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Ford has been in the news over the last few years because it was the only major American car company that didn't need a taxpayer bailout to get through the economic downturn. But Ford's also been in the news because it's been making great cars again. As an American, I was embarrassed by the cars we were putting out in the 80s and 90s.
Let's face it, Japan handed us our hat by making cars that were just better all the way around. But American cars are back!
Arguments about the which American car company is the best will continue for a long time now that they've survived what looked like a fatal misstep. But considering that Henry Ford started the whole thing, and revolutionized industry in the process, I will always throw my lot in with Ford. And of all the models that Ford has rolled out over the decades, none have become a bigger icon than the Mustang.
For this playlist I've selected ten songs that sing the praises of the Ford Mustang -- a car that you will find woven through the fabric of American culture.
What's your favorite Mustang song?
Mustang Songs
1. My Mustang Ford - Chuck Berry
2. Mustang Sally - Wilson Pickett
3. Wild Wild Mustang - Dick Dale & His Del-Tones
4. Mustang Ford - T. Rex
5. Go Mustang - The Neanderthals
6. 65 Mustang - Five for Fighting
7. Black Sunshine - White Zombie
8. Ford Mustang - Tim Workman
9. Mustang Burn - Jack Ingram
10. Rollin' In My 5.0 - Vanilla Ice
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Monsoon has arrived and it's surely time to do some shopping for your kids. If you are hopping around town and haven't traveled or had a friend or family visiting who could bring in the best rain wear for you then here is how you could shop. We pick the best of all the stuff that's on floors to choose from. One of our favourite kids brand is Stephen Joseph but you can also choose from the various themes like Princess, Dora, Pirates, Sea creatures or plain solids
Kids have their own sense of fashion and you know they won't compromise on anything when it comes to buying umbrellas, raincoats or rainy shoes of their choice. Don't fret!!
We bring to you the top 5 places to shop for monsoon wear for kids.
1) Babyoye.com
If you are searching for one stop for your little boys and girls rainwear then this is your destination. What we like is the wide range of rain wear of different cartoon characters like Dora the explorer, Barbie, car, Ben10 and many more offered by them.
2) Metro
At metro, you will find shoes that are fashionable and also serve the purpose especially for girls. We adore crocs beige and crocs purple, which are in fashion this season.
3) Redlily.com
If you are looking for simple rain wear then you must visit this site. Their reversible rain wear is quite simple and is available in a lot of colours.
4) Firstcry.com
This one is another really good place to shop for monsoon wear for your kids. We not only love their amazing collection but also their 'monsoon carnival' discount offers available on different products apart from monsoon collection.
5) Kinderhomes,New Delhi
Here is another wonderful place to shop for monsoon for Delhites. Right from pirates to butterflies, they have great offerings at great prices. You can check there Facebook page here.
That were our best monsoon picks for kids. What are yours?
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PERIOD OF ADJUSTMENT Plays TheatreSquared, 12/6-30
TheatreSquared will open Tenneessee Williams' only comedy, set on Christmas Eve and rarely seen since its 1961 premiere, this week in a new production directed by Broadway veteran Sean Patrick Reilly. After a disastrous wedding night, George deposits Isabel at the home of his old army buddy, Ralph-whose own wife has just walked out-and promptly disappears. The unexpectedly warmhearted and poignant drama that follows is vintage Williams, with all the hallmarks that have defined him as one of America's greatest playwrights.
Following a preview performance December 6, Period of Adjustment opens Friday, December 7 and plays through Sunday, December 30 in the intimate Studio Theatre at Walton Arts Center's Nadine Baum Studios, with performances Thursdays at 7:30, Fridays at 7:30, Saturdays and 7:30 (and 2:00 on Dec. 15 and 23), and Sundays at 2:00 and 7:00. Tickets start at $24 ($10/under 30) at the Walton Arts Center Box Office, and may be purchased at (479) 443-5600 or at theatre2.org.
"It's stunning that so few audiences across the country have seen this gem of a work by Tennessee Williams," said T2 Artistic Director Robert Ford. "We're thrilled to help rediscover it. Like every great holiday story, it's a tale of redemption-four people in love trying to find their ways back to each other through a thicket of emotions, expectations and simple human mistakes. You really root for them, and that's why it's lovely that-in this rare case-Williams has written a comedy."
TheatreSquared's new production is directed by Sean Patrick Reilly. Trained at Brown, Harvard, as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Reilly's career as an actor and director spans Broadway, regional stages, television and film. Directing credits include the award-winning current Off Broadway hit Cloud 8; PREY at the New York International Fringe Festival; Tennessee Williams' Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen (Soho Rep.); Terry Neal's Future (HERE Theatre); The Killer Inside Me (Promenade Theatre); In Our Time (Atlantic Theater); Holy Water (Flea) Here We Are Mrs. Parker (La Mama); Pvt. Wars; (Harold Clurman Theatre); Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (Players Theatre); and A Lie of the Mind (Second Story). He appeared on Broadway in Tracy Letts' Superior Donuts and Martin McDonough's The Beauty Queen of Leenane. He has also appeared at Atlantic Theater Company, Playwrights Horizons, Signature Theatre, The Public/NYSF, Naked Angels, The Cherry Lane, NYTW, Second Stage, Circle in the Square, La Mama, Circle Rep, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Westport Playhouse, Alley Theatre, Huntington Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Trinity Rep, ART, Dallas Theatre Center, Kennedy Center, Royal Shakespeare Company, Edinburgh Festival, and others. Film and Television: ARGO; A Wife Alone; Fair Game; Howl; Following Bliss; Something Borrowed; Solitary Man; The Sorcerer's Apprentice; Man of the Century; Jerry Maguire; State and Main; Sleepers; "Blue Bloods"(CBS); "Bored to Death (HBO)";"MildrEd Pierce"(HBO); "Damages " (FX); "Third Watch" (NBC); "The Black Donnellys"(NBC); and "Law and Order" (NBC).
The cast for Period of Adjustment includes: Bryce Kemph (It's a Wonderful Life, Moonlight and Magnolias, Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol); David Mason, Elizabeth France, and Madeleine James. The creative team includes: Sean Patrick Reilly (director); Anna Lucia DeDe-Panken (stage manager); Josh Tillotson (production head); Alan Edward Schwanke (scenic design); Michael J. Riha (lighting design); Latricia Reichman (costume design); Will Eubanks (sound design); Ginny Headrick (properties design); and Emily Bohannan (assistant stage manager).
Though a relative stranger to the American stage for fifty years, Period of Adjustment was a breakout success in its recent London revival. "You must see this play," wrote the critic for the Sunday Times. "It's like a diamond cut with its own stardust."
Tickets for Period of Adjustment are on sale now at the Walton Arts Center Box Office, and can be reserved by calling (479) 443-5600 or visiting theatre2.org. Tickets are $22-$34. The Opening Night performance on December 7 includes a champagne toast at intermission and a post-show reception with the cast and creative team catered by BHK on the Square. Through the "30 under 30" youth access program, 30 $10 tickets are reserved for patrons under the age of 30 at every performance. Group discounts of up to 15% are also available for groups of eight or more. Recommended for ages 13 and up due to mild adult language.
TheatreSquared's locally produced and nationally acclaimed productions reach 22,000 patrons each year. The company is Northwest Arkansas's only year-round professional theatre, offering a unique audience experience in its intimate 175-seat theatre at Walton Arts Center's Nadine Baum Studios. In 2011, TheatreSquared was recognized by the American Theatre Wing, founder of the Tony Awards, as one of the nation's ten most promising emerging theatres.


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Xceed Financial Settles Overdraft Suit
Xceed Financial Federal Credit Union has agreed to a confidential out-of-court settlement with a member who filed a class action lawsuit against the El-Segundo, Calif., credit union for unfair business practices by allegedly re-sequencing debit charge transactions to maximize overdraft fees.
"The parties have entered into a confidential settlement agreement to avoid time and expense of litigation and without admitting fault or liability of any kind," according to court documents that officially dismissed the case. The agreement was reached July 20 in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles.
Cuthbert Shillingford, who joined the $751 million Xceed Financial in 2006, filed the lawsuit in April after noticing he was charged repeated overdraft fees of $29 each. He claimed some of the overdraft fees were not proper and resulted from Xceed's re-sequencing of his transactions.
Calls to attorneys representing Xceed Financial Federal CU and Shillingford about the settlement were not returned. A call to Xceed Financial Federal CU also was not returned.
The Xceed Financial lawsuit represented the first against credit unions claiming the re-sequencing of debit card transactions to make more overdraft fee revenue.
In June, a San Jose, Calif.-based attorney filed seven class action lawsuits against credit unions in California, Illinois and Alabama alleging they committed deceptive business practices that involved "the systematic manipulation and re-ordering of electronic debit transactions from the highest dollar amount to the lowest dollar amount … to maximize the amount of overdraft fees collected."
The lawsuit names $9.4 billion SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union of Santa Ana, Calif.; the $6 billion Star One Credit Union of Sunnyvale, Calif.; the $1.3 billion Kern Schools Federal Credit Union of Bakersfield, Calif.; the $2 billion Educational Employees Credit Union of Fresno, Calif., the $8.4 billion Alliant Credit Union of Chicago; the $590 million Alabama Telco Credit Union of Hoover, Ala.; and the $1.25 billion America's First Federal Credit Union of Birmingham, Ala.
If the accused credit unions are maximizing overdraft income, it doesn't show in their financial performance reports. All but two reported fee and operating income to average assets below peer averages during first-quarter 2012. Star One reported only 0.16% fee income to average assets, compared to the peer average of 1.38%. Alliant's fee income was only 0.19% of average assets.
Kern Schools was the lone exception, reporting 2.39% fee income to average assets. According to 5300 reports published on the NCUA's website, Kern Schools collected $4.78 million from fees and $2.8 million in other noninterest income, which includes CUSO revenue.
Rick Heldebrant, president/CEO of Star One, told Credit Union Times last month his institution does not reorder transactions nor does it order them largest transaction to smallest during processing. He said the allegations in the suit are false.
Kern Schools President/CEO Steve Renock told Credit Union Times in June that he "believes the allegations are not correct at this time."
The lawsuits come as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is researching overdraft practices and collecting information from financial service providers and the public.
In 2011, class action lawsuit Closson v. Bank of America resulted in a $410 million settlement. According to the settlement website, Bank of America was forced to pay up to $78 to customers who could prove they had an account at BofA, had account accessibility through a debit card, check card or another other card used for debit purchases, and paid at least one insufficient funds fee, overdraft fee, returned item fee, over-limit fee or similar fee related to a debit card transaction between 2000 and 2007.
On June 26, the Boston-based Citizens Bank settled its overdraft class action lawsuit for $137.5 million. The $30 billion Citizens settlement was part of a broader class action suit that reportedly involves more than 30 banks.


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Taste the Blood of Dracula
Probably the last creditable Dracula sequel and one of the better Hammer productions of the period, despite the fact that the vampire Count himself was a late addition to the mix. Ralph Bates as the fiendish Lord Courtley was intended to take over the reins from Christopher Lee as the continuing menace but the US distributor insisted on Lee returning to star.
About Joe Dante
Joe Dante is a lifelong film buff who turned his obsession into a career. He got his start cutting trailers for Roger Corman and later directed the hit movie Gremlins, as well as Gremlins 2: The New Batch, for producer Steven Spielberg. His feature films include The Howling, Innerspace, Matinee, Small Soldiers, The 'burbs and the 3-D thriller titled The Hole, first winner of the 3D Persol Award at the Venice Film Festival. His TV directing work includes: the HBO film, The Second Civil War, the "Masters of Horrors" titles, Homecoming and The Screwfly Solution, episodes of Eerie, Indiana , which he was in on the creation of, as well as episodes of CSI: NY, Hawaii 5-0 and Salem. His latest feature, the zom-com Burying the Ex, is currently available on VOD.


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Ode to the Double-Crossed Lacky in "Thunderball"
by Tara Laskowski
EDITOR'S NOTE: We're opening the massive and much-hacked Barrelhouse Online archives one Throwback Thursday piece at a time, with a note from one of our editors about the piece and what struck them about it, way back in the day. Here's a note on "Ode to the Double-Crossed Lackey in Thunderball," from editor Dave Housley:
I remember where I was when I read this submission: sweating away on the elliptical machine at the State College YMCA, around about 8 years ago, reading through and discarding submission after submission, hoping for one that was at least entertaining enough to make me forget how out of shape I was for a few minutes. I didn't know Tara at the time (now I do, and I'm a huge fan of her work). I read the first paragraph and got off the elliptical machine, drove home as fast as I could, logged into Submittable and added a note into our standard acceptance that said something along the lines of "I'm accepting the shit out of this because it's fucking awesome."
I'm realizing now that the piece does what a lot of my work tries to do, which is focus on characters that are off to the side, in the shadows or, like poor Mr. Angelo, quickly discarded. What is it like for that person when the camera moves on to follow the awesome adventures of the suave Mr. Bond? What is it like for all of us who are sitting on the sidelines, watching the awesome adventures of everybody else in the world?
The thing I love about this piece is how it does all of this with such efficiency and humor. I also love the fact that its a pretty clear predecessor to some of Tara's later, awesome work, especially her most recent book Bystanders, which you should buy right now. In these five short paragraphs you can see some of the tools she'll be working with in the coming years, which is one of the really cool things about being a literary magazine editor: every now and then you can look back and see how somebody's early work will yield greater results over time -- again, click that link above and buy her book now.
Okay, enough of my yapping: you're going to enjoy the shit out of this story, because it's fucking awesome.
They really did you in Mr. Angelo, didn't they, just when you thought it was going to be ok and the quarter of a million dollars they offered to transfer to you via a square white briefcase would be your ticket out of here, new face or old. And the rotten part is that no one will ever recognize you for who you are, outside or in, or that you did it all for Lorraine, who thinks you're still abroad somewhere doing secret work for the government.
You went for it all, two excruciating years of extensive pilot training, voice lessons, film clip analysis, multiple, painful plastic surgery operations. They stuck needles in your cheeks and piled ice packs on your swollen neck until it grew numb and hard and blue. You became him, some Bond girl's brother, all for the elaborate ruse hatched by some guy you never even met — a guy with a cat, for God's sakes. You always hated cats. They made your hands itch and your throat close up. No amount of plastic surgery can change that.
You flew the plane and stole the atomic bombs like they asked you, and landed that plane gorgeously on the water right next to their luxury cruise liner—so precisely your own sister would be proud if she knew. You remembered as kids flying remote control planes, watching them dot the sky like birds, double crossing each other's paths again and again. As you unlocked the plane's wheels and thumped them on the ocean floor, you thought of your sister's laugh and it made you sad.
If it makes you feel better, days after the henchmen sabotaged your seatbelt, cut your oxygen mask and left you at the bottom of the ocean to drown, they, too, died in painful ways—spears through the heart, torn apart by sharks. This is the price you pay working for evil.
It's a shame. All that work for that ungraceful, undignified end. You've read the O'Henry tales of irony and might've even heard stories of the British government releasing Nazis back to Germany with lies on their tongues. We've glorified the villains and incorporated them into our language and lore — Benedict Arnold, Judas, Tokyo Rose. But for you, nothing. No term or song, no grand explanation or chance to escape. Just a stillness after the panic ceases, a gentle rocking on the bottom of the ocean, and those dreams, the flickering film strips of what might've been.
Tara Laskowski is the author of Bystanders (Santa Fe Writers Project) and Modern Manners For Your Inner Demons. She has been the editor of SmokeLong Quarterly since 2010, and is a columnist and reviewer for the Washington Independent Review of Books.


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Prayer Amendment
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri voters on Tuesday approved a state constitutional amendment that specifically allows public prayer and permits students to avoid assignments that violate their religious beliefs.
The statewide ballot measure says people can pray in public or private so long as they do not disturb the peace, and gives specific permission for a prayer before government meetings. The measure also states that students can express their beliefs and cannot be compelled to participate in school assignments or educational presentations that violate their religion. In addition, public schools will be required to post the text of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Supporters argued the prayer measure will protect students and ensure that prayer is given the same protections as other types of speech.


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Here is a youtube of Lindsay and Cole's Palo Doble.
[SYTYCD S09 Top 20-1] Lindsay Cole (Paso Doble) - YouTube
Here is a youtube of Lindsay and Cole's Palo Doble.
[SYTYCD S09 Top 20-1] Lindsay Cole (Paso Doble) - YouTube
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. Dorothy Parker, (attributed)
Maks announced he will not be back this coming season. I applaud him; he is much too good to have been treated the way he was. He says he plans to concentrate on films and television. I wish him well. He'snot the only pro I'd like to see walk away from the show.
From the speculation over this season's casting choices, I doubt I'll be watching much anyway.
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
Mark is back (of course), as is Karina, and I guess Peta is in after all.
Newest casting rumors are Jacoby Jones and Kellie Pickler.
I think even if Maks was on this season I might have considered sitting out. I just feel like it'll be a repeat of every other season, and obvious early on who will likely win or at least make it far.
Kellie Pickler would be a hoot. I hope she is on, though not with Mark as he will take her fun spirit as an excuse to go OTT.
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. Dorothy Parker, (attributed)
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person
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I don't know about the cast. I usually like the football player, if it's true about Wyonna and Kellie I could get behind them. I only know a few GH people, so I'm indifferent there. Same with the gymnast, although I figure she might go to Derek or Mark (probably Mark) so that's reason enough not to root for her. If it's true about Kellie, I hope she gets Val or Tristan. I agree that Mark will just outdance and overdo the rule breaking with someone capable. He's better off getting a dud.
Tristan is confirmed as being back. With 12 couples it looks like we have all our male pros (Derek, Mark, Tony, Val, Tristan, and allegedly Henry from the troupe). For the female side, which looks to have gotten more of an overhaul, we have Cheryl, Karina, Peta, Linsey, and Sharna. Still unknown who the last female is, but Kym, Anna, Chelsie, and Lacey are definitely out.
I watched video of Chelsie accidentally telling the media that she wasn't on. It was pretty sad...the guy only wanted to ask her about Maks, all the while she looked like she had only recently heard that she was out.
I always liked her so this is disappointing.
It seems that they've always had a Chelsie type...before her it was Juliane Hough, so wonder if one of the new dancers is the "new chelsie?"
And last thing I want is someone from The Bachelor.
So I'm in the usual "this is going to be terrible" mood that happens every season before it starts.
I don't want anyone from the bachelor either, and definitely not from the bachelorette although if Maks stays and the bachelorette dances with him, I hope for a very early exit
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It was such a hot, muggy night Saturday at Arrowhead Stadium that no player, it seemed, wanted to come out once they were in the game. And then once players did come off the field, things seemed to heat up even more.
Chivas USA defender Ryan Suarez played only 28 minutes before coach Hans Westerhof pulled him off the field and inserted Francisco Gomez. Suarez did not come off quietly, rebuffing Westerhof's attempt to explain the situation.
And Kansas City's Josh Wolff walked past Wizards coach Bob Gansler, barely acknowledging the coach's outstretched hand when he was pulled off the 69th minute.
Suarez was not following Westerhof's instructions concerning how to play, specifically, that the defense should move more forward than it was.
"He can make decisions in the game," Westerhof said. "But when they are bad decisions, I have to go change it. I can understand that someone is upset that he had to leave the game in the first half. But it is part of the job and I don't accept (Suarez's reaction)."
Suarez left the Chivas USA dressing room very quickly after the game was unavailable to answer questions about leaving the game in the first half. But beyond the disagreement between Suarez and Westerhof is the effectiveness of team on the field.
"The big problem is not up front," Westerhof said. "A lot times things are going wrong in the midfield."
Before Chivas USA can play well, the gaps in the midfield -- sometimes big gaps that Kansas City moved the ball through -- must be tightened.
"They fight for every ball but they so easily give it away," Westerhof said.
The players are fighting for each other on the field, forward Hector Cuadros said. "We are trying to leave it all on the field," Cuadros said. "We are not having luck and luck is something we have to work on. We have to make our own luck."
Chivas USA has only one draw in eight games away from The Home Depot Center. But this was the first time Chivas USA was shut out away from The Home Depot Center since May 18. The 2-0 loss to Los Angeles on May 28 was in Carson, Calif., but technically a home game for the Galaxy.
"We are not getting results at home or on the road so we can't say it is the way we play on the road," Cuadros said, "We are having problems at home, too."
One of the problems was the timing of the Wizards' first goal. It came in the first minute of the second half seconds after Chivas USA made a good defensive play clearing free kick out of their penalty area. But the ball was played immediately back into the area by Kerry Zavagnin. Sasha Victorine nodded the ball down to Jimmy Conrad, who had just enough time to settle and score with a right-footed shot.
"It can't happen. You have to concentrate," said Gomez, who played with the Wizards for six seasons before Chivas selected him in the expansion draft. "At the end of a half and at the beginning of a half, that is most important time to concentrate, especially away from home."
Gomez has played in the league long enough to know that those one-goal deficits can be turned around, although with perhaps more difficulty, even on the road.
But the Wizards added two more goals. Davy Arnaud scored in the 70th minute on his first time on the ball after coming on for Wolff. Then Victorine scored in the 85th minute on a clinical free header from free kick by Chris Klein.
"Giving up a goal like that maybe guys put their head down and think we don't have a chance," Gomez said. "At times, mentally you have to stay in it and have a lot of concentration. It's concentration for 90 minutes."
A large part of turning Chivas USA's fortunes around will be more possession, leading to less attacking and counterattacking by their opponents.
"We need some more production," Gomez said. "We are playing an attacking formation and we are getting no production. I don't know what happened in the first half. We contained them but we got caught with their counterattack. When we go forward, that's what we talk about - possession, possession."
Robert Whitman is a contributor to MLSnet.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Soccer or its clubs.


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Hutchins Lecture on Documentary Photography and the Realities of Capital Punishment
The authors of a recent Ctr for Doc Studies/UNC Press book, "In This Timeless Time: Living & Dying on Death Row in America," will give this Hutchins Lecture in a series sponsored by UNC's Center for the Study of the American South (CSAS). Jackson and Christian will discuss documentary photography and the realities of capital punishment, with an emphasis on Texas and the South; they will be introduced by Bill Ferris, senior associate director, CSAS, and Tom Rankin, director, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke.This event is in conjunction with an exhibit at CSAS of Jackson's prison photography from "In This Timeless Time," on view through the fall 2012 semester and culminating in a closing reception on November 28, the day before the Hutchins Lecture. Jackson's photos were taken in 1979 during his and Christian's fieldwork for an earlier book and documentary film, "Death Row," illustrating life on cell block J in Ellis Unit of the Texas Department of Corrections. THIS TALK WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE JOHNSTON CENTER FOR UNDERGRADUATE EXCELLENCE, KRESGE FOUNDATION COMMON ROOM (039), GRAHAM MEMORIAL HALL, UNC-CHAPEL HILL.


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Police surrounded Ohio State University in Columbus Monday morning after receiving reports of an active shooter situation on campus, according to the school's Department of Public Safety.
School officials warned students away from Watts Hall in an alert sent out just before 10 a.m. The building houses the school's materials sciences and engineering department.
"Run, hide, fight," the tweet said.
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Emory AD Downes to resign, move to Westminster Schools
ATLANTA (AP) - Tim Downes, Emory University's athletic director since 2007, has announced his resignation, effective June 30, so he can head the athletics program at the Westminster Schools in Atlanta.
During Downes' tenure, Emory's 18-sport program has won eight NCAA Division III national championships.
Emory ranked as the No. 2 program in the nation in the 2012-13 school year. Under Downes, Emory recorded six top-10 finishes in the ranking.
Emory student-athletes earned 32 NCAA postgraduate scholarship and 50 Academic All-American honors in Downes' tenure.
Downes previously served as athletic director at Franklin and Marshall from 2004-2007 and held a similar post at California Institute of Technology from 1999-2004.
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Entertainment of Monday, 21 January 2013
Source: Ewurabena Hagan
Close Up returns with season 3 of the electrifying Close up Salsa fiesta. Just as Close up promises 3x fresher breath, Season 3 of the salsa fiesta is poised to bring you 3x the fun and 3x the thrill. This year, participation is open to people who can already dance salsa and salsa lovers who want to learn.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Democratic candidate for governor Jerry Brown is calling on his Republican rival to reveal how much she would personally gain from her proposal to eliminate the state capital gains tax.
At a news conference Thursday, Brown estimated eliminating the tax would cost California $5 billion and result in more cuts for public schools.
He also estimated that Meg Whitman, a billionaire, would personally save at least $15 million. Brown says he calculated that figure from the $142 million in personal funding Whitman has pumped into her campaign.
Whitman has acknowledged she would save money as an investor by eliminating the tax, but has declined to say how much.
Her spokeswoman, Andrea Jones-Rivera, said the tax cut would allow businesses to create more jobs.
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Are Yankees on the decline?
After Alex Rodriguez swung through the final pitch of the Yankees' season, after Tigers catcher Alex Avila raised his arms in triumph and closer Jose Valverde danced the dance of the victorious, all that was left at Yankee Stadium Thursday night was the pain of defeat and one huge question:
Are the Yankees on the decline? Let's review the facts:
They won three rounds in the 2009 postseason, including the World Series.
They won one round in 2010 before losing to the Rangers in the ALCS.
They bowed out in the first round in 2011 -- despite having home-field advantage against a Tigers team that wasn't able to use its ace, Justin Verlander, in Game 5 because of rain during the first game of the series.
Doesn't that sound like a downward trend?
"Obviously, this is a terrible day for us," a somber Joe Girardi said after Detroit's 3-2 win in the deciding Game 5 of the ALDS. "But we got beat."
They got beat not by certain AL Cy Young winner and possible MVP Verlander but by Doug Fister. For a big-money lineup filled with All-Stars and future Hall of Famers, that's just not acceptable. The Yankees went 2-for-9 with runners in scoring position. They left 11 men on base. Yes, Derek Jeter almost hit a two-run home run to right in the eighth, but it was caught at the wall.
"A hit here and hit there, and this is a different series," Girardi said in a classic loser's lament.
We didn't understand it fully at the time, but Mother Nature threw the Yankees a fat fastball down the middle when Verlander couldn't finish Game 1 and start Game 5. The Yankees swung through it like A-Rod swung through that 1-and-2 pitch from Valverde.
Sure, the Yankees couldn't go with their pre-series plan to pitch CC Sabathia in Games 1 and 4. But A.J. Burnett won Game 4 anyway.
It seemed as if Girardi was determined to move heaven and earth to get Sabathia into Thursday night's game, no matter if it made sense. Ivan Nova left after two innings down 2-0 with what the Yankees called a tight forearm, but Phil Hughes was pitching just fine when Girardi starting matching up in the fourth and brought in Boone Logan. That allowed Girardi to give Sabathia the time he needed to warm up to come in for the fifth.
But Sabathia gave up a run in his first inning -- the eventual winning run, as it turned out. It's not clear what Girardi gained by using Sabathia over what he could have potentially lost, which was having Sabathia start Game 1 of the ALCS.
If the Yankees had gotten a clutch hit or two, they would be getting ready for that series Friday, but the 4-5-6 of Rodriguez, Mark Teixeira and Nick Swisher were dreadful.
Swisher, in particular, looks to be an example of what ails these Yankees. He's a good player in the regular season, but he turns to jelly in the playoffs. It happened in 2009, too, but the Yankees won despite him.
Swisher wants to be the hero more than any player we've ever seen. But when he struck out with the bases loaded to end the seventh inning, it made him 1-for-31 with 10 Ks in 38 postseason games with runners in scoring position.
"Those guys have nothing to be ashamed of," Girardi said. "Nothing you can say is going to make them feel any better."
Yankees fans feel the same way today.


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- 02-20-2011
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- Paper Mario Series
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- Goombella
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This was great. You know why? It barely took any effort. I already owned the skirt, blouse, socks, and shoes. I made the cravat, 'created' my Tattle Log, and 'made' my hat with lots of E6000 and spray paint. And part of a flash light. Sadly, I was having issues with my moe cheeks when these pictures were taken, but they don't look THAT bad. ANYWAY about this costume: So TTYD is pretty much my favorite video game on the planet, and this came to me when I saw Peachi's (Hiimdaisy, for those who only read her comics) Paper Mario designs. I loved the way she did Goombella's, not to mention she's my favorite character in the whole game, and changed a few things to fit me better . (Ex. The original had a long skirt; I am short therefore I made the skirt shorter So I wouldn't look EVEN SHORTER.)
- Personal Thoughts:
- GOOOOO GOOMBAS! I love my moe cheeks, even if they can be a pain to get off.
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CHESTER, Pa. -- After eight weeks of searching for answers, Philadelphia Union's offense looks to have found an identity.
Multiple-goal games against the New York Red Bulls and Schalke 04 were a drastic improvement for a team that managed just one shot on goal the week prior in Seattle.
Movement has been better, decision-making faster, and scoring opportunities far more plentiful.
The most obvious tactical change was the reinsertion of Danny Mwanga into the starting XI.
"(Having two strikers) makes life easier, not just for me, but for everyone else attacking," Mwanga said after Sunday's 3-2 loss to New York. "I was trying to be in the center of the pitch and trying to occupy the two centerbacks. That gives Lio and Freddy the free space to go one-on-one, and they had shots on goal. Whenever you have more offensive players on the field it helps you create more chances. We can attack -- we can definitely create chances."
For much of the season, Lionard Pajoy has played alone in various single striker sets, such as the 4-2-3-1 and 4-1-4-1.
But in the Schalke exhibition, the technical staff experimented with a loose 4-3-3 shape that we hadn't seen this season.
Mwanga played "point man" at the top of the shape, with Pajoy wide left and Josue Martinez wide right. Brian Carroll sat in the pocket behind Gabriel Gomez and Keon Daniel in a small triangular midfield.
With Mwanga drawing centerback attention, Pajoy and Martinez were able to run into space from deeper positions. The Union stayed in the 4-3-3 for the entire game and won 2-1 with goals from Pajoy and Chandler Hoffman.
The Union's formation against New York was similar, except Freddy Adu replaced Martinez on the right and had increased freedom to roam and create in the midfield. Essentially, the shape played like a 4-4-2 with Pajoy and Mwanga up top.
The result? Two goals for Pajoy. The Union created 21 attempts on goal, which was their highest total of the season in league play. The team had six shots on target and scored multiple goals in a league game for the first time in 2012.
"I think Lionard finds good spots and he's very dangerous going forward," said manager Peter Nowak. "He had a little bit more room on the wings in the situations he had, a couple in the first half and a couple more in the second half. I think it's a good combination, and you always have Danny Mwanga inside to receive the ball and hold the ball for him to make a great run, so it's very important to give him more (space) like that and more confidence. He played a great game."
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Caravaggio and His Legacy, on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art until February 10. 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles. 323-857-6000; lacma.org
In his 20s, in Rome, in the first decade of the 17th Century, Caravaggio — born Michelangelo Merisi in the Lombard town of Caravaggio — was already so innovative a painter that some of his contemporaries began to borrow his manner of exaggerating flesh by casting on it a single source of light and allowing other pictorial elements to creep and seethe and emanate from a cellar darkness, though none of the painters called "Caravaggisti" had his gift of making flashy technique so stunningly immediate an expression of physical pain, moral anguish, and carnal delight. Twenty years after his death in 1610 at age 38, Caravaggio's innovations had become a sharable idiom that extended to France, the Netherlands, and Spain.
The 21-year-old Caravaggio arrived in Rome in 1592, when the Counter Reformation Church was encouraging a naturalistic art that emphasized the human-ness in Old and New Testament events and the lives of the saints. It wanted art to answer, with an intensified realism, to the human passions narrated in sacred story. This was consonant with Caravaggio's genius for dramatizing threshold experiences — conversion, summoning, transport. In his 1595 Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy, only Francis's heart wound is visible. More interesting to Caravaggio is how the saint's entire body responds with spastic transport to this extraordinary act of divine selection. One hand is cramped shut, the other hangs uselessly at Francis's side; one eye is closed, the other partly open. He's in a fugue state.
Caravaggio's arrival in Rome also coincided with the increase in affluent private collectors, and he was quick to acquire important clients. Compared to his more agitated compositions, his portrait of Maffeo Barberini, a wealthy Florentine who went on to become an archbishop and then Pope Urban VIII, is pictorially sedated: seated in an armchair, pen in hand, the archbishop presents to us an authority that's humane, studious, ironical.
One result of the Church's emphasis on naturalism was that artists were more likely to express the subjectivity of emotional turbulence or physical violence. Caravaggio had acute instincts for how the body expresses extremity of feeling. In his best known religious images, such as those in Santa Maria del Popolo — Saul blinded and thrown from his horse on his way to Damascus; St. Peter being crucified upside down — the body is a bearer and register of terror, jumpy with religious meaning. And Caravaggio was free to showcase personality and eccentricity. His St. John the Baptist is a slightly petulant teenager whose inarticulate discontent looks just this side of adult righteousness, and the light that wedges down from offstage, carving the Baptist's features out of an arboreal darkness, looks like a bestowal of responsibility.
All these pictures (except those in Santa Maria del Popolo, which never travel) are among the eight Caravaggio canvases included in Caravaggio and His Legacy, a world-class exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art that documents what the catalog calls "the Caravaggio effect" among the painter's contemporaries and others who were, however indirectly, beneficiaries of his practice. The Caravaggio pictures show how he loved scenes of confrontation — of accusation, appeal, disclosure — and how he made of biblical scenes an ardent pictorial moment, not something taken out of time but an extension of real time and space. His theatricality created a believable and often uneasy intimacy among souls and gave an embodied momentum to the dynamics of expectation and deliverance.
One of the great confrontation scenes in literature is Peter's denial of Christ. Caravaggio's execution crafts a complicated drama. The serving woman who challenges Peter points at him while denouncing him to a soldier whose presence is mostly delineated by the light burnishing his helmet and armor. Peter, in a gesture anybody who has been to Italy will recognize, clutches his hands to his chest and cocks his big, ruddy, rough peasant's head. The two auxiliary figures are only partially illuminated — the woman's suspicious, accusatory eyes are weirdly masked by light — but Peter is a guilty thing surprised: his defensiveness is compounded of duplicity, trepidation, and shame.
Caravaggio and His Legacy is, among other things, a scholarly probe. It displays treatments by other artists of scenes and themes Caravaggio depicted. It sets his Denial, for instance, in relation to two other renderings, one by Nicolas Tournier made in 1630, another by a mysterious painter called Pensionante del Saraceni (because he was somehow associated with a Caravaggista named Carlo Saraceni). In Pensionante's version, Peter's denial is a mild-mannered "who me?"; the painting's urgency comes entirely from the maidservant's angry, astonished facial expression and beseeching hands. In Tournier's treatment, our attention is pulled away from the act of Peter's denial to a self-contained genre scene of boisterous bravos engrossed in a dice game. The painting associates a moral choice predicted ineluctably by divinity with a game of worldly chance. While a critical event in Christian narrative takes place, real life not only still goes on, but, in this instance, steals the show.
One of Caravaggio's Roman contemporaries, Orazio Gentileschi (father to Artemisia Gentileschi, his daughter and a better painter) learned how to craft Caravaggio's extreme contrasts, but his pictures illustrate how one can develop superb technical proficiency and still lack everything else. Consider two decapitations. In Caravaggio's version of the Judith story (not in the exhibition: find it in the Barberini collection in Rome), Judith shows an aloofly superior disdain for Holofernes, whose head she's in the process of slicing off. In Gentileschi's treatment, Judith and her maidservant hold the king's severed head in a basket. Each looks up and away into the cellar light. The painterly energy in the Caravaggio is ferocious compared to Gentileschi's stately, demure, "holding the pose" tableau.
Strong artists take what they need from predecessors without becoming stylistic hostages to them. It helps to be a generation or two removed. The exhibition demonstrates not only how Caravaggio's example was closely imitated in pictures by contemporaries like Gentileschi and Bartolomeo Manfredi but also how qualities he released into European painting eddied out down the decades and were fully absorbed and modulated by French painters, such as Simon Vouet and Georges de la Tour (who domesticated Caravaggio's chiaroscuro and transformed cellar light to glowing-core illumination), and the Dutchmen Gerrit van Honthorst and Gerard Seghers.


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Yeah, I'm a Big10 Fan, so what. I have no allegences to any other conference, I didn't grow up with the PAC 10, SEC or BIG12, I'm from the Midwest. Woody and Bo and Jo Pa in their prime. I'm almost 46 y/o and like to hear all the trash talking from you little weanies who wouldn't dare say to my face what you'll post on the internet. You do this because you lack a pair, and your harsh words make you feel stronger than you really are.
Thanks for the add, James! Go Bucks!


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Discussion in 'Ride Reports - Epic Rides' started by bush pilot, Apr 14, 2009.
Love the pictures and can't wait for the rest!
Thanks for the update. Dad and I put 2200 miles on the ST's last week. Nice bike but i guess i'm more of a dual sport guy than i thought-kinda miss the KLR. Looks like your having a great trip!
Nice talking to you all in West Yellowstone. Hve a great ride on your way north. Try the campbell loop on your way to D2D and don't forget the mosquito headnets.
Had a significant mechanical failure while on I-90 just outside Big Timber MT.
Just after going over some rumbly pavement my rear got all soft and swishy.
I pull over.... flat rear tire.
We begin to dig in to the prob.
I have all the spares and stuff.(tubes ect)
As we're digging in fellow adv rider "drew" stops on a nice KLR.
I'd just replaced my tires and tubes in MN!
The "heavy duty" Kenda tube failed at the valve. The valve simply separated from the tube. What a piece of fucking crap!
Anyway thanks to being prepared and the grace of a fellow adv we were back on the road lickety split.
Yep she was using zero oil until I overheated it. I didn't notice the fan wasn't turning on.
Anyway I was kind of looking for an excuse to do the 685 upgrade.
I'd like some more power. Up in the mountains it's almost as gutless as a FLHS Harley
awesome report man! keep em coming! i'm from tulsa, tallys rules!
Ewww... I usta have one just like that. A '53, brown w/cream top. Twin H power, too. The first car I ever owned was a coupe like the one beyond the sedan. A black '49.
Yep, I admit it, I'm an old fogey.
I hope all is going well with your ride. It was me, Dread (remember the hair, at least while I still got it) that stopped and helped you out. I think you should still stop in a motorcycle shop and replace that duct tape with bona fide rim liner stuff when you get a chance. Good luck on your ride and I'll be keeping tabs on you guys in this thread!
We're in Smithers, BC and looking to be in Dawson for the D2D!
Got the 685 kit installed by M-Tech in Bend OR. Mac was very accommodating fitting me in and working around my erratic traveling timetable. (the weather kind of sucked through WY MT ID)
Had another tube failure (this was my spare tube which already had 9k miles on it) outside Cache Creek BC. Had a new spare tube and got it on relatively painlessly with a little help from a group of KTM riders heading for some local get together in Clinton.
Somewhere around Williams Lake BC one of my worst nightmares happened!
My chain broke!
A fancy megabuck smart foking chain from Krause racing!
I just stood the looking at it in foking disbelief! Less than 5k mile on the "smart" SOB.
I tell ya I felt mighty stupid. It was a good thing the clowns who sold me the chain were in Chicago because I had a mind to string someone up with that chain.
As luck would have I was prepared for my worst nightmare with the chain tool and spare links and master links.
The failure destroyed three links, broke the front cover and clipped the wire for neutral light switch.
Once I got over the astonishment over the failure I got the bike back on the road in about an hour. I was smoother after the fix because I think the faulty link which failed was locking up for a while prior.
More photos soon. I haven't been taking too many with all these distractions.
I'll try and catch up now that the traveling is done.
The lad had his heart set on seeing Deadwood SD.
The place is a polished restored town with casino after casino lining the streets. Tour buses and rv's pile the folks in. I couldn't get out of there fast enough.
We'd just passed through Mt Rushmore where they tried to extort 10 bucks each to park the bikes.(parking has sold out to private consensioniers) The mountain was entirely socked in with clouds and you couldn't see a thing.
So I decline to pay the extortion and was instructed to drive on through.
I do but being stuck behind a slow RV my engine is getting hot, so I stop in the parking lot to let the engine cool. The lad decides to go pee in the visitor center.
So I take the chance to add a little oil while she's cooling down as the parking lot rent-a cops pull up carrying some attitude. They demand I pay right then and there. I calmly explain the situation a and point out the fact that the no one is seeing anything anyway. These idiots where really starting to bug me when they told me they were calling the park police.
We get out of there before the police arrived.
After an interesting and beautiful ride through MT we go see the Old Faithful geyser which is something to see.
When I first saw it it was march 1981 before the big fire and I rented a snowmachine and rode in by myself. A bit different in the summer I'd say.
We didn't stay long in Idaho I did get a picture of the weeping springs.
This along the Snake river
Big trees in Mt Rainier Park
The Paradise Inn is an interesting landmark. (built in 1916)
Canadian customs
The first question from them was whether I was carrying a handgun. I told them no. They then wanted to know if I owned a handgun and where I kept it! WTF is wrong with Canada?
The broken chain!
Good thing I bought a chain tool and had some spare links to splice in with my spare master links. This was a brand new extra heavy duty "smart chain" from sidewinder racing.
Beautiful rivers in BC.
The Bentley folks were just exiting the Cassiar highway as we were entering. More than a 100 Bentley's. These guys were adventuring in their own way too.
Right smack dab in the middle of the Cassiar we come across an accident.
The RCMP says the road will be blocked for 4 hours! Funny thing was the road wasn't obstructed at all there wasn't any hazardous material involved.
Sadly the poor truck driver involved was dead. But the RCMP had the road blocked in both directions for hours. Fortunately we waited only about an hour before they began letting traffic through.
Heli-Skiing lodge in BC
Along the Cassiar
Sally's Cafe at the end of the Cassiar, really great place for a food stop. This was some the best food of the trip!
Dawson is next.
This was at the entrance to the Dempster, no not this time. It was beckoning I can tell ya!
Now I really liked Dawson City.
They have a local ordinance where the folks have to keep the building painted nice.
Streets are still dirt.
Downtown Saloon
Don't bother with the Jack London Grill, where they charge $1.00 extra for mustard for your hamburger! WTF! Crazy!
Klondike Kates is the place to eat, fantastic food and people.
The Mighty Yukon river
View of Dawson from the dome
Robert Services cabin
This was one of the worlds largest gold mining dredges.
Got a private tour from the lovely gal. Private because it was the French s
speaking tour and I was the only french speaker to show up.(I got the tour in English)
Cool train museum
The D2D gathering. I think I pissed off some BMW guys by parking my nasty looking KLR in the BMW GS dude parking spots!
I mixed up the dates for the D2D and arrived 2 days early in Dawson.
After three days we were ready to go, afraid we missed all the wild stuff I guess.
Goodbye BC!
Welcome to Alaska!
We splurged and got the $10 wall tent at the Tok motorcycle campground, what a great place, truly lovely folks, and a sauna to die for!
Delta Junction
I forget where this was taken.
I hit 40K
The road north
Atigun Pass
Around 3am, every time we stopped to camp the mosquitoes would be intense so we get motoring.
We finally camped at mile 40 in time to see the sun change from setting to rising. I'd never actually seen that phenomena before ever with all the time I've spent up there flying.
We arrive in Deadhorse! This place has the best deal for buffet. $15 all you can eat.
Not too much to see around Deadhorse, I'd forgotten the oil companies have the beach closed to the public!
I get stuck and have to unload to get out
Broken sprocket at mile 85
A short little old pipeline
Can you see the big mosquito?
Back at the Hilltop cafe in Fairbanks, oh gee that was a piece of riding!
Once in Anchorage I break out the old FJ40.
break out the SW629
And go chasing Caribou near Eureka.
Back to Thailand day after tomorrow. What a trip it's been! 18K mile in a little over 3 months.
I'm sticking the bike in storage for a little ride down to Argentina next year.
Awesome. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the pics and story. Great trip. How did old red hold up?
Red did really well.(nearly 40K miles too never used any oil.) The sprocket failed after over 15K miles on it. We'd already bought a replacement chain/sprocket kit knowing it's days were numbered. I was hoping to put it on after the Dalton hwy.
Had a really odd failure in the middle of the Denali highway. While I was using the BLM rest area the lad was squirreling around some and stalling the bike and restarting it.
I come out and he say's the bike quit running and wouldn't restart......anyway I spend the 8 hours troubleshooting what turns out to be a shorted battery.
Since I knew the battery to be new it was the last thing I suspected. I was busy testing switches, relay's, solenoids, by passing the safety switches and cutting into the ignition wiring.
I was baffled until I came up with the bright idea of putting my battery from the green bike in. Vroom!
That sealed POS battery just up and suddenly quit. Never seen that happen.
I rig up a jumper cable with 16 gauge wire and get red started.
We push start it back to Anchorage after that. I learned everything about the KLR electrical system that day!
Fortunately we were stopped at a mighty nice spot to camp, met a nice German fellow bicycling the Denali hwy, and my son caught his first Arctic Grayling on a fly rod.
Red is somewhere in CA. now on the way back to NM.
Great report for a great trip!
Nice trip! Thanks for sharing.
If I only had the time and the money.....
Good show Bush Pilot! Enjoyed your report.
Not sure if you remember, but I stopped and chatted with you and your son at a rest area just south of Burns Lake, BC on June 20th. I was on my way to do the Dempster then carry on to Alaska. I was riding the black V-Strom. I think I remember you saying you guys were going to try and get to Smithers that night?
You've inspired me to get crackin' on my own ride report!
^yea I remember. I was napping in the sunshine on the lovely stone picnic table courtesy of BC.
Get cracking on that RR. Don't forget the pictures!


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Turn That Khaki Suit into a Party Monster
All it takes to transition yours from office gear to dance-floor garb: a pastel shirt and spectator loafers.
Divorce Yourself from Fusty Seersucker
Out with: the blue-striped southern-lawyer seersucker suit (and the jokey pink bow tie). In with: newer, cooler gray stripes and a dark shirt-tie combo.
Strip Down Your Tudo
The tux jacket and pants say, "I support this couple in their lifelong commitment." The shirt, socks, and shoes say, "And I'm gonna make out with the maid of honor."
Introduce Your Friends to Your Inner Dandy
Break out the plaid statement jacket. And the shoes with all that hardware on them. Today you get a free pass to wear all the most aggressive stuff you own—and then really, own it.
(Far left) Suit, $1,595 by Polo Ralph Lauren. Shirt, $350 by Ralph Lauren Black Label. Tie, $15 and tie bar, $15 (throughout) by The Tie Bar. Shoes, $625 by Bally. (Left from center) Suit, $340 by Nautica. Shirt, $160 by Bagutta. Tie, $90 by The Hill-Side. Shoes, $80 by Topman. (Right from center) Tudo, $3,500 by Gucci. Shirt, $115 by Shades of Grey by Micah Cohen. Bow tie, $130 by Band of Outsiders. Shoes, $98 by G.H. Bass & Co. Socks, $45 by Paul Smith Accessories. (Far right) Sports jacket, $1,695 by Michael Bastian. Shirt, $30 by Uniqlo. Bow tie, $125 by Bespoken. Pants, $165 by Gant Rugger. Shoes, $140 by Banana Republic
Reach for a Polka-Dot Tie That Can Dance
Save officey attire like pin-dot ties for a big-meeting day. When you've got an appointment with a thousand cocktails and the middle of the dance floor, you want dots that are confetti-colored. Or too big. Or scattered drunkenly across your tie.
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Alexander Olch, $150
Bespoken, $145
Or Skip the Tie and Wear an "Oh Shit, He Really Took It There" Shirt
This summer that head-turner is an aloha shirt with a big floral print. Leave the collar open, because the look is brought to you by the state of Hawaii, where no human has ever once donned a necktie.
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****Character: ****Dan Egan, deputy director of VP communications
**Spirit quote: "**More apologizing, really? I apologized less after banging my brother's fiancée."
On Veep's expletive fetish: "It's hard to work every day with this incredibly creative profanity and not let it creep into your life a little bit. We always talk about how we come home and go on, like, a two-week profanity cleanse.
Suit, $1,400, by Prada
Shirt, $560, by Prada
Shoes, $38, by Soludos
Pocket square, by Paul Stuart
Watch, by Miansai
If Big Ol' Flowers Aren't for You, May We Suggest Li'l Ol' Ones?
It's 2014 and men are wearing flowers. Yes, even bourbon-loving mannish men with beards and stuff. Get into it. These print shirts are a good time, but they're also suitably dressy for the occasion. How can you tell? By the more formal spread collar. Also: no breast pocket.
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Ovadia & Sons, $275
Eton, $275
The Only Time It's Okay to Match the Bride
The right watch for your wedding look is summery and minimal. Doesn't cost a fortune. Maybe even has a white face, since white is the weddingest color of them all.
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Pulsar, $115
Boca MMXII, $295
Daniel Wellington, $195. Smart Turnout strap, $29
Uniform Wares, $480
Yet Another Star Role for That Blue Suit We Keep Talking About
If you've been reading your, GQ, you know we believe in owning a blue suit that's more lively than plain navy. At work, wear it with a white shirt and a dark tie. Today, wear it with a lavender shirt and a white-and-blue tie. Remember: Knowing how to punch up the clothes you already own can save you from having to buy new ones.
Matt Walsh
Character: Mike McLintock, director of VP communications
Spirit Quote: "I'm eating everyone's shit. I'm like the last guy in a human centipede with this."
On Veep's lessons: "I've learned a lot of what you're fighting for is wording. Like, on a highway bill, 'and the shoulders' adds a billion dollars of funding. I'm even more exhausted by politics than I was before."
Suit, $655, by Reiss
Shirt, $350 and tie, $195 by Calvin Klein Collection
Shoes, $90, by Bar III
Pocket square by Ernest Alexander
Watch by Victorinox Swiss Army
Because This is Not the Time to Work on Your Forehead Tan
A straw fedora will protect your bald spot from the glaring sun and make a hell of a dance-floor prop. Use it to make shimmying with the groom's awkward aunt less awkward. Or put it on the girl you want to boogie with if you're not the type to just slide up and start grinding. (And if you are that type, stop.)
Stetson Cloth Hats & Caps, $55
Borsalino at JJ Hat Center, $350
Mr. Kim, $200
In This Suit, Nobody Will Accuse You of Bringing Your B Game
You've probably noticed that every outfit on these pages involves at least one compliment-provoking component. And that one piece can totally be your suit. A checked one, maybe, or a bold plaid. Just know that if you go big with the suit, it's best to dial back the shirt-tie combo so you don't look like an attention whore. Stay classy, [insert your hometown here].
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Character: Gary Walsh, personal aide to the VP
Spirit Quote: "We need to rain down the full might of our nuclear arsenal on Finland."
On playing sad Saps: "Buster was, like, the lowest level, and Gary is a little bit higher. Maybe next time I'll be able to carry a conversation with a normal human being."
Suit, $1,299, by Etro
Shirt, $65 and tie, $80 by Brooks Brothers
Shoes, $525, by Church's
Pocket square by Robert Talbott
Watch by Daniel Wellington
Watch by Strap Smart Turnout
The Plain Black Bow Tie Is Dead to Us (This Month, Anyway)
Fashion goes in cycles, and by 2019 we might all be wearing penguin suits with floppy black bow ties again. That's cool, but as long as it's the summer of 2014, we're wearing skinny bow ties with patterns. Trust us, we'll keep you posted on any changes to these rules like it's our job.
The Hill-Side, $78
The Hill-Side, $85
Alexander Olch, $110
The Hill-Side, $90
They're Not Character Shoes, They're Shoes with Character
Trust us, we aren't going to send you to a wedding dressed like Krusty the Clown or Derek Zoolander or Your Asshole Friend Terry. But in a world where people rarely get dressed up anymore, a wedding is a chance to flex your sartorial muscles—and perform some fancy footwork.
Like dirty bucks, but with cool perforations. Kenneth Cole New York, $148
Saddle shoes in unbridled new colors. Cole Haan, $248
Don't go around saying this to people, but shoes can't be distasteful if they're Tom Ford. Tom Ford, $930
A thousand times yes, as long as the wedding's outside in the grass or sand and the rest of your look is dressy. Soludos, $48
A Glaring Reason Not to Wear a Full Suit
"He who dresses more formally dresses more better" is a common fallacy among dudes who don't know shit and dudes who don't own an awesome red sports jacket. We repeat: You can wear more casual-leaning clothes as long as they're impeccably tailored.
Timothy C. Simons
Character: Jonah Ryan, White House liaison
Spirit Quote: "I work hard and I play hard, bitch. That's my credo. I got that shit tattooed on my dick with room to spare."
On if he worked with Jonah: "I'd fucking despise him. He sort of embodies a lot of the qualities that I truly loathe in people. Like overexaggerated sense of self and importance."
On the best lewd name he gets called this season: "Cunter S. Thompson."
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Sports jacket, $295 by Tommy Hilfiger
Pants, $150 by Tommy Hilfiger
Shirt, $195 by Vince
Loafers, $78 by G.H. Bass & Co.
Pocket square y Michael Bastian
Sunglasses by Oliver Peoples
Finally, a Keepsake That's Not All Cheesecake
Our favorite gift for a groom, or for your groomsmen if you are the groom, or just for yourself, is monogrammed pocket squares. They're also useful if you take an elbow to the nose during the wedding band's rendition of "Hey Ya!"
_The Knottery, $18 each (plus $6 for monogram) _
The Only Way to Be a Gentleman While Also Protecting Your Corneas
If you shake hands with the father of the bride while wearing blacked-out shades, you're an ass. If he can look you in your eyes while you're protecting yourself from harmful UV rays? Everybody leaves happy.
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Ray-Ban, $150
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A cookbook packed with celebrity's favourite recipes will be helping to boost funds for a Soham theatre group.
Over the past few months, Dan Schumman, founder of the Viva Arts and Community Group, has been busy contacting friends and colleagues within the theatre industry in order to create The Viva Celebrity Cookbook.
It contains tasty recipes from some of the finest and best-known performers and public figures, who all agreed to donate their dishes to raise money for the group.
They include Paul O'Grady's banana and peanut milkshake, Julie Walters' cockle delight, Dame DianaRigg's smoked salmon and David Mitchell's bread and butter putting, to name a few. Other contributers include Joanna Lumley, Angus Deayton and Prime Minister David Cameron.
Mr Schumann, who started the Viva group in 1997, said the cookbook was a way of raising funds during a tough period for charities.
"In these difficult times it is getting harder and harder for local charities like Viva and I had the idea of putting together a celebrity cookbook which we can sell to help raise the funds needed to keep the valuable community work of Viva going," he said.
"For the last six months I have been collecting recipes and writing to friends and colleagues for contributions and now I am thrilled that this unique project has come together at last.
" I am hugely grateful to all of my friends and colleagues within the theatre for giving their time and donating their recipes.
"I would especially like to thank Viva president Mike Fenston Stevens, SHBB Publishing, our illustrator Luke Smith and our sponsors Thurlow Nunn Standan, James Graven Ltd and Burrows Bookshop.
A free book launch will be held at The Brook in Soham on November 16 from 8pm.
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If you are reading this and thinking "what in the world is he talking about, single malt, single grain, scotch, whiskey, isn't all the same really?" Here is a little whiskey 101 that might help clear things up a bit. When a whiskey is called "scotch" this is simply indicating that it is from Scotland – world renowned for their scotch whisky. The term "single" implies that the whiskey comes from a single distillery. "Malt" means that is was made exclusively of water, malted barely and yeast, and "grain" means that the whiskey is made from unmalted barley, and finally, a "blended" whiskey contains both single malt and single grain whiskey- So a single malt scotch is a Scottish whiskey created in one distillery using only water, malted barely and yeast. Make sense? Hopefully that helps define things a little better, of course it's up to the drinker to decided which he or she favors more.
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I approach cooking a lot like I did chemistry lab in college, following every procedure to the letter and hoping that guarantees the right result. Of course, it doesn't always work that way. As a result, I've had to eat some experiments that didn't go as planned. So any gadget that helps protect me from myself is a big help.
Cuisipro's Balloon Thermo Whisk would be on my list, if I was adventuresome enough to find a recipe to use it for. The device combines a 12.5-inch long stainless steel whisk with a digital thermometer so you can make sure the temperature stays constant as you stir, without tying up both hands.
The digital LCD display provides readings in Fahrenheit and Celsius on the butt of the whisk, so in theory it's easier to keep an eye on sauces or batters that could fail if they got too hot or cold. The Thermo Whisk runs on a CR1130 watch battery.
There are two warranties. The one on the whisk is good for 25 years, though the thermometer's only lasts for two years. A side note: The whisk has a heat tolerance up to 400 degrees. No mention on the Web site whether that's any good for the thermometer!
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Spawn: Armageddon Review
If you're into comics or cult movies, then you're undoubtedly familiar with Spawn. Spawn began life as a human being and was once a military special operative named Simmons. Simmons found himself on the wrong side of a dark conspiracy in the military that led to his violent death. His pain at losing contact with is wife and his thirst for revenge were so great that he was recruited by hell to become a demonspawn – a warrior of hell sent to do a demon's bidding on Earth. However, he soon began to resent his hellish masters and regret what he had become. He instead became a rogue loner, working to thwart the plans of his hellish former masters while mourning for his lost love. In a world of brooding superheroes, Spawn can brood with the best of them.
Meet Spawn.
Now that you know about Spawn's background, you can probably guess that Spawn: Armageddon is an action game featuring much slaying of demons. To dispatch these demons, Spawn carries a large axe as a weapon. He can also use the chains attached to him by the demons of hell as a projectile-like whip. Being a supernatural being, Spawn can call forth Hell Powers. Most of these are offensive powers such as a Necroplasm Beam which shoots a bolt of energy at enemies, but some have other effects like Hell Speed which can slow the attacks of your enemies. These are powered by Necroplasm, so Spawn has only limited use of these powers. Lastly, Spawn can acquire other more worldly weapons such as shotguns to use to kill his enemies. Each type of attack is mapped to a different button and weapons and hell powers can easily be selected with the directional pad, making control of Spawn's arsenal of attacks pretty simple to manage. The game also features a target-lock feature which is a godsend because without it it can be quite difficult to aim Spawn's Hell Power and chain attacks.
When you first start playing Spawn you'll probably start to get a little excited that you may have found a really good game here. Spawn himself looks great and is animated well, and dispatching demons with his Hell Power attacks and chains appears to make for some good gaming excitement. Unfortunately, like Spawn's deal with the devil, the warts soon begin to show and you'll begin to rethink your enthusiasm.
While the cutscene graphics and Spawn and demon models are well-done, the levels themselves are very bland, repetitive, and generic. Nearly featureless walls, alleys, and rooftops abound, with only the occasional smashable object appearing to break the monotony. You'll eventually make your way to a space station and even hell itself, but these locations sound far more exciting than they really are. As you move from one generic level to the next, there's almost no connection between what you are doing and the game's storyline. You'll make your way from one spot to another, a new level will load, and occasionally a cutscene will play, but there will be little sense of accomplishment as you progress through the game.
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A late afternoon solo motorcycle crash on Stearns Road south of Sierra on Sunday left an Oakdale man with serious injuries.
As the annual Farmer Market kicked off in downtown Oakdale for the summer of 2016, the Oakdale Travel and Visitors Bureau announced that it lost over $6,200 when it hosted the event last year.
Sunny skies and temperatures in the 80s should provide a good backdrop for a couple of different car shows in the area this weekend.
Assemblymember Kristin Olsen (R-Riverbank) issued the following statement in response to Governor Brown's executive order issued on Monday, May 9, which establishes longer-term water conservation measures:
Parents, students and community members alike took advantage of a perfect spring evening recently by attending the Cloverland Elementary School's Annual Family Fun Night. The Parent Teacher Club-sponsored event hosted a number of family friendly activities including a train ride, face painting, games and food. Fair Oaks had planned an event as well, but had to postpone due to the unseasonable rain on Friday.
Senator Tom Berryhill (R-Twain Harte) has been elected by his colleagues to the five-member Senate Rules Committee. The Rules Committee is considered one of the most influential assignments in the Senate, and as such, selection to it must be confirmed by the entire Senate. Berryhill represents Oakdale in the state's 8th Senate District.
Fred Yerzy and Rachel Torres took a little time away from the classroom in mid-April. The break, however, was not the traditional Spring Break enjoyed districtwide. This break wasn't exactly away from the classroom, either. The classroom became the outdoors and the 'break' came in the way of Foothill Horizons Sixth Grade outdoor education camp.
Opening a few weeks ahead of last year's schedule – and extending the market by four weeks total – the Oakdale Farmers Market kicked off Wednesday, May 4.
May is National Bike Safety Month, and the California Highway Patrol (CHP) is reminding motorists and bicyclists to share responsibility for roadway safety. California's weather allows bicyclists to enjoy riding many months throughout the year. Although bicycle safety should be practiced every day, the month of May has been set aside to draw awareness to how we can all help minimize bicycle injuries and deaths.
Average retail gasoline prices in Modesto have risen 1.7 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.61/gallon Sunday, according to GasBuddy's daily survey of 201 gas outlets in Modesto. This compares with the national average that has increased 8.1 cents per gallon in the last week to $2.22/gallon, according to gasoline price website GasBuddy.com.
After a destructive fire season in 2015, conditions in California are already drying out prompting Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. to declare May 1-7, 2016 as "Wildfire Awareness Week." During Wildfire Awareness Week, CAL FIRE is stressing the critical role all Californians play in preparing for fire season now.
U.S. Representative Jeff Denham (R-Turlock) has announced Mobile District Office Hours for the month of May, with stops coming up in Oakdale and Escalon.
The Oakdale Shelter Pet Alliance will be hosting a pet adoption event at PetCo in the Crossroads Shopping Center in Riverbank on Saturday, May 7 from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. where you can pick up a pet voucher or a new companion.
Columbia College hosted its 47th Commencement on Friday, April 29 at 6:30 p.m. in the Oak Pavilion. A reception for the graduates, their families, friends and guests followed immediately after the ceremony in Carkeet Park next to the pavilion.
Caltrans maintenance crews are busy clearing highways, cutting through steep and narrow mountain passes, including the Sonora pass in Tuolumne County, and the Ebbetts and Monitor passes in Alpine County, with the goal of getting all passes opened soon.
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