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In fairness, the beef was not the problem. It's what was in the beef that was the problem, and no, I'm not talking about unwanted critters of the e. coli persuasion. I'm talking about ingredients – stuff put in there by the chef on purpose. Actually just one ingredient caused all the trouble… well, two if you count my ego.
We had just arrived in Las Vegas, Maxx and I, to celebrate her birthday. This is not a picture of the two of us.
We had made our way to the Skybox, one of the new restaurants at one of the new resorts in Las Vegas, the Aria. The following menu item caught my eye: "Firecracker Burger: 8 oz patty blended with Bhut Jolokia chili pepper, rated the world hottest chili pepper in 2007." Well, I had never heard of that pepper, but I'd also never heard of a pepper I couldn't handily defeat, even at the cost of a few extra napkins to sop up the inevitable sweat on my head. So, of course, I gave it a try.
Here's the "before" picture. So far, all is well.
You want to know how hot this pepper is? Twelve hours later, it makes my head sweat just to think about it. There in the moment, I knew from the first bite that I had a tiger by the tail. The heat from the thing instantly made my lips go numb (the body's natural reaction to searing pain, I suppose). My tongue swelled up. The roof of my mouth seemed painted with fire, and that fire traveled all the way down my throat to my belly, where it bloomed.
Are we having fun yet?
Folks, I generally consider hot foods to be my manna-nirvana. And generally scoff at what others find hot. When I order buffalo wings at my local joint, for example, I challenge the prep chef to make them too hot too eat, and he always fails. I once drank a bottle of Tabasco sauce on a bet. I love hot food. I think there's something wrong with my system. (I know there's something wrong with my brain.) But hot food and I just agree with each other.
This Bhut Jolokia burger, though, it didn't just disagree with me. It vehemently opposed me and violently argued with me. It wrestled me to the floor and pinned me there. Not to put too fine a point on it, I was defeated. I fought my way through half the burger and then, as the saying goes, "stick a fork in it, it won." Viz:
Fortunately, life in Las Vegas is not all heartburn heaven and thunderstruck intestines. There's also poker, and a whole damn lot of it, plus shops, restaurants (with saner menus one hopes), and tomorrow's highlight event, a visit to the Pinball Hall of Fame. It's nice to have a respite in so crazy a place before returning to Managua (so crazy a place) to spend the next month there working on The Blue Door. That's a tropical place, Managua. They have plenty of hot food. People gawk at what I eat and call tame. But now I know I've met my match. Bhut Jolokia, my (sweat drenched) hat is off to you. You are the boss of me.
More later, -jv
… I woke up early this morning thinking about an essay I wrote in 1995 on the organization of the brain. Since I'm a digital pack rat of the first water, it was a matter of mere moments to dredge the essay from the depths of my hard drive archive. To glimpse what was on my mind about my mind some fifteen years ago, just click here.
More later, -jv
Back in 1995, I spent a semester at Northwestern University as a guest lecturer. One weekend, I drove across Illinois to play poker at a riverboat casino in Iowa. There, killing time in a motel room, I wrote the essay you'll find below.
Friends accuse me of sourcing information far too cavalierly. They say I don't really bother learning anything completely, just enough of a concept to twist it and mold it and somehow make it my own. I cop to this. I even go a step further, using bogus bibliographies to make up sources rather than going to the trouble of actually finding them. And yes it's true, do prefer to do research in my mind as opposed to a library[1]. And when I grasp information, I grasp it lightly, absorbing only enough to get me going on thoughts of my own. Call me a dilettante; I prefer the term "synthesist."
For example, just now, here in this motel in Dubuque, Iowa (where, for reasons far too arcane to go into here, I was "guest of the day,") I caught a psychology program on the local PBS station. Had the Spice Channel been free, it might have been a far different story. As it was, I caught a snippet of a presentation on how the brain is organized. Since a snippet is all I caught, I'm a little short on detail, but I gather that this model has the brain divided into various resource centers which are swapped into and out of consciousness as needed, much the way computer programs are swapped in and out of random access memory.
Was this the presentation of a valid theory? Speculation? Or pure metaphorical nonsense? I have no idea, but it doesn't matter. A theory like this needn't be the slightest bit true to be worthy of contemplation, not to me.
I'll try anything on for size.
And then I'll make it my own.
I start by assuming that there's such a thing as master consciousness, the "I" of the brain. To extend the computer metaphor to my own liking, I declare that the I is not the central processing unit of the computer but rather the person selecting which program to run when. The end user, if you will.
You wake up in the morning. Your teeth are all mungy. The sense-resource sends this message to your brain's central clearing house. The I then invokes various physical programs… "get up…" "go to the bathroom…" etc., slotting them into the working part of the brain as necessary. This makes sense on the face of it. Why retain in an active file on how to brush your teeth at any moment other than the actual time you need it?
So there's a whole class of information we might label "how-to programs." How to ride a bus, how to shake a hand, how to type or bounce a soccer ball off your head or catch a frisbee or feed a dog or start an arson fire. We don't use them except when we need them. But obviously there's more to the brain than how to do things. There are also memories, available upon demand, but only on demand. In a moment I'm going to ask you to recall something. Until the instant that you see the words, you won't have the picture in your mind; however, once you read the words, you can't help but have the picture in your mind. Ready? Here we go.
Think of your first kiss.
Boom, there it is.
I'm in seventh grade, playing spin-the-bottle in Sue Coon's father's den. Her father has a gun rack, and I look at it as I kiss her. The irony is not lost on me.
Seems to me that the brain is a good-news bad-news situation. The good news is that there's all this information (maybe all the information we've ever encountered) stored inside, but it stays inside unless we have the proper triggers. Would you have thought of your first kiss just now if I hadn't brought it up? I wouldn't. I'm doing my damndest not to think of the Spice Channel.
Okay, there's how-to programming, and there's memory programming, and hey look, the two swap files. My how-to file on how to rewire a lamp, for example, contains memory of the time I tried to do the job without unplugging the lamp first. Ouch!
Now it seems that this loose coalition of brain resources is nested: memories within how-tos and… feelings within memories.
When I thought of Sue Coon just now and that fabulous first kiss, the memory came attached to a warm, fuzzy feeling. A whole slew of feelings, actually: fondness for the girl; regret that I have no idea where on the planet she might be now; a sense of loss at the years gone by; a certain smug satisfaction in knowing so much more now; plus hints and fragments of other feelings that flesh out the memory like chocolate hops or cumin round out the taste of a microbrewed beer.
So here's the "feelings" center of the brain, a rowdy, wild-west region that doesn't respond to the conscious control of the I, but introduces itself unbidden. You see someone attractive walking down the street, you say "woo doll!" The I may have no intention of saying "woo doll!" It just spills out. And if the I's spouse is walking with the I, the I would be well served to keep this particular "woo doll!" to I'tself.
Do you like football? Can't stand the sport myself. Too much sense memory of getting clobbered into mush in neighborhood sandlot games. But lots of people like football, and they cheer when their team scores. Does that cheer come consciously bidden? Does the I send an instruction to the cheering section of the brain? I don't know. Like I said, I only caught a snippet of the show.
So let's fudge the question. Let's say that feelings come to us both bidden and unbidden. If I look out the window now, I see a bright sunny day. I feel regret that I'm not out there enjoying the day. But I feel satisfaction that I'm in here writing. Which of these feelings is consciously controlled? Either? Neither? Both? And how do they relate to the I of the brain? Are those thoughts "me?" Or are they just "part of me?" And if they're "part of me" who is the whole me, and where is he to be found?
How-to, memories, feelings… now we've stumbled on ideas. I understand that some people think in pictures, but I personally think in words. When I'm having an idea, when I'm "formulating a thought," that thought takes shape as a sentence, or a sentence fragment, or a word. So some part of my brain is constantly processing language. I formulate the thought, "Have another cup of coffee," as exactly those words. But I don't formulate the thought, "Drink from the cup," as words. I just do that. Somewhere along the line between thought and action, the linguistic instruction breaks down. Where? Don't ask me. I'm making this shit up as I go along.
I seem mostly to think in words when I'm contemplating the future. "I'll drive downtown this afternoon and pick up a video. After that I'll stop at the store and get some food for dinner." If I don't formulate these thoughts as words, I simply don't have them. There's no picture in my brain of the future except a picture painted of words.
But there are no words attached to the past. Those events all come to me as pictures. The shock of Sue Coon's lips. The shock of that plugged-in lamp. Think about how your memories come to you. Same as mine? Different? What can we draw from that?
I'm playing with you a little bit here. The thing I really want you to notice is the immense gap separating your memories from the part of your brain that contemplates them. And the huge gap between your linguistic formulation of ideas and the "receiver" that takes that information in. And the overwhelming chasm between your bidden or unbidden feelings and the person who ends up suffering from or thriving under that torrent of emotion. We are many separate people.
What if the brain isn't loadable programs and an end user? What if it's more like a royal court. There's lots of room in that metaphor for lots of advisors, all sorts. Let's see…
There's a practical advisor. It tells you to brush your teeth or eat when you're hungry or run for the bus.
There's a spiritual advisor. It tells you to believe in God or not to believe in God. It formulates your morality and ethics. It points you to the lucky slot machine.
There's a historian, the archivist who tends to your memories and makes them available on demand. Fittingly, as this archivist gets older, s/he tends to become more doddering, less reliable. Once I was "guest of the day" at the Comfort Inn in Dubuque. Now why was that again?
There's the prime minister, planning your day, carrying out orders in your name. S/he goes to work, does a job, picks up Chinese food on the way home. Sometimes your servant is your master; you really didn't want all that fatty food, did you?
There's the royal consort, urging you to reproduce.
There's the queen mother or father, reading ancient edicts from the past. "Stop feeling sorry for yourself, you miserable loser. Go sit on your throne till you figure out what you've done wrong!"
Maybe there's a rogue minister with an agenda all his/her own. This minister feeds your habits, keeps them functioning in you. Maybe you'd like to displace this minister. Maybe you'd like to behead this minister. But this is a sinister minister, tricky and insidious, using misdirection and subterfuge to keep you drinking whiskey, smoking cigarettes, smoking crack, watching the Spice Channel, whatever.
Is there a wizard in your royal court? Is there magic in your mind? Do creative gifts come unbidden? Do you wish you could give the wizard more power — or use more effectively the power the wizard has?
Maybe if we allied the wizard with the historian we could start to get a sense of the patterns of our personal magic. We might see, for example, that we got more "magic," more raw creativity when we wrote in the morning than in the afternoon. The historian and the wizard compare notes, pass on their findings to the prime minister who sends a suggestion to the monarch: Write in the morning; you do a better job of it then.
Maybe all the ministers communicate with one another, deal and strategize with one another. Suppose your queen mother relentlessly presented you with a picture of yourself as a fat, ineffectual child. She might go to the rogue minister and say, "Make that monarch eat, make that monarch binge; together we can keep that fat, ineffectual, vision of weakness alive.
Maybe they compete. The royal consort and the spiritual advisor are locked in a raging debate. The consort insists that there is no meaning to life but children; it's the job of the species to reproduce, full stop. The spiritual advisor says no, if we reproduce it's God's will. If we don't, that's God's will too.
So what you're saying is that if I never find love it's God's will and I should just accept that? Speaking as the monarch, I find that argument bogus.
But if I'm a weak monarch, or anyway relatively weaker than my spiritual advisor, I buy the argument and I act accordingly. I accept that it's God's will for me not to be loved.
But what if… what if… what if the queen mother is secretly in cahoots with the spiritual advisor? What if the queen mother (who wants to keep me weak) is putting words in the spiritual advisor's mouth? Am I a smart enough monarch to see through all the intrigues and machinations of my court?
Do I have enough awareness?
The monarch is the one who acts. All this information comes into the brain, but there in the brain someone or something sorts the information and makes a judgment, executes a plan. That's the monarch. That's the person in charge.
Are you a powerful monarch or a weak one? Do you listen to your advisors, weigh their input and then make a decision in the best interest of the body (politic)? Or are you reflexive, self-indulgent? Do you let your baseness boss you around? Do you yield to old arguments out of habit, precedent?
"I have not, therefore I must not."
Alternatively, do you rebel against old voices just because you recognize them as old?
"I never have, therefore I will."
Or do you get trapped between voices unable to decide?
"I have not, but I must, so I will (if I can.)"
The PBS psychologist had a nice little theory, graphically presenting benign, helpful little packets of information flowing to and from the conscious center of the brain. Need to know what 2 + 2 equals? We're here to help, master. Want to remember what your first college roommate looked like? We have that information at hand. Don't know how to cross the street? Just open this file labeled "Street, Look Both Ways Before Crossing."
That's a pleasant sorting system, but it assumes that the parts of the brain are all in service of the whole. Not sure you can trust that assumption. To take an unfortunate and unpleasant example, a heroin addict's whole brain is in service to the one part generating the instruction, "Get more heroin." Other parts… "kick," or "get a job," or "find God"… they're just voices in the storm.
And even you and I who challenge ourselves to find higher consciousness have hidden alliances at work in our brains. No one is perfect, obviously, and one way to think about how we're not perfect is to imagine how parts of our brains might be more interested in serving themselves than in serving their leader, the I.
I love doughnuts. But I have high cholesterol, and have been persuaded (by the royal physician?) that eating those doughnuts is bad for me. I have a standing royal decree in my brain: Don't Eat Doughnuts. Does that mean I never eat doughnuts?
I ate a doughnut this morning.
Some part of my brain (The court baker? The court jester?) overrode that standing command, overruled the king.
Hey, one doughnut's not going to kill me, right? That's the argument they used.
But in the name of closing the gap between who I am and who I want to be, I'd like to keep control over those doughnuts. I want my rulings to stick.
How can I contemplate my mind? How can I see clearly the thing I want to see when the thing doing the viewing and the thing being viewed are one in the same? It's like the ocean asking what's water? The answer is at once self-evident and inconceivable.
Yet we try. We struggle. We want better performance from our brains, so we seek systems for understanding them. PBS psychologists give us a glimpse of the fragmentary nature of the thing, and suggest that the part in control, the "I" of the brain, is just one small home page in a vast world wide web.
To that I add the metaphor of the royal court because it allows me to externalize my thinking. It lets me see the players in my brain as representations of archetypes of the outside world. I only do this to make it easier for me to understand what's going on in there. (I don't imagine literal royal robes.) If I have to go play poker now because the court jester insists that it's time to be amused, at least I know why I'm going. That is, I know "a" why I'm going.
For a system as vast and vexing as the human mind, no metaphor can serve in the end. That would be like the ocean, contemplating what's water, saying, "Well okay, the ocean is like a puddle, only bigger." Yes it's true, but is it useful?
Only if the ocean can look in the puddle and see some reflection of itself. And only if the ocean can turn that information into action.
Do you suffer writer's block? Do you wish you wrote more hours of the day than you do? Put the problem to your royal court. See who takes what kind of stand on the issue.
Your historian may hold you back by point out your dismal track record; you've never been the kind of writer you want to be. What makes you think you'll get there now?
Your royal consort may be against the whole idea: "If you follow your dreams, where does that leave love?"
That nasty rogue might just want to subvert your effort for no other reason than s/he can. "I'll show you who has the power in this brain."
And maybe, deep down in the dungeon of the castle, there's an ex-advisor who's long since fallen out of favor. This advisor was a sad and pathetic creature who used to whisper "I'm no good. I don't deserve." You locked this advisor in chains in the basement. You put bars on the door and reinforced the walls. You order the royal musicians to play pretty music in your head so that you don't have to hear this advisor's plaintive wail.
You're convinced that you've silenced that voice.
But how can you be sure? Maybe the rogue is sneaking down food (doughnuts!) Maybe every time you fail to live up to your expectations as a writer (or artist or athlete or crosser-of-the-street) you're actually doing it because your advisors are conspiring to keep that little voice of failure alive in your head. How will you deal with that?
Take off the chains, that's a start. Bring that advisor back into the royal court where you can at least keep an eye on him/her. Listen to that voice, acknowledge it… and then consciously, proactively refuse to yield.
You can't say no to a voice you can't hear.
So listen to all your voices. Seek consensus if it suits you, but remember who's boss. There is only one listener in your head; the rest are just talkers. Let the listener be the decision-maker too, and you'll end up doing what's in your best interest.
As an exercise, should you so choose, visit the royal court inside your head and give names to your advisors. Jot them down. Don't be afraid to paste labels from the real world: Some of the most powerful voices in our heads are our parents', our friends', our lovers'. Other voices come from our own expectations of ourselves. For instance, I have one advisor whose job is to do nothing but remind me that I'm supposed to be famous one day. No matter how many times I tell myself that that voice is invalid, old programming, the voice remains. So I acknowledge it. I list it and I listen to it, but I don't give in.
And if you're a writer, don't forget that the characters you create all have their royal courts too. Keep this in mind and your characters will naturally become more interesting and colorful. We imagine that our characters are monolithic wholes, but they're not, no more than we ourselves are. Everyone, real or imagined, is a coalition, and sometimes the coalition can get very shaky indeed.
"Back in the soup" is an expression I've often used to describe the exasperation I feel when returning home from overseas work, vacation, or other extended travel. It's often a function of nothing more than, well, mail: the bills that have piled up, and the checks that, somehow, haven't arrived. There's also the laundry to be done, work contacts to re-establish and, of course, work to return to. Whether I've been working overseas or just (as now) on vacation, it always seems a little like fantasyland out there, but back here it's reality. And it can make me feel like I'm, well, "in the soup."
It's the price I pay for travel, of course. I know that, and embrace it. Still, it always takes me a few days to shake off the former routine and establish the new regime. I find myself extensively stalling for time: doing busy work; writing random emails; this blog post. Mostly I'm just reacquainting myself with my desk. But it doesn't fit right and it doesn't feel right. I'd just gotten used to a beach chair. But hey, let's call this what it is: a luxury crisis. If I didn't get to go to groovy places like the Bahamas, I'd never have the hangover that comes with day one back in the soup.
So let's bid the Bahamas a fond farewell with a smile and a photo.
It was a great trip, a wonderful battery-recharge, and now it's on to the next adventure.
Even if that "adventure" is only paying the bills.
More later, -jv
I was six years old, maybe five, when I went to my first live TV taping, a local TV show called The Magic Land of Alakazam. There were hundreds and hundreds of screaming, unruly kids, and I was in the back row, far off to the side, when they asked for volunteers to join the magician on camera. I stood on my chair and waved my hand like a madman. And I got picked. No one in my family was surprised — nor surprised at my attempts to subvert the magician's tricks. plus ça change, my friends, plus ça change…
One of the things I love about my novelist avocation is how the fruits of my research can lead me to such strange corners of the known world. Just now, while searching for the perfect brand of malt liquor to have a character drink (I settled on King Cobra), I came across a brew I'd never heard of, O'Keefe's Extra Old Stock. And I don't know, something about the name just tickled me. So I dug a little deeper. I found pictures…
Historical accounts…
I used to drink this when I first moved out on my own in Alberta. It was THE "cowboy malt likker" they sold at al the cabarets. My 3 roomies and I drank oceans of this stuff
And, most specially, this review:
Smells of wet socks and vomit, lumberjack shirts, and stale nicotine smoke. Tastes like cardboard and wool. These days when out in the cabin I prefer turpentine.
And that was such poetry that I just had to share it with you.
And now, if you'll excuse me, I really need to get back to work. Writing about drinking: It's the next best thing to doing it.
More later, -jv
So I was trying to find out how old core ice is in Antarctica (because I'm thinking about distilling vodka from that source) when I came across this found object in Google:
Antarctic ice is growing, not melting away | News.com.au
Ice expanding in much of Antarctica Eastern coast getting colder Western section … I had sex with my friend's 16-year-old daughter. What should I do? …
I suppose they're just two random pulls from the same news source (news.com.au, where you can also follow the latest controversy of letting children lick nine-volt batteries) but it left me grimly amused. The good news is, there's no global warming. The bad news…
More later, -jv
But it's not that cold. Okay, it is that cold. Like, it hasn't been above single digit temperatures all week (and that's in Fahrenheit — it's even colder in centigrade). But yesterday when I was out walking in the Big Popsicle that is Moscow, I realized, hey, I'm not even miserable. Yes, it's cold and yes, I'm cold, but I'm not suffering… I'm just cold. And as I looked around at passers-by, I realized that many of them weren't wearing hats or gloves. Many carried on cell phone conversations, with bare hands and heads, just as if it were any other — okay, every other — day on the streets of Moscow. They weren't miserable, either. They were just cold.
This is a huge revelation for me. I thought I HATED the cold. I recall living in Boston and hating winter so much that the cold actually made me angry. That's one of the reasons I moved to Los Angeles — to put the misery behind me. Well, now I'm in the middle of Moscow's coldest winter in years (global warming? hah!) and it's really not that hard to take. I can walk in the cold. I can BE cold. And I'm not unhappy.
Or maybe I'm just numb.
Frankly, it's too cold to tell.
Also — knock on wood — I seem to be avoiding the treacherous slip-and-falls that have plagued me in the past. The sidewalks are ridiculously slick, but I've developed a system for not falling down. I just follow these simple steps.
1. EYES DOWN. Keep intensely focused on each step. This keeps ice patches from taking you by surprise.
2. HANDS OUT. Sure your fingers get cold, but your hands won't do you any good in your pockets when you're falling down.
3. LOW CENTER OF GRAVITY. Stay loose and stay low to keep balanced.
4. WATCH FOR DOWNSPOUTS. Where water flows down off rooftops it settles into deadly patches of black ice. Keep your eye on the downspouts and know that the ice is lurking.
Okay, what's that thing pride goeth before? That's right… a fall. So I'll be specially careful going home tonight.
Stay warm, campers; it's not even February yet.
More later, -jv


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Two long distance games in two days proved to be no problem for the Eminence Warriors girls' basketball team.
On Dec. 21, the Warriors traveled to Silver Grove to take on the Lady Trains and came away with a 50-35 victory. The Warriors jumped out to an 11-0 lead before Silver Grove closed the margin to 13-7 to end the quarter.
"Our goal in this game was to run our offenses and defenses and we did that to start the game," Warriors' coach Bill Covington said.
In mid-December, the Henry County Lady Cats and Carroll County Lady Panthers squared off in a game that coaches and players felt the Lady Cats should have won.
Last Friday the Cats played the host Panthers in the consolation bracket of the North American Steel Holiday Classic and came away with a convincing 55-41 victory.
Freshman Cheyenne Clark had a breakout performance with 27 points to lead the Cats.
It wasn't easy, but the Henry County Wildcats picked up a win against the Frankfort Panthers in the opening round of the Henry County Invitational Tournament.
The Panthers came back from double-digit deficits twice in the game to make it close down the stretch.
In the end, some key hustle plays by the Wildcats helped them pull out a 4-point victory 62-58.
After Christmas, the Eminence Warriors traveled to Edmonton for the Edmonton State Bank Holiday Classic, and came out of their first game in good shape.
The Warriors used solid half court defense to defeat the host Metcalfe County Hornets by 21 points.
If I ever found myself foolish enough to think I would stick with a resolution for a year, I would steal my dogs' wisdom.
We have a weimaraner and labrador mixed dog her name is Tilly and a beagle mixed with what we think is a blue healer named Henry. Henry looks very much like Snoopy and makes similar sounds as the Peanuts character with a custom for snorting when you directly ask him questions.
These two beasts are mentally superior and I have a lot to learn from them.
By Candy Clarke
Here we go. Another year is about to begin and it's time to decide if we are going to commit ourselves to a particular course of action or not. Do we really want to be bothered with making New Year's Resolutions yet again? How about the old ones? Could we just recycle them? Or maybe, we could just take one year off without doing any new resolutions.
The beginning of the New Year offers the opportunity to refresh and reset ourselves in a variety of different ways. One of the ways to do that is to get organized. Organization can help you feel more prepared for daily life and the unexpected situations which may arise over the next few months. January is National Get Organized Month. In recognition, consider incorporating these "clutter-free" practices in your home.
If you have a less-than-productive grass pasture or hayfield, following a few simple renovation techniques could increase the field's productivity. Some things you can do include planting a legume such as red clover, controlling pests and adding lime and fertilizer. Be aware though, some techniques require you to start as early as the middle of February.
Marian Ray , 28, New Castle, to David Pickering, 31, New Castle
Sarah Daniels, 29, Pleasureville, to William Ayers, 46, Pleasureville
Brenda Hieatt, 41, Eminence to Christopher Cox, 37, Eminence
Property Transfers
Jennifer L. Hughes, New Castle, to John Hughes, Smithfield. Land in Henry County; property settlement, fair market value $150,000.
The house in Henry County historically known as the Highlands in the rolling hillside just south of Floyd's Fork and KY 22 was once home to a family whose lives intertwined with Kentucky's birth as a state and the bloody hunting ground.
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Taylor Swift doesn't mind her friends dating her exes.
The 'Shake It Off' hitmaker has insisted she isn't worried if her close pals want to date any of her ex-boyfriends as she thinks "sisterhood" is more important.
She told Vanity Fair magazine: "It's almost like the sisterhood has such a higher place on the list of priorities for us. It's so much more important than some guy that it didn't work out with.
"Now more than ever we need to be good and kind to each other and not judge each other - and just because you have the same taste in men, we don't hold that against each other."
And the 25-year-old beauty will no doubt be referring to her close friend Gigi Hadid's romance with 'Just In Love' hitmaker Joe Jonas, who Taylor dated in the past.
A source previously claimed Taylor was "coming round" to the idea that the pair were together.
A source said at the time: "Taylor has come round to the idea of Gigi dating Joe now. It's no secret that Joe broke Taylor's heart when they broke off their relationship seven years ago. He was Taylor's first real love, and they didn't end on the best of terms."


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Implementing Domain-Specific Languages with Xtext and Xtend By Lorenzo Bettini
2013 | 342 Pages | ISBN: 1782160302 | EPUB + PDF | 17 MB
Xtext is an open source Eclipse framework for implementing domain-specific languages together with its IDE functionalities. It lets you implement languages really quickly, and, most of all, it covers all aspects of a complete language infrastructure, starting from the parser, code generator, interpreter, and more.
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And my apologies if this post is skewed towards Americans -- I am sure there are annoying couples in all countries. :)
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
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And my apologies if this post is skewed towards Americans -- I am sure there are annoying couples in all countries. :)
60 comments:
- creative kerfuffle said...
sadly there are a few i don't recognize, but my pics are brangelina and tomkat. blech. also? that pic of matthew mc. makes me want to do bad, bad things. omg.
- April 20, 2010 at 7:40 AM
- Down and Out Chic said...
americans do have a knack for showing off annoying couples! i don't know if i find any one couple more annoying than the rest, they're all bothersome (can you tell i'm in a mood?)
- April 20, 2010 at 7:45 AM
- brittany said...
heidi and spencer. hands down. i hate those bitches.
- April 20, 2010 at 7:48 AM
- bananas. said...
I didn't even have to scroll down, my answer is in the first picture.
I swear if i ever saw those two in person, i would roundhouse kick heidi in the face and bitch slap spencer not once but multiple times! Gah! I can't stand them!!
LOL to mary kate and ashley. Those two come in second place.
- April 20, 2010 at 7:49 AM
- Salt said...
Heidi and Spencer make me want to scream and throw things.
I totally forgot that Mary Kate and Ashley even existed!!
- April 20, 2010 at 8:01 AM
- Susan Erickson said...
really tough...they are all so full of themselves...but bradjolena really make me gag. ....now he is a pit and she is too......( I love being a bitch first thing in the morning...now I'm good for the whole day)
- April 20, 2010 at 8:04 AM
- Panty Buns said...
Ooh! That's a very hard deciding which is most annoying. Let's see: In the first photo the guy makes no effort whatsoever to coordinate his outfit with the bunny ears; In the second they both look hung over, like they both hate being there, and his hair looks unwashed; in the third photo Charlie Sheen does his best to look like a sadistic maniacal misogynistic killer while his counterpart puts on her "this is normal" look; In the fourth Iced Tea looks like a confused old guy who's date is doing a "Hey! Look at my giant tits!" routine; In the fifth photo it looks like Ashton Kutcher is about to pee on Demi's leg; In the sixth, the "Huh? What do I do now?" expression is annoying; The expressions say it all in the seventh; It's very annoying that Katie Perry didn't marry a girl (looks like she knows it) and that her hubby wouldn't even shave for his wedding dress photos; The next two wren't worth a mention; I confess that i like the Mariah Carey photo (i think she's hot); In the 13th photo even the guy either looks annoyed that his partner forgot the strap-on or like a self-centered douche (or both); After careful consideration though, i don't think there are more annoying couples out there, and will have to do more research to look for nominees. Funny pics!
- April 20, 2010 at 8:08 AM
- Alisa said...
#1 Heidi and Spencer - they are famous for what, thinking that they are famous? That is really annoying.
- April 20, 2010 at 8:18 AM
- Panty Buns said...
Maybe (not on the list) Todd and Sarah Palin?
- April 20, 2010 at 8:24 AM
- Haute World said...
Speidi, followed by Tomkat. If you want to include non-Americans, the Beckhams would definitely make the top of my list, and practically any famous soccer/sports star and his wife. Heidi Klum and Seal make me gag as well.
- April 20, 2010 at 8:30 AM
- Bathwater said...
I am really loosing touch I only know about 2/3 of these annoying people.
- April 20, 2010 at 8:31 AM
- Tia said...
ugh, Heidi and Spencer can eat my shorts. those two douche bags make me cringe...like my skin literally crawls at the site of them. and my nostrils burn, cause I can only imagine they smell like peroxide. and burnt plastic.
- April 20, 2010 at 8:48 AM
- Midtown Girl said...
LOL to the Charlie Sheen pic!! That was priceless ;-) XOXO
- April 20, 2010 at 8:51 AM
- Caroline said...
You nailed it! I think I hate Demi and Ashton more than Heidi and Spencer!!!
- April 20, 2010 at 8:56 AM
- Iva said...
umm I am pretty sure that those awkward bunnies are the champs of annoying couples. and will be for all eternity. and I am sure if another couple tried to take their title, they would just step up to the plate and home run themselves back to THE most annoying couple place..yet again. its a vicious cycle. ;)
- April 20, 2010 at 8:58 AM
- vint junky said...
Such a toughy!! I'm gonna have to go with Katy Perry and Russell Brand. Whats she done to our 'serial shagger', with hair flattened and open shirt he looks like a greasy waiter. I liked it better when he looked like Wurzel Gummidge on his way to an S&M party
It's all very disappointing!
- April 20, 2010 at 9:05 AM
- ...love Maegan said...
bahahahahh I love how you included the Olsen Twins!!! ahahahahha ...my vote: Ashton and Demi ....ANNOY FACTOR ELEVEN.
- April 20, 2010 at 9:36 AM
- JenRem said...
heidi and spencer.... I hate those two with a passion. If I never asw or heard about them ever again I would be such a happy soul :)
And I actually like Mary Kate & Ashley...
- April 20, 2010 at 10:00 AM
- Char said...
can we add paris hilton and anyone she's ever dating...and probably john mayer and whoever.
but spencer & heidi - double ick
and bragelia/tomkat - double yuck
- April 20, 2010 at 10:02 AM
- Melanie's Randomness said...
Is it bad that I don't know who half of these people are????
Brangelina are the most annoying I think. She's a baby factory & I'm soooo sick of hearing about how happy they are, divorce coming, then happy, then baby again. AHH!!! They are everywhere!!!
- April 20, 2010 at 10:02 AM
- Brooke said...
SPEIDI. Ugh...They just need to go away. Far, far away.
- April 20, 2010 at 10:06 AM
- TERI REES WANG said...
I vote for ...
the Little Toddler Slut Twins!
- April 20, 2010 at 10:21 AM
- Cheryl said...
Can't express it any better than Iva, the first couple hands down. Brangelina are a close second. But Demi Moore and Ashton Kuscher, I have to say she is one of my role models. I wouldn't mind finding someone so much younger than me like she did. And I like how she wears her age so gracefully. Unlike that fishnet stocking dress woman!!! WTF?
- April 20, 2010 at 10:26 AM
- Gabby said...
Heidi and Spencer get my vote. I can't stand them, they make my skin crawl. :)
- April 20, 2010 at 10:48 AM
- josie(bean) said...
all of them! ughhh. but definitely a fact when i say the first is the worst. but mk&a?! i LOVE them hahah. no really i love mary kate mostly, cant help it if i think she's a sassy wack-job skinny bitch :P and it's true that americans are the most annoying by default, they just excel at that trait by nature. that and being fat. what a country!
- April 20, 2010 at 11:19 AM
- Claire Kiefer said...
Heidi and Spencer are the most annoying couple on the face of the planet and they inspire violent rages inside my nonviolent soul. UGHHHHH. However, the Mariah/Nick pic made me CRACK UP--omg angels!--and Bella and Edward may be a close second to Speidi. WTF.
p.s. Olsen twins, haha!
- April 20, 2010 at 11:29 AM
- Phoenix said...
LOL as most of your commenters seem fairly pissed off at these pics, I guess I count myself lucky that I don't know how half of them are! Guess I should read more tabloids, eh?
- April 20, 2010 at 11:33 AM
- pearls said...
ahahahaahaha the Olsen twins for sure.... !! then Heidi and her troll of a husband, you are too funny.
- April 20, 2010 at 11:40 AM
- blueviolet said...
I agree with every single one of them!
- April 20, 2010 at 12:08 PM
- God's Favorite Shoes! said...
There are just too many to choose. My gut says Mariah and Nick Lachey....oh wait that's not the right Nick...he's part of another annoying couple!
- April 20, 2010 at 12:31 PM
- SabinePsynopsis said...
All of them! Actually, all couples are a bit annoying EXCEPT Robert Patterson and his pale vampire lover... They are above it, naturally, being non-human and all.
- April 20, 2010 at 12:55 PM
- Kris said...
I agree with ALL of these! LOL!
The last one is the best!
- April 20, 2010 at 1:35 PM
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How can I pick just one couple, if scrolling down I was saying t myself "oh yeah, them too" with every picture
- April 20, 2010 at 1:55 PM
- // S said...
i think i love you... funniest post ever.
i have no idea who the first couple are, but anyone wearing bunny ears has got my vote for most annoying.
- April 20, 2010 at 3:39 PM
- Chessa! said...
ugh..I cannot STAND Heidi Freakshow. Her boobs and her whole look are absurd. she obviously has physchological issues and no one does anything but enable her. I feel sorry her but she and that Spencer are tools.
and btw, I LOVE RPatz and KStew:) lol what? I do!
- April 20, 2010 at 4:09 PM
- Hope Chella said...
I agree, except for Brad and Angie. I like them. Brad and Jen, not so much!
Have a great Tuesday,
Hope =)
- April 20, 2010 at 4:31 PM
- perfectionishuman said...
idk.. katy perry and russel brand dont grate on me as much as they should, they're just cute together. But the rest.......eeeesh. That's all ;) x
- April 20, 2010 at 4:45 PM
- Diana said...
HAHAHA at the last pic. Yes, all of them make me gag a little but the first pic just makes me vom.
They were on the Jay Leno show recently and everyone booed them!
- April 20, 2010 at 6:00 PM
- Karisa Tells All said...
I nominate Michael Lohan and Kate Major (aka Jon Gosselin's sloppy seconds).
- April 20, 2010 at 6:25 PM
- The Zhush said...
This is just too much! Where is The Donald and his "wife"? whatshername? I think it has to be Speidi for the win!
- April 20, 2010 at 6:48 PM
- Morgan said...
Tough decision. They are ALL annoying. Good choices. I'm going to have to go with Speidi. THEY SUCK.
- April 20, 2010 at 7:06 PM
- JUNKER JANE said...
I haven't decided yet, but GAWD I LOVE your blog :D
- April 20, 2010 at 7:21 PM
- Asylum Dolly said...
Sweet zombie jesus, i cannot pick one! They are ALL incredibly annoying!!!! I feel honoured that there is an aussie couple in there: Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban are uber annoying!!! Actually, even on their own as individuals they are ridiculously irritating. I hate Keith urbans "music" and Kidman is just an empty vessel. Personality town! Polulation ZERO.
My other pick is Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. I feel nauseous just looking at these photos....
Thankyou for making me not feel bad for thinking coupledom can be really really sickening!!!
- April 20, 2010 at 7:27 PM
- Kellie said...
Oh gah! Spencer and Heidi for sure. SO UBER ANNOYING. Gag.
- April 20, 2010 at 8:38 PM
- Kathryn said...
LOL on the Olsen twins. I'd have to say J Lo and Marc Anthony, although Ice-T and Coco can be a bit much. Especially Coco. I get so tired of seeing her giant tatas and/or rear-end splattered on my computer screen every time I check out a celebrity site. Sorry Coco, but if you don't start wearing a bra soon gravity is going to wreak its havoc and you will end up playing paddleball with your knees on them anytime you try to jog.
- April 20, 2010 at 8:58 PM
- Felicia|DaLipstickBandit said...
lol @ the olsen twins
spencer and heidi are tied with nick and mariah.
- April 20, 2010 at 9:40 PM
- Laurel said...
I gotts say the speidi peeps are putrid. I also think the chick in the net dress just is wrong. So wrong. All pretty icky. My daughter went out Ms Perry's last boy for a wee bit and if the new one is as much of a nut bag as him(and I am thinkin he is) then I say they win! Eck. What the Heck...They all win...ew ew ew!
- April 20, 2010 at 10:57 PM
- Heather Taylor said...
Spencer and Heidi, those two are a joke!
- April 20, 2010 at 11:31 PM
- shari @ little blue deer said...
Seriously, it's pretty impossible to decide! I keep saying "Them! No, them!" Might be Speidi, just for the super-stupid bunny ears. But no, I also hate Brangelina! But wait, lol, thanks for some great entertainment!
- April 21, 2010 at 6:40 AM
- Jill said...
You nailed it! Do you think Spencer and Heidi are for real? Can they really believe that they're "all that"! Sometimes I think it must be an elaborate joke. Her "mogul" comment cracked me up.
Melanie and Antonio annoy me a bit. I heard something interesting about Tom and Katie...I'll email you.
- April 21, 2010 at 6:58 AM
- Pretty Little World said...
You are making this very difficult to choose, as I want to choose most of them, but I won't. So here are the top three:
1. Spencer & Heidi, though are they even really a couple? I kind of doubt they actually like each other.
2. Demi & Ashton. I do not like Aston Kutcher and Demi now apparently fancies herself some kind of savior for the lost on Twitter. WTF?
3. Tom & Katie Crazy.
- April 21, 2010 at 9:05 AM
- ~KS said...
I HATE Rob and Kristen... just cuz I freakin' want to be Kristen and am uber jealous of her...
but most annoying? Speidi for sure... well. Maybe the Cruise oddballs. Tough call.
- April 21, 2010 at 9:37 AM
- Christy said...
Oho! You definitely picked the cream o' the crop here! I could never choose, but can only agree that ALL of them are gag-worthy!
- April 21, 2010 at 12:14 PM
- anotherfishinthesea said...
hahah god, this is too hard to narrow down. i definitely find some much more annoying than others though. speidi might be at the top, and the mariah and nick picture just cracked me up.
- April 21, 2010 at 4:06 PM
- Lianne said...
Liza Minnelli and David Gest. Or were they really just the same person?
- April 21, 2010 at 8:11 PM
- Karls said...
Oh my! Hard choice... they are ALL annoying - well those that I know of anyway (quite a few I don't recognise - probably should be greatful for that). Has Spence chunked on a few k.g;s or what? Perhaps he should think about some surgery cause I can't stand to look at him... although I'm not that would change even if he were even remotely attractive!
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- April 21, 2010 at 9:17 PM
- Farah said...
I find them all annoying as couples! Especially Speidi! But I do live Russell Brands type of comedy though. ;)
- April 21, 2010 at 11:12 PM
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I would say that the couples you showed wouldn't be annoying if it wasn't for the media that constantly shows them so we can really get enough of them.
- May 14, 2010 at 3:12 AM
- Juanette said...
Damn you are making it hard on a sista to pick just one! I say Nick and Mariah, she is annoying to me all on her own....
- July 15, 2010 at 12:07 PM
- LindseyD said...
Oooooh! So hard to pick just one couple but I'm going with Nicole and Keither for her huge forehead and his sappy post-alcoholic dribble. Great post! Thanks for sharing!
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Saturday was a big moment for me. I may work at Aatomotion and report from car shows and drift events but this was my first time attending Japfest in an actualy Japanese car. It was quite a relief to roll through Castle Combe and not be the only Audi in the village!
Japfest is Europe's biggest Japanese car show with huge areas of club stands, a paddock full of trade stands and enough track action and drifting to de-laminate an entire branch of Kwik-Fit
Photography: Will Belcher & Simon Pow – Words: Simon Pow
Meanwhile, out on track, this happened.
The Drift Kings competition saw a mix of drifters battling each other and the changeable track conditions to win the £1000 prize. Here's a taste of the action.


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John Cusack stars in this noir-like tale of espionage and double-dealing set in 1940s Shanghai. Paul Soames (Cusack) is a US Naval Intelligence agent who travels to Shanghai to investigate the death of his friend, Connor (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). Posing as a journalist with pro-Nazi sentiments, he uses his charm and know-how to infiltrate the upper echelons of German society in the city, and also to get close to Germany's new ally, Japan. But Paul finds himself in over his head when he becomes involved with local triad leader Anthony Lan-Ting (Chow Yun-Fat) and his beautiful wife, Anna (Gong Li).
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – For the first time, the nation's highest court will wade into the contentious debate over transgender rights, which has divided communities and courts across the country.
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Friday that the justices will take up the case of a Virginia school board that wants to prevent a transgender teenager from using the boys' bathroom at his high school.
To members of the transgender community, there's a lot at stake.
Shannon Minter is a transgender man and an attorney who works on transgender issues. He called Friday "one of the most important days in the history of the transgender movement."
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Travlr (3055) Charlotte , North Carolina | August 19, 2010
Great selection of American craft brews. They'll let you mix and match singles. Selection of Belgians is much smaller. Staff is extremely friendly and very helpful. Great place.
DiarmaidBHK (948) Lewisburg, Pennsylvania | October 21, 2011
One of the nicer total wines I've seen. This one looks pretty new and apparently in AZ they can offer free samples although today it was just Leinenkugel. As with any other Total wine quantity trumps over quality, wine is always more important than beer, they have a solid section of seasonals but usually nothing too rare, and you can take a bottle out of any six pack to create your own sixer. Not the best Belgian selection and scandinavian beers seem to be completely impossible to get here. Pretty good for a chain.
Terminus (367) St. Louis, Missouri | May 27, 2013
Maybe i wasnt that impressed with this place when i visited in Spring 2012. Lots of old beer on the shelves, prices were a bit high, and there was no service to speak of. I did find some rare Bruery beers there but still, i was not that impressed with this place. I will re-visit sometime.
fata2683 (131) Tucson, Arizona | June 17, 2011
Best selection and prices in Tucson. It would be hard to recommend Plaza over this place simply because of the massive selection of beer. All six packs can be broken into singles which is a bonus as well.
dchmela (106) Orlando, Florida | January 29, 2012
Fairly typical Total Wine, good selection of brews, wines and liquor. Some nice local breweries and other cool west coast brewers on the shelf. Good place.
beerguy101 (75) Newark, California | April 18, 2009
I think Plaza carries more beers. This store does have a nice selection of stuff you can buy as singles, unlike BevMo. Good selection of US and Foreign beers. They did have some things that Plaza and BevMo don't. Definitely worth a stop. Their price are good.
TheRealMGD (59) Lakewood, Washington | April 2, 2012| Updated December 19, 2012
This is a great place for selection and service - I didn't think anyone could rival Binny's (especially the Loop Binny's). And prices are great - 5 clams for a bomber of GF IIPA! That's the same price as at the brewery. HOWEVER, 90% of their craft beers are sitting on shelves, unrefrigerated. For some of those beers, especially the ones which have traveled from overseas and were designed to do so, it doesn't matter so much. However, having unpasteurised, craft beers (particularly IPAs and IIPAs) sitting out on well-lit shelves is criminal. Many of the beers I tried from TW (including the aforementioned GF IIPA) were wrong. Very wrong. Either keep the store at cellar temps or expand your fridge section folks! You are ruining the beers you should be promoting! Shopped there again recently: no improvements to beer storage and some things have gotten worse. The Bud cases are still chilled, thankfully :/
cbkschubert (44) BFE, Arizona | October 8, 2008| Updated December 29, 2010
This place is nice. They have a large selection of micros and imports. Their selection is larger than BevMo and gives Plaza a run for their money. They have a large selection of 12 oz. singles. Plenty of wine and spirits, but I didn't look closely at what they had. I picked up a bottle of Apis Jadwiga mead which I have never seen in Tucson. Best of all, the prices are the best in town. Definitely worth a stop.
neuromatt (6) Toronto, Ontario | August 29, 2010
A warehouse store specializing in wine, but with a great selection of American craft brews. The staff was quite helpful. One of the better places to shop in Tucson.
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Very good prices, and the 'build your own 6-pack' feature made me absolutely delighted. A better selection than BevMo, I only had time to go through 2/3 of their stock (and very quickly at that) as I was there rather late. I must go back!


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Kathrin Winkler, chief sustainability officer for EMC, talks about the keys to succeeding in sustainability as well as the challenges she faces and the rewarding moments she has experienced throughout her career.
Environmental professionals call for sustainability skills strategy
The UK's leading environmental professional institutions set out their priorities for the next government.
NRW starts recruiting for new chair
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Cranfield University: Water quality planning and regulation, how to protect the water environment
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Monthly Archives: July 2008
Science Tattoos
Discover Magazine just launched a gallery of science based tattoos on their website. Check it out This was one of my favs:
Fox News is Officially Propaganda
Apparently the White House has been supplying the scripts for OReilly and Hannity. There is not supposed to be state run media in this country. This is could be a major corruption scandal:
Oliver Stone's 'W' – Film Preview
Oliver Stone has made a film that depicts the life of our President George W. Bush, drunken flatulence and all:
Bird Catches Fish
Michael Savage Says Autism A Fraud
Michael Savage must be the most ignorant asshole I've heard in a while. He thinks autism is just kids who weren't taught how to behave by their parents. Have a listen:
Mama cat takes in baby bunny
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McCain Graduated 5th From Bottom
We have a C student as president now, do we really want our next one to be a D student who doesn't know how to use a computer?


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Edinburgh, Scotland United Kingdom (PressExposure) December 05, 2008 -- David Hardy has joined bigmouthmedia as the search marketing group's International Sales and Marketing Director.
Stepping into a key strategic and operational post, Hardy will play a lead role in the delivery of the group's growth and expansion programme. Charged with strengthening the company's sales and marketing operations across 13 international offices, Marks & Spencer Money's former Head of Online Marketing and Ecommerce expects to hit the ground running.
"It's a tremendously exciting time to be joining bigmouthmedia. This is an industry-leading company that operates in a constantly shifting marketplace, and every day brings a fresh set of challenges," said Hardy. "That generates the kind of pace and atmosphere it's impossible to avoid getting caught up in."
Prior to his stint driving Marks & Spencer Money's highly successful ecommerce strategy, Hardy served as Online Retailing and Marketing Director at Hilton Hotels International. A highly experienced marketing professional, he previously occupied senior roles at American Airlines and HSBC.
"After over 13 years client side this is my first role with an agency - I was convinced to cross the line because of the strengths of the bigmouthmedia operation and its plans for the future," added Hardy.
"After several years working with bigmouthmedia as a client I'm in a good position to know this. Whilst the view is slightly different on the agency side, it's an exciting and dynamic time to be in e-commerce irrespective of whether you're an agency or client, and I'm fortunate to be in a position to see both perspectives."
Bigmouthmedia Group CEO Steve Leach added: "We're delighted to be working with David. He brings a wealth of international business experience to the senior management team that I'm confident will deliver real benefits as we continue to drive the group forward."


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· Fully 44 percent of American households, including nearly two-thirds of households of color, have less than $5,800 in emergency savings — or the cash to survive three months at the poverty level if an accident or job loss cuts off income.
· Families lacking this emergency cushion include one quarter of "middle class" households earning between $55,000 and $90,000 a year.
· Nearly one-third of U.S. households have no savings account at all.
The linkage between savings and opportunity is clear. Savings can buffer households from an unexpected financial crisis. A few grand in the bank can mean paying the mortgage versus facing foreclosure following a job loss.
Savings are also the launch pad to financial security. Owning a savings account, no matter how small, can help individuals build credit and practice good financial habits. Over time, the account can become a down payment, a college savings fund or small business start-up capital.
Finally, savings give people hope. Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis found that children with savings accounts in their own names are up to six times more likely to attend college than children without savings.
If President Obama is serious about inequality, savings should be central to his agenda. He should begin with three steps:
Make savings a part of tax reform
If Congress takes up tax reform, it shouldn't miss the chance to create more effective incentives for helping all Americans save. The tax code's current benefits for retirement, education and homeownership (via the mortgage interest deduction) are also the government's largest savings programs, costing nearly $400 billion a year.
But many Americans don't benefit. Millionaires get $188 in tax breaks for savings for every $1 middle-income families receive. One small fix, as Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.) has proposed, is to expand and make refundable the Saver's Credit to provide a modest "match" to lower-income people saving toward retirement. Despite pressure to divert any revenues from tax reform toward deficits or lower rates, policymakers should at least preserve—but ideally enhance — the tax code's fundamental role in encouraging savings.
Promote responsible homeownership
Despite the housing crash, homeownership remains the first rung of wealth for most families, accounting for one-third of Americans' total wealth.
In the post-crash era, policymakers should create a "safe" path to homeownership that focuses on down payment savings and ensures that federally-supported homeownership counseling programs include access to a savings account. CFED research shows that low-income homeowners who bought their homes with the help of a specially matched savings account were one-third less likely to have faced foreclosure.
Policymakers should also consider expanding options for affordable homeownership. Manufactured housing, for example, is an often-overlooked but significant source of affordable homeownership, yet it is largely unsubsidized.
End federal penalties on low-income savers
Finally, policymakers should reform limits on the assets someone can have and still qualify for federal programs such as federal disability insurance and, in some states, food stamps.. Currently, beneficiaries typically can't have more than $2,000 in savings and assets to be eligible for benefits. This not only causes undue hardship, it punishes savings and traps people in poverty.
Two good ideas, proposed by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, are to create a "safe harbor" for retirement savings and to index the current limit (untouched since 1989) to today's dollars.
Savings is of course no silver bullet.
But as part of a multi-pronged strategy including better schools, better jobs and better wages, it's essential to the new "opportunity society" the President seeks – and a critical component of sustainable economic recovery.
Levere is president of CFED, a Washington, D.C. non-profit. Anne Kim is senior policy strategist at CFED.


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What exactly is there to say about raspberry cake? Surprisingly, not much. Especially not when there's a whole series worth of "Daria" to watch on DVD.
But I'll try.
So the recipe that I linked to is basically a yellow cake with raspberries added on top. That is not to say that it isn't tasty. It is! It's also quite attractive.
The way to achieve the winsome berry look (i.e.--a twee treat) is to place the berries on top of the batter before baking.
The batter will rise around the fruit in effect "berrying" them. Oh, ho. I'm slaying myself with that one.
While the cake is pretty tasty on its own, I prefer my berries with a bit of chocolate. Hence the icing.
Just a reminder: A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down. Unless you're diabetic. (Yes, that was a quote from "Daria" which I should really be getting back to...)
(baking notes: Recipe was quartered. Substitutions: 2% milk for buttermilk, frozen raspberries for fresh.)
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Kamal Haasan believes in letting his work do the talking and doesn't often interact with the media thanks to his busy schedule. Moreover, he avoids meeting press-persons when he is in the middle of a project so as not to reveal anything about the character he plays in the particular film. For the first time since he launched his Vishwaroopam more than three months back, he has opened up about the film.
Kamal has spoken about the making of the film to a Mumbai-based magazine. The actor is not only directing the film but has also taken up the additional responsibility of producing it as the original producer recently opted out of the film. Kamal has answered queries about what sort of a film it would be and whether it's a remake of a Hollywood film.
"I like to concentrate on only one film at a time. Only then would I be able to devote all my attention and energy to the film and to the character I play in it. If my film doesn't start on the specified date(s) and my call-sheet dates are wasted, it would add to my responsibility. At times, as it has happened in the case of Viswaroopam, I might have to take over the making of the film.
"I want to do a lot but am unable to do so due to paucity of time. Each birthday of mine reminds me that time is ticking by…I'd like it if the birthday occurs once in 5 years instead of being an annual affair. Contrary to what has been referred to by some press reports, Vishwaroopam is not the Tamil remake of the Hollywood hit film Cannibal. The film has an interesting script.
"The script has taken the film to countries like America, England and Jordan besides various parts of our country. As you're aware, this is my first directorial venture after Hey Ram and I'm making Viswaroopam as a bilingual in Tamil and Hindi," concludes Kamal Haasan. Pooja Kumar, based in U.S., has been paired opposite Kamal Haasan in the film.


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Fans probably haven't watched Season 7 of Gilmore Girls lately.
Due to a contract dispute with the CW, Gilmore Girls creator Amy Sherman-Palladino was not involved with the beloved show's seventh season and it showed.
The dialogue is slower. The plot lines are more contrived (Lorelai and Christopher in Paris, anyone?). Honestly, it's not really the Stars Hollow fans came to love which is partially why people are so excited about the show's Netflix revival.
But despite Season 7's general mediocrity, it didn't all leave us cold. In fact, those 22 okay episodes gave us a few stellar moments even though we'll always know Lane deserved better and that Rory should have just told Lucy she already knew Marty or whatever.
Here are seven of Season 7's best moments. Spoiler: none of them involve Logan proposing to Rory in front of several dozen people.
1. Lorelai meets the resident rebel at cotillion (episode 3, "Lorelai's First Cotillion")
Caroline is the breakout star of episode 3, from her impeccable chicken dance to her sick pink Converse at cotillion. Plus, it's nice to see Lorelai admire someone else making Emily miserable instead of doing the dirty work herself.
2. Emily Gilmore goes to jail (episode 4, "'S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous")
…And Lorelai gleefully bails her out. This was an indulgent moment for the series, certainly, but that didn't make it any less fun.
3. Zach plays "My Heart Will Go On" at Chin-Chin's funeral (episode 14, "Farewell, My Pet")
Michel's highly curated funeral for Chin-Chin is one of the character's most on-point moments, and Zach's reluctant Celine Dion cover is a streak of classic Gilmore Girls hilarity. Unfortunately, the scene also tries to double as an emotional pre-divorce moment for Lorelai, which is weird because it is a dog funeral.
4. "Will you be their Lorelai Gilmore?" (episode 16, "Will You Be My Lorelai Gilmore?")
Many fans think Lane's relationship with Zach did the character a great disservice, especially throughout her pregnancy plot in Season 7. But when Lane asks Rory to be a role model for her twins just like Lorelai was a role model for her it almost makes up for putting her drums in storage. Almost.
5. Luke and Lorelai in the hay bale maze (episode 18, "Hay Bale Maze")
The hay bale maze itself a wacky, selfish and somehow endearing idea from Taylor was a charming addition to a season that often managed to be completely charm-free. And when Luke and Lorelai go their separate ways inside its extremely tall walls, it's genuinely touching even though Luke is wearing a turquoise bracelet.
6. Paris opens her acceptance letters (episode 19, "It's Just Like Riding A Bike")
Especially after her Harvard rejection back in Season 3, Paris deserved a few big envelopes. And she got 'em in spades. It's fun to see Paris win, and it's even more fun to watch her mood go from unbridled ecstasy to that special brand of Paris Geller anxiety as she realizes she'll have to choose between literally every Ivy League graduate school. Also: all hail the lucky letter opener.
7. Rory and Lorelai go to Luke's Diner one last time (episode 22, "Bon Voyage")
Despite the many narrative blunders Season 7 thrust upon weary Gilmore fans, the show wisely ended things where they began: over coffee at Luke's.
Let's hope they tie up a few more loose ends in the Netflix revival.
Gilmore Girls: A Day in the Life premieres on Netflix November 25.
BONUS: Test your Harry Potter knowledge before 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' this weekend
Read more: http://mashable.com/2016/11/20/gilmore-girls-season-7-good-moments/


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Your personal road safety guardian.
The Philips ADR 610 Car Dash Cam will protect you in case the unexpected happens on the road.
Rely on smart automatic functions and excellent video performance to provide you with crystal clear evidence when you need it.
Automatic recording when you start your vehicle
As soon as you power on your vehicle, the driving recorder starts operating automatically.
Collision detection and automatic emergency recording
In case of a collision, an emergency recording is automatically saved to secure the evidence and prevent overwriting.
Fatigue index and driver alert
The fatigue index shows the evolution of a driver's fatigue, and will indicate a visual and acoustic warning message when the driver should be taking a rest.
Vivid details with 1080p Full HD definition
Capture vivid details with 1080p Full HD definition.
Instant replay with proof stamped evidence
Instant replay to clarify responsibility on the spot, with proof stamped evidence, to support and speed up insurance claim process.
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