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Ask a Chef: What's Your Favorite Thanksgiving Side Dish?
By now, we know that SE staffers love stuffing and you guys love mashed potatoes, but what about the pros?
"Sausage, sage, and mushroom stuffing. A close second is green bean casserole... love those crispy onions on top. —Frank McMahon, Hank's Seafood, Charleston, SC
"Garlic mashed potaotes and gravy."— Mike Isabella, Kapnos and Graffiato in Washington, D.C
"It's a tough call between brussels sprouts roasted in either turkey or goose fat, and a really good stuffing with tons of savory sausage, confit giblets, and braised neck." —Tony Maws, Craigie on Main, Cambridge, MA and Kirkland Tap & Trotter, Somerville, MA
"My all-time favorite side during Thanksgiving was a dish my grandmother made called 'garbage.' We had it every holiday and it was basically a coleslaw with a little bit of everything in there—olives, cheese, celery, etc. It was sooooo good. I would always look forward to Thanksgiving to have it." —Richard Gras, Oak, Dallas, TX
"I love rice dressing and also sweet potato and marshmallow casserole." —Justin Devillier, La Petite Grocery, New Orleans
"Frozen cranberry salad, which is not really a salad—it's more like a frozen yogurt with pineapple walnuts and cranberry." —Jay Abrams, Presidio Social Club, San Francisco
"Wet stuffing is always the best. When roasting a whole bird, stuff the carcass with stale bread, butter, parsley, diced onion, celery and carrot. I like to chop up the gizzards and mix that into the stuffing as well. Let the bird roast and the juices get absorbed by the stuffing." —Joe Monnich, The Dandelion, Philadelphia
"Old school sweet potatoes, cooked with ginger ale, brown sugar, and browned salted butter." — Joey Campanaro, Little Owl and Market Table, New York
"My favorite Thanksgiving dish is 'My Mother's Southern Sausage Dressing'—I could eat the dressing alone and it would still feel like Thanksgiving! The sausage dressing is the basis for the dressing that we make to go along with our smoked turkeys at Hill Country Barbecue Market every year for Thanksgiving. In the South, the 'Dressing' is made along side the turkey and thus called dressing—never stuffing! The advantage for the home cook is that an unstuffed turkey takes less time to cook and the dressing has a nice crisp crust and a moist center unlike stuffing which [to me] is all mush." —Elizabeth Karmel, Hill Country Barbecue Market and Hill Country Chicken, New York
"Mashed potatoes with gravy. Lots of gravy." —Richard Kuo, Pearl and Ash, New York
"Oyster dressing. I hate when the cornbread gets mushy. It should be baked, butter-fried crispy and then baked again with all the herbs, oysters and veggies!" —Ford Fry, JCT Kitchen & Bar and The Optimist, Atlanta
"I like to do a variation on the classic bread stuffing that my mother used to make. To make it, I add cornbread for texture along with homemade sausage (I like a gamey one—duck or venison work well) and dried cherries. I use a lot of turkey stock so that it comes out almost like bread pudding: golden and crisp on the top, creamy pudding inside and bursting with cherries. At Gotham, instead of sausage, we incorporate duck confit, which makes for a truly extraordinary stuffing." — Alfred Portale, Gotham Bar & Grill, New York
"I love making and eating foie gras dressing with bread and armagnac soaked prunes. (this is best with the slow roasted truffled turkey)." —Anita Lo, Annisa, New York
"Thanksgiving is my single favorite holiday. I like so much that there are times that I will have a Thanksgiving celebration in May or July, just to prepare the feast again. Most years my guest list can have as many as 80 people, but never under 35. Every year I try to change it up, but some things never change, like my favorite side —chorizo cornbread dressing." — Douglas Rodriguez, Alma de Cuba, Philadelphia
"There is nothing I love more than oyster dressing. It's not actually a dressing, but rather a stuffing. I call it Oyster Dressing on my menu because that's what my grandmother used to call it. It consists of 2 cups of milk, 1/4 cup of unsalted butter, 1 cup of chicken stock, 1 cup of cooked mire poix, 12 shucked ousters in their juice, 1 sleeve of Saltines, 3 tablespoons of chopped parsley, and 1 teaspoon of chopped herbs. It's not only a personal favorite of mine, but of those who come into Commerce for Thanksgiving as well." —Harold Moore, Commerce, New York
"Roasted brussels sprouts with pancetta and sweet vermouth." —Michael Paley, Metropole, Cincinnati
"Brussels sprouts with chestnuts and bacon, hands down. —Brandon McGlamery, Luma Park and Prato, Winter Park, FL
"Mashed potatoes. I like eating crispy roasted turkey skin with creamy mashed potatoes." —Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto
"Sweet potatoes with cumin, maple and marshmallows, the mini ones." —John Gorham, Tasty n Sons, Portland, OR
"We forgo the classic mashed potatoes for a creamy potato gratin that I make with layers of Yukon Gold potatoes, Gruyere cheese, and a roasted garlic cream. The dish is baked creating a golden brown crust on top and melty, cheesy interior. It's just an extremely comforting dish." — Iron Chef Jose Garces
"My favorite dish to make is called Onions in Onions. Roast large white onions, cut in half and scoop out the middle. Fill with pearl onions that have been roasted with pancetta, rosemary, cream and beer. Top with bread crumbs and Parmesan cheese and bake until golden and bubbly." —Jimmy Bradley, The Red Cat and The Harrison, New York
"White trash green bean casserole. Campbell's cream of mushroom soup, canned green beans that squeak between your teeth, and French's french fried onions. I've tried to improve and elevate this dish with fresh, home made ingredients and it's just not the same. It's truly greater than the sum of its parts." —Greg Baker, The Refinery, Tampa, FL
"Brussels sprouts. I make them with bacon and lemon. I also love stuffing. I make one with pork sausage, and another with finely cut mirepoix." —Jenn Louis, Lincoln and Sunshine Tavern, Portland, OR
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Email MantraPosted by Bonnie S. Calhoun at 2:37 AM
I got this quite a while ago from my homegirl Debra Brand! Sorry Deb...I found the draft just lounging around!
Sometimes friends have to tell you things you might not like to hear, but need to. If you are one of those people who like to forward every e-mail you get, please repeat the following ...
1) I will NOT get bad luck, lose my friends, or lose my mailing lists if I DON'T forward an e-mail!
2) I will NOT hear any music or see a taco dog, if I do forward an e-mail.
3) Bill Gates is NOT going to send me money. Victoria Secret doesn't know anything about a gift certificate they're supposed to send me.
4) Ford will NOT give me a 50% discount even if I forward my e-mail to more than 50 people!
5) I will NEVER receive gift certificates, coupons, or freebies from Coca Cola, Cracker Barrel, Old Navy, or anyone else if I send an e-mail to 10 people.
6) I will NEVER see a pop-up window if I forward an e-mail! (If you do, you have a virus or trojan.)
7) There is NO SUCH THING as an e-mail tracking program and I am not STUPID enough to think that someone will send me $100 for forwarding an e-mail to 10 or more people!
8) There is NO kid with cancer through the Make-a-Wish program in England collecting anything! He did when he was 7 years old. He is now cancer free and 35 years old and DOESN'T WANT ANY MORE POST CARDS, or GET-WELL CARDS!
9) The government does not have a bill in Congress called 901B (or whatever they named it this week) that, if passed, will enable them to charge us 5 cents for every e-mail we send.
10) There will be NO cool dancing, singing, waving, colorful flowers, characters, or program that I will receive immediately after I forward an e-mail. NONE, ZIP, ZERO, NADA!!
11) The American Red Cross will NOT donate 50 cents to certain individuals dying of some never-heard-of disease for every e-mail address I send this to. The American Red Cross RECEIVES donations.
12) And finally, I WILL NOT let others guilt me into forwarding at email by telling me if I don't I am not their friend or that I'm a bad person.
Now, repeat this to yourself until you have it memorized, and send it along to at least 5 of your friends before the next full moon or you will gain twenty pounds in the next three months! (No, not really! If you believe that last statement, go back and read this message again!)
7 Comments:
- Stephen Newton said...7:50 AMThanks for putting this online. I agree wholeheartedly with you on this one. When will people learn?
- Bernita said...8:13 AMSo true, Bonnie.
The delete button is there for a reason.
- Crystal said...4:25 PMMy grandpa sent me the same thing, only it was an animated cartoon guy saying it. All that is very true!
- Vanda said...4:37 PMHi ya Bonnie from across the pond. Sorry I haven't commentated,I've spend more time reading that I have reading and commenting blog entries.
I never, ever forward any email that promise's anything. Most of the time I delete it before reading even if it's fror one of my lovely online friends.
Pop over to me blog and say hello;-))
- Joe said...8:24 PMOK, so I refused to read any part of this email, so I am not sending it to any of my friends.
But I HAVE gained 20 pounds.
- Anonymous said...12:02 AMGreat, Bonnie. I can't wait to e-mail this to all my friends. You might want to add, "Madelyn O'Hare is dead and is not trying to ban Christian broadcasting."
- Mindy Tarquini said...12:28 AMMiss Snark suggested I download Firefox to view your blog.
It worked.
Very pretty.

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WASHINGTON - Stinging criticism from Congress about a counterterrorism effort that improperly collected information about innocent Americans is turning up the heat on the Obama administration to justify the program's continued existence and putting lawmakers who championed it on the defensive.
The administration strongly disagrees with the report's findings, and leaders of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee are distancing themselves from the report. The review criticized the multibillion-dollar network of "fusion centers" as ineffective in fighting terrorism and risky to civil liberties.
The political maneuvering by Sens. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, is unusual because the bipartisan report was issued by their own subcommittee.
The intelligence reports reviewed by the subcommittee were produced by officials in the Homeland Security Department's Intelligence and Analysis division, which was created after the Sept. 11 attacks with the hope of connecting the dots to prevent the next terrorist strike. This division has never lived up to what Congress initially hoped for.
Lieberman and Collins were the driving forces behind the creation of the department. Fusion centers, the analytical centers intended to spot terrorism trends in every state, are held up by many as the crown jewel of the department's security efforts.
"I strongly disagree with the report's core assertion that fusion centers have been unable to meaningfully contribute to federal counterterrorism efforts," Lieberman said in a statement Wednesday, singling out six "shortcomings" in the report. Collins issued a separate statement that listed four shortcomings.
A Lieberman spokeswoman said the report came from the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, rather than the full committee.
"I know that seems odd, but this is strictly a PSI report," Lieberman spokeswoman Leslie Phillips wrote in an email.
The Homeland Security Department and several major law enforcement associations also strongly disagreed with the findings. Pulling back federal money for the program would force state and local governments to cover all of the costs.
The department said the report is outdated and inaccurate. It cited specific examples of how the centers have contributed to counterterrorism efforts in major cases, including the 2010 attempted car bombing in New York City's Times Square. That's an example the subcommittee challenges in its report.
The subcommittee reviewed more than 600 unclassified reports over a one-year period and concluded that most had nothing to do with terrorism. The subcommittee chairman is Democrat Carl Levin of Michigan, and the top Republican is Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma.
One center cited in the investigation wrote a report about a Muslim community group's list of book recommendations. Others discussed American citizens speaking at mosques or talking to Muslim groups about parenting.
No evidence of criminal activity was contained in those reports. The government did not circulate them, but it kept them on government computers. The federal government is prohibited from storing information about First Amendment-protected activities not related to crimes.
States have had criminal analysis centers for years, but the fusion centers were set up after the 2001 attacks as officials realized that a terrorism tip was as likely to come from a local police officer as the CIA.
Though fusion centers receive money from the federal government, they are operated independently. A federal law co-sponsored by Lieberman and Collins authorized that centers cover criminal or terrorist activity.
Five years later, Senate investigators found, terrorism is often a secondary focus.
The report is as much an indictment of Congress as it is the Homeland Security Department.
"Congress and two administrations have urged DHS to continue or even expand its support of fusion centers, without providing sufficient oversight to ensure the intelligence from fusion centers is commensurate with the level of federal investment," the report said.
One of the report's recommendations is that the department needs to do a better job of tracking how its money is spent; that's a recommendation with which both Collins and Lieberman agree.
Despite that, Congress is unlikely to pull the plug because the program means politically important money for state and local governments, and Homeland Security officials are adamant that the money is well spent.
In 2010, after Faisal Shahzad was caught for trying to blow up a vehicle in New York's Times Square, fusion centers examined their own systems to see if there were any relationships with intelligence they had related to Shahzad, said John Cohen, a senior advisor to the Homeland Security secretary.
Cohen said centers in Florida and Virginia discovered individuals who had connections to Shahzad but who were unknown to the FBI. The centers shared the information with FBI investigators, Cohen said, and that produced additional leads that are still under investigation.
But the example is one the congressional investigators condemn. "The information does not appear to have played any key role in the Shahzad case," the report said.
Cohen also cited a 2011 case in Seattle in which two men approached someone in Seattle about purchasing weapons. The person they approached happened to be a police informant and reported the incident to his handler, Cohen said. The police handler was assigned to the local fusion center that was able to identify the two people who approached the informant, he said.
The fusion center did more analysis on the men, including digging into their criminal backgrounds, determined they might want to do more than just purchase firearms and handed the information over to the local FBI-led joint terrorism task force. The men were arrested and charged with plotting a terror attack on a military office in Seattle. While the subcommittee did not review this particular case, court records state that the men approached the police informant and were specific about their plans to attack a military office when they asked about obtaining weapons.
The recent Senate report is not the first time questions have been raised about civil liberties and privacy protections in fusion centers.
The centers have made headlines for circulating information about supporters of GOP presidential primary candidate Ron Paul, the ACLU, activists on both sides of the abortion debate, war protesters and advocates of gun rights.
The Obama administration has put policies in place and required that fusion centers have privacy and civil liberty policies in order to receive federal funding. But the ACLU and other civil liberties organizations continue to call for better privacy protections.


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When a movie is screened only 48 hours before release, you have to assume there's something terrible afoot and the studio is doing their best to keep the blogosphere from exploding with bad press.
However, in the case of "The Tourist," which was screened for critics Wednesday, it might be that Sony's delay worked against them, preparing people for the worst and inspiring the current drubbing the film is taking.
Is "The Tourist" predictable? Yes.
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Is "The Tourist" occasionally implausible and slow? Yes.
Is "The Tourist" the meandering puddle of dreck that people are making it out to be? No.
In fact, it's far superior to Angelina Jolie's most recent outing, "Salt," an excruciating exercise that left audiences guffawing as the clunker careened through a ridiculous plot and terrible acting. To say "The Tourist" is a better movie might be slight praise, but it is still praise.
Let's start with the good stuff, shall we?
There's a whole lot of pretty going on in "The Tourist." Between Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, Paul Bettany, a minor cameo by Rufus Sewell and the backdrop of Venice, it's a veritable gorg-a-gasm.
The movie, a remake of the so-so French film, "Anthony Zimmer," stars Depp as a newly single American math teacher who travels to Venice to recover from heartbreak. But when he meets a beautiful and mysterious English woman (Jolie, naturally) he finds himself caught up in a swirling game of cat and mouse.
From the moment Jolie appears on screen, you're struck by the thought that this woman would only be a movie star. She's too flawless and captivating to occupy any other space in the universe. But she plays the femme fatale with disconcerting distance and a seriously gamey English accent (when is she going to realize that adding a dialect to her action hero roles doesn't lend them any more gravitas or credence?), gliding through the frame in Jackie O sunglasses and chignons or impeccably tailored pencil skirts, recalling a Hitchcock heroine, a portrait of chilly perfection, while Depp is acting in a different movie entirely, gamely flinging himself from befuddled math teacher to unwitting hostage, never fully shaking what seems to be a watered down reincarnation of Captain Jack Sparrow.
It seems director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck couldn't decide if he wanted to make a sexy thriller or a sassy romp and ends up with a film that's a bit of both. In the end, despite the venom critics are flinging its way, we found "The Tourist" to be an innocuous offering that exists in a no man's land between really good or really bad; a film that would be perfectly enjoyable to catch one mindless afternoon. But what fun is that for critics to gripe about?


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Al-Qaeda fumes after semi-naked wrestlers staged a Royal Rumble event in Jeddah, with the jihadist group issuing a stern warning to Saudi Arabia's reformist Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over his "sinful projects"
Al-Qaeda warns Saudi crown prince over 'sin'
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As of yet, there is no indication that MBS is dead or alive but seriously injured !Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has warned Saudi Arabia's reformist Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over his "sinful projects", in a bulletin released Friday.Prince Mohammed has spearheaded a string of policy changes in ultraconservative Saudi Arabia, including reinstating cinemas and allowing women to drive."The new era of Bin Salman replaced mosques with movie theatres," the Yemen-based jihadist group said in its Madad news bulletin, picked up by the SITE Intelligence Group.He "substituted books that belonged to the imams... with absurdities of the atheists and secularists from the east and the west and opened the door wide for corruption and moral degradation," it said.
MBS has/had "vowed to bring Saudia in the 21st century, even going as far, to "break bread" with the "hated jews" in NYC"(Foreign) disbelieving wrestlers exposed their privates and on most of them was the sign of the cross, in front of a mixed gathering of young Muslim men and women," it said."The corruptors did not stop at that, for every night musical concerts are being announced, as well as movies and circus shows," SITE quoted it as saying.


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Geez, he's good. What next? Barack Obama has already taken unilateral steps to reform the student loan program, and his campaign has also targeted millennials with the Greater Together initiative. But just in case all that is not enough to secure the youth vote Obama knows he'll need, the president today announced a public-private partnership to provide 180,000 summer job opportunities to low-income youth. The AP reports:
The White House says that with help from the private sector it's gotten commitments for nearly 180,000 youth employment opportunities for next summer and is aiming for tens of thousands more.
Obama says that with young people facing record unemployment the government must do everything it can to make sure they have opportunities to learn skills and a work ethic.
So, what's the catch? Don't we want teens to learn "skills and a work ethic"? What's so bad about the federal government goading private businesses into handing out work opportunities to teens?
Mostly, the problem lies in the president's willingness to take credit for what he has not done. According to NewsBusters, most of these jobs are not jobs at all. That is, the majority are unpaid. Nothing is wrong with that; unpaid internships are a valuable way to gain work experience to up employability in the future. But for the president to tout those unpaid internships as "jobs" is disingenuous.
Then, too, as Republicans like House Speaker John Boehner have pointed out, plenty of these positions would exist regardless of whether the president took any interest in them. But the president has taken in interest in them, for the same reason he has taken an interest in — oh, I don't know — recess appointing partisan hacks to the National Labor Relations Board. He suspects that support for summer jobs will help his reelection effort.
Finally, any position the president would have created with the summer jobs fund included in his American Jobs Act would have required federal spending to create. The costs would have outweighed the benefits.
The larger problem with all of the president's "We Can't Wait" initiatives is that he's using them to skirt the hard work of governing, of actually addressing the underlying causes of the employment problem: the deficit and debt and business-burdening regulations. Here, via The Heritage Foundation's Bill Beach, a list of just a few of the Obama-era policies that have discouraged job creation:
- Obamacare promises to increase health care costs and taxes on business owners.
- EPA promises to increase the energy costs through new mandates on businesses.
- Obamacare included 18 tax hikes. Income taxes are scheduled to go up on the first day of 2013. …
- And, many business owners and investors are worried about inflation following the huge build up of bank reserves just waiting to become loans.
After ignoring the negative impact the poor economy has had on the lives and dreams of young Americans, the Obama Administration today announced a short-term effort to create temporary opportunities for young people through a mix of internships, mentoring programs and job shadowing.
Ironically, after gluing the feet of the private sector to the floor through more regulations, higher taxes and an anti-business agenda, they now want employers to run full speed to hire young workers. The private sector would already be hiring and would have real, challenging, and satisfying jobs available for young people, to launch them into their careers were it not for the extreme amount of government intervention in the private sector through both regulation and taxes.If Washington leaders want to show true empathy for those without jobs, they would stop pretending they have any expertise with job creation, admit their policies are the barriers to youth employment and let private employers do what they do best.


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We've heard it a million times: Sitting down for a family meal is good for us.
Studies show it keeps us connected, instills healthy eating habits, and even helps our kids get better grades.
But here's a new twist: It can make you wealthier.
It's true: A soon-to-be-released study from professors at the University of Georgia looked at 8,000 families over the course of a decade, and found that those who ate together at least four times a week were more likely to be financially secure.
(Hat tip to Squared Away, a blog from the Financial Security Project at Boston College.)
As someone who loves encouraging parents to talk to kids about money, I thought for sure the reason would be that during dinner, kids overhear Mom and Dad discussing the family's finances (paying for a vacation, the latest credit card bill, etc.), and that kids have an opportunity to ask questions about money.
I still believe that's true—but the study's findings are a little different.
The families in the study who dined together may or may not have discussed money at all. Instead, the study points to their one common trait: self-regulation.
In plain English, that means they excel at establishing good habits and sticking to them.
While that may sound like psychobabble to you, it makes perfect sense: If you're able to prioritize family meals (while balancing work, school, and all the other life demands), you're probably able to prioritize making smart financial decisions.
But if you're not the dinner-on-the-table-at-7-every-night kind of parent (and trust me, as a mom of three kids, including two teens, I know it's hard to coordinate everyone's crazy schedules), all hope is not lost.
The study notes that self-regulation is like a muscle. And like any other muscle, you can strengthen it with exercise.
Your assignment: Try committing to some healthy routines, like aiming for at least two family meals a week to start.
I'm sensing a reality show in the making: "The Biggest Saver," anyone?
Do you gather regularly for family meals? How has it helped your family—and your finances?


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Welcome to A Gentleman's Quest for the Perfect Night Out, a four-part guide written by etiquette expert John Bridges meant to instruct our more testosteroney readers on how to comport themselves during the evening hours. With the help of Clear Men Scalp Therapy, which gives you 100% dandruff protection* (because, after all, perfect hair ensures a perfect night), it will cover all the man-questions you were always curious about, but were too ashamed to ask your dad. Don't worry. This is a safe space.
The challenges of figuring out what to wear for a night on the town, or at "da club," or hopping the bars are two-fold. Yeah, a guy wants to fit in, but he also wants to stand out.
When everybody — male or female — is wearing the same mini-brimmed gray fedora (which, by the way, went out of style after sexy was brought back in '06), an identity crisis inevitably looms. That's why, when the sun starts threatening to set on a Friday, a man should already know the appropriate attire for his evening out.
First off, it's lamentable that most shirttails are no longer tuckable, but that doesn't mean you can't try — especially if you're wearing a jacket. And, yes, there are times when you will want to wear a jacket. That jacket should probably be black, and you should be able to button it, even if you choose not to.
Lest any questions be raised, a jacket is always right if you're headed to a bar where the drinks cost more than $12, or to a restaurant where the servers do not wear nametags. It is also the default option if you're headed any place where the sound level allows two people to conduct a decent conversation. (A decent conversation, by the way, does not consist of back-and-forth texting.) A jacket can lead to trouble, however, if dancing seems likely, since that means it will have to be checked. Which means you will probably forget it.
Other sartorial decisions to keep in mind: except in especially fancy restaurants, jeans are virtually inescapable, and irreproachable. The only caution is that they really ought to look as if you have previously worn them. If they look like they just came off a hanger from the Men's Casual Department, you might as well just wear a pair of your father's khakis.
Baseball caps may also seem inevitable, but that doesn't make them right, especially not after dark since — in most places — there is very little sunshine at night, and since the ostensible function of a cap is to keep the sun out of the eyes of truck drivers and gum-chewing outfielders.
Even on the most casual night out, a night that screams for a t-shirt, the question is, first and foremost, one of cleanliness. When it comes to the slogans printed on a t-shirt, however, the question may also be one of godliness. Not everyone, no matter how many beers they have consumed, may be amused by what you did one night at a crawfish bar in New Orleans.
Appropriateness, after all, is the ultimate criterion. And no, there has never been an evening when a wife-beater is appropriate. Never.
Etiquette expert John Bridges is the author of How to Be a Gentleman, and is also the coauthor, with Bryan Curtis, of seven other volumes in the best-selling GentleManners series. He is a frequent guest on television and radio news programs, always championing gentlemanly behavior in modern society.
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We use state-of-the-art software that confidentially compares a company's KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) to industry standards. This information is helpful to owners when they make key decisions about running their companies. Additionally, the business owner, with possession of this information, knows how bankers view their company when making decisions to lend money. Below are a few examples of the educational information we have shared with owners of privately-held companies during The Discovery Analysis™ process.
A Contracting Company
Report Summary – The following is the Report Summary for this company compared to its industry. The categories in red (Liquidity, Borrowing, Assets and Employees) are significantly below industry averages. The item in orange (Profitability) is slightly below the industry average. Sales are above industry average.
A Consulting & Staff Augmentation Services Company
Revenues per Employee – The revenue per employee is $113,147. The industry standard is $169,036. According to August's financial statements, the company's efficiency per employee appears to be much lower than industry benchmarks. As a result of over-hiring, payroll will quickly out-strap the company's cash.
Engineering Services Company
Current Ratio – Perhaps the most important ratio to measure a company's ability to pay its expenses is the Current Ratio. The industry standard is 2.40 and this company has a negative Current Ratio. A banker will most likely not lend money to a company with this kind of ratio. Liquidity is a serious issue. Liquidity has decreased in all major areas from last period. Generally, the company also does not seem to have enough money invested specifically in cash and near-cash accounts. All of this could make it difficult to meet obligations over the long run.
Gross Profit Margin – The industry Gross Profit Margin (Sales minus Cost of Goods Sold) is 66.5%. The latest financial statements of the company show a gross profit margin of 41.02%, which is 25.48% below the company's industry standard. The company can start in the right direction by working on gross margins: they are any company's first line of defense. Gross profits determine how much money managers have available to pay operating expenses. In this case, gross margins have fallen substantially, which could be dangerous when the overall condition in this area is weak.
A Commercial Lighting Company
Accounts Receivable Days – The Accounts Receivable Days for the industry is 60 days and this company has an average of more than 90 days. This number reflects the average length of time between credit sales (the invoice date to a customer) and payment receipts. It is crucial to maintaining positive liquidity. The lower the number of days the better, especially when accounts payable averages 30 days.
A Retail Company
EBITDA: The discussion of the sale of your business is its preliminary stages. It is still unknown how much of a factor the Company's EBITDA (Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) will be to a prospective buyer. However, it is highly likely that any buyer will be interested in the historical EBITDA of the Company. The historical numbers from the Company's internal financial statements are as follows:
Adjusted EBITDA: There may be "adjustments" to the Company's EBITDA. These potential adjustments may have the effect of either increasing or decreasing the historical EBITDA of the Company. Time needs to be spent to discover the amounts of these items and the potential effect, if any, to the Company's EBITDA.
A Manufacturing Company
Revenue per Employee – This is a good-news statistic, with an interesting twist. This metric reflects the amount of sales dollars per employee. The higher the better. This company far exceeds industry average in Revenue per Employee, however, there has been a decrease of $135,218 from the prior year. In comparison to the real time number (the industry average), it may indicate an understaffed situation. This metric should be monitored to determine an appropriate amount for the company.
A Software Company
EBITDA: The discussion of your transition out of the business is in its early preliminary stages. It is still unknown how much of a factor the Company's EBITDA will be to a prospective financier or buyer of your share of the Company. However, it is highly likely that the discussion of value will start with a look at the historical EBITDA of the Company. The historical numbers from the Company's internal financial statements are as follows:
Unearned Revenue: The Company recorded a prepayment for future services in the period in which the prepayment was received. Recording the prepayment as unearned revenue will reduce EBITDA for 2016 (but might increase revenue for another period).
A Beverage Company
Inventory Days – This metric shows how much inventory (in days) is on-hand. It indicates how quickly a company can respond to market and/or product changes. The lower the number of days the better.
A Contracting Company
Net Profit Margin – This is an important metric. In fact, over time, it is one of the more important barometers that we look at. It measures how many cents of profit the company is generating for every dollar it sells. The Net Profit Margin decreased by 65% in 2015 from the previous year and is about 43% below industry averages.


text: HDTracks 2017 sampler 2018-01-03 10:46:04 So what sort of quality do people get when they download so-called "Hi Rez" tracks on the web?In order to evaluate this I downloaded what one might expect to be one of the most reliable "Hi Rez" web sites: HDTRACKS.COM. I donwloaded what should be one of their most exceptional collections: their headlining sampler. This is he music that convinces audiophiles to buy their products!Remember this is the web site that posts proudly on their home page:"HDtracks is the only music store founded, funded, and operated by musicians, artists, and audiophiles. Started in 2008 by Norman and David Chesky, pioneers of revolutionary recording techniques and founders of the groundbreaking audiophile label Chesky Records, HDtracks takes their obssession with quality to the most important part of any recording: you, the listener. With industry-leading and painstaking quality controls, everything sold on HDtracks is of the highest possible quality, and available in a diverse range of formats so technology doesn't interfere with the listening experience.""We're looking to ensure all files sold on the site are true to the format they are listed as on the site. All 24bit is tested to have true 24 ACTIVE bits so 16 bit upsamples can be identified. We also test to make sure the freq extends to 1/2 the sampling frequency nyquist in order to identify they are not coming from lower resolution recordings (96khz will extend to 48khz nyquist)."Please review the attached graphic. The first picture is of the description of the tracks in the 2017 sampler. I downloaded it on the *last* day of the year 2017, so it has probably been downloaded thousands of times and its sound quality as perceived by its clients has convinced those thousands of audiophiles that it is as described above. Or, why else did they sign up and pay good money download tracks from it?The second picture is a FFT of the first track (Track 1) in the sampler. It is rather obviously slavishly upsampled from a 44 KHz file.The second file in the sampler is not pictured because despite being identified as a 24/96 FLAC, it is in fact a 44 KHz FLAC.The last FFT is a typical expanded view of that second file. Please note the rather obvious clipping.Now, just for grins look at this page and view the faces of the people who have brought this collection of files to you: https://www.hdtracks.com/about-usBTW this is by no means the extent of exceptional findings about this file collection. Check it out! Last Edit: 2018-01-03 10:58:37 by Arnold B. Krueger


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Back in 2000, I was among the first to pay to have my DNA tested for genealogical reasons. Some of you may know me as Kit No. 65 at Family Tree DNA.
My only goal was tracking roots, sometimes very deep roots going back to Africa, where this whole modern human enterprise began tens of thousands of years ago.
It's been fascinating. I have learned a little bit about genetics and in recent years have started to match people with whom I shared a grandparent thousands, even hundreds, of years ago.
I wanted a sense of where my family came from, to trace the migratory pattern from Africa, through ancient Palestine, maybe Italy and Germany and then a right turn onto Lithuania, Latvia and Ukraine and eventually on to the USA.
I have met and become friends with a number of people who share this interest, some might say an obsession, along with some common genes.
With this personal research, genetic diseases were lurking in the background, but were not center stage. Companies like FTDNA (www.familytreedna.com) avoided medical implications of DNA--it was all just family fun, so to speak. And loads of companies have piled on to go tell us about our ancestry.
But now new companies are entering the field, including Iceland-based deCODE genetics (decodeme.com)and Google-backed 2andme (23andme.com) to take genetics to a new level, combining the latest research genetic diseases and family history with a Web-based delivery system.
Will genetics be a new entertainment concept? How about a game show, Name Those Genes,hosted by James Watson, my South Side Chicago homeboy, where contestants have their genome and pedigree taken apart, really ripped apart, by a pro?
In fact, the Killer In Me, a UK TV show, looks at the genetic risks faced by a high-profile panel. (www.itv.com/Lifestyle/KillerInMe/default.html) Will heart disease knock off a retired footballer turned commentatoe? Will a TV news reader develop early Alzheimer's? Inquiring minds want to know.
Sound like fun to you? That's genome-tainment in the age of reality TV.
And now everyday people with a $1,000 burning in their pockets can find out about themselves, including their Killers In Them. Will it save lives? Will the information be abused? What about genetic information ruining an individual's insurance rating, a major concern in these United States.
Plug a name into Google and you can get a phone number, an address and maybe even a Candid Camera-like photo of the person standing in front of his house or sitting in her window with her cat. Plug in a stock ticker and Google serve up the latest price. Will we soon plug in a gene marker into Google and find out what diseases we have or might get along with a listing of other people with the same condition so we can form an instant online support group? See you at MyGene at MySpace or Genebook at Facebook so we can "social network." Will the public overinterpret or misinterpret these tests?
Will gene-hate groups, or "fiscally responsible" insurance companies or employers, use that data in nefarious ways, to discriminate, fire, isolate, sterilize, euthanize? It can't happen, here, right?
In the San Jose Mercury News, Stanford law prof Hank Greely, who has been taking shots at the genetic testing companies, warns that the best of intentions with this testing could cause problems: "A lot of the genetic results are early, weak and preliminary. One worries that people will think the information is more
powerful than it actually is and change their lives based on it."
New York Times genetics beat reporter Amy Harmon was scanned by 23andme and got a glimpse at her personal genome and found:"My risk of breast cancer was no higher than average, as was my chance of developing Alzheimer's. I was 23 percent less likely to get Type 2 diabetes than most people. And my chance of being paralyzed by multiple sclerosis, almost nil. I was three times more likely than the average person to get Crohn's disease, but my odds were still less than one in a hundred." (www.nytimes.com/2007/11/17/us/17dna.html?ex=1352955600&en=e7fcc2972b0a540c&ei=5089&partner=rssyahoo&emc=rss)
Personally, I believe we should get as much information as we can to prevent what we can prevent. I also believe in sharing that data.
When I had a heart attack at age 57, despite being a non-smoking exerciser on a low-fat diet, it was a shock. But the steps I had taken to be healthy over the years no doubt help save my life and minimize the damage. At the suggestion of my cardiologist, I shared my story in a newspaper article in the Chicago Sun-Times, where I have worked for a quarter decade, with the hope it would help others.
But I also believe companies need to ensure that consumers understand the results they get and assure them that the data is protected. (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4155/is_20050328/ai_n13507775) (http://findarticles.com/p
We've are entering a Brave New World of genetic information. Let's hunt the Killers In Us, with our eyes open and the knowledge that while our fate in not only in our genes but in the way we live our lives.


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Bottom-Up vs. Top-Down
Gabriel Wu 03:42, 13 February 2013 (EST): In principle, a minimal genome that has just enough genes for a cell to grow and divide sounds good. I wonder how reliable and stable this chassis might actually be though. What if removing all the "redundant" pathways results in a fragile cell where the addition of new genes results in cell non-viability? For example, biofuel products are notoriously toxic to the cell. If a bottom up approach is taken by starting with a minimal genome and then inserting ethanol genes, the minimal genome cell will likely never grow up due to alcohol toxicity. If engineering is an iterative process, it may be difficult to optimize no growth. Sometimes it's easier to start with a cell that can tolerate small amounts and then knock in or out whichever genes are needed to improve tolerance.
- Neil R Gottel 15:55, 13 February 2013 (EST):An iterative approach: start with a low-expression version of your ethanol production construct that reduces growth, but doesn't kill the cell. Then, start adding in ethanol tolerance genes, looking for increases in the growth rate. Then bump up the expression of the ethanol gene again, and tweak the ethanol resistance again. Question is: will the end result of this be better than starting with a non-minimized, ethanol resistant cell? And how long would each approach take?
- Gabriel Wu 01:45, 14 February 2013 (EST): I would be surprised if the bottom-up approach would be faster than top down. Also, if we knew all the interactions among ethanol tolerance genes, we might not need the bottom up approach to begin with. Also, are ability to "bump up" expression levels is less than well understood.
- Thomas Wall 19:00, 14 February 2013 (EST): At this point in biology knowledge that a bottom up approach will be much longer. Figuring out what is causing your problem in a native genome is much easier then trying to figure out what you took out needed to be there (if its truly minimal). I think getting rid of non coding DNA might not be as big of a problem.
- Jeffrey E. Barrick 11:10, 17 February 2013 (EST):I agree that it's much harder to build something than to selectively lose parts to get adaptation. Should we be thinking about building a maximal genome? As long as it survived with a ton of new genes, then it would be far more likely to have the potential to evolve useful functions.
Aurko Dasgupta 21:15, 14 February 2013 (EST):Given that the fitness effects of a gene can only be stated in the context of a particular genome, isn't the genome reduction method extremely haphazard? Many genes likely fall into families where the removal of one produces no change in viability, but prevent the removal or alteration of other genes.
Environmental Dependence
Max E. Rubinson 10:34, 14 February 2013 (EST): Shouldn't a "clean" or "minimal" genome refer to the minimum set of genes that an organism needs to survive and reproduce in a defined environment?
- User:Evan J WeaverIEvan Weaver 17:52, 14 February 2013 (CST): Fixed it.
- Thomas Wall 19:05, 14 February 2013 (EST): I believe that is what it is. But in the world of biocatalysts/metabolic engineering you are constantly changing the environment.
- Marco Howard 19:05, 14 February 2013 (EST): When working with biocatalysts, do we know the rate constant? If so, we should be able to predict how the environment will change over time. Perhaps we could use Neil's iterative approach to design bacteria that can tolerate these conditions.
Yunle Huang 20:20, 14 February 2013 (EST): What are some advantages and disadvantages of each of the genome reduction methods?
- User:Evan J WeaverIEvan Weaver 18:36, 14 February 2013 (CST): The papers I'd read had not listed any advantages compared to other methods, they just said their own methods and then about the cool reduced cell they created. Here's some stuff I thought of. Comparative genomics would find things that gene disruption wouldn't because gene disruption may disrupt a conserved essential gene. All of the 3 first techniques are a roadmap for genome reduction: without them reduction would take longer and be much more expensive.
Core and Accessory Genes, Pan-genomes
Thomas Wall 19:16, 14 February 2013 (EST): This is a cool paper I found talking about genome reduction that people might like (http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1002651)
- User:Evan J WeaverIEvan Weaver 17:52, 14 February 2013 (CST): Yeah, this is the paper I mentioned in class. Thanks So much for linking it. It looks like it has a cool graphic as well that I may add.
- Jeffrey E. Barrick 11:54, 17 February 2013 (EST):That paper brings up accessory genes as being even more easily lost (because they are genetically unstable). The opposite of an accessory gene is a core gene. This field of defining these two things has advanced a lot since the Blattner comparative genomics. For example, comparing 61 E. coli genomes.
Multicopy Genes
Kevin Baldridge 14:05, 14 February 2013 (EST):One of the things mentioned in the introduction is duplicate genes being superfluous. I wonder what the cutoff for minimal repetition of a gene, for example ribosomal RNA genes. If you only had one copy, I find it surprising that the cell would be able to be viable/healthy given the large amount of ribosomal RNA that is produced in exponential phase for cell growth.
- Jeffrey E. Barrick 11:07, 17 February 2013 (EST):E. coli can survive pretty well with just one ribosomal RNA copy. You're right that at some point it becomes limiting and there is an overall trend that microbes with greater growth rates have more rrn copies. One thing we don't usually think about is that there are multiple copies of most genes during exponential growth due to overlapping rounds of genome replication before segregation of daughter cells.
- Kevin Baldridge 15:12, 18 February 2013 (EST):Along the lines of producing genes as cell division occurs, there was a cool paper that did high throughput screens of phenotypes in multiple gene knockout cells, they did a pretty good analysis of how chromosomal location corresponds with the essentiality of a given gene Phenotypic Landscape of a Bacterial Cell
Blattner Group
Neil R Gottel 17:25, 12 February 2013 (EST):I recommend that the work of the Blattner Lab on clean E. coli genomes should feature prominently in this article, since that's the state-of-the-art right now, and is a commercial product sold by Scarab Genomics. Is there a version of that sweet graphic that shows the deleted regions on the genome that we're allowed to use, because that'd be a great addition.
- Jeffrey E. Barrick 12:51, 14 February 2013 (EST):Since it's publicly posted on a poster on the Scarab Genomics website, I think we can also post that figure.
- User:Evan J WeaverIEvan Weaver 17:52, 14 February 2013 (CST): This is pretty cool. I didn't know he was selling these. While I do agree that his work was very important, I'd be sceptical about calling it state-of-the-art since his reduction was done over 10 years ago. Wouldn't a newer source of reduced strains be more reduced, genetically stable, or contain less genetic scarring?
- Neil R Gottel 17:41, 16 February 2013 (EST):10 years ago? The Science article describing MDS42 is from 2006 (although the project was started in 2002, if that's what you mean). They've also continued to improve on MDS42, such as this 2012 paper in which three DNA polymerases that are induced by the SOS response were removed. The new strain has a mutation rate 50% lower than MDS42. With regards to scarring, they used lambda red recombination for in-frame deletions, which just leaves behind a FRT site.
- User:Evan J WeaverIEvan Weaver 11:13, 18 February 2013 (EST):I was unaware that Blattner had more recent papers on reduced cells. I was referring to the paper that was published in 2002. I must not have seen his name.
- Neil R Gottel 17:41, 16 February 2013 (EST):10 years ago? The Science article describing MDS42 is from 2006 (although the project was started in 2002, if that's what you mean). They've also continued to improve on MDS42, such as this 2012 paper in which three DNA polymerases that are induced by the SOS response were removed. The new strain has a mutation rate 50% lower than MDS42. With regards to scarring, they used lambda red recombination for in-frame deletions, which just leaves behind a FRT site.
- Jeffrey E. Barrick 11:01, 17 February 2013 (EST):I think that it is a valid observation that the state of the art has not progressed much since the Blattner genome and Venter's work. Why is that? Have all the cool things been done? I'd say that MDS42 actually is a useful resource, particularly with the refinements that Neil mentions, but I don't really see any papers switching to using this strain. It's a lot easier to keep working with what you know.
Neil R Gottel 17:25, 12 February 2013 (EST):At some points this article has turned into a wall of text, particularly for the section on estimating the number of essential genes. I think it'd be helpful if a few people took a subheading and cleaned it up (and documented what they did here). For my part, I rewrote the section on "Genome Synthesis".
- Kevin Baldridge 14:00, 14 February 2013 (EST):I made a couple of minor edits in the transposable mutagenesis and mRNA disruption sections for readability and capitalization. Furthmore, I changed the last sentence in the comparative genomics section, to change it from underestimation to overestimation -- it seems that if you assume a gene is essential from conservation but it's not, that would be a false positive and thus overestimate the resulting number of essential genes
- User:Evan J WeaverIEvan Weaver 17:52, 14 February 2013 (CST): Thanks for catching that. It does seem like a Great Wall of text, would breaking each section into smaller sections make it more readable? For instance like "what it is" and how it works in one paragraph, then the caveats in a different paragraph.


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BlackBerry's pitch to get back into the warm embrace of corporate IT shops seems logical enough at first glance: We're the most secure in mobile. Mobile is where all of your data and interactions are heading. Therefore you should give us all of your corporate business.
But when you take a closer look, the argument crumbles. It's not going to arrest BlackBerry's plummeting enterprise market share.
BlackBerry still has some good selling points on the security front, and it hits all of those in the current campaign, arguing that BlackBerry phones have better security because they protect not just data, but voice, email and text communications as well. Of course, BlackBerry has cited security as its great differentiator for years, to no avail, and this new campaign probably wouldn't have a chance of reverberating beyond its core markets in areas such as finance, healthcare and the military if that were the extent of the message. So BlackBerry, like a flailing politician far behind in the polls, turns to that old standby, fear. It cites headlines about cyberattacks, the implication being that BlackBerry phones could have saved the day. The problem is that -- well, no. None of the security disasters cited involved cellphones at all.
I hope BlackBerry doesn't think it's going to fool enterprise decision-makers with this argument. It doesn't survive close examination any better than a residential developer who tries to sell homes in a neighborhood that has had a lot of burglaries by touting steel bars that protect furnace exhaust vents. "That sounds good," you say, "but have any area burglars used that hole to gain access?" No, the contractor says. "Then why don't you instead protect the means of entry the burglars are typically using?" Because that's not our differentiator.
Well, a company in as much trouble as BlackBerry does what it can to stay in the game. There's another argument that the company could have made that makes more sense, but it has its own problems. That is the argument that thieves will soon target voice and text as ways to gather information that can be sold. The problem is that this argument rests on something that could happen but isn't happening yet. Budget-challenged IT leaders don't have enough money to protect tech resources against today's cyberattacks. Spending millions to protect resources not yet under attack might be strategically sound, but it doesn't work tactically.
There's a legitimate point behind BlackBerry's security argument. Apple's latest phones -- the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus -- have gotten a lot of publicity for enhanced security, courtesy of tokenization, biometric authentication, an isolated secure element chip and geolocation authentication. That's not shabby at all. The problem is that all of that security is focused on Apple Pay -- it doesn't do much beyond protecting transactions using the phone.
Take the biometric authentication, the finger scan. Your authenticated fingerprint is necessary to complete an Apple Pay transaction. But while you can unlock your phone with that same fingerprint, that safeguard can be bypassed. iPhones default to a PIN if the fingerprint scan fails, and most users rely on the default setting of a four-digit PIN.
And BlackBerry CEO John Chen this month made the case to enterprise IT that BlackBerry's security defenses are much deeper than that. "Our security doesn't just come from one layer of security, like most of our competitors. We start with the silicon. It's in the chip. The firmware that was written on it," Chen said.
That is wonderful, sure, but for BlackBerry it is no longer enough. It can't overcome what has become BlackBerry's biggest shortcoming, its near invisibility in the massive app market. Apple and Google/Android have done a great job of making their dominance of the app market pay off for them even in the enterprise, tying app functionality and flexibility to opportunities for reaping better profits and regaining missed sales. For years, when companies have decided which platforms to launch their apps on, the choice has almost always come down to iOS, Android or both. Rarely has BlackBerry even been considered a viable app platform option.
What, then, can save BlackBerry?
One bright spot is the global market. In many parts of the world, BlackBerry was never eclipsed by Apple and the iPhone. That could change, though. If Alibaba makes good on its much-discussed deal with Apple, even parts of Asia that appear very BlackBerry-friendly might start to slip away.
There might be a glimmer of hope in an area of huge importance for enterprise IT: BYOD. BlackBerry has acquired a U.K. firm called Movirtu, which lets one smartphone host both a corporate and a personal phone number. Enterprises might latch on to an easy way to use SIM cards to keep personal and corporate data separate on a single device. Movirtu can achieve this trick on iOS and Android devices as well as BlackBerry devices. Nonetheless, this looks like a differentiator for BlackBerry. Enterprises are very interested in ways to make BYOD less of a headache, and neither Apple nor Google/Android is doing much of anything to help. BlackBerry is. That could reflect well on BlackBerry, reminding corporate IT decision-makers that it was always the leader in mobile security. And there's always the chance that more than a few of those decision-makers will move back toward BlackBerry just because they find themselves in business with the company again, implementing the Movirtu device on iOS and Android phones.
(One interesting thing about this BYOD scenario is how it mirrors one of Apple's oldest strategies -- "mirror" being the appropriate metaphor, because it takes that strategy and reverses it. Apple always has tried to leverage its relative success among consumers to gain a foothold in the enterprise. Most notably, it attempted this by getting universities and other schools to use Macs, with the hope that the students who had become accustomed to Macs would insist on using them when they entered the corporate world. It never quite worked out that way, but no matter. Now we have BlackBerry, once the mobile king of the enterprise, trying with this dual-persona service to make a big push into the consumer market.)
Admittedly, it's a bit of a long shot. And that is sad, because BlackBerry, the undisputed email device leader for years, is the latest example of the classic business nightmare. A company with huge market share and powerful profits can hardly ever bring itself to abandon its product and embrace something new until it's too late. And this happens quickly because Wall Street is in thrall to the idiocy of putting quarterly revenue reports above all other considerations. CEOs who are focused on the big picture and invest for the future are routinely punished by Wall Street, while short-sighted execs who sacrifice the future to deliver great numbers right now are rewarded. BlackBerry is just the latest victim.
Evan Schuman has covered IT issues for a lot longer than he'll ever admit. The founding editor of retail technology site StorefrontBacktalk, he's been a columnist for CBSNews.com, RetailWeek and eWeek. Evan can be reached at email@example.com and he can be followed at twitter.com/eschuman. Look for his column every other Tuesday.


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Wednesday is a frame with a decade of Surly's Omniterra design experience distilled into one steel package. Wednesday can ride over the same type of pretty much anything all of their other Omniterra bikes can, but they borrowed elements from both their Trail and Touring categories to create an Omniterra ride that can truly handle anything you want to attempt. Want to point the thing down a mountain and roll those dice? Wednesday has geometry spry enough to get you through the techy stuff, stable enough for the fast stuff, and doesn't feel sluggish when you have to ride back to the top. It also has the chops for any sort of expedition you may want to undertake. It has plenty of bottle mounts; triple bottle bosses on both fork legs and the down tube; standard bottle mounts on the seat tube and underside of the down tube; plus rack mounts on the frame and fork and fender eyelets on the dropouts, along with barrel bosses on the crown, fork legs and mid-blade, thru-blade eyelets on the fork as well. It also has internal dropper post routing and Surly Trip Guides to manage all the housing and cables on your frame with style. Wednesday also has its very own dropout design as well – a rear-facing, slotted dropout that can use either 10mm or 12mm axles and exit rearward or vertically. They're cast steel and spaced at 170/177mm. Wednesday gives you a lot of options in the tire clearance category. In the full-forward, short chainstay position you can run 26 x 3.8? tires on 80mm rims and in the full-rearward, longer chainstay position you get the option of 26 x 4.6? tires on an 80mm rim. Wednesday is made out of Surly's own proprietary 4130 CroMoly steel and is ED coated for extra protection from the elements.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Test Lab Tuesday- What Will I Wear
Race Day is coming...I have been in TEST mode to find the perfect race day outfit. What defines the perfect Marathon Race Day outfit to Tall Mom?
1. Comfort= The clothing should fit tight to avoid chaffing. I should not have to pull the pants up or the shirt down at any point during the race.
2. Ready for any weather= The clothing should help me to stay warm if needed but also keep me cool. Being too cold or overheating could be a race disaster.
4. Itch Free= I am an itchy girl, presumably from being so sweaty and having the sweat dry. My clothes should help alleviate the itching as much as possible.
5. Easy to Spot= At 6'0 I am pretty easy to find in a crowd, but to help out Muscle Man and any other AWESOME spectators, I like to have bright colors. And bright colors and prints are FUN!!
WHAT WILL I WEAR in Eugene??
You get a vote, below are my options. Leave a comment to vote and you will be entered to win a PRIZE. The only thing I know for sure is I will wear the grey Brooks EZ Run T (Buy HERE).
Bondiband, Brooks EZ T, Moeben butterfly sleeves, and Nike Capris.
26.2 Bondiband, Brooks EZ Run T, Green-Layer arm Sleeves, and Nike Capris.
Run Like a Mother Hat, Brooks EZ Run T, Smartwool arm sleeves and Nike Capris.
New Balance Cure Hat, Brooks EZ Run T, Moeben Pink Sleeves and Running Skirts Capri skirt.
Brooks hat, Brooks EZ Run T, Smartwool sleeves, and Running Skirt Capri skirt.
So many FUN options for race day. Pink Balega socks are a MUST. I LOVE LOVE my NEVER BACK DOWN bracelet from Gone For a Run. Don't forget to Enter the Gone For a Run Giveaway HERE.
94 comments:
- Amy @ Run Mom Run said...
I have a shirt very similar to th brooks shirt that I love! It's so comfortable! The only problem I have with it is after a long run I get pit stains since it's a dark color. Do you have that problem with the EZ run shirt? I don't want to raise my fists in victory over the finish line of the Rock 'n' Roll and have my picture snapped with pit stains!
I love outfit #4!
- April 27, 2010 at 7:58 AM
- Anna Banana said...
I vote #2 you look speedy and Bada**!
- April 27, 2010 at 7:58 AM
- Lee Ryan said...
Is it too boring to vote #1?
- April 27, 2010 at 7:58 AM
I vote #4, it has the most pink :)
- April 27, 2010 at 8:05 AM
- Michele said...
I vote #4!
- April 27, 2010 at 8:07 AM
- SideofSneakers.com said...
You have so much FUN running gear-- I'm a bit envious ;)
- April 27, 2010 at 8:07 AM
- kara said...
Looks like it will be Sunny on Sunday but cool in the AM - like 38f! You may need those arm sleeve thingys : )
I'm heading over to Dicks today to get a new colorful tech shirt.
We will be viewed live on the JUMBOTRON near the finish line!!!
- April 27, 2010 at 8:07 AM
- Unknown said...
I like #4!
- April 27, 2010 at 8:08 AM
- Sarah Woulfin said...
#4 with the pink hat is fun & springy!!
- April 27, 2010 at 8:11 AM
- Momma Twitch said...
I like #4!! But, I also like #2. You've got a tough choice!! I can't wait to hear how it goes! I bet you'll totally rock it and BQ. Will we be able to follow you online?
- April 27, 2010 at 8:12 AM
- Bethany + Ryan said...
Well you know what I'll say...u must wear the butterfly sleeves!! That's my vote, anything as long as u wear the butterfly sleeves!!!
- April 27, 2010 at 8:12 AM
its too bad that running skirt is already attached to the pink capris. I would've voted for the skirt + nike capris, butterfly sleeves, Brooks T, and the "run like a mother" hat.
Put on all your running bling. Bracelet, anklet, necklace. Maybe when the sun reflects off it, it'll blind some of the other runners and give you an advantage! LOL j/k
- April 27, 2010 at 8:15 AM
- Genesis said...
#3 definitely! stands out more thand black and grey!
- April 27, 2010 at 8:15 AM
- Angela said...
I like Outfit No. 1. I like the butterfly sleeves but then again butterflies are a favorite of mine.
- April 27, 2010 at 8:15 AM
- No Longer Using said...
i like the 26.2 headband!!!!!!!!! i vote for outfit #2. black is bada$$$$$$$$$$$$$!!!!!! :)
- April 27, 2010 at 8:17 AM
- Velma said...
#2 - This is the redemption marathon - you want to look tough.
I cannot run in anything other than brooks running shorts :)
- April 27, 2010 at 8:20 AM
- NJ said...
I like #1 the best because of the butterfly sleeves.
- April 27, 2010 at 8:21 AM
- TNTcoach Ken said...
How many days will U be running????? Ha, that's a lot of gear.... For the visual effect, I vote #4! I'm 6'4" and still hard to find in a crowd......
- April 27, 2010 at 8:21 AM
- Suzy said...
DD votes for #1 because she loves butterflies. I like #4 - seems like it will be easier to find you in the pink. GL!!!
- April 27, 2010 at 8:29 AM
- Laura said...
i like #1.
You are seriously so cute.
- April 27, 2010 at 8:33 AM
- Gus Braveyard said...
#1 or #3.
Or #3 with the #1 headband.
I have my first ever marathon this coming Sunday and shall be dressed in my finest thrift store cast offs, as usual. Right now my main concern is finding some sort of long-sleeve shirt that I can dispose of at or near the start of the race. Sometimes I run in short-sleeve dress shirts, perhaps a long sleeve version is in order?
Good luck in Eugene! Thanks for the bloggings, I dig it.
- April 27, 2010 at 8:41 AM
- Robyn said...
I vote #2!!
- April 27, 2010 at 8:43 AM
- RunningLaur said...
I vote for the first one! I think that the headbands are most flattering when they don't have text on them :)
My biggest problem for my race day outfit is that I'm traveling across the country and the weather could range from 20F to 90F, dry, rain, or humid. Fingers crossed for smart packing!
- April 27, 2010 at 8:43 AM
- Sarah E. said...
I totally vote #4! I love the RunningSkirts company! Good luck! You're such an inspiration!
- April 27, 2010 at 8:44 AM
- wendy said...
My first vote is #4, so cute! Second choice is #3, love this outfit, too! It is so hard choosing the right clothes, they can make or break the race! Good luck! The one thing I cannot run without is my hand-held water bottle. It is my security blanket!
- April 27, 2010 at 8:45 AM
- Ginny M said...
I vote for #4, mainly cause I love pink!
On race days I can't do without my Nike drifit running cap and my Nike drifit running skirt. I usually layer a couple of shirts for the chilly starts.
- April 27, 2010 at 8:45 AM
- Kate said...
I vote for #4. I love the Brooks EZ T and will be wearing a pink one (probably) for the Frederick Marathon on Sunday. Do you really find that any of your apparel helps alleviate the itching? I have the same problem post-run, and it drives me crazy.
- April 27, 2010 at 8:52 AM
I vote #4! It's springy and cute!
- April 27, 2010 at 8:56 AM
- Baxter said...
#4 will be easy to spot (and super fun!)
- April 27, 2010 at 9:05 AM
- 5 Miles Past Empty said...
They are all cute but #2 just makes you look FAST and Bad A!!!!!! So I vote #2!!
- April 27, 2010 at 9:05 AM
- Carly said...
#4!! I love that skirt and I do love pink too!
- April 27, 2010 at 9:12 AM
- Katie said...
#4 I'm in love with those arm sleeves!
- April 27, 2010 at 9:15 AM
- Pining for Pinterest said...
I like #3 :)
- April 27, 2010 at 9:18 AM
- Libby said...
#4 for sure! You say you like color...lol Easier to spot and its hard to have a bad day when you are wearing pink :)
- April 27, 2010 at 9:22 AM
- MCM Mama said...
Whatever else you wear, you MUST wear the capri skirt. It looks awesome on you.
I always wear a hat. I can not stand having my hair in my face at all and I have short hair.
Good luck figuring out your outfit!
- April 27, 2010 at 9:29 AM
- Karen said...
Definitely #1. I love the butterfly sleeves!
- April 27, 2010 at 9:30 AM
- Allison Hill said...
#4! :)
- April 27, 2010 at 9:36 AM
- Lisa said...
Definitely #4. Can't go wrong with PINK :)
- April 27, 2010 at 9:40 AM
- Kelly said...
I vote #1 or #4! I understand the whole perfect outfit thing...I swear, if I don't feel 100% comfortable, it will bug me the WHOLE race! I LOVE my Adidas black capris...they are the perfect fit! Good Luck girl!
- April 27, 2010 at 9:47 AM
Wow, I really want to get some arm warmers!
I vote #1... it's cute but still FIERCE :)
- April 27, 2010 at 10:00 AM
- Marlene said...
I also vote for #1... it's FUN and just you.
#2 and 3 are a little too much black for colorful Mel.
And I'd vote Bondi Band over hat since I *think* you have completed the majority of your long runs in the BB's.
- April 27, 2010 at 10:20 AM
- Shellyrm ~ just a country runner said...
I vote for...oh 1 or 4...1 or 4...it's not even my race and I have trouble picking!
I think # 4 will be the most easy to spot. (those butterflies are just so cute on #1 but...)
Go with what you know will help you feel the best on race day. all of them look GREAT! Which one makes you feel like a marathon goal crusher??? Wear that one!
- April 27, 2010 at 10:20 AM
- Marlene said...
HOW EXCITING that you are packing your race bag!!!
Really sorry about the jeep and I was glad to read on FB that this will be your last day working!
Good luck with EVERYTHING!
- April 27, 2010 at 10:20 AM
- Unknown said...
my vote is for # FOUR! best wishes to you, MEL!!!!!
- April 27, 2010 at 10:28 AM
- Christy Ashley said...
#3 will definitely make you stand out for Muscle Man to see you!
Good luck with your last few training runs!
- April 27, 2010 at 10:42 AM
- Alison said...
I am torn between 3 and 4, not much of a pink person myself, but from what I have seen and read here you are so I say go with 4, you will stand out, I like 3 but it stands out less, so yes 4!
Sucks about the Jeep. Is the whole family headed down to Eugene?
- April 27, 2010 at 10:55 AM
I'm voting for #3! I love those armbands, and I may need a pair myself!
I'm glad to see the forecast is back down to 59 degrees for Sunday...I'd been watching the 10-day forecast (which said 75 degrees! ugh!) and worrying about my tank top/shorts comfort and the possibility of overheating. I don't do well in warm weather!
- April 27, 2010 at 10:56 AM
- Aron said...
i like #3 the most :) i love the black and gray - looks more serious runner ;) and i am a hat girl so i vote for hat! keeps the sun out of your eyes if its sunny or the rain out of your eyes if its raining.
- April 27, 2010 at 11:00 AM
- TMB @ RACING WITH BABES said...
Obviously #4. You look so freaking cute!
- April 27, 2010 at 11:39 AM
- Unknown said...
I like #2
Good luck in Eugene!
- April 27, 2010 at 11:41 AM
- Unknown said...
I like #3 the best although I love the moeben butterfly arm sleeves!
- April 27, 2010 at 11:50 AM
- Lauren said...
#3, love the running skirt!
- April 27, 2010 at 11:52 AM
- Runner Leana said...
My vote is for #1 - love the butterfly arm sleeves!
- April 27, 2010 at 12:26 PM
- dawn @ running the dawn said...
I vote for all the pink!!! Love it!
- April 27, 2010 at 12:28 PM
- Pemberton Family said...
I like #1. Cute butterfly sleeves! Good luck in Eugene, can't wait to hear about it.
- April 27, 2010 at 12:51 PM
- Rene' said...
i love outfit #4. Good luck this weekend!
- April 27, 2010 at 12:54 PM
- Amanda said...
I like #1 for sure!
- April 27, 2010 at 1:19 PM
- EricaH said...
okay #1, no wait #2, hold on maybe #4. Well heck you are just to darn cute I can't decide it's to much pressure. whateva you choose you will rock your race and look amazing doing it. :) Good Luck with the move and race. Sending positive vibes for a smooth move and run your way.
- April 27, 2010 at 1:26 PM
- Tiffany said...
I thought number 3 was the best - you looked too cute in it and with all that pink muscle man can't miss you!
I cannot run without my garmin - no way no how.
- April 27, 2010 at 1:31 PM
- bobbie said...
I like simple (but not always) so I would go with #3! Good Luck
- April 27, 2010 at 1:32 PM
- Tricia said...
- April 27, 2010 at 1:36 PM
- Tricia said...
And I have to have a hat :)
- April 27, 2010 at 1:37 PM
- Elizabeth said...
My vote is #4
- April 27, 2010 at 2:04 PM
- GreenStyleMom said...
#1 - the butterflies are so super cute plus you'll be easily spotted with a red bondi band.
- April 27, 2010 at 2:16 PM
- Zoë said...
The pink is very bright and fun, and of course you know I love that skirt on you!! Plus, since you are racing for the cure, it makes total sense. AND it's eye catching! Goooooo Tall Mom!
- April 27, 2010 at 2:39 PM
- Claudia said...
outfit #4 for sure
- April 27, 2010 at 2:46 PM
- Lisa said...
My vote is for #1. You love bondibands and haven't been wearing caps all that often, if I'm remembering correctly, so the hat might end up annoying you when you're 20 miles in. #2 is cool too, but #1 will stand out more.
My must-have race day item is a hat. Definitely. Oh, and shoes and good socks! haha!
Good luck with everything this week!
- April 27, 2010 at 3:04 PM
- Croughwell said...
I like outfit #1. Good luck!
- April 27, 2010 at 3:26 PM
- Denise said...
i vote for #1 or #2.
- April 27, 2010 at 3:59 PM
- Leslie said...
I'm going with #2!!! You go, girl!
- April 27, 2010 at 4:18 PM
- LMC said...
Sorry about the Jeep. Definitely #2. That outfit makes you look tough! I have to run in my balega socks! Love them!
- April 27, 2010 at 4:44 PM
- Ryan said...
Number 1!!!! You look unstoppable!
Will you wear the sleeves? I would love for you to do a review on sleeves? They are so stinking cute. Also love the NIKE pants. I think that is my next purchase....what are they called?
- April 27, 2010 at 4:51 PM
- H Love said...
OOOOOPPPPPSSS!! Sorry that last comment was from me, forgot to log my hubby out. I vote for one (again).
- April 27, 2010 at 4:57 PM
- ajh said...
I vote #5. I love all of it tog. Saw someone in running skirt with capris last weekend and I loved it! Good luck.
I can't be without my running hat which I am starting to get quite a collection of. Last weekend I wore my Lulu one which has a key pocket for when I go to races alone!!
- April 27, 2010 at 5:13 PM
- Michelle said...
- April 27, 2010 at 5:32 PM
- Denise said...
I'm going to vote for #2. Just because I like simple.... BUT maybe to add color I'd do the bright headband with it.
- April 27, 2010 at 5:37 PM
- RunningFromCancer said...
I like option 4 . . . so cute with the skirt and all of the pink. But unless you always run in a hat - I would switch it out with a bondi band. ;-)
- April 27, 2010 at 5:53 PM
- Kruns2 said...
#1 for sure! The red bondiband is easy to spot and the butterfly sleeves are my fav!
- April 27, 2010 at 6:08 PM
- J said...
Since I have never run in a skirt dont know how that would work but I like #1 and #3. They both look very comfortable, decently easy to spot. Maybe wear the pink capris instead of the black ones!
- April 27, 2010 at 6:19 PM
- Heather said...
I like #1. I just ordered that shirt in the sunset color and can't wait to get it!
- April 27, 2010 at 6:33 PM
- akjenniekt said...
My vote is for #4 :)!
- April 27, 2010 at 6:54 PM
- Erica said...
I vote #4
It is happy and adorable just like you! I got my prize and your cute card in the mail!! It totally made my day and my kids stole all the magnets :) Thank you...
I am so excited for Eugene for you! You are such a rockstar....go mel go!
- April 27, 2010 at 6:56 PM
- Aimee said...
I know you'll probably hate this, but I would make a new combo: Brooks shirt, Nike Capris, pink arm warmers, and pink hat! But, I think I like #2 the best! :)
Good luck, good luck, good luck! :)
- April 27, 2010 at 7:14 PM
- Unknown said...
Go for the capri skirt. It is lightweight and super comfy.
I have to have my sunglasses when I run. And, my puffer must be close by - just in case.
- April 27, 2010 at 8:15 PM
- Unknown said...
#4 #4 #4 !!!!!
- April 27, 2010 at 8:17 PM
- Steel Springs said...
I also love #4. Congratulations on the house!
- April 27, 2010 at 9:24 PM
- Titanium Spork said...
I vote #1 but with the Run Like a Mother hat. The sloral sleeves are really cute. I just can't get myself to like running skirts I'm afraid.
- April 27, 2010 at 10:31 PM
- *~*~* Tracy said...
I vote for #1 and then #5 is second.
I'm a new runner so at this point the only gear I can't run w/o is shoes and clothes. :)
- April 28, 2010 at 4:08 AM
- Funnyrunner said...
Love them ALL. You're gonna look GOOD, girl!
I'm having a helluva time trying to figure out what to wear for my first tri at the end of the month. It's all very confusing...
- April 28, 2010 at 6:43 AM
- Unknown said...
#1 or #4.
Have fun!
- April 28, 2010 at 6:47 AM
- S Club Mama said...
I think #1 with that red (it looks red, maybe pink?) bondiband will be easiest to spot you. BUT I love that print skirt. Any way to wear them together??
The only thing I can't run without (right now) is shoes and a good bra.
- April 28, 2010 at 12:03 PM
- rizomomof4 said...
i love out fit #4 :)
- April 28, 2010 at 2:53 PM
- Laura said...
Wow, you look so cute in all of those outfits!!!! I wish I could pull off the spandex like you do.;)
- April 28, 2010 at 4:41 PM
- Megan said...
I like #4. It's colorful.
- April 29, 2010 at 11:18 AM


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