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Footage has been released by pro-Russian rebels at the scene immediately after the plane came down. Courtesy: BBC
Footage has been released by pro-Russian rebels at the scene immediately after the plane came down. Courtesy: BBC
THE bodies of the MH17 victims, including up to 39 Australian citizens and residents, will be transferred to Amsterdam as soon as possible, Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk says.
Some 251 bodies are currently in refrigerated trains in rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine.
Mr Yatsenyuk said the "bloody guerillas don't allow the train to leave" the station at Torez.
But when they do, the Ukrainian government plans to send the victims' remains to the Netherlands.
"We are ready to transfer all the bodies directly to Amsterdam," the Prime Minister told reporters in Kiev, adding the Dutch had "perfect forensic expertise" to identify the bodies.
The Netherlands will lead the identification process working with the international community and Ukrainian authorities.
Thirty-one international investigators have flown to Kharkiv within the last few hours including "three representatives of the Australian embassy".
Kharkiv is closer to the crash site than Kiev but still within Kiev-controlled territory.
It's where an international co-ordination centre is being established.
The news about the transportation of the bodies comes as the BBC releases new video showing the Russian militants at the still-smouldering scene shortly after the crash of MH17.
The video, obtained by journalist Fergal Keane, shows the militants rummaging through passengers' luggage and discovering the plane's black box flight recorder.
"They're foreigners, who allowed them to fly over here?" the BBC translated the militants as saying in the footage.
A senior militant orders the others to collect all the USB memory sticks they can find from the crash site, saying "information is the most important thing".
Mr Keane suggests that the local militants may have provided the footage because they personally do not believe they have done anything wrong.
In the wake of the MH17 disaster, it seems Russians have more empathy than Vladimir Putin, as more of them leave notes asking for the world to "forgive" them.
The Dutch Embassy in Moscow has been inundated with tributes and flowers after the plane disaster, which killed 298 people.
While Russia's leader has avoided taking any responsibility for the attack on the Malaysia Airlines aircraft so far, Russian citizens have been leaving flowers and even signs that say "forgive us."
More of these tributes have been left at the embassy over the last few days, indicating there is a proportion of the population who do believe Russia is potentially at fault and has an obligation to act against rebels who control the area where the plane was shot down in east Ukraine.
"Forgive us" says this note outside Dutch embassy in Moscow while Kremlin still denying Russian involvement. #MH17 pic.twitter.com/jJLoRfNQ5i— Dimitri Lotovski (@LotovskiCBS46) July 21, 2014
This was left outside the #Dutch embassy in #Moscow today. #MH17 pic.twitter.com/1GCaIIGipx— Tom Barton (@TomBartonJourno) July 18, 2014
The images of these honest tributes have emerged as former Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston has been sent to Ukraine as Prime Minister Tony Abbott's "personal envoy" at the head of a 45-man team to ensure "justice is done".
The former defence force official, who also led Australia's failed search for the wreckage of missing Malaysia Airlines MH370, is already in Kiev, the Prime Minister said today.
Mr Abbott described the investigation and crash scene as "shambolic", saying the site where the plane crashed looked more like a "garden clean up than a forensic investigation".
"This is still an absolutely shambolic situation." he said.
"It is imperative that we get a properly secured site, and a proper investigation. In order to bring them home, we have to first get them out. That is what all of our energies and efforts are directed to — getting them out and getting them home."
An Australian air force transport aircraft was on standby if needed for this purpose, he said.
Mr Abbott has also begun contacting the families of the 37 Australians killed in the MH17 disaster.
He said he spoke with two families who had lost loved ones in the disaster.
"My intention is to call all of the families of victims who would like a call from their Prime Minister. Some may want calls, some may not. I do not want to intrude on anyone's grief, but I want them to know their Prime Minister is available to them in a time like this."
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Mr Abbott also repeated his concerns that Russia ensures "full and unfettered: access to the site.
"The mood of the leaders I have spoken to is firmer and sterner now than it was ... and frankly it is firmer and sterner as it should be as more and more facts emerge," he said.
Mr Abbott would not say whether Russian President Vladimir Putin had expressed any responsibility for the disaster during their recent phone conversation.
However, he described their talk as "wider ranging" and "more frank" than Australian discussions with the Russian ambassador and the minister for economic development, who was in Sydney for a G20 trade ministers' gathering.
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World leaders had firmed against Russia because of mounting evidence MH17 had been shot down by pro-Russian rebels, "quite possibly supplied by the backer".
"As for my conversation with Mr Putin, I'm not going to go into details ... To Mr Putin's credit, he did say all the right things. The challenge now is to hold the President to his word."
The government has sought advice on whether it can designate the disaster an act of terrorism, therefore allowing families of the victims to access federal compensation.
"I think what's compounded that is looking at what's happened to the wreckage, what has happened on the site," Mr Abbott said.
He demanded authority for the crash site be taken from the rebels, who he said were almost certainly culpable for the tragedy.
"Having those people in control of the site is a little like leaving criminals in control of a crime scene," he said.
"Every day that goes by the bodies are deteriorating ... (and) the site is further contaminated." As long as the bodies and the crash site remained under the rebels' control, there would be "interference after interference, impediment after impediment".
Acting Opposition Leader Tanya Plibersek said Labor backed the decision to send Houston to Ukraine on behalf of Australia.
She also said it was "critical" for President Vladimir Putin to support the proposed UN Security Council resolution, and to use "every bit of its influence with rebels" to ensure investigators get full access to the crash site.
In responding for the first time about the MH17 crash and investigation, Mr Putin said: "This task force is not enough."
"We need more, we need a fully representative group of experts to be working at the site under the guidance of ICAO, the relevant international commission."
"We must do everything to provide security for the international experts on the site of the tragedy ... In the meantime, nobody should and has no right to use this tragedy to achieve their 'narrowly selfish' political goals."
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This morning pro-Russian rebels confirmed they had what they thought were the black boxes of the doomed Malaysian Airlines flight in their self-declared capital of Donetsk in Ukraine's east.
For days it had been rumoured the Pro-Russian separatists controlling swathes of east Ukraine had removed the vital flight recorder boxes from the MH17 aircraft wreckage.
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has today circulated a draft United Nations Security Council resolution demanding "full and unfettered access" to the crash site.
A vote is set for Monday at 3pm in New York which is 5am Tuesday AEST.
"Decency and justice requires that this resolution be carried by acclamation,'' Mr Abbott told media this morning.
"But as we all know these are difficult and daunting times and it is wrong to be too certain about what the future might hold.''
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The document condemns the shooting down of MH17 "in the strongest terms" and demands that those responsible be held to account. It also expresses serious concerns that armed groups have "impeded immediate, safe, secure and unrestricted access to the crash site and surrounding area."
The draft resolution "demands that the armed groups in control of the crash site and the surrounding area refrain from any actions that may compromise the integrity of the crash site and immediately provide safe, secure, full and unfettered access to the site and surrounding area for the appropriate investigating authorities."
It "calls on all states and actors in the region to cooperate fully in relation to the international investigation of the incident, including with respect to immediate access to the crash site ... in an effort to strengthen the safety of international civil aviation and to prevent any recurrence of such use of force against civilian aircraft."
Ms Bishop called for an urgent vote on the resultion by the United Nations Security Council — a process which could take place as soon as today.
Earlier this morning Ms Bishop told media it was "imperative" that the victims of MH17 be released.
"This is not a time to use bodies as hostages or pawns in a Ukrainian-Russian conflict,'' she told reporters in Washington.
The government was determined to secure an independent investigation that was ``impartial and thorough and competent and able to determine who is responsible for this so they can be brought to justice''.
"I would expect Russia to fully support any resolution that seeks to secure the site and establish an independent investigation," Ms Bishop said.
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Russia, as a permanent member of the council, has the power to veto the resolution.
"Australia has a lot at stake here,'' she said.
"They have been murdered and the Australian government will not rest until we're able to bring the bodies home to the Australian families who are waiting for them.''
Ms Bishop also said she had been briefed by British and US intelligence officials.
The head of Australia's transport safety body has warned there will be no quick answers to the downing of MH17, saying it could take up to a year to complete an investigation.
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau dispatched two senior investigators to Kiev to assist an international inquiry into the disaster.
But chief commissioner Martin Dolan dampened expectations of a speedy determination.
"We normally say as investigators it can take up to a year to get a firm result," he told reporters at Canberra airport.
"It's quite possible that there will be no quick response to this." Mr Dolan said it was "disappointing and upsetting" to see Russian-backed rebels tampering with evidence at the crash site in eastern Ukraine, which has been a target of international condemnation.
Ukrainian emergency workers have confirmed they had now retrieved 251 bodies and 86 fragments of bodies from the downed Malaysian flight MH17.
The workers, in distinctive red vans and blue overalls, worked late into the evening searching underwreckage and through the fields for the remains of the 298 passengers and crew from the flight.
Under the precarious situation in the region though, they reported their find to the government in the Ukrainian capital Kiev but also the administration of the self-styled separatist movement in the city of Donetsk known as the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).
DPR controls the region where the aircraft went down and so the workers have had to hand the bodies over to them. The militia are storing 200 of them in four refrigerated trains in the nearby city of Torez. There are mixed reports as to where the train is to go with the government in Kiev preparing for it to go to the eastern city they control called Khirkiv but the rebels preparing to send the train to the port city of Mariupol. There are also reports the train could be sent to Kiev.
At the moment it remains at unaccessible sidings in Torez.
Some bodies are also reportedly being kept at one of four morgues in Donetsk.
Michael Bociurkiw, a spokesman for the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, said reports from the group's investigators in Ukraine suggest some bodies were incinerated without a trace.
"We're looking at the field where the engines have come down. This was the area which was exposed to the most intense heat. We do not see any bodies here. It appears that some have been vaporised," he said from the crash site.
The official from the morgue declined to say why the bodies were now being transported to the seaport.
"They will stay there for now, until the issue (of what to do with them) is resolved. We are waiting for the experts," said Sergei Kavtaradze, a senior official of the pro-Russian rebels' self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic that controls the region where the Boeing was downed.
Meanwhile, Australian experts are on the ground in Ukraine waiting to help identify victims of the MH17 crash.
A team of international forensic experts is waiting for the refrigerated train to be released from the village of Torez near the crash site.
Dutch diplomat Kees van Baar said his country would lead the expert team which would identify the bodies.
"There are Australian experts in the team — they are part of the team,'' he confirmed.
"If these bodies are being released they will be met by a team of international experts and they are going to be identified.
Mr van Baar revealed no next of kin had yet arrived in Ukraine.
"There's no question as such right now of relatives arriving (because) we don't know where the bodies will go to right now.''
It's been suggested the train could travel to the Ukrainian-controlled city of Kharkiv.
Rebel leader Alexander Borodai had last week said he knew nothing of the flight recorders — which could detail the moment the aircraft crashed from an altitude of 10,000m — but now he has confirmed his movement had them.
"Jet parts resembling the black boxes were discovered at the crash site," said Alexander Borodai, prime minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic overnight.
"What we have is just some components of the plane. We are not experts; we think that they may be black boxes but we're not sure."
He didn't give specifics but said they would be handed over to the International Civil Aviation Organisation once they came to the region.
He also insisted his rebels had not interfered with the site despite clear evidence to the contrary.
Adding to growing claims that pro-Russian rebels had done just that, Ukraine's security services yesterday released purported intercepts of phone conversations between rebel militants discussing the location of the plane's black boxes.
In one exchange, a man identified as the leader of the rebel Vostok Battalion, Alexander Khodakovsky states that two recording devices are being held by the head of intelligence of the insurgency's military commander.
The commander is then heard to order the militiaman to ensure no outsiders, including an international observation team near the crash site at the reported time of the call, get hold of any material.
The man identified as Khodakovsky says he is seeking information about the black boxes under instructions from "our high-placed friends ... in Moscow." The security service says all the recordings were made on Friday, but the authenticity of the recordings cannot be independently verified.
The rebel's admission came as US Secretary of State John Kerry accused them of being behind the outrage.
US President Obama had earlier said the rebels could not have carried out the attack without Moscow's support but, in an interview with CNN, Mr Kerry went further, accusing Russia directly of handing over the missile system that was used to shoot down the plane.
"We know with confidence, with confidence that the Ukrainians did not have such a system anywhere near the vicinity at that point in time. So it obviously points a very clear finger at the separatists,'' Kerry told CNN.
He also slammed as "grotesque'' the manner in which "drunken separatist soldiers'' were allegedly "unceremoniously piling bodies into trucks, removing both bodies, as well as evidence, from the site''.
Pro-Russian rebels reject Mr Kerry's claims.
The rebel chief explained that fighters had moved scores of bodies "out of respect for the families''.
"We couldn't wait any longer because of the heat and also because there are many dogs and wild animals in the zone,'' Borodai said.
The Prime Minister says Australia will do everything in its power to ensure the bodies of 37 Australians killed on Flight MH17 are respected and justice is done.
Mr Abbott attended a national security committee of cabinet meeting on Sunday evening after images emerged of the crash site in eastern Ukraine being "absolutely trampled".
Local emergency workers have begun using angle grinders to cut up the Malaysian Airways flight MH17 aircraft as the crash scene remains littered with personal affects and important flight log books and passports of those aboard the doomed flight.
In a scene that highlights the chaotic state of the aviation investigation and the eastern Ukrainian region in general, local emergency workers are tearing at the wreckage to look for bodies, potentially unwittingly destroying vital evidence.
Mr Abbott earlier last night told 60 Minutes that a national security meeting yesterday had been dominated by concerns to ensure the bodies were treated with respect and taken to a place where a proper investigation could be carried out.
"We owe it to the dead, all the dead, we owe it to the families, all the families to do everything in our power to respect the bodies, to find the truth and to ensure justice is done," Mr Abbott told 60 Minutes.


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Gov. Pat McCrory signed a bill into law Tuesday that will shorten the leash on jobless benefits.
The legislation will decrease the amount of help the state�s unemployed workers are entitled to receive and cut back the period of time they can receive it.
Reducing that support will allow the state to begin paying back the $2.5 billion tab it has racked up with the federal government for unemployment payments since 2008. The reimbursement will also come on the backs of businesses, which will begin paying more in taxes via higher unemployment insurance.
McCrory and his supporters have argued the change will protect the unemployment safety net, repay a growing debt and build a healthy reserve fund to deal with a potential major recession in the future.
Democrats and other opponents contend it will be a crippling blow to people who are out of work and already straining to get by, since many of them have no savings. They argue people who are out of work spend unemployment benefits on necessities like mortgages, rent, food and clothing.
Where are the cuts?
Unemployed workers have long been entitled to receive a maximum of $535 per week in jobless benefits, for as many as 26 weeks. That maximum will soon drop by one-third, to $350 a week for 12 to 20 weeks. The allowed duration will depend on the state unemployment rate at the time that the person files for unemployment.
Will everyone see a cut, or just those receiving more than $350 a week?
That depends. The entire formula for calculating benefits is being tweaked.
Currently, the state decides what to pay you in unemployment based on what you made in each quarter of the year. It looks at the last five quarters you had an income, takes the high quarter, and divides it by 26.
Beginning July 1, the state will simply take the average of the last two quarters that you worked.
�Claimants after July 1 will go through that new calculation method,� said Larry Parker, spokesman for the N.C. Division of Employment Security. �Every time you file for unemployment, what you qualify for may be different depending on what your wages were in those last two quarters.�
What about people receiving unemployment now?
Most of them don�t need to worry. The new formula will largely take effect for people who file for unemployment beginning July 1.
Does that mean everyone receiving benefits now is �safe?�
Not exactly. Anyone on the federal unemployment extension program right now, meaning they already had their benefits prolonged, could be affected.
By approving the new law Tuesday, and changing the weekly benefit amount, the state technically violated a federal guideline.
�That means the (federal extension program) could potentially be terminated by the U.S. Department of Labor on July 1,� said Parker. �We�re awaiting guidance from them on whether that will be the case.�
You can reach Michael Barrett at 704-869-1826 or twitter.com/GazetteMike.
Numbers of note
$535 per week, for 26 weeks � The previous maximum weekly jobless benefits people could receive
$350 per week, for 12 to 20 weeks � The new maximum weekly jobless benefits people can receive, beginning July 1
$2.5 billion � What the state owes the federal government for paying jobless benefits since the Great Recession
2015 � The year the federal debt will be repaid because of the new law�s passage. That�s about three years earlier than if nothing had been done.
$2 billion � The amount that will be placed in reserve by the end of the decade to pay future jobless benefit claims
Reaction from area residents
A number of people weighed in on The Gazette�s Facebook page Tuesday about the new law affecting unemployment benefits. A few of their responses:
Christopher Barfield � �While the cuts will be hard, I think that they are necessary to stop our out-of-control spending, and a growing deficit that will ultimately mean higher taxes. We must remember it was created as a short-term emergency benefit � not to support a previous lifestyle.�
Denise L. Hullender � �All those that voted this on have obviously never been laid off and been forced to exist on unemployment until another job has been found. The rich, self-righteous make me sick!�
Jessica Bohannon � �I live off $320 a week � family of five. Pretty sad but we make it. And my husband is about to get laid off. I guess all the people that got laid off in the past and wanted to sit on their butts for years and not find work and stay on unemployment � guess we are paying for it now.�
Starr Sigmon � �There will be a lot of homeless families because of this. We have the fifth highest in unemployment in America. That should say something about our financial capability. Do not cut down our funding when the state is obviously not ready.�
Heather Harris � �When you have a family of five, you can�t really save a whole lot to get you through six months. We don't have a fancy lifestyle. We live like others. But when you have bills around what your income is, and you lose that, I�m sure the mortgage company isn�t going to say �Well since you�re on unemployment now, you don�t have to pay your house payment this month.�


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Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo. For a church book-group.
Mounce, Basics of Biblical GreekPlato, The Trial and Death of Socrates Ross, Y., Ethics in Law Warraq, I., The Origins of the Koran
Angelina Jolie - Notes from My Travels(not kidding )
On the Dormition of Mary - Early Patristic Homilies SVS Press
On the Dormition of Mary what did you think of the introduction and what did you think of the first writing in the text?I had some issues though I greatly enjoyed the work.
As far as the first text of John of Thessalonica, it is very similar to the pious legends of the holy day I was taught in my youth.
Greeting you on the Feast of Our Blessed Mother's Dormition
The issue I had was not with the legends, its was with the Primacy of Peter and his being chosen to be the "leader of the Apostles" as was stated.
Just got done reading Religions of Star Trek. It was a lot more superficial in dealing with the material than I expected, especially considering that there were three professors writing it. There was no examination of Picard's lines from Who Watches the Watchers, where he basically condemns religion as delusions and instead endorses a version of scientism. There is no examination of the fact that the Bajoran "Emissary" (and starfleet officer) Sisko is willing to commit mass-murder and/or genocide more than once, and how the Bajorans might feel about such morality. It's just your normal "Ardra represents the Devil" sort of stuff.
I've just started reading The Plainchant Tradition of Southwestern Rus by Joan Roccasalvo.
Diego saves the treefrogs had a similar effect on me.
Heading down the home stretch of "The Brothers Karamazov."
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Taras Horoduskyy-Arrow Office Table Office Table For Chief
At Design Interviews
Interview with Taras Horoduskyy : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Taras Horoduskyy : The main principle and idea was to create dynamic design. Design which makes people to move forward, to move to the future. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Taras Horoduskyy : The main focus , I think, has been to create something new, to play with shapes. To make shapes visually move. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Taras Horoduskyy : I'm student yet, this award is great achievement for me. In future I want to be interested by other designers and people. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Taras Horoduskyy : The main shape I did in 1 hour, first sketches always most live and interesting. But for creating more detailed concept it took 3 or 4 month. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Taras Horoduskyy : I think it was my emotional state then. I sketched first rapid straight line and went on. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Taras Horoduskyy : No it isn't. It's my coursework in university. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Taras Horoduskyy : I think , task that has been given to me made my design this particular type of work. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Taras Horoduskyy : No it where not. I did it only myself. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Taras Horoduskyy : There is no target custumer because it is my student work in university. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Taras Horoduskyy : I think this design apart from other concepts by his crazy shapes. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Taras Horoduskyy : I looked and thought what does it look like...Hmm it might look like arrow. And that's how the name came up. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Taras Horoduskyy : At first sketches I used pencil and my sketchbook. Later I have exported it to 3ds max and rendered. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Taras Horoduskyy : Light shapes and modern material .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Taras Horoduskyy : No I did not. I did it only myself as concept. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Taras Horoduskyy : I think there is main role of technology. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Taras Horoduskyy : No it isn't. It`s only concept as project. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Taras Horoduskyy : The main challenge was to hang all construction on the wall and cover it. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Taras Horoduskyy : I saw in web about this contest and then decided to try to take part in. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Taras Horoduskyy : I think every work improve myself and learn me something new. .Frank Scott: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?. Taras Horoduskyy : there is no other things I`d like to cover. .
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Trevor Linden and Kirk McLean hug after the Vancouver Canucks defeated New York Rangers in the sixth game of the 1994 Stanley Cup final.
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VANCOUVER - The memories in hockey are many for Trevor Linden and he had no trouble recalling some of his fondest at Pacific Coliseum, the rink where he will be honoured Saturday night by the Vancouver Giants.
Linden broke into the NHL as an 18-year-old and played the first seven seasons of his NHL career there before the Vancouver Canucks moved downtown in the fall of 1995.
Among other highlights, he cited his first home game, his first home-ice goal against Grant Fuhr of the Edmonton Oilers, Pavel Bure's first game, ousting the Toronto Maple Leafs in Game 5 of the 1994 Western Conference final and beating the New York Rangers in Game 6 of the '94 Stanley Cup final.
Then there was the time he put St. Louis Blues defenceman Jeff Norton through the glass during the first round of the 1995 playoffs.
"Yeah, that was kind of odd," Linden said Thursday, smiling at the thought. "I mean, I felt bad for the people in the front row. They were enjoying the game with some popcorn and a soda and, next thing you know, they had a 200-pound hockey player on their lap. It was kind of funny because I wasn't sure what to do. I had just delivered this player on top of these people and I wasn't sure if I should help get him out, or not."
Nine people were treated for minor cuts and the Canucks lost the game 5-2. They eventually won the series in seven.
Game 6 of the '94 final produced some high drama, including the iconic photo of a bloodied and exhausted Linden tapping helmets with netminder Kirk McLean following the 4-1 victory over the Rangers. Jim Robson also uttered his famous 'Linden will play, you know he'll play, he'll play on crutches' call as the game came to its conclusion.
"That photo, I mean, yeah, I've signed a few of those in my day," Linden said.
Saturday night's pre-game ceremony, part of the Giants 'Heroes on Hastings' series, begins at 7 p.m. The Giants will wear 1945-46 throwback Canuck uniforms when they face the Tri-City Americans.


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First there was the utterly pointless teaser, then the uber cryptic website and now, finally, a peek at "Rango, the titular lizard in Johnny Depp's upcoming animated adventute.
"Rango," about a lizard with an identity crisis, is being written and directed by Gore Verbinski, who has made three films and a mountain of money at the helm of the "Pirates of Carribean" franchise.
Today the first image of Rango was revealed via a twitpic from Alex Billington at First Showing, who wrote, "Everyone, meet Rango! New teaser trailer debuts tomorrow."
U.S. & World
Now, Billington clearly has spoken to people we haven't, but a visit to the film's website -- which, if you play around with it, features a guitar-strumming bird, an angry frog, a coconut-throwing palm tree, two misguided rodents -- shows a wind-up fish flying past trailing a banner that reads "2 days."
Maybe the two have nothing to do one another. If Billington's twitpic is to be believed, this whole matter should be cleared up by March 2011.


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Hollywood Studio Execs Upset That President Obama Didn't Stay Bought; Insist They Won't Donate More
from the bye-bye deptApparently, some Hollywood studio execs are so annoyed by the White House's statement against the current drafts of SOPA/PIPA that they're telling the press that they won't donate to President Obama's re-election campaign:
But Hollywood moguls told me they "didn't know it was going to be as over the top as it was" and took this as a declaration of war. "We just feel very let down by the administration and Obama for not supporting us," one studio chief explained to me. "At least let him remain neutral and not go against it until we can get the legislation right. But Obama went against it. I'm personally not going to support him anymore and not give a dime anymore," another movie mogul who's also a well-known Obama supporter told me this week.There are many, many more quotes in the article, each one more jaw dropping than the next. Take this one, for example:
"God knows how much money we've given to Obama and the Democrats and yet they're not supporting our interests. There's been no greater supporters of him than we've been from the first day and the first fundraisers continuing until he was elected. We all were pleased. And, at its heart institutionally, Hollywood supports the Democrats. Now we need the administration to support us. This is a very important time for Hollywood.This is yet another tone deaf response from Hollywood, of course. First, it shows exactly what they thought of this whole process: donate enough money and of course they expect the government to pass unnecessary, damaging, protectionist laws that favor the big donors. Making such an admission publicly... that's pretty dumb. Second, it appears they're ignoring the talking points about what a wonderful statement it was... and how it really meant we should just move forward with the current bills (despite the statement saying exactly the opposite).
Either way, these guys are living in denial. The article repeatedly quotes them blaming Google for this... and includes my favorite ridiculous quote of all:
As for other claims, we make 24. We don't make national security problems.Let's add back in the key point that this "mogul" missed: You make 24. You don't understand technology. You don't understand internet security. Your pointless desire to stop innovation does create national security problems. Just because you're ignorant of why doesn't change what the law you support would have done.
Either way, what a massive sense of entitlement from those folks from old Hollywood/old politics. When they buy a President, they like their President to stay bought, dammit. They don't want him listening to actual concerns and worrying about the consequences of the quixotic obsessions.
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Saturday, April 30, 2011
Schools Out. For. Summer.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Why didn't anyone ever tell me about Tuesday nights at the mall?
Romper thingy and necklace: F21, Blazer and purse: Thrifted, Shoes: Steve Madden, Watch: Vintage Gucci, Earrings: Sorelli (I think?)
So last night after studying aaaalllll day and then taking an exam at 5:30, I decided it would be a good idea to take my brain dead {and largely lacking in self control} self to the mall. {?} And who woulda thunk it? Aparantly no one goes to the mall on Tuesdays aannndd they have these amazing sales. I feel like the mall and I have this dirty little secret thing going on now. And I've shared it with you friends. No guarantees about your mall or anything, but if you'd like to be my shopping buddy {and you have an unlimited checking account for things like shoes and designer jeans and the new White House Black Market they are putting in... I kid. But if you do, we can so be friends.} Anywhoo, I walked past Gap just for inspiration.
And to drool. And to my surprise, there were four racks marked $10, $15, $15, and $20 filled with goodies that were practically all in my size. It was like the Gap gods were speaking to me, I'm tellin' ya. And who am I not to listen to the Gap gods? $50 ($210 originally), two dresses, and one blouse later, I felt much better. Shopping therapy really might work guys. {Disclaimer: I really do not worship any shopping gods.}
In other news, today is how to dress your romper up and wear it to work day. Or return to the early 90's day. I really can't decide, all I know is that I want to watch Pretty Woman asap. Cue the Prince.
Until tomorrow, "I just want your extra time and your.....KISS."
Monday, April 25, 2011
The nerd herd
The longest post in the history of ever...
Thursday, April 21, 2011
It doesn't feel like Thursday
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
A little sparkly
Dress (Worn as a top): F21, Scarf: gift, Jeans: JCrew, Shoes: Target, Belt: Thrifted
Sometimes you need a little sparkle in your life. Particularly when life is decidedly unsparkly. And particularly when paired with boyfriend jeans.
I did notice people looking at me all morning yesterday though. Which made me question whether I was walking around with lettuce in my teeth or something. Which would have been particularly odd being that I didn't eat any lettuce yesterday.
Also odd. Don't you hate when it turns out warmer than you anticipated and then you start thinking that maybe you should have put on extra deodorant this morning, just incase. But, of course, you don't have any extra with you. So you just spend all day pulling the lift your arm/scratch your head move so you can check and make sure everything is kosher. Please tell me you guys do this because I'm kinda out on a limb here.
By the way, I was too much of a sleepy head to post this last night, but it worked out because I did not get dressed today. At all. As in I am actually sitting here right now in white gym shorts, socks, and Dusty's hunting sweatshirt. Right. Don't even try to go for a visual on that one.
Monday, April 18, 2011
Photoshop is a pooper
Sunday, April 17, 2011
What weekends wear
Friday, April 15, 2011
Days like this
Skirt: F21, Button-up: JC Penny, Shoes: F21, Belt: Thrifted
So, I skipped out of blogging the past two days. Because the real world has just decided to be a pain in the tushie. It can be such a pooper sometimes. Anywho, I've been busy busy busy, but this is what I wore yesterday. Cue the oooh ahhh's. I went shopping at Forever 21 last weekend to get my stripes fix. I could have walked out with half of the store. Kill that, the whole store.
This skirt just had to come home with me. For one, it is floaty and stripey and super fun. Two, it's long enough, and for Forever 21, that's quite the accomplishment. Three, it batted it's darling little puppy eyes at me and my heart melted. Case closed.
Alrighty folks, I'm off to do more homework. If you don't see me for a few days, come check on me. I'll probably be buried under a pile of books.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
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The Sun lashed out with two plasma eruptions one after the other early on Friday morning.
NASA's Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) spotted the solar flares, when red-hot loops of plasma burst out of the surface of the Sun.
The flares both happened within a four-hour window between 6am and 10am GMT, when prominences in the Sun became unstable and belched out hot gas made of electrically charged hydrogen and helium.
During a flare, the plasma flows out along a tangled and twisted structure of magnetic fields generated by the Sun's internal dynamo.
According to NASA:
The action was captured in the 304 Angstrom wavelength of extreme ultraviolet light. It seems possible that the disruption to the Sun's magnetic field might have triggered the second event since they were in relatively close proximity to each other.
Luckily, the flares were not aimed at Earth, but spewed out into space. Had the resulting particle clouds been headed for us, there could have been issues for spacecraft and astronauts in orbit, though the only effect normally seen for most of us is boosted polar aurorae. ®


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Classic literary adaptations on TV might be in short supply at the moment, but there are two feature film versions of the Brontës' novels due for release in 2011 – a new Jane Eyre directed by Cary Fukunaga and a new Wuthering Heights directed by Andrea Arnold. I'd be more excited about adaptations of works which haven't been brought to the screen so many times already – but, nevertheless, will look forward to seeing both of these, especially the new take on Jane Eyre, as it is one of my favourite novels and I've reread it many times over the years. I loved the Sandy Welch version with Toby Stephens and Ruth Wilson, which I hope to re-watch and review soon, but am always game for a new version too.
Seeing the trailer for the new Jane Eyre reminded me that I hadn't yet got round to watching the most recent feature film version, from 1996, directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and William Hurt, although I bought the DVD some time back. (I didn't see it on release because my children were small then and it was hard to get out to the cinema.) I've now watched this one and have rather mixed feelings about it – my main problem being, perhaps surprisingly, that it felt too reined-in and not passionate enough. I have always remembered the sensuous romance of Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet, and I suppose I expected something of the same atmosphere in this adaptation – but this is a far quieter film, with much of the emotion kept so far beneath the surface that it all but vanishes.


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The Starfish Casino is a family-oriented casino and resort on The Strip, Las Venturas in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
It features a huge multi-storey carpark. The casino has advertisements running on radio stations in the State of San Andreas, and is a rival to the many other casinos in Las Venturas. The casino is located next to The Clown's Pocket, however, it is inaccessible to CJ.
It is based on the real-life Bill's Gamblin' Hall and Saloon in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Father: Oh kids. You look like we're going to another funeral.
Kids: Dad, we're bored!
Man: You teach your children a lot of good American values. But have you taught them how to have fun? For family entertainment that doesn't stop, head over to the Starfish Resort and Casino in Las Venturas. You deserve this kind of fun. Waterslides! Shooting range! And the kids love the Giggledome! Plus, we've got the hottest gaming in town! Nobody offers you more gaming value. And, you'll teach the kids some important life lessons about real capitalism.
Boy: Dad, I lost all my money!
Father: You've learned a valuable lesson. Son, it's time for your first lapdance.
Boy: Yeah, guns!
Man: Time is meaningless in the land of tomorrow. It's the Starfish Resort and Casino. Mom can go all night on the one-armed bandits, while the kids visit the Little Tykes Pawn Shop.
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This time of year things can really amp up a bit – with social events and sing-alongs and school pageants and classroom projects and gift giving and decorating and well, you get the idea; it's busy right now. Even if it's good busy, (which I hope for all of you that it is!) it's still busy and definitely takes some serious intention. And planning. And ideas! For how to keep things feeling the way you want them to feel.
While I do love the giving spirit that is prevalent this time of year, I don't love the feeling of obligatory getting that seems to want to dominate. Being aware of that is our first step towards making it work for us. When we know what we don't want, it's easier to focus in on what we do want. And from that knowing, and from the web, and from trial and error over the years, we came to this…5 ways we make gift giving work in our house…
- Experience. Rather than a thing, we focus on an idea. A special class or outing, a trip to the movies, a book of coupons for visits to the bakery or the ice cream shop or a one-on-one date to the cafe or some other such outing where the prize is the process.
- Consumables. Perhaps this comes from having a big family now and coming from a big family, but having your very own box of protein bars or a special treat or your own box of Mac and Cheese or some other food that we would never have in house otherwise? That you can eat when you want and that you don't have to share if you don't want to but you can if you want? That's heaven for a kid in a house with 5 other people. You can eat if fast, or make it last. It's up to you and you are in charge of that little food domain.
- Want/Need/Wear/Read I saw this on the Simple Kids blog and I don't know whether they made it up or whether they got the idea from someone else but I think it's brilliant. I love the parameters it sets and I love the simplicity of it and the fact that it's all sort of covered – desires are met, needs are met, a fun garment can be purchased that might not be otherwise, and a book to read, which provides an instantaneous activity! It all takes care of that feeling many of us parents get when we put the gifts out and think, "Oh my! That's not enough!"
- Presence. It sounds cliche I know, but truly, what if accompanying the presents there was also presence. Phones would be turned off, screens could be pushed away, distractions could be eliminated or at least minimized which is sometimes all you can do with this many people in a house, and we could greet our children with our full present selves. We could play the games they want to play, and engage in a way that felt like a gift in itself. Something I know we can't always do with all that needs to be done in a day, but on this day, in this season, that seems like it could really bring about the feeling we're all truly seeking.
- Group gift that is also an activity. Something like a board game for the family or a big giant puzzle or an art supply of some beautiful variety that is given to the group for the group and that instantly inspires some fun family time.
In our house we're going for the feeling of satisfaction and we are well aware that feeling comes not from a thing but from our approach. (and quite often this time of year we need to remind ourselves of that!!) It is not about getting more, but about making sure that what we bring in are the things that bring us more of the feelings we want.
What are some ways you make it work in your house? What's your favorite gift to give? Or get? What's the feeling you're going for this holiday season? And how do you make sure you get there?
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Desktop computers, every company's
mainstay, use large amounts of electricity – from 300 to 600 watts each. Multiply that by the number of employees a company has and you get high utility bills.
Maintaining multiple workstations requires dedicated IT staff to troubleshoot, handle maintenance issues and install upgrades. All this translates to high operational costs. With businesses furiously looking to trim expenses, there's a simple solution that enables small to medium sized companies to reduce these costs.
The ENTC-1000 Encore Thin Client by Encore Electronics – a manufacturer known for their wireless and ethernet networking solutions for small business and home office use -is a "display only" desktop device that connects directly to a server, allowing multiple employees to work without the need for multiple workstations.
About the size of a pocket book, this slim six-ounce device utilizes only 10 watts of electricity, easily replacing standard workstations while cutting costs and carbon emissions.
Introduced at 2008's Consumer Electronics Show, the Thin Client has advantages for small businesses and home offices. Up to 50 computers can be replaced with Thin Clients and networked into a single server. Satellite offices can easily access corporate servers via the Thin Client, much as colleges allow students access to work on school servers.
There are many ways companies can realize cost savings with this small device. With no hard disk, no CD burner and a less powerful CPU, Thin Client uses significantly less power than regular computers.
"It's a simple device," says Daniel Huang, Research and Development Manager at Encore Electronics. "All the data crunching is sent to the server."
With 16MB of Flash ROM and 64MB of memory, this is a "plug and go". Since you can't install software on it, only the server needs upgrading, eliminating hours for maintenance and troubleshooting by IT.
For companies concerned about employees stealing sensitive information, Thin Client doesn't recognize anything but the keyboard and mouse – not even flash drives. Data is securely stored on the server and is inaccessible to employees.
Thin Client costs less than a standard desktop or laptop. Retailing between $100 and $140, a small business with ten workstations can save thousands of dollars in initial set up and installation costs alone.
As to compatibility, Thin Client can support Windows 2000 and 2003. Support for Windows 2008 is due shortly, said Huang. It also works well with both Unix and Linux systems.
What about maintenance? There's hardly any. With its low cost and little power usage, if a Thin Client breaks down (a rare occurrence), simply toss it and get another one.
"Our cost is low enough that when you replace (a Thin Client)," says Kai Huang, Encore Electronics' Marketing Manager, "you've essentially fixed it."
Thin Client has a variety of applications:
- internet cafes
- retail
- libraries
- factories and warehouses
- hotels
- schools
- financial institutions
Each person works on their own Thin Client, all networked into a central server. Easy, cost effective, minimal energy used.
"Computing does not have to be complicated," said Daniel Huang. "This is our way of showing that computing can be simple," he said.
Thin Client is available through retailers listed on http://www.encore-usa.com.
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Daniel Kehlmann plays with the idea of being noticed by the wider world–of fame, in all its irritating and intoxicating guises. His characters, woven into nine interconnected stories, are the playthings of the author, introspective ruminators, attached to fame, hooked up with fame, running from fame, inadvertently famous. Fame, the book, is satirical, world-weary, farcical, sad, wry, and packed with coincidence.
A seventyish woman named Rosalie decides to end her life in a Swiss euthanasia clinic when she receives a diagnosis of advanced pancreatic cancer. She goes through all the steps to make arrangements and gets herself to Zurich, noticing every single thing that happens around her with hyper-awareness. But then she gets angry at the author and demands that he rewrite the story, producing a miracle cure and saving her the trouble of killing herself. A famous author plays with a loaded gun in his fabulous penthouse, after writing a cynical letter that debunks all the luminous spiritual self-help books that made his fame and fortune.
One man finally acquires a cell phone but the number belongs to someone else who receives constant calls and the phone company will do nothing to help him. So he begins to answer the calls, changing appointments, making dates with a mistress or girlfriend and standing her up time after time, messing up deals and playing havoc with the life of the apparently famous person whose calls he keeps getting. An actor plays an impersonator of himself as a joke and then loses his identity to the real impersonator who becomes him, moves into his home and career and takes on his celebrity.
Fame, in this translation from the original German, is very clever and very smart and raises serious questions about who we think we are, who we really are and who we might actually be. It's also very European—Americans tend to a more straightforward acceptance of fame, when they are not lusting after it. But the absurdities and inconsistencies of fame, the profound alienation of living lies and the barbed privilege conferred by notoriety are worth reflection and Kehlmann provides that, too, in his odd little, very polished book.
Fame: A Novel in Nine Episodes Daniel Kehlmann | Pantheon Books 2010


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Stonefruit: Surface Pitting and Bruising
Bruising is mainly caused by pickers holding fruit when they remove it from the tree. They should be trained to touch only fruit stems. Packinghouse design features that reduce pitting also minimize bruising.
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Well, the Frippery extensions for Gnome 3.8 are out now: http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/extensions/index.html
Sure, you can install them the boring way by going to extensions.gnome.org, but it's more fun to do
cd ~ wget http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/extensions/gnome-shell-frippery-0.6.0.tgz tar xvf gnome-shell-frippery-0.6.0.tgz
The files will be extracted into their proper locations.
At this point I (foolishly) did alt+F2, type r, and hit enter (to reload gnome shell) -- which promptly crashed GNOME 3. At this point I simply rebooted from a tty since restarting gdm didn't help.
Use gnome-tweak-tool/Shell Extensions to enable and disable extensions.
|Using the Frippery extensions (favourites, bottom panel etc.). Note that this desktop also uses conky to display the sysinfo on the right hand of the desktop.


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by Michael Caruso
The Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill leaped across one ocean and one sea to offer "Roman Nights" Sunday afternoon, Jan. 30. The church's main sanctuary was nearly filled by local music-lovers eager to hear a select ensemble of chamber players from Tempesta di Mare, Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra, perform instrumental and vocal music by George Frideric Handel and Alessandro Scarlatti.
The concert may not have fooled Chestnut Hillers into believing that we were experiencing the 50-plus degree weather in the Eternal City this past weekend, but both the beauty and sophistication of the Roman musical scene during the early decades of the 18th century were efficaciously revived by Tempesta's internationally acclaimed musicians.
The ensemble featured concertmaster Emlyn Ngai and violinist Karina Fox, cellist Eve Miller, harpsichordist Adam Pearl, co-founders Gwyn Roberts on recorder and flute and Richard Stone on archlute and theorbo, plus guest artist soprano Clara Rottsolk. The program included Scarlatti's instrumental "Sonata in C," plus his secular cantatas "Bella, s'io t'amo il sai" and Bella dama di nome Santa." The German-born, Italian-trained and eventually English-residing Handel was represented by his cantata "Alpestre Monte" and instrumental "Concerto No. 3" and "Trio Sonata in G minor."
The concert got off to a lovely start with Scarlatti's "Sonata in C." The overall sound offered by Tempesta's six instrumentalists was ravishingly beautiful. Tempesta caught the nobility of the opening movement, the vitality of the second movement Fuga, the dramatic flourishes of the third movement and the intricate counterpoint of the closing Allegro. The two instrumental works by Handel were played with equal technical polish and interpretive passion. Throughout all three instrumental scores, the playing was exemplary. Even more importantly the music sang with emotional connection and commitment. And the ensemble never sounds better than it does in the Chestnut Hill Presbyterian Church.
I was not overly impressed by soprano Clara Rottsolk's singing. There were moments of slightly flat pitch in Handel's "Alpestre Monte" and lazy diction afflicted her rendition of Scarlatti's "Bella dama di nome Santa." It was only in the same composer's "Bella, s'io t'amo" that her singing rose to the level of her instrumental accompanists, especially Gwyn Roberts on recorder, who seemed to inspire Rottsolk to her best work of the afternoon.
Philadelphia born-and-bred superstar tenor Stephen Costello will return to the stage of the Academy of Music in the Opera Company of Philadelphia's production of "Romeo & Juliet." He will be joined onstage by his real-life wife, soprano Ailyn Perez. They will take the titled leads in this operatic setting of William Shakespeare's immortal love story, composed by the 19th century French master, Charles Gounod. "Romeo & Juliet" runs Feb. 11 through Feb. 20.
Conducting the OCP's production of "Romeo & Juliet" will be French maestro Jacques Lacombe, who described the opera's Shakespearean inspiration as one of this greatest draws for the public.
"The story still speaks powerfully to modern audiences," Lacombe recently told me, "and it's moving to see and hear how Gounod expresses in music the development of these two young teenagers who grow into adults as a result of the narrative. At the start of both the play and the opera, Romeo and Juliet are young and fresh and full of life, but by the time Juliet takes the poison, they've deepened and become adults."
For ticket information, call 215-893-9018 or visit HYPERLINK "http://www.operaphila.org" www.operaphila.org.
The East Falls-based Pennsylvania Ballet will present "Classic Innovations" at the Merriam Theater on South Broad Street in center city on Thursday, Feb. 3, through Sunday, Feb. 6. There will be matinees on Feb. 5 and 6. The program consists of Forsythe's "The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude," Wheeldon's "Polyphonia" and Tharp's "In the Upper Room."
For more information, call 215-893-1999 or visit HYPERLINK "http://www.paballet.com" www.paballet.com.


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Navispam: That Snazzy Zazzy
Zazzy is one well dressed chick. She really loves to transmog and on her blog, Zazzy Mogs, she writes everything like a comic strip, making it not only something with pretty clothes, it's a fun read too! She is such a frequent visitor to my blog (and she is very friendly to me on Twitter too - retweeting my stuff) that I thought I would try my hand at this comic thing as a tribute to her when I was trying to Navispam her.
Zazzy Mogs is one of two blogs written by Zazzy/Lorelei. Zazzy Mogs tends to deal mostly with costumes, whereas her other blog, Pixel Lives of Lorelei, deals with all that other stuff (though today, it seems to have vanished!). Each of her blogs has its own personality and Pixel Lives is a little more like my blog - bits of everything :) Her latest post on Zazzymogs, she had done Matty's Movie transmog, and her Lord of the Rings outfits looked really cool. I wanted to tell her that in person.
I was lucky to be able to track down one of her alts, Tiny, to take a picture with me! Unfortunately, the bad thing was that it was one of those days where the kids were just being BAD early in the morning and there were lots of AFKs to mediate who-hit-who, taking someone to the toilet, or cleaning up spilt food on the floor. And I also had to head out shortly so I was in a bit of a rush, and I had to go out in 10 minutes as well to get to the shops.
Zazzy knew I was looking for her - I had given her a heads up because I had asked one of her guildies about her - so she wasn't too surprised to see me though. I only had a few minutes to grab a picture with her before I had to pack people up to go out.
|OMG Zazzy, there you are! And woot I get to see your new Sea Pony too!
|Tiny: I'm a bit tired, do I look OK here?
Navimie: Pfft, you look gorgeous! How can anyone not look good in Tier 5?


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Mario Batali and Nancy Silverton need little introduction to food geeks. He's a world-class Italian chef with numerous restaurants and a force to be reckoned with on the Food Network's Iron Chef. She makes outstanding bread at her La Brea Bakery and has written several books on the subject of baking. Their collaboration, Mozza, is a fantastic pizzeria, the best in LA as far as I'm concerned.
But I'm not discussing Mozza right now. I'm reviewing Mozza2Go, the spin-off that resulted from the mass popularity of that restaurant and its inability to meet the relentless demands of Angelinos craving top-notch pizza. In order to even get into Mozza you need a reservation, and that can usually only be obtained a month in advance (longer for a Friday or Saturday night). The place is so trendy that any thoughts of grabbing a Mozza pie on the whim are like that day in high school when you tripped in the hall and crashed to the floor in front of the really cute girls: best left repressed.
Mozza2Go solves that problem by offering the same pies on the Mozza menu (at the same price) in convenient, to go-only form via their shop around the corner on
I tore into the Margherita ($13) first. The 10-inch pie has all the trappings of its full-restaurant counterpart, with its very wide and astoundingly puffy cornicione, bright red tomato sauce, patches of yellowing mozzarella, and tiny on-the-stem basil leaves (though I seem to remember a basil chiffonade last time instead of the whole-leaves-and-stem thing).
While the pie may bear a physical resemblance to its fancier brother, it in no way tastes like it, and every change is for the worse. The sauce is the biggest offender here. It's thick, pasty, and totally devoid of a tomato's natural brightness. The sauce had been spread on the pizza with a heavy hand, and it overpowered everything else despite its blandness.
The mozzarella didn't fare much better. It's flavorless, and unlike the mozz served in Pizzeria Mozza, it isn't soft at all. In fact, I'm not even sure whether it was fresh or aged. It lacked the texture of fresh and the saltiness of aged. It was just sort of...there. And the basil? Couldn't taste it.
I suspect the reason this pizza fell so flat is because the same people aren't making both restaurants' pies. There was just an amateurish air about it, from the sloppiness of the toppings to the undercooked underside of the crust. Thankfully, though, the flavor of that crust is just as superlative as I remembered. This is one of the great pizza crusts, echoing Silverton's award-winning bread in its excellence. It's so good that it you really could eat it on its own, sans toppings, and be completely satisfied. Every inch is dotted with raised fermentation blisters that release an audible snap when bitten into, giving way to a light, cavernous crumb that pushes the cornice as high as I've ever seen one go. It is, essentially, an Italian bread shaped into a saucer, and I could use those end crusts for sandwich bread and be happier with that than the bread at 95% of the bakeries in this country. It's that good.
My second pie was the Pizza alla Benno ($16), Silverton's son Ben's take on the Hawaiian pizza and one of the best you'll ever eat. The same oddly bland tomato sauce and mozzarella was bolstered by discs of pineapple sliced as thin as paper, arranged like sunbursts around the jalapenos, which pop in the mouth with a quick rupture of heat. Once the pie is removed from the oven, speck (a prosciutto-like, juniper-flavored, thinly sliced European ham) is draped over the pizza, allowing it to absorb some heat from the still-steaming toppings beneath it. The whole thing is then given a sprinkling of finely chopped chives.
This pizza really works. The fresh pineapples are very sweet but sliced thinly enough that they don't dominate the pie as canned pineapple so often does in American pizza parlors. The jalapenos deliver spikes of spiciness in small enough doses that your taste buds are stimulated but not set ablaze. And the speck brings a pleasantly light ham flavor to the pizza in substitution for the usual Canadian bacon, although you usually end up pulling off an entire strip with one bite. Thankfully they're not stingy with it.
I saved the best for last: the Meat Lover's ($18) is sensational. And sensationally greasy. But with all the meat on this pizza, it's inevitable. Bacon, salami, fennel sausage, and pancetta join forces to create something only a loveless, black hearted soul could find fault with: a veritable tapestry of meaty goodness. Coupled with that amazing crust, it's one of this world's great pizzas.
The standout is unquestionably the sausage. It's placed on the pizza in large walnut-sized chunks which are so soft and lightly constructed that they fall apart to the touch. They remind me more of fennel-laced meatballs than sausage; I recommend you break them apart with a fork and evenly distribute them across the pie for maximum enjoyment.
Mozza2Go is a great choice for those who don't feel like reserving your table weeks in advance or dealing with the full restaurant's snooty service. It's not perfect, and the pies are just a notch below those in the original Mozza (in the case of the Margherita, several notches below), but not so much that you're taking a drastic hit in quality. If you're in LA on an impromptu visit and love pizza, you absolutely cannot pass it up.
OVEN: Wood
RECOMMENDED: Pizza alla Benno, Meat Lover's


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