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DVD • The folks behind the DVD release of "Happy Days" Season 5 clearly have a sense of humor.
Pictured on the bottom of the case is Fonzie (Henry Winkler) on water skis — he's about to jump the shark. In the first of 27 episodes that season — a particularly dumb episode — Fonzie, sporting swimming trunks and a leather jacket, water skis and jumps over a shark. "Jump the shark" has become a byword for the point at which a TV series does something so terrible it's all downhill from there. (Although, in the case of "Happy Days," it actually jumped the shark in Episode 17, the first episode of Season 2.)


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Do Retailers Begin Promoting Christmas Too Early?
I don't know about you, but when I was a kid it was unheard of to see even the slightest hint of Christmas until after Thanksgiving. In today's world, the 'Christmas Creep', a term used to describe how retailers keep bumping up the start of Christmas promotions each year, gets earlier and earlier.
This year, about 15-percent of the top retailers began their Christmas e-mail campaigns on September 6th. We have barely started talking about Halloween by September 6th, let alone Christmas – and what ever happened to celebrating Thanksgiving.
Last year, most of the online campaigns began in October, but this year most are already underway. You can actually start seeing 'Christmas stuff' on the floor in places like Wal-Mart sometime in July, and by late September and early October, it seems like that's all you see, doesn't it?
Retailers will tell you that most people are receptive to this, but most of the people I know get pretty annoyed at how early the 'Christmas season' seems to start. It should be a progression so we can enjoy each of the Holidays equally. Most people like to focus on Halloween, then gear up for Thanksgiving, with some not really getting into the Christmas spirit until the day after Thanksgiving.
I was in one store with my boys over the weekend and they wanted to look at Halloween stuff, which we finally found behind the Christmas stuff… really? Is it just me, or does it just feel wrong to 'start' Christmas so early?
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text: January 18, 2013 – Montréal is a celebrated North American hub of dance activity, an ever-evolving mecca for new ideas and creative innovation. Since 1998, the singular dance presenter Danse Danse has been offering audiences world-class dance, welcoming international artists from all corners of the globe, as well as highlighting Québec and Canadian-based dance companies in its programming. With the city's vibrant, ever-shifting cultural identity and its pull as a go-to destination, Montréal is an ideal locale for viewing contemporary dance in all its manifestations – from Japanese butoh performance to Flemish visceral physicality and new flamenco invention. From February 28 to March 2, in its first appearance in Canada, the Norwegian contemporary dance company Carte Blanche brings a new work by choreographer Sharon Eyal and co-creator Gai Behar. Corps de Walk, is a piece inspired by walking. What evolves is a physically vigorous, insistent, and mysterious work where dancers in white unisex body tights become unsettling high-tech incarnations, shifting the space with a raw and powerful precision. Under the direction of Kristel van Issum and Guilherme Miotto, the Dutch company T.r.a.s.h., which originated in the country's underground punk rock scene, brings an urgent and extreme physicality to the stage. With this Montréal premiere (March 5 to 9), this double-bill of Enchanted Room and T†Bernadette is an uncompromising dance-theatre where the body is a messenger of radical beauty. Ever since its inception, Danse Danse has been organizing Friday evening get-togethers, whenever possible, so that audience members may chat with the artists right after the performance. These events take place in the theatre after the show in an informal ambience.


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text: OverviewBack to top Twinlab - Super Probiotic Formula - 30 Capsules Item# :69877UPC# :027434031646 Brand:Twinlab Size/Form:30 Capsules Ship Weight:0.22 Servings:30 Dosage:1 Capsule(s) Twinlab - Super Probiotic Formula - 30 Capsules Twin Lab Super Probiotic Formula is a high endurance formula that supports healthy digestive system and immune function. Probiotics are "friendly" bacteria that help restore normal balance in the intestinal tract, thereby aiding normal digestion, supporting the immune system and promoting overall health. But not all probiotic supplements are created equal. Far from it. Twinlab Super Probiotic High endurance strain delivers 35x more live active cells to the intestinal tract than yogurt Naturally-encapsulated cultures resist damage in a harsh digestive environment Guaranteed at least 2.1 billion live, active cells in each capsule at the time of manufacture Helps maintain healthy intestinal flora Nutritionally supports immune function Helps maintain normal intestinal function Clinically tested strain Probiotics are delicate live organisms and can easily be destroyed from factors during production or shipping, like excess heat. But the most dangerous risk powed to probiotics come from you - the digestive acids in your stomach create a harsh environment that can inactivate all or most of the probiotics you might ingest. Twinlab Super Probiotic contains GanedenBC30, a remarkable high-endurance probiotic strain that has naturally-encapsulated cultures that resist damage in a harsh digestive environment-delivers 35x more live active cells to the intestinal tract than yogurt. About TwinlabTwinlab has had had one simple and over-riding objective for nearly 30 years. To bring you products that are based on the latest science, and are manufactured to the highest level pharmaceutical standards. This is Twinlab's mission for everything that has their name on it: vitamins, minerals, sports nutrition products, special formulas and amino acids. Twinlab's herbs are sold under the Nature's Herbs brand, and their herbal teas under the Alvita brand, but the commitment and standards are the same. Twinlab's leadership is reflected in the firsts they have brought to the market: The first complete line of amino acids The first complete line of fish and marine oils The most advanced and complete array of antioxidants All-capsule vitamin and mineral line well tolerated by allergic individuals But Twinlab is not only motivated to be first, they are driven to be best. Twinlab insists on their own manufacturing (trust can't be transferred), which takes place in their state-of-the-art facility in American Fork, Utah. All told, Twinlab produces more than 500 different products. Why so many? Because everyone has their own needs, yet everyone has the same goal: to live healthier, to achieve wellness, to derive the maximum quality of life each and every day. To the extent Twinlab helps you achieve this, they consider it a privilege.


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Kovacevic: Questions for Colbert? Please hold
Kevin Colbert is your quintessential Pittsburgh everyman. He's the guy working the barbecue, your next door neighbor, your favorite uncle.
And the Steelers' GM is no less approachable in a professional setting, whether it's with his employees or even with us evil media types. To the latter, if Colbert's sought out for an interview at any point from January through August, he'll answer anything a reporter might want.
Just not in the regular season.
Did you know that?
The practice began with Tom Donahoe, director of football operations under Bill Cowher. Colbert held that title for 11 years, then had it revised to the more conventional title of general manager three years ago. But the no-talking-in-season policy didn't change, the only exception coming in the playoffs when the NFL mandates access.
If there's another team policy like this in pro sports, I'm unaware of it, at least not in the NFL, NHL or Major League Baseball. Ray Shero is available all through the Penguins' season, Neal Huntington all through the Pirates' season. Heck, I've talked with both those guys beyond midnight on game nights.
The Steelers' expressed thinking is that the team's voice remains a singular one, that of Mike Tomlin. They're never conflicted, never contradictory. And the truth is — let's be honest — no one has really cared. It's one of those cute things, one of those oh-that's-just-how-the-Steelers-do-it quirks that, really, wouldn't affect anyone so long as the team was winning.
The problem now, of course, is that the team isn't winning.
And as a result, there are legit, hard but fair questions to be asked of this franchise — right now, not in January — that only Colbert can answer. Not for my benefit or for anyone in the media. But for one of the world's most widespread and passionate fan bases that's demanding and deserving of answers.
Anyway, like a trick-or-treater ringing a doorbell even though all the lights are out and the blinds pulled down, I put in a request with the Steelers early Wednesday morning to interview Colbert. I was, predictably, rejected by media relations with the standard explanation that Colbert "does not speak during the regular season."
But hey, since I did put in time coming up with questions for Colbert, thought I'd share five of them right here with you:
1. Who picks the players?
This is huge right now, given the 2008 and 2009 drafts that, at the moment, have only Ziggy Hood and a whole lot of Limas Sweed to show for them.
Tomlin was asked this same question Tuesday at his news conference and tersely came back: "I take responsibility for the players we've drafted."
It was noble, but it told us nothing about the process or how to fix it.
2. No, really, who picked Jason Worilds when it's commonly known your scouts pushed for Sean Lee?
In 2010, Lee went in the second round to the Cowboys, 55th overall and three spots after another linebacker, Worilds. Worilds still can't start on a regular basis, but Lee was just named NFC Defensive Player of the Month for October — 99 tackles, three QB pressures, six passes defensed and four picks — and is being cited as an early MVP candidate.
Not to mention, Lee played at Upper St. Clair and Penn State, right under the Steelers' noses.
This was a franchise-changing call.
3. Knowing this team had immediate needs, how could it invest a fourth-round pick in a clipboard holder?
Hello, Landry Jones.
And based on his preseason, it won't be long before the Steelers say goodbye, Landry Jones.
4. Did even a shred of long-term thinking go into the cap planning?
Under current projections for 2014, seven players — Ben Roethlisberger, LaMarr Woodley, Ike Taylor, Lawrence Timmons, Troy Polamalu, Heath Miller and Antonio Brown — will count $84 million toward the cap.
What's left?
Try $40 million for the remaining 46 players.
5. It's commonly discussed in football circles that the Steelers are one of the few NFL teams way behind in advanced statistical analysis. If that is the case, how can that be excused in the critical area of evaluating college talent?
Tomlin gave only a vague answer on this a couple of weeks ago. But give Tomlin credit. He was as forthright as I've ever heard him Tuesday, and he's been that way most of this fall. I haven't found all his answers satisfactory, but I also appreciate that he hasn't been ducking questions.
Do me a favor, Kevin Colbert, please: Clip and save this column. I'll never remember all this by the time the calendar flips into 2014.


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Romans 12 Outline
– We are a new creation in Christ (Romans 12:1-8)
– Principles of Christian living (Romans 12:9-21)
Romans 12 Bible Study
In Romans 12:1-2, Christians should offer themselves as living sacrifice to God. This means that you must let Jesus use you in his work. You must spend time to build your relationship with God. This includes studying the Bible, serving Jesus and praying on behalf of others regularly. Christians should not act like the people of this world, always pursuing after possessions and fleshly desires. Instead, we should let God renew our minds with good thoughts so that our lives can please him.
In Romans 12:3-5, every Christian is a member of Christ's body, the church. We must get involved in the work of Jesus and do our best to serve him. In order to be great in the kingdom of heaven, we must first learn to serve others. In John 13:4-5, Jesus knelt down to wash the feet of the disciples after supper. The purpose is to show them that they should humble themselves and serve others like him. Every Christian must grow in Christ and serve Jesus so that his life will be fruitful.
In Romans 12:6-8, God has given every one of us a gift. There are several types of gifts from God including prophesy, see vision and etc. God created each one of us to be unique. We are blessed with different talents so that we can serve him in different ways. Whatever is the gift of God in your life, you should use it to honor and glorify God's name. If you have money, you should be generous and help people who are needy. If you have the gift of prophesy, you should prophesy and encourage others to be stronger in Christ. If you know how to encourage people, you should go to people who are depressed and give them some word of God to brighten their days.
In Romans 12:9-13, we should love others and help them whenever they are needy. We should never give chance to evil and let it enter our lives. Every evil thought should be eliminated from our mind. We must never compromise to do evil things. We should strive to love others as much as we love ourselves. We should always put our hope in God and never give up no matter what happens. When we face problem, we must not give up praying. Instead, we should persist in prayer until God answers it. You must never reject any needy person that comes to you for help. You should do your best to help people who come to you for help. You should also not reject strangers into your home but be hospitable to them.
In Romans 12:14-18, we must never have hatred or take revenge against people who ill-treats you. Instead of cursing them, we should forgive and bless them. When people tell you about happy news, you should be happy for them. When you see someone who is depressed, you should be sad and pray for them. We must never be proud because pride is a sin. We should befriend everyone regardless of their status. If you are in a high position, you should not look down on people who are poorer. Instead, you should make friends with them and love them like brothers and sisters in Christ. We should not take revenge on people who had mistreated us. We should live in peace with everyone and avoid quarreling.
In Romans 12:19, it is wrong to take revenge against our enemies but we can tell God about it and ask him to punish them himself.
In Romans 12:20, when your enemies need help, you should help them.
In Romans 12:21, we should overcome evil with God. We must be on our guard all the time and never let evil stay enters into our mind.


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INT. LEATHER BAR: Post-screening Q+A, Prospector Theater, Sundance Film Festival 2013. (Left to right, David Courier, programmer; Franco; co-director Travis Mathews.)
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Best Of :: Food & Drink
The group of foxy young dudes who opened Cut 432 in Delray Beach have taken the fusty old concept of a steak house and tossed out everything but the rib eye. Instead of cavernous rooms filled with sanguinary red plush, they've outfitted their long, sleek, Pullman car of a restaurant in silver and ice; it's like dining inside a very dry martini. The fat cats go elsewhere; here the clientele is dazzling and vivid to match the crystal chandeliers overhead. Cool, cool, cool, Cut 432 whispers; a single room so narrow waiters have to squeeze between bar and tables with trays of sizzling chops balanced on one upstretched arm. The place has been packed every night since it opened a couple of months ago; a coterie of regulars has already settled in to sample boutique wines and fork up thick, charred New York strips and cowboy steaks. Side orders like "blue cheese tater tots" flecked with green onion and scented with truffle oil are as delish as cold blue crab starters, authentic Caesar salads sporting sheets of Reggiano, and oversized oysters Rockefeller.
We thought we'd never find another shrimp dish to so thoroughly amuse our bouches after Florence Fabricant's classic entry in our dog-eared copy of The Silver Palate Cookbook — until we stumbled into Bonefish Grill and ordered their "Saucy Gulf Shrimp." Here's an appeteaser to jostle any cynic from apathy, a balance of sharp and savory to spur the flagging appetite and rouse failed expectations; priced at $7.90 and generous enough to share, it's satisfying but not satiating. Bonefish, a homegrown Florida chain we can confidently brag about, now serves this concoction as far north as Jersey, but the magic in the brew's consistent: juicy Gulf shrimp sautéed in butter with slivers of sun-dried tomato and kalamata olives, tossed around in a lime, tomato, garlic, cream, and white wine sauce — with more butter. That's topped with a little feta and a handful of parsley. Bonefish ought to offer a guarantee: Mop up every drop or your money back.
Argentina has given the world soccer star Diego Maradona and power broker Eva Peron, but neither were as satisfying as Beefeater. First, it's good for your taste buds: the savory flavors of South America fill your mouth. Then it's good for your hunger: entrees like the egantic (that is, bigger than ginormous) churrasco will fill you up with plenty left for a meal the next day. Perhaps even better is the price. You can start with empanadas or grilled provolone; move on to a steak covered with rich, bright-green chimichurri sauce; and finish with panqueque con dulce de leche, a crepe made with caramel and powdered sugar and flambéed with rum, and you still won't break the 20-dollar mark. Lunch specials get you a steak, salad, and drink for under $10. Around dinnertime the restaurant gets crowded, but complimentary drinks and the people-watching on Hollywood Boulevard help pass the time.
You can't find EveryBurger everywhere. If you could just stop at any corner store and pick up a pack of the delicious little Japanese cookies that masquerade as itty-bitty burgers, you'd at least spend less on gas. But our convenience stores will never be that cool. To find the best imported Asian treats, you have to go to Sasaya Japanese Market. In addition to inexpensive to-go sushi (the priciest roll is $7.50), Sasaya offers one-stop shopping for wasabi peas, lucky cat wallets, and kitchen supplies; plus extra-fancy, extra-spicy ramen noodles, and assorted sakes and curry pastes.
It's not just about the bagels. You want a place that evokes the old-time Lower East Side, with wise, gabby people exchanging gossip or leafing through the New York papers as they eat their bagels, typically with a schmear of cream cheese and a slice of nova. This brings us to East Side Bagel & Deli, a modest little restaurant in a commercial strip near the Galt Ocean Mile. The display case is always full of bagels, and they're just the right consistency (chewy, not bready or — heaven forbid — rock-like). There's lots of talk and a friendly staff to serve a full breakfast or lunch, or just your favorite round ones (sesame seed, poppy seed, egg, plain, you get the idea). New owner Kevin Spence says that, when it comes to bagels, he's got a tough, seasoned crowd, many of them from New York. "They know what they're eating," Spence says. And they come back for more. In fairness, most of East Side Deli's bagels are prepared at Bagelmania, where they know a thing or two about baking bagels. No, says Denise Jimenez, the Bagelmania boss' wife, it's not the water (the usual excuse for why you can't get a good bagel outside of New York). "You mix the dough, then you let it sit in the refrigerator for 24 hours," she says. "That's the secret. If you don't let it sit, it doesn't come out right."
Want to know how to spot good barbeque? It's not just the smell — though if the air outside is perfumed by the sugary scent of wood smoke, you're in good shape. Nor is it the queue out front — people still line up to get McDonalds. The secret is in the grill man. Take a look at the guy: Does he have an innate connection to the meat? Can he just stare at a pork shoulder, smokin' away above the coals, and commune with its innermost fleshiness? Does he look as much a part of the place as the ancient oven that he mans, his face wrinkled and hardened from years of staring into the pit? That's the guy I want cooking my 'que. At the 55-year-old landmark Georgia Pig, that man is owner Wayne Anderson, and he turns out the most deeply smoked, immaculately rich BBQ you'll find in South Florida. The chopped pork — oh my God, the chopped pork — is infused with hickory and tumbled into layers of crunchy skin bristling with bacon-ized pork fat and succulent bits of tender, reddened flesh. The Pig's sauce, a water-thin spritz of vinegar and spices, serves only to enhance the flavor of the meat, not mask it with sickly syrups or bombastic tomatoes. You'll also find killer brisket, unctuous ribs (check out the smoke ring), authentic Brunswick stew, and decadent banana pudding. Be sure to thank the grill man on your way out.


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Apple delivers another Yosemite beta as Wi-Fi issues persist
It's not clear what this second beta of the OS is designed to fix
Apple asks developers to focus on Wi-Fi in first Yosemite beta update
The mention in the release notes may indicate Apple has finally acknowledged the OS may have a Wi-Fi bug
Apple mum as Mac owners tussle with Yosemite over Wi-Fi problems
Complaints continue to pour in from users whose Wi-Fi is malfunctioning after upgrading to the new Mac OS X version
Office 365 SMB editions to get a makeover
In general, Microsoft is keeping the same Office plans as before, but at lower prices.
Google reacts to Office 365 momentum with unlimited cloud storage
It's called Drive for Work, costs twice as much as Apps for Business, and includes unlimited cloud storage for all users. Sorry, Microsoft.
Dropbox for Business exits beta as storage vendor sets sights on workplaces
The enterprise version of Dropbox comes with a variety of IT controls
Google sharpens Gmail app for iOS
This new version adds background refresh capability.
Is Microsoft rethinking its decision to build Office for iPad?
Comments from the company's marketing chief suggest Microsoft may be having second thoughts
How do you like them apples: Google, Samsung ink patent deal
The move will make it easier for them to collaborate, and is a defensive move against Apple
Report: Apple planning a move into mobile payments service
The company would compete against Google, PayPal, Square and others if it enters this zone.
Huddle gives its content collaboration suite a Word and OneNote alternative
Huddle Note is designed for quick, ad-hoc taking and sharing of notes within the cloud suite's interface.
Gmail iOS app gets better navigation, message handling on iPads
Now, when holding the iPad in landscape mode, the Gmail app displays a new vertical navigation bar in the left side of the screen.
Brainshark touts PowerPoint-on-iPad success, but Microsoft circles the waters
Brainshark's SlideShark app for viewing and showing PowerPoint presentations on iOS devices has been downloaded more than 2 million times.
Ailing Obamacare site to get a "tech surge"
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is boosting the IT trauma team giving urgent care to the Obamacare website, which has badly malfunctioned since its launch almost three weeks ago.
Google adds search by image to Chrome browser
Google's latest Chrome browser update fixes 50 security problems and gives users the capability to use images as search queries.
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Babel Blocks
Take collectible babel blocks home with you, which are featured at MoMa's exhibition of Design of the Elastic Mind. These blocks belong to Boym Partners' new project, which celebrates the diversity of New York. They even have their own myspace page, that's just how hip they are.
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Try moving from dogtown Santa Monica 4 blocks from the beach with a great job at UCLA. I only drove to work and back, rest of the time was skateboards or bicycles. Venice skate park 5 mins away. Californication love homie! No one ever mentioned my race as a joke. That's heavy.


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Archinect - News 2017-07-26T22:44:08-04:00 http://archinect.com/news/article/149988441/swiping-right-or-left-on-the-architectural-future-of-the-city-of-santa-monica Swiping right (or left!) on the architectural future of the city of Santa Monica Julia Ingalls 2017-01-24T19:54:00-05:00 >2017-02-05T21:29:26-05:00
Combining the swiftness of contemporary dating with the decades-long process of urban planning, the city of Santa Monica has introduced "CitySwipe," an app that allows you to comment on everything from transportation to building design to the availability of fine dining in Santa Monica's downtown.

You don't even have to live in Santa Monica to weigh-in (there's a swipe for that). As civic data gathering goes, it is definitely more fun than the census, and more pictorially honest than most hook-up apps.
 http://archinect.com/news/article/149959104/on-decentralizing-the-olympics On decentralizing the Olympics Justine Testado 2016-07-21T14:23:00-04:00 >2016-07-27T01:37:25-04:00
More broadly, this reconfiguration would make the games, for the first time, a truly global event. Dozens of countries that could never afford to host the Olympics in their current form – Kenya, Thailand, Chile, to name a few – might easily host a single Olympic sport. Rather than being an occasion for nationalistic displays by a single, powerful host country, the Olympics would become a celebration of human diversity.

With overwhelming evidence that hosting the Olympics is a huge burden for several cities, Paul Christesen, a Professor of Classics at Dartmouth, makes a case for the possible advantages of having Olympic sports competitions take place in different cities throughout the globe. He also makes suggestions on how decentralizing the Games can be carried out to other aspects of the event.

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Rio mayor admits Olympics were a "missed opportunity", but believes the city has been unfairly portrayed

The rapid gentrification of Rio's favelas in advance of the Olympics

California pledges to pick up (some of the) cost overruns of LA 2024 Olympic bid

Logo design chosen for 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Tokyo Olympics refusing to pay Zaha Hadid for work on the national stadium
 http://archinect.com/news/article/149950112/would-self-driving-cars-be-useful-to-people-living-outside-urban-cores Would self-driving cars be useful to people living outside urban cores? Justine Testado 2016-06-07T18:47:00-04:00 >2016-06-08T13:11:16-04:00
So a lot of us own or lease cars...But when the talk turns to autonomous cars – and it always does – I sigh. Our overcrowded highways really could use a break from human stupidity, and that human factor is behind nearly all of the fatalities and injuries and property damage we see strewn across our roads every day. Get rid of the human behaviour to save the human body! This is where autonomous cars make sense; but not all the world is a crowded, urban highway.

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What are the ethics of self-driving cars?

A look at the history and future of the American commute

Google, Uber, Lyft, Ford and Volvo join forces to lobby for autonomous vehicles
 http://archinect.com/news/article/149950009/we-need-less-gehrys-less-hadids-less-bloated-egotecture-we-need-more-shit-more-beautiful-shit-for-the-rest-of-us "We need less Gehrys, less Hadids, less bloated egotecture. We need more shit, more beautiful shit for the rest of us." Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2016-06-07T13:26:00-04:00 >2016-06-15T01:01:34-04:00
By and large, elite architects have disengaged from efforts to make the most fundamental unit of architecture available to all. [...] Contra Hadid and others, a truly revolutionary architecture would concern itself with how to provide permanent, quality housing for the nearly one billion people currently living in slums, how to create accessible housing for the millions more adversely affected by a global affordability crisis in urban areas.

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60 Minutes profiles Bjarke Ingels, the "Starchitect"

Starchitect-Designed Public Projects Are Often Long Delayed and Way Over Budget

NY Times Enters the "Starchitect" Debate

"I miss that cohesiveness...": Rem Koolhaas on celebrity

 http://archinect.com/news/article/146368753/bjarke-ingels-shouldn-t-be-proud-to-have-the-washington-redskins-as-a-client-according-to-critic-philip-kennicott Bjarke Ingels shouldn't be proud to have the Washington Redskins as a client, according to critic Philip Kennicott Justine Testado 2016-01-22T20:04:00-05:00 >2016-02-10T01:24:03-05:00
To understand how strange this pairing of client and architect is, you have to contemplate two things: the deeply embedded social progressivism that has become the standard worldview of international architectural firms such as BIG; and organizations such as the NFL, a private club for 1 percenters that bullies municipalities and treats its own players' health with indifference. Can this marriage last? Is BIG motivated by naivete or cynicism?

WaPo's art and architecture critic Philip Kennicott discusses the oddities of BIG's recent commission to design a new stadium for the Washington Redskins — and the team's problematic name is just the tip of the iceberg.

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Bjarke Ingels Group, BIG, tackles NFL stadium design for the Washington Redskin

NFL football is officially returning to Los Angeles: gigantic new stadium might even be home to more than just one team

Herzog & de Meuron's stadium in Chelsea "will be a hefty brute of a thing"

Organic kale for posh LA football fans: Newly unveiled stadium design sports a farmers' market and VVIP parking
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Can the field's top minds change the way we think about a doomed housing project in Naples or the most abhorred skyscraper in Paris? Allow them to try.

Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster, Annabelle Selldorf, and (everyone's favorite) Daniel Libeskind are among the architects who sum up their thoughts on some of the most controversial buildings around the world. What's your take on these projects?

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 http://archinect.com/news/article/128556609/the-golden-ratio-relevant-or-not The Golden Ratio: Relevant or not? Justine Testado 2015-06-01T13:05:00-04:00 >2015-06-11T11:22:20-04:00
It's bullshit. The golden ratio's aesthetic bona fides are an urban legend, a myth, a design unicorn. Many designers don't use it, and if they do, they vastly discount its importance. There's also no science to really back it up. Those who believe the golden ratio is the hidden math behind beauty are falling for a 150-year-old scam.

Do designers ever follow the Golden Ratio? Is it even relevant in architecture? FastCo.Design writer John Brownlee voices his perspective on the old myth.
 http://archinect.com/news/article/115503755/are-zoning-laws-responsible-for-america-s-housing-problems Are zoning laws responsible for America's housing problems? Nicholas Korody 2014-12-08T15:40:00-05:00 >2014-12-11T19:13:57-05:00
The tax breaks, rent-control laws and building restrictions that make up zoning codes in many major cities require lawyers to decipher. Whether by design or effect, a housing regime that is intelligible only to highly trained professionals is one that spells endless power for owners and endless misery for tenants. Zoning codes must be simplified — quickly, radically and without mercy.

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Women are architecture's original rebels. Over 120 years ago, they insisted that architecture schools and professional organisations open their doors to women, arguing that the field would thrive (or wither) according to the diversity of its students and practitioners...And yet despite this long history of challenging architecture to be inclusive, women have been given little credit for their contributions.

Despina Stratigakos, historian and University at Buffalo architecture professor highlights in her Opinion article how women in architecture have challenged and continue to challenge the deep-rooted patriarchy in the field of architecture throughout the past century. Although there is a growing number of women who are studying architecture, holding leadership roles in schools and firms, and forming organizations, the same problems of gender inequality still exist to this day. From that, another question remains: Is anyone even paying attention?

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Readers respond to a letter by Peggy Deamer, an architect, calling for less arrogance and more collaboration in architecture. [...] It is not only the public that is fed up with this idea of The Architect, but also the profession itself. Having watched ourselves increasingly backed into the corner of aesthetic elitism, we are now more interested in models of practice that do away with the egos and the glamorous buildings they are associated with.

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Invitation to a Dialogue: Less Ego in Architects

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Frank Gehry once said that if we didn't have starchitects, architects (and architecture) wouldn't be in the media at all. But this kind of coverage, even when positive, we don't need. It perpetuates a Howard Roarkian image that makes most of us architects cringe — not the least because of the uber-capitalist, Ayn Rand alignment — and also deflates a more productive optimism within the profession that sees these arrogant acts as old school.

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Is it necessary to poll hundreds of coffee drinkers to determine that round tables "protect self-esteem for those...flying solo"? Or could an architect have come to the same determination by believing their impression that round tables work better in some environments than square tables, be it by observing patrons at a local cafe or in a public park, or by choosing a round table over a square one themselves?

 To read the commentary on this article here on Archinect, go here.
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Architecture, the most public of endeavours, is practised by people who inhabit a smugly hermetic milieu which is cultish. If this sounds far-fetched just consider the way initiates of this cult describe outsiders as the lay public, lay writers and so on: it's the language of the priesthood. And like all cults its primary interest is its own interests, that is to say its survival, and the triumph of its values – which means building.

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IT has become fashionable in many architectural circles to declare the death of drawing. What has happened to our profession, and our art, to cause the supposed end of our most powerful means of conceptualizing and representing architecture? The computer, of course.

 Michael Graves pens an opinion piece for the Times.
 http://archinect.com/news/article/47967340/bold-frank-criticism-can-only-nourish-architecture Bold, frank criticism can only nourish architecture Archinect 2012-05-10T11:07:54-04:00 >2012-05-10T11:32:00-04:00
Architecture critics are in a particular bind. Like art critics but unlike, say, those of film, they must swim in the same social sea as their targets. Further, because useful architectural criticism requires experience of the design process, they must also be prepared to offend those by whom they might otherwise be employed.

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Prior to T.O.S. dropping, I sat down and had a conversation with 50 Cent for Complex.com, and we got on the topic of production.
Complex: On this album and on Curtis, you started working more with big name producers. How does getting production from guys who are known for making hits, like Swizz and Polow Da Don, change the way you approach making a record?
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To get back to 50's quote, his line of thinking is both a gift and a curse for producers and artists alike. For producers, it levels the playing field when you know a big artist like 50 is not going to just be sold because he's in the studio with a producer who's trying to sell him on some song idea (like Timbaland probably did with "Ayo Technology," just sayin). It gives the no-name producer equal opportunity, allows them to be judged solely on the music, rather than the bells and whistles that come along with being in the studio and having someone play you a whole bunch of tracks. When you're in the moment, jamming, everything sounds hot. And that's the point 50 is making, it's easier to make the sale when you're right there in the room. When your shit is on an Ipod playlist with 100 other tracks, the best track wins. That also sucks for the producer, because it winds up just being a crapshoot based on how 50 feels that day…. in essence, what track jumps out at him. That's like throwing darts at a board with a blindfold on. As a producer, you'd rather play the tracks and be able to make the sale.
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I've taken up a 6-week challenge to create a model to celebrate the Adolf Loos Season at the RIBA, this is my progress so far…
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- "As near as I can tell, throughout DC Comics' more than 75-year history, the publisher has only ever hired two black women writers on monthly titles: Felicia Henderson on Teen Titans and Angela Robinson on The Web, both in 2009. … That said, they are potentially doing better than their principal competition: Try as I might, I cannot find a single black woman who has ever written a monthly ongoing comic for Marvel in the publisher's history." Joseph Hughes talks about the lack of Black comics writers at Marvel and DC both right now and historically. Christopher "Jim Owsley" Priest on why his being stereotyped as a "Black writer" made him leave comics, racism in the comics industry, the uphill struggle to get comics fans to try "Black" books, the viability of Black superheroes and how to get Black people to read them.
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Alex and Sierra, Jeffrey Eli Miller + Fifth Harmony Top the Video Countdown – Vote for Next Week's Countdown!
This Top 10 Video Countdown got yet another shakeup — sort of!
Alex & Sierra's 'Scarecrow' moved from the No. 3 spot to the championship slot! This week's runner-up is Jeffrey Eli Miller, whose 'Double Tap' scored the top spot last week. In third place is Fifth Harmony's 'BO$$,' who were at No. 2 last round.
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It's easy to blame those users for shutting themselves out of the very process Microsoft provides for allowing their actions to speak for themselves. I'm more inclined to blame Microsoft for 1) not taking into account how those users have good reasons to exclude themselves (some people don't want that stuff harvested, anonymously or not) and 2) not compensating for such self-exclusion in the way their stats are harvested.
The reasons why people do things are not reported by telemetry. Or at the very least, I'm not getting the impression Microsoft uses its telemetry data to figure out such details. I use the Start menu that much less because I'm pinning more of my commonly accessed apps to the Windows 7 taskbar -- but that doesn't mean I want the Start menu to die a miserable death from underuse.
Harvesting game-changing telemetry from Windows 7 creates another biased sample. There are still plenty of users on Windows XP, and the differences between XP and Vista/7 are far less jarring than the differences between XP and Windows 8.
There are lies, damned lies, and telemetry. In other words, telemetry can all too easily become just another set of stats that in the wrong hands can be used to justify any sort of decision -- doubly so when the sample is skewed toward the silent majority.
Letting telemetry speak louder than the users themselves is a mistake. If people say they hate something, really hate it, think hard about which of their toes you have stepped on. If you look at the way I use a PC and conclude I'm behaving "inefficiently," you may only be half right. Efficiency is about more than just the number of clicks or keystrokes needed to do something. It's also about comfort and familiarity, which don't manifest in telemetry alone.
Microsoft believes that by relying on its silent majority of users to tell it how to shape Windows, it's doing that much better a job of listening to its users overall. It's not. Telemetry has only given it raw information, which Micrososft has used in the service of making Windows into whatever it already believes Windows should be. That makes the real "silent majority" here not Windows users, but Microsoft itself.
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FBI Documents Show Plot to Kill Occupy Leaders
A Freedom of Information Act request filed by the Washington, D.C.-based Partnership for Civil Justice Fund yielded an FBI document containing knowledge of a plot by an unnamed group or individual to kill "leaders" of the Houston chapter of the nonviolent Occupy Wall Street movement.
Here's what the document said, according to WhoWhatWhy:
An identified [DELETED] as of October planned to engage in sniper attacks against protestors (sic) in Houston, Texas if deemed necessary. An identified [DELETED] had received intelligence that indicated the protesters in New York and Seattle planned similar protests in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Austin, Texas. [DELETED] planned to gather intelligence against the leaders of the protest groups and obtain photographs, then formulate a plan to kill the leadership via suppressed sniper rifles. (Note: protests continued throughout the weekend with approximately 6000 persons in NYC. 'Occupy Wall Street' protests have spread to about half of all states in the US, over a dozen European and Asian cities, including protests in Cleveland (10/6-8/11) at Willard Park which was initially attended by hundreds of protesters.)
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Tue Jul 2, 2013, 07:28 AM
PuraVidaDreamin (3,748 posts)
1. Sad
what has happened to this country in just a decade.
Response to PuraVidaDreamin (Reply #1)
Wed Jul 3, 2013, 07:35 AM
ellenrr (3,764 posts)
4. why do you say 'in a decade'?
Remember HUAC, internment camps for Japanese, Pinkertons....
This country has always had a tug-of-war between fascism and resistance to fascism.
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Wed Jul 3, 2013, 08:53 PM
PuraVidaDreamin (3,748 posts)
5. Yes, this I know.
But the naked power grab in just 10 short years, to me anyway, seems like the previous 40 on steroids,
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Tue Jul 2, 2013, 08:02 AM
Demeter (85,373 posts)
2. The entire country needs boot camp training in the Constitution
Including Rule of Law, human rights, equality, liberty, and limits of power.
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Blanks (4,714 posts)
3. One of the advantages of being a 'leaderless' movement. eom
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6. The Truth is not a Disney Movie
The institutions that currently exist have been deliberately sabotaged so any meaningful change is impossible through "lawful" channels. Suffrage by the streets is the only option open to us. The elites will respond and will respond unmercifully. The other routes to the street include barter, community gardens, developing community support groups, and self-employment offering meaningful products and services to the local community. These also will be challenged by the elites. Mother nature herself will take a significant role in shaping the possibility of empowerment for the people as opposed to just the elites or their minions.


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A wobble in the jetstream is bringing generally clear skies and unusually warm conditions to much of south-eastern Australia, with both Sydney and Melbourne in the running to break warm-weather streaks.
On current forecasts, Sydneysiders may get to enjoy as many as nine days of temperatures of at least 23 degrees out to next Tuesday, with most days reaching 24 degrees. Those conditions are more like a typical May in Brisbane.
"If Sydney gets seven days of 23 degrees, that would be a late-season record," Brett Dutschke, senior meteorologist at Weatherzone said. The previous longest run was in 1974, when Sydney had six such days in a row this late in autumn.
For Melbourne, the city may get as many as 10 consecutive days of 20 degrees or warmer, according to the Bureau of Meteorology's forecasts. The run, which began on Sunday, compares with the record of seven such days set in 1907, Mr Dutschke said.
"It's looking generally quite calm," he said. "There are no strong signs of a strong cold outbreak in the next week at least for south-eastern Australia."
The warmth and light winds will increase the chance of morning fog for Sydney over the next few mornings, with Wednesday likely to see it most widespread, Mr Dutschke said.
Off-shore waters near Sydney also remain a relatively balmy 22 degrees, Weatherzone said.
The cold fronts that are missing most of the Australian mainland thanks to the southward dip in the jetstream are also taking the rain clouds with them. Farmers across most of southern Australia hoping for further falls to top up good autumn rains will probably have to wait at least a week.
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What happens when a nation that was once an economic powerhouse turns its back on democracy and on its middle class, as wealthy right-wingers wage austerity campaigns and enable extremist politics?
It may sound like America in 2012. But it was also Germany in 1932.
Most Americans have never heard of the Weimar Republic, Germany's democratic interlude between World War I and World War II. Those who have usually see it as a prologue to the horrors of Nazi Germany, an unstable transition between imperialism and fascism. In this view, Hitler's rise to power is treated as an inevitable outcome of the Great Depression, rather than the result of a decision by right-wing politicians to make him chancellor in early 1933.
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Let us no longer have almond oil "essential," almond oil "unctuous," and the like.
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CBC Radio at 1pm Today, The Hour's list, and Momofuku hearts Wilensky'sMonday, November 30th, 2009
Hey friends and family in Canada. Tune into CBC Radio today at 1pm for my interview on The Next Chapter with Shelagh Rogers. If you miss it, you can find the clip online later on.
Also, Montreal's alt weekly The Hour has recommended Save the Deli as a holiday gift read. So go out there and buy your friends a copy!
says the mini-review:
David Sax was born in Toronto, schooled in Montreal and lives in Brooklyn, and is now, according to his book's jacket, the "world's foremost authority on deli." A few old guys on my street might contest this, but anyhow… Sax, who travelled across America's great cities and beyond in search of the "perfect pastrami," is man's man kind of writer: down to earth, funny, light – not like any of the meat he's writing about.
(Also, a nice shout out to my friend Hal Niedzviecki, whose Peep Diaries is in the same list, and the Globe and Mail 100 best books of the year list.)
Finally, I read an interview with Momofuku chef and owner David Chang in the National Post, where he raves about his fave spots in Montreal. Wilensky's makes the list as his idea of perfection.
Last stop: Ann Arbor (plus a belated press roundup)Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Ann Arbor, MI
Well friends, it's been over a month since I hit the road, and I am simply exhausted. Here I am on the final day of the book tour. Thanksgiving dawns tomorrow, then Chanukah, and then I head to Mexico for some surf and sand.
It kicked off on Oct 19th with the launch party in NYC, then on to DC and the White House, plus Sixth and I.
Toronto saw a party at Caplansky's, San Francisco a reading at Saul's, LA did lunch at Langer's
We hit up Manny's in Chicago and 3G's in Miami, in Philly, I spoke at the Free Library (see below), in Montreal we brought out the city's best delis
Then I hit the Jewish book tour of JCCs: Houston, Milwaukee, Denver, Boulder, Richmond, Tampa, Buffalo, and Toledo
Now I'm readying myself for the final stop: Zingerman's Deli in Ann Arbor. I'll be briefly talking tonight at 5pm, while Sy Ginsburg hands out samples of his world famous corned beef. I began this whole journey across the delis of America three years ago this January here in Ann Arbor, at Zingerman's with Sy. It's fitting that it concludes here.
I want to thank everyone who helped put this together. My publicists Taryn Roeder, Elizabeth Anderson, and Lori Glazer. Ashley Dunn in Canada. Carolyn Hessel and the JBN folks. All the deli owners, JCC volunteers, and people who made it special. Ronnie Dragoon and the Ben's Crew. Ronna and Beverley. And Jelvis, the Jewish Elvis.
The book is now officially a bestseller on the LA Times List (#6), but I need your help to make it a bigger hit. So if you haven't purchased a copy, please do so, either at your local bookstore, or online here.
So now, a few stray treats from the road. In case you missed me, or miss me. (more…)
NY Magazine: Northern ExposureMonday, November 23rd, 2009
Here's a little something I wrote for New York Magazine about an exciting new deli opening in Brooklyn. You'll hear more about Mile End in the coming weeks. Until then, enjoy:
Northern Exposure
A tiny meat counter in Boerum Hill introduces deliphiles to pastrami�s Canadian cousin.
(photo: Hannah Whitaker/nymag.com)
Montreal�s smattering of Jewish delicatessens�anchored by the legendary house of smoked meat, Schwartz�s�are astoundingly old-school in their approach to Yiddish food. Meats are cured in-house and sliced by hand; wall-mounted menus list only a few key sandwiches, steaks, and sides; and there�s nary a salad or unpickled vegetable in sight. At the heart of the tradition is Montreal-style smoked meat, a cured brisket that�s fattier than corned beef and moister than pastrami. (more…)
Save the Deli: National BestsellerSaturday, November 21st, 2009
Well folks, the tour is almost over. It's been a month since the book has been out, and I'm finally back in nyc for the weekend. Monday I speak at the Toledo JCC, tuesday at Zingerman's, and then the road and me part ways for a while. It's been quite a ride. I've been waking at dawn and eating breakfast in airports for far longer than I'd like to remember, but it's been wonderful meeting all the hundreds of deli lovers who came out to support Save the Deli.
And it's paid off. The book is now officially a National Bestseller. It cracked last week's Los Angeles Times Bestseller list at #9 and now it's at #6.
Ben's Best is Da Best, A Boulder Review, Nate n' Al the Sequel, and Wilensky's Highbrow NodThursday, November 19th, 2009
Buffalo, NY
Well friends, it's been an insane week. Basically i woke at 5 am the past three days, got on an airplane, flew to a different city (Richmond, Tampa, Buffalo), and did some great JCC talks. I've been to the Charlotte airport more times than any man reasonably should, and have seen the sun rise on runways one too many times.
So apologies for not posting. I haven't been able to do much but sit and wait for the landing gear to deploy.
A few things to catch up on…and for once, it's not all about me.
Ben's Best got a great nod from the Zagat guide, according to the Queens Gazette.
Ben�s Best, a Rego Park landmark with 65 years of experience as a consummate neighborhood deli and caterer, has just received Zagat�s �23� (very good to excellent) rating for food quality.
The lofty rating coincided with the publication of Save the Deli, a new book by David Sax, released in hardcover on October 19, which laments the loss of one of New York City�s oldest and most venerable institutions.
�We�re campaigning to help save the deli,� a spokesman for Ben�s Best said. �We�re trying to ride the wave! The neighborhood is changing but the strong are surviving and Ben�s Best is one of the hardiest among them. You can find Mexican, Thai and Italian but you can�t find a good kosher deli like ours. They are a dying breed with only about 21 notable ones left in the city�s five boroughs.�
Mazel tov to Jay Parker; a hell of a deli man, a great skier, and not too bad looking either.
The Boulder Jewish News wrote up my talk at Jimmy and Drew's 28th Street Deli on Monday night.
Once we were stuffed ourselves, and ready for a little break before dessert, author David Sax took us on a cultural journey of the Food Of Our People. Tracing the rise and fall of the deli back to the destruction of the Second Temple, Sax shared the backstory most of us didn�t know � where the flavors and spices came from and how different groups and culinary traditions melded in the lower East Side to give rise to over 2,000 delis in New York by the 1950s.
But after the Holocaust, there were no more vast waves of immigrants coming to America. The demographic changes conspired with the growth of supermarkets (offering longer-lasting bread and packaged deli meats) to effect a significant change on the deli�s traditional customer base:
For the first half of the twentieth century, deli food was the food of an immigrant people. . . the first generation (in America) eats it everyday. The second generation eats it with their parents, maybe once a week. The third generation eats it maybe once a month. The fourth generation eats it maybe once a year, if that.
Nate N' Al finally has a second location, says the LA Times. May the Mendelson empire spread accross Southern California like a meaty wildfire.
photo credit: LA Times
The new location is in the Thousand Oaks mall. I have no idea where that is, but I'm sure it's sunny and there's plenty of parking. Who will be the Larry King of Thousand Oaks? Go check it out!
Nate 'n Al, 2200 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd., Thousand Oaks. (805) 494-3354.
Finally, I'm on the plane today, reading the New Yorker Food issue, and I am halfway through Calvin Trillin's story about Poutine, when he takes a detour for Wilensky's. How awesome.
My therapy postSunday, November 15th, 2009
Yesterday, I posted in response to a review in the Globe and Mail by Jacob Richler that was so negative, it crossed the line into personal.
My response was equally as personal, but I soon realized there was no good to come out of it…save some cheap therapy. I have now deleted that post.
If you want to read Richler's review, you can find it here. You can comment on the Globe's website. Or here.
If you care to read the other reviews and articles on Save the Deli, check out the press page.
And if you want to read the book and write your own review, don't forget to pick up a copy.
Daybreak on the DeuceFriday, November 13th, 2009
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The Universal World Records Are IN!Friday, November 13th, 2009
Almost four weeks after the killer launch party at Ben's, the records from the Universal Record Database are verified and posted.
Here we go:
Lindsey Weber repeated the phrase "I'll have whats she's having" 22 times in 30 seconds.
Mark Lamster complained to a deli waiter eight times in 30 seconds. He delivered 12 complaints but the last four were not within the designated time. My personal favorite is "Gilad Shalit is having a better night than me." So tasteless, yet so masterful.
Finally there's "David Sax pulled a line of sausage 162 links long out of a sausage box." That's not the name of the record, and I should remind everyone that the deli owners pulled the sausage out.
If you want to try to beat any of these records, make sure you document your attempt and upload it to the Universal Record Database at urdb.org
Torontoist says "Save the Last Deli". A review with illustration.Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Illustration by Sasha Plotnikova/Torontoist.
Cool pic huh? Supposedly that's me. I didn't realize I was that grey. Or weird looking.
It goes along with a review of the book by Torontoist. I think it's a pretty good one.
Freelance journalist and native Torontonian David Sax received death threats from New York, blushing gratitude from LA, and lots of chatter from cities in between, all due to his newly released book, Save the Deli: In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye, and the Heart of Jewish Delicatessen. Within its pages, Sax passes judgement on which towns have the best delis (hence all the civic pride), but his real concern is how these emporiums of comfort food are rapidly disappearing from our culinary landscape, disconnecting Jews and the population at large from a vital aspect of Jewish culture. During his travels across North America and Europe, Sax had moments of despair (his working title for a time was The Death of the Deli), but he met too many dedicated and passionate people, fighting to keep the tradition alive, to give up that easily. (more…)
A teensy bit of downtime in ColoradoTuesday, November 10th, 2009
My friends Jake Bogoch and Joanne Myers have the honor of hosting me three times in as many years for Save the Deli related visits to Colorado. And so, with a break in my tour schedule, I find myself back in their lovely home for the next week, as I stop flying, stop waking so damn early, and stop eating airport food, while I await my events in Denver and Boulder.
So far things have been going great. A fantastic turnout in Philly. A wonderful time in Montreal. A quick hit in Houston and Milwaukee.
So that's that. If you want to check out some recent press, here's a few links.
First, a great review in the LA Times from Rich Cohen, who calls it a "deeply satisfying new book"
Also, another review in the Winnipeg Free Press, which says it "will make you crave house-cured, smoked, steamed and finally hand-cut pastrami"
And please check out this wonderful TV interview at the Snowdon Deli with Nadine Ishak, from CTV Montreal. It's part of her weekly Sunday Bite series.


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NEWS: Media Outlets Report that Americans are Giving the President a Failing Grade on Gas Prices
Survey: Obama's ratings drop as gas price soar
Fox News
March 12, 2012
A majority of Americans disapprove of the way President Barack Obama is handling the economy -- with a record number who "disapprove strongly" -- amid soaring gas prices and an uncertain fiscal future, a new Washington Post-ABC News survey out Monday found.
The poll found that 50 percent of those surveyed strongly disapprove of Obama's economic performance -- the highest in the poll's history. A total of 59 percent gave the president negative marks on the economy.
With rising gas prices hitting Americans at the pump, 65 percent said they found Obama's handling of the issue unsatisfactory. Of that number, 52 percent were said to "disapprove strongly" and only 14 percent "approve strongly" of Obama's performance on gas prices…
Poll: Public Anger Over Gasoline Prices Hurting Obama
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By Sean Higgins, March 12, 2012
Soaring prices at the pump are souring Americans on the economic recovery and hurting President Obama's re-election bid. More than a third told the IBD/TIPP poll that the issue would affect their vote in the fall.
"Most Americans do not give President Obama good grades for handling rising gasoline prices. Only 24% give him an A or B; 46% give him a D or F," said Raghavan Mayur, president of TechnoMetrica Market Intelligence, which conducted the poll…
Obama: 'As Gas Prices Go Up, People Feel I'm Not Doing Enough'
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By Marcy Bruce, March 12, 2012
With the price of gas becoming an increasingly critical issue on the campaign trail, President Obama admitted today that "as long as gas prices are going up, people are going to feel like I'm not doing enough."
"I understand that, because people get hurt when they're going to the gas station and seeing those prices rise every day," Obama told ABC's Orlando, Fla., affiliate WFTV.
The president's comments came in response to a new ABC News/Washington Post poll which found 65 percent of Americans disapprove of how the president is handling the rising price of gas, while just 26 percent approve…
Rising gas prices hamper Obama
The Washington Times
By Dave Boyer, March 12, 2012
Four years ago, presidential candidate Barack Obama held a photo-op news conference at a gas station near Indianapolis to decry the nation's ineffective energy policy and complain about "gas that's approaching $4 a gallon."
At the time, the price of a gallon of regular unleaded at Joe's Junction was $3.55.
Nowadays, the price of gas at the same station under President Obama has topped $3.80, nearly twice what it was when he took office, and presidential spokesman Jay Carney on Monday decried Republican presidential candidates who promise to lower the price at the pump. He said Mr. Obama won't pander to voters that way…


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Basic Roasted Beetroot
Recipe by Jubes
Roasted beetroot. Roasting beetroot brings out it's flavour. This is far better than any tinned beetroot that you will buy. Roast beetroot with the skin and tops on then leave to cool. The skin will fall away leaving a brilliant red bulb. Use gloved hands to peel the beetroot or you will find that your hands will be stained from the red beetroot juice. If you use larger beetroot- add in some cooking time. The easiest is to try for beetroot that are similar in size.
Top Review by Mommy Diva
Apparently a couple of my reviews didn't stick, so here goes again! This is a terrific recipe - easy and tasty according to my DH! (He is the beet eater in my house and the one I chose this recipe for). I had no idea how to prepare beets, but made them just as directed here and DH LOVED them. Thank you for a tasty and easy way to make a favorite dish for my hubby! **Made for Oct 08 Aussie Recipe Swap**
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- Preheat the oven to 180ºC (350ºF).
- Wash the beetroot and trim the top and bottom of the root without damaging the skin too much.
- Place on a baking tray with the oil and water. Tightly cover the baking tray with foil.
- Bake for 45-60 minutes or until the beetroot is tender. Check after 25 minutes and baste with the liquid to ensure they don't dry out (add more water to the tray if required).
- Set aside to cool before peeling off the skin - wear gloves to protect your hands from staining. Slice or cut into wedges.