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2.1.13 … It sounds like borderline bigotry to say it, but I have “snowboarding friends.” …

Tags: America, aside, ‘The Weather Channel is Located in Atlanta!’, bookcases, Bookends, Britain, Can an App Improve Vision?, Can Snowboarding Be Saved?, Classic 18th Century Paintings, Cronut's humble offspring, Davidson College, DavidsonNews.net, Decline could actually help the middle class, DIY, flag policy, follow-up, fortune cookies add ons, FYI, genealogy, Georgia’s Snowpocalypse, Green Malachite, income inequality, Jon Stewart, kith/kin, LGBT student life, Mediaite, On the Square, Origami, Our State Magazine, photography of children, Pick A Crystal!, Rawforbeauty, Salon.com, Slightly Viral, Snowboarding | OutsideOnline.com, Tarboro NC, The Doughscuit!, The Salt : NPR, WSJ.com

Can Snowboarding Be Saved?, Snowboarding | OutsideOnline.com, kith/kin: This is also a follow-up to my article about Alta Resort, 1.19.14 … book jackets and wine labels … :  Definitely a kith/kin issue.

It sounds like borderline bigotry to say it, but I have “snowboarding friends.” In fact, from adulthood on, most of my skiing memories are tied up with snowboarding. Frankly, skiing would be a lot less fun without it. From twin tips and fat skis to better clothing and a more laissez-faire attitude at ski resorts, the advent of snowboarding dramatically altered my once-stale sport. So please trust that I’m not just a hater when I say this: Snowboarding is screwed.

Many a destination resort will admit privately that snowboarding now accounts for less than 15 percent of total revenue. Others have seen snowboard visits cut in half. Sales of snowboarding gear are down dramatically, too, a whopping 29 percent over the past six years. Where did all the snowboarders go? Many are skiing. Others simply quit.

It didn’t really have to be like this. The problem isn’t so much snowboarding, but the snowboarding industry. The sport was invented by humble folk in the Midwest (by a friend’s grandfather) and Vermont (by some older classmates of my wife), but it was adopted by Southern California. Actually it was more of an alien rendition than an adoption. Most snowboarders in places like Maine, Montana, and Colorado have little affiliation with the carefully cultivated image of “action sports.” Then there’s the ageism. Over 30 years old but still get out and shred? The industry lives in absolute dread of you


Cronut’s humble offspring, The Doughscuit!, The Salt : NPR:  Probably not good for my low carb diet  🙂 I was 10 doughnuts in when I came to Endgrain Restaurant\’s table, and I was in no condition to want or enjoy anything.

But their doughscuit — half doughnut, half biscuit — was transcendent, an impossible mix of doughnut-fried sweetness and crumbly biscuitness. Every last nook of free space in my body was full, and I bought extras. I ate one at home later. The next morning I had more. I\’m not entirely sure I\’m going to finish writing this sentence without going out to get another.


The doughscuit is more humble. It\’s got a hardworking biscuit for a dad, not a fancy croissant. It doesn\’t have the little ® next to its name. All it should have next to its name, forever, is an exclamation point.

via Meet The Cronut’s Humble Offspring: The Doughscuit! : The Salt : NPR.

Jon Stewart, Georgia’s Snowpocalypse, ‘The Weather Channel is Located in Atlanta!’ , Mediaite:


On Thursday, The Daily Show tackled the paralyzing snow that struck Atlanta, Georgia, over the week that caused nearly 24-hour traffic jams and resulted in strong criticism for Mayor Kasim Reed and Republican Gov. Nathan Deal.

Host Jon Stewart played clips of Deal explaining that the lack of preparedness was due to the lack of warning the state had prior to the storm. “Sure, no, I guess that’s probably the case,” Stewart said, “Unless anybody in that room had been watching what I guess you would call the weather.”

“The Weather Channel is located in Atlanta,” Stewart observed. He went on to mock the two elected officials for celebrating their own contributions to the state while the catastrophic storm was unfolding.

Stewart went on to feature a “25-news-box pileup,” in which his own correspondent broadcast live from Georgia with nearly 30 of his colleagues.

via Jon Stewart Lays Into Georgia’s Snowpocalypse: ‘The Weather Channel is Located in Atlanta!’ | Mediaite.

America,Britain, Decline could actually help the middle class, income inequality, Salon.com: 

via America, take it from Britain: Decline could actually help the middle class – Salon.com.

kith/kin, fortune cookies add ons, genealogy:  At the 21st birthday celebration of my nephew, we laughed at the arrival of the fortune cookies.  We have always added “in bed”  ro the end of the fortune.  The twins add “with a chainsaw” … any other add ons? And Happy 21st birthday to my twin nephews, Charlie and Zack! And an aside:  I was talking with my SECOND cousin, and she asked her relationship to the twins.  I said second cousin once removed.  I think I am correct. 

The Ache: In presbyopia, the eye’s lens loses elasticity with age. The ability to focus on near objects deteriorates, resulting in the need for reading glasses.

The Claim: A 12-week, scientifically tested training program, newly available as an iPhone app, uses a technique called perceptual learning to reduce—or even eliminate—the need for reading glasses.

The GlassesOff app provides training meant to help reduce the need for reading glasses. Shown, an exercise to identify which way the E faces. GlassesOff

The Verdict: A 30-person study published in February 2012 in the journal Scientific Reports found that after trying the program—now on sale as an iPhone app called GlassesOff GLSO -3.59% —participants on average could read letters 1.6 times smaller than they could previously. The program is much more likely to show improvement in adults 40 to 60 years old, scientists say.

The self-guided app, launched this week by GlassesOff Inc., starts with a vision test, followed by a personalized training program users employ three times a week for 12 to 15 minutes per session. In one test, users must decide whether an E is facing up, down, right or left. The test gets harder when the E becomes smaller or lower-contrast. At the end of the session, users receive a personalized assessment of how much the app is likely to help them in various tasks, such as reading an article.

The training consists of identifying fuzzy, striped images called Gabor patches, which can be hard to see against a similarly colored backdrop.

The app is free for two or three weeks after a user signs up. To continue using it after that costs $59 for four months. The company, which has offices in Israel and New York, is offering a temporary $10 promotional price. After the initial program, the company offers a personalized maintenance program of one or two sessions per week at extra cost.


Bookends, Origami:   Book Ends provides the largest selection of origami books in the UK … Just in case you need origami books or papers in the UK.


At Book Ends you will find what is probably the largest selection of origami books in the UK – approximately 150 titles. There are books at all levels of difficulty, some written especially for children, others for adult beginners through to highly complex models for experienced folders. We have been the official supplier to the British Origami Society for many years. Many members have published books on origami and we stock all of these along with books from the USA and Japan. In April and September each year, we attend the BOS Conventions where we sell our full range of books and origami papers.

via Bookends: Origami. Book Ends provides the largest selection of origami books in the UK.


Rawforbeauty:  I picked the green malachite … funny, but I hate green …
 
If you are attracted to this stone, you are (or are about) to go through a major life transformation. This transformation may be practical, changing the way you live and work, but it also goes much deeper. It is about spiritual evolution, energy blockages in your mind and body from past experiences being untangled and released. You are becoming wiser and in the process learning to truly value yourself. You may find the process unsettling, initially you become more aware of what you don’t want, rather than what you do. That’s fine. First we must acknowledge the need for change, only then can we start to look for alternatives. Malachite is the stone of prosperity and abundance, when you start to look up, luck and fortune are waiting. It can signify the end of destructive romantic relationships and the dawn of pure love. By picking this stone you are unconsciously telling the Universe, ‘I am ready for success. I am ready to lose the negativity. I am ready to be passionate about my life’.


If you’re still a skeptic about crystals, I hope you’re willing to keep an open mind and do some research into them. You will be amazed by what you find. I recommend starting here, by watching The Crystal Movie by Spirit Science.

via Rawforbeauty – Pick A Crystal! Look at the 6 crystals below,….

fyi, diy, bookcases: See More On Cabinets & Shelving | How to Build a Small Bookcase | This Old House.

Davidson College,   LGBT student life, flag policy, DavidsonNews.net, follow-up:  Another follow-up …

Quillen asked students what obstacles stand in the way of broader visibility for LGBT students. She  explained that while campus culture is the realm of students, the administration will do what it can to make LGBT students feel at home. Many students suggested physical manifestations of the LGBT community, such as an LGBT campus center, LGBT-related art installations or an annual LGBT pride event.

“I would love to move past the point where flags matter, but at the moment we don’t have any other tools for this frustration to be resolved,” said one student.

“I do think we need flags because that’s the first step in the process of getting the building, getting the artwork … we don’t have anything else,” another student explained.

The Committee on Campus and Religious Life will meet in the coming months to discuss alternatives to the college’s current flag policy. Meanwhile, debates about the visibility of the LGBT community at Davidson College will likely continue.


On the Square, Tarboro NC, Our State Magazine:  Another reason to visit Eastern NC.  I bet there is a fun inn in the area between On The Square and  Chef & the Farmer in Kinston NC.  As I said before,  Anybody game for a road trip? …

The restaurant was awarded Wine Spectator magazine’s “Best of” Award of Excellence, making On the Square one of three restaurants east of Greensboro to hold this title. This is quite a feat for a place where a bottle of wine can cost less than $15 and the entrées (fresh fish is the local favorite) are priced so that everyone in town can enjoy them.

The offering of high-style dining at these prices ensures that On the Square remains a place where reservations are recommended. But Southern hospitality dictates that, reservation or not, diners will be greeted warmly and accommodated promptly, often by Inez herself. Monday through Friday at lunch and Thursday through Saturday for dinner, Inez and Stephen relish the chance to share good food, fine wine, and the company of friends.







Classic 18th Century Paintings, photography of children, Slightly Viral:  Wouldn’t that be fun to do with your 4 year olds? And I agree with my friend,  ” She is so expressive with just her eyes…amazing for a little girl. Bill Gekas is an Australian photographer with a love for classic paintings.  But last year Gekas took his love a bit farther and decided to recreate the classics through photography…using his gorgeous 5-year old daughter as the subject.

And the outcome is, well, take a look for yourself…

It’s not easy to get a small child to look natural in an 18th century scene…

via At First I Thought These Were Classic 18th Century Paintings…Then I Took A Closer Look. Wow! | Slightly Viral.

 













6.19.13 … Scandalgate: Do-It-Yourself All-Purpose Presidential Scandal Story :) …

Tags: DIY, politics, scandalgate


So to save all of us some time, we have written a Do-It-Yourself All-Purpose Presidential Scandal Story. You don’t have to fill in the blanks; technology does it for you. All you have to do is choose a president and the sorted/sordid details will fall into place.

via Scandalgate: A DIY, All-Purpose News Story : The Protojournalist : NPR.


6.6.13 … I shall not covet my neighbor’s tree house …

Tags: amazing treehouse, DIY

amazing treehouse, DIY:  < $300  🙂

Family Builds Amazing Treehouse For Less Than $300 (PHOTOS)

via Family Builds Amazing Treehouse For Less Than $300 (PHOTOS).


3.17.2011 … happy St. Patrick’s day … And birthday wishes to Comer and Elizabeth… and the world’s greatest amateur golfer, ever … I think we’ll eat Irish tonight …

Tags: Atlanta, birthdays, blogs, Bobby Jones:, CBI, cooking, Davidson Basketball, DIY, economics, Edward Lindsey, financial blogs, food, health, helpful article, Historic Oakland Cemetery, history, human trafficking, Irish Blessing, Japan Earthquake/tsunami, kith/kin, law, lists, medicine, news, obesity, quotes, St. Patrick's Day, twitter, useful information, Yale murder

St. Patrick’s Day, history:

via March 17: Patrick, Bishop and Missionary of Ireland, 461 « Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music.

St. Patrick’s Day, Irish Blessing, quotes:  Thanks, Jayne, for reminding me of one of my favorite blessings.  Did you know it is printed on McCann’s Irish Oatmeal cans and boxes?  Nice touch …

May the road rise to meet you.

May the wind be always at your back.

May the sun shine warm upon your face.

And rains fall soft upon your fields.


………May God hold you in the hollow of His hand.

via Jayne Stone McGonnell.

St. Patrick’s Day, food: I think we’ll eat Irish tonight …

Classic Irish Soda Bread

Yields 1 loaf.

Fresh out of the oven, this bread is a great accompaniment to soups or stews, and leftovers make fine toast. The variations following this recipe, with their flavorful grains and additions, can stand alone.

via St. Patrick’s Day Dinner for 8 – Cooks Illustrated. Rachael Ray Show – Food – Reuben-Stuffed Potatoes.

St. Patrick’s Day, twitter:


(St. PATRICK chasing the snakes out of Ireland. Happy St. Patty’s to ya!)

via Facebook.

St. Patrick’s Day, Historic Oakland Cemetery , birthdays, Atlanta, Bobby Jones:

Historic Oakland Cemetery Today in 1902, the most successful amateur golfer in the world was born here in Atlanta (Grant Park neighborhood). Happy birthday Bobby Jones!


news, human trafficking, Atlanta, kith/kin, Edward Lindsey:  Kudos to my brother Edward and the GA legislature for taking a lead on this horrific crime against children.  I read an about this and it said Atlanta was the worst city in the country with respect to this issue … had the comment that who would dare let their spouse go to Atlanta for a convention … when the access to young prostitutes seems to be the major drawing point.

Georgia’s Anti Human Trafficking Bill has cleared the House thanks to the assistance of Rep. Judy Manning, Rep. Rich Gollick, Rep. Penny Houston, Rep. Mary Margaret Oliver, Rep. Wendell Kennamer Willard, and Rep. Buzz Brockway. Now, on to the Senate and our Senate Sponsor Senator Renee Unterman.

via Edward Lindsey.


Last week, the Georgia House passed some of the most progressive legislation in the country on the subject. The vote was 168-1, and when it passed the lawmakers broke into applause.

For traffickers, pimps and johns, the bill imposes higher fines and longer sentences, which get even longer if their victims are young. There would be a 25-year minimum prison sentence for using coercion to traffic someone under 18. Buying sex with a 16-year-old would bring a sentence of at least five years. Younger than that and it’s a 10-year minimum.

At least as important, the bill would make it harder for the sellers and buyers of sex to defend themselves. Didn’t know her age? Wouldn’t matter. Was she previously involved in selling sex? It would be harder for pimps to raise that as a defense.

As for the prostituted child or adult (regardless of gender), the Georgia bill would offer a get-out-of-jail-free card to those who can show they were coerced into it. Physical abuse, threats, confinement, destruction of immigration documents, drugging, financial control — all would be considered coercion and could be used as a defense against a prostitution charge.

It’s not everything advocates had wanted. Children can still be prosecuted, and it doesn’t set up services to help them get out of prostitution.

But it’s a giant step forward. And it applies to those trafficked for labor servitude, not just for sexual purposes.

On this issue, people usually on opposite sides came together: religious groups and feminists, Republicans and Democrats.

The new Republican attorney general, Sam Olens, contributed ideas he picked up from the National Association of Attorneys General. Prosecutors worked on the bill with a group called A Future Not a Past, which aims at ending the prostitution of girls. Georgia Women for a Change suggested approaches from national anti-trafficking organizations. A Baptist group that last year opposed a bill that would have banned prosecuting underage prostitutes supported this one.

“We created a cultural shift,” says Stephanie Davis, executive director of Georgia Women for a Change.

A cultural shift is exactly what it took.

via Georgia’s cultural shift about prostitution  | ajc.com.

Japan Earthquake/Tsunami, helpful article: Status of the Nuclear Reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com.

Japan Earthquake/Tsunami, economics:  Yen Climbs to Record Versus Dollar – WSJ.com.

health, obesity, medicine:  Doesn’t it seem like we should be able to solve this one …

In November, the prestigious Cleveland Clinic hailed a “scar-less” weight-loss surgery as one of the top 10 medical innovations expected this year.

GI Dynamics of Lexington, Mass. has approval in Europe for the EndoBarrier, which mimics part of bypass surgery. Even the devices approved in Europe are several years from the market in the United States.

Developed by a company aptly called Satiety Inc., the procedure shrinks the stomach by using a stapler inserted through the mouth, rather than by cutting open a person’s belly.

But when the results of a clinical trial came in, the procedure resulted in the shedding of far fewer pounds for patients than the company had hoped. Venture capitalists who had invested $86 million in Satiety over a decade shut the company down.

The failure of the procedure, called transoral gastroplasty, pushes back the availability of any incision-less procedure to millions of obese Americans for several years, a disappointment to companies trying to find the next best thing to major surgery. The setback also further restricts options for those who are overweight, because it is occurring on top of federal rejections of a new generation of diet pills.

These defeats are not for lack of effort. Entrepreneurs are developing all manner of odd and ingenious ideas aimed at replacing bariatric surgery. These include a pill taken before meals that would swell up in the stomach, pacemakers that deliver jolts of electricity to the stomach wall, and tubes that line the inside of the small intestine, letting food slide through without being absorbed.

Device makers hope that by going in through the mouth using an endoscope, they can eliminate the infection risk from incisions, and possibly the need for general anesthesia, thereby lowering the current $12,000 to $30,000 cost for bariatric surgery. If weight loss could be made less forbidding and less expensive, many more people might undergo such procedures, including people who are less than severely obese. Even though more than 20 million Americans are heavy enough to qualify for bariatric surgery, only about 200,000 have the operation each year.

“There’s definitely a need for something for the other 99 percent,” said Hugh Narciso, chief executive of Baronova, whose experimental device slows the movement of food out of the stomach.

But bringing a device to market can be difficult. The digestive tract, with all its acids and movements, is an inhospitable place for a medical device. Bariatric surgery, meanwhile, has become safer because it is now done through tiny incisions. Just recently, the Food and Drug Administration lowered the weight requirement for Allergan’s Lap-Band, making more than 26 million additional people eligible to have it implanted.

via Surgery-Free Devices to Lose Weight Remain Elusive – NYTimes.com

blogs, financial blogs, lists:  Business Insider – The 25 Best Financial Blogs – TIME.

cooking, useful information, DIY:  🙂  How to Butcher a Chicken – Video Library – The New York Times.

Davidson basketball, CBI:  Never heard of the CBI … begun in 2008 … well, we won round one … whatever that means …

Cats host James Madison Tues. night in College Basketball Invitational

Wildcat logoDavidson College’s men’s basketball team lost in the first round of the Southern Conference tournament two weekends ago, and that looked like the end of the season. But it wasn’t.

Coach Bob McKillop announced Monday that the Wildcats are among 16 teams selected to play in the 2011 College Basketball Invitational. The action starts Tuesday night, March 15, when the Davidson hosts James Madison University at 7 p.m. at Belk Arena.

The CBI presented by Zebra Pen is a post-season tournament that began in 2008. It starts as a single-elimination tournament, with all games played at campus sites. The event features eight first-round games, four quarterfinals, a semifinal, and then the Championship Series. Previous winners have included Tulsa (2008), Oregon State (2009) and Virginia Commonwealth (2009).

The 16-team field consists of teams not selected for the NCAA Tournament. Others include Miami (Ohio), Rhode Island, St. Bonaventure, Creighton, Oregon, San Jose State and Austin Peay. (See the full bracket (PDF))

All tickets are general admission and priced at $14 for adults and $7 for youth 12-and-under. Students will be admitted free with their student ID card.

via Wildcats tapped for post-season play; here’s how | Sports.

cooking, DIY, useful information:  There is some good stuff here … Chinese Chili-Scallion Oil, Chocolate-Hazelnut Paste, Corn Muffin Mix, Crème Fraîche, Cultured Butter, Fresh Cheese, Horseradish Beer Mustard, Kimchi, Maple Vinegar, Preserved Lemons, Tesa (Cold-Cured Pork Belly), Tomato Chili Jam, Vin d’Orange …

What follows is a D.I.Y. starter kit: small kitchen projects that any cook can tackle. What they all have in common is that they are simple, seasonless and a clear improvement on the store-bought version. Many books on craft food are daunting: full of advice on how to put up bushels of kale or bury an old washing-machine drum to use as a root cellar. Nothing here requires special equipment, a shed or a backyard; no canning or even freezing is involved.

via D.I.Y. Cooking Handbook – Interactive Feature – NYTimes.com.

news, Yale murder, law:  I am a lawyer, and I am not sure I understand  this plea …

Clark pleaded guilty under the Alford doctrine, which allows a defendant to assert that he is innocent but plead guilty when he “intelligently concludes that his interests require a guilty plea and the record strongly evidences guilt.”

via Yale killing suspect admits murder, gets 44 years – CNN.com.


