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Babies are wonderful additions to a family that can bring great happiness, but also require special attention. This, of course, applies to puppies and kittens as well. Before bringing these furry bundles of joy home, there are a few things you should know and preparations you need to make for them.
"The first thing to consider is if there is already another pet in the house," explains Dr. Mark Stickney, Director of General Surgery Services at the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences. "If there is a pet there already you will need to be prepared for dominance issues as the old pet will think it is the king of the house."
Because of these dominance issues, it is best to introduce your new puppy to your current dog on equal ground outside the home if possible.
"This way the dogs can sniff each other out and get to know each other in an area where neither dog feels ownership," notes Stickney.
When you initially bring the puppy home, try to do so when the older dog is out of the house and let the puppy explore for a while. Then you should confine the puppy to one room and let the old dog back in to sniff around and figure out that the puppy is there.
"This process should really help get the dogs used to each other and in most cases is really fairly quick and easy," states Stickney. "However, the process for acclimating cats to new kittens is slightly different as cats tend to have more problems adjusting to a new roommate."
With kittens you want to put them into their own room with food, water and a litter box. Let the old cat and the kitten sniff each other through the door and over a couple of days to a week let them into more and more areas of the house, making sure to supervise their first face-to-face visit.
"Unfortunately cats can be mean to a new cat for up to a year so you will need to be prepared for a long duration of family strife," warns Stickney. "If you are having a lot of trouble with your kitties getting along you can pick up a cat pheromone such as Feliway at the pet store. It resembles the pheromone they secrete when they are happy and should help to calm them."
Weather you have another pet or not there are some things you will need to prepare for any new pet coming into the house. Water and food bowls, food, a collar, and a bed would be a good start.
"If you already have a pet it is important for your new pet to have its own separate food bowl and bed," states Stickney. "You should also feed them in separate areas so they don't compete for food."
One additional thing you should have if you are getting a puppy is a kennel. It can aide in potty training and also give them a safe place to go.
"Just make sure you do not use the kennel for punishment reasons or they will no longer feel safe in it," explains Stickney.
Cats like to climb and scratch so if you are bringing home a kitty it would be a good idea for your sanity and the fate of your furniture to have a scratching post and/or a cat tower. You will also need a litter box and litter.
Once you bring your new puppy home the first thing you should do is schedule an appointment with your veterinarian.
"The most important thing you can do for your new friend is to make sure they are healthy," notes Stickney. "As soon as possible take them to get a check-up, any vaccinations they need and have them put on a heartworm preventative and flea control."
Even once you have taken care of all their needs there is probably still going to be a period of adjustment. New puppies and kittens are babies and can get scared and cry during the night or when you are not with them.
"If your new pet is crying at night I would suggest giving them something that smells like you, such as the shirt you wore that day," suggest Stickney. "Ticking clocks and the stuffed bears that are made for infants that stimulate a heartbeat are also very effective in calming dogs and cats."
Although it might be a process getting ready for a new pet, the rewards almost always outweigh the negatives. If you start out right by making sure they are healthy and happy they very well might do the same for you.
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The Beatles - A Day in The Life: August 15, 1965 (Sunday)
William A Shea Municipal Stadium (Shea Stadium), 126th St. & Roosevelt Ave.
Queens, NYC, USA
The Beatles' record-breaking first performance at New York's Shea Stadium was watched by 55,600 fans, and marked the beginning of the group's second full US concert tour.
The William A Shea Municipal Stadium, to give it its full name, was the home of the New York Mets baseball team. The stage was located on second base, far from the audience, which was confined to the stadium's spectator areas.
The concert at Shea Stadium set a world record for attendance figures, and also for gross revenue. The Beatles pocketed $160,000 of the $304,000 box office takings. The event was promoted by Sid Bernstein, and 2,000 security personnel were enlisted to handle crowd control.
The Beatles had hoped to land on the field by helicopter, but the idea was blocked by the New York City authorities. They travelled by limousine from the Warwick Hotel to a heliport, from where they were flown in a New York Airways Boeing Vertol 107-II helicopter, over New York City, to the roof of the World's Fair building in Queens. From there they boarded a Wells Fargo armoured van, where they were each given a Wells Fargo agent badge, and were driven to the stadium.
The journey, which involved a sightseeing opportunity over the skyscrapers of Manhattan, was filmed by Ed Sullivan's company Sullivan Productions, in association with NEMS Enterprises and Subafilms - owned by Brian Epstein and The Beatles. The concert was also filmed by 12 camera operators.
Other acts on the bill were, in order of appearance, Brenda Holloway and the King Curtis Band, Cannibal & The Headhunters, Sounds Incorporated, and the Young Rascals. The Beatles were introduced by Ed Sullivan.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, honoured by their country, decorated by their Queen, loved here in America, here are The Beatles!
The Beatles ran onto the field and took to the stage at 9.16pm, to a barrage of deafening screams. Despite new 100-watt amplifiers especially designed for the group by Vox, they were insufficiently loud and The Beatles instead used the in-house PA system.
Their set, which was retained throughout the US tour, comprised 12 songs: the group's truncated version of Twist and Shout, followed by She's a Woman, I Feel Find, Dizzy Miss Lizzy, Ticket to Ride, Everybody's Trying to be my Baby, Can't Buy Me Love, Baby's In Black, Act Naturally, A Hard Day's Night, Help, and I'm Down.
For Shea Stadium's spectacular finale John Lennon played the organ part for I'm Down using his elbows. After the concert The Beatles ran back to the Wells Fargo van and were swiftly taken away.
A 50-minute television special on the show, The Beatles At Shea Stadium, was screened for the first time at 8pm on March 1, 1966 on BBC 1 in the UK. Its US debut was from 7.30pm on 10 January 1967. The film began with the concert's closing song, I'm Down, and featured the other acts before The Beatles were introduced by Ed Sullivan.
She's A Woman and Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby were left out of the resulting programme. The sound was also extensively re-recorded, in a secret session which took place in London on January 5, 1966.
The Beatles returned to Shea Stadium during their final tour the following year, on August 23, 1966.

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Cream Cheese Pound Cake with Grilled Plums
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Pound Cake:
Nonstick baking spray with flour
1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) butter, softened
1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
3 cups sugar
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
3 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
6 large eggs
Grilled Plums:
Nonstick, nonflammable cooking spray
12 ripe plums, pitted and thickly sliced
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, melted
Honey, for serving
Fresh mint, for garnish
For the cake: Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Spray a 10-inch fluted tube pan or Bundt pan with nonstick baking spray with flour .
In a large bowl, beat the butter and cream cheese at medium-high speed with a mixer until creamy. Add the sugar, beating until fluffy. Beat in the extract.
In a medium bowl, combine the flour and baking powder. Add 1/3 of the flour mixture to the butter mixture, beating until just combined. Add 2 eggs, beating until just combined. Repeat the procedure twice with the remaining flour mixture and eggs. Spoon the batter into the prepared pan.
Bake until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean, 1 hour and 10 minutes. Cover the cake with aluminum foil to prevent excess browning during last 10 minutes of baking, if necessary. Let cool in the pan for 10 minutes. Remove from the pan, and cool completely on a wire rack.
For the plums: Spray the grill rack with nonstick, nonflammable cooking spray. Preheat the grill to medium heat.
Brush the plum slices evenly with the melted butter. Grill the plums until just softened, 2 minutes per side.
Slice the cake and serve with grilled plums. Drizzle with honey and garnish with mint, if desired.
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Only hours after a US district judge made permanent an injunction that bans the indefinite military detention of Americans without charge, the White House said they'd appeal to continue their efforts to keep a controversial new law on the books.
On Thursday, the Obama administration acknowledged that they plan to challenge a ruling made only a day earlier by US District Court Judge Katherine Forrest that concreted an injunction she issued four months prior on a provision included in the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act , or NDAA. In May, Judge Forrest said the indefinite detention statute in the NDAA failed to "pass constitutional muster" and ordered a temporary block. On Wednesday, she made that injunction permanent, but not without raising objection once again from the Executive Branch.
"First Amendment rights are guaranteed by the Constitution and cannot be legislated away," Forrest wrote on Wednesday. "This Court rejects the Government's suggestion that American citizens can be placed in military detention indefinitely, for acts they could not predict might subject them to detention."
Judge Forrest's decision this week reaffirms her earlier ruling that prohibits the US government from abiding by the indefinite detention provision in the NDAA, a clause that allows for American citizens to be detained and held on the suspicion of supporting terrorists "or associated forces" until a very vague time frame described as only "until the end of hostilities." After US President Barack Obama signed the legislation into law on New Year's Eve, a team of journalists and activists challenged it in court.


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Farmingdale, 0
Oneonta, NY - Oneonta State junior Keith Manscuk (Rochester, NY/Aquinas) continued his season-long assault on the opposition with three more goals this afternoon in leading the Red Dragons to a 4-0 shutout of Farmingdale. For the season Manscuk now has nine multiple goal games including four games where he has registered three goals. He continues to add to his program record in goals (25) and points (59). Manscuk figured in all four goals this afternoon with an assist on Oneonta's third goal scored by classmate Michael Mahoney (New City, NY/Clarkstown North).
Manscuk opened the scoring in the ninth minute when he took a pass from senior Ryan Grady (Poughkeepsie, NY/Spackenkill) and put a ball low along the ground by the diving Farmingdale keeper.
Despite out shooting the Rams 15-2 in the first half, Oneonta (12-2-1) held only the one-goal lead at the break.
Manscuk gave Oneonta a 2-0 lead just over two minutes into the second half when he stole the ball from a defender and blasted a ball into the back of the goal.
Manscuk's final goal of the game came just 16 seconds after Mahoney's on a penalty kick after a hand ball was called in the box.
Oneonta keeper, sophomore Michael Amari (Vineland, NJ/Vineland), made three saves in goal for the Red Dragons today in picking up his fifth win of the season.
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Farmingdale has two games remaining in the regular season. They host City Tech in their final home game on Monday, October 23rd at 3:30pm.


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I'm gonna show these niggaz what to do with one of your beats
I'm shutting the whole block down
Here comes trouble homey
I'ma tell you how the king like to ride homeboy
[Chorus: repeat 2X]
I like my beat down low and my top let back
Can see me riding 24's with a chopper in the back
Ya like ya Kenwood hot and ya top let back
If ya rims sit high and ya windows pitch black
[Verse 1]
I'm the man in my city ain't nobody fucking wit me
You can ask the real niggaz and all the bad bitches
I'm a known drug dealer I always have 50's
And the thugs and the killers was all in class wit me
SS'S on 26's watching some television
Shorty I'm never slipping got the berretta in vision
And ready to pop the clip in, ready to get to tripping
Ready to show these folks a celebrity pistol whipping
Pimp stolen' the automobile and the roof for the tag missing
Polices' try to pursue me it's nothing but gas given
Addicted to fast living, guess I'm one of my dad's children
Think I'm bad now shoulda seen me before I had children
Give dick to ya daddy's daughter and dare her to have children?
Hope he got some insurance 'cause death her ass is enduring?
Kill her in Mississippi and drive her ass to Missouri
Still my wet paint drippin' while I'm woodgrain gripping
[Verse 2]
I got this Pimp Squad Click I know you heard about us
Young niggaz filthy rich and we ain't worried bout much
On this glock I clutch In God I trust
If a fuck nigga start bet his heart I bust
Got ya partners and the broad in ya car fucked up
What, ya under estimation thought a star wouldn't bust
I got the heart and the guts on this purp I blow
Move ten bricks daily tryin' to twerk five mo
Ya see the Cadillac swerving down Hollywood Road
On the flyest Spur in Cali fucking Hollywood Ho's
On a pill and half with my partner Young Dro
Bumping Goodie Mob Soul Food number fo
Other rappers' old dudes told dudes I'ma pro
With a loaded fo fo and a quarter brick of blow
(Hey) nigga don't you hit me less you buying 6 or mo
My 24 blades glistening and my 808 kicking
[Verse 3]
I wear the crown down under man somebody better tell 'em
'For I spit a hundred rounds and have everybody bailing
I got some bitches in a Benz and my partners in the Chevy
And now we riding Giovanni's and Asani's on Pirellis
If ya ever think ya trying to run up on me just forget it
The clip in the chopper long as ya leg and leave ya shredded
Pistol way in the truck got my knife on tuck
Ya think he ain't getting stuck you got life fucked up
A couple stitches in ya hip will have ya night fucked up
Will he live? Will he die? Guess he might luck up
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TIDE PREDICTIONS are located in the WHITE SPACE above the TIDE GRAPHS on the Calendars. Use the Correction Table in the RIGHT TAB BELOW, which is keyed to 23 other tide stations, to adjust low and high tide times.
PRIME TIMES are in the GREEN BOXES above the Tide graphs. MAJOR and MINOR Times are based on a ZERO POINT at Galveston Channel GPS Coordinate (N 29.3166°, W 94.88°). To adjust for points EAST and WEST of the Zero Point, ADD 1 MINUTE for every 12 LATERAL MILES WEST of the Zero Point and SUBTRACT 1 MINUTE for every 12 LATERAL MILES EAST of the Zero Point.
BEST TIMES for each day are in RED BORDERED BOXES between Tides and Prime Times. BEST DAYS of the month are indicated when this box is YELLOW.
TIDE PREDICTIONS are shown in graph form, with High and Low tide predictions in text in the white area above on the left.
FISHING SCORE: A second RED GRAPH overlays the Tide Graph, indicating periods when fishing activity should increase and decrease throughout the day. This score is derived from data relating to tidal flow and positions of the sun and moon.
SOLUNAR ACTIVITY data is provided to indicate major and minor feeding periods for each day, as the daily phases of the moon have varying degrees of influence on many wildlife species.
AM & PM MINOR phases occur when the moon rises and sets. These phases last 1 to 2 hours.
AM & PM MAJOR phases occur when the moon reaches its highest point overhead as well as when it is "underfoot" or at its highest point on the exact opposite side of the earth from your positoin (or literally under your feet). Most days have two Major Feeding Phases, each lasting about 2 hours.
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Sabine Pass Jetty | High:-1:26 | Low: -1:31
Sabine Pass | High:-1:00 | Low: -1:15
Mesquite Pt, Sab. Pass | High:-0:04 | Low: -0:25
Galveston Bay, S. Jetty | High:-0:39 | Low: -1:05
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Texas City Turning Basin | High:+0:33 | Low: +0:41
Eagle Point | High:+3:54 | Low: +4:15
Clear Lake | High:+6:05 | Low: +6:40
Morgans Point | High:+10:21 | Low: +5:19
Round Pt, Trinity Bay | High: +10:39 | Low:+5:15
Pt Barrow, Trinity Bay | High: +5:48 | Low: +4:43
Gilchrist, East Bay | High: +3:16 | Low: +4:18
Jamaica Beach, W. Bay | High: +2:38 | Low: +3:31
Alligator Point, W. Bay | High: +2:39 | Low: +2:33
Christmas Pt | High: +2:32 | Low: +2:31
Galveston Pleasure Pier | High: -1:06 | Low: -1:06
San Luis Pass | High: -0.09 | Low: -0.09
Freeport Harbor | High: -0:44 | Low: -1:02
Pass Cavallo | High: 0:00 | Low: -1:20
Aransas Pass | High: -0:03 | Low: -1:31
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For the latest installment of the Avengers vs. X-Men saga, its writer Jason Aaron has a commentary track on Comic Book Resources. In it, Aaron talks about the nature of the drama and its pivotal scenes, including how one scene was almost removed from the book.
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These are obviously not Black Watch, but they are cards that I've just inherited from cousin.
These cards were all sent by my Grandfather to his wife during the war, interestingly he also sent individual cards to each of his four children
I have about a dozen of these embroidered cards, the colours are still as vibrant now as they were 100 years ago.
At present they have never been seen by any member of the family for over 50 years and to the best of my knowledge jut kept in an old box.
I'll get round to posting some more later
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Fossil Women's Jacqueline ES3545 Silver Stainless-Steel Quartz Fashion Watch
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- Case diameter: 36mm
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- Water-resistant to 30 Meters / 100 Feet / 3 ATM
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Theres an accessory for every occasion, and then theres an accessory thats literally for every occasion. Whats better than a casual and diverse time-keeper that you can wear no matter where you are, and can be certain that youll still look good If you agree, then youll love this Fossil Jacqueline watch just as much as we do. silver is just one of those colors that goes with everything, which is the first aspect of this timepiece that makes it one of our go-to casual accessories. Its glossy silver stainless steelcase and silver stainless-steel band is a perfect mix of casual and classy. What makes this timepiece really catches ones eye is its white dial that stands out among the rest of its components. The dial creates an especially loud contrast against the sleek details that it displays. With silver and silver elements stick out brilliantly from the watch face, making this timepiece a daring head turner, despite its casual character. This is one thats sure to pair perfectly with any outfit in your wardrobe, from a dazzling black dress, to jeans and a silky top, to a business suit, to your gym shorts and white tee. But this watch doesnt just have good looks to offer, ladies. Its also one that will last you a long time, no matter what conditions it faces. Its stainless steel case ensures a sturdy composition and is 36MM wide and 8MM thick, its dial is covered with a strong mineral crystal, and its water resistant up to 30 meters / 100 feet / 3 atm. What more can you ask for out of your everyday watch No matter the occasion, this casual Fossil watch wont let you down, not in style nor in durability.


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Lululemon: If You Can't Beat Your Customers, Ban Your Customers
from the interesting-strategy dept
Clothing maker Lululemon appears to be schizophrenic. I know, weird, right? But that's the only conclusion I can come to for a company that started off by mocking Olympic trademarks, then dipped into the realm of suing other designers over patents on designs for yoga pants (side note: when will this yoga fad thing be over?). In one moment it's "Trademark? Lulz!" and the next they're bludgeoning poor Calvin Klein with a freaking yoga pants patent. But it might be time to do a wellness visit on the company, since it appears to have completely lost its damn fooled minds.
See, Lululemon hates when people resell their clothing more than ants hate sociopathic children with a new Sherlock Holmes play set. Previously this manifested itself with a sternly worded FAQ on their website and very strange stocking techniques that amount to a not-making-much-of-our-shit strategy. That appears to have changed, however, since recently reports of customers attempting to sell clothing on eBay being harassed by Lululemon employees and banned from buying more products on the website have come flooding in.
Several customers told Business Insider they had been confronted by company representatives after attempting to sell items on eBay, and even more are complaining on the brand's Facebook page. Many said they have been blocked from buying items from the company's website. The policy is frustrating to customers because of Lululemon's stringent return policy, which only allows returns of unworn merchandise within 14 days of purchase, even if the item was a gift.Let's be clear here: Lululemon policies make it nearly impossible to return clothing, regardless of the reason for the return, even it was a gift. Anyone looking to unload these items, new or used, on the secondary market is facing confrontation with the Lululemon Gestapo and then being blocked from purchasing more stuff from their website. Should it not strike you immediately, this is insane. In many cases, the items being sold are no longer produced or in stock by Lululemon. They aren't even attempting to compete with these sellers. On top of that, many of these sellers are, of course, loyal Lululemon customers. This isn't taking your ball and going home, it's taking your ball and then lighting the other kids on fire. Which, I'm told, isn't a nice thing to do.
Both Kristin and her husband were loyal customers who have "closets bursting with Lululemon," she said. She decided to sell the item on eBay because it didn't fit and she had missed the return window. Kristin says she was unable to persuade Lululemon to unblock her IP address from the online store, and felt the company treated her "like a criminal."Not anymore, Kristin. Lululemon appears to be telling you quite clearly that what you thought was appealing about their clothing doesn't actually exist. Pretty nice of them, actually. Now you're free to spend your money on apparel by companies that don't have an eight-year-old's understanding of the right of resale and how to treat customers.
"They said we are welcome to shop in their stores, and in that case, I should have donated the item," she said. "But part of the appeal of purchasing Lululemon products is that it does hold resale value."
Eric Lewis, founder of the blog LuluMen, said he was also chastised by the retailer for trying to sell a pair of pants he bought at a recent warehouse sale in Canada. After the college student posted the pants online, he said a Lululemon representative phoned him to say his actions were against policy and he would be banned from its website if he continued selling items on eBay.Who can say, Lewis? But I'd highly recommend running an experiment designed to see if any other clothing companies are as insane as these folks. It's an easy experiment that mostly just involves buying from anyone other than Lululemon and seeing who manages to treat you like a human being.
"Why is Lululemon targeting a student who is selling some used items on their own eBay account?" Lewis asked. He estimates he's spent $10,000 on the brand's clothing in the past five years, but has sold fewer than 10 items on eBay.
Now, perhaps you're thinking that there must be some rational explanation for this. I mean, Lululemon wouldn't do something so obviously harmful to their own business without a competent reason, right?
A company spokeswoman told Business Insider that the policy is for the good of customers, and is meant to protect them from buying counterfeit products. "Bottom line, if it doesn't come from us, we can't educate, we don't know the history of the garment, and we can't guarantee its' authenticity," the spokeswoman, Alecia Pulman, said in an email.Ah, yes, scary counterfeit products that nobody is actually fooled by are the reason this is good for your customers. Unless their names are Kristen or Lewis, you mean? Or anyone else who dares to sell something they bought legitimately on the secondary market? Wait, who is this helping, exactly? Because I can promise you this won't help Lululemon's brand image.


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- There are subtle differences between a colorscheme and using syncolor, and from what I understand you should only use one or the other (though I may be wrong about that). The :help is rather cryptic on syncolor; I'd like to see some discussion of syncolor vs. a colorscheme.


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Members of Lee family quietly moved out of their longtime home in Chinatown last night, a day before their latest scheduled Ellis Act eviction, which had been postponed twice before thanks to headline-grabbing progressive activism that turned away deputies and persuaded the Mayor's Office to intervene with the landlord.
But this time, the Mayor's Office has been mum about the case (officials haven't responded to our requests for comment) after failing to find a solution to the Lees – an elderly couple using Social Security to care their disabled 48-year-old daughter – still unresolved situation. With help from the Asian Law Caucus and Chinatown Community Development Center, the Lees moved their belongings into storage while they are staying in a hotel.
"The family is staying at a hotel in the city for the next few days as they try to finalize on a couple of potential rental units here. They'll be paying over twice the amount that they had been paying for their rent-controlled unit. Their SSI won't be enough to make ends meet, and so they will be spending down their relocation compensation, which may be depleted in the next several months," Asian Law Caucus attorney Omar Calimbas told us. "Hopefully, the family will be able to find subsidized housing by then, or they will be in a precarious state of affairs again."
Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi told us yesterday that he's been waiting for word from the Mayor's Office and hoping to avoid this evicting the family. "We're duty bound. It's a court order," Mirkarimi said of his eviction obligation. "The eviction is on the books, but we've been expecting an alternative plan by the Mayor's Office after he intervened in this case."
The San Francisco Examiner, which had earlier given splashy credit to Mayor Ed Lee for stalling the Lee family's eviction – to the irritation of some activists that probably deserve more credit than anyone in the Mayor's Office – had the only journalist on the scene with the Lees last night, but the paper didn't have any comments or updates from the Mayor's Office.
Weeks before Mayor's Lee's headline-grabbing Sept. 25 intervention in the Lee case, Mirkarimi had his Eviction Assistance Unit contact the Lees and try to help them avoid being turned out with no place to go. But in a city where his office performs around 1,000 evictions per year – it executed 998 court-ordered evictions last year — the single full-time staffer in that office is overwhelmed.
"We need more staff to assist when it gets to this point," Mirkarimi told us. But his budget request last year to add another position to the unit was denied by the Mayor's Office and Board of Supervisors, a request that Mirkarimi renewed in a Sept. 30 letter to Mayor Lee.
"When there is a determination, our EAU attempts to support individuals and families facing eviction, not just Ellis Act evictions, but all evictions. This unit is comprised of one full time deputy sheriff and the partial time of another deputy. Based on [the current eviction] trend, our EAU staffing is insufficient and ill-equipped to assist qualified individuals and families who may be at risk of becoming homeless," Mirkarimi wrote. "With renewed focus on the consequences of evictions in San Francisco, I return to our FY 2013-2014 budget request to enhance our EAU with one full time clinical outreach worker."
Meanwhile, the activists say they won't wait for the next budget cycle or rely on the Sheriff's Department for help with imminent evictions. They say that they plan to propose a package of reforms for dealing with the eviction crisis as soon as this week.
"Overall, the several weeks of reprieve from the eviction that were won after an incredible display of community solidarity with the Lees were very important in giving them time to find a temporary fix," Calimbas told us. "Stay tuned in the next day or so for the next move by a growing coalition of community organizations, housing advocates and labor in pushing for a comprehensive package of legislative reform to curb the outbreak of displacement-based speculation."
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For more than 10 years Ashoka UK has been building a powerful network of the UK's leading social innovators. We have selected over 40 Ashoka Fellows who are creating systemic change in areas from environmental conservation to criminal justice. With the belief that social innovation and changemaking extend beyond the social entrepreneurship sector and need to be driven by everyone, we have also selected and connected networks of social innovators in the education system through the 'Ashoka Changemaker Schools' Network.
Our work with Fellows and Changemaker Schools is supported and extended through our network of social innovators in the business world – from individual business leaders who provide expertise, connections, and resources, to companies who partner with us to create focused communities of social innovators in areas like healthcare or the fashion industry.
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Nikki Gravning
Co-Director, Ashoka UK
Nikki is Co-Director of Ashoka UK with a core focus on partnerships to embed radical collaboration and changemaking for a better world into the corporate landscape. Before joining Ashoka, Nikki successfully led the Social Innovation Strategy for New Zealand's National Innovation Agency to change the funding landscape for social entrepreneurs in the country. She has mentored social enterprises in accelerator programs and helped raise $2 million for New Zealand's largest social enterprise in 2017. As a self-professed purpose-driven business catalyst, Nikki thrives on pushing new ways of thinking around impact business models. She is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper and stands by the Benefit Corporation mission that business can be a force for good. A previous Managing Director of a 12-person marketing and branding agency, with years of experience in business strategy, business development, marketing strategy and partnership collaboration
Felix Cheung
Ashoka UK Finance, Operations & HR Manager
Felix looks after the back office functions for the Ashoka UK team, Ireland team and the EU Hub. He joined Ashoka in June 2017, after 5.5 years of working as an actuarial consultant in the pension advisory industry. Felix holds two Master's degrees, in actuarial science and MORSE. (No, not MORSE of Morse code, but Mathematics, Operational Research, Statistics & Economics. I know, tell me about it.)
Anu Bhatnagar
Partnerships and Support Network Manager
Anu Bhatnagar joined the Ashoka UK team in May 2019 - as Partnerships and Support Network Manager - after having volunteered, and loved working with the team earlier. She is an On Purpose Fellow, and recently worked in social investment in the UK, including at Big Society Capital. In a previous life, she was a stockbroker at Morgan Stanley. Her change in career was sparked by experiences with purpose-driven organsations, fighting food waste with FoodCycle, and supporting the opening of the world's first Partition Museum in India. She holds a BA in Economics and International Studies and a post graduate degree in Management, studying in the US, the UK and in India.
Florian Rutsch
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Florian leads on systems change partnerships, research, and training in the UK and he co-designed Ashoka's European Fellowship program where he co-leads the systems change, new leadership and wellbeing modules. After managing and heading up Ashoka's Fellowship in the UK for three years, his work in recent years has increasingly focused on the ecosystem for social entrepreneurs – in particular on funding for their systems changing work.
Florian graduated in business economics and social entrepreneurship, studying in the Netherlands, Hong Kong, United States, United Kingdom, and Kenya. He worked as a social impact consultant on impact measurement, communication and stakeholder engagement, and co-founded the global #TweetADream campaigns which reached 25k young people in 35 countries with the aim of inspiring them to discover their own power for change.
Tatiana Cary
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Tatiana manages the search and selection of new Ashoka Fellows in the UK. Prior to joining Ashoka she served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco focusing on youth programming and sport for development. She has extensive experience in the NGO sector working as a researcher, journalist, facilitator, and program manager. Tatiana holds an MSc in Gender, Development and Globalisation from the London School of Economics and is pursuing a PhD in Social Policy at the University of Edinburgh.
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Clarice joined Ashoka in 2012 and was responsible for structuring the UK's back-office. Since 2016, she's been leading the finance and operations team across Ashoka's 10+ offices in Europe. In her previous life, Clarice worked for more than 10 years with hospitality, travel and tourism, and was the COO of a travel agency in Rio de Janeiro. She moved to Europe to pursue a double-diploma MA in Sustainable Tourism Management from London Metropolitan University & ESCEM Business School (France), where she specialised in community-based tourism. When living in France, she also worked for CENTRAIDER (Centre for International Cooperation and Solidarity) in Tours, and for the Auvergne Region Tourist Board, in Clermont-Ferrand.
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Pip is the Country Director of Ashoka in the UK. Australian by birth, she has spent the majority of her career in South Africa. Prior to moving to the UK, Pip founded a youth development organisation in South Africa, enke: Make Your Mark. In early 2015, after six years as enke's CEO, she handed over the reigns to study an MBA at Saïd Business School, Oxford. In addition, she has also consulted on innovative finance at the Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship; mapped the entrepreneurial support landscape across Africa for the Australian Government's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trading; and facilitated strategy development. For her work in social innovation she's been awarded a Skoll Scholarship, an Ashoka Fellowship; and she was a World Economic Forum Global Shaper. She currently still serves on the board of enke as a non-executive director.
Mark is a member of the Leadership Group at Ashoka, based in Hong Kong. Mark started with Ashoka in 2007 as a Senior Advisor on Social Finance, based in London. He became UK Director in 2011, and European Director in 2014. Mark led the European Diamond from 2014-19, before moving to Hong Kong where he has launched the Hong Kong Chapter for Ashoka. Prior to joining Ashoka, Mark founded Chelwood Capital, a global social investment advisory firm, which he continues to actively manage. Mark is recognized as a pioneer in impact investment, and over the past decade has helped raise over $250mn for social causes in areas including micro-finance, clean energy, healthcare, education and conservation. He is a Director of Emerge Education, a leading incubator for ed/tech start-ups, and a founding member of the ClearlySo Angels network, the UK's first angel investment network for impact investors.
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Everything Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi does is a bit over-the-top. The way she dresses, the way she parties, the way she tans. So when I read about fiance Jionni Lavalle possibly getting her a big, blingy "push present" when their little meatball arrives in September, I wasn't exactly surprised.
For those of you unfamiliar with the term, it's a gift some women expect (or demand) for giving birth. It can be as simple as a piece of jewelry or as outrageous as a yacht, depending how deep your pockets reach. It's definitely a controversial subject among many moms. Some think it's a selfish thing to focus on during that time in your life, while others feel like they damn well deserve it.
I had actually never heard of a push present before I moved to Manhattan. The idea of getting a present for giving birth was foreign to me. But to be fair, so were 24-hour bodegas and a rat population twice that of the human one. The thought that you earn some sort of pricey prize for giving birth just seemed too weird to me. I thought, Isn't the baby the gift enough?
Well, I was singing a different tune when I was finally expecting myself. Pregnancy is hard. Really, really hard. At least it was for me. I was on bed rest for most of it and was seriously stressed out the entire time. It's not easy bringing another human being into this world. Why not gift a mommy-to-be with a little bauble? It is just one way to show her how much she is loved and appreciated.
More from The Stir: Jessica Simpson Gets 211 Pound Baby Gift From Jenny McCarthy
Now, that said, some women take the whole notion of the push present way too far. A former colleague of mine demanded Tiffany diamonds after each birth. Throughout her entire pregnancy she carped about how her husband better get this ring or that necklace, and if it didn't come in that little blue box, he was in big trouble. After returning from maternity leave, it wasn't photos of her baby she wanted to show off. She incessantly blathered on about how expensive her present was and how he [her husband] finally got it right. It was odd. I was happy she got what she wanted, but it just made her look so ... well, so bad.
Though you expect over-the-top, extravagant push presents for celeb moms. Rachel Zoe nabbed a 10-carat diamond ring after son Skyler was born. Katie Holmes was gifted with an 18-karat gold Cartier Love bracelet for bringing Suri into the world. Though nothing tops the $2.5 million diamond earrings Marc Anthony gave Jennifer Lopez when they welcomed twins Max and Emme.
For the rest of us, I don't think a push present has to have a particular price tag or come from a specific place. Yes, it should be something that makes you feel good, but why put so much pressure on your husband. It's a scary time for him too. Now did I actually get a push present? Yes -- in a way. I suppose I am actually living in it. A couple months before our son was born, we bought our first New York City apartment. And anyone familiar with Manhattan real estate knows that was present enough for the both of us.
What do you think of push presents?
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DWTS12 Week 9 Power Rankings
So how many of you still think us crazy bitches here at PureDWTS were smoking crack when Heidi predicted that all of this would happen…waayyy back on Wednesday?
Yes, I'm gloating on behalf of Heidi, and I don't care – because honestly, I've never hoped she'd be wrong more than I have this past week. But in a show of true favoritism & wanton idiocy, the judges played into every single cliche they could that resulted in an extraordinarily padded score for Chelsea – and a brutal beating for Ralph, leaving him so far down in the basement in scores that nothing short of divine intervention could possibly save him from going home tomorrow night. Whoops…did I spoil the rankings for you?
1.) Chelsea & Mark – These two couldn't possibly be any safer, and it's not due extraordinary dancing – Chelsea was decent tonight, but nowhere near deserving some of the truly inflated scores that were being handed to her. Her Argentine tango had the potential to be good – if she wasn't moving so damn gingerly. Wendy's foxtrot had more impactful footwork than this! She captured the mood, yes; but the lifts looked a bit clunky & she never seemed to really hit any of the steps with the staccato that I like in a tango (perhaps she should have watched the playback of Mark doing the "salsa" last week for inspiration). As for the rumba…*shaking my head* Strike one: using a silly prop like gauzy fabric. Strike 2: using an "edgy" song from the Twilight soundtrack. Strike three: wearing character shoes instead of ballroom shoes – AGAIN. If that wouldn't be enough to get her out, strike 4 would have been the complete lack of hip & leg action I saw from her. I might have enjoyed this more had I not been spoiled by great rumbas in the past by Jennifer & Mel B, which actually were 30-worthy. Their "winner take all" cha-cha was decent, and definitely more complex than any of the others – but I still feel like Chelsea's legs stay pin-straight throughout the dance, and she lacks the characteristic bending & straighting of the knees. But none of this matters to the judges – they've made it abundantly clear that they want her in the finals, and so to the finals she goes. Pffft.
2.) Hines & Kym – Hines, god bless him, was the one true bright spot of the evening for me – and dadgummit, I cried with he & Kym after their Argentine tango! While I don't think that tango was perfect (I'm gonna chalk it up to nerves due to Kym's injury), he definitely schooled Ralph & Chelsea in what A. tango should look like – and Kym, god bless her too, soldiered through and the two of them actually managed to perform a routine that made me give a damn. It was definitely nice to see Hines back in the same fight mode that I haven't really seen from him since his samba in week 3 🙂 Their salsa was definitely cute – and Hines is the master of staying on time and not missing steps. But like their A. tango, I don't think it was perfect. Near-perfect, but not perfect – something about Hines' face just made me think he wasn't 100% in the dance. He definitely had the cleanest cha-cha – but I guess the judges would rather have complexity over cleanliness, which is why they chose Chelsea over him. I give up. I would have given these two the 15 points as the icing on the cake for their soldiering through what looked to be a very, very scary injury to me (this is coming from a girl who's grandfather was a paraplegic for 10 months after a simple fall at home). I don't mess with spinal injuries – this made my stomach churn even worse than seeing Evan land on his neck after a stunt in season 10. But I digress. These two are safe, thanks to some pretty damn good performances on an otherwise dismal night…and one very ridiculous points spread.
3.) Kirstie & Maks – I'm afraid I just don't have a lot to say tonight about these two, other than "Did I miss something?" I don't think Kirstie was at her best tonight, and I guess I'm gonna chalk it up to burnout – of the 4 remaining contestants, she's the one that I still worry about most when it comes to endurance. However, the judges seemed to think she was fantastic, and much more so than Ralph – I just don't understand it. She misses steps in her paso (which, on an unrelated note, seemed to end rather abruptly…anyone notice that?), and got a tad off-time in her Viennese waltz. Yet she still scores considerably better than Ralph, who I don't think missed any steps. *shrugs* I'm beyond trying to understand it at this point. I definitely preferred her V. waltz to her paso doble, as it was actually pretty lovely, aside from the timing issue I saw a few times. Felt a little let down by her cha-cha – it felt like the same cha-cha she's done twice before this season, and she still messed it up a bit this time 🙁 Again, I'll give her a break due to lack of energy, but I was counting on her to hopefully bump Chelsea out of the running for those extra 15 points…and she didn't deliver. Luckily, she's got the fanbase to pull her through, and a pretty decent lead over Ralph – she & Maks better step up their game in a big way, though, because both Chelsea & Hines are miles ahead of her in terms of stamina.
4.) Ralph & Karina – I should have known better than to think that the judges might turn over a new leaf and actually be nice to Ralph tonight…because the barrage of criticism they threw at him was downright sickening at times. No love for his Argentine tango, which really wasn't all that bad – he may not have been 100% in the sultry "character" of it, but I daresay his technique was better than Chelsea's, since he actually managed to get some impact with his steps. The judges went straight for the jugular on his salsa, too – I actually thought he had more energy and more entertaining content than Hines' salsa did, but either the judges were blind to it or I was drawn to it more than the average bear, because it was lost on them. And Karina – god bless her for calling Bruno out on what I'm deducing was one very uncalled for lewd comment – had I been there, I may have needed to be put in a straight jacket after breaking that fool's nose and then going for his gonads. Admittedly, his cha-cha was the weakest – but I knew that going in. The poor guy has never been great at cha-cha – he was facing a stacked deck going into this 3-ring circus of a "bonASS dance". I wanted to shove a dirty sock in all three of the judges mouths as their sole words of compliment were "You tried so hard tonight!" before heaping praise on Hines. Made me sick. And now, he's gotta face the music tomorrow night – and I'm sure the judges will all sit there, with their smug little smiles on their faces, and pretend to be disappointed that the poor guy is going home and that they'll miss him – when in reality, they're the ones to blame for his departure. Bravo.
And so ends quite possibly the most disappointing night of DWTS I have ever watched. Sorry to burst the bubble of any of you that had the time of your life watching tonight – because I was miserable for most of it, due to the blatant over & underscoring going on. I don't deal with hidden (or in this case, not-so-hidden) agendas very well. But I'm gonna suck it up and go power vote for Ralph, in the event that there were enough Ralph fans as pissed off as Heidi & I were at how things panned out that are doing the exact same thing. Wouldn't it be so awesome to watch the judges' jaws drop if Ralph stuck around for yet another week? 😉 I know, I know…wishful thinking. But a girl can dream 🙂 Fare ye well, Ralph…


text: The longest-operating Earth observing satellite is ending its mission after nearly 29 years, more than 150,000 orbits and 2.5 million images. Landsat 5 outlived its planned 3-year operation almost 10 times over, saving the continuity of the Landsat mission. Landsat 5's longevity became critical after Landsat 6 failed to reach orbit in 1993. The U.S. Geological Survey was able to rescue the satellite from failures several times over the years, but recently a broken gyroscope has permanently hobbled the aging craft. Landsat 7, launched in 1999 and also well past its planned 5-year mission, is still keeping an eye on the planet until Landsat 8's launch, which is planned for February 2013. To celebrate this mighty spacecraft's contribution to our understanding of the Earth, here are some of our favorite images Landsat 5 has taken over its three decades in space. Above: Mergui Archipelago, Myanmar The Mergui Archipelago in the Andaman Sea consists of more than 800 islands. This natural-color image of the center portion of the archipelago was captured by Landsat 5 on Dec. 14, 2004.Mount Elgon, Uganda-Kenya Border Clouds encircle the lofty rim of Africa's Mount Elgon, a huge, long-extinct volcano on the border between Uganda and Kenya. The solitary volcano has one of the world's largest intact calderas, a cauldron-like central depression. The caldera is about 6.5 kilometers [4 miles] across. It formed following an eruption, when the emptied magma chamber collapsed under the weight of volcanic rock above it. Image taken by Landsat 5 on Aug. 9, 1984Belcher Islands, Canada Like sweeping brushstrokes of pink and green, the Belcher Islands meander across the deep blue of Canada's Hudson Bay. The islands' only inhabitants live in the small town of Sanikiluaq, near the upper end of the middle island. Despite the green hues in this image, these rocky islands are too cold to sustain more than a smattering of low-growing vegetation. Image taken by Landsat 5 on Sep. 21, 2001Las Vegas, Nevada Landsat 5's impressively long lifespan gives us great insight into the changes to the Earth's surface over time. In these images, the incredible growth of Las Vegas between 1984 and 2009 can be clearly seen. Images taken by Landsat 5 on Oct. 22, 1984 (left) and Jan. 12, 2009 (right)Lake Erie Though Lake Erie looks beautiful in this image, the green swirls in the water are evidence of the worst toxic algae bloom the lake has suffered in decades. Image taken by Landsat 5 on Oct. 5, 2011Wabash and Ohio Rivers These two images show the Wabash and Ohio Rivers near Evansville, Indiana, while flooded (May 3, 2011, top image) and after the waters had receded (June 4, 2011, bottom image). Landsat 5 took these natural-color images with its Thematic Mapper.Painted Desert, Arizona Landsat 5's Thematic Mapper can take both natural-color images and images in parts of the light spectrum that we can't see, such as in this image. Different types of rock, plants and soil can be seen better in these spectral bands. And the result is often a beautiful, colorful image. Image taken by Landsat 5 on Mar. 28, 2009Dhofar Region, Oman Much of Oman is desert, but the Arabian Sea coast in the Dhofar region represents a startling difference in climate. This coastal region catches the monsoon rains, or khareef, during the summer months. Drenching rains fall primarily on the mountainous ridge that separates the lush, fertile areas along the coast from the arid interior, recharging streams, waterfalls and springs that provide plentiful water supplies in the fertile lowlands for the remainder of the year. Image taken by Landsat 5 on Apr. 2, 2005Erg Iguidi, Algeria What look like pale yellow paint streaks slashing through a mosaic of mottled colors are ridges of wind-blown sand that make up Erg Iguidi, an area of ever-shifting sand dunes extending from Algeria into Mauritania in northwestern Africa. Erg Iguidi is one of several Saharan ergs, or sand seas, where individual dunes often surpass 500 meters — nearly one-third of a mile — in both width and height. Image taken by Landsat 5 on Apr. 8, 1985Rhodes, Greece This image of the 48-mile-long Greek island of Rhodes in the Aegean Sea was taken by Landsat 5 on Aug. 26, 2011. Rhodes is the largest island in the Dodecanese chain.Tornado Track, Massachusetts This image, taken by Landsat 5 on June 1, 2011, shows the trail of destruction left by a tornado that cut through southwestern Massachusetts.New England A week after Hurricane Irene hit New England in 2011, Landsat 5 took this natural-color image on Sep. 2 of the Connecticut River dumping sediment into the Long Island Sound.Lake Eyre, Australia Australia's Lake Eyre is usually dry, but Landsat 5 caught the image after an unusually wet rainy season in 2009. Image taken by Landsat 5 on June 10, 2009Okavango River, Botswana Like a watercolor in which a brushstroke of dark green has bled into a damp spot on the paper, southern Africa's Okavango River spreads across the pale, parched landscape of northern Botswana to become the lush Okavango Delta. The delta forms where the river empties into a basin in the Kalahari Desert, creating a maze of lagoons, channels and islands where vegetation flourishes, even in the dry season, and wildlife abounds. Image taken by Landsat 5 on Apr. 27, 2009Images: USGS/NASA


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2nd Philly shooting suspect surrenders, police say
- Each victim was hit once in the arm and taken to nearby medical center
- Seven students were in the gym at the time of the shooting
- School has metal detectors%2C and officials are trying to determine how gun got inside
Police say a boy charged with aggravated assault in a Philadelphia high school gym shooting turned himself in Saturday.
Security cameras recorded two Philadelphia students being shot and wounded by a classmate in a high school gymnasium Friday afternoon, police said.
A boy who was originally a suspect was detained, but later cleared, Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey told the Philadelphia Inquirer on Friday night. Another student turned himself in Friday and remained in custody Saturday. He had not yet been charged.
Police didn't identify either boy because of their age.
A boy and a girl, both 15, were shot with a handgun about 3:30 p.m. Friday at the Delaware Valley Charter High School in the Olney section of North Philadelphia.
Police Lt. John Stanford said at a news briefing that each victim was hit once in an arm, and they were taken to Albert Einstein Medical Center, two blocks away. The girl was discharged hours later, and the boy was listed in stable condition.
Surveillance video showed three youths together and one pulling out a handgun. But Ramsey said it was not yet clear which one pulled the trigger, how many shots were fired or whether the shooting was intentional or accidental.
Seven students were in the gym at the time.
The wounded girl went into the bathroom moments afterward, and there was "just a lot of blood gushing out," a friend told WPVI-TV.
"She was saying she heard a loud boom in the gym room and she looked up and her boyfriend's arm had been hit," the friend said.
The school, for grades 9 through 12, was placed on lockdown. The 600 students were searched and released individually. Police initially said the shooter was still inside the school but said later that he had fled, prompting a search by officers and SWAT teams.
The school is equipped with metal detectors, and police and school officials were trying to determine how the suspect got the gun inside.
Contributing: The Associated Press


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It was really cute when they were full on making out upstairs at the Grey Goose/Soho House party. This happened before they hooked up with George Clooney and Stacy Keibler. He adores her. He really, really adores her.
But ...
I mean you're looking at these photos. And we're thinking the same thing, right? Because in person, seeing her, all of us there were thinking the same thing. The same thing I thought when I watched her on Grey's Anatomy and if you've been reading this blog a long time you'll have heard it before but for the benefit of those who are relatively new...
Remember when Jennifer Westfeldt was on Grey's Anatomy and she played the woman with cancer and she was supposed to be sick but in every scene her skin was rosy and glowing and the picture of health? That made me crazy. And, well, seeing her in person, several times now, you realise some things are hard to make OVER, you know what I mean?
Of course, being the bitch ass gossips that we are, the logical next part of this discussion is who he is now, and who she is now, and how f-cking hard that must be and if it's not actually hard, how f-cking awful it is that everyone just makes that assumption.
Having said that, how accurate is the assumption?
The common observation amongst many of us seeing them this weekend as they promoted Friends With Kids at TIFF was that she seemed...clingy. Courtney Shea, the VISA TIFF Insider called her a drag. Click here to read Courtney's encounter with Jon Hamm and Jennifer Westfeldt on Saturday night. I disagree with Courtney about Hamm's height. His height is fine. But on the drag part...? Maybe a little. And this worries me for them. Tell me I'm wrong. Tell me I'm wrong. Give me another way to see it. I am asking you for serious.
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As per hubby's request... ta da! Cupcakes! He had been begging for
cupcakes for a while so I finally decided it was a good time to make them. I
found this recipe HERE, and made a few adjustments. Instead of using coconut milk for the batter, I replaced with coconut cream and reduced the sugar to about 1 cup since the cream was already sweet. And for the frosting, I used vanilla instead of coconut. All in all the recipe came out good. Next time I would probably add some coconut extract to the batter
to get some extra coconut flavor.
Thanks for visiting!
Here is the recipe.
Cupcake Ingredients
- 3/4 cup of unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 1/4 cup of sugar
- 3 eggs, room temperature
- 1 cup of canned coconut milk
- 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
- 2 1/4 cups of flour
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- 1 teaspoon of baking powder
- 1/2 cup of sweetened desiccated coconut
Coconut Cream Cheese Frosting Ingredients
- 1/2 cup of butter (1 stick), room temperature
- 8 oz of Philly cream cheese (1 package), room temperature
- 1/2-1 cup of powdered sugar
- 1/4 cup of sweetened desiccated coconut
Cupcake Method
1 Preheat the oven to 350 F. Cream the butter until light and fluffy. Add sugar and cream till light and fluffy again, scraping down the sides halfway through to ensure even mixing.
2 Add the eggs, one at a time, beating for 30 seconds each to ensure mixing. Be sure to scrape down the sides after each egg to ensure even mixing.
3 Combine the flour, salt, and baking powder in one bowl. In another add 1 cup of a well shaken can of coconut milk and a teaspoon of vanilla. Add 1/3 of the dry ingredients and mix, then add 1/2 of the wet ingredients. Continue alternating with the wet and dry mixtures, ending with the dry. Stop mixing once just as the ingredients become incorporated; do not overbeat.
4 Fold in the coconut. Scoop into cupcake papers about one half to three-quarters of the way full. Bake for 18-22 minutes, rotating the pan after the first 15 to ensure even baking. Be sure to check with a toothpick to see if the cupcakes are done. If the toothpick comes out of the cupcake clean, then they're ready. Allow the cupcakes to cool for a minute or two in the pan, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Frosting Method
1 Cream the butter and cream cheese together, about 3 minutes. Scraped down the sides and bottom.
2 Slowly add the powdered sugar, taste as you go adding more sugar until you have reached the desired sweetness.
3 Fold in the coconut. Spread onto cooled cupcakes. Sprinkle on a bit of extra shredded coconut on top and serve.
Makes 20 cupcakes.


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Photo taken over the weekend (I think on Sunday) at the house where I've been stuck since last Thursday thanks to Snowmageddon 2010. What does this have to do with genealogy? Not much except the house in the background is my childhood home.
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What a beautiful photo!!! Hope you can "dig out" and warm up very soon.
This is an important story for your own family history that you are making everyday. Five, ten, twenty years from now, you and your family will talk about it, and want to remember details. Be sure to write them down!
Keep these ancestor stories coming!
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'otherwise attractive mobile phone'
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We've all gotten tickets. And we've all struggled with whether we should bother fighting them. I'm here to tell you: You can fight the ticket without an attorney if you want to.
I've written about this before. And yes: I am explaining to you how to do something where it will make less work for attorneys. That's okay. While I do traffic work for friends and so on, it is not a major portion of my practice. Besides, it's always more fun to pretend you are an attorney and see if you can go full Al Pacino in traffic court. "You're out of order! The whole trial is out of order!!!" Judges love that.
So here is the audio:
And the video:
And that pic at the top is the saddest Charger Daytona that ever was. It is an internet star, having been featured in a variety of junkyard photos. Someone yanked it from its scrapyard home and brought it to the Aero Warriors reunion in Alabama last week. I have no idea what they intend to do with it. Sadly, this one is probably too far gone to do anything with (other than to look at it and feel sad).
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Being Anxious Makes You More Likely to Die Young
In case anxious people didn't have enough to worry about, there's this: minor psychological duress, like anxiety or mild depression, has now officially been linked to an early death. Which is to say, if you're a worrier and you get hurt, develop cancer, heart disease or practically any other illness, you're more likely to die from it than the calm, normal, well-adjusted people you know. Says the author of the study:
"Even with low levels of psychological distress — certainly much lower levels than would attract a diagnosis of anxiety or depression — these people had an increased risk of mortality from all causes," said study author Tom Russ, a clinical research fellow at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. "The greater the level of distress, the greater the risk."
Of course, as ABC News notes, avoiding stress altogether is impossible (and some stress might even be good for you). But don't stop worrying yet. Russ added:
"At the moment, there's no clear evidence that treating these symptoms can reduce the risk we found."
So when you wake up in the middle of the night feeling anxious about whatever, just know that not only are your fears probably justified but they'll also kill you (or, you know, make you more likely to die if you get a cold or something).


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Former Microsoft Windows Division President Steven Sinofsky announced he is accepting a teaching position at Harvard Business School.
In a Tweet on Wednesday morning, Sinofsky announced he will be joining Harvard Business School in the spring. "New perspectives, recharge, share experiences, write," he Tweeted.
Sinofsky had previously been a "visiting scholar" at Harvard Business School in 1998, according to CNET. In his Tweets, he pointed to two Harvard Business School papers he co-authored, "Learning from Projects: Note on Conducting a Postmortem Analysis" and "Microsoft Office: Finding the Suite Spot." He also co-authored a book with Harvard Business School professor Marco Iansiti titled One Strategy: Organization, Planning, and Decision Making.
Sinofsky indicated that his new title will be "Executive in Residence" and involve "research, writing, classroom on prod dev, planning, collaboration, and more."
Sinofsky left Microsoft in mid-November after over 20 years with the company, three of them at the helm of the Windows division. Many expected him to eventually succeed Steve Ballmer as Microsoft's CEO. Sinofsky was widely credited for Windows 7's success, particularly after the unpopular Vista. His departure came less than a month after he oversaw the launch of Windows 8, which represented a dramatic overhaul of the Windows operating system and Microsoft's first major foray into touch-based computing.
Microsoft gave no official reason for Sinofsky's exit, though many industry watchers speculated that Sinofsky's prickly relationship with top Microsoft executives and controlling management style contributed to him parting ways with the company.
However, Sinofsky said in an internal memo that his exit was a planned decision, not the result of personality clashes.
"Some might notice a bit of chatter speculating about this decision or timing," Sinofsky wrote in the memo. "I can assure you that none could be true as this was a personal and private choice that in no way reflects any speculation or theories one might read -- about me, opportunity, the company or its leadership."
After Sinofsky's departure, Microsoft split the Windows division duties between Corporate Vice President Julie Larson-Green and Chief Financial Officer Tami Reller.
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Don't call it a comeback (because that's not likely). But as Brien explains, there are three ways that today's smartphone market leaves the door open for Microsoft to bring Windows back to smartphones.
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