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Hello, I have a large Jade plant (about 24 inches in diameter and 30 inches tall) that is a child of an original cutting given to me by a philosophy professor at Columbia University in the mid 70s. So, it is very special to me! His office was filled with jade plants, BTW. This cutting has been doing quite well--glossy leaves and the shape, which I have been working on, is quite lovely. It lives in front of a set of sliders facing south, but there is a screened porch that affects the amount of sun. It is on a small raised platform that sits over a forced air vent. This seems to agree with it in winter, since it keeps the soil warm but the warm air is channeled out the sides of the platform and not straight up into the plant. One night this week, when it ended up going down to -1F, I covered it, as I have in the past, with a very light, loose weave baby blanket on the side facing the slider. I usually also pull it back a foot or so from the slider, but did not because my back was hurting. The next morning, I removed the blanket and the whole plant had flopped toward the window. From what I have been reading, I may have made things worse by watering it thoroughly that evening. Is there anything I can do to get it to be upright again, or should I simply cut away all the branches with foliage and start again? (Eek!) Thank you! |
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- Posted by greenman28 NorCal 7b/8a (My Page) on Sat, Jan 25, 14 at 14:36
Before you do anything, post a picture. Let us see what's going on with the plant's stems and the potting mix it's in. Josh |
- Posted by LydiaTheys 6 (My Page) on Sun, Jan 26, 14 at 11:40
Hi, Here is a photo. The soil is ordinary potting soil. The main stems were quite straight the night before the faint occurred. |
- Posted by greenman28 NorCal 7b/8a (My Page) on Sun, Jan 26, 14 at 13:16
Thanks for the pic :-) A couple things. It needs more light to keep those stems compact and sturdy. And it looks to be in a pot just slightly too large, particularly when using that type of potting mix. I assume you don't have to water it very often. Even the weight of the loose cover could have pulled the branches down if the stems became warm at some point and, thus, more pliant. I've had this happen to a very tall Jade before. Once it hit a critical height, it couldn't support itself. When the morning sun rose, the Jade turned toward it, and promptly bent over. Instead of staking the plant upright, I simply pruned it at the bend and waited for it to resprout...which it has. For the time being (late Winter), I would turn the pot 180 degrees so that the plant will naturally erect itself as it reaches for the sun/light. If you wish, you could prune lightly to reduce the weight on the tips of the branches. But here's the caveat: Winter growth tends to be less compact than Summer growth, and you'll most likely want to prune again in about four months. It's up to you. Oh, and feel around the base of the Jade. If the trunk is firm, it ought to be fine. Josh |
- Posted by LydiaTheys 6 (My Page) on Mon, Jan 27, 14 at 10:40
Hi Josh, I thought I replied to you yesterday but must have hit preview and not post. The base of the plant is firm and seems fine. So that's good. I can't give it more light because I live in the woods and this is the sunniest spot we've got indoors. And yes, I very rarely water it and it seems happy with that, I am not going to prune it back until spring. I got rid of some very large, heavy leaves. It has already begun to turn back to the light and I am thinking of trying to provide some support (beyond those small trellises I stuck in there the after the flop). I have read about wrapping stems with coated wire. Perhaps I will try that. Generally, I do not like to grow a plant that I don't have the conditions for. But as I said, I have had one or more plants going from this one since I was a grad student in 1977 and I am not about to let it go now. So I guess I am doomed to starting and restarting. Thanks for the help! |
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I was hoping you could recommend some good machines or at least brands. My mother recently retired as a professional tailor and sold all of her industrial machines and is now looking for a "home" machine. She does a lot of machine piecing and some alterations and other stuff. Quality of the machine is the highest priority and a few bells a whistles would be fun too. I'm not worried about price. Thank you!! |
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I have a Janome and love it. For ease of use, you can't beat a good old Featherweight. beverly |
- Posted by teresa_nc7 (My Page) on Wed, Aug 31, 11 at 7:16
Have her test drive these makes: Janome, Pfaff, Bernina, Husqvarna Viking, Baby Lock. These are the good ones that come to mind early this morning. I'm sure there are others. She needs to think about all the functions she wants from a new machine: special stitches, up/down pressure foot, reverse, 1/4" foot availability, monogram stitches, decorative stitches, and embroidery? Teresa |
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It's such a personal choice depending on what the sewer wants to create with it. Her best choice is to 'test-drive' some machines and see what it can do. Many feel that a relationship with a dealer is a must when buying. They often give free introductory classes that will teach you what the machine can do. Also, if there are problems or the need to upgrade they are there. As Teresa stated, the best way I think is to have that list of 'must haves' and even a list of 'nice to haves' and go from there. One thought is to stay away from machines that serve more than one purpose (embroidery, piecing, quilting) because if one part breaks, you loose all functions while it's at the repair shop. good lucK! (Not having a budget helps a lot) |
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I think more than the machine, it matters where you buy it (like Jennifer said). Most good shops have good quality machines and they will stand behind them for service. Happy Shopping! It's like test driving a new car, try them all out :-) Robbi |
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Africa is blessed with a stunning natural environment and a population filled with courageous and capable people and communities. This is no more evident than in the West African country of Ghana and in the village of Okurase. With a rich culture of drumming and dancing, Okurase is truly a wonderful place to experience. Unfortunately, the residents of Okurase have virtually no access to medical care. With no toilets, sporadic electricity, a short food supply, and limited educational opportunities, their concerns are many. Along with these challenging conditions come a myriad of health problems, many minor and some life threatening. (view itinerary)
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I bought a beautiful metal wind spinner. It's 84" high with a "dog-leg" or h-shaped stake base. I'm wondering what's the best way to anchor it? Just sticking it in the ground is not going to work -- ground too soft and winds too fierce! Right now I have it stuck in a planter, which works okay, but I don't want it there permanently. I want to be able to move it if necessary. I was thinking about putting it in a pot with gravel, rocks, or even bags of gravel placed around the base. Do you think that would work? or do you have other suggestions? |
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Violet, I took a spinner to the welding shop and had them weld pieces of rebar to the bottom. I'll leave it to you to decide what length to make them. Works really well. And I'm lucky - I pay the welding shop with a batch of brownies. Shouldn't be pricey for them to do this for you. Rosie |
- Posted by Violet.West none (My Page) on Fri, Oct 25, 13 at 18:56
thank you, but -- I don't quite understand what you did. You made a stand out of it (like a Christmas tree stand)? or you made the base longer, wider, or what? |
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Wish I knew how to draw online. I'll assume yours has an inverted U shaped part that gets placed in the soil. (Not really a U, more an E without the middle line. If that's what you have, have lengths of rebar welded to the pieces that are meant to go into the ground, starting from the top. You could also have them add to the width of that part, which should provide more stability. If I'm not making myself clear, will try to explain further and maybe someone will draw it! |
How I interpret it is that it is like tines of a fork (stabbed into the ground) and the tines have length extensions welded on to them so that it penetrates deeper into the ground. (?) (Wish I could pay for welding with brownies. Only a woman can do this and the welders must probably be male. What the heck ... maybe ... next time ... I'll try it and see what happens.) |
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lol! yardvaark -- it's an idea! |
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I actually kind of like it stuck in the pot on its "temporary" position. Well placed to be viewed out the door |
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crap--sorry for the skewed pic. Was all excited that I figured out how to upload pics from my phone here . . . been having this problem with my iphone pics recently. |
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Ninja Gaiden 3 has finally been let loose on the world, but not everyone's happy it's here. As you'll see in our Ninja Gaiden 3 review round-up, opinion of the game has been mixed, with scores ranging from 8/10 to 3/10.
In our Ninja Gaiden 3 review we believed Ninja Gaiden 3 aspired "to be all things to all people, to offer accessibility beyond its hardcore roots", but concluded that the outcome was a bit hit or miss.
We've identified our issues with the latest entry in the acclaimed hack 'n' slash series and mused over our wishes for the next iteration. Here's what we want to see...
As always let us know what you'd like to see in the comments below.
In Team Ninja's quest to appeal to a larger audience and craft a more accessible experience Ninja Gaiden 3 lost the one thing the series was famed for: its notorious, controller-demolishing difficulty.
All too often now we're seeing many franchises forget their roots in the pursuit of courting the mass market with accessibility, and in the case of Ninja Gaiden 3 it seems to have sacrificed what made it special in the process.
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So here's my dress...it's wrinkly from being just pulled out of the box...and I need a crinoline...and I wore a strapless bra that I shouldn't have. Other than that...here it is.
I'd like to remove the train, I thought about making a wedding album cover out of it. FMIL suggested I cut it off after the wedding, but I'm not a fan of bustles. I might go with a french bustle though...I think they are very pretty. |
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Oh, you are so beautiful in your wedding dress. How exciting! |
What a beautiful dress! And you look FABULOUS in it! My dress laced up the back too, and people are still talking about it. Penny |
Absolutely gorgeous! I'm not sure you even need a crinoline. Unless you want the poof, that is. Andrea :o) |
I'd definitely skip the crinoline with a perfect figure like yours! I'm sure it would be gorgeous either way, but I'd vote to keep the long, smooth vertical line (and not have anything scratchy and noisy underneath). I also like your idea about removing the train. It's beautiful, and it looks so elegant in formal portraits, but I think trains are sort of a nuisance when they are down, and I have seen too many brides have to take a break to re-bustle because the bustling fell down. Here, too, though, it's a no-lose choice: either way will look great. |
- Posted by sunshine4376 (My Page) on Fri, Jul 16, 04 at 0:19
Thank you everyone for the compliments. Andrea and Gellchom, I don't want a large crinoline (I actually didn't want one at all) but the dress kind of falls in the front, at the bottom of the skirt it curves in at the centre and we couldn't fix that...perhaps if I get it hemmed it wouldn't do that anymore. I was only thinking of getting one that's more of a slip just to straighten out the bottom. It only just occured to me that hemming it (it is a little long for me as I was already wearing my shoes) might fix the problem so I will look into that. Gellchom, I also have seen the train have to be re-bustled and have no desire to have to do that. |
- Posted by booboomoomoo (My Page) on Fri, Jul 16, 04 at 3:01
I love the back, the detail is stunning, and the lace up is very pretty. You look awesome! You hubby is a lucky guy :) Boo |
Ah, I see what you mean. I'm sure you will look beautiful, no matter what you decide! Andrea :o) |
yep, I see, too. I was picturing one of those really wide ones. I think you are talking about a crinoline that doesn't make the skirt poof out, just sort of holds it neatly while keeping the vertical line. Is that right? Wow, it really is SO pretty! Isn't this fun? |
- Posted by springbride04 (My Page) on Sun, Jul 18, 04 at 12:38
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- Posted by sunshine4376 (My Page) on Sun, Jul 18, 04 at 14:23
Gellchom, yes, I'm talking about just enough to fill out the bottom of the skirt...I don't want any poof. The skirt has a built in crinoline from the knee down, so I'm thinking of just adding another one to that to hold the bottom out. My friends mom has made wedding dresses and would be able to do this for me very easily apparently. Boo, I love all the beading at the back and the laces. |
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It's beautiful and you look fantastic in it! I love the details on the bodice. |
BEAUTIFUL!! How exciting :) -DuckyHead |
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2004 Pontiac Aztek from North America
Funky Design - Great Car
At this point nothing has gone wrong with this car. It seems to be a very good car. I am sure keeping up the regular maintainance will help in preventing most problems.
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Many people have commented on the design of the Aztek. I was looking at a number of cars that are in the same "range" as the Aztek. I noticed that the main difference was that they were all (I mean all!) round in the back. It made them all look very much the same. Then looking at the Aztek I could the appreciate its design. I don't find it ugly at all.
What I have found is that it is choc-filled with some very nice features. Yes, I like the cooler everyone jokes about. I also enjoy the stereo system that is in our car. The feature that quiets the stereo when the car is not moving. I enjoy the ease in which my satillite radio is going to go into this car. I enjoy the room and the quiet ride.
Overall this is a nice car with a funky design. I really hope the at some point GM and Pontiac bring back the Aztek.
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Illinois Department of Corrections (DOC) protects the public from criminal offenders through incarceration, supervision, and rehabilitation. Originally designed for 34,000 inmates, the system now handles more than 49,000. The DOC is continually striving to improve recidivism rates by offering rehabilitation programs to inmates and helping the 28,000 parolees under its watch make a successful re-entry into society.
Governor Pat Quinn has promoted a vision for reforming the DOC to improve public safety and criminal justice in the state. He has signed legislation that aims to amend sentencing credit guidelines and enhance programs for assessing and reforming inmates.
The system had also become unreliable and extremely costly to use and maintain. This, combined with the fact that critical offender information was scattered across so many different applications, put inmates and staff at risk.
Herbert Quinde, Chief of IT Policy and Planning for the state of Illinois, elaborates: "Our number-one concern in a prison environment is the safety and security of offenders and staff. Continual turnover in our population keeps prison staff in constant learning mode. Gaining a snapshot of a particular inmate and whether they posed a particular threat or were vulnerable in some way required guards, medical and administrative personnel, counselors, and other staff to access 17 mainframe screens and numerous other applications. Managing the movement of hundreds of inmates safely was like a contest of multi-level chess."
In the 2009–2010 timeframe, the state evaluated its technology landscape with the goal of significantly modernizing the DOC's offender management capabilities, ensuring stable corrections operations, and earning public trust.
Fulfilling the Mandate for Reform and Modernization
After evaluating 20 possible solutions, the DOC selected Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online to manage its offender population statewide. The DOC's offender management solution, called Offender360, centralizes all information and intelligence on offenders to help staff make better, more informed decisions regarding placement, rehabilitation, and release. Offender360 relies on Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online and Microsoft SharePoint.
Customer relationship management (CRM) software from Microsoft is a great match for the DOC's requirements. "Our needs come down to case management, essentially, tracking an offender through a process during and after their incarceration," says Quinde. "Microsoft Dynamics CRM supported case management without the need to code a lot of integrations. Within just a few weeks, we build the pilot prototype."
Full Access to Offender Information
To help reduce the maintenance and storage burden that paper-based forms and records cause and to further centralize information access, the DOC integrated Microsoft SharePoint for document management. Says Steven Matthews, Chief Information Officer for the DOC, "The integration lets us store, access, and manage records and forms easily from within Microsoft Dynamics CRM."
Choosing Microsoft Dynamics
Besides considering Microsoft Dynamics CRM, the DOC evaluated more than 20 criminal justice and prisoner management software suites. Because statute-driven policies and practices vary by state, these suites "only covered about 40 percent of our needs and were extremely cost prohibitive," says Quinde. "We couldn't justify buying an expensive prebuilt suite and then doing huge amounts of customizations. Instead, we wanted to buy something that gave us core case management capabilities and the flexibility to do rapid application development with a focus on the data. We selected Microsoft Dynamics CRM because it's an application development platform that provides tools that make configuration and development easier at a fraction of the cost of alternatives."
Going with the Cloud
Originally, the DOC planned to host Microsoft Dynamics CRM in the state's data center. But when budget shortfalls deprived the agency of the technology infrastructure and staffing resources needed to operate Offender360 reliably, the DOC instead selected Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online. Matthews remarks, "This solution is the first state-sanctioned, successful cloud project. Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online provides the autonomy, resiliency, and uptime we need and pretty much ensures our success."
Illinois DOC Technology EnvironmentCRM systemMicrosoft Dynamics CRM OnlineBusiness databaseMicrosoft SQL Server 2008 R2Communications infrastructureMicrosoft Exchange Server 2010Desktop systemsWindows 7 and Windows XPMicrosoft Office 2010 and Microsoft Office 2003
Modern, Cloud-Based Solution Puts Corrections Staff in Control
With Offender360 powered by Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online, DOC staff gain the tools they need to support modern offender reform practices and improve safety, security, and efficiency. The DOC can efficiently implement new statutory requirements while reducing technology costs.
"This cutting-edge technology will give Illinois one of the most advanced criminal justice information systems in the country," says Governor Quinn. "It will save Illinois' taxpayers millions of dollars while increasing public safety throughout the state."
Increased Safety for Inmates and Staff
The constant flux of offender intakes, releases, and transfers will continue, as will similar turnover and transfer of security and other staff. Through it all, DOC can rely on Offender360 and Microsoft Dynamics CRM to keep important information at the forefront. Equipped with easy access to offender information in Microsoft Dynamics CRM, staff can become instantly familiar with the prisoners under their care.
"We can quickly review an inmate's security threat level in Offender360," says Matthews. "Our people can analyze the variables and see in one screen what they need to make informed decisions. Offender360 running on Microsoft Dynamics CRM helps us manage day-to-day activities so that offenders, staff, and state citizens are safer."
A Complete Solution at a Lower Cost
Alternative solutions, including an option that would have cost taxpayers upwards of $100 million, were simply cost-prohibitive.
Quinde remarks, "The open architecture in Microsoft Dynamics CRM enabled us to create a solution that supports the way we manage offenders. Most important of all, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, at only 15 percent of the cost of the most expensive alternative, fits well within our budget."
Matthews adds, "Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online is an inclusive package. With the technical expertise, software, and hardware upgrades built into the monthly service, we get Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online at a very affordable price comparable to an on-premises implementation."
Streamlined Legislative Compliance
Periodically, the state changes its laws regarding sentencing credit guidelines. "Analyzing and evaluating a population exceeding 49,000 for eligibility would have taken an inordinate amount of time and probably would have resulted in a greater risk factor," says Gladyse Taylor, Assistant Director of the DOC. "By designing a pipeline analysis for Microsoft Dynamics CRM, we quickly determined that only 46 percent of our population is even qualified for the credit. Based on other exclusion criteria that mitigate our risk factor, we're only going to evaluate 9 percent of the population. And we arrived at this using Microsoft Dynamics CRM."
Counselors use Offender360 to quickly and accurately determine which prisoners are eligible for a review of sentencing credits. They also rely on it as they conduct and document the evaluations. Microsoft Dynamics CRM guides counselors through the process, ensuring compliance with predetermined standards, processes, and protocols. "What would have been a very lengthy, drawn-out process under our old system we'll complete in a day or two with Offender360," remarks Taylor.
Reporting to Empower People's Decisions
Previously, running a report required submitting a request to IT. Now, corrections professionals have the reporting capabilities at their fingertips to extract and manipulate data at will and make an informed decision on the spot. Taylor says, "Speed of reporting went from a 30- or 60-day turnaround to on-demand." Matthews adds, "Microsoft Dynamics CRM is architected in such a way that it helps us easily manage information for an individual inmate and aggregate offender information to derive analytics from it."
Superior Ease of Use
The user base for Offender360 ranges from older employees approaching retirement to younger employees new to the workforce. Matthews found that the latter group expects modern technology at work. "They're accustomed to smartphones and touch screens, so the young people balked at working from a mainframe green screen," says Matthews. "With the implementation of Offender360, we expected pushback from the more experienced employees. What we got, instead, was enthusiastic adoption of Microsoft Dynamics CRM across the board."
Solution to Benefit Even More Agencies
The DOC is working with county jails to spread the value of its investment in Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online. "We plan to share the development and design with our largest committing county for starters," says Taylor. "We'll be able to share and easily transfer records electronically and avoid duplicating the data entry as the inmate makes the move to DOC jurisdiction."
Ease of Development
The simplicity and familiarity of the architecture of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online helped the DOC use trained and certified union members to configure and develop Offender360, significantly reducing solution cost and the deployment timeframe. The use of union workers helped Illinois avoid hiring contractors and gave union employees advancement opportunities.
"The time and monetary investments were fairly minimal, and the return on training investment was great," says Matthews. "The Microsoft Dynamics CRM application platform enables organizations that are similarly challenged with resource and staffing constraints to develop applications at this caliber without hiring an army of contractors and consultants."
Taking Offender360 to the Next Level
The DOC anticipates developing additional functionality to further extend the capabilities of Offender360 within and beyond the DOC, including:
Integrating a risk assessment tool.
Transferring inmate electronic medical records from the committing county.
Developing discharge and parole oversight, including sharing records with local governments and court systems.
Further automating decisions related to the movement and placement of offenders across 26 facilities.
Automating sentence calculations. Illinois will be among the first states to design and develop this capability.
Next StepsConnect with Microsoft DynamicsFind more information on Microsoft corrections solutionsRead about how other Government agencies are meeting the business challenges of dynamic government
Meet Gladyse Taylor, Assistant Director, Illinois DOCGladyse Taylor, Assistant Director, Illinois DOC
Gladyse Taylor's broad experience in Illinois corrections spans roles in developing and defining fiscal planning and budgeting, grant formulation, and rehabilitation and re-entry programs. As Assistant Director, Taylor focuses on equipping the DOC to carry out the Governor's vision for modernization and reform."After deploying Microsoft Dynamics CRM, speed of reporting went from a 30- or 60-day turnaround to on-demand," she says.
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A message here on another topic got me thinking about staking trees. I've never done a permanent stake and none of my "anonymous dwarf" trees have ever needed it. But I suspect the one on Bud 9 will, and maybe one or two others. But when I look at my older trees, it occurs to me that if I had put in a permanent stake while they were young, the trunks would have by now grown over the stake. What am I missing? |
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For my apple trees on m7, I used galvanized water pipe for staking. The trunk didn't grow over the pipe but some of the branches rubbed it and were disfigured. The downside with using the galvanized pipe is that it is sharp at the top after pounding it into the ground and will cut the tree. Eventually, some the trees on m7 grew strong enough not to need support. I pulled the pipes out and filled the holes with sand. You can buy heavy fiberglass stakes but they can't be recycled when you are done. In summary, it is hard to surpass galvanized pipe from the junkyard for use in staking. |
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I love free dining!! Congrats and have fun!!
Well after being upset that we still havnt received ANY pin codes for our early may 2011 visit I decided to call anyways......well I got free dining!!!!
I don't know why I didn't get the code via email or USPS but Disney told me that with our value resort package....we can get free dining.
I am very very happy. Free dining is just about the best offer one can get to save money.
Lesson to all, call to see what you can get, even without a pin code!!
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Good advice to call and ask.
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Jamie DeRosa / Tongue & Cheek
Posted on 04. Jun, 2013 in American, Breakfast & Brunch, Chefs, Eclectic, Miami Beach, Owners
South Beach just got even cheekier. Over in the South of Fifth neighborhood, collaborators Jamie DeRosa and Michael Reginbogin are reconstructing our notions of what constitutes a contemporary American dish.
"Tongue & Cheek to me is whimsical, it's fun," explains DeRosa. "We have a play on words on a lot of things. We have a pudding pop on the menu that's a popsicle. It started out as a chocolate popsicle and someone said, 'This is better than a Bill Cosby pudding pop.' And that became the name."
Other mouthfuls on the menu include a Beef Cheek burger that arrives sans the usual trappings (no lettuce, no tomato). "No frills, no thrills," as DeRosa says. Of course, DeRosa and his team are serving up plenty of cheek and tongue variations, including a poutine.
Even the cocktail names are creative. Try a Bourbon for Apples, with bourbon-soaked apple ice cubes floating in a cooling concoction, or the strawberry-and-gin-based Walking Dead (DeRosa is a fan of the AMC television hit). Like any good South Beach establishment, Tongue & Cheek also features a molecular margarita with an overflowing liquid nitrogen preparation.
"I think the name and the ambiance and the more welcoming vibe that you get when you come into Tongue & Cheek matches the food," DeRosa explains. "For us it was important to have art and music and food and service be one." It's all in an effort to keep Tongue & Cheek a neighborhood hangout that appeals to locals. For instance, every day at 5pm, guests can sit down for a family-style meal of comfort-food morsels like grilled cheese and hoagies. It's Tongue & Cheek's way of giving back to the community.
Check out the video above to get a glimpse of the restaurant's witty art by local Miamian Claudio Picasso and hear what's on the daily-rotating family meal menu. Then stop in and grab a seat at the snack bar serving nostalgic bottled sodas and made-to-order small plates presented in old-school cafeteria trays. They have tongues wagging.
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General Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Surge |
Written by Chris Floyd |
Friday, 20 February 2009 12:20 |
(UPDATED BELOW.) I was in the process of writing a piece on Joan Walsh's remarkable review of "The Gamble" -- the latest book by Thomas Ricks, in which the intrepid Washington Post reporter hooks up (in just about every sense of that phrase) with General David "Ovalbound" Petraeus, to explain just how Ovalbound and his inner circle pretty much "won" the Iraq War single-handedly with the great "surge" -- when I found that Justin Raimondo was already on the case, and had covered it well. So I'll just weave in a few bits of my unfinished post with excerpts from his analysis of what is, as he says, a very emblematic article by one of the leading progressive progressivists of our bold new progressivistic era. ...Walsh suddenly discovers that the "surge" in Iraq was a success, and berates herself for ever having opposed it. General Petraeus, the architect of the Bush administration's newly aggressive – albeit "smart" – strategy, is portrayed as an heroic innovator, who ignored liberal critics like herself – and MoveOn.org, to whom she delivers a gentle slap for famously calling him "General Betray-us." Against all these liberal voices, Petraeus, she avers, went on to achieve an "inspiring" victory over the forces of Darkness in Iraq. Walsh contrasts a picture of an "incompetent" war, waged by Bushian "knaves and buffoons," to one that deserves admiration if not quite whole-hearted support on account of the men who lead it.... Raimondo then zeroes in on one of Walsh's truly astounding assertions: In any case, you have a "responsibility" to read the Ricks book, Walsh avers, in order to "have some of your prejudices challenged." To be fair, Walsh does note, way down in her review, that the downturn (or, following the brilliant rhetoric of our vice president, Joe Biden, should we not say "downtick"?) in violence in occupied Iraq was due in large part to the American tactic of bribing and arming violent sectarian gangs and giving them chunks of territory to lord over, as an alternative to their previous practice of, well, killing Americans. This tactic, of course, had nothing to do with the so-called "surge" plan hatched in the bowels of that neocon chicken coop, the American Enterprise Institute -- which Walsh reluctantly praises for its surge plans which "healed" Iraq. She writes: I remember making fun of AEI's color-coded, Google-mapped surge sales brochure back in 2006, as well as its "neighborhood watch" approach to pacifying Iraq. It was tough for me to believe that one set of plans hatched at AEI destroyed Iraq, while another might begin to heal it. As Raimondo notes with understandable agogacity: MoveOn is dissed as a collection of ill-mannered malcontents, while AEI, the War Party's high command, is praised as a bastion of healers. The mind reels. Not since the breaking of the Hitler-Stalin pact, and the overnight transformation of America's fellow travelers from opponents of war to brazen jingoes, have we seen the likes of this. And even Walsh's acknowledgement of the central role played by the "bribes and bullets for local warlords" gambit ignores other major, non-surge-related factors in the downtick. For instance, the completion of the American-abetted Sunni-Shia civil war, which saw "ethnic cleansing" on a scale that made, say, the Serbia-Kosovo imbroglio or the conflict in Northern Ireland look like a family reunion; and the part played by Iran in backing the American-installed Iraqi government – which is, of course, now run by long-time clients and dependents of Iran. In other words, the violence has abated to a degree – a degree that still makes Iraq one of the deadliest places on earth – because so many people had already been killed and displaced that there were fewer people to kill and displace, and because the Americans bribed one set of antagonists to quit the battlefield and the Iranians helped tamp down internal violence, especially a potentially catastrophic intra-Shiite conflict between their Green Zone clients and the Mahdi Army. There was also the American use of death squads, hit teams and "extrajudicial assassinations," as Bob Woodward reported – and lauded – last year. All of these developments that had nothing at all to do with the deployment of 30,000 extra troops that constituted the "surge." A lot of this very recent history was reported in detail in the pages of Walsh's own internet magazine, Salon.com, but perhaps Ricks' tale of heroic generals finally getting it "right" in Iraq has effaced Salon's institutional memory. There is also the fact that Obama himself has declared the surge a success "beyond our wildest dreams." So this new reality proclaimed by the Leader must be accomodated somehow, even as Walsh tries hard to qualify and shade her reluctant acceptance of the "fact" that the "surge – sort of – won." In the end, Walsh does not go all the way with Ricks, who reaches this conclusion in his book: "Even as security improved in Iraq in 2008, I found myself consistently saddened by the war, not just by its obvious costs to Iraqis and Americans, but also by the incompetence and profligacy with which the Bush administration conducted much of it. Yet I also came to believe that we can't leave." Here again we see a constant refrain of the American political and media establishments, even – or especially –from the "progressive" quadrants of those rarefied precincts: the great sadness at how incompetent the Bush Administration was in its conduct of the war. As if it would somehow have been better if this putrid, criminal, evil act of mass murder had been carried out more competently, more efficiently! Oh, doesn't it just make you sad to think of the incompetence and proligacy with which the Hitler administration conducted much of its war? Isn't it tragic that they didn't do it better, that they didn't have generals like David Petraeus to finally get it "right"? Walsh says she still can't quite accept Ricks' parroting of Petaeus' ideas of continuing the war in more or less its present form until 2015 or beyond. But as Raimondo notes: Yet before she's done the very concept of withdrawal begins to blur, in her mind, as it will in the minds of countless Obama-ites who will defend this administration 'til the cows come home:"Appraising the difference between my conclusions and Ricks' at the end of 'The Gamble,' I found myself thinking about the old adage Where you stand depends on where you sit.' Ricks spent a lot of time sitting in (and courageously running around) Iraq and American military bases, admiring and respecting the courage and intelligence of the men and women who've turned this mess around as best they can, and he understandably doesn't want their work to be in vain. I'm sitting in my office in California, where teachers and other public workers are facing furloughs and layoffs, and poverty, homelessness and crime are on the rise. So I still want troops out of Iraq as soon as possible. But reading this well-reported book may have changed even my notion of what that means." No, Walsh can't quite accept the idea of an open-ended occupation (not yet anyway) – although she does quote, with evident approval (or at least no sign of disapproval), Ricks' regurgitation of another revolting trope one often hears from Team Obama and the progressive progressivists: that the shiftless, no-good Iraqis are ungratefully refusing to take advantage of the marvelous opportunity that America has given them by invading their country for no reason, destroying its social and physical infrastructure, introducing widespread terrorism and savage civil conflict, driving four million people from their homes, and killing a million innocent people: "It is not too much to say that American troops were dying to give Iraqi politicians the chance to find a way forward [Ricks writes] -- but that it wasn't clear if Iraqi politicians wanted that chance."
UPDATE: By the way, this is what "turning this thing around" in Iraq looks like. This is the victory won by General Petraeus and the healers at AEI. From Dahr Jamail at Antiwar.com: BAGHDAD – "We only want a normal life," says Um Qasim, sitting in a bombed out building in Baghdad. She and others around have been saying that for years.


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There's been a lot of discussion this week about a blog post on the Harvard Business Review website that claims "sitting is the smoking of our generation." The author, Nilofer Merchant, cites some worrying statistics:
– Americans sit an average of 9.3 hours per day. (We only sleep 7.7 hours.)
– Obesity is responsible for 35 million deaths annually. (Tobacco is responsible for 3.5 million.)
– For each additional hour of television watched (while sitting) per day, the risk of death increased by 11 percent.
Those are some pretty scary statistics, but Merchant did give a suggestion as to how she's changed her day to cut down on time at her desk or in meetings. She's tried to make 3 to 4 of her meetings each week "walking meetings." And through this she's started walking an additional 20 to 3o miles (!) per week.
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