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Catch an hour of red-carpet coverage (or an episode of Game of Thrones) and at least one thing will become clear: Braids are bigger than ever. Big as in full of volume and texture; big as in everyone is wearing them. So why does a style that's as old as Pocahontas feel fresh again? "The coolest designers of the moment—Céline, Saint Laurent, Isabel Marant—have a laid-back, nonchalant vibe, and women want that same relaxed approach to their hair," says hairstylist James Pecis. "Braids are a way to both control and decorate your hair without spending hours in a salon." And he would know. Pecis has carved himself a prime spot at the epicenter of the braid trend thanks to the rough, ropy styles he's dreamt up for editorial shoots and runway shows. (The romantic, fuzzy braids he did on model Aline Weber for French Vogue, in fact, had the fashion world rushing to tie their hair in knots.) Pecis taught himself the art of weaving back in elementary school, spending hours creating friendship bracelets ("I thought I was going to get rich selling them") and later studying books on sailing knots. After botching a braid backstage early in his career, he vowed to master the technique and forced himself to practice cornrows on a doll head for 30 minutes each morning before work. He's come a long way since then, and these days, he knows that practice doesn't have to make perfect. "The most modern braids are full of imperfections," says Pecis. "You want them to look effortless."
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Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman (Ernst Ingmar Bergman) (ĕrnst Ĭng´mär bĕr´yəmän), 1918–2007, Swedish film and stage writer, director, and producer. Acclaimed by many as the greatest director of the second half of the 20th cent., Bergman made about 60 films in all. He achieved an impressive degree of freedom early in his career and used it to create and develop a highly individual approach. Working with many of the same actors and technicians from film to film, his work, usually profoundly serious in theme and treatment, is filled with arresting images and displays an unusual degree of unity and continuity. Bergman made his first film in 1945 and reached his creative zenith as a director in the 1950s and 60s. His 50s films include Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), The Seventh Seal (1957), Wild Strawberries (1957), and The Magician (1958). In the 60s he made The Virgin Spring (1960, Academy Award) and two trilogies that charted his growing disillusion with humanity's search for God. The first trilogy consists of Through a Glass Darkly (1961, Academy Award), Winter Light (1962), and The Silence (1963); the second of Persona (1965), Hour of the Wolf (1968), and Shame (1968).
In the 1970s Bergman mainly focused his work on domestic issues, dramatized through traumatic, usually unworkable personal relationships, as in the harrowing Cries and Whispers (1972), the stormy Scenes from a Marriage (1974), and the psychological family drama Autumn Sonata (1978). Bergman briefly exiled himself from Sweden after a dispute (1976) with tax authorities, but returned to make his self-proclaimed final, and surprisingly optimistic, semiautobiographical film about family and childhood, Fanny and Alexander (1982, Academy Award).
Having successfully written and directed numerous works for the Swedish theater since the 1950s, he continued to work in theater, television, and opera late in his career, directing a number of classic plays for the Royal Dramatic Theater of Sweden, e.g., Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata (2001). His made-for-television drama Saraband (2003), a bleak epilogue to Scenes from a Marriage, was Bergman's final statement on film. Bergman also wrote autobiographical screenplays for the films The Best Intentions (1992), directed by Bille August; Sunday's Children (1993), directed by his son, Daniel Bergman; and Private Confessions (1996, later staged as well) and Faithless (2000), directed by Liv Ullmann.
See his autobiographies (1987, 1994); Four Screenplays of Ingmar Bergman (tr. 1960); S. Björkman, T. Manns, and J. Sima, Bergman on Bergman: Interviews with Ingmar Bergman (1973, tr. 1975, repr. 1993); biographies by B. Steene (1967) and P. Cowie (upd. ed. 1992); studies by V. Young (1971), F. Marker and L.-L. Marker (1982, repr. 1992), F. Gado (1986), R. E. Long (1994), R. W. Oliver, ed. (1995), J. Vermilye (1998), J. Kalin (2003), L. Hubner (2007), and I. Singer (2007); M. Nyrerod, dir. Bergman Island (documentary film, 2006).


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I was never more acutely aware of the value of electricity than I was during the year I spent living in India. I should be more specific: I was never more acutely aware of the value of electricity than I was on those nights when my wife and I were staying at a cheap little guest house in Delhi at the height of the swampy monsoon heat, lying in bed on the verge of sleep, when a sudden sci-fi sound of motors winding down en masse indicated that the hotel had been hit by one of the city's routine rolling blackouts. There went the A/C we'd paid extra for.
Delhi's grid couldn't handle the full demand for power on its hottest days, and so the grid's managers would shed loads neighborhood to neighborhood to keep the system (barely) humming. We'd heard that the poshest districts were never part of the roll; the backpacker ghetto of Paharganj near the railway station was definitely not one of those.
Like many establishments, our little guest house had a contingency plan: a single small diesel generator, which someone started up a few minutes after the rolling blackout hit. It wasn't strong enough to run the A/C, but it would spin the ceiling fans, which did their best to dissipate the stench of diesel smoke from all the generators fired up at establishments the length of the bazaar. The way you tried to fall asleep once the A/C went off was you stood in the shower, soaked yourself with cold water, lay down in bed dripping under the ceiling fan, and hoped you nodded off before all the water condensed away and let the ferocious heat back in. If you didn't, that was when you truly understood the value of reliable electricity.
This is worth bearing in mind as we contemplate the blackout of this young century, maybe the greatest of all time: the wholesale power failure that plunged Indians by the hundreds of millions into darkness, shut down air conditioners, induced traffic chaos and halted trains nationwide. (For the best single-link analysis of the blackout and what it means, Jonathan Shainin has you covered over at The New Yorker.) It's 90 degrees, hazy and thick with humidity in the late evening in Delhi as I write this, and I feel terrible for anyone stuck there still stuck without access to electrically powered cooling technology.
The world press took alarmed notice at those rendered powerless by the blackout, noting breathlessly that 600 million Indians – nearly a tenth of the world's people – were without power. As electricity service is restored, the media spotlight is already shifting elsewhere, and India will carry on as a country where several hundred million people (I've seen figures ranging from 300 million to 450 million) live in homes with no electricity. Ever.
Which brings us to the enormous cleantech opportunity lurking in the shadows of India's shaky grid. It's one akin to what just happened to Indian telecommunications. When I was living in India in 1999, we heard many stories of multiyear waits for new landlines, which are zealously controlled by the monument to stasis that is India's state-owned telephone company. Mobile phones were nonexistent. For the vast majority of Indians, telecom was a rare and complicated affair that occurred only on public-access phones at retail kiosks. (I can report that in those days you would overhear the most extraordinary things being bellowed down creaky old telephone wires as you passed by.)
And today, barely a decade later? There are more than 900 million mobile phone accounts in India, and there's a whole electricity-biz sideline in providing recharging services to the millions of Indians who have mobile phones but no power outlets. India basically skipped twentieth-century telecom.
While India's grid was down, it was distributed power generation – little diesel generators like the one my old guest house had, as well as the huge generators that Indian businesses routinely include in their office and factory designs – that kept the country from grinding completely to a halt. Gigaom reports that Indian companies pay more than $0.45 per kilowatt hour for that emergency power, more than four times the standard rate.
The conventional wisdom – as expressed over at the as expressed over at the New York Times' Dot Earth blog Dot Earth blog, among other places – is that only coal can possibly fill that gap. I'd suggest, however, that when power's going for rates similar to the steepest of the world's feed-in tariffs for renewable energy, we're looking at the world's most underserved solar market.
This is already well-understood in some corners of India. Reuters reported this week on an entire village powered by solar, and in my forthcoming book The Leap (already out in Canada), I describe similar village-scale efforts by the pioneers at a brilliant Indian solar business called SELCO, which uses microcredit loans to finance small solar arrays for village rooftops and market stalls. Piggybacking on these entrepreneurial efforts, the Indian government has committed to becoming a global solar powerhouse within a decade through its Jawarhalal Nehru National Solar Mission.
And here's another factor to consider: the Indian government is notoriously slow, sloppy and graft-ridden, especially when it comes to great big top-down megaprojects – a national grid upgrade, for example, capable of bringing hundreds of gigawatts of new coal power online. This is the landline version of India's energy future. Distributed, small-scale solar energy, on the other hand, looks a lot like a nation that's only ever known mobile phones. Imagine a kiosk recharging mobile phones for a few rupees a pop in a rural village, its awning capped in solar panels and the sky above unblocked by overhead wires of any sort. That would be a bright future indeed – for India and beyond.


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About 300 students rallied outside the university's administration building Friday to stand with Landen Gambill. She was accused last week by a student-run honor court of creating an intimidating environment for the man she says raped her. Gambill and her supporters say the same honor court, whose proceedings are confidential, previously found the male student not guilty in the assault.
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REAL NAME: Vince McMahon
BORN: August 24th, 1945 in Pinehurst, NC
6'2", 220 pounds
ALIASES/ NICKNAMES: Mr. McMahon
Beyond all the Hogans and Flairs and Austins and Rocks, there is one man whose influence on the sport of pro wrestling, good or bad, has been greater than any of the wrestlers that he has employed: Vincent Kennedy McMahon, Jr.
Born in Pinehurst, NC, Vince McMahon came from very modest means, living for a time in a trailer, and being raised by his mother and a variety of step-fathers. Vince, Jr. didn't meet his biological father until he was 12 years old. As it turned out, his father was Vince McMahon, Sr, himself a second generation wrestling promoter and the head of Capitol Sports and, by extension, the Worldwide Wrestling Federation (WWWF). Both Vince Sr. and Jr. loved the wrestling business, but having his son involved in wrestling was something that Vince Sr. vehemently disapproved of. Vince, Sr. wanted his son to go into law or business, and sent his son to military school.
While enrolled at Fishborne Military School in Waynesboro, Virginia, Vince, Jr. made history by becoming the first cadet to be court-martialed (unsuccessfully). In 1964, McMahon would go on to graduate from East Carolina College with a degree in Marketing. Two years later, he married fellow East Carolina College graduate, the former Linda Edwards who gave birth to their first-born, son Shane, in 1970. A daughter, Stephanie, would be born in 1976.
His time in school had done little to dissuade McMahon from entering the wrestling business. In 1971, Vince promoted his first wrestling show for his father in Bangor, Maine. A year later, with the dismissal of one of his announcers, the elder McMahon had little choice but to give Vince a job as an on-screen commentator for the WWF.
In 1979, McMahon began promoting, not wrestling but hockey, out of the Cape Cod Arena in Massachusetts. Meanwhile, he was helping his father's company grow, expanding the WWWF's syndication from nine stations to 30.
By 1982, Vince McMahon, Sr., aware that he was dying of cancer, decided to leave the wrestling business behind. Vince Jr. bought Capitol Sports and turned the company into Titan Sports, and began to transform the WWWF into WWE as we know it today.
While continuing to act as lead announcer on his own broadcasts, McMahon began to bring the WWF, or the World Wrestling Federation, as he renamed it, out of its regional boundaries with the thoughts of taking it national and, in time, international. Prior to this, wrestling was a very regionalized business with each promoter having his own territory. The WWWF had been limited the Northeastern United States. McMahon decided to change that by initially sending videotapes of his programs to be broadcast in other regions of the country and then, later, promoting wrestling shows in this other territories.
McMahon didn't meet with complete success, however. When he purchased controlling interest in Georgia Championship Wrestling from Jack and Jerry Brisco, he immediately closed the promotion down and on July 14th, 1984, (dubbed Black Saturday by some fans) began to broadcast WWF matches during GCW's timeslot on Ted Turner's TBS. The backlash that followed was so overwhelming that TBS gave airtime to Ole Anderson's Championship Wrestling from Georgia promotion. McMahon, angered by this, simply sent TBS tapes of his syndicated show, instead of new, original programming. Turner responded by giving Bill Watts' Mid-South Wrestling a timeslot on his network that quickly drew better ratings than McMahon's WWF show.
Realizing that, for once, he was in over his head, Vince sold his TBS timeslot to Jim Crockett, Jr. for $1 million. Vince and the WWF was off TBS but the war between McMahon and Turner that would one day evolve into the WWF vs. WCW Monday Night Wars had begun.
With Hulk Hogan installed as the WWF World Champion, McMahon began to step up his campaign to introduce pro wrestling, and the WWF in particular, to the mainstream. He began involving celebrities such as Mr. T and Cyndi Lauper in his wrestling angles, leading to the very first Wrestlemania in 1985. In addition to Lauper and T, other celebrities such as Muhammad Ali and Liberace played a part in one of the early "super cards" broadcast not on pay-per-view (yet) but closed circuit television.
With the success of Wrestlemania, McMahon, with the help of NBC executive Dick Ebersol, brought pro wrestling back to network television with a bi-monthly replacement to Saturday Night Live called Saturday Night's Main Event. Premiering on May 10th, 1985, the show, taped the night before at Nassau Coliseum on Long Island, would pull an 8.8 rating and feature Hogan vs. Cowboy Bob Orton. Later that same year, McMahon would bring the WWF to pay-per-view with The Wrestling Classic, a one-night tournament won by the Junk Yard Dog and featuring a WWF title match between Hulk Hogan and Rowdy Roddy Piper.
Meanwhile, McMahon began to ruthlessly raid other territories and promotions, signing the top talent in order to not only strengthen his own company but weaken the competition. The AWA lost Mean Gene Okerlund, Bobby Heenan, Curt Hennig, the Midnight Rockers and, most notably, Hulk Hogan. The NWA would lose Dusty Rhodes, the Road Warriors, Ricky Steamboat and even, eventually, Ric Flair.
McMahon would promote another Wrestlemania in 1986, featuring three seperate events (in Chicago, Long Island and Los Angeles) all brought together in one pay-per-view broadcast. Meanwhile, the WWF's promotional machine was in full gear. The WWF's Superstars were being marketed like never before, appearing on trading cards, lunch boxes, posters and even recreated in plastic as action figures.
In 1987, McMahon and the WWF would reach one of its benchmark achievements when the Pontiac Silverdome hosted Wrestlemania III. With an "worked" attendance record of 93,173, (it was actually closer to 78,000), McMahon promoted, as the main event, Hulk Hogan vs. Andre the Giant, two of the biggest icons in wrestling, for the WWF World Championship.
Deciding that one pay-per-view a year was not enough, and deciding to put the screws to his competition (namely Jim Crockett Promotions), McMahon promoted the first annual Survivor Series on Thanksgiving Day, November 26th, 1987. Thanksgiving had been for the last four years the traditional date of the NWA's biggest card of the year, Starrcade. This year, however, McMahon decided to give them some competition. Since both would be on pay-per-view, McMahon played his trump card, invoking a clause where none of the cable companies could carry another wrestling event within 30 days of his. In other words, the companies could either carry Starrcade or the Survivor Series, but not both. With McMahon's strong promotion of the WWF, few cable outlets risked carrying the lesser known NWA product over the WWF's.
McMahon would reprise Hogan and Andre (with Andre temporarily taking the title from Hogan) on February 5th, 1988 as pro wrestling returned to prime time television for the first time since 1955 with the Main Event. Although the wrestling craze of the mid-1980s would eventually cool off, leading to a general dip in interest in pro wrestling, McMahon continued to tinker with his promotion, signing new talent, letting stale characters go. Randy Savage was made the WWF's champion for a time, only to put the title back on Hulk Hogan at Wrestlemania V at Trump Plaza in March, 1989.
In between all of that, McMahon even began to expand his empire into the non-wrestling world, handling the pay-per-view for the Sugar Ray Leonard-Donny Lalonde boxing match and helped to produce Hulk Hogan's first vehicle No Holds Barred (later using the movie storyline as in-ring fodder).
In 1989, Vince McMahon confessed, once and for all, before the New Jersey State Senate that professional wrestling matches were staged events. It was an effort on McMahon's part, successful as it turned out, to get around taxation on his house shows and pay-per-view events.
Even after selling out the SkyDome for 1990's Wrestlemania VI, Vince wasn't teflon-coated. His World Bodybuilding Federation (begun in January 1991 and closed down in July 1992) never really took off the way McMahon was hoping it would, despite almost non-stop promotion on WWF telecasts. The WBF held two major events on pay-per-view (the first in June 1991 at the Taj Mahal Casino in Atlantic City) before closing down, with McMahon and his company losing a reported 15 million dollars and introducing the world to ICOPRO and the WWF debut of Lex Luger.
With the pending departure of Hulk Hogan to WCW, McMahon also found himself in hot water with the U.S. government. During the 1991 trial of Dr. George Zahorian, he testified that he had sold steroids to Hulk Hogan, Roddy Piper, and McMahon himself as well as sending over three dozen packages of steroids to Titan Towers. With the Federal government breathing down his neck, in November, 1991, McMahon instituted a drug policy within the WWF.
To make matters worse, the WWF was also operating under a cloud of sexual scandal that stemmed from the 1992 claims of sexual harassment from former ring attendant Tony Cole, enhancement talent Barry O and announcer Murray Hodgekins directed toward executives Pat Patterson and Terry Garvin. The case was quickly settled out of court, with Garvin and Patterson both fired (although Patterson was eventually rehired).
In addition, McMahon found himself at the centre of a sexual harrassment suit. WWF employee Rita Chatterson claimed that McMahon had demanded sexual favours while she was riding in his limo and when she refused, she was denied work. The limo driver attempted to corroborate her story, but the case was dismissed due to a lack of evidence.
On November 18th, 1993, McMahon was indicted on charges of possession of steroids and conspiracy to distribute steroids. Between November 1993 and May 1994, the government altered the number of charges and the possible consequences if McMahon was found guilty. At any given moment during these months, he might be threatened with fines up to $2 million, jail time up to eleven years and face the seizure of the $9 million Titan Towers building. By the time that trial began on July 5th, 1994, all the charges save conspiracy to defraud the Food and Drug Administration had been withdrawn.
McMahon admitted to taking steroids in 1989 when they were still legal for personal use and with a doctor's prescription. Meanwhile, Hulk Hogan, expected to be a star witness for the government, helped to clear McMahon by stating that he had believed the steroids were legal because a doctor had prescribed them. (Despite this, McMahon would later bash Hogan in the press.) The jury deliberated for 16 hours and, on July 22nd, delivered a not guilty verdict. Vince was a free man, but the trial did much to further the already negative view that most non-wrestling fans had of the sport in general and the WWF in particular.
Amid the turmoil of the trial, McMahon had premiered a new wrestling show for his company: Monday Night Raw. Premiering on the USA Network on January 11th, 1993, Raw was broadcast from the Manhattan Centre in New York. Sporadically broadcast live, the show quickly won acclaim for its gritty, cutting edge style and its presentation of top-calibre matches, a far cry from the preliminary bouts shown on syndicated shows such as "Superstars of Wrestling".
Just in case McMahon was getting lax, World Championship Wrestling, under the guidance of Eric Bischoff, decided to take the fight to their long-time rival, snatching up many of the WWF's top stars, including Hogan, Savage, Hacksaw Jim Duggan and the Nasty Boys. Then WCW took it one step further and premiered its own Monday night wrestling show, Monday Nitro, opposite Raw on Ted Turner's TNT station, premiering on September 4th, 1995. Nitro delivered a devastating blow to Raw on its first night, with former WWF star Lex Luger showing up, one night after appearing on a WWF pay-per-view.
The Monday Night Wars had begun.
Aggressive and often-times ruthless tactics by Bischoff soon had Nitro not only being competitive with Raw in terms of ratings but soon, defeating the WWF's show. With the arrival of former WWF stars Kevin "Diesel" Nash and Scott "Razor Ramon" Hall and the birth of the New World Order, WCW would take a commanding lead in the ratings war, leading to a span of 80 straight weeks where Nitro would defeat Raw. McMahon would have to regroup.
He took a page from the Philadelphia-based Extreme Championship Wrestling and began to make his show more edgy, with racier undertones and increased violence. The formation of the DeGeneration X group and the introduction of "Stone Cold" Steve Austin helped to give the WWF some momentum in its fight to stay alive against the onslaught of WCW.
However, McMahon was still facing financial difficulties and was forced to ask one of his biggest stars, Bret "Hitman" Hart to seek employment with rival World Championship Wrestling. Hart soon came to terms with a lucrative three-year deal with WCW but was still the WWF Champion. Plans were made for Hart's match against Shawn Michaels, set for the 1997 Survivor Series in Montreal, to end indecisively, so that Hart could retain the title until the next night, where Hart would surrender the title and say "Farewell". Instead Hart was defeated by Shawn Michaels when referee Earl Hebner called for the bell while Hart was in a sharpshooter applied by Michaels. Hart, infuriated at what would be known as "the Montreal Screwjob", spit in McMahon's face at ringside
and later, caught up to McMahon after the match and punched his former boss in a physical altercation backstage.
The following night, McMahon appeared on Raw to address the situation, stating that "Bret screwed Bret." With his involvement in the Montreal incident, McMahon was setting the groundwork to become the biggest heel in his own company.
With the involvement of former boxing champion Mike Tyson at Wrestlemania XIV in 1998, the WWF was a hot commodity once again and McMahon decided to keep the momentum by introducing a new storyline, one that would pit new WWF Champion "Stone Cold" Steve Austin against one of Vince's greatest creations, "Mr. McMahon" himself. The McMahon-Austin feud would help the WWF regain the ratings lead on WCW. McMahon would physically involve himself in his battle against Austin, entering and the 1999 Royal Rumble (which he won) and a steel cage match at the St. Valentine's Day Massacre pay-per-view.
On May 23, 1999, during the WWF's "Over the Edge" pay-per-view, wrestler Owen Hart fell from the rafters of Kansas City's Kemper Arena and died of his injuries. McMahon found himself in a torrent of criticism for continuing the pay-per-view even after the accident and the announcement of Owen's death. Owen's widow, Martha Hart would launch a wrongful death suit against McMahon and the WWF. It would be eighteen months before Hart and the WWF would come to a settlement believed to be worth $18 million US in November 2000.
McMahon and company had to forge on in the aftermath of Owen's death. Vince would once again climb into the ring for perhaps his most important in-ring battle when, on September 14th, 1999 he defeated Triple H on Smackdown to win the WWF World Championship. (He would later forfeit the title.) In his ensuing battles with Triple H and on into 2000, he began to involve the rest of his family (wife Linda, daughter Stephanie and son Shane) in the WWF's storylines.
In October 1999, McMahon decided to take the WWF public and offer to sell shares of the company to the public. On October 19th, the stock closed at $25.25. A year later, the stock moved from NASDAQ to the New York Stock Exchange. In the process, Titan Sports Inc. became World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc.
By the start of 2000, McMahon seemed to be, once again, bored with simply promoting pro wrestling and, on February 3rd, 2000, announced that he would be teaming with NBC to promote a new brand of football, dubbed the XFL. A year later, with critics already condemning it, the league began play with eight teams and a ten week schedule. On April 21st, the season, and the league ended with the championship game watched by less than a quarter of those who had watched the league's inital game. The WWF's loss was about $35 million.
If McMahon's out-of-the-ring endeavours were not meeting with as much success as he had hoped, the wrestling part of his empire was . In March 2001, after a deal between the Eric Bischoff-led Fusient Media Ventures and Time Warner/AOL to sell World Championship Wrestling fell through, McMahon swooped in and, in short order, purchased his long-time competitor. The Monday Night Wars were over and McMahon could claim victory. McMahon wasted no time in turning his purchase of WCW into a major storyline in the WWF. He had his son, Shane appear on the last telecast of Monday Nitro to announce that it was really him and not Vince who had purchased WCW.
Over the coming months, Shane's contingent of WCW wrestlers would appear on Raw, normally to interfere in WWF matches although McMahon would promote Booker T vs. Buff Bagwel in a match universally panned by critics and fans. In months to come, Shane's WCW would team with Paul Heyman's veterans of ECW as part of the "Invasion" angle. It should have been the biggest storyline in WWF history. Instead, the angle fell flat.
On September 13th, 2001, in the middle of the Invasion angle and two days after the terrorist attacks in the United States, McMahon allowed the WWF superstar to step out of character, much as they had after Owen Hart's death, in order to pay tribute to the victims and the heroes of September 11th.
Soon, the WWF would undergo a drastic change. The World Wildlife Fund (the OTHER WWF) took McMahon's WWF to court over the use of the WWF initials and confusion over the wwf.com website. Despite the wrestling WWF's best efforts, a British court ruled in favour of the World Wildlife Fund, forcing McMahon to change the name of his company to World Wrestling Entertainment, or WWE. Taking advantage of this seemingly negative turn of events, the WWE told fans to "Get the F Out".
With the demise of ECW and WCW, and NWA-TNA still in its infancy, McMahon had no real competition. With the failure of the Invasion angle, he realized that he needed to do something in an attempt to respark fan interest. Ric Flair's arrival in the WWE as the co-owner of the WWE (in story-line only, of course) would spark conflict between he and McMahon. After Wrestlemania XVIII, it was decided that each of the two men would assume control of one of the brands (Flair would take Raw while McMahon took Smackdown) and on March 25, 2002, they conducted a brand extension draft. The entire WWE roster was broken up into two separate camps, with some rivalry (especially between future General Managers Eric Bischoff and Stephanie McMahon) occuring.
In the early months of 2003, McMahon, in between promoting the 10th anniversary of Raw, began to criticize Hulk Hogan on the air, leading to a feud between the promoter and the wrestler who had helped bring WWE make Wrestlemania a success. How fitting that the two should battle at Wrestlemania XIX! Despite interference from Rowdy Roddy Piper, Hogan defeated McMahon in a bloody match. The on-air feud between Hogan and McMahon didn't end there, but it would end when Hogan left the WWE in July 2003, leaving McMahon to battle one-legged wrestler Zach Gowan, who had been written in as a friend of Hogan's.
On September 18th, 2003, Vince McMahon Jr. was enshrined in the Madison Square Garden Hall of Fame, joining his father who had already been inducted.
The fall of 2003 would see Vince back in the ring, first to take on Stephanie McMahon and then to battle The Undertaker. While he might have earned criticism for those matches, especially the feud with daughter Stephanie, but his reputation would improve when he took the WWE Smackdown roster to Iraq just before Christmas to perform for the U.S. troops serving there. McMahon would take a Stone Cold stunner on that first show, courtesy of "Santa Claus" ("Stone Cold" Steve Austin in costume).
In 2004, McMahon appeared at Wrestlemania XX to thank the fans for their attendance at the event and for their continued support of the product. Approximately a month later, McMahon returned to WWE television to announce that he was kicking off the $250 000 Raw Diva Search, his own attempt to cash in on the reality TV craze that brought us shows like the Bachelor and American Idol.
Throughout 2004, McMahon would continue to appear on WWE television, such as appearing on Smackdown's 5th Anniversary show (receiving a poem by Heidenreich) and appearing on Raw just before Taboo Tuesday which lead to several wrestlers trying to gain Vince's endorsement in the fans' voting.
Not all of McMahon's appearances have gone smoothly, however. When Vince rushed to the ring at the end of the 2005 Royal Rumble, he blew his knee out and, on February 5th had to have surgery to repair torn tendons.
Even the injuries couldn't knock Vince McMahon off the perch that he created for himself at the top of the industry. With Wrestlemania XXI under his belt, McMahon continued to make appearances on WWE TV at events such as the draft lottery and on Raw's Homecoming on the USA Network, where he clashed with an old adversary in "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, getting a stunner for his troubles.
After Austin's attack, McMahon would remain on WWE television for several weeks, firing long-time announcer Jim Ross and then making fun of Ross's recent surgery in a much-panned skit.
Sadly, not all was fun and games for Vince McMahon and the WWE. With the death of Eddie Guerrero in November 2005, McMahon presided over Raw and Smackdown's tributes to Guerrero, and even appeared in one taped segment himself. Behind the scenes, the death of Guerrero and the collapse of Nick "Eugene" Dinsmore prompted McMahon to institute a new anti-drug policy among the WWE roster, banning both enhancement drugs and recreational drugs.
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An Air Force Academy program to teach cadets to respect the religious beliefs of comrades will soon go to all Air Force bases and schools, if academy chaplains have their way.
While a target date has not been set for the program's expansion, chaplains hope to transition the Religious Respect Training Program throughout the Air Force as soon as possible, chaplain Maj. Shawn Menchion said Wednesday at the conclusion of the academy's Religious Respect Conference.
"It may reach basic training for enlisted airmen before it reaches the officers," Menchion said.
The program was launched in 2010 at the recommendation of senior academy leaders after several years of religious-related controversies, Menchion said.
Initially, it was a one-hour training session on the First Amendment's clauses that relate to religious freedom, and was taught by academy chaplains to the class of 2014 at cadet basic training.
Last year, the academy and its partners, including the Anti-Defamation League, developed three additional lessons that will be taught at other times: one-hour lessons during sophomore and junior years, and a two-hour lesson during senior year, Menchion said.
The training teaches cadets "to become allies to other cadets when they witness respect infractions," he said. "We're giving them avenues to address those issues. We emphasize addressing those issues at the lowest level."
"This is something new," Menchion said of the program. "No other military members are getting this training except for the cadets."
The program was a major topic of discussion at the third biannual conference, held Tuesday and Wednesday at the academy.
Military and civilian attendees representing groups such as the ACLU, Buddhist Churches of America and Islamic Society of Colorado offered feedback on the program, which consists of lectures and discussions based on scenarios.
"Some have suggested that we continue to revise our scenarios to ensure their sensitivity and to ensure that there are no subjective or implied messages sent as we continue to develop the series," Menchion said.
David Oringderff, executive director of the Sacred Well Congregation, an international Wiccan fellowship, said he had high hopes for the program.
"Two years ago, the program was just starting out, and I didn't think it was going to succeed, at least not the way it did," he said. "After I left the conference, I felt that there'd be progress. But I was not prepared for the extent of the positive outcome. It's just incredible.
"I do a lot of interfaith work, and this program should be a model for interfaith programs all over the country."
Retired Air Force Col. Frank Clawson, director of military relations for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also said he was pleasantly surprised by the difference the program made in the academy's culture in two years.
"In the military, you really have to be a cohesive team," he said. "If you have people who are being segregated out because of their beliefs and not included in a team, you're going to be less effective.
"I'm encouraged. They're beginning to see results that are positive."


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If you follow my posts, you already know that I wax poetic about my on-going love affair with Italy. Basically every nook and cranny of the magnificent peninsula and surrounding islands take my breath away. But you probably didn't know that my second love is San Diego. There are 33 beaches, and 70 miles of coastline stretching from Imperial Beach to Oceanside. There are about 267 glorious days of sunshine per year. No wonder San Diego is "America's Finest City."
I love the Santa Fe Depot train station with its glorious mosaic domes. There are plenty interesting places to visit on the way to Los Angeles.
In Little Italy, go to Extraordinary Desserts for the most beautiful sweet treats you will ever witness.
The city has a vibrant Little Italy neighborhood with outstanding restaurants and bars and plenty of gelato and Italian delis. Filippi's Pizza Grotto on India Street is a Little Italy institution.
Here's a Video of Little Italy http://youtu.be/beH01nziAIs
Sometimes, when I yearn to be sun-kissed by the hilly landscape of Tuscany or transported to the glistening azure sea that surrounds the majestic cliffs of the Cinque Terre or the Amalfi Coast; I just plan a trip to San Diego.
If all I have is a long weekend, I escape to the www.vino-con-vista.com of San Diego. Did I mention that the weather is always perfect in San Diego? As a college professor, I have the luxury of a Fall Break and believe me, I thank God each and every day for all my blessings.
I always celebrate Columbus Day in what I consider to be America's Amalfi Coast. I prefer to stay at the Marriott in the Marina District for a number of reasons. I love sun-bathing at the luxurious pool while listening to the soothing sound of the magical fountains as I sip a refreshing Miami Vice from the Tiki Bar. The Marriott is within walking distance of many of my favorite San Diego attractions and it is close to the trolley.
The city is great for biking and the hotel has a bike rental service. I like the food and the view from Roy's Hawaiian Fusion Restaurant. The rooms have outstanding views and balconies. I enjoy watching the jet skiiers and boating enthusiasts. It's fun to watch people flying their kites in the park. Gazing at the Coranado Bridge and the sailboats is basically one of life's simple pleasures. Sea Port Village's 14 acre outdoor plaza has a beautiful 19th century carousel. Grab a coffee at the Upstart Crow Bookstore and Cofeehouse at 835-C W. Harbor Drive. If you go in the summer, get tickets for the San Diego Symphony Summer Pops concerts in the Embarcadero Marina Park South (behind the Conference Center). The tickets start at $20. For more informationn visit: www.sandiegosymphony.com. I'm saw Michael Bolton and Burt Baccarack in the summer of 2013!
The tenth annual San Diego Wine Festival will be held in the park behind the Marriott Hotel on November 20-24, 2013 at the Embarcadero Marina Park North. What a great "Vino con Vista" venue!! Some of the other festivals held in 2013 include: Taste of Gaslamp (June 8-9), Taste of Little Italy (June 19) Taste of Adams Avenue (June 30), Encinitas Wine Festival (June 1), the San Diego Spirits Festival (August 24-25) and the San Diego Festival of Beer (September 20), and Hillcrest City Fest on August 11th with 250 vendors. On June 15th there was a Carlsbad Beach Fest with water sport challenges. The Festival of Sail is when Tall Ships from around the world dock at downtown's Embarcadero between August 30-September 2.
There are many other reasons why I like the Marina District. I like to watch the sea gulls strategically capture and devour left-overs from sleeping sun-bunnies. They really seem to love french fries. I wonder if they have cholesterol issues? I adore watching the captivating sunsets from Seaport Village.
I can't understand why San Diegans don't celebrate the vistas with the same pomp and circumstance as the daily sunset festivals in Key West.
It's an easy stroll over to the Port of San Diego. I like the USS Midway Museum with the longest-serving US Navy aircraft carrierod the 20th century. At the museum, you can "relive 50 years of world history by walking in the footsteps of 225,000 Midway sailors" on Harbor Drive. There are 27 restored aircraft. For more information visit http://www.midway.org
Visit the "Greatest Generation Walk" that commemorates military heritage through art. My favorite WWII commemorative statue "is "Unconditional Surrender." This romantic 25 foot statue of a sailor kissing a nurse by J. Seward Johnson always makes my heart skip a beat.
The Marina District is also appealing because it is within walking distance to Horton Plaza, the Gaslamp District and Little Italy. These are some of my favorite San Diego destinations. Take some time to explore the bay on a Hornblower Cruise. I like the "Sights and Sips" Sunset Cruise. Pay for a reserved window seat when you purchase your ticket.
My "Vino con Vista" San Diego adventure began in the Gaslamp District with a local wine event at the House of Blues. Exhuberant dancers enjoyed the DJ's classic Prince tunes. I was glad they were pouring Pinot Noir because I can be such a wine snob. We meandered over to the historic Grant Hotel at Broadway and 4th where a female San Diego attorney named Lynn Schenk broke the gender barrier at the Grant Grill restaurant in 1971. The sign at the entrance said "Men only until 3:00 pm." The Hotel is celebrating their 100th anniversary. Long story short, the place was recently refurbished as an elegant Starwood Property and serves as a testiment to the Glory Days of San Diego. The live music was enchanting.
The Gaslamp District has 94 historic buildings that have been lovingly restored. Businessman Alonzo Erastus Horton spent $264 for 800 acres in 1867. These 16 blocks eventually became the Gaslamp Quarter. You can schedule a two-hour walking tour of the Gaslamp at the Historical Foundation at 619-233-4692. There are over 200 restaurants, bars and night clubs with a vast array of Happy Hour options including: Altitude Sky Lounge, Chianti, Currant, House of Blues, Hard Rock Hotel and McCormick & Schmicks.
The next day, I had the good fortune of having lunch on the sun-drenched patio of the Hotel Del Coronado which is one of my favorite hotels in the world! I am also a big fan of Wentworth by the see near Portmouth New Hampshire.
I usually take the Coranado Ferry from the Broadway Pier behind the Convention Center when I want to visit Coranado. I put my bike on the ferry and ride down Orange Street to my final destination. I love the view of the skyline from the Coranado Ferry Landing. Technically, the Silver Strand connects Coronado to the mainland so it really isn't an island. It is technically an isthmus because it is attached to the mainland at the southern end of Silver Strand State Beach and is connected to Imperial Beach
The beach at Coronado in front of the hotel is definitely the best beach in San Diego! Have brunch at the Hotel del Coronado's Crown Room on Sunday at 1500 Orange Avenue. . You won't be disappointed in this Victorian gem brimming with history.
I love the California Historic Landmark's photo montage of the 1959 film "Some Like It Hot." The hotel was featured in the classic film with Marilyn Monroe, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis. It reminds me of the pictures of "La Dolce Vita" that adorn the walls of the Hotel Majestic in Rome. I like all the cute retail-therapy shops on the lower level. One of the jewelry stores had an adorable ruby slipper necklace that I had to work really hard at resisting. I grabbed a business card just in case I changed my mind when I got home about the necklace. Although our plan involved feasting on one of the restaurant's famous Ruben sandwiches, we realized that they had changed the menu. I ordered some delicious seared scallops instead. The breath-taking views of the beach, the Pacific Ocean and hilly peninsula of Point Loma reminded me of Mondello Sicily. If I win the lottery, I'm moving to Ocean Drive in Coronado or maybe I'll move to La Jolla so I can be Mitt Romney's neighbor.
After lunch, we went to the Cabrillo National Monument on the southern tip of Point Loma and paid hommage to the Portuguese navigator Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo who landed here on September 28,1542 when he anchored his "San Salvador" ship. This is agreat place to watch the sunset! I never knew about the sandstone cliffs that surround the tide pools and precious pre-historic fossils in Point Loma, but they definitely peaked my interest. Tide pools are generally found on rocky shores that are covered and uncovered daily by ocean tides. They are best viewed at low tide when you may see an array of sea like including sea stars and urchins.
As I gazed at the fourteen foot structure of Cabrillo, I was magically transported to the "Monument to the Discoveries" in Lisbon that honors the 500th anniversary of the death of Prince Henry the Navigator with Magellan, Vasco da Gama and other notable Portuguese explorers lining the concrete prow of a caravel. I heard the sweet serenade of Fado music and envisioned the Manueline Belem Tower that protects Lisbon's harbor. I remembered that I was in San Diego when I saw the lighthouse, North Island, military ships and the skyline. Senior Cabrillo looks like he was kidnapped from the monument in Lisbon. In Point Loma have a burger at Slater's 50/50 at 2750 Dewey Road. One of my favorite lunch is Point Loma Seafoods at 2805 Emerson Street.
We drove past the Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery that was named after a Union General in the American Civil War. The tombstones made me think about my travels to Normandy.
Then I thought about how much I missed my Dad. I remembered that someone from the army called me the day before his funeral to tell me that they were sorry to hear that they had lost another one of their WWII brothers. They came to his funeral and presented me with a folded flag and gave him a proper 21 gun salute. It brought tears to my eyes. Weeks after his funeral, I received a certificate from the White House. President Bush signed a document that stated The United States of America honored my father's memory. It says: "This certificate is awarded by a grateful nation in recognition of devoted and selfless consecration to the service of our country in the Armed Forces of the United States." I presume that the daughters of many beloved fathers buried at Rosecrans and other military cemeteries received the same document.
It was time for us to check out the newly-renovated Bali Hai Tiki Temple at 2230 Shelter Island Drive. Bali Hai was a famous show tune from Roger and Hammerstein's 1949 musical "South Pacific." The venue was lavishly adorned with maps and Polynesian artifacts. We sat at the bar for another incredible "Vino con Vista." Instead of wine, I opted for a Polynesean cocktail that was so strong that I had to dilute it with orange juice. I felt it was too early in the day to get hammered. I'm starting to sound like Ernest Hemmingway; most of his tales revolve around cocktail hour.
That evening, we went back to Banker's Hill overlooking Balboa Park where the San Diego Zoo is located. We watched the 1937 film "Captains Courageous" based on a 1897 story by Rudyard Kipling. In the film, a young Spencer Tracy serves as a heroic role model for the arrogant son of a wealthy tycoon played by Freddie Bartholomew. Rudyard Kipling's heart-warming tale is about vices and virtues. Spencer Tracy is a Portuguese fisherman who teaches the child about respect, valor and love. This tear-jerker is a must see for the over-indulged pre-teen in your family.
The weekend was filled with festivals. We walked over to the Saturday morning Mercado in Little Italy. I love the fresh flowers, farm-fresh produce and wide array of merchandise offered at this weekly event. Smilin' Jack was playing Italian songs on his accordion. When you go to Little Italy, make sure you try some of the Happy Hour Venues. I like the Glass Door Restaurant and Lounge for a Vino con Vista overlooking the Bay. San Diego's vibrant dining scene has more than 7000 options. There are also plenty of food trucks including Mangia Mangia Mobile and Miho's Gastrotruck. In Little Italy dine at Bencotto Italian Kitchen at 750 Fir Street or Prep Kitchen for Happy Hour.
We hopped on the Trolley in Little Italy that transported us to the Art Festival in Old Town where I found the perfect blush-colored pearl bracelet to wear to my son's spring wedding. Then for about $20, we took a cab to Prospect Street in downtown La Jolla. I had to re-visit the historic La Valencia Hotel and climb the stairs at George's at the Cove for a panoramic shot of the Pacific Ocean. George's Chef Trey Foshee serves contemporary California cuisine with breath-taking views. There's even a rooftop terrace. Another interesting dining option in La Jolla is Nine-Ten at 910 Prospect Street inside the Grande Colonial Hotel. Chef Jason Knibb's seasonal cuisine is served in an elegant dining room. I love the pink La Valencia Hotel in La Jolla on Prospect with the hand-painted murals
We walked over to the Art and Wine Festival on Girard St. The festival was a school fundraiser. Wineries from Temecula were pouring $3 tastings. I found it interesting that the public school on Girard Street was located at the intersection of the Maserati Dealership and the Ferrari Dealership. That spoke volumes about the demographics in La Jolla.
Plan to attend the La Jolla Music Society Summerfest between July 31 and August 23, 2013. La Jolla has an annual festival of the Arts between June 22-23. I wanted to attend the Gourmet Festival in Del Mar but we didn't have enough time. If you have time, check out the Museum of Contemporary Art in La Jolla Village where Nancy Rubins' large-scale, nautical inspired artwork adorns the museum's west side.
One of my favorite Fall Festivals is in Little Italy. I love this annual Columbus Day celebration called "Festa" in Little Italy.
Live music permeates the neighborhood as the chalk artists work their magic on five- foot square sections of Date Street. Some of the chalk art is incredible!
Litte Italy reminds me of Cefalu Sicily with the historic tales of tuna fisherman, cute shops with imported Italian ceramics and charming outdoor Italian restaurants. I had some flavorful gnocchi from Buon Appetito's food booth.
I made my mandatory trek to Fillippi's for pine nut cookies. They offer the perfect blend of almond paste and pine-nuts. I was too full to order a Caprese Sandwich at Mona Lisa, one of my favorite Italian stores on India. Have a perfect expresso at Caffe Italia at 1704 India Street. There's a summer Film Festival in Amici Park Amphitheater on Saturday nights in the summer at West Date and State Streets.
In the evening, we went to Island Prime on Shelter Island and I ordered a yummy Ahi Tuna/crab meat appetizer that was drizzled with a balsamic infused apricot flavored glaze. It was just the right mate for my Cadillac Margarita with Gran Marnier. I savored the combinaton as I admired the billion-dollar views of downtown San Diego at night. The cruise ship was parked in the Port and the configuration of the ship's red lights resembled the Golden Gate Bridge.
Then it was time for some "Smooth Jazz" at Humphrey's at 2241 Shelter Island Drive. . I loved watching the people on the dance floor move to the rhythm of Marcus Anderson's sexy saxophone. The passionate tatooed drummer was getting a cardiac workout.
Humphrey's Concerts by the Bay is a great venue for dinner and a show during the summer months.
No weekend in San Diego would be complete without visiting the Gaslamp Quarter. Go to Bice at 425 Island for an outstanding Happy Hour. Everyone loves Searsucker with Top Chef Brian Malarkey's grand slam at 611 5th Avenue. I absolutely love the Grant Grill at 326 Broadway inside the elegant US Grant Hotel.
If you have extra time, there's plenty of biking, hiking and walking trails. Go to Balboa Park, Lake Miramar, or the Grasslands loop if you want short and flat terrain. Balboa Park is the site of the 1915 and 1935 international exposition.
I think my next book will be "Vino Con Vista San Diego." Fortunately, my research will involve many return trips to my favorite American city. How appropriate that the local flowers are "Birds of Paradise." If you wand to browse an event calendar visit http://www.sandiego.org/events
Dr. EveAnn Lovero writes Travel Guides @ http://www.vino-con-vista.com
Mark your calendars for the San Diego Wine Festival in November. Here's a YouTube Video overview that you might enjoy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPmEnsU3LsY
Buon Viaggio–
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It really helps to write things down and stick it up on the wall for you to see your own thoughts and whats going on in your life as well as whats going on in your mind.
This applies to how we run our homes and our Homeschool.
Here is a Mini Jewish Homeschool Preschool Planner- it will help give you an overview of your month, week and day. I have included a black and white copy. I hope it helps you organize your thoughts and helps in your Jewish homeschooling experience!
And if you haven't yet entered the Dot by Dot Giveaway, Click Here for a chance to win a copy of their fabulous Dot by Dot Hebrew Reading Book, Volume 2. Good Luck!
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Look as a couple that has just started doing production we have a lot of empathy for Future and Ciara. They seem to just sit around listening to their ipods and picking out their favourite lines whilst Mike Will Made it updates a classic from the So So Def Bass Allstars series. It's great and it's always good to see Ciara back on top form.
March 5, 2013
Ciara x Body Party
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Simple, Satisfying Burgers at BUB'S @ the Ballpark in San Diego
Burger reviews in the San Diego area.
BUB'S @ the Ballpark
715 J St, San Diego, CA (map); 619-546-0815; bubssandiego.com
Cooking method: Grilled
Short Order: A serviceable bar burger that's satisfying, but not destination-worthy
Want Fries With That? Tasty tots come with the meal by default, but you can choose fries or salad instead
Price: The Woody Burger, $10; Bub's Turkey Burger, $10
As sports bars go, in downtown San Diego, Bub's has all the bases covered: the tap list is cheap and plentiful, giant TVs are everywhere, and the menu is an assortment of approachable, crowd-pleasing grub, like burgers, wings, and sandwiches. During Padre season and Chargers football games, the place is consistently packed, but I've always been curious what factor the food plays in drawing the crowd (versus the beer or big-screen TVs). On a quiet Tuesday afternoon, I found out.
There are six burgers on the menu, including the starter model (a classic cheeseburger called The Woody Burger), a few slightly more dressed up burgers, a turkey burger, and a veggie option. All are made in house from fresh-ground beef, turkey, or the vegetarian-friendly combo of "magic beans," rice, and vegetables. I ordered the classic cheeseburger and the turkey burger, mostly because of the giant, orange arrow pointing to it on the menu. As a general rule, I've found that when restaurants take pains to make an item stand out visually, it's typically a smart bet to order it.
Bub's beef burgers are all made with 100 percent brisket that's ground in-house daily, hand-formed into half-pound patties, and grilled to order. My patty had a decent amount of char and a great, semi-crumbly texture from the coarse grind. The patty was well seasoned, with a moist and juicy center and a fatty, steak-like flavor, but ultimately left me wishing there was another cut of beef mixed in with all of that brisket. The first few bites were good, but by the halfway point, the burger became a bit too one-note. To avoid burn-out, this is a place where going with one of the more complicated options, like the Black & Blue (with blackening spice and blue cheese crumbles) would be a wise idea.
I'm on the fence about most turkey burgers, and while this one was executed well, with a full crust on both sides of the patty, the most noticeable flavor element was plain 'ol salt. Without the chipotle mayo (which is intended to come on the burger, but was missing on mine), the burger was forgettable. Turkey needs help to be delicious. A big pinch of herbs, or some garlic mixed into the patty would go a long way.
As a healthier alternative it's not a bad choice, but as presented it's only noteworthy for being a good bargain ($10, with a heap of tots, fries, or a kick-ass side salad—the same price as the standard cheeseburger).
The default side of tots are your standard-issue, fried from frozen tots, but they're done well, and consequently, totally delicious.
Bub's doesn't make mind-blowing, destination-worthy burgers, but for the price they're a great deal, and if you're looking for a TV-plastered, sports bar steps from Petco Park with good grub, you really can't do much better.
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Serious Salads: White Bean and Mint Salad with Lemon Vinaigrette Recipe
Amazing how a homemade vinaigrette and fresh herbs can breathe life into canned cannellini beans. Feel free to make this salad ahead of time; it gets better and better the longer it sits.
- Yield:serves 4
- Active time: 20 minutes
- Total time:20 minutes
- 3 15-ounce cans cannellini beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 large garlic clove, minced
- 3 tablespoons finely chopped shallots or red onions
- 1 large rib celery, finely diced
- 1/2 cup extra virgin olive oil, best quality
- 1/4 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 3/4 teaspoon sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh mint
Combine all ingredients in a medium bowl and mix well. Serve cold or room temperature.


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Saturday, January 21, 2012
Nothing much happened
Facts from a promenade. It was -5C and very ice. The garage door at the abandoned gas station had been repaired, good to know that my email to the municipality worked. Met a young mother out walking with a stroller. She had the biggest smile I have seen for a long time. Four horses were standing next to the fence at their pasture along Vädersjövägen. Near the brick church on Kvarnvägen three people were reading the sign that informed about the historical remains that can be found in the forest there. The most surprising thing I saw (but didn't photograph), was a bearded man with wild hair wearing only shoes, a t-shirt and sports shorts. He was heading for the grocery store, possibly in search of warmer clothes. Over at the kindergarten where I previously have shown you the winter hammock, I found these left behind gloves on a table next to the playground. Other than that nothing much happened.
9 comments:
- Luis Gomez said...
Great shot Steffe. A classic Winter scene.
- Saturday, January 21, 2012
- PerthDailyPhoto said...
It still sounds like you managed to get out and about and have a pleasant day Steffe.
- Saturday, January 21, 2012
- Gerald (SK14) said...
I like these kind of nothings.
- Saturday, January 21, 2012
- Steve Scauzillo said...
The gloves look like they were well used. Someone had fun in the snow. Shot makes me think.
- Saturday, January 21, 2012
- Stefan Jansson said...
We don't have any snow. Just a lot of icy walkways.
- Saturday, January 21, 2012
- Tanya Breese said...
i love the photo...they probably belong to one of my children, they are always losing their gloves!
- Saturday, January 21, 2012
- Julie said...
An ordinary day at a photographer's office.
- Sunday, January 22, 2012
- geoffsteen said...
All hands on deck!
- Sunday, January 22, 2012
- sweffling said...
Interesting kind of 'nothing!'
Give me snow over ice any day:)
- Sunday, January 22, 2012
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Eli's Marc, Maureen and Elana Schulman with Peter Rainsford, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Tim Ryan, President of the Culinary Institute of America.
Tim Ryan, Marc Schulman and Peter Rainsford celebrate the Processional for the November 10th Commencement for the Culinary Institute of America.
Marc Schulman addresses the 154 graduates and 0ver 800 family members and guests at the Commencement Ceremony for the November Graduates receiving their Bachelor's Degree in Baking and Pastry Arts Management and Bachelor's Degree in Culinary Arts Management from the Hyde Park, New York Campus of the Culinary Institute of America.
The Culinary Institute of America holds Graduation Ceremonies ever three weeks for recipients of the Associate's Degree in Baking and Culinary Arts and several graduations each year for recipients of the Bachelor's Degree. Marc Schulman, the President of Eli's Cheesecake was honored to deliver the Thursday address and Ben Pollinger, Culinary Institute of America Graduate '97 and Executive Chef of Oceana in New York was the speaker for the Friday Associate's Ceremony.
Marc S. Schulman
President-The Eli's Cheesecake Company
Commencement Address
Bachelor of Professional Studies
Culinary Institute of America
November 10, 2011
President Ryan, Vice President Rainsford, Members of the Faculty, Honored Guests & Members of the November Graduating Class of the Culinary Institute of America. I am so glad to be here!
Today marks a most important day in your careers and personal lives. Each of you has a compelling story of what it took to get here…of sacrifice, of so many hours worked. It is truly a glorious day for each of you and your families.
For me it is also an important day…my daughter, Elana, is here with my wife, Maureen. Our youngest daughter will graduate from Vassar College, very close to here, in May of 2012, and on that day I will have the privilege of sitting in the audience with all the pride that your parents are experiencing today.
Today, the culinarians, many of them graduates of the Culinary Institute of America, are among America's top stylesetters for food and lifestyles. To think that All My Children would be cancelled for "The Chew" or that Mario Batali would be invited to sit on a panel of America's most influential opinion makers to discuss who should be the TIME Magazine 2011 Person of the Year just shows that the influence of chefs' and restauranteurs goes far beyond the walls of their restaurants.
All of this heightened attention to the food & restaurant industry goes on in a very turbulent economic time with the impact of the recession affecting all kinds of restaurants as consumers are forced to trade down or forgo dining out. In many ways, this environment mirrors that when my dad, Eli Schulman, started in the restaurant business—1940. There was 14% unemployment and my dad, who was forced to drop out of high school in 1926 when his father died, found a foreclosure notice on his neighborhood coffee shop…… weeks later he was in the restaurant business…getting in business for very little money down….in many ways the conditions of today as the overbuilding of restaurants and other retail businesses creates unique opportunities for aspiring restaurateurs to walk in a fully fixed restaurant..
That accidental entry to the restaurant business by my dad, later joined by my mother, Esther Schulman, when they married in 1948, led to a great legacy with Eli's Stage Delicatessen and then Eli's the Place for Steak, an award winning steak house on Chicago's Magnificent Mile, that was open from 1966 until it closed in 2005 for the construction of the new home of Children's Memorial Hospital.
Growing up my life revolved around our restaurant. Trick or treating on Oak Street, every celebration at the restaurant….even meeting my wife and partner, Maureen, at Table 10 at Eli's the Place for Steak.
My parents put education first and I was given the choice of two professional careers….a lawyer or a doctor…the closest I came to being a doctor is the white lab coat that I wear daily at the bakery.
At an early age I became interested in becoming Builder –an individual who would bring together all the parts of a transaction…I thought of architecture, a real estate developer and then ultimately became interested in law while attending the University of Denver as Eli's was a gathering place for politicians, lawyers and the faculty from Northwestern Law School down the block. For the three years that I attended Northwestern, I lived upstairs of the restaurant…on call to meet the celebrities of the day..Sammy Davis Jr., Johnny Carson, Sean Connery and Frank Sinatra…who gave my dad the watch I proudly wear today.
After law school, I practiced law for five years representing many family business like ours. You would do a transaction and then look for another client; not the long term relationships that I saw with my parents and their customers.
I figured that I would either pursue a long term career in law…and someone would ask me 30 years later…who was Eli or I would join my parents in the restaurant business and always feel that I missed out on pursuing my dream.
Along the way, my dad had a dream—to create a signature dish that could be sold outside of the restaurant (he talked a lot about Hershey and Wrigley). I am lucky it turned out to be cheesecake as our restaurant was well known for calves liver Eli and chicken in the pot, great dishes that don't have the universal appeal of cheesecake.
Developed by my dad in his kitchen, Eli's Cheesecake made its public debut at the first Taste of Chicago in 1980…it was an instant hit at Taste and in 1984, I took a short term leave from law and a big pay cut to see if I could grow the Eli's Brand.
Sadly my dad passed away in 1988 but he did see our growth and took such great pride when Harold Washington took our cheesecake to the Super Bowl in 1985 and went on network TV to say he had brought Chicago Deep Dish Pizza, Ribs, Hot Dogs, and Eli's Cheesecake…a Chicago Icon that was named by the Chicago Tribune as one of 10 Chicago's Most Famous Foods in its Commemorative 150th Anniversary Issue.
Along the way we have served our cheesecake at the White House, created Presidential Inaugural Cheesecake's in 1993, 1997 and 2009 and baked the 50th Birthday Cakes for Hillary Clinton and President Obama.
I share these milestones….because it shows how far the dream of an entrepreneurial restaurateur can go. Here we are 72 years since my dad opened that first restaurant…and I am here sharing my parents' story. How rewarding!
And it is the heart of the restaurateur…the passion for quality, customer service and the commitment to people that allows us to grow in these most challenging economic times.
My dad had a saying on his menu…."we shall serve good food…at a profit if we can…at a loss if we must…but always good food." From day one, our ingredients in our cheesecake were superior…Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla from Neilsen-Massey, Cultured Sour Cream and Cream Cheese, a hand baked artisan cookie crust. We never compromised on quality…and today with educated customers like you….they bake it themselves or they pay the price realizing you can buy our cheesecake at a price less than you could do it in your kitchen.
We are local..all made in Chicago…active in the community from our Weekly Farmers Market during the summer to our long term partnership with the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences and Wright College and by donating desserts to hundreds of organizations throughout the year…and hosting a Giving Tree event at the holidays where each of our associates has a supply of cheesecakes and desserts to deliver to a worthy organization of their choice.
My dad was at the door of his restaurant every night. With the exception that he did make his family first…closing on Mother's Day and Father's Day and taking three weeks off at Christmas, but other than that at the door and greeting every customer. He used to take Sunday nights off but then the first Mayor Daley came in on a Sunday asking for my dad; when he learned he wasn't there, he didn't come in. After that it was 7 days a week!
But while he was at the restaurant, Eli's was surrounded by friends. I am amazed today at how many people reach out to me to share a story of what my dad for them and the special relationships that they developed. Just this past week, when the famed surgeon, Mark Utz, the son of famed surgeon, Dr. David Utz of the Mayo Clinic, contacted me with the sad news that his dad has passed away at the age of 87. Marc wanted me to know how important my dad had been to Dr. Utz—a relationship that started with Dr. Utz, became a doctor-patient relationship and expanded to dear friends. What started as a one time dining decision turned into something quite special…..and I have heard that story so many times.
That one on one marketing that Eli achieved by a handwritten note or a monthly statement or a phone call has now been enhanced by the importance of social media and how and who you can tell your story to…with recipes and ideas brought life to many…..but making the recipient a friend as well as a customer. Social media has given so much power to the chef, to the farmer and to the specialty food company. We have real news about our craft and we share it directly with our customers and fans without the cost of advertising and without any editorial limits.
I have to say that I was delighted the Dionne Reid accepted my invitation to connect on Linkedin. I did a search for references to the CIA and this graduating class and Dionne's info came up. Her bio is outstanding and she is a person that I certainly wanted to associate with.
My dad taught me to run our business like it is a restaurant….with intense customer service seeking the highest quality customer satisfaction and marketing our company through the most important asset any business has…."good will" and reaching out to each customer to make them know how much you care.
One great thing about our industry is the people who are attracted to be our co-workers. It is not the highest paying industry and has the worst hours, but it has the most loyal. To my dad, the most valuable associate at Eli's was his team of busy boys who could reset a table in what seemed seconds. Never would a water glass remain half empty or a customer need unattended to. When we were forced to announce that Eli's the Place for Steak would be closing in 6 months, we lost one person out of 50—everyone else stayed to the end.
In our bakery business which now employs over 220 associates, we have attracted many individuals with food service back grounds and our turnover is minimal. Eli's the Place for Steak had a run of 39 years and many of our people at Eli's Cheesecake now have over 20 years of service.
Our people have demonstrated amazing fortitude getting to work on the biggest snow storm in Chicago in a dozen years, learning new skills as our business evolves and sharing our concern for the customer. We are fortunate to have diverse group of associates including new immigrants and refugees who bring compelling stories from their countries of birth, recent high school graduates who continue their studies at our neighbor and educational partner, Wright College, and individuals with disabilities who job shadow with us while studying at Vaughn High School or are referred by the Anixter Center if they are hearing impaired.
Today I want to thank Peter Rainsford and his wife Fran for introducing me to the CIA. It is about professionalism….about the ability to know how to give a customer the best experience possible…each of you having that magic of Eli or a Steve Jobs.
Today our business is all about our culinary skills and our knowledge in food….procurement, safety, preparation. My great passion is education…in Chicago with the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences…a college prep high school located on the last working farm in the City of Chicago. I see these young people get outstanding training in food science, animal science, crop sciences and horticulture….all fields so closely aligned to the Farm to Fork Movement that is so important today. Equally important is that these student "learn though doing"….obviously something that your education is all about. In an economy that needs critical thinkers and leaders in science, technology, engineering and math….you have been forced to master so many fundamentals to make sure your cakes rise, cheesecake's don't crack and have enough sugar.
I also congratulate you on joining an industry that gives so much back to the community. From hosting dinners to supporting food banks and education, there is no group that gives more than restaurateurs.
So I am here today to congratulate you as the "Masters of Universe;" not because you will to Wall Street to buy and sell companies but because you will create and build the successful restaurants and hospitality companies of the future… You make things and you will make a difference.
Congratulations Graduates! Go Steels!


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It's the thinnest smartphone in the world and is constructed from premium materials like diamond cut aluminium and Kevlar fibre. In a nutshell, that's Motorola's sale pitch for the RAZR, the company's latest flagship Android phone. The RAZR is an excellent smartphone with outstanding build quality, but it's quite a large phone that can be uncomfortable to hold if you have small hands.
• Hands-on with the new Motorola RAZR
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Motorola RAZR: Design and display
If you're wondering why the name RAZR sounds familiar, that's because it is. The Motorola RAZR was originally a flip phone that sold over 130 million units worldwide in a five year period from 2004-2008. The RAZR lost its sharpness as the world moved to smartphones, but Motorola has decided to bring the brand back in a bid to boost sales. The return of the RAZR name seems like a good decision, as it's a brand many consumers can easily identify with.
Previous RAZR phones were known for their industrial design and the new RAZR is a great example of that. The phone is just 7.1mm thick at its thinnest point — over 2mm thinner than the iPhone 4S and thin enough to claim the title of the thinnest smartphone in the world. To be fair, the RAZR isn't 7.1mm thin all the way along: at the top of the phone is a bump that sticks out at the back and houses the camera lens, LED flash and speaker, as well as the HDMI-out port, micro-USB and headphone ports on top. This bump makes the RAZR a little top heavy, so it feels a bit awkward to hold.
The awkward feeling you get when handling the Motorola RAZR also stems from the fact it's a very large phone. It's slightly longer and wider than the Samsung Galaxy S II despite the two phones sharing the same sized screen. The RAZR has a fair bit of wasted space surrounding the screen due to its wide bezel, so users with small hands may find its size a little too big. Its particularly tough to move your thumb to the edge of the screen if you are holding the phone with one hand. Adding to the RAZR's awkward feel is its industrial looking design: the RAZR has squarish, sharp edges that can dig into your hands.
The RAZR may be a little large but its fit and finish is amongst the best we've seen on any smartphone to date. Motorola says the phone combines a diamond cut aluminium frame and a case that's made from Kevlar fibre. The Kevlar backing is soft to touch and really gives the RAZR a distinct look and feel. We much prefer it to the etched plastic backing of the Galaxy S II, which does feel a little cheap. A downside to the RAZR's thinness is that it has a non-removable battery. It also uses a micro-SIM card rather than a full sized SIM card. The SIM slot is housed on the left side of the phone, next to a microSD card slot and behind a plastic flap.
The Motorola RAZR has a splash-guard coating that makes the phone water-repellent. Motorola says both the phone itself and many of its internal components have been coated with the splash-guard material, so it is expected to hold up well to the elements. Unfortunately, our review unit was not coated in the splash-guard treatment, so we couldn't test it. We did, however, see it in action at Motorola's media launch and can confirm it definitely works as advertised and is genuinely impressive. The water beads then slides off the surface of the RAZR very easily. It looks very similar to water beads rolling off a car when it's just been polished and waxed. Keep in mind the coating makes the phone water-repellent, not water-proof, so don't expect to take the RAZR swimming with you.
The Motorola RAZR has a 4.3in Super AMOLED display with a qHD resolution of 540x960. The screen is excellent: it's just as bright and vibrant as the Galaxy S II, but its higher resolution makes text crisper and details finer. The screen is responsive to touch and has excellent outdoor visibility: it's very bright even directly in the hot Aussie sun.
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Be a fool than a philosopher
Nice lines Night, short & sweet. Keep posting
This song is for you
Penmeiyy pollaathathu,
Nermeiyy illaathathu,
Unmeiyy theriyaatha manithaa
Un manam yEnguthu,
Unmeiyy kaathal endru,
Ingu ondrum illeiyy,
Neeyum kaathal-kolla,
Veru penna illeiyy?
Keep smiling Night.
* why didn't you write the full lyrics
« Innum nee kootrada paatil suthiaey illei... Innum nee ootrada bottle-il suthiaey illei! »
Jokes apart, I wish to reply with my own lines:
Aaiyram vinnmeengal vaan thOndrelaam
Avei en nilavukku nigeraaghumaa?
Ulagam muluthum penn-aaghelaam
Athil yaar-aenum avelaaghuma?
Avel illaa vaazhvu irulaanathu
Irulum avel thantha varamaanathu.
Kaathal Ondraey nileiyaanathu,
Kaathal Ondraey en uyiraanathu.
Kaathal enum pEril maranam varumEnil
Naan mariththu pala kAlam
Kaathalin karuvareiyil
En kallarei.
P.S.: To write more I need more bottles! Eee.. ee..
Be a fool than a philosopher
I don't know, some girls nalla suththiddu vittuttu poidurange. Ivangaluarkelam manasunu onuu illaya? That's my question!
Don't they have heart? Sile ponnunge seyra thavarinale guys think all the girls are bad. That's very disappointing.
That's why I told Night-Sun to forget about her and move on.
Life is very short, so be happy and live life at least for your loved ones.
SiLe Pozhuthu SinthithAL,
Pala PoZhuthu
AvesiYam iLLei
AzhuvathaTkU !!
"Think, think, think"
I like only WILD CATS (Grrrrrr)
Be a fool than a philosopher


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Already, over half the burial records for Aberdeen City are available exclusively on Deceased Online together with all records for Angus, another Aberdeenshire neighbour in North East Scotland. Another major council area in North East Scotland will be added later in 2014. Aberdeenshire Council manages some 200 burial grounds and cemeteries, of varying sizes, spread over 2,439 square miles, and Deceased Online has digitised all records available for each of these. There are nearly 250,000 individual names or burials representing over 600,000 records. The full list of sites is included in the Coverage page.
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Aberdeenshire Council have requested that the addresses of the deceased not be shown in the burial register scan for the last 15 years and all details of recent burials are not shown until they are 3 years old.


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Depending on the phone you have, you could connect a wire to the phone's speaker or vibrating motor and use it as a signal to activate your circuit.There are a dozen ways you can do this. Depends on the features and level of complexity you are aiming for.(note: this is how terrorists use cell phones to trigger bombs )
As far as I know, mobile call sensors just sense significant radio power nearby in the general cell phone spectrum. They don't even distinguish the particular carrier frequency. The reason this works is that power falls off as one over r squared, so there'll be close to a watt available close to the phone, even thugh there are only milli- or micro-watts available at the cell phone tower. Also, cell phones just a few feet away will be relatively significantly weaker.