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I recently came across a question about the meaning of this sentence:
No estoy alegre, sino más bien triste.
I'm not happy, (I'm actually) somewhat sad.
The question was:
What's the difference between sino and más bien, and why are they used together?
Good question!
Let's answer it by taking out the pieces, studying them in isolation and putting them back together again. Starting with sino.
{Negative statement}, sino {alternative}
The first thing you need to know about sino is that it brings along a hint of formality–you probably wouldn't use it to pick a fight at a dive bar, but it would be very appropriate when trying to convince a police officer that you're not guilty:
Agente, le juro que no fui yo el que robó ese coche, sino mi primo.
Agent, I swear (to you) that I wasn't the one who stole that car, (it was) my cousin.
Sino deserves to be part of your Spanish arsenal because it's perfect for one thing: providing an alternative to a negative statement.
In this example, the negative statement is no fui yo el que robó ese coche and the alternative is mi primo. Sino makes that transition seamless by pointing the finger at your cousin and helping you stay out of jail.
The alternative to using sino would be to start a new sentence and repeat the verb:
Agente, le juro que no fui yo el que robó ese coche. Fue mi primo.
Agent, I swear (to you) that I wasn't the one who stole that car. It was my cousin.
When do you use sino?
Anytime you have two opposing statements (one positive and one negative), and you want to sound smart, you can use sino:
No me gustan los gansos. Me gustan los caballos.
I don't like (the) geese. I like (the) horses.
No me gustan los gansos, sino los caballos.
I don't like (the) geese, (I like) (the) horses
For sino to do its magic, something non-obvious needs to come after it, otherwise you'll look like one of those people who stick their pinky out when they're drinking tea:
Mi cuarto no está sucio, sino limpio.
My room is not dirty, (it is) clean. (Sounds kinda pedantic.)
Don't feel the need to put on your fancy sino gloves just to highlight that clean means the same as not dirty.
I can't think of any non-obvious opposing adjective to finish that example, so let's make it more interesting by using a conjugated verb:
Mi cuarto no está sucio, sino que está menos limpio que el tuyo.
My room is not dirty, (what happens is that) it's less clean than yours.
Wait a minute. What's that que doing after sino?
{Negative statement}, sino que {alternative with a conjugated verb}
When the alternative contains a conjugated verb, we need to use sino que instead of the plain sino:
—No quedó con nosotros, sino que se fue con su novia.
"He didn't meet up with us, (what happened was that) he went (out) with his girlfriend."
—Bueno, eso no lo decidió él, sino que lo decidió ella.
"Well, he didn't decide that, (what happened was that) she decided it."
For our purposes, a conjugated verb is any verb that isn't an infinitive or a gerund. Grammar junkies call these nonfinite forms, but we can just call them to-verbs and -ing verbs:
—Lo siento por lo de ayer. No quería que te enfadaras, sino hablar contigo.
"I'm sorry about yesterday. I didn't want you to get mad, (what I wanted was) to talk to you."
—Tú dirás lo que quieras, pero no me llamaste para hablar, sino buscando pelea.
"(You will say) what you want, but you didn't call me to talk, (you did it) looking (for a) fight."
The to-verb in the first sentence is hablar (to talk) and the -ing verb in the second one is buscando (looking). These are the only two verb forms that use sino–every other verb form uses sino que.
Got it.
What about más bien?
Más bien
Más bien, like sino, is also a bit of a fancy word choice, especially when used by itself. It has two subtly different meanings that serve to tone down what comes after them: somewhat and rather.
—Me siento más bien nervioso por este negocio.
I feel somewhat nervous because of this business.
—En tu lugar, yo pensaría más bien en las ganancias que nos esperan.
In your place, I would rather think about the profits that await us.
Since más bien is not often used by itself, let's focus on its meaning as a sino-sidekick.
{Negative statement}, sino más bien {alternative}
I think we're ready now. Let's decode the sentence that sparked this article:
No estoy alegre, sino más bien triste.
I'm not happy, (I'm actually) somewhat sad.
No estoy alegre is a negative statement, más bien triste is the toned-down alternative, and sino is the fancy glue that connects them by highlighting their differences.
In case you're curious, we can easily add a conjugated verb to the alternative:
No estoy alegre, sino que más bien me siento triste.
I'm not happy, (I actually) feel somewhat sad.
But anyway, enough sadness!
Since we've spent a bunch of time exploring the sino archipelago, we might as well visit some of its nearby islands before we sail back home.
Bonus 1: {Implicit negative statement} sino {alternative}
Up until now, we've dealt with explicit negative statements (no fui yo el que robó ese coche, no me gustan los gansos, no estoy alegre), but sometimes Spanish people get poetic and omit the negative thing. When the thing we negate is implicit, sino means except:
No quiero sino tu amor.
I don't want (anything), except your love.
The explicit version would be:
No quiero nada, sino tu amor.
I don't want (anything), (I want) your love.
Unless your day job is to write lyrics for Enrique Iglesias don't bother with the implicit sino. A much more common alternative is to just use excepto or otra cosa que:
No quiero otra cosa que tu amor.
I don't want (any) other thing besides your love.
Bonus 2: {Negative statement with solo}, sino {additional members}
When the negative statement starts with no… solo, it indicates that a partial list is coming. In this situation, sino is used to introduce the missing list members:
Clara no es solo mi novia y mi amiga, sino también mi contable.
Clara is not only my girlfriend and my friend, (she is also) my accountant.
In these cases, sino is optionally followed by también or además (too, also, as well)
Bonus 3: pero
What's this island doing here?
Well, you might have noticed that I have stubbornly avoided translating sino as but. I've done this to minimize the chances that you'll confuse sino with pero, but in case you do, remember that but is only pero if you can replace it with although:
—Me apetecía verte hoy, pero hasta mañana no puedo.
"I felt like seeing you today, (but/although) until tomorrow, I can't."
—Pues yo no contaba con verte hoy, sino mañana, así que perfecto.
"(Well) I wasn't counting on seeing you today, (but/I was counting on seeing you) tomorrow, so that's perfect."
Bonus 4: si no
Last confusing island. What happens if there is a space between si and no?
Sino and si no mean completely different things, but it's such a common error (even among natives) that we can't wrap up this article before dealing with it:
No puedo terminar la tortilla si no me pasas los huevos.
I can't finish the Spanish tortilla if you don't pass me the eggs
Sin huevos no sería una tortilla, sino unas tristes patatas fritas.
Without eggs it wouldn't be a Spanish tortilla, (it would be) (a bunch of) sad fried potatoes.
Since you speak English, you actually have a leg up on the natives: if it makes sense to stick an if… not in place of si no leave a space; otherwise, use sino.
In case you're wondering, natives use a different trick: if it feels right to add a subject between si and no, leave a space; otherwise, don't.
That's enough exploring for one day. Time to sail back home.
Spanish takeaways
Sino is a mildly formal but elegant way to provide a non-obvious alternative to a negative statement, without having to start a new sentence.
If the alternative contains a conjugated verb (any verb except a to-verb or a -ing verb), we use sino que instead of sino.
Más bien is often used after sino to tone down the alternative.
Spanish words are easier to learn when you get a feel for their usage, rather than relying on direct translations from English (that's where most of the pero/sino and por/para confusion comes from).


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The legendary eccentricity of certain members of the Guinness clan—gleefully reported by Vanity Fair, W Magazine and other "society" mags—is almost as popular as the brew that bears their name.
As a direct descendent of Sir Arthur Guinness, you would think Tim Guinness would be one of them; you'd be wrong. He is most decidedly a sober money manager (we like our puns) who's all business, but not above a good laugh. Sure, his family name might open a few doors to the right people, probably in the hopes he'll show with a barrel of the black gold (we don't mean oil), but that's about the extent of his name recognition, and his industry acumen must then take over.
CIO and portfolio manager Guinness (left) joins CEO Jim Atkinson and investment director Edmund Harriss at the helm of Guinness Atkinson Funds, a shop with heavy sector plays in both energy and China, two areas of which advisors may have heard.
"I count myself lucky. The company I was running years ago was taken over, and I was very upset, because I didn't have an opportunity to realize the vision I had laid out," Guinness says. "A few years later we started this firm, which was a great thing. I can have more control because I own more of it. So I could start over on that path to realizing my vision."
And vision he has; once he gets going it's hard to interject as his enthusiasm and ideas flow freely.
The two main "pillars" of the firm are Asia excluding Japan (with a large focus on China) and energy. He adds a third, smaller pillar of innovation and technology.
"These three pillars are everything that interests me," he says. "I am an engineer and went to MIT, but I'm also very interested in economics and the geopolitical scene, so all of these play to my strengths. We specialize in a way that means we want to be the next Dodge & Cox (although I use that loosely) in order to grab the investing public's attention."
Beginning with the energy sector, stocks are now valued at around $70 and should be upwards of $100, Guinness says, meaning they're undervalued anywhere from 30% to 50%. He believes the right price for oil is between $80 and $100. He predicts that at the end of the decade the price will be between $150 and $200 a barrel; about $120 in today's dollars with the rest of its price appreciation coming from inflation.
In natural gas, he points to important developments in the area of exploration."Horizontal drilling is one, combined with fantastic innovation in the ability to control the location of the drill bit itself," Guinness says. "And of course fracking is adding a whole new dimension to the industry. All of these things have brought marginal costs down for natural gas companies. The industry was until recently a 'sunset' industry in the United States, but with these innovations, it's very much in a 'sunrise' stage, one in which I see at least 50 years of light."
Sure, natural gas has experienced a bit of a glut in recent years, but Guinness notes the number of drilling rigs in the United States has dropped from 1,000 to about 670. He feels it might have to shrink further to about 500 rigs in order to fully compensate for the glut.
"There's been an interesting demand response as well, as the country has switched from coal to gas in its electricity fleet. And chemical plants will now be using gas for their feed stock."
Down the road, he sees further market share growth for natural gas as a transportation fuel.
"Natural gas has had a rough go lately, but it will work itself out eventually," he concludes. "It will be a growth business."
Moving on to China, he says he's a "believer," having first visited the country in 1990.
"The Shanghai stock exchange had just reopened, which surprised me because it was—and still is—a communist country. But they were doing everything to get their economy moving. After 300 years of falling behind the west, they were determined to be on par with other OECD nations."
The growth numbers Guinness rattles off are impressive:
- In 2003, car ownership in China was roughly where the United States was in 1920. By 2020, China will overtake the United States, when each country will have roughly 290 million cars on the road.
- The United States' yearly oil consumption averages 25 barrels per head, while China averages 2.5 barrels per head. The China figure will double to 5 barrels per head by 2020, moving from 10 million barrels per day to 20 million barrels.
- China consumes two to three times the amount of coal when compared to the United States, but only about half of the amount of oil and only one-sixth the amount of natural gas. The amount of coal use will flatten, oil with increase with a corresponding increase in the number of cars and the amount of amount of natural gas will increase 10-fold.
"All of this illustrates the fantastic catch-up that is going on in China, and it will continue for 20 years," he says.
When asked if he is at all concerned about the politics and human rights violations often cited by China's critics, his answer is direct, reflecting his style.
"China is the best-run country in the world. I know that's not often heard as an answer to that type of question, but most people on the Politburo have shown themselves to be incredibly competent. They've each run individual provinces, and each is about the size of small countries in and of themselves."
Treading further, he claims China's system is better than true democracy because of the competency and managerial skills Chinese leaders display, while conversely noting the lack of continuity that results from elections held in the United States every four years.
Yet he acknowledges it's worse than democracy in that the Chinese government is not as initially responsive to the will of its people as that of the United States, but becomes more responsive as time goes by.
"I believe the perception of corruption on the part of the Chinese government is overblown. I don't worry about it, and I don't think other people should either."

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Reuben Garrett Lucius Goldberg (July 4, 1883 – December 7, 1970) was an American cartoonist, sculptor, author, engineer and inventor.
He is best known for a series of popular cartoons depicting complex gadgets that perform simple tasks in indirect, convoluted ways. These devices, now known as Rube Goldberg machines, are similar to those drawn by W. Heath Robinson in the UK and Storm P in Denmark. Goldberg received many honors in his lifetime, including a Pulitzer Prize for his political cartooning in 1948 and the Banshees' Silver Lady Award 1959.
Goldberg was a founding member and the first president of the National Cartoonists Society, and he is the namesake of the Reuben Award, which the organization awards to the Cartoonist of the Year. He is the inspiration for various international competitions, known as Rube Goldberg Machine Contests, which challenge participants to make a complex machine to perform a simple task.


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Killing Pickman
Homicide Detective William Zhu has just made the arrest of his career. With the apprehension of Richard Pickman, he has solved over 100 missing child cases, some of which date back over 30 years. The excavation of Pickman's basement reveals horrors beyond imagination... the bodies of children mutilated in bizarre satanic rites. Frustrated with his role of clean-up man to the detritus of the world, Zhu makes what may be a fatal mistake: He decides to kill Pickman. Fatal, for Richard Pickman is no ordinary psychopath. The rituals he performed were not the work of a madman, but sacrifices made to a very real demon. A demon who has granted Pickman near immortality. Killing Pickman is going to be a lot tougher than Zhu could have imagined. It may not even be possible!
Killing Pickman
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At the airport, management staff, police officers and Southwest Airlines personnel welcome Charlie's one-of-a-kind visit with gift bags and a personalized bright-orange safety vest, which is required to be worn when down on the tarmac. Charlie wears the jacket as he rides on a pushback tug to move a plane from the gate out to the runway.
He boards another plane and tours the cockpit and then heads to the air traffic control tower, learning the complicated ballet of the taxiways and runways. His hosts commemorate his experience by giving him a mounted runway light with his name engraved on it.
Then it's time for the Chicago Fire Department to honor Charlie with lunch and tour of the fire trucks, complete with a fire hose demonstration.
Since there's nothing like seeing the city from the air, the Chicago Police Department arranges a helicopter tour for Charlie. Hovering over the vast Windy City was the highlight of Charlie's day.
Charlie is buoyant as he climbs out of the helicopter. And so is every volunteer who made time to be part of his wish. Dozens of people throughout Chicago felt the impact of a Make-A-Wish experience – for Charlie, and for themselves.
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Summer is almost here. Tulips and daffodils are blooming and tomato starts, in the bay window, are two inches tall.
This means that I will soon be reminded that I have, yet again, overestimated my youth and energy. I am still weight lifting and doing aerobics, and still stuck at 11 pounds lost, but I do hope I have the energy for the garden this year.
I have a hard time throwing out the weaker plant starts. I just cannot imagine me ever being able to chop up the Mandrake roots. Since I do like to have extra plants, and thus extra produce, to take to the Seniors in mom's apartment building, I planned on planting more this year anyway.
No one is fond of mowing our 3.8 acre yard. A couple of areas of the yard are wooded, so we just leave those alone. I think one winter day, when the ticks are hibernating (Do ticks hibernate?) I will put the teens to cleaning the woods. That is, if they are ever home long enough.
No longer a Teen, #1 is living in Santa Fe, temporarily and is 22 now. Teen #2 will be 20 this June, and is always gone to the fire department or nursing schooling, or working. Teen #3 is now best buddies with his girlfriend's dad; whose house he goes to for extra tutoring and also to help around their property. The latest project is a "man cave" in the barn; complete with comfy chairs and a television.
It is always a spur to tell them that they can use the wood they pick up for their fire pit, plus, them being volunteer firemen (and cadet) they realize the fire danger of an overgrown/deadwood woods.
Our drive is 400 feet long and I would love to build a Japanese style walking garden on the strip of land to the east of it. The area between house and pond, to the west, could be deck and terraced gardens; thus, eliminating most of the mowing. We would then be left with the area around my studio to mow. I would love to have that in square foot gardening plots. Thus again, dreaming of a time when energy and aching bones was never a problem.


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Twelve University of Houston students are packing for La Crosse, Wis. for the 27th National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR). More than 3,500 undergraduates from 45 states, plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Canada, are expected to attend the three-day conference, April 11-13, to present their research, scholarly and creative works. The twelve students represent a variety of disciplines including chemistry, psychology, biology and biochemistry, math, engineering and business.
"This opportunity provides a liaison to graduate schools, professionals and peers," said Ramon Montano, a senior electrical engineering major. "It's also an excellent skill-building experience as we learn more about conveying technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences." His research concerns the design of antennas for cube satellites, or CubeSats, that will allow the enormous structures to be joined together in modules. They'll perform the same tasks, but be more efficient to produce and launch.
Cultivating research skills in all disciplines, on and off campus, is a university priority. Students have opportunities to pursue undergraduate research one-on-one with guidance from faculty mentors. The experience has far reaching effects—preparing them for the rigors of graduate and professional research, teaching them how to work effectively with a team and grooming them for presentation opportunities, such as the NCUR.
"We are proud to support our undergraduate researchers who will showcase their findings on the national stage," said Veronique Tran, director of Learning through Discovery, who will travel with the students to the conference. "At NCUR, they will also have an opportunity to network and seek advice about graduate and professional schools."
The UH students received Undergraduate Travel Fellowships to attend the conference.
Sarah Stanley, a junior majoring in mathematics, will present research related to gene regulatory networks.
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Students will present research on the following topics:
- Differential Toxicity of Cholera Toxin and E. Coli Enterotoxin Explored Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations (Lindsey Brier)
- Spatiotemporal Development of Late-born Rods and Bipolar Cells and their Synapses in Mice with Gestational Lead Exposure (Jaime Orlando Carrillo Martinez)
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- On the Development of Integrated Antennas for the Cube Satellite (CubeSat) (Ramon Montano)
- This, Not That: Materialism's Effect on Impulse Purchases (Kyley Pitts)
- Keratocyte and Neutrophil Interaction in Mouse Cornea Characterized by a Novel 3-D Ultrastructure Approach (Nancy Shenoi)
- Peptide Conjugation by Click Chemistry (Dema Shobaki)
- Stochastic Delay and Signal Propagation in Gene Regulatory Networks (Sarah Stanley)
- Conversion of Fibroblasts into Cardiac Progenitors (Fatima Syed/Dasha Tikhomirova)
- Adjective Learning in Children: Mechanisms Involved in the Successful Acquisition and Extension of Novel Adjectives (Audrey Utti)
- A Pilot Study Analyzing Nonverbal Behavior During an Iterative Social Interactive Trust Game (Roya Zamani)
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My Journey with landscape photography continues. I hope also you continue to be a part of that journey and maybe even enjoy some of my work and maybe even share your thoughts/comments if I really get lucky.
Many thanks and have a Great Weekend!
PS: Please note that as content of my online gallery on my photo website FidelitosPix changes regularly some of the old links to photo's may no longer work. I try and change gallery content 1-2 times a week.


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Here is an essay I wrote about the early days of New Klezmer Trio, that can be downloaded to your computer. I hope you find it interesting.
Here is a reflection on my evolving relationship with the amazing artist Molly Barker, with whom I have collaborated for close to twenty five years.
Here is a photo taken by Ken Weiss of Cadence Magazine, after an Unfold Ordinary Mind concert at Johnny Brendas in Philadelphia on December 8, 2012.


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Crochet GuideCrochet on the Double™
Have you heard of burning the candle at both ends? Well, now you can crochet from both ends using a hook that has a head at each end. Unlike using an afghan hook, this double-ended hook enables you to complete a row, turn the piece, then crochet back across. This creates stitch patterns that can only be done using this technique.
If you have loved the look and feel of knitting, but prefer crochet, this method is for you. You can obtain the look and feel of knitting with the versatility and ease of crochet.
There are two methods for working Crochet on the Double: Working through the vertical bars and 2) working through the horizontal bars. The first method (similar to an afghan stitch) results in a thick, spongy fabric like a knitted garter stitch. The second method elongates the stitches and spreads the rows apart, resulting in a softer feel yet keeping the ridged garter stitch effect.


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This is a list of my favourite blogs. On tour there is so much time spent hanging around, if we are lucky to be in an venue with wi-fi, then I like to check out these blogs/websites. I also have my own blog, which hopefully i will manage to update on the tour:
I love the jealous curator...whenever I visit the site, I find something new to love:
This is my good friend Mary's website - she takes amazing photographs and has impeccable taste in music, art and films...she also makes some of the best mix tapes, ever:
This is a collaborative blog. I think it's down to two people now, but it used to be more...they take amazing photos and post things they like:
This is the only blog you will ever need to become educated in what is great taste for art/architecture and design. David also interviews artists or will write about them. He is also a fellow Angeleno, which makes me happy, as Los Angeles isn't known for its art, but it kind of should be...:
She posts really beautiful photographs- I think they are collected from all sorts of places, there is always an amazing film still or a poster that inspires..She just has a great aesthetic...:
This might be my favourite blog. It can feature totally random things- photographs, music, art and video clips, but it can be really funny and has given me a whole new appreciation for textiles and rugs...also, there are some beautiful photos of Dian Fossey...:


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H. L. Mencken Quotes
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Ambrose Bierce
Mark Twain Quotes
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Farewell Address
Fredrick Bastiat
The Law
Roger Sherman
Caveat Against Injustice
Lysander Spooner
No Treason
Andrew Jackson
Farewell Address
Merrill M. E. Jenkins
A Treatise on Monetary Reform
Famous Sayings
Mark Twain Quotes
Mark Twain Quotes (1835 - 1910)
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.
The report of my death was an exaggeration.
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.
I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.
My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
It is easier to stay out than get out.
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.
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230 Fifth, New York City
The sprawling size of the roof deck is what probably makes 230 Fifth a more cigar-friendly environment than most rooftop venues. Although cigar smokers yearn for the outdoors as much as the next person, often times the open air is not big enough for cigar smokers, cigarette smokers and nonsmokers alike. Lovers of the premium hand-rolled leaf are usually the ones who fear the short end of the stick. Atop the 20th floor of the New York Market Center building at the 230 Fifth rooftop gardens, however, there is room enough for everyone.
When you step off the elevator you walk not into the open air but rather a massive lounge room, big enough for 600 of your closest friends, with floor-to-ceiling windows and ostentatious décor that you might expect from a creator whose past ventures include the famed Roxy and Palladium nightclubs. Walk up a floating staircase and you will find our airy, cigar-friendly destination.
During a recent trip on a mild Friday evening, my friends and I made the climb. We strolled out on the deck and arranged ourselves around a cluster of wood and metal benches, tables and chairs situated among the groups of young professionals and hip urbanites. We contemplated finding a far-flung corner of the massive 14,000-square-foot place in which to light up -- fearing that we might attract the loathing of our fellow happy hour patrons, but it wasn't necessary. We sat down and the ashtrays were at the ready. There was a brief hesitation with the absence of cigar ashtrays, but inhibitions were soon abated when one of the gorgeous cocktail waitresses, scantily clad in black, seemed almost pleased that we were smoking cigars.
I sat with my back to a row of bushes, which line the perimeter of the entire space. I lit up and took in the 360-degree view of the skyline where towering among other structures were the multihued apex of Empire State Building and the golden cornice of the New York Life Building. The look of the place is casual chic, but the feel is more party happy hour than sophisticated lounge. Interspersed among the numerous seating options and lush vegetation, were palm trees and statues of exotic animals. A zebra stoically kept our group company.
Booze is not on the superpremium side, but you can get the basics in single-malt Scotch, Bourbon and rum. I ordered a Maker's Mark and soda to go with my cigar. Bottle service is also available, including reasonably-priced wines (as opposed to cocktails that go for around $10 and above). Since there isn't a cigar menu, we brought our own smokes. No one blinked an eye at our wafting smoke trails either, not even when the space started to get crowded later in the evening. Because the patio is high up and open, a nice breeze carries the smoke out into the twilight sky. As night crept in, the lights came on and the crowd started to thicken.
The light fare available is decent as well. It's a place for small food -- as most lounges are -- that can be characterized as modish pub grub. The sliders are topped with a tangy chili sauce and the pot stickers, called steamed wontons, are stuffed with shrimp and pork and come bathed in a chili vinaigrette. You can also get chicken wings that trade buffalo breading for a Malaysian oyster barbecue sauce. You get the idea. There are more ample dishes available, such as, a poached sea bass in coconut broth or a short rib, which is slow cooked with coconut milk and Malaysian herbs, but we decided to stay light and leave room for more cocktails.
Try to get in early and during the week. Rumor has it that a massive line forms on weekend nights in the nondescript lobby downstairs. We did not experience this firsthand, but the long stretch of red ropes leading to elevators could have done crowd control at Space Mountain -- a telltale sign that the rumors could be true. Also, be sure to pay attention to the numbered addresses on the buildings when approaching. Other than the 230 Fifth Avenue sign, nothing significant distinguishes the entrance from those of the myriad of other office buildings in the area that do not sport roof decks. But that speakeasy sort of vibe is something to which we cigar smokers are getting more and more accustomed, even if it's in the wide open.
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|My sorority sister, Amy, suggested that I create a website to help speed my research along. She also suggested I document my sexual experiences on the site to raise extra college money. I thought Amy was crazy until she showed me her website. The things she put online got my juices flowing!


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H&M Hosts a Stylish Night at the Global Green USA Pre-Oscars Party
The green carpet at last night's H&M and Global Green USA pre-Oscars party showed off another helping of amazing party looks thanks to the impeccably dressed celebrity crowd. Never one to shy away from daring looks, Miranda Kerr hit the (faux) grass with husband Orlando Bloom wearing a printed crisscross, cut-out dress from Peter Pilotto's Spring '13 collection. Meanwhile, Sophia Bush opted for a modern H&M white suit paired with nude Christian Louboutin pumps and a pink beaded clutch. Emmy Rossum channelled Old Hollywood glamour in an elegant draped gown, while Helen Hunt shimmered in a metallic lace dress. See every up-close detail in the slideshow now.


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Saturday, February 7, 2009
Follow the pretty green book cover
Come to my other blog if you are interest in fabric and or quilting design. Interesting things might be occurring there soon.
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Friday, September 26, 2008
God is in the details: Olana
Pamela and I just returned from a 3 day trip up the Hudson River ending in the town of Catskill. While there we visited the 19th century home of Frederick Church, just across the Rip Van Winkle Bridge from Catskill.
Frederick Church was one of the more prominent of the Hudson River School painters. One of his best known works was his 7 x 3 ft painting of Niagara Falls.
When Frederick began to work on the design of Olana after an extended family trip to the Middle East, his naturalistic style of painting was already losing popularity due to the emergence of Impressionism.
Whether motivated by this realization or not, Frederick poured heart and soul into every detail of his home and spent the last 3 decades of his life dedicated to it's creation. It is abundantly clear in the design of Olana how enamored he was with the Persian and Moorish art he had seen on his travels. He designed every internal and external decorative element including the mixing of every color used and worked with architect Calvert Vaux to make it a reality.
I could not take pictures inside the house but here are the best details I was able to capture of the outside. Do, if you can, pay a visit. But for those who can't go in person, I hope my photographs give you a glimpse of the extreme pleasure it is to visit Frederick Church's ultimate masterpiece, Olana.
Also remember to click on pictures to get even more of the details. And you never know, whom you will see since God is rumored to reside there.
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Sunday, September 14, 2008
The last Coca-Cola! or you never know anymore who will visit.
Went out on this Indian Summer day in September to check out the honeybee situation in my garden. Marta had pointed out the the sedums blooming in my garden where one of the last Coca-Colas available to the honeybees and that is why I had so many of them visiting. There are so many sometimes that Pamela and I become a bit wary walking by at times when activity is at peak.
I went out with my close-up lens in the hopes of getting a real good look at them and one that I could share. I was surprised to find a whole new flowering plant. On the tall side, about 4 ft. high, it was bursting out of my 'Dorothy Wycoff' andromeda which had protected it from weeding until now. (Not that it was in much danger.) It sports longish sprigs ( 8-12") of daisy-style flowers about a centimeter ( or 3/8") wide at their largest.
I'm focusing in to get a picture when I notice an unusual black, orange and white pattern on the sprig. I bring that into focus and there is another unknown creature feasting of the nectar of the newly discovered plant!
Notice in the close-ups how furry it seems. (Click on the picture to get a bigger one.) And you can definitely see the proboscis sucking up the nectar quite clearly.
So, please... any one who knows what either of these two are, let me know. And also if you know who the green iridescent fellow is feeding on and adjacent sprig.
And I did take a picture of the honeybees. I particularly like the one where it looks as if the bee has it's head buried in a field of pink posies. (Sedum 'Autumn Joy'). Marta taught me that honeybees are 'honey colored' and not as big or furry as the bumbles but still plumper than the yellow jackets. I pass this on for all you fellow bee novices.
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Tuesday, September 2, 2008
In Praise of Volunteers or The Kindness of Strangers
For me August is the month to look back over the garden and decide what worked and which gardening approaches and assumptions need revision. A gardener's equivalent of making your New Year's resolutions list.
Even though I work at home I have very little time for actual gardening. As a result the sunny areas in my garden are a bit weedy. I've realized I can only be unrelenting in eradicating garlic mustard. The myriad grasses that adore my patch of earth often are allowed to remain. As a result, by the end of summer I have a hybrid meadow-cottage garden affair in full swing.
There is a very definite upside to this approach however. Some of the most exciting gardening moments this year have come through the "kindness of strangers". As I desultorily pursue my weeding I come upon plants I do not quite remember having seen before. I tend to leave these alone since it could be I did plant something and simply forgot.
The most exciting of all were the 2 dianthus varieties or Sweet Williams that appeared out of nowhere. I had never seen one.
I knew something was up in early spring when I saw this rosette of leaves topped by a fluffy spiky tuft in an entirely different style. I left it alone hoping this augured good things.
A few weeks later I was rewarded by these bright magenta dots in the fluffy areas. And then to my added delight I saw I had another similar plant with paler pink dots about a foot away.
I called my friend Marta, gardener extraordinaire, to help identify my precious new plant. And she congratulated me and told me their names.
For next year I have ordered 3 more dianthus of a new variety patented by John Whetman of Deer Park Farm, Devon called 'Devon Yolande'! How could I resist a plant named in my honor.
Oh! a great thing about these sweet plants is that if you deadhead once the first blooms are spent they will rebloom all the way into September not as thickly but just as brightly.
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008
The Queen of the Meadows
This post is specifically so I can convince the world (and Katarina in Sweden in particular. See her Roses and Stuff blog listed in my Virtual Relatives list.) to include if at all possible the wild carrot or Queen Anne's lace in any meadow plans they (or she) might be entertaining.
On a trip 2 years ago to Vermont, Pamela and I visited the Alburg Dunes State Park on Lake Champlain near the Canadian border. There we were treated to the most stupendous close-up display of the Queen in all her stages. It was a floral fireworks display the likes of which I had never experienced.
(Remember a click on an image brings you closer to visual bliss.)
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Since dragonflies seem to be so popular, I wanted to share this very detailed picture taken a few years ago on the asphalt driveway to my home. Actual size of this dragonfly is about 4 to 5 inches. A perfect design for a brooch, don't you think. (Remember, clicking on any of the photos will get you a bigger version. Definitely worth the click.)
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Sunday, August 10, 2008
By Chance — the fortuitous or incalculable element in existence
Since mid-July I've had many opportunities to ruminate on the concept of chance.
By chance, I refer specifically to that described in the Merrian-Webster as:
1 a: something that happens unpredictably without discernible human intention or observable cause b: the assumed impersonal purposeless determiner of unaccountable happenings : luck
I find the the 1c definition particularly poetic... "the fortuitous or incalculable element in existence."
The first chance occurrence took place at a garden barbecue to celebrate the birthdays of Kirke (the father - 70 years old) and Jeff (the son - 40 years old).
Marta, Kirke's wife, writer and gardener extraordinaire, had invited Joan Ryder, former director of the Reeves-Reed arboretum. Joan walked into the party carrying a baby Wisteria 'Amethyst Falls'. I saw it from about 20 feet away and knew immediately that she had in her arms one of my latest botanical obsessions. (See the July 5th, Garden Dreaming Deep post.) My gasp of delight was immediately noticed and not soon afterwards I had the "baby" in my arms and I was being told I could take it home. Chance had decided, not I, that at last Pamela and I should have a wisteria to nurture of our very own. And amazingly the next day we found it the perfect spot for it to grow and thrive where we had not known there was room. A month later it has grown at least a foot and a half and starting to climb it's very own guardian tree.
The second chance encounter occurred last week. Pamela and I had decided to spend a day at Longwood Gardens and the next day spend it exploring the legendary quilting fabrics store of the Amish and Mennonite country nearby.
We went to Zook's, (so exciting to see 2 of my own lines at Zook's…of course I had to take pictures!) The Old Country Store and Museum both in Intercourse and Burkholders in Denver, PA.
At Burkholder's my attention was caught by a man with a shopping cart piled high with fabric bolts. That he was a man in a quilting store was noteworthy enough. But what was really endearing was that he also would stop once in a while and whisper soothingly in a soft gravelly voice to his Boston Terrier who was also inside the shopping cart lounging on her very own pillow. I asked him permission to take a snapshot and if he wished I would send him a copy. He graciously agreed.
To my surprise, when I began to type the email address he had given me the email program finished it for me correctly. His address was already in my database with full name information which he had not given me on the slip of paper. Small world that we live in... Dennis had subscribed to my fabric and quilting web site a few months before and — by chance — we had come to be at the same place, at the same time in what was for me a place I did not regularly frequent.
The third chance occurrence took place at my friend Joan Bachenko's farm. We had come the evening before to spend a relaxed evening on her horse farm incinerating hot dogs and watching the Olympics, sleep over and have a morning with her the next day.
As we were getting ready to leave in the morning, we drove our car up to where Joan was preparing Mackenzie, her horse, for the trip to the stables where she rides him.
I noticed that there was an unusual variety of wildflowers near where her horse trailer was parked along with an unusual variety of farm equipment. Enchantment took over when I realized I was standing in a chance wildflower and sculpture garden. I whipped out my camera, ever the flower paparazzo and began to shoot. And then someone walked over to stare at me. Chance personified (or horsified.)
Looking over the fence at me was the former carriage horse, Chance. Chance had had the good fortune to be rescued sight unseen by two NYC angels, Steve Nislick and Linda Marcus.
Steve and Linda have been boarding Chance at Joan's until they can find a good permanent home for her. The lot of carriage horses in NYC's Central Park is not a happy one. They are overworked and under appreciated to the point that if they get sick and cannot recover within a few weeks, they are sent for slaughter. Steve and Linda are actively working to find alternatives that will allow for the suspension of these abhorrent practices.
Looking at Chance you would never believe that she came so close to being killed because she could no longer work as a Central Park carriage horse. Her feet were deteriorating from a combination of exhausting hours pounding the pavements of the city as a tourist attraction and bad shoeing by unskilled attendants.
Thanks to Steve and Linda and the gentle care she receives on a daily basis from Joan, Chance is now a good-natured, happy, healthy pasture-munching horse. Her feet are healing well. She is impressively built and looks every bit the young seven-year old teenager that she was meant to be. Upon a recent veterinarian visit she received the ultimate compliment from him: she would be a good choice for a breeding mare. This would be fine by Chance who moons unfruitfully after handsome, Mackenzie, Joan's horse, who unfortunately has lost all interest in such matters.
And her feet are definitely on the mend. On a walk during our visit we discovered a pile of her very distinctive manure —distinctive because her piles tend to be twice the size of all the other horses' piles being part draft horse — in a place where only access was a not-easy jump over a rocky stream. Way to go, Chance!
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How much are Americans willing to forgive the 11 million people now living in the United States illegally?
Answer that and you might be able to predict what Congress will do in its latest drive to solve the immigration puzzle.
A bipartisan group of senators has agreed on the outlines for immigration reforms, one of which would grant current illegal immigrants a path to legal status under "tough but fair" conditions. And President Obama is pitching his own reforms.
At the heart of this political struggle is the issue of forgiving illegal immigrants for breaking US law, either by illegal border crossings or overstaying visas. Many in Congress now accept that it would be impractical and potentially immoral to deport so many people. And keeping such immigrants estranged in society only keeps them dangerously underground.
Yet any forgiveness often comes with terms attached, such as limited penalties for tax evaders in a government amnesty. What kind of punishment would fit an admitted crime but also deter its recurrence?
The terms of forgiveness on a mass scale are meant not only to help offenders become honest and law-abiding residents but also help restore the consensus that rules are worth following. Enforcement of any laws can only go so far. Society also needs shared values – such as a desire for secure borders – along with having a majority of residents who will feel the pangs of conscience if they break the law.
That's why the Internal Revenue Service is more lenient to those who volunteer a tax violation than those who are caught. There's an underlying assumption that people not only want to obey the law and avoid punishment but also want to pay taxes as a matter of societal goodwill.
Many Americans who oppose legal status for illegal immigrants fear an erosion of this consensus about rule of law. A conditional amnesty now might provide an incentive for more people to enter the US in expectation of a future amnesty. Case in point: A 1986 amnesty for an estimated 4 million illegals at the time helped attract many of today's illegal immigrants.
To reduce this fear, the group of senators laid out a number of legal and security hoops before full legalization is granted. A special commission will monitor progress in securing borders. Employers will need to verify they have hired only legal workers. To earn provisional status, illegal immigrants will need to register, pay a fine and back taxes, and pass a background check.
Ultimately earning citizenship will take even more steps, such as going to the back of the line of prospective immigrants who have already applied legally.
The purpose of these kinds of stiff requirements should be to improve compliance with immigration law, not undercut it. Finding the right balance must not be a political exercise that caters to pressure groups. It should be based on restoring the nation's conscience about immigration laws after years of lax enforcement – caused in part by a widespread desire for cheap labor and a willingness to look the other way.
The many examples of tax amnesties by states provide a lesson. Many of those amnesties failed to achieve a long-term increase in tax compliance because they were not coupled with strong and sustained enforcement.
Merely promising better immigration enforcement is not enough. Results must be measurable and for years. And legalization, or even amnesty, must be seen as a tool to restore respect for immigration laws.
If illegal immigrants admit they broke the law and suffer some consequences, then they, too, will be displaying the sort of individual conscience that is the most critical element in enforcement of law – honesty and consideration toward others in society.


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IT Spending to Reach 3.7 Triiilllion Dollars by 2013, Gartner Predicts
Worldwide spending on information technology will break through the $3.7 trillion level in 2013, propelled in large part by an increase in spending on big-data technology and on cloud computing, according to the latest prediction by the research firm Gartner.
Gartner made its latest prediction at its annual Symposium and ITxpo in Orlando today. If that number feels a little familiar, it's not your imagination. It was just this April when Gartner said IT spending in 2012 would be exactly that same figure: $3.7 trillion. Turns out it was $3.6 trillion. So what's a $100 billion between friends?
Anyway. Here's another prediction: By 2015, there will be 4.4 million jobs worldwide devoted to the support of big data, of which 1.9 million will materialize in the U.S., says Peter Sondergaard, Gartner's global head of research. Even better, he predicts that each job created by big data will generate three more outside of IT, working out to a grand total of about six million jobs.
There is, however, a big wrinkle: There will probably be a shortage of trained people to take those jobs, meaning only about one-third of them will ever get filled. Crazy, right? Gartner's not the first to notice this trend: A study by McKinsey found that the demand for people with the deep analytical skills required to make use of information created by big-data work will come up short by a six-figure sum by 2018, prompting some start-ups like Trifacta to seek ways to automate that process in software.


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For every person who says, "Think pink, but don't wear it," there are plenty more who go all in with the colour. Vera Wang's Fall 2014 bridal collection is for the latter set.
The completely pink collection explores the unexpected side of this girliest of colours; on the day the collection was shown, Wang's house tweeted, "Pink as sensual, pink as seductive, pink as dreamy, pink as sophisticated, pink as strong, pink as cool." There were certainly sensual, dreamy, and sophisticated dresses in this collection, many of which had gigantic flowers attached at the waist or on the skirt. The ones that didn't made up for it with exquisite lacework, bands of fabric shirred or pleated to create shape and visual appeal, and of course lots of volume. And best of all, these pink dresses would look just as great in white.


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Neil Diamond clutches the microphone in his right hand, and makes music with his left. It sweeps, points, punches, waves, swerves and skips an imaginary lasso.
It blows moist kisses in the direction of the balconies. It clutches an unseen skull, a Brooklyn-born Hamlet addressing poor Yorick in the darkness at the end of "I Am … I Said." And it reaches out and clasps the grasping hands of two female admirers in the front row while they're serenaded with "Girl, You'll be a Woman Soon."
When Diamond dropped to his knees Friday to smooch those two admirers, it prompted a Justin Bieber-like ripple of hysteria through the sold-out United Center.
Except these weren't songs of teen puppy love, but of a 71-year-old sensitive loner in a sequined shirt. Diamond compressed most of the on-stage drama into a few compact gestures as he sailed through 24 songs in nearly two hours.
The lean, seemingly ageless singer started out his career as a tunesmith without a genre in New York in the early '60s, a child of the Tin Pan Alley and Brill Building song-for-hire tradition. He emerged just as the rock and singer-songwriter eras bloomed, and soon became a skilled performer in his own right. His songs – including 38 top-40 hits -- have been covered by artists ranging from UB40 to Urge Overkill, but nobody does the solitary-man shtick better or more persuasively than Diamond himself.
Diamond's sensitivity sometimes dissolves into schmaltz. He often slowed songs down Friday, at times speaking the lyrics as much as singing them. "I'm a Believer" was turned into a weary elegy before reprising the Monkees' garage-rock version. As the music by his 14-piece band fell to a whisper, Diamond intoned the payoff lines in "Done Too Soon" and "Play Me" as if they were engraved in blocks of granite. But there's also something genuine, even touching, about his irony-free delivery.
Diamond's voice remains supple and his phrasing has become more nuanced, so the ballad-heavy early portion of the show had an appealing Sinatra-at-closing-time vibe. "Pour me a drink, I'll tell you some lies," he sang with appropriately world-weary resignation in "Love on the Rocks." It wasn't quite jazz, but it was the work of a fine vocal interpreter, putting a fresh spin on some of his most familiar material.
He was at his best with an acoustic guitar strapped around his neck, driving the rhythm and locking in with his great drummer, Ron Tutt (a former member of Elvis Presley's touring band). Diamond's guitar riff on "Cherry, Cherry" is worthy of Keith Richards, and the ripple of the acoustic six-strings against the staccato horns still works on the unassailable "Solitary Man" (with its equally great and pithy kiss-off line, "Me and Sue, that died too"). Best of all was "Holly Holy," with Diamond snarling as the band rode atop Tutt's resounding kick-drum volleys.
There were sing-alongs and more sing-alongs. Certain songs demanded them because the choruses seem to have been implanted in several generations of fans at birth: "Forever in Blue Jeans," "Cracklin' Rosie" and especially "Sweet Caroline," which was stretched to 10 minutes and repeated three times. With each, Diamond directed, his expressive eyebrows scrunched in concentration or arching in delight, his left hand etching little symphonies in the spotlight.
Neil Diamond set list Friday at the United Center:
1 Soolaimon (African Trilogy II)
2 Done Too Soon
3 Beautiful Noise
4 Forever in Blue Jeans
5 Love on the Rocks
6 Play Me
7 Hello Again
8 Shilo
9 Red Red Wine
10 You Got To Me
11 Girl You'll Be a Woman Soon
12 Cherry, Cherry
13 Solitary Man
14 Glory Road
15 I'm a Believer
16 You Don't Bring Me Flowers
17 Crunchy Granola Suite
18 Holly Holy
19 Sweet Caroline
20 I Am ... I Said
21 Cracklin' Rosie
22 America
23 Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show
24 I've Been This Way Before


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The Ela Area Public Library District will host Author Kenneth N Green speaking on his book, I'm From Division Street, on Wednesday, June 5 at 1:30 p.m. The library is located at 275 Mohawk Trail, Lake Zurich, Illinois 60047. To sign up to attend, call (847) 438-3433.
The book tells of the author's personal journey from his tough Humboldt Park neighborhood to a successful legal career, as an Attorney, Bureau Chief of the Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office, supervising approximately 400 attorneys, Induction into the California Boxing Hall of Fame, police sergeant, and as a single parent raising his son. He will tell how his fascinating life and the life of other famous and successful people, was shaped by the experiences of growing up on Division Street. Following his presentation, there will be a book sale and signing.
The book is now also being sold at Barnes& Noble Booksellers, Barnes&Noble.com, Barbaras Bookstore, and Amazon.com and other retailers worldwide. I'm From Division Street is also an e-book that can be read on Kindle and purchased through Amazon.com and on www.kengreenesq.wordpress.com.


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Former President Bill Clinton said the biggest problem in the U.S. was not division between the political left and right, but rather the divide between "communitarians" seeking common solutions and what he called "separatists" who fear a government that is going to take things away from them.
Delivering the final keynote at the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills on Wednesday, Clinton assured the gathering of international policymakers and financial executives that "it is a great mistake to write the epitaph of this country," and the way forward, he said, was to focus less on ideology and more on practicality.
The former president said the key question policymakers and the media paid attention to during his political career were "What are you going to do?" and "How much are you going to spend on it?" But the most important question, he said, was the one few people asked: How do you propose to do it? "That's the most important question for the 21st century," Clinton said.
It's also a question given short shrift in current policy debates surrounding the stalled euro zone and weak U.S. economies, where "the austerity prescription is pushed despite evidence it won't work," Clinton said.
"There is no private demand, interest rates are already functionally zero. In an economy like this, premature austerity means revenue will drop," Clinton said, adding "you can only reduce public debt with growth, proper budget restraints and adequate growth. You can't get blood out of a turnip."
The former president said the need for economic growth was just reality, regardless of right-left political posturing, saying "what the world wants most now is another job, is more things to do for people when they get up in the morning."
So while measures such as 3% caps on budget growth might be a good thing, "it only works in times of growth," and policymakers should therefore not lose sight of policies that will bring more jobs and growth per invested euros and less on the appearance of "fiscal rectitude."
Clinton described his travels in the developing world and the daily problems people in these countries face just to get clean water, access to sanitation and reliable communications. He said the challenge for them, and for advanced economies alike, is not how much, but how—"How are we going to build systems in the poor countries? How are we going to repair systems in rich countries?"
In that regard, Clinton warned of the current presidential race, "70% of what we hear won't make a lick of sense as relates to what we must do to solve our problems."
"We have to get back into the future business," the former president concluded.


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If I were to keep track of every conversation I have with advisors, a majority of the topics would revolve around why they are waiting to do something with their technology. Sometimes there are excellent reasons to wait: maybe for compliance reasons, staff availability or budgeting. Sometimes, however, waiting may seem to have good reasons behind it when in reality it is only masking procrastination. Ultimately, waiting is delaying efficiency gains.
What is your firm waiting to do with technology? Are you still running Windows XP? Generally speaking, once an operating system release is considered successful, it is a best practice to upgrade. By waiting, you are not only giving up functionality enhancements, you are also missing important security improvements. Windows Vista was widely thought to be a disappointment, but Windows 7 has been very successful. If you're still using Windows XP, put together a plan to upgrade to at least Windows 7 or be an early adopter of Windows 8, which is scheduled for general release on Oct. 26.
Perhaps the most common task advisors are waiting to do involves the solutions they currently use in their office. Generally, they're waiting on an upcoming software release that includes new functionality. The unfortunate reality of this situation is that the time line is beyond the advisor's control. There is also the risk that the new functionality will not meet the advisor's expectations. So what can you do? First, stay informed of the development time line, and request screenshots of the new functionality. Second, consider being part of the beta testing process so you can be one of the first advisors to try it out. Third, be ready to evaluate other options if the new functionality does not meet your needs. Don't give up on achieving your efficiency goals, but be prepared to search for another solution.
Advisors frequently conduct a thorough evaluation of their technology needs when planning for an office expansion or relocation. For example, say your office lease is expiring next year, at which point you will upgrade your technology infrastructure and hardware. However, if your current infrastructure is below par, you shouldn't wait until you move to address the issue. Any steps you take prior to the move should ultimately result in less work later. For example, if it is time to upgrade your server, don't wait for the lease to expire; take the necessary steps to upgrade the server today so it doesn't become a bigger problem as time goes on. A better solution, depending on your firm's specific needs, is to consider using a cloud server solution. Companies like Rackspace and Amazon offer pay-as-you-go cloud server solutions; maybe you won't need a server room in your new location. Take the time to consider all your options, and you might find a better and easier way to meet your infrastructure needs.
Sometimes the reason for waiting to complete a technology objective involves finding the right employee or consultant to do the work. For example, maybe your next hire will be responsible for making your office truly paperless. You shouldn't rush to fill an important position in your firm just to complete one project. However, you could make headway by identifying work that could be done prior to making the hire. Start by identifying the budget and any hardware or software dependencies, and define your ultimate goals. These are items that could be addressed—and likely should be addressed—by an experienced team member.
For many projects, it can be all too easy to wait. Business will continue to get done, and there is always tomorrow. But then tomorrow turns into next week and next month, and you know the rest of the story. Think about your waiting list of technology items: Do you really need to wait anymore? Frequently, taking action on these items leads to great improvements, and you might find yourself wishing you had done it all sooner.


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At this time Mrs. Eli Johnson of Brooklyn, a Quaker lady of wealth connected with the Gurney family of England, proposed that she go across the waters and offered to provide the funds. This was a startling idea, a trip to Europe for a poor, uneducated colored washer woman--and at first she merely laughed at it. But it gradually became evident that it was a pointing of Providence. The door opened more and more widely and so finally she went. She attended the Keswick conference for the promotion of higher life, presided over by Canon Battersy and participated in by Dr. Mahan, Mr. and Mrs. Boardman, Miss Smiley and many prominent members of the Church of England.
Thus she became well known among these people, many of them moving in high circles, and at once had all the invitations she could accept, and more, to hold meetings.
She spent a year in Great Britain visiting the large centers of England, Scotland and Ireland.
In the summer of 1879 she was invited by Rev. W. B. Osborne to visit India which she treated at first as an altogether ridiculous idea. However, her friends urged and interested themselves in the matter. Money of course was needed for the journey and she had none. But this difficulty was quickly removed by unsolicited gifts till an abundance was provided. So, needing a warmer climate in which to spend the winter and provisions having been duly made also for her daughter in America, the way was clear and after three weeks' passage she stood on the soil of India.
She gave her first Gospel Address in Falkland Road Hall, Bombay, November 9, 1879. During the two years spent in that far off country she visited Poona, Calcutta, Cawnpore, Allahabad, Jubbalpore, Lanorvli and Lucknow. She went northward to Bareilly and Naini Tal at which mountain retreat she spent the hot season getting rested and strengthened for a more extended campaign.
Her labor in India was an unqualified success, even beyond the expectations of her friends.
Dr. (later Bishop) Thoburn of Calcutta, where her largest meetings were held and the vast community deeply stirred, wrote--"I have heard speakers of her race who were much more eloquent, but never any of her race or, for that matter, of any other race to whom I have listened with such delight and profit." He testified also, that while the attendance on the services of other evangelists that had visited Calcutta had almost always fallen off, hers steadily increased to the last. In portraying the secret of her power, he ascribed her success to the thorough understanding of God's method with sinners and with every object bearing the impress of our common humanity. "She knows the 'way of the Lord'." She has a keen insight into character, she talks with God as with a familiar friend; and her kindly heart burns at the sight of every human sorrow or want."
Great numbers were saved and scores quickened in the divine life.
It was something entirely new in India for a woman to mount the pulpit and when to this element of startling novelty was added the fact that she was a colored woman, once a slave, come from America and gifted with a marvelous sweet power of song the excitement awakened in any community by her advent may easily be imagined.
Multitudes not at all church-going people and scarcely coming within the range of an ordinary preacher, crowded the places of worship. Drawn by the power of curiosity they heard the gospel most plainly and faithfully set forth and they came again.
Wherever she went there always sprang up an eager discussion on the subject of woman's right to preach.
A great deal of prejudice was swept away and the true position on this matter was fully explained, finding its way into many minds and hearts as they perceived how God used this humble, uneducated woman as one of his choice instrumentalities. Furthermore she impressed with much power the educated non-christian natives who understood English and in the large stations assembled in great numbers to hear her relate her glowing experience in God's love.
For the most part she spoke through an interpreter, but did not feel at home in it.
She gave India Mission a decided impetus. Wherever she went she made a mark. The toilworn workers were cheered, their experience took on a new glow caught from the burning love that filled her heart, and their numbers were increased. In private intercourse too, her influence was admirable and the many homes she visited will cherish very pleasant and profitable reminiscences of her stay. She returned to America much improved physically and better fitted in every way to do many years more of faithful service for the Lord. One writer from Lucknow said--"India has had many visitors of rank and wealth, but we are sure that very few of them have contributed as much to her real advantage as this obscure colored woman, poor in this world's riches and unschooled in earthly learning, but very rich toward God and well instructed in the school of Christ. How earnestly this land and every other, cries out for more such."
A year later she went to Africa where she labored for eight years among the benighted people on the West Coast. Arriving at Monrovia she was compelled to remain a year suffering for the most part of that time, with the African fever. While in that country she was a co-laborer with Bishop Taylor, although on the field as a missionary two years prior to his coming. Bishop Taylor often remarked that Amanda Smith had done more for the cause of missions
Having lost all her own children except a daughter, Mrs. Smith adopted a native boy and girl whom she intended to educate and return to Africa to labor among their own people. On the eve of leaving for England the girl, Frances, was taken ill and Mrs. Smith was forced to leave her with friends. She brought the boy, Robert, as far as England where he was educated and afterward returned to his native country as a missionary. While in London, England, in the spring of 1894, attending the W. C. T. U. Convention the Lord spoke to her and said, "What have you done to help your own people in a permanent way that will live after you are gone"? "Nothing, Lord." Then the thought came to her, "Why not start an Industrial Home for Colored Children"? She began to work to that end. She wrote her autobiography and the profits on the sale of the books were used for the purpose of founding this home. A twelve room brick house was purchased at a cost of six thousand dollars and in this way, "The Amanda Smith Industrial Home" was inaugurated. She counted her friends of both races by the thousands. A cottage fitted up with comforts and all her wants supplied by loving hands at Seabright, Florida, made her last days on earth a haven of rest to enter into that fuller, eternal rest prepared for the faithful of the Lord. Amanda Smith lived on earth, but her conversation was in heaven.
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Pull up following revision(s) (requested by snj in ticket #790): share/mk/bsd.lib.mk: revision 1.298 share/mk/bsd.man.mk: revision 1.100 share/mk/bsd.hostprog.mk: revision 1.55 distrib/sets/maketars: revision 1.66 share/zoneinfo/Makefile: revision 1.43 share/mk/bsd.kmodule.mk: revision 1.19 usr.bin/xinstall/xinstall.c: revisions 1.106 - 1.108 via patch share/mk/bsd.prog.mk: revision 1.241 share/dict/Makefile: revision 1.17 share/mk/bsd.README: revision 1.249 distrib/common/parselist.awk: revision 1.16 share/mk/bsd.links.mk: revision 1.34 Explicitly sort entries on preparing set files from METALOG. METALOG could have different order due to install(1) race on parallel builds, and mtree(8) doesn't sort files. Should fix inconsistent shared sets among builds as seen in /pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-5/200904010000Z/shared/ and /pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-5/200904010002Z/shared/ dirs. Okay'ed by snj@. Changes for installing with a metalog: * When installing hard links and using a metalog, if -o, -g, -m, or -f args were explicitly specified on the command line, then believe them, but do not implicitly believe uname/gname/mode/flags from the file system. * Output fields in the same order used by mtree. Fix -Wshadow -Wcast-qual issues Re-calculate size and digestresult after stripping, to ensure that correct values appear in the metalog. Add LINKSOWN, LINKSGRP, and LINKSMODE variables for use by bsd.links.mk when installing hard links. They have no effect except when using a metalog, in which case the information is added to the metalog. In the future, these variables may be replaced by a method for explicitly recording hard links in a metadata log. Also change a few things that called ${INSTALL_LINK} without going through bsd.links.mk. Reviewed by perry and joerg. This should fix PR 24457 and PR 41155.
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