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Kitchen plans. We would love some feedback
posted by: jenottawa on 06.07.2013 at 09:02 pm in Kitchens Forum We are designing a new kitchen and would love some feedback. We have a young family, do a fair amount of cooking, no microwaving, and the kitchen is located directly at the front door in our small home (wall C). We have a back door and boot room area, so although we use the front door frequently, we store all our boots, coats and sports equip by the back door. Our proposed island would stick into the dining room, which is open concept to a living room at 90 degrees (on the other side of the hallway past some closed stairs). We have nice exposed brick on our chimney on the sides facing the island and the dining room. I have to admit, we are presently pretty messy kitchen people, although hopefully with places to put things we will improve.
I have attached a sketch that my husband made in word of our idea for a layout. The plumbing is presently located beside the proposed location of the fridge, and the dishwasher is in the proposed fridge location. My husband thinks he can put a new drain either under the window (as depicted) or in the island. He would prefer to only do it once (for both the sink and dishwasher). If you have any suggestions on appliance location, or general kitchen layout and design, we would greatly appreciate them! Thanks! This post was edited by jenottawa on Fri, Jun 7, 13 at 21:45 NOTES: <none>
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Let's talk sinks and DWs in islands
posted by: jimson11 on 02.19.2013 at 08:23 am in Kitchens Forum I'm thinking about trying to fit a sink and DW in a 24" x 60" island. I'm willing to go as big as 28" x 72" though...can a sink and DW comfortably fit in this space? This will be the main sink, not just a "prep" sink.
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farmgirlinky kitchen before/after -- too long, too many pictures
posted by: farmgirlinky on 04.23.2011 at 10:03 pm in Kitchens Forum Apologies in advance for a long post! and thanks to many thoughtful GW denizens who served as sources of inspiration to this frequent-lurker, sometime-poster: xoldtimecarpenter, rhome47, marthavila, palimpsest, buehl, boxerpups, marcolo, johnliu come to mind, among others.
We live in a 1910 house in urban Connecticut, and have been gradually renovating it for the last ten years. We hope to live here another twenty--thirty years or so, next stop would be assisted living vs. skilled nursing! So: nardellos-to-the-wall renovation, amortized over decades. The original space included a walk-in pantry, originally the ice-box room, and the "telephone closet", which we ripped out when we moved in. The "servant's dining hall" and kitchen had long since been combined into one room. So the "before" space was raw and ugly but functional, and we installed our old Aga range and were happy for a decade. Five years ago we acquired the Subzero when our old fridge gave up the ghost. Maybe I pronounced the old fridge dead while it still had a thready pulse, but I hated it. With this renovation we ordered an Aga Module to append to the old 4-oven gas-fueled Aga range, so that we could turn the latter off in the warmest months. In the winter, we are glad to have a separate heat zone in the kitchen, where we tend to live. The rest of the house is kept just above freezing. The windows and doors were restored, except for one new window that was built to match the old ones. Steven Marchetti of Peix & Marchetti is our friend and architect. The space was gutted last August, and our excellent builder friend Allen Mathes built around the Aga and the large refrigerator. Allen built a fir "floor" on the ceiling and "strapped" it. The Aga is vented into the old flue and could not be moved -- the range hood could only be vented through one bay between joists to the rear of the house, so we held our breath until the custom Rangecraft hood arrived and was installed and fit like a glove: that's why the ducts are assymetrical. Very Terry Gilliam. The floor is cork, and here is a picture of unwaxed Jucca soapstone countertop. The cabinetry is custom-made in New Haven, by fantastic Bryan Smallman: Here are the just-about-finished pictures: there's a little trim to be done yet. We love the kitchen and it works well -- prep sink at the window and the utility sink accessible from both sides of the island are especially handy, because several cooks can work comfortably together and clean-up seems more communal. The Profi faucet is terrific for clean-up, also accessible from both sides because it is side-mounted on the Julien undermount steel sink. Friends off to one side at our old kitchen table seem happy and it they're not, we just pour more bourbon.... We worked with an architect friend, and were influenced by a favorite space, the Yale Center for British Art: the palette and the quiet feeling of the materials were what we tried to emulate, even as almost every material in the museum was switched for something else. Tennessee Golden Oak became vertical grain fir (oak today isn't Louis Kahn's oak), travertine became cork (who wants to stand on stone?), brutalist concrete became soapstone (who wants to worry about sealing concrete). Steel is still steel! The cream Aga that we have had for years dictated the choice of the biscuit fireclay farm sink and the cream ceramic subway tiles. I have this idea that it's okay to mix a lot of materials if the palette is restrained, or it's fine to mix a lot of colors if the number of materials is restrained, but I'd be interested to see examples of lots of materials AND lots of colors working well. But that's just me. I'll list materials in a subsequent post. Again, sorry for the many pictures: I get cross-eyed trying to post these things! Let me know what you think. Except maybe you, marcolo ;)
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LC-A Big Book Chapter 43: 1920-1930 Glass Melting and the First Russian Sound Film
According to V.I. Lenin's definition, the cinema had become "the most important of the arts" to the young Soviet Republic. So the country was gradually kitted out with mobile cinema projectors from our favourite St Petersburg optics manufacturer. In 1931, it was a LOMO PLC projector, "TOMP-4" that made it possible for young and old to watch the first Russian sound-film "Putyovka v zhizn" ("The Road to Life", a melancholic film about homeless youth). -
LC-A Big Book Chapter 40: LOMO PLC: An Exceptional Russian Optical Factory
Come on! Let's dive into it and get to know the extraordinary history of the LOMO LC A's inventors, the LOMO PLC optical works, St Petersburg. -
LC-A Big Book Chapter 39: LOMO LCA+ Forever
In a record breaking six months after the signing of the contract and the engineering start date in April 2006 the first new LOMO LC-A+ lay in the hands of the Chinese engineer – and it worked! However only to begin with only. Further prototypes of the camera were then manufactured and sent to Vienna. -
LC-A Big Book Chapter 38: New Features for the Camera
The first accessory is the "Splitzer". This small piece of plastic is simply fixed in front of the LOMO LC-A+ lens and by pressing the MX button, your photo can be sliced into several parts with completely different themes. Further accessories comprise the Wide Angle Lens, to be attached to the front of the camera's lens, as well as the KRAB underwater case. -
LC-A Big Book Chapter 95: Credits and Contributors
A big THANK YOU to all the lovely lomographers who made the effort to participate in the making of the LC-A Big Book! -
LC-A Big Book Chapter 36: LOMO LC-A+ Production Begins
It was now time for Mrs. Li and her team to set to work. Firstly, "Colibri Manufacturers" was established, which was made up of former trained employees from the Chinese "main camera factory" and were dedicated to the production of the LOMO LC-A+. Subsequently, an exclusive development and production contract was signed by the Lomographic Society in November 2005. The corresponding lens production agreements were checked with the St Petersburg LOMO PLC and then finally the top-class Chinese camera engineers began frantically designing the plans for the LOMO LC-A+. -
LC-A Big Book Chapter 35: Mrs. Li Inspects the Russian Camera
At the time when the Lomographers mulled over ideas to improve the original LOMO LC-A. Mrs. Li, was appointed chief engineer and production manager for the LOMO LC-A+. In a small engineering office in East China the capable Mrs. Li dismantled the camera into all of its individual components. -
LC-A Big Book Chapter 34: Full Throttle in China
Together with Mr. Li, Mr. Lee and Mrs. Li they drank rice wine (a welcome change to the St Petersburg Vodka) and in general the high quality and professionalism of the products and production by the Chinese company was awe inspiring. -
LC-A Big Book Chapter 33: The Online Survey and a Great Surprise
An online internet survey was conducted in April 2005, where Lomographers all over the world were asked their opinion on the follow-up to the LOMO LC-A. "Which functions on the camera should be retained? Which features were most popular? And should the follow-up LOMO LC-A camera jump on the bandwagon of digital photography or would it be better to stay true to the analogue snapshot camera?" These and many more questions kept going round and round the heads of the principal Lomographers in Vienna while they waited for enlightenment back from their internet community. -
LC-A Big Book Chapter 32: The Lomo LC-A +
Since the beginning of negotiations with LOMO PLC relocation of production to China had been considered. The Lomographers had persistently tried to keep production of the LOMO LC-A alive (remember the chapters "We want more LOMO LC-A's") and to continue the manufacturing in St Petersburg, however, they had foreseen a premature end. -
LC-A Big Book Chapter 30: LOMO LC-A Night Vision Device
The core of the night vision device is the "Elf" - the smallest night vision device in the world. One beautiful day, one of the lomographers got hold of this device and tried to shoot pictures with it just held in front of the lens. The result was nothing spectacular but a new idea had been born. -
LC-A Big Book Chapter 26: The Technical Changes to the Lomo LC-A
One of the outcomes of the new calculations was that the LOMO LC-A had become a few grams lighter as the extra parts which were intended to attach accessories to the camera were removed. So for example, on a LOMO LC-A produced before 1997 you would find two small contacts on the bottom right side of the camera, which were designed to act as an electronic interface for a possible motor drive attachment. -
LC-A Big Book Chapter 23: We Want More LOMO LC-A's The Meeting with Vladimir Putin
The discussion with the prospective President of a world power was pleasant. Putin was very interested in Lomography and after approximately an hour when the meeting came to an end each party stated that production of the LOMO LC-A should be maintained. Discontinuing production of the camera would not benefit the city of St Petersburg or aid their international reputation! After the auspicious meeting, some time later another meeting took place with the political heavyweight Putin and LOMO PLC Director General Klebanov. -
Chapter 20: Lomography Everywhere
Overwhelmed by so much popularity the Lomographers took courage and arranged an appointment with Lazar Zalmanov at LOMO PLC. They dressed up in their school-leaving suits and got on the Russian Aeroflot to St Petersburg. Their mission: to keep the production of the LOMO LC-A alive. -
LC-A Big Book Chapter 16: LOMO LC-M, LOMO LC-M2 and KRAB
Similarly to the LOMO LC-M, the LOMO LC-M2 was only produced in very small quantities and was almost impossible to obtain. And what on earth is KRAB? KRAB is an underwater casing for the LOMO LC-A. However, it seems this was a matter of such secret production that even in the LOMO PLC's own museum in St Petersburg the existence of the 1.5kg heavy cast iron casing is being contested. -
Chapter 13: Advertising and Marketing
In spite of limited resources when it comes to advertising and marketing, the demand for the LOMO LC-A continued to enjoy steady growth with snap-happy 'Komsomolets' making the effort to purchase the "fantastic plastic camera" from supermarkets and commission shops. Thanks to word of mouth, the seemingly uninspiring packaging of the LOMO LC-A didn't negatively affect the sales of this soon-to-be-iconic product. -
Chapter 12: Pricing and Exports
Due to its first-ever automatic exposure function - the Lubitel and Smena were still completely manually controlled - the Lomo Kompakt Automat was somewhat more expensive than its predecessor. 75 Rubies was the fixed price set by Moscow for the Item, which was a large amount when compared with the average monthly wages of the time: 150-200 Rubies. A 24 day voucher for a holiday in the Neva Sanatorium only cost 80 Rubies. Nevertheless the LOMO LC-A quickly found its way into the hearts and pockets of the photograph-enthused Russians and after a short time was exported to then Communist countries such as the Ukraine, Poland, Czechoslovakia and even Cuba. -
Chapter 11: 1984: The LOMO LC-A Goes Public
Originally conceived as a Soviet version of the Cosina CX-2 from Japan, the LOMO LC-A (Lomo Kompakt Automat) was aimed for the Soviet masses and was first released in 1984. Initially, 1,100 units were slated to be manufactured each month - solely for the Russian market and after overcoming a few bumps in the road, everything seems to be coming up roses for the production of LOMO LC-As. -
LC-A Big Book Chapter 10: Problems with Production
A trivial defect during the production of the supposed first batch of LOMO LC-As in 1984 caused problems during production. After extensive work, the various kinks that were found in the first few LOMO LC-As were eventually ironed out and everyone's beloved LOMO camera is finally able to produce the lomographs that it has become known for. -
Chapter 9: Test and Construction Phase
The LOMO LC-A vvas in truth a real (and rather cheeky) copy of the Cosina CX 2. Aside from the different lens-cover mechanism (the Cos|na had a rotating cover vvhilst the LOMO LC-A vvas characterized by it's mechanical sliding door, which the Vice Defense Minister really liked) the whole construction of the LOMO LC-A was very much like the Japanese camera: the same dimpled cover extension the inscription on the front and top, the hot shoe flash, the vievvfinder, the exposure counter, the shutter release almost everything down to the smallest detail looked similar. The functions that were available with the Cosina, namely, the automatic exposure and four range settings were also included in the LOMO LC-A.

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The OSBA fall conference will be held on October 25th, 2014 at the OSU Extension Center. The location is 930 N. Portland Ave., Oklahoma City, OK 73107. Registration will be at 8:00AM and the meeting will start at 9:00AM. Donuts and coffee will be served. We will also be having a "pot luck" dinner. Drinks will be provided by OSBA.
Our featured speaker will be JD Hill with Hilltop Gardens LLC of Muldrow, OK. We will be having our annual business meeting and officer elections at this time. The officer positions of President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer are open to any OSBA member and will be determined by a vote at this meeting. Please submit your nomination(s) to any of the present officers and the nominations will be forwarded to the nomination committee. Please let me know of any new business items that you would like to submit to the membership.
Kacy Cole from Dadant will be present and will bring any items that you pre-order from the Paris, TX location. Place your order by October 23rd and mention that the order is to be sent with Kacy to the OSBA conference in OKC. Beekeeping Etc. will also be a vendor present at this conference. Their website is beekeepingetc.com or can be reached at 405-600-7200.
We will be having our fundraising auction toward the end of the meeting. If you have an items that you would like to donate to the auction, please bring these items for the auction table. You may also want to donate to the door prize table.
I am looking forward to seeing all of you at the meeting and hope that your association is well represented.
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I encourage you to peruse the links on this website, where you will find a wealth of information. Visit the "Local Clubs" link and find a club near you, where you can find support for your beekeeping endeavours. Please use the "Contact" list if we can be of further assistance.
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Ben Stewart here with PopularMechanics.com and I'm here with Dr. Ralf Herrtwich who's in charge of a very interesting system that Mercedes may come out with in the future, it's the new My Command system. What does this system really do? Is it-- It's a total connectivity for the driver.
Exactly. It's the first internet-only head unit. Every single function that you see in our system is internet-based. You don't have traditional radio, FM tuners, AM tuners in there, you just have internet radio. You don't have traditional voice calling, you just have voice over IP. You don't have onboard navigation, you just go to services like Google Maps and that is blended seamlessly into the HMI of the vehicle.
And it's a little bit ways off but you have it fully integrated in this concept--
Yeah, that is what we actually paid key attention to. We wanted to have the same experience on this system as we have in our command systems today in our production vehicles. It blends nicely with the rest of the vehicle. You don't even realize, with most of the functions, that you're accessing an internet service--
Because it's so smooth--
Because it's so smooth.
This system is it's really a seamless connectivity but you have to have the Wi-Fi network in place in order to get that and that's happening, not currently but you foresee it in the future.
We foresee it in the future, exactly. I mean, currently, we have 3G networks in most of the regions of the world but already the telecommunication carriers are working on the fourth generation, it's called long-term revolution, LTE, yet another of those acronyms that we have in that area. So, and what we will see there eventually with the broad footprint are wireless bandwidths of 50 to 100 megabits per second, that's way more than many of us have at home today, so imagine to have that available wirelessly. That is the ideal platform for a system like My Command.
And we're talking about 10 years out?
Not necessarily. It may come sooner than that. I mean, depending on who you talk to. I mean, that depends on the individual carriers, that depends on the regions of the world. What we learned from them is that we're talking 2012, 2015, when they start building these networks.
Well, let's go inside and have a look.
Now we're inside the Mercedes-Benz Concept Fascination, about to get a demonstration of what really is a fascinating concept. Now, how does this internet-based My Command system work?
Now, you see, the typical functions that we have in an entertainment system up here, you have media access, you have navigation, you have communication and you of course have web access.
Uh huh.
So we can go into let's say navigation and it comes up with the Google Map of the location we're in and, of course, if I zoom into this, it also shows me some points of interest which are on the current Google Map.
Uh huh.
And the beauty here is you might notice, it's not just showing you where the gas stations are, it also shows you what the fuel price at those gas stations is.
And you can also zoom in and get restaurants in the area on your route that you've planned.
Yeah, like for example here, we have some restaurant here in the vicinity. Here are some others that we may see. So, yeah, everything. Hotels. They'll come up with these little things. I can also then go in there and take a look at how the area looks like. Well, here's that hotel that we've just seen--
and I can check out the vicinity also perhaps for restaurant, that I wanna get a feel for the neighborhood where the restaurant is in if I've never been there.
And it's a great feature, too. I mean, if you're on a road trip and you wanna see exactly what the next turn is gonna be.
Perhaps you could see it that way.
Well, the radio is one feature that we have which gives you access to all internet stations in the world so this is a good station from Germany, and, of course, we are in LA here so this is streamed off the internet. Here we go.
Sounds good. We're listening to German radio.
Of course, you can go to your personal music collection on, let's say, your laptop at home.
Exactly. This is the function we have here under My Library, so this comes up with some albums that I happen to have on my server and, of course, we can just select one of those and then music should start playing from the server. Here we go.
That's fantastic. You know, it cuts down on all the clutter, too. You don't need your iPod, your--
Your CDs--
Exactly. You just go straight to the source.
And, of course, this will pick up your phone via Bluetooth and it's a voice over internet protocol system?
Exactly. So if you wanna do voice calling here, that goes through the internet, and the beauty of it is you can transmit data and voice in parallel so we could make other features available while you're actually talking on the phone.
So, in the future, this has a lot of interesting potential when it comes to electric cars. Explain to us like kind of what your vision is potentially for an electric vehicle tying all this stuff together.
What becomes important for electrical vehicles is, of course, because your range is somewhat limited, right? You wanna make best use of the battery capacity that you have available, so you wanna know what kind of road you're going to travel on, whether it has slopes, whether you can recuperate some energy while going downhill or whether you need a boost of energy while going uphill so if you tie in the navigation into that powertrain management, that will actually help you for better utilization of your battery--
Make the vehicle more efficient all year round, yeah--
Oh, yeah, yeah. Also, what we might be seeing or some regions where you can only drive for like, yeah, so if that happens, what you can do is if you tie that into the navigation system and we can make sure that you intercept the region with a fully charged battery.
That's really gonna be pretty neat when that happens. I mean, you can go right through the mapping system. It can tell you the topography, what's about to come out, and then once you hit that point, the car can handle it with ease.
Well, great. The future of in-car communication and navigation and music and basically your life in the car about 8 years from now.
That's how we see it.
Well, there's the future. Hopefully the future. I really love this system and thanks very much for your time.
Oh, you're welcome.
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I've been covering ebook readers (or ereaders) since the 1980s. I'm not convinced that ereaders are the future of ebooks, but reading materials are certainly moving to digital formats.
Here at the University of Minnesota, it was recently announced that our College of Education and Human Development began to provide iPads to all freshmen in the largest research-based iPad pilot project in the U.S. which began this Fall.
The Nook, the most recent ereader to be offered, provides some key improvements to the format and should be an interesting consumer electronics product this holiday season. The new model, boasting full-color screen was announced at a press conference in NYC. New features include web surfing - which would seem to bring this new model more into line with tablet computers. More information is @ Barnes & Noble website.
As the holiday season begins to heat up, we should be seeing greater price ranging of the devices - from the black/white ereading only models nearing $100 to more fully-loaded models at higher price ranges and offering features that bring them into the tablet category.
In the past two years, ebook readers have become:
• smaller, sleeker, lighter weight - while maintaining their 5 or 6 inch screens
• with improved screen contrast and better control of fonts to meet individual user needs
• faster navigation, screen refreshes, page turning and other functioning
• pricing continues to decline despite product enhancements
• enhanced abilities to read a wider range of information formats and content sources
• more flexible options beyond the 'book', such as Internet browsers, abilities to mount apps or use devices for movies or audio
• Linux has become the most popular operating system supporting dedicated ereaders today, with Microsoft Windows coming in a far second
• EPUB, PDF, HTML and TXT are most common - allowing for adding documents, downloading free ebooks and other applications
• integrating some type of dictionary function.
• some directory scheme for organizing burgeoning ebook collections
• 1GB storage is common with some allowing for as much as 4GB of storage
• touchscreen systems and/or some type of keyboard for input
• web browsing is developing as a standard feature
More publishers are entering the arena - and magazine/newspapers are developing pricing schemes - so that content will be less of an issue.
I've written about ebooks and ebook readers for many years - and have one scheduled to assess the market after the coming holiday buying season as well. Here are some of my published articles on ebooks - and I'd be interested in hearing your opinions and ideas on the products as well!
"Kindle DX: Amazon's Latest Ebook Reader," Information Today 26(9): 26-7, October, 2009.
Short Kindle Review.pdf
"The Ebook Reader Is Not the Future of Ebooks," SEARCHER 16(8): 26-40, September 2008.
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Staying On My Own Yoga Mat
Yoga stretches me both physically and emotionally. It used to bring out the compare-and-despair mindset. I had the tendency to compare my downward dog pose to yours. Forgive me. It wasn't my fault. My first experience with yoga, I chose the wrong class in a Manhattan YWCA with a teacher who was an extreme perfectionist and it was all about yoga precision. It was the wrong level for me and the other students in the class were doing headstands and full back bends.
At the time, I had recently taken off lots of weight and I was far from limber. I was completely intimidated. All the teacher did was snap and correct me abruptly. She actually came over to my mat and contorted my body into positions that it was not ready for. I tried, but ended up curling into the only pose I felt capable of, Child's Pose, and quietly cried as she mumbled something and stepped over me. I left that class and didn't return to yoga for many years. Luckily when I did, I chose lovely yoga teachers who know what yoga is about and who have shown me how to meet myself where I am generously and with no judgment.
The philosophy of yoga is to help one achieve a certain poise of equanimity, to look at all aspects of life, both the pleasure and the pain, with acceptance and serenity. Yoga teaches one how to simply be where they are.
The most important lesson I've learned through yoga is to stay on my own mat and not compare. You are on your yoga mat and I'm on mine. That has helped me in life too. Everyone has their own right moves at the right time and so do I. I've also learned to choose the right forms of movement for the right times in my life. I still don't do headstands and perfect back bends, and that's alright with me.
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If I wanted to start at the begining with the core set and then slowly work in the expansions as they came out till I catch up is it possible to do it and not have missed anything. Were there any special events or leagues that I missed. An example would be the Warhammer league that had a kit that stores got. Also I notice on the events for the LCG game day event there was an epic quest event. Is there a way we can run that locally?
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OpenEmbedded has been working on something like this already. They have a somewhat working portage. Most of their programs build under GCC 3.1/3.2. Chris Larson, kergoth in #OpenEmbedded, and his team are doing some good work on this. Might wanna chat with him if this is similar project. His team is using BitKeeper to manage their developement files, but can be viewed at http://openembedded.bkbits.net/ and some info at http://openembedded.org. Might be helpfull, never know. He tends to be irritated with people at times. I don't know if this has been brought up earlier, I just signed up for this mailing list. Mathew -- email@example.com mailing list
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The Most Glorious 'Special Instructions' Customers Have Requested on Seamless
Sure, social networks may know you better than Seamless–Facebook knows what you like, Google knows what you search for, Twitter knows who you follow, OkCupid knows how you like it. But ordering meals to your door is still an oddly intimate experience. Often you're sitting in your home hungry, lazy, vulnerable to your Read More


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ok i have made ressies at the castle for brkfst but now i'm nervous.. i want to really be able to experiance and spend time with the princesses... but i also would love to eat in the castle... after seeing Kerri's pics at the brkfst in Norway with princesses even Ariel! i'm starting to think i made a bad choice and wondering if i should try to change my ressies??
so a ? for you who have went to the these meals.. which do you think was the best experiance?
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As a child, I was sick with relative frequency. I remember returning to third grade after a month off with mono, several pounds lighter, and my skin pale from lack of exposure to sun. As I walked in, all Colin from The Secret Garden, the bitchiest girl in the class announced "You're, like, always sick."
It had occurred to me that I was sick more often than my peers. True, my mother had a fairly lenient stay-home-from-school policy, but by the time I was 10, I'd had mono, bronchitis, pneumonia, an ongoing bladder reflux issue and several sinus infections. My sisters are the same way. We're evolutionarily weak. Whatever.
One might posit that having two orthopedic surgeries and a few viral and bacterial infections would foster some stoicism around unwellness. Well, one would be wrong. Practice, in my case, does not make perfect. When I'm ill, I'm a nightmare. Keep reading »


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Introduction:Vermeil is a little reddish and soft, with a mild color of the water. . When the hot water rinses the teapot, it will become delicate red. As teapot wobbles, the purple light comes out, which attracts many people who love teapot with its mystery. Tea brewed in this pot will be bright and crystal in color, freshing and mellow in taste. Real Zhu mud is characteristically hard and heavy. It is in red color glowing with faint orange luster, clear and mellifluous in texture which is comparable with the tip-top Zhu mud in the middle period of the Qing dynasty. The large wares cannot be made by being heated with Zhu mud, finished smaller ones reveal subtle corrugations, representing a sense of ancient elegance of Zhu mud. Zhu mud produced in Zhaozhuang is grey, white and yellowish-brown in color, appearing slices structure. Since it is heavy-textured, the raw ore is hard to be used as sand. The toughest part (old clay with red texture after produced into pottery, and known as "stone bone")of soft clay mineral can be mined and become pottery clay after repeated manual production process implemented by Antique Pottery Research Institution.
Kiln temperature: approximately 1065~1700 degrees C.
Contraction ratio: 25%.
Mineral: Jiangsu Yixing Zhao Zhuangshan, Huanglong mountain.
Property:It should be produced under high temperature. Its contraction ratio is very high.
Level of Difficulty: easy to be deformed, cracked and dropping off sands when taken from kiln; the adobe is loose in texture, so a finished pot is apt to crack which is very difficult to conglutinate. Besides, the nozzle is ready to drop sand, and much patience and high technique are called for when dealing with delicate parts of the pot. It characterizes with high contraction ratio, low-yield, and difficult to achieve large wares.
Characteristics: Coved with coarse grains which form a unique style of it; the pot is ruddy and sandy, and the body of it is obviously presenting double-hole in structure for better air convection. This is distinguished from other pottery. Its texture is pristine and elegant which is unprecedentedly overwhelming, so it enjoys long lasting popularity over hundreds of years.
Brewing features: Its discoloration ratio is high when filled with boiling water, and it will get redder over time, reveling the charm of its meticulous wrapped slurry. The pot easily echoes with tea, and the tea is mellow sweet and easily be predicated when brewed. Besides, it is still fresh overnight, so it takes both advantages of red mud and Zisha. Remember to warm it before brewing. You can enjoy an unprecedented fantastic taste the moment you savor the tea poured from a newly finished teapot… … It is just like the mixture of all sorts of top teas which promptly release their intoxicating and impassionate traits. The long-lasting fragrance of the tea is also exceedingly refreshing and pleasant, and the tea is so clear and demonstrated, so it is promoted as "the most attractive tea that having a sophisticated appeal to making fish sunk and wild geese fallen" by old Magua! You cannot help but appropriating the gracious gift of nature to human at the sight of the bright and delicate tea. If you brewed teas of different fermentation degrees at different temperature with the teapot made from Zhu mud, you will be surprised to acknowledge that the tea naturally brewed in this teapot will release such different alluring flavors. Its elegant fragrant, transparent soup, delicate taste and lingering aftertaste will be enough for your lifetime retrospection. Teapot made from Zhu mud will magically animate many old teas of many years for it can stimulate the antique flavor of old teas, and enable the tea soup representing a unique quality in taste and characteristics. Its discoloration ratio is high when filled with boiling water, and easily takes meticulous wrapped slurry which reveals long-lasting brilliance over time. The tea soup is mellow and concentrated with lingering sweet aftertaste and aroma, so it must be the most favorable kind for teapot collectors.
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Album review
In these X-Factor times, the cover version finds itself in a difficult place, somewhere to the left of those old Top Of The Pops albums on which the day's hits were mimicked by soundalike groups, and slightly to the right of karaoke.
Peter Gabriel's covers album is not like that; it comes with an art concept attached, being the first of a series of "song exchanges" in which leading artists reinterpret each other's material. If true, this is surely a good deal for Gabriel, who can expect to receive, by return of post, a Jiffy containing his own tunes reworked by Radiohead, Elbow, Lou Reed, Neil Young, David Bowie and Paul Simon.
On reflection, that album might be more surprising than this one, though it's far from obvious that Gabriel's own back catalogue is awash with standards awaiting creative interpretation. (The Simon Cowell hit factory is never going to retool "Sledgehammer".)
Needless to say, these covers are not straightforward. Gabriel limits his options by opting to record with an orchestral backing, with no guitar or drums. This makes the sound wilfully sombre, particularly as Gabriel's singing is often more theatrical than emotionally expressive: he is not, and has never been, a soul man. But this almost literary attitude also exposes the words, sometimes to great effect. Paul Simon's "Boy In The Bubble", for example, is a rush of pop. Gabriel's version has scarcely any rhythmic heft: the vocal, with sweetness excised, is plaintive and mournful, verging on desperate. Gabriel delivers it as a lullaby, cradling the words "don't cry baby, don't cry", so that the days of miracle and wonder sound ominous and desperate. It's stern, but quite lovely.
Gabriel's approach is clinical, similar to the surgery performed on "Heartbreak Hotel" by John Cale, which removed Elvis' pelvis, and stitched existential dread where romantic disappointment used to be. Oddly, Cale comes to mind on Gabriel's version of Lou Reed's "The Power Of The Heart", which manages to feel like a piano ballad, while also having the qualities of a Christmas hymn. The vocal is conversational, but it does sound rather as if Gabriel is delivering the message in a Welsh accent. "Heroes" is similarly effective: Bowie's defiant, suicidal optimism is replaced by dreamy despair. Again - the sensation is less romantic, less teenage, more inflected with the weary realism of middle age.
If Gabriel is comfortable with Bowie and Lou, he's less relaxed with more recent material. Arcade Fire's "My Body Is A Cage" is twice as long as it should be, overcooked, and the nearest thing to Genesis on the record, despite a Mark Lanegan/Johnny Cash style vocal. Radiohead's "Street Spirit (Fade Out)" is played in the style of a tramp idling in a piano bar - albeit a clever tramp channelling Arvo PŠrt - while Robert Wyatt sings along in the snug. The delicacy of Elbow's "Mirrorball" is lost in a fog of over-cranked orchestration. Bon Iver's "Flume" is more convincing, and quite different from Justin Vernon's recording. The original is organic, angelic, and intimately acoustic. Gabriel gives the tune a widescreen interpretation, and replaces wispy diction with crisp enunciation. It's rather strange, and quite beautiful. My iPod shuffled it next to Nick Drake's "Fly": an exact fit.
But perhaps the most effective retread is Talking Heads' "Listening Wind": Gabriel removes the funk, parks the dance, and leaves the words to do the work. David Byrne's 1980 song is a remarkable piece of narrative writing, switching between the first and third person as it follows the fortunes of Mojique, a terrorist who "holds a package in his quivering hands", finding justification for his behaviour in the sound of the wind. And it sounds like a timeless song, written yesterday.
Alastair McKay
Has the 'song swap' idea been in your head for some time?
It's been hovering for a while, yes. I recorded a Vampire Weekend track and that revitalised it to some extent. But I knew that a regular covers album has been done to death and that I needed to find a way to make it fun. That's when I got the idea of making an exchange: you do one of mine and I'll do one of yours. I'm very keen still to push the craft of songwriting. It's underacknowledged. For example, everyone hears "The Boy In The Bubble" with that wonderful South African backing, but you tend to forget that's one of the best rock lyrics ever written. The day you stop learning is the day you pack up. And I'm definitely still learning.
You've done Elbow's "Mirrorball"...
It's funny, because of all the melodies I've heard, Elbow's remind me of the stuff I used to do in the early Genesis days: unsingable and real buggers to get right. "Mirrorball" was the hardest track to do, by a long way. I just thought, I've been here before!
Why no guitar or drums on these songs?
The original concept was to make the songs stark and empty, so you'd listen to the lyrics and melody. That would allow me to function more as a singer.
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Mary Bell
Brian Howe
"Brian Howe had no mother, so he won't be missed."
-- Mary Bell
"Are you looking for your Brian?" asked Mary Bell. Brian's sister, Pat, was worried about the missing toddler, who should have been home by now. A small, three-year-old boy with fair hair, Brian Howe usually played close to home. Mary and her best friend, Norma, eagerly offered to help search for him. They led Pat through the neighborhood, looking here and there, all the while knowing exactly where Brian was.
"Oh no, he never goes there," insisted Norma. In fact, Brian lay dead between the blocks. Mary wanted Pat to discover her dead brother, Norma later said, "because she wanted Pat Howe to have a shock." But Pat decided to leave. The Newcastle Police would find his body at 11:10 later that night.
Brian was found covered with grass and purple weeds. He had been strangled. Nearby, a pair of broken scissors lay in the grass. There were puncture marks on his thighs, and his genitals had been partially skinned. Clumps of his hair were cut away. The wounds were bizarre: "There was a terrible playfulness about it, a terrible gentleness if you like, and somehow the playfulness of it made it more, rather than less, terrifying," said Inspector James Dobson. Brian's belly had been signed "M" with a razor blade. This cut would not be apparent until days later. It appeared that someone had imprinted an "N", and that a fourth mark was added (by a different hand?) to change the "N" into a "M".


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Marc Ferrari & Brian Jay of KEEL play "Whisky-A-Go-Go" June 8th
Keel is coming to the Whisky on Saturday for a rare comeback performance, and guitarist Marc Ferrari promises the band will be "tighter than a frog's ass"
By Gerry Gittelson
Metal Sludge Editor at Large
HOLLYWOOD — Keel is among the most fondly remembered pop-metal bands from back in the day that never quite got to the point of selling millions of records and headlining arenas – but they were oh so close.
The fivesome led by Ron Keel and twin-lead guitarists Marc Ferrari and Bryan Jay supported a lot of major acts on the road like Bon Jovi, Motley Crue and Aerosmith, but by the time they broke up a few years later, they owed the record company about $500,000 – a typical scenario in a rock and roll business that applauds you one minute, then turns its back on you the next.
The group did have a great anthem called "The Right to Rock," but looking back now, perhaps they weren't "destructive" enough – both professionally and personally – to climb into the upper-echelon. Sad, but maybe if Keel had been arrested more or harmed others, they would have been more popular.
The songs were good but in those days that was not always the No. 1 priority.
You look back now, and youtube provides a pretty good scale of how popular you were if you add up all the views of the top videos. Keel totaled about 1.5 million views overall – bigger than Giuffria but less than one-tenth as popular as Ratt.
In particular, Mr. Keel and Ferrari found success in business through the years, but it's still fun to strap on the guitar every so often, so the band has made a few little comebacks through the years, including playing Rocklahoma in 2009.
Now they're returning to Los Angeles, and Keel is headlining the Whisky on Saturday, June 8.
Ferrari, 50, has always been a scenemaker of sorts, and we run into each other all the time. He later formed Cold Sweat and Medicine Wheel plus he wrote a book – all epic failures, sadly – before striking it rich in the 1990s by forming MasterSource, a company that licenses music for TV and film soundtracks.
Ferrari has been wanting to get his Sludge on for quite some time, and even though his image is pretty squeaky clean, there is a lot of soul beneath the varnish.
He's a great guy, a gifted songwriter, and here Ferrari promises to the tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
KEEL in the early days
METAL SLUDGE: I see the band is playing some dates. So Keel is still active?
MARC FERRARI: Yeah, we play like six to eight to ten shows a year. Whenever we're asked to play, we do it. We did the Monsters of Rock cruise, a couple of support slots, a couple of headline slots. We'll play any time!
SLUDGE: And you playing the Whisky on Saturday, June 8.
FERRARI: This is going to strike you as odd, but it's actually the first time Keel has played the Whisky. We played the Roxy in April, 1984. I remember it because Kelle Rhoads opened for us. He was Randy Rhoads' brother. And the other band that night was Mansfield with Doug Aldrich.
SLUDGE: Interesting.
FERRARI:Cold Sweat played the Whisky, but for Keel this is first time.
SLUDGE: OK, you've brought up Cold Sweat, let's get right into it. After you signed a record deal, your singer, Oni Logan, left to join Lynch Mob. You ended up with Rory Cathey, who was not nearly as good. Were you mad?
FERRARI:First off, we're all great buddies now, me and George Lynch and Oni Logan, even though some might find that hard to believe. We all hang out and everything. But at the time, rewinding the clock to 1988 or '89, a quarter-century ago, of course I was mad. That move put all of our careers on hold. Fortunately, we had some patient people at MCA like Bret Hartman, who was our A & R guy, and the others at MCA. They believed in us.
Marc Ferrari & Cold Sweat
SLUDGE: Here's the part that I don't understand: You had some stripes yourself, playing in Keel. George Lynch had played in Dokken, but it wasn't like Oni was quitting your band to join a big group like Journey or something – that I could understand. But to join Lynch Mob? That was almost like a lateral move, and that made it more of a betrayal, in my view.
FERRARI: Yeah, in retrospect, you could say that, but George certainly had more of a following, definitely more of a buzz. I think Oni had some money thrown at him. I'm not sure of the amount or if it's even true or not. It's one of those folklore kind of things in rock. But like I said, we patched things up many years ago, and he's been over to my house and everything. Many years later, he did apologize for that because it was a shitty thing to do at the time, but we've all moved on.
SLUDGE: Who's to say Cold Sweat might have been a lot bigger with Oni instead of Rory?
FERRARI: That's just talk, just a bunch of shoulda, woulda, could. Just so we're clear, I've made peace with everybody.
Brian Jay & Marc Ferrari
Marc with Brad & Joe from Aerosmith pre-show 1986 Foxboro Stadium
SLUDGE: I remember Bryan Jay well from his girlfriend, Heather Torrance, that whacked out porno star who used to hang out on the Strip. Do you remember her?
FERRARI: I don't but it sounds like you do. Here's another little trivia thing, I was actually dating Bryan Jay's sister about a month later after he joined. As for Bryan, he had a lot of girlfriends. He was kind of the quintessential California dude, tall and athletic and a great player. I definitely had a different vibe, being from New York, but he had the California vibe, and he was kind of a ladies guy back then.
SLUDGE: Maybe that was not such a good idea dating the sister of a band member. I mean, what if some chick is pulling out her tits on the tour bus, is there still man code that he's not going to tell the sister?
FERRARI: With Bryan, like most people, blood is thicker. That's where your loyalty is first, then me. But it's all good.
SLUDGE: I've got to ask you about that little blond patch of hair you always have, a little blond spot with brown hair. Did girls like it, or did they turn you down just because of the patch?
FERRARI:No, but they turned me down for other reasons (laughs). You know, everyone has their own calling card, and I wanted to have something visual.
SLUDGE: Oh, so it's dye? I thought it was natural.
FERRARI:Yeah, there's a long list of rocker guys, all chemical. For some reason, it's become one of my trademarks. Back then, you definitely wanted people to notice you, so you did what you had to do to get noticed. Joe Perry, Blackie Lawless. Blackie did his thing, and that worked for him, but it wasn't a blonde streak it was white.
SLUDGE: Did you ever get lazy, and it faded out.
FERRARI:No, I had a hair roadie just for that! He would remind me.
Marc Ferrari with the legendary Dimebag Darrell
KEEL with Steve Riley and some local 5-0 during the summer of 1984
SLUDGE: Looking back, I guess the most distinctive thing about Keel was the great tours you got to do, the great opening slots.
FERRARI:Yeah, it was really spectacular. The biggest was Bon Jovi. We did a month's worth of dates on the "Slippery When Wet" tour, and that was the apex of Bon Jovi-mania. We did dates with Motley Crue, Aerosmith, Queensryche, Black n Blue. You're absolutely right – a lot of supporting bigger bands, but we also did some headline shows and theatre shows, never made it to arenas. We'd play these big places, then we'd be back on our own playing clubs. We should have busted out in 1987, but we never got the momentum going after that. Still, I had a great time, no regrets. I wish it would have lasted forever, but it is what it is.
SLUDGE: Did you take notes or a journal? I bet you've had some amazing times that you've forgot all about because the nights layered on top of one another and all blended together.
FERRARI: The shows with Bon Jovi were some great memories. I always kept something from every gig, a picture, a matchbook cover, that kind of thing. I think I kept most of my brain cells from back then. I wasn't a choirboy, but I didn't go off the deep end, either.
SLUDGE: Yeah, I don't even remember you smoking pot.
FERRARI:No, Bryan Jay and I, out of the five guys in the band, we smoked the least. But the alcohol flowed freely. It was in abundance. But I watch all those VHI shows like "Behind the Music," and there was nothing nearly as dramatic as most of the bands. We had a good time, but we worked hard, and we were all very diligent. We were all very serious about what we did. Ron Keel ran a pretty tight ship.
SLUDGE: He is incredibly talented. How impressed were you with Ron Keel?
FERRARI: Oh, I was absolutely impressed. He's right there with the best, especially his work ethic. His focus was like a razor back then, very driven.
SLUDGE: Do you remember the project he did after, with Fair Game? It was him and four female backing musicians including Athena Lee on drums, Tommy Lee's sister. The project went nowhere — did you think it was a good idea or ridiculous?
FERRARI: Well, I think Ron would be the first to admit it was maybe not the most successful thing in the world, but it was something different. I don't think the idea worked, but he was trying something new, so he can't fault him for that.
SLUDGE: Then eventually you got into the business with licensing for movies and stuff.
FERRARI:Yeah, after Cold Sweat broke up in 1991, I was kind of faced with what the heck am I going to do now?
SLUDGE: Did you have any money saved up, or were you struggling?
FERRARI: I had nothing. With Keel, we were all getting by on a minimal salary. We still owe half a million dollars to the record company. The thing is, with most recording artists, you get such a little piece of the pie to begin with, with reductions and record returns charged back and things like that, and you have the smallest piece of the pie to begin with. You've got to realize that record companies don't give you a thing, they just loan you money. But I guess it's gambling, and if you stand in front of a slot machine long enough and keep feeding quarters, eventually you win a jackpot.
SLUDGE: Now I understand the lyrics to "Right to Rock." You have a right to rock but not a right to get paid.
FERRARI:Yeah (laughs), but the that song benefitted us in a lot of ways because it was such an anthem, and the timing was perfect with all that stuff with the PMRC.
SLUDGE: I don't see how "Cherry Lane" was not a huge hit. That was a top-40 hit waiting to happen, a great song.
FERRARI: Yeah, it was a great pop-rock song like Warrant. It had a great uptempo feel and a good rhythm, certainly a poppy song in line with what Bon Jovi was doing, but we didn't do a video for it. We did one for "Somebody's Waiting" instead, and that was a good song, too. But you know how it is, and "Cherry Lane" never had a chance.
SLUDGE: So you look back now, were you happy during Keel's run? Did you feel like you got enough satisfaction?
FERRARI: Oh, I was extremely happy. I felt lucky. I moved out from the East Coast with like $300 to my name, trying to make it with three guys who, we were all in cover band together in Boston. We thought we could come to L.A. and reform and get a record deal, but those guys ran out of money and got lonely cause they missed their mommies and whatever. They couldn't get it together and all moved back home, and I decided to stick it out.
SLUDGE: When you eventually toured through Boston again, did you hook them up with backstage passes and stuff?
FERRARI:Of course.
SLUDGE: Did you feel an extra sense of satisfaction?
FERRARI: Nah, I'm not a vindictive guy. I loved them then, and I love 'em now. No hard feelings. Everything happens for a reason. I highly doubt we would have made it in Los Angeles because we just didn't have a charismatic front man. I hooked up with Ron Keel a few months later.
SLUDGE: Ron has a reputation for kind of having a dark personality, but when I met him in Vegas he treated me like a king. Is he misunderstood?
FERRARI: No, he doesn't have a dark personality, he has a strong personality, and that's because he's very self-confident and knows exactly what he wants. Like I said, he has a laser focus. I think some may look at him as arrogant in a Kevin Dubrow or Dee Snider kind of way, but they're all just headstrong guys.
SLUDGE: OK, I'm going to name a city, and you tell me a particular memory – and not something like "Oh, we did great there," but something more substantial.
FERRARI: OK, go for it.
SLUDGE: San Francisco.
FERRARI: Good one. We recorded up there one summer and played the Stone and got into a major fight. The whole band was brawling, and knives were pulled.
SLUDGE: You pulled the knife?
FERRARI:No (laughs). But I did some stomping. But someone else did pull a knife. The crazy thing was how the flight flared up so quick. You didn't even have time to think.
SLUDGE: Detroit.
FERRARI: Oh, I have a great one for Detroit, too. We got snowed in. We were there as part of a three-day radio tour for "Right to Rock," and there was a blizzard like you would not believe. I didn't think we would make it, but once we did get there, that's when the real blizzard hit, and it snowed all night. We had a cool motor home, and we couldn't get it out. Detroit was also the first city outside of L.A. that I ever heard our song on the radio, and that was pretty cool.
SLUDGE: OK, how about somewhere in Canada? Toronto.
FERRARI: I remember hanging out with Sebastian Bach in Toronto. He was on the bill with us, and we were all hanging out with Neil Young's sister, on the bus. She was a rocker chick. I think that was in '85. We were opening for Loudness.
SLUDGE: New York City.
FERRARI:We played three nights at Madison Square Garden. I remember rolling up on that place and seeing our names on the marquee of such an iconic venue, and that's the kind of thing you dream about. It was an amazing feeling. We also had some pretty crazy times at Limelight late at night, plus recording at Ladyland in the same room as Jimi Hendrix. That was pretty incredible.
SLUDGE: London.
FERRARI:We played three nights at Hammersmith Odeon, opening for Ronnie James Dio. Every night, a different set of rock royalty showed up – not for us, of course. Lemmy was holding court, and there was Maiden and Saxon and Girlschool and all these others. We went to the bar afterward, in London, drinking with Iron Maiden, and it just felt like, "Wow, you've arrived."
SLUDGE: Tokyo.
FERRARI: We did a headline tour through Tokyo in '86, but not Budokan. It was a smaller place, I forget the name.
SLUDGE: Good memories of Japanese groupies?
FERRARI: Yeah, and I think we did fine job as cultural ambassadors. We spread the virtues of the American way, and we did ourselves proud. There's still peace, so that's got to mean something.
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Marc & Marc! Both spelled with a C! Ferrari & Storace Krokus frontman 1986
SLUDGE: Nice. So the Whisky show is coming up soon. Are you going to be well-rehearsed?
FERRARI:Are you kidding? We're going to be tighter than a frog's ass. If we can't get these songs down after 29 years, then something is terribly wrong.
SLUDGE: Do you sample the background vocals?
FERRARI: No we handle them, and that's being truthful. We've never, ever sampled vocals. We have always worked hard on the vocals, and as far as samples and loops, we don't even know what those are.
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Sonia Song-Ha Lee: Black-Puerto Rican Coalitions in the Civil Rights Movement
Puerto Ricans played a pivotal role in the building of the civil rights movement in New York City—one of the less-heralded but still vital sites of movement.
Puerto Ricans played a pivotal role in the building of the civil rights movement in New York City—one of the less-heralded but still vital sites of movement.
Transgender steelworkers are the most vulnerable people I interviewed. The option of invisibility isn't available to those who transition at work. And every change that shows, every single solitary detail, becomes a focus of teasing, harassment, violence, and abuse.
I asked him to recall all the people he has worked with—all his union brothers and sisters, down through the years—and count the gay ones. Almost surprised, he said there were none. Of course, he knew as well as I do that there have been many, but that they did not identify themselves as such. My task is then to convince him that their silence was not simply a choice, but rather that it was made in fear, and comes with crippling consequences.
The image of the beautiful southern belle/lady was, by definition, racially exclusive, and many black women would have keenly felt its discriminatory power. There were occasions, however, when individuals and institutions attempted to claim the image for black women, to challenge its underlying racial assumptions and reframe its meaning. An interesting example is a photo spread that ran in Ebony magazine in 1971 entitled "Belles of the South" that featured young women from southern historically black colleges. The magazine said very explicitly that it wanted to prove that not all southern beauties were white—that black women were belles of the South, too.
For my narrators—the forty transgender, lesbian, and gay steelworkers I interviewed—marriage is complicated. Insurance and survival benefits are not just theoretical issues for them.
Queer rights becomes the paradigmatic symbol of the west – in Russia, gay liberation had gained some momentum until Putin linked gay rights with Western values, which then led to the systematic, legal oppression of gays in Russia today. The government is literally going into homes of gay people and taking their children away. And these Russian gays can't hide, because during the period of comparative freedom, they had come out, and now have public personas. There's no such thing as going back into the closet – once you're out, that's that. Their little window of freedom now targets them for state-sponsored abuse as the freedom and progress queers experience in the USA is used to punish queers globally.
A video of Rebecca Sharpless's talk on the history of African American women cooks in white households in the South, given at the 16th annual Southern Foodways Symposium, October 2013. Video produced by the Southern Foodways Alliance.
Durham's ManBites Dog Theater hosts "The Best of Enemies," a play based on the book by Osha Gray Davidson about the unlikely friendship between a poor white member of the KKK and a poor black civil rights activist in 1960s North Carolina.
Blair L. M. Kelley and Kathryn Cramer Brownell consider the assassination of JFK in the contexts of the civil rights movement, media spectacle, and shifting political structures.
It is fitting that in this 80th anniversary year of the 1933 rally the North Carolina NAACP is once again in the headlines, this time for its leading role in the recent Moral Monday protests at the state legislature.
The modern civil rights movement fought for racial equality and to create an interracial "beloved community." People in the movement did not make a distinction between action in the schools, the voting booth, or the streets toward those goals. Education was another arena for fighting racism and securing equal resources and opportunity. Seeing school desegregation as an integral part of the civil rights movement reminds us that an equal education is a basic human right that has been fought for but not yet achieved, and that overcoming racism in the classroom as in the community remains a moral imperative. For many local people, like Suzy Post, in Louisville and Jefferson County, the civil rights movement continues because the struggle to protect desegregation and through it achieve educational equity and better human understanding has not yet been won.
Even though the museum recognizes Smith's protest, if only barely, her protest tells us something valuable about the production of history and the sanctification of certain experiences over others. Here, a single person with a particular set of memories and a determination to remember a figure of such importance as King in a specific way finds herself facing an institution with a public commitment to remembrance that has become her own horror.
It was not just careers that came to an end in Woodrow Wilson's Washington. African Americans also lost a claim to their legitimacy as American citizens and participants in the national state. Marked as corrupt and untrustworthy, black Americans have struggled ever since to clear their names as honest and trust-worthy citizens, a struggle that continues into our own time.
King's letter scribbled on the edges of a newspaper is a democratic critique and draws attention to public aspect of faith traditions. In a democracy, faiths must always be self-critical and publicly criticized.
Only during the Poor People's Campaign did activists of so many different backgrounds—from veterans of the labor and southern civil rights movements to Chicano, American Indian, antiwar, and welfare rights activists—attempt to construct a physical and spiritual community that addressed poverty and broader issues of social justice for longer than a one-day rally.


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Insulin Resistance Leads to LADA (Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults)
Overweight and insulin resistance may contribute to LADA, a form of type 1 diabetes, according to results of a study by Dr. Sofia Carlsson and her fellow researchers from Stockholm.
38,800 initially diabetes-free Norwegians participated in two surveys: a baseline study from 1984 to 1986, and a follow-up study from 1995 to 1997. During the eleven-year period between the two surveys, 18 people developed type 1, 81 developed LADA, and 738 developed type 2.
Increased age, overweight, and physical inactivity proved to be as strong risk factors for LADA as for type 2 diabetes, suggesting a role for insulin resistance in the development of LADA. In light of the current obesity epidemic, the findings indicate that increasing rates of LADA may be forthcoming.
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Diabetologia November 2006
Categories: Diabetes, Diabetes, Insulin, Nutrition Research, Type 1 Issues, Type 2 Issues, Weight Loss


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They already had mega problems in less than a week with the original touch to pay under $50 and had to quickly implement changes to that with pinning $50 or less. Surprised they didn't think that through.
Anytime so much data is contained in one area like a wristband it just seems ripe for fraud and hackers. Considering what hackers can do worldwide I will hold out judgement until this whole thing rolls out.


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Thu, Oct 7, 10 at 20:52
Can anyone confirm or have A/B ----- is the Aura Bath Spa slightly more shiner than the Aura Matte. |
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- Posted by cinnamonsworld (My Page) on Thu, Oct 7, 10 at 23:47
I only have a recollection that reading the literature at the site suggested as much if you read between the lines. Or maybe it was a number. Along with asking here, I'd rec perusing the spec sheet closely - it may indeed have your answer. |
Perhaps a bit both are still considered matte finishes |
- Posted by kimbers324 (My Page) on Sat, Oct 9, 10 at 21:16
I used the Aura Bath sheen in my bathroom and it looks matte to me. I absolutely loved the way it turned out. |
We just used the Bath and Spa Matte in our two most recently renovated bathrooms and it looks like it has the same or even slightly less sheen than the regular Aura Matte. We used the regular Aura Matte when we did our guest bathroom, about a month or so before the Bath and Spa paint hit the stores. We also used regular Aura Matte in the kitchen, LR, DR, hallway..... They really do appear to be the same. |
Hmm interesting read. I need to repull the tech sheets but I could have sworn that the K&B had a slightly higher sheen.. Personally, I prefer Zinnsers Perma White for a Bathroom Paint...the cost difference for color match would have cost me almost similar to a can of Aura. The Perma White is a better product for Bathrooms FWIW |
fyi - the definitive spec is 1-2% higher sheen. Whether the eye can detect it is another matter. |
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22 Aug 2013Hi, my name is Betsy, and I want to share my phen375 review with you. I am a 34-year-old married teacher with three beautiful children at home: ages 2, 4, and 7. I work full-time at the school, and full-time at home as well. It takes a lot of time and energy to care for the house, the kids, and my husband. It seems as though there are never-ending chores which fill up my evenings and weekends… cooking, grocery shopping, laundry for five people, cleaning, and chasing after my little ones. The list is much longer than that, but I want to get to the point of my story so you can read my phen375 review.
After I had my youngest child a little over 2 years now, I attempted to slim down. According to my doctor, I should lose about 40 pounds to be at a healthy weight for my body type. I asked family and friends how they had lost weight, and I tried the diet plans which worked for them. But eating like a bird left me feeling grouchy, despondent and worn out. So I chose to join a gym and begin exercising, but with all of my work and house obligations, my gym membership went unused. That was a lot of cash out the window. I wish I had found the phen375 reviews sooner.
Desperate, obese, and really annoyed, I started browsing the Internet for weight loss ideas. I thought perhaps there was some wonder diet I hadn't attempted yet which would help me get in shape. You see, for our upcoming 10th wedding anniversary, my husband had planned a charming trip to Hawaii … and there was no chance I can show myself on a beach in a swimwear offering all those extra pounds. While I was online, I came across some phen375 reviews.
After checking out every last phen375 review I might find, I decided I would give the product a try. It appeared insane that something might work so well and help me lose weight so easily. I felt a little weird about getting the product considering that I had actually never attempted anything like it in the past. But I chose to do something different than what I had been trying, and I bought phen375.
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Our romantic 10th anniversary getaway to Hawaii is about three weeks away, and I have already lost 35 pounds. I feel certain I can reach my goal of 40 pounds of weight loss before our trip. I already look incredible in my new swimsuit, and I have so much more energy than I used to when I was overweight. I had to share my own phen375 review with you, just in case you are in the same weight-loss rut I was in before I discovered this wonderful product.
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Dan Hale appointed archdeacon of CEC's Diocese of the Mid-South
Father Dan Hale of Peachtree City was recently installed as the new archdeacon for the Diocese of the Mid-South of the Charismatic Episcopal Church.
As a priest-in-residence at Christ the King Charismatic Episcopal Church in Sharpsburg, Hale serves as master of ceremonies for Sunday services and, with the appointment to archdeacon, that responsibility will be expanded to include special services such as ordinations and confirmations throughout the diocese. He is chaplain to Bishop David Epps and he serves as a member of the rector's and parish councils.
For almost two years, Hale has served as the interim vicar of St. Matthew Charismatic Episcopal Church in Hogansville. He also serves as a member of the bishop's council of the diocese.
Hale and his wife, Stephanie, and their daughter, Amanda, reside in Peachtree City. Their oldest daughter, Sterling, and her husband, Gerry, live in Charlottesville, Va.
The Hales have one grandchild, Isabella.


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Wesley Chapel Man Sentenced To Ten Years For Using A Phone And Computer To Arrange For Sex With Child
Tampa, FL - U.S. Attorney Robert E. O'Neillannounces that U.S. District Judge Richard A. Lazarra today sentenced John Joseph Steele (64, Wesley Chapel) to 10 years in federal prison for using a computer and cell phone to arrange for sex with a thirteen-year-old child.
According to testimony presented at trial, on June 18, 2011, Steele used his computer and cell phone to arrange a meeting for sex with a thirteen-year-old child. Unbeknownst to Steele, he was communicating with an undercover officer from the Lake County Sheriff's Office. After a brief conversation with the undercover officer, Steele drove from Wesley Chapel to a location approximately 80 miles away, to meet and have sex with the "child." After his arrival at the location, Steele was arrested and found in possession of condoms and lubricant. During phone conversations with the undercover detective, Steele had discussed the possibility of impregnating the child. Steele was convicted after a jury trial on February 15, 2012.
This case was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations and the Lake County Sheriff's Office, as part of that office's "Operation Summer Nights" - an operation to identify and apprehend child sexual predators. It was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Amanda C. Kaiser and Assistant United States Attorney Joseph Swanson.
It is another case brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc For more information about internet safety education, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc and click on the tab "resources."


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Silicon Image to Demonstrate at GSMA Mobile World Congress 2010
By Jai C.S., TMCnet Contributor
Silicon Image, a provider of high-bandwidth semiconductors and intellectual property for the secure distribution, presentation and storage of high-definition content, unveiled its plan to showcase its latest mobile and IP products at the 2010 Mobile World Congress, to be held through Feb. 18 at Fira de Barcelona in Barcelona, Spain.
"GSMA Mobile World Congress is the premier event for the mobile industry," Camillo Martino, CEO of Silicon Image (News - Alert), Inc., said. "GSMA offers us an ideal venue to meet with key customers and strategic partners to discuss our mobile strategy and product offerings."
The company is on the forefront of developing and promoting innovative mobile connectivity solutions that enhance the user experience. Moreover, it is also actively developing and promoting leading-edge technologies for the mobile market that include HDMI, SPMT and Mobile HD Technology.
Silicon Image's product demonstrations will include; Low-power HDMI transmitters,
CamerIC-18 megapixel image signal processor (ISP) IP core, Serial Port Memory and Technology DRAM.
The camerIC-18 ISP IP core is said to integrate the Lightweight Hardware Face Detector version of the FotoNation (News - Alert) FaceTracker solution, which provides fast, high-performance face detection and tracking capabilities for camera-enabled devices. The technology uses innovative face-oriented technology to detect up to 10 faces in the camera viewfinder in as little as 0.1 seconds. Silicon Image's Serial Port Memory Technology (SPMT) is a memory specification for dynamic random access memory (DRAM) that is based on a serial interface rather than the standard parallel interface.
Founded in 1995, Silicon Image is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., with regional engineering and sales offices in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan.
Jai C.S. is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Jai's articles, please visit his columnist page.
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"Dancing is more fun than screwiiinng!" This plaintive call emitted from a tall, scarecrow-thin woman with a short, blond, pixie cut who was dressed in a black velvet jumpsuit. She's been doing the whitest dance ever for the past hour: a combination of off-beat handclaps, awkward twirls, and hokey pokey-esque footwork while trying to pull her (only assuming here) husband off his barstool. He finally gives in and does the "shame dance" with her (arms up in the embarrassing "Gosh, you got me" stance, legs moving robotically). A few minutes later, the dancing machine digs her hot-pink, diamond-studded talons into my arm.
"Do you dance?" she asks. I just smile and raise my beer in a friendly please-don't-spill-this gesture. She gets an inch away from my face and shouts:
"Do you do drugs? This is like being on drugs!" I'm not quite sure what "this" means, but as she's trying to coerce me into shame-dance territory, a guy who looks eerily reminiscent of Nick Nolte in his mug shot shoots past her, hands in the air, like a kid running after an ice cream truck, and he's screaming something like:
"Thanks for coming here tonight for free instead of going to see that other guy for $200 tomorrow." The thick Scottish brogue blaring from the stage is that of George Orr, a.k.a. Hot Rod. Dressed in tight black jeans and a white tuxedo shirt -- with three buttons undone, natch -- sporting the trademark bleached blond spiky 'do, and swirling a glass of chardonnay, Orr is Fort Lauderdale's faux Rod Stewart. (Of course, as we all know, the real deal lives part-time in pricier Palm Beach.)
During the course of the night, Orr and keyboard player Larry Janca soar through karaoke versions of "Maggie May" twice, "Do You Think I'm Sexy?," "Young Turks," "Forever Young," "Downtown Train," "Have I Told You Lately," and "Hot Legs," as well as "I Shot the Sheriff," "Sweet Home Alabama," and Lionel Richie's "All Night Long."
No, Orr doesn't hate the real Rod; the remark was just a friendly jab at outrageous ticket prices for the next night's Rod Stewart concert at the Office Depot Center. But he is most definitely the reason the George and Dragon is overflowing with steamy 40-something debauchery every Thursday night, when you can witness a vast sea of hair plugs, Botoxed faces, and -- God no! -- high-waisted jeans. The men and women packed into the bar are going absolutely apeshit for this guy, staring at Hot Rod like extras from Village of the Damned during breaks between songs.
They want to dance, dance, DANCE. And it's the music that's making these folks get down. Literally. As Hot Rod breaks into the Top 40 tear jerker "Forever Young," a mustachioed man in a muscle T and gold chains leaps into the air to do a half-assed rock-star kick and hits his head on the disco ball. Who says irony is dead? I wonder how many of these folks had bad acid trips in the '60s.
Hot Rod plays for three hours straight, something Orr's become accustomed to at his weekly gigs. By the end of the marathon set, he is almost baking under the bright-red stage lights. But he is still clutching his chardonnay, and his hair still looks pretty good. "We play pretty much anything," he says as we stand outside the G&D after his set. "We played at a bar full of bikers one night, and they wanted to hear 'Sweet Home Alabama,' so we were like, 'Uh, OK!'"
The Rod gig sort of fell into Orr's lap. Actually, it sort of taunted him from the stage.
"I wasn't even singing in a band at the time, and I found myself in a bar one night," he says. "Obviously, people think I look like Rod, and the band that was playing started making fun of me from the stage, saying, 'Look, Rod's in the house!' I just laughed because I'm used to it. And then after the next song, they said 'Well, Rod, I guess you want to give us a song, don't ya?' So I stood up from the back of the room and said, 'Yes... I... do.' I got up on-stage and asked them if they knew how to play 'Maggie May,' and they looked aghast. They didn't think someone would actually take the piss outta 'em."
Just then, a petite brunet in a skintight, white miniskirt and matching white fringe boots prances up to Orr: