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I think a pool side Thursday is in order.
Sun screen, floppy hats and Ice Tea!
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I think a pool side Thursday is in order.
Sun screen, floppy hats and Ice Tea!
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Looks lovely - and tranquil ... wait 'til this crowd gets there!
I've Been Frosted
Oh that's AMAZING! I'll have an iced tea and here's a bunch of freshly laundered towels for everyone.
Gayle - self proclaimed Queen of Poop
Mommy to: Cali and Diego (nine year old kittens)
(RB furbabies: Rascal RB 10/11/03 (ferret), Sami RB 24/02/04 (dog), Trouble RB 10/08/05 (ferret), Miko RB 20/01/06 (ferret) and Sebastian RB 12/12/06(ferret), Sasha RB 17/10/09 (border collie cross)
I think Hurricanes are in order, since we're in the midst of a tropical storm.
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1 oz Jamaican dark rum
1 oz Bacardi® 151 rum
3 oz orange juice
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I've been finally defrosted by cassiesmom!
"Not my circus, not my monkeys!"-Polish proverb
Hokay, it's Sunday Fun-day...
Loaded up the cement mixer with hurricane juice......Done!
I think a floating chaise for whoever wants it and more ice tea....
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I laugh, therefore? I am.
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Currently enjoying an after snack of Jarlsberg cheese, Carrs Water crackers, and some dill pickles. Anyone want some?
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Aimee Marie Champagne, 26, became the bride of Nicholas Adam Bailey, 26, in an August 27, 2010 ceremony at St. Patrick Church, Springfield. A reception followed at The Carriage House at the Barney Estate, Springfield.
The bride is the daughter of Claudette Champagne of Springfield, and Sylvain Champagne of Springfield. The bridegroom is the son of Karen and Michael Bailey of Springfield.
Carissa Sue Kelliher, cousin of the groom, attended the bride, and Ben Dagenais served the groom.
The bride earned a bachelor's and master's degree from Springfield College. She is an occupational therapist with Mercy Medical Center.
The bridegroom earned a bachelor's degree from Westfield State University, and is a correction officer with the Conn. Dept. of Corrections.
The couple chose "By Your Side" by Sade as their wedding song.
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By Craig Robinson
A common theme at the pro-life rally at the State Capitol this week was that medical advances in the last 15 to 20 years have helped the pro-life cause. One speaker noted that young adults have grown up in an age where sonograms are often times the first pictures in their baby books. As society recognizes that life begins long before a baby draws its first breath, the pro-life movement in American grows stronger.
Back in January, Bloomberg Businessweek reported that in the last two years, 30 states have passed 135 new laws restricting abortion. The good news is that Iowa is one of those thirty states listed by the publication. The bad news is that Iowa doesn't deserve to be included on a list of states that have passed new restrictions on abortion. While science continues to bolster the pro-life argument across the country, nothing has been done in the Iowa legislature to restrict abortions or make them more rare in the last 15 years.
The last time a piece of pro-life legislation reached the Governor's desk in Iowa, Tom Vilsack was in office, and he promptly vetoed the measures each time. It didn't matter if it was a 24-hour waiting period, or something as non-confrontational as the Unborn Victims of Violence Act – Vilsack vetoed it. No legislation that protects innocent life or makes abortion more rare has landed on the governor's desk since.
In fact, the last time a piece of pro-life legislation was enacted in Iowa was in 1998, when Governor Terry Branstad signed into law a bill that banned the practice of partial birth abortions. Branstad also signed a parental notification law in 1996 and a statistical reporting law in 1997. It's be 40 years since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Roe, but for the last 15 years, Iowa has done nothing to protect innocent life.
The State of Iowa now ranks 37th in the Americans United for Life state ranking for 2013. If being in the bottom fourth of states isn't bad enough, Iowa ranks lowers on the list than any adjoining state. Nebraska is ranked sixth, Missouri eighth, South Dakota 13th, Wisconsin 21st, Minnesota 28th, Illinois 36th, and then Iowa comes in at 37th.
Many pro-life Iowans would point to the Democratic controlled Iowa Senate as the reason why little has been done on their issue, and there is some truth to that, but other states with far less conservative legislatures than Iowa have been able to make advances in the life movement. Even though Iowa has not signed any new abortion restrictions into law in the last 15 years, the issues are always debated in the legislature year in and year out.
Despite Democrats holding 26 of the 50 seats in the chamber, there are at least 25 pro-life votes to be had. Democrat Senator Joe Seng was the lone Democrat to participate in the rally on Monday. The other obstacle, 12 years of Democrats controlling the governor's office, was removed when Terry Branstad defeated Governor Chet Culver in 2010.
Despite having a Republican governor, a Republican majority in the Iowa House, and 25 pro-life votes in the Iowa Senate, the chances of Iowa joining the other 29 states that have passed numerous pro-life pieces of legislation into law in the past two years are slim to none. Yes, the fact that Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal has control over what bills are brought up for debate in the Senate is still an obstacle, but so too is the strategy that some pro-life legislators and groups have employed in recent years.
While numerous states passed fetal pain bills that would ban abortions after the 20th week of pregnancy, a similar effort in Iowa was blocked not by Democrats, but rather by some of the most ardent pro-life legislators because they believed the bill wasn't strong enough. This opposition came despite the fact that infamous late-term abortionist Leroy Carhart was openly speculating about opening a new abortion clinic specializing in the most gruesome types of abortion in Council Bluffs after his Omaha clinic was shut down as a result of similar legislation in Nebraska. As other states seized the opportunity to take additional steps to limit abortions, Iowa accomplished nothing because some legislators and pro-life leaders have stated that the only pro-life bill that they are interested in is personhood.
This year, a similar scenario is taking place again. While there is a real desire to ban web-cam abortions in Iowa or pass the late-term abortion ban like other states did last year, the bill that is being pushed this year is House File 138, known as the Equal Protection for Innocent Life bill. House File 138 redefines the term "person" to include a human being without regard to age of development, from the moment of conception when the zygote is formed, until natural death.
The bill is highly controversial, mainly because a woman who aborts her baby could be charged with murder along with the doctor who performs the abortion. The prospects of the bill advancing even in the Republican controlled House are slim, but this is the bill that some pro-family organizations have chosen to rally behind instead of something less controversial and more likely to find Democrat support in the Iowa Senate.
Proponents of House File 138 argue that the bill is the "gold standard" as far as pro-life legislation is concerned, but in backing the bill, they risk not making any progress at all. Proponents also argue that it's important to find out which legislators are really pro-life and which ones are not. The idea of using a highly controversial bill to gauge how pro-life Republican legislators are means they have no confidence about passing any piece of pro-life legislation, which is the wrong approach.
Until the pro-life movement in Iowa can unite around a common cause, progress seems unlikely. Daniel McConchie of Americans Untied for Life, the featured speaker at Monday's rally, offered some excellent advice that should be followed. McConchie told the crowd that was assembled under the Capitol's dome that there is no silver bullet or any one law that will overturn abortion in America.
McConchie right. And until Iowa legislators and the pro-life community recognize that incrementalism and progress are not bad things, Iowa is going to drop farther and farther behind other states when it comes to protecting innocent life.
It's time to stop using the life issue as a political football and focus on passing legislation that most Iowans would support and consider reasonable. The goal is to expand the culture of life, not win an award for who is the most conservative among us.
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Well, it's good to see that ace counter-terrorist agent Jack Bauer is alive and well and, yes, back. And look, apparently he's got that lady from "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" along to help out! Oh wait, no, is that Chloe O'Brian? Never mind. I guess it is.
The plot of the limited series "24: Live Another Day" finds fugitive Jack Bauer coming out of hiding in London in order to head off a massive terrorist attack. All the while, being hunted down by American forces dispatched by President James Heller and a British agent played by "Dexter" and "Chuck's" Yvonne Strahovski.
But he'll still have a bunch of cool gadgets, right? Since computer geek/hacker/genius Chloe O'Brian is also back, that seems pretty likely. Check out the first trailer for the upcoming series, shown during the Super Bowl, below.
The cast includes Kiefer Sutherland, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Kim Raver, William Devane, Yvonne Strahovski, Giles Matthey, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Michael Wincott and Judy Davis.
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Wizardry 8 - Dances with Rhinos
Jay Barnson continues his journey through Wizardry 8, reaching the Umpani:
Unfortunately, while the trip along the Arnika Road has gotten a little easier, it has become no shorter. If I don't feel like running, I'm being engaged of groups of nearly 20 monsters at a time sometimes. Duking it out can take ten minutes. Running doesn't take much less time. Frankly, it's a long and annoying trip.
But I could tell I got to Umpani territory when I saw a very industrial-looking bridge with electric lights. Sounded about right. Past this, I found a fort at the base of Mount Gigas, with units of sometimes a dozen Umpani marching around it. The Umpani have changed a little since Wizardry 7, but they still resemble a humanoid rhinoceros. With military uniforms, swords, and black powder pistols. And computers and space ships, of course. Kinda steampunk.
...and Jay has also been interviewed at the Alley of Infinite Angles about indie game development.
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this is one of the best non-specialist pieces abt stan lee i've ever read:
― pat rice memorial barbecue (Ward Fowler), Friday, 11 May 2012 13:52 (five years ago) Permalink
the Greg Oden piece is really good and IMO exactly the sort of thing this site *should* be doing
― frogbs, Friday, 11 May 2012 13:59 (five years ago) Permalink
I like this site, even though I find Simmons really annoying, unless he is talking about any team in the NBA except the Celtics.
Charles Pierce is excellent.
― One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Friday, 11 May 2012 14:14 (five years ago) Permalink
imo the site has like a 40/60 hit/miss ratio which really isn't all that bad. i do think they've assembled a pretty good stable of writers. the pop culture stuff seems to be kinda bland but it's not offensive which is probably half the battle.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 11 May 2012 14:15 (five years ago) Permalink
They are at least trying to be relatively intelligent. Most of ESPN content, on all of its platforms, is written/produced by morons, for morons, so to see at least an attempt at being smart is somewhat refreshing.
― One Way Ticket on the 1277 Express (Bill Magill), Friday, 11 May 2012 14:18 (five years ago) Permalink
it's certainly better than it was! the character pieces are definitely good, especially the Amarillo Slim one
― frogbs, Friday, 11 May 2012 14:19 (five years ago) Permalink
i really wish this wasn't the kind of thing molly lambert wrote for grantland:
― Mordy, Thursday, 4 October 2012 21:15 (five years ago) Permalink
What is an example of something she has written that isn't a complete waste of time.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Thursday, 4 October 2012 21:34 (five years ago) Permalink
i like her stuff from thisrecording.com:
― Mordy, Thursday, 4 October 2012 21:53 (five years ago) Permalink
would much rather read about sweet celeb gossip than some stupid bullshit about telephone poles
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 4 October 2012 22:02 (five years ago) Permalink
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 4 October 2012 22:04 (five years ago) Permalink
i find the celeb gossip stuff really boring and i don't even get that she's doing anything interesting w/ it? idk, celeb gossip is maybe a cultural blind spot for me and maybe there are grantland readers that are like, "thank god molly lambert is finally breaking down gossip in a compelling + vital way, this was much more important than when she was writing critical theory about gender identity." seems like a waste to me.
― Mordy, Thursday, 4 October 2012 22:14 (five years ago) Permalink
mordy totally otm grantland wastes the great molly lambert :(
― horseshoe, Friday, 5 October 2012 01:59 (five years ago) Permalink
i like gossip a lot but i don't get that feature
all the hyperlinks in her thisrecording pieces drive me up the wall, because im incapable of preventing myself from hovering each one and evaluating if its worth opening in a new tab. i hate it!!!
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Friday, 5 October 2012 02:13 (five years ago) Permalink
haha. i still read grantland, i like that there's a writer powerful and popular enough that a mega corporation would give him an entire website and staff just to keep him happy. as far as simmons toys go it's no 30 for 30 but i do appreciate that it does have some interest in longform stuff, that it's clearly guided by someone who's interested in some idea of 'good writing' as opposed to standard seo stuff. nobody w/ any familiarity w/ simmons can be surprised by the gap between it's sports coverage vs it's pop culture coverage - model for sports coverage is the national and golden age si, model for pop coverage is vulture. he's a guy who's seen almost famous a million times (and will let you know) but has little to no interest in actually reading lester bangs. feel like stuff like the lambert tabloid thing is simmons pandering to some idea of what he imagines his wife wants to read or providing cover for his sorta odd interest in stuff like reality tv, celeb gossip, etc.
― balls, Friday, 5 October 2012 02:30 (five years ago) Permalink
yeah that feels about right
― call all destroyer, Friday, 5 October 2012 02:31 (five years ago) Permalink
grantland is a blackhole
― lag∞n, Friday, 5 October 2012 02:33 (five years ago) Permalink
at the beginning of grantland she wrote more sustained celeb gossip type pieces, like a "normal" version of her stuff for thisrecording. i remember liking the one about jennifer aniston. i just don't get the almost-copying-pages-of-us-weekly-verbatim new-style lambert columns. they're unreadable!
― horseshoe, Friday, 5 October 2012 02:36 (five years ago) Permalink
yah they're pretty useless
― call all destroyer, Friday, 5 October 2012 02:38 (five years ago) Permalink
she doesnt tweet v much anymore either
― lag∞n, Friday, 5 October 2012 02:38 (five years ago) Permalink
i miss you, molly!
― horseshoe, Friday, 5 October 2012 02:40 (five years ago) Permalink
maybe she's working on a book? i hope so!
― horseshoe, Friday, 5 October 2012 02:41 (five years ago) Permalink
i would even read a whole book about goddamn mad men that she's so obsessed with.
― horseshoe, Friday, 5 October 2012 02:42 (five years ago) Permalink
i would read that book
― call all destroyer, Friday, 5 October 2012 02:42 (five years ago) Permalink
they have both a good baseball writer (Jonah Keri) and a good football one (Bill Barnwell), plus every once in a while there's a neat podcast (like the Obama one), it's not exactly a great website but I kinda dig it now
― frogbs, Friday, 5 October 2012 02:43 (five years ago) Permalink
okay they got Norm MacDonald writing for them now, I'm officially a fan
We were trying to come up with New Year's resolutions. Adam, sober now for over a year but nonetheless still somewhat interesting, said, "Hey, do New Year's resolutions always have to be good for you?" The thought had never occurred to me. It'd be a helluva lot easier to stick with a New Year's resolution if your resolution was to become a big fat guy, right?
― frogbs, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 16:42 (four years ago) Permalink
The physical Grantland books themselves are beautiful.
― sandwich shortage (Eazy), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 16:46 (four years ago) Permalink
― Mordy, Thursday, 31 January 2013 19:58 (four years ago) Permalink
the Grantland 64 song best of the millenium thus far bracket is.....kinda depressing? maybe of sociological interest?
Tenative conclusions: white guys from 35-45 are overinvested in thinking Jay and Kanye are still in their prime.....
8 remaining songs look to be:
Rolling, Maybe, Paris, Empire, Paper, Ignition, Yeah!, Hey Ya!
― Swag Heathen (theStalePrince), Monday, 26 August 2013 19:03 (four years ago) Permalink
kanye is still in his prime
― Treeship, Monday, 26 August 2013 19:05 (four years ago) Permalink
i voted paper but brightside seems to be winning atm
― Mordy , Monday, 26 August 2013 19:06 (four years ago) Permalink
thought it was pretty funny how they just c+p'ed p4k's best of the decade list
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 27 August 2013 05:52 (four years ago) Permalink
― Treeship, Monday, August 26, 2013 12:05 PM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Yeah in the same way that Kobe is.
― I'm pissed off for greatness (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Tuesday, 27 August 2013 06:00 (four years ago) Permalink
― Mordy , Wednesday, 28 August 2013 23:51 (four years ago) Permalink
No ILX discussion of FiveThirtyEight/Nate Silver going to ESPN for a Grantland style multi-author site?First piece is hosted on Grantland.http://www.grantland.com/fivethirtyeight/story/_/id/9802433/nate-silver-us-government-shutdown
Kinda curious where this is headed - ESPN doing politics? Bring together all the stat nerds from around the sports spectrum (even though they don't work nearly as well in other sports as in baseball)?
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 11 October 2013 04:59 (four years ago) Permalink
re: Grantland itself, now that you can safely ignore Bill Simmons content and Klosterman/Carles write rarely if ever, it's gotten to be pretty awesome, missteps like the song poll aside (and that was clearly Simmons exerting himself, right?).
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Friday, 11 October 2013 05:01 (four years ago) Permalink
it was discussed somewhere, i'm not sure where. he was on the bs report shortly after it was announced and it sounded like he has pretty ambitious plans w/ grantland the definite model. sounds like the times was not a happy fit and w/ the stuff coming out about krugman lately i'd say it's safe to say there's a culture of cluelessness there. there was some spec that he was moving more towards tv and he confirmed he'll do things for abc news re: politics and for olbermann re: sports but from the podcast it sounded like that was a very minor thing, that it definitely wasn't why he left. i think those pop culture polls are more a vestige of vulture being a template for the site than any push by simmons (doubt he'd heard half the songs on that poll tbh).
― balls, Friday, 11 October 2013 05:13 (four years ago) Permalink
American Politics Thread 2013: I'm a cool Rodham grandma in the USA
didn't really say anything particularly interesting tho
― mookieproof, Friday, 11 October 2013 06:05 (four years ago) Permalink
yeah there's a couple of posts back in july, but they don't say much interesting either (for some reason morbs thinks he's only going to be writing about baseball now, which uh isn't the case). some stuff here - http://deadspin.com/espns-nate-silver-is-here-to-answer-your-questions-951328525
― balls, Friday, 11 October 2013 06:27 (four years ago) Permalink
posted this in the race thread but figure it'd be just as relevant here
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 11 June 2014 20:05 (three years ago) Permalink
sort of what i suspected was going on
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 20:09 (three years ago) Permalink
thought revive might be for this pos:
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 11 June 2014 20:11 (three years ago) Permalink
i watched these errol morris docs on tv last night, they were all pretty good but this one was the best.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 2 March 2015 14:57 (two years ago) Permalink
writing a feature at an adult awards festival is so passé but since it's molly lambert doing it i'm willing to make an exception:http://grantland.com/features/porntopia/
― Mordy, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 22:12 (two years ago) Permalink
― scott seward, Friday, 30 October 2015 18:18 (two years ago) Permalink
sucks for their good writers
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 October 2015 18:26 (two years ago) Permalink
Yep. The Grantland writers on non-sports stuff will need to find other outlets. Some of the sports writers may still survive on ESPN.com
FiveThirtyEight and The Undefeated will survive
― curmudgeon, Friday, 30 October 2015 19:12 (two years ago) Permalink
@joe_sheehan We get the sports media we deserve.
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Friday, 30 October 2015 19:36 (two years ago) Permalink
The Dissolve, Grantland ...
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 October 2015 19:46 (two years ago) Permalink


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Book Review: Central Outbreak Response, Genesis-A Tale of the Zombie Apocalypse
So I started following RJ Kennett's posts on Facebook. He had a zombie novel out, and several times I read the back cover blurb and the reviews the book received. It had captured my interest. Finally, when the author sent me a copy of the book to read and review, I was excited. I try not to judge books by their covers. I also read reviews with a grain of salt. Central Outbreak Response: Genesis came in the mail at the perfect time. I was able to dig right in and start reading.
Max Newsome is former military, enrolled in college, and sitting in class when the outbreak unfolds and escalates. The action is that immediate. Convincing students inside the building that whatever is taking place on campus is not . . . normal, Max rallies as many people as possible. The goal is to fortify the building they are in and find a way to fight back. He knows all too well that the chaos outside the doors will not stay outside the doors.
Once Marshall Law is declared, Max and a small band of survivors are picked-up by the military and encouraged to work for Central Outbreak Response (COR). The details include clean-up, defense, IT and trying to figure out exactly what caused the epidemic/pandemic that is consuming the country, and much of the world.
Max is hell bent on protecting his friends. His time in the military is filled with a plague of nightmares. The war he'd been involved in had not been easy. He had returned home, yes, but uninjured? No. The mental wounds and scars forced him to relive flashbacks that, if anything, kept him moving forward and had him constantly pushing on. The biggest problem might not be the zombies, but the conflict between the three groups: the military, COR, and the survivors. It seems like each group knows more than they are letting on to. Max wants not only answers, but maybe distance, as well.
Kennett writes like a seasoned professional. COR: Gensis is fast-reading from page one, until the end. The action and tension never lets up. The charcters, from Max to his friends, Arthur and Eva, are three dimensional, and important. You care about them. You care about what might happen next. And you worry for their safety. While I only first learned about Kennett and his book two months ago, he has secured me as a fan. I can not wait for more apocalyptic titles from this author!
I give COR: Genesis a well earned, and easily deserved 5 out of 5 Stars!


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I purchased these re-blooming irises because I had purchased another color in the past and wanted to add the white to make them "pop" in my garden. Unfortunately, they haven't grown at all. They're the same size as they were when I rec'd them, but my others keep growing.
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I ordered a number of different colors of re-blooming iris. All the rhizomes were tiny and sad looking. After an entire summer, they have not grown one bit and still look just as sad.
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Irises are my favorite flowers. It is harder to get them to bloom in their first year of planting. Seeing as how I had to transplant this iris along with a few others and forgot to label them, they have not been placed in their more permanent location. Waiting for them to bloom is very time consuming as I will have to hope for next year to find out which one is the immortality to place it. I have lost one iris to a band of lilies and I hope it was not immortality as that would be ironic.
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This was a repeat order from last year. American Meadows' packaging, shipping and product quality far exceed any other company that I have dealt with. Will shop with you again as soon as my small garden has room. Will recommmend you to anyone who needs a reliable source for plants.
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I built an new bed and filled it with American meadows bulbs and flowers and I could not be more please with all of it!! The majority was Iris and I love all the colors, the varities, and the re-bloomers are coming out now. Just beautiful!!
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Icelandic filmmaker Hillmar Oddsson directs this psychological drama based on the 1985 novel by Vigdís Grímsdóttir. Ingvar Eggert Sigurdsson stars as Grimur, a lonely 40-something with a tragic past, who finds himself emotionally crippled in the face of problems in his current relationship with art teacher, Linda (Ruth Olafsdottir). Haunted by a childhood tragedy that he thinks he could have prevented, Grimur has suffered from terrifying nightmares and premonitions throughout his adult life. In his younger years, a mystical second sight tormented him with visions of the future, but now he must learn to let go of the past and accept the good things that life has to offer.
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Leslie Kritzer is a Christmas person. "I love the holidays!" she says. "I love the decorations. I love the weather. And the city and the food and the cooking and buying presents – it's all just so fun!"
It's a good thing too, since Kritzer is currently starring in "Elf," the musical adaptation of the hit film that returned to New York this holiday season after a successful 2010 run. Kritzer plays Jovie, the bitter holiday employee who falls for Buddy, a human who grew up at the North Pole under the belief he is a Christmas elf.
Playing the romantic lead is new for Kritzer, who is known for standout in comedic roles "Hairspray" and "Legally Blonde"; dramatic roles in "A Catered Affair" and "Sondheim on Sondheim"; and – well – totally wacky roles with "Leslie Kritzer Is Patti LuPone at Les Mouches" and her infamous Liza Minnelli impressions. But it's the unexpected that keeps us watching Kritzer time and time again.
You may love the holidays, but your character in "Elf" does not.
Leslie Kritzer: My character works at Macy's, and she's not too happy with the way her life is turning out. She's a little disgruntled. So yeah, she's not a Christmas person. But she meets Buddy (Jordan Gelber) and there's something about him she finds appealing and fun. It's a classic little love story.
Is it hard falling in love on stage eight times a week?
Kritzer: Luckily I'm playing opposite somebody who I have great chemistry with. I love Jordan Gelber. We've known one another for several years, and he is so talented and adorable and easy to fall in love with on stage. That helps.
But falling for Buddy? I related a lot to how I fell in love with my fiancée (musical director Vedeem Fickner). I was kind of jaded with the whole dating scene when we met. When we started going out, I fell in love with him for who he was. And it's no different than Jovie and Buddy. She's falling in love with him because he brings out the best in her. He makes her feel beautiful and brings out the fun in her. Buddy's really a little kid, and inside everyone is a little kid. He brings out that part in her and that optimism and kind of chips away, and she falls in love with him.
How familiar where you with the material before you joined the show? Had you seen the 2010 production?
Kritzer: I hadn't! I saw the film when it first came out, so that was the only thing I kind of knew. And I didn't even remember the movie! I try not to listen to cast recordings of a show if I'm going to do a remount, so I just started with the first day of rehearsal and took it from there!
It's a really good, fun show. This is a book musical. Everyone in it is so good, and the music is amazing. We wish we could have this much fun this all year long because it's a great story and the audiences eat it up! It snows at the end of the show so all of a sudden all the kids in their elf hats totally freak out.
In "Sondheim on Sondheim," you worked with Barbara Cook, Norm Lewis, Tom Wopat, and Vanessa Williams in a show directed by James Lapine singing the songs of Stephen Sondheim. Did you get a chance to pinch yourself?
Kritzer: It was unbelievable. There's a picture that my friend took of Stephen Sondheim and I in rehearsal with James Lapine, reworking the lyrics to "Now You Know" to make it one full song for me. And I'll never forget that moment. I was just like, "I'm a colleague. I'm no longer a fan, I'm a colleague." And to sing some of the best music ever written and to have them entrust me with that, was a real honor.
How does one even prepare to start working with someone like Stephen Sondheim?
Kritzer: You know, you go to school and you train and everything, but no one can prepare you for those moments. Going inside the process of this brilliant man was fascinating. And to spend time with him? I mean, come on. You just have to be ready for those moments to happen and to listen and take it in.
You also starred in "A Catered Affair," which although critically-acclaimed, closed after five months. Is it hard to be part of a project that doesn't do as well as you hoped?
Kritzer: It is. I was depressed after we closed for a while just because it was a quality show and quality theater. And it was the first time I was playing a dramatic lead on Broadway, and I worked very hard in that show and I was really very proud of the work that I did. It was a beautiful show and one of my favorite theatrical experiences. And I'm just very grateful that I had the opportunity in the first place.
You've played both leading and supporting characters. Is there a difference in the way you approach both types of characters?
Kritzer: You approach them like anything else. No matter how small or how big, they have a journey; they have an arc; and they have to be specific. In "Legally Blonde," from the first reading, I was like, I need a pair of sunglasses and I need gum. Each week, I added a little more. It's about creating really distinct characters.
"Elf" runs at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre through Jan. 6. For more information, visit www.elfmusical.com.


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Season 2, Episode 202: Aired on Jan. 17, 2009
A shelf can be just a piece of plywood. But the Woodsmith editors show how to add the right edging, either veneer tape or solid-wood, you can enhance the look. Or, add a wider strip to balance the look while adding strength to support the weight of all the books.
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A Southern California wildfire that destroyed seven homes and threatened the mountain town of Idyllwild is sluggish after a thunderstorm.
Lee Meyer of the U.S. Forest Service says the fire above Palm Springs didn't move overnight and crews are concentrating Monday on surrounding it on ridges thousands of feet up in the San Jacinto Mountains.
The blaze is now 68 percent contained.
Thousands of evacuees were allowed back home Sunday as a thunderstorm dumped up to 2 inches of rain on portions of the 42 1/2-square-mile fire.
Meyer says more storms are expected - but along with rain they could bring a chance of floods, lightning and mudslides. Crews are having to watch out for possible falling trees.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
Heavy rain aided firefighters who made substantial gains against a week-old wildfire that burned across 42.6 square miles as thousands of people were allowed to return to their homes in Southern California mountain communities near Palm Springs.
With the arrival of an inch and a half of rain Sunday, firefighters began to beat back the flames and had the blaze 68 percent contained. Rain continued to fall off and on throughout much of the day. Winds were only 5 to 10 mph and humidity was 95 percent.
"With diminished fire activity, firefighters made great progress with line construction, particularly along the east side toward Palm Springs," U.S. Forest Service spokesman John Miller said.
The fire was still far from extinguished, however.
The thunderstorm helping douse the flames also brought erratic winds and the threat of flooding, all hazardous conditions for fire crews.
Some 6,000 people fled the idyllic little towns that dot the San Jacinto Mountains between Palm Springs and Hemet after the fire broke out Monday and quickly raged across the heavily wooded area. Twenty-three structures, including the seven homes, were destroyed. There were no reports of injuries.
The Riverside County Sheriff's Department lifted evacuation orders for the communities of Idyllwild, Fern Valley and Pine Cove, from which thousands had fled the advancing flames five days before.
Evacuation orders for several smaller nearby communities had been lifted earlier in the day.
The fire was less than two miles from Idyllwild on its western flank. It was a similar distance from Palm Springs below on the desert floor, where an enormous plume of smoke could be seen.
The Palm Springs Aerial Tramway, which carries people nearly 6,000 feet up a rugged canyon to a mountain peak overlooking the tourist resort, was closed Sunday because of unhealthy air quality. Crews were also building fire breaks in the area.
Authorities have said the fire was human-caused, but wouldn't say whether it was accidental or intentional.
More than 1,800 firefighters battled the blaze Sunday, using bulldozers, helicopters and other equipment.


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People who want to visit the United States could be asked to hand over their social-media passwords to officials as part of enhanced security checks, the country's top domestic security chief said, NBC News reported.
Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly told Congress on Tuesday the measure was one of several being considered to vet refugees and visa applicants from seven Muslim-majority countries.
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Note to Senate: Ask Mary Jo White About DPAs
To show he is getting tougher on Wall Street, President Obama has nominated Mary Jo White, the former head of the U.S. Attorney's office in New York, as chair of the SEC. White oversaw the prosecutions of John Gotti and the terrorists responsible for the 1993 World Trade Center bombings and is a veteran of white collar criminal prosecutions and defense.
Many Americans applaud such displays of toughness, worried that "too big to fail" means "too big to jail." That is, criminal indictment of a large financial institution threatens its existence and, along with it, economic recovery.
But prosecutors are getting tough on big banks, evident in the recent LIBOR interest rate rigging cases, such as that against Royal Bank of Scotland announced this week, and the money laundering case at HSBC made at year-end. Prosecutors resolved these cases by obtaining admissions of guilt and large fines in exchange for deferring prosecution under agreements that require good corporate behavior for several years.
Under such deferred prosecution agreements, or DPAs, prosecutors flex their muscles by imposing extensive internal reforms at the company. Their goal is to change corporate culture to promote greater accountability and likelihood of compliance with law. Some terms, however, may go overboard, and there is reason to worry about unintended consequences.
Such deals typically require the company to hire an army of compliance officers to roam the company in search of rogues and to train employees in the best practices of compliance programming. In many cases, DPAs require hiring an outside consultant to direct additional steps to be taken and an independent monitor to watch over all the changes during the probation period.
But installing such personnel and programs is no guarantee of succeeding in promoting any particular culture or result. Corporations differ in their histories, philosophies, and business models, negating the possibility of a one-size-fits-all approach to altering culture in desired ways. (For a dramatic example of the danger, consider the experience at AIG from 2005 to 2008, which I document in the new book The AIG Story, and which is summarized in this week's review of the book in the Wall Street Journal.) Prosecutors often do not understand corporate governance well enough to direct reforms and they rarely explain their reasons when they impose such changes.
Prosecutors should enforce the law and hold people and institutions accountable for violations. When prudent they should settle a matter on terms that may include internal corporate reforms. But they also must make an effort to assure that the reforms they propose will work with the valid parts of the corporate cultures where they are implanted. Failure to do so can be disastrous. When the Senate evaluates Ms. White's nomination for SEC chair, Senators would do well to ask what she thinks about using DPAs to reform corporate culture.


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Jost-Stoeckeler Wedding
Joelle Jost and Erik Stoeckeler were married on Aug. 11, 2012 at the Jost family farm in Morris. Joelle is the daughter of Jane and Jerry Jost of Morris and Erik is the son of Dr. Martha Klager of Eagan and Dr. Joel Stoeckeler of Hudson, Wis. Joelle and Erik were attended by their siblings, Jeremy Jost of Denver, Colo., and Kristen Stoeckeler of Minneapolis. Judge Charles Glasrud was the officiant. Local grandparents are Betty Jost of Morris and the late Ray Jost. Joelle and Erik met while attending Concordia College in Moorhead and now live in Roseville. Joelle is employed as a case manager by Northeast Contemporary Services. Erik is employed as a nursing assistant by Saint Joseph's Hospital and is attending school to become a registered nurse. The couple enjoyed a honeymoon trip to Stillwater and Ruttger's Resort before returning home to Roseville.


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Today I want to share the best recipe for lemon cupcakes that I found as a result of my taste testing methods.
I'm always on the hunt to find the best recipes. I am constantly putting one recipe up against another in hopes of finding a clear winner! I call it my own little version of cupcake wars. Today I want to share the recipe for the best lemon cupcakes, {one of my very favorite cupcakes} that was found as a result of my little taste testing methods.
Step One: Google some recipes for any particular topic. I read reviews and go with ones that seem to be a hit!
Step Two: Make them and pay close attention to all directions so you make it how they were intended to be made.
Step Three: Have as many friends and neighbors that will volunteer for the calories, taste all trials and give you a fair vote. In order to keep it fair, I always make the topping/frosting constant when I'm just looking for the best cake recipe.
You can see that the three I tried looked a little different. For this trial, the winner was this recipe (from Your Home Based Mom) and I added something of my own too. This was the easiest recipe I tried and they were a big hit!
Lemon Cupcakes
1 pkg of (betty crocker) lemon cake mix
1 small pkg jello vanilla instant pudding
4 eggs
3/4 c water
3/4 c oil
1 c sour cream
zest of 1 lemon
juice of 1 lemon
Stir it up and evenly fill 24 cupcake papers. Bake at 350 until a toothpick comes out clean. They will just barely be starting to brown in a couple spots. My oven only took 15 minutes. The key to moist cupcakes is not to over bake! Of course you don't want them under baked either so it's a fine line.
As a result, these cupcakes are beautiful and perfectly domed! And they have a strong lemon flavor!
I used this cream cheese frosting (from my baking addiction) recipe because it was already my favorite!
And then I added my secret sprinkles which are crushed up lemon heads. A little dusting of this and it adds an even more awesome kick. It almost looks like rock candy or course sanding sugar. I've also added lemon heads to lemon cookies!
This is a really lemony treat!
I wrapped them up in my favorite clear boxes that show off these beauties!
I tied it with a strip of fabric instead of ribbon for a homey vibe.
Yes, I over-think every detail. It's how I roll. 🙂
Thanks for letting me stop in and share my research! I'm looking forward to more baking experiments!
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For weeks, the race between City Council candidates Jill Galvez and Pat Aguilar to qualify for a runoff in the November election has been so nail-bitingly close that nobody dared call a winner.
But with virtually all the votes now counted, Aguilar has reclaimed a narrow lead, which will most assuredly enable her to compete in the fall against Larry Breitfelder for Seat Two on the Chula Vista City Council.
Four candidates ran for the seat on June 8, but no one received more than 50 percent of the vote. In such cases, the two top vote-getters compete in a runoff election.
The competition for second place between Aguilar and Galvez has been wrought with flip-flops and virtual ties. At times, a handful of votes separated the two.
Although Aguilar, 64, was ahead this week by 49 votes, county Registrar of Voters Deborah Seiler warned that the results are still unofficial.
"There is no winner until we certify the results on July 6," she said.
Aguilar, president of Crossroads II civic group and a retired planner at UCLA, did not return a call seeking comment. In the past, she has said she intends to be a staunch advocate for quality-of-life issues and making Chula Vista the South Bay capital of health care.
Breitfelder, a 49-year-old investor in the real estate market, said during the campaign that he would not bow to special interests. Both Breitfelder, a Republican, and Aguilar, a Democrat, have been critical of Mayor Cheryl Cox and the city's financial instability.
Cox, who was elected in June to her second term as mayor, is in the minority on a mostly Democratic council. That scenario is unlikely to change in November, when voters choose a new City Council representative to replace John McCann, who is termed out.


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This blogger owes Joe Berrios an apology.
On March 21, I wrote that Berrios had a bad election night, because his daughter, a five-term incumbent state representative, was nearly defeated in a primary by Will Guzzardi, a 24-year-old former Internet journalist who moved to Chicago two years ago.
As Russ Stewart points out in the Chicago Daily Observer, Berrios, the County Assessor and chairman of the Cook County Democratic Party, actually had a very good election night. The party's slated candidates won 21 out of 24 races. Dorothy Brown was re-elected as Clerk of the Circuit Court. Mary Jane Theis was elected to the Illinois Supreme Court. In both those races, Berrios's candidate beat the candidate of Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle. Preckwinkle, a good-government reformer, has enormous personal popularity but is ineffective as a political fixer. Berrios, who embodies the grotesqueries of Machine politics by hiring as many friends and relatives as he can stuff on the public payroll, is the most loathed politician in the county. Even in Berrios's own neighborhood, his name is so toxic it almost cost his daughter her job. But he knows how to do the one thing a Machine boss is expected to do: win elections.
Stewart writes that Berrios is particularly adept as screwing over politicians who've screwed over his daughter. He successfully defeated Appellate Court Justice Rudy Garcia because "back in 2004, Garcia had the temerity to rule against an attempt to knock Toni Berrios's primary opponent off the ballot."
Now, the Godfather of Cook County is out to whack all the Northwest Side politicians who either a) supported Will Guzzardi, or b) didn't work hard enough for Toni.
"He (Berrios) gets results," said [a] Democratic strategist. "And he also gets even." Already in Big Daddy's cross-hairs are Aldermen Proco Joe Moreno (1st), Rey Colon (35th) and John Arena (45th), who face voters in 2015.
Moreno actively and enthusiastically backed Munoz, Garcia and Guzzardi. Colon's incompetence got him removed from the ballot for ward Democratic committeeman, and the Logan Square-based 35th Ward went for Guzzardi by 1,131-781 (59 percent). And Arena's "sin" was that his 45th Ward sanitation superintendent, Adam Corona, spent an egregious amount of time working with Moreno to elect Guzzardi, and Guzzardi won the 45th Ward's four 39th District precincts by 260-200 over Berrios. All three can expect consequences.
And Big Daddy cannot be pleased with the performance of 38th Ward Committeeman Patti Jo Cullerton, sister of Alderman Tim Cullerton. Of the 38th Ward's 17 precincts in the 39th District, centered on Portage Park southwest of Six Corners, Guzzardi won 1,013-916. If Patti Jo hankers for any future slating for countywide office, those hopes are now Dead On Arrival.
Such are the contradictions of being Joe Berrios. If he weren't so blatant about bending Cook County government to meet the interests of the Berrios Family, his daughter's reformer opponent would not have been so well received in the 39th District. But if he weren't such a tyrant, he'd be a less effective party boss. We'll see whether the latter quality allows him to get revenge for an electoral embarrassment that was the fault of the former quality.
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