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My favorite memories of my graduate program revolve around meeting in the doctoral student study with Phil Stegink and John Luckner discussing strategies to change the world. These conversations spilled over into our doctoral seminars with Professor Lee Swanson. We studied and wrote together. We stayed up late preparing for comps. We argued over almost everything statistical analyses, research studies, special education history and the law, foundations, and social justice. I appreciated so much the space the faculty created for the students to become scholars and teachers. I will always have great affection and respect for the opportunities that came our way simply because we were socialized as a community of thinkers, writers, and researchers.
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Finally got the software installed and took the time to recode, thanks to help from captirwin and April1. Here is what I did:
-disabled seat belt reminders for driver and passenger
-unlock doors when turning car off/single pull open doors (one of my favorite changes!)
-close windows and sunroof with keyfob and comfort access
-enabled fog lights with high beams (not checked yet)
-opening doors do not stop window roll up (not checked yet)
-close rear hatch with key fob/and drivers side button (love it!)
-disabling iDrive legal disclaimer
change I tried but doesn't seem to work
-enabling turn signals in HUD - no difference
-disabling back up camera disclaimer
Now, the last thing I wish I could change is for the car to remember what sport mode I left the car in (i.e. Normal, Sport or Sport+). The car always reverts to Normal.
I am in the Seattle area and would be happy to help anyone local who wants to do some coding.
I got "Turn signal in HUD" today with:
HU_CHAMP2 [63]/3000 HMI, 78/ HUD_TURNSIGNAL*_aktiv
KOMBI [60]/3000 Anzeige_Konfiguration, 32/ BLINKER_HUD_ENABLE_aktiv
KOMBI [60]/3008 PIA_Einheiten, 10/ HUD_PIA_BLINKER_aktiv
When I coded the turn signal, it took some time before the NAV_INFO appeared in the HUD again, approx. one hour on the next drive. I also had to reset the clock.
also media+telephone in HUD with;
KOMBI [60]/3000 Anzeige_Konfiguration, 32/ HUD_ENTERTAINMENT_ENABLE_aktiv
and "Seat Belt Warning Sound and Light set to not active, wich also resulted in automatic "Park Brake Release" even with seat belt off. Had to have seat belt fasten to have this function originally. With;
KOMBI [60]/3000 Anzeige_Konfiguration, 32/ SeatBeltReminder_SBR_Fahrer*_nicht_aktiv
The other seatbelt options "SeatBeltReminder_SBR_Beifahrer / SBR_PreWarning_Beifahrer" where not altered.
F25 / I-level F025-12-07-508, PSdZData 48.3.
And thank`s to shawnsheridan, who supplied the database.
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12 (Total Drama Action)
15 (Total Drama World Tour)
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DJ is a character on Total Drama Island, played by Cle Bennett.
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Character History
DJ is scared of water and snakes. He is friends with Geoff, Duncan, and Trent. he had a pet bunny that was eating by a snake. Duncan got him a new one for him. He was voted off on episode 21 because he got scared of Heather and not the killer. He was relaxing with bunny at playa de losers.
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Hometown Hero Nominations Open Now
It is time to think about nominating someone you know in Fayette County as a Hometown Hero.
This is the 9th year for the project conducted by The Red Cross of Fayette County. The Red Cross is looking for ordinary people who have done an extraordinary thing or things in one of several categories.
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FLORENCE, S.C. – Francis Marion University senior midfielder Kyle Clinton has been selected as the Peach Belt Conference men's soccer "Offensive Player of the Week" for the opening week of the 2009 season (ending Aug. 30), while the unbeaten Patriots move up four positions to 18th in this week's National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA)/adidas Top 25 poll.
Clinton, a native of Safety Harbor, Fla., tallied three goals in two Patriot wins last week. He scored on a penalty kick in a 2-0 road win at Wingate University and then scored FMU's first two goals in a 4-1 home victory over St. Andrews Presbyterian College last Saturday.
An All-Conference and All-Region selection last year, Clinton has amassed 25 career goals in 59 matches.
The No. 18 national ranking is the highest for the Patriots since Francis Marion occupied the No. 17 position in the Sept. 9, 2003 poll. The 2-0-0 Patriots played at Anderson University on Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. Entering that match, FMU was unbeaten in its last 14 regular-season contests.
Francis Marion will play at Pfeiffer University on Sunday (Sept. 6) at 2 p.m. The next home match for the Patriots will be Sept. 16 against Mount Olive College.
Clinton is a product of Countryside High School, where he helped lead the school to a state runner-up finish.


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An electronic software distribution (ESD) system is designed to efficiently move software to many different computers over slow or fast network connections. With Application Virtualization, using an ESD system, you can use one of the following methods to distribute your virtual application packages:
Configure your ESD system to distribute the packages directly to each client computer by using the Windows Installer version of the package generated by the Application Virtualization Sequencer. The Windows Installer file contains the icons, package definition information, and the content, and when you use Windows Installer, it publishes the icons to the Windows desktop and Start menu and loads the package content into the Application Virtualization Client cache. The user can immediately start using the applications without any further setup requirements. Upgrading a package to a newer version is accomplished by using Windows Installer to uninstall the package.msi file and then to install the new version.
Place the package content on a software distribution point or Application Virtualization Streaming Server that is readily accessible to the client computers over a network connection with good bandwidth, such as a LAN. For example, you might use the existing ESD system distribution point computers in each branch office. Using command-line parameters to define the streaming source from which clients will stream the virtual application package, the ESD system would deploy the Windows Installer version of the package to each client. The ESD system could also be used to copy the SFT file that contains the package content to the file share on all streaming servers. Upgrading a package to a newer version is accomplished by using Windows Installer to uninstall the package.msi file and then install the new version.
As an alternative to using the self-contained Windows Installer file in either of the preceding modes to deploy the packages, you can control the deployment in a much more detailed way by using the Application Virtualization command-line language SFTMIME. This provides many commands to control all aspects of managing the packages. While SFTMIME is powerful, it is also complex, so administrators should plan to create all commands as scripts and thoroughly test them in a test environment prior to production use. For more information about available SFTMIME commands, see SFTMIME Command Reference.
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This bag, in the python version has been bombarding me every time I open a magazine! While I think the shape is, just alright, definitely a classic you'd have forever, I just can't understand nor justify the price lol! I do love however, that the D is encased in leather here for this version and python for the other. Still glam and chic Dior.
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A roomy, stylish grained calfskin tote has footed bottoms and a chic, dangling signature D-ring. Features two discreet outside front pockets. Measures 13 3/4" x 11 3/4" x 5". Choose red or black with silver-tone hardware, or brandy with goldtone hardware.


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Description: This is '79 Dodge Omni that I purchased from the original owner. Original Paint scheme. Was originally a VW 1.7L carbed motor and 4 spd. manual trans. This is a very rare "old school" omni, as production started in '78, and no turbo omni's were produced until '86.
Here is a brief run down of the current setup, and more thorough discussion is welcome via phone.
-2.4L SRT-4 motor with ~500 miles on it since fresh rebuild
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Essential Mathematics Gold for the Australian Curriculum Year 7 provides a practical interpretation of the Australian Curriculum to help students meet the minimum requirements of the achievement standards. It focuses on consolidating core mathematical concepts and developing vital literacy and numeracy skills in a friendly and easy-to-follow layout.
Series: Essential Mathematics
Audience: Primary / High School
For Ages: 11 - 12 years old
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When it comes to local news, Wilsonville residents overwhelming choose the Wilsonville Spokesman as their best source. According to the City of Wilsonville's 2012 National Citizen Survey, local residents consider The Spokesman as their MAJOR SOURCE FOR LOCAL NEWS (43% favor the Wilsonville Spokesman – almost twice that of the daily newspaper.)
The Wilsonville Spokesman is published every Wednesday and mailed to more than 3,500 households in Wilsonville and is read by almost 9,000 readers. Our website, WilsonvilleSpokesman.com, has a readership that exceeds more than 1,500 readers every day.
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Seeing as Netflix has had an iPad app available for a while it only makes sense for Vudu to embrace the iPad as well if they don't want to be left in the dust by Netflix. After all, Netflix has already crushed most of the competition. If Vudu hopes to see any success in the market Netflix has a choke hold on they need to make sure there is nothing Netflix offers that they do not.
This is not a full iPad app, but just a redesign of the site to make it function swimmingly on the iPad. By using a browser-based solution, this allows Vudu to avoid paying the 30% commission charged by Apple for selling and renting video on their devices.
The one place where Vudu edges Netflix is on new releases. Since they charge per video, production companies are more willing to put their products on Vudu closer to when the product launches.
The prospect of beating Netflix for anything movies is a lofty one, but it seems that Vudu is moving in the right direction by embracing the iPad.
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Earth's a howling wilderness
Truculent with fraud and force,"
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And along the riverside.
Caught among the blackberry vines,
Feeding on the Ethiops sweet,
Pleasant fancies overtook me:
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Determinants of social capital formation in rural Uganda: Implications for group-based agricultural extension approaches
Although social capital is a potentially important asset for poverty reduction in developing economies, there has been little analysis of factors affecting its formation in developing countries such as Uganda. This paper analyzes what influences households to join local organizations and the intensity of social networks in central Uganda. Social networks were disaggregated by major activity to gain insight into household access, and the interaction between local organizations and social networks was examined. Probit and ordered probit models were estimated to identify what led households to participate in organizations and the intensity of participation. A negative binomial model was applied to analyze the household intensity of social networks. The findings revealed that household characteristics and aspects of village homogeneity influence various dimensions of social capital and that there was positive interaction between the social capital generated by local organizations and that derived from social networks. The study has important policy implications for agricultural extension programs that use a group based approach.
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Hawaiian Host celebrated the launch of the first and only Macadamia Truffles in Hawaii now available for a limited time only during the 2011 holiday season. Pictured (from left) are Keith Sakamoto, president and chief executive officer; Rosalie Romo Char, director of marketing; and Mark Yamada, vice president of finance and Hawaii operations.
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Moving from Chatham to Margate at the age of twelve, I was a pretty lost kid. My friends had deserted me as I started to get into rock music, which was incredibly uncool at the time for a pre-teen. Their obsession with girls and drugs left me cold, so instead of joining them I retreated, craving for something better to fill my days. On one of my daily newspaper walks with my mum I found myself perusing the magazine counter at the newsagent and there I saw a picture of quite an ugly chap sticking out his tongue on the cover of an early edition of Metal Hammer magazine. Now this guy wasn't wearing the black and white face paint I recognized, but it looked just like Gene Simmons. On closer inspection I found that not only was it Gene, but Kiss were still together. I bought it and read about all these other rockers, bands with logo's that looked so exciting and out of this world, this lead me to investigate when pocket money allowed the likes of Iron Maiden and Motorhead. A month later in the Our Price sale, I picked up Shout At The Devil for under three pounds on cassette. I spent my final summer holidays in Chatham locked in my room, watching television, listening to records, and writing lists of my favourite songs, all the time avoiding the menace of my fathers drunken beatings and what I thought must eventually lead to the breakdown of my parents' marriage. On the day of the move I had packed up all my tapes and records and took only one cassette to listen to on my yellow waterproof Sony walkman for the trip. Motley Crue pumped into my ears the whole journey. A soundtrack for the motorway journey and the arrival at my new coastal home above a fish and chip shop where my devotion to all things rock spiraled out of control for the next few years.
Shout At the Devil begins with the short horror-style, keyboardbased intro which seamlessly flows into the title track. Shout… itself is a rousing chest beater of an anthem with Mick Mars' twiddly fingers piercing the stomp with some excellent solo work. The one thing at the time that separated Crue from the pack though for me was Vince Neil's voice. In the same way that I love the sound of Ozzy's , what some call shrill I call flash, and you know this is highly polished 80's rock, not grunge. When his Shout… introduction comes in, it truly arrives with a bang. How Crue thought he was replaceable is beyond me, but that's a whole other album's story.
And so it continues,from the rush of Red Hot with Tommy Lee pummeling his drums as if his life depended on it to the ode to ex-manager Alan Coffman that is tentatively titled Bastard, which found them placed at the top of the PMRC's filthy fifteen song list, and my personal choice cut, Looks That Kill, which broke the Crue into teen America via MTV. Song after song has a great chorus, thick riffs, and over the top tub thumping. Lyrically though I feel Steel Panther had the guts to do what Motley never did. For instance, Ten Seconds To Love seems to be about how fast Vince can ejaculate which personally I wouldn't brag about, let alone write a song about and then put it on a multi-million selling breakthrough album. There is so much smutty innuendo that I just want them to come out and say what they really mean. It's a little gripe, but with the reputation the band has, especially around this stage of their career, I wish the lyrics matched the myth.
All said, I love this record dearly. That car journey heading into my future with a rocking soundtrack turned my life around. This was the album that overhauled me into a denim-clad teen rocker with Metallica patches, a half arsed mullet, and tattered white basketball boots. Plus it was my introduction to The Beatles Helter Skelter, which was covered here with little fanfare, just another piece to the puzzle that I thought was a Motley Crue original for far too long. That's something I'll have to live with for the rest of my life. The shame, the shame.


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NEW YORK – The FBI says it will soon demand reporters' notes in its attempts to nail the so-called Homeless Hacker, Adrian Lamo.
On Friday, FBI agent Christine Howard told a Wired News reporter to expect a federal order to surrender all notes related to Lamo. In March 2002, Wired News published a profile of the 22-year-old Lamo from Sacramento, California, who has been charged with multiple computer crimes, including breaking into The New York Times intranet.
"All reporters who spoke with Lamo" should expect similar calls from the bureau in the days to come, said Howard, who is assigned to the Cybercrime Task Force in the FBI's New York field office. The FBI was seeking Department of Justice approval to subpoena journalists' records concerning Lamo. Once the go-ahead was given, she said, "you're going to have to turn it all over."
Lamo's involvement with members of the press is a key component of the government's complaint against the alleged hacker, filed last week in a New York City federal court.
In the complaint, Howard claims that she found out about Lamo's supposed New York Times hack from an article on SecurityFocus.com. She said that Kevin Poulsen, the legendary former hacker who wrote the story, contacted the Times on Lamo's behalf. And she buttresses her assertions of Lamo's guilt with quotes taken from articles in ComputerWorld, the Associated Press and MSNBC.
This isn't the first time federal authorities have tried to subpoena journalists' notes in their pursuit of Adrian Lamo, who has become well-known in the electronic underground and the mainstream press for his alleged exploits and his drifter lifetsyle. After the MSNBC story ran, prosecutors demanded the notes of the reporters who had interviewed him. But the order was later withdrawn after it became clear that it violated Department of Justice guidelines for obtaining journalists' records.
Conversations between journalists and their sources aren't "privileged" – cloaked in confidentiality – to the same extent that, say, talks between a lawyer and his client are, said Harvard Law School professor Jonathan Zittrain. A balance of factors has to be considered.
"It's not a functional rule one way or the other," he said. "It's a mix."
According to the Justice Department's policy standards, subpoenas for reporters' notes can be issued only if "the information sought is essential to a successful investigation – particularly with reference to directly establishing guilt or innocence" and after the government has "unsuccessfully attempted to obtain the information from alternative non-media sources."
What's more, the guidelines stipulate that the feds have to negotiate with the news media before they can even contemplate sending out a subpoena.
Buttressing those national regulations are a patchwork of state laws and circuit court precedents. The 2nd Federal circuit, whose jurisdiction includes New York City where the complaint against Lamo was filed – is one of the more vigilant in shielding reporters from subpoenas, according to an analysis by the firm Debevoise & Plimpton.
In Friday's talk, Howard, the FBI agent, said that because Lamo was a named, on-the-record source, there could be no privacy protections for notes taken on conversations with him.
One law professor, who asked not to be named, disagreed vigorously with that assessment.
"I don't know how they get off saying that, much less making a conclusion about the law," the professor said. "What if Lamo said some things for publication, and others for (off-the-record) background?"
In the 1999 case Gonzales v. National Broadcasting Co.., the 2nd circuit court ruled that notes arising from these open, non-confidential talks can only be subpoenaed if it is "significant" to the case, and "not reasonably obtainable from other available sources."
Lee Tien, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, sees the FBI demands in the Lamo case as part of a broader political push.
"This administration has been less than solicitous of the First Amendment," Tien said. "So it should come as no surprise that they're treating journalists' notes as just another source of information."
Eugene Volokh, a professor at the UCLA School of Law, added that reporters' privilege is "starting to look more dangerous from the government's perspective."
Before, only a small group of people could claim to be journalists. Now, "anybody can say 'I'm a blogger, I'm a journalist.' What happens to privilege when anybody can claim it?" he asked.
But the press has been receiving tides of subpoenas long before blogging came in vogue. In 1999, for example, 1,326 subpoenas were served on 440 news organizations, according to the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press.
The success of those subpoenas has been decidedly mixed.
Vanessa Leggett, an author working on a book about a Houston murder case, spent 168 days in jail in 2001 for refusing to comply with a subpoena for her notes. Just last week, a Washington Post reporter lost his bid to quash a subpoena that compelled him to testify before a grand jury.
On the other hand, a state judge ruled in 2002 that the managing editor of the Kansas City Kansan did not have to turn over notes in a defamation lawsuit. In 2001, a federal judge in Arizona quashed a grand jury subpoena of a Phoenix New Times reporter who had interviewed an alleged arsonist. And a New Jersey court ruled that notes from a Philadelphia Inquirer reporter could not be subpoenaed in a murder trial.
Declan McCullagh, then the Washington bureau chief for Wired News, was subpoenaed to testify in the case of Jim Bell, who was accused – and later convicted – of stalking a federal agent. McCullagh had written a series of stories about Bell's run-ins with the law. He eventually was forced to appear before a Tacoma, Washington, federal court. But McCullagh refused to answer questions about the case, responding only that his articles were, to the best of his knowledge, accurate.
Former Forbes editor Adam Penenberg successfully fought off a federal subpoena to testify in the case of two hackers who broke into The New York Times' networks. But he resigned from the magazine after Forbes tried to cut a deal with prosecutors.


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Allen W. Rice, Co-owner
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SUN CITY, South Africa (AP) FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke says South Africa isn't ready yet to host the World Cup, and he still doesn't know where all the teams will be based during the tournament.
With barely three months until the event starts, organizers still face problems with Soccer City — the incomplete Johannesburg venue for the opening match and final — and filling stadiums.
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"If the question is 'Could we host the World Cup tomorrow morning?' the answer is 'no'," Valcke said on Tuesday after a team workshop meeting in Sun City.
"At this stage, we couldn't play the World Cup because Soccer City isn't ready. At this stage, we couldn't play the opening game. That's a fact. At this stage, we have 700,000 tickets still to sell, at this stage I can make a list of things that aren't ready for the World Cup.
"We have 108 days — it seems short, it is short, but even if we have to stay awake all night, every day, we will be ready by the time of the World Cup."
Valcke's comments came after a feisty exchange with reporters about the state of several training camps. FIFA had wanted the list of training camps for the 32 finalists completed on Tuesday, but those plans have been derailed by teams still changing their plans ahead of the June 11-July 11 event.
Germany coach Joachim Loew is concerned about the training facilities at the team's base in Velmore hotel outside Pretoria and will visit there on Wednesday.
"We haven't seen major progress so far," Loew said.
England is ready to sign the contracts with the Royal Bafokeng Sports Campus near Rustenburg, with coach Fabio Capello confident that the training pitches there will be improved in time for the finals.
Capello led a high-level delegation featuring Valcke and top officials in African football which inspected the facility on Monday.
"We checked everything and it improved a lot from the last time we stayed here," Capello said. "The pitches are good and will be better for June. The hotel is really, really nice and the medical center will be ready in two months. I'm really, really happy because it's the third time I've stayed here and the facilities are fantastic.
"We visited four different places and this was the best."
Valcke is also frustrated that England's Group C rival Algeria is yet to decide where it will be based. South Africa announced on Sunday it had been forced to move from a base that was badly run down.
Meanwhile, South Africa's tourism ministry has ordered an investigation into allegations that hotel prices are unreasonably high during the tournament.
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✔ The Summer Lunches for Kids program is under way. The lunches are available from 11-11:30 a.m. at the American Legion Home and in Rogier Park in Vandalia, at the township building in Shobonier and at the township garage in Vera.
✔ TOPS IL 2490 will meet from 9:30-10:30 a.m. at First Baptist Church in Ramsey. Weigh-in is from 9-9:30 a.m. For more information, contact Dovie Heaton-Bergin at 283-1729.
Motorcycles owned and created by a Vandalia resident are becoming a regular feature in regional magazine.
Dennis Martin, owner and editor of Thunder Roads, was in town last week to shoot photos of two "rat rod" bikes owned by Bill York of Vandalia.
Some of the photos shot by Martin – including ones taken at The Depot and Vandalia Statehouse – will be in the July issue of Thunder Roads, a magazine that has a circulation of 8,000 in Missouri and Southern Illinois.
Action taken by the Fayette County Board on Tuesday will allow the city of Vandalia to move forward with more streetscape improvements downtown.
The board, on the recommendation of its building and grounds committee, agreed to spend $25,000 for improvements to the north parking lot approach and ramp.
The work, which will include reducing the angle of the parking lot ramp, will be done as the city makes streetscape improvements in the 700 block of West Gallatin Street.
After hearing Mayor Rick Gottman say for many months that the city had to have a balanced budget for the new fiscal year, Vandalia's aldermen approved an appropriations ordinance that reflects such a budget.
The council approved the appropriations, which total slightly more than $8.4 million, during a special meeting on Monday evening.
That special meeting was held after a public hearing on the new city budget that lasted only a few minutes.
Entries are needed for the 19th annual IHSRA State Finals Rodeo Parade next Wednesday in Effingham.
The parade will start at 6:30 p.m., with entries to line up from 6-6:15 p.m. on North Maple Street between Evergreen and Temple avenues. Horse entries will line up at Effingham Equity.
The parade will begin at St. Anthony's Memorial Hospital and go to the old courthouse downtown.
The theme for this year's parade is "Peace, Love and Rodeo," and the colors are neon.
The special Fayette County Museum exhibits for June are wooden tools and wedding memories.
In May, the museum welcomed 390 visitors. Group tours included Vandalia seventh grade, Vandalia Junior High special education, Ramsey Grade School second grade, Altamont Lutheran second grade, Mrs. Culbertson's Vandalia fourth grade, Kinmundy Elementary third grade, Effingham Sacred Heart third grade and Herrick Elementary fourth, fifth and sixth grades.
Evans Public Library and McDonald's of Vandalia announced that this year's summer reading program theme is "A Midsummer Knight's READ."
Signup has begun for both the children and teen programs, which are for students entering kindergarten through high school.
The children's program requires reading five books for each prize level, up to 25 books. If they continue to read more books, there is a box with special prizes that they can choose.
McDonald's will furnish a food or drink coupon for every five books, up to 25 books.
The first three finalists have been chosen for the "Vandalia Idol" contest sponsored by Soroptimist International of Vandalia.
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Cougar Town star Busy Philipps has a serious issue with her BFF allegiances on Dancing With the Stars.
Who does she support: Good friend David Arquette, the ex of her Cougar Town co-star Courteney Cox? Or Chaz Bono, whose real-life partner Jennifer Elia is also very good friends with Philipps?
Cox sure seems to be keeping track of Philipps' voting as the two have ventured to watch the ABC show together.
"Courteney said to me, 'Are you better friends with Jen than you are with me? Maybe you should be voting for David more,' " Philipps says with a laugh. "I was like, 'All right, Courteney, take it easy.' "
Sounds like a good episode of Cougar Town! Fortunately, Philipps told USA TODAY at Starz's 15th annual Hollywood Film Awards Gala last night that she has a Solomon-like solution to the problem.
"I just vote for the max for both of them, I just split it down the middle," she says. "Sorry."
One thing is for sure: Philipps will never find herself on the stage, despite having a powerful performing gene. "Never," she says. "I would be too terrified. I do a live stage show in front of 125 people. This is an audience of millions and millions. I would need a truckload of beta blockers."
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General Property Trust's independent directors have met executives at Lend Lease to discuss the proposed $11 billion merger, amid speculation another bidder might yet emerge.
In a letter to Lend Lease shareholders, chief executive Greg Clarke said he had met GPT's board but it had made no decision regarding his offer.
The four independent GPT directors who are reviewing the Lend Lease proposal are chairman Peter Joseph, Malcolm Latham, Elizabeth Nosworthy and Ken Moss.
"The discussions have been constructive but are in their early stages," Mr Clarke said.
"GPT's independent directors regard our proposal as both serious and worthy of detailed consideration. Nevertheless, they are yet to conclude their detailed evaluation of the merger proposal and will advise the market of their considered opinion in due course.
"Merging Lend Lease and GPT will allow us to create a much stronger business for both Lend Lease shareholders and GPT unitholders.
"The GPT management team members are, of course, Lend Lease employees. We are confident that the combination of the GPT management team with the new Lend Lease senior management team will create substantial long-term value post-merger for both Lend Lease shareholders and GPT unitholders."
Under the plan, Lend Lease shareholders can expect an estimated pro forma forecast 2005 annualised distribution for the merged group of 82.9c per share, compared with the market consensus previously of 49.2c per Lend Lease share.
Stockland Group remains the likeliest trust to make a counter offer for GPT although, since the size of a new offer would be worth about $7 billion, a joint bid could be on the cards.
Other groups that could join the party include Mirvac, Centro Properties or even Westfield.
If a new offer does emerge, Lend Lease will have to decide whether it will increase its own price from the current share/cash swap.
Property trust analysts have said the arguments for a merger with GPT by Lend Lease are that GPT owns what is considered to be the best quality diversified portfolio of any listed trust.
JP Morgan's property team said the opportunity to acquire GPT's portfolio was "genuinely a once in a lifetime" deal.
"Existing listed property trusts may also have to consider the impact a successful merger of Lend Lease and GPT would have on their position in the index and the market generally."
But JP Morgan said arguments against the merger were that Lend Lease had the capacity to offer more without too much harm to its gearing level and GPT's sheer market capitalisation of about $6.1 billion could also be a deterrent.
In addition, the explanatory memorandum outlining the deal is not due out until September, giving another party ample time to mount a counter offer.
"Another issue for potential acquirers of GPT (excluding Lend Lease) is how to deal with the $3billion worth of office assets and about $550 million in tourist resorts."
But against the debate over the proposed merger is the pending shareholder-unitholder vote on the $22 billion Westfield Holdings merger with its three listed trusts.
The meeting is to be held next Friday.
Already there has been a large sell-off of other listed trust as fund managers raise capital to take part in the planned mega merger.


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'"They really have to look at themselves first and then at each other and, starting with themselves, say, `How can I help this team?' And then, looking at each other, say, `How can I help you help this team?'" Regier said. "I think we're at a growth stage in this organization where not only can they do that, they need to do that."'
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An Interview with Richard Smith of Audience
In Memory of Richard Smith...
Richard Smith, the design guru and technical force for Audience audio products, passed away shortly after this interview took place at his home in Escondido, California. Richard was a passionate man given to intense listening and experimental work with each aspect of the musical chain and audio signal path. On this occasion, late Spring of 2006, Richard was joined by his partner, John McDonald of Audience, and by Jim Merod of BluePort Jazz. This interview had been planned a long while; each of the participants recognized its timeliness.
Richard Smith ...early 80s in the Sidereal Akustic shop working on the Model 4 loudspeakers.
Jim Merod: Richard, that pair of subs inside of one cabinet, or is it one humongous sub...?
Richard Smith:... two cabinets connected.
JM: I'm flat out amazed at the
sound here. I originally wanted to talk about music, first, and then your
craftsmanship and various technical details of your work. Hearing this, let's
reverse that. What was the design concept behind what we're listening to ?
JM: How do you get the crossover network out?
RS: By using a full range speaker that doesn't require it... although, to get the bottom octave, you do need a subwoofer. This system is flat down to 60 hertz. Minus four point six db at 60 hertz. It's pretty amazing what two inch drivers can do.
JM: Four two inch drivers?
RS: Yes.
JM: Say a word about the metal in the construction of those drivers.
RS: Spun aluminum with a ceramic layer.
JM: The sound is completely open and transparent in all the recordings we've heard, including my own masters. So let me ask you something. You've used a word here that I would use the word, too; "system". When you employ the notion of a "system" to describe a pair speakers with four two inch spun aluminum ceramic-coated drivers, plus a set of subs, it implies more than the drivers. It also implies that the cabinet and other things are involved crucially. Outline the elements of this system, please.
RS: In this case it's merely the drivers and the cabinet... but the cabinet has different aspects as far as loading on the driver and as far as the diffraction affect.
JM: The cabinet seems to get completely out of the way.
RS: Right. You don't want any panel resonance. And people comment on how wonderful this speaker looks.
JM: It is beautiful.
RS: There was never any regard given to the looks in our design work. It's all "form follows function." It was not designed to look this way. It was just designed to perform this way. How it looks, is simply the way it looks. We were lucky it has a pleasing appearance.
JM: It's appearance reminds me of Opera. It's operatic when I look at it.
RS: That's interesting.
JM: I can't explain why, just my eccentricity. I think of La Scala or something like that when I look at the gracefulness of this system.
RS: That's a nice name, La Scala... something Klipsch might use.
JM: (Laughs) Have they already used that name?
RS: I think so. (Laughs)
JM: Okay, but perhaps the main thing Klipsch has in common with these speakers is that they were, and still are, very efficient speakers.
RS: Right. People can use them with a single ended triode amp if they can drive a four ohm load. That's not a great load for a single ended triode.
JM: Did you have to do anything
special to maintain that stability?
RS: This set up is the smallest. We can have four or five larger models. The next size will be eight drivers and then sixteen. Then twenty-four and thirty-two.
JM: I hope I'm invited to the party when you have a thirty-two driver ceremony.
RS: They'll have to be in a ten
foot high room because twenty-four drivers, such as these, are the most you can
fit under an eight foot ceiling because you get what's called an infinite line
array. If you picture the floor and ceiling as mirrors, you would see the line
array going on infinitely in both directions. That's why it also acts
acoustically as though it did extend on and on.
RS: I don't know. It's a term in regular use because it describes what these speakers do acoustically.
It's as though the floor and ceiling vanish—as though the speakers were literally that size without restriction since, effectively, that is their true performance in that particular room.
JM: I'm going to switch to my original thought about us sharing time together... sharing thinking together. Richard, talk to me about your musical history. As a kid you got interested in music before your interest in speakers took off. So please talk about you and music.
RS: I think my first exposure to music was the radio. My mom had the radio on a lot. She listened to what was then mostly the pop stations, but those were really jazz then. I didn't know that's what it was, but I heard all those standards when they first came out, because my mom played the radio. I can't say I liked those songs a whole lot. I just heard them.
JM: Frank Sinatra, Mel Torme, and Tony Bennett, right?
RS: Yes, and Ella Fitzgerald and
Sarah Vaughan. It was only later that I really appreciated
RS: Right, that's what it was. It's not that I disliked it... it was just there, but not my favorite. My favorite music became rock and roll, when it first started, because it reached me.
JM: What rock groups?
RS: I'm at a loss... something called The Green Door. I don't know if you remember it, but stuff by Guy Mitchell, who did 'You Are My Butterfly'. Then Elvis came along after I was into this stuff for a year or two. Early rock, the very first of it. That's what I liked. Bill Haley. After that, Jerry Lee Lewis came along. I just loved that.
JM: Chuck Berry, of course, and Little Richard.
RS: What I liked about Chuck Berry wasn't so much him, although I did like him. It wasn't him playing guitar. It was his piano player. That guy was awesome. His solos were fantastic. And he went unnoticed for years. I read articles about him recently.
JM: A few years ago I a saw Chuck Berry documentary, with that very pianist. I remember being impressed for the first time, but I can't remember his name.
RS: Great solos. I used to do Chuck's guitar solos vocally when I was taking a bath as a kid. My mom would knock on the door and tell me to be quiet.
JM: (Laughing) It never worked, right... and then you moved past rock and roll.
RS: Exactly. I remember, when I
was just twelve or thirteen, there was this liquor store where we used to buy
candy bars. Outside they had a piano with a speaker in the ceiling on an
overhang inside. The music they played, so they'd have some real class, was
RS: Thousand Oaks, back when the population was one thousand.
JM: The population of the trees and the people, both.
RS: Right. Something attracted
me there, mostly drums and the ride cymbal, I think. Most jazz used the ride
cymbal. That had an appeal to me that I couldn't get over. I just loved it. But
I was not a jazz fan. I remember we went to visit my
cousin once. Her boyfriend was in two bands, a rock band that did Ventures
covers and another band that did jazz. We walked into his friend's house, rich
people. They had a huge living room. Back then audio was mono. They had a big
Altec A7 speaker, the best thing I'd ever heard. I walked in and it was jazz and
I was knocked over. I asked, what's that? The guy looked at me like I was a
complete idiot.
RS: About twelve or thirteen. The guy said "Miles Davis." That was the first time I heard Miles. I recognized the name.
JM: Do you remember which album this was?
RS: Not at all. But an A7 can
sound real with that tube amp that they were using. Who knows what record
player. And who knows what the rest of that system was. I have no idea, but I
knew that speaker.
RS: '57 maybe, or '58.
JM: It could have been a Columbia six-eye vinyl, but it was probably one of the Prestige recordings from '56.
RS: It had that Prestige sound, not the Columbia sound.
JM: There you go... there's a real difference.
RS: It was just incredible.
JM: The first time you had a sound in mind in order to create speakers, or any other components... when did that occur?
RS: You mean the idea that I could make a speaker system?
JM: No, although that's interesting, too, but at a certain point you must've decided you could do better than what you were hearing.
RS: I didn't really want to make speakers. A guy I worked with, at Beverly Stereo, was not an engineer but he designed their house brand of speakers, the entire line. He had speakers he designed at home that were just kick ass killers. They were big. He called them "control monitors." They were the best thing I'd ever heard, so I asked him how he did it. He said it was easy... just don't use cheap components. He used all CTS drivers. Back then they were the biggest driver company in the world, but nobody I knew had ever heard of them. So I built speakers on my own. Simple, but now I had something to listen to.
I never thought I'd do anything great, but my brother in law wanted me to help him build a few speakers.
I tried to talk him out of it. I told him to buy Advents and he'd be much better off. But he liked doing things himself, just for the fun of it. So he talked me into it. Well, there was something about that speaker which was not great, but better than a lot of things I'd heard. So that gave me an idea. I sold what I had just made to buy drivers, lumber and what I needed to start building speakers. I went through one trial after another until I finally had one good enough to sell. My brother in law and I started our own speaker company then. We made a batch of those speakers and sold them by word of mouth.
JM: The cabinets were made out of pine?
RS: No, they were mdf with a hard wood top and bottom.
JM: Did you glue like a crazy guy and clamp them?
RS: Yeah, it was a pretty nice cabinet... one inch mdf.
JM: No veneer?
RS: No, but a solid hard wood
top and solid hard wood bottom and a grill that went all the way around the
middle. So we didn't need veneer. They had two ten inch woofers, two inch dome
midrange drivers, and two, believe it or not, Piezo tweeters.
RS: Front and back. The one on the back end was slightly up. And it opened the speaker up. A few years later the Piezo had a higher cross over frequency. They're great, but everyone tried to cross them over too low and they sounded bad and got a bad reputation.
JM: I have to tell you, Piezo microphones are the bane of my existence.
RS: (Laughing) Really?
JM: Do you know how many clubs I've gone into where Piezo mics are stuck to the underside of the piano, taped on for PA use? Then the PA bleeds into my recording microphones. The worst circumstance imaginable.
RS: Well, we crossed them over at ten kHz, because the two inch mid went up to ten kHz easily. So it ended up being a really nice sounding speaker. Even to this day it sounds good.
JM: You kept a pair?
RS: No, but I know people who have them. My brother still has a pair. I always think they're gong to sound terrible. But I'm always pleasantly surprised. They actually sound okay, not great, but you don't hear anything glaringly wrong.
JM: This is a silly question, but a serious question, too. Artists—whether they're musicians or electronics and speaker designers—are always dissatisfied with their work. Artists have an ideal in mind, virtually impossible to attain. Have you created anything that gives you a sense of satisfaction so that you might say to yourself... well, maybe it could be better but I can't make it any better right now?
RS: I don't know if I'd put it that way. I would say about this speaker we're listening to here today that I achieved the goal I was looking for. But it will be fully achieved only when we do the big ones and then again when we do our center channel for multi channel audio. The center channel is going to be a departure from this system but it will be very interesting.
JM: Coincident drivers?
RS: No, their radiation pattern
will be similar to a multi-cellular horn. We'll use these drivers.
RS: Because I got to looking at a Bozak studio monitor and saw the way they arranged their tweeters. I thought it would be absolutely perfect for a center channel. It was not my idea, but as a center channel speaker it has great potential. But that won't be known for sure until we build some. We have the drawings just about ready in AutoCAD and so we're just about ready to build some.
JM: Talk to me about recordings
that you've made during various points in your career.
JM: It can be done well if your microphones are in the right places.
RS: We did the best we could. Some equipment was very good and some was compromised. But hearing that piece over and over again, night after night, wore on me after awhile. I did some live recordings after that, mainly using one stereo mic.
JM: Which one?
RS: The top of the line Sony which is actually a very natural sounding mic.
JM: The ECM 93?
RS: I know and it's just a wonderful mike. I sent it straight into a Revox... pretty nice.
JM: I'd love to hear those recordings.
RS: I wish I had one of them but I have some of it on cassettes somewhere.
JM: I don't mean it to stump you, but you've designed a lot. You've experimented a lot as an engineer. Across all of that learning on your part, is there a set of principles or rules, call them guidelines, that direct your choices?
RS: I just try to build on
whatever we've achieved. I just wait until I find a weakness and then try to
improve on it from there. Sometimes you think that you have reached that Holy
Grail, only to find out sometime later that flaws begin to show up as you get
used to it. When that happens, I try to figure out what's wrong and fix it.
That's the way I proceed. I don't really listen to what other people are doing.
I listen to what we're doing.
RS: Yes. Compared to what I have heard elsewhere, I feel we're doing fairly well. So I'd rather stick to what we're doing. Keep on that path.
JM: I'm here to attest that you're doing better than fairly well; way better. Do you feel a new degree of gratification with this new speaker system?
RS: I do. I'm not going to bed anymore thinking about what's wrong with this speaker.
JM: When we think about sound, the Holy Grail is always live sound. At least that's what I believe. Others will quarrel. But the absolute ideal is no recording and no speaker... utter transparency, correct?
RS: Right.
JM: From your point of view, what audio elements do we hear in live sound when it is unadulterated by PA systems and uncolored by bad room acoustics? What are the magical components of live sound as you understand them?
RS: Phase coherence is one of the main things. Another is proper bass response because most speakers suffer in the low end more than anywhere else. That and phase accuracy. It goes back to crossovers. As soon as you introduce a crossover, you have phase problems. People thought, in the past, as long as it's close it's okay.
JM: You're beyond that now.
RS: Yes, because we essentially got rid of crossovers. Other people do that, too. You've got your Fostex speakers and your Lowthers and others. I would not include ribbons because they're usually only good down to about three hundred hertz. That's not low enough.
JM: From three hundred hertz on up, or thereabout, a ribbon is amazing.
RS: Right, in most ways. This speaker design emulates a ribbon because you don't have any interference between the drivers.
JM: It does seem that's true.
RS: The difference here is the dynamics, the excursion that ribbons cannot achieve. We have a low end and a dynamic ability that goes beyond ribbons, but with the speed of a ribbon since the moving mass on each driver, the total moving mass, is only one and a half grams. The rise time is similar to an electrostatic speaker. That's why they're quick.
JM: I heard real quickness here.
RS: What's really nice, if you have a long array, is that distortion levels are similar to an amplifier. They're a bit higher on this, because four drivers have to work harder, but if you have eight or sixteen or more drivers your distortion levels go way down.
JM: Why is there no comb filtering with four two inch tweeters lined up as you have them here?
RS: They're close enough so most of their bandwidth remains coherent. Thus, you don't have that problem. Where you do have a problem is up pretty high but it doesn't tend to be audible. Not that it isn't there, but I don't think it's audible.
JM: It would have to be there, but I've not heard it today.
RS: If it's below ten kHz,
you're pretty much all right. What happens above that is not going to be such a
problem. These speakers are flat, by the way, up past twenty hertz. That's an in
room response, because they're basically flat from sixty to twenty kHz with
usable response beyond that - up to forty something.
RS: That's tough. I think it's been incremental things more than one break through.
JM: Which makes you a sane man.
JM: Would you say your work as
an engineer is divided between what you've read and learned theoretically,
intellectually, and what you've discovered experimentally out of your own
devising? How would you put that relationship together?
JM: What a beautiful answer. How did the Audience line of cables come forward?
RS: Basically from me searching for wire that I thought sounded like music, combining it with connectors...
JM: What's interesting to me is your philosophy, your commitment to simplicity. The cables themselves seem to replicate that philosophy perfectly.
RS: What they do is pay attention indirectly to time domain.
JM: Say more about that.
RS: You want a cable that responds to sound quickly. And that doesn't overreact and doesn't store energy and release it back into the audio signal out of time.
JM: We're always hearing about
reflections inside of cables. Your wire is non-braided, I think.
JM: That's my favorite length for everything. (Laughing)
RS: (Laughs) That's when you
start having reflections. And yes, people talk about that, but it's really
transmission line problems. Wire doesn't become a transmission line until very
long lengths. I believe in minimizing those effects anyway. But I still think
it's the time coherence that's crucial, how little a cable hangs on to the
RS: Experimenting with solid cores, stranded silver and copper, and plated wires and un-plated wires... generally, for the most part, I've preferred stranded copper even during my solid core phase. I did go through a solid core stage myself. I did have some silver in my system for awhile and I thought it just sounded wonderful. After about a year, I decided that it was beautifying everything, so I went back to copper. It sounded much more natural. It doesn't beautify but it allows audio beauty through when it's there. I feel that a properly made stranded copper is where it's at, as long as it's properly made. And that's a big deal. Most Audience cables embody a coax design. Not all, but most of them. I think that's right for audio interconnects. That's the way to go.
JM: Do you have in mind some
wild and crazy audio component you want to design but which is so bizarre that
it's hard to know how to approach ?
JM: But not impossible.
RS: Just out of my reach at the moment. I'm hoping within a year or two we can do it. That'll be the system by which all other systems will be judged.
JM: A system verified by the old
Ella Fitzgerald test... "live or Memorex?"
RS: I can't wait to hear it. My experience tells me that things like this end up better than you imagine. I can only imagine just so far, so I can't wait to hear this.
JM: I would like to end by
asking you and John McDonald, who's here in the room with us,
John McDonald: We met when Richard used to come to my health food store. I had a pair of Bose speakers and a Macintosh Amplifier.
RS: Bose 901s.
JMc: Bose 901s in the store. That, of course, got Richard's attention.
JM: Those were the ultimate "hi-fi machines."
JMc: That's right and that's how we started talking about speakers. That opened the subject. Then I heard Richard's model 1s that he was talking about a while ago. And I remember how they sound. I was impressed. I think by that time you also had the model 3, didn't you, Richard?
RS: The flat ones.
JMc: Yes, the flat ones. They go
against the wall. Killer. They are to this day when I hear them. They're
RS: A single ten inch woofer, a Peerless four inch mid-range and a Peerless tweeter.
JM: Are there any more of those left that we could hear?
RS: Yes, one pair. You actually should hear them, but you'd have to go up to Three Rivers to hear them.
JM: (Laughing) Maybe Jack Kerouac or Norman Mailer will go with me.
RS: They're in a large room at a resort.
JM: Please continue your story of your joint venture.
JMc: Well, I heard Richard's speakers and it's all history from there. A few years later we decided to go into business together and we started Sidereal Akustic. And we came out with his Model 4, which is that speaker over there, the tall one. And we developed the SiderealKap, which was Richard's first capacitor design.
JM: I think everyone knows about that.
JMc: Martin Collums reviewed it in Hi-Fi News & Record Review.
JM: For a business man running a health food store who cares about music, Richard shook your world up in a fairly surprising way, I'd say.
JMc: You could say that.
JM: Richard, give us your version of this collaboration. What were the elements that attracted you to collaborating? I don't think anybody accuses John of being a crazy man, like you and me.
RS: I don't know about that.
JM: Guys devoted to sound are often crazy guys.
RS: Well, it wasn't my idea. John approached me and asked me if I wanted to start a business.
JM: Proving that he's as crazy as we are.
RS: I was doing a business hobby. I'd built ten pairs of speakers, selling them by word of mouth. Back then I had a big radial arm saw in my garage, so I'd just buy the mdf and design a speaker and build ten pairs. Sell them off. Start again.
JM: A passion.
RS: Yeah, and I sold every one I ever made. Ten pairs at a time.
JM: They were probably all gifts, undersold.
RS: That's right. I made enough
so I had enough to build the next batch. I'd expand my business a little. Buy
some tools. But I kept that as a complete separate entity from my personal
RS: I expanded in a small way, just used what I made. And I had at some point hired a friend's son to come in and help me build cabinets. At that time I was working full time for the phone company. I didn't really have time to do this, but if I was in the neighborhood during my lunch break, I'd stop by and see how he was doing. I was outside. I drove a truck, doing telephone repair. So I had freedom some days. So that was a lot of fun. We had a great time.
JM: That gave you not only a physical and emotional freedom from the constraints of the job but also creative freedom.
RS: Yes, I had an outlet. At night I'd wait until my son and wife went to bed and I'd put on some music. I'd usually design speakers by candle light and I did all the calculations with graph paper and a calculator. I'd do the design on graph paper, counting the squares to get my dimensions right, a calculator to figure out what the dimensions should be to get a certain loading on the drivers and the complex cabinet. It looks simple on the outside but there are all kinds of things going on in there. Much more than meets the eye.
JM: How does it now stand against your contemporary tests of perfection?
RS: That old speaker is pretty darn good, even today. It's a darn good speaker from forty hertz on up. It's natural sounding. It's nice.
JM: Maybe Dan Del Fiorentino at the Museum of Making Music, in Carlsbad, would put those speakers in their collection of musical instruments.
RS: I also have the first CD player made down below, the first commercially available CD player from Phillips, the one that Meridian modified and started their business with. We used to modify them, too, but we didn't start our business there.
JM: Did you pay any attention to David Blackmer's DBX stuff?
RS: Yeah, but mainly because I read all the pro magazines. I always have and I still do.
JM: I have one of his original
DBX compact disc players that allow you to dial in acoustic ambience... an
amazing box. My final question is this. Of all the things you've done so far,
as an engineer and an artist, which is the one that gives you the greatest sense
of achievement?
JM: You've allowed me to invade your territory and I've been kind of blown away actually, Richard.
RS: That's nice to hear.
JM: I heard your early iterations and always thought you had something going, that you were close to a breakthrough. And now you did it. Here it is. Congratulations.
RS: Thank you. I'm glad you like it. That's the fun of it. That's what it's all about.
Richard Smith and John McDonald accepting a PFO Award at "THE SHOW" in January 2005, Las Vegas.


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Did you go to Fashion's Night Out in September? Well we did, and we had lots of fun (and even had the hangovers the next day to prove it). Of course, the question everyone asked after the Anna Wintour-organized extravaganza was "did it work?" because so much of the hype appeared less about shopping, and more about the parties and celebs. It took a while to assess, but now the reports are in and the answer is a resounding yes. WWD notes that 75 percent of attendees made a purchase that night. What this means: Fashion's Night Out will be back next year for a repeat. Indeed, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced that FNO 2010 will be even bigger. What might draw more people out is a possible tax-free shopping day for the event (please?). This could be difficult to pass, but retailers are pressing for it. Will you go to Fashion's Night Out next fall? In all likelihood, we will—why pass up a free all-access party? [WWD]


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I love shrimp.
I love seafood.
Unfortunately, I live in Oklahoma,
and fresh seafood isn't something I see often.
So, I settle for giant bags of frozen
shrimp from Sams.
I love to go to restaurants and eat something
fabulous and then come home and recreate it.
This shrimp dish comes from a restaurant
here in Tulsa. Charlestons. This is my
version of their Shrimp Cargot dish.
It's supposed to be like escargot, but with shrimp.
Snails scare me. Why would we eat them?
And they're expensive too!!
My sister-in-law loves them. There's a
restaurant in Panama City Beach that we like
that serves them. I tried it once.
that serves them. I tried it once.
It tasted like a snail :(
This is 24 large shrimp.
You need to peel and devein them.
I needed an escargot dish.
This is surprisingly hard to find.
I found 2 of these on ebay a few years ago.
If you don't have one of these -
I don't know what to tell you.
I was going to use a deviled egg dish,
before I found mine, but you need
something that can go in the oven.
Havarti cheese. This is what you need.
I asked the people at Charleston's
and this is what they use.
Don't try to substitute. It won't work.
I shredded about a cup for my 24 shrimp.
You need to melt some butter.
You might be thinking - that's a lot of butter!
You might be thinking - that's a lot of butter!
Well, yes, it is a lot of butter.
But, that's one of the things that
makes this dish so good!!
Add some garlic.
Then add a little of the butter-garlic
mixture in each of the holes.
Then I put a shrimp in each hole.
Spread 1/2 cup of the cheese around.
I broiled these on a lower rack for about 10 minutes.
It came out hot and bubbly
and swimming in butter.
Calm down - you don't have to eat all that butter.
It's just for flavor!! Although - at Charleston's,
they serve little toast things with it and it's
really yummy if you dip them in there.
Cheesy, buttery, garlicy shrimp.
My kids LOVE this!!
You will too, if you can find a dish to cook them in.
FYI - I doubled this recipe. Because we love it so much
and because I have 2 escargot dishes!!
Shrimp Cargot
12 large shrimp
1/2 cup havarti cheese
2 tbsp butter
1 tsp or 1-2 garlic cloves
Clean, peel, and devein the shrimp. Shred the cheese.
Melt butter and add garlic. Drop a little butter in each
hole of an escargot baking dish. Put one shrimp in each hole.
Cover with cheese. Broil on low rack for about 10 minutes.


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