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Plastic Worm Fishing – How to Catch Fish on Plastic Worms
One of the most rewarding outdoor sports and favorite pastimes is fishing. Fishing has been a part of human kind since the formation of hunting and gathering societies. From there, fishing was established as a way to provide food for consumption, and it would later become a hobby and sport. During the present, fishing has evolved into a multi billion dollar recreational sport, as well as a commercial industry that would rival the recreational fishermen in revenue. There are many different types of fishing that one can participate in such as fly fishing, saltwater fishing, big game fishing, and bass fishing. One of the most popular forms of fresh water fishing is bass fishing, where one uses a variety of artificial lures to catch their game. A lure that has been a favorite of the past and increasingly popular of the present is the plastic fishing worm.
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Tips for Largemouth Bass Fishing
Fishing for largemouth bass is a sport enjoyed by tens of thousands of people throughout the world. For some, this isn't just a hobby but a way of life. People who enjoy bass fishing to the point where they earn their living doing so have countless amounts of knowledge, tips, and tricks to pass on to the novice fishermen. These men and women are out on the lake at least eight hours per day, just as any other job requires, and some are out there from dawn until dusk. Fishing for largemouth bass is not like fishing for other freshwater fish. There is much skill that is involved in largemouth bass fishing, such as knowing what lure to use and when to use them.
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Repairing Breathable Chest Waders
A leak in your expensive breathable chestwaders can be frustrating. While many companies will repair the waders for free, you may not want to wait. You can repair them at home easily.
Finding a Leak
The first thing that you must do before repairing a leak in your breathable chest waders is to find the leak in them. This can be an easy job, or a rather complicated job.
Northern Pike Fishing – Real World Fun
Anglers wanting to experience one of the finest freshwater fishing experiences in the world have a great resource close at hand. Northern pike, sometimes referred to as "water wolves" because of their razor-sharp teeth and aggressive disposition, are the fish of choice for thousands of big-fish chasers in North America and northern Europe. A big northern pike is a nasty customer at 40 inches and up to 20 pounds. It can eat another fish up to a third its own length and lay a careless angler's hand open to the bone.
Northern pike fishing is easy in the sense that pike are willing to attack just about anything that moves through the water. Smaller pike are notably aggressive and at times attack fish far larger than they can physically eat. Older, wiser pike are another story. A big northern will live quietly for years, moving shallow in the spring to spawn or forage for prey as large as small muskrats and ducks, and at other times descend so far down in the depths that angler offerings can't hope to reach it. A big northern pike will eat what it wants, when it wants it, and in its own time.
Nightfishing for Catfish
Long after most anglers have called it a day, and the sun has disappeared behind the mountain ridges, replaced by the still, blue brilliance of the moon, a new commotion begins to take form beneath the cool surface of the lake. The heat of the summer day has finally subsided, and the lake surface, once crowded with shore fisherman, personal watercrafts and other pleasure vessels is now empty and silent. Below the blue shell of the water, the fish have decided to feed. During the day, the scorching sun pushed them further below the surface, forcing them into the cooler depths. Now, they are hungry.
Catfish are the warriors of the fresh water fish. They break rods, shred drag, snap stout fishing line, uncurl hooks, and have the ability to turn the most stout-hearted angler into a whimpering child. Warning: catfish are not for the light-hearted. These trophy catfish are available in many waters; from river to ponds, lakes to streams, catfish are abundant and willing to challenge anyone enthusiastic enough to dip their pole into the water. Night fishing seems to bring out the best in catfish as the swim out from the day-time hiding places in search of food. Bring on the fishing opportunity!


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Magpies hit their straps, Saints hit the wall
Greg Baum Less than 35,000 were at Etihad stadium on Friday to watch Collingwood trounce St Kilda by 86 points, the smallest ever Friday night crowd for a Collingwood game against another Victorian team.
Plans will change for Magpies and Eagles
Greg Baum Collingwood and West Coast must simultaneously try to anticipate the other's adjustments.
Swans break free from the Collingwood spell
Greg Baum The story of last night's finals football was told in one post-modern moment in the first quarter at Sydney's ANZ stadium.
Spirit of the Bloods leads to premiership
Greg Baum The Sydney Swans will never know how they won this premiership, except that it is the way they always win.
A new Bloods, still with its links to the old team and its culture
Greg Baum The Swans' popularity now transcends even Melbourne-Sydney sectarianism.
Fans find a silver lining
Greg Baum Melbourne goes down by 94 points to West Coast, but it's not all bad.
Pies in for quick kill
Greg Baum Collingwood's Travis Cloke takes the lead for the Coleman Medal as his side demolishes West Coast.
Tigers fight to the finish but fall short
Greg Baum Class and poise get unbeaten West Coast Eagles across the line.

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'Napoli hooligans' attack pie shop near Arsenal stadium
A pie shop near Arsenal's stadium was allegedly attacked by rival Italian supporters before this evening's Champions League match.
Piebury Corner, near the Emirates Stadium in north London, has had to close after dozens of thugs smashed windows, breaking chairs and swinging belts.
Witness Emily Gould, who works at the restaurant, said around 50 customers were inside the premises when a 30-strong mob of rival supporters stormed the building prior to kick-off.
She said: "I think they were Italian men with Napoli colours and scarves tied around their faces. They were shouting something in Italian, chanting and causing trouble down the street."
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Mojang has very kindly sent over some exclusive screenshots of the latest Minecraft Xbox 360 skin pack, which adds a huge number of new characters based on sources as diverse as Left 4 Dead 2, Portal, OXM favourite Awesomenauts and, er Minecraft's own inhabitants.
The full list of cameos is alarmingly extensive, as you can see in the attached screenshots. As well as Gordon Freeman and chums, there's Chell and the two robots from Portal; an indie lineup including Bit.trip, Gunstringer and Dishwasher: Dead Samurai; the cast of Left 4 Dead 2 and some Xbox heroes including Joe Danger and Conker and what looks suspiciously like Rambo. There's also one based on Slam Bolt Scrappers, which we're taking to mean that Slam Bolt Scrappers is coming to Xbox 360 following its debut on PSN.
If you'd rather forsake such branding and keep your Xbox 360 a place of Minecraft purity, there are also some "generic" skins more in keeping with the Robinson Crusoe vibe of rebuilding civilisation on a distant island, and some slightly weirder ones which enable you to be a zombie or a humanoid version of a Minecraft cow. Each to their own. The pack is out on Friday, and you'll be able to get it from Xbox Live marketplace.
Of course, what we're all still waiting for is Minecraft update 1.8.2, which adds some excellent new features but still has no Xbox 360 release date. In the meantime, why not consider the OXM World of the Week?


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I know most of you have probably already seen this. I copied it from the oh so reliable source that is goal.com. Anyway, this is from Uli Hoeness and it really just makes me love Bayern more. The fact that he said they will still take care of the wife that is living in Germany is amazing. This truly is a one of a kind club and Dortmund can take there whole "family" thing and shove it! Actions like this speak of the goodness of our club. Anyway, below is what was said:
"I do not know know if one needs really make a distinction between a bricklayer, who can carry on with his profession when he comes out again, and a young footballer, who can do absolutely nothing other than play football," the Bayern chief told Bild.
"Taking away his livelihood for all that time for this crime, which for me is unproven, is absolutely incomprehensible, in my opinion.
"A certain social hardness lies within this judgement. A sentence must punish someone, but in this case it is almost a life sentence. This is the big issue here.
"I never, ever imagined that the boy would go to prison, and moreover, for so long. If the decision is not revised, then his life is broken. For me, the verdict was a shock."
Hoeness then revealed that the club will provide for Breno's family for as long as the player is in prison, saying: "His wife is living in Germany for the time being, and our people will continue to help them.
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Customer Success Advocate
Love sports and looking to break into the software industry? Do you love helping people and building long term relationships?
TeamPages is looking for an outgoing Customer Success Advocate in Vancouver to help our customers adopt, use (and love!) TeamPages.
A little about TeamPages...
We like to have fun, but at the same time we're serious about providing youth sports teams with an amazing communication tool that helps take the pain out of organization team sports. We're almost 7 years old but our small team has strong and growing revenue, and our customers love us.
Our office is 2 blocks from the Roundhouse Skytrain Station, and close to lots of tasty food in Yaletown. We offer a flexible work schedule and the option to work off site from time to time too. Employees get 3 weeks vacation per year and we offer health benefits as well.
A little about you...
- You have an unstoppable upbeat attitude and love working with people.
- You are outgoing and able to easily build rapport with others.
- You might not be a poet, but you can express yourself in words.
- You have some technical expertise and a knack for problem solving.
- You spot what needs doing and get it done.
- You have experience in, or are keen to work in a startup environment.
- You're a sports enthusiast that could spend hours debating who the starting goalie for Team Canada should be in the 2014 Olympic Games (though the answer is Luongo of course).
Your responsibilities:
- Using your friendly personality to get customers excited about TeamPages.
- Helping new and prospective customers understand what TeamPages can do for them.
- Ensuring new customers succeed by getting what they need from TeamPages.
- Responding to live chat, phone, social media and email support channels.
- Working with our product team as you track down and report bugs.
- Basic understanding of social media and social media dashboards, knowledge of HootSuite is an asset
- And most importantly, being a pleasure to work with and contributing to our fun, hard-working culture.
How to Apply:
If this sounds like your ideal opportunity, apply by emailing us your cover letter and links to your social media profiles (be sure to include a blog if you have one).
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TD Bank Eyes Role as Mortgage-Bond Issuer
TD Bank is giving serious thought to securitizing its portfolio of U.S. jumbo mortgages.
The Toronto banks executives discussed the possibility with industry players at the Mortgage Bankers Associations Secondary Market Conference May 6-9 in New York. TD has been writing an increasing number of jumbo mortgages for U.S. borrowers, so far relying on deposits to fund the credits. But conference attendees were told it could begin issuing mortgage-backed securities next year, depending on the resolution of certain regulatory issues.
The initiative would be headed by Greg Tallmadge, a product manager based in Mount Laurel, N.J. Tallmadge has been driving the push to expand origination of jumbo mortgages in the U.S., and is now weighing the banks funding options going forward.
Securitization might be seen as a long shot, considering that TDs experience in the U.S. structured-finanace industry has been limited to a few collateralized debt obligations that it issued or underwrote about 10 years ago. That said, the bank has been involved in a number of mortgage-bond issues, credit-card deals and CDOs in Canada. And since purchasing Chrysler Financial from Cerberus Capital, it has been seen as a likely issuer of auto-loan paper in the States.
As for the timing of any mortgage securitizations from TD, much will depend on the final shape of risk-retention rules being written by the SEC. A tentative requirement that issuers retain 5% stakes in their deals has been cited as a key reason why new issuance of private-label mortgage securities has been dormant since the financial crisis. Mortgage-bond issuers are now focused on a related rule proposal that would make them exempt from the 5% requirement so long as they restrict their collateral pools to so-called qualified residential mortgages that meet minimum underwriting standards.
Market players had been hoping the SEC would finalize its definition of qualified residential mortgage by midyear, but thats not likely to happen now until after the presidential election. Meanwhile, TD also is waiting to gauge the impact of more stringent capital-reserve requirements that the Bank for International Settlements will begin phasing in Jan. 1, 2013. The bottom line: The bank isnt likely to pull the trigger on its first mortgage-bond offering until well into next year.
Tallmadge joined TD in 2010 from mortgage insurer Radian Guaranty. Earlier, he clocked about 12 years at PHH Mortgage.
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Woo! E-voting (as it is in Ireland) has been turned down by the commission that investigated the issue. There were many concerns about security, secrecy and privacy but in the last few weeks nothing was heard from opponents of the system.
The Government has been running a campaign advocating e-voting, and it has over-simplified the issues ("Press a button", "We've had plenty of practise", etc..)
Hopefully the Government will clean up their act and implement a good system, and maybe it won't cost €40m next time..
More on RTÉ and Labour Party website.
Later… Cullen rules out use of e-voting in June! Yay!
later Still… slashdot picked up on the story, along with OT posts as well, lol.
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Harrison Graham: The Corpse Collector
What a Man Can Stand
It was August 9, a Sunday afternoon that threatened to saturate the already humid air with a shower.Ā An officer familiar with the area from numerous drug busts, arrived at 1631 North 19th Street, near Cecil B. Moore Avenue, where many buildings along that block were boarded up and abandoned.Ā Just that week, the police had arrested someone for dealing in R&Ts Ritalin and Talwin, a combination of a stimulant and a painkiller that offered a cheap high.Ā Although the building at 1631 looked deserted, according to reporters for the Philadelphia Daily News, with broken windows and a missing front door, families did live in several apartments.Ā
Officer Pete Scallatino walked up to the third floor.Ā He could smell the odor of death even before he entered the place, so he assumed he'd find a dead body.Ā He walked into the first room of the apartment and saw waist-high piles of trash everywhere.Ā On a kitchen wall was the drawing of a naked woman, with aggressive expletives scrawled next to it and a smear that looked like dried blood left by the dragging of two fingers in parallel.Ā Clearly, someone had once had a dog or two in here, as hardened excrement on the floor contributed to the stench.
The men who'd called him beckoned to the keyhole, so he bent down near a door that had "Marty" scrawled across it to have a look.Ā He saw a black woman's naked legs.Ā She lay too still, so he assumed that this was the source of the offensive stench.Ā Officer Scallatino knocked and announced himself but the figure did not move.Ā Charles Johnson, an investigator with the Medical Examiner's Office, joined him.Ā His black van outside quickly drew the attention of neighbors, who gathered together to guess about what was happening inside.
Scallatino and Johnson pried open the door to get into the second room. The odor nearly overwhelmed them, so they donned gauze masks.Ā They found that this room, too, was piled high with trash, but not so much that they couldn't see the victim: The nude female they'd spotted through the keyhole was indeed deceased.Ā She lay on a mattress, piled two high on the floor, next to a television set.Ā She'd been dead for some time, as she was discolored and bloated, her limbs askew from the way her body was decomposing.Ā But next to the mattress, on the floor, was another female corpse, also bloated.Ā She was wearing a denim miniskirt and a light-colored shirt with the words, "Pour Toi," and a red rose printed on it.Ā
The men put up their yellow crime scene tape around the building and in the hallway, then called for backup.Ā There was no electricity and most of the windows had been boarded up, so in the dark room, they'd need extra lights.Ā While drug overdoses were common in this area, and they could have simply died in the building and been dumped here, Scallatino called in homicide detective, James Hansen, who had just led the Heidnik investigation.Ā Ambiguous scenes such as this required him to assume murder first.
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MEMPHIS, TN (WMC-TV) - After the Memphis City Council and the Memphis City Schools board voted Tuesday to move forward with the MCS charter surrender Tuesday, many expect the fight to move to a courtroom.Many Shelby County residents believe they should have a say in the vote because their taxes fund city schools. But University of Memphis Constitutional Law professor Steve Mulroy says a 1996 Federal Appeals ruling puts the breaks on the suburban inclusion argument."Under my understanding of the law, there's no real legal basis for them to get a court to force them to be included," Mulroy said Wednesday.In the nineties, the situation was reversed. Memphis City Schools wanted to take part in a Shelby County Schools board vote, and the courts found that unconstitutional."There's language in that opinion that says that they would think the same thing would occur if it was the other way around," Mulroy said.Tennessee lawmakers may have their hands tied in attempts to pass a law to include suburban voters. For one, the state legislature is on a break, moving future votes to mid or late February."There's an argument that it's too late because once you have an election date set, then you can't have a law that applies retroactively," Mulroy said.And even if lawsuits are filed, they might not stop school unification."There could be litigation going on. But in the meantime, there could still be a referendum, and if it passes, there still could be a unified school board appointed or elected, and the transition could begin and all of that could be going on even if there is background litigation," Mulroy said. "So the mere fact that somebody files a lawsuit doesn't mean automatically they get a court to order that everything freezes. Things are going to still keep going. This process is going forward."When it comes to equal representation on the upcoming unified school board, Shelby County Commissioner Mike Ritz proposed Wednesday the commission appoint 16 new members to represent Memphis. That could bring the total number of school board members to 23 for a short time, until the seven current members are cycled out over the next two to four years.
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All Polluters in Indiana
A.E. Staley Man. Co. South Plant
A.E. Staley Sagamore Operation
Adm Frankfort
Ameriqual Foods, Inc.
Azteca Milling, L.P.
Bakery Feeds
Cargill Dry Corn Ingredients
Cargill, Inc.
Cargill, Inc. - Lafayette
Central Soya Company Inc
Central Soya Company, Inc.
Conagra Foods
Consolidated Grain And Barge Company
Dairy Farmers Of America
Frito-Lay, Inc.
General Mills
George Pfaus Sons Company, Inc.
Grain Processing Corporation
Griffin Industries, Inc. - Newberry
Hartford Bakery Inc.
Holland Dairy
Holsum Ft. Wayne, Inc.
Hubbard Feeds Inc. Formerly Conti Group
Interstate Brands Corp.
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John T. Gill
March 21, 2014, 04:26 PM
I read the comments on Wayne Hollis Fincher and could hardly believe all the wrong opinions on what really happened in this case. I have followed this case from the very beginning and had actual contact with Mr. Fincher over the phone. I also had contact with his two defense attorney's that server "pro bono". Mr. Fincher is a decent law abiding man who was grossly mistreated by a hostile, prejudiced judge that should be thrown off the bench. This case came up before the Heller decision and the one in Chicago. If it had come up after then Mr. Fincher would probably not have gone to prison. Mr. Fincher did have legal representation. So much for the advisability of hiring an attorney. The first attorney is in the same prison that Mr. Fincher was in on a non related charge. People, get your facts straight before you blow off steam against an innocent man.


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The Gals just locked up their third DP in Omar. Landycakes' contract is up at the end of the season.
If we free up a DP spot by buying out/down Mauro Rosales, why not bring him up here? What better way to integrate with Clint Dempsey and EJ than to play club ball with them and train with them for months leading up to Brazil?
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Udupi: Traditional families carry forward celebration of Ganesha Chaturti in Belle GP
The festival of Ganesha Chaturti was celebrated with gaiety in household families that have been celebrating the auspicious occasion since several decades in the neighbourhood of Belle gram panchayat near here on Friday
Udupi: Ganeshotsav symbol of national unity – MLC Ivan D'Souza
Ganesha Chaturti is being celebrated amongst the people of different faith, caste and creed as national festival across India. The freedom fighter Bala Gangadhar Tilak ignited the nationalist sentiment and patriotism among the countrymen
Udupi: Thirty-fifth Sarvajanika Shri Ganeshotsav begins with devotion and enthusiasm at Moodubelle
Shri Ganesh Utsav organized by Sarvajanika Shri Ganeshotsava Samiti:Belle-Kattingeri began with great devotion and enthusiasm in the Geeta Mandir, Moodubelle on Friday, 29 August 2014. Following the religious ritual of
Udupi:Moodubelle Unit of Catholic Sabha organizes Pratibha Puraskar and Education Guidance Camp
The Moodubelle Unit of the Catholic Sabha organized Pratibah Puraskar and Education Guidance Camp on Friday, 29 August 2014 at 10.30 am in the Parish hall. A large number of students and their parents [1 Comments]
New Delhi: PM banks on mega plan to fight debt
Prime Minister Narendra Modi opened a record 1.5 crore bank accounts across the country on Thursday to mark the launch of the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) aimed at financial inclusion of all Indians. The scheme aims to ensure that every household has at least two bank
Bangalore: Sadananda Gowda's son will be held if necessary, say police
A day after a film actor filed a complaint of rape and cheating against Karthik Gowda, son of Union Railway Minister D.V. Sadananda Gowda, a special investigation team on Thursday was awaiting her medical examination
Mangalore: Dr Vijay H Desai inaugurates activities of TORQUE at SJEC
The mechanical engineering department of St Joseph Engineering College (SJEC), here , inaugurated the activities of its students association �TORQUE, at College auditorium here on Thursday August 28 at 2.30pm. Dr Vijay H Desai,
Kolkata: HC dismisses Kingfisher Airlines appeal
The Calcutta High Court on Thursday dismissed an appeal by Kingfisher Airlines against a trial court order that its chairman Vijay Mallya and board of directors may be represented by its law officers or company secretary on a showcause notice by United Bank of India (UBI) for alleged
1.5 cr households given bank accounts on day 1
A woman displays pass book and Rupay card of her bank account opened under the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana in Mumbai on Thursday.Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday kicked off his government�s ambitious financial inclusion plan here, which on the first day itself handed out
Bangalore: Konkani Sahitya Academy seeks grant for Chair in Mangalore University
A delegation of Karnataka Konkani Sahitya Academy president Roy Castelino, state health minister U T Khader and MLC Ivan D�Souza met CM Siddaramaiah here on Tuesday August 26, presented a memorandum in order to
M'lore: Union minister T C Gehlot inaugurates Jan Dhan Yojana in DK district
The much anticipated project of PM Narendra Modi�s regime Jan Dhan Project was launched at Town Hall, here on Thursday August 28.The union social justice and empowerment minister Thawar Chand Gehlot launched here
Mangalore: SJEC Women Chess Team wins VTU Inter-Zone Tournament
The women chess team of St Joseph Engineering College (SJEC) here, led by Riyola Vela D� Souza, won the VTU - rest of Bangalore zone and inter-zone chess tournament organized by VTU - regional office, Mysore and CIT -
Puttur: St Philomena College Digital English Language Lab inaugurated
Internal Quality Assessment Cell, Department of Computer Science and Department of English of St. Philomena College jointly inaugurated the Digital English Language Lab at the IT Block, St Philomena College, here Wednesday August
M'lore: Karnataka Beary Sahitya Academy felicitates Dr Prajna Ammembal
Karnataka Beary Sahitya Academy felicitated Dr Prajna Ammembal at the Academy office here on Thursday August 28.Speaking on the occasion, Dr Prajna explained the rules and regulations of Academy with regard to organizing
M'lore: MLA J R Lobo instructs horticulture dept to clear wild vegetation at Kadri Park
MLA J R Lobo here on Thursday August 28 instructed the horticulture department officials to clear wild vegetation, muck and garbage that ruined the beauty of Kadri Park here within one week�s time. MLA Lobo accompanied by
Church turned into 'temple' after 72 Valmikis reconvert to Hinduism
A church with a cross in it that belonged to the 7th Day Adventists overnight turned into a temple adorned with a portrait of Shiva after what some Hindu groups in Aligarh termed the "successful ghar wapasi" (reconversion) of 72
Udupi: K.J. Philip of MESCOM, Moodubelle honoured on his retirement
K.J. Philip, First Class Mechanic of MESCOM, Moodubelle who has been rendering selfless service to the villagers of Moodubelle and Kattingeri since the last 27 years was honoured by the Belle Grama Panchayat
Woman kills leopard with a spade after hour-long fight
A 54-year-old Indian woman has killed a leopard using only her farming tools after it attacked her on her way home from the fields. Kamla Devi remains in hospital after a one-hour battle with the predator near her village in Rudraprayag district, Uttarakhand on Sunday.
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A savory and quick meal for a busy school night!
A picnic perfect recipe to enjoy in these last few weeks of summer!
Healthy and fun choices to get your kids excited about good nutrition!
Chef Chris shares a barbeque favorite from the balmy shores of South Beach, Florida.
A great alternative to traditional, mayonnaise based coleslaw.
Chef Mark Shoopman visited the Living Well set today to cook up some grilled lobster tacos with tomatillo salsa and avocado cream.
A colorful and cool snack to enjoy this summer!
A flavorful and portable option for busy summer days!
A fresh and southwestern take on take.
Independence Day Fried Ice Cream Sundae By Executive Chef Mark Shoopman of Lutheran Hillside Village.
A fresh and fruity salsa to top off the healthier choice for the grill.
A flavorful addition to your summer recipes!
A spicy addition to your grilling menu this summer!
Enjoy the taste of 2 fun summer beverages without all of the calories!
These are a fun spin on traditional meatballs that will be a hit at your next summer get together.
A special treat to honor dad this Father's Day!
Another easy grilling recipe with a versatile marinade!
A sweet and flavorful tribute to the summer months ahead!
A sweet and savory combination to enjoy all summer long!
Chef Mark is sending your taste buds on a tropical vacation!


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Universal Fit
" Tight competitor of GR07, this IEM isn't a replacement for GR07, but rather, a complimentary IEM. How does it sound? Fun, thick, and musical. Not your best analytical sounding IEM, while it does bring out details nevertheless. To me, it's a great buy, because I don't need anymore accurate sounding phones, but rather something fun and colored to my personal preference...." --autumnholy
JVC/Victor FX700
" I'm not going to waste your time talking about accessories, fit, packaging, what songs I listened to or any other boring stuff because frankly none of that stuff matters when it comes to the JVC HA-FX700's. The only thing that matters is the unbelievably good sound coming from these, so without further adieu- The sound: MASSIVE. That's the first thought that comes..." --shotgunshane
"When I received these earbuds I was not expecting much. I read reviews on the FX1X and FX3X, and both were laced with caveats. The few posts I found on the 101s said (more or less) that they were the least riddled with problems from the XX product line. In the end, I purchased them on a whim to have a pair of "fun" iems. First Impressions: The packaging is a royal pain to open. It's nigh..." --adevriesc
Atomic Floyd SuperDarts
"Atomic Floyd are a relatively small British based company that not many people have heard of. They continue to sell their products through as few authorised dealers as they feel necessary which means that the £200 price rage for these is pretty much what you're going to have to pay if you want to have your socks blown off by these little gems. First Impressions: As I opened the parcel..." --smithamb
" Introduction Having had extensive experience with the previous Wood series of JVC, FX500 and FX700, I was exited to see what the company had planned for this next iteration. They introduced FX650 to replace the FX500 and FX750 to replace the FX700, in addition to announcing the new flagship, FX850. Thanks to user James444, I was able to hear all 3 IEMs of..." --Inks
" Disclaimer #1: In my experience, I've come to discover that the term basshead is tossed around very loosely, and (more often than not) carries a negative connotation, when that need not be the case. Where I'm concerned, such terms must be put into context. As I've used it here, the term basshead merely implies a listener who admires (and/or maybe even prefers) a moderate to heavy bass lift...." --Night Crawler
JVC HA-FXZ100 In-Ear Headphone
" These must have been designed with some singular purpose in mind. They did not sound right to me in terms of balance, dynamics and detail. Very bass heavy. A lot of technology but ergonomics and fit suffer imo. I like the attempt and the price of these and recommend for those who like to investigate the extremes of bass heavy sound. They might be just what you're looking for, Give 'em a try, " --thelostMIDrange
JVC HAFXC51R New Micro HD in-Ear Headphones (Red)
" I just put these in my ears and the verdict is......thin sounding ;( atleast before EQ I bought these by request from a Head-Fi'r, and regardless of that characteristic, im still not disappointed :) The bass reminds me of the AKG 701's, practically non present. However, I couldn't get over how large the sound stage was and how well instruments..." --Vonx
"If you want it, just buy it. It worth every penny! " --MikeZhong
JVC HA-FX35-B Soft Marshmallow Stereo Headphones (Black)
"I bought these a year ago while on vacation at the Cabin for a month, after finding out I left my Shure SE210's on the couch while packing! I was at Best Buy, so not exactly the ideal place to be shopping, but it's slim-pickings in Alaska lol I wasn't going to pay more than $30, and most of the stuff I actually was interested in were iSheeple's iPhones, so I wasn't going to risk trying out a..." --Formula350


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Abu Dahbi Combat Club 2013 videos – Dean Lister (USA) vs Cristiano Lazzarini (Brazil) submission wrestling match Beijing, China 10/20/2013.
Dean was showing off in the beginning. He is so good. Saw him in Chicago during a UFC fight and he was super friendly. He showed me how to throw a proper left to the liver by punching me in mine 15-20 times. Then got super angry drunk and asked if he could crash on my buddy's sofa cause he didn't get a hotel. He politely declined…. With that said he is very good @ the ground game.
Palhares? Are you watching?


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Pic: Roy Nelson issues heartfelt farewell to retired UFC foe Shane Carwin
Even though "Bi-polar" Shane Carwin called Roy Nelson "fat" and hurt his feelings, "Big Country" was willing to put their rivalry aside to wish him a fond farewell on Facebook. These two power-punching foes were expected to slug it out last December, but the recently-retired "Engineer" succumbed to one of his many injuries and would never return. That makes Nelson sad. Sincere? Or sarcasm?


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Just thought I'd take a look at our drafting trends for Defensive players. What rounds we draft them in, what type of players we draft, etc.
First off, let's look at DB's.
Since 2000 when Kevin Colbert took over as Grand Poobah of draft ownage, the Pittsburgh Steelers have drafted fifteen Defensive Backs. Lets see how they break down by round.
1st - 1
2nd - 2
3rd - 5
4th - 2
5th - 3
6th - 1
7th - 1
Four of those selections were safeties, Troy Polomalu (1st), Chris Hope (3rd), Anthony Smith (3rd) and Ryan Mundy (6th). Troy is awesome, Hope is very good, Mundy turned out good for a 6th round pick and Anthony Smith I won't discuss at all. Only four selections in 12 drafts, and only two have been starters. We rely heavily on signing veteran Free Agents for the position, especially since we got Troy. Our system places a lot of responsibility on the FS, so it makes sense we rely on veterans who have shown they can read the play and make the right choice.
Removing the safeties we have 10 CB's chosen in rounds 2-4 and one seventh round choice, LaVAr Glover, who never played for us. Five of the remaining ten have been chosen in the last three drafts, including the two we just took.
All the CB's by round taken:
2nd: Bryant McFadden, Ricardo Colclough. McFadden has been a dependable player, yet last season was his first as a full year starter for Pittsburgh. Colclough didn't do much here and less after leaving.
3rd: Hank Poteat, Keenan Lewis, Curtis Brown. Hank Poteat never became more than a returner in Pittsburgh but did stick around the league as a CB through 2009, starting 20 games for his career. Keenan Lewis has shown great potential as a DB and as a bonehead in his first two seasons, and with fresh blood at the position will need to show something for this pick to not be a bust. Curtis Brown just got picked.
4th: Ike Taylor, Cortez Allen. Ike was a great pick, an athlete who needed to learn to play the position. I still remember how great he could stick with any receiver his first couple of seasons, defending passes with the back of his helmet more than once. As a value pick it's hard to rate Ike as anything but a huge success. Cortez Allen is a slower Ike Taylor with better hands. (I'm laughing at that description because it fits 98% of the Earth's population)
5th: William Gay, Joe Burnett, Crezdon Butler. William Gay was an incredibly valuable nickel back in our 2008 SB run, his small size and lack of speed is offset by always being in the right place. He is a phenomenal help tackler, which is another way of saying he won't be bringing down Adrian Peterson in the open field, but he always gets there to help others finish off guys. Joe Burnett showed some promise, but not enough to stick around, he was a Back up for the Giants last year. Crezdon Butler showed a lot of promise last year, let's see what happens this year.
Most of these corners were considered projects when drafted. The Steelers tend to draft guys 5'11" to 6'0" who are physical and athletic but are not polished. The exceptions to that, William Gay, Joe Burnett and Hank Poteat were viewed as nickel corners or return men.
We've got four young corners coming to camp who fit the same mold that we like for our outside starters, two 3rd round picks, a 4th round pick and a 5th round pick. Hopefully two of them develop into starters soon.


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A week in the life of team V&E is a mixed bag of eating and drinking, meeting and greeting, dancing, and occasional bad behaviour. Here are some snaps so you can see what we get up to.
Ah, the magic of Christmas has stopped Russ in his tracks. The big wheel at Winter Wonderland's very shiny.
A whole lotta Guac(amole) and cool packaging at Wahaca offshoot Burrito Mama in One New Change by St Paul's.
Check out the size of the bouquet Caroline was sent by her clients at the Hurlingham Club. We're not jealous. Much.
Mulled wine and vintage ski suits for guests (nice touch!) at the Lodge d'Argent winter terrace launch at Coq d'Argent in the City.
Never mind the celebs (sorry Nicole) the star attraction of the Steam & Rye launch was the venue itself. The Cargo Hold private room was shamazing.
The Blind Tigers entertain guests at the 2013 Square Meal Tasting at The HAC.
Taking our seats for a screening of The Great Gatsby at One Aldwych's Film & Fizz evening.
You might recognise this dude from his portrait on bottles of JB. It's the master distiller himself hosting a bourbon tasting in the pop-up Jim Beam Stillhouse.
Lauren, Annica and Laura tuck into mulled wine and bratwursts in the Bavarian Village at Winter Wonderland.
The Deck goes Chalet chic for Christmas.
All aboard! Annica and Laura take a ride on the rollercoaster at Winter Wonderland.
Freezing temperatures plus A-list guest list usually equals wardrobe dilemma. Not so for Thuang who wore this glove and hat onesie for the Winter Wonderland VIP launch.
Christian from Deep Events treats Annica and Russ to a Wine & Vinyl evening. Guess who's excited?
Rudolf the wall-mounted reindeer brings a smile to Annica's face at Winter Wonderland.


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The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) will debut a new art fair, The Photography Show--Miami, from Tuesday, Dec. 4 (invitational preview) through Sunday, Dec. 9, 2007. More than 45 of the world's leading fine art photography galleries will present a wide range of museum quality work by 19th-century, modern and contemporary masters. The exhibition will be held at a new 30,000 sq. ft. venue located at NW 31st Street and North Miami Avenue in the Wynwood Art District of Miami, FL. The new art fair will run concurrently with Art Basel Miami, as well as numerous other art fairs during the week. The Photography Show--Miami will open with a preview on Tuesday, Dec. 4th.
"We are delighted to announce this new fair in Miami that will further highlight the tremendous collective knowledge, scholarship and expertise of AIPAD dealers," said Robert Klein, president of AIPAD and Robert Klein Gallery in Boston.
"Photography collectors have been asking us to come to Miami in December so that they could have access there to a focused exhibition of the most important photographic works available on the market."
AIPAD is well known for its prestigious fair, The Photography Show--New York, which is held at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City in April. The new dates for the 28th edition of the fair in New York are April 10 -13, 2008. The Photography Show is the longest running and foremost exhibition of fine art photography.
The show hours will be Wednesday from 10 am to 3 pm; and Thursday, Friday and Saturday from noon to 7 pm; and Sunday from noon to 6 pm. The invitational preview will be on Tuesday evening, Dec. 4th. Further details will be forthcoming. For more information, please contact AIPAD at 1-202-986-0105 or firstname.lastname@example.com . More information will also be posted up eventually on the AIPAD website at: http://www.aipad.com/photoshow/ .
In a shocking move, given the success of the Photographs Department over the last several years--and especially after the April sales (see stories below)--Phillips de Pury & Company has fired Worldwide Director of Photographs Rick Wester and New York Head of Photographs Lisa Newlin-Galeano. Both Wester and Newlin are highly respected and well liked in the photography trade. Reportedly, according to company sources, personality conflicts at the company may have been the reason behind what appears--at least at this time--to be a stunning corporate misjudgment and set-back for Phillips in this arena. You can almost hear the sighs of relief from over at Sotheby's and Christie's.
Charlie Scheips has been named to the position of Worldwide Director of Photographs and will assume his new role effective immediately. Scheips has been a freelance curator, art advisor, writer and cultural historian. Previously, he was the founding director of the Condé Nast Archive in New York for ten years.
Joseph Kraeutler, Phillips de Pury & Company's New York-based specialist with a particular expertise in contemporary photographs, will take on the role of Head of Photographs, New York and Genny Janvrin, who oversaw the company's first Photographs sale in London this June, will remain Head of Photographs, London.
From the selections, it looks like Phillips will focus more on just contemporary photography now.
By Stephen Perloff
Editor of The Photograph Collector
On the evening of April 24th Phillips de Pury & Co. offered its sale of "27 Exceptional Photographs." We might nitpick and say there were a few truly exceptional photographs and many other really good ones and then report that there were a few truly exceptional prices and a number of disappointing buy-ins (eight--almost 30%), including a major Gursky. Still, the $3,616,800 total averaged over $190,000 per lot sold, the highest-ever achieved at a photography auction.
Harry Callahan's "Weed against Sky, Detroit", 1948/1950s (estimated at $20,000$30,000) started the evening off at $48,000. His "Weeds in Snow, Detroit", 1943/1950s ($15,000$25,000) was fought over by Jeffrey Fraenkel and Peter MacGill, sitting next to each other. Fraenkel took it at $84,000, the third highest price for a single work by the photographer. Dealer Richard Morehouse snuck off with Callahan's "Bush in Snow, Downer's Grove", 1948/1950s ($15,000$25,000) for only $12,000.
A phone bidder roared off with Eugène Atget's "Fête du Trone", a picture of a mural of two tigers emerging from a jungle painted on a wooden fence, at $42,000, just over low estimate.
Next up was Edward Steichen's glorious portrait of Gloria Swanson, 1924, signed and dated 1926 ($250,000$350,000). Swiss dealer Kaspar Fleischmann held off several bidders, paying $540,000, the highest price of the sale, a record for the image and the third highest price achieved at auction for Steichen. And he was back on the next lot, André Kértesz's "Meudon", 1928, printed 192835 ($300,000$500,000), making a bridesmaid out of Peter MacGill again, this time at $420,000, the second highest price paid for the photographer at auction.
Nadar's "Hermaphrodite" couldn't get a leg up again and passed at $18,000. But Alexander Rodchenko's "Sokolniki Park, Winter, Hockey", 1929, more than doubled its high estimate at $312,000 ($260,000 hammer), a record price for a photograph by the artist. Bidding had almost stopped at $160,000, emphasizing how often the auction market price can be the result of only two bidders.
A phone bidder made off with Brancusi's "Vue de l'Atelier", 1925, at the low estimate, $84,000, but again, a record price for a photograph by the artist. But then the three Moholy-Nagy Fotogramms, with estimates of $200,000$300,000 and $150,000$200,000, all passed, as did Paul Outerbridge Jr.'s "Sleepy Negro" ($40,000$60,000).
Michael Mattis beat collector Jack Hastings to the checkout counter for Edward Weston's "Chard", paying $192,000. And Kaspar Fleischmann came back for Paul Strand's "Fern & Rain Drops", 192728, at the low estimate of $240,000, still the third highest price paid for Strand at auction.
A phone bidder drove just over high estimate to $516,000 for Robert Frank's "US 90, en route to Del Rio, Texas", 1956/c. 1960. That was the second highest price of the sale and a record price for the photographer at auction. Then a 1970 print of Frank's "ParadeHoboken, NJ", also marched above its high estimate to $138,000. Peter MacGill finally won Frank's motorcyclists, "Newburgh, NY", an oversize 1970 print, at $108,000, then snatched Chuck Close's Self-Portrait for $216,000, the low estimate, but the record price for a photograph by the artist.
John Baldessari's "Transform (Lipstick)" ($100,000$150,000) reaffirmed that prices for his work are taking off to the next level, as it brought $312,000. Duane Michals' classic early sequence "Things Are Queer" brought a strong bid of $33,600, just under the high estimate, and yet another record. Maybe people are starting to catch on to one of the more undervalued photographers in the marketplace.
Next up was Andreas Gursky's extremely large (overall about 6.5 feet by 11 feet) "Toys 'R' Us", estimated at $1,200,000 to $1,800,000. With its minimalist, almost Lewis Baltzian structure of asphalt road, buildings, and sky, with the only color in the Toyota and Toys "R" Us signs on the buildings and on the various "floats" on the electrical wires above, it doesn't have the intricacy or pizzazz of many of Gursky's other works. And while it was the star of this evening sale, it may well have done better in a contemporary art sale where it would have fit in better with the crowdand where its potential buyers could be seen buying it (in this age of conspicuous art consumption, why buy something expensive if you can't be seen buying it by the people who really matter). Though our earnest auctioneer pleaded, "at $900,000 only," it went unsold. (Editor's note: I don't happen to agree with Steve on this one. I think the reason it went unsold was simply that it was a rather boring image for Gursky with a very reaching estimate. If it brought $600,000 total with buyer's premium, I think that would be a lot.)
The evening closed with Joel Sternfeld's "McLean, VA", burning up the phones at $98,400, a record for a single photograph by the photographer. And contemporary Chinese artist Zhang Huan's nine-print suite, "Family Tree", was adopted at $192,000, the second highest price achieved for the artist at auction and the highest price achieved for this work in this edition. In February, Phillips de Pury & Co.'s contemporary sale in London sold the larger-than-life scaled version of this work for £114,000.
(Copyright ©2007 by The Photograph Collector.)
My thanks to Steve Perloff and The Photograph Collector Newsletter for giving me permission to use this information. The Photograph Collector, which is a wonderful newsletter that I can heartily recommend, is published monthly and is available by subscription for $149.95 (overseas airmail is $149.95). You can phone 1-215-891-0214 and charge your subscription or send a check or money order to: The Photograph Collector, 140 East Richardson Ave, Langhorne, PA 19047. Or for a subscription order form to The Photograph Collector Newsletter, go to: http://www.photoreview.org/collect.htm.
By Stephen Perloff
Editor of The Photograph Collector
The Phillips sales continued the next day with work from the collection of Alain Dominique Perrin tucked in the middle of the various owner material, even though it had its own catalogue.
Robert Frank's "US 285, NM", 1955/c. 1975 ($20,000$30,000), one of the great American road photographs, had numerous bidders trying to hitch a ride. Ultimately Ute Hartjen left Howard Greenberg standing by the side of the road, though the fare was $84,000. An order bidder went just over high estimate for Avedon's "Dovima with Elephants", paying $102,000. A phone bidder swept up two William Eggleston's, "Near Minter City and Glendora, MS" for $66,000 and "Whitehaven, MS" for $57,600.
Jeffrey Fraenkel plucked Irving Penn's "Woman with Roses" for $324,000, "only" one-third over the high estimate, and the second highest price of the day sale. It shattered the previous record for the image by over $100,000. Then Penn's "Summer Sleep" went for a premium of $84,000.
A bit later a group of contemporary Chinese photographs from the collection of Lawrence and Kathy Schiller came up. Qiu Zhijie's "Tattoo II" brought the low estimate of $72,000 from the phones, and Zhang Huan's "To Raise the Water Level in a Fish Pond" was scooped up just over high estimate at $62,400, but several others failed to sell.
A phone bidder saw something in Man Ray's "Self-Portrait", 1957, a sheet of metal in the artist's original frame (and not a photograph), from the collection of Soizic Audouard, as it went for $50,400.
The ramshackle clapboard shed of Paul Strand's "Stockburger's Farm, East Jamica, VT" brought $84,000 from the phones, proving that real estate prices really have no ceiling in New York. Another phone bidder took Strand's abandoned house, "Ghost Town, Red River, NM" at only $48,000. Location, location, location!
Robert Frank's "New York City, 7 Bleeker Street, September, 1993" reached $55,200, a 50% premium over the high estimate. Dallas dealer Burt Finger then paid the midpoint of the estimate, $42,000, for the Lee Friedlander-Jim Dine portfolio "Photographs & Etchings". And Ute Hartjen made off with the portfolio "Garry Winogrand, 19601974" for only $45,600, below the low estimate.
A phone bidder doubled the high estimate at $72,000 for Irving Penn's sexy and surreal "Chanel Feather Headdress", from an edition of seven. Another phone bidder chugged off with a great, unique set of 58 of O. Winston Link's Special Edition Photographs for $180,000, the low estimate, and a record price for a single lot by Link. Then Jeffrey Fraenkel fell just short of quadrupling the high estimate for Robert Adams's luminous "Berthoud, CO", paying $45,600, also a world record.
Richard Morehouse won Lewis Baltz's portfolio of 15 silver prints, "Nevada", at $45,600 and a phone bidder paid $54,000 for Baltz's portfolio "Candlestick Point", with 72 silver prints and 12 color coupler print. And finally, at 12:45 pm, a phone bidder closed out the long morning session by doubling the high estimate at $48,000 for Francesca Woodman's untitled image from her House Series.
Back we came at 2 pm, but it was clear there was no way we could sit through the entire afternoon and still get across town and uptown to Sotheby's evening sale in time. The afternoon session began with the Perrin Collection. Perrin's Baldessari had been sold the night before, but there were still a number of good pictures here. Peter MacGill outbid Ute Hartjen at $60,000 for Robert Frank's "Longchamp", 1948 ($20,000$30,000), a young woman with a bouquet of wildflowers sleeping on a lawn. A phone bidder went to $90,000 for Penn's "Picasso (B), Cannes".
An Adams "Moonrise" sold for $45,600, his "The Teton Range and the Snake River" ($20,000$30,000) meandered up to $60,000, and his "Winter Sunrise" sparkled at $49,200.
Howard Greenberg fell short as a Man Ray Rayograph fetched $312,000, the third highest price of the sale. Peter MacGill captured Weston's "Nude in Patio" at $60,000. Bruce Silverstein took Weston's "Dunes, Oceano", at $84,000, but lost out on "Black Dunes, Oceano" at the same price.
Ute Hartjen won the top lot of the day, Penn's "Harlequin Dress", at $384,000, a record for the image and the second highest price at auction for his work. Prints sold for $240,000 and for $352,000 last year. A hungry Kathryn McCarver Root paid $108,000, a 50% premium, for Penn's "Frozen Foods with String Beans".
Phone bidders also went over high estimate for two fine modernist pictures: Frantisek Drtikol's "Nude with Circles" at $114,000 and Tina Modotti's "Glasses" at $96,000. By the time the bidding got to lot 294, still far from the end, Peter Beard's "Lake Rudolf", auctioneer Simon de Pury took the bidding up to $88,000, but with the long day wearing on him, he got uncharacteristically confused and asked for a next bid of $60,000. When the associate on the phone shouted out the proper next bid of $90,000, Simon gleefully replied, "I like your bidding technique." One can hardly blame him for losing his placeall auctioneers have done it at one time or anotherbut it was a sign of everyone's frazzled attention spans. And those of us in the audience had been at it for almost three days with another big evening sale and a day sale to come. The lot finally hammered to the phone for $95,000 or $114,000 with premium.
Sugimoto's "Sea of Japan, Oki", floated to $54,000. And Howard Greenberg swooped in to take Cindy Sherman's "Untitled Film Still #20" at $132,000, more than double the high estimate. A phone bidder took three separate Louise Lawlers, including "Positional Together, Tous les Deux Ensemble" at $48,000. An internet bidder snacked on Irving Penn's "Still Life with Watermelon" at a cost of $49,000. That was the last of the important lots from the Perrin Collection and when the last of the Perrin lots, number 327, hammered, the clock read 4:11 pm.
As we returned to the regular catalogue, Rick Wester took over as auctioneer. By the time he reached lot 350, Joel Sternfeld's "Renegade Elephant", Wester sighed, "I know how he feels." But then I had to leave to get to Sotheby's in time for the evening sale. Still several lots after that were noteworthy. Sally Mann's "Virginia at 6" ($10,000$15,000) brought an extraordinary $52,800. James Casebere's "Blue Hallway" ($20,000$30,000) sold for $60,000, another world record. Thomas Ruff's "Nudes wf 09" solicited $54,000 and his "Substrat 17 III" ($60,000$80,000) $90,000. Lastly, Hiroshi Sugimoto's theater, "Avalon, Catalina Island" ($20,000$30,000) played to a packed house, also at $90,000.
The single owner collections in the Photographs sale performed remarkably well. The collection of Alain Dominique Perrin consisting of 93 lots was 87% sold by lot and 96% by value, while setting a number of records. The Property of a Swiss Foundation composed of 53 lots was 100% sold both by lot and value, exceeding the high end of the estimates by almost $300,000 and set several records for important photographs.
World records also were established at this sale for photographs by Mark Cohen, Luis Gonzalez Palma, Izima Kaoru, Ruud Van Empel, Wim Wenders, Dodo Jin Ming and Edward Burtynsky. The combined sales of the "27 Exceptional Photographs" sale on April 24 and the Photographs sale on April 25 achieved a total value of $10,413,165. As Rick Wester, Phillips Worldwide Head of Photographs at the time, pointed out, "The sale total of over $10 million in effect matches what the department sold all of last year."
Editor's note: Despite this amazing turnaround at beleaguered Phillips, Rick Wester and New York Head of Photography Lisa Newlin found themselves dismissed this month by De Pury (see above story).
(Copyright ©2007 by The Photograph Collector.)
My thanks to Steve Perloff and The Photograph Collector Newsletter for giving me permission to use this information. The Photograph Collector, which is a wonderful newsletter that I can heartily recommend, is published monthly and is available by subscription for $149.95 (overseas airmail is $149.95). You can phone 1-215-891-0214 and charge your subscription or send a check or money order to: The Photograph Collector, 140 East Richardson Ave, Langhorne, PA 19047. Or for a subscription order form to The Photograph Collector Newsletter, go to: http://www.photoreview.org/collect.htm.
I Photo Central dealer Contemporary Works/Vintage Works has added another photographer to its roster--Mitch Dobrowner. Dobrowner's startling Western landscapes are beautifully printed and have an unworldly presence to them.
The artist describes his subject and his response to it this way: "The Earth is an ever changing ego-system. It's existed well before we were here and will hopefully be here well beyond the time we leave it. It's real, at times beautifully surreal, powerfully haunting and alive, all at the same time."
"While photographing, the world gets quiet around me. Things seem simple again, and I obtain a respect and reverence for the world that is hard to communicate through words. I get into a 'zone' where time and space seem hard for me to measure. For me those moments are a combination of the exterior environment and my own interior state. Hopefully the images presented help communicate what I visualize during those times."
All of the images presented have been captured on a combination of either 35mm black & white film and/or digitally. Most of Dobrowner's current work is now digital. All darkroom work is performed in a dry darkroom with minimal dodging and burning. Prints are produced on 100% archival cotton rag paper with archival pigment inks.
Dobrowner has won numerous awards over the last few years, including the latest, a first prize in the Nature category for his B&W photo entry, "Rainstorm" from the French Prix de la Photographie Paris (Px3) Competition. His work has also been recently featured in Black & White magazine and Lensworks.
Prints are produced using archival pigment inks on archival quality 100% cotton rag paper. The prints come in two sizes in a total edition of 50, plus 2 APs, except for Civilization, Los Angeles, CA, which comes in a total edition of 100. The smaller roughly 12 x 18 inch version is printed on 13 x 19 inch Fine Art Velvet paper and is currently $500 for most images. The roughly 15-1/2 x 21 inch version is printed on 17 x 22 inch UltraSmoothe Fine Art paper and is currently $700 for most images. Matting and/or framing would be additional. The prints are frankly stunning. Prices are expected to go up shortly after this introduction here at Contemporary Works. Dobrowner's work, although just introduced this year to the market, is quickly selling out, especially on his key images.
You can see examples of his photography and a full biography at: http://www.contemporaryworks.net/artists/artist_imgs.php/1/6597 .
The photography dealers on I Photo Central have been extremely busy over the last month or so, putting up even more new Special Photography Exhibits.
There are so many new ones that I will simply list them by title and URL address. Most also have extensive essays about the exhibit or artist that you can click through to read.
Architectural Photography in the 20th Century at: http://www.iphotocentral.com/showcase/showcase_view.php/139/1/0 .
Body Parts at: http://www.iphotocentral.com/showcase/showcase_view.php/143/1/0 .
Bridges and Photography at: http://www.iphotocentral.com/showcase/showcase_view.php/140/1/0 .
Mitch Dobrowner: Unworldly Landscapes at: http://www.iphotocentral.com/showcase/showcase_view.php/151/1/0 .
Rare African-American Portraits and Carte-de-Visites from the 19th-Century at: http://www.iphotocentral.com/showcase/showcase_view.php/59/3/0 .
Street Photography, Part I: Europe at: http://www.iphotocentral.com/showcase/showcase_view.php/149/1/0 .
Street Photography, Part II: U.S.A. at: http://www.iphotocentral.com/showcase/showcase_view.php/150/1/0 .
We have also continued to change images and add to our essays for all our Special Exhibits, so they are worth another peek, especially if you have not looked lately. And, if you see one you like, let a friend know too!
You can see all of these fine new exhibits and others (now a total of 100 Special Exhibits in all!) at: http://www.iphotocentral.com/showcase/showcase.php . Don't forget to check out the archived exhibits at the bottom of the page as well.
By Matt Damsker
Photographs by Joseph Vicomte Vigier. Text by Larry J. Schaaf with Russell Lord. 95 pages; 38 sepia-toned plates. Sun Pictures Catalogue 16, published by Hans P. Kraus, Jr. Inc., 962 Park Ave., New York, NY 10028; phone: +1-212 794-2064; fax: +1-212 744-2770; email: email@example.com ; Internet: http://www.sunpictures.com .
A prized pupil of Gustave Le Gray who mastered not only Le Gray's wax-paper negative process but also Fox-Talbot's calotype technique, Joseph, Vicomte Vigier, was one of France's most popular early photographers, thanks to his large-format views of the Pyrenees, which are among the most atmospherically rich photos of the mid-1800s. Vicomte Vigier's 1853 summer idyll through the mountains resulted in this newly discovered album, its salt-print images crisply reproduced in their original sequence, with an informative introduction by Larry J. Schaaf.
Indeed, Vicomte Vigier was an inspired, solitary soul who began this Pyrenees trek deep in the south, in a vaguely defined frontier between Spain and France. Working northward, his camera took in the unspoiled pictorial majesty of misty landscapes, with stone ruins, footbridges, distant waterfalls, and the great snowy peaks as an ethereal backdrop. Often focusing from a hilly vantage point on the gorges and passes that gracefully lead the eye to the natural depth of the scenery, Vicomte Vigier brought home a storybook world of simple, rugged beauty, with a keen sense of scale that often locates human evidence (a small cottage, a trace of broken bridge) to orient us to the landscape.
These photographs are magical without seeming overwrought, and define the particulars of their vast territory with a rigorous determination to convey the multitude of natural effects, textures, and terrains that are the Pyrenees. This timeless context of soil, rock, vegetation, and water almost mocks the humble effort of inhabitants to find shelter within it. Indeed, Vicomte Vigier was acutely attuned to the quiet drama of man's hope-borne intersection with indifferent nature, which makes this album one of the great documents of its kind.
Photographs of Los Angeles by John Humble. Essays by Gordon Baldwin. Issued in connection with the exhibition of the same name at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA. 2007, Getty Publications, 1200 Getty Center Dr., Ste. 500, Los Angeles, CA 90049; information: http://www.getty.edu . ISBN. No. 978-0-89236-881-5; 95 pages; 39 color plates.
Anyone driving through the vast Los Angeles region is struck as much by the sun-beaten sprawl and urban decay of most of it as by the rarefied glitz and picaresque charms of Rodeo Drive, the Sunset Strip or Hollywood. John Humble's photographs focus entirely on the glamour-starved side of L.A--its landscape of car dealerships, colorfully squat and boxy storefronts, poor housing shadowed by power lines and oil riggings; the evidence of ubiquitous freeways that define and detract from the general quality of Southern California life; and the troubled, choked passages of the Los Angeles River.
This collection, recently displayed at L.A.'s Getty Museum, offers fine examples of Humble's square, large-format views, many of them in the high-noon sunlight that always seems to blanket the city, with few human subjects in evidence (as opposed to the mute evidence of a humanity that has built and spiritually abandoned these impoverished sites). The geometry of telephone poles, traffic signals, billboards, the iconography of liquor and cigarette advertising--the broad decay of consumer society--are the stuff of Humble's social realism, but so is another side of Los Angeles, documented here in his many images of the L.A. River, as it struggles along--much of it only inches-deep--through ugly neighborhood channels, beneath overpasses, past electrical towers, and finally to its broad mouth in Long Beach.
The gorgeous shot of the river at Long Beach is Humble's single expression of natural grandeur, with a low row of clouds on the horizon, pale blue sky above, and a famed tourist attraction--the decommissioned Queen Mary ocean liner--as a lovely accent in the distance. Like his other photos, in which the imposing skyline of downtown L.A. is glimpsed far from such sites as the graffiti-scrawled walls along train tracks, this reminds us that Los Angeles is a powerful, multi-dimensional presence--founded on the Pacific Ocean as a mighty commercial engine, yet by now an industrial polluter and an over-developed and under-served metropolis like, and unlike, any other.
Edited by Jeff Fraenkel. 2007. Approximately 115 pages; 88 photographic plates. ISBN No. 978-1-933045-66-5. Published by Fraenkel Gallery, 49 Geary St., San Francisco, CA 94108; phone: +1-415-981-2661; fax: +1-415-981-4014; Internet: http://www.fraenkelgallery.com . Co-published by D.A.P., Distributed Art Publishers Inc., New York, NY; information: http://www.artbook.com .
This charming collection of anonymous snapshots from Jeffrey Fraenkel's large collection of flea-market and otherwise gathered curiosities is a testament to the richness of found photography, and suggests that the medium is the only art form that can yield such accidental evocativeness.
Each of these shots--from the early part of the 20th century to the 1950s--features the shadow of the photographer looming from the bottom edge of the frame. In some cases, it makes for a remarkably complex composition, as Fraenkel notes in describing a snapshot of a young man leaning against a wall, and "the mobius strip that begins with the boy's right hand and passes with a gentle touch to the spectral arm and unseen hands of the photographer, who is and is not in the picture."
Such images may or may not be intentional, of course, but the ghostly presence of the picture-maker in each of these--whether wedding photos, playground photos of twins on swings, informal portraits of uniformed loved ones in school outfits or heading off to military service, backyard and beach snapshots, or graveside gatherings--touchingly conveys the emotional investment of the photographer. And where intentionality seems most likely--as in a 1966 image of a young soldier, his shadow thrown on the brick wall behind him, where it stands at attention next to the smaller shadow of (presumably) his photographer father; or in an expressionistic shot of a tree dominated by the elongated ground shadow of the man taking it--the effect is sublimely artistic. Most of these images don't rise above the level of curiosity, of course, but bound in this affectionate volume, they connect us to the simple humanity of photography in a profound way.
Matt Damsker is an author and critic, who has written about photography and the arts for the Los Angeles Times, Hartford Courant, Philadelphia Bulletin, Rolling Stone magazine and other publications. His book, "Rock Voices", was published in 1981 by St. Martin's Press. His essay in the book, "Marcus Doyle: Night Vision" was published in the fall of 2005.
He currently reviews books for U.S.A. Today.
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By Noel Chanan
The exhibition at the Musée de L'Elysée-Lausanne continues until September 2nd and then transfers to the Fotomuseum, The Hague, where it runs from October 6 through January 13, 2008, then to C/O Berlin, where it runs June-August 2008.
The exhibition is accompanied by a large format book, providing superb full-page reproductions of all 250 images featured in the show, as well as essays by William A. Ewing and Wim van Sinderen, and an interview with Freed edited from audio recordings by Nathalie Herschdorfer. The book is published by Steidl, 2007, pp. 311, hardback, ISBN 978-3-86521-463-8; email: email@example.com ; www.steidlville.com ; www.steidl.de ; phone: +49-551-49-60-60.
The latest in a wide-ranging succession of exhibitions at Lausanne's Musée de L'Elysée, under the directorship of William Ewing, features the work of the American-born photojournalist, Leonard Freed. Intended as a retrospective of a lifetime in photography the show, under the title "Worldview", became, alas, a eulogy for the photographer, who succumbed to cancer a half-year before it opened, although the near-final selection of the 250 images on exhibit had been accomplished through a long lead period of close collaboration with Freed.
For my wife and myself the vernissage was a personal and emotional affair, for the photographer had been a much-valued friend since the late 1960s. At that earlier time my wife, June Stanier, was picture editor of the Sunday Times magazine, and Freed, based in Amsterdam, with his German-born wife, Brigitte, then his manager, and--for reasons of economy--his self-taught (and very expert) printer, came over to London on the look-out for assignments. Freed was still struggling to establish himself--money was never a very high priority but he did have a family to feed--and magazine work was erratic and hard to come by. Some minor commissions followed, but the real breakthrough came in 1972, by which time the peripatetic Freed had re-established himself in New York, and June commissioned a major photo essay on the violence that notoriously dogged the streets of the city. The essay generated powerful and disturbing imagery; produced outraged reactions in a New York that was in denial; became the basis of an exhibition at London's Photographer's Gallery; and eventually led on to Freed's book "Police Work" (1980), one of his signature works.
Leonard Freed was born in 1929, just as the first mass-produced high-quality miniature camera, the Leica, began to roll off the production line in Wetzlar. Alongside the development of the kind of high-speed presses that would be capable of printing quality picture magazines, the miniature camera ushered in the era of the photojournalist. Quick, silent in operation, unobtrusive, with fast optics using available light, the Leica would become the camera of choice for successive generations of the new profession (including Freed, never seen without his, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, an early inspiration) who sought out the in-depth human story that lay beyond the sensational Speed Graphic hold-the-front-page, flash-lit picture.
The persuasive phrase "The Decisive Moment", chosen for the English-language version of the first book by Cartier-Bresson (the man who became the popular face of photojournalism), more or less hijacked photojournalism. It seemed to indicate a paradigm image that made further images redundant, "decisive" implying also "definitive", and always carefully defined within the perfect frame. Cartier-Bresson's work and his philosophy of the photograph stand on their own infinite merits, but they do not address themselves in any real sense to Freed's work, of which he himself said: "I don't want the perfect image because the imperfect detail gives life to a photograph. If we look for too much perfection we lose vitality". Yet, he said, "I am conscious about the movements of people in the frame. I have an innate understanding of visual forms". Freed believed, and said of himself, that photographers are born not made.
Freed's vast opus (he left behind an archive of a million negatives) is reflected in another enduring phrase that seized the public imagination: "La Condition Humaine", translated as "Man's Fate", the title of André Malraux's great novel of the 1930s. The brevity of the exposure makes a decisive moment of every frame, but where Cartier-Bresson excludes, Freed's photographs reach out to each other. They are about and embrace the nature and structure of communities, and in this sense have an explicitly political and philosophical content, in a tradition of (frequently disappointed) liberal humanism, which Freed acknowledged.
But they are also the work of an artist (for that is how Freed defined himself) responding to his own instincts and seeking the answers to his own urgent questions. Freed, the American-born son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, returned repeatedly to one of his earliest preoccupations as a photographer and as an individual: that of Jewish identity and in what sense he belonged (or did not) to the inherited traditions. Ultimately there was no answer, not least perhaps because, paradoxically, as an artist he necessarily remained perpetually on the outside, the observer of whatever it was he was seeking to understand by depicting it.
All of Freed's most significant work is about community and about belonging, even "Police Work", in which junkies and prostitutes, lurid transvestites, brutalised women, mafia slayings and the indelible image of dead bloated fingers clawing at a steel grill that interposed itself between their owner's life and his death, are tempered by the ordinariness of a policeman's family at home at Christmas or by the pool in summer; or in the joyful spontaneity of a uniformed policewoman caught at play with neighborhood street children.
In one of his essays on literature in "The Curtain", the Czech novelist, Milan Kundera, elaborates on a particular literary relationship that fortuitously and perfectly describes also the essence of Freed's photography and his relationship with his subjects, showing " not merely the difficult or vulgar side of life (but) also a certain beauty, till then neglected: the beauty of modest sentiments fondness tinged with familiarity a new prosaic beauty".
Freed's last words, to his wife Brigitte, at his bedside, were: "No more pictures". Let his work speak for itself. One comes away from the exhibition with the conviction that the "certain beauty" will last, and that Freed's place in the pantheon of photojournalism is assured.
Noel Chanan is a retired maker of documentary films, including above a dozen on photography and early cinema. He continues to work as a consultant and writer on photography. Chanan's biography of the English aristocrat-photographer, 'William, Earl of Craven and the Art of Photography ', was published in 2006. He was the auction expert on the two Craven's sales. He is currently working on a book on photography in WWII India.
Christie's Education and Christie's Photographs Department are collaborating on a fall course dedicated to photography. "Photography in Context" will combine a scholarly approach with first-hand contact with objects to strengthen connoisseurship skills.
The course will be offered on Thursday evenings from 6 to 8 p.m., beginning September 20 through October 11. Classes will take place at Christie's Education, 11 West 42nd Street, New York, NY. There will be a sale walkthrough with a Christie's specialist on Sunday, October 14 at noon.
The lectures will be given by top scholars in the academic, museum and auction fields. Each session will address another facet of photography, including cultural history, technical processes, conservation and the market. The cost is $450 per person.
For more information or to sign up, contact: firstname.lastname@example.com ; Phone +1-212-355-1501.
Greg Erf and Robert Hirsch are the instructors for an online History of Photography course this fall. For more details on the course syllabus and other information go to: www.enmu.edu/photohistory .
This team-taught internet course is made available online through the Office of Extended Learning at Eastern New Mexico University, Portales NM. This History of Photography course is a three-credit-hour undergraduate or graduate course designed to fulfill General Education or Art credit. Transferability is the responsibility of the student. Check with your advisor at your school for transferability into your degree plan.
The course is a survey of photography's contribution to the visual arts from its conceptual beginning in the Renaissance through today. Work group discussion topics, group assignments, threaded class discussions and research papers will examine the work of individual photographers, tracing major issues that influenced their work. Course work will include discussion of the various artistic styles with an emphasis on exploring the parallels between aesthetic and technical development. Study will cover photography's relationship to other media and understanding the interrelationship between photography and culture.
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From beasts we scorn as soulless,
In forest, field and den,
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The soullessness of men. ~M. Frida Hartley
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Significant Resignings:
Franchise- Fred Davis, TE: I've already bought into the rumors, but I like the move anyway. Bring him back on a low risk contract. His health is not an issue, so you know he will play at an elite level this season. If he keeps his nose clean, he gets a monster deal in '13. He has every incentive to ball outrageous if he is franchised.
1- London Fletcher, ILB: No brainer. Let him retire a Redskin. He is still the best player on our defense so it makes no sense to let him go.
2- Adam Carriker, DE: Hard working, core Redskin guy. I think they really love him in DC and everyone should want to have him back in front 3 rotation. He probably won't be as expensive as some people are thinking giving the market at DE.
3- Kory Lichtensteiger, G/C: Coming off an ACL, which makes me nervous, but he could be retained for less than 1 million in 2012 because he is an RFA. I think we add alot of depth on the OL anyway, so Kory will likely just provide depth at a value contract (even for a backup) while he rehabs his injury and proves he can play at his pre-injury level.
4- Will Montgomery, C: If the price is right bring him back. He can compete for the starting center job and back up all three positions on the interior.
Significant Release/Non-tender:
1- Laron Landry, S: Too risky with the injury. Need to rebuild the entire secondary anyway, which will be a major focus this offseason. Saves about 6 million.
2- Jamaal Brown, RT: See above. Replace 'secondary' with 'offensive line' and '6' with '5'
3- Phillip Buchanon: We are probably done with him. Saves 1-2 million.
4- DeAngelo Hall: Wouldn't be surprised to see him return, but if we address the secondary in free agency and the draft, he will likely be a release candidate approaching the preseason. Saves about 6 million.
5- Brandon Banks: Not as effective a returner this year and he is tying up a valuable roster spot at WR.
6- OJ Atogwe: Viewed as an injury risk as well. We cannot afford to tie up 2 roster spots between Landry and Atogwe this season if they are going to be licking their wounds the whole time. Wouldn't be shocked if one of the 2 stays, but would be shocked if both stay. Saves about 4 million.
Significant Signings:
1- Brandon Carr, CB, Kansas City: This will be one of the three big signings we make in free agency. He isn't the clear cut #1 available corner on the market, but he is the best fit for us and at the same time we can't be accused of going crazy like in the past. He fills the void left by Hall. He will get a big deal, but it will basically be a carbon copy of what Hall has left on his (a little lengthier for Carr, which is fine), so it is pretty much a wash capwise
2- Ben Grubbs, G, Baltimore: Left guard and right tackle are the positions we need to upgrade most and given the free agent market at this position, Grubbs is the best fit. I know a lot of people will say we won't throw a big contract at a guard, but we tried to last year with Marshall Yanda. When we couldn't get Yanda, we settled for Chester. So it looks like we are mining that offensive line in Baltimore because they run some similar stuff. Besides, with the salary floor in place and the amount of cap room we have, we actually need to give out a big contract. Makes sense to give it to Grubbs. I projected Chris Meyers as our major OL addition before, but truthfully LG is a way bigger need.
3- Paul Soliai, NT, Miami: He will hit the market as Miami switches to a 3-4. His price tag may seem high right now, but there aren't that many 3-4 teams anymore and much less in the market for a NT. My guess is that he won't have that many options and Washington will end up matching an offer from the one or two other teams interested. He splits time with Cofield at NT and Cofield switches to end when he is end. He is a staple against the run. Schematically it works out beautifully.
4- Kyle Orton, QB, Kansas City: The wouldn't be shocked if the anti-Flynn news is just a smokescreen or a tactic to drive down his cost. Where is the resentment coming from anyway? Shanahan and Allen have been tight lipped, so I don't get where that is coming from. However, if the rumors are true, that pretty much leaves us with Orton. I am personally anti-Peyton, so that leave us with Orton as the only QB on the market that represents a true upgrade over Grossman, so I guess we take it.
5- Eddie Royal, WR, Denver: A quiet signing. Wouldn't be surprised if he is the first new guy brought in. He is a Shanhan guy and a true upgrade over Banks. Kind of a no brainer.
6- Sean Jones, S, Tampa Bay: Could start at SS and has ties to Raheem Morris. By no means a gamebreaker, and the safety position will need a lot more work in the coming years, but he makes sense as a stopgap guy. It is probably the least pressing of all the major holes we have, so pushing this one back a year before QB, WR, OL and CB is fine by me.


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CORTLAND — Three members of the Plattsburgh State softball team were named to the 2013 State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) Softball All-Conference Team in an announcement made by the league office Tuesday morning.
Ashley Marshall receives a spot of the All-SUNYAC First Team to become the first four-time all-conference player in Cardinal softball history. Marshall finished the season with a 21-7 record to lead the league in wins. She also led the conference with a 1.76 ERA and 292 strikeouts. A senior from Malone, Marshall was named SUNYAC Pitcher of the Week four times during the 2013 season and was selected to the SUNYAC All-Tournament Team.
Brianna Clarke is a Second Team All-SUNYAC player for the second straight season after leading the Plattsburgh State offense with a .389 batting average that also ranked seventh in the league. She was fifth in the conference with a .603 slugging percentage, 10th with a .445 on-base percentage and 10th with 28 RBIs. A junior out Manorville, N.Y., Clarke led the Cardinals with 51 hits, five home runs, 11 doubles and 79 total bases.
Megan Price earns all-conference honors for the first time in her career as a member of the All-SUNYAC Second Team. Price finished the season with a .287 batting average, including a .333 mark in conference game. The Niskayuna, N.Y. native finished her junior campaign with 33 hits, seven doubles and 19 RBIs.
CORTLAND — Ashley Marshall of the Plattsburgh State softball team has been named the State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) Pitcher of the Year for the second straight season. The annual awards, which on voted on by the conference coaches, were announced Tuesday by the SUNYAC office.
Marshall is a four-time All-SUNYAC player and the most dominant pitcher to don a Cardinal uniform in the program's 15-year history. The Malone native finished the 2013 season with a 21-7 record and led the league in wins, ERA (1.76), innings pitched (199.1), opposing batting average (.211) and strikeouts (292). Marshall was named the SUNYAC Pitcher of the Week four times this season and was selected to the SUNYAC All-Tournament Team.


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The SAG-AFTRA Los Angeles Conservatory offers a low-cost opportunity for members to hone and develop their craft through classes, workshops, lectures and symposia — all on the campus of AFI.
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Owners: Yolanda Diaz and Roseann Lugo
Patch spoke with Yolanda Diaz about the new Alameda location.
When did you start your business? We opened January, 2011 in a small business office in Hayward. Then in October 2011, we opened our first storefront in Hayward. And we opened our second location in Alameda on Sept. 22.
How did you get the idea for a cupcake shop? I've been doing it on the side for 15 years, mostly for friends and family. I'm a real estate broker and things weren't going so well in 2008. So we put up our website and a lot of orders started coming in. We operated out of a commissary. I learned from my grandmother and my great-grandmother. My great-grandma had a farm and she baked peach cobblers and all that good southern stuff. So I watched and learned. At Christmastime, we had tables full of cookies.
How many types of cupcakes do you offer? We have over 100 flavors. On Oct. 1, we will be coming out with new flavors including our seasonal flavors such as Chocolate Zucchini, so we will have over 125 types of cupcakes. Every day is a different menu with 12-20 different flavors.
The jumbo cupcakes are $3.25 each. We also sell the classic and mini cupcakes. We do custom orders as well.
We are a full-service bakery, so you can order cakes, cake pops, caramel apples, cookies, brownies and seasonal items like pies. The prices are all on our website.
At our Hayward location, we offer cake and cupcake decorating classes.
Where do you get your ideas for new cupcake flavors? We try to consider all of our customers' suggestions. We get tons of them. We will be running a contest on our Facebook page. If we choose a customer's suggestion for a new flavor, they get a dozen cupcakes of that flavor free of charge.
What is your most famous flavor? We won the 2012 San Francisco Cupcake Challenge in February with our French Toast and Bacon cupcake. My daughter came up with that flavor.
Who bakes all the cupcakes? Me and my daughter do all the baking ourselves. We've not quite let that part go. It's hard to let go because we want to make sure it's the way we want it. But we know we have to let some of that go eventually. My daughter's working 60 hours a week already.
We do have employees who help with the prepping and decorating.
What has been the largest quantity of cupcakes you've made in a day? We brought 1,200 individually wrapped cupcakes to the Daytime Emmy Awards that were included in the celebrity gift bags. We were up for three days straight!
We also served our cupcakes in the Celebrity Lounge, where we got to meet all the VIPs like Sharon Osbourne and Rachel Ray.
Why do you suppose cupcakes are so popular? Tastes are changing. I'm finding more and more people don't want to deal with cakes — cutting them, serving them. I've done cupcakes for a lot of weddings.
The gourmet cupcakes are really unique. We use quality ingredients such as fresh fruit, good quality cream cheese, high-quality chocolate, Madagascar vanilla. It's really important. I've been to so many cupcake shops — whether they are making fresh frosting or buying it. I can tell — I've been raised on Betty Crocker too! We want to create something right so people will come back.
The Cupcake Shoppe is located inside Park Street Plaza at 1419 Park St. Open Tuesday through Thursday and Sunday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Website: www.thecupcakeshoppeca.com
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[Exclusive] The Game's Jay Ellis Wants A Boss Woman, Dishes On On-Screen Chemistry With Lauren London
'I'm looking for a strong, independent woman who wants to get up everyday and create an empire with me.'
All the single, independent women stand up! Jay Ellis is looking for you. We caught up with the star of BET's The Game this weekend during the 13th Annual BET Awards and he revealed that he's definitely single and looking. "50/50 down the middle. She's a boss and I'm a boss," is what he said when asked what he looks for in a perfect woman. He also revealed that he's definitely a texter, but off the gate, it's important for him to talk to his woman on the phone and get to hear her voice often.
We also chatted with Jay on what to expect from the next few episodes of The Game (it came off of hiatus last night), and he dished a lot of hints while saying that someone is about to come in the picture and shake things up. When asked about working with Lauren London, he revealed:
I respect her on so many levels. I respect her, not only for her acting, but she's an amazing mother, she's a great friend and she's awesome. For us to have to experience being the two new people on this show together, there is no one else on this planet that I would want to go through this journey with.
Lauren London also chimed in, "[Jay] is like a brother to me, and in this part of my career and my life, I'm grown and it's all professional. He's a really good guy but he's just my friend.
Catch both interviews below:
Jay Ellis describes his perfect woman
Jay Ellis and Lauren London dish on The Game's next 10 episodes and if there is any off-screen chemistry
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with me being Scottish how u feel to Simon Pegg
Hello Trekkies how do u feel i m from uk and being scottish i feel Simon will do good for scotty in new Star Trek movie.
But got to say loved his Movies Shaun of the Dead and Hott Fuzz. But what do u American ' s feel on when u heard the cast and saw Simon got the role of Scotty.
Seening how in uk he s a funny guy i think he ll push that aside for the movie for scotty and what u see in simon .
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He's the only cast member I'm really not sure about yet. The only movie I saw him in was MI:III and I didn't even remember him in it until I read somewhere that he was part of the main cast. That's how little of an impact he made on me...
My heart was with Paul McGillion for the role of Scotty and I'm very disappointed that he didn't get it because he would have been perfect for it. Even though he's Canadian, both his parents are Scottish and he does a wonderful Scottish accent.
Anyway... I'm sure there was a good reason for casting Simon Pegg instead of Paul and I really hope that my doubts will be gone the minute I see him as Scotty.
I think Simon will do fine as Scotty, and fans will like him as long as they're not expecting him to do a James Doohan impersonation. We're seeing Scotty (and the rest of the crew) at an earlier time than we've ever seen them, so he has some leeway but I suspect the character will be written consistently.
Doohan's accent wasn't 'native' to him anyway, and with Simon being from the UK, I'm sure he can muster a good accent for the character since he's played with several accents in his career already. I'm looking forward to see how Pegg does in the part.
I am a big fan of Simon Pegg.
A lot of people in the U.S. may not know of him because his movies were not promoted very well here in the states. But, they were very good films.
Being from Scotland also I think that he will do a good job. Just so long as he remembers he is not Doohan.
I reckon he'll do a great job. He's a big fan of Trek and is not likely to screw it up (even though it is an odd numbered film).
His wife is Scottish and they both got married in Glasgow, Scotland.
I'm sure her family will give him a ribbing regardless of how good he is anyway.
He's a geek proper and will certainly have thought the role through.
Well said, Moriarty, and welcome!
I like Pegg. He'll do well in the part.
he should do well in the part. looking forward to seeing him. keeping an open mind. glad chris doohan got a place in the movie too.
starbase Britain
Really glad to see him get the role, i hope he knocks it out of the ballpark! Can't wait to see how he inhabits the role. God bless him, and God bless Scotland, the country that makes the best whisky on earth!
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Keep Josh Duhon on General Hospital
As a huge General Hospital fan, I have become very upset with the writers on the show in the last few months, especially when I read that they were going to kill off my favorite actor, Josh Duhon (aka Logan Hayes). The show has started to go down hill having their only storylines be based on the Mob scene, giving no screen time to those who really deserve it, like Josh. His time has come to an end on the show, and I want to show the head writers on the show that his fans are upset and outraged. The writers are portraying characters in a very negative way, making them out to be killers and rapists. And if you ask me, especially the characters that they are bringing in from the war, should be shown as people who are given far more credit then the writers are allowing for them. Please help keep Josh Duhon on General Hospital (afterall, this is a soap opera. He could always come back as a twin!)
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