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By Tom Uhlenbrock
Missouri State Parks
ARROW ROCK, Mo. – If Kenny Leech is graded by the fried chicken he cooks at J. Huston Tavern in the historic village of Arrow Rock, he will ace this course.
The aroma of good food frying permeates the air as you approach the brick two-story building, which first opened in 1834. A plaque on the wall inside notes that Rural Missouri magazine voted the fried chicken tops in the state in the latest poll of its readers.
"I try different recipes, make different kinds of pies and cakes and cobblers," said Leech, 22, who is in his second year at the tavern. "I'd like to have a cheesecake, but it's not from the time period."
Leech is a senior at Missouri Valley College in Marshall, where in December he will become the first graduate of the school's innovative Hospitality and Tourism Management Program. Students in the program work as cooks and waitresses at the tavern. Leech gets credit toward his degree, $8.50 an hour and plenty of experience.
Once in danger of being razed, the tavern was the first property in Missouri bought by the state for historic preservation, and is now billed as one of the oldest continuously operating restaurants west of the Mississippi.
The Missouri Department of Natural Resources operates the tavern as part of Arrow Rock State Historic Site, which features a handsome visitors' center that explains the area's history.
Shellee Peuster knows Arrow Rock well; she grew up nearby and her first job as a teenager was as a waitress at the tavern. Now 34, Peuster works for Pfoodman Holdings, a food service operator based in the St. Louis suburb of Ballwin. One of Pfoodman's clients is Missouri Valley College.
Peuster helped set up the college's hospitality program in the fall of 2009. When Pfoodman got the state contract as the food concessionaire at J. Huston Tavern in the spring of 2011, she connected the program to her old work place.
"The practical experience is the most important thing the students get," Peuster said. "They learn pressure under fire, the fast pace. It really has to be learned in a real-time setting."
Dinner and a play
Fast pace are usually not words associated with Arrow Rock, which has about 50 or so permanent residents and celebrates its association with Westward Expansion, the Santa Fe Trail and artist George Caleb Bingham.
Kathy Borgman of the Friends of Arrow Rock notes that the village is just a 15-minute drive off busy Interstate 70 in north-central Missouri, but makes for a tranquil trip into long ago.
Just four blocks wide and eight blocks long, Arrow Rock features a two-block boardwalk of shops offering antiques and handmade gifts. The town's architectural heirlooms are scattered in a park-like setting.
"Some people describe Arrow Rock as a town within a park," Borgman said of its turn-of-the-century ambience. "You can spend half a day in Arrow Rock and get your hands around it. When you leave, you feel like you've really been to a different place."
Arrow Rock does have its busy times, thanks to another of the town's celebrated institutions, the Lyceum Theatre. During the theater's season, visitors flock to Arrow Rock to dine at J. Huston and take in a play.
"It's Broadway-caliber theater," Borgman said. "People see it and say, 'That was really good.' They don't expect something so professional in a small town."
The theater's schedule this season includes: Boeing-Boeing, July 21-28; Agatha Christie's The Unexpected Guest, Aug. 4-11; Buddy-The Buddy Holly Story, Aug. 22-31; To Kill a Mockingbird, Sept. 8-15 and Sanders Family Christmas, Nov. 10-18. For more information, visit lyceumtheatre.org.
Arrow Rock has two other award-winning restaurants – Arrow Rock Station serves dinner year round Friday and Saturday and on theater dates, Catalpa is open from Easter to New Year's for dinner on Friday and Saturday evenings and on evenings of theater performances.
Arrow Rock, and the restored railroad town of Blackwater eight miles away, can be visited anytime, but weekends are best when the shops and historic buildings are open. For visitors who wish to stay overnight, Arrow Rock has six bed and breakfasts and Blackwater has the historic Iron Horse Hotel.
"It puts you into a totally different atmosphere," Borgman said of Arrow Rock, which has been designated a National Historic Landmark. "It makes you want to stop and poke around. You have to be willing to back off a bit from your mile-a-minute pace."
Craft festival in October
The J. Huston Tavern was built in 1834 by Joseph Huston, an early Arrow Rock settler and civic leader from Virginia. Planned as the family home, the building welcomed immigrants heading west and became known for its overnight lodging and meals.
Today, the tavern is part museum and part restaurant.
The Daughters of the American Revolution, which pushed the state to save the building, has restored a first-floor summer kitchen with period furnishings. Three bedrooms and a spacious ballroom upstairs also are furnished, and open to tours by reservation.
The restaurant, which seats up to 140 people in three rooms and the "tap room," is open for lunch Tuesday through Sunday, and dinner on Saturday. The Sunday lunch menu is family-style, all-you-can-eat fried chicken and raspberry-chipotle glazed ham, which is also offered on nights when the Lyceum Theatre is performing. There is full bar service.
The tavern, which operates Easter through mid-December, can be reserved for groups of 35 or more, and is available for private parties, special events, wedding receptions and business meetings.
"Arrow Rock tries to do festivals and other things to bring people to town," Peuster said. "They have events on the first Saturdays of every month. The big thing is the Heritage Craft Festival the second weekend of October."
Holding its own
A stop by the restored railroad town of Blackwater can be a bit more rambunctious (sort of), especially if you spend time at the Bucksnort Saloon.
Owners Gerald and Connie Cunningham have recreated a tavern right out of the Old West. The tavern is a family affair, so the Cunninghams sell no liquor, only sarsaparilla and other old-fashioned sodas for $2 and packaged ice cream treats for a buck.
The Cunninghams also operate the Bucksnort Trading Co. next door, and sell items aimed at their first love, supplies for historic re-enactors. "Everything from the mountain man up through the cowboy era," Gerald Cunningham said.
The shop, which has a second location in Arrow Rock, has in its inventory herbs, soaps, onyx carvings from Pakistan, palm-leaf hats from Guatemala, Zapotec weavings from Mexico, wood bowls from Indonesia and woven baskets from Missouri.
"If Walmart sells it, we don't" is the Cunningham's credo.
Sitting mostly on a double-wide block of Main Street, Blackwater has half a dozen collectible and antique stores, an old-time jailhouse, the West End Theatre and one of the country's few museums dedicated to the telephone.
Blackwater is named for the river that flows nearby, but got its lifeblood from the railroad. When the trains no longer stopped, the town dried up.
Another local product, Bobby Danner, restored the Iron Horse Hotel next to the tracks and the rebuilt train depot. The hotel is now a bed and breakfast, with a restaurant that operates on Fridays and Saturdays. Visit ironhorsehotel.com for more information.
Bonnie Rapp, the former city clerk and unofficial historian, says Blackwater is far from its boom time of 600 residents in 1920, but is holding its own.
"We're at 205 now," Rapp said. "We've increased six whole people, but at least we're not going downhill."
For more information on Arrow Rock State Historic Site, visit mostateparks.com. Other sites are jhustontavern.com, friendsofarrowrock.org and arrowrock.org.


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Harbour Bag
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Everyone Shut Up, Robin Carrie Kelly's Going To Be On 'Teen Titans Go' Next Week [Video]
Listen, it's hard for me to get excited when comic book characters I love show up in mass media. I mean, I saw a movie this summer that just threw a hundred foot-tall, Jack Kirby-designed Exitar the Exterminator into a cameo for giggles, so just hearing a name that I recognize isn't enough anymore. In other words, I'm jaded as heck. Or at least I thought I was, until I found out that Carrie Kelly is going to show up in next week's episode of Teen Titans Go! and promptly lost my sugar.
If you've been following the show, and you should be, you may have notice that the Titans are actually pretty lazy and very rarely do any actual crimefighting, which is probably why Robin has another team made entirely of Robins.


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The East Galway Democrat of 25 September 1948 carried a front page advertisement for the 'October Fair and Carnival…An Ancient Fair! - A Modern Carnival…See the Old Fair with the New Look'. A committee had convened to rejuvenate the Fair and began the transition from what was predominantly agricultural fair into the 'fair and festival' known today.
One step in this direction was the annual event of electing and crowning a 'King of the Fair'. The first king was Frank Henry, a national school teacher in Clontuskert. He was elected unanimously. The East Galway Democrat of the following fortnight (9 October 1948) sheds some more light on the crowning of the first King of the Fair. On Fair Day Sunday Supt O'Halloran dispatched the long procession from the Workhouse grounds, headed by the Ballinasloe Brass and Reed Band and Killaghton Pipers' Band. It was a 'colourful piece of pageantry' the Democrat remarked. The coronation took place on the newly built Burma Road and was performed by Chief Supt P. Doyle. The king then called on his 'subjects' to support the carnival fund. The carnival was the brainchild of Michael Ryan of Society Street to raise funds for the NACA (National Athletic and Cycling Association).
Followed by an entourage made of costumed attendants, jesters, gypsies' caravans, gypsies on ponies, and clowns, the king led a procession through the streets of the town. Later that day he was reported to have visited all his friends with Sgt Dan Scannell escorting him.
It was to be a number of years until the next coronation took place and the practise was revived again some years later in the 1950s .
In 1956 (one year before the Rose of Tralee Festival began) the event was reintroduced by the Ballinasloe Development Association. Elections were held in the days running up the Fair. A novel electoral system empowered the voter to buy as many votes as the voter wished, each ballot costing two pence. Candidates were nominated by various organisations and industrial firms. After the closure of the polling stations on Saturday night, a count took place and the king elect declared. That year the honour fell on Joe Higgins, the second king of the fair.
Joe, who was the Dubarry candidate, recalls that the newspapers claimed 30,000 spectators turned up at the Canal Basin to welcome him. Arriving on a barge with Joe Brennan and Dick Moore as his aide-de-camps (both were dressed up as famous sailors - Joe Brennan as Wexford man Admiral Barry, founder of the US Navy), they were cheered through the streets on their way to the Market Square. Outside Jenkins' pub, Joe was crowned second of the fair and received his chain of office from Michael Ryan. During Fair Week, the king opened dances, opened the Jumping Competition, visited the hospitals and met the victorious Galway football team. Joe also remembers how the nuns nearly killed him for taking the liberty of granting the pupils a half-day when he visited the school!
The third king was Mattie Giblin, a native of Caltra, described as a 'giant weighing 28 stone'. That year alone 36,000 votes were cast.
The colour and pomp that had been associated with previous coronations was continued. From the second bridge on the Grand Canal (still visible behind Square D in Pollboy), the king elect entered the town on a barge, accompanied by his druids and musicians. The Aughrim Slopes Band made up this troop and Tadhg Mac Lochlainn was the Chief Druid. The barge was met in the Canal Basin by the 'Mayor of the Fair' Andrew Jennings and, along with the king and his train of bards and druids, they mounted a coach and four (provided by Lady Clonbrock of Ahascragh) to parade through the town. They were followed trucks from the local businesses, and from Guinness and Smithwicks. The parade made its way to the Market Square. It was here that the king was finally crowned. Tadhg Mac Lochlainn estimates that the ceremony attracted almost 20,000 to the town alone.
Interestingly enough, the idea behind the Rose of Tralee was born in Dooley's Pub in 1957. Some guests noticed the coronation procession passing by. They took this idea back to Tralee and instead of inaugurating a king, our Kerry friends decided for a Rose.
According to Paul Dooley, the crowning of Giblin was recorded by a BBC team or a London production company. However it was lost after the fair and never made it to the screen. The fair committee had wished to have it shown in cinemas across the country as a form of promotion.
The fourth king in 1958 was the late Frank Ryan of Brackernagh, and 19,000 votes were cast in this election.
The fifth king in 1959 was Gerry Kelly and the electorate totalled 17,000.
The sixth king in 1960 was Paddy Griffin, an employee of Paddy Lynch's lamb factory. 18,000 votes were sold in that year.
Tadhg Mac Lochlainn in his book Ballinasloe - Inniu agus Inné states that the Carnival King Crowning came to an end all too soon, right at the peak of its popularity. With the lack of local cooperation and the difficulty in obtaining the dance hall for fund-raising purposes, the crowning had to be abandoned. Those active with the Carnival Committee were Michael Ryan, Tadhg Mac Lochlainn, Martin Greally, Liam Keller, Billy Vaughan and G Flynn.
However, that was not to be the end. The practise of electing a king made a brief comeback in the 1970s. A new committee, with Kay Purcell as secretary, organised and ran the event again. In 1977 an election took place and five candidates were put forward by local industries. The five were: John Coffey (Top Quarries), John Cosgrove (Square D), Robert Hill (Dubarry), Tony Kelly (AT Cross) and Brian Shaughnessy (Ballinasloe Vintners' Association). John Cosgrove won this battle and was crowned seventh and last king. The votes that year cost five pence.
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(Nov. 20) For the first time in the company's 22 year history, Timco Worldwide Inc., Woodland, Calif., issued a voluntary recall Nov. 14 for potentially tainted produce.
Andrea McNeese, special projects coordinator for Timco Worldwide, said the recall is for nine pallets of Sandia brand cantaloupes that were shipped to four cities — Phoenix, Colorado Springs, Colo., Dallas and Okeechobee, Fla. — from Oct. 30 to Nov. 6.
McNeese said the Food and Drug Administration got a positive result for salmonella during testing of the cantaloupes Oct. 30. The FDA alerted Timco Worldwide to the positive test on Nov. 13, she said.
"Timco Worldwide immediately traced the pallets and alerted the customers who bought the cantaloupes within 24 hours of the FDA notification," McNeese said.
Consumers who may have purchased the cantaloupes are asked to return them to the retailer for a full refund, McNeese said.
Upon learning of the positive test, McNeese said Timco Worldwide accelerated its own testing program and retained a third-party laboratory to conduct independent tests of the packing facility and the facility's water. So far, she said all of those tests have been negative for salmonella.
McNeese said the cantaloupes were grown in Mexico. She said Timco Worldwide requires growers of imported produce to meet the strictest standards.
"Timco Worldwide works only with Mexican growers who are FDA and Primus certified," McNeese said.
Timco Worldwide ships 200 million pounds of produce annually, she said, and until this recall had a spotless record.
Timco Worldwide reached a licensing agreement with Sundia Corp., San Francisco, earlier this year to ship melons bearing the Sundia label.
Four years ago, the FDA imposed a ban on Mexican cantaloupe when the melons were linked to four salmonella outbreaks in the U.S. over a three-year period. The FDA subsequently began approving the importing of Mexican cantaloupes on a case-by-case basis after growers were able to prove their product was safe.
By mid-October, the FDA had authorized a total of nine Mexican growers to resume shipping cantaloupes to the U.S.
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(Nov. 20) For the first time in the company's 22 year history, Timco Worldwide Inc., Woodland, Calif., issued a voluntary recall Nov. 14 for potentially tainted produce.


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Bank of America Edges Closer to Tipping Point: Jonathan Weil
Nov. 4 (Bloomberg) -- It was only last April that Bank of America Corp. was making fools out of the doomsayers who had called for its nationalization a year earlier. Taxpayers had gotten their bailout cash back. Investors who bought its shares at the bottom were making a killing. Government leaders lauded the company's rescues, both of them, as a great success.
Now the bank may be on the verge of trouble again. Its stock has fallen 41 percent since April 15. Mortgage-bond investors are demanding untold billions of dollars in refunds. The foreclosure fiasco is metastasizing. A member of the Troubled Asset Relief Program's oversight panel, AFL-CIO attorney Damon Silvers, openly worried at a hearing last week about the risk that Bank of America might need another bailout.
A few more months like the last one, and we may be wishing Bank of America had never returned its $45 billion of TARP money.
You wouldn't know there's anything wrong with Bank of America by an initial look at its balance sheet. The company showed common shareholder equity, or book value, of $212.4 billion as of Sept. 30. And its regulatory capital ratios have risen steadily throughout the year.
Tipping Point
Judging by its shrinking stock price, though, investors are acting as if Bank of America is near a tipping point. Its market capitalization stands at $115.6 billion, or 54 percent of book value. That's the second-lowest price-to-book ratio among the 24 companies in the KBW Bank Index, and well below the 76 percent ratio the company was at in October 2008 when it landed its first round of TARP dough. Put another way, the market is saying there's a $96.8 billion hole in Bank of America's balance sheet.
When I asked Jerry Dubrowski, a Bank of America spokesman, about the disparity, he said: "I'm not going to comment on the book value and the stock price."
It may be the shares are a bargain at $11.52, if the company's books are right. Another plausible scenario is that Bank of America's management, led by Chief Executive Officer Brian Moynihan, has lost so much credibility with investors that the stock's decline might start feeding on itself.
The problem for anyone trying to analyze Bank of America's $2.3 trillion balance sheet is that it's largely impenetrable. Some portions, though, are so delusional that they invite laughter. Consider, for instance, the way the company continues to account for its acquisition of Countrywide Financial, the disastrous subprime lender at the center of the housing bust, which it bought for $4.2 billion in July 2008.
Goodwill Purchase
Here's how Bank of America allocated the purchase price for that deal. First, it determined that the fair value of the liabilities at Countrywide exceeded the mortgage lender's assets by $200 million. Then it recorded $4.4 billion of goodwill, a ledger entry representing the difference between Countrywide's net asset value and the purchase price.
That's right. Countrywide's goodwill supposedly was worth more than Countrywide itself. In other words, Bank of America paid $4.2 billion for the company, even though it thought the value there was less than zero.
Since completing that acquisition, Bank of America has dropped the Countrywide brand. The company's home-loan division has reported $13.5 billion of pretax losses. Yet Bank of America still hasn't written off any of its Countrywide goodwill.
Dubrowski, the company spokesman, declined to comment when I asked him why not. In its latest quarterly report with the SEC, Bank of America said it had determined the asset wasn't impaired. It might as well be telling the public not to believe any of the numbers on its financial statements.
No Surprise
Combine that with Bank of America's reaction to the robo- signer scandal. (Working on it! Wait, halt foreclosure sales! No, restart them! Whoops, still checking records!) Add in the $141.6 billion of home-equity loans on Bank of America's books, the real value of which is unknown. And it should be no surprise that the company's stock price has been plunging.
So, does Bank of America need to issue new common stock to raise capital? Its executives say no. They point to the usual regulatory benchmarks, as well as their own calculations of tangible common equity. This is a bare-bones capital gauge, showing a company's ability to absorb future losses, which excludes preferred stock and most intangible assets.
Using Bank of America's $129.5 billion figure for tangible common equity, though, that's still about $14 billion more than the company's market cap. So the market isn't just discounting the intangibles, most of which don't count in regulatory capital. Investors are wary of the company's other numbers, too.
Artifice of Strength
The tough part for Bank of America executives is that the company's future may be out of their hands. Writing off more worthless assets or boosting reserves for future losses might help their credibility. (The bank wrote off $10.4 billion of goodwill unrelated to Countrywide last quarter.) Or, the market might perceive such moves as a sign that the artifice of strength is broken. It's hard to tell.
As for the government's too-big-to-fail guarantee, it's probably still there. But who knows? Republicans have won back the House. The answer is up in the air.
The only certainty is there is none, aside from the knowledge that Bank of America's top executives have no idea what goes on inside the bowels of their company. For all we know the stock could double, or be a donut. The fate of the financial system hangs in the balance. Once again, we're all on the hook.
(Jonathan Weil is a Bloomberg News columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.)
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At 10:05 pm, Provost Easter of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign issued a massmail spreading further misinformation about the GEO's imminent strike. The GEO will officially respond here – please distribute widely. Also, our press release in the post just below this contains a more detailed response to Easter's misleading claims.
In his email, Easter says that:
"The university community is committed to providing the most competitive tuition waivers possible.Contrary to GEO assertions, the university has no plans to change current policy on tuition waivers. Tuition waivers are governed by the General Rules established by the Board of Trustees. The university has assured the GEO it will bargain the impact of any change to the fee waiver policy in the unlikely event that a change is proposed."
As we demonstrate in the press release below, Easter's claims are misleading at best. The BOT rules only protect in-state tuition waivers. If the University is "committed to providing the most competitive tuition waivers possible," then what possible reason could they have for rejecting the GEO's proposed side letter on waivers?* The last contract proposal from the University administration would provide no protection for waivers if the University administration moved to change some or all of out of state waivers to in-state tuition. Failure to accept the GEO's much more explicit wording, which would protect tuition waivers as they currently exist, demonstrates a distressing lack of commitment on the part of the University administration to the U of I's mission as a public, land grant university that provides high quality, acceptable education.
Easter also says that
"We are hopeful that the union members will accept the university's offer, which represents the best possible package for graduate students within the difficult financial constraints we currently face."
What Easter fails to mention is that sufficient protection for tuition waivers, the only issue that the GEO will go on strike over, represents zero additional cost to the University administration.
When members of the GEO and their allies walk the picket lines tomorrow morning, they will do so because they refuse to allow this sort of misinformation to sway them from their goal of earning a fair contract and finally holding the administration of the University of Illinois accountable to its duties as the leadership of a public, land grant, Research 1 University.
The University's proposed side letter on waivers states that the "university will bargain the impact of any change by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois to the graduate assistant tuition waiver policy set forth in Article IV, Section 5, of the General Rules Concerning University Organization and Procedures." Article IV, Section 5 only guarantees in-state tuition waivers. Thus, the administration side letter only promises to bargain the impact of eliminating in-state tuition waivers. The full text of this article is below.*
The GEO's proposed side letter reads: "The Union recognizes the Board of Trustees' right to set tuition waiver policy in accordance with its practices of shared governance. During the term of this Agreement, the University will bargain in good faith with the Union any changes in the tuition waivers of any bargaining unit member or members."


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Washington, D.C. – Today, Congresswoman Shea-Porter announced that NOAA intends to fully fund the cost of at-sea monitors for Northeast fishermen, barring any unforeseen budgetary consequences. The funding will come out of NOAA's existing 2013 budget, provided assumptions on reduced fishing activity are met.
NOAA's at-sea monitors are enforcement personnel that travel with fishermen on multi-species fisheries trips. Due to budget constraints, they had considered having fishermen pay for the cost of these monitors. This would have been a huge burden for New Hampshire fishermen, who are already facing difficult cuts to their 2013 quotas.
"I am thankful that NOAA has made this decision to prevent burdening New Hampshire fishermen with the responsibility of paying for NOAA at-sea monitors during this difficult time." said Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter.
The New Hampshire fishing fleet is comprised solely of small inshore boats, and relies almost exclusively on Gulf of Maine (GOM) Cod and Haddock. At last month's New England Fisheries Management Council Meeting, a 77% reduction to GOM Cod and the 72% reduction to GOM Haddock. As a result of these conservation measures, studies have shown that New Hampshire fisherman could lose 91% of their income.


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Bargaining Regimes and Wage Dispersion
The paper studies the relationship between wage dispersion and centralization. We distinguish between two sources of wage differentials: Heterogenous -workers with different skills and firms with varying levels of economic rent per employee. The corresponding dimensions of centralization, i.e. coordination across skills or across firms and industries, are studied separately. The analysis shows that centralization may produce both lower and higher skills differentials, depending on the relative factor shares of the different types of workers. Inter-firm or -industry wage differentials among workers of identical productive characteristics, on the other hand, is always reduced with a higher degree of centralization. With a high- and a low-wage sector, the central union tends to gain from the shift in employment associated with a narrowing of the wage gap since more workers are employed in the high-wage sector.
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- A. D. Roy, 1951. "Some Thoughts On The Distribution Of Earnings," Oxford Economic Papers, Oxford University Press, vol. 3(2), pages 135-146.
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December 13, 2012
Stuck: With So Many Things to Do
I have some guilt during this month, wanting to make lots of cute, handmade gifts for others, yet knowing that many of my recipients don't appreciate crafty presents. My knitting hours have been selfishly going into my afghan, which I'm working hard to finish before the weather gets warm. It's halfway there, and has taken all my determination, despite many, many mistakes and ripping out rows.
Even my posts here haven't been so stellar. What stories do I have to tell this week? What funny things have happened? Instagram doesn't always make its way into our day, because these boys just move too quickly (and Jude is always sitting atop a table before I'm able to pull out the phone).
So this rambling post will now end as Jude is waking up from a nap and I've still not done anything creative for the day. One of these days, I'll pull it together, just not this one.
Are you having a good day?
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Save the ideas and do them next year. We'll both start in October! It's a pact!ReplyDelete
No, not really. My Dad is getting really bad and not sure how long he has.ReplyDelete
I feel the same way. Just when do I find the time also? Life has gotten so hectic, so crazy, and I feel like I am on a treadmill and can't get off.
Hope you have a good week and can enjoy the here and now-even if you don't get done the things you feel you need to. Spending time snuggling with those boys is worth everything. That is what I do when I go to see the grandkids. I snuggle them every chance I can and look at them and just am loving that time.
I think your crafts are awesome! :)ReplyDelete
There is never really enough time for anything when there are little ones around - but, I hope you find some time to make something just for you! :)
The days are flying here too.ReplyDelete
I know what you mean. I have been trying to make cookies for four days-- FOUR days. It's just cookies, but even that can be too much some days.ReplyDelete


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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7 Build Identifier: SpiderMonkey v1.6 if you have a function linked to a script (fun->u.script), and that function is about to be GC'd, (~ line 1835 in jsgc.c) the script filenames are freed due to the call to js_SweepScriptFilenames. However, on ~ line 1860 the finalizer is called for that function object, which will then destroy the script, and potentially pass a freed script filename pointer to the destroyScriptHook. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Register DestroyScriptHook (JS_SetDestroyScriptHook) 2. evaluate Script which causes "scriptlette" i.e.:" /* foo */ function foo() { } 3. call GC Actual Results: Your DestroyScriptHook gets called with a GC'd filename pointer in the JSScript. Expected Results: JSScript->filename should still be valid.
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Created attachment 208416 [details] [diff] [review] Fix The patch moves script file name seeping after the main GC sweep loop so script file names are still available for a debug hook. Effectively it enforces the pattern for this particular case that in the graph of things to free the leaves should be freed after the rest of nodes.
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Comment on attachment 208416 [details] [diff] [review] Fix >Index: src/jsgc.c >=================================================================== >--- src.orig/jsgc.c >+++ src/jsgc.c >@@ -1863,6 +1862,13 @@ restart: > } > } > } Nit: blank line here per style guide (http://wiki.mozilla.org/JavaScript:SpiderMonkey:Coding_Style). >+ /* >+ * Sweep scrip file names after sweeping strings and functions in the Nit: "scrip" typo. Bonus if "filenames" is one word (it's in my hacker lexicon ;-). >+ * generic loop above. In this way when interpreted function finalizer Nit: "an interpreted function's finalizer" or "a scripted function's finalizer". >+ * destroys script triggering a call to rt->destroyScriptHook, the hook >+ * can still access script's filename. >+ */ >+ js_SweepScriptFilenames(rt); Fast action patching this, thanks Igor! /be
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Created attachment 208436 [details] [diff] [review] Patch to commit This a version to commit with nits addressed.
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I committed the patch.
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Created attachment 208437 [details]
C source of the test case.
To test the bug on Linux, place the source into js/src directory, compile js library using make -f Makefile.ref, compile the source using:
gcc test323267.c -DXP_UNIX -DDEBUG -I. -ILinux_All_DBG.OBJ -LLinux_All_DBG.OBJ -ljs -g -o test323267
and run it via
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=Linux_All_DBG.OBJ test323267
Without the patch applied it generates "Segmentation fault", with the patch it prints "SUCCEEDED".
Now it would be nice if it would be possible to extend the test suite with C sources to test for all those callback-only bugs.
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Created attachment 208441 [details]
C source of the test case v2
The previous version had wrong free() call.
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(In reply to comment #5) > Now it would be nice if it would be possible to extend the test suite with C > sources to test for all those callback-only bugs. I've been thinking about that and it is conceivable that we could do that. Let's mark requests that require compiling somehow. Maybe [compile-test?] in the status whiteboard?
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Comment on attachment 208436 [details] [diff] [review] Patch to commit Another clean fix for the 1.8x branches. /be
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We ran into this core dump recently. We are currently using version 1.5 RC6 of the SpiderMonkey code base and the version of jsgc.c we have is different from that posted in the patch. Can we apply the patch by simply moving js_SweepScriptFilenames from where it is to right before the "Free phase" section? If attaching the code between the 'Sweep phase' and 'Free phase' of the version of jsgc.c source I have is helpful, please let me know. Thanks.
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(In reply to comment #9) > Can we apply the patch by simply moving > js_SweepScriptFilenames from where it is to right before the "Free phase" > section? Sure, just move that js_SweepScriptFilenames call. You guys will want to try out the forthcoming JS1.6 RC1 -- it should drop in and it has fixes for bugs that might be biting you. /be
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Comment on attachment 208436 [details] [diff] [review] Patch to commit Another double-whammy. /be
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Fix checked into 1.8 and 1.8.0 branches
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bc, can you verify this fix? If not, please reflag this as [tcn-dl] in the status whiteboard.
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Just found I missed the 1.8 branch, checked in for real. Trunk: r3.111 (2006-01-14) 18.104.22.168: r126.96.36.199.2.4 (2006-02-26) 1.8: r188.8.131.52 (2006-05-05)


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Recipe: Hilltop Herb Farm's May Wine
Updated 11:15 am, Friday, July 19, 2013
Makes 12-16 servings
1/2 gallon rosé wine, divided use
2 tablespoons minced rose geranium leaves
2 tablespoons minced lemon verbena
2 tablespoons sweet woodruff (optional)
2 cups fresh or frozen strawberries, puréed in blender
2 cups fresh or canned peach nectar
Whole strawberries, for garnish
Instructions: Combine 11/2 cups wine with rose geranium leaves, lemon verbena and sweet woodruff, if using, in small saucepan. Simmer on medium heat 10 minutes. Remove from heat and cool completely. Strain out herbs, pressing down on them with the back of a spoon to remove all the flavorful nectar.
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Combine herb-infused wine with remaining wine, puréed strawberries and nectar. Serve in wine glasses, garnished with a whole strawberry.
Per serving: Nutritional information not available.
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Featuring the ballroom-like West Wing, the opulent East Wing, a charming outdoor courtyard, and a sprawling front yard, Manor Courtyard is the perfect wedding venue to host the day you've always dreamed about.
When you tie the knot here, you'll be immersed in an atmosphere of luxury and romance that you and your guests will remember for years to come. Let us help you create your perfect day as you begin a new chapter of your life. Contact Stonebridge Manor at 480-641-3131 for a private tour and complimentary consultation. We're located in Mesa, Arizona, just minutes from Phoenix.
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Solstice Showdown
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This is a one day-36 hole event at Birch Hill located in Fairbanks, AK. This should be an exciting tournament that will start at 5pm and run until roughly midnight. Discgolf in Fairbanks during the June and July months is amazing- you can play all night long under the midnight sun and this is our chance to share that with you! You can follow up an awesome evening of discgolf by checking out the Solstice Festival in downtown Fairbanks the following day. We can't wait to see you here!
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Hilarious, wasn't it, the way Beyoncé's younger sister, Solange, beat up Jay-Z? Absolutely side-splittingly hilarious. Really.
On Monday, the American gossip website TMZ released footage appearing to show the assault, which took place in a lift after a black tie event. Instantly the internet lit up, with the hastag "#WhatJayZSaidToSolange" trending on Twitter. In case you missed them, billboard.com has compiled some of the funniest social-media reactions. LOL.
Jay-Z, Beyonce and Solange at last week's Met Ball (Photos: EPA)
Here's a sample tweet by Camilla Long, the Times journalist: "HA HA HA. I love the way he grabs her foot, as if that's somehow going to power things down". Here's another from her colleague, the prominent feminist Caitlin Moran: "I AM OBSESSED WITH THIS VIDEO... Her shoe comes off in his groin. She's going for it."
Now, to be serious for a moment: am I having a sense of humour failure, or is it actually rather ghoulish to bellow with delight when someone attacks another person in a lift?
Of course, there is no way of knowing what Jay-Z said to his assailant. He may have been incredibly offensive. But one thing's for sure: if the tables had been turned, and Jay-Z was the attacker, people wouldn't be finding it so funny.
In the context of domestic violence statistics, which are overwhelmingly dominated by men attacking women, this is – to some extent – understandable. Men are the physically stronger sex, and Jay-Z is a rich and powerful figure; to see his sister-in-law "sticking it to the man" could be perceived as a victory for the little guy/girl.
But Jay-Z is more than just a cultural icon, or some kind of symbol of patriarchy. He is a human being who should have the right, in a civilised society, not to be attacked. Moreover, it must be acknowledged that a significant minority of victims of domestic violence are male, and the shame and emasculation that they feel is of a piece with Twitter's delight at the abuse of Jay-Z.
You may say that I'm over-reacting. After all, Jay-Z wasn't actually injured. But while this is true, the reason he wasn't injured is that his assailant was restrained. If that hadn't happened, he might have come off rather the worse for wear.
Actually, what impressed me most about the video was the fact that Jay-Z did not retaliate. He appeared to remain calm throughout, and resisted the urge – for there must have been one, surely – to lash out.
So come on, people. It's time to take some of those feminist principles and stretch them to encompass all victims, regardless of gender.


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The Ultimate Warrior.
If you were a kid in the 1980's and early 1990's, you probably spent a varying amount of time watching pro wrestling. And although pro wrestling had a myriad of characters that are no doubt engrained into your memory, wrestlers like "The Ultimate Warrior", "Hulk Hogan" and "Macho Man" will always be a little more special than the others.
At 5:50pm on Tuesday, The Ultimate Warrior (who was born James Brian Hellwig, but legally changed his name to "The Ultimate Warrior" in 1993… a fact that would surprise no one, if they've spent more than five minutes listening to this man cut a promo) collapsed without warning outside of his Arizona hotel, while taking a walk with his wife.
He died at the hospital, shortly after.
He was 54 years of age.
This past weekend, Warrior was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, and – just a day before his sudden passing – he appeared on WWE's live Monday night show, RAW, and gave what would end up being his final message to his fans. A more fitting farewell speech would be hard to come by.
"No WWE talent becomes a legend on their own. Every man's heart one day beats its final beat. His lungs breathe their final breath. And if what that man did in his life what makes the blood pulse through the body of others and makes them bleed deeper and something larger than life then his essence, his spirit, will be immortalized. By the story tellers, by the loyalty, by the memory of those who honor him and make the running the man did live forever. I am The Ultimate Warrior. You are the Ultimate Warrior fans and the spirit of Ultimate Warrior will run forever."
I'd like to personally thank The Ultimate Warrior for all of the fun childhood memories he's given me. He was one of my favorite characters when I was a kid, and I'm sad to see him go at such a relatively young age. Rest in peace, Warrior.
He is survived by his wife, Dana and two daughters.
By Jim Chadwick | Twitter
(pictures courtesy of WWE)Tags: Brian Hellwig, hulk hogan, Macho Man, Monday Night Raw, pro wrestling, Pro Wrestling Death, The Ultimate Warrior, wrestling, WWE


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Levee is a hood with long scarf tails worked in a pretty, easy to work, and not too open lacy stitch pattern with garter stitch trims. The hood is substantial enough to provide warmth, but light enough to not add a lot of bulk at the back of your neck when worn down. As much as I love hats, I get crazy "hat head" instantly, so once I put one on it has to stay on. But with a hood I can keep keep warm without plastering my bangs to my forehead!
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This is Part 4 in a series of posts based on my book, End Times and the Secret of the Mahdi: Unlocking the Mystery of Revelation and the Antichrist. In this series, we examine current events in light of End Times prophecies, and we address how to live confidently in these turbulent times. To start from the beginning, you can read Part 1 here.
In the Book of Revelation, the Lord Jesus gives John a vision of Heaven. It's a vision of comfort and encouragement for everyone who is burdened by the sufferings of this life.
I guarantee you won't be bored in Heaven. You won't be floating on the clouds, strumming a harp for eternity. Heaven will be filled with all the excitement and love you could ever want.
But because Heaven can give us so much hope, Satan is fighting hard against it. Satan was thrown out of Heaven; he will never be allowed back in. So he'll do everything he can to kill that hope within us.
You can see Satan's strategy playing out in our country today:
In February 2015, Salon posted an article called "Ten Reasons the Christian Heaven Would Actually be Hell." The writer explains, wrongly, how boring and bland Heaven will be.
Even in our churches today, there is very little preaching on Heaven. Most of it is focused on the problems and blessings of this life, and how to get the most out of it.
How different are those priorities from the priorities of God's Word? The Bible mentions Heaven more than 500 times. The Book of Revelation mentions Heaven more than 50 times.
If you think Heaven will be a miserable and boring experience, I want you to know that Satan has sold you a bill of goods.
In Revelation, God graciously opens a door into Heaven, and we begin to see Heaven in all its glory. John writes:
After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this." At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it (Revelation 4:1-2).
John describes his first glimpse of Heaven—a throne with Someone seated on it. The throne symbolizes the power and authority of our God. He is the Creator and Ruler of this vast universe.
But most importantly, He should be the Ruler of our hearts. If we will step down from the throne of our hearts and put Christ there instead, He will come into our lives with strength and might.
John continues:
And the one who sat there had the appearance of jasper and ruby. A rainbow that shone like an emerald encircled the throne. Surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, and seated on them were twenty-four elders. (Revelation 4:3-4).
John sees Jesus, our great High Priest, as having the appearance of gemstones—jasper and ruby. Jasper is a diamond-like white stone, symbolizing the glory and purity of Jesus. And the ruby is a blood-red stone symbolizing the sacrificial blood of Jesus. The rainbow recalls the Covenant rainbow that God showed Noah after the Flood. And the twenty-four elders represent the twelve tribes of Israel and the twelve apostles of Jesus—bridging both the Old and New Testaments.
Next, John gives us a glimpse of worship in Heaven:
In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, and they were covered with eyes, in front and in back . . . Day and night they never stop saying:
"'Holy, holy, holy
is the Lord God Almighty,'
who was, and is, and is to come" (Revelation 4:6b-8).
Although the angels continuously make that proclamation, please don't get the idea that in Heaven we'll do nothing but sing a thousand choruses of "How Great Thou Art."
Will we continually praise God? Yes! Will we stand around a throne, singing endless choruses? Hardly. Wherever we go in the New Heaven, we will be able to speak to Him, thank Him, and praise Him. With each new discovery, with each new wonder, our hearts will leap with praise.
If you're afraid that Heaven will be boring, consider this: the same Creator who gave us the incredible beauty of places like the Grand Canyon will be the One to create the New Heaven. If there's so much beauty in a world broken by sin, imagine what Heaven will be like!
Everything New
One of the most important revelations John receives is that the Heaven we think of today is not the final Heaven, the eternal Heaven that Jesus promised to prepare for us.
As John writes in Revelation 21:1: "Then I saw 'a new heaven and a new earth,' for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away. . . ."
God is going to take a wrecking ball to the universe and start over from scratch. In Revelation 22:5, the Lord tells John, "I am making everything new!"
This will be the fulfillment of the prophecy of Isaiah:
"See, I will create
new heavens and a new earth.
The former things will not be remembered,
nor will they come to mind" (Isaiah 65:17).
But that's not God's only new creation. John continues with a sight that must have taken his breath away:
I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Look! God's dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 'He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death' or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away" (Revelation 21:2-4).
The Holy City, the New Jerusalem, is God's new capital city. The New Jerusalem comes out of Heaven, and God announces that His dwelling place is now among the people. He will wipe away all their tears, and death will be no more.
If your heart is heavy these days, I have wonderful news for you: Jesus Himself is going to wipe away your tears and take away your sorrow.
In the midst of this vision, the Lord gives John a message for all people:
"I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give water without cost from the spring of the water of life. Those who are victorious will inherit all this, and I will be their God and they will be my children" (Revelation 21:6b-7).
Jesus wants everyone to have one more opportunity to receive Him as Lord and Savior.
If the Book of Revelation teaches anything, it's that our choices today will determine our future. Our eternal destiny will either be in Heaven with Jesus—or in Hell with Satan. There is no third alternative. For if God does not judge sin and disobedience—why did Jesus have to die?
He desperately wants everyone to be saved. But He is not willing to save people against their will.
A neighbor of mine teaches a class in a mainline denomination church. He recently told me, "We've been talking about the doctrine of Hell. And every person in that class agrees that God is simply too loving to condemn anyone to Hell."
His jaw dropped when I replied, "I completely agree. God is too loving to condemn anyone to Hell. That's why God sent Jesus to the cross. He's not willing that any should perish. But people possess the awesome, frightening power of free will. If they reject the gift of salvation, they condemn themselves to Hell."
A Vision to Lift Our Burdens
After the New Jerusalem descends, an angel says to John, "Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb."
The angel takes John to a mountaintop to view the New Jerusalem. The city is brilliantly lit by the glory of God, gleaming like a sparkling jewel. It has twelve gates, symbolizing again the twelve tribes of Israel, and it has twelve foundations, representing the twelve apostles.
Then the angel gives John the city's dimensions—are you ready for this?—1,400 miles long by 1,400 miles wide by 1,400 miles high. That's 2.7 billion cubic miles!
In the New Jerusalem, there is no Temple, because "the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple" (Revelation 21:22). There is no sun or moon because "the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb is its lamp" (Revelation 21:23). And the River of Life, clear as crystal, flows "from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city." (Revelation 22:2)
And wonderfully, in the New Jerusalem, we will find the restored Garden of Eden! There, the Tree of Life will bear "twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations" (Revelation 22:2).
Better yet, among that incredible abundance, we will each have meaningful and exciting work to do. John tells us that we will serve God in the New Heaven. Our work may take us to distant galaxies, and we will reign with God for ever and ever (see Revelation 22:5).
Today, you may be carrying the weight of a Steinway piano on your back. It might be an enormous load of guilt, or suffering, or worry. Whatever your load, a vision of Heaven will lift your burden.
If you avoid what the Bible teaches about Heaven, then you miss out on one of God's great blessings. The expectation of Heaven enables us to soar above the problems and frustrations of this earthly life.
If you've never looked forward to Heaven with eager anticipation, I hope you're beginning to catch the excitement right now. I hope you will begin each day thinking about Heaven. And I hope that as you go to bed each night, your last thoughts will be prayers of gratitude for the wonderful gift of that world to come.
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Darius Rucker is a country music star on the rise. His first foray into the genre, "Learn to Live," sold more than a million copies.
But to most people he'll always be Hootie, the frontman of '90s rock band Hootie & the Blowfish.
And if the people who come to see him Friday, when he plays Pier Six Pavilion, are all Hootie fans, that's all right with him.
"I'm not tired of playing "Let Her Cry," he said, referring to the second single from Hootie's major-label debut, "Cracked Rear View."More than 15 years later, that album is still the 15th-best-selling of all time.
Rucker has been a solo artist for seven years now. He transitioned from soft rock to country in 2008, much to the surprise of the country music world, which hadn't had an African-American star in decades.
It was a rocky move. The country music scene has high standards, he said. "Not everyone gets in," he said. But the novelty factor of his country career has slowly worn off.
"I think people will always be curious, but I think I've proven myself," he said. "Learn to Live," his first country album, spawned four singles. And in March, he started touring with his second, "Charleston, SC 1966."
He's found such success in country, he's now operating mainly from Tennessee; all the songs on the album were written there. To find the members of his touring band, his producer put out the word in Nashville and found his six players in two days, he said.
"The great thing about Nashville is, everybody can play," he said. So, what does Rucker look for in a band member? "I'm looking for someone I can hang out with," he said. "Guys that can join this traveling circus and have fun."
Rucker says the tour, which is expected to end this March, is likely to appeal to frat brothers and country fans. He won't just play from his first two country albums, he'll also play Hootie songs, and even Prince and Steve Miller covers.
"When you're touring, you just go from town to town. You have to make it interesting for yourself," Rucker said. "My goal when we play is that everyone has a good time."
If you go: Darius Rucker performs Friday at Pier Six Pavilion, 731 Eastern Ave. Doors open at 6 p.m. Tickets are $25-$60. Call 410-244-1131 or go to piersixpavilion.com.


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NEW TAMPA — Pale ale with your popcorn? Chardonnay with your cheese pizza?
That could be possible if the Tampa City Council allows beer and wine sales at New Tampa's Starlight 20 movie theater, which hopes to join a long list of Tampa Bay movie houses embracing the blockbusters-and-beer trend.
But council members aren't sold on the idea. Some are uncomfortable with introducing alcoholic beverages to a theater complex that's a hangout for teenagers.
Lisa Montelione, whose district includes New Tampa, said she understands Muvico's attempts to broaden its customer base by adding beer and wine sales. But she doesn't like that adults would be allowed to purchase alcohol for any show and drink it while sitting next to children and teens.
"It's how we separate the adults from the underage drinkers, and that's my issue," she said.
Muvico's application for permission to sell beer and wine only narrowly passed its first procedural vote with the council last week when Mary Mulhern, Mike Suarez, Yvonne Yolie Capin and Harry Cohen voted for it, while Montelione, Charlie Miranda and Frank Reddick did not.
A final vote is set for Thursday.
Starlight 20's main competitor is the Grove 16 in Wesley Chapel, which offers beer, wine and liquor at its CineBistro. But the setup differs from what Muvico is proposing. At CineBistro, liquor is sold inside an upscale restaurant and lounge area that admits only guests who are 21 and older. The lounge — set apart from the regular theater area downstairs — markets itself as a fine-dining approach to moviegoing.
"Our guests are welcome to come upstairs from downstairs and enjoy a cocktail at CineBistro, but they can't take their drinks with them downstairs," said Fred Meyers, who works for Cobb Theatres overseeing its chain of CineBistros.
At the company's other local theater, CineBistro at Hyde Park Village, adults can enjoy alcohol throughout the building, but people younger than 21 aren't allowed inside.
In its petition to the City Council, Muvico argues that its plan for Starlight 20 is similar to the setup at sister theater Centro Ybor 20. There, patrons can buy beer, wine and liquor and take their drinks into any theater on the premises.
In a letter to council members, Muvico stated that it has never been charged with any alcohol violations, including serving to minors, in the three years since Centro Ybor began serving adult beverages.
Calls to a Muvico spokesman for comment were not returned.
Several other Tampa Bay movie houses also offer beer, wine or liquor. The Imax Dome Theatre at the Museum of Science and Industry opened Bar 1570 two years ago. Adults can order beer, wine and liquor during all show times.
Zarth Bertsch, director of theaters for MOSI, said there have been no alcohol violations and the program has been successful in attracting patrons. Like Centro Ybor 20, adults who purchase drinks at MOSI can take them into the theater and consume them anywhere they choose.
To cut down on the possibility of adults sharing liquor with underage drinkers, MOSI has some safeguards in place.
"If somebody orders two drinks at the same time, we request seeing two IDs," Bertsch said. "That covers that we know we are serving two drinks to two people that are over 21."
Told about council members' concerns, Bertsch said movie theaters are not the only place where alcohol is available to adults in the presence of minors. Some clubs that serve alcohol allow patrons as young as 18 inside, where, he said, concerns about underage drinking are more valid than at the movies.
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Fresh off the bus from Cleveland to Los Angeles, Heather Graham's would-be singer-songwriter in Broken is a walking cliché in a film overstuffed with them, the naïve Midwestern girl ready to subject herself to a little Hollywood-style degradation. It's a given that she'll almost immediately fall into codependence and heroin addiction; her only real break is her job as a waitress at an all-night grease-pit, which beats the last-ditch stripping or prostitution options that usually come with the territory. (Though such opportunities are available: At one point, Linda Hamilton turns up at the diner as a Hollywood madam who tries to lure Graham into the escort business, and nearly succeeds.) Director Alan White gussies up this story with tricky time signatures and metafictional nonsense, but don't be confused: When the story's all straightened out, Broken doesn't have an original thought in its head.
Graham's Loser Detector goes on the fritz when she meets the bedraggled Jeremy Sisto on the beach. Looking homeless-chic in his ragged clothes and 11 o'clock shadow, Sisto manages to talk Graham into a dead-end relationship that stalls her career and leaves them both with crippling drug addictions. (The sort that forces Graham, in yet another cliché, to compensate their dealer with sexual favors while Sisto listens outside.) When Graham finally gets the nerve to break up with the emotionally volatile Sisto and put her life back together, he reacts poorly, to say the least.
As irritating as Graham/Sisto shouting matches are, they're vastly preferable to the scenes at the all-night diner, in which each of Graham's customers represent facets of her own life. It's a little like a grungy, unfunny, feature-length version of Herman's Head. Graham's patrons include a hot new music group that's getting rich off her song, Tess Harper as her ravaged middle-aged self, and a producer-director team that wants her to audition for a cutting-edge little indie feature titled—you guessed it—Broken. In essence, the film aspires to be the next Mulholland Dr., another twist on the age-old tale of an innocent naïf consumed by Hollywood sin and darkness. Needless to say, it falls well short of Lynchian.


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The art of creating beautiful ceramics has been cultivated for centuries by the Mexican people . Simply by looking at the magnificent ceramics created by pre-Columbian civilizations we can see that this land possesses an extraordinary artistic heritage.
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This great little bag for stowing away treasures is worked seamlessly in a traditional lozenge shape, and features the Cross and Diamond mosaic pattern from Charted Knitting Designs by Barbara G. Walker, worked stranded rather than slip-stitched. Other than the I-cord handles and tassel, there is virtually no finishing, making this reticule a wonderful quick gift or special indulgence for yourself.
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…is how I've been feeling these days. Like I've lost my muchness. Perhaps growing up and maturing (and I use the term "maturing" loosely) are to blame but I can't stand to think or accept that maybe, I've lost my spark, too. Or— if I even had a spark at all*! Excuse me while I dive into a neurotic rant in the next (few) paragraphs:
*Was that what I had in my youth? Spark…iness? What if it was just the alcohol all along, that fueled those crazy years? Nights of going to sleep (oh, did I say sleep? I meant passing out he he he) with strange people and mornings waking up in stranger places? (Well, of course it's always the alcohol; I mean, who passes out from sheer exhaustion when they're 19, right?) What if I've always been this boring, unfeeling fart who would rather shoot dismissive glances at people, and that younger Helga was a "Just Add Alcohol" kinda gal, ya know? I don't want to be that kind of person!
But let's say that it wasn't just the alcohol. Maybe I truly was (are?) a crazy broad— the kind who crosses Katipunan Avenue at midnight just to sit on some MMDA roadblocks; the kind who passes out on the street while walking home, leaving her friends kneeling on the concrete beside her, begging her to please wake up (I can feel your secondhand embarrassment. Stop it); the kind who broke sinks (LOL); the kind who would walk to the neighborhood 7-11 for a second bottle of cheap red wine (and it wasn't even 10pm yet) and to harass the clerk to loan her a corkscrew and a receipt printer; the kind who had moral issues in the morning (ok, it was actually what my junior year Theology class was called but I loved saying "Oh, I can't stay out too late tonight… I have Moral Issues in the morning"), etc etc. There are more but I have selective amnesia. Now I'm pretty sure kids these days have better drunk stories but in my day, these were legendary!
(By the way, it's only a little bit sad that the stories I will tell my grandchildren will always begin with "Once, I was sewwwwwwwww drunk…")
As I was saying— maybe that's the kind of person I really am and if so, I guess it's a good thing I've simmered down because I wouldn't want to be like that at this age. At the same time, I want that level of fun and crazy and untroubled youth and SPARK back… minus the passing out in public places bit (I promise never to do that again) and preferably, with less alcohol.
I've never been one for introspection so this has been a somewhat long rant with no resolution. Until I figure things out and until I've come up with a plan to reclaim my muchness and spark, I'll be under the covers at 10pm on a weeknight, watching old episodes of Hannah Montana, and yelling at the kids to get off my lawn.
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Total income tax a person with an annual income of $50,000 will pay in Quebec for 2011, the highest regional amount in Canada. (Source)
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J & L Grill Company on the South Side gives extra kicks to burgers and shakes
Burgers and shakes have fueled many successful businesses, most spectacularly Ray Kroc's McDonald's fast-food empire starting in the mid-'50s.
In recent years, smart entrepreneurs have seen the market for higher-end and grown-up combinations of burgers and shakes. The burgers are bigger and made from fresh ground beef, hand shaped, and grilled, not fried. They are cooked to order from rare to well done.
The shakes are bigger and richer, too, and feature novel combinations of flavors, including ones with an alcoholic kick. Beer, which some would say goes better with burgers than shakes, and other alcoholic beverages are served.
J & L Grill Company on the South Side, which opened in June, joins Burgatory in Fox Chapel and BRGR in Shadyside and Cranberry as the leading local examples of this trend.
Owner Jeff Yot and his partners planned J & L Grill Company for about a year before opening. He began working in restaurants when he was 16, working his way up from hand washing dishes to management. After about 15 years, he decided to finish his degree from Duquesne University, and then worked for a decade in information systems auditing for ADT and PNC Bank.
Yot, 43, is a burger enthusiast who appreciates the high-quality food he's found in his travels and at Burgatory.
The J & L Grill Company menu includes soups and appetizers, more than a dozen varieties of burgers, 15 kinds of wings, sandwiches, salads, non-alcoholic and spiked shakes, and other beverages.
The basic burger ($8) is a 10-ounce patty served on a Mancini's bun. You can build your own burger by choosing from a dozen kinds of cheese and 14 other toppings (ranging from portobella mushroom and guacamole to corned beef and bacon) at 50 cents to $1.25 per topping.
The Yinzer Burger ($11) is the most popular, Yot says. This burger is topped with cheddar cheese, grilled Black Forest ham, fried egg, applewood-smoked bacon, grilled onions and barbecue sauce.
The Eliza Furnace Burger ($10) is one of many menu items that refer to the old J&L Steel Co. tradition. It's topped with chipotle-barbecue sauce, fried onions and Pepper Jack cheese.
Turkey, veggie and salmon burgers also are served, as well as sliders.
Wings are a big seller, Yot says, and available in 15 varieties, $6 for a single serving, up to $23 for a Slag Pot of wings.
"All our recipes are made from scratch," Yot says. The hottest wings, called Molten Steel and Blast Furnace, use ghost chili and Trinidad scorpion peppers. "We add other extracts and seasonings for a real nice, almost sweet flavor, not at all metallic. It goes in easy and then, almost as a secondary reaction after a second, it feels like somebody lit a fire at the back of your throat."
The non-alcoholic shakes ($5) include the classics, orange-dreamsicle, caramel-chocolate espresso malt and cookies and cream.
Among spiked shakes ($9), The King Lives, taking inspiration from Elvis' love of fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches, includes fresh banana, peanut-butter cups, vanilla vodka and banana liquor topped with whipped cream. The Cousin Vinny, inspired by one of Yot's favorite films, is a malt with coffee concentrate, chocolate shavings, Kahlua and dark rum garnished with whipped cream and espresso beans.
The fully stocked bar is particularly strong in flavored vodkas. More than 100 beers are available, 30 rotating seasonally on tap; most range from $4 to $6. You might want to consider a designated driver when stopping by with friends.
J & L Grill Company, 2829 E. Carson St., South Side, is open from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sundays to Thursdays; 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. The kitchen closes at 10 p.m. Mondays to Thursdays and midnight Fridays and Saturdays. Details: 412-944-2300 or jlgrillcompany.com
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A fanatical birder blogging about Screech owls in owl box, backyard birding and wildlife in the Northeast USA.
Owl prowl II: Short eared and Long eared owls
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- Mel said...
Nice post! Great owl pictures :)
- March 3, 2008 at 6:07 PM
- mon@rch said...
Sound like such an amazing morning and love seeing your Long-eared Owl photos! Your Hermit Thrush is a great find also!
- March 3, 2008 at 8:31 PM
- RuthieJ said...
Those are great owl pictures--definitely worth freezing the extremities for!
- March 3, 2008 at 9:29 PM
- Owlman said...
Thanks for the compliments on the pictures although they hardly do the owls any justice. Ruthiej, good to hear from you again!
- March 4, 2008 at 10:11 AM
- Elaine said...
This is such a great post! I am originally from NJ, living in SW Florida now. Most of my birding was in southern Ocean County, and I have seen mostly waterfowl and backyard birds; no owls to speak of. I saw one short-eared once. I am hoping to soon get down to Cape Coral to see the Burrowing Owls. Anyway, I lived in the Princeton area for a while and I am somewhat familiar with Mercer. Where did you go on this day? Was it a refuge? I head up to Jersey now and then, and I'd love to see your spot. You seem to have a wealth of bird life in your neck of the woods, and I am eager to expand my birding adventures. Happy birding! :)
- March 6, 2008 at 8:01 PM
- Owlman said...
Elaine, I saw these particular owls at the Pole Farm in Mercer county. They have a large field on one side of the farm that is ideal for the SEO's. We definitely are lucky in that we do have a lot of birds in this neck of the woods. The owls are tought to find and you have to be lucky. I was hoping to track down some Saw whet, but I haven't had any luck yet. Burrowing owls are very cool and I'd love to see some.
- March 7, 2008 at 4:11 PM
- robin1 said...
Hi again! Where is the LEO roosting area...I am wondering how on all my visits I could have missed it!
- December 22, 2009 at 5:41 PM
- Owlman said...
Hi Robin1,
They are not there this year and I haven't found any pellets in the area at all. Shoot me an email at elearning05ATliveDOTcom and I'll give you some directions. Hopefully you'll share any owl locations you come across with me ;-)
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"I had two children in the project and both had a great time! The teacher was engaging and worked with all the students equally to enhance everyone's experience." – Parent of BBOYIZM dance class participant
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International Dance Day
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Flato Markham Theatre is pleased to offer students in Grade 4 to 12 the opportunity to participate in International Dance Day. Free dance showcase and workshops featuring dancers from Kaha:Wi Dance Theatre and KasheDance.
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Learn, perform and experience BBOY/BGIRL dance classes with BBOYIZM at Flato Markham Theatre! BBOY/BGIRL workshops will be taught by a professional dancer from the dance troupe, BBOYIZM. Students will learn Street and Hip Hop dance & culture in a fun and stimulating environment.
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Hello. I haven't posted here before, but I'm having an issue and I can't seem to solve it myself. If this was discussed somewhere else, please just link me to the thread. Thanks.
Some info: iPhone 3GS running 3.0.1, jail broke it with redsn0w, have OpenSSH, using iTunes 9 (in retrospection, this might have been a mistake, Idk)
There was some sort of "cannot read/write" error when I synced it to itunes late last night, and when I reconnected it and looked at the memory, it said I had 15 GBs of "other", and no music. I rebooted it a number of times; no good. I could restore it, but for obvious reasons I'd really rather not.
Bottom line: In Fugu, when I go to var/root/media, looking for my itunes music, there's nothing there, and I have no idea where else to look so that I can take off my "other" stuff (I assume that's my music but... mislabeled on my phone, for lack of a better term), stick the music back on through itunes and move on with my life.
Does anyone know where I might be able to find the 15 GBs of "other" and get it off my phone?
And, just out of curiosity, has this happened to anyone else? I did some Googling earlier this morning, but I just found one blog post about it and they just restored their phone. As I understood it, his phone wasn't even jailbroken, so it makes me wonder if this is an issue from apple or just a sad, rare occurrence that can happen with anyones phone, jailbroken or otherwise.
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"I loved the card. It was great quality and I loved that it looked like a postcard expecially considering that our wedding is somewhere tropical that one might send a postcard from :-)"
"The beautiful floral postcards we ordered for our save the date announcements were absolutely perfect. The paper and color quality was fantastic. We are so happy with our order and are definitely using Wedding Paper Divas for our wedding invitations and thank you cards!"


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Chances are you've heard about the disastrous production of the musical Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark thus far. The most expensive show ever to hit Broadway is also it's biggest trainwreck—even Sesame Street has taken notice. Except their parody is worth watching over and over again.
Check it out after the break.
(Robot6 via ComicsAlliance)