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The Phils are done in by a four-run sixth inning, featuring two errors, as they lose to the Angels, 4-3.
Two fielding mistakes help lead to a four-run sixth as the Phils lose to the Angels, 4-3.
The Phils took the lead in the bottom of the fourth as, with one man on, and with one man out, Chase Utley hits an RBI triple, knocking in Ben Revere, who had started the inning off with a single, giving the Phils a 1-0 lead, a triple that was challenged by the Angels' manager Mike Scioscia, but was upheld after being reviewed by the umpires. The Phils added to their lead one batter later as Ryan Howard hits an RBI single, scoring Utley, giving the Phils a 2-0 lead. The Angels got a run back in the top of the sixth as, with the bases loaded, via a lead-off double by Collin Cowgill, who then went to third base as Albert Pujols reached first base on third baseman Cody Asche's fielding error, and a walk to Howie Kendrick, moving Pujols up a base, and with one man out, Cowgill would score on Asche's throwing error to the plate of Chris Iannetta's grounder to third on a force attempt at the plate, as the throw pulled catcher Carlos Ruiz off of the plate, making it a 2-1 Phils' lead, a call that would be confirmed after a challenged was made by Phils' manager Ryne Sandberg, while Pujols and Kendrick would both move up a base and Iannetta would be safe at first, leaving the bases loaded. The Angels then tied the game up at two-all one batter later as Grant Green hits a sacrifice fly, scoring Pujols, while moving Kendrick up to third base. The Angels then took a 4-2 lead as, with runners on the corners, and now with two men out, Luis Jimenez hits a two-run double, knocking in Kendrick and Ianenetta. The Phils would get a run back in the bottom of the seventh as, with a runner on third, and with nobody out, Ruiz hits a sacrifice fly, knocking in Dom Brown, who had started the inning off with a triple, making it a 4-3 Angels' lead. That would end up being the final score as Ernesto Frieri collected his fifth save of the year with a scoreless ninth, getting Ruiz to hit into a double play to end the ballgame.
Cliff Lee (3-4, 3.23) took the lost as he pitched seven innings, giving up four unearned runs on six hits and a walk, while striking out seven. Mike Adams and Jake Diekman combined for two scoreless innings, giving up a hit (Adams) and a walk (Diekman) between them. Matt Shoemaker (1-1, 3.86) got the win as he threw five innings, giving up two runs on three hits and a walk, while striking out three. Michael Kohn received his third hold of the season by pitching a scoreless inning, giving up a walk and a hit batter. Fernando Salas collected his third hold of the season as he pitched an inning, giving up a run on a hit. Joe Smith received his fifth hold of the year as he pitched a 1-2-3 inning, striking out a batter. Ernesto Frieri received his fifth save of the season by throwing a scoreless ninth, giving up a walk, while striking out a batter.
The Phils had only four hits in the game, a single by Ben Revere, a triple by Chase Utley (RBI), a single by Ryan Howard (RBI) and a triple by Dom Brown. The final Phil run came in on a sacrifice fly by Carlos Ruiz. The Phils also had three walks (Howard, Brown, Ruiz) and a hit batter (Utley) in the game, while the defense committed three errors, all by Cody Asche.
The Phils (17-20, 5th NL East) conclude their two-game series with the Angels (20-18, 2nd AL West), with a game already in progress.


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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - Journalists, bloggers or anyone else will be prohibited from publicly identifying applicants for concealed handgun permits in Louisiana.
A bill that will make it a misdemeanor crime to release the information received final passage Thursday and heads to Gov. Bobby Jindal's desk.
The House approved the measure 91-2 on Wednesday, while the Senate voted 34-2 in favor on the last day of session.
The bill will make it a misdemeanor to release or publish the names or addresses of permit owners and will carry a $10,000 fine and up to six months in jail.
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Special Bed Bug Program at the Museum of the City of New York
If you live in New York, don't miss next week's panel discussion at the Museum of the City of New York. Entitled Plague! Bed Bugs: Myths and Realities, it will feature some wonderful people - Renee Corea (author of the fantastic New York vs. Bedbugs weblog), Lou Sorkin, of the American Museum of Natural History, City Council Member Gale Brewer, David Cain of Bed Bugs Ltd and more.
I had the pleasure to meet with Renee Corea and Lou Sorkin on my last visit to New York, and I would gladly listen to anything they have to say about the bedbug crisis affecting New York. Council Member Brewer has also been one of the most active voices in the city when it comes to the bedbug fight.
Reservations are required - you can call 917-492-3395 or e-mail the museum at [email protected] The cost is $6 for museum members; $8 for seniors and students, and $12 non-members, but the Museum has been kind enough to offer a discount price of $6 if you mention the Bed Bug Registry when you make your reservation.
I really wish I could attend this talk, and hope that any of you in NYC will take this opportunity in my place. If you want to hear informed and expert voices about bedbugs in New York City, this is the best group of people you could hope to assemble.
Bed Bugs Expanding to the UK (and so are we)
As readers in Europe know, the rapid recent spread of bedbugs isn't limited to just North America.
Today we're launching our first sister site, Bedbug Registry UK, to collect and share reports across the United Kingdom.
The site is not searchable yet, but will be soon. In the meantime, I encourage our UK visitors to submit their bedbug reports. As always, the more people use the site, the more useful it will become as a resource for everyone.
Why Exterminator Reports are Evidence of Nothing
Hotel managers will sometimes dispute a report on this site by emailing me an exterminator's statement that a given room has been checked and found not to harbor bed bugs. In their view, a report of this kind is ironclad evidence that the room inspected is bug-free, so they are dismayed and sometimes angry to find that I don't give the statements much weight.
As I see it, there are two serious problems with treating exterminators' reports as evidence of anything:
First, it's quite possible for a skilled exterminator to examine an infested room without finding bed bugs. The insects are notoriously difficult to find when present in small numbers. Even in a room where there is no doubt of their presence, it can be impossible for an expert technician to find them without disassembling furniture. The problem is compounded in hotel rooms, which often have fixtures like headboards that are permanently fastened to the wall.
Second, not all exterminators know how to check for bed bugs. For many pest control companies, bed bugs are still an unfamiliar foe, and the level of expertise between individual inspectors varies enormously. People posting to this site have reported "inspections" in public housing that consisted of a technician going door to door in the daytime and briefly shining a flashlight under a mattress, a procedure almost designed to eliminate the chances of finding a bed bug.
They've also reported licensed exterminators applying inappropriate treatments (like room foggers) or simply not knowing how to go about looking for the insect.
A perfect example of why I don't treat exterminator reports as dispositive came just a few days ago in an email exchange I had with the Regency Hotel in Omaha. A guest had reported seeing bed bugs during her stay at the hotel, and the manager of the hotel wrote me to vigorously dispute the claim. As evidence, she included the following scan of an exterminator's report:
On the face of it, the report looks quite authoritative. The pest control company in the letterhead has been in business for many years, and works routinely with this hotel. One of their technicians came by, inspected the room, and found it to be free of bed bugs.
But if you look more closely, you'll see the entire inspection lasted 1 minute 57 seconds. Anyone who's fought bedbugs knows this is an impossibly short time to detect anything short of an overwhelming infestation. (When I pointed this out to the Regency manager, she responded that the time recorded on the report did not reflect the actual time spent looking at the room.)
From the hotel's point of view, any report on an exterminator's letterhead should serve as conclusive evidence that there was no bedbug problem. But from my point of view, it's just another piece of evidence to weigh in evaluating a claim.
We may reach a point where there is a gold standard for bed bug inspection, and I can treat a certified report as credible evidence that a hotel room is free of the pests. But we are a very long way from that being the case, and this kind of 'proof' will remain unconvincing.
Still, since hotels give them so much weight, I am working right now on a way to upload scanned PCO reports directly to the site, and let readers make up their own minds.
It has been a crazy few weeks for a lot of us in bed bug land, with multiple daily media inquiries from pretty much every corner.
Coverage of this site in particular has shifted from the initial 'bedbugs are back' stories from years past (nearly all of them unfortunately entitled "Don't Let The Bedbugs Bite!") to a focus on what the insects mean for the hotel industry and the various businesses that profit from them, to a recent obsession with whether it's fair to let people report their bed bug encounters on the Internet without seeking the permission of some authority figure.
What I have not seen reported is any warning of what things are going to look like in six months or a year, when bed bugs begin to proliferate in public spaces and start appearing in dorms, airports, restaurants, taxis, public transit, libraries, hospitals, and the whole depressing litany of locations that offer perfect habitat and have only escaped infestation because no intrepid bed bug has found them yet.
It is not hard to see this coming - the insects are spreading at an accelerating rate, there is nothing to stop them, and we're already seeing initial reports from all the public spaces where they were historically a nuisance before being nearly eradicated in the last century. But no one in the press has seemed to draw the obvious conclusion about where the resurgence is headed. Instead, soon we'll hear talk of a bedbug "backlash" after all the recent hysterical press coverage, and a consensus that the bed bug problem has been overhyped, until the media cycle begins again.
Meanwhile the number of infestations will continue to grow, and the prospect of controlling this insect at all will correspondingly recede. The public health response in American and Canadian cities continues to be minimal, and in some cases laughable, at a time when we are rapidly losing the ability to prevent the bed bug becoming as ubiquitous an urban pest as the cockroach.
Our Most-Reported Building in NYC
If they ever build a bed bug hall of fame, there will definitely be a spot in the trophy case for 248 McKibben St in Brooklyn, the most-reported address in the New York area, with 33 reports. Its sister building at 255 McKibben has ten reports.
The bedbug problem in this building (and its neighbors) is so severe it's received repeated media coverage, in Gothamist, Gawker, and even a Wikipedia article (which does not mention the bed bug problem).
Curiously enough, a recent Daily News profile of this site interviewed a resident of the building, but did not mention the address.
Bedbugger.com covered this building back in 2007. But it still leads the pack!
I'm a little surprised no one has done a story on the bed bug problems at Walt Disney World. We have over 21 reports just for Walt Disney World itself, but if you do a hotel search on "Disney" you'll see the problem is widespread, and that there are many nearby listings from Orlando resorts and hotels.
I'd be very curious to hear how the Disney company is handling their bed bug problem.
Cedar Oils, Bed Bug Sprays, and Other Scams
As the bed bug problem gets worse, the temptation to cash in on people's anxieties through hucksterism increases.
Lately I've been seeing a lot of comment spam and instablogs promoting various bed bug remedies. Frequently these are "natural" sprays containing some kind of essential oil, and they often claim a high success rate when applied directly to bed bugs and their eggs.
The important thing there is the last bit - "when applied directly". Even if these claims are true, they are useless, since pretty much anything is effective at killing bed bugs if you can apply it directly. But as the insect's entire survival strategy is built around hiding from us, you're never going to get a chance to apply anything directly unless you already have a terrible infestation.
Right now, there is no product on the market that can kill bed bugs and their eggs where they hide. If there were, this website wouldn't exist. Remember that before you waste any money buying sprays or other treatments that suggest otherwise.
In South America, the bedbugs can fly and give you incurable heart disease by relieving themselves on your face.
These little horrors are called vinchucas, and are a bloodsucking subclass of assassin bug. They are not related to the common bedbug, but have evolved similar behavior and use the same feeding strategy (large, infrequent blood meals before molting).
The disease they transmit, Chagas disease, is a chronic parasitic infection that is imperfectly treatable even with expert medical care. Left untreated, it leads to chronic and degenerative heart disease. Chagas is a huge public health problem in Bolivia and throughout poorer areas of South America.
Unfortunately, the insect is beginning to show up in Southern California. The good people at UC Riverside are keeping an eye on it.
One of the toughest aspects of running the site is dealing with cases where a hotel has received a bedbug report from a guest and dealt with it promptly and effectively (by calling in experienced pest controllers, treating adjacent rooms, and helping the guest make sure their belongings are properly treated before returning home, for instance by drying them on high heat).
Hotels understandably hate to be listed on this website, and I hate to feel like we're punishing people who act promptly and responsibly to address bedbug complaints. At the same time, I believe it's very important to publicize the extent of the bedbug problem afflicting the US, and the fact that you can really come across them anywhere. So I encourage management and guests to write about the positive outcome, but I don't remove the posts from the site.
For what it's worth, in my travels I would much prefer to stay in a hotel that I knew had a sound bedbug policy and trained staff, and had dealt with complaints promptly, then take my chances in a place I know nothing about. We're approaching the point where there won't be such a thing as a hotel that's never had a bedbug encounter.
You can now follow us on twitter at @BedbugRegistry.
New York bedbug fighters Lou Sorkin and Renee Corea have both pointed out to me a mildly pernicious trend in news reports about bed bugs, where they are routinely compared in size and color to an apple pip.
While this is true of adult bed bugs, it is absolutely not true of young bedbugs, which are much smaller and nearly transparent.
I'm afraid the best thing to do is to bite the bullet and take a look at photos of bed bugs in all stages of life. Note especially the size of the tiny first instar having a meal on someone's finger. Even better, if you are near someone with a bedbug colony, see if you can arrange a short visit.
Lou Sorkin makes a habit of doing show and tell with actual bedbugs whenever he speaks on the topic, which I think is a terrific idea. You can save yourself a lot of stress trying to identify a mystery insect at night if you've previously taken a close look at bed bugs in their various life stages.
I've had several letters today pointing me to a CNN story about bedbugs in Times Square movie theater, and asking if the site will start listing theaters and other retail establishments with infestations.
I cringe at having to give this answer, but I think that bedbugs are very soon going to be the norm in movie theaters. I would hate to give anyone the impression that a theater is safe just because it doesn't show up on the registry. Theaters are an ideal habitat for the insects (dark, full of bodies) and all it takes is one hitchhiking insect to establish an infestation.
With the large number of people who come through such a space in a given day, bedbug infestation in public places like cinemas (and libraries, and commuter trains, and airports, and hospitals, and so on) is going to be a chronic fact of life for everyone in the not too distant future.
Some people who visit this site might know that I've been writing stuff online for several years, including about my bedbug experiences.
Still, so much is happening this summer in the world of bedbugs that I thought it might be a good time to start a blog specifically for the website.
In addition to bedbug news, I'll try to cover some of the issues that come up in running the site, highlight particularly bad cases from our archive, and of course answer any reader questions.


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Google Updates Gmail for iPhone, Android
Google on Tuesday launched an updated Gmail for mobile Web app for the iPhone and Android-based phones that promises an experience similar to your desktop Gmail.
The revamped mobile Gmail includes a "floaty bar" that sits on top of you inbox to allow for easier archiving, deleting, and other functions. You no longer have to select a message and scroll all the way to the top to hit "archive" or "delete" - the floaty bar moves with you as you navigate you inbox.
Google also improved the look of labels and messages to make them look more like the desktop versions, and moved the search bar into the top header.
Google also promised faster speeds, even if the network drops. "You'll still be able to open recently read messages and to compose over a flaky, or non-existent, network connection," Joanne McKinley, an engineer with Google Mobile, wrote in a blog post.
"All this is achieved with aggressive caching and by leveraging new browser technologies, like HTML5 and Gears," McKinley wrote "The full impact of this new architecture isn't visible yet, but it will enable us to significantly improve performance and quickly roll out new features in the near future."
To access the update, go to gmail.com on your mobile browser.
It supports the iPhone and iPod Touch with OS 2.2.1 or above. Those with older firmware will be directed to the previous Gmail for mobile. All Android phones are supported.
It is currently only available in English, and is rolling out throughout the day, so check back if you don't see it immediately, McKinley wrote.Originally posted to AppScout.


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Via-Washington Examiner
Mark Tapscott
Lisa Jackson's forthcoming departure from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is a major victory for transparency and accountability in Washington.
After years of whispers that EPA officials frequently used private email addresses, fake names and coded messages to circumvent the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, Jackson admitted recently to using "Richard Windsor" as her chosen nom de plume on a government email account.
That was her choice because it reminded her of a much-beloved family pet, she claimed. (At least she didn't ask how anybody could suspect a puppy lover like her of any wrongdoing.) The EPA inspector general opened an investigation into the matter because it is against federal law to use nonofficial or secret email addresses to conduct official business.
The EPA IG could hardly do otherwise. The use of private or secret emails enables high government muckety-mucks like Jackson to hide things about which they don't want the rest of us to know. But we don't need an investigation to know officials have been hiding bad things within the EPA for a very long time.
During the Clinton years, Carol Browner (a former senatorial aide to Vice President Gore) headed the EPA. She ordered the hard drive on her government computer to be reformatted and all backup tapes destroyed, just hours after a federal judge ordered her agency to preserve all agency email records. Only hopelessly naive or blindly partisan folks took seriously Browner's doe-eyed claim that it was all just a big mistake and she certainly wasn't trying to cover up anything. Nothing to see here, so move along, folks.
But nothing was done.
Then, in the course of litigation initiated a few months ago by Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Christopher Horner, an internal memo from the EPA's IT department turned up. It described the process for establishing and using secret email accounts.
That revelation sparked trench warfare among Jackson's EPA, a federal court, at least two committees in Congress, Horner and the CEI over thousands of other internal emails and documents likely to shed additional light on the illegalities going on at the environmental agency.
The conflict is far from over, and the odds favor some ugly revelations before any cease-fire is declared. Jackson's defenders will claim her departure has nothing to do with these matters. But Horner well makes the obvious point to the contrary: "It is not only implausible that Lisa Jackson's resignation was unrelated to her false identity, which we revealed, given how the obvious outcome and apparent objective of such subversion of transparency laws was intolerable. But it became an inevitability when, last week, the Department of Justice agreed (as a result of our lawsuit) to begin producing 12,000 of her 'Richard Windsor' alias accounts related to the war on coal Jackson was orchestrating on behalf of President Obama outside of the appropriate democratic process."
There's also this: Having held dozens of Jackson's most costly and controversial proposed regulations until after the election, the Obama administration is now releasing those regulatory bombs. Still having "Richard Windsor" at the EPA would have immeasurably complicated the legal and political battles occasioned by each of the new Jackson regulations.
Maybe, as Horner jokes, Jackson just wants to spend more time with her dog, but it's impossible not to think Jackson's sins against transparency account at least in part for her departure from the EPA.
Here's why this is so significant if you believe the public's business ought to be conducted in public: Nobody in government has ever gone to jail for violating the FOIA.
Jackson isn't going to jail, either, but at least now she won't be running the EPA under an alias.


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It's a Saturday afternoon not unlike most in Canada. Standard fare for most individuals is to take a rest from the week -- sleep in, maybe walk the dog or tend to a minor project around the house.
That's a typical Saturday for most, but not for Toronto's Trish Stratus on Saturday, March 30.
You see, this particular Saturday starts the one-week countdown to Stratus' induction into the WWE Hall of Fame. Seven years removed from the official end to her pro wrestling career (though she has made occasional appearances in the ring since, including a WrestleMania match), Stratus is in the centre of a whirlwind of media interviews stretching across Canadian, British and American agencies. Radio, newspaper and websites have been splashing her name for weeks now as induction day draws closer.
Yet as much as the days leading up to one of the biggest moments of her professional career, it's still very much business as usual for the woman born Patricia Strategias. Recent activity? A spokesperson agreement with New Balance for their Minimus shoe line, a guest appearance on Top Chef Canada (airing this coming Monday) and, of course, Stratusphere Yoga, soon to celebrate its fifth anniversary.
Amidst this time though, Trish spares time for a return engagement with SLAM! Wrestling. As a media entity, SLAM! Wrestling has watched every step in Trish's career, from her debut match, through seven Women's Championship reigns, retirement, marriage, business, endorsements, and just about everything else related to WWE's Diva of the Decade. (She is the ONLY wrestler to have her own section on the site, stemming in part from one HTML programmer's love for her.)
Once the Q&A from fans is determined and set, the core of the call begins -- the induction. By this time, virtually every question imaginable has been asked of Stratus and this honour. Asking something unique is challenging, but at the same time some questions must be asked in the chance that a reader has not seen or heard it elsewhere.
And so it begins with the question that is likely penultimate for SLAM! Wrestling's audience -- why accept the induction in New York instead of holding out for the expected return of WrestleMania to Toronto?
"Sometimes timing is everything, maybe that would have been the right time, but I got the call in December that I was going in this year." Stratus begins. "Now I didn't say it out loud, but I thought to myself, 'Huh, what about the one in Toronto?' However, you don't say that when you realize this year's is going to be the most prestigious class they've ever had and the fact that it's going to be in Madison Square Garden. Don't forget the connection that I had with MSG. That was my last Raw match."
So how about the point that she's going in younger than anyone else has? Does this signal that her wrestling career is done?
"It does seem like there's a bit of finality to your career but then again it is the wrestling world, I don't think there's ever finality in the wrestling world," she responds. "I forget that I've been retired for seven years; it feels like last week I was out there. I asked myself if it's soon, but then again it's not. Age is just a number, it's about what I've accomplished and I've felt very good about the career I've had -- very fulfilling with every element that I wanted."
Next to talk about -- the "flick the switch" moment. For athletes in any sport, there is that "ah ha" instance where the realization sets in of the magnitude of what they are doing or what is happening around them. For Trish, the moment came right away with the call.
"The wheels just kick into motion -- after the Royal Rumble, the WrestleMania buzz starts kicking in and you start thinking about your speech and the dress and the shoes and all those things," she says with her famous laugh. "I think in the last couple weeks is when it has really kicked in and I actually had to sit down and start writing, I was like, 'Wow, this is real.'"
"The first thought that pops into your head is, 'Okay, I've got a lot of people to thank,' and, 'What is my time limit?'" Stratus comments. "My career is like a chain -- it's built with a lot of support links that, along the way, helped me get to where I was. There are so many people along the way that I absolutely have to thank."
The thank yous, of course, include not only those who have trained her or helped her progress behind the scenes, and her trainer Ron Hutchison is one of her guests at MSG, but also those who worked directly with her in the ring. Lita, Molly Holly, Jazz, Victoria, Mickie James and several others were part of an era of women's wrestling that is without parallel in the modern world of sports entertainment, and Trish is quick to note that she would not be where she is if there wasn't this group of women that all put in such effort to shape their game.
"The Hall of Fame basically is looking back at how you contributed to the industry, so I look at my body of work and to me that's my contribution and what they're basing it on," she says, "but of course when I talk about my body of work, it's thanks to the girls I worked with along the way as well. To get inducted is a testament to the hard work the Women's Division did at the time -- all the struggling and all the fighting we did at the time, every week, to change the way women's wrestling is perceived. It felt like it all paid off, all the blood, sweat and tears."
Indeed it has paid off, with the cash-in coming this Saturday.
Jon Waldman has been with SLAM! Wrestling since 2000. The first time he interviewed Trish was in 2004 for Canadian Sports Collector. Since then he's interviewed Trish on numerous occasions and offers her congratulations on her big moment.


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Dís (born Third Age 2760) was a female Dwarf of the royal line of Durin's folk. She was the daughter of King Thráin II and sister of Thorin Oakenshield and Frerin. Like her brothers she was born in Lonely Mountain and was driven into exile in 2770 when the dragon Smaug sacked the kingdom. She was the mother of Fíli and Kíli, and the only dwarf-woman ever named by Tolkien.
Female Dwarves are rare in Middle-earth, and seldom are seen by others. When they are seen, they are often mistaken for male dwarves, because (according to rumour) they too have beards.
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Friend of mine went to Ireland with his family to help celebrate the birthday of a friend of theirs. But he left me the keys to his place so the wife and I could get a little World of Warcraft play time in.
Friday night it was the Forsaken Warrior Morticai and the Forsaken Mage Zauberin's night. We flew down to Thousand Needles and worked to complete some of the quests we had. We did the Test of Strength quest. We summoned the dead Dragon atop the Grimtotem Mesa, twice. We tracked down Rok'Alim, twice. First time we killed him we weren't on a quest. Second we were on the quest and has spent the better part of an hour running around hoping to run across him again. We finally did. We concluded the evening about ready to undertake the Test of Lore quest from the Shaman fellow up in Stonetalon Peak.
Saturday night it was the Night Elf Warrior Freewind and the Night Elf Druid Itarilde's night to play. Freewind being just level 24, and Itarilde just level 25, headed to the Wetlands. We went to the excavation site, found the fossils for the archeologist in Menethil. We also killed a scad of raptors. Ten of every sort at least! We found a few ancient fragments for the archeologist still stationed there at the site. And we killed Sarltooth for a gentleman outside the cave. Sarltooth was orange for me, but with a Druid healing me, and who loves me, the fight was very easy. Looking for our final vase we managed to fight Sarltooth a second time. I'll admit one fight got hairy as we attracted three or four green raptors at once. I fell and before Itarilde did she battle rezzed me (yay!) and we won the battle. It was close though. We then ran up the road to some tomb and killed slimes until one gave up a bag it was carrying. On the way back I asked if we could just kill an orc or two. Itarilde was getting tired and we were wrapping up the night. We did kill two orcs, and then returned to Menethil. (Both she and I dinged while in the excavation site. She to 26 and me to 25.) I turned in the quests and dinged 26. Yay! We hearthed to Stormwind City and trained and then logged off.
Not a lot of play time, but quality. 🙂
I've been thinking about character transfers that will be coming up.
Kirin Tor has pretty much become a nice RP home for us. We don't RP but we like the fact that there's not (too) much 1337 speak.
So, my dream team, assembeled on Kirin Tor:
Kinless, level 48 Night Elf Hunter (from Argent Dawn and brought out of retirement)
Darkhand, level 45 Night Elf Rogue (from Frostmane and brought out of retirement)
Greenclaw, level 36 Night Elf Druid (already there)
Freewind, level 26 Night Elf Warrior (same)
Pharazon, Draenei Paladin (because a demon Paladin will be cool)
5 for the Alliance.
Darkhoof, level 60 Tauren Shaman (if he leaves Smolderthorn)
Oddity, level 46 Orc Arms/Fury Warrior (if he leaves Smolderthorn)
Morticai, level 36 Forsaken Protection Warrior (Arms/Fury if Oddity stays put)
Darbanville, level 25 Forsaken Priest (if she leaves Smolderthorn)
JohnDoe (no name yet), Blood Elf Warlock (of course)
5 for the Horde


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Dance. Dance is constantly developing as the very action of dancing inspires new forms and styles of dancing. The movements we see on stage are never just plain steps but are always affected by culture, society and life.
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Dance becomes even more exciting when seen from this viewpoint and when considering the impact of various dance forms - ballet, jazz, step, street, modern contemporary dance... All these different dimensions of dance!
This performance will give you the chance to see different styles of dancing and learn more about their cultural and historical influences. The audience will take active part in the performance and be inspired to learn more about dance and its significance, breadth and different functions.
"Dance is a part of our culture and our society - it acts as a mirror of our time," says Monica Milocco, one of the team behind the production.
Mattias Olaison, who will create the choreography, has often worked with various dance styles and includes a lot of humour in his choreography.
"I'm curious to find out how dance can be communicated - in many different ways! We have chosen to create an instructional performance that will inspire people to find out more, give them joy, and give them knowledge - about dance, dance, dance!"
Monica Milocco
Monica Milocco Monica Milocco is from Göteborg and trained at the Stora Teatern Ballet School and the Royal Swedish School of Ballet in Stockholm. She started working at the Ballet at Stora Teatern (later renamed the GO Ballet) and has performed a large number of roles at the Göteborg Opera, including Giselle, Lotta in The Nutcracker (Swedish version by Per Isberg), the Wife in Anima, Miss Blau in Lola Blau, Artifact II, Dance for two, Duende, Petite Mort, Wind Around My Heart and Georgia. Monica also created the choreography for the Göteborg Opera production of Marilyn Monroe.
Monica has a number of other commitments outside the Göteborg Opera; she works as a teacher, has been the chairman of the selection committee for the Royal Swedish School of Ballet and was one of the judges in the competition Just Move It, aimed at young dancers. Monica will be working with the project YOUNG, together with Mia Ringblom Hjertner, from the 2012/2013 season.
Mattias Olaison
Mattias Olaison Mattias Olaison graduated from the Ballet Academy in Göteborg in 1992 and has created the choreography for ten previous productions by the Göteborg Ballet, ranging from a solo to a troupe of six, mainly at Workshop. He has also worked as a dancer for 19 years. Mattias has mostly performed at the Göteborg Ballet, where he has been working since 1994, but has also performed at the Östgöta Ballet and New Carte Blanche (Norway) in the past. In the spring of 2008, Mattias was chosen by the Västra Götaland Region to participate in the dance festival 'Trampolin 2008', where he performed his first full evening performance, Ordagrant (Literally). That production was also performed at the Culture Festival in Göteborg, the Museum of World Culture, and on tour with the Dance Express in the Västra Götaland region. In the autumn of 2009, he created the choreography for Tillt, commissioned by Angered Hospital. This cooperative work by the Göteborg Opera, Tillt, and the Angered Hospital was called 'Creative Alliances'.
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The summaries below include the error margin and confidence level for each survey. When surveying students, a random sample was selected. A random sample is selected so that we can get an estimation of what all students think without causing survey fatigue with so many surveys. Since we are using a sample, there is an error margin. This means that if one statistic says "36% of students say...." and there is a 5% error margin that we can guesstimate that between 31%-41% of students believe this. The error margin essentially provides a range within which the actual percentage will fall. The confidence level tells us how confident we can be with the results and this sample error. Within WSU Student Affairs Assessment and Research, we aim for a 95% confidence level.
- The Campus Safety/Student Conduct student assessment covers the following topics: perceptions and experiences regarding safety on campus and awareness of student conduct policies. A separate section of the survey focused on the judicial affairs process; however, no students reported having gone through this process. The survey was administered 01/20/2009 - 02/04/2009. 330 students responded to the survey for a 5% error margin at a 95% confidence level.
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- The Diversity/ Multiculturalism/ Inclusivity survey explored student views of diversity and diversity-related learning opportunities on campus. The survey also investigated student perceptions of the campus climate in regards to diversity and their experiences with discrimination and harassment on-campus. The survey was administered 01/20/2009 -02/04/2009. 334 students responded for a 5% sample error with 95% confidence level on all sections except for Students at WSU. The "Students at WSU" section has a 5% sample error at a 99% confidence level.
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- The Profile of Today's College Student is an extensive, 250 question instrument examining student characteristics and beliefs. Because of the length, the survey was divided into the following sections: academic integrity, academic involvement, campus involvement, diversity, future aspirations, health and wellness, media and communication, and student opinions. Each student received a random selection of sections. This survey was administered 1/20/2009 - 2/10/2009. 747 students responded for a 4.6% sample error with 99% confidence level on the demographic information in the survey. As this survey was split into multiple sections, and each student only got a couple of sections, the other sections have a 5% sample error with a 95% confidence level.
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- The National College Health Assessment is the "largest comprehensive data set on the health of college students" (ACHA, 2009, p. 2). The survey was administered 3/17/2009-4/3/2009. A total of 418 students responded for a 5% sample error at a 95% confidence level.
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- This summary was created with information taken from WSU's 2008-2009 administration of NASPA's Profile of Today's College Student, ACUI/EBI's College Union Survey, and NASPA's Campus Activities and Involvement Consortium Survey. Each survey has a 5% sample error with a 95% confidence level.
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In his autobiography, Memoirs of a Wolfman, Paul relates his inspiration for this flick: "One night I was having a beer at the bar of a rather special establishment when a stunning blonde came up to me...I invited her to have a drink with me and we carried on with our friendly chat. Lisa was surprisingly well-read and spoke with a deep, husky voice...She surprised me by asking whether I'd read anything by Restiff de la Bretone. I happened to be familiar with the works of this 18th Century French libertine and author of pornographic writings...At that moment Somebody called Lisa over and a few moments later I had to go to the gents. I was stading at the urinal when Lisa came in, lifted her skirt, and started to urinate. She was a she-male."
Despite his blunt terminology, Paul was fascinated. He researched the story of Lorena Capelli, "a transsexual who died under mysterious circumstances." (More info on Capelli--in Spanish, but with pics--here.) He made friends with the patrons of the famous Gay Club in Madrid, and gained a lot of knowledge about transsexual culture in 70s Spain, where sex change operations were illegal and dangerous. Out of that study came the story for El Transexual (1977), directed by José Jara from a script by Naschy and Antonio Fors.
|The Fine Art of Seduction
In the flick, Naschy plays a journalist and photographer investigating a social scandal, the specifics of which are never particularly clear. What is clear is that his key witness is Lorna (Ágata Lys, who played Charo in the recently reviewed Frenchman's Garden), a transsexual caberet performer at the Gay Club--who must be modeled on Capelli, though how closely I can't say. When Lorna disappears just before giving Naschy the info he needs for his scoop, he goes calling on all her friends and acquaintences trying to find her, and in the process learns a great deal about her life and history.
The movie has an unusual structure for a Naschy-written flick, which (though often slightly incoherent) usually plow ahead in a more-or-less linear fashion from from opening to end credits. In this one, we follow Paul as he finds one of Lorna's associates, cajoles or forces his way into his or her confidence, and demands to know where she is. Then we are suddenly flashed back to that person's experience with Lorna, watching the performer's past trials and tribulations as if they happen concurrently with Paul's search. This happens again and again, which gives the movie an almost spiraling structure--a repeated circuitous narrative turns in on itself while floating inexorably to the ground.
This search-flashback-search structure is punctuated by talking-head interviews with Eva Bravo (Eva Robin, perhaps? The imdb cast list is unhelpful), an actual transsexual who offers extremely frank and sometimes explicit information about what it means to be transgendered, her own personal history and her family's reactions, and precisely what is involved in a castration/vaginoplasty operation. In a disarmingly open exchange, Eva tells the interviewer how her vagina was constructed surgically, and about the ins and outs--as it were--of her sex life. In a turn of phrase that has entered my daily lexicon, Eva explains how, when she gets particularly randy with no partner around, she can and does "unburden herself" manually. Sounds a lot better than "Buffeting the Bishop," what?
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As details of Lorna's life emerge, we learn several surprising things--surprising again because they do not follow the expected exploitation narrative. For instance, from cinematic experience you might expect to learn that Lorna's family disowned her and threw her out when they found out about her transsexuality--but here, her family is portrayed as entirely supportive, her father kind and understanding as she prepares to undergo her dangerous vaginoplasty. You might expect Naschy to uncover rampant drug use and prostitution in the Gay Club, and to deduce Lorna got caught up in it all and hence was "disappeared"; but no, everyone at the club, from the kindly hat check lady to Lorna's non-transsexual coworker Loti, is presented as down-to-earth, well-adjusted, and even happy. Everywhere you think something ugly or outrageous is likely to pop up, the movie frustrates it with a picture of calm and normalcy. Lorna is successful, happy with her life, and happy with her decision to have a sex change, despite its illegality.
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This is not to say that exploitation elements are not present here--Naschy hasn't completely changed his spots. There's plenty of nekkidity on display--in fact, when we are introduced to Naschy's character, he's in his photography studio late and night, photographing a gorgeous and nude young lady for no discernable purpose! Ágata Lys never gives us a Spanish version of The Crying Game (mainly for censorship reasons, one presumes, and also because she is a woman playing a transsexual rather than an actual transsexual), but she does often show her voluptuous breasts and well-formed ass. Several performers at the Gay Club--many of whose acts we get to see in their entirety--are either nude or so nearly nude as to make the difference negligible.
These nightclub acts might bring the movie to a halt for some, but I found them fascinating as cultural documents--we see drag acts, showgirl numbers, lip-synching and actual singing, and a comical, entertaining number in which the performer, whose clothes and makeup are divided vertically into "male" and "female" sides, plays out a lover's spat in which the two halves slap, argue, tussle with, and finally undress one another! It's a wonderful look into the caberet scene in Madrid at the time, filmed at the same Gay Club (that's it's name as well as designation) where Naschy got the idea for the script, with many of the same performers. (He even recreates the "standing at the urinal" story in an early scene, though Paul's character here is not so surprised as Naschy likely was in real life.)
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The last person Paul talks to is Eduardo (Vicente Parra), Lorna's boyfriend who rejected her when he learned that she was born a man--coincidentally, right before she disappeared. Did Lorna commit heartbroken suicide? Hardly--her disappearance is for tragic reasons, but ones that can be laid at the feet of an ignorant society rather than a troubled person's bad choices (as is the usual narrative). Again, it's significant that by the end of the flick, Eduardo is remorseful and ashamed of his behavior, and desperate to find Lorna and get her back; she is, he learns too late, his one true love.
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Apparently his public was not quite ready for Naschy's accepting, tolerant, humanistic outlook on this subject--he calls the movie "ill-fated" in his book, and Mirek Lipinski of the Mark of Naschy website notes that the film was banned for several years in Spain. As it is, El Transexual stands as a truly unique entry in Paul Naschy's filmography, and one unlike just about any of his other flicks. Never released on video in the states and long out of print in Europe, it's available now only through grey market and torrent sources (so far as I know), and then rarely. Still, for the Naschy fan it's one that rewards the effort to seek it out, as it shows a side of Naschy's personality (and a side of Spanish "fringe" culture in the 70s) that we don't often get to see. 2.75 thumbs.
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Archaeologists digging in the ruins of church near the Black Sea found a piece what they say might have been part of Jesus's famous cross.
The relic was discovered at the seventh-century Balatlar Church, in Sinop, Turkey, inside a stone chest.
"We have found a holy thing in a chest," said lead archaeologist Professor Gülgün Köroğlu."It is a piece of a cross."
"This stone chest is very important to us," said Köroğlu, who is an art historian and archeologist at Turkey's Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts. "It has a history and is the most important artifact we have unearthed so far."
The project has unearthed more than 1,000 skeletons and the chest in question has been taken to a lab for study.
The Sinop discovery is hardly the first alleged piece of the cross on which Jesus was crucified, and many churches claim to have discovered a piece of the "true cross." According to legend, St. Helena found the cross in Jerusalem and distributed the pieces to churches in Jerusalem, Rome and Constantinople (now Istanbul).


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Umar and the Black Stone
Al-Bukhârî reports that 'Umar – [Allâh be pleased with him] – came to the Black Stone (performing tawâf, circumambulation), kissed it, and said,
"I know that you are a stone, you do not cause benefit or harm; and if it were not that I had seen Allâh's Messenger –[peace and blessings of Allâh be upon him] – kiss you, I would never have kissed you."
[Al-Bukhârî, Al-Sahîh, Chapter on what has been said about the Black Stone.]
Points to note:
♠ The illustrious Companion and Caliph 'Umar reminded us in this narration of the pure belief that benefit and harm are not caused by created objects and thus should not be sought from them. Only Allâh has control over these things.
♠We are reminded that acts of worship are taken from Allâh's Messenger, and a person is not supposed to make up his own way of worship, he must follow the manner of worship that the Prophet taught and practiced.
♠ We also learn that once an action is confirmed in the Sunnah, the believer submits and complies and practices it because it is confirmed that Allâh's Messenger did it, even if we don't know the wisdom behind it.
♠This narration is also an example of how a responsible person tries to clarify and do away with any misunderstandings that people may have about matters of faith. The people had recently left their unbelief and polytheism, so 'Umar wanted to make it clear that kissing the Black Stone is by no means done as an act of devotion to it, as people used to do with their stone idols.
Adapted from Ibn Hajr, Fath Al-Bârî, and other hadîth commentaries.
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Mayor's Office
Nominations are now being accepted for the 36th annual Mayor's Arts Awards. The awards will be presented by the Lincoln Arts Council (LAC) Wednesday, May 28, 2014 at the Lied Center. The Mayor's Arts Awards program formally recognizes artistic contributions and achievements in the Lincoln area. Nomination forms are available by calling the LAC at 402-434-2787 or printing a form from the LAC website, www.artscene.org. A list of previous winners also is available at that website. The nomination deadline is Jan. 13, 2014
A new award has been created this year. The Legacy of Art Award will recognize a senior (age 55 and up) actively involved in creating, teaching, sharing or inspiring artistic expression in any discipline. Legacy Retirement Communities will sponsor this award for three years. A panel of arts professionals will select the winner for that award and these:
Nominations from 2013 are automatically resubmitted, and updates are accepted. The public is encouraged to submit names of members of the arts community who have died since the last awards ceremony in June 2013 for memorial recognition. Those interested in sponsorship opportunities can contact the LAC at 402-434-2787.


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The first and most important rule of legitimate or popular
government, that is to say, of government whose object is the
good of the people, is therefore, as I have observed, to follow
in everything the general will. But to follow this will it is
5 necessary to know it, and above all to distinguish it from the
particular will, beginning with one's self: this distinction is
always very difficult to make, and only the most sublime virtue
can afford sufficient illumination for it. As, in order to will,
it is necessary to be free, a difficulty no less great than the
10 former arises that of preserving at once the public liberty
and the authority of government. Look into the motives which have
induced men, once united by their common needs in a general
society, to unite themselves still more intimately by means of
civil societies: you will find no other motive than that of
15 assuring the property, life and liberty of each member by the
protection of all. But can men be forced to defend the liberty
of any one among them, without trespassing on that of others?
And how can they provide for the public needs, without alienating
the individual property of those who are forced to contribute to
20 them? With whatever sophistry all this may be covered over, it is
certain that if any constraint can be laid on my will, I am no
longer free, and that I am no longer master of my own property,
if any one else can lay a hand on it. This difficulty, which would
have seemed insurmountable, has been removed, like the first, by
25 the most sublime of all human institutions, or rather by a divine
inspiration, which teaches mankind to imitate here below the
unchangeable decrees of the Deity. By what inconceivable art has a
means been found of making men free by making them subject; of
using in the service of the State the properties, the persons and
30 even the lives of all its members, without constraining and without
consulting them; of confining their will by their own admission; of
overcoming their refusal by that consent, and forcing them to punish
themselves, when they act against their own will? How can it be that
all should obey, yet nobody take upon him to command, and that all
35 should serve, and yet have no masters, but be the more free, as, in
apparent subjection, each loses no part of his liberty but what might
be hurtful to that of another? These wonders are the work of law. It
is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary
organ of the will of all which establishes, in civil right, the
40 natural equality between men. It is this celestial voice which
dictates to each citizen the precepts of public reason, and teaches
him to act according to the rules of his own judgment, and not to
behave inconsistently with himself. It is with this voice alone that
political rulers should speak when they command; for no sooner does
45 one man, setting aside the law, claim to subject another to his
private will, than he departs from the state of civil society, and
confronts him face to face in the pure state of nature, in which
obedience is prescribed solely by necessity.
Adapted from: A Discourse on Political Economy, Jean Jacques Rousseau (1755)
1. The paradox in line 28 is resolved according to the author when an individual
A. submits to the rule of law and thus is at liberty to do anything that does not harm another person
B. behaves according to the natural rights of man and not according to imposed rules
C. agrees to follow the rule of law even when it is against his best interests
D. belongs to a society which guarantees individual liberty at all times
E. follows the will of the majority
2. The authors attitude to law in this passage is best conveyed as
A. respect for its inalienable authority
B. extolling its importance as a human institution
C. resignation to the need for its imposition on the majority
D. acceptance of its restrictions
E. praise for its divine origin
3. The author would agree with all of the following except
A. government must maintain its authority without unduly compromising personal liberty
B. individual freedom is threatened in the absence of law
C. justice cannot be ensured in the absence of law
D. political leaders should use the law as their guide to correct leadership
E. the law recognizes that all men are capable of recognizing what is in the general interest
The tale of Piltdown Man, the most infamous forgery in the
contentious detective story of the origins of mankind, began in
1912. On December 18 that year Charles Dawson, a well-known
amateur British archaeologist, and Arthur Smith Woodward, of
5 the British Museum of Natural History, announced the discovery
of some amazing human fossils. The remains comprised nine pieces
of skull, a broken jaw with two teeth in place, a few stone tools,
and some animal bones, all of which had been discovered on a farm
near Piltdown Common in Sussex.
10 When pieced together the skull looked distinctly human. Although
Piltdown Man, as the hominid became known, had unusually thick
bones, the brain case was large and rounded. There was no sign
of prominent brow ridges or other apelike features. However, the
shape of the jaw bone resembled that of an ape. The only human
15 characteristic of this jaw was the wear on the two molars, which
were ground down flat, as is frequently true of hominids who eat
tough or abrasive foods, such as seeds. In other words the
creature had the jaw of an ape and the skull of Homo sapiens.
The primitive stone tools found with these remains suggested a
20 remote age for Piltdown Man, perhaps the Early Pleistocene or
even the Late Pliocene. (In 1912 experts thought the Pliocene
lasted from 1 million to 600 000 years ago. Scientists now date
it to between 5 million and 1.7 million years ago.) This date
was also supported by some animal bones found with Piltdown Man.
25 To most scientists of the time, Piltdown Man fulfilled a
prediction made by the pioneering evolutionist Charles Darwin,
who had believed that humans and the apes could be connected
genetically through a still undiscovered creature. Most
significantly, it was half-human in precisely the feature
30 that was then accepted as the most important difference
between humans and the apes - the brain. At this time there
was little fossil evidence to contradict the idea that the
brain was among the first of the human features to evolve.
As time went on, however, Homo erectus fossils were found in
35 Java and China, while in South Africa the australopithecines
were being discovered. All these fossils had human-like jaws
and teeth and relatively small brains in contrast to Piltdown
Man's large cranium and apelike jaw. The large brain simply
did not fit with the rest of the fossil evidence. By 1948
40 scientists knew that bones buried in the earth gradually
absorb fluorine. The older a bone, the more fluorine it
contains. When the Piltdown materials were tested for fluorine,
the skull and jaw fragments turned out to be much younger
than the Early Pleistocene animal bones with which the skull
45 had been found.
Scientists were now very suspicious. In 1953 all the Piltdown
material was tested for its authenticity. Not only was the
recent age of the jaw and skull confirmed, but the jaw proved
to be that of a modern orangutan, with the teeth filed down
50 in a quite obvious manner to imitate wear on human teeth.
But the forger had not stopped there. A bone tool found
with the remains had been made in recent times with a steel
knife, which leaves different marks than does a stone flake
or axe. The tools, as well as the animal bones, had been
55 taken from different archaeological sites.
Once the forgery was exposed by modem scientific analysis
the mystery was no longer where Piltdown Man came in human
evolution but who was responsible for the hoax, and why?
Although Dawson, the discoverer of most of the Piltdown
60 material, is frequently singled out as the person responsible
for this practical joke, there is no definite proof and the
question is far from settled.
4. The Piltdown skull seemed distinctly human because it had
I large brain
II thick bones
III brow ridges
A. I only
B. II only
C. III only
D. I and III only
E. I, II and III
5. The scientists of the time made which of the following mistakes
A. believed that fossil discoveries would reveal much about human origins
B. had preconceived ideas about what features an early hominid should have
C. followed the ideas of Darwin in the face of counterevidence
D. incorrectly judged the size of the brain
E. failed to examine other fossil evidence available at the time
6. The animal bones found buried with the Piltdown Man were all of the following except
A. shown to be genuinely Pleistocene
B. more recent than first thought
C. unconnected with the human remains
D. deliberately planted at the site
E. not originally from the Piltdown site
7. It can be inferred that it took so long to expose the forgery because
A. the forger was exceptionally clever making it difficult to detect the alterations
B. reliable techniques for dating rocks did not exist until recently
C. the bones were not subjected to close scrutiny until considerable contradictory evidence accumulated
D. the scientists had no reason to doubt the credibility of the team who made the discovery
E. similar fossils from other archeological sites had proved to be genuine
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Thursday, June 19, 2008
Why bettas? They're beautiful. Theyre hearty. They're graceful.
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I have a really short attention span. (lack of sleep deprives me of the ability to focus...)
I've tried having a regular fish tank (goldfish, assorted tropical freshwater fish), and they never lasted very long. I'm sure I did something wrong but I never figured out what specifically.
Then there's the betta. Very easy to care for. They just need to be kept separately. They can live without water filtration or difficult environment adjustments. Keep their (easy-to-treat) water fresh and their container clean, and they're happy.
All the bettas I've had have lived a long time. They do have a lifespan so they eventually must pass. But while they're around? They're a pleasure. Graceful, beautiful, pleasing to the eye. Very tempting to have a lot of them.
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Despite an online petition that garnered over 200,000 signatures protesting the re-imagining of Pixar's "Brave" heroine Merida, Disney has no intention of abandoning its sexier version of the Scottish archer.
The modified Merida was created specifically to welcome the character into the company's princess collection. And according to a Disney representative on Wednesday, the image of Merida that sparked this maelstrom is part of a limited run of products including backpacks and pajamas. But images of the original Merida will also be available on consumer products, the Disney representative said.
The version causing the outrage envisions the cartoon character with a much more tamed mane of red curls, a plunging neckline, a narrowed waistline and an angled face. She's also sporting eyeliner and not showing off her trademark bow and arrow.
The revised image was never featured on Disney's princess website, but could be found on Target's website, in addition to a specific site inviting mom bloggers to the coronation at Walt Disney World this past weekend. It sparked "Brave" creator Brenda Chapman to take to the Internet, voicing her displeasure with the modifications.
She told the Marin Independent Journal: "When little girls say they like it because it's more sparkly, that's all fine and good but, subconsciously, they are soaking in the sexy 'come hither' look and the skinny aspect of the new version. It's horrible! Merida was created to break that mold — to give young girls a better, stronger role model, a more attainable role model, something of substance, not just a pretty face that waits around for romance."


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It's Friday, and we're trying to power our way through to the weekend. Chances are you are, too. Let's help with that. This morning we're giving away three Lloyd mugs. To enter, just leave a comment on this post. We'll close things down at 5 p.m. Eastern time, and notify the winners the weekend.
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Friday, November 20, 2009
Making Greenery Centerpieces
I brought a vintage, aluminum ice bucket to the seminar. Here are some helpful tips from Amy:(1) There are 2 types of floral foam: wet and dry. (we used wet foam for this project)
(2) Wet foam has small holes on one side and those should be placed face down.
(3) Start with your base greenery first, arranging it so it will establish a good background. Keep in mind that odd numbers of branches, etc, work best.
(4) After you establish the base, begin to add the next layer throughout the whole arrangment. I think in the past I focused too much on sections and not enough on the whole arrangement.(5) Ask yourself, "Where will the texture and interest come from in the arrangement?" As you can see in the pic above, I have two layers in and now need to move on to add some layers of color and interest.
Here are pics of three completed arrangements - I think they look great!
One participant brought a second container, this fab turquoise vase from Crate & Barrel. Amy volunteered to create an arrangement for it.
Here it is; simple and stunning. Keeping in mind the mod aesthetic of the vase, Amy used only 3 types of greenery - dark green evergreen, a chartreuse colored green and the third one, with little pinecones, for interest. My ice bucket is off to the right with red berries and a few other things added to it. A huge thanks to Amy for all the great tips and to Frances Brayshaw, the owner of Pear Tree Cottage, for continuing to offer these great design events! Washingtonian magazine ranked Pear Tree Cottage as one of the best shops in Northern Virginina. Agree!
Also, if you live in the DC area, Tudor Place in Georgetown is holding it's annual Holiday Wreath Making workshop Friday Dec. 4th and Dec. 11th, 10 am or 2pm and Saturday Dec. 5th at 10 am or 1 pm. (the Sat. 10 am class may already be booked.) I'm going to the Dec 4th 10 am session this year - pictured above is the boxwood wreath I made last year. All the greenery is freshly cut and the historic setting is wonderful!
18 comments:
- Pamela Terry and Edward said...
Oh, this makes me excited!! I can't wait to hang wreaths and fill urns!!! Next week!
- November 20, 2009 at 12:15 PM
- HAMPTON HOSTESS said...
Great post--put's me in the holiday mood!
- November 20, 2009 at 12:35 PM
- Red Door Home said...
Looks like everyone was having so much fun! Very timely as I plan a trip to the woods this weekend to start collection greens for the holidays.
- November 20, 2009 at 1:00 PM
- JMW said...
They all look so fabulous! Thanks for capturing the event on film - great ideas for arrangements at home.
- November 20, 2009 at 1:30 PM
- ArchitectDesign™ said...
Believe it or not, I have yet to go to Tudor Place! It's on my list -hopefully this christmas season.
How did your arrangement turn out?
- November 20, 2009 at 2:34 PM
- Pear Tree Cottage said...
Thank you for your kind words, Michele! I am thrilled you were able to come to our seminar. See you soon! -- Frances, Pear Tree Cottage
- November 20, 2009 at 6:18 PM
- Windlost said...
Oh, I am so jealous. Love it all. Despite it being Canada, grennery here is so expensive at Christmas unless you can go cut it yourself. I could do that back east where there is nothing but forest. But everything here is yuppie-priced. I love your boxwood wreath from last year. Boxwood is my favorite, but does not grow here. I usually pay $40 for a boxwood wreath from my (amazing) florist. Last year he gave me one for free when I was too cheap to buy and he was marking them down like 2 days before Christmas! haha.
Great projects!! xo Terri
- November 21, 2009 at 1:31 AM
- Linda at Lime in the Coconut! said...
How fun...I thought the best part was seeing all the different and gorgeous choice of vases!
- November 21, 2009 at 7:15 AM
- Semigloss Chic said...
Looks like fun! What a great way to spend the afternoon.
- November 21, 2009 at 11:05 AM
- red ticking said...
lovely... i love the look, the fragrance... so exciting...x pam
- November 21, 2009 at 6:09 PM
- Ideezine said...
Thanks for the tips they are perfect as we gather holiday ideas for decorations, hostess gifts and thank you'd for clients. Perfect!
- November 22, 2009 at 10:22 AM
- Summer is a Verb said...
Fabulous boxwood wreath. Oh how I miss Garden Club...XXOO
- November 22, 2009 at 11:52 AM
- JeanetteS said...
I signed up for that class and had to cancel a couple days before the event. I'm so sorry I missed it. The centerpieces look so seasonal!
- November 22, 2009 at 2:00 PM
- Pigtown-Design said...
Yours looks great. I love the greenery that's chartreuse on one side and darker green on the other. I got a ton of it on the Eastern Shore last winter.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and the family!
- November 22, 2009 at 8:10 PM
- Lisa said...
I can hardly wait for the greenery to arrive! It's my favorite to work with & I'm all over the boxwood wreath!!! My thanks to all for bringing us such great inspiration. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
- November 22, 2009 at 11:34 PM
- Janet said...
You have me inspired...I think I need to go "prune" those holly trees in front of my apartment again. It's about that time of year....
- November 24, 2009 at 4:27 PM
- Thomas said...
thats a neat seminar. i love those types of things. DC has a ton of them! :)
- November 24, 2009 at 4:47 PM
- Thisishollywood said...
Good. he Hollywood set of napkins and plates will make for some great additions to your Hollywood party themed evening.
hollywood center pieces
- March 9, 2011 at 3:44 AM