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How to get hired at Harlan Estate
I have a great article coming up in a summer issue of Wine Enthusiast on Nick Gislason, the young (29) winemaker at Screaming Eagle. The following is an outtake–it's too long to make it into the article, but it's a really cool story that I wanted to share without having it die on what used to be called the cuttting-room floor. The back story concerns how Nick got hired as an assistant winemaker at Harlan, prior to his Screaming Eagle gig. He cold-called Harlan and was invited in for a "chat."
SH: So [Harlan winemaker] Cory [Empting] interviews you.
NG: Exactly. So I go over to Harlan Estate to meet with Cory, and very first thing, right in the door, he says, "All right, so here's the beginning of your interview," and there's a long wooden table in the middle of the room.
I know that table well.
And there's 20 glasses of wine on the table, and they're marked 1 through 20 on the glass, and a pad of yellow paper sitting in the middle, with a pencil, and he says, "All right, to start your interview, I'd like you to sit down and evaluate all 20 of these wines, and then I want you to pick out the top three, and then you're going to come in the other room and tell all of us about it."
Who was all of us?
Uhh, Paul Roberts [M.S., estate manager], Cory, and the assistant winemaker.
Bob Levy?
Bob Levy wasn't there that day.
Bill Harlan?
Bill Harlan wasn't there that day. So I said, All right, I'm ready to do that!
Were you nervous?
Oh, maybe for a couple seconds. But then, I settled down and remembered, this is exactly what I do, I've done it for years, this is just another day in the life of.
You had no idea what you were having?
He told me nothing. They were red wines.
Could have been Harlan, might not have been Harlan.
Might not have been Harlan. Could have been anything at all.
So when you go through there, what's your thinking process?
So I had a funny feeling that it might have been some sort of winemaking trial. That would make sense. If you're hiring someone for the cellar, you want them to be able to pick out various aspects of the wines: maybe defects–
So these would be like barrel samples?
Maybe. Yeah. So I'm sitting down and that's my preconceived idea. And they wanted me to find what's the defect, what's the problem, what's the sulfur levels, or whatever. Some technical aspect of the wines. I was going into it thinking it was a test, like that, but at the same time, didn't really know. Could be anything. So I sit down and start going through the wines and taking my notes as fast as I can, and then Cory pops his head back into the room after about 3 or 4 minutes. He says, "Okay, are you done yet?" I said, "Oh, I need just a couple more minutes, if I could. It's 20 wines." And he says, "Okay, well I'll give you five more minutes."
And you're taking notes, too.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, because he wants me to go through, evaluate everything, every wine, and then pick out the top three and explain why I picked those. So I said, Okay, that's good, I'll go through it. So, going through the wines, it seemed to me like a dichotomous group. There were some that seemed more Old World to me, more like Bordeaux in particular, oyster shell character, a little leaner, little more taut than I would expect in Napa. And then there's definitely some Napa in there, big, rich fruit, larger tannin, this type of thing. But I had no idea. It could have been anything in the world. So, to make a long story short, went through the wines, they were all very good, picked out the top three for me, went into the next room, and he says, "Okay, so what do you think was number one?" I said, "Well, it was #16, and I thought it was the best because of x, y and z." And they were all on the table in bags. So number one, he pulls out, is Futo, which is their neighboring property. So he sets it on the table with sort of a grim look on his face. He kind of purses his lips and says, "Okay, well, what was number two?" I said, "Well, okay, I thought this was second best, because of x, y, z, very gorgeous wine, a little different from number one, but I liked it because of this." He pulls it out of the bag, it was Bryant Family. And he knew I had also applied up there, and one of his premises about hiring someone for the cellar is they needed to be very passionate about Harlan wine to work there. So suddenly, the pressure's on. And when he sets the Bryant Family on the table, he shakes his head, and with a very serious look on his face, he says, "You're not doing so well, son." I thought, Oh, okay, here we go. He says, "All right, well, what's number three?" And I said, "Well, number three, very different from the first two, I liked it very much for structure, this, that and the other. I felt it was number three for me." Pulled it out of the bag, and it was the Harlan Estate.
Exactly! He says, "All right, I guess top three will work."
EPILOGUE: Later that same day, I [Steve] ran into Cory Empting and asked him about Nick's interview. He grinned and said, "Very expensive tasting!" Half the wines indeed had been top Bordeaux, as Nick had divined.
I want a job interview like that! Fun story!
Really fun read. I wouldn't mind failing that interview.
Steve, fun story. That's why we love this business, thanks.
Not only is Nick a talented winemaker but a GREAT guy
as well.
great post, Steve – read like 350 words, not 975 – very impressed!


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I attend the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to follow and cover Microsoft, both in terms of its announcements at the show, and those of its competitors. From that standpoint, and since Microsoft announced that this year's CES would be its last, I attended again this year and I think it was the best CES Microsoft's had since I started attending. But the reasons for that are unexpected and surprising. Let me give you a little more context and explain why.
Microsoft has, since 1998, delivered the kickoff keynote for the entire CES conference, and has typically used it to make important announcements. For example, when I attended my first CES in 2009, Microsoft used the keynote to announce the the Windows 7 beta. The company has also used past keynotes to show off Project Natal (which became Kinect) and at last year's kickoff, Microsoft announced Windows on ARM.
So over the fall, I expected big things from this year's keynote, like the Windows 8 beta announcement and/or something around the "Tango" or "Apollo" releases of Windows Phone. But in the run up to the show, we learned that the Windows 8 beta wouldn't be out until February, we got fairly clear indications that Windows Phone technology announcements wouldn't be on the agenda and then Microsoft announced that 2012 would be its last year at CES.
Correspondingly, I expected very little out of the Microsoft keynote. And in terms of news, very little is what we got. I mean, sure, Ryan Seacrest anchored the event, and there was a roster of smaller announcements (if you want, you can read about them in my special Redmond Roundup @ CES dispatch). But the keynote's Windows Phone, Windows 8 and Xbox/Kinect demos were basically encore presentations from the Windows Phone 7.5 launch, //build/ and E3.
But somehow, things seemed to come together for Microsoft at this CES. To begin with, Nokia announced its Lumia 900 Windows Phone handset, for release this Spring on AT&T. It did so at its own, somewhat low-key press conference downstairs from, and a few hours before, Microsoft's keynote. The phone looked great and response was very positive. Nokia also made official the immediate availability of the Lumia 710 on T-Mobile USA for $49.99. Steve Ballmer joined Nokia's CEO Stephen Elop on stage for part of this press conference, and I think it was pivotal for Microsoft.
I didn't really appreciate that fully until during the show. Nokia's booth was very busy, and its Windows Phone handsets were everywhere. Even at the displays where Nokia was showing its mobile audio accessories, the sound sources were 710 and 800 handsets. It's as if the company were changing its name from Nokia to Lumia.
Lumia represents much more than robust support for the platform by an OEM. When I went by the booth and watched a few demos, I realized that Nokia's Lumia 800 and 900 phones don't just run Windows Phone, they transform it. The software doesn't change, mind you, but the context has changed completely. Those handsets are so elegant, and Nokia is so unequivocally committed to Windows Phone, that suddenly it shines. Pride replaces caveats, beauty replaces clunky-ness, excitement replaces postponed hope and, for the attendees of CES, interest replaced cynicism and condescension.
With Android receding to hum-drum, commodity status at this CES and the iOS ecosystem devices seeming less prominent as well, Windows Phone seemed to have the "it" status. No wonder Joe Belfiore, Brandon Watson and others from the Windows Phone team looked so happy at the keynote.
And perhaps most interesting, that Windows Phone buzz seemed to have created anticipation around Windows 8. It's long been my suspicion that, when released, Windows 8 will lend gravitas and momentum to Windows Phone. But I never really considered that this booster effect could work in both directions. Add-in the "Ultrabook" laptops displayed by a number of vendors at CES, and things are looking surprisingly positive for Microsoft. And all this during its final, understated year at the show.
Microsoft's CES keynote did do one thing quite boldly: it presented Metro as the company's key value proposition. That makes a lot of sense. Metro is non-derivative; it builds on Microsoft's versatility across contexts (work at the office, gaming/entertainment in the living room and a combination of the two while mobile); and with the right partners having the right focus, execution can be elegant, compelling and open.
Redmond still has a huge fight on its hands, but it seems to be finding a certain peace with itself, building good technology, letting its partners do the talking, providing value to the enterprise and proving its mettle at a consumer event. Now it needs to sustain this momentum, and continue to be patient.
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War By Other Means
I first came to Florida's Sun Coast in 1966. It was mid-August and brutally hot. I traveled from Chicago by train to start my first job as an instructor in the speech department at the University of South Florida in Tampa. The university was only seven years old. I was 22.
The heat was not really bothersome. It was just as sweltering in Chicago, where I grew up. My new boss, the chair of the department, was Dr. James Popovich. I had just finished my master's degree at Northwestern, where he had received his doctorate, and because he knew some of my teachers, he hired me after a brief phone interview. We were both a little desperate. He needed an instructor, and I needed a job that would keep me out of the draft. The Vietnam War was in full cry, but if you had a job at a "state" school you were exempt from the draft. Some of my friends who were also against the war moved to Canada. One friend starved himself for months so that he would fail the physical.
I taught 11 courses every quarter at USF, with 15 or 20 students in each class. I scrambled to stay ahead of them in courses that ranged from "Public Speaking" and "Phonetics" to "Oral Interpretation," which involved students in the study of literature through performance—in other words, "reading out loud." Some of those "Oral Interpretation" classes explored poetry, some fiction and some nonfiction and history. It was an exciting time for me, and I loved my work.
Many of my students were deeply touched by the war in Vietnam, and a fair number of them were older than I was. Many lived off-campus, worked part-time jobs and had families to support. Some had returned from combat in Vietnam. Just about every one of my students had an intense devotion to study and performance. Time in the classroom was precious for them. It was precious for me. Tuition was fairly low then, but they still often made huge sacrifices to be there. Thanks to my new job, I was beginning to pay off my own student loans.
I was in the classroom seven hours a day, but Dr. Popovich made it clear that I had other duties as well. In addition to the usual faculty committee assignments, I would also be required to direct students in performances to be given weekly at the University Center and, on a larger scale, twice quarterly in the auditorium of the engineering building. In the two years I taught at USF I directed students in more than 60 "reading hour" and "chamber theater" performances. They ranged from Euripides' Orestes to Beckett's Endgame, from Nabokov's Pnin to Kafka's A Hunger Artist.
My students and I tried hard to connect the literature we were working on to the times we were living through. I will never forget the late-afternoon rehearsal of Aristophanes' Lysistrata that was interrupted by the news of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. The grief was overwhelming, but we took some solace in work on an anti-war play, an ancient but passionate plea for nonviolence.
Gertrude Stein, the American writer who loved the beautiful landscapes of Southern France, wrote: "a landscape is such a perfect place for a battlefield or a play, that one must write plays." At USF, my students and I were coming to understand that plays and stories are forms of combat. As E.L. Doctorow says, "Language is war by other means." Every stage is a battlefield. In Henry V, Shakespeare invokes "a muse of fire" in the opening lines to make "this little wooden 'O' [the Globe Theatre] encompass the vasty (battle)fields of France." My students and I came to conclude that stories help us keep the peace.
One of the stories we chose to tell all those years ago at USF was M Company, based on an article in Esquire magazine about one soldier, his family, and the company he served with in Vietnam. It put us in very close contact with the war. Essentially, it was a documentary. The narrator followed his characters from a farewell party at home to the villages and jungles of Vietnam. Our bare stage became a combat zone, and we studied the wages of war.
I came to the Historic Asolo Theater several times while I was living in Tampa. The shows I saw were first-rate: a brilliant production of the commedia farce, A Servant of Two Masters, and the two parts of Shakespeare's Henry IV. Once again, the stage was a battlefield. In the "Henry Plays," Sir John Falstaff is a warrior so frightened of battle that he lies down among slain comrades and plays dead. Of course, the joke is on the audience because the corpses piled upon the stage are also men playing dead.
It turned out that my swerve to avoid the Vietnam war actually put me on my life's path. The two years I spent at USF made me realize I wanted to teach and I also wanted to make theater. I've been able to do both.
I retired from the teaching part of my career in 2005 after 40 years in the classroom, but I'm still making theater and, by some circular stroke of good fortune, I find myself making it these days at Sarasota's Asolo Repertory Theatre. Once again, the stage is a battlefield. This time it's the Revolutionary War, and Gen. George Washington is sending dispatches to the delegates of the Continental Congress at Philadelphia in the early days of July in 1776.
Michael Donald Edwards, the eloquent and visionary artistic director of Asolo Rep, has chosen a season of shows that interrogate and explore the notion of the "American Character." He's launching this season with 1776, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning musical that centers around the iconic men and women who were the progenitors of our "American Character": John and Abigail Adams, Thomas and Martha Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock and the other members of the Continental Congress who committed treason by crafting and signing the Declaration of Independence. The genius of these men and women, the courage, determination, good humor, patriotism and sagacity of our founding fathers and mothers made possible the birth of a nation. Never before had Americans used the first-person-plural:
"We hold these truths to be self-evident
That all men are created equal."
Though unexpressed, it was also self-evident that women were not the equal of men, and black slaves and native peoples were not human. Slaves were property and Indians were savages. There would be no guarantee of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" for those who did not own property and were not full citizens.
It's hard for most of us to reconcile our reverence for two of our founding fathers, Washington and Jefferson, with the fact that they were slave owners. The conflict between a nation founded on the idea of freedom and the reality of slavery lies at the very center of the story of the Declaration of Independence and was only partially resolved by omissions and compromises in the text. The conflict was set aside until the Civil War, but even after the Emancipation Proclamation and the truce at the Appomattox Court House came the tragedy of segregation, the crucible of the civil rights movement and the assassination of Dr. King. All of these events, and the women and men who were the agents of these actions, combine to form the invisible digits of our national DNA, our complex and bifurcated "American Character."
When I began directing plays and adapting works of fiction for the stage, I did not see a pattern in the choices I made, in the projects I was drawn to. John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath was on the bookshelf in our house when I was growing up, and I read it when I was 14 or so. It made a tremendous impression on me. I loved Ma Joad because she was like my own mother: She worked hard, she worried a lot, she was practical and funny and tender, and she had dreams for herself and her kids. She had a huge generous heart and she was, I believe, completely free of prejudice. The novel was to slumber in my heart for years.
In the meantime, my high school drama teacher, who was on the faculty at Illinois State University when I was working on my doctorate at Northwestern (years after my USF experience), called me one day to say he had a crop of young actors in his classes, and would I spend a few days working with them. The first scene I saw when I attended Dr. Lane's class was electrifying: a young couple, in ferocious combat, scorching one another on a suburban battlefield. The actors were Laurie Metcalf and John Malkovich, who would both go on to become some of the first ensemble members of Chicago's acclaimed Steppenwolf company.
Some years later, in 1986, when I directed my first show at Steppenwolf, You Can't Take It With You, it featured a large contingent from the Steppenwolf ensemble including Laurie, Rondi Reed, Jeff Perry, John Mahoney, Randy Arney, Amy Morton, Tom Irwin, Rick Snyder and Molly Regan. I was in heaven! After a week of rehearsals, Gary Sinise, at that time the artistic director of the ensemble, called me into his office and asked me to join the company.
I eagerly accepted. Gary then asked me to think about what I would like to do with the company, and I suggested The Grapes of Wrath.
Gary himself eventually played Tom Joad, and Lois Smith played his mother. We opened in Chicago, played the LaJolla Playhouse, the Royal National Theatre in London and finally opened on Broadway in 1989. We were proud that we preserved Steinbeck's original ending, where the Joads' daughter, having just lost her newborn baby, gives the milk from her breast to a dying stranger in a sacramental act of charity. John Ford had sanitized the end of his film version with Henry Fonda. In our production, as in the novel, the battlefield of the stage became sacred ground.
Ten years later I directed a musical adaptation of the novel Ragtime on Broadway.
In 1902 Father built a house at the crest of the Broadview Avenue hill in New Rochelle, New York, and it seemed for some years thereafter that all the family's days would be warm and fair.
So begins E.L. Doctorow's novel, which examines three American families, each one, like the Joads, dismantled and reformed by the tidal waves of history. The score by Lynn Ahrens (lyrics) and Stephen Flaherty (music) is witty, melodic and sweeping. Terrence McNally's adaptation is a faithful compression of the novel. And of course the stage is the landscape of battle, as Graciela Daniele's powerful choreography proved in an opening number where the people of three communities (Harlem, New Rochelle and the Lower East Side) face off in prologue to the approaching conflict.
Doctorow was pleased with the musical, and in 2010 he gave me permission to adapt and direct his epic Civil War novel, The March, which had its premiere at Steppenwolf this past May. In the novel, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman called "our civil war…the terrible manufacture of the bones of our sons." As in Shakespeare, the stage is strewn with corpses.
Developing such large-scale productions is obviously a challenge. The March was said to be the most expensive Steppenwolf show to date, with a diverse cast of 26. The Grapes of Wrath, with a cast of 32, plus four onstage musicians, was simply staged but required the fundamental elements of earth, fire and water. For both stories, the stage floor is a map of our nation in times of terrible suffering and loss.
Last season's My Fair Lady at the Asolo, which I also directed, required a very versatile cast; it also had elegant scenery, designed by Russel Metheny, witty costumes by Mara Blumenfeld, and choreography by Josh Rhodes. Russell, Mara and Josh are all returning this season for 1776. The wonderful score for the show will be conducted by musical director Michael Rice. Michael Edwards see the musical as the ideal entryway into conversations about the American Character, and from the first thundering drum rolls, through high-stepping piccolo riffs and soaring anthems, composer Sherman Edwards explores the rhythms and harmonies of America's emerging musical personality.
But as I've been working on the show, I've been reflecting that "We, the people," seem nowadays less and less interested in harmony, or in forming "a more perfect union." Battle lines are drawn. In this monumental election year, the gulf that divides us seems greater than ever, perhaps unbridgeable.
Gertrude Stein wrote: "Let me recite what history teaches. History teaches." But for all of the stories and songs that remind us what history teaches, we seem never to learn our lesson. The year 2012, the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, might remind us that 50 years ago, before tens of thousands of Americans on Washington's Mall, Dr. Martin Luther King began his most famous and important speech:
"Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation."
The echo of Abraham Lincoln and the reach of his long "symbolic shadow" brought Dr. King to the great height from which he saw the Promised Land and revealed his dream. Was Dr. King's dream "the American Dream?" Was it the "dream deferred" of Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun? Do we still "hold these truths to be self-evident?" How did we get to be who we are?
We come to the theater, I think, seeking answers to such questions, and to be spectators on the edge of the battlefields of emotions, ideas and history.
I began my own history in Florida against the backdrop of a tragic war that bitterly divided our American house. The struggles and conflicts of the families who live in that house have been the focus of my work in the theater. Sometimes we can't see the patterns we're tracing in our lives until we look back from a long distance. I'm very far in time from the young instructor who took shelter at USF years ago. Perhaps I'm far enough to see that I have come full circle, and I'm back in Southwest Florida waging war by other means.


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Shino Yamanaka, left, and John Gurdon.
Shino Yamanaka of Kyoto University in Japan was a shoo-in for the 2012 Nobel Prize in Medicine. But in a surprising twist, he shared it with a researcher who did his award-winning work 50 years ago.
In 2007 Yamanaka discovered that all human cells have a set of genetic switches, four points on the genome, that can be tweaked to create pluripotent stem cells. These can create all other types of cells, potentially allowing a scientist to make skin grafts or whole organs out of a patient's own cells, eliminating the risk of tissue rejection. Going into the 2012 Nobel week he was one of the favorites to take the medicine prize.
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Yamanaka shares the Nobel Prize with John Gurdon for work Gurdon did at the University of Oxford. The British scientist first theorized in 1962 that cell specialization could be reversed, and that a mature cell of any kind, a skin cell, for example, was not doomed to die a skin cell. He replaced the nucleus of a frog egg cell with a nucleus from an adult frog's intestinal cell and found that a normal tadpole developed – all the genetic information needed to form a whole animal was still contained in the specialized adult cell.
Yamanaka's research built upon Gurdon's 1962 discoveries, though few predicted the two would share this award. The field of regenerative medicine is still in its infancy, but could revolutionize the way we think about healing, aging, and death.


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Entertaining but overall? A little disappointing!
Jurassic World 2: Fallen Kingdom
When the island's dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen and Claire mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event.
Starring: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Rafe Spall
Director: J.A. Bayona
Rating/ Runtime: PG-13/ 2 hrs 8 min.
My Thoughts…
Ugh! I've been waiting for this movie for sooooooooooooo long! I loved the first one and was thrilled for the sequel. But I should have known by now that just like the original movies, the sequel is always horrible! That's not totally true but it was a let down for sure.
Think about it, Jurassic Park was extraordinary! It blew minds with its technology and even now it holds up (I should know as I just watched them all again this weekend). The second one, "Lost World" was awful! Nothing new and other than Jeff Goldblum, the main characters did not return. Now Jurassic Park 3? That was brilliant! Sam Neil returned and the movie offered fresh new thrills and new dinosaurs! I loved it.
Well, I think history is repeating itself because Jurassic World was amazing! Chris Pratt was a funny addition (and also eye candy to be honest) and the lovely Bryce Dallas Howard was a fantastic anti-hero type. She worked for the evil, God-playing INGEN but quickly learns the error in her ways and again, there was something new. The nightmare-inducing "Indominus Rex", not to mention the trained raptors! All good stuff!
Which brings me to Fallen Kingdom. Don't get me wrong, it was very entertaining. Howard and Pratt are still great together, and there is plenty of action. Unfortunately, it was all regurgitated stuff from previous movies. And the hugely anticipated return of "Dr. Malcolm"? More of a cameo really and not even a good one. There is one awesome twist at the end but instead of doing more with it, it's merely a footnote to the film. Hopefully they mean to do more with it in the third installment, which as I said, is bound to be amazing if we're going by the pattern.
I'm a total dino nerd and I love these movies as I loved the book by Michael Crichton, so I can still give it a solid rating. I can't say the same for other movie critics though. If you're a fan then I think you will still find it worthy of a great movie night!
Rating… B


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Pope Francis announced the date Monday during a meeting with cardinals inside the Apostolic Palace.
Francis had announced in July he would canonize two of the 20th century's most influential popes together, approving a miracle attributed to John Paul's intercession and bending Vatican rules by deciding that John XXIII didn't need one.
Analysts have said the decision to canonize them together was aimed at unifying the church since each has his own admirers and critics. Francis is clearly a fan of both: On the anniversary of John Paul's death this year, Francis prayed at the tombs of both men -- an indication that he sees a great personal and spiritual continuity in them.
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The Color Purple
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Celie. Mister. Sofia. Nettie. Shug. The unforgettable characters of Alice Walker's Pultizer Prize novel brighten the screen in this rhapsodically cinematic adaptation directed by Steven Spielberg. At... View more >
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Opened in Theaters - Wednesday, December 18, 1985 (37 years ago)
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Gassho, all.
Does anyone else find a persistent, nonstop inner voice bothering them while sitting? Much of my job day-to-day is reading, analyzing, forming an opinion and writing, so I have a clear, articulate and logical narrative like someone speaking, only in my mind.
When I sit, it overrides much else of what's going on. While imagery, memories and feelings arise, they clear out pretty quickly as I focus on my breathing. But the voice is constant, like a tap with a broken faucet, or a talk radio station you can't turn off, and louder than everything else. It's never really bothered me before, and doesn't as I go about ordinary life. In fact, I've always felt it was an asset.
But as I've become more aware of my inner life through the process of zazen, I find I -- whatever that "I" may be, I'm not sure -- am getting frustrated, and that frustration is manifesting itself in resistance and judgement, even though I don't want it to. Presumably, I'd ideally just let the voice run without judgment while sitting, but it never seems to talk itself out. It seems inexhaustible. If I'm awake, the voice is running. When I sit, the voice is running.
So, any advice from more experienced meditators would be most welcome. By all means, sit me down on Buddha's couch and have at it.


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WBB - Round up!!
To be honest i was a bit wary because i had an onslaught of...i hate tofu...i hate soy..i hate...!! you know :D....so i was pretty sure i would have about 5-7 entries..but ladies..I really want to thank each one of you who took their time to participate and am glad that my friends are still my friends..despite of me making their life miserable :D..Would also like to say thanks to Nandita for letting me host and be a total hands-off gal..love that!
All the entries here are in the order they were received. As it is Breakfast mainly..there are no categories..i could get detailed if i wanted..but....
Mansi ensures that we get a healthy and a satisfying breakfast with her healthy Cranberry Soymilk and Green tea smoothie. All i say is yum!
Maya has made a delicious pulav which is a great combo of carbs and protein with 1 tsp. oil!! You can check her Soya Cabbage Matar pulav and i have to say soya chunks never looked better...
Meera takes the humble poha to another level by adding edamame to them and giving the usual carb laden breakfast a protein boost..check her recipe for Green Soyabean pohe and you will know what i mean...
Anu recreates a delicious chinese restaurant food at home and shares with her her recipe for Buddhist delight with us.How fabulous does that look!!
Asha plans to make something with soy-beans..but spots a packet of soy flour and decides to bake a bread...how she came up with a pancake is for you girls to go to her site and read. Her Soy-Bell Pepper Carrot Pancakes looks mouthwatering...
Sra tells me that she hates soy and hurts my feelings :(..but then makes up by being sweet and sending me an entry...i do not eat eggs..but her Tofu-egg custards did get me drooling..what say people..
TBC basically told me when i announced that she 'may' come up with something...hearing which i bawled..and so she came up with this fabulous Fruity Tofu Smoothie and put a stop to the crazyness ;)
Who does not love scrambled tofu!! Ashwini has shared a delicious and a fun way of adding a tofu scramble to ur daily breakfast mix and it looks georgeous to boot...check her Scrambled Tofu and see if you disagree with me!!
Basically what Dhivya says is cooking for one sucks..but trust me...eating her
Soy burger will delight you that you are alone..coz you will not be willing to share!!
Going to Namratha's blog leaves me drooling...she not only bakes but has started to decorate them amazingly well...she decides to buy the soy nuggets in her grocery shopping and comes up with this amazing
Pulav with Soya Chunks which looks delicious and nutritious to boot :)
Hima states that she dreams about them if she has not had them for a while and i think i would too if i made some totally droolworthy
Blueberry Pancakes like her..take a look and you will be a convert to the healthy goodness of it...
Kaykat wanted to make a soy-based breakfast and decides to whip up some amazing
Banana Soy Muffins in the microwave and tops with a totally delicious syrup...
Nags tempts me and so many others with this yummilicious
Soy-Oats Cookies which seem more like an indulgence than a breakfast....you have to step to her space to check the recipe out...
Nandita decides to treat our eyes to a yummy and protein intense healthy dish and this time a
Soy Nugget Salad for breakfast which will leave you craving for more...and she makes all of us drool with that side she paired with.....go have a look....
Johanna wanted to make a special meal for Australian day...and zeroed on making a very delicious Tofu Scramble to commemorate the day..
Bharathy had been wanting to try this recipe for a while and sets into action and makes this mouthwatering Tofu Sandwich to devour....you know you need to go there to look and note down the recipe
Raaga makes this delicious and healthy
Mixed Vegetable Poha for breakfast and i am seriously mystified by the lovely color that poha has got..ms.poha is one good looker..must say!!
Vanamala adds an extra healthy element to make her
Chapati higher in protein...and accompanies it with a delicious dal...want to know the extra ooph..visit her site..
Laavanya makes this total delicious protein Soya Upma and is pretty cool about hubby not eating it..as it means more for her..you go girl!!..you have to check the recipe out..can i say she is a girl after my own heart :)
Nanditha deals with the task of feeding her son a snack for after school and comes up with this amazing Soy Samosa. Man! i am impressed...and the filling will flip u guys...go check it out..
Ricki whips up this amazing
Tofu Omelette and is more happy to share it with her husband...which BTW i would have seriously not done so..coz i am a greedy gal :D..this is an awesome recipe..
Lavanya shares with us her usual breakfast fare of
Power Wrap Chapatti and i have to say i am impressed..it looks delicious and is nutritious to boot...now only if i lived in chennai :D
Siri had made a delicious greek dish and adapted it to vegetarian tastes..here is her Soya-Moussaka which looks fabulous!!
Vijaya tries experimenting with new ingredients and comes up with this lip-smacking Soya Granules Curry and her husband tells her that it tastes like...will not say like what..you need to go and read ;D
Zlamushka calls these Soy-Milk Pancakes 'Paincakes'!!..now who can believe that..her pics look so good...and the recipe sounds even better....
Archana presents us with this delicious recipe of
Chilly-Soya Chunks that she has made up on her own!!..what say...ms.talented ?? :)
Cham hits the spot by telling that many of us feel that 'healthy' will not taste good....and that it is actually not so..and to prove us wrong she shares with us her recipe of Healthy Wrap which looks delicious and i bet will taste delicious too...
There lived a girl who hated tofu and now is besotted by it and thanks me everyday for bringing it to her life...( he he)..you guys know Madame Sig..she shares with us a fabulous recipe of Guacamole with tofu and as a side note lets eveyone know..she can hardly taste it...hmmm :)
Sig almost gives me an attack by submitting 2 recipes for WBB...and what makes me so mad is her Tofu Scramble looks delicious..even better than the ones i have make..so not fair!!
Does she need an intro!! i can easily say.. half of the indian blogs have started after looking at her amazing photos and down-to-earth writing style...Indira shares with us her Palak Tofu Soy Spinach and got me drooling...i bet you will feel the same
Richa sends me this entry so that i can be off her back..seriously! isn't she sweet guys...her Ghobi Alu Soybeans ki Sabji can become a easy regular at any table!!
And i have saved the best for the last :D..(just kidding..)...here are my two entries..
Papaya Soy Smoothie which is a great for busy weekend and honestly weekday mornings.
Soy Semiya Upma which adds a healthy element of protein to a dish.
Finally..i sincerely hope all of you found some way of adding soy to your diet..as it is really good for you...granted they are not to the level thought and projected by the media..but it is a great source of plant protein.
The next WBB (a known fact by now i guess) is held by Suganya of Tasty Palettes .
33 comments:
- TBC said...
Wow! those are some fabulous creations for a not-so-popular ingredient. And you've done a great job hosting your first ever event, Rajitha.
That's all you've paid me to say!;-)
And I see that you've included all the pics too. I half expected you to do the same as dear SRA. ;-)
- Tue Feb 05, 08:17:00 PM EST
- Laavanya said...
Rajitha, we may have waited a few days for this but it was well worth it since this is just an awesome round-up. I loved the cute intros to the dishes... very interesting! Kudos on a job well done.
- Tue Feb 05, 08:52:00 PM EST
That is a neat presentation of various delicious dishes rajitha. I loved the write up. Great work.
- Tue Feb 05, 09:37:00 PM EST
i can just say ohhhhhhhhhhhhh my god.
- Tue Feb 05, 09:38:00 PM EST
- Siri said...
Nice RoundUp Rajitha. I was looking forward for it..:D Love the variety for my fav *soya*.
- Tue Feb 05, 10:10:00 PM EST
- Mythreyee said...
That's a healthy roundup.
- Tue Feb 05, 10:23:00 PM EST
- Sig said...
Hey, really cool round up Rajitha... Great job... :)
- Tue Feb 05, 11:03:00 PM EST
Thanks for posting this amazing roundup! I seriously want to try every single one of these recipes--right NOW! Yum, yum, is all I can say. The smoothies, the pancakes, the scrambles, and especially the burger, cookies and muffins--can't wait to make these. Fabulous!
- Tue Feb 05, 11:18:00 PM EST
- sra said...
I hear you loud and clear. Thanks for the round-up
- Wed Feb 06, 12:00:00 AM EST
- Ashwini said...
Rajitha dear, tera doosra naam perfection bhi hain :-)
Such a lovely round up. I loved participating.
- Wed Feb 06, 01:00:00 AM EST
- Srivalli said...
Ranjitha...thats seriously too many entries...all so lovely. You did a great job...glad that you got so many that you didn't miss mine...:D..kidding...kudos for a great show!
- Wed Feb 06, 01:59:00 AM EST
- Daily Meals said...
Wow Rajitha! Great round-up. So many soy recipes to try. Thanks for hosting this event.
- Wed Feb 06, 03:35:00 AM EST
- Finla said...
I am one of those ppl say i hate tofu, but after seeing all these delicious recipe i might be a convert :-)
Wonderful round up
- Wed Feb 06, 04:17:00 AM EST
- FH said...
This post is a treasure trove for Soy dishes and Soy lovers, great job Rajitha!:))
- Wed Feb 06, 07:55:00 AM EST
- sunita said...
Rajitha, that's such a lovely round up...sorry not to have sent in any:-(
- Wed Feb 06, 08:19:00 AM EST
- Lavanya Raj said...
wow..roundup was so neatly presented with short stories..iam so flattered with the short story next to my dish..great job!
- Wed Feb 06, 09:14:00 AM EST
- AnuSriram said...
Gr8 round up... Good to know there are so many recipes with soy....
- Wed Feb 06, 09:39:00 AM EST
- Archy said...
Wow.. Lovely round up Rajitha.. Loved ur way of introducing recipes !! Thank you for hosting such a unique event :) !! Cheers !!
- Wed Feb 06, 10:35:00 AM EST
- Cham said...
Well done Rajitha! All entries are Healthy! What a lovely Soy awareness!
- Wed Feb 06, 12:51:00 PM EST
- Nanditha Prabhu said...
enjoyed this round up with your apt captions! It was indeed amazing to see so many entries with variety and creativity!
- Wed Feb 06, 01:48:00 PM EST
- Richa said...
hey, that is a cool round up!
(goes to chk the expiry date on her tofu pkt :( )
- Wed Feb 06, 01:59:00 PM EST
- Namratha said...
Wow, fabulous round up dear, so neatly presented with all those cute descriptions...sweet!! :) Nice to see so many recipes with soy, maybe I should really experiment a little.
- Wed Feb 06, 02:08:00 PM EST
- Mansi said...
awesome rajitha! Soy is a challenge for many, and this is a great collection for it yaar!
thanks for hosting!:)
- Wed Feb 06, 02:28:00 PM EST
- Vanamala Hebbar said...
woww wonderful roundup rajitha. So many recipes.....
- Wed Feb 06, 02:32:00 PM EST
- Pooja said...
Lovely round up ! so many healthy dishes around with soya , thanks for choosing this as theme for WBB.
- Wed Feb 06, 03:38:00 PM EST
- Suganya said...
So many avatars of soy. This page is bookmarked. Great roundup, Rajitha.
- Wed Feb 06, 08:06:00 PM EST
- DK said...
Thats one heck of a round up with sooooooooooooo many varities! Mama Mia! BOOKMARKED! this page is going to be hit like crazy! at least by me :) thanks a bunch for the wonderful theme rajitha and equally beautiful round up!
- Thu Feb 07, 02:29:00 PM EST
- Rajitha said...
TBC - what! u expected me to be a follower...i did not tell u this..i am yet to post the check to you :D
Laav - coming from u means a whole lot :)
Hima - thnks girl
Anon - thnks!
Siri - thanks girl :)
Mythreyee - healthy..yes :)
Sig - thnks madam :)
Ricki - i have my eys on many recipes too..hope u can try them..
sra - i knew u would :)
ashwini - he he ...thnks re..
srivalli - i missed urs :(
daily meals - it was fun..thnks :)
happy cook - hope u will...
asha - thnks ..i know some good soy variety :)
sunita - u were on my bug list..but since u had some losing and finding blog issues..i decided to let it slide :D
lavanya - and i meant every word :)
anu - isn't it..i am happy too
archy - glad u think that way :)
cham - i swear..it is so easy to get high clorie dishes..wanted something healthy too...
nandhita - i was amazed at the creativity too
richa - so...is it expired :D
nammu - u already experiment :)
mansi - thnks re..it is a challenge..tell me about it :)
vanamala - thnks :)
pooja - thnks :)
suganya - thnks girl :)
DK - i loved each recipe..i will be making from this often too :)
- Thu Feb 07, 03:43:00 PM EST
- Raaga said...
Lovely round up... blogspot opened only now for me... didn't think soy could come into so many breakfast items :-)
- Fri Feb 08, 05:25:00 AM EST
- Sagari said...
thats a great roundup rajitha
- Fri Feb 08, 02:28:00 PM EST
- Seema said...
So many dishes from Soy! I am truely impressed at our blog friends & their dishes. Great job all of you! Great round up Rajitha!
- Fri Feb 08, 11:11:00 PM EST
- Unknown said...
Wow nice round-up, I couldn't take part in any event last month. But i'll start cooking from this list for soy recipes, looks delicious. Well done Rajitha.
- Fri Feb 08, 11:43:00 PM EST
- Uma said...
Nice roundup.
- Sat Feb 09, 12:52:00 PM EST


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byrdie Kristen Stewart will be the first to tell you she leads a double life. Since wrapping the last installment of the blockbuster Twilight saga, she's sunk her teeth into gritty, not-at-all glamorous roles in On The Road and the Sundance hit Camp X-Ray, where she plays a small-town soldier assigned to Guantanamo Bay. All the while landing a Chanel campaign and working as the face of Balenciaga's fragrances.
"It's cool that I have this dual life," she told us. "I'm very simplistic with my makeup in real life, so on the red carpet I like to push it in the other direction. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it all the way." Stewart keeps her must-have lipsticks, eye makeup, and brow pencil handy, but it's super-hydrating skin products that take up the prime real estate in her makeup bag. "I have to moisturize my skin a lot, you can't go without makeup if your skin looks haggard and crack-y," she says. "I always think of that scene in Zoolander when he [Ben Stiller] says "moisture is the essence of beauty," but it's so true."
"I don't ever use foundation," Stewart says. She is however, an expert on tinted moisturizer. In her makeup bag you'll find her mainstay—M.A.C.'s Studio Moisture Tint SPF 15 ($35)—as well as her latest favorite. "I've been using Bare Essentials' Tinted Moisturizer ($30); it's the lightest one I've found," she says.
"I like doing something cool on the red carpet," Stewart told us. "So many people go for pretty—and that's pretty boring,"
"It's pretty obvious I like a smoky eye," Stewart says, referring to her many red carpet looks sporting a dark, defined eye. "There's this eyeliner from Topshop I use, it's super black and stays in place," she says.
"Every time I go there I buy five of them." And her mascara of choice? "Right now I'm using one from Bare Essentials."
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Stewart's said she didn't like perfume before becoming the face of Balenciaga's Florabotanica ($100), so how does the new sister scent stack up? "They have a similar undertone, but Rosabotanica ($100) is sort of warm and musky," she says. "It's more worn-in, sort of like the nighttime version." Now she rotates the two, depending on her mood.
Stewart won't leave the house without Burt's Bees Lip Balm ($4) and, if she needs something richer, Aquaphor Healing Ointment ($6). "Aquaphor is the most hardcore moisturizer," she says. "You can even use it for tattoo care."
Stewart applies the same 'all or nothing' sentiment to her lip color. "I like full on lipstick or nothing at all," Stewart says. "Stains, gloss, I don't like any of that." She favors rich formulas from Chanel: "I'll do a classic red, pink, and sometimes a red with a little orange in it."
"It's great to have a beauty team that I can lend my creative imput to," Stewart says. "My makeup artists are so fucking good, they're artists. I work with Beau [Nelson] and Jill [Dempsey] and neither of them ever want to do the same thing twice."
The one product that never leaves Stewart's bag? "Bumble and bumble's Hair Powder ($36)," she says. "It's a lifesaver." Like almost every celebrity we interview, Stewart prefers her hair a little dirty. "It's best on the second or third day," she says. She also keeps Moroccanoil's Treatment ($43) on hand. "My ends get mad dry."
"I don't like anything too shiny," Stewart says about her nails. Her favorite colors come from Chanel—and she always tops them with with a matte topcoat. "I really like black nails right now."
When asked about her beauty icons, Stewart takes a few seconds to think. "Take Patti Smith and add in a little Brigitte Bardot to up the sex factor," she says. "That's pretty dope, I've got a beauty icon now."
When Stewart's exhausted after a long day on set, she reaches for Rohto's Ice Redness Relief Eye Drops ($7). "They burn," she says. "Trust me you'll cry, but then your eyes are so clear and bright after."
"I love Skinceuticals' serums," Stewart says. "They have one that's for stressed-out skin, one for your pores if you're breaking out, and then the preventative one for problematic skin. I use a few of them."
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That same implementation could also be used for iTunes Radio, and could potentially work for notifications as well, showing you things like who is calling your phone on your Apple TV, so that you don't have to dig into your pocket during an Archer marathon. Continuity also allows for your Mac to use your iPhone as a hotspot without having to unlock your phone, which could be great for the Apple TV when you're on the road.
Total Home Control
Apple also announced HomeKit at WWDC, a collection of tools designed to allow you to control automated parts of your home from your iOS device. Things like your thermostat, security system, smart appliances, and lights will be able to be controlled and managed from your iOS 8 device. If it comes to the Apple TV, it could quickly evolve from a simple entertainment console to a command center for your home.
Sitting down in front of your TV, you could control a number of different devices and appliances around your house. Too cold while you're watching Netflix? Turn down your thermostat without having to reach for your iPhone. The Apple TV could easily become the center of your smart home, an unthinkable outcome just two years ago.
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Apple also introduced Metal at WWDC, a new developer mechanism for creating games on iOS that offers ten times the performance of the current gaming engine. That may be a bit overkill for your iPad, but it's powerful enough to make the Apple TV a proper gaming platform. Combine that with iOS 7 and its API for third-party gaming controllers that will be Apple-TV compatible, and you've got yourself a gaming workhorse that would put Fire TV to shame.
Getting into gaming in the living room can be an easy transition for Apple, as a large portion of the over 1.2 million apps in the App Store are games, many of which could be ported to an Apple TV.
Open Season
To create a proper gaming device, Apple would need to create an App Store and release an SDK for the Apple TV, a long overdue move that would be benefit all parties involved. More channels could be added, console games could potentially be ported from Xbox One and PS4 games, you and I would be happy, and Apple would make a ton of money. Most of these updates are software-based, and could breathe new life into some of the 20 million Apple TVs sold to date
The last piece of the Apple TV puzzle would be to give it cable box powers, but it appears it still can't nail down the content deals with cable providers to make it a reality yet, and when it does, a deal may invite scrutiny from regulators. But even without replacing your clunky Comcast-provided energy hog, Apple TV has all the parts in place to be incredibly potent practically overnight.
If what we saw at WWDC—an Apple that is willing to cut down some of the "walled garden"—is any indication of Apple's new demeanor and direction, we may actually see this version of the Apple TV (or something better) before the year is out. A more open Apple means a better experience, and better products for everyone.


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South Carolinians have the two great opportunities to help support the mission of the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources by making a check-off contribution on their state tax return using Form I-330. All contributions to the Endangered Species Fund are used specifically for research and conservation efforts aimed at threatened and endangered species in South Carolina. Funds received through the SC Department of Natural Resources Fund are used to enhance the programs and operations of the overall agency.
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Extravagant? Maybe. But embracing this mouth-wateringly wonderful cheeseburger wrapping paper might actually save you in the long run. I mean, when you wrap and stack six gifts to look like a Royale with cheese, well, who cares what's in the boxes?
The five-piece set (buns, tomato, lettuce, cheese, patty) still has a decent way to go before emerging from Kickstarter purgatory. But a pledge of $20 or more will bag you a complete set, while $300 will earn you 10 sets (or, as I like to think of it, one giant deca-burger) and a presumably glorious cheeseburger trophy. Sure, I wouldn't mind seeing a grilled onion option, and it's BYO special sauce. But if you're at a loss for a creative gift, the presentation should at least be well done. [Kickstarter via TDW]


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At 1.5 billion, today's global youth generation is the largest in history and USAID understands the important role youth play as partners and leaders in development.
On July 26-27, Government Officials, civil society organizations and Youth Delegates will come together in New York City at the United Nations General Assembly for a High Level Meeting on Youth. As the flagship event of the International Year of the Youth which culminates on August 11, the overall theme is "Youth: Dialogue and Mutual Understanding".
Under the overall lead of Ronan Farrow, State Department's new Special Advisor on Global Youth Issues, USAID will play a prominent role at the meeting. Nicole Goldin, Senior Advisor at USAID, will deliver a statement on behalf of the U.S. Government during the Development Roundtable.
At USAID we are inspired by the energy of youth in the developing world, and actively searching for ways to engage them in the development dialogue and process. Alongside the formal events, USAID (Nicole Goldin and Erin Mazursky, Youth Advisor) will host a listening session on youth in development at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations.
While this is a culminating event, this important gathering of leaders, stakeholders, and a wide array of impressive young leaders from around the world will help to further the recognition of youth as important players in international development. This has been an important year of elevating the profile of youth, and USAID is happy to play a role in continuing the momentum.
You can tell us more about your interests in youth in development at www.usaid.gov/youthimpact; or visit us on Twitter and share your comments using the hashtag#USAIDyouth.


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If you are looking to produce a line of skin care products in small quantities with your name on it, you can go with a private label manufacturer. A private label manufacturer can provide you with private label skin care products that have been produced for other companies under your own brand name. You choose the skin care products that you are interested in along with components from the suppliers library and they will produce, fill and label your personalized looking product.
The advantages of using private label products are low minimums, fast production introductions, and no product development costs.


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Does your idea of the perfect Saturday include sitting in the stands watching your kids practice their way to becoming the next Babe Ruth? (No, not Baby Ruth! But those are delicious!) For many parents, kids, and coaches, there really is nothing as fun as heading to the park for a little baseball or softball on a warm Spring day. The love of the game is practically in our blood, and the clear, crisp sound of the bat cracking against the ball as it seemingly moves in slow motion through the air brings an excitement movies and video games just can't match. In the immortal words of Jack Norworth, "Take me out to the ball game, Take me out with the crowd; Buy me some Peanuts and Cracker Jack, I don't care if I never get back." Ah, Jack, indeed I would not care if I never got back. Just imagining the sounds, smells, and smiles is making this office seem smaller than ever!
But this lounging in the bleachers all day just isn't as enjoyable without suitable snacks, no matter how good the game is. Concession stand offerings at the ballpark have expanded quite a bit over the years, but it's the classics we see our customers turning to time and again, including David Sunflower Seeds. I was fortunate enough to grow up in a small town that boasted two corner candy stores, and for however much candy my friends and I purchased, we always grabbed a bag of sunflower seeds or Pumpkin Seeds, another popular pick. These were 'the snacks that followed you back'. A bag of sunflower or pumpkin seeds could be lazily enjoyed on the walk home, and you'd still have some left when you got there!
A good concession stand is not built on seeds alone, though they are a great place to begin and…pardon the pun…grow from! Other fun and flavorful favorites include Big League Chew, Shredded Beef Jerky, and for a more substantial snack, Miller's Hot Bologna. Yep, we pretty much offer everything you need to make your stand a success! Except hot dogs…we don't have hot dogs. But we do have Gummy Hot Dogs and Hot Dog Containers, does that count? 🙂


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Dow has worst drop since February: What happened?
The Dow Jones industrial average plunged 317 points on Thursday, wiping out its gain for the year. It was the biggest drop since February and gave the index a loss for July after five straight months of gains. Here are some questions and answers about the sell-off and what might come next.
Q: Why did the stock market fall?
A: A number of worries have been building for investors in recent weeks and several of them came together on Thursday. That prompted people to dump stocks, breaking several months of calm in the market. A number of large U.S. companies reported poor quarterly results or forecasts, including Whole Foods Market and Exxon Mobil. Tensions are escalating between Russia and the West, threatening Europe's economy and energy needs, and the Federal Reserve is getting closer to ending its powerful economic stimulus program. Also, the market has gone for an unusually long time without a significant pullback.
Q: How bad was it?
A: The Dow, an index of 30 large U.S. stocks, had its worst day in almost six months. The Standard & Poor's 500, a broader measure of the market and the benchmark for many index funds, lost 2 percent, its worst one-day decline since April. The S&P 500 index is still up 4.5 percent for the year and closed at a record high just one week ago. The Dow is slightly negative for the year.
Q: Does this mean the stock rally is over?
A: Not necessarily. Company earnings, one of the most important drivers of stock prices, are still at record levels and are expected to grow by 8.6 percent in the second quarter, according to S&P Capital IQ. That compares to growth of 4.9 percent in the same period a year ago and 3.4 percent growth in the first three months of this year. Also, the market has bounced back from other big drops this year. The S&P 500 slumped 3.6 percent in January but rose steadily for five months after that.
Q: What comes next?
A: The next order of business for investors is the monthly jobs report coming out Friday morning at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time. Investors will be looking to see if U.S. employers are adding enough jobs to suggest that the economy is picking up momentum. They'll also be looking for signs that wages are growing, which might suggest that the Federal Reserve could move sooner than expected to raise interest rates in order to stave off inflation. Stock investors don't like higher interest rates because it makes it more expensive for companies to borrow money and invest in their business.


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Facts About Kolkata – Capital City of West Bengal, India
|State of India
|West Bengal
|Latitude and Longitude
|Population of Kolkata
|14.9 million approx
|71.43 sq miles (185 sq km)
|Bengali, English, Hindi, Urdu
|Time Zone
|Postal Code
|7000xx, 7001xx
|Area Code
|+91(India) -33 (Kolkata)
|International Airport in Kolkata
|Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport
|Bengali, Marwari, Bihari
|Points of Interest
|Howrah Bridge, Calcutta High Court, Victoria Memorial, Sundarbans, Eden Gardens, Maidan, Nicco park, Royal Calcutta Golf Club, Indian Museum, Alipore Zoological Gardens, Dakshineswar Kali Temple, Nandan, Kalighat Kali Temple, Marble Palace, Fort William
|Calcuttan or Kolkatan, Calcatesi
Kolkata Entertainment makes the lives of the local residents more happening. There are different recreational resources, through which the metropolitan city of Kolkata entertains its inhabitants. Kolkata is a cultural hub of Bengal, where people enjoy watching good movies, paintings, dancing, and music.
Apart from this, the nightlife is also quite vibrant over here. All through the city, there are several discos and dance bars that attract party hoppers.
Nowadays several bands are sprouting out in this city. If you are interested to listen to talented singers, you can watch the live performances of those well-known Bangla bands. Some of the most reputed among these music groups are "Chandrabindu", "Cactus" and "Bhumi". Kolkata is also popular for Indian Classical music.
Added to this, Kolkata houses a large number of libraries, such as the British Council Library, Chaitanya Library, Bangiyo Sahitya Parishad Library, and National Library.
Most of them have a great collection of books, journals, and magazines from different fields. If you are highly interested in reading books, you can spend your time in those libraries.
The older age group, on the other hand, has a propensity to visit theaters. There is a series of halls where people go in order to watch cultural programs. Some of them include Rabindrasadan, Kalamandir and Birla Sabhagar. Moreover in Kolkata, one will find several cinema halls, such as Priya Cinema, Elite Cinema, Menoka, Ashoka, Basushree, Metro, Inox, Fame, and so on.
Kolkata is also popular for offering tasty and delicious traditional delicacies of Bengal. There are several restaurants that offer exotic cuisines at affordable prices.
Sporting activities are an integral part of Kolkata Entertainment. People of Kolkata love watching football matches. They also love to play cricket. Eden Gardens Cricket Stadium and Yuva Bharati Krirangan are the most-known sports stadium in Kolkata. The city also has a number of golf courses.
Esplanade and Gariahat are considered to be the main shopping squares of Kolkata.
Some other places, where residents of Kolkata prefer to spend their leisure hours are Nicco Park, Fun City, Aquatica, Nalban Boating Complex, and Clown Town. Icicle is the largest ice skating rink in the this "City of Joy". Entertainment in Kolkata provides the inhabitants of the city to refresh and rejuvenate with a fresh bout of energy and vigor.


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Praying v's Manifestation
"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism" – Sir William Osler
The whole basis to Lynn McTaggat's work is that everything is a constantly fluctuating mass of energy which all of creation exists from and it is our thoughts that influence this mass of energy which shapes our individual reality. And that God = Zero Point Field or Cosmos or The Source Or Mystery. Coming from this belief, it is hard to imagine that God is a person!
Therefore, God is only a label and not a male person. The only advantage to referring to God as a person is that it makes it easier to explain life in some way, in much the same way Native Americans refer to stones as the 'stone people' or the 'tree people', because everything has consciousness.
The main disadvantage of referring to God as a person though is that you set beliefs that God is up there in the sky which leads to beliefs of separateness between us, nature, the universe, and God, which the planet is now suffering as a result.
As we are all one with everything, then we are also rain. So you pray rain. If you pray for rain, then you are not accepting that rain is a part of you. This old way of praying rain is like visualising the rain and experiencing the essence and quality of the rain/water, this way you are sending out the water vibration and then celebrating that it rained, and because it was good for the whole or good intent it actually rains.
Now, suppose that you wanted to pray for Peace as you were angry at politicians or whoever, the prayers would have no effect because of the anger vibrations rippling out. Therefore, you take on inner peace then you are naturally sending out the Peace vibration.
If you want to pray for a person's health, you try and stimulate that person's own healing within, by imagining/visualising the person in good health. This would be a healthy prayer coming from peace, love, compassion etc.
What we're doing is ordering our life in the best possible way. You attract by your own ability to attract and manifest. You can only do the above if you believe that you are a co-creator or part of God. Then you have a part of creating with all. Part God is part of the Whole.
I think what Gregg Braden has said is spot on about the book Secrets of The Lost Mode of Prayer, "allowing no room for the conscious filtered mind to take a hold. Praying rain helps you avoid one's inner critic" I would call that similar to having a 'personality'.
If you just pray to God in the hope that He will make things better, then He will either give you what you want or not depending if you have been good or not. Then praying becomes about trying to change God's mind, as though he had a personality to change!
If you were to create not coming from, 'for the good of everybody' there would be a payback in Karma by dealing with the karma. Not because God judges whether it is right or wrong as God is the Cosmos and the Cosmos does not judge.
Only when you have trust in yourself, others and the trust in the universe's plan will anyone have true Power and Wisdom.
'Walk in Peace;
Walik in Beauty'
Causing the Miraculous by Spreading Beauty, Truth & Harmony
– Spirit Bear Coaching
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The Youabaian Puma debuted earlier this week at the Los Angeles Auto Show, and I think it's great. It's hilarious, it's loud, and its logo is possibly a thong covering the globe. And that's what's great about all vanity cars – they are always unique.
When I say "vanity cars," I'm using the word "vanity" very loosely. Sometimes they're built out of pride, which comes close to the meaning of vanity, I suppose. Other times they're made by someone who just couldn't find the perfect car for them, or they're made with the attitude that of course the car they would make is better.
Either way, they seemed joined by the common thread of one person building a car that seems way too wacky, way too weird, to be real. I'm not talking about the Koenigseggs and the Paganis of the world, as those seem like serious efforts, with full-on racing programs, massive engineering efforts, and handcrafted, bespoke touches.
No, these are the labors of love by a guy in a shed. They are also set with a price of somewhere between a gazillion and a bazillion dollars, and they almost always look like they were built with nothing but a bag of hammers. They are the products of dreams, ambitions, and not much else. And I love them.
The Consulier GTP
If you're anything like me, when you think economic theory, you think speed. Warren Mosler is just like me, in that regard. An economist who started his own hedge fund, he made a crapton of money in the 1980s before starting up his own auto manufacturer, Consulier. Later re-born in a more credible effort as Mosler, Consulier made this bizarre-looking thing, the GTP. It had tiny wheels, big overhangs, an upright cabin, and who knows what guy built it.
Basically, it was crazy. But also crazy fast, Mosler claimed. Even though it was powered by a Chrysler four-pot putting out 190 horses to start with, Mosler just knew it was faster than anything else in the United States. He knew it so much that he challenged anyone to beat the GTP around any track with any street-legal car, and he backed it up with $25,000.
So Car and Driver did, which was easy. They showed up with a bone-stock Chevrolet Corvette, and beat it around Chrysler's test track by over a second. Mosler claimed that the GTP was just worn out, and with a new car it would still totally beat anything, because of course it would why wouldn't it.
Who knows if C&D ever got its 25 grand, but Mosler did later run for President, so there's that.
The Cizeta-Moroder V16T
The Cizeta-Moroder V16T's tale is well-told, but I'll tell a brief version here just because it is hilarious and Italian. The story goes that Marcello Gandini designed the Lamborghini Diablo, and since Marcello Gandini designed it, ipso facto, it was great.
Then Chrysler bought Lamborghini, and they did not think it was so great. They asked Gandini to soften it a bit, which is like asking a famous French chef for ketchup on your steak frites, and he was gravely insulted. He took his grand design, with its quad-pop-up headlights, to Claudio Zampolli and the guy who did Donna Summer's "Love to Love You Baby," and the rest is great super car history.
Just kidding. They did spice things up by mounting a sixteen cylinder engine sideways (???), but less than twenty were made. Supposedly you can still order one, though, so if you want a 25 year old car that is brand new and insane, you can do that.
Photo credit: Craig Howell
The Vector W8
Vector, founded by an engineer named Gerald Wiegert, has been around since the 1980s. If you asked most people what Vector has been doing in that time, most people would probably say something along the lines of "who knows?"
If you asked Vector, though, they've been making 300 MPH, 2,000 horsepower insanity projects that weirdly less than 20 people have ever bought, so there's that.
The W8, introduced in 1990, was one of Vector's early efforts. It had a 650 horsepower V8, and a three-speed transmission, because anything more than three is just too much and three is a nice round number, isn't it? Oh, and they also claimed it would do over 220 MPH, when its body looked like all angles and straight lines. I'm no aerodynamicist, but that doesn't sound exactly right. Either way, let's just go with it.
Vector now claims to be making the WX8, which has blue headlights. And it will do 275 MPH, because of course it will.
Photo credit: Craig Howell
The Devel Sixteen
A V16 engine with 5,000 horsepower from a company no one has ever heard of before? We declared it bullshit. But this is like your one friend at the bar who gets hilariously drunk and then tells you stories about the time he went back in time and punched Abe Lincoln in the face.
"Sure you did, big guy," you say. Because if he believes the story, and nobody gets hurt besides Abe Lincoln, that's all that matters.
Oh, and that "coming soon" picture is all that there is on Devel's website when you try to look at the Gallery. Something tells me we'll be seeing "coming soon" for a long time.
The Prombron, AKA The Dartz Kombat
The Dartz Kombat is the one that was infamously offered with a "whale penis" leather interior. Is whale penis traditionally known to be soft, supple, and smooth? Beats me. (The question, not a whale penis. That's a horrific image.) But it's also got diamond-encrusted gauges, and who doesn't want that? Right? It's from Russia, so the answer to that is always "right."
Is Dartz real? Who knows, as its website borders on satire. Seriously, this is their promotional information:
PROMBRON' Red Diamond edition.
Car which from it's release got many titles with adition 'most'
World most expensive SUV
World most luxury SUV
World most notorious SUV
World most tastless SUV
And that's not all.
Pneumatic Pam Am organised protest wave again world most luxury car interior, which was (thanks Ari Onassis) planned to make from whale penis.
We save whales penis and Pam Am still don't pick up her gift - 'Save The Whales' car. Even she visited us this year in Monaco.
Which makes it one more amazing story in the world of vanity cars. Either way, they're always crazy, and that makes them always great.
Photo via Dartz


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We have a three-year-old Great Dane who is wonderful in every way except for his habit of nipping people he doesn't like at our home, office, or camper. He has always been somewhat protective, especially of me. However, in the last few weeks he has been nipping progressively harder and actually drew blood — twice! Once he bit an acquaintance of ours who was walking down our back lawn toward us. The other was an older woman at our front door, whom he had only met once. Our vet, who said our dog was "dominant/territorially aggressive," prescribed a low-protein diet and a hormone called Ovaban. I have two questions: Have you ever heard of this treatment to prevent dogs from biting? Do you have any behavior-modification methods we could try instead of or in addition to the hormone treatment?
Yes, I've seen the use of pharmacologicals and a lower-protein diet used for treatment of aggression, in conjunction with a behavior-modification and dominance-management program (especially for aggression that is deemed territorial). Drugs alone won't solve this problem — a behavior-modification program must be set in motion, too.
In regard to your second question, I do have behavior-modification methods that would be in addition to, not instead of, the treatment prescribed by your vet. Since he's your vet, and has seen the dog in person, he has a better handle on how to approach this medically. Behavior modification is in order here, but you really need to find a behaviorist to diagnose what the specific problem is. The only way that can be done is with a face-to-face consultation. However, I'll give you my "theoretical" diagnosis and plan.
For a dominant dog, I would immediately instill a "no work, no reward" program. The dog would learn to recognize that I am in control of everything in his life — feeding, playing, walking, etc. — and that those things come with a price attached, whether it is a "sit" or "down." Refusal to obey a command results in no payoff. If your dog doesn't know commands, now is the time to start teaching him! My book, Kathy Santo's Dog Sense, will help you do that.
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I would also have him drag a leash around when you are supervising him, so if he loses control and gets dominant and/or aggressive, you can control him.
Next, no more eye-level encounters. That is to say that there will be no jumping up allowed — not on couches, people, beds, nada. Dominant dogs that are at your eye line feel much more powerful and, subsequently, dominant.
This is a good way to get you started, but you have a long road ahead of you. Finding a good behaviorist in your area is key!


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Okay, okay you don't have to pull my arm...I'll post more pictures of Aria Giovanni.
Can you get more perfect than this?
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
She looks good in clothes too!
Okay, okay you don't have to pull my arm...I'll post more pictures of Aria Giovanni.
Posted by Becca at Wednesday, March 14, 2007
8 comments:
- Stash said...
it is impossible to get more perfect!
- Wednesday, March 14, 2007
- SamuraiFrog said...
Just stunning.
- Thursday, March 15, 2007
- Thwacko said...
The best part is with the amaturish flash photography I can imagine I took the pics at my house ;)
- Thursday, March 15, 2007
- Scurvy said...
I love Aria. She has got one of the most perfect asses I have ever seen.
- Thursday, March 15, 2007
- JJ said...
I second the ass comment, but she also has perfectly suckable lips.
- Thursday, March 15, 2007
- Becca said...
You know I think you are right...
Absolutely stunning.
I think if I ever got the chance to take pictures of Aria I'd forget what a camera was and how to use it. A demon in jeans she is. Sigh...a sexy demon...double sigh...
Her ass and thighs are absolutely perfect.
...and perfect lips...she's so amazing!
- Thursday, March 15, 2007
- jim18250 said...
Are theese the onlt pics for this series, or are there more? Anybody know where to find the rest?
- Friday, March 16, 2007
- Becca said...
There were a few others but I can't remember where I found these pictures!
- Saturday, March 17, 2007


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Toronto-based Breakthrough Entertainment arrives in Santa Monica with market premiere screenings for The Resurrection Of Tony Gitone, Summerhood and Please Kill Mr Know It All.
The Resurrection Of Tony Gitone screens on Thursday (Nov 1) and stars Fabrizio Filippo, Paula Rivera, Nick Mancuso, Tony Nappo and John Cassini in the story of an Italian-American who gets his big break in a Hollywood production.
Summerhood screens on Friday and is a coming-of-age tale about four friends on the cusp of puberty. The key cast features Joe Flaherty, Jesse Camacho, Raquel Alessi, Christopher McDonald and Lucien Maisel.
Please Kill Mr Know is set to screen on Sunday and stars Lara Jean Chorostecki as a novellist whose anonymous advice column becomes an overnight success when she receives a celebrity endorsement.
Breakthrough's slate includes Jason Priestley's directorial debut on the caper Cas & Dylan starring Richard Dreyfuss, as well the dramas Think Of Me, Neutral Territory and Unlucky.