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I've read a lot of magazines in my lifetime and I just want you to know how much I've enjoyed More. While on vacation, I purchased More at the checkout line and tossed it into my cart of rafts and sun block. I read every page, cover to cover, and by the time I was finished I thought: "Wow, I really like that magazine, but it must be a coincidence that every page had my attention." Usually, I look through magazines and only read about 25%. So, the next time I was in the checkout line, my cynicism kicked in when I saw the next issue of More staring back at me. I thought: "I wonder if this will be as good as the last." I loved reading that issue, too. I just filled out my card for the two-year subscription. Thanks for keeping it real.
Dear More Magazine,
I recently read your article "22 Days of Living Dangerously" in More magazine. I'm not normally a More reader because I think I'm a little younger than their target market, but my stepmother handed me the magazine and said, "You have to read this. I feel like the whole magazine was written for you." She may have been right.
I'm 33 years old and currently working on my second career. After a successful run in healthcare finance on the east and west coast, I've decided to start my own business with my sister in law (and good friend), something I've always wanted to do. I'd probably still be in finance if it weren't for having our daughter in San Francisco, catapulting us back to NJ to be near family. My husband and I were petrified by the prospect of being new parents, especially since that wasn't part of our plan.
This month in More, there was an article about two close friends starting a business together, an article about successful women entrepreneurs and most importantly, Laurie's article about Cambodia.
I found this article to be extremely comforting. To hear that another successful woman had fears of dying young because of their mother dying young made me feel less crazy. I'm an intelligent woman who knows that this isn't logical, but I can't help but think about it ... almost every day.
My mother, a fit woman with no prior health problems, who actively stayed away from smoking and alcohol, died at 43 after a two-year battle with a rare form of cancer. This year was the 19th year of her loss ... and my loss. I also found myself saying, "I only have 10 years left."
THANK YOU for the opportunity to read and learn from this article. I enjoyed hearing about Laurie's personal journey. I'll keep it as inspiration. While I'm not interested in going to Cambodia, I hope to find my own personal "Cambodia" and find personal renewal as well.
Best regards,
--Renee Hansen
Dear Lesley,
Thank you for having Melissa McCarthy on the cover of More. It was a refreshing change to see a happy, curvy woman in the midst of at least four magazines touting Kim Khardashian's race to lose the baby weight.
I can relate to Melissa because she looks like most women over forty I know. Best of all, she's not hiding behind her humor as a divert our attention from her size. She obviously embraces it and has made the most of it.
I'd love to be one of the women in the magazine with the perfect bodies over forty. They run marathons, do Pilates and yoga to name a few. I do a modified MS yoga program and MS swim twice a week. Most of my mornings are all about Rice Krispies. Not the cereal, it's the sound my body makes when I get out of bed. I give it a minute to be sure nothing essential has popped then I continue with my day.
I really hope to see more real size women over forty on future covers. It gives us regular gals a real boost.
Thanks again. Have a happy and safe Fourth of July.
Best regards,
--Chamein Canton
Dear Lesley:
I doubt you get many e-mails from men. For some reason, I was sent a 3-month trial to MORE. Probably because my name is Chris. I stuffed in into my briefcase one morning and started flipping through it on the subway on my way to work. You create a wonderful magazine! Funny, quirky, not too serious—it's a great read. I wish more men would read it. I was smiling as I entered my office door. I may ditch my subscription to MAXIM. Thanks and I wish you continued success.
--Christopher Durham
I am very pleased to see the quirky, fun and clad layout of Melissa McCarthy. This is what I call a layout "for women of style and substance."
I also enjoyed the articles about the parents' anniversary gift, working with a close friend, and the secret life of friends.
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Hello Lesley,
I can't thank you enough for your mention regarding Rebuilding Together. I have been a volunteer with the Duneland affiliate in Northwest Indiana for the last ten years, eight of which I have been on the board as the PR Director. My work with this group has been a part of my second act and it has led to some amazing friendships.
Rebuilding Together does not get a lot of press and maybe that is because we don't build new houses, but what we do very well is give people the opportunity to stay and age in their own homes. Volunteers come out to help their neighbor and it is truly instant gratification to meet and see the homeowner as they experience their home's transformation, most of the time with the aid from complete strangers.
Our town has a population of only 12,000, but we manage to get about 400 volunteers each year to rehab about 15 homes and a few community projects. We have skilled, but also many unskilled volunteers as young as high school age. Corporate team building happens on Rebuild Day as well. It is a wonderful way for someone to give back and it is only one day out of the year. Anyone interested in becoming a volunteer for a nonprofit should look into their nearest Rebuilding Together affiliate on the national website rebuildingtogether.org <http://rebuildingtogether.org> . They would be amazed at the friendships that they would make and the instant "feel good" in return.
Thanks again!
--Nancy Veselica
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Chesterton, Indiana
P.S. I love More Magazine......it speaks to me on every level!
Thank you for placing Melissa McCarthy on the cover of MORE, July/August issue. It is great to see a normal, full-figured actress in your magazine. I am disappointed that more normal American women are not showcased in MORE. The model searches are always really thin women and this is not the norm for America. Maybe New York and Hollywood, but not the true working class who purchase MORE magazine.
--Ann Harris
Dear MORE,
Recently, during a visit to the salon, I came upon a magazine in the dryer chair, that I picked up absentmindedly to pass the time. Upon flipping through the pages, I quickly realized this wasn't the average, vapid salon magazine that held crappy articles about nails and hair I wouldn't dare sport! I must have turned back to the cover 5 or six times to read the name. I was amazed that I had never come across this magazine! Mind you, 330 days of the year, I live aboard (I work in construction...we build US Embassies). However, I saw within the context, a small paragraph at the bottom of one of the pages, regarding readers suggestions (a contest of sorts). Since I didn't take the magazine with me (those stingy women!), I opted to search your website, unsuccessfully for the contest. Thus, I resorted to writing to this address.
In short, I can HONESTLY say, there is nothing I would change, or a bad review to be given in regards to MORE. This magazine is by far, the absolute BEST reading material I have ever come across on glossy pages. I literally read every article, instead of skimming to the "interesting stuff" that most magazine devote 2 or 3 pages of. I wasn't blasted with exercises that are "going to flatten your tummy in 5 easy minutes!" (That I neither care to do, or loathe reading because I'm NOT doing them). Or reading some sappy story about how hard it is to be "XYZ.." or "I went through hell, high water, and half of Georgia and became a better person" junk. No horoscopes to be found, or girls with tiny waists and shiny white teeth telling me how "I too, can look like this!" What I read, were articles of substance about women how took charge, worked hard, made a living, and SURPRISINGLY, looked like me! I read real opinions, and funny litanies of trial, error and dislike (my favorite was "Why I Don't Do Yoga!). I loved the style sections, with honest to goodness opinions of the material, how it fits, and where I could get it. Perhaps the most interesting were the finer details, the sizes it came in, if it had support, etc...Overall, I felt like the writers, and contributors to this magazine were real women, with real voices. More importantly, I RELATED to almost every story, or felt some sort of connection to what was being written.
I apologize for my overuse of the bold letters, but for the sake of emphasis on my enjoyment of your magazine, it was a must! So again, thank you for raising my IQ instead of lowering it like most, if not 98% of other women's magazines. Keep up the great work, continue to enrich women's lives, and I look forward to reading the next issue. I wish you much success!
Best Regards,
--Dana Gilbert
I've been a subscriber since the magazine began. At that time, the tag line had the word "age" in it. I like "style and substance" better!
Well, I'm of "that age", 66 to be exact, and I still have the energy I had at 46!
Must be the 2 new hips I've had installed in the past 6 months!
I like all of the features, especially "memoir." I find it extremely poignant.
It thoroughly enthralls me-whenever I finish the article I always say to myself how good it was.
I'd like more "Notebook." I love the info and quotes contained therein.
I still get a newspaper everyday and a couple other magazines as well as books. I'm not quite ready to stop "handling" paper and go to an e-reader.
I just wanted to let you know how much I enjoy your magazine, I just wish it was bigger!
--Donna Rosenbaum
Hi -
I just finished reading the article on Melissa McCarthy and I am FURIOUS. Why, you ask? Because, I, too, am an alumni of Southern Illinois University - Carbondale and attending during the same time she did. Why did we not become best friends? I am the "funny" one of my group and I just know we would have been BFF's forever. She's the perfect role model for everyone, not just plus-size or 40+ women. She's nice, funny, sincere - all the things we should all strive to be. And as a writer myself, I love that she's been encouraged to put her personal 'stamp' on scripts. That's what makes good movies/shows great.
Dang, another missed opportunity.
By the way, I love the magazine. I stumbled upon it while on vacation a few years ago and loved everything in it. I even start to get a little antsy from anticipation when it's time for it to be deposited into my happy mailbox!
Keep up the good work - and if Melissa mentions that she'd like to find a great friend in Southern Illinois, where I still live (sigh), I'm in.
--Rebecca Ruehl
Dear Meredith:
I really love More Magazine. Even my boyfriend of 19 years loves it, and I even gave a gift subscription of More to a friend of mine and she also loves it.
All of the stories and articles are age-appropriate for the mature, forward-thinking woman.
My only complaint is that, while I love the clothes and makeup, I cannot afford any of them. I just received the July-August issue with Melissa McCarthy on the cover. When I got to page 25, my eyes were immediately drawn to #1, the navy blue and yellow A-shape tank. I got really excited about it because the colors look so classy….and then I saw the price. I know there are plenty of your readers who can afford $135.00 for a tank top but I am not one of them. I was so disappointed. And the light blue and white cover-up on the next page (26)….my goodness, $218.00.
To really "connect" and "relate" to each of the women and their life stories in your magazine is great. But then, you get to the clothes and makeup sections and one is reminded that we are really not in their league after all.
It would really help if you had clothes, and makeup that the "average" working woman can afford.
Having said all this, I will still continue to subscribe. I know you will be happy to hear that.
Thanks for letting me vent,
--Lynda Anderson
There are SO many of us out here that love your magazine, but we are almost forgotten. We are the baby-boomers -- all of us are 60-plus years old. Yet in your articles and even on your most recent cover, items are aimed at…."Your best ____ [hairstyle, makeup, etc.] in your 30s, 40s, 50s." What happened to including 60s and 70s, even 80s? There are gorgeous, vibrant, healthy women out there that would love to be included when you're aiming articles toward your reading audience.
On page 34 of your magazine, I saw an Almay blusher product I would love to try. Under the pic of the product in teeny font, it notes that our skin pales after we reach 60, and that continues into 70s. I did not know that, but just that 1 sentence really helped.
Our concern to keep current with flattering makeup, hairstyles, swimsuits, and health does not stop when we turn 60. I am 64 years old, still attractive, I work out daily, keep slender by being a lifetime member of Weight Watchers, I'm still working, have raised 3 lovely daughters, have a wonderful husband of 35 years, and am still interested in what makes me look attractive and feel good. Friends my age and older feel the same way, and I'm betting there are many others reading More that would like to be included.
Kind regards,
--Lee R.
Hi MORE magazine,
I have great hope for your magazine but for me the goal is not yet accomplished. The idea is great - a magazine with fashion and beauty tips for a more mature generation and great articles about fascinating women and important issues. I like the substance what I don't like is the style.
For example, I quickly skimmed over the Travel Finds section on pages 56 - 63 of the July/August volume. The reason I didn't linger - the photos are too small to make the items look attractive, the items are too crowded on the page and reading the print at the bottom requires my strongest pair of reading glasses. Redbook does a similar piece each month called 50 Under $50. I find it much more visually enticing and have purchased several of the "finds" from their pages or searched for something similar on the websites listed in the descriptions.
I also have similar feelings about the Stylebook section in MORE magazine. Again the pictures are too small to showcase the clothing and accessories, the text is too small, and the items are scattered on the page in a way that is not overly appealing.
Finally, I also find the three column arrangement of some of the articles less than appealing. It makes the piece seem more like a textbook that I have to study rather than a magazine to read for pleasure. I much prefer a two column or a single column arrangement.
When I put on my reading glasses and make myself read to the end of an article or closely examine a fashion or beauty feature, I usually like what I read and see but it is such an effort to get there! I find myself choosing other magazines - Redbook, Southern Living, Fitness, HGTV, and O - and letting unread issues of MORE pile up in my reading basket.
Thank you for taking the time to read this message. I hope you will consider my feedback and make improvements in the near future.
--Karen Smith
I received my July/August issue of More today. I signed up to do the survey, but was told it was closed.
I wanted to do the survey because I was very disappointed in this issue. Best Beauty solutions for 30s, 40s, and 50s? I thought this was a magazine for women over 40.
I am 61, and feel better than I have ever felt. I don't see myself represented in your magazine. I am sure there are many older women who are in great shape and doing interesting things.
I also have a pet peeve. Anti aging. You can't not age! You can age gracefully, and look and feel good at any stage of life. Anti aging is so negative.
Thanks for listening.
--Patricia Tyser Carberry
Hello, Ms Seymour.
I've never written to a magazine editor before. But after reading the feature on Ms. McCarthy (July-Aug 2013), I am compelled to ask: why no full body photos of Ms. McCarthy?
More magazine displayed such photos for other actresses featured in prior issues.
You've sent a message here.
I'd like to know the reason why. No point continuing my subscription when the message from this magazine is big girls must remain out of sight.
Thank you.
--Valerie Hassan
Dear More:
I enjoy your magazine a lot, having come to a point where I feel a lot of other women's magazines cater to women under the age of 30 (I am 39), and I just can't relate anymore.
That being said, I do have a couple of issues with More. The first is the feature "This is what (insert age) looks like." Very nice, but I would love to see more women who are 50+ or 60+ or older who are active, running businesses, and doing awesome things in general. For those of us who haven't quite hit middle age, that would be so inspiring.
The other complaint I have concerns all the "anti-aging" features every month, which I feel is just an advertising showcase for really expensive products. There is nothing we can do to actually stop aging, but we can age healthfully and gracefully. I realize a lot of your readers are looking for skin and hair care products that are age-appropriate and will improve their appearance (myself included), but it would be really nice to feature them in a more positive light.
It is bad enough that our culture treats aging, and especially older women, in such a negative way and sends the message that we must turn back the clock at all costs. Does a magazine that targets older women have to send the same message?
--T. Figueiredo
There is more to women than the 30's, 40's, and 50's.... you seem
to be forgetting the 60's.... even the 70's
I am one of those 60's..... and have many beautiful (inside and out)
friends in their 60's and 70's....some are still working, some are enjoying
retirement after working their whole lives, some are enjoying being
grandma's.... some are doing incredible volunteer work....
you should come to Fredericksburg, Texas.....there is way more
here than vineyards...
"whats the good of living disconnected from the heart"
--Robin Rucker
After reading your latest publication with Melissa McCarthy as your focus, I must comment on my displeasure of your choice.
I am guessing that, after reading your article, she is a nice person. However, I take offense that what you seem to be promoting is that it is okay in this society to be obese. In a country where 3 out of 4 people are obese, and as a result, will probably be imposing a negative impact. Your magazine has always focussed on living life to the fullest; eating properly, exercising, being the best person you can be.
I now feel very disappointed and am not looking forward to my next magazine. I have shared this opinion with family and friends, and I must report that it is one shared by the majority.
Please reconsider how you promote your attitudes and ideas of what we women in the MORE "world" should be thinking about as positive examples.
Thank you for any consideration you might have of my opinion.
--Cheryl Hinkle
Dear MORE,
This is what 50 + looks like - Finally an article that suits your magazine! I loved it! I had unsubscribed to your publication because the majority of articles were incorporating women in their 20s and 30s. This age demographic has a plethora of choices and those of us who are in the youth of later life need to have a voice that speaks for us! Also, what is with the 20-something advertising models? There has to be another alternative to the ads that are in every magazine..? I am from the Baby-Boom Generation and I am fighting the good fight; I would like to have a magazine that does not reinforce the cultural lie that youth is everything. As a woman just turned 54, I am in better shape physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually; I could not have claimed this 10, 20, or 30 years ago.
Recently featured on the cover of More, Melissa McCarthy is a bright, talented, beautiful, well-respected, accomplished woman. A role model for us all. And she is perfect just as she is. It struck me, that More, a magazine historically engaged in empowering women to feel good about themselves, would photo shop some of Melissa's pictures to make her look thinner. Big hair, but small face, and like magic, no double chin! Though they are beautiful photos, so are the photos that accurately represent her. The altered photos send the subliminal message that looking thin is better and that there is something unacceptable about being big. More Magazine, you screwed up. This was an opportunity to embrace the fact that the value of women is not gauged by a number on a scale. Melissa is a true beauty just as she is without alternation, and you blew it. Suggestion for next time, keep it real.
--Beverly in Omaha


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Success in delivering predictable, high-performance IT services at a reasonable cost is heavily dependent on infrastructure and service flexibility in the face of both the short term changes (daily or seasonal load, internal growth) and the long term shifts (budget cycles, program cycles) that drive requirements for an IT organization. It is difficult to predict the future of a SharePoint infrastructure, and it is prohibitively expensive to design a hardware architecture that has a good chance of meeting long-term needs.
Developing a resilient computing service based on the aggregation of physical resources is a proven path to that level of operational flexibility. Beyond the benefits to cost, availability and performance, implementing SharePoint services in a virtual infrastructure will dramatically expand your organization's ability to leverage advanced infrastructure features. Virtualizing SharePoint is an ideal starting point toward an internal compute cloud.
- The thin provisioning feature of vSphere improves TCO through storage efficiency. Search and Content Database of SharePoint provision storage as required and avoid storage over-commit.
- VMware vMotion and VMware DRS provide transparent load balancing across an ESX Cluster. Poorly positioned SharePoint VMs can be load balanced automatically in a SharePoint Farm using DRS and vMotion, with or without administrator acknowledgement.
- VMware HA offers extended VM protection through quick restart on hardware failure. With HA, SharePoint VMs in an ESX server can automatically be moved to another ESX server in case of hardware failure. Availability remains high, the cost and complexity of a cluster is avoided.
- VMware vSphere support for 32 vCPU and 1TB RAM allows you to scale up your Index and SQL server as future growth demands.
- VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch centralizes the virtual switch configuration of your SharePoint Hosts and prevents manual errors in configuring virtual switches per host. Limit the traffic to or from your SharePoint VMs using Traffic Shaping feature. Offload the networking tasks of your SharePoint VMs to your Networking Team by using third party virtual switches like Cisco Nexus 1000V.
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Adios, Norman Rockwell.
Whether we lived it or not, we all have a mind's eye picture of Thanksgiving: several generations of family gathered together for the day, seated at a table around a big roasted turkey. In truth, the great cultural feast of the United States has become as complicated as its culture. My own family, gathered together for a feast, includes a few traditional turkey-eaters, a couple of raw foodists, some vegetarians, vegans, lactose-intolerants and celiac sprue sufferers and a teenager who has never (to our knowledge) eaten a green vegetable. Twenty-four pounds of turkey meat are superfluous. But of course, feasting is never about the menu. It's about the people. So here are some alternatives to the traditional holiday menu. It's changing, but the gathering remains the same.
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Two words that go well together are Easter and brunch. Forget your basic Easter eggs and chocolate, because restaurants all over the valley are preparing for one of their biggest brunches of the year. You can expect to find more traditional breakfasts as well as original culinary concoctions your taste buds will thank you for. While chocolate isn't ordinarily a regular breakfast item, many menus include a spin on this creamy delicacy. Brunch menu samplings are available through the restaurant links below:
The Aerie at Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort
Sunday, March 31, 11 a.m.–3 p.m.
$40/adult, $19/children ages 6–12
Reservations recommended. Call 801-933-2181
Sunday, March 31, 10 a.m.–3 p.m.
$38/adult, $18/children 6–12, $28/senior 65 and up
For reservations call 801-363-5454 or online here
Blue Boar Inn & Restaurant
Midway, UT
Sunday, March 31, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.
$40 fixed price
Reservations Recommended. Call 888-650-1400
Sunday, March 31, 9 a.m.–2 p.m.
Easter special $16, menu selections $6-14
No reservations required
Sunday, March 31, Brunch, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. Dinner 4:30 p.m.–9 p.m.
$30/adult, $15/children 12 and younger
For reservations call 801-746-4441 or online here
Sunday, March 31, 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m.
$36.95/adult, $17.95/children
Receive a $25 dining card
Make reservations online here.
Sunday, March 31, Seating 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., and 2:30 p.m.
$60/adult, $25/children 12 and younger
For reservations call 801-274-6264 or online here
Gathering Place at Gardner Village
Sunday, March 31, 9 a.m.–2 p.m.
$21.95/adult, $12.95/children ages 3–11
Seating is first-come first-served
Harvest Restaurant at Thanksgiving Point
Saturday, March 30, 10 a.m.–2 p.m.
$28.95/adult, $14.95/children 11 and younger
Reservations recommended. Call 801-768-4990
Sunday, March 31, 10 a.m.–2 p.m.
$45/adult, $22/children ages 5–10, children 4 and under complimentary
No reservations required
Sunday, March 31, 9 a.m.–3 p.m.
$32/adult, $18/children
Reservations recommended. Call 801-322-0404 or online here.
Slopes Restaurant at Waldorf Astoria Hotel Park City
Sunday, March 31, 11 a.m.–5 p.m.
$70/adult, $25/children 12 and younger
For reservations call 435-647-5566
Texas de Brazil
Sunday, March 31, Open 11 a.m.-3 p.m. and 4 p.m.-9 p.m. Easter dinner all day
$42.99/adult, half-price for children ages 6-12, ages 5 & under free
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Rated 1 out of 5 by Bobk Power Adapter - I think not The unit is not a power adapter it is a plug adapter. It does not adapt 240V to 120V it only provides for different plug configurations. The catalog description should be rewritten to accurately describe what the device actually is. The description should also include a disclaimer clearly stating that the USB charger port doers not work with a number of electronic devices (Ipods, Ipads, Kindles, etc.). May 8, 2013
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Pendleton Woolen Mills has created distinctive blankets honoring America's National Parks since the early 1900s. Each blanket has unique historic designs and colors that date back to frontier trading posts. The original blankets had 3, 4, or 5 black stripes incorporated in the design, which indicated the value. Fur trappers would bring their catch to the trading posts, and traders would hold up fingers to indicate the weight of the blanket in pounds that they were willing to trade for the trapper's goods.
Choose Glacier National Park in Montana (natural with black, yellow, red, and green stripes), Yellowstone National Park spanning Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho (yellow with red and navy stripes), or Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona (navy with yellow, orange, and red stripes). Each blanket has the Pendleton label with the park name and an image of an important natural feature in the park.
100% virgin wool. Woven at the Pendleton Woolen Mill in Washougal, Washington.
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I bought several of these blankets for my cabin, on a wooded wilderness lake. We have a wood stove for heat, no electricity, and we shower in cold water that we pump from the lake. I wanted some colorful blankets to put on the beds, the sofa bed, and the chairs by the fire. I also wanted something warm to curl up in when the nights get cold, and after the aforementioned shower! These blankets are so nice, colorful and warm, and thicker than they look in the photos. The "full" size completely covers a queen size mattress with no side drop. I purchased the Glacier, Grand Canyon, and Yellowstone blankets. I would like to see the blankets from Yosemite, Crater Lake, Acadia and Rainier National Parks offered also. It's also nice to see more items featured from National Geographic that are made in the U.S.A. These are 100% pure virgin wool, made in Portland, Oregon.


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Rated 5 out of 5 by Savvy1 Adorable Scale This looks exactly as shown and will fit perfectly into my new studio space. I can think of a number of ways to display it and what to display in it. It appears the scale works as it should and I think I can lock the scale in position if I want to store items in the bowl, but I have to look into that further...we are still working on the studio. Scale feels very durable. September 20, 2014
Rated 5 out of 5 by Propst79 This item is a beautiful scale! I am so pleased with this beautiful scale! It is exactly what I hoped it would be!! I would definitely recommend this. It seems to be well made. April 10, 2013
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Jelly Belly is always coming up with creative and interesting flavors to add to their already impressive line of jelly beans. Back a few years ago I did the review for the new Dark Chocolate Jelly Beans and BeanBoozled for CandyAddict.com. After that I was then featured in the New York Times in a Jelly Belly article, so now I feel I've come full circle with my first official Jelly Belly review for The Candy Enthusiast.
The new flavor for Jelly Belly? Honey! This is the 92nd flavor (told you it was a big list!) of Jelly Belly bean for sale and is the idea of many consumers who've written and polled for it for some time now. It's great to know Jelly Belly listens to it's consumers.
These Honey beans are made with real wildflower honey and the flavor certainly reflects it. The beans are beautiful and they look like little hardened globs of honey. My photo makes the look more orange than they really are, as they're more of a shade of amber.
So how do they taste?
Really wonderful.
The first thing you get is a flowring sweetness that evolves swiftly into a full honey flavor. It's as if you just liked the end of honey spoon, just not as intense. It's amazing how well these beans capture the honey flavor, and they're just delightful.
I found myself reaching for another and another, and I had to hide the rest of my samples so I was able to share them with my boyfriend, who is a big honey lover. Needless to say, he's just as smitten with them as I am! These honey jelly beans I feel are really unique, so if you see them do give them a try. And if you're one of the many who've written Jelly Belly requesting this flavor over the years, I can say you will not be disappointed.
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This is an updated post. Earlier I said Romney supports the higher academic standards pushed by Jeb Bush and other education reformers.
But his campaign called to say he does not. I imagine this is because Rick Perry dinged him for dare supporting something linked to the Obama Administration.
Known as "common core," the standards were developed by a consortium of more than 40 states. Whether or not a state chooses to uses them is completely voluntary, but they are good standards and an upgrade over what most states now use. This is hardly a federal takeover of education. Under Perry, Texas opted out of using the standards. Romney's home state of Massachusetts, on the other hand, worked with Florida in developing them. This was after Romney left.
But the fact that the Obama Administration has endorsed common core and helped goose them along with money from Race to the Top makes them a target. This kind of knee-jerk reaction pretty much sums up the ongoing silliness in the Republican primary. Obama has embraced tougher standards and accountability long sought by conservative education reformers like Jeb and Mitch Daniels. This isn't conservatives embracing Obama on reform. This is Obama embracing conservatives on reform.
For crying out loud, the Republicans should be happy. Are these guys going to swear off beer next because Obama drinks the stuff.
Anyway, this certainly isn't going to endear Romney to Bush or some of Bush's people in a state that will determine the Republican nominee.


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We spent 2013 obsessing over image quality at the Orbital HQ. Not only does the front page have more of them than ever before, but our brilliant tech team built out full-width galleries and started creating custom design layouts that demand something more than PR images and stick figures. Needless to say, this would become an all-staff challenge.
2013 marked our first full year with this visual focus, and, looking back on what we have to offer, it's been a pleasant surprise. We took a few moments to reflect on some of our favorite Ars images from the year that was, and they're shared below for all your "Open Image In New Tab>Save As" wallpaper-making needs.
Rocket speed and rocket work
Lee Hutchinson
An F-1 engine on display at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. Author's wife at right for scale.
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An F-1 engine on display at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. Author's wife at right for scale.
Lee Hutchinson
The F-1 gas generator firing. Visible emerging from the nozzle is the dark, fuel-rich exhaust, which takes a bit of time to completely burn. This is characteristic of gas generator exhausts.
Lee Hutchinson
Probably the best shot I was able to take of one of the cars flying past the paddock.
Reviews Editor Lee Hutchinson has a job even his father doesn't believe. But in between taking copious notes on everything from LEGO bricks to water-repellent miracle materials, Hutchinson will step behind the camera and capture some wonder for the rest of us to see. Among his favorite images from 2013 are the above trio, bursting with power. "This [first] shot shows my darling wife standing next to a Rocketdyne F-1 engine," he says. "This is the largest single-chamber liquid-fueled rocket engine ever actually built, producing 1.5 million lbs of thrust and gulping down one ton of fuel and two tons of oxidizer per second—and a Saturn V moon rocket was powered by five of them. Everything about it was enormous, especially the engines required to start it on its journey from the Earth to the Moon."
From the same story—"How NASA brought the monstrous F-1 'moon rocket' engine back to life'"—Hutchinson captures the behemoth in action. "This is the gas generator of a 40-year-old F-1 engine being fired," he says. "The F-1's gas generator shown firing here pumps out 31,000 lbs of thrust—more than an F-16 fighter's engine at full military power—and all of that sound and fury is needed just to drive the pumps that send fuel into the main engine. Rocket science: it's awesome."
The last image is from Hutchinson's day at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, for the story "Gallery: Ars goes behind the scenes with the Caterham F1 racing team." As he quickly learned, even a shutter speed of 1/500 doesn't quite freeze an F1 car's motion. For his favorite piece of experimentation, Hutchinson tries freezing the foreground against a moving background as the Formula 1 cars zoom around on their practice laps.
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Time passes...
Astronaut Chris Cassidy models a current-generation EMU ("Extravehicular Mobility Unit") while being lowered into the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory pool for a spacewalk simulation.
All that is cool, but our resident NASA neighbor's greatest visual contribution (quite possibly the coolest Ars piece of the year) documents the organization's giant training pool procedures in "Swimming with spacemen: training for spacewalks at NASA's giant pool." The entire story is visually driven, with a custom layout and countless images, but Hutchinson looks back on the two above as his favorites. In the first image, astronaut Chris Cassidy waits patiently during a hold while companion astronaut Luca Parmitano's suit radio is checked. In the second, the issue has been resolved and the dive proceeds. For a man whose job is typically experiencing awesomeness, Hutchinson says "This was easily one of the most awesome things I've ever gotten to witness."
Games and the gamers that love 'em
Andrew Cunningham
Frank Lee, Drexel computer science professor and co-founder and co-director of Drexel's game design program, introduces his game on Friday night.
Senior Products Specialist Andrew Cunningham fondly remembers an after hours assignment in Philadelphia, reporting for the story "Selling, coding, and playing the 'world's largest video game.'" "The short version of the story is that a Drexel computer science professor worked for five years to convince the owners of an office building in Philly to use the building's programmable LEDs to create a video game," he recalls. "After they got approval, they essentially created an API for the light grid, on top of which they've built working versions of Pong, Snake, and Space Invaders among others." He says the building is a little dark in the images "because nighttime," but it's still among our favorite visuals from 2013. (Cunningham's story has video of the game in action too.)
Kyle Orland
Yeah, I'm in Akihabara. Meet me by the shop with the creepy-yet-welcoming 20-foot-wide man in the striped shirt.
As you might expect, Gaming Editor Kyle Orland has his fair share of unusual sights from flying around the world covering gaming events. The first trip that came to mind is from the story "The gaikokujin gamer's guide to Akihabara, Japan's 'Electric Town.'" "I was incredibly jet-lagged and incredibly sick with a sinus infection/head cold after my day-long flight to Japan, but I was determined not to give up my opportunity to explore the fabled Akihabara nerd shopping mecca," he says. "At one point, I was so tired and medicine-heady I would have gladly walked in to the warm embrace of that 20-foot man in the striped shirt."
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The sprawling lobby is home to an information desk, a store, and a whole bunch of video game enthusiasts. (E3)
Andrew Cunningham
The sprawling lobby is home to an information desk, a store, and a whole bunch of video game enthusiasts. (E3)
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It's-a him! Kyle! (E3)
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Kyle is suitably impressed by the Killer Instinct fightstick. (E3)
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TO ENTER THE EXPO HALL YOU FIRST MUST BEST ME IN FIVE FEATS OF STRENGTH! (PAX East)
Kyle Orland
Wut? (PAX East)
Kyle Orland
My lens wasn't nearly wide enough to capture the entire BYO Computer LAN area. This picture will have to do. (PAX East)
Kyle Orland
Another day, another deku nut. *sigh* (PAX)
Orland's other favorites span some of the best annual gaming experiences—E3, E3 console launches, PAX East, and PAX. "The most memorable visual of E3 was the Sony booth that was absolutely crawling with costumed characters from famous PlayStation franchises," Orland says (see Plants v. Zombies above or perhaps PaRappa The Rapper is more your speed). "(But) the main memory dredged up by these photos is me not actually knowing who Drake was when he walked out at the EA press conference with huge letters spelling DRAKE behind him. This is because I am old and out of touch with youth culture."
As for the double dose of PAX, he recalls cosplay as all the rage. "The most shocking thing about PAX East cosplay this year was the fact that there were quite a few BioShock Infinite costumes a full week before the game actually hit stores—that's a sign of good marketing!" Orland says. "[At PAX,] I couldn't stop laughing at this photo of a sad, salaryman Deku Kid all grown up. By far the most original and thought provoking cosplay of the show for me."
Mice, medieval wars, "Mommy!" cries
Thomas Balla, Collinswood Designs Inc. in Fort Collins
Microscopes aren't limited to taking pictures of living things. Many substances form crystals that, on small scales, reveal stunning details that can't be seen with our eyes. This image is of sulfoslicylic acid, a close chemical relative of aspirin.
Thomas Balla, Collinswood Designs Inc. in Fort Collins
Microscopes aren't limited to taking pictures of living things. Many substances form crystals that, on small scales, reveal stunning details that can't be seen with our eyes. This image is of sulfoslicylic acid, a close chemical relative of aspirin.
Zhong Hua, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
It's... a mouse! This image relied on fluorescent labeling and confocal microscopy to create a 3D image stack. The fluorescent items in this case are the axons, projections created by nerves as they reach out to link up with the mouse's body. The green label lights up sensory neurons, which arise in segmented structures that flank the spine. Red and blue are motorneurons, which control the muscles.
Steven Michael
Bullseye from 1,000 yards.
Lee Hutchinson
Selfie at Mach 0.6 and 13,000 feet.
Jonah Gallagher
Armies face off during a bridge battle at Bellus Aeternum II in Upper Marlboro, Maryland.
Here's a final grab bag before we end with the true Ars image-maker of the year. Science Editor John Timmer contributes the first two pictures from the story "Images from the glorious world around us that we never see." These are from a contest demonstrating the remarkable work being done with the microscope lenses Nikon makes.
Next, some Hutchinson pseudo-selfies—shooting a $17,000 Linux-powered rifle and testing a Nokia Lumia 1520 at Mach 0.6 speeds. While the Folland Gnat training clearly rules, Hutchinson admits he's fonder of the former. "Trackingpoint is an interesting company, with a product that straddles several different areas. Our coverage of them has been focused on the technology that they've crammed into their rifles, which enables even novice shooters (like my cameraman, Steve Michael) to nail targets at distances of up to 1000 yards. I have to admit that I included this image because I think I look totally badass."
Last but certainly not least, IT Editor Sean Gallagher and his son Jonah left the computer behind and picked up some foam weaponry for "Cry (foam-padded) havoc! A day at Darkon's Bellum Aeternus II." The four-day, live-action roleplay event attracted more than 300 combatants.
Aurich Technica
Aurich Lawson
Our Sean Gallagher (at left), always making news.
Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock
Artist interpretation of the creatures talking about your mom on Xbox Live last night. [Story]
Lucasfilm / Aurich Lawson
We're not sure how many social media profile pictures this inadvertently created. [Story]
Whether it's the NSA's version of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon or our internal arguments over Star Wars, the Ars staff turns in only one direction when stuck for an image—Creative Director Aurich Lawson. "Aurich is the unsung hero of Ars Technica—because of images like these," Hutchinson says. "Hero" is probably an understatement. A quick search for his credit in the last year turns up hundreds of images, from mass deaths on FarmVille to Carl Weathers' iPhone to his crafted Android alien showing up everywhere. Lawson's work routinely gets recognition in comment threads and Twitter at-replies, but he deserves his own section each year we compile an image look back. After all, as Hutchinson notes, "He's skillfully added Kyle Orland, Jonathan Gitlin, me, and Eric Bangeman into the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon. How awesome is that?"
[Editor's note: Any digs that may compare Managing Editor Eric Bangeman to Chewbacca are solely the work of Lee Hutchinson.]


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Fleeing Violence against Journalists, Veracruz Photographer Seeks Asylum in US
A photojournalist from Veracruz, Mexico, is seeking political asylum in the US following a wave of killings of journalists who have covered drug trafficking in the violence-ridden Mexican state. The El Paso Times reports that Miguel Angel Lopez Solana, a photographer for La Jornada, a daily newspaper in Mexico, has decided to seek political asylum for himself and his wife almost a year after members of his family –who were also fellow journalists–were murdered.
The photographer's father, Miguel Angel Lopez Velasco, a columnist at the Veracruz paper Notiver, his brother, Misael Lopez Solana, a photographer with Notiver, and his mother were shot and killed in their home on June 20, 2011.
Last month, three news photographers who covered organized crime in Veracruz were found murdered; their dismembered bodies showed signs of torture, according to the Veracruz police.
Miguel Lopez Solana himself was kidnapped and threatened at gunpoint in 2009 over his coverage of the police beat.
Fearing for his life, he recently contacted Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters without Borders, and received a visa to travel to the US. He will file a request for political asylum later this month in Houston, according to his lawyer, Carlos Spector, who has represented other Mexican journalists fleeing anti-press violence in Mexico.
At a forum on press safety held May 23 in Austin, Texas, Lopez Solana told the audience, "They aren't just killing us journalists, they are drawing and quartering us…We are living in terror." The Texas Observer reports that Lopez Solana said his colleagues back in Veracruz feel isolated and afraid. "They are traumatized and living in fear. It's way beyond any fiction you could ever imagine."
Committee to Protect Journalists reports that since 2006, 45 journalists have been killed or disappeared in Mexico.
(Thanks to Emphas.is for alerting us to Lopez Solana's story.)
Related story
Three News Photographers Found Murdered in Veracruz, Mexico
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Introduction to Screen Sharing
- Broadcast all or a cropped portion of your desktop to everyone in your room.
- Allow any other user in the room to broadcast their desktop.
- Users can see the broadcaster's mouse cursor.
- Broadcast image will be auto-panned for users with smaller screens or lower screen resolutions.
- Use Vyew's push-to-talk VoIP while sharing your desktop.
Getting Started
- Click the Screen Share tab.
- Click Start Sharing Screen.
- If a Java security pop-up appears, click Run. (Shown here is the pop-up on Windows 7. It may appear different on your computer.)
- The Vyew Screen Share applet will appear. You are now broadcasting. Select FullScreen or Crop mode.
Once your screen is sharing, you can minimize Vyew and navigate to any programs or websites you wish to show.
Take into account that there can be a 2 to 4 second lag between the image you broadcast and when it is received. Allow 3 or 4 seconds after screen changes when speaking. Also, move your mouse slower than normal to account for your viewers' auto-panning.
- Click Stop Sharing when done.
Crop Mode
If you want users to see only a portion of your screen, select Crop Mode.
You will then be presented with a screenshot of your desktop. Drag a box around the area you wish to crop and confirm the selection.
Switching Presenters
Collaborators, Moderators or Owners can share their desktop. You will need to stop your own desktop sharing before they can share theirs.


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Sussex County is seeing heavy rainfall, but meteorologists say it should clear up within the next half hour.
Erik Pindrock, meteorologist at Accuweather.com, said an area of severe thunderstorms developed across the Appalachian Mountains and have pushed eastward through Maryland and Virginia, and across the Chesapeake Bay to southern Delaware.
Pindrock said the county will get a half inch of rain within the half hour, with possible flash flooding. Winds are expected to range between 30 and 60 miles per hour.
The threat for severe weather will diminish after 6 p.m., so stay put, avoid the roads, and keep checking www.sussexcountian.com for updates!
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Good product By Carl on 6/12/2015Carl would recommend this product to a friendI have great water flow. But is a bit noisier than I expected.
quiet powerful reliable By sdeck on 12/28/2014sdeck would recommend this product to a friendbought this pump to replace my ehiem pump that was rated at 60 watts. unable to say how many gallons per hour it was rated for, as it is not made anymore and has been in non stop service since 1997!!!
plumbed new pump with 1 1/4 hard pvc per Reef Aquarium III advice, had been running 3/4" hard pvc.....WHAT a difference!! Had to throttle new pump down to 65 watts so it would not overwhelm my dual 1" overflows. I love this new pump but it is way too much water volume for a 125 gallon tank. I am running 3 korelia power heads in the tank for circulation and am not trying to use return pump to create circulation just water exchange. I put oxo pad under pump and used 1" silicon tubing to hard pvc to prevent noise, and it is silent! Note that out of the pump you need to use the fittings they provide for soft tubing, as the threads will thread to pvc but the fitting needs to be a o-ring seal as they are not tapered
if I was to purchase again I would purchase next sixe down, even increased overflow plumbing to 1 1/2" still more flow than needed for this size tank
Nice By Ryan on 11/14/2012Ryan would recommend this product to a friendI could tell this pump was quality as soon as i opened the box. It runs very quiet and was definitely worth the money.
Great Pump By Chris on 10/13/2012Chris would recommend this product to a friendEheim pump is quiet and moves a lot of water. It was easy to install to my plumbing and has been working great. I wish it would have come with some type of feet to help with vibration. Placed some padding underneath it to ensure it's as quiet as possible.
Silent return pump By Andrew on 10/10/2012Andrew would recommend this product to a friendruns silent and stays that way (18 months running silent)
Is This Thing On? By james on 9/22/2012james would recommend this product to a friendEXTREMELY QUIET. You can't hear it... seriously.
Excellent pump By mike on 8/17/2012mike would recommend this product to a friendQuiet, reliable and worth the extra money. Will save you in the long run.
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Lots of music to suit everyone's ears along with a dose of theatre and fun - starting with Twilight Concert Series' Week IV offering:
THURSDAY, July 29
Of course, it-s Twilight! The New Pornographers play Pioneer Park with the Dodos opening up.
It-s going to be an alt/indie extravaganza, with the usual Twilight Series cool.
Where/When: Pioneer Park. Gates at 5 PM, music at 7PM. Click here for more info.
FRIDAY, July 30
Dar Williams will grace the State Room. It's storytelling at its best, set to gorgeous, folky melodies. Williams' songs can make you tap your feet, sway and cry all at the same time. (At least they do for me.) Her new album, Promised Land features songs that cut to the core, and the artist herself has said that the stories are more pared down than usual.
Where/When: The State Room; doors at 8 PM
...how 'bout a little bit of country:
Tim McGraw with Lady Antebellum at USANA Amphitheatre.
Where/When: 7 PM, USANA Ampitheatre
Also Friday: Gilbert and Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore at the Off Broadway Theatre. The old-time comic musical starts this night and runs through Sept. 4 on Monday, Friday and Saturday evenings at 7:30 PM.
It's all about class (systems) when the captain's daughter Josephine falls for lowly sailor Ralph, but the poetic songs are fun and actually pretty silly. (I performed in a kids' production back in the 80's, which is kind of silly, too.) It's good fun.
Where/When: Off Broadway Theatre; 7:30 PM
SATURDAY, July 31
Local author Mette Ivie Harrison will read from her new teen novel The Princess and the Snowbird at the King's English Bookshop. It's the final book in a trilogy full of romance, magic and adventure.
Where/When: King's English at 2 PM


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Ladies and gentlemen! Step right this way and prepare to be amazed. Before us is a creature so rare, she's practically mythological. Her name is Julianna Margulies, and she is The Woman Who Has It All.
Consider the evidence: At 45, an age when many actresses sink out of sight like stones in the sea, Margulies is doing the best work of her career, starring as law-firm associate Alicia Florrick on The Good Wife, the CBS series that boasts a passionate following and a whole shelf of awards. After decades of believing that marriage wasn't for her, Margulies met and married Keith Lieberthal, an attorney six years her junior. A happy accident (Margulies was seven months pregnant at her wedding) brought them their son, Kieran, now four. Add to those blessings friends from coast to coast who sing her praises.
"I think the world of her," says Christine Baranski, who plays the firm's founding partner Diane Lockhart. "She's the gold standard of elegance, integrity and intelligence. I know I will have great conversations with her in 10 years. It's going to be fun to be her friend all down the road."
"Julianna works really hard, and she doesn't take any shit," says Alan Cumming, who plays Alicia's irascible colleague Eli Gold. "But she also makes it fun. It took me ages to get her name, 'Mrs. Florrick,' right," he mischievously adds. "I kept calling her Mrs. Frolic. Freudian slip."
And now here Margulies sits, sipping an iced cappuccino in the library of the Crosby Street Hotel in New York's SoHo, a 10-minute walk from her home, looking and behaving exactly the way you'd want her to. She arrives precisely on time, wearing gray skinny jeans, gray leather ankle boots, a black cowl-neck sweater and a honking big diamond with her wedding band. Her face, untouched by knife or needle, is riveting, eyebrows like dark slashes above bottomless hazel-green eyes, strong mouth and jaw. (Frida Kahlo would have loved to paint her.) Her first laugh, delightfully throaty, occurs two minutes into our conversation; her first four-letter word arrives soon after. She has a charming habit of finishing a statement and then pursing her lips together, as if to say, "What do you think of that?!"
The Woman Who Has It All also has a healthy dose of self-effacement. When three people spy her from a table across the room, they drop any pretense of talking; soon they're openly eavesdropping. But when I point them out, Margulies is surprised. "Honestly, I think no one knows who I am," she says, laughing. "I'll walk out of a store and say to my girlfriend, 'They were so nice!' She'll be like, 'Um, Julianna?' And I'll go, 'Oh, right!' I forget. Because in my real world, I don't live that way."
At a panel discussion of The Good Wife in a New York theater, Margulies sits center stage, flanked by Baranski, Josh Charles (who plays Alicia's boss and sometime lover, Will) and Robert and Michelle King, the husband-and-wife team who created the show. For the uninitiated, Alicia Florrick is a former stay-at-home mother of two who restarted her career as a lawyer after learning that Peter, her powerful state's attorney husband (played by Chris Noth), had been a regular client of a hooker named Amber. Margulies's character has evolved from the hurt but steadfast wife of season one: Last year, she found the courage to separate from her straying spouse; in the current season, she embarked on, then halted, a hot affair of her own. All this while becoming a more confident member of the law firm.
For 45 minutes, the panel banters good-naturedly. Robert King: "The network was concerned about the number of lunges in the sex scenes. Josh was lunge heavy."
Margulies: "Lunges? We prefer to call them thrusts."
Then comes the Q&A period, and women rush the mics. They say what a relief it is to see female role models who aren't catfighting and who wear clothes that are work appropriate but still sexy. "I spent two years wanting to yell at Alicia for being so composed, and now I want to be Alicia," one woman says, earning applause from her fellow fans.
Margulies has had a lot of practice handling such responses. Ever since the first episode, with its iconic image of Alicia standing next to her man during his public mea culpa, women have been telling her their opinions and spilling their secrets. One flight attendant ended up plopping down beside Margulies and sobbing on her shoulder about her own cheating spouse for an entire six-hour trip.
Back on the hotel sofa, Margulies says, "What I love about this character is there are so many points of entry. People relate to everything, from her putting her career on hold for 13 years to being a working mother, to having a husband who's cheating, to having an affair of her own, to having a daughter who gives her grief for drinking a glass of wine." She laughs. "But I've always had that kind of face. Even in high school, I was the girl people told their problems to."
One reaction did shock her. "A guy wrote in, 'Why don't you call this show The Good Slut?' " Margulies says, pursing those lips. After everything Alicia's husband did, "this man calls her a slut. What's amazing to me is that in 2012 we have such judgment on the woman having an affair. Especially this poor woman, who really had her head in the sand for years. I was so happy when she got together with Will, even for just a little sexual liberation. Because she needed to feel wanted and sexy and loved again."
Margulies had long been fascinated by the press conference presence of wronged wives such as Silda Spitzer and Dina McGreevey. "I remember thinking, Get off the stage!" she says. "I couldn't believe the women were gullible enough to get up there, and I couldn't believe that the men could be such assholes as to ask."
But when considering what she would do if her own husband cheated, Margulies grows thoughtful. "It's happened to friends of mine," she says carefully. "I've seen marriages dissolve, and I've seen one marriage make it—with a lot of hard work. I don't know if I could do it, because I think I'd be playing [the betrayal] in my head the whole time. I don't know if I'd ever be able to be fully present, and I don't want to live that way. But you have to figure out what's best for you. Maybe the Spitzers and the Clintons already had an arrangement, and quite frankly I don't care. There are some things where you go, 'It's none of your business.' I think the most crippling thing of all is judgment."
Before signing on to The Good Wife, Margulies had one requirement: It had to shoot in New York. Her extended family lives there, and she was adamant about raising her son in the city. The Kings conceded, though their writers' room is in Los Angeles. "We wanted somebody with dramatic chops but also good comic timing, because we knew without a sense of humor the character would sink into earnestness," Michelle King says. "Julianna has done so much to bring Alicia to life. She and the character are so completely enmeshed, it's hard to tell what came from whom."
"It's amazing what Jules can do just with her eyes," adds Charles. "She conveys so much emotion with just a look. She would have been a fantastic silent-film actor."
On set, Margulies is ready for anything—including a surprise from Charles, who one day dressed for a fantasy sequence in leopard-print underwear. "I dropped trou, and Jules burst out laughing," he says. "We're of the same mind, that sex scenes can be uncomfortable, so the more you laugh, the more you can relax, and the better your work."
As the show has progressed, Margulies has had to relax aplenty. Season three offered an urgent sex scene that involved a mostly clothed Will and Alicia pressed against a wall. Season two included what was probably a network first: a heroine receiving oral sex from her husband. So, Ms. Margulies—what was that like to play?
"The first thing that went through my mind is, Oh dear God, how are we going to film this?" she says. "Then, Oh God, my father's going to watch the show. But I love it. Michelle King is so prim and proper to look at, and she's one of the raunchiest—the strong Alicia voice, that's Michelle saying, 'Enough of this bullshit. Alicia needs to have oral sex performed on her.' I truly believe she's instigating a sexual revolt for network television. I think it's brave, and I love to try things people haven't tried before.
"But you also have to look at what we're competing against," she adds. "We're constantly put in the same category as cable shows. It's incredibly flattering but incredibly unfair, because we're not allowed to do half of what they do."
The Good Wife season also involves twice as many episodes as a cable show. "I get high from it," Margulies says of what many would consider a taxing job. "Keith will say, 'You just worked another 16-hour day!' I'll say, 'I know, but can I tell you who I was working with? [Guest star] F. Murray Abraham!' I remember the first time Michael J. Fox [who plays a rival lawyer] and I worked together. We both said it—we fell into each other's eyes. Or Christine, Josh and I will have this incredible scene together where literally a pin could drop. Who gets that? It's thrilling."
"Sometimes Julianna's so tired, she's hanging on by her fingernails," Baranski says of her pal the actress-wife-mother. "You get a stiff neck, juggling all the balls you have in the air. Only another woman who's lived through it can say, 'Take deep breaths. You've got to ride this wave in.' "
Margulies knows this is her time, and she intends to make the most of it. After all, she's been working for it her whole life. Her father, an advertising copywriter (he came up with Alka-Seltzer's famous "Plop, plop, fizz, fizz" jingle), and her mother, a dancer, divorced when she was young, and Margulies and her two sisters moved a lot, even doing stints in England and France. After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College, she landed a few small film and TV roles. Then, in 1994, she was cast as Nurse Carol Hathaway on ER. Her character was supposed to die in the pilot; instead, she grew into the moral compass of the show and brought Margulies fame, awards (she was the only regular cast member to win an Emmy) and friendships, including one with George Clooney that's still going strong. ("We just e-mailed. All the accolades—it's been a good year for both of us.") With another actor on the show, Ron Eldard, she had a romantic relationship that lasted nearly a decade. But after six seasons, she felt Hathaway's story had come to its logical end, and she was homesick for New York. Despite an extraordinary offer—$27 million for two more seasons—she left the show.
Outsiders were stunned, wondering what was going on in her head and how anything could be better than that. And for the first few years, with only the miniseries The Mists of Avalon and a few minor projects on her plate, it looked as if Margulies had committed something close to career suicide.
The actress never saw it that way. "I'm a smart girl," she says. "I had a year's worth of work waiting and a mortgage completely paid at age 32. I was under no illusion that I was going to be some big movie star. My dad said, 'If you got hit by a bus tomorrow, were you living your life truthfully, or were you waiting to get rich?' If I died and my soul started leaving my body, would I be looking down going, 'You idiot. You could have gone to Prague, you could have been on Broadway'? Those are the things I wanted to do."
What she didn't expect was to fall in love. She and Lieberthal met at a mutual friend's dinner party and married soon after, in November 2007. "I thought everyone was full of shit about marriage until I met the right guy," Margulies says. "I'm from divorce. I didn't have a great example of marriage. My father paid alimony, but we didn't have a lot. At 12, I wrote in a journal—I have it still—'I will never depend on anyone for money.' I always struggled with finding the right mate . . . It's one of those things where if you live long enough with a man who has a cold, you're going to catch the cold. Why would it be any different if you live with someone who's angry all the time or depressed all the time?
"But Keith only adds to who I am," she continues. "If he's not in my life, the fun and enjoyment aren't there . . . I'm not saying you're not great alone. Listen, my mom lives alone; she loves it. She was a free spirit. She had many, many lovers. That was her path. But when you find that one [love], it's like putting a spice in a great dish—suddenly everything's enhanced. I didn't know it could taste so good."
Now what makes her happiest is to see "10 people sitting at my table, eating a meal I prepared." Other nights, she and Lieberthal might join Baranski and her spouse for burgers and martinis or go out with Cumming and his husband. "Dancing is often involved," Cumming says. "And show tunes." Or Margulies and Lieberthal might invite friends to their country house. "We cooked a great pasta together there once," Charles says.
She's open to having another baby, but: "Ticktock, as they say. It's not for lack of trying. But we always say, if it happens, great, and if not, great. There's no pressure."
Well, maybe a little pressure. One recent morning, Kieran walked Margulies to the elevator and said, "Mama, when you come home, bring me a brother or sister." The memory makes her laugh. "I got in the car and told my driver, 'Joe, I have a really tall order today.'"
Margulies wouldn't be The Woman Who Has It All if she didn't also have this: a genuine appreciation for how lucky she is. If she says "I'm grateful" once, she says it 20 times. "I'm such a different person now than I was in my twenties," she says. "I had all these insecurities—about doing the right thing, about how people would perceive me. It stopped me from having fun, where now I feel comfortable with who I am, no matter who's in the room. I go out and have a good time. Now this is me, take it or leave it."
On her 30th birthday, her mother told her, "Honey, if I only knew how young I was at 60," and Margulies tries to remember that. "When you look in the mirror and see one more line, do you say, Oh God, or do you say, Wow, I've lived? That's the choice you have," she says. "I'm not going to blank out my face. I want people to know what I'm feeling. But I eat well, I work out, I don't go in the sun. I try to maintain what I have with dignity. Every now and then I'll see a rerun of ER and think, Oh my God, what happened to my face!"
She needn't worry—her looks remain so striking that Margulies was signed to be the face of L'Oréal's RevitaLift skin-care line. But she has a clear, persuasive way of seeing her path from ER to the present: "I wouldn't be who I am today if I were back there. That's the beauty of growing up. I feel like everything has fallen into place, so I feel younger than I did in my thirties. I'm in better shape. I have a better understanding of the world. I feel more free. And psychically, the mind relaxes if you let it."
So when she's gotten in at midnight and Kieran wakes up at 2 with night terrors, instead of panicking, she thinks, "I haven't seen him all day. I can't wait to hold that little boy! I run into his room and jump into bed with him and smell his little head. He falls back to sleep in two seconds. I don't, because once I'm up, I'm up." But she's aware that soon her son won't need her as much. "I know in the snap of my fingers he's not going to let me in his room. So I'm taking this moment, and I'm going to embrace it.
"It doesn't mean there aren't days where, the exhaustion, you want to just keel over," she sums up. "My feeling is, if I can do this job and still manage to be a wife and mother and have a life, then I can pretty much do anything." And though, she adds, it took her some time to get here, "I feel this is exactly where I'm supposed to be."
JOHANNA SCHNELLER previously profiled Diane Keaton for More.


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ASK IRA: Are the Heat too undersized at center?
Q: Suddenly, with the Celtics' signing of Shaq, it feels like the Heat are very small, with their tallest player being Magloire at 6-11, and who probably won't play. The Celtics would have Shaq, Jermaine, Perkins, Davis and Garnett, who is 7-foot himself. No matter how good an offensive team this Heat team might be, against such size such as the Celtics have and Lakers have, we will be severely outrebounded, no? — Moshe.
A: I disagree, because I think Wade and LeBron, and to a degree even Miller, rebound very well for their positions. Look, you can't have it all, but I think the Celtics are somewhat of a size exception in the East. And it's not like they will have more than two bigs on the floor at any time. If they did, it would mean Pierce or Allen or Rondo would be off the floor, which actually might favor the opposition.
Q: I'm unconvinced we have the center position covered. I understand that on a team with Bosh, Wade and LBJ that the center's main function will be shot blocking and cleaning up the boards, but even so, it seems we're either undersized or long in the tooth at the 5 position. And who can match up with Dwight Howard or other elite big men? What do you think? – John
A: Again, I think it's all about matchups. Against the Celtics, Magloire will play. Against the Magic, the Heat might even try Udonis' defense against Howard. Look, on most nights the Heat will be overmatched at center. But the opposition also will be overmatched at power forward, small forward at shooting guard. Heck, Michael Jordan's Bulls often were overmatched at center, and they did just fine.
Q: I believe that of the top rotation players, Haslem's playing time will be most fluid. With 'big' frontcourts in place and forming around the league (the ONeal's in Boston, Lakers, Magic, Bucks, etc.), it seems as if Haslem getting minutes at the '5′ is unlikely. Playing Bosh and Haslem together still gives us a smallish front line. So might we see the likes of Joel Anthony getting more minutes per game than Haslem? — Jose.
A: No because the teams you mentioned still are the minority. Now the playoffs could be a different matter, depending on matchups. Remember, the Heat not only has to match up to the opposition, but the opposition has to match up to the Heat.
Q: Now that Shaq is signing with the Celtics, do you see his jersey being hung in the rafters anywhere after retirement? I would think before signing with the Celtics that out of the Magic, Lakers, Heat, Suns, Cavs, and Celtics, the Lakers would have been the one to have retired No. 34. But now that he is a Celtic, will "The Big Bridge Burner" ever have his number retired by the Lakers or anyone for that matter? — York.
A: I still think the Lakers will extend him the honor. The Lakers offered an extravagant ceremony when he first returned to Staples with the Heat. But I do agree that it might only be the Lakers.
Q: I just watched Game 6 of the 2006 Finals again and U.D. had a very good, underrated game in a huge game for the franchise. I don't think it is a stretch to see No. 40 hanging in the rafters one day. — Steve.
A: I believe it will be, almost as a part of him agreeing to return. We're talking a dozen years with the same franchise, once this next contract runs its course.


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Tami is a librarian at the Corte Madera Library.
This is an official blog for the Marin County Free Library.
All branches of Marin County Free Library will be closed on Monday, July 4 for Independence Day.
It's kitten season, and millions of adorable kittens are flooding animal shelters across the country. At this time of the year it's harder for shelters to find homes for their adult cats, but there are many good reasons to adopt an older kitty. Adult cats are calmer and less destructive than kittens. They're litter-box trained, have often had vaccinations, and may already be spayed or neutered. They also adjust more quickly to new surroundings. Finally, while kittens are growing and changing every day, you know what you're getting when you adopt an older cat. Before you bring your new cat home, however, read some suggestions from the ASPCA. Also, check out some books from your local library. To find general information about cats, choose the subject heading Cats in the Classic Catalog. To learn how cats behave, look under Cats Behavior. Finally, if you want to try training your new kitty, you'll find good books under the subject heading Cats Training. For all you cat fans, check out these titles at your local library.


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La Monnaie ¦ MM Extra ¦ 1 FILM / 1 ARTIST ¦ Intro
Olivier Py
Films feed the imagination of certain composers and directors of opera. The Monnaie and the Galeries cinema are once again offering, during the season 2012-2013, regular events which will help you to understand the poetic universe of some of the great contemporary artists that are part of our programme. The idea is a simple one: each guest artist is free to choose one or more films. To accompany the showing of these films the artist will be invited to talk for 45 minutes, explaining and justifying their choice and evoking the personal links they cultivate with cinema in the context of their artistic activities.
Olivier Py proposes Les Yeux fermés. Before the showing of the film Olivier Py will discuss his choice with Camille De Rijck.
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Istvan Anhalt: Pathways and Memory, edited by Robin Elliott and Gordon E. Smith, is reviewed.
[Harry Stuart Somers]' early studies in composition played a major role in shaping his style. In 1941, at age 16, he began compositional studies with John Weinzweig, under whose guidance he learned to compose using serial techniques and developed great skill in writing extended melodic lines (this w...
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Brands, retailers, and agencies tend to build pop-ups for two reasons, said Ilona Taillade, Co-founder and CCO of BrandSpots, a full-service pop-up provider in Europe. The reasons are "1. Pop-ups are a tool to provide feedback and an opportunity to get to know the consumer. 2. Pop-ups are a testing spot to find out what works and what doesn't." I'd also like to add in the reason of getting press.
Since Pop-ups are temporary stores that only last anywhere from one day to five weeks, brands, retailers, and agencies can try anything in the space and see how their shoppers respond. Whether they have physical feedback cards, look at blog posts from bloggers or hope for print publications, Pop-ups are a great space to get feedback. The atmosphere is different from any permanent brick-and-mortar, so shoppers are willing to have a different shopping experience.
Pop-ups can draw in new shoppers and make old shoppers more loyal. No matter what, a Pop-up will tell you who your shoppers are and what new locations you should open in the future. They provide a space where you can test new displays, new environments and new sales strategies.
Overall, Pop-ups are a great way to see what your product offers all the while getting press for it.
Generally, brands, retailers, advertising agencies, brand marketers, and producers are the masterminds of these specialized retail locations. I had the privilege of talking to Lauren Austin and Dani Skoller of MKG, Jared Schiffman of PERCH Interactive, and Chris Cummings of InnoMark Communications to see how each company contributes to the production of a successful pop-up shop.
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Brand marketers, such as MKG, are contacted by brands with certain goals and they have to come up with solutions. The most buzz-worthy solutions Lauren Austin, MKG's Creative Director, and Dani Skollar, a Marketing Associate, talked about were pop-up stores. They ensure press coverage and unique experiences because of highly interactive displays, photo-worthy products and environments, special products and the cultural hub they provide for shoppers.
MKG build creative spaces that bring a brand to life. Since pop-ups are temporary, they can use the latest technologies every time, have popular celebrities stop by and DJ or provide food, and have curated artwork covering the walls. They will do anything to bring more shoppers in and get them sharing about their experience on social media.
One of MKG's beliefs is "audiences like it when brands display 'people-like' qualities such as humor, kindness, and intelligence." An example of their belief brought to life is the Docker's General Store in NYC. With the help of partnerships, MKG humanized the brand and made deeper connections to their shoppers. Just take a look at these photos.
*photo credit: PERCH
This year, we've seen locations in airport terminals, inside stores, and popular shopping streets. To learn more about pop-up locations I talked to Ilona Taillade of BrandSpots. They are "dedicated to providing brands, retailers and advertising/media agencies with a one-stop solution for leasing temporary locations for .. a physical presence in the form of a pop-up shop, outlet or window display in a variety of strategic locations Europe-wide,"says Ilona. She says pop-up stores are the ultimate way to reach a desired shopper.
Since pop-ups are temporary, brands can plant stores wherever they want. The key is to find the perfect space. Ilona says "to get close to the consumer, smaller spaces are more effective. The location of the space is also important. A high street location will have a different impact to that of a space in a shopping centre."
It may be different in the US, but from looking at the pop-up stores this year, Ilona's statements seem true.
This may be my own opinion, hopefully you've learned the same thing through this article, but pop-up stores are more engaging and special. In today's age, we are fighting for shoppers to come into stores because of online offers, but pop-up stores are effective in delivering a different experience. They make the brand come to life. The temporary aspect of the displays simulate the desire of change. So why wouldn't pop-up stores increase in popularity? My speculation is that permanent retail stores will begin to look more like pop-up stores. The price of this change may not produce a desired ROI, but at what point should brands start to want to attract their audience in a different way? Pop-up stores create a buzz that create press, loyal and passionate shoppers, and sales. What more could a brand want.
To take a look at more pop-up stores, please take a look at our Pop-Up Store Pinterest Board.
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