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perfect timing hey? mirka's monthly portraits finished up at 24 months, just in time for charlie's to start. our sweet little chumba-wumba is one month old already... and already more than 5kgs. yep, i wasn't just saying chumba-wumba for cuteness. he is out of newborn nappies & has busted out of his triple zero onesies. we are being flashed the occasional gummy smile & he has started making those little pre-talk noises like "ooo" when he is 'talking' to us. our little charlie harper is a real snuggler. we put him to sleep in his cradle, but once he wakes me at night around 2am, he gets to snuggle in with us because he seems to go back to sleep so much quicker. he also seems to sleep really soundly & for much longer if he is hot. really hot.. sleeps the best when he is swaddled, under 2 blankets & with the heater pumping. the husband & i wake up with the covers thrown off & totally parched, but if that's what gets the baby to sleep for hours, then we're not gonna fight it. sleep is king.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Monday, September 27, 2010
show & tell
here they are.. my lovely smiling planet plates from the stash of goodies that arrived with vivi's suitcase recently. in theory, there is one each for mirka & charlie, but for right now, i'm loving eating my morning toast off them. maybe i'm just sleep deprived at the moment, but i think it makes ordinary, everyday toast into happy toast. i was reminded of this when i saw diane's recent post on ninainvorm's work & made a comment something along the lines of how could one not start their day off happy bla bla.. anyway, if you haven't checked out diane's blog, notes to a further excuse, get over there. i likes.
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Saturday, September 25, 2010
go saints!
oh look, i wasn't going to, but the day is here & the grand final is about to start, so if i'm going to indulge in some footy shinanigans, then i might as well do it now. i'm watching from home, but the husband is there to cheer on the mighty saints. go saints!
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Wednesday, September 15, 2010
24 months
24 months. man, 24 months. time to start counting in years instead of months. our little gracie girl, my sweet petite, is 2 years old already.. and such a good big sister to her new little brother. coco & grover are still her all time favourites & she asks for "kermit and pig" (meaning the muppet movie) at least one hundred times a day. yes, really. she asks "kermit and pig? kermit and pig?" with her eyes opened wide and then answers her own question, nodding her head, with "yes, yes??" in the hope that we will agree. same goes for the park. "park? park? yes?"..life for mirka, doesn't get any better than going to the park or watching the muppet movie. that and reading her favourite wiggles book.. you can see how much she loves it in the first photo, where she is 'reading' it to grover. anyways, our little mirka grace is one hell of a cutie, even if she does love saying "nooo" and then giggling when i ask her if mummy can have a kiss. cheeky.
p.s. the gorgeous little flying man top is from the talented kingsley & the pants are from knuffle kid.
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Sunday, September 12, 2010
happy anniversary
hey, it's my blog. so if i want to say happy anniversary husband then i will. yes, the photo is a scanned polaroid with fluff all over it, but it makes me smile. it was snapped at the prince on the day before our wedding, after a quick run through of our ceremony. we went out on friday night to celebrate & little charlie came along with us, sleeping peacefully in his capsule under our table, much to the delight of our fellow diners. happy anniversay my love. 6 years & 2 kiddyliwinks later. for keeps.
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Monday, September 6, 2010
happy father's day
cacao for brunch with the two kiddyliwinks. once upon a time, pre-kiddyliwinks, we lived across the street from cacao & would indulge in a leisurely breakfast of plain and almond croissants at least twice a week & even though we now live on the other side of town, it's still worth the 20 minute drive. anyway, we started a bit of a tradition where i give the husband a print of mirka's (& now charlie's) foot for father's day and the husband gives me a print of little hands for mother's day. teeny. tiny.
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Saturday, September 4, 2010
good morning
timber toast board that arrived with vivi last week.. right there under the banana.. yes, i really did go ahead & order it. treasure.
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010
the most beautiful boy in the world
little charlie harper. the most beautiful boy in the world. 4kgs (yes, almost 9 pounds) & 51.5 cms long, he arrived last monday the 23rd of august. i tell you, giving birth makes you feel like you can do anything. it's as amazing as everyone goes on about and i say that even after having to have emergency surgery 12 hours later for unexpected blood loss. we brought little charlie home on saturday morning to his big sister cheering "bay-bee, bay-bee!".. so far, so good, as far as mirka accepting little charlie as part of her world. the husband said it was one of the best moments of his life when his gracie girl met her little brother for the first time while he was only a day old.. you should have seen her eyes open wide in amazement & stretch out her hand to pat him ever so gently. apart from the 3 hourly feeding cycle & the disrupted sleep that comes with it, little charlie is a very easy baby. just the way i like 'em. we had all 4 of us in bed yesterday morning & the husband and i had to pinch ourselves that we were a happy little family of 4 now. love.
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If Your Small Business Has Experienced Failure, You're in (Very) Good CompanyAuthored by: Jim Stewart, Founder DocuSend, powered by MTI.
"It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you have failed by default." " —J.K. Rowling
This might sound a little harsh to some, but to most small business owners and operators I know, it rings true—it represents the way we live. Failure is factored in every time we calculate a risk, so it's just part of the assessment. And if an effort doesn't succeed, it becomes another learning experience to move on smarter and be more efficient next time.
Failure becomes much less painful if it's used as a tool to grow and maintain a successful business. It becomes a corridor for SMBs to achieve their goals.
What is it about us SMB owners?
I have often thought about what traits owners of small businesses and the high-level people who run these enterprises have in common: education, drive, energy, experience, intelligence…
But of the hundreds of SMBs I have worked with over the years, I have only been able to find one universal thread among their owners and operators—at least the successful ones. There are many words to describe this shared trait: resolve, persistence, determination, and my personal favorite, tenacity.
Many people don't even realize how tenacious they are, because they don't recognize that they have done things that tested their inner strengths. But for those of you who have fallen down, picked yourself up, and gone on more determined than ever, there is no question—you have this quality in spades.
And read on—you are in excellent company.
There's not much debate as to whether successful people all over the world have endured spectacular failures as they navigated toward their destination of success. Although many of their names are recognizable, their ability to conquer fear and maneuver through setbacks is not quite as publicized as their accomplishments. They all seemed able to pick themselves back up and use their failures as an epiphany on how to do it better the next time around.
Think I'm pontificating? Here's one of my favorite examples:
This brief narrative chronicles the founder of KFC, the legendary Colonel Harland Sanders. The Colonel was a starry-eyed 65 years old, armed only with a $105 social security check and his now-celebrated fried chicken recipe, when he started KFC. He went on to become a billionaire by age 88. There are many chapters to his success story, and they are riddled with impediments and failures.
So, you get the idea, right?
As an SMB owner, if you give up on your hopes and dreams, so will everyone else. And that is the true definition of failure: the failure to try. Here are some more examples, but please bear in mind it was not my intention to include a lot of detail here.
Please note: Writing about the setbacks these paragons endured, or about anybody's failure for that matter, is not meant to cast blame or indicate who is responsible. Failure is typically the result of multiple factors, and often the cause is out of the control of those most affected by it.
List of people who own companies that experienced failure and now are very successful businesses
- Henry Ford: He failed five times and was financially broke before he founded Ford Motor Company.
- R. H. Macy: The founder of the famous department store chain started seven businesses that failed, before finally succeeding with his first New York City store.
- Soichiro Honda: Honda was turned down by Toyota Motor Corporation after interviewing for a job as an engineer. Out of work for an extended period, he started making scooters in his home.
- Akio Morita: Morita founded Sony. His first product was a rice cooker that didn't cook rice so much as it burned it. He sold fewer than 100 units. This hindrance didn't stop Morita and his partners as they pushed forward to create a multibillion-dollar company.
- Bill Gates: Gates dropped out of Harvard and started a first (failed) business called Traf-O-Data with Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen. That didn't stop him from creating the global empire that is Microsoft.
- Harland David Sanders:Better known as Colonel Sanders, his famous secret chicken recipe was rejected 1,009 times before a restaurant accepted it.
- Walt Disney: He was fired by a newspaper editor because his supervisor claimed he "lacked imagination and had no good ideas." He started several businesses that ended with bankruptcy and failure.
- Thomas Edison: The very definition of "persistence pays," he was told by his elementary school teachers that he was "too stupid to learn anything." He was fired from his first two jobs for not being productive. Edison made thousands of unsuccessful attempts before inventing the light bulb.
- Orville and Wilbur Wright: It took many years of hard work and tons of failed prototypes before the brothers finally created a plane that could get airborne and stay there.
- Howard Schultz: Schultz opened his own coffee bar, naming it Il Giornale, Italian for "The Newspaper." After two years of great success with his coffee shop, he set out to buy Starbucks. While raising the capital he needed to purchase the company, Schultz was turned down by 217 of the 242 investors he initially talked to.
- James Dyson: Dyson made nearly 4,000 prototypes of his vacuum cleaner and had to be supported by his wife's income from giving art lessons. There were many tough times for the Dysons, but each failure brought them closer to creating a revolutionary machine. Initially, Dyson could not convince any of the major retailers to sell his finished prototype, because the vacuum bag industry was so large that the retailers were afraid to irritate them. Even that did not stop Dyson. He created his namesake company, Dyson Inc., in 1993. He was 46 years old at the time.
Any others you'd like to share?
Please post them in the comments section! Besides that, I'm inviting all of you to tell us about your own experiences with initial flops.
Now, my early experiences pale in comparison to the people I listed above, but since this is about SMB owners, and I am one of them, I feel I should disclose a few of my own tribulations. Before you read about them, I should clarify that the experiences I describe here are only a synopsis of what I went through.
Most of my failures took place at MTI, the parent company of DocuSend. In fact, the DocuSend cloud-based mailroom was born out of those setbacks. What is not included in this article are the contributions of the amazingly talented people who poured their hearts into MTI and the cloud-based service that resulted in the birth of DocuSend. Why are they left out? Because this article is not about them, or me for that matter; it is about how small business people like us can use failure as a pathway to success. However, you will read about our team in future posts, and I think you'll agree how amazing they are.
So here goes:
MTI was bootstrapped with almost zero capital. I lost money in my first year in business. Professionally, it was the scariest thing I had ever done. Looking back at it now, it seemed like the people that supported the startup had more faith in me than I had in myself.
It took nearly 11 months before I landed my first statement processing contract. And we still service that contract today. It took thousands of letters, faxes (the internet did not exist) and phone calls to even begin to build some momentum. Keep in mind that MTI's process required our clients to share extremely sensitive data just for basic services. In the beginning, the question I most dreaded from a potential client was: "Who are your other clients, and how long have you provided document rendering services for them?" I tried to convince them that my expertise and commitment far outweighed my client base. Sometimes it worked, and sometimes it (everybody all together now) failed!
Things went well for quite a while…
And then "The Age of Acquisitions and Mergers" hit. Some of our larger contractual clients were either acquired, merged, consolidated or regionalized. In most cases, agreements simply expired and went to a larger service provider than MTI. But a couple of contracts were breached.
- May, 2009: 15-year statement processing contract with a large cable company representing 40% of MTI's volume lost due to corporate regionalization.
- October 2009: Marketing agreement representing 21% of MTI's volume lost due to corporate regionalization.
- June 2010: 9-year statement processing contract with an energy service company (ESCO) representing 15% of MTI's volume lost due to acquisition by a Canadian firm.
- August 2010: 4-year statement processing contract with an ESCO representing 32% of MTI's volume lost due to acquisition by a Canadian firm.
- September 2014: 5-year statement processing contract with a billing software provider representing 9% of MTI's volume lost due to a merger with a Spanish firm.
- October 2014: 11-year statement processing contract with a utility company representing 9% of MTI's volume lost due to an acquisition/merger with an American and Canadian firm.
And then what happened?
Those failures directly resulted in the birth of DocuSend! All our clients were large enough to avoid the transactional costs associated with low-volume and high-frequency document distribution, but SMBs were underserved in the print-to-mail arena. It took three years to develop, but DocuSend eliminates the exchange of data in multiple formats by replacing it with standard PDF images. That means we can provide print-to-mail services to the millions of small businesses across the US, Canada and the entire world without requiring their sensitive data. It's the same concept as payroll service providers, except it addresses accounts receivable. We were working on developing DocuSend before we lost all those contracts, although it was still in the conceptual stages. You see, those failures had taught us that even if you're on the right track, you'll still get hit by a train if you don't move.
I'd like to close by saying that highly successful entrepreneurs, including many SMB owners and operators, are often wise as well as tenacious. And lucky for us, many of them share that wisdom. Here are a few of my favorite quotes, not all of them from business people, but all from people who have learned from failure:
- Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill
- There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. Colin Powell
- Failure is another steppingstone to success. Oprah Winfrey
- I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas A. Edison
- It's fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. Bill Gates
- Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. Henry Ford
- Failure is success if we learn from it. Malcolm Forbes
- If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough. Elon Musk
- At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren't where you want to be, you will always be a failure. Erin Cummings
- Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Thomas A. Edison
- The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period. Brené Brown
From major fiascos to minor snafus, we can all learn valuable lessons from each other's experiences. Have any hard-earned wisdom you'd like to share with your fellow SMB owners and operators? Please post it in the comments section below.


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RALEIGH, N.C. : February 10th, 2015 - Oil companies must help stop dangerous synthetic drugs from being sold at gas stations and convenience stores, Attorney General Roy Cooper urged Tuesday.
Cooper joined 42 other state attorneys general on February 10th, to send a letter to nine oil companies asking them to work with their franchisees to help eliminate synthetic drugs from retail locations operating under their brand names.
"Despite laws against them these potentially harmful drugs are all too easy to get, especially for young people," Cooper said. "While law enforcement works to enforce existing laws against synthetic drugs, manufacturers try to evade those laws and sell their drugs at local gas stations and convenience stores."
Synthetic drugs include both synthetic marijuana, often sold as potpourri, herbal incense, K2, or Spice, and synthetic cathinones, typically sold as bath salts or jewelry cleaner. These substances are labeled "not for human consumption" to evade Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversight but are smoked or ingested by users to get high.
The use of synthetic drugs has increased dramatically over the past four years. In 2010, more than 11,000 people, many of whom were younger than 17, went to the emergency room after using synthetic marijuana, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Since then, thousands more have been harmed by synthetic drugs.
"The fact that synthetic drugs have been available at locations operating under respected brand names has only exacerbated an already growing problem. Young people are the most likely to use these dangerous drugs and their availability in stores operating under well-known brands gives the appearance of safety and legitimacy to very dangerous products. Your companies spend millions of dollars on marketing campaigns designed to convince consumers that your brands are trustworthy. Enforcing strong policies against the sale of synthetic drugs in your retail locations can only protect your brand reputation while also protecting our youth," the attorney generals wrote in their letter.
The letter sent today to British Petroleum, Chevron Corporation, Citgo Petroleum Corporation, Exxon Mobil Corporation, Marathon Petroleum Corporation, Phillips 66, Shell Oil Company, Sunoco, and Valero Energy Corporation asks the oil companies to take action to prevent their franchisees from selling synthetic drugs.
Specifically, Cooper and the other attorneys general are asking the oil companies to:
• Prohibit franchisees from selling any synthetic drugs;
• Ensure store franchisees and their employees understand the prohibition by communicating directly with each of them;
• Establish a point of contact in corporate offices for franchisees with questions about synthetic drugs;
• Revoke franchisee/franchisor relationship with any gas station or convenience store that sells synthetic drugs; and
• Report to local law enforcement authorities if any franchisee is selling synthetic drugs.


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The allure of Atwood's Toronto: long a destination for writers and literary fans, this eclectic city has provided the setting for many popular novels by Canada's leading author.
Take Yorkville, for example. This small Victorian-era neighborhood straddling Bloor Street West between Avenue Road and Yonge Street was once an independent village but is now part of Toronto. Despite its growth, it still retains a distinctive small-town air. In Cat's Eye (1989), Atwood's haunting contemplation of time, friendship, and feminism, the young Elaine visits her teacher and lover Josef in his apartment here on Hazelton Lane.
The novel is set in the early 1970s, when Yorkville was a hippie hangout. At that time, the creative community took a sleepy, aging neighborhood full of scruffy nineteenth-century houses, stables, and warehouses, and converted it into a bustling collection of coffee houses, art galleries, and colorful shops. Atwood, who was part of the burgeoning Canadian literary movement, gave poetry readings at the Bohemian Embassy cafe, a popular hangout of the times that also hosted singers Joni Mitchell, Gordon Lightfoot, and Neil Young.
Once it was fashionable to say how dull Toronto was, remembers Cat's Eye's Elaine, who's lived in British Columbia for some years, but now, she's told, her old city is "New York without the garbage and muggings."
Indeed, the area has changed dramatically since the flower-child era. Today Yorkville is a hive of designer boutiques and pricey restaurants and bars. The coffee houses are gone, but twenty-odd art galleries still survive, including the Ontario Crafts Council's Guild Shop, and a number of dealers in native and Inuit art, such as Gallery Gevik, Feheley Fine Arts, Kinsman Robinson Galleries, and Maslak McLeod Gallery. This is still a good area for a quick overview of the Canadian fine arts and contemporary crafts scenes.
On the western border of Yorkville, the handsome Park Hyatt Hotel (built 1929-36) graces the corner of Avenue Road and Bloor Street West. The rooftop bar with patio on the eighteenth floor offers a great panorama of the city and a lovely breeze when the weather is right. In Cat's Eye, Elaine and Josef share a drink here. "We sit on the outside patio," says Elaine, "drinking Manhattans and looking over the stone balustrade.... This is one of the tallest buildings around. Below us Toronto festers in the evening heat, the trees spreading like worn moss, the lake zinc in the distance."
In an earlier novel, The Edible Woman (1969), which humourously considers the role of women in marriage and society in the late sixties, the brooding, food-sensitive Marian and orderly Peter meet at the hotel rooftop bar, "one of Peter's favorite places for a quiet drink," to negotiate their strained engagement. "Being up that high gives you a sense of the vertical which is rare in the city," comments Marian, who watches the city lights from the patio, hoping that a flicker of lightning on the eastern horizon will bring an air-clearing storm.
For many years, this cozy retreat from the noise and crowds of Bloor Street has served as a watering hole for Canadian authors, including Mordecai Richler, Graeme Gibson, June Callwood, Peter Gzowski, as well as Atwood. Framed cartoons of writers hang on one wall, and in a glass case nearby are copies of Canadian books such as Mordecai Richler's novel Joshua Then and Now, Adrienne Clarkson's novel A Love More Condoling, and James Chatto's nonfiction work The Man Who Ate Toronto.
Across the street from the Park Hyatt is the Royal Ontario Museum (or simply the ROM). The museum is featured in three Atwood novels. In
Life Before Man (1979), which also considers modern marriage but from different points of view, the young, timid dinosaur-loving Lesje and older, formidable Elizabeth work here. In The Edible Woman, Marian clandestinely meets Duncan here, where they are scolded by a museum guard because "kissing in the Mummy Room is not permitted." In Cat's Eye, the young Elaine, in conflict with her father over her vocation, takes classes in art and archaeology at the ROM, "the only sanctioned pathway that leads anywhere close to art."
The ROM's collection includes more than six million objects. Here under one roof visitors may find dinosaur skeletons, a Ming tomb, a totem pole, early Canadian portraits, European art treasures, Art-Deco furniture, Greek and Roman pottery and, of course, Egyptian mummies. The museum's Asian collection is world renowned. The Jamaican Bat Cave, where thousands of surprisingly lifelike bats swoop and squeak overhead, is particularly popular with children. The ROM was opened to the public in 1914 and is currently undergoing its third expansion, this time under the direction of avant-garde architect Daniel Libeskind. Work is scheduled for completion in summer 2006.
South of the museum on Avenue Road is the oval-shaped Queen's Park. In Lady Oracle (1976), Joan Foster, a young woman of many lives, as well as a staged "accidental death" or two, is proposed to by Arthur on a bench here as they eat take-out hamburgers and drink milkshakes. ("Arthur, marriage is serious. There are a few things I think you should know about me, in advance," offers Joan in understatement.) In Life Before Man, Elizabeth's husband, the good-hearted Nate, routinely jogs around the park edge. "He runs clockwise, against the traffic, the cars meeting and passing him owl-eyed, dark and sleek. Behind him are the Parliament Buildings, squat pinkish heart of a squat province." The Robber Bride's (1993) aura-reading Charis first worked as a file clerk at the provincial Ministry of Natural Resources, which borders the park, before she tires of the bureaucracy and takes a sales position at Radiance, a New-Age crystal shop.
This shady park was named after Queen Victoria in 1860 and is decorated with a statue of Her Highness, as well as monuments to Edward VII who, as the Prince of Wales, visited Canada that same year and laid the cornerstone for the original Parliament; John A. MacDonald, Canada's first prime minister; William Lyon Mackenzie, first mayor of Toronto and later insurgent leader and member of the Legislature; and John Graves Simcoe, city founder.
The name Queen's Park is often used as shorthand for the Ontario government, because the Provincial Legislature Building squats on the southern reaches of the grounds. This fat, brownish-pink sandstone structure, built in the Richardsonian Romanesque style and opened in 1893, replaced the demolished University Hospital for the Insane, leading some to suggest that the site's usage has changed little since earlier days. The Legislature was designed by Richard A. Waite and was built with bricks made by inmates of the Central Prison. The lawn in front of the Legislature attracts frequent public gatherings and demonstrations. Guides offer tours of the building, which features an elegant marble staircase on the west wing, the Lieutenant Governor's posh apartments, and fine wood carving and recently uncovered paintings on the ceiling of the Legislative Chamber. Those interested in politics may even sit in on a session of Parliament.
Surrounding Queen's Park is the downtown campus of the University of Toronto, Atwood's alma mater, where many of her characters also coincidentally studied: Arthur, of Lady Oracle, studied Kant but yearned to switch to political science. In Cat's Eye, Elaine, on scholarship, pursued a degree in art and archaeology, so as to reassure her parents she is not a flighty art student. In The Robber Bride, life-time friends Charis, Roz, and Tony first met as University of Toronto students. Later, the petite Tony teaches history here, specializing in wars and battles through the ages.
The university was founded in 1850 but its roots go back to King's College, chartered in 1827. Today several colleges are amalgamated under the heading of U of T, among them Victoria, Knox, Trinity, and University College. Famous alumni include literary critic and theorist Northrop Frye, who also taught here (he was Atwood's mentor) and was the first to hold the title University Professor; fiction writer Rohinton Mistry; wildlife artist Robert Bateman; actor Donald Sutherland; film director Norman Jewison; and humorist and essayist Stephen Leacock. Culture critic Marshall McLuhan was long associated with the university, directing its Center for Culture and Technology from the early sixties until shortly before his death in 1980.
Although the university's primary role is to serve its population of over fifty-five thousand students, the general public may also enjoy its eclectic cultural offerings. Travelers may catch a play, a concert, public lecture or even a reading by their favorite author at the popular reading series. The free Friday film nights during the school term are "free to students, people who look like students, those who wish they were students, and everyone else," according to the university's website. The university also operates two art galleries with collections of Canadian art, both historic and contemporary.
Situated within leafy quadrangles, the campus is a crazy patchwork quilt of architectural styles, from graceful Romanesque, Gothic, and Norman revivals to the rough, angularity of the New Brutalism. The oldest buildings on campus date to the 1850s. Architectural highlights include grotesque stone gargoyles and comely female faces carved into pillars of stone, cathedral-like hammerbeam roofs, and stained-glass windows decorating the reading rooms, chapels, and great halls. During the summer, the Visitors Center offers guided tours.
Spadina Avenue, which runs along the western edge of the university campus, is famous for its sprawling Chinatown and local Fashion District. In Lady Oracle, Arthur takes Joan to celebrate the acceptance of her novel "Lady Oracle" at the Young Lok Gardens, a Chinese restaurant on Spadina (cheap and without a liquor license, observes the disappointed Joan). In Cat's Eye, Elaine, now a successful Vancouver painter, comes here to buy a black dress for her retrospective.
Chinatown, which also spills off onto Dundas Street, is the oldest of five Chinatowns existing in Toronto today. It is home to many restaurants, herbal stores, bargain shops, and bakeries, including the popular Kim Moon, where one may sample treats such as shark fin dumplings and gooey egg tarts.
In the Fashion District at the southern end of Spadina shoppers will find offices and factories of many Canadian clothing designers, along with some wholesalers and discount stores offering deep discounts on high-end fashions.
South of the busy Dundas-Spadina intersection of Chinatown lies Queen Street West, home to trendy cafes, bars, boutiques, and great used bookshops. In Cat's Eye, Elaine's retrospective is held here in an imaginary art gallery called Sub-Versions, reminiscent of the real ones that line this street--"not totally sterilized ... touches of cutting edge: a heating pipe shows, one wall is black." As The Robber Bride unfolds, Tony, Roz, and Charis are lunching at the cafe Le Toxique on Queen Street West when they spot the vixen Zenia--nearly five years after they had attended her funeral. Although Le Toxique--"not too expensive, and with a buzz; though it's a little arch, a little grubby"--is a figment of Atwood's imagination, in the novel she makes mention of two real longstanding institutions on the strip: the Bamboo Club ("with its hot graphics") and the Queen Mother Cafe.
The neighborhood dates to the early 1800s, and was originally a wealthy residential area. The elite moved out in the late 1800s when the railway moved in. At that point, the street became commercial, and brick shops with apartments and warehouses overhead sprang up along the way. Above the plate-glass windows featuring today's hottest home and clothing fashions lie vestiges of a Victorian past--gingerbread trim, multicolored brick, and carved stone lintels.
Further along Queen Street, at the corner of Bay, is one of the most famous dining rooms in the city, the Arcadian Court, situated high above the street on the eighth floor of the Hudson's Bay store (formerly Simpsons). In The Blind Assassin (2000), set in the 1930s and 1940s, narrator Iris lunches here with her conniving sister-in-law, Winifred. When it opened in 1929, the Arcadian Court was the high-style place in town to do lunch, and today guests still dine here to the elegant accompaniment of a pianist. This Art-Deco gem features vaulted forty-eight-foot-high ceilings, potted palms, marble floors, skylights, crystal chandeliers, and Roman columns, all hidden away in a bland, modern department store.
South of Queen lies King Street West, the site of Elaine's ex-husband Jon's loft in Cat's Eye. This street is home to two of the city's big name theaters, the Princess of Wales and the historic Royal Alexandra. Nearby, at the corner of King and Simcoe, is Roy Thompson Hall, where music lovers may catch performances by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and local and international musical stars. Fittingly, Canada's Walk of Fame is also located along this strip. Look for Margaret Atwood's star, awarded in 2001, in front of the Royal Alexandra Theatre. Travelers with a passion for the past will want to check out the Antique Centre at 276 King Street West. Here, thirty different dealers display their wares under one roof.
A bit further south lies Front Street, which Atwood has used as a setting in three of her novels. In Alias Grace (1996), a mystery set in the late 1800s, accused murderer Grace Marks finds work as a servant in an alderman's house situated here. Front Street is perhaps best known for its landmark train depot, Union Station, a 1927 Beaux-Arts School beauty. It is situated directly across the street from the Royal York Hotel, which opened on June 11, 1929, just four months before the stock market crash. In its glory years the Royal York boasted its own twelve-bed hospital, library, playroom, concert hall, ballroom, golf course, and even a radio station. Visitors may examine blown-up photographs of these features on the mezzanine. In Lady Oracle, Joan checks into the Royal York the night she leaves her parents' home.
The luxurious lobby, with its painted coffered ceiling, crystal chandeliers, and plush sofas, is a sight to behold. A four-faced two-story clock dominates the west end of the space. Nearby is the opulent Imperial Room where, in The Blind Assassin, Richard proposes to Iris. Marlene Dietrich, Ginger Rogers, Duke Ellington, Barbara Streisand, Tina Turner, and Canadian songbird Anne Murray are just a few of the international stars who have performed here.
The hotel's public relations department likes to brag that they have hosted three generations of British royalty, but literary fans may be more interested to know that Arthur Hailey stayed here while he was researching his book Hotel. Although the dignified old hotel is now engulfed by office towers, its castle-like shape, gleaming limestone walls, and copper roof still attract the eye. It's especially beautiful when glimpsed from the bow of a boat in the harbor.
A boat or ferry is the perfect place to take photographs of Toronto's skyline. Another good spot is Toronto Island, which is really a group of small islands that began life as a series of sandbars attached to the mainland. The bars were broken up in a storm in 1858, severing the islets' ties to the harbor front. The Island, which is now a public park, is accessible by ferry boat via the Bay Street docks. Besides walking and bike trails, the area offers beaches, marinas, an amusement park, picnic areas, a lighthouse, and rental shops for bikes, canoes, paddleboats, tandems, and quadricycles. Visitors may also wander around and admire quirky cottages and riotous gardens, or stop in a cafe and enjoy a snack.
Toronto Island is home to The Robber Bride's Charis: "Her house is the end one in the row, and then comes the grass and then the trees, maple and willow, and through a gap in the trees the harbour, with the sun just beginning to touch the water, from which, today, a vapoury mist is rising."
The Island is car free, and road signs can be interesting. For example: "Maximum speed--10"; and "Go slow--snakes at play." A local restaurant has a "bike park" instead of a car park for guests.
When it's time to return to the mainland, travelers may walk west after they disembark from the ferry--perhaps the same ferry from which Charis, Roz, and Tony throw Zenia's ashes into Lake Ontario, in The Robber Bride. Or the ferry that Joan, in Lady Oracle, takes and fakes her drowning. The ferry ends at Queen's Quay, Harbourfront, the site of the International Festival of Authors this October, as well as the year-round international Readings series. If you're lucky, you may even catch Margaret Atwood reading from her latest work.
Lovers of literature have associated Toronto with great books for many years now ever since the founding of the annual International Festival of Authors in 1980. Writers and readers come from around the globe to discuss books award prizes and soak up the latest literary gossip. In some ways, it's the book industry s equivalent of the Academy Awards.
"It's not the oldest and it's nor the largest--it's simply the best," Geoffrey Taylor explains when asked why the annual International Festival of Authors is widely regarded as the premiere event of its kina in the world
Taylor is the director of the annual festival, which runs October 19-29 this year. The IFOA has been called 'the book world's version of baseball's All-Star Game "l Wall Street Journal). While there are several reasons for its success according to Taylor the international focus of the festival is key. "We feature sevens/writers from at least twenty countries each year. So we really gel a great exchange of ideas," he says.
"We also make a point of featuring authors at different stages of their careers," adds Taylor. "Our audience has evolved since our early days. Before, readers came to hear the big stars both Canadian and international. Today readers still come out to see their favorite, well-known authors such as john Irving [at this year's festival], but they also enjoy learning about the rising stars n literature--people like Britain's Helen Oyeyemi, who was born in Nigeria in 1984 and wrote her first novel. The Icarus Girl when she was nineteen. She's actually still a student and will be taking time off from school to come for the festival As for authors we are popular with them because we treat all of our visiting authors, established and emerging, equally well
Western Hemisphere writers appearing this year include Neil Bissoondath (Canada) (see "Author of His Own Destiny." Americas, July-August 2001); Dionne Brand (Trinidad/Canada); Rabindranath Maharaj (Trinidad/Canada); and Daniel Alarcon (Peru/U.S.A.), among many others.
So what else can you expect TO hear and see when you attend this festival? Author readings continue to be among the most popular events. These sessions usually last thirty minutes and afterwards there is time for questions as well as book signings. Margaret Atwood once remarked, Nowhere else do you get this kind of interaction among invited authors and the public." (Unfortunately, Atwood isn't scheduled TO appear this year.)
Panel discussions and author interviews are planned, too. Many of these will be broadcast later on Fineprint TV and CBC Radio's Writers and Company. There will be special readings by nominees for the Governor General's Award and Giller Prize, two major Canadian literary prizes.
This year, a new genre has been added to the eclectic programming mix; visitors will be able to explore two exhibits on graphic novels. Children's authors were added to the roster two years ago and that will continue this year as well.
The festival takes dace at Harbourfront, a large recreational and cultural playground along Toronto's busy waterfront (above). Here a combination of new and converted industrial buildings house theaters for professional dance performances and plays, lecture halls, indoor and outdoor concert stages, a film-screening room, native and Inuit art galleries, craft studios, boutiques, and restaurants (for more information visit the festival's website: www.harbourfrontcentre.com).
Guylaine Spencer is a freelance writer and former resident of Toronto. She now lives in Hamilton, Canada.
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Ah! It's that time of year again! Black Friday (and Cyber Monday)! That partially stressful, partially exhilarating, and partially confusing-for-Canadians time of year. It is a day of great deals, but also a whole lot of not-so-great deals. Do you actually need to camp out overnight in the cold in front of a store in order to get a great deal on something? Do you need to be online at midnight to get a great deal? Are there stores that have better deals than others? Let's try to clear up some of the confusion…
Black Friday is actually the day after American Thanksgiving. Historically, it has marked the beginning of the Christmas shopping season in the US. Similar to our Canadian Boxing Day, Black Friday is a day that, although not a holiday, is used by retailers to start the biggest shopping season of the year with a BANG!
For us Canadians, the question becomes, what can we do to get some of these great deals. Here are the top tips in order to make sure that YOU get the most BANG for your BUCK.
Yes, shopping on Black Friday often means huge money savings. However, "saving" 50% off on something that you don't need isn't really "saving" at all! So, make a list of all of your holiday expenses, a list of everyone on your gift list, and figure out your maximum spend limit. If you require a short-term loan to help out with the gifts this year, don't hesitate to reach out. You can apply for a Christmas cash loan here: icash.ca.
Even though Black Friday is still days away, the deals are already being announced. The days of calmly perusing the weekly flyers for the best deals are gone. We are literally being bombarded with announcements of Black Friday deals and we have been for about a week or so already. First step is to scout out the things that you want to purchase and do a price comparison using a tool such as Google Shopping or camelcamelcamel. Quite often, retailers "reduce" the price of an inflated sticker price using Black Friday attractive deals.
The really big question is always: "Do I need to camp out in order to get a great deal?" The short answer is maybe. I know, I know! That isn't a very helpful answer but it all boils down to what it is that you are looking to buy. Major retailers such as Walmart and Best Buy do often have "doorcrashers" specials. Which are basically items that are on major sale but that are on a first-come, first-served basis. The trick is to have a plan. If the item that you really, really want to purchase is being offered at a great deal as a doorcrasher sale item (refer to point #2 above and make sure that it is, actually, a good deal by price comparing!), then yes, it might be worth it for you to plan to camp out. But, doing your research to make sure that you can't find that pricing anywhere else online is your first order of business.
Great question! Again, you won't like the short answer: any time between last week and opening store hours on Friday! (Although, re-reading that answer, it doesn't seem all that short!). Surely you have noticed the sheer bombardment of emails and commercials and social media announcements all with the same wording: "Shop Black Friday Deals Now"! Retailers are all vying to grab your attention as early as possible. Retailers that offer services, for example spas and gyms, will usually break out their Black Friday deals early and carry them through to the end of the month. The deal that they are offering probably won't get much better than it currently is. So, if you were looking to purchase some services, feel free to start early. Also, online retailers such as Amazon have an entire week of Black Friday deals and the items change often, so make sure to check in daily.
However, retailers will generally let a few mediocre deals trickle out early in order to grab your interest but will save the "big" deals for the day of the event. So, the advice here would be to hold out until Friday before making any big-ticket item purchases.
Assuming the item that you are looking to purchase is not one of the doorcrasher items, you may as well get comfy and do your shopping online. But beware, Black Friday online shopping is not as easy-peasy as you may think! The best deal prices are usually "while quantities last" items and you can safely assume that you are NOT the only one waiting to purchase that great deal! One important trick that you can do today is make sure to pre-create your shopper account on any online store that you may shop at. This saves the time of the checkout entering in all your shipping and billing information. The disappointment of losing out on that super deal simply because you ran out of time entering your info is not fun!
Do some reconnaissance on any site that you think you might shop at on Friday. And when that pesky "pop-up" pops up offering you a 10% or any other percentage off your next purchase, take the time to fill it in. But, as mentioned above, Friday while online shopping is not the time to be doing this. This must be done today or tomorrow or, latest, Thursday! That way the coupon code is already ready and waiting for you in your email for Friday.
Black Friday is used by retailers, in part, to liquidate inventory. Very often, liquidated items are marked as "final sale". This means that you will not be entitled to refunds or exchanges. If this is an item that you are buying for yourself, no big deal. If you decide that you are ok with the final sale, go for it! However, if this is intended as a Christmas gift for someone, you may want to think twice before purchasing. Are you 100% sure that they want this item? Something to think about before purchasing…
Black Friday is definitely a great time to get all of, or at least some of, your holiday shopping done. If you are into budgeting and deal-shopping but this week is simply a little tight on funds, you can apply for an easy-to-pay-back installment loan at iCASH. That way, all of your holiday shopping is done before Christmas even begins!


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By Catherine Ho
Artisella has always been supportive of local designers, artists and talents. We participate in their empowerment by providing opportunities to push boundaries in their creative worlds.
Recently we had our first photoshoot for the upcoming launch of our new website, where we worked with a team of amazing women - Emily Neil, Ashley Galang and Katrina Myhal. We want to share their stories with you and this is what they have to say:
Emily Neil - Photographer
Emily began her photography journey in 2011, with a street style blog that she started with a friend. In 2015, she got a job as a designer at Village Juicery and did their photography as well. This is where she began to really appreciate photography and acknowledge its impact as a powerful tool for telling stories. She believes in letting the images speak for themselves - she relies on natural lighting and documentary style photography. Ever fluid in her style and tastes, Emily seamlessly adapts to situations to help bring her clients' creative visions to life.
Who influences you the most? Are there any photographers you look up to?
"These days there are so many talented photographers that I'm constantly stumbling upon who's work inspires me. I think I first became interested in photography in the early days of Kinfolk when Nathan Williams had a blog. Since then I've kept an eye on the work of some of the photographers at Kinfolk like Carissa Gallo. For this photoshoot, we specifically took a lot of inspiration from the photography of Intent Journal, which is also a great place to read about sustainable brands."
What was your vision for the shoot and how did you prepare for it?
"A big challenge sustainable clothing and accessory brands face is the stereotype that sustainable brands are less stylish, which is not true. I am constantly trying to break this stereotype with my work. For this photoshoot, I wanted to create a minimalist and clean look that was both natural and sophisticated. To incorporate elements of nature with a modern and clean look, I wanted to pair natural light and shadows from trees with natural textural surfaces like abstract backgrounds. To visualize this, I started by collecting imagery from other photoshoots and brands that had the look and feel I was hoping to convey. From there Sheryl and I collaborated to refine the vision and find a location that would fit our needs."
Ashley Galang - Stylist
Ashley began her exploration in styling when she enrolled into a fashion styling course at George Brown. Through the program, she was able to network and gain more experience in the fashion industry. While volunteering and completing the program simultaneously, she worked on her portfolio and ventured out to connect with various designers. Through assisting and working on photoshoots, she learned a lot about the industry and encountered many opportunities that brought her to where she is today. As a stylist, she loves to incorporate runways trends into street style elements. One thing she always keeps in mind, is to keep things simple.
Who are your inspirations? Who are your style icons?
"Growing up, I loved reading magazines like Teen Vogue, and Seventeen and going through the ads. However, I didn't really understand fashion trends until I started watching runway shows on Fashion Television with Jeanne Beker. I draw my inspiration from various platforms such as, music, television, and social media. Music videos from Aaliyah, Janet Jackson, Beyoncé and Rihanna are references I look for inspiration. And some others would be Ashley and Mary Kate Olsen and Karl Lagerfeld who has a able to formulate a distinct style which I aspire to have as well."
How did you prepare for the shoot?
"When Sheryl got me on board, the first thing I had in mind was to convey looks that were relatable to a range of age groups. You can wear accessories that are eco-conscious and sustainable but also pieces that are timeless. Collaborating on creating the inspiration helped guide my understanding of the aesthetic and visual for the shoot. I received the pieces in advance and Sheryl explained the stories behind the brands, which helped me convey the vision during the shoot."
Katrina Myhal - Model
Katrina's blog @the.lost.earring started in 2016. Her interest in handmade jewelry began in her childhood when she attended art shows with her mom. She always gravitated towards the jewelry at those shows, and from there she realized her passion and love for handmade artisan jewelry. From this, she created her blog to share and direct people to how she found these contemporary pieces.
What are you hoping to achieve with your blog?
"I started this blog to share a look book/ directory of where I found the jewelry I've collected. I am hoping to make a career out of this; to be a jewelry influencer. I want my blog to evolve to be a trusted advisory of refined and contemporary jewelry. I am hoping to continue to share my love for jewelry while showcasing current and upcoming trends."
How did you meet Sheryl/ stumble upon Artisella?
"I actually met Sheryl through another blogger that I work with Claudia Erban, @urban.meets.erban. She really wanted to introduce me to Sheryl, so I went to Artisella pop-up shop at the Eaton Centre. After seeing what Artisella stood for and offered, I became a fan and featured one of Artisella's piece in my blog. Sheryl is great to work with; I really enjoyed working and having the opportunity to collaborate with her."
Artisella is not just a brand, but a community. We are forming connections with local talents through the support and collaboration we offer. Community not only empowers the individual, but it ignites and influences change towards our vision of sustainable fashion.
The team


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It doesn't matter how much dry shampoo you're armed with, some days you just can't fight humidity or seriously oily roots. That's when hairstylist Jen Atkin pulls out her signature shih tzu pony, a name coined by her client Khloé Kardashian for, well, obvious reasons. But as crazy as the style sounds, it's actually easy, idiotproof, and—wait for it—flattering. After I saw how great it looked on Jennifer Lopez, I decided to finally take it for a spin.
Atkin advised me to divide my hair into two parts, the hair above the ears and the hair below. Next, using a boar-bristle brush, I swept the hair above my ears into a ponytail at the crown of my head and tied it off with a small black elastic. Then, I smoothed over the section on top of my head with a bit of wax (I like Style Sexy Hair Control Maniac) and fluffed the ponytail up and out with my fingers so it fell on either side of my shoulders.
The verdict: Not only did I love this style—but my boyfriend did, too. (Gross but necessary disclosure: This photo was taken with seriously oily, fifth-day hair.) A couple of tips: Make sure your hair is medium to long or you will look like a toddler. And if you have thin hair, try teasing the underside of the tail and dousing it in texturizing spray (like Oribe Dry Texturizing Spray) to give it some extra oomph.
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While the MSM and Barack Obama stir the pot of racial discord, a black police officer defies their intent at a KKK rally.
In the wake of Dylann Roof and the Confederate flag controversy that's followed, race relations under "Post-racial" POTUS Obama are volatile, unlike anything seen in America since the 1960's.
Yet, on a recent Saturday, two of the most vile organizations of hate decided to hold rally's simultaneously at the same venue in Columbia, South Carolina.
The KKK and the New Black Panther Party came to town.
Multiple law enforcement agencies worked together to keep the peace and, for the most part, succeeded.
There was friction between the two groups, and even a few arrests were made. Perhaps the biggest story from the event was caused by the heat.
Temperatures reached 98 degree's that day, and many people were taken to the hospital due to heat exhaustion. .
The heat crushed one white supremacist who received assistance from police officer Leroy Smith, who happens to be black.
A photo captured the moment, arguably one of the most poetic of our day.
Here is an example of why you shouldn't judge based on color. What if the person who can save your life is somebody whose color you despise?!
Talk about a "come to Jesus" moment, when this white supremacist found out he wasn't as "supreme" as he thought, and he needed assistance from Leroy Smith, a black officer who refused to buy into the Liberal nonsense of #BlackLivesMatter. Officer Smith didn't react based on color or politics, and he did the very unhyphenated America thing. He helped a man who obviously hated him. I wonder what that man feels about himself today.


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I'm going to be totally honest with you (as always!) and will admit that this is not my recipe....its from a wonderful old Weight Watchers book called 'Simply Enjoy'.
You can see how much I like this book by all my little bookmarks for my favourite recipes! The recipe for this salad is on p74. It's literally watermelon, red onion, low-fat feta (30g per portion), lime juice, mint leaves and black pepper.
It's 2sp/2pp/approx.100kcal per portion
and one of the most refreshing and delicious salads I've ever tasted. I could live on it in the Summer....the zingy lime and the creamy feta combined with the juicy crunch of watermelon, red onion and fragrant mint is incredible....I really wish I had invented it!
The reason for this post is to show you how I present it - especially for eating outdoors....in a natural watermelon bowl that goes in the dustbin afterwards - so, no washing up...what could be better than that? With sunshine so precious, who wouldn't opt for more time in the garden!
How to make the Watermelon Bowls
Slice each end off the watermelon to give each 'bowl' a flat base. If you want to be extra 'arty', cut the tops of each 'bowl' at a slight angle.
Cut as much of the fruit as you can out of the melon, then cube it for the salad.
Scoop out any remaining melon with a spoon so that you are left with two clean bowl shapes.
Combine all of the salad ingredients apart from the feta into a large bowl. Mix gently.
Take the watermelon 'bowls' and slice alternate random stripes into the outside edge using a vegetable peeler. Slice around the top to form a bevelled edge. Don't worry if it's uneven, it looks more organic. They remind me of ceramic, glazed bowls.
Fill each 'bowl' carefully with the salad, then add the weighed, cubed cheese. This way it's easier to be accurate with your portions. Top with a sprig of fresh mint.
A quarter of this block of very low fat Greek salad cheese is 2sp/2pp/80kcal.
Finally, eat 'al fresco' and enjoy.
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Cora's used to be the tiniest cafe, a favorite hang of surfers, pier fishermen and idlers. Lunch and breakfast only. Closed by 3 p.m. Nice piece of real estate, though, right there on Ocean Boulevard, where all the big new hotels were going up. Cora's days were numbered, anybody could see that. The bulldozers and cranes came awfully close. But then Cora's was bought, saved, annexed by veteran restaurateur Bruce Marder, whose beautiful fine-dining establishment, Capo, is right next door. Cora's and Capo.
These days, Cora's Coffee Shoppe consists of the tiny original restaurant, which has a narrow counter and glass cases packed with pastries and wedges of frittata, a couple of seats and about enough room to turn around in, and the main dining area, which is a pretty little patio overlooking Capo's parking lot. One recent afternoon, a hairy guy in a Harley T-shirt and his redheaded girlfriend greeted the place like an old friend. They marveled at the new iron arbor and its burgeoning bougainvillea, praised the new checkerboard-weave rattan chairs as they sat; they held hands and, clearly, relived old memories until the waiter came and handed them their menus. One look and they left.
It is a little pricey — for a coffee shop. A short stack'll run you seven bills. Steak and eggs, $14 (tho' it is a prime N.Y.). The customers are no longer surfers and idlers, but more like suits out exploring from the nearby hotels, or ladies lunching, and not a few chic young dating couples. I've seen more cell phones per capita at Cora's than I've seen in any restaurant outside of Europe.
The new Cora's is definitely not a greasy spoon. The food is made from the same ingredients Marder uses at Capo, which are, according to the menu, "organic whenever appropriate." When, one wonders, is organic inappropriate?
Cora's recently opened for dinner as well as lunch and breakfast, so on a Monday night, two friends and I drove out there. Only two people were working the place, a waiter-manager-cook and his busboy-dishwasher, and there were only a couple of other customers. When the three of us ordered five items off the one-page menu, the one-man staff calmly wrote it all down, then carried it into the kitchen, where he gave it to himself to cook. He must have had a moment of consternation about how to cook all this and wait tables and keep an eye on things too — but he quickly solved the problem. He came back outside and announced that he would serve us our dishes one at a time, each divided in thirds. We were too confused or too relaxed under the arbor's twinkling lights to argue, and so he did his thing.
First came the "rigatoni meat" (the menu has a certain terseness): simmered meat sauce on big ribbed al dente tubes, good and hot, if not great. Next came the "rotisserie tacos de carnitas," one per plate, with a spoonful of delicious creamy white beans alongside; the char-tipped carnitas had a spicy, condensed-meat flavor, and made us quite happy. Then came peppered, seared-rare sushi-grade tuna on lovely greens. The meal was beginning to have the pace (and flavor!) of a tasting menu at a good restaurant. What with the trickling fountain and deepening twilight, it seemed romantic, magical. I mean, how often do you go to a coffee shop and wind up at a feast?
We'd ordered one dinner special — and were given three hefty portions — of short ribs, braised and served on cheesy polenta, with a surprising number of sliced porcini, and not the dry ones, either. As we ate, course by course, we noticed the busperson and sometimes the cook-waiter running across the parking lot into Capo and coming out with white tubs of this or that, and, once, a cantaloupe — it showed up peeled and sliced with our prosciutto di Parma, three sizable servings for the price of one.
If Mr. Marder made no profit that night, he did get return customers. We knew, of course, that such a fairy-tale evening as we'd had was one of a kind. Indeed, on subsequent visits we sorely missed our resourceful one-man staff. Other employees lacked his excellent waiterly instincts: Hey, at a coffee shop or even a coffee "shoppe," a person should have her cup refilled at least once, especially when it's delicious Illy-brand coffee.
The food, however, is consistently good. Try the orange-flavored pancakes, with blueberries and a great subtly chewy texture. Huevos rancheros look austere — red sauce on eggs, white beans, tortillas — but the sauce is diabolically tasty, the tortillas are thick and fresh, the sole roasted jalapeño is superb. Sandwiches, or panini, come on a rather bland roll, a blank canvas of bread, but interior ingredients — prosciutto and a fried egg, for example, with greens — are of irreproachable quality. And you can't get a better pickle, a fresh half-dill made at the Broadway Deli (of which Marder is a part owner); it's green, crunchy and mild.
But is it organic?
1802 Ocean Ave., Santa Monica; (310) 451-9562. Open daily for breakfast, lunch and dinner. No alcohol. Parking in lot and on street. Meal-size dishes $5–$14. AE, MC, V.
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Kyle Busch continued his dominance of the Xfinity Series at Kansas Speedway on Saturday.
Elliott Sadler and Daniel Suarez continued their chase for a title.
Pulling double-duty this weekend, Busch led 150 of the 200 laps in a thoroughly dominant performance for his ninth series win of the season. It was also his third straight Xfinity win at Kansas, where he won in his Sprint Cup car for the first time this spring.
"There were a lot of things trying to work against us toward the end, but we just persevered," said Busch, who at one point was a lap down. "We had great speed. I think we showed it all weekend. It was just a matter of putting it all together and ending up in victory lane, where we deserved to be."
Sadler finished second and Suarez finished third to give the Chase contenders a nice start to the three-race round of eight, which now takes a two-week break before continuing at Texas.
"Everyone is starting off square," Sadler said, "so you're trying to get a point here and get a point there. Now everybody will have different strategies as we go to Texas and Phoenix."
Two more Sprint Cup regulars, Joey Logano and Kyle Larson, waged an entertaining duel to round out the top five. But it was some drama around them in the closing laps that shook up the title chase.
Justin Allgaier and Darrell Wallace Jr. were involved in a late wreck, though Allgaier's partially destroyed car was able to finish a lap down in 14th. Wallace wound up 33rd and now has a massive deficit to make up the next two races if he wants to avoid elimination.
"Pretty hard hit. Just unfortunate," said Wallace, who was blinking away some pain when he took off his helmet. "We were making some good calls and running our own race and that's part of it.
"I think we could have gotten a top-10 if we hit our restarts right, but just not our day."
Nor was it Brendan Gaughan's day. He went slip-sliding through the grass on the front stretch late in the race and wound up 31st — though he did provide some comic relief when he sprinted from the infield care center back to his car in an attempt to squeeze a few more laps in before the finish.
It wound up having no bearing on his result.
Erik Jones also had a gripe after spending most of the day near the front. He was hit from behind by Larson on a late restart, sending him into Ty Dillon and causing enough damage to force a costly pit stop.
Jones ended finishing 15th, fifth among the eight drivers competing for a championship.
"It's all my fault," Larson told his spotter after the impact.
Blake Koch finished ninth in a strong start to the round for his championship hopes, while Ryan Reed dealt with a series of problems all afternoon and finished behind Allgaier and Jones in 16th.
Now, they'll all be chasing Sadler and Suarez over the next two races.
"We had a great race. So proud of my team," Sadler said. "We kept working on the car, working on the car, getting better and better. I just have to do a better job of out-running that 18 car."


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The G80 Architecture
Well, we've talked about what a unified architecture is and how Microsoft is using it in DX10 with all the new features and options available to game designers. But just what does NVIDIA's unified G80 architecture look like??
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All hail G80!! Well, um, okay. That's a lot of pretty colors and boxes and lines and what not, but what does it all mean, and what has changed from the past? First, compared to the architecture of the G71 (GeForce 7900), which you can reference a block diagram of here, you'll notice that there is one less "layer" of units to see and understand. Since we are moving from a dual-pipe architecture to a unified one, this makes sense. Those eight blocks of processing units there with the green and blue squares represent the unified architecture and work on pixel, vertex and geometry shading.
Even the setup events at the top of the design are completely new, from the Host and below. The top layer of the architecture that includes the "Vtx Thread issue, Geom Thread Issue and Pixel Thread Issue" units is part of the new thread processor and is responsible for maintaining the states of the numerous processing threads that are active at one time and assigning them to (or issuing) processing units as they are needed. With this many processing units and this many threads, this unit is going to keep quite busy…
Okay, so how many are there already?? There are 128 streaming processors that run at 1.35 GHz accepting dual issue MAD+MUL operations. These SPs (streaming processorss) are fully decoupled from the rest of the GPU design, are fully unified and offer exceptional branching performance (hmm…). The 1.35 GHz clock rate is independent of the rest of the GPU, though all 128 of the SPs are based off of the same 1.35 GHz clock generator; in fact you can even modify the clock rate on the SPs seperately from that of the GPU in the overclocking control panel! The new scalar architecture on the SPs benefits longer shader applicaitons to be more efficient when compared to the vector architecture of the G70 and all previous NVIDIA designs.
The L1 cache shown in the diagram is shared between 16 SPs in each block, essentially allowing these 16 units to communicate with each other in the stream output manner we discussed in the DX10 section.
Looking at the raw numbers, you can see that the GeForce 8800 SP architecture creates some impressive processing power, resulting in more than double the "multiplies" that the G71 or R580 could muster. Also, we found out that the new G80 SPs are 1 to 2 orders of magnitude faster than G71 was on branching — this should scare ATI as their branching power was one of the reasons their R580 architecture was able to hold off the 7900 series for as long as it did.
In previous generations of NVIDIA's hardware, the texture units actually used a small portion of the pixel shader in order to keep from doubling up on some hardware. This has the potential to create "bubbles" in the GPU processing that looked like the GeForce 7-series diagram above. Math operations often had to wait for texture units to complete their work before continuing. That is no longer the case with G80; there are literally thousands of threads in flight at any given time allowing the memory access to completely decouple from processing work. This keeps those "bubbles" from occuring in this new design allowing for seemingly faster memory access times.
This threading process has been dubbed "GigaThreading" by NVIDIA and refers to the extremely high amout of active threads at any given time. In a CPU, when a cache miss occurs, the CPU usually has to wait for that data to be retrieved and the thread stalls as it waits. On the G80, if there is a data cache miss, the problem isn't so severe as there are many threads ready to be placed into one of the 128 SPs while the data is retrieved for the cache miss. And in case you were wondering what this constant thread swapping might add to computing overhead, NVIDIA told us that it technically takes 0 clocks for threads to swap!
Moving on to the texture units on the G80, there are two texture fetch (TF) units for every texture address (TA) unit; this allows for a total of 32 pixels per clock of texture addressing and 64 pixels per clock of texture filter ops. These units have been optimized for HDR processing and work in full FP32-bit specifications, but can support FP16 as well. Because of all this power, the G80 can essentially get 2x anisotropic filtering for free, as well as FP16 HDR for free.
This small table compares the 7900 GTX, X1950 XTX and the 8800 GTX in terms of texture fill rates; on 32-bit dual texturing, the X1950 XTX and the 7900 GTX could get approximately 50% performance on 2x AF while the 8800 GTX gets 100% performance because and 3.6x faster 16x AF rates than the X1950 XTX.
The ROPs on G80 are changed a bit from the G71 architecture as well, starting with support for up to 16 samples for AA; however these are not programmable samples like those on the ATI X1950 architecture; NVIDIA's are still using static, rotated grid sample patterns. As if we would allow NVIDIA to do otherwise, antialiasing is support with HDR! The ROPs can support up to 16 samples and 16 Z samples per partition with up to 32 pixels per clock Z-only per partition. The color and Z compression designs have been improved by a multiple of 2 and the ROPs now support 8 render targets.
With six ROP and Z partitions available, that gives the G80 a total of 96 AA samples and 96 Z samples per clock, as well as 192 pixels per clock of Z-only work. Also, each ROP has a 64-bit interface with the frame buffer; if you do your math you'll come up with an odd-sounding 384-bit total memory interface between the GPU (and its ROPs) and the memory on the sytem. That 64-bit interface is attached to 128MB of memory, totalling 768MB of frame buffer. Yes, the numbers are odd; they aren't the nice round numbers we are used to. But there is no trick to it as many had thought; NVIDIA is segregating some portion to vertex and some to pixel or anything like that.
The Z culling process on the G80 has been improved drastically as well, including the ability to remove pixels that are not visible during the rendering BEFORE they are processed. NVIDIA was pretty tight-lipped about the actual process on how they are doing this, but keeping in mind that the NVIDIA driver uses a just-in-time compiler before passing instructions on to the GPU, its possible that the compiler is doing some work to help the GPU out in this case. Either way, the more capable the Z-culling is on the core, the less work the GPU has to do per frame, improving performance and game play.


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Iamge: Triple Hecate, 1795, by William Blake public domain via wikimedia commons
Sunday, July 24, 2016
Iamge: Triple Hecate, 1795, by William Blake public domain via wikimedia commons
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What a brilliant, wonderful, lovely and sad poem! And the Robert Johnson piece is a bonus! Thank you.ReplyDelete
The ominous tone is perfect, the narrative voice is burdened with knowledge, her vision bleak. She seems trapped at the crossroads, out of time, in a place where magic is in short supply.ReplyDelete
Hekate is quite right. I think we'll need a powerful thinking and feeling spell if we are to survive the horror that is everyday life. I hope everyone--or at least enough of us--has the ingredients in hand (or in brain).ReplyDelete
Though cloaked in mythology, this is a perfect depiction of our national situation right now, imo. Your sight is clear and sharp, very sharp, dear BFF.ReplyDelete
Hey Joy--my internet is not very good right now so can't hear the Robert Johnson, but think I have heard it (and it's beautiful.) This is a very complex poem, and vision, it seemed to me, the eyes all looking forward and the Hecate at the crossroads giving up these other vital parts of her nature; although they are certainly overlapping and closely entwined roles. I confess to being a little distracted by the comments so have a harder time reading the poem-- For me the most compelling lines (and they are very compelling) deal with what was rare now being common and the description of the scrolls of the ocean--this is all very vivid and powerful and sad. Thanks. k.ReplyDelete
Your poem is beautiful, sad and weaves mythology with truth. My fave lines:ReplyDelete
"the library of the ocean
emptied scroll by scroll, the old light lost
and sweetness of air."
Thanks so much for sharing.
- AnonymousJuly 27, 2016 at 4:16 AM
I was sure hoping you'd join this fray -- the divine totem perhaps, turned from the 2011 trope you posted last, become the ghost of the three as the world emptied out (scroll by scoll in "the library of the sea," hell yes). "What was rare now is common" an enantiodromia or anthema, reversed or turned over, so much that seeing forward is just an evasion from speaking with "the dead past." Does the vatic function become a toy or app or video game when its "common" realities become too rare? The deal with the devil at the crossroads here become an escape into the snake oil of futurity, the "apostasy of wealth." The final lines are a conundrum I can't see into -- perhaps that's why there's only witchery, Hekate's whole ground become a spooky whistle. I'm just guessing, the weave here is dark--a fine tesselation of myth and meaning and their ghosts.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks B--and thanks for the new word (enantiodromia) which really is the thrust behind the piece, that the present has altered the very meaning of the past and every value it prized with its pay per view insanity--the last lines are Hekate's legacy, her gift--to see in another way, to find the natural again through the supernatural--spirit or dream or delving psyche.Delete
Such a powerful piece. I like its brooding tone. There's a warning in there, as well as an exhortation to take on the power to change things for oneself.ReplyDelete
"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, out of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry." ~William Butler Yeats


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UK net ITV has kicked off a massive search for lost TV footage. From the 1950s through the '70s it was common for show masters to be taped over to conserve expensive tape stock, whether it was Beatles footage, Doctor Who shows or Monty Python precursor At Last the 1948 Show. The results of the search will air in the form of an ITV series, Raiders of The Lost Archive. Check out the net's most wanted at: www.itv.com/lostarchive.
The UK's ITN Source picked up a Mobile TV award at MIPCOM for its short-form series On This Day in History, which uses 90-second videos to tell daily stories from footage libraries dating back to 1896.
In early October, Corbis chief exec Steve Davis told the London Times that the organization has turned an operating profit for the first time, thanks to a 16% increase in revenues in the first half of 2006.
Munich's Framepool is celebrating its fifth anniversary this November by opening two offices: one in London and another in Paris. Vanessa Lewis (former sales manager at Getty Images) will handle the UK store, while Jean-Charles Pentecouteau (Framepool's senior account manager for France and Benelux since 2004) will hold the fort in Paris.
Nat Geo Digital Motion has partnered with Denver motion imagery licensing/management company Thought Equity, which will see the company become Nat Geo's exclusive online distribution partner.
Seattle-based Corbis has acquired the Australian Picture Library, a leading Aussie image company, further extending the Corbis brand Down Under.
In Colorado, Mammoth HD has added 33 new collections, including a Thailand series, New York City's Columbus Circle series and an expanded Ocean Life collection. The new additions bring the total online collection to 378 titles.
In Seattle, Getty Images and Discovery Communications have teamed up to bring the cableco's nature and wildlife film collection to online customers. Getty becomes the exclusive distributor for Discovery FootageSource, and will also handle Discovery Channel Images' collection of stills.
Venice's FootageBank HD has signed an exclusive deal to rep Innovision Optics Footage. The agreement gives FootageBank HD exclusive rights to custom high-speed and macro footage created in HD and shot with two Innovision systems: the Cine SpeedCam and the HD Probe.
Getty has added the AP Archive to its film collection. The acquisition strengthens Getty's offering of both historical events and iconic personalities. Getty also recently added rights-managed collections from dick clarke productions, as well as new collections from BLOOMimage and FilmDisc.
Corbis recently named Adam Brotman as VP of licensing ventures. Before joining Corbis, Brotman was founder and former CEO of PlayNetwork Inc.
Oregon's Artbeats have added two new HD collections to the catalog: Southwest Monument Aerials and Southwest Scenic Aerials. Both titles were captured using the Gyron Eagle Camera system, and bring the total number of HD collections at Artbeats to 157 (out of a total of 427 titles).
ITN Source has simplified its rate card to further help customers service their own orders.
Corbis has struck a deal with Playboy Enterprises, becoming the first external licensee to handle the media giant's imagery for commercial use.
Royaltyfreestore.com has launched, offering 45 HD and SD collections via DVD.
In Kent, Moving Image has been appointed to manage and represent the Wessex Film and Sound Archive, a specialist regional repository based in Winchester. The Wessex archive features footage of everything from Sir Robert Baden-Powell and his future wife Olave Soames to Cold War propaganda films.


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Hi, this week we learned that Burger King is giving a sick pup free burgers for the rest of his days, and that the Minneapolis Department of Health decided to help a kid get a business going instead of shutting down his hot dog stand, and yet the world is still pretty much garbage. So go ahead and file two of these stories under, "yeah, no shit": turns out loads of people are drinking loads more.
Also, drinking can boost sperm count, but that's another matter.
First up, the Washington Post reports that U.S. deaths from liver disease have shot up sharply in recent years. That information comes courtesy of a study published in the British Medical Journal, which reveals that cirrhosis-related deaths rose by 65 percent from 1999 to 2016. Also, deaths caused by liver cancer doubled, and it's all because we can't stop with the boozin'.
What's more, the group with the biggest increase in cirrhosis-related deaths was people between the ages of 25 and 34—that increase was an average of 10.5 per year. Regardless of age, if you "drink several drinks a night or have multiple nights of binge drinking—more than four or five drinks per sitting—per week," you're at risk—and women are particularly susceptible. That's just great.
But hey, there's an out. Per the Post:
If people with alcohol-related disease stop drinking, "there's an excellent chance your liver will repair itself," Tapper said. "Many other organs have the ability to regenerate to some degree, but none have the same capacity as the liver," he added. He said that he routinely sees patients going "from the sickest of the sick to living well, working and enjoying their life."
Take charge
Treat yourself to a portable power bank, a magnetic wireless battery for iPhones, or even a solar generator. There is a reason these are in the top ten. For instance, the Anker 747 Power Bank is a 4-in-1 charger utilizing USB-A and USB-C to be capable of charging up to four devices at once. Great to take with you when traveling and in need of keeping your phone, laptop, and even Nintendo Switch powered on.
Okay, great. This is great news. Great. Just great.
The next piece of booze news comes courtesy of WebMD. Though WebMD has on multiple occasions convinced us we have scurvy, they're backing up this particular piece—"Alcohol consumption among women is on the rise"—with good old-fashioned statistics.
The data on the rise of alcohol consumption and abuse by women are staggering. Historically, men have been the ones to drink far more alcohol, but numerous studies show that is changing on a variety of fronts: alcohol use, binge drinking, alcohol use disorders, driving under the influence of alcohol, and more. Studies differ on the percentage increase, but all support a clear and troubling trend of more alcohol consumption among women.
Among those studies: the National Institute On Alcohol Abuse And Alcoholism found that female alcohol use disorder in the U.S. increased 83.7 percent between 2002 and 2013; the National Institute On Drug Abuse found that young women are more likely to drink by 10th grade than young men, for the first time in history; a 2018 study revealed a sharp increase in alcohol-related emergency room visits across the board, but noted that increases were larger for women than for men.
"Males still consume more alcohol, but the differences between men and women are diminishing," says Aaron White, PhD, senior scientific advisor to the director of the NIAAA.
Also, as promised, apparently moderate alcohol consumption can increase your sperm count. Happy Friday.


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Rejected Super Bowl Commercials
Not every Super Bowl ad makes it to air...
HLG Studios produced a series of satirical sketches under the campaign "Rejected Super Bowl Commercials" with ads from Monsanto, NSA, Buzzfeed, Doritos, Rent a Man, Rent a White Man and the NSA.
The socially satirical "series" has run successfully for two years, with lots of press, views and offensive comments to boot! Enjoy!


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Spring with Red Tea
Spring has sprung! Spring and fall are my two favorite times of the year. Something about the change makes everything more interesting. I love wandering my yard looking for signs of new life. Spring and fall are also when I go thru and refill and refresh my stock of tea at home. My tastes tend to tilt to the fruitier side this time of the year as we move into the iced tea season. With spring comes the resurgence of my spring allergies but luckily I have a new weapon in my arsenal, Red Tea. Lately you see red tea every where including bottled in your local grocery. Many of you know that red tea also goes by the African name of Rooibos. Rooibos has many wonderful health benefits and is naturally caffeine free. I must say that bottled anything just doesn't appeal to me so I will be sticking to my freshly brewed rooibos. Our selection of Rooibos has grown to 24 flavors including both red and green versions of this wonderful herbal. The red may not appeal to everyone but the green is very similar in flavor to green tea. I will be making a refreshing pitcher of iced Summer Punch Green Rooibos tonight and trying Tuscany Pear Rooibos tomorrow.
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