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Even the most curmudgeonly out there have to admit that television is on a roll. Departed favorites like The Wire, The Sopranos, and Deadwood showed us what can be accomplished in the medium; current shows like Mad Men and Breaking Bad push the boundaries even farther. Now, when people note that they don't own a TV, they're not bragging — they're apologizing. Below, I help you plan your week in front of the glowbox by looking at intriguing new shows and noteworthy returning sophomores — what you should plan to watch without fail, what you should record and save for whenever, and what you should wait to check out on Netflix. I'm assuming you've already formed your opinion on stalwarts like House and The Office.
SUNDAYGiven its network (HBO), setting (Prohibition-era Atlantic City), pedigree (it was created by ex-Sopranos writer Terence Winter, and the first episode is directed by Martin Scorsese, who is also the series's producer), and cast (Steve Buscemi, Gretchen Mol, Michael Pitt, and Michael "Omar Little" Williams), BOARDWALK EMPIRE (September 19 at 9 pm) is about as close to a sure thing as you can get these days. | VERDICT: WATCH IT
HBO also has an oddball comedy bloc that pairs the manic intensity of Danny McBride as former relief pitcher Kenny Powers in EASTBOUND & DOWN (September 26 at 10:30 pm) with the deadpan Jason Schwartzman as a novelist moonlighting as a private detective in BORED TO DEATH (September 26 at 10 pm). Both shows cater to a well-defined niche, and both do their respective "thing" well enough to warrant at least a look. | VERDICT: DVR THEM
Even though AMC's THE WALKING DEAD won't premiere until Halloween (10 pm), I'm ridiculously excited about Frank Darabont's adaptation of Robert Kirkman's graphic novel about a group of survivors trying to hang together after the zombie apocalypse. | VERDICT: WATCH IT
MONDAYThe 9 pm hour features some new contenders. First is THE EVENT on NBC (September 20), which looks like some sort of unholy offspring of Lost and 24, combining the latter's hyper-suspenseful feel with the former's layered mysteries, all of it leading to some kind of massive government conspiracy surrounding the title, uh, event. Unfortunately, the last few network shows that tried a mythology-heavy storytelling style — Flashforward, V, even Heroes — didn't fare so well. | VERDICT: WAIT FOR THE DVD
Over on Fox, there's LONE STAR (also September 20), in which a con man (played by James Wolk) tries to take over an oil company from his father-in-law while maintaining a secret life on the other side of Texas. The show's creator, Kyle Killen, has ambition: he compared Lone Star to Mad Men and Breaking Bad during the Television Critics Association press tour. Early reviews have been good, but Fox's record with artistic boldness is sketchy. | VERDICT: WATCH IT WHILE IT LASTS
TUESDAYIf confronted, I will deny it, but I actually kind of enjoyed the first season of Fox's GLEE (September 21 at 8 pm). Which is why I'm concerned about the second season — now that it's an out-of-left-field cultural phenomenon, Glee has to contend with hype and expectations. Disaster potential is high. | VERDICT: WATCH IT, BUT BE PREPARED TO JUMP SHIP AT THE FIRST SIGN OF FALLOUT
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Enjoy delicious dinner any day of the week with this juicy browned short ribs and vegetables recipe slow cooked in herbs and dry red wine.
Short ribs are trimmed from narrow beef rib and short plate sections. Small and square, short ribs are layers of meat and fat with pieces of rib bone. They are flavorful but tough; long, slow, moist cooking tenderizes them.
Use a kitchen scissors to snip sun-dried tomatoes into strips; spritz the blades with nonstick cooking spray so the tomatoes won't stick.
Browning and draining the short ribs before continuing to cook them removes some of the fat.
Use several layers of paper towels to blot the fat from the surface of the cooking juices before adding the thickeners, or skim off the fat with a ladle.
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28 Jan 2008
ELCF forthcoming seminars - Lent term 2008.
21 Jan 2008
Every serious PC gamer knows what a difference a good graphics card can make to the fun they have.
14 Jan 2008
The Department's Centre for Sustainable Development hosts an Annual Lecture Series.
07 Jan 2008
The Environment Agency has estimated that 300,000 hectares of land at over 325,000 sites in England and Wales are contaminated with a variety of pollutants.
17 Dec 2007
Feiyang Liu, a PhD student in the Micromechanics Centre of the Department, has won the Superior Student Paper Award in the 26th Annual Conference of the Tire Society held in Akron, Ohio, USA.
10 Dec 2007
The medal was awarded for the second best paper overall in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers for 2006.
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The Cambridge University Engineering Association conference was held as part of the recent annual Alumni weekend.
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Professor Mohan Munasinghe an alumnus from the Department, shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with other IPCC colleagues and Al Gore.
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Vittorio Scardaci and Simone Pisana have been awarded the European Materials Research Society (EMRS) Graduate Student Award for their work on nanotube photonics and electronics.
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The Japanese edition of Jan Maciejowski's book "Predictive Control with Constraints" has been awarded the 2007 Best Textbook award by the Japanese Society of Instrument and Control Engineers.


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Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 3:21 PM GMT en Septiembre 20, 2009
A tropical disturbance (98L), is located midway between Africa and the Lesser Antilles Islands. This disturbance has lost most of its heavy thunderstorm activity over the past day. Last night's QuikSCAT pass showed an elongated circulation, with top winds around 30 mph. Wind shear is moderate, 10 - 15 knots, and Sea Surface Temperatures are 28°C, which is about 2°C above the 26°C threshold needed to support a tropical cyclone. There is a large amount of dry air to the north and west of 98L, and this dry air has been instrumental in disrupting development of 98L over the weekend.
Wind shear over 98L is expected to remain in the moderate range, 10 - 15 knots, through Tuesday evening, according to the SHIPS model. This may allow the storm to organize into a tropical depression, assuming it can fight off the dry air that surrounds it. Tuesday through Thursday, the SHIPS model predicts shear will increase to the high range, 20 - 25 knots, so it is unlikely 98L will become anything stronger than a weak tropical storm over the coming 5-day period. The models predict that a strong trough of low pressure will turn 98L to the northwest and then north beginning on Monday, with the result that 98L misses the Lesser Antilles Islands by at least 500 miles. NHC is giving 98L a medium (30 - 50%) chance of developing into a tropical depression by Tuesday. It does not appear that 98L will ever threaten any land areas. The GFDL and NOGAPS models develop 98L into a tropical storm; the other models do not.
Figure 1. Morning visible satellite image of Fred-ex (located at the tail end of a cold front draped over the Atlantic), and 98L.
The remains of Hurricane Fred are still spinning away about 600 miles east of the Georgia-Florida border. Fred-ex's circulation has become ill-defined over the past day, and there has been no increase in heavy thunderstorm activity. High wind shear of 20 - 30 knots is affecting the storm, and there is also quite a bit of dry air interfering with development. The high wind shear and dry air will continue to affect Fred-ex over the next three days, as the storm moves west-northwest at 10 mph. Most of the models show the moisture from Fred-ex moving ashore between northern Florida and North Carolina Tuesday or Wednesday. None of the models develop Fred-ex, and I'm not expecting it to cause any flooding problems when it moves ashore.
Twenty years ago today
On September 20, 1989, Hurricane Hugo continued its steady northwest march at 15 mph towards the Southeast U.S., brushing the Bahama Islands along the way. Wind shear diminished, allowing the hurricane to intensify back to a major Category 3 hurricane with 115 mph winds. Hurricane watches and warnings had not yet been posted for the U.S. coast, but at noon on September 20, Mayor Riley of Charleston went on the air, telling residents of the city that Hugo was a killer. There was a very good chance that Hugo would be South Carolina's worst disaster this century, he said, with a storm surge up to fifteen feet high. Now, while the weather was good and the storm still far away, was the time to board up and get out.
Figure 2. AVHRR visible satellite image of Hurricane Hugo taken on September 20, 1989. Wind shear had diminished, allowing Hugo to intensify to a Category 3 storm with 115 mph winds. Image credit: Google Earth rendition of the NOAA HURSAT data base.
South Carolinans paid attention. Within an hour, residents jammed hardware stores and supermarkets. Traffic on roads away from the coast swelled as people scrambled to flee the arrival of the first major hurricane to strike South Carolina in thirty years--since Category 3 Hurricane Gracie of 1959 slammed into the coast south of Charleston.
At 6 pm, it became official: the Southeast U.S. coast from St. Augustine to Cape Hatteras had been placed under a hurricane watch, meaning that hurricane conditions could be expected within 36 hours. The torrent of evacuees leaving the coast swelled, reaching a million people in all.
In the U.S. Virgin Islands, the aftermath of Hugo became desperate as widespread looting erupted on St. Croix, forcing President Bush to send 1,100 troops. Wunderground member Mike Steers was there, and relates this story: "Surviving the aftermath was the real challenge. The lack of power, water, communications of any kind, and the crime and looting was the real test. After about a week of digging out of the remains of the house and neighborhood I was able to venture out on my motorcycle to see what had become of my job. On the way, I personally witnessed the looting and lawlessness. I even saw a National Guard truck backed up to what was a appliance store and the guardsmen were helping themselves to washers and dryers. Never mind that there was no power to run them. When I got to the seaplane ramp, I saw the total destruction that is depicted in one of the photos I sent. On my way home, there was a small local grocery store I had usually gone to, and I was going to stop in and see how the owners were doing. There was a band of youths in the process of carrying out everything that was not nailed down. From the back, out ran a rastaman with a machete saying he wanted my motorcycle. Needless to say, I gunned it and got back to my house as soon as possible. My neighbors and I set up our own armed 24-hour security checkpoint to protect ourselves. It was about a week later that the first of the giant C-5s flew over, sent by President Bush to start to restore order..."
Figure 3. Newspaper headline from the Virgin Islands Daily News after Hurricane Hugo, detailing the looting problems on St. Croix. Image scanned in by Mike Steers.
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Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather


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Jean Schwarzbauer, professor of molecular biology , has been elected to the council of the American Society for Cell Biology . She will serve a three-year term on the council, which is the chief governing body of the 10,000-member society, beginning in 2003.
Schwarzbauer came to Princeton in 1986 as an assistant professor. She was promoted to tenure in 1993 and to professor in 2000. She served as the program chair for the American Society for Cell Biology's annual meeting in 2000.
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Glee Club, Chamber Choir to perform, Feb. 25
Posted February 15, 2006; 10:49 p.m.
The Princeton University Glee Club and Chamber Choir
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Saturday, Feb. 25, in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall.
Founded in 1874, the Glee Club is the oldest singing group at Princeton. The Chamber Choir features a select group of 13 singers who work closely together on challenging repertoire. Both groups are directed by Richard Tang Yuk.
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Son accused of abusing elderly father in Onalaska
LA CROSSE COUNTY, Wis. - A 35-year-old man is accused of abusing his elderly father in their Onalaska home.
Brian Hoff was charged in La Crosse County Court on Thursday with several counts of aggravated battery-elderly person, domestic abuse, and bail jumping.
According to the criminal complaint, Brian Hoff had been arguing with his 72-year-old father and punched him in the face and the arm multiple times more than a week ago and had also threatened to stab him.
On March 13, Hoff's father went to the Onalaska Police Department and told an officer he was having trouble with his son. Police say the father told them that they were arguing over his son's loud singing and that his son wanted his father to tell him that he is a good singer. His son thought he was going to call police, so he unplugged the telephone and took it away from his father so he couldn't call for help, according to the complaint.19324260
The father told police that on Monday, March 4, his son began to yell and argue with him and his son got so angry he punched him in the face. The complaint states Hoff threatened to stab his father.
Police arrested Brian Hoff at his Onalaska house on Tuesday, March 13. The complaint states he told officers that his father needs him and that he would not be able to live on his own. Police say Hoff also told them had no idea what it was like living with his father.
Hoff has been charged with two counts of aggravated battery-elderly person, domestic abuse; three counts of misdemeanor bail jumping-no contact; misdemeanor intimidation of a victim, domestic abuse; and disorderly conduct, domestic abuse.
Hoff is being held in La Crosse County jail on a $1,000 cash bond.
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Composers' Ensemble Feb. 7 show postponed
Posted January 13, 2006; 12:46 p.m.
A Composers' Ensemble concert featuring So Percussion that had been scheduled for 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 7, has been postponed until 8 p.m. Saturday, April 8, in Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall.
The So Percussion ensemble has performed nationwide, including a recent concert at Carnegie Hall. The group will perform works by Princeton faculty members Paul Lansky, Martin Scherzinger and Dan Trueman and graduate students David Little, Betsey Biggs and Miriama Young.
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This lesson plan teaches how to select the landing site for a planetary surface investigation, using the 5E learning cycle. Students will be able to determine a landing site for their Mars rover; work with their team to summarize information and... (View More) identify important details in non-fiction writing; research Gale Crater through an online interactive module; use Google Earth Mars to learn about Mars surface features; gather and analyze data to conduct a scientific experiment; collect and record data in a science notebook to draw logical and scientific conclusions; define and identify the role of controls and variables in teams' scientific or technical questions; and differentiate between weather and climate. The lesson plan has a number of appendices, including standards alignment. This is Lesson 8 of the elementary school version of the 6 week Mars Rover Celebration curriculum. (View Less)
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Learners will read or listen to a story about two sisters, Marisol and Sofia, as they explore the Sun's role in the water cycle. Additionally, numerous extension resources are included in the accompanying educator guide, such as suggestions for... (View More) no-cost language arts activities, links to further science activities, a book walk cue chart to guide classroom discussion before, during, and after the story, a graphic organizer, and alignments to the National Science Education Standards (NSES) and the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). (View Less)
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The emphasis of this lesson is deepening students' understanding of how and why we measure precipitation across the globe. Students will look at NASA Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) data gathered during hurricanes and how this data can... (View More) prove essential in helping scientists forecast the amount of precipitation. Students will also learn how the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Mission is enabling scientists to collect new information on hurricanes. The lesson uses the 5E instructional sequence. (View Less)
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This brief describes how TraceVerified has emerged to address the peculiar challenges of the aquaculture sector in Viet Nam, and aims to share relevant insights into implementing an electronic traceability system for policymakers in other countries.
This Brief introduces India's experience in implementing GrapeNet, an IT-enabled traceability system for the grape sector in India. The Brief describes how GrapeNet has emerged to address challenges of the sector in the country, approaches taken in its implementation and its major functions and services. The Brief also highlights the benefits and major success factors in the process of implementing
GrapeNet and concludes by outlining the further development of similar traceability systems for other agricultural products.
This issue of the Trade Insights series provides analysis of the recently released United Nations Regional Commissions (UNRC) Global Trade Facilitation (TF) and Paperless Trade Implementation Survey 2015 for 44 economies and 5 sub-regions across the Asia-Pacific. The survey provides data on the implementation of 38 TF measures, including but not limited to those featured in the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (WTO TFA).
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Wow, indeed. There's a difference between METHODOLOGY and SAMPLE BASE. Basic rules of statistics tell us (yes, you and me) that the LARGER the sample base, the MORE STATISTICALLY VALID it is. THAT was the point I made. Get it?Wow. Just a couple posts up, you dismissed the poll because of its methodology. Your words:
Gallup is not my bag; A.C. Nielsen and Arbitron ARE. I'm somewhat familiar with statistics and "ratings" (a kind of poll, indeed) and what it takes for them to be valid. Data is great, but the INTERPRETATION of that data in many ways comes down to OPINIONS. Having spent just short of 30 years in the media sales business, I'm reasonably sure I know my way around polls and how they can be "manipulated" and "sold" as the gospel.
Do you believe everything you see on the evening news? Me either....but I do live in a mid-sized population area (Nielsen DMA #86) and I know what we are up against. Poll results don't make everyone else feel one bit better UNLESS they were one of those people polled.


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Roland Juno-6
The first in a series of amazingly affordable quality synthesizers from Roland's amazing Juno family! The Juno-6 is a six voice polyphonic analog synthesizer! It's a very stable synth thanks to its digitally controlled analog oscillators. The Juno-6 sounds great, however it lacks basic necessities like MIDI control and patch memory storage.
The next generation Juno-60 version added 56 patches of memory storage. Both of these synths sound virtually the same and are considered by many to sound better (punchier) than the popular follow up, the Juno-106. The Juno-6 and 60 are very rich sounding synthesizers and are great analog machines as long as you can overlook the absence of MIDI control. Of course nobody can deny that the wooden side panel look is a true sign of Vintage status! The Junos have been used by Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran, Enya, Sean Lennon, Sneaker Pimps, Vince Clarke of Erasure and Banco De Gaia.
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Audio Clip 1 - A short track made completely with sounds from the Juno-6 (drums included), submitted by Matt Langston.
Manual - Roland has made manuals for most of their products available as free PDF downloads.
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- Polyphony - 6 voices
- Oscillators - DCO: pulse, saw, and square
- LFO - rate and delay
- Filter - non-resonant high pass and resonant low pass
- VCA - level, ADSR and gate
- Keyboard - 61 note keyboard (no velocity or aftertouch)
- Arpeg/Seq - External JSQ-60 Sequencer
- Effects - Chorus (2 types)
- Memory - None
- Control - Filter Control In, Ext Clock In
- Date Produced - 1982
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Geometric simplicity meets modern sophistication in our gleaming white cube. This ultra-versatile piece works perfectly on its own as an ottoman or end table – or group the sleek, streamlined cubes to create a custom coffee table that precisely fits your gathering space.
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A conservative group is launching television and radio advertisements aimed at pressuring reticent Indiana Republican legislative leaders into writing Gov. Mike Pence's proposed income tax cut into the state's next two-year budget.
The Indiana chapter of Americans for Prosperity, a tea party-fueled organization funded by the Koch brothers, will launch a "six-figure" advertising buy in Indiana and accompany it with emails, phone calls and door-to-door efforts.
Its goal is the same as Pence's: To lower Indiana's individual income tax rate from 3.4 percent to 3.06 percent, a move that would save taxpayers – and lower state revenue – by about $520 million annually.
The group's new campaign will send a message to Republicans who dominate both chambers of the Indiana General Assembly after winning supermajorities in November's election, said Tim Phillips, Americans for Prosperity's national president.
"This is meant to encourage them – to show them that there are folks that have their back," Phillips said.
"A lot of Indiana families, and I think the nation really, is watching to see what they're going to do with this power. Are they going to kind of float along with the comfortable status quo, or is it going to be a genuinely bold attempt to get this economy moving again?"
Legislative leaders have balked at the tax cut because they prefer to boost education and transportation funding. The House did not include it in the budget the chamber passed, and key senators have said they are hesitant, as well.
Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Luke Kenley, the Noblesville Republican who is his chamber's top budget-writer, said Indiana is already in the process of stepping down the state's corporate income tax and phasing out its inheritance tax.
Pence's proposed income tax cut "sort of cuts across our present plan, and I think the trick is going to be, how do we meld these plans together and still fund the things that we think are priorities?" Kenley said.
"Obviously we want to fund schools, we want to fund roads, we want to fund higher education, and even a conservative Republican would say these are the kind of investments in the future that you have to make. So we have to reach that right balance."
Both Kenley and House Speaker Brian Bosma, R-Indianapolis, said Thursday that a key moment will come on April 17, when an updated forecast of how many tax dollars Indiana will take in over the next two years is released.
That forecast will trigger an intense period as the legislature speeds toward the April 29 end of its 2013 session. Lawmakers say the rosier Indiana's revenue picture looks, the more likely Pence is to get the top item on his first-year legislative agenda.
The Americans for Prosperity ad is a one-minute spot styled after one that former Gov. Mitch Daniels once ran.
It starts with powerful music and green-and-white headlines that tout the state's economy and its surplus. Then, it abruptly switches to foreboding music and red-and-white headlines that point to House Republicans' decision to exclude Pence's tax cut from their budget.
Bosma said Thursday that lawmakers have cut 10 different taxes over the last decade, and are sending $360 million back to Hoosier income tax filers as credits during this year's tax-filing season.
The House Republican budget sped up the pace at which Indiana would phase out its inheritance tax. Under current law, that tax would be gone by 2022. The House's budget would eliminate it by 2018.
"There's going to be a tax cut by the time we're out of here, I'm confident about that," Bosma said. "The question is which tax, how much, and when. My pledge is, we're going to do the right tax in the right way in the right time."
Pence's budget proposal included a 1 percent bump in education funding during its first year, and more to divvy up through performance-based measure in his spending plan's second year.
House Republicans, meanwhile, boosted education funding by 2 percent in their budget's first year and another 1 percent in its second year. Bosma said they aimed to raise K-12 education funding to its 2009 levels, prior to a cut Daniels ordered as the state grappled with the economic downturn.
After setting aside 12.5 percent of what the state spends in a year in reserves, Pence's budget also would have sent half the remaining surplus – if revenues meet projections, that'd be about $347 million after closing out the current budget period and next one in two years – for transportation.
House Republicans, though, said municipal officials are desperate for more guaranteed transportation dollars. Their budget included $250 million per year in extra transportation funding, and that money would not be subject to economic upticks or downturns.
"You can't be the 'Crossroads of America,'" Bosma said, "if you have a crumbling infrastructure."


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Direct Modulation/Fast Waveform Generating, 13 GHz, Fractional-N Frequency Synthesizer
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The ADF4159 consists of a low noise digital phase frequency detector (PFD), a precision charge pump, and a programmable reference divider. The Σ-Δ-based fractional interpolator allows programmable fractional-N division. The INT and FRAC registers define an overall N divider as N = INT + (FRAC/225).
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Now finally, in what has been the most anticipated theater event of the season, Trinity actor Fred Sullivan, Jr. (arguably the best off-Trinity director around here) and Estrella are reprising their collaboration at the Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre (through December 11).
The Gamm is the successor to Alias Stage — and it's where Estrella has his day job as artistic director — so the full circle is complete.
The performance is amplified by an even better supporting cast this time, so this is not a mere exercise in nostalgia. If anything, Estrella has more inner life to bring to the role than he did at 25.
As with all finely tuned theater work, our satisfaction with this production is largely an accumulation of careful detail. When Hamlet is taken by his sympathetic friend Horatio (the perfectly cast Marc Dante Mancini) and the night watchmen to witness the wandering ghost of his murdered father, part of the response of the excitable prince is a flash of desperate joy in finally having an answer. When Polonius (Sam Babbitt) is ticking off advice in sending his son Laertes (Kelby T. Akin) off to university, his admonition to not dress ostentatiously is accompanied by replacing Laertes's colorful silk handkerchief with his own plain cotton one. Details like that.
Of course, that scene with the pedantic Polonius is one we always look forward to in Hamlet, here especially so because Gamm veteran Babbitt is also reprising his role. But this time around, director Sullivan and the actor not only tamp down the pomposity of his "neither a borrower nor a lender be" litany of advice, but pump up the comic potential in many of his other lines, such as a flicker of braggadocio when he mentions having played Julius Caesar. The character is further filled out when son Laertes seems honestly affectionate toward the old man, not simply humoring him, in the above send-off. That emotional layer also adds a dimension to his fury at the deaths of his father and sister.
Numerous vivid moments accrue. When Rosencrantz (Ben Gracia) and Guildenstern (Joe Short) enter the empty throne room, they look above and around them like giddy groupies who have sneaked into Tom Brady's bedroom. (The set, with the help of scenic artist Katryne Hecht, couldn't be simpler: blood-red curtains, and floor and door the color of dried blood. Near the end, when everything will be made clear, the curtains are torn away to reveal a white background.)
New to the Gamm is Gillian Williams, whom you may have seen on TV in The Good Wife or Body of Proof. She gets to play an especially distraught Ophelia, not a vaguely disoriented young maiden with garlands in her hair, reciting snatches of songs on her way to accidentally drown in a stream. No, in this incarnation she is also barefoot but bloodied and grimy with filth, evidently having wandered about too long in this dangerous world as well as in her madly confused mind.
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by Virginia Sowers, ChildFund Community Manager
Although ChildFund is a global organization working in 31 countries, many people don't realize that one of those countries is the United States.
Since 1952, ChildFund, partnering with local affiliate organizations, has provided sponsorships and programs for some of the poorest communities in the South, Southwest and Northern Plains.
Winter is an especially challenging time for children and families in western communities. When an ice storm hits in Oklahoma, it can debilitate a community for a week or more due to downed power lines. Rural roads become unsafe for travel. Adults can't get to work, thus losing valuable income for food and necessities. Children can't get to school, missing valuable learning time and peer interaction. In South and North Dakota the winters can last from September to May, with a small window of spring and summer.
This week, in the wake of a blizzard that is tracking across the U.S., parts of North Dakota and South Dakota experienced bitterly cold temperatures with wind chills as cold as 40 degrees below zero.
As the winter season drags out in the Dakotas, it becomes increasingly difficult for many families to afford the rising cost of propane to heat their homes. Water systems freeze. Pipes burst. Children sometimes lack winter clothing, or require support in obtaining warm coats and boots required for survival in the extreme weather conditions.
Although most ChildFund programs in the U.S. focus on after-school activities for children and youth, we have held emergency drives in the Northern Plains to provide water, food and other emergency aid when a bad winter storm hits. ChildFund area offices also act as advocates, linking communities with resources. As ChildFund services in the U.S. continue to expand, we are working with communities to strategically prepare for weather emergencies.
Sponsoring a child in the U.S. is a wonderful way to help. It costs $35 per month, which is a bit higher than for other countries in which ChildFund works due to higher costs of providing services here at home.
For more information about U.S. child sponsorship, call 800-776-6767, or visit the child sponsorship section of our website. (FYI: We don't show online photographs of U.S. children to protect their privacy and ensure their safety.)
I am just appalled at living conditions of the Native Americans on reservations. If I hadn't looked at kids to sponsor in the U.S., I never would have known about the quiet section of our country which is out of site and out of mind. Anyway, I am happy to sponsor my chosen little boy in South Dakota and wish I could speed up my mail to get him what he needs to stay warm. There are severe cold snow storm conditions right now and I wish I knew if he was ok. I sent a package of school supplies and some toys to introduce myself, which should have arrived today via UPS. From there, another week to reach, Joel, my sponsored child. I figure, if he writes back soon, with the help of his family, I should receive a response back by the end of the month. I will try to wait patiently while I get another package ready. I am having so much fun putting together favorite items for Joel. Thanks for listening.
Thanks for your sponsorship, Connie. We appreciate your support for this child and for our work in the U.S.


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Haha, did anyone hear OK on the pregame show? 790qam?
He is talking about dreads with Crowder. He said he believes his dreads are his power source, like Samson!
What an idiot, i think it's the opposite, the longer his hair grows the more he sucks!
Comparison to Samson, wow..


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Internet radio service Pandora has revamped its website, adding features such as faster load time, simplified station creation, enhanced listener profiles, additional artist information, and individual links for each station that can be shared via social networks and email, among others. Additionally, Pandora has upped its free listening time from 40 to 320 hours per month. In related news, music streaming service Spotify announced it has surpassed 2 million paid subscribers. The service has gained approximately 400,000 paid subscribers since its U.S. launch in July. (9/22)


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Let us remember one of the best to ever to do it, both on the turntables and in life. A champion of champions. A personal hero. Anthony "Grandmaster Roc Raida" Williams (May 17, 1972 – September 19, 2009).
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A Talk on the Wild Side.
At Gulf Shores Plantation, a wooden boardwalk has always been the gateway between condominiums and the sandy white beaches of the Fort Morgan peninsula.
As vacationers happily cross the boardwalk to reach the Gulf of Mexico, they are able to view sand dunes, which act as valuable habitat for creatures, such as beach mice, sea turtles, and shore birds.
For years, residents have been co-existing with wildlife habitat -- enjoying nature's gifts and working with us to help stop their extinction.
But in 2004, Hurricane Ivan wiped out that boardwalk, along with sand dunes on the beach. When it was rebuilt, it sat too low on the flattened beach.
As the dunes began to rebuild, they didn't have any vegetation, making them unstable. Soon, winds covered the boardwalk with sand. Many vacationers and snow birds had no access to the beach.
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"We have a lot of elderly and disabled people who rely on that boardwalk. But when the sand overtook it, access to the beach was cut off," explained Boardwalk Committee Chairman Robert Bush. "Mothers couldn't even push strollers over the thick sand."
Bush, a Kentucky native, was tasked with solving the sandy problem facing the boardwalk. He met up with Fish and Wildlife Biologist Bill Lynn to figure out the proper way to fix the problem without disturbing beach mouse habitat.
"We quickly realized we both wanted the same thing," said Lynn. "He wanted to stabilize the dunes to keep the sand from ruining the boardwalk. I wanted to keep them stable for beach mouse habitat."
So with the help of the Baldwin County Soil and Water Conservation District (BCSWCD), North Baldwin Center for Technology, Locust Grove Baptist Church, and Boy Scout Troop 369, Bush kicked off a project to help keep those dunes intact. Volunteers spent the first week of April getting their hands dirty, digging deeply into the sand, and planting native dune vegetation that will help hold the dunes together.
"Dunes provide important habitat for beach mice, sea turtles, and migratory birds," explained Lynn. "But they also create a natural line of defense against storms and help protect property. Stabilizing these dunes is a win-win situation for both wildlife and people."
Conservationists with the BCSWCD were able to purchase the dune plants through a grant provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Volunteers arrived with more than 8,000 plants, including Sea Oats, Sea purslane, and panic grass.
Joey Koptis is BCSWCD's District Conservationist: "Our mission is to help people help the land. It's a good opportunity for folks to see that conservation doesn't just happen in farms or forests. We can also protect our natural resources on the beach."
Thirteen year-old Austin Reynolds travelled with his Boy Scout Troop to Alabama all the way from Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Wiping the sweat off his brow, Reynolds said he was proud to make the trip to the Gulf Coast. "I am glad to do my part to help," said Reynolds. "Its hard work, but it's also a lot of fun."
The Boy Scouts weren't the only ones getting hands-on experience in conservation. A class of 16 from the North Baldwin Center for Technology also got to work. "It's good to get the kids out of the classroom and into the field," said Agri-Science Teacher Allan Williams. "It's nice for them to do a project where they can come back years from now and show their children."
Long-term results are exactly what Bush has in mind. Once the vegetation is planted, the committee will monitor the dunes and implement a fertilization program in order to boost growth. He knows the project will require maintenance and commitment for years to come. For now, Bush is beaming with pride as he watches the community come together.
"I'm so tickled. It's a good feeling to know that you have involvement and people want to help."
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Two completely different books:
Hummingbird Lake by Emily March. I try to branch out to different genres from time to time, even ones I don't like (such as romance, in this case); and with this year's summer reading theme with animals, this also had that going for it. With all that said, this is one of the worst books I've read in some time. I don't care about spoilers. Premise: a former doctor who is haunted by traumatic events in her past, moves to a cozy Colorado hill region and becomes a fairly-famous and successful painter (fairies is her best subject). Enter a hot (the author's words, not mine) former-college-professor-now-accident-reviewer who pursues her. She hates him, but still goes out with him, even becoming intimate multiple times with him. Flash forward to the last chapter, where in the local art contest, one of the people who's entered an item is discovered to be a... you know what; I'll probably get banned for continuing. Awful. :mad: Just terrible ending. And it was bad before then.
Let Me Off at the Top! by Ron Burgundy. His autobiography "novel" as he calls it. If you saw the documentaries (what he calls the two movies), you know what to expect. Not as LOL funny as I thought, but the Star Wars references early on are awesome (one: he graduated from Our Lady Queen of Chewbacca High School), and it's silly in a great way.


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So first off this tank is not mine, it has been on craigslist for a few months now and its a realy nice tank but I can't get it so I though maybe I could help them out by putting it on hear. 500 gal acrylic tank for sale 800 bucks with stand and all equipment. 550 for just tank. It is located around syracuse NY.
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Chapter 1
Good Fortune
I learned about my new church calling from Carol Ann Little, the ward mouthpiece. Carol Ann wasn't a gossip, but she had one gift that set her apart from everyone else I knew. Without being told, she knew who was going to be called to a job before most people knew there was a vacancy. The woman was never wrong, unless you count the time she told the bishop who he was going to choose for the Young Women's presidency the week before the fact. When the callings were announced, Carol Ann missed every one. Ironically, the presidency Carol Ann picked was so much better than the one that was sustained, the whole ward just assumed the bishop had changed his mind to take her down a peg. Stranger things have happened.
If anybody else had told me I was going to be the new homemaking counselor, I would have laughed. Education counselor, yes. But I was the only person I knew who couldn't even get butter to spread. I didn't have a Relief Society wreath on my door, and the only thing standing between my house and the Board of Health was the housekeeper that came in on Tuesdays. So even hearing it from Carol Ann didn't convince me.
Almost before I had my eyebrows raised, Carol Ann added, "Alex Roundy will be president, and the education counselor will be Bess Monson." She leaned back and took a sip of Diet Coke, looking pleased with herself, but I had my doubts. If Carol Ann was right on this one, it would be a coup even for her. Calling Alex to be a Relief Society president was about as likely as making her an apostle. And Bess Monson, education counselor? Bess was the Jell-O Queen of North America. She and her four little girls were always scrubbed and wearing dresses, and she never had so much as a hair out of place. But she had the I.Q. of a pencil sharpener. The only book she'd ever read was written by Mormon. Carol Ann was headed for major humiliation.
I'd almost forgotten Carol Ann's prediction two days later, when I opened my front door to find the bishop on the doorstep. He took one look at me in my pajamas - at 6 p.m. - and decided not to come in. Samson hissed at him malevolently, but I kicked him inside and went out on the porch.
"I've come to ask you to accept a position," he said, squinting in the sunset, and I knew Carol Ann was right. "This may sound a little unorthodox, but I've prayed about it and you're the one. I'd like you to be homemaking counselor of the Relief Society."
"With Alex as president and Bess Monson the education counselor," I said. I lifted my Pepsi in salute. "Carol Ann strikes again."
He sighed. "You know, Amy, half the fun in being bishop is calling people to outlandish jobs in the ward and looking at the shock on their faces. Carol Ann is a thorn in my side. Just once I wish somebody would pretend they hadn't talked to her first."
"You may be in luck on this one," I said. "Carol Ann didn't have any guesses for secretary."
Now that it was official, I had to talk to Alex. I usually went to see her several times a week, but the timing was tricky. She didn't get up until nine, but she liked to schedule appointments at 9:30. Then she was liable to go anywhere. But I had to catch her before the first of her soap operas came on at one. No true friend visited Alex after "Days of Our Lives" began.
I opted for a 9:30 visit and walked in the back door, grabbing a soft drink on the way downstairs. Alex was in her workshop, sanding the walnut case of a regulator clock. She had a lot of time for projects, with both her children grown, and she'd taught herself how to build clocks. I'd gotten her third clock, a big oak thing. It had a personality all its own, since the hour hand was Maltese style and the minute hand was serpentine. Alex was big on craftsmanship, but details escaped her.
I grabbed a chair and sat backwards. Alex said, "Hah!" It was her word for hello, and it was so uniquely Alex that half the ward had picked it up. People liked to imitate Alex. They did it so much that it seemed like she constantly had to invent new Alexisms to stay unique.
"Hah!" I said back. I was as guilty of imitating Alex as anyone. "Homemaking counselor? Is this a joke?"
"That's what the church is all about, Sweetie. We're put into these jobs to learn 'em. If you can do 'em already, what's the point? Besides, people surprise you sometimes. You may be cut out for this."
"I won't surprise you. I'm too old to learn how to make Jell-O."
"You're thirty-three years old."
"Whatever. You don't have any children. You're rich. You don't even have a job, and you still keep a filthy house."
"I'm an artist. That's my job."
"Yep. You're an artist. Tell me one thing you've sold. You keep everything you like, and no one would buy the rest of it. You might as well put that energy somewhere useful."
"I put that energy into loving my husband." That sounded pious even to me, but Alex knew what I meant. We'd been friends a long time.
"Your husband's been dead for six years. You're not exactly picking up his socks."
She had a point, but the whole idea of homemaking counselor was still foreign. "And Bess as education counselor? This presidency's going to be a real funfest."
"You're just jealous of Bess. You'll like her when you get over it." She picked up a fresh piece of sandpaper and attacked a mitered corner. "It's the secretary who's going to kill you. Emma Austen."
She waited for a reaction, and she got one. Emma was a fingernail on the chalkboard of life. She'd been my nemesis for years. I didn't like to be in the same room with Emma Austen.
Emma was a real knockout, and nobody knew it better than she did. Her best friend was her mirror, and her favorite pastime was comparing other people to herself. No stranger on the street was safe from her eagle eye. With Emma as judge, everyone else always came up short. But for some reason, she seemed to have half the ward fooled. All her meanness was excused because she was pretty and she smiled. She had as many followers as Alex did, but the people who imitated Alex were not the same people who idolized Emma.
"Spiffy," I said. "The secretary from hell. Whatever inspired you?"
"It was an answer to prayer. Every time I prayed about it, Emma's name came up. She wouldn't have been my first dibs, either, but I didn't have a choice. You'll support her, won't you?"
"Not until I raise my hand on Sunday. After that, I'll do my best. For your sake, I'll try to keep my mouth shut. Don't ask for more than that."
Alex bit a splinter from the tip of her thumb and sucked on the wound. "It could be worse. She's in court all day, and that hot dating schedule keeps her busy at night. She'll probably be secretary in name only.
"By the way," she added, wiping a smear of blood from the clock cabinet, "leave Thursday open. Before we get sustained, I want to spend one last afternoon as a person. Let's take Bess and Emma out to lunch."
"Let me guess. Don Antonio's. You do know how to throw a party."
Alex picked me up on Thursday morning. She didn't look like a Relief Society president. Her jeans were paint-stained and torn, but she was wearing three rings, her Rolex, and a ruby necklace. Even without all the jewelry, her person looked tanned and expensive. Compared with Alex, I was woefully inadequate.
We stopped by to pick up Bess. From the moment she got in the car she looked nervous. Alex and I were virtual strangers to Bess, who had always had jobs in the Primary, away from the body of women in the ward. I could understand how being in the car with two strangers would intimidate her, especially when one of the strangers was Alex.
Alex turned toward town, and Bess panicked. "Where's Emma?" she asked quickly. "Aren't we stopping for Emma?"
"Emma can't get off work," Alex said. "In fact, anything that's done in the daytime will probably have to be done by the three of us."
Bess said "oh" in a small voice, and settled quietly into the back seat. I caught a glimpse of her in the rear-view mirror, and she looked as trapped as a hamster in a cage. Nobody said anything, so Alex put some Scarlatti on the cassette player. We listened to the music the rest of the way to Don Antonio's.
Don Antonio's was going to be the official restaurant of Alex's Relief Society presidency, I could tell. She went there so often the owner once offered her a job as hostess. Alex said no. She didn't tell the owner, but she could have bought Don Antonio's if she wanted; she didn't need to work there.
Don Antonio's wasn't my favorite restaurant. I liked Cafe Pierpont or Marie Callender's or any one of a dozen other places better. But Alex liked the security of routine. Don Antonio's was like going to McDonald's without having to go to McDonald's. The food was always the same. Everyone recognized Alex and treated her like an old friend. She even parked in the back and walked through the kitchen to get there - a habit that did nothing to improve my appetite. But Alex said walking through the back door made Don Antonio's feel like home. It was part of the Don Antonio's experience.
When we opened the screen door to go inside, Bess blanched. It was then I realized she probably didn't even eat enchiladas. Suddenly I thought Bess was working just as hard to go to lunch with Alex and me as I'd have to work to teach a Primary class. It was a sobering idea.
The first thing Bess said when she looked at the menu was, "Don't they have anything besides Mexican food?" Alex's eyes widened. It obviously hadn't occurred to her that someone might not like Don Antonio's. I suggested a taco salad, and Bess looked relieved.
When the chips came, Bess wouldn't even eat those. "These are just tortilla chips and sauce," Alex said. "You don't like salsa?"
"I have an ulcer," Bess said apologetically.
Alex changed the subject by mentioning Relief Society, but that also went nowhere. We hadn't been sustained yet, and she didn't want to mention any specific ideas she had until then. When the talk flagged, I asked her how her husband was doing. She seemed grateful for the opening.
"I don't know if Ethan loves me anymore," she said. One thing about Alex I admired but couldn't emulate was that she wasn't ashamed to confide in her friends. I didn't consider Bess a friend, but Alex apparently figured we'd be working so closely that we shouldn't try to keep secrets from each other.
"That's ridiculous," I said. "He took you to Austria in April. He sends you flowers every month on your anniversary."
"That doesn't mean anything." Bess's voice came out in a squeak. She took a small sip of water, and her voice deepened again. "Outward displays like that sometimes cover up other feelings."
That was just what Alex didn't need to hear. For years she'd been telling me Ethan was stepping out on her. She never had any proof, and I didn't think she ever would have. But she was resolute in her suspicions, sure she was unworthy of Ethan's love.
"That's not true with Ethan and Alex," I said. "Alex just spends her lifetime in paranoia."
But Alex didn't want comfort. "I shouldn't blame Ethan," she said. "You can't stay in love forever. When you live with a person day in and day out, you see all the warts and the flaws. Little by little, the mystery is solved and the romance fades."
"So what if the romance fades?" I asked. "You're friends now. Friendship is better." Tim and I had been best friends, and I knew what I was saying.
Bess said, "I don't agree. There are different types of love. For most people, maybe you're right. But some people have something stronger, something different. For those people, passion never dies."
That annoyed me, and I didn't let it go unanswered. "Who's in love like that? Name one person. If you give me an example outside the movies, maybe I'll believe you."
"I can't name any names," Bess said. "But I knew of a case like that once. The love never went away."
I thought then that she was talking about her own marriage, and the comparison bothered me. It wasn't enough that her husband, Rick, was the handsomest man I'd ever seen. Now she was telling me the way he loved her was better than the way Tim had loved me.
I didn't believe Bess for a minute, but Alex reacted differently. Once she had a testimonial that other people had that kind of love, she immediately blamed herself. "Then Ethan needs someone better than I am," she said sadly. "He needs somebody who won't let the romance die out."
Alex and I had had this conversation a dozen times before, and it always made me angry. I gave the answer I always gave. "Ethan couldn't be looking for anyone else," I said. "He couldn't find anybody better than you."
After lunch, Alex drove aimlessly toward town. She seemed disturbed, and I thought she was still worrying about Ethan. But finally she turned off the tape player and said, "I'm not up to this."
"You're not up to what?" I asked.
"Being Relief Society president," Bess said, and Alex nodded. I felt annoyed that Bess had read my best friend better than I had, but Bess had annoyed me a lot today.
Alex turned left on Third South and continued, "It was one thing to work with the Young Women. We understood each other. We all had fun together. But I'm not Relief Society president material. Everybody knows it. I'm afraid all this is going to change me, and I don't know if I want to change. What if Ethan likes the new Alex even less?"
Bess said, "Has it occurred to you Ethan may like the new Alex even more?"
Alex thought about that for a minute. Then she shook her head as if dismissing it. "I don't know. I just feel so trapped. Everyone will be watching me to see if I slip up. I'll always have to be an example. That scares me. People shouldn't be looking to me for spiritual guidance. I can't even guide myself."
She stopped the car at a light and drummed her fingers on the steering wheel, waiting for the light to change. Then she eased the car across the intersection. "I feel so restless today. This is the last time, maybe for years, that we'll be real people. I want to do something wild and irresponsible today. I just don't know what it is."
Suddenly the car screeched to a halt. I'd been watching Alex, and I turned quickly to see if she'd braked to avoid an accident. But nothing was in the street. A driver behind us honked and then passed us when Alex didn't start moving again. She was staring at a storefront on the north side of the street. A sign in the window said, "palm reader."
"This is it!" she said, with more animation than I'd heard from her in days. "I've always wanted to get my palm read. Today we're going to do it." She parked her car right outside the store and started removing her rings. She hid all her expensive jewelry in her purse and then a found quarter to feed the meter. One infuriating thing about Alex was that wherever she wanted to park, there was always an open spot.
"We're not supposed to be doing this," Bess said, as Alex and I opened our car doors. "We can't do it."
Alex glared at Bess. "We're not the Relief Society presidency for three days," she said. "This is our last chance to do it."
Bess didn't budge, and Alex got a pleading tone in her voice. "Nobody believes in fortune telling. It's a trick. It's done with mirrors or something. I just want us to do something crazy before we have to start serving Jell-O at funerals."
Bess looked at me for support, but I was silent. I'd never met a palm reader, and I wanted to see if she wore a bandanna and smoked filter tips. I also wanted to see if she took MasterCard. The official witch of Salem, Massachusetts, takes MasterCard.
With Bess lagging behind us, we walked inside. A bell above the door announced us, and a decrepit woman shuffled out from a back room. She hitched up her skirt when she saw us and flicked ashes off her cigarette. I'd been right about the filter tips.
The gypsy led us to folding chairs around a tilted card table, and I had a chance to look around. Other than the table and chairs, the room was bare. There was a threadbare carpet on the floor, and pet stains decorated it randomly. An obnoxious, yapping poodle appeared from the back and jumped on my lap, sniffing. I hate dogs - they're right up there on my list with children and cigarettes. But just like children and cigarette smoke, dogs always go for me first. As politely as I could, I pushed the poodle onto the floor. All dogs are bad, but poodles are the worst.
The fortune teller's name was Miriam. "Meer-iam," she said, with that hard Utah r. She discreetly looked outside, probably checking which car was ours. Little clues like that help a fortune teller. But a man in a beat-up Toyota had parked right after us, in the spot behind Alex's Jaguar. The gypsy wouldn't know which car had brought us here.
I'd always wanted to see a palm reader work, but watching this one in action was hardly dramatic. The fortunes were generic. I could have told fortunes like that - stuff about riches and travel and health and happiness.
Alex and I were disappointed, but Bess looked relieved. We shouldn't have brought her here. I knew it.
Meer-iam may not have been much on reading palms, but she could read our skepticism just fine. "As a little finale," she said when Bess's hand had been read, "I want each of you to put the first name of someone on a piece of paper. I'll tell you what you need to know about that special person." Great, I thought. Even fortune tellers use "special" when they live in Utah.
Alex went first. She rooted through her purse, discreetly pushing aside the Cross pen and pulling out a chewed stub of pencil. She also found a paper towel. Resolutely, she wrote the name Ethan. Meer-iam blew a smoke ring and read the name aloud once, then twice. She was earning her ten-dollar fee. "I see purple toenail polish," she said. "The woman who holds Ethan's heart will wear purple toenail polish. Ethan has a wandering eye, but purple toenail polish will hold him."
Alex waited for more, but that was it. She looked disappointed. What did she want? The purple toenail polish was a creative touch, but even Alex couldn't believe Meer-iam knew what she was talking about.
The pencil stub was passed to me, and I wrote Timothy on the towel. Alex gave Bess a meaningful glance I caught peripherally. So what if he's dead, I thought. It's just for fun. I grinned rakishly.
Meer-iam put her hand on Tim's name, theatrically waiting for psychic vibrations. I was not going to tip this woman. "I see a love that transcends the grave," she said. "Timothy's wife will never wed another."
Bess looked shocked, but I gave her a cynical look. That could be said about anybody. Tim could have been my son, and the fortune could have meant he'd grow up to be lucky in love. Tim could have been my gerbil, who'd been miserably celibate since Samson accidentally ate Happy last year. It was only coincidence that Tim was my dead husband, the true love of my life, and I wasn't going to remarry.
Bess didn't want to take the pencil, but Alex gave her a look that said, "I'm paying for this. Play it to the hilt." Bess wrote a calligrapher's F and put the pencil down quickly. Smart move. Meer-iam wouldn't know F stood for Frederick, Rick's real name.
But the fortune teller wasn't fooled for a minute. In fact, she didn't even touch the paper before she started speaking. "This one's vibrations are strong," she said dramatically. "He'll give up everything for you. The two of you will be happy together all your lives."
I couldn't believe Bess's luck. Even her fake fortune was perfect. She looked surprised and then blissful, forgetting for a moment this was all a bunch of garbage. Then she must have remembered, because she looked repentant and sad.
Alex paid Meer-iam $30 (Utah's witch didn't take a Visa gold card, but she did accept personal checks), and we laughed all the way home. Bess relaxed as soon as we were back in the car, and even she had a few observations about the fortune teller. By the time Alex dropped Bess off at her house, she seemed to have put the whole thing behind her.
I would have forgotten it too, if not for Alex. As soon as we got inside her house, she took off her shoes and inspected her toes. They looked like toes to me - purely functional. They were square and sturdy, and the big one on the left had a few squiggly hairs Alex had forgotten to remove. But the chief drawback was the color. Like the rest of Alex, her toes were that brownish yellow shade you get from tanning beds. They'd look putrid in purple nail polish.
Alex knew it as soon as I did. "This is ridiculous. I'd even wear the stuff if I thought it'd help, but it isn't me. I'd look like a fruitcake. Ethan doesn't notice colors. Pink is close enough." She rooted through her dresser until she found day-glo pink polish, the color she always wore. The chemical smell made my nose itch.
That was the end of the fortune teller, but it was not the end of Alex's worries about Ethan.
Copyright © 1989 by Kathryn H. Kidd


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Happy Hour "SEC Style"Bubbais driving down a back road in Alabama ..A sign in front of a restaurant reads:HAPPY HOUR SPECIALLobster Tail and Beer"Lordy mercy!" Bubba says to himself, "Them's my 3 favorites!"
"All those things bother me: The populism, the lying and the scapegoating and the xenophobia bother me, but then theres a layer of incompetence here. I suppose, in a way, we should be thankful: If he had a coherent ideology, hed probably be more dangerous." P J O'Rourke
I hope that we at least try to run it a couple times to try and keep them honest.
They might be the best run defense ever, but I would venture to say that our OL is the best they will see all year too. I would be surprised if our coaching staff just threw up its hands and abandoned our identity without at least seeing if they were as good as advertised. I would also be surprised if we don't have a backup plan available if (i) their run D is as good as advertised or (ii) they are forced to walk 8 or 9 down in the box.
I was told point blank last week on this board that my suggestion that Alabama run right at Jarvis Jones to neutralize him was just dumb and that if you run right at him "he will beat you." Not only did this happen, Gary Danielson himself said the same exact thing I did about running at him. Now it turns out that in the 2d half Bama's right tackle was walking up to the line of scrimmage and telling Jones and everybody else that the play was coming over him, and they still couldn't stop it. Yep, I guess my suggestion was pretty stupid after all. And this against an SEC defense with NFL players all over the field.
All that to say this: ND might stop us from running, but they will have to do it that night on the field. All this talking about it, and most assuredly my talking about it, has reached the point of diminishing returns IMHO.
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gary danielson definitely reads rtf's college football thread for color commentary insight. i think i would rather have verne drink a glass of scotch and agree with my prediction than have gary confirm my views.
who will do the play by play of this bcs championship game anyway?
john mccallie
Johnny Football.
Now he's got at least 2 more years to match
Now maybe I can find a Johnny Football jersey in Ft. Worth.
Wayne Nutt
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HRCH Clineline Hijacker "Jack"
HRCH Marks a Lot Midnight Hudson, SH "Hudson" RIP (5/26/01-6/18/15)
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I just noticed that Tommy Tuberville quit Texas Tech to take the head coach position at Cincinnati. That was a surprise!
Wayne Nutt
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Last week, the New Zealand Parliament passed the Harmful Digital Communications (HDC) Act. The act was conceived over three years ago as an initiative to address online bullying among young New Zealanders. Since then, prompted by subsequent highly visible online scandals in the country, its scope widened dramatically. The final act takes on nothing less than all content on the Internet that might be deemed harmful.
A panel of eleven Ninth Circuit federal judges heard oral arguments yesterday in Garcia v. Google, a copyright case arising from the notorious "Innocence of Muslims" video that was associated with violent protests around the world. The appellant, Cindy Lee Garcia, argues that she holds a copyright in her five-second performance in the video (a performance she says was tricked into giving), and is trying to use that claim to get the video pulled off the internet. To the shock of many, last February two Ninth Circuit judges agreed she might have a claim and ordered Google to remove the video from YouTube and prevent future uploads. Yesterday's hearing revisited the facts and law that led to that decision.
Another day, another stupid trademark threat. The target this time? The Sunlight Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting government transparency. As part of its work, it posts detailed information about corporate campaign contributions, information that often includes logos associated with those corporations. One of those corporations, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, objected, and asked that Sunlight remove its logos. The note was quite polite for a takedown, stressing that Deloitte had no objection to the other content on the site (gee, thanks guys!). But polite or not, it's a note that would be pretty intimidating for most individuals, nonprofits, and small businesses who don't have easy access to a lawyer.
After months of waiting, a Ninth Circuit panel has finally responded to Google's plea, supported by public interest groups (including EFF), journalists, librarians, other service providers, and law professors, to reconsider its disastrous opinion in the case of Garcia v. Google. The good news is that we managed to get the panel to revisit its opinion. The bad news is that it essentially doubled down.
Say it ain't so, Google. Two weeks ago, the awesome activists at the Peng! Collective launched a funny and smart satirical site, google-nest.org, which purported to offer a host of new Google "products," pairing the launch with a public announcement at the Re:publica 2014 conference in Berlin. The spoof site included products such as Google Trust (data "insurance"), Google Bee (personal drones), Google Hug (location-based crowdsourced hug matching) and Google Bye (an online profile for the afterlife). The goal: raise awareness about Google's privacy policies, which Peng! believes are hypocritical. The spoof was great success, prompting a wave of commentary and coverage that recognized it for the satire that it was.
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3.49: Solubility
Rhonda wanted to see if salt or sugar dissolves faster in water. She added the same amount of salt and sugar to a half liter of room temperature (20 °C) water in separate glasses. Then she stirred both mixtures. All of the sugar dissolved in less than a minute, but after 5 minutes of stirring, some of the salt still hadn't dissolved. Even if she had kept stirring the saltwater mixture all day, the remaining salt would not dissolve. Do you know why? The answer is their solubility.
What Is Solubility?
Solubility is the amount of solute that can dissolve in a given amount of solvent at a given temperature. In a solution, the solute is the substance that dissolves, and the solvent is the substance that does the dissolving. For a given solvent, some solutes have greater solubility than others. For example, sugar is much more soluble in water than is salt. But even sugar has an upper limit on how much can dissolve. In a half liter of 20 °C water, the maximum amount is 1000 grams. If you add more sugar than this, the extra sugar won't dissolve. You can compare the solubility of sugar, salt, and some other solutes in the Table below. For a video about solubility, go to this URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKimraU21ws&feature=related
|Grams of Solute that Will Dissolve in 0.5 L of Water (20 °C)
|Baking Soda
|Epsom salt
|Table salt
|Table sugar
Q: How much salt do you think Rhonda added to the half-liter of water in her experiment?
A: The solubility of salt is 180 grams per half liter of water at 20 °C. If Rhonda had added less than 180 grams of salt to the half-liter of water, then all of it would have dissolved. Because some of the salt did not dissolve, she must have added more than 180 grams of salt to the water.
Factors that Affect Solubility
Certain factors can change the solubility of a solute. Temperature is one such factor. How temperature affects solubility depends on the state of the solute, as you can see in the Figure below. You can learn more about temperature and other factors that affect solubility at this URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKimraU21ws&feature=related
- If a solute is a solid or liquid, increasing the temperature increases its solubility. For example, more sugar can dissolve in hot water than in cold water.
- If a solute is a gas, increasing the temperature decreases its solubility. For example, less carbon dioxide can dissolve in warm water than in cold water.
The solubility of gases is also affected by pressure. Pressure is the force pushing against a given area. Increasing the pressure on a gas increases its solubility. Did you ever open a can of soda and notice how it fizzes out of the can? Soda contains dissolved carbon dioxide. Opening the can reduces the pressure on the gas in solution, so it is less soluble. As a result, some of the carbon dioxide comes out of solution and rushes into the air.
Q: Which do you think will fizz more when you open it, a can of warm soda or a can of cold soda?
A: A can of warm soda will fizz more because increasing the temperature decreases the solubility of a gas. Therefore, less carbon dioxide can remain dissolved in warm soda than in cold soda.
- Solubility is the amount of solute that can dissolve in a given amount of solvent at a given temperature. Some solutes have greater solubility than others.
- Temperature affects the solubility of solutes in all three states. Pressure also affects the solubility of gases.
- solubility: Amount of solute that can dissolve in a given amount of solvent at a given temperature.
At the following URL, watch the video about solubility, and then answer the questions below. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKimraU21ws
- How does Mr. Anderson define solubility in the video?
- What is the solubility of talc in 100 mL of 25 °C water? Explain why talc has this solubility.
- Describe how increasing temperature affects the solubility of solid and liquid solutes.
- Why is there less oxygen in ocean water near the equator than in water at higher latitudes?
- A factory discharges clean, warm water into a nearby stream. Fish keep dying in this part of stream. Explain why.
- What is solubility?
- For a given solute and solvent, what factors affect solubility?
- You open a can of room temperature soda and pour it into a glass. Why does the soda go flat? Will it go flat faster or slower if you add ice? Why?
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A truely beautiful addition to my collection of Pre Victorian ~ Victorian Silver & Gold Writing Equipment: This is a Sterling Silver propelling pencil by Gabriel Riddle the sometime partner of Sampson Mordan Snr.
The pencil tests as 925 Silver but it bears no Hallmarks but is marked "PATENT ~ G.RIDDLE ~ MAKER ~ LONDON".
Length: Closed 85mm - Open 108mm. The letter 'M' on nozzle denotes the lead type required (Specification as laid down in the Patent of Sampson Mordan). See my post below for details of Patent/Leads:
The last photograph shows the "pepperpot" or "revolver" end to the lead refill storage area; revealed by unscrewing the finial cap. The finial often bears an inset, faceted jewel but in this case a silver "crown". The "pepperpot" storage compartments are invariably a sign of quality in these gold or silver pencils, and is always something to be "looked for". One of the "finer" presentations is a central tube surrounded "revolver style" with five further tubes or cylinders, for the lead storage. As you can see; this example has just three tubes or cylinders.
A further note on "quality": to the uninitiated, it may seem that "quality" is denoted by the presence of Hallmarks, however this is not true with the very high quality, prestigious makers, often their pieces had no Hallmarks at all, they preferring their name alone to guarantee the unquestionable quality, they did not present their work to be officially assayed, and consequently marked. (You will often find pieces by such makers as Riddle, Mordan and Butler etc. etc. to have only their name, "maker", "patentee", "Co" and perhaps their city marked).
Another reason for the absence of Hallmarks is the fact that these pencils are very small and delicate and could sometimes be damaged in the Hallmarking process, depending on the skill of the person wielding the hammer and punch! So you will also find lesser makes without makers name or personal marks AND without Hallmarks too!
To confuse things slightly more; sometimes you will also find precious metal pencils made by one of the premier makers with all their own personal company markings AND the assay Hallmarks too! That then is a bonus for the collector trying to date and identify.
You will also find gold items sometimes have even less markings than silver to assist. In the case of Sampson Mordan they would use 15ct gold and NOT mark their name / patentee/ company / city NOR have Hallmarks, but what they did show, was; what has come to be called the "Mordan Arrow", a small simple fletched arrow! And nothing else! (I will post an example of just such a pencil in the near future).
See my earlier post for a potted history of Mordan & Riddle:


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text: Made famous by 'La Dolce Vita' film in 1960, the Via Veneto is going through a glamorous renaissance. Bars, restaurants, chic hotels and boutiques all vie for attention in the street which coined the expression 'paparazzo' – the surname of the photojournalist in the film. Nearby, the Spanish Steps are the place for lovers' trysts, shopping, and honing the Italian art of 'dolce far niente' – idling and people-watching.


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Family: Pleuronectidae, Righteye Flounders view all from this family
Description The winter flounder, Pseudopleuronectes americanus, (also known as black back) is a right-eyed ("dextral") flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. It is native to coastal waters of the western north Atlantic coast, from Labrador, Canada to Georgia, United States. In the waters from Newfoundland down through Massachusetts Bay it is the most common near-shore (shallow-water) flounder. It grows up to 64 cm in length and 3.6 kg in weight.
It spends the summer off shore in deeper waters, and winters in shallow coastal estuaries rivers and bays.
Winter flounders are highly regarded for their delicious white meat. They are sometimes called lemon sole in the U.S.
They can be differentiated from summer flounder because they almost always have eyes on the right side of their bodies. They also do not have teeth. Summer flounder have their eyes on the left side of their bodies, and do have teeth.
Dimensions Up to 23" (58 cm).
Habitat Ocean or bay shallows.
Range New England, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast, Eastern Canada.


text: I am taking my dog out for the season opener this weekend and am very nervous i am hoping our hard work pay's off. One of the guys i am going with also is taking his dog for the first time. it is his second dog he has trained though and my first. So hopefully they both do well, if not it will be fun either way.