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I love your jacket too! Where did you get that?ReplyDelete
Yes, I love the rain coat too! Do tell!ReplyDelete
Sounds like a busy and delicious day in the kitchen yesterday!
thanks! I bought my rain jacket on a huge discount sale at Polarn O Pyret--i think they were discontinuing this item and wanted to rid the stores of them. Good luck I think it's actually a maternity jacket, haha. But I like it and think it works even though I'm not pregnant. It's not on their website anymore and i couldn't even find it on eBay. Maybe they have a few left in store? good luck!!ReplyDelete
honestly, you're using the hurricane to provide a review about the free boots you got? just because there wasn't any serious damage in your park, doesn't mean all of NYC was unscathed - in fact, you know as well as I do the extent of the damage in all parts of NYC. I'm surprised that NYC hasn't taught you a little thing called tact. I am very glad your family is safe, however, next time (God forbid there is a next time) you might want to wait a few days after a major natural disaster to shill your free boots.ReplyDeleteReplies
hi cassie. i have read your comment and i understand your point. while you question nyc teaching me "tact", NYC has taught me resilience. thousands of NYorkers have continued to work today selling bagels, shoes, toys ,etc in their stores and I'm doing the same. As a blogger I write about things that affect me as well as companies/products I support. It is my job and I love it.Delete
Maybe you could have should have waited a few days to post this. I felt the same as Cassie. My daughter lives in the city and was devastated to say the least...no power..etc..She is fine but devastated to say the least...Delete
beth: i'm so sorry to hear about your daughter. i know it's a long shot, but i have an extra pair of the lacrosse boots in size 10 if she wants them. i'll personally delivery them along with some cookies or whatever else she needs right now. i'm being totally serious. email me email@example.com and we can work something out :)Delete
Sharon those would fit...she is a tall gal...but I think she is okay. Actually she found a friend to bunk with! I didn't want to hurt your feelings I was just a bit taken aback...my feelings were pretty raw...even when your babies are in their 20's it is hard to see them hurting! I love NYC..and just feel so helpless! Love your blog..keep going girl!Delete
Sharon, I apologize for being a bit harsh yesterday! I appreciate your resiliancy, and appreciate your blog. I also appreciate your acknowledgement of Sandy's devastation in today's post. I, too, have family in NYC and was feeling a bit helpless yesterday, so I snapped. Thanks for everything you do, and I hope that the rest of NYC can channel your positive attitude and resilancy as they rebuild over the next few weeks.Delete
me likey these boots. i'm glad you guys are ok!ReplyDelete
The last picture with the water in the air is so cool. I'm glad you and your family are safe.ReplyDelete
That's so funny about the jacket. At Target, all the departments blend together and sometimes I see a super cute dress or shirt only to find out it's maternity! I never buy it but maybe I will next time...ReplyDelete
So happy to hear that your family is safe and that things are up and running where you are! Love the boots and the pictures!ReplyDelete
A huge congrats on all the donations! It's nothing short of amazing and thank you for encouraging everyone to get involved!
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Hello My name is Tara:) I don't have a website yet so I had to post in Anon. Wow! Women are so snappy and mean. LOL I love your boots and I love how you find joy in the little things despite all the bad things happening. It is what makes your blog special and no one really has the right to judge or point fingers at that in my humble opinion. I like your blog. Keep rockin!ReplyDelete
My only thought after reading this was, man, it must have been nice to get all three kids out and running around after being cooped up. That's life as a mom. It doesn't made you any less considerate than the next person. I love the honest and raw quality of you blog. Please don't change a thing!ReplyDelete
No-one has the right to tell you what you should or should not write about on your own blog. Unfortunately, terrible things happen every day. The world can't stop turning each and every time, and there is nothing wrong or insensitive in seeing the light in dark times. I love your blog, your photos are fantastic, and your kids are adorable. Keep it up!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 3, 2012 at 3:53 PM
I too love that raincoat. Nothing even remotely like that where i'm from, New Zealand. Take care.ReplyDelete
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you are just an insensitive clueless housewifeReplyDeleteReplies
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If you're a custom electronics pro, we want to feature the best A/V racks you've ever built in the November issue of CE Pro. But while the back of the rack always gets the most attention for great wiring, we want to see what you've done to the front. Plus, winning installations may be featured in an upcoming print issue of Electronic House.
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GUAMUCHIL, Mexico (AP) -- Maria Susana Flores walked up to the microphone in a sequined black dress, showing the judges of the Sinaloa Woman beauty contest the smile and the strut she had perfected in pageants since preschool.
"Women, no matter how hard you try, you cannot change your past," the 20-year-old contestant said in a sweet, high voice. "But you can choose today what your future will be."
Drums rolled as Susana left center stage and turned to pose, placing manicured hands on her tiny waist and shaking back long brown hair. The crowd whooped. The judges were dazzled by the dark-eyed beauty with the Penelope Cruz lips, and before long she was bowing her head to accept the 2012 crown.
If you had asked her that February weekend, the new Sinaloa Woman would have said the future she'd chosen was clear: a calendar of pageants as far away as China, a chance to compete for the coveted Miss Sinaloa title, and then, Miss Mexico.
But Susy, as she was called, had chosen another path at the crossroads of power and beauty in a state known for drug lords and pageant queens. It was a fateful choice.
In November, Susy died like a mobster's moll, carrying an AK-47 assault rifle into a spray of gunfire from Mexican soldiers. Hit below the neck, she dropped into a dirt field and bled to death, her carotid artery severed.
"I swear I would have never imagined, ever in my life, that my daughter would die like this," said Maria del Carmen Gamez, Susy's devoted manager and biggest fan.
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Sinaloa, with its acres of corn and tomatoes, is the birthplace of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the head of the Sinaloa cartel who is one of the wealthiest men in Mexico and one of the most-wanted men in the world. A long narrow state, it hugs the Gulf of California and the Pacific Ocean, though Mazatlan, its most popular resort town, has lost its luster under the violence of the drug wars.
The cartel's internal battles over the international cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana trade has given the state one of Mexico's highest murder rates, while the drug business has provided its riches. Thousands of Sinaloans are drawn wittingly or unwittingly into the narco economy, with vague titles such as "farmer" or "businessman" often serving as code for the more pedestrian jobs in the drug trade. Thousands more, from accountants to bar owners to musicians, cannot escape the reach of the drug cartels.
The settling of accounts among gangsters is as common here as car crashes, and neighborhoods are dotted with monuments to slain young men. The main cemetery in the state capital of Culiacan is a glittering city of mausoleums with towering cupolas, spiral staircases and Juliet balconies.
The city is peppered with shopping malls of shuttered stores and empty restaurants, known as "narco plazas" because they are little more than fronts for money laundering. On the outskirts of the city, meanwhile, motels boast Vegas-like replicas of the Eiffel Tower and the Statue of Liberty.
Across this foreboding landscape bloom the beauty queens. The Miss Mexico title has been won seven times by the tall fine-featured women of Sinaloa. And beauty queens and drug lords have been drawn to each other for as long as the illegal narcotics trade has flourished in Sinaloa.
"Do you want beauty queens who are not involved in the state's dominant industry? Look for them in heaven," said Nery Cordova, a local university professor and author of "Narcoculture in Sinaloa."
El Chapo married a beauty queen -- his latest wife.
Miss Sinaloa 2008 was forced to give up her crown after soldiers caught her and her boyfriend, an alleged cartel leader, with an arsenal of guns and wads of cash in a tale that inspired the acclaimed 2011 Mexican film, "Miss Bala" -- Miss Bullet.
And Susy too, fell for a narco whose violence was so legendary his name is featured in "narco corridos," the brass band songs devoted to a culture that glorifies drug traffickers and their bloody exploits.
"People know I hardly forgive,' one of the songs says. "Sometimes I am bloodthirsty. I tear them to pieces. I like doing things my way."
Gamez was enthralled with beauty contests long before the birth of her first daughter, Susy. She vividly remembered the day a classmate, Miss Mexico 1985, returned triumphant to their native town of Guamuchil to a lavish reception of mariachis, bands and parades.


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Click on the link below to go to my topocreator.com "coming soon" page with links to maps I have created for the Giro d'Italia, Joe Martin Stage Race, and the Tour of the Gila. For many of you, it is probably a joke now that my website will forever be "coming soon" — but believe it or not it is very, very close to going into beta.
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The Kenmore 24" built-in dishwasher 1569 tackles the tough baked-on grease and food to leave your dishes clean. Rotating spray jets in the TurboZone option blast away food particles, while the UltraWash HE filter traps debris and keeps it from sticking to your clean plates. For delicate glassware and dishes, the China/Gentle cycle offers a light wash that still manages to get in those tight places. This Kenmore built-in dishwasher is also energy- and water-efficient. It automatically adjusts resource output to suit each individual load, saving you water and money.
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It was a big trade. It might have been a good trade. But it has little chance of being a great trade the Tigers made Thursday for David Price, a championship-brand left-handed starter the Tigers got with precisely that word in mind: championship.
For the second time in eight days, the Tigers paid retail for a roster piece they are praying puts them over the top and brings owner Mike Ilitch, 85, the world championship he wants as his final, eternal sports gift.
But you wonder if even Price, who can only work every five games for the Tigers, and who is headed for free agency in 15 months, is enough to put a flawed team into the World Series and across the finish line.
For that boost in a rotation�s firepower, the Tigers lost an effective, back-end starter in Drew Smyly, as well as center fielder Austin Jackson, who in past weeks has been playing the brand of baseball he has often delivered and all but promised to make a permanent part of his daily routine.
Most costly, the Tigers lost 18-year-old shortstop Willy Adames, who was destined to be their top prospect in 2015 and who represents a potential coup for the Rays.
The Tigers will celebrate the deal � for now. They want to lock up a division title and be better equipped to beat any playoff team they�ll be obliged to topple in October�s dangerous, short-series playoffs.
They believe Price gives them that edge, just as they are confident they can patch their center-field hole with a modest committee headed by Ezequiel Carrera, a .300 hitter at Triple A Toledo. He�s a left-handed batter with speed and a fine glove and with past experience in the big leagues.
It�s a seriously expensive eight days of shopping for the Tigers, who last week handed over two superb pitching prospects in their trade for Joakim Soria.
Thursday�s parcel was heavier and potentially painful, given what Adames is likely to bring the Rays and what Jackson might have provided ahead of free agency, at the end of next season.
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Szymanowski: Masques, Métopes & Études
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No 01: Presto
No 02: Andantino soave
No 03: Vivace assai (agitato)
No 04: Presto (delicamente)
No 05: Andante espressivo
No 06: Vivace (agitato e marcato, vigoroso)
No 07: Allegro molto (con brio, burlesco)
No 08: Lento assai mesto (espressivo)
No 09: Animato (capriccioso e fantastico)
No 10: Presto tempestoso (molto agitato)
No 11: Andante soave
No 12: Presto (energico)
It may be pertinent that Szymanowski had imbibed so much Islamic art on his travels in North Africa; for much of the beauty and mystical power of such work resides in the subtlety, but also hypnotic repetition, of its patterning. An étude offers an apposite foil, its tradition having rested historically upon repetition of a specific figuration throughout a brief movement, with technical drill for the executant usually in mind as much as pure musical expression. Nonetheless, Szymanowski seemingly approached even these pieces as abstract pictures; and, in listening, it may be helpful to think of the way in which a modern visual artist might use the term 'study': without the intervening medium of a performer, a canvas becomes its own contemplative statement of an inner world. Possibly aware of Debussy's Études for piano (1915) as fresh appraisals which were really studies in compositional texture, Szymanowski appropriated the term for what remains primarily a poetic articulation of mood. Far from withering in the face of this confining framework, his distinctive harmony evolves in newly elliptical ways, reminding us of Stravinsky's dictum that the artist needs constraints in order to find true freedom.
The first Étude flickers in a crepuscular way before expiring on a distinctly blues-like, bitonal chord. No 2 explores the interval of the major second before expanding into a more opulent, but still restrained, texture. No 3 hints at recurrence of the first, and at texturally varied revisiting of the same ideas, thereby implying the possibility of a kind of rondo construct spread across the set, though this proves largely illusory. Diatonic melodic shapes are continually subverted by underlying harmonic contexts which pull in some other tonal direction, the disjunction lending freshness to what might otherwise be tried and tested ground. No 4 leads out of No 3 almost without a break, and creates an agile shimmering between more hesitant moments where memories of the abstract-titled works fleetingly resurface. The piece ends in sudden affirmation of E flat minor, whereupon No 5 reverts to the use of a key signature to consolidate the major equivalent in a brief melodic meditation whose nineteenth-century antecedents (especially Chopin) seem to make a ghostly appearance. In contrast, No 6 hints at the patterning of one or two of Scriabin's more turbulent early preludes and études. Clear tonality disappears as abruptly as it had arrived. As if these central pieces were an unwitting fulcrum, No 7 seems not to remember Chopin as much as anticipate Lutosławski and his neglected, shortlived contemporary, Grazyna Bacewicz. No 8 again hints at nineteenth-century models through a distorting aural mirror, its disconsolate quality prefiguring moments in Prokofiev's 'war' sonatas (Nos 6, 7 and 8). As in other contexts, a pitch heard as tangential at the outset (in this case D) is tonally consolidated in a conventional ending. No 9 is spasmodically whimsical, No 10 a driven and ominous toccata. No 11 packs a kaleidoscopic dreamscape into nine dense bars. Visually resembling, perhaps parodying, Scriabin's Étude in D flat major, Op 8 No 10, the last piece hurtles by in thirds, briefly losing impetus before gathering for a final onslaught reminiscent of Prokofiev's demonic Op 11 Toccata. When the music seems over, a final surprise arrives in the form of a would-be diatonic ending so disjunct from the rest of the piece as to suggest nose-thumbing at tonality itself. To the last, this remarkable composer makes no concession to those unable or unwilling to adapt to his eclectic yet uniquely distinctive world.
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