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Justice this week released a 5-song EP including remixes for "New Lands," a track off of 2011′s Audio, Video Disco. The New Lands EP boasts spirit quivering remixes by A-Trak, Sebastian, and Falcon, as well as a live version.
Hit play on the stream below and whip it real good to the Falcon remix. We're bouncing on our imaginary bouncy castle right now and it feels oh so right.
Catch the guys on their North American tour kicking off in August!
Tour Dates
August 3 – Montreal, QC @ Osheaga Festival
August 4 – Toronto, ON @ Historic Fort York
August 5 – Chicago, IL @ Lollapalooza
August 7 – Morrison, CO @ Red Rocks
August 10-12 – San Francisco, CA @ Outside Lands
October 21 – New York, NY @ Hammerstein Ballroom
October 25 – Asheville, NC @ US Cellular Center
October 26-28 – New Orleans, LA @ Voodoo Experience Music Festival
October 28 – Houston, TX @ House of Blues
October 30 – Austin, TX @ Austin Music Hall
October 31 – Dallas, TX @ Palladium Ballroom
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The Stuttgart Chamber of Commerce's sixth annual Mallard Classic Golf Tournament will be held May 10 at the Stuttgart Country Club.
The three-person scramble begins at noon with lunch, provided by Delta Plastics of the South, at 11 a.m.
Cost is $150 per team, and cart rental is available upon request. Hole sponsorship opportunities are also available.
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Naim are touring their NDS at the moment in the UK.
Heard this playing at Acoustica in Chester. System as follows:
252 pre-amp with Supercap power supply
NAP300 power amp with its dedicated power supply
NAC speaker cable
Naim Ovator S-600 speakers
Streamers (all include an on-board DAC):
NDX (£3k)
NDX with 555PS power supply (£9k)
NDS with 555PS power supply (£11k)
First, I really do not like Naim speakers, so this needs to be borne in mind. Having said that, today was the first time (in 4 attempts) that the S-600s actually were tolerable. They have this strange "cardboard" quality to some sounds such as snare and fingers rapping on a guitar body. They also harden up quite quickly, which doesn't complement the immdediacy of the Naim electronics at all.
We heard the NDX stand alone (just OK), the NDX with the 555PS (note that the PS is about 50% more expensive than the streamer) which works very well, and then the NDS with 555PS which was clearly the better sounding streamer, but not such a big improvement as adding the power supply to the NDX.
Within the constraints of the speakers (I know, this is very much a personal thing), each step brought greater clarity, more depth, improved image width etc. etc. But, joy of joys, apart from the stand alone NDX, there was none of that Naim shoutyness that, IMHO, is very tiring and somewhat irritating. Until they played XTC's Making Plans For Nigel on the NDX / 555PS, which was just intolerable.
Would love to hear the electronics with some of the larger B&W speakers in the shop. Maybe we can drop back in again soon when the Naim guy's gone home!
Is the NDS / 555PS a Klimax DS rival? Difficult to say as I've only heard them in the context of their own make systems. But I suspect it will be, as anything that can make a pair of Naim speakers sound tolerable is a major achievement in my book.


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What is vocational assistance?
What do these terms mean?
What is the insurer required to do?
When may an injured worker be eligible for vocational assistance?
What happens if the worker is found eligible for vocational assistance?
What are the types of vocational assistance?
What are the types of training?
What if a training plan is not signed within 90 days?
What is a vocational assistance dispute?
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The workers compensation insurance carrier is responsible for providing vocational
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He or she has a permanent disability caused by the on-the-job injury
He or she cannot return to the job at injury or another job with the employer-at-injury that pays at least 80 percent of the pre-injury wages
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Adjusted weekly wage is the weekly wage the worker was earning at the time
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Reasonable commuting distance is no more than 50 miles one-way modified by
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- The workers pre-injury commute
- The workers physical capacity the worker may have a restriction
preventing a longer commute
- Commuting practices for other workers in the workers geographical
- Distance from the workers residence to the nearest cities or towns,
which offer employment opportunities
Suitable wage
- For the purpose of determining eligibility for vocational assistance,
a wage at least 80 percent of the adjusted weekly wage
- For the purpose of providing or ending vocational assistance, a wage
as close as possible to 100 percent of the adjusted weekly wage
- This wage may be considered suitable if less than 80 percent
of the adjusted weekly wage, if the wage is as close as possible to the adjusted weekly wage
is the insurer required to do?
The insurer is required to contact the worker within five days of:
Receiving a request for vocational assistance from the worker
Receiving a report sufficient to document the worker is likely eligible for vocational
Finding out that the claim qualifies for closure because the worker is medically stationary
(e.g. the workers medical condition is not expected to improve with further treatment
or the passage of time).
The insurer
will determine if the worker is eligible within 30 days of one of the criteria above.
may an injured worker be eligible for vocational assistance?
An injured worker may be eligible for vocational assistance if he or she:
Has an accepted disabling claim or claim for aggravation
Is unable to return or has not been released to regular work or other suitable employment
with the employer at injury or aggravation
Is available in Oregon for vocational assistance (or within commuting distance)
Is authorized to work in the United States
Has a substantial handicap to employment (e.g. the injury prevents the worker from
returning to suitable employment that would pay at least 80 percent of the workers pre-injury wage).
happens if the worker is found eligible for vocational assistance?
If a worker is determined eligible for vocational assistance, the worker and insurer will
agree on a vocational counselor. The worker and counselor will:
Choose a vocational goal
Develop a return-to-work plan, either direct employment or training
Implement the return-to-work plan
Begin the job search
are the types of vocational assistance?
There are two types of vocational assistance: direct employment and training. Direct employment
assistance is provided if the worker can return to suitable employment without training.
It can also be provided after completion of a training plan. A direct employment plan may
Vocational goal selection
Job search skills instruction
Job interview practice
Direct worker purchases: mileage reimbursement, clothing, tools
Job development
If a direct
employment plan will not enable the worker to return to a wage as close as possible to his or her adjusted weekly wage, the worker will need training. A training plan may include:
Vocational goal selection
On-the-job training
Occupational skills training
Formal training
Direct worker purchases: tuition, books, mileage reimbursement, clothing, tools
Job development
A training
plan is usually limited to 16 months. However, the insurer may choose to go up to 21 months
of training for a worker with an exceptional disability or an exceptional loss of earning capacity.
are the types of training?
There are three types of training:
On-the-job training is provided by an employer. It is intended to prepare the
worker for suitable employment with the training employer and for similar employment in
the labor market at large.
Occupational skills training is hands-on instruction in an actual workplace. The course
of study is monitored by a community college and may include academic classes to supplement
skills training activities.
Formal training is classroom instruction provided by a community college or
a licensed vocational school.
What if a training plan is not signed within 90 days?
A return-to-work plan should be a joint effort between the vocational counselor and the injured
worker. If a plan is not approved by the insurer within 90 days, the insurer must contact the Workers
Compensation Division to schedule a conference. The purpose of the conference is to identify
and remove the obstacles to completion and approval of the plan. The insurer or worker may request another
conference with the division if other delays occur.
is a vocational assistance dispute?
A vocational assistance dispute can result from an oral or written disagreement between two
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a written notice. The first step in addressing a dispute is to contact your insurer. If this
does not resolve the matter, you may request help from the Workers Compensation Division.
If your insurer or counselor sent you a warning letter or notified you of a decision you
dont think is right, you must contact the division within 60 days of that letter or notification
to receive help in resolving your dispute.
information should be included in a request for dispute resolution?
To process your dispute as quickly as possible, provide:
The workers current address and telephone number
The reason for the dispute, if connected to a specific notice, include a copy of the
The name and contact information of the workers attorney, if there is one and
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While every effort will be made to keep our college open, on occasion it may be necessary to delay opening or close because of inclement weather. Information regarding the status of opening will be relayed to area television and radio stations, recorded on the switchboard telephone line (276) 638-8777, posted on our website homepage, placed on PHTV Channel 20, and communicated to registered PHCC Alert users. In the case of confusing announcements, the switchboard telephone line, PHCC Alert, our website, or the college cable television channel Cable 20-PHTV will have the most up-to-date information.
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Classes will operate as regularly scheduled regardless of the time the college opens.
For example, if classes begin at 10:00 a.m. because of a 2-hour delay, you will attend your classes as scheduled from 10:00a.m. forward. Any classes missed due to a delay in opening will be given an assignment through the college BlackBoard system. You will no longer attend classes that were scheduled before the college opens. Your instructor will provide you with information regarding assignments during any missed class time.
One question that arises is what would you do if you have a class that begins at 9:30 a.m. and finishes at 10:45 a.m., as an example of a class that begins before the college opens, but ends afterwards. If there is a 2-hour delay in opening the college, you should attend your class beginning at 10:00 a.m., which provides you with 45 minutes of instruction. The general rule is for classes that have 30 or more minutes remaining in their scheduled time, you should attend that class when the college opens. Another example of this is: if your class is scheduled to meet from 9:00 a.m. until 11:50 a.m., you will begin the class at 10:00 a.m. and end at the regularly scheduled time if there is a 2-hour delay in opening. Any questions regarding how this change in policy affects your particular class should be directed to the instructor of your class.
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ZF-10665: Zend_Http_UserAgent may die on serialization
When serializing a user agent, for example, during a unit test for which there is no device, a fatal error is thrown.
Debug Error: D:\Program Files (x86)\Zend\ZendServer\share\ZendFramework-1.11.0\library\Zend\Http\UserAgent.php line 178 - Call to a member function serialize() on a non-object
public function serialize()
{ $spec = array( 'browser_type' => $this->_browserType, 'config' => $this->_config, 'device_class' => get_class($this->_device), 'device' => $this->_device->serialize(), <--- This is the offending call 'user_agent' => $this->getServerValue('http_user_agent'), 'http_accept' => $this->getServerValue('http_accept'), ); return serialize($spec); }
This is presumably due to the fact that I have a user agent resource loading up using Zend_Application during a unit test, for which no device can be found.
This problem is very simple:
_device is *lazy loaded* and initialized in getDevice(). This means that any direct reference to _device will break, even within the class.
The fix can be as easy as using this:
public function serialize()
$spec = array(
'browser_type' => $this->_browserType,
'config' => $this->_config,
'device_class' => get_class($this->getDevice()),
'device' => $this->getDevice()->serialize(),
'user_agent' => $this->getServerValue('http_user_agent'),
'http_accept' => $this->getServerValue('http_accept'),
return serialize($spec);
Would be happy if someone could check this in.
Made a fix patch for René Treffer's fix, and enclosed a unit test in the file: ZF-10665-rtuin.patch
Fixed in trunk r23661 merged to branch release 1.11 r23662.


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By now you've heard the funky New Zealand outfit Sola Rosa more than a couple times. Perhaps you caught their video for "Turn Around" or their remixes with Suff Daddy and TM Juke. Maybe you even got to listen to their new album, Get It Together.
We already know you're bouncing in your seat from inexplicable glee with the crazy groove these people got, so just own that and sit tight for a second. Starting tomorrow, you can take that bouncing to a concert on one of the group's many tour dates. Catch those below!
Tour Dates
November 29th – S.O.B.'s – New York, NY
November 30th – 8 Fifty 8 – Chicago, IL
December 1st – Neumo's – Seattle, WA w/ Orgone
December 2nd – Dante's – Portland, OR w/ Orgone
December 3rd – Blu @ MontBleu Resort – Lake Tahoe, NV
December 6th – Jambalaya – Arcata, CA
December 7th – Brick and Mortar Music Hall – San Francisco, CA
December 8th – AfroFunke @ Zanzibar – Santa Monica, CA
December 9th –Culture Beat Performing Arts Center – Ensenada, Mexico
December 10th -WorldBeat Cultural Center – San Diego, CA
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Darrel wrote:It is amazing and incredible what God can do through a young lady.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmm-0-Rd ... re=related
Each time I see a sign on a bus you will get a e-mail from me
God Bless America
kwlyon wrote:Is this out of context? This really doesn't seem to make since....
Darrel wrote:Fayetteville freethinker friend Carl sent this along, I cannot find it online, anyone have a copy? It's a little newspaper out of Westfork.
"I don't know if anyone has written of the response to the United Core of Reason's signs by Steven Worden, associate professor in the dept. of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the U of A. He wrote a lengthy article titled "The Billboard: A Beacon for Big Foot?" I saw the article in the Washington County Observer on 4/15/10."
Excellently done, PA. Keep up the good work.ProudAtheist wrote:I wrote the following in response to her editorial and sent it twice to the paper, but they have yet to publish it. I'll keep sending it.
It is correct and I will speak out against it.
KAREN: I'm not surprised at all you send money to ACLU.>>
KAR: This is a weak and pathetic way to seek 2 minutes of fame.>>
KAR: So have fun, enjoy your moment. Hope it makes you feel better. >>
LOL!! No, I do not agree at all with you, but I don't expect to agree with you on too much…and I thank God for that, sir. You are too arrogant to believe in anything other than YOU.>>
KAR: That is a very sad, and scary, place to be I'm sure. To have no foundation of faith is to be pitied.>>
KAR: I'll pray for you, and it's my honest hope for you that you find the right path in life, instead of this kind of nonsense. >>
KAR: Please do not email me again.
KAR: Regards and Prayers to you.
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Rachel Greenwald, dating coach and author of Why He Didn't Call You Back: 1,000 Guys Reveal What They Really Thought About You After Your Date, has helped 712 couples find love. Now, she's ready to take on the MORE community. Have a dating question for Rachel? Submit it here.
Dear Rachel,
I'm single at 44 years old, and men who are near my age seem only to be interested in younger women. I'm active and feel very young, and everyone says I look much younger than my age, but when men in their forties can (and do) date women in their thirties, and when they don't even respond to my emails through online dating, it makes me feel ancient! How can I overcome this problem?
Ancient in Atlanta
Dear Ancient,
This is a real issue, and I see it everywhere. Men in their 40's often date women in their 30's (even 20's!); men in their 50's often date women in their 40's (even 30's!). This leaves a gaping hole in the singles arena of fabulous women looking for men near their age. The U.S. Census (2008) echoes this problem: there are 30 million single women and only 20 million single men over 40. Yikes! It reminds me of the lost-sock-in-the-dryer phenomenon: you put two socks in the clothes dryer, but only one sock comes out. Where did the other sock go? And where did all the single men your age go? The answer is that men date younger, and men die younger too.
Okay, so we know the reality and it's unfair, but it's not hopeless. It requires a shift in your thinking to view this problem differently. Instead of asking yourself, "Why do men in their 40's think I'm too old?", you should be asking, "Who thinks I'm young? And who thinks I'm hot?" Now, with these questions, there seem to be two answers: much older men and much younger men. Fifty to 60-year old men think a 44-year old is young, and some men in their late 20's and 30's think a 44-year old is hot.
Now, before you start screaming that you don't want to marry an old man or a baby, consider this core principle from the business world: "You have to sell what people want to buy." If you're trying to sell the most delicious candy bar in the world, but all your customers want to buy ice cream, you should sell ice cream. Sure, there are not many women whose first choice is to marry someone 10+ years older or younger, but if that's the reality of whom you attract, and you really want to find a loving partner, it's better to face it now rather than spend years alone trying to "sell" something few people want to "buy."
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he starts going off on the knicks at about 4:30
From JoeBuddenTV...Jennings is the dude on the phone
he starts going off on the knicks at about 4:30
From JoeBuddenTV...Jennings is the dude on the phone
Scott Skiles is gonna beat the **** out of this dude.
Now maybe people understand why some of us dismissed this guy from the start.
Marbury 2.0
Sadly he's right, but it doesn't change the fact that he's a punk
I'm so happy we didn't take this loudmouthed arrogant POS...
All the talent in the world and an IQ about the same as his shoe size...What a waste...
Yo, King Starbury: this is a picture of the girl you hear Budden talking to in the background. When I heard her name, Tahiriy, I knew it could be no one else.
Her and I worked together, when we were around 20 and 21 (she's a year older). She has a huge butt, it was one of the biggest topics of conversation, when we worked together. Now, after I googled her, I find she's in King magazine, doing a spread.
She's a Dominican chick, by the way, really cool, laid back, down-to-earth. I lost contact with her, after I finished my BA... but I never forgot this...
Good job, Budden.
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Budden's lame ass took the video down....
I told ya he was bitter though
David Stern is ****ting his pants right now, he's got a nutcase that's young, dumb and talented.
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Few textile manufacturers still take the time to process natural indigo or block-print fabrics, but both practices continue to flourish in Rajasthan, India, where this handcrafted bedding is made using techniques that have been perfected over centuries. Bundles of the indigo plant are soaked to extract the vibrant dye, while long sheets of cotton are laid out awaiting the color. With hand-carved wooden blocks, a wax resist is applied to the fabric. When dyed, the wax areas remain white while the rest takes on the evocative hues of midnight, lapis lazuli, and cerulean that all begin with the tropical indigo plant.
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During 1920s India, Mahatma Gandhi promoted cottage textile production as a means for rural Indian self-employment. Resisting the import of foreign-produced cloth became a touchstone of the freedom struggle, and even the flag adopted by the Indian National Congress in 1931 features a spinning wheel as its main insignia. Today, sixty years after India's independence and as the country rises in the global economy, workshop-produced textiles remain an important local industry in rural communities, and they struggle to stay productive alongside large-scale Indian-owned manufacturers.
The Jaipur family who makes this indigo bedding has been doing so in the textile town of Sanganer for more than 200 years. Here people specialize in the use of alizarin, indigo, and a range of vegetable colors. The elderly father oversees the dye vats and production, while his sons keep the books and learn the skills they will need to take over the business.
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Most of the furnishings in the dining room of Sam Wyly's Aspen, Colorado, condominium do not reflect his own taste. His wife, Cheryl, did the decorating. A pair of portraits of grim-faced children flank the dining room table. They were bought in Prague. The table itself, a hulking 12-seater carved from a reclaimed barn door, came from Mexico. A curving staircase leads from the front door to the dining space, and it is lit by a massive spotlight that hangs from the ceiling. It was found on a Hollywood salvage lot and dates to the 1930s, the same decade in which Sam was born.
"Ah, but this is more my style," he says, as he leads me away from the dining table, through a corridor, past a study, and to a landing at the top of yet another stairwell. There he points to a framed tattered flag that bears a resemblance to the Stars and Stripes. Sam lets out a high-pitched giggle, the one that often punctuates his speech, and he asks mischievously, "Would you have ever guessed that this is a Confederate flag?"
It's a battle flag that was flown by a Texas infantry regiment in the Civil War. Sam's maternal great-great-grandfather, Edward Sparrow, was a Confederate senator who fought with Louisiana regiments. He also built a plantation called Arlington, which the family still owns. It's where Sam married Cheryl, his third wife, in 1994.
On the wall of Sam's office, which lies just beyond the stairwell with the Confederate battle flag, there hangs a photograph of the couple posing in front of Arlington. And in the couple's home on Beverly Drive in Highland Park, there's a painting they commissioned called Moonlight and Magnolias, in which they are seen dancing at Arlington during a Civil War-era ball. They are wearing Gone With the Wind garb—she in a hoop skirt, he in the gray uniform of a Confederate general.
"And there's our buddy George," Sam says, giggling again and pointing at a small photo of himself with George H.W. Bush. The 41st president was one of 192 Republican candidates and causes that Sam and his older brother, Charles, have backed with their money, contributing about $10 million, by their own estimates. That total dates from 1968, when Sam directed Richard Nixon's election effort in the state of Texas. He stopped working in politics shortly thereafter but kept writing checks, including those that supported the elder Bush in his 1988 win and his 1992 loss. "I was friends with George, and I was very good friends with Ross Perot," Sam says. "I had a heck of a decision. Two friends running for president. But we stuck with George." With both Georges, actually. The Wylys were among the bigger donors to George W. Bush during his presidency. Indeed, Wyly money was pivotal to the younger Bush's securing the GOP presidential nomination in 2000.
But during George W.'s final term, the Wylys were forced to stop giving money directly to candidates. They discovered that their cash was no longer welcome in Washington, D.C., thanks to a public inquiry into their finances conducted by the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which came on the heels of a less public Securities and Exchange Commission investigation.
The latter investigation led to an SEC lawsuit filed against the Wylys in the summer of 2010. It alleges that the brothers knowingly sought to bypass securities disclosure laws through a complex system of offshore trusts and shell corporations. It also claims the Wylys engaged in an insider trade, buying up shares of Sterling Software, a company they had spent a decade building into a giant, right before the firm was put up for sale. The SEC says that trade netted the brothers more than $31 million in profits that it wants returned. Add in the other allegedly improperly disclosed trades made offshore, and the SEC seeks a total of $550 million. To put that in perspective, that's the amount the SEC got from Goldman Sachs in 2010, the largest penalty ever imposed on a Wall Street firm. It's also half of what Forbes estimated was Sam Wyly's total net worth in 2011, when the magazine ranked him the 393rd richest man in the world.
The SEC's case against the Wylys is made all the more unusual because it seeks money from a dead man. Sam and Charles had been inseparable, from their childhood growing up in a Depression-era farmhouse in rural Louisiana; to their playing days on a high school football team that won the state championship; to their five decades in business together, building two billion-dollar companies, Sterling Software and Michaels Stores—even to their joint choice of Aspen as a summer vacation spot. That's where Charles died in August 2011, when an SUV T-boned his Porsche 911 Targa as he tried to cross a highway. Five months later, the SEC won an unprecedented court decision that allows it to seek payback of any illicit gains from Charles' estate.
"I miss him," Sam says. "I miss him every day. I still feel the pain when I drive down where the car wreck was. It's hard to drive down that way."
You know what's not hard for Sam Wyly? Being locked out of Washington, facing a $550 million lawsuit by himself, and trying to clear his brother's name. If you thought this fight would consume the billionaire, maybe cost him sleep, cause him to pace around his Aspen condo in the middle of the night while trying not to run into that huge wooden table or get freaked out by those creepy kid paintings, then you thought wrong. Not only is Sam Wyly sleeping well, he's hardly thinking about the lawsuit at all.
When I met Sam Wyly in late fall, it was the first sit-down interview he'd done since his brother's death (and he'd talked about the allegations of offshore misdealings only two other times, with the Dallas Morning News in 2006 and with the New York Times in 2010). I had already talked with Charles. We met for what would turn out to be his last interview, in his Crescent Court office, three months before his death. The accident happened only a few miles from Sam's seven-bedroom, 7,000-square-foot, $7.6 million downtown Aspen condominium. Well, technically Sam doesn't own the condo. His wife, Cheryl, owns it. Or, rather, the Cheryl R. Wyly Marital Trust owns it.
According to that 2006 report from the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, the Wylys' condos were part of more than $80 million in U.S. real estate purchased using funds Sam and Charles had transferred to a network of offshore trusts that stretched from the Cayman Islands, in the Caribbean, to the Isle of Man, in the Irish Sea. The Senate's Democratic investigators say $1 billion in Wyly money was shipped offshore between 1992 and 2005. Much of that was in the form of stock and stock options and warrants the Wylys received as compensation for their roles as directors of Michaels Stores and Sterling Software. The trusts took possession of the stock. In exchange, the Wylys got annuities that paid them a set amount of money over a long term. That setup bought the brothers a massive tax deferment. The Senate subcommittee's chairman, Carl Levin, a Democrat from Michigan, says the Wylys' offshore system helped them avoid paying $300 million in federal taxes over 13 years.
Levin's investigators also implied that the Wylys intended to undermine and circumvent U.S. tax laws with their offshore network of 58 trusts and dummy corporations. But despite pouring through more than 1.5 million pages of Wyly documents and issuing subpoenas to most of the Wyly associates who oversaw the offshore network, the subcommittee's investigators failed to deliver anything that could convince the IRS to take action against the Wylys. In fact, the Wylys' attorneys say the IRS never notified them that it was even looking into the brothers' offshore network.
"We got invited to the hearing," Sam recalls, now sitting at his desk, framed by a window offering a spectacular view of mountains splashed with bright yellow Quaking Aspen trees. "And you know who qualified for it? The Democrats picked me and the Johnson Band-Aid guy to be up there, and the Republicans picked the biggest Democratic fundraiser at the time, whose name I've forgotten. But why would we go out to Washington? So we could get beat up on all day long? Instead, I watched it from here."
He ends the sentence with that giggle. It's a reflex, the giggle, a quirky habit like the one he has of repeatedly brushing back his longish brown-gray hair when he's telling a long story. The New York Times, in its 2010 story on the SEC case, said the high-pitched giggle makes Sam seem "a little bit manic." I respectfully disagree. The giggle, the hair flip, the way he shouts—squeals, practically—down the curving staircase when his daughter Lisa and her son enter the door, "Oh! It's my genius daughter and my genius grandson!" it all just makes Sam Wyly seem completely at ease with himself. And happy. Crazy happy. Which is about the very last thing you'd expect from a man whose name, and that of his dearly departed brother, has been dragged through the mud for the past six years and whose fortune—which, no one would disagree, he took extraordinary measures to protect—is now at risk. A Dallas-based business colleague of Sam's told me before I arrived in Aspen, "Sam's a weird duck." That's one way to put it.
Sam's religious beliefs also help explain his generally sunny disposition. Sam's mother, Flora, a onetime New York dancer, was an early devotee of Christian Science, which was founded in 1879 by Mary Baker Eddy. Every Sunday morning when the brothers were growing up, Flora would take Sam and Charles to the nearest Christian Science church, some 40 miles from their house in Lake Providence, Louisiana.
In accordance with the teachings of "Mrs. Eddy," as he calls her, Sam knows that Charles isn't gone. Though Sam's eyes well with tears when he speaks of his brother, Christian Science teaches him that Charles' spirit lives on. This is not in the Pearly Gates sense that other Christians think of, but in a sort of Zen, oneness-with-the-universe sense. Christian Science teaches that life, the physical manifestation of it, is an illusion. The only reality is spiritual reality. That's why some Christian Scientists believe you can and should pray away pain rather than take medicine or submit to surgery. To them, the feeling of pain is simply the presence of evil, or the "error" of the universe, which has fooled us into believing in our physical existence when we really exist only on a spiritual plane. In more secular terms, think of it like the Matrix.
Sam references Christian Science often during our conversation and, without being asked, gives me an overview of why the religion is important to him. In his autobiography, he wrote: "What I got from my spiritual training is much more than whether or not to take aspirin. I learned to focus on spirituality, on mental power as opposed to material power, and I developed a philosophy of individual empowerment. ... Mrs. Eddy taught me always to be positive. She wrote, 'Stand porter at the door of thought,' not to accept negative ideas from others."
A small writing desk sits in the corner of Sam's office. Given his frequent references to Mrs. Eddy, its provenance is a curious one. It belonged to Mark Twain, who, three years before Mrs. Eddy's death in 1910, wrote "Christian Science," a series of scathingly satirical essays on the religion. But Sam has an affinity for Twain because he traced his family's lineage to the master American wordsmith (and also to Andrew Jackson, Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett, Sam Houston, Ulysses S. Grant, and Teddy Roosevelt, which would also make him related to Teddy's fifth cousin, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, though no one talks about that last connection). To accompany the desk, Sam commissioned a portrait of Twain. On the day of my visit, the valuable antique isn't displayed as a museum piece. It's being used as, well, a desk. It's covered with scraps of paper that have hand-written calculations on them, plus a few printed pages that look like invoices, a Hewlett Packard Reverse Polish Notation Calculator, and several stacks of books—but only two different titles.
One is Texas Got It Right!, which was penned by Sam and his son Andrew. Released to stores last year, the book is a treatise on the Lone Star State's entrepreneurial spirit and the prowess of its limited government. The other book is The Wyly Family: Coming to America, Vol. 1, a gold-leaf, leather-bound tome that's part American history textbook, part compendium of personal anecdotes from Sam, and part Wyly family yearbook. Every year, Sam assembles his large family—six kids, 12 grandchildren, two great-grandchildren—and takes them on a trip. They are pictured in Aspen, Dallas, Paris, Malibu, Milan, on ski slopes and sandy beaches and at backyard barbecues. Sam wrote The Wyly Family and is already at work on the next two volumes. "I don't know if my grandkids are interested in it," he says. "But I hope they are."
This is how he spends his days now: sorting through boxes of family photographs. What he is most definitely not spending his days on is the case that could cost him and his kids and their kids a quarter of the fortune that it took the Wylys a lifetime to build. "I almost never think about that," Sam says of the SEC case. "We have people to handle it. And I've always known we had nothing to fear. But it is a burden. It is costly. It has cost money for a long time."
The meter started running on November 16, 2004. That Tuesday, two weeks after George W. Bush thumped John Kerry in the presidential election, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office opened its investigation into the Wylys' offshore network. The SEC investigation opened around the same time. But, a year later, the Manhattan DA's investigation was dropped after the Wylys filed securities disclosures restating some of their holdings in Michaels Stores. In those filings, the brothers declared that they were the beneficiaries of offshore trusts that controlled a significant percentage of Michaels' stock.
The restatement didn't end the SEC investigation. And six years later, after Barack Obama was elected and installed his own SEC commissioner, the agency filed suit against the Wylys. There was discussion of a settlement, but it was brief, according to Sam's longtime attorney, William Brewer of Dallas-based Bickel & Brewer. "My clients declined to resolve the case on any basis that in any way would damage the reputations they had established over the course of a lifetime," Brewer says.
The Wylys have the money to protect that reputation. "Some SEC settlements happen when people simply don't have the resources to fight," says Wayne State University Law School securities law expert Peter Henning, one of the few academics who has closely followed the SEC's arcane case against the Wylys. "But the Wylys do. They can match the SEC dollar for dollar, lawyer for lawyer."
Maybe that's why Sam is so unruffled about the whole mess. Maybe the mere fact that he can afford to fight the case for as long as it takes explains why he rarely addresses it in the family meetings he has with his kids every 60 days. "We talk about the case maybe only once every four meetings," Sam says.That works out to once every eight months. "There's nothing to say, really," he continues. "We trust the firm to handle it. And I've always known we had nothing to fear. The government is going to make a lot of noise, but they are going to lose."
How can he be so sure? I agreed not to ask either Sam or Charles about the specifics of the case. But Brewer says the brothers have been confident of victory because they are certain of their innocence. Of course, that's exactly what you'd expect someone to say if you're paying him $1,000 an hour to say it. What you might not expect Brewer to say is that he basically agrees with the SEC. Everything the SEC claims the Wylys did? Brewer says they did it. With one big exception: the SEC leads off its lawsuit by alleging that the Wylys engaged in a "fraudulent scheme to hold and trade tens of millions of securities of public companies while they were members of the boards of directors of those companies, without disclosing their ownership and their trading of those securities." Swap "fraudulent scheme" for "plan," and add "trusts" after the word "their." Yes, that's exactly what happened, according to Brewer.
"The battleground here is over intent," Brewer says. "What happened is not in dispute."
The way the Wylys see it, they did set up a system of offshore trusts that was intended to defer their tax burden and spread out their assets so that creditors, litigators, the government, or whoever couldn't take away everything they'd spent a lifetime earning. And they see nothing wrong with that
"I pay a lot of taxes," Sam says. He claims he's paying 39.6 percent of his annual income to the federal government every year and another $86,000 to the Highland Park School District. The school taxes he doesn't mind so much, but the federal taxes rankle him. He says if he could reduce that amount, he'd be able to give more to charity. A source in Dallas I spoke with who has worked with both Sam and son Evan Wyly on various business ventures, including as a competitor, puts it more bluntly. "Sam Wyly is the most tax-averse bastard you've ever met," the source says.
Tax aversion is one reason the Wyly brothers began moving their money offshore. This was in 1992, back when few individuals were using offshore trusts for tax deference. But the Wylys, according to the Senate subcommittee's 2006 report, enlisted the advice of attorney David Tedder. He told them they could establish offshore trusts that would exchange the Wylys' stock market holdings for annuity payments, small payments made over a long period of time. This setup would allow the Wylys to avoid capital gains taxes on their stock shares because, in a legal sense, the Wylys would no longer own them. The catch: the Wylys could not exercise direct control over the trusts—which is what the SEC alleges they did. But "control" is a legally ambiguous concept.Here's an oversimplification of how offshore trusts work: you live in the United States and have an asset. Let's say it's a share in Company X's stock. You transfer legal ownership of that asset to a trust that is based, say, on the windswept Isle of Man, which is about 100 square miles smaller than Dallas and has a population of just under 80,000. The trustee, a resident of the Isle of Man who likely works for a trust-processing company that represents corporations and individuals all over the world, is responsible, then, for managing that trust in ways that are in the best interest of the trust's beneficiaries. The beneficiary might be a charity. The Salvation Army, perhaps. Or it might be you. Legally, you are allowed to suggest what the trust should do with that share of Company X. Sell it, maybe, and use the cash to buy real estate. Maybe a nice condo in Aspen. And while the trustee is under no legal obligation to follow your recommendation, it seems logical that he would, lest he lose you as a client, get fired from the trust management company, and have to go back to herding sheep.
Sam's attorney, Bill Brewer, says the Wylys didn't exercise any undo control over their many, many trusts. That's why he doesn't disagree with the facts in the case as the SEC sees them. The Wylys did put millions of shares of stock in the hands of trustees in the Isle of Man, and they did ask those trustees to do things such as buy Sam's wife, Cheryl, a $622,000 ruby and Charles' wife, Dee, a $759,000 emerald necklace and, in May 2002, Norman Rockwell's original Rosie the Riveter painting for $4.96 million—the highest price ever paid for a Rockwell. If you're ever in Bentonville, Arkansas, you can go see it. In 2009 the painting was sold by the Wylys, for an undisclosed price, to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, which was founded by Alice Walton, daughter of Sam's business hero, Sam Walton.
You can read all about those kinds of transactions, dozens of them, in the Senate subcommittee's 2006 report, "Tax Haven Abuses: the Enablers, the Tools, and Secrecy." Of the report's 370 pages, 217 were devoted to the Wylys' offshore system. On Capitol Hill one early spring day in 2011, when Charles was still alive, I spoke with someone close to the subcommittee's investigation who told me that the Wylys' system was "amazing in its breadth and complexity." The SEC uses similar language.
But Brewer says the system was "de rigueur" and says you can get an "off-the-shelf primer" that shows nearly an exact overlay of what the Wylys set up. To prove his point, he
sends me a copy of the American Bar Association's 543-page Asset Protection Strategies: Planning With Domestic and Offshore Entities, Volume 1, which does, indeed, describe establishing trusts that resemble the Wylys'. That book was published in 2002, a decade after the Wylys started their offshore trusts. It's not a stretch, then, to say that the Wylys wrote the book. Or at least they pioneered the process on which the book was based.
Tedder, the first attorney to help the Wylys avoid taxes (he later went to prison for unrelated fraud charges), told Sam and Charles from the very start that swapping their shares in Michaels and Sterling Software for annuities was "rather novel." But Sam has a long history of masterminding novel financial plans. It was Sam, after all, who first built Sterling Software into a multibillion-dollar giant by buying up competitors, teaching himself the art of the hostile takeover in the process. It was Sam who opened what became the $8 billion Maverick Capital hedge fund at the start of the 1990s bull market, and who founded power reseller Green Mountain Energy even before power deregulation happened in Texas. It was Sam who established a forerunner to the internet with his Datran company, which in the early 1970s got computers talking to each other through a series of microwave towers. Actually, forget the internet. What Sam Wyly was doing in the era of bell-bottoms and polyester was pioneering the wireless internet. And it was also Sam who was, and still is, a supporter of junk bond king Michael Milken. In his autobiography, 1,000 Dollars and an Idea, Sam calls Milken, who was sent to prison for securities reporting violations, "a brilliant guy," insisting, "The world owes a debt of gratitude to Mike Milken and his creative team." Certainly the Wylys do. Their $6 billion deal to sell Michaels Stores—a chain they bought when it had just six stores and that eventually expanded to more than 1,000—was leveraged with $4 billion in the very kind of junk bonds that Milken popularized.
So novel offshore trusts didn't scare Sam Wyly. Charles went along, too. To begin, they followed Tedder's basic model. They set up three trusts, named Bulldog, for the mascot of Sam's alma mater, Louisiana Tech University; Pitkin, for the Colorado county that's home to Aspen; and Tallulah, for the crosstown rivals of Delhi High School, where Sam and Charles won the state football title in 1951. Had they stopped there, had they never ventured beyond Tedder's initial advice, the SEC might never have gotten involved. But once they were through the loophole in the U.S. tax code, Sam and his army of lawyers got to work expanding it.
What started with a handful of trusts and shell corporations grew until it reached 58 (although they weren't all operating simultaneously). That large number allowed the Wylys to spread their stock holdings to dozens of different trusts. That's where the SEC's problems with the Wylys begin. Though each trust held just a small percentage of shares in Michaels and Sterling, all the trusts combined held a significant portion of the outstanding stock in the companies. At their peak, the trusts held 36.7 percent of Michaels and 33.7 percent of Sterling Software, the SEC says. Normally, that would mean the Wylys would have to report each and every transaction they executed in those stocks, because SEC disclosure rules require corporate directors to declare any trading activity if they hold more than 5 percent of their company's shares. But since the Wylys didn't, in their view, own the shares held by the trusts, they didn't make those disclosures. Hundreds of times over, for stock holdings worth tens of millions of dollars, they didn't make those disclosures.
Was that an attempt to dupe the regulators and investors in the companies, or was it simply a brilliant asset protection strategy? A court will eventually, someday, perhaps decide that. In any case, Charles Wyly died believing that all of the allegations against him and his brother were "almost embarrassing."
It was Charles, not Sam, who served as the Wylys' public face, both in charitable and political giving. He was soft-spoken and less defiant than his brother. He was also more wounded by the tenor of the SEC's allegations. "When the government comes down on you, you feel the shock of it," Charles told me in May of 2011. "For the government to develop a theory that we intended to do something wrong just goes against the core basis on which we have operated. Sam and I were really leaders in good corporate governance. We really strived to have good board procedures. And legal compliance is right up there with good governance. They may be looking back in hindsight and constructing a theory that there was something malicious about it all, but they'll realize there was not. We never intended to cross any line."
That's the key. Again, as Brewer says, "The battleground here is over intent."
The SEC doesn't want devious corporate directors to be able to hide their holdings in their company's stock overseas, where regulators and investors won't know what's being done with it. That's not new. But with this case, the SEC reaches further. It hopes this case can expand the definition of what is "material" when it comes to the actions of corporate directors. "Materiality," roughly defined, is information that might matter to an average investor, information that might make that investor buy or sell shares if he learns the information when the directors of a company know it. Insider trading cases are built on "material" matters.
And the insider trading charge the SEC has levied against the Wylys suggests the brothers decided to sell the company and then went out and quietly bought up millions of shares in Sterling Software through their offshore trusts. The Wylys contend their Sterling purchases came months before the company's board even discussed a sale or hired an investment bank to explore if one were feasible. And, therefore, the Wylys say their decision to sell the firm before they bought all that stock was immaterial. Because, after all, why would an investor care what the Wylys thought if they hadn't acted on those thoughts?
The SEC thinks otherwise. "If I think a company should be taken over, who cares?" Wayne State's Henning says. "But if I'm the CEO or the chairman of the board, people do care. But is everything material? To describe materiality as a gray area frankly overestimates the clarity of the law. It's much murkier than gray. And this case could make it even less clear."
Indeed, even the judge in the case has called the SEC's attempt to redefine materiality in this case a "novel" concept.
The tone of the $550 million lawsuit wasn't the only thing that bothered Charles. He was also disappointed that this case, and the Senate subcommittee investigation before it, had made Wyly money worthless in Washington. The brothers had spent three decades not only as top donors themselves but as donors who could rally others to the Republican cause. Then they became outcasts. John McCain returned $20,000 the brothers gave him for his 2008 presidential campaign, and Democrats called on others to do the same. So the Wylys stopped donating directly to candidates. "I didn't want to give a sense that we were trying to influence people in our favor," Charles told me. "We also didn't want to do anything that might be embarrassing to any office holders. We weren't prohibited from doing it. It just seemed like good manners not to."
For Sam, though, it wasn't just good manners. It was also a lack of interest.
"I had really sort of enjoyed the political stuff," Sam says. "I enjoyed having dinner at the White House. But after a while, we'd done that. I'd had dinner at the White House. My kids had had dinner at the White House. I'd done it. But, mostly, I didn't much care anymore. I didn't want to make a plane trip out to Washington again."
There are more than a few people in Washington who would be thrilled to hear that. The Wylys came to be reviled among some Democrats for their big-money support of successful GOP candidates and, especially, for the cash they put into two sets of attack ads. In 2000, at a critical moment in the Republican primaries, Sam funded Republicans for Clean Air, a group that was pretty much just him. He spent $2.5 million on TV ads assailing McCain's environmental record and praising George W. Bush's green bona fides. Four years later, both Sam and Charles were among the donors to Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, the group that questioned Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry's war record. "The Wylys put a target on their back the minute they tried to kill McCain's campaign," one Democratic Congressional staffer who was close to the Senate subcommittee told me. "And when they tried to kill John Kerry's candidacy, people started talking about payback."
The SEC declined official comment, beyond pointing to the case filing itself. But one SEC source denies any connection between the case and the Wylys' politics. "The SEC is not a political hit squad," the source says.
No matter. Sam still believes that politics played a role in the SEC's bringing the case six years after it opened an investigation and 18 months into Obama's presidency. "But," Sam says, "I think after a while it's just a bureaucracy thing, and it continues on its own weight. The names on the case file may change, but the case continues."
That statement bolsters Sam's claim that he's not paying close attention to developments in the case against him. Both officials who conducted the investigation into the Wylys' offshore network, Martin Zerwitz and James Lee Buck, who is a deputy assistant director of the commission, are still with the SEC. And Zerwitz is still active in trying the case. His name was on the motion that the judge granted in January of last year to add Charles Wyly as a defendant. Suing a dead man is a first-of-its-kind move in an SEC case, says Thomson Reuters legal columnist Alison Frankel, who dubbed it "zombie litigation."
But most of what has been written about the Wylys in the wake of the SEC suit has not been as friendly to the brothers. Barry Ritholtz, a Washington Post columnist who is one of the country's top economic and business commentators, said of the Wylys, "If there are two bigger scumbags in the state of Texas, I am unfamiliar with them."
Surely Sam is bothered by those kinds of things that have been said and written about him and his brother. Right? Well, no.
"I learned at about 17, when I was running for class president and somebody was bad-mouthing me that you really can't be bothered by what other people are chatting about,"
Sam says. "I realized then that I can't control what other people say. So I just won't be offended. I'll just let it go by."
And what about the stain that this case has left on Charles' legacy? How will people now see that theater in the Dallas Arts District that bears his and his wife's names, the one they donated $20 million to build? Sam thinks about it for a second. He can launch into a lengthy story about a photograph he just found that dates to 1960, when he lived in an apartment on Abbott Avenue and was a neighbor of Jack Ruby's. But the question about his brother leaves him with little to say.
"I just always had trouble with the legacy question," Sam says, doing his hair flip thing. "You just do the things you like to do. And I'm proud of the things we've done."
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I like to give a helping hand, I gather up the feathers,
It's really all our pheasant plucking keeps us pair together.
Sounds like a great weekend. Hoping to make one of Carla's get togethers soon.
Will you be reciting the pheasant plucking song at your next supper club?!
There should be a warning before that pheasant plucking post - BEWARE not for the faint hearted or those that hate birds so much seeing them so close up may make you queasy... :)
great idea! i am totally going to do that. 5 pounds and my own pheasants? YES.
Oh my, how wonderful for you, making a dream come true. The bird photographs are one step too far for me though, I'm afraid!
Love the latte art because I am a devoted coffee fan and try to only go to places where they are passionate about coffee.
Great posting - good luck with more supper clubs.
Craig, I was going to perform the pheasant song, but now that you've ruined the surprise, will have to change my plans ...
Sorry for the gory photos Soph & Margaret!
Check it out Mei - now that you've conquered haggis, nothing can get in your way!
What a great weekend. I totally agree with you that Melbournians know how to put on a decent brekkie!
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In other words, Lent prepares us to share the victory of Life and to live as the People of Life. Lent is the time when we learn more deeply why we are pro-life. Turning away from sin means we put God above our "freedom of choice." Believing in the Gospel means we believe in life, and reject the forces of death, including abortion.


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Which of the 4 do you prefer in your methods of listening to music
Vinyl records
Compact Discs
Cassette Tapes
Which of the 4 do you prefer in your methods of listening to music
Vinyl records
Compact Discs
Cassette Tapes
Ah, now an interesting topic!
Well for me, I download alot of music. But that said I own over 100+ CD's that's still growing.
When It comes to a band I really love (e.g. LP) I have to own each one of their albums. Not only just to have it physically, but as for a backup, the artwork, CD quality audio - that I can rip, re-rip for an unlimited amount of time. that i can transfer to my phone & multiple hard-drives etc. Now to me that's worth the money when its a band you really love.
But I'd NEVER buy music off iTunes, or any other digital music store just because your buying something that with a few clicks could be deleted forever. & buying something that you don't have physically just doesn't seem value for money. So when i get into something new, I either download it (via utorrent), or listen to them on spotify.
And if it turns out I love the music, I buy the CD's.
As for Vinyl & cassettes, they where a little out of my era, But that said, I love listening to my dad's vinyls. There's something about putting them on the deck and placing the needle on the record. I for see myself getting into vinyl collecting when i'm older, judging by how popular its becoming again.
Formerly known as 1996_LP
I love the warm organic sound of Vinyls. Nothing can beat Vinyls; they're simply amazing. CDs are a close second though. Sometimes CDs are better than Vinyls.
Mp3s are a third ,and I hate cassettes. The sound is horrible.
I've always loved listening to music straight off of CDs instead of an MP3 download. It just feels better.
Download the album. If I like it, buy the CD. If I REALLY like it, buy the vinyl. If they don't have vinyl, buy the CD and get it in FLAC. Well, really, get it in FLAC either way.
I am not Mike Shinoda.
There's just something about vinyl that makes the music feel that much more real. Like I own most of NIN's records on vinyl. It's definitely not a decision I regret.
Vinyls kick ass. There's something about the medium that makes the music sound so much more whole.
320kbps mp3
FLAC only if I want a lossless, perfect copy that I can save in my music archives till the end of time. The human ear can't tell the difference between FLAC and 320kbps, so unless I really love the album and want to have FLAC so I can compress it to whatever I want later down the road, I just get 320kbps and save a ton of space. The only bad thing is you can't do any compressing with an mp3 file without audibly lowering the quality. That's why a lossless copy can be really nice to have.
CD for special occasions. 320 kbps MP3 otherwise.
FLAC is a pointless waste of space considering that a MP3 of high enough quality is barely distinguishable from it. It's incompatible with a lot of software and a collection of FLAC will take up more size. Annnnnnnnd trav beat me to that point but I don't care.
In the land of TH3 bliind, the one eyed troll is Queen ♏ ⊙◡⊛
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I always feel like I can hear the difference between a high enough bitrate MP3 and a FLAC. Maybe I'm just a picky motherfucker, but it sounds better. Definitely so when the FLAC is taken from a vinyl.
The plural of 'vinyl' is 'vinyl'. Not 'vinyls'.
320 and FLAC sound the same unless you have some ridiculous sound system. Most DJs use 320. I like to have my music in V2, but I don't have what.cd download rights anymore so I just stick with whatever I find.
I always prefer CDs. I don´t care so much when it comes to other artists, but I want to enjoy LP music on CDs, because the sound is just the best. Well, the last time I heard a vinyl was when I was little and I remember that the sound was amazing, but now I don´t have an opportunity to use it.
I don´t think that it is worth to buy a digital version not only because of the sound, but also because I can´t touch it...
I guess that cassete tapes are not preffered nowadays, especially among younger people, because the sound is not good at all. They are nostalgic for me, though, as I used to listen to them when I was a kid.
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Lufthansa Highlights Buenos Aires: My beloved city
I am in love with Buenos Aires. I lived downtown for eight years, from age 25 to 32, and still spend a lot of time here. My home is now 40 kilometers north of the city but like so many others I travel in several times a week. People who live just as far out or even further come day after day to study, to walk, to shop, to visit their psychoanalyst or to take care of all kinds of things. If necessary, I even come in twice a day. I don't mind. And if I did, I couldn't do anything about it because the pull of Buenos Aires is so powerful.
What I love about Buenos Aires? That's a hard one to answer, as hard as making a clear statement about love. Maybe because there's always something happening here. Because it's such a beautiful place – and authentic, too. Or because it has so many theaters, cafés and bookstores, not to mention the trees and parks. Because this city is classical and contemporary all at once. And because waiting somewhere in Buenos Aires there's always a friend I can drink coffee with; or the friend of a friend, or the friend of a friend of a friend.
Today I'm having breakfast at the bar of the Evita Museum in Palermo. I'm sitting in the light-flooded atrium, which is paved with black and white tiles and has a stairway on one side that is almost obscured by a profusion of flowers of every color. Bar and museum occupy a small villa that dates from the early 20th century. The Eva Perón Foundation turned it into a home for destitute women and their children in 1948. You can still feel Evita's presence there today. The museum collection includes some of Evita's clothes, shoes and hats, as well as her letters to her husband, former Argentine President Juan Perón, and some film and sound footage of her.
I admire her for the extraordinary person she was, but most of all the legend she created around her persona. I still have an hour to go till my appointment, so I think I'll take a walk in Parque Tres de Febrero in Palermo, which is just a couple of streets away. As I step into the Poets' Garden there, I glimpse the statues of authors of every possible nationality: Jorge Luis Borges in the company of William Shakespeare, Dante and Alfonsina Storni, to name just a few. At one point, I'm assailed by a sweet scent – the path through the Poets' Garden ends in a large space planted with a fantastic variety of different roses.
I have no time today to go inside but I take the flyer. I'll be back as soon as I can.
I have a lunch appointment at the Jardín Japonés, a restaurant where they serve sushi and other Japanese specialties. I am meeting the producer of my next play, which is based on my novel Yours. We want to talk about where and when it will make its debut. I stay on a little longer after we've said goodbye and wander through the garden. I cross the crooked bridge forming a bright red semicircle that stands out boldly against the surrounding greenery. The goldfish in the ponds seem to get bigger every time I see them.
A lake glitters beyond the garden, and I can see people strolling around, jogging, flashing past on inline skates. Some do gymnastics or yoga, others are learning to dance the salsa. I would love to join them but have other plans. I cross over to the Eduardo Sívori Museum of Fine Arts to see what's on.
I sit down in the sunshine, open the book I've brought along – Deaf Sentence by David Lodge, one of my favorite writers – and read. It's afternoon now and I'm heading south to take a look at some silver jewelry for an article I'm writing for the culture journal Lamujerdemivida. I alight on Plaza Dorrego, at the heart of San Telmo district. What a pity it's not the weekend, when the traditional antique market would be in full swing, with street performers, portrait artists, bandoneon players and tango dancers everywhere. I stop in front of a living statue – someone dressed up as Che Guevara. A child places a few coins in his basket. A tourist asks the statue if he can have his photograph taken with him and Che agrees. I visit several silver dealers and make some notes.
Once I have gathered enough information, I stroll over to Puerto Madero. The view of the city from the path running alongside the Rio de la Plata river and the former docks is fantastic. On one side, the horizon is obliterated by some modern, rather bizarre looking high-rise blocks, creating the effect of a luxurious ghost town. Sailing yachts, the footbridge designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, semi-inhabited buildings – plenty of material there for a story I may write some day. I turn my gaze to the nearest building, and there to the only open window. I wonder who lives there, and why, and since when.
My path ends at Fortabat Museum. As always, I go inside to take a look at my favorite artworks: every single one of Antonio Berni's pictures and Pieter Bruegel the Younger's "Census at Bethlehem" – a profoundly literary depiction from which I could draw countless stories. The afternoon is drawing to a close and Puerto Madero is turning cold. Better head back to Palermo.
But which one? Palermo Viejo, Palermo Soho, Palermo Hollywood, Palermo Queens, Palermo Botánico, Palermo Chico? I opt for Palermo Soho because I need to buy a few things: notepads, paper, pencils. Alejandra Pizarnik, one of our greatest poets, is said to have spent all of her prize money from a major literature competition on stationery. I just couldn't do that. At Papelera Palermo I buy a pad with a pretty floral cover, a gold colored pencil, an onion-shaped eraser, and a lead pencil.
The bars on Plaza Cortázar are crowded with people enjoying the evening. I decide to end my day not far from here in another Palermo, Palermo Hollywood.
One of my favorite bookstores is there: Eterna Cadencia. I let my eyes wander over the books on display, the loveliest and best works in the realm of literature. Sitting beneath the bookstore's glass roof, I enjoy my last cup of coffee as the sky darkens. Time to go home. But then I learn that a panel discussion with two of my favorite authors is on the program a little later on: Hernán Ronsino and Carlos Busqued. So I stay. At nine in the evening I head out of Buenos Aires. Right now at least a hundred plays are being performed at theaters around the city, the first tangos are striking up in the milongas, people are meeting friends for dinner. I feel jealous. Buenos Aires never sleeps. It offers everything anyone could want, but first I need a rest. I'm on the highway now, bidding farewell to my beloved Buenos Aires.
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Once a bustling port from which shiploads of emigrants sailed to the United States, Moville is today a lakeside resort on Lough Foyle. St Pius's Catholic Church (1953) is an impressive granite building with a handsome mahogany interior. Moville Green, a seafront promenade with lawns and gardens and sports facilities, extends behind the beaches and the cliffs.


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"This recipe is a favorite with my whole family. The ingredients are a wonderful mix of sweet, salty and spicy." —Jennifer Fridgen, East Grand Forks, Minnesota
- 1 pound beef top sirloin steak, thinly sliced
- 2 tablespoons canola oil, divided
- 1 can (13.66 ounces) coconut milk, divided
- 1 tablespoon red curry paste
- 2 tablespoons packed brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons fish sauce or soy sauce
- 8 cups chopped bok choy
- 1 small sweet red pepper, sliced
- 1/2 cup salted cashews
- 1/2 cup minced fresh cilantro
- Hot cooked brown rice
- In a large skillet, saute beef in 1 tablespoon oil until no longer pink. Remove from skillet and set aside.
- Spoon 1/2 cup cream from top of coconut milk and place in the pan. Add remaining oil; bring to a boil. Add curry paste; cook and stir for 5 minutes or until oil separates from coconut milk mixture.
- Stir in the brown sugar, fish sauce and remaining coconut milk. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; simmer, uncovered, for 5 minutes or until slightly thickened. Add bok choy and red pepper; return to a boil. Cook and stir 2-3 minutes longer or until vegetables are tender.
- Stir in the cashews, cilantro and beef; heat through. Serve with rice. Yield: 5 servings.
Editor's Note: This recipe was tested with regular (full-fat) coconut milk. Light coconut milk contains less fat.
Originally published as Cashew Curried Beef in Taste of Home August/September 2010, p73
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"Have made this with both steak and chicken thighs, sliced thin. I increased paste to 1 1/4 tbl. I also used cabbage instead of bok choy when I did the chicken thighs."
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"I think I would try to add a few things....some garlic, salt, red pepper flakes, ginger? or peanut butter. I did add some broccoli and carrots and that was good."
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"I think I would try to add a few things....some garlic, salt, red pepper flakes? or peanut butter. I did add some broccoli and carrots and that was good."
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"I used the light coconut milk and it worked out great."
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Mount Spalding Climber's Log
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|Long day
Date Climbed: Sep 1, 2007
|Started from West Chicago Creek trailhead, aiming for Mt Evans and Gray Wolf Mountain. Was delayed due to "map" issues, so settled for Mt Spalding and Gray Wolf Mountain instead. It was still a 16.2 mile trek, although through beautiful country.
|Posted Sep 3, 2007 3:29 am
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|great day
Date Climbed: Jul 22, 2007
|great blue sky the whole day! Combined with Gray Wolf.
|Posted Jul 23, 2007 12:34 pm
Date Climbed: Jul 14, 2007
|Tagged en-route to Evans. This was a nicer-looking mountain with better views than Evans, itself, I believe.
|Posted Jul 16, 2007 10:54 am
|from summit lake to evans
Date Climbed: Jun 5, 2005
|short hike from summit lake. 1 hour?
|Posted Jan 24, 2007 3:36 am
|Eric Holle
|Route Climbed: Guanella Pass Date Climbed: November 19, 2006
|Climbed with Grey Wolf Pk. Walked right past Spaulding once on the way to Evans.
|Posted Nov 20, 2006 2:55 pm
|From Summit Lake over Spaulding to Evans
Date Climbed: Jul 23, 1985
|Posted Sep 23, 2006 8:58 pm
Date Climbed: Aug 19, 2006
|Summited with Evans and Gray Wolf. Feet got soaked coming and going through the willows.
|Posted Aug 20, 2006 2:09 am
|From Guanella Pass
Date Climbed: Jul 22, 2006
|The climber's trail through the willows off the main Bierstadt trail seems to be slowly improving, but it's still impossible to keep your feet dry.
|Posted Jul 24, 2006 2:16 pm
|Route Climbed: Part of Tour d'Abyss
Date Climbed: Jul 15, 2006
|Hiked up Spalding on the way to Evans at the end of the Tour d'Abyss.
|Posted Jul 17, 2006 11:45 pm
|Evans Loop
Date Climbed: Jul 16, 2006
|Fun loop from Summit Lake. Great views and will have to head back this way to hit Gray Wolf.
|Posted Jul 17, 2006 6:55 pm
|T Mac
|Summit Ridge
Date Climbed: Jul 9, 2006
|I climbed this twice before driving up Evans. I wish I could comment on the view I had, but it was raining, then sleeting, then snowing. I love Colorado weather! :) Even in the rain, it was a fun short hike. Next time, I hope to go on to Gray Wolf.
|Posted Jul 15, 2006 1:38 pm
|Spalding-Evans loop
Date Climbed: Jun 8, 2002
|Part of a Spalding-Evans loop. Not a bad way to tour the area.
|Posted Jun 15, 2006 1:40 am
|from Evans
Date Climbed: Jun 11, 2006
|Bailed on Bierstadt and hit Spalding instead. Great hike!
|Posted Jun 12, 2006 12:10 am
Date Climbed: Jun 3, 2006
|be careful. listen to Roach. go fast, go early. cornices break
|Posted Jun 3, 2006 6:14 pm
|Ryan Kowalski
|Great as part of a combo
Date Climbed: Sep 17, 2000
|Spalding is best when combined with some other peaks, Gray Wolf, Warren, and Rogers was what we did
|Posted May 19, 2006 11:24 pm
|Unofficial Summit
Date Climbed: Aug 23, 2004
|Too bad Spalding's saddle doesn't rise 300 ft. or more from Evans...than it'd be an official summit. It was still worth visiting!
|Posted Mar 19, 2006 4:02 am
|Mountain Jim
|From Summt Lake
Date Climbed: Jul 5, 1987
|Had to step aside and let some mountain goats get by on the ridge. Total ascents = 2.
|Posted Mar 4, 2006 9:05 pm
|Route Climbed: summit ridge, after sawtooth traverse Date Climbed: July 2002
|A nice stop on the way back to Guanella Pass - worth the brief detour.
|Posted Jan 6, 2006 9:10 pm
|Route Climbed: Via Guanella Pass Date Climbed: August 14, 2005
|Hit Spalding on way to Evans. Saw mountain goats and mule deer...made it worth it considering Spalding wasn't in the original plan :)
|Posted Oct 22, 2005 11:52 pm
|Route Climbed: Summit Ridge Date Climbed: September 10, 2005
|Picked up the summit ridge at the Sawtooth...very windy!
|Posted Sep 10, 2005 6:31 pm