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After scoring just four goals in their first three games, the Northern Lakes Lightning boys' hockey team offense has come to life with 23 goals in the past four games to improve to 4-3 overall.
Last week, the Lightning won a pair of home games at Breezy Point Arena as they edged Monticello 4-3 on Tuesday, Dec. 11, and then dominated Bagley-Fosston 7-2 on Thursday, Dec. 13.
"It was a matter of gaining confidence," said Northern Lakes coach Shawn Chambers. "We're also moving the puck well. Our senior line (center Kegan Couture with forwards Ben Moe and Aspen Florey) is scoring most of the goals. They have good chemistry together."
In the two games, Couture combined for one goal and six assists, Moe added five goals and Florey had two goals and three assists.
The Lightning was scheduled to host Wadena-Deer Creek on Tuesday, Dec. 18, and then play at Park Rapids Area on Thursday, Dec. 20.
Lightning 7, Bagley-Fosston 2
Moe tallied a hat trick and Florey added a pair of goals as Northern Lakes defeated the Flyers in a non-conference game on Dec. 13.
Kyle Narveson and Nick Blanchette also scored goals for the Lightning while Couture had three assists and Florey and Gavin Bickford each had two.
Goaltender Mitch Stangel made 26 saves for the Lightning.
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First period: NL-Ben Moe (Kegan Couture, Damian Jensen) :16; NL-Nick Blanchette (Gaven Bickford, Dalton Rickard) 3:07
Second period: NL-Aspen Florey (Bickford) 4:21; NL-Florey (shg) 7:37; BF-Aaron Leintz 9:29; NL-Moe (Couture, Florey) 11:01; NL-Moe (Florey, Couture) 14:04
Third period: NL-Kyle Narveson 3:12; BF-Leintz (Sean LaVine) 10:22
Shots on goal: NL 41, BF 28
Goalies: NL-Mitch Stangel (26 saves); BF-Kenneth Davis (34 saves).
Lightning 4, Monticello 3
Couture scored the game-winner during a third-period power-play goal, and assisted on three other goals, to lead Northern Lakes to a non-conference win over the Magic on Dec. 11.
Moe scored short-handed in the first and added an even-strength score in the third while Alex Galligan netted a power-play goal in the second. Couture assisted on all three.
"It was a big win since Monticello is also in Section 8AA," said Chambers, whose squad is 2-0 against Section 8AA teams since they also defeated Becker-Big Lake. "That should help us with (playoff seeding)."
Stangel turned aside 22 shots for the Lightning.
Monticello 1 0 2 — 3
Northern Lakes 1 1 2 — 4
First period: M-Robbie Stromme 4:36; NL-Ben Moe (Kegan Couture, Derrek French) (shg) 6:24
Second period: NL-Alex Galligan (Couture) (ppg) 14:58
Third period: M-Stromme (Spencer Nelson) :18; NL-Moe (Couture) 3:52; M-Reese Carstens (Colton Jones) (ppg) 7:09; NL-Couture (Aspen Florey, Gaven Bickford) (ppg) 13:21
Shots on goal: NL 22, M 25
Goalies: NL-Stangel (22 saves); M-Darien Jones (18 saves)


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Stargazers have several celestial treats in store for March, from a comet and a partial lunar eclipse to the vernal equinox heralding the first day of spring.
Coloradans should have some gorgeous nighttime views, weather permitting, and those in the Boulder area can attend regular open houses at the University of Colorado at Boulder each Friday in March, except March 28, and April, according to astronomer Katy Garmany, director of Fiske Planetarium and Sommers-Bausch Observatory.
A special eclipse open house is set for Sunday, March 23, from 6:30 p.m. until 11 p.m., weather permitting, at Sommers-Bausch Observatory. Visitors can view the sky through the telescopes, but comet Hale-Bopp will be too low on the horizon and too far north to be visible with the observatorys fixed instruments.
The comet, discovered in July 1995, can be seen as a fuzzy object in the morning sky about an hour before dawn above the eastern horizon through the end of March. On March 22 it will make its closest approach to Earth and become visible both in the evening after sunset and in the morning before sunrise. Good evening viewing should continue through April.
Comets are dirty ice balls thought to be remnants from the solar systems formation. By observing Hale-Bopp with high-tech instruments astronomers hope to learn more about the origin of Earth and its planets.
On March 23 the full moon moves into the shadow of Earth cast by the sun. The eclipse will be partial, blotting out about 93 percent of the moons surface and lasting around three hours during the darkest phase. The shadow will begin to show around 6:45 p.m. and continue until about one-half hour after midnight.
Although the full moon ordinarily would cast too much light to permit viewers to see Hale-Bopp, the March 23 partial eclipse will give stargazers a bonus viewing window for the comet.
Also in March the sun will be directly over the equator for the vernal equinox on March 20 at 6:55 a.m. (MST), the moment spring begins, and Mars will make the closest approach to Earth in its two-year cycle on March 17. Views of the Red Planet should be good in March and the first half of April, particularly on March 23, when Mars will be seen close to the partially eclipsed full moon.
Sommers-Bausch Observatory and Fiske Planetarium are located on the CU-Boulder campus near the corner of Regent Drive and Kittredge Loop Road. For information about public programs call (303) 492-5001 for a recorded message or (303) 492-5002 to speak to staff.
For tips on how and when to view Hale-Bopp, CU-Boulders Sommers-Bausch Observatory maintains an electronic home page on the World Wide Web designed for non-scientists at http://lyra.colorado.edu/sbo/hale-bopp/.
University of Colorado at Boulder astronomer Keith Gleason offers these tips for viewing comet Hale-Bopp:
Leave the city lights behind and find a dark place with views of the horizon.
Let your eyes adapt to the dark, about five to 10 minutes.
Look slightly off to the side of the comet rather than straight at it for a better view of the tail.
For closer views, use binoculars, which often are better than telescopes for comet viewing.
Take your time and enjoy the show. The longer you look the more detail youll see, Gleason says.
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Making a mistake during your marathon training can be disastrous. Make sure you stay on target andachieve the time you deserve with these 10 marathon training tips
Mistake: You don't enter an event before your marathon
Training regularly is all well and good, but what do you do when you don't seem to improve or progress?
The answer: enter a race before your marathon.
If you don't enter a race before your big day you'll struggle to push yourself and your sessions will lack focus.
Mistake: You overtrain
Running a marathon is a daunting prospect and understandably you want to prepare as much as possible. But if you overtrain you will injure or exhaust yourself.
For most people, the best you can realistically do is five to six training sessions a week.
However, you still need to include one full rest day in your week. Ensure that the quality of your sessions remains high.
Mistake: You don't run for a reason
Although running for the love of running is great, sometimes it can be really helpful to have a reason to run.
During the second half of your marathon race the challenge is just as much about your mental attitude as it is your physical abilities.
Running for a charity that means something to you is sometimes the best way to stay focused and boost your motivation when the going gets tough come race day.
Mistake: You skip interval training
Want to get faster?
Then make sure you fit in some decent interval sessions.
Running steadily is great for your endurance but it doesn't help you to run faster.
On the other hand, interval training will speed you up.
Mistake: You ignore the 10 per cent rule
The 10 per cent rule is in place so that you do not push yourself too hard, too soon.
To stick to the 10 per cent rule you should not increase the distance of your previous long run by more than 10 per cent each time you head out.
If you ignore the 10 per cent rule you'll risk injuring yourself, which may mean you don't even make it to the start line.
Mistake: You don't refuel post-run
What you do after your marathon training session is just as important as what you do during your session.
Within 15 minutes of finishing your run have a glucose-replacement drink.
This will make sure you hydrate and top up your glucose levels. Then, within two hours of your run, eat a meal that includes protein and carbohydrates. And drink several glasses of water.
Mistake: You don't adjust your shoes
Running is not a glamorous sport and if you're in any doubt about this ask any serious runner to remove their shoes and take a look at their black or non-existent toenails.
"Runner's toe" is common among long-distance runners, but it can be counteracted.
The condition typically occurs when your feet heat up on a long run.
The heat causes your feet to expand and the space within your shoe to reduce.
As a result your toe hits the inside of your shoe, which damages the nail.
Buying correctly fitting running shoes will help you avoid this discomfort.
You should adjust your shoe during your run to give your expanding feet more room.
Mistake: You stretch your muscles before they are warmed up
Stretching can sometimes seem like a complex business, but if you want to work on your flexibility you should not stretch before your muscles are fully warmed up.
This is because muscles that have not been warmed up are inelastic and stretching them may result in an injury.
Instead, wait until your muscles are relaxed and fit in a flexibility session after your run when your muscles will be warm.
Ideally you can do your flexibility stretches during your cool-down.
Mistake: You exercise during your taper
Tapering is an important and essential part of any marathon training plan.
If you don't want to end up lagging in your race on marathon day you need to stick to the taper set out in your training plan.
So not only should you not run to excess, you should not do any other form of exercise for long periods.
A little cycling or some walking may be okay, but remember the taper period is an opportunity for your body to recover and prepare for your marathon.
Mistake: You pick the wrong training plan
There are hundreds of training plans on offer, but which one is for you?
Do a little bit of research into who the training plan has been created for and pick a plan that matches your ability.
Otherwise you will not be properly prepared for the race.
Marathon training plans are typically 16 weeks, but a lead-in period can be useful if you are not an experienced runner.
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Tosa high schools unite in fight against cancer
West, East raise funds at crosstown basketball game, donate hair to Locks of Love
From an afternoon of basketball games to getting their hair cut for a cause, Wauwatosa students led the charge against cancer in two events that brought together students from both East and West: Locks of Love, which took place Friday, and the Coaches vs. Cancer basketball event, which took place Saturday. Both events were hosted at Wauwatosa West High School.
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The Locks of Love event, organized by West junior Laura Carlson, senior Maggie Boyle and freshman Emily Katula, had roughly 50 students each donate at least 10 inches of their hair to cancer patients.
The hair might not directly help rid the patients of cancer, but it gives them something everyone needs in a battle: confidence. The hair will be made into wigs for those going through chemotherapy.
The Locks of Love event is in its sixth year and has been student-run since its inception by Laura Engel, who has since graduated from West.
Carlson remembers sitting with her friends at last year's event, getting their hair cut by Paul Mitchell beauty school students. This year she picked up the trimming tradition and was a key organizer of the event.
"It makes me feel good to contribute to our school and allow kids to pay back to the community," she said. "It's good to donate hair to those who actually need it."
She and the other organizers not only showed up to school at 7 a.m. to make preparations possible, but they filmed a video showing students why donating their hair was important.
The video featured a woman who lost her hair to cancer, a father with a brain tumor and a 5-year-old child who has cancer. In the video the woman explained that losing her hair was akin to losing a part of her beauty. She recollected how chunks would fall out at once and how knowing that students donated their hair changed her, giving her courage.
Not only did Carlson and crew set up the video, but they worked to change the bell times, set a date for the event, call and organize Paul Mitchell students with school administrators and provide all the materials, including rubber bands and T-shirts.
"We always want to teach our students to be good citizens," Principle Frank Calarco said. "This event has filled that void of giving back to the greater good."
Whiting out cancer
While Wauwatosa East and West battled each other on the basketball court, they found themselves united in the battle against cancer.
The theme for the Coaches vs. Cancer event was to "white out" cancer by selling and wearing white shirts.
Cancer has touched the lives of many, but hit especially hard for Wauwatosa high school basketball. Former West coach Mike Landisch died from kidney cancer Sept. 25, 2011. Landisch also played for East's basketball team when he was in high school.
"When I learned about Mike's battle with cancer and how he fought it, there is a bigger message there for kids to be thinking about what it takes," Wauwatosa East Coach Tim Arndorfer said. "I think the community is really trying to rally behind his name and keep his memory alive, continuing the fight against cancer."
Arndorfer remembers Landisch as a fiery competitor who put his struggle with cancer on the back burner, focusing on being a father and teacher first.
Both teams worked feverishly to sell the shirts during lunch. When all was said and done, they sold every shirt they ordered, a total of 270. The shirts were sold at a $5 profit, which was then given to the Wauwatosa Relay for Life.
Students were busy raising money during halftime as well. They ran around bleachers with buckets asking for donations from the crowd and raised $425. That, coupled with the money from the shirts, totaled to over $1,775 raised.
Wauwatosa West coach Chad Stelse said this event wasn't just about his friend and colleague Landisch, but about all the survivors and loved ones who will be missed.
"This game gives us an opportunity to remind some of our players and the kids at school who might be dealing with someone struggling with a cancer fight that there is a lot of support out there," Arndorfer said.
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Over $1,775
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Over 500
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Nick Tennant builds LED business after leaving medical marijuana trade school
As Crain's Detroit Business approaches the May 5 unveiling of the 20 in their 20s Class of 2014, we catch up with some of the previous award recipients.
Nick Tennant, 20 in their 20s, Class of 2010
Then: Nick Tennant was 24 and founder and president of Med Grow Cannabis College, a trade school for state-licensed medical marijuana growers and caregivers.
Now: Tennant is 28 and works at Royal Oak-based Elumatech, a company that retrofits businesses with high-efficiency LED lighting systems, which he co-founded in February 2013.
What has happened since you were honored as a Twenty in their 20s? "I continued to work on Med Grow, but eventually, I saw the legislation relating to marijuana tightening up in Michigan and other opportunities not opening up like we thought they would, including medical marijuana dispensaries.
"I decided to take a buyout by my partners and began looking at other opportunities, and passed on several, before I went ahead and executed this one at Elumatech."
What's next? "I'm going to focus internally on growing Elumatech. It's a young company with tremendous opportunity, and we have a really highly motivated staff."
"It will probably take three to five years to get the business built to meet our executive goal, but I believe the business model makes a lot of sense to make that happen."
Advice to the new Twenty in their 20s class? "Try to find mentors that have been down the road before. The phrase 'nothing fails like success' is true. Young people tend to get a successful company and think they can relax, but you really have to stay driven because things tend to fall apart more often than staying organized."


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Graffiti Vandalism in California Ave Underpass
Original post made by Adrienne Mayor, Old Palo Alto, on Jun 7, 2012
Sadly, the mural was originally created in 1996 to discourage graffiti.
Most spray paint tags that have (rarely) appeared in the tunnel have been easy to erase.
But this latest vandalism has destroyed an entire panel of the sea creature paintings and they cannot be recovered.
Isn't there some sort of clear protectant seal that could be applied to the mural, so that spray paint graffiti could be easily removed without damaging the original painting?
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a resident of Midtown
on Jun 7, 2012 at 12:04 pm
This tunnel is just outdated. If it were wider and more brightly lit, I doubt this kind of thing would happen. I don't recall ever seeing graffiti at the Homer Ave tunnel.
The California Ave tunnel needs to be replaced. It is too steep and narrow for wheelchairs and those silly traps at each end block bicycle child trailers.
The city should replace the tunnel as part of the California Ave remodeling project. A better tunnel would be more inviting to people living east of the train tracks and bring a lot more customers to the California Ave businesses.
a resident of another community
on Jun 7, 2012 at 8:35 pm
Graffiti is the equivalent of a dog urinating on a fence post to mark it's territory.
We could learn a lot from Singapore in dealing with graffiti.
Singapore acknowledges that there is a segment of society that acts like animals and will only respond when treated like animals.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Jun 9, 2012 at 8:22 am
to Outside Observer:
How, exactly, should someone treat an animal?
Do you think it should be punishment?
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Or negative reinforcement?
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Animals should be treated with care, respect, tenderness, and love.
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on Jun 9, 2012 at 10:07 am
Here's how: Web Link
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Jun 10, 2012 at 1:52 pm
wow, really impressed by the helpful on-target comments here.
a resident of Fairmeadow
on Jun 11, 2012 at 9:38 am
Back to the tunnel itself--
I hadn't noticed the graffiti, but it appears to have been painted over; there where some 'City of Palo Alto - Wet Paint' signs taped up the last time I went through there. But a much bigger problem is that the plaster work has deterioriated significantly, seemingly within the past few months. Good-sized chunks of the art work are flaking off, maybe from water seepage.
a resident of College Terrace
on Jun 14, 2012 at 6:19 pm
As I was walking my bike through the tunnel a few weeks ago, I noticed someone working on repainting a section of the mural. I said something like "Why would these kids do such a thing?" The painter replied that it wouldn't have been so bad if it was just the plain blue ("water") parts. But the kids had messed up the fish and there was no way to properly restore the artwork to its original state.
Let's try to get surveillance cameras installed in this tunnel to keep both people and property safer.
Punishment for the criminals who did this? Community Service. And lots of it, please.
a resident of Leland Manor/Garland Drive
on Dec 26, 2012 at 8:23 pm
This sort of thing is why people hate graffiti. In reality, this does not represent what graffiti is at all and makes it look like pointless and disgusting vandalism, which it is not. Only a toy, or unexperienced and disrespectful writer or "graffiti tagger" as ignorant civilians call them would go over a beautiful mural that has been there for years. Graffiti is not pointless vandalism, it is an artform and people should learn to distinguish between the different forms of graffiti and vandalism.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Dec 27, 2012 at 12:43 pm
> this does not represent what graffiti is at all and makes it look like pointless and disgusting vandalism,
Graffitti is vandalism for all practical purposes.
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, I was walking downtown and noticed that many of the big plate glass storefront windows on the "southwest" side of University had been scratched with those diamonds scribes with graffiti.
Tens of thousands of dollars worth of damage from some criminal psychopath who thinks it's fun to ruin stuff. You can still see through the windows in fact if you walk fast you don't notice it much, but there are many windows, and then mirrors in businesses that have had this scratching treatment.
I really wish the police would catch and make an example of these vandals ... and may I add most of the it is not in English.
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Pueblo neighborhood tackles hazardous waste concerns
PUEBLO, Colo - A plan to deal with contamination in a Pueblo neighborhood isn't sitting well with some homeowners. It's happening in the Eilers neighborhood, located on the south side near I-25 and Santa Fe. There are homes there now but back in the 1800s it was a smelter site.
Neighbors are worried about how the Environmental Protection Agency wants to deal with the problem. They're taking those concerns to Pueblo City Council Monday.
The area's history as a smelter site prompted the state to test 47 homes in the neighborhood. Of the 47 homes, five had elevated levels of arsenic and 15 had elevated levels of lead. The EPA wants to list that neighborhood as a Superfund site, which would allow the EPA to clean up the site. But some neighbors worry the money to clean up the site won't arrive. They say there are other neighborhoods that have been declared a Superfund site and stopped receiving funding before the site was cleaned up. One of those concerned neighbors will be speaking before Pueblo City Council Monday.
KRDO-TV spoke with that neighbor off camera. She says she'll ask city council members not to write a letter to Governor Hickenlooper to put the neighborhood on the EPA's Superfund site. She says neighbors still have a lot of questions about what the EPA's involvement means and don't want to make rash decisions.
Neighbors are also concerned having their neighborhood declared a Superfund site would lower the property value of their homes.


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Of course, what beachy daydream is complete without a good swimsuit? While browsing on dem interwebs, I had trouble deciding whether I'd want to be sexy, quirky, or vintage? All three are flattering and all three kinda suit me (bad pun intended). Plus, all three go well with sand and waves . . . Which would you choose??
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I love the vintage suits :)ReplyDelete
I'd go for the polka-dot one! That's so pretty... Yes, I could do with some time chilling on a beach too... Have a lovely week xoReplyDelete
i love them all but number 2. but that's because when i put on suits like number 2 it makes me look like i'm wearing a diaper. not exactly my best look.ReplyDelete
Hrrm, I haven't worn a one piece in ages but I'd most likely go with SEXY because who wants awkward tan lines?ReplyDelete
i love these picks!! definatly gorgeous! xoReplyDelete
I am loving the striped vintage bikini! Absolutely adorable!ReplyDelete
LOVE the retro swimwear! in fact, just got a little suit that is vintage inspired :) My favorite here is the polka dot 1 piece...adorable!!! XO brynnReplyDelete
I love the top middle one and the bottom right. If I didn't have a big ol' prego belly I'd consider getting one. These are so cute!!!ReplyDelete
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i am so loving the vintage vibe.ReplyDelete
Those are so so cute! I need a new bathing suit for the summer!ReplyDelete
These are all pretty great! I tend to lean towards vintage myself...the polka dot one is amazing!ReplyDelete
I'm leaning toward vintage although the bottom middle suit is adorable!ReplyDelete
i am obsessd with these! seriously- lets be pool twins? haReplyDelete
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Love a vintage suit! Also, really loving your blog, I am your newest follower :)ReplyDelete
I'm liking the high waisted ones! And all of a sudden I'm open to one pieces!ReplyDelete
My fave is #6 ~ the two-piece in the bottom right corner. So cute!ReplyDelete


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It's a new day, a new year boys and girls. Opening day is here again!
This year the Yanks come in sort of underdogs. The Red Sox had a huge off-season and of course are the favorites to win the AL East. The Rays how've been the upstarts have been raided and lost many pieces, can they still hang with the big boys?
Will Robinson Cano continue his upswing and be the new face of the Franchise? Alex looked young again in Spring Training, will that trend continue? Was Mark Teixiera's 2010 season a fluke? Or a sign of things to come? Can Larry Rothschild fix Aj Burnett? How will PJ Hughes follow up his 18 win season? Will the bullpen be as dominant as people predict? What can we expect from Joba? Will Mo tell anyone else where the Fountain of Youth is?
A lot of questions need answering and it's sure to be an exciting season once again!!


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Leading men gallantly allowed the ladies to take the spotlight but are trying harder to make their own fashion statement.
Watching the red carpet arrivals at the Oscars, it's easy to see this is a woman's game: singer Jennifer Hudson tells TV host Ryan Seacrest that her stylist cried when she finally chose her dress and Django Unchain-ed's Kerry Washington goes into detail about the specific sparkle of her manicure.
The men? Although film-maker Judd Apatow offers up the tidbit that he had to get a six year old shirt from his closet - having gained too much weight to wear the one originally laid out – the men are rarely asked about where their designer suits are from.
That's a shame, because the guys have stepped up their game. Although the show's opening number featured a dance floor filled with traditional black tuxedos and black ties, there were plenty of actors who dressed outside of the Armani-approved box.
There was Samuel Jackson, resplendent in a red velvet tuxedo jacket and black satin shirt, looking like he might have raided the costume department of one of his earlier movies, Pulp Fiction. By doing so, he learned an important rule of awards night dressing, also known as the Bjork Swan Dress Theory: the wackier you look, the more camera time you get. Since Jackson wasn't that recognisable in Django Unchained, he probably wanted to ensure that audiences won't forget what he really looks like.
That film's star, Jamie Foxx, opted for a grey suit with contrast black lapels. Wayward for an Oscar nominee – the colour was a tad too casual – it wasn't exactly a gasp-worthy Cher moment, either.
Others also eschewed black. Best Supporting Actor winner Christoph Waltz wore a blue suit, as did actors Jason Schwartzman and Chris Tucker, while Daniel Day-Lewis chose a midnight-blue Domenico Vacca suit. Day-Lewis apparently was in character as Abraham Lincoln the whole time he was shooting that title role; looks like he shed that sartorial bad influence – the Lincoln beard crosses the line from scruffy to a three-months-lost-in-the-woods look - just in time for his red carpet appearance.
At any rate, there were so many beards on display, that Ben Affleck's Beard had his Twitter account in overdrive. ("I look good from this angle," Ben Affleck's Beard tweeted.)
Hair was a big talking point among the commentators, with Kelly Osbourne and her colleagues trying to work out on E!'s live red carpet show whether Silver Linings Playboo-k's Bradley Cooper had used gel or Brylcreem to achieve his slicked-back effect. (This writer's verdict: Cooper is a fine chunk of actor-ness – his girl appeal was raised further when he brought his mother as his date - but he has to hold back on the hair product, stat.)
Channing Tatum's hair was on the one-number-too-far buzz cut side of military, but Lincoln's Joseph Gordon-Levitt achieved the right kind of mousse-laden, Mad Men coiff.
One surprising red carpet trend? A kilt. It was first trotted out by host Seth MacFarlane's father, Ron, who decided to wear his only kilt on the night, combined with "my sleek black garden sloggers. Fashionable, yet oh so comfortable," according to his tweet before the big day. Perhaps it gave the winner of Best Animated Feature Film, Mark Andrews, an idea: the Brave director and co-writer – way to live your film's title, man! – also stepped out onto the stage in a kilt. Please, George Clooney, stick to the facial hair trend for now.
Who looked liked they'd studied the Academy Awards Dressing 101 handbook? Ben Affleck: dapper and handsome in a three-piece suit. Chris Pine: rocking the heck out a double-breasted suit. Richard Gere and Dustin Hoffman: when you're part of the old guard, you can wear a regular tie.
And who needed help? Quentin Tarantino is so adept at making brilliantly creative movies that he doesn't have time to tie the top button of his shirt. Director Tim Burton cleverly matched his black sling to his outfit, but appears to be sharing wayward hair tips with his wife, Helena Bonham Carter. It's always good to see couples who theme dress, though: he had the hurt arm, and she donned a dress whose bottom looked like a roll of white bandages, always at the ready in case he tripped over Charlize Theron's train.
Still, one had to look hard for men making deliberately interesting fashion choices. Eddie Redmayne chose footwear that resembled soft black slippers, all the better for staying upright after the long speeches and champagne. Robert Downey Jr emitted rock star appeal in head-to-toe black; John Travolta had the same look, but didn't pull it off in quite the same way.
Perhaps there will be more emphasis on men's dressing in the future, though. When asked what his expectations for the night were, Argo's Bryan Cranston had this to say on the red carpet: "We're hoping for a wardrobe malfunction, at least on someone. That's always exciting."


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So will the new laureate position tame him or slow him down? Conley shakes his head. He's not going to stop writing letters. He's not going to withdraw lawsuits like the one against the local scrapyard alleging their constant tamping and banging on the scrap heap, has caused structural damage to his building. "I'm me," he says. "I'm 74 years old. Am I going to change? No."
"I was New England Golden Gloves middleweight champion, too," he adds. "So I don't back away from a fight." Wearing loafers, grey slacks, a white Notre Dame golf shirt, and a gold Irish cross hanging around his neck, he looks fit and feisty.
His resume reads like a menu for a lifetime's feast of activity. In 1987, the Providence Business News listed him as the city's largest private landowner. He has been awarded a Rhode Island National Guard Medal for Excellence. But he has been divorced three times and declared personal bankruptcy twice, too.
Conley tells me about his acceptance speech at the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame in 1995: "I said that, 'When I got the letter, I had to look at it twice . . . I didn't know if said 'fame' or 'shame.' "
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Musing on the power of convention
Howard Wainer
Many answers have been proposed to the riddle that the Mad Hatter posed to Alice at their famous tea party (for example, because Poe wrote on both). Let me argue for yet another one: the power of convention.
As I compose this essay, the writing desk I am using is a spanking new Macintosh laptop with many gigabytes of storage and enormous computing power. Its screen is a marvel of full-color clarity; it has a built-in video camera and microphone, and hence allows multiple methods of input and output. Yet it has a QWERTY keyboard. Why QWERTY?
The QWERTY keyboard, named for the order of the keys on the left side of the first row of letter keys, was invented in 1873 by Christopher Sholes, a Milwaukee newspaper editor. Its purpose was to split up keys that were commonly hit serially so that a too-fast typist would not jam the associated type bars. In addition to its primary goal of slowing things down, it also aided left-handed English language typists, for far more words can be typed with only the keys under the left hand than under the right.
Now, since its purpose has been long anachronistic, why do we still persist in using it? The reason is, of course, the power of convention. After it became the conventional keyboard layout and touch typists learned it, they were loath to give it up and learn a different system, even if the newer system was demonstrably superior. And so now, almost 150 years later, QWERTY has survived; and, because virtually all subsequent generations learn to type using it, the likelihood of its being improved remains small.
In his 1801 Statistical Breviary, William Playfair, the Scot who invented many forms of statistical graphics, proposed the pie chart. Playfair's pie had but three segments and showed what proportions of the Turkish Empire were in Europe, Asia and Africa. It worked very well. Indeed, to test its efficacy, one can easily demonstrate that a small child can tell that 1/3 is larger than 1/4 from a pie chart far more easily than from the fractions themselves. But since Playfair's time, pie charts have become conventional and thus are often used to display much more complex information, this despite strong evidence that a pie chart's efficacy in such a situation is suspect.
In 1990, the New York Times used a pie very much like the one shown in the first figure to communicate the content of what New Yorkers typically discard. The content is a remarkably apt metaphor for the quality of the plot.
We can tell how much of each component is discarded, but only by reading the amount from the label. Because we must read the graph rather than see it, what value is added by the pictorial representation over the numerical? Concerns such as these led the statistician William Cleveland, in his 1985 book The Elements of Graphing Data, to propose the dot chart as an alternative. He found, through a series of experiments, that humans could visually judge lengths far more accurately than areas or angles. So by transforming the pie segments to line segments punctuated with a large dot, he was able to produce a plot that has, in this instance, substantially better perceptual characteristics than Playfair's pie (second figure). Nevertheless, in the intervening 23 years the popularity of the overmatched pie has not decreased, and, sadly, the use of Cleveland's excellent proposal has seen no substantial increase.
Once again, the reason is convention.
It is natural to ask how long it takes for a genuinely superior product to supplant one that is well established. For the pie chart 20 years is not enough; for the QWERTY keyboard it is 150 years and still counting.
One would think that the speed with which convention is overturned depends strongly on how much of an improvement the unconventional technique provides—and how much evidence is available to support the replacement. Would that it were so.
A powerful final example further demonstrates the obstinacy of convention and provides the connection with the raven in the title.
pronounced Ka-ma-gui, is the Korean word for raven, written in the remarkable Hangul alphabet. To understand the relevance of this example, we must go back almost six centuries. China's culture dominated Asia for centuries, so it isn't surprising that the written Korean language of the 15th century used Chinese characters. Yet because the Korean language uses inflections and suffixes to add or modify meaning, whereas Chinese sentences are qualified with particles, the use of Chinese characters was far from an ideal match. In addition, Chinese characters, known as hanja, were complex, numerous and so difficult to write that literacy was reserved for aristocrats.
Sejong the Great (1397–1450), the fourth king of the Joseon Dynasty (1393-1910) apparently deplored the fact that common people, ignorant of Chinese characters, were practically forced into illiteracy. He felt that this deficiency had important practical consequences, for they had no way of submitting grievances to the authorities for possible redress. Nor could they record their thoughts or experiences for posterity, placing obvious severe limits on the breadth of Korean science and art.
To ameliorate this situation, King Sejong set about creating an alphabet especially suited for the Korean language, and his success provided a model for others. It is far beyond the goals of this essay to explain the details of the Hangul alphabet. Instead let me choose a few of its distinguishing features.
First, it is completely phonetic. Thus, if you can already speak and understand the Korean language, all you need to do to be able to read and write is to memorize the symbols representing the 10 basic vowel sounds and the 14 basic consonant sounds. Apart from a few minor exceptions, the phonetic value of each symbol is invariant. Thus, any letter string, even if unfamiliar or nonsensical, can be sounded out instantly and accurately. There is never a need to consult a dictionary for sounds or spellings. Contrast this with how the sound 'f' is represented in English—fat, photo, laugh; how the same vowel, say 'a,' can have many different sounds—fat, farm, face, fall, hurrah; and some letters in English have no sound at all—psalm, indict.
Each Korean character usually consists of two or three components: (1) a consonant plus (2) a vowel, or (1) a consonant plus (2) a vowel plus (3) a consonant. Thus, each Hangul character is of one syllable structured as:
The accompanying table lists the Hangul letters and their approximate pronunciation in English. To see how easy it is to spell and read in Hangul, consider the two-syllable word "Hangul" which is written
Use the table to sound out the written word.
Second, great effort was expended to aid memory. Each consonant sound is constructed to look like your mouth when you say it! In English, only one letter has this characteristic ('o'). In Hangul all consonants have this characteristic. Sometimes the letter looks like the shape of the mouth viewed from the front (for example,
the letter 'mium', which is an "m" sound pronounced with the lips spaced a little apart). Often the letter is a stylized drawing of the mouth when looked at from the side after a vertical cut down the center of the head, where the location of the lips and tongue indicate the letter. For example,
the letter 'nium,' an 'n' sound, depicts the outline of the tongue touching the upper palate.
And pronouncing the letter
'shiot' requires that the tip of the tongue and the upper teeth be brought close together; it is created by blowing through that narrowed passage.
In addition, the very names of the letters provide information on their pronunciation. So, for example, the letter 'rial'
is pronounced as an 'r' at the beginning of a syllable and as an 'l' when it appears at the end of a syllable. Compare with mium, which has an 'm' sound at both ends of a word.
It was generally agreed that a clever person could learn the entire alphabet in a morning and so go from illiterate to literate by lunchtime. Contrast this task with the 20th century Chinese requirement that children must learn at least 2,000 hanja characters by the end of high school to be considered sufficiently literate.
It would seem that this wonderful innovation would be adopted rapidly, but alas the power of convention prevailed. Confucian scholars of the 15th century believed that hanja was the only legitimate writing system. Choi Manli, a senior scholar of the time, presented a petition to the king criticizing the new alphabet:
Since the new alphabet is so easily understood, I fear that the people will fall into laziness and never make efforts to learn. Those who do not use Chinese characters but other letters and alphabets, such as Mongols, Sohans, Jurchens, Japanese and Tibetans, are all barbarians without exception. To use new letters would make us barbarians ourselves.
He continued,
Why does Your Highness seek to alter a language that has been used since early antiquity and has no ill effects, and place alongside it a set of coarse and vulgar characters of no worth at all? Is not this script, moreover, a mere transcription of the words spoken by the peasants, without the slightest resemblance to the original Chinese Characters?
Despite opposition of this sort, Hangul's use as an official Korean alphabet grew in fits and starts, although it took fully 500 years before it became widely accepted as the Korean alphabet.
I hope that I have demonstrated that it is not unreasonable to believe that the inertia of convention acts as a drag on innovation. Yet simply recognizing this obstacle will not make the power of convention disappear, nor should it. When faced with a single communication task (for example, reporting the results of an experiment in a research paper), we should first consider the conventional way to do it. If such an approach allows it to be done adequately, then that is a sensible path to follow; fighting convention can age you quickly. If, on the other hand, the task is but the first of many (for example, writing the first of many national statistics reports, with many similar data sets—see Pickle et al.), the cost of fighting convention may be amortized over the long run.
What have we learned from these examples? It seems to me that QWERTY has little to recommend it, and various alternatives have already been proposed. August Dvorak, a professor of education at the University of Washington, patented one in 1936. The 1985 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records tells us that Barbara Blackburn, the fastest typist on record (150 words per minute for 50 minutes, with peaks of 212 words per minute), set her record on a Dvorak keyboard. Obviously improvements are possible and some experiments in design should allow us to build on Dvorak's design. Implementing such an innovation is easy, since programmable keyboards can allow those whose touch-typing skills require QWERTY to keep it, but as we start teaching the new keyboard in schools, graduates who can perform better will transform the old keyboard to the new. One generation should just about do it.
Pie charts have little to recommend them over Cleveland's dot charts; as soon as those who write graphic software replace pies with dots as the default option, we will see the end of this over-used invention.
The 15th century complaints from scholars about the ease of learning Hangul are surely relevant today. Yet that should not dissuade the Chinese and Japanese governments from considering the costs of keeping their ancient writing systems. Perhaps a Hangul-like Chinese keyboard might have more than 34 keys (24 letters plus 10 numbers), but it would surely be far less cumbersome than current methods. If such an alphabet were invented and implemented, the two systems would probably operate in parallel for a while, for old ideas never really die, just the people who believe in them. But eventually offspring of King Sejong's marvelous Hangul alphabet would take over. Other languages have alternative phonetic alphabets (for example, the Unifon alphabet is a way of writing English based on the principle of one letter per phoneme; it was created by John Malone in the 1930s), but they have yet to overcome the power of convention. Still, the cost of maintaining the convention seems much smaller for English than Chinese.
And so, why is a raven like a writing desk? My answer is because both of them can be improved substantially, but the major part of the task is overcoming the inertia of convention, not inventing a superior product.
My gratitude to the National Board of Medical Examiners for support of this research, despite its only very marginal relation to NBME's mission. I appreciate the breadth of their view. I also wish to thank Kyung T. Han for his invaluable help in providing expertise in Hangul so that I have some faith that my description of it is reasonably accurate. My thanks also to Paul Velleman, who showed me how to find both Dvorak and Hangul on my Mac, and to David Hoaglin, whose sharp eyes helped me to say more nearly what I meant.
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/num2/why-is-a-raven-like-a-writing-desk/1
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All the young characters of Spring Awakening are dealing with the vicissitudes of adolescence — nascent sexuality; social, familial, and educational pressures; and questioning of the larger world — but do so in a range of sensibilities: 14-year-old Wendla (the luminous Grania Power, as if channeling wild and primal elements) wakes to the unknown with a wide-open, startling exuberance. Ferocious cynic Melchior (Nate Speckman, who smolders) claims not to believe in god, love, or selflessness. For the raw-nerved Moritz (Dylan Chestnut, with preternatural, trembling anxiety), distress over his studies is second only to distress over his ignorance of sex, and what to make of his own powerful new stirrings.
It is from their own vantage that we see these young people; their world is one where adults are rendered as absurd grotesques, with blackened eyes, Dickensian names (Headmaster Hart-Payne, Professor Starver), and amplified stutters and tics. The grown-ups in their realm are all either foolish, sadistic, or tragically inadequate, and the teenagers' separateness from their elders amplifies their experiences: Sensation is often measured not by pleasure but intensity, the unknown at once horrifies and arouses, and eros is often inextricable from violence, guilt, and struggles with power. When Wendla, for example, learns that Martha (Kelsey Krull) is regularly beaten at home, her desire to know what her friend feels — strong enough that she later asks Melchior to beat her with a stick — mingles her natural empathy with her curiosity about a whole array of heretofore unknown sensations, whose existence she is just beginning to sense.
The 11 young actors of this cast show an extraordinary sensitivity to the language, drive, and ambiguities of a 19th-century script of strikingly modern sensibilities. Marshall has also done excellent work in directing the overall gestalt of the boys (a cacophony of personalities who begin scenes in gorgeous, painterly tableaux against the set) vis-à-vis the girls (in frequent rushes of laughter, constantly caressing each other).
There seems indeed to be a fundamental difference between the boys and the girls: Wendla and Ilse, an older, promiscuous artist's model (Kat Moranos, with enticing dynamism), exalt in and are aroused by chaos, the potentially violent unknown, and the prospect of submission to it, though they are disadvantaged by the dominant culture and biology. Melchior and Moritz, while of the dominant sex, are often hamstrung and desperate, left fantasizing wistfully about the bliss of the female orgasm.
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John "Jack" Lever
John "Jack" Allin Lever Sr., 84, passed away Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012, at the Cuyuna Regional Medical Center in Crosby, Minnesota.
Jack was born Aug. 7, 1928, in Leeds, Iowa, to Charles and Mayme Lever. Jack was raised in Minneapolis, graduated from South High School and the Minnesota School of Business. He grew to prominence in the information systems field working for the top food companies, including Pillsbury and Peavey/Conagra Foods, before retiring to travel with Laurel, his wife of 64 years.
After RVing for several years, they became summer residents of the Cinosam neighborhood on Gull Lake and winter residents of Sun City West, Ariz.
Jack is survived by his wife, Laurel; his sons, John Jr. (Pat), Elysian, Minnesota, and Scott, Kauai, Hawaii; his daughters, Melinda (Joe) Re, Lake Shore, Minnesota, and Marie (Ted) Egger, Plymouth, Minnesota; nine grown grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; nieces and a nephew.
He was deeply loved and will be sorely missed.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012, at Nelson-Doran Funeral Home in Brainerd. Friends can call an hour before services at the funeral home.
Arrangements handled by Nelson-Doran Funeral Home and Crematory, Brainerd.


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We woke up early, chatted with Vicki and Tom, who had been at the North Country River Bar the night before, and headed to the rafting area. That was a trip as they tried to organize several people. We signed waivers, checked in, ordered wet suits, and in general sat around. I would have liked to see more of a process, but it was the middle of the woods, not a global convention. Anyway, then we had to go get helmets, oars, lifejackets and get into our teams. We were on a team with two guys from Boston, a group of Indians from Connecticut and were lead by this girl who loved the outdoors. She became a raft guide after quitting her corporate America job, now lives in a tent, but loves her job, and is 20 lbs lighter and 6 inches smaller around. Food for thought.....There was a group of Indians that met on the internet in a different boat, but this was a group that worked together. We took bets on which company, but never saw that to resolution
Anyway, we got on the river and it was beautiful, with tall pine trees and a fresh smell in the air. The first few rapids of the Kennebec river were pretty scary - class 3 and one class 4- but after that, it was smooth sailing. There was a rapid we could swim through, and the water was COLD. Anyway, I have to say this was a good first experience for me, but I would have preferred to have it be all class 3 and 4 rapids. Anyway, we had a lunch and then got on the bus, which smelled like wet dog, and went back to base camp. I got showered up and we had a drink, then hit the road towards Bar Harbor.
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Health Services PhD <email@example.com>
Re: st: Linking a patient file with an event file
Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:13:15 -0500
Hi Carl and others,
Thanks for the quick reply. I appreciate your time.
It sounds like you're suggesting that I'll end up with one observation
per person plus a count variable, is that correct? Unfortunately, each
visit could have different diagnosis codes and other visit-associated
information (dates, providers) that I need to retain. Are there other
approaches to doing so?
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Carl Severson <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
> Hi Lisa,
> You are on the right track. Try this:
> by id2013: gen edcount = _n
> by id2013: gen temp = _N
> keep if edcount == temp
> drop temp
> Now you have one observation per person (making it easy to merge the
> visit data to your sociodemographic data) and the variable edcount
> will contain a value corresponding to the number of visits each person
> had, which I think is what you said you needed.
> Good luck.
> Carl
> p.s. I work with the same kind of data all the time so if you have
> more questions, feel free to ask.
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Health Services PhD
> <email@example.com> wrote:
>> I want to link/merge several files, but my data are complicated and
>> I'm unsure how to proceed. I'm using Stata 11.2 for Windows.
>> My patient file contains sociodemographic information for ~60,000
>> patients. My event file contains information about ~20,000 visits to
>> emergency rooms. There is a patient ID variable in each file. Many
>> patients in my patient file will not be in my event file (because they
>> didn't visit the emergency room). My event file has a patient ID,
>> service date, and various other variables related to the visit.
>> I need to merge the files so I can analyze incidence and run
>> regression models. I've read lots about merging files, but haven't
>> seen anything that addresses my issue yet.
>> I assume I will need to reshape my event file from long to wide so
>> that there is one row per patient, but everything I read about
>> reshaping assumes that the multiple observations per patient are
>> identified somehow. So one thing I *think* I need to do is generate a
>> new variable that counts ED visits for each patient. I thought I might
>> be able to do something like this: (from
>> http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/data-management/creating-group-identifiers/)
>> by id2013: gen edcount = 1 if _n==1
>> replace edcount = sum(edcount)
>> But that gives me a sequential number that doesn't restart at 1 for
>> each new patient ID.
>> Is reshaping the right approach, and if so, how do I best create the
>> variable I need?
>> Thanks in advance for your time,
>> Lisa
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Was in a bit of a slump fellas due to the giants season ending the way it did, but Got engaged and shes paying for the whole wedding. I'm back in good spirits!!!
Mock dream 1.1
Round 1 - Barkevious Mingo - This kid uses an arsenal of moves to get to the QB and plays good against the run. Has great closing speed and a good motor. He can play in our nascar package as LSU moves his around the line in various spots. If there is some knee jerks on the QB position this year as i am predicting he could be there at 19?!?
Round 2 - Kevin Minter - Animal! with good instincts, and contrary to popular belief on these boards the kid is a good tackler. Extremely athletic tackling machine, does look a little lost in coverage but can be coached.
Round 3 - Bacarri Rambo - Off the field concerns have dropped him this low, the kid is honestly a late 1st - mid second round grade guy. It would be a steal to get him here in the 3rd round. Physical player with good instinct and a little ball hawk in him. With KP injury history, Antrell cap hits, and uncertainty with if brown can consistently put up those numbers it would be wise to draft him, I think were all done with the sash project right?
Round 4 - Sanders Commings - Big corner with good closing speed. not a play maker by any means but get on his guys and plays physical which is what we need! Cover corner that's mediocre in zone.
Round 5 - Seantrel Henderson - RT tackle project, good run blocker can be better in pass protection.
Round 6 - Sam Schwartzstein - I have 0, NIL, ZERO faith in Baas. And I believe this kid is a sleeper he has opened up some running lanes for stanford. is versatile enough to play some guard as well.
Round 7 - Tyrann Mathieu - yeah yeah whatever! lol the kid has raw talent and ability that cannot be coached. special teams guy if anything slot corner if he hones his craft and stays focused. Not sure how the dynamic of two head cases in one draft might work out but we have enough veteran leadership to right the course minus tuck.
Edit- Thinking about swapping out Bacarii Rambo for Will Sutton ( pass rushing DT) / Jesse Williams ( run stuffing DT) / Desmond Trufant


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Playboy.com's Exclusive Interview with Justice
We sat down with French electro duo Justice to talk about girls, tours, music and Playboy.
While we were in L.A. we ran into French electro music duo Justice on the West Coast leg of their worldwide tour. Famous for their Grammy-winning debut album †, the bad-boy poster boys of electro Gaspard Augé and Xavier de Rosnay have been touring and creating albums ever since. To find out more about Justice, their documentary film or check if they're touring near you, go to their Facebook page.
Playboy.com: What did you guys do in the week between the two Coachella shows?
de Rosnay: We played shows in Vegas, L.A. and Oakland and then came back here.
Playboy.com: Are you on tour right now?
de Rosnay: Yeah, we're doing a West Coast tour.
Playboy.com: Did you guys like having the two Coachella weekends?
Augé: It's nice. For us it's good because we had some small technical problems the first weekend.
de Rosnay: It's cool to play twice in front of different people. I imagine people come to both weekends. It's a very nice festival.
Playboy.com: How long are you on tour?
de Rosnay: Until the end of 2012.
Playboy.com: So you're not only doing the West Coast then.
de Rosnay: We're doing the summer festivals, and then we're re-doing Europe in bigger venues, then the second half of the United States.
Playboy.com: So which cities have the hottest women?
Augé: Well, of course L.A., they just have a higher proportion of gorgeous women.
de Rosnay: But we're married so…
Playboy.com: Is there anywhere you haven't played that you would like to?
de Rosnay: Yeah, Montreal, which we didn't get to do last year, so we're doing the Osheaga festival in August.
Playboy.com: We saw you a few years ago; it was really awesome with the visuals and the cross. Have you changed the aesthetics for this tour with regards to what happens on stage?
de Rosnay: We've kept certain elements. The ones we've kept, we've transformed them. I think when you come see us perform for a second time, you'll recognize that it is Justice, but at the same time everything will feel and look different.
Augé: There are little surprises.
de Rosnay: And big changes!
Playboy.com: Are there any artists you would like to collaborate with?
Both: No.
de Rosnay: There are a lot of groups we like, but we think that if you make a song and it makes you think of someone, then maybe you can collaborate, but never the opposite. We don't really want to do collaborations and then see what happens afterwards. It's the project that would demand the collaboration, not the other way around.
Playboy.com: Do you guys have a new music video coming out soon?
de Rosnay: Yes, we're finishing one up now.
Playboy.com: Is it with director Romain Gavras?
Augé: No, not him. We can't tell you who it is yet.
Playboy.com: What are you guys listening to on the road?
de Rosnay: We always listen to the same old stuff. We're not really discovering too many groups lately, so what we listen to stays pretty much the same.
Playboy.com: Are there any European groups you want to share with the world?
de Rosnay: Tons, but to be brief, Breakbot will be releasing his album soon on our label, Ed Banger. In fact, the album is very Playboy. You can imagine Hugh Hefner listening to Breakbot in his house.
Playboy.com: What's your first memory of Playboy?
de Rosnay: I had a comic book that was called Le Petit Spirou. (In the book) he spends his time trying to steal Playboys. It wasn't Playboy because they weren't allowed to use the name, but you could see that he was trying to get Playboys from the store. Playboy in France is different, well, it is different in all countries, but in the '90s it wasn't super. They were still using standards of women and lifestyle that belonged to another era.
Playboy.com: I imagine those standards didn't exist in Europe.
de Rosnay: Yeah, and then it changed in the 2000s and it became a pretty cool magazine. I believe it has changed again now. There were five or six years when we bought Playboy every month since it had become so interesting.
Playboy.com: Was it the same for you, Gaspard?
Augé: I would go to a magazine shop where they would strangely put the erotic magazines on the lower levels. So one day I came with a folder and I put it on the magazine and pretended like I was looking for something and then just left with the magazine.
Playboy.com: Do you have a favorite Playmate?
de Rosnay: I don't really know their names.
Playboy.com: The one with the big boobs.
Augé: I like redheads.
de Rosnay: Well what was good about the French Playboy from 2007 and 2008 was that there were models who were the girl-next-door type, but in a French way.
Playboy.com: The kind of girl who could be your neighbor.
de Rosnay: Yeah, if you're lucky! Your neighbors are never like that.
Playboy.com: Do you think you'll release an album in 2013? Are you working on anything now?
de Rosnay: No, we're not in any rush. We're touring full time so we don't really have time. We like separating things as well. When we tour, we tour and don't make music, and when we make music we don't do any shows, we just create. We like taking our time, we're in no rush.
Playboy.com: Do you have any funny stories from the road?
de Rosnay: It's tough to choose, which is why we made a documentary in 2008 (A Cross the Universe).
Playboy.com: A very great film. Were you mixing fiction and reality at times? It seemed like at times it was docu-fiction.
Augé: No, but that impression does come through. It is one hour from 300 hours of footage, so it is pretty accelerated in terms of pace.
Playboy.com: So your lives are really that crazy at times!
de Rosnay: Crazy things happen in everyone's life. Like Gaspard was saying, when you film for three weeks and film 300 hours and keep 55 minutes of footage, it is really only the best moments that you see so it seems crazy. I'm sure if we filmed you for three weeks all the time and only kept the best part, there would be some crazy stuff.
Playboy.com: Yes, but probably not on same the level as you two. Do you guys find it easy to go unrecognized in North America?
de Rosnay: We're not really known. Even though Justice is known, we can walk down the street without people noticing us. When people do approach us, though, it's not annoying.
Playboy.com: Was it a choice to not put your faces in your clips? That the music would be the image, and you wouldn't be the emblems?
de Rosnay: Everything we do is a choice. We're not trying to hide. But we think there are more interesting things to put up front than ourselves as images. It is not on purpose to stay hidden; we just think that objectively it is less interesting to see us rather than other things.


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Des you made the best decision ever in your life by choosing Chris i mean your Beautiful together,Match made in heaven and please girl get over Brooks he does'nt or didnt deserve you,Make sure that you love Chris hard man like him are hard to find,All the best to you lovely couple!
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bachlorette des….this poor girl never felt an adequate amount of love before in her life. Its no wonder that she would initially choose someone that didn't have a mutual love for her! Thats what we do as human beings…we choose the path that we are most accustomed to. That little voice inside us perpetuates a cycle that doesnt allow us to grow. Chris was her Angel that showed her the way. He showed her that she desrves to be loved and she finally believes it herself. It's a sensational love story.
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It seems like Chris thinks he needs to milk the moment–so he is releasing a book of poetry and Des thinks she can get a lot more business from the people who watched them on the Bachelorette. Being on a reality show doesn't mean that you should quit your day jobs. Your poetry or dress designs don't suddenly become better just because you were on the show. And just because his dad, the chiropracter, was on the show "feeling" Des and doing Chris's nose treatments–he came across as hokey and not very professional taking Des (someone he just had met) and the camera crew down into the dark basement to give her treatments for no known complaint. Free air time–but really more like a dirty old man than a professional treating someone.


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