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I thought I'd do a bit of a round-up of my spinning, which has been a huge force in my creative life this year. I've completed some big projects that I'm really, really proud of, and I think they're worth sharing.
I'm going to start with the easy stuff: my Tour de Fleece spinning. Obviously, most of this is from July, but some was finished pretty recently, so I thought it'd be good to share. When the Tour was coming around, I realized that I had a bit of a club finer backlog. I spent most of the spring working on a pound of white fluff, which meant that my club packages didn't get spun at all. I decided to join up Team Into The Whirled for the third year running, and worked on getting some of my Fluff Stash into Yarn Stash.
Colourway: "24 1/2 Century" on Falkland
Stats: fingering weight, 348m/111g
Colourway: "Mud Bogs and Moonshine" on Corriedale
Stats: closer to sport weight, 240m/118g
My last spin started during the TdF, but due to a variety of circumstances I had to put it on hold for most of August, and actually just finished it this month. I started a fairly ambitious spin near the end of the Tour, mostly because I just wanted to get it started and was excited about sharing it. I'd been planning some kind of combo spin for a while, and inspired by [TKbrenboone]'s magnificent spinning, decided on a three-ply gradient.
The way this works is: one starts with two colour ways, and splits each into six. Then, spin four three-ply skeins with gradually shifting proportions of each colour way. So if one is A and the other is B, the skeins would go: AAA, AAB, ABB, BBB.
This is "Stay Shiny" and "Captain Tightpants," both on merino/nylon.
Stats: light sport weight/heavy fingering-ish weight (16wpi), 3-ply. Total yardage of all four skeins is 594m/234g.
I'm really into this last batch, and curious about how it's going to knit up – I think it'll end up quite muted and "muddy," with some subtle colour changes, which might lend itself well to a fairly plain shawl or scarf, or maybe a sweater yoke.


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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Episode # 327 - February 21st, 2012
Kyle's B&B Fan Page on Facebook, to keep in touch with the B&B... get updates & tidbits about the B&B guys, and share comments with other readers! Just click here!
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Please, PLEASE let Breyer go through with this! Watching him work in a jockstrap would make me so happy!
- Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 7:13:00 AM EST
breyer only has ONE jockstrap ?
do men who wear jockstraps only have one ?
- Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 8:55:00 AM EST
I'm sure he has more than one. I rather he not do it. What about his brains? What about being a handy man?
- Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 7:28:00 PM EST
Yes, I, too find it strange that Breyer only has one jockstrap. I have three and I'm not really a jock. I'd love to see him as a "Jockstrap Maid" or semi-nude housekeeper even if it's just a one time thing. Kyle is a bit of a prude so he will probably object strenuously(roll your eyes). I'd like to see it happen despite how annoying Kyle's reaction may be.
- Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 9:04:00 PM EST
richard is so one track .
even a job has to be sexual in nature in his mind. ho hum. breyer can make some coin but does he really want to do it that way?
- Tuesday, February 21, 2012 at 9:31:00 PM EST
- Peter said...
What job is Richard doing, have you ever wondered about that?!
And Kyle... he's already in the mood for St Patrick's Day.
- Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 4:10:00 AM EST
- jnxwil said...
Well, if females can do it, so can males. It is not a new idea.
- Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 3:37:00 PM EST
- Greg Fox said...
@Peter... Richard is a part-time DJ. He also supposedly works part-time at one of the local health clubs... it has never been established WHAT he does there, (although Lance half-jokingly suggested he's the "towel boy").
- Thursday, February 23, 2012 at 11:13:00 PM EST
- Peter said...
@ Greg, I'm sure he's the towel boy and in the mean time he provides other 'hand services' as well. ;)
[A dirty mind is joy forever!]
- Friday, February 24, 2012 at 2:24:00 AM EST
Actually, if one has the body for it, working as a naked houseboy apparently earns almost as much per hour as a rent boy, so the fee is well above the average Consuela. And he won't be needing to constantly ask for Lemon Pledge. :-P
Also, Greg, I am not sure if you'll see this comment, but I used to follow your comic ever since I was in Junior College at the age of 17, and that was twelve whole years ago! It was a time when I was just coming out to a close circle of friends who studied a subject I had great passion for (which was Art) and your comic strip made me long for the day I'd get to meet more cool gay people. Twelve years on, and maybe I've had some disappointments and great memories, and I have to thank you for all the emotional support in those early years.
Sean from Singapore x
- Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 12:56:00 AM EST
- Greg Fox said...
Sean, I did see you comment, and thanks so much.... that really warms my heart! Thank you for following the strip all of these years, and please continue to post and keep in touch!
- Friday, March 1, 2013 at 10:07:00 PM EST
- Sean said...
Aww, a reply! So nice of you. :-) Keep it up, I'm liking the new texan guy, even though he seems a bit too perfect. But Kyle's B&B has always been for me a utopia where gay men, no matter how flawed in certain aspects (and no matter how good-looking), always end up redeeming themselves and making me empathise with them. I wish there were really a gay world that existed just as it is here.
- Saturday, March 2, 2013 at 6:17:00 AM EST


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Ontario is proposing to make it easier for large industrial facilities to use cleaner low-carbon fuels to replace dirty coal, resulting in lower greenhouse gas emissions from their operations.
Steel mills and kiln operations for lime and cement would be allowed to replace coal with low-carbon fuels made from non-recyclable, non-hazardous wastes such as wood and plastics from composting operations and fuel made from biomass such as wood pulp.
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I offered to have a look at a friends digital TV set top box that was faulty. It was a Dick Smith branded unit (G7659?) that appears to be a DTR7100 made by Pacific Satellite.
A web search suggested that there were problems with the power supply. I ignored this information at first. Instead I noticed that the power supply voltages were printed on the main board. I checked them to find that they were all working, but not quite close enough to the stated voltage. I then examined the power supply board more carefully. I noticed 3 failed capacitors next to a heat sink. I could tell that they were faulty because their tops were domed rather than flat.
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Wednesday, 25 August 2010
Memory loss (Dulha Dulhan)
A random Raj Kapoor search on Youtube introduced me to this one. The pairing of Raj Kapoor and Sadhana sounded quite intriguing and I was hooked.
Wouldn't Kapoor look way too old for the pretty, young Sadhana? I wanted to check that out for myself. And the story sounded likeable. Though, a tad patchy in some portions, Ravindra Dave's Dulha Dulhan unfolded as a pleasant tale. And, Agha made the venture more entertaining.
Anyway so Rekha, who is now called Chanda, regains her memory and goes off to Jaipur with her father. Distraught at losing his charming wife, Kumar loses his sleep and sense. Then one day, Bansi brings news that Rekha is actually Chanda and is a rich girl living in Jaipur. Not willing to bite dust about social differences (that a pauper like him won't be accepted by the landlord as his son-in-law), Kumar rushes off to Jaipur to bring home his darling wife. The rest of the film is about how Kumar and Rekha reunite.
There are some questions. When Kumar realises that the girl he brought home is not Rekha, why doesn't he go to the police station? Why does he keep believing this mysterious girl who has no sane answers to his questions? Why does he jeopardise his reputation for a girl who does not even know her own name? This seems wierd. Or maybe, Sadhana'a innocent disposition is too much for Kumar to handle. He loses his power of reasoning. And, also isn't it quite obvious for such unreasonable things to happen in Hindi films?
The ending of the film is incredible. No accident, no slaps, Chanda recalls everything that happened in the three months with a little egging by Kumar's neighbours. That is something hard to swallow!
Yes, Raj Kapoor hardly looks as delicious as he did in Awara, Chori Chori or say Barsaat! But, he was convincing as Raj Kumar, and sweet. Initially leading a typical bachelor life with his friend, he learns to be responsible when this woman storms into his life. And then, he is quite confident to win over her love for the second time again when fate has already taken her away from him. Though his characteristic Chaplinesque gait is back, his back is endearing and warm. It was a very different Raj Kapoor here.
Kalyanji-Anandji's score was tolerably good. You had some pleasing numbers such as Mujhey kehtey hain Kallu kawal, Bane to bane zamana dushman, Jo pyar tune mukhjo diya tha, Jumme ke raat ho and Humne tumse pyar kiya hain jitna (there are two versions by both Mangeshkar and Mukesh).
The comedy is done marvellously by Agha and it was quite pleasing to see him get so much screen space in the film. Everytime the plot became somewhat tedious (and predictable) Agha came to the rescue with his witty dialogues and street smart attitude...
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I tried watching this once, since the plot looked interesting and I love Sadhana, but gave up in the first half hour itself. RK's Chaplinesque antics put me off rather badly, and it looked like Agha and he had more chemistry than Sadhana and he!ReplyDelete
I think this amnesia-after-marriage premise was put to much better use in Door Ki Awaaz, though that was not exactly a great film, either.
- Anonymous25 August 2010 at 22:00
Sadhana was the reason I watched this film - RK's Chaplinesque antics were too pronounced in Dulha Dulhan for me to like him in it! That said, I did like him in the male version of Humne tujhko pyaar kiya hai jitna - there's something very gentle and loving about that song, and in the situation of its picturisation, when he's trying to help her recall her past, and she's completely oblivious... sweet.ReplyDelete
@Bollyviewer: I just wanted to know what happens in the end so I kept at it. Yes, Kapoor's Chaplinesque gait was back and that irked me. Agha was funny. And Kapoor looked way older than Sadhana. She was the only one who was really pretty and good. Will try Door Ki Awaz.ReplyDelete
@Dustedoff: Yes, Sadhana is always compelling. I also liked Pia khichey hue bandhey hue. Sadhana danced so spontaneously. Otherwise a very so-so film.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous26 August 2010 at 00:58
I have been looking for this film ever since I saw Humne tujhko pyaar kiya hai jitna . It's such a beautiful song! And Sadhna is one of my all time fav actresses. Raj does look past his prime here but I wound;t mind putting up with his Chaplinesque gait for Sadhna and Agha. I have a soft corner for this guy.ReplyDelete
Now, since Sadhna is Chanda, who was original Rekha that his friend had written to him about? What happneed to her?
@Sunheriyaadein: She got lost in all the confusion, hahaha. But who cares once you have the charming Sadhana. She is brilliant and does a fine job with Kapoor. I've put the film's link here. You can watch it there if you want :)ReplyDelete
It is a tolerably good film, though with its usual share of flaws ;)
This is what I would call a cute romance with a little suspense thrown in. Very enjoyable, mainly because of Sadhana and Agha though. Sadhana looks sooo lovely with her forehead showing and without those 'hair raising' hairdos. She was truly a great and versatile actress. That fabulous figure and that 'naazuk' voice of hers were big added charms. What a delightful package she was!!!!ReplyDelete
@Himmat: Hello and welcome.ReplyDelete
Well said. I totally adore Sadhana because she leaves a mark in all her films. She is so charming and natural. She is delightful in all the roles she has played. A very convincing actress. This film is engaging because of her mysterious air. And she makes up for Raj Kapoor's goofiness :)
I didn't mind Raj Kapoor in this film. He somehow looked the role - a nearing middle-age AIR artiste living a low-wage existence. In fact, his appearance and demeanour lend just the right kind of depth and contrast to Sadhana's lost-girl innocence in the first half. A prettier leading man (like Dev Anand) wouldn't have had the same impact.ReplyDelete
@Himmat: Hmmm point taken. But I'm so in love with the Raj Kapoor of Awara and Shree 420 that I can't seem to love him in his later films :)ReplyDelete
I have no great love for RK's earlier or later actor avatars :). Though I do think he is one of the best film makers we have had. I re-watched aajao tadapte hain armaan from Awara today. The way the grandeur of the music, the settings, the framing and Nargis's movements meld is simply amazing... mind-blowing! One needs to be a genius to create such a scene.ReplyDelete
@Himmat: You are so right. Raj Kapoor was a genius and a filmmaker much ahead of his times. I also loves his nonchalant charm in Chori Chori. I think he was very good looking, too :)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous9 July 2011 at 20:06
in fact , compared to most hindi movies these days , this movie was far far better and i would watch it maybe 50 times.....- RAMReplyDelete
You cannot be more true Ram!!ReplyDelete


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Faculty: In Their Own Words – Dr. Dan Epp-Tiessen
Dr. Dan Epp-Tiessen, Associate Professor of Bible, has taught at CMU since 1998. What are you teaching right now that you're most excited about? Creation, Environment, and the Bible. Given the ecological challenges this planet faces, we as Christians have… [More]
CMU Professor Releases Book on True and False Prophecy in the Old Testament
Winnipeg, April 5, 2013 – CMU faculty member Dan Epp-Tiessen has released his book, Concerning the Prophets: True and False Prophecy in Jeremiah 23:9-29:32 (Pickwick Publications), which "sheds light on the compositional history, structure, and theology of the book of Jeremiah by… [More]


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Editor's Letter: April 2015
The other day I was chatting about writing this post with Clementine's features editor. Questioning the need for an Editor's Letter, I told her this sort of thing is just not my forte.
You see, most of my career has been spent promoting the work of others. Prior to joining Clementine, I consulted with small creative businesses (primarily female owned and operated) on various aspects of marketing and social media. I have always been most at ease strategizing behind the scenes, creating and often implementing plans to support the endeavors of those I so admire and respect.
Perhaps readers would not miss the monthly note, perhaps it is easier to just go about business as usual and not stop to acknowledge what is happening on the page and the reasoning behind it, perhaps, perhaps...? She stopped me and said, "But Amanda, it is part of the job and something you needto get more comfortable with." At that moment, I knew she was right (we all know Jennifer is wise beyond her years so I am sure this comes as no surprise) and that your own medicine is often the hardest pill to swallow.
So here I am, nervously-yet-excitedly outside my comfort zone, telling you directly - without the thinly veiled protection of an interview or quick tip - that many amazing things are on the horizon, Clementines! And there is so much I want to share….
Today I am introducing our Guest Editor series. In the months to come we will be asking an expert in each of our categories to share their story, sources of inspiration and a few industry secrets (plus an inside look at their days on the Clementine Instagram feed!). I am thrilled to announce that Rebecca Atwood will be our inaugural Home and Living Guest Editor! We have long been admirers of her stunning designs and believe that both she and her work embody the modern simplicity we celebrate at Clementine. There will still be recipes and essays and style picks and beauty tips, all written and curated by our incredible editors. The guest editors featured will simply add their unique voices and insights to our already stellar roster. Please stay tuned because we have some awesome collaborations ahead!
But back to April: we will focus on expanding beyond our self-imposed comfort zones - be it a bold new lip color, a challenging read, adding a splash of pattern to our home decor or simply addressing our everyday interactions with a little more compassion. Though not the beginning of a new year, it is the beginning of a new season – and we all have fences to leap (if we're ready and willing), insights to glean and letters to share...no fooling.
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Smiley nails the Greed Decade with her trademark precision and philosophical bite.
In 1982, narrator Joe Stratford is a divorced 40-year-old realtor in a part of New Jersey just beginning the transition from provincial backwater to upscale suburb. He's a disappointment to his religious parents but "the elected son" of slightly shady developer Gordon Baldwin, whose married daughter Felicity forthrightly entices Joe into a lighthearted affair that turns serious. Into this comfortable existence blows Marcus Burns, an IRS agent turned "investment counselor" who solves Gordon's tax problems with a phone call and immediately starts spinning grandiose plans to make big bucks developing the 580-acre estate of a wealthy elderly couple. "This is the eighties," Marcus tells a skeptical Joe. "Experience doesn't count anymore." Marcus's schemes get ever bigger, financed without a murmur by Portsmouth Savings, whose aggressive new president aims to swell its revenues by taking advantage of S&L deregulation, and Marcus's sister Jane arrives to lure more capital with her knowledge of "all the new investment instruments." It's utterly clear that Marcus is a con man, but Smiley (Horse Heaven, 2000, etc.) expertly conveys his appeal to people quietly bored with their constricted lives. "When someone like Marcus Burns comes around, it makes you realize how local you are," remarks Gordon's ne'er-do-well younger son, one of the many characters drawn with Smiley's customary incisiveness. Marcus is the most compelling, despicable yet oddly vulnerable, tapping spookily into other people's personal longings. As Joe is drawn into his scams, the author unsparingly but with considerable empathy depicts the complicity of a decent guy doing questionable things that give him an alluring sense of freedom and power. Was Marcus manipulating Joe all along? Or did he mean it when he said, "you're about the only friend I've ever had" and just couldn't help himself? Joe has to live with the fact that he'll never know, just as he has to live with the consequences of his actions in a novel that, like A Thousand Acres (1991), acknowledges both the seductiveness of excess and the necessity of limits.
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Celeste Signature Sets Extensive Reforms in Motion
Gov. Richard Celeste of Ohio has signed a far-reaching school-reform measure that provides for the state takeover of academically bankrupt districts, greater parental choice in school selection, an alternative route to teacher certification, and the creation of a new trust fund to support local improvement efforts.
Lawmakers approved the reform package earlier this summer along with a $26-billion, two-year budget that earmarks $6.7 billion for precollegiate education, an 18 percent increase over the previous biennium.
Other features of the reform law include the publication of annual "report cards" on districts' performance, diminished regulation of high-performing schools, a study of the state school-finance system, and mandatory kindergarten attendance.
No Losers or Winners
Education officials say the new law represents an amalgam of reforms proposed in the past year by a gubernatorial task force, two legislative commissions, and the state board of education.
"There were no real losers and winners in this budget," said Robert Moore, the state superintendent of public instruction. "Everybody's interests were served."
Marilyn Cross, president of theOhio Education Association and a member of the governor's task force, agreed with the school chief's assessment. "We're reasonably pleased with the way the bill turned out over all," she said.
"Success," said Carla Edlefson, the Governor's education aide, "was a result of bipartisan interest from the beginning."
Lawmakers rejected Governor Celeste's proposal to fund the reform package by raising the state's income and corporate-franchise taxes by 1 percent. Instead, they financed the proposals by using $340 million in unanticipated state revenues and the bulk of the state's $300-million budget surplus from fiscal 1988-89.
Ms. Edlefson said the Governor has not given up on his tax proposal, which he estimates would raise about $649 million in its first two years.
"People are still writing us letters saying that, 'For all the hullaballoo about education, we still have to ask for local tax increases,'" she said. "But then again, we would never really consider any amount enough for education," she added.
Trust Fund Created
The legislature, however, did retain Mr. Celeste's plan to create an Education Improvement Fund under the control of an independent panel.
The new $90-million trust fund will be operated by a commission that includes 10 state legislators, and representatives of the Governor, the state board of education, and the board of regents, which governs higher education in the state.
Leaders of the teachers' union, meanwhile, were pleased that the reform measure creates a bipartisan panel to study Ohio's school-funding system, which Ms. Cross said allows for gross spending disparities among districts.
The oea and other education organizations, however, did not support the law's parental-choice elements.
Under the measure, districts will be permitted to adopt open-enrollment policies within their own boundaries or in conjunction with adjacent systems. Ms. Cross said she was "willing to live with" the provision because it is voluntary and because choice programs initially will operate on a pilot basis only.
State To Monitor Performance
Most state education organiza8tions supported the law's provisions aimed at making schools more accountable to the public.
Under the law, the state will collect and publish data on district performance in an annual "report card."
The state board will also set performance standards for each district and will monitor its progress.
Districts that surpass the standards will be exempted from compliance with some state regulations. Educationally deficient districts will be required to develop "corrective-action plans," and could be taken over by the state if they fail to make adequate progress to meeting the standards.
The law also establishes a system of "internship certificates" for people who want to teach but have not completed a traditional teacher-training program.
Interns will be allowed to teach under supervision for up to six hours a week in areas in which they have some expertise. After one year, they may apply for a provisional certificate if they have completed 18 credit hours of education coursework and pass an exam and any other requirements established by the state board.
The law also contains a provision requiring districts to establish minimum standards for phonics instruction in grades 1 through 3, and to provide in-service training for teachers in the use of phonics. Districts, however, will not be required to use the phonics method in their reading courses.
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Workers Suffer Electrical Burns
Published: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 - 9:42am
Two men are lucky to be alive after the 40-foot communications tower they were attempting to install, east of Yuma, touched a high voltage line. Alfonso Zavala, of the Yuma County Sheriff's Office, says Jim Bush suffered electrical burns to his hand and lower leg,
"They were lucky that the antenna that they were moving was still touching the ground so it was grounded out with the ground so it did not go through his body," Zavala said.
He says Bush suffered non-life-threatening injuries and is recovering. He says the man working with Bush refused medical treatment.


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Sling television is perhaps the most favorite cable alternative for Watching Oscars 2019 live. Many cord cutters will always consider this as the first option. Sling television streaming depends on the internet, and this means that before you can enjoy that service you must have access to the internet. Secondly, you must use it with a compatible device, as it does not work well in all devices. Fast internet connection is a necessity. You can use it in your most mobile devices like your smartphone, laptop, computer your note, as well as a streaming set box prepared for it. You can watch other important television programs through this network. Sling television streaming is not free. You must have a subscription plan before you can benefit from the setup.
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Fubo is almost the same thing with Sling television. This is because the work on the same principle, and they stream their programs through the internet. It is not free, but you can try it before committing your money. This means that it is another cable alternative. Apart from streaming Oscar events live, you can watch favorite teams play, as well as some interesting network shows, and movies. The channel will provide access to more than eighty television channels. You can have on demand access to almost all the programs that are showed in this country. If you do not have access to cable, you can use Fubo TV.
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NOW TV also streams online. This network is good for those that want to Watch Oscars 2019 live outside the US. Even if you want to use NOW TV inside the US, you can subscribe to it. For those overseas such as Ireland, UK, Italy and so on, can depend on this internet channel for an event like Oscar red night events. It would be streamed live in foreign countries. Even if you are in the US and you do not want to get tied to any contract, you can always opt for this channel.
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Another cable alternative is the PlayStation Vue. This device does not need any console before you can use it. Apart from fast internet connection, it can only work with a compatible device. Vue is compatible with PS4 and PS3 and as the name suggests, the system works with Vue app. It can work well in your computer, phone, and other similar devices like notes. It does not require a cable subscription before you can use it. You have to subscribe to the system before you can use it. It is not free. The device works well with fast internet connection. You can try it free before spending your money.
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Hulu is a great none cable alternative. This is a video website, and it is dedicated to viewing professional contents through the internet. Using your Hulu, you can link with Live television program. Many fans will depend on that arrangement for the forthcoming Oscar award night. Many people in America and outside America always depend on this channel to watch important programs. Watching Oscar 2019 live will not be an exception. Apart from the video option, it streams live television. Hulu offers everything you want. You must subscribe to it. It is not free. Choose an affordable package and subscribe for it.
Watch Oscars 2019 live through YouTube TV
This is another channel you can Watch Oscars 2019 live. You can watch it without cables and it is available for Americans and none Americans. It also depends on the internet and it is the best for cord cutters. You can watch your favorite programs on your computer, laptop, as well as your mobile devices. Before you can enjoy it, you require a fast and reliable internet connection.
The subscription plan is different from what you get in the cable and satellite subscription. It is meant for you to watch it on the go. Moreover, it is possible to watch many channels and during subscription, you can decide the type of channels you want to watch. This determines the payment package. You can enjoy similar services you usually enjoy the cable network. The difference is that this works on the internet. Some of the cable alternatives make it possible to try their system free before they can commit their money.
How to Watch the Oscars 2019 Live Online in USA
You have seen that there are various options available for you to watch Oscar 2019 live in the US. The most popular option remains the ABC. This network has different channels it makes available for you to watch that glamorous event. The first includes the ABC cable and satellite. You can watch it live with your usual cable and satellite subscription. This is the most convenient option for many people. Other options include ABC app and ABC.com streaming service.
Apart from ABC network system, you can Watch Oscars 2019 live through the internet. There are different internet options and some of them were reviewed above. They include the Sling television, Hulu Television, DirectTV and YouTube television and several others.
Usually the program starts by 8.00pm eastern time. Americans that have ABC subscription can just switch on their television and begin to enjoy the program.
Secondly, you can watch it through the ABC app as well as ABC Go. Most importantly, ABC.com fast internet network is the best channel for those that do not want a cable subscription.
Since ABC is not available in all parts of America, it is possible for those who do not have access to such stations to watch their programs through ABC.com. This is an internet option for those who do not want to use the cable network subscription plan.
American fans can watch Oscar 2019 events live through the normal satellite cables, as well as through online channels. Cost, convenience, and availability will play important roles in determining the best option.
How to Watch the Oscars 2019 Live Online From Outside US
If you stay outside America, it is still possible for you to watch Oscar 2019 events live. However, you will not watch it through a cable subscription. The event will be streamed live through internet channels. Look for the reputable online channels to choose in your country. You can choose a plan affordable to you.
The choice you make will depend on the availability of the internet and the cost of subscription. ABC channels remain the only solution, but those other channels will stream the events live through ABC stations.
For those in Canada, they can watch Oscars 2019 live through CTV network. This system offers wall-to-wall coverage of the program. Apart from that, many Canadians can watch it through the e-talk.
For Australian fans, the program will be available to them through the Nine Network. This is the second most popular network in the country. This channel has the exclusive rights to telecast the program live, and if you are in Australia, you can enjoy this program. Nine will cover every part of the event, you will enjoy the streaming in Australia.
South Africa
Even those in South Africa will not miss the opportunity, because Oscar 2019 can be streamed live to them in their living room. Pay television operator known as the M Net will show the program live. They have a special arrangement with ABC to telecast the event to South African fans.
Latin America
Those in Latin America countries of Mexico, Caribbean and other countries in South America, will watch the event through TNT. The event will be telecast through different languages. Irrespective of the language you speak, you will be able to watch the program live in your home. You have to select your language and watch the program live.
United kingdom
Hollywood has lots of fans in Ireland and United Kingdom. The program is going to be available to them through the Pay Television. Sky channels will be televising Oscars 2019 live to British and Irish fans. The station is known to broadcast lots of Oscars winning films in the past. They will like their subscribers in UK and Ireland to watch the award-winning ceremonies.
Even fans in Germany will Watch Oscars 2019 live through Pro7. This is a commercial channel. All these channels will bring the live program to all their customers.
Irrespective of the part of the world you reside, you can become part of the most glamorous Hollywood night event. This year's event promises to be the best with lots of side attractions planned for the night.
Oscar Predictions 2019
Many events are lined for the night. Various awards will be made and already people are making predictions on who will win what. Best candidates fight it for the most prestigious awards. Some acclaimed performers such as Robert Redford (Old Ma and Gun), John C Reilly (The Sisters Brothers) are some of the possible Oscar predictions.
Apart from these notable performers, other likely frontrunners for the Oscar award are as follows:
Bradley Cooper (A Star is Born),Christian Bale (Vice),Ryan Gosling (First man), Willem Dafoe (At Eternity's Gate), Viggo Mortensen (Green Book), Rami Malek (Bohemian Rhapsody), Hugh Jackman (The Frontrunner).
Best Movie
The best picture awards could be given to the following movies and they include:Black Panther, A Star is Born, BlacK Klansman, Can you Ever Forgive Me, First Man, The Favorite Widows, Roma, If Beale Street Could Talk. You can also check out the Oscars 2019 predictions in details.
Best Director
The award categories include the best director Oscars predictions. Many people are thinking that a woman will make it and the likely winner in this category is Marielle Heller who directed the movie Can You Forgive Me. Other predictions in this category include Karyn Kusma and Mimi Leder and so on.


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Pretty surreal, all this. Look at them. He has the hardest job in the world. She is recovering from radical surgery for cancer. He will be 62 in July, she 57 in April, but there they are beaming on the balcony of their new house, like carefree juniors at a prom. Tennessee Ernie, also surnamed Ford, is serenading them below. Television cameras whir as he sings "Anniversary Waltz"—hardly a tune to make liberals hark back to the days of Camelot, but an apt one all the same. Elizabeth Bloomer married Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. 26 years ago Oct. 15, and was a dancer before she ever heard of him.
More than three decades ago, she danced on the stage of Carnegie Hall, in the troupe of the exalted Martha Graham, but it's been a good while since she has appeared in leotards. Now her style is more ballroom: tangos and waltzes. When the Prime Minister of Israel protested, as the music began after a September state dinner in his honor, that he didn't know how to dance, his hostess reassured him: "That's all right, I used to teach dance. I'll teach you now." She did, too.
Nobody thought she would take so readily to White House life, this 38th First Lady of the Land. She publicly hoped not long ago that her husband would at last retire from Congress, so that they could have some long‐postponed, nonpolitical time to themselves. "Alone at Last!" she wrote in wistful jest across the back of a snapshot of the two of them, taken at Disney World in Florida just after the Miami convention hall had rung with shouts for "FOUR MORE YEARS!" of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew.
On the night 14 months later when Gerald Ford was named to replace Agnew, he asked a neighbor to "see if you can get some food in Mommy's tummy." Mommy, whose lifelong dream all this most assuredly was not, sighed and said, "Well, if they just wind me up and point me in the right direction, I'll be there."
But she rallied. The way things turned out she wasn't a robot at all. She was more like Cinderella. Onstage again, after 26 years of wifely obscurity and motherly sacrifice, it was as if she were picking up where she left off when she said good‐by to Martha Graham. "It's her turn now, bless her heart," said one of Mrs. Ford's friends, "and now that she doesn't have to worry about things like whether the beds are made, she's loving it." After a while, she even got used to the omnipresence of Secret Service agents, grim‐faced companions charged with shielding her from all external harm. Not cancer, though. Cancer was beyond them.
Two hours before Betty Ford checked into Bethesda Naval Hospital, she had Mrs. Lyndon Johnson and her daughters to tea so they could see the house they used to live in. They had no idea where their hostess was going next. "We were stunned when we found out," Lynda Robb said later. So was everybody else. The next morning's announcement that Mrs. Ford's right breast had been found malignant and removed shook the nation as much as any event since Watergate. "I was astonished bow much I cared," wrote a male historian from Iowa. "I was as shocked as I'd earlier been by the Revelations, the Resignations and the Pardon."
In less than two months, Betty Ford had unobtrusively become a myth. "She seems to have just what it takes." observed Marshall McLuhan, who is skilled at observing such matters, "to make people feel at home in the world again. Something about her makes us feel rooted and secure—a feeling we haven't had in a while. And her cancer has been a catharsis for everybody. Cancer isn't just a disease, you know: it's a speeded‐up, hotted‐up, intensified form of life. Our lifestyle creates the ideal climate for it. All of us play Russian roulette with cancer, whether
"Maybe my having it," Mrs. Ford muses, "was a blessing in disguise." Maybe so. If she achieved nothing else during her husband's Administration, the light her trouble has shed on a dark subject would be contribution enough. The Cancer Society had been one of Betty Ford's causes before the disease struck her. Causes have always meant more to her than card‐playing luncheons. No man in the 81st Congress had a more energetically public‐spirited wife than Jerry Ford. Her interests ranged from the International Club, not a favorite among Midwesterners, to fashion shows. "Don't ever say no if you're asked to model in a style show," she once cautioned another Republican wife, "because the Democrats always pitch in. We must, too." She knew a thing or two about Democrats. Her social life had centered on, but by no means been confined to, the elephant‐filled living rooms of the Grand Old Party's Chowder & Marching Society. "I've often been tempted to split my ticket," she said a while ago—not an admission you'd expect from the wife of the House Minority Leader.
Dwring her televised serenade, Mrs. Ford wore a convalescent's bathrobe. She was smiling, and her reddish hair was well‐coiffed, but her face looked worn. The tendons on her throat protruded. She looked for all the world like the most ordinary of women, the sort you might find lined up with a loaded cart at a supermarket's checkout counter, or bringing a stuffed toy to the brand‐new baby across the street. In many ways, she is ordinary, well‐schooled in the Midwestern arts of assuaging and consoling. Her thankyou notes are prompt and heartfelt. Nice gestures come naturally. "I think I ought to call Pat," she told one friend just before Nixon resigned, "to tell her we aren't all just waiting in the wings for them to move out."
"Betty Ford was nice to me," recalls the ex‐wife of one controversial Senator, "when other people weren't. But she's not just nice." No. The merely nice bypass the truth when it makes them or anyone else edgy, and that's something Betty Ford doesn't do. She never has. "I just don't know how to lie," she has told reporters. When the President promised "straight talk among friends" in his inaugural address, he was speaking at least as much for his wife, whose low‐key candor quickly surpassed his own. She was full of surprises, this kindly matron from Michigan. It turned out she supported the Equal Rights Amendment, of all prickly issues, and had been divorced, and thought there might be time to abort (in cases of rape and incest, say) as well as a time to refrain from aborting. She saw no reason why women shouldn't be priests or Presidents, and further reckoned, when someone asked, that her children probably at some point must have tried marijuana.
When Tennessee Ernie came to the line "Angels were singing a hymn to your charms," the First Couple kissed each other as if they meant it. They need no workshops in nonverbal communication, these two. "Isn't it nice the way they touch each other?" asks a Congressman's widow who has known the Fords for decades. "They hold hands whether or not anybody's looking. Their lutes are in tune." Not to say that there isn't occasional discord. "She gave me a hard time about a couple of things," the President told newsmen after one evening's visit to Bethesda, "so she must be feeling
"I don't hesitate to tell him when I disagree with something he's done or said," Mrs. Ford said, "unless he looks as if he's had a hard day. When he looks that way, I wait. You get so you notice things like that. A sense of timing is pretty important if you love somebody." And there was the business about their bed. One bed. As soon as the Fords moved into the White House, she let it slip that, contrary 'to custom, she and her husband meant to sleep, as they always had, not only in the same room but under the same blanket. This morsel of homey news was generally regarded as cheering, "but one woman wrote in," the First Lady laughed, "to say she thought it was disgrace
She was showing me around that very bedroom in what one veteran Washingtonian calls "the world's most elegant railroad flat." Here were the weights her husband lifts to keep in shape, there the hated Exercycle he must now use in place of the swimming pool they left behind in Alexandria, there a picture of his mother as a young woman, there one of their only daughter, Susan, as a baby. Upstairs was the billiard room, from which the clonking noise had recently been muffled with a new rug. ("At first," she said, "we thought it might be Lincoln's ghost.") Downstairs, in plain sight, was the Oval Office where her husband was working. "It's funny, but I see a lot more of him now than I did before we got here," she said. "I can call him whenever anything important happens and he'll come right up—but I'm not the sort of wife who tends to do that.
"Jerry's a morning person," she said, "and I'm not at all, so sometimes I ask him if he'll flick on the light just as he leaves, to wake me up. When we moved in here and he did that one morning, the light he flicked on was a chandelier!" And she told how vexed she had been, just after they moved, not to find the atlas. "What do you mean it's in storage" she recalled asking. "How can I get along without an atlas and a globe?"
On a coffee table were Celebrity Register — not a book she probably read much before she moved in—and an issue of Town & Country. She also had a copy of a book I had written and sent, in which she graciously asked for an autograph. Even more graciously, she agreed to fetch some White House stationery and on it wish a happy 12th birthday to my nephew, in a hand amateur graphologists later pronounced "conventional, but determined." (My nephew thought it was terrific.)
Except for summer dance sessions at Bennington in Vermont, Betty Ford never went to college, but her mind is curious and well‐informed. When she and Mrs. Hale Boggs accompanied their husbands on an official visit to China, they insisted on having their own separate briefing session "because we didn't want to get it all second‐hand from the men," Mrs. Boggs says, "or to arrive there and have nothing to say but 'Oh, we just adore Chinese walls!' Betty was just fascinated with everything."
"Jerry's always turned to Betty for the sensitive point of view," an old friend says. "He's often said she was the smart one when it came to politics because she sees the forest instead of the trees." "She's no dummy," adds another friend. "She's smart enough to have raised four children to be a credit to them, and have a husband who's still in love with her after all these years. In this day and age, I call that not only smart but practically brilliant."
In China, acupuncture especially interested Mrs. Ford. She figured it might help her neck. A pinched neck nerve, before cancer, was her severest medical problem. It had nagged for years, causing chronic pain at the base of her skull. There had been talk of surgery, but that talk made her shudder. "The incision would have to be made through the mouth," she said, "and chances would only be 50.50. Acupuncture might be much easier. In China, I watched eight different acupuncture operations, including one for an ovarian cyst" where the girl drank tea the whole time.
"Would you like some iced tea now?" Try though Mrs. Ford did to make this encounter natural, it was uphill work. You don't just drop in at the White House. You first make a dozen or so logistical phone calls and then, when you arrive at the gates, you are quizzed, all but X‐rayed, photographed, bedecked with a plastic badge and passed upstairs by a string of pert aides who probably mean to be disarming, but who I kept thinking were going to thank me for flying TWA. Spontaneous it isn't, not even in the Ford Administration. The Hotel Europa in Belfast is easier to get into, and the Vatican might be more cozy.
The simplest event on Betty Ford's schedule must now be orchestrated like an audience with an emperor. In East Wing argot, even a quick hello to a Salvation Army fashion luncheon in a Washington hotel ballroom becomes a "Drop‐by," with mimeographed instructions to be gone over in a three‐car motorcade: "12:55, down 20 steps. Turn right. 12:58, remarks. Press opportunity. 1:03, conclude remarks. 1:05, up the same 20 steps. Depart."
If she walks into such a scene with her husband, a band plays "Hail to the Chief." If she arrives alone, she must affect delight at the opening strains of "Betty Coed Has Lips of Red" or, in homage to the President's alma mater, "Hail to the Victors." The Fords are victors, all right, without ever having fought a Presidential battle. One of her size 6 gowns will one day hang in the Smithsonian, along with those of Dolley Madison, Mary Todd Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt and all the rest. Her name will automatically topple Golda's or Coretta's or Ethel's or one of the other stand‐bys from the next annual list of Most Admired Women.
"Kings and queens have always focused people's feelings," says the anthropologist Margaret Mead, "and since we're not very far from a monarchy, the President's wife, whoever she is, has little choice but to serve as our queen." Maybe Richard Nixon had something when he called us a nation of children. Watching Mrs. Ford become First Lady, it was as if we were all siblings with a new stepmother to get used to. For her part, like it or not, she had to learn to become an icon.
There's a souvenir shop at the corner of F and 15th Streets in Washington that still features postcards of the Nixons — he grinning, she tight‐lipped—but it won't for long. The icon machine works fast. Back on Crown View Drive in Alexandria, the Fords' former neighbors are already busy laminating their clippings of the peculiar time when Secret Service agents and big‐name newscasters walked among them. Crown View Drive, if it could somehow be shrunk and freezedried, would make a perfect diorama for some future museum of suburbia. Only the Virginia license plates in its driveways distinguish it from streets on the outskirts of Houston or St. Paul or either Portland. Its mortgages are held by decent citizens who seem now out of a John Updike novel, now one by Sinclair Lewis. They prefer homemade cookies and even homemade ice cubes to the store‐bought kind, and never weary of telling how wholesome, natural and, most of all, how normal a family they lost when the Fords moved away. The way they say
The Fords do personify that threatened species, the nuclear family. It is chic and in some quarters thrilling to foretell the doom of such families, but even Simone de Beauvoir, in all her wisdom, cannot think how to replace them. While they last, they transfix and reassure us. To the televised adventures of the Waltons, the Bunkers and the Louds, we now can add those of the newly mythologized Fords, about whom no folksy bulletin is too trivial to broadcast. We crave, or some of us do, to hear how Steve, that rascal, once picked his mother up and carried her all over the Crown View house, a house which had no dining room, and how he and his older brothers ("all male chauvinists," their mother supposes) discolored their laundry by mixing Jeans in with
Steve, who is 18, wears torn Levi's and drives a yellow jeep, and decided to stork for a year on a Utah ranch before beginning college. Michael, at 24 the eldest, is the divinity student in Massachusetts whose new bride, Gayle, looks blond enough and healthy enough to have been a Ford by birth. ("I know about all the rumors that Gayle's pregnant," the First Lady says, "but those rumors are news to Gayle and Mike. Oh, well, I guess Julie and Tricia never had a moment's freedom from that sort of speculation, either.") Was it Mike who told how "Dad always taught us to be good stewards of our bodies," or was it his brother John? Jack, as the second son is called, is 22 and learning to be a forester at the University of Utah. "He's a deep, thoughtful person," his mother says, "who likes to spend a whole day by himself in the wilderness. All our children were brought up to think independently, the way
"I was the third child and only girl, spoiled as perhaps we spoil Susan. Her brothers don't, though. They're very protective, they want to know what she's up to and with whom. Sometimes they've asked, 'Is she still going out with that ...?'" Susan, the most relaxed White House daughter since Caroline Kennedy, seems to be taking the advice of Alice Rousevelt Longworth, who also moved in at age 17. Mrs. Longworth sent Susan a message to "just have a hell of a good time while you're there."
Susan is, Apart from giving up babysitting, which she often did In Alexandria, she leads as normal a high‐school senior's life as any 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue resident could hope to, and will have her class's senior prom at the White House. She denies that the family's move has changed anybody. Mrs Ford, she said fondly toward the end of one state dinner, is "still the same old Mother." Only briefly was Susan called on to replace the First Lady at affairs of state. At one white‐tie reception during her mother's convalescence, when there were hundreds of diplomatic hands to be shaken, the girl stood gamely by her father and shook them with such aplomb that a photographer remarked, "Susan, wonderful!"
"That," said the President, "is the way she was brung up."
"Don't you take all the credit," replied his daughter, with some reason. In the years when his children were growing, Ford was "away right much," as a family friend tells it, obliged to go off 200 nights a year to help keep Republicans in Congress. "I like to travel, too," Mrs. Ford says, "but not the way Jerry does it. He feels he's got to go up and down as many times as the airplane can stop." Even when he was home, they were sometimes expected at official functions as many as 14 nights in a
"But Betty's a good egg," as a friend says. "It's fun to razz her. The last place she'd ever want to be is on a pedestal." At birthday parties in those days, there were joke presents, like funny bathing suits and the alarm clock Mrs., Ford once got, tied to a string, to twit her for her unpunctuality. There was that holiday at Disney World, after the convention, and a lot of afternoons watching the Superbowl with friends. "They were over here to see the Dolphins cream the Vikings," recalls Barbara MacGregor, wife of the former Minnesota Congressman who managed Nixon's 1972 campaign. "Jerry'd just as soon have watched the game at home, but Betty wanted to come. Oh, we've all had some wonderful times. Don't you think she's
Sometimes there were sorIties, never for very long, to Caribbean beaches, and once to Hawaii. Always the family had its two‐week Christmas reunion at its condominium in Vail, Colo. In the Fords' case, the bromidic old joke —"my wife likes the seashore and I like the mountains so we compromise and go to the seashore"—is reversed. That's not the way Betty Ford was raised,. Her generation's credo was: If he likes the mountains, go to the mountains. If he's a politician and you don't much care for politics, smile.
Smile she did, but she also ate and drank too much, gaining 20 pounds. Later, she dieted off not only those 20 but another 10 as well, becoming so thin that one alarmed friend kept bringing over an Adelle Davis potion called Pep‐Up. "Pep was what Betty needed, all right," a neighbor remembers. "It must have been very rough for her ali those years, with Jerry gone so much and four kids pulling her in four different directions. They 'had a housekeeper five days a week, but it was still Betty who had to get everybody to Scouts, Sunday school, football practice and doctors' appointments."
Some of the doctors were her own. The pinched neck nerve wouldn't go away. It kept her on tranquilizers and off the slopes at Vail. "I tried skiing with a whiplash collar on, and it wasn't so bad there on the mountain, where I always had to be watching out for icy slopes and moguls, but the next day it would hurt terribly." Thinking the tension might be psychosomatic, she sought the help of a new kind of doctor.
"I saw my psychiatrist once a week, at the most, for a period of a year and a half. I didn't lie on a couch or anything like that, I'd just sit and talk, and it seemed to help, too. After all, if you have an abscessed tooth, you go to the dentist, don't you? This was during the time when Jerry was away so much, and I needed a sounding board to talk to. Somebody had to tell me what that doctor did: that I shouldn't just live for my husband and children but ought to do something for myself, too."
She tried. She signed up for modern‐dance lessons and did what she could to avoid metaphorical moguls at home. When the children provoked her, she mixed discipline with affection. "I tried to remember how, when I was their age, I'd pull the same wool over my parents' eyes." An ashtray‐emptier by nature, she recalls "a sort of turning point in my child‐rearing philosophy when the boys were little and ran their toy cars all over a favorite coffee table I didn't want scratched. decided it wasn't worth it to worry over that—you can always buy new furniture, but you can't replace your chil
Not one for vivid syntax, Mrs. Ford volunteers that her favorite tea, for all the efforts of a brother to convert her to more exotic brews, is Lipton's. Her favorite flower is the Peace Rose, and the hymn that stirs her most is "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," especially when sung by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. (A number of the Fords' best friends seem to be Latter‐Day Saints.) Her own faith, low church Episcopal with no incense, runs deep and strong.
"I have a son who thought he was an agnostic," she says —as bemusing a notion, to the First Lady, as if the lad had toyed with a career in haruspication. The morning doesn't go by but what Betty Ford spends at least 20 minutes studying that day's recommended scriptural passage in a pamphlet called "Forward Day by Day." Most mornings the passage is apt enough. On Sept. 27, for example, the eve of her radical mastectomy, the verse was "Thou has turned my laments into dancing." The next day it read "Be strong and take courage." But on Aug. 9, when she became First Lady, the verse must have given her pause. What it said, in the prose of the Living Bible she prefers to the King James version, was from Psalms 39:1: "I will keep a muzzle on my mouth." A muzzled mouth is her
"That's what I've found most refreshing about her," says Nancy Hanks, chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts, who has been conferring with Mrs. Ford about projects she might officially support, particularly those involving underprivileged and handicapped children. "Her approach is solid and very American, without being in the least provincial. Her style is not to teach people to love and revere American arts and crafts, but to show them, by her own example, how important these things are. And whenever mention something she's not well‐versed in, like regional differences in pottery or weaving, she'll stop me and say, 'Now just a minute, what in the world are those differences?' She's never for a moment pretentious. What she thinks, she says."
Representative Shirley Chisholm, whom few would regard as a likely soul sister of the First Lady, commends Mrs. Ford for her candor, as do such disparate others as Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who says, "I like her very much," and the syndicated household hints columnist, Heloise. Heloise, who gets hundreds of thousands of letters a year from housewives, reports that of late her mail has included a deal of praise for the new President's wife. "The gals love the way she comes out and says what she thinks. They feel as if she's their next‐door neighbor, just one of the bunch. She doesn't seem a bit stuck‐up. And she's done a world of good being
Only the hopelessly genteel take issue with that. Margaret Mead, not exactly one of Heloise's "gals," welcomes the attention Mrs. Ford's mastectomy has brought to what until recently was a furtive secret sorority. Jacqueline Susann, who wrote four best‐selling novels in the 12 years she lived after having the same operation, may have been the last victim to regard breast cancer as a shameful "social disease."
Knowing sympathy rushed to Mrs. Ford from Marvella Bayh, the Indiana Senator's wife who had been crusading since her own mastectomy, and from Alice Longworth, who before she turned 90, cheerfully called herself the "topless octogenarian." On the Today Show, Barbara Walters used herself as a model to show how to check for symptoms. Mrs. Nelson Rockefeller's life, along with hundreds of others, may quite possibly have been saved by Betty Ford's simple decision not to hide her news, nice though it wasn't.
"That's the part that's just thrilled her," says Mrs. Ford's good friend Peggy Whyte. "I talked to her when she was still in the hospital, and I've never heard her bubble so in all the years I've known her. To think that her misfortune is helping other women just makes her feel very beholden —she says she can really sense all those waves of prayers." Many or the prayers have been secular, in the form of what Betty Friedan calls "the energy and power of the women's movement. She's done so much good for the movement, speaking out as she has for things like the Equal Rights Amendment, hope some of our strength can flow back to her."
Nobody opposes the E.R.A. more fervently than Phyllis Schlafly, whose Illinois‐based campaign against the amendment Mrs. Ford can certainly have made no easier. "She doesn't seem to realize," Mrs. Schlafly protests, "that if the amendment were to pass, we'd have coeducational washrooms, and girls like her own daughter would have to be drafted." But the First Lady realizes these facts very well. She and her personal assistant, Nancy Howe, discuss them often. "They've had coed facilities in the Far East for years," Mrs. Howe says, "and rape is a lot less common there than it is in our prudish societies."
"And if men have to serve in the military," says Mrs. Ford, "I don't see why women shouldn't too, the way they do in Israel. Why, if this had been an issue in my own time, I'd probably have been the first to enlist."
She might have, at that. It was scarcely less startling for her to leave Grand Rapids to go to New York and become a John Robert Powers model, which she was for a while and, worse yet, a dancer. If it hadn't been for her mother, she might have made dance a lifelong career. Hedi Pope, in whose Alexandria modern dance studio Mrs. Ford enrolled, says that "even having hail four children, she was still the best student in my classes. I could see how she might once have been very promising. But a dance career means total immersion or nothing. Those gals who go to New York to dance seriously have to forget about everything else. It must have been a huge decision for her to make."
It must have indeed, with Martha Graham on one hand encouraging her to stay, and Hortense Bloomer on the other saying what nice showers and weddings other girls her age were having back in Michigan. Her mentor and her mother didn't actually wage an outright tug‐of‐war for young Betty's future, but they might as well have. Mrs. Bloomer won, in any case, and her daughter came home, in what must have been more a trudge than a pirouette. Before long she had a wedding of her own, but not to Gerald Ford. The bridegroom's name that time was William Warren.
"We've just giggled and giggled about that," says Nancy Howe, who seldom is far from the First Lady's side. "When somebody wanted to know what the date of her first wedding was, she couldn't remember for the life of her. That's how little it mattered." That five‐year marriage, such as it was, ended emotionally long before the divorce was official. "It taught me," says Mrs. Ford, "that there are some people you just can't change."
Resuming her maiden name, she taught dance to handicapped and black children, coordinated fashions for a Grand Rapids department store called Herpolsheimer's, and took up with the dazzling blond bachelor lawyer and former star center for Michigan's football team. Their wedding had to wait until just before November. Jerry Ford was running for Congress and wasn't sure how voters might feel about his marrying a divorced exdancer.
All First Ladies get a lot of mail. Even those who just smile ornamentally and keep out of the way can expect a couple of thousand letters in a routine week. They also get a good many phone calls. Phones in the East Wing don't ring, though, they chime. Their ladylike two‐tone chime belies what, in Mrs. Ford's case, can be angry urgency at the, other end. If today she says mildly that we all ought to fight inflation by eating less beef, or buy cheaper cuts of it anyway, you can be sure that tomorrow plenty of cattlemen in places like Montana will dial 202‐456‐1414 to register their ire.
Answering such calls is one of the tasks of the First Lady's staff of 28, a dedicated lot who usually lunch, if at all, from vending machines in the White House basement. Some of them plan state dinners, some keep schedules, some juggle the incessant pleas of the press. Nine work full‐time to answer her mail, much of it, by necessity, with form letters. "They think she's magic, they think she's Santa Claus," says Tom McCoy, who has been analyzing First Ladies' mail since the days of Mamie Eisenhower. "Sometimes they write to say their child is dying, sometimes just to say they wish she'd drop by for coffee. Oh, there are just all kinds of
And all kinds of answers. How nice that you're having a rummage sale. Here is a steel engraving of the White House for your auction. How thoughtful of you to share your original song (or poem) with the Fords. Here is your autographed picture, complete with pawprint of Shan, the First Cat of the Land. Happy birthday, if you're 80 or older. Happy anniversary, if you've been together for at least 25 years. Mrs. Ford is pleased to hear that you share her views (or interested that you don't) on abortion, or marijuana, or psychiatry, or the E.R.A.
Lately, a task force of volunteers has helped mail out thanks for some 50,000 messages wishing the First Lady a quick recovery. These wishes, it would seem, are being granted. "She's had occasional transitory letdowns, like all cancer patients," says Dr. William M. Lukash, the White House physician, "but I'm optimistic. Her surgery was highly successful, and she has a really 'up' attitude, an extraordinary determination to carry on."
"I, feel great," Mrs. Ford said on the phone one recent morning, and she sounded it. "Probably it helped that stayed in the hospital a full two weeks, until the scans were clear and I'd been through all the tests. Jerry was traveling then and didn't want me to leave Bethesda till he was back, and when did come home, I wasn't even wearing a bandage."
A chemotherapy regimen obliges her to take four pills each day one week out of every six. Three times every day she stops whatever she's doing for a five‐minute ritual of exercises to insure full mobility for her right arm and shoulder. "It's a stretching, circling, lariat‐type motion," Mrs. Ford says. "Being righthanded probably makes things easier, too." The pinched neck nerve has given her no recent trouble.
On weekends at Camp David, "a very relaxing spot where it's almost impossible to think about work," she goes for long walks with Liberty, the family's new golden retriever. She gave up plans to go with the President to Japan, but both the seashore and the mountains are on their calendar for this month. They will go to Martinique to meet with the President of France and later, of course, to Colorado for the traditional Christmas reunion.
Every week she does more. "Betty had pizza and beer along with everyone else when she dropped by here the other day," an Alexandria neighbor says, "and her face looked radiant, but I thought she seemed too thin." Dr. Lukash, however, isn't worried; he reports that the First Lady's weight is holding steady between 105 and 110 pounds. "Oh, I clean my plate," she says. "I even manage‐liver and onions, a favorite of Jerry's I'm not especially fond of." At the November state dinner for the Chancellor of Austria, she finally corraled her husband upstairs from the dance floor at 1 A.M., "not because I was tired, but he was." At seven the next morning, she was up for a meeting with her staff.
"I'm way behind in the work I've got to do, and there are so many new people in my life, I've been neglecting old friends," Mrs. Ford says. "When I retire, I'm going to lobby for a salary for First Ladies, because it's much more of a 24‐hour job than anyone would guess." Diplomatically, she declines to say which of her predecessors most inspire her, "because now that I realize what they've had to put up with, I have new respect and admiration for every one of them."
Nor will she ponder aloud about the business of being an icon. Whatever the public may think, that's not how she sees herself. "I just hope to leave my mark as a very human person interested in America as a country and in its people particularly. I don't feel that because I'm First Lady I'm any different from what I was before. It can happen to anyone. After all, it hus happened to anyone." ■


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The Good Sam Roadside Assistance 500 race at the Talladega Superspeedway ended with a bang yesterday, when as many as 25 cars were involved in a massive crash on the last lap.
The pileup began when Tony Stewart flipped into the air after making contact with Michael Waltrip. Stewart took the blame, saying "I just screwed up."
Matt Kenseth avoided the wreckage and won the race. No one was injured.
Here's the video; jump to 1:30 for the crash:
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General Donations
Steinway has given us an amazing discount and the Piano will be costing us $80,000. (Which is $25,000 less than its listed price)
Help us raise $80,000 to purchase this brand new Steinway! Donate
General DonationsDonation towards general operations and the facilities of The Ridgefield Playhouse. Donate
Steinway Piano DonationThe Ridgefield Playhouse has an opportunity to purchase a NEW Steinway Model B piano. Many of our artists require a piano and we have, for the past 15 years, had a lovely Baldwin baby grand which was donated. As you can imagine, this piano has seen a lot of performers over the last 15 years and it is time for a new one.
Steinway has given us an amazing discount and the Piano will be costing us $80,000. (Which is $25,000 less than its listed price)
Help us raise $80,000 to purchase this brand new Steinway! Donate
Allison Stockel Fund to Benefit The Ridgefield PlayhouseEstablished on behalf of Executive Director Allison Stockel on her 10th Anniversary at the Playhouse, this endowment fund will ensure that the Playhouse will be able to continue its programming for years to come and guarantee long-term continuity and sustainability. We thank you for believing in our mission and demonstrating it through your support.
Arts For EveryoneThe Arts for Everyone program helps make the performing arts available to economically disadvantaged residents of Fairfield County who cannot afford the cost of admission, even at reduced rates. The Playhouse was founded in the belief that arts can and do make a difference in the lives of people, and that accessibility to the arts should not be limited by one's ability to pay. Arts for Everyone works with a wide range of non-profit organizations includingABC, Ability Beyond Disability, Danbury Youth Services, Family and Children's Aid, Grassroots Tennis, Mental Health Associates of CT and the Out and About Club. Your donation helps provide tickets and transportation to the Playhouse.
Beth and Bruce Becker Scholarship FundSet up In memory of Leadership Advisory Board member Beth Becker and past Playhouse Board member Bruce Becker, this fund helps offset fees for children and adults who cannot afford tuition for RPH class offerings in song writing, comedy, screenwriting and more. Beth and Bruce, avid music lovers and patrons of the arts, shared the Playhouse's mission and philosophy to make the arts more accessible to everyone.
HD SeriesMetropolitan Opera Live in HD is a series of live opera performances transmitted in high-definition video via satellite from the Metropolitan Opera in New York City to select venues. Similarly, National Theatre Live is an initiative operated by the Royal National Theatre in London. As we enter our sixth season, the Playhouse is very pleased to offer a variety of operas and an assortment of National Theatre, plus other unique content, to help garner excitement for the arts at a local level. We aim to offer approximately 20 events each season. Your donation will significantly help to maintain and expand this unique series.


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A wearable should first and foremost look good. That seems counter intuitive when it comes to gadgets in general, but wearables are the exception. Continue reading Samsung announces the Gear S2: The epitome of smartwatch design
A wearable should first and foremost look good. That seems counter intuitive when it comes to gadgets in general, but wearables are the exception. Continue reading Samsung announces the Gear S2: The epitome of smartwatch design
Wearables are part of a different industry. You can't just pop in the latest innards and call it a day. Wearables are something you wear, and here the design places an important role. Continue reading Samsung teases its next round Smartwatch: The Gear S2
You may or may not know it, but Samsung isn't all that happy having its smartphones run on Android. Google imposes some restrictions that Samsung doesn't particularly enjoy. It tried adopting Tizen, an OS platform that it backs, but for Smartphones, you need developer support. And Tizen doesn't have developer support. Continue reading Samsung's next smartwatch would have a rotating bezel
The Smartwatch Market is heating up, and even though no single player has been successful here, that doesn't stop companies from experimenting with new concepts. Continue reading Samsung reveals the inner workings of its yet-to-be announced round Smartwatch
It has become well-known that Samsung is looking for ways towards reducing its reliance on Google. In phones, it has its own OS, but it is still impossible to wade of Google due to dominance of Google over the Smartphones Market. Continue reading Samsung is going to switch to Tizen for all its Smart TVs from now
While we are seeing many Wearable Devices hit the market, we still haven't hit that 'Aha' Moment yet, with our main qualms being Battery Life, Design, Software or just plain usefullness. Continue reading Samsung unveils the Galaxy Gear S: A Smartwatch that doesn't need your Smartphone
Samsung is rebranding the "Samsung Apps" Store to the "Galaxy Apps" store. Continue reading Samsung rebrands its App Store as Galaxy Apps: More Exclusives
According to CNET, Samsung is going to be present as a hardware partner for Android Wear at Google I/O 2014, which is a developer conference that Google hosts every year. Continue reading Rumor: Samsung is going to announce an Android Wear Smartwatch at Google I/O 2014
The Galaxy Gear (2013) ran Android and on paper looked to be really good, but in real life it was plagued with battery life issues, compatibility issues, etc. Continue reading Tizen In, Android Out in Samsung Galaxy Gear's latest Update
Gear 2 Neo ( Left), Gear 2 ( Right)
It is unusual for a company to release a second generation of a product just 6 months after it's release. But when that first gen product is an EPIC fail, the company has to release then second version as soon as possible.
Samsung has announced the Galaxy Gear 2 with major improvements over the first generation. The first gen model seems half-baked compared to this. Continue reading Samsung announces Galaxy Gear 2 along with smaller brother


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IoBM Practical Building Skills Challenge Day
Published: 20 December, 2010
DERBY: Following the overwhelming success of its first 'Practical Building Skills Challenge Event', the Institute of Builders Merchants wishes to announce details of its second event, which will be held at Derby College on Tuesday March 8th, 2011.
Working with products not only enhances product knowledge but enables employees to better advise customers on how to use and work with the products too.
At this event, the challenge for the teams of four will be to:
- Lay bricks including features
- Fix plasterboard & apply plaster
- Bend & install copper pipes
- Painting & decorating using innovative techniques
within a set timescale.
Prizes will be awarded for the best build and all attendees will be awarded a FREE years student membership of the Institute of Builders Merchants.
So if you don't want to miss this opportunity to learn about the products we sell in a fun, hands on and challenging way, be quick to book your places via our website www.iobm.co.uk
Suppliers are welcome to support the event through sponsoring materials, providing prizes or through attendance on the day. Please contact Gill Sellick on email@example.com or 01767 650662 for further information.


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Jim Henson's Muppets (Game Boy Color)
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DescriptionMiss Piggy, Fozzie, Rowlf, Gonzo the Great, Sam the Eagle and Swedish Chef all decide to travel back to the past using a big time machine built by Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker. Somehow the time machine breaks down, and sends the friends to unexpectedly different time locations. Now it's up to their friends - Animal and Kermit - to go to these locations and bring them back home.
Jim Henson's Muppets is an arcade game based on the TV program The Muppets Show. Players control either Animal or Kermit to different time locations which hold their friends. There are a total of 6 locations. Players can freely choose the location they want to play. Each location contains 3 selectable levels and an unlockable level (can only be played after finishing the selectable levels). The selectable levels have the same objective: find your way to the goal. The unlockable is where you encounter with a boss and save your friend. Animal fights using his drum sticks, while Kermit throws paper planes at enemies. Enemies (except the bosses) cannot identify the players' character, therefore don't fight at all. They simply just move from side to side. There are some items that aid players during the game: food (increase health), heart (give players one life), drum sticks (when playing as Animal)/paper planes (when playing as Kermit). Pressing a combination of button can enable Animal and Kermit to use special moves: Animal's earthquake and Kermit's super high jump.
The graphics are in 2D. Players can save their process by choosing "Save" in the level choosing menu. At the beginning of a level or when players die, Statler and Waldorf will present exchanging a short conversation about the level.
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- "The Muppets" -- In-game title
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|64 Power / big.N / N Games
|Apr, 2000
|All Game Guide
|Video Games
|Dec, 1999
|Pocket Magazine / Pockett Videogames
|Jun 01, 2000
|Apr 17, 2000
|2 out of 10
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StoryThe title, the cover box and even the game's menu can easily fool you into thinking that this game doesn't have any background story. In fact, the game has a more complicated plot than it seems!
Tien Thuy Le Nguyen (2233) added Jim Henson's Muppets (Game Boy Color) on Oct 30, 2011
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Steve Marsden (Steve "Redneck" Marsden)Project Management:
Simon Crisp (Simon "Magoo" Crisp)Programming:
Lee Hammerton (Lee "Turbo" Hammerton), Martin McKenzie (Martin "Bozo" McKenzie), Dan Harper (Dan "Desperate" Harper), Chris Jones (Chris "Lackey" Jones), James Whitfield (James "Fuzzy" Whitfield), David Cooke (Dave "Robo" Cooke)Graphics:
Russell East (Russell "Mr Cool" East), Ian Watson (Ian "Doc" Watson), Lewis Mann (Lewis "The Man" Mann), Dean Atkin (Dean "Embarrassed" Atkin), Helen Prestwich (Helen "Elmo" Prestwich), Corrado Trani (Corrado "Twinkles" Trani), Jez Mayes (Jez "Fingers" Mayes), Robin Taylor (Robin "Thumbs" Taylor)Music:
Anthony Paton (Anthony "General" Paton)Testing:
Mark Lloyd (Mark "Gorman" Lloyd), Jim Thompson (Jim "Hicks" Thompson), Paul Byers (Paul "Ripley" Byers), Timothy Bates (Tim "Bishop" Bates), Charlie Kinloch (Charlie "Hudson" Kinloch), Denby Grace (Denby "Apone" Grace), Kit Brown (Kit "Vasquez" Brown)


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Pets Can Stay announced today the certification of seventeen additional Starwood Hotels & Resorts properties with the Pets Can Stay program. The recent additions to Pets Can Stay's growing family of certified properties include Westin and Sheraton hotels from California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia and Alberta.
"We're very excited to have this fine array of upscale hotels join Pets Can Stay", comments Scott Beddall, director of operations for Pets Can Stay. "Many travelers are unaware of just how many qualified pet friendly lodging establishments there are across the United States and Canada, especially in terms of higher-end accommodations. These latest additions to the Pets Can Stay certification program really demonstrate how esteemed brands such as Sheraton and Westin are going the extra mile to service the growing North American pet travel market."
Helping establishments market and refine their pet guest programs, the Pets Can Stay program assures travelers and their pets that they will be welcomed and offered specific standard amenities while staying at a Pets Can Stay Certified property. Requirements for Pets Can Stay certification include offering non-smoking, pet-designated rooms, providing food/water bowls upon request, and maintaining pet fees that reasonably reflect cleaning and occupancy considerations instead of simply penalizing the pet owner.
Pets Can Stay certification aside, Starwood Hotels & Resorts is no stranger to servicing four-legged clientele. In 2003, the company launched its Starwood Love That DogTM program, much to the delight of pet owners. The program includes the provision of Heavenly Dog Beds® at Westin and Sweet Sleeper Dog Beds at Sheraton, pet ID tags, treats and additional amenities to its canine guests. "It's a wonderful service offering that we happily provide," says Kyndra Russell, director of field marketing for Starwood Northwest and Western Canada Region. "Feedback from our guests has been overwhelming positive and appreciative."
With the completion of the Pets Can Stay certification process, travelers can now access detailed information on the participating Westin and Sheraton properties via the Pets Can Stay website at www.petscanstay.com, including images, pet-related policies and services, and general property information. The Pets Can Stay website also allows travelers to link directly to Starwood's online reservation system to access the latest travel specials and book directly into the Starwood location of their choice.
About Pets Can Stay
Pets Can Stay Inc. is the national certifying and marketing body that has established the standard for accommodation providers that cater to the pet travel market. Pets Can Stay Travel Services™ is a full service agency that provides direct bookings to Pets Can Stay certified properties across North America at no cost to the traveller. PCS Travel Services is rapidly becoming the agency of choice for pet-toting leisure travellers, and corporate travellers that are loyal to properties that accept pets. For more information, please visit www.petscanstay.com.
About Starwood Hotels & Resorts
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. is one of the leading hotel and leisure companies in the world with approximately 850 properties in more than 95 countries and 145,000 employees at its owned and managed properties. Starwood® Hotels is a fully integrated owner, operator and franchisor of hotels and resorts with the following internationally renowned brands: St. Regis®, The Luxury Collection®, Sheraton®, Westin®, Four Points® by Sheraton, W®, Le Méridien® and the recently announced aloftSM and ELEMENTSM Hotels. Starwood Hotels also owns Starwood Vacation Ownership, Inc., one of the premier developers and operators of high quality vacation interval ownership resorts. For more information, please visit www.starwoodhotels.com.
Scott Beddall
Pets Can Stay Inc.


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Well, it was only a matter of time before a biomed company made claim to the fountain of youth. This company has found a way to roll back the aging clock by manipulating the telomeres our DNA.
Telomeres lie at the end of our DNA strands and are our body's way to prevent replication issues when a cell divides - known to us as aging. Therefore, the longer the telomere, the less issue with replication. The founder now 44, claims that she has the telomeres of a 20 year old. If her statement is true, science has found the fountain of youth.
All it takes is a massive data store to hold your DNA sequence and a supercomputer to crunch the numbers. This is a true application of Big Data and you better QA the results perfectly. Of course, this discovery gives new meaning to the question "Will I outlive my 401K?"
Scientists claim they've completed the first successful gene therapy against human aging


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A will is an important legal document that determines the disposition of your property after you die. If you die without a will, your property will be distributed according to state statute. It may be tied up in probate court for a long period, and it may not be distributed according to your wishes. In order to write an effective will, you should understand some of the underlying legal principles.
Types of Wills
There are three major types of wills. The first type is the testamentary will, which is in written form and signed in the presence of witnesses. It is considered by far the most reliable type of will. The second is the holographic will, which is in written form but not signed in the presence of witnesses. Holographic wills are usually ignored by probate courts. The third type is the oral will, which is delivered orally in the presence of witnesses. Although oral wills are considered superior to holographic wills, they are still not reliably enforced by probate courts. A living will has nothing to do with the distribution of property after death, but rather instructs doctors when to discontinue the life support of a terminally ill person who is unable to communicate.
Although you can use a will to distribute most of your property, there are some items that a will does not cover. Community property will automatically revert to your spouse upon your death. Life insurance payouts, investment accounts that transfer on death, retirement funds, and assets that you co-own as a joint tenant cannot be distributed through a will.
Testamentary Capacity
In order to create a legally binding will, you must have "testamentary capacity." This means that you must be mentally sound enough to understand (i) that you are making a will, (ii) how much property you have, (iii) who your heirs are, and (iv) how the will operates to distribute your property. You must also be free from coercion, intimidation or deception to the extent that such would prevent you from making a free choice regarding the distribution of your property (this is known as "undue influence").
Writing a Will
Before writing a will you should make an inventory of all your property so that you will know what will be distributed. You should entitle the document "Last Will and Testament," identify yourself by full name and address, and state that you are of sound mind and free from undue influence. You should revoke all previous wills and codicils, name an executor to administer the distribution of your property, name a guardian for any minor children, clearly identify your beneficiaries, and clearly identify the property you wish to distribute to each beneficiary. If you gain more property later and wish to distribute it as well, you should create a "codicil" (an addendum to an existing will).
Executing a Will
In order to execute your will, you will have to sign it in front of witnesses. Although most states require the presence of two witnesses to execute a will, you should check the law of your state. Witnesses are required to confirm that you are the person who signed the will, and that you were mentally sound at the time you signed it.
The final step in creating a legally binding will is to deliver it to your executor. It is best to hand your will to your executor personally, although this is not a legal requirement.
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