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(Available on Bandcamp)
Haden York, Houston Lane, Davvy Glab and Lyle Cammon, collectively known as Shabti, have a new EP available. Called Gamble, it was recorded live, and it's five sexy little tunes that sum up the self-described "progressive jam band" nicely.
Rolling in at 4:33, the opening track, "The Gamble," is a bluesy affair, low and laid-back, almost hypnotic. Glab's vocals are clear and strong, something akin to Chris Robinson (Black Crowes) minus the whine. Vocals aren't always given their due in a jam band, often seeming like an afterthought to the instrumentation, but Glab has a voice and he uses it to great effect on this tune.
Track two is a cover of Jimmy Cliff's "The Harder They Come." Here again, there is a bluesy element in this tune not found in the original, which, to my ear, makes it less a cover and more of "reinterpretation." In listening to both versions of the song (Cliff's original and Shabti's cover) I can't say that one is superior to the other; they are each their own beast and both are excellent.
"Long Legged Feline" is the third track on the disc, the shortest (3:07) and my personal favorite. It's hard not to hear Jimi Hendrix (there are some riffs reminiscent of Hendrix's version of "All Along the Watchtower") in this tune, but if I was going to offer up a "sounds like" opinion, the song has Dire Straits written all over it. Even the guitar tone is pure Mark Knopfler and it is brilliant.
"Clap Hands" is the fourth track. It is a cover of Tom Waits and on that basis alone is worthy of respect. Waits is not an easy guy to cover, and Shabti manages to stay true to the original while making it their own. One can imagine easily enough that Waits would be pleased with their version.
The disc rounds out with track five, "Another Road," and at 9:20 it is the longest, jammiest tune of the bunch. Almost psychedelic, it is the perfect "put on the headphones and melt in to the chair for a while" kind of song that would not be out of place on the classic Floyd album, Atom Heart Mother.
Pick up your copy today at Shabti's bandcamp page—and keep in mind that as marvelous as the recordings are, the live show must be face-melting.
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Webb Barringer is a name you may not know—yet. The singer/songwriter has been paying his dues, playing around town, penning some great tunes and opening for folks like Jordan Halquist. He's ready to make a name for himself now, and with the release of his currently untitled debut EP, Barringer is set to do just that.
A word on Barringer's voice, before we dive into the CD: At first listen, my impression was, "What a great country singer he would make," but upon further reflection it becomes clear that he has a universal voice that would be just as suited to country, pop, folk or even ballad rock. That's a rare quality, and it serves him well.
"Bible Verse Tattoo" is the first track. Its bright and brilliant harmonica intro settles down into a gentle, almost hushed guitar part as Barringer languidly takes an existential look at a young woman making her way through some early hurdles, picking up some dirt and bruises along the way, but ultimately headed towards the life she wants. It's a sweet little tune that takes an unashamed look at reality and adds a strong measure of hopefulness.
"Party Hardy" is another look at the human condition, this time in the guise of a divorced man who, having faced some serious obstacles in life, manages to keep moving forward, looking to the future in order to keep the past firmly where it belongs.
"Getting to Know Me" takes a first-person perspective on the genuine irony we all face, noting that "confusion is a trait of the free." The tune is basically a reassuring pat on the back that we, as individuals, are all occasionally muddling through and following our noses. We feel like we should have it all nailed down when very few people really do.
"Frank the Quota" is a darker tune, essentially a murder ballad about a local man with a shotgun, some boys on an ATV and national headlines about "what happened in Chattanooga." Haunting stuff, and if the rest of the compilation weren't already fantastic, this tune alone would make it worth owning.
Two more tunes remain, "Suburban Love Song" and "Start to a Spark," and at some future date we'll take a closer look at those tunes as well but for now know this: Barringer's lyrical skills are masterful and his songs frequently delve into the realm of the broken and damaged people of the world (aren't we all, to some degree?) yet there remains an element of hope. The broken and damaged people of the world can heal, given time and inclination. That's just how life is, and at the end of the day, it's a pretty fine message.
Keep an eye out for this young man. His name is going to be well known soon enough. For now, the only way to get this CD is to ask him, but he's happy to oblige.


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Riva Castleman, an art historian and curator who built the world's pre-eminent collection of modern and contemporary prints at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, died on Sept. 4 in Bridgewater, Conn. She was 84.
Her niece, Kristen S. DeVoe, confirmed the death.
Ms. Castleman spent more than three decades at MoMA, joining its department of prints and illustrated books in 1963 as a cataloger and serving as its director from 1976 until her retirement in 1995.
Her tenure coincided with a renaissance in American printmaking that dates to the establishment, in the 1950s, of the art publisher founded on Long Island by Tatyana Grosman and known as Universal Limited Art Editions. Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, Jasper Johns, Helen Frankenthaler and many others worked there with printers and publishing artisans.
Printmaking accelerated in the 1960s and '70s, propelled by Pop artists including Andy Warhol, Edward Ruscha and Robert Indiana, who took up traditional printmaking forms like lithographs and engravings and added their own experimental variations.
As a curator Ms. Castleman seized on the emerging trend and spent her museum tenure placing it before the public.
She oversaw the museum's acquisition of many works produced by the Universal workshop (known as U.L.A.E.) and organized myriad exhibitions focusing not only on contemporary work but also on placing it in a greater modern context.
As a result, along with Ms. Grosman, Ms. Castleman helped bring to the forefront the idea that printmaking is not a secondary art, nor are prints merely reproductions but genuine artworks.
Bill Goldston, Ms. Grosman's successor and the director of U.L.A.E. since 1976, said that Ms. Castleman "was integral to this evolution."
"After their intervention," he added, referring to Ms. Grosman and Ms. Castleman, "printmaking became more of a medium to express a creative idea."
At MoMA, Ms. Castleman's most significant exhibitions included, in 1979, the first major show in New York in more than two decades of prints by Marc Chagall and, the next year, a 175-work retrospective, "Printed Art: A View of Two Decades," which embraced works like Joseph Kosuth's "Art Made with a Rubber Stamp" and Claes Oldenburg's "Teabag," a silk-screen on felt, clear Plexiglas and plastic — oddities that had stretched the printmaking universe.
Other major shows included a 1985 survey of the printmaking of Henri Toulouse-Lautrec from the 1890s that put him "back where he deserves to be — at the very top of his chosen league," John Russell wrote in The New York Times; and a Johns retrospective, in 1986, that looked back on three decades of his leading-edge printmaking. Ms. Castleman's final show at MoMA, "A Century of Artists Books," in 1994, spotlighted an often neglected medium: the illustrated book.
"She was an incredibly important curator," said Starr Figura, a curator in MoMA's department of drawings and prints. "She recognized the significance of prints and illustrated books as an expression of modern art and made sure they were given their proper place."
Esther Riva Castleman was born in Chicago on Aug. 15, 1930. Her parents, the former Ann Steinberg and William Castleman, divorced when she was 6. Her father was a progressive activist and a printer who taught her the rudiments of his trade and introduced her to museums, often taking her to the Art Institute of Chicago.
"If your father's a tennis player, and you play tennis, well, it's a natural thing," Mr. Goldston said. "Printing was not a mystery to her. She had a natural understanding of printmaking, and her standards were very high. She was a no-nonsense curator, because she had all the knowledge she needed to be confident in her judgments."
Ms. Castleman studied art and art history at the University of Iowa and later attended the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.
In addition to directing MoMA's prints and illustrated books department, she was named deputy director of curatorial affairs in 1986.
She was the author of numerous books and exhibition catalogs, including "Contemporary Prints" (1973), the reference volume "Prints of the 20th Century: A History" (1976), "American Impressions: Prints Since Pollock" (1985) and "Jasper Johns: A Print Retrospective" (1987). Her final book was "Tatyana Grosman: A Scrapbook" (2008), which told the story of Ms. Grosman and the establishment of U.L.A.E. in West Islip, N.Y., in 1957.
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News Headline: "Regions with highest opioid use voted for Trump, study says."
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News Headline: "White House misspells 'separation' on immigration executive order."
News Headline: "Trump spells 'special counsel' wrong for the third time in a row."
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News Headline: "Trump ends family-separation policy, will jail families together instead."
News Headline: "U.S. commemorates World Refugee Day."
Add commemorations to the list of things that aren't what they used to be.
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News Headline: "Could astrobiology research convince us to fight climate change?"
But it might persuade us.
Convince to change thinking.
Persuade to take action.
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Past time, actually.
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In other news. . . .
News Headline: "Jada Pinkett Smith says her vagina feels younger after 3 rejuvenation treatments."
Kids, go get grandpa and ask him what it was like when our celebrities didn't give updates on their genitalia.
Looking ahead
News Headline: "Who is most likely to succeed Donald Trump?"
News Headline: "ABC put a flat-Earther convicted of groping on 'The Bachelorette.' "
Asked and answered.
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News Headline: "Trump's trade war is likely to kill hundreds of thousands of jobs."
Speak loudly and hit yourself on the head with a big stick.
Breaking news. . . .
News Item: "A restaurant in China was forced to shut its doors after an all-you-can-eat promotion backfired and sent the eatery deep into debt. . . ."
This didn't have to happen.
The owner simply had to announce to his customers:
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. . . and a big parade on the moon
News Headline: "Trump orders the creation of a stand-alone Space Force."
But what finally to call it?
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Grandma Sara's Kitchen Review
Grandma Sara's Kitchen is a counter service restaurant in Tokyo Disneyland's Critter Country serving a menu of comfort food based on favorites from the American South. This post features food photos, details of the restaurant's design & details, and our overall rating of the restaurant.
Easily the most elaborately themed counter service restaurant at Tokyo Disneyland (and arguably the best themed counter service restaurant anywhere), Grandma Sara's is basically Splash Mountain: The Restaurant. It turns out that Grandma Sara is meticulous, and her restaurant is an incredibly engaging, multi-level environment and lots of great decor. From a design perspective, it's interwoven with Splash Mountain as it is literally in the mountain, and thematically parallels the attraction.
The reason for this is because Critter Country itself, one of the first major additions to Tokyo Disneyland after it opened, is all basically an outgrowth of Splash Mountain. It is the original single-attraction Disney theme park land (Beaver Brothers Explorer Canoes don't really count), and both Grandma Sara's and Rackety's Raccoon Saloon are extensions of Splash Mountain.
Interestingly, this is only in tone and style and not in characters. Based on my research, none of the characters in Grandma Sara's are from Song of the South, even though they do closely resemble the "Brer" critters found in Splash Mountain and Song of the South. I could be wrong on this, but if true, I think it's pretty cool that the Imagineers created new characters specifically for these theme park restaurants.
Let's start with the wonderfully executed theme…
As mentioned above, Grandma Sara's is multi-level. One thing Tokyo Disneyland as a whole does really poorly is landscaping–virtually the entire park is flat, with very little gradation to engage guests as they walk.
Critter County feels like it was built with an eye on somehow remedying this, and is incredibly contoured. This is evident throughout Grandma Sara's. This is not just in the stairs going from the first floor to the second, but also in the nooks, crannies, and various little areas that are separated by small steps up or down, or otherwise separated from the rest of the restaurant.
This makes for a really cool restaurant to explore, and despite being one of the largest and most popular (there's often a line out the door at lunch) restaurants at Tokyo Disneyland, it feels intimate.
There are a lot of little rooms and alcoves that seat only a handful of people, but yet are incredibly detailed areas of Grandma Sara's house.
I really wish I knew more about the backstory here. It's called Grandma Sara's Kitchen, but it appears to be her entire house, which is inhabited by she and her family, and also various "Brer Friends."
Then there's the question of what, exactly, Grandma Sara is. I mean, we know she's a grandma–I mean what type of animal.
I always assumed she is an opossum, but the Tokyo Disneyland website claims she's a muskrat. Either muskrat look dramatically different in Japan, or that's a party foul on the part of Google Translate. (And if you've ever wanted to know what Sarah and I do for entertainment, it's ponder the questions of the day…such as the differences between opossum and muskrats and what muskrat "means" to the Japanese. Ah, the rousing life of a Disney blogger!)
There are more photos of the details in Part 11 of our Spring 2013 Tokyo Disney Resort Trip Report. Check out that awesome grandfather clock!
This is the Doria (I've had it in both seafood and chicken varieties), which is basically a Japanese spin on creamy, rice casserole. This is very typical of what's served at Grandma Sara's: American comfort foods with Japanese twist. Usually, that twist is "more creaminess, sauce, and cheese!"
As a result, I'm a huge fan of Grandma Sara's, and Sarah is a fan of the theme, but not so much the unhealthy cuisine.
Here's the Crab Cream Croquette of Omelet, which is all things the name states. It's a creamy, crab omelet on a bed of rice that I have found to be surprisingly good comfort food. It was also pretty filling, and definitely something I'd order again.
This is the Hamburger Steak, another excellent dish. It's essentially a Japanese spin on meatloaf, topped with wild mushrooms. I'm not a huge meatloaf fan (the meat–everyone knows the band rules), but this had a distinct flavor somewhere between meatloaf and burger. The sauce that topped it and the excellent mushrooms were a nice touch.
Grandma Sara's always has Special Sets for the various holidays. Here's the "traditional" Pumpkin Omelet served for Halloween. We've also ordered off the Christmas Special Set, and found that to be a kawaii option, too.
This is Apple Clafouti, which I presume means "pie"…I didn't try it.
Here's the Beef Pastrami and Pumpkin Salad. All of the flavors separately were pretty good and the salad was high quality, but it didn't combine to make for a good dish. The flavors contrasted one another too harshly when mixed as a traditional salad.
This is the Critter Country Cake. It is just under $5, and is definitely large enough to share. Unfortunately, it was very dry and relatively flavorless. I was expecting something akin to a crumb cake, but it was denser than that.
Overall, Grandma Sara's is one of my absolute favorite restaurants at Tokyo Disneyland, and it's almost entirely because of the theme. This is the most richly themed restaurant at Tokyo Disneyland, by a wide margin. Queen of Hearts Banquet Hall generally garners more attention because of its association with Alice in Wonderland, a movie with a huge fan-following, but Grandma Sara's is so much better. As a fan of the theme parks more so than the movies, I really appreciate the extension of the Splash Mountain story, including (what I assume are) Brer animals created specifically for Tokyo Disneyland. I always recommend people dine here, and that's totally for the theme. It, along with Casbah Food Court at Tokyo DisneySea, is the only restaurant at which we've dined in Tokyo Disneyland on every trip. I also like the interesting twist on down home cooking, but it's definitely not the best (or probably even top 5) at Tokyo Disneyland in terms of food.
If you're thinking of visiting Japan for the first time and are overwhelmed with planning, definitely check out our Tokyo Disney Resort Planning Guide. It covers much more than the parks, from getting there to WiFi to currency and much, much more. To save money on a visit to Japan, read our Tokyo Disney on a Budget article. For more photos and an idea of what we did day-by-day during our first visit, read our Tokyo Disney Resort Trip Report. To read other Disney restaurant reviews from Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea check out our Tokyo Disney Dining Reviews Index.
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Dadasaheb Phalke car to be displayed in museum
Nashik: Fans of Father of Indian cinema Dadasaheb Phalke can catch a glimpse of his old car soon, thanks to an initiative by Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS).
The `Morris` car owned by the legendary filmamker, who was born in the city, would be displayed at the Phalke Museum here.
MNS leader and City Mayor Yatin Wagh told reporters on Friday that his party has taken up the task of renovating the old car. In this context, he and MNS legislator Vasant Gite inspected the car, currently lying in a garage, and issued necessary instructions for its repair, painting, and changing of the old and worn out parts.


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- Dr. Singh's laboratory studies post-transcriptional gene regulation. The focus is on how RNA-binding proteins control molecular processes during male and female germline stem cell differentiation and tounderstand the basis for the Down syndrome. They use Drosophila, fission yeast, and cultured cells as model organisms or systems and involve a combination of computational, biochemical, molecular and genetic approaches to address the basis of specificity, which is the key aspect of gene regulation.


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1. It can bring you in a bunch of money NOW and a bunch MORE money later.
I've seen different coaching models. The good ones ALL based on the idea of compensation based on results. For some people, they require coaching clients to put money up front. Others do not.
The vast majority require SOME money up front and then a "piece of the action" on the back end. In my case I have TWO option for people. One is where people give me strictly a piece of the action. In this case the percentage is higher than the option where they pay some cash up front.
In the second case, money is generated both NOW and LATER. Given my expenses are so low, I don't PUSH the option that requires money up front.
2. You LEARN While teaching.
I really enjoy what my clients teach ME! I get to learn about a lot of things I would have never known or had an interest in with some of my coaching clients. The best way to learn anything is to teach it.
Given that I market and sell my own info products, I need to keep learning to stay ahead of the game. Having high-end coaching clients makes me stay up on all the latest "tips and techniques."
3. Building Strong, Lost Lasting Relationships
Although there are a bunch of info marketers who DETEST clients (I've heard them say it), I don't. I really don't understand how you can run a business with disdain for your clients. I couldn't do it.
Many of my friends are current or past coaching clients. Although unimportant to some, that is critically important to me. I would have a really hard time working with people I didn't like.
4. Vested Interest in Their Success
The way that my high end program is structured, I make a LOT more money when my clients succeed. This seems to me to be the ONLY way to do things. People should always get paid for results.
Since my compensation is tied to their results, I am ALWAYS on the look out for ways to help OUR business succeed.
5. Pick and Choose Your Clients
With a coaching program that costs a lot of money, it allows you to be very selective. This makes things infinitely easier. When I wasn't in a position to pick and choose my clients, I had to deal with people who weren't quite as SAVORY.
Currently, my program only attracts what seems to be the right KIND of people. Take that fact and add to it that I then SCREEN after the fact and you've got a winning combination.
If you are in the business of marketing and selling info products, high-end coaching should be one of the things you SELL.
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A documentary by Stéphane Horel on endocrine disrupting chemicals (2010). Our ordinary everyday lives are steeped in chemical products. Invisible, they are encrusted in plastic, in detergents and toasters, concealed in our food, in toys, in shampoo. They have invaded everything, including our bodies. Thanks to the consumer society, petrochemicals, with their magicical powers and unfamiliar barbaric names are happily strolling around our little insides. These phthalates, brominated flame retardants, parabens, bisphenol-a, all have the regrettable habit of invading our hormonal intimacy. They are endocrine disruptors. The pioneer scientists taking part in this documentary say that from breast cancer to obesity, this chemical invasion is closely tied up with the diseases of modern society. These findings are more than dramatic, but the film takes a step back from the straight facts, alternating wry humour and poetry. The paper cut-out animation shows parallel sketches of the destinies of human beings and laboratory animals. 1950-60s TV commercials show radiant couples dancing between two-door fridges: a love story between modern man and the marvels of plastic and the profusion of electric appliances, pure allegories of the frenzy of progress. With Linda Birnbaum, Philippe Grandjean, Jerrold Heindel, Andreas Kortenkamp, Niels Skakkebaek, Ana Soto, Shanna Swan.
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The Future is Nau
A progressive apparel company takes sustainability to the next level
By Carissa Wodehouse
A computer rendering of Nau's planned "Webfront" stores, slated to open in 2007.
In late 2004, Eric Reynolds, a co-founder of California-based outdoor gear company Marmot, started recruiting talent for a new sustainable clothing company he was planning to build from the ground up, and he invited industry veterans who shared his vision to join him. Excitement spread quickly, and soon a group of designers and financial execs—many in lead positions at outdoor clothing giants like Patagonia and Nike—were weighing the opportunity to be pioneers in the green clothing industry against the risks of taking major pay cuts and uprooting their families. The first to take the plunge was Chris Van Dyke, who had recently retired from Patagonia. "At companies like Nike, retrofitting for sustainability is like changing the wheelon a moving train," he says. "This new company was an opportunity to build the train, then run it."
Van Dyke and the other mavericks that joined him envisioned a company that would create high-performance, beautiful clothes while also setting new environmental standards for design, manufacturing, and distribution. Two years later, their dream has come to fruition in the form of Nau (pronounced "now"), named for the Maori word "welcome." An apt title, because hearing about the company's innovative methods feels like getting a glimpse into the future of apparel—both how it's made and how it's sold.
To start, Nau designers didn't just settle for the standard green fabrics like hemp and organic cotton. They worked with clothing manufacturers Malden Mills and Deer Creek to create earth-friendly textiles, dyes, and finishes. One of the more innovative textiles Nau uses is a durable, fleece-like material made out of the polylactic acid (PLA) derived from corn. (Although many companies have experimented with using PLA in consumer products, Nau is among a handful of companies using it to manufacture clothing.) Once the fabrics were ready, Mark Galbraith, vice president of design, created a style that harked back to "couture design and the timeless aesthetic that carries through." The resulting clothing breaks the usual boundaries of high-performance apparel, fulfilling outdoor demands with a decidedly indoor fashion sense.
In the women's spring line, several knee-length skirts and dresses, made from recycled polyester, feature asymmetrical hems and accent stitching normally reserved for more delicate duds. Envisioned for summer, the men's Bermuda shorts and women's capris are made from 96 percent organic cotton with a touch of spandex for stretch. To complement the designs, the palette is what Galbraith calls "investment colors": greens, blues, and grays that are familiar to a clientele comfortable in both the urban jungle and the natural world.
Nau will launch its first line in January; it will be available only through the website (nau.com) or through unique retail stores called Webfronts. These boutiques, slated to open in Portland, Oregon, Boulder, Chicago, and Seattle in early 2007, aim to reduce resources used in distribution by keeping inventory low and offering customers a 10 percent discount and free shipping as incentives if they have clothes mailed to them from a warehouse. (Customers also have the option to take clothes home on the spot.)
Shoppers will discover another innovative practice at checkout: They're given a choice of 12 non-profit companies to which Nau will donate five percent of the sale. Jil Zilligen, vice president of sustainable business practices, explains that Nau gives customers the choice with the hope that "they will be prompted to think what they as customers ask of companies and what they might ultimately demand of them."


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This week on TWiP: Canon's president steps down, Apple reinvents the ebook with its iBooks Author app, and Yahoo! begins axing customer support reps.
Hosts: Frederick Van Johnson, Ron Brinkmann, and Sara France.
Canon's president steps down as Canon falls short of expectations for the second year in a row:
Petapixel reports that Canon's president Tsuneji Uchida announced today that he will be stepping down to pave way for a younger management team as the company fell short of expectations for the second straight year. Canon's stock price dropped 19% last year, while Nikon's grew 4%.
Ron feels like it's still too early to tell whether Mr. Uchida's stepping down is a good thing or not, but it's certainly an indication that Canon is shaking things up. He also feels like there are indicators outside of stock price that determine how well a company is doing.
Frederick imagines Canon as a somewhat gigantic, elephant-like company, compared to Nikon, which is more like a gazelle. Ron agrees; Canon makes much more than cameras, after all, whereas Nikon is more focused.
Sara feels that no company is fail-safe, and that no company gets to just stay on top anymore. She adds that the Canon president's resignation in order to bring in some new blood was a good decision on his part.
Listen in as the panel debates the pros and cons of this event and the future of the competition between Nikon, Canon, and other camera companies.
Sigma Founder and CEO passes away at 78
Popular Photography reports that Sigma CEO Michihiro Yamaki died in Tokyo of liver cancer on January 18 at the age of 78. Yamaki founded Sigma in September 1961 with the development of the first-ever rear attached lens converter. He was just 27 years old at the time, working as an optical engineer.
Frederick touches on the topic briefly, recalling that Sigma's David Metz was on TWiP #191 and spoke about the founder's single-minded dedication to photography. Frederick gives a nod to the folks at Sigma.
Apple Launches iBooks Author
A few episodes back, there was a discussion around how photographers can publish their work. Alex Lindsay and the other panelists speculated as to whether Apple was working on some new publishing tools. Now, Apple has announced iBooks Author, which allows people to create electronic books than can be enjoyed on the iPad and sold through the iBookstore.
Frederick poses a question as to whether this represents a paradigm shift in the world of ebook publishing, and whether this will change the way people consume books similar to the way that iTunes changed the way people consume music. Ron feels that the way people consume books is going to change regardless, but that iBooks Author takes the design and functionality of ebooks up to the next level.
When asked what this means to Sara, she notes that the content of the Aperture training videos she has done in the past could easily have been delivered as an ebook. Frederick also has her thinking about the potential to use this new tool and format to deliver images to her clients, perhaps as albums – though there are some questions as to how to restrict distribution to just her clients.
Listen to the episode for the rest of this engaging discussion on the future of publishing and the implications of Apple's new tools in this space.
Kodak Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
According to PetaPixel, Kodak has announced that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company has permission to continue normal operations while it restructures.
While we probably won't see the death of the Kodak brand, the company has stated that it intends to transform into "a lean, world-class, digital imaging and materials science company", and that they're planning to sell off "significant assets" during this process. It remains to be seen whether Kodak continues to play a significant role in film photography once it emerges out the other end of bankruptcy protection (if it ever does).
Frederick references a Bloomberg story that describes how Kodak is looking to sell its photography business as it gets into printers, both commercial and consumer, and says quite bluntly that "those better be some killer printers." The panel expresses sadness all around at the downfall of this great icon. Sara goes back to the first story, saying that "you have to innovate," because even the largest companies can fail.
Frederick and Ron commiserate on the state of companies like Kodak that start strong, then end up becoming too slow for faster markets. Ron points out that Kodak does have amazing technologies in their patent portfolio, and thinks that Kodak got so large, it simply didn't know what it had.
Picnik Announces it's Shutting Down, as Yahoo! lays off an entire level of Flickr's Customer Support team.
Yahoo! has laid off the highest level of Flickr's customer support, the people that end up filing bugs against the developers and helping the trickier cases get solved for the members. Some folks are saying that the users of Flickr lost their major advocates.
Ron says that this is yet another indication that Flickr is not a huge priority for Yahoo!, and that it never has been. He thinks that Yahoo! doesn't know what they have with Flickr, while Frederick wonders whether it's time to take his images off Flickr and take them elsewhere.
Frederick also points out that the TWiP Flickr group has thousands of members; what do they do if Flickr shuts down? Where do they go? The panel discusses possible alternatives to Flickr and considers Google+ as a possible alternative.
Along the same lines, popular online photo editing site Picnik announced on its blog this week that as of April 19th, it will be shutting down its service and moving everything to Google+. Picnik has powered most of the photo editing features in Google products (as well as some Yahoo products) for several years, but also offered a stand-alone service for non-Google users. They are offering a full refund to all premium account holders and are providing a tool to export images out of the service before it shuts down.
This news falls a bit flat for the panel; Ron thinks it's not that big of a deal, since most of these features will still be around in Google+. He feels like this is more of a rebranding effort to bring everything under Google+, rather than an actual loss of Picnik's technology.
Listen to the show to find out what the panel thinks of online editing tools, where they fit into a photographers workflow – and if they should even be used at all.
Question 1
Kent Vidrine from Fairfax Virginia writes: Frederick, Alex, and guests often say that good photos are made by good photographers; it's not about the gear. I agree that good photos can come out of just about any camera, but if that was all there was to it, I'm sure that good photographers would never spend money on gear. But instead, I hear on the podcast about photographers lusting after the next lens or flash or camera body. So I don't think it's quite fair to say that it's all about the photographer. Gear matters.
Sara: Gear lets the photographer get the shot, whether it's with an iPhone or a pro camera. However, sometimes you need the great gear – trading in a 50mm f/1.2 for a 50mm f/1.8 would hurt a pro who needs that bigger, more expensive lens.
Frederick: Having great gear helps you get the shot, and having great gear with, say, great low-light capability helps you get the shot that you might not have otherwise gotten.
Ron: It's not always the case that great gear helps you get a shot, but it certainly can make getting it easier. Using a straight macro lens instead of a normal lens with extension tubes makes getting a macro shot easier, for example.
Editors note: Kent's comments led to a very engrossing discussion on the topic of gear and its importance and role for photographers. Listen to the show to get some interesting insights on this issue from the panel.
Question 2
Patrick Rafanan wrote to us and is having a bit of an identity crisis with all the social media sites that are available. He would like to know: How do you deal with having a profile on Facebook as well as a page for your business? Do you keep them separate, as in personal only vs. strictly professional? Do you simply put all your content in one place and link from everywhere, or drop little bits all around randomly? Any simple solutions to manage your online presences?
Sara: Sara initially just had a personal Facebook page, then had to get a professional page when she hit the 5000-friend-limit. However, separating the two at that point was challenging, so she recommends starting with separate professional and personal business pages.
She warned, however, that her business page on Facebook did suffer from a bit of a "disconnect" factor when it came to communicating with other photographers. However, Google+ is emerging as a great place to move relationships over to, but there is still quite a lot to handle. Answering this question will require a lot of strategy and consistency.
Ron: Ron acknowledges that this is kind of hard, since there's something new that pops up every day – consider Pinterest, for example.
Frederick: Frederick agrees that it's hard to keep up with everything at this point, and uses Hootsuite to help him manage it all. Hootsuite pushes out to Facebook and Twitter, with Google+ support coming soon. However, this can lead to the absence of a personal touch. For him, Google+ is also turning into a hub of sorts.
Sara: WPPI (Sara also has an Aperture Intensive Platform Class at 8am Monday morning).
Ron: http://unbounce.com/
Frederick: iZon
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Stigma Damages
Dante's Rock Phase
In Ruin Reconciled
Nature Obscured by Factory / Factory Obscured by Fog
A Very Reliable Performer
Whooper Swan
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Photographs, each 106 x 86cm
There are still some places – remote and for most practical purposes
barely accessible – that seem outside history. They are empty but for
their elements, the rock, the water, the plants and animals that give
them substance. Occasionally, a transitory intrusion results in the place
being named, given a word that attempts to record or evoke a distinctive
form or quality. Mostly, however, the place remains anonymous and
unknown save for the cartographer's coordinates or an image captured
by satellite.Yet even without human intervention these places have
their own natural histories, their distinctive patterns of change and
continuity. Alteration comes with each dawn and with the turn of the
seasons, rhythms that are played out and repeated from one year to the
next. But nature's cycles can break; its contours, climates and currents
alter – sometimes slowly and imperceptibly but sometimes with abrupt
and repeated violence – and the place is transformed.
The empty places are all but gone. A crowded and hungry
earth seeks out new land and what was once wilderness is fashioned
and re-formed towards specific ends. Settlement and commerce
promise permanency but there are times when a cruel event such as
war or famine or, more commonly, a lurch in the cycles of trade or
technological innovation brings rupture. Then, a place where nature
seemed to have been tamed returns to what it was before.
The uplands of north Leitrim are such a place. For centuries
they were sparsely inhabited except for the huts of the young men who
herded there in summertime. Settlement became denser in the early
nineteenth century when the possibilities of a profitable agriculture
drew people from the congested lowlands up into the hills. But just as
suddenly, the men and women who would grow up and farm there,
thinking perhaps that their own children could do the same, moved on.
Between 1851 and 2001 Leitrim lost three-quarters of its population to
the industrial cities of Britain and America, a haemorrage greater than
that of any other county. For now, some of their dwellings remain
standing but the roofs no longer keep out the rain, doors give way to
the touch, the windows are sightless. Encircled by advancing
vegetation, the shell of a dwelling is now just a convenient place to
stack logs before they are taken down to the sawmill.
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Savage Exodus
What kind of journalism student can't tolerate listening to dissenting viewpoints?
Everyone's an Evangelical!
Reza Aslan has another attack on "the new atheists" that repeats all the standard criticisms of the movement. He observers, along with every other detractor, that the new atheism is just like religious fundamentalism. Bus ads and other campaigns serve as his examples of proselytization. Critics find it endlessly clever to compare atheists to the evangelicals they often target. I'm always curious if they say that just because they know it will annoy atheists or if they actually think they're offering a meaningful objection. Either way, the comparison is so broad as to be almost completely trivial.
You know who else has bus ads?
Aslan goes on to claim that the new atheism is a "particularly zealous form of fundamentalism." He can't be bothered to provide a single quote that demonstrates his allegation that Dawkins, Dennett, Harris, Hitchens, and others believe "they are in sole possession of the truth." The charge is almost self-evidently false; "the new atheists" disagree with each other on many issues. Sam Harris, arguably the first "new atheist," regularly argues that everyone (and atheists in particular) have a lot to learn from the spiritual experiences of mystics. The new atheists simply argue that people should provide reasons for their beliefs – a standard that the On Faith section of the Washington Post would collapse under.
Aslan wistfully remembers the atheism of the past that didn't give "atheism a bad name." Yes, Reza is actually arguing that Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett give atheism a bad name, but Marx and Nietzsche didn't.
After that historically oblivious nostalgia, Aslan does his best liberal theologian impression:
What if one viewed the recurring patterns of religious phenomena that so many diverse cultures and civilizations–separated by immeasurable time and distance–seem to have shared as evidence of an active, engaging, transcendent presence (what Muslims call the Universal Spirit, Hindus call prana, Taoists call chi'i, Jews call ruah, and Christians call the Holy Spirit) that underlies creation, that, in fact, impels creation? Is such a possibility any more hypothetical than say, superstring theory or the notion of the multiverse?
I'm not sure what his first question is even asking, but I'm positive that "such a possibility" is, yes, more hypothetical than theoretical physics. This is due mainly to the fact those religious myths are either disproven already or completely untestable. Although many hypothesis in physics are indeed hypothetical they are qualitatively different from religious myths. Physicists construct them based on mathematical models that must be consistent with observable nature and rise and fall on the scientific method. Of course, scientists are often the harshest critics of theoretical physics. The models are also acknowledged to be hypothetical and won't be fully scientifically accepted until they make accurate testable predictions. In a rhetorical move seemingly designed to embarrass the science-is-another-faith crowd, string theorist Brian Greene asks himself if he believes in string theory. His answer: "no."
Do Christians, Hindus, and Muslims admit that their "religious phenomena" are hypothetical? Have they withheld believing in them until they clear standard evidentiary hurdles? Can Reza obscure the difference between science and religion any further?
Reza continues to push falsehoods about the positions of prominent new atheists. He writes, "new atheists will say that religion is not just wrong but evil, as if religion has a monopoly on radicalism and violence." Again, no quotation is provided for the allegedly monolithic atheist view. In actuality, Sam Harris says that Jainism's "core doctrine is nonviolence" and religions are as varied as sports. Richard Dawkins writes in The God Delusion, "Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything." In his most famous polemic against religion, Christopher Hitchens explains that "Humanism has many crimes for which to apologize." Hitchens and others openly acknowledge that nationalism and other non-religious ideologies can be dangerous; they just point out that faith-based beliefs are harder to correct and that no society has ever suffered from being too reasonable.
I'd love to see Aslan's evidence for the "stock response" of the new atheists:
The new atheists claim that people of faith are not just misguided but stupid–the stock response of any absolutist.
Here's Harris in a debate with Andrew Sullivan:
You have also made the false charge that I think religious people are "fools" or "idiots." Needless to say, I do not think Blaise Pascal was an idiot (nor do I think you are, for that matter). But I do consider certain ideas idiotic, and idiotic ideas can occasionally be found rattling around the brains of extraordinarily intelligent people. One of the horrors of religious dogmatism is that it can produce a Pascal–a brilliant man who was irretrievably self-deceived on matters of profound importance.
Here's Hitchens in The Portable Atheist:
I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim–so modestly and so humbly–to possess. It is time to withdraw our "respect" from such fantastic claims, all of them aimed at the exertion of power over other humans in the real and material world.
Yes, many atheists think certain believers are dimwitted or ignorant of science, but they don't make any across-the-board claims about the intelligence of religious believers.
For all the noise about atheists caricaturing the religious, I've yet to find a criticism that substantively attacks what the new atheist authors actually argue. Instead, pundits like Chris Hedges and Reza Aslan bumble around like media copycat criminals showcasing a version of the crimes that they fictionalize atheists having committed. Aslan's stock criticisms, editorial proselytization, and accusations of ignorance litter every scene where he leaves his stamp.
The Right Side of History
New York state lawmakers voted 33-29 to legally extend marriage rights same-sex couples. Now the sixth state in America treats its citizens as more important than dogma. Good people across the state of New York won't allow the godly to settle for bigotry and moral poverty.
God, not Albany, has settled the definition of marriage, a long time ago. -Senator Ruben Diaz, the lone Democrat opponent
Everyone that fought for this bill should be joyous that we continue to write our own history.
Here are some of my past posts on same-sex marriage. Feel free to search around the blog for others.
Homophones, Homosexuals, and the Essence of Marriage
Judge Walker: A Modern Jeremy Bentham
It's All About Tradition, Right?
(photo: Nathaniel Brooks for The New York Times)
The Corrosion of Normal Moral Thinking, Pt. III
Kirk Murphy's mother became worried about her son's behavior:
I was becoming a little concerned about playing with the girls' toys and stroking the hair – ya know, the long hair and stuff. I was seeing effeminate mannerisms. That bothered me because I wanted Kirk to grow up and have a normal life.
In order to give her child the most normal life possible she subjected Kirk to experimental behavioral control therpy, emotionally neglected him, and allowed her husband to beat him as part of a reward/punishment plan. His brother says he became empty, couldn't relate to people, and was never a happy child again after the age of 4. Kirk killed himself at 38.
Watch the beginning of Anderson Cooper's 3-part series on George Rekers' homosexual cure therapy.
An Imperfect Argument
I finally got around to watching the "Does Good Come From God?" debate between Sam Harris and William Lane Craig. There are a number of interesting aspects of this debate – Sam's thoughts on it are here – but I want to challenge Dr. Craig's foundational assumption, which I thought could have been more clearly undermined. Every apologist that wants to argue that morals come from God need to answer the Euthyphro dilemma: "Is the pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?" In other words, if God commands an evil act would it be good? If not, the good is clearly independent of God.
To escape this Dr. Craig asserts that God by his nature is perfect and good and cannot issue an evil commandment. But that just begs the question of what it means for something's nature to be comprised of moral goodness. If kindness is by nature good then God – the divine commander in Craig's view – is unnecessary for morality; we only need to refer to the good itself. Good by Craig's logic is more fundamental than God – thus, Good doesn't come from God.
Possibly even more problematic for his view is how "goodness" is defined by nature. If love and kindness is self-evidently a property of perfection and goodness, why again is God necessary for moral foundation? Staying true to theological tradition, his answer just pushes the question back a step. Let's look at this game Craig plays: (I interjected some questions after Craig's points – Craig never argues his positive case beyond these contentions) Seeing his arguments in print have a way of exposing their deficiency.
Where does good come from?
Craig: "Objective moral values are grounded in God."
Skeptic: What if God commands something evil?
Craig: "Far from being arbitrary, God's commandments must be consistent with his holy and loving nature."
Skeptic: How do you know God's nature is good?
Craig: "As St. Anselm saw, God is by definition the greatest conceivable being and therefore, the highest good."
Skeptic: How convenient, but what defines goodness?
Craig: "He is by nature loving, generous, faithful, kind, and so forth."
Skeptic: But why are those attributes morally "good"? Why aren't hatred, jealousy, and cruelty "good"?
Craig: [God] is not merely perfectly good; he is the locus and paradigm of moral value. God's own holy and loving nature provides the absolute standard against which all actions are measured."
Skeptic: You haven't answered anything.
All these theological gymnastics illustrate the absurdity of the religious project. How does Craig or anyone else know that God is perfect or good by nature? How do we know perfection or goodness are defined in the way Craig says they are? If God's nature (whatever that even means) was evil, would love still be good? If God really did issue morally obligatory commandments how would we be certain of their divine origin? As Dr. Harris points out throughout the debate, the bible repeatedly gets major questions of morality wrong (e.g. slavery) so we don't have any obvious source to learn His commandments.
This improvisational fiction is not unique to Craig. The latest issue of Time magazine chronicles the debate between evangelicals on whether hell really exists or not and if so what its nature is. No one seems to notice that no one has any clue. If it wasn't so consequential, Time might as well have reported on the debate between my alarm clock and my iPod.
When Cruelty is Kosher, ctd
Back in November I explained that kosher and halal slaughter methods are needlessly cruel. Well, here's a video to prove it.
It starts off with the comparatively "humane" bolt killing of a cow – then we get to see the ways god is satisfied by animals writhing in pain as they drown in their own blood after having their throats "naturally" slit. It's just another example of how faith and dogma can get well-meaning people to proudly support gratuitous barbarism.
(video via Pharyngula)
The Corrosion of Normal Moral Thinking, ctd
In his New York Times opinion piece Nicholas Kristof highlights how religious thinking can cause people to care more about dogma than living human beings.
The National Women's Law Center has just issued a report quoting doctors at Catholic-affiliated hospitals as saying that sometimes they are forced by church doctrine to provide substandard care to women with miscarriages or ectopic pregnancies in ways that can leave the women infertile or even endanger their lives.
Of course, stalwart apologist of the liberal religious Kristof champions his version of Jesus against those rule-sticklingly traditionalists.
The thought that keeps nagging at me is this: If you look at Bishop Olmsted and Sister Margaret as the protagonists in this battle, one of them truly seems to me to have emulated the life of Jesus. And it's not the bishop, who has spent much of his adult life as a Vatican bureaucrat climbing the career ladder. It's Sister Margaret, who like so many nuns has toiled for decades on behalf of the neediest and sickest among us.
I happen to agree with Kristof about the absurdity and callousness of the Church's excommunication of a nun for saving a woman's life, but how does he justify his judgement on religious grounds? Many sincere believers consider an embryo or a fetus to be an unborn human child equally deserving of moral compassion as a fully conscious adult. From their premises, they are being perfectly rational. Yet, Kristof summons the Nazarene in his court of moral opinion even though Jesus never told us what he thinks on this issue. However, there is certainly some biblical warrant to suppose God isn't supportive of abortion. It's not my burden to resolve this issue for either side. This thick haze just doesn't obscure morally normal vision – there is no need to try to look through it. An unconscious blastocyst does not have the same moral weight as a breathing pregnant woman.
Sadly, it appears the Republican Party is lost in the fog and continues to exhibit more symptoms of moral vertigo with their push to redefine "the definition of rape and incest" in order to limit federal assistance for abortion.
For years, federal laws restricting the use of government funds to pay for abortions have included exemptions for pregnancies resulting from rape or incest. (Another exemption covers pregnancies that could endanger the life of the woman.) But the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act," a bill with 173 mostly Republican co-sponsors that House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has dubbed a top priority in the new Congress, contains a provision that would rewrite the rules to limit drastically the definition of rape and incest in these cases.
With this legislation, which was introduced last week by Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.), Republicans propose that the rape exemption be limited to "forcible rape."
The sooner we abandon the notion that religion has a purchase on morality the better.


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St. Joseph's Indian High School in collaboration with Times foundation is organizing a Cyclothon on the 20th of August, 2016 at 6:30 am in the assembly ground of St. Joseph's Indian High School. 300 young cyclists of the school are participating in the event along with the members of GO GREEN to show their love for the environment and to bring awareness to society and to the nation to 'STOP POLLUTE'.
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When I drank this for the first time last week, my first thought was "TEA BAE!" Which is so millennial of me, I know. I promise I'm not even cool enough to quite know how to use "bae" ("before anyone else") in everyday use. But it applies to this tea.
This is a silky, rich, creamy oolong. It comes in super-cute little balls that totally snap to attention in hot water. Sometimes the balls don't unfurl, but these are actively watch-able. The flavor is a great halfway point between green and black. The "milky" taste is really creamy, like the whipped topping on a good lemon meringue* pie.
*I was pretty sure it wasn't spelled "mirang," so I had to request Google's gentle corrective guidance.
This tastes like it was flavored. That's how sweet it is. I don't want to be too effusive, because I try to emit a cool air of sophisticated irony (hah!) — but I really like this.
The reviewers on the Harney site like it, too. So much. Peep this review from Helen W: "Absolutely love it! Absolutely love it!" That's the entire view. Helen. Gurl. I hear you. When I re-order this (AND I WILL), I'm going to acquire a vat. I'm going to swim in this vat like Scrooge McDuck. It will not be sanitary. People will slowly stop visiting my house. I will acquire leper status. Eventually someone will come by my house to film "Hoarding: Buried Alive: Tea Special" and I will acquire a brief Internet fame. Perhaps I will become a meme. But then I will be forgotten to the sands of time. The pan will no longer have a flash. I shall disappear into the back of your mind, just me, and my tea.
Here's the scoop!
Leaf Type: Oolong
Where to Buy: Harney & Sons
For some time we've had requests for a milky oolong and finally we have found one that we liked so that we could share it with you. Milky oolongs are very popular in Eastern Asia for their sweet, creamy flavors. This one is smooth and the aroma of warmed cream is delicious!
Learn even more about this tea and tea company here!
Wild Hunan Gold from Harney & Sons. . . . .
I had mouth surgery last week, and hot drinks totally irritated the Spot In Question. It was GRUELING. I was living off protein shakes. I had to cut up my few solids into into tiny, tiny pieces, including stuff like pizza and grapes. I felt like I had a picky toddler, except it was me. A WEEPY, FUSSY, 5'7″ TODDLER who could only eat things at room temperature or colder.
So today I picked a nice new straight tea that allegedly has "strong cocoa flavors." I was like "FREE OF CALORIE CHOCOLATES? MY LIFE IS A SPARKLE HEAVEN. I WILL KISS IT WITH MY HEALED MOUTH."
Bad news: The tea doesn't really taste like cocoa.
Good news: It tastes like bread. The kind of bread an actual person makes, not the kind that comes from the grocery store. The kind that sometimes has holes in it and is a mid-to-dark brown. French countryside bread.
This is the kind of bread that the French peasants protested over.
And Marie Antoinette was like "let them eat cake."
And the French were all, "no seriously, we have the bread thing down. Bread is the thing we want. We asked for that specifically. If we cannot cut this bread, we will use our slicing tools for more nefarious purposes."
So it's yummy! But not in the way Harney's description says. Prepare yourself in other ways.
Here's the scoop!
Leaf Type: Black
Where to Buy: Harney & Sons
Learn even more about this tea and tea company here!
Earl Grey Supreme from Harney & Sons. . . .
I have a friend who is always talking about how I have not truly lived until I have tried Harney & Sons' Earl Grey Supreme. She will lock eyes with me and tell me I need to go to an Au Bon Pain (or whatever) and get a cup.
She is slightly terrifying.
I grabbed a few-ounce sample while I was on vacation, but lost it. I didn't tell her this, because I feared repercussions. Luckily, I found it, and today is the day.
This is a very powerful, no-holds-barred bergamot-slam with a smoky underbase.
This is a MANLY sort of Earl Grey.
This is an Earl Grey that strips down to just a pair of suede pants and wrangles animals. Then goes back to his castle and eats boar for dinner and winks at the maids. He sleeps like a log, then wakes up, gets kicked back into gear with this blend, and goes back outside to get some more stuff done.
This Earl Grey does not do his own accounting. This Earl Grey is sort of frustrating to his wife.
This tea will put hair on your chest, whether you want it or not.
I like it, but it's not for the weak of heart, or the person who doesn't want to take an express train to Flavor Town. There are probably people who would find it overwhelming.
But if you DO find it overwhelming, for the LOVE OF HEAVEN, don't tell my friend that. I fear what she would do.
Here's the scoop!
Leaf Type: Black
Where to Buy: Harney & Sons
For the connoisseur we offer Earl Grey Supreme, which uses a higher grade of teas with the addition of Silver Tips. Most of our customers never go back to our regular Earl Grey once they taste the Supreme. If you love bergamot and fine tea, this is the blend for you!


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|Nutrition Facts
|Servings: serves 2
|Amount per serving
|% Daily Value*
|Total Fat 28g
|Saturated Fat 14g
|Cholesterol 504mg
|Sodium 563mg
|Total Carbohydrate 6g
|Dietary Fiber 3g
|Protein 28g
|Calcium 439mg
|*The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.
Nothing screams springtime quite like asparagus, except for maybe farm-fresh eggs. Together, they make a fantastic brunch or lunch for two. A little melty gruyere cheese and fresh parsley add some oomph to this light, but satisfying dish. Best part is, it's ready in only 20 minutes flat!
Really fresh eggs work best here, as do snappy, bright green asparagus. Thinner asparagus are better—thick stalks take too long to cook and over-fill the omelet. A non-stick skillet will come in especially handy for this recipe if you have one available. The finished parcel is picture-perfect, and can serve a group of 3 to 4 when paired with other dishes. Try serving with a green salad, homemade bread such as popovers, and a fresh fruit salad for a complete meal that will keep you well-fueled for the day's activities.
- 1 tablespoon, plus 1 teaspoon butter
- 1/2 pound fresh asparagus (trimmed)
- Kosher salt (to taste)
- Freshly ground black pepper (to taste)
- 2 tablespoons water
- 4 large eggs (well beaten)
- 1/2 cup gruyere cheese (grated)
- 1 tablespoon fresh parsley (chopped)
Steps to Make It
Gather the ingredients.
Heat 1 teaspoon of butter in a medium skillet over medium-high heat. Once melted, add the asparagus and toss. Cook for 2 minutes, tossing a few times before spreading into a single layer. Season with salt and pepper.
Add the water and cook for 3 or 4 minutes, or until the water has cooked off and the asparagus is crisp-tender. Set aside.
Heat a large skillet (around 12") over medium-low heat. Add the remaining 1 tablespoon of butter and let melt. Tilt the pan to coat with butter. Add the eggs.
As the eggs begin to set up around the edge, carefully use a spatula to lift the edges a bit and tilt the pan slightly to let the liquid egg in the center run under the edge. Repeat around the omelet until it has set up just enough not to run to the edge when you tilt the pan. Don't let the omelet get too thin in the middle, and turn down the heat if it is cooking too fast. This is a tender omelet, and won't brown much, if at all.
Season with salt and pepper and top all over with cheese. Place a lid or pan over the skillet for 1 minute or just until the cheese is melted. Turn off the heat.
Add the asparagus to the center of the omelet. Use a spatula and carefully run it under the edge of the omelet to loosen it without tearing. Fold one side of the omelet over the asparagus, then overlap with the opposite side, making a parcel. Carefully slide the omelet onto a plate.
Serve warm topped with fresh parsley.


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XCO Nationals
XCO is cross country racing in the olympic style. It is currently the only mountain bike discipline that is in the Commonwealth and Olympic games. Typically it is raced on a technical, challenging course that is about 4 to 5 kilometers with riders completing up to 7 laps depending on category.
In 2018, the Club hosted the North Island National XCO Champs, which was a huge success. In 2019, the Club hosted the National XCO Champs, which was a HUGE turnout. Plenty were saying even it was the best Nationals round yet.
On the 7th January 2018 the Club hosted the North Island National XCO Champs with about 90 riders over all grades. Only days before the event we had the worst storm in a decade which closed the track. On Saturday morning (the day before the race) there was a huge turn out of volunteers to help cleanup the track and by 11am it was open for official practice.
For race day, Sunday, it was wet again with light rain most of the day which made the track more demanding but regardless there was great racing through all grades.
The elite race was a sprint finish with the battle for 2nd and 3rd coming down to the final few hundred metres between two determinded locals. Sam Shaw and Sam Osborne. Shaw closely took 2nd behind Anton Cooper who showed his class, currently ranked world #6.


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Limelight appoints general manager for future Snowmass hotel
Lindsay Cagley will assume the role of general manager of the future Limelight Snowmass, Aspen Skiing Co. announced Tuesday.
Cagley, a Limelight Hotels employee for six years, most recently worked as its director of sales and marketing.
"Lindsay has been an integral team member of the Limelight Hotels as it has evolved and grown into a multi-hotel division," Limelight Hotels managing director Richard Stettner said in a statement released Tuesday. "Her hard work and dedication have continuously propelled the evolution of the Limelight brand forward."
Cagley's role at the Snowmass hotel will include managing all employees and overseeing operations. Prior to her tenure with Limelight Hotels, Cagley worked at Crested Butte Mountain Resort and Breckenridge Ski Resort.
Cagley said she is thrilled to represent the Limelight's third property.
"Snowmass is my home ski hill so I couldn't be more proud of stepping into a role that plays a part in the revitalization of Base Village," Cagley said in the statement. "This is an exciting time to live and work in the Snowmass Village community, and I look forward to growing and leading a great team here."
Cagley will begin her new role Jan. 1. The Limelight Snowmass, consisting of 99 hotel rooms and 11 condominiums, is expected to open November 2018.
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Hmm what could I possibly say about myself? This reminds me of all the times I had to tell pledges about myself when they were rushing the sorority I was in. However, things about myself have definitely changed since then. That was over 10 years ago. Holy crap! Ok I'm getting off track. As you'll eventually notice there are usually about a HUNDRED tabs open in my brain at all times. My mother and husband both yell at me that I don't finish telling them one thing before starting to tell them about something else. I cannot help this. If I don't get it out, I won't remember later! My poor husband gets loads of texts from me and then I except him to respond to each one (but he usually only responds to the very last thing I sent. Grrr.) Ok back to reality again.
In June 2016, I was given the best job I have ever had in my entire life…mother or as I call it mommasaurus to my Finasaurus. My son Finley "Fin" is my world. There is no one I love more than him. Yes I love my husband and my parents and my family and my friends. But the love I have for this kid goes above and beyond any other love I have ever had. Then in July 2018, I was blessed with giving birth to a wonderful little girl, Hazel Louise. She is a chubby, sassy little thing that loves to eat! She absolutely is a daddy's girl already and loves her brother. She watches everything he does and has already began to torture him. She has RBF just like myself but a smile that lights up the room. I cannot wait to have mother/daughter adventures with her.)
Besides my job of being a mother (which sometimes I rock and other times I'm seriously the typical hot mess mom) and having the job of kick-ass wife (my husband totally agrees with this because I never ever nag) I do love my real job as well. I'm a teacher, a special education one. I LOVE IT! I could write an entire book about being a teacher and it would be hilarious. Another thing about myself is that I find myself laughing at all the witty things I come up with in my head. Whether or not others find me funny, I think I'm quite a hoot.
I love to cook. I find it relaxing and I love when people eat my cooking. I like to believe that I became a good cook because of my have allergies, intolerances, and sensitivities. And no they're not all in my head (dad!). I'm currently working on my baking skills. I tell Fin and Hazel all the time that once they are older, they'll be able to help me. I will be posting my recipes, so check them out! You can also check out http://fulleritup.blogspot.com/ for all of my older recipes.
I have two dogs that I love but drive me crazy. Ulysses (middle name Sherman after General William Tecumseh Sherman of the Union Army). I named him after President Ulysses S. Grant. My second favorite president is a crazy, hyper dog. But sooooo lovable! As the years have gone on, he has gotten less hyper. He is also very protective. Takoda, is so sweet and never stops wiggling her butt.
Another obsession, JFK. In 4th grade we had to do a oral report on anyone. I decided to pick a president. I was going to do Teddy Roosevelt (which is my husband's favorite president…weird), but I decided to do John F. Kennedy. Well that's when the obsession began. But as I got older it became worse. I have a picture in my living room of him.
I love to workout. I have always worked out and viewed it as a chore but over the past few years I have being going to a CrossFit gym and it was one of the best decisions I have ever made. I look forward to going. Two kids and two years (so far) of CF and I'm the happiest I have ever been looking in the mirror.
I love anchors (I even have an anchor tattoo) and pineapples (which I will be getting a tattoo of this year). I do love a lot of other things, they include: tater tots (don't ask me to share because I won't), smoothies, coffee, my grandmother's pasta sauce, almond butter, reading historical nonfiction, my family and friends, red wine (Saturday are wine nights), Marvel movies, Jurassic World, walking, day trips, Disney World (been going since I was 3) and all things Disney, traveling, the beach, things on sale, and I'm sure there are a bunch of other things I can't think of right now.
So I hope you take this journey with me as I try to navigate through my quirky life (where I often feel blindfolded) and either entertain you, inform you, help you, or just give you an excuse to "check your phone".


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Jeans performed poorly in 2018 as the athleisure trend continued to gain ground and as Swedish men also returned to wearing trousers rather than jeans. In 2018, many women were wearing dresses and light-weight trousers as temperatures during the summer soared.
Swedish men are fairly brand conscious with their choice of jeans and therefore often prefer to purchase premium brands such as Levi's and Lee and super premium brands Nudie, Acne, and Diesel over the economy-priced H&M and Dressmann. Despite this, many cannot afford the price of these more expensive brands and therefore still purchase economy-priced jeans.
While economy jeans will record stronger retail volume growth than standard, premium jeans is predicted to record higher current value growth than super premium jeans over the forecast period. The rationale is that the increasing inequality in Sweden will lead to stronger growth of the highest and lowest socioeconomic groups, because of a stagnant middle class.
H&M Hennes & Mauritz retained its marginal lead of jeans over Levi Strauss in value terms in 2018, with its large range of jeans encompassing brands H&M, Weekday, & Other Stories as well as the jeans brand Cheap Monday. Levi Strauss strengthened its second position, gaining further value share in 2018 as consumers have strong trust and awareness of the Levi's brand due to its long-standing presence in Sweden.
Jeans tends to be considered a more difficult garment to convert to environmentally-friendly production, as there is a large proportion of water waste compared to other garments. Many jeans players have therefore made attempts to become eco-friendlier such as Velour by Nostalgia was the first brand to receive the eco-friendly certificate Svanen in early 2017; Cubus was certified afterwards, in the same year.
Jeans struggled globally as the athleisure trend continued to gain ground. Global brand owner VF Corp, which holds a portfolio including jeans brands Lee and Wrangler in addition to Timberland, The North Face, and Vans, has decided to mainly focus on these three latter brands.
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