Sun 6 May - Discovery (Koppel, Living with Cancer)

Living With Cancer

Ted Koppel follows the lives of people transformed by their struggles with cancer. The documentary is followed by a live town meeting with a panel that includes Elizabeth Edwards. More than 10 million Americans are living with cancer. As early detection has become more prevalent and as treatments have become more effective, many cancer survivors are finding that they can treat their cancer as a chronic disease.

On Sunday, May 6, Discovery Channel presents a special three-hour broadcast of Koppel on Discovery dedicated to the discussion of living with cancer.

In Ted's Words
My analogy [of 24/7 news] is it's rather like standing 2 feet away from a railroad track and watching the trains go by. And, boy, you're close and it's exciting and there's a lot of energy and you really feel as though you're on top of it, but you can't for the life of you see what's going on. And if you really want to know what's going on, you've got to step back 10 feet, 20 feet, 50 feet, sometimes half a mile, so that you can see the locomotive and the caboose and everything that is in between.

The kind of programming we're going to be doing here at Discovery is stepping back, allowing a little bit of time to pass, so that people get a perspective on the importance of some events and the relative unimportance of other events, which seemed important only because they just occurred.

Cinco de Mayo

Free, Indians, budget, NEOSTC, Woodhawk (local stuff)

Free to a good home :-)
http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/menu05_07.html
(cat food recall list)
9 Lives still looks like it's ok


Cleveland Indians still in first place!

They finally got it right in Columbus
Thursday, May 03, 2007 (The Plain Dealer)
Regarding "Lawmakers unanimous on Strick land's budget" (Wednesday):
It's about time! Our state legislators finally put aside politics as usual and thought about the people they swore to serve. Bipartisan support of the comprehensive budget was long overdue. We are all Ohioans. Bravo to the leadership in Columbus.

Wow! This is amazingly wonderful. NEOSTC
Distinguished Community Service Award Winners
Lori Klepfer, 2007
Jeanette Evans, 2007
Beth Williams, 2006
Kris Henige, 2004
Jill McCauslin, 2003
Bob Dianetti, 2002
Bege Bowers, 2001
Barbara Philbrick, 2000
Kelly Graham, 1999
Curtis Stokes, 1998
Lori Moreland, 1997
Donna Burrer, 1996

How did this get in?


Avanti Salon is home to some of Northeast Ohio's most talented stylists, colorists, manicurists, and skin care professionals. Education is extremely important at Avanti Salon, and the learning process does not stop after graduation from cosmetology school. Once hired as an apprentice, our stylists complete a rigorous shadowing experience before they may enter the floor as senior stylists.




On a very sad note - Woodhawk Drive - our street from work was backed up due to this.

Shooter left behind 2 victims, questions
Thursday, May 03, 2007
Damian G. GuevaraPlain Dealer Reporter

Mayfield Heights - Scott Esposito drove 400 miles from his Pennsylvania home Tuesday with balloons for his long-distance love interest. He also had a loaded gun.

Esposito ultimately gave Kathryn McBride Miller the bullets - at least eight hollow-point rounds to her head, torso and extremities. He also shot and killed her father, 71-year-old Albert Miller.

Butterfly weed and Barb

Barbie is starting these plants. She hopes to attract monarch butterflies to help preserve their population. Stay tuned for more pictures if they grow successfully in our yards. Cross your fingers for us. Best case is it grows as successfully as Barb's catnip did last year. :-)




From Wikipedia -

Butterfly weed also called Canada root, Chigger flower, Chiggerflower, Fluxroot, Indian paintbrush, Indian posy, Orange milkweed, Orange Swallow-wort, Pleurisy root, Silky Swallow-wort, Tuber root, Yellow milkweed, White-root, Windroot) is a species of milkweed native to eastern North America. It is a perennial plant growing to 0.6-2 m (1 -2 feet) tall, with clustered orange or yellow flowers from early summer to early fall. The leaves are spirally arranged, lanceolate, 5-12 cm long and 2-3 cm broad.

This plant favors dry, sand or gravel soil, but has also been reported on stream margins.

The common name comes from the butterflies that are attracted to the plant by its color and its copious production of nectar. Butterfly weed is also the larval food plant of the Queen butterfly.

Thoroughly modern moi :-)

Visit to Corcoran

Modernism
Designing a New World 1914—1939

The designed world in which we live was largely created by Modernism, which is best identified as a loose collection of ideas that developed simultaneously in different countries rather than as a single movement. The unadorned, geometric forms, abstracted shapes, and bold colors of Modernist art and design are unmistakable, seen in everything from teacups to skyscrapers, from paintings to living room fixtures and furniture. But behind the look and forms of Modernism lay a set of radical ideas and conditions. This exhibition explores how the movement developed, what principles defined it, and some of the themes that characterized it, including Utopia, the machine and mass production, nature and the healthy body, and national identities.

During the interwar years of 1914 to 1939, many architects, designers, and artists passionately committed themselves to the ideas which we now call Modernism. Reacting to the unprecedented violence and destruction of World War I, they searched for ways to create a better world through art and design.


Hmm... Does this count?

How about this? Probably not.

On Filmfest, presidents, and more

Stayed for Q and A with director who said he loves The West Wing.

VOILA CINEMA!

The President

LIONEL DELPLANQUE
France, 2006, 97 minutes, Color

In Person: Director Lionel Delplanque

"I've met someone," pretty Nahama tells her father-who just happens to be leader of the French republic. That someone is young Mathieu, and when the compassionate yet troubled president hires him to advise on the economy and then consult on speeches. The added level of familial pressures propels the film into the realm of "The West Wing." "No one wants secrets casting shadows over politics," someone cautions early in the game, but when it comes to movies such as The President, that's precisely what audiences-particularly those in Washington, DC, crave. - Eddie Cockrell

Here I am impersonating a movie star... at the "other"
President's house. I am not part of the Darfur protest
going on there that day. Should I be?












Washington's Monument is
in the background.
We really were there!

Can hardly wait for this one. Is it me or do they all look pretty much the same?

This one was good. At least this one had snow white and the seven dwarfs, plus one (sorry, couldn't resist). What I am trying to say that at least this one wasn't all white males. It is a superficial observation but true just the same. :-)

Beacon Brunch, other May stuff

Brunch buffet could not be better. I'll take this as the start of Mother's Day early. :-)

Assorted Breakfast Breads, Pasties, Muffins

Seasonal Sliced Fresh Fruit

“Eggs Benedict”

Eggs Benedict with a Twist

Bacon & Sausage

Breakfast Potatoes

Waffle Station
With Whipped Cream, Chocolate Chips, Berry Compote, Maple Syrup

Omelet Station
Made To Order Eggs Any Style, Cheddar Cheese, Peppers, Spinach, Feta, Fresh Herbs,
Mushrooms, Ham, Onions and Tomatoes

Selection of Seasonal Salads

Pasta Salad
Cucumber Red Onion Salad
Baby Mixed Field Greens
Seasonal Roasted Vegetables
Mixed Bean Salad
Caesar Salad

Entrées
(Selections May Have Variety)

Pan Seared Tilapia

Lemon Honey Caper Reduction

Ginger Soy Chicken with Wild Rice

Sautéed Seasonal Vegetables

Dessert

A Display of Fresh Baked Pies and Cakes

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The sleek and sexy Beacon Bar & Grill is alive to possibility, with an innovative chef, James Balster, who follows his muse to some exceptional cooking and makes you want to follow right along.

May brings May Day activities in addition to Mother's Day.