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Butlers in the Buff bare almost all as franchise expands into South Florida
It's more than a mere hire-a-hunk service.
Butlers in the Buff is a male-order company (get it?) where the staff wear butt-baring attire while serving cocktails and hors d'ouevres bringing a wow factor to fundraisers, bridal showers, corporate events, wedding receptions, birthdays and private parties.
The cheeky idea was imported here from the U.K. and Australia by Alexandra Jones, a cosmetologist who discovered the service "..at my best friend's wedding," she said during a telephone interview. "It was the bachelorette party and I thought it was so clever. You know the male stripper thing can be really tacky and embarrassing, but this was fun."
So when Jones and her husband moved to Bradenton she started up the hospitality franchise serving the Tampa-Sarasota-Orlando-Naples area and now she's expanding into South Florida. There was a talent search at Il Bacio restaurant in Delray Beach back in January that yielded plenty of hunka-hunka-burning-love results – guys with the total package, one might say.
"We were looking for guys who are both great looking and with a great personality," said Jones, a mother of two young children. "They come from all walks of life: students, golf professionals, paramedics, restaurant service, electricians. Most of them end up saying to me, 'I can't believe you pay me to do this.'"
Even though the 21-35 year-old guys are outfitted in nothing more than a bow-tie, collar, shirt cuffs and an apron (y'know, in case they're serving hot canapes) it is an outgoing persona that really sticks out…er…stands out at the events say the butlers.
"You make the party," said Billy Kiraly, a 21-year-old who's been with the company almost a year now. "You are the entertainment. I love going out there and talking to people. You really need a personality because without it you're just a waiter with your butt hanging out.
The Boynton Beach resident is a senior at Florida Atlantic University majoring in accounting and says the biggest request -believe it or not – is for photographs. "Everyone wants a picture with the butler. You take so many pictures."
Of course there is a no-touching policy. But clients can ogle all they want, and are encouraged to do so – within the confines of the company's strict handbook, an etiquette and grooming guideline explained Jones, who added that she also makes sure the butlers are comfortable working at gay events.
"I was working this birthday party for a gay gentleman and this guy kept dropping his fork on the floor and asking me to pick it up," laughed Kiraly. "They train you not to bend over. You have to kind of curtsey."
For more information, go to ButlersInTheBuff.com/fl or call (941) 309-5430.


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midcity is the first album by LA hip-hop/noise trio clipping. On midcity, the noisy machinations of William Hutson and Jonathan Snipes (both of whom also made the soundtrack to the acclaimed documentary Room 237) combine with Daveed Diggs' rapping for an innovative, harrowing work of experimental hip-hop.
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2013: Appeared in five games for the Quakers – at Saint Joseph's (9/13), against Pacific (9/22), Lafayette (10/2), UMass-Lowell (10/13) and Appalachian State (10/20).
2012: Did not see any game action.
High School: Lettered four times in field hockey and three times in lacrosse ... Two-year captain of the field hockey team ... Selected to compete at National Futures Championship from 2009-11 ...Competed in 2010 AAU Junior Olympic Games ... 2011 North Carolina East Region Player of the Year ... Named high school team's MVP in each of her last three seasons (2009-11) ... Twice selected to state all-star team (2010-11) ... Three-time all-conference and all-state player (2009-11) ... Led her field hockey team to a share of 2011 North Carolina East Region Championship ... National Honor Society member ... Member of Superintendent's Student Advisory Council ... Keynote Speaker at the 2009 Presidential Youth Inaugural Conference.
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I wanted to create a bachelorette party theme for the girls that like their beer more than their martinis; incorporating all the details of a regular beer tasting with a feminine touch! I found some fun bright bras that I hung from coral satin ribbon with clothing pins painted in one of our theme colors, hot pink. I carried the clothing pins throughout the entire set-up, serving as holders for the beer and food signs. I also cleaned up some old beer bottles and filled them with fresh roses from my yard!
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Verizon Motorola Droid 2 Global specs revealed, including color options
The Motorola Droid 2 Global (previously known as World Edition) is coming soon, that much is clear. And as time goes by (and we're presumably close to its release date), the leaks only intensify.
This time a comparison sheet between the Droid 2 Global, the iPhone 4, the HTC Droid Incredible and the Samsung Fascinate has leaked. This compares some of the most important features of the Droid 2 Global with some of the high-end Android devices currently on Verizon and the iPhone 4 – AT&T's leading smartphone on offer.
As such, it's now more or less confirmed that the Droid 2 Global will come with a 1.2 GHz processor, 5MP camera with LED flash, dual band CDMA, quad band GSM and tri-band UMTS (though the exact bands aren't mentioned, so we'll have to keep on guessing for now), physical QWERTY keyboard plus Swype, 8 GB internal memory and an 8 GB microSD card preinstalled. The device will run Android 2.2 Froyo, will have 3G hotspot functionality, 3 'profiles' to switch between (these seem to be a bit like Sense UI themes), and Flash 10.1 support. It will come in either Winter White (the color that has been shown in live pictures before) or Dark Sapphire.
Exclusive features of the Droid 2 Global will include remote wipe of the device and the SD card, document editing support courtesy of QuickOffice, inbox filtering and the ability to juggle multiple schedules.
Those are all the details for now, but don't worry, a new leak is sure to follow soon. That is, if Verizon and Motorola don't decide to finally officially unveil this phone in the mean time. Anyway, the Droid 2 Global is looking like a winner, spec-wise, and its 'global roaming' ability shouldn't be ignored either.
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Billy Collins is the acclaimed American writer who served as United States Poet Laureate from 2001-2003. Collins, whose last three collections have broken sales records for poetry, has managed to combine high critical acclaim with broad popular appeal. His delightful and accessible style draws people of all ages and backgrounds to his standing room only readings. In Minneapolis, he will read selections from a variety of his work with an emphasis on his new book, "Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems 2003-2013," to be released in October 2013. He will also take questions from the audience and participate in a book signing. Collins will also appear as a guest on Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion" at the State Theatre on Saturday, November 2, the night after his Pantages event.
Collins's work has been published in a variety of periodicals including "The New Yorker," "The Paris Review" and "The American Scholar." He is a Guggenheim fellow, a New York Public Library "Literary Lion" and he has also appeared many times on National Public Radio. He has published eight collections of poetry, including "Questions About Angels," "The Art of Drowning," "Picnic," "Lightning," "Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes," "Sailing Alone Around the Room: New & Selected Poems," "Nine Horses," "The Trouble With Poetry and Other Poems," "Ballistics," and most recently, "Horoscopes for the Dead."
He has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He has also been awarded the Oscar Bluenthal Prize, the Bess Hokin Prize, the Frederick Bock Prize and the Levinson Prize by Poetry Magazine. In October 2004, Collins was selected as the inaugural recipient of the Poetry Foundation's Mark Twain Prize for Humor in Poetry.


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If you were to look in my iPod's history, you would see that I have devoted a wildly disproportionate number of plays to songs from Gin, the 2009 album from American black metal band Cobalt. (To be completely accurate, they call themselves a "war metal" band, which may be a more appropriate designation, but it's also a sub-sub-subgenre with which almost no one is familiar, so for now I'm calling it "black metal" and leaving it at that.) In fact, in numerous places, I named Gin the third best album of last year, and I often think today that it might be even better than that. It is one of the bleakest and most intense records I have ever heard, but it is also diverse and unpredictable and layered, which is rare in any genre, but especially so in black metal, where slavish adherence to form is too often held aloft as some form of musical ideal (or, in the parlance of the genre, "trooth").
Cobalt is a two-piece, originally from Colorado, made up of vocalist/lyricist Phillip McSorley and multi-instrumentalist Erik Wunder. Last year, at the height of interest in Gin, McSorley was frequently projected (by the media, at least) as the face of Cobalt, due in no small part to the fact that he is a sergeant in the U.S. Army who served in Iraq (hence, I guess, the "war metal" tag) and is currently stationed in Manhattan, Kansas. That angle left Wunder (now relocated to Brooklyn) as something of a second banana—a take not supported by the band's instrumental work, which is, in fact, the product of one of the genre's true visionaries.
Man's Gin is Wunder's first project as a frontman, and Smiling Dogs is Man's Gin's debut LP and, on first blush, it would seem to share a lot of similarities with Cobalt, even beyond the presence of Wunder: Both have found a home at Profound Lore, the genre-changing Canadian label responsible for releasing a great deal of black metal's most exciting and expansive new music; both feature deep-sepia cover art in hues of black and copper; and both have claimed the word "gin" as part of their identity.
But that's more or less where the similarities end. As I wrote in a July review of Smiling Dogs' title track: Tonally, there is one comparable cut on Gin—the album's suffocating and grim "Dry Body," one of its few non-metal moments. Smiling Dogs is not a black metal record, nor a war metal record, nor even a metal record: It sounds a lot like Alice in Chains circa Jar of Flies, or Dax Riggs, or Nick Cave, or Mark Lanegan's solo material. (Upon hearing it in the office, a co-worker asked if I was listening to Pearl Jam.) Naturally, it is because of Cobalt that I was interested in Man's Gin, but an affinity for one will hardly signify an affinity for the other.
Still, both bands deal exclusively in dark, masculine themes—death, betrayal, vengeance, violence, anger—and in my very limited anecdotal experience, fans of Cobalt have embraced Man's Gin. To wit: I attended a concert earlier this summer, a month or so prior to the release of Smiling Dogs, at which Man's Gin was the opening end of a lineup featuring some of the most flesh-searing black metal bands on the planet; and on the whole, the crowd seemed to love them.
As he showed that night, at that concert, Wunder is a strong frontman and he has a powerful, expressive baritone—a great voice (especially if you think Layne Stayley had a great voice, which I do). More impressive still is his sense of songcraft, which is on generous display throughout Smiling Dogs. This is minimalist, pitch-black music—with roots in Appalachian and Irish folk, blues, German beer-hall songs, murder ballads—but Wunder is a gifted tunesmith who writes immediately indelible melodies that demand singing along. (It also goes well with alcohol, which may or may not be made clear by everything else I've written here.) The music's catchiness is evident throughout, but if you're looking for some immediate fixes, check the chorus on "Smiling Dogs," the climactic guitar solo on "The Death of Jimmy Sturgis," and the entirety of "Nuclear Ambition, Pts. 1 and 2," the album's highlight and centerpiece, the latter half of which makes reference to "Richard Nixon's stronghold" and uses its sharp hooks to sink lines like "I need to know where I can buy a drink…It's time to fist-fuck everything." (Perhaps not surprisingly, Wunder lists Hunter S. Thompson as a major influence.)
I find myself trying to imagine what Wunder might accomplish by bridging the gap somewhat between Cobalt and Man's Gin—his voice and melodic choices applied to more aggressive music, especially with his estimable guitar skills, might result in something that transcends all boundaries. But if this is all we get from him—Cobalt and Man's Gin, I mean—well, this is more than enough. This is more than most musicians are capable of. This is pretty great already.
(This is video from the aforementioned show I attended at The Studio at Webster Hall, wherein Man's Gin opened for Castevet, Velnias and Altar of Plagues. This video is by unARTigNYC. For more of his work go to http://unartignyc.com/recordings/.)


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One of the legendary players in Bowling Green State history is heading back home.
Second-year Medina coach Anthony Stacey will be recognized Saturday afternoon as the newest member of the Falcons Cast of Honor when Bowling Green takes on Akron in Mid-American Conference action.
The Bees are tagging along, too, to cheer on their popular leader before battling Bowling Green High that night.
"It's almost surreal," Stacey said when he was selected for the honor in October. "The biggest reason why I chose to come to Bowling Green was because of Coach (Jim) Larranaga. My teammates and coaches were a huge part of my success, and I want to thank my family for all of their support through the years. I love Bowling Green, and it's truly an honor that someone thought of me for this."
Stacey scored a school-record 1,938 points from 1995-2000. The intense forward was the MAC Player of the Year as a senior after averaging 16.8 points and 6.0 rebounds despite dislocating a finger in his shooting hand and later spraining his ankle.
The Midview High graduate later played nine professional seasons in Spain before entering the coaching ranks as an assistant at now-defunct Lorain Admiral King. He took the Medina job in 2011 after previous coach Jody Peters resigned.
As part of the recognition, Stacey's No. 34 jersey will be hung from the Stroh Center's rafters alongside former teammate Antonio Daniels (33), Howard Komives (30), James Darrow (55), Wyndol Gray (7) and Nate Thurmond (42).
"Anytime you can get in the same conversation as those guys, it is truly an honor," Stacey said.
On the court, the Bees will have a dogfight against Bowling Green High (8-8), which is led by Wisconsin recruit Vitto Brown. The well-built 6-foot-8 center, whose unique twitter handle, SenseiSwat33, has garnered him plenty of extra attention, is considered one of the best defensive players in Ohio.
Medina (9-6), which has won eight of its last 10, counters with All-Ohioan Billy Geschke (22.3 ppg), but may be without 6-foot-9 Jon Teske, who was on crutches Thursday with an unspecified injury.
No matter what the scenario, the Bees won't be intimidated after taking on area powers Mentor, Shaker Heights and Garfield Heights in the rugged Northeast Ohio Conference Valley Division.
Black River (0-15, 0-11)
With three players suspended for violating team rules, freshmen David Bell and Derek Hawley made their varsity debuts Tuesday against Oberlin. Bell scored four points, while Hawley added two. Classmate Allan Benson added four points, meaning ninth-graders scored 10 of the 34 points.
l The suspended players are eligible to play tonight against reeling Brookside (4-12, 3-8), which has lost eight of its last nine.
Brunswick (8-8, 1-4)
The next seven days will prove a lot about where the Blue Devils are in their late-season progression. Twinsburg (tonight), Shaker Heights (Tuesday) and Garfield Heights (Feb. 8) have a combined 34-11 record.
l Ryan Badowski (17.4 ppg) and Kyle Wheeler (15.9) are on pace to become the first Brunswick teammates to each average 15 or more points since Brian Schmidt (19.0) and Mike Evans (16.9) in 2003-04. Schmidt is now the Blue Devils' junior varsity coach.
Buckeye (10-5, 7-4)
The Bucks need to finish the regular season 4-3 to secure their most wins since 1987-88 (17).
l Buckeye is an eye-popping 15-8 in one-possession and/or overtime games under fifth-year coach Matt Saunders. It is 5-0 under the scenario this season.
l While every Patriot Athletic Conference game is critical from here on out, tonight's showdown with Wellington is intriguing. The Dukes (6-10, 6-5) have lost six of their last eight but still feature the conference's most prolific scoring trio in Dylan Weidrick (15.6), Dylan Kidd (14.3) and Dave Clark (13.5). The threesome has scored a whopping 79.9 percent of the team's points.
Cloverleaf (3-12, 1-8)
The Colts are 2-2 when Robby Buckwald and Cliff Collyer each score in double digits. One of the losses was a 67-66 overtime heartbreaker to Midview at the Bob DiFranco Memorial Tournament.
l Cloverleaf has trailed after the first quarter in each of its last five losses.
Highland (9-7, 5-4)
The last time the Hornets allowed 37 or less points and lost was when it fell to Midpark 28-17 at the Brecksville D-I Sectional on March 6, 2010. Highland was downed by Hudson 37-33 on Tuesday.
l Unselfish play certainly hasn't been a problem lately, as Highland has assists on 46 of its last 55 field goals.
Wadsworth (7-8, 6-3)
The Grizzlies' outside Suburban League title hopes are on the line tonight at Nordonia (14-2, 9-0), which has won 23 straight league games. The Knights, who won the first meeting 59-46, are led by center Chris Scott (SL-best 19.0 ppg) and 3-point gunner Nick Piotrowski (14.8).
l Wadsworth is 6-4 when someone other than Austin White or Kyle Prunty scores eight or more points. Nathan Pound in particular has been impressive in victories with a 12.1 scoring average.
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In one of the most compelling responses given by Helen Keller to a bishop, Keller articulated that she already knew there was a God. Although Helen was blind, deaf, and unable to communicate language, Helen knew she was not alone in her darkness and isolation.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Keller
Helen had no concept of names or anything else. She was aware of God's love though. When Helen Keller developed the skill to communicate through the gift of language and heard about God, she gave an astonishing revelation.
"I already knew".
The Bible declares that God already gives each of His creation a measure of faith and that faith is developed in accordance to the scripture, "faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of God". This verse is accurate, however does not give a complete account of what God has already placed there.
Essentially that faith either grows or dies based on external forces that come to bear while one is growing up from infancy. There are many scriptures addressing the process, one being "train up a child in the way they should grow, and when they are old, they will not depart from it". Nurturing what is already there is a critical part of the faith process.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_in_My_Darkness
Opponents of God and the Bible love to parrot that believers have been corrupted by parents or Christians that merely force belief upon others. Pushing Christian beliefs on others is a typical atheistic explanation for belief in religions as Christianity.
If that is true scoffers, explain Helen Keller's belief in God?
There is a substantial explanation why there are many growing up with no belief in God. It is because religious training has been abandoned for many children growing up because their parents fail to take their children to church. That faith instilled by God at birth is inhibited and strangled out of the inner being of children by poor training and education's indoctrination that no God exists. Imposing belief can be a matter of prospective on both sides of the argument in whether God exists or not.
Helen Keller is not the only pure experiment without external prejudice being applied to tell if God exists or not. There are many with medical reasons that knew of God's existence before receiving any religious training. There are isolated people living worldwide who were never instructed about God's existence, but knew about God when introduced by name to their already known Creator.
There is preponderance of evidence concerning people that already knew of God's presence, but merely not knowing who God was by Name is a splendid confirmation that the faith God already placed in each person is substantiated by those as Helen Keller who were already aware of their Creator's existence.
Phillip Brooks was a contemporary friend of Helen Keller, and he was thrilled at Keller's revelation that God already was known to her before receiving any information about God's love and presence. This was the God Brooks knew.
Refusing to believe is more about stubbornness and pride than any other human attribute. Those as Helen Keller substantiates that belief in God has nothing to do about intellect or being indoctrinated.
A powerful story shared by Jesus involves a man wanting to go back to the living so he could warn his brothers that eternal punishment was real. The explanation by Christ reveals the true issue with human nature.
Jesus said those living had the word of God from the prophets to believe and heed the warning. Then Christ declared, "they will not believe even if one rises from the dead".
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by Susan Littlefield
Question of the Month: Holes Chewed in Tomatoes
Q: My ripening tomatoes have deep holes eaten into them but I haven't found any insects feeding on them. Help!
A: This sounds like damage from the tomato fruitworm, a striped yellow, green or brown caterpillar that chews deep holes in the tomato fruits and may also feed on the leaves of the plants. It can attack many other plants besides tomatoes (when it's in corn it's called the corn earworm). The adult is a moth that lays its eggs in the spring on leaves and stems. The caterpillars that hatch out feed on the leaves until they are about 1/2 inch long, then they burrow into the tomato fruits, causing the kind of damage you noticed. After feeding for 2 to 4 weeks, they then exit the fruits and drop to the ground, burrow into the soil and pupate, emerging a few weeks later as adult moths to begin the cycle again. This may be why you didn't see any insects in your tomatoes, just the damage they did. There can be several generations a year.
Once the caterpillars are inside the fruits there is nothing you can do except destroy infested tomatoes; don't put them in your compost pile in case the worms are still inside. Clean up all old plant debris in the garden at the end of the season to reduce the number of overwintering adults. To control the insects during the growing season, spray with the microbial insecticide Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis). This is a very safe and effective insecticide that only affects caterpillars (the larvae of moths and butterflies). You can also use the natural insecticide spinosad. Both of these insecticides are available at garden stores under a variety of trade names; look for the names I gave listed as the active ingredient. Either of these products needs to be applied when the young caterpillars are feeding, before they get inside the tomatoes, and you'll need to make repeat applications during the growing season to control each new generation of pests. Follow the label instructions for timing.


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Udo J. Vetter (Chairman of the Board)
Udo has been appointed chairman of the Supervisory Board in March 2007, succeeding ITM AG co-founder Dr Maurits Geerlings. As an US-trained pharmacist, Udo has served as Managing Director of various leading pharmaceutical companies throughout his entrepreneurial career and also represents UV-Cap GmbH & Co KG, investor of the ITM AG. In addition, Udo serves as chairman and member of supervisory and advisory boards of several innovative companies and institutions and is also a member of the International Leadership Forum of the International Society of Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE).
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Gamescom 2012: Sony revamps the Cross Play initiative
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has been pushing the concept of cross play between PlayStation 3 and Vita titles for a while now. The feature has already been shown in a variety of PSN releases; at least with those games, buying one version on the PSN store netted you copies for both the PS3 and Vita. The same hasn't been true for retail games... until now.
Sony revealed their improved cross play initiative at Gamescom this week and beginning this Fall, purchasing the PS3 version of a game available on both platforms will net you a free digital download of the Vita version. What does that mean? When PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale launches in November, there will be 2 separate purchase options. You could by the Vita version of the game for $39.99, or you could buy the PS3 version for $59.99 and get the digital version for free. This is definitely something that I, as a gamer, can get behind. Other titles announced to be using the same initiative include the new Sly Cooper game and the upcoming Q Force.
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