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One of the largest sites of pre-Columbian Mayan ruins, Tikal was once one of the most important cities in the Mayan world.
The peanut, or ground-nut (Arachis hypogaea), is another widely-cultivated plant, dating from pre-Columbian times.
pre-Columbian book, see Mexican.Prehistoric background of the book, 79-81.
The languages spoken by the pre-Columbian tribes of North America were many and diverse.
It is, indeed, possible that the skeleton may be pre-Columbian.
The pre-Columbian Mexicans inherited a practical knowledge of mechanics and engineering.
He was as primitive as the aborigines of the pre-Columbian period.
It is apparent that baskets of open construction were employed as sieves in pre-Columbian as well as in post-Columbian times.
The importance, for the history of pre-Columbian civilization, of these discoveries cannot be overestimated.
There still exist in Yucatan the diminishing remnants of the most civilised nation of the pre-Columbian epoch of our continent.


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Summer temperatures can make it very difficult to create a decent hairdo. Especially when you wear your hair loose around your face and it gets all sweaty and frizzy. If you don't want to get bored by the same ponytail everyday, you can try on of the above hairdo's which are refreshing and you will still look chic.

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Lesnar, Mir ready for clash!
UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar and interim champ Frank Mir pledged victories for their rematch Saturday night, at today's final press conference, held at the House of Blues at Mandalay Bay. Stay tuned for more from today's presser.
It's the biggest event in mixed martial arts history, and for UFC 100, the Ultimate Fighting Championship is bringing out the big guns. Two championships will be on the line when UFC heavyweight title holder Brock Lesnar defends his crown against rival Frank Mir in their long-awaited grudge match, and UFC welterweight champion Georges "Rush" St-Pierre puts his belt up for grabs against Brazilian knockout artist Thiago "Pitbull" Alves. Also, The Ultimate Fighter coaches collide as Dan Henderson takes on Michael "The Count" Bisping in a pivotal middleweight showdown. For more info, visit the official site for UFC 100


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PRESS DIGEST- Canada-May 21
May 21 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories from selected Canadian newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
** Shopify Inc has raised C$131 million ($107.30 million) in its initial public offering, pricing the shares above an increased range as investors clamored for stock in the provider of software for small businesses. (bit.ly/1Lonpl9)
** With the busy summer travel season set to take flight, Air Canada is about to begin clamping down on carry-on baggage to ensure it meets regulations. Starting next Monday at Toronto's Pearson International Airport, airline staff will be stationed at both check-in and security checkpoints to ensure carry-on bags meet size and weight requirements. (bit.ly/1cPP2Yr)
** The prospect of a liquefied natural gas industry in British Columbia would be a game-changer for aboriginal communities, Premier Christy Clark said on Wednesday. But she sidestepped the question of what happens if some of those communities continue to say no to the developments. (bit.ly/1K4tqCs) Continued...


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Kitchen, not only are your days numbered, but we also have a number on how much it is going to cost to give you a good old makeover.
Over the past week and a half we have had two contractors come out to our place to give us estimates on what it is going to cost to have our kitchen redone. Both contractors we found on Angie's List and both have FANTASTIC reviews. One is a big company, and one is a small, one man company. I was really interested to see how they matched up….and man, were they ever different.
Upon Arrival:
Both were friendly and cordial.
Taking measurements:
Mr. Big Contractor (hereby known as Mr. B) took general measurements with a regular tape measure. Mr Little Contractor (Mr. L) admitted he forgot his digital tape measure and camera, so he took measurements with his regular tape measure and snapped some photos of our space with his phone.
Understanding what we want:
I showed each contractor this photo as a jumping off idea of the layout that we are thinking we want (not necessarily the style):
Mr. B told us we want regular hardwood when we mentioned we were looking at engineered hardwood. Mr. L said engineered would be better with kids (doesn't scratch as easily) and better in the kitchen. Mr. L did say "we can do whatever you want, however." Mr. B seemed a little distracted and didn't seem to be listening very atentively. Mr. B asked us two times within 10 minutes what kind of countertop we were thinking of. When we told him soapstone, he said, "no, you don't want that, it is too expensive." Mr. L just nodded and wrote it down. Mr. B wrote nothing down. Mr. L took notes our entire meeting.
Mr. B said 7-8 weeks
Mr. L said 4-5 weeks
So there is a general idea of the differences. Overall, we felt like Mr B told us what we wanted, and Mr L listened to what we wanted. Another pro to Mr L is this: he uses pinterest. Check this out: he already started a "secret board" that we both can pin things to and put our plans/ideas for the project. I LOVE THAT.
We got the estimates and they are within 1000 of each other. Interestingly enough, Mr. L has a LOT more money put into product. Here's an example: the total cost is going to be about $40,000 (gulp!). Mr. B has $4000 of that budget as demolition. Mr. L has $700. I'd much rather spend the money on product than labor!! (And who knows, we might do a bunch of demo ourselves, all that is yet to be determined.)
We are hoping to get one more contractor in here and then we'll make a decision and start the planning!! This is exciting and nerve wracking all at the same time!
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Name That Babe – Beer Goggles
It's Katy Perry!
God bless America, y'all. Katy Perry's music might not be in your wheelhouse, but damn she's fun to look at! Do yourself a favor and just look at this pic a few times, it may give you the strength and motivation you need to make it through that 'Part of Me' movie your lady will most definitely drag you to this weekend. You can score points by acting like you really don't want to go, but we both know it will be a bouncy, jiggly good viewing experience sure to induce some 'Fireworks' in your pantaloons.


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The 3% Conference 2014
Better Man Conference
Monday, November 3, 2014 at 8:00 AM - Tuesday, November 4, 2014 at 5:30 PM (PST)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
The third annual 3% Conference, dedicated to more female creative leadership in advertising. This one-of-a-kind event offers a mix of inspiration + perspiration. On Day 1, we'll be galvanized by top leaders like John Gerzema, Tara Mohr, Jess Weiner, Todd Henry, Ann Mack and others. On Day 2, we'll roll up our sleeves for important professional development, including Speed Mentoring and Creative Director Bootcamp, capped off with a closing keynote from the inimitable Cindy Gallop. Plus there will be plenty of time for networking and conversation with a rare audience of 500-600 diverse industry professionals, male and female.
When & Where
Intercontinental San Francisco
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San Francisco,
Monday, November 3, 2014 at 8:00 AM - Tuesday, November 4, 2014 at 5:30 PM (PST)
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With Google Gone, Baidu Rules ChinaBy
Google's (GOOG) confrontation with the Chinese government has been very good for investors in local rival Baidu.com (BIDU). The Beijing-based, Chinese-language search engine's Nasdaq shares have jumped 54% since Jan. 12, when Google first announced that it intended to stop censoring search results in China. With Google now following through on its threat and redirecting traffic to its Google Hong Kong service, where it doesn't need to censor its results, analysts say that the U.S. giant is likely to become little more than a niche player in the Chinese market.
"We expect access from China to google.com.hk to be at best, slow," wrote Goldman Sachs analyst James Mitchell in a Mar. 22 report, "and at worst, unavailable."
Google's exit brightens an already bright Baidu picture. With its only serious rival having hobbled itself, Baidu will now enjoy near-monopoly status in China's Chinese-language search category. Of the company's remaining competitors, "none of them has over 1% market share," says Paul Wuh, an analyst in Hong Kong with Samsung Securities. That puts Baidu in command of a small, but fast-growing market. Spending by advertisers on search in China totaled just $1 billion in 2009 and will be worth $4.9 billion by 2015, he estimates. Almost all of that will belong to Baidu, says Wuh, who expects the company's market share to jump from its current 65% to over 90% within two years.
"an opportunity for everybody"
For now, most companies interested in doing online-search advertising in China will have no choice but to use Baidu, says Arlene Ang, Singapore-based regional managing director with Publicis Modem, the digital arm of Publicis Advertising. "I just don't see who else is big enough to take over that spot" vacated by Google, she says. "There are smaller ones but they don't have the reach."
Not everyone is convinced that Baidu has the market locked up, however. "This is an opportunity for everybody to ramp up their market share," says CLSA's Hong Kong-based analyst Elinor Leung, "so everyone will try." Clients don't want to put all of their online advertising budgets into one company, says Chris Reitermann, president in Beijing of Ogilvy One, the digital arm of Ogilvy & Mather. "You will see one of the other search engines over time definitely become more prominent and take part of Google's revenue."
Industry analysts point to several companies that might succeed. Microsoft's (MSFT) Bing is one. The young search engine has yet to make a dent in China's market and—like every other contender operating in China—is legally obligated to self-censor. Among the local players is Sohu (SOHU), a popular Beijing-based portal that has a search engine called SoGou, or Search Dog. A further contender is Tencent (700:HK), which operates the massively popular QQ instant messaging service and has a search service called SoSo. The Shenzhen-based company's shares trade in Hong Kong and have tripled in the past year, giving Tencent a market capitalization of $37.4 billion. That's 81.5% higher than Baidu's Nasdaq-listed shares. "People have a lot of hopes for Tencent's search engine because they have the traffic," says Leung.
"At least five years or more"
Another local company that might be able to challenge Baidu in search is Alibaba (1688:HK), parent company of Hong Kong-listed business-to-business site Alibaba.com, as well as privately held consumer site Taobao. Company spokesman John Spelich won't comment on whether Alibaba—which is 44% owned by Yahoo! (YHOO)—has plans to boost its search business now that Google China has vacated the market. However, he says the company's Taobao has an edge over Baidu in attracting online advertisers. "The overwhelming majority of our users come with purchase intent, while the majority of Baidu users come looking for free music or entertainment," Spelich says via e-mail. That e-commerce base "gives us much more of an advantage when tailoring advertising solutions to help companies reach the right consumers."
Eventually, a competitor of Baidu's might move into the space vacated by Google in the search market. Building a search engine is a tough job, though, especially when one company is so far ahead.
"I do expect one or two of them to emerge, but it will take some time for them to catch up with Baidu," says Vincent Kobler, managing director of EmporioAsia Leo Burnett in Shanghai, which works with multinational clients such as McDonald's (MCD), Coca-Cola (KO), and Procter & Gamble (PG), as well as Chinese retailers such as Li Ning (2331:HK) and Belle International (1880:HK). How long will it take before another search engine can match Baidu? "At least five years or more to really reach scale," says Kobler. Until then, he says, "we're directing most of our clients in Baidu's direction."


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Discoveries In the "Other Iraq"
Selali Fiamanya on travelling through Iraqi Kurdistan…
At the end of the first night my travelling buddy Kyro and I were in high spirits: we had visited a local bazaar and the holy town of an old and tiny religion, gone hill-walking, and braved the biggest rollercoaster the city's theme park had to offer. I had also beaten him in bowling. As we reclined in the taxi on the way back to our hostel I realised to my surprise that I was having fun in Iraq.
We were in Iraqi Kurdistan, a territory in the north of Iraq which gained some political sovereignty from Baghdad in 1970, but was devastated since then by war. Saddam Hussein's Al-Anfal genocide campaign in the 1980s was responsible for up to two million deaths by means of aerial bombing of whole villages, chemical warfare and firing squads. The region had benefited since then from the US invasion, and helped with the toppling of the Iraqi government.
24 hours earlier I had wanted nothing more than to run away. We had travelled from Silopi in south eastern Turkey for five hours and arrived at the bus station close to midnight. We spent the night there waiting for daybreak, when cheap taxis could take us across the border. On the horizon you could just see the black imprint of the rugged mountains which seemed to run in every direction. The prospect of what was beyond them filled me with dread, especially as we talked to our first Iraqi friend.
"Mohammed" was a middle aged Arab from Mosul, a town south of Kurdistan in Arab Iraq, and was waiting because the roads to his city were closed from 6am to 6pm by US forces due to the risk posed by daily bombings. His was a story of hopelessness: his work as a university graduate chemist was in tatters due to an inability to import raw materials (chlorine gas is classed as bomb fodder) and his factory along with thousands more in Iraq had been closed. We were told how in his youth he had gained a scholarship to Canada to study but was drafted to fight in the Iran-Iraq war. Eight years later the fighting had stopped and he was still stuck in Iraq. The future of his son was in jeopardy as it wasn't safe enough to send him to university. Even when the taxis arrived in the morning, he found it hard to convince someone to take him home.photo courtesy of Bryn Pinzgauer
His despair at the state of his country was apparent: as he described it, followers of Saddam's regime were destabilising the country for no other reason than to impede development. With no outlet for youth expression like the Facebook driven uprisings in other countries, strapping bombs to oneself is the alternative method of expressing discontent. As we delved deeper into the issues in Iraq, we found that Mohammad had no doubt that the Americans were now responsible for the separation of Arabs and Kurds, and had ruined the country for him. Our meeting was during the heyday of the Arab Spring; a time of hope in the Middle East, but for him there was none. "They'll all become like Iraq" he said, definitively. He implied that the lack of a strong dictator would result in the crumbling of these countries; an idea we were to come across again.
We said our goodbyes before heading off to Duhok, a city in the northwest. The smoothly paved roads, new storey buildings and swanky Japanese taxi cabs were a contrast to the dusty, quaint city I was expecting. We chatted to our taxi driver, who took us to Lalish, the Mecca of the small Yazidi faith (an amalgamation of Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Zoroastranism). He was full of vibrance and joy in his newly found freedom: the future of his son was secure, with him attending a new Kurdish university. When he had lived under an oppressed Kurdistan it was too dangerous even to go to secondary school.
As we drove through the desert he'd point to areas on the road near villages and shops and say "people used to come here and blow themselves up!" half chuckling to himself, as if reminiscing. He even had shrapnel wounds from those days. He had moved on from the time of oppression and was embracing this new life. Although he professed to believe everyone was equal, there was some casual slandering of the Arabs, mainly to do with the state of their cars: foreign investment means I sat in more taxis with TVs in the headrests in Iraq than I'd seen in the UK my whole life.
While driving we were stopped regularly by the Peshmerga, the Kurdish military; literally "Those Who Face Death". On one occasion, a burly, 60 year old, toothless general peered into our car. We were both petrified. He took our passports and gruffly told us in English "You… you are… very welcome in Kurdistan". The army is hugely respected by the people for keeping the peace, and more importantly, freedom in Kurdistan. This friendliness quickly became a recurring theme of the trip.
In fact, along the way the only trouble we had with the Peshmerga was when our taxi driver had an expired licence and the police held us up while they flagged down other cars to hitch us lifts. We made it to Amedi where we met a seventeen year old called Suleiman. He acted as our guide, showing us round his hilltop town where we saw the Eastern Gate (as seen in Lonely Planet's top 10 of the Middle East) and introducing us to his friends. We played basketball, talked football, smoked far too much shisha and ate plenty of ice-cream. It was all so disarmingly normal.photo courtesy of James Buck
Our next main stop was Erbil, the capital city of Iraqi Kurdistan. We met a man called Hassan who became our new guide. He was the big dentist in town. (Seriously: he got recognised at the mall). He was an Arab who moved up from Baghdad to find safety, as had many others. This has resulted in Erbil quickly becoming an ethnically diverse community over the past decade, with most people now bilingual in Arabic and Kurdish. It had been a good day, but as we turned to leave we caught on the TV reports of multiple suicide bombings in Mosul, Baghdad and Basra, merely 60 or 70km south. It's this dichotomy between the two Iraqs which stings the most. The Middle East was, for centuries, relatively peacefully, cohabited by many different religions. The twentieth century brought on decades of strife, but now Iraqi Kurdistan is the beacon of hope that things can get better.
Iraq is a stunning country. Perfect blue skies are carved by the sandy, sharp mountains. In the desert heat one can relax by a waterfall oasis with a kebab followed by limitless refills of hot, sweet tea. In the capital, Erbil, you can stand on the oldest continually inhabited area on earth, and then, feeling suitably cultured, sneak off to the Christian district for some cheap liquor, and the friendly locals are more than willing to show you around their local mosque between a game of netball and a chat round a shisha pipe. The Kurds are proud of their land, and they should be. Welcoming, but not yet tainted by tourism, the "Other Iraq" is a place where you can make real discoveries.
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Top work; I've been to Erbil and met Hassan myself…
Excellent piece, enjoyed it.


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Shhh... Secret News
This Sunday, Q2 offers live performances by two high-impact bandsembles from the Ecstatic Music Festival: the politically conscious Newspeak and Darcy James Argue's left-field big band Secret Society.
Hear David T. Little's Newspeak premiere Darcy James Argue's The Sleep Room, Part 1. Dealing with themes of mind-control, "Sleep Room" is a song cycle based on CIA-led brainwashing and psychological experimentation that took place in a Montreal-based hospital in the 1950's. The eight-piece amplified ensemble, artfully rips through Argue's work, along with Oscar Bettison's B&E (with aggravated assault), and pieces by Caleb Burhans and Pat Muchmore.
Darcy James Argue's big band, Secret Society, premiere Conspiracy Theory by Little,Three Fragments, by jazz piano superstar Vijay Iyer and electro-acoustic composer Nicole Lizée's Lock the Door, Swallow the Key. Appropriately performed on a night of music dealing with themes such as brainwashing and conspiracy theories, "Lock the Door" was inspired by Stanley Kubrick's The Shining. She explains that the "Overlook Hotel, hedge maze, room 237, the Gold Room, the Red Room, the significance of the number 12, even the patterns on the carpets and wallpaper informed the musical and structural content of the piece."
Listen in on Sunday March 6, at 2 p.m. to hear the concert, hosted by WNYC's John Schaefer and Q2's Nadia Sirota.


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NetworkforGood.org and OrganicBouquet.com Launch FlowersforGood.com
Online Florist Devoted to Green Practices, Good Causes on Valentine's Day and Beyond
San Francisco (January 30, 2006) - NetworkforGood.org, the charitable giving Web site founded by AOL, Yahoo! and Cisco Systems, and OrganicBouquet.com, the internet's first organic florist, announced Monday the launch of www.FlowersforGood.com, the first-ever online florist exclusively offering flowers cultivated to protect to the environment and sold to help a range of good causes.
On the site, launched for Valentine's Day, consumers can select from hundreds of arrangements, all grown with environmentally friendly practices, and choose from 10 different charities to benefit from the purchase. Depending on purchase price, Organic Bouquet will donate $5 or $10 for each bouquet to the charities - all of which have been screened by Network for Good and CharityNavigator.org. The charities include the American Red Cross, Heart to Heart International, the Environmental Defense Fund, and Mercy Corps.
"FlowersforGood.com is a great way to give from the heart on February 14 and all year long - it's not only a Valentine to someone you love but also a gift to the environment and the charity you choose," said Bill Strathmann, CEO of Network for Good."
Valentine's Day is the single largest day of the year for flower sales and bridges three intersecting trends:
Organic Bouquet is the largest online provider of eco-friendly and organic floral gifts. All of our flowers are grown in a manner that is not only environmentally friendly but also provides outstanding resources for farm workers and artisans. Organic Bouquet partners with select flower farms in California, Ecuador and Colombia. All of our flower farms follow stringent growing practices which are monitored by multiple certification agencies and associations. When you purchase flowers from Organic Bouquet, you are helping to improve the life of a flower farm worker, their family and the local floral community.
Our eco-friendly flower arrangements include roses, calla lilies, tulips, gerbera daisies, hyacinths, sunflowers, alstromeria lilies and blue iris. In addition to a complete line of flower arrangements, we offer gift baskets, fruit baskets, nut baskets, gourmet chocolates, gourmet cookies, plants and wreaths. All of these products are certified eco-friendly and/or provide for environmental benefits through our participation in Carbon Offset programs.
Whatever the occasion, our flowers make the perfect gift- birthday celebration flowers, anniversary flowers, holiday flowers, or floral arrangements simply to say thank you. Sending flowers from Organic Bouquet says that you care not only about the person receiving the flowers, but also about the environment. All of our gift items are shipped nationwide to all 50 states. So whether you need to send flowers to Florida, New York, California, or Colorado, we can guarantee overnight delivery to ensure they arrive fresh and ready to put a smile on someone's face.
Whether you are purchasing online, or through one of our customer service specialists, you can be assured you are ordering the freshest quality of flowers and environmentally friendly gifts.


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Palm Pre Preliminary Specifications | Hands-on
source: precentral.net
This article contains unofficial information.
1. PetraFan007 (Posts: 3; Member since: 13 May 2009)
yeah, a memory card slot?!?! or direct built-in access to remote files on your computer or server if no memory card slot?
4. SellPhones82 (Posts: 569; Member since: 11 Dec 2008)
Hopefully Orb will release a version for the Pre to make me forget about the missing SD slot!
2. heavybreathing (Posts: 276; Member since: 26 Feb 2009)
Innovative design?
3. stuntz (Posts: 178; Member since: 19 Dec 2008)
its going to make me a sandwich.
5. Legion (Posts: 397; Member since: 12 Dec 2008)
Hopefully an actual Razor so that I can shave on the go!
6. SellPhones82 (Posts: 569; Member since: 11 Dec 2008)
That would be nice but I don't think the Pre needs anything that's going to drain the battery even faster. I got $5 on it being Flash Player 10! That would be a nice kick to Apple's fruity nuts since Flash has been rumored forever but they have yet to approve it.
11. Kiltlifter (Posts: 742; Member since: 11 Dec 2008)
7. The Godfather (unregistered)
its surprise feature will be p tunes LIVE amazing huh?
8. SellPhones82 (Posts: 569; Member since: 11 Dec 2008)
I see someone drank their Hater-Aid this morning....and this pic is perfect! http://i135.photobucket.com/al
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However, problems with sample clearance prevented the single's release. The band continued to write and record, adding vocalist Kelly Llorenna to the fold for the recording of their next single "Set You Free." However, N-Trance chose not to release the single with 380 Records, opting instead to buy themselves out of their contract with the label. The band signed with a new label, All Around the World, and released "Set You Free" in 1993. The new single and the group's theatrical live performances, which included dancers and flame-throwers, as well as new vocalists Rachel McFarlane and T-1K, propelled N-Trance to prominence in the Eurpoean dance-pop scene. "Set You Free" charted as high as number two in the U.K. and become the highest-selling dance single of 1995.
That year, N-Trance recorded their first full-length album, Electronic Pleasure, which featured seven of the group's ever-expanding roster of vocalists. Similarly, N-Trance's musical range expanded, embracing rap, techno, pop, and Euro-beat in its scope. The group's next single, a cover of the Bee Gees' hit "Stayin' Alive," was not only a massive international hit, but also featured the two vocalists who would help define N-Trance's sound in the future, Viveen Wray and Ricardo Da Force, formerly with the KLF.
The release of further hit singles like "Electronic Pleasure" afforded N-Trance the possibility of building their own studio, Deep Blue, in 1996. They spent the next year and a half recording their second full-length album, Happy Hour, which was released in 1999. ~ Heather Phares
Selected Discography
Track List: Turn Up The Power
Track List: Stayin' Alive (Single)
Track List: Electronic Pleasure (Single)
Track List: The Best Of 1992 - 2002
Track List: Happy Hour
Track List: Paradise City
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Track List: Electronic Pleasure Cds
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Track List: Tears In The Rain
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Kacey Musgraves '67 Mustang
How cool is this...a chick that can sing AND loves to restore cars!
Kasey loves old cars and she has been doing a project with her dad since high school
Kasey told this story recently: "I just turned sixteen and gotten my license and I told the crowd one night that I was looking for a '67 Mustang or an old car'..... after the show someone came up to me and they were like, 'Hey this old man friend of mine has a… You should come look at it, you know it's been in storage, you know, under a tarp for a minute but you might wanna go look at it' and it was… it was really cool, he sold it to me for like $2500, my dad split it with me and we made it a project together and I still have it I just need to put a little love into it."
If you don't know what a '67 Mustang looks like...here is one...but this is NOT Kasey's.
I couldn't find any pics or video of her mustang - but her "Blowin Smoke" video is pretty cool!


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Buddhist devotional hanging
Unknown artist, Tibetan, Tibet
Buddhist devotional hanging, late 18th - early 19th century
Appliqued silk satin weave, with silk compound weave borders
Length: 118.1 cm (46 1/2 inches)
Gift of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich 35.433
In the Himalayan Buddhist tradition, the painted or appliquéd devotional hanging (thangka) is displayed in temples on special occasions or is used in personal prayer and meditation. This small appliquéd thangka depicts one of the most important figures in Tibetan Buddhism—-Guru Rinpoche (precious teacher) Padmasambhava (born from a lotus). Over his monk's robe he wears rich clothes and fine jewels that symbolize his status as founder of Tibetan Buddhism. His other attributes include the staff, skull cup, and double-headed thunderbolt symbolizing enlightenment. The lotus on which he sits and the two lotuses before him refer to his birth and name.


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Fort Cooper State Park illuminates the night
The Nights of Lights Christmas Celebration is from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Dec. 7, 8 and 9 at Fort Cooper State Park, 3100 S. Old Floral City Road, Inverness.
On Friday and Saturday, enjoy the park with decorations, thousands of lights and hundreds of luminaries. Stroll along the walkways, taking in the sights and sounds of Christmas. Bring the children for a visit with Santa.
Live entertainment starts at 7 p.m. Complimentary refreshments will be available while supplies last.
On Sunday, Dec. 9, enjoy the park with decorations and lights as you stroll along the walkways while Christmas music softly plays.
For admission, donate a nonperishable food item, a new toy or cash for Citrus United Basket, or a donation of pet food for Citrus County Animal Services.
For more information, call 352-726-0315.
Community Band playing for the holidays
The Nature Coast Community Band will have two holiday concerts: one at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, at Cornerstone Baptist Church, 1100 Highland Ave. in Inverness; and another at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9, at First United Methodist Church, corner of Yulee Drive and Bradshaw Street in Homosassa.
Featured on the program will be a new arrangement of "The Night Before Christmas" poem by Clement Clarke Moore, music by Randol Alan Bass, and narrated by local musician and international radio personality Lew Alpaugh. Other program selections are from "The Nutcracker Suite," "Mary's Boy Child," "O Most Holy Mystery," "Bugler's Holiday," and Drema Leonard singing "The Christmas Song." The program is narrated by Doreen Morgan.
All NCCB concerts are free. Audiences at NCCB concerts fill the hall, so early arrival is necessary to obtain a parking space and a seat. No tickets are necessary.
For more information, visit the website or call 352-601-7394.
'A Grinchmas Holiday' on tap Friday night
The fourth annual holiday show, "A Grinchmas Holiday," with entertainment by the New Dawn Singers, will be at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 7, at Citrus Springs Community Center, 1570 W. Citrus Springs Blvd.
The New Dawn Singers is a traveling group of college-age performers who bring a high-energy song-and-dance show to all ages across the country.
Cost is $7.
For information and tickets, call Citrus County Parks & Recreation at 352-465-7007 or 352-527-7540 or visit www.citruscountyparks.com.
Father Christmas Ball at local Episcopal church
Shepherd of the Hills Episcopal Church will present the 2012 Father Christmas Ball at 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 7, at the Key Training Center's Chet Cole Life Enrichment Center.
An upgraded menu and appetizers will be catered by John Mason Catering. Violinist and cellist duo of Double Trouble will provide dinner music for the semiformal evening, and deejay Bob Author will return to spin dance music from the 1940s through the 1980s.
Tickets are $45.
For information and tickets, call or stop by Shepherd of the Hills Episcopal Church, 2540 Norvell Bryant Highway, phone 352-527-0052, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Play Wildlife Jeopardy at state park
The Wildlife Jeopardy program will be from noon to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, at the Children's Education Center, Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park.
The question-and-answer Jeopardy-style program is for all ages and focuses on a different animal each month presented in the Children's Education Center in the Wildlife Park. December's subject is flamingos.
Regular park admission applies.
Sugarmill Chorale to raise voices in concert
The Sugarmill Chorale will have its Christmas concert at 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, at First United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall, 8831 W. Bradshaw St., Homosassa.
The chorale will perform Christmas favorites with a novelty piece or two.
Cost is $5 in advance and $8 at the door. Tickets may be purchased at the Crystal River Chamber of Commerce, 28 N.W. U.S. 19, or by calling Rose at 352-634-2688.
Local chorus to host old-fashioned concert
The Chorus of Beverly Hills will celebrate with the Christmas concert "An Old-Fashioned Christmas" at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 9, in the sanctuary of the Beverly Hills Community Church, 82 Civic Circle.
Some of the titles include a medley of Irving Berlin's songs, "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus," "Home for Christmas," "A Bell Carol" with the church's chime choir, "Blue Christmas."
Tickets are $5 and available from chorus members or at the church.
For more information, call 352-746-3620 or 352-746-5680.
* Inverness Christmas Parade, noon Saturday, Dec. 8, Inverness.
* Airboat Christmas Parade, 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, Hernando.
* Homosassa Boat Parade, 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 15, Homosassa.
* Citrus Springs Christmas Parade, 2 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 16, Citrus Springs.
* Crystal River Boat Parade, 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 22, Crystal River.
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TCU Women's Golf Learns Its Postseason Destination
April 30, 2012
FORT WORTH, Texas -- The TCU women's golf team will make its 17th consecutive postseason appearance when it begins play May 10 at the NCAA West Regional in Erie, Colo.
The NCAA announced the complete postseason field Monday night. The 36th-ranked Horned Frogs are the automatic qualifier from the Mountain West after winning its second consecutive league championship.
Eight teams and two individuals at each of the three regional sites advance to the NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championship May 22-25 in Franklin, Tenn. TCU has reached the NCAA Championship in four of the last five seasons.
TCU is seeded 12th in the NCAA West Regional. Joining the Horned Frogs, top seed and defending national champion UCLA and host Colorado in the 24-team regional are LSU, North Carolina, California, Baylor, Pepperdine, UC Davis, Oklahoma, Texas Tech, Tulsa, Iowa State, Stanford, Denver, UNLV, New Mexico, Oregon State, Illinois, Kennesaw State, San Jose State, Missouri State, Northern Colorado and Jackson State.
The streak of 17 consecutive NCAA postseason appearances for the women's golf program ranks second at TCU, behind only the 22 in a row by the Horned Frog men's golf team.
With titles at the Central District Invitational and MW Championship, TCU has won two tournaments for the second straight season.


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- n. Plural form of sandwich.
- v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of sandwich.
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Chicken avocado sandwiches from the train station cafe - they are cheap and nommy, and the lady behind the counter seems to know what you want before you even say it.
Readers report interactions ranging from coupons being denied, to local franchises making up new limitations on it (like only certain sandwiches are eligible, or requiring drink and chip purchase), to being treated like thieving jerks.
Troubles With Redeeming Quiznos Free Sandwich Coupons - The Consumerist
The best deal in fast food breakfast sandwiches is the sausage egg & cheese sandwich from White Castle.
Edamame Pesto Spread is also good in sandwiches or on pasta.
And, of course, these estimates depend on your utility's specific fuel mix: If you're buying breakfast sandwiches from a food truck in a coal-heavy state, the truck's generator won't look quite so bad compared with the local power plant.
Two giant tackle boxes full of 4 - 8 inch lures were left open in the summer kitchen when we took a break for lunch - smoked salmon sandwiches from the previous season.
It's not just going at the first pass, but ending up in sandwiches down the road, soup.
They claim to be a French/Belgium hybrid specializing in sandwiches, hot food, and sides (although today they have lasagna and penne, so I guess we should throw Italian in there too.) A lot of the hot food might be just out of the Midtown Lunch price range, but according to Dave all the sandwiches are right in the Midtown Lunch sweet spot.
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I used to work near Lincoln Center, and loved the folks in front of Banana Republic on 67th and Broadway: strong coffee with a great taste, solid egg sandwiches from the griddle, could remember your usual order even when the line was 8 or 10 people deep and people were antsy.
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Back upstairs, the students quickly buy glasses of wine and sandwiches from a small deli, which also sells some of the cheeses made in the area.
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Cherry-and-Chocolate Bûche de Noël
Every year during Christmas week, executive pastry chef Dominique Ansel of Daniel in New York City serves guests complimentary mini bûches de Noël. His version here is lighter than many, thanks to the beaten egg whites in the batter and the use of whipped cream in place of buttercream as frosting.
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- 6 large egg yolks, at room temperature
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 5 large egg whites, at room temperature
- 1/8 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/2 cup water
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 tablespoon kirsch
- 1 teaspoon unflavored gelatin
- 1 tablespoon cold water
- 1/3 cup whole milk
- 1/2 vanilla bean, split and seeds scraped
- 2 large egg yolks
- 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup heavy cream
- 1 cup pitted brandied cherries, drained
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 1/2 teaspoons confectioners' sugar
- Unsweetened cocoa powder, for sifting
How to make this recipe
Make the Topping:
Preheat the oven to 375. Line a 9-by-13-inch rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper. In the bowl of a standing electric mixer fitted with the whisk, beat the egg yolks with 6 tablespoons of the sugar at high speed until the mixture is pale and fluffy, and leaves a ribbon trail when the whisk is lifted, 3 minutes; transfer to a large bowl.
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Thoroughly wash and dry the mixer bowl and whisk. Add the egg whites and salt to the bowl and beat at moderately high speed until soft peaks form. Gradually add the remaining 6 tablespoons of sugar and continue beating until the whites are stiff and glossy.
Make the Topping:
Using a rubber spatula, stir one-fourth of the beaten whites into the yolk mixture, then fold in the remaining whites until no streaks remain. Working in 2 batches, sift the cocoa over the batter and fold gently until fully incorporated. Spread the batter on the prepared baking sheet in an even layer. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes, until the cake feels springy and dry; rotate the pan halfway through baking. Transfer to a rack and let cool completely.
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In a small saucepan, combine the water and sugar and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce the heat to moderate and simmer just until the sugar is completely dissolved, about 1 minute. Remove from the heat and stir in the kirsch.
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In a small, microwave-safe bowl, sprinkle the gelatin over the water and let stand until softened. In a small saucepan, combine the milk with the vanilla bean and seeds and bring to a simmer over moderately high heat. Meanwhile, in a medium bowl, whisk the egg yolks with the sugar.
Make the Topping:
When the milk comes to a simmer, discard the vanilla bean. Slowly whisk the milk into the yolk mixture until thoroughly blended. Transfer the mixture to the saucepan and cook over moderately low heat, stirring constantly, until the custard is thick enough to coat the back of the spoon, about 1 to 2 minutes. Strain the custard into a medium bowl.
Make the Topping:
Melt the gelatin in the microwave for 15 seconds; stir it into the custard and let cool. Meanwhile, whip the heavy cream until firm. Stir one-fourth of the whipped cream into the custard until incorporated, then fold in the remaining whipped cream.
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Run the tip of a knife around the edge of the cake. Cover with a clean sheet of parchment and a second baking sheet and invert the cake. Remove the first baking sheet and peel off the parchment. Brush the kirsch syrup evenly onto the cake to soak; reserve extra syrup for another use.
Make the Topping:
Using an offset spatula, spread the filling evenly on the cake. Scatter the cherries over the filling. Use the parchment to carefully roll the cake to form a 13-inch-long log with the seam on the bottom. Fold the parchment over the log so the ends meet. Using a ruler, squeeze the cake in the parchment to tighten the roll. Refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
Make the Topping:
Just before serving, whip the cream with the confectioners' sugar until firm. Transfer the cake to a serving platter and frost with the whipped cream. Sift the cocoa powder on top. Slice and serve.
Make Ahead
The cake roll can be refrigerated overnight. Frost just before serving.


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Jul. 6 2007
Bangkok — The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids congratulates the nations attending this week's meeting on implementation of the international tobacco control treaty, the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC), for taking strong action that will improve health and save millions of lives around the world. The actions taken this week truly move the process of implementing this life-saving treaty forward and represent a giant step in turning the promise of the treaty into reality.
In particular, nations have taken the following important actions:
On the issue of secondhand smoke, nations this week have delivered a clear and important message to the world. This message is that only 100 percent smoke-free workplaces and public places provide effective protection from secondhand smoke. Other approaches, such as designated smoking areas or rooms and ventilation systems, do not protect people from secondhand smoke.
We are very pleased that nations have adopted such a strong international standard for implementing the treaty provisions on secondhand smoke. The new standard states clearly that secondhand smoke kills, there is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke and all people – especially workers – deserve to be protected from secondhand smoke.
This 100 percent smoke-free standard is based on the best science and it will guide nations in meeting their treaty commitments to protect citizens from secondhand smoke. The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids urges all governments to quickly enact new laws requiring 100 percent smoke-free workplaces and public places.
Nations this week also took another important step by agreeing to start negotiations on a binding protocol to combat illicit trade in tobacco products. It is especially good news that funding has been provided for this process and that the protocol will be negotiated on an expedited basis.
Illicit trade in tobacco products is a serious problem that we must address in order to reduce tobacco use around the world. Smuggled and counterfeit cigarettes are sold at lower prices than legal products, which contributes to higher consumption and greater rates of smoking-related death and disease. Illicit trade also deprives governments of tax revenue and reduces funds available for public health and other programs.
Smuggled and counterfeit cigarettes accounted for 10.7 percent of total global trade in 2006. They cost governments more than $40 billion each year in revenue, which is greater than the GDP of two-thirds of the world's countries.
We urge nations to negotiate a strong, effective and binding protocol to combat illicit trade in tobacco products.
If governments continue to effectively implement the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, we will improve health and save millions of lives around the world.
United States
Becky Wexler
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User Reviews: Zenkichi's Tofu Is an 'Insane Delicacy'
Plus: Katz's slide toward grunginess, and speedy service at Luke's Lobster.
Plus: Katz's slide toward grunginess, and speedy service at Luke's Lobster.
Plus: heavenly green-tea pistachio-chip ice cream at the General Greene, and L'Artusi's small pasta portions.
Plus: Grimaldi's feels like a tourist attraction, and Los Pollitos II transports diners south of the border.
Plus: Prime KO's kosher-Japanese mix doesn't work, and an everyday English meal at A Salt & Battery.
Plus: Celeste's incomprehensible cheese narrative, and deathly good pulled pork at Blue Smoke.
Plus: someone who wants to have babies at Momofuku Noodle Bar, and high prices at Mundo Café and Restaurant.
Plus: Pulino's volume problem, and where the best seats are at Il Buco.
Plus: Slim Jim pulled pork at Traif and seriously great value at SHO Shaun Hergatt, in our weekly roundup of our best restaurant user reviews.
Plus: manly steaks at Smith & Wollensky and plate-licking goodness at Sorella, in our weekly roundup of the best restaurant user reviews.
Plus: knighthood for Dom DeMarco and sublime scallion pancakes at Nice Green Bo, in our weekly roundup of the best restaurant user reviews.By Helen Rosner
Plus: How Pies-N-Thighs' fried chicken stacks up, and concerns about Abe & Arthur's music selections, in our weekly roundup of the best restaurant user reviews.By Helen Rosner
Do recent lawsuits against Yelp amount to a "conspiracy theory"?By Daniel Maurer
Why are most reviews 4.3 stars out of 5?By Daniel Maurer
Is the once powerful guide just a fading star?By Daniel Maurer
The 72 Shills of SHO Shaun Hergatt.By Joshua David Stein
Is a sinister plot afoot at the citizen-review site, or is it just business as usual?By Daniel Maurer
Chicago Gluttons can't stand the Edgewater pan-Asian restaurant; why do other online reviewers love it so much?By Helen Rosner


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The Cheerleader Challenge continues with another inner-city/inner-state matchup. We need your help identifying which cheerleaders or dancers own their city or state. Today's rivalry takes us to the Mile High city, where the the Denver Broncos meet the Denver Nuggets.
Click to view photo galleries of the Broncos and Nuggets.
Poll: Which group of cheerleaders do you like more?


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What is Spellbinders?
Spellbinders is a group of volunteers dedicated to restoring the art of oral storytelling to connect elders to youth, weaving together the wisdom of diverse cultures throughout time.
There is a National Spellbinders organization, with headquarters in Aspen, CO. The Steamboat Springs Chapter of Spellbinders was first organized in 2008.
Since ancient times storytellers have told stories to pass on wisdom, engage the imagination and foster community. Our storytelling program recreates this age-old tradition, bringing together young and old to create connections, advance literacy and enrich the lives of children and volunteers alike. Please, join us in our vision of fostering humanity, community and literacy.


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Pet Proof Your Home
Dogs and cats are curious by nature. That's why it's so important that you make sure your house is "pet-proofed" before bringing home your new family member.
Dr. Mark Verdino, VP and Chief of Veterinary Staff at North Shore Animal League America, advises taking a "whole-house" approach.
"There are potential dangers to your pet in every room, but you can keep them safe with some careful planning," he says.
Your first step, according to Dr. Verdino: Start by getting down on your hands and knees so you can view each room from your pet's eye level. Of course, most animals can find a way to get into higher places, but surveying their world from ground level might alert you to unseen hazards like candy wrappers, coins, dropped pills and game pieces.
While most people have heard that chocolate is a no-no for pets (it's true), other foods to avoid include onions, garlic, grapes, raisins, Xylitol (in sugar free gums), Macadamia nuts, coffee grounds and alcohol. Cigarettes are also bad for pets (no surprise), and though they're not likely to smoke them, they could be tempted to eat them.
Many common household products contain chemicals and other toxic substances. As you would for children, lock these materials away from your pets:
- Pesticides
- Antifreeze
- Rat, mouse and insect poisons
- Mothballs
- Fabric softener sheets
- Medications (both prescription and over-the-counter)
- Cosmetics
- Potpourri oils
- Batteries
- Paints, glues and varnishes
Even certain household plants can be hazardous if ingested. Some of the more common ones to avoid:
- Aloe vera
- Boston ivy
- Poinsettia
- Dieffenbachia (dumb cane)
- Peace or Easter lily
- English and German ivy
- India rubber plant
- Mistletoe
- Philodendron
- Chrysanthemum
Puppies and kittens love to chew everything in sight, so keep electrical wires, dangling blind cords and all sharp objects out of reach, Dr. Verdino adds.
Finally, be sure to keep a medical kit handy in case your pets have an accident, and call your vet immediately if you suspect they've been injured or exposed to a toxic material.
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Spring Jewish Lecture Series: Dr. Bernie Steinberg
Urban Adamah
Thursday, April 11, 2013 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (PDT)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
One of the big ideas of Judaism is that life is a journey of self-discovery. In this discussion with beloved and award-winning Jewish educator Dr. Bernie Steinberg, we will explore the milestones of Avraham's journey as a paradigm for life quests. Together we will probe the profound uncertainties and risks involved, and gain insights on some of the complexities of human identity and values.
As with all events that take place at the farm, please bring a canned food item for our food bank.
When & Where
Urban Adamah
1050 Parker Street
Thursday, April 11, 2013 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (PDT)
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Urban Adamah
Urban Adamah ("earth" in Hebrew) is a community organic farm and Jewish environmental education center located in Berkeley, CA.


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Cleveland Cavaliers Youth Cap
A Cleveland Cavs hat in the original team colors. For die hard Cavs fans this is the hat to own.
The Bay area basketball franchise's old school logo from the makers of the best fitted hats out there. The golden state is also featured on the front and back of the hat.Tags: basketball, hats, yellow, navy, California, warriors, NBA, fitted, new eraAdded 7 Years Ago from Lids
Does this remind anyone else of the 90s? Penny Hardaway, and Shaquille O'Neal are just a couple of the iconic names that come to mind.
Black and charcoal design with classic Knicks logo on the front and back. Keep the faith, New York!
Old school, classic styled fitted hat for the nostalgic Michael Jordan fan in all of us. Also has an original Bulls logo on the back.
Hey, they might be the worst team in the league, but this is still one slick hat. Features a basketball player on the front with classic Nets logo on the back.Tags: sports, hats, basketball, red, blue, new jersey, nets, NBA, fittedAdded 7 Years Ago from Lids
Stretch fitted hat by Top of the World. Embroidered plaid in the "S" logo, along with orange logo on the back of the hat.
Only a few short weeks until basketball season begins, Shaq gear is a must.
Everyone with style needs this hat. If you have a flattop, you really need this hat. Let's make Scotty Pippen proud.Tags: fashion, style, basketball, hats, mens, old school, Chicago, new era, Chicago BullsAdded 9 Years Ago from Rocknjocks
It was a great '08 NBA Finals...well, not so much. The Celtics pretty much dismantled the Lakers. But at least we made it to the big show. Celebrate the rekindled rivalry with this breathable, adjustable hat.Tags: sports, Clothes, apparel, basketball, Adidas, hats, adjustable, lakers, fan gearAdded 9 Years Ago from Joe's Sports
I was a T-Wolves fan until they traded Garnett and de-committed to winning. I'll still rock their merchandise though. This is a cool adjustable T-Wolves hat from Adidas. Normally, I only support fitteds but this cap is pretty styl... I was a T-Wolves fan until they traded Garnett and de-committed to winning. I'll still rock their merchandise though. This is a cool adjustable T-Wolves hat from Adidas. Normally, I only support fitteds but this cap is pretty stylish.Tags: basketball, Adidas, hats, wolves, NBA, adjustable hat, timberwolvesAdded 9 Years Ago from Joe's Sports


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New Zealand fairy ternPHOTO: Malcolm Pullman ©
With a population of around 45 individuals that includes approximately 12 breeding pairs, the New Zealand fairy tern is probably New Zealand's most endangered indigenous breeding bird.
It is ranked as an endangered species, and carries a 'Category A' priority for conservation action. A Department of Conservation Recovery Plan is currently in action.
The New Zealand fairy tern/tara-iti is the smallest tern breeding in New Zealand, with adults measuring around 250 mm in length, and weighing a mere 70 grams.During the breeding season NZ fairy terns are easily picked out by their black caps (coming around in front of the eye), soft grey feathers, white chest, yellow bill and orange legs.
In non-breeding plumage the crown fades into a mottled black and white, the bill fades to a dull orange-brown and the legs fade to a dull orange colour.
New Zealand fairy tern/tara-iti chicks in nest
Map of four breeding sites (JPG, 63K)
Fairytern construct their nests on exposed, low-lying areas of shell-covered sand. The nest is a simple scrape in the sand, set amidst the shells.
The NZ fairy tern is often confused with the Eastern little tern, a bird that visits New Zealand every summer, and looks very similar to the fairy tern in non-breeding plumage.
NZ fairy terns regularly live up to 10 years or more, however, several birds have been sighted 11 - 13 years after being banded. The oldest known fairy tern is 18 years old.
Their diets consist of mainly small fish. Although they have been observed feeding on gastropods, crustaceans and plant matter in Australia. This has not been seen in NZ.
NZ fairy terns hunt over shallow estuaries, and just beyond the surf zone. They construct their nests on exposed, low-lying areas of shell-covered sand. The nest is a simple scrape in the sand, set amidst the shells. These shells camouflage eggs from predators.
Records from the 19th century suggest that NZ fairy terns used to be widespread around the coast of the North Island and eastern South Island, but were not abundant in any one area.
NZ fairy terns are now confined to the lower half of the Northland Peninsula.
Breeding is limited to four regular sites: Waipu, Mangawhai, Pakiri and the South Kaipara Head.
The wintering range of the birds extends over the Kaipara Harbour. Outside of the breeding season fairy terns form flocks on the harbour, often around Tapora in the Kaipara Harbour.
The most likely causes of population decline are:
The rarest mainland species, the NZ fairy tern, has less than ten known breeding pairs. These delicate sea birds nest over the summer period on the rugged West Coast beaches and at two sites on the east coast of Northland. Nesting in a small scrape in the sand, these birds are very vulnerable. Nest sites are roped off and signs erected to alert people to the area.
Department of Conservation staff and volunteers talk to people who use the beach. Fishermen are encouraged to bury fish remains because they can attract unwanted numbers of gulls to the area.
Nests are sandbagged against storms and high tides. Where necessary eggs are cross-fostered into other nests or removed for hand rearing. A programme of trapping predators around nests is vital to help protect the adults, eggs and chicks.
Footprints inside a fenced-off area
Parent with fish, and chick in sand
Fairy tern flying in Pakiri, near Warkworth
In 1983 the number of fairy terns at Mangawhai and Papakanui Spit dropped to an alarming all-time low of 3-4 breeding pairs.The Department of Conservation (then the New Zealand Wildlife Service) stepped in and initiated protection. A successful population turnaround resulted. This was probably due to the introduction of wardens and the fencing of nests.
Protection has continued until the present day. The number of pairs rose to 7 in 1993. Since 1997, between 6 and 9 pairs have bred each season until 2005:
Thankfully, additional funding in recent years has allowed for much greater protection and monitoring.
A successful management technique utilised in the conservation of the NZ fairy tern is the employment of full-time wardens. Wardens offer an efficient response to emergency situations. In recent years a warden has been employed on a full-time basis at each of the breeding sites.The duties of wardens include: monitoring breeding attempts, maintaining fences around nesting sites, nest translocation, predator identification and control (including video surveillance), egg and chick manipulation, public education, and law enforcement. Volunteers play a big part in monitoring and surveillance to assist the wardens.
The latest Department of Conservation New Zealand Fairy Tern Recovery Plan was approved in 2005. The plan sets in place a series of steps that will promote the recovery of the tern. It also outlines different management options, and a work plan.
The Long-term vision of the plan is:
The short-term goals for the next five years are:
Shorebirds usually nest and raise chicks between August and March. You can help keep eggs and chicks safe:
NZ fairy tern feeding its partner
Volunteers can help monitor NZ fairy terns by recording activities of the birds and their chicks, any potential threats present, fishing sites and other observations that can help with our protection efforts.
We welcome any comments or suggestions you have about the conservation of the fairy tern. Send them to:
Call 0800 DOC HOT (0800 362 468) immediately if you see anyone catching, harming or killing native wildlife.
With only around 40 left, the NZ fairy tern is one of NZ's most endangered birds. Find out how DOC and local schoolchildren are trying to protect them.
The fairy tern is New Zealand's most endangered birds, with only around thirty birds in existence. Auckland Zoo keeps their precious eggs safe from bad weather, predators and disturbance.


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Trip-hop's Ruby first appeared on the scene in 1996 with Salt Peter and rode the wave of the minor hit "Tiny Meat". After a five year hiatus, Ruby released Short-Staffed at the Gene Pool in 2001, but it failed to make much of an impact. Did it really need a remix album to accompany it?
Remix albums are perhaps a bit self-indulgent on the surface, asking fans to buy songs they already have, only in different forms. This is fine for completists, but can Altered and Proud truly stand on its own, without familiarity with the source material?
Like most remix albums, Altered and Proud lacks consistency, with several different artists reinterpreting these songs in different styles, like the sparse, beat-heavy "Waterside (Deep in the Void Mix by Aksum" and the hip-hop-inspired "Lamplight (Bench and Doufos Parrrtay Mix! by Bench)". All the songs on Altered and Proud have to be taken as individual units, and in that respect, knowing Short-Staffed at the Gene Pool would be an advantage since listeners would be able to enjoy the differences between the remixes and the original songs.
For those who don't have that benefit, Altered and Proud is a disparaged, although still entertaining, journey. With each track's modest running time (onlyy one approaches the nine-minute mark, and the rest are around five minutes), the remixes stay fun without collapsing in on themselves with drawn-out lengths. With multiple remixes of the same song, the variation that is here keeps Altered and Proud exciting.
Unfortunately, though, the album barely works. While individual tracks, like the fascinating "Beefheart (Wavenfold Remix)" are strong, when the songs are all together, they mostly fall together into an incoherent jumble. If the album were perhaps in a continuous mix, with one song flowing into the next, it would be easier to listen to. As it stands, however, these remixes crowd into each other uncomfortably. The strength of these remixes individually is all but lost.
As a companion piece to Short-Staffed at the Gene Pool, Altered and Proud has some value, and listeners may return to favorite tracks, but to listen to the whole album in its entirety feels like a pointless exercise. While it may be an admirable piece of self-indulgence for Ruby, it is self-indulgent all the same.
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15 Responses to "Perfection!"
Whoa. Blackbird is right; words cannot describe the perfection of those shoes.
Sir, excellent suggestion in your WaPo Express column this morning.
Am I the ONLY person who hates the Manolo mary janes??? Look at them! What a perfectly nice classic pump ruined by a functionless strap that does nothing but make your feet look bigger. I wish the consumer market would come out of their Sex and the City-induced fog and realize that mary janes are for children, not adult women, however whimsical they may feel themselves to be.
gosh, i love those shoes. every woman should have a pair! i'm taking a road trip from baltimore to ny to pick them up…
OMG… those are some GORGEOUS shoes!
I must respectfully disagree with anonymous, who, for fear of backlash, did not post their name. Manolo Mary Janes are FABULOUS. I admit that some mary janes, by inferior designers, DO accentuate the size of the foot. But if the shoe is well made, a perfectly placed strap will highlight the arch of the foot… thus making the mary jane a desirable design.
And I love these ones…
La BellaDonna does not dispute the heartrending excellence of the shoes; she merely sighs, and shifts to stand in her low-heeled boots next to the Annalucia. She agrees with the Marcia; in both application and principle, the Mary Jane strap has its purpose. La BellaDonna, who has the long, narrow, high-arched foot shaped like the chisel, with the extra-narrow heel, would walk out of the pumps without the straps, causing bodily harm and, if she were wearing the Manolo Blahnik pumps, almost certain death.
The Zippy is smiling at a stunning shoe.
Dear Jackie: no need to travel to NYC to purchase these (unless, of course, you're looking for an excuse for a fashion weekend, which I fully support). As long as you know your Manolo size (probably 1/2 size up from your normal size), you can simply call the store (212.582.3007), give them a credit card number, and they'll ship them to you.


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Also, a talk with reporter Candy Page about the controversy over a Williston landfill, and what it may mean for the rest of the state.
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My husband & a traveling partner were traveling through New Mexico on Saturday Dec. 3rd. They were involved in a serious traffic accident that resulted in their pick up truck rolling over & the 37' 5th wheel camper they were towing to become unhooked and landing on top of their truck. Both people came away from the accident with only bumps & bruises fortunately. They were traveling with 2 dogs. Both were ejected from the vehicle & one dog...a 1 1/2 year old vizsla ran away from the accident site & hasn't been seen since. My husband had to fly back home but they spent all weekend looking for the dog. I've been in contact with several local rescue organizations this weekend attempting to get as much local help as I can for the owner....who is still in Grants New Mexico.
I'm looking for anyone on this forum that may have friends or family in New Mexico that may be able to help spread the word to other locals to keep their eye out for the dog. The weather is not good in Grants new mexico right now.....so the dog's time is very limited out in the rugged terrain & cold weather.....and it may be too late already, but they are continuing to search. Below is a link to all the information about the situation & the area they are searching, the organization "dogs deserve better" is heading up the search....but there are many other groups that are helping as well. They have printable flyers attached to one of their links they have been posting in the area.
Please...any help would be appreciated. I've been trying to do what I can from 1600 miles away for the owner and rescue organizations. Thank you.
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By Laura Pasetta
This delicious, very berry, sandwich is a fresh alternative to the traditional PB& J sandwich.
¼ cup smooth peanut butter
2 tablespoons raspberry jam, 100% pure fruit
½ teaspoon maple syrup, 100% pure
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup raspberries, fresh
Mix together peanut butter, syrup, vanilla and raspberry jam until well blended.
Spread nut butter mixture on both top and bottom pieces of bread.
Press fresh raspberries into spread.
Press sandwich gently together (this will keep berries from falling out).
Try using other types of nut butters like: almond, or cashew. Mix in cream cheese to give this recipe a creamer flavor.
Health Notes:
Raspberries not only are loaded with flavor, they also contain and excellent source of fiber, vitamin C, magnesium and anti-oxidants.


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Geoff Brumfiel: Ruth Shapiro and her family have been living abroad for nearly six years. She's always been a big Democrat, but since she moved overseas she's felt distant from U.S. politics. This year though, she's feeling more connected.
Ruth Shapiro: So Howard Dean was here two weeks ago, Michelle Obama came to raise money for Obama, Bill Clinton was here I think three times to raise money for Hillary.
It's not just Democrats trolling for money in London. Republican candidate John McCain came here in March for a thousand dollar-a-plate luncheon.
Americans living abroad have contributed over $2.5 million so far in this election season. That's three times the total amount raised from overseas in 2004.
Massie Ritsch: London is far and away the biggest producer of campaign cash.
Massie Ritsch is with the Center for Responsive Politics, a campaign watchdog group. He says that expats working in the financial sector are the source of most of that money. And the weak dollar makes it easy to give more.
Ritsch: They're making a lot of money, they're paid in pounds and they seem to be very motivated to contribute to candidates in this election.
Ruth Shapiro, a consultant, and her husband, a banker, fit that profile. They have given more this year than in past elections. It's partially because the Internet makes it easy, but also because of what she's experienced while overseas.
Shapiro: It's been particularly painful I think being an American outside the United States during the Bush Administration, and watching friends throughout Europe and Asia really begin to question the United States in a way that they never did.
Many expats support McCain as well. Yet Obama has raised nearly five times as much from abroad as the Republican candidate -- a total of around $1.5 million so far. Tonight's private dinner will add to that.
The guest of Honor is Richard Holbrooke, Bill Clinton's former ambassador to the United Nations. Holbrooke is expected to draw somewhere between 30 and 40 wealthy donors. That will make the meal worth between $75,000 and $100,000.
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If you had a gang of friends who were
crazy into guitars in 1973, you could be absolutely
certain of one thing: that every single one of them
was playing the grooves out of the first Montrose
album. Ronnie Montrose's mammoth riffs and
soaring, melodic solos—seasoned to near perfection
with stunning songs and audio production,
as well as Sammy Hagar's vocal swagger—practically
guaranteed that Montrose would become one
of the most exhilarating and influential hard-rock
releases of all time. For a lot of guitarists seeking
to fuse ferocious guitar playing with pop-music
culture—Eddie Van Halen being one of them—
this album was an inspiration, a benchmark, and a
firestarter. It was also a flame that burned brightly
for but a short time.
Creative squabbles tanked the Montrose/Hagar
partnership after 1974's Paper Money, ending any
chance for the band to evolve into a juggernaut.But Montrose's restless creative spirit never
seemed to be driven purely by the promise
of stardom, or financial considerations.
From his session days with artists such as
Van Morrison, Edgar Winter, Herbie Hancock,
Tony Williams, and Gary Wright to
his post-Montrose Gamma project to his
solo instrumental work to his early imagining
of guitar-driven electronica with
keyboardist/producer Mitchell Froom in
1983, Montrose has always trusted his
instincts. Perhaps that is why, at 63 years
old, he appears to be as fervently committed
to the guitar as ever. His recent summer
tour was a thrill-fest for legions of adoring
fans, and Montrose brought the fireworks
every night. Under the stage lights, his joy
and passion were obvious, proving that, at
least for some players, a love of music can
conquer all.
Perhaps a weird question here, but can you
articulate what makes Ronnie Montrose sound
like Montrose?
A guy once said to me, "You play one
note at a time. You're not hammering on
and all this stuff." Now, I do use hammerons
as a trick once in a while, but, mostly,
I pick one note at a time. I got that sensibility
from my father, because he listened
to Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond, George
Shearing, Jerry Mulligan, Ella Fitzgerald,
and Frank Sinatra. I listened to melody and
phrasing—not speed. I like to take breaths
like we do in conversation. I try not to go,
"Dwiddle, dwiddle,dwiddle," ad infinitum.
Is there any calculated approach to using
your influences to compose melodies and riffs?
It's never a conscious thing. The melody
comes from my head. I just think, "Okay,
these notes would be good to play here."
Also, I will always consider myself a pentatonic-
based, rock-blues player. That's what
I do. I can manage some different textural
scale colors with my instrument, but, for
the most part, I'm just a pentatonic guy.
You know, Chuck Berry, the Stones—all
that early rock stuff.
I hear a bit more in your playing than conventional
blues-rock motifs.
Well, the pentatonic scale is my home base, but I don't just play Chuck Berry licks.
I think of melodies and vibrato and phrasing
and tone, and what comes out is my style.
If you hear something in your head, can you
immediately nail it on the fretboard?
Yeah. Pretty much.
Is everything you play pretty much generated
off the cuff, then?
Let me put it this way: Van Morrison
liked that I was from Colorado. He once
told Peter Wolf [J. Geils vocalist], "Hey, I've
got myself a cowboy!" He liked my youthful
energy. When he wrote "Wild Night," I
just started playing something on the spot.
I didn't even know the chords. Van says,
"That's the intro. Don't forget it!" Those
are the kinds of serendipitous things that
happened throughout my career. There was
no reason for me to do what I did—I just
did it. And it worked.
That approach sounds reactive, rather than
planned or rehearsed.
I just cannot fathom or imagine always
playing things exactly the same. There has
to be some life and some interaction. I like
to tell my rhythm section, "Pretend it's
1968, and it's the Allman Brothers at the
Fillmore. It's a jam—a loose, hippie jam."
Obviously, there are points in the song
where you must play the riff, but, eventually,
you need to get to a place where you
just let the night take you wherever it's
going to take you. Plus, I'm now improvising
more than ever, instead of repeating the signature parts. So far, I'm lucky that
no one seems to mind!
So you're not concerned with improvised
moments where something might not work out?
The "danger factor" is what has always
been exciting about rock and roll to me.
The bands that came up in the '60s weren't
thinking about being perfect—they were
thinking about creating a vibe. Acts like
Cream, Zeppelin, and Hendrix lived or
died by the jam, and, some nights, those
bands sucked, because you can't be on fire
every single performance when you're jamming.
The point is, when you're "on," it's
so worth it to have gone through the "off."
You have to endure, and learn to shake off
the bad nights.
What is the most essential weapon in your
Vibrato is the way you express your
own personality. My vibrato, for example,
is always a bit behind the beat. That's
just the way my hands, muscles, and mind
voice it. It's funny—in 1973, I didn't have
a vibrato at all. When I first joined Edgar
Winter's band, we were playing in Pittsburg, and during my solo on "Tobacco Road,"
this guy shouts, "Play some f**king vibrato,
man!" I didn't get pissed off, but I did realize
I had something else to learn [laughs].
Do you actively practice to keep your chops
in shape?
I never practice. I have one little warmup
scale I do that I've done all my life. I've
read that some guitarists like to practice
really hard passages, but, for me, it's just
about getting loose and limber. These days,
I have arthritis in both thumbs, and, sometimes,
it really pains me. But I'll run this
simple little scale, and I'll be fine.
What guitar are you bringing on the tour?
My current electric guitar is the B3,
which is made by Gene Baker. His new
guitar company is called B3, as well. He
builds the best guitars ever. But, you know,
everything is a tool, right? You have a Black
& Decker or a DeWalt—it's the tool that
helps you get what you want to have done,
done. The B3 happens to be the right tool
for me to express myself. But the bottom
line is, it's not about the guitar—it's about
the music you're making with the guitar.
So what is it about the B3 that makes it the
right tool for you?
It has a mahogany body, and a mahogany
neck that's 1u" at the nut. I got spoiled
years ago when Grover Jackson sent me a
neck he had made for Warren DeMartini
that was too big for Warren at the time.
Well, now I can't play anything smaller
than a neck with a 1u" nut. Anything else
feels like a mandolin neck to me! There's
also something about the resonance of the
B3's mahogany neck and mahogany body
that just works for me. I had Gene install
Seymour Duncan '59 humbuckers in both
positions with a pickup selector switch
and one Volume knob. No tone control.
It's totally straight ahead.
Any preference for strings and picks?
My strings are Dean Markley Helix,
and those things never go out of tune.
And because I want my acoustics to play
exactly like my electrics, I put the same
gauges on all my guitars: .009, .012, .016,
.030, .040, .052. The only difference is for
slide, where I tune to DADAAD, and use
.014, .017, .017, .032, .042, .056. My picks
are 60mm Dunlop Ultex.
How about your amp?
My amp of choice for the past 15 years has been the Bogner Shiva—it's my favorite
amp on the planet. But if I have to fly to a
gig, it's more practical to have a rental company
bring an amp to the venue. The typical
choice is a Marshall JCM 900, and while I can
still sound like Ronnie Montrose with that
amp, it doesn't give me that same, singing
"Ronnie Tone" that I get with my Shivas. So
I always take along a Foxrox Captain Coconut
2 pedal to help out the tone. It's an absolutely
amazing pedal—a 3-in-1 device with
the most perfect octave driver and phaser/
flanger sounds. It also has a distortion, but
I never use it—I just turn the distortion
down to zero, and use that part of the pedal
as a mute so I can tune my guitar. I'm also a
huge fan of the Rocktron Intelliverb. It's my
favorite device ever—so intuitive and easy to
use. And I've just discovered the Eventide
TimeFactor pedal, and I absolutely love it!
It's perfect for the Gamma songs I'm doing
on this tour.
I'm a super freak for the TC Electronic
PolyTune pedal. It's the perfect tuner.
How did you audition players for the summer
I gave people a list of about six songs—
"Bad Motor Scooter," "Rock Candy," "Rock
the Nation," and so on—and I let each musician
play two-and-a-half songs of their choice.
Everyone knew there would be no decisions
made that day. I would decide afterwards
who made the team. We'd play from noon
to six o'clock, and I would be totally worn
out, because I had to go full bore all the time.
The drummers, bassists, and vocalists had to
know they were playing with Ronnie Montrose—
mano-a-mano—and that I expected
them to kick my ass. It was rough.
What type of musicians were you looking for?
I want it all—great players that I can
have fun with. No attitudes. You have to be
a good hang, and have a good vibe. I'm 63
years old, I still love playing guitar, and I
want to have fun.
Is it difficult managing open auditions?
Oh, yeah! Carlos Santana once warned
me that people come in totally unprepared
and waste your time. For some of the auditions,
if you were listening from outside the
room, it would have sounded like the worst
little high-school band trying to play Montrose
tunes. But I still had to be respectful.
What are your favorite Montrose songs to play?
In no particular order, I love playing "Rock
Candy," "Space Station Number 5," "Bad
Motor Scooter," "Make It Last," and "Good
Rockin' Tonight."
From the Sammy Hagar era onwards, was there
any particular lineup that spurred you to be more
creative, or were all of the band evolutions relatively
Of all the Montrose albums I've ever done,
I was most happy with Sammy, because we
had tons of that raw, naked creativity. I'm
sure there will come a day when Sammy and
I will share a stage together again, and play
some of the old songs for fun. But I must
say that I'm very comfortable with my new
band, and we're really starting to take things
to that same level.
"If you want an ambient,
singing tone,"
advises Montrose,
"but don't want to
goop everything up,
here's my secret: Use
minimal reverb, and
add 200ms-300ms
of pre-delay in order
to ensure your notes
are clearly audible
before the ambience
fades into the picture.
I want the reverb to
enhance the tone,
rather than define
the tone."
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Obama Said Ready to Renominate Diamond to Fed Board
President Barack Obama will re-nominate Peter Diamond to the Federal Reserve Board after the Nobel laureate economist failed to gain U.S. Senate approval, a White House official said.
Diamond, 70, said in a Nov. 30 interview that he would accept re-nomination. The Senate adjourned yesterday without voting on Diamond's nomination, which Obama first offered in April.
Republicans questioned Diamond's monetary-policy expertise and compliance with a geographic provision of central bank law. The inaction deprives Chairman Ben S. Bernanke of intellectual support in Fed debates over his efforts to reduce unemployment through an expansion of record monetary stimulus.
"It helps if the chairman has a point person who can advance the arguments and participants feel it's OK to criticize that person," said Vincent Reinhart, a former Fed monetary-affairs director who's now a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington. "So you get a lot of the issues aired without the chairman having to expose himself."
Federal Reserve spokeswoman Barbara Hagenbaugh declined to comment today.
The failure to approve Diamond leaves one opening out of seven on the Fed's Washington-based board. All governors, along with five of the 12 regional Fed presidents, have a vote on monetary policy at each Federal Open Market Committee meeting. The FOMC voted 10-1 on Dec. 14 to maintain its unconventional-stimulus plans and buy $600 billion of Treasuries through June.
Monetary Stimulus
Some senators may be focusing on Diamond's ability to make decisions on policy questions such as when to begin to reverse the Fed's more than $1 trillion in monetary stimulus, said Lou Crandall, chief economist at Wrightson ICAP LLC in Jersey City, New Jersey.
"What you want is a policy maker that over the course of his or her lifetime has had to deal with the consequences of his or her decisions," he said. "That is a fundamentally different discipline from developing creative ideas."
Diamond's nomination had been held up by Senate Republicans and was returned in August to the White House, which nominated him again in September. Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama, the senior Republican on the Banking Committee, questioned Diamond's qualifications on monetary policy and said his nomination violates a law that no two Fed governors can be from the same geographic region.
Chicago Region
The White House designated Diamond as being from the Chicago Fed district to comply with the law. In the November interview, Diamond, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1966, defended his professional connections to the region, saying it was sufficient for the provision.
Senator Christopher Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat who has been chairman of the Banking Committee for the last four years, said Nov. 16 that several Fed appointees over the past decade, including Bernanke, might have been disqualified if the law had been "rigidly applied" to their nominations. Congress didn't intend the Fed law to be a residency requirement, said Dodd, who is retiring this year.
"Certainly, compared to the examples that Senator Dodd was citing from past appointments, I have enough of a connection to satisfy what the lawyers say is called for," Diamond said Nov. 30 after a panel discussion at Sweden's embassy with Dale Mortensen, who shared the Nobel in October with Diamond and Christopher Pissarides.
Seminars at Northwestern
Diamond cited teaching for one quarter at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois; seminars at Northwestern and the University of Chicago and other visits for a few days apiece at schools located in the Fed district, including the University of Iowa, Iowa State University, the University of Michigan and Michigan State University.
President Barack Obama in April initially nominated Diamond and Sarah Bloom Raskin for Fed governor seats and Janet Yellen for vice chairman; the trio appeared together in a Banking Committee hearing July 15.
The panel voted July 28 to recommend all three for approval, giving Diamond the smallest majority, 16-7. The next week, the Senate returned Diamond's nomination to the White House under a procedural rule because of an objection from at least one unidentified senator. Obama re-nominated Diamond on Sept. 13, restarting the process of his candidacy.
In the meantime, the Senate confirmed Yellen and Raskin on Sept. 29, and they were sworn in Oct. 4. When Diamond won the Nobel on Oct. 11, Shelby said in a statement that the Nobel committee "does not determine who is qualified to serve" on the U.S. central bank.
The Senate Banking Committee held a second vote on Diamond Nov. 16, giving him the same 16-7 margin. Shelby raised the issue of Diamond's geographic compliance after Bloomberg News reported the White House's Chicago designation.
"It's not the stamp from an outside committee that drives decisions" in Congress, Reinhart said.
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