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I had a chance to chat with a brilliant man. His name is Zell Kravinsky.
Zell is different. After building a $45m property empire, he decided to give it all away to charity. Then, with no more money to give, he went on to donate his kidney to a total stranger to save their life. As I read about him, I wondered whether their was a method behind his madness. Then I realised I could just ask the man himself.
TFHG: There are 2,550 Google hits for "Zell Kravinsky is crazy". Are you?
Zell: Yes and no. I think I've the same quotient of rationality as everyone else and I think I'd award myself the same "crazy score" scorers who resent what I've done would give me but I arrive at it by reversing their valences, i.e., in my mind if I'm half-crazy it's because I'm still putting my and my family's interests above everyone else's half the time, not the reverse.
TFHG: Crazy or not, you've given away all your $45m of wealth to good causes and have donated a kidney to a lady you didn't even know – which is utterly inspiring. What drives you to embrace these acts of helping others so entirely? And to what extent do you think these motivations are innate or learned?
Zell: I don't know that I believe in innate ideas the way pre-empirical philosophers did but it's possible that the sharing impulse is hard-wired because it confers a remarkable evolutionary advantage we're just beginning to appreciate. As I experience this sharing impulse it doesn't spring from being any better or worse than anyone else (I'm pretty sure I'm morally average, myself) but the sense that if humans are all equal—an equality most of us attest to, rhetorically at least—we've an equal right to have our needs and desires satisfied; in light of that equality I'm disinclined to exhaust myself holding onto my surpluses (spare body organs and spare funds) that are others' necessities.
TFHG: You've mentioned before that you'd donate your other kidney, despite it inevitably bringing an end to your own life, if you felt you could save the life of someone who could add more value to the world than you could. I wonder if this is you merely illustrating your rationale to giving as whole, or whether you're actually serious about it?
Zell: I'm, as it were, deadly serious. I was surprised by the negative response to my argument because I'd made it in an extreme and therefore (I thought) persuasive form; I said I'd give my remaining kidney to someone who could, for example, cure cancer. But yes, I think someone merely likely to do more for the world than me has a greater claim than I do to my kidney, assuming no one else can be persuaded to part with their spare. I do believe the utilitarian calculus, the sum of individual benefits, should govern distribution and that nothing, neither individual funds nor individual body parts, should be withheld from that distribution pool.
TFHG: I'm fascinated by how you've described your relationship and connection with other people, whether you know them or not. What do you think are the main barriers to people looking out for one another?
Zell: The current regime, which requires us to look out almost exclusively for ourselves and our children, is persuasive in the same way all regimes are persuasive. I don't take strangers off the street and bring them home, mostly because I lack the courage to take on my family and the rest of society. A few examples of persons successfully resisting the regime would help…
TFHG: So extreme is your generosity that some people might find it hard to understand the emotional strain that your actions have placed on those closest to you; your friends and family. Do you think they have a point? If so, how do you reconcile with this conflict?
Zell: Maybe we're all, myself undeniably included, meant to feel some pain when we come up against an idea (like: the other guy deserves what I have more than I do if he needs it more) that challenges the basis of our current and ultimately unsustainable economic system. Maybe that pain is the first stage of change.
THFG: I love that you offered a journalist who was interviewing you $10,000 for him to donate his kidney to someone else. How and why does traditional giving (and our perception of it) need to be disrupted?
Zell: Doubtless some benefit to giver and recipient accrues from the current regime's modicum of charity but utilitarianism will require us to reach beyond the lateral transfers characteristic of most American charity—gifts to religions, colleges, and other affinity groups, all members of the same affluent society as most Americans—and instead given vertically, downwardly, to the neediest, where the effect is likely to be materially more profound.
TFHG: You're actions have made a huge statement about what one person can do for others. What advice would you give to someone who wanted to make the world a better place?
Zell: In your calculation of what you can afford to give, distrust the hoarding tendencies—encouraged by your upbringing and by similarly indoctrinated friends and family—that concentrate too much of what you have, and are, in your own hands.
Before chatting with Zell, I thought I was blown away by the actual size of what he's given. Those millions of dollars he donated would have had a huge impact on the problems he chose to help solve. As an act of giving, this is huge whichever way you look at it. His kidney donation too, it saved a life. How much bigger, in terms of human value, can one act get?
But it's dawned on me now that this size thing is relative and that as a proportion of what Zell could give, he gave it all. In his "calculation of what he could afford to give" he utterly distrusted all possible "hoarding tendencies". His giving is extreme, even in relation to his wealthy and healthy circumstances, and it's this bit specifically that has completely blown me away.
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Tennis Bets
The Keys You Should Know About Tennis Bets
Many times you have been able to follow the Grand Slams of tennis through our Blog entries dedicated to these four world events that concentrate the interest and passion of thousands of fans. But we needed to explain in broad terms what are the bets of tennis, what advantages can offer us with respect to sports betting of football, basketball or other games and how we can begin to familiarize ourselves with this modality, one of the most important (although not look like) of the sports betting market.
I still remember how I became addicted to tennis. As a child, I had already developed a strong passion for playing table tennis, but it was during the first professional practices that they taught me a lot of everything I know about this blessed sport. I do not know if I've ever told you that I'm a journalist, and when I landed in the sports department of one of the most prominent newspapers in this country, there was hardly any room for me in football information. Standard, it was taken by the figures in the newsroom. So the tennis expert welcomed me as his pupil.
There I learned how to differentiate a tennis player from a back court player; I became familiar with the tactics in the exchanges of rallies, I began to guess when it was time to make a backhand stroke or a right passing and above all I fell in love with an eminently psychological sport, a delicious technique and an unparalleled tactic for those who once had wood strategists. Duels between two players where it only matters to decipher the contrary, study their weaknesses and defeat them in an exercise of physical effort that can last for hours.
Previous Considerations
Although it may seem very unpredictable, In broad strokes, it is enough that we follow the results of the prestigious tournaments and the game of the players we want to bet on to know their weaknesses, their strengths and where they perform best. The players that are in the 'Top 10' of the ATP ranking do not usually fail ever and on any surface except when they play against each other, and for the rest of the matches, we can use a simple comparison in multiple statistics sites. Unlike other sports, tennis is very traced to the statistics it reflects, with a smaller margin of the surprise than in different modalities.
The Markets Of Sets
Just as in football we play with the demands of intervals, of goals or corners, in the betting of tennis it is fundamental to take advantage of the markets of sets. It is logical that we enter the doubts whenever we want to bet on a match between two tennis players ranked in Ranking and statistics, but if we have studied their previous confrontations, we can always make a cut using this modality as opposed to a simple bet to win one or the other.
The Game Markets
And down one more step in our 'deconstruction' of tennis bets, it may be the case that we want to bet on, for example, a first-round match of the world number one against an unknown tennis player in the Ranking. Normally, these shocks have derisory quotas for the better. In these cases, it is usually normal to resort to the gaming markets. Surely betting for 2-0 or 3-0 insets will also be very low, so we can pull this other type of bets to take profit
There are more or less than 30 games in the game', to give an example, it is a terrific market when this happens to us. Or we can even bet with a handicap of games in favor of a tennis player if we believe that his victory will be incontestable and will hardly grant opportunities to his rival. We can also bet on a 'total number of games' in a given set.
Tennis Bets, Ideal For Combined
Finally, in addition to another series of markets in which we can be tested as we become tennis specialists (tie-break, or which player will be the first to break the service of the opponent, for example), we can use the Tennis bets to form combined stakes.


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McCain 4 Lovingly Slow Baked Jackets 800g
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McCain 4 Lovingly Slow Baked Jackets 800g
Ready baked jacket potatoes cross cut and drizzled with sunflower oil
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Jean completed her massage study at the Omaha School of Massage Therapy in the summer of 2008. She found her way to the East Coast & was eager to start helping people by the way of massage. She is certified in Hot Stone, Prenatal, Postnatal & Fertility massage as well as Lomi Lomi, Reflexology & Aromatherapy. Jean also enjoys helping people stay balanced with the use of Chakra balancing via tuning forks. She is also skilled in ear candling, body scrubs, body wraps & will be offering an aromatherapy bamboo facial.
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The fashion gallery is probably the most popular gallery at the V&A. It has a collection of clothing from the last 300 years from famous designers and not so famous ones also. Some of the clothing is made from fabulous hand embroidered fabrics and some are quilted and "sculptured" pieces. This time they also have a gallery of costumes from plays in the city.So lets get started:
This piece is a quilted outfit that was worn under the suites of armour. We thought upcycling was new - these outfits were made from old quilted bedcovers. The quilting is quite intricate and it was all done by hand.
There are many embroidered textiles in the collection some are sashes worn by knights and some are hand embroidered yardage made into clothing.
The ladies jacket is hand embroidered with a silver thread couched in a meandering pattern on the surface of the fabric it also has silver spangles (17th century version of a sequin) stitched on it.
This is a man's waist coat. Even men got there clothing hand embroidered.
This gown is called the Origami gown. It was designed in 2009 by the Korean designer Lie Sang-Bong and is a reinterpretation of a traditional Korean wrapping cloth. It is made of organza and we counted 17 layers of fabric. It is stunning!! Sorry about the photo's it was in a glass case and the reflection caused some problems with the photos.
The new gallery with the costumes was fun. It had an interactive area where kids and adults could dress up in costumes take photos - there were a few families enjoying getting dressed while we were there. For me the intricate costumes were the most interesting part. Unfortunately I forgot to get down what plays these costumes were from but I am sure you will like seeing them anyway.
Designed by Bruno Sandini in 1977 - "fairy queen" from the opera Oilanthe.
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The judge chosen to head an inquiry into historic child sex abuse is to examine the child exploitation scandal in Rotherham as part of her probe.
New Zealand High Court judge Lowell Goddard said victims would play a 'hugely beneficial' role in shaping the scope of the investigation when she arrives in the UK to discuss its terms of reference.
The inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has been set up to consider whether, and the extent to which, public bodies and other non-state institutions have taken seriously their duty of care to protect children from sexual abuse in England and Wales.
The judge warned 'achievable goals' must be set from the outset to avoid the inquiry running out of control.
Justice Goddard said all such issues remained to be decided but getting them right was essential to a process which is set to last for several years.
"It is a very broad landscape and the inquiry is very complex and multi-faceted but it needs to be achievable as well, it needs to set goals that are achievable in the interests of the survivors of child sexual abuse but also the state," she said.
"It must be managed because an inquiry that drags on and does not have achievable goals that cannot deliver is not an effective inquiry.
"That is how you stop any inquiry getting out of control. It has to be focused on what it has identified at the outset as its relevant parameters and its achievable goals."
She said survivors would be 'at the forefront of this inquiry and indeed the whole centre' and that it would draw on the lessons of recent scandals such as large-scale child sex exploitation in Rotherham.
"It will be focused on not only the past experience of survivors but also on current situations such as this Rotherham report I am reading about and also about how we protect for the future and make sure these terrible abuses do not occur again," she added.
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The flu season this year is bad. How bad? With the high number of people getting sick, many are comparing this year to the swine flu epidemic nine years ago. Last Friday, the CDC predicted that as many as 56,000 Americans will die of flu this year.
So, why is it so bad this year?
"The flu is so bad this year for a few reasons we understand and some we don't," said Dr. Marc Lipsitch, professor of epidemiology and director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at Harvard. "The ones that we understand are that it is predominantly an H3N2 year — that's one of the four strains of flu that circulates every year. And H3N2 is known to be the most severe in terms of the symptoms and the consequences it causes for people."
Lipsitch says we don't really understand why H3N2 is predominating this year but suggests that another reason the flu is bad this year is that while the vaccine is reasonably effective against influenza B, but it is not very effective against H3N2.
Initial studies out of Australia and Canada have found the shot had only a 10 to 20 percent efficacy rate in those countries against the H3N2 strain.
According to Lipsitch, that's been a problem in the past during an H3N2 year and that it's not really understood why it has been the case since the strain emerged in 1968 as a pandemic strain.
"It's always been the cause of more severe seasons," Lipsitch said.
With the low efficacy rate, is it even worth getting the flu shot?
"The flu season is still underway and it will still be going for several weeks, so there is a benefit of getting the flu shot now," Lipsitch urged. "Even 10 or 20 percent in reduction of risk is better than no reduction in risk. It's a safe vaccine. I had it and your arm hurts for a day and then it stops hurting. It's a small price to pay compared to getting the flu."
On Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018, Lipsitch joined Alfred DeMaria, medical director for the Bureau of Infectious Disease of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Yonatan Grad, assistant professor in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at Harvard and Tim Uyeki, chief medical officer, Influenza Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the CDC for a discussion about the flu outbreak in a panel moderated by The World's Livable Planet editor Peter Thomson.
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Coming of Age In Aging America
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It's widely accepted that most Americans are living decades longer than any generation in human history. This longevity has far-reaching implications for society, and experts, policy makers and the general population are only just beginning to grapple with how to reframe our thoughts on aging. What does it mean for communities, programs and policies, and how we live and work? This penetrating documentary probes these questions. It suggests that America's social and economic institutions will - and must - change to adapt to a staggering demographic transformation where more than half of the world's population will eventually be over the age of fifty. G
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In yet another heavily earnest parable on how nature will provide an easy cure for the physical and moral sterility of urban life, a young thief has an epiphany after scoring a bag filled with acorns.
"When I was young, I lived in a city that was mean and hard and ugly," begins the narrator, her own heart as "shriveled as the dead trees in the park." But that heart changes after the old woman whose bag she snatches extracts a promise that she will plant its contents, and off she goes to plant "among rubble, ruins, and rusty railings, by train tracks, tramlines, and traffic lights." Presto chango, once the oaks grow (with unrealistic speed), people begin to smile again and create gardens as birds gather in colorful flocks: "Green spread through the city like a song...." She goes on to revive city after city with different kinds of trees, until at last, one night, another young thief takes both bag and bargain to carry on. Carlin echoes the tale's arc with scenes of drab, smudged cityscapes and crowds of hunched figures that are alike transformed with the appearance of colors and of cascades of flowers.
Valid as metaphor though much less so as a feasible plan of action. (Picture book. 7-9)


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The nominations for the 86th annual Academy Awards were announced early Thursday, January 16, 2014 by actor Chris Hemsworth and Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs. Hemsworth starred in Rush and Thor: The Dark World in 2013.
Academy members from each of the branches vote to determine the nominees in their respective categories (actors nominate actors, directors nominate directors, etc.). Nominees in the Animated Feature Film and Foreign Language Film categories are selected by a vote of multi-branch screening committees. All voting members are eligible to select the Best Picture nominees.
The ceremony for the Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements will be held on Sunday, March 2, 2014, at the Dolby Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Center in Hollywood, California. It will be televised live on ABC. This year's ceremony will be hosted by Ellen DeGeneres.
Below is a list of all the categories and the nominations for each.
Academy Award Nominations
Performance by an actor in a leading role
- Christian Bale in American Hustle
- Bruce Dern in Nebraska
- Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street
- Chiwetel Ejiofor in 12 Years a Slave
- Matthew McConaughey in Dallas Buyers Club
Performance by an actor in a supporting role
- Barkhad Abdi in Captain Phillips
- Bradley Cooper in American Hustle
- Michael Fassbender in 12 Years a Slave
- Jonah Hill in The Wolf of Wall Street
- Jared Leto in Dallas Buyers Club
Performance by an actress in a leading role
- Amy Adams in American Hustle
- Cate Blanchett in Blue Jasmine
- Sandra Bullock in Gravity
- Judi Dench in Philomena
- Meryl Streep in August: Osage County
Performance by an actress in a supporting role
- Sally Hawkins in Blue Jasmine
- Jennifer Lawrence in American Hustle
- Lupita Nyong'o in 12 Years a Slave
- Julia Roberts in August: Osage County
- June Squibb in Nebraska
Best animated feature film of the year
- The Croods - Chris Sanders, Kirk DeMicco and Kristine Belson
- Despicable Me 2 - Chris Renaud, Pierre Coffin and Chris Meledandri
- Ernest & Celestine (Ernest et Celestine) - Benjamin Renner and Didier Brunner
- Frozen - Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee and Peter Del Vecho
- The Wind Rises - Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki
Achievement in cinematography
- The Grandmaster (Yi dai zong shi) - Philippe Le Sourd
- Gravity - Emmanuel Lubezki
- Inside Llewyn Davis - Bruno Delbonnel
- Nebraska - Phedon Papamichael
- Prisoners - Roger A. Deakins
Achievement in costume design
- American Hustle - Michael Wilkinson
- The Grandmaster (Yi dai zong shi) - William Chang Suk Ping
- The Great Gatsby - Catherine Martin
- The Invisible Woman - Michael O'Connor
- 12 Years a Slave - Patricia Norris
Achievement in directing
- American Hustle - David O. Russell
- Gravity - Alfonso Cuarón
- Nebraska - Alexander Payne
- 12 Years a Slave - Steve McQueen
- The Wolf of Wall Street - Martin Scorsese
Best documentary feature
- The Act of Killing - Joshua Oppenheimer and Signe Byrge Sørensen
- Cutie and the Boxer - Zachary Heinzerling and Lydia Dean Pilcher
- Dirty Wars - Richard Rowley and Jeremy Scahill
- The Square - Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer
- 20 Feet from Stardom - Nominees to be determined
Best documentary short subject
- CaveDigger - Jeffrey Karoff
- Facing Fear - Jason Cohen
- Karama Has No Walls - Sara Ishaq
- The Lady In Number 6: Music Saved My Life - Malcolm Clarke and Nicholas Reed
- Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall - Edgar Barens
Achievement in film editing
- American Hustle - Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers and Alan Baumgarten
- Captain Phillips - Christopher Rouse
- Dallas Buyers Club - John Mac McMurphy and Martin Pensa
- Gravity - Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger
- 12 Years a Slave - Joe Walker
Best foreign language film of the year
- The Broken Circle Breakdown - Belgium
- The Great Beauty (La Grande Bellezza) - Italy
- The Hunt (Jagten) - Denmark
- The Missing Picture (L'image manquante) - Cambodia
- Omar - Palestine
Achievement in makeup and hairstyling
- Dallas Buyers Club - Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews
- Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa - Stephen Prouty
- The Lone Ranger - Joel Harlow and Gloria Pasqua-Casny
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original score)
- The Book Thief - John Williams
- Gravity - Steven Price
- Her - William Butler and Owen Pallett
- Philomena - Alexandre Desplat
- Saving Mr. Banks - Thomas Newman
Achievement in music written for motion pictures (Original song)
- "Alone Yet Not Alone" from Alone Yet Not Alone
Music by Bruce Broughton; Lyric by Dennis Spiegel
- "Happy" from Despicable Me 2
Music and Lyric by Pharrell Williams
- "Let It Go" from Frozen
Music and Lyric by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
- "The Moon Song" from Her
Music by Karen O; Lyric by Karen O and Spike Jonze
- "Ordinary Love" from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Music by Paul Hewson, Dave Evans, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen; Lyric by Paul Hewson
Best motion picture of the year
- American Hustle - Charles Roven, Richard Suckle, Megan Ellison and Jonathan Gordon, Producers
- Captain Phillips - Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti and Michael De Luca, Producers
- Dallas Buyers Club - Robbie Brenner and Rachel Winter, Producers
- Gravity - Alfonso Cuarón and David Heyman, Producers
- Her - Megan Ellison, Spike Jonze and Vincent Landay, Producers
- Nebraska - Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa, Producers
- Philomena - Gabrielle Tana, Steve Coogan and Tracey Seaward, Producers
- 12 Years a Slave - Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen and Anthony Katagas, Producers
- The Wolf of Wall Street - Nominees to be determined
Achievement in production design
- American Hustle - Production Design: Judy Becker; Set Decoration: Heather Loeffler
- Gravity - Production Design: Andy Nicholson; Set Decoration: Rosie Goodwin and Joanne Woollard
- The Great Gatsby - Production Design: Catherine Martin; Set Decoration: Beverley Dunn
- Her - Production Design: K.K. Barrett; Set Decoration: Gene Serdena
- 12 Years a Slave - Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Alice Baker
Best animated short film
- Feral - Daniel Sousa and Dan Golden
- Get a Horse! - Lauren MacMullan and Dorothy McKim
- Mr. Hublot - Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares
- Possessions - Shuhei Morita
- Room on the Broom - Max Lang and Jan Lachauer
Best live action short film
- Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me) - Esteban Crespo
- Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just before Losing Everything) - Xavier Legrand and Alexandre Gavras
- Helium - Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson
- Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?) - Selma Vilhunen and Kirsikka Saari
- The Voorman Problem - Mark Gill and Baldwin Li
Achievement in sound editing
- All Is Lost - Steve Boeddeker and Richard Hymns
- Captain Phillips - Oliver Tarney
- Gravity - Glenn Freemantle
- The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Brent Burge
- Lone Survivor - Wylie Stateman
Achievement in sound mixing
- Captain Phillips - Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith and Chris Munro
- Gravity - Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro
- The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Christopher Boyes, Michael Hedges, Michael Semanick and Tony Johnson
- Inside Llewyn Davis - Skip Lievsay, Greg Orloff and Peter F. Kurland
- Lone Survivor - Andy Koyama, Beau Borders and David Brownlow
Achievement in visual effects
- Gravity - Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk and Neil Corbould
- The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug- Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and Eric Reynolds
- Iron Man 3 - Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Erik Nash and Dan Sudick
- The Lone Ranger - Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams and John Frazier
- Star Trek Into Darkness - Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann and Burt Dalton
Adapted screenplay
- Before Midnight - Written by Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke
- Captain Phillips - Screenplay by Billy Ray
- Philomena - Screenplay by Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
- 12 Years a Slave - Screenplay by John Ridley
- The Wolf of Wall Street - Screenplay by Terence Winter
Original screenplay
- American Hustle - Written by Eric Warren Singer and David O. Russell
- Blue Jasmine - Written by Woody Allen
- Dallas Buyers Club - Written by Craig Borten & Melisa Wallack
- Her - Written by Spike Jonze
- Nebraska - Written by Bob Nelson
If you would like to see any of these movies before the awards ceremony, click on the movie name above or visit the Academy Award® Winners and Nominees page in Now Showing for an easy list of all Oscar nominees and winners that are playing in theaters right now!
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I check out the nominees of the 86th Annual Academy Awards and I was a little sureprise. I was also a little shock that some of the movies that I didn't like made the list I was shock when "Bad Grandpa" and "The Lone Ranger" made the cut. I noticed the Philomena made it as Best Picture. I would rather see "Prisoners" or "Before Midnight" or "Fruitvale Station" made the cut as Best Picture.Also I didn't think "Captain Phillips" should've got Best Picture, although I love to see Tom Hanks get the nod for this movie. Another film that I didn't like was "August Osage County" where it earn Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts their undeserved Oscar nominations. For Best Actress, I'd rather see Julia Delpy for "Before Midnight" or Emma Thompson for "Saving Mr. Banks." For Best Supporting Actress I'd rather see Joey King for "White House Down" or Emma Watson for "This is the End." get the nod instead. For Best make-up, I'd rather see "The Hunger Games:Catching" rather than to see "Bad Grandpa"and "The Lone Ranger" get nods. Of the 9 nominations for Best Picture, I have yet to see "Nebraska."
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NIcely written, am going to watch all the movies that you have said are good:)
Nice post. Food as a metaphor is rather universal I guess.
Add another one to that list. An Iranian cinema called Border Cafe about a widow's struggle to run her late husband's restaurant in a society that doesn't easily let women interact with men in public. She fights to keep the business running and bring up her children. The visually stunning depiction of middle eastern cuisine is an added bonus.
PS: If you reallt are into Nathan Fillion fan, do watch Firefly the series.
hi..this is probly not related 2 ur post..bt i caught a glimpse of those bhaang cupcakes on twitter & they lukd enticing! I miss Bombay. I miss Holi in Bombay and is definitely missing a bite of those bhaang cupcakes. !
P.S: the julie julia movie was 1 fabulous food movie. a similar project I wish to embark on! any food books ur a fan of?


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How to Build a Better Bloody Mary Bar
If you're planning a New Year's Day celebration, perhaps a boozy brunch, it's a fabulous idea to serve up a Bloody Mary bar. Set out all of the usual ingredients, plus some fun extras—bacon anyone?!—and let your guests make their own hangover cures. To encourage you to build the best Bloody Mary bar ever, I spoke with Mat Snapp, the director of beverage and mixology at Fox Restaurant Concepts. Snapp oversees the cocktail making at 40+ restaurants all over Arizona, so he knows a thing or two about making the ultimate Bloody Mary. Snapp believes "that in addition to their restorative qualities after perhaps enjoying yourself too much, if you do a Bloody Mary right, they are absolutely delicious." He recommends that each drink have a perfect balance of flavour and bite. Below are the rest of his helpful tips!
Invest in the vodka. "If you get a vodka that's too low end, it's going to have a sharp flavour. This will overpower the Bloody Mary and just make it taste boozy," explains Snapp. Treat yourself and spend that extra dollar. He likes Ketel One and Tito's vodka.
Avoid pre-flavored vodka. "If you want to change or infuse your vodka, do it yourself," Snapp says "the flavour will be more natural."
Don't shake it. "Never shake a Bloody Mary! What you want out of the Bloody Mary is that viscosity. The weight on the palate is what helps with the hangover. If you shake it, you're oxygenating the liquid and drinking something that's foamy can be off putting."
Mix it: two-to-one. Always have two parts tomato base, one part spirit. "Four ounces of mix and two ounces of vodka," are Snapp's go-to amounts. "Don't forget fresh citrus! You need a touch of acidity to enhance the tomato juice."
Get creative with liquid additives. Worcestershire sauce, horseradish, and tabasco are musts, but Snapp likes to add more unusual ingredients: "pickle juice, the liquid from pepperoncini brine, olive juice, fresh squeezed lime juice, and lemon juice. Wash out last night's beer bottles and put labels on them. Make it fun!" He also says to have a small container of simple syrup handy. "A little jar of simple syrup will cut the heat because sugar cuts the heat, so have that for people who may not like a super spicy Bloody Mary."
Go gaga with the garnishes. "I love a big fat thick piece of bacon, freshly cooked. Keep it in the oven and garnish it right then and there," says Snapp. "Mix a little blue cheese with Cholula and stuff it into olives. A nice fat lemon wheel, cornichons, pearl onions, and even blackened shrimp goes really nice with a Bloody Mary. A celery stick doubles as a stirrer—make sure it's fresh, cold, and crisp—and pickled asparagus and habanero green beans are also good. Remember that you want the garnish to be something you can snack on, but not be a meal within itself."
Snapp recommends making your own tomato mixture or seeking out a quality mix.
What do you think makes the best Bloody Mary around?


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Almost definitive, and quite fun!
Jon Rydin | Chicago, IL United States | 07/19/2001
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This is the best non-import Greatest Hits collection of the Twins that you will ever come across. All of their dance & singles chart topping songs from the Arista age are included on this disc: The Billboard dance chart toppers "In the Name of Love" & "Lies". Their biggest U.S. singles -- "Hold Me Now" (#3, 1984), "Lay Your Hands on Me" (#6, 1985), "King for a Day" (#9, 1986), and "Doctor! Doctor!" (#11, 1984). The steps into movie soundtracks -- "If You Were Here" (memorably used in "Sixteen Candles"), and "Nothing in Common" (from the Tom Hanks' movie of the same name). Even the lesser-known gems like the anti-drug jungle grunt of "Don't Mess With Doctor Dream" and the Arabian flair of "The Gap".The only drawback here is not covering the Twins' entire career... simply because their last 2 albums were released on Warner Bros instead of the Arista label. Regardless, this is a must-have for anyone that enjoyed the Twins in the 80's and beyond..."
Proper retrospective for the band
Daniel J. Hamlow | Narita, Japan | 02/02/2005
(4 out of 5 stars)
"My first introduction to the Thompson Twins' was from the Ghostbusters Soundtrack, where their song and 1982 hit, "In The Name Of Love" from the album of the same name, was included. I was taken by the heavy synth emphasis and Tom Bailey's strong British vocals. Yet as the liner notes of the TT's compilation states, they were the anti-rock, riding the wave of Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, and other synth-oriented British acts that comprised the Second British Invasion.
Most of their American success was on the dance charts, as evidenced by "Lies," an archetypal 80's synth pop tune with its "lies lies lies yeah" chorus, which was a dance chart #1 and their first US Top 40 hit. Quite a cynical line, with "Cleopatra died for Egypt, what a waste of time." The UK Top Ten "We Are Detective", like "Lies" on the Side Kick album, seems tepid compared to their other oeuvre. The mid-paced synth-heavy ballad "If You Were Here" also on the same album, was also on the Sixteen Candles soundtrack, though in terms of Brat Pack movie songs, it's probably overshadowed by OMD's "If You Leave," from Pretty In Pink.
Into The Gap is considered their best album due to five songs included here, three of which entrenched them as one of the UK's biggest acts then. "Hold Me Now" another #1 dance hit, was their biggest US pop hit, peaking at #3. "Doctor! Doctor!" and "You Take Me Up," with its harmonica bits, choral group, and light calypso riffs were the other big hits.
The material from Here's To Future Days coincided with my MTV days, and videos for two of the songs here, "Lay Your Hands On Me" and "King For A Day" were my proper visual introduction to them. Sadly, their rip-roaring cover of the Beatles' "Revolution" is excluded, a pity as it's the best song on HTFD. But "Lay Your Hands," wins with the strong gospel melodies from the Eastern Harlem Hobo Choir in the chorus. Also, the songs here benefited from Nile Rodgers' production genius. The idealistic "King For A Day," with its cool guitar intro, incorporated Beatles-like whimsy by its "love is all you need" refrain towards the end.
The inclusion of the catchy but reflective "Nothing In Common," from the Tom Hanks/Jackie Gleason movie of the same name, is notable not only as an underrated hit and one of my favourite TT songs but for Joe Leeway's last contribution to the band, which left Tom Bailey and Alannah Currie as a duo, true to their name. But the song about how two people have grown further apart, lead to the more introspective material of Close To The Bone.
"Get That Love" merely made it in the Top 40, and was a good enough tune, but maybe the average listener didn't care for Bailey's take on love: "when you're picking and choosing/you wind up losing" and the pre-chorus refrain "I won't give up on love." More serious material here for sure, as was the somber "The Long Goodbye," with the protagonist "seeing my future die, my whole past as well." "When your love has gone away, it's the long goodbye" was a sure far cry from their earlier upbeat days, but the song's title perhaps reflected that it was time for the Twins to say goodbye; two further releases, Big Trash and Queer made it clear that the Twins were as relevant as Rubik's Cubes and Pacman games to the 90's. Still, this greatest hits serves as a memento to a group who made a brief mark in the early to mid-80's."
Thompson Twins-They're gonna get you
Jon Rydin | 10/24/1999
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Thompson Twins are the best the 80's music scene has to offer. They are my favorite group of all time. Their songs are filled with delightful hooks, melodies and great instrumentation. This collection features the track, "If You Were Here," which was featured in "SIXTEEN CANDLES." Other highlights include "Sister Of Mercy," "Don't Mess With Doctor Dream" and "Long Goodbye." One thing would make a Thompson Twins collection better, b-sides. If it were an instrumental version, an unreleased song or a remix; Twins fans around the world would sing and dance forever. Even though the Twins are "no more," we can enjoy this compilation and more recent recordings (known by the artist BABBLE). So, what are you waiting for? Let them get you!"


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Lomachenko v Salido Fight Review
Salido forfeited the WBO featherweight title on the scales. On fight night he came in at an 'unofficial' weight of 147 lbs while Lomachenko weighed 136 lbs. Lomachenko was fighting for the vacated title (and $230 000) while Salido for pride (and $235 000).
In the preview of this fight I said Salido has a habit of bending over in a lunging attempt to reach his more fleet-footed opponents. I didn't think he would take it to this level. This move pretty much became the story of this messy fight. Take a look at the following collage of screenshots:
Every photo shows Salido leading with the head. Effectively a head butt. These moves are against to rules of boxing. There are 30 photos and these are all taken AFTER the 8th round which was by the time I had lost all hope in the legitimacy of this fight.
There are many more examples of this from the previous seven rounds. Ironically Lomachenko was criticized by the referee and commentators for repeatedly holding. What do you expect him to do when his opponent is burying his head into his sternum? Anyone who has seen Lomachenko in the amateurs knows he hates holding and would not hold unless forced to.
This lunging, leading with the head, headbutt 'manoeuvre' pretty much killed the flow of the fight and hence Lomachenko was not able to use his skill with this blatant flaunting of the rules. However the few times the fight was able to flow we could see flashes of his brilliance.
Regardless, I had Lomachenko winning the fight 116-112. Not much different to the judge Levi Martinez (who had it 115-113).
Lomachenko landed more total punches (164 to 142) at a much higher percentage (37% to 22%). He landed less Power shots (105 to 137) but at a much better percentage (44% to 25%). Lomachenko had Salido hurt badly in the 12th while never being hurt himself. This while being outweighed by 10lbs. In other words if you like fighters who swing wildly with little thought you probably thought Salido won. On the other hand if you like fighters who use their superior footwork, balance and defence to get into position to land smart accurate shots you probably thought Lomachenko won. It's up to you…... What's that famous quote by Roger Mayweather again (reminder on left sidebar of this blog)?


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Anthem Worldwide enters the German design market
Friday, August 28, 2009
Press release from the issuing companyInternational Branding and Design Agency Expands Presence in Europe
DES PLAINES, IL, -- Anthem Worldwide, a Schawk Strategic Design Company, whose integrated global network provides innovative solutions to articulate, unify and manage brand impact to create compelling and consistent brand experiences, announced that it has opened an office in Düsseldorf, Germany as part of its European expansion plans.
David A. Schawk, president and chief executive officer of Schawk, said, "Germany has been selected to underpin the strategically important expansion of Anthem's design business in Europe. As the largest and strongest economy in Europe, Germany has great potential for Anthem's strategic and creative services. Our new Anthem office in Düsseldorf is consistent with Schawk's strategy to enhance the integrated global brand point management services that we provide to our clients."
Mr. Schawk continued, "Our global resources continue to help our clients expand their global reach while ensuring that their brands are expressed consistently in markets all over the world. These integrated strategic, creative and executional global resources are available to the future clientele of Anthem's Germany office."
Hans Muysson, Anthem group managing director for Europe, commented, "Through Anthem's global network, we are able to leverage strategic and design talent throughout the world to bring a leading branding and design product to the German market which will set a new standard of design excellence. I believe this will have strong appeal to the German marketplace and will enable Anthem to win new clients and brands."
Mr. Muysson added, "As part of Anthem's European business, our new office in Düsseldorf is part of a broader strategic growth initiative. We are committed to becoming the world's leading strategic design network with truly global capabilities that are fueled by design intelligence: a passion for discovery, a commitment to constructing business success, and the ability to transform ideas into actionable solutions. Our thinking applies to national and global brands as well as private label brands."
Anja Grunefeld, the newly appointed managing director of Anthem's new Düsseldorf office, commented: "My earlier experiences as a client with the Anthem offices in Holland and the U.K. triggered my interest to join since I see massive opportunities in the German market for the high caliber design capabilities that Anthem offers. To my opinion, the German design market can benefit from specialized and professional development of brand and packaging design, and with Anthem, I believe we can raise the bar in Germany... for both smaller and larger players."
Anthem Worldwide, a Schawk Strategic Design Company, with offices in 13 cities across six countries across four continents, has grown considerably over the past five years with acquisitions of established, award-winning design agencies in the U.S., Europe and Australia. The creation of Anthem's integrated global infrastructure has been in response to clients' needs to create more compelling and more consistent brand experiences at home, on the go, at the store and on the shelf in a world where consumers engage more and more with the brands they love in different parts of the world.
Anthem's new office is located at: Marienstrasse 18, 40210 Düsseldorf, Germany. Tel. # 49 16 32 93 2411
Anthem Worldwide, a Schawk Strategic Design Company, is an integrated global network that provides innovative solutions to articulate, unify and manage brand impact. Anthem creates compelling brand experiences by aligning its strategic, creative and executional talent worldwide with the business needs of companies seeking a competitive advantage. Anthem offers a full range of branding and design services to our clients including Campbell's, Coca-Cola, E-Mart, Foster's, General Electric, Hbc, Kimberly-Clark, Microsoft, Nestle, Procter & Gamble, Revlon, Safeway and Unilever. With our network of world-class design professionals in 13 cities, Anthem is presently located in Chicago, Cincinnati, Düsseldorf, Hilversum (The Netherlands), London, Melbourne, New Jersey, New York, San Francisco, Singapore, Sydney, Toronto, and York (U.K.). For more information on Anthem, please visit http://www.anthemww.com
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All I have to say, is that my 20th year was pretty darn wonderful.
20th Birthday in Jerusalem.
December in Jerusalem.
Got married to Jesse. Couldn't be happier about it!
Gained another family.
Drove out to Chicago with my family for a second reception.
Had a sister in law get married.
Had our first garden.
Saw Andrew Bird with Jess
Finished working at Alysse's Bridal.
Gained the cutest nephew in the whole world.
Sent this brother on a mission
Other mentionables:
-moved into two apartments w/ Jesse
-completed two awesome semesters at BYU and almost completed a third.
-went rock climbing all summer long
-road tripped to Cali with awesome people
-started a new job
-started a new calling in church as a primary chorister
-voted for the first time
-went down the orange slide at seven peaks
- saw Sleigh Bells weeks of finals and loved it!
-read Life of Pi, Catcher in the Rye, The Chocolate War, East of Eden, and The Book Thief.
-learned how to make sushi
-kept a bi-weekly vlog (youtube.com/jessnless)
Well folks, it's been real! Thanks for making it possible!
*wedding photos by Anna James


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Hi lovelies,
I love taking pictures but I am always looking for the right spot to take them for my blog posts, taking pictures just anywhere might ruin your shots.
It was right there all along until this day that I grab the opportunity to use the place and it was perfect.
The spot where I took the picture was a bank, close to my boss's makeup studio. I didn't get the right person to take the pictures for me. The person who helped in taking this was in a rush to take it and leave.


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Congrats to Simply Bows and Chair Covers' Real Bride Linda and her new husband Andrew, who got married at one of our favourite venues - As You Like It Jesmond. We adored Linda's vintage style wedding! A true wedding belle!
We got engaged in Menorca back in June 2003 on my birthday! Because we're both very career driven we never had a chance to get married until 2011!
We chose St Bartholomew's in Benton as it is our parish church and Father Martin and Father Daniel are wonderful and we wouldn't want anyone else to have conducted the ceremony for us.
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I understand, for the first time ever, someone asked St. Peter "who are you wearing?"
Yes, indeed.
I am upset that Stephen Hawking discovered how to destroy the universe. Now we just know some high school kid in his mother's basement is going to go ahead and end the universe. I bet that ruins the next season of "House of Cards".
Aw, but he said the equipment needed to be about the size of a planet, if I'm remembering correctly.
If you enter 'p twitter' in Google, you get in order: Pink, Perez Hilton, Psy, PewDiePie and Pele.
I am surprised by zero of these.
I think I am creeping up the Alexandra rankings, though! I'm currently number three after Daddario and Shipp, according to my autofill, which might just be humoring me.
la-, ti-, and wa-.
Don't forget inte-!
Who stores their nude photographs in a cloud? Wouldn't they get wet from the moisture?
I keep waiting for someone to do a strange radical remount of "The Clouds" but using the iCloud somehow, but actually after that sentence I have no idea what direction the adaptation would take. Maybe Strepsiades would send Phidippides to school to learn how to get his documents out of the Cloud, or put them into the cloud, or hack his creditors, or something, and then --
hey wait where's everyone going
how do you respond?
I'm working on it, if it's the question I think it is!
Hawking said the accelerator would be larger than Earth, but it might be included in the iPhone 8 anyway. And if it can't be shrunk, Larry Niven has his next book plot.
It's a pretty big family.
An-, dan-, dowa
Sure, the equipment may be the size of a planet, for now, but like calculators and telephones, they'll find a way to make them smaller….
Moore's Law!
was in Rhymes With Orange a couple of weeks ago. The gist was, a man explaining that, like all Polish names, the accent is on the second syllable. The other person says "yes, Mr Waterski." I'm going to call it waTERskiing from now on.
When I read that Jack the Ripper was known for being into, as it was described back in the 1880s, as "self-abuse", I at first thought they meant that he was a cuter or something like that. I later realized they meant he was more like, how do you say, like Hans Solo.
Wow, you really had to work at that, and I congratulate and salute you. With both hands!
Lu-, Hambur-, Ei-, Al-
Re "waTERskiing": I recall a scene in "How Green Was My Valley" where the brilliant but impoverished young son of a coal miner knows the word "misled" only from reading print material, so is cruelly mocked when he mispronounces it in class as "MY-zled."
That's how I used to pronounce it too! Someone myzeld me!
Ray Rice Janay Rice Malaysia Flight 17 College rankings iPhone Destiny I was fine (albeit depressed) until I reached the last two. Is an iPhone my Destiny???
It's not as bad as the CNN homepage a few weeks ago which ran something like "severed heads Ferguson death of robin williams SWASTIKA FOUND IN MCDONALDS BUN."
I said "mizzled" until my father corrected me. I think I was a teenager at the time (of the correction, I mean).
Tie him to the mizzlemast!
Tom the Butcher just wrote a book which seems to be about the serious study of the psychological use of illegal drugs such as LSD. To test the book, is the entire Post staff now trying LSD to see if the book is correct?If you all are on LSD, will we able to tell if it affects the Post writings or should it look the same as before?
Should look about the same, except
they're trying to tell us something
I just know it
I'm not sure I'd trust one. Imagine you're in hands-off and a truck is heading for you and the screen suddenly shows "RECALL NOTICE FOR SOFTWARE ISSUE"
I can't wait, personally!
Better than the usual RECALL NOTICE FOR DRIVER ISSUE
I just read Gene's chat for this week. I also wonder why so many people take naked photos of themselves and their friends. I never did and it never occurred to me to do so. Granted, I know no one would ever want to see a photo of me naked, or even a photoshopped naked photo of me so long as my face shows, but still….Is this something indicating a major psychological change in how people think? Are people so narcosis tic that they hope that even embarrassing remembrances can be found by others? Is that how people want to be remembered: just as long as you remember the name?. Are we all becoming Paris Hilton?
Okay, okay!
I honestly think this discussion would be better served if we made it about salads.
"Why do so many people take undressed photos of their salads and their friends' salads? I never did and it never occurred to me to do so. Granted, I know no one would ever want to see a photo of my salad, or even a photoshopped image of my salad so long as no radishes are showing, but still... Is this something indicating a major psychological change in how people thing? Are people so narcissistic that they hope that even SALAD PICTURES can be found by others? is that how people want to be remembered, just as long as you remember the salad? Are we all becoming Paris Hilton?"
Pretty much all of these questions could equally be asked of food pictures: they are things that people take a lot of, now, and NEVER would have, before.
Just saying.
On to the actual question:
I just emailed Weingarten (he also asked me this question this weekend, so I had a draft half done) but I think it comes down to two factors:
one: not only "the Internet is for porn" in the immortal words of Avenue Q, but also your computer/phone (surprising number of people do this on their phones, actually) is where you access it. You feel comfortable that certain things you wouldn't want broadcast to the world at large can be seen and/or kept on your personal electronic devices.
two: it's there, and it's "free." People take more pictures now, full stop. The technology to do so is always with you, and an individual picture has no "cost." The democratization of this technology -- and placing it in the hands of folks with still-developing brains, always a way to test what the most impulsive use of a given technology will be -- means that you are going to have pictures you didn't have before. Also, before, if you took a picture, you had to keep a physical record, even if it were a polaroid where it had to pass through no hands but yours. If you took nudes on a regular film camera, who was to say that Robin Williams' character in One Hour Photo wouldn't seize them and hang them lovingly in his den?
Now, you don't have to store them in a "place" and you can keep them the same place you keep all your other most personal secrets -- your notes, all your private communications with your friends, your diary, even. I don't think it's for show. I think it's a record. I think people who take them do still realize they're potentially embarrassing, but I think if you don't forward them carelessly, you're entitled to believe that they're as secure as all your other private files -- which these should have been.
I had issues with detritus for a very, very long time. So long, that I think people didn't actually know what I was trying to say so they couldn't correct me. I was putting the accent on the first syllable. And possibly pronouncing the "i" as an "ee."
"de TREE tis?"
Detritus never bugged me, I think because Petri is pronounced with a similar strange emphasis and hard I.
and what you do mean the C in indict is silent?
This reminds me of the Ambrose Bierce classic:
A spelling reformer indicted
For fudge was before the court cicted.
The judge said: "Enough –
His candle we'll snough,
And his sepulchre shall not be whicted."
Have you ever seen the clip of Ally Sheedy on "To Tell The Truth" at age 13 in 1975 after she wrote a book about Queen Elizabeth I called "She Was Nice To Mice" and before she became a movie star? It's out there on YouTube. I wish I had been that together at that age.
Wait, WAS she nice to mice?
I'm getting side-tracked by the content here. I didn't know this was a reputation QE1 had!
Cute is as cute does.
Some cutters are small sailboats.
A long I. Consonants are hard and soft; vowels are short and long.
Well, that explains why everyone always has so much difficulty pronouncing it, I guess! The hard I and the soft T!
Once met someone who pronounced it DER-biss. Cause, ya know, that's how it's spelled.
This kind of HUR-biss will be punished eventually.
Oh, no, Facebook is down. Should I call 911? Does anyone have 911's phone number?
Google it! Google it!
Sideshow Bob, not to mention his ex-wife Patty (or is it Selma?)
Yes! Never forget!
I am Mr. Zitorzylovynovigconiz The "c" is silent.
At least one of them's silent!
When the minister said "I now pronounce 'you' 'man and wife.'" Yet I still heard him say "you" after that.
I've never heard that before!
I don't think anybody knows whether she was. Ally was just lucky enough to have a mom in the publishing biz who got her cute little story published. A certain amount was made at the time that it's all in Who You Know (or are related to).
Also, can we start calling them QE1 and QE2? I think this needs to occur!
If everyone "likes" facebook on twitter (do they have likes there?) facebook will no longer be down. It's like clapping for Tinkerbell. Trust me. I'm an IT guy.
They will discover them in a box and see that you were once young and pretty. They will not believe it, course.
"Amazing what they could do with photoshop in those days," they'll murmur.
Even when I (a person also named Alexandra) type our first name into the Google search bar, yours is the 3rd result!
I think it's also due to the tireless efforts of Other Alexandra (Alexandra E) who has been posting daily about different and intriguing foods that you can enjoy on your world travels.
Just because more people take pictures of salads today than in 1974 or 1934 doesn't mean that it's a bad thing. But it also doesn't mean that it's a good thing. What I read in Gene's update is the question: "why do you think it's a good thing when I think it's a bad thing?" Your answer says, basically, "what I think is a good thing is irrelevant because it's private." I think there's some merit in that answer but it doesn't address the other question of how to decide what is right and wrong, and why this has gone from being "wrong" to Gene to "right" for you.
I just really don't see this as a question of right and wrong. I thought he was asking why more pictures were taken now, and I think the bottom line answer to that is: you give everyone in the world a camera to carry with them at all times, you are going to wind up with more pictures of more things than you used to have. Some people will use the camera only in ways Gene finds appropriate, other people won't.
I think pretty much all the cases for why it's a bad thing hinge on "well, if it falls into the wrong hands, there'll be hell to pay" but I'm not sure that's a good basis for making decisions about what you do in private. I'm inclined to let people decide that for themselves, with the same assumptions of privacy that they have for the rest of the embarrassing material on their hard drives.
In third place on my list, behind Daddario and Shipp, are Hedison and Chando. I think Google must be humoring you.
They will go EWWWWW and bleach their eyeballs. A young couple we met at a block party told us that when they bought their house, they found, stuck in a corner in the attic, a photo album of BDSM pix of the previous owners, who had moved to a nursing home. It made the young couple particularly uncomfortable because they had grown up a block away and played with the previous owners' grandchildren.
And, see, now, we won't have that problem, because those pics will travel on their hard drives to the nursing home with them, where only their nearest family members will have to go through them, assuming they forget to remove the folders before their demise.
Sometimes I fell left out of the inside joke. terwillipatty? terwillisideshow bob? sign me quizzical
It's the GER family!
OK, I am a pretty serious cook, and I travel and eat out quite a bit. I do NOT understand the obsession with taking photos of your food. What's up with that?
I don't get it either!
I like seeing what my friends have baked, but that's because cakes always look good. But some salads just don't sing to you, no matter how you plate them.
I guess I can understand showing people what wonderful meals you're making, or what fancy restaurants you've been to, under the sort of loose Facebook assumption that people enjoy a passenger seat to your life. Maybe?
said you could tell the brainy nerd students because they would have huge vocabularies but pronounce half the words wrong because they were learning them all from books.
Yes! When you come at life book-first, it's awkward!
Re. "I think pretty much all the cases for why it's a bad thing hinge on "well, if it falls into the wrong hands, there'll be hell to pay" ------------- or, It takes intimacy out of the one-to-one sensual realm, with your partner present for all the senses to be engages. (ie/sense of touch.) Taking and sharing pictures cheapens that, even if it's necessary because you are apart, or want to arouse using another less direct medium. You don't have to agree this is wrong, but it's there...
I think you have to take this up with Gene.
Philadelphia, like, just decriminalized marijuana and I like, like, man, that may not be the best, you know, idea, because there are all these butterflies flying around and, like, they create lots of color and, man, I think it is burning my eyes.
Be well and try to avoid Times columnists!
To defend nerds, my three children (mental giants though they may be :)) each took high school French. They can never help their nerd mother pronounce an unfamiliar French phrase or answer a crossword clue like "Nice Spring". It doesn't take intelligence to say a word correctly.
Thank you Alexandra. I like some of Gene's writing, but he often just doesn't get it, especially on women's issues. (And his insistence that he knows more about feminism than women do makes me INSANE.)
They'll likely wonder why we limited ourselves to two arms, two legs, and other assorted appendages... Viva La Future.
I for one welcome our insect overlords.
I have an exceedingly common name and the last time I checked, I was somewhere around page 43 of the Google results for "{Forename} {Surname}". At first I found this somewhat distressing, but then I realized that future employers will never find those embarrassing photos! As long as I don't run for public office, anyway.
Who was it who said "It's easy to find a needle in a haystack with a match?"
I always take photographs of my food, especially my salads. I love it when my salad has no dressing. What is wrong with such photos? (We are still talking about naked photographs, right?)
I'm sorry I used the word "salad." Word salad.
Also, https://medium.com/the-nib/the-nudie-selfie-sage-d5bba1f56b6c
DEE - tree - tus. Like I said, I think no one had any idea what word I was aiming for. Sounded a little like Atreus, as in House of Atreus. Though they aren't spelled at all alike, so I don't think I can use that as an excuse.
If Greek drama has taught us anything, it is that you can always use the house of Atreus as an excuse.
I figure it'll be like Zaphod and his handy extra arm.
Oh, that would be handy!
It's 12:40 PM ET! Do you know where your towel is?
I totally understand your points but I do think in the end it is incumbent on each of us to consider the worst possible outcomes of behaviors and decide about them accordingly. If someone steals you picture of a salad, so what. But naked pictures is a different story. Look the people who stole them are criminals, NO ARGUMENT. But it is not victim blaming to say that you should behave in ways that minimizes your exposure to these horrible people. Until there are no bad people in the world (i.e. never) you have to do so. It is not victim blaming to say wear a seat belt because a bad drunk driver may hit you. He is wrong, you can minimize the possible damage he can do to you. Do you think I'm wrong here?
I obviously don't think you're wrong about seatbelts. This is the parallel everyone uses for all situations, though, and I don't think it's applicable as universally as some folks seem to think.
"Behave in ways that minimizes your exposure to these horrible people" -- what does this mean? Don't have anything in your house that you don't want the whole Internet to see? That's no way to live.
You have the right to a private life. Celebrities are under more attack from people who want to get under their facade, so they have to take more precautions, but they have the right to a private life. Obviously it's possible to be too naive about this. But I don't think it's a seatbelt situation. Not exactly. There is a cost to living your life as though you were in public all the time that's higher than the cost of buckling and driving on normally. And even if you do, that may not be enough for some of those "horrible people." There's no pleasing horrible people. That's one of the reasons they're so horrible.
TIN-ni-tus, not tin-EYE-tus.
It's not tinnitus?
Then what's tintinnabulation?
He's Odysseus relative and is always giving him bad advice.
My favorite Odysseus companion is Elpenor!
I'm now on the martini diet. So far, only my head has gotten lighter.
Wow, a martini! My grandparents call lunch "beer and wine time," but you're clearly well ahead of them.
Now I"m remembering "Barney Miller," where Sgt. Wojciehowicz would tell people trying to read his nameplate, "it's pronounced just like it's spelled."
My family STILL won't let that one go. I was 8 and we were going to Yellowstone! I didn't know it wasn't pronounced like geezer!
Old Faithful is a good name for a geezer!
From a legal perspective, people who - choose - to be public figures (like celebs) do actually have a lower expectation of privacy than those who do not put themselves in the public eye..
Definitely! That's part of the trade-off. Lower, though, not zero.
I think that native English speakers just can't see the individual letters in French words at all. Why else would they pronounce "bouillon" the same as "bullion"?
Yes! Or any of our French-origin city names!
I wondered why Odysseus didn't just blow Elpenor off - I wouldn't have gone back to Circe's island and risk enslavement a second time just to bury a ditz. But then I'm not Odysseus.
I think we can all agree that Elpenor did not do a good job of minimizing his exposure.
But the individual letters in "bouillon" are not pronounced. Which reminds me of the saying that French is easy to learn because you don't pronounce any of the consonants and all of the vowels are pronounced "eh."
I love that.
And on that note, I should skedaddle, eh!
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Why a Printer's Blog Is the First Thing I Look for
These days, when I try to find out what makes one printing company different from the rest, I turn to the blog. That's right, I go to a website and look for "Blog" in the main menu.
Here's why.
A blog lets you share interesting insights about your company as well as establish your true colors. It's not about equipment or how old your firm is. It's about business-related information and opinions. It's (hopefully) fun and educational.
By its very nature, a company blog is more casual than web site copy. It's still professional, but it's not all buttoned-down and polished. A blog is more like business-casual coffee shop conversation. And because a well-done blog is done on a regular schedule, it's fresh and topical. (I consider this publication my blog, and I wouldn't think of writing the content too far ahead of the publication date. I want to comment on what's happening.)
Back to a printer's blog. If I find such a link on a company's site, I read a few issues to find out if it's compelling, well written, and informative. This body of work helps paint a picture of the company. If it's nothing BUT self-promotional, blog after blog, it gets a thumbs down (and maybe triggers an email from me to the owner with some comments).
I look to see if the blog covers broader topics, like paper, social media, direct mail, the USPS, design trends, industry resources, digital vs. analog communications, file problems, terminology, tips for customers, and so on. Of COURSE it can cover exciting events and accomplishments within your own four walls from time to time – the key phrase being "from time to time."
The best part may be that as a body of work, a blog keeps going and growing. It's alive and engaging. It asks for your comments.
A blog begs to be actively shared (if not, why bother just putting it on your site?). I look for the social media links and check them out, too.
A good blog is to your ideal audience what the yellow brick road was to Dorothy and company: the path leading to your own little Oz, or website.
Your blog should be uploaded to your site (use WordPress or other CMS to make this easy) and then shared in the social channels you habituate. In my case, it's Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
People who like what you're posting will get interested in learning more about you. They'll follow the link back to your site and check you out. If it's a really impressive post, they'll share it. What a bonus.
Aside from giving people a peek under your company's hood and an obvious link back to your website, here are a few other benefits to publishing a company blog:
– It can expand your reach.
– It can establish you as a subject matter expert.
– It can give you a unique voice.
– It can improve your reputation.
– It can generate leads.
– It can generate referrals.
– It can generate sales.
– It can cost less than other marketing efforts.
– It can introduce you to interesting new contacts.
– It can improve your search rankings.
– It can set you apart from your competition.
A well-done company blog creates a high-quality body of content. You can repurpose it in so many ways. You can email it to customers and others (who may or may not follow you in your social media efforts).
In my opinion, a blog is the cornerstone of a company's inbound marketing efforts. It's effective. It's versatile. And it's easier to do than you think.
PS: Here are some great tips for increasing social shares on your blog: http://bit.ly/1q0tev2
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SOCAP15: Themes
In keeping with its eight-year history, SOCAP15 will feature content from across the growing landscape of social capital with a focus on innovative investing and entrepreneurship for impact. Past SOCAP attendees have made it clear that they come to network and collaborate. SOCAP15 will feature expanded opportunities for interaction through participatory sessions. We will devote more programming time for individuals to share inspirational stories and deep practitioner insights in addition to an engaging lineup of panels that stimulate dialogue among various stakeholders.
For the past two years, a significant number of SOCAP sessions have been proposed and selected through SOCAP Open. Submit your session ideas for SOCAP15 and participate in the public voting process to help us convene the content you care about.
Content Themes for SOCAP15:
Impact Investing
|It's been a banner year for impact investing and participation across sectors is accelerating the field into the mainstream. At SOCAP, founders, leaders and practitioners convene with others who are just finding their way in this evolving field for the most dynamic conversations in the impact ecosystem. SOCAP15 will dig into the current state of the field and look to the future, from capital innovations in new issue areas and geographies, to the next generation of metrics and measurement and catalytic support for high-impact entrepreneurs.
|At a conference that declares money can be a source of positive social change and not just a measure of success, we know that meaning is the foundation for lasting impact. Actions driven by money, hype, or fear are short-lived and success achieved by these motivations is often unfulfilling. Meaning is found in community, faith, shared experience, relationships to people and places, communing with nature, self-reflection and self-expression, and knowing that we are making a difference over the long-term. Beyond inspiration, the Meaning track at SOCAP15 grounds the conversation and strengthens our resolve to create the world we want to live in.
|University endowments and leading foundations have been responding to the call to divest from fossil fuels and invest in sustainable energy alternatives. Beyond divest/invest as a response to climate change, SOCAP will explore a total portfolio approach to aligning investment assets with personal or institutional objectives. Muni bonds that advance green infrastructure, public equity products that evaluate environmental, social, and governance factors, community banks as a higher impact use of cash, and other new ways of investing in local communities highlight the investment opportunities across asset classes for an impact portfolio aligned with mission and meaning.
Financial Inclusion
|The growth of social capital markets requires an inclusive and accessible economy, but 2.5 billion adults globally, and more than 100 million in the United States, do not have access to bank accounts. Learn more about technological advances using smart phones and big data, coupled with a culturally literate, anthropological approach to marginalized communities that enable entirely new, yet also profitable approaches to financial inclusion. By lowering the cost of being poor, these innovative solutions have the potential to make a significant positive impact on the lives of people who are outside the mainstream economy in the U.S. and around the world.
Neighborhood Economics
|Let's accelerate the flow of capital into neighborhoods and rural communities, and distribute that capital more equitably in cities. Local investing, creative placemaking, place-based philanthropy, and cross-sector collaboration all play a role in developing a vibrant local ecosystem. Focusing on the assets a community has within it and by combining funding tools in new ways, neighborhood economics means taking back the economy to invest and give in a way that creates community wealth for all.
21st Century Talent
|The growing impact economy needs a strong pipeline of talent, from entry level to top executives. Graduates and mid-career changers are clamoring to join this field, but it requires individuals who are fluent in both business and impact; those who support making a difference and making money equally. How can graduate programs and startups better train multilingual leaders, and how can impact businesses develop and support fulfilling career paths for this sector? At SOCAP15 we will engage the community to uncover the gaps, share solutions, and kick-start the next generation of professional development for the impact economy.
Living in the Future
|"Past performance is not an indicator of future results" is truer than ever in the face of accelerating globalization, climate change, technology, and demographic shifts. By understanding the trends – towards urbanization, sea level rise, decreased eldercare, and more – we can anticipate life in the future and invest to mitigate negative consequences and support resilient, adaptable systems.
Sustainable Supply Chain
|From Fortune 500 companies to seed-stage startups, businesses are making investments to improve the sustainability of their supply chain, resulting in tremendous positive impact and delivering long-term financial benefit. Sustainability measures implemented at multiple points in the design, production, distribution, sales and waste cycle from cradle to grave (or cradle to cradle!) can reduce costs and improve social and environmental outcomes. The scale and leverage of impact investments into sustainable supply chains make it one of the most exciting areas for further innovation.


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Nightboat Poetry Prize Deadline October 31st
Nightboat Books invites submissions to the 2012 Nightboat Poetry Prize.
The winning poet receives $1,000, a standard royalty contract, and 25 free copies of the published book.
Finalists are considered for future publication.
Please carefully follow the submission instructions. They can be found here.
DEADLINE: Postmark date between September 1, 2012 and October 31, 2012.
Kazim Ali is a poet, essayist, fiction writer and translator. His books include several volumes of poetry, including The Far Mosque (Alice James Books, 2005), The Fortieth Day (BOA Editions, 2008), and the cross-genre text Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities (Wesleyan University Press, 2009). He has also published a translation of Water's Footfall by Sohrab Sepehri (Omnidawn Press, 2011). His novels include Quinn's Passage (blazeVox books), named one of "The Best Books of 2005" by Chronogram magazine and The Disappearance of Seth (Etruscan Press, 2009), and his books of essays include Orange Alert: Essays on Poetry, Art and the Architecture of Silence (University of Michigan Press, 2010) and Fasting for Ramadan (Tupelo Press, 2011). In addition to co-editing On the Poetry of Jean Valentine (University of Michigan Press, 2012), he is a contributing editor for AWP Writers Chronicle and associate editor of the literary magazine FIELD and founding editor of Nightboat Books. He is an associate professor of Creative Writing and Comparative Literature at Oberlin College and also teaches in the Masters of Fine Arts program of the University of Southern Maine.


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Thursday, May 28, 2009
Clues- Clues
"Clues" is the self-titled debut album for Montreal indie poppers Clues. Brain child of ex-Unicorn Alden Penner and ex-Arcade Fire member Brendan Reed, the quintet includes multi-instrumentalists Ben Borden, Lisa Gamble, and Nick Scribner. Forming in 2007, Clues has established a following despite the use of any social media promotion such as Myspace, Facebook and Twitter.
The album's opening track, entiled "Haarp," is reminiscent of early Flaming Lips circa Clouds Taste Metallic. An incomprehensive lyric begins the song but is quickly disrupted by the clash of a sole cymbal followed by rumbling guitar distortion. Penner's falsetto vocals peak in periodically throughout the track, setting a steady tone for the dense layer of guitars and drumming that saturate the album.
"Remember Severed Head," begins with an almost robotic instrumentation subtly joined by a clanky marching band drum beat before churning into a very "Unicorns" sound lullaby. The lyrics "who here wants to sleep in the dragon's mouth, who here wants to feel" are also sung on the album's eighth track, "Cave Mouth" which sounds more like a refined version of "Remember Severed Head."
A tedious piano riff formulates "Perfect Fit," one of the album's catchiest tracks. "Elope," is the LP's longest and softest track---a serenity level comparable to that when listening to Simon and Garfunkel is sure to transpire. Penner's quiet vocal amidst soft organ and gentle guitar strumming is a change of pace for the album before resuming into the funkiest album track, "Cave Mouth."
Clues will play in Austin on June 10th at The Independent, a new 300 capacity venue on E 5th St. and I-35. If these guys are as fun as their debut album, their live shows are not to be missed.
Posted by Ashley Cass at 7:38 AM
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