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Warren is a town in Washington county, Vermont. It was formed in 1789 in Vt. from Addison county. The probate and court district for Warren is Washington. For more information, contact the town at P.O. Box 337, Warren 05674. On the attached map, Warren is shown as 17 in Washington county.
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Charlotte is a town in Chittenden county, Vermont. It was formed in 1762 in N.H. from the following county/ies: Addison. It has used the following other name(s): Charlotta. The probate and court district for Charlotte is Chittenden. For more information, contact the town at 159 Ferry Rd., P.O. Box 119, Charlotte 05445. On the attached map, Charlotte is shown as 12 in Chittenden county.
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Avila owns up to error on tricky popup in KC
KANSAS CITY -- Tigers manager Jim Leyland, a former Minor League catcher, tried to characterize the degree of difficulty on the Alcides Escobar popup on Friday night that Alex Avila dropped in front of the Royals' dugout for an error.
"That was a tough one," Leyland said. "He had to go quite a ways for it. Normally if they go straight back, they're easier, because you can kind of wait until it gets to its peak and then kind of move in to it like an outfielder. With the angle he was on, that was a little more difficult to do."
Avila acknowledged some trickiness on it, noting the spin being the opposite of what an infielder or outfielder would see. Still, he said, that's a play he has to make.
"I had a bead on it, saw it all the way. Just in and out of my glove," Avila said. "I've caught hundreds of those."
The error kept Escobar and the sixth inning alive with the bases loaded and two outs, with Tigers starter Anibal Sanchez trying to hold a 1-0 deficit. Sanchez's strikeout a couple of pitches later ensured no damage came out of it.


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In May, we learned that Netflix's console traffic—just movies streaming to consoles now—accounted for 20 percent of Internet bandwidth usage in the United States. We have more data backing up the phenomenon: Half of all the service's users watch movies on a games console, says Nielsen.
What's more, 42 percent of Netflix users watch directly from their computers, says Nielsen (leaving ... eight percent who watch exclusively by disc?) Contrast that with Hulu, which offers television content, where more users watch its offerings directly from a computer than by any other means (including consoles).
1/2 Of Netflix Users Watch on Game Console—Nielsen [Marketwatch]


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Of all the headlines created in regards to the Brett Favre/Jenn Sterger hubbub, this is my favorite: "How will Jennifer Sterger affect Vikings/Jets betting odds"? It means A.J. has forced the bookies to factor in dongshots when oddsmaking.
At long last, purple mountain majesties.
What They're Saying...
• Why the NFL is investigating Brett Favre [NY Times]
• In what has to be considered the second-biggest Brett Favre story of the day, reports out of Minnesota said the 40-year-old quarterback has tendinitis in his throwing elbow. [New York Post]
• Are the walls closing in on Brett Favre? [Yahoo Sports]
• Mira las fotos de Jenn Sterger [El Intransigente]
• 'Deadspin' report sacks Favre [Philadelphia Daily News]
From the inbox...
• Emails Clay Travis, "In a prior life I was a sexual harassment investigator. So I have a pretty good sense for how these things go down. No one, and I mean no one, is focusing on the dual employment by the Jets which is what makes this story such a big deal. I think Favre is going to end up suspended by the league. [NFL Fanhouse]
• Please Help Me Believe There's Anything Other Than Systemic Harassment Taking Place [The Jets Blog]
* Some more rare pics of Miss Jenn Sterger With Darrelle Revis, Phil Reese, and More [Bob's Blitz]


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The Boeing B-29 Superfortress was a heavy bomber aircraft with four engines used by the United States Army Air Forces in World War II, and by other countries' military after that. The name "Superfortress" came from its famous previous model, the B-17 Flying Fortress.
The B-29 Boeing Model 345[1] was one of the biggest aircraft to serve during World War II. It was one of the most advanced bombers of its time. It was the most used aircraft in the U.S. bombing against Japan in the final months of World War II, and B-29s carried the atomic bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The B-29 stayed in service for a long time after the war ended. By the time it was retired in the 1960s, some 3,900 planes had been built.
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They had come this far.
Each had slogged through countless handshakes, participated in numerous debates, and struggled to raise money, while trying to make history as the first minority mayor.
When polls closed and ballots were counted Tuesday, the six candidates of color had collectively garnered 34.7 percent of the votes.
But none of those candidates made the final cut.
"If the ultimate goal is to have a person of color in the top two, then it failed," said Peniel E. Joseph, a history professor at Tufts University and a political observer. "If the ultimate goal was to show that these diverse candidates are qualified to be mayor and can get nearly 40,000 votes in the primary, then it's a success. But I think people ultimately wanted political power."
One day after the preliminary elections ended with two white men — state Representative Martin J. Walsh and Councilor at Large John R. Connolly — advancing in the mayor's race, the results were met with a mix of disappointment, celebration, and bittersweet resolve.
While the candidates of color fell short, their solid showing in the campaign is seen as another indicator of the changing Boston, where more than half of the population is black, Latino, and Asian.
Data from the Boston Election Commission showed that the top three candidates of color were substantially outspent by some white candidates, but still won more votes.
Now many community advocates and candidates across the city are wondering how they can tap into the energy generated in communities of color during the preliminary election.
"Black, Latino, and Asian voters are the ones that are actually going to be the tipping point,'' said Darnell Williams, president of the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts. "You are going to have a communities-of-color agenda in terms of how you are going to unify the city. I think it would be shortsighted of any candidate to try and sidestep that."
Walsh and Connolly will also need to target the base of voters who cast their ballots for the candidates of color. At one precinct in the heart of Roxbury, for example, former state representative Charlotte Golar Richie, Councilor at Large Felix G. Arroyo, and former School Committee member John F. Barros captured 70 percent of the vote collectively, according to the city's Election Department. And in the Bowdoin-
Geneva area of Dorchester, the same three candidates secured 60 percent of the vote.
More people are engaged in conversations about affordable housing, educational achievement, and jobs for at-risk youths, and the mayoral contenders attribute that to having a diverse pool of candidates in the race, political observers said.
The crowded field of 12 included one Latino, one Cape Verdean, and four African-Americans.
Golar Richie, who was last to enter the race, came in a respectable third with 13.8 percent of the vote, compared with Connolly's 17.2 percent and Walsh's 18.5 percent.
Arroyo pulled in at fifth place with 8.8 percent of the vote, and Barros was in sixth place with 8.1 percent.
The other candidates of color were Councilor Charles C. Yancey, radio station general manager Charles L. Clemons Jr., and former teacher David James Wyatt.
"Having multiple candidates of color in this race allowed us to mature as communities of color in Boston and allowed us to raise some questions that we should continue to have conversations around," Barros said.
It also created a natural forum for a broader array of issues to be discussed in public settings. For instance, candidates of color pushed for more diverse leadership in key city posts, particularly the superintendent of schools, police commissioner, and the head of the Boston Redevelopment Authority.
"The next mayor has to pick new leadership,'' said Arroyo, who said he is open to the idea of teaming with the other candidates on the issues he championed. "Across the city, we should make it clear the kind of leadership we'd like to see in our city. Most Bostonians want to see an inclusive leadership."
So, the minority candidates and political observers say, the trick will be to continue having diverse voices represented in conversations with the two candidates left standing.
"Throughout the campaign, every candidate became aware of the stark disparities that exist in the city of Boston,'' said Yancey, who ran for mayor while campaigning to keep his District 4 council seat. "Disparities based on wealth. Disparities based on income. Disparities based on participation in the highest levels of city government. And if either of those candidates ignores those issues, then they are going to lose."
Williams, of the Urban League, said candidates of color must come together in "some type of come-to-Jesus meeting" and figure out how to build on the momentum of the preliminary election.
The time has come, he said, to put the needs of the community before individual interests to ensure the issues emphasized by the candidates of color — poverty, health disparities, education reform, jobs, affordable housing, crime and safety — remain on the table for the duration of the race.
"We're going to have to have a seasoned group that can make the pitch," Williams said. "But we need to have a real soul session" around key issues. He added that "trustworthy ambassadors" need to highlight the community issues above their own interests.
Kelly Bates, a political analyst for WGBH and an Arroyo supporter, said the campaigns of Walsh and Connolly will need to genuinely appeal to communities of color. And voters, including white residents who want to see a minority in the mayor's office, will have to hold the two candidates' feet to the fire, she added.
"They have to have people of color on their campaign staff. And if they don't already, they have to get it,'' Bates said.
Barros said he was not ready to say Wednesday how he planned to help mobilize his supporters, but he plans to reach out to the other candidates of color who, like him, were bested Tuesday night.
Hubie Jones, dean emeritus of the Boston University School of Social Work and a longtime community advocate, said that despite the outcome of the race, the candidates had a significant impact that exceeds the race.
He said he mailed a letter to Golar Richie, whom he was supporting, saluting her third-place finish. Golar Richie declined to comment through a senior campaign adviser.
"The reality is she now has a larger political voice,'' he said. "It's probably true because of her, her run, and the other candidates of color that there will be a serious partnership between the new mayor and leaders of color in the city like we've never had before."
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The headline on the fake news story in a circa 1978 issue of National Lampoon, if memory serves, went something like this: "John Paul Elected Pope; George Ringo Miffed."
The joke was good for a laugh, but not just because of the wordplay: the absurdity of juxtaposing the biggest youth pop culture phenomenon of all time with old-time religion in a magazine born of the counterculture took the gag beyond a one-liner.
The farcical news story came to mind this week as the Vatican's official newspaper offered its own almost equally surreal declaration that John, Paul, George and Ringo are finally okay with the folks who gave us Matthew, Mark, Luke and John – even if England's Fab Four were wildmen who might have dabbled in the "satanic."
"It's true, they took drugs; swept up by their success, they lived dissolute and uninhibited lives," L'Osservatore Romano declared in a weekend tribute to the Beatles. "They even said they were more famous than Jesus and put out mysterious messages, that were possibly even satanic…
"But, listening to their songs, all of this seems distant and meaningless," the newspaper said. "Their beautiful melodies, which changed forever pop music and still give us emotions, live on like precious jewels."
The lofty pronouncement is a mixed blessing that raises some admittedly disparate questions: Who cares what they think? What took them so long? And don't they have more important issues to deal with right now?
The first thing that inevitably comes up in discussions of the Beatles and Christianity is John Lennon's 1966 remark that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. That he intended the statement as a commentary on youth and religion, and not as a boast, didn't stop some very un-Christian-like behavior, such as death threats and record bonfires in the U.S. Bible Belt.
The Beatles embarked on various spiritual journeys as a group and individuals, searching for meaning in meditation and Eastern religion, among other places. But their simple message of peace and love, delivered in song, is hard to argue with, no matter what your faith or lack thereof.
The tribute, timed to the anniversary of the group's breakup 40 years ago, follows praise from the paper in recent years for Revolver and the White Album, and what amounted to forgiveness for Lennon's comments. That's all well and fine, though Lennon didn't need – and probably would have scoffed at – absolution for speaking his mind.
That it took the Vatican decades to catch up with the positive impact of the Beatles serves as a reminder how out of touch Rome can be at times – especially as the papacy is embroiled in a controversy far more serious than whether or not a pop group was a force for good.
"Didn't the Vatican say we were satanic or possibly satanic – and they've still forgiven us?" Ringo Starr told CNN. "I think the Vatican, they've got more to talk about than the Beatles."
Perhaps he has a point. Or maybe he's miffed the tribute came from a Vatican headed by Pope Benedict – and not Pope George Ringo.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NY City News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.


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Before Super Bowl, Bruno Mars heads to Grammys
Wish Bruno Mars would write you a hit song? Keep dreaming.
The singer-songwriter-producer, who has penned hits like CeeLo Greens Forget You! and B.o.Bs Nothin on You, says hes not interested in churning out tracks for other artists like hes done in the past.
Theres a piece of me thats no longer there which was basically let me write a song and then sell it, Mars said in a recent interview. That was back in the day when I was struggling and hustling to pay rent. I was selling songs for 250 bucks but now that Im OK, I shouldnt treat it like a sport.
The 28-year-old, who is one-third of the production trio The Smeezingtons, has produced for Alicia Keys, Justin Bieber, Lil Wayne and Flo Rida. Mars said he now wants to collaborate organically with others much like on his latest album, Unorthodox Jukebox, which is nominated for four honors at Sundays Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. His sophomore effort, released in late 2012, features Mark Ronson, Jeff Bhasker, Diplo and Paul Epworth. The albums lead single and No. 1 hit, Locked Out of Heaven, is nominated for song and record of the year.
He said the upbeat jam took months and months to create.
People didnt see us going at each others throats in the studio and pulling out our hair for a song like Locked Out of Heaven, he said. Trying to get these drums right and figure out a base line. It being recognized in these monster categories is an extreme honor.
The crooners other No. 1 hit, When I Was Your Man, is nominated for best pop solo performance, while his near-double platinum album is up for best pop vocal album.
This year marks Mars fourth nomination for record of the year; this is his third for song of the year. He won his first and only Grammy for best male pop vocal performance with Just the Way You Are in 2011.
Though his debut, Doo-Wops & Hooligans, earned a nomination for album of the year, Mars said hes not disappointed Unorthodox Jukebox isnt competing for the top prize this year.
Im good, man, he said with a laugh. If I would have asked for anything more, Id be a jerk. Im happy.
The singer, who was named Billboards top artist last year and will perform at the Super Bowl halftime show on Feb. 2, will launch a tour April 18 in Honolulu. He said he isnt recording new music at the moment.
Nope. Nothing. Im tapped out, he said. Of course melodies come into my head and chord changes come in, but honestly Ive just been enjoying this right now.


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The Federal Aviation Administration gave air traffic controllers new procedures as officials try to contain the fallout from an incident earlier this week in which two airliners landed at Reagan National Airport without assistance because the lone controller on duty was asleep.
Regional radar facilities are now required to alert controllers working alone at night in an airport tower that a plane is approaching, FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt said in a statement Friday. The radar controllers are "to confirm that there is a controller prepared to handle the incoming flight," he said.
Regional controllers have also been reminded that if no controller can be raised at an airport tower, proper procedures require they offer pilots the option of diverting to another airport, Babbitt said.
Controllers at a regional FAA radar facility in Warrenton, Virginia, about 40 miles (65 kilometers) from Reagan, did not offer that option to the pilots who were to unable reach the airport's tower between 12:04 and 12:28 a.m. on Wednesday.
Repeated phone calls from the regional facility to the tower also went unanswered.
The planes — an American Airlines flight from Dallas and a United Airlines flight from Chicago with a combined 165 people on board — landed safely.
Pilots can always decide on their own authority to divert to another airport, said Rory Kay, a former Air Line Pilots Association safety chairman and an international airline captain.
The controller on duty in the tower — a veteran air traffic supervisor — acknowledged to investigators who interviewed him Thursday that he had dozed off, the National Transportation Safety Board said. The controller, who has not been identified, was working his fourth 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. shift in a row, according the board, which is investigating the episode.
The incident has renewed concern about the potential safety consequences of controllers suffering from fatigue, a longstanding concern of the board.
It has also sparked criticism of the FAA's practice of scheduling a single controller on overnight shifts at some airports, but especially at Reagan, which is in Arlington, Virginia, and just across the Potomac River from downtown Washington.
"This is not a mom-and-pop airport for small planes, and is in the vicinity of some very sensitive airspace," Kay said.
At least one congressional committee has launched its own investigation, and the issue is expected to be raised next week when the House of Representatives takes up a bill to provide long term authority for FAA programs.
On Wednesday night, less than 24 hours after the incident, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood ordered that a second controller be added to the overnight shift at Reagan
About 30 other airports around the country also have a single controller on duty on the overnight shift. In some instances, the controllers work alone for only a part of the shift.
The FAA is examining whether staffing on those overnight shifts should be increased.
On Friday, the safety board recommended to the FAA that it no longer allow air traffic controllers to provide supervisory oversight while performing operational air traffic duties. The recommendation wasn't directly related to this week's incident. But if the FAA were to follow the board's recommendation, the agency would effectively have to assign at least two people — a supervisor and a controller — to every shift.
In a previous letter to FAA, NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman pointed to several previous airport accidents in which the air traffic supervisor on duty was also working as a controller directing air traffic instead of being free to devote attention entirely to the supervising of controllers.


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In Attendance Race to Show Baseball Interest, Montreal Speaks, San Antonio Dissapoints
In this very space March 18, I wrote about the exhibition games scheduled for March 29-30 that would mean more to the cities of Montreal and San Antonio, than they would to the teams playing in them, Mets and Blue Jays at Olympic Stadium, Rangers and Astros at the Alamodome. I wrote about how unlikely expansion appears to be in the short term for Major League Baseball and I wrote about how we all know which two teams potentially would be paying attention to these efforts, the Tampa Bay Rays and the Oakland athletics who let's be honest need a new stadium and who genuinely want to stay in the greater San Francisco Bay region. San Jose already offered to build a stadium, but efforts are being blocked by the Athletics' neighbors in San Francisco, creating a Giant obstacle to stadium efforts and potentially leading to the removal of the Athletics from the region all together. The issues with the Tampa situation I detailed in brief in my March 18 editorial.
My closing comments were strait forward, it would be almost unthinkable that both franchises would relocate and given the less than high percentage odds of expansion, Montreal and San Antonio were not only trying to show folks in the Commissioner's Office that they deserved baseball, they were also trying to outscore one another. IN terms of the box scores then from those games Friday and Saturday, what truly stood out was the very last column, attendance. I genuinely expected San Antonio to draw more than Montreal and this is not because I am from Texas and yes, I was a big Expos fan growing up. For one, San Antonio drew over 75,000 two a pair of games at the Alamodome last spring, Rangers victories over the San Diego Padres and as baseball capable facilities go, Olympic Stadium 113 months after its last baseball event was still leaps ahead of what the Alamodome could be as a ballpark. Furthermore, this spring saw both of the Lone Star State's teams playing in San Antonio and unlike last year, both of these games were on dates where the local Spurs basketball franchise was not playing a home game simultaneously. Instead, neither game drew more than 28,000, 22,677 on Friday night and 27,255 on Saturday afternoon, a total of 49,932 fans for the two games. The Saturday game alone last spring in San Antonio drew more than 40,000.
Then there is Montreal, a city most Anglo writers here in the States gave up for dead as a baseball market, a city most thought never deserved another team, despite Montreal outdrawing both the Mets and Yankees at various times from 1979-1992. How did Le Québécois respond? ON Saturday alone, fans of the former Expos chanting "Let's Go Expos", showed up and then some, 50229 in attendance, which topped the two nights in San Antonio combined. Oh and the prior night for the Friday game, they only drew another 46,221. If this weekend taught us anything, Montreal is a baseball town and given the proper ownership and support for the team from MLB, Montreal will show up for a winner and for the game that is only outpaced in popularity by hockey. This is not to say that San Antonio is a bad market, it could very easily be a high level baseball city, but such a drop in attendance from year one to year two is concerning. Perhaps the 2014 numbers are a better gauge of baseball fandom in the Alamo city and if an average of between 24,000 and 25,000 per game came to see the Rangers and Astros, perhaps one could argue that such numbers for the new local team if it existed could push north of 30,000. But one could also argue that 2013 was an example of the baseball novelty which drew in more fans per game, over 37,000 than the baseball purity represented by the 2014 numbers. That is alarming for San Antonio, because a drop of 13K per game in attendance is similar to the drop in attendance after the expansion season of 1998 for the afore mentioned Tampa Bay Rays, who saw a drop from 30,900 to 19,200 per game from season 1 to season 2. The Rays in their best years of attendance from 2008-2010 would average right around 23,000, since then the club has not broken 20,000 per game, despite contending teams that made the playoffs in 2011 and 2013 and a team in 2012 that was contending well into September. Montreal remember drew as well in 1995 per game after having its team gutted and its baseball dreams crushed by the 1994 strike, as Tampa drew in its 2011 and 2013 playoff seasons. Montreal in 1994 drew more per game than any Tampa season accept 1998 and how bad was Tampa outdrawn by its expansion cousins that first season, 1993 Marlins +7,000, 1998 Diamondbacks +14,000, 1993 Rockies +25,000. Furthermore, while Tampa saw a drop from its first to second year in average attendance of more than 12,500, Arizona and Miami each dropped by around 5,000 and Colorado actually went up another 2,000. When the Rockies left 70,000 seat Mile High Stadium for 50,000 seats at Coors Field, they averaged over 40,000 for seven seasons 1995-2001 and only once has attendance averaged below 25,000 in 2005. The Diamondbacks worst season average has been in the 25,000 range, but they have never cleared 40,000 a game per season after their huge draw in 1998. San Antonio will not be Denver or Phoenix, but it needs to be better than Tampa and better than Miami to prove its worth as an expansion city. Montreal has numbers that can be as good or better than Miami and this such a relocation to Canada may just be what the Rays need.
What this weekend shows is that Montreal is ready for baseball and if San Antonio had any hopes of trying to convince the Rays or Athletics to relocate to the home of hot salsa, their dreams may be shattered by a cold dose of reality blowing down from baseball hungry Montreal. One can only imagine how the Montreal Expos would be doing right now if they had the current Tampa Rays ownership in place. Montreal would also be a perfect fit in the division where the Rays currently call home and so it would require no realignment. The question is, what is more likely to be in place within five years, a new baseball stadium for the Rays somewhere on Florida's sunshine coast, or a new stadium for the relocated and rebranded Montreal Expos in French Canada?


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[Young lady looks at phone, tilts head and Sphero mini drives away]
[Purple Sphero Mini drives obstacle course]
[Purple Sphero Mini goes off ramp and changes to grey Sphero Mini]
[Grey Sphero lands on ramp]
[Grey Sphero Mini is picked up by hand]
[Use as a game controller]
[Sphero is used to control game on app]
[Hand puts grey Sphero Mini ball down]
[Grey Sphero Mini Jumps off ramp]
[Grey Sphero Mini turns into Red Sphero Mini]
[Program with Javascript with Sphero Edu]
[Hand codes using app on phone]
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[Purple, grey and red Sphero mini drive to the middle of the screen]
[Sphero Mini]
Sphero Mini Robot packs tons of fun into a tiny, app-enabled device about the size of a ping-pong ball. Drive Mini using different modes with the Sphero Mini app on your iPhone or just by using your face. Face Drive is a hilarious new feature that uses your facial expressions to drive the ball.
Mini's games are just as entertaining. Use the ball as a controller to shoot your way through space, race a ship through a tunnel or rotate your ball to destroy a polygon of bricks. If you're feeling extra clever, download the Sphero Edu app and program your robot using JavaScript.
Drive using different modes with the Sphero Mini app — Joystick, Tilt, Slingshot or Face Drive
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Drive and play games from ONE app with your Sphero Mini, Sphero 2.0, SPRK, SPRK+, and BOLT. Connect and control your robots with several exciting drive modes, use your robot as a controller to play games, or try out Block Drive for an intro to programming with colorful blocks.
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Learn programming basics by controlling your robot with colorful movement and light blocks.
Use your robot as a controller to shoot your way through space, race your vehicle through a tunnel avoiding obstacles and scoring points, or rotate your ball to destroy a polygon of bricks.
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Well, I just discovered a feature on Google Trends that sheds a different light on my previous post on web development techniques. Displaying several trends in one image reveals the relative size of search volumes of specific terms.
As can be seen when comparing 'zope', 'plone', 'ruby rails' and 'turbogears':
Somewhat related, 'mambo' and 'joomla':
Try for yourself.


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How an interior designer and a custom installer made a major audiovisual installation look easy.
Dean Martin spins and shoots the bad guy out of the saloon's rafters. Everyone seated in the living room applauds. Thanks to Martin, life is looking up for John Wayne, the beleaguered sheriff in Rio Bravo.
Actually, you're a far cry from Rio anything. You're nestled into a luxury condo in the Four Seasons overlooking Miami and the harbor.
The Crestron keypad and Kaleidescape System DVD and music puts you at ease and in total control of your audio/visual universe. With so many movies, TV channels and music to choose from, the world is at your fingertips.
Ease of control and easy access to countless entertainment options is exactly what this family wanted for their pied-a-terre. But this gathering place is not only for themselves—it also accommodates all the CDs and DVDs they bring back from their many travels.
Luckily, the Kaleidescape gobbles up more than one disc at a time, digitizing all it ingests for future use. Loading one CD at a time would take untold hours—time that the family would rather spend convoying their Bentleys and Jags through South Beach.
The custom A/V system this entertainment-loving, CD- and-DVD-collecting family required is indeed complex. Plus the easy-to-use system operates at Bentley -like performance levels. The challenge for this project—which was headed up custom installer David Frangioni of Audio One Sound & Video Inc. in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.—was to make all the heavy gear "light" in appearance.
The custom cabinetry and built-ins, which were designed by Carola Hinojosa's Miami firm, Hinojosa Design, house all of the stat-of-the-art Runco CW-50MCs, the Marantz SR7500s, and a Genelec HT206B speakers (Hinojosa also consulted with the homeowners on all art purchases and the wall finishes).
To maintain the condo's light-as-air style, the speakers couldn't look or feel massive, unwieldy or tank-like even though they play a huge, defining role in every room. Like the Duke in nearly every frame of Rio Bravo, the powerful yet subtle A/V system is the star of this home.
The cabinetry housing the condo's elite gear had to embody the light-hearted spirit of the Miami zeitgeist. Plus it had to provide the proper ventilation for all the ensuing heating issues.
"It wasn't that we were working with a small space," says Frangioni. "We had so much that had to go into the footprint—and all the cable management had to be factored in as well."
Fortunately, Frangioni had already designed an exclusive computer system to ensure every A/V detail was factored into the home's blueprints properly.
"We hold the hand of the project the whole way through to make sure what we have chosen fits," he says. "From the beginning [of every project], we publish all the A/V specs in detail on a password-protected website—every piece of gear in every room, every weight, and every dimension."
That list even includes color choices for equipment, such as almond, white or black for the Crestron keypads. This allows everyone involved in the project—from the interior designer to the general contractor or the electrician—to log on and work with Frangioni's specifications. Even if the electrician bows out mid-project, his replacement can get up to date quickly by consulting the website to review his equipment specs.
"No one says 'Oh, I thought we were putting a TV in that room' halfway through the project," Frangioni says.


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Check showtimes to see when Amanpour is on CNN where you are. Or watch online.
The use of propaganda and the willingness to re-shape history is hardly unique to the conflict brewing in eastern Ukraine.
In fact, the modern art of propaganda reached new heights, or depths, back in the 1930s by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, when they declared war on modern art itself.
An extraordinary exhibit at the Neue Galerie in New York is drawing huge crowds to see the kind of artwork the Nazis admired – hanging side by side with the kind they despised, what they called "degenerate art."
Acclaimed historian Simon Schama, author most recently of "The Story of the Jews," took CNN's Christiane Amanpour on a tour, and offered a chilling reminder: First they came for the art, and then for everyone else.
Click above to watch.
Plus, with rare footage, Amanpour takes a look at back the 1937 Nazi exhibition of 'degenerate' art:
Historically incorrect: first they came after people, much later after art (books burning was directed against people and IDEAS, not against art ...).
Reblogged this on in search of history.
Great, here blog this as well: http://marsinthemidheaven.com/2014/01/13/thetwoaustrians/
Hitler and Manson are examples of people that got their charisma and presence from living without the conscious mind much of the time. It gave them their power, but without the conscious mind to keep the instinctual mind in check, you have a very charismatic super-predator. Hitler was more organized, Manson was more spontaneous, but they were on the same level. They got past fear, but not aggression. They were charismatic, fearless and aggressive, and we all know the result of that state of mind. – from The Present, a free book at http://www.truthcontest.com
What do you think about this? Agree or disagree?
We have come to expect this level of pusillanimity from the sayanim at CNN. Try the truth of the Weimar Republic "art" for once, see http://vimeo.com/91230371
Sounds like more propaganda from these people.


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If you haven't seen it already you need to watch the video above. Another great piece from Ken Block, founder of DC Shoes, driving his Ford Fiesta in true extreme style.
Following on from the success of the Gymkhana Five (see below video currently on over 44 million views) which saw Ken Block's motor skills tearing around a playground made from an empty San Francisco, we now see the star hit the ski slopes of Russia. This time Ken Block teamed up with GoPro to bring you this amazing video featuring typical Ken Block style; rushing adrenaline, great drifts, some slow motion and some great close-ups. They even fitted Block's Ford Fiesta with some GoPro HD cameras to capture the entire run.


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Problem Solving Through Discipline
If I had to name an important tool from my childhood that has helped me in my recovery from depression and anxiety, it would be the discipline I mastered in order to learn how to play Rachmaninoff's "Prelude in C-Sharp Minor" on the baby grand piano my grandmother left to me.
Discipline is the one essential piece of recovery that can carry you from day one to day two.
It's all discipline. Making your body do something over and over again until your mind finally shows up to the appointment and is clued into the action that you are supposed to be enjoying.
I'm lucky in that I was born an obedient and dutiful kid–as most of us are who live with anxiety. My mom never had to remind me to do my homework because I was already afraid of what would happen if I didn't–my teacher would frown with disappointment, a facial expression that would stay with me for, say, 20 years.
Rabbi Abraham Heschel, a 20th century Jewish theologian and philosopher, once wrote that "self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."
We don't see many examples of discipline today. Everything in our culture screams instant gratification. We're constantly hit with advertisements and images appealing to our senses–faking us into believing that we need the Absolute Vodka, the Mercedes, the diamond necklace to feel good and wanted and desirable. I've yet to come across a billboard that says: "Better wait on that, kid." The closest I ever got to that is a huge sign at a neighborhood church around the corner from me that says "Jesus Is the Answer." But half of its letters are off, so I'm always doing a word scramble to see what else could be the answer besides Sus, whoever that is.
M. Scott Peck describes self-discipline this way in his classic, "The Road Less Traveled":
Discipline has been defined as a system of techniques of dealing constructively with the pain of problem-solving–instead of avoiding that pain–in such a way that all of life's problems can be solved. Four basic techniques have been distinguished and elaborated: delaying gratification, assumption of responsibility, dedication to the truth or reality, and balancing. Discipline is a system of techniques, because these techniques are very much interrelated. In a single act one may utilize two, three or even all of the techniques at the same time and in such a way that thy may be indistinguishable from each other. The strength, energy, and willingness to use these techniques are provided by love.
Somehow, breaking the term discipline into four techniques makes it less intimidating and overwhelming to me on days like today, when I'm feeling bereft of any will power. If I could, I'd very happily camp out all day in front of the tube, a case of Krispy Kreme doughnuts in my right hand, a carton of cigarettes in my left, and when I'm done with both of those, head for the freezer where I store my frozen Kit Kats. I'd tell the kids to put themselves to sleep, not to worry about brushing teeth, and that their teachers will have to steal food from their pantries in order to feed them at lunch.
I do hereby swear that the life of a depressive requires the self-discipline of a Carmelite nun. Maybe more. Because we are always having to retrain our thoughts, use cognitive-behavioral techniques to quiet our brain's fear center, delay gratification (a nap sounds nice), assume responsibility (go to work, even when co-worker makes us cry), dedicate ourselves over and over again to the truth or reality (life can be good even though it seems horrible at times), and balancing. Man, do we ever balance. Every minute. Every second. Every millisecond.
Managing our feelings is a full time job when you consider everything that goes into it, according to Peck:
The proper management of one's feelings clearly lies along a complex (and therefore not simple or easy) balanced middle path, requiring constant judgment and continuing adjustment. Here the owner treats his feelings (slaves) with respect, nurturing them with good food, shelter and medical care, listening and responding to their voices, encouraging them, inquiring as to their health, yet also organizing them, limiting them, deciding clearly between them, redirecting them and teaching them, all the while leaving no doubt as to who is the boss. This is the path of healthy self-discipline.
But the job of discipline does come with an attractive compensation package: self-respect and some sanity if we hack away at it long enough.
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Borchard, T. (2018). Problem Solving Through Discipline. Psych Central. Retrieved on December 3, 2020, from https://psychcentral.com/blog/problem-solving-through-discipline/
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will soon require sunscreen products to carry a simplified message about the protections they offer. Sunscreen manufacturers were supposed to have products with the new labeling on shelves by now, but that deadline was extended until Dec. 17.
The dangers of too much sun exposure have become well known over the past 30 years. But with competing claims by dozens of sunscreen products on the market, discerning the truth about which products protect your skin can be tough.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will soon require sunscreen products to carry a simplified message about the protections they offer.
Sunscreen manufacturers were supposed to have products with the new labeling on shelves by now, but that deadline was extended until Dec. 17. Leeann Brown, spokesperson for the Environmental Working Group, said manufacturer concerns about a shortage of properly labeled containers are a boondoggle.
"So consumers will go through another summer without this information," she said.
Lydia Velazquez of the FDA's Division of Nonprescription Regulation Development said the new standards are needed because "our scientific understanding has grown."
"We want consumers to understand that not all sunscreens are created equal," she said. "This new information will help consumers know which products offer the best protection from the harmful rays of the sun."
Dr. Lucinda Buescher, associate professor of dermatology at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield, said it's a "great idea" to have stronger labeling requirements.
"It's going to be very specific language. It's a good thing," she said.
What's new
Key among the new measures is a requirement that labels indicate whether a product protects against both ultraviolet radiation B (UVB) and ultraviolet radiation A (UVA).
Sunburn is primarily caused by UVB rays. But both UVB and UVA can cause cancer and premature skin aging. Currently, the only way to know which products provide protection for both UVB and UVA rays is to know which chemicals offer broad-spectrum protection, and then reading product labels to determine if those chemicals are used in the sunscreen.
The FDA proposed the following label changes to help consumers decide:
* Only products labeled with the words "Broad Spectrum" with protection factors of SPF (sun protection factor) 15 or higher can say they reduce the risk of skin cancer, sunburn and premature aging of the skin — and then only if used with other sun-protection measures.
* Labels also must limit their SPF values to 50+ because the FDA does not have adequate data that shows greater SPFs provide additional protection.
* Sunscreen products that are not broad spectrum, with SPF values between 2 and 4, must carry a warning that reads: "Skin Cancer/Skin Aging Alert: Spending time in the sun increases your risk of skin cancer and early skin aging. This product has been shown only to help prevent sunburn, not skin cancer or early skin aging."
* Water-resistance claims must feature one of two time limits — either 40 minutes or 80 minutes — before reapplication of the product is needed. Manufacturers can no longer make claims that sunscreens are "waterproof" or "sweatproof" or identify their products as "sunblocks."
* Sunscreens cannot claim protection immediately on application (for example, "instant protection") or protection for more than two hours without reapplication, unless they submit data and get approval from FDA.
Not enough?
About 90 percent of U.S. sunscreens meet the standards for broad-spectrum protection. They require little or no reformulation.
Because of that, Environmental Working Group and other concerned groups say the new standards don't go far enough.
"We are glad to see the agency come out with something … but these measures still fall short," Brown said.
Brown reiterated that one of the best protections is to avoid the sun between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.
"Even sunscreens can only do so much," she said, adding that she's concerned many people will spend even more time in the sun if they use sunscreens.
"Sunscreens are definitely better than nothing, but people have to use them right. They have to reapply them," Brown said.
Sun safety tips
To reduce the risk of skin cancer and skin aging due to sun exposure, follow these safety tips:
* Regularly use sunscreens with broad spectrum SPF values of 15 or higher.
* Limit time in the sun, especially between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., when the sun's rays are most intense.
* Wear clothing to cover skin exposed to the sun; for example, long-sleeved shirts, pants, sunglasses and broad-brimmed hats.
* Reapply sunscreen at least every two hours — more often if you're sweating or jumping in and out of the water.
Source: Food and Drug Administration
Skin cancer
* Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States. The two most common types of skin cancer — basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas — are highly curable.
* Melanoma, the third-most-common skin cancer, is more dangerous. About 65 to 90 percent of melanomas are caused by exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light.
For more information, visit the National Cancer Institute's Skin Cancer webpage.
Ultraviolet (UV) light
Ultraviolet (UV) rays are an invisible kind of radiation that comes from the sun, tanning beds and sunlamps. UV rays can penetrate and change skin cells. The three types of UV rays are ultraviolet A (UVA), ultraviolet B (UVB) and ultraviolet C (UVC):
* UVA is the most common kind of sunlight at the earth's surface, and reaches beyond the top layer of human skin. Scientists believe UVA rays can damage connective tissue and increase a person's risk of skin cancer.
* Most UVB rays are absorbed by the ozone layer, so they are less common at the earth's surface than UVA rays. UVB rays don't reach as far into the skin as UVA rays, but they can still be damaging.
* UVC rays are very dangerous, but they are absorbed by the ozone layer and do not reach the ground.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


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DailyDirt: Synthetic Biology Is Growing Up
from the urls-we-dig-up deptBiology has inspired artists and scientists and engineers to create all kinds of things from velcro to still life paintings. Living organisms have a seemingly endless supply of tricks up their sleeves, so why not try to use some biological mechanisms to do our bidding? Scientists can already re-create some biology by growing organs that could be used for transplants and by creating an (almost) completely synthetic cell based on a bacterium that normally infects goats (search for J. Craig Venter). Synthetic biology still has a long way to go, but it's a field that is maturing quickly. Here are just a few links on this fast-growing biotechnology.
- Since 2004, synthetic biology startups have raised around $1.84 billion -- based on the promises of Lego-like biotech that would allow scientists to grow biofuels or custom medicines or even genetically engineered buildings. However, the ability to engineer custom living organisms hasn't (yet!) lived up to the hype. (The field is only about a decade old, folks.) [url]
- Before synthetic biology gets out of hand, there are a bunch of groups that want to regulate the creation of artificial organisms. Some folks are justifiably concerned that harmful genetically engineered organisms (or even non-living genetic material) could destroy our existing ecosystem -- or just create ethical abominations. [url]
- Engineers have developed a programming language to create synthetic DNA that could help design biological macromolecules for all kinds of uses. It's just a first step towards making biology more accessible to engineering students and tinkerers outside the field of biology. [url]
Filed Under: artificial organisms, biology, biotech, genetic engineering, gmo, life, synthetic biology


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Daniel Yergin is a highly respected authority on energy, international politics, and economics. Yergin is a Pulitzer Prize winner and recipient of the United States Energy Award for 'lifelong achievements in energy and the promotion of international understanding.' He is both a world-recognized author and a business leader, as well as executive vice president of IHS.
Yergin received the Pulitzer Prize for his work The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power, which became a number one best seller and was made into an eight-hour PBS/BBC series seen by 20 million people in the United States. The book has been translated into 17 languages and has just been released in a new updated edition.
Yergin holds a BA from Yale University and a PhD from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar.


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We love to promote events in Oregon and to help you find your next bike adventure! Please note – ORbike does not organize rides. Always verify event details with the event organizer before heading out for the day.
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River City Bicycle Women's Ride
January 17, 2015 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pmFree
Meets at River City Bicycles Parking Lot (706 SE Martin Luther King Blvd; http://rivercitybicycles.com/). If you are driving to River City Bicycles, they ask that you park on the street rather than in their parking lot. There is free parking under the Morrison bridge.
We leave from River City Bicycles at 9:00 am every Saturday, all year long. We aim to be back to RCB before noon, but no promises as this is a no drop ride, and the group will stop to fix flats, take a bathroom break once on the ride, and re-group at major turns on the route. Please come prepared with plenty of snacks and water and dressed for the weather. There are free espresso drinks or hot/cold chocolate milk waiting for you at the end of the ride at River City!
We aim to ride 30-40 miles. The pace generally hovers in the 14-19 mph range, faster than a recreational cruise, but almost always conversational pace. We sometimes ride faster on the flats (up to 20-ish mph) and descents, and sometimes slower on the climbs (8-ish mph). Be prepared for hills and flats. Road or hybrid type bike recommended.
We will assist you with flat tires that occur on route. You should carry a spare inner tube, flat tire repair tools, and a CO2 cartridge or air pump. Winter tires (i.e. some tread), fenders, and a buddy flap (as low to the ground as you can get it) are strongly recommended when there's a chance of rain. Cycling helmet required. Please note River City Bicycles opens at 10 AM on Saturdays, after we depart.
Weather policy: YES we will be riding unless there is ice in the bike lanes or an earthquake.
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I just wish that when I was little I had known what boys looked like 'down there'. My only exposure was statues in the park with fig leaves over the pubic area, which I can tell you seemed far more disturbing than any actual truth could be. Boys have – what? – parsley growing out of their bodies?
I was ignorant, in short, and stayed ignorant even after that time I was three and our mom's friend's three-year-old peed on my leg in the bathroom. It was the arc of gold I noted though and not the delivery system.
In the meantime I was growing up in a houseful of women, where none of the real words were ever used. My sister and I, for example, called breasts 'lumps' because we had no other word for them. We certainly had no words for the other parts of our bodies. Our grownups were so highly 'evolved' no such words ever passed their lips, which was too bad.
I was in college before I could really 'see' the stunning beauty of the body. I think it was Art 100 when we studied Michelangelo's David.
I listened as the professor walked us through its details, from the earnestly furrowed young brow to the hand holding the slingshot, oddly bigger than the hand of such a youth should be; and the veins in that hand, more prominent than the veins in the hand up by his chin because of course they would be: with gravity; with being held in that downward position, until the moment when he would lift the arm and swing it and at last unleash the stone that would kill a giant.
I read that sentence and see for the first time how in the moment just 'before' the stone flies, the sculpted hand with its veins engorged suggests potency in all its manifestations, that ineffable mighty force that keeps us reproducing.
I'm not like the two women who raised me, too shy to use the words even for the parts of our bodies; but I am their child in this way: I can't bear leering descriptions and/or nicknames for our body parts.
It's ordained minister Fred Rogers I have always identified with, sweet Mister Rogers with his kindliness and his respect for all the Created world. Here are the lyrics to 'Everybody's Fancy', about the difference between boys' bodies and girls' bodies, and here below is the man himself testifying before the U.S. Senate in 1969 about what his show can do for America's children. The Senator's reaction is as moving as this good man's testimony. Take five minutes and see if you don't feel like weeping for how far we have fallen.
What a good man he was and how we miss him!


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Re: Renesmee
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 5:27 pm
I don't think Renesmee would be angry or disappointed if a member of her family was got hurt or dead. She's half human, but part of her is also vampire and she's being raised by them. She probably knows that is difficult to resist the thirst and a 24/7 battle to resist human blood. this kind of event may be tragical and she may be a bit shocked, but I think she'd stand by her family's side and try to be supportive. She knows how they think abot humans and how they respect and love them... but she also knows that if something like that happened it was a tragic accident. She's a Cullen, after all. She's not among murders.
I think we need a new Renesmee thread.
I think we need a new Renesmee thread.


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St. Petersburg, FLorida USA (PRWEB) December 12, 2012
Ted Hasenstaub, Executive VP of Sales & Marketing V.P. of PVI Solar, has made CLARIFIRE's Green culture become more of a reality. Last month, he helped the company do this by installing the largest internally illuminated 100% off grid solar powered pylon sign known to exist in the continental United States.
The solar powered sign measures approximately 20 feet in overall height. The illuminated area is 7 ft. H x 14 ft. L x 16" D. The sign utilizes PVI's proprietary "Powerline™" solar power management system technology. The solar sign system includes a guaranteed sustainability protocol to operate perpetually, for a minimum of 5 days with only one day of sunshine.
CLARIFIRE signed on to the idea because it wanted to practice what it preached. The company helps businesses become more efficient by implementing software, so the CEO felt this was the best way to show they mean what they say. It also has helped the company reduce its carbon footprint, which is another one of its Green Initiative goals.
"We decided that being efficient means more than automating our processes and those of our customers," CEO Jane Mason explained. "So we were determined, when we moved into our new offices, to make the efficiencies of "going green" a real part of our business culture." In ordering the solar signage, "we wanted to also harness the sun when announcing where we are."
PVI Solar and its parent company FALA Technologies are based in New York's Mid-Hudson Valley, the emerging solar energy capital of the east coast. It is creating advanced solutions for solar applications, by providing a broad range of products, including commercial signage and lighting. PVI's revolutionary power management technology "PowerLine™" sets a direct course to reliable off-grid power solutions.
PVI Solar partnered with International Sign Company in Largo, Florida for the manufacture & installation. ISC is one of PVI Solar's authorized partners. They are experienced and knowledgeable in the sign manufacturing with a main focus on custom sign manufacturing, including developing innovative solar products in the signage industry. http://www.intlsign.com
Ted has worked with the sign trade across the United States and internationally, on project planning, design and sales. In an ever changing marketplace, he has continually adapted the latest technology from both a technical and sales point of view to meet new customer requirements.
Mr. Hasenstaub has been in charge of strategic sales & consulting services for PVI Solar since 2009.
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Buttoned Up
Where now is the counterpart of Berry Wall, who once changed his attire at Saratoga Springs 40 times in a day to become known as the 'King of the Dudes,' or of Boston's Mrs. Jack Gardner, who paid Paderewski $3,000 to play at tea time for an elderly friend and herself on condition that the pianist remain concealed behind a screen?" asks Lucius Beebe in his witty chronicle of American wealth between the end of the Civil War and the First World War, The Big Spenders. * I can't tell you where the likes of Mrs. Gardner are, but today's counterparts of the sartorially resplendent Evander Berry Wall can be found at several venues in New York City.
The other day, to give you an instance, I asked Atam Sahmanian of Paris Custom Shirtmakers Inc., about his more prominent customers. "Well, we do have a number of prestigious customers--names I wouldn't want to mention, of course," he diplomatically mused, "but I can tell you that we have a customer who buys 400 shirts every year. I believe he changes his shirt three or four times a day."
Not up to Wall's standards perhaps--he regularly changed his outfit completely six times a day--but not bad. Since Paris charges from $165 to $300 for a shirt, I'll leave you to figure out the sum totals.
The majority of custom-clothing customers are, however, simply men who want a decent wardrobe of well-fitting clothes. They are also men who understand that quality is the best bargain. Quality clothing looks good even when old, while cheap clothes look cheap even when new. A good shirt, properly cared for, can have a life 10 times longer than an ordinary one. Superior shirtmakers still offer hand-laundry service and craftsmanship repairs, and change frayed collars and cuffs for new ones. And a well-fitted shirt is simply more comfortable.
There are several points to consider when buying a good shirt. Start with fabric. Superior cotton, regardless of the type of weave, should always be "two-ply" (2X2), meaning that two yarns have been woven together with two yarns, rather than single yarn. This obviously gives better strength and durability. Now look at thread count (per square inch) of the fabric, called in the trade "denier." The denier of good shirting is 100 or better; the higher the count, the finer the fabric. If the poplin you're looking at is a 140s 2X2, for example, you've got some very nice shirting there. The finer the cotton, the silkier the feel and luster.
Next, consider the pattern. Custom craftsmanship means that an individual paper pattern is created for the exclusive use of the individual customer. This pattern is kept on file against future orders, which means that customers can order new shirts without revisiting the shop, and many do in fact simply phone or fax orders.
The next concern is general construction. Shirt seams have always been done on a sewing machine, and handwork is reserved for setting collars and buttonholes. (Today, in fact, there are machines that arguably sew a buttonhole as well as by hand, so it's not a question of machinery being used--but of how it's used.) Careful seam sewing is single-needle sewing--meaning up one side of the seam and down the other with the same needle--to prevent puckering. Stitches should be small and uniform; better shirtmakers use 20 stitches to the inch or better.
Buttons should be pearl; mother-of-pearl, shell pearl or whatever else they're called, pearl is what is wanted. Not only for the rich look of pearl, but for its toughness. The world here is divided between those who like single (regular) thickness in their buttons and those who prefer double thickness. It is more a matter of taste than anything, although some argue that it is harder for laundries to break the thicker button. The solution is not to change buttons, but laundries.
When it comes to measurements, every shirtmaker will have his own method, but there are a number of crucial numbers. Collars have fronts and backs--since the nape and throat of the neck present different problems--and each must be considered in terms of height, for the sake of comfort and appearance, as well as simple preference. Then the circumference: it's not that this is a difficult measurement per se, but rather again of what looks and feels best.
Then the body of the shirt, working from the top down: width from shoulder point to shoulder point, chest circumference under the arms, chest over the arms at widest point (around the triceps), waist, hips and finally the length preferred (measured from the collar seam to bottom hem).
Sleeves are measured separately, from mid-back to wrist bone; wrists are also measured separately, and account should be made for a thick wristwatch. The interesting thing about sleeves is that they should ideally be an inch or so longer than the actual measurement: the reason is that, if the wrist measurement is done properly, the cuff will sit snug to the wrist and not fall over the hand, while the sleeve itself will have a slight blouse to it that will allow the sleeve to lengthen when the arm moves. In other words, there should be some built-in "give" to the sleeve.
Styling should be preference based on propriety. The simple rule about collars is: the larger the head and neck, the larger the collar. That being a given, we are thrown back on taste and propriety. Half-a-dozen collar styles traditionally have been deemed appropriate to business shirts. From the most casual to the most formal they are: button-down, club, tab (and its variation, the pin), standard or long point, curved, spread and cutaway. Other styles are personal variations. What a custom shirtmaker will be interested in is, if a spread collar is desired, how spread should it be, and how long should the points of the collar be? This is where the give-and-take of discussion with an expert pays off seriously.
Body and sleeve styling are usually a matter of a few simple details. Bottom hems can be curved or straight (usually with side notches); front plackets can be simply turned under or seamed; cuffs can be of the single (barrel) variety or double (French), with several options for each. Good shirtmakers put a button (with a horizontal buttonhole) on the sleeve placket.
Finally, to monogram or not to monogram. Not a pressing issue of the age, but a civilized touch. When they are desired, monograms should be discreetly hand-embroidered on the center top of the pocket if there is a pocket, or slightly below mid-point on the left side of the chest if there is not. A monogram on the left forearm of the sleeve is a more rarefied site.
Where to go? There is, of course, London's Turnbull & Asser, Paris' Charvet and Hong Kong's Takly. But it's not necessary to travel outside the United States to find the loftier levels of the art. Our recommendations follow.
Ascot Chang
7 West 57th Street, New York 10020 (212)759-3333
"We don't prescribe any collar style here," says manager Thomas Yu. "It's not a matter of fashion with us, but what's right for the customer. We build the collar to the customer's individual needs." The firm will even copy the collar of a favorite shirt.
What is fashionable here at the moment are the colors: deep, intense French blues predominate, with "shockingly strong earth tones" (such as terra cotta, grass, lemon, slate, etc.) in an abundant variety of fabrics from end-on-ends and chambrays to silky Egyptian broadcloths and sea islands. More than 2,500 fabric selections are available.
"We put great emphasis," informs Yu, "not only on getting the collar right, but on what we like to call 'body reading': getting the proper shape to the body of the shirt. Our trained fitters consider this something of an art as well as a science. The tape measure can give correct measurements, but only the trained eye can access the perfect silhouette and line of a garment."
Most of Ascot Chang's regulars--about 75 percent of them--prefer button cuffs, which gives them the opportunity to show off the elegant double-thick shell pearl buttons (single thickness if you prefer, of course).
The firm would like a month or so to complete an order (four-shirt minimum). Prices for cotton shirts start at $90 and end at around $500, silk at $130 to $450, tuxedo shirts from $210 to $800.
Geneva Custom Shirts Ltd.
38 West 32nd Street, New York 10001 (212)967-7460
Mike Athanasatos is the amiable and understanding proprietor of Geneva. Nothing is too much trouble for him to make you look as you feel you ought. It is a family business--son Eugene, now at Pace University, will become the business manager upon graduation--that treats you like family.
"Mr. Mike" not only meticulously handcrafts every shirt right there in the shop--you can watch your shirt moving from artisan to artisan as it is finished--but also provides complete laundry and repair service. Even this aspect deserves notice. The shirts are gently washed, hung to drip dry (a dryer would be unthinkable!), then hand-ironed. Customers from all over the country, even his European ones, regularly send their Geneva shirts back to this atelier to be laundered.
The complete custom operation begins with precise fitting and fabric selection from the finest that Italy, England, France and Switzerland have to offer. Particularly prized here is the rare Zendaline cotton, considered the best available: a luxurious 2X2 180s (priced at $225). Fabrics are laundered before they are sewn for a more precise fitting. The first shirt is ready for a fitting in one week to 10 days. Corrections noted, the order (minimum of six first time around) is completed in three weeks.
All the signs of the true art are here: superior Swiss linings, Italian pearl buttons, 22 stitches per inch of single-needle sewing, monograms hand-embroidered. It's no secret that Geneva makes shirts for not a few of the most prestigious retailers and private tailors in the country, as well as a number of high-wattage gentlemen from Paul Newman and Colin Powell to former President Ronald Reagan, Tom Brokaw and basketball superstar Patrick Ewing (who has a 44-inch sleeve measurement). We refrain from revealing the name of the chap who stopped by a while ago and ordered 350 shirts.
Business shirts start at $170, evening shirts at $195.
Alexander Kabbaz
903 Madison Avenue, New York 10021 (212)861-7700
"We try to keep to the Old World traditions here and look for lifelong relationships," says the erudite Alex Kabbaz. Which means that fathers still bring their sons around to introduce them to the craftsmanship of a handmade shirt.
In that tradition, Kabbaz endeavors to please the customer, from the conservative requests of the Rockefellers to the slightly more Edwardian flights of Tom Wolfe. Styling is limited only by the customer's imagination.
"We made dozens of formal shirts for Leonard Bernstein, who went through four or five every time he conducted. He wanted something as lightweight as possible, so I suggested making them with an open back. He was delighted."
As it happens, evening shirts are something of a specialty here--accounting for one out of 15 shirts made--and Kabbaz has the most outstanding collection of bib fronts, more than 150 models.
If necessary, he has been known to meet a customer at 8 a.m., have a sample shirt ready for try-on by 4 p.m. the same day, produce the finished shirt by noon the following day for a final try-on, and make any final adjustments so the shirt can be picked up or mailed the following morning--from start to finish in 48 hours.
Normally, he would prefer three try-ons over a four-week period. It would seem that customers might conceivably take that long to pick their fabrics, since Kabbaz has more than 3,100 fabrics in stock at any one time--broadcloths, voiles, poplins, oxfords, piques and twills predominating.
The price of these fine cottons (and some silks, although one gets the impression Alex Kabbaz considers cottons to be the true métier of a shirtmaker), are based on thread count: the general range is from $325 to the Swiss 200 denier broadcloth at $475, but one can go higher with silks.
Leonard Logsdail
9 East 53rd Street, New York 10022 (212)752-5030
Logsdail caters to those men who prefer the English style of tailoring and accoutering, which makes sense, since he is a Savile Row tailor and shirtmaker who came to Manhattan six years ago.
"What I find that's true both here and in London," he says, "is that men are much more conservative in their suits than in their shirts. We do a great deal of classic gray and blue worsted pinstripes, but tend to follow the Jermyn Street style of bold, colorful stripes in shirtings."
While Logsdail does the measuring and fittings in New York, his workrooms are still in London, where the shirts are made from his individually crafted paper patterns. With the transit time, the shirts take longer to complete--six to eight weeks--than those made in New York, but if it's a London-made shirt that you want, this is The Real Thing.
Left to his own lights in styling, Logsdail would prefer a traditional English spread collar, easy-but-fitted body and double cuff for the high-count poplin town shirtings, although he is perfectly happy to produce a full range of styles, including duplicating a favorite collar. Like other English makers, he has a fine selection of tattersall country shirtings available, to go with that wonderful broth-of-the-heather tweed sports jacket and cashmere tie.
Prices are in the $200 to $300 range (three-shirt minimum), with formal shirts at $300.
Paris Custom Shirtmakers, Inc.
38 West 32nd Street, New York 10001 (212)695-3563
Paris Custom Shirtmakers is called that, logically enough, because the firm had its beginnings in Paris 48 years ago. "My father [Mark] was originally with Charvet, then started his own business, and brought it here 18 years ago," says Atam Sahmanian. (The elder Sahmanian still provides his expertise in the shop.) "We are still very much European-oriented in that we continue to use only fabrics from the best European mills, some of which are exclusive to us." And they still number European royalty among their customers.
The craftsmen here cut and sew an average of 200 to 250 shirts a week. It takes 10 days to make the first sample shirt and another two to three weeks to complete an order. Royal oxford cloth is popular at the moment, but there are at least 2,500 other fabrics from which to choose. Should you want a monogram, it will be handsewn with silk thread.
Paris offers a complete shirt service. Many of its loyal customers have special luggage cases expressly for the purpose of sending their shirts regularly back to Paris for hand laundering and meticulous hand pressing.
Prices range from $165 to $350, with a three-shirt minimum.
430 Park Avenue, New York 10022 (212)980-5200
The name Sulka is synonymous with sophisticated haberdashery. The firm has supplied gentlemen with luxury shirts, neck ties, pajamas and dressing gowns for more than a hundred years.
"At the moment," says Stephen Ostrowski of the firm's custom department, "end-on-end shirting is very popular for business dress, particularly the deeper shades of blue, but we've got end-on-ends in at least 20 different colors." Which gives you some idea of Sulka's commitment to sybaritic shirt-making.
The firm will be happy to offer expert counsel on appropriate collar styles, or to duplicate a favorite. The first shirt takes about six weeks to produce, and another six to complete the four-shirt minimum order. Sulka is particularly inventive, in a thoroughly tasteful way to be sure, when it comes to formal shirting. "We enjoy doing things like vertical stripes on the body and horizontal stripes on the bib," notes Mr. Ostrowski. Even with business shirts, they're unstuffy enough to do different stripes on body, collar and cuffs.
Prices are generally from $225 to $365, with off-the-rack tuxedo shirts at $155 to custom tuxedo shirts from $300 to $400. Branches in London; Paris; Chicago; San Francisco, Beverly Hills and Costa Mesa, California; and Bal Harbour, Florida. *
A frequent contributor to Cigar Aficionado on the subject of fashion, G. Bruce Boyer is the author of Eminently Suitable (W.W. Norton, 1990).


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VW Golf R Details:
- 300hp turbo 2.0L AWD GTI
- Manual or DSG transmission options | Haldex 4Motion AWD
- Stability control can be turned off completely | XDS+ e-diff
- 0-60mph in 5.1sec
Electronics: Driver Profile Selector | Adaptive Chassis Control
+ Pros: More powerful engine | ESP can be turned off | Nimble package | Sportier
- Cons: Not arriving in the US until 2015 | What will it cost? | Will we get transmission options?
Across the table from me sits legendary racecar driver, Hans Stuck, and to my left is Ulrich Riestenpatt gt Richter, the Executive Director of R GmbH. Stuck is regaling us with tales of the Nurburgring, his old cars, the current state of F1 and an amusing anecdote about how one of F1's leading figures used to get drivers to sign for way less money than they demanded.
Casual and relaxed, Richter was formerly with Lamborghini and Audi, where he was involved in the Gallardo and R8 projects. He outlines his vision for the VW R brand and how Mr Stuck is involved.
Parked outside is his group's latest output, the Volkswagen Golf R. But the letter isn't merely a badge; R is a brand and a subsidiary of Volkswagen entrusted to build its most extreme sporting models.
Richter likens R to quattro GmbH, although he admits R is only halfway through its seven-year development plan.
The Golf R is familiar to us, as are the R-Line Editions, but Richter wants to push the division's motorsport activities as well. He's trying to make a more obvious connection between what happens on the track and to the VW model range. Or off the track, in the case of the World Rally Championship-winning Polo, and Richter is pushing VW to allow him to produce a road-going version of it...
In fact, there are Polo R prototypes testing, and they were in action on the frozen lake prior to our arrival. Richter and a handful of VW Group bigwigs - including Porsche's Matthias Muller - were assessing the Polo R on ice.
Richter is keen to get approval from his colleagues. "It has to be four-wheel drive," Richter told us, but this required substantial engineering to the rear floorpan and suspension.
Apparently, the rest of the Polo R's specification is fairly straightforward: a modified Golf R 4Motion system allied to a detuned EA888 2.0-liter, four-cylinder TSI turbo engine. In the VW Golf it has 300hp, but the smaller, lighter Polo "should be somewhere between 240 and 250hp," according to Richter.
The company would need to sell around 5000 cars for the Polo R to make sense, and Richter is bullish, believing there's demand for such a machine. That, and even more extreme versions of existing models... In fact, rumor has it there's a lighter, more focused Golf R "Evo" ready to be revealed later this year.
As for the "regular" Golf R, which we're here to drive, Richter boldly claims it's on par with the previous generation Type-997 Porsche 911 Carrera 4 as a driving experience.
That's an extremely confident statement, and one that remained unchallenged during our first experience behind the wheel since VW had chosen a frozen lake for our first impressions.
See the ECU tuning potential of the past gen R model: 2012 VW Golf R - Proven
Frozen Lake
Arvidsjaur is Sweden's Motown. The population doubles when the thermometer's mercury drops, not with winter sports fans, but a migration of automotive engineers seeking the deep ice on the region's 4000 lakes. Locals cut tracks through the snow to create test areas. We're told that 4" of ice is thick enough to support a car, 20" a truck and 32" will allow a plane to land.
The rationale is simple: this is the first VW Golf R where the ESP stability control can be completely disabled and, although they're not shouting loudly about it, in certain conditions the R is faster when the safety net is removed. At least, it is when driven by Hans Stuck...
His 8min 15sec Nurburgring lap was about 11sec faster than a GTI and 15sec quicker than the old R. And it was achieved without the interference of electronic "assistance."
Hold down the button and the R's 300hp 2.0T is under your control. There's no re-activation when you brake or slide either. The ESP only comes back if you request it or turn off the ignition.
There's a proper manual transmission, and no sign of the DSG automatic on these launch cars. Three pedals and six ratios: the R team wasn't joking about wanting the cars to appeal to driving enthusiasts.
Stuck's here for some fun, but it's nice to see the racing legend is an old-fashioned car geek like the rest of us - taking photos of the snow-encrusted R badge for himself.
We're also hoping to enjoy the experience. To help us, we have radios in each car and local boy, Anton Marklund, on the other end. Driving an 800hp VW Polo in Global Rallycross, he's more familiar beyond the threshold of grip than anybody else here.
Any meaningful impressions of how the Golf R might drive on the road are pointless because Anton is only interested in making sure the arctic playground is exploited to the full. The numerous tracks carved in the snow give us ample opportunity to experience the Volkswagen's traction and his advice is simple and clear, "More gas, steer the car with the accelerator!"
Given the conditions, that's not difficult. Although we have 225/50 R17 studded snow tires in place of the standard 225/40 R18 summer tires, the EA888's ample power makes breaking traction as easy as flexing your right foot a few millimeters.
The wide-open space and a lack of anything to hit meant the only thing dented was our pride when we got it wrong. And it turns out that it's worth sliding the R into deeper snow banks just to watch the rescue guys in a Touareg use a snatch rope to extract you.
Marklund's radio instructions elevate to encouragement, and impressive slides receive praise as our familiarity with how the R's reactions result in greater confidence, increasing speeds and more opposite-lock.
In ideal conditions, the Golf R will reach 0-62mph in 5.1sec, onto a limited 155mph maximum. And while we're spinning away that speed with the limited traction, the Golf R's muscular performance is obvious.
The four-cylinder's offbeat exhaust note is reminiscent of an Audi five-cylinder, giving the R more character. More restrained visually than aurally, the R lacks the red striping of its GTI relation or the muscularity of the original R32. Instead, it hides its potency in a typically discreet, Teutonic fashion.
The car will probably get a cursory glance from bystanders, although avid performance fans will fully understand the significance of the small R badges, deeper air intakes, 18" wheels, quad tailpipes and a moderately lowered ride height, which is 5mm lower than the GTI. The same is true inside. The seats are deeply bolstered but aside from the occasional R badge and blue highlights, it will be familiar to any Golf owner.
Of course, that also means impeccable build quality, but the R doesn't shout about its capabilities. That's always been part of its appeal: sports car performance in a practical package. Just as before, it's going to be ridiculously capable on pavement - wet or dry - with its Haldex 4Motion AWD able to distribute power to the axle that can best use it. This is coupled with XDS+: an advanced, brake-operated system that applies pressure to the inside wheels to assist turn-in agility.
Unfortunately, it's impossible to fully feel its effects when looking out of the side window, steering with the accelerator and twirling the steering wheel. Yet Stuck and Richter insist this new version takes the Golf R to a different level on the road.
What is undeniable is that "ESP Off" means exactly that. And when selecting Sport Mode, the electronics now allow more driver correction before intervening.
What's more, the Driver Profile Selector allows you to tailor the throttle and steering response via presets and a customizable profile. And if you option DSG and Adaptive Chassis Control, it will alter the shifting parameters and suspension settings, too.
VW has listened to its customers and to enthusiasts, delivering a car that should have more driver appeal. However, we really need to conduct more meaningful impressions in a conventional test on dry roads. So if Richter wants to bring a 997 Carrera 4 and Golf R to the Nurburgring, and Stuck fancies setting another lap time, we'd be up for the challenge!
"Locals cut tracks through the snow to create test areas. We're told that 4" of ice is thick enough to support a car, 20" a truck and 32" will allow a plane to land."
Tech Spec
2015 Volkswagen Golf R
Layout front-mounted, 4WD
Engine 1984cc four-cylinder TSI turbocharged, DOHC, direct injection
Drivetrain six-speed manual transmission, XDS+ electronic diff
Suspension MacPherson strut f, multi-link r
Brakes single-piston black calipers, 340mm rotors f, 310mm r
Wheels & Tires 18x7.5" Cadiz wheels, 225/40 R18 tires (optional 19x8", 235/35 R19)
Exterior R bumpers, diffuser, matte chrome mirrors, smoked tail lights
Interior R leather/alcantara sports seats, steering wheel, carbon-look trim, blue instrument accents
Power 300hp at 5600-6200rpm
Torque 280 lb-ft at 1800-5500rpm
0-62mph 5.1sec (4.9sec with DSG)
Top Speed 155mph (limited)
Weight 3250 lb
Economy n/a
MSRP n/a
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This tree was trying to tell me something. But I was so preoccupied with work related matters and other issues that I wasn't receptive at all. My bad. Maybe next time. In fact. Hopefully next time. Every message and sign is becoming increasingly critical. No matter how seemingly small or insignificant. I am confident my kupuna will find another medium...
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Hey that's cheating! 15 yards penalty for the triple frontflip. Glitches like this in Madden NFL 25 are inspiring. I'd totally play a football game where you can pull off ridiculous stunts like this.
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