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Girl Talk: How Much Do Boyfriends And Best Friends Really Need To Get Along?
I love my best friend, I love my boyfriend. These two people who hold such special places in my heart should love each other like I love them. In theory, if I have enough in common with both of them to have such a strong bond with each, shouldn't the two of them also have the potential to form a real relationship with each other? It should be an all out love fest whenever the three of us get together…except it's not. 'Tis sad but true, my best friend and boyfriend do not quite get along. If I am honest with myself, I could have easily foreseen this. All they have in common with each other is me. Actually, it's not just that I am the only thing forcing them to spend time together, but that they are both the exact personification of what the other finds annoying. If they could see beyond the fact that they disagree on everything, they would see that they disagree in exactly the same way. I love them both because they are opinionated, strong, confident in who they are and what they believe in and are never afraid to tell you what they really think. The qualities they share are the same qualities that prevent them from ever seeing the other clearly. Though they are polar opposites in how they think, look and prioritize, they show their displeasure in an eerily similar manner. The question is: how much do they actually need to get along?
Obviously, I am not going to give either of them up, and it is to both of their credit that neither has even hinted that I should. They simply do not like each other, and while that could change, I do not think it will. I wish they would get along, but I also realize that I can't force a bond between them. Things might be different if their reasons for not meshing were less fundamental. If the only friction was jealousy over who I was spending more time with, or anger over becoming less intimate with one as I was growing more intimate with the other, then the conflict could be worked out. Fortunately or unfortunately, depending at how you look at it, they are both very mature and juvenile pettiness is not at play. They are simply not each others cup of tea and nothing but a personality change will alter that.
Surprisingly, I am not that bothered by the impasse in their relationship. While it would most definitely be easier if they did become friends, I do not think their mutual lack of love will hinder my individual relationships with them. My best friend is not only the most caring and loyal girl I have ever met, she is also remarkably tactful and appropriate. She would never say a bad word about him in front of me, and even when he acts less than graciously towards her, she never holds it against me. In a great demonstration of strength, she will let me complain about him without ever adding in her own thoughts. Because of her tact, he has not become a divide between us. He, on the other hand, took a little bit more training, but after a few good elbows in the ribs, he got the idea. After a testy evening with the three of us last week I made the point that even if I wasn't crazy about his best friend, or anyone important in his life for that matter, I would still be gracious to them. He conceded the discussion and has been on his best behavior ever since.
At the end of the day all I can really ask of them is to be polite to each other. My relationship with each of them exists independently to that of the other. I am lucky in that both of them understand that I can love them equally, and that the one in no way replaces the other. I love them both, but in such different ways that loving one in no way encumbers me from loving the other. As long as they can be nice to each other, and come together when it is important to me, I think the three of us can find a harmonious balance. I doubt the three of us will ever stay up all night giggling and painting each others toe nails, but I think we can all make it through dinner.
What about you? Have you ever dealt with a close friend and a significant other disliking each other strongly? How did you handle it?


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comfortable,clean and well fitted out rooms.friendly and helpfull staff parking very limited although car park being extended at present
The location was excellent for visiting other areas of Cornwall, providing city shopping, culture and coastal access. The hotel provided very modern, excellent decor & comfortable fbed & furniture. We were very impressed with the overall design. Eating facilities within the hotel complex provided an excellent choice at reasonable prices - we ate in the restaurant both evenings of our stay. The shower/bathroom was nicely designed but we did have a problem when we used the rubber safety mat in the shower. The fitting of the mat for the shower tray was the correct size but it did cover the outlet & if the shower was used on full power water flooded out of the shower tray. A smaller rubber mat would solve this problem.
The superb position of the hotel with sea views from the restaurant. Well equipped room and comfortable bed. I did not like the poor state of the decoration and the dirty and damaged tiling in the bathroom.
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The location. The bedroom was very small and there was nowhere to store our cases .It felt very claustrophobic with shutters at the window and running condensation in the morning.We could only open the window by climbing on the dressing table.
dinner was lovely as was the waitress. Unbeatable position Breakfast was v v poor using cheap products inc bread, fruit juices, jams etc. Waitress in am was appaling and breakfast was stone cold
Friendliness of staff and accommodation, although the room was quite warm I thought it was petty that the "classic" rooms do not get bath robes. I called to ask if we did get them as there were hooks in the bathroom for them, but was told that "classic" rooms don't get them, but the guy I spoke to said he would see if he had any spare ones. I said it didn't matter for that evening he could look the following day, but the robes were not forthcoming.
The whole atmosphere of the place, very welcoming and friendly. Staff were very good - very efficient. Lovely surroundings, rooms very comfortable. No
The bed and bedding and bathroom were excellent
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Influenced by the mainstreaming of tattooing in today's world, and being a heavily tattooed woman, I have begun to explore the genre of tattooed society. Tattoos are a personal choice to illustrate some part of oneself in indelible ink. The idea of heavily tattooed people is unsettling to most; the prejudice being that tattooed individuals are low-class or tasteless. This series is an exploration of the falsehood behind that prejudice. I am seeking to communicate that judgment should not be cast upon a persons adornments, as it is merely a form of self expression. In addition I am exploring the idea that tattoos help define the subject's self image.
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Some University of Wyoming track team members got off to a rocky start in the 2011 indoor season.
Four UW tracksters went to the Potts Invite in Boulder on Friday and took part in the pentathlon. Senior Britney Jackson was the highest finisher for Wyoming, claiming 10th place after five events with 2,216 points. Jackson's best performance came in the long jump, where she leaped to a mark of 15 feet, 9 inches.
Jackson was followed by sophomore Matti Irvine in 12th place with 1,751 points, sophomore Maria Cress in 13th with 1,661 points and freshman Ku'uipo Kalawai'anui in 14th place with 1,412 points.
"Even though it was the first meet of the year and the athletes were a bit rusty ... The results were not up to par," Wyoming assistant coach Quincy Howe said. "They're disappointed, and I'm disappointed as well. We can only go up from here."
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I can contemplate my own death without unease, but every goodbye to one of my children is shaded by dread.
"Look there," he said, flicking his machete at the shaded ground.
If you can take them into a shaded area, inside to a building with a cooling system, you can prolong by a few days.
The towering magnolia, in all the pride of foliage and flower, shaded us.
Pen got up and turned Sara's pillow and shaded the light from his face, mechanically.
And once he shaded his eyes and pointed afar with extreme perturbation, whining or murmuring while he stared.
The calyx is cut from lemon wax, shaded green and also brown.
His strong face worked, and for a moment he shaded it with his hand.
She shaded her face with her veil, and after a little while spoke calmly.
Dixon opened the door very softly, and stole on tiptoe up to Margaret, sitting by the shaded window.
Middle English schade, Kentish ssed, from late Old English scead "partial darkness; shelter, protection," also partly from sceadu "shade, shadow, darkness; shady place, arbor, protection from glare or heat," both from Proto-Germanic *skadwaz (cf. Old Saxon skado, Middle Dutch scade, Dutch schaduw, Old High German scato, German Schatten, Gothic skadus), from PIE *skot-wo-, from root *skot- "dark, shade" (cf. Greek skotos "darkness, gloom," Albanian kot "darkness," Old Irish scath, Old Welsh scod, Breton squeut "darkness," Gaelic sgath "shade, shadow, shelter").
Figurative use in reference to comparative obscurity is from 1640s. Meaning "a ghost" is from 1610s; dramatic (or mock-dramatic) expression "shades of _____" to invoke or acknowledge a memory is from 1818, from the "ghost" sense. Meaning "lamp cover" is from 1780. Sense of "window blind" first recorded 1845. Meaning "cover to protect the eyes" is from 1801. Meaning "grade of color" first recorded 1680s; that of "degree or gradiation of darkness in a color" is from 1680s (cf. nuance, from French nue "cloud"). Meaning "small amount or degree" is from 1782.
c.1400, "to screen from light or heat," from shade (n.). From 1520s as "to cast a shadow over;" figurative use in this sense from 1580s. Sense in painting and drawing is from 1797. In reference to colors, 1819. Related: Shaded; shading.
c.1400, "to screen from light or heat," from shade (n.). From 1520s as "to cast a shadow over;" figurative use in this sense from 1580s. Sense in painting and drawing is from 1797. In reference to colors, 1819. Related: Shaded; shading.
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This little blog is the result of my realizing that I have no record of countless fabric creations that I have made over the years. Baby quilts, big quilts, doll clothes, people clothes, purses, bags, etc. I can picture in my mind most of the items I have made, but no one else can see them (except for their recipients)!
I decided it was time to start documenting my little adventures in the world of fabric. I plan to take pictures of my progress throughout my different projects and post them here. Unless it's a gift for someone who is likely to read my blog, it will likely end up here.
Currently, I have a few projects in various stages of completion. I'm making a t-shirt quilt, restoring/repurposing the quilt that I used in college, making aprons from pillowcases, and–always–finding cute fabrics to make shopping bags. Other types of projects that I have tackled in the past and that may appear among these posts are purses and bags made from old jeans, pants, or neckties; doll clothes and fun stuff; teddy bears and other animals; projects for non-sewing friends; cross-stitch projects; and whatever presents itself when I find a piece of fabric that I just can't resist!
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Subject: Re: [htdig] server_aliases
From: Gilles Detillieux (email@example.com)
Date: Fri Oct 06 2000 - 07:33:51 PDT
According to Malcolm Austen:
> On Thu, 5 Oct 2000, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
> + However, you should note that if the port number is omitted, it defaults
> + to 80. If you're using non-standard port numbers, you should specify them
> + explicitly.
> Oh, glad you pointed that out! Maybe there are good reasons in the code
> for doing it that way? It seems to me to go against natural logic (well,
> my logic 8-) which says that since DNS aliases are not port specific then
> I would expect server_aliases without port numbers to alias for any port
> number that htdig finds on that server name.
> Another request for clarification in the documentation please!
It is for this very reason, that DNS aliases are not port specific,
that you must specify the port number explicitly if you're not
using the default! Consider this: http://www.stuff.com:80/ and
http://www.stuff.com:8000/ may be two completely different servers with
completely different sets of documents. If server_aliases treated
them as equivalent by default, it would be a big mistake. If you're
not using port 80 for your http servers, you must specify so explicitly
wherever you point to those servers, whether in server_aliases, start_url,
limit_urls_to, local_urls, and everywhere else. I don't know where this
clarification you're requesting should go - it's not specific or unique
to any one attribute.
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Are you able to respond with the appropriate emotions in a difficult family environment? Are you empathetic with colleagues, but still able to manage stressful business situations? Are you aware of your emotions and able to cope on a daily basis? If so, you may have a high degree of what experts are calling "emotional intelligence," and it may be what brings you success in life.
Daniel Goleman certainly thinks so. As the author who first brought the term to public awareness in his 1995 best-selling book, Emotional Intelligence: Why it can matter more than IQ, Goleman has positioned himself at the center of a small cottage industry concerned with the concept of "emotional intelligence." He is the CEO of Emotional Intelligence Services, the co-chairman of the Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in Organizations, and a popular speaker on the worldwide lecture circuit.
One of Goleman's main goals is to expand our notion of intelligence and show that "self-control, zeal and persistence, and the ability to motivate oneself" are crucial life skills. Like Howard Gardner, the Harvard University educator who proposed that "intelligence" has at least seven different varieties, Goleman seeks to influence the way we educate our children and ourselves. According to Goleman, our communal and ethical life depends on self-restraint and compassion, and the skills associated with emotional intelligence. Unlike intelligence quotient (IQ), which is considered an absolute given from birth, emotional intelligence is thought to be cultivated and enhanced throughout life.
Because his ideas are so intriguing, Goleman's work has become prominent in the way our culture looks at emotions. Goleman borrowed the phrase "emotional intelligence" from two academic researchers and then used scholarly research to support his ideas. This gave the book a more "popular" orientation than the work of the original researchers, Mayer and Salovey.
John Mayer, Ph.D., a University of New Hampshire psychologist and Peter Salovey, Ph.D., a psychologist at Yale University, began writing about emotional intelligence in the late 1980s. Acknowledging that emotions and intellect are often thought of as opposites, the two professors began to consider what might be the consequences of a beneficial interaction between the two.
Research had already shown that strong feelings can help people perceive new alternatives or make better choices. Deep emotions, they reasoned, might even make human thinking more rational and profound. This led them to propose that "emotional intelligence"-that is, intelligence inspired by strong emotions-might in fact, make the difference between a conventional decision and a brilliant innovation. In Mayer and Salovey's example, emotional intelligence might mean the difference "between constructing the Brooklyn Bridge, with its renowned beauty, [or building]...the more mundane 59th Street Bridge." The authors also proposed that emotional intelligence "allows us to think more creatively and use our emotions to solve problems."
Goleman was granted permission by the two authors to use the phrase "emotional intelligence," and then expanded on the concept in many ways. Like Salovey and Mayer, Goleman was interested in the interaction of the emotions and the intellect. But as a science writer rather than a scholar and academician, Goleman had freer rein to generalize from a very wide range of data. Citing neurologic evidence indicating that the amygdala and the prefrontal lobes of the brain are responsible for our emotional responses while the neocortex and other limbic structures are responsible for our rational thinking mind, Goleman constructed his basic argument.
He reasoned that "in a sense, we have two brains, two minds, and two different kinds of intelligence: rational and emotional." He also maintained that our use of emotional intelligence is as important in life as our intellectual capability. Hence was born an autonomous notion of "emotional intelligence" that had very distinct and different characteristics from the kind of intelligence associated with IQ.
In his seminal work, Goleman described five domains that delineate the parameters of emotional intelligence.
Goleman is not alone in the field. In fact, the concepts of emotional intelligence and the related idea of "emotional literacy"-fluency in all domains associated with emotional intelligence-have spawned a host of experts writing books and developing seminars and workshops. At the heart of the interest and discussion is one very important issue: while many abilities associated with emotional intelligence are innate, "emotional intelligence" is thought of as a set of learned skills. This, in turn, raises the question of whether it should be important to our overall social agenda.
Goleman's book, in fact, ends with a discussion of educational settings in which children are learning to attend to their emotions and manage their impact. In his later work, and in that of many of his colleagues, there is a concern about applying "emotional intelligence" to business situations and other broad life situations.
We probably all know someone whose brilliance is evident, but who has not had much success in life because of social ineptness or a lack of motivation. We probably also have friends who are vastly successful based simply on their abilities to handle social and business situations with finesse and care. The arguments about "emotional intelligence" have brought to public attention the need to consider intelligence as something other than IQ.
Gardner was one of the first to point out the limitations of IQ as a measure of intelligence. Only logical-mathematical and linguistic abilities are measured by IQ, and Gardner claims that human beings express many more kinds of "intelligences."
The Consortium for Research on Emotional Intelligence in
Applies the concept of emotional intelligence to the workplace.
The Institute for Health and Human Potential
Provides training in emotional intelligence for individuals and corporations. They also have books available for parents interested in applying the concept of emotional intelligence in parenting.
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text: Show Hide image UK 27 September 2010 A tale of three parties: Laurie Penny sobers up over Labour The British left is finally knocking back the Alka-Seltzer of humility and stumbling to its feet. Sign up to the Staggers Morning Call email * Print HTML Manchester, 2008. With the financial edifices of Wall Street and the City of London tumbling like dominoes, the Labour Party faithful have gathered at the annual New Statesman conference reception at to soak away their panic. In the grand, high-ceilinged ballroom of the town hall, the old neoliberal certainties are dissipating like chill vapour: the one question on everyone's lips is whether David Miliband, a man who ideologically and personally resembles the banana-grasping voodoo corpse of Blairism left to rot in a pool of inertia for two years, will make a bid for the leadership and reanimate the only model of electoral success the left has known in the past generation. Meanwhile, a young cabinet minister with an awkward haircut, who is at this point most famous for not being David Miliband, takes the platform to deliver some calming platitudes. Miliband minor's soothing quips about the humiliations of being a younger brother fall on dull ears. Everyone is more intent on drinking hard -- drinking with the cheery desperation that only the British can muster when the streets are on fire and the bar is free. Fast forward to Brighton, 2009. In the dying days of the last Labour administration, the great and good of the British left have once more gathered at the New Statesman party to drown their sorrows. The recession has hit hard, and nobody now believes that Labour will win the next election; privately, there are many who suspect that it might not deserve to win. The corporate lounge at the soulless seafront hotel gradually fills with bewildered delegates, drifting through the glass doors in ones and twos with the shellshocked expressions of war refugees. The room is too bright, full of static and suspicion; knots of gossip and weary recrimination cluster in the corners of the party. It's like the disco at the end of the world. The speaker this year is David Miliband, but unfortunately, just as he is ushered onto the stage, somebody brings out the booze. The party faithful charge across the crackling carpet towards the bar like victims of a natural disaster mobbing a Red Cross van, only with substantially less dignity. Nobody listens to Miliband Major, and why would they? The jaws of the credit crunch are snapping shut, and Torygeddon is approaching: not even Blairism can save us now. Fast forward to this weekend: it's the 2010 Labour Party conference, and we're back in at the same party, in the same lofty setting as 2008 -- the decadent Victorian granite of Manchester Town Hall. And this time, everybody is waiting for Ed Miliband. The shy junior cabinet minister from 2008 has just been anointed leader of the Labour Party in a nail-biting victory over his elder brother, the heir apparent, we have watched his strange rubbery face on the front pages and ubiquitous television screens for 24 hours, and now we are waiting anxiously for Ed like schoolgirls waiting for their prom date to arrive. When he finally does arrive, flanked by beaming young volunteers who have just been elevated to the status of political flunkies, a spontaneous cheer erupts: a triumphant, rather irreverent cheer, peppered with whoops and wolf-whistles. Ed Miliband is manifestly not the revivified corpse of Blairism -- instead, even with the heady flush of new leadership, he still calls to mind the dorky, swotty kid at the back of the class to whom, for some indefinable reason, nobody has paid much attention. Until now. Ed takes the stage and tells us, with a rather sad smile and not a hint of swagger, that he wants the Labour Party to change. He wants the Labour Party to show humility over its past mistakes, and to "question old truths". He wants the Labour party to be the "natural home" for the next generation of activists, in part because it is young volunteers who have made his campaign such a success. He wants the party to unite, to abandon factionalism, and most of all -- more than anything -- he wants "change". Unlike the smooth, polished Anglo-American political salesmen of the post-crash era, you suspect that he actually means it. It is perhaps a testament to how comfortable the Labour Party has become with hierarchy and privilege that the sudden leadership of Ed Miliband -- who is, after all, not an outsider but a son of leafy North London from a distinguished Labour lineage, whose only claim to political insurgency is that he is not the elder brother -- should have so shaken the party faithful. In a truly radical party, this would not have been so stunning a change of direction, but New Labour has not been truly radical for many years. Expectations were low, and this is enough; it's enough to tremble the foundations of the British left and disturb its stagnant, hierarchial customs, so reliant on anointed heirs and settled successions of power. The gathering at the New Statesman party is suffused with panicked excitement. The delegates are behaving like a group of normally compliant school pupils in an empty classroom, when someone unexpected -- say, the dorky kid at the back of the class -- has just got up from his place and sat down in the teacher's chair. It's a scandalous, it's thrilling, it's surely against the rules! The overwhelming impression is that anything could happen, and the room bubbles with breezy expectation and just a suggestion of naughtiness. Personal and political seductions are attempted; old friendships and alliances are rekindled. Delegates flirt, make eyes at one another and have meaningful discussions about the living wage and progressive taxation over glasses of orange juice, the boozing less frantic than in previous years. It's been a long hangover, but this morning, the British left is finally knocking back the Alka-Seltzer of humility and stumbling to its feet. After all, there's work to be done. › Labour leadership: front-page gallery Laurie Penny is a contributing editor to the New Statesman. She is the author of five books, most recently Unspeakable Things. Subscribe from just £1 per issue More Related articles It's time for police to admit their mistakes What price would the UK pay to stop Brexit? I'm in the kitchen with my children, finally learning how to sharpen a knife Subscription offer 12 issues for £12 + FREE book LEARN MORE Close This week's magazine


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by TapatiEverybody was kung-fu fighting Those cats were fast as lightning In fact it was a little bit frightning But they fought with expert timing –Carl DouglasWing Chun CharactersWhen I returned from my trip to see my family, I was relieved to be away from all of their drama. Mahasraya was happy to see me and we had a honeymoon period. He had given up on growing psychedelic mushrooms and we had the use of the bedroom. He slept in there alone because otherwise Lakshmana's crying would keep him awake. He was working for the temple, guarding at night, so we still had the same graveyard schedule as before, waking up in the early afternoon.Now that he had his own income from guarding, th … [Read more...]
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Grandpa holding Lakshmanaby TapatiSmiling faces show no traces of the evil that lurks within Smiling faces, smiling faces sometimes They don't tell the truth Smiling faces, smiling faces Tell lies and I got proof --The Undisputed Truth, in Smiling Faces SometimesAunt Gin had a serious look on her face and I thought, "Uh oh. What now?""I know your mom talked to you about your grandpa," she began.Oh no. I knew where this was going. Mom had talked to me but I had tried to forget what she'd said. I just assumed it was more of her drama. It couldn't be true."Maybe you didn't believe her," she continued. "I know you don't always get along. But I can tell you that everything she told you … [Read more...]
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Lakshmana visiting Great Grandma's Houseby TapatiLakshmana and I had a long trip to reach our family. First we took TWA to St. Louis and then we had a two hour layover before we connected with a propeller jet that took us to Quincy, IL. Grandma met us at Quincy and drove us to Wayland where she and Grandpa had a log cabin behind their antique shop. Just down the street her sister, Dorothy, and brother-in-law, Wayne, had their own antique shop. On the sides of barns around the area one could see the sign "Two antique shops in Wayland." Above my grandparents' shop was a one bedroom apartment where my mother lived. When my mom came back from her trip to see me in L.A. she urgently needed a … [Read more...]
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by Tapati A typical Indian-inspired meal at our houseI am often asked why I'm still a vegetarian if I left the Hare Krishna Movement. The only way some people can make sense of being a vegetarian for thirty five years is if religious conviction is involved. It is rare to find a vegetarian for health reasons abstaining as strictly. Don't we all lapse from our commitment to do certain things for our health? Who avoids sugar all the time, even when they've made a promise or a New Year's Resolution?My own vegetarianism came more from my upbringing on my grandparents' farm than just from a rule given to me by ISKCON. While that helped me make the final commitment, I was thinking about b … [Read more...]


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Better late than never, and why not double the ante? Oscar winner Holly Hunter is pregnant for the first time at age 47 with twins, the entertainment news service E!Online reported.
Her due date is shortly before Christmas, the report said.
Hunter's spokeswoman Nicole Caruso confirmed the twin pregnancy, but she could not say whether Hunter would marry the first-time-father-to-be, the British actor Gordon MacDonald.
They met in 2004 when they played a romantic couple in the London theatre production of By the Bog of Cats.
Hunter broke through to world fame in 1992 with her Oscar-winning performance as the mute musician, Ada, in The Piano.
Critics said that the 1.54-metre tall actress gave an especially credible portrayal of a young woman with oppressed sexual longings and thirst for freedom in the conservative middle-class society of the 19th century.
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Best Of :: Food & Drink
Whenever we take jaded locals to Jimmy's, which is across the street from Mai's and Hall's Hobby Shop (two more local landmarks), they're always shocked at the treats and treasures this place holds. They take it for granted that it's one more quickie convenience store, one more neighborhood stop-and-rob on an urban corner; they've driven by it a hundred times and never given it a second glance. It's their loss, and our job to correct their mistaken impressions: This place, owned and operated by fourth-generation Sicilians, is a veritable gastric paradise, a repository of exotica. One aisle overflows with olive oils from the homeland; another is drenched with fine Italian wines available at the nicest price. From capers to crackers, from coffee (Café Bustelo, that dark Miami nectar, is our favorite) to cheeses (including bufala mozzarella, the Tom Hicks of cheese), Jimmy's is your one-stop shopping for a day of nibbling or a night of culinary get-down. The nerve center of Jimmy's is its meat market, located at the back and packed to the brine with some of the finest olives, cheeses and meats in town (the prosciutto is primo). And it's back there they concoct the Cuban sandwich, a spicy mélange of pickles and pork, ham and Swiss cheese, mustard and butter (and, likely, so much more; one bite makes our taste buds do the masticatin' mambo). Call ahead--it takes a good 15 minutes to prepare this delicacy--but stop by and pick up one. Or five. At $4.99, it's a real bargain--the lunch that keeps on giving, if you know what we mean.
OK, so it's not exactly new in traditional restaurant parlance, which entails a new name, owner and cuisine. But York St., which has been around for a dozen years, sure tastes different. After purchasing York St. earlier this year, chef Sharon Hage cleaned it up, yanked out bolted-down clutter, whitewashed the walls, added some mirrors and created a new logo (the "Y" looks like a twig). But these are just minor adjustments compared with what she has done to the food. Hage's touch doesn't unleash dramatic cuisine, nor visually compelling cookery. What springs is a gathering of subtle flourishes that, taken in its entirety, pulses with both imaginative artistry and disciplined harmony. For example, Hage creates a horseradish broth in which to bathe her mussels. To this, she flecks the puddle with specks of smoky ham. Slightly weird, incredibly good. Strokes like this abound, from the lavender sea-salt rubbed chicken in foie gras potato sauce to the ivory salmon with wilted pea shoots. This place isn't for everyone. It has no see-and-be-seen appeal, and the sight lines kind of suck--even for a 42-seat cubicle. But if you revere food, there's no better place. One taste, and you'll be a York dork for life.
This is a damn good list almost by any measure. It incorporates virtually all of the world's best growing regions with ample stocks from places most wine lists ignore, such as Alsace and Germany. Plus, the list is packed with a great diversity of the world's best wines, those hailing from Bordeaux and Burgundy for instance. The selection of dessert wines is beefier than most lists after subtracting chardonnay and cabernet. Yet perhaps what sets Lola's list apart are the trimmings. It contains a robust selection of half-bottles, a generous by-the-glass list, plus an assortment of "twenty somethings," wines priced in the $20-$29 range. In fact, price may be the greatest feature of Lola's list. Markups are held down from the usual 3 to 4 times wholesale, so you'll have enough shekels left over to bribe the valet for a spin in a few of the exotic sports cars he's just parked.
Steak. Not just any steak. Bob's steak. USDA prime steak, steak as thick as the bull in a campaign speech. Ask anyone anywhere in Dallas (who doesn't believe his great-grandparent has come back as a steer) who has the best steak, and he'll reflexively spit out Bob's. The flavor is rich. The meat is juicy. Tough gristle has been evacuated. The texture is buttery. The degree of doneness is perfect. And if that weren't enough, Bob throws in a potato and a glazed carrot for no extra charge, though you might want to pay him to keep the latter off your table. Bob's steak knocked our socks off. It renewed our faith in God, or steers anyway. Bob is the bovine boss. And that ain't no mad cow bull.
First it was Going Gourmet. Then entrepreneur Suzie Priore took over and retagged it Suze. In the process of transforming it to her set of tastes, Priore brought former Toscana chef Gilbert Garza. Roughly 18 months later, Garza bought out Priore. He subjected the restaurant to relatively minor changes. Garza has even left the menu somewhat intact, keeping a handful of holdovers. The food is simple, meaning it isn't burdened with "look-at-me" ensembles or unruly clashings of obtuse flavors. Everything is intelligent, balanced and clean. And when you combine this with a snug homey atmosphere and reasonable prices, you've got a great takeover--all done without junk bonds and Brooks Brothers suits.
Chef Jason Gorman has done many wonderful things during his short time at the 16-year-old City Café. But among his finest is this: potato Stilton agnolotti (Piedmont-style ravioli) in herb truffle butter sauce. It's hard to overstate what a rich, balanced and focused culinary eruption this project becomes in the mouth. Arranged in a circle around the plate, the smooth pillows are delicate (almost like a pastry in character) but forceful, merging smoothly with the butter sauce. They're topped with diminutive cauliflower florets and baby carrots strafed with crumbles of Stilton cheese. The dish comes with a choice of grilled chicken breast or grilled shrimp. Yet the best thing about this dish is that it's also among the least expensive entrées at City Café, coming in at roughly 18 bucks. Which means it's a responsible way to gradually squander the kid's college fund, at least more responsible than prime steaks would be.


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Ironing clothes is not one of our strong suits, and we avoid this task at all costs. Our problem stems from two issues: We were never properly taught how to get wrinkles out in the first place, and the iron we're using to attempt this feat is pretty crappy. Rowenta to the rescue! Not only do designers like Christian Siriano and Zac Posen put Rowenta's irons and steamers to use during New York Fashion Week, but Rowenta's StyleLab offers video tutorials for us dummies. Now there's no excuse for showing up to work in rumpled clothes. [$169.99, ShopRowenta.com]
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Overseas teams out to dethrone HK Tigers
Defending champions the Hong Kong Tigers face a daunting task in trying to keep the Mega Ice Hockey 5s trophy at home.
Teams from Germany, Japan, Canada and China form the biggest hurdles for the hosts when the largest tournament of its kind in Asia begins at MegaBox in Kowloon Bay from next Tuesday, running to May 9.
'The standard of ice hockey in Hong Kong has been picking up strongly over the last couple of years with more young and potential players taking up the sport,' said tournament director and deputy general manager of Mega Ice, Keith Fong Gee-kay.
'The Hong Kong team finished fourth in last month's Asia Challenge Cup, and with the experience we gained playing against top regional teams, such as Thailand and hosts the UAE, we are improving gradually. Of course, we have home rink advantage now, which will boost our chances.'
The Mega Ice rink, measuring 26 metres by 57 metres, is Hong Kong's first and only approved venue for international ice hockey games.
The 2009 tournament features 60 teams from around the world with half of the teams taking part in the youth competition for ages five to 12. These up-and-coming players also come from China, Manila and Singapore. In the adult division, 15 local men's teams made up of Hong Kong division one players will compete, as well as five women's teams.
'This amazing line-up of ice hockey talent is sure to raise the sport's popularity in Hong Kong as the community gets to experience the excitement and passion of the game first hand,' said Fong. 'We have also invited four Canadian and one Finnish professional referees to officiate at the games.'
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Hornets Beat By Bulls Despite Davis' Great Play
Fourth quarter failures (9 turnovers) by the New Orleans Hornets (19-35) prevented them from stealing one from the Chicago Bulls (31-22). Chicago's outstanding defense helped them leave New Orleans Arena with a 96-87 victory over the Hornets.
The loss was bad, but there were a few bright spots for the fleur-de-bees. With so many things going right for the Hornets heading into the All-Star break, one big thing continued to go right on Tuesday night…the play of Anthony Davis (pictured).
Davis' quick progression to the NBA game was on full display, throwing down several lobs, showing off his unmatched length, and being extremely active both on the glass and in the paint. His most impressive play may have been at the end of the first half with time expiring. Davis caught a full court pass from Greivis Vasquez and had the athleticism to immediately throw it in off the glass while also being fouled.His stat line of 15 points, 10 rebounds, 4 steals, 3 assists, and 1 block is impressive for any player, much less a 19 year old rookie.
Vasquez finished with a double-double (11 points, 10 assists), while Eric Gordon scored a game-high 20. Al-Farouq Aminu added 10, as did Ryan Anderson off the bench. However, for only the 4th time this season, Anderson did not make at least one 3-pointer.
Chicago was extremely physical, and the Hornets had lapses when they didn't match the Bulls intensity. Chicago outrebounded New Orleans 47-39 and scored 15 second-chance points.
"It bothers us," said Vasquez. "That's a physical team. They're big guys play strong and talk a lot…playing a team like that, you have to match their intensity."
New Orleans has a quick turnaround. They're on the road tonight in Cleveland for a 7:00 contest with the Cavaliers. The game will be nationally televised on ESPN.


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Digital Playback and the Role of the Transport
Credibility is sometimes a creeping phenomenon. It may start with some light buzz that hardly anyone takes seriously. Slowly a point of view gains traction, building momentum. Soon the tastemakers jump on board and one day, what do you know, what started as an unsupported idea is accepted as a fait accompli.
So it is with the poor little, under-appreciated digital transport. Tell me: when you think about improving your CD front-end, what's the first thing that comes to mind? Surely not the transport, I expect. More likely it would be the DAC, or even the digital cable.
Here's my tale of how two transports changed my mind, and stimulated some critical musings about the medium.
I got into digital late in the game. For the first fifteen years or so, I had nothing but four-letter words for the whole endeavor. When I eventually succumbed, I acquired a modified Philips player as a transport and a high-quality DAC. I wanted this front-end to sound like my Linn LP12 record player: the DAC and the modded Philips transport from von Gaylord Audio did.
The Philips lasted a while. Then I was introduced to the CEC TL1X belt-drive transport. Although I couldn't understand why a transport needed to be so big and heavy, there was no denying the Grand Canyon between it and the Philips. It was a no brainer to acquire the thing.
Digital products, mostly DACs and one-box players, came in for review and went back. I upgraded within the von Gaylord Audio family of DACs until I acquired the two-chassis UNI model. Along the way, I got the Zanden Audio Model 5000 Mk III tubed DAC. But nothing challenged the wonderful CEC TL1X transport. Hooked up to one of these reference DACs, the CEC stood firm against all comers: none offered sufficient cause to stir thoughts of replacement.
Between the long reign of the CEC and reinforcement from the audio magazines on the primacy of the DAC, the notion that transports play the minor role in CD playback became established in my mind. I was happy with my front-end and became complacent. There were plenty of bigger fish to fry elsewhere in my system. This was many years ago.
another Wakeup Call
This view of the world came unglued with a loan of the mbl 1521 A digital transport. Now the CEC stood on the near side of the canyon. This was a KO, and the CEC was flat out on the carpet.
Sob… sigh… so long CEC. I'm sure you know how the story goes along the long and winding road of upgrades. These experiences with the CEC and the mbl got me to reconsider the role of the transport. There's no question about the importance of the turntable in vinyl playback—it gets most of the attention. Well, how about the digital rotation mechanism and the laser pickup? Hey, maybe I could do a transport shoot-out for a future article? (I tried, but it proved too difficult to pull together—most manufacturers don't even offer separates anymore.)
the CEC TL1X sets the pace
Let's begin with the CEC TL1X, my reference at the time. First and foremost, it must be said this box makes music. Before the critical assessment kicks in, before you sit down for serious listening, even while it's burning-in, you can hear that.
The CEC TL1X has a dark tonal palette and a huge amount of weight. It doesn't hurt that the machine is also warm and forgiving—like old-fashioned analogue. A lot of us credited its belt-drive mechanism, like that used in LP turntables, for imparting an analog feel. The TL1X has an affinity with unamplified acoustic sound, with an emphasis on acoustic.
Let's cue up the Shostakovich Violin Concerto No. 1, with Maxim Vengerov as soloist and Rostropovich conducting the London Symphony Orchestra (TELDEC 4509-92256-2). This 1996 multiple Gramophone Award nominee impresses immediately with its holistic, seamless stage-front. It's all of a piece, cut from the same midrangey, warm cloth. There's a blending of the lower strings, and LOTS of weight, maybe not enough body. It seems a bit flat, dimensionally. There's no deep space—it's limited by excessive smoothness, which in turn is responsible for a lack of texture. (But remember, this is how it sometimes sounds in life). No stridency, no glare—it's kind of the reverse, not enough edge and nothing remotely approaching glare. Vengerov is standing in front, apart from the orchestra. There's barely a hint of bite on his violin: more would be better.
About nine minutes into the first movement the low strings start growling, giving the first indication of this machine's powerful, BIG low-end. While outsized, the bottom isn't spotlit—far from it. One thing you cannot fault is the CEC's frequency integration. Dynamics scale upwards step-less gradations. But it can also be reasonably subtle when called for. The second movement's flurry of winds reinforces the impression of better than average timbral portrayal, especially those overtones coming from lower frequencies. The first-class timbre compensates for some flattening of micro-dynamics and consequent loss of tone colors. Even though there are depth cues, the lack of surface texture presents a cranial challenge. I'm aware of my brain working to flesh out the stage, filling in the missing info.
Frequency response is basically flat up through the midrange. Within this, the progression is even and very well integrated. The top is reticent, causing the bottom to be outsized.
One other thing is worth noting: the TL1X does piano exceptionally true-to-life. I came across a BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE CD of Mieczyslaw Horszowski in a live piano recital from the 1983 Aldeburgh Festival (BBC MM112). I scarf up Horszowski recordings wherever I come across them. He must have been about 80 at the time of the recording. This was a treat: while he was alive, the man represented one of the few direct links to the bygone days of turn-of-the-last-century musical style. As far as the recording, it rings very true to my ear. Often piano playback exhibits excessive separation of notes and not enough case resonance. Most of the time there is too much of the frequency extremes and the instrument images as wide as your speakers are spread. (This is how engineers are taught to do it in recording schools.) The live instrument sounds thoroughly blended and very midrangy, which is precisely what the TL1X is putting out.
In sum, the TL1X is inordinately musical and easy to listen to, a bit blurry (or veiled), with good dynamics, and a total absence of stridency or glare. Its sound is unforced and certainly not Hifi. No longer in production, the last seen MSRP was $5,500, but you can sometimes find it on Audiogon for about $2,000. It remains a great buy at its price point; I don't know of a better transport for the money.
mbl 1521 A reporting for duty, sir
Then the mbl 1521 A Transport arrived. Ah, where to begin. Let's try the second movement of the Shostakovich Violin Concerto. On Vengerov's first notes, the sheer mass of new, vivid information makes me grab the CD case to check the label. Yup…. it's the same CD. Let's play that movement again.
By Jove, each instrument in the multiple melodic lines is so complete, so fulfilled, you can pick and choose which to focus on at your whim. Very little mental effort is required. Crisp and direct with more edge detail, yet no sharply delineated boundaries, the mb's ability to provide separate, easy-to-follow lines owes much to its rendering of textural and timbral differences, rather than segregating images on the stage. There's no spotlighting. There's also less of the holistic blending as with the CEC, and no gravitation to the midrange. The mbl throws a huge amount of musical detail at you without losing the integrity of a single line.
I actually have a bit of a problem with this. After the TL1X, the "passive vividness" of the 1521 A Transport is a little surreal. It doesn't sound like Carnegie Hall—it seems too clear, too direct, it places you too close, what with all the detail. But let's look into that musical, holistic quality of the TL1X for a minute. That pleasing, homogenous surface actually has to do with a lack of texture and the flat surface—it casts everything in the same hue, or cloth. This is also why your brain has to work harder.
The second thing to note, and this may seem relatively small but made for a large cognitive shock, was the presentation of depth cues. There is layering with the CEC, instruments are arrayed into the distance, but they are flat—they have no individual extension front to back, they are missing 3-D cues. They seem like gobs of tone. Kind of reminds me of the splatter effects of a game of Paint Ball. The aftermath of the game is splats of color on your opponent's garment. The TL1X images are like 2D bursts of tone in space.
This realization was slow to mature. On the first round of comparisons, the two transports' space presentation didn't seem that far apart, but it grew on you. Once aware, it became obvious that the CEC's images are surface only; they don't have front-to-back projection. At that point, it became especially jarring going back and forth between the drives.
Curiously enough, I recently experienced this with the Sonic Euphoria passive preamp. Have you ever heard a passive preamp? The old McCormack TLC-1 used to be my reference. It's been so long, I was eager to get re-acquainted with the genre, but a brief visit was all I wanted after I observed its soundstage and found it… flat and lacking dimension, uncannily like the TL1X. I guess I've come a long way since then.
the mbl 1521 A in a Nut Shell
The 1521 A shares a great many of the mbl Noble line family traits I've described in my reviews of the 5011 preamp and 8011 AM monoblocks. To avoid repetition, I'll keep the general overview brief.
First, it is non-fatiguing. The 1521 A possesses an introvert personality type. Dynamics and resolution are way up there, but are presented in an unassuming manner. It prefers to be modest about its virtues, and leave it up to you to take notice.
Second, while the 1521 A's tonal palette is lighter and less warm than the CEC, it is still comparatively on the dark and warm side.
Third, frequency response is a model of linearity, with controlled and textured bass, full and proportionate allotments of body throughout the range, and a sweet, controlled treble. Images are large and fleshy without fat or looseness. The stage can seem a little thick due to the high information content and large images.
Fourth, the noise floor and artifacts are uncommonly low. When there's no signal, there's not a peep out of the speakers.
Fifth, it doesn't exhibit a solid-state grain structure. (Neither does the CEC.) Both have a smooth surface that somewhat impedes the rendering of texture. This is more of an issue with the CEC.
Wires and Burn-in
The top-loading 1521 A sounds midrangy and veiled for the first 50 or so hours. Then it becomes quite neutral and you might want to thaw it out a bit. The Kubala-Sosna Emotion balanced digital cable was an excellent match.
One quick note about how quickly the 1521 A mechanism stops spinning. The CD is ready to be removed in a second or two, much earlier than most transports—some keep you waiting as long as half-a-minute. Initial load time for the CD to register is about average.
Less is More
I have a very good, very expensive power conditioner, the TARA Labs IDAT. As a rule, front-end components are automatically plugged into it—and sound better that way. Now I was in for a pleasant surprise. Try running the mbl 1521 A right from the wall or via a power strip. Connected into the Ensemble outlet strip this way, the 1521 A had a nice relaxed and flowing quality, much life and immediacy, and no noticeable increase in digititus. While it sounds great right into the wall, there was a fall off in resolution and dynamic range, and it became softer. But you might like it this way.
Here's a tip that will give you more bloom and body, more bottom and presence: make sure you have only one digital cable connected to the mbl 1521 A at a time. Don't ask me why, but an XLR and a RCA sharing outputs compromised performance.
Want to radically alter the sound of the 1521 A? The transport is probably the most sensitive to the messenger carrying the incoming AC. Whatever the distinguishing characteristics of your PC, they will be doubly noticeable when used on the mbl. I didn't notice this effect particularly with the CEC, but with the mbl it was on the make or break level. With TARA Labs The One PC, we had full bandwidth, linear perfection, and a very neutral profile. The degree of warmth introduced by the Harmonix Studio Master was startling. It got warmer, thicker, less extended on top, and lost any trace of frostiness. Or use a Kubala-Sosna Emotion PC to warm up the sound to a degree midway between the other two.
Unblocked: the mbl 1511 D DAC arrives
Of course, in order to hear these differences in transports you must have a DAC up to the job: I had two, the Zanden and the vGA.
Then I was provided with a third: the mbl 1511 D DAC came in. This supported everything previously said about transports. As I have nothing further to add, you can jump to the Conclusion now, or stick with me if you want to hear about the mbl Noble Line DACs.
First, I switched to balanced mode, because mbl prefers it. The German DAC served up a wide cluster of improvements along the lines of pace, clarity, imaging, micro-dynamics and tighter bass, all reflecting its more accurate—and also more solid-state—voicing. The concert space it conjures would be Carnegie Hal's smaller venue, Zankel Hall, if only that poor hall had more bloom. (I'm thinking in terms of clarity and transparency.) Where the vGA is easy listening, the mbl demands your attention. It's hard to keep music in the background, even with the DACs introvert personality. It lets you hear everything—maybe too much.
It's interesting to note how the mbl front-end reproduced the piano. Each note is heard quite distinctly and there's less of the case resonance. It sounds like a different brand of piano, maybe even a fortepiano. The instrument is brighter, more in the upper midrange, less warm, and images smaller in center stage. It is also emotionally cooler. Now Mieczyslaw Horszowski is displaying admirable restraint. With the CEC and either of my reference DACs, I was entranced by his luxurious, regal bearing and relaxed pace.
the mbl 1511 F replacement
And still later on, I upgraded to the F version of the 1511 DAC, bringing me up to current spec. (This took me up two steps, from the D to the F. MSRP $9270.) Superficially, aside from the F being SACD ready and having some cosmetic changes, there was about 92% in common. The obvious differences in that 8% were along the lines of greater pacing, focus, depth and texture.
Less obvious was how these two 1511 DACs handled low-level signals. Before the upgrade, I was aware of a lack of vitality in low-level passages. I used to sit back, wondering "When is something dynamic gonna come along? Maybe it needs more volume?" These soft sections were somewhat flat dynamically and midrangy in terms of frequency.
I know what to attribute that problem to, because it went away with the F version. And now, with the 1511 F and 1521 A, I can truly say the mbl Noble front-end is one of the best examples of unforced dynamics I've come across. It stays open and composed regardless of signal level.
By the way, the F DAC sounds good after 50 hours, but you won't know what it's really capable of until its clocked a month of run time.
And that tip about having only one digital cable connected to the 1521 A at a time: the same is true for the 1511 DAC. Connecting any more than one cable in or out compromised performance. (Unsurprisingly, the mbl preamp follows suit, too. Try this: listen to whatever's in the first slot, marked CD 1. Then disconnect all other inputs and listen again.)
While we're at it, those outputs, or inputs, marked number one always sound better than those marked two, three, etc. Whatever's in that slot has an advantage (maybe due to shorter signal paths on the circuit board?). I didn't want to believe this, because it makes my life more complicated when doing comparisons, but it's true—I heard it all vividly demonstrated in my living room. For optimum performance, have only one source connected to the first input.
Degrees of Digititus: or, What's Wrong with Digital?
With the mbl stack I was enjoying unparalleled dynamics, signal to noise ratios, channel separation, bass control, soundstaging… the list goes on. There's no doubt in my mind the Noble Line of digital separates are of reference caliber and a best buy at their price (around $9K a piece). They are realistic and stunningly accurate.
As one visitor remarked, "The Noble Line of digital separates are terrific. They actually approach analog." He said that, and we all nodded in agreement, with the implicit understanding that digital is expected to come up short.
What's the problem with digital playback? We all talk about it, but nobody, to my knowledge, has taken the bait and spelled out just what those problems are. It's left quite vague and ill defined. I'd like to float a few preliminary ideas.
the First Degree
Let's turn back the clock to the early 1980's. The first generation of digital products arrived riddled with a cluster of symptoms, i.e. the razor-sharp treble transients that nearly took your ears off; the thin tone; the grainy texture; the hyped soundstage. Everybody either ran for the hills, or covered their ears and pretended not to notice. Eventually, we agreed to call this Digititus.
Today's machines are beyond this. I've heard current components at every price point with nary a trace of it. Listening to one of these newer products, you think, "Wow! Great tone and body! There's no stridency or edge to speak of." None of the aforementioned symptoms are in evidence. (But then, a surprising number err in a new way and suffer from over-compensation. They become too smooth, warm and fulsome to the point of flabbiness. The mbl 1511 F DAC has some of this. The Class D amps from NuForce exhibit a great deal of it.)
the Second Degree
So, we think the device has overcome Digititus. It is listenable, maybe even ingratiating. But with complex material, do you have trouble identifying what instrument is playing? If it is unclear, if you can't tell whether that's a clarinet or an oboe, something else is wrong… chances are you've got the second degree.
The second degree of Digititus is more subtle and pervasive—every digital front-end has it to some extent. It shows up in these ways:
1) Timbral insufficiency. Your brain struggles to know whether that's a clarinet or an oboe. Alas, there's no way this can be resolved. This is fallout from the way designers opted to fix the first symptoms of the disease, i.e. by using a subtractive solution; to take things away that they think won't be missed. Unfortunately, the target of these deletions is often slices of the timbral envelope. Put bluntly, with a reduced timbral spectrum, you will never resolve the instrument's identity.
The missing timbral information may also be inherent in the on/off nature of the encoding.
2) The surface of the soundstage is notably smooth. This was done to compensate for the first-degree burn. The harm done is reduced texture.
3) The leading edge of transients is soft. To eliminate the bleeding treble edge, it was blunted.
These are preliminary thoughts—somebody's got to get the discussion rolling. If you're confused at this point, do an A / B with analog. Don't listen to the things we know digital does better. An analog rig of even modest cost will not exhibit these three symptoms.
That statement, "The Noble Line of digital separates actually approaches analog," is the highest accolade you can toss at a digital component.
I began to get serious about digital late in the game. For the first fifteen or so years, I had nothing but four-letter words for the medium. Then I got a modded Philips player as a transport, along with some high-quality DACS. I wanted it to sound like my Linn LP12 record player: the von Gaylord Audio DACs and their modded Philips player do.
The Philips was summarily trumped by the briefest exposure to the CEC TL1X transport. (No longer available, the last MSRP was $5500. You can sometimes find one of these on the used market for about $2,000, or double the cost of the modded Philips.) The TL1X held its ground against all comers even as I upgraded DACs, which led me to think there wasn't much more to be gleaned from exploring transports. I was happy for a long while and became complacent, a position reinforced by the high-end media's focus on the DAC side of the equation.
Do things ever stay put?
The mbl 1521 A transport came in and took over. The difference between it and the CEC TL1X was about equal to that between the TL1X and the Philips player. The degree of truth rendered by the mbl 1521 A unquestionably puts it in Class A+. And once again the price point doubled, now up to $9,495.
The moral of the story is: Do not take your digital drive for granted. The transport is unsung in the high-end media and unjustifiably overlooked. Huge gains are available, if you seek out the right units. If you can afford it, the mbl 1521 A transport is definitely worth it.
MBL Akustikgeräte GmbH
US distributor
mbl of America


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Police: Culprit in Vehicle Damage Incidents May Be In Moving Vehicle
Rochester, NY -- Police investigating the recent incidents involving damage to vehicles on area roads and expressways believe the person or persons responsible may be in a moving vehicle when causing the damage.
Ten similar incidents since April 15 are under investigation, including the shattering of an SUV window Thursday morning on I-390 North near the Trolley Blvd. overpass. Seven of the incidents happened on 390, one on 490 and two on suburban roads.
Police say the investigation is a collaborative effort between the Monroe County Sheriff's Office, the state police, Greece police and the FBI.
As the police statement was issued late Thursday afternoon, a report of an 11th similar incident was made near 390 in Avon, Livingston County.


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Gray Gray, tell me the percentage of interracial marriages in Israel and compare it to the Brazilian situation.
Before you do so, I shall repeat myself by saying based on MY general knowledge the level of interracial marriages in Brazil are far greater than Israel.
Now prove me wrong.
My point is only that Israel is NOT inhabited by a native Levantine population and therefore has no right to steal land from Native Palestinians.
Native Palestinians deserve to have their land back or compensation; at least to pre '67 borders before there can be peace in the region.
Because racist sadism is rewarded in Israel, the country attracts KKK types from around the world


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Mariah Carey Listens to her New Music in a Bikini
Taking time to enjoy the fruits of her labor, Mariah Carey went poolside to listen to her new music on Wednesday (March 12).
Posting a few pics of herself in a red bikini, the "#Beautiful" singer wrote, "Music is my life #Gratitude," "A moment after the studio," and "First listen after being pon de makeshift studio all night."
Over the weekend, the "American Idol" judge gave fans a peek into her intimate life with husband Nick Cannon and their twins, Moroccan and Monroe.
In a photo collage, Mariah appears sans makeup with braided hair as she and Nick snuggle with their little ones in bed. She captions the pics, "Sweet sweet family moments."
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Inspections, Compliance, Enforcement, and Criminal Investigations
Santos Incorporated 8/15/12
Department of Health and Human Services
|Public Health Service
Food and Drug Administration
San Francisco District
August 15, 2012
Purnima A. Parmar, President
Santos Incorporated
1188 Montague Street
San Leandro, California 94577
Dear Mrs. Parmar:
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) conducted an inspection of your facility located at 1188 Montague Street, San Leandro, California, between March 8 and March 23, 2012. During our inspection, FDA investigators documented serious violations of the Current Good Manufacturing Practice (CGMP) regulation for foods, Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 110 (21 CFR 110). These violations cause the food products produced in your facility to be adulterated within the meaning of Section 402(a)(4) [21 U.S.C. § 342(a)(4)] of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act), in that they have been prepared, packed, or held under insanitary conditions whereby they may have become contaminated with filth or rendered injurious to health. You can find the Act and the FDA regulations through links in FDA's homepage at www.fda.gov.
In addition, labels for several of your products were collected. We have reviewed your labels and find that they are misbranded within the meaning of section 403 of the Act [21 U.S.C. § 343] and its implementing regulations under Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 101 (21 CFR 101).
Current Good Manufacturing Practice
1. As required by 21 CFR 110.80(b)(1), you must maintain all equipment, utensils, and finished food containers in an acceptable condition through appropriate cleaning and sanitizing, as necessary. In addition, as required by 21 CFR 110.35(d), you must clean all food-contact surfaces, including utensils and food-contact surfaces of equipment, as frequently as necessary to protect against the contamination of food. However, our investigator observed the following during the inspection:
• Throughout the inspection, none of the equipment (metal vats, wooden tables, metal scoops, metal surfaced scales, metal sifters, and heat shrink wrap machines) used in the repacking operation were observed properly cleaned or sanitized. Between repacking of one food product to another, employees were seen wiping equipment and utensils with various dirty rags seen used repeatedly to wipe down the same equipment and utensils.
• All-purpose flour was observed being packaged, followed by the work surface being wiped down by an employee; however, after the surfaces were wiped down, residue from the all-purpose flour was still observed being present on the working surfaces.
• Employees were seen repackaging in sequence, raw peanuts, cardamom, cumin-jeera (whole), mustard seed, and garam masala. Each time a product had been processed, employees were seen using the same two rags to wipe down the repacking equipment. Raw peanut residue was observed remaining inside the metal vat and on the metal sifter after being wiped down by the employee. The employee then used the same metal vat and metal sifter to process cumin-jeera. No adequate cleaning or sanitizing was observed.
• Approximately 10 rags were seen being used to wipe down equipment and utensils used in three repacking stations. According to your firm, the rags are cleaned daily by an employee who takes them home for washing. Throughout the inspection, these rags were seen stained and dirty with debris from repackaged food products, and were stored in a manner which did not protect them from contamination such as, draped on a dirty fan and on a garbage receptacle.
2. As required by 21 CFR 110.10(b)(3), all persons working in direct contact with food, food contact surfaces, and food-packaging materials must wash hands thoroughly (and sanitize if necessary to protect against contamination with undesirable organisms) in an adequate hand-washing facility at any time when the hands may have become soiled or contaminated. In addition, they must conform to hygienic practices while on duty to the extent necessary to protect against contamination of food. This includes maintaining gloves used in food handling in an intact, clean, and sanitary condition, as required by 21 CFR 110.10(b)(5). However, our investigator observed the following during our inspection:
• Employees were observed starting work without washing their hands at the start of repackaging and after returning to work.
• Employees were seen wearing gloves while packing down garbage, tuning a radio, handling a cell phone, sweeping chick peas off the floor, and touching cardboard boxes, wooden pallets, and the floor. Each time the employees were seen returning to repackage food products without washing their hands or changing their gloves.
3. As required by 21 CFR 110.40(a), equipment and utensils shall be so designed as to be adequately cleanable, and shall be properly maintained. Additionally, per 21 CFR 110.40(c), equipment that is in the food handling area that does not come into contact with food shall be so constructed that it can be kept in a clean condition. However, our investigator observed the following during our inspection:
• Work surfaces used to support repacking equipment and utensils, such as scoops, packaging materials, scales, and heat sealers, were observed constructed of cardboard boxes and wood. These materials cannot be adequately cleaned and sanitized. The porous nature of these materials was observed to harbor debris from previously packaged products, such as all purpose flour, corn flour, turmeric, and chili powder.
4. As required by 21 CFR 110.37(e)(1), you are required to provide adequate hand-washing facilities at each location in the plant where needed. However, our investigator observed that there is no hand washing facility in close proximity to the repackaging area. In order to wash their hands, employees must open and close two doors to access the restroom on the opposite side of the building where there is a hand washing receptacle.
Your All Purpose Flour (Maida) product is misbranded within the meaning of section 403(w) [21 U.S.C. § 343(w)] in that the label fails to declare the presence of the major food allergen, wheat, as required by section 403(w)(1).
Section 201(qq) of the Act [21 U.S.C. 321(qq)] defines as "major food allergens" milk, egg, fish, Crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, wheat, peanuts, and soybeans, as well as any food ingredient that contains protein derived from one of these foods, with the exception of highly refined oils. A food is misbranded if it is not a raw agricultural commodity and it is, or it contains an ingredient that bears or contains, a major food allergen, unless either:
• The word "Contains", followed by the name of the food source from which the major food allergen is derived, is printed immediately after or adjacent to the list of ingredients [section 403(w)(1)(A) of the Act, 21 U.S.C. 343(w)(1)(A)], or
• The common or usual name of the major food allergen in the list of ingredients is followed in parentheses by the name of the food source from which the major food allergen is derived (e.g. "spelt (wheat)", except that the name of the food source is not required when either the common or usual name of the ingredient uses the name of the food source (e.g. "wheat gluten" or "whole wheat flour") or the name of the food source appears elsewhere in the ingredients list (unless the name of the food source that appears elsewhere in the ingredient list appears as part of the name of an ingredient that is not a major food allergen) [section 403(w)(1)(B) of the Act, 21 U.S.C. 343(w)(1)(B)].
Your 5 lb All Purpose Flour (Maida) product is misbranded within the meaning of section 403(b) [21 U.S.C. § 343(b)] in that your firm repackages the product from bulk containers labeled as "Enriched Flour" into 5 lb bags and offered for sale under the name, "All Purpose Flour," which is the name of a different food.
Your All Purpose Flour (Maida) product is misbranded within the meaning of section 403(i)(2) [21 U.S.C. § 343(i)(2)] in that the product is fabricated from two or more ingredients and the label fails to declare the common or usual name of each ingredient, as required under 21 CFR 101.4. Specifically, the ingredient statement for the (b)(4) Enriched Flour, which you repack and relabel as All Purpose Flour, declares the sub-ingredients "wheat flour, benzoyl peroxide, niacin, reduced iron, ascorbic acid, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, amylase, folic acid"; however, you fail to declare these ingredients on your finished product label.
Your retail packaged, All Purpose Flour (Maida), Macaroni and Peas Besan products are misbranded within the meaning of section 403(q) of the Act [21 U.S.C. 343(q)] in that the products fail to bear a nutrition facts panel as required by 21 CFR 101.9.
Your firm may be eligible for certain exemptions from nutrition labeling requirements, such as the Small Business Nutrition Labeling Exemption. We recommend you review the nutrition labeling exemption in 21 CFR 101.9(j)(18) [or see http://www.fda.gov/Food/LabelingNutrition/FoodLabelingGuidanceRegulatoryInformation/SmallBusinessNutritionLabelingExemption/default.htm] for information on filing for an annual exemption. The application may be submitted online at: https://info1.cfsan.fda.gov/nle/client/login.cfm.
We acknowledge that your firm voluntarily recalled food products due to potential allergen cross contamination on May 18, 2012. In addition, you have stated verbally that you intend to correct the GMP deficiencies per the 483 Observations; however to date we have not received a written response regarding any proposed corrective actions.
We may take further action if you do not promptly correct these violations. For instance, we may take further action to seize your product(s) and/or enjoin your firm from operating.
Please notify this office in writing within fifteen (15) working days from the date you receive this letter of the specific steps you have taken to correct the noted violations, including an explanation of how you plan to prevent these violations, or similar violations, from occurring again. Include documentation of the corrective action you have taken. If your planned corrections will occur over time, please include a timetable for implementation of those corrections. If corrective action cannot be completed within 15 working days, state the reason for the delay and the time within which the corrections will be completed.
Your written response should be directed to:
Lawton W. Lum
Director of Compliance
1431 Harbor Bay Parkway
Alameda, California 94052
Refer to the Unique Identification Number (CMS case 303819) when replying.
If you have any questions about the content of this letter please contact Ms. Aleta T. Flores, Compliance Officer at (510) 337-6821.
This letter is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the violations at your facility. It is your responsibility to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations administered by FDA. The specific violations noted in this letter and in the Inspectional Observations, Form FDA 483 (FDA 483), issued at the closeout of the inspection may be symptomatic of serious problems in your firm's manufacturing systems. You should investigate and determine the causes of the violations and take prompt actions to correct the violations to bring your products into compliance. Failure to promptly correct these violations may result in legal action without further notice including seizure and injunction.
Barbara J. Cassens
District Director


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Cortavious Givens and Donnie Crum also added touchdowns. The Blue Jackets led 38-0 at halftime before using reserves in the second half. The Blue Jackets' playoff hopes ended with St. Petersburg Catholic's victory.
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My cosmetic surgeon injected about 25% of 1 the syringe of Juvederm into my lower lip. About 5 hours after the injections, the swelling in my lower lip went down completely--it looked the same as it did before. This morning (13 hours after) my lips were so swollen that I had to call in sick to work. My lower lip is very swollen on the right side only. I have tried massaging it, but a noticeable lump remains in the lip and in the area between my lower lip and chin 24 hours later. Why does happen and will this go away? Please advise. Thanks.
Lower Lip Asymmetry and Lumps After Juvederm
Doctor Answers 7
Swelling is not uncommon after Juvederm injections
Following Juvederm injections we see some swelling that generally disappear in 5-7days.
However, if this is a large lump it could represent a hematoma, which may have to be drained by your doctor.
So it is best to go see your physician injector to check this as well as try to make the lip symmetrical.
Swelling after Juvederm
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I'll bet with time the problem corrects itself...
juvederm tends to absorb tissue fluid and this not uncommonly results in delayed swelling...but you mentioned that the doctor injected only a small amount of the syringe in your lip...what about the rest? by any chance was it into your chin...another extraordinarily common problem is bleeding into the area injected and then due to gravity and your upright posture during the day, the bleeding dissects through the skin below the treated area...if this is the case, some arnica and perhaps a warm compress might be helpful...in any event, the problem will settle down...unfortunately for visible improvement, chances are you'll need more than a quarter syringe to see positive results...
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Contact your physician
You should have contacted your physician so that he or she can evaluate the situation. It does happen, rarely, that the lip can swell many times its size. This can last for a few days. Usually it is symmetric (equal on both sides) so with yours being unequal you should be checked to see if you have a pooling of blood underneath the skin and lip (hematoma). Your doctor may recommend treatment to reduce the swelling.
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It can take awhile for the filler to draw in water
In my experience, when there is extra oozing in the area, Juvederm is likely to pull in more volume than Restylane and can give you extra swelling in the area that has more oozing. This will go down over the course of a week. Don't worry though you can always take some of the hyaluronic acid away with an enzyme injection consisting of hyaluronidase or wydase.
This can be done in a judicious way to make it look the way you want it to look. the same goes for the lump. Massage is another way to help alleviate the differences. You should ask your doctor to help you though this.
One other thing to consider
There is a condition call Angioedema. This is fairly uncommon, but does occur. It is abnormal swelling as the result of trauma (the injection). It can happen to anyone, but most cases occur in people that take ACE inhibitors (a type of blood pressure medication).
If it is angioedema, steroids and antihistamines will help. It can occur again with subsequent injections, so you must alert your physician if you choose another physician. Steroids can help, even if it is not angioedema. Most likely, I agree with Dr Beraka, that it's a hematoma. I just wanted you to know all possibilities.
You probably have a small hematoma.
Hi! That's a bummer, and it does not have anyting to do with Juvederm. I think the little needle that is used to inject the filler may have gone through a small blood vessel. This causes bleeding and a hematoma (swelling and bruising).
Unfortunately, it may be a week before you look normal. Don't massage, as this could cause further damage and will not help. Use lots of ice, keep your head elevated, do't do anything that wll make the blood rush to your face (such as straining), and try Arnica montana.
This is typically not the kind of hematoma that you can drain, because it is spread out in the tissues of the lip. So I don't think there is anything surgical that can be done.
I know this is not what you wanted to hear.
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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Stacie Halas, Alleged Porn Star Tiffany Six Orders Big Sausage Pizza
Stacie Halas, a 31-year-old teacher at a California junior high school, is on administrative leave while the school authorities investigate whether or not she starred in a series of sexually explicit videos under the nom de porn "Tiffany Six." (1)
Unless she's actually filming sex with her students or directly giving them links to her videos, it's none of the school's business, they should only be concerned with whether she's a good teacher or not.
Otherwise, we leave no room for redemption. If someone makes a mistake when younger, how can they turn their life around if the past is going to haunt them?
While some may feel that this is an example of moral turpitude, her teacher's contract does not contain a moral turpitude clause (2). We must remember that what she did was not then and is not now a crime.
If moral turpitude is a bar to teaching then we should certainly fire every liberal in this country who is teaching school; is there anything more corrupt, immoral, or perverted than Liberalism?
And by the way, parents were invited to a board meeting yesterday to express their thoughts on the matter: not one parent from the school showed up (3). Perhaps they were at home looking at the videos.
The Smoking Gun, Middle School Teacher Is Placed On Leave After Students Discover Her Porn Past
A California middle school teacher has been placed on leave after administrators learned from students that the educator appears in porn videos available online.
Stacie Halas, a 31-year-old science teacher at Richard B. Haydock Intermediate School in Oxnard, was removed from the classroom Monday, three days after pupils reported spotting her in a series of X-rated clips.
"Maybe it's not a crime as far as the penal code is concerned, but we feel it's a crime as far as moral turpitude is concerned," said Jeff Chancer, superintendent of the Oxnard school district.
In a letter sent yesterday to Haydock parents, school brass noted that they are "asking teachers to discourage the children from searching for and/or visiting these inappropriate sites. We ask that you be particularly vigilant over the next few days with respect to the Internet content being accessed by your child on his or her telephone or other Internet-ready device."
FoxNews, 8 Mar 2012, California school district mulls fate of teacher
Educators must decide the fate of a junior high teacher placed on paid administrative leave amid claims that she appeared in a pornographic video.
The teacher's contract does not contain a moral turpitude clause, but Chancer said the California Education Code outlines employment conditions that could lead to her being disciplined or fired.
"We're trying to determine if there's a nexus on what she does on her own time and what she does in the classroom," he said.
International Business Times, 8 Mar 2012, Stacie Halas, Alleged Porn Star Tiffany Six: Fake Twitter Account Created, Parents A No-Show At School Meeting
Oxnard School District invited parents to a board meeting on Wednesday to express their thoughts on Stacie Halas, the 31-year-old teacher from Richard B. Haydock Intermediate School in Oxnard, Calif., accused of being porn star Tiffany Six. However, not one parent from Haydock Intermediate School was in attendance.