Peter Briger, Fortress Investment Group Principal.
Peter Briger is an accomplished American private equity investor born in San Fransisco, California. He is also a senior principal at the established Fortress Investment Group. He attended the prestigious Princeton University where he undertook his bachelor's in business administration.Peter Briger later gained admission into the University of Pennsylvania and furthered his education with a masters in business administration. He accumulated essential skills in leadership and finance that turned out to shape his business career.In the year 2002, Peter Briger secured a job at the Fortress Investment Group. He was required to sit in the Group's management committee. The private equity firm was established in the year 1998 by Wes Edens, Randal Nardone, Robert Kauffman, and Michael Edward. Due to his vital managerial skills, he was elected Fortress' cochairman together with Wes Edens.
As Fortress's chairman, he was required to manage the company's business transactions.Under his leadership, the company became public. He also saw the firm's employees grow to more than 2700 in number. He also controlled and managed over $75 billion in equity and property investments. The fortress was established with a $400 million in capital investments.In the year 2007, Fortress was enlisted in the New York Stock Exchange Market under Peter Briger's influence. He was later elected as Fortress' chief executive manager in the credit business department due to his excellent leadership skills.Before securing a job at Fortress Investment Group, he worked at Goldman Sachs for more than 16 years. He has also served in senior leadership roles in many companies. He was previously elected to the Asian Management board as well as the Global Control Committee.
Peter Briger announced the sale of his main business, Fortress Investment Group to the Japanese side, SoftBank Corporation. The company acquired Fortress at a hefty $3.3 billion in cash. In a contract made with Fortress' officials, it was agreed that the firm would retain its quarters in New York City.It was also decided that Wes Edens would maintain his leadership role. The deal made by the duo would last for five years.He is also a renowned philanthropist who has put most of his finances and time into benevolent courses. He serves as a director at Silicon Valley Council. The foundation was launched to support needy children around the world. The group has provided many children with essential needs such as shelter, education, and food.
Peter Briger is a serial entrepreneur and influential leader in the business world. He boasts of his over 20 years of experience in assets management as a financial consultant. He went to the Princeton University, where his sheer hard work and determination earned him a Bachelor of Arts and later joined the University of Pennsylvania to pursue his MBA.Mr. Briger currently works at Fortress Investment Group, a U.S. based firm as a co-chair. While he became a co-chair in 2009, Mr. Briger held various other leadership roles in Fortress Investment Group. Mr. Briger has been instrumental in the continued success of Fortress Investment Group, and as its principle and co-chair, he manages its affiliate real estate and credit firms. Peter Briger joined Fortress Investment Group to help it diversify its private equity into debt securities and real estate.
Previously, Mr. Briger had built himself an excellent reputation while he was working for Goldman Sachs as a financial advisor for over a decade.Peter Briger has helped Fortress Investment Group grow its portfolio, and he initiated the launch of Fortress Credit Portfolio, a subsidiary of Fortress Investment Group in 2002. As the principle of Fortress Investment Group, Mr. Briger specializes in the management of investments, serving both institutional and private investors across the world. The firm currently manages a portfolio worth over $65 billion, and it amassed all this wealth in 2007 when its shares went public via an IPO. Today, people refer Mr. Briger as a self-made billionaire who built his over $2.3 billion worth of a portfolio from scratch. Recent Forbes rankings ranked him as the 407th wealthiest man in the world.
Peter Briger is also a dedicated philanthropist who sponsors various community-based and philanthropic programs. He currently serves on the board of Tipping Point, a nonprofit organization that focuses on empowering marginalized families in San Francisco. He is also a board member of Princeton University board of director as well as an avid sponsor of various environmental conservancies where he contributes hundreds of millions every year. Peter Briger has interest in initiatives that focus on poverty alleviation, children empowerment, and quality education. As a philanthropist, Mr. Briger has funded several humanitarian programs including a professorship program sponsored by Princeton University. He also serves on boards of several other prestigious schools across the United States. Peter Bridger has recently teamed up with two other alumni of Princeton University to mentor and fund graduates in their pursuit of entrepreneurial excellence.


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Whitney Houston is home on a Friday night. Outside, purple grey skies are pouring down rain. She's sitting across from me in white stretch pants, which don't have to stretch because she's so slim. She looks pretty–un-made-up, hair slightly a mess, her ten thousand teeth occasionally organizing themselves into a huge smile.
"I have tried his love," says Houston, 32, looking me in my eyes, softly testifying, "I know his love is real." One of her legs is crossed under her; she's comfortable.
She seems quite upbeat actually, considering the gossip mill is churning out tidbits–again–about her and Bobby Brown breaking up. Two days before a headline in a New York tabloid asked dumbly, "Is Brown Bagging Marriage?" The column quoted Houston's husband of three years saying their marriage was over. But rumors of Whitney and Bobby's impending split have been circulating since their vows were exchanged. New Jersey middle-class Catholic schoolgirl turned model turned pop star marries Boston project manchild /hip-hop crooner. "I get tired of being talked about," Houston says wearily, "I really get tired of just constantly, in one form or another, hearing my name."
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But now, Houston's not talking about Bobby Brown. That will come later—through her talks about the importance of her new film, Waiting to Exhale, through her talk about her daughter, her will, her self. This talk of deep unconditional love is not about her relationship with her husband.
"I'm happy just knowing that I have God in my life. I was raised on the Word, raised to practice it. It's about believing when you ain't got nothing to believe in." For Whitney, it's mostly about the Supreme Being to whom she is devoted. It's all about him for her, so much so you want her ease up a bit. But as she says, it's her God.
But Bobby is hers too. In a different way. Some said Whitney married Bobby to squash rumors of her alleged sexual relationship with her longtime friend Robyn Crawford. Other said she married to gain some "down-ness." Brown, according to gossip, did it for the money (Brown's got three platinum albums, but Houston's worth at least $60 million; she and Brown have a complicated, ironclad prenuptial agreement), and to give his scruffy bad-boy image some polish. The possibility that it might be love was only given passing consideration. When Michael Jackson eloped with Lisa Marie Presley, busybodies whispered that the world hadn't seen such an odd couple since Whitney and Bobby. Houston crossed class lines when she married Bobby Brown—and people remain uncomfortable with it.
Less than a year after their 1992 wedding, their daughter, Bobbi Kristina, was born. The child is Whitney's first, Bobby's fourth (for both, this is their first marriage). "My husband never thought I was so sexy as when I weighed 182 pounds," says Houston with a proud smile. There was a lovey-dovey single, 1993's "Something in Common," the video for which featured the new family, complete with house and swimming pool, and lots of hugging and kissing. We're for real, the video screamed.
But Brown's macho-man antics continued. He and Houston recently presented, the Best Video of the Year Award on the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards—but a few weeks later, Bobby was reportedly at a New York nightclub, telling acquaintances he had moved out of their New Jersey home and showing off his left-hand sans wedding band. Five months before that, while Houston was in Singapore, Brown was at a nightclub at Florida's Disney World. He was arrested for fighting with a man over a woman he was allegedly trying to pick up. He peed in the back of the police car and scratched the word FUCK into the car seat.
"Bobby and I are having marital problems," Houston acknowledges without anxiety, "and that's all I want to say about it." She's sitting not too far from an antique slot machine, and near it, there's a framed photo of her and Brown looking very '80s—Bobby with tracks cut into his hair, Whitney in a longish auburn Afro. Doing what appears to be the electric slide, they look incredibly happy. "We will work our problems out," she says simply. "Not we and the world."
Raised a Baptist, Whitney Houston sang publicly for the first time in the name of the Lord. She goes back to him for everything and because of everything. "Let the words of our mouth and the meditations of our heart be acceptable in your sight, Lord, teach me how to pray" is what she sang, as an introduction to the congregation going into "Our Father." She was about seven.
"I live by his graceful eye," she says matter-of-factly. "It's by his mercy that I'm here. I am not perfect. I am not beyond anybody else. I am a child of God." All thanks are to him, all credit goes to him. At first, to her, it's not even worth delving into the idea that she's sold more records than she can count. "That don't mean nothing," she says with a dismissive wave of the hand. But then she backs up. "That's kind of shallow to say, 'It doesn't mean anything,' because it does mean something. Nobody just said 'Whitney here's your No. 1 record,' and then, 'Here's another, here's another.'"
Here's seven in a row, I say, like I need to remind her how she ruled the mid-'80s.
"Right. I was determined. But I didn't know I was going to get all that. That just happened to be– people get joy from what I do. This is the gravy. My aunts told me, 'You put him before you, all things are possible.' I have tried the ways of my Savior."
But what she has not tried to be—and what some black people and most pop critics want her to be—is a "soul singer." You hear not shouting from Whitney. There is little flailing about. Whitney was 22 when she scored her first No. 1 hit, "Saving All My Love for You." And with chart-toppers like 1988's "So Emotional" and "Where Do Broken Hearts Go," she proved what she mostly is: profoundly and mega-successfully pop, as in popular. Whitney appeals to almost everybody. Even after participating in the selling of more than 70 million units worldwide, to some people, she is still "just" a beautiful woman with an astounding voice–still not enough, apparently, to be cool.
Jerry Wexler, legendary music man and cofounder of Atlantic Records, is famous for having produced Aretha Franklin's and Ray Charles's best sessions. He's also the man who helped formalize the Sweet Inspirations–the group that includes Whitney's mother, Cissy Houston—who backed up Elvis Presley, among others. He says he's getting down to brass tacks when he makes the following observations from his Long Island home in Easthampton: "Whitney's enunciation and diction are perfectly in step with all the great pop singers. Aretha Franklin and Cissy Houston have R&B bases, but Whitney is pop based—with just enough soul to make it interesting and exotic."
To get a handle on what Wexler's not quite saying, think of pop as the code word for "white" and soul as the code word for "black." Truth is, some people are suspicious of African-American women like Whitney, who display a refinement not qualified by adjectives like "fierce" or "fly." If she doesn't symbolize for blacks and whites what whites supposedly are not, folks want to complain that she isn't "real." It's like, there must be some sort of wildness in there somewhere.
"Being a sister ain't being wild," Houston says. "It ain't running your voice till you can run it no more."
Wexler says Houston has a little "lamination" over her soul." Her voice is purity and drama and it comes from the wellspring of her being. But Whitney doesn't have the shaking, trembling emotion , the sublimated sex of that gospel feeling. Whitney, like [her cousin] Dionne [Warwick] is more of a cultivated work. I'm suggesting Aretha isn't cultivated, but she's informed by a different passion. Aretha's and Cissy's church influences are there right out in front."
And Whitney's church influences aren't. But it's not like she went to the corner and had her pipes white-washed. Houston says she's giving what she's got. "Do folks think there's more to me than what God gave me?" she asks, leaning forward in her chair, getting a little fired up. "Do they have a book on Whitney Houston that says, 'She's got some more! I know it's in there!' " She remembers being nervous about singing once in a show, and her mother gave her some advice: " 'Just go out there,' my mom told me. 'Go out there, flat-footed, and just sing. Sing.' That's what I did." And it's what she does still.
Then she slips into a voice that sounds like she's explaining Legos to Bobbi Kristina. "Soul is singing from where people can feel it. Soul is not what people think it is. Soul is in the essence of you being. And that's what I'm giving."
Houston: I'm a daughter, a sister, a wife, a mother. How do you balance this all? How do you do this all? There's no on to tell you. My strength, I think, is just doing all those things. Being all those things.
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Houston: Oh, girl, please. Sometimes I feel like saying, "Whitney's just left the building." [Laughter] And she's not coming back. [More laughs] Ever.
"Bobby and I are having problems. We will work them out. Not we and the world."
People felt Whitney Houston's cover of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You." One of six songs she contributed to the soundtrack for 1992's The Bodyguard, the single remained the No. 1 pop hit for 14 weeks. It swept every award shows and became the most inescapable song of the year. Whitney made her acting debut in the film, and her performance was panned—but fans paid over $289 million to see her and Kevin Costner have awkward banter, fall in a vague sort of love, and break up for no apparent reason. It was worth, though, to see Whitney—glam in a silk scarf and shades—running out to the tarmac to give Costner that good-bye kiss. And to hear her sing that song.
She has said that she knew she kind of "hit it" the moment she walked out of the studio, but the reason "I Will Always Love You" sold as many copies as it did is because Whitney gave up some new Whitney. She already had 18 million records behind her, between Whitney Houston (1985), Whitney (1987) and I'm Your Baby Tonight (1990), but there was a newness about "I Will Always Love You" (and to a lesser degree, her cover of Chaka Khan's "I'm Every Woman"). At 29, the woman was coming into her own.
There's not denying that Houston's personal life was at a crossroads around the time she recorded one of the biggest-selling songs in music history. Whatever Houston's prematrimonial days were like, something happened when she got to know Bobby Brown. She reconsidered her other relationship(s) and fell in love with, married, and had a child with a man many thought—and continue to think—was absolutely wrong for her. Even if you're an utter cynic and think the marriage was false and the baby a prop, Whitney was making decisions, taking risks, maybe feeling the power of her money and her career. She was being grown. She had something to sing about.
And she sang. Aside from the Kenny G-like alto sax solo in the bridge, "I Will Always Love You" is perfection. She sings the word bittersweet bittersweetly. And there is a plaintiveness about her delivery—her phrasings evidence of a tense, elegant restraint, like she could scream but chooses not to. Parton's song is full of the kind of noble sentiments that, delivered with Houston's usual bombast—as in her 1986 version of George Benson's "Greatest Love of All"—would have become just another big, melodramatic Whitney ballad. Instead the girl sings, for the first time, like she knows what love is. Not just sex, not just comfort, not just longing, not some urgent combination of the three—but love.
The song conveys the profound happiness of realizing you have the guts to believe that your relationship will never end. It's a turning point in a person's life, and Whitney sang it. And she really does believe that love is a possibility for two working people at this point in history. She feels like Waiting to Exhale (for which she recorded two new songs, the sublime single "Exhale" and "Count on Me," a duet with CeCe Winans) addresses many of the ways women are feeling about modern relationships. Exhale, based on Terry McMillan's best-seller, is the story of four African-American women coming to terms with themselves and their relationships. Women tired of holding their breath, waiting for their lives to start.
Directed by Forest Whitaker, costarring Angela Bassett and Lela Rochon, the film, according to Houston, is an important movie for sisters, "but for Caucasian sisters as well." McMillan wanted Whitney to play the resilient Savannah Jackson from the beginning. "Whitney represents something wholesome and down-home," says the author from her home in Danville, Calif. "Little-town girl makes it big. There's an innocence to Whitney, a vulnerability. Sometimes people think it's false but it isn't. She takes a lot of criticism with grace and finesse. I've watched her."
Whitney says she is very much Savannah. "Her character is a lot like mine. Savannah's very serious, a hard worker. Rachel in The Bodyguard—now, her world and my world are a lot alike. I understand all that madness and craziness. But just Rachel herself, how she is—nothing like me at all. I was more of an actress in Bodyguard than I am in Exhale."
She says she and Savannah have another thing in common: "I believe in relationships. And Exhale does too. But Exhale also says, 'Fuck that. It ain't like that.' What your mama taught you, and what her mother may have taught her, is now different. Women are more independent. We had to be. It's not just about the men going out and being the greatest anymore. Let's do our thing, together." She says "together" as if speaking to men everywhere. "I can't sit home and cook and watch stories all day like I want to." She can, of course, but she wants—and has—a different kind of life.
I tell her that lifestyle would be nice though—only half-joking. "It would be very nice," she says, laughing with me. "But it's not like that." Her house is quiet except for Bobbi Kristina and her six-year-old cousin Blaire, who chitchat on and on. "I pray that love is real," Houston tells me, gesturing towards her daughter, a sesame gold toddler in pale yellow play clothes. "I look at her and go, Oh no. This shit's got to work. Just look at her." Whitney goes into a quite mini-mantra: "This has got to be worth fighting for. It's got to be worth fighting for. It's got to be worth fighting for."
"He's a good man. He takes care of me. Disrespect him and you've got a problem."
Whitney Houston lives in Mendham, N.J. It's an affluent township right outside a quaint colonial city called Morristown. Mendham has few sidewalks, and the street names aren't painted on metal signs and attached to tall poles. They're etched into short granite pillars stuck into the ground.
We're in the babyproof family room. There are pictures on the walls of Houston and Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and L.A. Reid, of her and Michael Jackson. On her sofa, there's a stuffed panda dressed like a clown. Near it, a tiny red bike with training wheels. It's Fisher Price city basically—all kinds of stuff for Bobbi Kris, as Whitney calls her, and Bobbi Kris's cousins and friends. There's also a photo of Whitney in what must have been 1964 or '65, back when her dad started calling her Nippie. A full-faced toddler, her hands are clasped in her lap. She's looking up expectantly.
Bobbi Kristina talks ("I'm two!"), goes up and down the stairs, and gets bossy with everyone. She can scream like crazy, this offspring of Whitney and Bobby, the couple that's just too odd for folks to get over. "They had it already set up," Houston says, picking up Bobbi Kris and sitting her on the table. "Who they thought I should be with, I mean."
Who, I wonder–Costner?
"I'm not the one to be talking about black and white issues," she says, "Because I don't come with a lot of that. But we all know who runs this whole thing—we all know who's in power, right? Well, when they saw me they saw me as their little princess and [figured] 'She's going to marry a white man,' or whatever." Houston says she's tried to tell people who she is. "I come from Newark, born and raised in New Hope Baptist Church. All-girl school, mostly white girls, yeah—but this is what I am. This is what I'm used to. This is what I like. What you all may think it is, it ain't. Whoever set this little story up before I got here, it's changed. It's different. I'm not Diana [Ross]. I'm not."
She says, too, that she knew there would drama surrounding her and Brown's marriage, but not the furor. "I didn't know they would go as low as dogging my husband for some stuff he never did, the lies they told on him—like that he doesn't take care of his kids—that make him look like a lowlife." Whitney's piqued. She's protective of Brown. Like most women in love, what most people perceive as his weakness, Houston believes are Brown's strengths.
"I've got a good man," she says forcefully. "He takes care of me. I don't have to be scared of anything because I know he will kick every ass—" she pauses and then, all intense, she says, "I'm telling you, disrespect him and you've got a problem. All they can catch him doing is tearing somebody's ass up, or ripping out a door, because he's pissed off at being disrespected. He doesn't like to be disrespected. He has a temper from hell." And that, for whatever reason, is okay with her.
"I love my sexy baby," she says of Brown, smiling big. "And then some." Whitney Houston's been got. And it looks like that kind of love that no one else can tell you shit about—'cause you know. Because you're up in it. "We got our thing. We do our thing." And, she tells me, "You can make it work."
We've been talking about how women of color are often too accepting of sexism so as not to take the spotlight off racism. About how we sometimes get caught up staring at the idea of subordination, toying with it, and wondering if that's what it takes to maintain a relationship with a man. We talk about all that, and about how we're still trying to be, like Des'ree says, bad, bold, wiser, tough, strong, together.
Houston cuts through my little rhetoric, though, right to the chase. "The independence of black women," she says in a matter-of-fact tone, "is very difficult for black men."
I ask her how much then, does it fall to us to compromise. She cuts me off, but doesn't have an answer. "I ask myself that too," she says. But then she tells me there are other places I can go to get my question addressed. "You have to talk to Diahann Carroll one day. Or Lena Horne. I've talked to those ladies. They give you the story: This is what you have to deal with if you want to do this. You got to put up and deal with this certain kind of thing because this is what happens." And all Whitney's enigmatic "thises" seem to stand for "Just let" and "Sssssshhhh" and "He needs to feel big so make yourself small is you want him to stay."
"A friend of mine told me recently…" Whitney begins—and she's imploring now. Serious. Bobbi Kris has long since gone back upstairs where Lori, Houston's assistant, is taking care. "…Told me that when you feel your spirit being sucked dry, when you feel the spirit God gave you being taken away—that's when it's not right, and you have to let go. That's when you have to let it go."
She's vague; she's got to be. She can't just be telling me all her business (like I told her mine). But it is lovely to fantasize about how things could be—no more competition, no more resentment, no more folks thinking that just because a woman is busy, and has her own ideas, and tries to make herself happy, that she can't be a girlfriend or a wife. "I want things to change—like last week," she says, smiling. We do a high-five—but just a little one, because it's just a little victory, fantasizing.
And then there's no more smile and Whitney is staring at me dead-on. She's getting a little antsy, but she emphasizes what she wants to emphasize. Houston, the singer, the actress, the daughter, the mother, the wife—she knows who she is. Even if her life is a hurricane, her soul is serene. She exudes the kind of energy that says she has as much faith in herself as she has in the God she talks about so relentlessly. Houston knows who she is.
"You ask me, can relationships be?" She stands up. "Can they exist? Well, sometimes they just can't," she says. " 'Cause I'm going to be me. I'm going to do what I do. And if you love me, you're not going to want to take that from me."
Is she talking about Bobby Brown? I don't know. My next line is a lame "I heard that." Because no matter who else she's speaking of, Whitney Houston is mostly speaking about herself. And I hear her.

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Mexico is fast approaching and I couldn't be more excited. We have the girls passports, my husband renewed his passport, and mine doesn't expire for many more years.
We are all set for Mexico. Except, we have never traveled with toddlers anywhere far. Nor have we taken a flight with the girls. This will be interesting. We have only had an overnight to the Bay Area and a week in Graeagle (cabin camping). So I have been making a list of things to take for the girls. Some essentials. Please pipe in if I am forgetting something important.
The girls grew out of their cute Target bathing suits before summer ended last year, so we had to get new bathing suits. Other mommy bloggers told me a two piece (shirt and bottoms) with rash guard was the best. So we went with iPlay in pink (with pineapples) and light blue (with a birdie). They are going to be so cute in these. Plus they have a reusable diaper as bottoms.
We have a pool at our condo, so we needed to tackle floaties. I think the girls are still too young for the ones that go around their arms, so we went with a float. This one has a 35 pound weight limit, so it will be perfect for the girls. And it folds up nicely to put into our luggage and not take up much room.
We have a massive (and amazing) stroller for our girls, but we need something lighter and easy to travel with, so after some research, we went with an umbrella stroller for each girl. I looked at the really cheap ones (around $19) all the way to the more expensive ones ($150). We settled on the Kolcraft. It looks like it has taller handles (for my 5'9" and my husbands 6'2" heights), venting in the back with the hot Mexico weather, cup holder and large canopy.
Every time we go out to eat, we bring the girls disposable placemats and they are a life saver. Our girls will sometimes eat off a plate, but they also like to throw the plates, so we put down a placemat and put their food right on the mat. And when we are out, we are often asked about them. Once the girls finish eating, we take it off (it sticks to the table) and it allows for easy clean up and ability to hide their mess.
The girls are transitioning between using their bottles and sippy cups. We are experimenting with all sorts of sippy cups and so far only two they have taken too (here and the one above).
The girls needed some sandals and when I was at Babies R Us, I couldn't help but get them these cute flip flops. We have other shoes that we are bringing but these will be perfect by the pool and when they are in their strollers.
We still need to get hats for the girls and I have a few in mind. I like the one above because it has an easy closure to ensure the girls don't untie their hats. We also threw around using a baby baseball cap, but then they wouldn't cover their ears. So we are searching, but this one is at the top of our list so far.
And of course we need sand toys for the girls. These get amazing reviews and may be a part of the girls Easter baskets!
Am I forgetting anything that you can think of?
Wahoo! It's getting close. So exciting,m. Your list looks great! I've never flown with kids but I do usually buy some sort of new toy (usually small and not expensive) for the travel day. It is something they haven't seen so it keeps them occupied for a while.
Yes. I can't wait. I need a break from work, the snow, the wind and life in Nevada. Even if it is only for 8 days!! Good thinking on buying a small new not expensive toy. I will write that down on my packing list. Thanks for the advice!
Those placemats are life savers as this age!
Yes they are. We use them every time we go out. Helps keep their mess contained.
Those swimsuits are so cute! I'm so excited for you guys!
Awe thank you. I love how the swimsuits have a built in reusable water diaper bottoms. Our last ones we had normal diapers under their suits and it was a bit gross. haha.
Clorox wipes! You just never know what you will need to wipe down.
Yes my in-laws brought that up last night. They said on their last flight, they watched someone change their babies diaper on the tray table and said wipes for sure. Haha. I never even thought about where I would change their diapers.
You are in great shape! Traveling with one toddler is enough work, but add another and .....whew! I'm thinking they are old enough to be entertained by baby Einstein on the ipad for the flight? Let's add lots of coffee to the list too!
Oh yes I am sure they would like baby Einstein. I will definitely bring my ipad for the flight and hope for the best! And yes tons of coffee is in order.
Yay! Your trip is getting so close. It looks like you've compiled a great list. We've actually never flown with Ben, so if you have any tricks that work along the way, please share afterward. I can't wait to see and hear all about the trip.
Good to know. I will definitely be sharing a post on traveling with toddlers and what we learned from it. What worked and what did not.
One thing we always bring on trips are antibacterial hand and face wipes. I LOVE Johnson and Johnson Hand & Face Wipes because they're safe for baby and they get rid of germs. I'm always so paranoid about picking up gross germs from airplanes and such!
Yes, I am freaked out about the germs on planes too. My in-laws told me about babies being changed on the trays and it grossed me out. At least put a changing pad down. And use wipes. We will be using it!!
I didn't even think about getting the girls a backpack and having them put toys in there. That is such a good idea!!! And I will look into suckers. Any that you recommend?
I didn't know how to post a pic on your blog, so I sent you a cool idea on how to travel with twins and have snacks easy to pack. I sent it via Facebook in a private IM. Check it out....it is so cool.
Not sure if it's an issue where you're going but maybe a good bug spray? I always stick with Burt Bees or another natural one so you don't have to worry about rubbing all those chemicals on your babies. Have a fun trip!


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- System slowing down: You sure the Speed Step is working? Why usb dongle? Why do not you replace a wireless card?
- Sometimes it boots at 3rd attempt: Do this, see at boot what's happening next. But if it's kernel panic it will not appear in the log, right?
- System slowing down: You sure the Speed Step is working? Why usb dongle? Why do not you replace a wireless card?
- when playing youtube videos the cpu clocks to 3.1ghz and 100% load for ~ 30sec-1min then it normalizes, when changing the video, windowsize or go to fullscreen its the same issue.
- plugged in an ethernetconnection and got the same problem, maybe its a faulty codec?
Abou the slowdown, I'm pretty sure you are not using WhateverGreen.kext, right? Try installing it. If you already have, run kextstat to see if is loaded.
You can order a DW1560, It's works very nice and have Continuity, AirDrop and Handoff. Only Instant Hotpot that sometimes don't work.
Thanks for the advice for the Card, ill order one once I successfully flashed my bios.
It turned out that I did not even try to fix it because I ordered a new touchpad of the model T460.
@ludufre, I followed your guide to create a USB Installer but when I boot using the installer, I don't see an option to start the macOS installation. It only shows the Windows EFI partition of the hard drive that has Windows installed. Any idea on how to fix this?
EDIT: If anyone else has this issue, the fix was to put HFSPlus.efi file in the UEFIDriver64 folder. This made the installer show up in Clover.


Today the people of Scotland voted on whether to become an independent country. The polls closed about an hour ago.
Don't let the silence of this blog on the issue fool you into thinking I was not interested in the campaign. Far from it. I've been following the battle as closely as work and family life will allow. Despite exhibiting the Englishman phenotype, I have Scottish ancestry (coal-miners of Fife, poets of Edinburgh) and of course lived, worked and loved in Scotland for many years. It always felt, and still feels like my country.
So I'm a natural unionist, and the promotion of division, separation and the creation of a new barrier (however conceptual) makes me feel sad. That said, many of the arguments for independence are beguiling. There is something enticing about a political tabula rasa. Talk of building a nation is inherently constructive and delivers an endorphine shot.
I've picked probably the most useless time to post a blog on this issue. The polls have closed so I cannot persuade anyone. And yet none of the vote tallies have been reported so there is nothing to analyse. Its funny to think of all those marked ballot papers, piled and yet to be counted, and consider that the result already exists as a fact of the universe, even if no-one knows what it is yet. Schrödinger's Scotland: is it independent or not? We have to open the box to find out.


2020 E-Class Mercedes-Benz Diesel, Interior, Release Date – 2020 E-Class Mercedes-Benz only fairly recently unveiled. Having said that, the level of entranceway notchback is only the work related to some variations compared to precisely what arrives alongside the current modern day technological know-how. Exactly where nicely just before time Mercedes-Benz E-Class looked into not precisely like the precise C Class, moving it currently usually normally has a tendency to follow the same design propensity as being the Mercedes-Benz Benz E-Class automobile. Each of the E-Class is predicted to produce an intro a little while down the line this converting up year.
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Today, Amanda Knight, Education Coordinator, Egan Maritime Institute, presents the steps taken to develop an 8th grade oceanography/maritime studies class at Nantucket Public School. While it may be specific to coastal towns, her work can serve as a model for how experiential learning and cultural enrichment programs with relevant 21st century themes can be developed by any community through creative public and private partnerships.
Located thirty miles off the coast of Massachusetts, Nantucket Island, once the whaling capital of the world, is a popular vacation destination with a year-round population of 10,000 that swells to 50,000 during the summer months. Among the families that call the island their primary home are a diverse population with varying degrees of knowledge of Nantucket's history and its seafaring traditions. Dedicated to bridging the gap between the island's maritime legacy and today's young Nantucketers, Egan Maritime Institute (EMI), a non-profit foundation, partnered with the island's private and public schools to develop Sea of Opportunities (SoO), an educational curriculum for middle and high schools that reinforces students' historical connections with the sea while exposing them to the maritime trades and sciences of the 21st century.
The creation of SoO was the outcome of a combined effort among many factions within our community to address a problem. Thirty miles out to sea, Nantucket was once an isolated community whose residents both respected and feared the surrounding waters. As technology eased access to the island, the population diversified, and reliance on the sea as a way of life lessened. As a result, we realized that we were losing our maritime heritage.
We conducted a community needs assessment, which incorporated interviews with stakeholders, including community leaders, non-profit organizations, parents, and other maritime programs. Specifically, these stakeholders were queried about the most appropriate ways to support the island's heritage. The resounding call was for a program targeted at students and designed to enrich their future professional and personal lives by exposing them to maritime traditions, trades, and sciences. Paramount to the success of SoO and any similar program is starting with advocates within the community.
With the community onboard, the next critical step was approaching the school and inviting educators to express their needs. The administration identified a need to support core academic learning that allowed students to construct their own knowledge and that could be measured through standardized assessments. Their vision for accomplishing this was by supporting the 21st century skills of critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity within an experiential based course in which students could learn from, and about, their environment. Understanding and working within the school's parameters ensured their continued participation and longevity for the program.
The partners then brainstormed intersections between the community needs, school needs, and the mission of preserving local culture, in an effort to develop a program that would address their mutual goals. The outcome was an 8th grade course that addresses the 21st century theme of environmental literacy while at the same time supporting the cultural literacy of the island. Specifically, the oceanography/maritime studies course provides the opportunity to support interdisciplinary science (i.e., earth, life, and physical science) while also making interdisciplinary connections (i.e., across the contents of science, history, English language arts, and math).
Moreover, all of this can be set within the context of the island or be applied to maritime-related concerns facing the world today. On a local level, students can be provided with seasonal data on the profile of Sconset beach across time and asked to present an argument on whether or not it should be protected from future erosion. Globally, the same question can be addressed about the effects of climate change and shifting coastlines—all leading to a discussion of shoals, shipwrecks, and 21st century navigation.
The progressive vision, however, required a financial investment by both partners. While EMI agreed to fund the teacher salary, the school agreed to fund the benefits and provide classroom space. Both partners have also agreed to contribute to costs associated with transporting students around the island as well as the necessary equipment and materials.
The 8th grade oceanography/maritime studies class is the third iteration of the program in as many years. In the first year, an elective course in maritime studies was offered for 6th graders, and it was expanded to the 6th and 8th grades during the second year. The third iteration added the oceanography component and is required of all students. Through these iterations, we have been able to further refine the vision and clarify the needs of the students, school, and community. This openness to change is necessary and requires continued dialogue and collaboration among partners.
Oceanography/maritime studies are a natural fit for Nantucket and will support the development of a citizenry that is informed about the island and opens students' eyes to maritime career opportunities at home, nationally, and abroad. The Superintendent of Schools, W. Michael Cozort, has endorsed the program saying, "We believe that Sea of Opportunities is enhancing our school in the area of science, social studies, math, writing, and environmental education in many positive ways." In the kids' own words, "The class not only allows you to learn all about whaling, direction, and the ocean, but we do it in a dynamic way." And, "It's a lot of fun and we learned a lot about Nantucket history and navigation."
While we anticipate the need to continue to refine the program, the partners are committed to supporting the cultural literacy of the island. Other communities, however, should consider which 21st century theme is most appropriate for them. For instance, schools within an urban setting could attend to environmental literacy by exploring urban ecology in their schoolyards. Global awareness, civic literacy, health literacy, or financial, economic, business, and entrepreneurial studies are all critical 21st century topics that can be taught in today's classroom with contributions from private and public stakeholders in communities nationwide.
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Photo courtesy of Egan Maritime Institute.


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Two Portsmouth chefs semifinalists for prestigious James Beard Awards
David Vargas, Evan Mallett contenders for best chef in Northeast
Siobhan Lopez
WEBVTT A LITTLE MANGO HABANERO SALSA. PORTSMOUTH'S VIDA CANTINA, OWNED BY CHEF DAVID VARGAS, OFFERS MODERN MEXICAN CUISINE WITH A NEW ENGLAND TWIST. CLIP 38 51:02-51:07 WE'RE SUPER BLESSED IN THIS AREA TO HAVE SUCH A TIGHT KNIT COMMUNITY THAT SUPPORTS US. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME VARGAS IS BEING RECOGNIZED BY THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION AS A SEMIFINALIST FOR BEST CHEF IN THE NORTHEAST . CLIP 38 47:26-47:38 IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT IN THE NORTHEAST THERE'S SO MANY RESTAURANTS SO MANY PHENOMENAL CHEFS, SO MANY MORE DESERVING CHEFS THAN MYSELF AND IT'S INCREDIBLE. BLACK TRUMPET NATS EVAN MALLET, CHEF AND OWNER OF BLACK TRUMPET IS NOW A 5-TIME SEMIFINALST. CLIP 79 15:47-15:53 EVERY TIME IT HAPPENS I AM STUPEFIED I JUST KNOW HOW MUCH TALENT THERE IS OUT THERE. CLIP 76 37:08-37:12 WHILE THEY'RE UP FOR THE SAME HONOR . THEY'RE VERY MUCH ROOTING FOR ONE ANOTHER. CLIP 79 23:01-23:07 HE CAME INTO THIS COMMUNITY WITH A GREAT PERSPECTIVE. CLIP 38 49:20-49:26 TO BE ON THE LIST WITH HIM, I CALLED HIM UP RIGHT AWAY AND I SAID THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU'VE DONE FOR ME. BOTH CHEFS HAVE A PASSION FOR COMMUNITY . WHETHER IT'S THE INGREDIENTS THEY COOK WITH, THE PEOPLE THEY FEED, OR THOSE WHO HAVE HELPED THEM ALONG THE WAY. CLIP 38 48:34-48:41 I HAVE A BEAUTIFUL WIFE AND TWO BEAUTIFUL KIDS THAT HAVE SUPPORTED ME THROUGH THIS WHOLE CAREER, SO I OWE EVERYTHING TO THEM. CLIP 78 11:22-11:28 IT'S NOT ABOUT US, IT'S ABOUT THIS GIANT GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO MAKE WHAT WE DO POSSIBLE. IN PORTSMOUTH, SL WMUR NEWS NINE. TRACKING DOWN SEX OFFE
Portsmouth's culinary scene is booming, so it's no surprise the city has two chefs up for a prestigious honor.David Vargas and Evan Mallett are among the semifinalists announced Wednesday for the 2019 James Beard Awards, in the best chef in the Northeast category.>> Download the FREE WMUR appVida Cantina, owned by Vargas, offers modern Mexican cuisine with a New England twist."We're super blessed in this area to have such a tight knit community that supports us," Vargas said.This is the first time Vargas is being recognized by the James Beard Foundation."If you think about, it in the Northeast, there's so many restaurants, so many phenomenal chefs, so many more deserving chefs than myself, and it's incredible," he said.Mallett, owner of Black Trumpet, is now a five-time semifinalist."Every time it happens, I am stupefied," he said. "I just know how much talent there is out there."While the two chefs are up for the same honor, they're still rooting for one another."He came into this community with a great perspective," Mallett said of Vargas."To be on the list with him, I called him up right away and I said, 'Thank you for everything that you've done for me,'" Vargas said of Mallett.Both chefs have a passion for community, whether it's the ingredients they cook with, the people they feed, or those who have helped them along the way. "I have a beautiful wife and two beautiful kids that have supported me through this whole career, so I owe everything to them," Vargas said."It's not about us, it's about this giant group of people who make what we do possible," Mallett said.
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. —
Portsmouth's culinary scene is booming, so it's no surprise the city has two chefs up for a prestigious honor.
David Vargas and Evan Mallett are among the semifinalists announced Wednesday for the 2019 James Beard Awards, in the best chef in the Northeast category.
>> Download the FREE WMUR app
Vida Cantina, owned by Vargas, offers modern Mexican cuisine with a New England twist.
"We're super blessed in this area to have such a tight knit community that supports us," Vargas said.
This is the first time Vargas is being recognized by the James Beard Foundation.
"If you think about, it in the Northeast, there's so many restaurants, so many phenomenal chefs, so many more deserving chefs than myself, and it's incredible," he said.
Mallett, owner of Black Trumpet, is now a five-time semifinalist.
"Every time it happens, I am stupefied," he said. "I just know how much talent there is out there."
While the two chefs are up for the same honor, they're still rooting for one another.
"He came into this community with a great perspective," Mallett said of Vargas.
"To be on the list with him, I called him up right away and I said, 'Thank you for everything that you've done for me,'" Vargas said of Mallett.
Both chefs have a passion for community, whether it's the ingredients they cook with, the people they feed, or those who have helped them along the way.
"I have a beautiful wife and two beautiful kids that have supported me through this whole career, so I owe everything to them," Vargas said.
"It's not about us, it's about this giant group of people who make what we do possible," Mallett said.


Ohio's 2004 Presidential Vote Still Being Contested Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) is asking the FBI to investigate alleged election tampering in Ohio. NPR's Tavis Smiley talks with Conyers, Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell and Melissa Harris Lacewell, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Chicago.
Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) is asking the FBI to investigate alleged election tampering in Ohio. NPR's Tavis Smiley talks with Conyers, Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell and Melissa Harris Lacewell, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Chicago.