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'The photobook and CD have arrived ! It's simply unbelievable and takes me back to the six shows I went to in Europe. What a mindblowing CD. They're only getting better ....'
A handsome parcel enclosing From The Ground Up: U2.com Music Edition is now landing, with a thud, on the doorsteps of U2.com subscribers around the world.
The lavish photobook telling the inside story of U2360°, complete with the limited-edition CD Edge's Picks, is getting rave reviews.
'My copy arrived yesterday and it made my year. The design and quality are incredible, and the music? Wow! From the very first listen I was transported back to Croke Park on those two incredible nights...'
Great reception too for the FIVE bonus live downloads available as soon as you subscribe (or resubscribe) to U2.com - Desire, Pride, Angel of Harlem, Spanish Eyes and No Line On The Horizon.
'An absolutely brilliant 2012 for live music from U2.com... many, many thanks.'
Got your copy yet?
What's the standout track?
Best story in the book ?
How does this U2.com subscription gift compare with last year's 'U22'?
Tell us what you think and add your own review in the comments below.
A handsome parcel enclosing From The Ground Up: U2.com Music Edition is now landing, with a thud, on the doorsteps of U2.com subscribers around the world.
The lavish photobook telling the inside story of U2360°, complete with the limited-edition CD Edge's Picks, is getting rave reviews.
'My copy arrived yesterday and it made my year. The design and quality are incredible, and the music? Wow! From the very first listen I was transported back to Croke Park on those two incredible nights...'
Great reception too for the FIVE bonus live downloads available as soon as you subscribe (or resubscribe) to U2.com - Desire, Pride, Angel of Harlem, Spanish Eyes and No Line On The Horizon.
'An absolutely brilliant 2012 for live music from U2.com... many, many thanks.'
Got your copy yet?
What's the standout track?
Best story in the book ?
How does this U2.com subscription gift compare with last year's 'U22'?
Tell us what you think and add your own review in the comments below.
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12 June, 2013
thomaskeogh72From the ground up arrived in cavan today,was blown away by the quality of the book and edges picks awesome,electrical storm,scarlet,hold me thrill me kiss me kill me,your blue room all amazing.What a wonderful gift, thank you U2 for the memories and cant wait to receive U22 and zoo tv both of which are in the post.Hopefully we wont have to wait too long for the new album.
17 May, 2013
thomaskeogh72Am waiting for mine to arrive,the 5 bonus tracks are awesome,cant wait to hear the full cd going by the reviews its getting.As always you are guaranteed a great show to remember by U2
20 February, 2013
Favourite Track !My favourite track from Edge's Picks is Electrical Storm, they totally nailed it !!!
11 February, 2013
FinallyI was getting mad.. and tired of waiting. But it was worthy. I got mine last saturday, I'm really happy, it totally rocks. Stand out track: Your Blue Room!!!!
06 February, 2013
ARRIVED IN CIUDAD MADERO!!Amazing book !!!! Amazing songs!!! Amazing quality!!! Thank you so much U2 for this amazing gift!!!
06 February, 2013
U2 love!!!!!!!!!!!Sooooooooo cooooooooool!!!!!!!!
06 February, 2013
1・2・3・・・!love, voice, peace, hope,,, All is thank you!
04 February, 2013
ExcellentWith the Rose Bowl DVD, the U22 set, and Edge's Picks, I feel that I have a fairly complete song list from the 360 tour, including the songs performed at Mile High in Denver. The sound quality is excellent too.
03 February, 2013
Lavish !!!Lavish Baby !!!
01 February, 2013
one of the best Christmas presents everJust love the book, lithographs, bookmarks, cd's = 360 U22, Zoo tv, Edge's pick. Each part is a fabulous collection piece but together wow. I'm more of a U2 fan than before.
31 January, 2013
Thanks U2Big THANKS! to U2 and everyone involved in getting this music edition to us subscribers. U2 always set the standard when it comes to live shows, and in how they treat they're fans. Well done on this latest offering, simply fantastic.
31 January, 2013
Just arrived!Amazing book! Love it!
31 January, 2013
Salvo2905, I agree with you!!!I'm from sicily too and had my copy today. Had not yet time to hear it all, but Your Blue Room is OUTSTANDING!!!! for sure. Thanks Edge to put together this CD; I'm without BREATHE for the astonishing book, felt taken in an ELECTRICAL STORM (missed it in Milan, I was at the previuos show) and suddenly went CRAZY!! Thanks U2 for taking me again at those wonderful evenings (Milano and Roma) when you took us to the sky, without falling down...
31 January, 2013
Bellissimo!!!!!!!!!!!From the ground up book Just arrived At my home here in Sicily!!!!Great book and nice tracklist on Edge picks cd!!!!!!Your Blue Room is fantastic!!!!!! Now Mothers of disappeared download please!!!!!!!
31 January, 2013
Simply Unbelievable !It's simply unbelievable that I Haven't been able to listen to the cd or read the fantastic book because of my exams...but at least I took a quick look at it !!!
30 January, 2013
Uau!!!Simply amazing!!! You guys are always raising the bar!!!! Wonderful material and CD.
28 January, 2013
Just came in!!Just wanted to say that my copy of the Ground up came in today and it is simply unbeleiveable and I can't wait to read it all and thanks U2 for choosing 40 that was played in my backyard in Moncton NB and show number 2 that I was.. Thanks and hope to see you again on tour..
28 January, 2013
ExampleMy from the ground up arrived today! And you guys spoiled us again with a very nice present! Other bands could take an example how to treat their fans.....
27 January, 2013
Pure Bliss in Southern MN USAI knew when I heard the dogs barking at the mailman my package was here. And when Hubby handed me my much anticipated package I screamed like the girls did when Elvis shook his pelvis. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!! Bono, The Edge, Adam, and Larry your music and lyrics touch every part of my soul. No other band comes close to what you give your fans. Pure bliss!
27 January, 2013
Thank you from GermanyAbsolut the highest Heartbeat when i pick up the Package ...feels so heavy in my hand. Opening and getting blast off from the visual Look.... Love the Pictures from the Chicago Skyline, Bono dancing in the Rain in Moscow, The Edge at Glastonbury with "This in no Rehersal" Letters in the Back...and being surprised to find a View from the Berlin Stage, ONE of three Concerts who i am... "My Blue Room" an Electrical Storm" never sounds better on this GREAT Edges Picks CD. To have 43 Tracks (U22+15 Edges+6 Downloads) are more than i dream of to have from this unforgettable Tour.
26 January, 2013
Perfect !I've got my hands on it ! It's a perfect physical and spiritual manifestation of U2.com's care for the fans !
25 January, 2013
Seriously amazing gift!Got my copy safely delivered this week and was amazed to find what was hiding inside the box. Love the CD (Your Blue Room and Electrical Storm are the standouts) but the book went way beyond my expectations. Thankyou U2, there are many reasons why U2 are the best band ever and this is one of them!
25 January, 2013
Massachusetts BootsFinally - An official release of a song from a show I attended! Edge, excellent choices on the versions of these tunes and thank you, the band, Willie, Joe, Paul and everyone for letting us in the audience be a part of the show every night. I was at 5 of these things: Dublin 1 & 2, Foxboro 1 & 2, and New Jersey-2011. All of us are getting ready for next time. Kevin in Massachusetts
25 January, 2013
Just listening to it nowCame home from a fabulous day at work....and there it was waiting for me! I am presently listening to it for the first time and it is bringing me back to the concert! The book is incredible too! I am so impressed. I will have to hide away and spend some time reliving the moments this weekend! I am always amazed at the quality of what is sent to me....I have been a fan since my first concert in Toronto in 1985...nothing has changed...still my favourite band of all times! It is not only the music and the merchandise that impresses me; it is also their passions and convictions of making changed in this world! They speak my language!
25 January, 2013
Unforgettable!!!!From The Ground Up just made it to Hudson Florida! I was expecting something somewhat cheap, I was buying it for the CD anyway. But I was not prepared for what I received today, a beautiful full size hard cover book with immaculate detail! This is the best tour documenting I've ever seen! U2.com is delivering only the finest keepsakes to fans all around the world! They keep me subscribing year after year! This book and CD is just as elaborate as the 360 Tour itself! Thank you so much U2.com!!!
24 January, 2013
increible!!from the ground up arrived yesterday here in buenos aires, argentina. it''s amazing. thank you so much u2. now we need a new record and tour. god bless you
24 January, 2013
Fantastic!!!!!!!!!Got my copy today in Adelaide Australia and It is fantastic what a great book with great photos and the live tracks are the best. U22 was good but this takes it to a whole new level and takes me back to Suncorp Stadium what a great show Well done and Thank you. U2 do look after the fans !!
23 January, 2013
Thanks so much!My copy arrived today. It is wonderful! The cd is again amazing. So excited to have "Electrical Storm", "Your Blue Room" and "Hold Me, Thrill Me..." The book is so nice! Great photos, can't wait to read it. Thanks!
23 January, 2013
OMGJust arrived... WHAT TIME IS IT IN THE WORLD?????? SSSSSSSSSSSSSHOOOOOOOOWTIIIIIIIIIIIIIME!!!
23 January, 2013
Simply AmazingThank you U2.com for a quite incredible package just for the fans. Couldn't put the book down - incredibly good read. Loved the B&W photos. And as for the CD - great choices by Edge, especially Blue Room, Breathe and 40 (great Bono blessing). What do you do to top that?
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Sat, Apr 7, 2018
2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Chesapeake Shakespeare Company Theater
7 S. Calvert Street (at Redwood Street)
Baltimore, MD 21202
By William Shakespeare
A jealous king, a lost princess, an honorable shepherd, and a wondrous statue unite in a compelling fable of obsession, redemption, and rebirth. This magical and beguiling story follows the travails and triumphs of a royal family torn apart by a false accusation of infidelity. A faraway springtime yields fresh chances for each to find love and joy.
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Even though stock indices may have rebounded from their late November lows, the market remains volatile, and the economic outlook has taken a decided turn for the worse. A credit crunch has emerged on Wall Street with the sudden aversion among banks to lend because of the uncertain value of collateral when almost everything is tainted by years of sub-prime mania. The Federal Reserve took unprecedented actions last week out of fear that the credit squeeze will lead to a serious slowdown, possibly a recession over next few months. Leading economic forecasters polled by the Wall Street Journal recently put the chances of a recession at 38 percent. In the financial press, "toxic" has become the adjective of choice in describing many of the once-revered "creative" financial instruments linked in one fashion or another to sub-prime mortgages, the high-interest loans financial institutions gave to those who could not qualify for more conventional mortgages.
Wall Street's implosion justifiably has produced much hand-wringing among budget makers in City Hall and Albany regarding tax revenues. It seems clear by now that the dot-com bubble was no fluke. The Wall Street resurgence and boom since 2003 was largely inflated by real estate and sub-prime lending and spending. Can Wall Street do well only by doing things imprudently -- and on a gigantic scale at that?
Wall Street's booms are certainly good for the city and state's tax revenues (the busts certainly aren't), but are the booms good for the broader economy? Might there be a silver lining in Wall Street's comeuppance?
The Boom and New York
In many respects, the Wall Street boom of this decade was not that good for the New York economy or for the nation.
Wall Street is often referred to, aptly, as the main engine of the New York City economy. When it revs up, it becomes turbo-charged, generating high incomes and tax revenues. Yet it also belches out the urban equivalent of diesel exhaust, affecting the quality of life for everyone else. Soaring Wall Street incomes helped fuel the demand for luxury housing, pushing up housing prices throughout the five boroughs and pushing out many middle-class people in the process.
Wall Street's aggressive lending and marketing practices were as responsible as anything for the sub-prime debacle. The reverberations of collapse have been felt in New York City neighborhoods far from the financial district. Thousands of Residents moderate-income New Yorkers, many of them once worthy of more conventional credit, have suffered from the implosion of the sub-prime bubble.
Steering the Economy – But Where?
Wall Street has taken center stage on the national economic scene. The trajectories for the last two economic cycles have been determined largely by Wall Street's bubble machine. First it was the dot.com and telecommunications bubble, then the real estate and sub-prime bubble. While the Federal Reserve and government "regulators" deserve a big helping of responsibility for not minding the money store, Wall Street's financial innovations helped pave the way for a debt-induced spending spree since 2001 with mortgage debt increasing four times as fast as wage and salary income. Easy money and mountains of unsustainable debt won out over a real policy debate about how to revitalize the productive economy in a more sustainable manner.
A dynamic financial sector is vital to a competitive, world-class economy. The ability to raise capital and move it across sectors in response to ever-shifting market conditions is essential to robust economic growth. New York City-based Wall Street investment banks have taken over many of the functions historically performed by commercial banks. Mergers, like the one between J.P. Morgan and Chase, have created gigantic financial institutions that amass large pools of capital and provide a wide range of loans, equity investments and other means for corporate finance to grease the wheels of commerce in the nuts and bolts economy producing goods and services.
The financial clout of New York-based Wall Street investment banks over the national economy today rivals the situation in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, before the advent of the Federal Reserve Bank and national regulatory bodies like the Securities and Exchange Commission.
In a well-functioning economic system, the financial sector helps facilitate business activity in the nuts and bolts economy. Wall Street's role is to help make the economic pie larger. What has happened, however, is that New York investment banks have become the tail wagging the dog. Wall Street's focus has been on financial innovation in the service of more and more short-term fees, regardless of their economic value or consequence. This has bred an undue tendency toward speculation, with the prices of stocks and other securities pushed higher and higher, drawing in unsuspecting investors.
In analyzing the financial market ills leading up to the 1929 stock market crash, economics great John Maynard Keynes wrote: "Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise. But the position is serious when enterprise becomes the bubble on a whirlpool of speculation."
More recently, John Bogle, founder and former chief executive of Vanguard mutual funds, laments the rising share of the economic pie going to the finance sector. Bogle notes that 25 years ago the finance sector accounted for 6 percent of the profits of the Standard & Poor's 500 large corporations. Prior to the recent market meltdown, the finance sector took about one-third of corporate profits. Bogle estimates that hedge funds, mutual funds, investment banks and the like "siphoned about $500 billion from shareholder returns" in 2006.
Readjusting the Economy and Wall Street's Role in It
It is not at all clear how long it will take for Wall Street to right itself. Barely a year ago, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Senator Charles Schumer and some other prominent New Yorkers worried that Wall Street was somehow losing competitive ground to London, Shanghai and other global financial centers. They blamed government securities regulations enacted in the wake of the Enron collapse. Now, it is more likely that there will be calls to effectively regulate Wall Street so that the bubble-making machine is de-activated in favor of a return to making money the old-fashioned way. The problem was not that Wall Street was regulated too much but that it was not regulated in the right way. Financial "innovation" run amok turned out to be the real threat, not London or Shanghai. Those market centers also are plagued by bubble tendencies and are in similar need of effective oversight.
As Wall Street regroups from its current woes, city economic policy-makers might want to consider a different set of priorities. In City Hall, the focus could be on really diversifying the city's economy and using mega-development projects to make the city more livable and more likely to produce good, middle-income paying jobs. For the past few years, City Hall's main real estate development goal has been ever more space for huge financial trading floors – a fixation that is no more sustainable than the latest financial bubble. The big challenge is to make sure that the jobs created in developments induced by city actions pay decent wages and offer career opportunities that lead to the middle class. New York will not have a middle class if it doesn't have middle-class jobs.
In Albany, the state is still groping for an economic strategy responsive to the needs of New Yorkers. While some observers are eager to write it off, manufacturing still employs over a half-million workers in New York and remains the economic backbone of many upstate communities. Several manufacturing industries, including but not limited to ones deemed "high tech," are highly productive upstate. It is myopic to think that high value-added manufacturing – microelectronics, optics, ceramics, biotechnology, instrumentation -- will entirely desert the U.S. or New York, with its world-class technical universities, advanced technology research base and highly skilled manufacturing workforce. The state should identify the strong performers among manufacturing firms, work to make them even more competitive and ensure that they can retain and develop more highly skilled manufacturing workers.
The state desperately needs to overhaul its economic programs across the board, from Empire Zones to Industrial Development Agencies, to transform them from giveaways and cronyism to strategic interventions addressing the failure of markets to invest sufficiently in further advancing New York's human capital assets through skill training and research and development.
Both City Hall and Albany should also seriously pursue the many opportunities now unfolding to develop green jobs promoting energy conservation and the production of green building materials and other environmentally friendly manufactured products.
Economic sustainability is as desirable a goal as environmental sustainability. Our current economy is anything but that. In the long run, the state and city tax base will be more sustainable with an economy geared to providing ample opportunities for more good-paying jobs as opposed to our current highly polarized, Wall Street-dominated economic structure. With a strengthened and expanded middle class, New York will have stronger and more vibrant communities. James Parrott is deputy director and chief economist of the Fiscal Policy Institute (www.fiscalpolicy.org). He has been studying and writing about the New York economy since he landed in New York City a quarter century ago.Â


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Cooking with heart gives dish a tropical flavour
I WAS absolutely intrigued when a work colleague recently told me about hearts of palm.
I consider myself pretty worldly when it comes to food so when something I have never heard of pops up, I have to find out more.
A couple of days later my very own jar of palm hearts showed up.
On first taste, it really reminded me of something but I couldn't put my finger on it.
Texture wise, the little cylindrical tubes are firm on the outside and fibrous on the inside and the flavour is a little grassy.
It actually reminded me of artichoke hearts a little, but milder in flavour. And like artichoke hearts they are said to be good in salads, with pasta and on pizzas.
Just as the name suggests, hearts of palm are harvested from palm trees and are a delicacy in many cultures, dating back thousands of years in Central and South America.
This recipe was recommended to me and it's the perfect time of year to make the best of mangoes, one of my favourite fruits.
It definitely combines all of those favourite flavours of mine - lime, coriander and mango.
You could even add some pieces of grilled chicken to make it a main.
I am also assured that hearts of palm are good on the waistline, which is always a bonus.
One thing to note about these palm hearts is the harvesting method.
I do like to think of myself as a socially conscious eater and like to know where my food has come from.
So when it comes to these, you need to make sure they have not been harvested in a way that damages the trees so they die.
There are ethically aware companies out there including Cultiverde.
Hearts of palm with mango and lime
Preparation time 20 minutes
1 cup of sliced Cultiverde hearts of palm
6 large radishes
1/2 cup of chopped coriander
2 green shallots
1/4 cup fresh lime juice
2 tsp of dijon mustard
tsp extra virgin olive oil
Combine lime juice, dijon mustard and then whisk in olive oil to make a thin emulsion.
Peel mango and cut into pieces about 2cm square.
Drain hearts of palm, then cut hearts of palm and radishes in half lengthwise and cut into thick half-moon slices.
Slice shallots, wash and dry.
Chop coriander.
Combine mango, hearts of palm slices, radish slices, and green shallots in a bowl.
Stir dressing into combined salad ingredients (you may not need all the dressing).
Add chopped coriander and gently fold into salad.
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Americans have some bad diesel memories, but is it time to get past that and embrace a technology that offers both stellar fuel economy (up to 50 mpg) and incredible range (650 miles) with relatively clean emissions as a bonus?
In the 1970s and '80s, when they were touted as a response to the energy crisis (and tougher fuel economy standards), they were noisy, smelly, polluting — and slow. We can forgive just about anything, but a car that makes a lot of noise and can't get out of its own way, that's beyond the pale.
General Motors dipped a toe in the diesel waters in the 1978 model year, with an engine option on Oldsmobiles. If you wanted your Cutlass with a diesel, it cost $850 (the 88) or $740 (the 98). Rather than actually engineer a ground-up diesel, GM's bean counters chose to save money by using many parts from the company's tried-and-true 350 cubic-inch Rocket V-8. This eventually proved disastrous, though the 30 mpg on the highway was enough to entice 33,841 Olds buyers in 1978. By 1980, when diesels were available company-wide, 126,885 found homes.
Boy, were they dogs. A 1980 Chevy Caprice wagon with a diesel took more than 19 seconds to reach 60 mph, compared to its gasoline-powered compatriot's 13.9. And those engineering shortcuts came back to bite 'em. Diesels use higher compression ratios, which should mean more and stronger head bolts, but GM stuck with the set-up from the Rocket gas engine. As Popular Mechanics reports, "The insufficient head bolts stretched or broke and led to head gasket problems." What's more water got into the injection pumps, fuel lines and injectors, wreaking more havoc.
The Auto Savant says these diesels were among "the cars that killed GM." James Bell, GM's head of consumer affairs, calls it a "sad, bad story." It's why GM didn't build a diesel car for more than 30 years. But now the company is entering the fray again with the 2014 Chevrolet Cruze 2.0 TD turbo diesel. I'm reasonably sure that the new car, available this summer, has strong head bolts. The engine, which produces a modest 148 horsepower, was developed with Italian and German engineering teams (the folks who know diesels) and reduces nitrogen and carcinogenic particulate matter by at least 90 percent from bad old GM diesels.
"The poor quality diesels in the 1980s caused a lot of problems," Bell admits. "There were legitimate concerns, but now we have a new opportunity—the Cruze diesel is fast, quiet, and doesn't put out any more smoke or pollutants than its gasoline equivalent. It's a new diesel day!" Here's the car on video, with possibly unfamiliar fueling footage:
The diesel Cruze, already available 'round the world in strong-selling Opel or Vauxhall versions (it's 40 percent of Cruze sales in Europe), will sell for $25,695, with an EPA rating around 42 mpg on the highway. With a six-speed automatic, some testers have seen 50 mpg, and when you multiply that by the 13 gallon tank you get 650 miles of range. If driving past gas stations is your thing, this is the car. One caveat, though, known to truckers nationwide: Diesel fuel is more expensive than gasoline. This week, the national average for gasoline is $3.60, but diesel is $4.02.
Diesels are 50 percent of the cars on the road in Europe, where there are large subsides for it. The high rate of diesel take-up is one reason electric cars have been slow to win acceptance in Europe—they're already driving clean cars. GM itself sells 500,000 diesels a year, just not here. Mercedes, Audi and BMW, as well as the French and Italian automakers, all produce very credible small diesels, a small fraction of which are available in the U.S.
Mercedes, which has been producing diesels since 1936, claims that its new U.S.-market BlueTEC diesels reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent compared to gas versions. American ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuel, the only kind available since 2010, is among the cleanest in the world. Below is the S300 BlueTEC hybrid.
GM is being cautious with diesel passenger cars. Bell said it will initially produce only about 10,000 to 12,000 per year. That's probably wise, since diesels are only about three percent of U.S. auto sales today. But Baum and Associates expect that to grow to six or 6.5 percent of the market by 2015, and J.D. Power envisions a 7.4 percent share by 2017.
If was buying a new car today, I'd consider a diesel. I don't think I'd buy a '78 Cutlass, though, even if it was a great deal.
Related post on MNN: Converting a car to run on vegetable oil


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Hurricane Sandy wreaked havoc along the East Coast this week, damaging homes, ripping up trees, and knocking out power all along her path. But her destruction was not limited to urban and residential areas. Sandy also caused damage to our nation's park system, causing park closures or partial closures all along the eastern corridor.
As of this writing, 69 National Park Service locations have been closed or partially cordoned off due to damage from Hurricane Sandy.
The electrical and mechanical systems at Ellis Island National Monument, home of the Statue of Liberty, are under water. Liberty Island, where the Statue of Liberty actually resides, may have lost all of its high-voltage equipment.
The other national parks in New York Harbor, including Federal Hall National Monument, General Grant National Memorial, Hamilton Grange National Memorial, St. Paul's Church National Historic Site, Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace National Historic Site, Gateway National Recreation Area and Governors Island National Monument suffered extensive flooding, and that was especially true of Manhattan's Battery Park, home of Castle Clinton National Monument.
Fire Island National Seashore reported heavy flooding with some buildings filled with two to three feet of water.
In New Jersey, Morristown National Historical Park (pictured above) is closed with hundreds of trees reported down.
Valley Forge National Historical Park in Pennsylvania has reported downed trees, debris and park-wide power outages.
In the D.C. area, National Capital Region parks were closed through today, and many will remain so for the next several days as park officials have warned of possible flooding over the next week from rising water levels in rivers and streams.
Assateague Island National Seashore and Chincoteague Island National Wildlife Refuge, along the coast of Maryland and Virginia, reported flooding, downed trees and heavily damaged campsites.
In my neck of the woods, Shenandoah National Park in Virginia saw downed trees and snow. The park's Skyline Drive is still closed, but park officials hope to reopen sometime on Friday.
New River Gorge in West Virginia saw widespread power outages and as much as two feet of snow, with even more in the coming forecast.
North Carolina's Cape Lookout National Seashore reported heavy flooding. This picture shows the park's boat basin and Island Road taken after high tide on Monday.
Florida's Biscayne Bay National Park also remains closed. This picture shows finger docks that were ripped from their foundations at Elliott Key Harbor.
More than 100 national park employees are being deployed to the hardest hit areas, with a focus on northern New Jersey and harbor parks in New York City.
Related on MNN: Explore the national parks near year with MNN's user guides to the parks
Photo credits:
Morristown National Historic Park: NPS photo
Statue of Liberty during Hurricane Sandy: wck/Flickr.com
Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge: U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service - Northeast Region/ Flicker.com
Cape Lookout National Seashore: NPS photo
Biscayne Bay National Park: NPS photo


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Serving to maximize enjoyment
Glass hygiene, serving temperature and serving per glass.
- Glass hygiene: Serve beverages only in sparkling, clean, odorless glasses.
- Serving temperature: Do not over-chill white wines and sparkling wines; serve red wines below room temperature.
- Serving per glass: Maximum 3 to 5 oz/100/125 ml. Never over-pour the glass.
- The sample, gracious glass volume offers great wines the room to breathe and to express the unique message of the aroma.


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Cory Gardner leaves a forwarding address
Does Congressman Cory Gardner need Mapquest? Campaign fliers he put on tables this morning at an Adams County debate showed the Yuma Republican using a Loveland address.
But here's the deal: Although Gardner still represents Larimer County in the 4th Congressional District, the Yuma Republican is campaigning in the new district drawn last year as part of congressional redistricting. Larimer County — and Loveland — now is in the 2nd Congressional District.
Gardner faces a challenge from state Senate President Brandon Shaffer, D-Longmont, whose campaign had a field day with the fliers.
"I'm not surprised Congressman Gardner decided to move his campaign headquarters outside of the 4th Congressional District after he let the farm bill expire today," spokesman Denise Baron said.
Gardner said the literature was prepared for the 2012 election before the new map was finalized but it still is being used because "we're environmentally conscious Republicans."
Not to worry, he said. If you mail a donation to the Loveland address, it will be forwarded to campaign headquarters in Lone Tree.


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Attention Amazon.com: You Have A Bunch Of Pissed Off Customers... And Some Are Blaming Techdirt
from the reading-comprehension-needs-work deptTwo years ago, we had a post entitled Look What The Search Engine Dragged In! which some people liked. It highlighted a few old Techdirt posts from the archives that were given new life, thanks to random search engine queries that drove people to Techdirt -- where they were often quite confused and acted accordingly. So, for example, there was a post from 1999 about stolen AOL passwords, which for many years was a top search result for "stealing AOL passwords" leading to hundreds of commenters asking how to get the password for someone else's AOL account. Then there was the bizarre case where a story from 2000 about a dot com millionaire using his millions to build schools in central America. Somehow, people who had come across hard times started flocking to that post in order to beg for money, even though it's hard to believe anyone could show up on that page, read the post, and not realize that no one there is giving away money, and even if they were, it was for schools in central America, not individuals relating sob stories.
However, the latest such case is even more bizarre, and it's beginning to become a nuisance -- that I'm hoping Amazon.com might be willing to fix. You see, a couple years ago, Amazon.com launched a service called Amazon Prime. If you were willing to pay $79/year, you could get free 2-day shipping. It didn't seem like that great a deal to me, but I know that at least two Techdirt employees are actually happy customers of the service. I did, however, write about the program here on Techdirt -- though, if you'd asked me a week ago, I'm not sure I would have remembered writing that post.
However, a week ago, we started receiving somewhat bizarre angry emails to our feedback form complaining that we had unfairly charged the emailers' credit card for $79 and demanding that we issue an immediate refund. This was definitely odd. While we do accept credit card payments from the customers of our paid services, we certainly haven't been charging individuals' cards. After a few of these emails, we started to get concerned, and had our accounts manager try to contact a few of the irate emailers to make it clear that we had not charged their credit cards at all. Then I started to notice something. The post I did about the Amazon Prime program was getting a bunch of recent comments -- even though it was from over two years ago. Also, a lot of those comments were from people who were very, very pissed off at Amazon for charging them $79 (sound familiar?).
From there, it wasn't too difficult to piece together the rest of the story. Amazon has been aggressively pushing the Amazon Prime program lately with a brightly colored banner at the top of the checkout page and the following text: "You qualify for a FREE trial of Amazon Prime." The free trial lasts a month, but the fine print reads:
By clicking the button below, you are purchasing the item noted above (at its regular price) as well as signing up for a Free one month trial of Amazon Prime. As the trial ends, if you want to join Amazon Prime, do nothing. At that point we will enroll you in an auto-renewing, annual membership and charge a $79 annual fee. If you prefer not to upgrade to full membership, you can easily let us know at any time before your introductory membership ends, by changing your preferences in Your Account.This certainly isn't hidden, but it is the fine print, and people (especially those who might confuse Techdirt with Amazon.com) don't seem to read the fine print. People signed up for the "free" trial, forgot about it (or assumed it simply went away) and then were surprised to find a $79 charge on their credit card statements one to two months later. When they don't even remember the Amazon Prime program (or don't connect the name of the charge to it), the first thing they do is hit their search engine of choice and do a search on the name of the charge: AMZ*Prime club. If you've read this far, you know it's Amazon, but that might not be obvious at first glance. On both Google and Yahoo!, the first results lead to Techdirt. As of this post, on Google, Amazon doesn't show up in the search at all. On Yahoo, it's result #14. The reason we're listed at all is because someone wrote about it in the comments. In fact, the original post got no comments when the story first broke -- but as of this post has nearly 60 comments since last August of people complaining about the charge. Some of the comments include directions on how to get the charge removed, others demand (again) that we remove the charge ourselves (reading comprehension isn't a strong point, apparently).
All in all, it's an interesting look into a few different things. First, the oddities of search engine traffic on archived posts. Second, the reading comprehension skills of some individuals. Third, the fact that there appear to be a fair number of people who are pretty pissed off at Amazon for not being clear enough about how their Amazon Prime "free" trial works. So, in the interest of preventing us from more angry emails, Amazon.com: would you please (a) make the details of the program a lot clearer, or (even better!) not pull that sleazy "auto-enroll" crap that no one likes on your Amazon Prime testers or (b) if you insist on continuing to do so, do a little SEO work to get your own page at the top of a search for AMZ*Prime Club, so that we're not receiving the brunt of your angry customers. Thanks!


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Book News: Was Hong Kong Publisher's 10-Year Sentence Political Payback?
The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly.
- A Chinese court has sentenced Hong Kong publisher Yiu Mantin to 10 years in prison for smuggling chemicals. But family members say that isn't the real reason behind Wednesday's sentence. Yiu had planned to publish a book by dissident writer Yu Jie that was critical of Chinese President Xi Jinping, and his family says that the book is what drew the regime's ire. Yiu's son, Edmond Yiu Yung-chin, told The South China Morning Post that the verdict was intended to keep his father from publishing more"subversive" literature. The New York Times reports: "The police in Shenzhen, the southern Chinese city adjacent to Hong Kong, detained Mr. Yiu after he crossed the border last November and alleged that he had made trips to smuggle deceptively labeled chemicals to avoid taxes and duties. Ding Xikui, a lawyer for Mr. Yiu, said his client had acknowledged some wrongdoing, but Mr. Ding and another defense lawyer had argued at the trial in March for a light sentence, claiming Mr. Yiu was not the main culprit."
- Amazon is delaying the shipment of Hachette books for periods of several weeks "for reasons of their own," a spokeswoman from the publishing company told the Times. In the past, Amazon has removed the "Buy" buttons on books from certain publishers following disputes or as a negotiation tactic. The newspaper's report says an Amazon spokesman declined to comment.
- NPR's Alan Cheuse talks to Jordan Foster at Booktrib.com about the process of writing fiction: "I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it."
- At The New Yorker, Rebecca Mead writes about motherhood and George Eliot: "As Eliot's fiction reveals, both in its stories and in her overarching ethical project, mothers have no monopoly on love and selflessness, on empathy and care, even if it might take motherhood for some of us to discover what the greatest novelists already know."
- Oyster, the Netflix-like e-book subscription service, has partnered with 500 new publishers and added more than 500,000 new books, Publishers Weekly reports. The publishers include Wiley, Grove Atlantic and McSweeney's. For $9.99 a month, Oyster users can read an unlimited number of e-books.


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Los Angeles, CA, US
I always wanted to start an interview - Jones, Erin Jones - and wait for the hiring manager to raise one eyebrow in disbelief but slightly lower it because James Bond is one amazing person.
I was born and raised on the East Coast and traveled to the West Coast to escape the extreme temperatures and completely engulf myself in new things. I am hungry for knowledge and eager to learn. I have a background in Architecture which started as a child. My favorite most loved character was, and still is Winne the Pooh. How does this relate to architecture? Well, I think while watching the series I always noticed how the characters lived and used their environment around them to survive. The character Rabbit had a carrot farm outside of his residence which proved to be a very good design to me as simple as the notion was.
College was the next step in satisfying my quest to make my own 'real life lego building'. I graduated with a B.S. in Architecture and Design and followed that with Graduate studies. Shortly after applying and taking courses in graduate school, I was laid off and architecture soon became my enemy.
What I do is simple. I battle with the love and hate of architecture. To me, it is like a dear close family member that you love with all of your heart but sometimes, on the rarest but most significant occasion, there is such disappointment that you can not remember why the love was there in the first place. I love architecture deeply and it is my passion. Without disappointments, there is no real meaning. I can remember working on a project with a difficult client, computer system not functioning correctly and all the photoshop changes were not saved before the computer froze, but then after counting to 10, sometimes 20, I remember that there is no other thing I would rather be doing.
I am pretty good working with ArchiCad which is my computer aided drafting tool of choice. I know AutoCad and can work well with that as well. Hand sketching is like a lost art but I love it.
Management Experience
West Hollywood Art Walk- Production Assistant, 5/2012, Waldo's Designs
Promotional Event- Assistant Manager, 4/2012, Sun Valley Partners
Obery II Interior Framing- Project Manager, 1-3/2012, C. L. McCoy Framing Co., Inc.
Uplands Apartment Construction- Assistant Project Manager, 8-12/2012, C. L. McCoy Framing Co., Inc.
Gateway Houses Renovation- Project Manager, 6/2011- 7/2012, ArchPlan Inc.
East Baltimore Development Inc. Renovation- Project Manager, 6/2011- 8/2011, ArchPlan Inc.
Management Related Qualifications
• Advanced marketing developmental strategies with resulting increased profits within 2 months.
• Proven ability to work well under tight deadlines.
• Knowledgeable in problem solving and decision making in a fast paced environment.
• Track record of strong interpersonal and listening skills when interfacing with: architects, contractors, vendors, residents, customers, and clients.
• Strengthened customer relationships and developed repeat customers.
• Experience with assisting administration, budgeting, invoicing, and contract negotiations.
• Mentored new employees and enhanced existing employee relations through leadership.
Medical Center, Encino, CA, US, Engineering Facilities Assistant
I am assistant to the Director of Engineering and I assist with daily duties such as coordinating vendors scheduled visits, scheduling preventative maintenance on equipment, and managing engineers schedules. I also work closely with other departments throughout the facility.
C.L. McCoy Framing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Project Manager
Project Manager- Commercial Framing Division 8/2011- 3/2012
• Formulated construction project's budgets and coordinated any change orders that occurred during construction. Maintained budget status for project duration.
• Managed laborers and sub-contractors, delegated tasks while foreseeing and resolving problems in a calm and efficient manner.
• Communicated changes in workflow or deadlines to contractor, subcontractors, owners, and city officials to ensure resources were available.
• Operated weekly progress meetings for initial scope reviews, collaborations with vendors and suppliers, and updated construction schedules.
Estimator – Home Improvement Department 7/2011- 2/2012
• Solicited and maintained communication with subcontractors and vendors.
• Prepared subcontractor bid packages based on project.
• Coordinated the timely receiving/shipping of all elements in/out of our facility to increase productivity.
• Designed floor plans and presentation boards for clients to actively participate in customer relations to meet or exceed the customer's expectations.
• Developed marketing presentations to proactively seek new business opportunities.
ArchPlan Inc., Baltimore, MD, US, Project Manager
Assisted in training new employees.
Handled office telephone calls and provided administrative assistance.
Worked closely with architect to balance business books.
Morris & Ritchie Associates, Inc., Towson, MD, US, Intern Archtect
Planned and interpreted building programs.
Communicated with other departments for problem solving.
Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, US, BArch, Architecture & Environmental Design
The BSAED curriculum provides a balanced course of study including courses in graphic skills, technology, history, theories of the built environment as well as courses throughout the university. The core of the program are the design studio courses where students synthesize what they have learned in the exploration of hypothetical and real life design projects. BSAED graduates are prepared for entry level positions in architecture and environmental design fields, and for the advancement to professional degree programs including the MSU Graduate Programs in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and City and Regional Planning. (via Morgan.edu)
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, Baltimore, MD, US, High School, Engineering
Engineering based studies. Some architectural drafting, CADD, and design work.


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Seasonal Sample BoxRegular price $70.00
This sample box will include a mixed variety of tropical fruits that are in season. The contents will be an array of fruits to sample and enjoy so that you can become familiar with the taste of the tropics.
Small Box : 4-7 lbs of mixed fruits.
Medium Box : 8-10 lbs of mixed fruits.
Large Box : 14-16 lbs of mixed fruits.
We pack as much fruit in the box as possible.
***The fruits pictured are meant to give a general idea of what a sample box may contain. Always keep in mind that the contents will vary depending on the seasons***
Due to agricultural limitations in California, orders to California will have a limited variety but still maintain the weight above. We will do our best to provide as much variety as possible with the fruits in season at that time.
**Refund Policy**
Once the fruit has arrived, in the case that there are any damages to the fruit or the fruit is inedible, please notify us within 24 hours via email with a picture. Due to perishability of tropical fruit we are not able to refund after the 24 hour period.
We aim to provide the best quality fruit and service to our customers. Thank you for your support.
Tropical Fruit ripens best in warm temperatures. If you have received fruit that has not ripened and you wish to speed up the ripening process we recommend to either put your fruit in paper bags or wrapped in a kitchen towel and place in a dry warm area. Alternatively, you may also place your fruit outside in the sun (please be aware of bug) which will also speed up the ripening process.
It is ripe when it is soft to the touch and an imprint is left when pressure is applied to it. The color of the skin may darken slightly.
There are many ways to consume soursop. The most common way is to break it open and consume the white flesh, not eating the seeds inside.
Dragon Fruit
It is picked ripe therefore ready to consume upon arrival. For an extended shelf life, we recommend to put it in the fridge.
The easiest way to eat this fruit is to slice it in half and enjoy it with a spoon. The seeds are edible, crunchy and satisfying.
Passion Fruit
It is ripe when the outer shell becomes wrinkled and soft to the touch.
The best way to consume this is to slice it open and scoop out the pulp.
This is ready to eat ripe upon arrival. For extended shelf life, store in the refrigerator.
Break the skin and eat the flesh that surrounds the seed. It is not advisable to eat the seed. Due to oxidation the outer shell will darker in color but this does not affect the fruit inside.
It is ripe when it is soft to the touch and an imprint is left when pressure is applied to it. The color of the skin may darken slightly.
The most common way is to break it open and consume the white flesh, not eating the seeds inside.
It arrives ready to eat. For extended shelf life, store in the refrigerator.
Crack the shell and suck the white flesh surrounding the bean. Some like to enjoy the bean raw while others may find it bitter.
Sprouted Coconut
It arrives pre husked and ready to eat.
To get to the spongy inner core, drop the nut on a concrete surface until it cracks or alternatively hit with a hammer or tool similar to it. Enjoy the spongy mass.
Black Sapote
It arrives unripe.
The black sapote is at optimal ripeness when very soft to the touch and the green skin turns a bit dark brown. When cut open, there will be a rich dark chocolate pudding like color . The skin can be eaten if chosen to, you can use a spoon and scoop out the fruit.
The fruit arrives unripe.
Over a few days the fruit will ripen and become soft enough to break with your hands and enjoy. Inside will be soft with a very sweet rich flavor.
We ship these unripe.
When ripe the fruit will be soft to the touch and easily broken with your hands. The texture will be that of a boiled egg yolk with the flavor of cake.
Your banana will arrive green and unripe.
Wait until the skin in yellow with brown/black spots which is when it is at its optimal ripeness.
This will arrive hard and unripe.
When ripe it will become softer and when cut open have a creamy texture.
Pink Guava
The pink guava is shipped unripe and will arrive green and hard.
When ripe the skin will change in color to yellow and the fruit will become very fragrant. At this time it will also be soft enough to break open with your hands. The seeds are hard to chew but are still edible.
Your mamey will arrive unripe and hard.
When ripe it becomes soft to the touch. When ready to eat cut length wise, remove the large brown inedible seed and enjoy. The skin is not consumed.
Star Apple
Star Apple is picked ripe, when you receive it it is ready to eat. Cut it open and scoop out the milky inside with a spoon when ready to eat, the purple/green skin is not consumed. If you do not plan to consume it immediately it is recommended that it is put in the refrigerator. The seeds are not edible.
Custard Apple
Custard apple is shipped unripe and it is ready when soft similar to soursop and cherimoya. Do not refrigerate before it is ripe as this will affect the ripening process. It can be broken apart with your hands or a knife can be used to slice it open. The seeds are not edible.
Longan arrives ripe and ready to eat, crack the light brown shell and consume the transparent flesh around the dark inedible seed.
Lychee is picked off the tree ripe and ready to eat. Therefore it will arrive in its optimal state to consume. Just like longan the flesh surrounding the seed is consumed.
Mango is picked slightly under ripe and will ripen during transit. To know when its ready to eat, it will be soft to the touch and typically changes color. Depending on the variety of mango some will change color more than others, additionally some people enjoy mango under ripe while others allow the fruit to ripen fully to enjoy the full sweetness. Mango skin is edible however only some people may enjoy it.
Juneplum is picked green and should arrive green and hard. Some people prefer this fruit under ripe eaten as a vegetable with salt. On the other hand it can be left on the counter to ripen over a few days. The skin will yellow and it will become sweeter and more tender.
Star Fruit
Star Fruit is picked and shipped when it is green. During transit it may begin to ripen, it is ripe when the fruit turns yellow and softens. This fruit can be enjoyed at any ripeness level, when it is green it is like a tart apple and when its yellow it's much sweeter and juicy.
Tree Tomato
Tree tomato AKA tamarillo is shipped slightly under ripe. When you recieve your package it is usually ripe and ready. Some individuals may like it slightly more ripe in that case allow it to soften on a counter for a few days.
Sugar Apple
Sugar apple is shipped hard and under ripe. This fruit may only be consumed once it has become soft, many times it will actually open on it's own exposing its sugary flesh. Only the interior flesh surrounding the seeds is edible.
Sugar Cane
Sugar Cane is shipped ready to consume. The super sweet fibrous cane needs to have its skin peeled to chew and enjoy, similar to chewing gum the fiber is to be spit after all the juice is gone. The juice can alternatively be pressed out of the cane, which is commonly known as guarapo.
Jack Fruit
Jack fruit is shipped under ripe and will begin to ripen during transit. It may or may not arrive soft enough to eat raw. Depending on the consumer some may rather cook the fruit in a wide array of dishes, while others simply consume the fruit raw as nature intended. The choice is yours, however we do reccomend cutting this large fruit with some olive oil handy as it assist with removing the sticky sap.


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No decision has been made as to whether to reopen Sandy Hook Elementary or move it to another location after a panel met to find a resolution to the matter. WVIT's George Collie reports.
A decision on whether to reopen the Sandy Hook Elementary School building, where 20 first-graders and six staffers were massacred, was stalled Friday as emotions ran high at a town meeting.
A task force of more than two dozen officials had narrowed down the choices to two: raze the existing Newtown, Conn., building and open a new school down the street, or renovate or rebuild on the existing site.
But after a group of Sandy Hook teachers spoke privately to task force members before a public meeting on Friday night, the panel said it could not make an immediate decision and was looking at other options.
When the teachers emerged from a closed-door executive session, some in tears, they declined to say what they had recommended, just that the conversation was "difficult."
Newtown school board member Laura Roche said those teachers made it clear they never want to set foot in the building again. Task force members said they were re-evaluating their options and a vote won't happen until next week or later.
Some victims' families have said they are horrified at the thought of children returning to the campus where Adam Lanza spilled so much blood during his Dec. 14 rampage.
Julio Cortez / AP file
A task force is deciding whether to reopen Sandy Hook Elementary School, seen here in an aerial photo.
"I will chain my body to it and protest if they try to reopen it," Erica Lafferty, the daughter of slain Sandy Hook Principal Dawn Hochsprung, told NBCConnecticut.com before the meeting. "It should be knocked down. There should be some type of long-lasting memorial."
Janet Zipperstein, mother of a fourth grader and a second grader, said kids should not have to return to the building where their schoolmates were executed or even to a new school nearby.
"My second grader is never gonna step foot in Sandy Hook school," she vowed. "It's never gonna happen."
Others said demolishing the building would send the wrong message.
"It's not the building that was the problem. It was someone in the wrong frame of mind," said Steven Uhde, father of a Sandy Hook second grader.
Frank Thorp V / NBC News
Erica Lafferty, whose mother was the principal of Sandy Hook Elementary, thinks the school building should be torn down.
"I don't want to give someone else that is in the wrong frame of mind this as the precedent -- to say, 'You know what? If I can't take out people, at least I'll wipe out the school.'"
Mike Scarpa, father of two children who attended Sandy Hook, said a renovated building at the site would be a tribute -- "an incredible way to honor the 26 angels that were lost."
Sandy Hook students who survived the shooting have been going to class in a repurposed school building in the neighboring town of Monroe. They can stay there through the 2016 school year as long as the school board approves a new lease.
The task force originally considered 40 locations for a possible new school before narrowing the choices. It will make a recommendation to the school board.
Whatever the decision, there will be precedent for it from other schools that have also been the scene of mass shootings.
Columbine High School in Colorado demolished the library where most of the 12 victims of a 1999 shooting died, but reopened the rest of the facility within months.
At California's Oikos University, where seven were killed in 2012, the classroom in question is now used only for theology classes. Virginia Tech, where 32 died in 2007, turned one of the classrooms into a violence prevention center.
The West Nickel Mines Amish School in Pennsylvania, where five girls were shot dead in 2006, was torn down.
George Colli of NBCConnecticut.com contributed to this report.
This story was originally published on Fri May 3, 2013 6:26 PM EDT


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techie necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 49 diseños de 17 diseñadores freelance.
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Startup computer repair company. We specialize in hardware repair. The Jigsaw name came about as a way to communicate that _we can solve puzzles_. We will be moving into a RETAIL storefront soon. We need this logo for our sign, business cards, website, uniforms, cars, everything!
Since customer trust us with their computers and data, we really need to be seen as a trustworthy company. Similar to a bank.
General consumer. Specifically residential and student customers. We will be advertising on cars, newspapers, online, and direct mail. Need something that looks fresh but conveys an expertise and "big company" feel.
1. Logo must have the text "Jigsaw Computer Repair". I prefer "Jigsaw" on top, with "Computer Repair" below it on one line. However, be creative.
2. Colors should be either: [blue and key lime green] OR [blue and orange]
3. Logo should convey a sense of trust and reliability
4. Must incorporate a jigsaw puzzle piece into the the word JIGSAW. See attached PNG. However, be creative and don't get locked into the sample.
5. Must be clean and easily seen on a physical sign or embroidered onto a shirt. No 3d effects, embossing, etc.
Reference samples of how we want a jigsaw puzzle piece incorporated into the letter(s).
DO NOT put a jigsaw puzzle piece by itself above/below/beside the text!
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The question is in the title really. I know gravity + QFT is on shaky ground but I'm not looking for Feynman rules, just a schematic, if that is possible.
Edit 1: added possible diagram for clarification.
Edit 2: Actually, isn't this diagram the most important? G represents a graviton and m represents some matter, e.g. proton, or quark.


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"Look at me, I'm transforming," Nick Cave sang Monday at the Chicago Theatre, his scarecrow arms swinging from the elbows. "I'm vibrating, I'm glowing, I'm flying. Look at me now."
With the big, black wave of sound whipped up by his bandmates, the Bad Seeds, rising behind him, Cave played the role of a man drowning in his own defeated expectations. After the slow incantation of "We No Who U R" opened the concert like a lone lightbulb trying to pierce the gloom, Cave and his graying band of pirates turned "Jubilee Street" into a slow-build riot of discontent and desperation.
No one paints a picture quite as vividly with lyrics as does Cave, and part of his appeal is built on pure storytelling. In his black suit, jet-black hair and white shirt, he was a dapper gentleman preacher who raved as if the Old Testament were also a scandal sheet, rife with betrayal, temptation, blood and lust. "People," Cave declared, "they ain't no good," and he spent a good portion of the nearly two-hour performance counting the ways.
That's not a complete picture of the world according to Cave, though. There may be no room for sentimentality or cheap bromides, but his characters crave grace and redemption, even if they themselves are beyond it. In past Chicago shows, Cave has roamed the stage like a lion tamer, whipping his extra-long microphone cord as if to keep all intruders at bay. But on this night, he was wading into the audience, wrapping his arm around shoulders and touching hands like a black-hearted healer.
The impetus might have been the latest batch of Bad Seeds songs from their recent album, "Push the Sky Away." Given that the songs are more slow-developing, sensual and intimate with minimal chord changes, the concert could've bogged down in monotone darkness. But Cave's accomplices blew out the dynamics, restraint giving way to mayhem and back again.
The extravagantly bearded Warren Ellis, the Rasputin of multi-instrumentalists, often set the tone with an absolute minimum of fuss on violin, tenor guitar, flute, keyboards or electric mandolin. He led a band that played with ragged finesse, tearing at the fabric of songs even in the quietest moments. It gave Cave's music – even songs he has performed countless times before, like "From Her to Eternity" or "Love Letter" – an unsettled quality, as if the band were relearning them on the spot. During an interlude at the piano, Cave and bassist Martyn P. Casey had trouble agreeing on the key for one old favorite, quickly abandoned it and moved on to another. It gave the whole segment of piano-bass-drums ballads a casual, after-hours feel that felt refreshingly spontaneous.
Even a Cave classic like "The Mercy Seat," immortalized by Johnny Cash and as close to a "standard" as the singer has, hardly felt rote. As the narrator confronted the mortality rushing to engulf him, strapped to an electric chair, the Bad Seeds played with a fury that sent Cave over an invisible ledge, and turned the final word, "lie," into a scream.
In that moment he was, as promised, transforming, vibrating, glowing, flying.
Nick Cave set list Monday at the Chicago Theatre:
1 We No Who U R
2 Jubilee Street
3 Wide Lovely Eyes
4 Higgs Boson Blues
5 From Her to Eternity
6 Red Right Hand
7 Deanna
8 Jack the Ripper
9 Your Funeral, My Trial
10 People Ain't No Good
11 Love Letter
12 Papa Won't Leave You, Henry
13 The Weeping Song
14 The Mercy Seat
15 Stagger Lee
16 Tupelo
17 Push the Sky Away


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Nats place Hairston on DL, recall Moore
Bill Ladson is a reporter for MLB.com and writes an MLBlog, All Nats All the time. He also could be found on Twitter @WashingNats.
WASHINGTON -- The Nationals placed outfielder Scott Hairston on the 15-day disabled list with a left oblique strain on Sunday and recalled first baseman/outfielder Tyler Moore from Triple-A Syracuse.
Moore played one game for Syracuse this season and was hitless in four at-bats.
Hairston was 1-for-2 before being placed on the DL. He hurt the oblique while taking a swing during batting practice in New York. Hairston told the training staff and he has been treating the injury ever since. Hairston was able to get an at-bat against the Braves on Saturday.
But the more he swung the bat, the more pain Hairston felt. Hairston doesn't expect to be out for longer than 15 days.
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The Ranks of Corporate Physicians Grow
Several articles noted examples of the rush to corporate medicine. In early November, Anna Wilde Matthews wrote in the Wall Street Journal about the push by for-profit health insurer/ managed care organization/ hospital chain Humana to hire more physicians to provide direct patient care.
The insurer said Monday it is spending around $500 million in cash—or $850 million including debt—to acquire Metropolitan Health Networks Inc, a Boca Raton, Fla., company that operates health-care-provider networks serving people on Medicare, Medicaid and other plans.
Humana also said its Concentra unit had acquired 55 primary-care practices in 2012.An article in Bloomberg in mid-November noted how several large for-profit hospital chains were seeking to hire physicians to provide direct patient care.
Between direct employment, owning stakes in practices, or close contracting that also involves providing services to the doctors, Humana said it had close ties with around 2,300 physicians, and it planned to add 300 to 400 next year.
This year, HCA increased the number of doctors it employs through acquisitions and direct hiring by about 150 to 200 for a total of 3,200, said Samuel Hazen, president of operations for HCA, on a conference call Nov. 1 with analysts. The Nashville, Tennessee-based company plans to continue expanding the number of doctors it employs, though at a slower pace than over the past several years, he said.
Tenet spokesman Rick Black said acquiring physician practices is part of the company's effort to 'ensure our hospitals provide the medical services needed by the communities they serve, and to foster the development of ongoing clinical initiatives that improve the quality of care that is delivered to patients and control costs.' He declined to comment on how many physicians Dallas-based Tenet has added through acquisitions.
Focusing on cardiology, the article highlighted a larger trend,
In Wisconsin, the number of heart doctors in private practice has declined to 11 percent from 62 percent of cardiologists in 2007, according to the American College of Cardiology, whose main offices are in Washington. The trend is similar nationwide. The number of heart doctors working for U.S. hospitals has more than tripled, while the number in private practice has fallen 23 percent over five years, the ACC said.
An article in the American Medical News provided the big picture,
Only 36% of practicing physicians will hold a practice ownership stake by the end of the 2013, down from 57% in 2000, according to Accenture's analysis of data from the American Medical Association and MGMA-ACMPE.
These and several other articles began to describe the adverse effects of having physicians employed by corporations to take care of patients.
Excess Costs
The Bloomberg article noted that the rush to employ physicians is
creating a new dynamic that threatens to raise the price of health care, even as the federal government and states strain to keep a lid on costs.
Under Medicare's tangled payment system, hospitals get higher reimbursements than individual doctors for cardiology treatment, as they do for other specialty services, in some cases as much as three times more. At the same time, the added bargaining power gained by controlling more of the heart care in a geographic market has given large hospital systems added leverage in negotiating reimbursements from insurers, such as UnitedHealth Group Inc and WellPoint Inc.
'Clearly, in the short run, it raises costs,' said Paul Ginsburg, president of the Center for Studying Health System Change, a Washington-based nonprofit research group. 'We have a case where a physician becomes employed by a hospital and now a payer, like Medicare, has to start paying more.'
Medicare, the U.S. government's health program for the elderly and disabled, pays a hospital $400 for an echocardiogram, $180 for a cardiac stress test and more than $25 for an electrocardiogram, according to data from the American College of Cardiology. At a private physicians office, Medicare pays $150 for an echocardiogram, about $60 for a cardiac stress test and $10 for an electrocardiogram.
Doctors Pressured to Put Revenue Ahead of Patients' Welfare
A far more serious concern is that physicians who are now reporting to corporate executives will be pushed to actions that increase corporate revenue even if they put patients at risk. The Bloomberg article noted,
While they may gain more stable incomes, doctors often have less freedom over how they care for their patients under strict hospital protocols. Some doctors are also under pressure to see more patients each day when they are employed by a hospital, ...
Two major examples of investigative journalism provided concrete examples of employed physicians enticed with incentives for making decisions that put revenue ahead of patients' interests, or threatened for doing the opposite. An article in the New York Times provided these examples
Bonuses for Early, Possibly Premature Discharge
One Florida primary care physician said he could earn a $5,000 bonus for keeping patients in the hospital for less than three days, according to a lawsuit he filed this year. Hospitals, which are typically reimbursed a fixed amount of money for treating a specific illness, can make more money if patients stay for shorter periods of time.
Bonuses for Ordering Possibly Unnecessary Tests
Last month, the Justice Department reached a $9.3 million settlement with Freeman Health System, a hospital group in Joplin, Mo., which was rewarding doctors it employed partly based on how many tests they ordered.
Pressure to Refer Patients Only to Other Physicians Employed by the Same Corporation
Other physicians say they are pushed to ignore what is best for patients by referring them to doctors working for the same hospital. Dr. Victoria Rentel, a family practice doctor near Columbus, Ohio, recalled feeling pressured when she was employed by a local hospital to send her patients to doctors there for tests and procedures.'I routinely got reports about the money I kept in the system,' Dr. Rentel said, detailing how much revenue she was generating for the hospital through in-house referrals.
In Boise, doctors are pressured to refer only within their own system, according to St. Alphonsus in its complaint. It reported a 90 percent drop in admissions to its hospitals by physicians employed by St. Luke's.
Incentives for Possibly Unnecessary Admissions
The Times article provided evidence that physicians were pressured to admit patients regardless of need,
Health Management Associates, a for-profit hospital chain; EmCare, a Dallas-based emergency room staffing company for hospitals; and other hospitals have disclosed that they are the subjects of federal investigations. Regulators are looking into whether the hospitals improperly pressured physicians to admit patients.
According to two emergency room doctors who worked at Carlisle Regional Medical Center in Pennsylvania, the message could not have been clearer: more patients needed to be admitted.The doctors were employed by EmCare, whose parent company was later acquired by the private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice in 2011 as part of a $3.2 billion deal. EmCare, in turn, was under contract to provide emergency room doctors for the hospital, which is owned by Health Management Associates. In interviews, doctors said that hospital administrators created targets for how many patients they should admit. More admissions translated into more dollars for the hospital.Dr. Jean-Paul Romes, one of the physicians, recalled getting phone calls in the middle of the night questioning why he had not admitted an older patient whose hospitalization he could easily have justified. 'The pressure to admit was so high,' he said. Dr. Romes left the hospital last year.
How Incentives for Unnecessary Admissions are Disguised
A major report on the famous muck-raking CBS television program 60 Minutes provided more detail about how Health Management Associates prettied up apparent demands to increase hospital admissions, no matter what. The reporting was based on interviews with "more than 100 current and former employees," and featured an on air discussion with three former HMA physicians and one former HMA administrator, a video clip of a deposition by a former HMA executive vice president, and an interview with a former director of compliance with HMA.
All asserted that HMA pressured physicians to increase admissions to an arbitrary proportion of emergency department patients, at times between 16 ad 20 percent. Several alleged that physicians who failed to meet that "benchmark" were threatened with termination of their jobs. For example,
[Dr] Cliff Cloonan: My department chief said, we will admit 20 percent of our patients or somebody's going to get fired.
A former executive vice president of HMA contended that the admission quotas came from the very top of corporate leadership.
In August, a former executive vice president of the hospital chain - John Vollmer - testified under oath in a deposition, that HMA's aggressive admission policies came directly from the top: CEO Gary Newsome.
[John Vollmer: Mr. Newsome's thought was that an average of 16 percent was accomplishable at all hospitals or more and we should seek to do that and make that happen.]
Vollmer, who was also fired by HMA, became angry when the company lawyers challenged him.
[John Vollmer: I did my duty by informing HMA that what they are doing is wrong. You can't require them all to have 16 percent admission rates and beat up doctors and administrators and all these folks over it when you are doing it to increase your revenue for the facility.
HMA attorney: I'm going to move to strike what you just said.]
By using such a benchmark, the hospital executives seemed to be trying to maintain "plausible deniability" that they meddled in individual treatment decisions. No one accused executives of directing the admission of a specific patient. However, there seems to have been no way for a doctor to achieve the "benchmark" without unnecessary admissions.
[CBS Correspondent] Steve Kroft: They're saying, 'You will admit these people whether they're sick or not, whether they need to be hospitalized?'
[Dr] Scott Rankin: Correct--
[Dr] Cliff Cloonan: They never phrase it that way. They did say admit 20 percent. The reality of that is that there's only one way that that can happen. And that is if it is arbitrary. That is, if you do admit patients that don't need to be admitted.
Furthermore, the hospital corporation seemed to disguise the admission imperative as part of quality assurance. This supposed quality assurance was administered through commercial health care information technology, "corporate wide computer software called Pro-MED which was installed in every emergency room. HMA says it was designed and approved by medical experts to improve the quality of patient care." However,
The computer program also generated printed reports like this one evaluating each doctor's performance and productivity. On this document the doctors who hit corporate admissions goals received praise from company managers. Those who didn't knew it.
[Dr] Cliff Cloonan: The primary purpose of the scorecard was to track how you were doing in terms of revenue generation based on number of tests ordered and number of patients admitted to the hospital.
[Dr] Scott Rankin: It has nothing to do with patient safety and patient care. It has everything to do with generating revenues.
They say that when a doctor decided send to an emergency room patient home, the computer would often intervene, prompting the doctor to reconsider.
[Dr] Jeff Hamby: The minute I hit 'Home', it says, 'Qual Check.' And then it comes up with a warning, 'This patient meets criteria for admission. Do you want to override?'
[CBS Correspondent] Steve Kroft: What was the reaction from the administrators if you overrode the computer?
[Dr] Jeff Hamby: It was like being called to the principal's office.
Recent articles in the media have shown that physicians are increasingly practicing medicine as corporate employees (look here). It is not clear how physicians in this situation can make sure they are always putting the interests of their individual patients ahead of other interests, including their corporate leaders' interests in increasing revenue and enriching themselves. The most recent media reports discussed above add to the evidence that corporate physicians are constantly pressured to put short-term revenue generation ahead of patient welfare, and that they may specifically be pushed to admit patients unnecessarily, order unneeded laboratory tests, and discharge patients prematurely to satisfy corporate dictates. One new wrinkle in this latest set of reports is how corporate executives may try to pretty up what they are doing by cloaking their actions within the quality assurance rubric, thus corrupting another important and well-intentioned component of health care.
The American Medical Association once declared "the practice of medicine should not be commercialized, nor treated as a commodity in trade." (Look here) Despite such historic but now seemingly forgotten exhortations, and a complete lack of evidence of any benefits of the corporate practice of medicine to patients' or the public's health that might outweigh its obvious risks, the new movement to make every doctor a corporate employee marches on.
A false hope of some resistance to it was just raised by that same American Medical Association in its new "AMA Principles for Physician Employment," but this only provided the ambiguous advice,
A physician's paramount responsibility is to his or her patients. Additionally, given that an employed physician occupies a position of significant trust, he or she owes a duty of loyalty to his or her employer. This divided loyalty can create conflicts of interest, such as financial incentives to over- or under-treat patients, which employed physicians should strive to recognize and address.
How physicians could strive to recognize and address the inherent strong conflict of interest remains a mystery.
Worse, while the principles recognized that physicians may be asked to sign "agreements or understandings (explicit or implicit) restricting, discouraging, or encouraging particular treatment or referral options," but rather than condemning such restraints on physicians' autonomy to give patients the best possible care, the principles only suggested that they "are disclosed to patients."
Furthermore, while the AMA response has been weak-kneed at best, I am not aware of any stronger responses from any other professional societies, or from state licensing boards, physician accrediting organizations, or any other organizations that are supposed to be concerned about patient's and the public's health, or about physicians' professionalism.
As I have said before, we need to challenge the notion that direct health care should ever be provided, or that medicine ought to be practiced by for-profit corporations. I submit that we will not be able to have good quality, accessible health care at an affordable price until we restore physicians as independent, ethical health care professionals, and until we restore small, independent, community responsible, non-profit hospitals as the locus for inpatient care.


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Monday, July 7, 2008
Dubbing Shubbing
6 comments:
- Harish said...
yes de, wonder why you haven't explored dubbing. incidently, i watched your barkha dutt show (the affluenza thingy) on NDTV videos, online... poor internet connection ke vajah se,the sound came earlier than the video. But i did recognise your voice. It was distinct and unpretentious. (No, m not flattring, ask anyone, you have a distinct, easily recognisable voice)
Now what next De, is it going to be Morning No.1 With RJ Shobhaa? (id love that if it is so)
Smiles :-)
- July 8, 2008 at 1:37 PM
- Danny said...
Just added something to your log list of hobbies and pursuits
- July 8, 2008 at 4:38 PM
M'am De',
How about dubbing political speeches of Mrs. Sonia Gandhi? I am sure they will have a totally new perspective in your voice and of course it will be easier to converse with Sharadji in your own mother tongue accent (if that is now)may be they understand each other better, then, when we may soon see them discussing the MP list.
I am sure the Sound engineer with all reverbs mixed may make you sound like her? And if you are good you may eventually dub the movie soon to be made on her life.
Bestest Best why dont you give a competition to Deora's for a change. Your own voice with your own opinion. When JayaG and ShabanaG can do it so can you. They came from backdoor Rajya Sabha seat you can come from the front Lok Sabha seat.
Shobhaa Taii Try kara kii...
Vinod Agarwal - Believes in promoting the girl child so what if she has reached a Grand Mothers age only in the birth certificate.
- July 9, 2008 at 10:03 AM
- Mister Crowley said...
Ha. Of course Raj Babbar's silent :)
- July 10, 2008 at 12:10 PM
- Sameera Ansari said...
That sounds a fun thing to do.Enjoy the stint! :)
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Rod Blagojevich may find out Monday in a court room if he'll ever get to be fired in a board room on Donald Trump's "Celebrity Apprentice."
Federal prosecutors will reportedly argue during a status hearing that the former Illinois governor's scheduled appearance on the NBC reality show in March would impact the prospective jurors that will be picked for the corruption trial slated for June 3.
The hearing set for Monday afternoon before Judge James Zagel will be the second reality show courtroom show-down for Blagojevich. Earlier this year, Judge Zagel refused to allow Blagojevich to go to Costa Rica for another TV show, "I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here!" His wife Patti ended up taking his place in the jungle alongside C-list celebrities Spencer and Heidi Montag and Janice Dickinson.
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That set back didn't stop the scandal-plagued governor from traveling across the country promoting his book and pleading innocence to just about every late night and morning TV show host.
Blagojevich has already been in New York shooting "Celebrity Apprentice" with other cast members, including Sharon Osbourne and Cyndi Lauper.
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# tale-of-two-johns - Monday 15 July, 2019
One in, one out as Waterford sign former Ireland U21 defender from Cork City
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Temperatures today are to range between 9 and 15 degrees.
With little to no rain in sight at the moment, we're wondering – are you itching for a rainy day? Or are you loving the sunshine?
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Just one more page! And then after that, page 450 will just be the The End landing page, with announcements for what surprises are next.
I'm not even sure what to say today. I've been working on SS stuff near-constantly these past 2 weeks. Every time I think there's too much on my plate and it's not going to get done, I get in the zone and the panels just draw themselves.
Thank you so much for all your support, whether here or on Twitter or Facebook or Tumblr or ask.fm or wherever. You all make this so worthwhile, and I'm so happy to be able to share this story of music nerd friendship with you.
Colors by Kim Marsing of Out of Key, which has also just concluded its story, so check that out!


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Pole and line is one of the only true sustainable fishing methods on the planet with almost no by-catch. This method of fishing in Green Island, Taiwan was at its height during the 60s, with more than 20 fishing boats, and hundreds of fishermen. However, with the industrialisation of fishing in Taiwan numbers have since plummeted to three boats and less than 10 fishermen. The Greenpeace ship is in Taiwan for the "A Better Future, Together" tour. The tour aims to invite the Taiwanese public to explore a better future, together with Greenpeace.
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whowatch is a interactive, ncurses-based, process and users monitoring tool, which updates information in real time. This is a perfect tool for local and remote servers. With this tool you can easily answer following question:
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Output of whowatch command
It displays information about the users currently logged on to the machine, in real-time. Besides standard information (login name, tty, host, user's process), the type of the connection (ie. telnet or ssh) is shown. Display of users command line can be switch
to tty idle time. Certain user can be selected and his processes tree may be viewed as well as tree of all system processes. Tree may be displayed with additional column that shows owner of each process. In the process tree mode SIGINT and SIGKILL signals can be sent to the selected process. Killing processes is just as simple and fun as deleting lines on the screen.
How do I install whowatch tool?
If you are using Debian Linux, type the following command:
# apt-get install whowatch
If you are using FreeBSD, type the any one of the following command:
# pkg_add -r -v whowatch
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Scott stops at Nease to tout education funding
Students, teachers excited about proposed funds
ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. – With Florida's economy on the rebound, Gov. Rick Scott is proposing a $1.2 billion increase in education funding for kindergarten through 12th grade, as well as raises for every classroom teacher in the state.
Scott is criss-crossing Florida to tout his commitments and was at Nease High School on Friday.
"Our teachers across the state are working very hard. They care about these students," Scott said.
He said education is one of his top agenda items for the legislative session that begins in March. His proposal amounts to total per-student funding of $6,800, an increase of more than $400 per student.
The total includes $10.7 billion in state funding for Florida K-12 schools. The budget also includes a $480 million commitment to give each and every classroom teacher a $2,500 pay raise along with the cost of related benefits.
"Another thing we want to put in the budget, hopefully, is money so they spend less out of their own pocket on supplies," Scott said. "Also putting money into professional training for our teachers to improve education across the state."
Sen. John Thrasher was at Scott's side touring the school.
"Our economy is coming back, now it's time to ensure we have the kind of double-edge sword where we invest in education and we invest in jobs," Thrasher said.
Students and teachers at Nease said they're thrilled the governor is putting more money into education.
Stephanie Martineau has been a teacher for 13 years -- five of them at Nease. She said she hasn't had a raise in five years and actually took a pay cut to teach in Florida.
"We work hard every day. It would be nice to be recognized for our hard work and effort," Martineau said.
Students say it's about time.
"I think the teachers here deserve it, they're great. I love my teachers, so I'm excited to know they're going to get a raise," student Marisa Payne said.
Florida teachers' salaries still lag behind the national average. The average teacher salary in Florida is about $46,000. Nationally, the average is about $56,000.
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You know I'm a sucker for a good food and wine festival, especially one with chefs like Chris Lilly, John Besh, and Tim Love involved. The organizers are patterning the event after the Food & Wine Classic in Aspen, which is the benchmark for these types of gatherings.
Here's what event organizer, Dominique Love had to say, "We're planning an experience like no other that will unite leaders of their craft - barbecue pit masters, award-winning chefs and mixologists, Master Sommeliers, fry cooks and local growers - to provide Festival guests the opportunity to sip, savor and learn about the best of Southern food and beverage traditions." Sounds good to me.
I do have a new, recently filmed breakfast video almost ready, so stay tuned for that, and as usual, I welcome you to follow along with all the fun on my Foodwishes Twitter account. Enjoy!