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The ads will air in Nevada, Ohio, North Carolina, Louisiana, and Arkansas and target pro-gun Senators who are up for re-election.
Following a press conference in Bushwick Monday afternoon, Bloomberg responded to the accusations.
"No one is buying votes," he said, "What you are doing is you're getting access with this money to tell the public the facts."
The mayor went on to criticize the NRA for spending $100 million on an advertising campaign of its own, and that the group isn't open to compromise or listening to opposing viewpoints.
"They keep trying to say what's going on from their point of view," he said. "Whether it's right of wrong, there is no other point of view."
One television ad shows a man with a gun sitting on a pickup truck. "Background checks have nothing to do with taking guns away from anyone," he says to the camera. "Closing loopholes will stop criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from buying guns."
The mayor mentioned the low suicide rate in New York City, which he attributed to the city's tough gun-control laws and background checks keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill and troubled individuals.
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The Guardian of TruthIn celebration of Mother's Day, The Protective Mother's Alliance (PMA), a national organization co-directed by Lundy Bancroft & Janice Levinson, has published the first edition of "The Guardian of Truth" (GOT). This is a monthly newsletter compiled by advocates. It is designed to empower women, who are in threatening litigation, which may interfere with continued custody/access to their children.
Advocates and professionals may use GOT to share their latest efforts in keeping children with their mothers and in maintaining healthy relationships between mother and child. Methods to identify court corruption on all levels may be shared through GOT.
GOT realizes that networking, sharing information and working together is necessary to end the obstruction of mothers' rights in family courts. The Guardian of Truth's mission is to provide communication between advocates, professionals, and other like minded organizations; with the ultimate goal of empowering moms before they can be victimized by the family court system. GOT's goal is to be the course for sharing information to benefit mothers and their children. Our mission is to connect the east coast with the west; the north with the south; The United States, Canada, Great Britain....and the world to reform family courts.
Please send a brief synopsis of any updates, or advice that you may have in dealing with ongoing issues affecting mothers and their children. Please contact us: email@example.com
Each issue of The Guardian of Truth will feature:
1. Updates from PMA (national group co-directed by Lundy Bancroft & Janice Levinson)
2. Karli's Korner: reports from a young adults perspective of how life dramatically changed because of biased courtroom decisions;
3. Get to Know Us; A featured biography of at least one member of PMA
Starting in the Second Issue:
4. Richard's Report a column by attorney, Richard Ducote featuring his observations from the trenches of the family court war zone;
5. Shout Out; comments, and ideas, shared by individuals, groups, and professionals;
6. Poetry, artwork and anything else that you want to share;
7. A courtroom horror story from a mother's perspective; beginning with the second issue;
8. Spotlight; Hero/Shero of the moth: recognition for a job well done;
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10. Letters to the Editor & Updates form advocates and like minded groups sharing information and useful tactics in promoting change
We still have a great deal of work to do.
We look forward to working with you!
In the next issue "Get to Know Us" will be featured an interview with Lundy Bancroft.
Wishing You A Wonderful Mother's Day!
Protective Mothers Alliance (PMA) is a national organization co-directed by Lundy Bancroft & Janice Levinson working to bring about change through education, legislation reform, and enforcement of current legislation. PMA supports the effort of protective moms in keeping themselves and their children safe from the abuse of a former partner, and in empowering these moms to become advocates for themselves and others. PMA is committed to bringing about dramatic reforms in the treatment of protective moms and their children in family court. Among the many common family law practices we work to stop are:
Custody of children granted to men who abuse women; those who abuse/have abused children; those who are perpetrators of sexual abuse towards children; and granting of unsupervised contact with children to abusers with no requirement that they overcome their abusiveness.
Other issues include:
Labeling protective mothers as parental alienators and punishing them for their appropriate protective efforts; using biased tests, and misusing psychological tests to support abusers; forcing protective moms to spend excessive amounts of money on prolonged, unnecessary litigation...
PMA members are working as a team to change harmful practices that eliminate, or restrict loving, biological mothers from the lives of their children. This will be done through education, community outreach, media exposure, and other strategies that can be effective and beneficial.
Gold Ribbon Campaign
Protective Mothers Alliance has launched a gold ribbon campaign in an effort to reunite protective mothers and their children.
We invite all advocates and their allies around the globe to wear gold ribbons and to tie gold ribbons around trees, to symbolize the effort that protective mothers and their allies are making to reunite children with their moms. Please join us in supporting this campaign. Email us with your ways of using gold ribbons. Join and support our facebook page:
We will not stop, until family court stops destroying the relationships between mothers and their children!
"The beautiful memories that we have of our beloved children are golden and can NEVER be erased from our hearts and minds" ~source unknown
Hear Us Now
(Hear Us Now is another division of PMA which reaches out to young adult and teen survivors of the courts.)
Karli's Korner:
My name is Karli Singer and unfortunately I am one of the grown children who experienced a failed family court system. I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, a disease of chronic pain, which is known to be linked to sexual abuse and a traumatic childhood.
Dealing with this horrible disease has made me want to go after my perpetrator who abused me, and the court system that refused to protect me. Stories like mine are happening to thousands of children all over the country, and it needs to stop. The corruption has to be exposed to the world. The court system likes to punish the protective parents and take their kids away from them, which is the worst kind of pain; but what they don't see is that they are ruining our lives, and our childhood; taking us away from our home and our loving mothers, and putting us in an abusive, unloved life; suffocating us, and not letting us out. The things I knew and said when I was four years old are the same things I am saying now that I am twenty one; and if only I was heard when I was four, I would not have had to endure a terrorizing childhood, and now a debilitating, painful adulthood.
Get to Know Us
Janice Levinson, PMA founder/co-director: Janice is an advocate living in FL. She is a loving mother of three children. Janice earned a BA degree from St. Leo University in FL. with a major in Drama/English/Education. Janice is currently a charge nurse at a rehabilitation facility that specializes in working with psychiatric patients. She is currently working on a second degree; BSN.
As a child Janice was a child actress singer and dancer. She appeared in TV Movies, Broadway plays, and commercials such as Coke, Ivory Soap among others. After graduating from college, she taught high school until she moved to CA.
Janice lived in CA where she raised her children while married. She owned and operated a few different types of businesses, including one of the first Doula business in the nation. Janice's business was featured in the Contra Costa times for its uniqueness.
Janice became an advocate for mothers when she lost custody of her own children while being dragged through the court system for over 10 years. Janice found herself in a vicious custody battle for her three children and lost custody of her children in CA. about 5 years ago.
Looking for support, Janice attended the second Battered Women's Custody Conference (BMCC) where she met Lundy Bancroft. She and Lundy became friends, and stayed in touch. Lundy asked Janice to be the FL. chapter leader of his organization which was then called Protective Mothers Alliance for Justice. Soon after, PMAJ was reorganized and Janice became co-director of the new organization: Protective Mothers Alliance.
"I feel blessed to be working with Lundy and will never stop fighting for the cause."
As a protective Mom who was in and out of court for close to 10 years Janice is dedicated to changing the current system. She is very close to her son who is 22 and attending college in CA, considering Law School. Yet, she has not seen or spoken to her daughters in 3 years.
Janice understands, too well, maternal deprivation and the negative ramifications that result in mother and child separation. She has founded the gold ribbon campaign to reunite mothers and children everywhere.
Note from the Editor: Please hold Janice and her daughters in the light and pray that one day they will be reunited and that their relationship will be happy and healthy.
Lundy Bancroft, co-director: is an author, workshop leader, and activist on trauma, abuse, and healing. He offers dramatically new ways to understanding the emotional injuries we suffer, their lasting effects, and how best to get ourselves free. Lundy appears frequently as a public speaker and trainer, and as a leader of weekend retreats. Lundy's activist work is devoted to recovering the custody rights of protective mothers and their children in family court litigation across the continent.
Karli Singer: the voice of "Hear Us Now" Karli is the victim of a failed court system. Kari is now 21, but she cannot forget the years of abuse that she suffered. She has decided to speak out to end court abuse. Karli hopes that her story will be instrumental in changing the current family court system. Although an adult, Karli still suffers because of her childhood trauma. She is diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, a disorder often attributed to children who have suffered during childhood. Karli is now studying pediatric medicine in college.
Karen Husain: FL leader, consultant, editor: a free spirited, free lance, advocate living in FL.; founder of the Atlanta chapter of Motherlink; active with numerous mother's rights organizations; organizes and presents workshops and public town hall meetings; editorials published; written resolutions setting precedence for The National Organization for Women; including the foundation for a national resolution resulting in formation of a national committee to work on issues involving child custody. Karen has three children. She enjoys writing, reading, watching sit-com reruns with her sons, and just hanging out.
Joan Peterson: Pennsylvania leader, contributing writer
Join the PMA facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?grid=58041937814
To join our rapidly growing team, to share your views, articles and feedback; or if you have any questions that you would like to ask, contact PMA:
Phone: 941-822-5592
Email: email@example.com
Until next time, Wishing you Light, Love and Truth:
The PMA Team
©2009 by Protective Mothers Alliance. All rights reserved. Although some parts of this publication may be reproduced and reprinted, we require that permission be obtained in writing.
We do not necessarily endorse the views expressed. The information in this publication is presented in good faith. PMA does not guarantee accuracy or assume responsibility for errors or omissions.
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After hearing rave reviews from his friends, Scott Cover decided it was time to try the pizza at Joe Squared himself. But after a lackluster pie and what he considered overpriced beers, Cover felt the popular Station North restaurant had fallen well short of his expectations.
"Initially, I was severely let down," Cover, a 31-year-old information technology consultant, said recently of his March 2010 outing. "It was like, 'This isn't as awesome as everyone makes it seem.'"
Then the Federal Hill resident did what many customers do after a bad experience: He turned on his computer and wrote about it.
"The sauce was horribly bland, and I couldn't even taste it as it was simply overpowered by everything else on the pizza," Cover wrote.
His critique wasn't posted on Facebook or Twitter, but Yelp, the increasingly popular website that serves as a public compilation of user-generated reviews (more than 33 million) and a social media community full of opinionated shoppers. The site receives an average of 84 million unique visitors per month, according to Darnell Holloway, Yelp's manager of local business outreach.
But really, Yelp — and other review sites such as Angie's List and Google Places — are websites where everyone is a critic. The writers may lack credentials, but they lack an editor, too, which allows their reviews to be as harsh or as glowing as they see fit. Customers have always wielded the influence to potentially make or break a business through word of mouth, but Yelp takes it a step further by neatly compiling reviews on an easy-to-find website. While the power is in the hands of the customer, businesses take these reviews seriously, too: They're firing staff members based off complaints, and reaching out to unsatisfied customers with free incentives in hopes of getting a second chance.
There are even lawsuits over negative online reviews. After giving a one-star review to an alleged "nightmare" of a contracting job, Fairfax, Va.'s Jane Perez was sued by the contractor for $750,000 in an Internet defamation lawsuit. A hearing will be held today, according to The Washington Post.
While Holloway declined to provide Maryland-specific statistics, it's safe to say Yelp has a sizable audience in the area. There are more than 1,700 restaurants in the Baltimore area with Yelp pages. Woodberry Kitchen, which has been written about most, has more than 500 reviews.
"If you look at our traffic growth, it's been pretty phenomenal over the past few years," Holloway said.
It has never been easier to publicly laud or skewer a local business. Anyone with an Internet connection or smartphone can affect a company's reputation, whether it's a hair salon, restaurant, physician or general contractor. And the reviews can make an impact: Last year, a study published in the Economic Journal suggested a half-star on Yelp could swing a restaurant's reservation availability by 19 percent.
Cover's story of pizza letdown could have ended with his review, but because Joe Squared's owner Joe Edwardsen checks his Yelp pages (he has a second one for his Power Plant Live restaurant) once per week, he read the two-star (out of five) review shortly after it was published. As he does with all negative online reviews he considers reasonable, Edwardsen sent Cover a message through Yelp, offering a free meal as an apology.
"I just want to change their mind," Edwardsen said. "I want to find some way to actually please them. I don't want them to feel like we took advantage of them."
This type of back-and-forth exchange happens often on Yelp, and it helps illustrate why the website has become so popular in recent years. (The publicly traded company posted $83.3 million in revenue in 2011, up nearly 75 percent from the previous year, according to Forbes.) While the main goal of Yelp and similar sites — besides making a profit — is to better inform consumers before spending their money, engaged businesses stand to benefit, too.
Edwardsen says negative comments about specific staff members "have been the icing on the cake to someone getting fired."
"I've heard a lot of customer complaints that have led to productive changes to the restaurant through Yelp," Edwardsen said. "No one would have said it directly to my face, but they'll post it on that site."
That influence and power isn't lost on Amber Patterson, general manager of Zina's Day Spa of Canton. While she says a referral from a friend to a new customer remains the most effective way to expand business, a positive review online is "the next best thing." Zina's employees encourage satisfied clients ("the ones that rant and rave" as they leave, Patterson says) to write online reviews.
"Absolutely, it's a big thing," Patterson said. "Their goal is to get people to come back, so I encourage them all of the time to discuss reviews."
But what if those opinions can't be read easily?
Before publication, a Yelp review must make it past an automated "filter" system. While it is Yelp's policy not to discuss how the system works, Holloway says 20 percent of all reviews are filtered into a separate section of the site, including both legitimate reviews and fake ones written to try and "game the system."
"It's the high cost we're willing to accept," he said.
Samantha Satchell, creator and owner of the Owings Mills-based fitness program Maverick Dance Party, ran into this problem last month.
At the recommendation of a Living Social employee, Satchell created a Yelp page in December. Looking to partner with the online coupon company for a Maverick-related deal, Satchell was told a Yelp page could improve the offer's chances of approval. So she asked a number of regular customers to write reviews, and many happily obliged. ("I talk about her to other people I know anyway, so this was another way to get it out there," said Anna James, a 26-year-old customer from Lutherville.)
But the Maverick Dance Party Yelp page is barren of user-generated content. To read the 14 posts — all fawning, five-star reviews from first-time reviewers — from Satchell's students, you must find the page of "filtered reviews," an arguably easy-to-miss link. Then, a user must enter a two-phrase "reCAPTCHA" code before gaining access to the reviews.
The filtering process soured Satchell on Yelp.
"I asked these people to do me a favor and they did, and they weren't heard," Satchell said. "It makes the whole process look really bad. It's unprofessional."
While Yelp's website says businesses should "probably not" explicitly ask customers to write reviews, it does not explain how the filtering system works. Holloway says there is a misconception that the automated system (which, he says, "has some of the best engineering minds in Silicon Valley" regularly tweaking it) filters out only positive reviews, but that is not the case. It does filter out more positive than negative reviews because, according to Yelp, 80 percent of the reviews are rated three stars or higher.
When asked for details regarding the system's process, he declined, due to security reasons.
"We don't publicly disclose what makes the filter work," Holloway said. "It would defeat the process. There are people trying to adjust and reverse the system. But I can tell you the same set of rules are being put across Yelp's systems."
A major criticism against Yelp is its seemingly anonymous reviews. While you must create a Yelp account with a valid email address to contribute reviews, there's no guarantee the user provided his or her real name. For some consumers, that makes the subscription-based website Angie's List an attractive alternative.
With nearly 30,000 subscribers in the Baltimore area (and more than 1.5 million in America), Angie's List requires users to provide personal information, including a home address, to validate a new account. Upon submitting a review, a user will be reminded that his or her name and address will be shared, upon request, with the business that was reviewed.
Angie's List — whose yearly subscription costs $35 in Baltimore — places a premium on accountability for both its businesses and users. For this reason, it has never considered publishing anonymous reviews, according to Cheryl Reed, director of communications.
"Over the years, corporate leadership has looked at just about everything, but never have we considered going anonymous," Reed said. "It weakens the veracity of the information, and we're not willing to do that. Our members believe it's worth the price of admission." (Angie's List's third quarter revenue report from 2012, which showed a year-to-date increase of 75 percent to $109.6M, supports this claim.)
While the two companies differ on access fees, Angie's List and Yelp are both adamant that businesses cannot pay money — through sponsorship or otherwise — to remove or change the order of negative reviews.
Regardless of which sites consumers choose to use, the growing prominence of Yelp, Angie's List and online reviews in general is hard to ignore.
Amy Burke Friedman, vice president of the Baltimore public relations agency Profiles, Inc. — whose clients include Ra Sushi Bar Restaurant, B&O American Brasserie and the Maryland Athletic Club & Wellness Center — says she stresses to clients the importance of heightening their Internet presences through not only Facebook and Twitter, but also Yelp and Urbanspoon, a similar site.
"People who participate in Yelp are an audience we really value, and we stress to restaurants to care," Friedman said. "That's customer feedback that should be taken seriously, whether it's positive or negative. It's an opportunity to learn and grow."
Richard Lee, a Fells Point resident and active Yelp-er who describes his reviews as "self-contained short stories," says these sites help consumers make better-informed decisions, especially in Baltimore, where there's no shortage of competition.
"People deserve to know because there are so many places to go," Lee, 31, said. "These businesses need to fight for your money every day."
Edwardsen — who ultimately deciding against, but considered, paying public relations companies to write positive reviews after his own frustrations with Yelp's filter system — agrees, albeit begrudgingly.
"I hate Yelp," Edwardsen said with a laugh. "But we're a much better restaurant than we would be if Yelp weren't around."
An earlier version of this story misrepresented the number of positive reviews caught by Yelp's filter. The automated system filters more positive than negative reviews from users.


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Klara Gottfried Reif
Born: December 19, 1896
Klara Gottfried Reif's parents, Herschel and Ethel Gottfried, owned a flour mill and a general store in a small Polish town. Klara could speak five languages. As a young woman, she took an interest in fashion, and enjoyed travelling. On a trip to Vienna, she met Dr. Gerson Reif, a young dentist. After marrying in 1925, the couple settled in Vienna and the first of their two children was born in 1927.
1933-39: After the Germans annexed Austria in 1938, they effectively prevented Jewish dentists from practicing. Forced to abandon his successful practice, my husband grew increasingly depressed. In September 1938, he was found dead, probably a suicide. In May 1939, my two children and I sailed for Cuba on the St. Louis. Turned back by Cuba and the Americans, the ship returned to Europe. We found haven in France.
1940-44: After the Germans invaded France in 1940, the children and I fled south to Limoges, which was not occupied by the Germans. I was traumatized by the shock of losing my husband and becoming a refugee. I was in France, but couldn't speak French. I had two children to care for, and food was very scarce. Once I heard that eggs might be available on a nearby farm so I set out from Limoges, children in tow. We walked for several hours to get there and back, only to discover when we got home that the eggs were rotten.
In 1941 American relatives, the Klinghoffer family, helped arrange passage for Klara and her children to the United States via Portugal. The Reifs settled in New York.


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Letter, Charles Mayo to G.W. Collamore, Esq.
Author: Mayo, Charles
Date: June 11 1857
Charles Mayo, writing from Olathe, Kansas Territory, described to George Collamore the budding township and his experiences there. Mayo had invested shares in the town and hoped it would become the county seat. He encouraged Collamore to influence free state men to go to Olathe and settle there, in order to out populate the proslavery majority already established.
Location of Original: KU Call Number: RH MS 33:1
Item Number: 101747 Number of images: 2
Keywords: Free state perspective; Johnson County, Kansas Territory; Mayo, Charles; Olathe, Kansas Territory; Proslavery supporters; Santa Fe road; Shawnee Indians; Town companies; Town development
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The 112th Congress is set to end without a vote on aid for victims of Superstorm Sandy, and New York lawmakers are furious.
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
On the Street….On Tonal, Bowery
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i really like this look. the combination of sneakers and army-ish coat. also his sweater and sneakers match, thats really awsome
study in contrasts from velvet collar guy-toned down in both color and sharpness.
I like the structured jacket with the sneakers and casual pants
What a smart looking coat! I must say, however, that I am put off when my eyes make their way down the perfect outfit and fall on…. nike's. This was the case with the "Flea Market Fines" gentleman as well. I do wish the taste for nike would wane.
wow i really love how well he matched the swoosh in his shoe to the long-sleeve shirt under his topcoat. and the scarf to the pants and the hat. so well coordinated.
We asked for shoes.
We got shoes.
Lesson learned.
I wish everyone health, wealth and happiness in the coming year!
I love it ! the jacket and the scarf … simply beautiful!
and the nike shoes …
Are you refering to the consistency of the earth tones through his outfit? I think it is a dangerous path, but he pulls it off well. Mostly, I think this is because of the good fit of the coat; long yet close to his body throughout. It would be too easy to go for one of those huge coats everyone wears, and it would kill this. The sneakers appear to be vintage, which is always cool. Only thing I would change would be the wrinkle creases on the pants. Stuff fresh out of the dryer: yes. Stuff that looks like it has been piled on a heap of laundered stuff: definitely a no-no. Jorge from W Palm Beach
Happy New Year Sart.
the flash of his wrist and trainers just make this.
Looks like I may be the only one, but I do not like the Nike shoes
happy new year :)
The shoes make this practical and ordinary. Not a bad look, just not very distinguished overall. But his face is appealing, and he's set it off well with the plain, pale hat and scarf. Actually the color scheme as a whole seems designed to make his face pop.
I love the shoes, they fit with his pullover, although there's only a tiny piece of his sleeve.
Good & Simple.
I don't mind the shoes. I'll give him a break and assume that these are the shoes he walks in and he has his stylish shoes under his desk in his office!
Oddly, what bugs me about this look is the way the scarf is tied. For some reason I just don't like it, probably because it hides the front of that gorgeous coat.
My college professor always said, one should always judge a person by the shoes he wears. You don't go into the woodshop wearing flip flops, he said, and you don't present at your final critique wearing sneakers.
I'm not really sure what to think.
I think if his pants were black I'd love the look
oh man the shoes make it
What a handsome man, and he looks so easygoing. Nothing as stylish as being unaffected. Love the earth and sky references in the colors.
Wow, that scarf is amazing.
i'm not normally a fan of facial hair but this gentleman's beard is really adding something to the look, along with the sneakers it's a neat combination of classic and cool.
this is one of those times when i really have to step back and praise the part you play in translating this look onto paper (or rather, screen). this is a reminder to me of how the great synergy in these looks isnt only from the people who have assembled them, but also from your thoughtfulness behind the scenes/lens.
the background here is fantastic and raises everyrththing to the next level.
the glass has a nice transparency that keeps everything light and effectively keeps it in the background while complimenting the person.
the colors in the glass compliment the colors you are pointing out in the outfit perfectly.
way to go.
i really like the glass background.
The sneakers make this look modern…I can see a little bit of his sweater too and I'm happy to see it's a replay of the label on his shoes …
Great winters look !
I like it !
PS Sart, have a wonderful New Years eve and keep up the good work !
Warmly, Dominica
Interesting play with proportions here. But overall, I'm undecided about how he's pulled this look together.
The shoes are great! It matches his sleeve (or watch? can't tell..) The blue is a good contrasting color to the rest of the outfit which is more muted in color. I think he looks stunning as everything fits him well and he matches well with his pants to his beanie to his scarf. Lovely casual look.
wow…so unique. just the way he wears his scarf, his nike shoes…very refreshing
Awww, well he's just cute, I do really like that coat.
Ugh, don't like it with sneakers.
Happy New Year!
I really dig this look for the same reason as other folks. Its a bit formal, a bit casual all tied up on one. A total JFK Jr. type thing.
love it until the shoes… this is outside the new museum right?
The shoes ruin the look for me. Here's hoping 11:58 is right about the stylish shoes at the office.
I love this outfit. The neutrals really work for him, and the Nikes make it that much cooler.
Happy New Year! In 2009 I will learn to be a smart worker :) that's my resolution! all the best for you and your blog, best Kathrin
I'm totally digging the hint of blue in such a neutral color palette.
its the little things like the matching shirt color with the swoosh on the shoes that i like about this look.
and the fact that his coat is gorgeous.
great look!!!
YES comfort without sacrificing style. my fave. and the background reminds me of windows vista haha, but it looks very cool and optimistic.
ciao, the blue nike checks make the look- hints of color is where it's at
i would like to meet this man
love it…all of it! the shoes are surprisingly refreshing…
i like how he ties his scarf…i'm gonna have to experiment w/mine until i can get it to look like that…
Love the coat and the scarf combo, but the shoes throw the whole outfit off.
The coat is the perfect length, and he's really making me with I was male and could grow a beard to keep my face warm. That may be a little odd, but c'est la vie.
I'm not really feeling this at all. I don't care much for scarves outside of the jackets, I'm lean towards functionality in general. The overcoat is very nice but it doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the outfit.
Without getting into the khakis in the winter argument, sneakers with khakis is always hard to do. These shoes are just to informal to make it work. I do however, find it clever that he matched his sweater with the swoosh. Perhaps this outfit would look better sans coat, hat, and scarf…I might even be able to get over the shoe khaki thing.
i love this way of tying a scarf it looks nice and makes u feel safe underneath the warmth
Bonne année from France. @ +++
Wow! I love this look. Great combination of colors.
The picture is just incredible.
I almost don't care about the look today and just enjoy the light and the tones.
Thank you Scott
What's wrong with his shoes?
I like his whole look. :)
Hope you've had a great New Years eve celebration, Scott!
I don't like the wrinkly pants, not to mention the sneakers. They are at odds with the elegant coat and scarf.
Great flashes of aqua on the trainers and the wrist.
Sart, I really like it when you comment on pictures, if only for a few short words. I'd kinda like to see more.
the whole look, with the hint of the blue in the sleeves with the macenroe tennis classics. i like…
Oh this is great! What a wonderful line, which is a nice thing about winter coats. I always particularly like it when The Sartorialist features "real real" folks whose sense of style is (or at least seems to be) utterly natural and free of self-consciousness.
I was apathetic to this until I noticed in the comments that the shirt matches the swoosh. I like that. A LOT.
Although I'm not a huge fan of the scarf the way he has it tied.
Proletarian. This is nice for a walk or doing some light errands.
That is a really great coat. I personally don't like camel, I think it only looks right on the right person wearing the right things.I find it boring more often than not.
While the shoes do shoe a bit of his personality, he certainly could have done better. But I do love how his shirt matches the swoosh…
And I agree with an earlier poster regarding the scarf… it's a bit too much for me.
Great colour coordination though.
This gentlemen's look becomes more stylish the more one looks at it. HIs ability to accentuate each individual piece as its own, through part of the whole, is something that is rarely seen. Love it.
I love the coat, but the shoes are killer. I like that they remind me of something my brother wore in the 80′s, but somehow now chic. And I did notice that his sweater seems to match, at least it looks that way from the cuff.
I like his combination of colors and the look like he is NOT trying to hard to look chromatically correct. Today, it is obvious this guy is in his "chill" mode. I would wear any of these pieces in a second, especially the coat (vintage?).
I agree, it appears to be a nice scarf, but its too long, too….. just not right. I'm not a huge fan of sneakers but they are comfortable to walk around town in. Lose that scarf.
I love the coat with the shoes.
Is this a Rag and Bone coat? I like this way of tying the scarf over that particular coat, like Bob Cratchit.
I love it's pragmatism. Sometimes you just have to run out to the store and hey…That look will work.
Yeah I think he def could have tied the scarf better but dude prolly didn't think he was going to be on The Sartorialist when he stepped out, it was prolly something more like "Jeez it's cold outside!" lol
The shoes and shirt is dope tho, you people that don't like Nikes just because they are successful are missing out on a quality brand that really seeks to be in tune to the customer. That's why they drop so many colors of the same shoe. They look like All Courts but whether or not they're vintage is impossible to tell cause white shoes get that yellow aging from light and oxygen exposure. I used to work in a shoe store lol
The reflections in the glass and the light make this a gorgeous shot, regardless of the rest.
i think the shoes make the outfit here. they're old vintage canvas early 80s joints. he'd look like a prig if he was wearing boring old wallabees or red wings or whatever work wear shoes, imo
I love the proportions and fit of the coat. But colour coordination is a tricky thing. I like his face.
I actaully love the whole idea of the "put-togeather" coat, pants,and scarf combined with the nike sneakers. To me they give an urban feel to the outfit.
I love the coat in this picture. As well as the way that the blue either shirt or watch compliment's the kicks. However I would still say that the kicks throw off the outfit. Got to keep em clean, but this is about being comfortable just as in your own skin as you are in your clothes. And that is what this is about.
i love the big size of your photos lately!!!
So new school.
It's a eternal theme.
Just do it!
I like how the sneakers match the shirt under the coat! Also a nice blend of natural colours against the cold, wintery, colours of the blue and white.
The cut of the jacket could be better. It looks like the bottom hem is narrower than the shoulder, which isn't right, imho.
Beards are hot.
I just love this blog! I knew your job in blog from a brazilian (www.nossaiorque.blogspot.com), and since my first visit I never stop follow the news, the new black, everything, and toay reading VEJA, also from Brazil I saw a interview about who? about what??? This magnific blog and its mentour! Congratulations! And I hope you came more to Brazil to now the fashion of SĂŁo Paulo, Minas Gerais, Amazonas, Bahia.. WELCOME!!!
That scarf is serious! I want it now! lol.
Oh what a beautiful picture! The colours in his clothes harmonize gorgeously with the background setting.. especially love the bright turquoise hinted throughout! Lovely outfit, nice calm photo xo
I like the look of your site. Very clean. This is the first time I've seen it, I already bookmarked it. Keep it up.
trainers and beard are stylish ! !
Look at his shirt (or is it a bracelet?) matching the sneakers!
THAT is style!
sooo nice !!!! I really luuuvv your pics!! Isaw about u in Elle Portugal (but I'm in Brazil hahahahhhaha) and I search the blog
Well it's his smile that fits everything even the scarf, that is too- too long…
The jacket is great the scarf maybe a tab big but he does pull it off. I 'm not too crazy about the shoes either.
I find it interesting people are saying the shoes are ruining the look for them. For me the sneakers complete the look.
Hi I`m from Argentina. I love your Blog !!! Saludos! elnegroentanga
I love that you can absolutely tell he does not take himself too seriously. And the Nike's matching the hint of color you see on his shirt cuff rocks.
Scarf is tied too perfectly IMO–don't know if that was a purposeful contrast to the, wrinkled pants and shoes which I think are too casual. Did he actually give thought to his outfit? I mean, was it truly a study in contrasts?
Looks like the beige moderation army missed this guy. Nice coat though.
He looks amazing: Sandwiched between the rather contrived but refined GQ looks of the gentleman shown below him and the casual Superfuture uniforms of the gentlemen shown above him, he is such a true individual in the spirit of the Sartorialist.
Everything he is wearing (except for the kicks) may be vintage or designer, thrift store or high lux, and the gentleman himself may be rich or poor– doesn't really matter. All that matters, in the context of the purpose of this blog, is he transcends all these factors with his style.
Radiant style (and his warm smile adds to his allure).
Thanks for sharing.
This look would be so solid with a nicer pair of loafers or workboots… the nike shoes ruined it for me!
looking at this photo again, i really like the look of his worn nikes. they go great with his pants and coat.
He's a hot mess w/o the coat.
hummm Finally, i do not like.
MI PIACE UN CASINO. I love it. Bravo. Stylish and simply. Hearth and elegance.
The sneakers match perfectley! Sports labels are very stylish when they are worn the right way. And this guy really gets it. Dont all the people that are hating sneakers know that Adidas Stan Smith are Marc Jacobs favorite shoe? People are so narrow minded when it comes to sneakers. So snobbish.
I don't really like how the scarf is tied or the shoes, but that coat is fantastic!
looks like the A.P.C./ nike's collab. court shoes
Love his sneakers.
the royal tenenbaum look
a bit funny, a bit comic, it works just for a while.
I love the cut of this coat! Look how the swoosh matches the cuff of his shirt/sweater. Good work indeed!
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In looking at the CSS Exported from Sencha Animator I'm noticing most objects are named along the lines of 'AN-sObj-val-18' rather than the name specified in the object panel. Animations are also named in a similar manner 'AN-ani-1', and don't appear to be reused throughout the animation/document. For example I should be able to apply a 2 second animation that moves an object from 0 to 50% (200px, 20ems, etc) to more than one object using only one declaration - this idea a fundamental to CSS in the way that class and element definitions can (and are) reused. As it stands Sencha does not provide me a means to apply existing animations to other objects/elements.
Ideally, I'd love to have a 'library' of animations (either defined within my current document and/or from a larger library that ships with the application) that allows me to quickly apply animations to objects (similar to Apple's Keynote, Motion, Final Cut, etc) AND more importantly reuse defined animations resulting in a smaller exported file size.
Also, being able to name objects and animations (and have the names exported intact as #ids and .classes) will allow for easier customisation outside of Sencha Animator where designers/developers may decide to use jQuery or some other tools/libraries to further continue creating their page/site/app/animation/art/etc.


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James H. Hume, dairy farmer, former legislator
Nov. 27, 1927 – April 1, 2013
James H. Hume, a former Genesee County legislator, longtime dairy farmer and former leader of the Alexander Central School Board, died Monday in the county nursing home. He was 85.
He served for 10 years as a Pavilion/Bethany/Alexander legislator and later was a nine-year member of the board of trustees at Genesee Community College.
Mr. Hume was a graduate of Cornell University. His beginning in a vital role in the agricultural community – especially as a 4-H leader – earned him an Outstanding Young Farmer Award in 1958.
He also headed the Alexander Central School Board, the Genesee County Farm Bureau and the Cooperative Extension Service.
Surviving are his wife, the former Jean Gillette; four sons, Jeffrey, Joel, Judd and Jack; and a daughter, Jill Bailey.
A memorial service will be scheduled.


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Clearly, someone was keeping an atomic clock around, measuring time.
....and how did the moon get there???
God, as the famous watchmaker, obviously has a watch. And a calendar.
The answer I got when asking a theist about this biblical flaw was "well, a day could have been thousands of years back then".
The statement that a day could have been thousands of years explains nothing.
The standard answer to any seeming contradiction, anomaly, or problem regarding God is that "Through God, anything is possible." You don't need an explanation, you just need to know that there is no problem to start with..


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Steve Morse can remember catching Pedro Martinez's fly ball at Fenway Park in 2005, the season after Boston's 2004 World Series win.
Bob Ellis, a retired Lebanon (N.H.) High School teacher, remembers having Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington as a student in his classroom.
While the Lowcountry is far from Fenway Park, numerous Red Sox fans reside in Sun City. With a group of about 80, Red Sox Nation meets to not only discuss the upcoming season, but also to socialize through the love of baseball.
With less than one month before the Boston Red Sox start their season at New York, fans are eagerly watching spring training games. The community group welcomed spring training through a game of trivia.
"There were questions that were really challenging, but everyone had a fun time trying to remember the baseball history," Morse said.
With a father who played baseball at the University of Vermont with Larry Gardner, a Red Sox third baseman from 1908-1917, Morse had no choice but to grow up a Red Sox fan.
"I can remember the only summer vacation we had was going to Fenway Park. While the women shopped, we went to the games," he said.
Ellis can relate. Growing up outside Boston, it was just normal to take the subway to the game while his family went shopping in the city.
"Those were my favorite shopping trips," Ellis said.
For Mary Ellen Wallick, her husband had the opportunity to be recruited by the Red Sox, but unfortunately a deal wasn't made.
"I could've been a Red Sox player's wife, but for whatever reason my father-in-law and husband couldn't land the deal," she said.
When Wallick moved to south Connecticut, cheering for Boston wasn't accepted.
"Nobody in Connecticut is a Mets fan… If you're from south of the state, you cheered for the Yankees and just north of Hartford, Red Sox fans were accepted. When we moved to the north, we fit in better," Wallick said.
When she moved to Sun City five years ago, she enjoyed finding a group that supported her beloved Red Sox. With a smaller membership compared to other clubs like the New England Group, Red Sox Nation is a tight-knit group that loves baseball.
Every year the super fans travel to attend Greenville Drive games at Flour Field, a replica stadium of Fenway Park. Fluor Field at the West End boasts its own "Green Monster," a 30-foot high wall in left field, equipped with a manual scoreboard. The dimensions all around the outfield wall have the same specifications as Fenway Park, including "Pesky's Pole" in right field.
While the group enjoys watching the Red Sox play, the members' appreciation for the game is greater.
"Having played the game all of my life, I really enjoy the intricacies of baseball because there are so many facets," Morse said. "There is a lot of strategy in it and you can't help enjoy playing outdoors in the summer."
Wallick enjoys the competition produced by Major League Baseball teams.
"When you're only one game behind Tampa or the Yankees, it's exciting. The only negative part of the game is that it is rather slow," Wallick said.


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Where Schools Are Headed
August 28, 2012
Schools and teachers know all too well that students love to bring their mobile devices into the classroom. With advents in technology, however, more and more educational institutions are using this fact to their advantages.
This article in the Technology section of Newsday voices a paradigm shift in the world of education: America's schools, the perennial victims of budget cuts, want to immerse their students and faculty in the online-learning revolution, but don't necessarily have the money to buy every student a mobile device; many are starting to ask students to bring their own devices to school instead. This strategy, the article affirms, has proven to be engaging for the kids and not as cumbersome as some worried it might be.
The concept of mobile devices in the educational sphere raises myriad questions about appropriate use, safety, and security — that's where kajeet comes in! Kajeet School Guard™ is the first free online tool that allows Bring-Your-Own-Device institutions to manage Internet access in the classroom. Parents assign their kid's affordable kajeet device to a filtering group customized by their local educational system, which takes effect during school hours. Learn more here!


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In the late 1940s, Enzo Ferrari reluctantly agreed to build road cars as a way to finance his racing outfit.
One has to wonder, though, whether he would have signed his name to today's Ferrari FF, a four-seat, all-wheel-drive hatchback intended to broaden the brand and boost global sales. Designed to lure a new kind of customer, the FF comfortably totes four passengers and their luggage without worrying mortal drivers about landing wheels up in a ditch.
Ferrari calls the body a shooting-brake design, which probably plays better than "hatchback" on the lot in Beverly Hills. At a few inches shorter than a Ford Explorer, the FF boasts more trunk space than a Toyota Camry does. And that's behind four leather-lined seats that can actually fit adults for trips of appreciable duration. It literally gives buyers more to like, and the results stand out on Ferrari's balance sheet.
In 2012, sales in the U.S., Ferrari's largest market, were up 11.2% over 2011, according to research firm Autodata. Though Ferrari doesn't disclose sales for individual models, the company says the success of the FF helped global V-12 sales climb 22% in the first three quarters of 2012, boosting profit 7.6%.
A cursory glance at the spec sheet of our Ferrari FF tester tells you where at least a portion of that profit is derived.
The car starts at $295,000. But a liberal flogging of the options boxes ran our test car up to $377,341. That extra $82,000 includes an $11,000 "Grigio Abu Dhabi" paint job (or as it's known to us poor folk, silver). Other overpriced goodies include a $3,500 backup camera; a $5,800 suspension-lifting system to prevent driveway scrapes; and $4,400 privacy glass for the rear windows.
Curiously, a sport exhaust system costs just $700, a strikingly better value than the camera. Also odd for a car costing the GDP of New Hampshire: an outdated navigation and stereo system from a garden-variety Jeep.
But the important equipment on the FF — the drivetrain — comes standard. Mr. Ferrari would have no quibble here. A direct-injected 6.2-liter, V-12 engine makes 651 horsepower as it screams along at 8,000 revolutions per minute. The car makes 504 pound-feet of torque at a quieter 6,000 rpm. Ferrari says the bulk of that, 369 pound-feet, is available between 1,000 and 8,000 rpm.
A seven-speed, dual-clutch transmission routs power to the wheels, where Ferrari has installed a proprietary all-wheel-drive system that it says is 50% lighter than a conventional setup. The FF pulls off this sleight of hand by essentially acting as a rear-wheel-drive car most of the time. Only when the vehicle's systems detect the rear wheels slipping can up to 20% of the engine's torque be routed to the front wheels via a second, two-speed gearbox.
This system can also vary the torque sent to each of the front wheels. By pushing more power to the outside wheel when cornering, the FF can better pull itself through the turn.
The FF provides yet another layer of technology to keeping the car safely planted on the roadway, with a dial on the steering wheel that lets drivers choose among four electronically enhanced driving modes: snow, wet, comfort and sport. The various settings alter throttle response, transmission shift points, and traction and stability control thresholds. You can also shut the electronic nannies off entirely.
This being Los Angeles, 300 miles of testing were limited to dry roads, so the "snow" and "wet" settings went unused. A missed opportunity perhaps, but a testing environment that Ferrari says replicates where the vast majority of FF buyers will drive.
Also unused was the "off" setting. Neither I nor anyone who takes my phone calls has $377,341 to hand Ferrari after wrapping the car around one of Mulholland Highway's finest telephone poles. But "sport" mode allows more than enough fun, and the computers don't object to swinging the FF's tail around a bit when accelerating out of a turn.
Otherwise, the FF stays glued to the pavement and carves up curves with predictable precision. The chassis feels composed and solid, probably because of a hefty curb weight of 4,145 pounds, or about 550 more than Ferrari's latest V-12 GT car, the F12 Berlinetta. Only the overeager steering took careful attention.
Meanwhile, the dual-clutch transmission rips off rapid-fire shifts with ease. Even in full automatic mode, the gearbox has no fear of its 8,000-rpm redline and demonstrates remarkable intuition in deciding when and, crucially, when not to shift. The only minor weakness here was an occasional tendency toward abrupt downshifts at low speeds.
In daily driving, the FF proved remarkably easy to live with; this car shares little of the anxiety of its 458 Italia brethren. The ride of the FF's magnetic suspension, also seen on General Motors products including the Chevrolet Corvette, was perfectly compliant in both the normal and "bumpy road" settings.
The FF represents the next evolution in a long line of grand touring cars from Ferrari, as opposed to more high-strung sports cars such the mid-engined 458, designed with race-car handling foremost in mind. GT cars, by contrast, are best suited to cover long distances at high speeds in relative comfort.
Ferrari's definition of the genre has traditionally involved a V-12 engine up front, a pair of passengers in the middle and meaningful trunk space in the rear. The FF applies the same concept to a four-passenger car — and adds all-wheel-drive for the first time on a Ferrari.
This odd mix of ferocious performance and practicality comes wrapped in an unusual but handsome package. The long, wide hood gives way to a wind-swept cabin and a sloped rear hatch. In person, its curves pop and seduce much more than they can in two dimensions.
Those curves also speak to the limits of Ferrari's willingness to compromise. Though the company undoubtedly wants global sales to continue their climb, it will soften the car only so much.
After all, its eponymous founder didn't even want to sell road cars in the first place.


text: Patient Stories 2015-10-09 Running Hard Against Cancer Main Article Content Breadcrumb navigation All/Patient Stories/Running Hard Against Cancer Marathoner Completes Hardest Run of Her Life with Help from Northwestern Medicine Leesa Drake is living proof that no matter how fast or how far someone runs, nobody can outrun a cancer diagnosis. The 100-time marathoner was a paragon of perfect health until physicians shared the news that she had stage 3 breast cancer and needed chemotherapy and radiation after surgery. Leesa is also proof that determination, tenacity and first-rate care can help you get through almost anything. She completed her 99th marathon in Chicago halfway through chemotherapy treatment at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University and Northwestern Memorial Hospital with the support of her team of providers and friends. Northwestern Memorial Hospital is the No. 1 hospital in Chicago and one of the top-16 cancer programs in the nation, as ranked by U.S. News and World Report. "Breast cancer has been a big curveball," Leesa wrote two weeks before her storied run in the 2017 Chicago Marathon. "Since my breast cancer diagnosis, surgery and early chemo treatments, I have gone back and forth in my head on whether I would be able to run this marathon." Not only did she complete the Chicago Marathon, running with Team Lynn Sage, Leesa ran in the 25th Annual Cancer Survivors' Celebration Walk & 5K with her son. Six weeks after that, she ran in her 100th marathon in the Republic of Mauritius. Thanks to the comprehensive care and team support Leesa received, she is clearly back on her feet and pounding the pavement harder than ever. Leesa's family and groups of friends from different parts of her life were with her every step of the way. "I'm grateful for the people who made chemo days a little bit fun." In addition to her team of physicians (surgeon Nora Hansen, MD; oncologist William Gradishar, MD; and radiation oncologist, Jonathan Strauss, MD), a physician's assistant from the Lynn Sage Comprehensive Breast Center at Northwestern Medicine's Prentice Women's Hospital, Ethan Hixson, PA, was one of those people who helped Leesa get through treatment. "We had many conversations about surgery, recovery, chemo side effects and running," Leesa says about Hixson. "He was the first person who said that this breast cancer curveball may not sideline all my summer/fall plans." Hixson gave Leesa personalized medical advice for training and performance during that 99th marathon, including extra hydration and increased caloric intake to combat the side effects of her ongoing treatment. And Leesa credits Hixson for challenging her to run, telling her, "If you are able to do the training and finish this marathon, it will raise the bar in my mind for what a patient with cancer can do." 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Scripture: Psalm 23:1 NIV The Lord is my shepherd.
Observation: If not the most well-known portion of scriptures, Psalm 23 must be in the top two or three. I believe what makes this psalm such a favorite of so many is the fourth word. In the six verses there are twelve personal pronouns (me, my, and I).
Application: This was one of the first scripture passages I learned as a child. As I grew older and came to know and better understand MY Shepherd, this psalm has grown in value to me. Jesus is my personal Good Shepherd. This is how He takes care of me.
It is good to quote with the parents of a new-born baby in faith that the Good Shepherd will guide and protect their family, and especially this new child. I have quoted it with a family standing around the bedside of a dying parent. MY Shepherd gives courage and hope.
Prayer: Lord, although you are the Creator of all things, yet you see yourself as Leon's Shepherd! That is indeed amazing! I can rest in your love and care. Amen
Pastor Leon
Making friends for time and eternity!