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If you are a Bob Hope fan, or if you just do your celebrity-home shopping in bulk, Palm Springs, Calif., is where you'll want to take yourself — and your wallet.
Two of the first homes Hope, and his wife, Dolores, bought in the desert city are on the market — but it's the 23,366-square-foot space-age house on top of the San Jacinto mountain designed for the couple by desert modernist architect John Lautner in the 1970s that's grabbing the attention. It's also on the market, for $50-million, through Partners Trust of Beverly Hills and Windermere Real Estate in Palm Springs.
Hope died in 2003 aged 100. Dolores Hope died last year at 103. The entertainer was often cited as the biggest private landowner in California. Last year, daughter Linda sold her late parents' Toluca Lake estate, near Los Angeles, along with some of its contents, in a well-publicized garage sale.
The first generation of Hollywood luminaries to vacation in the desert playground were the likes of Clark Gable, Busby Berkeley and Lucy and Desi (Palm Springs was convenient because it fit the two-hour Hollywood rule: If the director called, you could be back on set within two hours). The first hipster era (1950s and '60s) was Sammy Davis Jr.'s and Frank Sinatra's time, and the modernist homes built then still provide Palm Springs with an architectural legacy. They represent a period of extreme optimism in America, and a willingness for architectural experimentation. The era is celebrated every year during Palm Spring's Modernism Week in February.
When you think of Bob Hope and Palm Springs, you think of later years and golf-club-wielding retirees, when the city became known as God's Waiting Room. Still, Hope certainly tried to latch on to some of the mid-century vibe when he hired Lautner to build his mountaintop house (the latter is referred to by mid-century aficionados as the Lautner house, not the Bob Hope house).
Lautner was not so much a modernist as a futurist. He had designed the Elrod house on property just down the hill from Hope's; it was featured in the James Bond film Diamonds are Forever. In fact, it was because Hope so admired the Elrod house, built for interior designer Arthur Elrod, that he hired Lautner to create one for him.
Hope's house was designed in 1973 and completed in 1979. It's not huge by Hollywood superstar standards, but its undulating roof is big enough to land a helicopter on. According to an article in the local Desert Sun newspaper, the house has six bedrooms, 10 bathrooms, a "mushroom-shaped roof," and "a huge boulder jutting out of the floor of the living room."
The house is made of concrete, steel and glass, and its pool is in the shape of Hope's famous profile. Its siting, integrated into the desert landscape, is a key feature of desert modernism.
But for architecture critics, where the Lautner/Hope house fits on Palm Springs's mid-century modern scale is debatable. The house was plagued by difficulties both technical and existential. The initial house burned to the ground and the second was affected by an extreme case of client/architect squabbling. Lautner was said to have been infuriated at what he deemed to much interference by the Hopes. It is said he thought the house inappropriately furnished, and distanced himself from the property in later years.
"I don't know what the relationship was. There's all of kinds of stories," one Palm Springs architecture historian says. "But I think it is true, relationship issues aside, that this house was a major stepping stone for Lautner, and went down in architectural history as an extraordinary piece of architecture and engineering."
There are two other Hope houses on the market in Palm Springs, in the famed Movie Colony neighbourhood. They are relatively modest by movie-star standards and are representative of both the earlier period of Palm Spring's architectural style and its association with Hollywood stars.
The listing by agent Patrick Stewart, who is handling both properties, indicates the first house features three bedrooms, three bathrooms, a dining room, breakfast room, attached guest casita, a two-car garage and "many of the original details that were part of the era when this home was built in 1936." (The Hopes bought in 1941). The asking price is $469,000.
The Hopes upgraded with their second property, which they bought in 1946. According to Redfin.com, the property has five bedrooms and five baths, and is approximately 2,943 sq. ft. According to the listing, the "charm and character of this historic property remains in tact [sic] today. Formal living room with fireplace and dining room are flanked by the sun filled sitting room that looks out to the large pool, lush grounds and mountain scenery. Gated drive for privacy leads to the double garage on the north side of the property with an alternate venue for enjoying the sun filled days and magical evenings as the Hope family has for years." Asking price: $659,000.
For a look at a few other Lautner houses for sale and for rent, click here.


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Comfort foods are the foods we crave when having a bad day or after a stressful event. This list of favorite foods is different for everyone based on individual likes and dislikes, but some items are grouped as common comfort foods. Typically, these foods are not healthy and are often high in calories and fat. The CDC recommends eating these foods sparingly and cutting back if you eat them often.
Fried Foods
Fried and greasy foods are high on the list of many people when it comes to comfort eating. Potato chips provide comfort, but also usually pack a lot of calories. Other choices of fried comfort foods include fried chicken and French fries. Sometimes people will stop by a fast food restaurant for fried food when feeling stressed or down, but these foods can also be made at home.
Sweet Foods
A study at Cornell University found that women name sweet foods as a comfort food more often than men. Some common sweets that people turn to in times of stress or anxiety include ice cream, chocolate and cookies. Ice cream was high on the list for both genders. However, men also eat sweets and name sugary items as a comfort food. Candy bars and sugary goods are other foods that may offer comfort.
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Many times, foods with a high carbohydrate content are listed as comfort foods. These foods, when consumed in large quantities, can also lead to weight gain. Mashed potatoes are comforting to some while homemade macaroni and cheese is another. Pasta dishes, such as spaghetti with marinara sauce and homemade baked ziti, is also considered a comfort food. According to the study at Cornell University, men listed these items more often than women.
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The Tennessee Bar Journal, the monthly magazine of the Tennessee Bar Association, was recognized in October with a Luminary Award of Excellence by the National Association of Bar Executives' Communications Section at its annual workshop. The magazine was judged best in its category for regular publications among medium-sized bars with more than 5,000 but less than 15,000 members.
TBA staff members who work on the Journal are Suzanne Craig Robertson, Landry Butler, Barry Kolar, Stacey Shrader and Sharon Ballinger. Serving on the Journal's editorial board are Nashville attorney Andree Sophia Blumstein, Knoxville attorney Wade V. Davies, Nashville attorney Paul A. Gontarek, Memphis attorney Suzanne Landers, Kingsport attorney Laura A. Steel, Jackson attorney Jonathan O. Steen, Nashville attorney Mattielyn Williams and Member Emeritus Donald F. Paine of Knoxville.
The Luminary Awards, sponsored by Thomson Reuters, recognize the outstanding work among bar communications professionals nationwide.
Belmont Breaks Ground on Baskin Center for Law School
In October, Belmont University celebrated the official groundbreaking for the Randall and Sadie Baskin Center, a 71,000 square foot facility that will serve as the home for the school's new College of Law. The building is slated to open in fall 2012, although the law school will begin classes in fall 2011. When at full capacity, the school will enroll about 360 students.
The Baskins are providing a $7 million leadership gift for the new building, which will contain more than a dozen classrooms, a 21st-century trial courtroom, an appellate courtroom, a two-story law library, and more than 20 faculty offices. It will sit atop a five-level underground parking garage accommodating more than 500 parking spaces. Total cost for the project is estimated at $32 million once the building is completely outfitted.
Learn more about it at tba.org/journal_links.
Court extends comment period, amends CLE rule
The Tennessee Supreme Court has extended until Dec. 31 the comment period for a proposed mentoring program that would provide continuing legal education credit for participants. The court also issued an order deleting Section 8.03 of Rule 21 and replaces it in its entirety. The revised rule now requires attorneys who attend out-of-state CLE programs, or other programs for which the sponsor does not report and pay the per-hour fee, to pay the fee at the time the hours are reported " rather than at the end of the year as had been the case. Access the details at www.tncourts.gov.
For women, pay doesn't follow production, study says
Women partners in law firms are no less productive than their male counterparts when it comes to generating revenue per lawyer, but the women partners are paid less, a new study shows. According to the study, conducted by professors at Temple University Beasley School of Law and the University of Texas, the average gross revenue of firms with the highest percentages of women lawyers was about $20 million higher than firms with the lowest percentage of women lawyers. But the revenue per lawyer at these firms dropped by about $120,000 per lawyer. "We found that the average compensation for lawyers at a firm goes down as the proportion of women at a firm rises, indicating that women in all positions at a firm are paid less than their male counterparts," a study author said in a press release. ABAJournal.com connects you to the study at tba.org/journal_links.
Poverty rate surge means more qualify for civil legal help
The poverty rate surged to 14.3 percent last year, the highest since 1994, the Census Bureau said in September. Now nearly 57 million Americans qualify for civil legal assistance from the Legal Services Corporation (LSC). That increase of 3 million people from 2008, the LSC said in a news release, makes it the highest number of people eligible for legal aid in our country in the LSC's 35-year history. Of the 57 million, 19.6 million are children.
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The Los Angeles-based law firm of Latham & Watkins has developed a free smart phone application to help lawyers navigate slang used by financial professionals and government regulators in the banking and capital finance arenas. The U.S. Book of Jargon defines more than 750 Wall Street terms, slang phrases and other legal phrases. The product is available as a free download from the iTunes App Store. Learn more through tba.org/journal_links.
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According to new statistics from the National Association for Law Placement (NALP), civil legal aid lawyers are still the lowest paid members of the entire legal profession, earning less than public defenders and many other public interest lawyers. The statistics come from NALP's 2010 Public Sector and Public Interest Salary Report. The organization also released a report on the salaries of private sector lawyers. Learn more about its findings through tba.org/journal_links.
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Lawyers give back in celebration of Pro Bono Month
More than 40 lawyers "including Memphis Mayor A C Wharton and Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Janice Holder " assisted 117 clients at a Legal Advice Clinic in Memphis Oct. 9. The event was part of Celebrate Pro Bono Month and was put on by Memphis Area Legal Services, along with the Memphis Access to Justice Committee and the Memphis Bar Association YLD.
Legal clinics, public education seminars, "Wills for Heroes" events, pro bono recognitions and free CLEs for lawyers wanting to know how to help, are among the more than 30 events planned across the state in October.
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A scientific project that will help govern how the European Commission tackles climate change is relying on Linux and the Géant academic grid to complete its vital work.
The Millennium Simulations, an earth-modelling venture at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, will allow scientists to model the changes in the world's climate over the past millennium, as well as centuries into the future.
By factoring in human influences on carbon, including changes in land use, as well as natural phenomena including volcanic activity, the Millennium Simulations will provide an insight into how the earth's climate will change over the coming decades and centuries.
It's this information that will go towards informing the next assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the body whose information is fed to the highest levels of government to help them make decisions on the environment.
The Millennium Simulations' Earth System Model contains sub-models for atmosphere, ocean, land-surface and ocean-biogeochemistry and features an "interactive carbon cycle".
With scientists across Europe and beyond contributing information to the project and analysing the results, Millennium Simulations needs a lot of bandwidth — bandwidth enabled by Géant2, a grid linking national research and education networks across the continent.
So far, the simulations have racked up more than 50TB of data, Reinhard Budich, project manager at Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, told ZDNet UK's'sister site, silicon.com.
"One of the simulation runs we do of, say, 1,000 years produced something like 2.5TB of data and these data have to be shared. We do not [do] only one run — we do many runs because we have to adjust the models to the different forcings [forcing factors: elements that can affect the climate models] we have and then we do model runs with different forcings switched off and on."
Using Géant2, the institute can make the simulations available to earth scientists, meteorologists, historians and other interested parties around the world.
According to Budich, the contribution of Géant2 — which is also used by scientists working on the Large Hadron Collider — cannot be overstated.
"We, as a project, depend on Géant... Such an infrastructure initiative like Géant is really indispensible for us."
The data from the Millennium Simulations is stored at the World Datacentre for Climate, housed in the German Climate Computing Centre in Hamburg: the largest Linux-based database in the world, Budich said, holding 400TB of data.
The link between the Max Planck Institute and the German Climate Computing Centre is a theoretical 655Mbps.
"This is what we can afford so far — it's a matter of cost as well. How much of that [bandwidth] you really get from that for your little project is one of those things where I'd like to see improvements," Budich said.
"We as researchers have to share bandwidth between us — there are about 400 registered users at this computing centre so you can imagine the bandwidth we get for our transfer. It depends really on time of day, usage of others, etc. What I'd like to see in the long run is that I can reserve bandwidth for an application, I can say: 'Today between noon and 1.30 I want to transfer this much data to somewhere. Give me that bandwidth'. That's the quality of service I'd like to see."
Budich believes vendors are open to the idea and could adopt such a business model in the future.
Storage has also proved a bugbear for the climate researchers, with data retrieval usually taking minutes, but occasionally seeing scientists wait for hours for information.
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I have sent pictures before to doctors of my face and they astoundingly agree that even at the age of only 25 I would benefit a great deal from a face lift. All the skin on my face is extremely soft and loos. My cheeks sag a great deal. Its like Im wearing a mask that isnt on tight enough. I know I need some sort of plastic surgery so I can look like the person I am. I am so sick of people thinking im 40, I know its my only option but I am highly embarrassed to make an appointment. PLease help
I Am a Young Man Who Has Severely Soft Cheeks and an Overall Saggy Appearance. I Am Extremely Embarrassed to Get a Consultation?
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Soft saggy cheeks
A diagnosis must be made. Have you got collapsed hollow cheeks, the a filler would be the best simple choice for a start. My experience in doing that is that in older patients we can delay the need for a facelift. It sounds like you need a volume back in your cheeks first.
After you cheeks have been restored, then you can see how much loose extra cheek skin you have, to see whether a S-lift would be needed. Have you by any chance have pre-mature aging of the skin? I had one patient who was 27 who looked over 45 in which I did a facelift and filler
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Young man with premature facial aging.
Hard to say without a photo but you might be able to get by with volume enhancement such as with Perlane or Radiesse in the cheeks or even fat grafts or cheek implants. Generally, adding volume tightens the skin a little without surgery. You'd be awfully young for any kind of facelift.
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What a great summer. Chevy made so many people smile at Rev It Up that we couldn't even count them all.
-Dan Passe, PR Director, Rev It Up 2007
To hear Chevrolet officials tell it, the company wants to give everyone in America the chance to experience its high-performance vehicle lineup. The proof? An all-Chevy-powered, enthusiast-oriented day camp called Rev It Up, which toured San Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston, Orlando, New York, and Washington, D.C., this year during the months of July and August.
In its second season with Chevy as a title sponsor, Rev It Up once again put drivers behind the wheels of performance-oriented offerings such as the Cobalt SS, the Impala SS, the Trailblazer SS, and, of course, the Corvette.
"With Rev It Up, we [went around] the country...to show driving and racing enthusiasts that Chevy is serious about performance," says Chevrolet Marketing General Manager Ed Peper. "Chevy is proud to be part of this exciting summer program that proves we not only talk the talk, we drive performance home-today and with our exciting future products."
VETTE was invited to enjoy a behind-the-scenes look at Rev It Up during its stop in Orlando, Florida, in July. Here's an overview of how the series works:
Participants of all legal driving ages get behind the wheel of identically prepared Chevrolet Cobalt SS coupes and compete against a "perfect" autocross time (assigned a 1,000-point value), set at each event by a professional driver. The 10 people whose times are closest to the pro's in each of two daily contests then move on to the Corvette Shootout.
This session uses a similar scoring system, but dispenses with the Cobalts in favor of '07 C6s. Match the professional time in the Vette, and you receive 1,000 points. Run slower, and you're assigned a score ranging from zero to 999, based on a mathematical formula. Beat the pro time, and you receive a score of 1,001 or higher.
The contestant with the highest score in each of the six cities is then entered into the final rankings; the highest overall score wins. This year's grand prize was a brand-new '08 Corvette-quite an incentive to brush up on your driving skills. Follow along with us as we check out some of the action from Rev It Up 2007.
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Is there anyway possible to make the footer text editable via cms so that ot is in top menu near to security and others.
and how to display it in footer.ss file.
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Is there anyway possible to make the footer text editable via cms so that ot is in top menu near to security and others.
and how to display it in footer.ss file.
You could create a seperate DataObject and use ModelAdmin to admin the DataObject, or use this approach:
Can u give me a sample code because it not sidebar but footer.
Hope u can help
You could use the same code, but display it in the footer instead of the sidebar.
Or create a PageType like GlobalBlockPage.
And add in the static $db array ("Footer" => "Text", "OtherStaticText" => "Text" ); //etc
To ensure that the pagetype never show up in the menu add () to class GlobalBlockPage :
function onBeforeWrite () {
$this->record['ShowInMenus'] = 0;
parent::onBeforeWrite ();
To ensure you only have One GlobalBLockPage type add:
function canCreate() {
if(DataObject::get_one('GlobalBlockPage')) {
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In Page_Controller (not BlobalBlokPage) you do something like:
return DataObject::get_one("GlobalBlockPage")->FooterText;
return DataObject::get_one("GlobalBlockPage")->OtherStaticText;
Or call the whole object once and call getYourFunction.FooterText in the templates...
This should get you started.
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Time Format
If it's possible, could we have the option to display the time in a 12-hour format?
I am against this.
At this time, this appears to be a global option in our Forum Software, and it does not appear to have a per-user equivalent choice. I did a bit of searching, and I see a lot of other vBulletin forums that have commented on this regrettable lack of functionality. It seems possible in theory to hack that sort of customization into the software, but I don't know if any of us will want to tackle that hack right now knowing that (as far as I know at least) we're still planning to migrate to a new version of the software at some point.
So my tentative answer would be that this seems unlikely, but I won't say no outright. I do think that, if we're only able to have a single global setting for everyone, the one we have seems reasonable.
Alright, thanks for the reply. Hopefully there'll be a user-specific option in the future.
Though, I'm glad you didn't say no outright. I'm looking forward to the user-specified feature if possible in the future.
This preference to 12-hour time is quite strange to be honest; people are actually more likely to get confused with AM/PM usually.
Subtracting 12 has become a 5 second chore now? :p Just be glad you're not using Japanese broadcast schedules where they continue after 24:00 (e.g. gdgd Fairies airs at 27:00). I have no idea what time they revert back to morning hours, but I recall a joke in Hayate S1 where Nagi refused to get up saying that the time was only 32:00 :heh:.
As for the topic proper... in case you're curious, Wikipedia has a list of the countries that still commonly use 12-hour clocks. Looks like it's mostly in the Americas with a smattering in mostly English-speaking countries around the world.
I got to thinking also that one possible option would be to have a tooltip appear when you mouse-over the time that shows the conversion, but that still requires a mouse-over which isn't much faster for most than just doing the math. :heh: (It would avoid having to add a per-user option to the database, though. Or I guess maybe we could do something through a cookie if we had to...)
Any global options can be overwritten right before rendering.
I made a small tutorial for you guys on to get simple things like this done: http://forums.animesuki.com/showthre...56#post2851156 (and this is how vB recommends you get it done BTW). Note that the piece of code is intended for vB4, but it's pretty much the same damn thing for vB3, only instead of a using objects that's an array. ie. Instead of $vbulletin->userinfo['field5'] you write $bbuserinfo['field5'] and instead of something like $vbulletin->options['legacypostbit'] you write $vboptions['legacypostbit'].
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MOST parents ignore health guidance and do not give children essential vitamins, new figures suggest.
Last year, medical chiefs recommended all under-fives should receive free doses of vitamins A, C and D.
But 59% of parents are not taking up the advice to give vitamin D, a poll found.
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The survey, commissioned by the Health Food Manufacturers' Association, found 64% felt their children received enough vitamin D from their diet.
The poll of 10,000 UK adults found 76% of people did not know youngsters are advised to use vitamin D supplements.
There are rising concerns about the number of children with rickets, often caused by lack of vitamin D, which is mainly made by the action of the sun on skin but also comes from foods such as oily fish.
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Kleine Zalze
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Located in the heart of the Stellenbosch Winelands, the Kleine Zalze estate dates back to 1695, and is the perfect escape to a timeless era filled with Cape Dutch architecture, sublime wine, fine dining and days spent with friends and family.
German immigrant Nicolaas Cleef was Kleine Zalze's first owner and responsible for planting over 700 vines on the estate. Kobus and Mariette Basson bought the estate in 1996 together with Mariette's brother Jan Malan. Together, they began the process of restoring this property by having its soils scientifically evaluated and replanting the vines according to their distinct terroir potential and characteristics. Jan decided to leave the business in 2000, with Rolf Schulz (a German National) taking over his share. In 2013, Kobus Basson became Kleine Zalze's sole owner.
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You just finished a meal or a few drinks after a great first date. The server comes over with the check and places the bill in front of the guy. He picks it up. Do you: a) reach for your wallet and insist on splitting it; b) make a half-hearted attempt to take out your wallet and offer to pay, but assume he won't accept; or c) not even offer because you think it's the man's responsibility to pay.
Most women I know would pick response No. 2. But why?
Why is it so important to a girl that the guy pay on the first date? Just because he picks up the tab doesn't mean he's a good person; it doesn't mean he's right for you; and it certainly doesn't mean that he will pay for the second date. So why do we care so much? Why would a guy's refusal to pay on the first date take away so many points?
My dad told me that if a guy doesn't pay on a first date, then he's not worth my time. But why does the male action of paying on a first date indicate anything about his worth? It doesn't, although it's still part of our testing system.
When a man pays, is it his chivalrous duty and romantic responsibility to sweep me off my feet? Wrong. I've gone on plenty of dates in which the guy paid, and that was the extent of his chivalry. In some cases, it's like he didn't even know the concept existed. Paying the bill does not imply that he will be opening car doors or pulling out chairs — and it certainly doesn't suggest romance.
How can you take romantic gestures seriously when you've just met? Romance comes with at least a few more dates, when you actually start to have feelings for each other. Only then can a man truly sweep me off my feet.
Keep It Simple?
If a man takes me to an expensive restaurant, it implies his financial status, or it at least shows that he's not cheap. On a first date, you're both on your best behavior, and along with that goes the man paying and not accepting a woman's offer. That doesn't make him special; it just means his parents taught him well.
The real reason a man may be willing to pay is that he's simply playing the expected part. He foots the bill because it's somewhat ingrained in both of our heads that that's how it's supposed to be. A man shelling out cash has been a societal norm for centuries. It's not a coincidence that the server places the bill in front of the guy. In fact, once upon a time, some elegant restaurants didn't even list the price on the women's menu because there was no question that the man would pay.
The role of provider has shifted over the last few decades, but the pattern of who pays on a first date has remained. Many strong, independent women embrace this element of dating because — despite how wrong it might be — why not reap the benefits of an already sexist society by clinging to the one part of dating that is effortless?
We expect the guy to pay — and he does. But if it's inevitable that everything down the road becomes more complicated, especially when it comes to money, then why not keep it simple on the first date?
Some people say that whoever makes the invitation should pay, but this policy makes no sense. I can't think of too many men my girlfriends and I actually asked out. But what happens when you meet online, and you mutually agree to go out and no one really asks?
My friend took his now girlfriend out for a first date, and said, "Look, I am taking you out because I want you to feel special. Everything is on me, so don't even try to pay. However, in the future, you are more than welcome to take me out and treat me."
By making this statement, he got rid of the expected anxiety. Another positive about his statement is that he obviously likes her because he said he wants her to take him out in the future. Basically, by making this statement, he eliminated all confusion, and showed her that he really appreciated her worth.
Maybe that's what it's about. A man simply wants the woman to feel special, and he wants her to appreciate him. However, how can she value him if she has no desire to ever see him again? If you have no intention of going out with him again and you've racked up an expensive tab, is it right for the woman to let the man splurge? It's better that you split it; after all, fair is fair, and it also hints that you're not interested in a second date.
The question is not whether or not it's all right for the man to pay. The question is why have we come to expect it? While I believe in women's rights and consider myself a feminist, I admit that it's hard to get rid of the expectation of a guy paying on the first date. Despite the fact that his spending money has no hidden meaning, I still believe that it's the chivalrous thing to do.
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Ethnic Albanian refugees - still far from home
The United Nations has cancelled two aid convoys to ethnic Albanian refugees in Kosovo because of a reported upsurge in fighting.
But the separatist Kosovo Liberation Army and other ethnic Albanian villagers have reported renewed shell-fire.
A spokeswoman for the UN refugee organisation in Kosovo said: "We had two convoys scheduled for this morning, one to Peterac and the other to upper Streoc, but since there were unconfirmed reports of heavy shelling in those areas we decided to cancel the convoys."
An unarmed international monitoring force is to be sent to the province to verify that both sides abide by the peace agreement.
But the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in European, in charge of the 2,000-strong monitoring force, said it is still assembling its people and will not be going to the area to confirm the reports of fighting.
However, Nato Director-General, Javier Solana, said the alliance had begun air surveillance, and vowed to prevent the violence from spreading.
"We will not allow this to happen. This must not lead to a resumption of violence," he said.
On Friday, Nato gave President Milosevic an additional 10 days to comply with UN demands, which extends the deadline for Serb withdrawal to 27 October.
Slow progress
It is unclear whether the Serb unit reported to be moving to the Drenica region would be breaching UN demands or not, because it is said to be based in the region.
But both sides have been accusing each other of continuing the hostilities.
After the Serb policemen were killed over the weekend, the head of Kosovo's regional government, Veljko Odalovic, said: ''These latest attacks show that the Albanian terrorists are trying by all possible means to prevent the realisation of the agreement.''
The KLA has criticised the Belgrade Agreement, since it allows only for the autonomy of Kosovo within Serbia, and not for full independence.


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What has happened? When did we place money over providing care? When did we start choosing continuing educations courses because they were cheap and easy rather than to learn something? Why is it acceptable to pass off challenging, time consuming patients for the quick and easy ones? ( I'll have more to say on this one later.) When did hot pack, ultrasound and massage take the place of good old hands on? Certainly some blame lies squarely at the feet of the payment sources. More blame lies on health care facilities who value numbers over quality. Ultimately it is the individual therapist who makes these decisions not Medicare, administration or any other outside force.
This isn't everyone. There are so many good people out there who would do anything for a patient. But there are those who don't care. Or, maybe they just don't know any better. Ignorance is not an excuse. The ones who suffer are the same ones who depend upon us the most, our patients. If we're not going to help them, who will? Everyone takes the occasional cheap course or cuts a few corners. One of the buzz words for this phenomenon is disengagement. I have a few different ones: burned out, exhausted, fed up and indifferent. For those of you falling into option number four, I have a message. Get it together or get out. And please, take those therapists who only know one way of doing things and don't want to know another with you.
I agree with Brian that many young people go into PT because of the availablility of jobs and decent starting salary but it's hard to put a price tag on compassion.
I am hopeful that the same doesn't happen with nursing because of the demand and the flexible schedules ( 12 hr/3day work week ).
Could it be that therapists in long term care facilities feel their work is not as successful as those who work in more acute care type of facilities. Our work at Restorative Medical (RMI) is primarily with patients who suffer with neurological tone. These are patients who have diagnoses like CP, MS, TBI, SCI, Parkinson's, Post CVA, and end stage Alzheimer's disease. Our results are remarkable and we actually see therapists, nurses and RNAs demeanors improve as they realize they can be a very important part of helping to improve the quality of life for their patients, of all ages, who before were thought to be doomed to existing with twisted and deformed bodies. I choose to believe that most people who go into healthcare just need to feel they are making a positive impact on their patients. When you are assessing patients and writing their plan of care, do not limit your patients potential success with your lack of imagination. Be HOLISTIC and look at all the possibilities, then take one step at a time. As your patient achieves one step, continue them to the next with good team health care approaches. You will be amazed how your enthusiam and patient successes will be contagious and the attitudes of an entire facility can be changed. It only takes one person to make a negative impact on an entire facility - and it only takes one to start positive improvements. What a responsibility!
I think that the PT's I see that fit the don't care category are the burnt out ones, or the ones that got into PT school because it was a "hot" job in the magazines and wanted big bucks- then got a hard dose of reality once they hit the market; they chose the wrong profession and are basically stuck. Their patient care reflects their career motivation.


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There were a number of websites and documents I reviewed last night on passenger identification. I will provide you the web links to the documents that I found useful. I hope you were able to open the report on the FAA website that I listed the web address for in my last posting.
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/homesec/RL33645.pdf has a useful history of passenger screening and the no-fly lists
http://epic.org/privacy/airtravel/backscatter/d031173.pdf has a GAO (Government Accounting Office) report on airline passenger screening that has some useful background about the creation of TSA and has some footnotes leading to other reports. Page 5 footnotes have web links to reports from 2000 about airline screening problems that may have more useful information for you.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13739_3-9962760-46.html this is a blog that can't be directly cited, but it did clarify for me the changes between the FAA's AVSEC program pre-9/11 and the TSA's programs post-9/11. Actually it's interesting to note that people can still fly without showing identification if they submit to enhanced patdowns and searches (although given the near-strip searches and gropings carried out by TSA screeners routinely, the thought of enhanced patdowns boggles my imagination).
www.tsa.gov provides information about security requirements and when aviation security was taken out of the hands of the FAA and turned over to the TSA after 9/11 as well as current security requirements. Searches for passenger screening and the sections on airline security requirements were both useful.
I also reviewed information from the Encyclopedia Britannica Online, but since this is a subscriber-only site, I can't give you the specific information. You can cite the Encyclopedia Britannica Online as a reference source, but only generally since you can't access the specific information unless you have a subscription.
I hope this helps. Unfortunately, I didn't keep track of all of the specific web pages I looked at last night, but I hope this information will enable you to produce a reference page your professor will accept. Some of the information has to be deduced based on negative information; e.g. since the TSA states that they first started requiring something in 2003, that provides proof that it wasn't required before then. You may have to point out to your professor that since many of the direct references are still classified and not available to the public, you had to work with indirect references.


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It's a world with heroes — but no superheroes.
The first issue of "First Wave," a six-issue miniseries from DC Comics, arrives in comic book shops this week, ushering in a whole new universe.
The "First Wave" universe has its roots in the pulp adventures of yesteryear. There is a Batman, but there's no Superman, no Wonder Woman — the "First Wave" heroes are merely mortal.
Standing above the rest of those heroes is Doc Savage — sort of "Superman with a lowercase 's,'" said Brian Azzarello, who crafted the "First Wave" universe and is writer of the miniseries. Doc Savage may not have powers like Superman, but "physically he's the best, mentally he's the best," Azzarello said
Batman, meanwhile, is the new hero on the scene.
Typically, the way Batman has been portrayed, "he comes to the job fully formed," Azzarello said. "And I don't want to do that, I don't want him to have a clear idea of what he's doing. I want like a rookie cop. He's going to learn on the job."
And this rookie isn't necessarily trusted by the others.
"He wears a mask," Azzarello notes. "He's got something to hide."
This Batman is also armed — with a pair of .45s. Though Batman in the regular DC universe has long loathed firearms, he did carry a gun in some of his earliest appearances
"I'm staying very true to the character's roots," Azzarello said. "I'm just taking him in a different direction than he was sort of forced to go in back when all these superpowered characters came on the scene."
Rounding out the "Big Three" in "First Wave" is the Spirit, created by legendary writer-artist Will Eisner in the 1940s.
The Spirit is detective Denny Colt, who appears to come back from the dead after going into suspended animation.
Though he's a masked vigilante like Batman, "everybody knows he's Denny Colt, even with that little mask he wears," Azzarello said.
Solo series starring Doc Savage and the Spirit will spin off from "First Wave" in April. Other colorful heroes, meanwhile, also will populate the "First Wave" universe, including the Blackhawks, the Avenger and Rima the Jungle Girl.
"First Wave," Azzarello says, is about "basically taking some of the old pulp characters and reimagining them in a more modern light." But the universe they inhabit is a timeless one, one in which tommy guns and cell phones co-
"I wanted to take some of the sexier design elements of the 20th century and kind of just throw them all together," Azzarello said.
It's up to artist Rags Morales to illustrate this world.
"I hate it when writers say, 'The artist that I'm working with, it's the best work of his career,' because it seems that everybody says it," Azzarello said.
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In a stunning display of "out-of-touchness," Nokia today unveiled something they call the "Booklet 3G" which is powered by an Intel Atom processor housed inside what looks like silver-colored plastic. It could be aluminum, we guess, but beyond wondering who knows, seriously, who cares?
Who designed this thing, Jeff Hawkins?
Promising "up to 12 hours of battery life," Nokia's new "Booklet 3G" weighs 1.25 kilograms, measures slightly more than two centimeters thick, and includes 3G/ HSPA and Wi-Fi along with Nokia's suite of Ovi services including access and playback of music tracks through the Nokia Music Store and using Ovi Suite to sync with Nokia smartphones. Ooh.
The thing also comes with an HDMI port for HD video out, a front facing camera "for video calling," integrated Bluetooth and an SD card reader. The device also has a 10-inch glass "HD-ready display," integrated A-GPS, and, of course, two space-wasting mechanical buttons under its trackpad.
Further information, including detailed specifications, market availability and pricing, to be announced at Nokia World on September 2.
And, oh yeah, it runs Windows. Yes, Windows. What flavor is anybody's guess for now.
Nokia's official press release is here.
MacDailyNews Take: Foleo-rific! If laughter is the best medicine, then today, thanks to Nokia, Steve Jobs must be feeling mighty fine.
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Prosecution continues case against Lochmiller
While several investors have testified that the head of failed Valley Investments had no reservations about putting the squeeze on investors, Philip Rand Lochmiller preferred to hold them at arms length, employees said.
Lochmiller also tried unsuccessfully to intimidate a fired employee from discussing company business, but didn't offer to reward her silence, according to the employee, a former personal secretary.
Lochmiller's trial enters its third week Monday. He faces multiple conspiracy and fraud-related charges in the trial, which is being conducted in Denver and broadcast via a closed circuit in the Grand Junction federal courtroom.
Lochmiller and his son, Philip Rand Lochmiller II, who was the office manager at the company, 1445 N. Seventh St., rarely accepted phone calls, receptionist Melissa Malloy testified last week.
The Lochmillers preferred that she and others who accepted incoming calls take messages rather than relay them directly, Malloy testified. That meant that she and others in the office, mostly women, dealt frequently with angry investors, upset they were unable to contact either Lochmiller directly, Malloy said.
"It was that way throughout my employment," and not just at the end, said Malloy, who worked at Valley Investments from July 2007 until it closed in May 2009.
Other witnesses, such as Grand Junction optician Steve Bagga, detailed how Lochmiller repeatedly assured him of the safety of his investment in May 2009, even as the company was crashing down under the weight of deep investor debt and an investigation by state regulators.
Another witness, Bridget Vandeleur, said her employment was terminated Oct. 13, 2008, and she was presented with a letter that told her she could not discuss any of Valley Investments' confidential matters. The letter, however, merely informed her of her termination and offered no financial settlement.
She wrote a letter back demanding $44,000, the amount of her salary, as a settlement, Vandeleur said. Except to say she received three payments of about $1,300 each, Vandeleur never elaborated on the outcome of her negotiations. She was dismissed from the witness stand after prosecutors and defense attorneys conducted an extensive discussion with U.S. District Judge Philip A. Brimmer.
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"Somehow, the idea that if we go back to 2007 military funding levels we're going to be a second-rate power, well that's overdoing it," said Lawrence Korb, a senior fellow with the Center for American Progress and a former U.S. assistant defense secretary.
"If you kept this cut, you're back to $500 billion a year. I find it hard to get that worried about it," Korb said, noting that this was still vastly more than any other country spends on its military…
But even on the domestic side, the predictions of gloom are subject to hyperbole and political calculation, he said.
"If I'm the administration, I'm going to ramp up the biggest and most horrible effects I can to put pressure on the Republicans" to reach a deal to prevent the cuts.
Werfel acknowledged that, unlike a government shutdown, not all of the effects are going to happen immediately when the cuts begin on March 1.


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Jason Gillespie has re-affirmed his commitment to Yorkshire in the wake of former Yorkshire batsman Darren Lehmann's appointment as the new Australia coach.
Gillespie has ruled out the possibility of joining up with Lehmann, insisting he is happy with life at Headingley.
Asked if he has been in contact with either Lehmann or Cricket Australia regarding a role, he said: "No I haven't, and that won't be happening.
"I'm Yorkshire's first-team coach, and I love my job. My family's very happy here and settled, and I'll be here. Simple. I'm committed to Yorkshire, so I'll be here.
"We feel as a support staff that we're working well together, and we're getting a good response from our players.
"We want to see them do really well and have some success. That's our goal, and I'm really excited to be a part of it. I want that to continue."
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Maybe it's the sense of time dwindling down. I feel that way sometimes. Also the feeling that things didn't work out the way I expected them to. I only had one child, I wanted two. I wanted to stay married forever, my husband cheated on me and we got divorced. I wanted a better house, but I'm still here after all those years and now trying to sell it in the worst market ever. I've been seeing someone off and on for six years and it seems to go nowhere. There are so many disappointments in life. I guess we'd all go mad if we focused on them too much. I try to think about what I do have and be thankful. That's what keeps me going.
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WARSAW, Poland -- Soccer hooligans clashed with rival fans and police before and during Poland's game Tuesday against bitter rival Russia, leaving 15 injured, and more than 100 people were detained.
After scattered fighting in the Polish capital before the match, police fired rubber bullets at a group of fans who attacked them with bottles and stones near an outdoor fan zone in central Warsaw where about 75,000 people were watching the game on huge screens. The game ended in a 1-1 tie.
None of the injured, including a police officer, was in life-threatening condition.
Security camera footage was being studied by police to try to identify the people involved.
Following the incidents, the website of Moscow radio station Ekho Moskvy reported that Russian authorities were sending Mikhail Fedotov, head of the presidential council on human rights, to Warsaw to help deal with the situation.
About 5,000 Russian fans marched to the match at National Stadium to celebrate the Russia Day national holiday. The two countries share a difficult history, including decades of control by Moscow over Poland during the Cold War. Many Poles believed authorities shouldn't have allowed the Russians to march as a group in Warsaw, given the historical wounds.
One of the most violent incidents occurred during the march. Polish hooligans attacked Russians, who responded violently. The two sides, made up of dozens of men, kicked and beat each other in the face, while flares could be seen exploding in their midst.
Journalists from The Associated Press saw several people lying injured and bleeding on the ground, with one of them appearing to be seriously hurt. Poland and Russia fans were also seen fighting and throwing stones outside the stadium.
Near the fan zone, new fighting apparently unrelated to nationalist tensions broke out among Polish fans. Police responded with rubber bullets and tear gas and made some arrests. Some of the men wore Polish team T-shirts and one said he was attacking police simply because he didn't like them.
Before the game, Russian fans clashed with police on a bridge near National Stadium, and police were later seen making arrests. The news agency PAP reported that police used water cannons and tear gas to quell the disturbances.
In another incident, a group of clearly drunken Polish men began fighting among themselves, hitting and kicking each other. Two were on the ground bleeding and police intervened, throwing two more to the ground. The men were holding cans of beer and mumbling and one appeared to be unconscious. An AP reporter witnessed the incident and saw police detain three people.
In recent days, Polish media have tried to stir up nationalistic sentiments over the match, suggesting the encounter would be more than a simple soccer game. Newspapers Monday were full of dramatic references to Poland's victorious 1920 battle against the Bolshevik army, known as the Miracle on the Vistula.
The Super Express tabloid carried a front page mocked-up picture of Poland coach Franciszek Smuda charging on horseback, saber in hand, in a 1920 Polish army uniform under the headline "Faith, Hope, Smuda" -- a play on an old army motto: "Faith, Hope, Motherland."
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Notre Dame College announced it has received a $500,000 donation to support the ongoing development of the South Euclid-based college's nursing program.
In making the announcement, Notre Dame College President Dr. Andrew P. Roth noted it is the largest gift from an individual donor in the South Euclid College's 90-year history.
"For these donors to present this generous donation at this time speaks volumes about their character and their belief that the good work we are doing is being noticed, is making a difference, and is worth investing in," Roth said.
Speaking anonymously, the donors stated, "We want to provide a substantial base of financial support for the ongoing development of the nursing program at Notre Dame College. With the addition of Dr. Beth L. Kaskel as chair of the nursing division and Dr. May Wykle to the board of trustees, the College has signaled its strong commitment to this program. We want to recognize this commitment with our donation."
Since Notre Dame started its nursing program in 2006, it has become one of the fastest-growing programs in the region, with the academic quality to match its growth, the college said in making the announcement.
Planned enhancements to facilities and academic programming is aimed at enabling the nursing division to continue to attract and retain students who are eager to build better lives for themselves and others through careers in nursing.


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Published: November 10, 2006
Sacha Baron Cohen, the British comedian who plays the fictional Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev, may satirize Kazakhstan -- and the United States -- more, but he has managed to cause offense in Russia. Officials here have moved to effectively ban his popular new film, ''Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.''
The Federal Culture and Cinematography Agency, which certifies films for public distribution, declined this week to do so for ''Borat,'' which is produced by 20th Century Fox, blocking it from the country's movie theaters only weeks before it was to open on Nov. 30.
An agency official, Yury V. Vasyuchkov, cited the film's potential to offend religious and ethnic feelings in a country where such feelings have been strained in recent months by ethnically tinged political conflicts and even violence.
The agency's decision amounted to the first such restriction on a film's public distribution -- pornography aside -- since the Soviet system of censorship collapsed in the late 1980s. In doing so, Russia has gone further even than Kazakhstan, the country that bears the brunt of Mr. Baron Cohen's mock documentary by Borat, a boorish state television reporter who visits the United States.
Although Borat's antics have exasperated officials in Kazakhstan, that country has not banned the film, though it has strongly urged that it not be distributed. And 20th Century Fox's distribution subsidiary in the region, Gemini Films, has agreed not to show it there, Gemini's director, Michael Schlicht, said in a telephone interview on Thursday.
A spokesman for Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry, Yerzhan N. Ashykbayev, said his country had nothing to do with Russia's decision.
Russian officials here maintained they had not actually banned ''Borat'' but simply recommended that it not be issued a certificate of distribution, a decision that the distributor could challenge, first within the agency and then in court. The agency's decision was reported on Thursday in the newspapers Kommersant and The Moscow Times, which both described the move as a ban.
''We do not have the right to ban a movie,'' Mr. Vasyuchkov, who runs the agency's department that grants licenses, said in a telephone interview. ''Something can be banned only on the basis of a court. We simply refused to certify it.''
Mr. Schlicht indicated that 20th Century Fox would not challenge the agency's decision. He declined to comment on it in detail, but also declined to characterize it as an outright ban.
''Russia is a liberal country; they don't forbid showing films,'' Mr. Schlicht said. ''They make recommendations, and we follow them.''
It is impossible to say how much the decision could cost 20th Century Fox, but moviegoing has expanded exponentially here in recent years, allowing Hollywood films to add millions of dollars to total earnings. By Tuesday, ''Borat,'' which opened last Friday, had taken in more than $32 million in ticket sales in the United States, and, by Monday, more than $20 million in other countries. The Russian agency's action does not necessarily mean that the film will not be seen in Russia. Piracy is so rampant here that illicit DVD's are often readily available within days of a film's release. ''Borat'' includes crude language and behavior, like naked men wrestling. But it also depicts its hero -- who, while not explicitly Muslim, is from a country with a large Sunni Muslim population -- as deeply backward, deeply prejudiced and deeply foolish. Mr. Vasyuchkov said the film ''could be offensive to some nationalities and religions'' in Russia, which has a large Muslim minority, estimated to number from 14 million to 23 million, as much as 16 percent of Russia's population.
Several predominantly Muslim countries have barred the distribution of the film, including Jordan, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman and Qatar, according to Gregg Brilliant, a spokesman for Fox.
Daniil B. Dondurei, editor of the magazine Iskusstvo Kino, or Art of Cinema, said he thought the Russian decision was purely a political one, though with several motives.
He, too, cited ethnic tensions, highlighted by a nationalistic march last weekend, but also close relations between Russia and Kazakhstan and a taboo in Russia against satirical depictions of national leaders or political systems. (In 2000 the Kremlin pressured a satirical television program, since canceled, to drop a puppet depicting President Vladimir V. Putin.)
Mr. Dondurei said that as the Soviet Union collapsed, Russia adopted a very liberal attitude when it came to what was shown in theaters and on television, where sex, violence and vulgarity are still found in abundance. ''You can see things that would be impossible in America,'' he said.
He noted, however, that there were limits. While there have been public complaints in Russia about movies like ''The Da Vinci Code'' -- and recently a concert by Madonna -- he described the move against ''Borat'' as ''a unique case,'' though one that could reflect a nascent desire to control, once again, what Russians see.
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IRVING, Texas — The past cannot be changed. He knows this, understands this, maybe even regrets this.
So he tries not to dwell on the night when he knocked a ball from Tom Brady's hand and the Tuck Rule became famous overnight. He does not spend a lot of time thinking about how his interception of a Brad Johnson pass three plays into Super Bowl XXXVII turned out to be the last highlight the Raiders had. He does not worry about the team meetings he slept through, or the curfews he partied through.
At this point, the only thing Charles Woodson can do to correct the past is overwhelm it with the future.
So you will hear him, in some distant NFL Films highlight, speaking quietly and forcefully to his Packers teammates in the locker room before the start of Sunday's Super Bowl XLV. You will see him line up against the Steelers in the slot, on the corner and in the defensive backfield during the game. You will see him cover receivers, chase the quarterback and stuff the running back, too.
This is another chance, maybe a final chance, and Woodson sounds like a man tired of living with his regrets.
"I'm older now. I'm closer to the end than to the beginning," Woodson said. "Going once (to the Super Bowl) and then not going until (eight) years later, you understand how hard it is to get here and that there is no guarantee you'll ever get back. I'm taking in every moment of it."
It is an interesting thing, this reconstruction of a career. Woodson, 34, has a Heisman Trophy, seven Pro Bowl appearances, an NFL Defensive Player of the Year award — and heavy baggage from his early days.
He was a star in Oakland, no doubt about that. He was fast, fearless and relentless. And most of the time he was the same way off the field. There were alcohol-related arrests. There were clashes with coaches. There was a sense that he was skating by on talent alone.
The interesting thing is Woodson does not shy away from any of it. Hang around enough athletes and you get used to hearing how they were misunderstood or how small incidents were blown out of proportion. Not Woodson. He owns it all.
And he does not blame the Raiders for cutting him loose after 2005.
"I had a bad rap. I was a little bit of a wild child. I enjoyed myself as a young man," Woodson said. "I guess they were tired of it."
For two consecutive years the Raiders had designated Woodson as their franchise player. His annual salary had grown to more than $10 million, and Oakland was getting diminishing returns. He missed 22 games with injuries from 2002-05, and the Raiders chose to let him walk instead of paying him the $12.6 million he would have been due in 2006.
He was not yet 30, and was a four-time Pro Bowl pick. Woodson should have been one of the most attractive free agents on the market, but the rest of the NFL didn't see it that way. The realization came to him when he was watching SportsCenter and saw a list of the high-end free agents available. His name was nowhere to be found.
A handful of teams showed a little interest, but most never called back. Woodson had a choice to play in Green Bay as a cornerback or reunite with his onetime Raiders coach Jon Gruden in Tampa Bay as a safety. He took the bigger money and the greater security in Green Bay.
"We did a lot of research into that," Packers GM Ted Thompson said. "We knew some people who knew some things. We felt very comfortable with Charles and what he could bring to our game and our team. From a leadership standpoint, he has been better than we have ever dreamed. He is the consummate professional football player. He is very focused on what he wants. He is an impressive man."
It was not an immediate success in Green Bay. Woodson had some issues with coach Mike McCarthy, but eventually he became the conscience of a team. He was chosen by teammates to deliver the pregame speech for every playoff game. He has become a virtual rover in Dom Capers' defense and has made up for declining physical skills with his outstanding instincts.
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Much of the reputation has been repaired. Woodson has statistics that would look presentable in the Hall of Fame, and he has been honest enough to curry favor with those who pay attention to that sort of thing.
His time as a cornerback is probably drawing close to an end. He is fine in the slot but has trouble going one-on-one with younger, faster receivers on the outside. His future, as the Bucs once assumed prematurely, is probably at safety.
But at the moment, Woodson is concerned more about this weekend's game. He understands careers are viewed differently when reflected in the sparkle of a championship ring.
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Before we jump in, it is important to note that I was brought in on this food project to match an already in place look and feel for the client.
The menu at the restaurant was expanding and the client was in need of capturing updated photographs of the new plates that were starting to be served.
This tutorial is a quick rundown of a two strobe lighting set up that was shot inside a restaurant.
The plate styling was being handled by the kitchen staff and head chef, so they were bringing and taking away the plates. The lighting needed to stay consistent throughout the shoot to keep things streamlined for the small window of time the food was available. Being able to move quickly through the shoot was a large component.
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- Shutter - 1/250 s
- F-stop - F/8 - F/11
- Lens - 35-70mm with Macro
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- Position - Camera Right
- 5 Feet off the ground (about 2 feet above plate)
- About 4 feet from center of plate
- Set around 3/4 power
- Beauty dish - No diffusion sock or grid
Fill Light
- Position - Camera Left
- 4 feet off ground (about 1 foot above plate)
- about 3 feet from center of plate
- Set around 1/4 - 1/8 power
- Silver reflector - No diffusion
The lighting set up came together rather quickly, knowing exactly what the client was looking for was a huge help in setting up and planning out the shoot. Since this was to match a certain look, it was easy to break down what was already in place and get the lights dialed in quickly from the get go.
Staring with the main light (camera right,) the beauty dish was attached and power started around 3/4 full. The main light was not aimed directly to the center of the plate but a little off the center line. Because the beauty dish creates parabolic light, shape is added through directional lighting verses the same amount of light through a diffused source. Moving it away from the plate increased the contrast in the main light. The light was placed about 4 feet from the plating and above the plate about 2 feet, giving the food more of a top down light. The fill light (camera left,) was set up with a silver reflector attached which threw light on the food from the opposite side of the main light to fill in the shadows and create highlights from the left which enhancing texture and reflections on the food.
A macro lens was used to knock down the focus and get closer to the front and middle of the plate to keep the focus plane on a smaller part of each plate. The dishes that were brought out from the kitchen had all type of shapes and textures, having unchanging lights kept the direction of light consistant throughout the shoot. That allowed for smoother movement through the photo shoot and gave way to creating more frames before the food shifted or lost its prep.
Again, this project was matching a certain set up I had not originally designed but was hired to mimic. In the end, what mattered most was that the the client was happy, which in turn makes made me happy.
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Dude that is breakfast for the champ!
simple , practical, efective results..thanks...
Personally don't care for the choice of the hard bare fill light.
I gotta be honest, I'd rather shoot with indirect sunlight through a nearby window with a reflector on the other side for fill. This tutorial makes for harsh light with tons of shadows and I always felt food looks better with bright, soft light. But to each his own.
Maybe you care, maybe you don't, but the comments in many of your posts should be a clue. Fstoppers has the potential to be a great site, but if you keep posting junk like this, it won't be long before you are a distant memory. That is one of the worst food lighting setups I've seen.
Be good if you could post something from a specialist food photographer to help this discussion along and show how it is done.
Don't see why it's necessary to be so critical. The author states repeatedly that his job was to mimic a lighting setup done previously. A lot harder than starting from scratch. I say well done sir.
Fair enough, but how do you know he actually matched the previous style of lighting?
I think that would have to be determined before any congratulations are given on this one.
alright so styling was not on the author. anyways I'd never eat that food based on those pictures..
but I also know how hard it is to photograph food, and how much of the final look depends mostly on how food is styled, not only on how it's lit.
looks very old, something you would find on the menu's of your local greasy spoon. the post you did about using natural light is a much better option, and gives a much cleaner look.
I'd love to see a tutorial from fstopper with this incredible Canadian food photographer. His natural lighting techniques are simple yet effective and his compositions are endlessly creative and interesting.
Yes, I do photography.
Yes, I am only semi-professional.
Yes, I do make (allot?) of My restaurant menu choices by the pictures that accompany the selections. As a photographer I like some aspects and dislike several-few. However, as a customer I mostly like the depictions of the food.
The point of the paid task is to PRESENT the FOOD, not some highfaluting artistic belief. The restaurant is selling the food, not some idealistic and unachievable photography principle or practice.
wow, really? these food photos aren't close to looking professional at all.
So I guess you're only aloud to post flattering comments about this photographer's work or your posts are deleted. I've never been out of line in these posts, and the one that you deleted here wasn't either.


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