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Views on wines from Italy, California, Chile, Argentina and other great regions of the world from a freelance writer and photographer
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Judging at VinItaly
A few weeks ago, I was one of 105 individuals who served as a judge for the VinItaly Wine Competition, held at Veronfiere in Verona, the same building where the annual VinItaly wine far is held in late March/early April.
I was invited several months ago by Carlo Alberto Delaini, director of the VeronaFiere Press Office; I accepted at once, as I was happy to be invited and also curious about how this event would work. Now having participated as a judge, I can tell you that this experience was first-rate and exceeded my expectations.
Whenever I head to Italy (this was my 54th trip there), I see many long-time friends I've come to know over the past decade. Of course, I always make new friends as well and what a great experience to meet journalists from around the world. This time, I met new friends from countries such as Maylasia, Slovenia, Germany, France, China and Argentina. How nice it is to sit down with these people over lunch and dinner and talk to them about their experiences and thoughts on Italian wine!
A great thing about this event was that I was also able to meet winemakers (enologists, if you will) from all over the world as well. As a foreign journalist, I was part of a five person commission to judge wines. Each commission was comprised of three journalists - two foreign and one Italian - as well as two winemakers, one from Italy and one foreign. It made for a nice mix of expertise and stylistic decisions and assured that each wine would be fairly judged.
This was the 20th anniversary year for this competition and it's obviously grown over the years; more than 3000 wines were entered in the competition. Each commission over five days would taste approximately 160-180 wines (40 wines on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, with a few less on Monday and Friday). Wines were entered from seemingly everywhere on the planet - name a country and you could pretty much be assured that there was a wine from that nation. Of course, Italian wines made up most of the entries, but there were also wines from Romania, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France and dozens of other lands. Wine styles ranged from the lightest sparkling wines and rosés to the most full-bodied red wines, some of which were decanted by the ultra professional staff of Italian sommeliers.
This was a great experience for me, being able to judge wines as varied as Lambrusco, Prosecco, lush dessert wines and numerous vibrant whites and full-bodied reds. We were given a category number for the wines we were tasting, so we only knew for example that the sparkling wines were from 2011 for one category, while for another the reds were from either 2010 or 2009. You could make educated guesses as to what you were tasting, but you really didn't know, which I thought was a good thing, as it made you focus your attention on judging each wine individually. I've since learned a few of the wines I tasted and liked and there were some pleasant surprises.
Here is a complete list of the winning wines.
I want to thank the sommeliers for the professionalism, my fellow judges and the organizers for a wonderful week in Verona!
Posted by tom hyland at 2:21 PM
Labels: verona, veronefiere, vinitaly competition, wine judging
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"This was a great experience for me, being able to judge wines as varied as Lambrusco...' ....which will - hopefully - be served in 'red wine glasses' at the 21st. edition. :) http://www.lambruscoday.org/how-to-serve-lambrusco.htmlReplyDelete
Thanks for your comment, James!ReplyDelete
I actually scored one Lambrusco with 96 points - yes, it was that good! When I asked a fellow judge for his opinion, he said it was too dry! Imagine, not liking a Lambrusco because it's too dry. Looks like we have to teach them a few things! -:)
Have a wonderful Christmas!
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SAN DIEGO – The 30-year-old woman who was fatally mauled by one or more of the eight American bulldogs outside a Fallbrook house she was hired to clean was publicly identified.
Remedios Romero-Solares of Fallbrook was found dead behind the home at 1305 Calle Tecolotlan about 5:15 p.m. Sunday, according to the San Diego County Medical Examiner's Office, who listed her cause of death as "multiple penetrating, mauling and blunt-force injuries."The Medical Examiner's Office ruled her death an accident.
Romero-Solares was found dead by a cousin who had gone to pick her up from cleaning the house while the residents were out of town, sheriff's Lt. Glenn Giannantonio said.
The Department of Animal Control impounded the dogs and would continue to investigate to determine whether criminal charges would be filed against the homeowners, the lieutenant said.
The muscular, strong-framed dogs, one of which weighs more than 100 pounds, were being held at a pound in Carlsbad and the one or ones that are found to have attacked the victim will be deemed non-adoptable and euthanized, according to DAS spokesman Dan DeSousa.
While deputies were checking the residence for others who had been injured by the animals, they found two dozen marijuana plants growing in a rear bedroom of the home, Giannantonio said.
Investigators with the San Diego County Narcotics Task Force were called in to seize the cannabis and determine who was responsible for its presence in the residence, he said.

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Early Iron
Bob Reuter
Oak Creek, Wisconsin
1929 Ford roadster pickup
Bob Reuter has been a subscriber to STREET RODDER since the early '80s, and he's owned this pickup since that time, at least in one form or another. He also likes the Professor Hammer articles, and got to meet Ron Covell one year at the Portland Roadster Show and believes Covell to be a "down-to-earth person who seems to take interest in any project brought before him," and we'd have to agree.
This pickup project began with a bare frame from Total Cost Involved Engineering and Bob added all the necessary mounts and brackets. It features a 454 Chevy motor, internally stock with the exception of a bigger cam and geardrive. The distributor is electronic and has been re-curved, while other features are a Weiand intake, a Holley 650 carb and fuel pump, Sanderson headers, Taylor wires, and a Moroso air cleaner and valve covers.
Cooling is provided by a Walker radiator with an external trans cooler. The transmission is a TH400 while the rearend is a 9-inch Ford with 31-spline axles and 3.50:1 gears. The wheels are American Torq-Thrusts (15×4 up front, 16×8 in the rear) wrapped in 135R15 and 265R16 tires.
The body is made up of a combination of stock Ford and Brookville Roadster pieces. The interior has a simple vinyl bench seat, a Grant steering wheel, Stewart-Warner gauges, a Billet Specialties gauge cluster, and a modified B&M shifter. Though there is more bodywork to do, it's currently primered in Ditzler DP74, but he hopes for it to be a glossy medium red (maybe off one of the newer VWs) in the near future.
You don't see a lot of big-block roadster pickups running around, and Bob says the car is a lot of fun and wouldn't be possible without his understanding wife, Jill, and inspiration from his friends Dennis and Mark Klunder.


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Roddy White never has missed a game during his eight-year career with the Atlanta Falcons, a trend that won't be interrupted Sunday against the New Orleans Saints.
NFL Media's Jeff Darlington reported Sunday that the veteran receiver will play through the pain of a sprained ankle, according to a team source. The Falcons also expect cornerback Asante Samuel to suit up, but his thigh injury makes him a game-time decision, according to Darlington.
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NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport later confirmed White will be ready to go.
He's no stranger to the injury list, but White always comes through. Add Julio Jones to the mix, and the Falcons house one of the NFL's most explosive receiving duos. After White tweaked his ankle during the preseason, Jones picked up the slack with ease, becoming even more dangerous in the passing game.
We cited this Falcons-Saints tilt as one of our must-see games on Friday's Around the League Podcast. Atlanta's high-octane air attack still makes it the favorites in the NFC South, but Saints coach Sean Payton and his ever-reliable passer, Drew Brees, have the tools on offense to go point for point on Sunday.
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Although the Republican controlled House of Representatives recently passed Audit the Fed, HR 459, Audit the Fed will never pass nor will the Fed ever be abolished legislatively. Republicans really do support the Federal Reserve because it funds their wars and empire. Furthermore, all the Republican YEA's to Audit the Fed were nothing more than an act of political expediency because Republicans in Congress absolutely do understand that Audit the Fed stands no chance of ever getting out of the Senate where it only has 30 co-sponsors and could never survive a presidential veto.
The Federal Reserve is the mother's milk of empire, tyranny and statism. Big government and central banks exist for no purpose except to massive concentrate wealth and power. Moreover, it's absolutely true that the phrase "99% vs the 1%" is indeed a valid premise even if it was hatched by socialists on the left. What the progressive left fails to grasp is that it was liberal progressive Democrats who delivered unto us the Federal Reserve that was empowered to transfer wealth from the 99% to the 1%.
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Monday, July 2, 2007
Beppe Rocks the Red Socks
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I think the nutty Isabella Blow sextagenarian rocking the peep-toes with athletic pants should be the real star of this shot.
love it.
he looks very nice, but the woman to his right is just absolutely wonderful.
love the photo. im more curious about the lady next to him!
maybe someone has said this, but that is anna piaggi. no?
that man looks divinely snappy.
the "nutty" woman is Anna Piaggi, fashion writer/icon and a complete genius, no?
That's Anna Piaggi. Don't be disrespectful.
I covet the shoes of his lady friend.
– desertwind
Perhaps night and day having a conversation…both as home in their own skins…love it!
very cool, anyone know what the shades are? thanks
Can´t understand the need to use sunglasses inside.Either you just have come from some sort of eye operation or maybe you want to hide your identity.
the women on the right is the queen!!! lola
They are really like an elder devil and an angel (in the body of Anna Piaggi).
I love his socks and her "jogging pants". They are a class of their own.
you always have to credit someone who is making a fashion choice that is deliberate. kudos to Beppe. but are the red socks really attractive? flattering? an improvement to the suit? when i see this i usually think the person's goals are not to look their best, but something other. attention? not that that is a less valid goal.
Beppe rocks! Very classic and understated, yet he is distinguished in his simplicity and good taste. Very Italian. Here's an interesting article about him and his outlook on style…
It's not Isabella, she passed away ….what was it, May 7th?? That is Anna Piaggi.
And Isabella was not nutty, she was beautiful.
Anna Piaggi does kind of steal the show here, with the high heeled peep-toes and aqua satin track pants!
who doesn't love a man with red socks? fabulous, as is Anna, Italian Vogue editor with a collection of the most stunning vintage fashion you would kill for.
Anna Piaggi makes Isabella Blow look like Brooks Bros.
not another seriously stylishly nutty milanese female sextagenarian wearing outrageous clothes again!! omg. outrageously wonderful.
A wonderful foto
the DEVINE miss P
In all her glory
In animated conversation
with mr red socks
So, Sart, do you have any shots of Anna Piaggi? Beppe is great as usual, but what about her?
This is a tiny bit off-topic, but I'm really enjoying checking out the blogs and websites of people leaving comments. And, it's also much fun when commenters identify the people in the photo!
I'm now gonna google Anna Piaggi.
Sart, it's a brilliant idea not to identify everyone in the photos you post. Sort of a treasure hunt!
– desertwind
Those red socks are the only thing saving him from that explosion lurking on his left.
Fashion icons, too, must have lapses in judgement it seems.
I want to see those sateen-finish-tracky-dacks that Anna Piaggi is rocking!!
he looks really good. the woman next to him is begging for attention…
not sure if i think that's a good or bad thing.
the beautiful beppe, man of my dreams. is that the safety pin?
AND an angled tie clip.
This gentleman looks wonderful in his red socks. Once again, it is the one unexpected touch that makes the whole look interesting and cool. And his fascinating companion elevates his cool factor big time.
Yes, but Sart knows where to direct his camera, and I think it was very sly to focus on the gent and not on Anna Piaggi. After all, she gets all the attention she is due from the likes of Lagerfeld, who sketches her, and Manolo, who designs her shoes, and Stephen Jones who designs her hats, and fans of her work at Italian Vogue, and those who enjoy any appearance she makes in public because she never wears the same outfit twice, and the Victoria & Albert in London, which had an exhibit dedicated to her style and career in 2006.
I always wonder if those sorts of details (red socks) are intentional, or they just happened to be the only pair of socks that were clean/were randomly thrown on.
I agree with Thea about the Isabella Blow-esque woman on the right!
When I look at her, I feel the blue levity of a stray butterfly during peak migration.
The red socks on the gentleman is nice.
But is the lady next to him wearing a Nike track pants/warmers and fingerless gloves??? They look like something from the 1980s.
The woman on the right side with peep-toe shoes, blue green (sweat?)pants and hair accessory outdid Mr. Beppe..
Red socks are offered as an achievement sitting next to Anna Piaggi? Unfortunately, the lovely man suffers by comparison, and right now, and anytime Anna storms the gates, the rest of the world is exposed as either unimaginative, fearful, constricting, codependent bunch, sometimes all. Viva Anna, Viva viva viva!
I love that he is wearing red socks! It's an injection of cool into a classic suiting. I wonder what underwear he's wearing. Red to match his socks??
the lady on the left must be the italian equivalent of vivienne westwood!
the Lady IS the fab Anna Piaggi. If you google her nam, hit images, you'll see more of her outrageous outfits.
anna piaggi always brings the lolz!
Colored socks look sexy on a man. it shows some form of attention given to the greatest of details, which is so uncommon these days with men. Wonder what brand he's wearing. I bought some green ones from vk nagrani, and no one got it at first. now, i'm addicted to anything but black!
Go, Beppe, do your thing. I love stylish elders.
Just loved!
Both Isabella AND Anna are style icons. One does not trump the other.
May Isabella rest in peace.
She will be missed.
Of course Sart will have a pic of Anna by herself, but he's saving it for a separate post, right Sart?
I also like reading the comments as much as the posts AND I think one of my first ever comments came from someone who saw my comment on here and came to my blog (that's enough about me, let's talk about me)…
I love the shoes Anna Piaggi is wearing… the hat/coronal-thingy too.
They both look wonderful.
i fully agree with thea.
During a museum tour the guide explains, "Here you can see the statue of Minerva…".
"Excuse me, madam," a visitor interjects. "Who is that man behind her? Is he her husband?"
"No, Minerva wasn't married: She was the goddess of wisdom."
wonder what brand/make his monk shoes are.. they look awesome! anyone knows? :)
Off-colored (in regards to the outfit) socks are a detail I love. It brings focus to something that seems so ordinary.
Beppe is such a lady's man.
I would love to see a full shot of the woman he's speaking to… she's just fantastic!
Beppe always rocks!!
I have always loved Anna Piaggi!!


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Worst Company In America Round One: Spirit Airlines Vs. Delta
The final day of Round One competition is waiting on the tarmac, ready to take off. Unfortunately, these two airlines would like to charge you for the privilege of voting on which one is worse.
First to taxi down the runway is Delta, which has continued to act like the biggest, greediest airline, in spite of being bumped from the nation's top spot by the merger of United and Continental.
As many Consumerist readers know, Delta not only has a reputation for misplacing pets; it was also responsible for more than half the pets who died on airplanes in 2011.
It also managed to finish dead last in last summer's ACSI customer service ratings for airlines. In fact, Delta's rating managed to drop nearly 10% from the previous year and greater than 27% since the ratings began being reported in 1995.
And yet Delta still took in an astounding $952 million in baggage fees — nearly $300 million more than United and Continental took in during the same time and roughly 28% of what the entire U.S. airline industry made on the fees.
While Delta might have led the pack in the gross revenue from fees, its contender in today's bout seems to rely on the add-on costs for its basic business model.
Spirit's cut of the fee pie is only 1/7 that of Delta's, but the fees account for more than 10% of the smaller airline's total revenue, three times the percentage at Delta.
In what we continue to assume is a hilarious joke, Spirit CEO Ben Baldanza has called his company "the transparency leader and most consumer-friendly airline," all while trying to fight price transparency, claiming it's a government conspiracy to hide taxes.
Spirit also thinks that the way to get around a new rule allowing passengers to change their reservations, sans fee, within 24 hours of booking a ticket is to tack on a "$2 Dept. of Transportation Unintended Consequences Fee." That was a policy that was so consumer-friendly that Spirit is being sued over it.
Of course, this is the same airline that pioneered charging for carry-on bags — and called it a "consumer benefit." And wants $5 to print your boarding pass. And penalizes you for not paying for your bags far enough in advance.
Now that we're cleared for takeoff, it's time to buckle up and vote.
(Voting for this poll will close at 11:59 p.m. ET on Tuesday March 20.)
This is a post in our Worst Company In America 2012 series. The companies competing for this honor were chosen by you, the readers. See the entire WCIA 2012 bracket and schedule of match-ups HERE.
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Saturday, February 13, 2010
Valentine Party Flowers
For my Valentines Day Party I am making these oversized tissue paper flowers to add some fun and impact to the desert table. They are so easy to make and only take minutes for each one.
Place one flower a top each vase and cluster in a grouping. Also great hanging from the ceiling in mass.
Here how to make one flower:
1 package of tissue paper ( 10 sheets)
1 10" length thin wire
Open up tissue and lay flat with paper vertically in front of you
Fold accordion style every 2" from top to bottom
Wrap wire at center of folded sheets and twist to hold Use wire to hang
Cut both ends with rounded edges
Ppen sheets ( pulling apart carefully) one at a time to form the flower
For smaller flower use half sheets
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Grain movers and shakers
I have a 4-in. Speed King auger with an electric motor mount. Can you tell me where I can get parts for this auger?
Matt Kautz
Merino, CO
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I have a Dakon gravity box that needs a sprocket to open the door. I can't find a dealer and need your help.
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Luana, IA
Contact Balster Implement, 118 3rd St., Scotch Grove, IA 52331, 319/465-4141. It has some parts.Correction
The Mud Hog axle (December 2000 issue, page 18) is not offered for factory installation from John Deere. It is only available on John Deere combines as a dealer-installed option.
Motors do not list for $9,000 to $13,000; complete axle assemblies list in that range, which covers all of the axles we provide for all makes of combines, not only for Deere combines.
We do provide axles for factory installation on combines produced by Case IH, New Holland's TR99 and TX combines, Gleaner and Massey-Ferguson, as well as the Lexion combines from Claas. We also provide factory-installed Mud Hog rear wheel drive axles on Case IH and Deere cotton pickers but not John Deere combines.
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I have been trying to reach United Farm Tools (UFT) in Glasgow, KY. I obtained this phone number, 502/651-7121, from the I & T Product File on your Web site. It appears the area code changed to 270. I tried that area code and still can't reach them. Can you help me find parts for a stalk chopper that UFT marketed? Thanks for any help you can provide.
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UFT was purchased by Arts Way Mfg., which you can contact at Box 288, Hwy. 9W, Armstrong, IA 50514, 712/864-3131. We have updated our Web site to reflect this change.
I am looking for parts for my Sunmaster belly mower. Do you know whom I can contact?
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Contact Arts Way Mfg. at the address and phone number given above.Saw parts
I need a drive belt for my table saw. It is a Rockwell Atlas made by the Rockwell Manufacturing Company in Pittsburg, PA. I don't get an answer when I call or write.
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For parts, contact Industrial Parts Co., 163 Belmont Ave., Garfield, NJ 07026, 973/340-0550; or Country Power Tool Service, 237 Commack Rd., Commack, NY 11725, 631/499-5666.
I have a McCulloch chain saw that broke. I was told the company is now out of business. Are there any replacement parts left?
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The company is still in business. Contact McColloch Corp., 6085 S. McCulloch Dr., Tucson, AZ 85706, 800/423-6302, for dealer information or parts.


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Charitable IRA Rollover Extended for 2010 and 2011
Among the multitude of items included in the Tax Relief Act, signed into law by President Obama on December 17th, was an extension of the Charitable IRA Rollover provision through the end of 2011.
The tax provision offers nonprofit organizations a wonderful opportunity to engage with donors between now and the end of the calendar year. There are several important points that charities and donors interested in this provision must be aware of:
- Individuals age 70 ½ and older may once again request direct transfers of funds from Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) to qualified public charities without income tax on gifted funds.
- The funds must be directly transferred from IRA accounts to the charities (donors should ask their IRA custodians for special forms to make these requests).
- Each individual is entitled to make a total of $100,000 in gifts to charities each year under this provision.
- 2010 IRA rollover gifts can be made through January 31, 2011.
- For those individuals who have not yet taken their IRA Required Minimum Distributions (RMDs) for 2010, they may partially or wholly satisfy that requirement through an IRA rollover gift made by January 31, 2011.
- These contributions do not qualify donors for an additional charitable income tax deduction as not being taxed on the withdrawal is worth even more than a standard charitable deduction.
- Only standard IRAs and Roth IRA accounts qualify under this law; other retirement accounts such as 401(k), 403(b), SEP, KEOGH, and SIMPLE IRA plans cannot be used to make an IRA rollover gift.
- Donors of IRA rollover gifts must receive no personal benefits from this gift nor are they available for planned gifts such as charitable remainder trusts or gift annuities.
The provision is a significant opportunity for donors who:
- hold assets in their IRAs that they do not need;
- would like to make a large one-time gift;
- are subject to the 2% rule that reduces itemized deductions;
- do not itemize; or
- plan to leave part or all of their IRA to your organization at death.
Jonathan Gudema is Managing Director, Planned Giving, at Changing Our World, a philanthropic services consulting firm. He can be reached at email@example.com.
Related articles
- IRA Donors Catch a Break (online.wsj.com)
- 5 Smart End-of-Year Money Moves (frugaldad.com)


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Mashable has this little story and video of a couple in Japan getting married in a ceremony performed by a robot. Looks like it went off without a hitch. But it's an interesting harbinger of some of the legal questions that will arise as intelligence based on nonbiological substrates gets more human-like.
Is a marriage ceremony performed by a robot "legal"?
I looked up the Illinois statute that provides the requirements for a marriage ceremony (750 ILCS 5/209). A couple can get married if the marriage is "solemnized" by a judge, a county clerk, or "in accordance with the prescriptions of any religious denomination, Indian Nation or Tribe or Native Group, provided that when such prescriptions require an officiant, the officiant be in good standing with his religious denomination, Indian Nation or Tribe or Native Group."
I expected the statute to be phrased in a way that would at least strongly imply that the ceremony has to be solemnized by a person. But I'm not sure it's totally clear. I'm not a family lawyer — so take this with a grain of salt. It looks like a couple can still be validly married in a religious ceremony if the "prescriptions" of that religion do not require an officiant.
So it may not be too hard to work around the robot problem. Just find a church out there to establish some prescriptions that don't make the officiant an essential part. Then the robot ceremony could ostensibly be a side show, like the cutting of the cake or tossing of the bouquet.
If you think about it, does it really matter whether the officiant is a person? There remains the obligation to get a license, which serves as a vetting process of sorts for the couple. And the psychological effect of "solemnization" is to get the couple to take it seriously. Does anyone care whether the officiant is conscious of what's going on in the same way a human would?


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Paper Plate Ring Toss
Remember playing ring toss at the county fair? Bring that fun home with this homemade version of your carnival favorite. Cut out the centers of paper plates, paint them, and you've got rings ready to be tossed! This game is a fun way to teach young kids about direction and number values, or teach older kids about addition! It's a great creative project to do any day you're yearning for the fair, and it stops boredom in its tracks!
What You Need:
- Paper plates (4-8)
- Black marker
- Scissors
- 3 bottles (glass or plastic)
- Sand, or water
- Tempera paint
- Paintbrushes
What You Do:
- Cover the surface of your workspace with newspaper to protect your furniture from paint.
- Have your child cut out the centre of each paper plate. The border that remains will be the paper rings.
- Using the tempera paint, hAve him paint each ring a different colour. Encourage him to paint different designs and patterns on each ring. Allow the paint to dry completely.
- Help him to fill the bottles with water or sand to help weigh them down so they don't tip during the game.
- Have him use the black marker to write ascending numbers on each plate to create a point system, such as: 1,2,3 or 10, 50, 100.
- Place the bottles on the floor, allowing enough room between each bottle which will allow the rings to land over the bottle without interference.
- Give each of the players the same number of paper rings.
- Have the players stand a few feet away from the bottles and toss the rings.
- Add up the number of points for each ring that is successfully tossed over the bottle. Whoever ends up with the most points after all the rings are tossed is the winner!


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It's easy to throw up one's hands and declare the battle to be welcomed into the church as futile. It's easy to be shaken spiritually by the shaken time in which we live. ... Our resolution for the new millennium should be to discover the unshakable.
Not letting go of the hurt and misery of the past is as self-centered as it is self-destructive. Make a list of all of the bad things that
happened to you this past year, give the list to God, wad it up and burn
it. Let go of the past.
As I approach Y2K, I'm not worried about a computer bug or about political activism or about my personal career advancement. No, my slogan for the next millennium (or as much of it as I will experience) is Y2J - YES TO JESUS.
What does faith in the new millennium mean? It means being part of the exciting things that our God is doing, and being part of His ultimate victory over the world and Satan.
In the midst of the unanswered questions and uncertainties
our spirits thrill to hear God's words, "I know the plans I have for
you, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope
and a future." (Jeremiah 29: 11-13) This is the message we carry with
us, the torch we hold aloft, as we step from one century to the next.
I give thanks in knowing that no matter what "Y2K" brings,
that my love for God and God's Love for me will last forever, and that to me
is what we should all be celebrating as we enter a new millennium together as God's Children.
Faith in the year 2000 will be very much like faith in the year 1999.
It's a progressive walk with our God as we personally understand and
conceptualize Him or Her. One man's walk with God is worth examining as it
parallels our own complexities as gay Christians. Let's look at Joseph of
Genesis 37-45.
... where else but inside of ourselves will we ever truly
discover the affirmation of our mysterious role in the working of the earth? If anything should have become clear
over the past 150 years, it's that general society has even less of a clue to our purpose and significance than we
ourselves do.
In thinking over my memories of first grade, I realize
that there was a lot of fear wrapped up in the experience. I
realize that no one intended it to be that way and I don't
know why it was so. Throughout my school years, however,
I can see a pattern of excitement followed by uncertainty. I
can't explain why that is.
Being at Lynchburg with our gay brothers and sisters and straight friends in
Christ through our comforter, the Holy Spirit, brought to us not only the
Peace of the Lord, which passes all understanding, but also a glimpse, if not
the presence, of our souls in communion in the Kingdom of God through the
Grace of God's love made manifest. For these joys, thanks be to God!
That weekend also had its sorrows.
You don't have to
understand. You don't have to approve. You don't have to "condone."
Just love your child, and be open to the possibility of growing to love
someone else who loves your child. And, next Christmas, give your son
or daughter what Jesus will give him or her for Christmas (and every
other day) -- unconditional love.
Your sincere efforts to lead God's children in matters of faith are a gift to
us all. You are undoubtedly earnest, though seemingly misguided, in your
attempts to please God, and it is with love for you all through our Lord,
Jesus Christ, that I make the proceeding declaration.
I cruised public bathrooms, and pornographic bookstores, for anonymous sex.
I am not proud of it.
I do not live my life, today, in shame of it, either.
However, facts are facts, and the facts are that I did it.
Being a youth myself and growing up in a church, I've gone through the hardships of being a Christian who happens to be gay. The Lord has laid it on my heart to minister to the out cast GLBTQ youth of our society and bring them back to Christ
"What happened to me in terms of the penalty is not as important as the big picture," Rev. Jimmy Creech said. "The decision of the jury to withdraw my orders is another statement that says 'we are willing to remove people from the clergy who are willing to give support and affirmation to GLBT people and honor their relationships.'
Prior to the vote on expulsion both Rev. Tim Shirley and Rev. Lanny Peters addressed the November 16, 1999 Georgia Baptist Convention in Macon, Georgia, to try to explain why their congregations were welcoming GLBT Christians, but to no avail. The GBC "withdrew fellowship" from the churches ...
We can identify the stones being hurled our way from the Georgia Baptist Convention. We probably cannot control or change that. We can stand tall while they strike us, or we can duck, but the stones will keep coming. We can, however, determine what kind of stones we will be. Figuratively speaking, we know that we are going to be killed, it is simply a matter of choosing how we will die, the kind of death we will experience. That it is a very Jesus thing to do!
I was reading Psalm 38 and it hits me like a ton of makeup: I've lived this one before.
I offer the following meditations out
of a deeply humbling appreciation for the love and compassionate patience
Jesus has shown me. May these words on the Song of Songs, in the end, be
multiple ways of saying "I love you" to him whose passion for me, for all of
us, fragile words can scarcely convey.
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Beaumont overpass, bridge closures
UPDATE: The Purple Heart Memorial Bridge over the Neches River in Beaumont was open as of 1:15 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014, according to a Beaumont Emergency Management Department press release. The city hopes the bridge will stay passable; however, highways in Beaumont are becoming heavily iced. At the time of the release, actions were being taken to close all overpasses in Beaumont on Interstate 10, the Eastex Freeway and Cardinal Drive, and move all traffic to service roads, so traffic might not move very quickly.
The Texas Department of Transportation is assisting with signage and encouraging the public to use alternative routes through Beaumont if possible. Meanwhile crews are working to keep the service roads passable and get traffic moving. Traffic on MLK Parkway over Park and Pennsylvania streets has also been moved to the service roads.
An alternative route is available for eastbound I-10 traffic using Major Drive to 105 to Eastex, then north through Lumberton and Evadale and Buna, to Highway 105 and back to I-10. Another eastbound alternative is College Street east to MLK then north to E. Lucas, then west to Eastex, and north through Lumberton.
An alternative route for westbound I-10 traffic leaving Orange is to use Highway 105 in Vidor then to Evadale and north on 96 through Lumberton to Highway 105 then west to Major, then south to I-10.
Tuesday night, the National Weather Service forecasts a chance of snow and sleet before midnight, then a slight chance of snow. Cloudy skies will gradually become partly cloudy, with a low around 24. North wind 5 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30 percent. New snow and sleet accumulation of less than a half inch is possible. Wednesday should be sunny with a high near 40. Northeast wind 5 to 10 mph.
Jefferson County offices open at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 29
City bridges and overpasses will be closed at midnight Tuesday, Jan. 28, the Beaumont Emergency Management said in a press release Monday evening. These include but are not limited to the Maury Meyers Bridge, Lindberg overpass, Dowlen Road overpass and the overpasses at Brooks Road and Major Drive.
In the event of precipitation and freezing rain, Cardinal Drive and the Eastex Freeway will be detoured to service roads. The city of Beaumont asked residents and commuters to anticipate freezing conditions early Tuesday morning and asked everyone to plan accordingly. Monitor city websites, including http://www.beaumontpd.com/pcr/administration_PCR_Press.htm, and local news outlets for news for updates, the release said.
Beaumont city management has declared a city closure for Tuesday, Jan. 28. All city offices will be closed for standard business, including city hall and the municipal court. According to a city of Beaumont press release, due dates will be extended.
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This week we had several visitors to the lab.
On Sunday we hosted a delegation from the Helmholtz Association. This delegation included the president of the association as well as directors from several research centers. They did a whirlwind tour of Israel. Their schedule at the Hebrew University was for half a day, and included a general introduction and then topic-oriented meeting. I was chosen to host the Biology meeting in the lab. The guests included the President of the association, the Director of Research of the Helmholtz Zentrum Munich and the Director and Vice-Director of Research of the Max Delbruck Center in Berlin.
As you can guess this was a very important crowd, and we assembled a team of scientists (established and new) to meet with them. The meeting ended up crowding 16 people in our small meeting/kitchen room, and as consequence was very informal. We also had a short tour of the robotics room.
This visit was a an excuse for us to do a thorough cleanup day on Thursday last week. I think that since it was open the lab never was so clean. The cleanup included also out of sight areas, such as the cold room, which was reorganized by Amit and Noa, who sorted through all the shelfs, removed old and outdated plates, and rearranged things in an accessible way.
On Monday, we were part of the country-wide "Scientists Night" events. The event at the Hebrew University included tours in labs, and our lab was one of the advertised tours. Each group was of 10 teenagers that didn't know much about labs and biology. Avital and Noa took charge of hosting the visit and explaining to the energetic youth why we have robotics.
One last, unexpected and less prestigious, visitor was a chameleon that started visiting my office window regularly.
The first sighting of this science-curious lizard was when we had a meeting with five people in the room, and suddenly I noticed that everyone was focused on the window behind me.
Since then it revisited almost every day, and finally I decided that it is calls for some pictures. The window is not 100% clean, but that ended up giving the images a bit of interesting blurs.


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Convention-goers lined the walls during the leadoff technology seminar at National Automatic Merchandising Association's OneShow in Las Vegas, signaling the largest turnout in years. The two-part session, moderated by Dr. Michael Kasavana of Michigan State University (E. Lansing), explored how vending operations could leverage technology. The right technology will give a vending operator a competitive advantage through improved productivity and enhanced profitability, according Kasavana, NAMA endowed professor at MSU's School of Hospitality Business.
The first part of Kasavana's seminar, covered in the June issue, examined the latest capabilities available to the vending industry and how to plan for implementing them. This month, we cover the second portion of the technology seminar, which was devoted to developments in payment systems and interoperability among vending-related applications and services.
The Part 2 panelists were Anant Agrawal of Cantaloupe Systems, Michael Lawlor of USA Technologies, Chris Lilly of Best Vendors, who chairs NAMA's Vending Data Interchange committee, and Chuck Reed of MEI. Reed led off.
"If your machines can take only $1 bills, you're missing sales," Reed warned. "The consumer must have the means to make a purchase. There are problems with 'changer starvation,' of course; how many 'bill breakers' do you have on location, and how many of your changers now pay back $1 coins?"
These are important questions, Reed said, because despite news stories reporting "the demise of cash -- again," the fact is that the amount of cash circulating today has increased. He said that his 20-year-old daughter is ready for the demise of cash, and is participating in it; but his 70-year-old parents are not.
At present, the industry veteran reported, cash is used for about 50% of small transactions; debit and credit instruments combined represent about 30%. "You can't force a patron to use one or the other," he reminded the audience. "Look in your wallet: how many $1, $5, $10 and $20 bills have you got, and how much loose coin are you carrying? Don't limit your customers' options."
Photo | STANDING ROOM ONLY: Convention-goers lined the walls during leadoff technology seminar at the National Automatic Merchandising Association's OneShow in Las Vegas. The two-part session, moderated by Dr. Michael Kasavana of Michigan State University (E. Lansing), began with a panel session on leveraging new technology to improve productivity, gain a competitive edge and enhance profitability, and concluded with another on developments in cashless payment technology in vending.
A tool for expanding those options is the bill recycler, a device that works in conjunction with a suitable bill validator that accepts both $1 bills and a larger denomination, and a coin mechanism with a change dispenser. Singles inserted as payment can replenish a reserve. When the higher-value note is inserted and change of more than $1 is to be dispensed, the recycler pays back singles from this reserve.
"For vend prices below $1, you may not need a recycler," Reed said. "But for higher prices, you do." And a machine's ability to accept a higher-value note can encourage multiple sales, he added. "To a 'soccer mom' buying three sports drinks, it's not a $1.50 vend -- it's $4.50!
"When you limit the highest-value payment option to a $1 bill, you actually can graph the loss of sales against the vend price," he reported. "A machine with a bill validator accepting only $5 notes showed a 12% sales lift, compared to its performance when it accepted only $1s." Adding the option to pay by credit card provides an approximately equivalent benefit.
"The ideal is to take anything that the customer wants to use," Reed emphasized. "Will NFC win out? Will 'the Cloud' win out? Time will tell; but we think that, today, 60% of machines in the field need recyclers." In some locations with inherent security problems, like hotels, cashless is better; but in most sites, sales will benefit if patrons can pay with the widest possible range of currency denominations.
Cantaloupe's Agrawal approached the question from a different direction: the ubiquity of cellular telephones, and their increasing sophistication. He reported that, in 2010, there were 60 million smartphones in use, representing about 20% of all mobile phones in the field. In 2011, the number had grown to 90 million, and it's projected to exceed 100 million this year. By 2013, there may be 150 million smartphones in consumers' hands, or about half of all mobile phones.
"All manufacturers and service providers want to make this happen," Agrawal emphasized. "They want to add value to their mobile offerings by enabling customers to do more with them: find a retailer, buy online ... and the next step: use the phone as a 'wallet.' What's in your wallet? Cards and cash. Now you can digitize those things. And you can receive a coupon from the retailer you just searched.
"People will make more and more use of these features," the speaker predicted. "I've always thought that vending would be the leader in mobile payment, and maybe it will be."
Cantaloupe's Seed system includes cashless payment capability that can accommodate emerging mobile payment media like Google Wallet, ISIS (a collaborative effort among cellular carriers and the leading card networks), and other well-financed "m-commerce" ventures.
Seed's primary use has been to help operators manage their businesses more knowledgeably through remote machine monitoring; it does this through "the Cloud," linking individual machines to a server that, in turn, administers a secure website for the operator-subscriber.
That wireless network also can link to payment processors, making it simple and straightforward for Cantaloupe's operator clients to add cashless payment capability to their Seed-equipped machines, Agrawal pointed out. And, since the card reader can accommodate contactless proximity cards, it also can communicate with NFC-enabled smartphones. Adding Bluetooth, as the popularity of Bluetooth-based payment systems grows, also is simple and straightforward.
The Cantaloupe Systems principal envisions a not-so-distant future in which someone can tell his or her smartphone, "I want a Mountain Dew," and the instrument will display vending machines and other retail outlets in the vicinity. The thirsty consumer will go to the nearest machine, tap the phone on the card reader, and receive the drink -- plus loyalty points and a discount on a Frito-Lay snack.
"This is the future," Agrawal predicted. "We're not there today, but you need to buy technology that will support that future when it arrives." Operator support for these emerging mobile commerce solutions will help speed their emergence and adoption.
The effect of tighter government regulation of issuers of debit cards has been a hot topic of late, and Michael Lawlor of USA Technologies offered an overview of the situation as it was in late April.
"There has been a good deal of talk about interchange fees and the Durbin Amendment [to the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act] -- but card sales through vending machines continue to increase," Lawlor reported.
USA Technologies maintains a knowledge base that keeps track of overall card sales through ePort-equipped vending machines; at the time of the 2012 OneShow, there were almost 57,000 ePorts on venders in the field. Across all locations, the expert panelist reported, card transactions represented from 14% to 48% of sales through these machines (the average was 27%). Analyzed by vend price, 21% of card sales were for products costing less than $1, and 34% for items priced above $2. Operators will need to raise vend prices, he predicted, and should keep in mind that consumers are more likely to choose the cashless option for higher-ticket sales, if that option is available to them.
The USAT knowledge base also reveals that card use increases as patrons in a location become familiar with the capability, Lawlor said. Card sales for a machine that has offered ePort card acceptance for less than one year average $1,970, he said, but that figure increases to an average $3,615 over time; card use increases from an initial 23% to more than 30%. "In educational institutions, usage is even higher; in healthcare locations, it's initially low, but eventually high," he added.
While the Durbin Amendment has impacted the use of MasterCard debit cards (virtually eliminated in vending, at present), card payments through vending machines overall have increased, Lawlor reported. "Consumers carry multiple cards," he pointed out, so someone who won't use a particular debit card almost always has other cashless payment choices. "And when they use cards rather than cash, they spend an average 30% more."
With today's higher fees for processing lower-value transactions, merchants can implement two-tier pricing to recover the additional cost, the speaker explained. Most card issuers forbid imposing a surcharge for card use, but all permit the retailer to offer a discount for cash. "So the listed price is the price for a card purchase, but you can charge less for a cash sale," he said.
This is worth doing. "We've found that sales actually increase when two-tier pricing is introduced," the speaker continued. "Consumers don't care; they'll continue to use their cards for convenience."
With the ongoing introduction of enhancements such as loyalty programs, Lawlor concluded, "we expect card sales to keep increasing for the rest of 2012."
Wrapping up the presentation was Chris Lilly of Best Vendors, who chairs NAMA's Vending Data Interchange Committee. The VDI project was designed to establish standards for devices that must communicate with one another; the initial objective was to ensure that systems developed by different suppliers to do similar things will be interoperable, and the ultimate goal is an environment in which different systems that use the same data for different things can share and exchange that data. The VDI committee develops standards that manufacturers, software developers and service providers can adopt.
"Most of you are not software engineers," Lilly said, "but you want your systems to work together, to pass 'messages' back and forth." The VDI standards describe protocols for those systems.
Lilly reported that the first phase, a standard for DEX messaging among systems from different suppliers, now has been completed; the next stage, which addresses "alert" messages sent from machines, is about three months away from completion (as VT goes to press). Standards for point-of-sale data ("master data") and cashless system messaging are under development; and a device portability standard is expected to be available to early adopters in six months.
"Open" information systems speed and simplify the diffusion of innovation by building confidence that new technology purchased today will not be rendered obsolete tomorrow, as it would be if it used proprietary protocols and formats. It is in everyone's interest to work toward the industrywide adoption of VDI, Lilly concluded, and he urged operators to ask their suppliers about adherence to the standards and assurance of interoperability.
In a brief question-and-answer session following the second session, an operator asked about the sales lift that can be expected from offering a cashless payment option. USAT's Lawlor replied that, overall, it has averaged 15% to 20%.
Another audience member asked whether two-tier pricing is "sustainable," or whether it is likely to be legislated out.
"Well, it was just legislated in," Lawlor quipped, noting that it had not been necessary in many retail applications before the increase in debit card transaction-processing fees triggered by the Durbin Amendment. "In fact, gas stations have used two-tier pricing for years. Yes, I do think it's sustainable."
EDITOR'S NOTE: In the first part of the 2012 technology seminar, experts probed the vending industry's latest capabilities and advised operators on implementation strategies. The panelists were Glenn Butler, VendScreen; Matt Caston, 365 Retail Markets; Jeffrey Mayoros, Wittern Group; Gene Ostendorf, InOne Technology/Coin Acceptors (Arrow); and Randy Smith, LightSpeed Automation. | SEE PART 1
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Bishop caves on vote for ACES reform
(AP) Sen. Click Bishop, District C, voted in favor of SB21 last Wednesday, giving backers of the bill its needed majority vote to pass in the State Senate.
Supporters say SB21 will lead to new investment and production. Critics call it a giveaway.
A new fiscal note shows the latest version of the proposed oil tax overhaul could cost Alaska between $4.5 billion and $5.8 billion through 2019. That's based on a forecast for oil prices and production calling for continued decline during that period and prices between $109-$118 a barrel.
The note is higher than those that accompanied versions of the bill proposed by the governor and Senate Resources.
The bill, as it passed the Senate, would, among other things, set the base tax rate at 35 percent and provide a $5 allowance for each taxable barrel of oil produced. It also includes a tax break for oil from new fields and new oil from legacy fields.
Jacob Jensen heading to Bethel
Jacob Jensen, the outgoing superintendent of Valdez City Schools, is heading to Bethel after securing the position of superintendent for the Lower Kuskokwim School District.
Jensen's contract with Valdez City Schools expires June 30. Jensen had notified the board of education for Valdez City Schools earlier this year that he would not be seek a renewal of his three-year contract, worth $130,000 yearly.
Tailgate Alaska opens Friday
Organizers of the 2013 Flow Tailgate Alaska have been working behind the scenes in Valdez in recent weeks, preparing for its sixth-year on Thompson Pass. The week-long event co-mingles recreational riders, skiers, professional athletes and industry types to what many claim are the world's best mountains and deepest snow.
Event founder Mark Sullivan said tickets will be limited to 150 in 2013.
Credit scores and insurance
(AP) A bill that would allow insurance companies to consider a person's credit score when renewing a policy advanced from committee a week ago Thursday.
The Senate Labor and Commerce Committee, which sponsored SB55, was the only committee of referral for the measure on the Senate side.
Currently, insurers can consider credit history when initially issuing an auto, renter's or homeowner's insurance policy. According to the sponsor statement, if consumers want their credit history used as part of a renewal, they must request that.
Forty-seven other states allows insurance companies to look at credit history when reviewing a new policy application, but Alaska is the only one that doesn't allow companies to consider that information when a policy is renewed, according to Kenton Brine, assistant vice president and Northwest regional manager for the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America.
A number of insurance companies have backed the bill. They believe credit scores are an accurate predictor of risk and say the current law results in higher premium rates and market disruptions, with consumers forced to switch carriers for rates that better reflect their risk.
The director of the Alaska Division of Insurance, Bret Kolb, testified in support of the measure Thursday.
``I believe this will be good for Alaska,'' Kolb said. ``It will offer opportunities for insurance companies to be more competitive in their pricing.''
The bill's opponents are concerned the proposal could lead to higher rates for Alaskans and higher premiums for lower-income families, based on credit score.
The specifics behind the score itself - and how it's calculated - also have caused concern.
Daniel Lynch of Soldotna, who told the committee he was calling in to represent ``common sense'' said insurance should be connected to the risks associated with a home, car or driver, not credit score.


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We give projects a long time, a very long time, before we mark them as abandoned. So these types are considered essentially dead. However, if the project's license allows, it can be resurrected.
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I run a pixelpost photoblog and would like to prefetch the next image from the database.
How it works: the user is given a random image at first page view and this image is hyperlinked to another random image.
What I would like: for the next image to load silently (hidden) for instant loading on the next page.
here is the addon that generates the next page link:
<?php $addon_name = "Random Image "; $addon_description = "This addon will enables the tag <IMAGE_RANDOM> which is the ID of a random image of your Pixelpost photoblog. Using this ID, you can link to a random image easily. Usage:
 <a href='index.php?showimage=<IMAGE_RANDOM>' > Random photo
 The above tag links to your photoblog with a random photo."; $addon_version = "0.3"; // Get the number of thumbnails shown at once from the admin config $cfgquery = mysql_query("select * from ".$pixelpost_db_prefix."config"); $cfgrow = mysql_fetch_array($cfgquery); //--------------------------- $thmb_numb_r = 1 ; if (isset($image_id)){ $thumbs_ahead = mysql_query("select DISTINCT id,headline,image from ".$pixelpost_db_prefix."pixelpost where id!=".$image_id." and datetime<='$cdate' order by rand() asc limit 0,$thmb_numb_r"); } else{ $thumbs_ahead = mysql_query("select DISTINCT id,headline,image from ".$pixelpost_db_prefix."pixelpost where datetime<='$cdate' order by rand() asc limit 0,$thmb_numb_r"); } if (list($id,$headline,$image) = mysql_fetch_row($thumbs_ahead)) { $rnd_img_id = $id; } $tpl = ereg_replace("<IMAGE_RANDOM>",$rnd_img_id,$tpl); ?>
and the index.php
Ideally it would work as an addon generating a tag such as <NEXT_IMAGE> so the image.jpg can be added in a hidden iframe (or a better way if you can think of one).
..but I think it would need to work as part of the random image addon in order for the image.jpg to be the same as the next page link..
£5 paypal (£10 if necessary) to whoever can get this working for me as I have no idea how to code this!
thanks in advance
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House committee takes up tough Gowdy immigration bill
WASHINGTON (AP) – A key committee in the Republican-led House moved Tuesday toward approving a tough enforcement-focused immigration bill, over objections from Democrats and disruptions from protesters shouting "Shame, shame, shame!"
Meanwhile in the Senate, a Republican lawmaker floated a compromise border security proposal he hopes can win over support for sweeping immigration legislation under consideration there that opens the door to citizenship for 11 million immigrants now here illegally.
And on a day of fast-paced developments on an issue that is a top priority for President Barack Obama, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, moved to quiet speculation that he might bring the Senate immigration legislation up for a vote despite opposition from many conservatives in his chamber.
"Any immigration reform bill that is going to go into law ought to have a majority of both parties' support if we're really serious about making that happen. And so I don't see any way of bringing an immigration bill to the floor that doesn't have a majority support of Republicans," Boehner said. He added that border enforcement would be key for any immigration bill, "And I frankly think the Senate bill is weak on border security."
As Boehner addressed reporters, the House Judiciary Committee was meeting to consider a bill, called the Strengthen and Fortify Enforcement Act, by Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C. It would empower state and local officials to enforce federal immigration laws, make passport and visa fraud into aggravated felonies subject to deportation, funnel money into building more detention centers, and crack down on immigrants suspected of posing dangers.
As soon as Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., gaveled the proceedings open, more than a dozen protesters who had been seated in the hearing room stood up and began clapping and chanting, "Shame, shame, shame! More of the same!" They were ushered out but their cries could still be heard in the hallway and Goodlatte stopped the proceedings until the protesters had been dispersed.
Goodlatte said that the bill under consideration – the first immigration bill to come to a vote in a House committee this year – "provides a robust interior enforcement strategy that will maintain the integrity of our immigration system for the long term."
But Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., said that "this bill must be opposed, it would turn millions of undocumented immigrants into criminals overnight." She predicted mass protests were the bill to become law, along the lines of what happened in 2006 after the House passed a similarly tough enforcement bill.
The move by the House Judiciary Committee comes less than two weeks after the full House voted to overturn Obama's 2012 election-year order to stop deportations of many immigrants brought here illegally as youths.
Together the two moves highlight the challenges ahead in getting a comprehensive immigration bill through Congress this year, as Obama wants. For many House conservatives, the priorities when it comes to immigration remain enforcing the laws and securing the border, not allowing the millions here illegally to gain legal status or citizenship.
Still, No. 2 House Democratic leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland predicted Tuesday that if the Senate passes an immigration bill with bipartisan support, "I think the Republican leadership will be under great pressure to let the House work its will" – Capitol Hill jargon for letting the House take up legislation even without majority support from the majority GOP.
"I think the presidential wing of the Republican Party is absolutely convinced they need to be for an immigration bill," Hoyer said, saying they believe they have to "forge some bridge" to the Hispanic community. He added, "That same motivation does not apply to the congressional wing" of the GOP.
As in the House, border security is at issue in the Democratic-led Senate, where senators have been jousting over how to strengthen the provisions in a far-reaching bill being considered on the floor this week to remake the nation's immigration laws. The bill would allow tens of thousands of high- and low-skilled workers into the country, and require all employers to check their workers' legal status. At its heart is a 13-year path to citizenship for people now here illegally, but that is contingent on certain border security goals being met.
Republican critics say those "triggers" are too weak and have been demanding amendments to strengthen them. The Senate planned to vote Tuesday on an amendment by Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., requiring 700 miles of double-layered border fencing before anyone here illegally could get a permanent resident green card.
A more far-reaching proposal by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, has been getting attention, but Democrats and some Republicans have dismissed it as a "poison pill" because it would require 90 percent of people attempting to cross the border to be stopped before anyone here illegally could get a permanent resident green card.
The underlying bill also has the 90 percent figure as a goal, but doesn't make the path to citizenship directly contingent on achieving it.
Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., told The Associated Press Monday night that he has been working on an alternative with Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., and others. Hoeven said his proposal also would require the 90 percent apprehension rate to be met before immigrants could get green cards. But he said his plan, unlike Cornyn's amendment, would make the 90 percent rate objective and achievable by specifying all the equipment and technology the border patrol says it needs to achieve the rate in each of the nine southwest border sectors, and carefully tracking attempted crossings.
Hoeven said he hoped to unveil his amendment in the next day or two and said it could garner the support needed to get bipartisan support for the immigration bill.
"Our effort is to get good legislation that truly secures the border," Hoeven said. "That people feel it's fair and it's not amnesty so we can get really a bipartisan consensus."
However, Hoeven's amendment could encounter skepticism from immigrant groups and Democrats who want to be sure that the bill doesn't change in a way that makes the path to citizenship harder to achieve.
Associated Press writer Alan Fram contributed to this report.


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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – It was a rare Sunday event for the Lipscomb track and field teams, but it was a successful day overall.
Six school records were set at the Emory Crossplex Invitational at the Birmingham Crossplex- Abby McMurray (60 meters), Sarah Browning (pole vault), April Terry (weight throw), Tucker Peabody (60 meters), Wayne Newman (60-meter hurdles) and Gemikal Prude (high jump).
"We made some great progress in the sprints, jumps, throws, vault and hurdles," coach Bill Taylor said. "We are certainly moving in the right direction. It was a very strong meet that we hope to build on next week at TSU."
Sally Larson finished second in a field of 38 runners with a time of 5:05.11 in the one-mile run. Tessa Hoeffle was fifth with a time of 5:17.04.
"Sally tore it up in the mile," Taylor said. "5:05 is terrific! And it was her first ever indoor race of her life. She came back later and ran a 5:01 1,600m to anchor the DMR and give us a come-from-behind victory. Tessa is already ahead of previous seasons with her mile too."
Daniel Gardner was the top finisher for Lipscomb in the men's one-mile run with a time of 4:22.42, good enough for eighth in the field of 49 runners.
Kenny Smith placed fourth in the 400-meter dash with a time of 50.27. Brian Gentry finished seventh (50.49) and Wayne Newman was 10th (50.70).
Barbara Lee Ball placed third in the women's 800-meter run with a time of 2:22.60.
Colin Dempster finished third in the men's 800-meter run with a time of 1:56.63.
Minna Fields and Meredith Kilburn were third (10:20.11) and fourth (10:21.73) respectively in section A of the women's 3,000 meters.
"Minna and Meredith ran very strong in the 3,000 meters," Taylor said. "It was the he best season opener for both of them."
Lipscomb's team of Hoeffle, Ball, Larson and Bridget Perine placed first in the women's distance medley with a time of 12:16.58.
"The women's distance runners ran better than I expected," Taylor said. "I've already mentioned that our distance runners came in with no real speed or quality work. They've just been putting in their miles, building their base.
"The performances they put up were very good considering. And we left a lot of our top distance runners home to be safe."
Christian Freeman was fifth in the men's 3,000 meters with a time of 8:32.28. Jared Wingerter (9:01.87) was 10th.
"Christian Freeman ran less than two-and-a half seconds from the school record in the 3,000 meters," Taylor said. "It was an incredibly strong effort for a freshman in his first meet. Even more impressive is that the distance guys haven't done any real quality workouts yet this season."
The men's distance medley team of Freeman, Newman, Andrew Bosket and Gardner was not outdone, placing first as well with a time of 10:19.93.
The men also won the 4x400 meter relay with a time of 3:21.79. Kenny Smith, Gentry, James Tamburello and Dempster are the runners.
After finishing sixth in the 60-meter dash prelims with a time of 6.94 Peabody came back to finish third in the finals with a time of 6.84.
Peabody finished first in the 200 meters with a meet record of 21.31.
"Tucker is well ahead of where he was last year," Taylor said. "He's sprinting great. At the same time it feels like a big breakthrough is coming soon for him."
Newman was consistent in the 60-meter hurdles. He finished second in the prelims with a time of 8.19 and second in the finals with an 8.24 effort.
"Wayne Newman is a special freshman," Taylor said. "He leads the Atlantic Sun in the hurdles, and he's going to get so much better."
One of the highlights for Taylor was the sixth place finish (17:58.88) by Kelsey Ibarra in the 5,000 meters.
"Kelsey ran a relaxed and powerful 5-K," Taylor said. "She looked so strong and made smart competitive moves. Her time was a 35-second all-time PR. That was awesome."
In field events April Terry placed first out of 31 entrants in the weight throw with an effort of 16.84 meters.
Terry placed third in the shot put with a top try of 12.94 meters.
"April continued her habit of breaking at least one school record each meet," Taylor said. "She has room to get a lot better in the weight throw even with another record."
Browning was second in the women's pole vault with a 3.25 meters effort.
"Sarah Browning is leading our women vaulters to new heights," Taylor said.
Jesse Rowe was second in the men's weight throw with a 13.30 meter attempt.
Philip Smith finished second in the men's triple jump with a 13.66 meter effort. Caleb Love was fourth (12.80 meters).
Ki'ana Christy finished sixth in the women's triple jump with a 10.83 meters attempt.
Prude placed second in the high jump with a 2.13 meter try. Philip Smith was third (2.04 meters).
"Gemikal took another step forward today," Taylor said. "It's always fun to watch him compete. We have freshman Philip Smith just behind him too. "
Kevin Floyd was third (4.48 meters) in the pole vault.
"Kevin led the way in the vault," Taylor said. "That group looking better all the time."


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So here's yesterday's board brought to life! This was one of the shoots we put together for our workshop. Thank you thank you to everyone involved in pulling this one off!
Photography: Jose Villa // bride's dress (that we are SO in love with!): Proenza Schouler purchased here…no longer available but we are willing to sell this one from the shoot–listed here // grooms suit: Armani(will sell it for a steal. email us at oncewed(at)gmail(dot)com if interested) // hair and makeup: Jordan Byers // Location: Serenbe // centerpiece: Amy Osaba // cake: Sun in My Belly // stationary and calligraphy: neithersnow // branch arch: Ginny Branch Stelling and Erica Loesing // rings: catbird // flower girl dresses: J.Crew Contessa on sale for $198 and Linley $168 // linens: limestone from La Tavola's Tuscano collection // Wooden Cake Stand: TheCakeStandBoutique
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Love the dress so much!
where are the cute flower girl dresses from?
i love the groom's suit! i like the idea of his suit being as light as her dress. if i was planning a wedding, id be all over buying that from you. bummer.
Love the wedding flower ideas! They're beautiful!
pretty amazing stuff. no surprise with the talent involved in the making :)
Yay for barefoot people! I went barefoot at our wedding… I love it.
You guys all worked together wonderfully, and great shots to Jose as always!
I'm lovin' all these country weddings–that's exactly the type of style I'm doing in my own wedding! Thank you for sharing all the inspiration.
Stunning! Would expect nothing less of Mr. Jose Villa ;)
her bouquet is absolutely beautiful! and the cake looks so delicious
I can vouch for that dress being beautiful in real life. I ordered it as a possibility for my wedding but returned it.
I was too tall and busty for it – it fit me much more milkmaidy than the model. It flattered my lower half well (which is usually the body area I like less) but looked too constricting and covered on top.
Just some advice for fit – but it is really really gorgeous. Light and soft and a pale pale neutral grayish color.
So lovely!! What a day it was!
Love these photos! That dress is so pretty :)
simply elegant. her dress and flowers are pure perfection.
Purely natural and oh so beautiful.
I agree with Candace. I would LOVE to know where the darling flower girl dresses are from. They are darling.
in love with these :)
I'm curious– what kind of bridesmaids dresses (style, color, etc) would you envision for this wedding?
We are doing a Western Theme for our wedding and I was wondering how you kept the sticks and twigs together in your arch because it would be perfect!!!
I love the Rustic Arch, I have been looking for one for my country wedding. I was wondering how you made it or where you got it from. I would love to have one just like it. Your wedding was beautiful!!! Thank you!
Elopement Windy Mountainside Elopement
Why do we love elopements? Without all the extras of a typical wedding, the couple is free to focus on one another and the reasons why they're committing to each other. This windy mountainside elopement couldn't be more wonderful.


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Manhattan BP Scott Stringer Joins Theater for the New City's Mortgage Burning Celebration Tonight
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer has joined the growing list of celebrities and well-wishers attending Theater for the New City's Mortgage Burning tonight, January 26, 2013 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM at TNC, 155 First Avenue between 9th and 10th Streets (East Village). Other participants will include F. Murray Abraham, David Amram, Charles Busch, Vinie Burrows, City Council Member Rosie Mendez, Assistant Commissioner of Cultural Affairs Kathleen Hughes, Jean-Claude van Itallie, Thunderbird American Indian Dancers and surprise guests.
Stringer will deliver a proclamation in honor of the event.
The gathering will include testimonials, performances, reading of a proclamation from the City Council, and the opening of an art exhibit. The Thunderbird American Indian Dancers will bless TNC's newly-secured permanent home, as they did in 1986 when the theater first moved into its permanent home in the former First Avenue Retail Market Building. A plaque will be unveiled that contains the names of all donors--over 100 in number--who contributed toward the mortgage payoff.
Coinciding with the mortgage event will be the opening of a retro-spectacle, "TNC: 40 Years of Struggle and Triumph," an art exhibit curated by Peter Ketchum with some historical support from Carolyn Ratcliff. It features programs, scripts, and photos of historic TNC productions including plays by Charles Ludlam, Maria Irene Fornes and Sam Shepard.
The two-hour event will be held in the Johnson Theater of TNC, located at 155 First Avenue (at East Tenth Street). The gathering is free to the community, but space is limited so reservations are requested. To reserve your place, please email Jon Weber at firstname.lastname@example.com or call (212) 254-1109.
The theater's mortgage started out at $717,000 in 1987 and the campaign to pay it off took only three years. With the "Fiscal Cliff" staring the country in the face, the payoff was accomplished by mobilizing over 200 donors. The mortgage campaign had been initiated with a $30,000 gift from the Peg Santvoord Foundation in 2010. This early money notwithstanding, the completed campaign now testifies to the tremendous support TNC enjoys from its community. This year, the final $45,000 was secured. Major donors included Gerald Rupp, the Peg Santvoord Foundation, Aviva Spring, Betsy von Furstenberg, Daniel Rose, Nesbitt Blaisdell. The Peg Santvoord Foundation gave a final $10,000 as a coup de grace.
Crystal Field, Executive Artistic Director of TNC, says, "The economic downturn scared us, as did the fact that so many people were losing their homes because of their mortgages. Government grants were going down. It made us realize that Theater for the New City must have a guaranteed home, since we are a home for so many emerging artists: writers, directors, actors and theater companies." She adds, "TNC lives frugally and is now debt-free. At least we know now that they will never build another Wal-Mart on this site."
Theater for the New City (TNC) is a Pulitzer Prize winning community cultural center that is known for its high artistic standards and widespread community service. One of New York's most prolific theatrical organizations, TNC produces 30-40 premieres of new American plays per year, at least 10 of which are by emerging and young playwrights. Many influential theater artists of the last quarter century have found TNC's Resident Theater Program instrumental to their careers, among them Sam Shepard, Moises Kaufman, Richard Foreman, Charles Busch, Maria Irene Fornes, Miguel Piñero, Jean-Claude van Itallie, Vin Diesel, Oscar Nuñez, Laurence Holder, Romulus Linney, Robert Patrick, Eduardo Machado and Academy Award Winners Tim Robbins and Adrien Brody. TNC also presents plays by multi-ethnic/multi-disciplinary theater companies who have no permanent home. Among the well-known companies that have been presented by TNC are Mabou Mines, The Living Theater, Bread and Puppet Theater, The Talking Band and COBU, the Japanese women's drumming and dance group. TNC also produced the Yangtze Repertory Company's 1997 production of "Between Life and Death," which was the only play ever produced in America by Gao Xingjian before he won the 2000 Nobel Prize for Literature. TNC seeks to develop theater audiences and inspire future theater artists from the often-overlooked low-income minority communities of New York City by producing minority writers from around the world and by bringing the community into theater and theater into the community through its many free Festivals. TNC productions have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and over 42 OBIE Awards for excellence in every theatrical discipline. TNC is also the only Theatrical Organization to have won the Mayor's Stop The Violence award.


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I discovered photographer Marianna Rothen thanks to my lovely friend Stephanie from Tea and Cactus. A few weeks ago I was speculating anxiously on the possibilities of finding new fresh blood to talk about on the blog after realizing that I was succumbing to a state of mild boredom. I wanted to see memorable imagery, far from the mainstream repertoire, original and maybe a little bit subversive. Yesterday, I suddenly remembered about the prodigiously talented Marianna Rothen after seeing her on Tales of Endearment (as it turns out, she used to be a model). Not much fuss seems to have been made about her but I wouldn't be surprised if she suddenly found herself championed by the fashion industry. Her series always feature women. They suggest the sixties/seventies and have something very cinematic about them: two influences that recur in her work almost constantly without ever compromising its innate individuality. Anyway, I think she deserves to be much better known and I recommend looking at her website, an eye-opener.
Mat and I went to see the Lucian Freud exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery on Sunday. I'm not too sure how I feel about the celebrated artist's paintings. The huge expanses of flesh wrestling with knots and accumulations of pigment applied in a sort of muddy way make for highly unattractive and bizarre pictures!
All pictures courtesy of Marianna Rothen
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3 comments:
- Crystal Lee said...
I didn't even think to check out her photographs when I was introduced to her on Tales. Glad you've reminded me. Her work reminds me a bit of Wingate Paine. Do you think so?
welcome back to the blogging world. I've missed you.
Crystal Lee
- 28 February 2012 at 13:26
- tea said...
Ohhh Belle trouvaille! It's so nice to see/know more about her (L'appart, l'appart!!!)
I Love her work "Domesticated Woman" is fabulous.
Merci pour la trouvaille Lovely You x
- 8 March 2012 at 13:40
- joli brouillon said...
I love her work and I love your blog...
- 29 March 2012 at 15:14
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small companies but another service owner told me that she heard that Keystrokes sold to Transcend. Is this true?
I posted this down below but meant to post it as a new thread. Before I apply with them, I would like to know as I left Transcend a few months ago and do NOT want to get back into that mess.
I was there for the promises and guess what Keystrokes is making good on those promises.
I get vacation time, 401K, and even AFLAC. My pay is great, always on time as well as accurate.
I have my main account and have been given back up accounts for which I have been fully trained and am comfortable typing on. I have great leads, great tech support and plenty of work.
Am I biased??? Yes I am biased. I am grateful everyday that I was given the opportunity to work for Keystrokes and their team. I am grateful that my company's owner is a fellow Transcriptionist that goes home at the end of the day and works like the rest of us so she knows what a hard job I have and I know that she is working to make things better for me because unlike other companies I have worked for she understands what it is I do.
Please accept my apologies that you were unhappy with Keystrokes and chose to move on before all of the promises came to fruition but don't begrudge those of us that stayed loyal and are now reaping the benefits of a GREAT COMPANY WITH GREAT BENEFITS, LOTS OF WORK AND THE KNOWLEDGE THAT THERE ARE MANY MORE GREAT THINGS TO COME!
I just want to say Thank you Lee, Jeff, Becky, Karyn, Martha, Annette, Paul and everybody else in the office for all that you do.
I was hired by Keystrokes for clinic work back at the first of June, worked 1 week, and then the account was lost--no real explanation for the reason. I've been trying unsuccessfully to find out when or if I'll be put on another account since then (over a month now). Has anyone else had this experience?
I went with Keystrokes because of the mostly positive comments from this board and others. I don't want to badmouth anyone, but these actions seem to uncharacteristic of them, and the lack of communication is really taking its toll on me--why wouldn't they let me know something?!! I understand most of their accounts are radiology, and there may be problems placing me on another clinic account, but I need to know something!
Thanks for any insight--
Hi Kim,
I understand your frustration with all the negative heckling that goes on on this board and your need to want to clarify who you are with your real name. BUT, I seriously would not post your telephone number, just to justify who you are to a bunch of strangers calling you Lee. It is way to easy for anyone to locate somebody with a phone number these days, 411.com, google, etc. You just do not know who surfs ANY site on the net these days and that is a safety risk.
Case in point, my dear niece is trying to adopt and posted her number & area on an adoption board of all places, for anyone to call with info on a certain agency....it took the police who caught the creep who had stalked her, first by phone, then in person, to figure out where he got the info. He told them that he just wanted to "help these poor women to be able to conceive the baby they wanted" take that any way you want but believe me, from the calls she got, it was purely sick.
Just an FYI about safety on the internet. Not worth your own to justify to a bunch of hecklers.
What is all this negativity about Keystrokes? I started in Mid-October with them and am quite happy. They are a refreshing change from the bureaucratic methods of the larger service bureaus. I don't drown in e-mails, I have a lead Transcriptionist who answers questions, I have clear account instructions and expectations. I have been paid on time and accurately. I don't have some middle manager making work for themselves.
Keystrokes is a small but growing company. So, there are going to be administrative growing pains as a result, but I see efforts being made to address this. I am happier with them than I have been with most other service bureaus.
Keystrokes does not overstaff. They seem to be very careful about taking care of and doing their best to keep their client happy and having enough work for their transcriptionists. I am grateful for the lack of meddling bureaucracy.


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Kelly was named to the first team. Pease was a second team selection. Both are juniors.
Including the honorable mention picks only 96 players were honored. There were 14 members of both the first and second teams. Players were selected based on several criteria including their statistical rankings in the NCAA as well as the impact each player had on her team and how many conference awards they received.
Kelly was ranked 12th in the NCAA nationally in points per set (5.07), 21st in kills per set and 38th in hitting percentage (.355). She was named Atlantic Sun Player of the Year for the second year in a row. She was also named to the Atlantic Sun Conference All-Tournament Team.
Some of the players on the first team with Kelly were California outside hitter Hana Cutera, Penn State outside hitter Megan Hodge, Texas outside hitter Destinee Hooker, UCLA middle blocker Amanda Gill, Penn State middle hitter Arielle Wilson and Penn State setter Alisha Glass.
"When you take a look at the list of the girls that were there the first thing that jumps off the list was Hana Cutera who we played in the first round of the NCAA Tournament," Lipscomb coach Brandon Rosenthal said. "I think it is a great honor for both Alex and Jake.
"It says a lot about what we are doing. The girls on this list are the elite players in the country. What is neat about it is that this site is recognizing teams that are not your traditional powerhouses. They are taking a look at what the girls have done in their respective conferences."
Pease was ranked 10th nationally in assists per set with 11.8. She was named to the Atlantic Sun All-Conference First Team. She also was named Atlantic Sun Tournament MVP for the second time in three years.
The Lady Bisons were undefeated in the Atlantic Sun Conference and won the conference tournament for the second time in the past three years.
"I've always said that I think Jake and Alex are two of the top players in the country. They really deserve all of the awards that they get right now.
"You look at the list and there is California, Illinois, Minnesota, Texas, Oregon, Penn State and Iowa. We are by far the smallest school. I'm glad Alex and Jake are on our team."
National honors for individual players also help Rosenthal with his recruiting efforts.
"When we won the A-Sun in 2007 we really didn't have to explain who we were," Rosenthal said. "But now there is level of respect. For three years in row we have played for our conference championship.
"As I watched all of these basketball tournaments I have a hard time comprehending what we did. To finish 22-0 in the conference was pretty tough. The 25-match win streak was pretty remarkable. I'm starting to appreciate it a little bit more."
Written by Mark McGee, Senior Publisher/Director of Media Relations