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Thursday's Child: Sagrada Familia
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- Bonnie said...
Amazing architecture. I find it both beautiful and haunting in some respects. Barcelona has always been on my list of places I would like to visit. The pictures are wonderful!
- January 12, 2012 at 1:52 PM
- Valerie Gamine said...
These photos are stunning, what an imagination!!
- January 12, 2012 at 3:41 PM
- Joanne said...
Wow, and for a structure so old, or partly old, it has such a modern-day look to it. It doesn't have that old gothic feel that other cathedrals have. I like that it is an evolving piece of art, and hope that in some way, it always will be.
- January 12, 2012 at 4:28 PM
How neat is that building - and the story behind it is fascinating. :) I wanted to let you know that you are still welcome to enter my giveaway - I'll be emailing the giftcard and you can order online (though I'm not sure of the shipping prices to Canada...) ~ Courtney
- January 12, 2012 at 4:33 PM
- Kitchen Belleicious said...
beautiful, just beautiful photos
- January 12, 2012 at 6:47 PM
- Golden Eagle said...
I have to wonder what it will be like once it's finished; it's amazing as it is!
I love the pictures.
- January 12, 2012 at 7:23 PM
- Claudia said...
"My client is not in a hurry." Best excuse ever. It's fascinating - I don't think it ugly - not the way it soars into the sky - bu my - that is a long time in coming!
- January 12, 2012 at 7:44 PM
- Claudia said...
Sorry - that is "but" not "bu" - I see what isn't there.
- January 12, 2012 at 7:44 PM
- Julie said...
Amazing architecture!! Another wonderful trip!
- January 12, 2012 at 8:12 PM
- Carol said...
I think it's a fantastic vision. But boy it's taking a long time :) Amazing shots!
- January 12, 2012 at 8:59 PM
- Liz That Skinny Chick Can Bake said...
What an impressive structure! The stained glass windows are just stunning... Thanks for sharing another great church, Beth.
- January 12, 2012 at 9:02 PM
- Simply Life said...
I neeed to go to Barcelona- gorgeous pictures!
- January 12, 2012 at 9:11 PM
- Janet Johnson said...
I think it's amazing! What an undertaking. We tend to be so rushed in today's culture, but sometimes the time it takes makes it what it is.
- January 12, 2012 at 9:48 PM
- Sharon K. Mayhew said...
Wow! That is a fantastic church! Thanks so much for sharing its story with us, Beth.
Have a wonderful weekend. :-)
- January 12, 2012 at 10:20 PM
- Unknown said...
This is amazing, we were fortunate to have visited Barcelona and the Sagrada Familia Church, the intricacy of it's architecture makes it difficult to visualize it being finished. Thanks for sharing your photos;-)
- January 12, 2012 at 10:22 PM
Wonderful photos!
- January 12, 2012 at 10:59 PM
- Jess said...
*sigh* I'm still sick that I lived in Spain for 6 months and didn't make it over to Barcelona...
- January 12, 2012 at 11:17 PM
- Belinda said...
One of my favorite buildings of all time! So magical!
- January 12, 2012 at 11:20 PM
- Aarthi said...
awesome pictures
- January 12, 2012 at 11:36 PM
- Katerina said...
Gaudi definitely put his unique mark to all buildings he created. I've never been to Spain. It is a country I have in my must go list!
- January 13, 2012 at 9:12 AM
- Jill Colonna said...
Oh, you have just reminded me that Barcelona is on our list of places to visit. I've been fascinated with Gaudi and this building. Thanks so much for the explanations - fabulous post. I know it's late but a very magical, healthy and happy New Year to you, Beth!
- January 13, 2012 at 11:07 AM
- julie said...
I love LA Sagrada Familia! It's been years since I visited, but I remember it being one of my favorite sites in Europe. So unique and beautiful.
- January 13, 2012 at 12:18 PM
Finished or not, it's pretty fabulous!
- January 13, 2012 at 5:38 PM
- Neesie said...
I've never seen Barcelona's Sagrada Familia or been to Barcelona in fact, but its on my wish list.
Thank you for an enjoyable quick visit with brilliant photo's. I really enjoyed my tour.
Have a wonderful weekend Beth :D
- January 13, 2012 at 6:07 PM
- Unknown said...
Wow, you really do go to some the most beautiful places in the world, Beth. I'm jealous. :)
- January 13, 2012 at 6:47 PM
- Sarah said...
I love it. I would love to see it one day. Your pictures are wonderful.
- January 13, 2012 at 9:26 PM
- Elaine said...
From your photos, I have to agree with the Pope. What a stunning church! And those windows!
- January 13, 2012 at 10:24 PM
- Sudha said...
Hello Beth,
First time on your blog and loved being here - your blog is wonderful with a whole treasure trove of delicious recipes and a lot of wanderlust!!I think I'll really enjoy following your blog and hence following you from now on:)Great meeting you - do drop by my place sometime too!
- January 14, 2012 at 1:05 AM
- Angie's Recipes said...
Breathtaking photos!
- January 14, 2012 at 10:37 AM
- Jeanne said...
What a fascinating story, and such unique architecture!
- January 14, 2012 at 6:38 PM
- Ruth said...
Great photos - personally, I agree with Orwell. :)
- January 15, 2012 at 5:06 PM
Amazing that more than 130 years have passed and the basilica is not complete. With the scope of the stunning architecture, it's no wonder!
- January 16, 2012 at 12:35 AM
- Becki's Whole Life said...
Wow, it's hard to believe something that would take that long to build...even 2026 seems hard to imagine. The stonework is stunning!
- January 16, 2012 at 9:26 PM
- sally said...
Barcelona is definitely on my list of places to go! Thanks for sharing your photos!
- January 17, 2012 at 8:33 PM
- Amie Kaufman said...
I thought it was extraordinary -- I've been to cathedrals, churches and basilicas all over the world, but my mouth fell open when we visited La Sagrada Familia. The columns, modelled after a forest, just took my breath away. Thanks for the mini trip back!
- January 27, 2012 at 9:39 PM


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Tavares lifts Isles over Oilers
Uniondale, NY (SportsNetwork.com) - John Tavares scored the go-ahead goal late in the second period while adding an assist in the New York Islanders' 3-2 victory over the struggling Edmonton Oilers from Nassau Coliseum.
Kyle Okposo recorded a goal and an assist as well to help put the Islanders back in the win column following an 0-2-1 stretch. Josh Bailey also scored for New York and Evgeni Nabokov stopped 27-of-29 shots in the triumph.
Taylor Hall accounted for both Oilers' goals, which came a mere eight seconds apart late in the first period. Edmonton failed to generate much offensively the rest of the way, however, en route to a fifth straight defeat that dropped the young club to 1-6-1 under first-year head coach Dallas Eakins.
Devan Dubnyk finished with 37 saves for the Oilers in a losing cause.
"This is where Duby takes over and starts playing like we know he can," said Hall. "It would have been nice to get a win for him."
Hall's scoring binge staked Edmonton to a 2-1 edge after one period, but the Oilers' 30th-ranked penalty-killing unit couldn't hold the lead after Luke Gadzic was called for tripping with just under four minutes elapsed in the second.
Okposo blasted home a Matt Moulson pass a little over a minute into the power play for the equalizer, and the Islanders killed off three minor penalties following the goal to keep the contest knotted at 2-2.
"Your goalie has to be your best player on the penalty kill," said Islanders coach Jack Capuano. "They seamed us quite a few times on that PK in the second period and had a couple one-timers. [Nabokov] made some big saves for us and really that was the turning point."
Tavares sent the Islanders in front 1:07 prior to the second intermission. The New York captain skated into center ice to take in a feed from Okposo, then whipped a rising shot over Dubnyk's right shoulder for a 3-2 Islanders' advantage.
New York was able to stay ahead by controlling the action for the majority of the third period, holding the Oilers to only one shot over the first 13 minutes.
"It was good to see us come away with a pretty complete game in terms of the way we have to play and how hard we have to play," said Tavares. "Obviously, we had a couple letdowns with their goals, but we responded well."
Though Edmonton managed to produce more scoring chances in the game's latter stages, a hooking call on Justin Schultz with 1:49 left all but sealed its fate.
The Oilers were outplayed for much of the opening period as well, but still stood on top at the conclusion of the session behind 15 saves from Dubnyk and a sensational shift out of Hall.
With Edmonton down 1-0, Schultz delivered a cross-ice give to Hall that the former No. 1 overall pick buried into an open side with 4:08 to go in the period. After the Oilers moved the puck into the New York zone on the ensuing faceoff, Hall raced in from the left wing to knock in a rebound of Mark Arcobello's initial attempt.
The two goals were the fastest by one player in Oilers' history, breaking Wayne Gretzky's record of nine seconds set against St. Louis on Feb. 18, 1981.
Bailey gave the Islanders the early upper hand by one-timing a Travis Hamonic pass from the right slot midway through the first period.
Game Notes
The Islanders extended their run of non-playoff home games with at least one point to 10 dating back to last season, having gone 7-0-3 over that stretch ... Edmonton fell to 0-6-1 in its last seven road meetings with New York and hasn't won at Nassau Coliseum since Dec. 14, 1989 ... Tavares increased his point-scoring streak to six games, during which he's notched four goals and five assists ... Arcobello assisted on both Hall goals ... Six of the Islanders' seven games this season have been one-goal affairs.

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Gilbert Brown Custom & Classic Car Show 10:00 am – 4:00 pm in the field by AA. Vehicle check-in is 8:00 am – 10:00 am. Come and see all the wonderful cars! "Meet & Greet" with former Packer player Gilbert Brown and current Full Back John Kuhn. There will be raffle items and fund raising games. Don't forget to sign up for the raffle in the office of the signed Green Bay Packer Helmet! There will also be a food & beverage tent. Montello's Own Award Winning Competition BBQ Team "Bringin' the Heat" will have the food stand at the Car Show. We will have brats, hot dogs, and pulled pork, along with chips & soda or beer. All profits will be donated to the Gilbert Brown Foundation. Come on out & try some delicious BBQ! There will be a Wagon Ride Tram running between the Car Show and Campground.


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CBS Orders Reality Crime Procedural Pilot, Missing You
CBS may take its successful crime formula to the reality TV genre.
The network has ordered a pilot of Missing You, a procedural reality show in which a team of investigators tackle a missing persons case each week, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
CBS tried to develops something similar before with Mark Burnett on a show about searching for kidnapped children called Recovery. If Missing You works, it will provide a reality companion to the network's scripted crime procedurals such as CSI and The Mentalist.
Former '70s teen sensation Shaun Cassidy will act as one of the executive producers. His credits include ABC's Invasion, the CBS cult favorite American Gothic and the pilot for the ABC Family comedy Ruby and the Rockits, starring Alexa Vega and Cassidy's brothers David and Patrick Cassidy.
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Second Half Goal Leads Manhattanville to Victory
Manhattanville - 1, Farmingdale State - 0
Farmingdale, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State women's soccer team fell 1-0, to Manhattanville College this afternoon in Farmingdale, N.Y. This is the second consecutive game the Rams have lost by a score of 1-0. Farmingdale State drops to 2-2 on the season, while the Valients improve to a perfect 3-0.
In the first half, the Rams held a 9-6 shot advantage over Manhattanville, with neither team able to score. Junior forward Holly Nonis (Brampton, Ontario) scored the games only goal for Manhattanville off a pass from freshman midfielder Morgan Rebollal (Holtsville, N.Y.) 57 minutes into the contest. The Valients would hold on for the 1-0 victory.
Freshman goalkeeper Kristi Wilken (Holtsville, N.Y./Sachem East) had five saves for Farmingdale State, while junior Ali Bromson (Suffield, Conn.) made 11 saves in the shutout victory for Manhattanville.
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The University of California provides schoarships to students whose family incomes are less than $80,000 a year -- a policy that, the university claims, leaves a sizable portion of the student body with effectively free tuition.
Now the UC's flagship campus, Berkeley, is offering a better deal: a cap on the costs of attending college for "middle-class" families with annual incomes of between $80,000 and $140,000 a year.
Berkeley's promise is that parents will pay no more than 15 percent of their annual earnings to cover the total cost of a UC Berkeley student's education. That total cost "includes tuition, fees and expenses, such as room, board and books," Berkeley says.
How, you ask, is Berkeley doing that given the much-touted cuts in state support for higher education?
The short answer is that Berkeley is an exceptionally strong institution that brings in more money in private donations and other government funding than other UC campuses. That gives the university more money to do things like this tuition cap.
Berkeley also is deeply invested in maintaining its elite reputation, which requries the best students. And it's hard to get the best students when tuition and fees keep going up to cover the diminished state support.
The University of California leadership worries that top students that might have attended Berkeley or another UC campus will go elsewhere -- to private schools or public institutions out of state -- that might be able to give them a better financial deal.
Berkeley has decided it needs to stay competitive-- and has the resources to do this. The trouble is that other campuses may not be able to follow suit.
This move is an example of how the UC system, facing budget cuts and other finanical pressures, is behaving less like a system.
The cream of the UC crop -- Berkeley and UCLA -- have more resources to preserve their advantages. Berkeley's middle-class aid program is a natural response and a good one for some families. But it's also a sign of weakness in California's public higher education system.
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It's been less than a month since I've written on this blog to all of my favorite Royals' fans, but quite a bit has happened in that short amount of time. I married the love of my life at the most special and perfect wedding ever, then we headed to New York City for Broadway shows, fancy hotel and restaurants, and photo shoots that were all our gift from my favorite author, Karen Kingsbury and our new friends at MyWedding.Com. (You can read more about that unbelievable story at mywedding.com/shippmates) Then we went on our actual honeymoon to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico where among the jungles and ziplines and swimming with dolphins, I proudly sported my KC ROYALS tank top! EVERY time someone asked where we were from I proudly said, "KC, MO– home of the Kansas City ROYALS!"
We are now home for two days before heading back to The Big Apple to be on The Today Show with Karen (my crazy amazing author friend). During my pre-interview with the producer from The Today Show, they asked me about my job out at the stadium, and I was so excited to tell them about the best job in the whole world. It also reminded me that a couple of blogs ago, I promised some pictures from the amaziness that was our engagement session with Jesseca Hattey of Epaga Foto.
These pictures were especially precious and special to me, as they showcased my very favorite place with my very favorite person. Jess didn't need to remind me to smile, because I had the biggest and most ridiculous grin on my face the entire time out of sheer JOY AND EXCITEMENT that I was at MY FAVORITE PLACE WITH THE LOVE OF MY LIFE… GETTING MY PICTURE TAKEN! I mean SO MUCH WONDERFUL going on!!!
We started with some fun ones in the outfield experience and then moved to the heart and soul of all that is Royals baseball with our gorgeous stadium and field providing the perfect background for our very own field of dreams.
After being to New York, Mexico, and back to NYC– this KC girl has loved every minute of the journey, but also can't wait to get back home to KC to work my first game as Erica SHIPPY! Until then, enjoy the pictures and tune in to The Today Show on Monday (July 12) during the 9:00 hour to see Karen and I chatting it up with Kathie Lee! You better bet I'm going to take her a Royals bracelet!
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Thank God for photo blogs. And gigantic Rhode Island beach houses, intimate weekend parties and tourmates-turned-pals who are willing to share their personal lives with Taylor Swift fans. Swift invited what she calls her touring family to her new beach home to celebrate Independence Day, and from the looks of all the photos she posted on her blog , it looks like their red, white and blue party was perfect. "Oh hey guys. Happy belated 4th of July. Independence Day is one of my favorite holidays of the year. This time around, my touring family joined me at the beach, and I wanted to show you some of the pictures because you're the reason we all get to be on tour together," Swift wrote. Some of the photos look gorgeous and very art directed, and others look kind of casual and more candid. See for yourself how the group was "laying around in the sun like it's our job" and using "any holiday as an excuse for face paint" and "practicing choreography on the lawn" and playing "high intensity, low coordination volleyball." I guess there was also an epic treasure hunt, a pool tournament, fireworks and nap time. (Which, by the way, was on a white couch after the face painting, which must mean that Swift is a very laid-back hostess.) Oh, and I'm not sure this means anything, but I think Matthew Gray Gubler was there too. Gubler plays Dr. Spencer Reid on Criminal Minds. He's the one with the gun, the adorably messy hair and the eidetic memory. He and Swift recently started following each other on Twitter.


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Not his best work, but Lester gets the job done
DETROIT -- The Red Sox have leaned on Jon Lester this October and in postseasons past. Game 5 of the American League Championship Series on Thursday was no different.
Boston needed a win to avoid going back to Fenway Park trailing the series, 3-2, and facing elimination in Game 6 with the front-runner for the AL Cy Young Award, Max Scherzer, pitching for Detroit.
If the Red Sox found a way to win that one, they'd still have to go up against Justin Verlander in Game 7.
Lester wasn't dominant and didn't go as deep in the game as the Red Sox would have liked, but he was good enough, and he helped himself and his team in the process.
In the end, the Red Sox won, 4-3, and now must only win one of those two games at home to go back to the World Series for the first time in six years.
"Tonight was huge, for obvious reasons," Lester said. "Just obviously putting us up, 3-2, going home."
From the beginning, Game 5 was a grind for the left-hander.
He walked a batter and gave up two singles in the first inning, only to be bailed out when a banged-up Miguel Cabrera was thrown out at home plate on a Jhonny Peralta single to exit the threat unscathed.
Lester gave up a hit and a walk in the fourth, but got a 1-6-3 double play to end that inning.
In the fifth, he gave up two hits, including a Cabrera RBI single, to put Detroit on the board, and in the sixth, he issued a leadoff walk to Victor Martinez and a one-out Omar Infante single that chased him after 98 pitches.
But it would have been worse if not for a small piece of genius, courtesy of Lester and his glove.
With none out and Austin Jackson on first base in the fifth, former Red Sox shortstop Jose Iglesias bunted. Lester hopped off the mound to his left to field the ball, but the ball skirted around the top edge of his glove and fell back to the infield grass, rolling in front of him.
Lester didn't give up, putting his glove down on the grass again and flicking the ball with the webbing to waiting first baseman Mike Napoli. The ball stuck in the heel of Napoli's glove, and Iglesias was out by a step in a play that was sure to be replayed into Friday on the highlight shows.
"Obviously, with Iggy running, you know you don't have much time," Lester said. "For whatever reason, I decided not to open my glove up and let the ball come in and made it a little bit more difficult.
"But just all reaction right there. [I was] fortunate enough with Iggy running down the line hard, getting it to Nap just in time. That was obviously a big out in that inning. Just all reaction … lucky enough to get the guy out."
The bad news from Thursday was that Lester's 5 1/3-inning outing was the shortest start of his postseason career. The southpaw's quickest previous outing was in Game 3 of the 2008 ALCS against Tampa Bay, when he lasted 5 2/3 innings in a game the Red Sox and he lost, 9-1.
The good news on Thursday was that the bad news didn't matter.
Boston's bullpen did the job, preserving Lester's win, and he is now 10-1 with a 2.72 ERA this year (regular season and postseason) in 14 starts following a Red Sox loss.
He's also set up perfectly to start Game 1 of the World Series, should the Red Sox advance. He'd have five days of rest for the Fall Classic, which begins next Wednesday on FOX.
And this: If the Red Sox can win Game 6 or 7, it will start in Boston.
"He's a horse," catcher David Ross said of Lester. "The guy knows what he's doing. He competes his tail off.
"That's what we have in here -- a lot of guys who compete their tails off."


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The Rockport Art Association held its annual Christmas Nativity Pageant on Saturday afternoon. It was the pageant's 62nd anniversary. The pageant brings the story of Jesus' birth to life in a procession through downtown Rockport. The procession makes its way from Dock Square up Main Street, with torchbearers bringing light to the cold winter evening.
The Rockport Art Association held its annual Christmas Nativity Pageant on Saturday afternoon. It was the pageant's 62nd anniversary.
The pageant brings the story of Jesus' birth to life in a procession through downtown Rockport. The procession makes its way from Dock Square up Main Street, with torchbearers bringing light to the cold winter evening.
The pageant winds up at the lawn of the Congregational Church, where the Nativity is re-enacted.
While the pageant's long tradition has many families taking part year after year, the one role that is kept a secret is Mary. Each year a different young woman is chosen, and her identity is not revealed until the start of the pageant. This year, Mary was played by Kayleigh Keating.
It takes more than a hundred people to pull together the pageant. Here is a list of those involved:Directing personnel Director: Ann Fisk Assistant Director: Carol Delaney Assistant Director: Denise Attwood Wardrobe Mistress: Linda Hogan Makeup Director: Mary York Properties: Barbara Brewer Lighting: Bruce Rowell and Kirk Keating, Bayside Electric Special Assistant: Jay Smith Traffic Director: Brad Bigelow Choir Director: Mark Nelson
Cast Director: Stephanie SmithCredits
Pageant Choir — Director, Mark Nelson, St. John's Episcopal ChurchRockport Chamber Music Festival — Sound Headquarters Pewter Shop — Antique Urns Sound Equipment — John Bevilacqua, Essex Radio Manger — George Hobbs
Donkeys — Provided by Julia Lake; Lilly, Ruby and Birch Lake, handlers
Sheep — Provided and handled by the Miller family2007 Pageant Cast Narrator: Michael Costello Joseph: Jim Koerth Mary: Kayleigh Keating Innkeeper: William Waller Innkeeper's Daughter: Debbie Clapp Walter Kings: David Delaney, David Rash, John Harvey Roman Soldiers: T.M. Nicholas, John Walter, Bill Brundage
Torch Bearers: Jay Smith, Peter Anderson, Dan Brundage, John Coonley, Brennain Delaney, Aaron Douyard, John Dunn, Jared Dunn, Jason Koerth, Jonathan Meringer, Nathaniel Meringer, Ryan Mueller, Matt Rose, Ben Smith, Sam SmithBellringers: Bill And Michelle Elwell
Dove Children: Cally Tibert, Herbie Lawrence, Sarah Murphy, Katherine Nicholas
Shepherds: Ethan Anderson, Quinn Andersen, Luke Andersen, A.J. Bloomingdale, Jim Doyle, Frank Evans, Tim Giarrosso, Alan MacMillan, Paul Murphy, Kyle Nelson, Jamie Ouellette, James Parisi, James Rash, Thomas Rash, Paul Seavey, Matt Tibert, Bobbie Tibert, Caden Tibert, Daniel Turner, Andrew Vanderpool, Julian Waller.
Shepherdesses: May Andersen, Molly Bloomingdale, Molly Bullard, Stephanie Dixon, Jessica Dunn, Mariah Dunn, Molly Fiumara, Emily Fritz, Colleen Hansbury, Kayleigh Keating, Melanie Koerth, Pamela Lawrence, Heather Lyon, Sasha Miller, Miranda Nelson, Jacqueline Nicholas, Victoria Nicholas, Alexandra Nicholas, Emma Oullette, Alexandra Paradis, Julia Seavey, Olivia Smith, Renee Waller, Emily Walter, Megan Welcome, Taylor Wendt
Ladies of Bethlehem: Barbara Brewer (lead), Susan Andersen, Jane Beauvais, Charlotte Clemens, Peggy Coonley, Jessica Delaney, Carol Delaney, Mary Douyard, Rachael Douyard, Laura Evans, Kaethe Flynn, Aubree Giarrosso, Tess Giarrosso, Paula Gray, Susie Green, Wendy Hansbury, Maureen Henderson, Karen Koerth, Laura Nicholas, Sandy Prille (Waller), Anna Rash, Rose Rash, Stephanie Smith, Kim Tibert, Lillian Welcome, Joan Wendt
Children of Bethlehem: Masso Beauvais, Cara Burley, Alissa Castro, Micaela Coonley, Paris Flynn, Shaun Flynn, Jack Fritz, Tony Green, Gretchen Greene, Brin Hansbury, Jessica Kessler, Conor Kuykendal, Michael McCarthy, Colleen Murphy, Kayla Parisi, Lisandro Ramirez, Molly Twombley, Lucy Twombley, Robbie Welcome
Wardrobe: Linda Hogan, wardrobe mistress; Sue Andersen, Kris Carlson, Charlotte Clemens, Andrea Dunn, Kaethe Flynn, Pamela Fox, Terri Krause, Phyllis Krenn, Judy Mallozz, Christine Pitman, Roseann Rash
Makeup: Mary York, director; Tim Giarrosso, Laurie Nugent, Magee Giarrosso, Aubree Giarrosso, Tess Giarrosso, Susie Green, Hannah York, Hillary York
Traffic: Brad Bigelow, director; Richards Clemens, Larry Connolly, Bob Krause, Richard Poore, Ted Tarr.


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Florida gets good marks for getting kids into Pre-K and Kindergarten classes, but only seven in ten students in the class of 2009 successfully graduated. That gives Florida a ranking of 37th. State education leaders are praising the progress
"We've moved up and from eleventh place to sixth place. From a "C" plus last year to a "B" minus this year," said K-12 Chancellor Pam Stewart.
But they acknowledge more work needs to be done.
"We're never satisfied. We're always moving forward," said Stewart.
Florida got high marks for closing the gap on math scores for the poverty disadvantaged but overall achievement gains got just a "C" minus, and it was AP or advanced class performance that saved the state from a worse ranking.
Florida got two A's in the report. The first was for doing a good job getting kids into Pre-K, and kindergarten and then the second "A" was nonacademic it was how well the state measures student progress.
When it comes to funding, Florida got a "D" plus, ranking 39th in the nation.
Mark Pudlow of the Florida Education Association says despite bright spots, parents want to see more resources devoted to the classroom. "We've got good teachers. We have to pay them well. We have to provide more in the classroom instead of cutting budgets like we've been doing for the last five years."
Florida Teachers also got high marks, ranking 4th in the nation, earning a "B". Nationally, the teaching profession earned just a "C".
Florida ranked fifth in 2011, but fell out of the top ten after the state cut one point three billion from school spending. Officials are quick to point out the rankings are always changing because Florida is measured against progress being made by other states.


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Today I want to encourage you all to go out to register to vote as well as visit your local polling station. So here are 5 reasons why you should vote....
It's worth it.
The Youth Vote is underused
If you don't vote nothing will change
Think of the future
Your voice will be heard
You can register to vote right up till the 20th April (which is also my birthday!) at this link https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote


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Students are getting a shot at the small screen as a local college is the scene of a new TV show's pilot episode.
Production crews have set up at Ursinus College this weekend to shoot the show's first episode, according to The Mercury.
The show has the working title "How to Get Away With Murder."
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Stories that affect your life across the U.S. and around the world.
Shonda Rhimes, best known for the television series "Grey's Anatomy," "Scandal" and "Private Practice," will be producing the new show, says the Mercury.
Two-time Academy Award nominee and The Help actress Viola Davis stars in the new show as a professor. Her students become entangled in a murder plot, according to a press release from the Ursinus College. Matt McGrorry of Orange is the New Black is also casted.
Buzz has exploded all over campus as some of the students have been selected as extras.
One of the student extras is Marquis Wilson, who is part of the 2015 class at Ursinus College and is studying media, communications and theater.
"This is a possible resume builder for me. I can say I've been in this environment, worked in this environment," Wilson said. "Because this is something I want to do, something I want to take hold of and see how far I can venture."
Students were given the information about the show via email and had to reply in order to be an extra. About 50-100 students were selected, said Wilson.
Being on the set around the stars may sound like fun, but Wilson says you also must follow direction, be ready to be active, and utilize the acting skills you have.
"You want to engage it at a high level; you can't be too good for a supporting role or being an extra," said Wilson. "Anything in this business is an opportunity."
While the set is closed to the public, the film crew will be visible on the campus today and tomorrow.


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You'd think that after all these years, I'd be smarter than to base my judgment on "facts" as they are laid out in a lawsuit complaint. After all, they are written by lawyers serving as advocates for their clients. I guess I've just gotten used to the filings being the only thing to go on, as parties to a legal action are usually constrained from giving interviews. Also, the case laid out in the complaint usually does put the plaintiffs in the best light possible—or even imaginable.
I'm referring here to the case of Jeffrey and Kim Camarda, the CFPs who have recently made news by filing a lawsuit against the CFP Board for unfairly sanctioning them over their use of "fee-only" in reference to their firm, Camarda Wealth Advisory (see my Oct. 2 ThinkAdvisor blog).
Jeff and Kim Camarda were kind enough to talk with me about their situation and the details leading up to their taking legal action (with permission of their attorney, Tom Giachetti). The couple was just as open and smart and personable as I've found most independent advisors to be. They gave me a new perspective on their case—and new questions about the CFP Board's handling of the entire affair.
My initial curiosity was about the Camardas' two firms—an RIA and an insurance agency—and the relationship between them. To my mind, this would get at the heart of whether they were "related parties," potentially disqualifying the couple from describing themselves as "fee only."
Here's the deal.
The Camardas do, in fact, own an RIA and a commission-charging insurance agency. However, it's not as if they are two sides to the same business. Camarda Wealth Advisors (the RIA) was founded in 1993, and has been fee-only since 2002. The agency—Camarda Consultants—was launched in 2009, with the goal of marketing group benefits and 401(k)s to local businesses. But Camarda Consultants hasn't gotten off the ground: generating "around $5,000 or so in commssion revenues a year and hasn't yet turned a profit," Jeff Camarda explained. "Of the 800 or so clients in the RIA, maybe 3 get insurance through Camarda Consultants: at their request and with full written disclosure that they will not be covered by the same fiduciary standard as they are with the RIA."
In addition, the Camardas were NAFPA members until they opened their insurance agency. "We knew it might be an issue," said Jeff. "So, we had a conversation with Ellen Turf [then, CEO of NAPFA] about their standards, and decided we should resign from the organization, which we did. The CFP Board's standards for 'fee-only,' however, were different than NAPFA's, and the way we and our attorney read them, and still do, we still fell under their definition."
The definition that Jeff is referring to is a bit confusing (at least to my old brain), in that it was changed in June 2008, when the Board issued a "Side by Side Comparison of Previous and Current Standards of Professional Conduct." In the "Terminology" section, the "previous" definition reads like this:
"'Fee-only' denotes a method of compensation in which compensation is received solely from a client with neither the personal financial planning practitioner nor any related party receiving compensation which is contingent upon the purchase or sale of any financial product…"
While the current definition was changed to: "A certificant may describe his or her practice as 'fee-only' if, and only if, all of the certificant's compensation from all of his or her client work comes exclusively from the clients in the form of fixed, flat, hourly, percentage or performance-based fees."
In the case of the Camardas, neither of them worked in the insurance agency, and therefore, neither had any commission compensation from their "client work." With the reference to "related parties" removed from the definition, it looks as if Jeff Camarda may well be right.
What's more, the same Terminology section of the Board's comparison shows the new definition of "Compensation" to be: "any non-trivial economic benefit, whether monetary or non-monetary, that a certificant or related party receives or is entitled to receive for providing professional activities." The $5,000 or so from the insurance agency compared to the $4 million or so in annual RIA revenues seems pretty trivial to me.
As the Camarda suit documents state, after they initially talked with representatives from the CFP Board about the "fee-only" investigation, the Camardas voluntarily changed their website and marketing materials to refer to Camarda Wealth Advisors as "fee-based." However, when the Board announced its intention to go forward with a public sanction, the Camardas filed suit.
"Our only intent has been to comply with the CFP Board's rules," said Jeff Camarda. "We had legal advice telling us we were in compliance, and when the Board said we weren't, we changed our description. The only reason we brought up Alan Goldfarb and the other Board members was to point out that their own officers didn't understand their definition of 'fee-only.' Just help us understand the rules, and we'll comply. Now the Board's offering amnesty to brokers who didn't comply, but they still want to publicly sanction us? It doesn't make sense."
No, Jeff and Kim, it really doesn't.
Don't get me wrong: I still agree with the spirit of the CFP Board's standard on fee-only. That is, I agree with the old standard, which barred ownership in related commission-taking parties. I agree that it's in the best interest of clients that the use of the term "fee-only" be monitored and enforced.
With that said, the way to handle CFPs who are trying to comply with what are clearly complex—and changing—rules is not to jump right to the nuclear option of public sanction. And if they are now in compliance, as the Camardas seem to be, who's being served by pressing ahead with any action?


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Cleveland case brings hope to those searching for Alexis Patterson
The news from Cleveland of three missing women who escaped after a decade of imprisonment has renewed the hopes of those who continue to search for Milwaukee's Alexis Patterson.
Friends and neighbors gathered Friday for Alexis, who has been missing for the past 11 years. She would be 18 years old.
"It just gives you hope, and it gives you hope that Alexis might be alive and well," Pastor Sean Brewster said.
Brewster led the Friday prayer vigil, and it was there that Alexis' mother, Ayanna Patterson, told WISN 12 News something that would sound almost prophetic just a few days later.
"When I look at TV and see that there are other parents that have lost children and their children pop back up 10-15 years later that gives me more strength, more faith, more hope than anything," Patterson said.
Patterson couldn't be reached Tuesday, but Chris Schwartz, who has volunteered in the search for Alexis for years told WISN 12 News the Ohio case makes him believe that if it can happen there, it could happen here, or anywhere.
"When you hear this, it just brings awareness to everyone that there are these missing kids out there, that can be gone 10 years, and you can wake up one day and find them," Schwartz said.
Though the cases are not connected, the discovery of the missing women in Ohio is, in itself, a cause for celebration among those searching for another missing person.
"I'm just so happy that the people are safe, and that they're well, and that we can hear many, many more stories like this. And this is what we're hoping for Alexis Patterson," Brewster said.
The pastor and his church have held a vigil each year on the anniversary of Alexis' disappearance, and he said the Ohio case strengthens his commitment to never stop searching for her.
To see a list of Wisconsin missing and exploited children, visit the state Department of Justice's website at http://wimissingpersons.doj.wi.gov/.
According to the Wisconsin DOJ, 1,343 people are missing in Wisconsin. That breaks down to 925 children 17 years old and younger and 418 adults, ages 18 and older.


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When Meredith Crawford and her husband Michael came back to New Zealand in 2008 they planned to extend and renovate a home they already owned on Auckland's Northcote Pt.
After 10 years in Sydney they returned home for the laid-back lifestyle, more suited to raising their daughters Mia, now 7, and Lucie, 5.
They worked on plans to upgrade their Northcote Pt home for two years - but then another home, in a neighbouring suburb, came on the market.
This home was big enough for the family and it made sense with two young children to buy something more suitable rather than embark on a major renovation.
Well, that's how it seemed to her accountant husband, although Crawford took some convincing. Eventually, she saw the merits of moving to the other house - and it was hard to ignore the panoramic views overlooking the water and right round to the harbour bridge. Now, if she has to go into the city and wants to check the traffic, she heads upstairs to the main bedroom to see if there is a queue on the bridge.
Crawford also liked the idea of buying a home that was essentially a blank canvas with all the hard work finished.
"All the structural work had been done," she says. "I liked how neutral it was, and that it was a place we could really put our stamp on. I loved the layout and the view. And although I'd first walked in determined not to like it, all that began to change."
What she began to realise was that the home could become the perfect place for her daughters to grow up in. As someone who loves trawling through blogs, magazines and thrift stores for decorating ideas, Crawford was in heaven when they moved into and began decorating the bigger house.
"We went from a tiny little bungalow to a place that was double the size."
But that didn't mean she charged in headlong in a bid to fill the space. Her overall plan was to create a glamorous look, albeit in a family-friendly fashion. That meant softening the bold black and white colour scheme she employed with splashes of colour.
She still has other plans, too, including a wallpapered wall and perhaps a few more splashes of bold colour. "I like the idea of layering a house, continuing to add texture and interest."
Style tips
Square deal: Crawford bought cheap white storage cubes and pasted vibrant paper inside to make them more colourful and sophisticated.
Paper feature: when she went on maternity leave, colleagues gave her some Florence Broadhurst wallpaper that she has used on bedhead panels in the main bedroom.
Board games: a blackboard in the kitchen provides a graphic element and also serves as a way to keep track of family activities.


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This question was just raised by a colleague (who shall for the moment remain anonymous). It may or may not have a reasonable answer.
For which finite nonabelian groups $G$ do all irreducible complex characters of degree $>1$ have at most one strictly positive real value (namely the degree)?
One small example is the alternating group $A_4$. This could be viewed as a sort of degenerate Chevalley group, whose Steinberg character of degree $3$ has other values $-1, 0, 0$. But for most finite groups of Lie type over a finite field of order $q$, the Steinberg character of degree a power of $q$ will take on more than one positive integral value. While an enumeration of finite groups having the stated property may well be out of reach, it would be of interest to know:
Are there infinitely many groups $G$ with the special property stated above?


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An off-duty Tullytown, Pa., police officer stopped for a midnight snack at a New Falls Road Burger King Monday, only to discover marijuana was on the menu.
Officer Shawn McClister ordered his meal at the fast-food restaurant's drive-through and drove around to the window to pick up his food. The 32-year-old Burger King employee at the window asked McClister if he had any alcohol he could give him.
"What?" the policeman responded. Taharka Johnson repeated the question, saying that he was willing to exchange weed for alcohol, reports the Intelligencer.
Redefining the term "burger joint," Johnson went and got his stash while another worker handed McClister his food. Johnson returned with a black bag and a clear dime bag of "green vegetable matter."
McClister rotated his knit hat to display the words "Tullytown Police" and said, "That's not a smart idea, now is it?" reports the Intelligencer.
McClister drove away with his original order and returned soon after with an on-duty Falls police officer
Police arrested Johnson on charges of drug possession with intent to deliver, as well as drug paraphernalia charges, after they found the black bag with several dime bags inside it in a trash can.
Johnson should have known better. People get the munchies after smoking weed, buddy, not before.
Johnson was sent to Bucks County Prison on $50,000 bail.
Would You Like Weed With Those Fries, Officer?
Fast-food worker redefines "burger joint," offers pot to off-duty cop at drive-thru
An off-duty Tullytown, Pa., police officer stopped for a midnight snack at a New Falls Road Burger King Monday, only to discover marijuana was on the menu.


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The Mystical Relation of Hair & Ice Cream
Why should hair be so inextricably tied to my emotions, I don't know – but it is a fact that a good haircut can uplift me for a week, while a terrible one has left me in tears more than once.
And the reaction is instant. Serve me a bad meal and I can somehow suffer through it, making appreciative noises as I go. Take me out on the mother of all disaster dates and I will still thank you for a lovely evening and promise to keep in touch. I am the master of the easy let-down. But cut my hair (hell, just style it) in a way I don't approve, and my reaction to it is completely physical. My face gets red, my throat chokes up, tears flood my eyes, I start breathing heavily – all symptoms, in fact, of my primitive rage. It's always been this way, too.
When I was seven, for instance, my mother persuaded me to get a "smart crop". Unfortunately, this turned out to be code for what you might recognize today as the Stereotypical Lesbian Crop. Imagine a really butch woman without access to a talented hairstylist. Back when I was a kid, it was the basic Modern Indian Working Woman Haircut. Short and extremely unfussy, you could probably come out looking freshly barbered on the other side of a tornado. The only people who ever complimented me on the results of that disastrous trip to the salon were my mother, the nice Chinese lady who'd followed my mother's instructions against her better judgment, and a teacher of mine who sported that exact same boxy cut. Call me a diva but I did not appreciate looking like a middle aged schoolteacher whilst still in the second grade. I ended up throwing a temper tantrum in the middle of the salon, whereupon my mother promptly ordered an emergency pedicure for herself and banished me to the reception area where I spent the next fortyfive minutes cooling my heels, seething in fury, and frightening the rest of the clientele with my panting rage while tugging fiercely at my hair in an effort to make it come out of my head a little faster.
Before you think I was some kind of special needs child – the alarmed receptionist definitely thought so – I should say that I already knew that particular effort wasn't going to work. It was just another example of my once-ungovernable temper driving me to do things that were the outside of stupid.
But the roots of my hair-related rage go back a long way. It all started, I suppose, when my grandfather decided the time had come to get the baby fluff shaved off my head. I rewarded him by screaming like a banshee – pressing every nerve ending you possibly could in a manic depressive, I imagine. I was brought back home posthaste, victoriously bearing a full head of hair. It grew and grew, curling into loose ringlets that charmed my mother so much, she forgot I was a baby and not her doll. I was, therefore, within sight of knocking on three before she decided to get my hair cut.
I don't know why she stuck my dad with the job though. Maybe she felt it would be a waste of money to take me with her to the ladies salon where they had things like proper lighting? Or she saw what I'd done to her poor father and just didn't want to deal with the hassle? Maybe my dad offered like the responsible parent he is? Who knows! But I ended up accompanying my dad to the barbershop he frequented. My first memory of getting a haircut is of a smiling man with a neat beard and Daddy sitting next to me, telling me Not. To. Move. An. Inch. To this day, I can't relax and get all chatty with a hairstylist because my entire brain is hardwired with my father's voice telling me Not. To. Move. An. Inch. And so I won't by God!
At the end of this tense period, where I would sit scarcely daring to breathe while Daddy sat next to me and ostensibly studied me carefully to make sure I was Not Moving An Inch (I couldn't really tell because I couldn't see with all the hair in my face), we'd go for a treat.
Our routine was always the same. First came the haircut. Next came the ice cream. In my memory, the barbershop is a sort of antiseptic pale green-blue; the color of a government office. The ice cream shop, on the other hand, resembles an Old West Saloon, complete with wood paneling and rustic furniture as well as a noisy air conditioner. This can't possibly be true since nobody else remembers my description of it and I think it highly unlikely that someone would go to the trouble of building a secret Old West Saloon for Ice Cream in deepest, southiest South India for my benefit alone. The reasonable explanation is that it somehow got jumbled up with a scene from one of those Westerns my brother was addicted to, but reasonability's a party pooper so who cares what it has to say?
As I was saying… my father used to take me to an ice cream parlor that resembled an Old West Saloon. And for some reason this was behind the main taxi stand. Because that is a perfectly logical place to build an eatery. Vanilla with carbon monoxide topping. Mmm-mm-mmmmmm!
I remember the inside of this fine establishment as a crowded and rather dingy place, which means it must have been tiny indeed given my toddler's perspective. I'm sad to say it did not survive the years and thus I have no adult contrast to offer. I'm also pretty sure it smelled like milk in there. I'm going to think of that as a positive. Anyway, as soon as we got in the door, Daddy would head straight for the glass counter and ask me for my preference.
I was three; my nose barely reached the part where the metal ended and the glass began. I couldn't see a thing but I did enjoy breathing on the tiny bit of cool glass that my face could reach, and looking thoughtful. Eventually, I would place my order: strawberry. And Daddy would place his: vanilla. If he was feeling adventurous, he would switch it up to chocolate but I think that only happened once or something.
I don't even know how we decided I was a strawberry aficionado. For all I know, my dad marched in there and growled, "What do little girls like to eat?" At which point the terrified man behind the counter probably said, "Strawberry!" because it was all pink and girly and he was afraid to say he didn't know. Voila! I liked strawberry. And since it never occurred to Daddy to pick me up and show me the various options, I didn't even know there were more than three flavors of ice cream until I was about five, which is when I learned about the glories of the mighty pistachio.
That was the summer my second cousin came back from the United States and opened a fancy parlor that both manufactured and sold ice cream that you could order and consume curbside in the luxury of your very own car! My auntie took me there one night and introduced me to my first falooda. And my life was never the same again.
But that is to fast forward. Back in our Old West Ice Cream Parlor, we were being served ice cream. Not scoops or scones, but slabs of it. There's a small part of me that still thinks of waffle cones as exotic because my lizard brain thinks ice cream is naturally served as slabs on cheap white porcelain plates. Good times.
We would sit there solemnly consuming our ice cream, until Daddy had scraped his plate clean and I was still sitting there with half of mine on my plate. My mother was bringing me up to share so I always asked him if he'd like some of mine. My father, meanwhile, was bringing me up to not share eatables with him so he always refused. He would then sit in silence, watching me make heroic attempts to finish the entire plate before taking pity on me when I was about three-quarters through and proposing we leave.
It was powerful magic, for an undemonstrative man and his willful daughter. And like all magic, it was contained to that moment in time. For years afterwards, as soon as I graduated to the big girls' fancy salon, I couldn't stand the taste of strawberry ice cream. I would go out of my way to avoid it. Every mouthful tasted like melted plastic mixed with sugar and a slightly sour aftertaste that reminded me of spoiled milk. It wasn't that I didn't like it. I was disgusted by it. Even today, when I've made my peace with it, it still wouldn't crack my top twenty flavors. I'd sooner eat blackcurrant.
These days, I tell my dad he should get a pedicure and take him out for coffee. That is our thing now – I push him to try and move an inch while he lets me order unfamiliar items off the menu. It's a different kind of magic but one thing remains the same: we have a standing date anytime either one of us cuts our hair.
Banno Outtakes
If you're a regular reader of this blog, you
- are wondering what the hell happened to it
- know friend-of-the-blog Banno from Banno, Dhanno and Teja in Bumm-Bumm-Bhole-Land
And while you'll have to keep wondering about the blog for a little longer, I'm happy to share that I interviewed Banno for Women's Web and we discussed things like how awesome she is and how difficult it is to be an indie filmmaker in India. No, seriously, check it out! And once you've read it, come back to read the outtakes.
Yes, of course there are outtakes! The interview was done in my usual expansive style, after all. I have been away a long time if you can't remember how I like to go on and on.
Thanks, Banno!
Amrita: Let's talk about India Reborn.
Batul: India Reborn was a series for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. One of the episodes was on the Indian economy, and I worked on that as the Indian producer. An international documentary crew is typically very small, a director, a cameraman, a sound recordist, and a local producer like me. This one had a producer their end as well. My job usually is to help with finding stories, research, interviews, apart from the logistical co-ordination. I loved this job because after a long time, I worked with people who were still old-school journalists, we travelled through the country, and I learned so much about the Indian economy.
Amrita: I know from your blog that one of your British documentaries affected you deeply on a personal level.
Batul: The Slumdog Children of Mumbai came in the wake of Slumdog Millionaire's success. It was part of a year-long programming by Channel 4, UK. This was one of those jobs where we worked for long months, also the only job I did which was entirely during the monsoons. We had the tiniest crew: Nick Read, who was the producer, director, cameraman and sound recordist and me, working as an associate producer, conducting the interviews, etc.
It was physically grueling, the combination of rains and slums made things very, very difficult to bear at times, and I did come out of this experience traumatized.
Amrita: Any war stories?
Batul: I think the day I landed in Bhuj after the earthquake on Day 2, is the single most devastating day of my professional career. The dead bodies, the smell, the destruction of the entire city, people's homes, and in the midst of it all trying to get a story. At that time, I was working as an associate for a cameraman who was shooting the International Rescue Corps.
I learned the gruesomeness of news in that one day, and in many ways, my own docu-feature 150 Seconds Ago was a back answer to that.
Amrita: Tell me about that experience.
Batul: 150 Seconds Ago was based on the lives of a few people in Bhuj, over the span of a year after the earthquake there in 2001. The people I followed included a rickshaw-wala, the erstwhile Maharajah of Bhuj, a doctor, a school teacher, and so on. It was very observational and exploratory, with no fixed narrative. The film travelled to many prestigious festivals including the Cinema du Reel, Paris, and the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Japan. The Yamagata Festival curators then included the film in their traveling festival package and showed it around Japan for a year.
9 Things to Do When Frustrated
9. Drink.
Alcohol might not be the answer but it's the best time you'll ever have failing. Unless drink turns you into a raging asshole, there's nothing like a stiff drink to make you feel better. And if it all goes wrong and you wake up next morning with a horrible hangover and no magical solution to your troubles… well, now instead of feeling vaguely nauseated with a hole in the pit of your stomach, you're actually throwing up your stomach! Progress!
8. Yell.
This is very easy if you've been drinking. But even without the benefit of strong drink, a good scream lets the universe know what you're going through. Find a pillow first if you have neighbors. Be considerate.
7. Sex.
Go ahead. It'll probably be the worst sex of your life because you're spending all your time thinking about your problems but if you try hard enough, you might be too tired to do anything about it other than sleep on it. That's good.
6. Bite.
Really hard. There must be some secret hormone release mechanism in the nerve endings in your teeth because biting feels so incredibly good. You can just feel the aggression flow out through your molars. And unlike punching something, you don't end up with bruises on your fists or a police report and a free psychiatric evaluation by your nearest state-owned mental hospital. Just make sure its not a human being or a small animal or something because… well, no need to go full psychopath. Yet.
5. Run.
For your life, I mean. Pack your essentials, buy a ticket out of town and get the hell out. Let someone else pick up the mess. It worked with your mother, why can't it work now? Sigh. Dreams are free, right?
4. Shop.
If you can't actually afford to buy something, then hit up a large department store and window shop. What goes on in that dressing room as you try on clothes that you have no means or intention of buying is nobody's business but your own.
3. Exercise.
So running away is not for you. Well, try some running but this time make it all about your health. By the time you work out all the fat and pound out your temper, you'll be red, sweaty, and in the best shape of your life. You might even fit into your aspirational pair of jeans! If nothing else, this lets you take out that forbidden, half-melted credit card for a round of cute exercise gear.
2. Eat.
So you'll get fat off your steady diet of Hagen Daz milkshakes, but so what? It'll make you feel better and you can work it off with some more of that rabid exercising or gratuitous sex you've already tried and discarded.
1. Blog.
When in doubt and all else fails…
…or When Bad Ideas Happen to Good Intentions.
I've always wondered if the "you can do it all" theory, the Superwoman tag, was geared toward men just as much as women. On the one hand, you praise the woman and tell her that she can handle doing everything on her own without any help because she's awesome like that. And on the other, you pacify her husband that she won't leave him holding the diapers and cooking pot while she's off being awesome outside the home.
And of course, there are women who can do it all. There are even men who do it all – there are so many kids from single family homes these days and more than a few of them are headed by a single father.
The question is whether that's the ideal to which you should be raising a family in this day and age. What's the kid going to grow up thinking – "My mom works and cooks and cleans and dances and sings and is nice to all the birdies in the sky. My dad… um… he drinks tea and goes to work." Way to be a hero to your kid.
What really struck me about that Star Plus anthem is that the dad did absolutely fuck all around the house other than flirt with his wife and help his family put up a few decorations which apparently tuckered him out so he fell asleep along with the senior citizens and the little child. Meanwhile, his wife:
wakes up at the crack of dawn, salwar kameez-and-dupatta in place, to fix her adorable toddler a school lunch, before bullying her mother-in-law into sticking with her vocal exercises and her father-in-law his diet. She makes out with her amorous husband in the bathroom, hangs out with a senior citizen, circles around to blow her husband a goodbye kiss on his way to the office, and then jogs in friendly fashion around her neighborhood.
A round of socializing with the family, friends and random passersby is interspersed by her communing with nature. Next comes a dance class at home and flying kites with her devoted family and helping out with the household chores. She ventures out in between to direct traffic and beat off villainous-looking political types trying to plaster the walls of her home with illegal posters. Afterwards, she heads off to anchor a TV show where she works overtime like a good employee even if it means she's late to her own birthday party. But that's all right, because she makes up for it by rousing her family and showing them a jolly good time before cuddling on the rooftop with her husband and stargazing late into the night. When the sun comes up, we are left to assume, the cycle begins all over again.
I ask you again: when does this paragon go potty? I'm sorry to be so fixated on the petty details but I'm told that's where God likes to reside.
Seriously, it's men who should be offended.
Breaking Radio Silence
Surprise! Thought I'd forgotten all about you lot, didn't you? Not at all! I've just been going quietly crazy trying to get my life back on track. Which is not going well, thanks for asking. So I'm still stuck in limbo and the hiatus stretches on.
I know, I know. Boo, Me.
But! I have been mucking around here and there on the internet and perhaps you would like to read those efforts? My chat about Dhobi Ghat with friend Filmiholic, for instance!
Warning: it is very, very spoilery as befits a movie that has been out for a month.
Amrita: Also, this is proof positive that more women need to make movies. The way the camera followed the actors, especially the male ones, was significantly different from how a male director would have presented them. For example, there's that scene in which Prateik is standing under the glow of a naked lightbulb and he's all sweaty in these gross surroundings, and they shoot him in profile – it's a shot I've seen in so many arthouse movies made in India before: "sweaty poor person in grotty urban shack". I think people like Om Puri spent the entire 80s doing shots like those. But this time, there was a certain vulnerability and sexiness to that shot. We weren't just watching a character, we were also being presented with the maleness of that character in a way. Obviously this has to do with Prateik being a hottie but even so… What do you think?Filmiholic: And he (Munna) was so guileless. I remember being really touched and impressed by Prateik in Jaane Tu… so I had good expectations for him here, but he so exceeded them. Yes, agreed, he is indeed a hottie. But the way in this role he was also vulnerable, and a stand-up guy, and unaware of the effect his smoking hotness was having on people around him. Like when he does that shirtless pose when Shai's photographing him,Amrita: Yes! Great scene!Filmiholic: I really just took that as him aping what he's seen filmi guys do, not him thinking "I'm too sexy for my shirt" And by the way it just occurs to me now, but three cheers for how the wardrobe people got his clothes right. When watching those Saturday morning desi entertainment shows here in the US, whenever I see them interviewing Bombay guys exiting cinemas to ask them about X or Y film they just saw, even if you can tell the dude may not have a stack of money in his wallet, 9 times out of 10 he'll be wearing a somewhat flash, fashion-forward shirt, and probably with some accessories, and I've even observed this just being in the city – Mumbai guys often have quite a particular style and daring and a bit of the peacock about then, and I don't observe the same in Madras when I'm there, no offense intended to the lovely men of Tamil Nadu, who have their own different vibe going on.
On Hiatus
Right, my lovelies! Time to make things official instead of wishy-washying around hoping Santa can bring me an extra allowance of time.
The bastard real-world insists on intruding so I'm taking January off to handle a few things in my life that will hopefully bring me back to blog anew in February. See you all then!
In the meantime, do (continue to) check out the fine people on my blogroll to the right and join Beth & myself at Masala Zindabad, which will keep publishing our impressive backlog of podcasts. Don't forget to send us your story about Going to the Movies.
Happy New Year!


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On October 22, New York's best-dressed dogs came to the 21st Annual Tompkins Square Halloween Dog Parade, held in the park's dog run.
Ubaldo came wearing the neon green "mankini" thong made famous in the movie Borat. He debuted this outfit earlier in the year at the New York City Dachshund Meetup Group pageant. That event requires each dog have three changes of costume. This was his swimwear entry. "His coloring is just so perfect for Borat," said Alyson Nehran, the international flight attendant who sewed the outfit herself. "Last year, he was a Coney Island bather. This year, I wanted to do something really design intensive so that I could play with the concept."
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Amazing Grace, a Chihuahua, won a prize for her hat—a dog-sized replica of the one warn by Princess Beatrice at the Royal Wedding. It was designed by Anthony Rubio, a school teacher in the Bronx who moonlights as a costume designer. Said Grace's owner, physical trainer Summer Strand: "He's the Alexander McQueen of dog fashion."
Bailey is a five-year-old Puggle-cum-panda. He wasn't sure how he felt about this fact—his jacket-costume looked a little like the bear was eating him. "But I think he likes it—I mean, all his friends are doing it," said his owner, Jon Zanoff. In previous years, Zanoff has dressed his dog as a hot dog and as a piglet. His friend said the panda was appropriate because it is the logo of an app Zanoff developed that lets people review bars. "You can rate how hot people are," she said. Dogs don't get rated.
Rosie, a 9-month-old Pit Bull, wore a pink child's dress and a belt of spikes around her middle. Her 6-year-old owner, Isa, said she was supposed to be a punk rock princess. "It's because she is a princess. She sleeps on the couch!" she said. Isa's mom, Masha Schmidt, said that Rosie indeed has a punk side, too: "She likes to eat my makeup."
Liz Mulgrew's Bella, a Cairn Terrier, also came as a punk rocker. She wore a pale blue shirt emblazoned with a skull and crossbones. It's part of Martha Stewart's dog clothing line. Her face hair was spiked all around, like a starfruit. Mulgrew didn't use any product. "Her hair is pretty moldable," she said. "It's easy to get it to go like that. But she usually wears it down."
Holly, a Pomeranian, was the Hamburglar, a McDonaldland character. "She has this little mask around her eyes naturally, so she just needed the striped suit," said Holly's companion, Stephanie Radvan. Radvan got the convict dog outfit online. "But I wanted her to be a prisoner with some kind of flair," so she pinned McDonald's burger wrappers on Holly's sides. "I went out and bought four burgers this morning. They're still at home."
"It's his name, so he always wears this costume," said Kendra Shea, of her dog Yoda, who was Yoda. His sister, also a Pug, came as Leia. She wore an impressive homemade headband glued with yarn to look like two buns. She sat in a stroller that was decorated with cardboard to look like Princess Leia's Speeder Bike. The whole project was conceived and executed in under 48 hours, said Shea.
"It was on sale," said Anna DePalma's of the costume worn by her Havanese, Louis. Louis was a ram.
"He's an Occupy Wall Street dog, and I'm a cop," said Christine Chiu, there with her Bichon, Oscar. She wore a blue police cap and had handcuffs clipped to her belt. Chiu was dismayed to learn hers was not the only dog to arrive with protester placards on both sides. "I always like to do something current," she said. Last year, she is rather sure she had the only dog that came as an iPad. "I thought of turning that costume into an iPhone 4S. But Occupy Wall Street is more what people are talking about."


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The price of oil regained some of its earlier losses on Wednesday after a report from the Federal Reserve showed the economy strengthened across much of the country.
Benchmark oil for April delivery fell 39 cents to finish at $90.43 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. It had dropped as low $89.55 after the government reported a big increase in the nation's stockpile of oil.
But crude clawed back some ground when the Fed's Beige Book report showed that auto sales, more hiring and the ongoing housing recovery helped the U.S. economy grow in January and February
Earlier the Energy Department's Energy Information Administration said in its weekly report that U.S. oil supplies grew last week by 3.8 million barrels, or 0.4 percent, more than three times the increase that analysts expected. The nation's supply of crude is 10.3 percent above year-ago levels. And at more than 7 million barrels a day, U.S. oil production is at the highest level since the late 1990s.
Falling oil prices have spelled some relief for U.S. drivers. The average price of a gallon of gas fell for a seventh straight day, to $3.73 a gallon. That's still up 21 cents from a month ago, but down 3 cents from this time last year.
The death of Venezuela President Hugo Chavez had little immediate effect on the price of oil. The full impact of his death may not be felt until Venezuela, which sits on the world's second-largest oil reserves, picks a new leader - one who might choose a course different from Chavez. Elections are expected to be called within a month.
Chavez, who died Tuesday after a two-year battle with cancer, oversaw a decline in oil production during his 14 years as the leader of Venezuela. In the short-term, traders will watch for any disruption to Venezuela's production. Longer term, they'll want to see if the new government invites foreign investment in Venezuela's oil industry and is able to boost output.
Brent crude, used to price many kinds of oil imported by U.S. refineries, fell 55 cents to end at $111.06 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange in London.
In other energy futures trading on the Nymex:
- Wholesale gasoline dropped 2 cents to finish at $3.12 a gallon.
- Heating oil rose less than a cent to end at $2.98 a gallon.
- Natural gas lost 6 cents to finish at $3.47 per 1,000 cubic feet.
Martin Crutsinger in Washington, Pamela Sampson in Bangkok and Pablo Gorondi in Budapest contributed to this report.


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