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Barbara Stymiest
Chief Operating Officer
RBC Financial Group
The Women's Canadian Club of London
London, Ontario
January 13, 2005
Thank you for your kind introduction. And thank you all for coming out today. It is a pleasure to be here. For me, speaking to a Canadian Club is like coming home. To speak to the Women's Canadian Club of London only intensifies that feeling.
For this is the city in which I spent some of the most important and formative years of my life. I am acutely aware that it was my experiences in London that propelled me into the world, equipped me to take hold of opportunities, and set me on the path to a fascinating and rewarding life.
When I was first asked to speak to you, I had originally intended to focus on the topic of managing change in capital markets. But much has changed since then. We have been witnesses to one of the worst natural disasters in the history of humankind.
And somehow, in the face of what we have seen nightly on television and in the newspapers, and with the reality of the devastation still so close, I felt that to talk about managing change in capital markets didn't quite cut it.
But while we have witnessed the most horrific tragedy, we have also seen the resilience of the human spirit. I find it extraordinary that, when the world was faced with so much despair, and when everything seemed so dark, the twin lights of hope and kindness managed to shine so brightly.
In the last few weeks, we have been reminded of what people are capable of, and this redeems our faith in our common humanity.
In the end, as in so many other things, the Bible got it right. We are our brothers' keepers. And our sisters' keepers. And keepers of all the children in the human family.
But we need not merely be witnesses - we need not be merely spectators to this global tragedy. We can take action.
And we have seen action in the extraordinary outpouring of generosity of people from every walk of life.
However, beyond the immediate devastation in South Asia, lie ongoing challenges that won't just disappear when the images of all those victims fade from the front page. The hard work of rebuilding the wreckage of lives and communities will continue long after the cameras have gone home and the global spotlight moves on.
This is a challenge for the entire world.
In Canada, for example, we have declared our willingness to embrace new immigrants outside the usual rules. And that is to be applauded.
We have decided to clear the way for the adoption of the orphans created by nature's destruction, and that, too, is to be applauded.
But I wonder if will we continue to sustain our help over the years for all those affected countries as they continue to relive the trauma of a few ghastly minutes in what, until then, was a tropical paradise?
If that is to happen, it will require leadership of a high and enduring order. And that is what I would like to talk about today. Leadership.
Leaders can come in all shapes and sizes and can emerge in the unlikeliest places. We have our formal leaders, of course, the people we elect. And our corporate leaders.
But there is another kind of leadership that is needed in times of crisis, and that is the leadership of individuals.
People who see a need and take the lead. Leaders who are not hobbled by politics or bureaucracy or red tape. And much of what has happened since December 26th has involved this kind of leadership.
These leaders mobilized their communities and friends almost overnight to collect medical supplies, clothing and cold hard cash. Even our children have taken their piggy banks and Christmas money to agencies like the Red Cross, Oxfam, and Medecins Sans Frontieres.
Through their actions--through their groundswell of support--these individual leaders inspired the rest of us - including the leaders of governments and corporations - to become involved as well.
I am not sure how to define this kind of leadership. It is a bit like art - hard to define, but you know it when you see it.
And we have been certainly been seeing it, throughout Canada and around the world.
But if leadership is hard to define, there are at least a few qualities that we all recognize when we see them. Today, I'd like to talk about five of those qualities.
I have been fortunate in my life and career to have met and worked with leaders who possess many of these qualities; so in my remarks today, I hope to share some examples of how I've seen these five qualities in action.
The leaders that have emerged to help provide tsunami relief are the best example I can think of in recent memory of how leaders inspire others. I have been especially inspired by how our young people have become so engaged in our collective response.
My daughter is only six, and after she heard about the disaster, she asked if I would pay her for her chores. That way, she could take her earnings to school to donate to her class' fundraising efforts.
I've heard similar stories from friends and colleagues and complete strangers.
I know there can be no bright side to a tragedy like this one.
But look at how the first instinct of these young people was to help. Look how they have rejected the very idea that they are helpless before such primordial forces. Look at all they have accomplished.
You cannot help but have a renewed confidence in the quality of the young people who are our next generation of leaders. Imagine what a world we will have if even a small percentage of our children stay engaged and renew their committment to helping solve other pressing social and environmental issues of our time.
We are leaving our children a world that's more tattered than it should be, but they've demonstrated they're up to the challenges. Why have they been so effective? Because, like all great leaders, they have vision-the second quality on my list of five.
Maybe vision is too high-toned a word. They have been good leaders because they saw things that others didn't see.
Rosalyn Carter, the wife of former American President Jimmy Carter said it well:
"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be."
A great leader is not, as one of the leaders of the French revolution purportedly said, someone who declares "There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them."
A great leader has a clear vision of how a better future could or should unfold. Think of Pierre Trudeau or Lester B. Person, or Tommy Douglas. Or, closer to home, a good example is one of the pioneers of this club.
One of your leaders, in 1910, was a certain Mrs. Edwards. But she was more than simply a founding member. Mrs. Edwards was a peace activist, an engaged citizen of the world, and a political activist a good 20 years before Canada had even legally declared women to be persons. She was a delegate to the international conference in Geneva involved with the Herman-Jordan Peace Plan. She was a member of the London Branch of the League of Nations Society - 10 years before there was a League of Nations.
Hilary Weston, when she spoke to this club on your 90th anniversary, called Mrs. Edwards "the Jane Fonda of her time." She was, above all, someone who saw potential where others did not - and acted upon what she saw. And she led others to see the world as she saw it.
She not only had vision, but she also had the third quality of leadership from my list of five - she could bring out the best in people.
There are certain types of people who, by their very professions, fall into this category of leader, such as teachers, coaches and parents. These are the unsung heroes who seem to simply be woven into the everyday life of our social fabric. But I don't know where we would be without them.
I was very lucky to have grown up surrounded by people-leaders- who consistently inspired me to be my best. My father was an entrepreneur and independent businessman, and if you happen to know any entrepreneurs, you'll know they have both boundless confidence and energy. They believe that anything is possible.
Now if you had asked me when I was a little girl what I wanted to be when I grew up, I can guarantee I would not have said "chief operating officer of a financial institution." I wanted to be either a doctor or a dentist.
And, because all through my life, my parents instilled in all of us-my two sisters, my brother and me-the belief that we could be whatever we wanted, both of these careers seemed like entirely viable options to me.
In my family, we were all expected to do the best we could at whatever we attempted. My parents set the bar high, and we tried to meet it. And they led us by example.
I only hope I will have a similar influence on my daughter Siobhan, to instill in her the same values my parents instilled in me. And a bit of fun with the right attitude about life won't hurt her either. Invite me back in 10 years or so and I'll let you know how I did!
Well, as you can see, the medical/dental thing didn't quite work out, and I enrolled in the Ivey Business School.
But, there was more to school than lectures and exams, just like there is more to life than one's career. So, with my dad's words ringing in my ears that anything is possible, I decided that I wanted to give diving a try. And with almost no formal training, I tried out for Western's varsity diving team.
There too, I was blessed with a coach who looked beyond my inexperience to see my potential. His confidence inspired me. His patience calmed me. And his praise rewarded me.
And thanks to my coach, I managed to spend four very challenging, but happy years on the Western diving team.
It's not often you get a chance to thank your coach so publicly in front of such an illustrious group, but I am thrilled that Keith Stewart is here today, watching me on another kind of platform, and I would like to acknowledge and thank him.
Some leaders, like my father and my coach, are born with natural talent. Instinctively, they know how to bring out the best in those they lead. They naturally inspire people to work together. But what some do by instinct, others must be taught. And one of our responsibilities as leaders is to foster the training and development of future leaders in our communities and organizations.
This leads me to the fourth quality of leaders.
True leaders don't wait for others to make the first move; they lead by taking action.
Indira Gandhi is a good example of this. At the tender age of 12, she became the leader of a children's group to help end British control of India, and eventually became the first woman ever elected to lead a democracy in 1967. She credits her parents and grandparents as her inspiration.
" My grandfather told me that there were two kinds of people," she once said. "Those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group. There is much less competition."
She was right.
There will always be people who will stand around and talk, or criticize, or wait for others to make the first move. These are followers.
Leaders take action. Leaders create change. Leaders get involved.
And leaders should not rest until they are sure that the next generation will have the skills they need so they can achieve their own potential as citizens in the global community.
I know that this is the reason that the Woman's Canadian Club of London provides scholarships to young people in your community-because you want to help foster and support tomorrow's leaders.
We can all do our part in this regard, either through supporting or volunteering with formal organizations such as Junior Achievement and Big Brothers and Sisters, or getting involved more informally through our own families, schools or community organizations.
This leads me to the fifth and final quality of a leader: leaders must stand for something: they must be firm in their beliefs, but flexible in their outlook.
Like poker players, leaders must know when to hold 'em, and know when to fold 'em.
Here's an example of what I mean.
When I was just starting my career with Ernst and Young, one of my clients was Wrigley's, as in Wrigley gum. You might not know that William Wrigley, the founder of the company, actually started out in 1891 selling soap to wholesalers.
To make his products more attractive, he offered gifts such as free baking powder to his customers. Eventually, the baking powder proved more popular than the soap. So Wrigley got out of the soap business and began to sell baking powder full time.
Again, using free gifts to spur sales, he included two packs of gum with each can of baking powder.
I'm sure you can see where this is headed. The gum was an even bigger hit than the baking powder. Wrigley had found his niche. And he created an empire by being flexible and adapting to change.
Leaders often have to make tough decisions, and must have a clear sense of when to retreat or change course. But a leader must also be guided by an inherent, underlying set of values and principles that do not change.
I believe that the character of leaders is revealed by the clarity of their convictions, the choices they make, and the promises they keep. Leaders may change their strategies and tactics, but great leaders are anchored by unwavering principles and values.
Let me turn my attention back again to this city where I went to school, because I think London serves as a fine example of this final quality of leadership: this city has a strong set of values, but is also flexible in its outlook and adaptable to change.
I lived here in the 1970s when I was attending the University of Western Ontario. In those days, at every turn, one was reminded - as one was supposed to be - of another London, from Piccadilly Street to Oxford Street to the Thames River.
It had a certain quaint charm about it, and many people remember those days fondly. Certainly I do.
But if I wasn't a regular visitor, I would hardly recognize London today. This is a city transformed. You just have to look at the new restaurants from every corner of the globe, or read the entertainment listings in the Free Press to see the difference the years have made.
London is reaping the rewards of its openness to the energy and ideas of the broader world. Even more important, London is reaping the rewards of its willingness to embrace people from around the world, and of realizing the vision of leaders past and present who saw the possibilities of the city's transformation. It doesn't always happen that way.
We often forget in this country what a great and successful experiment we have had in welcoming immigrants and embracing diversity.Not everyone is happy about the changing face of our cities and our country, of course. Democratic societies aren't about making everybody happy. But no one disputes our success.
And London is an outstanding example of how a community should embrace newcomers.
Almost 20,000 new Canadians arrived in London between 1991 and 2001, and visible minorities accounted for 71 per cent of the population increase in the city. It is the eighth most multicultural city in Canada. Today, almost 20 per cent of London's residents come from other lands, with over 10 per cent of the city's population now made up of visible minorities from places like China, Vietnam, and the Philippines- and the city is richer for it.
That took leadership. The kind of leadership that came from organizations like the London Cross Cultural Learner Centre that, over its 35 year history, has developed both the expertise and the networks to help immigrants adapt to Canadian life.
The kind of leadership that the Women's Canadian Club of London provides by holding receptions for new Canadians following the ceremonies that mark that rite of passage known as citizenship.
Those of us born in Canada may take our citizenship for granted, but for those who come from other countries to embrace this country, it is the most precious thing in the world.
And maybe it is.
This didn't happen by accident. It happened because people with all those qualities of leadership of which I have spoken took it upon themselves to lead this community to embrace these newcomers. And they made a better city and a better country by doing so.
Now there is a new challenge.
In the wake of one of the great tragedies of modern times, we need to open our communities to new people, to those who have been traumatized, body and soul, by what they have survived.
The challenge is to bring these people into the embrace of our communities in the same way as we have welcomed others in the past. The challenge is to provide that extra assistance, that extra support, that extra bit of help that will make the difference.
Governments have to play a role, of course. So do businesses large and small, as do school boards and community organizations like the Women's Canadian Club. But the greatest difference will ultimately be made by leaders who rise from the community -- individual leaders who see potential where others only see barriers. And it is these leaders who will help create a better city and a better future for all of us.
Is London up to that challenge? It's always been before.
I have no doubt London will continue to show the rest of the country and the entire world how community leadership responds to adversity.
Thank you for attention and good luck in your work.


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Looper (BLU)
Rian Johnson
In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented - but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past where a 'looper' - a hired gun, like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) - is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good - until the day the mob decides to 'close the loop,' sending back Joe's future self (Bruce Willis) for assassination.
Product Details
- Starring: Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Jeff Daniels
- Format: Color, Widescreen
- Language: English
- Subtitles: English, Spanish
- Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
- Number of Discs: 1
- Rating: R
- Label: Sony Pictures
- Release Date: 12/31/2012
- Run Time: 119 minutes
- Catalogue #: 41348
Special Features
- Feature Commentary with Director Rian Johnson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Emily Blunt
- Looper: From the Beginning - Making-of Featurette
- 5 Deleted Scenes with Commentary
- Scoring Looper
- Looper Animated Trailer
- 17 Additional Deleted Scenes With Commentary
- The Science Of Time Travel Featurette

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On April 18, 1925, Bob Kaufman was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, one of thirteen children. His mother was a black Catholic from Martinique, his father a German Orthodox Jew. As a child, Kaufman took part in both Catholic and Jewish religious services; he was also exposed to the voodoo beliefs of his maternal grandmother. At the age of thirteen, he ran away and joined the Merchant Marine, surviving four shipwrecks and circumnavigating the globe nine times in the next twenty years.
When Kaufman left the Merchant Marine in the early 1940s, he went to New York City to study literature at the New School, where he met William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. The three went to San Francisco, joining Gregory Corso, Jack Kerouac, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti at the center of the Beat scene. Drawing inspiration from the improvisatory bebop jazz featured at the Beats' favorite North Beach watering holes, Kaufman began reciting his spontaneous compositions in bars and coffeehouses and on the streets, earning himself the nickname of "The Original Bebop Man." Hardly any of this early material was written down; most of his publications were transcribed from his oral performances.
In 1959, Kaufman, Ginsberg, John Kelley, and William Margolis founded Beatitude magazine, which would help launch the careers of many aspiring poets. The following year, Kaufman accepted an invitation to read his poetry at Harvard. In 1961, he was nominated for Great Britain's prestigious Guinness Award (T. S. Eliot received the prize that year). Despite his successes in the public sphere, Kaufman's personal life was deteriorating; the next few years were marked by financial hardship, methedrine addiction, and imprisonment. John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963 prompted Kaufman to take a Buddhist vow of silence. He withdrew from society and did not speak again until 1975, on the day the Vietnam War ended, when he walked into a coffee shop and recited "All Those Ships that Never Sailed." A period of intense activity and productivity ensued, but Kaufman again withdrew into solitude in 1978, after telling editor Raymond Foye, "I want to be anonymous . . . my ambition is to be completely forgotten." In 1981, he received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Kaufman is credited with popularizing Beat attitudes and philosophies in Europe, and especially France, where he was known as "the American Rimbaud." His books of poetry include The Ancient Rain: Poems, 1956-1978 (New Directions, 1981); Watch My Tracks (1971); Golden Sardine (1966), collected by Kaufman's friend, Mary Beach, during his first period of silence; and Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness (1965), comprised of three earlier broadsides, Does the Secret Mind Whisper?, Second April, and the Abomunist Manifesto. Kaufman died of emphysema on January 12, 1986.
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Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness (1965)
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The 88th Densus AT: The Role and the Problem of Coordination on Counter-Terrorism in Indonesia
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This paper has two purposes. First, it discusses the role of Anti Terror of the 88th Special Detachment of Indonesia's Police Force in the war against terrorism. The role of the 88th Densus AT on counter terrorism in Indonesia is now a role of single institution nationwide, so that other institutions with similar anti terrorist units feel that they do not get a portion of state power. In Indonesia, all armed forces institutions and police, including the State Intelligence Agency have anti terrorist unit in their structure. There is Anti-Terror Detachment (Detasemen Penanggulangan Terror, Dengultor TNI AD) in the Indonesia Army with a call sign of Group 5 Anti Terror unit, and also the 81st Detachment (Detasemen 81, Den 81) inside the Elite Force of Indonesia Army (Kopassus). There is Jalamangkara Detachment (Detasemen Jalamangkara, Denjaka, TNI AL) of the Indonesia Navy, which has merged into the Marine Corps. There is also Bravo Detachment (Detasemen Bravo, Denbravo TNI AU) which has merged into an elite team of the Indonesia Air Force. The State Intelligence Agency (Badan Intelijen Negara, BIN), also has an anti-terror desk. Second, this paper also discusses of the problem of coordination between those various agencies.
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There are many applications for polymer matrix composite materials in a variety of different industries, but designing and modeling with these materials remains a challenge due to the intricate architecture and damage modes. Multiscale modeling techniques of composite structures subjected to complex loadings are needed in order to address the scale-dependent behavior and failure. The rate dependency and nonlinearity of polymer matrix composite materials further complicates the modeling. Additionally, variability in the material constituents plays an important role in the material behavior and damage. The systematic consideration of uncertainties is as important as having the appropriate structural model, especially during …
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Or like this:
sysuse auto
regress mpg c.weight##i.foreign
margins foreign, at(weight=(1760 4840))
marginsplot, noci recast(line)
On 11/15/2011 1:09 PM, Nick Cox wrote:
You could do something like this:
sysuse auto, clear
regr mpg weight i.foreign
predict predict
separate predict, by(foreign) veryshortlabel
line predict? weight, sort
If you want the fits to be different, you are going to have to produce them separately and then combine them, I believe.
drop predict?
forval i = 0/1 {
qui regress mpg weight if foreign == `i'
predict predict`i' if foreign == `i'
label var predict`i' "`: label (foreign) `i''"
line predict? weight, sort ytitle("`: var label mpg'")
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Many thanks, it looks great.
Could I somehow use -lfit- to get the fitted lines only?
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separate moment, by(brackettype) veryshortlabel
line moment? rotation
and see -help separate-
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SJ-5-4 gr0023 . . . . Stata tip 27: Classifying data points on scatter plots
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In Stata 12, I am using the following commands:
twoway (line moment rotation, by(brackettype)) // moment and rotation continuous and brackettype has 4 levels
I like to have all graphs in one plot as shown below but somehow I cannot get on the legend below the x-axis to show the levels of brackettype. It shows "brackettype" for all 4 different color lines. If I use "lfit" instead of "line" it shows lfit instead of brackettype.
twoway (line moment rotation if brackettype==1) ||(line moment rotation if brackettype==2) ||(line moment rotation if brackettype==3) ||(line moment rotation if brackettype==4)
Any advise would be appreciated.
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"American Idol's" first champ, Kelly Clarkson, proved during a Friday night concert that she can do more than just belt out huge tunes. Girl can also cover a rap song like you wouldn't believe.
While performing in Eminem's hometown of Detroit, the Grammy-winning songstress treated the crowd to "Lose Yourself," the hit from the rapper's 2002 film "8 Mile." Clarkson explained to the audience that several fans had asked that she perform the rap tune for the segment of her concert that she devotes to requests.
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Debates over "originalism" have been a central focus of contemporary constitutional theory for three decades. One of the features of this debate has been disagreement about what "originalism" is. More worrisome is the possibility that the arguments between contemporary originalists and their opponents, the "living constitutionalists", are confused – with each side of the debate making erroneous assumptions about the content of their opponent's theories.
The aim of this chapter is to clarify these debates by providing a history of contemporary originalism and then developing an account of the core or focal content of originalist theory. The history reveals that contemporary originalist theory has evolved – the mainstream of originalist theory began with an emphasis on the original intentions of the framers but has gradually moved to the view that the "original meaning" of the constitution is the "original public meaning" of the text. Even today, originalists disagree among themselves about a variety of important questions, including the normative justification for a constitutional practice that adheres to original meaning. Despite evolution and continued disagreement, however, contemporary originalist theory has a core of agreement on two propositions. First, almost all originalists agree that the linguistic meaning of each constitutional provision was fixed at the time that provision was adopted. Second, originalists agree that our constitutional practice both is (albeit imperfectly) and should be committed to the principle that the original meaning of the Constitution constrains judicial practice.
The question whether living constitutionalists actually disagree with these core principles of originalist theory is a complex one. On one interpretation, living constitutionalism and originalism are (mostly) compatible: the constitution lives inside the "construction zone," the boundaries of which are marked by the original meaning of the text. On another interpretation, living constitutionalism is incompatible with originalism: living constitutional doctrine and practices can override even original meaning of the text, even when that meaning is clear.
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A strain of originalism has always been presnet in constitutional thought. The Chief Justice's opinion in Dred Scot was originalist, and another Chief Justice rejected an originalist approach in the Minnesota Mortgage Moritorium Case in 1934. But the increase in originalist commentary (i.e., law review articles and books) came in the wake of Roe v. Wade. It is just striking.
Someday an enterprising scholar will prepare a graph of the number of articles and books on originalism that were published from, say, 1950 thorough 2010. There will be a flat line, indicating a few publications, until a few years after Roe when the line skyrockets northward. There is a direct correlation, obvious on a timeline, between the current judicial and academic infatuation with originalism,, in its many changing forms, and Roe.
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Is It Possible He Is Using Cocaine?
I suspect my son is using cocaine. Often find hollowed out pens in his room/car. Often has flu like symptoms for a few days and then ok again for a while. Lots of sniffing, rubbing nose, sores in nose. Periods of severe insomnia. When I talk to him about it he says I can take him for a test, but if it comes out negative he will never talk to me again. I am so worried – this has been going on ever since he met a girl older than himself and I know for a fact that she and her ex boyfriend and all her friends are users. What other signs can I look out for and how do I approach him in the most constructive way about this PLEASE HELP
It is very difficult to confirm when a person is using drugs and even more difficult to figure out exactly what drugs are being used.
Some of the symptoms you describe are consistent with the use of cocaine, like the insomnia and sores in nose. However when you mentioned flu-like symptoms it made me think of opioids such as heroin or prescription drugs like oxycodone or hydrocodone.
Other signs of drug use include erratic behavior, severe mood swings, dishonesty, stealing, decreased work or school performance. Depending on the drug/s being used, you may also see pupil changes (very large or very small), sweating, shaking or trembling, and anxiety attacks.
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American Express and Christina Tosi of Momofuku Milk Bar want to make your day by giving you a dozen of her newest cookies, The Perfect 10 Kookie.
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The Perfect 10 Kookie was created by famed Momofuku Milk Bar pastry chef Christina Tosi and her long-time friend and supermodel, Karlie Kloss.
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Here's the recipe for these vegan, gluten-free, healthy cookies (ingredients are at the bottom of the poster). Quite the departure from the usual Tosi recipes.
I've made many Tosi recipes in the past:
Cornflake Chocolate Chip Marshmallow Cookies
And here are 10 Current Favorite Cookie Recipes:
1. Chocolate Chip and Chunk Cookies – Favorite Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe. Easy, foolproof, soft and chewy, oozing with chocolate
2. Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Cookies (gluten-free) – Favorite Peanut Butter Cookie Recipe. Easy, foolproof, soft and chewy, oozing with chocolate. NO butter, NO white sugar, NO flour and still sinfully amazing
3. Coconut Oil White Chocolate Cookies – No butter, no white sugar, soft and scrumptious
4. Brown Sugar Maple Cookies – Rich and robustly flavored with maple, brown sugar, soft, moist and chewy
5. Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookie Cups – If cookies that spread and fall flat are an issue for you, bake them in muffin cups. The browned butter in this recipe adds an extra special touch
6. Sugar-Doodle Vanilla Cookies – Simple ingredients paired in such a way that yield, soft, sweet, cookies with a dough base I've adapted many time for other cookies
7. Cranberry and White Chocolate Chip Cookies – I love the flavor pairing and they use the Sugar-Doodle dough base, making them sweet, soft and chewy
8. Thick and Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies – I despite skimpy and flat oatmeal cookies and these are thick, hearty, and supremely chewy
9. Caramel Corn Chocolate Chip Cookies – Salty and sweet with caramel corn baked right in and these cookies cannot hold one more drop of caramel corn or chocolate and are bursting at the seams with gooey chocolate
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Johnny Depp and Kristen Stewart didn't get it at the Kids Choice Awards on Saturday. But Josh Duhamel, Neal Patrick Harris, the Lakers' Dwight Howard, singer Pitbull and Nick Cannon definitely got it.
"It," of course, was the trademark green slime bath of Nickelodeon's annual event, held this year at the Galen Center on the USC campus.
Depp did get the young fans' award — an orange mini-blimp — for favorite movie actor, and Stewart won for favorite movie actress and female butt-kicker. And she was thinking she might be in for a goo bath.
Also read: Nickelodeon Betting on Preschoolers to Reverse Ratings Slide
"Dude, I was too much of a coward to accept this," said the "Twilight" series star from the podium.
She was spared, as was singer Christina Aguilera, who opened the show in a duet with Pitbull, then dunked her partner and the dancers on stage with the green stuff.
"Transformers" star Duhamel hosted the event and said that a record-breaking 350 million votes had been cast for awards, which honor kids' favorites in film, music, sports and TV. Then he pulled the switch and green-gooped the Lakers star Howard.
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Other winners included Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, who picked up the trophy for male butt-kicker, "Victorious" as favorite TV show, Katy Perry as favorite female singer, Adam Sandler as favorite voice from an animated movie for "Hotel Transylvania," race car driver Danica Patrick as favorite female athlete and "The Hunger Games" as favorite movie and book.


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|Waynesboro Village Record, 26OCT1871
"Some Things
Have ideas of your own.
Be sure your own doctrines are sound before pitching into other people's.
Ride and belabor your own hobby to your hearts content, but for heaven's sake do not quarrel with friends and neighbors because they refuse to mount with you.
If it hurts your feelings to be snubbed and bluffed off, remember that others may not like it any better than you do.
Conceal the weak points in your nature with an honest mantle of self-poise and independence, and then many an intended sting will not wound or give you pain.
Earn your own self respect and then you will not imagine people intend to slight you.
Be sure you meirit [sic] respect and then do not lay awake nights worying [sic] about other people's opinion of yon [sic].
Above all things be kind to the poor, the sick, the old, the young, and to your wife, if you have one; and go slow when attempting to revege an injury, for ofttimes that which seems an injury proves a benefit.
In short, be kind and considerate to your friends, keep your enemies at a proper distance, in thought and every other way, and be as good to yourself as you possibly can without wronging anybody else. - Elm Orlon."
I found it amusing that it was in the newspaper let alone on the front page! It's so interesting to see how different the news can be, but what a great insight into what was seen as important during our ancestor's time!
I certainly did note upon reading "Some Things" that some things are as true today as they were back then!


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After winning 12 out of 19, Boston to face Tampa Bay at Fenway
BOSTON -- The Red Sox handled the Rays quite nicely en route to the American League East title, defeating their top competitor in 12 out of 19 meetings.
But that didn't vanquish manager Joe Maddon's dangerous team.
The Rays will be right back at Fenway Park for Game 1 of a best-of-five AL Division Series on Friday at 3 p.m. ET on TBS.
Tampa Bay punched that ticket to Boston by defeating manager Terry Francona's Indians in the AL Wild Card Game on Wednesday night in Cleveland. To get to the Wild Card showdown, the Rays had to upend the Rangers in Game No. 163 on Monday.
You certainly don't have to tell the Red Sox how formidable an opponent the Rays are.
"Well with Tampa Bay, we have the benefit of 19 games under our belt with them this year," said Red Sox manager John Farrell prior to the Indians-Rays Wild Card Game. "We know they're going to pitch well, we're likely to be involved in a low-scoring game.
"To control their left-handed hitters is critical from our standpoint, and that's not to say that [Evan] Longoria, [Wil] Myers and other right-handers in that lineup can't do damage. But when they've scored a number of runs, it's what their left-handed hitters have done."
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Price lifted his Rays over the Rangers with a complete-game gem on Monday, and he figures to start Game 2 at Fenway Park on Saturday.
If the Rays can push the series to a winner-take-all Game 5 back in Boston on Oct. 10, Price could take the ball with four days of rest.
The Red Sox have their ace Jon Lester lined up for Games 1 and 5.
When the Rays and Red Sox completed their season series on Sept. 12 at Tropicana Field, Maddon proved to be prophetic.
"This series, this whole season, is lopsided in regards to wins and losses [against the Red Sox]," said Maddon, "but it's been a lot closer than that. We're really looking forward to playing them in the playoffs."
And now Maddon and the Rays will get that chance.
This will be a rematch of the 2008 AL Championship Series, which the Rays won in seven games. Jacoby Ellsbury, Dustin Pedroia, David Ortiz, Lester and Clay Buchholz all remember the sting of walking down the visitor's dugout at Tropicana Field, knowing they had just come one game short of getting back to the World Series.
Unlike that series five years ago, the Red Sox have home-field advantage this time around.
"We feel comfortable playing here in Fenway," said Farrell. "Our record bears that out. You can probably say that for any team in the playoffs. Our home record [53-28] indicates that home field is that. We thrive on the environment, the atmosphere and the energy that's created here. To secure that for as long as we're in this, we feel is a definite positive."


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end of year and ice storm
so busy but almost done everything I need to do ;_; the books are at the printer, I've painted a few pieces that I wanted to finish, the Tango tutorial is almost done, MY HOME IS RELATIVELY CLEAN AND I AM RDY FOR 2014 what a productive and satisfying way to end 2013 I am pleased!! I have to dive into writing book 5 though because I'm already having trouble HAHA… and I have until the end of Feb to get started on drawing book 5 pages ):. I also kind of want to revamp my site a little for more obvious and straightforward navigation, but that would involve drawing a new picture and a ton of work that I will happily waste all of my time on, and I don't have that kind of time LMAO….
I also really want to make a new art book in 2014 because I've delayed it for long enough. I've accumulated a good number of new drawings and I think I can push out a lot more to have enough for the book. I've been saving some pieces from the internet in order to have print exclusive pieces for the past year or two, but when I think about it now, I don't really think that's necessary or even beneficial @_@? While exclusive art gives incentive for people to buy the book, I think it wouldn't be a make or break quality for those who are on the line about obtaining a book. For myself, having the printed art of the artists I love is the worth itself, whether or not I have already seen it in high resolution online. Since it's giving me so much trouble to keep actively posting online while keeping certain pieces behind the veil, I think it'd probably make everyone a bit happier if I had just… posted everything LOL ):…
I finished 2 paintings between the last time I posted and now, and here's the preview for one!!
In other news, this December's weather's been total ass, every weekend was either a snow storm or ice storm, ESPECIALLY THE ICE STORM OMG like 2/3 of the huge trees on my parents' street are down because they are so thick with branches and accumulated way too much ice. Whoever that managed the gardening aspect of their area should be FIRED because these trees already kept getting infested with bugs and getting sick. We had ours chopped down along with 2 of our neighbours' already earlier this year when all of our trees got sick. And now all the surviving trees that grew big enough are destroyed because they weren't suited for this kind of extreme weather, so I anticipate a lot of them will have to chop theirs down too and have dinky new ones planted ):
RIP all fo these poor trees
the rode side trees all basically snapped at the base of their branching and now they look like little triangle dresses
OUR CLOTHING LINE (the cyan line only) HAS SUCHA THICK LAYER OF ICE ON IT HOLY SHIT
I guess in the sun it's really pretty but damn it was dangerous for a few days


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M.C.A. Hogarth
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M.C.A. Hogarth, also known as Micah or Poomah (full name Maggie C. A. Hogarth, née M. de Alarcon), is a female artist and writer who lives in Florida, USA.[1]
Fandom involvement[edit]
M.C.A. Hogarth was a guest of honor at Midwest FurFest in 2003, and again in 2009. She is a greymuzzle, with her earliest known work appearing in Yarf! #0 in 1989.
Micah also built TKI&I Clothiers and Jewelers, a room on FurryMuck with over 200 descriptions of clothing and jewelry. Her Basilica on that muck later became the source for the roleplaying Muck Genesis, which she administrated until 1996.
Her avatar is a jaguar. She has invented several fantasy species, the Jokka,[2] the Ai-Naidar, and the Le'enle.
Micah's art has appeared in fanzines, APAzines and various comic anthologies, including Anthropomorphine, Beauty of the Beasts, the Caffeine Quarterly, Centaur's Gatherum, The Ever-Changing Palace, Excursions, Foxes are Neat, Fox One, Furrlough, Gallery, Huzzah, Mythagoras, North American Fur, Pawprints, The Pelt, Wildlife and Yarf!.
She has also done illustrations for the World Tree RPG and a cover for the World Tree novel A Marriage of Insects.
Micah maintains a database of over 3200 sketches online at her website's art archive.
In 2013, Micah began a webcomic, The Three Jaguars.
Micah's short story In the Line of Duty was the winner of the 2003 Ursa Major Award for Best Anthropomorphic Short Fiction. Her short story 'Rosettes and Ribbons' appears in Sofawolf Press' Best in Show.
Additional short stories have appeared in Sofawolf Press's Anthrolations ('Butterfly' in #1, 'Dark Lighthouse' in #3 and 'The Blade to Your Hand' in #5). Other fiction also appeared in Yarf!, Pawprints, Morphic Tales and in general SF/F magazines Strange Horizons, The Leading Edge and Oceans of the Mind. Her stories about Alysha Forrest were collected and published as a book entitled Alysha's Fall by Cornwuff Press in 2000.
Her latest short fiction has been collected in two books, The Aphorisms of Kherishdar and The Admonishments of Kherishdar and concern a caste-based society of vaguely feline aliens, the Ai-Naidar. The first Jokka novel, The Worth of a Shell, was released in 2009. Her 2010 project is Spots the Space Marine, a serialized military SF novel. Her current releases and projects are detailed on her website's bibliography page.
"Space Marine" controversy[edit]
In mid-December, 2012, Games Workshop lodged a complaint with Amazon.com about Hogarth's novel Spots the Space Marine (a near-future military science fiction novel about real marines). Games Workshop indicated that the work infringed on their trademark of the words "space marine", and, as a result, Amazon blocked sales of the book.[3][4][5]
This led to an internet backlash from commentators such as Cory Doctorow[6] and the digital rights group, the Electronic Frontier Foundation,[7] who questioned the right of Games Workshop to trademark the term.[8] Subsequently, Spots the Space Marine reappeared on Amazon, and Games Workshop issued no further legal action.[9]</ref>
- ↑ M.C.A. Hogarth's profile on Twitter. Retrieved December 3, 2013.
- ↑ Cheldzan Jokku' - Official website about the Jokka species. Retrieved December 3, 2013.
- ↑ Update on Games Workshop's Quarrel with Spots the Space Marine - entry on M.C.A. Hogarth's website. Posted January 3, 2013. Retrieved December 3, 2013.
- ↑ Superheroes, space marines and lawyers get into trademark fight - Post on The Guardian. Posted 7 February 2013. Retrieved December 3, 2013.
- ↑ Row blows up over ownership of 'space marine' term - Post on the BBC online. Posted February 8 2013. Retrieved December 3, 2013.
- ↑ Games Workshop trademark bullying goes thermonuclear: now they say you can't use "space marine" in science fiction - post by Cory Doctorow on Boing Boing. Posted 11 February 2013. Retrieved December 3, 2013.
- ↑ Trademark Bully Thwarted: Spots the Space Marine Back Online - Post by Corynne McSherry on the Electronic Frontier Foundation website. Posted February 11, 2013. Retrieved December 3, 2013.
- ↑ Games Workshop Space Marine Trademark Battle Erupts As Sci-Fi Fans Point To History - Post by Michael Rundle on the Huffington Post (UK) website. Posted February 11, 2013. Retrieved December 3, 2013.
- ↑ The Return of Spots the Space Marine - entry on M.C.A. Hogarth's website. Posted February 16, 2013. Retrieved December 3, 2013.
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
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- Stardancer.Org - M.C.A. Hogarth's official website
- M.C.A. Hogarth on deviantART
- M.C.A. Hogarth on Fur Affinity
- Maggie C. A. Hogarth on the Yerf Historical Archive
- M.C.A. Hogarth on Twitter
- Stardancer News - M.C.A. Hogarth on LiveJournal
- M.C.A. Hogarth on Amazon.com
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The 20-year-old forward was discovered in early 2007 at one of these tryouts and came up through the team's youth academy before officially signing with the parent club in November of 2008. Bowen said he still thinks back on that time of his life and savors his good fortune.
"I think about it quite a bit, especially when someone might come up to me and say, 'Hey, you're the guy that made it through the tryouts,'" he said. "One minute you're training like any other kid at the park, and the next moment you're a professional athlete.''
Galaxy assistant coach and director of player development Trevor James said Bowen easily belonged among the better players when the tryouts began.
"Once they started having the small-sided games he really stood out," James recalled. "He certainly did impress."
There was just one problem: Bowen was under age. He was 16 at the time and the minimum age requirement for the tryouts was 18. But thanks to fake identification supplied by his uncle, Hugh Carter, Bowen successfully went through the screening process and managed to stick around.
"I still have the ID in my room," he said with a grin. "I think I had long hair in the picture and I still had braces. I don't know how it went through, but it was one of the worst IDs I've ever seen."
Bowen surprisingly said he wasn't nervous at the tryout because he had been working out for several teams. He also had been playing soccer in Brazil between the ages of 14 and 16. He remembers being confident but at the same time curious to see if he could perform under pressure.
Bowen recalled driving back to his Los Angeles home with his uncle "chewing him out" for his poor showing when then-Galaxy general manager Alexi Lalas called him to tell him they were interested in bringing him into the organization. Bowen eventually joined the club's new youth Rios program and now is entering his second season with the parent club.
Bowen had simple but sound advice for the participants in this weekend's tryouts.
"Just go out and have fun," the 5-foot-11, 170-pounder said. "Show the coaches what you can do and don't overdo it. That's the most important thing ... keep it simple. And when the opportunity presents itself, show your abilities."
Take it from one who knows -- and continues to count his blessings.
"It's surreal at times," he said. "You're coming out with the best of the best, the guys you grew up watching on TV. At times I don't believe it actually happened."
Larry Morgan is a contributor to MLSnet.com.