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Is there some kind of secret underground sanctuary that churns out these dinosaurs?
Those of you who pitch science fiction to wives and girlfriends who do not enjoy it are probably saying something along the following lines: "Space ships! Alien monsters! Men in tights!" Instead, for women who find that sort of thing distasteful, talk about it as a fairy tale–only a fairy tale with science instead of magic. The basic emotional space it taps is the same.
My head hurts. (via The Elegant Variation in case you think I actually read "The Atlantic".)
I've got new posts coming up for you soon, I pwomise.
I'm so excited.
Posted May 26, 2008on:
I got an email from Bookforum, helpfully letting me know that their new issue was online, so of course I wasted no time in clicking right over.
The first thing I see are the feature articles in nice big type. Number one is:
Right Makes Might
KEVIN MATTSON on THE CONSERVATIVE TAKEOVER OF AMERICAN POLITICS
To say the least, not exactly what I read Bookforum for, but, okay, whatever, what's feature number two?
Voices Carry
LAWRENCE HILL on CIVIL WAR SLAVE NARRATIVES
Well, this isn't the most obviously literary topic imaginable, but it could have potential. But no. The essay is far more about history than art.
All right, our final feature:
Fiction and Political Fact
MORRIS DICKSTEIN on POLITICAL NOVELS
I wonder who out there thought that Bookforum readers were interested in New York Review of Books, The Sequel? Or The Poor Man's Times Literary Supplement?
The musical hack
Posted May 13, 2008on:
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I just left Dan Green's blog where Augustine complained about blogs being "Bookworm MySpace" which makes me feel rather guilty about this post. (Sort of. Mildly.) But I'm still pissed about being duped by this Rothfuss fellow's hype machine, at myself more than anyone else. So, before I take a long trek to the bookstore in order to purge all my negative feelings before I get my $7.99 + tax back, I'd like to poke more fun at what is basically a writer among legions 'doing' other people, doing Tolkien. They [are] faint photocopies. You get these great big books which are set in a medieval kingdom that is basically somebody's impression of what they liked about Tolkien, combined with what they enjoyed about playing Dungeons and Dragons as a high schooler. Thank you, Neil Gaiman. Maybe I'll try one of your books after all.
In this scene our wearied hero walks home with his drunken friends after the beaaauuutiful girl of his dreams turns out to be dating one of his school colleagues.
In the fullness of time*, and with considerable help from Deoch and Wilem, I became drunk.
Thus it was that three students made their slightly erratic way back to the University. See them as they go, weaving only slightly. It is quiet, and when the belling tower strikes the late hour, it doesn't break the silence so much as it underpins it**. The crickets, too, respect the silence. Their calls are like careful stitches in its fabric, almost too small to be seen***.
The night is like warm velvet around them. The stars, burning diamonds in the cloudless sky, turn the road beneath their feet a silver grey****. The University and Imre are the hearts of understanding and art, the strongest of the four corners of civilization. Here on the road between the two there is nothing but old trees and long grass bending to the wind. The night is perfect in a wild way, almost terrifying beautiful.
The three boys, one dark, one light, and one– for lack of a better word — fiery*****, do not notice the night. Perhaps some part of them does, but they are young, and drunk, and busy knowing deep in their hearts that they will never grow old or die. They also know that they are friends, and they share a certain love that will never leave them. The boys know many other things, but none of them seem as important as this. Perhaps they are right.*******
*Ugh! I don't care if he's even trying for a but of humour here. Unless you are at a writing level no lower than A.S. Byatt do not use this phrase. Not even ironically.
**Wtf does that mean?
***No. I would have liked to accept this, it makes marginally more sense than what came before, but is this all flowing from the boys "weaving" before? That makes it a "no".
****I'm getting nitpicky now but can stars give off that much light, really? I'll give it a pass on the assumption that I could be wrong, so accustomed I am to city living, and that in Faux Medieval Europe all things are possible.
***** You never have any better words. Never. Ever.
******This entire paragraph was maudlin sap and the chapter should have been nixed because it adds absolutely nothing to the story and there are no great ideas or show of style here that justifies its existence. Nothing in this book justifies its existence.
Well. I feel a little better now. Slightly.
No longer an Amazon customer
Posted March 29, 2008on:
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I'm not sure if you heard but in a boneheaded, asinine, flagrantly anti-customer move, Amazon decided Print On Demand (POD) publishers must print their books through Amazon's newly acquired POD publisher BookSurge (with a reputation for quality service) or Amazon will no longer sell their books (via Petrona). Customers will only be able to get the books from third party sellers so the purchases won't be eligible for any Amazon promotions, including the free shipping offer. Of course, you can still get it through Kindle, that product still too needs to be established.
Protests that the publishers are free to go elsewhere are disingenuous: Amazon is the premier site online for book information — even if one doesn't buy directly from the site it's likely that one goes there to get book details, reviews and, most importantly for me, excerpts. I make a conscious decision to buy from local stores but for friends abroad its the easiest way to buy books for me and if I'm pre-ordering it's where I'd go to do so. Not any more.
I will no longer link to Amazon on my site. I'll stick to publisher sites or use Book Depository. (I've been trying to do that regularly now, for a while, but it's hard to break linking habits and, let's face it, Amazon typically has the most information.) However, this move overrides the convenience factor. I'll change the links in my most popular posts and, on bored days, I'll go through random posts (reviews and the like) to edit links. Please, pardon the updates of old posts that may appear in your RSS readers.
I'm pissed off. I know that brick & mortar book stores long complained about its dominance but I could never feel more than token sympathy because Amazon made itself into an important resource on a scale they couldn't manage, in a fair and innovative way, to the best of my knowledge. Other bloggers criticised the stupid "one click" patent but as a customer I didn't think it affected me much. But this ultimatum dumps more expenses on publishers and actively impedes developments in POD, and subsequently makes it harder for me, the customer, to acquire products. If their books are only available through third party sellers whose sales they may or may not be earning any money there's no incentive for them to list their inventory there making it harder for me, the customer, to get the facts on the books I want. This is a slap in the face I can't ignore. I've cancelled all of my pre-orders and deleted my wishlist. Amazon, you can just fuck right off.
I have to say…
Posted March 3, 2008on:
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…that I'm really tired of print editors in allegedly reputable periodicals accepting anti-feminist screeds. If a black journalist submitted an article arguing that black people evolved into a stupider race compared to Caucasians with similar selective and faulty analysis of statistical data — not to mention phrenology and evolutionary psychology, ffs! — would The Washington Post eagerly scoop up the tripe and make it their top Sunday op-ed? And you wonder why so many think journalists are simple hacks? Yet I am told all the time that feminism's heyday is over and we should all sit back and relax.
For more read Up with your blood pressure! and The Stupidest Thing You Ever Read on this Blog (And Maybe the Whole Wide Internet).
Edit: This is too much. A technorati search turned up this gem at Laura Rozen's blog.
John Pomfret writes me:
… I ran Charlotte Allen's piece to provoke, but not to offend. I thought the parallel she drew between fainting Obama followers and Beatlemania was an interesting frame with which to analyze the Obama phenomenon. She went further, of course, to draw broader conclusions about the state of her gender highlighting women's interest in Gray's Anatomy and Eat, Pray, Love. But my reading of it was more a tongue-in-cheek screed borne from exasperation with her sisters than a mysoginist rant from a self-hating woman. Yes, she engaged in massive hyperbole but she did it to try to make a point. That said the piece obviously offended you and others and I regret that. But it was an opinion piece and that is what they sometimes do. …
You know what I think this points to? The asinine idea that no matter how weak, fallacious, unfounded and erroneous one's argument is, it's an opinion and therefore worth listening to. There was absolutely nothing she attacked in her op-ed piece worthy of particular exasperation. Not "fainting" Obama groupies (I thought that described all of his supporters?), or an interest in a harmless sappy tv show or a memoir. (That book is a memoir, right?) Tongue-in-cheek, my arse. And again newspapers almost never try this crap on men, and wouldn't dare do a similar satire on Mexicans, Jews or African-Americans. That alone should give him pause for thought but that would be presuming too much. (Ha ha! Don't worry Pomfret. I'm just being tongue-in-cheek about all the space wasted in that bigger brain of yours.)
Next time Pomfret should solicit a piece from a writer who's actually in on the joke.
Posted February 13, 2008on:
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I am too depressed this morning to attempt any light hearted or serious posts on literature. Some may think it's none of my business to be so worried about American affairs except that a great deal of my family is there (including my mother and closest aunts and cousins) and who is left in Jamaica is mostly anxious to get there, except my grandfather who has no interests in leaving his plot of land. This makes me obliged to at least have to visit there except that current and upcoming US legislation is making this an increasingly unattractive venture, where even being a green card holder does not mean much. (All that wonderful fingerprinting and general hustle.) This should make me anxious to become a citizen except that, well, that's not coming to mean much either as far as benefits and protections go.
Treating the Constitution as a Doormat – Scott Horton
If things proceed on the course now set by the Bush Administration and its shortsighted collaborators, and the national surveillance state is achieved in short order, then future generations looking back and tracing the destruction of the grand design of our Constitution may settle on yesterday, February 12, 2008, as the date of the decisive breach. It hardly got a mention in the media, obsessed as it was with reports on the primary elections, the use of drugs in sporting events, and that unfailing topic, the weather. Yesterday the Senate voted down the resolution offered by Senator Dodd to block retroactive immunity for the telecoms and it voted for a measure which guts the Constitution's ban on warrantless searches by extending blanket authority to the Executive to snoop on the nation's citizens in a wide variety of circumstances, subject to no independent checks. On the key vote, the Republicans in the Senate continued to function in lock-step, as they have on almost all significant issues for the last seven years, while the Democrats fragmented. Their vote summed up everything that's wrong with Washington politics today. Fear and hard campaign cash rule the roost, and the Constitution is regarded as a meaningless scrap of parchment, indeed, a nuisance.
The issue in focus was a retroactive grant of immunity to telecommunications giants which violated the rights of millions of Americans by facilitating warrantless surveillance by the Bush Administration. With the exception of Qwest, they were knowingly complicit in criminal acts. And in a touch worthy of a totalitarian state, Qwest quickly found its CEO under criminal investigation and prosecuted. In fact the White House's own arguments smack of the mentality of totalitarianism. Here's the leading argument that the White House offers up in favor of the legislation:
"Companies should not be held responsible for verifying the government's determination that requested assistance was necessary and lawful — and such an impossible requirement would hurt our ability to keep the Nation safe."
But as Dan Froomkin notes at the Washington Post, "Isn't that the very definition of a police state: that companies should do whatever the government asks, even if they know it's illegal?" Indeed it is.
Senator John McCain voted against the amendments to remove the retroactive immunity clause. Clinton was absent. According to the New York Times report, Obama did not vote either contrary to other media reports, he "did oppose immunity on a key earlier motion to end debate".
I ordered some French books today and will look in to how I can get some French lessons. I think I've decided, now, that my life belongs in Canada.
Travel writing?
Posted February 7, 2008on:
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At least I got my A-level English when it meant something.
(At that stage aren't students taking the subject because they want to, with the knowledge that it's gonna be about Conrad, Hawthorne and Achebe and not bloody McEwan? Do you really need to be wheedling them with tv book club approved texts?)
Update: John Sutherland states that reports have been misleading and that the book club was only used as an example of what sources students could use to get ideas about what books to select for the modules in which they're given that choice. I'm only slightly appeased — I still protest against making any post-1990 category compulsory. It looks fairly stupid to me when educators, who presumably don't believe that classics are "dull or boring", constantly link anything exciting, thrilling and revelatory to the new and recent. I don't know what to think when an evil Penguin USA executive is wholly taken with ways to repackage and reintroduce older works to newer generations while Oxford and Cambridge examiners are more concerned about getting in on the fabulously new. And this move is aimed at 6th form students (working at taking the Oxbridge A-levels for they are different versions) who, again I must stress, are typically the sort of students who are perfectly satisfied, even, my word, excited about Conrad and Eliot. What's going on in the UK? What am I missing here?
Travel writing, FFS. You want to mark bloody papers with analyses of Bill Bryson walking about in Brighton?
Yes, I'm mad
Posted January 10, 2008on:
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First, you're one of the bloodiest expensive literary magazines in English. (Although it is done weekly and has more content than, say, the London Review of Books so I'm guessing that's why.)
Second, you have one of the crappiest website designs for lit mags out there. I have to click six million times before I actually get to the stupid archive page, and then I can't just log in, I have to search for what I want first, and then you finally deem me worthy of access. It's like I'm in some crappy fan made Indiana Jones parody.
Third, you make it impossible for me to avoid your pointless labyrinth by giving even limited access to general academic resource databases (that I know of and/or to which my school is subscribed) because you're so precious and exclusive.
And now, NOW, you've made yourselves even more inaccessible by cutting off INSTITUTIONS from your on-line archives and restricting it to individual subscribers. Does that make any sense to anyone? Which folks from either group is likelier to need and regularly desire access to it and are pretty much guaranteed customers because, you know, they're a part of an academic institution that would see it as pretty much obligatory to subscribe to the so-called *"leading paper in the world for literary culture"?
Or to create a potential future customer base. Who do you think comes into the library here regularly to read your paper version? Men older than my grandfather. (I'm serious, there's a cute couple of elderly men who are in the reading room every time I'm here, with the usual pile of Foreign Policy, New York Review of Books, TLS etc.)
To add insult to injury how did the school find out? I kept nagging the information librarian who kept nagging the one in charge of subscriptions who kept nagging you. And even that didn't work. I had reported a broken link problem before the holidays to which someone gave a delayed (server issues) but gracious reply. I informed that person of the new problem and suggested that someone should go digging around in the inbox for an overlooked e-mail or two. The next day, oh so coincidentally, the dogged information librarian e-mailed me to report the wonderful news.
I hate microform and of course I'll be forced to print everything or scribble stuff down when I could just organise it neatly on my computer and not waste paper (and my money). Screw you. I'm going to buy my café pal a LRB gift subscription out of pure empty rage and frustration. Then I'll take the money I was saving for your astronomically priced subscription on Bookforum and The Caribbean Review of Books. Good luck depending on that imaginary cultural elite to support you in to your twilight years.
How are you, my dear readers? I hope you're having a lovely Thursday.
*That's a whole different kettle of fish since your focus is so determinedly restricted to Europe plus the occasional glances over to the United States and the rare acknowledgement that there's another continent hanging somewhere below Italy's foot but, whatever, empty PR bluster is expected.
Posted January 2, 2008on:
I name you my favourite 2007 blog and you bail on me? What's going on in the world, damn it?
Oh, save me
Posted November 26, 2007on:
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So I'm in the library mugging about, trying to ignore the fact that I have first year final exam marking to look forward to. I do my morning browsing of WordPress tag surfing and The Globe & Mail, both of which seem to be in sync this morning. One blogger points to an e-mail posting making the rounds on MySpace in which terribly worried Christian parents are trying to get the word out about the DANGER, the MORAL PERIL in which a trimmed, waterdown, film adaptation of Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass places their children. I sighed, looked over to the newspaper site only to see an article in which Daniel Craig insists that the film isn't anti-Christian but more about the mis-use of power. That's neither here nor there to me, what caught my attention was this paragraph.
The Halton Catholic District School Board has pulled the novel and is reviewing Mr. Pullman's entire trilogy, known as His Dark Materials, to decide if the books are suitable for its young readers. Other boards in Ontario are also reconsidering the placement of The Golden Compass on their shelves. The cinematic version opens in Canada on Dec. 7.
Oi! You've had the books in your respectable, God-fearing halls all these years but it took a MOVIE to get you to reconsider whether they're appropriate reading material for your younglings? What about the celestial positioning of all the other children who passed through? You didn't notice any devilish side-effects until now — when the MOVIE was about to come out? Are you people even pretending to be educators or are you all about multiple choice papers and junk food sponsorship deals?
Toronto bookseller Ben McNally said he finds the review of a book that has already been sitting on shelves for more than a decade, more than a little odd. "I mean where have these people been? I wonder whether anything is served by taking a book off the shelves while [a review] is happening, especially when the book has been out there as long as that one has."
Well, at least they interviewed one literate person, even if he wasn't institutional. I wonder why they didn't get anything from the school librarians who probably have headaches from all the eye-rolling. Take heart from a Christian who has actually read the books and doesn't have to depend on biased second sources:
Waiting for "The Golden Compass". Rereading it again for about the fourth time. I really like it but I thinks people are seriously in trouble when they try to equate every book that comes out with Christianity. I love my God and have faith in his works but some people seem to go to extremes. It is a very good book and yes it does deal with good and evil and the struggles people have in deciding which are which sometimes. But if you set your mind to it, you could do that with anything.
I must have been daft when I read them, because I finished the first two books with no inkling that I was supposed to have closed them hating the Vatican, God, His Heavenly Host etc. (I haven't read the third yet.) Christian critics I read bemoan the fact that the religion doesn't get a fair, balanced shake, but I don't see anyone rising up in arms because The Chronicles of Narnia is an imbalanced, skirt-flipping cheerleader for Jesus and anyone who isn't on her team is demon-worshipping riff raff and/or gets turned into a pig during town parades.


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You may remember a few years ago when Syracuse University started the very ambitious, very lofty goal of raising $1 billion dollars Doctor Evil-style and we all looked at each other and said, "Yeah right." Well, jokes on us cause SU got paid yesterday.
Syracuse University today announced that it has surpassed its goal for the most ambitious fundraising effort in the institution's history. With more than three months remaining until its conclusion on Dec. 31, 2012, The Campaign for Syracuse University has surpassed its goal of $1 billion. Through the generosity of more than 60,000 individual donors, including trustees, alumni, faculty, staff, students, parents, and supporters, the Campaign has raised a total of $1,008,612,731 as of Aug. 31
The Campaign's $1 billion goal was set by the Board of Trustees and Chancellor Cantor in 2005, and is nearly triple that of any previous fundraising goal in the University's history. A record 191 gifts have been made at the $1 million level or more, including 30 gifts of $5 million or more, led by the nearly $33 million commitment from the Newhouse family. Overall, the amount raised by the current campaign is nearly double the funds raised in the two prior campaigns combined. Key to this success: the SU Board of Trustees, whose commitments account for more than $275 million, or 27 percent of the Campaign's current total. Trustee giving in The Campaign for Syracuse University exceeds the aggregate total of giving from Trustees over the history of the University.
You know what this means? iPads for everyone!
As part of this fundraising goal, New York's College Team is going to put its money where it's taxicab slogans are and open a hub in Manhattan:
Syracuse University unveiled plans to open the Fisher Center, a new SU hub in New York City, as part of its billion-dollar campaign announcement Thursday.
The center will provide opportunities for students from all schools and colleges at SU to study abroad in NYC. It's named after Winston Fisher, a 1996 graduate of SU and trustee.
So where is the rest of that money going?
$177 million to significantly increase the number of scholarships and fellowships to attract students of merit who demonstrate financial need, with more than 350 new scholarships established, including the Louise and Howard Phanstiel Scholars and the Frederic N. Schwartz Scholarship Fund;
$150 million to endow deanships, chairs and professorships, and to attract and retain world-class scholars, more than doubling the number of endowed professorships from 48 to 99, including the Marjorie Cantor Endowed Professorship in Aging, the Chapple Family Professor of Citizenship and Democracy, the Peter Horvitz Chair in Journalism Innovation, the Phanstiel Chair in Strategic Management and Leadership and the Paul Volcker Chair in Behavioral Economics;
$400 million to advance interdisciplinary teaching, research and community engagement initiatives such as the JPMorgan Chase Global Enterprise Technology Partnership, the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, the Lerner Center for Public Health and Promotion and the Martin J. Whitman School of Management;
$160 million to enhance teaching and research facilities and provide state-of-the-art technology on campus, such as the new home of the College of Law Dineen Hall,currently under construction on campus, the Life Science Complex and Newhouse III;
$93 million for the Fund for Syracuse, including gifts to Deans' Funds in each of the schools and colleges; and
- $28 million to be designated.
And of course, your check is in the mail. Should be there any day now...
*Yes they most certainly will.

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Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Tuesday, Aug 23, 2005
Kerala to focus on three port projects
Mony K. Mathew
A view of the Vizhinjam harbour in Thiruvananthapuram
Thiruvananthapuram , Aug. 22
AS the bidding process for the proposed international container trans-shipment terminal at Vizhinjam finally gets rolling after much delay and bouts of uncertainties, the Kerala Government is resetting its priorities in the matter of development of minor ports in the State.
The programme, originally chalked out way back in 1995, covered seven ports dotting the long coastline of the State, with each of them at vantage locations to cater to a wide spectrum of cargo movements as also passenger traffic. The ports that were to be developed with private participation were: Vizhinjam, Thangassery, Munambam, Alappuzha, Ponnani, Beypore and Azhikkal.
But the long haul over the years has seen to it that a major chunk of the development plan has got stuck in the paper itself and that only a few of them have the chance to progress beyond in the medium term. With the Vizhinjam project having overcome the hiccups to attract a couple of bids, the Government has narrowed down its focus on two other ports, namely, Beypore and Azhikkal, that have moved ahead in the bidding process.
In the case of Beypore port, the Government had signed a memorandum of understanding with Kozhikode-based Parisons group at the global investors meet in Kochi in 2002 and the company has since submitted a techno-economic bid prepared in association with PricewaterhouseCoopers. The Ports Department, in turn, has roped in IL&FS to draft the concession agreement, which it hopes to conclude in a month's time.
The total cost of the project, estimated at Rs 500 crore at the outset, has now been scaled down to Rs 200 crore. In the first phase costing Rs 35 crore, the proposal is to increase the length of the existing berth and also deepen the draft.
The current thinking on the part of the Government is to float a special purpose vehicle (SPV) to implement the project. This stems from the fact that the Government has already spent money for establishing some of the existing infrastructure such as the breakwaters and the berth. This is to be treated as the Government's equity in the proposed SPV.
The port, being close to the industrial belt of Coimbatore and Palakkad, is reckoned to have good potential for cargo movements.
Besides, most of the cargo for Lakshadweep islands is handled at this port.
The Azhikkal port in Kannur has had a chequered run since being mooted and at one point of time, four companies had evinced interest in the project. However, the Sharjah-based Universal Lubricants is the only one that has stayed on the scene.
The cost of this project has also been substantially brought down from the originally estimated Rs 1,200 crore after a detailed study of the traffic potential of the port. Also, the project is now proposed to be implemented in modules.
The first module, which is expected to cost Rs 360 crore, envisages construction of six or seven berths
The proposal by Universal Lubricants is to build a petroleum, oil and lubricants (POL) jetty at the mouth of the port.
In the initial years, the Azhikkal port was seen to be in for rapid development in the wake of a proposal by K.P.P. Nambiar and Associates to set up a naphtha-based combined cycle power plant in the vicinity.
The port was then planned to be developed mainly for handling the naphtha required for the power project. The proposal, however, did not take off, throwing the port development plan into prolonged hibernation.
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27 posts tagged "Avon"
Liv To Take The Mic; Neither Rain Nor Snow Will Keep Beyoncé Away From The Nail Salon; And More…-------
Liv Tyler: actress, beauty spokesperson—singer? The rock progeny and Givenchy Irresistible face will reportedly lend her pipes to an original song for her next installment of fragrance ads that's being called "an electrifying meeting between the world of rock and the universe of perfume." [Contact Music]
Shakira, the long-haired, Latin American singing sensation, has chopped off her signature strands in favor of an angled bob. That should make for some less impactful head-banging at her next live show; luckily, those hips still don't lie. [People]
Beyoncé may be heavily pregnant, but that hasn't stopped the pop superstar from maintaining her manicure. Mrs. Jay-Z stepped out in the pouring rain last night in New York to get a set of pointed, metallic blue gels at Sakura in the East Village. [Huff Po]
The Beauty Inc 2011 awards have been announced, crowning winners in a number of primping categories. Some of the year's standouts, according to WWD's editors? Fergie's Outspoken fragrance for Avon and Justin Bieber's Someday scent, which took home the best mass and best prestige fragrance of the year honors, respectively; Chanel's creative director of makeup, Peter Philips, who was named creative influencer of the year; and Salma Hayek's Nuance and Tom Ford Beauty, which were each honored for having the best launches of the year. Click here for a complete list of winners. [WWD]
Speaking of the beauty industry's major players, make way for the socialites—the latest crop of entrepreneurs looking to make their mark on the makeup and skincare business. [NYT]
Avon Skin So Soft, 2.0-------
The mother of one of my childhood best friends was a real-life Avon lady, back in the days when hawking beauty products was a door-to-door affair. As kids, one of our greatest pleasures was rifling through her bulky carrying case of shimmering shadows and waxy lipsticks, powders in every fleshy tone, and all manner of silky lotions. My own mother, on the other hand, did not—and still doesn't—wear a trace of makeup, so the only Avon product that we stockpiled in our house was Skin So Soft. The lavender and citrus-scented bath oil had a seemingly endless array of uses—from makeup remover and massage oil to insect repellent and wood polish. With the latest incarnation of the vitamin A and E-rich chamomile extract and sunflower seed oil blend, Avon has focused its multipurpose formula squarely on addressing skin's imperfections—think stretch marks, scars, discoloration, and uneven tone. The new Skin So Soft Perfecting Oil targets clarity, but it also manages to smooth complexions, improve elasticity, and add a generally appealing sheen to skin as well—which just means that there are two Avon oils I'll be stocking up on for summer's last gasp.
A Word On Whitening Products-------
This column features weekly tips and advice from a revolving cast of industry leaders, on hand to discuss your beauty dilemmas, from blemishes to Botox. To submit a question, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
I have medium to dark-toned skin but am curious about whitening products—not to lighten but to brighten my complexion. Could they cause damage or will they just act to reduce discolorations and blotchiness?
Whitening products selectively weed out areas of hyperpigmentation so they are safe to use. They typically contain active ingredients like kojic acid, retinoic acid, or hydraquinone—which I do not believe is dangerous. Using whitening products that have these multiple ingredients can really even out your skin tone, so I'm definitely a fan. Avon has a very nice product along these lines called Luminosity Pro Brightening Serum. The only downside with most whitening products, though, is that you need to use them for a long period of time—three to six months, usually—to see improvement. There are a lot of good in-office treatments for pigmentation that work faster. I like using a 5 percent alpha-hydroxy and 4 percent hydraquinone, increasing the concentration of alpha-hydroxy every month. Fractional lasers and peels, like the VI Peel, are really helpful for acne scars as they exfoliate and make scars less visible. I also like using anti-inflammatory extracts, like the coffeeberry that's found in Revale skincare, for redness and pigmentation. Niacin, licorice, and idebenone are also very effective.
New York-based Dr. Neil Sadick, MD, FAAD, FAACS, FACP, FACPh, is a clinical professor of dermatology at Weill Cornell Medical College, the President of the Cosmetic Surgery Foundation, as well as the Global Medical Adviser for Christian Dior Beauty, specializing in dermatology, cosmetic surgery, internal medicine, and hair transplantation. His newly launched skincare collection, Park Avenue Prescription, will make its nationwide debut at Sephora in July.
Anna Dello Russo, Rock Star?; Christy Turlington For Avon; And More…-------
More news about Anna Dello Russo's forthcoming fragrance. The shoe-shaped flacon will double as a Christmas ornament, smell of "vanilla cream," and be sold exclusively online at www.yoox.com when it officially launches next month. Also on Dello Russo's to-do list? Make a record. "Everyone expects me to do a clothes line. It's too obvious. I want to do the opposite." [WWD]
While she's not making her own fragrance, supermodel Christy Turlington Burns will front one for Avon beginning next year. [WWD]
Diane Kruger, who stars in the campaign for Calvin Klein's latest eau, Beauty, is apparently a product junkie. "I own a huge amount of makeup," the Inglourious Basterds star has confessed. On her go-to list of products are Cetaphil cleanser, L'Oréal Triple Active Day Cream, CoverGirl concealer, and Kiehl's toner. She's thrifty, too, it would seem. [StyleList]
The short-hair-for-middle-aged-women mandate is archaic. [NYT]
Just ask Julia Roberts. The Eat, Pray, Love actress turn 43 this month and appears to have no intentions of cutting her long locks any time. She's equally uninterested in issuing a statement about her secret antiaging solutions. "It's 97 percent genetics," she recently quipped, "and three percent just get your ass moving." [ShowBizSpy]
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The idea that something designed to camouflage the complexion could also be used to protect and repair the skin may seem like an oxymoron—or simply too good to be true. But more and more color collections are hitting the market with skincare ingredients, giving the makeup application process an aspect of instant gratification with long-term benefits. Avon is the latest brand to get in on the action with its Healthy Makeup range, a line with three purposes: hydration, evening out skin tone and texture, and boosting allover radiance. The five Healthy products—a light-as-air mousse foundation, a liquid foundation, two varieties of lipstick, and a cream-to-powder eye shadow—are all formulated with a blend of botanicals like pomegranate and apple root, antioxidants, and vitamins A, C, and E to help banish free radicals and prevent the physical signs of aging. We were most impressed by the Lip Conditioner, a super-moisturizing lipstick with SPF 15 that eradicated our chapped spots, and the hydration-boosting Liquid Foundation, which melds seamlessly into the skin without creeping into fine lines. Its buildable coverage and dewy finish make it worth a call to your local Avon lady (or the less personable trip over to the brand's Web site).


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It wasn't supposed to be like this … and maybe because it's never been like this - but super bowl 45 is off to a terrible start
I do feel sorry for the host committee - the volunteers - the city officials and everyone involved who has worked so hard to bring this incredible event to north texas - and it might still be
But if we were having a typical February week - if there is such a thing in texas - sundance square in fort worth would be jammed with thousands of fans - the nfl experience in dallas wouldn't be honoring Wednesday tickets on Thursday - the visitors to north texas would be shopping in our stores … playing our golf courses … and realizing why it really is such a great place to live
If only they had played the super bowl last week …. Game day could and should still be a special day … very special -- but super bowl experiences and memories are all about the days leading up to the game - and the only memory too many of us have now ….
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Durable & Safe
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perfect size van. The full size is to big the Astro drives like a car. If you have a lot of kids or friends there is plenty of room. It fits a sheet of ply wood, or dry wall no problem. Read More
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Unemployed Has-been Quarterback Wants to Offer Robert Griffin III Career Advice
There are few people more unqualified to offer advice to Robert Griffin III than Donovan McNabb.
It's not altogether surprising that Washington Post columnist Mike Wise went to McNabb to ask his opinion on the Redskins signal caller; it's not like Wise is going to get a legitimate interview with RGIII any time soon, so it's pretty much down to getting juicy quotes from a disgruntled former player and photobombing press conferences wearing t-shirts with Native American imagery. (So, so brave that one is.)
And it's not surprising that McNabb once again took the opportunity to jab Mike Shanahan in the ribs. This is, of course, the man who boldly claimed that Mike Shanahan would not be a good fit for Robert. (On camera, no less.)
"Are you going to cater the offense around his talent, and what he's able to do, or are you going to bring the Houston offense with Matt Schaub over to him, and have him kind of be embedded in that whole deal?" McNabb asked, before showing off a graphic of all the quarterbacks who (supposedly) failed underneath Mike Shanahan.
There's two funny side notes to that quote. One, Mike Shanahan and Kyle Shanahan actually did cater the offense around RG3′s talent, as well as incorporating elements from Houston's offense. And if you didn't know, he was pretty successful in doing it.
The second funny side note, is that McNabb said he wanted the Redskins to do the exact opposite, one year and just a little over a month later.
"Now they're incorporating this 'read option,' and all this other mess that coaches are being 'creative' with and want their name tied behind it, because they have the ability at quarterback." McNabb told Bloomberg Radio in April of 2013. He went on to say, "You know, instead of trying to develop this kid to be a quarterback in the NFL, a pocket passer [emphasis added] who can do the three-, five-step seven-step drop and be very effective with it, now we're so entitled with this read option, this Pistol offense, that we're making it into OUR offense. And that's what the fans are seeing. I think for RGIII, as well as for Shanahan, it's important that they begin to evolve that offense to take pressure off of him."
I wish McNabb would keep his story straight, so it was easier for me to remember which point of his I'm trying to disagree with.
It still seems like the now-retired (not-by-choice, mind you) quarterback has sour grapes over what happened in Washington. Which naturally makes him an impartial observer of Robert Griffin III's continued development.
It seems like only a few weeks ago, the local beat reporters were grumbling about the lack of access to RGIII and the fact that they hadn't gotten to speak to him at length since January. But that was then, and now that he has spoken, they seem to be implying that he shouldn't be talking as much.
Donovan McNabb agrees. "But if you're coming off ACL surgery, you don't need to be having a press conference at OTAs. Every week? Really? It becomes a circus, a sideshow. It takes away from the focus of what those sessions are supposed to be about: the team."
"So when I look up on TV and see him up there talking all the time about how great he's doing — or doing jumping jacks or someone else talking about his supernatural healing powers — I wonder to myself: Is this about selling tickets to the fans or what?
"I don't blame him. They're letting him do it. But at some point, it can be counterproductive. You can set yourself up for more criticism later."
Now, let's conveniently ignore the press conferences, the multiple photoshoots, and the entire ad campaign the Redskins built around Donovan McNabb when he signed here that apparently didn't take away from OTA's and clearly wasn't about selling tickets.
On one hand, I sort of get what McNabb is saying here. While I've always firmly believed RGIII would be ready for Week 1, showing him practicing does add a degree of hype that will lead to a let down if Kirk Cousins is the Week 1 starter and RGIII does miss games. If the team doesn't get out to a solid start, it's entirely likely that nationally we could have a Derrick Rose "I-thought-he-was-healthy" case on our hands.
On the other hand, Robert has been doing these sort of light work outs off to the side for weeks now. RGIII has been throwing for a while now. Anyone that follows his Twitter knows that he has been. As for cameras filming him throwing, again; the press-at-large has been grumbling about the lack of access to RGIII for the better part, both in interviews and on tape.
So the choice between the two becomes "creating a potential issue down the line from people seeing RGIII practice and getting higher expectations", and "creating an issue by either 1.) not letting RGIII practice while cameras are rolling, throwing off the rhythm of OTAs and his rehab or 2.) not allowing cameras to film RGIII at all, which again, creates an issue".
And somewhere in the back of my mind, I can imagine the story "Media not allowed to film RGIII, what are the Redskins hiding about their quarterback's rehab" being a story. The thing about Robert Griffin III talking every week is that it allows the Redskins to control their messaging, rather than having an information starved press corp try to scrape meaning from every tweet, every two second appearance out in public.
Separate from that, the ultimate problem with McNabb's statement is that it is laced with the same bitterness in his "Shanahan won't adjust to RGIII" and his "they're not teaching him how to be a pocket passer" comments. Even while trying to show his apparent "concern" for RGIII, he can't help but make a dig about the Redskins trying to sell tickets because they let cameras roll while RG3 practice. They don't come from a place of authenticity; there is nothing genuine come from a guy who may be one of the more disingenuous former athletes mascaraing as an analyst out there.
Part of it was the pounding he took from the fans and the press (and occassionally from teammates) in Philadelphia. As Kevin Ewoldt pointed out in his brilliant piece for Hogs Haven, that abuse he took, from the moment he was drafted to the moment he was traded, created a robotic personality that said all the right things and avoided controversy.
McNabb became a national media darling because of it, but the Philly fans hated it. I never understood it until after McNabb left Washington. Philly enjoys actual emotional human beings. It's why they couldn't stand Andy Reid. Buddy Ryan never won a championship, but he fit the blue collar sensibilities of the town. Dick Vermeil never won a championship, but he wore his emotions on his sleeve. The icons of Philadelphia sports all seem to be emotional human beings, relatable and passionate.
To Philly, McNabb was phony and aloof. A guy who says he didn't know that ties weren't in the rulebook not so much because he was dumb enough to not realize that, but because he constantly feared saying the wrong thing. Better to admit you didn't know ties were a thing than to admit you played in one of the worst games in NFL history and stalemated.
Its why it's paradoxical that McNabb shared his concerns that Robert Griffin III would become a robot. "…there were times he sounded like a robot, programmed to be whoever they wanted him to be," McNabb said. "It's important for him he lets people know what he thinks is best for him."
It's the pot calling the kettle black while criticizing the kettle's ability to boil water.
Nearly every time RGIII has been interviewed, everyone, from beat reporters to national reporters, remark on how personable and genuine he seems in press conference. Even during the draft, most remarked on his ability to answer the same questions over and over again and yet personalize each one of them.
Robert Griffin III sounds like many things, but a robot is not one of them.
And there are the continued implications that the Redskins don't have RGIII's best interest at heart. Once again, that sting of bitterness winds it's way through everything McNabb says.
McNabb was an abject failure for Washington. I don't think anyone could dispute that. But it doesn't seem like it had to be that way. McNabb's practice habits weren't new news. Kyle Shanahan didn't want him at quarterback. McNabb's departure from Philly wasn't met with outrage are sadness; McNabb got traded to a division rival and the Philadelphia lockerroom collectively yawned.
"I was a teammate of Donovan McNabb's in Philadelphia," Tim Hasselbeck said on Mike and Mike in the Morning in 2010. "One of the things that drove them crazy in Philadelphia was the lack of tempo at which he practiced. . . . It was always something where you're leaving the quarterback meeting and it would be, 'Hey, listen, the head man wants a little more tempo today.' Nearly every single day. That's been the deal with Donovan McNabb. I know exactly what Mike Shanahan is talking about."
And yet despite all that, Mike Shanahan still traded for him, hoping to light a fire under his butt. And instead of working harder, putting his head in the playbook, studying the offense inside and out, and being an example of excellence in the film room and in practice, and proving his former team wrong, McNabb stayed exactly the same. It's possible he got even worse. There was no reason McNabb couldn't have been successful in Washington, other than the fact that he had little drive or will to succeed here, and Mike's stubborn insistence that McNabb "do the little things" right fell on deaf ears, as McNabb clung to the way things had been done in Philly. The same ways, mind you, that led to him getting traded to Washington in the first place.
McNabb talks about RGIII spending time off the field getting to know his teammates (either forgetting or not knowing the fact that RGIII invited the whole receiving core to Baylor as a rookie, while also ignoring that whole "rehabbing from a knee injury" thing), like McNabb did with his infamous "Hell Week" in Arizona.
But the fact is, "Hell Week" was a PR stunt. It sounded better than it was. It was great for hurting Malcolm Kelly's hamstring before camp, but other than that, nothing about "Hell Week" transferred over to the actual practice fields in Philly or in Washington. McNabb may have gotten to know his teammates, but the focus wasn't on being the best. "Hell Week" was a lot like certain celebrities starting charities; it's sort of for a good cause, but mainly it's for creating great publicity.
McNabb was traded by Philadelphia, and his teammates said nothing. His was benched for Rex friggin' Grossman in Washington, and not only did his team not defend him, the actually seemed excited about it. He was cut by the Vikings (the team he wanted to go to in the first place) after going 1-5. Vikings offensive coordinator even jabbed Mike Shanahan, saying he didn't understand how you could ignore input of someone the caliber of McNabb, and then the Vikings cut him after 6 games for a rookie. The Vikings best player, Adrian Peterson, basically shrugged.
McNabb could've been great wherever he wanted. Mike Shanahan gave him a second chance in Washington, and he thanked Mike by being lazy in practice. By being the last guy out on the practice field. By either being unable or unwilling to learn the playbook. By refusing to wear a wristband for the fear it would make him look dumb. He came to camp looking slimmer, but his "cardiovascular endurance" was still poor.
McNabb says in regard to RGIII, "It's important for him he lets people know what he thinks is best for him", but rather than talk openly about his problems with the Redskins after getting benched, he bashed Kyle Shanahan through his agent Fletcher Smith. Then turned around and lied in Kyle's face over not knowing what his own agent was talking about.
And instead of being forthright with answers when reporters asked him, McNabb sat in his car…and then drove away without answering a damn thing.
The team that surrounded McNabb in 2010 was not good. Probably not even close to good. And hindsight being 20/20, trading for him was a mistake. But McNabb was complicit in that mistake, exacerbating the issue until the coaches had no choice but to bench him.
Rex Grossman may not be very good, but the players in the lockerroom respected him for his work ethic and demeanor a lot more than they did McNabb. The three games Rex played at the end of the season was like watching a different team. For whatever reason, that team played harder for Sexy Rexy than they did the 6-time Pro Bowler who had been to 5 NFC Championship games and one Super Bowl.
When McNabb got cut by the Vikings in 2011, there was no one in a rush to sign him, even though some pretty big holes opened up that he could've stepped into. In 2012, his refusal to take a spot as a veteran back-up (despite his insistence that teams were interested in him) basically cost him his career. And this year, he'll return to Philly to retire. And he'll get a nice golf clap. But it's hard to believe Philly's heart will be completely in it. Lord knows McNabb's wasn't at times. And worse, I don't think he really gets why his career ended the way it did.
Donovan McNabb has been held in regard as a source of authority on the on the Redskins since he got cut. His words carry a certain weight that his actions on and off the field while wearing the burgundy and gold don't. In fact, while time has yet removed the wound McNabb gave to Shanny, painting his as the stubborn, unchanging jerk and his son as an example of nepotism, it has proved the Redskins were right, if only because his Vikings run ended so miserably.
To be fair, it started miserably too, with a 7-15, 35 yard performance versus the Chargers in 2011. But despite a decent looking statline, the McNabb-led Vikings had a case of "Steve DeBerg Syndrome"; the offense, and McNabb, were playing just well enough to lose. Leslie Frazier and Bill Musgrave both emphasized that McNabb had to work on his mechanics; a point that Mike and Kyle harped on with McNabb, though they didn't do so publically. McNabb, as he did in Washington, bristled at that thought. McNabb led a stagnate offense that couldn't score touchdowns in Washington, and then did the same in Minnesota. Through the first 6 games with the stubborn Mike Shanahan and his mean son Kyle, McNabb completed 58.1% of his passes for 1,561 yards, 5 touchdowns and 5 interceptions. In his six games with the Vikings, with an offensive coordinator that was allegedly far more open to McNabb's suggestions, Donovan McNabb completed 60.8% of his passes for 1,026 yards, 4 touchdowns and 1 interception.
And to add to that air of phoniness, after both those failures, McNabb re-adjusted his image. He made it a big point to wear a giant wristband after the Redskins said he wouldn't in Minnesota. Then he had a puff piece on ESPN about how he was "getting back to the basics" and fixing his mechanics in 2012.
RGIII is the anti-thesis of what McNabb was when he came to Washington. RGIII wanted to be here. While some guys are the "first one in and last one out" because they show up and hang out at the building for a little while before getting to work, then hang out a little more after practice and hang around before going home, RGIII is literally the first one working and the last one to want to leave.
Robert's leadership on the team has never been questioned. The team voted him team captain not because they felt like they had to because of who Griffin was, or because he was the quarterback and the quarterback is supposed to be team captain, but because he worked his ass off to earn their respect, acting less like a first round draft pick and more like an undrafted free agent.
RGIII doesn't do commercials to increase his celebrity, but to earn enough money that he can live off so he can keep his game day checks in the bank for when he retires. He meets with the press once a week for 20-40 minutes, which McNabb may object to, but is certainly better than having a radio show stamped with your name on it, and then continiuing to do it even after you get benched.
RGIII's heart and passion are never in question. Donovan McNabb's are always in flux. He joins an unfortunate group of athletes who had all the talent in the world, but lacked the drive to be the absolute best. There is a difference between saying you want to be the best, and striving to actually be the best.
When you're as good as McNabb was when he was younger, it's easy to coast on your athleticism. It's easy to be good because your "good" would be other athletes' "great". But when you get older, and the wheels go, and the natural talent fades, the great ones — the truly great ones — take it to the next level. They train harder, they study harder, they practice harder. And they transcend that which they thought was previously possible.
The good ones stagnate. They don't know hard work because they never had to work hard, even if the face of adversity. And eventually, the more that natural talent fades, the less effective they become, until they're left not with a grand exit, but a disappointing dismissal.
McNabb has a lot of advice for RGIII. And I'm sure RGIII would tell Donovan he appreciated it, if he ever wanted to hear anything Donovan has to say.
But perhaps McNabb should spend less time doing interviews with Mike Wise, and more time working on a time machine. Maybe then he could go back and give himself this advice.
RGIII doesn't need it. But a younger McNabb sure could.


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Book Review – Moodle Course Conversion: Beginner's Guide
Posted on August 21st, 2009 in Information, Resources | 2 Comments »
It took awhile for me to finish reading "Moodle Course Conversion: Beginner's Guide" by Ian Wild but definitely not because I did not enjoy it, I have simply been very busy! I recently read and reviewed "Moodle Administration", which is also from Packt Publishing, and like that book I was impressed with this one as well. I was actually a little more impressed with the Course Conversion book!
One reason why I enjoyed reading this book so much is because it did a good job of covering a lot of topics without overloading your brain. It guided the reader from start to finish – creating a new course to backing that course up and everything in the middle. Of course the book could not explain every single feature in depth but I thought it did a great job of covering the main, important topics.
Another reason why I enjoyed this book is because it put the reader in the teacher role where I am used to being in the administrator role. The author told you his own experiences and it was good to know that he's been in that teaching position so he knows what it's like. The book even gives the reader web sites and resources to use within Moodle like Voki, Odeo and Slide.com.
A big reason why I think this book would be so useful for Moodle users is that it shows the reader real classroom applications. It goes through many common tasks that teachers will more than likely run into like working with PowerPoints, taking images from a Word document, how to zip files so you can upload multiple files at once to Moodle, using video in Moodle and more. Instead of focusing only on the "how tos" and explaining the actual Moodle features it showed how to use the features by using real examples such as embedding a YouTube video with "compose a web page" or transforming a project into Moodle assignments.
It would get very boring and probably overwhelm a reader if it were to give you step by step directions on "how to" use a Moodle resource or activity, so by giving the reader an example on when and how a feature could be used is much more engaging and memorable. It may also spark some ideas for the reader or they could even use that very example in their own Moodle course.
To sum it up, I would highly recommend this book for any teacher that is planning to start using Moodle with their class. This book gives you the knowledge and power to create an engaging Moodle course from start to finish by taking you along his own journey of converting his course into Moodle. If a reader were to read this book and follow along by creating their own course I would be confident that it would be a success. Being a Moodle admin/trainer/support I can greatly appreciate this book for showing me the "teacher side" of a Moodle course. What I'm also taking from this book is the knowledge of other resources to use in a Moodle course, some great ideas and information about Moodle feature settings I never knew (wikis, gradebook, scales, lessons). Finally, it has helped me and will continue to help me form and structure our district's Moodle help page. I have always struggled with how to display and give Moodle help and support to users in an online format because there is just so much information. This book has given me a few ideas on how to structure online Moodle help.
I could go on and on about the specifics in this book and the interesting things I found but I would really recommend buying it so you can read for yourself and refer back to it in the future – I know I will! Now, I must get back to all of the post-its I stuck in the book to try out and explore on my own Moodle site!
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And yes, the Moodle forums is a great resource for any level of Moodler user. I am currently getting help for our Moodle/Google Apps integration : )
I actually plan on bringing my two Moodle books into work tomorrow to reference!


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The bail for 18-year-old Jean Soriano was set at more than $3.5 million. He is charged with five felony counts of DUI, two counts of bodily harm for two injured crash victims, driving without a license and failure to reduce speed.
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News: UPDATE: Katy Perry Responds To Chief Keef's Disses, Violent Threat
Thursday, May 23, 2013 11:55PM
Pop singer Katy Perry has cleared the air on her stance toward Chief Keef after the teenage rapper hopped onto Twitter to throw insults and threaten her Thursday (May 23).
Quick to apologize, Perry let Keef know she did not mean any disrespect by publicly singling out his "Hate Being Sober" track.
"Mr. Keef! I'm sorry if I offended you. I heard a lot of people guesting on the song & didn't even know it was you in particular. Actually...," she tweeted May 23rd.
"I'm a fan of your "Don't Like" video tbh. I was really just having a general opinion on our generations desire to be constantly intoxicated."
"Believe me, I'm a lover not a hater. x" (Katy Perry's Twitter)
Rather than hit Perry up personally, Chief went off on the singer and even threatened to assault her hours prior.
"Dat b*tch Katy Perry Can Suck Skin Off Of my D*ck," Keef tweeted May 23rd.
"Ill Smack The Sh*t out her ?"
"New Song Katy Perry Coming Soon" (Chief Keef's Twitter)
The tweets reportedly came from Katy questioning Keef's "Hate Being Sober" track.
"Just heard a new song on the radio called "I hate being sober" I now have serious doubt for the world.," she tweeted May 21st. (Katy Perry's Twitter)
While Chief may not rock with Katy, Maybach Music Group's Wale gushed over her this past winter.
"[The red carpet] was incredible. I got a chance to walk with my brother Meek [Mill]. You gotta realize with stuff like this, you're representing hip-hop culture. They don't pick all of us so we do our best to represent the culture the best way we can. There were a lot of people on that red carpet. I saw J.Lo, Beyoncé, Rihanna, Katy Perry, ahhh! I never dated a white girl before in my life, but that is one beautiful girl! I'm still thinking about it. As a rapper, I pride myself on my imagination: She left a lot to my imagination, and my imagination completely ran wild. She looked incredible." (MTV)


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"Showers and thunderstorms before 3am, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 3am and 5am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 5am. Some storms could be severe, with hail, damaging winds, gusty winds, heavy rain, and frequent lightning. Low around 66. West wind between 6 and 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80 percent. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible."
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Damaging winds, large hail, frequent lightning and heavy rain could all be part of some severe thunderstorms that may hit Darien and the New York metropolitan region tonight, the National Weather Service warns.
At higher elevations in southwest Connecticut, thunderstorms could come this afternoon, according to the weather service's meteorologists.
The actual chance of a severe thunderstorm may not be so great, however. According to a "Hazardous Weather Outlook" issued by the National Weather Service at 10:15 a.m., the chance for severe thunderstorms is only "slight":
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"The best chance for severe thunderstorms this afternoon will be across the lower Hudson Valley and the higher elevations of interior northeast New Jersey and southwest Connecticut, as scattered thunderstorms develop well in advance of the approaching front. Tonight this threat should then expand eastward to include all of northeast New Jersey, the New York City Metropolitan Area, western Long Island and southwest Connecticut as the front draws closer.
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Which would you choose: winning the Super Bowl this year and then a decade of mediocrity?
Or no Super Bowl this year, but sweeping the Broncos AND the Raiders for the next 20 years straight?
Call me crazy, but I think I'd prefer the latter...
Because win a Super Bowl, and you get to brag for an off-season. If you suck after that, no one cares. For example, the Giants have won 2 Super Bowls in the last 6 years. Are they bragging about anything? Are they happy with their team? Does anyone fear or even respect them this year? They've won 33% of the Super Bowls in the last 6 years, and they are a laughing stock right now.
But if we swept the Raiders and the Broncos for a decade, even without winning a Super Bowl during that time period, we would be feared, respected, and hated by both teams for the next 30 years. The Chiefs of this time period would be spoken of in awe. No matter how good of a season the Broncos were having, they'd hate us for beating them in Mile High for 10 years straight. No matter how good the Raiders team might be, they'd be frustrated about being 0-4 against us, and that frustration would grow into helpless rage as that became 0-6, 0-10, 0-16...
Imagine how vexed they would be as those automatic losses knocked them from the playoffs, or destroyed their home field advantage.
No matter how bad our season might be in any one year, we'd at least have the satisfaction of beating the Broncos and the Raiders year-in, year-out.
And you also gotta know that those 4 automatic wins and automatic tie-breaker advantage over both the Broncos and Raiders would end up setting us up very nicely for a decade of post-season success...
I know it is impossible to actually obtain one choice or the other, but I'm curious what everyone thinks.
This idea came from thinking, "Let's say we win this year. Then what? We'd be set up for a year of disappointment because it is nearly impossible to win back-to-back. But dominating our most hated rivals for a decade is a gift that keeps on giving..."


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ANDERSON, Ind. —
Playing home games in a veritable museum has its advantages.
Because visitors flock from all over to visit Butler's historic Hinkle Fieldhouse, the doors to the famous arena routinely are open. All former Pendleton Heights star Kellen Dunham needs is his electronic password for the team's locker room and he's all set for some quality court time.
That's nirvana for the lifelong gym rat who completed his freshman season with the Bulldogs in Saturday night's 74-72 loss against Marquette in the third round of the NCAA tournament.
Less than 48 hours later, Dunham trekked through the snow on campus after his Monday classes and made his way back onto his home floor. He scored four points in the loss to the Golden Eagles, shooting 1-for-4 from the floor and 1-for-2 at the free-throw line. He also made one of his two 3-point attempts.
Dunham replayed those shots Monday, losing track of the number of attempts he put up and getting ready for the start of his sophomore season that's still more than seven months away.
"I was working on the ones I missed in the Marquette game," Dunham said of the impromptu workout, "and trying to convince myself they're hittable."
That shouldn't take a giant leap of faith.
Dunham finished second on the team in 3-point percentage (34.5), fourth in minutes per game (26.1) and fifth in scoring average (9.5). He scored 18 points in his first regular season game on Nov. 10 against Elon and had his final double-digit scoring night (14) against Atlantic 10 champion St. Louis on Feb. 22.
With leading scorers Rotnei Clarke and Andrew Smith set to leave the team as seniors, Dunham figures to play an even greater role for Butler next season. He'll likely be the team's primary threat from the perimeter, and he knows he'll have to improve his 37.5 percent overall shooting percentage.
As the season wore on, Dunham became more aggressive in driving to the basket, and he said he'll credit any improvement in his game next year to the experience of playing alongside Clarke.
In his lone season with the Bulldogs, the Arkansas transfer led the team with 16.9 points per game and shot 40.8 percent from 3-point range. One of the nation's deadliest shooters, Clarke taught Dunham a veteran trick or two.
And it wasn't all about basketball.
"He's an incredible player and an even better person," Dunham said. "I learned so much about life being around him, and so much more about basketball."
The season was another wild ride for a Butler program that has firmly established itself among the nation's upper echelon.
There were upsets over North Carolina and Marquette early in the season at the Maui Invitational. And nationally televised buzzer-beaters against eventual NCAA tournament No. 1 seeds Indiana and Gonzaga closer to home — at Bankers Life Fieldhouse for the former and at home at Hinkle for the latter.
The Bulldogs were 27-9 overall and 11-5 and tied for third place in their first — and last — season in the Atlantic 10. Dunham got to play in a conference tournament in Brooklyn's gleaming new Barclays Center and closed the season at legendary Rupp Arena in the NCAA tournament.
"I just appreciate all the opportunities Butler has given me and my teammates this year," Dunham said.
And there are more on the way.
The Bulldogs were a member of the Horizon League when Dunham verbally committed to the program as a junior at Pendleton Heights. The team had moved to the Atlantic 10 by the time he actually took the court this season, and it will play next fall in the new Big East Conference.
Marquette will be among Butler's new league rivals, and if the two thrillers played between the schools this season are any indication the Bulldogs are in for another dramatic campaign.
But high-quality competition is nothing new at Butler. Atlantic 10 schools won their first six games in the NCAA tournament, and LaSalle will represent the league in the Sweet 16. Marquette is the lone member of the new Big East to advance as far.
"We look at it as a new challenge," Dunham said of the move to the Big East. "(The Atlantic 10) was a great challenge for us and prepared us well for the postseason. You couldn't take any days off, and I'm sure (the Big East) will be the same way."
Dunham obviously would rather be preparing for his own Sweet 16 matchup later this week than reminiscing about the end of his freshman season. But he enjoyed his first taste of the NCAA tournament. He had fun watching a horde of Butler fans travel to watch the team in Lexington, and he enjoyed watching the other teams at the Bulldogs' site — including No. 1 overall seed Louisville.
Even after Saturday's loss, Dunham has done his best to keep track of the tournament.
"I'll watch a few games here and there," he said. "It's still March Madness. And I'm hoping to get back soon."


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CINCINNATI (AP) -- An armed homicide suspect was fatally shot after a confrontation with officers on Monday, Cincinnati police said.
Police said they received a report of a domestic disturbance at about 5 a.m. Monday, and that while enroute officers learned there had been a possible homicide and an armed suspect was inside a house. They said Gregory Sanders, 37, confronted officers with a firearm that had a bayonet attached, and that he was shot and killed by them. It was later found that Sanders' weapon was not loaded, police said.
At a news conference Monday, police said they found the body of Sanders' mother, Deborah Sanders, inside the house in the Walnut Hills neighborhood after her son was shot. Police spokeswoman Sgt. Julian Johnson confirmed in a telephone interview Monday night that the woman was Sanders' mother and that she had been stabbed, but Johnson could not immediately confirm the spelling of the woman's name.
"There was a confrontation between himself and the officers," Assistant Police Chief James Whalen told reporters at the scene Monday. "The officers discharged their firearms, striking the individual, and he is deceased."
Four officers responded to the call and three of them fired a total of 20 shots, killing Sanders, Whalen told reporters at the news conference.
Whalen said police don't yet know how many shots hit Sanders, but he said Sanders had "some hits to his torso, and at least one hit to his head," The Cincinnati Enquirer reported. Sanders has "no significant history" of mental illness, but friends said "he has appeared stressed," Whalen said.
Johnson confirmed Monday night that Gregory Sanders lived at the home with his mother and was her caretaker.
"She was evidently suffering from terminal brain cancer," Johnson said of the mother.
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