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The coolest kid in the class — Abercrombie & Fitch — has taken quite a beating in the schoolyard lately.
Activist investors are howling for the CEO's head. Critics have blasted the brand for the absence of larger-size clothing offerings in its stores. Sales recently have been disappointing at home and abroad.
Wall Street analysts also have been worried about the one-time darling of the stock market.
Abercrombie's fourth-quarter earnings report "was one of the weakest in retail, and fundamentals continue to deteriorate," Kimberly Greenberger of Morgan Stanley said recently.
The decline in sales in stores was particularly alarming.
Abercrombie is "apparently being hurt by increasing competition in the U.S. from 'fast-fashion' retailers such as Forever 21 and H&M," Standard & Poor's analyst Tuna Amobi said in a note to investors.
Greenberger is of the same mind, saying in a note to investors that the New Albany-based retailer "may need to reposition its brands to appeal to a new generation of consumers, which could take years."
"The next few years should prove whether Abercrombie is a rebounding global brand," she said, " or a retailer on the downside of its life cycle."
Saving Abercrombie is possible, but it will take more than freshening the retailer's spring fashions for women and cutting costs to redeem the brand, some experts said.
To rebound, the company will have to figure out what the current generation of teens considers cool and examine where those notions intersect with Abercrombie's image, the consensus says.
"The minute you define a brand around the concept of 'cool,' and it's for that fickle teen market, you have put yourself in a corner," said Bill Faust, the chief strategy officer of Ologie, a Columbus marketing company. "What one generation thinks is cool, the other doesn't. So you have a dilemma."
Changing market
It's quite a change from Abercrombie's glory days, back in the '90s. For years, Abercrombie courted controversy to establish its cool factor, said Doug McIntyre, CEO of Cult Marketing. "They didn't care about what parents or the conservative right thought."
The retailer sold younger girls shirts bearing provocative slogans, reportedly hired only good-looking store employees (and hid the not-so-attractive workers in the back room) and published a notoriously racy magazine-catalog hybrid that offered sex tips and photos of naked models, prompting an Illinois state senator to describe it as semipornographic.
The retailer's CEO, Michael Jeffries, "was a pioneer of a certain lifestyle brand, an innovator with a point of difference," said Eric Daniel, creative director at retail-design firm Fitch. "He made Abercrombie & Fitch more desirable through his pushing of the limits of acceptability."
When the Great Recession hit, Abercrombie clung to the way it had done business in the '90s, keeping its prices high even as the world shifted. Jeffries candidly acknowledged that the brand intentionally excluded some potential customers. The brand, he often says, is "aspirational."
"When they were making a ton of money, nobody cared about the controversy," McIntyre said. But after the business began to struggle, "all of a sudden, they seemed to be backpedaling."
Meanwhile, other teen retailers had come along, offering similar clothes at much-cheaper prices, and without the controversy.
"In a sense, Abercrombie has experienced in a rather compressed time frame what other retailers have experienced — the maturation of the market and their competition," Daniel said. "The other brands improved their version of Abercrombie's game."
More important, the younger siblings of Abercrombie's original customers aren't as willing to spend as much money on clothes as their older family members did. High unemployment has cut into discretionary income for younger customers, while more money is being spent on smartphones, tablets and other tech gear that didn't exist when Abercrombie made it big.
Although Jeffries has tried to hold the line, even he has acknowledged that the world has changed.
"Clearly, it's an old, axiomatic statement that good fashion doesn't have a price attached to it," he said during the fourth-quarter earnings conference call with analysts. "But today it does. We sell good fashion well at higher prices, but it's still a very competitive environment."
Making changes
Abercrombie has been fighting back with a raft of short- and long-term responses to its problems.
The retailer is in the middle of a strategic study, examining where its two biggest chains — Abercrombie & Fitch and Hollister Co. — should be headed, how to make each unique, and what their target customers want. More from that study might be announced at the retailer's annual meeting of shareholders, usually held in June.
"I don't think I am prepared to describe to you exactly how they are going to look," Jeffries said of the two chains. "But I think you will be able to see real differences as we proceed, in terms of the look of the product, the look of the advertising, the look of the marketing. It's a pretty all-encompassing task that we are making to differentiate these brands."
That kind of all-encompassing change could be the company's salvation, and it wouldn't be the first time that a major brand turned itself around.
"Look at Brooks Brothers," Faust said. "They've been up and down, but they've found a way to own 'preppie.' But what they didn't do was narrow their market. I can buy a button-down shirt and wear it with a suit, and it's fine. A Millennial can buy the same shirt and wear it untucked and be cool. We're both shopping at the same store and buying the same thing, and they're not freaked out."
Earlier this year, the board named veteran retail executive Arthur Martinez, 73, as non-executive chairman. Jeffries, 69, who had served as chairman since 1996, continues to serve as a director in addition to being the CEO. The move came after Engaged Capital, an investment firm in Newport Beach, Calif., that specializes in small- and mid-cap North American stocks, sent a letter urging the retailer's board to replace Jeffries "and reverse the years of disappointment to which (Abercrombie) shareholders have grown accustomed."
Despite the company's promise of changes, some on Wall Street continue to believe that Jeffries has overstayed his welcome at Abercrombie. They note that, over the past seven quarters, the retailer has reported increases in comparable-store sales only once — by 1 percent — and flat sales once.
"The guy who has driven this company into the ground, and offended every parent and teen with any remaining self-esteem, does not seem to be going anywhere," SW Retail Advisors analyst Stacey Widlitz wrote to investors. "It seems Jeffries is intent on riding this teen wave into a face-plant on the beach."


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The evolution of the superhero movie has not been a coincidence. It's been the masterful storytellers at the helm — Christopher Nolan, Sam Raimi, Bryan Singer, etc. — who have made us expect more than fireworks from our comic-book movies.
Which brings us to "The Avengers" — the end result of a four-year multi-movie buildup and possibly the most anticipated comic-book movie, um, ever?
Feeding the anticipation monster was the announcement that geek royalty Joss Whedon would write and direct. The battle cry? "In Joss We Trust."
Well, I didn't. I thought even someone who knows storytelling as well as Whedon couldn't possibly land this plane. Six superheroes in one movie? That's a lot of moving parts. You can't possibly keep that many plates spinning and keep a cohesive story, right?
I was wrong. Whedon nailed it. "Avengers" is amazing.
We've been getting saturated in this particular corner of the Marvel Comics universe since Jon Favreau's "Iron Man" gave everyone the first of many reasons to stick around after the credits. One brief appearance by Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury and the big picture crystallized.
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Once you censor them, they can no longer be labeled NSFW. There is nothing not safe about them.
And, because your own site guidelines force you to censor them, you can actually NEVER post anything that really is NSFW. So, why don't you stop labeling posts as NSFW when they clearly are safe?
I love this type of picture. In general I love vintage pictures, but I especially like them when they show male sexuality from when it was even more of a taboo than it is now.
That being said, I think that the second picture from the bottom looks like it could have been taken in Williamsburg last week. Hipster style = Old Timey style!
@ncman: Because it depends on where you work, that's why!
I live in Los Angeles and I guarantee you I'd get in a LOT of trouble if I had been caught looking at theses pics at the bank I used to work for.
Judging by the self-censorship, the Victorian period is not over yet.
WTF is up with the cover ups? Are you serious? The pics are great..the cover ups are just stupid.
@viveutvivas: Well, you can still do a google image search..
Some of these photos are clearly NOT from the Victorian era. Also my grand parents now dead were born after 1901 the most common form of photographs during the Victorian era 1837-1901 was the daguerreotype which some of these are not.
@AuntieChrist: Not quite. Some of these do look like modern photographs made to look old, but the daguerreotype had been largely abandoned by the 1860s, and certainly was not the prevalent form of photography through 1901.
@Vman455: I know that there were others but daguerreotype was the only one that came to mind. The wet plate collodion process, became the most widely used process between 1852 and the late 1860s when the dry plate was introduced.
People complaining about the coverups – GEEZ – they linked to the Tumblr with the NSFW pics and their guidelines are their guidelines, run your own aggregate gay information site and post all the porn you want.
Thank you Queerty – love the vintage porn and nude pics myself and try to collect them when I find them. Thank you for letting us know about that Tumblr site.
Oh yes indeed – Von Gloeden did take wonderful photos of nude Italian boys and men. It was in the time of the 'proper' Victorians who didn't 'talk about such things'. They just reproduced and babies were born. And, they didn't think that a natural man's penis was dirty (with foreskin). Then came along the USA when it was decided that 'down there' was a naughty thing.
tazz602 – The vintage 'Porn" of Von Gloeden's day included beautiful Italian men with their foreskins, as all men are born with. Then, some stupid jerk named Kellog (of the cereal family) decided that boys wouldn't masturbate if their foreskin was cut at birth.
AuntiChrist: I bought both of the books of Von Gloden's male nudes, and have visited Italy. The men there are (for the most part) intact, since they don't mind whipping it out and urinating in an alley. Nice to see such freedom.
tazz602: I'm totally in agreement with you. Cover ups, like the Nixon era lead to resignation and disgrace on the Presidency. Then we get into the sexual issues which, even today, are still a taboo among a lot of the hysterical right wingers, are as abundant now as then.
Palmer Scott: It's really pretty simple – as wide open as Hollywood is, Los Angeles is still uptight about sexuality and sexual preference.
Nudity is a NO-NO in the American culture. This isn't like some of the European countries where it's OK to be nude.
vivetuas: I totally agree – OFF with the cover ups. C'mon, we are all adults and like to see nude men or else we would be on this website, right?
Stanhope: You are so right. C'mon we are all men and we all have the same plumbing – so what's the difference?
Wait….I thought this was a queer website…..with a gay agenda no less. So, what is with the censorship? Seriously? The male body is that offensive even on a gay website that it has to be covered? C'mon queerty! Perhaps you should live up to your name and actually be a bit queer?!?!?!
Great pictures! But where are the NSFW versions?
@Kiwi: Thanks for the info…. I just love Wikipedia…. Here ya go girls….The majority of von Gloeden's pictures were made before World War I, in the period 1890-1910. During the war, he had to leave Italy. After returning in 1918, he photographed very little but continued to make new prints from his voluminous archives. In total, the Baron took over 3000 images (and possibly up to 7000), which after his death were left to one of his models, Pancrazio Buciunì (also spelled Bucini; his dates sometimes given as c.1864-c.1951 but probably should be 1879-1963), known as Il Moro (or U Moru) for his North African looks. Il Moro had been von Gloeden's lover since the age of fourteen, when he had first joined the household of the Baron. In 1933, some 1000 glass negatives from von Gloeden's collection (inherited by Buciuni) and 2000 prints were confiscated by Benito Mussolini's Fascist police under the allegation that they constituted pornography and were destroyed; another 1000 negatives were destroyed in 1936, although Buciuni was tried and cleared at a court in Messina (1939–41) of disseminating pornographic images. Most of the surviving pictures (negatives and prints) are now in the Fratelli Alinari photographic archive in Florence (which in 1999 bought 878 glass negatives & 956 vintage prints formerly belonging to Buciuni to add to its existing collection of 106 prints) and further prints (which fetch hundreds of pounds at auction) are in private collections or held by public institutions such as the Civico Archivo Fotographico in Milan.
Last warning, Queerty.
STOP censoring these photos!!!!
Reminds me of this:
"As long as friendship was something important, was socially accepted, nobody realized men had sex together. You couldn't say men didn't have sex together– it just didn't matter. It had no social implication, it was culturally accepted. Whether they fucked or kissed had no importance. Once friendship disappeared as a culturally accepted relation, the issue arose, "What's going on between men?"
~Michel Foucault
@Dxley: Or else what!? It's their site (which has to obey the rules of their web host).
@ncman: Yes, I'm afraid some of the other commentators are right: there are many workplaces, mine including, where it would be decidedly NOT okay to look at these
Actually I thought the coverups are kind of cute–adds to the vintage flavor of the photographs. In this age where you can get LOTS of nudity anytime anywhere, it's sort of sweet, this pretend chasteness!
@AuntieChrist: Thanks for the history lesson! Much appreciated.
Oscar Wilde had some of the Grecian looking "Uranian" photos on him when he died. These are fascinating.
the links are not working for me. Where are the uncensored versions?
Nothing has really changed for standards of male beauty.
@Dxley: If you only knew how many time the fuckers at Queerty, blocked me just for telling them to suck eggs.
@Stache1: Thanks, the pictures at that site are awesome and uncensored. I loved the site because you don't even have to give your name to post them.


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LA CROSSE, Wis. -- La Crosse resident Jeannie Nylander is getting a whole new lease on life and it's thanks in part to two things. First, after years or battling excruciating pain and deteriating vision loss from a disease called autoimmune retinopathy, "I've had my eyes taken out and I have prostetics in. And I'm in no more pain!"
Pain free, but now totally blind and left facing the world literally in the dark. And that's where Jeannie's second blessing comes into play. Meet Linus. "I think Linus is my angel with paws."
Jeannie and Linus are inseperable these days and it's a partnership that started late last year when Jeannie contacted a Madison based non-profit organization called Occupaws. The mission of Occupaws is to place fully trained guide dogs with people who have visual impairments. But what makes 'this' organization so unique, "We actually go to the clients home. They actually get to go and practice in their home area and things that would occur in her home area with Jeannie, she lives on French Island and there's no sidewalks."
Jeannie had a trial meeting with Linus and trainer Deann Miller last fall. "Linus and Jeannie are a very good match together. Their personalities are similar, their walking pace is similar. "
"He was just such a sweetheart and so loving. A good hugger. He's just my right pace." Once the match is made, the training begins. But it's not Linus that's being trained. He's already the pro. The training is for Jeannie. She needs to learn the commands, the cues. "Linus is indicating to Jeannie about the environment, what's going on, if there's an obstacle or turn."
"He's just such a blessing." "She wants to go out there. She wants to remain a part of the community and Linus is helping her do that."
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Contrary to some other posters it does intrigue me how football does seems to bring out a level of commitment and loyalty we can't replicate.
Very funny, its clear RL is not as popular as football but I'm talking about fans that are there but don't attend big games. The point is that most football fans are not loaded either but still manage to make it to their big games, usually in larger numbers than usual. It's about the percentage who bother, not the actual amount.
I'm told Middlesbrough for example, with an average home gate of just over 15k this season, took 600 to Swansea last week for a mid week League Cup game. The vast majority traveled down from Boro to opposition that isn't all that glamorous on a pig of a journey, mid-week in a competition not taken overly serious.
I'd imagine the demographics of Middlesbrough are not dissimilar to most of our "heartland" towns, yet I can't imagine an instance we'd get 600 traveling a 650 mile round journey mid-week.


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Norman ZammittAmerican, b. Canada, 1931-2007
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Although he was born in Toronto, Norman Zammitt went on to leave an indelible mark on the Southern California art scene. Zammitt received degrees from both Pasadena City College and Otis College of Art and Design, and later taught art at the University of Southern California, University of California, Los Angeles and California Institute of the Arts. His exposure to OpArt and interest in color theory led him to create an extraordinary body of work that encompasses sculpture, lithography and painting. He has been included in such collections as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
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Buffalo Blue was created in 1977 at Zammitt's Pasadena studio on the corner of Fair Oaks and Colorado, not far from the Norton Simon Museum. Several layers of gradated colors create the effect of one color leading into the next. His abstract "color progressions" have often been perceived as landscapes, a fact that didn't bother Zammitt, since he saw his work as "organic."
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Frugality and moderation today these words seem old-fashioned and out of style, certainly regarding government spending. Yet frugal people know moderation trumps wastefulness and sloth and that the day-to-day decisions of a cautious buyer promote long-term financial health.
The maxim a penny saved is a penny earned has value when applied to lifes choices, ranging from home energy efficiency and car mileage to house sizes and mortgages to the purchase of quality food over junk and the cell services connecting us.
Vermonts Constitution speaks to these virtues. Article 18 reads in part that a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, industry and frugality are absolutely necessary to preserve the blessings of liberty, and keep government free; the people ought, therefore, to pay particular attention to these points, in the choice of officers and representatives.
Vermonters have experienced the unhappy consequences when their officers and representatives stray from these virtues. Gov. Madeleine Kunin is rightfully recognized for her many strengths, but frugality was not among them. In the six years prior to 1991, state general and transportation fund spending grew at the annual rate of 9.2 percent before crashing into the 1990-91 recession. The damage, lasting more than eight years, included the downgrade of Vermonts bond rating and the dishevelment of many important state programs.
Fiscal stability was restored with the subsequent leadership of Govs. Richard Snelling and Howard Dean. In the eight years following 1991, state general and transportation fund spending grew at the modest rate of 2.6 percent. By 1999, Vermonts bond rating was repaired, and investments in important new initiatives from health care (Vermont Health Access Program) to land conservation (the Champion lands) were affordable.
Through most of the last decade, our officers and representatives abided the wisdom of frugality and moderation. The practical application of these virtues was called sustainable spending, which allows the state budget to grow at rates matching realities in the underlying economy, from which state government extracts its revenues.
More recently, however, our leaders have abandoned sustainable spending. Since 2008, Vermonts population grew by less than 1 percent. Those employed actually dropped by 1 percent. Median household incomes were unchanged, though wage growth was up by 7.8 percent . Inflation grew by 8.6 percent, and the education grand lists value dropped by 3 percent.
In striking comparison, total state spending grew by more than 22 percent (up $909 million), and the two largest cost centers of state government, human services and education, grew respectively by 29.2 percent (up $472 million) and 11.2 percent (up $140 million). The continuing decline in student enrollment (down 6.2 percent) drove education spending per student up by 15.4 percent while property taxes rose by 17.6 percent (up $124 million).
In two ways, our state leaders missed opportunities to avoid the imbalances described above.
First, from 2009 to 2011, Vermont received over $930 million in federal stimulus assistance to bolster the economy and protect the most vulnerable. But rather than use these funds in a measured way to maintain existing benefits, programs were expanded, such as fuel assistance.
With one-time federal revenues now no longer available, our expanded state budget is now structurally out of balance and as proposed for fiscal 2014 relies heavily on high risk revenues such as prior year carry-forwards, diversions from the transportation fund, the expropriation of Catamount fees assessed on small businesses, diversions from a program benefiting the working poor (EITC) to child care, and revenues from break-open tickets, among others.
Secondly, minimizing a recessions fallout requires leaders to exercise a firm fiscal hand during a recession consistent with a forward-looking exit strategy. If weak hands prevail, as they have, the grip of the recession hangs on longer. The firm hand must include reforms that make government more fit and prepared to engage the future as the recession recedes. Unfortunately, with millions of one-time federal dollars available, decision-makers side-stepped available choices to better position state government to exit the recession.
These choices, including K-12 education reforms and Challenge for Change and Tiger Team reforms, offered tens of millions in savings opportunities.
Our current leaders might hope that their fiscal choices will go unnoticed and without consequence. But before our eyes we see the state lurch from budget gap to budget gap. We see no real action, for example, on education reform that puts children and property taxpayers first while yielding savings.
Yet our officers and representatives, among them Republicans, Democrats and Progressives, cant run fast enough with Vermonts checkbook in hand to satisfy special-interest lobbyists. This week its mandating union dues on non-union employees to fatten union coffers.
But the day always comes when fiscal imbalance demands resolution, and its never pretty. At the end of this legislative session, our governor may be face to face with his fiscal legacy. Lets hope he can get tough things done.
Tom Pelham was finance commissioner for Gov. Howard Dean, tax commissioner for Gov. James Douglas and an independent member of the Vermont House.MORE IN PerspectiveAlong with many Vermonters, immigrant farm workers in the Green Mountain State watched with... Full StoryVermonters have waited patiently for almost nine months now an exceedingly long period of time,... Full StoryBricks. The wall was full of bricks. Full Story
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Revenge of The Taxinator
What's new in Schwarzenegger's 'car tax' hike is really old and only getting more so
By Jennifer Hadley 04/16/2009
Once upon a time — oh, let's say, November 2003 — our spanking new (read: utterly inexperienced) governor, Arnold "The Terminator" Schwarzenegger, came into office facing a $38 billion state budget shortfall. True to his word, hours after his inauguration Arnold repealed the DMV fee increases (aka "the car tax") which had tripled under recalled Gov. Gray Davis. When Davis was governor, DMV fees had risen to 2 percent of the value of the vehicle. By contrast, The Governator dropped those fees to .65 percent, where they had remained until now. As car owners and buyers, we seemed destined to live happily ever after. But unlike a good fairy tale, our 5-year-long ride on Easy Street doesn't come with a storybook ending.
Instead, the days of car-buying bliss are destined for the history books. Consider that five-and-a-half years after Arnold took office, instead of a $38 billion deficit, the state is now $42 billion in the hole. However, this time Schwarzenegger's not cutting car buyers or car owners any slack. In fact, he's socking it to us, despite the fact that more than 10 percent of Californians are unemployed.
Effective May 19, DMV fees will rise one-half of one percent — to 1.15 percent of the value of your car. That means that if your renewal fees are due after May 19, or you purchase a car after that date, your DMV fees will nearly double. So, if your car is valued at $20,000, you can expect to pay $230 in DMV fees this year, as opposed to the $130 fee you paid last year. Naturally, this increase applies to all vehicles you own or purchase (and will remain in effect until at least June 30, 2011, with the possibility of an extension until 2013), so if you happen to own more than one car, well … good luck.
As no riveting story is complete without a back-story, I remind you that the DMV fee increase comes on the heels of the one-percent state sales tax increase, which went into effect April 1, bringing our sales tax up from 8.25 percent to 9.25 percent. That $20,000 car you bought in March would have run you $1,650 in sales tax. Today, you'll pay $1,850.
But wait! There's yet another twist coming our way in this page-turner. Remember Measure R that we passed in L.A. County back in November? (We voted for an additional half-percent sales tax increase for the next 30 years, for transportation improvements.) That hike will hit our wallets in July, bringing our sales tax to a whopping 9.75 percent (and some cities within LA County will see their taxes climb into the double digits). As a result, taxes you'll be paying on that $20,000 car this summer will increase again by another $100.
Aside from the laughable (as in "are you kidding me?") fact that our state is in an even worse fiscal mess than it was five years ago, our transportation saga boasts another ridiculous twist. This, of course, is the fact that our economy as a whole is in the toilet and we desperately need consumers to stimulate it by purchasing goods (ideally, expensive goods, such as cars). Yet new laws, taxes and fees are making this prospect less affordable by the day. In fact, when all is said and done, in just three months the car that would have cost you $21,780 (with all taxes and fees) on March 31 will cost you $22,180 on July 1.
So where's the moral of the story? The truth is I can't find one. But I'll tell you how I hope this doesn't end. I truly hope that these tax increases and fee increases don't steer too many people away from buying cars for too long. And while I'm engaging in a little wishful thinking, a hero coming to save us all from this economic mess would also be a welcome addition, in my book.
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Coming of age in the '70s I wore out many an 8-track tape in my GTO. It's hard to remember which was louder, the music coming out of the speakers or the rumble from the burned out glass-packs. Either way, that was not a good vehicle to use when trying to sneak into the drive-in movie theatre through the back gate … But I digress. These days I love living in the Texoma area, writing and voicing Radio commercials, and taking pictures with my Nikon. By the way, if you see someone jumping for joy at the vintage LP he just discovered in one of the local resale shops, that's probably me.


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Hi, everyone I am a 2nd time mom but this is the first time I have breastfeed.
I am so happy with my choice to breastfeed. Even though I have a limited support system. I read a lot about BF and became determined to make it work for me and my baby. It was rough the first couple of weeks b/c although baby had a good latch from day one he sucked so hard I had blisters. So I started pumping to give myself a chance to heal Lasinol cream was a godsend. I took tylenol for pain and with a lot of determination I hung in there. Thank goodness my little boy had no problem going from breast and bottle and back again. I have always been concerned about how much I pump. It is obvious baby gets enough when I nurse b/c he is now 6 1/2 months old and weighs 19 lbs 4oz. but when i pump i only get 6-12 oz a day with an average of 10 oz. a day. the problem is i only get to pump 2 times a day at work. I work 12 hour days. I have a rotating work schdule so my body never gets used to work. when I nurse on my days off it helps to build my milk. I've tried fenugreek and it works but I took it for a few weeks and quit cause I got sick of taking it\. I am considering trying again. I've been supplementing with formula since he was 5 months old. I just mix part formula and part breast milk baby is taking it okay but i feel a little guilty I wish i could pump enough so i wouldn't have to do that plus I worry that if i continue to supplement my milk will dry up. Also I used to pump at night and in the morning but I just get to exhausted i have to be at work at 6 am. And in the evening I still have an older child and a hubby to care for. so sorry this is so long. Any suggestions? Should i just keep soing what I'm doing or is ther another way I can pump enough in the 2 x a day. Also do you think the fact I have smaller breasts have anything to do with it?


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What's the story with... The Chinese New Year?Whatever you do, put all your brooms and brushes in the cupboard, open every window in your house and don't - just don't - wear anything black. It's the Chinese New Year and you don't want to take any chances, do you?
The new year celebrations, which begin on Monday, are surrounded by superstition. The beliefs around brooms and brushes come from the conviction that you should sweep away the bad luck of the old year and then put away the brushes so you don't accidentally sweep away any of the good luck of the new year.
The windows in your house should also be opened to allow the old year to escape, and you shouldn't wear black because it is the colour of bad luck. Look out your red clothes, though. Red symbolises fire and will frighten off the nasty spirits.
Like superstitions everywhere, some people believe all that, some don't, but there is no doubting the bonding importance of the festival to Chinese people all over the world. The festivities start on the first day of the lunar month and continue for 15 days. The first week is traditionally a time for visiting friends and family and on New Year's Eve people gather for a big meal, often containing djiaozi, a kind of steamed pudding, or nian gao, a sticky rice pudding. Then, as the old 12 months melt into the new 12 months, families go outside and let off firecrackers. Evil spirits don't like firecrackers.
The celebrations end on the fifteenth day with a lantern festival. Hanging from trees or houses, little globules of light, some painted with images from Chinese legends, float in the air. As their warmth fades, the new year really gets under way.
This year is the year of the Ox. Last year was the rat and next year will be the tiger. It is said the year in which you are born dictates your personality: Oxen are hard-working and patient, which is promising news considering the new President, Obama, was born in the year of the Ox.
Where did it start? Something like this: the Buddha called for all animals to join him. Only 12 turned up and to reward them Buddha honoured each one with a year of their own. The sequence is as follows: rat followed by ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig.No cat, you'll notice. The cat lost out because the rat didn't wake him up and sneaked off on his own. Which is typical rat behaviour. Dogs do well out of Chinese New Year, though: the second day of the celebrations is considered the birthday of all dogs and everyone is especially kind to them. Children do well, too. It is common for adults to give children red packets (note: red again) filled with money.(the rest of the article just tails off telling people in Scotland where CNY celebrations will take place here). Hope this might be good enough for your blog!
Thanks for sharing Bill! Honestly I didn't want to write a long posting for today, cos I'm sure I'm going to pretty much occupied with cleaning the house and preparing myself to say prayers at midnight. Oh, well. I'm gonna try to keep it simple.


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In the 'Maker Movement,' art is all around us
There is a consumer warning label written in bold letters on the package of Makey Makey, one of Jay Silver's (PopTech 2012) inventions. This is what it says: "WARNING: User may start to believe they can change the way the world works. Extended usage may result in creative confidence."
Makey Makey reflects the way Silver sees art everywhere in the world, and the warning label shows how we are all invited to join him.
Makey Makey allows users to turn everyday objects into touchpads and manipulate programs or web pages. Simply attach Makey Makey's alligator clips to everyday objects and dial up a program on your computer. If you attach Makey Makey's alligator clips to a bunch of bananas, and you dial up a piano program, all of a sudden you are playing a banana-piano.
In his 2012 PopTech talk in Camden, Silver showed video that he had received through the Internet of people using Makey Makey to turn their dogs into musical instruments, play the "Star Spangled Banner" by biting fruit, and turn their house plants into drums. "I don't know these people," Silver says with a mix of bemusement and pride.
Those people have embraced Silver's fascination with how we arbitrarily assign meaning to objects. Once we disregard these assigned meanings and follow our creativity, the world is suddenly full of art and possibility.
"What is the purpose of things? And who said that that was the purpose of it?" he asked the Camden audience. "And how do we decide what purpose means or who we should listen to when we designate purpose and meaning in life. Where does it come from? And who said so?"
To capture the spirit of what he called the "Maker Movement," Silver showed video of his own infant son's obvious joy and excitement when he first saw and touched snow. "The world that I would like to live in is a world where everybody helps to make it in their own way, so that it is a hodge-podge of different collections of contributions reflecting everyone's own internal inspirations," Silver said. "Kind of the way nature is, but for humans."
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Shareholders Re-Elect Hewlett-Packard Board Members
By Wendy Kaufman • Mar 21, 2013
Originally published on March 21, 2013 8:23 am
HP will celebrate its 75th birthday next year. The company was once a technology giant. But with old products, a lack of vision and a revolving door at the top, the company has been having trouble.


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Making RockpileRant.com the bomb
I haven't written anything in a couple of days and it feels like an eternity.
Spring Fever has officially got me along with a little bit of a bug.
It's hard to talk or write about baseball right now, I feel like sheet and mentally I'm in Tucson right now.
Let me tell you the weather is beautiful and I'm working on a good tan.
A friend of mine Betsy has been working on www.rockpilerant.com. Right now It's just a cover page that links back to this blog, but I'm thrilled that it's finally up and accessible.
I would like a permanant page within that website that contains all of the "Rockies Fan Profiles", maybe a page with videos and a baseball collection page which will get updated weekly as new items are acquired.
Got any ideas, I'd love to hear them?
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When do you leave for your trip? Good luck with the web-page. There are a lot of really great books out there that talk about web design.
Hey D,
Sweet web-page. Look forward to checking that out once it's done.
Hope you're feeling better.
ROCKPILE RANT GOES WEB!! Dude, that's sweet. Way to go.
Looking forward to reading all about Spring from the MBU!
Well you know, a great way to support your blog and website is to link them both on both profiles. After a period of time people will use the most convenient way to get their Rockpile fix.
i am actually doing double blogs on both sites and also a few exclusives on my website………that gets people to at least click it every few days to see what is new in the world of Rays Renegade.
Web pages can also give you the luxury of saying a few things you might regret on somewhere like…MLBlogs.com
Have a great time with it all, if it doesn't feel like fun………you better be getting paid for it.
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JULIA-I leave Monday around dinnertime. I have to wait for Denver traffic to subside.
R-LUV-Much better, thanks for asking🙂
HAPPY-Thanks brotha, I like your personal website too. Don't think I don't notice all the MBU plugging you've been doing..I really appreciate that.
RAYSREN-Thanks for the advice, here's my attitude, if it aint fun…I make it fun🙂..Maybe someday I will get paid for it…Thank you for your MBU support also brotha…D


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No-Bake Chewy Granola BarsOctober 2006
For no-bake granola bars, just mix, press and chill.
Makes: 18 servings
Prep: 20 mins
Cook: 5 mins
- 4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1/4 cup honey
- 2 cups granola, such as Back to Nature brand
- 1 cup rice cereal, such as Rice Krispies
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 1/2 cup thin pretzel sticks
- 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- In a medium saucepan, combine the brown sugar with the honey and butter. Bring the mixture to a boil over medium-high heat, then lower the heat to medium-low and simmer until the sugar dissolves, about 2 minutes. Remove the saucepan from the heat.
- Add the granola, rice cereal, raisins and pretzels to the saucepan and fold the ingredients to evenly coat with the sauce. Transfer the granola mixture to a 9-by-13-inch ungreased baking pan and press firmly to evenly fill. Gently press the chocolate chips onto the top of the granola. Let the granola mixture set in the refrigerator until firm, about 15 minutes, then cut into 2 1/4-by 3-inch bars.
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Friend or stranger, we owe it to each other to get involved
I was at a college party with a friend and didn't know anyone else there. The host, "Anna", was very drunk by the time I had arrived, only making brief appearances between trips to the bathroom and her bedroom. I heard commotion outside Anna's bedroom door. A few guys were standing outside the door. They were laughing about how easy it would be for "Andrew" to "get laid", because Anna was "blacked out." They were standing guard of the door, as many people stood around laughing or seemingly unaffected by what was happening. I felt uncomfortable. A part of me felt that despite my anger and clear understanding that what was happening was wrong, that there were better people to intervene. These weren't people that I knew. I was hoping that Anna's friends would step in. A few minutes passed. I swallowed my fear and walked back the hallway, sternly asking the guys in front of the door what was happening. They looked uneasy and offered varying stories, including "It is just a joke" and "It is no big deal, we're all friends; Anna doesn't mind." I told them to move, and they did. The door was unlocked and I entered. Andrew was startled and I told him to leave. He appeared embarrassed, attempting to justify his intentions by explaining that "She's ok" and "I didn't do anything." Anna appeared to be only limitedly awake and coherent. She held my hand and said "I didn't want to do it. You saved my life. You saved my life." As my college years continued, many of my friends and classmates would share similar stories, often referring to the people perpetrating these actions as "friends." Friends do not force or coerce each other into unwanted sex. Friends do not find humor or vulnerability in one's inability to give consent. Friends do not stand by and say that it is not their responsibility to intervene. Friend or stranger, uncomfortable or not, we are responsible to help each other. We are responsible to say that sexual violence, in any context, is not ok.


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The Sedway Office Building is located southeast of the Legislative Building on the corner of Fifth and Stewart Streets. This three-story structure houses the Legislative Library and the offices of the Audit, Fiscal Analysis, and Research Divisions.
The Legislative Counsel Bureau is located in the Grant Sawyer State Office Building at 555 East Washington Avenue in Room 4400. The Las Vegas office furnishes legislative information, provides access to all Legislative Counsel Bureau staff services, and manages individual and committee meeting space for the Legislature in the facility. The office also contains a library area, which is open to the public, with legislative reference material and computers to access bill status information.
Located on the Legislative Mall, which covers an area of seven former city blocks, south of the Capitol, the Legislative Building contains 180,000 usable square feet and facilities for the Legislature and the Legislative Counsel Bureau. Included within the building are equipment and accommodations for the public and the Legislature which make the building one of the finest in the nation for its purpose. The building was constructed following the 1969 Legislative Session and remodeled and substantially expanded following the 1995 Session.
Several information services are available to constituents.
Constituents outside the local calling area may make toll-free calls to their legislators from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., by dialing 800-992-0973 for all of Nevada except Las Vegas. Las Vegas area callers may dial 486-2626. All calls will be put through to the legislator's office. If the telephone is not answered by the fourth ring, the call will forward to voice mail. If the person does not wish to leave a message on voice mail, the caller may dial 03 to be forwarded to the Message Center, which is located on the second floor of the Legislative Building. All messages for legislators taken by the Message Center are delivered to the offices of the Sergeants at Arms and placed in the legislators' mailboxes. Emergency messages are delivered directly to either the Sergeant at Arms or the legislators' secretaries. Our toll free fax number is 866-543-9941.
To receive information concerning legislative bill status, committee hearing dates, and specific activities of the Legislature, constituents outside the local calling area may dial 800-995-9080. Las Vegas area callers should dial 486-2626 and ask for State Library and Archives Legislative Service. Constituents within the local calling area may dial 684-3360. The State Library and Archives offers this service Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. during the legislative session. Inquiries are handled by reference librarians at the State Library and Archives (684-3360) or the Legislative Counsel Bureau's Research Division (684-6825).
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45 Years Ago: Jimi Hendrix Debuts Band of Gypsys
Jimi Hendrix's short-lived power trio Band of Gypsys made its debut appearances with a series of concerts held on Dec. 31, 1969, and Jan. 1, 1970, at New York City's Fillmore East. By the end of January, Hendrix had broken them up, but not before releasing a classic live set from the shows.
Appearing with bassist Billy Cox and drummer Buddy Miles, Hendrix constructed a new sound infused with more jazz and fusion. The shows, which were later edited and compiled on 1970's 'Band of Gypsys' album, would be described as "the most brilliant, emotional display of virtuoso electric guitar playing I've ever heard" by legendary promoter Bill Graham in the Hendrix bio 'Kiss the Sky.'
In addition to the new tunes, the definitive version of Hendrix's anti-Vietnam song 'Machine Gun' emerged from these shows. But despite the group's obvious chemistry, the trio would play only three dates — including the Winter Festival for Peace, their final performance on Jan. 28.
The 'Band of Gypsys' album would become the only official live album released during Hendrix's lifetime. In September 1970, he died of a drug-related overdose. Other songs by the trio were eventually gathered on 'Band of Gypsys 2′ in 1986 and on 1999's 'Live at the Fillmore East.' Cox and Miles also recorded some studio sessions with Hendrix that were collected on 2013's 'People, Hell and Angels.'
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Employee falls to his death from roof of JP Morgan's Asia HQ
A man has fallen from the top of JP Morgan's Asia headquarters, becoming the latest in a series of apparent suicides among finance workers.
The man, aged 33 and surnamed Li, is a junior-level employee in middle office operations, according to a person familiar with the matter.
Hong Kong Police said that Li fell from the roof of Chater House, a 30-story building in the centre of Hong Kong's financial district. He was taken to hospital unconscious but was later pronounced dead.
A JP Morgan spokeswoman said: "A sad and tragic incident occurred in Chater House, Hong Kong today that is currently being investigated by the police. Out of respect for those involved we cannot yet comment further. Our thoughts are with the family at this difficult time."
JP Morgan is the main tenant of Chater House, occupying 10 office floors of the building which it uses as its regional headquarters.
A spokeswoman for the Hong Kong police said: "A man fell from height at 2:08 in the afternoon and fell on the ground. He was sent to hospital in an unconscious state and certified dead in hospital."
The police report stated that the incident is not being treated as suspicious.
The latest death follows exactly three weeks to the day after Gabriel Magee, a vice president JP Morgan's corporate and investment bank technology division, jumped to his death from the bank's skyscraper in Canary Wharf, landing on the ninth floor.
William 'Bill' Broeksmit, 58, who retired from Deutsche Bank last February, was found dead at his Kensington home last month after hanging himself. Broeksmit worked at Deutsche Bank between 1996 and 2001, returning to the bank in 2008 when he served in various senior roles until his retirement.
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