policies.


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OONSO.LIDA'l'ED FASTENER CO. v. WEISNER et aL SAME
v. LEBR.
October 81, 1898.)
(Circuit Court, D·. Massachusetts.
Nos. 961 and 962..
PATENTS-INFRINGEMENT-I1rfPROVEMENT IN METAL BUTTONS.
The Mead patent, No.. 325,430, for an improvement in buttons, and relating particularly to llUttons secured to the fabric b J' metal fastenings, the essential feature of the invention being an anvil plate in the Interior of the button,agalnst which the eyelet which passes through the fabric Is riveted down upon the lower plate of the button, is not infringed by a button which has no such anvil plate.
These were two suits in equity by the Consolidated Fastener Company against Annie Weisner and others and against Samuel Lehr, respectively, for the infringement of a patent. Heard on motions for a preliminary injunction. John R. Bennett and W. B. H. Dowse, for complainant Edmond Wetmore and William A. Jenner, for defendants. COLT, Circuit Judge. This is a motion for a preliminary injunction, brought upon a bill for the alleged infringement of letters patent No. 325,430, granted September 1, 1885, to Albert G. Mead, for improvements in buttons. In Kent v. Simons, 39 Fed. 606, this court said, with respect to the Mead patent: "The Mead improvement is manifestly of limited scope, in view of the many prior devices." The Mead invention relates particularly to buttons secured to the fabric by metallic fastenings, and provided with an open central bore, which adapts them for use especially with spring studs. The specification .says: "In the particular button finish, so called, combined with the central bore, and in the general arrangement and disposition of the several parts with respect to each other, is embodied the subject of my invention." The several parts of the Mead device are an exterior cap, a lower disk centrally perforated, and which is slightly dished, an upper circular disk provided with a central bore with the metal "at or near the opening bent or burred, forming a short frustrum of a cone." This disk or anvil plate rests upon the lower disk with the burred portion downward. The patent also describes a filling made of any stiff material, such as leather, which is inserted in the head of the button to prevent injury to the upper metal cap. The fastening eyelet is the ordinary eyelet having an internal central bore sufficiently large to permit the truncated cone formed on the anvil plate to enter therein. In operation the anvil plate spreads, and rivets the top of the eyelet down upon the lower disk, and prevents its withdrawal through the central bore of the button. The patentee states that he terms the upper disk an anvil plate, "since it acts like an anvil upon which to rivet or clinch the upper part of the shank of the fastening eyelet." The defendants' button consists of an inclosing cap having a button finish, an interior plate, a flanged tubular plate, which is put through the fabric, and having an in-turned lip, an under outside plate\ or washer upon which the tubular plate is upset, and an inside paper
washer. It has no eyelet and no anvil plate. The flanged plate does not act as an anvil plate to turn over the upper edge of an eyelet. Nor is the lower plate, or disk, of defendants' button the same or the equivalent of the lower disk of Mead. It is not inclosed by the cap; no eyelet is riveted down upon it; it is on the opposite side of the fabric. An anvil plate to rivet down the eyelet upon the lower disk is the essential feature in the Mead button, and this feature is not found in defendants' device. The first claim of the Mead patent is as follows:
"(1) In a button provided with a opening for receiving a spring stud, the combination of an inclosing cap, a perforated bottom disk, a second disk above the first, the button being attached as a whole to the fabric independent of said stud, SUbstantially as set forth." ,.
We do not find in defendants' button "the perforated bottom disk," and "a second disk (or anvil plate) above the first," which are the essen· tial elements of this claim; and therefore we must hold that there is no infringement of this claim. The only other claim involved in the present hearing is the third:
"(3) The combination of a plate having a central opening or bore, with a convex cap, E, inclosing and attached to said plate, and provided with a filling, F, also centrally perforated, substantially for purposes specified."
The experts differ as to whether the plate mentioned in this claim has reference to the upper or lower disk of the Mead button. But, upon either construction of the claim, there is no infringement, because defendants' button does not contain either of these disks. Bear· ing in mind the limited scope of the Mead patent in view of the prior art, and, for the purpose of this motion, assuming the patent to be valid, we do not think the complainant has made out a case of infringementwhich entitles it to a preliminary injunction. Motion denied.
RAYMOND v. LA COMPAGNIE GENERALE, ETa. WUERTZ v. SAME.
(Circuit Court, S. D. Kew York.
November 10, 1898.)
ADMIRALTy-SUITS TO RECOVER FOR DEATllS-SECUHITY FOR COSTS.
In actions brought on behalf of the next of kin against a steamship company to recover for deaths resulting from the sinking of a vessel which was a total loss,-defendant being therefore relieved from all liability for faults of navigation,-plainti1Is will be required to give security for costs, unless the inalJility of all the persons interested in the recovery to do so is shown.
Motion to Require Security for Costs. Edward K. Jones, for the motion. Kenneson, Craine & Alling, opposed. LACOl\fBE, Circuit Judge. In view of the large number of these causes which seem to be pending in this court, the subject of requiring security for costs has been again considered. There is force in the of defendant that inasmuch as the statutory limitation of


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Every year, tickets for the Big Smoke Las Vegas Saturday Seminars sell out quickly for good reason: There is a wealth of cigar education to be gained from attending.
Throughout the day this year, makers of Cigar Aficionado's top-scoring legal cigars for 2012 (the No. 2 cigar of the year was a Cuban) told the stories behind their celebrated cigars to the crowd.
The first to speak was Jorge Padrón of Padron Cigars, maker of the No. 4 Cigar of 2012, the Padrón Family Reserve 85 Years in natural wrapper, a Nicaraguan puro measuring 5 1/4 inches by 50 ring gauge that received 94 points. Next on the podium was Javier Estades and Larry Palombo of Altadis U.S.A, the men behind the No. 3 Cigar of the Year, the Romeo by Romeo y Julieta Piramide. And finally, José Ortega and the Garcia family, father Pepin with daughter and son Janny and Jaime, took to the stage to talk about the reigning Cigar of the Year: the Flor de las Antillas Toro.
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Funny title? No, actually an interesting technique:
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Php, CSS,Javascript and attributes
- Php security blunders
- FACE Faruk's Animated CSS Enhancements
- Stylesheet sanity
A post an Simon Willison's web site:
I'm not particularly interested in Goole base itself, more in what Simon says about structuring data using attributes that allow to query it and make it interchangeable. I think that XFN and Microformats are products of the same general orientation. Seems to me that that's all the web is about, connecting people and data in the easiest possible way.
posted on: 23 December 2005
Civil liberties and rights
I hope that not only american but also the rest of world civil liberties and rights are taken into consideration.
posted on: 20 December 2005
Greasy oil
Wherever there is oil..:
posted on: 19 December 2005
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Search engines
A couple of search engine related links:
posted on: 16 December 2005
The anatomy of web fonts
An article on Sitepoint about web fonts:
posted on: 15 December 2005
Transitional vs. Strict and 2006 web trends
From 24 ways an article on Transitional vs. Strict Markup by Roger Johansson.
Andy Budd on Web Design and Development Trends for 2006.
Two years:
posted on: 11 December 2005
Typography on the Web
The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web. A practical guide to web typography: webtypography.net
posted on: 10 December 2005
Climate change
- U.S. delegation walks out of climate talks
- US isolated after climate talks walkout
- Climate change theory barks up wrong tree
An interesting initiative from the The Guardian, The Observer and Guardian Unlimited that joined forces with Climate Care to offset air travel pollution:
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Useful links
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Harold Pinter's Nobel lecture
"I believe that despite the enormous odds which exist, unflinching, unswerving, fierce intellectual determination, as citizens, to define the real truth of our lives and our societies is a crucial obligation which devolves upon us all. It is in fact mandatory. If such a determination is not embodied in our political vision we have no hope of restoring what is so nearly lost to us - the dignity of man."
from Harold Pinter's Nobel acceptance speech
I cannot say anything more that he's not already said better then I could. It's so rare to hear those things said by someone that has the possibility to reach many people. Thanks.
posted on: 08 December 2005
Flash and physics
Using Flash animations to illustrate physics is something I tried a while ago. I find it most interesting but, unfortunately, my knowledge of physics is limited.
posted on: 07 December 2005
Anything goes
Ignoring everybody's questions Rice signs US-Romania bases deal showing once more very little respect. The most common excuse for this behaviour is that "intelligence services must be able to do their job" but what I think is that the simple fact that there is a need for intelligence service spying and plotting means that something is wrong. I'm not talking only about the USA but about all Nations. Every Country, all over the world, needs huge amounts of money to keep the security around its President running and avoid assassination. Does this sound like a sensible thing? Why it must be like that? Just because for five thousand years has never changed it doesn't mean it could not change. It's up to us all and if it's not...then we are a much less intelligent species then we give ourselves credit for.
posted on: 06 December 2005
Sevencolors new logo
I wanted a logo that conveyed the meaning of this web site and this is what I came up with:
The O becoming a broken circle with an arrow pointing out symbolizes the communication between people, an opening of the mind that brings change and that's why the color is different. The name itself (seven colors on a spinning wheel become white, white light passing through a prism splits into seven colors) stands for multiplicity that becomes unity, the capacity of different entities to coexist and actually learn from each other. The circles and arrows also symbolize the World Wide Web and its huge potential for connecting people and circulating ideas freely.
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Internet glossary
"While by no means definitive, this glossary does have more than a hundred words, phrases, and jargon related to the the Internet as a whole, with a particular bent toward the Web and and the new-media industry"
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Rendition and torture
Talking about it doesn't help. I don't believe that anybody in the Bush administration is able to understand that when the end justifies the means everybody loses. They keep thinking that somehow they are different from the rest of the people in the world and, not being able to learn, persevere on a road that brings to nothing. I don't see much difference between "them" and their "enemies". I don't like either.
posted on: 04 December 2005
Extraordinary rendition
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Old wars, new wars
The "old" one:
The new one:
posted on: 02 December 2005
When East Timor obtained its independence from Portugal in 1975, Australia had an agreement with Indonesia. Now, East Timor is independent, so: E Timor, Australia strike oil deal.
Also, the only route available for nuclear submarines is a deep-sea trench off the East Timorese coast.
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I was tickled to see Mindy Kaling's contribution to the April 2012 Ladies' Home Journal article "A Memo to My Younger Self" (which seems to have been inspired by Julie Orringer's "Note to Sixth-Grade Self," a coming-of-age tale so awesome it deserves its own blog post). I always like to hear about people who spent their adolescent years feeling like dorks but went on to do some badass things with their lives.
Anyway, Mindy's first and last points in the piece seem pretty related to each other.
"First of all, don't let that kid in your class, Danny, who called you fat, make you self-consciously wear oversized sweatshirts for the next four years to hide your body. That kid is horrible and years from now he will be boring and bald and trying to get in touch with you to come to the set of the TV show you work on. …
"Finally: Don't let anyone give you any crap. Mastering a balance of these last two will take you a lifetime, so you had better get started now."
I finally got around to reading Mindy's book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and Other Concerns) this weekend and laughed so hard at some of her lists, I had tears. So is the Danny in the LHJ piece actually that Duante jerk in the book? Probably. I wonder how it feels to have a former classmate document your jerkiness for posterity.
The way Mindy captures certain details cracks me up as well, because they're points of reference that I myself wasn't even aware of having. Other asides are just plain hilarious for being so incisive. Not even 10 pages into the book and I'm giggling myself silly over observations like "Alternate Titles for This Book" being "The Book That Was Never a Blog," "When Your Boyfriend Fits Into Your Jeans and Other Atrocities," and "There Has Ceased to Be a Difference Between My Awake Clothes and My Asleep Clothes."
Her self-proclaimed timid-chubster "before" pics belong on that website Before You Were Hot too, along with maybe the image of her as one of People's "Most Beautiful 2011" and an excerpt from her story "When You're Not Skinny, This is What People Want You to Wear." In it she links back to the "don't let anyone give you any crap" bit of advice as she describes the People photo shoot. Totally worth multiple reads, the whole thing. I love finding a new favorite book.
• Mindy Kaling Q&A (The Believer)
• "Mindy Kaling on Diets, High School and Other American Pastimes" (NPR)
• "A Long Day at 'The Office' With Mindy Kaling" (The New York Times)
• And more here.
(Top photo: Autumn deWilde for NPR)
Update: I was wondering why Mindy hadn't posted on her blog for a while and then I went online and found out that her mother passed away in late January. It makes the dedication of her book and her other words in the LHJ piece all the more poignant, because she talks about spending time with and missing her parents "so much it hurts."


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News BulletsBy Caillan
August 12, 2001 - 10:11 AM
- Over at Star Trek: Hypertext, Jamahl Epsicokhan has posted his review of Voyager's seventh season, as well as the announcement that he will be reviewing Enterprise this Fall.
- The official site has posted a science round-up, dealing with the realities of Mirror Universes and other phenomena seen in the various Trek series.
- Zap2It has posted an article about Sex And The City actress Kim Cattrall (Valeris) appearing for news interviews, and endorsing Nikon cameras in the process.
- In her latest column at About.com, Julia Houston looked at the odd-numbered Trek feature films. Here's an extract from the article:
The successful movies have been committed to their stories. The unsuccessful ones have instead worried about remaining within acceptable "Star Trek limits." The bad films have not been lacking in good concepts, special effects or good acting. They have simply failed to put these to good use, being too "faithful" to supposed Star Trek formulas.
To find out more, read the full article.
- The Official Jeri Lynn Ryan Homepage reported that Jeri Ryan (Seven Of Nine) will soon be appearing on Extra and Access Hollywood, as well as Entertainment Weekly's Fall TV preview issue. More information can be found at the site.
- The Washington Post has posted an article about the 'Hello, Goodbye: Pilots, Premieres and Final Episodes' exhibition at the Museum of Television & Radio in New York and Los Angeles. The collection includes the original Star Trek pilot, 'The Cage.' Thanks to Helena for this!
- Totally Kate! has posted a transcript of Kate Mulgrew's (Kathryn Janeway) Saturday appearance at the Voyager: The Return convention.
- In the latest issue of Star Trek Monthly, Captain Kathryn Janeway, played by Kate Mulgrew, was voted Trek's greatest woman. Uhura, Kira Nerys and Seven of Nine filled out second, third and fourth positions respectively. Thanks to Ian Cullen at CyFy Pulse for this!
- A new selection of photos of Kate Mulgrew (Kathryn Janeway) and Patrick Stewart (Jean-Luc Picard) at the Voyager: The Return convention have been posted at Gorgeous Kate.
- Jim Wright's 'Shattered' review is back online at Delta Blues, with help from Cathy Person.
- Recent updates at the Psi Phi Book Database include the information that the novelisation of the Enterprise pilot, 'Broken Bow' will be a hardcover, the cover art for SCE Book One, 'Have Tech, Will Travel,' an extract from Gateways Book Three, 'Doors Into Chaos' and a brief description of the upcoming TNG novel, 'Hard Rain'. Further updates can be found at the Psi Phi What's New? page.
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The Preliminary Inquiry - Part 2 of 3
Yesterday, CPLEA started its 3-part blog post on the Preliminary Inquiry.
Now that we know discuss why this is an issue right now, what exactly Preliminary Inquiries are and how they are conducted, today we move on to look at the issue in a bit more depth, including the when, where and why of Preliminary Inquiries.
Ever wanted to know what a 'hybrid' offence is – now's your chance! Read Part 2 of our 3 part series on Blogosaurus Lex.


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High School Wrestler Knocked Out By Falling Light [VIDEO]
Your typical wrestling match is filled with punches, slams, holds and even knockouts. This video shows a 'bright' high school wrestler, Michael McComish, knocked to the ground. But in this case, however, you won't believe how it happens. You could say his opponent will bring down the house.
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Israeli gunships have attacked central Beirut
Israeli gunships have attacked central Beirut for the first time in Israel's four-day-old assault on Lebanon as the civilian death toll neared 100.
The renewed fighting prompted the Lebanese prime minister, Fouad Siniora, to repeat calls for a ceasefire on Saturday, saying
Israeli attacks had turned Lebanon into a disaster area in need of international aid.
"We call for an immediate ceasefire backed by the United Nations," Siniora told a news conference in Beirut. "I declare today that Lebanon is a disaster zone in need of a comprehensive and speedy Arab plan ... and [it] pleads to its friends in the world to rush to its aid."
The latest Israeli strikes hit the lighthouse, radar installation and grain silos at the port in Beirut, in the first attack so close to the centre of the Lebanese capital.
One Lebanese soldier was wounded.
A soldier was also killed and three others wounded in an Israeli military strike on their position in the coastal city of Batroun, north of Beirut, the army said.
It was not clear why Israel appeared to now be targeting the Lebanese army, but it could be to knock out radar capabilities, particularly after the Hezbollah missile attack that severely damaged an Israeli warship off the Beirut coast on Friday.
Israeli helicopters also fired two missiles at the port in the mainly Christian city of Jounieh, north of Beirut, and in Tripoli, Lebanon's second largest city.
Northern Israel hit
Also on Saturday, Hezbollah rockets hit towns in northern Israel including Tiberias, 35 kilometres from the border, which was the deepest penetration so far. Several people were reported injured.
Saturday Jul 15th, 2006 11:57 AM
Israel has expanded its bombardment of Lebanon, attacking a large number of targets across the country.
Warplanes fired rockets on the Lebanon-Syrian border and hit the centre of Beirut for the first time.
More than 80 Lebanese have died, including 18 fleeing border areas, in the strikes launched after Hezbollah militants seized two Israeli soldiers.
Hezbollah launched rockets on the town of Tiberias in the deepest such attack in Israel. Four Israelis were injured.
Israel has deployed Patriot interceptor missiles in the northern port city of Haifa which was hit by rockets earlier.
One Israeli soldier was killed and three were missing from a warship struck by Hezbollah on Friday.
In an emotional appeal on Lebanese television, Prime Minister Fouad Siniora called for an immediate ceasefire and urged the US to intervene.
"Lebanon is a disaster zone... and (it) pleads to its friends in the world to rush to its aid," he said.
Following emergency talks in Egypt, Arab League Secretary General Amr Moussa said the Middle East peace process had failed and urged the UN Security Council to tackle the crisis.
In other Israeli attacks on Saturday:
* Warplanes struck the northern port city of Tripoli, and carried out raids in north and north-eastern Lebanon for the first time
* strikes targeted the port and a lighthouse in the capital Beirut
* the headquarters of Hezbollah were destroyed in a series of strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs - a Hezbollah stronghold
* three civilians were killed in an Israeli attack in Hermel, on the border with Syria, Hezbollah's al-Manar TV said
* warplanes also targeted sites in the eastern city of Baalbek.
'Bodies litter road'
Women and children were among those killed when their vehicles were struck by missiles on the coastal road to the southern city of Tyre.
"Bodies litter the road," an eyewitness said.
Local residents told al-Jazeera TV the victims had been hit after being told to leave the village of Marwahin by the Israelis and then refused shelter by the UN forces.
The main road had been under continuous bombardment, Ahmad Ali Ubayd said.
The Israeli Army said the responsibility for endangering the civilian population rested with Hezbollah, and they regretted civilian casualties while targeting areas used as a launching ground for missiles.
Correspondents say there is nowhere safe to go for many trying to flee the south.
In past hostilities, much of the mainly Shia population of the south has sought refuge in Beirut's largely Shia southern suburbs, which are now under attack too.
A number of bridges, petrol stations and key roads have also been hit, including the main road linking northern Lebanon to Syria.
Thousands have fled into Syria.
Thousands of foreigners have also left Beirut, leaving its economy in tatters.
Countries including the US and France are making plans to evacuate their nationals from Lebanon.
Saturday Jul 15th, 2006 11:57 AM
BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora on Saturday said Israeli attacks had turned his country into a "disaster zone."
Israeli warplanes struck Lebanese ports, the capital Beirut and the border area near Syria as Hezbollah launched scores of rockets from Lebanon into Israel on the fourth day of violence.
Siniora called for an immediate cease-fire and international help to stop attacks from what he called Israel's "war machine," according to CNN's translation.
He said Israel was "punishing all Lebanese collectively, with their actions lacking any moral or legal legitimacy."
An Israel Foreign Ministry spokesman said after Siniora's televised address that Lebanon triggered the crisis by failing to disarm Hezbollah.
Civilians killed
Israel intensified its attacks from air, sea and land Saturday on targets such as Beirut and the ports of Tripoli, Amchit and Junieh, according to Lebanese media.
Israel's campaign began when Hezbollah militants based in Lebanon abducted two Israeli soldiers and killed three others during a raid into Israel Wednesday. Israel vowed to free the soldiers.
At least 85 Lebanese civilians and two soldiers have died in the Israeli attacks. Four Israeli civilians, eight soldiers and one sailor have died, Israeli authorities said. Three sailors are missing.


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Families from Marano Marchesato, Cosenza, Calabria
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Warm the Crisco a bit. Beat the eggs thoroughly. Add the eggs and the sugar to the warm crisco and sugar.
Keep stretching and reforming the ball until it's the right consistency. (You'll know...)
Put oil in a pot and heat it until it boils over. Heat the honey in another pan.
Cut pieces of the ball and roll each into a two foot-long "rope" of dough.
Cut each rope in 4 pieces, cover them for 10 minutes.
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Parents of young boys face a lot of choices in after-school activities. Boys want to have fun, while parents want them to learn positive values and skills that will last a lifetime. If your boy is in first through fifth grade, Cub Scouting may be exactly what you are both looking for.
Generations of American men have participated in and benefited from Cub Scouting. As a parent, you can be assured that Cub Scouting:
•Involves a variety of family activities
•Encourages good behavior
•Teaches lifelong values
•Strengthens the bond of families
Cub Scout sign-up nights are happening throughout the Elk River area right now. Pack 90 will host a sign-up night at Otsego Elementary at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 17 in the cafeteria at Otsego Elementary School. For more information, contact Brad LeBlanc at 612-803-8271.
Also check out camp and other fun activities at www.bsacmc.org. Find your local Scouting information by visiting: www.BeAScout.org.
Meanwhile, Elk River Scouts had a successful round-up with more than 50 families signing up for Scouting programs that meet at elementary schools in Elk River.
Elk River Boy Scouts helped run activities for the potential recruits while their parents met with Scout leaders.


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Friday, 17 April 2009
More of those hilarious BBC picture captions
5 comments:
- BLTP said...
curiously after all the pictures of beer I don't half need a pint!
Friday pm idea what's a good new bottled beer for the start of the weekend? I promise not drink more than 3 and slip over into bingeing...
- 17 April 2009 at 12:25
- Ed said...
The latest issue of Brewer and Distiller International reports that out of 20 countries surveyed Britain came in 14th place for alcohol consumption, well behind France and Germany. That won't make good headlines though will it?
- 17 April 2009 at 14:29
Really enjoyed Three Sheets to The Wind. Reading the chapter on the US, thought you might be interested in this which I came across via Stephen Fry's webesite !
Apparently had its screening yesterday - on 440 screens .
Looking forward to getting my hands on Hops and Glory.
- 17 April 2009 at 21:42
- michael-j said...
another one today:
sent them a comment about how the BBC should stop showing pints of ale in pubs when the story is about cheap spirits and bottles/cans in supermarkets, and hopefully a few more people can do the same...
- 12 May 2010 at 12:13
- michael-j said...
didn't get a reply, but i noticed that they now have replaced the stock photo of a pint of ale with much more appropriate photo of the booze section in a supermarket!
- 17 May 2010 at 12:41


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Are Flo Braker's books written using weights (ideally metric) or just in volume with a table at the back/front? I'm not allowed to purchase any more baking books unless they have weights but hers have been of interest to me.
Not allowed to buy any baking books unless they have weights? LOL.. funny, that is one way to cut back. I have purchased at least 3 books in the last 8 weeks….....and have only baked the Vegan cake. I am going to have to institute this rule.


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Genesio Bevilacqua: I think that our rivals should clarify their declarations as they continue to insist that they believe us to be at an advantage when the opposite is in fact true.
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Genesio Bevilacqua says rival World Superbike teams should be giving his Althea Racing squad 'more respect' for its overall efforts, rather than insisting its success is down to the 'advantage' of using Ducati machinery.
Bevilacqua's Althea team made the switch from Honda to Ducati bikes in 2010, a move that transformed it from mid-field minnows into fully-fledged title contenders.
Indeed, on the weekend its rider Carlos Checa made it wins nine and ten this season, thus increasing his lead in the standings to 62 points, Bevilacqua has hit out at rival teams for justifying their success as being down to the twin-cylinder machine having an apparent advantage.
Insisting the 1098R is not unfairly faster than its competition, Bevilacqua is urging his rivals to give Althea Racing and Checa 'more respect' and not discredit its achievements with such claims.
"A double win that gives us great satisfaction," he said. "We've achieved two wins at just the right time and they help increase our championship advantage. A true demonstration of strength by our rider who made the most of everything we have given him on a technical level.
"I would like to underline that it has been a difficult weekend from a media point of view; I think that our rivals should clarify their declarations as they continue to insist that they believe us to be at an advantage when the opposite is in fact true. What we bring to the floor is our strength as a team, a great rider and a bike that has less acceleration. We also lose at least 12km/h of top speed at every track.
"I would therefore like to see more respect being paid when it comes to the hard work of our team and our rider. We will continue to work to achieve our objectives and Ducati's objective."
Ducati has been the source of much controversy since organisers allowed it to race with a 1200cc twin-cylinder machine from 2008, in contrast to the four-cylinder 1000cc bikes used by its rivals.
Equalisation rules have been in effect since then, but have been regularly adjusted in an effort to level the playing field. However, Ducati's official withdrawal from the series at the end of the 2010 season was rumoured to be because it was not satisfied it was receiving fair treatment.
Ducati is tipped to race the next-generation 1098R in the World Superbike Championship next season, though it isn't certain whether it will return in full capacity or donate the bike to Althea.


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Discussion in '2005 - 2009 Specific Tech' started by Z28x, May 28, 2004.
I thought it was mullets and trailer parks
That's right... I forgot... the whole hair gel thing happened around 1988... when the Mustang was still outselling the camaro.
Sad to see ignorant people still exist, it is amazing how a few bad years of the Camaro and Mustang 20 years ago can tarnish the image of these two fine cars today but since when does anyone take Honda fanboys seriously j/k
Hey! trailer parks arent that bad...
nah, it was booze
although i wasn't being completely sarcastic. i'd always rather have a bigger engine as far as trying to be cool and all... like any car would be cooler with a 4.6 than a 3.8.
but if the engine was 5666cc, i'd rather call it a 5.6 than a 5.7, since i like the number 6 better than the number 7.
of course i'm pretty drunk again tonight....
seriously though, they gotta take that 6.2 and make the marauder an svt car only. chrysler's taking the 300 up over 400hp with the srt-8.
Even if they just use the 6.2 for police cruisers, i'd be happy.
On another note, why are they making a hybrid escape when they should mass produce a hybrid crown vic for the millions of cabs and police cars that spend half their life idling. Those things rack up tons of mileage, and they'd be some of the best customers to benefit from the kind of gas mileage increase the escape is getting.
So how's that for an example of my incredible inner conflict? 6.2 v8 or hybrid v6?
Volkswagon beetle, didnt they JUST stop making them in Mexico a few years ago?
Chevy Suburban has been around since 1935
Jeep Wrangler, although it was called CJ before wrangler, but basically the same vehicle has been around since the 40's
At least around here. Some of those crown vics run on natural gas.
The problem is at least in my opinion. That it wasn't just a few bad years. Chevy gave up on the camaro. And were only willing to do a redesign every 10 years. And yes Ford did wait a lot longer on the mustang. But since I thihnk it's 1972. they changed the bodystyle more often. And while the last generation was a good performer. I and quite a few other people. Can't help but think it looked like a Geo storm.
About what GM will be doing in for their truck engines? They are building a V10. I was at the GM Powertrain development plant a couple weeks ago and some guys spotted a prototype and asked the tour guide about it. They also mentioned that their cold dyno is going to have support for 10 cylinder engines soon, which seemed odd until the spotting of the V10. The engine is supposed to be out in 2007. They also had quite a few large displacement V8s and front engine V8s hanging around.
This might be common knowledge, but the 6.8L V10 in the next Ford Super Duty pick-up will have 3 valves per cylinder. It doesn't look like it'll have VCT though.
Yup, another cool engine that Ford will never put in a car.
A couple questions about those engines. What is the weight of the new 6.8 liter? If it added another 100 lbs on the front end would you still want it?
And as far as that 3v 5.4. It uses a cast iron block. Which I'm going to say is a safe bet. To weigh more than the aluminum block 4.6 3v.
Are you against handling? I mean Ford is trying to do (At least to some of us) the right thing. And make the mustang handle better. And part of that is to make the weight balance out better. People are already complaining about the 05 weighing a lot. So now Ford whould add a heavier engine to the nose of it. And throw off the handling they are trying to achieve?
Ford has already tooled up a really excellent Aluminum 5.4 liter block for the GT (40). I think the weight and cost difference would be nominal compared to the 4.6 and the power would probably be comparable to the dodge Hemi.
A Bullit of Mach with an atmospheric 5.4L 3valve would be cool. The bastards will probably introduce it right after I buy my GT.
Any Iron block V8/V10 in the Stang is out of the question in my book. The current Cobra already has an engine that is 200lbs. heavier than a reg 4.6L V8, so 100lbs. extra for an aluminum V10 wouldn't be too bad in my book. An Aluminum 5.4L 3v wouldn't be much, if any heavier than a DOHC 4.6L and would be lighter than the engine in the 2000 Cobra R and probably lighter than the old iron 2v 4.6L.
So you don't mind that one of the criticisms about the 03's handling was the extra 100 lbs on the front end?
lol well im glad the sober ones understood what i meant by the 5.0's sounding better. I meant engine sound, IE exhaust, how ones engine sounds. Not how the numbers sound ... sigh , some people love the sound of a 4.6 some dont, im one of the dont's . Im also gonna say that a V6 is an extremely nice sound if you set your biased opinions aside.
Apparently i came off as a bit of a ford hater? lol? Im on a ford mustang message board for like a year now, and 2 of my 3 cars have been mustangs, im the first member of my family to own anything other than a ford. I'd like to consider it constructive criticism not hate. That being said:
I'm going to be completely honest, the Mustang does not handle well. It doesn't have the greatest weight distribution, its heavy, its gas mileage is so-so at best, it has many shortcomings. However, nothing is better than a mustang. The way it sounds is uncompareable to any other car, not to mention the way one feels while driving one. That and the feeling of killing most of the cars you line up against, especially when you know they paid 4 times as much, plus the billions of other pros of the car I didn't mention. Anyways, my point is the Mustang has always been the drag racers car, and as a drag racer you should be customizing the car to your likeing. Ford should have a drag option (such as boss) where you basically start out with the body, and then choose whatever engine and drivetrain you want. Like have all their engines at your disposal. (Mustang is definately coming back into my waiting garage as soon as i have enough money to afford a GT)
If they made the GT specifically ahve a 6.5 or 7.1 or whatever size this topic is about, it would really only be suited to drag racing, handling would plummet and so would mileage. The 4.6/5.0 is a well rounded engine, not too heavy that you lose mileage, lots of power, easy to mod and light enough to give you decent handling.
Gas is nearly a dollar a liter for 87 octane. It would be way too expensive to have a 2005 428 mustang that requires 100+ octane as a daily driver. (this is somewhat hypocritical since i (me and the oldman) have a 1968 Cougar GT (428) with increased compression etc. that is the weekend driver)
Ford's advertising should be "Our GT smokes Ferraris and Lamborghinis."
That would rock!
The weight distro in the 03 was different than the '05, so that extra 100lbs. won't be as bad. I'd rather not have the extra 100lbs. but if that is the only way to get a 450HP/450tq engine than so be it. The '03-04 Cobra handles good (in my book) and is considered the biggest nose heavy pig of any Mustang ever. It's not like a 5.4, 6.2, or V10 would replace the 4.6L and V6. Maybe Ford will build an IRS 4.6L car for the raod racer and a 5.4L/6.2 live axel for the drag guys.
Just curious, if you were in charge of picking the engine for the next special edition would you pick a 230HP turbo 2.3L I4 or a 375HP 5.4L SOHC 3v? The I4 would save a lot of weight.
There are many reason not to choose the I4. One being that it is underpowered (Not much of a special edition when a gt has more power.). The other being a mustang would not sound right with a I4. But I also would not choose the 5.4. My understanding is they designed this aluminum block to be stronger than before. So I would throw in forged internals and turbo the the 4.6.


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Last week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture issued a report (in PDF format here) that shows just how well our economy is recovering [snark]:
- As of January 2012, the most recent month available, 46.5 million Americans or 20% (22.2 million) of U.S. households are in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or food stamps program.
- The average household in SNAP receives $277/month; the average participant receives $132/month.
- Less than half of the SNAP benefit paid monthly actually goes to buying food.
- SNAP is not supposed to be the only source of food purchasing for a household in the program. SNAP money represents about 30% of their income. The typical SNAP recipient also receives other "government transfer payments": Social Security (21%), Social Security Insurance/Disability (21%), and child support payments (10%).
- Households with children account for 71% of all demand for SNAP. The typical SNAP participant is a child under the age of 18; children account for 47% of the program. Surprisingly, the elderly are only 8% of the program.
- Food stamps appear to be a long-term dependency. Those who were enrolled in the SNAP program in the early-to-mid 2000s remain enrolled for 7 years on average. Over half of those who left the program returned within 2 years.
Writing for ZeroHedge.com on April 20, 2012, Nic Colas of ConvergEx puts the numbers into perspective for us:
- If the 46.5 million Americans on food stamps were a state, it would be the largest state in the Union.
- If the adults enrolled in the SNAP program (about half the 46.5 million total) all voted for one Presidential candidate in the Fall, they would represent over 2x the margin of victory in the 2008 election.
Colas also gives us the historical background.
The SNAP or Food Stamps program got its start in the Great Depression — an effort to give some of the surplus produced by America's agricultural system to the urban poor. The poor could buy "stamps" that entitled them to buy both regular foodstuffs as well as discounted surplus produce. The program went dormant during World War II but President Kennedy resurrected it in 1960, altering it from a pay-for-stamps system to a straight entitlement. With some tweaks and alterations, this is the program we have today – a nationwide system of evaluating those who are deemed to be at risk of food insecurity (typically those making less than 130% of the poverty line) and giving them money to purchase food.
Mindful that long economic recessions have a way of forming permanent habits among Americans, Colas warns that the Food Stamps program has all the signs of becoming a permanent entitlement:
The trouble, as I see it, is that the SNAP program has become wildly successful. That is not a slam against the people that use it – I personally agree that no one, especially a child, should go to bed hungry in America. But it's not hard to see where this program is creeping its way from counter-cyclical stimulus and support to a lasting entitlement program that will be very hard to change.
[…] a large percentage of the population – 20% of households is a big number – is locked into this program. There are endless studies in the world of behavioral finance that show that people are very quick to budget increases in disposable income as permanent. And don't forget that by the USDA's own numbers, most of the benefit is effectively NOT being spent on food. In the narrowest sense, the money spent on the SNAP program is tiny relative to the Federal budget – $6 billion a month, or a drop in the $270 billion/month government spend.
But this is where I wonder about the long shadow of the last recession. Have we reached a point where Americans want a clear and potentially permanent social safety net? And how far should it go? Again, the current SNAP program is a cheap way to provide this, so from a budgetary or societal standpoint it is hard to argue that it breaks the bank. But what if it is an emblem of something greater? In many ways I think this is a big chunk of what the November election will be about, and at least the Food Stamp program seems to show that Americans have made up their minds.
Add to Colas' observations the fact that 47% of SNAP recipients are children — and there is even more reason for us to wonder if new generations of Americans are growing up with a permanent sense of entitlement and dependency on Big Government to provide for them.