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I don't plan on being single anytime soon. But these days, since Jim is spending almost a month at sea for work, the way I plan my life feels different. I don't really leave time for those slow weeknight meals, the kind that gently unfold once everyone's home. It's not that I mind cooking for just myself and a three-year-old. It's that somehow, spending the evenings with other moms and their kids—having mediocre pizza, or a cacophonous dinner at our favorite pho place, or just hanging out at home, piling a few kids into someone's bathtub after the inevitable toddler drama—feels easy.
I don't know what I'd do without these ladies. They know each other, but they're not necessarily friends. Many of them float into and out of my life from week to week or month to month, by accident or necessity, depending on the season. What they don't know is that at times like these, when I'm balancing work and life and a kid without hands-on help from my husband, I line them up like helpful little G.I. Janes, one night after another. One stops at the store for me for milk. One helps when I back over my son's walker with the car. Another picks all my ripe grapes, because she knows I don't like Concords and they'll be a mess if I don't take care of them. Unknowingly, each one helps with these single little acts of kindness, adding up to make these weeks not just doable, but enjoyable, and not at all single-feeling. I love them for it. This weekend, Graham and I will head to Boise to visit my parents (his first visit since 2009), and some of those ladies will take turns walking the dog and petting the cat and watering the vegetables, supporting me in much more tangible (but actually less important) ways.
I made this homey little gluten-free breakfast cake for them. It's a fallish squashy sort of a thing, scented with allspice and topped with a fluff of honey-sweetened cream cheese frosting. I'll take a piece with us on the airplane—because wouldn't you?—and leave the rest on the kitchen counter, so that as they come and go, these friends that make my life whole, they can stop for a bite. They'll cut jagged pieces from the pan, or maybe even dig in directly, with a fork, and hopefully, they'll taste the sweetness they're giving me each day.
Kabocha Cake with Honey-Cream Cheese Frosting (PDF)
Every fall, as soon as the leaves show the faintest hint of color, I bring a kabocha squash home. Roasted (whole, stem and all) in the oven at about 400° for an hour or so, a volleyball-sized kabocha yields about six cups of mashed squash. In our house, it goes into simple cakes and muffins—if I'm not eating it straight off the roasting pan with a spoon, like baby food.
This cake is tinged with allspice and flavored with honey, but you could use any fall spice (nutmeg, cinnamon, and cardamom come to mind as excellent substitutions) and substitute maple syrup or sugar for the honey, if you prefer. Since it's not too sweet, I like it best for breakfast.
Makes one 8-inch square cake
Dry ingredients
1 cup white rice flour
1 cup millet flour
3/4 cup arrowroot starch
1/2 cup potato starch
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon fresh ground allspice
1/2 teaspoon xanthan gum
1/2 teaspoon salt
Wet ingredients
2 cups mashed cooked kabocha squash (or one 15-ounce can pumpkin)
3/4 cup honey
1/2 cup milk (cow's milk or rice milk)
1/3 cup liquefied coconut oil (warm before measuring)
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
Frosting ingredients
1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
2 tablespoons honey
1/3 cup confectioners' sugar, sifted
1 teaspoon vanilla
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Grease an 8-inch square baking pan with oil or butter, and set aside.
In a large mixing bowl, whisk the dry ingredients together. Whisk the wet ingredients together in a separate bowl, then add the wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and whisk until no white spots remain.
Transfer the batter to the prepared pan, smooth the top, and bake for about 30 minutes, or until the cake is firm in the center and just beginning to brown at the edges. Cool to room temperature.
Using a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, whip the frosting ingredients together on medium speed for 2 minutes, until fluffy. Spread the frosting onto the cake, and serve.


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1988 Saleen Mustang - 900HP Fox
Yes Man: Fox Saleen Will Excite and It Will Delight
Some things you just can't live down. The one time where you saw a Maverick and said, "That looks pretty good." Suddenly, everyone thinks you love every Maverick, which is not the case. Then you take out a couple Cervini's Cobra R bumpers, no big deal, right?! No one's going to remember that! Well, you're wrong... way wrong.
Everyone has something they wish they could take back, whether it's an action or a statement. It could be as simple as a song you played for the Associate Editor of a Mustang magazine during said magazine's biggest competition of the year.
That is Sergio Rojas' cross to bear. During the '09 King of the Street competition, Sergio wanted to show the range of his Saleen's audio system. The song he chose..."Owner of a Lonely Heart" by Yes. Those of you under 40 can YouTube it.
I know the song because two of my older brothers were Yes fans. At the time of this writing, Sergio is 41, so he fits the demographic. Did the song show his Saleen's auditory magic? Sure it did— but Yes? Really, Sergio? So the song has a strong mix of highs and lows, we get it. There are a million other songs that would've got the job done, but then we wouldn't be talking about it now, would we?
Don't think we're the only one picking on Sergio for his musical taste, either. Since he's a fixture at Power by the Hour in Boynton Beach, Florida, whenever we're down there for a tech article, Sergio always comes up as the guy that played that song at KOTS. Sergio won't ever live that down. However, we can all have a good laugh about it.
Fortunately for Sergio, we not only remember Sergio's Saleen for that song, we remember the car because as you can see, it's unbelievable.
Sergio's story starts way back in 1991 when he purchased his first Mustang, an '89 GT. Coming out of an Oldsmobile Cutlass with a Rocket 350, the GT seemed to lack a bit of torque. Sergio's buddy, and 5.0&SF feature alum Kevin Dunn, helped point Sergio in the right direction with the addition of some exhaust components, a cold-air kit, a ported mass air meter, and pulleys.
"Just enough to get into the low 13s," Sergio said. "Well, for good or for bad, here I am, six Mustangs later, owning the same platform in pursuit of Fox-body perfection."
With that first GT, Sergio ended up in the low 11s with a heads/cam/intake combo on the spray. In 1995, that was pretty impressive, but after working hard on the GT to get it to that point, Sergio switched gears to a Honda Civic to see how the responsible and economical half live. Like everyone reading this magazine, Sergio found that way of life wasn't for him.
Fast forward to 1999, Sergio purchased this Fox Saleen. Like his former GT, he went the heads/cam/intake route with the spray. That is, until 2005 when he bought a D.S.S. 331 crate engine and strapped a Vortech YSi supercharger to it.
"The nasty whine of that YSi blower through Flowmasters and the smell of C16 is like crack for Fox Mustang fans," Sergio says. He says of all the combinations he's run in any of his Fox Mustangs, the Vortech YSi garnered the most attention. "All that being said, it became noisy after about two hours of driving, quickly losing its cool factor for me."
Something else that wasn't cool was when Sergio got beat by a homely young punk with glasses in a green '97 Cobra in 2006. "I couldn't believe it, so we stopped and talked for a while," Sergio says. The punk in the Cobra was Power by the Hour's Jake Long, and his Cobra had a turbocharged, Four-Valve combo under the hood. Sergio still believed a turbo was kinda "ricer," but after Jake gave him a ride, Sergio quickly changed his tune. "I was hooked," he said.
After that ride, plans were put into place to switch over to turbocharged power, and the swap took place at Power by the Hour. Around that time we also caught wind of not only Sergio's car, but Jake's car, and another Power by the Hour car in Diego Castro's '00 GT. All three competed in the 2009 King of the Street competition, and all three had, you guessed it, turbos. "I earned a fifth-place finish, and probably would've ranked higher if not for my musical selection during the Ride and Drive portion," Sergio contends. We didn't hold his musical choice against him, but it was good for a laugh for sure.
Anyway, Sergio says competing in the King of the Street was a learning experience for him and his Saleen. The turbocharged combo made 767 horsepower at the wheels on pump gas and meth-injection, but unfortunately, like Jake's Cobra, he hurt the transmission on the dyno, which severely impacted his quarter-mile times. In preparation for the KOTS, Sergio had run a best of 9.70 at 143 mph, but the hurt tranny relegated the car to an 11.2 at 104 mph. That was just using First and Second gear. Furthermore, we don't think Sergio enjoyed our commentary on his Saleen's loose door handles, tight-fitting seats, and the fact we thought it could use a couple hundred more horsepower.
Licking his chops after the KOTS competition, he drove the car for about a year before an abnormal leakdown test signaled a wounded engine. "I decided to pull the engine and have it freshened-up," Sergio says. "This is where I lost my mind." What was supposed to be a simple engine refresh turned into a full redo.
The paint was around 9 years old at the time, and Sergio wanted something different. The car was torn down to a bare shell before he turned to Ronnie's Custom Paint and Body, who built a custom firewall, smoothed the shock towers, and re-routed brake lines, engine wiring, and power steering lines. Sergio also replaced various weatherstripping, window motors, and even those door handles we frowned upon. Ronnie then repainted the car black, but with a blue pearl to give a different look.
While all this exterior stuff was going on, Mustang Performance Racing's Tim Eichorn was busy building the engine with components from Dart, Eagle, Diamond Racing, Bullet Racing Cams, AirFlow Research, and Edelbrock, just to name a few. Tim upped the compression ratio to 9.3:1, as well, while Sergio upgraded the turbo to a Borg-Warner race series 80mm unit. Tig-Vision narrowed the factory 8.8 and added other chassis upgrades, like mini-tubbing the rear for big meats.
To finish addressing the car's needs, Sergio finally focused in on the interior, adding custom reclining "roomier seats for us big boys." The proper word is "husky," Sergio -- who you callin' big?
Speaking of husky, Sergio's Saleen now makes a more-than-respectful 900 hp at the wheels, has cold A/C, power windows, power steering, and cruises 75 mph at 2,000 rpm. "It is what I consider Fox perfection." Yes, we would agree, Sergio. 5.0
Horse Sense: Ask anyone in the South Florida area who does great 'cage work, and we'll bet Tig Vision is on the list. The company installed the rollcage, subframe connectors, Battle Boxes, and mini-tubs, and narrowed the 8.8 in Sergio's Saleen. Tig Vision [(561) 281-2827; www.tigvisionwelding.com] is located in West Palm Beach, Florida.
In preparation for the KOTS, Sergio had run a best of 9.70 at 143 mph, but the hurt tranny relegated the car to an 11.2 at 104 mph
5.0 Tech Specs
Engine and Drivetrain
- Block
- Dart Iron Eagle
- Crankshaft
- Eagle 3.25-in stroker
- Rods
- Eagle
- Pistons
- Diamond Racing
- Camshaft
- Bullet Racing hydraulic roller w/ Comp Cams lifters
- Cylinder heads
- AirFlow Research 205 w/ Total Engine Airflow-ported, Crane Gold roller rockers, and Pacoloy valvesprings Intake manifold Extrude Honed Edelbrock Performer RPM II w/ Accufab 75mm throttle body
- Power Adder
- Borg-Warner 80mm single-turbo w/ custom intercooler
- Fuel system
- Magnafuel 750 fuel pump w/ Custom fuel rails and lines, Bosch 100-lb/hr fuel injectors
- Exhaust
- Power by the Hour-custom headers and Y-pipe w/ Magnaflow after-cat exhaust
- Transmission
- 4R70W w/ FTI 3,400-rpm stall converter
- Rearend
- 8.8 w/ Eaton differential, FRPP 3.55 gear, and Moser Engineering 31-spline axles
- Engine management
- MegaSquirt 2
- Ignition
- MSD Digital-6 w/ MSD Hy-Fire coil, Firecore spark plug wires, and NGK spark plugs
- Gauges
- Auto Meter Phantom series
Suspension and Chassis
- Front suspension
- K-member
- UPR Products
- A-arms
- UPR Products
- Struts QA1
- Springs
- UPR Products coilover
- Brakes
- '03 Cobra
- Wheels
- Weld RT 17x4-in
- Tires
- M&H Front Runner
- Rear suspension
- Shocks QA1
- Springs
- Control Arms
- Tig Vision custom w/ Maximum Motorsports antiroll bar
- Brakes
- '03 Cobra
- Wheels
- Weld RT 17x12-in w/Champion Beadlocks
- Tires
- M&H Racemaster 325/45-17
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Welcome to my blog! Thank you for visiting.I appreciate your interest and welcome your comments.
My personal interests are family history, emigration history, photography and travel.
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Although I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Queenslander, I lived in Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia, commonly called the Top End for nearly twenty years. The climate is tropical with all that entails – hot, humid weather; cyclones or the potential for them; storms, lightning and thunder then clear skies with no rain throughout the Dry. From time to time I'll talk about what's happening here & sights and sounds of the Tropics. Since this was true for much of the time I've blogged, I've left it here, but I've now returned to my roots.
I started my family history in 1986, in the pre-computer, pre-digitisation era. The changes in the ways we can research family history have been enormous but those early skills can prove invaluable when brick walls come up, or to build up a broader picture of the family and their lives. I am an avowed family historian with a determination to learn firstly who my ancestors were, then to learn more about their lives and the places they lived, and from that to tell their stories.
My Families
I have Irish, Scottish, German and English ancestry with one line sitting on the English-Welsh border so I think there's probably a Welsh connection there. The religious affiliations are as diverse with Catholics, Anglicans, Presbyterians, Methodists and Baptists being represented.
In Australia my families are true Queenslanders and many lines go back to the mid-1850s when Moreton Bay was still a colony of New South Wales. As such they played a role in the development of the new colony of Queensland after Separation from NSW in 1859. Railway lines run in the blood stream with many branches having generations of affiliation with Queensland Rail, or indeed even with Irish railways. Like most Australian immigrants, the immigrants were poor working classes but all showed a strong work ethic successfully establishing large families in the state.
I have published the family history of one set of my ancestors: George Kunkel and Mary O'Brien. It is called Grassroots Queenslanders: the Kunkel family and to my great pleasure it won a couple of prizes when it was published.
Other Research and Blogs
My broader research interests include emigrants from Dorfprozelten, Bavaria to Australia especially those who came under the vinedresser schemes of the 1850s; emigrants from Broadford and east County Clare, Ireland to eastern Australia 1848-1872; and anything to do with Murphy's Creek at the foot of the Toowoomba range, but especially its early history and people.
You can find a list of the blogs I write under the Blogroll tab on the sidebar and some tips for researching under Resources (a drop-down box). My blog is copyrighted to me. While I am happy for people to reference something in them, I would appreciate that the reference lists this website. Many thanks!
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Verizon today demanded that "Netflix immediately cease and desist" its practice of telling customers that Verizon is to blame for network quality problems that affect streaming video.
This week, Netflix customer Yuri Victor tweeted a screenshot of a message he got from Netflix that said, "The Verizon network is crowded right now. Adjusting video for smoother playback..." It turns out Netflix has been providing these messages to customers of multiple ISPs for a month.
Verizon is worried that these notices will harm its otherwise sparkling reputation and even cause customers to switch Internet service providers. After all, the US Internet market is flush with competition, with every resident able to choose from so many high-quality service providers that there's no way we could list them all here.
"Netflix's false accusations have the potential to harm the Verizon brand in the marketplace," Verizon Executive VP and General Counsel Randal Milch wrote today in a letter to Netflix General Counsel David Hyman. "The impression that Netflix is falsely giving our customers is that the Verizon network is generally 'crowded' and troublesome. This could cause a customer to think that any attempted viewing of video, whether it be Hulu, YouTube or other sites, would yield a similarly 'crowded' experience, and he or she may then choose to alter or cease their use of the Verizon network."
Milch pointed out that Federal Communications Commission tests found that Verizon FiOS "consistently delivers speeds well in excess of advertised speeds, even during peak busy hour."
It's actually Netflix's fault that video isn't playing smoothly, he claimed, saying "Netflix relies on a panoply of content-distribution and other middle-man networks to reach its customers, trying to lower its costs as much as possible. The cost/quality trade-off is one Netflix has chosen. Netflix has been aware for some time that a few Internet middlemen have congestion issues with some IP networks and nonetheless, Netflix has chosen to continue sending its traffic over these congested routes. To now accuse last-mile ISPs of being solely responsible for service issues that may relate to congestion on peering circuits stemming from network arbitrage by upstream providers is self-serving, deceptive, inaccurate, and an unfair business practice."
Verizon, of course, successfully obtained payment from Netflix in exchange for a direct connection to its network. However, there could still be problems with Netflix video playback on Verizon's Internet service while the links between the two companies' networks are still being established.
"Our two companies recently completed a long-term, strategic agreement to bring Netflix content directly onto the Verizon network for the mutual benefit of both of our customers," Milch wrote. "I sincerely hope this is not a harbinger of things to come in terms of how Netflix treats its network partners and our mutual customers."
Although Netflix caved in to Verizon and Comcast's demands for payment, it has argued that the FCC should protect it from having to pay the ISPs for direct network connections.
Verizon wants details on every message Netflix has sent Verizon customers and specific details substantiating the claims that Verizon's network is at fault.
Milch described Verizon's demands as follows: "Verizon demands that Netflix immediately cease and desist from providing any such further 'notices' to users of the Verizon network. We further demand that within five days from the date of this letter that Netflix provide Verizon with any and all evidence and documentation that it possesses substantiating Netflix's assertion to Mr. Yuri Victor that his experience in viewing a Netflix video was solely attributable to the Verizon network, and that Netflix also provide a list of all Netflix customers on the Verizon network to whom Netflix has delivered such messages with the date and time that each such message was displayed for each user and the purported substantiation for it. Failure to provide this information may lead us to pursue legal remedies, and Verizon reserves all rights in that regard."
Netflix's notice to Victor didn't say exactly how it determined that the poor quality was the fault of Verizon's network. Analyst Dan Rayburn reported yesterday that Netflix sends the messages when it determines a customer is in an area where average bitrate is poor, where there is high congestion in which "the ratio between peak and through traffic is abnormally compressed," and where a high percentage of streaming sessions go through a "rebuffer."
In response to Verizon's cease and desist letter, a Netflix spokesperson said, "This is about consumers not getting what they paid for from their broadband provider. We are trying to provide more transparency, just like we do with the ISP Speed Index, and Verizon is trying to shut down that discussion."


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MONTREAL – For now, Efrain Escudero remains the only homegrown winner of "The Ultimate Fighter" no longer employed by the UFC.
And while the loser of a UFC 124 bout between season six winner Mac Danzig (20-8-1 MMA, 4-4 UFC) and season two champ Joe Stevenson (31-12 MMA, 8-6 UFC) seemed likely to become the second, UFC president Dana White said "Daddy" may be granted a reprieve.
After all, even with the pending UFC-WEC merger just days away, White can't resist hanging on to a fighter willing to throw caution to the wind.
"Here's the thing, and (UFC matchmaker) Joe (Silva) and I were talking about this tonight, we like guys that fight," White said. "We like guys that come in and lay it on the line."
Stevenson did exactly that in his main-card matchup with Danzig. After absorbing a front kick and a lead left from Danzig, Stevenson pushed forward with a few overhand straights. Danzig appeared to stumble momentarily, and Stevenson continued to press in. As he did, he walked right into a perfectly executed counter left hook that earned Danzig a victory just one minute and 54 seconds into the fight – and also saw him walk away with a $100,000 bonus for the evening's "Knockout of the Night."
For Stevenson, it was his second-straight loss and dropped him to 2-4 in his past six fights. Nevertheless, White said Stevenson – who earned "Fight of the Night" checks in three of his four fights prior to Saturday's loss to Danzig – may not necessarily be receiving a pink slip on Monday.
"Joe Stevenson has had a bad run, but it's just so tough to cut a guy that comes in and does what he's supposed to do," White said. "He's one of those guys. He got knocked out trying to knock [Danzig] out tonight. That's what happened.
"We'll see what happens with Joe Stevenson. I respect him. Joe (Silva) respects him. We like him. I wouldn't say he's getting cut."
As for Danzig, the win and the bonus were certainly appreciated. Mired in a 1-4 slump heading into the contest – a streak that did involve an unquestionable robbery when Yves Lavigne incorrectly halted Danzig's UFC 115 bout with Matt Wiman – Danzig knew he needed a positive result.
But after returning to the win column, Danzig said it was hardly a pressure release. Instead, it was just step one of the journey he's beginning again after a series of unfortunate setbacks.
"I don't feel that I can relax," Danzig said. "Regardless of whether you're coming off a six-win winning streak or if you have a couple of losses, you might be on shaky ground. You've got to go out there if you're a fighter. That's what you do for a living. You're a professional. You still have to go out there and fight to win. It's like 100 percent every time.
"I'm happy with my performance, but no, it doesn't make me feel like I can rest now. In order to get back to where I wanted to be a couple of years ago and where I started heading, I've still got to put together a streak of wins and put myself in top contender status. I absolutely plan on doing that. There's no break. It's back to the gym."
For more on UFC 124, check out the UFC Events section of MMAjunkie.com.
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Okay, this experimental post is what we'll call "how much shit can I cover in one hour because I don't want it hanging over my head all weekend, plus I just got a new Sous Vide Supreme so you know I'll be wanting to write about THAT soon…." Lots of photos….very shitty quality as is my custom.
Since we last spoke I've had lots of good meals, a wedding anniversary, a birthday, and next week is the big 2 year "other" birthday. Busy summer so far…the markets are in full swing, my golf game continues to improve, and I'm in that "chill out on the eating so you don't embarrass yourself when you go in for your yearly checkup" phase. Once some target-dining is done in a couple of weeks we're going to try a lean meat and vegetable cleanse my wife read about somewhere.
Sooooo, where to begin…..I GUESS I should start with The Rancho Gordo Dinner at The Rieger Hotel Grill and Exchange a few weeks ago. You know my dining is very Rieger-centric as of late, but I didn't even know about this dinner until a friend called to tell me that a 12-top cancelled and they were needing diners. No brainer. I was in.
The dinner was to honor the products of Rancho Gordo….beans and various heirloom products out of California. Excellent food, incredibly nice people.
Red wine braised octopus with Alubia Criollo, Bone Marrow Puree and Cucumber
Good stuff…the octopus was actually saran wrapped tightly and cooked, then sliced across in order to create short little bits and bites in the beautiful display you see here.
Scallops, Shrimp, Oysters,Canchas and Citrus
Ceviche dish with the equivalent of corn nuts…..totally excellent.
That's Howard Hanna holding the entire thing prior to slicing….it's essentially a huge section of the pig going from the skin inward to the loin/tenderloin. It is wrapped around a paste of various herbs and spices and then roasted to perfection. He's been serving this since they opened late last year, only on Saturday nights, and I have to say this was the best version he's done so far.
Heirloom Bean Salad, Yellow Indian Woman Beans with Pecorino and Sage, Braised Tuscan Kale with Garbanzo Beans
I guess I didn't remember to take a picture of this dish…..but it sure was good. So was the chickpea and kale dish I didn't capture a photo of either.
Susan's Meyer Lemon Chiboust,Piloncillo Cake and Canela Whipped Cream
I'm all about puddings, trifles and things of that nature. This was very tasty…and as anyone knows who has had the misfortune of dealing with piloncillo in your kitchen….someone was doing God's work here. Great end to the meal.
We just celebrated our 2nd wedding anniversary, and I think the tradition we're going to try and keep is to take a roadtrip every year. Last year we took the train to St. Louis, but THIS year was the real deal…..we decided months ago that Deadwood, South Dakota was the perfect destination. Why? Because the HBO series fucking ruled. Sound logic. Well, due to the huge flood of 2011, our route had to be modified, but we still managed to see some great touristy sites. On the way up, we spent a night in Sioux Falls, where every single business doubles as a casino. Our first vacation meal was at "Poppadox Pub", because it was rumored that they had the best chislic in all the land. What in the fuck is chislic, you may ask? I hadn't heard of it either, but it's basically just deep fried chunks of sirloin, so how bad can that be? The chislic was good, the wings were fantastic, and apparently Poppadox is an alcoholic's paradise because they have drink specials like $9 pitchers of well drinks.
Poppadox, and….CHISLIC!
The Corn Palace!
A little farther down the road we stopped in Mitchell, SD to visit the Corn Palace. Actually, WAY cooler than we expected and everyone was incredibly friendly with the ironic exception of Cornelius….the Corn Palace's mascot who shows up to mug for the camera twice per hour.
THE Wall Drug!
I don't even know what to say about this place. It's fucking crazier than any Travel Channel program can possibly describe. The number of people pouring into that place….and the sheer size……great homemade donuts, free ice water, I'm done talking about it.
There are two things to do in Deadwood- drink and gamble. So I guess not much has changed in the past hundred and fifty years. Not as many whores as back in the days with Al Swearengen, but my guess is that is only because it wasn't bike week. We did see some of the roughest trade imaginable though…..woof. We stayed in the ultra-luxurious Bullock Suite in the Bullock Hotel. Great room, and we managed to find plenty to do during our stay without feeling rushed. I played some golf, we went to Mt. Rushmore, visited Mt. Moriah Cemetery, toured a creepy mining museum, ate dinner in a train car…..but one of the most memorable things about the trip was our dinner at The Corn Exchange, about an hour away in Rapid City.
This place would be a rare find for most towns, and as far as I can tell this is about IT for the entire state of South Dakota when it comes to "real" dining with "real" service. Great experience, I can't recommend it highly enough. Young and enthusiastic waitstaff, an owner who isn't shy about waiting tables on a Saturday night, and truly top notch food. A picture of Chez Panisse greets you at the front….rightfully so.
This course is a corn pancake topped with smoked salmon and a cucumber sauce. Dynamite dish, my wife has been craving it ever since.
Here are some perfectly cooked tiger shrimp in a lobster saffron sauce with fresh English peas….other stuff too…can't recall.
Homemade pheasant ravioli with more of those same tasty peas. The filling for these was very well executed by someone who was well trained…close to a mousseline but with more texture, and you knew you weren't just eating chicken.
This is my bone-in pork chop with an addictive tomato and pepper jam. Maybe one of the best cooked pieces of pork I've ever eaten.
Unfortunately, we did not capture a photo of the butterscotch pot de creme before devouring it. Honestly, I can't say enough good things about the Corn Exchange in the time I'm allowing myself. This is a must-visit if you are ever even close to the area.
"EL COMEDOR" in the Port Fonda Airstream!
The food truck craze has hit critical mass. But that is all bullshit you can forget about. The only place you need to put on your hipster to-do list is Port Fonda. And if you're like me, and have a knack for booking the most awesome seats on the planet, you and five of your friends can snag one of the four seatings they do each weekend inside the redesigned and well appointed Airstream trailer.
I like Chef Patrick Ryan. He's Bayless-trained, he cusses as much as I do, and has that same whore with a heart of gold persona that I attempt to exude. He's the shit. And he can cook.
Our four course dinner started off with us roasting at approximately 175 degrees….First Friday on the hottest day of the year thus far. That was quickly forgotten when the food started hitting the table. Oh, and Howard Hanna sent over a bottle of wine with his compliments because he also rules the fucking earth, and I love him enough not to bust his balls about the fact that I can't drink. Just great people…and we had a SUPER stellar group of diners to feed off of as we were feeding.
First course was a roasted corn app with crema, shown above. Good start, a teaser.
Second course were the chilaquiles….hard to see in this photo but it's kind of like if Jesus Christ turned the water into Frito pies at the marriage feast and then topped the fuckers with a perfectly done Campo Lindo egg and a tomatillo and pepper sauce. Honestly, so far beyond the best version I've ever had it makes me sad for all the rest. And the bonus…it's on the regular menu pretty often so you don't have to get a seat inside to enjoy it.
The main course is basically one whole cured, roasted, and glazed pork butt that you tear apart like animals with tools and weapons, fighting for chunks of the brulee-candylike pig skin in order to create a perfect bite as shown above. All sorts of fixin's and homemade tortillas come with this pork orgy. Goddamn what a good meal. Made me sad I've only got about 1/6 of a stomach.
And after all that you don't expect a "real" dessert, but Patrick is a trained pastry chef so the final mind-raping of the evening was his deep fried "tres leches/horchata" ricotta fritters with a tres leches sauce and chunks of local fresh peaches. I've had a hundred versions of the ricotta fritter, and THESE sent all of THOSE to timeout.
The best. Cool staff, some of my very best friends, and a total bargain…..$250 bucks for the table minus tip….I've spent more than that on one meal by myself in NYC or DC, and while the food was great it wasn't even close to as much FUN. Sweating like animals, eating like pigs, joking around all night, going over to fuck with the staff at The Rieger (Port Fonda parks in their parking lot)…..man, this was the real deal. I SHALL return….as soon as possible.
And that's about it for me, pricks. My hour is up and I am OUT. I MIGHT come edit later….or not!
48 Hour Shortribs in the Sous Vide Supreme AWAIT! Golf is CANCELLED!


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Jeter unsure whether A-Rod will be at training
TAMPA, Fla. — New York Yankees captain Derek Jeter doesn't know whether suspended teammate Alex Rodriguez will join the team at spring training this month.
Rodriguez was dealt the most severe punishment in the history of baseball's drug agreement when an arbitrator ruled last month the third baseman is suspended for the entire 2014 season for violations of the drug rules and the sport's labor contract.
Baseball's drug rules say suspensions cover the regular season and postseason but specifically exempt spring training. However, the Yankees are not likely to want Rodriguez at their camp, which opens Feb. 14.
"I have no idea," Jeter said Friday after working out at the Yankees' minor league complex. "You'd have to ask him."
Jeter has been in communication with Rodriguez but hasn't offered any advice on whether he should attempt to report. At the time of the arbitration decision, A-Rod's spokesman said the player wanted to be with the team in Tampa.
"I'm not an adviser, man," Jeter said. "I don't know, really, enough about it to even comment on it. I don't know the rules, the regulations."
Jeter, who turns 40 in June, completed his third week of on field work. He was limited to 17 games last year after breaking his left ankle during the 2012 AL championship series.
Jeter is taking batting practice, fielding grounders at shortstop and running.
"I feel good," Jeter said. "I've been working hard, and I've had a complete offseason to workout."
NOTES: The Yankees will hold an introductory news conference for Japanese RHP Masahiro Tanaka at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday. "I think everyone is curious," Jeter said. "Everything they say about him has been all positive. Any time you add pitching, it's going to help us out."


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With the 75th Anniversary of Prohibition's Repeal upon us, the ladies of LUPEC turn our thoughts to late, great Prohibition-era forebroads like Texas Guinan. We wrote a brief bio of the little devil in this week's Dig; to read more about this actress-turned-Speakeasy-owner, check out Pinky Gonzales' Women's History Month toast on Tex.
Here are a few more fun facts* on the ol' gal, for your reading pleasure:
- When the Depression hit, Texas and the 40 chorus girls who worked her Speakeasy took the show on the road with plans to open in Paris. She was denied the permits necessary to open and entry to France. Ever the savvy marketer, Texas simply dubbed the show "Too Hot for Paris" and took the U.S. by storm.
- "Miss Guinan was one of the finest and most grateful patients I have ever attended," Dr. J. A. Machlachlan, who attended to Tex on her deathbed, told the New York Times. "She told me she had never touched alcohol in her life."
- Though she was infamous for having her joints raided and even padlocked by the fuzz, Tex never admitted to serving alcohol in her clubs.
- Guinan has been credited with adding such gems to the vernacular as "butter and egg men" (to describe her well-heeled patrons) and for asking club goers to "give the little ladies a great, big hand."
- Texas closely studied contemporaries Lillian Russell and Mae West, and "while all three women could sing and act, only Texas could ride a horse (named Pieface) and shoot."
*By facts we mean items we dredged up on her from old New York Times clippings and the Web. Tex was larger than life and was commonly remembered that way; we invite you to take these anecdotes with a grain of salt.
Boston kicks off celebrations for the 75th Anniversary of Repeal Day TONIGHT at Eastern Standard! The staff will transform the restaurant into a Jazz Age Speakeasy, complete with barricaded entrance and guys and dolls dressed to the nines. Entrance to this party will cost 'ya – $120 gets you pre-dinner canapes and cocktails (at 6:30 p.m.), dinner and cocktails (at 7:30 p.m.), dancing and more cocktails, with a late-night breakfast served for the last ones still standing circa-1 a.m. If you can't make the scene 'til later, $40 gets you in for drinks, dancing, and mayhem at 10 p.m. Rumor has it Texas Guinan herself might be there – will you?
The actual anniversary of Prohibition's Repeal is tomorrow, so you can keep the party going all night/day/night if you like. Why not stop toast Prohibition's Repeal at a venue that occupies a former speakeasy's space? The Marliave downtown fits this bill, as does Stanza dei Sigari in the North End. And remember, it's always more fun if you dress up.
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By Dave Wagner: CNJ sports wrietr
Eastern New Mexico University's cross country teams were a bit disappointed with their finishes in last year's Lone Star Conference meet — fifth for the men, ninth for the women.
They hope to make amends this season, beginning with Friday's season-opening Buffalo Stampede at Canyon, Texas, hosted by West Texas A&M.
"I think we're all in pretty good shape," second-year ENMU coach Joel McMullen said. "I'm very pleased with the way everyone came in this year. I think we're ready to get out there and run."
Both teams return five runners from a year ago, although each will be one short of that for now as junior Ricardo Hernandez of Carlsbad for the men (shin splints) and junior Laura Rivera for the women (knee problem) will be sidelined for the time being.
Hernandez was one of the Greyhounds' top runners a year ago, along with sophomore Jason Garcia and senior Orlando Sanchez. Two Kenyans, sophomore Kennedy Baiywo and redshirt freshman Felix Boit, could be ready to help, McMullen said, along with freshman Derek Heino of Pine Hill and Michael Thomas of Kirtland.
"I'm kind of anxious to get the season started," said Sanchez, who is from Los Lunas and is in his fourth year in the program. "I've been running since the seventh grade, and it comes down to this season.
"This is the first full squad (seven) that we've had since I've been here. We've come a long way. When I first started, we were just scattered, but now we have a good team bond."
McMullen said the men's team has a goal of placing in the top three in the LSC meet and the top eight in regional competition, while the women's squad is shooting for top five and top 10 finishes, respectively.
"The kids that are back, and the freshmen, are going to pick up the slack," McMullen said. "We're hoping for significant improvement from last year."
For the women, Chavez is the lone senior, but McMullen said freshman Krista Monaghan of Gallup is the team's No. 1 runner at this point while another freshman, Stacy Salazar of Albuquerque Sandia, should also be in the top four along with Chavez and sophomore Joyce Doan.
Others back from a year ago are juniors Lisa Lopez and Laura Shorty.
"I think we're going to have a really good team," said Chavez, whose father, Leroy, and uncle, George, were members of ENMU's 1973 men's NAIA national championship cross country team. "This year, we want to be in the top three (in the LSC), or at least the top five."
Chavez figures that for the Zias to move up, they'll probably have to beat out teams like Texas A&M-Commerce, Texas A&M-Kingsville, WT and Tarleton State.
McMullen admits the Hounds and Zias are thinking big.
"We've set some pretty high goals for ourselves as a team," he said. "If we get stronger through the year, by the time we get to (the LSC meet) we could achieve those goals."
He said the WT meet is a good one to start out, setting the stage for bigger meets in the coming weeks at New Mexico and New Mexico State.
"It's not a high profile meet, but it's usually good competition," McMullen said of Friday's get-together. "It's a good way for our freshmen to get that first-meet anxiety out of their system."


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A home appraisal is a critical component of any real estate transaction that involves a mortgage loan. If you are refinancing you will need an appraisal, if you are selling your home to someone that needs to get a mortgage, he or she will need to have an appraisal done.
What Is a Home Appraisal?
A home appraisal is an opinion on value by a qualified, unbiased third party. Mortgage lenders require an appraisal to be completed when you are refinancing your mortgage. An appraisal is also completed in a transaction when someone is buying a home to make sure they have not over paid for it.
Mortgage Lenders require appraisal to ensure that homeowners are not over paying for a property because if the borrower stops paying for the mortgage the lender will take action to remove the borrower from the home and sell it to recoup their money, this is why it is important for the home to be worth more than the money loaned. In essence, a home appraisal is a lawyer of protection for the mortgage lender.
The Appraisal Process and How Appraisal Values Are Determined
These are the main factors that influence your home's appraisal value: current market trends which are reflected in the comparable properties the appraiser selects, the house's features,, square footage, number rooms/bedrooms & bathrooms, condition, is the property considered up to date, landscaping and exterior condition and parking (garage). The appraiser will do an interior and exterior inspection for the above noted factors and will also make note of any deferred maintenance which will be included in the report for the lender.
The appraiser will complete his report on a standard report form that is required by their appraisal jurisdiction. The information that has to be included in an appraisal report will not vary much from Canada to the United States.
A standard report includes the following: comparable sales, a street map, building sketch, square footage, photos of the front, back and street scene of the home, photographs of each comparable property used; a map showing the location of the comparables in relation to the subject property, plot map, description of intended users of the appraisal report, photo and description of each room in the house.
The cost of a residential appraisal report ranges from $250-$500 and the homeowner is typically responsible for paying the appraiser..
What Homebuyers Need to Know
When you're buying a home an appraisal could potentially sink your deal. If you make an offer to purchase a house, towards the end of the home buying process your mortgage lender will require that the home being purchased be appraised. If the home appraises for less than your offer to purchase the lender will not provide the loan, however, this could be good for a buyer as well because you may be able to negotiate to lower purchase price but very often at the point of the home appraisal in the buying process an agreement of purchase and sale is already in place.. If a bad appraisal is standing between you and your home purchase, look into getting a second opinion via a second appraisal. Appraisers are not perfect and it is possible for them to make mistakes.
What Home Sellers Need to Know
As a seller, a low appraisal means that you may have to lower your home's price to get it sold. Lenders won't approve loans for more than a home is worth, and holding out for an all-cash buyer who doesn't require an appraisal as a condition of completing the transaction is unlikely to net you a higher sales price. No one wants to overpay for a home but more importantly a mortgage lender will not over lend on the value of a property, therefor if the appraisal comes in lower than what your buyer is offering this will likely sink your deal unless you lower the price.
What Refinancing Homeowners Need to Know
If you're refinancing your mortgage and looking to access some of the equity in the home the appraised value is very important. Mortgage lenders will have maximum loan to value ratio that they will go up to so the larger the difference between what you owe on your current mortgage and what the home is appraised at obviously the better. Having a better loan to value ratio will also make obtaining the lowest possible mortgage rates possible. Lenders put a lot of emphasis on this ratio so a high appraisal value is very important.
The Bottom Line
The home appraisal is a very standard process these days in any real estate transaction involving a mortgage loan, it should be taken serious, you should know how the appraisal works and what the value is based upon, if you feel your home is undervalued you can speak with the appraiser and make your case or get a second opinion.


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Nov. 13, 2009 — -- Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin takes aim at running mate John McCain's staffers and big media names in her new book, "Going Rogue: An American Life," which is already at the top of Amazon.com though it won't be released until Nov. 17.
The Associated Press was able to buy a copy of the 413-page book, which takes its title from words spoken by presidential candidate John McCain's staff whenever the former Alaskan governor went against McCain camp strategy. It's a friction between the two camps the book spotlights in earnest.
Palin writes about jaded campaign aides who kept her "bottled up" and away from reporters, according to The Associated Press. And Palin details the events of election night, when she was informed by McCain staffers that she would not be permitted to give her own concession speech.
Click here for more on the two speeches Palin never gave on election night.
According to the AP, Palin claims in the book that the campaign later charged her $50,000, what it cost to vet her as a vice presidential candidate. Trevor Potter, general counsel for the McCain campaign, told the AP that Palin was never asked to pay a legal bill.
"To my knowledge, the campaign never billed Gov. Palin for any legal expenses related to her vetting and I am not aware of her ever asking the campaign to pay legal expenses that her own lawyers incurred for the vetting process," Potter said.
Palin also writes that she did not like how the campaign revealed that her teenage daughter, Bristol, was pregnant. She believed the campaign's statement glamorized and endorsed the pregnancy, the AP reported.
The former VP candidate didn't mention the baby's father, Levi Johnston, in her book but she told Oprah Winfrey, in an interview scheduled to air Monday, that he is "part of the family" despite the apparently strained relationship.
"It's lovely to think that he would ever even consider such a thing, because of course you want -- he's part of the family," Palin said. "I think he needs to know that he is loved and he has the most beautiful child and this can all work out for good. It really can. We don't have to keep going down this road of controversy and drama all the time."
Tune In: Barbara Walters sits down with former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin for a five-part series which will begin airing on "Good Morning America" Nov. 17.
Palin on Couric: 'I Knew It Was a Bad Interview'
Palin also criticizes major names in the news media, including CBS News anchor Katie Couric and ABC News anchor Charles Gibson for interviews that Palin said appeared not sufficiently substantive, the AP reported.
Palin writes that a McCain campaign aide first proposed doing the interview with Couric, saying tthat Couric liked and admired Palin. The aide told Palin Couric suffered from low self-esteem and Palin replied that she began to "feel sorry" for the CBS anchor.
But Palin writes that Couric was "biased" and badgering during the interview in which Palin stumbled on questions about McCain's record in the Commerce Committee and what newspapers she reads.
Palin told Oprah she did not agree with the campaign's positive reaction to the interview.
"The campaign said, 'Right on. Good. You're showing your independence. This is what America needs to see and it was a good interview,'" Palin said. "And of course I'm thinking, if you thought that was a good interview, I don't know what a bad interview is because I knew it was a bad interview."
In the book, Palin reportedly compares Gibson to a disapproving principal who "peered skeptically" at her during their interview. She writes that he did not seem interested in "substantive issues."
But not all of the book is about her political campaign. The AP reports that the book, described as having a "folksy" and "homespun" tone, also discusses her upbringing in Alaska and when she met her husband, Todd Palin, in 1982.
Palin's book tour is set to criss-cross the nation's heartland, avoiding major cities and hitting lots of political battlegrounds.
Tune In: Barbara Walters sits down with former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin for a five-part series which will begin airing on "Good Morning America" Nov. 17.
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Alex speaks a language no-one else alive understands. Well, we call him Alex, but we don't know what he calls himself. He's always refused to signal this.
It's not that he has any hesitation about speaking. He will happily speak all day. Just that nobody knows what he's saying. We detect pleasure, frustration, thoughtfulness and a range of other states. But the argument he's advancing so passionately eludes us.
Today, though, Alex is silent. Is he angry? Sad? Or has he simply finished reciting the entire history of his race?
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Serge Dedina is the author of Wild Sea: Eco-Wars and Surf Stories from the Coast of the Californias, Saving the Gray Whale ( University of Arizona Press and Surfing the Border. He is the co-founder and Executive Director of WiLDCOAST/COSTASALVAjE, an international organization that conserves coastal and marine ecosystems and wildlife.
Since 1980, Serge Dedina has dedicated most of his time to protecting the coastal wildlands of the Californias. He has successfully worked with fishing communities and grassroots organizations on both sides of the Mexico-U.S. border to preserve more than three million acres of globally significant coastal and marine habitats.
He is the former founding director of The Nature Conservancy's Baja California and Sea of Cortez Program. Serge was instrumental in the development of two national parks along Baja's Sea of Cortez coastline and a research and educational center in Magdalena Bay. He also initiated an international campaign that successfully stopped the Mitsubishi Corporation from destroying San Ignacio Lagoon—the world's last undeveloped gray whale lagoon.
The Surf Industry Manufacturer's Association named Serge the "Environmentalist of the Year" in 2003 for his work to protect the coastline of Baja California. In 2009 he received the San Diego Zoological Society's Conservation Medal. The California Coastal Commission and Sunset Magazine awarded Serge the "Coastal Hero" award in 2009 in recognition of his conservation work. He is a member of the Sweetwater Union High School District Hall of Fame. Serge was named a UCSD John Muir College "John Muir Fellow" in 2013 in recognition of his contributions to conserving coastal environments.
Serge helped broker a deal to protect 140,000 acres (570 km2) at Laguna San Ignacio, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Since then he has helped to preserve over 400,000-acres and 150 miles of Lagoon habitat and shoreline. He also helped to stop plans by Mexican government agency FONATUR, to build mega-resorts in some of the most isolated coastal regions and national parks in Northwest Mexico. The "Don't Eat Sea Turtle Campaign" carried out by WiLDCOAST reached more than 300 million people and was called the "best ocean campaign in human history" by Shifting Baselines Director Randy Olson.
In 2009 Serge worked with a national coalition of environmentalists and fishing groups, Senator Tom Coburn, and the Obama White House to kill plans by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to carry out destructive pork-barrell dredge and fill projects nationwide.
Serge is now directing an effort to help the State of California manage and preserve a new system of marine protected areas in Southern California and a collaborative program with indigenous communities and Mexico's National Protected Area Commission to conserve globally important sea turtle nesting beaches in Southern Mexico. Additionally, he is helping to direct efforts to continue to preserve Cabo Pulmo National Park along Baja's East Cape, one of the world's most successful marine reserves. He successfully worked with Chontal indigenous communities in southern Oaxaca to force Mexico's state-owned oil company PEMEX to respond to 2012 oil spill that impacted more than 120 miles of coastline, including some of the world's most important sea turtle nesting beaches. Mexico's Attorney General later filed charges against PEMEX for damages associated with the spill.
The Wall Street Journal, PBS, The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, New York Times, CNN, CBS-News, USA-Today, the Washington Post, The Economist, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, and the San Diego Union-Tribune have reported on Serge's conservation activities.
Serge has published articles on the environment and surfing in the Los Angeles Times, Grist, VoiceofSanDiego.org, San Diego News Network, Surfline, The Surfer's Journal, San Diego Union-Tribune, The Surfer's Path, Journal of Borderlands Studies, and California Coast and Ocean. He writes a weekly column, Southwest Surf, on surfing and the coastal environment for Patch.com owned by AOL.
He holds a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Master's degree in Geography from the University of Wisconsin and a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from the University of California-San Diego.
An avid surfer, Serge is a former State of California and City of Imperial Beach Ocean Lifeguard. He has lived, surfed, worked and studied in El Salvador, Mexico, Peru, Spain, England, France and Morocco. Serge currently lives in his hometown of Imperial Beach with his wife Emily and sons Israel and Daniel. In November 2014, Serge was elected Mayor of Imperial Beach.


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Just when you think you know what's going to happen, you get thrown for a loop. I thought Brett was going home for sure last night, but the quiet, unassuming nice guy is becoming a real threat to Foa Foa.
At the reward challenge, when Natalie picked Brett first for her team, Russell and Jaison definitely took notice. They couldn't help but wonder if Natalie was thinking about turning against the alliance. But that wasn't their only worry. At the immunity challenge, Brett won again. Two wins in a row? That really got Russell and Jaison thinking. They'd planned to get rid of Brett last night, but now that he was safe they'd have to come up with a new plan. Russell wanted to target Mick, but Jaison had other ideas. He marched right up to Russell after the challenge and told him point blank that Shambo had to go. His reason? She wasn't as good as Mick at challenges and they needed to keep someone who'd help them win against Brett. He had a good point. If Brett kept winning immunity, which he very well could do (Hello! Anyone remember Colby?), then he'd sail to the finals and they'd be the ones at risk to go home. Russell wasn't sure. He knew keeping Shambo would help him at the end of the game, but then again, he had to get there first.
At tribal council Russell heeded Jaison's advice and voted with everyone else to get rid of Shambo and her mullet. Poor Shambo. She was nervous that they'd betray her, and she was right. You can't be a pawn in this game and expect to win, Sham.
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Sunday is the finale and I'm anxious to see who'll be the sole survivor. If Brett manages to keep winning immunity, then he's a lock to take home the million. But my money's on Russell. As much as he irks me, Bulldog has played a heck of a game. If no one makes a move to take him out, then he's going straight to the finals. And at that point I don't see how he could lose. Then again, stranger things have happened in this game. —Angela Ebron


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Show Your Pride! This rainbow pendant is a great way to celebrate Pride and show support to the LGBTQ community. Made of fused glass, the piece is hand-formed, fused in a kiln, and hand-finished. The pendant is 2.50" at the widest point. The pendant comes on a 36" leather cord in your choice of color: dark brown, tan, or saddle brown.
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I never knew Bruce Wayne as a rabble-rouser, but do you think this will provoke the Obama administration and stir some contention in Washington? Certainly folks like Paul Krugman and Brad Delong should come out and speak against Bruce Wayne.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Ecocomic Recession Watch: Streets of Gotham Edition
I never knew Bruce Wayne as a rabble-rouser, but do you think this will provoke the Obama administration and stir some contention in Washington? Certainly folks like Paul Krugman and Brad Delong should come out and speak against Bruce Wayne.
Posted by ShadowBanker at 10:06 AM
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Bruce Wayne (Hush) is right.
The stimulus package has not had the intended result (it may yet). The government cannot afford to grow, but the private sector has considerable growth potential. Overregulating small businesses isn't going to help that happen.
- July 22, 2009 at 10:28 AM
- Gavin said...
Do we have any evidence yet that Tommy Elliot is providing a billion dollars to the private sector instead of directly to the city of Gotham or as, in effect, an NGO?
Although, if you wanted, you could make a good argument that since Elliot's goal is to bankrupt Wayne's heirs, that if he's giving the money to the city of Gotham, he's doing it because he knows it will be misappropriated and wasted. (Investments might turn a profit.)
- July 22, 2009 at 10:32 AM
- Will said...
It is a fairly convulated theory being proposed by Hush. He says the private sector, but, in the panels not shown, he speaks about donating a billion dollars a month to Gotham until the crisis is averted. That is not really the "private sector" lifting the country out of the recession, but some quasi-Keynesian approach where the private sector funds, but the public sector sets the macroeconomic policies. In a sense, it is almost voluntary socialism.
- July 22, 2009 at 12:03 PM
- Marcelo @ Frontier Economy said...
Didn't Bruce (not Hush) put a lot of money into Gotham's reconstruction after No Man's Land? It seems to me that -until we learn more about how Tommy deploys Bruce's money- this is WE's M.O., with just the scale raised a bit.
BTW, Baron Rothschild said "buy when there's blood in the streets." Considering how often large bits of Gotham have to be rebuilt (apparently, again to a vibrant economy), and how WE always seems to have cash at hand, it's not strange that the Waynes own a big part of the city. You just need the patience to keep buying everything that gets destroyed.
- July 23, 2009 at 4:07 AM
- ShadowBanker said...
Gavin and Will -- I think you're both right. There really is no statement of where Hush is actually pouring this money. He might very well be giving it towards Gotham's public health care system or education.
Marcelo - Good point about Bruce donating all that money after No Man's Land, but I can't imagine it coming near $1 billion a month. Also in No Man's Land, there was federal government oversight for the rebuilding.
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Editor's Note: Marcia C. Inhorn is the William K. Lanman Jr. professor of anthropology and international affairs at Yale University. She is a Public Voices fellow at the Op-Ed Project.
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Marcia Inhorn: Egg freezing allows women to postpone having children
Inhorn: For ambitious women, career and family tend to collide when they're in their 30s
She says egg freezing is not an ideal reproductive technology, it's also costly
Inhorn: But it is a viable choice that allows women to rewind their biological clock
I wish I'd had the option of egg freezing.
Egg freezing is the newest reproductive technology: a recently perfected form of flash-freezing that allows human eggs to be successfully stored in egg banks. Only commercially available in American IVF clinics since October 2012, when the "experimental" label was lifted, egg freezing is being heralded as a "revolution in the way women age," a "reproductive backstop," a "fertility insurance policy," an "egg savings account" and in particular, a way for ambitious career women to postpone motherhood until they are ready.
With egg freezing, women can use their own banked eggs later in life to effectively rewind their biological clock, becoming mothers in their 40s, 50s and beyond. It's a technological game changer that just might allow women to defy the notion that they can't have it all.
Trying to balance career and family is difficult for many professional women. I am one of those educated career-driven women who completed my Ph.D., found a good husband and landed my first tenure-track job at a major public university by 35.
But as my husband sometimes reminds me, I took only a single day of vacation during my first year on the job. I worked relentlessly to prepare lectures for four courses, to convert my dissertation into the mandatory book manuscript for tenure, and to advise the throngs of students coming to my office hours.
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At the same time, I wanted to have children. I had already waited for two years after marriage before going off oral contraception. I realized that the time was not exactly right to have children. But, at age 35, I felt that my chances to have children were rapidly slipping away. Given that my own research focused on infertility and IVF, I knew a woman's fertility declines rapidly at age 35 and becomes negligible by age 40.
Those years between age 35 and 40 were difficult ones for me. My dual desires to establish myself in my career and to become a mother were literally colliding.
In the midst of my demanding job as a tenure-track professor, I became pregnant naturally, but then had to take medical leave for a rare pregnancy complication, which ended in the stillbirth of twin daughters. My next pregnancy ended in miscarriage. At age 37, I finally delivered my first living child, a son named Carl. At age 39, still hoping to have a second child, I was warned by an Egyptian IVF colleague to "yallah"– get going – before it was too late. Against the odds, I had my second child a year later, a daughter, Justine, without IVF assistance.
My children, who are teenagers now, are the truest joy of my life. But I know I am one of the lucky women. Many of my female colleagues who wanted children were not able to have them. Data show that this "fertility penalty" for highly educated, professional women is real.
In America, 43% of corporate professional women between the ages of 33 and 46 are childless. Similarly, in the United Kingdom, which has the highest European age at first birth (at nearly 30), almost a third of women with college degrees remained childless at the end of their childbearing years, according to one study.
To be sure, egg freezing is not an ideal choice. It involves half an IVF cycle, is costly (as much as $18,000 in the United States), and should ideally be undertaken when a woman is in her 20s or early 30s, before her eggs have begun to age significantly. The good news is that frozen eggs have a high survival rate, and no increased risk of genetic defects among frozen-egg offspring have been reported thus far.
However, feminists like me worry about the potential backlash that may accompany the use of this technology. For example, employers may come to expect women to postpone childbearing through egg freezing. Women may be pushed into a burdensome and costly medical procedure that cannot provide guaranteed future fertility outcomes. Also, an increased age difference between mothers and their children may lead to poorer, less energetic parenting, as well as an increased likelihood that children will lose their mothers early on.
Moreover, promoting egg freezing as a quick-fix technological solution does not solve the unfavorable employment policies that cause women to lean out of their careers.
There are no easy answers to these issues, which so many career women face. Nonetheless, the recent availability of egg freezing does provide one more viable option for talented women who want to become future leaders and future moms.
My female graduate students often ask me for advice on how to become a successful professor, while also having kids. I usually tell them to look for a supportive partner who has a nontraditional, flexible career path. But now I am going to add: Consider freezing your eggs as you approach your mid-30s, so you can choose when to become a mother.
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The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Marcia C. Inhorn.