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Lightexture Involution 15" H Table Lamp
Lightexture Involution 15" H Table Lamp
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|Hand Crafted: Yes
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|Number of Lights: 1
|Bulb Type: LED
|Bulb Life: 25000 Hours
|Light Direction: Down; Up
|Wattage per Bulb: 7 Watts (W)
|Bulbs Included: Yes
|Shade Included: Yes
|Built-in Outlet: No
|Adjustable Height: No
|Night Light: No
|Swing Arm: No
|Switch Type: On/Off Switch
|Cord Color: Black
|Lifestage: Adult
|Gender: Unisex
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|Country of Manufacture: United States
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|Hardware Finish (Stainless Steel Finish): Brushed Stainless Steel
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|Hardware Material (Stainless Steel Finish): Stainless Steel
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|Product Warranty: 1 Year
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|Damp, Dry or Wet Location Listed: Dry
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About the ManufacturerYael Erel and Avner Ben Natan, are a collaborating couple and founders of Lightexture. They work together, as an architect and a lighting designer, to explore light through the construction of unique designer lamps, which adjust through time, and draw light and texture in space. Coming from two different disciplines, they explore this field together with different sensibilities and skills. In their light construction they incorporate ready-made objects, lighting components and constructed elements. The lamps are fitted and assembled by hand in their studio. Yael and Avner collaborate with Ceramic artist Sharan Elran in design, development and construction of the ceramic Claylight™ and Earthlight™ series. One of Lightexture's goals is to create energy efficient fixtures, while maintaining focus on atmospheric and spatial performance.
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I don't know why, but I love buying @ a discount
WWE will rebound, THE ROCK still has 1 or more matches, STONE COLD has 1 more match at a future Wrestlemania
Shawn Michaels will have one more match
UNDERTAKER VS BROCK LESNAR for WRESTLEMANIA to End the STREAK will be insane
CM PUNK and DANIEL BRYAN are good technical wrestlers like BRET HART use to be, i see DOLPH ZIGGLER having some of that
WADE BARRETT is returning soon
they have a great debt/equity ratio but you will not be receiving a 6% yield for very long. just look at it objectively. you tell me how they are going to get the money to pay millions out to shareholders? and a tour of europe or asia isnt gonna pay for a year of 6% dividends nor are those movies you keep bringing up. management owns 4% or 6% of the float? so, that's not a big deal, now have they bought any shares recently since the price has been lowered? no not really you have only LUISI MICHAEL J. come out and buy only 1812 shares at 7.96 and thats nothing, 1812 is a small amount of shares and even for him 1812 isnt a lot of shares because he has over 30k shares of wwe. if management isnt buying their product at these levels why should I? the more i learn about this company the more i dislike at as an investment thanks for getting me to think about it. its ok for watching on tv but not as an investment. good luck.
you are missing my point alllll together. i could care less about the "old" wrestlers you keep mentioning. i am not comparing the latest wrestlers to ones out of the 70's and 80's, you are. i am looking at a stock that has not uped their revenues in years, as its the same. they say they are going to infuse some growth in it for years, but if you are paying attention Vince wont. WWE has been touring in Asia and Latin America for years. setting up a tour here and there will not generate big money. Vince would have to setup a "PERMANANT" independent wrestling federation in these countries to generate another steady cashflow, but he would never do it. these tours only make a few million and thats just peanuts. if YOU want to compare the old ways of doing things with the new look at the WWE management. Vince is stilling running the WWE like its the 1970's/80's trying to get more air time by putting more content online. instead of getting more tv time in the 80's its online now, its the same mentality different era. he should have expanded the company years ago. and you realize there are a crap load "advisors" and WWE higher management from the 70's NWA/AWA days all around him right. Vince does not know how to currently grow that company. he did it in the 80's but its 2012. Look buy, sell, hold, short the stock, i could care less. but im not touching it until they get a meaning surge in their revenue and im not talking about a few million dollars like from their movie segment.
And how many of these companies that you mentioned have very litle debt,an exremely small float,majority owned by the owner,large institutional ownership? For a company with a 6 percent yield yeah I will get paid to wait not a problem with that. I have been buying and buying some more for months now.
the WWE revenues havent changed in years. did i mention years? Its Rev Growth (3 Yr Avg) is -2.8. Its EPS Growth (3 Yr Avg) is -19.0. the payout ratio is bad as i illustrated it for you. do a stock screener, you can find something better than the wwe for a better dividend. While i'm on a particular messageboard i don't like when ppl talk exclusively about other stocks so i wont give a specific stock out here on the wwe board. right now im looking at downtrodden basic materials and wireless regional telcos that look better than the wwe right now. i really dont have the stomach to research another entertainment stock when i have a whole list of other stocks on my stock shopping list. id rather look at services and commodities ppl are gonna always need rather than entertainment. if you go out of the entertainment sector you'll find lots of stocks in this downbeaten market easily. good luck.
"better revenues, better growth perspectives and that have better dividend payout ratios that are cheaper than shares of WWE"...so troublesacoming what are the names of these companies? I'm interested.
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhh yeah, with the market going straight downhill i dont have wwe at the top of my buying list. dividend cuts, no wwe network, and the winter is traditionally a downturn time on wwe earnings until wrestlemania= i wouldnt touch this thing. savage spins around claps the hands and says "can you dig it?" oooohhhh yeah. just say no to a company that barely turns a profit. 30million? as for their product, they have 3+ hrs of the same type of show every week. its stale, they think if they add more plot and nonsense ppl will give them more $$. lolol. they had what they needed with new material with ECW and they killed it. They couldn't take ecw nationally and keep it separate from the wwe. I would have paid anything to see Taz suplex any of the primadonnas you mentioned into the crowd or have New Jack jump from the lights putting them through a table to a "OH MY GOD" by Joey Styles anytime over what wwe does. Id always rather see some stunts by a newbie wrestler that will mess up during a match and the crowd gives em the "You Fed Up" chant than the same ole roided up guys prancing around the ring doing the same thing. Lets see some stunts, lets see some comedy, not the same ole wwf/wwe stuff. Now back to the stock, get me stronger earnings, a reliable dividend and I might climb into the ring with wwe, but for now im not interested.
The WWE is making more money now than they have ever made in the history of the company and that is a fact. Sure you can like all of the old wrestlers that you mentioned but they are now all well past there prime and many have retired or need to retire. The PG rating that you seem to not like has brought additional business from Disney, Mattel, National Guard, SONIC, Warner Bros, and the list goes on and on. The dividend is reliable,the company has little to no debt. We have income from Youtube,millions of likes on Facebook and Twitter. The latest tour of China was a huge success and the WWE is currently searching for a Chinese superstar to promote the company in the region that is just beginning to be explored and has billions of potential customers. WWE 13 video game is getting released early ahead of the Christmas shopping season and looks very good and getting great reviews. Additional tv shows coming online for ION TV and a new childrens tv show starting this weekend. Additional revenue from 1 extra hour of Raw every week,better PPV numbers. Just had early this year a successful tour of Latin America. And finally the new APP launch at the Apple store and Google are a huge hit with lots of content.
Smart move I have been adding to my holdings for months. This stock is cheap and you get paid close to a 6 percent dividend for waiting. The recent Warner Bros. partnership announcement for work on a scooby doo project is exciting. For starters merchandise is huge for this project. Think lunch pails, backpacks, cups,etc. not to mention DVDs and future cross promotions. In addition I did some research the WWE investment as stated in their report is 5 million dollars in TOUT. Now on Touts web page they said they issued about 13.5 million so it is very important to watch the development of this exciting social media company.


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Imperial Maths Nerd, the credit crunch happened because almost all of the actors in the financial system were not competent enough to value the assets they chose to purchase. They thought they bought gold when they were buying sloppily painted lead. Hence the need for the massive amount of capital injection - the credit markets froze when everyone was discovered to have few assets to lend. The problem was not the inability to trade, but the lack of valuable things to sell.
The people who claimed to be experts at facilitating the efficient allocation of capital demonstrated themselves to be lousy at their jobs. The fact that they got away for so long at being lousy was facilitated by the fact that whatever lemon any one of them bought, he was, almost always, able to sell it to some idiot. I.e. artificially high liquidity.


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if you could have a new closet...
how would you design it? Mine fell yesterday, all of it,everything, even the drywall cracked. Could not believe it. I decided only half of what "was" in there is going back in. I looked around today and decided on one at Lowes. It has a center set of laminate shelves and two upper rods and a lower rod. Drawers can be added and neat little cubbies. But first we have to replace the drywall, but not until the hurricane passes. UGH!
mine was done 13 years ago by california closet, If I were doing one today I would make it bigger (ahem, yes) and have the wood look and a full length mirror closer to the dressing area.
Here is a link that might be useful: more views of my closet
Wonderful closet above -- and we have had California Closet do our small closet in our office/guest room -- worth every penny!
I would be measuring the length of most of shirts and skirts and pants -- very handy to help decide on layout of the new closet! Double height rods to hold two rows of shirts or skirts etc. is great!
Yes -- a full-length mirror is great! And perhaps a better light system too -- maybe one that runs the length of the closet! And paint the inside of the closet is a good white paint too!
Shelves for folded Tshirts and sweaters. More storage of shoes -- I have a small bookcase on my side to hold shoes!
Slots for shoes would be so nice. Built in drawers to hold sweaters. Maybe a built in hamper.
DH wants to eventually expand our master bathroom and closets by adding on to the back of the house. I'm a little afraid that more closet space means a higher likelihood of hanging on to things longer than I need them. It might be a nice problem to have...
We bought a laminate system @ Lowe's for DD's closet because it's small and kind of odd-shaped. Her closet has deep drawers, various rods and shelves. It's nice. We also "opened up" the closet by changing the single door to double doors (this involved cutting into sheetrock and a whole new double frame). It's amazing how much easier it is for her to get to things in her closet now.
Here's a link to the system I got. I may add a couple of drawers and a top shelf after it's in to see what I need. I have 2 shoe racks that will sit on the floor on either side of the shelves. I WILL get rid of some clothes!!! I'm still hanging onto some really hideous 80's stuff though, it's just too fun to pitch. Make me get rid of the pumps I will never wear again, they're really cute, they're red! LOL
Here is a link that might be useful: closet system
Try storing all the fun clothes in a large plastic bin -- and stash it somewhere else! Label it -- and stash it where it could be used for Halloween or dress-up parties.
Do the same thing with those cute shoes! Stash them and label them! Then in six months review those options -- and maybe donate them!
one thing about shoes--they wear out just sitting around--they start to dry out.
I finally pulled out shoes to donate, and the liners were all curled and yucky; instead of looking "only slightly worn" the way they had earlier, they looked crummy.
Either WEAR those red pumps--pick a day to do so, next week, make it an occasion, even if it's just to wear them to work--or let them be cute and red on someone else's feet instead of languishing sadly in your closet until they're so yucky you have to toss them.
I do like the "slots for shoes" idea.
We just sent our master br and dd's br closet measurements off to Container store last week, after we had a shelf collapse. They came back with some pretty innovative takes on the closets, and we'll probably go ahead and buy from them, with a few tweaks to make it more like we like it.
You measure per the web instructions, submit, and the next day a closet designer calls to clarify, ask questions, etc. Then the next day your design arrives in email, with the list of supplies, etc!
We did the toy room closet that way, last year, except instead of buying from Container Store, we bought from Home Depot, to save a little money, since it was just for toys. But we are in and out of our clothes closets so much, we'll probably just go ahead and spring for the Container Store.
I plan to take even more "before" pictures of our next two closets, for comparison sake.
Here is a link that might be useful: playroom
Well, since I don't want to afford 'professional closet places', I took down the shelf above, put in a new 1x3, raised the shelf, raised the closet rods, and put in a new closet rod under the new one in half the closet. (T-shirts/shorts on right side of closet, longer winter stuff on left side of closet.
Added a shelf between the T-shirts/shorts, but can't think of a thing to put there!
All my shoes are sandals, but for one pair of 'dress up' blacks that I might need to wear to funerals.
Gotta love Florida!
I've got lots of shoes, have had some for years, they haven't rotted. Does it matter that I keep them in boxes, which makes it easier to stack in the closet. I organize them by season. I even keep my boots (most of them) in boxes. I did have one pair of flats go smelly before I ever wore them and the lining of some cowboy boots deteriorated on me after 12 years or so.
I lust for roomy organized closets. I've saved on VCR tape an HGTV special about closets hoping to find a closet designer who can make my dreams come true on a budget! Some of these closets were bigger than my living room, but it's the features of the closets that I want to copy. Drop down bars, pull out valet bars, beautiful facades, a place for everything.
Hey artmom,
Have you put your closet together? How's it going? My closet is teensy, but the things I've got that I really like are:
** Attic space - used to store off season clothing in suitcases. Mostly that would be the bulky sweaters, coats & boots of winter.
** travelling salesman's racks - racks to hang clothes on wheels. I doubled the depth of my racking in my weensy space. They're also height adjustable.
** slatboard walls - I painted it the same color as my wall color. Got the kind that has the slats in 3" intervals. It gave me floor to ceiling height adjustable shelving & wire baskets to hold shoes, boxes, & socks. The shelving is very sturdy.
Here is a link that might be useful: Our closet space
Thanks for asking! Your's looks great! Mine turned out well. Everything fits nicely, I got rid of a ton of stuff which I'm sure I'll be missing. The shoes went to DD who's not sure if she can wear them and hasn't been home long enough to try. She's still a little afraid of heels.The cubes in the center between the 2 rods need a little tweaking but the rods are perfect. Shoes are on 2 racks under the pants and a long board across the top is perfect for a winter comforter and my fragile Easter egg collection which had nowhere else to live. I've got an overnight bag and a box of purses on the floor under the long hanging clothes. I even ended up with an empty drawer in my dresser!


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The Hangover
It's been almost a month since I saw this movie and I saw it over a month after it premiered. Despite the fact that it is still in first-run theaters, I think a normal person would, at this point, admit defeat and blow off writing the review altogether.
Clearly, I'm not a normal person.
Still, by now, what can I really add to the discussion? Does anybody not know what this movie is about? That the humor is male-oriented and vulgar? Has anybody not heard about the credits? (Anybody that would actually see this movie, I mean.) Probably not. I guess all that leaves is my own opinion.
Well, I thought it was funny. OK, really funny. Obviously we're not treading any new ground here, but that's hardly the point. I mean, would you criticize Bachelor Party for not being innovative Oscar material? Of course not. I could have done without Ken Jeong's full frontal nudity, but on the other hand, Mike Tyson rocking out to "In the Air Tonight" was genius.
All in all, if you're in the mood for a raunchy guy comedy, this should fit the bill pretty nicely.
Viewed: 7/11/2009 | Released: 6/5/2009 | Score: B
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By Anthony Bourdain
My introduction to Anthony Bourdain came on a trip to visit my mom and stepdad, who are fans of his show, No Reservations. We watched several episodes on that trip, and something about the combination of exotic locales, sardonic humor, and a deep love of food caught me, and Juliette and I were hooked for several months afterward. It was just a matter of time before I picked up the book that first brought him to fame: his memoir, Kitchen Confidential.
Like a lot of people, I spent a part of my youth working in restaurants, first as a busboy, then a waiter, then a bartender. The experience left me with the solid understanding that I'm not cut out for that sort of work. Still, despite the fact that it was a difficult and mostly thankless (from the customers, at least) job, and despite the fact that I hope never to have to do it again, there's something alluring, almost romantic about that time in my memory. And talking to other ex-waiters, it seems this is a pretty common thing.
What I loved most about Kitchen Confidential was the authenticity. Granted, I've never worked in a restaurant kitchen--indeed, in most restaurants, the floor staff and kitchen staff are not only separate, they're at least a little antagonistic toward each other--and the two kitchens I came to know were nowhere near as profane as what Bourdain describes. Nonetheless, there was so much in the book that I recognized. It really took me back.
Everything I love about the show, too, is present in the book. Bourdain has a really distinctive voice, and by that I don't just mean his writing style, but also his actual speaking voice. And more than any other book I can think of, I found it really easy to imagine it being spoken by the author. I can't think of anybody else who manages to come off as both sarcastically arrogant and genuinely self-effacing, not the way he does.
Anyway, if you've ever worked in a restaurant--or are thinking about working in one--I highly recommend this book.
Started: 6/1/2009 | Finished: 6/19/2009
Star Trek
Juliette and I finally got a chance to go see a movie this weekend for the first time in almost five months. As you might imagine, since we hadn't been to one in a while and probably won't get to go to another for a while, we wanted to make sure that we saw the one that was really pulling at us. Actually, it turned out that Juliette didn't have any that she was dying to see, which meant that I got to satisfy my inner geek and go see Star Trek. As it happened, not only was it a successful outing for me, but Juliette also really enjoyed it.
Now, the fact that I'm a big Star Trek geek might make you think I'm biased, but the truth is that sci-fi fans--especially Trek fans--are notoriously difficult to please. A movie like this has to walk a fine line between innovation and nostalgia. Too far in one direction and the fans will be outraged at having their cherished memories violated. Too far in the other and the film will be nothing more than a stale rehash of stuff we've already seen. I think that director J. J. Abrams managed to pull it off. There were enough references to satisfy a veteran fan like me but it also stood on its own legs enough that someone like Juliette--who I'm not sure has ever actually seen an episode of any of the shows--had no trouble following along. The characters were all familiar and recognizable, but the film's premise required them to also be a little different from the ones I knew, and the contrast was fun to see. The cast was, overall, pretty good. I particularly liked Karl Urban, whose Dr. McCoy was just spot-on. Zachary Quinto and Chris Pine as Spock and Kirk were also good, and Simon Pegg's take on Scotty was fun.
That's not to say that the movie was perfect. There were some pretty big plot holes, and some of the action scenes got a little repetitive. And some long-time fans may be disappointed at the fact that it's a pretty straight-ahead adventure story with little in the way of unexpected twists and turns. For me, though, that's not really a problem--as far as I'm concerned, Trek has always been about adventure, especially the original series. Certainly some of the later shows added some depth of concept or character development that's beyond what you'll find here, but I think that Abram's Star Trek captures the spirit of Roddenberry's original show quite well.
I'm definitely planning to buy this one when it comes out on DVD. Probably the highest praise, though, comes from Juliette: watching this movie made her want to try out the show.
Viewed: 5/30/2009 | Released: 5/8/2009 | Score: A-
Perdido Street Station
By China Miéville
If I had to come up with one word to describe my experience of reading this book it would be "dirty." And I don't mean that in the sense of "erotic" or "immoral" or "forbidden"--though perhaps I should mention that there are several scenes that could easily be described as perverse. But, no, I literally mean it as "covered in filth." China Miéville has created a setting--the city of New Crobuzon--that is squalid and grimy. His vision of urban life in this fantastic world is bleak and alienating. New Crobuzon is full of downtrodden poor, corrupt politicians, self-serving criminals, all grubbing in the muck of their environment. Reading Perdido Street Station I felt like I was crawling through sewage much of the time.
Nonetheless, it was compelling. Despite the setting and the prose that was, at times, overblown and almost cheesy, I had trouble putting this book down.
But perhaps I should back up a bit and explain the book some. I had a hard time getting my arms around Perdido Street Station at first--the entry is a little jarring and there weren't the usual genre pointers to help me get my bearings. To give you a little start there, Perdido Street Station is part horror and part fantasy, set in a world where magic mixes with steampunk technology. It's weird. Of course I mean "weird" in the way we normally use the word these days, but also in the older sense, the kind that invokes that eerie feeling you get where you know something is wrong, but can't quite figure out what. The story centers around a brilliant but sloppy scientist named Isaac, who, at the beginning of the book, is approached by a half-man, half-bird creature that has lost its wings and wants to fly again. About the first third to half of the book is spent showing you the city and its denizens, and setting up the action that explodes in the rest of the book. You meet Isaac's part-insect artist girlfriend, Lin, and several of his friends and associates--things move a little slowly, but everything steadily and kind of creepily builds before terror explodes into the plot about halfway through. The climax and the action leading to it is harrowing, and the eventual resolution is well done, even if it also leaves a taste like ashes in your mouth.
I think my problem with this book is its negativity, its darkness. Mind you, I'm not looking for sunshine and rainbows in my fiction--I loved Glen Cook's Black Company novels, for example--but Miéville's story is willfully, even oppressively dark, like he's throwing it in your face. Reading a bit about him, I learned that he's in Michael Moorcock's philosophical camp of fantasy writers, disdaining the likes of J.R.R. Tolkien for comforting his readers instead of challenging them. Yet, for all that reading this book made me want to take a shower, I didn't find it challenging, exactly. It didn't present any new ideas or push me to see familiar things in new ways. Rather, it reminded me of a high school kid from the suburbs with piercings, painted nails, and all-black clothes, rebellious for rebellion's sake.
Still, don't get me wrong, it's a well-crafted story. It took a little while, but I did connect with the characters, and the bittersweet ending definitely affected me. I think I'd even say I liked it. This sounds like pretty thin praise, I suppose, but given how unpleasant the setting was, I think the fact that I'd say I liked it at all speaks to how good it was. If you like your fantasy dark, I'd say this book very well may be for you.
Started: 5/12/2009 | Finished: 5/22/2009
By Dan Simmons
After finishing my second series by Dan Simmons, I seem to be noticing a pattern. The first book has an interesting premise, is tightly plotted, and seems to be going somewhere good, but ultimately the series ends up being kind of disappointing. That was true of the Hyperion series, and I think it's even more true of Ilium and Olympos.
This duology is set a few thousand years in the future, when some humans have engineered themselves into god-like beings, others are living a life of ease and ignorance, and there are sentient robots living among the asteroids and gas giants of the outer solar system. There are a number of intertwining storylines--one involving a 20th-century classics scholar who is resurrected by what appear to be Greek gods who task him with observing their recreation of the Trojan war, another involving a group of the post-civilized humans on Earth questioning their existence, and a third involving a group of robots from Jupiter setting out on a mission to find out what's going on back on Earth and Mars. It sounds confusing, and it kind of is, but it starts off really well. And it's really smart when it starts, too, with both oblique and explicit references to literature from the Iliad to Shakespeare to Proust to Nabokov.
Unfortunately, the second book doesn't deliver on the promise of the first. It's just kind of all over the place--a bunch of stuff happens, but it all feels unfocused and scattered, like Simmons had loaded a bunch of ideas into a shotgun and let it spray. Every chapter ends in a cliffhanger, only to leave you to go back to a different plotline. It got kind of aggravating after a while, and the resolution left a lot to be desired.
I think that this is probably worth reading for the first book, but try not to let your hopes ride too high as you go into the second.
Started: 3/13/2009 | Finished: 4/3/2009
Brokedown Palace
By Steven Brust
It seems like usually when an author continues to write story after story set in the same world, things get stale after a while. Steven Brust appears to be an exception to that rule, though. I've read ten of his Vlad Taltos books, two of the Khaavren Romances, and now this one, and the more I read about Dragaera, the more I want to read.
Unlike most of the rest of Brust's novels set in this world, Brokedown Palace isn't set in the Empire--the focus is on one of the Eastern Kingdoms. (Familiar readers will recognize the setting as Vlad Taltos's ancestral homeland.) The tone is also markedly different from both of the other series. The original series is told in a straightforward, sometimes sarcastic voice. The Khaavren books are modeled after Dumas. This one reads more like a fairy tale--in fact, it appears to be explicitly modeled after a certain oral tradition, which I can only assume is Hungarian as that is Brust's background. As fables go, I found this one to be quite well-written--tight, well-paced, and with a really nice overall structure. I was reminded a little bit of Tolkien's Silmarillion, except this was more fun to read.
The only thing that detracted from the experience for me was the title, which was taken from a Grateful Dead song and is shared with a movie that starred Claire Danes and Kate Beckinsale, neither of which have anything to do with this book. But, anyway, overall I have to say I very much enjoyed this one.
Started: 3/9/2009 | Finished: 3/12/2009
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
By Chuck Klosterman
If you're at all like me, you have occasionally pondered the cultural significance of things like video games, movies, bands, and other pop culture phenomena. You may have even thought about writing down these ideas you've had, perhaps in a blog or book. If you're like me, well, reading this book may make you despair a little, since Chuck Klosterman does so much better a job with this sort of thinking and writing than I do.
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs is a collection of essays delving into such topics as what paying the video game The Sims tells us about ourselves, or the impact of MTV's The Real World on the personalities of young people today, or why Billy Joel is important despite the fact that he's not cool. It's sharp, funny, and, for the most part, spot-on in its analysis of American pop culture. The only drawback may be that Klosterman's touchstones are not universal--people below a certain age range were too young to be aware of these things when they happened, and people above that age range likely didn't care. So, if you're not between the ages of about 25 and 40, this book may completely miss you. If you are close to my age, though, I'd say this book is probably worth checking out.
Started: 2/13/2009 | Finished: 3/2/2009
King's Shield
By Sherwood Smith
As you may know from my previous reviews, I loved the first two books in this series, Inda and The Fox. As luck would have it, my copy of King's Shield arrived in the mail the very same day that I finished The Fox, and I was very excited to dive into the next book. Unfortunately, something changed between the two books and I found myself not liking this one quite as much. Don't get me wrong, King's Shield is still pretty good. But I just wasn't captivated by it in the same way that I was by the first two installments.
I'm not sure exactly what it was about this one that didn't do it for me. The characters are still complex and they've grown in ways that make sense. The writing hasn't changed, and the pacing is still good, with action happening in all the right places. Maybe it was the change in focus. The first two books are very much about the principal characters growing up. This one is much more about political intrigue and war. I guess I also didn't really like the way the character Sponge changed--the changes are plausible, but I found that I didn't really care for the adult he became.
Whatever it was that rubbed me the wrong way about book three, I'm still very much looking forward to Treason's Shore, the fourth and, I believe, final episode of the series.
Started: 1/31/2009 | Finished: 2/11/2009
Slumdog Millionaire
This year, our best friends gave me and Juliette gift certificates for a night at the movies for Christmas, along with a promise to babysit while we were out. As you might have guessed from the steep drop-off in movie reviews over the last six months, this was a real treat for us. What with the Oscars coming up and all of the attendant buzz, the choice of what to see was a little daunting, but we were able to narrow it down pretty quickly to either The Curious Case of Benjamin Button or Slumdog Millionaire. Benjamin Button being over two and a half hours long, we opted for Slumdog. Well, I don't know how Benjamin Button would have been, but this was a fantastic choice for our night out.
On the off chance you haven't heard of this one--it won four Golden Globes and got ten Oscar nominations, so people have been talking about it a lot--Slumdog Millionaire is the story of a young man, Jamal, who makes it onto the Indian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? At the opening of the film Jamal is one question shy of winning the top prize of twenty million rupees but has been arrested on suspicion of cheating because of the incredulity of an uneducated kid from the Mumbai slums being able to correctly answer so many trivia questions. Much of the rest of the story is told in flashback, showing scenes from Jamal's life that explain how he knew the answers to the specific questions he was asked.
I have to say, I loved this movie. The look it gave into life in the Mumbai slums was gut-wrenching, but there were also laughs and love. None of the performances really stood out as particularly amazing--though I did appreciate Irfan Khan's turn as the police inspector who interrogates Jamal--but everyone was competent, and the story was so compelling, and both Juliette and I left the theater feeling good.
A final note: Slumdog won the Golden Globe for best score, and is nominated for the Oscar in the same category, and I heartily agree with both. The music in this film was just great, and I plan on getting the soundtrack as soon as I have some spare cash.
Viewed: 1/31/2009 | Released: 11/12/2008 | Score: A
The Fox
By Sherwood Smith
Whew. Seven hundred seventy-four pages in four days should tell you something about how much I liked this book. Picking up right where the first book left off, The Fox had everything I liked about Inda but moreso.
The first book gave us a glimpse at a very rich and interesting world, but most of the major characters are all from the same country, and even when we later get introduced to the wider world through Inda's sea travels, most of his time is spent aboard ship, so all we get of the rest of the world is through bits of dialogue here and there. By contrast, in The Fox, Smith brings us to all kinds of new places, each one with a strongly developed history and flavor, each with plausible national interests and goals. Smith presents them in such a way that you get an idea of the individual culture of each place, but she does it without resorting to the kind of flat stereotyping you so often see in big fantasy worlds. (You know, where everybody from this country is a greedy merchant and everybody from that country is a strong, savage warrior.) The characters and personal relationships introduced at every new place seem genuine and relatable.
The strong character development in the first novel continues in the second, especially in the protagonist. His transition to adulthood is handled very skillfully--you recognize both the child you first met and the ways in which his life has shaped him in the man he becomes. And, as before, you get to see so much of the inner workings of even relatively minor characters that they all come to life in a really compelling way.
Further, for a relatively long book, it's very well paced. Events are neither drawn out nor rushed, but everything seems to happen right when it should. I was certainly never bored--I could hardly put the book down!
In fact, the only problem I had was that I was so into this book that I had trouble keeping up with the other stuff I wanted to do--the hard drive on my Tivo, for example, is getting pretty full. I thought I might get a little break after this book, but, to both my delight and chagrin, the Amazon shipment containing the next installment, King's Shield, arrived on the same day I finished The Fox. So, it looks like I'm going to stay busy for a while. The fourth book isn't scheduled to come out until August, so on the one hand I'll have a little time to catch up on the rest of my life, but on the other hand I know the waiting is going to bug me.
Started: 1/26/2009 | Finished: 1/30/2009


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Accountability is a good word. It means: be responsible, liable for one's action. I am sure I have used this word many times — in fact, maybe too many times with my children and now with grandchildren. It is a word that provides some proof, evidence that we are responsible for our actions. It is a good word.
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Habanero pepper hot sauce recipe needed
Annie shared her recipe for Habanero pepper hot sauce and I can't find it. So sorry Annie Does anyone have this recipe and would you post it for me or Annie if you read this soon would you share again. I am going to the grocery store and I'm not sure what I need to buy for this recipe.
Thank you everyone.
I think find Annie's recipe in the thread below.
To re-process the jelly you'd have to decant it from the jars, bring it back up to a hot temperature and then re-pour into fresh jars with fresh lids.
You'll have to decide if you want to bother with that or just refrigerate those two jars and use them first. They'll keep well in the fridge and with the holidays coming up may be used before you know it anyway.
Here is a link that might be useful: Hot Sauce Recipe Anyone?
Carol, I think you've gotten a couple of threads confused!
Yes, though, that is "my" recipe. Actually, it's Elery's recipe, his son sent it to him, so I have no idea as to the origin.
karen, you're still swimming in habaneros? What a year here in Michigan.
Thank you Carol for finding the recipe. I'm sorry Annie that I lost it. I think you sent it via email and I'm going to blame Steve for deleting it. Ha
Yes, I am swimming in Habaneros. I've even used some for decoration in a fall arrangement for my table. They are a beautiful orange/yellow color.
My daughter was over for lunch the other day and I had homemade vegetable soup and she asked where my hot sauce was. (She puts it on everything.) I don't really like hot spicy food so I don't have any hot sauce in the house. Well, I will now. Thanks again for the recipe.
Annie and Carol, I made Annie's hot sauce recipe a few days ago and it's a big hit with my family. My daughter said it's the best hot sauce she has ever had (and she knows her hot sauce.) I think the flavor is excellent but WOW I can't take the heat. A little goes a really long way.
Thanks to you both again for the recipe
Deb, I canned mine, 15 minutes in a boiling water bath in half pint jars. It has lots of vinegar and few low acid vegetables, so I feel comfortable doing that.
Some of the others I'd just refrigerate, I think they'd last for a month or so, with the vinegar that's in most of them, less for sauces that are not high in acidity.
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Thanks Alexandra. I donated this one for a raffle at one of the art societies that I belong to.
CONGRATULATIONS on being featured in Painted Florals with this one too Helen! Fantastic news.
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There are some people who are lighting candles and making offerings according to the Old Testament laws. Plus, some will even adorn their necks with crucifixes, showing Jesus still upon the cross. But according to the New Testament, Jesus' blood was the final offering (or libation) for everyone as a "propitiation (forgiveness) of our sins." Jesus was the last sacrifice for mankind. And God has said, "Whatever I have told them not to do, this they do!" (To the contrary) Also, we Americans are considered free thinkers. But why can't these different religious faiths agree upon the same basic principles? Because they have handed down from one generation to another, what to believe or not to believe! This is why the diversified religions, including all the political parties, cannot or will not agree upon anything. And this is why our country is so divided!
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My awesome friend Dale Glaser passed away a month ago and left these insights that I want to share with you all. Please feel free to pass them on to anyone who might be interested. You can read more about Dale and his many interests at his web site. Peace, Larry Dale's Spiritual Insights -from Dale's web site: www.daleglaser.com Well... they're not exactly "mine". These insights are just what has come to me as strong realizations out of my reading and thinking about spirit and the meaning and purpose of life. When my attention turns to outside activities for a while, I use this summary of my explorations as a kind of road map to get back on track to where I was, i.e., where I want to go in my life and how I want to live. 1. There is a place of perspective or witness to find from which you see that who you really are is different than your body, thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. Who you are is the awareness, the noticer, the witness of your life. 2. We need to become the hero of our own lives. Each of us is the only one who can really know what is right for us to do and be. 3. Life seems full of paradoxes, but looked at from a deeper and wider perspective, the paradoxes disappear. A paradox in life just indicate the necessity of a new way of seeing the problem, and then the paradox is resolved. Some examples of edges: * Reality is particle-like and reality is wave-like; * Every molecule in our body is replaced continuously but we still maintain our identity; * We seek enlightenment but are really already enlightened; * We experience a past, present, and future time but yet spiritual teachers tell us there is just an eternal now; * Physical objects don't really exist, they are composed of just empty space; * Eastern spiritual concept of maya: this reality is just an illusion. Einstein: "We will not solve the problems of the world from the same level of thinking that created them." 4. Anything and everything is possible. Every moment is new and is not really "caused" by the moment before, and does not pre-determine what will happen in the next moment. We can be anybody, so why limit ourselves? 5. Opening to higher consciousness involves letting go of our notion of� "common sense." Our higher self is beyond scientific descriptions, language, the normal way of seeing things, "the way things are," conventional wisdom, the way we were brought up in school, what our parents or the government tells us, what we're afraid of (or not afraid of), etc. 6. It is in silence that the real doorway opens and we are able to start our re-finding of God, peace, enlightenment. This is the space between throughts that happens when our internal dialog stops. "God's one and only voice is silence" 7. The universe is inherently good. Our beginning and ending point, and the ground of our being, is peace, freedom, and joy... We came from that before birth and we will return to that at death. During our life we spend most of our lives away from that place, but it is always waiting for our return. In fact we spend our lives using just about any excuse to keep out of a state of peace and joy. 8. The content of our lives (WHAT we do) is just not important. What is important is HOW we do it, how we react and respond to the what we happens to us. How we respond is the only thing we really have any control over. 9. Spiritual exploration starts by, at some point, needing to turn around and face oneself without judgment. This means beginning to witnessing our lives with compassion, caring, respect, love and humor. Paying attention! 10. Most of our lives seems to be spent not really being present in the moment. Instead the present moment is overshadowed with beliefs, shoulds, the past, and what we want to happen in the future. We use any excuse to stay out of the present moment! 11. Who we are (or think we are) is merely a description that has been drummed into us since birth, and maintained by our parents, our internal dialog, every conversation we have, TV, the law, etc. We buy that description completely and go about our lives thinking we are free. And we are always "helping" other people to live their description of themselves as well. You accept my description, I'll accept yours! And most of our lives are spent not even being aware we are all living a made up story. 12. In silence you can begin to explore the "edges" of who you are...The edges where: � Choosing to do something becomes the universe making it happen � Making life happen becomes accepting what life offers. � Closing off to someone becomes opening to that person. � Not being really conscious becomes awareness of the moment. � Resistance becomes acceptance � Holding back opens to creativity � Self ends and another person starts � Science becomes religion � Understanding becomes opening to the mysterious � Seeing life as a quantity event becomes seeing life as a quality event � Life ends and death starts, or vice versa � Your body ends and nature starts � Sleep ends and waking starts � resistance ends and acceptance starts, etc. 13. We need to make death our advisor. Accepting death as part of who we are allows us to make every moment count because it may be our last. 14. To change we must give up some of ourself. There is a grieving process to go through to become someone different than we are right now. We don't change easily, we are pretty attached to our beliefs, thoughts, judgments, feelings. "Only by addressing the real issues and expressing our grief will we get beyond our denial. I am suggesting we will all need to grieve the old cultural paradigm before we can embrace the new. At this moment, the vast majority of us are trapped in a labyrinth of denial about the reality of the impending death of our old awareness." - Brian O'Leary 15. In order to change you fi
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Shorter hours are happening anyway, but not the best way which maintains personal income and *vital consumer spending via emergency worksharing and sustainable timesizing. We can't simply project a pre-computer 40-hour workweek indefinitely into the age of robotics. It may be fun to sneer at believers in the fixed "lump of labor fallacy" because "there's an infinite amount of work to be done," but where's the corresponding willingness to pay for it? - and without pay, it isn't, and doesn't, work. So we need to take charge of this workweek-trimming process, systematize it and make sure it happens in a way that absorbs the surplus of jobseekers, gets employers bidding against one another for good help, thereby harnesses market forces to flexibly maintain and raise wages and spending, leeches money out of the huge black hole of income and wealth in the top 0.01%, and gets those trillions back into circulation. Shorter hours is a strategy that is reinvented hundreds of times a day across the U.S. in this recession and thousands of times a day across the world in both public & private sectors, in every industry, and in a variety of ways. Many countries and U.S. states already have worksharing programs to cushion the transition to permanently shorter workweeks that automatically adjust to our rising levels of productive technology in the Age of Robotics. These programs currently are designed to be temporary. Here's what their permanent program will look like when they finally succumb to the inevitable.
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growth-reversing DOWNSIZING in the news (archives) - you can't get growth (UPsizing) by downsizing but you can by timesizing -
...The consolidation leaves 1,500 people out of work...
wall of CLOSINGS & BANKRUPTCIES (archives), lowerable by timesizing -
[Keep downsizing instead of staying the same size with timesizing and pretty soon the bankruptcies are creeping waaay up the food chain. ARTICULATION BREAKTHRU ALERT w/ 'inst v stayg sam siz w TS']
[Compare "Richer financial sector, poorer everything else". Why? Cuz despite the shock&awe of huge-sum circulation in the fin sec (and volume-of-trades figures), the population involved is tiny relative to the monetary circulation in the other sectors, particularly the consumer base and the business sector, and the employment basement. And since money is a symbol, it depends critically on agreement as to its value, and agreement is critically dependent on the size of the population in agreement. ARTICULATION BREAKTHRU ALERT]
CEOs at S&P 500 firms make, on average, $12.3 million [a year], as much as 354 rank-and-file workers... $35,000 average pay of workers - Harvard Business School Study [graph caption]
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[Don't they mean, as robots change the game, CEOs downsize instead of timesize the game - and still expect upsizing (growth)?]
[And U.S. QE 'masking' pain of deepening depression, cuz hey, the Fed's handing it all to the financial sector so, the system's working!...for wealthy decision-makers, and "if it works, don't fix it"!]
Divisions have emerged between policy makers and the central bank.
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[Oh so the USA has a right to interfere with other country's news management nevermind the massive censorship that goes on here, albeit more skillfully subtle?]
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