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Kate Spade New York Sage
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- You're hardly the serious type. Your persona veers towards geek chic more than regal perfectionist. Every now and then, you like to play a glamorous part. The Kate Spade New York™ Sage will fulfill every lifelong fantasy of upscale allure!
- Leather upper.
- Slip-on style.
- Peep toe.
- Leather lining.
- Lightly padded leather insole.
- Covered heel.
- Leather outsole.
- Made in Italy and imported.
- Measurements:
- Heel Height: 3 in
- Weight: 6 oz
- Product measurements were taken using size 8.5, width M. Please note that measurements may vary by size.
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- 82% True to size
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- 80% Felt true to width
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- 11% Excellent arch support
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Very comfortable shoes. Wore them to my friend's wedding and danced all night in them. Definitely recommend!
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- Anonymous - customer
- November 30, 2014
These are stunningly gorgeous! These are the perfect elegant sexy shoes. They fit as stated. They are comfortable all night long!
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- November 7, 2014
Cute shoes. I find that strappy Kate Spade shoes run small, so I ordered up a half-size. But these are too big.
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- October 10, 2014
Gorgeous shoe. They looked fabulous (better than pictured). Slightly uncomfortable though. Fortunately I broke them in a bit at home starting a few days prior to the event I wore them to. The toe opening pinched my toes a little bit but I made it through the evening without having to remove them!
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- Anonymous - customer
- September 23, 2014
Great shoe. The soft leather sole and not too high heel make these really comfortable. And they are gorgeous shoes -- the gold is perfect for getting noticed without being too flashy. I thought these were true to size -- went with a 6.5 which is my usual for KS. I ordered the 6 too because of the other reviews but wasn't even close to getting my foot into it...
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Save Gartconner Primary
The current council administration, recently having reviewed the Primary School Estate, have proposed that Gartconner Primary should merge with Harestanes, Hillhead and Oxgang Primaries on either the current Oxgang/St Flannan's site. In addition to this they also need to account for nursery provision of at least 90 kids and a unit for Merkland, which could also be attached to the school.
No thought has been given for the traffic congestion around these sites, no educational benefits for the move have been given and a school roll of 651 (excluding nursery) is not appropriate for a primary.
Please help to save Gartconner Primary by signing this petition to show the council we are not happy with these proposals.
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A story by The Doctor
Illustrations by PeterPD
Stephanie slept soundly after the exertions of the previous day, waking occasionally to reach out for her husband, before remembering that she slept alone in her latex envelope, and giving herself up to the wonderful security of those magic sheets as they hugged every one of her ample tattooed curves and soothed her back to sleep.
As the buzzer that was to announce the start of each new day of her six-month training regime brought her to morning reality with a start, she noticed that strong morning sunshine was already infiltrating her bedroom via the gaps in the heavy drapes, illuminating the large, plush room with a warm glow. As she collected her thoughts and drove the last vestiges of sleep from her brain, Stephanie could not help but stroke the sensual smoothness of the bubblegum pink latex bedding that had hugged her so intimately all night. Even the faint smell of it was exciting, and it was with regret that she finally extricated herself from her bed, and padded softly to the bathroom, the slap of the inflation bulb against her thigh reminding her that she was not entirely alone, as her ass muscles squeezed the intruder in a 'good morning' embrace.
Remembering Latexmeister's instructions, she leaned against the large, sumptuous porcelain basin, and, pressing the release valve to ensure the plug was fully deflated (her Meister had not inflated it at all for her first night), she eased the black rubber trainer past the sphincter or her arschloch, as she had been told to think of it, feeling a strange pang of regret as her anus closed sharply on its exit, restoring her watertight seal. Reaching into the cabinet above, she found disinfectant, and sterilised the plug thoroughly before cleaning her teeth with the utensils laid out before her so meticulously.
Now empty, she slipped into the toilet section of the suite and performed her daily motions, pleased to note that her morning regularity seemed unaffected by her change of routine, blissfully unaware that her Meister, by the introduction of mild laxatives into her evening meal, had already gained control of that part of her life, and was able to ensure that she could remain plugged all day and night, so thorough was her morning evacuation to become.
As she showered, she ran her hands through her hair, luxuriating in the power of the jets that drenched her tattooed body clean, and after a full five minutes' self indulgence, she exited and towelled the excess water off before using the turbo-powered drying arch to ensure that her body was bone dry in every crevice, her Meisters caveat about water and latex not mixing prominent in her mind.
A full half hour after awakening, a squeaky clean, naked Stephanie exited the bathroom, carrying her sterilised butt plug, and sat at the dresser to do her make-up.
Studying the range of products laid out before her, she was impressed at her Meister's good taste, as she set about applying the expensive cosmetics, taking care, as instructed, to make her eyes the focal point.
After an eye job Cleopatra would have been proud of, she picked up a lip-gloss, and contemplated how to apply it. Cleopatra was proud of her abilities as a fellatrice; and, as her eyes fell on the silver bell on the dresser and she was reminded that her oral abilities were to be a focal point of her stay, Stephanie decided that she should also be proud of hers, and proceeded to adorn her lips in cocksucker crimson.
Impressed at the wanton slut that stared back at her from the mirror, Stephanie walked over to the carousel part of the closet and, with an air of mounting excitement, inspected what was to be her attire of the day.
Gasping with pleasure as she touched the outfit that hung before her, Stephanie lifted a bright red latex full catsuit from the hanger. Surprised at its heaviness, she realised it was a much heavier grade of rubber than the outfit she had arrived in, and wondered why. It felt so wonderful to touch, not dissimilar to the weight of the sheets that had caressed her all night, and as she held it in front of her, she noticed that it had integrated feet, and extended up to the neck, fastening with a latex zip down the back, leaving just her hands and her head exposed- but no...closer examination revealed that the suit also had cut-outs at each nipple that looked suspiciously like 80mm across-the exact diameter of the beauties that sat atop her amazing chest. Placed next to the suit were soft black leather wrist cuffs and a squeeze-bottle containing talc.
Controlling her mounting excitement, Stephanie applied a light dusting of talc to her feet and ankles, and sat down to start the lengthy task of slipping into her second skin for the day. As she slipped her first dainty little foot into the suit, and wriggled the garment up past her ankle, she felt a wave of sensations, as the tactile beauty of the suit caused her massive nipples and perfectly shaved pussy to spasm in excitement. Concentrating, she inserted her other foot and began the task of smoothing the latex up her long sexy legs. By the time she had smoothed the cherry red material all the way up to her crotch, she was gasping, but not with the effort, but with the overwhelming sexiness of the situation. Most remarkable of all, however, was that her arschloch had started spasming in time with her other sexual centres, and she found herself profoundly missing the butt plug that sat neglected on the dresser.
Pressing on, she wiggled her tattooed hips into the suit, and then stretched the torso part of the garment up towards her neck, making the lower half of it hug her figure as she guided her three inch wide areolae into the bespoke cut-outs that awaited them. Satisfied everything was lined up, she slipped the first arm into the suit, and felt the whole ensemble start to cling in the right places as her first beautifully inked shoulder blade slipped into place. Quickly adding the second arm, she wriggled the last part of her inside, and stood proudly before the mirror, trembling with excitement as she smoothed the second skin over her curves, amazed at how powerfully erotic she looked. She was aware of the fact that her tattooed back was still exposed to the atmosphere, and she wondered how she would pull the nylon zip up her back. Reaching down to the small of her back, she found the zip hasp, and noticed that her Meister's attention to detail was again supreme, as a small wisp of nylon cord, akin to fishing line, had been attached to it for her to pull on. Drawing the zip as far up her back as she could, she felt like she was being shrink-wrapped in heaven, and, as her other hand took over the pull as she reached back over her shoulders, she firmly drew the zip fully closed, feeling a gentle pressure on her neck as the collar drew shut around her throat. She was in her envelope at last, and no words she could draw upon could describe the feeling of sexual completeness she felt as she admired her crimson latex body in the mirror, her hands dancing across her body, taking in each contour as she went into tactile overload and her first orgasm of the day threatened. Realising that cumming was allowed now she was correctly attired, she reached for her clit, and immediately realised that touching it was not possible through her second skin. Frustrated and close to her peak, she rubbed the nub of her clit through the latex, and felt her orgasm wash over her, as her knees threatened to buckle, and her arschloch clenched at emptiness, craving the intruder that had occupied her virgin hole all night.
As the spasms subsided, and she regained her composure, she again examined her reflection, still not fully able to believe how wonderful she looked and felt. Wanting perfection for her Meister, she picked up a polishing cloth that was in the carousel, and buffed the red envelope until all hand marks had vanished, and she shone like she was fresh out of the paint shop.
Buckling on her wrist cuffs, she checked herself one final time in the mirror, before summoning her Meister. Her tattoos were only just visible through the heavier grade latex, and she wondered why her Meister had chosen to make them less visible than on her journey here. She decided to ask him later, and contentedly walked to the door to press the button, savouring the kiss of the latex as she walked.
Ten minutes later, as she stood obediently by the door waiting, LatexMeister Peter keyed in the entry code and entered his sklavin's room, keen to see how she looked in her first full latex situation. He had resisted the urge to check her progress on the hidden cameras, preferring to enjoy the sight first hand. As he entered, and saw her stood awaiting his inspection, he had to stifle a very unmasterful gasp, as he took in her full majesty-she was beautiful; the best he had ever seen. Her breasts, already gravity-defyingly firm for their great size, swelled under the elasticity of their rubber captivity like two oversized rosy red apples trying to burst through their prison. Those astonishing nipples thrust proudly through the cutouts like swollen pizzas, and the suit clung to her every curve like a surgeons glove.
"Guten morgen, latex novice Stephanie" he announced, using her slightly lower caste name, although she already looked like a fully-fledged latexsklavin to him.
" Guten morgen Latexmeister" she replied coyly, resisting the urge to curtsey.
" You have followed your instructions well, little sklavin" he enthused. "You look wonderful. How do your new clothes feel?" he added teasingly.
"Like nothing I have ever experienced, Latexmeister- danke" she relied in a hoarse voice thick with sexuality, surprising herself that this time she did actually curtsey very slightly.
"Gut- I am pleased. We have a few minor adjustments to make before we go to the basement to start your training proper" he continued authoritatively, and, entering a code into one of the keypads on the mirrored closets, one of the panels slid back silently, revealing rows and rows of latex finery, and various cabinets that housed sexual appliances of all shapes and sizes, some totally unfamiliar to Stephanie. Reaching in quickly and collecting what he needed, the door slid back again before she had chance to take in the detail of the treasures that awaited her during her stay, but the mere colour and smell of the contents of the closet had started her spasming again.
"Firstly, and most importantly, sklavin, we must deal with the unadorned state of your nipples. This is the last time for six moths that they will not bear metal of some description. Those barbells you arrived in were wholly inadequate, which is why I removed them. For the first few days you will wear rings like these, although much heavier and more challenging furniture await your nipples as your training progresses"
He produced two ball closure rings 50mm in diameter, and fully 4mm thick, causing Stephanie to flinch and gasp in shock, shaking her head from side to side in denial of her ability to accommodate such monsters.
" Why do you shake your head, latex novice? There is no NO here, and Meister knows best for your nipples just a he knows best for your attire. I will use these surgical steel insertion pins to open your existing holes to the required diameter. It will hurt briefly, but the rewards will be enormous. Your nipples will be the central feature of your exhibitionism once you go public, so it is right that we should maximise their potential" he explained
As the enormity of his statement sank in, and she realised that, unless she deployed the safe word and ended this before it had started, those pieces of heavy engineering were going in her nipples whether she liked it or not. Determined not to disappoint at the first hurdle, and encouraged by the fact that he most certainly did seem to know what was best for her attire wise, she bit her lip and nodded, this time in the affirmative
"Ja Latexmeister, sorry. It will be an honour to wear your steel"
Smiling at how easily this English rose of a slut capitulated, he fed the thin end of the lubricated insertion pin into her left nipple and slowly but firmly eased it into her tit meat, seeing the pinkness of her teat expand around the increasing girth of the pin, until, just when she was at the point of gasping out in pain, he reached the full four mm. Removing the ball from the heavy ring, he offered the open end to the base of the insertion pin, and with one fluid motion he eased both invaders through the meat of her nipple and out the other side. Stephanie yelped as the ring popped through, but was surprised at how little discomfort she experienced as he fed the ring through until the gap hung directly below her teat, and attached the ball deftly.
As he released it, she was shocked at its weight-it was sufficiently heavy to cause her entire nipple to curve slightly toward the floor-and this, if he was being straight with her, was just the beginning! The thought shocked her, but the spasms of excitement that stated again in her groin suggested otherwise.
As he fed the other ring in, she was less nervous, and experienced little pain. Once finished, he had her stand before the mirror and admire her reflection.
Two huge shiny steel rings now hung heavily from each of her massive aureolae, glistening against the sheen of the latex, and heavy enough to make her every move cause them to pull on her breasts. She had to admit they looked awesome, and she found herself thanking her Meister enthusiastically for violating her chest so totally.
Smiling, he sat at her dresser and bade her lie across his knee.
Complying meekly, she felt him fumble in her crotch before finding a second, less obvious zip, which he pulled back to expose the pinkness of her anus, which blinked at him in the light like a mole surfacing for air.
"You will learn to crave having your arschloch full for 23 hours per day, latex novice Stephanie- but for now I will settle for acceptance. I will not increase the size of your plug for the first few days, although you can expect increasing frequency of use of the inflation bulb" he softly explained, as he lubricated the freshly sterilised plug ready for insertion. " Do you have anything to ask me?" he enquired, as he readied for the assault
"Bitte-plug meine arscloch Latexmeister" came the reply that surprised them both, and as her pink rosebud opened effortlessly to accommodate the widest part of the plug before claiming the narrower base greedily from his hand, Peter realised that his sklavin was an anal natural. Rewarding her enthusiasm with a squeeze of the bulb, he enjoyed her squeal of surprise and pleasure as the plug swelled in her rectum.
"Danke Latexmeister" she grunted, and they both knew she meant it.
" Just to ensure that any gratification you may enjoy during the day is drawn solely from your arschloch and your latex clothing and accoutrements, I think a little chastity would be wise" he added, before carefully zipping the crotch of the cat suit back up around the piping to the bulb, and then buckling a leather and chrome chastity belt around her waist which made any attempt at stimulating her genital area manually quite out of the question.
"Nearly ready now, sklavin" he announced as he delved into a shoebox he had retrieved from the closet earlier. "Slip these shoes on while I ready your posture collar and then we will walk-or in your case hobble-to the dungeon"
As he offered the shoes to her, the shock of the word 'dungeon' registered at the same time as did her amazement at the shoes he was expecting her to walk in. A hobble chain that was no longer than 18 inches connected bright red strappy platform shoes with heels that must have been fully five inches high to each other. The colour matched her suit perfectly, but how could she ever walk in them-and why did he have a dungeon?
A wave of panic rose in her metal adorned chest, as she obediently slipped her latex clad feet into the deliciously impractical shoes. When she eventually stood in them her ankles protested as her feet were virtually en-pointe, and her first attempts at steps around the room were unsteady and painful. After a few minutes, she got the hang of it somewhat, and was starting to enjoy the way her legs looked in those incredible shoes, when her Meister stopped any further admiration by buckling a large and especially brutal black leather posture collar around her swan-like neck. Taken totally by surprise as he had approached her from behind, she could do no more that accept it as he buckled the restraint into place. The most extreme he possessed, he had used stealth tactics deliberately, as had she seen it she would surely have panicked and refused-it held her head high and rigid, allowing no movement whatsoever-once buckled into it she could only see what lay ahead at head height, which was exactly what he wanted. There were devices in his dungeon that he did not want her to see at this early stage, although she would encounter many of them in due course. For now, she was to visit his dungeon for one specific task, and everything else was on a "need to know basis"
As her neck muscles became used to being stretched into such an exaggerated and unnatural gait, she relaxed a little, and as he attached a leash to her collar, she obediently hobbled slowly behind him as he led her step by painful step to his dungeon. The wonderful feel of the latex, and the reassuring impact of the inflation bulb on her thigh each time she took a step, along with the bang her heavy nipple rings against her latex lad breasts induced such a state of euphoria in her that, as each step took her closer to the dreaded dungeon, she knew that whatever awaited her there was worth enduring to enable her to enjoy six months on tactile sensations such as she now savoured.
As he led her downstairs slowly to the basement, she could not observe anything other than the way directly ahead, so she took the opportunity to ask her Master, in between concentrating on her balance and poise, why this latex outfit, wonderful as it was, did not display her tattoos as fully as her travel outfit had?
" A good question, little latex novice" he replied. "Your tattoos will be second only to your nipples in importance when you are publicly displayed and inspected. However, in these early novice days, it is important that you learn to appreciate the feel and texture of your new skin before we use it as a tool to show off your ink. Also, until you become experienced at putting the latex wear on, it is very easy to tear the thinner, more transparent items. Rest assured, as your training progresses, you will earn the right to wear thinner, more see-through garments. By the time you are a fully trained latexsklavin, your costumes will leave absolutely nothing to the imagination" he explained, as she hobbled down the last set of steps and they approached the dungeon door. It was truly a dungeon, with the curved top of the heavy oak door reminiscent of medieval architecture as it creaked menacingly open.
Leading his charge inside, Peter was grateful that she did not see the many instruments of discipline that festooned the walls as he led her to the table and chair that sat alone in the middle of the stone floor, lit eerily by a skylight somewhere above.
As she finally reached the chair, he sat her down in it and removed her leash. She wriggled her latex clad buttocks sexily as she tried to get comfortable with the inflation bulb and tube, enjoying the feel in her arschloch as each movement pressed on the intruder within, but frustrated by the chastity belt.
Firmly but gently, he gathered her hands behind her back and locked the wrist cuffs together as she started straight ahead, unable to move her neck at all, relying on her sense of feel to tell her what was happening.


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breakfast, cooking, food, home cooking, kid-friendly, leftovers
04 Monday Aug 2014
breakfast, cooking, food, home cooking, kid-friendly, leftovers
24 Friday Jan 2014
Posted cheese, feeding julian, pasta, quick and easy
cheese, easy, kid-friendly, lunch, mac and cheese, macaroni and cheese, pasta, quick
One of the best decisions I've made recently is to use some unexpected vacation time to ease our transition from my maternity leave into our new routine. I was able to arrange for my first four weeks back on the job to be short weeks, scheduling a month of Thursdays off to spend at home with the kids. It has helped to break up the week for me as I get back in the swing of things at the office, and it allows Mike a bit more freedom to get the things done for his book and other writing projects that he needs to, as well.
Last week, Julian –out of the blue – asked me for mac and cheese, and since it was Thursday, and I was home, I figured why not? But with naptime approaching, I didn't want to keep him waiting an hour or more for my regular skillet mac and cheese. Instead, I used that tried-and-true recipe as a jumping-off point, stripping down and changing up the proportions of my cheese sauce, and using a smaller (and quicker-cooking) pasta shape to produce a simple, super-creamy stove-top version for him.
Three servings later, I was pretty sure I had a winner on my hands, and when Julian asked for it again yesterday, I figured I'd better write my recipe down for posterity. I hope Julian and his baby sister always push me to think outside the box, in the kitchen and elsewhere.
Simple Stove-top Mac & Cheese
1/2 lb. small pasta (we like Garofalo's Lumachine, but any little tube or shell is fine)
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
2 tablespoon flour
1 cup whole milk
1/2 cup heavy cream
4 oz. grated extra-sharp cheddar
1/4 cup finely grated parmesan or pecorino romano
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
1-2 dashes Worcestershire sauce
1-2 dashes Tabasco or other hot sauce (optional)
Kosher or sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil, add the pasta, and cook it until tender. While the pasta cooks, melt the butter in a skillet over medium-low heat and whisk in the flour until combined. Whisk in the milk and cream until smooth. Add the cheeses a little at a time, stirring until they are well incorporated, and let cook over medium heat until the sauce is thickened and a bit reduced. Whisk in the Dijon, Worcestershire, and Tabasco (if using), then season with salt and pepper. Taste and adjust seasoning if needed. Add the cooked, drained pasta to the cheese mixture and stir gently until the pasta is thoroughly enveloped, and the cheese sauce gets into all of its little nooks and crannies. Serve immediately.
16 Sunday Jun 2013
Posted feeding julian, pantry staples, pasta, salmon, seafood
brooklyn, cooking, fish, home cooking, nyc, pantry, pantry staples, seafood, tinned fish
It's hard to believe it was just over a year ago that we returned to Brooklyn. So much has happened over the last 12 months, it often feels like we've been back here much longer. We've been settling in to our new neighborhood, slowly reconnecting with old friends and making new ones. There have been new professional opportunities to pursue, and on a personal level, we've had the joy of watching our little guy learn to walk and run and talk a blue streak. And before we know it, that little guy is going to be a big brother, and we'll welcome a new little one into our family, into this big, shiny place we call home.
Looking at where we are now, how far we've come and what we have to look forward to in the year ahead, kind of takes my breath away.
We've been so lucky – we've had a whole lot of good come our way in the last year, and more still to come, but it hasn't been easy. I've worked more hours in the last 12 months than I probably ever have before in my career, and that hasn't left me a lot of time to spend with my guys, let alone to keep up with this blog. And we're still recovering, in a lot of ways, from our big move. We spent everything we had and then some to get back here, and as anyone who has spent time here knows, New York is expensive. We've had to really simplify, and one way I've done so is by relying more heavily on our favorite pantry staples when planning meals for the week.
I came up with this dish a year ago, when we were still sleeping on air mattresses in our brand new Brooklyn apartment, living out of suitcases and a couple of Rubbermaid bins, trying to stretch the pantry items we were able to move with us from Providence and the few fresh foods we could afford until my first paycheck arrived. We liked it so well I've made it numerous times since then, sometimes adding peas or short lengths of asparagus, a little something fresh and green from the farmers' market. Even at it's simplest, it has always satisfied.
Pasta with Salmon in Creamy Lemon Sauce
1 lb short, chunky dry pasta (I usually use farfalle, but any shape will do)
3 T unsalted butter
3 T unbleached all-purpose flour
1 lemon, juice and zest
1 cup whole milk
½ cup heavy cream
1 6 oz. can salmon, drained, skin and bones removed
sea salt and freshly ground pepper
snipped scallions or chives, about ½ cup
(Optional: 1 cup peas or short lengths of blanched asparagus)
Bring a large pot of heavily salted water to the boil for your pasta.
While the water heats, melt the butter in a wide, shallow pan over low-to-medium heat. Sprinkle the flour over the butter and whisk it in to combine, letting it cook briefly but being careful not to brown it. Whisk in the lemon juice – it will probably seize up, but don't panic! Whisk in the milk until the mixture smoothes out, then add the heavy cream. Heat for a minute, then taste and season with salt and pepper. Add the lemon zest and the salmon, breaking it up as you go. (If you're adding peas or asparagus, add them at this point.)
Once your pasta water is boiling, add the pasta and cook according to the package instructions. Drain the pasta and add it to the sauce, with a bit of the cooking liquid still clinging to it. Scatter the scallions or chives over the pasta and sauce in the pan, leaving a few aside for garnish, and stir until the pasta is coated with the sauce and the sauce is slightly reduced. Add more scallions or chives and another grinding of pepper, and serve.
07 Monday Jan 2013
Posted beans, feeding julian, greenmarket, meatless, soups, Uncategorized
brooklyn, comfort food, cooking, food, home cooking, minestrone, nyc, soup
I've always been pretty proud of my ability to think on my feet. It's a skill that has served me well at my day job, but it has proven to be invaluable since I became a mom. You just never know what the day will bring.
We've been lucky – Julian has been extremely healthy and robust, but yesterday he just wasn't feeling like himself. He had had some immunizations at his 15-month checkup late last month, and his doctor warned us he might show some delayed symptoms about a week after; right on schedule, he was cranky and fussy and spiked his very first fever Sunday morning. We tried time and again to put him down for a nap in his crib, but he wasn't having it, so I nestled him close to me in the big bed, and read while he drifted off, staying with him for nearly three hours.
He slept deeply and well, his fever broke, and he woke with a smile on his face, but I had to shelve my original plan for dinner. Something brothy and comforting seemed like just what we all needed, so I put a small pot of beans on the stove and got to chopping while Mike took over tending to our boy.
I was inspired by a beautiful pot of minestrone I saw on Pinterest, so I cobbled together my own version, rich with alliums and fennel, carrots and parsnips, cabbage and kale, good canned tomatoes, fresh rosemary, thyme, and bay. I added a dash of Worcestershire for savoriness and a splash of Sherry vinegar for brightness, the cooked beans and their broth for heft, and a parmesan rind for the wonderful richness it imparts. I didn't have any soup pasta around, but I did have a bag of par-cooked whole wheat spirals in the freezer left over from a previous meal, so I thawed them and stirred them gently into the soup until they were just warmed through.
I also had a bunch of leafy celery in the crisper, so I pulled off a big handful of the leaves to make a quick gremolata of sorts, chopping them fine and combining them with garlic and lemon zest and coarse pink salt, plus a little bit of olive oil to make a chunky paste, which I swirled on top of our soup bowls.
We settled in at the table, passing a tray of cheese-dusted, garlicky toasts for dunking, and even Julian ate with gusto. I guess a good pot of soup really is the cure for what's ailing you.
03 Monday Dec 2012
Posted feeding julian, food52, pasta
baked pasta, brooklyn, cooking, dinner, farm eggs, food, food52, homecooking, nyc, pasta sheets
A few days ago, Mike asked if I would make a batch of granola. I did, and decided to try adding an egg white for extra clumpiness, a trick I had seen mentioned in a few different places recently.
That meant, of course, that we had an extra yolk around. And you know I couldn't let that go to waste.
We've gotten a couple of bags of local AP flour from Cayuga Pure Organics in the months that we've been back in New York, and I adore how it performs in fresh pasta dough. These Knoll Crest Farm eggs are pretty great, too.
I had also gotten a great deal on some locally-raised ground Angus beef, so I pulled together a rich, slow-cooked meat sauce to go with our pasta, and while the sauce bubbled away and my granola cooled, I whipped up a few other things for our little guy to eat during the week.
A tray of little sweet potato wedges, just slicked with olive oil and a sprinkle of sea salt, went into the oven to roast along with a batch of Judy Rodgers' Roasted Applesauce.
I make this stuff just about every week – it is the easiest and best applesauce ever, and we all love it. This time I used some heirloom Baldwin apples we picked up at the farmers market earlier in the day.
I also cooked up a pot of Broccoli Cooked Forever, minus the hot peppers, as a side to our baked pasta and to have around for Julian this week – it's one of his favorites (though very un-photogenic).
I was craving a baked pasta, so I decided to do something a little different, canneloni-inspired, if you will. I cut my fresh pasta sheets into square sections, and blanched them as I do for lasagna. Once shocked and patted dry, I added a swipe of seasoned ricotta to each, rolled them into cigars, and set them on a bed of my sauce, with more sauce spooned over the tops. I baked them for half an hour or so, covered, then removed their tinfoil cap, grated on some cheese, and put them back in the oven to get bubbly.
Julian got a pint-sized portion of his own, and a chance to work on his fork skills.
He's a natural, don't you think?
28 Wednesday Nov 2012
You guys just blow me away. Thank you so much for your kind words, your links and tweets and retweets. I had no idea that last post would hit home for so many of you. I think my heart grew three sizes this past week. Truly, thank you.
Speaking of giving thanks, and Thanksgiving, ours, aside from a bit of a plumbing emergency, was pretty fantastic. We had beautiful weather, a delicious meal, and we have just about finished the last of our leftovers. I made gumbo and sandwiches, and a dish I called the "hot mess" casserole. It was homely as heck, but delicious.
I got to watch my kid eat pumpkin pie for the first time. Which was pretty awesome.
And a little something fun arrived in the mail.
You guys. We made a cookbook. Again! Big congrats to all my fellow cooks and the whole food52 team. I'm so honored to be part of your community.
And to all of you reading, I hope your Thanksgiving holiday was as full of smiles as ours was.
Our 2012 Thanksgiving Feast (with links to recipes, where applicable):
Tuscan Chicken Liver Paté
Russ Parsons' Dry-Brined Turkey (a.k.a. The Judy Bird), with a cider-spiked turkey gravy
Mrs. Wheelbarrow's incomparable Challah, Mushroom, and Celery Stuffing
mashed fingerlings
my Pan-Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Bacon and Warm Cider Vinaigrette
roasted sweet potato rounds with fried sage
Canal House's Cranberry-Port Gelée (holy cow, was this good – and we're not big fans of the sauce, usually)
Meta Given's Pumpkin Pie
Le Cinsault par Familongue
21 Wednesday Nov 2012
Three years ago, we almost lost our apartment. We were buried under medical and veterinary bills, we found ourselves owing a fortune in back taxes due to an accounting error – we were in the red in every single way possible. I had no idea how we would – or if we even could – dig ourselves out of that pit. But you wouldn't have known about that, just from looking at these pages. That year I spent a few hundred bucks sourcing out food for a Thanksgiving feast for an article that would pay me about half that amount. It was a great meal, and despite everything, we still had a lot to be grateful for.
Two years ago, we spent an entire day cooking up a spectacular meal: a heritage turkey, cooked two ways, all sorts of trimmings and sides. Though we were a party of two, there was food and drink enough for an army, and after a bit too much of the latter and a huge fight, I threw my wedding band across the living room and stormed out into the night, dinner uneaten. The weight and wear of all we had been struggling with over the previous years, the losses we had suffered, some still fresh and raw, brought us to a breaking point that night. I wasn't sure our marriage would survive.
But you wouldn't have known that either. The next day, I pulled bowls and platters from the fridge, made up a couple of plates, and took photos by daylight while Mike made coffee. We ate in silence. He dug my wedding band out from behind the bookshelves later that morning.
One year ago, we had a 9-week old baby boy in our lives. We slow-roasted a duck, kept sides and drinks to a minimum, took a long walk through the crisp November air, snapped lots of photos. It was the simplest and happiest Thanksgiving we had had in years. It felt like the start of something. And when I look back at my posts from that day, finally, I see the truth reflected.
One reason I took an extended break from posting here is because I was beginning to feel pressure to be something I wasn't. I felt like I had to put on a false face, put forward some idealized vision of our life, to hide the fact that it isn't always cocktails and charcuterie, thirty dollar pastured chickens and good bottles of wine. It was all too much. There are weeks when we're flush and we can spend a fair amount on food and drink, but more often than not these days, I am trying to figure out how I can best spend thirty bucks on enough good food to last us all week.
But you know what? I am so grateful for that. We have so much.
Our life has changed, is changing – every day, it seems. Just when we think we're in a good groove, a routine, something happens to change that. A delayed departure from work, a late train or a cranky toddler can disrupt everything. We had a stretch where we were able to eat dinner together every night before putting Jules to bed. Then we lived in a hotel for nine days. Then we moved to New York, without our furniture, our belongings – it was a month before we were able to get them out of storage and into our new space. I went back to work, and Mike and Julian got back into their daily routine at home, and just as we were settling back in to a predictable schedule, things changed again.
But that's life. That is our life, and I want to capture our reality, preserve it here. I want to remember these times, these meals.
And I want Julian to remember.
The dishes I make from night to night are tasty and nourishing, but there is absolutely nothing sexy about them. They wouldn't be sexy if I had a DSLR to photograph them with and a wardrobe of twee table linens to shoot them against. And that has kept me from capturing them, from cataloging them like I used to. I've felt ashamed, in a way, like I couldn't compete. But what I got away from is that this isn't a competition, it's our life. And I don't want to hide it anymore.
I can look at the pale-hued Polaroids I swiped from my mom's collection, and see the little girl I once was sitting on a couch at grandma's house, surrounded by aunts and uncles who are beginning to fade away, and just by looking at them, I can conjure up the smell of grandma's dressing, the flavors of my aunts' creamy casseroles. I want my son to grow up with some record of the special meals of his childhood, and the ordinary ones too, something to spark his memories when he's all grown up and too far away from home.
I want him to remember that the three of us ate together, as a family, every chance we got. Even if the photos aren't perfect, and more of what's on his plate ends up on the cats than in his belly these days, I want him to remember. I want him to remember when he looks at these pages that even if the meals were plain and unpretty, and sometimes mommy was tired and cranky, and some weeks we had plenty and some weeks we had less but we always had enough, that most importantly we had each other, and we loved each other fiercely, and we ate together, and we laughed, and we were grateful for it all.
31 Friday Aug 2012
Posted burrata, butter, elsewhere in the blogosphere, farro, feeding julian, food52, quick and easy, tomatoes
inI feel like this summer has all but passed us by. Between our move, getting settled in our new home, keeping up with an increasingly mobile and ever-changing soon-to-be-one-year-old, and last weekend's trip to see Mike's family in Indiana, I feel like we have had very few of those "lazy days" people talk about. No trips to the beach, not a single lobster roll, no barbecue or bluefish.
But we do have tomatoes. Every chance we get.
Some of the best tomatoes we've had recently were these brown butter tomatoes. I saw the post on food52, and I couldn't not try it. But tomatoes and butter do not a complete meal make, so I spooned them over some herbed farro, and topped each serving with a ball of creamy burrata.
I may never eat another caprese salad again. (Julian was also a fan.)
30 Thursday Aug 2012
Posted eggplant, feeding julian, greenmarket, in the fridge, meatless, multitaskers, quick and easy, squash, tomatoes, zucchini
inSince I read Tamar Adler's book a month or so back (yes, I'm late to the party as usual), Sundays will find me, at a minimum, roasting a couple of big platters of vegetables to tuck away for the week ahead.
This sort of cooking ahead is more important than ever now that Julian's diet has shifted mostly to solids, and we want to provide him with an abundance of tasty, seasonal vegetables in a format that's easy for him to eat – and that's easy for both his work-at-home Daddy and office-working Mommy to prepare and eat as well.
It's also nice to have something easy to throw together for dinner after, say, a long weekend away, when you return home to a near-empty fridge and the thought of another meal out makes you want to stab yourself with a fork.
Enter our trusty jar of slow-roasted vegetables, a mix of yellow and green zucchini, young eggplant, and candy-sweet golden tomatoes, caramelized and bathed in a soft marinade of cider and champagne vinegars and plenty of fruity olive oil. I've tossed these with pasta, layered them in a warmed pita with our favorite local hummus, served them on a bed of wheatberries, or with salty French feta alongside, and on this night, I scattered them over a base of prepared whole wheat dough spread with creme fraiche and dotted with soft goat cheese – a rustic tart, of sorts.
Julian ate his straight, once it had cooled enough to touch, and devoured room-temperature leftovers the next day, eating crust and cheese first, then gathering up any vegetables that had dropped off and popping them into his mouth one by one. I topped the grown-ups' portions with big handfuls of raw arugula, a drizzle of red wine vinegar, and lots of cracked black pepper.
A meal that took a minimum of time and effort to put together, packed with vegetables and loaded with flavor, that all three of us loved? You can't get much better than that.
17 Sunday Jun 2012
Posted anchovies, broccoli, feeding julian, food52, greenmarket
inThe problem with a move like the one we just had is that, in using all your resources to get to where you need to be, things can be a little tight once you get there. Luckily, I've become quite adept over the years at what we call "rocking the poverty dinners", and that's exactly what we've been doing while we wait for things to shake out and settle into our new normal.
I decided to take a week off before starting my new/old job, both because I needed it after the craziness of the last few weeks, and because I wanted to be around to help our little guy get adjusted to this big new place he's living in. This move, after all, was in large part so we can spend more time as a family, and one thing Mike and I were both looking forward to was introducing J to some of our favorite stops on our old "food safari" route. So we took a train into the city on Wednesday and did just that, taking on Union Square Greenmarket with a $20 budget, looking to supplement the few pantry items we had moved with us to our new home, with some good fresh produce.
I've had my eye on Roy Finamore's recipe for "Broccoli Cooked Forever" for months now, and this week I finally got the chance to try it out. With Greenmarket broccoli and fresh young garlic, plus good meaty anchovies and plenty of fruity olive oil, this dish was a big hit with even the littlest member of our family. Mike and I ate ours tossed with farro spaghetti, but Julian had his straight up, dusted with a little bit of grated pecorino. We'll be making this again for sure.


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Bobby Ryan to Leafs? Not likely
Scoring winger and potential restricted free agent Bobby Ryan has heard the Maple Leafs trade rumours along with the rest of the National Hockey League.
But the former No. 2 pick overall of Brian Burke when both were in Anaheim says he is still resolved to paddling with the Ducks, despite lack of progress on a new multi-year contract.
"I know the Toronto one is … because of the Burke connection," the 35-goal Ryan told the Orange County Register. "I'd be very surprised if I were moved before I signed or before July 1.
Can This Rumour Turn To Reality?
The proposed deal: Tomas Kaberle and Mikhail Grabovski to Chicago for Patrick Sharp and Brian Campbell.
The players: Campbell is 31. He has six more years left at $7.1 million. He had 38 points in the regular season but only one goal in the Hawks 19-game Stanley Cup run.
Hard to score in Kaberle deal
Brian Burke is hoping to get a relatively young scoring winger in a deal for Tomas Kaberle .
And that is going to be a challenge of sorts.
The highest-scoring wingers available are expensive free agents like Ilya Kovalchuk and Patrick Marleau.
Rumors from the Edmonton Journal
What the Oilers would have to give up for the 2nd overall
Want Kris Versteeg? take Brent Sopel too
Leafs to Make a few splashess?
Found this while surfing twitter..
While some of the trades seem fairly logical to the Leafs, not sure if they would be logical from the other sides. All depending on how Florida decides to move forward (rebuild or restructure and compete), and if we have a package that is the most suitable to Chicago.
Habs trade Halak to the Blues
The Montreal Canadiens have traded goaltender Jaroslav Halak to the St. Louis Blues for a pair of prospects.
The Canadiens received forwards Ian Schultz and Lars Eller.
The 21-year old Eller scored two goals in seven games with the Blues last season, and scored 18 goals in 70 games for the AHL's Peoria Rivermen.
Kessel wants to score 40 goals next year – Can he?
On a team historically bereft of big-time scorers, Phil Kessel believes he can achieve what only one Maple Leaf has been able to do in the last 15 seasons.
That's topping the 40-goal mark.
"I think I can score 40. I could have had it last year if I'd have scored (consistently). I had a lot of chances, plus I missed quite a bit of games," said the 22-year-old winger as he passed through town for the unveiling of Dion Phaneuf as Toronto's captain and Tuesday's opening of Real Sports Bar and Grill, MLSE's playpen beside the Air Canada Centre.
Leafs not interested in Kovalchuk
Lebrun is posting on his twitter account this morning that Brian Burke has told him that he has no interest in Kovalchuk. This goes right along with what Hockey trade Rumors has been saying, burke wants to move Europeans off his team, he wants to bring in big tough Canadian/American players just like what he did in Anaheim.
# I've got a Kovalchuk blog coming later here's what Burke told me today: "We're not going to be involved in that race," Burke said of Kovy.
Bruins the Subject of Many Trade Rumors as Draft and Free Agency Approach
Tis the season for NHL rumors again!
While the month leading into the NHL trade deadline is full of trade rumors, the month prior to the NHL Entry Draft, which takes place June 25-26 in Los Angeles, and July 1, the start of free agency, has become rumor season part Deux.
With the Bruins holding the second overall pick in the draft, as well as three more in the first two rounds, and general manager Peter Chiarelli openly saying that he is exploring the trade market to improve the team, the Bruins have already been the subject of numerous rumors over the past two weeks.
So let's take a look at three rumors that probably won't go away until the draft or July 1, and whether there could be any validity to them.
Ryan-for-Kaberle trade? Really?
Based on some of his public statements, Toronto general manager Brian Burke has made it pretty clear that he'll trade puck-moving defenseman Tomas Kaberle if a good offer comes across his table.
The intentions are pretty clear when you send out details of your player's contract and the specifics of when his no-trade clause will be lifted to the other 29 NHL teams


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33/1 for an exact repeat of 2010 World Cup final
ESPN staff
June 13, 2014
Perhaps the most eagerly anticipated group game of the entire World Cup tournament takes place on Friday evening, as Spain and the Netherlands meet in a repeat of the 2010 final.
Back then, it took an Andres Iniesta goal with just moments remaining in extra time to settle a combative affair and give Spain their first ever World Cup triumph.
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Once upon a time, in the Bay Area, I was a secretary, then an administrative assistant. Amazingly enough the job market has changed so much that these two types of jobs don't exist anymore. Then I moved to NY and lived on Long Island where I learned about the magazine and book trade at American Institute of Physics. I really enjoyed my jobs at this fabulous company. While there the company was transitioning and moving itself to College Park, near Washington DC, and perhaps a small fraction of the company still exists on Long Island.
I too transitioned and married a marine salvage contractor where I learned about the salvage world from anchor to chain to vessels and cranes... It was a very interesting world which inspired me to create my marine art card series. From there I went to graduate school to obtain a Masters in Arts - Humanities, MA, degree, and, I think I wrote many more papers there than when I was getting my BA. Somewhere along that time, I started to dabble in watercolors again, after a very long hiatus. From that point on I decided to write and illustrate my stories, and some of these I had been writing and saving for a very long time. Some of the stories are for picture book audiences and very young readers. I have also a young adventure story in the writing box that will be great for fourth graders. I look forward to the time when I can get to this story because it is a true story of an adventure journey occurring in circa 1844.
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I read with disbelief a recent story that said university presidents' salaries are on the rise. What in God's name makes these people worth more than the Department of Economic Security budget?
President wages shouldn't be rising
I read with disbelief a recent story that said university presidents' salaries are on the rise. What in God's name makes these people worth more than the Department of Economic Security budget?
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We are claiming recession and a financial crisis, and then we read about these guys making more money in a year than they can use in a lifetime. Gov. Janet Napolitano is getting all departments to look at ways of trimming back their budgets. A few weeks ago, universities cut back on construction due to lack of money. Now, universities are going to regents to ask for to raise tuitions.
My fellow Arizonans, do you see something wrong with this picture.
Are we that much idiots to keep letting this abuse of financial power go on? I believe that the state Legislature should step in on this matter. Oh yeah! The state Legislature didn't get their raise approved in this past election. To the board of regents, I say, what do you care, it's not your money and should there be a problem with finances, we'll just go to Uncle Sam to bail us out. All I can say is this is utter insanity.
Cut off campaign funds
The system of campaign funding we have today is nothing more than "legalized" bribery because the "big money boys" make huge donations to both political parties and have strong influence in the next Congress, no matter who wins the election. Also, our "power" of the vote disappears because our elected representatives do not represent us but cave in to their party's demands, not ours.
A law crafted somewhat as follows, or some variation thereof, might solve this problem and return the power of the ballot back to the people:
"Any candidate aspiring to a federal or state office may only receive campaign donations from the registered voters in the district the candidate wishes to represent in the amounts of $1 or less."
Our present means of campaign funding must be unconstitutional for the simple reason that it usurps the power of the people and transfers it to the "big money boys." If it were possible to pass a campaign funding law as above, a caller to a representative would get much more attention than they presently do now. Believe me!
Gay couples never have been accepted
In response to Matt Schoenley's letter printed in the Nov. 17 issue ("They come for you next"), the answer to his complaint is historical.
Even if you don't believe that all biblical references to the destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and the reasons thereof are mere parables, it should be very clear as to the attitude toward homosexuality throughout biblical (and human) history.
The progressive society of this age has wrenched the Constitution from the hands of the framers who could not imagine how distorted their intent has become.
Proposition 102 will not save the world, but it's passage will save Arizona taxpayers many dollars in spousal benefits and the embarrassment of same sex weddings.
Most of us could care less who people choose to sleep with, but please stop trying to shove it down our throats.
State watchdog shouldn't be chained
Sen. Chuck Gray, R-Ariz., and his fellow Republicans have reopened the tattered, worn and recently invalidated play book to apply its weary theories to the Arizona political landscape in their eternal quest for power and control. Never mind the brown cloud over metro Phoenix or the archaic air pollution standards long in use. Think instead about control!
Grab control over the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality by eviscerating its power and holding its feet to the self-righteous fire of the senators and representatives in the majority who are concerned about little but their own maintenance of power over our governor. Ignore the possibilities of modern technology to solve our automobile pollution and power generation pollution issues.
Instead, what's really important is to heed the wishes of their uninformed electorate who obviously gave them a mandate to keep that brown cloud over Phoenix and insure that the air pollution issues will forever be entangled in the quagmire of Republican-controlled committees and their vested interests. And do it all in the name of free trade, freedom and prosperity so the air quality issues can go the same direction as the rest of our economy.


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I think the OP doesn't know what the term "Official" means :-)
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They are both good in their own way. They should both be available. It's called common sense.
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I don't like 5v5. I don't like dominion. I LOVED the old 3v3 map. I played over a 1000 games on the old 3v3 map and it was 100% the only thing keeping me playing league. Then riot decides to completely change the map and remove the old one... seriously would people that like 5v5 have stayed if they removed 5v5 and had only dominion in its place???? I feel like that is exactly what they did to us 3v3 players. They completely changed the map and mechanics and removed the old one. I uninstalled the game after trying my best to enjoy the new one but just couldn't do it. Miss league and it seems the old map wont be coming back so I'm basically ****ed. If i had known when i started playing league that sometime in the future they were going to remove the only map i enjoy to play i would not have paid for any skins or champions but oh well they get to keep my money and they get to **** me in the ass at the same time. Thanks for nothing riot.
I really enjoy the new 3v3 map, just saying


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Louis Ozawa Changchien (Second Stage's Warrior Class), Matt Dellapina (The Dream of the Burning Boy), Aubrey Dollar (Guiding Light), Keith Nobbs (Lombardi), and Chris Perfetti (Picnic) are set to star in Second Stage Uptown's world premiere of Erica Lipez's The Tutors. Thomas Kail (In the Heights) will direct the production, which begins previews May 22 with an opening on June 5.
The Tutors focuses on Joe (Dellapina), Toby (Nobbs), and Heidi (Dollar), who, like many other New York City residents, work one job in order to do something else. Together, they run a friendship-finding website from their apartment.
The mounting will be produced as part of Second Stage's 2013 Uptown Series, which exists to help develop and provide exposure for the voices of a new generation of theater artists. The creative team features scenic design by Rachel Hauck, costume design by Jessica Jahn, lighting design by Betsy Adams, sound design by Jill DuBoff, and fight direction by Thomas Schall.


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FULL COURT PRESS: "I give a lot of credit to [John] McCain personally for helping [Barack] Obama win," said Lesley Stahl, who didn't cover the presidential campaign directly this time around, but was on hand for a panel Monday night at the Rainbow Room that discussed "The Media and the Presidency." Stahl joined former colleague Dan Rather, Jacob Weisberg of The Slate Group, Joe Scarborough of MSNBC, The Week's Bob Shrum and Ed Rollins, a Republican political consultant who worked on Mike Huckabee's failed run for the White House.
There was plenty of blame to go around and Scarborough pointed to the McCain campaign, which he said had no strategy and instead, "a lot of day traders.…I've never seen a campaign as incompetent as McCain's." However, he did defend Sarah Palin, adding she "worked" until the economic meltdown. Hearing comments to the contrary in the crowd, he retorted: "I know we're in the heart of Palin country here." Scarborough's commentary had moderator Sir Harold Evans ask the crowd, "Was Sarah Palin screwed by comedy? Do you feel sorry for her?" "No, I do not," Stahl quickly retorted. Rather, who said the election looked even following the Republican convention, said the press loves the "new" and has a bias for the story — and during this campaign, Obama was the best story. "It didn't have to do with Democrat or Republican," added Scarborough, who said Hillary Clinton certainly had her fair share of negative coverage, with some calling her racist. "Barack Obama was a progressive idea," he said. Weisberg said the president-elect "captured our imagination." Rollins told the crowd that McCain never reached out to Huckabee about the vice presidency (he was the runner-up during the Republican primaries), adding Huckabee or Mitt Romney would have been better picks for McCain. The event was hosted by The Week magazine. — Amy Wicks


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New Balance 1400 "Made in USA" – Aqua
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New Balance prides itself on the construction of their running silhouettes and they have the infamous United Kingdom Filbly Factory to thank for holding the top tier of standards down....Read More
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Does anyone collect these, have information or know where I can find a list of the rolling pin handle colors?? I have just started collecting rolling pins. Because the Munising pins were made in the USA and are signed--I thought that might be a nice place to start. I have one each --green, red and natural handles. Is there different colors of the green? How about black? I know they have blue--saw one for $50.00 . thank you for any and all help.. Queen Bee
Google Munising. Lots of info on there. I have a bowl. I think I will list on ebay.
Take care and God Bless, Sewing Nana
Thank you, both. Mr. Jukebox --your pins are beautiful.. I love YOUR different colors- I see different styles-are they all Munising? Or different brands? Thanks again..QB
I do collect rolling pins also..... all picked up mostly at flea markets or auctions..... A few purchased on E~bay..... I was unaware that are diffrent "brands"..... How do you tell? I need to check all mine..... I have about 40, displayed in crocks and old canners in my kitchen.....
Different brands shown. Munising did have handle variations as well as end configurations.
CW, yes there are different manufactures for rolling pins. Munising has their name 'branded' on the flat end of the roller. Most early (1900-1920) production pieces aren't branded-signed-etc. I am just starting to do research and collect--so I am trying to find out as much as possible,, I would love to see other's collections as well. Thank you QB
How interesting, I have had a wooden bowl for years that a client gave me, it is stamped Munising on the bottom. I don't live that far from Munising Michigan but never thought that these things are collectable....hmmm. Margie


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I mentioned using Catapult last week in the post about my workflow for using Fujifilm X-Trans files in Aperture. I thought Id create a quick video demo to show catapult in action for those who've never used it or heard of it. Catapult is actually pretty cool. It allows you to send your raw files from Aperture to a third party piece of software, and it will also handle the re-importing of the finished results back into Aperture. It's kind of hard to fully explain without seeing it in action, so here's a video of it in action! Enjoy. By the way, you can get catapult from brushed pixel.
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The future of Benton and Saline County concerning the change from a dry county to a wet one will be the focus of a presentation on Dec. 4 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Benton Event Center.
Rick Chrisman of the Alcohol Beverage Control is scheduled to speak for about 30 to 45 minutes following a lunch provided by the Benton Area Chamber of Commerce.
"They are going to give us a presentation of what is going to happen in the next 10 months," Gary James, said executive director for the chamber.
More on this story can be found in today's issue of The Saline Courier.
The Bryant City Council was scheduled to meet Thursday evening but that meeting was canceled when only three aldermen were present.
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8 Once when the king of Syria was warring against Israel, he took counsel with his servants, saying, "At such and such a place shall be my camp." | 8 Now the king of Aram was at war with Israel. After conferring with his officers, he said, "I will set up my camp in such and such a place." |
9 But the man of God sent word to the king of Israel, "Beware that you do not pass this place, for the Syrians are going down there." | 9 The man of God sent word to the king of Israel: "Beware of passing that place, because the Arameans are going down there." |
10 And the king of Israel sent to the place of which the man of God told him. Thus he used to warn him, so that he saved himself there more than once or twice. | 10 So the king of Israel checked on the place indicated by the man of God. Time and again Elisha warned the king, so that he was on his guard in such places. |
11 And the mind of the king of Syria was greatly troubled because of this thing; and he called his servants and said to them, "Will you not show me who of us is for the king of Israel?" | 11 This enraged the king of Aram. He summoned his officers and demanded of them, "Will you not tell me which of us is on the side of the king of Israel?" |
12 And one of his servants said, "None, my lord, O king; but Eli'sha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the words that you speak in your bedchamber." | 12 "None of us, my lord the king," said one of his officers, "but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel, tells the king of Israel the very words you speak in your bedroom." |
13 And he said, "Go and see where he is, that I may send and seize him." It was told him, "Behold, he is in Dothan." | 13 "Go, find out where he is," the king ordered, "so I can send men and capture him." The report came back: "He is in Dothan." |
14 So he sent there horses and chariots and a great army; and they came by night, and surrounded the city. | 14 Then he sent horses and chariots and a strong force there. They went by night and surrounded the city. |
15 When the servant of the man of God rose early in the morning and went out, behold, an army with horses and chariots was round about the city. And the servant said, "Alas, my master! What shall we do?" | 15 When the servant of the man of God got up and went out early the next morning, an army with horses and chariots had surrounded the city. "Oh, my lord, what shall we do?" the servant asked. |
16 He said, "Fear not, for those who are with us are more than those who are with them." | 16 "Don't be afraid," the prophet answered. "Those who are with us are more than those who are with them." |
17 Then Eli'sha prayed, and said, "O LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes that he may see." So the LORD opened the eyes of the young man, and he saw; and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Eli'sha. | 17 And Elisha prayed, "O LORD, open his eyes so he may see." Then the LORD opened the servant's eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha. |
18 And when the Syrians came down against him, Eli'sha prayed to the LORD, and said, "Strike this people, I pray thee, with blindness." So he struck them with blindness in accordance with the prayer of Eli'sha. | 18 As the enemy came down toward him, Elisha prayed to the LORD, "Strike these people with blindness." So he struck them with blindness, as Elisha had asked. |
19 And Eli'sha said to them, "This is not the way, and this is not the city; follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom you seek." And he led them to Sama'ria. | 19 Elisha told them, "This is not the road and this is not the city. Follow me, and I will lead you to the man you are looking for." And he led them to Samaria. |
20 As soon as they entered Sama'ria, Eli'sha said, "O LORD, open the eyes of these men, that they may see." So the LORD opened their eyes, and they saw; and lo, they were in the midst of Sama'ria. | 20 After they entered the city, Elisha said, "LORD, open the eyes of these men so they can see." Then the LORD opened their eyes and they looked, and there they were, inside Samaria. |
21 When the king of Israel saw them he said to Eli'sha, "My father, shall I slay them? Shall I slay them?" | 21 When the king of Israel saw them, he asked Elisha, "Shall I kill them, my father? Shall I kill them?" |
22 He answered, "You shall not slay them. Would you slay those whom you have taken captive with your sword and with your bow? Set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink and go to their master." | 22 "Do not kill them," he answered. "Would you kill men you have captured with your own sword or bow? Set food and water before them so that they may eat and drink and then go back to their master." |
23 So he prepared for them a great feast; and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the Syrians came no more on raids into the land of Israel. | 23 So he prepared a great feast for them, and after they had finished eating and drinking, he sent them away, and they returned to their master. So the bands from Aram stopped raiding Israel's territory. |
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Photog David Pearce is on the ground for the Tour Down Under, and as an accomplished travel and wine journo, was keen to visit the McLaren Vale region to ride and have a look at some of the roads that will be ridden on stage 4, with the requisite stops for food & drink along the way.
Here's one of the best travel / cycling / travel for cyclists videos I've seen - and I'm not just saying that because Nicola & Alberto at Garda Bike Hotel are good guys and great hosts. Take a look and see for yourself.
Every week GFNY COZUMEL is coming out with something new and exciting and this week is no exception. This will truly be the First and most EXCITING Gran Fondo in Paradise. We are keeping to our Italian heritage but our Mexican spice is evident in everything we do.
We do love traveling to exotic locales and riding the famous roads of cycling, but sometimes a trip closer to home is even better. Scotsdale's Bespoke Inn offers owner-run personalized service, a fully equipped bike shop, days of top rides, and nights of delicious dining and drinks.
On the Friday before the big race Lee Rodgers and the Velo Classic crew hit the cobbles for their own Paris Roubaix for 124 kilometers of torture over the famous Roubaix stones. 18 pavé sections in total and memories to last a lifetime.
TRAVEL: Looking forward to, and training for a gran fondo is the ideal incentive to cap your season with your best fitness, and enjoy the reward of a great ride in a tropical location when the days turn cold back home. The GFNY Cozumel fits the bill perfectly...
Great scenery, a spectacular climb and a twice as long descent, the Col de la Madone climb along France's cote d'Azur is must do for any fan of great rides. The capper was meeting up with a PEZ-Fan who lives nearby for a great day on the bike.
The 2014 Tour de France visits the Bordeaux region with a stage finish and Time Trial start at the medieval town of Bergerac. France From Inside cycling tour's Allan Reeves knows the area well - his family owns a chateau there, and guests will enjoy fantastic riding, exquisite French cuisine, and some big time bike racing.
France From Inside Tours specializes in cycling holidays for small groups in southern France, like their epic 'Conquer the Pyrenees' trip. 1000 miles, 100,000 feet climbing, 12 days of riding across the Pyrenees, coast to coast and back. The company owner and lead guide, Allan Reeves, explains how next year's 8th presentation of this marathon ride unfolds.
The cycling around Lago di Como in northern Italy is among our favorites, and it's even better when ex-pro Fabio Negri of ComoLagoBike.com leads the way, and our home base is the Albergo il Perlo Panorama.
Sometimes you gotta point the car at the cliff and give 'er some stick. Okay, maybe heading out for an awesome solo ride may not be quite the same... but sometimes heading into the unknown is best approached with a 'give 'er' attitude, and as I once again learned on this awesome ride around Lago di Como, the rewards can be worthy of a lifetime.
Gord is bouncing around on the kasseien and hellingen of one of the sport's most hallowed regions. Travelling with Peter and Lisa Easton of Velo Classic Tours, it's time to get up close and personal with the brutality of what the pros will face in the Ronde van Vlaanderen.
PEZ-Man Corey Fox's recent Lombardia weekend took some unexpected turns, but the expected good times came through with great weather, a top ride with an ex-pro, and a memorable weekend of '7s' at the Hotel Il Perlo on Lake Como.
While many of us in North America are familiar with the famous climbs and locations of the Giro and other Italian races, the beauty of Lake Garda is not so well known as a cycling destination. But it should be. And Garda Bike Hotels offer two perfect bases for a cycling holiday.
Tirreno Adriatico 2012 St. 7: Three riders in less than ten seconds starting for the final stage: an individual time trial. The dish of the day is quite interesting but my plan is just to enjoy a day at Tirreno Adriatico: a full immersion in cycling and the first warm sun of the season. And that's how it was…
Tirreno Adriatico 2012 St. 6: It's been years since I last saw the Tirreno Adriatico and today I booked a full afternoon out of the office and out of father duties to chase this race. I'm here to pass an afternoon in full relax chasing my favorite sport in a beautiful land. Is there anything better?
Few people have the opportunity to spend a week in a French chateau, to say nothing of being welcomed and hosted like old friends of the owners. But that's exactly what you'll experience on one of France From Inside's trips to their family's Chateau Pitray. Company owner Allan Reeves tells us more about his uniquely intimate European bike trips.
After several years of telling PEZ-Fans about Thomson Bike Tours' trips chasing the big rides and races in Europe, it was time to experience one for myself. My arrival to cover the final week of the 2011 Giro coincided perfectly with their Giro KOM trip, and its promise of several days of climbing some big climbs.
PEZ takes a look at the FranceFromInside.com cycling tour company in the South of France. We asked owner and avid cyclist Allan Reeves about his Pyrenees Cycling Challenge, from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean and back, totaling 1000 miles and 94,000 ft in 12 days of riding. Then we discovered he hosts cycling vacations at a family chateau in the Bordeaux wine region. Sign us up!
PEZ takes a look at the FranceFromInside.com cycling tour company in the South of France. We asked owner and avid cyclist Allan Reeves about his Pyrenees Cycling Challenge, from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean and back, totaling 1000 miles and 94,000 ft in 12 days of riding. Then we discovered he hosts cycling vacations at a family chateau in the Bordeaux wine region. Sign us up!
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30 You will be like an oak whose leaves are dying or like a garden without water. | 30 You will be like an oak with fading leaves, like a garden without water. |
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(03-20-2012 03:06 PM)mikmouse24 Wrote: krangry who did u get? jay? i forget who else was in there cardinals-wise @ OP..i think they LOOK beautiful this year, but MAN what a WEAK checklist! the GU names werent 1/2 bad but the autos..and to think i was about ready to buy a presell case and wait for prices to rise as they have on ALL OTHER TRIBUTE YEARS...man, not this year..prices are even down!
(03-20-2012 04:49 PM)dlcarst Wrote: If you compare it to other products, Tribute has a much much lower percentage of low tier players. Tier one had way too many boxes with two 5-dollar autos. Marquee same way. I haven't seen any breaks where everyone pulls only low end autos. Plus all on-card autos is huge. And every relic I pulled had big relics. The uniform-number and position of power relics are huge. The Votto I pulled had 2 big bat pieces. All relics and autos numbered to 99 or less, unlike the /999 tier one autos. The relics have much better resale value as well, even cheap ones you can get ten bucks out of. With any product these days you're better off buying singles, but if you just have to bust wax, Tribute's way more worth your money than any other high-end product these days.
(03-21-2012 11:18 AM)fightingirish913 Wrote: I do like how Topps has went to great lengths to protect their autos and jersey cards with cases!


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HELENA -- Top news on KXLH for the evening of Tuesday, April 15, 2014:
- Gleed Trial: William Gleed was tending bar at O'Toole's on the night of April 30th last year, hours before Arielle Schescke got behind the wheel and crashed into another vehicle, killing 16-year old Justine Smith and her grandmother, 51-year old Mildred Richards, on the East Helena overpass. Click here to read more.
- Police Shooting: Billings Police Chief Rich St. John said that robbery suspect Richard David Ramirez was shot and killed by a police officer on Monday night. Click here for details.
- Pinwheels: April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month, and in Montana, hospitals and others are trying to educate parents to prevent child abuse. Kids and their advocates placed pinwheels around the Capitol complex to raise awareness.
- Poster Winner: Allison McJannet, a 5th-grade student at Smith Elementary School in Helena, was honored on Tuesday for how she captured a powerful message through art in the "Bring Our Missing Children Home" poster contest. Click here for details.
- Taxing Time: "Tax Day" has arrived, and anti-tax activists rallied around the country to talk about taxes and the national debt, including one gathering in Helena. About 40 people attended the rally at the Capitol, expressing concern about big taxes, big regulation, and government surveillance. Click here for details.
- Clean-Up: The Benton Avenue Cemetery is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and houses graves from as far back as 1870, and there's a group of people devoted to its restoration and preservation. The Benton Avenue Cemetery Association is meeting tonight at the library to discuss their annual clean-up project. The cemetery has been victim to the decay of time and vandalism for many years. Their goal is to make it look like it would have in 1870.
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