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Close-up with a wide angle lens.

I’ve been trying out the fuji 16mm f/1,4 lens recently which is a wide angle lens (equivalent 24mm in full frame terms). It has a minimal focusing distance of 15cm (from the object to the sensor) so in real life you can pretty much put the lens a couple of centimetres away from an object and get it in focus.

The effect is interesting, I believe, on natural objects and much less on people where the distortion can be very unbecoming.

The lens opens at f/1,4 and most of the photos in this article were taken at this aperture. The lens is very sharp wide open. Plenty sharp enough to get good details.

Fujifilm gives the 16mm lens a 1:0.21 maximum magnification at the closest focusing distance. This means that at this distance the size of an object photographed will be 21% of its size on the sensor. A real macro lens is 1:1 that is to say that the object is the same size on the sensor as it is in real life. I take this as an indication of how big things will appear on the sensor. As the XF16mmF1.4 is a wide angle lens, this gives plenty of space around the subject even if the lens is very close. In the previous photo, I had my camera right up against the pink flower.

With so much space around the subject, the quality of the out-of-focus areas becomes very important. As you can see, thankfully everything is very smooth and the colours are great.

The depth of field is very small at this wide open aperture. I used a depth of field calculator, and the result was 0.44cm! That is half a centimetre! Thankfully the x-t2 I was using focuses accurately and swiftly, even at this distance.

I tried to add an extension tube to the lens. I own the mcex-16 which is just a 16mm long tube that goes between the body and the lens. An extension tube enables a lens to focus even closer. Unfortunately, the mcex-16 does not work with the fujifilm XF16mm. The focusing distance becomes lesser than the length of the lens. I tried anyway on a flower head and here is what I got.

On the fujifilm website, it says that the mcex-11 works with a magnification of 1:0.91. The distance between the end of the lens and the object is only 1cm though. It may be nice to give it a try!

This wide angle lens, undeniably useful for landscapes, architecture and such, has become a lens I always keep in my bag. I have been taking it out on my macro excursions recently. It allows me to find new angles and new compositions.

The cover photo is a stack of 5 images, all focused at different parts of the mushroom. Photoshop aligned the layers and focus-stacked everything automatically for me. I just went into Color Efex pro 4 to do a bit of work on the colours.

Just to compare, this is the same mushroom, taken with a 60mm macro lens.

What do you think ?


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Small Step for Pedestrians & Cyclists; Giant Leap for NYC

wburg_cityplanning_images.jpgThe Department of Transportation’s recently announced streetscape renovation at the Bedford Avenue L subway station in Williamsburg, Brooklyn marks the first time ever in New York City that car parking spaces have been removed to make way for bicycle parking.

Since breaking the news of this development on Monday, Streetsblog has learned more about the project. DOT’s plan is to widen the sidewalk by five feet for approximately 112 feet along the southeast curb of North 7th Street at Bedford Avenue. For the real estate brokers out there, that’s 560 square feet of new sidewalk space for Williamsburg. New bicycle racks will provide approximately 25 bike parking spaces. DOT is aiming to complete the project some time within the first six months of 2007. It will cost about $32,000 and the funding is coming from DOT’s general budget.

This sidewalk widening project has been about three years in the making. In the last few years, the Bedford Avenue L subway station has become a popular park-and-ride for bicycle commuters. With increasing complaints of bikes blocking the crowded sidewalks, in 2004 the NYPD began dropping in and sawing bikes off of the street furniture with chain saws.

"Clearly, that was a bad solution," says Teresa Toro, chair of Community Board 1’s transportation committee and New York City Coordinator at the Tri-State Transportation Campaign. "Everybody in the community recognizes that there are so many more people biking. There was much frustration around the police doing those bike raids, clipping locks."

Toro credits Brooklyn DOT Deputy Borough Commissioner Dalila Hall for working with the community to develop solutions. As plans were being developed to build out the sidewalks at Bedford and North 7th, DOT fast-tracked the installation of about 150 new bicycle parking spots in the neighborhood.

In April 2005, Brooklyn Community Board 1 approved a plan to widen the sidewalks and remove parking along two stretches of North 7th Street at Bedford Avenue (see the draft plan below). The widening along the southeast corner — the part of the project that DOT has agreed to get done in the next six months — is aimed more at improving pedestrian access to the crowded subway stairwell than increasing bike parking. "There will be a few bike racks away from the subway stairs. But the northwest corner would have been the one with a ton of bike racks on it," Toro says.

The sidewalk build-out and bike parking on the northwest corner is on hold for lack of funding. The southeast corner is being done first, Toro says, because "It has been recognized as a real need for a while. The city’s Subway-Sidewalk Interface project (PDF file) identified that as a trouble spot and it came up again during the Williamsburg-Greenpoint rezoning discussions."

This raises the question: On the northwest corner, couldn’t DOT install the bicycle parking directly on the street rather than taking the time and money to build-out a sidewalk extension? There are many successful designs and models for on-street bike parking in other cities. Greg Raisman of the Portland DOT pointed out in Streetsblog’s comments section that the 13 on-street bike racks pictured in this video cost only $4,000 to install. Raisman also notes one downside to on-street bike parking: The street sweepers can’t get in to clean the curb.

That question aside, convincing an outer borough Community Board to get rid of car parking spaces is no small task. For Livable Streets advocates interested in pushing for similar projects in other neigborhoods, Toro’s Community Board political savvy is worth noting. One of the reasons why her community didn’t mind giving up ten car parking spaces to bicycles is because Toro’s committee was simultaneously working to reclaim curbside parking space elsewhere in the neighborhood.

"We had a lot of outdated parking restrictions from when this was an industrial community.  The use had changed for lots of buildings but the parking rules had not," Toro says. By the time the vote came up to approve the sidewalk widening and bike parking plan, her committee had already freed up 40 or 50 new parking spaces in the area. "So, it wasn’t a hardship to give up five or ten parking spots. There wasn’t much opposition to this," Toro says.

Only 30 percent of the households in Brooklyn’s Community Board 1 own cars. "More people walk and bike than drive on Bedford Avenue. I see this as an equity issue and an acknowledgement that car owners are not the only ones who use the street and use public space."

The Department of Transportation’s sketch.

  • ddartley

    Yes, yes, yes, put ’em on the street!

    Like Aaron’s pointed out, it should a lot cheaper, and heck, if street sweepers can’t get in, I bet some of the cyclists themselves would help keep it clean. (Very easy for me to say since I don’t live there–cough.)

  • mfs

    the cyclists here definitely would not keep it clean whether there it is up on the curb or on the street. seriously. the only folks that keep our sidewalks clean are businesses and homeowners, because they will be ticketed if they don’t.

  • There are some subway stairs in Chicago that take up too much room on the sidewalk. We would benefit from the taking over of a few on-street parking spaces for more sidewalk space (and with or without the addition of bike racks on this new sidewalk).

    Once place I have in mind, for those Chicago readers, is the Grand/Milwaukee stop on the Blue line-O’hare.

  • Preston

    25 Spaces is nothing. My experience suggests that available parking will generate trips. This holds true for bikes as well as cars. I suspect that the intersection already has 25 bikes on a normal day.

    Perhaps the slow rollout will give time for this process to reveal itself allowing the city to be even more ambitious with it’s parking infrastructure when the NW corner is built out.

  • ddartley

    Yes, the “cyclists would keep the space clean” probably wins the prize for the dumbest comment I’ve ever posted on streetsblog. But it comes from my firm belief that cyclists are good citizens.

    Put those bike racks on the street, not the sidewalk!

  • ms nomer

    In response to #4/Preston – the 25 planned bike racks are in addition to others already installed nearby by DOT; they’re not the only 25. Particularly, there’s already a bunch of bike racks on N7 off Bedford, near the station.

  • da

    Re: parking bikes on street vs. sidewalk:

    I believe it is currently ILLEGAL for anything other than motorized vehicles to occupy on-street parking. This point came up in reference to the Park Slope Parking Spot Squat, where some jokers “parked” a small, plastic toy car in a parking space.

  • nobody

    Not a joke, but an exercise designed to provoke a rethinking of how we use our street space, and to see if there’s a more equitable arrangement. But yes, in a fun way.

An NYC First: On-Street Parking Spaces Replaced by Bike Racks

The new bike racks have been installed at the Bedford Avenue L subway station in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. As the Dept. of Transportation announces in today’s press release, "The facility marks the first time car parking spaces have been removed to accommodate bicycle parking in New York City." DOT extended a 76-foot section of the sidewalk […]

Now the MTA is Stealing Bikes in Williamsburg

Back in July, New York City’s Department of Transportation built sidewalk extensions and bike racks on a few automobile parking spaces-worth of street space near the Bedford Avenue subway stop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It was the first time ever that on-street car parking had been replaced by bike parking in New York City. The Bedford […]

Bedford Avenue Bike Parking Update

A knowledgeable correspondent explains why the Williamsburg bike parking facility is being held up: The Bedford Avenue L Subway Station bike parking improvements are being held up by funding problems. State Assemblyman Joe Lentol has secured funding for the project, but Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has delayed the release of the funding because there was some […]

Streetfilms: Car-Free Bedford Avenue

Emil Kozerawski is still working on the idea of making Williamsburg, Brooklyn’s "Main Street" into a car-free pedestrian boulevard. Now Car-Free Bedford Avenue has its own Streetfilms-style video on YouTube. Speaking of which, don’t forget to tag those YouTube videos "Streetsblog" to ensure that we get a hold of them. I love the vision and […]


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The NBBL Files: Chuck Schumer “Doesn’t Like the Bike Lane”

Editor’s note: With yesterday’s appellate ruling prolonging the Prospect Park West case, Streetsblog is running a refresher on the how the well-connected gang of bike lane opponents waged their assault against a popular and effective street safety project. This is the third installment from the six-part NBBL Files.

This piece originally ran on October 5, 2011.

This is the third installment in a series of posts examining the tactics employed by opponents of the Prospect Park West redesign. Read the first post and the second post.

Senator Chuck Schumer, a frequent cyclist, walks his bike by the Prospect Park West bike lane, which he told bike lane opponents he does not like. Image: ## Spoke.##

Throughout the Prospect Park West bike lane saga, intense speculation has surrounded New York’s senior senator, Chuck Schumer. Both his wife, Iris Weinshall, and his daughter, Jessica Schumer, played leading roles in the fight against the redesign, but Schumer’s office remained studiously silent throughout. “I am not commenting,” Schumer repeatedly told the New York Times when asked about the bike lane this March; in later press conferences, his staff barred reporters from asking about it.

Despite his public attempt to remain neutral, Schumer told opponents of the bike lane that he personally opposed it, according to correspondence obtained by Streetsblog via freedom of information request.

Members of the anti-bike lane group “Neighbors for Better Bike Lanes” also attempted to use the senator’s political power and network of contacts to their advantage. They exploited his connections to get access to top political consultants and hoped to use his clout to pressure local elected officials. David Seifman at the Post has reported that Schumer asked City Council members what they would do about the bike lane. Schumer may also have discussed the project with Mayor Bloomberg himself, according to a message from one leading bike lane opponent.

Schumer apparently revealed his opposition to the bike lane to NBBL leader Louise Hainline, who lives in the penthouse of the same Prospect Park West apartment building the senator calls home. “Schumer can’t help much with this issue, but I have seen him and he doesn’t like the lane,” wrote Hainline to two bike lane opponents on June 29, 2010. Though Hainline said Schumer “can’t help much,” NBBL repeatedly attempted to use his connections and clout to aid their efforts.

Bike lane opponents sought to wield the senator’s political influence to pressure local elected officials. Specifically, Hainline believed that she could leverage her Schumer connection to win the backing of City Council Member Steve Levin.

In an e-mail to a personal friend on December 24, 2010, Hainline reported on her recent meetings with members of the City Council. She came away believing Council Member Brad Lander wouldn’t turn against the lane, but that Levin might. Wrote Hainline: “Stephen Levin is a protégée of Vito Lopez, who if you are reading the papers is in some hot water, so Levin’s looking for some god father, and may want Vacca or Schumer to protect him, maybe both.”

It’s not clear whether Hainline’s plan for Levin was based on her recent conversation with him or was simply wishful thinking. Levin has not taken a public position on the bike lane, even when asked about it directly.

No written evidence of Schumer’s direct lobbying on the bike lane has surfaced, but one email is quite suggestive. On December 3, 2010, bike lane opponent and former deputy mayor Norman Steisel wrote to Weinshall: “Also heard abt a purported conversation betwn the mayor and our sr. senator you might find of interest.” In all the documents obtained by Streetsblog, the extent of Steisel and Weinshall’s communications was limited to the Prospect Park West bike lane, suggesting that the conversation “of interest” between Schumer and Bloomberg was likely about the same topic.

Weinshall, Hainline, and Jessica Schumer also tried to enlist a veteran of Chuck Schumer’s press shop. On July 12, 2010, Jessica Schumer reported on the latest ally her family had recruited in their fight against the bike lane: one of the state’s top media consultants. “My mom talked with Risa Heller on Saturday night – she used to do my dad’s press and then went on to work for the governor and now does PR work,” she wrote. “She said she would be willing to help us out a little – so I can get in touch with her if you would like.” Hainline said that she’d be interested, and Schumer agreed to contact Heller.

A few days later, Hainline proposed smearing Transportation Alternatives and Streetsblog for receiving funding from Mark Gorton, who at the time was enmeshed in a lawsuit with the record industry over his Limewire file-sharing software. “I’ll take a look at it this weekend,” Jessica Schumer told Hainline, copying Weinshall, “and will see what risa thinks of that angle as well.”

Nine days after Jessica Schumer first reached out to Heller, Hainline told two NBBL members: “We also have some advice from a media person who cannot be public but was recommending a press conference when we file the suit.”

Heller was the only media professional mentioned in the NBBL communications obtained by Streetsblog during this period, but she specifically denied that this email referred to her. “Iris reached out to me and as much as I love her I declined to get involved,” Heller told Streetsblog.

Schumer’s current staff appear to be keeping a close eye on reports that link him to the bike lane opposition. Of note is an email from Weinshall to two of Schumer’s top staffers, Martin Brennan and Mike Lynch. Brennan is Schumer’s New York state director, Lynch his chief of staff. The content of the email was of little consequence — a friend sent a clip from a Streetsblog article about the Schumer family to Weinshall, who forwarded it on to Brennan, Lynch and Jessica Schumer — but it was sent to their Senate email addresses, suggesting official business.

There remains much that we don’t know about Schumer’s involvement in the fight against the bike lane. We don’t know whether he played a role in convincing Gibson Dunn partner Randy Mastro to provide ample legal resources at no cost for the lawsuit backed by his wife and daughter. We don’t know what the senator said about the bike lane to City Council members or to Mayor Bloomberg. There is solid evidence, however, that Chuck Schumer, like the rest of his family, opposed the Prospect Park West bike lane, and that his political stature was vital to the fight against it.

  • Anonymous

    This wonderful multi-part analysis of The NBBL files used to be something written in places like the New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and the Voice.  Shows that real journalism, as opposed to reprinting press releases from flacks, is withering.  And since Streetsblog does not have the current readership of those outlets, the general public may never know the truth.

  • The big story here is that despite opposition from such powerful figures, the PPW bike lane survives! Kudos to the mayor and the DOT for standing up for the community.

  • Friend of the Berms

    I don’t care how much he enjoys riding his bike, it will not surprise me if Chuck Schumer joins Senate Republicans in eliminating all federal funding for urban bicycle infrastructure because of this Streetsblog investigation.

    It’s like Streetsblog is standing under the biggest, meanest bee hive in Brooklyn and calmly, methodically whacking it with a stick.

  • MSM

    Add New York Magazine to your list of mainstream media that have missed or muffed the story of the attack the PPW lane.

  • Anonymous

    From the Brooklyn Spokes comment page, just what I was thinking:paul PERMALINKOctober 3, 2011 4:35 pmmaybe he wasn’t biking in the bike lane, but he was availing himself of that pedestrian refuge island!

  • As a commenter pointed out to me, Chuck Schumer may not like the bike lane, but he sure is availing himself of the shorter crossing distance and better visibility that new pedestrian island offers!

  • Brooklyn College Grad

    Louise’s January 24 email to former Brooklyn College president Christoph Kimmich is pretty informative. A few nuggets:

    “Iris had been working behind the scenes until the election but with Chuck now making good progress in the Senate battles, she’s apparently decided to throw caution to the wind and come out from behind the scenes.”

    “Iris and Norman have been meeting with City Council people privately, particularly Jimmy Vacca who doesn’t like the lanes and is the chairperson of the City Council Transportation Committee.”

    “Norman Steisel is like no one I’ve ever met, but clearly very experienced politically. I’m the data geek and technology guru in measuring the bike lane usage and I write a lot of the early drafts of things that then are critiqued and polished. I also organize meetings, mailings, etc, which I didn’t really know that others can’t do that well sometimes.”

    And finally, this gem:

    “Given the terrible circumstances on the streets here, you’re better off in NJ. The Mayor has really outdone himself in hubris.”

    I’m guessing there’s a whole bunch of CUNY employees deleting their inboxes this week.

  • Brooklyn College Grad

    The delusional paranoia exhibited in this email exchange between Louise Hainline and Jessica Schumer is truly something to behold.

    You almost have to remind yourself: It’s all over a bike lane. Just a bike lane.

  • Brooklyn College Grad

    Jesus, I need to stop reading these NBBL emails and go live my life. But this shit is riveting.

    I like how in the July 21 email exchange between Louise and Lisa (AdviceFromMediaPersonRedacted.pdf), they are totally incapable of acknowledging the  giant elephant standing there in NBBL headquarters taking a dump on the expensive Persian carpet — support for their cause is rapidly vanishing as their neighbors grow comfortable with the redesign of the street.

    In attempting to explain why NBBL’s volunteer petitioning seems to have failed and a volunteer named James has disappeared, Louise writes:

    “I have received no petitions back, I don’t know… if the petitioning process is also falling off. Clearly, some people are less upset than they were originally.”

    Lisa replies:

    “Haven’t heard from James either – hmmmm – sure he is on vacation. Someone keeps ripping down my flyer I put in the window of my building… I had a lot of request for petitions but haven’t gotten any back.”

    “Flyer rippers too! What jerks.”

  • Andrew

    “Will put that on the list, but have to do a bit of college work first.”  Poor Hainline – your boss expects you to do your job every now and again!

  • Andrew

    “Will put that on the list, but have to do a bit of college work first.”  Poor Hainline – your boss expects you to do your job every now and again!

  • Sigmund

    Politics sure makes strange bedfellows and Iris Weinshall probably now regrets the day she ever got in bed with Louise Hainline.  All she has to show for their collaboration is a damaged reputation, the public exposure of her emails, and some embarrassment for her husband.  Plus there’s still a highly popular bike lane that will remain on the street outside her apartment as a reminder of it all.

  • Anonymous

    @9f5377a83fec2c41721f78189d209cab:disqus great point, if the original intent was to protect Iris Weinshall’s legacy they’ve achieved the opposite.  If not with the Tabloid reading public, with people who actually follow transportation.

    While DSK is leading the way with large projects originally designed by the guiulliani admin no one would have thought of Iris Weinshall as particularly backwards or foolish until she stuck her neck out to double down on a losing position.

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  • Mark Elliot

    Yeah, well Streetsblog may not have the readership of the Times, but it has the reach: we’re watching this saga continue to unfold here in Los Angeles. We’re having our own tussles with opponents, but nothing like this – and nothing with the whiff of Watergate.

    These NIMBYs won’t give it up to the utility and safety of this lane until they can duck in and try to take credit. Hence the ‘NBBL’ moniker. Shameless, really. These dinosaurs belong in old-NY type historical dioramas, like in the Museum of History.I’ve long wondered why the NYT was gunning for the lane, though. Recently their bike coverage turned more neutral and generic, as in ‘great bike getaways!’ which seemed like a curious pivot. I guess that the NYT loves bikes as long as it’s not in Park Slope. Or maybe they see the writing on the wall too.

  • krstrois

    Incredible that they did so much plotting and calculating and in the end they were so ineffectual. The lumbering ox walks slowly off a cliff . . . this time.

  • So when can we primary this bastard, Wall St.’s own personal Senator? He’s not a Senator for the rest of us.

  • That’s a good question, Billy. We barely had a primary challenge for our *appointed* junior senator. I voted for Gail Goode in it even though I had no particular complaint with Gillibrand, because I just can’t accept that we don’t get to elect senators in New York. That because of some random Clintonian shenanigans our once-in-a-generation opportunity to democratically elect a senator was taken away. That’s effed up.Schumer will be even harder to dethrone, but on the bright side it is not such a great time to the unabashed senator from Wall Street. If you want to help make him nervous, I suggest joining one of the regular marches now taking place on this topic. Whatever anyone thinks the top marginal tax rate should be (as a conservative I have to go with 90%, as it was in the good old 1950s) it’s thrilling and inspiring to walk with a crowd chanting “Whose streets? Our streets!”

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  • Kateannsawyer

    Ok – I’m obviously late to this – but after using the bike lane consistently about three times a day and loving every minute of it, I finally decided to look into this story to try to find out what the hell schumer could have had against this???? Obviously I’m not so stupid to buy their argument that they are concerned about public safety, so why do they hate it??? Is it something so crass as that it just looks bad from their apartment??? ( but frankly, I don’t even see that)

The NBBL Files: Norman Steisel’s Ideas Became Jimmy Vacca’s Bills

Editor’s note: With yesterday’s appellate ruling prolonging the Prospect Park West case, Streetsblog is running a refresher on the how the well-connected gang of bike lane opponents waged their assault against a popular and effective street safety project. This is the fourth installment from the six-part NBBL Files. This piece originally ran on October 11, 2011. This is […]

The NBBL Files: PPW Foes Pursued Connections to Reverse Public Process

Editor’s note: With yesterday’s appellate ruling prolonging the Prospect Park West case, Streetsblog is running a refresher on the how the well-connected gang of bike lane opponents waged their assault against a popular and effective street safety project. This is the fifth installment from the six-part NBBL Files. This piece originally ran on November 10, 2011. This is […]

Caption Contest: Chuck Schumer Rides the Prospect Park West Bike Lane

Looks like protected bike infrastructure is growing on Chuck Schumer. High-powered backchannel NIMBY assault notwithstanding, New York’s senior senator apparently does enjoy riding the bike lane in his front yard, as you can see in this Sunday morning photo courtesy of fellow PPW resident Paul Steely White. So, when will the rest of Streetsblog’s 2011 April Fools […]


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New Yorkers Have Options When Leaving Gifts to Minors

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

New York estate planning lawyers are routinely consulted for advice as to the best way to give property or substantial sums of money to minor children. The trouble with such a gift is that a minor child typically cannot fully enjoy it until he or she reaches the age of majority. In New York, as in many jurisdictions, that magic age is 18.

To say that a minor child cannot fully enjoy such a gift is to say, essentially, that the world was not designed for minor children to be in control of valuable property or substantial sums of money. For example, banks and investment brokerages usually will not allow minors to have the autonomy to administer account funds as they wish. Similarly, minors cannot enter into a real estate contract should they wish to sell a piece of real property left to them as a gift.

Most gifts to minors are subject to implicit limitations on access and use because they are accomplished by way of a trust. The problem with a trust in New York is that it is subject to oversight by the Surrogate's Court. Additionally, a trust can create a number of tax, accounting, and legal side effects that may dissuade the gift donor from making the gift in the first place.

Fortunately, New Yorkers have options when they consult a Manhattan estate planning attorney. One such option is to make a gift under the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act (UTMA). The Act, codified in the New York Estates, Powers and Trusts Article §7-6.1 - 7-6.26, sets out a system in which the intending donor makes an irrevocable gift to a Custodian for the child. In practice, the custodianship arrangement is accomplished with language transferring property or money to any adult or trust company "as Custodian for" [the named minor] "under the New York Uniform Transfers to Minors Act." The gift should spell out that language so as to distinguish the gift from the creation of a trust or any other type of arrangement, and also to direct all interested parties to the particular body of law that governs the arrangement.

Donors should take care to designate a prudent and responsible entity to carry out the custodial duties. Custodians under the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act are not merely guardians of the property or assets, but rather are active participants in managing and growing the gift assets for the benefit of the named minor child. Custodians may invest the liquid gift assets or decide to sell the real or personal property entrusted to them if the Custodian decides that doing so would be in the best interest of the minor. Custodians are held to a reasonable prudence standard; they must exercise a standard of care "as would be observed by a prudent person dealing with property of another." Further, Custodians are entitled to reasonable compensation and reimbursement for expenses. They may be required to account for the gifted assets in court proceedings, and so the Custodian must keep accurate and detailed records of all transactions.

On its face, a donor's gift to a Custodian for the benefit of a minor child may appear to have many of the same characteristics of a trust. However, a Bronx trusts and estates attorney can explain the fine nuances and help evaluate whether a gift under the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act is the best way to see that your property and assets are distributed to the persons you wish in the manner you wish.

New York Trust and Estate Lawyer Jules Martin Haas, Esq. has been representing clients with respect to Estate Planning and other Trust and Estates matters in Nassau and Westchester and throughout New York State for over 30 years. If you or someone you know is involved with or has questions about an Estate or Last Will, please contact me at (212) 355-2575 or email:, for an initial consultation.


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Bug repellent is flying off the shelves in areas of the city plagued by mosquito-borne encephalitis.

Panicky residents in the northern sections of Queens – where the potentially fatal disease erupted – are swarming to buy bug repellent.

“We’re selling it like crazy,” said Roe Amitrano, assistant manager of the Genovese drugstore in College Point.

“Everybody is so worried and they just want to make sure that they are protected. It’s unbelievable how fast it’s going.”

Jerry Hauer, director of the Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management, said the city – which has handed out 400,000 cans of bug spray – has ordered 250,000 more cans.

The city said adults should apply a mosquito repellent with a maximum 30 percent DEET, a widely used chemical repellent.

Children should use sprays with a maximum of 15 percent DEET, the city says.

The amount of the chemical various in different brands.

For example, one popular spray, Off!, contains 15 percent DEET. Off! Deep Woods contains 25 percent, and a pocket-sized pump version of Deep Woods is 100 percent DEET.

Meanwhile, Consumer Affairs Commissioner Jules Polonetsky has declared insect and mosquito repellent in short supply as a result of the widening encephalitis outbreak – and warned merchants against price gouging.

Polonetsky said there has been no evidence yet of any price gouging.


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More Stones To Uncover: Taking a Look at Curious Gravestones

How many times have you passed by a someone’s grave only to stop in pure admiration? Creativity never ends in death. While knowing all the reasons and stories behind each stone is impossible, the privilege is still ours in sight.


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What's my plan for the Hot Chocolate 15K?

Disclaimer: I received free entry to the Allstate Hot Chocolate 15K Minneapolis race as part of being a BibRave Pro. Learn more about becoming a BibRave Pro (ambassador), and check out BibRave.com to review find and write race reviews!

My first race of 2019 (and what is probably my last race before baby Thiel comes in August) is this Saturday! It feels like I haven’t even been training for the Hot Chocolate 15K for long and now it’s just days away. So let’s get into what my plan is as I head into race day at almost 24 weeks pregnant.

“Taper” Week

Technically, I’m tapering this week but I will still get 10 miles in before race day. Plus two strength training sessions and a non-running cardio session. As I’m writing this, I have already gotten in an upper body and core weights workout plus cardio (along with my walking lunges for the April Nuubie Challenge) and I’ll have a three mile run after work. Here’s what is on my calendar for the rest of the week:

  • Wednesday: 2 mile treadmill run (because it will be cold, windy and rainy) and a full body strength training workout

  • Thursday: rest day with yoga (which I haven’t done in a couple of weeks since it’s been so nice outside) and trying to survive one last blast of winter while heading to the race expo

  • Friday: 2 mile shakeout run (hopefully outside!)

Race Day Plans

It’s going to much a chillier race day than what it was on Sunday for my last long run, the high for the day is 39 so I’m thinking it will be in the low 30s at race time. So pretty similar to temperatures for last year’s Hot Dash 10 mile (but much better than Hot Chocolate 15K Minneapolis weekend last year when we had a blizzard come through). Mike and Vinnie will be coming with to be my cheering squad/race photographers.

I haven’t put together a playlist for this race but I’ll probably use one from a past race (check out my Eau Claire Marathon and Hot Dash 10 Mile playlists). Since I’m doing this race for fun and don’t have a specific finish time in mind, I’m not as concerned about motivational music. Anytime I finish in is a PR since it’s my first 15K!

I’m in corral K for the race (15K is corrals J-M) which I’m pretty sure is on the preferred corrals since I submitted my Hot Dash 10 mile time which was faster than 11:30 min/mile. But I’ll probably end up finishing around 1:45-1:50 based on my 8 mile long run (so around an 11:45 min/mile pace). I will continue doing my 6 minutes running/30 seconds walking which is feeling awesome right now although depending on the hills I might be walking those.

What are some other things I’m excited about for this race?

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  • Chocolate! I’ve been seeing the delicious sweets other people who have run a Hot Chocolate race have been posting it looks amazing. Not only do you get chocolate at the end but there are sweet stations along the course that I will be taking advantage of (for “fueling” of course!)

  • The course! The course starts and ends by Boom Island in Minneapolis and is pretty similar to the Hot Dash 10 mile I ran last year. I love running this area in Minneapolis because it’s gorgeous and you get to see the Mississippi River along the entire course. And I haven’t run most of it (basically anything that’s not the miles 4-5 loop) since training for the Eau Claire Marathon.

  • Free photos! So many more races are adding in free course photos and I love it! Mike will be coming along the capture the start and finish but it will be great to have photos along the course (especially since I will be rocking a bump in my BibRave Orange at that point!)


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International Women’s Day 2019 and 2020

Every 8 March is a UN observance called “International Women’s Day”. The first women’s day was actually on 28 February and held in New York City in 1909 by the American Socialist Party. The 8 March date springs from the holiday kept by Soviet Russia, commemorating the Russian Revolution, which actually began with an uprising of women textile workers, in 1917, during World War I.

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Alcohol Cravings Can Be More Manageable with These 4 Tips

Alcohol Cravings Can Be More Manageable with These 4 Tips

Alcohol cravings are a part of life for people in recovery. They take place without warning and can make management of symptoms very difficult. Alcohol cravings are manageable but only with some solid tips and tools under your belt. Find out how to beat the cravings one step at a time.

One way to beat cravings is by taking the cognitive approach. This is accomplished through taking inventory of thoughts and feelings you are going through in the midst of a craving. This also means analyzing the moment in a new way. This involves a person simply sitting with the thought or feeling, experiencing it, and letting it go. Some people use imagery, but it might also mean the person with a new image enjoys an activity without alcohol. This can be effective if you need to practice how to stop cravings before they start.

Similar to cognitive methods involving sitting with thoughts and using imagery to replace it, this is a distraction method that may help. Almost anything can be effective as a distraction for cravings like exercise, talking to someone, and taking a drive. Being bored is one reason people use drugs or alcohol. They fill the gaps in their mind and body with substances. Learning how to be bored in a healthy way without using substances takes time.

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This Special Road: Giving to Others

I am repeatedly blown away by people’s support for our journey. Both dear friends and complete strangers praise our strength and give selflessly of their love. I admit it helps even if only for a second to know someone is recognizing it’s not an easy road.

But here’s the other side. I am reminded daily that we are so far away from being the worst of cases. And while our daily worries and struggles are exhausting, we have a more often than not healthy child, TWO actually! And we cannot be more thankful for anything on this Earth.

So, over the holidays, while I couldn’t make time to go give to others the way I wanted to, I did spend time filling up my heart with stories of other courageous mommies and their beautiful families. Theirs are the inspiring kind. The truly heart breaking and breathtaking that I admire now in a way I couldn’t appreciate before.

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Drawing machine for all ellipses, 2008

drawing machines

A machine in the most minimal sense, Drawing machine for all ellipses consists of three grooved pulleys, a small piece of cord, and a stick of graphite. Two of the pulleys are fixed with screws to a flat surface, such as a wall, and the graphite is inserted through the third pulley. The cord is threaded between all three pulleys and stretched taught into a triangle. The user then pulls the third and unfixed pulley in either a clockwise or counterclockwise motion, keeping the graphite against the surface. Depending on the distance between the two fixed pulleys, a shorter or broader ellipse results as the graphite makes its orbit around them, dragged against the drawing surface.

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Smith proposes broad-sweeping ASSU reforms

In its fourth meeting, the 20th Undergraduate Senate heard a proposal from Graduate Student Council (GSC) member Caleb Smith ’17 M.A. ’18 to broadly reform the ASSU Constitution. Undergraduate Senator Gabe Rosen ’19 also introduced an early version of a civic engagement bill, and the meeting closed with a discussion on the shortage of applicants for student roles on university committees.

Smith, who is also a Daily staffer, proposed sweeping reforms to the ASSU’s legislative, electoral and funding systems, including combining the Undergraduate Senate and Graduate Student Council, introducing proportional representation via Stanford-specific political parties to Senate elections and abolishing waivers for ASSU fees.

Under Smith’s system, the Senate and GSC would become a single, 30-member body called the Student Senate. Within the 30 seats, 10 would be reserved for undergraduates, 10 would be reserved for graduate students and 10 would be at large.

In his presentation to the Undergraduate Senate, Smith argued that a combined legislature would streamline the grants application process for student groups, especially those that have both undergraduate and graduate student members. The combined body would also allow undergraduate and graduate students to better work together on issues of shared concern such as sexual assault.

“The health and wellbeing of graduate students is a direct benefit to undergraduates, and vice versa,” Smith said.

Undergraduate and graduate students have shared one legislative body before. According to Nanci Howe, the Associate Dean and Director of Student Activities and Leadership, the two bodies split in 1996 because graduate students felt that their views were not sufficiently represented in the joint legislature.

“A coterm student [such as Smith] is really much more like an undergrad,” Howe said. “Students that were voicing their opinions were masters students coming from other schools, Ph.D. students, professional school students and international students who really have a very different experience.”

Smith’s proposed changes to the legislative system also include creating a new body made of former senators and other student group leaders to serve as a reservoir of institutional knowledge, a gap Smith stressed as critical given the high turnover among senators. For the past two election cycles, Rosen has been the only incumbent senator to run for reelection.

The second key aspect of Smith’s plan, electoral reforms, would require candidates to form political parties to nominate candidates to Student Senate. Rather than vote for specific candidates, students would vote for a clearly-defined political party. Election to the Senate would at that point be based on proportional representation of each party.

Several Senators raised concerns about political parties stifling “independence of thought,” as Senator Jamie Seney ’21 put it.

“While I think that this is intended to promote diversity of thought, it will instead force people to sign up for a very narrow platform where they’ll have less room to deviate,” said Senator Matt Wigler ’19.

Smith emphasized that the political parties would not be tied to outside parties.

“They would basically be a group of like-minded students who would get together and nominate people to run for student government,” said Smith. “Student government representatives would be able to create them. Other student groups would be able to create them. The particular requirements vary depending on how many there are, so there’s always enough to be competitive, but not too many to keep track of.”

In support of Smith’s proposal, Rosen argued that political parties already essentially exist on campus.

“For the past three election cycles, I’ve had to create my own independent coalitions of people with a variety of diverse candidates in order to break into the political space here,” Rosen said. “I just think that bringing forward the underlying power structures and dynamics that are in place that govern the elections on this campus is actually in the name and interest of transparency.”

Finally, Smith’s proposed funding changes include maintaining different ASSU fee levels for undergraduates and graduate students but eliminating fee waivers. In addition, students would no longer vote on all annual grants, although students would be able to petition to add individual grants to the ballot.

Smith argued that the waivers, originally instituted to allow students to object on moral grounds to student groups using their money in ways they did not agree with, have since become a way for students to avoid paying extra fees.

Other senators, however, raised concerns about the effect eliminating fee waivers could have on the first-generation low-income community and others for whom the ASSU fees are a financial hardship.

ASSU Executive Shanta Katipamula ’19, Elias and former Senator Katie Hufker ’19 all emphasized the importance of a long-term deliberative process on such broad-sweeping changes. Katipamula suggested that senators take the summer to develop ideas for reform, and Elias raised the idea that a Senate committee could be formed to deal with the issue. Hufker also noted that such changes might be more politically feasible as a few targeted amendments in the spring elections, when reforms would be voted on by the student body. Smith, notably, will be completing his coterm this spring.

After discussion of Smith’s bill closed, Rosen introduced a preliminary draft of a civic engagement bill aimed at increasing student participation in local, state and national elections. The bill would create a civic engagement fund that would provide stipends for civic engagement activities at a dorm level.

The meeting ended on a discussion of student nominees to University committees. Some seats remain empty because the nominations commission did not receive enough applications, resulting in committees meeting without student representatives.

“We have been fighting a really hard fight since before I was on Senate of encouraging the University to use NomComm,” said Katipamula. “If the legislative committees drag their feet in terms of approving nominees to University committees, they will continue meeting without students, or they will circumvent ASSU processes and pick their own students, which we’ve seen to be incredibly ineffective in representing student opinion.”

Contact Erin Woo at erinkwoo ‘at’ stanford.edu.

About Erin Woo

Erin Woo '21 is a writer for The Daily's student groups beat from Atlanta, Georgia. Her favorite words include quintessential, plethora and undecided (about her major and much, much else). Contact her with suggestions, book recommendations and more at erinkwoo 'at' stanford.edu.


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Lessons learned from assassins
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Lessons learned from assassins

This quarter is coming to an end, which means my freshman year at Stanford is almost over. So, naturally, my dorm has been squeezing in some of the last of the most important Stanford traditions. More specifically, last week we started playing a round of Assassins. For anyone unfamiliar with the game, you are assigned a target, but you also have a target going after you, and use a water gun in an attempt to shoot your target without being shot. When you eliminate your own target, you receive the target of the person you eliminated. It’s a loop, and a simple enough game. But believe it or not, in the short 48 hours that I was actually still alive (I made it to the top 15 though, so hey), there were some decently valuable lessons I left with. Here’s what I learned from my dorm’s game of Assassins.

  1. While it’s good to trust other people, you can’t always trust other people, and you definitely can’t trust everyone. In this game, it was important for me to have a few people that I knew could watch my back for me or give me reliable information. Granted, most of these people weren’t playing. But technically anyone playing can get help from anyone they want to, regardless of whether or not they’re in the game, so you never really know if you’re safe. If I didn’t have a few people I could trust, I probably wouldn’t have lasted for as long as I had. But also, apparently one of my friends wanted to team up with my next door neighbor so she could eliminate me, so you’ve got to be careful about who you trust as well.
  2. Betrayal hurts, and guilt follows. When I eliminated one of my friends just a few hours into the start of the game, I saw the look in her eyes and the disbelief on her face, and I actually felt bad for a little bit. It’s a tough world I suppose.
  3. What goes around, comes around. At one point, my target was a girl in my Spanish class, but classrooms are off limits, so I got to class earlier than usual so that I could hide outside and wait for her to arrive. As soon as she got there, she received a blast of water right to the face. We had another class together later that day, and as soon as I exited a few hours later, I felt a cold spray on the back of my head. She had sold out my location to my assassin. Oh, how the tables had turned.
  4. I really shouldn’t walk with my face in my phone. Aside from the obvious risk of running into people, I also was looking at my phone when I was eliminated. Maybe if I had been more aware of my surroundings, I would have thought to check around the corners before blindly walking forward.

Well, you win some, you lose some. I had a fun two days. At least I have these four lessons to walk away with. And besides, it gets really tiring being on edge all the time.

Contact Kassidy Kelley at kckelley ‘at’ stanford.edu.


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The week before break 250 words (ish)

spring break

For those that may actually take the time to count, (You should have better things to do)

But I will run short this week, at least I am honest with you.

But poetry has its own precision, based on meter and rhyme

counting the words betrays the form and therefore wasting time.

“The Week before spring break”

I’ve got a great big problem,

And it has to do with time:

My school’s clocks must be broken.

I’m about to lose my mind!

t’s the week before vacation,

And I’m standing at the board

Writing out 100 times in chalk

“I’ll not tell teacher I am bored.”

But I am bored, and I’m tired,

And I’m ready for a break.

So I’m pretending like I’m sorry,

But I’m feeling like a fake.

I peek out the window.

I see green grass and sun.

I want so bad to be outside;

To fly a kite and run.

To Einstein, time was relative.

And E was MC squared,

But he’s never come to my school,

so I think he doesn’t care.

Time is not MY relative!

I’m not concerned with E!

I sure hope they start vacation soon

So I can just be free!

I’m ready for vacation,

And I know that teacher is also

‘Cuz she’s writing on her notepad

“These kids are driving me nutso!”

I’ve written mine ‘most thirty times,

But teacher’s got me beat.

She’s written hers a hundred times EACH DAY FOR THE PAST WEEK!

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Wednesday, July 9, 2014

In the which the Farmhouse Kitchen gets painted cabinets {and wooden countertops}

Here it is; the post some of you have been patiently waiting on. It's posts like these that make me wish I had mad photography skills (like my friend Wendy) but I did my best to show you how awesome my kitchen looks now.

I neglected to take a full set of before photos but I do have just enough to show you how drab and dull my cabinets were. They look so different now. In fact, my sister-in-law was here over the weekend and saw them for the first time. She (mostly jokingly) remarked that she thought she went into the wrong kitchen. It really does look like a totally different room. Enough blathering. I know you really want to see what I'm talking about. So.....
I didn't get them from quite the same angle but hopefully this side by side gives you an idea of the vast improvement. (How do you like my little photobomber?) :)

You may have noticed I had already started tearing off wallpaper and removing hardware in these 2 pictures. I literally decided to paint my cabinets that week and started in immediately. After working awhile, it occurred to me that I should take some before pictures so I snapped these few but unfortunately, it doesn't show some things that we changed. When I started, I was ONLY going to paint the cabinets but then I got the idea to move my stove to the other side of the kitchen (it was tucked in beside the refrigerator and I never like feeling hemmed in while I was cooking) and install a microwave above it. The microwave had always resided on the countertops and hogged precious horizontal surface. Quite some time ago, I had gotten an older GE under-the-cabinet microwave for $40. It was pretty dirty and although I had been assured when I bought it that it worked, I had never tested it.

So anyway, the refrigerator and stove were beside each other with a 10" cabinet between them. The fridge was so big that it stuck out past the doorway trim and bothered me. So, with hubby's approval and help, I set out to improve the layout of the kitchen. I moved the stove straight across the kitchen to where we had torn out a desk soon after we moved here. (My Hoosier had been sitting there.) On either side of the stove, we added cabinets. On the right, we put the 10" cabinet that had been between the stove and fridge. On the left, a cabinet that I had previously rescued from Uncle Cabinet Maker's burn pile. Hubby made that into a pull-out trash can cabinet using a door from one of the upper cabinets that we were no longer using. Above the stove we used a cut-down cabinet and mounted the microwave to it. A friend with electrical experience did the wiring for us. (The microwave works great, by the way.) So. much. better!
 Now on the other side where the stove had been we had a space. I was game to put in some odds and ends from the Habitat ReStore but hubby wanted to build one. Using Uncle's shop, knowledge, and help, he built a 36" base cabinet. We didn't have any more leftover doors/drawers so he used something from Uncle's discard pile. It's noticeably different but similar enough to be okay.
In the space above, we used another cut-down cabinet (When we moved here, it had been on the wall above where the stove currently is sitting.). It has an open area that I use for displaying my Celebrating Home stoneware.
This sweet little butter dish isn't Celebrating Home but I sure love it. I just picked it up at TJMaxx this week. I have been looking and looking for a butter dish that isn't just blah. This one looks so "farmhousey" and it didn't break the bank. I think it was only $5.
Here is full view:
I was planning to reuse the hardware but DH didn't like that it was all knobs so he told me if I could find something I liked under $4, he would buy new. Challenge accepted! I found what I liked but unfortunately, they were NOT under $4 each. So I kept searching different websites until I found one that had them under $4 and free shipping! Score! (At the end of the post, I will provide a link.) I love how they look! We did reuse the hinges and honestly they are not noticeably different from the knobs/pulls.
So now that we did all the changing around, that countertops were an issue. Again, I was willing to just put in some odd pieces from the ReStore to fill in the gaps but hubby wasn't happy with that. Since it was his wallet, I wasn't going to argue with him. ;) We priced new laminate but since we plan to upgrade our flimsy cabinets in the future, we wanted to go a less expensive route this time and do nicer countertops with the new cabinets. We tossed around other ideas and for awhile, DH was seriously considering attempting concrete countertops. He watched lots of YouTube videos and priced forms but ultimately decided it was too risky. The next option (and obviously the one we went with) was wooden countertops. This route cost us around $500 (less than half the laminate quote) but COUNTLESS hours. DH (with Uncle's help) did 95% of the work. Using Uncle's shop, tools, advice, and help, he sawed hard maple lumber into strips, glued them together, sanded them down, etc. I'm not going to go into detail on how he made and installed these but I will just say, he's a perfectionist and the countertops are lovely. I used Minwax dark walnut stain and Waterlox sealer on them.

And a few more shots 'just because':

See how smooth and hard this paint is? HIGHLY, HIGHLY recommend!

Top of the refrigerator
And now, I never really addressed what paint I used and how hard the cabinets were to paint. So let's take care of that before I go. After much online research and reading of reviews, I decided to use Insl-X Cabinet Coat Acrylic Satin Enamel. I was able to find it locally at one of our Ace hardware stores that is a Insl-X dealer but I bought their last gallon and she told me they wouldn't be carrying it any longer. So, I HAD to make that gallon do my whole project. I could have bought online and had it tinted (Swiss Coffee) at Lowes or Menards but I didn't really want to risk it not matching. The steps I took to paint the cabinets are as follows:
#1. Remove knobs
#2. Wash cabinets good with TSP and tape off any areas not being painted.
#3. Fill any holes with spackling. Let dry and sand smooth.
#4. Number all the doors and remove. It's nice if you have an area you can set up sawhorses and lay them all out at once. I did it in my workshop and I had to lay them out in 2 batches.
#5. Prime with a stain blocking primer like Kilz or BIN
#6. Paint 2 coats of paint on the cabinet faces and doors/drawers. Because I was trying to conserve paint, I only painted the backs of the doors with one coat of paint.
#7. Let dry and cure the recommended time and re-install.
#8. Put your hardware on and stand back and admire your hard work.

Ok, it's not quite that simple. :) The actual painting is not hard. The hard part is having your kitchen torn up while trying to carry on normal life. Obviously, this is not very detailed instructions. Because this post is getting too long, I will leave it at this. If there are enough questions on the how-to, I will do a separate post and address the questions. For now, I've kept it simple.

The hardware I used is:

If you use these names and do a google search, you can probably find them for a better price if you are buying quantity. Menards also has these in stock of you live near one of them.

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  1. This is awesome, Rachel!!! It looks amazing!

  2. WOW!! Fabulous... and it shows..all your hard-work and elbow grease into making your project turn out the way it did. Good for you!

    Great tips!

  3. I know this was a HUGE project to undertake BUT, WOWZERS!
    You transformed that kitchen into something gorgeous!
    LOVE the groves in the cabinet door and how they are much more noticeable after painting.
    LOVE the mixture of hardware styles
    LOVE the feed sack striped linens
    LOVE the wood counter top
    LOVE the bead board back splash and soffit

    You always do such nice work.
    I'm guessing you like to cook a little more now that you have this 'new' kitchen. :)

    I remember a day many years ago (when you were probably about 6 years old:)) in which I helped two girls living in that house make a 'batch' of cookies X's like 8 or 10 (man did we have cookies!!)
    Clean up from baking included squirting dish soap, big time, on the counters to get the cookie grease up and it took a loooong time to get that soap all rinsed off. It was like bubbly slime. I learned a lesson that day that I have not since had to relearn.

    If you don't have room for your Hoosier, I'd be willing to help you free up more space by bringing it to my house. :)

    p.s. I may need a butter dish like yours. :)

  4. Love it! I so want to paint my kitchen cabinets. One thing at a time!

  5. Wow, I would let you and hubby remodel my home. I cannot believe those are the same cabinets, they look like you added beadboard. I had to go back and look at the brown version to see the details were there. Kudos

  6. You did a lovely job....Your hubby did a great job on the counter tops also....I am very blessed my husband was a cabinet builder/carpenter before being an engineer..He's actually a jack of all trades...My husband is also a perfectionist when it comes to building,painting, doing anything...
    Can I ask, you said the paint on the cabinets is a creamy white...by that you mean an off white, yellow white?....So they are not stark white, right?...They look really white in the photo's....I am looking for an off white...You said you ordered it off of Amazon?....
    Thanks !

    1. Thank you for your sweet comments, Gigi! To answer your questions, the cabinets are not stark white. I used a paint color called Swiss Coffee that just takes the starkness out. It's not buttery or grayish. Just middle of the road but not all the way to cream if that makes sense. If you compare to the white appliances, you can see the slight differences. I was actually able to get the last gallon that my local Ace had so I bought mine locally. If you go to the INSL-X website and type in your zip code in the 'dealer locator' tab, you can see if it's available locally for you. If all else fails, you can get it on Amazon for about the same price I paid. (It's not cheap paint!) Hope this helps!

    2. Now that I notice the appliances, I see that the paint is creamy white...Thank you so much...I really like this color....I'll check out their website....Thanks !

  7. Lovely job.....Now you need lot's of red accents.....Gorgeous..

  8. WHo makes Waterlox sealer and where do you buy it?T hank you. Gorgeous makeover!!

    1. Waterlox is made by Waterlox and they market it. I chose it based on it's great reviews and I've been very happy with it so far. It's a little tricky to apply properly but by following their instructions to a T, I was able to get a nice finish. Go to Waterlox(dot)com and check their how to buy tab. If there are no places locally for you, it can be purchased directly from their website. Hope this helps!

  9. Wow, that is so much cleaner and brighter. I have a dark timber kitchen that we are replacing very soon with white cabinets and wooden countertops. Ours is falling apart, so painting isn't an option - I can't wait revel in the light! Love your accessorizing too.

  10. Gasp! That kitchen is gorgeous (hm, that doesn't look right, but I hope you know what I mean). You should enter it into a contest, surely you would win. The counters are so pretty I would be hard pressed to use them. Knowing you, you have researched the whole thing and they are probably very user friendly. Great job. Loved seeing it.

  11. I'm in the process of doing my own kitchen and dining room makeover and wanted to ask you about your cabinets. I have a dealer locally that sells this brand of paint. Did you also use a clear coat finish afterwards, or is that not needed with the INSL-X paint? Thanks a bunch!

    1. Hi Jenni, this paint doesn't need a sealer. It dries really hard and smooth and is very wipeable. (A 'must' in this household with 3 boys. :) ) That's great you can buy it locally! Best wishes on your makeover! ~Rachel

    2. Thank you Rachel! I'm excited and can't wait till it's finished!

  12. Wow, love your "new" kitchen...what a difference the paint makes on the cabinets...and the counter top is beautiful!

  13. Lovely re-do! I especially like the countertops. Also in case you ever tire of your floor, you can paint that too! I did in our former home. Didn't take me long to want to paint over the 1970's green vinyl flooring. It lasted very well even with kids and pets.

  14. Love your new kitchen, and 'farmshouse' decor. Love that butter dish from TJ Maxx - I never saw one like it here in SW GA's store. I looked when I first read this entry back in early August! I love farmhouse / vintage retro kitchen decor (from the look of old kitchens of the '30s/40s but not art deco, just homey and worn) and love your home.

  15. Hi, I hope you spent lot of time for update this Blog. Thanks for sharing.

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Publishers Maxis
Developers Intelligent Games
Release date 1995
Genre Simulation
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SimIsle: Missions in the Rainforest is a construction and management simulation game published by Maxis in 1995. Though it was not developed by Maxis, they still referred to it as a “software toy” instead of a “video game” because it remained faithful to the philosophy of the company.  The player chooses one of several dozen fictional tropical islands of various shapes and sizes to simulate. The islands have varying amounts of open plains, forests, mountains, natural resources, and native peoples. The amount of pre-developed land also varies but most of the islands are largely nondeveloped when a new simulation begins. Each scenario has objectives and win/lose conditions. Each map can be started with the scenario objectives turned on or off, and the simulation can continue in free form after successfully completing the initial task.

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25 of the Best Military Spouse Twitter Feeds to Follow

Updated 12/29/2016

We live in an age where technology has slowly be steady become an intricate part our life from the moment we wake we reach for the phone and check messages and then the days starts.  I feel as a military spouse you have lots of things going on from family to work to friends to your spouse. It’s a constant battle to find relevant information quickly and easily.

Wikipedia states “Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 140-character messages called “tweets”.”  I like the fact that Twitter is short and simple you get the meat of topics right away. I also think when you are tweeting you have to be concise as well about what you are sharing or saying.“I am on Twitter, and the people I choose to follow on Twitter give me the information I need the instant it happens.” – From blog post Be one of the first to know

It took me awhile to try Twitter. I didn’t get it. I thought it was pointless at first. However, when I began blogging I realized I needed to be more open-minded and check what Twitter was all about. I actually came to find over time I really liked Twitter. It’s different from other forms of social media and made it possible to get information fast and share it tons of people at once. Twitter has given me the ability to connect with other Military Spouses in an instant. I can check my feed share a quick thought or article or blog post.

I love seeing what other military spouses think and I see I am not the only one who deals with certain things. I also like knowing the latest news and what resources are available to me.I wanted to share my favorite Twitter Feeds with you in case you are new to Twitter or a newbie who is looking for vital information to help navigate your new life as a military spouse.

Here is my list of 25 Best Military Spouse Twitter Feeds to Follow:

Military Spouse Websites and Blogs

  1. @ArmyWifeNetwork

About: AWN is a grass-roots effort for #militaryspouse empowerment and support. Valuable resources, podcasts, blogs, and columns for the #Armywife & #milso. Join us!

Website: armywifenetwork.com

  1. @Armywife101

About: Krystel S. Head of Brand Outreach@MSBNewMedia Creator of Popular Lifestyle blog for #Milspouse. Former French Fry and Cupcake Snob!

Website: armywife101.com/northcarolinam…

  1. @KaylaRoof

About: I help ambitious military spouses start their own businesses that can move with them to each duty station.

Website:  kaylaroof.com

About: I write about life as the home front to a deployed service member. I was well prepared and it was still nothing like I expected.

Website: awaywerun.com

  1. @HeatherGoffrier

About: #Navywife & #toddlermom sharing military deployment tips, care package ideas, parenting/fertility stories & encouragement. #Milspouse blogger

Website: happyfitnavywife.com

  1. @NextGenMilSo

About: THE site for #millennial #milspouse &#MilSo. Because the last thing you are is dependent. Lifestyle, careers, & trending news for the #military community.

Website: nextgenmilspouse.com

  1. @Jdavis55

About: Motivational Speaker, Author, Lifestyle Blogger. Military Life & Teen Suicide Prevention Expert, @LiveThruCrisis CEO LOVE to laugh & help others. #Milspouse

Website: theDirectionDiva.com

  1. @SoldiersWifeCL

About: Military spouse blogger, photographer, writer, avid reader, social media lover, mom to 3 boys, wife of 13 years, living in Tennessee, dreaming of California.

Website: soldierswifecrazylife.com

  1. @JoMyGosh

About: Stories & advice that feel like coming home. Relationships (including long distance and military), care packages, DIYs, recipes, & the things that matter.

Website: jomygosh.com

  1. @LGBTMilPartners

About: The American Military Partner Association (AMPA) is the nation’s organization of partners, spouses, families, & allies of #LGBT #military &#veterans#MilFams

Website: MilitaryPartners.org

About: Your Military Health Plan – Serving Uniformed Service members, retirees and their families worldwide.

Website: tricare.mil

12.  @MilSpouseMag

About: Military Spouse – Simplifying your crazy, wonderful military life. Join our amazing#militaryspouse community! Welcome to the family.

Website: militaryspouse.com

  1. @Military1Source

About: Offering resources, referrals, consultations and counseling services on the issues that concern military families; 24 hours/day, 7 days/week, 365 days/year. 1-800-342-9647

Website: MilitaryOneSource.mil

  1. @SupportMilSps

About: To applaud the brave military spouses who shoulder responsibilities of family, employment, finances, wounded warrior care, and the honoring of fallen heroes.

Website: supportmilitaryspouses.org

  1. @MilResource

About: Supports MilSpouse projects. Learning something new every day. Wine,Yoga & Books – my favorite! War Eagle!

Website: MilspouseResource.com

  1. @HomefrontUinted

About: We are all one #military family. Official Network for National Guard and Reserve families.

Website: homefrontunited.com

  1. @military_family

About: The National Military Family Association tweets! Find us on Facebook at httww.facebook.com/militaryfamily  or read our blog at h://blog.militaryfamily.org .

Website: militaryfamily.org

Education and Career

  1. @salutetospouses

About: SalutetoSpouses is the new go-to resource for education and career news for military spouses.

Website: http://www.salutetospouses.com

Military Spouse Groups

About: I’m passionate about helping people.  Whether it’s a personal goal, or learning how to work together as a couple or team- I help people build strong, balanced relationships with themselves and others.

Website: corieweathers.com

  1. @SpouseBUZZ

About: Military spouses using keyboards to provide virtual support, and the friendly skies to tour military bases/posts to bring some fun & laughs to other milspouses

Website: spousebuzz.com

  1. @SpouseLinkOrg

About: https://www.SpouseLink.org ™ links military spouses together with informative, supportive and inspiring Web content.

Website: spouselink.org

Discounts and Benefits

  1. @TroopID

About: Troop ID works with brands to enable verified members of the military & their families to access their military discounts online & earn cash back at @IDme.

Website: ID.me/military

  1. @MilBenefits

About: Military Benefits information for active duty, veterans, reserves, military spouses and families. A non-government, privately sponsored account.

Website: militarybenefits.info

PCS Move Resources

  1. @gomillie_com

About: MILLLIE is standing by to help military families move with a network of people who’ve been in your shoes, and are ready to help you before, during and after your PCS.

Website: gomillie.com

  1. @pcslodging

About: PCS-Lodging provides easy access to lodging in and around U.S. Military Bases. We also are a source for military travel related news. A Military By Owner company.

Website: pcs-lodging.com

Of Course Follow me!!

About: A place where Lesbian Army & Military Wives can find helpful tips & resources. Also, learn about benefits & their new life as a Milspouse!

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Om (Aum) is the ‘cosmic sound’ sacred to all Hindus and to the Vedic culture. Thara (Tara) is the ‘mother Goddess’ venerated in Hinduism, Buddhism and other cultures. In Sanskrit, Kala means ‘art’ and  Kuteera means an ‘hermitage’.

Picture a place where one can go to experience the variegated culture, religions, and traditions of India; from its ancient roots to its modern times. That is the vision of Omthara Kala Kuteera. Although only a very small fraction of this vision has taken shape as of now, the environs of Omthara Kala Kuteera will give the visitor a glimpse into the future of this place. India’s culture and spirituality is depicted visually in the form of art of various forms; from sculptures in stone, metal, wood and stucco, to paintings made of oil & vegetable dyes. The structure of Omthara Kala Kuteera is itself a work of art. With soaring ceilings, beautiful cornices, decorative beams, grand arches, statuesque columns, multilevel porticos, grand staircases, massive doors, circular rooms, curved granite walls, multilevel floors, the structure of Omthara Kala Kuteera, even without the art work in it, is a pleasure to behold. Art from different regions of India adorn the walls and halls of Omthara Kala Kuteera. Serpentine stone and Sandstone sculptures from Orissa, bronze and wooden sculpture from Tamil Nadu, large frescoes of vegetable and oil paints from Bihar & Orissa, marble designs from Rajastan, oil paintings from Kerala, and much more make Omthara Kala Kuteera what it is.


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My favorites of her Orthodox Eros series: erotic and homosexual undertones but photographed in an Old Masters’ light that is romantic and yet uncomfortably real. They are nostalgic, dramatic and very baroque. The last, with it’s clown collar, mocks the institution of religion as fanaticism. It also goes a step further as a reference to the Shakespearean collars of a by-gone era. We are at once reminded of how antiquated some of these systems are and how silly they may appear to outsiders.

Ilit Azoulay

Ilit Azoulay, Hisin series, staircase, 2011, 23x51 inch, inkjet print

Here, the artist says it best:

Artist Statement

My work is based on processed photographic montage, which involves field research and computerized finalization. The works contain thousands of images reorganized and remodeled together to create new utopian venues.Oftentimes I start by spotting buildings that are slated for demolition. Usually they are located in the old, southern parts of Tel-Aviv, where I live.

In my studio, I clean and oil objects from the sites – sometime even interfering with the original shape or color – that is, I remodel them. When they are ready for the ‘stage’, I photograph each object separately, oftentimes from the same angle, using the same macro-lens and under the same light to ensure their homorganic status; the photographed objects will serve to facilitate democratic viewing conditions, which eliminates all hierarchies. At this point I start the process of constructing the “wall” in Photoshop. On this artificial structured canvas, I place and arrange the photographed objects, forming large-scale panoramas that simulate a fictitious space.

The human vision is functional and goal-oriented, so it often misses alternative possibilities of perception and observation.
 Guided by the desire to expand these possibilities, I am interested in creating utopian, fictitious, even ‘impossible’ spaces that point toward the limitations of sight and undermine the conventional process of seeing. Through them I wish to make the gap between perception and the construction of meaning present.

james welling

A recent acquisition of the Hammer Museum, the work of UCLA Photography Professor James Welling is simply enthralling to look at. Tinted filters distort our perception of exposure for this series, focusing on the 1949 Glass House of architect Phillip Johnson. Recently, I prefer his abstract works, but the colors on these are captivating.

Sharon Lockhart | Noa Eshkol at LACMA

Israeli choreography Noa Eshkol was recently rediscovered by Los Angeles-based artist Sharon Lockhart. Eshkol’s Wachman notation system was largely dismissed by contemporaries. And yet, her dedicated followers continue to practice her meditative dances to the rhythm of a metronome. The performances are stoic and spiritual in their monotony. We get a better sense of Eshkol’s strict discipline and extraordinary preliminary processes through Lockhart’s presentation. The images above were presented alongside videos of Eshkol’s troupe dancing. The small spherical objects are sculptures meant to emulate the movement of particular joints in the body. The posters are drawings that bring these visuals into a context that is easier to interprete. Lockhart photographed the miniature models and elevated them to the status of sculptural artworks in their own right. Lockhart also documented Eshkol’s dances for the first time. In an effort to preserve and continue the choreographer’s legacy. Projecting them onto huge blocks acting like blank canvases, Lockhart beautifully captures this rhythmic and ritual-like language. At the foreground, the dancers entrall us with their slow, exacting interpretations. Behind them are displayed tapestries, or “wall carpets,” as Eshkol calls them. They are composed on found materials, but laid out precisely by Eshkol herself. She then would have her community of followers sit and sew them together in a gathering reminiscent of the work ethic of early kibbutzes.

Matt Lipps

I visited Matt Lipps’ studio back in 2010 with a group of students from the Hammer Museum’s student association (HSA). He has developed a very sharp photographic process. For this series HORIZON/S, Lipps very delicately cuts out figures from vintage publications and props them up to create miniature sculptures, which he then arranges int0 groups. Using direct, vibrant lighting, he shoots this groupings and produces images of pseudo-still lives. I am drawn to them because of his romantic selection of subjects: ancient sculptures, black and white portraits, ethnographic likenesses, and others. His montages are decidedly without narrative, thus forcing the viewer to relate and interprete these pieces in a fresh context.

Picture of a Hollywood Swimming Pool, 1964 acrylic on canvas, 36×48 in.

Nick Wilder, 1966 acrylic on canvas, 84×84 in.

A Bigger Splash, 1967 acrylic on canvas, 96 x 96 in.

Robert Littman Floating in My Pool, Oct. 1982 photographic collage, 22 1/2 x 30 in.

“Lithograph of Water Made of Thick and Thin Lines and a Light Blue Wash and Dark Blue Wash” 1978-80

Sun On The Pool,1982 composite polaroid, 34 3/4 x 36 1/4 in.

Schwimmbad Mitternacht, (Paper Pool 11), 1978 colored and pressed paper pulp, 72×85 1/2 in.


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Black Panther Release Date and Trailer 2018

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Black Panther Release Date and Trailer 2018

A couple of days ago, according to Erik Davis, Black Panther "sold more advance tickets on Fandango in its first 24 hours than any other MCU movie". Besides this achievement, the movie did something else extraordinarily with the help of Frederick Joseph:
He organized a crowdfunding campaign to help children in Harlem to go see Black Panther in cinemas. The campaign went viral, and it raised more than double the money, with the help of people, including celebrity donors. You can also donate here.

So when is this movie, that creates so much buzz, going to be released?

Black Panther release date is 16.02.2018.

Of course, the date can differ depends on where you are. So here is the complete list.

13.02.2018 for UK and Taiwan.

14.02.2018 for Belgium, France, Indonesia, Italy, South Korea, Netherlands, Poland, and Sweden.

15.02.2018 for Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Czech Republic, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Croatia, Hungary, Israel, Malaysia, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, and Ukraine.

16.02.2018 for Bulgaria, Canada, Finland, India, Sri Lanka, Lithuania, Mexico, Norway, Pakistan, Romania, Turkey, USA, Vietnam, and South Africa.

23.02.2018 for Estonia and 01.03.2018 for Japan.

Black Panther Trailer

There you have it. The full answer to any questions about the Black Panther Release Date.

To prepare for the event, we've featured Marvel's beloved Character on the front page of our geek shop.

You can find action figures with T'challa in anticipation of the Black Panther release date here.

If you're not yet hyped about Black Panther's Costume, this is what you want to read. It's got everything you need to know about the suit.

Of course, Hollywood critics already got to see it before the actual public release date. Good news is: you'll probably love the villain! The current talk of the ton revolves around the fact that Killmonger might just be Marvel Cinematic Universe's Best Villain.

The only reason I ever re-watched the Dark Knight was The Joker. The villain made that movie a personal favorite of mine.

Stay tuned here on One Geek as we'll write about the Black Panther Cast as well.