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Duke's Legacy: When Will Bilbray Return Tainted Money?
Apr 19, 2006
Dukes Legacy: When Will Bilbray Return Tainted Money?
More of the same as GOP candidate holds on to donations from incarcerated lawmaker and his co-conspirator
Duke Cunningham: I broke the law, concealed my conduct and disgraced my high office.
$7,000 Amount of Cunningham money taken by Brian Bilbray.
$6,000 Amount of Brent Wilkes money taken by Brian Bilbray.
(Washington, D.C.) According to official F.E.C. filings, former Congressman Brian Bilbray refuses to return $13,000 in tainted donations from Duke Cunningham and his co-conspirator. Bilbray accepted $7000 from Cunningham before he pleaded guilty to charges of accepting $2.4 million in bribes and gifts from defense contractors and evading more than $1 million in taxes. He accepted $6000 from co-conspirator Brent Wilkes and his defense contracting company ADCS. Co-conspirator Mitchell Wade plead guilty to four felony counts in conjunction with the Cunningham bribery scandal. Even Bilbrays former Republican primary opponent Bill Morrow donated a $1000 contribution from ADCS to a local charity in 2005. So why is Brian Bilbray holding tight to $13,000 in tainted cash, including $7000 from a Congressman who went to jail for his crimes?
By refusing to return dirty money from Cunningham and his co-conspirators, Brian Bilbray has made it very clear that he stands for more of the same old GOP business-as-usual, said DCCC Communications Director Bill Burton. Californians need someone who will fight for them in Washington, not one more registered lobbyist to slither around fighting for the special interests and currying favor with contractors. They have experienced first-hand the cost of this kind of special-interests-come-first corruption and they will not tolerate more of the same from Brian Bilbray.


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It was a winter evening when we started our journey leaving
the mountain of stress behind from Delhi (INDIA) to Sawai Madhopur in Rajasthan. By road it took us around 9hrs to reach the land of tiger. Ranthambore National Park is a major wildlife tourist attraction spot that has pulled the attention of many Indian and International tourist. One can find from Luxury hotels to budgeted hotels according to the need. After freshen up in the hotel we started off for our safari .With the butterflies in the stomach we left for
the search of Indian jungle King " The Tiger"
tourist flock from around the world. Hence it is advisable to book it in
I was stunned by the mesmerizing beauty of the wildlife park. There are many water bodies located all over the park, which provide perfect relief during the hot summer months for the forest inhabitants. A huge fort,after which the park is named, towers over the park atop a hill. The view from the fort cannot be expressed in words. Ranthambore is home to many wildlife
species main attraction being the tiger one can also able to catch glimpse of leopards, wild-boar, deer, langurs and different varieties of birds. Surrounded by flora mostly dry deciduous which makes this place more remarkable and animal sighting easy.
The search is still on for the majestic animal. Once you are in the park you will be experiencing all sorts of alarm calls mostly from monkeys and deer. For tiger sighting one needs to be lucky enough to view a tiger in its own habitat
sighting. With deep pain in the heart we came back to our hotel. Hotel staff
has arranged for a lovely folk music for its guest so we enjoyed our evening.
Early next morning we again started off for our safari with deep hope to catch a glimpse of the world famous carnivore. After wait of almost 2hrs finally we were able to sight the world's most beautiful and magnificent animal that is TIGER. I count myself as one of the luckiest tourist to encounter the majesty in his own habitat.
With mixed feelings had to leave this outstanding land and will treasure this memory for lifetime.

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The A1 allele of the D2 dopamine receptor gene region, alcohol expectancies and drinking refusal self-efficacy are associated with alcohol dependence severity
Connor, Jason P., Young, Ross McD., Saunders, John B., Lawford, Bruce R., Ho, Robert, Ritchie, Terry L., & Noble, Ernest P. (2008) The A1 allele of the D2 dopamine receptor gene region, alcohol expectancies and drinking refusal self-efficacy are associated with alcohol dependence severity. Psychiatry Research, 160(1), pp. 94-105.
Psychological risk and genetic risk for alcohol dependence are rarely examined in concert. The current study used path analysis (via structural equation modelling) to explore the relationship between the A1 allele of the D2 dopamine receptor DRD2 gene region, age of problem drinking onset, alcohol expectancy and drinking refusal self-efficacy towards alcohol consumption and dependence severity. One hundred and forty-three (93 male, 50 female) alcohol dependent inpatients provided an extensive clinical history, including age of onset of problem drinking and quantity and frequency of alcohol consumption. The Drinking Expectancy Profile and the Alcohol Dependence Scale were completed, and 10 milliliters of blood were obtained for genetic analysis. The results showed that the posited model fitted the data set well and support the pattern of direct (allele status to drinking) and indirect (allele status influenced by psychosocial variables) relationships hypothesised for the model. A formal test of mediation showed some support for a psychosocial mediational model. The results are discussed in terms of a possible developmental trajectory that involves both genetic risk that influences brain dopamine activity and reinforcement expectancies that both operate via diminished drinking refusal self-efficacy. The prevention and treatment possibilities that arise from understanding this trajectory are examined
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CeeeMinaj's Blog
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Phoenix, AZ Tickets ?
I cant seem to find the tickets for Phoenix, AZ !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Someonee help mee ? :'( I thought Nicki was gonna put them outt for sale today Feb 4th ??
Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 6:51 PM
What are the points for ?
I see that every time I get on I get points for having certain amount of friends and being social & blaah blahh. But idont get what their for ? lol
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San Luis Obispo Railroad Trail
Hired by the City of San Luis Obispo, RRM Design Group completed two phases of work for the multi-phased community trail within the Union Pacific Railroad right-of-way. RRM prepared design plans and final alignment for the first segment of the trail, which connects to the Jennifer Street railroad crossing bridge and provides a link from adjacent neighborhoods to a City park and the historic railroad district, at the south edge of Downtown. RRM prepared construction documents, signage, fencing, landscape, and public art for this multi-use trail. After completion of Phase I, RRM completed an alignment and design study for the Rails with Trails Bicycle Commuting Trail and assisted City staff in negotiations with Union Pacific Railroad to secure a use agreement. This final phase consists of property lease and acquisition agreements, a comprehensive route and design, preliminary trail engineering, cost analysis, and environmental clearance following CEQA guidelines.


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Eugene Fama, who believes share prices reflect all the available information, shared this year's Nobel Prize in Economics with Robert Shiller, who in contrast believes greed, fear and animal spirits drive markets and cause bubbles. Looking at the media love affair with Xero, I'm with Shiller.
Xero has a fantastic product. The business has 150,000 customers and $40 million a year in revenue, but it loses money. Its board says that if it prevails it will become the dominant market provider. There are precedents such as Microsoft, Google and Trade Me, where a natural monopoly evolved and made shareholders rich.
But at more than $3 billion, the market has priced Xero as if it has already reached those elevated heights. It hasn't and it might not.
Products such as Microsoft Exchange increase their utility the more users they acquire, but is this true of accounting software? I think it is more like Microsoft Explorer, a program that works well but if I am the only person who uses Chrome I am not disadvantaged by my isolation.
The business has $45 million in costs compared to $37 million in customer revenue. But unless they can get more customers they will be unable to sustain their overheads without drastic changes.
Xero is aiming for the stars, passing first through the cloud. Early investors have done well but what is driving the current frenzy? Is it a cold rational expectation of future growth, or greed and animal spirits? By contrast, Meridian Energy is a stable business that last year made $295 million after tax and has $6 billion in fixed assets. It has been valued at $4 billion.
For Xero to catch up to Meridian in profitability it must gain vast economies of scale. Even if it increased revenue tenfold it would struggle to catch Meridian; yet both enjoy similar market capitalisation.
This means Fama's investors may believe there is a 50 per cent chance Xero will increase its revenue 20 times; this would make it a $6 billion company; discounted by half to account for risk.
Schiller, however, might say investors know nothing about the business and are blindly following the herd.


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Mehmet Ali Agca returned last Friday to Kartal prison, from which he was released on January 12, after a court ruled he had more time to serve for killing a Turkish journalist in 1979 and other crimes.
"I went into the street, disguising myself with a scarf and a hat, but some people recognised me and asked for my autograph," he told police on Friday, according to the newspaper Hurriyet. "I gave my autograph to four or five people. I liked that very much."


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'Real Housewives' husband Joe Giudice's trial in license case postponed
"Real Housewives of New Jersey" husband Giuseppe "Joe" Giudice's scheduled July 15 trial on charges that he posed as his brother to get a driver's license — an offense that could land him in state prison for a decade if convicted — has been postponed, according to court staff.
A source said the postponement was necessary because of scheduling conflicts involving an unrelated cases. A new trial date has not yet been set, but both sides must still appear before state Superior Court Judge Greta Gooden Brown in Paterson on Monday to discuss how to proceed.
Trial was set after Giudice rejected a plea deal in April that would have required him to serve four years.
Giudice's lawyer, Miles Feinstein, has predicted a "lengthy trial" and, given his client's TV fame, difficulty finding unbiased jurors. Jury selection could take weeks, and the trial could last as long as 2½ weeks, Feinstein said.
Giudice , 43, of Montville, is accused of using his brother Pietro's identity in June 2010 in an attempt to obtain a driver's license at the Motor Vehicle Commission office in Paterson. Obtaining a false driver's license in New Jersey is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
Authorities allege that Giudice used marriage and birth certificates belonging to his 39-year-old brother to obtain the license.
Giudice 's license was suspended at the time for driving while intoxicated after he flipped his pickup in Montville in January 2010.
The brothers came under suspicion after Pietro Giudice was pulled over by Lincoln Park police. When the officer ran Pietro Giudice 's information through a dashboard computer, the search produced Joe Giudice 's photograph, authorities said.
Feinstein has argued that because Joe Giudice has no prior criminal convictions, he should be eligible for probation.
Giudice is married to Teresa Giudice, a cast member of the Bravo TV show, which takes place in various North Jersey locations.
Despite all the glamour, the couple has had their problems. In September 2010, Joe Giudice served a 10-day jail sentence for driving without a license in Morris County. In October 2009, the Giudices filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
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"My mind is living on cloud 9 and this 9 is never on vacation."
"Poetic justice, poetic justice.. if I told you that a flower bloom in a dark room would you trust it. I mean I write poems in these songs."
"The limit is the sky, and I live on cloud. And I recognize my nemesis gon try, to put a finish in my shine. But pussy we'll hurt you, life in the power circle."
Kendrick Lamar (born Kendrick Lamar Duckworth in Compton, California on June 17 1987) is an American rapper and member of West Coast hip hop supergroup, Black Hippy, along with fellow label-mates Jay Rock, Schoolboy Q and Ab-Soul.
Kendrick first gained major attention after the release of his fourth mixtape, Overly Dedicated, in 2010. In 2011, he released his first independent album to critical acclaim, called Section.80. Kendrick has worked with Dr. Dre, Game, Drake, Young Jeezy, Talib Kweli, Busta Rhymes, E-40, Warren G, Bun B, Tech N9ne and Lil Wayne among other popular artists.
His major label debut studio album good kid, m.A.A.d city, was released in 2012 to universal acclaim. The album was later certified Gold by the RIAA.
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Kendrick Lamar is best known for being a rapper.
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In February 2012 Kendrick was rumored to be dating model Karrueche Tran. In April 2015, it was announced that Kendrick was engaged to his high school sweetheart, Whitney Alford.
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Camille La Vie Opens in The Florida Mall!
Fabulous news for all residents of Orlando, Florida – we have just opened a new Camille La Vie store in The Florida Mall today, October 26! (more…)
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It's a widely known fact that when it comes to your wedding day, every SINGLE detail matters and absolutely nothing should be left unturned. And for a bride-to-be, many would deem their overall wedding style look to be of utmost importance. The task of finding the perfect wedding dress is daunting in itself, and when you also factor in what accessories, bouquet and beauty look you want to convey, selecting the right elements of perfection can be overwhelming. But then again, for us ladies, this can be the best and most fabulous part of your seemingly limitless wedding checklist. At Camille La Vie, we're all about curating fine collections of fashion and beauty inspiration…consider us your digital stylists or beauty-loving besties that want to make your special event as memorable as possible! So for this post, our focus is on gorgeous hairstyles both up and down that will make a perfect finishing touch and amazing complement to your wedding dress.
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Oil goes down to 2-month minimums
On Monday, crude prices slumped during European trade, hitting two-month minimums amid signs of an ongoing revival in American drilling activity.
In New York, August delivery crude futures sagged to an intraday minimum of $44.55 per barrel, a value not observed since May 11. Last it traded at $44.61 per barrel, down 1.75%.
Late on Friday, Baker Hughes, oilfield services provider told that the overall number of rigs drilling for oil in America leapt by 10 last week to 351, thus marking the fifth soar in six weeks.
The renewed revenue in American drilling activity powered speculation that domestic output could set for rebounding in the weeks ahead, thus underlining concerns over a supply glut.
The previous week, New York-traded crude futures slumped 7.31%, its greatest weekly loss for near six months.
In London, September delivery Brent crude futures lost 1.67%, trading at $45.98.
By the way, the previous week, London-traded Brent futures sagged 7.13%, demonstrating the worst weekly performance since mid-January.


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Issue 46, Spring 1969
Shortly after John Dos Passos had completed the three volumes of U.S.A. in 1936, Jean-Paul Sartre observed that he was "the greatest writer of our time." In 1939, a New Masses reviewer attacked his novel, Adventures of a Young Man, as "Trotskyist agitprop." Neither statement set a pattern for later estimates of Dos Passos, although they suggested the extremes with which his earlier novels (Three Soldiers, Manhattan Transfer, and U.S.A.) and then his later ones (District of Columbia, Midcentury) have been accepted. Dos Passos has also run to extremes in his experiences: from the New Masses to the National Review, from the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Service to an assignment for Life in the Pacific Theater, from Versailles to Nuremberg, from incessant travel to the quiet of his grandfather's farm.
Despite all these contradictions and despite even the autobiographical thread in his work, he has been a writer of unusual detachment. He is still asked, as he was in the twenties: "Are you for us or against us?" He has also been unusually industrious, having published eighteen books since U.S.A. He works too hard and too steadily to spare much time for answering questions about himself.
Dos Passos was interviewed in 1968 on his farm, Spence's Point, on the Northern Neck of Virginia, a sandy, piney strip of land between the Rappahannock and the Potomac. The state highway in from U.S. 301 passes turnoffs to the birthplaces of Washington and Monroe. The windy, overcast June day didn't hold enough threat of a storm to keep the writer, his strikingly handsome wife, and the interviewer from swimming in the Potomac before proceeding to anything else. He spoke easily about what he was doing currently or was soon about to do but turned talk away from what he had done years before by short, muffled answers, a nod or chuckle, and a quick switch back to fishing in the Andes and flying down the Amazon from Iquitos. The interview took place in a small parlor of the late eighteenth-century house.
He is a tall man, conspicuously fit. He is round-faced, bald, wears steel-rimmed glasses, and is much younger than he appears to be in recent photographs. Characteristically, his head is pitched forward at a slight angle in an attitude of perpetual attention. He speaks a little nervously and huskily, with a trace of the cultivated accent his schoolmates once thought "foreign." Although it seemed that nothing could ruffle his natural courtesy, he was uncomfortable about what he called "enforced conversation." The tape recorder had something to do with this, but it was more obvious that he simply did not enjoy talking about himself. Hesitations aside, he was completely willing to say exactly what he thought about individuals and events.
Is this the same farm where you spent your summers as a boy?
This is a different part of the same farm. When my father was alive, we had a house down at the other end, a section that has been sold, which is now part of a little development called Sandy Point, that string of cottages you saw along the shore. We've been here for more than ten years now, but I don't get to spend as much time here as I would like to because I still have a good deal of unfinished traveling.
Has this polarity between Spence's Point and your traveling had any particular effect on your writing?
I don't know. Of course anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write.
Perhaps it once led you to write that the novelist was a truffle dog going ahead of the social historian?
I don't know how true that is. It's the hardest thing in the world to talk about your own work. You stumble along, and often the truffle dog doesn't get to eat the truffle … he just picks it up.
Have you become the social historian at the expense of the artist?
There's just no way that I can tell. I have to do what I'm interested in at the time, and I don't think there's anything necessarily inartistic about being the historian. I have great admiration for good history. All of my work has some certain historical connotation. Take Three Soldiers. I was trying to record something that was going on. I always felt that it might not be any good as a novel, but that it would at least be useful to add to the record. I had that idea when I began writing—with One Man's Initiation—and I've had it right along.
Always, then, you have been observing for the record?
Very much, I think.
It must have been difficult to remain simply an objective observer.
Possibly, but I think I've tended to come back to center. I'm often carried away by emotions and enthusiasms for various ideas at one time or another, but I think the desire to observe, to put down what you see as accurately as possible, is still paramount. I think the critics never understand that because they always go on the basis that if a man writes about Mormonism he must be a Mormon, that if he writes about Communism he must be Communist, which is not necessarily true. I've usually been on the fence in partisan matters. I've often been partisan for particular people, usually people who seem to be getting a raw deal, but that's a facet I share with many others.
You've said that when you began observing you were a "half-baked young man" out of Harvard. Have you had any recent thoughts about that education?
I got quite a little out of being at Harvard, although I was kicking all of the time I was there, complaining about the "ethercone" atmosphere I described in camera eye. I probably wouldn't have stayed if it hadn't been for my father, who was anxious for me to go through. At that time, the last of the old New Englanders were still at Harvard. They were really liberal-minded people, pretty thoroughly independent in their ideas, and they all had a sort of basic Protestant ethic behind them. They really knew what was what. I didn't agree with them then, but looking back on them now, I think more highly of them than I once did. But that essentially valid cast of mind was very much damaged by the strange pro-Allied and anti-German delusion that swept through them. You couldn't talk to people about it. When the war started in the summer of my sophomore year, I was curious to see it, even though theoretically I disapproved of war as a human activity. I was anxious to see what it was like. Like Charley Anderson in 42nd Parallel, I wanted to go over before everything "went belly-up." When I got out of college in the summer of 1916, I was anxious to get started in architecture, but at the same time I was so restless that I had already managed to sign myself up in the volunteer ambulance service. My father was determined to put that off, so we kind of compromised on a Spanish expedition, and I went to Madrid to study architecture. Then my father died in January of 1917, and I went ahead into the ambulance service. I suppose that World War I then became my university.
Especially because you were in the ambulance service?
… You saw the war. I don't know if it was on the more or less seamier side of combat, but in the ambulance service you did have a more objective point of view toward war. After all, the infantryman must be carried away by the spirit of combat, which is quite different from sitting around and dragging off the wreckage.
What remains with you now about the First War—thinking back on it?
Much of it I don't remember, really because I wrote about it; when you write about something you often never think of it again. I do remember little snatches of experience. The smells. They seem to linger on in the memory—the gas smells, the almond smell of high explosive, latrine and body odors. A terrible time, there has never been such a series of massacres, but all of us were glad to have seen it and survived it. In the ambulance corps, my capacities were largely concerned with driving a car without dumping people into ditches. As for the troops, they had an ambivalent feeling about the corps. Where they saw us in greatest volume was where an attack had been planned and was going to be mounted and a lot of people were going to be killed. They must have thought us a collection of scavenger crows.
Did you go through this time thinking of yourself as a writer?
I never felt I wanted to be a writer … I didn't much like the literary world as I knew it. I studied architecture. I've always been a frustrated architect. But there are certain periods of life when you take in an awful lot of impressions. I kept a good diary—very usual sort of thing—and I was consistent about putting down my impressions. But I had no intention, really, of being a writer then. It may have been Barbusse that got me going. Or more likely something to keep the dry rot from settling in the brain. Robert Hillyer and I began what we called the Great Novel, or more simply the GN. Our schedule then at the front was twenty-four hours on, twenty hours off, and I remember we worked on the novel in a cement tank that protected us from the shelling. We wrote alternate chapters. I sent the manuscript up to the University of Virginia the other day. I didn't dare look at it.
You mention the novels of Barbusse. Was it Le Feu, in particular, which made an impression?
It impressed us a good deal at the time. It was the first of the novels that gave a picture of the massacres of World War I. He had a very good ear for the conversations of those involved. His other things weren't really very much. They were cultish works, like Rolland's Jean-Christophe, which impressed so many of us in our college days. One had to make a reassessment. I met Barbusse a number of times in Russia afterward. It was rather horrible: he was a combination of evangelist and Communist, and by that time he had become a mere mouthpiece for the Party.
Then, after the war, you were at the Versailles peace conference?
Not really. Sometime in the winter after the armistice they established a thing very much like the G.I. Bill. If you were a college student or a recent graduate, you could go to any university you picked over there, and I picked the Sorbonne. So I was around in Paris, I guess, from February to June of 1919. Of course, that was the peace-conference period, and I talked to a lot of people connected with it in various ways. Most of them were observers. No, I wasn't taking notes on it.
The question of combining politics and fiction has engaged a good many critics, often drawing from them the notion that it's very difficult to mix the two.
Well, I don't know. Recently, I've been calling my novels contemporary chronicles, which seems to fit them rather better. They have a strong political bent because after all—although it isn't the only thing—politics in our time has pushed people around more than anything else. I don't see why dealing with politics should harm a writer at all. Despite what he said about politics in the novel being "the pistol shot at the opera," Stendhal also wrote contemporary chronicles. Or look at Thucydides. I don't think his history was at all damaged by the fact that he was a political writer. A lot of very good writing has been more or less involved in politics, although it's always a dangerous territory. It's better for some people to keep out unless they're willing to learn how to observe. It is the occupation of a special kind of writer. His investigation—using blocks of raw experience—must be balanced. Sartre in his straight, plain reporting was wonderful. I can't read him now. A writer in this field should be both engaged and disengaged. He must have passion and concern and anger—but he must keep his emotions at arm's length in his work. If he doesn't, he's simply a propagandist, and what he offers is a "preachment."
Let's recall how you observed things when you were among the first American writers to see the results of the Soviet revolution. Did you speak the language?
I learned French at an early age, and Spanish, and Portuguese. I tried Russian, but I didn't do very well with it. I used to get a special kind of headache over their verbs.
Just how impressed were you on those first visits?
My first glimpse of the Red Army was in 1921-22 when I was with the Near East Relief in the Caucasus. At that time it still seemed very hopeful that they would develop something that would be leaning forward instead of backward. You may remember having read in Orient Express how hopeful I felt upon observing that the pawnshop in Baku seemed to be going out of business. And, then, probably the period when I was in Leningrad and Moscow in 1928 was the time when I was very much on the fence because I tried to avoid politics entirely on that visit. I'd been working with the New Playwrights—Gold, Lawson—in New York, and I was very much interested in the theater. The Russian theater was still quite good, and so there was a great deal to see. I didn't know at that time that its development was just about coming to its end. Often things you think are just beginning are coming to an end. I spent about six months there in 1928. Even then it was a much more open period than any they had since except possibly the early part of the Khrushchev regime. People were still being introduced as Trotskyites, although Trotsky was in exile. Stalin hadn't really attained power the way he did after the purges. Most of the Russians I knew then were connected with the theater, and a few of them would shake their fists when they passed his picture. This was in '28. They already hated him. They knew more about him than I did. All those people disappeared in the purges.
Would it be fair to say that at first you thought the Soviet experiment held some sort of promise for the individual?
Yes, I thought it might. I always felt at that time that the Soviets might develop into something like the New England town meeting, but of course they became entirely different, something more like the boss-controlled conventions at home.
What were your literary influences at this time —during the twenties?
The futurists, Ungaretti in Italy in particular. I wasn't taken at all by D'Annunzio. He was a little too rhetorical for my taste. Then I admired Pío Baroja, the Spanish novelist, and Rimbaud, of course, and Stephen Crane, particularly Maggie, a Girl of the Streets, in which Crane has a terribly good ear for conversation and the way people put things.
Did Hemingway read Barbusse?
Not as far as I know. Ernest and I used to read the Bible to each other. He began it. We read separate little scenes. From Kings, Chronicles. We didn't make anything out of it—the reading—but Ernest at that time talked a lot about style. He was crazy about Stephen Crane's "The Blue Hotel." It affected him very much. I was very much taken with him. He took me around to Gertrude Stein's. I wasn't quite at home there. A Buddha sitting up there, surveying us. Ernest was much less noisy then than he was in later life. He felt such people were instructive.
Was Hemingway as occupied with the four-letter word problem as he was later?
He was always concerned with four-letter words. It never bothered me particularly. Sex can be indicated with asterisks. I've always felt that was as good a way as any.
Do you think Hemingway's descriptions of those times were accurate in A Moveable Feast?
Well, it's a little sour, that book. His treatment of people like Scott Fitzgerald—the great man talking down about his contemporaries. He was always competitive and critical, overly so, but in the early days you could kid him out of it. He had a bad heredity. His father was very overbearing apparently. His mother was a very odd woman. I remember once when we were in Key West Ernest received a large unwieldy package from her. It had a big, rather crushed cake in it. She had put in a number of things with it, including the pistol with which his father had killed himself. Ernest was terribly upset.
Have you ever had an equivalent sense of competition with your fellow writers?
No, not at all. I've always thought you should concentrate on paddling your own canoe. Ernest's jealousy of Scott was really embarrassing—because much of it was at a time when Scott was going through a horrible experience in his own life. He was writing stories like "A Diamond As Big As The Ritz"—out of a state of mind which had so little to do with his literary energies.
If we may return to your novels, is characterization particularly difficult in such a novel as 42nd Parallel where J. Ward Moorehouse, who seems to personify the whole system being indicted, might be taken—I believe he has been taken— as based on Ivy Lee, the man who actually started the field of public relations?
Well, Ivy Lee did have something to do with Moorehouse because I met Ivy Lee in Moscow—I've forgotten what he was doing there—when I was writing the book. We were at the same hotel. I was trying to learn Russian, a very painful process, and so it was quite a relief to find someone to talk English to. I had several rather interesting conversations with him. I think it was in the fall of '28, but I'm not sure what hotel it was. The Metropole? Anyway, I had done the first few chapters of 42nd Parallel before I went, and then J. Ward Moorehouse was just emerging. I think those conversations with Ivy Lee probably had something to do with his completed portrait. Then, also, I knew quite a few advertising men in New York.
I suppose a much more direct characterization of an actual figure occurs in The Great Days, doesn't it, with Roger Thurloe modeled as he is on Forrestal?
That's closer to being an effort to produce a characterization of a living person, I think, than most of the others. I had met Forrestal a couple of times, but even so the characterization is pretty far off. I think if I had actually intended to do Forrestal, I would have done him as one of those portraits in Midcentury.
Do you find it difficult to read anything written about your work?
I never do, if I can help it. I know it has a bad effect on fellow writers. People sometimes send me articles about myself, and I bundle them off after a while to the University of Virginia for the professors to mull over. Occasionally I look at things, but I've generally managed to avoid stuff written about my work because there just isn't time to fuss with it. I don't think I've lost very much sleep by what you would call the critical reception of my work. I've been very fortunate in a way. If a thing is knocked in one place, somebody else may like it somewhere else. The Great Days was very much ignored in this country, but it went quite well in England and in Germany. I wouldn't have been able to make a living without the international market.
What do you think of the considerable disparity between criticisms here and in Europe of your work over the past twenty years, or at least since U.S.A. was so well received in both places?
I haven't followed it very much. I think there are a lot of American critics who try to pretend that I don't exist at all. They haven't read much of the stuff, and so they really don't know. When you do historical things, say, like The Men Who Made the Nation, a totally different set of people review it from those who review so-called fiction. There's this strange schizophrenia in American publishing between fiction and nonfiction, and so people who review nonfiction have never read any of the fiction. It works both ways.
How much of the hostile American reception dated from Adventures of a Young Man in 1939, with the cues from left-wing reviewers?
A certain amount, but still Three Soldiers was greeted with hostility all the way back in 1921. Of course I think they were wrong on Adventures of a Young Man because I don't think my position was so much changed. Politically it was, but from a human point of view I don't think it was so different.
How have these differed in your orientation? The political and the human point of view? In going from U.S.A. to District of Columbia to Midcentury, have you, in effect, gone from big money to big government to big labor?
To a certain extent, I think, yes. At different periods one seems more drastic than the other.
It's a procession which points, perhaps, to this human consistency in your work.
I think it probably does because I think that's what motivates it. It's a fact that I have tried to look at it from the point of view of the ordinary man, the ordinary woman, struggling to retain some dignity and to make a decent life in these vast organizations.
In almost all of your work, then, there has been some opposition between individuals and systems?
Always, yes. We've gone through a period when the industrial society has been very rapidly solidified. The communist way is just one way of solidifying. What it seems to me they have done is to take the capitalist system and kind of freeze it, including a great many of its less agreeable characteristics, freeze it and turn it over completely to bureaucratic control.
I've always wanted to know how Manhattan Transfer was written—more than Three Soldiers or the other two early novels which more directly follow your experiences. When you wrote Manhattan Transfer, were you trying to create an entirely new kind of novel? Or were you building from definite precedents?
Three Soldiers had just raised quite a stir and had quite a considerable sale. I seem to remember writing some of Manhattan Transfer in Brooklyn, in a room on Columbia Heights that looked out on the harbor. I don't know how this question can be answered. I was trying to get a great many things in to give a picture of the city of New York because I had spent quite a while there. I was trying also to get a certain feeling in. Precedents? I don't think so. I never went in much for theories of that sort. At the time I did Manhattan Transfer, I'm not sure whether I had seen Eisenstein's films. The idea of montage had an influence on the development of this sort of writing. I may have seen Potemkin. Then, of course, I must have seen The Birth of a Nation, which was the first attempt at montage. Eisenstein considered it the origin of his method. I don't know if there were any particular origins for Manhattan Transfer in my reading. Vanity Fair isn't at all like it, but I'd read Vanity Fair a great deal, and I'd read eighteenth-century English stuff. Perhaps Tristram Shandy has certain connections. It's all subjective, while, in my stuff, I was trying to be all objective. Sterne made up his narrative out of a great many different things. It doesn't seem to have much cohesion, but if you read the whole book, it adds up to a very cohesive picture.
What about the reception of Manhattan Transfer?
One critic called it "an explosion in a sewer." Probably the person who helped the book most was Sinclair Lewis, who wrote a very favorable review.
What sort of plan did you have for U.S.A. when you began writing it?
I was trying to develop what I had started, possibly somewhat unconsciously, in Manhattan Transfer. By that time I was really taken with the idea of montage. I had tried it out in Manhattan Transfer—using pieces of popular songs. By the time it evolved into such compartments as the camera eye of the U.S.A. trilogy it served a useful function—which in that case was to distill my subjective feelings about the incidents and people described. My hope was to achieve the objective approach of a Fielding, or a Flaubert, particularly as one sees it in Flaubert's letters, which are remarkable. In the biographies, in the newsreels, and even the narrative, I aimed at total objectivity by giving conflicting views—using the camera eye as a safety valve for my own subjective feelings. It made objectivity in the rest of the book much easier.
You eventually closed down the camera eye—though Midcentury is the same as U.S.A. in its other formal aspects.
After a while, you feel more in control of your subjective feelings. I didn't think that I needed it by then.
Was U.S.A. a trilogy to begin with?
No, it started to be one book, but then there was so much that I wanted to get in that it got to be three books very soon … before 42nd Parallel was finished.
Did you begin with the idea of just taking the years up to the war?
No, I had the basic idea for the whole thing. It started with what I didn't then call a contemporary chronicle; I do call it that now because it seems a useful label. I think, if I can remember back, I started 42nd Parallel with the idea of publishing a series of reportages of the times. I don't think I thought of the book as any sort of a novel. I thought of it as a series of reportages in which characters appeared and reappeared. It was to cover quite a long period.
I've often wondered why some of them, like Richard Ellsworth Savage or Vag, didn't reappear in District of Columbia or Midcentury.
I decided to try to close that group down. You have to make a fresh start every now and then.
How did you come to add the portraits to U.S.A? Did you get much editorial advice on this book?
Eugene Saxton, first at Doran and then at Harpers, was a very friendly editor, but I don't think anybody gave me any advice. If they did, I doubt if I took it—I guess because I've been very hard to convince. I've always been very grateful for what they've been able to point out about misspellings and bad construction, but as far as the gist of things is concerned I've not been much moved. It's awfully hard to say how I came to add the portraits. I was trying to get different facets of my subject and trying to get something a little more accurate than fiction, at the same time to work these pieces into the fictional picture. The aim was always to produce fiction. That's why I was completely unable to understand the fiction, nonfiction dichotomy. I was sort of on the edge between them, moving from one field to the other very rapidly.
Critics might drop labels altogether when they take up U.S.A.?
It would be a good idea to look at it a little more objectively without preconceived ideas. That wouldn't mean that they would necessarily have to like it, but I think they would have a better basis for criticism.
In connection with research, is a social life with literary people useful?
Almost never. I hear a good deal more nonliterary conversation. Certainly useful to me in my line of work. I read very little. Yet the language does change—mostly through television and teenage jargon—and it's very hard to keep up with it. Knowing a younger generation helps. An academic community is pretty dreary, but the students, of course, are an interesting quantity. They come down from the University of Virginia and deliver themselves of the current doctrine. As do my daughter and stepson. It's very valuable. Word of mouth provides the great texture, not research.
Incidentally, what is your opinion of the students of the New Left?
Many of them seem to be going through something rather like a tantrum. An odd paranoia sweeping the country, I don't know exactly why … a mass hysteria … a combination of the St. Vitus's dance of medieval times and the Children's Crusade …
What about other forms of activity? In the twenties you maintained a great interest in the theater.
The theater didn't suit me really. I can't sit up all night. Everything in the theater is done after midnight. I lived in Brooklyn at the time, and we always finished so late that I had to walk back home across the Brooklyn Bridge. I never got home before three a.m. and being someone who's never been able to sleep later than seven in the morning, I just couldn't keep up the schedule.
Did you ever run across Hart Crane on those walks?
He was very much a night animal. I used to try to get him to go home to his bed for a change. I'd get him there all right, but then he'd hide in the entry and dart out again.
He used to prod his creative impulse by writing to the noise of a phonograph turned up full volume.
Yes, I've heard that. For me it would be too distracting … pleasure and pain equally divided. I find that simpler things get me going—diaries, for instance, especially if they turn up in old trunks …
What is your ideal set of working conditions?
All you need is a room without any particular interruptions. Some things I've done entirely in longhand, but now I tend to start chapters in longhand and then finish them on the typewriter, and that becomes such a mess that nobody can transcribe it except my wife. I find it easier to get up early in the morning, and I like to get through by one or two o'clock. I don't do very much in the afternoon. I like to get out of doors then if I can.
You get all of your work done before you go swimming?
Yes. Down here that's my regular routine.
How much revising do you go through?
I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't. George Moore rewrote entire novels. In my own case I usually write to a point where the work is getting worse rather than better. That's the point to stop and the time to publish.
How did District of Columbia become a trilogy?
Adventures of a Young Man came by itself, and the Spottswood family seemed to need more development. I began with the younger brother, went on to the older brother, and finished with the father. It worked out backwards.
Was Glenn Spottswood's predicament in Adventures of a Young Man anything like your own in the later thirties? By his predicament I mean Glenn's feeling that he had been deceived while he worked on the Harlan County Defense Committee, the Scottsboro Boys Defense Committee, all of his encounters with the Communists.
I wouldn't have known about conditions in Harlan County or what was behind either Defense Committee if I hadn't been through those experiences. I wouldn't have known how to describe them. Of course, I think you always have to have a little seed of personal experience, although it's often a very small seed, to produce the real verisimilitude, which is what you are looking for.
In Number One, the novel about Glenn's older brother Tyler, there is an account of the third-term convention. Had you admired Roosevelt before that occasion?
Yes, I certainly did. I thought he did very well all of his first term. I voted for him a second term, and then I regret to say that I voted for him for his third term. Now I think it would probably have been better for the country if Willkie had been elected, if anybody else had been elected, because it would have broken up the continuity of Roosevelt's extraordinary machine in Washington. I think Roosevelt would have come down as a really great president if he had only served two terms. I think he had done all the good he had in him, and there was only harm left. In that third term, the consolidation of the federal government really was the rebirth of bureaucracy, which had shown its head under Wilson and then faded away. That's what The Grand Design is about.
It seemed to me that Roosevelt dominated that book, if not all of District of Columbia, in much the same way that Wilson did 1919.
I think so, although I fairly intentionally kept him behind the scenes. At that time I had done quite a bit of reporting around Washington. Reporting has always been an important part of my career. Between books, I've always done a few reporting jobs.
One political question seems inescapable. In many of your books since the war, you write of the "abominable snowman" of international Communism, of having been among the first to see him, and having kept on seeing him through all of the crises, alliances, and thaws. Do you see him as clearly today?
It's very hard to tell. It's almost impossible to have any view of present-day international politics without having a double standard of judgment. Our development and that of the Soviet Union have many things in common except that the Soviet Union is motivated by this tremendous desire for world conquest, more active sometimes and at other times less active. It may be that the people of Russia are not very much motivated by this passion for expansion anymore. I'm not sure whether they ever were. I would like to know. I mean I don't think the mass of people is motivated at all because it's so hard for them to reach any conclusion. They are doped with ideology.
Have you ever thought of going back there to check on it?
It would be hard to. There might come a time when it would be interesting to go to Russia, but I don't think that time has come yet. I think there are certain phases of the development of Russian society which are on our side. Some Russians might be among our best allies because some of them really want much the same things that we do. But those particular people are helpless in the bureaucratic setup. Pasternak was a good example, I think, with his curious book, Doctor Zhivago. It seemed so much a voice from the past, like something of Turgenev's coming back to life. It was very attractive to me because it showed a side of the Russian people which I've had great sympathy with. It showed that that side of the Russian mind, that nineteenth-century humanism, still existed. Of course, Pasternak was quite an old man. Still, as long as they teach people to read and write and allow them to read nineteenth-century Russian literature, there are going to be more Pasternaks.
Do you read many contemporary American writers?
I don't get time for very much because I do so much reading of a research type in connection with things I am doing—documents. It's very hard for me to get time. I read Salinger with a great deal of pleasure, and I mention him simply because he has given me pleasure. The Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey were very entertaining books. I read a certain amount of Faulkner, and I'm very, very fond of some of his writing. "The Bear" and As I Lay Dying. "The Bear" is a marvelous hunting story. I liked Intruder in the Dust. He reminds me very much of the old storytellers I used to listen to down here when I visited summers as a boy, when I would hide in the shadows so that I wouldn't be sent off to bed. I'd listen till my ears would burst. I suppose what I like best in Faulkner is the detail. He is a remarkably accurate observer and builds his narratives—which sometimes strike me as turgid—out of the marvelous raw material of what he has seen.
And Cummings's poetry?
Oh, I've always enjoyed Cummings's poetry. I was very fond of Cummings personally. He was in college at the same time I was, I think a class ahead of me, and I saw quite a little bit of him there. We always met on much the same terms, although sometimes a year would go by when I didn't see him. He was the last of the great New Englanders.
How does the work of some of the more committed left-wing writers of the thirties seem to you now? Michael Gold and Howard Fast, for example.
Somebody credited me with a wisecrack about that time: Writers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your brains. Mike Gold wrote quite well. His first book, Jews Without Money, was a warm, human thing, very much influenced by Gorky, whom Gold admired greatly. Fast never interested me. His book on Tom Paine irritated me very much because I thought he completely falsified the picture. Generally, though, the writers who became CP members either stopped writing or became so boring nobody could read them.
Have you known any of the communist politicians, rather than the writers?
I had a long conversation with Earl Browder, to whom I took a great dislike. He was a horrible fellow. I've met Foster and didn't dislike him.
Did you discover a great disparity between Browder and Foster, on the one hand, and John Reed on the other?
Of course, I had a great deal of sympathy with John Reed. I thought he wrote very well, and I think I liked his writings better than I did him. The only time I ever met him he was giving a talk, maybe about Mexico. It was at Harvard when I was an undergraduate. There was something indefinably Harvard Brahmin in his manner that threw me off at the time. I was a very intolerant young man in a bashful and retiring sort of way in those days. I hated college boys. From what Louise Bryant said privately, I suspect that John Reed was pretty discouraged before he died.
Have you been more optimistic about the world situation in the last five years or less so?
It would be hard to say. I think I have probably become more so as I get older and a little less passionately involved, but then when they pull something like the operation in the Bay of Pigs, I become extremely pessimistic, particularly when nobody seems to understand its significance.
What do you think of the academic treatment of modern literature?
It seems to be rather confused, although I haven't followed it very much. The academic community is more likely to suffer from mass delusions than the general public. I don't know exactly why, but I suppose it's always been the case.
Do you feel that your own most recent writing is generally misunderstood in this country?
I wouldn't say that. Some people misunderstand it, naturally. They always will. It would be absurd to expect them to understand things. Also, if you deal with matters that touch people, you must expect to cause pain; particularly, if you hit at some target that is close to the truth. It always causes pain, agony. Naturally, they resent it.
Have you ever thought that you have what has been called a Wayne Morse complex, an unwillingness to go along with a major party or major tendency?
There is a type of mind that does tend to say, as Ibsen did, that the minority is always right. Perhaps I agree with Ibsen in that.
Have you tried other artistic forms? Poetry, for instance.
I did quite a lot of that … but it took a different form … it got into certain rhythmic passages in U.S.A. I do a little painting, a watercolor or so. The prose can get too highcolored; a watercolor gets that drained off.
Do you enjoy writing?
That depends. Sometimes I do, and sometimes I don't.
What is its particular pleasure?
Well, you get a great deal off your chest—emotions, impressions, opinions. Curiosity urges you on—the driving force. What is collected must be got rid of. That's one thing to be said about writing. There is a great sense of relief in a fat volume.


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Now given that 17 of my 21 hives where never intended to produce any honey. that the 4 colonies that where expected to produce have at times been the support for making the mini splits. had honey removed to support the development of some of those splits or have had fraems of brood taken to produce queens from etc. Some of the swarms that where not expected to produce honey at the beginning of the season. btu by far the majority of my hives could not be excited to nor did they produce one drop of honey for harvest. they have produced honey.
Now do I divide m 230 lbs of honey by 21 to gain my average? Do I divide it by some number between one and 21 that for some arbitrary reasoning seems acceptable? OR do I divide it by only the number of hives that where expected to produce regardless of how many actually produced?
It seems to me that the members of this group lack any ability to wrap their minds around something that includes even a minor degree of complexity. They are obviously unable to just make a determination and stick with it much less establish it as the standard.
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Beyond Rice Agriculture: The Garden Agriculture of Angkor Wat
Alison Carter, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The A. E. Bye Land Surveys
Kimberly Mercurio
Ethnobotany, Symbolism, and Property Rights Institutions in Tropical Agrarian Societies
Michael Sheridan, Middlebury College
The Erbil Plain Archaeological Survey
Jason Ur, Harvard University
Interdisciplinary History of Rural Water and Land Use in Southern Burgundy, France
Scott Madry, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Archaeological Investigations and Survey of the Sacred Landscape in Osun Grove, Nigeria
Akin Ogundiran, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
The Archaeology of Japanese American Internment Gardens at Amache
Bonnie Clark, University of Denver
Landscape Allegory: Manchu-Chinese Imperial and Ethnic Images at the Early Qing Tomb Parks
Alan R. Sweeten, California State University, Stanislaus
Garden Archaeology at Ramat Rahel, Israel
Oded Lipschits, Institute of Archaeology, Tel Aviv University
Systematic Survey and Documenting of Qiao yuan, Taizhou
Xu Yinong, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
The Landscape of Qing Dynasty Necropoli: Presenting Imperial Image Through Garden Scenery, Structures, and Sculptures
Alan R. Sweeten, California State University, Stanislaus
Recovery of the Gardens and the Orchard Pleasure: Churubusco Ex-Convent, 17th Century, Mexico
Saúl Alcántara Onofre, Coordinación Nacional de Monumentos Históricos, INAH
Archaeology of Gardens in Roman Hispania
Jordi Juan i Tresserras, University of Barcelona, Spain
Petra Garden and Pool-Complex Excavations
Leigh-Ann Bedal, The Behrend College, Pennsylvania State University, Erie
Archaelogical and Natural Scientific Investigations on the Medieval Royal Palace Garden and Royal Parkland at Visegrá, Hungary
Jószef Laszlovszky, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Petra Garden Feasibility Study
Leigh-Ann Bedal, The Behrend College, Pennsylvania State University, Erie
Phytoliths: A New Approach in the Identification and Study of Prehistoric Maori Gardens
Mark Horrocks, University of Auckland
Sacred Trees in the Land of Israel
Nurit Lissovsky, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
The Villa of Livia at Prima Porta, Rome
Peter Liljenstolpe, Uppsala University, Allan Klynne, Uppsala University, and Lena Landgren, Lund University, Sweden
Reconstructing Tucker's Garden: The Use of Environmental Archaeology in Documenting Historic Gardens
Kate Meatyard, St. Mary's College of Maryland, Lexington Park and Lisa Kealhofer, Environmental Studies Institute, Santa Clara University
A Survey of Medieval Islamic Gardens and garden Pavilions in Southern Turkey
Scott Redford, Georgetown University, Washington
Palermo: An Outstanding Public park in Increasing Damage and Risk of Disappearance
Sonia Berjman, University of Buenos Aires and Daniel Schávelzon
Pückler-Muskau Park: Restoring the Prince's Vision at Belvedere Park (Łęknica, Poland)
Linda Robertson
Gardens of the Roman Empire: Preparation of a Colloquium on Pompeii and Other Vesuvian Sites
Wilhelmina Jashemski, University of Maryland
Archaeological Sites in Tunisia
Wilhelmina Jashemski, University of Maryland
Excavation of Hadrian's Villa
Wilhelmina Jashemski, University of Maryland, and Eugenia Salza Prina Ricotti
Gardens of the Roman Empire: Preparation of a Colloquium on Pompeii and Other Vesuvian Sites
Wilhelmina Jashemski, University of Maryland
The Naturalistic Garden at Dumbarton Oaks
Diane Kostial McGuire, Harvard University
Gardens of the Roman Empire: Garden of Pompeii, Herculaeneum, and the Villas Destroyed by Vesuvius
Wilhelmina Jashemski, University of Maryland
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Led by Berklee-educated North Carolinian songwriter Ari Picker, Lost in the Trees is one of the latest bands to meld classical music with indie pop. Just last week, Anti-Records rereleased an extended version of the band's 2008 effort All Alone in an Empty House. This album cut embodies both the grandeur of a dramatic orchestral work and the intimacy of a folk tune.
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Healthy eating is in, even in North Jersey diners
New Jersey is famous for its diners, which are renowned for their share of indulgent treats, from ooey-gooey butter-and-syrup-covered waffles to sizzling crispy bacon and sausage links to hefty wedges of cheesecake and super-tall glasses filled with chocolate pudding topped by a small mountain of whipped cream. Not exactly what doctors and nutritionists have been urging us to eat for at least two decades.
And as much as many of us would love to shut out the admonishments of health experts and dig into oversized burgers, open turkey sandwiches and tall ice-cream sundaes, most of us have heard – and are trying to abide — their urgings to eat baked potatoes instead of fried potatoes, fresh corn instead of creamed corn and spaghetti primavera instead of fettuccine Alfredo. And owners of North Jersey diners apparently have as well – their customers are letting them know that eating healthy is in.
"Everything's about health," said Sophia Logos, owner of the Wayne Hills Diner. "They're watching their diets." And their gluten, apparently. Last year, the diner introduced a gluten-free menu.
"We have so many different diets, anything from gluten-free to calorie-counting," said Paul Skiadas, a manager at Paramus' Suburban Diner, which, he noted, does not cook with trans fat ingredients and offers quinoa with some specials. Plus, he said, "we can provide people with the option of custom-making their own meals."
Skiadas said it's clear people are more interested in eating well, that is, healthily; more people, for example, ask for wheat wraps, he noted. "This has been going on for years, and it just becomes more noticeable as the years go by," Skiadas said. "What was kale two years ago? Nothing. Now everybody has to have it."
And at The Ridge Diner in Park Ridge, more people are ordering panini and wraps instead of hamburgers and opting for salads over fries as a side option, noted owner Mike Meidanis.
The eat-for-health trend is seen in dining establishments nationwide, according to the National Restaurant Association. The association has found that the five top trends in restaurants all involve health, in some way: gluten-free cuisine, locally grown produce, locally sourced meats and seafood, environmental sustainability and healthful kids' meals.
It's not exactly a complete upheaval. Diners still order greasy blue plate specials, but Teddy Daniil, owner of Clifton's Tick Tock Diner, said they are also ordering more turkey bacon and salads, "especially in the beginning of the year" (hello New Year's resolutions). Daniil said he is considering adding a gluten-free menu.
Still, when eating at a diner, health-conscious patrons need to choose carefully, nutritionists said.
Erin Spitzberg, a nutritionist at Nutrition by Design in Oradell, encourages people to apply an "80/20" rule to healthy versus unhealthy eating; that is, try to eat healthfully 80 percent of the time and indulge less-healthy cravings only about 20 percent of the time. Spitzberg noted that an egg or two is healthy, but in omelettes that may contain four, five, six eggs, customers should consider switching to egg whites. As far as eating bacon or any other not particularly healthy item, it depends on how often you eat it: "If you eat bacon two times a month, then get what you like," she said.
Nutritionist Allison Vogel, who works at North Jersey Nutrition in Teaneck, advises diners, no matter where they are dining, to "always pick your proteins first, then, keep the carbohydrate to the side. This allows you to feel more full."
Then again, Spitzberg said, diner portion sizes are the biggest concern at diners.
"If you're the type of person that tends to overeat, especially when large portions are put in front of you," she noted, "the diner might not be the best place for you."
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Yak Films created a new video trailer recapping some highlights from the 3v3 b-boy battles. Good HD quality and nice editing! I you weren't there, check out the clip to see what you missed out on! Denmark was such an awesome trip! Floor Wars was definitely a dope jam! Peace! Enjoy!
L.O.Z movie trailer for Floor Wars 2011
This is just a video clip of what happened while we were in Denmark. Enjoy!
LOZ in Denmark: Day One
Day one. Philly Wednesday night, isaiah and i linked up in Chinatown DC. As we were walking towards the bus station, we witnessed this one little dude getting his ass beat by this giant Kmel lookin dude and this fat chick. The little guy was curled up in a fetal position and the dude that […]
Floor Wars | Copenhagen, Denmark | March 19, 2011
The long wait is over folks! Domkey, Isaiah and I are finally going to Denmark this weekend! All three of us are leaving from Philadelphia International Airport on Thursday. Wish us Luck! I am super excited about this trip! The hotel we are staying at is within 15 minutes walking distance from this really dope […]


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Parallel search?
I am running a search through a large parameter space for a rare or
nonexistent object - I don't know which. This search could take weeks or
months of constant running. If it doesn't find the object I would just
keep it running until it seemed hopeless.
Given several processors I could assign each one a different part of the
search. They would not have to communicate with each other. If I had a
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Student Spotlight: Basia Reed
Basia Reed
Major: Biology
At age 8, Basia Reed already had a clear picture of her future. She developed a love of animals while growing up with her family's pets – which included cats, one dog and two ferrets – and she wanted to dedicate herself to improving the lives of people's pets.
"In fourth grade, my teacher knew I wanted to be a veterinarian, so she gave me a home veterinary book for cats," she said. "It was pretty thick with lots of information, but I read the whole thing cover to cover."
As a senior at Glenbard East High School, Reed heard about the Scholars Award program at College of DuPage through Glenbard's financial aid counselor. She knew her outstanding academic record gave her a strong chance at being selected for the full-ride Presidential Scholarship. More importantly, Reed realized the value of attending College of DuPage and how it could fit into her career goals.
"I want to be a veterinarian, and I knew it would take eight years of college," she said. "My parents knew that I had a lot of college ahead of me, so we had to save money. By coming to COD, I could complete all of my gen ed requirements and then transfer to my next school debt-free."
After earning her Associate in Science degree, Reed transferred to North Central College and received her Bachelor of Science in Biology degree, graduating summa cum laude. She also made the dean's list every term and maintained a 3.99 GPA.
Reed is now applying to veterinary schools while taking a gap year to get more vet shadowing experience, which will make her school application stronger.
She said coming to College of DuPage definitely made the next steps easier.
"College of DuPage provided a high quality education, and people are there because they want to be," she said. "I learned how college classes work, so I didn't make any scheduling or class mistakes. I learned how to do the whole college thing, and I did it at COD. I'm saving money in the long run, and I was really impressed with COD."
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Rogue Hopyard DIY Workshop: Homebrewing
Name: Rogue Hopyard DIY Workshop: Homebrewing
Date: February 17, 2013
Time: 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM PST
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Rogue Hopyard DIY Workshop: Homebrewing Sunday February 17th 11AM - 5PM $10 (includes lunch) 3590 Wigrich Rd, Independence, OR Josh Cronin, Farmstead Head Brewer, will be brewing all day and can answer your questions as he brews. You are welcome to attend all or part of the scheduled events. Please visit our Facebook page for more information. 11AM - 12PM Homebrewing 101 with Raen Brew 12PM ? 1PM Lunch and Q&A 1PM ? 3PM Advanced Brewing - All grain, water quality, and yeast selection with Jack Waibel from Rogue Ales 3PM - 4PM Farm Tour 4PM - 5PM Hoppy Hour Please call (503) 838-9813 for reservations.


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words: George Achorn
17 April 2006
The job of redesigning Audi's iconic TT could not have been an easy one. A welcome challenge to Audi's design studios it may be, but following the lead of a ground-breaking original is no easy feat. Any designer picking up a pen to take a stab at the TT's successor had to know that everyone would be a critic of the new design, constantly comparing it to that paradigm-changing original. All eyes would be on this car. And, as it turns out, all eyes would be on this car at the 2006 New York Auto Show after it was determined by Audi AG that the new coupe would make its auto show debut in the Big Apple.
New York is not far from our East Coast regional office near Washington, D.C. The trip is either a quick ride by car or train, though a great four-day forecast placed the emphasis on 'car' with our Four Seasons S4 Cabriolet prepped for top-down motoring.
As I made the 3-hour trip northward toward the Big Apple, the gratuitous blast up the New Jersey Turnpike was made listening to the car's XM Satellite Radio and specifically to E! Radio's 'Ask the Asnwer Bitch' show. Okay, it's not the most macho thing to listen to, but you can find out all the inside information on the Entertainment Industry… not lectures on astro-physics, but it helps the turnpike exits pass by more quickly.
One question from the show now seems more than poignant. It asked where all the super models had gone. Sure, there is no shortage of fantastic-looking waif-like models out there, but models achieving true household names like Cindy Crawford, Elle McPherson, Claudia Schiffer and Tatjana Patitz have not continued to emerge. Whereas models like the ones mentioned were mainstream, with MTV television shows and appearances in George Michael videos, the names of today's models are largely known only to those familiar with the fashion industry.
It was the contention of the so-called 'Answer Bitch' that those super models marked a more opulent era. That might be the case, though it's hard to remember an era more opulent in recent history, with today's Bugatti Veyrons and P. Diddy parties.
I'd argue it's more of an issue of background noise. With more media outlets on TV, radio and web covering an even wider array of quasi-celebrities, it's even harder to generate buzz and make a name for yourself as a model… much less a super model.
The successor to the TT finds itself in a similar position. Well respected and given its due, it still has a tough road to drive down as it follows its predecessor. The original TT was a fashion icon as well – a super model if you will.
In 1999 when the TT hit the scene, the automotive landscape was a lot more barren. The Mustang had lost its luster, Nissan was just getting ready to dust off the Z-car, the Evo was not sold in the USA and the only Imprezas were non-turbocharged. Though driven by James Bond, the BMW Z3 was a tad girly and the SLK was S-L-O-W. Since those days, the market has changed significantly.
The new TT will have to make a name for itself with much more background noise. There are countless more news outlets covering countless more significant rivals. The public is generally jaded, competitive cars on the market are stronger than they've ever been and there's no reality show like 'America's Top Model' to help cars get noticed unless you can talk Chip Foose into busting loose for the first time on an Audi.
That's not to say Audi hasn't been crafty in playing every card at their disposal to get the word out. First came the rumors from automotive writers tight with the Audi board such as George Kacher from Automobile and CAR. Then came the Shooting Brake Concept teaser based on the TT, followed by hardly disguised TTs photographed in winter testing. Next were the micro-website with revealing drawings and photography, the widely-covered Brandenburg Gate reveal and now the aforementioned industry-specific auto show reveal in New York ironically complete with fashion show and supermodel Tatjana Patitz.
To borrow a phrase from the old UK sitcom 'The Young Ones', there are as-of-yet undiscovered tribes in the heart of the Peruvian Jungle who've heard there's a new TT in town and the wave of test drives of both the Shooting Brake and coupe models have barely begun.
Audi PR has clearly done its job getting the word out on the new car. Now it's up to the TT itself. Will it win over the industry and the driving public? Will it maintain the cult-like following of its predecessor, with a veritable market itself based on accessories and personalization? Will it be a super model?
Having viewed the TT in New York, things certainly look good. With an aluminum space frame comprising about 71% of the car's structure and newer and more powerful engines, it appears as if the car's performance should be better than ever. Where the new car may not have the heavy machined aluminum bits of the original, smart and trend-setting design on the inside should still win over even the pickiest dash-stroking consumer. We even caught a glimpse of J. Mays wandering over to the Audi stand to take a closer look, and spoke to some BMW staff who admittedly described it as 'beautiful.'
Will it achieve super model status like the original? That's tough to say. The new TT Coupe faces the same problems that today's would-be-supermodels do in the fashion world as waxed upon by E!'s Answer Bitch. It certainly won't get lost in the crowd, but gaining Cindy Crawford-like status certainly will not be easy.
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Juventus dismisses Chievo Verona to stay perfect at home
Juventus eased to a 3-1 win over relegation-threatened Chievo Verona in Serie A as its remarkable home record continued on Sunday.
Juventus, which has now won all 12 of its home league matches this season, extended its lead at the top of the table to 12 points ahead of Roma, which is hosting Sampdoria later.
It was coach Antonio Conte's 100th match in charge.
Kwadwo Asamoah, Claudio Marchisio and Fernando Llorente scored for Juventus, which conceded a comical own goal.
''It's tough to be aggressive for the entire 95 minutes,'' Conte said. ''But we can't allow ourselves to let up during this particular period. The minute our attention levels drop for a second, everything happens.
''It's not easy for anyone to win for three years in a row, but these lads are doing just that. Everyone has surprised me in a positive manner, and I hope they keep doing so.''
Napoli moved just a point behind Roma, which has two games in hand, after beating lowly Sassuolo 2-0.
''We created several chances to score, I can't be anything other than happy,'' Napoli coach Rafa Benitez said. ''I never talk about individuals, but I see (Marek) Hamsik is improving game after game.''
Earlier, Catania pulled off a surprise 3-1 victory over Lazio to move off bottom spot.
Also, it was: Genoa 3, Udinese 3; Atalanta 0, Parma 4; and Cagliari 1, Livorno 2.
Juventus took the lead in the 18th minute when Asamoah curled a powerful effort into the far side of goal from just outside the area.
The Serie A leader doubled its advantage 11 minutes later. Chievo goalkeeper Michael Agazzi did well to parry Andrea Pirlo's free kick but Marchision was on hand to net the rebound.
Juventus had squandered a two-goal lead to draw 2-2 at promoted Hellas Verona last week and it risked falling foul of another Verona team after a sluggish start to the second half.
Chievo pulled one back six minutes after the break as Stephan Lichtsteiner's attempted clearance ricocheted off teammate Martin Caceres and into the back of the net.
However, Llorente sealed the match in the 58th when he headed home Pirlo's corner.
Juventus has scored three or more goals in all but one of its past nine home matches.
Napoli maintained its bid for a Champions League berth with a comfortable win at Sassuolo.
Blerim Dzemaili broke the deadlock in the 37th minute after a series of fine saves from Sassuolo goalkeeper Gianluca Pegolo.
Lorenzo Insigne scored 10 minutes after halftime when he raced into the area and curled a shot into the far right of goal.
Dzemaili also hit the crossbar late on.
It was coach Francesco Guidolin's 172nd Serie A game in charge of Udinese, matching the club record set by Giuseppe Bigogno, and he looked set to celebrate with victory after two goals in quick succession from Dusan Basta and Bruno Fernandes
Moussa Konate reduced the deficit on the stroke of halftime but Udinese restored its two-goal advantage immediately after the break when Nicolas Burdisso tugged Thomas Heurtaux's shirt in the box and Luis Muriel converted the resulting penalty.
A brace from Alberto Gilardino saw Genoa rescue a point.
Catania had won only one of its previouos 12 matches and started the day bottom of the table.
However, it got off to the best possible start when Mariano Izco volleyed in off the inside of the right post after just 41 seconds.
Stefano Mauri was making his first start since May following a ban for his role in a match-fixing scandal. The Lazio captain headed his team level in first-half stoppage time.
Nicolas Spolli headed Catania back in front immediately after halftime and Gino Peruzzi sealed the result in the 58th minute.
The relegation battle between Cagliari and Livorno burst into life a minute before halftime with a stunning strike from Emerson which swerved into the top corner from 40 meters.
Tempers flared towards the end and Cagliari captain Daniele Conti was sent off for insulting the referee. Livorno ended the match in nine men after Federico Ceccherini was dismissed for two yellow cards and Marco Benassi saw red for a poor challenge on Mauricio Pinilla.
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The downtown emergency services building houses Steamboat Springs Fire Rescue and the city's police department. The city will decide at a Dec. 18 meeting whether to sell the building.
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Some Steamboat Springs City Council members see the sale of the Yampa Street property to local companies BAP, Big Agnes and Honey Stinger as economic development. Others consider it a risk not worth taking.
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