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Details of Piero's schooling remain conjecture, but we can deduce something of its nature from the skills he displayed as an adult. He wrote his mathematics books in Italian rather than Latin, suggesting that he probably did not learn Latin at school. Also it is clear that Piero's Italian writing lacked style, and was rather simple and elementary. This suggests that Piero did not spend that long at school and it confirms his lack of Latin since those who could write fluent Latin developed a style when writing Italian that reflected Latin structure. However, as an adult he had read Euclid's Elements and had some knowledge of the works of Archimedes and, since no Italian versions were available in Piero's day, he must have learnt enough Latin in later life to read these works. Paul Grendler writes [32]:-
His father's occupation and social position probably determined that Piero della Francesca attended an abbaco and vernacular school, perhaps only for a few years. The boy Piero probably received the same schooling as did thousands of other Italians of his background, but it was a surprisingly rich and diverse education. The adult Piero may have learned enough Latin to enable him to read Latin mathematical texts with their specialised vocabulary. The key seems to be that Piero continued to learn throughout his life. And his learning worked for him. One has the impression that Piero retained everything - the saints' legends read in school, the mathematics of abbaco school, his creative explorations into ancient geometry - and that all his learning enriched his painting.Our knowledge of Piero's life in San Sepolcro has been greatly increased by the research of James Banker (see [3] and [19]). Documents Banker has found show that Piero worked as the assistant of Antonio d'Anghiari in the 1430s. Antonio came from the village of Anghiari, about 7 km from Borgo San Sepolcro, but moved to Borgo San Sepolcro where he completed his first commission and was paid on 27 May 1430. Piero's father Benedetto was witness to the payment. In June of the following year Benedetto received payment for Piero's work "painting the poles of the candles". Benedetto received further payments for work carried out by Piero over the following years during which he was clearly working as an assistant to Antonio. For example one document dated 29 December 1432 states (see [19]):-
Master Antonio di Giovanni painter from Anghiari, inhabitant of the land of Borgo, was confessed and content to be the true debtor of Benedetto di Piero di Benedetto from aforesaid Borgo in the amount of fifty-six florins ... for the salary and debt of Pietro, painter, son of said Benedetto and the wages of the said Pietro for the labour lent to the said Master Antonio from the first of the month of the most recent June and also from the loan to him by the said Benedetto made freely on successive occasions and down to today for the exigencies of said master Antonio for the furnishings of the pictures of the altar-piece of the major altar of the church of S Francesco.The fact that Piero is described as a "painter" in this document indicates that Piero was not an apprentice by this time but rather an assistant. By the dating we have given above, he was only twelve years old at the time, certainly the right age to be an apprentice but that he would be an assistant by this age is surprising. The real problem is that, fascinating as all the evidence about Piero's youth is, whatever dates are proposed, there always seems to remain some difficulties. The documents show that Piero's father continued to receive payments for work undertaken by Piero, working with Antonio d'Anghiari, in 1435, 1436, and 1437, in particular for painting banners for the Church. A document dated 8 January 1438, again signed by Benedetto, ends Piero's association with Antonio acknowledging that payment has been received for Piero's work on three separate churches and chapels in and around Borgo San Sepolcro. Banker, in [3], gives an overview of the influence of these years on the young Piero:-
The artisan culture of San Sepolcro in the 1430s profoundly informed Piero's sensibility. His origins in this culture endowed him with several strengths and habits of mind that sustained him throughout his life, overcoming the socially ambiguous nature of his family as it was perched between artisan and merchant status. His labour in the artisan culture remained formative in Piero's life and art, not withstanding his great later achievements in painting, mathematics, and geometry that required access to and participation in an elite culture. His formative years as an artisan moulded the understructure of his mind: his linguistic practices, artisan methods, and representation of artisan achievements.Piero left Borgo San Sepolcro and went to Florence where, in 1439, he was assisting Domenico Veneziano in painting the chapel of Santa Egidio, in Santa Maria Novella. Paul Watson writes [2]:-
In Florence he probably studied the statuary of Donatello and Luca Della Robbia, the buildings of Filippo Brunelleschi, and the paintings of Masaccio and Fra Angelico, and he might have read a theoretical treatise on painting by the humanist and architect Leone Battista Alberti. Undoubtedly, he would have been directed to these luminaries by Domenico Veneziano, whose own works demonstrate a Renaissance emphasis on colour and light as elements of pictorial construction. It was this contact with the early Renaissance art of Florence that provided the foundation of Piero's own style.It is not known whether Piero assisted Domenico for the whole work but we know he received payment for his contribution to painting the first mural on 12 September 1439. In June 1441 Domenico began work on a second fresco in the chapel and by this time Piero is listed as a member of the town council in Borgo San Sepolcro. It has been pointed out that he may not actually have been living in Borgo at this time and might well have continued to assist Domenico. However, it appears that he painted the Baptism in Borgo San Sepolcro around 1441 in the cathedral church of St John the Evangelist (although some art historians suggest it was painted 20 years later). Ginzburg in [9] discusses in depth the various arguments used in dating Piero's paintings. In 1445 the Compagnia della Misericordia, a guild whose aim was to help the poor and unfortunate, commissioned him to paint an altarpiece in their church at Borgo San Sepolcro. The commission stated that the work was to be completed within three years, but it was not finished until 1462, seventeen years after Piero began. The image painted by Piero depicts the Virgin protecting members of the guild under her cloak. Piero only worked intermittently on the altarpiece, undertaking many other commissions during these years.
You can see the San Sepolcro alterpiece at THIS LINK.
Also in Borgo San Sepolcro around this time he painted the Baptism of Christ, which uses geometry to great effect, for example in placing the dove at the centre of the circle forming the top of the painting. The hills around Borgo San Sepolcro and the town itself appear in the background of the scene.
You can see the Baptism of Christ at THIS LINK.
After undertaking work in Pesaro and Ancona, around 1450 he was invited to Ferrara by Borso d'Este where he [13]:-
... decorated many of the palace rooms. These, however, were afterwards destroyed by Duke Ercole the elder when he renovated the palace.Also while in Ferrara he painted frescos in the Sant'Andrea Church of the Augustinians in Sant'Agostino. He was in Rimini in 1451 commissioned by Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta. He painted a famous fresco of Sigismondo praying before St Sigismund and, as this painting is signed and dated, it is one of the few definite dates in this biography. While in Rimini he met with the mathematician and architect Leone Battista Alberti who was completing his book De re aedificatoria. Alberti, like Piero, was deeply interested in perspective and the two must have exchanged ideas on this topic while in Rimini. One of Piero's most famous works (many would say his most famous) is the Story of the True Cross cycle, begun around 1457. Marilyn Lavin [33] writes about the frescos, commissioned by the richest family in Arezzo (the Bacci family), and painted in the church of San Francesco:-
In the Tuscan town of Arezzo, Piero della Francesca painted the Renaissance fresco cycle most admired by twentieth-century viewers. The frescoes represent the story of the True Cross, and were commissioned for the chancel area of the friary church of San Francesco. The decorations had been started by a popular, but rather workmanlike, painter Bicci di Lorenzo, in the late 1440s; it was probably after Bicci died in 1452 that Piero was called in. He completed the project sometime before December 20, 1466 ...Not only do the frescos show that Piero is complete master of perspective but they also show a remarkable treatment of light. Piero uses light, combining shadow and shade, to make the figures 3-dimensional. Light is also used in conjunction with perspective to create the illusion of depth in the scenes depicted.
You can see the True Cross frescos at THIS LINK.
Piero was the called to Rome by Pope Pius II soon after he became pope in August 1458. Piero painted many frescos in the Vatican, later destroyed when replaced by works by Raphael, and in the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore. After leaving Rome, Piero returned to his home town where he undertook a number of commissions before he went to Loreto to begin decorating the vault of the sacristy with Domenico Veneziano. An outbreak of the plague caused them to leave soon after starting the work. Piero's The Flagellation of Christ, painted in Urbino around 1460, is now considered a masterpiece. Marilyn Lavin writes [10]:-
Although Piero della Francesca's Flagellation is today one of the most famous and highly regarded paintings of the Italian fifteenth century, its prominence in the history of art is relatively new. Small in scale and housed in the out-of-the-way town of Urbino, its very existence is unrecorded before the late eighteenth century. When it made its first appearance in art historical literature some time after, Piero was, surprisingly enough, considered more a technician than an artist. ... Only around the turn of [the 20th] century did [the Flagellation] begin to be appreciated as a great work of art. With the waning of romantic attitudes and the critical acceptance of Post-Impressionism and Cubism, it was soon drawing praise for the very qualities that had earlier been censured; its restrained expression, purity of colour and, above all, the perfect equilibrium of its organisation.The scene is dominated by architecture with stunning use of perspective to both add realism and also to draw the eye towards the figure of Christ although he is depicted almost in the background.
You can see the Flagellation of Christ at THIS LINK.
Piero produced other remarkable paintings, including the Resurrection painted in Borgo San Sepolcro around 1563. The landscape around Borgo San Sepolcro and the town itself is represented amazingly accurately behind the figure of Christ preparing to leave the tomb.
You can see the Resurrection of Christ at THIS LINK.
Further works are the Madonna del Parto, a fresco originally in Santa Maria di Momentana in Monterchi painted around the same time, the Nativity painted around 1470-75, the Madonna di Senigallia painted in Urbino around 1474, the Madonna and Child with Saints, a Montefeltro Altarpiece painted just after the Madonna of Senigalli.
You can see the Madonna del Parto at THIS LINK, the Madonna di Senigallia at THIS LINK and the Montefeltro Altarpiece at THIS LINK.
He also painted portraits of Federico da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, and Battista Sforza, Duchess of Urbino. Federico was blind in his right eye so Piero shows him in profile so as not to give offence. Despite this the Duke is painted with realism, for example his bent nose and wart are depicted, yet the portrait shows great elegance. The background landscape is remarkably detailed yet subtle.
You can see the Urbino portraits at THIS LINK.
Piero spent the last years of his life in his home town, becoming prior of the Confraternita di San Bartolomeo in 1480. Although some historians dispute this, many accept Vasari's claim in [13] that Piero went blind. For example Beck writes [20]:-
There is solid evidence that he became blind in later life, although almost certainly this occurred after 1487 when he made some hand-written notes blocking out the details of his last will and testament. Obviously, blindness had an enormous impact upon his life and his art, making it impossible to date any work whatsoever after ca. 1488. More challenging for the critic is the possibility that his eyesight deteriorated slowly. Were this documentable, we might understand features of his later work that could reflect a declining visual condition ... For the moment there is no evidence for fixing precisely when the blindness occurred nor have efforts been made to identify a visual crisis in his art.Finally we note that no evidence exists that Piero ever married. Certainly no wife or children are mentioned in his will which has survived.
We now give a description, contributed by J V Field, of Piero's mathematical works.
The Abacus treatise is similar to works used for instructional purposes in 'Abacus schools'. It deals with arithmetic, starting with the use of fractions, and works through series of standard problems, then it turns to algebra, and works through similarly standard problems, then it turns to geometry and works through rather more problems than is standard before (without warning) coming up with some entirely original three-dimensional problems involving two of the 'Archimedean polyhedra' (those now known as the truncated tetrahedron and the cuboctahedron).
Four more Archimedeans appear in the Short book on the five regular solids: the truncated cube, the truncated octahedron, the truncated icosahedron and the truncated dodecahedron. (All these modern names are due to Johannes Kepler (1619).) Piero appears to have been the independent re-discoverer of these six solids. Moreover, the way he describes their properties makes it clear that he has in fact invented the notion of truncation in its modern mathematical sense.
On perspective for painting is the first treatise to deal with the mathematics of perspective, a technique for giving an appearance of the third dimension in two-dimensional works such as paintings or sculptured reliefs. Piero is determined to show that this technique is firmly based on the science of vision (as it was understood in his time). He accordingly starts with a series of mathematical theorems, some taken from the optical work of Euclid (possibly through medieval sources) but some original to Piero himself. Some of these theorems are of independent mathematical interest, but on the whole the work is conceived as a manual for teaching painters to draw in perspective, and the detailed drawing instructions are mind-numbing in their repetitiousness. There are many diagrams and illustrations, but unfortunately none of the known manuscripts has illustrations actually drawn by Piero himself.
None of Piero's mathematical work was published under his own name in the Renaissance, but it seems to have circulated quite widely in manuscript and became influential through its incorporation into the works of others. Much of Piero's algebra appears in Pacioli's Summa (1494), much of his work on the Archimedeans appears in Pacioli's De divina proportione (1509), and the simpler parts of Piero's perspective treatise were incorporated into almost all subsequent treatises on perspective addressed to painters.
Article by: .J J O'Connor, E F Robertson and J. V. Field, London


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While I was waiting for a huge order of films to come in, I rethought how I was approaching my research.
Over the Christmas break, I realized that when I had a birth, marriage, or death film, it was far better to focus the research on that roll of film, rather than a specific person. In other words, go back to the index film for that quarter and year, scan the index, and write down the reference for anybody who might be of interest on the register film. Then look at the register film and write down the details of all the references.
This method works. While I was knocking off lookups of Collinses and McCarthys, I found Ellen Hurley. She was born 6-Jul-1871 in Coolnagarrane (Coolnagrane), exactly where her marriage record said she was from. And her mother's name was Margaret Hourihane. Now how cool is that?!?
Well when I go to the Family History Center I don't normally expect to actually FIND somebody important. On Saturday, I was expecting to spend my day looking over these register films. But instead I immediately went to the 1901 census film, which I fortunately have on hold. I found the household record, and it appears that Ellen's father was already deceased. There were two siblings listed. One was a younger sister Katie. Another was a younger sister. Annie. "Annie" is making a lot of bells clang in my brain, as this could have been Annie Sullivan's mother.
I also ran over to the computer, used the PILOT function on the Family History website, and found the index reference for the marriage of John Hurley and Margaret Hourihane. So I'll be able to find out where Ellen's mother was from. I've already got that marriage information on order. So now I have a new obsession to pursue - Hourihane.
It turns out that one of my Internet genealogy buddies emailed the basic information about this Ellen Hurley to me a few months ago. Only the information was very general for Skibbereen, it didn't say where in Skibbereen these Hurleys were. My buddy also found a few other siblings. So I know much more about the Hurleys now.
I also found the birth record for Ellen McCarthy Maher. She was born 15-Sep-1869 in Tooreen. Her mother was Mary McCarthy McCarthy. I still do not know her relationship to Greatgrandmother Margaret McCarthy Collins. But we are one step closer to finding out.
The real Ellen Hurley ended up being four years older than I was lead to believe from census and death records. Ellen McCarthy Maher ended up being five years older. This just goes to show how difficult it can be to find somebody!
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Another day of traveling. We left Parker, Colorado and have arrived safely in Kansas City, Missouri. We have met up with Joseph and Alyson Shepperd who are currently living here. It has been good to visit with them. Also met with Mike Stokes for a short visit and introduction. He is not related.
Anyhow, made a stop in Abilene, and sang the song. It was great. In Kansas City we sang "Everything is up to date in Kansas City", and the classic Kansas City.
Otherwise there was not much to tell but that we cross the whole state of Kansas.
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A man was shot four times by police inside a northern Utah hospital emergency room Friday after he made demands and pulled out two guns, authorities said.
NORTH LOGAN, Utah — A man was shot four times by police inside a northern Utah hospital emergency room Friday after he made demands and pulled out two guns, authorities said.
Jason James Burr, 34, was injured by two probation officers who happened to be at the hospital with a parolee, said North Park Police Chief Kim Hawkes at a news conference. It's not clear if Burr fired any shots, he said. Hawkes also didn't reveal what demands Burr was making.
Nobody else was injured.
Investigators are still trying to piece together what happened. Hawkes said he did not have any details about why the man pulled out a firearm or what he was doing at the hospital.
Burr is in critical but stable condition at a Salt Lake City hospital. The shooting occurred Cache Valley Hospital in North Logan, located about 85 miles north of Salt Lake City.
Burr pleaded guilty in August 2010 to falsely obtaining and dispensing prescription drugs, Utah online court records show. He was sentenced to 30 days in jail and put on three years of probation.
The two probation agents who shot Burr went to the emergency room after being summoned by hospital police, Hawke said. Burr confronted one of them, and that's when shots were fired, he said.
The officers are on standard administrative leave as the Cache County Attorney's Office investigates the incident, Utah Department of Corrections spokeswoman Brooke Adams said.
The shooting prompted a lockdown of the hospital and a nearby school. It's unknown how many people were in the emergency room at that time.
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text: « back to directory print Debra Bechtel Associate Professor of Clinical Law 250 Joralemon Street Brooklyn, NY 11201 (718) 780-0342 | Email Areas of Expertise Corporate LawReal Estate LawCommunity Development Education B.A., University of WashingtonJ.D., George Washington University National Law Center Biography Courses Publications Noteworthy Debra Bechtel is one of New York City's foremost legal experts in low-income cooperatives. She has been teaching at Brooklyn Law School since 1997 when she founded the Corporate and Real Estate Clinic. The Clinic provides representation for these low-income co-ops and each semester enrolls approximately six to ten students. Dozens of low-income cooperatives in three Boroughs have been preserved in part because of the students' assistance with loan closings, real estate tax arrears, shareholder meetings and other challenges. In 2014, she was appointed as Deputy Director of the Center for Urban Business Entrepreneurship (CUBE), which trains students to represent entrepreneurs and involves them, along with faculty, in housing and economic development policy issues. Prior to teaching, Professor Bechtel was the Director of the Community Development Legal Assistance Center, a project of what is now Lawyer's Alliance for New York, and she was a staff attorney with the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago. Professor Bechtel has been active in the Cooperative and Condominium Committee of New York State Bar Association's Real Property Section for the past ten years, speaking at meetings and CLE events. For the past three years she has been a member of the New York City Bar's Housing and Urban Development Committee. Her article titled "Forming Entities to Negotiate Community Benefits Agreements", was published in the Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law. Related Links: Faculty News Curriculum


text: Justin Bieber's manager, Scooter Braun, thinks New York might not be the best locale for his high-flying friend, tech billionaire Sean Parker. "New York is the city that never sleeps. I think for a person like Sean, it's good to be in a city that sleeps," Braun told Page Six Magazine, out on Thursday. "Sean needs to be focused. He doesn't need distractions. Sean's at his best when he can collect his thoughts." The Napster founder and Spotify backer, who is played by Justin Timberlake in "The Social Network," doesn't mind the party-boy reputation he inherited from the film, but his friends say he can't seem to shake a deep insecurity about the two-dimensional portrayal. "I think he feels like people don't take him seriously," Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow, 64, who befriended Parker during his Napster days, said. "People still think that he just happened to be in the right place at the right time. People often think of him as being like the character . . . in the movie. Which, like any caricature, often fits gross dimensions, but the reality is often more interesting and complicated." Parker's pals maintain he's still the same nerd as before, but they blame the movie for making him so image-conscious.


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Minimum-Wage Increase Could Slow Future Hiring, Employment Survey Shows
Just over half of U.S. businesses that pay the minimum wage would hire fewer workers if the federal standard is raised to $10.10 per hour, according to a survey by a large staffing firm to be released Wednesday. But the same poll found a majority of those companies would not cut their current workforce.
About two-thirds of employers paying the minimum wage said they would raise prices for goods or services in response to an increase, the survey by Express Employment Professionals found. About 54% of minimum-wage employers would reduce hiring if the federally mandated rate increased by $2.85 per hour. A smaller share—38% -- said they would lay off employees if the wage increase favored by President Barack Obama becomes law.
The poll, designed to gauge businesses' reaction to the wage increase, marks the latest effort by businesses and groups on both sides of the issue to shape a heated debate about whether increasing pay for workers at the bottom will help or hurt the U.S. economy.
A report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, released last month, found a jump to $10.10 per hour would cost the U.S. about 500,000 jobs by the second half of 2016. But the study said the increase would also lift 900,000 Americans out of poverty by boosting incomes for the working poor. The CBO study reviewed the work of a range of economists.
The staffing firm's survey of about 1,200 companies, conducted last month, found that a wage increase would alter hiring plans for a sizable share of all employers including those that don't have minimum-wage workers. Among all businesses polled, 19% said they would let employees go as a result of the wage increase and 39% said future hiring would be reduced.
"The response shows that some businesses will certainly lose employees and many will not be hiring as much, if the minimum wage goes up," Express chief executive Bob Funk said in an interview. "In a time of weak job growth like we've had recently, this is not the right time for a wage hike."
Though Mr. Funk said he thinks a minimum-wage increase would hurt the overall economy, he said his firm could actually benefit because it would take a share of the higher wages paid to the workers it places. Wednesday's survey from Express is not the company's first report to challenge a key piece of the president's agenda. Last year, the company published a paper arguing the Affordable Care Act would reduce job creation and erode the number of people working in full-time jobs.
The Oklahoma City firm, which caters to mostly small- and medium-sized businesses, said increasing the minimum wage would put upward pressure on labor costs for all employers because workers who earn close to $10 per hour also would seek raises if the bottom level was increased by almost 40%.
Results of the Express survey are roughly in line with other polls measuring business reaction to a minimum wage increase.
A Duke University/CFO Magazine survey of chief financial officers, released last week, found that 47% of retail firms and about a third of service and manufacturing companies would reduce jobs if the minimum wage rose to $10 per hour.
A survey from Wells Fargo and Gallup released in November found that 28% of small-business owners said they would reduce their current workforce in response to a minimum wage increase to $9 per hour.
President Obama called on Congress more than a year ago to raise the minimum wage to $9 per hour. Earlier this year, as part of a strategy to combat income inequality, he embraced legislation introduced by Sen. Tom Harkin (D., Iowa) and Rep. George Miller (D. Calif.) to increase the minimum wage in stages to $10.10 an hour and index it to inflation afterward.


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HOBOKEN, N.J., Nov. 1 (UPI) -- The U.S. death toll from superstorm Sandy reached 88 and the number of homes and businesses without electricity fell to 4.9 million, officials said Thursday.
The 88 U.S. deaths attributed to Sandy brought the storm's overall death toll to 157, with 67 dead in the Caribbean and two confirmed dead in Canada, CNN reported.
At least 37 people were killed in New York City. At least six people died in New Jersey, and officials said they feared the toll would rise as additional home searches were conducted.
The National Weather Service said Thursday a nor'easter could develop next week over the mid-Atlantic states into New England, but the storm was not expected to be as strong as Sandy, CNN reported.
An estimated 4.9 million households and businesses remained without power across the Northeast -- an estimated 530,000 of them in New York -- and authorities warned it could take a week or more to restore electricity for many. ABC News reported Con Ed expects to have all power restored in Manhattan by Saturday.
Con Edison said Thursday it expects to restore service by the end of next week to "the vast majority" of those who lost power in New York City and Westchester County due to superstorm Sandy.
In a news release, the utility said it could take at least another week to restore service to all customers.
An estimated 900,000 Con Ed customers lost power due to the storm. The company said service had been restored to about 250,000 customers by 11 a.m. Thursday.
The storm led to power failures in at least 17 states.
During President Barack Obama's flight to Wisconsin for a campaign event Thursday, White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters aboard Air Force the president would maintain contact with Federal Emergency Management Administrator Craig Fugate and "the rest of his team to ensure that bureaucracy and red tape are not impeding efforts to respond to communities recovering from the storm."
Carney said Obama would conduct conference calls during the day with local elected officials in areas affected by the storm.
The White House announced Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano will travel to Connecticut and New York to meet with state and local officials, and inspect response and recovery operations.
Subways and buses rolled again in some parts of New York City Thursday and mandatory water restrictions were in effect across New Jersey after Sandy.
Meanwhile, Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi of hard-hit New Jersey and Billy Joel of New York's badly damaged Long Island are scheduled to perform in a one-hour telecast benefit concert for victims of Sandy Friday.
The 8 p.m. EDT "Hurricane Sandy: Coming Together" concert -- which is also to include Christina Aguilera, Sting, comedian Jimmy Fallon and NBC News anchor Brian Williams -- will benefit the American Red Cross, NBCUniversal Media said.
The event, which will be taped-delayed in the West, will be shown on NBC and NBCUniversal cable stations Bravo, CNBC, MSNBC, E! Entertainment Television, G4, Syfy, Style Network and USA Network, NBCUniversal said. It will also be streamed live on the NBC.com website.
Channels not owned by the company will be allowed to carry the concert, broadcast from NBC facilities in New York City's Rockefeller Center and hosted by Matt Lauer of NBC's "Today" show.
Service resumed Thursday on 14 of New York's 23 subway lines, but no service was below 34th Street, much of which was still without power. City buses and suburban commuter rail lines also ran with limited service.
All transit fares were eliminated Thursday and Friday after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy authorized the Metropolitan Transit Authority to waive fares Thursday and Friday as an inducement to get people to take mass transit.
Much of New York City faced gridlock. Taxis picked up multiple passengers. Gasoline was increasingly hard to come by -- some cars ran out of gas while waiting for hours in mile-long lines.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered Manhattan-bound cars on all bridges except the George Washington Bridge from New Jersey to have at least three occupants from 6 a.m. to midnight Thursday and Friday. Taxis and livery cars were exempt from the restriction.
All four major New York-area airports were in operation, including LaGuardia, which was shut down until Thursday morning because of severe flooding.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said the first plane landing at LaGuardia was a Delta Air Lines flight from Syracuse, N.Y.
Kennedy, Newark and suburban Stewart International Airport were expected to be at full operation Friday, the Port Authority said.
Organizers said the New York City Marathon will be run as scheduled Sunday, CNN reported.
In New Jersey, which bore the brunt of the storm, most mass transit systems remained shut down.
Gov. Chris Christie said mandatory statewide water restrictions were in effect as a result of power outages from Sandy that sapped water-treatment systems.
Any water use that's not essential will not be allowed, he said in announcing the restrictions late Wednesday.
"Maybe take a little bit of a shorter shower," Christie suggested.
About a quarter of the state's population -- more than 2 million people -- remained without power early Thursday, and more than 6,000 were still in shelters, state emergency officials said.
More than 100 municipalities where federal emergencies were declared this week have the lowest ratings from the federal government under a program that rewards communities for trying to minimize flood damage, USA Today reported. The program gives residents of communities that take flood-prevention action higher discounts on their insurance premiums.
Large portions of West Virginia, as well as western Maryland and southwestern Pennsylvania, were digging out from snowfall accumulations of as much as 2-3 feet in some places. Some parts of the region may get several more issues of snow, forecasters said.
Obama viewed the destruction with Christie Wednesday, then met with residents in a community-center shelter set up in Brigantine, 5 miles from Atlantic City.
"The entire country has been watching what's been happening," Obama said. "Everybody knows how hard Jersey has been hit."
Boardwalks along beaches were blown away. Amusement parks, arcades and restaurants were turned to rubble. Barrier island bridges buckled, keeping residents from inspecting property damage, the Times said.
In Hoboken, N.J., a city of about 50,000 across the Hudson River from Manhattan, thousands of residents remained stranded in apartment buildings Thursday, cut off from help by streets still waist-high in contaminated water.
"This is historic," Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer told The Wall Street Journal Wednesday. "We are trying to reach everyone as quickly as we can."


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Another Christmas has come and gone and I'm anxious to start a new year. It was a low key Christmas and that's how I like it best. Maddie learned how to say "ho, ho, ho" every time she saw a Santa and Olive enjoyed sitting under the tree mesmerized by the lights. As I get older and especially now that we're parents, I realize each year how I want to center the holiday more on Christ and not the presents.
Monday, December 30, 2013
Christmas 2013
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Sunday, December 8, 2013
Our 2 Year Old
On Thanksgiving Day, our Maddie Moo turned two! We were able to spend the day with our birth family in South Carolina and it was awesome! I took one photo with my phone of the day- and it was just of the girls. I forgot my real camera and I'm trying not to be sick about the moments I didn't capture. Grandma Celia made adorable dog cupcakes to celebrate the day- after the yummy feast. We feel so blessed to have them in our lives!
Happenings of M3:
* caught her eating things off the floor like a dog
*stopped her from licking water out of the dog bowl
*pulled Cony's shorts down and gave him a raspberry on his bum
*falls asleep holding books
*licks faces if you let her
*tries to chew on my toes
*talking in full sentences (small but full)
-our favorites: "Hi Dadda!" "Hi Mamma!"
*puts on boots and runs to the door for a "walk"
*pulls her new birthday tutu all the way up to her armpits
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5 months
OCM at 5 months:
*full of smiles
*loves to eat cereal
*plays while breastfeeding
*grabbing anything within reach
*loves her crib
*sucks her two right fingers to sleep & sooth herself
*almost sitting up on her own
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I'm sitting here watching the Christmas Devotional waiting for Cony to come home from his trip to Mississippi. My heart is full after a wonderful Sabbath day- something that is very rare these days. With Cony gone and me working the most I have in one week since being a mom, I knew today would be difficult. However, I'm humbled because the Lord has lifted me in unexpected ways in the last two days. I found a way to serve someone today and somehow in the last few months I've forgotten how important that is to my soul. After making it home in a car on E from church, the girls went right to sleep- at the same time. After only three hours of sleep on my part this seemed like a treasure way beyond my reach. Olive slept from 1:00 to 5:30 and although Maddie woke up with a 101.5 temperature because she's teething, it allowed us to snuggle and have more relaxing time. The Lord knew exactly what I needed today.
A year later we are starting to see the reasons we moved back to Georgia. Maybe the reasons haven't been very obvious to us because we've been in survival mode for what seems like an eternity... regardless I couldn't be more thankful for my mom who helps us survive. I'm able to work and make it worth it because she takes care of our girls- even when it means waking up and going home at 2:00 AM. When I take the time to open my eyes... I see that Heavenly Father has been by our side through the good and the bad. I can't help but feel blessed for the trials we have because of what we learn in the process.
Today is exactly what my soul needed and I'm thankful.
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Vicente Padilla, who came to the Dodgers with a reputation as a head hunter, officially became a Giants killer on Saturday night.
Padilla remained unbeaten with the Dodgers as Russell Martin and James Loney homered in a 9-1 win over the Giants that trimmed the Los Angeles' magic number for clinching a playoff berth to 12. After the game, a handful of players watched the Padres finally defeat the Rockies, who slipped three games back with a 3-2 loss in 10 innings.
"Don't even talk about it," snapped manager Joe Torre at the magic-number reference after his club equaled its high-water mark at 27 games above .500. With a revived offense, the Dodgers have outscored the Giants, 19-4, in the first two games of this series, pushing the third-place squad to 8 1/2 games back in the National League West with a grudge match looming in Sunday's finale against former teammate Brad Penny.
The Dodgers offense has scored five or more runs in five of the last seven games and has eight home runs in five games of this trip. Loney and Martin, the six and seven hitters, combined for five RBIs and four runs scored. The Dodgers scored in five different innings.
"[The Giants] are struggling somewhat, but we were, too, coming in," said Torre. "Slowly but surely, I've been asked about Russell and Loney, they're gradually getting better. Right now, they're in a good place."
Padilla, 3-0 since being picked up for minimum wage, allowed one unearned run on three hits in six innings and lowered his ERA to 2.01 since being acquired for the stretch run.
"We kind of caught lightning in a bottle with him," Martin said.
The only run Padilla allowed was self-inflicted by bungling a sacrifice bunt, fumbling the ball, then slipping as he threw it away. But he put down that third-inning threat, then another in the fifth when the Giants had runners on second and third with one out, and he struck out Eugenio Velez and got Edgar Renteria on a ground out.
"That's important to have when you do get in trouble," said Torre. "A lot of pitchers can pitch with a lead, but to be able to wiggle off the hook is valuable."
Padilla, who also singled home the first run of the game, is the most prominent of the Dodgers' midseason acquisitions, although there's also the return of the bats of Martin and Loney.
Martin went the entire month of August with only seven RBIs, but he's driven in eight in the last six games after endless drills designed to keep him from spinning off pitches. Martin also said he's feeling better physically than he remembers in earlier Septembers.
"My whole body feels fresh," he said. "Normally, I start wearing down. This year has been different."
Even though Martin's towering home run barely tucked inside the left-field foul pole, Torre called it proof that Martin's work with hitting coach Don Mattingly is paying off.
"He's been working getting his swing back, and he's been going to the opposite field, so when he gets something inside, he's able to take advantage of it," he said.
Martin said he had a good batting practice on Friday that he took into Friday night's game, when he had a two-run double, and it carried over to Saturday night, when he improved to 6-for-13 off Jonathan Sanchez.
"I feel my hands are working well," he said. "The main thing is getting the same feel. I feel balanced, and I'm recognizing the ball well."
Loney is the most puzzling home run hitter on the team. He has 12 this year, all on the road. He needed 68 games to hit his first three of the season, but he's hit three in his last five games.
"I'm not trying to hit home runs, I'm trying to drive the ball," Loney said. "I've gone back to my old self like I need to be. I used to get caught up in different stances, now I stick with one. Sometimes you try things in batting practice and it feels good, but during the game it's different. I'm sticking with what's comfortable for me and what feels right. I watched old video and saw what I did in the past and I'm trusting that."
Loney is 4-for-8 with five RBIs in this series.


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Then when you actually hold the instrument in your hands and take the full size guitar neck, loosen the screw/strap holder that securely bolts the neck to the body and fold over the neck towards the top of the body you can see the uniquely patented hinge system that makes this feat possible.
Now when the "folding-your-guitar-in-half" conversion takes place keep in mind that your strings are fully up to pitch (tuned to "E").
Reverse the action and tighten the neck screw down again and guess what? You are in tune! What! Yes, you are in tune (or close enough for rock n' roll).
A captured nut system keeps the strings from jumping out of their proper position during the process.
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Facebook Among the Worst Big U.S. IPO Starts in 5 Years
Facebook's continued fall has put the social network on pace to be one of the worst large U.S. IPO starts in the past five years.
The social network's much ballyhooed offering was in the midst of its second-straight day of declines, dropping as low as $30.98 today. That would have been an 18.5% drop from its IPO of $38.
The stock has recovered somewhat, recently down 3% to $33. That also marks a 13% decline from its IPO price, equal to the worst three-day start for an IPO that raised over $1 billion since 2007, according to Dealogic.
There have been 23 U.S. IPOs over that size since 2007. Through the first three sessions, only asset-manager Och-Ziff Capital performed as poorly, losing 13% as well, according to Dealogic. In fact, only seven of the deals ended their first three sessions in the red, the data provider says.
Facebook would have to fall further to be worst first-week performer, given Och-Ziff ended its inaugural week down 24%. Overall the 23 IPOs averaged a 15.6% gain during their first week, according to Dealogic, meaning Facebook would have to hit $44 by Thursday's close to catch them.
Among deals that raised over $500 million since 2007, Facebook would be on pace for the fourth-worst first week, behind Och-Ziff, Orbitz Worldwide and Clearwire. (Orbitz and Clearwire both lost 17%.)
To be sure, it is only midday Tuesday and Facebook's shares could rebound.
But for now, the most-traded IPO in history has gotten off to one of the ugliest starts in recent history.


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Daily Archives: 15 January 2010
USGS map of earthquake activity
The USGS has an realtime updated map of recent earthquake activity.
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WSJ: "As the Flame of Catholic Dissent Dies Out "
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Posted in SESSIUNCULA, The Drill 32 Comments
Want to help Haitians? Be careful of scams!
If you are interested in donating money to help Haitians, be careful to check that the organization is legit. Here is a link to a Fox News story. I am sure there is other coverage from different outlets. Sapienti pauca.
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Haiti: "Everywhere, you can hear cries from under the rubble"
Fr. Finigan posted this on his fine blog The Hermeneutic of Continuity. I reproduce part of it here. I have received via email a report from Mgr John Dale, the National Director of Missio concerning the disaster in Haiti: After … Continue reading
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For Latin Students – Fr. Foster's Summer intensive course – in the USA!
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Some last images of San Francisco
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Stroking to Super Bowl LIV
Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Flatlands of Kansas
Casino cash: $44062
UHHHH. Ok
So, I work on the 2nd floor of an office complex in Wichita. The 2nd floor has business's like insurance, investment, energy, etc. The 3rd floor is primarily for hair salons, massage therapy, photography, and the like.
Right above my office, there is a hair salon that I go to out of sheer convenience. Earlier today, I hear music blaring above me - fkg rap - and I can't figure wtf is going on. I let it play out for about 10 minutes and then it just starts to fkn annoy me. I'm trying to have a phone conversation and I'm hearing Lil Whayne in the background
Anyhoo, I walk up to the 3rd floor salon, and there are no lights on. Initially, I thought maybe they might have some construction workers doing something for them, since they are closed on Monday's - but, where's the lights?. I knock on the door - no answer. I then proceed to walk in and turn the corner to the salon area. And then, I see it. There is a woman, buck naked, blowing a guy in a barber chair. The dude makes eye contact with me.
ChiTown "Uhh, sorry bout that".
Dude: "Uuh, Uuh, babe" (and points at me)
Chick (turning around to see what it is): "F*&^!" (and makes some guttural shrieking noise, while trying to cover herself up)
That's the some total of that conversation. Ok, here's where it get's weird.
A. Fkg lock the gdamn door next time you dumbfug's
B. Chick = Owner of the Salon
C. Dude does not equal her husband, whom I have met before
D. Chick = Gal who cuts my hair
E. I have an appointment with her to cut my hair on Friday
Before you ask, yes, she has a very nice ass, and a decent set of knockers. I have totally blocked out any image of the man's penis. I need a drink.........
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Yup, Jamaica was at the Superbowl. From Bey to VW, foreign was clearly taking cues from yard. As a demonstration of this fact, I've collected some of the best tweets referencing Jamaica's presence. Some of my faves had to do with the blackout. Jamaicans have a sense of humour–and the remarks take the USA down a peg or two. Enough with first/third world characterizations. The powercut placed the US on a playing field no better than anywhere else. And it's always nice to find an opportunity to poke at the incredibly expensive JPS electrical company.
@usainbolt Big man thing a Jamaica run the world #Beyonce.. Yard vibes
@DamionCrawford right now beyonce prejudiced fi a duh dutty wine lolol… anyway jamaica win super bowl argument done
@Real_Julz I guess they will say beyonce made dutty whine famous now?? lol #jokes #Jamaica #dontdis
@yaadinfo We need a Jamaican in New Orleans to bridge it fi dem. Where is Winstan?
@MrDatMad JPS DEH PON WORLD WIDE TOUR
@fluffymisskitty Well at least dem cyaa blame JPS! or maybe I should say I hope they don't have a branch in New Orleans a supply di dome!
@Chunchi JPS get visa
@souldancing Power cut at big-big #SuperBowl? They're taking this #Jamaica thing too far! Dwl!
@SadeSweetness 1st this: Jamaican accent, Jamaican music, Jamaican dance, then this: Jamaica powercut. #SeemsLegit
@BradscottJames Does "outside power feed" mean bridge light?? #PowerCut #SuperBowl47 #jamaica
@Richard_Stacks Powercut at superbowl and jamaica hav light! Bwahahahahaha!
@DwayneSamuels Jamaica win the Super Bowl! All JPS powercut reach dem to raw!
@nikkirich61 A who obeah di superbowl
@BigBlackBarry Light gone? True dem diss Sean Paul. #obeahstrang
And nothing is complete without throwing a little inter-island shade…
@Lacey_World So Bahamas paid for an ad and Jamaica got free advertising. #superbowl
@DebiBunni Poor Bahamas spent millions for that ad and Jamaica got free ad space from VW and Beyonce… rough…
Then, of course, there's the response to *that* ad:
Red Stripe Refs, The Germaican, Real Jamaican Volkswagen Commercial


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New Orleans, LA (March 27, 2013) – Rx Response Director and PhRMA Associate Vice President for IT & Operations Erin Mullen, PhD., RPh, CEM, received the Outstanding Achievement Award for Preparedness at the National Hurricane Conference in New Orleans today.
Mullen was recognized for her work in transforming Rx Response from a concept to a fully operational disaster preparedness and response program that encompasses the entire bio-pharmaceutical supply system, from manufacturers to distributors to dispensers.
Rx Response (www.RxResponse.org) was created by the biopharmaceutical industry in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to help ensure the continued flow of medicine to patients following major disasters like hurricanes, terrorist attacks or pandemic influenza.
Accepting the award before hundreds of attendees at the National Hurricane Conference, Mullen said, "I'm proud to accept this award on behalf of a large team of professionals and experts across the entire biopharmaceutical supply chain that collectively make Rx Response such a valuable program."
Mullen was presented the award by National Hurricane Center (NHC) Director Rick Knabb and former NHC Director Max Mayfield. Mullen also said, "Rx Response epitomizes public-private sector coordination and stands as a best practice for other industries who seek to ensure that their vitally important products get to consumers when disaster strikes."
Prior to receiving the Outstanding Achievement Award, Mullen announced an important change in a key Rx Response program. The Pharmacy Status Reporting Tool (PRST), which was widely praised for its contributions following Super Storm Sandy, will now be called Rx Open and can be accessed at www.RxOpen.org.
The PSRT was deployed in 11 states following Super Storm Sandy's landfall. The tool maps open pharmacies in disaster impacted areas on the Rx Response website. Widespread media coverage of the PSRT following Sandy quadrupled traffic to the online tool. In addition, more than 200 pharmacies in the New York and New Jersey area that were not registered in the PSRT's database asked to be included for future disasters and have since been added.
The new name and matching web address are designed to make the program easier to remember, a move Rx Response officials believe will significantly increase the tool's use in future disasters.
See more on RxResponse's efforts after Hurricane Sandy.
The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) represents the country's leading innovative biopharmaceutical research and biotechnology companies, which are devoted to discovering and developing medicines that enable patients to live longer, healthier, and more productive lives. Since 2000, PhRMA member companies have invested over $500 billion in the search for new treatments and cures, including an estimated $49.5 billion in 2011 alone.
Find PhRMA Online:
- Website – http://www.phrma.org
- Facebook – www.facebook.com/PhRMA
- Blog – www.phrma.org/catalyst
- Twitter – www.Twitter.com/PhRMA and www.Twitter.com/PhRMApress
- YouTube – www.youtube.com/PhRMApress
For information on how innovative medicines save lives, visit: http://www.innovation.org
For information on the Partnership for Prescription Assistance, visit: http://www.pparx.org
For information on ensuring the flow of medicines during public health emergencies, visit http://www.rxresponse.org


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- Williams news
Williams confirms Wolff's exit
- Drivers:
- Sir Frank Williams
Williams has confirmed Toto Wolff is leaving its management board to take up a new role at Mercedes, but the Austrian will retain his shareholding in the British team.
Wolff is set to take over the responsibilities previously held by Norbert Haug at Mercedes after working with Williams since 2009 when he took a minority shareholding in the team. Last year he upped his involvement with the British outfit when he was appointed as an executive director, but on Monday the team confirmed Wolff would be leaving that role to join Mercedes.
"I would like to thank Toto for his hard work, dedication and commitment to the team during his time as a director of the company," team boss Sir Frank Williams said. "He was a key support to me as executive director last season, deputising at a number of races when I was unable to attend. However, positions such as the one offered to him by Mercedes do not come around often.
"Toto has a long history with them and I certainly was not going to stand in the way of him accepting this once in a lifetime opportunity. Toto will retain his shareholding in Williams and will always have a place at Grove but make no mistake; we will fight him hard on the racetrack!
"I am sure he will be a strong asset for Mercedes and on behalf of the whole team I would like to wish him the best of luck in his new role. I'm lucky to have a very professional group of people around me and the company's executive committee will continue the work they have been doing to ensure a successful future for the business."
Wolff is also a co-owner of HWA, which runs Mercedes' assault on the DTM in Germany.


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Nocs NS400 Titanium In-Ear Headphones Review/
This pair of shiny in-ear headphones comes to us straight from Sweden, home to Swedish House Mafia - one of many. It's the place where good sounding headphones are born. Did we mention Ikea? Yeah, things just got serious. Nocs' aluminum NS200 had already left us impressed so we've got very high expectations from the NS400, Nocs' intermediate in-ear offering made out of titanium for extra durability and of course good looks, to sound even better. Saying there's an abundance of in-ear headphones out there is an understatement. Choosing the right pair is no easy task, but weighing in price, sound quality and features is the key to choosing the a solid performing pair to make you enjoy your music. The NS400 just might have a check mark besides each of these wanted points. We find out after the cut!


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Armed man on rooftop at BP MS150 event may reveal increased security
A man who said he rode in the BP MS150 last month claimed he saw law enforcement snipers near the event's finish line and was glad they were there.
David Applegate wrote in an email that he read a Chron.com article about a photograph sent to the newspaper Tuesday that purportedly shows a person in military-style dress with a rifle atop the Bullock Texas State History Museum in downtown Austin on April 21 high above the event's finish line.
Applegate said he saw two snipers on the rooftop and sent Chron.com two photos of them Wednesday. The photos, he added, were not altered.
Austin police said the cycling event's organizers requested heightened security in light of the Boston Marathon bombings, which occurred about week earlier on April 15. Three people died and more than 200 others were wounded in the bombing.
Officials with Austin police said they do not comment on security measures, but they added that enough officers were in place to provide for safety at the event.
Gena Hyde, regional director of communications for the National MS Society, said she was told added security would be in place, but she does not know the details of the added security.
Hyde said that in light of the bombings in Boston, her team had a discussion with local state and federal law enforcement agencies along the route of the event. She said they reviewed security measures in place and the agencies told them they would add other beefed-up security.
Officials with the Texas Department of Public Safety confirmed late Tuesday that an officer with the agency was in the photo. Tom Vinger, a DPS spokesman, offered no other information, saying the agency does not discuss details of their security plans.
Applegate, who claimed to be a "card-carrying" member of the NRA, wrote in his email that he was grateful the snipers were there.
"I am thankful," Applegate wrote, "that our state and the staff at the MS 150 took the time to increase security and make our ride safe."


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It's spring, and probably the most welcomed of the season's animals is the bunny — specifically, the chocolate bunny. No mass-produced creatures, these bunnies are made and sold by small, independent chocolatiers and chocolate shops. Grab your Easter bonnet and we'll hippity-hop around the West.
Jean-Michel Carré shapes organic and sustainably grown chocolate from the nearby Santa Barbara Chocolate Co. into refined bunnies and hens as visitors to Chocolats du CaliBressan gaze through a large window into the kitchen. The pink, yellow and green white-chocolate bunnies are filled with smooth dark chocolate and guava ganache. Hollow white or dark chocolate chickens, painted with glossy red and yellow cocoa butter, look as if they should sit on a shelf of antiques, but who would waste such fine confections? Tours and tastings are the third Thursday of the month.
Chocolats du CaliBressan
, 4193 Carpinteria Ave., Suite 4, Carpinteria; (805) 684-6900,
Santa Barbara Chocolate Co
Santa Barbara
Jessica Foster of Jessica Foster Confections has sculpted two breeds of bunnies made with 72% organic chocolate. She uses no molds, instead hand-forming and hand-cutting her bunnies. One type contains crushed, caramelized almonds and sea salt, and the other is hot and smoky with Spanish smoked peppers and Hungarian paprika. Definitely outside the mold. For her velvety truffles, she likes to buy ingredients, such as blueberries, rosemary and lavender, from the local farmers market. You can make an appointment to buy directly from her or find her sweets at Lazy Acres Market and Whole Foods in Santa Barbara and Pierre Lafond in Montecito.
Jessica Foster
, P.O. Box 21332, Santa Barbara; (805) 637-6985,
Maya Schoop-Rutten, owner of Chocolate Maya, an inviting shop painted in bright south-of-the-border reds, golds and greens, makes cute molded light and dark chocolate bunnies from organic and ethically sourced chocolate decorated with cocoa butter tinted pink with beet juice. Breathe in deeply to enjoy the aroma, and check out the fun chocolate bunny with an egg in an old-fashioned convertible race car.
Chocolate Maya,
15 W. Gutierrez St., Santa Barbara; (805) 965-5956,
Santa Cruz
Mackenzies Chocolates' shop looks like an English cottage and holds what may be the largest chocolate-bunny hutch in the West. Thema and Colin Mackenzie opened the shop in 1984; now their son, Ian, and his wife, Mary Rose, run the business. If you love to munch bunny ears, check out the milk chocolate rabbit with big ears. They also make chocolate male bunnies that are buffed up, wearing a suit, riding a motorcycle, driving a sports car, playing baseball or carrying a jelly bean-filled basket. Voluptuous female bunnies parade in evening gowns. From the retail area visitors can watch candy makers in the factory pour chocolate ducks and white chocolate lambs.
Mackenzies Chocolates,
1492 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz; (831) 425-1492,
Truckee, Calif., and Reno
If size is your goal, Sweets Handmade Candies creates a solid, 26-inch-tall, 22-pound bunny. Using only natural ingredients and working by hand in small batches, candy makers shape gourmet peanut butter, chocolate, chocolate nut and rocky-road fudge eggs, hand-dip them in silky Belgian chocolate and then individually hand-decorate them. Owner Rebecca Cavender recommends the homemade marshmallow eggs.
Sweets Handmade Candies,
10118 Donner Pass Road, No. 1, Truckee, Calif.; (530) 587-6556, and 4991 S. Virginia, Suite C, Reno; (775) 827-8270, (888) 248-8840,
Eugene, Ore.
Foil-wrapped bunnies at family-owned Euphoria Chocolate Co. have been a local favorite for 30 years, and kids who tasted their first chocolate carrot at Euphoria in the 1980s are now bringing in their own children.
Euphoria Chocolate Co
., 6 W. 17th Ave., Eugene; (541) 343-9223,
Two other Eugene locations, plus a factory store.
Spokane, Wash.
The Chocolate Apothecary is decorated with apothecary drawers as well as masks, elephant curios and lots of plants meant to evoke tropical lands where cacao, the basis of chocolate, is grown. "I wanted to reflect the tradition of apothecaries traveling to distant lands and bringing back new treatments and remedies," said owner Susan Davis. Among the Chocolate Apothecary "remedies" are bunnies from Spokane chocolatiers Pixie Dust Chocolates and Chocolate Myracles.
Julia Balassa-Myracle, owner of Chocolate Myracles, uses antique molds and 100% fair-trade chocolate to create her old-European-style laughing bunnies standing among cocoa-butter flowers. The handmade artisan bunnies by Pixie Dust look as if they've been sprinkled with just that — pixie dust. Owner Melissa Barnett uses Food and Drug Administration-approved luster dusts of titanium dioxide and mica to add a bit of shimmer to dark, milk and huckleberry-white chocolate bunnies as well as to hand-painted eggs with golden flowers, pink cherries and blue stars.
Chocolate Apothecary,
621 W. Mallon, Spokane; (509) 324-2424,
Pixie Dust Chocolates,
Spokane; (509) 220-7554,
Chocolate Myracles,
Spokane; (509) 995-1271,
Missoula, Mont.
Posh Chocolat crafts small milk, dark and white bunnies in baskets from sustainably farmed, fairly traded Ecuadorean and Brazilian chocolate. But it really earns its "posh" status with elegantly swirled hollow chocolate ostrich eggs filled with a quarter-pound of chocolate "coins."
Posh Chocolat,
131 S. Higgins, Suite M1, Missoula; (877) 544-7674,
Denver & Grand Junction, Colo.
For 50 years, three generations of Enstroms of Enstrom Candies have been making chocolate bunnies weighing as much as 10 pounds. They also create jelly bunnies and hand-formed, chocolate-covered eggs filled with peanut butter fudge, pecan fudge or Swiss cream, a rich whipped chocolate. At the Grand Junction store, customers can watch candymakers at work through a large glass window.
Enstrom Candies,
701 Colorado Ave., Grand Junction; (970) 683-1000, and Cherry Creek North, 201 University Blvd. 118, Denver; (303) 322-1005, plus three additional locations in Colorado,
Santa Fe, N.M.
C.G. Higgins constructs both dark chocolate bunnies and luscious dark chocolate baskets filled with chow-mein noodles drizzled with chocolate; chocolate-dipped citrus peels, chocolate-covered crisped rice, artisan truffles and edible orchids. (But why would you eat a lovely orchid?) Bunnies aren't the only animals welcome at C.G. Higgins. Owner Chuck Higgins has a waiver from the state so that customers can bring their doggies into the pooch-friendly shop, where they snack on non-chocolate treats.
C.G. Higgins,
847 Ninita St., Santa Fe; (505) 820-1315,
Buffett's Candies is a chocolate-bunny warren teaming with a 9-inch-tall caramel-corn bunny and 23 types of solid chocolate bunnies, each with its own name. The 35-cent bunny is named Squirt, and the $95 rabbit is named Harvey, in honor of James Stewart's 6-foot-tall rabbit friend in the film of the same name. Family-run Buffett's makes almost as many varieties of individually decorated, cream-filled chocolate eggs as it does bunnies. The eggs' flavors include raspberry, lemon, orange, walnut, divinity, fudge nut, penuche, piñon, date nut, marshmallow, coconut, peanut butter, vanilla and, of course, chocolate.
Buffett's Candies,
7001 Lomas Blvd. N.E., Albuquerque; (505) 265-7731,