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Something old, something new; A country house lovingly restored
The house isn't the only structure to get a makeover on Greenberg's property. In the expansive yard sits an old chicken coop. While no work has begun yet, it will be transformed into a guest house where Greenberg hopes her children and grandchildren can play and hang out. Greenberg is especially fond of the wrap-around porch, and once you see it you would be, too. The large porch is painted white, as is the rest of the house, and the floor is a light gray. There are two sets of stone steps each leading to a separate entrance, and white wooden chairs and an old wood and linoleum table provide places to lounge and look at the view of the creek right across the road.
Besides the dynamic duo of Jan and Greenberg, there was also a team of local workers who helped with the project. The carpenters were Teb Fink and his crew of fourth-generation carpenters. Russel Lyons did exterior painting, and Andee Kraft worked on various parts of the job, including wallpaper removal. Jan said she handles pretty much every aspect of the job. "I pitch in wherever I can; whatever my height and age allows," she laughs.
I asked Jan how she got into the home restoration business. "I grew up in a family of builders, half Italian, and never thought I would be in the trade," she said. "I lived in an apartment most of my life, so when I got my home, it needed work, and I dedicated myself to restoring my 1915-era house, and then pretty soon people noticed and asked me."
Jan has worked on many houses around the area. However, she said she doesn't take on every project. "I take projects with people who are interested in restoring their homes with a modern twist." She and Greenberg worked very well together.
"Ramona was fabulous to work with—a great partner who shared my vision of the house—making sure that historic elements were preserved and creatively incorporating the new with the old," said Greenberg.
"What I like to do is work closely with the client," said Jan, "to try to, first of all, save them money; I'm very scrappy. I like to work with what they already own and not have them buy so many new things. I will try to up-cycle as much as I can. If they don't have it, I try to find it somewhere."
Much of the furniture in the house has been re-purposed or bought from an antique shop. Other spaces, like the kitchen, are new and modern. And the living room uses furniture from Greenberg's Westchester home.
"It has been a wonderful process and my family and friends are thrilled to begin a new era of traditions and celebrations, but most of all looking forward to quiet times together on the porch," said Greenberg.


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March 30, 2006
SPRINGFIELD -- The Illinois State Board of Education
has announced the 2005 Academic Award Schools under the
Federal No Child Left Behind Act. To qualify, at least
89.7 percent of a school's students must meet or
exceed grade level learning standards on the Illinois
Standards Achievement Test (ISAT) and the school must
have a poverty rate of at least 50 percent.
Each Academic Award School will receive a Federal grant
which may be used for supplementary reading, math, and
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September 11, 2002: NASA has selected TRW to build the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST), a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. This space-based observatory will be known as the James Webb Space Telescope, named after James E. Webb, NASA's second administrator. While Webb is best known for leading Apollo and a series of lunar exploration programs that landed the first humans on the Moon, he also initiated a vigorous space science program, responsible for more than 75 launches during his tenure, including America's first interplanetary explorers.See the rest:
The telescope is scheduled for launch in 2010 aboard an expendable launch vehicle. It will take about three months for the spacecraft to reach its destination, an orbit 940,000 miles or 1.5 million kilometers in space, called the second Lagrange Point or L2, where the spacecraft is balanced between the gravity of the Sun and the Earth. Unlike Hubble, space shuttle astronauts will not service the James Webb Space Telescope because it will be too far away. Before and during launch, the mirror will be folded up. Once the telescope is placed in its orbit, ground controllers will send a message telling the telescope to unfold its high-tech mirror petals.
To see into the depths of space, the James Webb Space Telescope is currently planned to carry instruments that are sensitive to the infrared wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum. The new telescope will carry a near-infrared camera, a multi-object spectrometer and a mid-infrared camera/spectrometer.
The James Webb Space Telescope will be able to look deeper into the universe than Hubble because of the increased light-collecting power of its larger mirror and the extraordinary sensitivity of its instruments to infrared light. Webb's primary mirror will be at least 20 feet in diameter, providing much more light-gathering capability than Hubble's eight-foot primary mirror.
The telescope's infrared capabilities are required to help astronomers understand how galaxies first emerged out of the darkness that followed the rapid expansion and cooling of the universe just a few hundred million years after the big bang. The light from the youngest galaxies is seen in the infrared due to the universe's expansion.
Looking closer to home, the James Webb Space Telescope will probe the formation of planets in disks around young stars, and study supermassive black holes in other galaxies.


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La La Land
This is a beautiful film about love and dreams, and how the two impact each other.
This is a beautiful film about love and dreams, and how the two impact each other.
There are two movies in "Jackie." One of these movies is just OK. The other is exceptional. The first one keeps undermining the second.
Roger Ebert on James Ivory's "Howards End".
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
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A table of contents featuring all of Jana Monji's coverage from this year's AFI FEST.
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Remember Pearl Harbor and remember how prejudice shaped history.
It's the same the world over. A Hollywood production comes to town, and the locals all turn movie crazy. When a little picture named "Prancer" came to Three Oaks, Mich., I was sitting in the bar and overheard one bearded regular confide in his friend, "See that guy? He's assistant makeup."
As in Michigan, so in Iran. At the height of the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis, with yellow ribbons tied around half the old oak trees in America, a CIA agent and a couple of Hollywood professionals dreamed up a cockamamie scheme to free six Americans who had found refuge in the Canadian embassy. Their existence had to remain a secret to protect Canada's diplomatic status.
Enter the CIA "extractor" Tony Mendez (Ben Affleck), a producer named Lester Siegel (Alan Arkin) and a makeup man named John Chambers (John Goodman). Chambers has a brainstorm: He and Siegel would fabricate a fake sci-fi thriller named "Argo." They would commission a screenplay, pay for storyboards, and buy a big ad in Variety. Mendez would fly alone into Tehran and train the six Americans to impersonate Hollywood pros — the cinematographer and so on.
Their cover: They need desert locations for their movie, which would vaguely resemble "Star Wars." They would tell the Iranians the six people were Canadians who were scouting locations and now need to fly back to North America. One of the most enchanting scenes has Mendez showing the sci-fi storyboards to Iranian authorities, who try their best to conceal what movie buffs they are. At the end of the scene, when Mendez tells them "you can keep em," they're like kids being given an "E.T." poster by Steven Spielberg.
This preposterous scheme is based on fact. Yes, it is. Countless movies are "inspired by real events," but this one truly took place. The extraction of the six Americans remained top secret for 18 years. They all returned safely to America. "Argo," needless to say, was never filmed.
Ben Affleck not only stars in but also directs, and "Argo," the real movie about the fake movie, is both spellbinding and surprisingly funny. Many of the laughs come from the Hollywood guys played by Goodman and Arkin, although to be sure, as they set up a fake production office and hold meetings poolside at the Beverly Hills Hotel, they aren't in danger like their "crew members" in Iran.
Key supporting roles are filled by Bryan Cranston, as the CIA chief who green-lights the scheme, and Victor Garber, as the Canadian ambassador who at great risk opens his embassy's doors to the secret guests. Affleck is brilliant at choreographing the step-by-step risks that the team take in exiting Tehran, and "Argo" has cliff-hanging moments when the whole delicate plan seems likely to split at the seams.
The craft in this film is rare. It is so easy to manufacture a thriller from chases and gunfire, and so very hard to fine-tune it out of exquisite timing and a plot that's so clear to us we wonder why it isn't obvious to the Iranians. After all, who in their right mind would believe a space opera was being filmed in Iran during the hostage crisis? Just about everyone, it turns out. Hooray for Hollywood.
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Black and White Standards
The Washington Post (10/25/2012), in giving President Barack Obama an endorsement for another four years, wrote, "Much of the 2012 presidential campaign has dwelt on the past, but the key questions are who could better lead the country during the next four years — and, most urgently, who is likelier to put the government on a more sound financial footing." The suggestion appears to be that a president is not to be held accountable to his promises and past record and that his past record is no indication of his future behavior. Possibly, the Washington Post people believe that a black president shouldn't be held accountable to his record and campaign promises. Let's look at it.
What about Obama's pledge to cut the deficit in half during his first term in office? Instead, we saw the first trillion-dollar deficit ever, under any president of the United States. Plus, it has been followed by trillion-dollar deficits in every year of his administration. What about Obama's pledge of transparency, in which his legislative proposals would be placed on the Internet days before Congress voted on them so that Americans could inspect them? Obama's major legislative proposal, Obamacare, was enacted in such secrecy and with such speed that even members of Congress did not have time to read it. Remember that it was Rep. Nancy Pelosi who told us, "But we have to pass the (health care) bill so that you can find out what is in it." What about Obama's stimulus packages and promises to get unemployment under control? The Current Employment Statistics program shows that in 2008, the total number of U.S. jobs was more than 138 million, compared with 133.5 million today. As Stanford University economics professor Edward Lazear summed it up, "there hasn't been one day during the entire Obama presidency when as many Americans were working as on the day President Bush left office."
While Obama's national job approval rating is a little less than 50 percent, among blacks his job approval is a whopping 88 percent. I'd like to ask people who approve of Obama's performance, "What has President Obama done during the past four years that you'd like to see more of in the next four years?"
Black support of politicians who have done little or nothing for their ordinary constituents is by no means unusual. Blacks are chief executives of major cities, such as Philadelphia, Detroit, Washington, Memphis, Atlanta, Baltimore, New Orleans, Oakland, Newark, Cleveland and Cincinnati. In most of these cities, the chief of police, the superintendent of schools and other high executives are black. But in these cities, black people, like no other sector of our population, suffer from the highest rates of homicides, assaults, robberies and shootings. Black high-school dropout rates in these cities are the highest in the nation. Even if a black youngster manages to graduate from high school, his reading, writing and computational proficiency is likely to be equivalent to that of a white seventh- or eighth-grader. That's even with school budgets per student being among the highest in the nation.
Last year, in reference to President Obama's failed employment policies and high unemployment among blacks, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., who is chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, said, "If Bill Clinton had been in the White House and had failed to address this problem, we probably would be marching on the White House." That's a vision that seems to explain black tolerance for failed politicians — namely, if it's a black politician whose policies are ineffectual and possibly harmful to the masses of the black community, it's tolerable, but it's entirely unacceptable if the politician is white.
Black people would not accept excuses upon excuses and vote to re-elect decade after decade any white politician, especially a Republican politician, to office who had the failed records of our big-city mayors. What that suggests about black people is not very flattering.
Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.
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Here are two free MP3's from Laws available for download:
Laws feat. Hard Target "Speak Your Mind" (Domination Recordings):
Laws "Must Be a Hit" (Domination Recordings):
More about Laws:
Laws was born in Natal, Brazil. Who moved to Long Island, NY at a very young age. He started rhyming at the age of 14 on corner cyphas. It was about a 3 year period of straight freestyle battling that pretty much molded his patterns and flow that Laws use today. Upon his relocation to Florida, he found himself isolated from the general group of people due to his laughable bias against southerners, etc. Through this isolation, he further developed more skill. The time away from outside influences allowed to birth a style that was all his own.
Before the age of 18, Laws would enter battle competitions in Tampa (1 hour drive, he basically lives in the woods). Laws had to be snuck in using a poor fake ID, and argue for winnings because he was underage. The next couple years saw the release of some local albums with partner/producer L.A. (fellow Long Island, NY native), and the gradual increase of his abilities. Between now and that gray area, Laws has opened for Mars Ill, MF Doom, Snoop Dogg, DJ Premier and the Wu-Tang Clan (who he points out as his highest achievement thus far). He has considerable amounts of air time on all of the major Florida stations (with no radio single nonetheless).
Laws found out about Domination Recordings thru Majik Most who is one of the local heroes that he met through one of his various battles attended. He liked my stuff; we linked up, and worked on some tracks that never saw the light of day. We have the same kind of sick, twisted humor so the collaboration we just recently did is sure to knock some socks off said Laws who will be featured on Majik Mosts new album You Got Jokes?!
To wrap this all up, Laws says: Im not a crusader for hip hop. I never stand on stage arguing the existence of hip hops life or death. Im just a regular guy with exceptional lyricism that enjoys hard hitting beats. Excellent choice of words from one of the next dope MCs!
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Metsblog at McFaddens. WIN TIME!
Thanks to Matt Cerrone of the always informative Metsblog for organizing a truly fun outing to watch the Mets play like we expect them to. For the photo album, click here! I was there last night with my friend Diane and fellow blogger SNK of You Can't Script Baseball, who were both the best of company.
I will say, I noticed the crowd was less effusive than they've been at past McFadden's Metsblog events. Perhaps it's because this wasn't a postseason game. Or perhaps it's because we've had a…tough week. Ok, team, remember what I said about momentum? Now's the time to harness it. No, really. NOW. But still, everyone at McFadden's had a great time cheering our boys, and I remembered once again that Mets fans ROCK.
Special shout out to the "Pick Me Up Some Mets" readers I met last night: Emily and Cory, whose picture I didn't get, alas, Birthday Boy Phil (pictured below, getting friendly) and his friends, Happy Mike and his nip-loving Australian friends, and Mookie Jersey Guy, whose batting practice uni Matt admired. (Um, next time I promise to write down names.)
Here are some more pics from last night (click to enlarge):
As to the moments I love to bring you? Oh, there were several. How about Tim Hudson's reaction to Carlos Delgado's HOME RUN (read his lips). You go, Carlos D!
Or this shot right after of someone giving Jose Reyes the treatment he recently gave Ruben Gotay. Could it have been Ruben? Reyes looks just as peeved, which is total fun.
And then there's just the sheer joy of seeing Pedro Martinez again. Advising pitchers. Dancing in the dugout. That's our guy.
Finally, at the end of the night, with Conan O'Brien on my TV, I saw this, which was too perfect a comparison to let go. If Conan had to cast A-Rod in a movie, guess who he'd use?
Usually this is when I (affectionately) tease poor Matt a little, but not this time. Cap tip, buddy!
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I think his name is Phil. He is really hot.
Ha. Is Phil red shirt, birthday boy, or jersey guy? I'll correct🙂
good stuff, zoe! If maybe a bit off center, haha…red shirt MAY not have a future in photography… Fun night, fun win🙂
Phil is clearly the hot birthday boy. I believe Red Shirt is Chris Garcia.
YAY! PICS! You guys looked like you had so much fun – shame on you LOL! seriously, wish i could have made it but I'm sure you respect my weekend long Mets sabbatical! Though i still text everyone under the sun for info…but in all fairness someone asked me and I said I would talk to my "people" LOL. Now I have to ask – why is the DJ known as "******-Jag?"


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Candice Manacchio, CND Education Ambassador created this glitzy chevron design exclusively for ELLE.com. We're loving how this wintery look is perking up our digits.
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