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When it Happens
"Archer pooped the BIGGEST poop, today, dude. It looked like a dinosaur egg!"...Some call this laziness. I call it intimacy. Being real. Not being afraid of being an idiosyncratic mess because lord knows, we are all flawed as fuck.
I didn't know what to expect from a marriage, and now, two years later, I am starting to realize what it's all about: Being real.
The days of courtship and make-out sessions have been replaced with the comfort of zit-cream and picking each other's scabs. Push-up bras have been retired. Sexy lingerie is now used as a childproofing device. Because it doesn't matter anymore. No fluff. No fakery. No trying to cover blemishes with concealer. Or hiding tears.
Marriage is about the half-eaten cake in the fridge,"I made it for you, but then I got hungry." It's about the late-night snack runs, even if they're the wrong kind of snacks. It's about trying. And messing up. And falling down. And getting up. And making up.
And yet sometimes I mourn the days of romance. (I'm a woman. I can't help it.) And flowers at the door. And showers of compliments and kisses. And weekend getaways and spontaneous sex-a-thons. Because it's true what they say... All of that stuff does change. When you get married. When you have a baby. When you grow up. And yet... How much has really changed? I look at us then and I wonder...
Sometimes it's hard to give up roses. But a marriage isn't about genetic perfection, the sweet fragrance we call, "romance". Marriage is about the flowers that grow wild in the sidewalk cracks. Often disguised as weeds and equally hard to manage. Blooming year round. Dandelions with wishes to blow against the wind. (If you believe.)
And I do. I believe. Even if I kick the sidewalk sometimes.
Because I am willing to trade all of that in for a night of stinky feet and cookie crumbs in bed. And that's love, man. Smelling each other's less-than-pleasant fumes and giggling in bed until 4am. Gaining weight. Getting older. None of that matters. Who cares? It's just me.
Strip away the mask. Remove the black lace panty set. The makeup. The various deoderizers.
Marriage is about the wonderful stink. The morning after. Hungover and bloated. Without makeup.
Being able to bend over without sucking in stomach fat, or covering cellulite. Being real.
And so today we celebrate two years of burping, farting, wrestling, wise-cracking, inside-joke making, eye-rolling, dish-breaking, music-blasting, ass-slapping, name-calling, cheek-pinching marriage.
Gone are the roses, perhaps. But the dandelions are here to stay, quietly growing in the cracks.
Happy Anniversary, Halston-bot. I love you.
31 comments:
- Molly | 7:18 PM
Awwww! True love is hard to find. Rip some for me! Y'all are so cute.
- Sassy Belle | 7:53 PM
so sweet.
congratulations! - Andrea | 7:56 PM
Happy Anniversary, Sweet Cheeks! Yup. An anniversary isn't complete without a Dutch Oven.
May your dandelions grow numerous and tenacious over the years to come. - Keri | 8:19 PM
Happy Anniversary! Archer is lucky to have you both for his parents! =D
- Karly | 8:19 PM
Damn it. I was made at hubby all day and now you've gone and made me think nice thoughts about him. Guess I'll hafta forgive the jerk.
Oh, and Happy Anniversary! - Emily | 8:31 PM
Happy Happy to both of you. And yay for bed farting, we thougth we were the only ones.
How beautiful! Happy Anniversary!
- krista | 9:23 PM
Way too cute. You two are just way too cute. And Archers ASL had me in stitches.
Another example of him being too cool for you- he was all babbles until you asked him to say buttons. Hello mom!? Buttons- not a cool word. -
happy anniversary duder. i love you guys!!
- Russell | 1:43 AM
happy anniversary! i look forward to one day meeting the woman of my dreams...so i can fart on her!
- Erin | 5:30 AM
Happy Anniversary!
- Bluepaintred | 6:18 AM
woahhhh Somebodies husband is a hottie!
happy anniversary - Xdm | 6:44 AM
The first year we were married we got food poisoning. With one bathroom. He ran in to find me on the toilet, so he threw up in the tub. I laughed. It's been ten years now.:- ) Thanks for capturing the essence of a good partnership.
- BlondeMom | 8:48 AM
My husband and I are about to celebrate ten years in May! You really captured the essence of marriage, warts and all, although in our case it's more like back hair and spider veins. :)
Happy Anniversary!!! - Rock the Cradle | 10:07 AM
You nailed it.
Happy Anniversary! - something blue | 10:17 AM
I have a fondness for wild flowers. Hope your anniversary was wonderful!
- Fruitcake | 11:12 AM
happy anniversary!
- munchkin | 11:19 AM
Very nicely said:) ... Happy anniversary...
btw: your hubby kinda looks like Ami from miami ink in the B&W photo... - Gina | 11:28 AM
Happy Anniversary! What an awesome post! I loved every sentence! You really know how to lay it out in it's truest form! Love your writing, lady!
- New Mama's Nest | 12:07 PM
Happy Anniversary! Are you happy - you made me cry! You put that all perfectly!
- petite gourmand | 1:44 PM
so very very true..
fantastic post & Happy Anniversary! -
Happy Anniversary to you both - a wonderful pair... The Arch is a lucky guy... as is Hal and as is Becca...
Keep it up ! - Jenn | 2:28 PM
Happy Anniversary to both of you. May you enjoy a fart filled giggly night....after the wild monkey sex session, of course!
happy anniversary!
perfectly said (as usual) - Emery Jo | 6:38 PM
yay! congrats!
You guys are mighty sexy and stuff. - Leigh C. | 5:24 AM
Mazel tov!
Here's to many more years of sharing stories such as, "Honey, the little guy was sitting on the toilet the other day and yelling at his poop to come on OUT!"
Ahh, good times... - Her Bad Mother | 9:58 AM
Happy, happy, happy!!!!
Here's to boundlessly farty future, together! - PunditMom | 11:45 AM
Your husband is one lucky dude! That's an amazing view of marriage and so right on! Wait until you hit year 13 -- :O -- like we do this year! And they said it wouldn't last!
Happy anniversary! - the weirdgirl | 2:34 PM
Aw, congrats you two! (And congrats on Archer's new cousin as well.) This is so sweet. Of course, I'm so old now I'm way over the romance. Letting me sleep all day would be a GREAT romantic gesture on my hubby's part!
- lildb | 3:13 PM
totally. the best part so far.
(even if it does get stinky when the covers get flailed some nights.) - Dana | 1:38 PM
This is so damn beautiful it stinks! I wish I could write something as sweet and honest as this.


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PEARLINGTON — Mississippi and federal officials have put a priority on buying out 111 flood prone properties in the town of Pearlington.
Pearlington is located in Hancock County along the Mississippi-Louisiana state line.
Mississippi Emergency Management Agency director Robert Latham and other officials met last Tuesday with the Hancock County Board of Supervisors to discuss the Pearlington buyout.
The Sea Coast Echo reports MEMA had originally indicated it would dedicate $10 million for the project; however, the state moved $6 million to other projects last year because the buyout was not moving fast enough.
"What I don't want is to be here in 12 months in the same place," Latham said. "I feel confident that I can pull the $6 million back. Anything above that, we will have to scrape and scrap."
The buyout would be voluntary.
The estimated cost associated with buying out the 111 homes is about $15.1 million, officials said. That number may decrease when offers are made to the property owners. The county is only allowed to offer property owners the fair market value of the property.
Hancock County officials say about 73 homes in Pearlington were damaged last month during Hurricane Isaac. They say 30 of those homes are on the buyout list.
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October 7th, 2012 at 1:20 pmWe live in Franklinton,La. We bought our home in 2006, thought it would be our retirememt home.
As it turns out, it won`t be !
When we bought our house it had not flooded here in 30 years. It has flooded here twice in six years. We live 1-4 of a mile from the BogueChitto River. Our insurance company will not cover any damage after Hurricane Isacc because of many resones according to them, where the house is located,the way it is built ECT… We lost 1,000 sq.ft of living area because it can not be considered living area anymore.
Our house is not worth what we owe on it, nor is it worth dealing with insurance company!!!!Thanks
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November 23rd, 2012 at 7:50 amMy son lives in Pearlington at 5179 Jacksonville Dr. He was flooded during Katrina and 2 to 3 times since then. (I lose track!) He heard about the possible buyout a while back but hasn't heard anything since then.
I went to his home yesterday for Thanksgiving and he is still living in walls gutted half way down, no kitchen cabinets, no kitchen sink. It is very heartbreaking to see his situation.
I am trying to find out the latest on the buyout and find out if he is on the list for the buyout.
Your help in this matter will be deeply appreciated.
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President Obama still leads Mitt Romney in a head-to-head matchup in Wisconsin but by a much narrower margin.
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the Badger State finds Obama with 49% of the vote to Romneys 45%. Four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate, while two percent (2%) are undecided.
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Yeah right!
In addition to this, Obama is just barely ahead in Oregon.
The national Rasmussen shows Obama falling 7 points behind and Romney reaching 50% for the first time.
During the debates, every time one of the liberal jackasses asking the questions asks about "gay marriage" or condoms, Milt needs to launch into a rant about jobs, fake government unemployment statistics and the economy. Stay out of the commie lib trap.
I'm still surrounded by idiots.
Its BS Dick Morris basically said if Obama is under 50 percent he loses the real poll numbers favor Romney
You should try Commiefornia, where I reside.
History v. McCain: "Wisconsin was won by Democratic nominee Barack Obama by a 13.9% margin of victory."
0bama's margin in Wisconsin has been cut by over 70% so far!
If The Won ain't leading Romney by double-digits-plus-margin-of-error in Wisconsin, he's got a problem.
Remember - the capitol of Wisconsin is Madistan.
Obama should be 15 points ahead in Wisconsin of all places if he was on track to win. His campaign is in the deepest $#@! I've ever seen for a Presidential re-election campaign.
We're just a few months away from the biggest race riots and burning of cities in the history of the country with the double whammy of Zimmerman being acquitted followed by Emperor Nero Narcissus massive defeat. Avoid Detroit, LA, Oakland, Philadelphia, and New York at all costs on election day. The question is does anybody bother to take the risk to rebuild, or do we have a new explosion of "food deserts"?
Totally agree with you and have a stockpile of ammo ready to rumble if necessary.
I think we're ALL surrounded by idiots.
Wisconsin is fighting for its life against THE UNIONS..
If Walker was "smart" after winning would propose Wisconsin become a "right to work" State..
The States citizens would benefit greatly..
The Union members heads would explode......
The FIRST thing that needs to be done is change that damnedable recall law so that at least a felony is required for a recall.
I really don't think WI goes to Obama this year. Not with 2010, and Walker will win his recall election.
Plus Tommy Thompson has a big lead in the WI Senate race. Romney will win WI.
I think every republican senate candidate beats the lesbian Tammy Baldwin.
I mention that because their tactic is to totally downplay that angle and make her look like she's totally normal and mainstream instead of THE MOST liberal, radical congresswoman in the house of representatives, that she is.
Are you in Madison or downtown Milwaukee?
I'm surrounded.
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I'd like to see that. 18 years ago I moved my business out of WI to an open shop state.
A 4.5% +/- margin or error and it's still 5 1/2 months before the Election. Romney can carry this Liberal bastion. That means it could be Romney 49.5 and Obama 44.5%
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Sam Rivers
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Sam Rivers on flute / Joe Daley on tuba playing at Studio Rivbea jazz loft, July, 1976, New York City
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Birth name | Samuel Carthorne Rivers |
Born | El Reno, Oklahoma, United States [1][2] |
September 25, 1923
Died | December 26, 2011 Orlando, Florida, United States |
(aged 88)
Genres | Jazz, avant-garde jazz, free jazz |
Occupation(s) | Saxophonist, clarinetist, flautist, bandleader, composer, educator |
Instruments | Tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, flute, harmonica, piano |
Years active | 1950s–2011 |
Labels | Blue Note, Impulse, FMP, RCA, Nato, Postcards, Stunt, Rivbea Sound |
Associated acts | Tony Williams, Bobby Hutcherson, Andrew Hill, Jimmy Lyons, Dave Holland, Barry Altschul, Tony Hymas, Anthony Braxton, Quincy Jones, Miles Davis, Don Pullen, Larry Young, Cecil Taylor |
Website | Sam Rivers |
Samuel Carthorne Rivers (September 25, 1923 – December 26, 2011) was an American jazz musician and composer. He performed on soprano and tenor saxophones, bass clarinet, flute, harmonica and piano.
Active in jazz since the early 1950s, he earned wider attention during the mid-1960s spread of free jazz. With a thorough command of music theory, orchestration and composition, Rivers was an influential and prominent artist in jazz music.[2]
Early life[edit]
Rivers was born in El Reno, Oklahoma. His father was a gospel musician who had sung with the Fisk Jubilee Singers and the Silverstone Quartet, exposing Rivers to music from an early age. Rivers was stationed in California in the 1940s during a stint in the Navy. Here he performed semi-regularly with blues singer Jimmy Witherspoon.[3] Rivers moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1947, where he studied at the Boston Conservatory with Alan Hovhaness.[2]
He performed with Quincy Jones, Herb Pomeroy, Tadd Dameron and others.
Blue Note era[edit]
In 1959 Rivers began performing with 13-year-old drummer Tony Williams, who went on to have an impressive career. Rivers was briefly a member of the Miles Davis Quintet in 1964, partly at Williams's recommendation. This edition of the quintet released a single album, Miles in Tokyo, recorded live in concert. However, Rivers' playing style was a bit too avant-garde for what Davis had in mind for his music at this point, and he was replaced by Wayne Shorter shortly thereafter.
Rivers was signed by Blue Note Records, for whom he recorded four albums as leader and made several sideman appearances. Among noted sidemen on his own Blue Note albums were Jaki Byard, who appears on Fuchsia Swing Song, Herbie Hancock and Freddie Hubbard. He appeared on Blue Note recordings by Tony Williams, Andrew Hill and Larry Young.
Rivers derived his music from bebop, but he was an adventurous player, adept at free jazz. The first of his Blue Note albums, Fuchsia Swing Song (1964), adopts an approach sometimes called "inside-outside". Here the performer frequently obliterates the explicit harmonic framework ("going outside") but retains a hidden link so as to be able to return to it in a seamless fashion. Rivers brought the conceptual tools of bebop harmony to a new level in this process, united at all times with the ability to "tell a story", which Lester Young had laid down as a benchmark for the jazz improviser.
His powers as a composer were also in evidence in this period: the ballad "Beatrice" from Fuchsia Swing Song has become an important standard, particularly for tenor saxophonists. For instance, it is the first cut on Joe Henderson's 1985 The State of the Tenor, Vols. 1 & 2, and Stan Getz recorded it during the 1989 sessions eventually issued as Bossas & Ballads – The Lost Sessions.
Loft era[edit]
During the 1970s, Rivers and his wife, Bea, ran a jazz loft called "Studio Rivbea" in New York City's NoHo district. It was located on Bond Street in Lower Manhattan and was originally opened as a public performance space as part of the first New York Musicians Festival in 1970.[4] Critic John Litweiler has written that "In New York Loft Jazz meant Free Jazz in the Seventies" and Studio Rivbea was "the most famous of the lofts".[5] The loft was important in the development of jazz because it was an example of artists creating their own performance spaces and taking responsibility for presenting music to the public. This allowed for music to be free of extra-musical concerns that would be present in a nightclub or concert hall situation. A series of recordings made at the loft were issued under the title Wildflowers on the Douglas label.[6]
Rivers was also recruited by Clifford Thornton to lead a student world-music/free-jazz ensemble at Wesleyan University in 1971.
During this era Rivers continued to record, including several albums for Impulse!: Streams, recorded live at Montreux, Hues (both records contain different trio performances later collated on CD as Trio Live), the quartet album Sizzle and his first big-band disc, Crystals; perhaps his best-known work from this period though is his appearance on Dave Holland's Conference of the Birds, in the company of Anthony Braxton and Barry Altschul.
Later career[edit]
In the early 1990s Sam and wife Beatrice moved to Florida, in part to expand his orchestra compositions with a reading band in Orlando. This band became the longest-running incarnation of the RivBea Orchestra. He performed regularly with his Orchestra and Trio with bassist Doug Mathews and drummer Anthony Cole (later replaced by Rion Smith.)[3] From 1996 to 1998 he toured and recorded three projects for Nato Records in France with pianist Tony Hymas and others. In 1998, with the assistance of Steve Coleman, he recorded two Grammy-nominated big-band albums for RCA Victor with the RivBea All-Star Orchestra, Culmination and Inspiration (the title-track is an elaborate reworking of Dizzy Gillespie's "Tanga": Rivers was in Gillespie's band near the end of the trumpeter's life). Other recent albums of note include Portrait, a solo recording for FMP, and Vista, a trio with drummers Adam Rudolph and Harris Eisenstadt for Meta. During the late 1990s he appeared on several albums on Postcards Records.
In 2006, he released Aurora, a third CD featuring compositions for his Rivbea Orchestra and the first CD featuring members of his working orchestra in Orlando.
Rivers died from pneumonia on December 26, 2011 at the age of 88 in Orlando, Florida.[7][8]
As leader[edit]
- 1964: Fuchsia Swing Song (Blue Note)
- 1965: Contours (Blue Note)
- 1966: A New Conception (Blue Note)
- 1967: Dimensions & Extensions (Blue Note)[9]
- 1973: Streams (Impulse!)
- 1971-73: Hues (Impulse!)
- 1974: Crystals (Impulse!)
- 1976: Sizzle (Impulse!)
- 1976: The Tuba Trio Vols. 1-3 (Circle)
- 1976: Jazz of the 70's (Circle)
- 1976: The Quest (Red / Pausa)
- 1976: Black Africa! Villalago (Horo)
- 1976: Black Africa! Perugia (Horo)
- 1977: Paragon (Fluid)
- 1978: Waves (Tomato)
- 1979: Contrasts (ECM)
- 1981: Crosscurrent (Blue Marge)
- 1982: Colours (Black Saint)
- 1995: Portrait (FMP)
- 1998: Culmination (RCA Victor/BMG France)
- 1998: Inspiration (RCA Victor/BMG)
- 2003: Celebration (Posi-Tone)
- 2006: Aurora (Rivbea Sound)
- 2007: Firestorm (Rivbea Sound)
- 2011: Trilogy (Mosaic)
As co-leader[edit]
- 1976: with Dave Holland - Dave Holland / Sam Rivers (Improvising Artists)
- 1976: with Dave Holland - Sam Rivers / Dave Holland Vol. 2 (Improvising Artists)
- 1977: with Mario Schiano - Rendez-vous (Vedette)
- 1977: with James Newton - Flutes! (Circle)
- 1983: with Stephen McCraven - Intertwining Spirits (Freelance Records) [10]
- 1995: with Improvisors Pool (Alexander von Schlippenbach) - Backgrounds for Improvisors (FMP)
- 1996: with Noël Akchoté / Tony Hymas / Paul Rogers / Jacques Thollot - Configuration (Nato)
- 1996: with Julian Priester - Hints on Light and Shadow (Postcards)
- 1997: with Alexander von Schlippenbach - Tangens (FMP)
- 1998: with Tony Hymas - Eight Day Journal (Nato)
- 1998: with Tony Hymas - Winter Garden (Nato)
- 2003: with Adam Rudolph / Harris Eisenstadt - Vista (Meta)
- 2004: with Ben Street / Kresten Osgood & Bryan Carrott - Purple Violets (Stunt)
- 2004: with Ben Street / Kresten Osgood - Violet Violets (Stunt)
- 2007: with Dave Holland / Barry Altschul - Reunion: Live in New York (Pi, 2012)
- The Complete Blue Note Sam Rivers Sessions (Mosaic, 1996)
As sideman[edit]
With Barry Altschul
- You Can't Name Your Own Tune (Muse, 1977)
With Steven Bernstein
- Diaspora Blues (Tzadik, 2002)
With Miles Davis
- Miles in Tokyo (Columbia, 1964)
With Bruce Ditmas
- What If (Postcards, 1994)
With Brian Groder
- Torque (2007)
With Andrew Hill
With the Dave Holland Quartet
- Conference of the Birds, (ECM, 1973)
With Bobby Hutcherson
- Dialogue (Blue Note, 1965)
With Jason Moran
- Black Stars (Blue Note, 2001)
With the Stephen McCraven Quartet
- Intertwining Spirits (Free Lance, 1982)
With Music Revelation Ensemble (James Blood Ulmer)
- In the Name of... (DIW, 1993)
With NOJO
- City of Neighbourhoods (True North, 2004)
With Don Pullen
- Capricorn Rising (Black Saint, 1975)
With Roots
- Salutes the Saxophone - Tributes to John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins and Lester Young (In & Out, 1992)
- Stablemates (In & Out, 1993)
With Kazuko Shiraishi
- Dedicated to the Late John Coltrane and Other Jazz Poems (Musicworks, 1977)
With Cecil Taylor
With Tony Williams
With Larry Young
- Into Somethin' (Blue Note, 1964)
With Reggie Workman
- Summit Conference (Postcards Records, 1993)
- ^ Panken, Ted, "Ted Panken Interviews: Sam Rivers WKCR-FM New York, September 25, 1997", Jazz Journalists Association Library, 1999
- ^ a b c Allmusic Biography
- ^ a b Carpenter, Brian (2012-03-02). "Rivers and Rhythms". Retrieved 2012-06-26.
- ^ Wilmer, Val (1977). As Serious As Your Life. Quartet. p. 226. ISBN 0-7043-3164-0.
- ^ Litweiler, John (1984). The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958. Da Capo. pp. 292–3. ISBN 0-306-80377-1.
- ^ The 3-CD set Wildflowers on the Douglas Records page with cover, track listing and credits. Retrieved September 29, 2012
- ^ Orlando Sentinel: Jazz icon Sam Rivers dead at age 88 12/27/11
- ^ Rest in Peace, Sam Rivers (9/25/23 – 12/26/11).
- ^ Originally issued as part of a double-album called Involution in 1976 (with live recordings of the Andrew Hill Quartet also featuring Rivers from 1966 on sides 3 and 4). In 1986 Blue Note finally released the recordings "with the cover art and catalogue number, as originally intended by Blue Note in 1967". Cp. Dimensions & Extensions and Involution at Discogs
- ^ Allmusic review
External links[edit]
- Sam Rivers Web Site
- The Sam Rivers Sessionography and Gigography
- Jazz at Lincoln Center - Chat with Sam Rivers
- FMP Releases
- NPR profile, September 20, 2009
- Sam Rivers interview at underyourskin on YouTube
- 1923 births
- 2011 deaths
- People from Enid, Oklahoma
- African-American musicians
- American jazz clarinetists
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Leeland has released four studio albums, receiving a Grammy Award nomination and two Dove Award nominations for their debut album Sound of Melodies (2006). The band's third album, Love Is on the Move, was released on August 25, 2009.
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Monetarism is based on the von Hayek-von Mises Austrian school, which started when a bunch of rent-gouging Viennese landlords wanted to abolish rent control and hired some scribblers to prove that "the market" was always infallible and government is always the enemy. Von Hayek got his chance under the reactionary old battle axe Margaret Thatcher, who brought back rickets, scurvy and pellagra for British working people. The dumbed-down US version of the same doctrine is Milton Friedman and his Rockefeller funded Chicago School, which got its big road test under the fascist Pinochet regime in Chile.
Today's depression has been caused by 40 years of monetarist-inspired deregulation. Derivatives were illegal from 1936 until Reagan legalized them in 1982. Then Wendy Gramm, Alan Greenspan, Bob Rubin, and Larry Summers teamed up to start the derivatives bubble during the Clinton years. Now there are $1.5 quadrillion of derivatives strangling the world economy. Derivatives, not subprime mortgages, are the reason for today's crisis. Today's depression also comes from privatization – like the privatization of Fannie Mae, which worked fine for thirty years as a government agency, but was then privatized, opening the door to the looting excesses which are now well known. The oil market is deregulated, and Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley were quick to exploit this situation. This past summer, when you were paying over $4 a gallon for gas, more than half of that was going directly to Wall Street hedge fund hyenas, with a full $1 per gallon for Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley alone, the backers of the deregulated offshore ICE exchange.
The real enemies of economic progress are the Wall Street bankers, financiers, and finance oligarchs. If you let them control the government, the results are catastrophic. We must therefore fight to take government out of the hands of the bankers. Any other strategy amounts to surrender to Obama and his fascist corporate state.
sorry to be so crude, and off point, but did anyone think the fat cat was getting, erm... cough, by the share holder?
If you treat your staff/workers like you wish them to treat your best customer then the customer is looked after. Satisfied customer = successful company = happy shaeholders = better paid workers - a simple non vicious cycle that keeps on going ever upward.
Chuck all the sophisticated theories etc into the trash bin and use old but tried and tested simple success methods for successful companies..
I strongly agree with TheAngryGrapes ..
In the balance is the secret or, better, the success of management
To make it more challenging, each business has its particular balance and in the same business it changes with time.
For instance, environment were virtually a non issue for an important stakeholder....the community..now you cant do anything disregarding this..
Firing people may not be a problem if the economy is in great shape..but in recession/depression situations this is very important..the balance changes..
I agree with TheAngryGrapes. What we forget is why companies exist in the first place. It is not to maximize return on shareholder value. Companies existed long before a stock exchange, and today most companies are very small and privately held.
Companies exist to bring together the diverse talents of its workforce, to channel those talents into an enterprise that produces goods or services that the marketplace (society) find of value and thus will buy. The word "company" signifies a group of people. And in this context, it is an entity that allows individuals to collectively achieve more than they could have achieved as individuals. It is up to management to create the systems within which those individuals can work together to produce for society.
In the free enterprise/ capitalist system, the company is subject to two disciplines, one internal and one external. The external discipline is the discipline brought about by competitors. The internal discipline is brought about by the demands of shareholders. Both disciplines bring about innovations and improvements to operational efficiency. Both communism and government-run programs lack these disciplines, and are thus a highly inefficient way to meet the needs of society.
Getting back to a company being the enterprise that allows people to achieve more working cooperatively than as individuals, there comes a point where, in order to deliver certain goods or services to society, natural resources and/or capital is needed (think steel mill). Thus, the necessity of a capital market that seeks to allocate capital resources as efficiently as possible.
It is relatively easy to turn shareholders into stakeholders. Change the tax code. Put a tremendous surtax (80%) on gains from short term arbitrage, and offer a huge tax break (down to 5% or less tax rate) on capital gains from assets held 5 years or longer. This would reduce volatility, and allow managers to take a long view to how resources are used to promote the health of the organization. Of course, those who make their living "betting" on short term market movements will now have to find a real job, and those who are committed to the long term will be justly rewarded.
Give me a break this is the Economist not Granma (cuban newspaper), the only reason for a corporate to exist is to please shareholders. Else is a non-profit organization.
"'This is a phoney war between shareholder capitalism and stakeholder capitalism, as we haven't really tried shareholder capitalism,' says Anne Simpson..."
Hm. Forgive me for drawing a possibly inflammatory parallel, but this sounds strangely like someone suggesting that Communism has not been discredited because no country has ever tried "true Communism" according to Marx.
In both cases, perhaps one should consider that there may be a reason why, after decades, the magic theory in question has never been put into practice as was originally envisioned. (Maybe in the real world, it just doesn't work...)
This is another Seinfeld type of article - "much about nothing".
People want "stakeholder" value until they have to put money where their mouth is. By then, the only thing they want is a quick short term return - meaning give me my maximum shareholder value NOW.
Ask yourself this question, how many of those who advocate stakeholder value are active shareholders - active in terms of both quantity and frequency of participation in the stock market? Answer: a tiny minority.
Capitalism is capitalism, let's face it, accept it and move on.
If you want managers to focus on the long term, put your money where your mouth is, invest in the companies to a point you can gain a majority control of the shares and then compel managers to do things your way. Or organize enough like minded people to put together enough money to buy enough control of the companies to compel managers to focus on the long term.
I have no doubt, that all three sections associated with firms, should be served. Then, we will have made a big step towards serving society. Why not make the employees the shareholders of firms? When the employees, are to retire, they can be asked to return the shares to the firm, by selling them to the firm, and the firms can give the shares to others who join the firm. I believe, that this is a serious idea, that can be implemented in one form, or another.
Jack Welch Elaborates: Shareholder Value
no matter the shareholder is as long as they have the right to control professional's money taking and long term outlook, the problem is no shareholder knows what professionals are doing, no solution yet. To me, American Style or Jack's model works in reality now but goes dead like Britan sooner or later, because math tells me there is no growth forever, which is capitalism wants. No, it doesn't work at all, so people will do something to make their wrong doings right in apprearance. I believe bad is bad it goes to hell good is good will live longer.
Anybody who runs a business, lives with the following.
Workers believe they are underpaid (including management).
Suppliers believe they do not get a high enough price.
Customers believe they are overcharged.
Shareholders believe their returns are too low.
Governments believes everyone is under-taxed.
People start a company to supply a good or service that they believe customers will want and earn a living in the process. Therefore a firm that want to be successful, must offer a product or service a customer wants that matches their price/value expectation. If customers do not buy your product there is nothing for anyone else.
Assuming the company has the product price/value balance right, management must build a durable competitive advantage. This requires a balance between the other constituents. Ideally, you want to create an environment were employees want to work for the firm. Treat suppliers fairly so they want to supply you with raw materials. With this balance, shareholders should do very well.
There are 2 factors that plague many businesses today. Governments grab their piece at will, often disrupting the balance, crippling the company. Company death comes years later and people ask why. The other is that management often allocates too many of the spoils to themselves. This will kill the company as well, as the other constituency are abused who will choose to go elsewhere.
The key is balance, not choosing one constituent over the other.
I have to disagree. Maximizing shareholders' value should always be the eventual goal of a business and its managers, because a business is financed by it shareholders and managers are fed by shareholders.
I also agree that being customer-oriented or employee-oriented is important for a business. Without them, a business cannot survive either. But this is only the necessary approach, behavior, or strategy leading a business to its goal of maximizing shareholders' value and keeping them sustainable.
Serving stakeholders is to maximize shareholders' value eventually, not the other way around.
It would be nice if shareholders went along with a shift to long-term thinking. Will they ?
Pardon me for the simplistic point of view, but from my perspective as a business owner it seems to me that these concepts work pretty well together:
(a) The purpose of the business is to maximize the value to the shareholders. Without their capital the business can't exist.
(b) Focusing on the well-being of stakeholders is simply good business and helps maximize the value to the shareholders!
Quite lovely of Economist to be adding to this conversation - I was at the Economist Innovation (#ideaseconomy) forum where Roger Martin pointed this out; it seemed to me the moderator did not give it good weight but perhaps summed it up insightfully as 'pointless capitalism'. I'm glad the point was taken to heart.
I fail to see how giving shareholders more power would automatically prompt them to take a longer term view. It would actually allow activist shareholders to take even bolder actions to increase short term value.
As mentioned in the article, the only way to encourage this long term view would be to use a different proxy to shareholder value. What that proxy might be remains unclear to me after reading this article.
Putting shareholders first encourages the rich to get richer and the poor to stay poor. Good riddance.
Ms Simpson has concisely summed up the issue. Better yet, she is correct.
As you somewhat alluded to in the article; the shareholder isn't really separate from the stake holder. In reality, and as an example, Lehman Brothers; the shareholders where the employees. More than likely the customers were share holders to, all things being related.
It comes right down to another point you made. The difference between a short term and long term perspective. Unfortunately long-term value is an elusive creature to measure and this combined with human psychology, which clearly favors the short term, combines to bread logical fallacies based on short term trends.
I guess I'm trying to say there is no cure all method in anything despite our greatest efforts as a species to apply one remedy to all vexations. Sure, chlorine kills viruses... Should we cure the disease by killing the patient?
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L`Homme Yves Saint Laurent design by Jean Nouvel by Yves Saint Laurent is a Woody Floral Musk fragrance for men. L`Homme Yves Saint Laurent design by Jean Nouvel was launched in 2008. L`Homme Yves Saint Laurent design by Jean Nouvel was created by Anne Flipo, Pierre Wargnye and Dominique Ropion. Top notes are ginger, bergamot and lemon; middle notes are spices, white pepper, basil and violet leaf; base notes are tonka bean, tahitian vetiver and cedar.
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Great fragrance, mellow, polite and comforting. Good for a casual hangout.
some have complained about its staying power, i must report that i applied it in the morning and its still there after 7 hours.
Also, some say its different from the juice in the originally launched bottle, i am not so sure. its the same notes. May be i cannot recollect and it is different, as it has been a while since i last had that.
In a nutshell its a very comforting fragrance, serene and calm.
Great scent, strange bottle. But, Ilove it...
HAHA! I got this limited edition bottle for my dad, I admit it does look like a *ahem*...but its also pretty cool design though, when your minds out of the gutter. XD
please somebody help me,I really need to get this perfume for my boyfriend.It's a special gift and i can't find it anywhere.Can somebody tell me if is there any tiny chance to get it anywhere in the world?thank you
Ok, I just understand people who think that the design is like a dildo. It's like every single thing that is long, straight and round is phallic...
Quite simple and narrow minded associtation.
This bottle looks more like a test tube.
But those who finds this phallic try to avoid using a pen or don't buy a cucumber as others may laugh about them using something that can look like a dildo.
I think the design is great and unique. So if anyone finds it embarrasing to use, just send me theirs! ;)
Woaaahhhh ! What a shape lol, why is it for men?
i always wanted to smell like tonka bean.
I bought this perfume cause I know that Jean Nouvele is a magician in Architect and I want tha limited edition mastepriece on my office...BUT, the fragarance is light, sexy and finaly I am addicted to it!
got a sample. Good scent. Difficult to describe, because the only word I can find is 'masculine'. Perhaps it is generic masculine, because nothing here strikes me as unique, but it is good smell. I mean, I just like what I smell. My husbnad likes it as well, but he haven't seen THE bottle yet:))
so sexy so diferente so space botle.its great i want 2 take it fast very fast
that's ok, SandraS, the guys worked hard on presentation:))and I rarely find such readings interesting, but this one was amusing, so I decided to post it here, to leave everyone in no doubt about creator's intentions:)
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That's what I thought in not so many words.
yup, SandraS, the bottle realy stirs the imagination:)))
in Dansk magazine, they write about the design of the bottle as 'no less than a phallic masterpiece, unabashedly symbolizing virility and elegance..'
The architect and designer of the bottle himself about it:'I wanted to give it a clear-cut shape, so it would easily fit a man's hand while still stimulating different aspects of his imagination' ..what a ckeeky message, Scandalous!!!ahahaa he
haven't tried the fragrance itself yet,
Is it just me or the botle's design seems pretty forward?
The fragrance is lovely!
This is one of the best fragrances out today it is very romantic and last all day it is great for when you want someone to get close to you.
My girlfriend got me one 3 days ago and i tell you wat i just love the smell it is mad.
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The Fallen of the Fire Department, Recovered
By MICHELLE ODONNELL
The funeral for Fireman James A. Hagan in 1911.
Several years ago, a fire buff named Micheal Boucher began a project about death. Mr. Boucher wanted to compile a list of every firefighter killed in the line of duty since 1865, the year the paid Fire Department of New York was founded.
Mr. Boucher knows the world of firefighters. He is a Fire Department dispatcher, the person who sends firefighters to fires, sometimes to their deaths. The work can leave one with a heavy, if misplaced, feeling of accountability, and Mr. Boucher, a bespectacled fellow, sometimes suffers from that feeling.
The departments memorial wall at its Brooklyn headquarters has just the name, rank and date of each death, so Mr. Boucher hoped to uncover the story of each death and make the plaque more human.
Im not really rewriting history; Im correcting it, he said.
So began a long and winding odyssey of hunting for answers regarding a department that, historically, was not given to writing much down.
He was working on 1955 (four deaths) when, at the Fire Departments library, he ran into another fire buff, Gary R. Urbanowicz, who, it happened, was on a similar if more challenging quest.
Mr. Urbanowicz was trying to track down a record of every New York firefighter who had died before 1865, when the service was a volunteer organization whose records are now largely lost.
Mr. Urbanowicz, a firefighters son who sports a healthy mustache just short of handlebars, had noticed that the firefighters who died before 1865 were not named on the official memorial wall. In addition, firefighters from companies outside Manhattan who died before those boroughs merged with Manhattan were also left off the wall.
The two researchers soon recognized that combining their work would capture a more complete account of New York City firefighting deaths. A third Fire Department history buff, Frederick B. Melahn Jr., a retired electrical worker, joined them, and the result of their work, The Last Alarm, is now nearing publication by the M. T. Publishing Company of Evansville, Ind.
It was no easy task. They mined city records at the Municipal Archives, defunct newspapers, the departments daily bureaucratic reports and 100-year-old firehouse log books collected and cataloged by Mr. Melahn, who went to firehouses to pick up antiquated log books that some companies used to start fires. They found that an old newspaper article about a fire might focus on the loss of property and only mention at the end that a firefighter died, but without naming him.
They often worked on Randalls Island in the departments Mand Library, a small, one-room outpost with an extensive collection of department miscellany. In all, they discovered about 80 Manhattan firefighters who died before 1865 and 50 from the other four boroughs. They believe there might be more because they could not get to some archives.
And they found 16 department members who should have been on the memorial wall but were overlooked, according to Mr. Urbanowicz. Theyre essentially outright mistakes, he said.
Another buff, Dave Fontana, who was also a firefighter, was doing his own research on firefighters who died during World War II, and became friendly with Mr. Boucher. Firefighter Fontana died on Sept. 11, 2001, and Mr. Boucher was so shaken that he stopped working on the book and did not resume until 2003.
A book with hundreds of entries about death might seem a morbid thing. In fact, it is rather flat and somber, particularly for an institution that is famous for its exuberance, yielding a narrative that is a dense reduction of death.
Still, there is something quietly moving about the list. There is no melodrama in the retelling, just the facts. A firefighter, name unknown, slipped off the Catherine Street ferry on his way to a fire and drowned in 1848. Lt. James T. Brown died three days after his leg was crushed in 1922. Fireman Peter Farley fell down a pole hole in 1949. (The title did not become firefighter until 1982, when women first joined the department.)
The entries number over a thousand, and though death is the main protagonist, New York has a strong supporting role. It appears in glimpses of how it used to be, and in some ways still is. Firefighters fell from wooden ladders, drowned in cellars where water pooled, were trampled by runaway horses and run over by trolleys.
They died from cuts infected, the authors believe, with gangrene. They were buried alive under building collapses, poisoned by smoke, drowned after slipping off icy fireboats; they died after being kicked by horses, and fell down stairs.
Often, they lived a few blocks from their firehouses and were carried to their homes, where they died.
In a foreword, Firefighter Fontanas widow, Marian, wrote that the book confirmed that their deaths were not in vain, that their sacrifice embodies the resounding good will of our humanity.
The entries begin, Name unknown, company unknown back in the shadows of April 21, 1799. An early morning fire consumed almost an entire city block on Washington Street between Cortlandt and Dey Slips in Manhattan. Four of the citys volunteer firefighters were injured, and one died the next day. Fireman James F. Calnan died in Manhattan on Christmas Day in 1897, when he tried to steer his speeding engine carriage around a woman and child crossing Tenth Avenue. Fireman Calnan, husband and father of four, veered off the roadway at 39th Street, flew off his seat, and was crushed by the engine. He was 33.
There was Fireman John Madden of Hose 2 of the Coney Island Fire Department, who plunged through the roof of the Bass Hotel on June 17, 1893, when it collapsed.
Fireman Michael Rigney, of Jackson Hose 5, was fatally injured in the collapse of a building on Vernon Boulevard in Long Island City on July 17, 1886. Fireman William H. Janes, of Wyandotte Hook and Ladder Company 5, was crushed by chimney bricks on Staten Island on May 11, 1896.
Ten firefighters died at a store fire on April 25, 1854, a mass casualty that the city rarely calls attention to.
Then there was Fireman Joseph Williams, of Engine Company 29, who was 48 minutes late for work on Oct. 28, 1877, a fact noted in the company journal by Fireman James Donovan, who was cleaning a pipe with a knife at the time. Words were exchanged, and Fireman Williams was cut on the left arm. He died two days later in an exhausted condition from the loss of blood, according to the manuscript.
Besides the differences in equipment, firefighting operations and the lack of modern medicine like penicillin, the writers grasped what they said was a basic difference between the past and modern times: Life wasnt as precious, Mr. Boucher concluded. A life back then didnt count in the old days.
Or perhaps it only seems that way from the perch of another era. Because a life could be more easily lost then, perhaps that is why there was such a need to save it.
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Good find. Sounds like an interesting book.
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A terminal moraine, also called end moraine, is a moraine that forms at the snout of a glacier, marking its maximum advance. An end moraine, in contrast, is at the present boundary of the glacier.
Terminal moraines are one of the most prominent types of moraines in the Arctic. One famous terminal moraine is the Giant's Wall in Norway which, according to legend, was built by giants to keep intruders out of their realm. It is now known that terminal moraines are created at the edge of the greatest extent of the glacier. At this point, the debris that has been accumulated by plucking and abrasion, that has been pushed by the front edge of the ice is driven no farther, but instead is dumped in a heap. Because the glacier acts very much like a conveyor belt, the longer it stays in one place, the greater the amount of material that will be deposited. The moraine is left as the marking point of the terminal extent of the ice.
In North America, the Outer Lands is a name given to the terminal moraine archipelago of the northeastern region of the United States (Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, Block Island and Long Island). Other prominent examples of terminal moraines are the Tinley Moraine and the Valparaiso Moraine, perhaps the best examples of terminal moraines in North America. These moraines are most clearly seen southwest of Chicago.
In Europe, virtually all the terrain in the central Netherlands is made up of an extended terminal moraine. In Switzerland, alpine terminal moraines can be found, one striking example being the moraine at the end of the valley of the Forno Glacier in the south-eastern canton of Graubünden near St. Moritz and the Italian border.
In New Zealand the Franz Josef Glacier on the West Coast has created the terminal moraine called the Waiho Loop.
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- Postglacial rebound
- Push moraine
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Azimuthal position error correction algorithm for absolute test of large optical surfaces
Optics Express, Vol. 14, Issue 20, pp. 9169-9177 (2006)
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Absolute test needs test part rotation to separate errors of the interferometer itself from errors due to the test surfaces. At this time, previous absolute test algorithms assume no azimuthal position error during part rotation. For large optics whose diameters are 0.6 m and over, however, exact rotations are physically difficult. Motivated by this, we propose a new algorithm that adopts least squares technique to determine the true azimuthal positions of part rotation and consequently eliminates testing errors caused by rotation inaccuracy.
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(120.3180) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Interferometry
(120.3940) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Metrology
(120.6650) Instrumentation, measurement, and metrology : Surface measurements, figure
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Original Manuscript: August 22, 2006
Revised Manuscript: September 14, 2006
Manuscript Accepted: September 21, 2006
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Hyug-Gyo Rhee, Yun-Woo Lee, and Seung-Woo Kim, "Azimuthal position error correction algorithm for absolute test of large optical surfaces," Opt. Express 14, 9169-9177 (2006)
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ichneumon, Herpestes ichneumon(noun)
northern African mongoose; in ancient times thought to devour crocodile eggs
The Egyptian mongoose, Herpestes ichneumon, found in Africa and southern Europe.
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Origin: From ichneumon, from ἰχνεύμων', from .
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any carnivorous mammal of the genus Herpestes, and family Viverridae. Numerous species are found in Asia and Africa. The Egyptian species(H. ichneumon), which ranges to Spain and Palestine, is noted for destroying the eggs and young of the crocodile as well as various snakes and lizards, and hence was considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians. The common species of India (H. griseus), known as the mongoose, has similar habits and is often domesticated. It is noted for killing the cobra
any hymenopterous insect of the family Ichneumonidae, of which several thousand species are known, belonging to numerous genera
Origin: [L., fr. Gr. , lit., the tracker; so called because it hunts out the eggs of the crocodile, fr. to track or hunt after, fr. 'i`chnos track, footstep.]
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an animal of the weasel tribe, worshipped in Egypt from its destroying the eggs of noxious reptiles, and of the crocodile in particular.
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Bestselling NY Times' Slow Food author Michael Pollan, Google [Dr. Larry Brilliant] & Monsanto [Hugh Grant]? And Sufis? Food politics make for strange bedfellows.
What's so remarkable, in my viewing, of this conversation is that Pollan is skilfully, simultaneously respectful and unblunted. If I were in a debate with Monsanto I'd be on the attack (less respectful) and more shrill (less effective).
Pollan, therefore, represents a sort of Shambhala warrior example of dealing with one's enemy.
"The only way to kill your enemy is to make him your friend." If Pollan and Grant don't go out for (microbrew) beers afterward, at least they openly exchange very, very different ideas regarding very, very different worldviews:
From Michael Pollan: "On Wednesday I participated in a panel discussion with Hugh Grant, the president/CEO of Monsanto, and Sonal Shah, a development expert at Google.org. It was moderated by Larry Brilliant, of Google-org, and held on the Google Campus. It was just posted on Youtube. As you can see, we only had 30 minutes and barely scratched the surface, but it's rare that Monsanto engages with its critics, so something you won't see everyday. "Creating a World That Can Feed Itself"
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[…] to know whether their meat is free-range or sustainably harvested, and hopefully relatively clone, GMO and mercury-free. But beyond that, I don't get all up in their faces, as (most infamously) […]
[…] debated this question often: If Hummer or Monsanto or a company that we knew was blatantly greenwashing wanted to take out an ad in elephant, would […]
[…] Michael Pollan is one of my idols—he, along with Alice Waters and a few others have done more for organics and local food in America, and in our globalized economy, that anyone else. How? Through his popular books—and through his eloquent, important writings for the New York Times. Just this morning I was thinking to myself that I hadn't seen anything from him in awhile—and lo, in the top ten most emailed nytimes.com articles, was this: […]
[…] or McCain, which got infamously got Obama's attention. Apparently, agribusiness (the big bad agricultural corps) was not happy, and Obama quieted […]
[…] Victory Gardens and local food (what's cheaper!?) and organics (which is, simply, food-minus-chemicals—nothing pretentious about that, rather just old-fashioned as-God-intended-it good for you good […]
[…] ecofashion shows, talk show, folks like Sister Prejean (of Dead Man Walking) last week and Michael Pollan next month." And so, over edamame, green tea, unsustainably harvested sushi and tofu we […]
[…] no end when I learned from a colleague that we were considering allowing genetically-modified (GMO) Monsanto Round-Up Ready™ sugar beets to be cultivated on our public Open Space, and that there was to be a […]
[…] with the Boulder County staff's claim that utilizing glyphosate (the key ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup) and GMO sugar beets is somehow consistent with the county's "sustainability framework." And […]
[…] back I got to interview one of my idols (as I mention in the first moments of the interview)—Michael Pollan. Michael, along with Alice Waters and a few thousand farmers and farmers' markets, has led a […]
It amazes me that all these conferences of smart, eco-conscious shakers and moves always have plastic water bottles on every desk!
Hugh says nothing about the financialization and drive of speculation that overtook the commodity crop markets – as if all of these problems are just "naturally" occurring out of nowhere…


text:
We are very sad to announce that we have
been forced to close due to recent economic conditions.
We have truly enjoyed having to opportunity to meet and
serve you and your families over the past 4 years. We hope that we have been
able to help you create lasting memories at your birthday parties and special
events. You can be sure that you have helped to create lasting memories for us,
which we shall forever cherish.
We wish all of our past guests great luck and good fortune
in the future and may all of your future birthdays be special events with
memories to last a lifetime.
Although our facility may be
closed, the talented entertainers that performed at your parties and events are
still practicing their art and are available for events at your home or special
location. These entertainers can be booked through other entertainment companies
in the Western Pennsylvania Area.
Christopher Donahoe,
the most accomplished
in the Tri-State Area, is still available for bookings through
Burgher's Entertainment
available at 412-848-5208. Christopher is still providing a wide-ranging array
of entertainment, including his
Children's Shows, Corporate
and Adult Ventriloquist Shows,
Science Shows
and his Unique and Special School Assemblies.
Burgher's Entertainment also books
Gameshow Entertainment
Girl Scout Workshops.
the brilliant, young
Magician that
performed for us all these years, is also available at
Burgher's Entertainment,
or he can also be contacted at 412-849-8952.
Other entertainers can be
found by contacting
Mike the Balloon Guy at 412-371-4899,
Windswept Entertainment
at 724-539-1009
Pittsburgh Puppet Works at 412-366-0747.
For those who are seeking a location to
have Birthday Parties,
Mike the Balloon Guy
has a new facility at the Monroeville Mall. You can call at 412-371-4899 for
more information.
If you have
any questions, email us at firstname.lastname@example.com.