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The facility for import and export of goods by Post Parcels is provided by the Postal Department at its Foreign Post Offices and sub-Foreign Post Offices. Customs facilities for examination, assessment, clearance etc. are available at these Post Offices. Limited facility for export clearances is also available at Export Extension Counters opened by the Postal Department where parcels for export are accepted and cleared by the Customs.

It may be noted that the post parcels arrived at Mumbai are cleared at the following offices :

  • The post parcels with tracking no. alphabet E (e.g. EKxxxxxxxxxUS) are cleared at Airport Post-parcel Sorting Office (APSO).Behind Sahara Star Hotel, Vile Parle (E), Mumbai.
  • The post parcels starting with tracking no. starting with alphabet C (e.g. CGxxxxxxxxxCN) are cleared at Foreign Post Office ,Ballard Estate, Mumbai
  • Further in Mumbai, courier parcels bearing Airway Bill number are cleared at Courier Cell, Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Sahar, Mumbai,

The jurisdiction of the APSO, ACC, Sahar, Mumbai is post offices falling in the region of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Goa, Hyderabad City, Hubali, and Dharawar region of Karnataka.

1) How is clearance of Letter Mail Articles done?

Letter Mail Articles are generally cleared by the Customs at the time of their arrival and sorting unless they appear to contain contraband or dutiable articles. In such cases the Letter Mail is subjected to further examination at the Foreign Post Offices or sub- Foreign Post Offices, as the case may be.

2) Which dutiable items can be imported through post?

Import of dutiable goods by letter, packet or parcel posts is prohibited except where such letter or packet bears a declaration stating the nature, weight and value of the contents on the front side or if such a declaration is attached alongside indicating that the letter/packet may be opened for Customs examination. Dutiable goods may also be not imported by post if Customs is not satisfied that the details of nature, weight and value of the contents in declaration as above are correctly stated.

The items intended for personal use, which are exempt from the prohibitions under the FTP or the Customs Act, 1962, can be imported by postal channel on payment of appropriate duties under Tariff Heading 9804 of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975. Customs duty payable if less than Rs.100/- is exempted.

3) Can someone send a gift through post?

The Bonafide gifts up to a value limit of Rs.10,000/-, imported by post, are exempt from Basic and Additional Customs duties in terms Notification No.171/93-Cus, dated 16-9- 1993. Further, only those items can be imported as gifts, which are not prohibited for importation under Foreign Trade (Development and Regulation) Act, 1992. The sender of the gift may not necessarily be residing in the country from where the goods have been dispatched and any person abroad can send the gifts to relatives, business associates, friends, companies and acquaintances. The gifts have to be for bonafide personal use. The purpose of this stipulation is that the person receives the gift genuinely free and the payment is not made for it through some other means. The quantity and frequency of the gifts should not give rise to the belief that it is used as a route to transfer money. The gifts can be received by individuals, societies, institutions, like schools and colleges and even corporate bodies.

For calculating the value limit of Rs.10,000/- in case of imports of gifts, postal charges or the airfreight is not taken into consideration. The value of Rs.10,000/- is taken as the value of the goods in the country from where these were dispatched.

If the value of the gifts received is more than Rs.10,000/-, the receiver has to pay Customs duty on the whole consignment, even if the goods were received free, unsolicited. In addition, at the discretion of the Assistant/ Deputy Commissioner, if the goods are restricted for import, the receiver has a liability for penalty for such import, even if the goods have been sent unsolicited. The restricted goods are also liable to confiscation and receiver has to pay redemption fine in lieu of confiscation in addition to duty and penalty. Certain prohibited goods like narcotic drugs, arms, ammunition, obscene films/printed material etc. are liable to absolute confiscation and the receiver is liable to penal action, even if the goods have been sent unsolicited.

Customs duty is chargeable on gifts assessed over Rs.10,000/- by the Customs. In case of post parcel, the customs department assesses the duty payable and the postal department collects the assessed duty from the receiver of the gift and subsequently deposits it with the customs.

4) Can samples be imported through post?

The Bonafide commercial samples and prototypes imported by post are exempted from Customs duty, subject to the value limit of Rs.10,000/-, provided that the samples are supplied free of cost. Importers having IEC code number can import commercial samples through post without payment of duty upto a value of Rs.100,000/- or 15 units in number within a period of 12 months. The goods so imported shall be clearly marked as "Samples". The importer is required to furnish a declaration to the effect that the samples are solely for the purpose of being shown to the exporters for securing or executing export orders. The importer is also required to undertake that if declaration is found to be false, he will pay appropriate duty on the goods imported as commercial samples.

5) Can Indian and Foreign Currencies be imported by Post?

Under the provisions of Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999, no person may bring or send into India any foreign exchange or Indian currency except with special or general permission of the RBI. Import of Indian currency notes and coins by post is not permitted. To reduce pendency and to avoid delay in clearance of mail articles, Customs may allow import of both Indian and foreign currencies received by residents by post, provided the value does not exceed Rs.5,000/-, subject to the following conditions:

  • Approval is granted by Assistant/ Deputy Commissioner of Customs;
  • A detailed record should be maintained of the exemptions granted;
  • Record of the name and addresses of the remitter and addressee in India should be maintained; and
  • Where a spurt is noticed in the number of covers received over a time, the matter may be reported to the concerned Regional Office of RBI.

Parcels/packets containing foreign/Indian currency, etc., in excess of Rs.5,000/- shall be detained and adjudicated on merits and released on the basis of "No Objection Certificate"from the RBI.

There is a general permission given to Authorised Dealers to import currency notes from their overseas branches/correspondents for meeting their normal banking requirements. In view of this, no specific clearance is required from RBI for such imports.

6) What is the procedure in case of postal imports?

i) On receipt of the documents from postal authorities, the Customs Superintendent/Appraiser scrutinizes the particulars given in the Parcel Bill and identifies the parcels to be detained for examination either for want of necessary particulars or defective description or suspected misdeclaration or under-valuation of contents. The remaining parcels are assessed by showing the rates of duty on the declarations or Parcel Bill, as the case may be. For this purpose, the Superintendent/Appraisers are guided by the particulars given in the Parcel Bill or Customs declarations and dispatch notes (if any). When any invoice, document or information is required to ascertain the real value, quantity or description of the contents of a parcel, the addressee may be called upon by way of a notice to produce or furnish such invoice, document and information.

ii) Whenever necessary, the values from the declarations are entered into the Parcel Bill and after conversion into Indian Currency at the ruling rates of exchange, the amount of duty is calculated and entered. The relevant copies of Parcel Bills with the declarations so completed are then returned to the Postmaster.
iii) Duty is calculated at the rate and valuation in force on the date that the postal authorities present a list of such goods to the Customs. In case the parcels are brought through a vessel and postal authorities present list of goods before arrival of the vessel, the rate of duty and tariff value shall be the date on which Inward Entry is granted to the vessel.

iv) All parcels marked for detention are to be detained by the Postmaster. Rest of the parcels are forwarded for delivery to the addressee on payment of the duty marked on each parcel.

v) The detained parcels are submitted together with the Parcel Bill to the Customs. After examining them and filling in details of contents of value in the Parcel Bills, Customs Superintendent/ Appraiser notes down the rate and amount of duty against each item. The remark "Examined" is then entered against the entry in the Parcel Bill relating to each parcel examined by the Customs Superintendent /Appraiser and the Postmaster's copies will be returned by the Customs.

vi) In the case of receipt of letter mail bags, the Postmaster gets the bags opened and scrutinized under the supervision of the Customs with a view to identify all packets containing dutiable articles. Such packets are to be detained and presented in due course to the Customs Superintendent / Appraiser with letter mail bill and assessment memos for assessment. After examining them and filling the details of contents of value in the bill, the Customs Superintendent /Appraiser will note the rate and amount of duty against each item. He will likewise fill in these details on the assessment memos to be forwarded along with each packet.

vii) All parcels or packets required to be opened for Customs examination are opened, and after examination, closed by the Post Office officials and are then sealed with a distinctive seal. The parcels or packets shall remain throughout in the custody of the Post Office officials.

viii) If on examination the contents of any parcel or packet are found misdeclared or the value understated or consisting of prohibited goods, such parcels or packets are detained and shall not be allowed for delivery without the Customs' orders. Adjudication proceedings shall be initiated in such cases by the competent officer and the parcels released only after payment of fine and penalty, if any, levied by the adjudicator.

ix) The duties as assessed by the Customs Superintendent /Appraiser and noted in the Parcel Bill or letter mail bill shall be recovered by the Post Office from the addressees at the time of delivery to them. The credit for the total amount of duty certified by the Customs Superintendent/ Appraiser at the end of each bill is given by the Post Office to the Customs Department in accordance with the procedure settled between the two Departments.

x) The Parcel Bills or letter mail bills and other documents on which assessment is made remain in the custody of the Post Office, but the duplicates, where prepared, are kept in the Customs Department for dealing with claims for refunds, etc.

7) What would be the outcome, if the personal goods have a value of more than Rs.2000/-?

In case of the personal goods valued more than Rs.2000/-, the importer requires to provide evidence of value to customs authorities. Acceptable evidence may include an invoice or other sales documents together with a credit card transaction record of payment or internationally accepted money transfer agencies. Importer can send evidence of value to the customs authorities. If the evidence is accepted, then the receiver shall receive the post parcel with duty assessed and payment of the same to the postal authorities.


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Fallout: New Vegas is an action role-playing video game in the Fallout video game series. The game was developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published in October 2010 by Bethesda Softworks for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Downloadable content and expanded re-editions followed in 2010-2012.

The game is based in a post-apocalyptic, open world environment around the area of Nevada, California, and Arizona. The player takes control of the character known as the Courier, who is hired by a delivery service to take an unknown package across the Mojave Desert to Las Vegas Strip but is intercepted, shot in the head, and left for dead by a mysterious man who steals the package. After being found by a friendly local robot, Victor, and healed by a man named Doc Mitchell, the Courier is thrust back into the desert to seek revenge and recover the stolen package. By doing this, the player becomes caught between various factions competing for control over the desert and its most valuable asset, the Hoover Dam, ultimately coming to shape the future of its inhabitants.

Even though it directly succeeds Fallout 3 in order of Fallout game releases, offers a similar action role-playing experience, and shares its engine and some legacy content with Fallout 3, New Vegas is not a direct sequel. It marks the return of some elements found in Fallout 2. The game was a critical and commercial success, shipping more than five million copies altogether.

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IBM gets DARPA Cognitive Computing Contract

The contract was just handed out to IBM, but it's certain that cognitive computing already exists in the classified sector. DARPA works that way.

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By Daniel Terdiman
November 19, 2008

IBM and several university partners have gotten a DARPA grant to work on a cognitive computing project designed to simulate the brain's sensation, action, interaction, perception and cognition abilities. At the same time, the project's leaders will be attempting to recreate the brain's low-power consumption and size.

IBM and five university partners have been awarded a DARPA contract to work on a cognitive computing project that will, essentially, attempt to simulate the brain's power and efficiency.

According to Dharmendra Modha, the manager of IBM's cognitive computing initiative, the idea is for him and his team to try to re-create the brain's perception, cognitive, sensation, interaction, and action abilities, while also simulating its efficient size and low-power consumption.

"The mind has an uncanny ability to integrate information from a variety of sensors, such as sight, hearing, touch, smell and can create categories of time, space and interrelationships effortlessly," said Modha. "There are no computers that can even remotely approach the capabilities of the mind. The mind arises from the wetware of the brain."

But he and his team feel that the time has finally arrived for computer scientists to at least begin to approach the brain's abilities. That's because, he said, of the convergence of three things.

First, neuroscience has made incredible strides forward. Second, supercomputing technology has reached the ability to create massive simulations in real time. And third, nanotechnology has made it possible to imagine creating simulated synapses, the very element of the brain that enables it to work at speeds and efficiencies computer scientists have so far only dreamed of.

"Together, these three trends allow us to uncover the function, computation function of the brain," he said, "while rivaling its remarkably low-power consumption and its small size."

The IBM project, just the first phase in DARPA's long-term contract, is expected to last nine months.

Already, Modha said, scientists have managed to create computing tools that have rivaled the abilities of a rat's brain.

But is it a good thing for science to try to re-create the brain's power?

"The questions are so technically challenging and it is so engaging at this point to begin to put the puzzle together, and the whole part is still not completely visible," Modha said. "I think it is premature to worry about what if."

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IMAX, Fox sign multi-picture deal

Hot on the heels of revealing strong third quarter results, giant screen specialist IMAX Corporation has entered into a long-term, multi-picture agreement with Twentieth Century Fox, a division of 21st Century Fox. Marking the two companies’ first joint multi-picture agreement, the deal includes future tentpoles from the Fox slate, including Deadpool, Independence Day Resurgence, Maze Runner: The Death Cure and the studio’s untitled Wolverine project.

“We are very happy to announce this new global affiliation with IMAX and look forward to offering our audiences another choice in their viewing of our movies,” stated Paul Hanneman, President of Worldwide Marketing and Distribution and Chris Aronson, President of Domestic Theatrical Distribution. “We look forward to working with our partners in what is sure to be an exciting and rewarding future.”

“We are extremely pleased to enter into this strategic alliance with Fox, with whom we have experienced some of our greatest successes,” said Richard L. Gelfond, CEO of IMAX Corp. “Given their exciting upcoming slate, the agreement makes strategic sense for both companies. We are also excited to be able to release blockbusters together in China, which we think could help IMAX and Fox expand our footprint in that market jointly.”

“With this new multi-picture deal, IMAX closes the loop among the Hollywood studios and takes our relationship with Fox to a new level,” said Greg Foster, Senior Executive Vice President, IMAX Corp. and CEO of IMAX Entertainment. “We are excited to bring this particular slate of films to IMAX fans worldwide.”

The IMAX release of each film will be digitally re-mastered into the image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience with proprietary IMAX DMR (Digital Re-mastering) technology. According to IMAX, the crystal-clear images, coupled with IMAX’s customised theatre geometry and powerful digital audio, create a unique environment that will make audiences feel as if they are in the movie.

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Monday, May 02, 2005

Google Me

I decided to Google myself this morning. (For those who are not computer-savvy, Google is a very effective search engine that helps find websites that match the information you put into the system.) In this case, I typed in "mark jackson" pastor (the quotes make sure the search engine looks for occurences of the whole phrase) and it spit out 614 results.

I found ample evidence of my gaming obsession - not only stuff I've posted on the web but also mentions from friends. (There's even a reference to an internet radio show/podcast that I did late last year on a show called Geekspeak.)

The website I put up when I was hunting for a church (and you guys here at NewLife were hunting for me) is still active. (Which is weird... but kind of cool.)

There's even an article I was quoted in about the On Target Conference I attended back in February. (I remember being interviewed for the California Baptist state paper - though I don't remember saying one of the quotes attributed to me. Not that I disagree with what it says I said... I'm just not sure I said it to the reporter.)

Then, of course, there's the references to people who aren't me, but just share my name:

  • Mark Jackson, NBA star, who somehow got caught up in a turf war between the coach of the Knicks & the team chapel pastor
  • a playwright named Mark Jackson (though the reviews of his play call it "sprawling & unlikely")
  • any number of Pastor Mark Jackson's, including a couple of Dr. Mark Jackson's (man, that looks weird to see my name with a "Dr." in front of it)
  • a Lutheran youth ministry professor
  • some dead people (obituaries)
  • and at least one guy serving in our armed forces

Which brings me to the most interesting part of my search - there's a Mark Jackson who is, oddly enough, been convicted of bilking church members in Tennessee and California out of approximately $1.2 million dollars. (He's also up for charges in Georgia... you can read the article at Apologetics Index for more information.)

Here's the random thoughts that went through my head when I found this guy:

  • boy, if I'd embezzled over $1 million bucks, we sure wouldn't need to do a capital campaign later this year
  • how weird is it that this guy bilked churches in the last two states I've lived in?
  • man, I hate the prosperity gospel - it's anti-biblical and it has a tendency to give people permission to do stupid things
  • what would it take in my life to turn me into a con man?

If you're looking for a grand point to all this, I'm not sure I have one. But I'll certainly give it a try... maybe the overwhelming "someone walked on my grave" feeling of finding this con artist sharing my name comes from the fact that I'm invested in taking care of Mark. I've spent nearly 41 years building a reputation & a persona, and I'm not interested in letting someone/anyone mess that up.

Not even God.

So, maybe my reaction is not so much about my righteous indignation at a health & wealth "gospel" matchstick man. Maybe it's about my own fears of my precious life plan being altered... or of my carefully built facade crumbling under the weight of reality.

I don't know... I'm going to have to think about this one a bit.

What about you? What "important thing" are you scared God is going to take away?

We must remember there are many more important things, many more important things . . . off hand, I can't think of what they are, but I'm sure there must be something.
Willie Wonka, from the film Willie Wonka & The Chocolate Factory

This post originally appeared in the 5/2/05 edition of The Grapevine, the newsletter of NewLife Community Church.

Anonymous said...

Hi pastor mark, i've been reading your blog since it was listed in the search committee website. way too much time on my hands i guess, huh?

i did a search for "Matt Mann" and came up with a bunch of weird connections, too.

it seems i play football for the University of Kansas and I established the world's only competitive swimming camp in Canada in 1920 and have a swimming award named after me. Those are my two biggest accomplishments, per Google's results of course :)

Owen Gonzalez said...

I google my self under "Owen Gonzalez" minister and got no hits. Then I googled myself under my legal/first name Vincent Gonzalez knowing it is a very popular name and got some interesting hits. I am a pastoral advisor for St. Theresa Catholic Church (which is interesting because I an evangelical SBC minister); I was killed in a hit and run at the age of 40(this is sad, I am only 26, that is interesting); I am a politician who has done a whole lot of things that nobody knows about unless they google me!

Anonymous said...

owen? owen of florida?


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Hillwood Estate: Self-Portrait of an Heiress

Edward Chandor, "Portrait of Marjorie Merriweather Post," 1952

How I’ve missed blogging over this past month! These past several weeks have been some of the most hectic that I have experienced in a long time. I don’t even have a Halloween-themed post for today (you can look at my Rubens and Goya posts from previous Halloweens). Instead, I want to share some thoughts on something completely different: a female collector who was interested in frothy, powderpuff, sumptuous decorative arts that are often called “feminine.” (And hey, I know that a few of you may find this art to be just as frightening and off-putting as a ghoulish work by Goya!)

Marjorie Merriweather Post was an art collector in the mid-20th century. In 1955, Post purchased the estate Hillwood in Washington, DC to house her large art collection. Hillwood is one of the “collection museums” that I listed in an earlier post. The museum has a short introduction film on their website which is as fabulous as the tag line for the museum: Where Fabulous Lives.

Early in life, at the young age of twenty-seven, Marjorie Merriweather Post became the heiress of the Postum Cereal Company (later known as General Foods Corporation) in 1914. Many biographers have commented on how Post was thrust into a “man’s world” of industry and business at a very early age.1 Several years after inheriting the family company, Post began to acquire furniture and decorative art with the help of art dealer Joseph Duveen. Interestingly, Post developed a keen interest in art during the same period in which she pushed for her business to merge with Birdeye Frozen Foods. Post’s art collection and museum can be interpreted as a self-portrait of Post, visually emphasizing her approachability, gender and femininity in order to draw a contrast with her perceived “masculine” pursuits in business.

Clock, 1896, silver gilt, bowenite, watercolor on ivory. Height 11.25", width 4"

The works that Marjorie Merriweather Post collected seem eclectic and even disparate at first glance: she was interested in French decorative arts from the 18th and 19th centuries, porcelain, jewelry, objects from imperial Russia, Farbergé, costumes, and even Native American art. However, when analyzing Post’s collection, one can see the majority the collection requires the viewer to interact with the objects in a similar way. Many of the items in Post’s collection are created on a small-scale, which require the viewer to examine the finely detailed objects at an extremely close distance. It has been commented that Post was considered to be intimidating and off-putting to many people, because she gave the impression of “being very grand.”2 In one sense, Post’s art collection reflects and even extends this idea of grandeur, since the objects are very fine, luxurious, and extremely expensive. However, Post’s collection of small, dainty objects also presupposes an environment of familiarity, approachability, and even intimacy. In turn, one can assume that Post wanted to have these characteristics extended to her own persona. Post wanted her objects to be seen up close, and perhaps used these smaller objects to creatively assert that she, as an individual, was also approachable.

French Drawing Room at Hillwood Estate

The interior decoration and collective effect of the display contribute to the sense of femininity at Hillwood Estate. Such femininity is particularly manifest in the French Drawing Room, which is designed to “evoke the splendor of the French aristocratic life from the 18th century.” Such objects, particularly those from the Rococo period of 18th century France, historically have been considered “feminine” in nature. Art historian Melissa Hyde has stated, “During the second half of the eighteenth century, the rococo qualities exemplified by the work of [the artist] Boucher – grace, plenitude, emphasis on the seductions of color…came to be identified exclusively with the feminine.” Post includes a tapestry by Boucher in her drawing room, which compliments the flowery objects and lyrical decorative lines that suggest plenitude and grace. Such femininity can be seen in the rugs, chairs, and even the gilded molding of garlands on the wall. It is this particular room at Hillwood Estate that is decorated with many of the objects that Marjorie collected in the 1920s, the period in which she rallied to have her business merge with Birdseye Frozen Foods.

This post isn’t long enough to give a sense of the rich, luxurious quality or the expansiveness of Post’s collection- it’s quite amazing. There are many other ways that the collection and estate relate to gender, femininity, and domesticity too (I didn’t even get to the estate gardens!). Has anyone visited Hillwood Estate? What was your impression of the place?

1 For one example, see interview with Ellen Charles, granddaughter of Marjorie Merriweather Post (Hillwood introduction film at 3:39). Available at:

2 See interview with Dina Merril, daughter of Marjorie Merriweather Post (Hillwood introduction film at 2:42). Available at:

“Masculine” Civil Architecture in Colonial Brazil

This quarter I am lucky enough to teach a course on Brazilian colonial art. There are hardly any undergraduate courses in the United States that touch on Brazilian art, and I feel really lucky to work at a university that encourages students to expand their interests to include various global topics.

This week I am going to be presenting to my students some of my own research and thoughts on the civil architecture that was constructed in colonial Brazil. Through my own observations, I have noticed that a lot of the civil architecture is constructed with columns and pilasters from the Doric order (an architectural style that developed in ancient Greece).

Example of the Doric order with the plain, unadorned capital, as it appears on both columns and pilasters (rectangular columns embedded into a wall).

I think that this popularity of the Doric order especially interesting, since the Doric order has long been associated as a “masculine architectural style.” In fact, the Roman historian Vitruvius compared the Doric order to the proportions of a man. In his influential writing, On Architecture, Vitruvius explained that the proportions of a man’s foot (in relation to the man’s height) were used to form the Doric order. In contrast, Vitruvius continues to explain that the Ionic order resembles a female, and the Corinthian order can be compared to a slender virgin.1

So, what does this have to do with civil architecture in Brazil? I think that the usage of the Doric order might have had symbolic significance for the European colonists, some of whom probably were familiar with Vitruvius’ text. This “masculine” Doric order would have been in opposition to the Latin American soil, which was considered to have intrinsically female attributes. Annette Kolodny has explored how European colonizers viewed the Americas as having essentially female attributes (“land as woman”), and compared described the American continent to a virgin (“Virgin Beauties”).2 If the American land embodies the qualities that are already interpreted to be part of the Ionic (female) and Corinthian (virgin) orders, then perhaps the Doric order seemed like better point of visual contrast for colonial architecture. But I think that the Doric order is associated with much more than a mere visual contrast to the land. In a way, the rigid, masculine Doric order of the invading colonizers can be interpreted as a masculine European domination over the female Americas.

Muncipal Building (Casa de Camara), Salvador, Brazil, 17th century. Restored in 1960s

This theme of architectural domination and conquest can be extended outside gender binaries, too. Previous scholars, such as Gauvin Bailey, have discussed how the classical characteristics of Latin American architecture could have been used to associate the Spanish and Portuguese with the greatness of the Greek and Roman empires. As colonizers and conquerors of the Americas, the Portuguese and Spanish were building their New World empires, following in the footsteps of their classical predecessors.Therefore, by association, government buildings could embody authority, conquest, and domination. I feel like all of those characteristics can be seen in the Municipal Building of Salvador (see image above). The classical features such as the Doric capitals, Doric pilasters and arcade all reference the glory of previous empires. I also get a sense of domination from the low-lying, horizontal structure itself: the horizontal emphasis suggests that building wants to cover (or dominate) as much surface area of colonial land as possible.

Antonio Landi, Governor's Palace at Belém do Pará, Brazil, 1771. Landi was an Italian architect who moved to Brazil in the middle of his life. Since Landi worked as a professor of architecture in Bologna, I'm fairly certain that he was familiar with Vitruvius' "masculine" interpretation of the Doric order

I also think that Doric capitals also embody a sense of authority, since it is the most austere and rigid of the classical orders. This rigidity is especially apparent to me in the Governor’s Palace at Belém do Pará (see above), where Doric-like features (suggestive of pilasters) are decorated with quoining. The rigid, rectangular quality of the quoining reinforces the strength and rigidity of the structure (and therefore the governor, by extension). Did you notice that this is another horizontal, low-lying structure that dominates as much surface area as possible?

Any other thoughts on the Doric order and colonial conquest? Civic architecture in Brazil is a very under-explored topic in scholarly research, and I’m always up for generating more conversation!

1 See Vitruvius’ “On Architecture,” (1st century BC). Text from Chapter 1 (which mentions the Greek orders) is found here.

2 For more information on the Americas being interpreted as female (or as a woman), see Annette Kolodny, “The Lay of the Land: Metaphor as Experience and History in American Life and Letters”(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1975), p. 4-7.

3 Gauvin Alexander Bailey, “Art of Colonial Latin America” (London: Phaidon, 2005), 43.

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The 2008 P.U.-litzer Prizes

America's stinkiest media performances

Now in their 17th year, the P.U.-litzer Prizes recognize some of the nation’s stinkiest media performances. As the judges for these annual awards, we do our best to identify the most deserving recipients of this unwelcome plaudit.

And now, the P.U.-litzers Prizes for 2008:

Hot For Obama Prize

Chris Matthews of MSNBC’s “Hardball”

This award sparked fierce competition, but the cinch came on the day Obama swept the Potomac Primary in February—when Chris Matthews spoke of “the feeling most people get when they hear Barack Obama’s speech. My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don’t have that too often.”

Beyond Parody Prize

Fox News

In August, a teaser for the “O’Reilly Factor” program said: “Obama bombarded by personal attacks. Are they legit? Ann Coulter comments.”

Upside Down "Elitist" Award

New York Times Columnist David Brooks

For months, high-paid Beltway journalists competed with each other in advising candidate Obama on how to mingle with working-class folks. Ubiquitous pundit Brooks won the prize for his wisdom on reaching “less educated people, downscale people,” offered on MSNBC in June: “Obama’s problem is he doesn’t seem like the kind of guy who could go into an Applebee’s salad bar and people think he fits in naturally there. And so he’s had to change to try to be more like that Applebee’s guy.” It would indeed be hard for Obama to fit in naturally at an Applebee’s salad bar. Applebee’s restaurants don’t have salad bars.

Gutter Ball Punditry Award

Chris Matthews of MSNBC’s “Hardball”

In program after program during the spring, Matthews repeatedly questioned whether Obama could connect with “regular” voters—“regular” meaning voters who are white or “who actually do know how to bowl.” He once said of Obama: “This gets very ethnic, but the fact that he’s good at basketball doesn’t surprise anybody. But the fact that he’s that terrible at bowling does make you wonder.”

Straight Skinny Prize

Wall Street Journal Reporter Amy Chozick

“ ... The fact that he’s good at basketball doesn’t surprise anybody. But the fact that he’s that terrible at bowling does make you wonder.”

In August, the Journal’s Chozick went beyond the standard elitist charge to offer yet another reason average voters might be wary of Obama. Below the headline “Too Fit To Be President?” she wrote of Obama: “Despite his visits to waffle houses, ice cream parlors and greasy-spoon diners around the country, his slim physique might have some Americans wondering whether he is truly like them.” Chozick asked: “In a nation in which 66 percent of the voting-age population is overweight and 32 percent is obese, could Sen. Obama’s skinniness be a liability?” To support her argument, she quoted Hillary Clinton supporters. One said: “He needs to put some meat on his bones.” Another, prodded by Chozick, wrote on a Yahoo bulletin board: “I won’t vote for any beanpole guy.”

"Our Center-Right Nation" Award

Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham

With Democrats in the process of winning big in 2008 as they had in 2006, a media chorus erupted, warning Democratic politicians away from their promises of change. Behind the warnings was the repeated claim that America is essentially a conservative country. In an election-eve Newsweek cover story with the sub-headline “America remains a center-right nation—a fact that a President Obama would forget at his peril,” Meacham argued that the liberalism of even repeatedly re-elected FDR offended voters. And the editor claimed that a leftward trend in election results and issues polling means little—as would Obama’s victory after months of charges that he stood for radical change. Evidence seemed to lose out to journalists’ fears that campaign promises might actually be kept.

Bailout Bluster Award

Pundit David Brooks

On Sept. 30, just after the House defeated the $700 billion Wall Street bailout measure, Brooks’ column in the New York Times denounced the balking House members for their failure to heed “the collected expertise of the Treasury and Fed.” But a week later, after the House approved a bailout—and with the credit crunch unabated and stock market still plunging—Brooks wrote: “At these moments, central bankers and Treasury officials leap in to try to make the traders feel better. Officials pretend they’re coming up with policy responses, but much of what they do is political theater.” Now he tells us.

"Status Quo Centrists Can't Be Ideologues" Award

Too Many to Name

In late November, corporate media outlets began to credit Barack Obama with making supposedly non-ideological Cabinet picks. The New York Times front page reported that his choices “suggest that Mr. Obama is planning to govern from the center-right of his party, surrounding himself with pragmatists rather than ideologues.” Conservative Times columnist David Brooks praised the picks as “not ideological” and the economic nominees as “moderate and thoughtful Democrats.” USA Today reported that Obama’s selections had “records that display more pragmatism than ideology.” In mediaspeak, if you thought invading Iraq and signing the NAFTA trade pact were good ideas, you’re a pragmatist. If not, you’re an ideologue.

"Who Would Have Predicted?" Award

New York Times

The Times op-ed page marked the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion in March by choosing “nine experts on military and foreign affairs” to write on “the one aspect of the war that most surprised them or that they wish they had considered in the prewar debate.” None of the experts selected had opposed the invasion. That kind of exclusion made possible a bizarre claim by Times correspondent John Burns in the same day’s paper: “Only the most prescient could have guessed ... that the toll would include tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians killed, as well as nearly 4,000 American troops; or that America’s financial costs, by some recent estimates, would rise above $650 billion by 2008.” Those who’d warned of such disastrous results were not only prescient, but were routinely excluded from mainstream coverage.

Imperially Embedded Prize

New York Times Reporter John Burns

Described as “the longest-serving foreign correspondent in New York Times history,” Burns seemed less a skeptical reporter than a channeler of Henry Kissinger when he offered his world view to PBS’ Charlie Rose in April: “The United States and its predominant economic, political and military power in the world have been the single greatest force for stability in the world, such as it is now, certainly since the Second World War. If the outcome in Iraq were to destroy the credibility of American power, to destroy America’s willingness to use its power in the world to achieve good, to fight back against totalitarianism, authoritarianism, gross human rights abuses, it would be a very dark day.”

Norman Solomon is the author of the new book War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death .

Jeff Cohen is the author of the new book Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media .

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Culture Shock

Love or Let Die—In theory, Valentine's Day can be the most joyful time of the year. In practice, it's usually a full-on psychological nightmare characterized by extreme levels of loneliness and torment. But you don't need to let it get you down. Show Cupid who's boss by entering the Alibi's Third Annual Valentine's Day Card Contest.

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Live From Albuquerque

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Saving Fish from Drowning

An interview with Amy Tan

Amy Tan's latest novel, Saving Fish from Drowning (Putnam, hardcover, $26.95), pulls a fast one on readers. It begins with a story about how Tan was inspired by a real-life San Francisco socialite named Bibi Chen. Then it asks us to believe her latest novel is narrated by Chen from beyond the grave. Only gradually will readers realize that there was no Bibi Chen.

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The Lady in Question

A suspenseful tale of a world-famous concert pianist visiting Germany who finds herself enamored with a handsome professor and entangled in his attempt to rescue his mother from a Nazi prison.
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Good for the Sole

Ars Longa: Vita Brevis

Vanguard choreography in flamenco and contemporary dance by international guest artists and UNM’s distinguished resident faculty.
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Party Like it's the End of the World

Aliento: Carnaval 2017

The musical group PANdemonium takes participants on a journey through the Carnaval traditions of Cuba, Trinidad, Brazil and New Orleans.
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Not Your Average Bug's Life

Cirque du Soleil: OVO

A theatrical circus show following the life of insects.
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Splish Splash

Deep Waters, Thin Places Reception

An immersive installation of video, performance, sound, lithography and sculpture. Artist Erin Fussell transforms an urban desert flood control dam into a creative site. Runs through 3/31.
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Raise money for the New Mexico Cancer Center Foundation while enjoying live music, brews and food.
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Even eclectic music fans sometimes fail to take full advantage of Burque's diverse soundscape. For instance, I've been holed up listening to obscure '80s dark wave, synth-pop and post-punk. Since moderation is the key to long-term maintenance of any aural addiction, I've been jamming more classical music lately, too. But even a ridiculously high-end sound system can't mimic the sonic experience of a live classical performance. Oh, the strings! Give your sympathetic nervous system something to write home about at Sunday Chatter. Tomorrow, the Chatter ensemble performs Claude Debussy's “Sonata for Cello and Piano” and Gabriel Fauré's “Sonata for Violin and Piano.” Poet Jeanetta Calhoun Mish will read from Work Is Love Made Visible, which explores her family's farming background. Get there at 10 a.m. to indulge in the complimentary espresso bar. General admission is $15, but full-time students and folks under 30 pay only $9. Tickets for children under 12 are $5. The Kosmos • Sun Jan 20 • 10 am • $5-$15 • View on Alibi calendar

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News Feature

Downtown Fights Back

Bar owners are pooling their resources to battle increased pressure on their businesses and their patrons

When all the Downtown bar owners get together to hire a lawyer, you know something’s up.

It just got to be too much, says John Montoya, owner of the District Bar and Grill in Downtown Albuquerque.

Significant changes on tap for the rules governing New Mexico liquor licenses would make it easier for bars to lose their licenses. Couple that with increased enforcement of the law banning liquor sales to intoxicated people and the state’s Special Investigation Division (SID) Breathalizing Downtown club-goers, and Montoya really began to feel the pressure.

A nonprofit merchants’ association (the Downtown Alliance) that represents all liquor license holders in the area hired a lawyer two weeks ago to protect business. "It seemed the sensible thing to do," he says. "It is apparent that it is a selective enforcement issue. It's not one or two or three bars. It's the Downtown area that's being targeted. We needed one person to represent all voices." Montoya wouldn't reveal who the lawyer is at this time.

The proposed changes to the Alcohol and Gaming Division's regulations include: giving the division's director the option of yanking a license if the bar is deemed unsafe for the community; employees and license holders would not be allowed to be drunk on the premises or to drink while on duty; if a person blows a .14 on the Breathalizer, it can be assumed he or she was drunk when purchasing a drink one or two hours earlier; four violations—instead of five—of serving to a minor or an intoxicated person in a 12-month period could result in a revoked license.

The Alcohol and Gaming Division is required to give notice of public hearings if it's changing a regulation, according to Montoya. But he says he wouldn't have known about stiffening penalties if another bar owner, who happened to be in Santa Fe on personal business, hadn't seen the notice posted on the division's door. Despite repeated phone calls, the Alcohol and Gaming Division was unable to comment as of press time.

To Blow or Not to Blow

As reported in the Alibi, SID started giving Breathalizer tests to patrons earlier this month, usually on the sidewalk outside an establishment, to help determine if a bar is serving intoxicated people. The trouble with fining bars for serving to a drunk person is that the process is too subjective, says Montoya. According to Peter Olson, communications director for the Department of Public Safety, the Breathalizer reading is not required in order to slap a server or a bar with a citation. Instead, the law only requires the SID agent to witness someone serving a drink to a customer exhibiting signs of being drunk. "Waitstaff and bartenders are professionals," Olson says. "They should, of all people, know what somebody looks like when they're drunk."

And if patrons can hold their liquor without appearing drunk, regardless of their blood-alcohol level? They won't look drunk to the SID agent, either, he says. Counting the number of drinks a person’s had is one way for servers to keep track, Olson suggests. He understands that in a bar-hopping situation, often the case Downtown, tallying beverages might not be an option. Still, he says, "if they're displaying the behavior and traits [of an intoxicated person], that should be a warning."

Civil rights attorney Larry Kronen has at least one concern about the Breathalizing procedure—people might not know the test is voluntary. According to Olson, there is no penalty for refusing a Breathalizer test, provided you are not driving or engaging in an illegal activity. However, Kronen argues, "most people reasonably feel that they don't have a right to refuse an officer on the street telling them they have to do something."

Bar owner Montoya says it's the rule itself he has a problem with. "I don't agree with the sales-to-intox law at all. It makes no sense,” he says. “The last time I checked, we were not in a prohibition period." Montoya adds that it seems law enforcement agencies are coming down particularly hard on the Downtown area. "Prove to us that you are enforcing these laws in every Chili's and TGI Friday's and with corporate licensees,” he says, “and we really won't have a problem."

Olson acknowledges there has been an increase in the enforcement of the law banning serving liquor to intoxicated people, but says it stems from a long-standing battle against drunken driving. According to Olson, the state has been tougher about alcohol-related law enforcement all over New Mexico since 2003. "We have focus areas," he says. "Downtown has been a place of high activity. There are more bars concentrated there. It's not the focal point. It's a focal point."

The Downtown bar scene is a cluster of mom-and-pop joints, local family-owned businesses that don't have the resources to defend themselves legally, unlike a national franchise, says Montoya. Breathalizing is hurting his business. "Since this has happened, we're all looking at a 30 to 40 percent drop in revenue in the last three weeks."

Growing Pains

Montoya and other bar owners speculate that the squeeze was put on bars because the residential lofts Downtown aren't moving well, and investors are looking to blame the clubs. "The first thing that would pop into their head is nightlife," he says. Brian Morris, vice president of the Downtown Action Team, wants to make sure bar owners know there has been no attempt by the team, the city or anyone else to put them out of business.

Morris chalks the whole thing up to growing pains and bad communication. There is a way for a residential area and urban nightlife to coexist, he says, and it requires a bit of evolution and maturity on everyone's part. He says the Downtown Action Team and bar owners welcome SID and are glad to have agents around to make sure people obey the rules. Still, "the Breathalizing was kind of new to all of us."

Morris believes bar owners want to have a positive relationship with SID but agrees that Downtown is targeted more often than other areas of the state. "There's more pedestrian traffic," he says. "You've got five to seven thousand on a Saturday night converging on the street at the same time." Still, he feels it's important rules are applied equally and evenly across New Mexico.

Nightlife is one of many vital components in the master plan of Downtown's revitalization, according to Morris. It's important to have all kinds of development—residential, entertainment, office space—to be successful. "There's got to be a balance." Everyone wants the law to be enforced, he says, but "when it's undercover and people have to look over their shoulders, it becomes an aggressive environment."

Bar Patrons!

Breathalizer tests are voluntary, according to Peter Olson, communications director for the Department of Public Safety. There is no penalty for refusing to take one, provided you are not driving or engaging in an illegal activity, he says. Additionally, you are not required to tell an agent of the state's Special Investigation Division who last served you.

Proposed changes to the rules and regulations governing New Mexico liquor license holders:

• Would give the director of the Alcohol and Gaming Division the authority to not renew a liquor license if there is "evidence that continued operation of the liquor license by the licensee at the particular location will be detrimental to the health, safety or welfare of the local community."

• Instead of a liquor license being revoked after five offenses of serving to a minor or to an intoxicated person in a 12-month period, only four will be required. The director can consider "mitigating circumstances" when deciding whether to revoke a license.

• If a Breathalizer determines that someone has a blood-alcohol content of .14 or higher within one or two hours after purchasing a drink, it can be assumed that the purchaser was intoxicated at the time of the last sale.

• "No licensee, agent, lessee or employee of the licensee" will be allowed to consume alcohol while on duty or be "present on the licensed premises while intoxicated."

These changes will be considered by Alcohol and Gaming Division Director Gary Tomada after July 10, according to the division’s website. To check out the rules and regulations in full, visit

There will be three hearings regarding the proposed changes to the Liquor Control Act.

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Thousands of Iraq war veterans will come home to face psychological problems and a system that may not be ready to help them

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Dateline: England—Spider-Man, Superman and Batman came to blows on Christmas Day in Canterbury, southern England. Police were called in to break up a fight after three men in tights were seen brawling on the sidewalk in front of a fast food van. The three superheroes apparently decided to trade punches after the van experienced a sudden shortage of burgers. A 23-year-old man suffered facial injuries, but declined to press charges. It is assumed the three were on their way to a fancy dress party. Or not. A police spokesman told the press simply, “Spider-Man, Superman and Batman were involved in a minor altercation at 12:32 a.m. at Wincheap on Christmas Day. The injured party declined to take it further.”

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Emerald Cove was a UNSC colony world. During their training, the Spartan-II's were sent on an underwater mission with Chief Petty Officer Franklin Mendez. Mendez sabotaged half of the Spartans' air tanks and in return, they stole his. They then, as Anton-044 humorously put it, "ditched him and camped out on an island for a week, with nothing to do but light bonfires, bake clams, and surf". It was a good memory they all enjoyed sharing.[1] Kojo Agu also enlisted on the colony.[2]

In 2542, the UNSC abandoned Emerald Cove due to the danger from the Covenant. There is no information on whether or not there was any combat in the abandonment and/or evacuation. The planet may have been glassed but was likely not even located by the Covenant due to no human presence.[1]

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January 17, 2011

Bad dancing? Let me show you it.

The Alinea at Home Share Our Strength fundraising campaign has officially ended.  In the next few hours, I'll have the final total from the team at SOS.

Watch your email this week to see if you're one of the lucky winners of the many generously donated prizes, including dinner for four at Alinea.

Once all the winners have been notified and confirmed, I'll announce everything here on the blog.

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Forget John D. Rockefeller, Carol, you just might be the greatest philanthropist of all time.

AH-mazing! Thank you, Carol!

Loved this. Loved it.

Exceptional! Congrats on $10,000

Huh. Bad dancing? How bad could it possibly...no, no, no, NONONONONONO! *stops video, fixes strong drink and ponders the future of the human race*

You're my hero! :)

Congratulations on making $10,000. Totally awesome!!

That look like a lot of fun and a great workout. I notice the dog wasn't in to it though...

Absolutely fabulous.

I thought that was going to be a lot more embarrassing for you. It really wasn't THAT bad! Maybe if I could see what you were supposed to be doing...

FERRIS !!!!!!!!!!!!!

That was awesome! I had a 7-year-old beat me at that stuff. It is humbling...
Congrats on the fundraising!

Actually, you were pretty damned good!

OMG this is hilarious!!!

Carol...you have made my year. This put the biggest smile on my face, and thank you for raising so much for a truly wonderful cause.

Er, not to be pedantic, but you, like, totally cheated on your promise. You said you'd videotape yourself dancing to the Michael Jackson game. And yet the angle makes it quite clear, you did not videotape yourself; somebody *else* held the camera. Ha! Zing! Liar liar pants (and Chef Achatz's sweet fall-harvest branch) on fire! (...Other than that, congratulations, and so forth.)

Most awesome rendition of "Thriller" by a woman named Carol EVER!!!!!!! You rock.

I am sad I missed this one. We'll catch up next time. Great initiative btw!

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Part of a music junkie’s plight is sourcing the proper tools for optimumconsumption of beats. AIDC compiles a list of top 8 inventions of electronic musical ingenuity of 2016, your essential bunch of gadgets ensureelevation of your musical journey to new heights of soundscapes.

  1. Cassia Hub

Bluetooth speakers are awesome because they eliminate the need for the equally loved and hated aux cord. However, Bluetooth itself currently has only a 30-50 feet range, rendering wireless devices unusable from any greater a distance. Cassia Hub was made to solve that, most simply by extending Bluetooth range up to 1000 feet and allowing up to 22 devices to be paired with the Bluetooth router. This is a game changer for home and group listening, so much so that it won Engaget’s ‘Best of CES 2016’ under the category of Connected Home Product.

 2. SleepPhones Harmony

I personally think this is the most practical and genius innovation I have ever been introduced to. SleepPhones are created by AcousticSheep LLC, who characterizes their products as "pajamas for your ears." They have won their 4th consecutive CES Innovation award with their newest addition, Harmony; headphones in a headband that are intended to help you sleep better. The wireless headphones eliminate the all-too-real struggle of trying to fall asleep to music no one else wants to hear, and also has sleep sensors to track your sleeping patterns. Now, all you have to do is put the soft band over your head and you’re on your way to catching sleep to the sound of music. Comfortably. It’s amazing. Along with their line of SleepPhones are RunPhones, which entail the same concept of wireless headphones embedded in a headband, except for the purpose of physical activity.

 3. Vuzix iWear

Take your music video experience to the next level with iWear. This device is a high-end pair of video headphones featuring a field of view which translates to a 125” screen, basically creating a home theater right in front of your eyes. If you can get past how ridiculous the entire contraption looks when it’s worn, then it is definitely worth purchasing. Primarily meant for gaming, you can view all sorts of media on these headphones, and connecting is as easy as utilizing the built in HDMI inputs. Giant hi-definition views of your favorite Dillon Francis music video all in a pair of video headphones? Yes, please.

 4. Seaboard RISE

Seaboard RISE, by ROLI, is “a revolutionary MIDI controller that is exceptionally expressive and easy to use,” according to its official website. This gadget is a fantastic option for producers who want to take their equipment up a notch in quality. There are sensors all over the controller which allows the user to shape their sounds entirely through five dimensions of touch: strike, press, glide, slide, and lift.

These headphones debuted at CES claiming to be the “world’s safest headphones,” and what’s even more amazing is the fact that they were created by a 16-year old. KingsleyCheng, the brain behind AEGIS headphones, is “revolutionizing auditory safety” through this innovation with help from his father and co-founder, Rayman Cheng. With these headphones, safety is ensured in three parts. First, the equalizer processes sound so that the maximum sound level doesn’t go above 85dB. Second, the active noise-cancelling feature diminishes external noise up to 95%, and finally, the LED time indicator on the side of the headphones tracks listening time in multiple hour segments. With the Kickstarter campaign reaching its goal by over 400%, consumers are clearly ready for this product to officially be on the market.

6. Decibullz

How many times have you tried to work out, or even just move your body from standstill and your earbuds fall right out of your ears? With Decibullz, the likelihood of that problem diminishes greatly with their custom molded earphones. The earbuds are made of a type of thermoplastic that becomes moldable when immersed in hot water, allowing you not only to customize your earbuds, but also reshape them as often as you’d like. Their designs are not new to CES’ innovation awards, and nabbing another spot on the honoree list this year only reinforces how awesome the Decibullz’s products are.

7. DreamWave Venture

Venture is a festival fiend’s new best friend. It is the world’s first and only portable Bluetooth speaker AND two way radio, according to their website. The walkie-talkie feature is active up to a 3 mile range and can be connected with other walkie-talkies outside the Venture family, too. In a festival setting where service is often shoddy, Venture seems like a no-brainer investment toward better, safer festival experiences by offering a more reliable means of communication than phones with a Bluetooth speaker.

8. Aivvy Q

These headphones are smart. So smart, they know what songs you like by learning what you enjoy. As the first “Internet of Things” headphones, the Aivvy Q is capable of gathering data based on songs you can “like” just by tapping the ear of the headphones. It then updates the existing music library stored in the headphones with music that better reflects your tastes, as it charges. It’s as if Pandora hopped into a pair of headphones, which is not a terribly far-fetched idea once you wrap your head around Aivvy Q’s full functionality. This independent music player also has a database of over 40 million songs, allowing the device to compete not only with other headphones on the market, but also with other streaming services available.

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Mo Pitney - Behind This Guitar (2016)
Artist: Mo Pitney
Title Of Album: Behind This Guitar
Year Of Release: 2016
Label: Curb Records
Country: US
Genre: Country
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01. Country [03:16]
02. Clean Up On Aisle Five [03:41]
03. Come Do A Little Life [02:56]
04. It's Just A Dog [03:59]
05. Everywhere [02:53]
06. Boy & A Girl Thing [03:05]
07. I Met Merle Haggard Today [03:43]
08. Take The Chance [03:37]
09. When I'm With You [02:55]
10. Love Her Like I Lost Her [04:07]
11. Behind This Guitar [04:02]
12. Give Me Jesus [04:04]

At a time when country music was becoming overrun with artists whose style had more to do with pop and dance music than the traditional sounds that built Nashville, Mo Pitney enjoyed his first success as a singer and songwriter who enthusiastically embraced a classic country sound, earning a standing ovation during his first appearance at the Grand Ol' Opry. Mo Pitney was born in Cherry Valley, Illinois on March 24, 1993. Pitney's father was a part-time musician, and by the age of six, Mo was learning to play the drums. When he was 12, Pitney was recovering from a broken arm when he asked his dad to teach him to play guitar, with a towel draped over the instrument's body so as not to scratch the finish. It didn't take long for Pitney to learn a couple of Johnny Cash tunes, and he made his performing debut at a local open-mike show a few weeks later. By the age of 15, Pitney had started playing banjo, got hooked on bluegrass music, and formed an acoustic band with his friends; discovering the music of Keith Whitley opened Pitney's ears to the wave of traditionalist artists who rode the country charts in the '90s and 2000s, and Randy Travis, George Strait, and Daryle Singletary became key influences, as well as country legends such as Buck Owens and Ray Price. By the time he was 20, Pitney had moved to Nashville with an eye toward making music his career, and he landed a record contract with Curb Records. In June 2014, Pitney was invited to appear at the Grand Ol' Opry, and the unknown artist wowed the audience with heartfelt performances of his songs "Country" and "Clean Up on Aisle Five." Pitney's brief set was received with a standing ovation, and in December, Curb had released "Country" as a single. The record earned enthusiastic reviews, and Country Rebel magazine declared Pitney was "the next Randy Travis." ~ Mark Deming

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  2. Place the roast in a pressure cooker with the beef broth, bay leaves, and onion over medium-high heat. Seal the cooker, and bring to full pressure; reduce the heat to maintain high pressure, and cook for 45 minutes.
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This is so yummy and quick in the pressure cooker. I bought a pork shoulder at costco that was about 15 pounds of boneless meat. It looks like one large roast but it was actually 2 large, flop...

This was just okay for me. I followed the recipe exactly but the pork itself did not have a lot of flavor. I even shredded the meat and let it sit in the broth (which was very flavorful) for 3...

Made as a sope rather than a taco. It's a mix of corn masa and water and then usually either lightly fried or pan fried a bit and then shaped into a little bowl. This pork recipe goes great as a...

Thank you for the great recipe! Nicely seasoned, we loved it!

Easy, tasty, and shredded nicely; however, didn't love it.

I have made this over a dozen times. I tend to double all of the ingredients except the beef broth. I do add extra, hot cayenne ( about an extra 1/4 teaspoon). I cut the meat up into baseball ...

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In 2011 tablet revenues will rise to $24.9 billion, and by 2012 they’ll reach $34.1 billion. And Apple will claim the lion’s share of both, according to J.P. Morgan analyst Mark Moskowitz. Which isn’t all that surprising, really. As Moskowitz observes, while the concept of the tablet has been around for more than a decade now, it wasn’t established and mainstreamed until Apple introduced the iPad in January 2010. And Apple set the bar so high with the device that rivals are finding it tough to match it, let alone surpass it.

“Our assumption is that Apple’s dominance will remain firmly intact in the near to mid-term, but gradually, technology improvements and component cost declines will enable the laggards to offer ‘good enough’ solutions to loosen some of Apple’s grip,” Moskowitz says. “Of note, we expect a host of competitive tablets in 2H 2011, following the release of Android 3.0 this coming spring. The upgraded Android operating system should gradually improve the competitiveness relative to Apple’s iOS. Our conversations with industry contacts indicate that the current version of Android does not provide a computing rich experience, which is a requisite of tablets.”

But a gradual improvement in the competitiveness of Android tablets isn’t nearly enough to slow the iPad juggernaut. Presumably, a lot of those first-generation Android 3.0 tablets will arrive at market about the same time as the second generation of the iPad. That alone should allow Apple to maintain a comfortable lead, but the company has iOS and the iTunes content ecosystem working in its favor as well.

“With tablets, we view form factor, operating system robustness, and content ubiquity as critical demand enablers, and here, we expect Apple to dominate,” Moskowitz concludes. “Similar to the iPhone, the iPad reflects Apple’s ability to introduce unrivaled technology experiences for the customer. The key factor driving the separation from other tablet vendors stands to be Apple’s content ecosystem. With tablets, we think that offering a trove of applications, as is industry practice in smartphones, will not be enough. The ability of the user to access content, such as movies and TV shows, is increasingly important for tablet users. This dynamic is where Apple has fought hard to secure access to content, and we think it will take time for other vendors to establish a similar content ecosystem.”

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Hey readers!

Some of you may remember my Idol series from last year. Some of you (erm...most of you) may not, but you can catch up on all the action here - Muse on Idol: 2009 Edition (just scroll down!)

I "live" tweeted (20 minute delay) the girls last night and will be on time tonight, with the boys. Every Thursday for the next three weeks, I'll compile my tweets into a blog post, along with my predictions.

As we get further into the season, I'll switch to my normal format of recommending/predicting song choices on Tuesdays and critiquing/predicting whose going home on Wednesdays.

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About the Battery

I wish there were a catchy saying, along the lines of “Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey,” for battery terminals. I think I have the color-coding down, thanks to lots of recent experience whipping around the jumper cables: positive = red (blood, life) and negative = black (death). But then you have to remember to hook up the red/positive before the black/negative, and that's where I get mixed up. Red (rhymes with dead) can be dangerous, and black is basic and comes before red in the dictionary. What's a girl to do?

The good news is that I was able to start the car last Thursday all by myself, using the portable charger. The bad news was that I drove straight to the mechanic and he charged me $500 to replace the battery and the alternator.

This seemed high to me. I know what a new battery costs (about eighty dollars), but I didn’t know the price of an alternator. So I asked the mechanic for a bill.

“A bill?” he said, as if the concept were new to him. “You want a bill?”

“Yes,” I said.

We were in the garage office, and he carried the form over to the car to fill it out without me watching. It said: “Replace alternator/Repair wire—$400. Replace new battery—$100.”

“That's it?" I said. "Can't you break it down? You know, an itemized bill?”

“You want itemized?” he asked.

“Yeah, you know … parts, labor.”

“That costs more,” he said.

“It costs more to have a bill?”

“Yeah. I have to use the computer.”

“Look, I’m … curious”—I was trying to avoid the word “suspicious”—“about the price of an alternator.”

So he divided the $400 into two smaller sums, somewhat arbitrarily, it seemed to me: $220 for the part, and the rest for labor. (A sign on the wall said that labor was $95 per hour.)

“Is there any guarantee?” I asked.

He shrugged and said, "Six months, a year.”

"Would you write that down?" I asked.

He scribbled something on the bill and said, “I’m not going to give you a piece of junk.”

"I know," I said. I gave him his five hundred dollars and shook his hand. At home, I Googled the car part. An alternator for a 1990 Honda Civic can be had for as little as $90. It seems that my mechanic had gone out of his way to fix me up with the finest, most expensive alternator on the East Coast.

“You got ripped off,” a friend (male) told me that night. A few days later, another friend (a female) said, “You got a deal.”

So who knows? I'm out $500, but the car starts. On Sunday, the odometer rolled over to 70,000. It happened on the road to the dump, or "Transfer Station" ("No Fish Guts"), on Kelleys Island, in Lake Erie.

Unfortunately, I don't think I can go to that mechanic again.

tricia said...

Wish I could have been there to do a drum roll when the odometer turned! That car is still a baby, and a very well-cared-for one at that.

Jen A said...

If it makes you feel any better at all, my husband and I just paid about $450 for a new alternator for his 1998 Nissan Altima. So...if you got ripped off, so did we, I guess :)

MJN/NYC said...

The consensus seems to be that $500 is not that out of line for a job done in Manhattan. But I'm taking the muffler problem to the outer boroughs.


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