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IN THE FIELD
Q From Meg Pitt: We were having a discussion at work and were wondering what the origin of the phrase in the field was. The reference was to people who work outside or remotely from the main office.
A It comes from one of the earliest senses of field, one that is now obsolete. Originally field meant any open, flat stretch of unwooded landscape, not one that was necessarily cultivated. It was also used specifically as the opposite of an urban area, as in town and field. Such open areas were the sort of terrain preferred for the set-piece battles of earlier times, and so it became used in such expressions as field of battle. To be in the field then meant to be away from headquarters on a military campaign. The phrase has more recently shifted to refer to anybody who works away from base, even though they may actually be in an urban area and not out in the countryside at all. | <urn:uuid:5073ffb0-23b8-4a8f-aad4-7009febe9462> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-int1.htm | 2013-05-19T19:14:30Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368698017611/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516095337-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990125 | 189 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
- Belle Starr: Ambush on the Canadian River
- In the late afternoon of February 3, 1889, on a lonely stretch of trail near the Canadian River, a single shotgun blast
was fired from ambush. A moment later another shotgun blast, fired from close range, ended the life of Myra
Maybelle Shirley, 'Belle Starr', a mere two days before her 41st birthday.
- Like so many of the famous, and infamous,figures from the Old West, a plethora of legends regarding our fair Belle Starr are still recounted today. 'The Bandit
Queen' - 'a female Jesse James' - 'a she-devil' - 'leader of the most blood-thirsty band of cutthroats of the American
West'; she was none of these. She was a woman who lived through some desperate times and lived in some dangerous,
and interesting, places - and she did run afoul of the law on more than one occasion.
- Myra was born in Jasper County, Missouri, into a reasonably prosperous family. Her father, John, was a farmer and,
later, a successful merchant and hotel keeper.
- Towards the end of the Civil War, the Shirley family moved from Missouri to Texas. The move was, in part, to escape
the memory of the killing of Myra's older brother, 'Bud', by Union troops. The family also wished to get away from
the constant fighting and property destruction that was taking place in Missouri at that time. The family again became
engaged in farming, although John did have plans to build another hotel - but that construction never took place.
- In July of 1866, four of the Younger brothers, and Jesse James, stopped to visit the Shirleys in Scyene, Texas. Cole
Younger knew the Shirley's from their days in Missouri. Legend has it that when Cole rode on, Myra was pregnant with
his child, who was to become known as Pearl. Many historians discount this legend, stating that Pearl's father was Myra's
first husband, the outlaw Jim Reed. What is known for certain is that Myra would be associated with outlaws and bandits for
the next twenty-three years.
- On August 6, 1874, Jim Reed was shot and killed by Special Deputy John T. Morris near Paris, Texas. Morris had been
after Reed for his part in a stage robbery near San Antonio.
- Not much is known about Myra's life over the next several years, but in the summer of 1880 she married Sam Starr and
came to live in the Cherokee Nation. From this time forward, she would be known as 'Belle Starr'. Visitors at the Starr
residence included Jesse James.
- In March of 1883, Sam and Belle were both sentenced to prison terms, for horse theft. The sentence was imposed by
the famous Judge Isaac Parker. Belle was remanded to the House of Corrections at Detroit, Michigan, where she spent
nine months of a twelve month sentence - being released early due to good behavior.
- Belle's scrapes with the law continued over the next several years, and bad luck seemed to pursue her continuously.
On the night of December 17, 1886, Sam was killed in a gunfight with Frank West - West was also killed in the shoot-out.
- Over the next few years, Belle attempted to lead a peaceful life, trying to put her lawless years behind her. Regardless, she
ended up in some disagreements with some of her neighbors.
- While riding home that December evening, in 1889, someone fired those two shotgun blasts that forever ended the career of
'The Bandit Queen'. Belle was buried "with one of her hands grasping the handle of her favorite revolver."
- No one was ever brought to justice for the killing, and controversy continues to this day as to who may
have killed Belle Starr. Was it a neighbor, Edgar Watson, with whom Belle had some disagreements? Some historians
have mentioned Belle's son Eddie as the possible murderer - due to Belle's harsh treatment of her son while she doted on
her daughter Pearl. Others have speculated that the killing was a case of mistaken identity, that Belle Starr was not
the intended victim.
- The epitaph, on Belle's grave, reads:
- "Shed not for her the bitter tear,
- Nor give the heart to vain regret;
- Tis but the casket that lies here,
- The gem that filled it sparkles yet."
- Suggested Reading:
- Breihan, Carl W., and Charles A. Rosamond
- The Bandit Belle
- Brown, Dee
- The Gentle Tamers : Women of the Old West
- Harman, Samuel W.
- Belle Starr, The Female Desperado
- Note: Ramon Adams states that this account is "full of errors."
- Hicks, Edwin P.
- Belle Starr and her Pearl
- Horan, James C.
- Desperate Women
- Miller, Ronald Dean
- Shady Ladies of the West
- Shackleford, William Yancy
- Belle Starr, The Bandit Queen
- Shirley, Glenn
- Belle Starr and Her Times:
- The Literature, the Facts, and the Legends
- Wellman, Paul I.
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While the Hogan's Alley kids masqueraded as the
rich, the rich were imitating Europeans. The late 19th-century for the rich was gilded gold rather than yellow; upper-class fashion
and habits paid tribute to the European aristocracy. The upper class nursed a fascination with recreational
hunting, horses, and works of art; they married their daughters
to poor European aristocrats in order to become royalty.1 Guests
at an 1897 ball thrown by New York elite Cornelia
and Bradley Martin were asked to attend in costumes of the
aristocracy of yesteryear.2 (A December 1896 McFadden's Row of Flats shows a similar fancy-dress ball). In the same year, Outcault drew
"Grand Opera in Ryan's Arcade" (Ryan's Arcade, November 28, 1897 New York Journal), in
which the kids spoof a production of Faust. The Yellow Kid
plays bass while standing on a box that mocks, "De Bradley-Martin
Box/ No smokin nor swearin aint allowed." On the right-hand
side we see the stage manager/prompter push a fancily dressed
African-American girl away, saying, "Git out of here/Dis
aint vaudeville," hinting that vaudeville was associated
with more egalitarian attitudes and that the working class
resent the class divisions being drawn in cultural venues.
Many New Yorkers of all classes shared an interest in gambling, but what you could gamble on was tightly controlled by what class you belonged to. When
an outraged public claimed high entrance fees at the Jerome
Park racing track in Fordham excluded middle and lower classes, New York City banker August Belmont maintained that "[r]acing is for the
rich."3 Horse racing
also faced the wrath of church leaders and moral reformers
because of gambling, crooked races, and animal abuses associated
with the sport.4 Rumors
about fixed races enraged the public and spread distaste
for betting, especially in poolrooms, where the lower classes
could gather to gamble and take part in the sport that was
otherwise often excluded from them. New York passed a number
of laws that banned betting or certain kinds of betting throughout
the 1890s, which New Yorkers usually found ways to circumvent.5 The
Yellow Kid himself is shown gambling in "Opening of the
Hogan's Alley Athletic Club" (New York World, September 27, 1896), in which he plays poker6,
in "Fortune Smiles Upon the Yellow Kid at Monte Carlo" (New York Journal, March 7, 1897; at a casino likely only frequented by the rich), and
offscreen in "A Turkey Raffle in Which the Yellow Kid Exhibits
Skill with the Dice" (New York Journal, November 22, 1896). He appears in a pool hall in "The
Yellow Kid Introduces A. Monk Who Enlivens the Pool Tournament
in McFadden's Flats" (New York Journal; November 29, 1896; the
"A. Monk" being a monkey). A sign on the pool table reads
"Rules/No English Kin be Used in Playin Dis game, cause
we are Irish an not anglomaniacs-ye must shoot wit de small
end of de cue—an also you must shoot wit de cue—dis aint
crokay. Double barrel shoot guns are barred B dis game is
on de level—naturally." The cartoon mocks the upper-class
attraction to "immoral" pastimes that are more often in
public associated with the lower class (who are then viewed
as being more immoral), as well as act as a jibe against their Anglophilia. The Kid invites readers to enjoy the seedy life;
the burlesque dancers in the background, likely seen as prostitutes
or bad girls by some, complete the image of low-class loose
morals. By so closely identifying tenement residents with gambling, Outcault may confirm readers' stereotypes; however, Outcault also invades the middle/upper class realm of the athletic club and casino, revealing the "low-class" behavior there.
1 Beckert, Sven. The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896. Cambridge, U.K.; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
2 Beckert 1-2.
3 Beckert 259.
4 Riess, Steven A. "Sports and Machine Politics in New York City, 1870-1920" The Making of Urban America. By Raymond A. Mohl. Wilmington: SR Books (1984). 106.
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Pictured above (from left to right) are Assemblyman Lopez, Dan Rosecrans, Larry Magiera, and Scott Johnson with new Central Bridge Fire District ambulance.
“When Central Bridge contacted me about helping replace their old ambulance, my first instinct was to look at where fire equipment may be replaced at a more rapid pace than here in our rural communities. On Long Island winters are not as harsh and some of the fire departments are even paid companies, so I contacted fire districts across the island on behalf of our volunteer firefighters at Central Bridge,” said Assemblyman Lopez.
Assemblyman Lopez heard back from a number of fire companies on Long Island offering a variety of equipment including hoses and gear; however, Montauk Fire District offered a 1997 ambulance for Central Bridge at no charge. The new ambulance had automatic features, less wear and tear, and was in better compliance with current fire regulations.
A group of Central Bridge’s volunteer firefighters traveled down to Montauk to pick up the ambulance. Among them was Dan Rosecrans, Chairman of the Board of Fire Commissioners, who stated, “We are very grateful to receive this new ambulance – and at no cost, too. The maintenance on the ambulance has been immaculate and it is performing flawlessly.”
After putting on some new lettering, installing a new stretcher mount (to fit Central Bridge’s model of stretcher) and radio system, and putting on all-weather tires, the new ambulance is up and running.
Central Bridge Fire District is a volunteer fire department located on Route 20 in Central Bridge. The company receives about 200 calls per year and provides Advanced EMT/Critical Care ambulance services, as well as fire prevention and control services, for emergencies in Schoharie County.
“This is a perfect example of how we can creatively meet local needs, without raising taxes,” said Assemblyman Lopez. “I hope this vehicle helps our Central Bridge volunteers care for the community for years to come.” | <urn:uuid:f4b83731-5b54-426e-bc1f-71e9eff6a236> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://assembly.state.ny.us/mem/Peter-D-Lopez/story/37994/ | 2013-05-22T15:07:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701910820/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105830-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950592 | 416 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
BLUEFIELD — Click here for video of blaze
Friends and family could do nothing but offer comfort and watch Thursday afternoon as fire destroyed a Bath Street home.
Mercer County 911 was alerted 3:23 p.m. about a structure fire at 111 Bath Street near the Martin Luther King Jr. Bridge in Bluefield. A plume of black smoke could be seen across the city as the Bluefield Fire Department battled the blaze. Smoke poured from the burning home as water was sprayed into the structure. A live electrical wire sparked and crackled like fireworks until the power was cut off.
Cathleen Williams, 33, could only watch with tears in her eyes as her home burned. Her family rented the house and had lived there since February. Her mother and four children lived there as well, she said.
William said she was in an upstairs room with two of the children when she smelled smoke coming from downstairs. The rest of the family was not at home. Realizing the house was burning, she immediately grabbed the children and fled.
“I went out the back door because the smoke was coming up the stairs,” she recalled. “I couldn’t even see the steps, there was so much smoke.”
Williams said she was not sure where or how the fire started, adding that she had been home for 30 minutes and had not turned on a stove or even a television. The home and its contents were a total loss.
“I never knew how serious a house fire was until now, because you lose everything,” Williams said as she watched.
Fire fighters worked to keep the blaze from spreading to neighboring homes. Leonard Johnson, 60, who lives nearby, watched the flames lick toward his son’s home at 115 Bath Street. The fire had not spread to the house. Ashes rained down with mist from the fire hoses, and the air smelled of smoke.
“No, I hope to God it didn’t,” Johnson said. “Look at the heat coming off that.”
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General Sessions Civil Dockets
General Sessions - Civil Division court dockets are posted to our web site two days in advance. Links to the current day's docket and the next two dockets may be found to the left.
There will be NO Civil Docket in General Sessions Court on the dates listed below.
2013 Court Holidays
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Screamin' Jay Hawkins - The Whammy - Classic Blues Videos
great performance in Tokyo, Japan, 1990
Blues legend Screamin' Jay Hawkins performs "The Whammy" at the Kudan Kaikan in Tokyo, Japan in 1990.
Bari Southern (Tenor Sax)
Gary Snyder (Guitar)
Rodney Schnitz (Bass)
Gene Pello (Drums)
Ricky Rouse (Guitar)
Jalacy Hawkins (July 18, 1929, Cleveland, Ohio — February 12, 2000, Paris, France), best known as Screamin' Jay Hawkins was an African-American musician, singer, and actor. Famed chiefly for his powerful, operatic vocal delivery and wildly theatrical performances of songs such as "I Put a Spell on You" and "Constipation Blues", Hawkins sometimes used macabre props onstage, making him the one of few original shock rockers.
Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Hawkins studied classical piano as a child and learned guitar in his twenties. His original career goal was to become an opera singer in the footsteps of Paul Robeson. When his initial ambitions failed, he began his career as a conventional blues singer and pianist.
He served in the United States Air Force in the Pacific theater during World War II, primarily as an entertainer. Although he claimed to have been tortured for some time as a prisoner of war, stories of the circumstances of his actual capture vary. According to the documentary, I Put a Spell on Me, upon liberation he blew his chief tormentor's head off by taping a hand-grenade into his mouth and pulling the pin. Hawkins was an avid and formidable boxer. In 1949, he was the middleweight boxing champion of Alaska.
In 1951, he joined guitarist Tiny Grimes for a while, and recorded a few songs with him. When Hawkins became a solo performer, he often performed in a very stylish wardrobe, featuring leopard skins, red leather and wild hats.
Although Hawkins was not a major success as a recording artist, his highly theatrical performances from "I Put a Spell On You" onward earned him a steady career as a live performer for decades afterward, and influenced subsequent acts. He opened for Fats Domino, Tiny Grimes and the Rolling Stones. This exposure in turn influenced rock groups such as Screaming Lord Sutch, Black Sabbath, Arthur Brown, Dread Zeppelin, The Horrors, Marilyn Manson and Alice Cooper.
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BRYAN SEmD Freshman Chelsea Laycock scored in the second half to lift Defiance past Wauseon 2-1 in Division II girls sectional soccer play on Monday at Bryan.
Emily Spencer had a goal and an assist for the Lady Bulldogs (5-9-2).
Wauseon's lone goal was scored by Bailey Creager.
"It was a total team effort today. The girls played for the entire 80 minutes with heart and desire," stated Defiance head coach Jessica Schroeder. "Senior goaltender Brittany Froelich was the leader on the field and played with passion. Katie Schlegel was the leader on defense."
Laycock was inserted into the lineup in the second half and scored the eventual game-winning goal.
"Seeing a freshman score a goal in the second half in a tournament game shows the type of heart that girl has," added Schroeder. "We have some momentum and are ready to go against Bryan."
Defiance moves on to play Bryan Thursday at 4:30 p.m. in the sectional finals at Bryan. Bryan defeated Defiance earlier in the season, 3-2.
Defiance 2, Wauseon 1
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An album featuring "Yakety Yak"
|Single by The Coasters|
|B-side||"Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart"|
|Format||45 rpm, 78 rpm|
|Recorded||March 17, 1958|
|Label||Atco Records 6116|
|Writer(s)||Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller|
|Producer||Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller|
|The Coasters singles chronology|
"Yakety Yak" is a song written, produced, and arranged by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller for The Coasters and released on Atlantic Records in 1958, spending seven weeks as #1 on the R&B charts and a week as number one on the Hot 100 pop list. This song was one of a string of singles released by The Coasters between 1957 and 1959 that dominated the charts, one of the biggest performing acts of the rock and roll era.
The song is a "playlet," a word Stoller used for the glimpses into teenage life that characterized the songs Leiber and Stoller wrote and produced. The lyrics describe the listing of household chores to a kid, presumably a teenager, the teenager's response ("yakety yak") and the parents' retort ("don't talk back") — an experience very familiar to a middle-class teenager of the day. Leiber has said the Coasters portrayed "a white kid’s view of a black person’s conception of white society." The serio-comic street-smart “playlets” etched out by the songwriters were sung by the Coasters with a sly clowning humor, while the screaming saxophone of King Curtis filled in hot, honking bursts in the up-tempo doo-wop style. The group was openly theatrical in style—they were not pretending to be expressing their own experience.
The threatened punishment for not taking out the garbage and sweeping the floor is, in the song's humorous lyrics:
- "You ain't gonna rock and roll no more,"
And the refrain is:
- "Yakety yak; don't talk back."
Popular culture
- Sha Na Na performed this as part of their set at the original Woodstock Festival
- Lee Perry released a cover version in 1969 (as Lee Perry and the Upsetters), altering the lyric "You ain't gonna rock and roll no more" to "You ain't gonna reggae reggae reggae no more"
- Alvin and the Chipmunks recorded a version for the 1987 Alvin and the Chipmunks episode "Dave's Dream Cabin."
- The song has also been mixed & recorded by 2 Live Crew for the movie Twins. In the same film, Julius (Arnold Schwarzenegger) sings along, with hilarious results, as the song plays in his earphones while flying to the United States.
- It has also served as the theme to Clive Anderson's chat-show Clive Anderson Talks Back during the 1990s, and as the opening theme of the movie, The Great Outdoors.
- It was the inspiration and theme song for the 2002-2003 Nickelodeon series, Yakkity Yak.
- A modified version, "Yakety Yak - Take It Back," was used in a 1990 all-star PSA for the Take It Back foundation.
See also
- Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 125.
- "The Coasters". Rock Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 2006-10-17. Retrieved 2006-11-08.
- Anthony DeCurtis, & James Henke (eds) (1980). The RollingStone: The Definitive History of the Most Important Artists and Their Music ((3rd Ed.) ed.). New York, N.Y.: Random House, Inc. p. 98. ISBN 0-679-73728-6.
- Matos, Michaelangelo (April 13 2005). "Yakety Yak". Seattle Weekly. Retrieved 2006-11-08.
- "The Great Outdoors (1988) - Soundtracks". IMDb. Retrieved 2009-03-13.
- "'Yakety Yak – Take It Back!' Music Video". Take It Back Foundation. Retrieved 2012-02-08. | <urn:uuid:4f60c6c9-1ef0-4c62-a4d8-c32c35ea8604> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakety_Yak | 2013-05-22T15:07:05Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701910820/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105830-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.890635 | 912 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Shavuot, the biblical Festival of Weeks, arrives on May 29 this year, with a special urgency. Holidays on the Jewish calendar often speak to us with particular force at pivotal moments in our communal lives – Passover, for example, with its theme of freedom, or Yom Kippur with its call for repentance. This year, we need to be reminded of Shavuot, the spring harvest festival with its often-overlooked — or suppressed — teachings about the rights of the poor and the dangerous seduction of wealth.
Tradition teaches that Shavuot marks the anniversary of the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai. In fact, the biblical text that introduces Shavuot makes no mention of Sinai. As mandated in Leviticus, chapter 23, the holiday is a celebration of the “first fruits” of the wheat harvest, to be observed seven weeks plus a day after the Passover sacrifice.
Traditional commentaries also teach that Shavuot is unique among the major biblical festivals because it is not assigned any distinctive ritual comparable to the Seder meal of Passover or the makeshift booths of Sukkot. But that, too, has it backward. When Leviticus lays out the five major holy days of the year, only Shavuot comes with a specific code of behavior.
The text spells it out as plain as day: “When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap all the way to the edges of your field, or gather the gleanings” — the bits that fall to the ground — “of your harvest; you shall leave them for the poor and the stranger. I am the Lord.”
The message of Shavuot is that the harvest you’re celebrating isn’t yours alone. Part of your crop belongs by right to people you don’t even know, simply because they don’t have as much. And if we restate this as a broad principle, as most of us agree the Bible is supposed to be read, the rule is this: A portion of one’s income shall be redistributed to the poor.
Nor is this to be taken as a recommendation of charity or generosity. It’s intended as a legal obligation, “a law for all time, in all your dwellings” — not just on the farm, and not just in the Middle East — “throughout your generations.” It’s almost as if the ancients knew we were going to try to wiggle out of it.
If you listen to the sort of folks who like to thump their Bibles, you might wonder what happened to the sacred principle of private property. Leviticus takes that on a chapter later, in the portion that’s read in synagogues a few days before Shavuot. Every 50 years, the book says, all land purchases are annulled and the property reverts to its original owners. Large property holdings may be amassed only temporarily. Enduring wealth, like enduring poverty, is impermissible.
Conservatives in Washington these days like to dismiss taxes and regulation as “socialism.” But if you read your Bible, that’s just a fancy name for traditional values. | <urn:uuid:a76bf1cf-4fd0-4d65-ba25-e45560c0bfa9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://forward.com/articles/106300/leave-the-gleanings/ | 2013-05-22T15:14:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701910820/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105830-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947451 | 682 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
In this exciting game you will become an assistant in Balloon Park. Your objective is to connect the tubes properly to deliver some helium into the balloons, and as fast as you can. We are positive that you will be pleased by nice relaxing music, funny sound effects, the bonuses system and of course, the happy children laughter.
Platform Windows 95/98/ME
Operating Systems Windows 95/98/ME,Windows NT/2000,Windows XP
Date added 14 Feb 2005
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If you don’t have a dutch oven, stop reading here and go read the latest Day by Day cartoon. At least you’ll get something worth while from this post. Cooking the entire dish in a single dutch oven adds layers of taste complexity that otherwise add time and effort to achieve.
First, assemble the players. They are:
2- 3 pounds of richly marbled short ribs.
three slices of cheap, fatty bacon cut into chunks.
1/4 cup of flour in a small bowl
2 Tsb of olive oil.
About 1 1/2 cup of Holy Trinity (Equal portions of finely diced onion, carrot and celery)
2 cups Red Wine (I used Mad Housewife, use what ever puts your car in gear.)
2 cups Beef Broth
1 teaspoon Rosemary
1 Teaspoon Thyme.
Most recipes call for using lard or saved bacon fat. There is no thing such as saved bacon fat at Mammoth Manor. This, however is a feature and not a bug. Heat your Dutch Oven to medium on the stove top. Drop in the bits of bacon. The idea is slowly render as much fat out of the bacon as possible.
While the bacon is rendering lay out your short ribs on a cookie sheet or large cutting board. Liberally coat all sides with salt and pepper. The dredge all sides in the flour and place back on the sheet.
When your bacon is thoroughly cooked remove the bacon from the oven and set aside. Immediately add the olive oil and turn your stove up to high. In moments it should be nicely crackling. Fry each short rib on every side…and sides includes the ends…until they are nicely seared. Remove ribs and set aside.
Turn heat back down to medium and throw in the Holy Trinity. Turn your oven on to 350. Stir frequently until the onions start to wilt and become translucent. Early on during this process be careful that the onions don’t burn as the coating of the ribs might have drawn off too much bacon fat. If you see this put in a few dollops of the broth until the onions release enough moisture to keep cooking.
When the onions are translucent add in the wine and the broth and bring to boil. Boil for several minutes and use a whisk to scrape off all the yummies on the bottom of the oven. Turn off heat and add the Rosemary and Thyme. Place the ribs bone side up in the broth.
Place in oven for two hours. After two hours reduce heat to 300 for 30 minutes.
Remove from oven, turn off the heat and remove the ribs from the dutch oven. Place them on a serving pan and put in the cooling oven. After a few minutes place a heat pad under the side of the dutch oven to tilt it. Use a ladle to remove as much fat as you can. This is a very rich sauce and it can be over done. If desired whisk in two tablespoons of Corn Starch or make a small flour rue and turn to a thicker gravy.
Place ribs on mashed potatoes or rice and spoon sauce over them.
Oh yeah, that bacon you saved? Toss it in the sauce after you’ve ladled out the fat and stir briskly. Trust me. | <urn:uuid:c18619e3-9fc1-4a9a-9efd-a5e0428c847f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://justbarkingmad.com/?p=11483 | 2013-05-22T15:14:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701910820/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105830-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933567 | 682 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
When Batman finally stopped treating Harley’s self-destructive love for The Joker as a running gag.
DO MY EYES DECEIVE ME
EXCITED PANTING SCREAMING NOISES
BUT I COULD HAVE SWORN IT WAS ANOTHER DUDE
BUT LOOK AT HOW HE’S GRABBING HIS JACKET I
YOU KNOW THAT FEELING WHEN YOU FIND A NEW FAVORITE CHARACTER AND YOU CAN FEEL YOUR SANITY SLIPPING AWAY FROM YOU AS YOUR HEART BURSTS FROM YOUR CHEST AND YOU SCREAM THEIR NAME TO THE HEAVENS
yes i’m a boy
yes i play videogames ;]
don’t hit on me silly girls xoxoxo
wft boys don’t play videogames
get back in the garage and fix my car.
another fucking “gamer boy” They all just want attention they cant even play well!
He’s just a slut with a controller.
That console isn’t even plugged in you fucking whore.
Scientific proof that Nicki Minaj is a giant asshole.
i don’t like most of her music but i love love love her
do you ever think really awful thoughts and suddenly become aware that you are not a good person
my favorite exile was definitely aimless renegade but wayward vagabond man..
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Everyone knows that more whole grain is always a good thing to eat. I love granola, as does Mike and yet I won’t spend the abhorrent amounts of money asked for in a store to buy a 10-oz bag of granola that will disappear in one sitting in my house. I found the origin of this recipe in a Cooking Light magazine and embellished it to include more grain and flavor. It makes a big batch all on it’s own, but I double it because we can eat it on so many things.
In a large bowl combine 2 c. regular oats, 2 c. barley flakes, 1 c. oat bran, 1/3 c. ground flaxseed, 1/4 c. chopped almonds, 1 t. ground cinnamon and 1/2 t. nutmeg. In a small saucepan stir together 1/3 c. orange juice, 1/3 c. honey, 1/4 c. packed brown sugar and 2 t. canola oil. Cook over medium heat until the sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat and stir in 2 t. vanilla extract. Pour over dry ingredients and stir well to coat. Spread on two cookie sheets coated with non-stick spray and bake at 300 degrees for approximately 30-40 minutes, stirring every 10-15. Remove from oven and sprinkle the top with dried cranberries and/or dried blueberries to taste. Allow to cool and store in airtight container. | <urn:uuid:ce89b85d-f0ec-4129-8eb3-9f39080761f7> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://kateinthekitchen.com/tag/granola/ | 2013-05-22T15:08:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701910820/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105830-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92236 | 298 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Subway strike finishes with thousands of passengers affected
The strike in the subway service and premetro began as announced at noon and runs for two hours, in the context of the conflict that the unions have with Tram Drivers’ Union (AWU).
The thousands of passengers who daily use this mode of transport, were affected, but as the strike had been announced before; many took alternative routes to reach their destinations.
At 2 pm the service was returned to normal, although the union leaders threatened to make similar measures in the coming days.
Meanwhile, Metrovías put an emergency service during the two-hour strike and said that “from 11:30, all users travel free on all six subway lines and premetro.”
However, the union leaders prevented the departure of the trains which tried to provide that service. | <urn:uuid:5876d96c-a32a-45e9-a1f8-15e597ca58a4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://m24digital.com/en/2010/05/06/subway-strike-began-with-thousands-of-passengers-affected/ | 2013-05-22T15:01:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701910820/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105830-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984213 | 173 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
This question may smell like my older question http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1778/a-probability-game, but this time my intentions are different.
The above problem came from my friend. Or so I thought, it really came from me incorrectly remembering his problem. The problem he actually gave me was:
Suppose you start with 1 dollar and flip a weighted coin. With probability 3/4 (call this heads) you win a dollar and with probability 1/4 (call this tails) you lose a dollar. What is the probability you eventually run out of money? (Suppose the house has as many dollar bills as needed).
I know how to solve this problem in the following way: First observe the number of tails must equal the number of heads plus one. If a string of Hs and Ts satisfy this property, call it Good. Now we want to count the number of Good strings that don't have Good proper prefixes. For a string of length 2n-1 this is just the nth Catalan number. Now we just take the appropriate summation and we arrive at the probability we eventually run out of money which turns out to be 1/3.
Now when my friend told me this problem, he said he was able to apply a clever trick and solve it almost instantly. The thing is, he doesn't remember how he did it. He says he vaguely remembers using a recurrence relation and then telescoping a sum. (Which sounds very plausible)
So can you come up with a short and sweet solution?
On a side note, I am aware my title is poor at best. If you can think of a better one, please let me know. | <urn:uuid:770d0112-8d1d-48e5-b6c3-19a9380f448d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4044/finding-a-clever-solution-to-a-game-of-chance | 2013-05-22T15:15:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701910820/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105830-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961746 | 357 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn and pro-golfer Tiger Woods have finally admitted they're dating (yes, even though she initially denied it). In our minds, their relationship was pretty much already confirmed when they lived on his yacht and Lindsey borrowed his private jet after she was injured a while back.
But now it's Facebook-official, you guys. And to celebrate their coupledom, they had professional portraits taken. Which, if you ask us, is ... well, kinda weird. | <urn:uuid:0a88b176-3f05-4b76-a7de-c88b2007a225> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://mix931fm.com/tags/lindsey-vonn/ | 2013-05-22T14:59:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701910820/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105830-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.991041 | 103 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 6856 Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posted: Thu 04 Aug 2005, 10:49 Post subject:
You seem to be mixed up with the usr_cram.fs file.
usr_cram.fs is different thing entirely.
usr_devx.sfs has to be downloaded from www.nstsoftware.com/puppy
and placed in /mnt/home/ ...when Puppy is running, as long as the partition
/mnt/home isn't NTFS, then all should be fine.
You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum You cannot attach files in this forum You can download files in this forum | <urn:uuid:e795b3db-f09f-4d28-a672-f1625fd3a5c3> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=1572 | 2013-05-22T15:15:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701910820/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105830-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932548 | 178 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
By Art Reisman
Editor’s note: Art Reisman is the CTO of APconnections. APconnections designs and manufactures the popular NetEqualizer bandwidth shaper.
Bandwidth prices traditionally have a very regional component, and your experience may vary, but in the US there is a really good chance you can get quite a bit more bandwidth for a much lower price than what it would have cost you a few years ago. To site one example, we have a customer that contracts Internet services to supply several large residential housing units. Currently, commercial class business Internet service for 50 megabits runs $120 per month, which is the same price they were paying for 10 megabits 3 years ago. Essentially, they are getting five times as much bandwidth for the same price they signed up for 3 years ago. And they are not an anomaly. I am hearing the same story in almost every market in the US. We can conclude from our empirical data that bandwidth prices have dropped 80 percent in 3 years!
To answer the question on the future of bandwidth prices, we need to get a handle on what is driving them lower today.
Here are some of the factors:
This has most likely been the biggest factor in the recent reduction of prices. Although the technology has been around for a while, many businesses were locked into 3 and 4 year contracts. Now in 2012 , most carriers have upgraded their networks to use WDM. The ability to greatly increase bandwidth capacity without the cost of laying new cables, is now being passed onto the wholesale market.
2) The recession.
There is very little expansion of the customer base for demand of wired bandwidth. Yes, there is a huge space for wireless phones and such, and I’ll deal with those separately, but for the wired home or business there just are no new customers and there has not been for the past 8 years or so.
In some areas there have been subsidies to bring in higher speed lines where private business would have otherwise not made the investment.
4) Less infrastructure spending by traditional wired providers.
This seems a bit counter intuitive, but in the past few years, established providers have slowed laying out fiber to the home, and now they are free to charge a bit lower prices on their existing infrastructure because it is paid for. An analogy would be a rental car company that was able to go 3 or 4 years without investing in new cars, their expenses would drop and thus could lower their prices.
This is somewhat related to the recession. Multiple providers in a market fighting for a flat or shrinking supply of new customers. Many of the contracts we see dropping to retain existing customers. Most of the sunk cost occurs in acquiring a new customer. Once you have a line in place with equipment at the customer premise, the last thing you want to have happen is to get outbid by an upstart, and you have room to move down in price so you discount heavily to retain the customer.
This may surprise you, but we believe the future (2013) holds higher prices.
Here are the reasons:
1) End of subsidies.
The government subsidies have worked but they have also been a huge embarrassment of waste and fraud, hence we won’t see any more of that for a little while.
There will be consolidation in markets where there is competition, and the discounts will end. People love their wireless 4g, but those prices will never be competitive with wired to the business or home bandwidth. So once a region is down to a single wired supplier, they will be able to raise prices or at least stop discounting.
At some point, the real estate and business economy will begin to expand, at which time backbone and switching resources will become tighter from demand (this may happen just from video demand already). In other words, once providers have to start investing in more infrastructure, they will also need to raise prices to subsidize their new investments.
Related Articles and links
Business Phone News has a nice guide to purchasing bandwidth that explains the value of bandwidth management. This excerpt is take from their recent article on usage based billing.
Many business owners think, “I don’t need to worry about that as my IT director, IT department or IT contractor has got that covered.” Maybe yes, but maybe no! To double-check just how well your business bandwidth is being managed, download and take the “Business Bandwidth Management Self-Analysis Survey” in our Bandwidth Management Buyers Guide. | <urn:uuid:5a636a30-74bd-4b13-b393-3014f176031a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://netequalizernews.com/2012/06/27/wired-bandwidth-prices-what-to-expect-in-the-future/ | 2013-05-22T15:13:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701910820/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105830-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967844 | 922 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
GLBT Fiction to Watch Out For
They're here, they're queer, and they're ready to be read! Check out these bold fiction titles from the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh's GLBT collection today.
This farcical romp starts with two small-time swindlers who decide to steal a video that would "out" the world's most famous gay celebrity as a straight man. They accidentally leave the tape in a taxi and as they try to recover it, the fun begins.
A hip, seemingly-perfect Manhattan couple are impacted in a very powerful way by the visit of the wife's much younger brother.
Samantha was a lost and lonely soul—until she met Fran. But now that a new evil has set out to destroy her life, love, and family, Samantha must see how far she's willing to go to keep it.
Corporate Investigator, Kip Barrett, must discover who is embezzling from her company. As she gets closer to the truth and to her company's CEO Tamara Sterling, she struggles to resist temptation in order to find the culprit.
The Low Road
In this retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped, Charles Gordon is kidnapped, sold into slavery and forced to serve the needs of a military regiment. While doing what he must to survive, he is plotting to free the man he loves from prison.
It's 1987 and while all of the other boys in high school are trying to get busy with girls, Bradley Dayton is trying to get the lead in the school musical. He knows he's gay, but the rest of the school doesn't. But there might be that guy in drama club. Or the one from marching band. Or the jock…
This collection of two PsyCop stories introduces and then shows the development of the relationship between psychic Victor Bayne and his non-psychic partner Jacob Marks.
No Rules of Engagement
While embedded with a combat medical unit in Afghanistan, photographer Jillian Knight expects the experience to be difficult. What she does not expect is the attraction she feels for Major Logan Sharp, one of the unit's doctors, or what happens when they accidentally meet stateside a year later.
The debut novel from the poet and author of the screenplay for the acclaimed movie, Boys Don't Cry.
The protagonist Billie struggles with an environmentally-devastated earth and plans for resettlement on a new planet. | <urn:uuid:1d61beec-21ea-448c-ada5-c5511f7f46ea> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://newandfeatured@carnegielibrary.org/books/booklists/glbtfiction.html | 2013-05-22T15:36:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701910820/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105830-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957495 | 496 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
New Collection Alert: Club Monaco’s Beach BoutiqueMay 3, 2012 @ 11:25 am
Shopping for your summer getaway just got easier, thank to Club Monaco. The retailer just opened its annual “Beach Boutique” stocked with breezy dresses in summer whites, as well as handmade accessories, thanks to third-party collaborations with brands promoting the fair-trade global social movement like Global Goods, Made, Wayuu Taya, and Pachacuti. Check out the Beach Boutique at clubmonaco.com to stock up on woven bags, chic wooden jewelry, and vibrant bikinis, or visit your local Club Monaco store.
See more of our favorite pieces from Club Monaco’s spring collection! | <urn:uuid:6860da93-4729-40e8-ab22-0ac5a8c6ab63> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://news.instyle.com/2012/05/03/club-monaco-beach-boutique/ | 2013-05-22T15:07:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701910820/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105830-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.854819 | 153 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The U.S. women's soccer team was gushing with goodwill on Friday, a day after beating Japan in the Olympic final.
The team avenged a deeply-felt loss to Japan in the 2011 World Cup, but midfielder Lauren Cheney said there was no animosity heading into the rematch.
"On the gold medal stand, we were all just saying how much we love Japan and how much fun they are to play," Cheney said. "We have so much respect for them and they always play us well and play a great game."
But their admiration for the Japanese was nothing compared to their own camaraderie.
"There's so much love, we tell each other that all the time but it's so genuine and it's so much fun to be around each other," Cheney said. "To know that's our last time to play, we are just going to enjoy it as much as we can."
— Jenna Fryer — Twitter http://twitter.com/jennafryer
EDITOR'S NOTE — "Eyes on London" shows you the Olympics through the eyes of Associated Press journalists across the 2012 Olympic city and around the world. Follow them on Twitter where available with the handles listed after each item. | <urn:uuid:a7c996fc-ab88-488b-ab4f-d55441087f37> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://news.yahoo.com/love-fest-134904251--oly.html | 2013-05-22T15:36:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701910820/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105830-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982598 | 253 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
TESTING FOR PHYLOGENETIC SIGNAL IN COMPARATIVE DATA: BEHAVIORAL TRAITS ARE MORE LABILE
Article first published online: 9 MAY 2007
Volume 57, Issue 4, pages 717–745, April 2003
How to Cite
Blomberg, S. P., Garland, T. and Ives, A. R. (2003), TESTING FOR PHYLOGENETIC SIGNAL IN COMPARATIVE DATA: BEHAVIORAL TRAITS ARE MORE LABILE. Evolution, 57: 717–745. doi: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2003.tb00285.x
- Issue published online: 9 MAY 2007
- Article first published online: 9 MAY 2007
- Received March 29, 2002. Accepted November 27, 2002.
- body size;
- branch lengths;
- comparative method;
Abstract The primary rationale for the use of phylogenetically based statistical methods is that phylogenetic signal, the tendency for related species to resemble each other, is ubiquitous. Whether this assertion is true for a given trait in a given lineage is an empirical question, but general tools for detecting and quantifying phylogenetic signal are inadequately developed. We present new methods for continuous-valued characters that can be implemented with either phylogenetically independent contrasts or generalized least-squares models. First, a simple randomization procedure allows one to test the null hypothesis of no pattern of similarity among relatives. The test demonstrates correct Type I error rate at a nominal α= 0.05 and good power (0.8) for simulated datasets with 20 or more species. Second, we derive a descriptive statistic, K, which allows valid comparisons of the amount of phylogenetic signal across traits and trees. Third, we provide two biologically motivated branch-length transformations, one based on the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU) model of stabilizing selection, the other based on a new model in which character evolution can accelerate or decelerate (ACDC) in rate (e.g., as may occur during or after an adaptive radiation). Maximum likelihood estimation of the OU (d) and ACDC (g) parameters can serve as tests for phylogenetic signal because an estimate of d or g near zero implies that a phylogeny with little hierarchical structure (a star) offers a good fit to the data. Transformations that improve the fit of a tree to comparative data will increase power to detect phylogenetic signal and may also be preferable for further comparative analyses, such as of correlated character evolution. Application of the methods to data from the literature revealed that, for trees with 20 or more species, 92% of traits exhibited significant phylogenetic signal (randomization test), including behavioral and ecological ones that are thought to be relatively evolutionarily malleable (e.g., highly adaptive) and/or subject to relatively strong environmental (nongenetic) effects or high levels of measurement error. Irrespective of sample size, most traits (but not body size, on average) showed less signal than expected given the topology, branch lengths, and a Brownian motion model of evolution (i.e., K was less than one), which may be attributed to adaptation and/or measurement error in the broad sense (including errors in estimates of phenotypes, branch lengths, and topology). Analysis of variance of log K for all 121 traits (from 35 trees) indicated that behavioral traits exhibit lower signal than body size, morphological, life-history, or physiological traits. In addition, physiological traits (corrected for body size) showed less signal than did body size itself. For trees with 20 or more species, the estimated OU (25% of traits) and/or ACDC (40%) transformation parameter differed significantly from both zero and unity, indicating that a hierarchical tree with less (or occasionally more) structure than the original better fit the data and so could be preferred for comparative analyses. | <urn:uuid:9146bb03-19c7-40eb-94c9-f523c9a2a136> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0014-3820.2003.tb00285.x/abstract | 2013-05-22T15:03:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701910820/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105830-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.88373 | 810 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
I’ve been using linux for more than half a year as the main operating system on my computer. I’ve tried to do almost everything in linux. That includes word processing, working with spreadsheets, compiling presentations, watching movies, listening to music, you name it. I should admit that this experience hasn’t been an easy one. You are when aware of the fact that starting using a new operating system such as linux has a very steep learning curve. You need to learn a lot of new things and habits, and let’s face it, use command line.
Despite all the efforts and difficulties it’s been a pleasant experience. The user interface has been particularity excellent and eye catching.
However the matter of fact is that using office applications comprises more than 70% of our work with computers. I regret to say that in this very serious and important area office alternatives in linux are lagging behind. The most famous one is open office and I have to say that was the worst one. You may ask what’s wrong with them. The first problem, and maybe the most important one, is compatibility issues. It happened times and times that I compiled a file in a word processor and linux and checked it in Microsoft word and they looked different. It was also commonplace to open files created with Microsoft word in linux and see different formatting.
Many people argue that it’s not correct to consider Microsoft office as the standard and try to make other applications like it. Unfortunately they forget this very obvious fact that more than 90% of users are using Microsoft office. Before going any further I should say that’s for basic data day activities that formatting and compact ability is not that important, Microsoft office alternatives in linux are good enough. But, and this is a big one, when the situation is more serious you encounter more incompatibilities and that can be disastrous.
The other thing that some linux fans forget is that we are not supposed to spend our time with computers. We spend our time with computers to get our jobs done. And for that purpose Microsoft office has proved to be practical enough.
We all know that Microsoft windows is neither a good operating systems nor it offers the best user interface and experience. For that reason if I am to choose another operating system that would be OS X. The point I’m trying to make is that linux has come a long way to become a more user friendly up rating system. In its current condition it is a huge step forward from what it used to be five years ago. But it’s not a mature operating system for desktops yet.
I know that many linux users do not share this view with me. I’ve been trying to share and what of the learned and what I have experienced in linux with you. But Now I’m going back to windows. It doesn’t mean that I will never come back to linux again. I am well aware that I will miss it a lot. So don’t be surprised if you see me writing here again about linux. Until then goodbye! | <urn:uuid:d94e64a5-e806-4206-9ec4-2c8c41506d2c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://osnovice.blogspot.com/2007/07/why-im-going-back-to-windows.html?showComment=1185167580000 | 2013-05-22T15:02:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701910820/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105830-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965013 | 636 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Question: when would be a parish be happy to make it to the Year of Hell?
Answer: when things get so bad it's forced to close 12 years earlier.
That's right! Case in point, West Philadelphia's St. Gregory, at 52nd & Warren Streets, which closed in 1981, a full 12 years before the Year of Hell, 1993. Now that's a bad area!
(Yes, I know that the YOH is usually used in connection with the North Philadelphia Swath of Destruction, but it can apply elsewhere as well. 1993 marked the end of many parishes in Chester, for example.)
Anyway, Gregory's building has become Caveat Emptor'd into a Protestant church. But for those looking to relive the good old days, Project reader Terry Callen was good enough to send over some photos of St. Gregory, including a prized interior shot, and a stylized photo from a 1911 postcard: | <urn:uuid:228a6a01-c532-4d2a-bd5b-a9de2c5dd45a> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://phillychurchproject.blogspot.com/2009/07/year-of-hell-would-be-godsend.html | 2013-05-22T15:14:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701910820/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105830-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964721 | 194 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
MHU Free Store v1.11. The free Homebrew game store
Xenogears has just released MHU Free Store v1.11. As the title of the app suggests, its adds a free homebrew store via the wireless of your PSP. Where you can download homebrew games, apps and lots more. This release fixes the bugged 1.10 release from last week. Which I didn’t post after testing as I couldn’t get it to work! This however is worth posting.
MHU Free Store v1.11 changelog:
- Fixed a bug that caused a crasheo to exit the program.
- Fixed a bug that crashed into some users to download items.
- Fixed a bug that caused a restart crash.
- Fixed a bug with the symbol “.
- Fixed some errors relating to the animation of movement of the submenus.
- Fixed a bug relating to the suspend system.
- Added option to change the background color.
Source: MHU2d.net (Spanish)
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Matt Cain was "Da Man" tonight with a sterling performance, 90 pitches, 61 strikes, and a fookin' CURVEBALL that had a studly Brewers lineup bewitched and befuddled. My main man Mississippi Fred Lewis was PERFECT with 3 hits and a walk in 4 plate appearances. Lots of hitting for the bhoyos tonight, as M.C. enjoyed the very rare experience of RUN SUPPORT.
My lovely bride and I spent the day in the yard, schlepping dirt from one corner to another, me on the shovel and wheelbarrow, strip-mining chunks of State of Jefferson hardpan, she with rake and surveyor's eye, sculpting the gunky clay into graceful slopes, all in an effort to defeat the desert flash floods that pass for rain in this here landscape. Vox clamatis in deserto, O My Brothers, vox clamatis in deserto.
So, we seeketh the Balm of Gilead after our travails, and we hoof northeast-wise across our weird little burg to our little sanctuary, the Pub. Now Dave the Barman likes the Giants, and he knows we like the Giants, but for the life of him he can't find it on the tube. My Lovely Bride takes over, and station 696 comes to life on a plasma screen not six feet from my barstooled-frame, and I immediately ordered pints of Mossback IPA. It was game time!
I got to see every pitch and every player, and have Dave the Barman's laptop at my disposal for GameDay. Thanks, Dave. GameDay had a slower gun--pitch f/x said 92 when the ballpark said 95. Impressions? I just can't get enough of Mississippi Fred. Go, baby go. Make beautiful music! No Ishikawa. Bad, Bonehead, bad. Ishikawa only sits if he plays his way out of the lineup. The Codger Brigade was great, but I'm not interested. A great win, marred only by the horrid event: Joe Martinez struck on the head by a line drive from Mike Cameron. He appeared OK, despite the terrifying blow. Can you imagine how scary that must be? I hope he really is OK, there was nothing new on the Giants website, I'll try again and update the post.
Matt Cain rocks.
update: It is 2134 PDT, and I've found nothing new about Joe Martinez. I guess we'll find out in the morning.
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All HÍ phone numbers have a voice mail, which are quite simple in use.
The following instructions are in fact the same as the ones inbuilt to the system.
Most of HÍ’s employees have a telephone in their office with their own number. Employees can apply for a phone, phone number and a phone relocation in the Owl (computing service-> telephone).
The phone and network department is in supervision of arranging and maintaining network and phone equipments on campus e.g. wireless transmitters, phone devices and points.
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The Coastal Sports Club Annual Charity Golf Tournament to benefit Lindsey’s Place for young people with special needs will be held Saturday at Crosswinds Golf Course, 232 James B.
Former National Football League great and Johnson High School graduate George Atkinson will be the guest speaker at the Boys & Girls Clubs of the Coastal Empire’s auction and charity dinner on Nov.
Savannah Bishop Gregory J. Hartmayer will bless animals at 10 a.m. Saturday in Lafayette Square adjacent to the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist.
Hartmayer, a Franciscan friar, will host the annual blessing in remembrance of St.
Mary McAlister, director of the Rape Crisis Center, wants to invigorate this year’s 3rd annual Savannah Reindeer Run 8K and the traditional reindeer logo on the official T-shirts.
The Coastal Sports Club Annual Charity Golf Tournament netted $6,800 for Lindsey’s Place for young people with special needs.
The second annual event was held Sept. 28 at Crosswinds Golf Course.
It is part of their on-going effort to establish a year-round opportunity in the Southeast to serve ages 7-30.
Lindsey’s Place, “a special place for people with special needs,” takes its name from Savannahian Lindsey Hart, 25, who is wheelchair bound due to cerebral palsy.
Savannah attorney Ruth Young has been a fixture in federal court for more than 20 years. Whether as a then-law clerk for U.S. District Judge B. Avant Edenfield or an assistant U.S. attorney in the civil division, her keen legal mind and quiet competence have been a positive presence at Wright Square or in federal courtrooms throughout the Southern District of Georgia.
Savannah’s Otto Aliffi and friends will host some 40 veterans of the 1st Battalion, 83rd Artillery Oct.
Chatham County’s public defenders will sponsor a bake sale tomorrow from 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. to bring attention to October as National Breast Cancer Month.
The 2013 Lindsey’s Place camper picture calendars are still available for $25 plus a $5 shipping fee.
The calendars feature camp photos and participants and offer a great reminder that your efforts are creating something unique for a very special group.
In addition, you can place an ad for your business,
Television’s Judge Hachett will speak Thursday at the Economic Opportunity Authority’s second annual family conference, “Building Resilient Families” at the Savannah Marriott Riverfront.
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What can YOU say in six sentences?
Hey guys, so I'm reading an excellent book called, The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes. It got me thinking, does reading an extremely well-written book inspire or inhibit? Does it set your…Continue
Joey Delgado has not received any gifts yet
I used to steal peaches right off the tree, a Kool-Aid face kid who hopped a chicken wire fence, ran to the trees fast as I could, plucked the fuzzy fruit with a twist and a swoosh of leaves.
I don’t remember eating them, don’t remember if they were sweet as sunshine, or bitter as a reluctant spring. …Continue
The bar’s centerpiece was a lucite cypress tree, backlit by pink and white fluorescent lights, each level of carved branch and foliage serving as a shelf for bottles of high end liquor, glowing like gemstones on laudatory pedestals.
He wore a fitted sport coat over a pristine white dress shirt, unbuttoned at the collar, staring into a glass of Old Fashioned, poking with a tiny red straw at a slice of…Continue
He was hung, no need to mince words, he was hung like a horse, made Milton Berle look like a Chinese stereotype--
(Oh, now for Pete’s sake, that’s out of line, Joey.)
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The winter of 2011-2012 was the warmest on record in Fargo Moorhead. It was nearly 10 degrees above the current 30 year average.
There is no doubt that the overall pattern last winter was a mild one. The upper level wind pattern was consistently from the west allowing mild Pacific air to dominate the season with only a couple of intrusions of Arctic air disrupting that pattern. But another very important element to the warmth was our lack of snow cover. This past week has been a prime example.
Fargo Moorhead missed the big storm earlier this month that left a significant snow cover over central and northern North Dakota. The eight days following the storm the average high in Fargo was 40 degrees, but in usually warmer Bismarck with a snow cover the average high was just 32 degrees. Even Grand Forks with minimum snow from the storm (like Fargo), the nearby snow pack lowered their average to just 33 degrees.
Because the sun angle is so low this time of year making it difficult to melt much snow, an early season snow storm can in turn, influence the average temperature for the entire cold season.
Current snow cover over the area.
Once again I was asked by the State Climatologist in North Dakota to write a summary to what I expect for the upcoming season. What I wrote can be found below. It can also be found in the State Climate Bulletin to be published soon.
Spring and autumns are always the most difficult to forecast because of large swings that can and do occur on both daily and weekly time scales. Plus, with so much cold elsewhere on the planet, this spring in particular has the potential for giant swings from warm to cold. These temperature swings can also lead to prolong periods of dry weather intermixed with brief periods of significant precipitation.
Using that as a backdrop, after a mild March that may end up as one of the warmest on record for the region, April looks to be transitioning to colder weather, followed by a near average May. That would mean, overall, an above average temperature for the season, but we always need to remember, that does not mean consistently above average and a poorly timed cold front can easily hamper the planting season.
Although historically when a La Nina is present is the Pacific, this area has a higher than normal likelihood of recording above average precipitation in the spring, the current La Nina is fading quickly and therefore, the odds favor this season to finish nearer to the long-term average for rain and late season snowfall. If that forecast holds, it would be a welcome change from the excessive spring moisture many areas have recorded in recent years.
The latest spring outlook from the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) for the next three months can be seen below.The CPC is forecasting a slightly higher than normal probability of above average temperatures and equal changes of above, below or normal precipitation. You can find the current and future outlooks, when new ones become available, athttp://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/predictions/90day.
Also, the North Dakota State Climate Office has links to the National Weather Service’s local 3-month temperature outlooks for the upcoming year. Those forecasts can be found at:http://www.ndsu.edu/ndsco/outlook/L3MTO.html.
The high snow totals in the mid-1990s and during the past few winters has pushed our normal seasonal snowfall to 50.1 inches. That is the highest average since records have been kept. Because we have recorded several years with above average snowfall in the past 20 years, we sometimes forget that the median snowfall locally is only 39 inches.
The Median is the middle number in a group, meaning that half of the years in our annual snowfall have been less than 39 inches and the other half it was greater than 39 inches. Because snowfall tends to be very memorable to most people, as it either creates great hassles, or it brings great enjoyment playing in it; most of us tend to remember the years with abundant snow more than the years with lesser snow totals.
That brings us to this year as of course there has been little snow so far this season, yet 5 out of the last 6 years have recorded less than one inch of snow in November just like this year and many of those ended up snowy meaning it is far too early to know where this snow season will rank.
Although another tropical system or two could easily form in the coming days and weeks, the hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean is beginning to wind down. If you ask most Americans if it was a busy or quiet season, for the 3rd straight year, most people would say it was a quiet year. Only one hurricane, Irene struck the coast of the United States this year. That was the first land falling hurricane in nearly three years ending the longest such stretch since the Civil War.
Another positive factor of the season so far is that no major hurricane (Category 3 or higher) made landfall in the country. The last time that occurred was Hurricane Wilma back in 2005. It is these reasons that this hurricane season will likely be remembered as a quiet one, although, by the numbers, 17 storms formed, which is above average. But with tropical systems it is where they go, rather than the actual number that is far more important.
As we move forward into the second half of April, the weather will continue to be a big player not only with continued flooding concerns, but also for the spring planting season. Currently the Northern Hemisphere has well above average snow cover with much of Canada still white. Until that snow cover diminishes to our north the tendency will be for our area to remain cooler than average as our dominate flow this time of year is still out of Canada.
Springs following a La Nina tend to produce a ridge of high pressure over Florida. That has been the case in recent weeks allowing the waters in the Gulf of Mexico to warm up above seasonal normals. That warmer water adds potential additional moisture to storms moving across the United States, plus adds to the thermal contrast across the country.
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As my next bike tour draws closer (I'm coming for you NYC Century!), I've found myself mentally compiling a list of all the essentials I'll pack.
I've got about eight bike tours under my belt so far, and by now I pretty much know exactly what's worth toting along and what's better left behind. The key is to pack as light and efficiently as possible.
Sunscreen. I tan easily, but that doesn't mean I like it. I worry constantly about sun damage while riding each day and since bike tours take place in spring and summer, they're pretty much all-day, blistering hot affairs. Pack a mini bottle of spray on sunscreen (it dries quicker and it's easier to apply while riding).
A water bottle. This is a given and if you're biking more than 50 miles, I'd suggest carrying two. My go-to bottle is Polar Ice, which is far cheaper online than you'll find in stores (though I did stumble upon a $6 sale at the Container Store once).
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Ibuprofen. I'm not condoning drug use here, but if your joints tend to get inflamed during strenuous activity like mine, you'll save yourself a lot of pain by keeping a few anti-inflammatories handy. I always take a couple before a tour and then a couple more during the ride. If that's not enough to ease your pain, chances are you're not using good form on your bike. Drop by your bike shop for an adjustment before any long ride to be sure your seat and handle bars are properly set.
Extra snacks. Each bike tour varies, but most typically provide some kind of food along the way. Do yourself a favor and pack something you know you'll enjoy anyway if you don't want to take a chance on missing out on all the "goodies". Personally, I get sick of PB&Js and power bars, so I love packing oranges (they're hold up well in the basket) and nuts to keep myself fueled. If there are snacks available, chances are they'll have vegetarian options but the gluten-free and vegan crowd should definitely stock up on their own stuff.
Portable tire pump. If you're riding a group, make sure at least one person has a portable pump. You can find them for under $20 on Amazon and it's handy to have one on hand if a tour volunteer isn't around to help.
Baby wipes. Yes, baby wipes. I can't tell you how quickly my friends and I go through these things during longer bike rides. You'll need them to wipe the muck off your face, hands, arms, legs, and eyes (because sunscreen will inevitably dribble into them and burn like hell) throughout the day. Trust me––there will be muck, especially for the sweaters out there like yours truly.
First-aid kit. This doesn't have to be anything special, but a few bandages and anti-septic cream are probably a smart idea to carry along. You never know how well-stocked tour first aid tents (if there are any at all) will be and even then, it's best to treat scrapes as soon as possible.
Cash. This is for emergencies and also in case you get sick of tour snacks like I do and need to run into a bodega for something else.
A visor. I'm not a huge fan of those dorky visor/cap thingies people wear under their helmets, but they are damn useful on bike tours. Keep the sun out of your eyes as much as possible and you'll save yourself one major headache down the road.
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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West leave the Valentino Haute-Couture Show as part of Paris Fashion Week Fall / Winter 2012/2013 at Hotel Salomon de Rothschild on July 4, 2012 in Paris, France. (Photo by Julien M. Hekimian/Getty Images)
Jason Derulo (L) and Jordin Sparks arrive at Fox’s ‘American Idol 2012′ Finale Results Show at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live on May 23, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)
Wiz Khalifa and model Amber Rose arrive at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards at Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE on August 28, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
TV personalities Michael Strahan and Nicole Murphy leave the ‘Live With Kelly’ taping at the ABC Lincoln Square Studios on June 27, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Ray Tamarra/Getty Images)
Model Selita Ebanks and TV Personality Terrence J attend the post show during the 2012 BET Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on July 1, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Mark Davis/Getty Images For BET)
Kevin Hart and guest arrive at the 2012 BET Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on July 1, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images For BET)
Rocsi Diaz and Eddie Murphy arrive at Debra Lee’s Pre-BET Awards Celebration during the 2012 BET Awards at Union Station on June 30, 2012 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images For BET)
LeBron James and Savannah Brinson attend Ball So Hard All Star Weekend Party on February 24, 2012 in Orlando, Florida. (Photo by Johnny Nunez/WireImage)
Devon Franklin and Meagan Good pose inside the 2012 BET Awards – After Party at Lure on July 1, 2012 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Jerod Harris/Getty Images For BET)
Solange Knowles and boyfriend Alan Ferguson pose together. Ferguson recently professed his love for the singer during his B.E.T. Awards acceptance speech. Ferguson was named Best Video Director.
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Summer loving has always been a steamy topic in Hollywood, but these duos aren’t your usual celebrity couples. These couples prove that this summer is the season for both the young and mature to develop sweet romances. Above all, these sexy pairs are creating quite a buzz as they give people a reason to whisper. Checkout our list of this summer’s hottest celebrity couples. | <urn:uuid:7f0aef65-5e74-4c98-8203-eb1f69ca4332> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thegrio.com/2012/07/09/summer-2012s-hottest-celebrity-couples/ | 2013-05-22T15:14:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701910820/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105830-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.897688 | 556 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
By Jay Fidell
We had a great time at the ThinkTech-HVCA Recovery and Transformation program at the Plaza Club last Wednesday. If you didn’t make it, don’t despair – we’re posting the video on thinktechhawaii.com.
So far we’ve posted Dick Gushman’s now famous wakeup keynote about the incredible transitions now going on in the leadership of our state, the book report by Craig Howes and Jon Osorio regarding their new book of essays called “The Value of Hawaii,” and the blockbuster Vision Oanel featuring Robbie Alm of HECO as moderator, with Robin Campaniano of Ulupono Initiative, Peter Ho of Bank of Hawaii, Janet Liang of Kaiser Permanente and Billy Kenoi, Mayor of the Big Island, who was a great hit.
We’ll post the videos of the other panels in the next few days, and soon enough you can see it all on ThinkTechHawaii.com. Olelo will also be broadcasting its video of the program on Channel 54 over the next few weeks. All this documenting is absolutely appropriate in view of the many remarkable statements that were made. The conversation isn’t over, though, and we’ll be doing video interviews of the speakers and panelists to follow up with their thinking re the issues they discussed at the program.
Now that that’s done, it’s time to move on to our next ThinkTech-HVCA program. This time it’ll be at Laniakea, the Women’s “Y” on Richards Street. It’ll be another ambitious half-day program (the only way we can cover the ground in sufficient detail and depth) on Thursday, October 28th. The planning committee for the program is already at work identifying and approaching the panelists, moderators and speakers, and from all appearances this is going to be another interesting and important program.
What’s it about? We’re calling it “Hawaii’s High Tech Renaissance in Agriculture.” We started by calling it High Tech Agriculture in Hawaii, but yesterday, at the Hawaii News Now debate between Neil and Mufi (which it seemed to me was won handily by Neil), Neil referred to a “renaissance” of agriculture taking place in Hawaii. I thought this word was exactly right and what we want to capture, so we changed the name of the program Hawaii’s High Tech Renaissance in Agriculture in the notion that a renaissance is already taking place in agriculture in Hawaii and that high tech is a clear driver.
Yes, this is related to the Recovery and Transformation program; it is a transformation of our economy in its own right, a historic process already in play which will hopefully lead to meaningful diversification of an otherwise moribund economy. This is all good news, but it has to be disseminated around the state, so the process can be incentivized and encouraged. That’s why we’re doing the program.
The dream of course is to offer every family in Hawaii the opportunity of owning and successfully operating a farm. All this can be made possible with modern growing technologies, all of which are available at UH Manoa, the Hawaii Farm Bureau and the Hawaii Agricultural Research Center in Aiea, to name a few. New growing technologies, seed, planting and harvesting, can make farming much easier than ever before and can allow local families to earn a decent living and send their kids to college.
The threshold problem, which we need to discuss in detail at the program, is that these young families can’t get land to start their farms. Generally speaking, big landowners won’t sell or provide long term leases to farmers, so would-be farmers don’t have a property interest they can take to the bank and arrange financing for equipment, seed and the like. No land, no financing. No financing, no seed. No seed, no farm. It’s that simple, and it starts out, as so many things do in Hawaii, with the land. It’s a shame on us all that most big landowners don’t help or in any way encourage our young farmers. Why don’t they see how important this is? By holding on to the land, they’re killing a generation of middle class farmers. It’s not easy to start a business or a farm, but it’s really hard without land or financing.
What to do about this. Even if the big landowners don’t want to support the renaissance of farming, hopefully, the legislature will recognize how important this can be and will fashion some meaningful incentives to farmers, and perhaps some disincentives to large landowners who would otherwise prefer to let the land lie fallow. Perhaps it will come up in the next session. Wouldn’t that be great.
Anyway, this program on October 28th is bound and determined to raise these issues and see if we can’t get people to wake up to the huge benefit agriculture can mean for the state. Jobs, iInvestment, local fresh food (instead of spending $6 billion for not so fresh food shipped in from elsewhere). But it’s more than that, it’s the young people making their life on the land, with their families. Hawaii has a great legacy of agriculture and there is no good reason at all preventing us from returning to the land and feeding our state on the bounty of the land. On the other side of it, not doing that is an embarrassing squander of our unique resources, prospects and workforce. What a shame. Let’s do something.
So we’ll have the Farm Bureau and the Crop Improvement Association at the program. We’ll have farmers and scientists tell us about new farm technology and what it can do for us. We’ll have investors, bankers and capitalists tell us about the capital problems and the possibility for funding farm operations in Hawaii. And we’ll have farmers, talking about what they do every day and how they feel about the existing agricultural structures in our the state and what can be done to improve and expand them to where we can eat local fresh tasty and cheap every day of the week, where our restaurants can provide us with local fresh taste and nutrition unequaled anywhere. It’s not so hard, and it’s doable right here.
Want to try your hand in farming? Want to get into the industry or help the industry get going? Do you care about diversification and how the state is doing in this Great Recession and what it needs to do to become self sufficient and survive in the future? Well, then you should save the date, October 28th, and sign up when the flyers come around. And come around they will – your Renaissance committee is working hard to bring this one to you. Do you have questions? Write to firstname.lastname@example.org and I’ll be happy to tell you the status of our planning and what you can expect at and from the program.
As was evident at the debate, there’s a new freshness in the air, a new Hawaii patriotism coming up around us. Somehow the renaissance of local agriculture is part of it. We can’t afford to miss this wave. It may be the last time we can go back to the future. This is a special intersection of tech, diversification, respect for the environment and good living. It can bring us together and allow us to “Stand up Hawaii.” We can’t afford to miss that, and you can’t afford to miss the Renaissance program on October 28th. | <urn:uuid:6be89e5b-544f-47d4-85fb-ca62ee1c9436> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://thinktech.staradvertiserblogs.com/2010/08/ | 2013-05-22T15:27:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701910820/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105830-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944847 | 1,611 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
More About Rick Warren’s Inaugural Prayer
I’ve never been a fan of Rick Warren. I haven’t read his books, I’ve never heard him preach, and I strongly disliked his recent comments against gay marriage. But I found myself deeply moved by his prayer as I watched it on TV on Tuesday. I thought it was very beautiful and very inspiring. It moved me to the point of tears, and those tears kept flowing through Aretha Franklin’s song and into the swearing-in itself.
My friend Candace Chellew-Hodge (whose new book Bulletproof Faith I highly recommend) found Rick Warren’s prayer too “aggressively Christian.” I respectfully disagree. To me, being “aggressively Christian” means imposing one’s beliefs on others. Praying a Christian prayer at the invitation of a Christian president-elect is not, in my mind, an aggressive act. If Rick Warren had prayed in the name of Jesus “our only Savior” or “the only name whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12), then yes, that would have been exclusionary and offensive to some non-Christians. But he didn’t. Rick Warren prayed in the name of Jesus, but only after emphasizing that Jesus is, in his words, “the one who changed my life” – making it personal, not imposing his belief in Jesus on others.
And when Rick Warren prayed the name of Jesus in four different languages, Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish, and English, I saw that as being inclusive – emphasizing that many others have also had life-changing experiences with Jesus, in differing languages and cultures. The Wall Street Journal wrote that Rick Warren “gave his words a multi-faith hue by invoking the Christian figure as he is referred to in other faiths.” Doing so shows that Warren “is appreciative of, or at least courteous to, people who don’t share his particular faith,” said William Martin, senior fellow at the Baker Institute at Rice University. “He is trying to be as inclusive as he can be.”
I’ve read more than a few comments on the internet this week from Jews, Buddhists, Neo-Pagans, and other non-Christians who have written positive reactions to Rick Warren’s prayer. The majority of comments I’ve seen against Warren’s prayer have been from Christians: liberal Christians who thought the prayer was offensive to non-Christians, and evangelical Christians upset that Warren used the Arabic name of Jesus, Isa. This week I’ve seen a lot of evangelical bloggers identify Isa as “the false god of Islam.” When conservatives talk about “false gods” it makes me wonder how many gods they think exist. Who knew evangelical Christianity could be so polytheistic?
And when liberal Christians get upset when a Christian minister prays a Christian prayer, it makes me wonder if they’re truly comfortable with their faith. Within the gay community there is a phenomenon called “internalized homophobia” – when a GLBT person has not fully reached a point of self-acceptance and continues to internalize our culture’s homophobia. Maybe there’s a similar phenomenon among liberal Christians who feel some sense of embarrassment or discomfort about their faith: “internalized Christophobia,” perhaps? I do NOT think this is the case with my friend Candace, but I’ve read others in the blogosphere this week that make me wonder.
As my friend Jon Zuck so wonderfully put it, “It’s time for ‘liberals’ to actually be liberal in the fullness of that word, open-handed, open-minded, tolerant, generous, forgiving.” To that, and to Rick Warren’s beautiful and inspiring inaugural prayer, I say Amen. | <urn:uuid:d8727db4-72d8-428f-992c-f73a7def9a2b> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://wildfaith.blogspot.com/2009/01/more-about-rick-warrens-inauguaral.html | 2013-05-22T15:06:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701910820/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105830-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962459 | 827 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Originally posted by Edward
I'm having some problems with the details of Kumitachi practice.
I would appreciate it, if anyone could recommend any webpages where the forms are described.
The problem is, of course, that there are no "standard" kumitachi....
But check this site out:
They have the Iwama ken suburi and some awase. The CD-ROMs they sell are excellent and quite comprehensive. | <urn:uuid:8d380c39-503a-4d0d-899b-29e4ef037a70> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.aikiweb.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1900 | 2013-05-22T15:15:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701910820/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105830-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943693 | 93 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Providing a unique opportunity to win amazing prizes, the MDL Marinas’ photo competition 2012 now comes with four fantastic new video categories as well as an under-16s photography competition, along with the coveted best photograph.
MDL Marinas is looking for videos and photographs that capture some time spent in and around its marinas in the UK and Europe and one can enter photographs taken from 1st September 2011 up to and including 5th August 2012. These may be fast-paced action shots or footage out on the water, people relaxing around the marinas, enjoying their boats, or simply capturing an unusual view from around the marina.
The four new video categories are:
- Calm and Tranquil
- Stormy Weather
Prizes for the competitions include a workshop session with a leading studio photographer from PhotoRed, based at Shamrock Quay, alongside top photography equipment, accessories and tickets to the PSP Southampton Boat Show 2012.
What’s more, the winning images and videos will be showcased on MDL’s waterfront stand at this year’s PSP Southampton Boat Show.
Last year’s photography competition was won by Christopher Corton, a berth holder at Shamrock Quay – with a stunning image of a sunset across Torquay Marina – this year’s competition will look at capturing, both in images and video, what really makes each of MDL’s 21 marinas a truly unique destination – through the eyes of people who experience the marinas for themselves.
Dean Smith, Marketing Director at MDL Marinas, commented: “We’re really excited to be offering the new categories in this year’s competition; it’s great to be able to include videos, as well as our new photo competition for under-16s.
“Video adds a new dimension to the way we look at things – and although we’re still keen to receive people’s best photographs, we’d also like to see how video takes people’s imaginations too.
“The summer is the perfect time to get out and about on the water and to enjoy time with family and friends – it’s wonderful for us to see the experiences of our berth holders and visitors to the marinas through the various photo and video portrayals, which really encapsulate what marina life is all about.”
To enter this exciting competition it is simply advised to visit the MDL Marinas’ website to upload the required entries – which should be taken at any one of MDL’s 21 marinas or boatyards in the UK, Spain or Italy, their approaches or immediate surroundings. All entries must be received by midnight on Sunday 5th August.
Prizes will be awarded in the following categories:
Best photograph (winner, runner up)
Best photograph under-16s (winner, runner up)
Best video – Calm and Tranquil (winner)
Best video – Stormy Weather (winner)
Best video – Approaches (winner)
Best video – Wildlife (winner)
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Vireo \Vir"e*o\, n. [L., a species of bird.] (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of American singing birds belonging to Vireo and allied genera of the family Vireonidae. In many of the species the back is greenish, or olive-colored. Called also greenlet. [1913 Webster] Note: In the Eastern United States the most common species are the white-eyed vireo (Vireo Noveboracensis), the red-eyed vireo (Vireo olivaceus), the blue-headed, or solitary, vireo (Vireo solitarius), the warbling vireo (Vireo gilvus), and the yellow-throated vireo (Vireo flavifrons). All these are noted for the sweetness of their songs. [1913 Webster] | <urn:uuid:1e516588-f7c1-49c0-8390-a860f23782fd> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.crosswordpuzzlehelp.net/old/dictionary.php?q=Vireo%20flavifrons | 2013-05-22T15:35:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701910820/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105830-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.781199 | 215 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The corporation confirmed yesterday (January 9) that the journalist and broadcaster had been admitted to hospital after having a stroke.
The BBC has now revealed that the 53-year-old is "responding to medication" and making progress.
"He and his family are touched by all the warm wishes and support," a spokesman said
It was previously announced that Marr's TV shows will be hosted by stand-ins while he recovers in hospital.
"We will continue to broadcast The Andrew Marr Show and Radio 4's Start The Week with guest presenters in his absence," read a BBC statement.
"His colleagues and the whole BBC wish him a speedy recovery."
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ESPN UFC Podcast: On Dangerous Ground?
Will Junior dos Santos finally be tested on the ground and show himself to be a dominant champion? Can Cain Velasquez put himself back in the title mix? Plus, will this weekend see the dawn of a new Dan Hardy? (55:39) | May 24, 2012 | <urn:uuid:81d4c6d9-793a-42d5-8548-aaa35c24edd4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.espn.co.uk/ufc/sport/video_audio/152297.html?sport=12 | 2013-05-22T15:35:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701910820/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105830-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.915578 | 65 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Fringe Report is now closed. Fringe Report closed on its 10th anniversary, Thursday 12 July 2012. It remains online as a record of 10 exciting years in the arts. Till July 2013, previously unwritten content is being added to the site from the past 10 years, but we are no longer reviewing new material. You can still write to us on the existing email addresses. Good luck with your shows.
Comedy in the Irish language
When Colman Higgins was invited to gig in Belfast, he was by no means certain his Irish would stand up...
by Colman Higgins
‘Where are you for?’ asks the taxi driver in central Belfast, in that curious local way they have of asking where you are going.
‘210 Falls Road’, I answer, acutely aware that I’m asking him to go to the heart of Republican nationalist West Belfast – and that I’ve a definite southern Ireland accent.
He seems to fiddle with his window. The paranoid ‘Southerner up in Belfast’ part of my mind wonders if he’s trying to close it up, in case I want to shoot him.
But no, he just has a dodgy window and when it doesn’t work, he opens the door a little to say ‘Come on in’. Later we pass a Republican mural honouring the ‘taxi-drivers who lost their lives – serving the community through transport’. (During the Troubles, many taxi-drivers were the victims of sectarian killings.)
Two miles later, he drops me at the Culturlann, a converted church that serves as a community centre for promoting the Irish language. It seems to be succeeding, because half the shops have bilingual signs in Irish and English and the pub advertises ‘bia agus deoch’ (food and drink).
Irish is only spoken by a few people in Ireland as a mother tongue, but nationalism north and south of the Border has always encouraged the language. Indeed, in the South we all learn it in school – and remember it to widely varying degrees. I think I have enough to do a standup gig in it – and I’m about to find out.
Inside the Culturlann, four other comedians from Dublin are clutching cups of tea around a table. Danny Kehoe and Padraig Fox are a bit freaked by all the IRA graffiti and murals. One accompanies the other to the chipper across the road – there’s safety in numbers.
But in reality they’re safe enough here – at least compared to the ‘Village’, the loyalist area our taxi takes us through on the way to our B&B. Red and white Ulster flags flutter from bunting strung on countless houses and King William of Orange stares out threateningly from murals painted on gable ends.
The show we’re doing is a benefit for a local guy who’s climbing Kilimanjaro in aid of cancer research. The audience is a mix of pensioners and some young people. The venue is the Culturlann café, with everyone seated around tables in front of a large makeshift stage.
It starts with traditional Irish music, first lively jigs from a band of teenagers and then some ‘sean-nos’ (old way) singing. The sean-nos is beautiful, but slow and mournful – a challenging buildup for standup comedy.
The MC chatters away in a mix of Irish and English, swinging from one to another like a drunk switching lanes on a busy motorway. Just as a experiment, he tells a joke in Irish – no response – then the exact same joke in English, to peals of laughter. How encouraging!
First of the comedians up is Breda O’Donnell, who has fluent Irish. My own rusty command of the language is struggling to understand all the crucial words. Her best gag is about all the women in her home town coming out of the beauticians with over-made-up orange faces – like an Orange parade, she says. The audience smiles. Unknown to us, somewhere across town, at that very moment, a contentious Orange Order parade is being cancelled.
Next follows a sketch with Breda and Elanor Tiernan, and then Elanor doing her own standup. I can understand about 70% of it – and it’s taking all my concentration just to do that. How am I going to be able to speak like that for 10 minutes?
Then come Padraig and Danny, with a newsreader sketch about the various ‘axes of evil’. The sketch has never been done in English – although Padraig did it in German once.
Eventually, I’m on myself and I suddenly feel surprisingly relaxed. I start with saying ‘Hello’ in the local Ulster dialect, even though I sound like I’m from Cork, at the other end of the country. Bizarrely, there’s a guy wearing a Cork football shirt, although he seems like a local man.
Some of the older people start engaging in what seems like good-natured banter, but I can’t understand a word they’re saying. ‘Caithfidh na heckles go leir bheith as Bearla, le do thoil! (All heckles have to be in English, please)’, I tell them. In vain.
I translate some of the important bits into English, but they seem to understand it in Irish first time round. Most of it gets a good response and I end up stretching seven minutes of material into twelve before getting off.
If only my Irish teacher could see me now!
(c) Colman Higgins 14 August 05
Colman Higgins’s one-man show ‘Bus-spotting’ (in English) is at the Edinburgh Fringe 8-14 August 8-14. 19:20 (20:00). Venue 28 - Greyfriars Kirk House, Studio 2. A bus-spotter from rural Ireland travels the world on local buses – meeting characters who cure his obsession. Box office 08452-262721 or 0131-2260000. www.busspotting.com.
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Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini claims there is no extra pressure to retain the Barclays Premier League title as a result of European failure.
City can no longer reach the knockout stages of the Champions League after collecting just three points from their first five group games. Mancini's men made amends for a similar failure last season by going on to win their first league title in 44 years and the focus will now shift mainly to repeating that success.
"I think we could be disappointed because we wanted to go and play the February stage in the Champions League, because we have good players and these players probably deserved to play in this competition," the Italian said. "But we don't have pressure. We know we have a chance to win if we stay together in a difficult moment like now, but we do not have pressure because we went out of the Champions League."
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Go-Dome™, a division of the Avela Corp., is the preeminent manufacturer of portable dome theaters and the mirror-projection equipment that these theaters use to bring the night sky into focus at any time, in any place. Thanks to a dedicated team of international distributors, Go-Domes™ are bringing the immersive, full-dome planetarium experience to schools, museums, science centers, and public venues of all kinds, worldwide.
Go-Dome™ theaters range in size from such architectural masterpieces as the Rose Center in New York to compact, lightweight 4- to 10-meter domes. Go-Dome’s™ newest offering, the Zodiac line of large domes, features permanently inflated walls and doors. Go-Domes™ of all sizes and styles share the same hemispherical shape and deliver the same immersive, exciting experience. Each Go-Dome™ incorporates state-of-the-art screen quality, interior airflow to maximize viewer comfort, and a full-sized door similar to that of a permanent theater.
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Go-Dome™ also manufactures a convex mirror-projection system called the Newtonian2™. This compact, lightweight projection system is a lower-cost and more convenient alternative to bulkier fish-eye projection systems. In fact, the Newtonian2™ is so compact it can be carried on to some airplanes! Newtonian2™ technology enables small planetariums everywhere to complement their existing mechanical optical star projectors by offering digital movie content. The large, scratch-resistant, coated, convex GO-Vex™ mirror used in Newtonian2™ is housed in an integrated case that protects it during travel and during operation. During use, the case sits on an adjustable stand in the back of the dome, leaving the best seats in the house — the center seats — free for the audience! | <urn:uuid:51e4e802-fd02-4e33-a479-3e32652383f9> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.go-dome.com/ | 2013-05-22T15:28:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701910820/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105830-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918208 | 442 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
On June 25, authorities of the SouthGobi Resources LTD has officially announced to stop its exploration at the Ovoot Tolgoi coal mine site, located in Umnugovi aimag
within this month of 2012.
Although the Mineral Resources Authority of Mongolia has suspended exploration and mining activity on certain licenses in April of 2012
, the SouthGobi officials reported that there were no official notification had been received, thus the exploitation was ongoing normally. After the Company had announced to sell its 60% of controlling stakes
in the SouthGobi Resources for about 900 million USD to Aluminum Corporation of China Limited (CHALCO), the Government of Mongolia made some amendments on the draft legislation. The draft legislation on Regulation of the Foreign Investments in the Strategically Significant Industries
, which was approved at the plenary session of the State Great Khural (Parliament) on May 17, 2012, says the Foreign Investor’s Volume of an entity that runs its business within the Strategically Significant Industries shall not exceed 49%.
However, the Company’s current estimate for new coal sales for the second quarter of 2012 is between 200,000-300,000 tons, but for the third and fourth quarters of 2012 it was difficult to estimate the coal sales volumes, pricing and production volume outcomes. Thus, the Company has curtailed its mining activity at Ovoot Tolgoi Mine at various levels during the second quarter of 2012 to ensure the Company does not build significant unsold coal inventory and to maintain efficient levels of working capital. Also, SouthGobi has suspended uncommitted capital expenditure and exploration expenditure. These initiatives have been taken to preserve the Company’s financial resources.
Here below we have attached the latest update posted at www.southgobi.com on June 25, 2012.
SouthGobi Resources provides operating update
HONG KONG - SouthGobi Resources Ltd. (TSX: SGQ, HK: 1878) (“SouthGobi”) operations continue to be effected by a number of external factors including regulatory issues in Mongolia and deteriorating market conditions.
Regulatory issues in Mongolia
On April 16, 2012, SouthGobi announced that the Mineral Resources Authority of Mongolia (“MRAM”) held a press conference announcing a request to suspend exploration and mining activity on certain licenses but no official notification had been received. At this time, the Company remains in the position where no official notification has been received and therefore there is no legal impediment to continued operation. However, SouthGobi continues to be impacted by issues associated with the public announcement regarding its licenses.
There are multiple ways SouthGobi is being affected by the uncertainty over its licenses with various levels of impact. Many government bodies and regulatory authorities in Mongolia are reluctant to provide approvals and permits due to the uncertain position. One example is that SouthGobi’s Mongolian operating subsidiary has been unable to receive an approval for a revision to its Environmental Impact Assessment for the dry coal handling facility (“DCHF”) from the Mongolian Ministry of Environment. Without such approval, SouthGobi may be unable to operate the DCHF.
The Mongolian Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy (“MRE”) commented at a press conference on May 30, 2012 “the temporary suspension has been lifted, but regarding the new law, the license of Ovoot Tolgoi will be discussed by the cabinet and parliament.”
Subsequently we have written to MRAM and the MRE requesting official clarification. However, to date no such clarification has been received.
China market conditions
For late 2011 and through most of 2012, coking coal prices in the inland China markets closest to SouthGobi’s operations remained fairly stable and somewhat insulated from the price declines of reference coking coal prices in the seaborne market. However, in recent weeks the Company has observed a substantial deterioration in sentiment among its customers and a decline in reference prices in key end-use markets. For example, after remaining constant for all of 2012, the reference price for one-third coking coal in Wuhai, Inner Mongolia fell by RMB20/tonne on April 23 and then fell a further RMB30/tonne on June 18. Further east in 2 Baotou, Inner Mongolia, the reference price for clean coking coal started falling in late May and has now fallen by RMB110/tonne.
Customer behaviour and impact on SouthGobi’s sales and operations
Most of SouthGobi’s coal is sold to its largest customers on the basis of quarterly sales agreements. Customers agree to purchase coal according to their projected volume and specification requirements. The sale is completed when the Company delivers the coal into a customs-bonded stockpile facility at the Ovoot Tolgoi Mine for the customers to manage their own collection and export.
During the second quarter of 2012 customers were reluctant to enter into meaningful new purchase commitments for a number of reasons, including:
(i) Customer’s ability to transport so far this year was below their projections due to: the delay in the opening the expanded border crossing capacity by authorities until May; extended border holiday closure in the first quarter; and the closure of the export road for over four weeks in April and May for repair. As a result, customers accumulated more inventory of pre-purchased coal on the Mongolian side of the border.
(ii) Lack of clarity over whether SouthGobi may receive a formal license suspension at some stage has customers fearful that they would be unable to collect and export additional purchased coal from Ovoot Tolgoi Mine.
(iii) Deteriorating market conditions.
SouthGobi’s customers have been focused on physical shipment and now that the border capacity expansion is open physical coal transportation is well above prior records. The Company expects that for June alone (the first full month with expanded border capacity), approximately 500,000-600,000 tonnes of Ovoot Tolgoi Mine coal will be transported to China, albeit mostly coal from customer inventory. However, the Company’s current estimate for new coal sales for the second quarter of 2012 is between 200,000 tonnes and 300,000 tonnes. In terms of operations, SouthGobi has curtailed its mining activity at Ovoot Tolgoi Mine at various levels during the second quarter of 2012 to ensure the Company does not build significant unsold coal inventory and to maintain efficient levels of working capital. SouthGobi currently estimates that total coal mined for the quarter will be approximately 200,000 tonnes. As at the end of the quarter, the operation will be entirely curtailed.
At this time SouthGobi believes it is difficult to estimate coal sales volumes and pricing for the third quarter of 2012. It does appear that customers have robust volume appetite for the third quarter, particularly as the Company’s largest customer has now exhausted pre-purchased coal inventory. However, achieving mutually agreeable contracts is difficult in the context of the regional coking coal market conditions.
With the difficult conditions of the second quarter and the uncertainty regarding how the third quarter may evolve, the Company cautions that at this time sales volumes, pricing and production volume outcomes for the full year of 2012 cannot be estimated.
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- The Johnny Cash Christmas Special 1976The Johnny Cash Christmas Special 1977
Shout! Factory 826663-10697
Shout! Factory 826663-10698
Five years after The Johnny Cash Show had left the airwaves, the Man In Black returned to America’s living rooms once again. However, this time he and his family and friends hit the airwaves for The Johnny Cash Christmas Special, a one-hour affair that premiered in 1976 and returned in 1977. Just in time for the holidays, Shout! Factory has released both of these episodes on two different DVDs.
The 1976 special is an audience-free affair. It’s also highly scripted, a bit stiff, and rather tedious. The essential premise is that Tony Orlando is coming to visit Johnny on his farm, which gives way to several corny jokes about city life versus country life. Orlando also proves himself to be a cheeseball extraordinaire, acting like a silly jackass in an otherwise decent medley of Stephen Foster songs. The only saving grace is the surprising revelation that the singers all recorded their vocals live, despite the fact that they were often standing outside in chilly temperatures, accompanied by canned music. Thankfully, the special transitions into a pickin’ party of sorts inside the Cash home. Here is where the real highlights are found, in particular Merle Travis’ frenetic “Cannonball Rag,” the Carter Family’s chilling turn on “In the Pines,” and a young Barbara Mandrell’s rollicking spin on “Steel Guitar Rag.” The special closes with Reverend Billy Graham preaching in a way that is uplifting even for a non-believer. After starting the special with an incredibly fake tone, it’s nice that there’s some true passion brought to the finale.
From the opening three seconds, the 1977 special is an immediate and tremendous upgrade over the 1976 version. Instead of the fake storyline of someone visiting the Cash farm and house, this special takes place upon the famous Grand Ole Opry stage, and the introduction of “Hello, I’m Johnny Cash” is a welcomingly familiar refrain. This is essentially a variety show, and after Johnny’s saucy duet with his wife June Carter on “Darling Companion,” the focus shifts toward costumes and sets, as Cash recalls Christmas memories that are “re-enacted,” such as his Christmas in Germany in the Air Force and his first Christmas at Sun Records. However, this is nothing like the cheesefest of 1976, primarily because of the top-flight roster of guests. Sun Records mates Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison, and Jerry Lee Lewis all perform their signature tunes with flair, and the three are joined by Cash for a heartfelt tribute to Elvis Presley, who had died two months prior, in the form of “This Train is Bound For Glory.” The entire special closes with the ensemble joining Johnny and June on a medley of gospel numbers while footage of the Cash trip to Israel is shown. There is an unabashedly religious tone to this finale that could never play in today’s politically correct world, but the passions and convictions of Johnny Cash certainly ring true.
If you can stomach the first half of the 1976 special, the second half has some worthy moments, and the 1977 special is quite good from the get-go. However, it’s a real crime that these two episodes are released on two separate DVDs, when each is no more than 45 minutes in length with no extras or bonus features in sight. There’s the Christmas spirit of giving, and there’s also the Christmas spirit of profiteering. I’ll let you guess which spirit reigns supreme here. | <urn:uuid:78bfa34f-02af-4e45-9d2d-41bf4e7e4a1d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.jambands.com/reviews/dvds/2007/11/18/the-johnny-cash-christmas-special-1976the-johnny-cash-christmas-special-1977 | 2013-05-22T15:00:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701910820/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105830-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952593 | 787 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Mega is now ready for the competetion. I would appreciate anyone letting me know if it is too hard. If anyone makes it past level 10 on their first try, then it might be too easy.http://www.javaunlimited.net/games/launch.php?type=jnlp&id=139
A or LEFT - rotate left(CCW)
D or RIGHT - rotate right(CW)
W or UP - thrust (no brakes/reverse thrust)
SPACE or CONTROL - fire
First extra ship at 5000, then 10,500 then 16,500, 23,000 etc...
Also if anyone with a Mac or Linux tests it, can you let me know if there are problems. I don't use fullscreen, so I don't expect any. | <urn:uuid:3ab8e425-b77a-4d27-8dac-04dbc35a1c2d> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.java-gaming.org/index.php?topic=15888.msg127241 | 2013-05-22T15:06:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701910820/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105830-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.882903 | 167 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Nigel Slater is the author of a collection of bestselling books, including the classics Real Fast Food and Real Cooking, and the award-winning Appetite and The Kitchen Diaries. His autobiography, Toast, won six major awards, including the British Biography of the Year. His most recent book is Tender. Nigel is editor of Observer Food Monthly.
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For immediate release
Dublin, Ireland – August 28 th 2012 - Gala Pocket; the smart-phone and tablet dedicated publishing division of Gala Inc, is pleased to announce the launch of Supermagical, a puzzle adventure game by the Spanish developer Super Awesome Hyper Dimensional Mega Team.
Supermagical, winner of Gamelab and IDBA Awards for Best Mobile Game and the debut title from Gala Pocket, is a universal iOS game available to download in English, German, French and Spanish from the iTunes App Store in all European territories.
The Supermagical launch trailer can be viewed online here: http://youtu.be/VyQfqqHXBTk
Supermagical follows the story of Nina, an apprentice witch, who accidently opens up a dimensional rift, unleashing a flood of furry, magic-eating Minix and her Evil Sisters into the world. Taking control of Nina, players must embark on an epic journey to defend powerless towns against the waves of attacking Minix and restore peace to the world. Along the way players will make friends, acquire powerful companions, and find magical items - providing additional exciting ways to tackle puzzles and challenges.
Battle against the Minixin exciting Arcade-Style Puzzle Action! With the help of powerful companions, players can fight off hordes of evil Minix using a mix of spells, combos and special attacks. Successfully shooting one of their own kind into a group of Minix of the same colour will cause the clump to vaporise, while failing to stop them advancing sees the creatures evolve into bombs that destroy the town.
Meanwhile, encounters with Nina’s Evil Sisters are played through fun and humorous dialogue battles, with players having to pick the correct responses to convince them to leave the world.
Supermagical features in full:
· Addictive Puzzle-RPG gameplay
· Colourful HD graphics with Retina support
· 3 unique and exciting continents to explore, with 71 different levels
· Cute and powerful pets
· Intuitive controls designed especially for touch devices
· Fun mini-games
· Orchestral score by Damien Sanchez
Mr Satoru Kikugawa, CEO and founder of Gala Inc, comments , “ Supermagical has been really well received in the Spanish market, so we’re extremely excited to now be launching the game to a much larger pan-European audience.” He continues , “We’ve been extremely successful in the online games space and are confident that we can apply our extensive knowledge to the smart-phone and tablet industry.”
Supermagical will be enhanced in future versions with multiplayer co-operative modes, map editors and other social and gameplay sharing features. The game is available to download now from the iTunes App store via:
T: +44 (0) 207 2402645
About Gala Pocket
Gala Pocket is a publishing subsidiary of Gala Inc, dedicated to connecting people for fun via gaming and socializing across smart- devices. Established in Tokyo in 2012, Gala Pocket launched its first title, Supermagical, on the iOS platform in August 2012, with further games to be announced throughout 2012 and beyond. Further information on the company can be found at http://galapocket.jp/ | <urn:uuid:094738b3-76e5-4948-85ba-cae952b39cb5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.mcvuk.com/index.php/press-releases/read/gala-pocket-launches-its-first-ios-game-supermagical-across-europe/0101941 | 2013-05-22T15:24:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701910820/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105830-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.90994 | 671 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
- The design was inspired by a strong presence in nature like that of tree with reaching branches.
- With a full suite of products including matching accessories, the Linden Bath Collection complements most any bath.
- Extends 3'' from wall
- Available in chrome, Aged Pewter, Brilliance Stainless or Champagne Bronze
- Delta's exclusive DIAMOND Seal Technology uses a valve with a tough diamond coating to bring you a faucet built to last up to five million uses. Plus, it keeps water inside the faucet out of contact with potential metal contaminants.
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These plots show the performance of WAFC London forecasts produced by the Met Office in the United Kingdom.
The timeliness plots show the time of availability of the WAFS GRIB and BUFR data on Met Office systems. To simplify the collection and presentation of data, the availability of only one of the many bulletins that are disseminated each day is assessed. The plots show the time within which the selected bulletin was ready for transmission on 95% of occasions during each month. On the other 5% of occasions the bulletins were ready later. In practice, users will receive their data later than the times indicated here, as the bulletins have to be switched to users via SADIS or other means. | <urn:uuid:b887ff47-0001-4d60-be6a-04f8a0747367> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/aviation/responsibilities/icao/timeliness | 2013-05-22T15:15:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701910820/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105830-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953317 | 146 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
It’s time for America to rid itself of the Obamacare cancer.
Take the next step now.
America faces several urgent challenges during this crucial election year.
Chief among these is Obamacare, enacted two years ago this week. The health care law is an abomination that tramples on the Constitution, increases federal debt, nationalizes huge swathes of the economy and limits key freedoms.
At home, our economy remains stagnant while government continues to grow. Under the Obama administration, Washington is spending more than ever even as the liberal stimulus programs are proved to be failures.
Abroad, America’s stature continues to decline even as our enemies have grown emboldened. And lawmakers are threatening disastrous cuts to national defense that could leave our nation vulnerable.
America cannot afford to miss today’s opportunity to get America back to the principles of the Founding. To fall short now would mean growing debt, higher taxes, a continued stagnant economy and a loss of stature in a dangerous world.
We ask for your support today to accomplish this task. Will you join with The Heritage Foundation as we, together, seize the moment and change our country’s course? Your help is needed now more than ever—and history proves that when like-minded people like you join forces in the cause of freedom, they can make a difference!
Our Plan to Get America Back on Track
The Heritage Foundation has developed a principled, common-sense plan to get America back on track. It’s called Saving the America Dream, and it forms the core of our message to lawmakers.
It’s the antidote to business-as-usual in Washington.
If followed, Saving the American Dream’s recommendations will:
- Eliminate government-mandated health care
- Reduce the size and scope of the federal government
- Balance the nation’s budget within a decade—and keep it balanced
- Reduce the debt
- Fully fund our national defense
- Encourage Americans to become more fiscally responsible themselves
- Redesign our entire tax system
- Increase the role of the states in choosing their own practices
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Join nearly 700,000 conservatives nationwide as a member of The Heritage Foundation with your tax-deductible gift and help us build an America where freedom, opportunity, prosperity and civil society flourish. | <urn:uuid:23861a20-a81a-43dd-9755-52ba935f54a5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.myheritage.org/campaign/its-time-to-remove-the-obamacare-cancer/ | 2013-05-22T15:29:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701910820/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105830-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921402 | 623 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
All about Linens
According to the FlyLady, small steps go a long way toward making your bedroom a retreat. She suggests that you invest in a bedspread that you love. With a new bedspread (and possibly linens) you may find fresh inspiration to make the bed every day because you just like to look at it. Also, beauty attracts more beauty. After your bed is made with the lovely spread, you'll naturally feel inspired to keep your clothes off the floor and your bedside tables tidy.
The linens (sheets, pillowcases, comforter cover, pillow shams, bed skirt, and so on) you choose are an investment. If properly cared for, they'll last for many years and provide much-needed comfort as you sleep. To ensure that you experience the most comfort possible, understand what you're buying.
When purchasing sheets, the quality and softness are related to thread count. In terms of comfort, the higher thread count you can afford, the better. Although all-cotton sheets breathe well, be aware that they tend to wrinkle more than cotton-polyester blends. Until a few years ago, the best quality sheets had a thread count of 180 threads per square inch. In the past few years, manufacturers have begun offering sheets up to a 700 thread count.
After a thread count goes above 350 threads per square inch, the consumer won't notice a difference in quality. Some foreign manufacturers even use a technique called double-pick insertion to boost thread count, without improving the feel of the cloth. Sheets with a thread count between 250 to 360 threads per inch offer ideal softness.
When you wash sheets, take care not to use too much detergent. Over time, too much detergent will harm your sheets. Also, be careful that your detergent is not too harsh and that your dryer is not too hot. These conditions can drastically shorten the lifespan of your linens.
The trick to finding a fitted sheet that will stay on your mattress is to find sheets with elastic that has been sewn all the way around the sheet, not just into the corners. When looking at a sheet's packaging, it should clearly state the mattress size it should fit. There are a variety of non-standard mattress sizes that may appear to be standard but may require special sheets, such as Olympic Queen and California King.
Before heading to the store to purchase your bedding, determine what your exact needs are for each bed in your home. Ideally, you'll own three sets of sheets for each bed in your home. That way, one can be in use, one in the laundry, and one in storage. Rotate the three sets regularly. Rotating your linens will extend their life dramatically, and by keeping your linens clean, you can eliminate dust mites and other allergens that can make you feel congested and uncomfortable.
To save money on sheets, you can buy irregulars. Irregulars often have very small, unnoticeable flaws — or they could have larger problems. You can ask for permission to view the sheets at the store before you purchase them, just to be sure that you can live with the flaws. This is a great way to buy top-quality linens at a fraction of the price.
In addition to having three sets of bed linens and rotating them, another way to make cotton linens last longer is to line dry them as opposed to putting them in the dryer. Also, beware of detergents with too many whiteners — they will compromise the dyes over time.
When bed linens aren't in use, store them properly. Linens should be laundered before being stored. Sheets and pillowcases, for example, can be kept in plastic bags in a cool and dry closet, out of direct light. To prevent mold and mildew from forming on them, linens should be stored in a way that keeps them away from moisture. Storing the items in a plastic bag also prevents damage from moths or other insects.
Folding linens can be tricky! Here are some steps to follow:
Fit one pocket at the top of the fitted sheet into the opposite pocket by inserting your hand behind one pocket and stuffing it inside the other.
Smooth the sheet lengthwise and fold lengthwise in half again.
Fold the sheets one more time.
Store in a plastic bag in a closet, in a dresser drawer, or under your bed in an airtight container.
When storing your comforters and blankets, always launder or dry-clean them first. Also, don't overfold or crush a down comforter or pillow. Allow it to remain as fluffy as possible. Loosely wrap the comforter or blanket in plastic, and then store it in a cool, dry place, such as a closet, a wooden (cedar) storage chest, or an airtight plastic container. To fold thinner blankets, place them in a cotton pillowcase, and then place them in a closet.
Blankets and comforters can also be stored using a freestanding blanket or quilt rack. These are typically made of wood, are placed near the foot of a bed, and provide places to hang various types of blankets out in the open (when they're not actually on a bed). This type of rack can be as lovely as it is functional. | <urn:uuid:4097d423-dc81-4f8a-8b61-29434ee935d5> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.netplaces.com/home-organizing/a-serene-bedroom/all-about-linens.htm | 2013-05-22T15:08:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701910820/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105830-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949025 | 1,108 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Some interesting new mayors elected tonight
Former rugby international and Labour Councillor Gerry McLoughlin is the new mayor of Limerick he takes over from Fine Gael's Jim Long.
In Donegal, the first ever Labour Councillor has been elected as Lord Mayor in Frank McBrearty Junior.
While in Dublin, Fine Gael councillor Naoise O Muirí has been chosen for the office, replacing outgoing Labour mayor Andrew Montague.
Fianna Fáil councillors refused to take part in the vote claiming Dublin needs a directly elected mayor with executive powers. | <urn:uuid:4ff10a7c-31c9-499e-9ca6-9a6065fed580> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.politicalworld.org/showthread.php?12206-Newly-Elected-Mayors-2012&s=8861fda5547b8328d9d643ebaf016973&p=289248 | 2013-05-22T15:22:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701910820/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105830-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934498 | 117 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
(PRWEB) February 11, 2013
Fitness Singles, the world's largest fitness focused dating site catering to health conscious, active singles, has announced that it now has two million registered members. The number further enhances its status as the leader among boutique dating web sites and the number one place where active singles go to meet.
"With Valentine's Day just around the corner, it's perfect timing to announce that we've hit a new record of members," said Christopher Mattioli, President of Fitness Singles. "We usually see a jump in membership around this time of year and this time, it's helping us achieve another milestone in our growth."
February is also a time when many fitness focused people are looking forward to spring and engaging in their favorite hobbies.
"Our subscribers are looking for people who share their exercise and fitness passion – someone who wants do similar activities, whether that's working out, hiking, running or any other physical activity," Mattioli explained. "Finding a new exercise partner or 'significant other' can be an incentive to start a new fitness routine by spring and have new activities planned for warmer weather."
Mattioli says that couples that exercise together have stronger relationships because they have a shared goal of staying fit, in addition to engaging activities that are fun and invigorating. It also helps encourage each other to achieve goals, he noted, and is a refreshing break from typical dinner-and-a-movie dating activities.
For people who are married or already in a relationship, physical activity is a great joint activity that promotes physical health and mental well-being. Couples that exercise or do other physical activity together are making quality time for each other and providing incentives to maintain a healthy weight.
Fitness Singles was founded in 2003 and quickly established itself as the leading place for active singles to meet. As fitness becomes more important to a growing number of people, the company is optimistic about continued growth in the coming years.
"We're proud of our success stories and I'm personally happy for the many couples that were brought together because of our web site," said Mattioli. "We're looking forward to a great year in 2013, not just for us, but for the people that meet each other on Fitness Singles." | <urn:uuid:81ffa5ea-4921-4fb9-a9a4-52b5f3c8d6c0> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.prweb.com/releases/prwebvalentinesday/fitness/prweb10411381.htm | 2013-05-22T15:21:14Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701910820/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105830-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975094 | 464 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Multicultural goes mainstream
May 01, 2012
Multicultural outreach programs have grown so sophisticated they are now impacting agencies' broader marketing efforts for clients.
While America has long been viewed as the great melting pot, it might be better described as a multicultural mosaic comprised of populations with widely varying customs, cultures, and languages.
And businesses that are learning to speak to each of those colorful mosaic “tiles” in both macro and micro ways are better positioned to grow their businesses, particularly ones that ... | <urn:uuid:55667a6b-c1a4-41a8-8641-36aba5bdd2c2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.prweekus.com/pages/login.aspx?returl=/multicultural-goes-mainstream/article/237148/&pagetypeid=28&articleid=237148&accesslevel=2&expireddays=0&accessAndPrice=0 | 2013-05-22T15:36:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368701910820/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516105830-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953891 | 103 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
[ 1 ] a theory
¶In the summer of 2010, Stanley McChrystal, U.S. army general and Afghan war commander, reportedly trashed the U.S. civilian military leadership, in effect forcing President Barack Obama to ask him to resign. The display of disrespect was striking, but more telling were the details about McChrystal’s handling of smaller matters. According to one story, McChrystal was once apprised by his chief of staff that he was obliged to attend a dinner in Paris with NATO allies—if not to shore up flagging support for the war, then simply because, as the chief of staff put it, “the dinner comes with the position, sir.” McChrystal held up his middle finger, retorting, “Does this come with the position?”
For brazen disregard, General McChrystal pales in comparison to another general, Douglas MacArthur. During the Korean War, MacArthur was a law unto himself, in matters both big and small. He quarreled defiantly in public with President Truman, agitating for nuclear war. In their eventual confrontation at Wake Island, MacArthur went so far as to arrive first and then order the president’s approaching plane into a holding pattern. MacArthur’s commander in chief would thus arrive on the landing strip appearing to be MacArthur’s supplicant.
In explaining why he subsequently relieved MacArthur of his command, Truman said, “I fired him because he wouldn’t respect the authority of the president. I didn’t fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was, but that’s not against the law for generals.” Truman was arguably pulling his punches. He could easily have called MacArthur an asshole.
That would not be an exotic charge: assholes abound in history and public life. Aside from runaway generals, we might think of such contemporary figures as former Italian president Silvio Berlusconi, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, or Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. We might think of the self-important developer-entertainer Donald Trump, the harsh pop music critic Simon Cowell, or the narcissist actor Mel Gibson. Assholes are found daily on cable news, where hosts repeatedly interrupt their guests, and also on talk radio, where airtime is given to commentators who thrive on falsehood and invective. Even as this demonstrably degrades the public debate so vital for a healthy democratic society, overheated commentators get rich and famous, while clearly having a really great time.
All of this poses a larger philosophical question: What is it for someone to be an asshole? The answer is not obvious, despite the fact that we are often personally stuck dealing with people for whom there is no better name. Assholes can be found not simply in history and high public office but almost anywhere—at work; in our chosen club; sport; school; religious group; circle of friends; and even, for the truly unlucky, in the home or immediate family. Try as we might to avoid them, we often simply have to manage encounters that come, for most of us, with great difficulty and personal strain. The asshole is not just another annoying person but a deeply bothersome person—bothersome enough to trigger feelings of powerlessness, fear, or rage. To make matters worse, we may be unable to understand why exactly someone should be so disturbing. We may feel certain only that “asshole” is a suitably unsavory name for this particular person.
While most of us could use advice in asshole management, we cannot get far without an answer to our initial question: What is it for someone to be an asshole? If nothing else, a good answer—a good theory of the asshole—would be intellectually interesting. It would give us the concepts to finally think or say why some people disturb us so. That, in turn, would ideally open a window into deeper aspects of morality and social life. We would see what assholes reveal about the human social condition and why assholes are everywhere, in every society. Ideally, a good theory would be practically useful. Understanding the asshole we are stuck with might help us think constructively about how best to handle him. We might get a better sense of when the asshole is best resisted and when he is best ignored—a better sense of what is, and what is not, worth fighting for.
According to our theory, which we will present shortly, the asshole exposes a deep feature of morality that philosophers have sought to understand from the time of Jean-Jacques Rousseau to this day. The asshole refuses to listen to our legitimate complaints, and so he poses a challenge to the idea that we are each to be recognized as moral equals. This explains why the asshole is so bothersome, by revealing the great importance we attach to recognition in unexpected areas of our lives. In later chapters, we will suggest that a clearer understanding of this helps with asshole management. The key is to understand why we are easily tempted to fight on the asshole’s terms: we are fighting for moral recognition in his eyes. We will also explore larger, more basic questions about human social life. Why are assholes mainly men? Can assholes be properly blamed? Why do some societies produce more assholes than others? Are certain styles of capitalism especially prone to asshole production and thus social decline? And, finally, can we ultimately make peace not only with the given asshole but also with a human social condition in which assholes flourish?
what is it to be an asshole?
Our theory is simply this: a person counts as an asshole when, and only when, he systematically allows himself to enjoy special advantages in interpersonal relations out of an entrenched sense of entitlement that immunizes him against the complaints of other people. (Because assholes are by and large men, we use the masculine pronoun “he” advisedly. We will suggest that women can be assholes as well. For the time being, think of Ann Coulter. We consider the question of gender in detail in chapter 4.) Our theory thus has three main parts. In interpersonal or cooperative relations, the asshole:
(1) allows himself to enjoy special advantages and does so systematically;
(2) does this out of an entrenched sense of entitlement; and
(3) is immunized by his sense of entitlement against the complaints of other people.
So, for example, the asshole is the person who habitually cuts in line. Or who frequently interrupts in a conversation. Or who weaves in and out of lanes in traffic. Or who persistently emphasizes another person’s faults. Or who is extremely sensitive to perceived slights while being oblivious to his crassness with others. An insensitive person—a mere “jerk”—might allow himself to so enjoy “special advantages” in such interpersonal relations. What distinguishes the asshole is the way he acts, the reasons that motivate him to act in an abusive and arrogant way. The asshole acts out of a firm sense that he is special, that the normal rules of conduct do not apply to him. He may not deliberately exploit interpersonal relations but simply remain willfully oblivious to normal expectations. Because the asshole sets himself apart from others, he feels entirely comfortable flouting accepted social conventions, almost as a way of life. Most important, he lives this way more or less out in the open. He stands unmoved when people indignantly glare or complain. He is “immunized” against anyone who speaks up, being quite confident that he has little need to respond to questions about whether the advantages he allows himself are acceptable and fair. Indeed, he will often himself feel indignant when questions about his conduct are raised. That, from his point of view, may show that he is not getting the respect he deserves.
Although our theory is a definition of the term “asshole,” we should emphasize that it is not necessarily a dictionary definition. It is not necessarily a claim about how the word “asshole” is commonly used in some linguistic group (e.g., speakers of English). The word is often used loosely and variously, and we aren’t suggesting that every competent speaker of English would agree with our proposal about what the word means. We aren’t even saying that a majority of speakers would agree, in a way that might be confirmed or undermined by opinion polls or psychological experiments. Instead, our approach is the one Socrates explains to Polus in Plato’s Gorgias, when he explains why the dispute between them does not depend on opinion polls (what they call “the company”). Polus asks, “But do you not think, Socrates, that you have been sufficiently refuted, when you say that which no human being will allow? Ask the company.” Socrates replies:
you must not ask me to count the suffrages of the company [. . . .] I shall produce one witness only of the truth of my words, and he is the person with whom I am arguing; his suffrage I know how to take; but with the many I have nothing to do, and do not even address myself to them. May I ask then whether you will answer in turn and have your words put to the proof?
Our definition, in other words, is a constructive proposal. It tries to articulate what we ordinarily mean when we speak of “assholes” but ultimately stands or falls on whether it captures the importance assholes have for us—where the “us” is, in the first instance, you and me. I am proposing the definition in light of importance that assholes have for us. You decide whether you agree.
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I had unprotected sex with my gf 3 days before her period, i did not ejaculate tho, but i herd about precum but i also didnt ejaculate at all the past 2 days befor, so im worried bc she still hasnt hit her period 4 days later could she be pregnant?
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my husband is not interested in having sex with me , we do oral sex and foreplay but never got ended in sexual intercourse.
I told my husband 3-4 times to have sex but he gave me flying answers like we will have sex one day,wht if u ll get pregnant ? Etc . It's almost and half year of my marriage.& one more thing I would like to share is he was having girlfriend before we got married and kept continue same thing after mrg also.
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What Can Our Telomeres Tell Us?
Buzzy new DNA tests claim to reveal how "old" our bodies really are.
Age has never been a simple matter of birthdays. After all, we all know senior citizens who are spryer and fitter than their driver's licenses would suggest. But what if there was some other, singular measure that let us know how well or badly our bodies were doing, beneath the crow's feet and softening chins? What if there was a scientific way to determine how "old"—and far-gone—we really are?
Enter the new wave of DNA tests. A host of companies now peddle (or are about to start peddling) assessments of the genetic structures that sit at the ends of our chromosomes. These structures, called telomeres, protect DNA from degradation and shorten each time cells divide, so that they are sometimes compared to tiny molecular clocks. Recently, though, some researchers and entrepreneurs have made the leap from cells to selves, arguing that telomere lengths can also signal whether we're at heightened risk for various diseases or whether our bodies have aged faster than the calendar would suggest.
The major players that have jumped into telomere testing in the past few years include Telome Health in California, SpectraCell Laboratories in Texas, and Life Length in Spain. Their results have been touted as, variously, "a wake-up call," letting people know they're on "a rapidly aging path," or something akin to a "check engine light" on a car that warns of hidden trouble. A Life Length adviser has even gone so far as to predict that the company's test results will change people's life plans. "People might say 'If I know I'm going to die in 10 years I'll spend my money now,'" he told the Independent, "or 'If I'm going to live for 40 more years I'll be more conservative in my lifestyle.' "
But to what extent are these new telomere tests biological fortune-tellers? And to what extent do they merely exploit our pervasive fears about aging—our primal urge to know what remains of our allotted time?
Telomeres themselves are not a new discovery. But in 2009, three Americans, including two women, received a Nobel Prize for telomere-related work, and suddenly the field hit primetime. One of these laureates, Elizabeth Blackburn, helped found the company Telome Health and threw her star power behind its marketing, quickly bolstering the tests' credibility. That the new assessments promise self-knowledge through technology—and that they arrive at a moment of intense boomer anxiety about aging—makes their zeitgeisty allure easy to understand. As a scientific consultant to Life Length has put it, explaining his company's appeal: "If you ask people what they worry about, most people would say they are worried about dying."
Amanda Schaffer is a science and medical columnist for Slate.
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Meet artist Christopher Leeper
Award-winning artist Christopher Leeper will show off his works at a special exhibit this month at the Charlotte Fine Art Gallery.
The exhibit, Capturing Light – The Paintings of Christopher Leeper, is on display throughout the month. Leeper’s work “will have you captivated with color in backlighting and foreground shadow,” according to a news release from the gallery.
People can meet the artist at an event Friday night, Oct. 5, from 6 to 9 p.m. at the gallery, 75 10 Pineville-Matthews Road. Find more on the event and gallery at the gallery’s website, www.charlottefineart.com.
Things get busy for Charlotte Symphony
The Charlotte Symphony has a number of events coming up.
The third season of the KnightSounds Series started Friday, Sept. 28, with soloists Christina Pier, Susannah Biller and Daniel Stein. The series allows for audience participation in the shows through different activities, and is considered less formal than most of the Symphony’s shows.
On Oct. 19, a Friday, the Symphony will perform a tribute to the Bee Gees. Songs will include “You Should be Dancing,” “Night Fever,” “How Deep Is Your Love” and other popular tunes from the band. Tickets start at $30.
The band America will perform on two nights, Oct. 26 and 27, at the Symphony. The concert features original America members Gerry Beckley and Dewey Bunnell, and Symphony conductor Albert-George Schram will lead the Symphony performers. Tickets start at $45.
Find more information on the shows and Symphony at the Symphony’s website, www.charlottesymphony.org.
Still time to catch ‘Godspell’
There’s a few performances of Central Piedmont Community College’s “Godspell” left.
The show opened Sept. 28, with performances scheduled for Thursday through Sunday, Oct. 4 to 7. The show is based on the Gospel according to St. Matthew, and “is a groundbreaking and unique reflection on the life of Jesus, with a message of kindness, tolerance and love,” according to a school news release.
Find more information and buy tickets at the www.tix.cpcc.edu.
Civil War photos on display
A new exhibit at the main branch of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg library system is displaying photography and artifacts from the Civil War.
The exhibit, Freedom, Sacrifice, Memory: Civil War Sesquicentennial Photography Exhibit, will include photos taken at the time focused on historic figures, artifacts and documents. The exhibit will highlight on the role of North Carolinians in the war, using images from the state’s archives and the N.C. Museum of History, among other places.
The exhibit is open until Oct. 29. For more information, call the library at 704-461-0152. The library is open Tuesday to Thursday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.; Friday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sunday, 1 to 5 p.m.
Upcoming show to help local foundation
The Carolina Artisan League’s upcoming holiday art show in November will benefit the Isabella Santos Foundation.
The foundation is named in honor of Isabella Santos, who died earlier this year after a battle with pediatric cancer. Her foundation raises money for and awareness of pediatric cancer research. Find more information at the group’s website, www.isabel lasantosfoundation.com.
The art show, Nov. 2 and 3, will feature more than 20 local artisans’ handmade arts and crafts, including paintings, jewelry, pottery and more. The show will be at the South Charlotte Banquet Center, 9009 Bryant Farms Road.
For more information on the art group, email email@example.com.
Silhouette artist comes to area soon
Silhouette artist Erik Johnson will show off his work later this month in south Charlotte.
Johnson creates hand-cut silhouette portraits by looking at a person’s profile and cutting with a pair of surgical scissors to get an exact likeness. He’ll be at Learning Express, at 7918 Rea Road, on Oct. 27.
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You may not be too concerned about global warming – okay, you might be good at recycling and turning off everything before you go to bed at the end of the day – but you almost certainly will be concerned about the cost of fuel and how it’s affecting your monthly budget. Did you see that documentary on the television recently, talking about oil and how we are gradually running out of it? All kinds of mayhem and civil war will erupt when that happens, so they say and we really need to look for alternative sources, right now. You may well have heard about biodiesel, but not a great deal. What you should know is that it is a viable and economical alternative source of fuel and it’s something that you can manufacture yourself, at home.
Biodiesel is carbon neutral and as such does not contribute to global warming and pollution of our cities. It’s relatively easy and quite simple to make yourself, it is non-toxic and you can make it from organic vegetable oil or animal fats. You may not be afraid to roll up your sleeves and get involved in a new project, especially if it’s something that’s generally good for our environment and particularly good for your pocketbook too. Maybe it’s time for you to take a biodiesel 101 class?
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Posted: August 16th. 2011 5:09:49 PM
Reaching for you
by Cee Are
Age Group: Adult
Reaching for you with words
on both ends
of this time lapse
sightless and touchless
in a sea of irregular verbs a foreign
stutters off my tongue
and confuses my ears
until a vision strikes a moment of emotion
shaped into dreaming beauty
by fire and wheel
a molten stream fills a shape
and cools into splendor
Water and Sand
to form it's crowning
a sea - born stone like
sunlight off wavetops in the morning
mated together gem and gold
they form the echo of your
words out of our past
(and I hope, future)
which pulled a fantasy into
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Author's Location: Detroit, Michigan
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Governor Brownback, It's Time to Stop Playing Doctor
By Sarah Gillooly, Planned Parenthood Advocates of Kansas and Mid-Missouri
Politicians should not play doctor, just as a baker doesn’t teach our kids math and plumbers don’t pave our roads. It’s just as crazy. Case in point? My state of Kansas.
After passing five new state laws restricting women’s access to preventive health care and abortion last year, Governor (“Doctor?”) Sam Brownback and state legislative leaders weren’t done.
Nevermind that so far they haven’t passed a budget, or that Kansas is the only state in the nation that hasn’t finished its redistricting – and, please, let’s just ignore the public statements by the Speaker of the House that the legislature would pass no more abortion bills (especially not after running a more than $600,000 tab on defending the state’s existing anti-women’s health laws).
Yes, Kansans, let’s do our legislators a favor and forget all of that while they get down to the real business at hand: legislative maneuvering to rush though a 70-plus page bill that will require doctors to lie to their patients.
But that’s not all – the bill also uses the tax code so it becomes an attack on Kansan women and families. It would rewrite state tax law to:
• Increase taxes on any health care provider, including Kansas charitable hospitals, that performs even one lifesaving abortion
• Ban corporations from taking tax credits for making charitable donations to Planned Parenthood and other nonprofit health care providers in Kansas
• Impose a tax on educational brochures purchased by nonprofit organizations like Planned Parenthood that will be distributed for free to the public and which are about basic, preventive health issues – HIV/AIDS education and prevention, information on sexually transmitted infections, materials about the importance of annual Pap tests and breast exams, and brochures to help women determine which method of birth control is best for them and their family.
This 71-page bill passed the House this week and is now headed to the Senate for a straight up or down vote. No formal introduction, no hearings, no debate and no opportunities to amend the bill. Nada.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. - The superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy says the school has plans to create a Navy football hall of fame.
Vice Adm. Michael Miller mentioned the plans at a meeting of the Board of Visitors on Monday in Annapolis. His announcement comes just days before this year's Army-Navy football game, one of the most famous rivalries in sports.
Miller says it will go in Ricketts Hall, which has a prominent location on the academy grounds by the water.
The superintendent also noted that other Navy sports would be represented in the hall of fame.
Miller says celebrating the school's storied athletic history is a strong way to attract students. Miller says he does not have a firm timetable for when the hall of fame would open.
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Octogenarians are racing to become the oldest to climb Everest.
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Musou Orochi 2 Has an Android
A character like no other in the latest Musou game.
The latest character in Tecmo Koei's Musou Orochi 2 is a bit different from the characters we're used to seeing in the Musou games. Famitsu has a first look this week at Nata, our first android combatant.
The pink-haired Nata was actually once human. She lost her life in a great war but was equipped with mechanical parts by someone who is not identified in the magazine.
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Friday, February 19, 2010, 08:15 am
Apple changes App Store policy on 'overtly sexual content'Due to numerous complaints from customers, Apple has begun removing software from its App Store for the iPhone and iPod touch that has been deemed "overtly sexual."
This week, developer of the application "Wobble iBoobs" was sent a letter from Apple explaining that the company is "constantly refining" their guidelines as to what is acceptable on the App Store. According to TechCrunch, while the application was originally found to be suitable for distribution, "numerous complaints" inspired the Cupertino, Calif., company to change their guidelines.
"We have decided to remove any overtly sexual content from the App Store, which includes your application," the letter from the iPhone App Review department reads. "Thank you for your understanding in this matter. If you believe you can make the necessary changes so that Wobble iBoobs (Premium Uncensored) complies with our recent changes, we encourage you to do so and resubmit for review."
The report notes that the application in question allowed users to add "jiggle points" to photos, has been downloaded 970,000 times, and the developer hasn't changed the software in 6 to 8 months. The status for the application on the developer's Web site states "Removed From Sale."
Some similar applications with sexual content have also been removed from the App Store, though others remain. At this point it is not known what Apple deems to be an "overtly sexual" application, or if all similar applications will also be removed.
Apple's App Store policies came under fire last year, when a third-party dictionary program was asked to resubmit their application with a parental control rating of age 17 and up due to "offensive" words found on Wikitionary.org. Apple felt it was appropriate in its request because "urban slang" words found on the Web site were not in traditional dictionaries. The developer instead opted to censor the application, remove the offending words and not be subjected to the "mature" rating.
With more than 140,000 options on the App Store, iPhone and iPod touch users can access a variety of content with varying levels of quality. With so many options available, last year Apple debuted the Genius recommendation feature to help users sort through the plethora of options on the App Store, and the hardware maker also added keywords to software to allow for easier search.
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It seems that Republicans can argue both sides of any argument whenever it suits them, Presidential candidate Romney being a prime example. Is he for or against Planned Parenthood, etc? When it comes to healthcare for poor and middle class Americans, Republicans say Obamacare is illegal because it forces people to purchase insurance. They say the government should not be able to have the ability to require people to purchase insurance. So why am I required, by the government, to purchase auto insurance? Where was their outcry then?
The reason the government has the ability to require us to purchase auto insurance is that if I am injured and my property is damaged by someone who is at fault I am guaranteed full restitution. Republicans don't want poor people to refuse to purchase auto insurance and to injure them and destroy their property without restitution. But if a person who is healthy and doesn't want to purchase health insurance becomes catistrophically ill they don't hide in a cave and die. They go to a hospital, get treated, and we pay their bill. That is forcing us to be their insurer, against our will. If they had health insurance the bill would be paid by a profit making insurance company instead of us. Republicans need to wake up. If poor people had health insurance they'd seek help sooner and the bills would be lower for all of us. Those who don't want to purchase health insurance are taking a gamble that only they can win but we the general public will lose. | <urn:uuid:96495fb0-2603-4bcc-8432-482995c69aa4> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/2012-04-09/news/sfl-richard-nadler-twofaced-republicans-20120409_1_health-insurance-purchase-auto-insurance-republicans | 2013-05-24T23:14:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705284037/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115444-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983056 | 293 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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Henry Morgan was one of the rare radio stars of the nineteen forties to approach comedy from an intellectual stand point. Most popular comedy personalities relied on a stable of writers and "switch" jokes (bits that featured minor changes on a tired routine in attempt to sell them off as a new gag). Fred Allen, Henry Morgan, Stan Freberg and Bob & Ray were all popular during their era and were some of the first to break away from the old manner of operating. Yet the names tossed around today as the stars of old time radio comedy remain Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Red Skelton, Amos n' Andy, and for some reason, Fibber McGee and Molly. Not to take anything away from these often very funny performers and their respective shows (Okay, we'll take a little bit away from Amos n' Andy) but several decades later we should be able to acknowledge those whose comedy holds up as still funny and relevant. Those are the performers who, in retrospect, are the true stars of old time radio and deserve reverence today (I enjoy Bob Hope and probably listen to his Pepsodent radio program far more often than any young boy in his twenties should, but let's be realistic - most of it doesn't hold up).
Henry Morgan saw through all that was phony and contrived in the world of American media and held it in contempt. While most performers in early television pretended that dancing girls dressed as giant packs of cigarettes was perfectly normal, Morgan was pointing out the lunacy.
Morgan found television insipid but, incongruously, received his greatest fame as a game show panelist. That didn't soften his disposition any, although it may have humbled him somewhat. Listening to The Henry Morgan Show today is refreshing. Radio sponsors (that is to say corporate America) so dominated radio and television in the thirties, forties and fifties that it was rare to hear a point of view that contradicted that of R.J. Reynolds, Procter and Gamble or The United Fruit Company. Listening to Henry Morgan is to reassure us about the time period. Not everybody was Joseph McCarthy and not everybody bought the premise of the Cold War. Seven out of ten doctors did not actually recommend the leading brand of cigarette nor did most people believe that they did. Just as today, corporate media represented a minority opinion. A very wealthy and powerful minority that, were it not for voices like Henry Morgan's, we might believe represented the majority of Americans.
Twenty years after Morgan had retreated from public life, he published his autobiography, Here's Morgan! The Original Bad Boy of Broadcasting (1994, Barricade Books). The book's introduction, featuring the first public words from Morgan since the early eighties, started with a sarcastic indictment of American foreign policy:
"... we live at a time when the island of Grenada has been completely forgotten. Who remembers now that we fought a war there, a wonderful triumph, during the course of which the Armed Forces of the United States of America (without ANY outside help) shot and killed a Cuban workman who, the Pentagon said, had ties to the Communist Party. How could we have so soon forgotten that four thousand seven hundred medals were awarded to the American heroes who were there?
"Not too long ago we won another sensational victory during the course of which combined forces from countries having a total population of 500,000,000 (five hundred million) people fought and managed to beat Iraq, population, nineteen million. The United States alone spent eighty billion dollars, including carfare. For every Iraqi killed, military or civilian, the cost was three hundred and seventeen thousand dollars.
Truly, an Age of Gold."
After several years toiling as a page around Chicago radio stations, Henry Morgan finally became an on-air personality at the end of the thirties. Originally cast as a weatherman, he was quickly handed his own show to avert the impromptu editorials escaping from his mouth during weather reports. His fifteen-minute program, Here's Morgan, contained little more than sarcastic comments and lots of records by Spike Jones and His City Slickers (sounds like a godamn good show if you ask me). Like all radio of the time, advertisements were integrated into the programs themselves, often delivered by the show's star. Morgan so resented having to read advertising copy that he couldn't resist adding his own mark by either ridiculing the advertiser's claims or delivering the script with the equivalent of a vocal eye roll. Here's Morgan ended, not at the hands of sponsors, but after Morgan enlisted in the service in 1943. You can listen to some of the rare, surviving episodes of Here's Morgan by following this link to the indispensable archive.org.
It is remarkable that Morgan moved to network radio at all given his already established reputation as an unpredictable personality. The Henry Morgan Show gained national prominence on ABC, brought to the air under the guidance and influence of Fred Allen in September of 1946. Morgan once spoke of those he admired. "Fred Allen is one of the few heroes in my Pantheon ... Franklin Roosevelt is on a supplementary list somewhere, and so are Renata Tebaldi, Al Hirschfeld, Thomas Jefferson and Senor Wences ..." Allen was not just Morgan's hero but he was also Henry's number one supporter. However, companies looking for a show to sponsor were weary of being associated with a man who could tarnish their reputations with one smarmy sentence. Because of this, when The Henry Morgan Show later moved to NBC and found itself immediately following Fred Allen, the sponsor-less program opened with, "The Henry Morgan Show! Brought to you by (silence)(silence) The Fred Allen Show!" Allen often brought on Morgan as a guest. Listen to one such episode of The Fred Allen Show here.
The show became a hit with national listeners and Morgan required a staff of writers for the first time. Three young kids were hired: Joe Stein, Aaron Ruben and Carroll Moore. Ruben went on to the most prolific career of the three, as a writer and director on one of the sharpest programs of nineteen fifties television The Phil Silvers Show (also known as Sgt. Bilko and a thousand other names). His success continued with a lengthy stint on The Andy Griffith Show and several others. Carroll Moore became a scripter of innocuous sixties film comedies like Send Me No Flowers (1964) and the Sandra Dee vehicle That Funny Feeling (1965). Joe Stein would write some musical called Fiddler on the Roof, made a fortune, and never bothered to work again.
Over the course of time, Morgan did retain a sponsor or two. He was most identified with the Eversharp company's sinister sounding line of Schick Injector Razors. While reading one of their lame ads, Morgan improvised, "They're educational. Try one. That'll teach you." For an article on Morgan in the April 1947 edition of Life magazine, Morgan co-ordinated a photo shoot that had his face covered in bandages, praying to a shaving razor. His sponsor was not amused. By November Eversharp was done with Morgan and Time magazine reported that it was hardly a surprise. The publication lamented those comedians that dared to make mockery of corporate America: "The news was ominous for comics of the Morgan school: all the brash, postwar lads whose specialty is making fun of radio and its sponsors. Things looked far from bright for three of the most prominent members of the toss-it-away brand of comedy: 1) come January, the American Tobacco Co. will reportedly drop Jack Paar; 2) Funnyman Robert Q. Lewis is still a liability to CBS, with no sponsor after nearly seven months on the air as a sustainer; 3) Alan Young, the Canadian wit, after starring for over two years on his own program, has been demoted to a supporting role on the Tony Martin show."
Despite the trouble, various companies still occasionally chose to sponsor the show and take the risk simply because Morgan had such a devoted following. Ultra-conservative Camel Cigarettes even went ahead and backed his show in its final year. As the forties were winding down, The Henry Morgan Show was at its height. Take this exchange featuring Morgan and the always-hilarious Arnold Stang transcribed by the excellent old time radio blog, Thrilling Days of Yesteryear:
ARNOLD: Well, well... Henry Morgan!!!
HENRY: Well... hello Arnold!
ARNOLD: Say, Henry... I heard your show last night...
HENRY: How'd you like it?
ARNOLD: Great, great... it was all I could do to keep from laughin'...
HENRY: Thanks a lot, I guess...by the way, I heard your show last week...
ARNOLD: Oh yeah? I'm glad you caught it...
HENRY: Yeah, yeah...I was at a party...you know how it is...everybody drinking...some drunk turned it on...
ARNOLD: Well, what'd you think of it?
HENRY: Well...there was a lot of noise...it didn't come in very well...
ARNOLD: What kind of noise?
HENRY: I was talking.
HENRY: But, say...that was a good joke you had there about Sinatra and the pipe cleaner...
ARNOLD: Sinatra and the pipe cleaner? That's Bob Hope's, isn't it?
HENRY: Yeah, that's right...but I like the way you told it...by the way, how's your Hooper rating?
ARNOLD: Well, it's eh...ehh...aw, that rating doesn't mean a thing...
HENRY: Mine's not so good either...as a matter of fact, you see, the trouble with me is...I've got a terrific listening audience that can't get phones...
ARNOLD: Sure...say, Henry, by the way...did you have a studio audience last night?
HENRY: Why, certainly!
ARNOLD: I knew it! I told my wife that I could swear I heard breathin'...but my wife read somewhere you got asthma...
As was the case on every show he appeared, Stang regularly upstaged Morgan. Stang's success came from his vocal hysteria, unlike Morgan whose laughs came more from the words themselves than the way they were delivered. The writing was strong enough that Morgan had no need to dress it up, but some critics still suggested the program be re-named The Arnold Stang Show. Morgan and Stang appeared together in the hilarious film So This Is New York (1948), another satirical project that was far more intelligent than most comedy of the time. You can read more about the only movie starring Henry Morgan (directed by Richard Fleischer from a Ring Lardner story) in this article about Arnold Stang. Contrary to yer Leonard Maltin guide, the film did receive an official VHS release. I know this because I checked out the damn thing from the Toronto Public Library several years ago. It's now missing from their system but sells on Amazon for eighty dollars - and I betcha it's the same copy. Stang wasn't the only notable supporting player who regularly appeared on the show. A young whosit named Art Carney was also a regular player on Morgan's program, and a hilarious one at that.
As with many artists of worth during the anti-communist hysteria of the late forties, Henry Morgan was shunned by a group of idiots. He had appeared on the critically acclaimed radio special Hollywood Fights Back on October 26th, 1947. The star-studded variety show was assembled to speak-out against the creeping American style fascism that was in the process of ending many careers. The show featured everyone from Artie Shaw to Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall to Myrna Loy, but a few years later some of the performers had to recant and claim they only appeared on the show because commies had duped them. Almost sixty years before Stephen Colbert delivered the most important satirical screed of our time at The White House Correspondents' Dinner, Henry Morgan did the same thing. Morgan was speaking at the 1947 Radio Correspondents' Association Dinner in front of an audience that included J. Edgar Hoover and President Truman. He made the two uncomfortable several times over the course of his speech. The biggest blow came with his remark, "Whenever it is quiet in Washington, you can count on the Un-American committee to issue a report. Maybe sometime later, when it has a chance, it will start gathering the facts."
A couple years later, Morgan received this letter in the mail:
Mr. Henry Morgan
310 East 50th St.
New York 22, N.Y.
Dear Mr. Morgan:
As you know, I am the originator of RED CHANNELS.
As you also know, only a small portion of your record in connection with Communist fronts was given in that book ... A new and much more complete book is now in preparation. It is not my intention to create undue hardship for anyone ... I enclose a confidential memo listing reported affiliations on your part with Communist fronts and causes. Only a few of these were used in my former book ... If you care, in your interests, to comment on these to me before I publish them, I shall be glad to hear your side of the story ... It is also neccessary that this matter be confidential between us. Should you attempt to draw a certain fraternal organization (which is now endeavoring to "clear" people) into our conversation, I shall consider the matter ended automatically ...
Henry Morgan never had to testify at the McCarthy hearings, but this didn't matter. June 20th, 1950, Henry Morgan was off the radio, not to be employed in the audio medium for five years. Don't miss the opportunity to select from ten different episodes of The Henry Morgan Show here, six others here and another five here. He tried to bring a variation of his radio program to TV in 1951 with Henry Morgan's Great Talent Hunt with Art Carney by his side, but like so much radio turned into television, the show failed quickly.
It is sad that Morgan's scandals all had to do with socialist sympathies or disdain for advertising and big business. Morgan's worst trait was far more scandalous, but a blip on the radar compared to the horrors of his left-wing associations. In the late forties, news broke that Morgan had clobbered his soon to be ex-wife in the face with a closed fist. If an August 1963 interview with TV Guide can be taken at face value, Morgan makes Jerry Lewis look like Gloria Steinem. The first part of his response is obviously more trademark sarcasm from Morgan, but it quickly takes a hard turn into unabashed misogyny:
TV GUIDE: I remember one of your radio shows in which you had some pretty unflattering things to say about women. This was, I believe, shortly after your divorce. Would you give your views on women?
MORGAN: Women should be very attractive and never taught to read. The trouble with the average woman is that she's a little below average. Since 90% of the women one meets seem to be constantly auditioning to become morons, and since half these people are women, it figures that 90% of them aren't too bright either.
For devoted fans of Henry Morgan's comedy, this is a bitter pill to swallow.
Long before he became the godfather of song parodies, Allan Sherman was a New York television writer and producer. Having burned through several creaky looking television ventures from 1949 through 1952, Sherman was shopping around a new idea with his writing partner Howard Merrill. The new idea was I've Got a Secret, one of the most successful game shows in television history. It was produced by the soon-to-be successful game show mavens, Mark Goodson and Bill Todman. During the period in which the pair was trying to determine who they would hire as permanent celebrity panelists, Goodson approached Morgan. He told him he wanted to use him but had to be certain he was without any Communist affiliations. Morgan was testy, having already been cleared of any "wrong doing." He showed Goodson a letter of innocence he'd received from the FBI itself, but Goodson still wanted to run a check explaining that since the FBI's letter was a couple years old, he would need more up to date information. Morgan couldn't believe it, and had he not been having so much trouble finding work, he probably would have told Goodson to you-know-what. Eventually Morgan did become a panelist on I've Got a Secret, a spot he retained for years. Occasionally when host Garry Moore was unavailable, Morgan filled in as guest host. He would be associated with the game show genre for the rest of his life. Watch some clips of the Morgan era IGAS here and here.
Morgan's snide nature was often the highlight of the game shows he appeared on, both good and bad. While other panelists readily applauded at guests who came on I've Got a Secret and balanced household items on their nose, Morgan's hands clapped rarely. While other panelists were in hysterics when broad comedians appeared as guests, Morgan's face was usually frozen, either in contempt, or with an intellectual superiority that was too aware psychologically of what made an audience laugh. The January 22-28, 1954 edition of TV Guide published a lead article titled Have They Tamed Henry Morgan? that touched on his unimpressed demeanor. The piece verbatim, from back in the day when TV Guide was a highly literate read:
If Henry Morgan is any sort of a prophet, the unemployment problem that has plagued him for years will soon reach the acute stage.
The irreverent Mr. Morgan, with a long and valiant record of sponsor-baiting, feels that his is a losing battle. He now fears that the supply of companies willing to have their products praised with faint damns is running low. In short, he foresees another Morgan exit from TV.
This certainly would disturb the Morgan cult, a loyal but dwindling group that has delighted in Henry's spirited tilting at some of our more vulnerable advertising windmills. But then Morganites have gone through lean years with Henry before. Henry calls this his "third career," in deference to two long stretches of unemployment on his record, stemming from a certain unconventional approach Henry takes to funny business.
The only Morgan now available on a Nationwide basis is the subdued and rather unamused Henry now picking up some easy cash as a panelist on I've Got a Secret, New Yorkers can still get nightly doses of the unexpurgated Henry via a local show, Here's Morgan. On this, Henry is his irascible self, with one difference. He now rarely turns his barbed wit on the sponsor, concentrating instead on the social and political scene. This may be the forerunner of the new Morgan - Morgan the social commentator. When TV gives him the heave-ho, he figures to become a writer.
Though Henry worships Fred Allen as the funniest man on earth, he holds Fred partly responsible for the decline of satire. When Fred was riding high on radio, Stop the Music, a quiz show, was thrown up against him on a rival network and, by giving away gobs of money, drained the Allen audience. Henry's complaint is that Fred didn't fight back hard enough and since he was the satirists' spiritual leader, the rest tumbled with him.
Henry's own special flair, of course, is the needling of commercials, usually his own. When he was sponsored by Schick razors, his show featured a Shavathon that supposedly established Schick as the world's fastest razor. He once introduced the commercial by saying, "Here's Ted Husing, the world's greatest announcer with the world's lousiest commercial." After he was dropped by Schick, he said it was because "I pushed and I pulled, but I didn't click-click."
Life Savers dropped Henry after one broadcast when he joked that the company was bilking the public by drilling holes in its products.
Perhaps the most tolerant sponsor of all was Mr. Jesse Adler of Adler Elevator Shoes. Henry had a glorious time scrambling the commercials: "An Adler Elevator Shoe is a meal in itself" or "Wake up your lazy liver bile with a pair of Adler Elevators." Mr. Adler, a sweet-tempered guileless man, found that the Morgan bits WERE selling shoes, so he rarely complained, but this nettled him: "Old Man Adler claims that Alder Elevators make you two inches taller the minute you put them on. The claim is correct - you can be two inches taller IF you can stand up in them. But what about the trousers, Adler? Do they stretch too?"
Radio and TV have been Henry's favorite targets. Examples: "The Answer Man:" Q. Should olives be eaten with the fingers? A. No, the fingers should be eaten separately. "Movie Gossips:" Mickey Rooney will or will not make a movie next year. Remember, you heard it here first. "Giveaways:" Among the prizes for the winner will be - a long playing record of the Minute Waltz AND six dozen tennis shows, size twelve.
Henry's bizarre humor has disillusioned more than sponsors. Once when his wife was taking a bath a man burst into the apartment screaming, "Mrs. Morgan, come quickly, your husband has just been killed in an auto accident." Mrs. Morgan reacted like a sponsor when she found the man doing the shouting was Henry. She divorced him.
Henry's biggest TV venture was a short-lived spoofer called The Great Talent Hunt, with such acts as a man who played "Stars and Stripes Forever" with two wet dishrags on a cheesecake, a man who could play the scherzo from Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony by beating his cranium with soup spoons, and a little boy whose whistle could be heard only by gnus. Out of acts, the show expired.
Morgan is now relatively happy with his I've Got a Secret panel job, which he finds easy and a lot of fun. And one of these days, it just may turn out that the U.S. public will again be ripe for good, old-fashioned biting satire. And we trust, ready to give it to us will be that kinky-haired iconoclast whose hopeful introduction alwys is, "Hello anybody, here's Morgan." - Bob Cunniff
The relationship that Morgan had with I've Got a Secret host Garry Moore led to Morgan guest hosting Moore's morning variety program The Garry Moore Show. The New York Times commented on such a week incredulously in an issue from August 1st, 1954:
Henry Morgan, a Changed Man
Subbing for vacationing Garry Moore, apparently his intent was to be genial above all else ... Mr. Morgan has a great many commercials on this show and he handles them all as if he loved the sponsors deeply. Henry is certainly a new man.
In the mid-fifties, jazz and folk label Riverside Records released a panorama of various Henry Morgan monologues titled Here's Morgan! (pictured above). Riverside was one of at least three jazz labels to put out a comedy release during the era, a break from the normal pace. Riverside released Henry Morgan while Fantasy Records pressed Lenny Bruce and Pacific Jazz put out recordings by cult fave Lord Buckley. In all three cases the jazz labels obviously thought their comedic picks would appeal to the same hip, intellectual audience that dug the bop albums. Fantasy also put out was Orson Bean at the Hungry i and Pacific Jazz had another by forgotten Canadian comedian John Barbour. Download Riverside's Here's Morgan! LP in its entirety over here.
Morgan, together with singer Isobel Robins starred on a bizarre satirical comedy LP on the obscure Offbeat Records titled The Saint and the Sinner. Tracks were traded off between the two performers, Morgan with some silly monologue followed by a showbizzy nightclub tune sung by Robins. The album opens with a track titled Morgan-Tone System. Henry provided notes for the cut, "A rather dull monologue which sounds funnier if played on stereo equipment, provided that everyone sits at the exact spot at which the sounds converge and that about half the listeners are loaded. By the time the sober customers finish shushing the drunks, it will be over anyway and you can go to... [next track listing]" The LP seems to have been issued around 1959 and features music by The Mickey Leonard Quartet. The record also features Morgan's take on beatnik poetry set to jazz. The bottom of the LP has small print stating, "Be sure to buy the next in this series, "A Yen for Zen," or, "Dirty Sayings of Lao Tse." Around the same time Henry contributed the liner notes to Orson Bean's Fantasy Records LP at the hungry i. The treatise he contributed for Orson was avant-garde to say the least, and you can read the whole thing here.
Henry Morgan's brand of satire is said to have been a direct influence on Mad Magazine. Soon after the famous publication changed from a Harvey Kurtzman comic book into a magazine with the larger than life William M. Gaines calling the shots, Henry Morgan became a sometime contributor (as did comedy iconoclasts Stan Freberg, Bob & Ray and Ernie Kovacs). But even before he ever made a direct contribution, Morgan would play a part in establishing the magazine's mascot. Harvey Kurtzman relayed this anecdote in an interview with The Comics Journal many years after the fact, "The name Alfred E. Neuman was picked up from Alfred Newman, the music arranger ... Actually, we borrowed the name indirectly through The Henry Morgan Show. He was using the name Alfred Newman for an innocuous character that you'd forget in five minutes. So we started using the name Alfred Neuman. The readers insisted on putting the name and the face together ..."
While still a regular on I've Got a Secret, Henry Morgan joined the cast on NBC's very hip current affairs program Monitor. The show sought to provide listeners with something educational and entertaining that television could not deliver. It is often credited with sustaining the entire NBC radio network during a time when radio had already lost most of its audience. Henry appeared as a commentator on the very first broadcast in 1955. He was the Sunday afternoon host of the program from the mid-sixties until the early seventies when he left the country. Listen to parts of a December 1969 episode of Monitor hosted by Morgan here.
As mentioned in the TV Guide profile, Henry Morgan returned to radio on the local level, hosting another show titled Here's Morgan for New York's WBAI-FM. The show had Henry, solo, talking about whatever he felt like for approximately fifteen minutes. One show ran only ten minutes when he decided he "didn't have anything more to say." The show itself ran for a healthy six years plus.
In 1964 Henry signed on to a television show that was, without question, the most appropriate fit for his personality since the end of The Henry Morgan Show. That Was the Week That Was played on American television against all odds. It was the smartest television comedy of the nineteen sixties. Based on a British show of the same name, the American version of TW3, as it is often called, featured the sharpest brains in comedy. The original pilot episode aired in the fall of 1963 and featured, as co-hosts, the odd pairing of Henry Morgan and Henry Fonda. When the program was turned into a series by NBC in January 1964, regular contributors included Morgan, Nichols & May, Tom Lehrer, Steve Allen, Buck Henry, Mort Sahl and Woody Allen. The program touched on political topics never previously made fun of on American TV. The show was mocking American involvement in Vietnam long before the protest movement gained national prominence. Take for instance the lyrics to this song sung on the program by Nancy Ames that make fun of the disconnect between the government's version of events and the reality (with lyrics that were most likely written by Tom Lehrer):
"Here in the American Em-bass-eeee
We're helping the natives out
With famine and drought
We're courting them
And they love us
Beyond any doubt
Leave the windows open, Rob
They're throwing rocks again
You'll get accustomed to the custom
It happens now and then
Get the rickshaw ready, Ralph
They've burned the lim-o-sine
But isn't it nice to know
They used American gas-o-line
Yes, our foreign policy
Is working well
Don't believe all the papers
Things are swell!"
Like the best of television, the series did not last long, leaving the air in May of 1965. Listen to some of the That Was The Week That Was comedy LP on an edition of The Generation Exploitation Podcast devoted to nineteen sixties political upheaval over here. TVparty.com has a video clip of the show featuring Henry Morgan - find it here.
Recently an unaired game show pilot hosted by Henry Morgan has surfaced on the internet. What's the Law? features Morgan presiding over a celebrity panel featuring Joan Rivers, Linda Lavin, Barry Nelson and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. There is no mention in Morgan's autobiography of the taping, nor is there any reference to the story behind the show in any book or website that I know of. All that can be determined is whatever you take from watching the footage - something you unfortunately can't do right now - as it has been removed from YouTube . Regardless, I gauge it's from 1967 or 68.
Morgan continued on television with 1969's My World and Welcome To It, an NBC series based on the works of humorist James Thurber and produced by many of the people formerly involved with The Dick Van Dyke Show. Sheldon Leonard, John Rich and Alan Rafkin were all on board for the show that television historian Rick Mitz describes as "based on drawings, stories, inspirational pieces and things that go bump in the night ... a real gem ... The show had [actor William Windom] walking into an animated, fantasy world. NBC canceled the show after one season, but CBS bought it and aired it from May 1972 until that September." Morgan, who was a huge fan (and drinking partner) of Thurber's, had a supporting role on the series. Morgan's character on the show was based on Robert Benchley, another comedy writer of the thirties and drinking partner of both Morgan and Thurber. You can watch a full episode of the show here.
In the early nineteen seventies, Morgan moved to Canada, spending two years in Toronto and two years in Montreal. Henry had scored a gig doing weekly commentaries for CBC Radio. Morgan was now, for once, working with a public radio station - no sponsors to deal with - no insipid advertisements to interrupt his material. Unfortunately, Morgan was at odds with some humorless producers. He also found the working environment drab and the CBC self-serving. His tenure at CBC Radio ended abruptly the day after a producer, both half his age and with half his radio experience, chastised his commentaries for "not having a beginning, middle or end." The next time on the air, halfway through the segment, he shouted, "THIS IS THE MIDDLE!" Eventually he concluded, "Here we are at the end, as instructed. This is the end. I quit." It was a case of self-sabotage that his former co-star Arnold Stang considered par for the course, "He was a masochist ... When things were going well for him, he would do something to destroy himself." The CBC refused to re-air the episode, as it normally would have, in the Pacific Time Zone. The media phoned notable Canadians working in the United States for their opinions. "He only went to Canada so he could say bad things about the United States," said noted political scholar Monty Hall.
Morgan had kept up his appearances in America during the Canadian period. He would fly to Los Angeles to appear on The Match Game and What's My Line? After he returned to America, Morgan spent the rest of the decade going from game show to game show and acting the role of an all-purpose curmudgeon. Morgan wrote his memoir in 1994, giving him one last chance to lash out at the bean counters, executives and sponsors that had plagued him, real or imagined, his entire career. Sadly, Camel Cigarettes and corporate America would have the last laugh that same year, when Henry Morgan passed away at the age of seventy-eight from lung cancer.
Many the famous name is referenced in Morgan's memoir. Here are a handful of quotes from the book where Henry Morgan tells it like it is:
Morgan on Rich Little: "He's okay. Or was."
Morgan remembers Rudy Vallee: "A wretched pop-tune singer."
Morgan on Garrison Keillor: "He never had a clue."
Morgan thinks of Merv Griffin: "He had no particular wit and no particular charm, but he had an assistant ... a girl ... who had both."
Morgan observing L. Ron Hubbard: "A thoroughly second-rate man who had the great good fortune to live in a second-rate time."
Henry Morgan joins Salvador Dali and other celebrity guests on various episodes of I've Got A Secret.
John Cale of The Velvet Underground makes his American TV debut on Henry's panel show.
Insult comic Jack E. Leonard makes fun of Henry on IGAS.
Henry Morgan as a panelist on To Tell the Truth.
The first old time radio program with Henry's name was a kiddie adventure show from 1932 titled Afloat with Henry Morgan. It had nothing to do with the subject of this article, but was instead a show about the famous pirate.
In the late nineteen forties, one of the most entertaining radio horror programs was Mystery in the Air starring Peter Lorre. The announcer was Henry Morgan. Ah, but not the one we've just explored. When The Henry Morgan Show became popular, the announcer of Mystery in the Air had to change his name to Harry Morgan in order to avoid confusion (people were still confused). Harry Morgan went on to be one of the most recognizable character actors of all time appearing in every television show ever, but most famously as Colonel Potter on M*A*S*H. Last I heard he was retired, but still alive at the age of ninety-two.
LINKS AND SOURCES
America's Freshest Wit Kids His Sponsors: Life Magazine, April 14th, 1947
Situation Wanted: Time Magazine, November 24th, 1947
Everything is Going Down the Drain: TV Guide, August 10th, 1963
My World and Welcome To It: The Great TV Sitcom Book by Rick Mitz (1980, Perigee Books)
That Was the Week That Was - Classic TV Satire of the 1960s! (1981, The Radiola Company)
Henry's Letter from Red Channels: Here's Morgan by Henry Morgan (1994, Barricade Books)
Raised on Radio by Gerald Nachman (1998, Pantheon Books)
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Warm and fuzzy childhood memories, mixed feelings about the joys and trials of filial duty as well as solitude, colour, silk, food and laughter, and annoyance at cooky relatives and the shit that goes on in the name of tradition. That’s what the last few days were awash with, when I travelled down south in Karnataka to my ancestral town Bagalkot for a cousin’s engagement ceremony.
One of the fringe benefits of a year-long sabbatical – you get to attend ceremonies that are not held keeping the US academic holiday schedule in mind! I saw people I haven’t seen in ages – some mercifully the same as they were a decade ago; others depressingly unchanged, still others quite unrecognizable. This was, of course, a mere appetizer; the wedding with the full extended family in attendance will surely magnify all these feelings ten-fold. Here are some snapshots – and there’s more where these came from.
No doubt, all family reunions are inundated with such mixed feelings. But this time I also encountered a literal flood. Since my last visit over a decade ago, much of Bagalkot has been submerged under the backwaters of the Almatti Dam over the mighty Krishna river (which, incidentally, takes its birth in the town where I grew up, several hundred kilometres to the north!). Hundreds of thousands of people were resettled 10 km away – at Navanagar, lit. newtown, designed by fancypants architect Charles Correa. There have been concerns over the quality of resettlement, and there continue to be severe conflicts between different states over the fate of the dam’s catchment areas during periods of low and excessive rain. But the dam did not witness the kinds of protests and politicization that have marked big dam projects in India; folks I encountered seemed excited about the prospects of a newer town in exchange for their crumbling buildings. I wonder how many voices of protest also got submerged along with old houses.
Old Bagalkot, for its part, was not a shining example of semi-urban bliss, and those parts that have remained, stubbornly maintain this feature.
Navanagar, despite being all about right angles and wide roads and long-term planning, is a tangle of electric poles and an overall feeling of malevolent dust that my camera resolutely refused to capture. Sort of like the utter hideousness that is Gurgaon, but for poorer people, with all the flat ugliness and none of the skyscrapers or crass malls. The electric poles were like so many hopeless fishing boats afloat in a dead sea of dry brush. The folks who live there are upbeat about all the possibilities for the town, which is fast growing into a major centre for educational and administrative institutions in Karnataka. Meanwhile, this is what remains of the road leading to our old house:
And this is where the house used to be.
I am not a nostalgia hound, and rose-tinted, sepia-tinted memories of joint family tradition bore me. Set-piece family photos and stories about large meals and festival gatherings always make me wonder cynically about how many women toiled to make endless cups of tea to keep the conversation oiled. But it was still shocking to actually see all the changes, and the old bungalow and neighbourhood, with all its pigs and dust, just gone.
Some classic features of old Bagalkot, however, happily remain – the photos (more here) below are for my dear friend Sepoy. He will be annoyed at the lack of food pictures, but I think these will do nicely in their place:
That’s what popped into my head the minute I saw this photo – a shapeless frog with bulbous eyes at the top, blue because of the cold or because he’s lonely, sidling up to a pretty, purply, plump princess who’s not sure she likes him. This is what October heat and the delirium of putting up two finished objects on the blog after eons will do to you. You anthropomorphize your knitted garments (the frog would become a prince sooner or later, yes?) and weave a fairy tale around them.
Truth be told, these are not mine. As in, I didn’t knit them – my mum did. I added the buttons, and pretty much did the maths on both of them. The Blue Frog is The Thrifty Knitter’s Nifty baby riff on the Cobblestone, but with redone numbers cast on onwards. It was an absolute breeze to knit, with hardly any shaping or finishing. The Purple Princess I sort of did from scratch, trying to feminize the frog and give it sleeves and some flare for a baby niece. The yarn was all leftovers that I brought over from the US for her to make baby things with. The biggest effort was writing down the instructions in Marathi for my mum so she can file the patterns. She is thrilled to bits with the end results – total garter and cotton love!
Instead of the buttons at the side, we put them at the back, and added a contrast border. So she began at the chest with a provisional cast on, knit in garter stitch up to the shoulders, and then picked up stitches at the chest to knit below in stockinette. One rapid increase on the first row gave the gentle frock-like flare. I think it was more effort than necessary – too many ends to weave in at the top, even though it looks okay. It might be easier to start at the neck in one piece with raglan sleeves and then increase at the chest. Hmmm. I might actually try it this way with another sample and write up the pattern in English and Marathi for a free download.
Blue Frog: 100% worsted cotton yarn hand dyed by Laura of Textiles a Mano; no idea how much got used, but it wasn’t much. Size 6 needle. Cast on 120 stitches.
Purply Princess: 1.5 hanks of Brown Sheep Cotton Fleece, plus some purple DK 100% cotton also from Laura. The gauges for both were different, so size 6 needle for the magenta and 5 for the purple. It worked out okay though. Also cast on 120 at the chest, and increased to 160 for the flare.
I know you’re squinting at those umbrella buttons, so here’s the obligatory macro shot:
While we’re on the fairy tale theme, it’s amazing how all it took was a blog post for my own knitting fortunes to turn around. Thanks for all the suggestions and encouragement – I first ripped out the Aran Cardigan and suddenly, out of nowhere, I remembered an old project that I had snatched the yarn from midway to make the Cobblestone. Simple cables and stockinette seemed too dull to knit then, but they practically sang to me now. So, since I last whined to you all, here’s what I knit:
Nice, eh? I can’t put it down, I even knit it in the bus the other day. Am already halfway down the undivided top, and it won’t be long before I divide for the body and sleeves. So I do get my stockinette hoodie after all, but with some needed twist! What’s more, I got the right gauge at 5 spi on size 6 needles, and it will (hopefully) be my desired finished size of 40 inches, without any maths or mods. I haven’t decided yet whether to add the hood, or make a different collar. And maybe add pockets. What’s not to love?
Tomorrow kicks off a series of trips here and there – maybe this will get done soon!
I miss knitting. I have this awful gnawing feeling inside me; first I thought it was my research, which is sort of stalled at the moment for various reasons. I’m having a hard time conceptualizing some of it, which makes it difficult to go look for specific stuff in the archives – and while randomly losing myself in the catalogues is providing unexpected joys, these aren’t enough to tide over my anxiety that I should be More Organized And Have Something To Show At the End of My Sabbatical. Then I thought it was just the usual exhaustion that comes from so much travelling – I just booked a whole lot of tickets for many more trips over the next few months, and just looking at my itinerary is tiring me out. But it’s not just all this. I’m a bit out of sorts because I haven’t knit anything substantial since May. Here’s what I have to show for my efforts:
One lousy sock, a foot of lace, and some cables. I can’t even bring myself to properly cast on for the second sock, even though the anklets my sister has asked for should not take more than 2 days to knit, really. The lace is, well, stalled, and the cables for the Tweedy Aran Cardigan are so not calling me to extend them even though I know they have the potential to look like Neither Hip Nor Funky’s gorgeous version.
It’s not like I don’t want to knit these. To paraphrase the great George Costanza, it’s not them, it’s me. It has been hot, to be sure, and not really wool-handling weather. But it has also frequently been quite pleasant, and it’s not like my work is keeping me too busy. For some reason, I’m just not picking up the projects and enjoying them. I have actually been helping my mum figure out a couple of simple baby projects, but she’s the one knitting them.
Any ideas on how to overcome this? I so want to get back to it, cause I do miss it. I haven’t been on Ravelry in ages. Sometimes the threads, knitting and non-knitting, seem so distant. Even apart from Big Issues Debate, so much of it is so totally removed from any non-US concerns that it depresses me. Surfing all my friends’ blogs and seeing the gorgeous stuff they are making or queuing on Ravelry is increasing the gnawing feeling, plus after having been off Ravelry for so long there was virtually a deluge of new patterns. I thought of junking the aran cardigan and making something simpler – like I need yet another stockinette hoodie, but maybe it will give me a sense of accomplishment. Any pattern suggestions? Anybody else in the same boat as me (trying very hard not to use the words “knitting mojo”…..)? | <urn:uuid:d3f87f99-6fad-446d-b49b-5ca305ebeb49> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://desiknitter.com/2008/10/ | 2013-05-24T23:32:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705284037/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115444-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959842 | 2,267 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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@linuxstb "it runs on many different devices"- I feel final optimizations still need to be in place. However, we can bring some sense of consistency across all platforms by adopting common UI patterns. Can someone give me information regarding the display options available on B/W players, e.g., for color screen players we can use jpgs, what do we use in case of B/W players? Also, do we support .svg/ .png graphic files? If not, would we, in the future?
@AlexP:"we don't want to remove or hide options"- By default, nothing should be hidden, but I guess, we can atleast give the user the choice to decide what he wants to see/hide? E.g.: my ipod 5 g doesn't support recording and hence I have no use for it, I want to hide it.
Can someone give me information regarding the display options available on B/W players, e.g., for color screen players we can use jpgs, what do we use in case of B/W players? Also, do we support .svg/ .png graphic files?
E.g.: my ipod 5 g doesn't support recording and hence I have no use for it, I want to hide it.
crowded button maps??
It doesn't do much in terms of informing the user(especially a novice user) about the meaning of say, "LS" or "PK1".
These are terms someone familiar with equalizers would know, and it's not really possible for the UI to explain technical details, just like it doesn't explain "bitrate" or "sample rate" for recording users.
Is the manual's description of the graphical equaliser not sufficient?
I strongly suggest that you try out other players using the simulator before making any suggestions.
I always struggle with the idea that something we use frequently should be intuitive - actually I think that the opposite is true - you're going to use it frequently so it is worth your while getting to learn how to use it and be able to use the thing to its greatest capability.Driving a car is hardly intuitive but we almost all take the effort to spend weeks or months to master the user interface, same for the keyboard in front of you now.I don't want a dumbed down useless Rockbox - there's the Original Firmware with its pretty, but useless, pretend GUI for folk that like that.
Tool tips are horrible, they really slow you down and get very annoying.Your ipod video has one of the biggest screens (in fact the biggest of the standard targets) - most do not have plenty of room at all.
Actually, I was wondering about how much of a performance issue would it be if can display a kind of a tooltip which would inform the user about the intended usage/description of the item. Also, I think that space would not be an issue in most players, there's plenty of it available in mine below the equaliser UI. On a side note, a reason why the equaliser is hard to understand could be that it doesn't look anything like a real equaliser would look like! Most of them are vertical as opposed to the horizontal layout in Rockbox.
Good design helps us to understand a product- the user should not have to rely on the manual.
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My peeps, please help us test out this new social networking thing. Twitter is a networking site that will allow people who are linked up with us to get our brief announcements and updates the second we post them.
QuakeCon and BlizzCon are going to be experimental Twitter events for us and we would like you guys to help out! Since there's all this rad stuff going on at these events (gaming, Casting Calls, WoW tourney commentating, more gaming...) and we will be doing live coverage. Twitter will allow us to let people who sign up know about stuff as it happens.
The thing I'm the most excited about is that you can get notices in a number of different ways... IM, RSS, SMS, etc. We can also send them a number of different ways... IM, RSS, SMS, blogs, etc.
Imagine we're in the middle of an MLG tournament, I can just text an update about the team's progress and our friends will all get a text message. The "tweets" are only 140 characters long, so we're not going to overload you, it's just a cool way to keep in touch.
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IMS PhD Admission Requirements
Students may enter the IMS doctoral program after previous graduate training or directly from undergraduate programs. Desirable educational backgrounds include graduate training in any area of business and graduate or undergraduate degrees in areas such as business administration, economics, sociology, political science, mathematics, and engineering. Applicants with other academic backgrounds are considered as well.
Applicants must have an excellent academic record and high scores on the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) or Graduate Record Exam (GRE). To be considered for admission, applicants must score 600 on the GMAT or above or receive comparable scores on the GRE. Although both GRE and GMAT scores are accepted, we strongly prefer the GMAT. The mean GMAT score for admitted students in the Jindal School of Management PhD programs in 2012 was 705.
Competition to enter our program is strong. Since 2005, the IMS program only admits three students per year, who represent 3.5% of the total applicants in general. It is unlikely we will increase the number of admitted students in the foreseeable future. Clearly, our emphasis is quality, not quantity.
Our IMS PhD students are a diverse, energetic, and collegial group who come from China, Germany, Romania, South Korea, Taiwan, Turkey, and the United States. They are intelligent, hard-working, and productive, having accomplished numerous publications year in and year out (see Student Publications tab on the IMS homepage).
During the 2012-13 academic year, we have 14 students in the program, which translates to a student-to-faculty ratio of less than 1-to-1. Students have the opportunity to be involved in ongoing research projects under the mentorship of experienced faculty. The emphasis is on student involvement in research early on in their graduate careers. Close interaction with faculty members enables students to quickly learn to identify and develop research ideas and create their own research agenda.
Students also develop teaching competence under faculty mentorship by teaching undergraduate classes. They teach three sections of undergraduate courses in their four years in the program; this is a relatively light teaching load compared to many other PhD programs’ requirements. Several of our recent students, Ted Khoury, Yasuhiro Yamakawa, and Brian Pinkham proudly won the Best Teacher Award in the “TA/PhD Instructor” category in the Jindal School of Management, indicating that they were the best instructors among some 100 PhD students.
Given the school’s commitment to bringing out students’ best potential, the school has given every student currently in our program assistantships (including tuition waivers and monthly stipends of $1,800 x 12 = $21,600 annually starting in 2010-11). The school expects to continue providing this level of support to every incoming IMS student admitted. In exchange, students work 20 hours per week as Teaching Assistants.
Financially, the cost for admitted IMS students is minimal because our students do not pay tuition. Your tuition is paid for by the school. IMS students are responsible for a small amount of student fees.
Given the level of competition to enter the IMS program, applicants are advised to carefully craft their application essays with two fundamental questions in mind:
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Most of the projects I do for and with Harry take minutes or hours; we are notoriously distractible and not genetically completer-finishers. Not at all. This one however was a monster; it began when Harry was just a few days old, and was finished a year later – at last, Harry’s Ark (with apologies to Noah) is ready for the rains to come!
In the early, fuzzy days of new motherhood I decided I wanted to make Harry a toy that he could play with over a number of years, that would look good even when it was retired to the playroom shelf, and maybe, just maybe, might become a family heirloom and entertain others in the future. I must have been mad; let’s blame the raging hormones and sleeplessness.
I settled on the idea of a Noah’s Ark, as a sort of boy’s equivalent to a Dolls House. My creativity may be strong but my woodworking skills are not, so I searched Ebay for old model boats or half-built and abandoned projects that I could makeover. I found the base for Harry’s Ark this way; a beautifully shaped, nearly complete hull of a boat that was discovered in someone’s late grandfather’s workshop. This gave an added poignancy to the project and I like to think he’d have been pleased to see it finished and put to use. I built the body of the ark using random doll house components bought online (pillars, doors and windows) and balsa wood for the walls and pitched roof. Miniature cedar shingles glued to the balsa create a folk-art style roof, and I used malleable stained glass leading for the roof top and edges.
I added eye-hooks along the hull and threaded a waxed washing line and curtain rings to give the impression of buoyancy aids (amazing what you can repurpose!). A cheap ladder from the pet store intended for budgerigar cages provided the perfect ramp for animals to board the ark. Stitched scraps of hessian filled with rice make good food bags / sandbags, and join straw bales and barrels to make a collection of props for Harry to use when playing. Harry helped me to gather tiny twigs through the winter, which I chopped and glued to fill the roof cavity and add a decorative top to the ark walls. I nailed a tiny model dovecote to the roof and added miniature birds and a weathervane (the forecast of course is always rain but you never know…).
I was determined that this should be a properly usable toy and not an ornament, so designed it to come apart into several pieces (above). When Harry was tiny he played with the base alone, then I mounted it onto castors and added a rope so he could pull it around. Now that he is 2 and more dextrous, he marches the animals in and out of the ark and positions them along the roof, slams the doors and zooms them up and down the ladder laden with buckets and miniature carrots and grain sacks. Being a boy, many animals regularly plunge to their doom in the sea, and the emergency services are frequently required to rescue lost dogs and sheep. Not very biblical perhaps, but great fun nonetheless.
We bought a few pairs of Schleich animals to start him off, which cost a couple of pounds each; I thought that in time this would be a good pocket-money investment, with Harry able to add new animals one (or maybe two) at a time, and find the odd one in his Christmas stocking. With that in mind, I customised an Ikea box using transfer paper, so we can document and then store each new arrival….
The ark is still a work in progress, and I suspect always will be; bits occasionally drop off after vigorous play, but more often additions are requested and made; our next project is a feeding trough and some nets to trawl the ocean; I’m thinking fishnet stockings might be the obvious candidate for recycling here but am pretty sure I don’t have any lying around (not these days, at least…)
What was your best-loved toy as a child, and has it survived? I give our ark a 50:50 chance of longterm survival, but actually it doesn’t really matter – sometimes the very best toys get loved to death and destruction, and that surely should be seen as a sign of their success.. | <urn:uuid:9f4978ae-cd8b-46bb-84b6-582bcd9ba91f> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://katescreativespace.com/tag/noahs-ark/ | 2013-05-24T23:26:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705284037/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115444-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969681 | 936 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
We've been hearing it and feeling it for years: Kansas City is emerging as a vibrant place for the arts and culture. But it took a timely swipe by a prominent spokesman for the arts to turn the subject into an agenda item at City Hall.
Now, the newly formed Mayor's Task Force for the Arts is launching a series of community meetings this week aimed at finding ways to bolster the city's growing image as a center for arts and culture.
The campaign is officially called "Envision Arts & Culture KC," and Mayor Sly James will lead the first meeting, scheduled for 6:30 tonight at ArtsTech, 1522 Holmes St. A total of 25 "brainstorming sessions" will be held through Thursday at community centers, libraries, museums and nature centers. Using feedback from the community, the task force will organize the results and present the findings in a report to the City Council.
Leading the task force is lawyer Mike Burke, a former city councilman whom James defeated in the 2011 mayoral election.
"At the very basic level it's 'Let's take a look and see where we are now,' because the city's policies haven't been examined for well over 20 years," said Porter Arneill, the city's public art administrator and director of the Municipal Art Commission. Arneill, a member of the task force, dubbed the series of meetings a "festival of ideas."
One question to consider is whether the Municipal Art Commission, which was created in 1926, should have a beefed-up role, Arneill said. Its present primary function is to administer the city's One Percent for Art program, which sets aside a slice of new construction costs to fund public art. The panel has 11 commissioners, who must approve any new artwork on city property.
"The body is made up of mayoral appointees, and over the years their primary initiative has been the One Percent for Art program," Arneill said. "The power of that body has waxed and waned depending on the leadership at City Hall. In recent years the commission's role has become somewhat antiquated, and what we're doing now is overdue."
Part of the impetus for re-examining the commission's role was a visit in 2010 by Rocco Landesman, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. Speaking at a Downtown Council luncheon, Landesman observed that Kansas City lacked what many cities have: a dedicated office in City Hall to facilitate arts growth.
One of the goals, Arneill said, would be to identify the logical role of the art commission going forward.
"I think first it would be more clearly defined," he said. "Very truthfully, over the years, because the arts tend to be such a political hot potato and because we have such a generous philanthropic community, it's been easy to push the arts aside."
Burke said the idea of charting the city's future in terms of the arts was discussed even before the mayoral election.
"I've been talking to Mayor James about it all the way back into the campaign," Burke said. "He said, 'Well, you've got a good idea.' The mayor is very supportive. This is his task force. He gets the vision, and he understands the importance for Kansas City's future in doing this task force. My sense is that this is the right time and the right issue to be looking at because it has a great deal of bearing on Kansas City's future."
City government has supported the arts in various ways through the years. Aside from the One Percent for Art program, the city built the $47 million parking garage adjacent to the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. The city also froze property owners' taxes in exchange for renting space to artists in the Crossroads Arts District and has awarded small grants to nonprofit arts groups through the Neighborhood Tourism Development Fund.
But much of the dramatic growth in the arts has occurred without much direct involvement by City Hall. Most of the $300 million-plus required to build the Kauffman Center came from local philanthropists. That's true of the major capital campaigns undertaken by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Lyric Opera and the Kansas City Ballet. The initial emergence of the Crossroads as a gallery district happened independently of any city initiatives.
The growth of professional theater, symbolized by New York productions developed and originally staged by the Kansas City Repertory Theatre and the Coterie Theatre, as well as the Grammy nominations earned this year by the Kansas City Chorale and the Kansas City Symphony in performance with Joyce DiDonato have all helped put Kansas City on the national cultural map.
Those notable examples, Burke said, prove the point: A comprehensive vision for the future of the arts in Kansas City is needed to sustain momentum.
"We've been somewhat spoiled by the wonderful philanthropic community in Kansas City ... in their ability to literally carry the arts on their back," Burke said. "But there are important strategies that need to be carried out by the city."
Burke said the task force would address five areas of concern:
Urban planning: This could include tax incentives to artists as well as assessing the impact of the University of Missouri-Kansas City's proposed downtown arts campus "and what the city needs to be doing in anticipation of that event happening. That's one thing we can get out in front of now."
Getting the word out about the arts: "Sometimes we do better on a national scale than we do regionally and locally," Burke said. "People interact with the arts every day and don't realize it. ... We need to make sure that word gets out in our community, whether it's in our schools or our community centers."
Education: Although most of the established arts organizations have programs in the schools and various forms of education outreach, Burke said the city could do more. "One of the goals of Mayor James is to broaden what's available to children after school and in the summer. Not everybody wants to go shoot hoops. ... There's an ability to do more."
Governance: "I will say the mayor and the City Council and the city manager are very open to new ideas," Burke said. He noted an "outpouring of interest in terms of volunteers for the community meetings. It stretches all over our community, and what we're hoping is we take this energy ... and outline a strategy for the mayor and the City Council that will last into the next decade."
Technology in the arts: Google's decision to introduce fiber-optic cable in Kansas City is a "game changer," Burke said. "I think there's some amazing opportunities for Kansas City as the first in the country with a gigabyte to the home. That opens up entertainment possibilities, and we have app developers in town as we speak working on those issues. I'd love to see an arts channel emanating from Kansas City where you could showcase local artists -- put 'em in the cloud, put 'em on YouTube and have sufficient product that you could have it 24 hours a day."
Arneill said the Cultural Planning Group, an arts consulting agency, has been hired to assist the task force. He said the steering committee has raised $90,000 for the purpose.
Burke reiterated an old argument that he said is still valid: that the arts fuel redevelopment and economic activity.
"The arts are a great redevelopment incentive," he said. "If I lived in a dilapidated neighborhood and I saw artists moving in, I'd be thrilled." | <urn:uuid:5378b78b-a89c-4fbb-b2f7-8afce22403a6> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://midwestdemocracy.com/articles/kc-mayor-solicits-ideas-for-the-arts/ | 2013-05-24T23:26:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705284037/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115444-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972019 | 1,547 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Formula One has been given the go-ahead for a $2.5-billion share sale in Singapore, a source close to the deal told AFP on Tuesday, but analysts said conditions may not be ideal after Facebook's recent disappointment.
Private equity firm CVC Capital Partners, which has a majority stake in the glitzy motor sport's holding company, will gauge interest among investors and fund managers with a view to selling part of its stake at the end of June.
The source said the Singapore Exchange had approved a listing by Formula One, which has been rumoured for the past two months.
A spokesperson for the bourse, citing standard policy, said: "It is not our practice to publicly comment on our dealings with listing aspirants."
Singapore hosts a popular Formula One night race, one of 20 stops on the F1 tour this year, and has a strong fanbase for the sport. This year's Singapore Grand Prix is scheduled for September 23.
An F1 IPO would likely translate into a profit for CVC Capital Partners.
It owns 63.4 percent of F1's business after it bought a majority stake in the racing company for $2.5-billion in 2006.
It would be the biggest initial public offering (IPO) this year in Singapore, which also approved a float by Manchester United in September.
However, the English Premier League football club, which has a massive Asian following, is said to be awaiting better market conditions.
Some companies are looking at Asia's cash-rich markets to raise funds as Europe grapples with a debt crisis and the United States pursues a fragile recovery.
Dow Jones Newswires said order-taking international roadshows would begin in the second week of June.
But the suggested timing of the IPO is considered brave after turbulence returned to global financial markets last week amid renewed fears over the eurozone.
News of the F1 offering, which could raise as much as $3-billion, follows Friday's float of Facebook on Wall Street, which valued the web giant at $104-billion, but saw its shares plunge.
Justin Harper, a market strategist for IG Markets Singapore, told AFP he would be "very wary" of Formula One's IPO under current conditions.
"I think its similar in a way to Facebook, as in you get caught up in the hype and the glamour of Facebook and Formula 1 as well," he said.
While Facebook's debut had been much anticipated it closed a disappointing one percent higher than its opening price of $38 on Friday, before slumping 11.0 percent on Monday.
"Formula 1 might be the same and not have the support within the market for a big IPO," Harper said.
Reports of a possible F1 float broke in March and received a generally cool response among team principals in the sport, many of whom are battling financial problems.
But Caterham team boss Tony Fernandes, the man behind successful budget airline AirAsia, backed the plan, which has been spearheaded by Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone.
"As a businessman I think if public money can improve the sport, and accountability and transparency, then we should go for it," Fernandes told AFP in March.
"I saw some comments where the team bosses said they were against it. I think until we know more about it, it's silly to be against it. Let's hear about it in the open."
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In 2009, Madame Bourgon invites six countries to join the New Synthesis Network (NS6), composed of officials, scholars and experts from Australia, Brazil, Canada, the Netherlands, Singapore and the United Kingdom. Committed to supporting practitioners whose work is becoming increasingly difficult, this network has engaged close to 200 people from more than 24 organizations. Their efforts have resulted in five international roundtables, five post-roundtable reports, and 17 case studies. Collectively, this work has generated significant insights into preparing governments to serve in the 21st century.
The Network’s findings have been captured in the publication of a new book entitled A New Synthesis of Public Administration: Serving in the 21st Century, and is available in print and electronic formats from McGill-Queen′s University Press. Its signature contribution is the presentation of an enabling governance framework that brings together the role of government, society and people to address some of the most complex and intractable problems of our time.
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Soul of Athens
This past spring quarter I participated in Soul of Athens, an annual project that Ohio University’s School of Visual Communication hosts. Some of my friends and I decided to explore the concept of gun ownership. I was assigned to be the still photographer of the group, but got to learn a little more about video/editing. Below is the link to our project and then the link to the official SOA 2012 website. There are some very great pieces that you should take the time to look at.
A link to the video I created with some great people (which can also be seen on the main site): http://vimeo.com/42577171#at=0
A link to the official 2012 Soul of Athens website: http://2012.soulofathens.com/
Here are some extra photographs that I took while hanging out with some of our subjects:
Gary George: A carpet cleaner by day, and living historian by hobby. I spent a decent amount of time at his home in Albany, Ohio, while my teammates shot video and interviewed him. His wife, Terri, and he have a beautiful patch of land with a dog, a bunch of cats and some chickens.
I also got to spend time at Morrison-Gordon Elementary School’s Pioneer Day to watch Gary perform as a living historian.
Suzan Souhrada: A 21-year-old Ohio University student majoring in math education. I got to go to the shooting range with Suzy, which was a blast. She got her concealed carry license when she turned 21, but really just enjoys going to the shooting range with friends when she can. | <urn:uuid:fb4a2644-a4b0-4ea5-b3c7-0c98a88da6eb> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://samowensphotographer.wordpress.com/2012/06/19/soul-of-athens/ | 2013-05-24T23:13:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705284037/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115444-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973864 | 342 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
New A.P.C A/W 2007
A.P.C have not only renovated their Daikanyama Homme Store (see below), but they have released numerous new items on their site today. Inlcuding new denim and plaid shirts. The pictures and info comes from High Snobiety, and you can check A.P.C for more of the new releases and the range… or Honeyee for more on the new Daikanyama fit out. Anyone else get a strange sense of vertigo in their Harajuku store? Those rounded walls! Maybe thats the next store to undertake a revamp? | <urn:uuid:47015ea8-c629-41de-9b4c-e020e5d6b25c> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://slamxhype.com/news/new-a-p-c-a-w-2007/ | 2013-05-24T23:20:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705284037/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115444-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933725 | 130 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Sparrow is our newest foster. She's quite a little dove. A lynx-point Siamese with Tabby markings, she chirrups like a little bird, is teeny tiny, and wants nothing more than to roll onto her back and lick the hand that gives her belly rubs.
She is unbelievably sweet and cute - if she didn't give me hives I'd be tempted to adopt her myself!
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Anyway, my current work in progress is my boys. Yes, River and Tory. You met River in Yes, My Love and Somewhere In Time. Well, he's not done. But this time he and Tory are intent on making a go as a couple. Tory has done more talking to me and River's done a lot more shushing. Brat. Anyway, I hope to have the story done in early 2011 (like late January). We'll see. They've informed me the title will be Permanent. I like it.
I'm also working on a vampire story. Not shocked are you? I wouldn't be.
Kealie and I are working hard on our stories as well and well, those should be ready sometime in 2011. That's the plan anyway. Keep your eyes open. | <urn:uuid:36f77390-37b9-4dcf-9db6-3bb55786fd79> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://theauthormeganslayer.blogspot.com/2010/12/name-change.html | 2013-05-24T23:40:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705284037/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115444-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978264 | 164 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
Minnesota guv gives president tutorial on local vernacular in new web video.
Says his visit is “an honor, even if you’re here just for politics … Don’t be a stranger.”
Welcome back to Minnesota, Mr. President.
Some people think we talk funny here, so I thought I’d help you with some local phrases you might hear.
For example, we say “uffdah.” If you wanted to use it in a sentence, it would be like “You said unemployment would stay below 8 percent and now it’s almost ten — uffdah!”
Also, some Minnesotans don’t like to offend people by coming right out and saying NO, so instead they say “eh, not so much”, like if you asked Minnesotans “Do you like the federal take over of health care?” They might say “eh, not so much.”
And when we’re surprised by something, we say “Yikes!” As in the sentence the “Federal deficit was over a trillion dollars the last two years, and will be next year, too — Yikes!”
I read recently that during your first two years in office, the federal budget increased almost 22 percent. That’s about the same average rate that Minnesota’s budget grew every two years for four decades before I became Governor. It was unsustainable when Minnesota spent that much – and it’s unsustainable now that Washington is.
That’s why, on my watch, we brought the average budget increase down to less than 2 percent annually. This biennium, we actually cut spending for the first time in Minnesota’s history.
It wasn’t easy: We’ve had big fights with the unions to reign in entitlement spending. We passed performance-pay for teachers. We’ve enacted market-based health care reforms, and I said no to every tax increase that crossed my desk.
But if we can control spending in Minnesota — the land of Humphrey, Mondale, Wellstone — and now U.S Senator Al Franken — we should be able to do it in Washington.
Mr. President, thanks for visiting our great state – it is an honor, even if it is just for politics.
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November 27, 1963
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
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Fisher Stevens (born November 27, 1963) is an American actor, director and producer. His most recent successes include the 2010 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for his film The Cove and 2008 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature for his film Crazy Love. As an actor, he is well-known for his portrayals of Chuck Fishman on Early Edition, Seamus O'Neill on Key West, Eugene "The Plague" Belford in Hackers, Iggy in Super Mario Brothers, Hawk Ganz in The Flamingo Kid, and Ben Jahrvi in Short Circuit and Short Circuit 2. His television credits include Frasier, Friends, Law & Order, Key West, and Lost. He recently appeared on two episodes of the TV show Numb3rs. Fisher also has a distinguished Broadway and off-Broadway career spanning nearly 3 decades. He played Jigger Craigin in the 1994 Lincoln Center revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel. He had an early success in the 1982 Broadway production of Torch Song Trilogy playing David, the adopted son of the gay protagonist played by the show's writer Harvey Fierstein, and the original Broadway production of Brighton Beach Memoirs, where he succeeded Matthew Broderick in starring role of Eugene. Throughout his career, he has acted in and directed more than 50 stage productions. In 2010, Fisher co-founded a new media and documentary film company, Insurgent Media, with Andrew S. Karsch and Erik H. Gordon.
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It is usually annoyingly cliché when people say “they don’t make movies like this any more.” But Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? is a film that is hard to imagine being made today, just 32 years after it was produced. Today, this type or international co-production, filmed in at least three major cities, with respected actors from each country would probably be too expensive to recoup its budget at the box office, and studio executives would worry about audience being able to understand all of the accents. Also, this type of sophisticated murder mystery/comedy seems to have lost its popularity. True, there is the Steve Martin revival of the Pink Panther series, but Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? is actually funny, keeps you guessing whodonit, and a great script, and as a little extra sweetener, the cooking scenes are sumptuously filmed.
The ensemble cast centers around Max Vandeveer (Robert Morley) the tyrannical publisher of a leading gourmet magazine, who has assembled the greatest chefs in Europe at Buckingham Palace to make the perfect dinner for the Queen. Then the chefs return home they start to turn up killed, in fact cooked in the manner of the specialties. The dessert chef Natasha (Jacqueline Bisset) and her ex-husband (George Sagal), who is hated by the gourmet set for having made millions in the American fast food market, team up to investigate, and hopefully prevent her death. A key scene, and a very funny one, is when they arrive to a meeting with five of the top chefs in France, all of whom fully expect to be killed at any moment and laugh at the idea that the killer might be after any of the others. “It is an amusing situation,” says a chef famous for his Canard à la presse. “Someone is going to kill the finest chef in France. But tell me my friends, which would be worse: to be killed, or to be passed over?” | <urn:uuid:8ffc14bd-817a-4a2a-bbb5-e66f7532f387> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.alifeatthemovies.com/movie-of-the-day/who-is-killing-the-great-chefs-of-europe/ | 2013-05-24T23:13:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705284037/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115444-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966701 | 420 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
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TRURO — Dick and Carol Spokes carefully made their way down an icy path to Snow Pond on Friday morning with an excitement that only other "ice monitors" might understand.
The air temperature was 34 degrees — not quite freezing, but good enough.
The Cape Cod National Seashore has begun its second year of monitoring ice on three ponds in Wellfleet and Truro, part of a planned, decades-long effort to record the life cycles of organisms and physical features, and ultimately to reveal trends that reflect how the climate and other forces are shaping the timing of these natural events.
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"Last year, we went every week with our little data sheets, waiting to see some ice, and I think one day, it must have been the end of February, we actually saw ice," Dick Spokes said.
The Spokes, both of whom are 70, are originally from Vermont but retired in Eastham, and they're among a handful of volunteers who monitor the formation of ice on three ponds in the Cape Cod National Seashore: Snow Pond in Truro, and Great Pond and Long Pond in Wellfleet.
The study of ice formation is common in northern states, the Great Lakes regions and the Midwest, according Seashore aquatic ecologist Sophia Fox.
For the Seashore, data about the timing of ice formation will also contribute to an existing study of 20 ponds, dating from the 1970s, which looks in part at annual patterns of cold and warm water mixing in ponds and how that affects water quality, Fox said.
The monitoring is also part of a larger, decades-long study that began in 2012 of the life cycle — or phenology — of many Seashore organisms and physical features, such as freshwater wetlands and adjacent woodlands, maritime dune shrub communities, salt marsh vegetation and red-winged blackbirds.
This study will record when natural processes — such as ice forming, flowers blooming or birds migrating — occur, to establish baselines and to understand what trends exist and how those trends might be influenced by larger forces such as climate change.
Much of the phenological data will be added into a national database, as well.
"I have to tell you, though, I don't think we're going to be doing this for 30 years," Dick Spokes, a retired environmental land use lawyer, joked as he drove toward Great Pond.
"We're hoping to make 10," Carol Spokes, a retired nurse, said from the back seat.
This year on the pond off Route 6, snow covered nearly the entire surface of the water. The ice around the edge withstood stamping shoes.
A branch skidded across without sinking. Granted, a few black patches of water were cozy against the far shore. But, no doubt, this was a home run.
"We'll be in what they call Category 4," Spokes said, referring to the highest percentile of ice coverage on the data collection sheet provided by the Seashore.
The monitoring occurs weekly from December through April on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
Volunteers rate the ice formation from a "0," where no ice is visible on the surface, to "4," where 76 percent to 100 percent of the surface is covered with ice.
In 2012, the volunteers recorded 79 observations, with ice reported in 16 of those, or about 20 percent, according to Seashore monitoring and research coordinator Megan Tyrrell.
In those 16, the majority had less than 50 percent ice coverage.
"At no point does it appear that any of the ponds ever completely froze over," Tyrrell said Thursday, about last year.
But, she added, one year's worth of data is not enough to make a connection between ice formation on the ponds and the warming climate.
"The fact of the matter is, that the study of climate requires long-term data sets from which we can determine averages, and that's the intent of the phenology monitoring program," Tyrrell said.
For the Spokes, who belong to the nonprofit Friends of the Cape Cod National Seashore and who helped recruit volunteer ice-watchers, the monitoring is fun.
"The interesting result is that when you walk in the woods, you begin to notice these phases," Dick Spokes said. "You really do. You're going to watch when the first robin appears and when leaves form." | <urn:uuid:fb38ebd3-911d-4788-a563-ffa685c8e031> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130105/NEWS/301050324 | 2013-05-24T23:35:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368705284037/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516115444-00000-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968313 | 928 | null | null | HuggingFaceFW/fineweb |
The Winter X-Games got started Thursday with the Jeep Snowboard Slopestyle elimination round. With an 88.66 on his first run, Mark McMorris finished No. 1, qualifying for the next round, while superstar Shaun White struggled, barely squeaking into the qualifying top eight with a seventh place score of 67.33.
Here is the description of Thursday's event via ESPN:
With months of anticipation finally playing out Thursday under gray skies on Buttermilk Mountain, McMorris posted the No. 1 qualifying score — 88.66 on his first of two runs — while White struggled to land his jumps cleanly and finished seventh (67.33). Neither rider attempted a triple cork, which has fast become snowboarding's most technical and electrifying trick and likely will determine Saturday's champion. Eight of the 16 competitors moved on to the final, with a number of big names missing the cut.
Mark McMorris on his way to his first-place finish in the Men's Slopestyle qualification round. The finals are on Saturday.
"I am just so glad I got the first run out of the way," said McMorris, the defending champion, after coasting through a subdued, but stylish, second run. "Now I can just build on that. X Games is so anticipated. I had more to bring, but it was pretty tough light today. I stuck with my game plan and did the run I wanted to do."
That run included an impressive rail sequence up top with switch and forward tricks, then a jump sequence that featured a cab double 900, frontside double 1080, double wildcat and backside double 1080.
White is a five-time X Games Slopestyle champion, so you can't count him out yet. However, he hasn't won the event since 2009.
Peetu Piironien finished second with a score of 81.33, while rookie Max parrot finished third with a score of 75.66. Last year's gold medalist, Sebastien Toutant, and last year's silver medalist, Sage Kotsenburg were both eliminated. Finals are Saturday.
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Personal information cards were used from 1938 to keep track of who lived where. It is a part of the population registration.
Personal index cards are a great source of information for recent research because they cover the period from 1938 onwards. Copies of personal index cards of deceased people can be ordered for a fee.
Personal index cards were introduced in 1938 to replace the old family-based registration. The municipalities kept personal index cards for every inhabitant. If a person moved to another municipality, his index card was forwarded there. It can be thought of as an 'administrative twin' that follows you around your entire life.
A personal index card includes the following information about a person:
- First name(s)
- Last name
- Date and place of birth
- Date and place of death
- Information about the parents (full names, dates and places of birth)
- Religion (not public)
- Addresses (public if person died at least 20 years ago)
- Information about spouses (full names, dates and places of birth and marriage, whether the marriage ended by death or divorce)
- Information about children (full names, dates and places of birth and death. Sometimes not all children are mentioned, if the children had already moved out before 1938 they are often not listed on their parents' cards).
In 1994, the personal index cards were replaced by the municipal basic administration, that registers the same information in digital form.
Ordering personal index cards
The personal index cards from 1938 onwards are not public to protect the privacy of living people. After a person dies, his or her card or record from the municipal basic administration is sent for processing to the Central Bureau of Statistics. When they are done with it, it is sent on to the Central Bureau of Genealogy (CBG). Usually, it takes around two years for the cards to become available at the CBG.
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“The company was formed in 2008 as a result of the strategic acquisition of GME (formerly known as MOS International) by TSC Group Holdings Ltd in 2007, which includes Ansell Jones (an established brand in high quality lifting and mooring equipment with 166 years of history).”
As Jeff continues, this acquisition provided a number of considerable benefits, both for the business and for its client base: “It actually brought onboard a compelling value proposition to the clients as all engineered mechanical products and drilling equipment activities (early stage design, engineer, manufacture, install and commission) are managed in-house within the group from teeth to tail. This equipment has been supplied to the North Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Europe, West Africa and Asia.”
During its history, TSC has built up a strong reputation for its quality, innovative and reliable products and services to clients in all of the major E&P regions around the world. In fact, as Jeff comments, it is the expertise within the business that sees its clients differentiate it from many of its competitors:
“At TSC Offshore Europe we have a relative lead over our competitors as we have earned a strong reputation for our mechanical handling equipment robustness and simplicity over our competitors. Above all, our mechanical handling maestro, Mr. David Bradshaw was, and still is, the cerebral driving force behind all of our engineered mechanical handling products. Today he is backed by a global engineering/technical team of energetic and meticulous engineers located in the US, UK and China.
“In terms of our experience, we have provided numerous mechanical packages over the last 20 years and have received refurbishment jobs from clients such as Transocean on equipment that we have previously designed, as the applications for the equipment have changed. Also, the established brand name of Ansell Jones, a world leader in high quality lifting equipment, is a stronghold for the Group to leverage on. We are working on improving its overall competitiveness using the Group’s resources, which another of our key differentiators.”
He goes on to explain more about TSC’s current activities: “Our core activities are in the design and production of specialist mechanical handling equipment for the offshore oil industry,” says Jeff. “This includes products such as drill pipe handling systems, casing handling, BOP handling, iron roughneck, subsea tree handling, derrick, kingpost cranes and knuckle boom cranes. We are one of the few manufacturers in the world with a complete suite of drilling equipment product lines and, in addition, we provide repair and maintenance services for a whole range of drilling equipment.”
Naturally, to retain its leading position in the industry TSC places considerable emphasis on continuous programmes of innovation and product development, as Jeff highlights: “The TSC philosophy is 'continuous improvement' in everything we do and we constantly strive to offer market leading products to our clients. To this end research and development is very important to us. We carry out development on our existing product range working with our client base to identify improvements that can be made to our product capabilities. TSC also carries out market research, and through our investment in people and technology we look for gaps in the market that we can exploit and complement our current extensive product range. Due to this investment our clients can expect to see new innovative products entering the market very soon.”
As well as continuous innovation and product development TSC has a full order book at present and for the foreseeable future. For example, as previously mentioned, the business has recently been involved in a considerable rig-upgrade project on behalf of Transocean. “With this project, initially an offshore supervisor was mobilised to conduct a survey of the BOP Skid, CTU, bridge cranes and service cranes for upgrades,” Jeff explains.
“A comprehensive report was then compiled and used in accordance with both internal and client meetings in order to pull together the following scope requirements:
- As requested by Transocean, a comprehensive 66list of spare parts, gear boxes, hook blocks and other related equipment was drafted in order to facilitate the upgrades of 2 x 15Te service cranes, 125Te BOP crane, CTU and the BOP skid on the Constellation 2 Drill Rig. This work is being carried out in order to provide an additional ten years lifespan on all equipment as mentioned.
- Separate to the quotations there will be 66additional revenue generated on invoice for our offshore service personnel. The scope is due to kick off at the end of the first quarter of 2012 and will take approximately one month to complete.
“In addition to this project we are working on turnkey projects for production platforms (Ansell Jones),” says Jeff. “They include a mechanical handling equipment package for ONGC’s B193 AP and B193 AQ platform; a mechanical handling package for the ADMA-OPCO Integrated Development Project, offshore facilities; a mechanical handling equipment order for the Cuu Long’s Su Tu Trang Wellhead Platform; bespoke design and manufacture of the stern sheave arrangement for the Technip flagship pipelay vessel ‘Deep Blue’ (the whole project will be DNV design approved); and the supply of 20 Te hose handling winches for the Petrofac Berentai FPSO.”
With such a large amount of work currently ongoing, and the prospects of future product developments coming to the market, there is little doubt that Jeff is confident about the future for TSC Offshore: “TSC’s vision for the European market is to become the leading supplier of offshore drilling equipment, BOP and pipe handling equipment and offshore drilling equipment services. We will achieve this goal by concentrating on building our service team to ensure we can support our clients with our range of equipment offerings, thus building their confidence to purchase further equipment from the TSC Offshore Group. At the same time we will also continue to offer high quality, competitively priced equipment and aggressively market that equipment to the North Sea with the confidence that we have an industry proven product that is currently operating successfully in other offshore locations worldwide.”
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After a decade of embarrassing missteps and disputes, the Pentagon handed a job-rich $35-billion contract to Chicago-based Boeing Co. to build a fleet of 179 aerial refueling tankers that carries the promise of work for an estimated 50,000 aerospace employees.
In an announcement that took industry experts by surprise, word came down late Thursday that Boeing had bested archrival Airbus and its parent company European Aeronautic Defense & Space Co., or EADS.
The fight between Boeing and EADS was bitter and hard fought. The lucrative tanker contract is believed to be the last new major Pentagon purchase for years to come.
"Boeing was the clear winner," said William J. Lynn, deputy secretary of Defense, in making the announcement. "We went through a process that evaluated war-fighting requirements, evaluated price, evaluated life-cycle costs. And the process yielded the result it did with Boeing winning."
The question on everybodys mind is will EADS appeal the decision.
Source: Los Angeles Times
Gravity always wins!
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The beer is on me. From 6pm onwards at Jurys Hotel, Eastern Perimeter Rd Heathrow London, on May 13 2011. Seeing the gain in my Boeing shares I need to spend the spoils of the tanker competition on beer for all of you, come all come one and have a good time with friendly banter and tanker talk etc.
When I drink a Bud it always reminds me about making love in a canoe... it is f...... close to water .(Monty Python at the Hollywood Bowl)
I am sure the bar at Jurys Hotel has beer for everybodys palate.
That Bud comment is perfect. What's closer to water is Bud Light.
To all "posters" on the Tanker issue. The offer for free beer (for all posters) on this issue still stands, the details are below
The beer is on me. From 6pm onwards at the bar, Jurys Hotel, Eastern Perimeter Rd Heathrow, London, on May 13 2011. Seeing the gain in my Boeing shares I need to spend the spoils of the tanker competition on beer for all of you, come all come one and have a good time with friendly banter and tanker talk etc.
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