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Nick's Apizza Arises in Boca
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Along with partner Anthony Giovanniello, Laudano is planning a May debut of the Boca Nick's in Glades Plaza, an open-air mini-mall near the enormous Town Center complex. The same roster of crisp-crusted pizzas will be offered--including the killer white clam pie, made with fresh-shucked littleneck clams--along with Hummel hot dogs, Foxon Park sodas and house-made desserts.
At 4,600 square feet and seating for 150, the new Nick's trumps the space of the old Lake Worth location. Design is by Laudano and local design star Karen Hanlon, who did Racks Downtown Eatery, YOLO and more. It's said to feature a nostalgic vibe with a 1940s-inspired kitchen pantry and ceiling covered with advertising posters from the 1920s and '30s, not to mention an indoor-outdoor bar, to-go window and custom-designed brick pizza oven.
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Orange Chicken Spinach Salad Recipe
Refreshing and delicious, Jean Murawski's lightly dressed, main dish salad is always a hit with friends and family in Grosse Pointe, Michigan. Pair it with Three Grain Pan Rolls, which can be found on the Recipe Finder at www.lightandtasty.com.
- 3 cups cubed cooked chicken breast
- 1 can (15 ounces) mandarin oranges, drained
- 1 package (6 ounces) fresh baby spinach
- 1 medium sweet red pepper, diced
- 1 small red onion, chopped
- 2 tablespoons orange juice
- 2 tablespoons cider vinegar
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1/2 teaspoon Italian seasoning
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons crumbled goat cheese
- 1. In a large bowl, combine the chicken, oranges, spinach, red pepper and onion. In a small bowl, whisk the orange juice, vinegar, oil, Italian seasoning, garlic and salt. Pour over salad and toss to coat. Top with goat cheese. Yield: 4 servings.
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With winter finally behind and April coming up, Maryland schools are struggling to make up a pile of snow days.
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- 2 envelope(s) unflavored gelatin
- 1/2 cup(s) cold water
- 1/2 cup(s) sugar
- 2.5 cup(s) late harvest Riesling or other sweet white wine
- 2 tablespoon(s) fresh lemon juice
- 2 cup(s) seedless red grapes, chilled
- 2 cup(s) seedless green grapes, chilled
- In cup, evenly sprinkle gelatin over water. Let stand 2 minutes to allow gelatin to absorb liquid and soften slightly.
- In 2-quart saucepan, heat sugar and 1 cup Riesling on medium-low, stirring occasionally until sugar dissolves. Stir in softened gelatin mixture, and heat 1 to 2 minutes or until gelatin dissolves, stirring frequently. Remove saucepan from heat. Stir in lemon juice and remaining 1 1/2 cups Riesling.
- Pour gelatin mixture into 9" by 5" loaf pan. Refrigerate 1 1/2 hours to let it set slightly. Add grapes, distributing evenly; cover and refrigerate overnight, until firm.
- To unmold terrine, place loaf pan up to rim in bowl or sink of warm, not hot, water 4 to 5 seconds. Remove pan from water. Insert small metal spatula around edge of pan to release gelatin. Dry outside of pan. Place serving plate on top of loaf pan, and grasping both together, invert terrine onto plate. With serrated knife, cut into slices to serve.
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By Jeff Walsh
Anthony Lee Medina first caught my attention when he nearly fell on me during the Spring Awakening tour in San Francisco. I was seated onstage, and he took an impressive spill during 'Bitch of Living,' that only seemed to energize him more for the song.
I'm never quite sure what it is about seeing certain performers in a show, and you follow them after that show, but I've always kept up with Anthony (Facebook helps there).
Of course, since that time in 2008, I spent much of the time erroneously thinking Anthony was straight and not Oasis material, a notion that was quickly dispelled upon seeing his solo show, Anthony Lee Medina - About Me, after moving to NYC.
Now, Anthony is starting a new part of his career, as he raises the money to put out his first collection of songs, The Ladybug Articles, later this year. Most of the songs are inspired by his ongoing tumultuous relationship with a guy he is still in love with.
We met during the recent heatwave at Otarian, a vegetarian restaurant he turned me onto in the city, and we talked. A lot. Here's what we had to say:
By Jeff Walsh
Telly Leung is a force of nature.
In Godspell, now playing at the Circle in the Square Theater on Broadway (see review), Leung has turned his role into an opportunity to showcase what seems to be almost too many talents. He acts, sings, dances, does impressions, and even when people are coming in after intermission, he's at the piano playing riffs from A Chorus Line, Wicked, Rent, and others, before launching into an Elton Johnesque reprise of "Learn Your Lessons Well" from Act One to get act two started.
When I recently ran into Stephen Schwartz, the composer of Godspell and Wicked, he had nothing but praise for Leung.
"His performance has become sort of famous. He's unbelievable, and the nice thing is he gets to show, in this particular production, the range of talents that he has," Schwartz said. "People who have seen him do one thing or another before, but here he gets to sing beautifully, he gets to be really funny, he gets to do amazing imitations, he gets to play the piano, you see a real range of just how much this guy can do. He's extraordinary in the show."
For how long Leung has been on my radar, it's amazing I'm just seeing him now. I originally planned to see him in Godspell years ago, but then the production was delayed. I planned to see him in an early version of Lysistrata Jones in Dallas, but I got delayed in Vegas instead. When the Rent tour came through the Bay Area, he had left the tour already.
So, for a while, I figured there was clearly some conspiracy at work here and I just wasn't meant to see Leung onstage. But once I moved to New York City, and he's in a show eight times a week, the odds greatly shifted in my favor, so we recently sat down in his dressing room before show time to chat about Godspell and his amazing path to Broadway (sorry Gleeks, I totally blanked on him being a Warbler during the interview):
By Jeff Walsh
Godspell is an odd mix of things that seemingly shouldn't work together: a series of parables from the Gospel of Matthew, amazing songs by Stephen Schwartz, and a lot of freedom in between on how to present both.
But somehow, the spare book, beautiful music, and lack of structure all combine to make something bigger than the sum of its parts. In its current Broadway incarnation, Godspell is a high-energy experience that barely lets you catch your breath.
Before I saw the show, in December, an elderly woman at the Patti Lupone/Mandy Patinkin show was giving me the rundown on all the new Broadway shows. When she came to Godspell, her demeanor changed and she clutched her chest, like even remembering the manic energy was exhausting her: "They keep running around, trying to make us have fun."
By Jeff Walsh
"Bring It On" hits all the notes you'd expect from a new musical inspired by the 2000 Kirsten Dunst cheerleading movie of the same name. There are catty cheerleaders, underdogs for the audience to cheer on, and high-flying aerial wizardry. But the members of its creative team have built their names by delivering theater that goes beyond our expectations, and that didn't happen this time.
The story is pretty simple. A cheerleader is forced to change schools and goes from being head cheerleader of a winning squad to being anonymous in a more ethnic school that doesn't even have or want a cheer squad. I never saw the original movie, but my friend who attended with me said it is not the same plot, so it is definitely more "inspired by" than "based on."
By Jeff Walsh
Rory O'Malley has a hard time accepting being gay eight times a week.
As Elder McKinley in The Book of Mormon on Broadway, he ends up doing a big tapdance number to "Turn It Off," about his "cool little Mormon trick" of turning his gay thoughts off "like a light switch."
Offstage, he couldn't be gayer. In addition to his role in the hottest Broadway musical, from South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, for which he is nominated for a Tony Award as Best Featured Actor in a Musical, O'Malley is also one of the co-founders of Broadway Impact, along with Gavin Creel, which unites the Broadway community to work toward marriage equality.
The Book of Mormon is a collaboration between Parker, Stone, and Robert Lopez, one of the people behind Avenue Q. The show is nominated for 14 Tony Awards, including Best Musical. The more I saw interviews with Rory O'Malley leading up to the Tonys, the more he seemed like someone who needed to be featured in Oasis. He always comes across as so thankful, open and heartfelt that it honestly wasn't a huge surprise he got cast as a squeaky-clean Mormon. After all, he is the guy who whitened up Eddie Murphy's "Cadillac Car" song in the Dreamgirls movie until it had all the soul and bite drained out of it.
So, O'Malley and I jumped on the phone recently, to chat about his life, career, as well as being gay and spiritual. Here's what we said:
By Jeff Walsh
When I moved to San Francisco in 1996, one of my first purchases was a trade paperback of Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City," from the recently-closed gay bookstore in the Castro. I'd previously watched the PBS mini-series, but it seemed a necessary book to read upon moving here. The book begins with Mary Ann Singleton, in San Francisco on vacation from Cleveland, calling her mother to say she isn't coming home, she's staying in this enchanted city.
To fans of the book, Mary Ann, Michael "Mouse" Tolliver and Anna Madrigal aren't mere literary characters. Mary Ann is the eyes of the piece that clearly see the magic of San Francisco. Mouse is its heart yearning for connection. And Anna is its soul welcoming us unconditionally with joints taped to our apartment doors, whose 'anything goes' attitude is earned through her life experience.
They are an important part of our lives, and capture the magic and allure of a city where people come to redefine themselves, find love, build community, and explore... well, pretty much anything they want to.
So, going to see a new musical based on "Tales of the City," featuring music from members of the Scissor Sisters, and both the writer and director behind Avenue Q, had me of two minds. I couldn't wait to see it, but I was also nervous they might fail to capture the essence of the piece. (I'm well aware the second concern is a bit much, but what I can say? I should have been tipped off that the team knew what it was doing by the Tales of the City-branded condoms and rolling papers at the merchandise table.)
By Jeff Walsh
Tales of the City, the musical based on the beloved books by Armistead Maupin, opens in San Francisco tonight. The story is set in the 70s and brings together a magic group of characters for a timeless story of self-discovery, family, and community.
The show fuses Maupin's books with some of the creative team behind Avenue Q, and music written by singer Jake Shears and musician John Garden of the dance pop band, The Scissor Sisters (My review of the show will run later this week).
I recently spoke with Shears during the show's preview run, and here's what we had to say:
By Jeff Walsh
"Promises, Promises" seems to have everything going for it. Recently out Sean Hayes (known for his amazing turn as Jack McFarland on Will & Grace) stars with Kristin Chenoweth (from Wicked and Glee fame) in a revival of a show written by Neil Simon, with music by Burt Bacharach and lyrics by Hal David, based on the amazing movie "The Apartment," written by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley Maclaine, and it seems like there's so much going for it, it couldn't miss.
But then, it does.
It's like a lot of good things that never congeal into a great thing. I like Hayes and Chenoweth so much that it takes a while to get over the enjoyment of seeing them perform to realize you don't necessarily want to see them perform this show. Hayes brings out the bubbly charm that made Jack the highlight of Will & Grace, but a lot of strange fourth-wall stuff and one-liners never seem to get us invested in his story here (and no, I didn't have any problem accepting him playing straight).
By Jeff Walsh
When we last caught up with Robin De Jesus, he was nominated for a Tony for the role of Sonny in In The Heights. He didn't win, but the show did win Best New Musical. De Jesus ended up performing that role on Broadway for two full years. Then, with just a two week break, he went to the new revival of the La Cage Aux Folles musical.
(If you want to read our earlier interviews first, we first chatted with him the day In The Heights was first opening Off-Broadway, and then nearly a year and a half later, when the show was on Broadway, and De Jesus was nominated for a Tony Award)
You may know La Cage Aux Folles better as The Birdcage, the movie with Robin Williams and Nathan Lane as a long-time gay couple who run a nightclub with a nightly drag show. There's a lot of twists and turns in the plot that I won't go into (but, if you're so inclined, they're detailed on Wikipedia). The main differences are that this is the musical version with a book by one of my heroes, Harvey Fierstein, and music by Jerry Herman. And, in this revival, the Robin Williams role is played by Kelsey Grammer, aka Frasier.
De Jesus plays Jacob, the supposed maid to the couple who desperately wants to prove to Zaza (the Nathan Lane role), that he's ready to be in the drag show. As you can see from the photo, De Jesus does a good amount of drag in the show. Not that he's a stranger to drag, as he performed as Angel in Rent on Broadway before.
And, to stick with tradition, De Jesus is once again Tony-nominated for his role in La Cage, and I'll certainly be rooting for him on June 13. He is always such a generous, positive spirit, it's always great to catch up with him.
Here's what we said:
By Jeff Walsh
This past Saturday, Gavin Creel was in New York City, talking to me on the phone.
18 hours after this interview, a car picked him up early in the morning, and took him to the airport, where he boarded a jet to London. In a few weeks, he and the rest of the Broadway tribe of Hair will open the show in the West End. Creel was Tony nominated for his turn as Claude, the conflicted hippie who has to decide what's important for him as the summer of love overlaps with the Vietnam War.
I reviewed the show back in January, but didn't realize at the time that Creel was openly gay. Having figured that out at some later point, we had a few interview attempts, but our schedules weren't lining up.
With the clock ticking on how long Creel would be on American soil, before bringing his magical show of peace and love to London, we finally made it happen. Here's what we said:
I just got home from Sacramento, where I went to see the FINAL show in the FINAL CITY of the Rent Broadway tour, which is the FINAL time Anthony Rapp and Adam Pascal will ever be in the show.
The crowd was electric, filled with many former cast members, and people who flew from all corners of the globe to be there.
When Adam Pascal walked out with his guitar, the crowd erupted. It seemed like it couldn't get much louder. Then Anthony walked out, and I realized I was wrong. The crowd was on its feet before they could even hit their marks, and they stopped and gave the crowd the time to calm down.
Anthony didn't start in with his normal opening line and instead said that this show, like every show, is dedicated to the memory of Jonathan Larson. Then it began.
By Jeff Walsh
I was interested to see the wildly-popular revival of Hair on Broadway because I think the gay and hippie movements are intertwined, as both really got started in the late 60s. While the history of the gay rights movement links the Stonewall Riots to the death of Judy Garland, as they happened during the week of her funeral, to me it's always seemed like the culture was already shifting sexually, spiritually and culturally in ways that demanded that homosexuality express itself more naturally.
In the 40-odd years that have passed since Hair first played Broadway, hippies have become a bit of a cultural joke, but a lot of their legacy is still with us: the sexual revolution (including LGBT acceptance), health food, drug culture, expanding consciousness in other ways such as eastern religions, and of course, the music.
So, it is interesting to see Hair through that lens in its current revival, as a snapshot of a huge cultural shift. Of course, if you could care less about any of that, you'd still be in luck, since it's just a fun time capsule of a show brought expertly to life with an exuberant young cast.
By Jeff Walsh
"In The Heights" seems like a Broadway show that shouldn't exist. A show about relationships, family, and community without an ounce of cynicism that tells heartfelt stories of Latino immigrants living in Manhattan? How is this even onstage, let alone winning Best Musical for 2008?
After nearly two years of anticipation, I finally got to see "In The Heights" on Broadway in December. Months of "Abuela" and "Piragua casting reality show parody" YouTube videos, and watching heartwhelming videos the cast made with a 10-year-old fan, and listening to the cast recording on my iPod was a lot more information than I usually have before seeing a show. I usually wait to get the cast recording after a show.
So, it was a bit strange to finally enter the theater on 46th street, and see the songs come to life, the dialogue that never existed on my iPod, the dancing, and… I just can't recommend it highly enough. To see show creator Lin-Manuel Miranda onstage as Usnavi surrounded by the amazing vision he has given to the world was a true gift.
By Jeff Walsh
The last time I reviewed Spring Awakening, it was a week into its Broadway run. Since that time, it went on to become a runaway hit, netting 8 Tony Awards (including Best Musical) and recently started its national tour in San Francisco.
Reading my old review again after seeing the touring production on opening night, my issues with the show remain. It hasn't lost any of its intensity and the songs are very familiar to me, but the dual nature of the show still never really gels to me, but I like both halves enough to still consider it a nice night out. Since I haven't really changed my mind on the show, you can read that original review for the show details and such.
The only other issue I had with the show are nothing new when seeing a touring show after first seeing the original cast on Broadway. When the people on the cast recording match the people you saw onstage and visualize when you're listening to the CD, it is always odd to see these "other" people saying the same lines, wearing the same clothes, and singing the same songs. That's nothing new with this show, and only happens when you strongly identify with the people you saw first perform the roles.
By Jeff Walsh
When I last interviewed Robin De Jesus in February 2007, it was the afternoon before the opening night of the Off-Broadway run of In The Heights. The show has since shut its doors Off-Broadway, retooled for a proper Broadway run, and has since swept the Tony nominations in the musical category, with 13 nominations including Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Score, Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical (for show creator Lin-Manuel Miranda), Best Direction and Best Choreography.
But the nomination that brings us together here is Best Featured Performer in a Musical, for which Robin is one of the five nominees. I've been a fan of Robin's since first seeing him in the sweet movie Camp, where he played a gay teen with a straight crush. I'll be seeing In The Heights the next time I'm on the east coast (the show was dark between its Off-Broadway and Broadway runs when I was there last time).
So, between feeling so happy for Robin and figuring I should jump on any chance to feature a 23-year-old openly gay actor nominated for creating a role in a hot show on Broadway, we jumped on the phone recently to capture his life in this unique window before the awards air on CBS on June 15.
First of all, I love the idea of a Broadway show making cool viral video to promote themselves, like this:
By Jeff Walsh
Xanadu, the new Broadway musical based on the old train wreck of a 1980s Olivia Newton John movie, is hard to pin down. It's definitely a campy, amusing time at the theater. It has an excellent cast and staging. And it calls to mind other jukebox musicals like Mamma Mia, Footloose, Saturday Night Fever, only it never really lives up to all you hope it might be.
To be fair, the entire premise didn't leave writer Douglas Carter Beane all that much to work with. Sonny spends his time drawing chalk murals on Venice Beach sidewalks. He draws a picture of Greek muses, which comes to life, and the Greek goddess Clio becomes his muse and inspires him to follow his dream, which is to open a roller disco. That's pretty much it, as well as a score by the Electric Light Orchestra.
The show doesn't put on any airs, though. It is completely aware of its frivolity, one character even refers to the show onstage as "This is like children's theater for 40-year-old gay people!"
By Jeff Walsh
Naked Boys Singing is coming out on DVD just in time for the holidays, so if you weren't aware you still have time to adjust your gift lists. Alternatively, it makes for a good item to put on your own list if you want that extra shove to make your Mom ask you directly.
Now, I just reviewed this movie back in September, so little has changed since that time. The bulk of the review is there.
However, the DVD also includes a documentary on the making of the movie that plays almost as long as the movie itself. It was actually an interesting watch, just to see the insanity they put themselves through to make it. You learn that the movie was shot in less than four days, that some cast members didn't know they planned to film in front of a live audience, and also cast members freaking out about doing the nudity (which you'd never suspect from seeing the finished product).
By Jeff Walsh
Alan Cumming does it all well: actor, screenwriter, director, novelist, singer... hell, he even has his own fragrance. I got the chance to sit down with Cumming (that's my hand on his shoulder) when he was in town for the showing of Suffering Man's Charity at the San Francisco gay film festival back in June.
As these things often work, the interview is done in the afternoon on the day the movie is screening, so you basically interview him about a movie you haven't seen, and then once you see it, he's out of town. I was holding the interview to time it with the long-passed DVD release of "Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple In All The World," which never seems to show up in my mailbox. So, I figure, we'll just run the interview on Thanksgiving, since Alan is someone for whom the community is thankful.
In Rick & Steve, Cumming plays the elderly, HIV-positive Chuck, who adds a lot of un-PC color to the amazingly funny proceedings. Back when I reviewed that, a few of you did the math regarding his four-year relationship with his 19-year-old boyfriend, and were rightfully appalled. Hopefully LOGO goes for another season of Rick & Steve, which is just amazing work from queer cinema wunderkind Q. Allan Brocka.
Of course, like a true theater queen, I start the interview with the Cumming that I know best, the one who injected an amazing amount of fresh energy into Cabaret for its restaging on Broadway a decade ago. His Tony-winning role as the emcee ratcheted up the role's sex appeal and the good news (possibly an Oasis exclusive?) ... he might be hitting the boards again for the show's anniversary:
By Jeff Walsh
It's hard for me to review the Oprah Winfrey-produced touring production of "The Color Purple" without starting at the end and working backwards.
I should point out that since this musical is based on a 24-year-old novel by Alice Walker and a 22-year-old movie by Steven Spielberg, I will be making no attempt to write around "spoilers." If you don't know the story, and don't want to, stop reading.
I don't know that I have ever seen a more compelling musical to trumpet atheism than "The Color Purple," though it is packaged as a spiritual show. The final words sung in the show are "Look what God has done. Amen."
To which the only rational response could be: If that's God, you can keep Him.


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By Carmen Gonzalez The Internet of Things (IoT) is causing data centers to become radically decentralized and atomized within a new paradigm known as "fog computing." To support IoT applications, such as connected cars and smart grids, data centers' core functions will be decentralized out to the network's edges and endpoints (aka "fogs"). As this trend takes hold, Big Data analytics platforms will focus on high-volume log analysis (aka "logs") and rely heavily on cognitive-computing algorithms (aka "cogs") to mak... Mar. 1, 2015 09:00 AM EST Reads: 1,019 |
By Pat Romanski Since 2008 and for the first time in history, more than half of humans live in urban areas, urging cities to become "smart." Today, cities can leverage the wide availability of smartphones combined with new technologies such as Beacons or NFC to connect their urban furniture and environment to create citizen-first services that improve transportation, way-finding and information delivery.
In her session at @ThingsExpo, Laetitia Gazel-Anthoine, CEO of Connecthings, will focus on successful use c... Mar. 1, 2015 04:00 AM EST Reads: 2,900 |
By Pat Romanski SYS-CON Events announced today that GENBAND, a leading developer of real time communications software solutions, has been named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's WebRTC Summit, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
The GENBAND team will be on hand to demonstrate their newest product, Kandy. Kandy is a communications Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that enables companies to seamlessly integrate more human communications into their Web and mobile applicatio... Feb. 28, 2015 05:00 PM EST Reads: 1,394 |
By Carmen Gonzalez VictorOps is making on-call suck less with the only collaborative alert management platform on the market.
With easy on-call scheduling management, a real-time incident timeline that gives you contextual relevance around your alerts and powerful reporting features that make post-mortems more effective, VictorOps helps your IT/DevOps team solve problems faster. Feb. 28, 2015 05:00 PM EST Reads: 1,177 |
By Carmen Gonzalez Skeuomorphism usually means retaining existing design cues in something new that doesn't actually need them. However, the concept of skeuomorphism can be thought of as relating more broadly to applying existing patterns to new technologies that, in fact, cry out for new approaches.
In his session at DevOps Summit, Gordon Haff, Senior Cloud Strategy Marketing and Evangelism Manager at Red Hat, will discuss why containers should be paired with new architectural practices such as microservices ra... Feb. 28, 2015 04:00 PM EST Reads: 1,404 |
By Elizabeth White Roberto Medrano, Executive Vice President at SOA Software, had reached 30,000 page views on his home page - http://RobertoMedrano.SYS-CON.com/ - on the SYS-CON family of online magazines, which includes Cloud Computing Journal, Internet of Things Journal, Big Data Journal, and SOA World Magazine. He is a recognized executive in the information technology fields of SOA, internet security, governance, and compliance. He has extensive experience with both start-ups and large companies, having been ... Feb. 28, 2015 04:00 PM EST Reads: 1,160 |
By Liz McMillan Companies today struggle to manage the types and volume of data their customers and employees generate and use every day. With billions of requests daily, operational consistency can be elusive.
In his session at Big Data Expo, Dave McCrory, CTO at Basho Technologies, will explore how a distributed systems solution, such as NoSQL, can give organizations the consistency and availability necessary to succeed with on-demand data, offering high availability at massive scale. Feb. 28, 2015 03:45 PM EST Reads: 2,248 |
By Liz McMillan From telemedicine to smart cars, digital homes and industrial monitoring, the explosive growth of IoT has created exciting new business opportunities for real time calls and messaging.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Ivelin Ivanov, CEO and Co-Founder of Telestax, shared some of the new revenue sources that IoT created for Restcomm – the open source telephony platform from Telestax.
Ivelin Ivanov is a technology entrepreneur who founded Mobicents, an Open Source VoIP Platform, to help create, de... Feb. 28, 2015 03:30 PM EST Reads: 4,001 |
By Carmen Gonzalez The industrial software market has treated data with the mentality of "collect everything now, worry about how to use it later." We now find ourselves buried in data, with the pervasive connectivity of the (Industrial) Internet of Things only piling on more numbers. There's too much data and not enough information.
In his session at @ThingsExpo, Bob Gates, Global Marketing Director, GE's Intelligent Platforms business, to discuss how realizing the power of IoT, software developers are now focu... Feb. 28, 2015 03:15 PM EST Reads: 1,271 |
By Pat Romanski Security can create serious friction for DevOps processes. We've come up with an approach to alleviate the friction and provide security value to DevOps teams.
In her session at DevOps Summit, Shannon Lietz, Senior Manager of DevSecOps at Intuit, will discuss how DevSecOps got started and how it has evolved.
Shannon Lietz has over two decades of experience pursuing next generation security solutions. She is currently the DevSecOps Leader for Intuit where she is responsible for setting and driv... Feb. 28, 2015 03:00 PM EST Reads: 2,179 |
By Carmen Gonzalez Operational Hadoop and the Lambda Architecture for Streaming Data
Apache Hadoop is emerging as a distributed platform for handling large and fast incoming streams of data. Predictive maintenance, supply chain optimization, and Internet-of-Things analysis are examples where Hadoop provides the scalable storage, processing, and analytics platform to gain meaningful insights from granular data that is typically only valuable from a large-scale, aggregate view. One architecture useful for capturing... Feb. 28, 2015 02:00 PM EST Reads: 1,239 |
By Elizabeth White SYS-CON Events announced today that Vitria Technology, Inc. will exhibit at SYS-CON's @ThingsExpo, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY.
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By Liz McMillan DevOps is about increasing efficiency, but nothing is more inefficient than building the same application twice. However, this is a routine occurrence with enterprise applications that need both a rich desktop web interface and strong mobile support. With recent technological advances from Isomorphic Software and others, it is now feasible to create a rich desktop and tuned mobile experience with a single codebase, without compromising performance or usability. Feb. 28, 2015 01:15 PM EST Reads: 1,048 |


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Today is World Asthma Day—an annual event organized by the Global Initiative for Asthma to improve asthma awareness and care around the world. Over the next few weeks, we're excited to share blog posts that will explain more about the work our providers are doing across the country to help underserved kids and families learn how to control asthma.
by Dr. John Carlson, pediatrician and asthma/immunology specialist, New Orleans Children's Health Project and Plaquemines Parish
I see many patients who are living with asthma and allergies while working on the mobile clinics in the 9th ward of New Orleans and in southern Plaquemines Parish. When I see a patient with asthma, I work with the family to select the right controller medications so that they have no limitations in the activities they can take part in. If they have difficulty running, sleeping or going to school because of their asthma, I know that we can find a better medication. I also look to see if they have problems with food allergies, eczema, snoring and nasal allergies because controlling these other problems are an important part of controlling asthma.
For Plaquemines Parish resident, Marie*, helping to keep her son Sam's* asthma under control was difficult. Although Marie was employed, she was not able to afford health insurance for her children. Subsequently, Sam's asthma was not properly managed, causing frightening outbreaks that made breathing extremely difficult. A few months ago, Marie discovered our clinic outside of the school where she works and learned that her child could receive care, regardless of her ability to pay. After bringing Sam to the clinic, I was able to get Sam on an "Asthma Action Plan," give him proper medication, and help Sam and Marie understand what was triggering Sam's asthma outbreaks. As it turned out, we also discovered Sam had severe allergies after providing him allergy testing and treatment.
Allergies and asthma run in families, so I often see kids in groups, and help parents find the resources to control their own asthma. This is helpful especially when it is time to do allergy testing. I perform skin testing using drops of oil that contain various common substances that children are allergic to. Children are often apprehensive about skin tests, but are more comfortable when they see older members of the family go first. After applying the allergy extracts (using a plastic device that "pricks" the oil into the skin) we wait 15 minutes to see which extracts cause a reaction. Depending on what the child is allergic to, we can sometimes help them to avoid or at least predict when they will have more problems. Simply knowing that the patient does have allergies at all helps predict how effective some of the medications will be.
Once asthma is effectively controlled, the children are able to do everything that normal children are supposed to do without limitations from their asthma. It's great to be a part of this solution and help kids, like Sam, learn about triggers, get the proper medication, and take control of their asthma.
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Will you be in NYC this weekend? Do you enjoy the music of the Grateful Dead?
If yes, come check out the Lead Heads, America's only teen Grateful Dead tribute band, at The Bitter End this Sunday, May 1. For the third year in a row, the Lead Heads are contributing all proceeds from ticket sales to CHF!
Visit the event site to buy your tickets today: www.leadheads.net/tickets.html
By Arturo Brito, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer & Executive Vice President, Children's Health Fund
With 24 CHF programs in 16 states, it's not surprising that there is a lot going on within our National Network. We thought our readers would love to hear some of the exciting things happening within our programs around the country. Enjoy!
The construction of the brand new Pediatric Center of Excellence at the Chiricahua Community Health Center, home of the Southern Arizona Children's Health Project, has been completed and they expect to begin seeing children in early June. This new site will allow them to see more children and provide additional services, such as subspecialty care, helping to meet the complex needs of the many children with special health care needs living within their service area.
The New Jersey Children's Health Project is currently coordinating an expansion into Camden, NJ, a city with a large homeless population and high crime rate.
The mental health team at the Mississippi Gulf Coast Children's Health Project received a grant from BP last year and they have been using those funds for the development and implementation of a Peer Listening Program. They anticipate this program will be very useful for helping children cope with stress they experience around hurricane season and other natural disasters as well as the oil spill.
CHF's Center for Community Health Technology (CCHT) recently trained the Baton Rouge Children's Health Project to use eClinical Works, the electronic medical record that CHF uses and has developed content for. By all accounts, BRCHP staff is happy with their new EHR system and feel like it will improve their practice flow and allow for more research and publication opportunities. A special thank you to Sue Spalding (Medical Director, Dallas CHP) for joining CCHT as part of the training team.
►"That's the happiest van I ever saw," a flagman told the driver of Children's Health Fund (CHF)'s affiliate program in Montrose, Colorado. Joining CHF's fleet of vibrant blue "doctor's office's on wheels," the van funded from a grant from American Idol "Idol Gives Back", is part of our local Child Health Transportation Initiative, a partnership with Telluride Foundation.
Lack of access to reliable transportation is one of the most pervasive barriers to health care for children in the United States, resulting in missed opportunities for routine well-child care, increased incidence of untreated chronic illnesses, increased use of emergency rooms for non-emergency care, and an increase in preventable hospitalizations. The local program in Colorado offers patients living in three counties a ride to follow-up and special medical and dental apppointments if they do not have their own transportation to get them there.
By Carol Sumkin, Senior Vice President, Development, Children's Health Fund
One year ago today, Children's Health Fund (CHF) and Clorox launched the Connect Kids to Care program with the help of actress Julianne Moore. The goal of the program was to rally people across the country to help CHF connect vulnerable kids to ongoing health care with the click of a mouse. Each time someone "liked" Clorox on Facebook, Clorox donated $1.00 to CHF (up to $100,000). Six months after the launch, we reached 100,000 "likes," thanks to supporters like you.
That $100,000 donation along with Clorox's additional $500,000 commitment is going a long way. In fact, in 2010 this important support has helped enable CHF programs to provide more than 244,000 medical, mental, and dental health visits as well as other vital health services to kids across the country.
And remember the kids you met in our Connect Kids to Care videos? If you haven't caught up with Jorge, check out our recent blog post to see how he's doing.
Pretty amazing! Thank you to Clorox for helping raise awareness about the millions of American children that do not have the health care services they need and deserve.
And the best part? You can expect to see more from the Connect Kids to Care program in the coming months! Stay tuned.
► This week, Children's Health Fund Co-Founder Paul Simon released his 12th solo album, So Beautiful or So What. Congratulations to Paul from all of us at Children's Health Fund!
"There are days when I personally dirve the 38 foot mobile clinic complete with a nurse triage room, two exam rooms, a patient waiting area, a bathroom and a registrar area..."
Practicing in a Clinic on Wheels by Cody Conklin-Aguilera, MD
Life in a Rural FQHC by April Alvarez-Coronna, MD
One of the best ways to get to know our programs is by listening to stories from the doctors that work on the mobile clinic every day. From their personal accounts, we learn more about the talented group of individuals that make up the Children's Health Fund National Network while getting a glimpse at the struggles and successes of working with homeless and underserved communities.
This month, the newsletter for the American Academy of Pediatrics' Arizona Chapter features artciles from two of CHF's doctors – Dr. Cody Conklin-Aguilera from our Phoenix Children's Health Project and Dr. April Alvarez-Corona from our Southern Arizona Children's Health Project.
Follow Dr. Cody from the South Bronx Health Center for Children and Families in New York to working on the Phoenix mobile clinic. In Dr. April's account, she explains what it means to be a "community pediatrician" and do more than just provide children with medical care.
We are very proud to share these stories with you and hope you enjoy getting to know our dedicated staff and what it takes to bring quality health care to the most vulnerable kids across the country.
Since our inception, CHF has remained an active voice in child health care policy both federally and locally. Through Hill visits, Policy Forums, and Advocacy Days like the 2009 event on the West Capitol Lawn, Washington, D.C. (pictured here), CHF raises it's voice for the health care rights of all children, since their voices can not be heard.
Even with the 2010 passage of the health care law, our fight for the health care rights of all children is far from over. This week the government faces possible shutdown due to Congressional wrangling over the current year's budget. The House passed a budget that the Senate deems unacceptable while a small faction in the House is calling for even deeper cuts than the ones they already passed. EVERYTHING is on the table, including cuts to Medicaid and even the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). These potential reductions in funding for vital safety net programs will impact millions of children and families, including 30 million children that depend on Medicaid. We need you to contact your representatives and tell them it is imperative that they work to protect children from theses program cuts and changes now and in the future.
By Caitlin McFeely, Communications Associate, CHF
Dr. Manali Kanitkar, Pediatric Dentist Children's Health Fund, New York Mobile Dental Clinic
A few weeks ago, my colleagues and I enjoyed a visit with Dr. Manali Kanitkar, the new dentist for CHF's New York Mobile Dental Clinic, which will begin providing much needed dental care to New York City kids in a few weeks. The dental clinic will work in tandem with our mobile clinics, which visit numerous homeless shelters throughout New York City to provide quality health care to a growing number of poor and underserved children.
It was so interesting and exciting to listen to Dr. Kanitkar talk about her career and her plans to help bring the 'Dental Home' to homeless kids in New York, who desperately need quality dental care. The Dental Home is an ongoing relationship between the dentist and the patient to provide comprehensive oral health care in a family-centered and accessible way. Dr. Kanitkar understands that the parents, physician, dentist, mental health professional, etc., all need to work together to ensure the child's well-being.
We talked a lot about how nutrition and healthy eating impacts oral health. Many of the dental-related problems kids experience while growing up are the direct result of poor eating and oral hygiene habits. For example, one of leading causes of tooth decay (cavities) is called "Early Childhood Caries" (or commonly referred to as "baby bottle tooth decay") and is caused by giving children sugary drinks in bottles from an early age. The sugar from the juice or soda sticks to the teeth, causing extensive tooth decay at a young age, which in turn impacts the child's oral and general health throughout his or her life.
by Caitlin McFeely, Communications Associate, Children's Health Fund
When I was growing up, I was lucky to have a safe place to play outdoors with my family and friends. Kickball, hide and seek, wiffle ball, you name it. We got to run around, get some exercise, and have fun in the kind of environment I'd hope every kid has access to.
But childhood for kids living in homeless shelters isn't much like mine was. They struggle daily with stressful experiences that have a lasting effect on their development and ability to learn and play. They also experience higher rates of acute and chronic health problems.
This past week, as I walked to one of the homeless shelters in the Bronx, served by the health care team from CHF's New York Children's Health Project (NYCHP), I wondered, "where do the local kids go to play after school"? Is there a park or youth center nearby? Are the obesity rates in this area higher because there aren't any places to go?


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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Lleyton Hewitt's record 17th consecutive Australian Open campaign ended in a 7-6 (4), 7-5, 6-3 first-round loss to eighth-seeded Janko Tipsarevic of Serbia on Monday night.
The former No. 1 player qualified for his first Australian Open when he was 15. He will turn 32 next month. Nobody in the Open era has played more consecutive Australian Opens than Hewitt, a former U.S. Open and Wimbledon champion.
The closest Hewitt has come to ending a drought for local men that dates to 1976 at the national championship was when he lost the 2005 final to Russia's Marat Safin.
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For patients who've suffered a spinal fracture, we offer comprehensive one-stop care, beginning with effective pain management. Patients undergo an MRI to determine the extent of the fracture and are referred to the appropriate specialist if a procedure is needed. In addition, our nationally recognized rheumatologists evaluate patients' bone health as the basis for post-fracture treatment of osteoporosis and prevention of re-fractures. Nowhere else in the state can a patient receive such multidisciplinary care in one visit.
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Book Reviews || For the Knitters
Friday, December 21, 2012
i've been lucky enough to receive some lovely knitting books over the last few weeks and i thought it would be fun to compile some of them into a post for some gifts for the knitters in your life. i know as a knitter we are always longing for the people in our lives to feed into our obsession and buy us more knitty goodness of anything. yarn, books, notions, bags...whatever it may be we love it!
one of my biggest passions in life are books. i have worked in book stores for many years (in and behind the scenes), run bookclub matching services (fun idea i had!) & hosting, author events & signings, ordering, and more. it was a lot of fun and some days i miss being surrounded by the smell of books a lot. i miss pouring over advance copies and reading through catalogues to order stock and all the fun that goes along with being in that environment with people who love to read as much as you do. the librarians still think i'm a bit bonkers to this day i takes so many books out at one time. thankfully now with having an ipad i can hide my addiction a little bit by taking e-books out from the library instead :) i'm also proud to say my kids are just like me if not worse. we can never have enough books in our house. so i'm slowly building up my collection of sewing/knitting/crafting books to go alongside my jane austens :)
so why not indulge someone in your life this xmas with a little knitty book love? i'm sure they'd love it!
tiny treads is a book filled with yummy sock patterns for kids! i love this idea! filled with fun and colorful projects just perfect to keep those little toes you love warm and cozy!
boys' knits is a great book filled with knits just for boys! just like in the sewing community this is much needed for knitters as well. there always seems to never be enough lovelies to knit up for the little boys in our lives. from accessories to sweater this book has tons of classic and wearable patterns you and the little men in your life will love.
knitting hats and mittens from around the world was such an interesting read for me. while i love modern and fun knits i am also very interested in the technical and historical side of knitting. the patterns, colors and techniques in this book make it a great addition to my collection. there are so many techniques and colorwork in this book you're sure to learn something interesting and knit something fun and out of the ordinary.
fairy tale knits: 20 enchanting characters to make is adorable. there's lots of little goodies to make to surprise your wee ones with! includes whimsical scenes and all your fave fairy tale characters!
who could resist knitting up the whole song of the twelve days before christmas? a creative collection of adorable little patterns "the twelve knits of christmas" is sure to be a great fun to set up and play with each christmas.
happy reading and knitting my friends!
have you knit from any of these books? do you have a knitter in your life who would love these? what book are you hoping santa brings you this xmas? have a wonderful weekend and i'll see you on monday!
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gasp! that tiny tread book looks just darling. Alas, I've never knit a pair of socks-- do you think any of the patterns are easy enough for a sock novice?
ReplyDeleteRepliesThere is a wide range of skill level patterns in the book Palak. Unfortunately having never made socks before myself I feel like I cannot guarantee there are...lol. Hopefully in the new year I can change that and you and I can whip up some fun socks :)
Deleteyou're on! I'm hoping to make that my next project-- I wonder what kind of socks they wear in downton abbey?
I'm going to have to keep my eye out for Boys' Knits. It's so difficult for me to find knitting or sewing patterns for boys that I like.
ReplyDeleteDear Shannon,
As a Librarian I must assure you that we never look cross-eyed at anyone who checks out a gigantic stack of books at any given time. We have just as many items (if not more) checked out ourselves. We fully understand the addiction/attraction of each story. I am guilty myself of reading three or four different books at a time.
As for the books above, I've been looking forward to going through Boys' Knits. I have two stinky (*meant with love) little boys that require knitty gifts.
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For many years (from early 1980's through the year 2000) a principle location for No. 1 Soccer Camps was the Marmion Military Academy on Butterfield Road in Aurora where thousands of soccer players filed through the ranks of our goalkeeper and striker programs. When Marmion closed its dormitory, No. 1 Soccer Camps relocated to Carthage College just across the Wisconsin border on Lake Michigan where many more players experienced our No. 1 program.
No.1 Soccer Camps is now proud to offer the No.1 Striker Camp and No.1 Goalkeeper Camp at Benedictine University (BU) located in Lisle and in the greater Chicago area serving Naperville, Peoria, Rockford, Bellwood and more. BU offers two grass surfaced soccer fields for campers to hone their skills. Campers will be housed in a typical dormitory room complex with modern facilities and dining hall.
The No. 1 Soccer Camp at Benedictine University will be directed by long-time No. 1 Regional Director, Clark Brisson, who in his NCAA playing days was the nation's third leading goal scorer at the University of South Carolina, where he is now an Assistant Coach. Coach Brisson also coaches in the US Soccer Development Academy where his South Carolina United Battery teams are among the leaders in player development having placed 5 players into National Camps and a player in the Residency Program of the US Soccer U17 National Team.
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What does sustainability mean to the mining industry? Solutions Journal looks at one closed Canadian mine that must create artificial permafrost to lock 237,000 tons of toxic arsenic trioxide underground in perpetuity.
Another approach to sustainability can be seen in Papua New Guinea, where the mining town of Tabubil is using current profits to prepare the community for the time when its natural resources run out.


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Data without context is generally useless, and when it comes to providing that context, location is usually everything.
At its TUCON 2013 conference this week, TIBCO Software moved to provide that context by releasing an upgrade to its TIBCO Spotfire analytics software that adds support for geospatial analytics based on technology that TIBCO gained when it acquired Maparama Solutions earlier this year.
According to TIBCO Senior Vice President Peter Lee, 80 percent of all data can be associated with geospatial analytics. Lee says adding those capabilities to version 6.0 of TIBCO Spotfire will make it a lot easier for users to discover the relationship between different data sets via multilayer maps and geo-coding of data.
In this release, TIBCO is also adding support for TIBCO Spotfire Event Analytics, which leverages TIBCO event processing technology to automate the tracking and identification of new trends as they occur. This real-time monitoring essentially triggers the automatic creation of analytic applications every time an exception occurs within a specific business process.
As part of an effort to make TIBCO Spotfire more accessible, the company also announced that it will make an instance of TIBCO Spotfire available as a cloud service. The end goal, says Lee, is to give customers multiple delivery options when it comes to invoking the analytics product.
Finally, TIBCO is also making available TIBCO Spotfire Consumer, web-based client software that allows users of mobile computing devices to more easily keep track of specific key performance indicators.
While the line between business intelligence and analytics applications is continuing to blur, TIBCO is focusing on providing operational intelligence around specific business processes. Ultimately, delivering that level of intelligence in a way that is tied to business processes may do more to help drive the adoption of analytics. Business users usually only appreciate having an analytics capability in the moment an actual event actually occurs, versus other approaches to analytics that focus on identifying trends long after anybody can actually change the outcome of the event.
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Mellow or minimalist, Sandman is not going to be the easiest interview. He answers intentionally open-ended questions with few words, usually vague. He speaks cautiously, as though screening his responses as they make their way from his mind to his mouth, and is he careful not to say too much. He seems almost embarrassed at the relative fame of this band that started simply as a side project seven years ago. Most of all he sounds sick of answering questions he's been asked so many times before, mainly queries about the band's unusual instrumental lineup. But when pried out, these answers prove to be the most intriguing.
According to Sandman Morphine's inception was basically an accident. In the early '90s Sandman was a member of the Boston-based, major-label band Treat Her Right, but he spent lots of time experimenting with other musicians in casual side projects. Once while pursuing an interest in one-string African instruments, he began fooling around with alternative ways of stringing up his own electric bass. With just one string on his bass and a guitar slide in his hand, he jammed with saxophonist Dana Colley, and they heard something they liked. So they hooked up with drummer Jerome Deupree and scheduled a show. Somehow the combination worked; there was no need for the chord-driven support of traditional instruments like guitar or piano. Instead the trio forged a unique sound that grooved with the smoothness of cool jazz, pulsed with the aggressive and simplistic power of rock and roll, and murmured darkly with bottom-heavy, drugged-out sonic spaces.
"It sounded good to us, so we played together again and it started taking over our lives," Sandman says. "Of all of our previous projects, somehow this was the one that took off."
Over the next few months, the band played at bars around Cambridge and Boston, with plenty of gigs at after-hour parties at a friend's loft. In 1992 the band released the album Good on Accurate/Distortion records (reissued in 1993 by Rykodisc) and won the Boston Music Awards' Indie Debut Album of the Year for this first effort. Songs such as "You Speak My Language," "Do Not Go Quietly Unto Your Grave," and "Have a Lucky Day" captured the band's trademark sound, sort of like late-night smoky haze for the ears. Morphine's sophomore album Cure For Pain (Rykodisc) was its commercial breakthrough, and the group went international, touring sixteen countries across Europe. Amidst the success Deupree left the band and Treat Her Right's drummer Billy Conway filled the void. Interest rolled in from Hollywood, and a steady offering of soundtrack slots opened for the band. Morphine's songs have set the noirish mood for films such as Get Shorty and Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead, and added a wistful touch to Beautiful Girls. A recently recorded song, "You're an Artist," featuring Morphine with drummer Billy Beard and Chris Ballew, the former bassist for the now-defunct Presidents of the United States of America, is slated to appear in this spring's movie The Mod Squad.
Following Cure for Pain, 1995's Yes (Rykodisc) brought the band even more air play with songs like the flashy ass-shaker "Super Sex" and the dirty, rocking "Honey White." And 1997's Like Swimming (DreamWorks/Rykodisc) was an unsurprising though not necessarily disappointing continuation of Yes, as Morphine toyed with its sound, occasionally adding other instruments to augment their sparse style.
"We never really feel [our sound is] limited because Dana can cover a lot of territory on the sax, almost as if he's playing a guitar," Sandman says. "We're much more inclined to take something away than to add."
With that approach Morphine's new album should not stray drastically from the band's past efforts. Sandman explains their latest direction is to expand laterally; that is, to add more of what they already have: more horns, more bass, more drums. A few guest artists should make their way into the mix as well. And the band members may play around with some new sounds; they've been experimenting with a grand piano, a bass saxophone and an instrument mentioned on the band's Website, www.morphine3.com, as an MDX collapsible two-string prototype.
As I speak with Sandman on the phone, he asks me to hold so he can answer the door. When he returns he tells me that a fellow from Morocco has just arrived to work on material that could end up on the recording. This new arrival, Brahim Fribgane, plays a fretless, Middle Eastern predecessor to the guitar called an oud. Sandman is impressed: "He can play anything on it."


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I haven't written on here in what seem like a while. I could check exactly how long it's been, but I don't really care that much.
The site crash probably has something to do with it, I guess.
So, it's summer. I've never really known why people like get such big boners over the end of school. Like, school isn't that bad, and summer isn't that great.
I guess it might be different for some people, school's harder than it is for me, but still, summer isn't that great.
What's summer been so far?
Well, except for a beach party on the first day, not so much so far.
It's been hours and hours of looking at Wikipedia articles.
It's been other hours and hours of looking at Calvin and Hobbes.
It's been going through my entire stash of indie hipster music.
It's been staying up, really really late, or early, depending on how you want to look at it, watching film after low-budget film, usually horrors or thrillers, and looking at old episodes of Ugly Betty, drinking cup after cup after gallon of peppermint tea.
It's been going to a new place I found in the woods I now call Chad's Laughing Place, after Annie's in the book Misery, a peaceful log set up just like a recliner over a stream where I can read Ray Bradbury short story collections and The Economist.
Now, it's been summer for less than a week, but I'm willing to bet that most of the time I'm here at home will be much like that.
Now, that's not so bad, of course, I mean, I just recently watched a movie called Cube, about these strangers who all of a sudden just wake up in separate cubic rooms, all dressed the same, with no knowledge of how or why they're there, and then have to move through all these little cubic rooms, only some of them are booby trapped, trying to find out how to get out of this giant cube structure and figure out why they're there.
And it was actually pretty good, the premise was excellent, the acting was okay, I guess, not very good, and interest started to decay by the end of the hour-and-a-half film, but pretty good for an indie low-budget.
They had a sequel which I also watched, called Cube 2: Hypercube, which I was hesitant about watching, because if it'd been too similar to the first, I would be so fucking uninterested.
But it wasn't, they weren't in a giant cube made of little cubic rooms, they were in a tesseract, a four-dimensional cube with all sorts of weird time-distortions and gravity shifts and shit.
Sorry I got side-tracked, but yeah. Basically summer's been okay, but at least at school, even if it's a little more boring sometimes, at least I have my friends there all the time.
Now, especially with my brother gone, it's a little more lonely.
I suppose I can drive now, I could like go on a day-hike in the mountains...
But my parents probably wouldn't like that...
Anyway, I'm tired of writing about this, I can't fucking concentrate.
So how are your guys' summers going?
Edit: Oh yeah, and have you guys ever read The Better Part of Wisdom, short story by Ray Bradbury? It's a pretty impressive and delicate handling of homosexuality, about a guy and his boyfriend sharing an apartment building, when the guy's grandfather shows up, and is able to accept his grandson by remembering his long ago childhood with a fantastic and short-lived friendship/relationship with another boy, a relationship in the innocence of childhood
My summer's been going eerily similarly to your summer - even down to the Ray Bradbury short story collections.
And I totally agree about summer not being much if any better than the school year. I'm leaving for vacation in a couple of days, but up until now it's just been three weeks of nothing interesting.
Never have time to go anywhere or do anything, first real day for that will be tomorrow morning.
as far as school, I kinda agree w/ you, and kind of don't...
If ya ever want to go hiking w/ a friend in the area, hit me up man, I need to get more time in in the cascades this year. So far I have done wallace falls, rattlesnake ridge, and mt si, but I definitely need to get out and hike/ backpack more.
want to d staircase @ some point this summer, but it is definitely more than a day hike out there. you have to camp. But I swear, that is one of the most beautiful hikes/ places in the entire state. and its in the park, so it's fairly cheap to go there.
Mental wounds not healing, driving me insane, i'm goin' off the rails on a crazy train- the ozzman
Calvin and Hobbes: one of my all-time favorites! You do know that the complete 3-volume edition can be purchased for under $90? Tell your folks it'd make a great coffee table item.
I hope you're also familiar with Walt Kelly's Pogo... It's on a considerably bit higher intellectual plane (not imagination made real)... but, regrettably, this aspect is missed by many readers.
A famous quote from Pogo: "We have met the enemy... and he is us" (1970-71). Reference here being to mankind's destruction of the environment...
Challenge: What is it Pogo said he would do to establish world peace... if he only had... ?
As for Chad's Laughing Place... at a bit younger age, I had my own functional equivalent about a mile deep in the timber across the road from our home... a clear dredge stream not very distant. It was my private refuge: So relaxing... and all alone with nature... even an occasional quickly passing thunder storm (thick overhead foliage plus a rather flimsy tarp came in handy).
I've got pretty much all the books, and you're right... it was only like 40 bucks for it all. The bookstores had good sales c:
That's redick!
I remember shortly after the 3-volume edition came out, Borders ---sadly, now defunct --- (I miss so much their Seattle's Best coffee and comfortable reading areas) had it on sale for some ridiculously low price.
There is nothing currently available that even comes close to the quality of Calvin and Hobbes... and Pogo is even longer gone.
"You can judge the whole world on the sparkle that you think it lacks" - Dawes, When My Time Comes (http://youtu.be/Z0FrcTX6hWI)
...was enjoying a Seattle's Best in the very inviting atmosphere at Borders! This was a nearby daily "haunt" for me --- now trashed.
B&N is much larger than what Borders was... but it's just not the same! :(
My friend always wanted me to go with him to hang out at Borders, read stuff, etc., and I was always like 'But I have 100+ books I need to read at home..."
"You can judge the whole world on the sparkle that you think it lacks" - Dawes, When My Time Comes (http://youtu.be/Z0FrcTX6hWI)
The complete 3 volume Calvin and Hobbes is actually exactly what I have.
Now... I'll have to order my set.
Does anyone know where it's available for less than $90?
2 Thunderstorms that downed power
Flooding that drowned 5+ dogs and cats :(
Mini-Snowing attack
Power Short Circuit
& very heavy rain
but the rest of it is very similar to you, i even had a "safe space" when i was younger all the way back in Douglas a old abandoned tree house, when i ran away from home i would hide there and no one could find me


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Such is FEV
The Age
Tuesday February 22, 2011
THE easiest thing to say right now is that Brendan Fevola is finished as an AFL player. The reality is that he might not be. History tells us this is so.Wayward players have been moved on by clubs before and found another home because they could kick and mark and run and jump. For inspiration, Fevola need look no farther than Ben Cousins, who was apparently washed up at the end of 2007, sacked by West Coast and suspended by the AFL Commission, finally owning up to his drug addiction. He was almost certainly in a deeper hole as a footballer than Fevola is now.But Cousins cleaned up his act and Richmond took him on, so that he played two seasons in 2009-10 to round out his career.Fevola's reputation has been smashed, having had ugly departures from two clubs, including Brisbane, where the Lions yesterday reiterated they had sacked him "to uphold the culture and the reputation of the football club" accusing Fevola of "repeated breaches" of his lucrative contract.But if he came back to Melbourne, close to his family, cleaned himself up and got fit again, who's to say that a club would not take the risk on him at a moderate salary, with the low draft pick that he would now require, in the same way that Cousins did? (Richmond got the Brownlow medallist with pick six in a pre-season draft).Someone like Collingwood, for instance? "The only club I could see taking him would be Collingwood," said Age columnist, Fevola fan and former Carlton player and coach Robert Walls yesterday. "He's got some sort of relationship with [president] Eddie McGuire. He would have to prove over the next 12 months that he's over his addictions and his bad ways. If he could do that and go to Collingwood on their terms, if he wasn't on much money and he knew the eyes of the world were on him, that if he stuffed up once it's all over, that'd be his chance."There would be no point in a team that's finishing in the bottom half taking him on. Why would you do it? Maybe a team that says 'hey, he might help us win a premiership. We're in premiership mode'. And it has to be 'one strike and you're out'."Four-time premiership coach David Parkin agreed. "If he was back in Melbourne and had the right support systems around him, somebody might be in a position where they would want to take him," said Parkin.When Carlton put Fevola out for trade at the end of last year, Collingwood was one of several clubs who had an interest. Ultimately Brisbane was keenest, but as a regular Footy Show panellist over the years, Fevola is close to McGuire. He texted the Collingwood president yesterday with the news: "Just been sacked." McGuire also revealed on radio that Fevola was "shattered" with the Lions' decision to cut him.There is no mechanism for Fevola to play AFL football this year, and in any case, he is still in rehabilitation. But he could nominate for the national and pre-season drafts at the end of this year in the hope of playing in 2012. He will be 31 at the start of the 2012 season, but he has 623 goals to show that he can finish up front.The AFL is unequivocal that it would not stop him. "No absolutely not [would the AFL stand in the way of Fevola going elsewhere]," the league's general manager (football operations) Adrian Anderson said yesterday.It appears the AFL's agreement to allow the Lions to spread Fevola's payout over two years in the salary cap was important to Brisbane's decision. That payout will be the subject of further negotiation between the player and his management.Even Michael Voss, the Brisbane coach, admitted yesterday that the decision to recruit Fevola had gone sour. "You recruit a player hoping that he will make the club better. Clearly we didn't get that. But I can't say it was not a mistake because he is no longer here."The hell-raising and the Brisbane experience will scare off some clubs. Carlton willingly moved him on and Jonathan Brown said yesterday that at Brisbane, Fevola had "lost the trust of the playing group". Brown said that Fevola might well find himself in front of the sticks for someone else; he only hoped he did not kick too many goals against the Lions.Too much trouble? This might be a bigger problem than his physical age. "He's strictly a full-forward and you don't have to be extremely fit," said Walls. "OK, you need some running fitness but he relies on strong hands and smarts and long kicking. He could have those to the age of 34 or 35."Walls can see the Cousins comparison. "Look, that was good for Ben to play those two years, and Richmond got some goodwill out of it," he said. "But for Fev, it has to be 'one strike and you're out'. I don't think it's possible to say 'he won't play again'."


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3 Years Later, What's Become Of The Tea Party?
Dead the tea party is not. Changed? Perhaps. But still very much alive.
McCain To Santorum: Time For 'Graceful Exit'
Sen. John McCain says Rick Santorum should recognize "it's time for a graceful exit" from the Republican presidential campaign.
Let The Vetting Begin: Attention Turning To Romney's Potential VP Candidate
With the Republican presidential hopeful closing in on the GOP nomination, attention is beginning to turn to who he will pick to be by his side as he takes on President Obama and Vice President Biden for the White House.
GOP Vows To Reverse Obama Birth Control Policy
Republicans vowed Wednesday to reverse President Barack Obama's new policy on birth control, lambasting the rule that religious schools and hospitals provide employees with free contraceptives as an "unambiguous attack on religious freedom in our country."
Romney, Gingrich Exchange Barbs On Immigration
Newt Gingrich cast Mitt Romney as the most anti-immigrant candidate of the four contenders for the Republican presidential nomination in campaign debate Thursday night in Hispanic-heavy Florida.
Immigration Not Main Issue For Hispanics
Senator Marco Rubio out of Florida, who is widely considered an up-and-comer in the Republican Party took a step back from his recent verbal attack on Newt Gingrich. He now says he is a Newt "admirer.
Gingrich: Romney Self-Deportation Plan A Fantasy
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Wednesday ridiculed rival Mitt Romney's call for self-deportation of illegal immigrants as an "Obama-level fantasy" that would be inhumane to long-established families living in America.
Anti-Immigration Tone Alienating Hispanics
The Republican Party is beefing up its minority outreach nationwide and preparing to put its rising Latino stars on the campaign trail amid concerns that tough immigration rhetoric in the presidential primary is taking on an increasingly anti-Hispanic tone.


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By Julia Williams
Until about six years ago, I had indoor/outdoor cats. As their guardian, I made this choice for them knowing there were risks involved. At the time, I weighed the pros and cons of indoor versus outdoor, and also took into consideration that my country property was as safe as any outdoor place could be. Various reasons led me to rethink my decision and begin the arduous task of trying to convince my outdoor-loving kitties that being indoors wasn't so bad.
It's been a challenge, and while there have been no converts per say, Rocky and Annabelle seem okay with indoor living. I still let them go outdoors some, usually when I'm in my garden or playing with them. Since they were outside at will for their first three years, I won't deny them these moments in the sun they clearly love. But when I tell them no, they don't appear to mind.
Mickey is a completely different story. During the harsh winter, he seems resigned to being indoors, but come spring he is desperate to be outside. He cries nonstop, paces, jumps on me, scolds me loudly, and tries to escape at every opportunity. Only someone with a heart of stone could ignore his distress and keep him indoors. I want him to be safe, but what's the point if he's completely miserable?
Making the Switch
There are things you can do to help an outdoor cat come indoors, which I'll share with you here. Rocky and Belle are proof that some cats adjust and are happy indoors. However, if you have a cat like Mickey, be aware that they may never take to indoor life no matter what. An article I read said cats like Mickey would eventually give up demanding to go out if you ignored their pleas, but I disagree. I don't believe Mickey would ever be okay being an indoor only cat. First, he's 13 and was allowed out for 7 years. Secondly, I think it's his nature. I've become convinced that some cats just have more 'wild' in them.


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Year in Review: August 15, 2012 – Body Parts found in Mississauga
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Year in Review: August 19, 2012 – Teen swims across Lake Ontario
With a look back on August 19th, the day 14 year old Analeise Carr from Walsh, Ontario, swam into the record books becoming the youngest person ever to swim across Lake Ontario.
Year in Review: June 18, 2012 – Cut the Waist Ends
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Year in Review: May 22, 2012 – Royal Visit the Distillery District
With a look back on May 22nd, the day Prince Charles visited the Distillery District, greeted by hundreds of people waving Canadian flags and Union Jacks.
Year in Review: May 15, 2012 – Sonne Acquitted on G20 charges
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Year in Review: February 3, 2012 – Hospital gown man shot by police
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Year in Review: February 26, 2012 – VIA Rail Crash Burlington
With a look back on Sunday, February 26th, when a VIA Rail Train carrying 75 passengers from Niagara Falls to Toronto, jumped the tracks and derailed in Burlington.
Year in Review: February 21, 2012 – TTC Fires GM Gary Webster
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I'm too west coast for the west coast
From Fresno to Sarito's, to soul food and burritos
I'm too west coast for the west coast
From Fresno to Sarito's, to soul food and burritos
Animal drums like he's Dr. Teeth
It goes red light, green light, 1, 2, 3
One large coffee, fuck you, peace
I was a fiend before I became a teen
Melted microphones instead of cones of ice cream
Music-orientated, so when hip hop was originated
Fitted like pieces of puzzles, complicated
Song: Microphone Fiend
Artist: Eric B. and Rakim
Materials used: crushed ice cream cones and melted ice cream
I'm renting the universe
But the stars don't fit and my bars are too mega
Is the fruit of my labor, my plate is full of color
Arugula and rutabaga, share the food with my neighbor
Truly innovative like Fela Kuti and Ginger Baker
[Not my favorite KRS song...but that's because they're all good.]
Tasty like a souffle, a French croissant on Tuesday
Rappers be booty
Goofy, that's how they crew stay
[I love Common.]
I never kissed the ass of the masses, I'm the black molasses
Thick, and I lasted past these rat bastards


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