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It used to be that if astronomers wanted to get rid of the blurring effects of the atmosphere, they had to put their telescopes in space. But a technology called adaptive optics has changed all that.
Adaptive optics systems use computers to analyze the light coming from a star, and then compensate for changes wrought by the atmosphere, using mirrors that can change their shapes up to 1,000 times per second. The result: To anyone on Earth peering through the telescope, the star looks like the single point of light it really is.
The reason the atmosphere blurs light is that there are tiny changes in temperature as you go from the Earth's surface up into space. The degree to which air bends light depends on the air's temperature.
With adaptive optics systems, telescopes on Earth can see nearly as clearly as those in space. What's more, you can build bigger telescopes on Earth than can be sent into orbit. The bigger the telescope, the smaller and fainter the objects it can see.
"Adaptive optics has really revolutionized so many fields of astronomy," says Andrea Ghez, an astronomer at the University of California, Los Angeles. But such systems did not start out as tools for astronomers. "It was part of the strategic defense thinking of the nation, of what we could do to get better images of what was out in space," says Robert Duffner, author of The Adaptive Optics Revolution: A History.
During the Cold War the United States became concerned that the Soviet Union might be developing weapons that would be put into orbit. "The Air Force was interested in using telescopes on the ground to look up through the atmosphere to get clearer images of space objects — mainly satellites and missiles," says Duffner.
The Air Force had other ideas for adaptive optics besides looking at satellites. One of them involved shooting down missiles.
The notion was to aim a laser beam from the ground toward a relay mirror in space. "The mirror could then deflect the laser beam and send it to an incoming missile," says Robert Fugate, a scientist with the Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, N.M.
The hitch with such a plan, Fugate says, was that the atmosphere would smear out the laser, diluting its destructive power. Adaptive optics offered a solution. You can think of it as the reverse of compensating for the atmosphere in a way that makes starlight appear to be a single point. In this case, instead, the scientists would smear out the laser light so the countering distortions in the atmosphere would then bring it back to a narrow beam. That was the theory. In practice, the system was never built.
In 1991, the military agreed to declassify most of the work it had been doing with adaptive optics, so astronomers could take advantage of what the Air Force had learned. In the last two decades, the technology has brought some remarkable achievements.
"One of the most exciting recent ones is the study of planets outside our own solar system," says UCLA's Ghez. "Just 15 years ago, we didn't know about any planets around stars outside our sun. Now, not only do we know about them, but we can take a picture of them with this technology."
The technology is also valuable for looking at objects closer to Earth. "It's really interesting to look at planets within our own solar system. We send satellites out to study these planets in detail. And yet if we can point a telescope from the ground at these planets, like Saturn, or the moons of Jupiter, we can study them in equal detail to what the satellites might be doing," says Ghez.
She doesn't study planets. Ghez studies the giant black holes that exist in the center of galaxies. Adaptive optics has blown that field wide open, too. "You can actually see the stars that reside right around the black hole, and you can see matter falling into the black hole thanks to this technology," she says.
There's just one problem. For adaptive optics to work, you need a bright enough star to make the corrections on. So, until recently, if you wanted to explore a patch of sky with no bright star, you were out of luck. But scientists have figured out a workaround — they create artificial stars using a laser. "We shine a laser up into the atmosphere, and there's conveniently a very thin layer of sodium atoms up at 90 kilometers," Ghez says. "And this laser can stimulate those atoms to shine like a star. And then we can look at that star — that artificial star — and make the corrections."
The use of adaptive optics is also transforming vision research. Austin Roorda is at the optometry school at the University of California, Berkeley, and says that the cornea, lens and fluid inside the eye distort light, just as the atmosphere does. By analyzing that distortion, he says, scientists can use optics to "un-distort" the light, so the cells at the back of the eye no longer appear blurry during eye exams.
Adaptive optics could let a doctor see individual damaged cells at the back of the eye, Roorda says, and offer an important new tool for diagnosing and treating eye diseases like macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa. And there's more, he says. "We may have a tool that will allow us to measure the efficacy of a treatment, [and] that may slow the degeneration of those cells, and even restore those cells' function."
You know that song. A twinkling star might be a child's delight, but it's an astronomer's nightmare. You see, stars don't twinkle. They only appear to twinkle because the earth's atmosphere distorts and blurs their light. One way to beat the twinkle is to put your telescope in space. NASA plans to launch the James Webb space telescope in 2018 to replace the aging Hubble telescope that's in orbit right now.
But the James Webb telescope costs nearly $9 billion. A technology called adaptive optics is actually a much cheaper option. It lets telescopes on the ground see almost as well as those in space. NPR's Joe Palca has been doing a series of stories about inventors and their inventions, a series that we call Joe's Big Idea. And today, Joe looks at the remarkable things that you can do with adaptive optics.
JOE PALCA, BYLINE: Have you ever looked down a long straight road on a hot day and off in the distance the road appears to be shimmering? Just about any hot surface will cause the same kind of blurring. The shimmering occurs because hot air just above the road bends light a little bit differently than cooler air higher up. Well, that's what twinkling is all about; tiny fluctuations in the temperature of the air between you and the star you're looking at.
Adaptive optics compensates for those fluctuations so an astronomer like Andrea Ghez of UCLA no longer has to ask of stars how I wonder what you are.
ANDREA GHEZ: It's just like the curtain opening and you can see things that you could never see before.
PALCA: Seeing things clearly is essential for progress in science. It's true for biologists looking inside cells. It's true for astronomers looking at stars and planets.
GHEZ: Adaptive optics has really revolutionized so many fields of astronomy. One of the most exciting recent ones is the study of planets outside our own solar system. Just 15 years ago, we didn't know about any other planets or stars outside out sun. And yet now, not only do we know about them, but we actually can take a picture of them with this technology.
PALCA: Ghez doesn't study planets. She studies the giant black holes that exist in the center of galaxies. Adaptive optics has transformed her research, too.
GHEZ: You can actually see the stars that reside right around the black hole and we can see matter falling onto the black hole thanks to this technology.
PALCA: And it's not just scientists who want to see things clearly.
PALCA: At the start of the Cold War, the Pentagon decided to gamble on the then unproven technology of adaptive optics so it could see what the communists might be threatening us with from space. Robert Fugate is a scientist at the Air Force research laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico. Back in the late 1980s, he designed one of the first really successful adaptive optic systems.
I asked him if he remembered the day he first knew the system worked.
ROBERT FUGATE: Like it was yesterday.
PALCA: Oh, wow. Tell me about it.
FUGATE: Well, it was, you know, like 1 o'clock in the morning. We were at the one and half meter telescope and we were looking at a star, you know, a big blobby mass. So I said, well, you know, everything looks OK to me. I think we should try it. So we hit the return key on the computer so to speak and, wow, you know, we had this huge blob on the screen. It went to a point. And holy cow.
PALCA: Of course, the military is interested in looking at things besides stars, but once you have a way to compensate for atmospheric blurring, you can look at anything you want. There's a modern version of the system Fugate built installed on the Keck telescope on the top of the Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii. Peter Wizinowich has driven to the top of Mauna Kea to show me what these adaptive optic systems are really like. Wizinowich has been involved with the Keck system from the start.
PETER WIZINOWICH: So if you go to your right...
PALCA: He takes me up in an elevator to a platform surrounding the telescope and we go into a small structure attached to the telescope frame.
WIZINOWICH: So this is the adaptive optics enclosure. What you're hearing is we turned on a HEPA filter when we came in.
PALCA: Wizinowich takes the panel off a large box. Inside are all kinds of mirrors. This is the guts of the adaptive optic system.
WIZINOWICH: Light from the telescope comes in that far end there.
PALCA: Wizinowich says the atmosphere is doing two things to the light as it comes down from the stars. One, it's making the light move around or jiggle.
WIZINOWICH: And it's also smearing it.
PALCA: Adding to the blur.
WIZINOWICH: And what adaptive optics is trying to do is taking out that image motion.
PALCA: So it uses one mirror to that and then, after a computer calculates how the light is being smeared, an adjustable mirror unsmears it. Wizinowich points out the small round mirror that does the unsmearing. It has 349 adjustable elements that move up to 1,000 times per second to restore the starlight to the single point it really is. That's amazing. It looks like a bathroom mirror.
WIZINOWICH: Well, except its coating's on the front surface and I hope it's a lot better quality than your bathroom mirror, otherwise we'll buy from the same vendor, because this was expensive.
PALCA: Now, there's one problem with adaptive optics. You need to have a bright enough star to make the corrections on. It used to be if you wanted to look at a patch of sky with no bright star, you were out of luck. But Andrea Ghez says scientists have figured out a way around that problem. They create artificial stars using a laser.
GHEZ: So we shine a laser up into the atmosphere and there's conveniently a very thin layer of sodium atoms up at 90 kilometers and this laser can stimulate those atoms to shine like a star and then we can look at that star, that artificial star and make the corrections.
PALCA: That's how Bob Fugate's system worked. That's how the Keck system works. Although, the Keck adaptive optic system has been incredibly successful, Wizinowich says Keck is planning upgrades. Now that astronomers have a taste of what's possible, they want even better adaptive optic systems to see even finer details. So do eye doctors. Yes, I said eye doctors.
Not to see stars, but to see the fine structures at the back of the eye. Austin Roorda is at the optometry school at the University of California, Berkeley. He says just like the atmosphere, the cornea lens and fluid inside the eye also distort light so engineers have developed an adaptive optic system for the eyeball.
AUSTIN ROORDA: What it actually represents is really a paradigm shift in how one would use ophthalmoscopy to study the eye.
PALCA: Oh, wait a minute. Say that word again. Ophthalmoscopy?
ROORDA: Ophthalmoscopy.
PALCA: Ophthalmoscopy is the act of taking pictures of the back of the eye. Roorda thinks adaptive optics could have an important role in diagnosing and treating eye diseases like macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa because adaptive optics gives you a way to see individual cells at the back of the eye, cells that are damaged by diseases.
ROORDA: We will have a tool that will allow us to measure the efficacy of a treatment that may slow the degeneration of those cells or even restore those cells' function.
PALCA: Now, Roorda is looking at the outside of individual cells. He says the next frontier is looking into the cells themselves, a sort of adaptive optics for microscopes. Anytime there are new technologies for seeing the world more clearly, scientists make important discoveries. Remember Galileo and his telescope? He advanced scientific knowledge quite a bit with his new technology.
Who knows what Andrea Ghez and other modern scientists will do with theirs. Joe Palca, NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Twas the day before Christmas
and all through the morning
all the missiles were ready
to be launched on warning.
In subs and silos and bombers aplenty
warriors sat with their nukes at the ready.
In the capitols of all the nuclear powers
world leaders consulted in their ivory towers,
about how to maintain nuclear superiority
while keeping other nations well below parity.
Relations between nations were obviously strained
as the
Talk of disarmament continued to fissile
while weapons makers continued to build missiles.
The risk of nuclear war continues to increase
while pentagon planners refuse to cease
making lunatic plans with increasing urgence
using outdated models like nuclear deterrence.
The Prince of Peace would be coming soon
with humanity at the edge of impending doom.
After decades of living under the Sword of Damocles
humanity had not brought the nuclear menace to its knees.
Courageous people kept sounding the alarm
While humanity ignored their warnings of harm.
How long can this madness continue to go on
as nations continue to rely on the bomb?
Now the mist is lifting, it is Christmas Morn.
The world is spared from the nuclear storm.
The Baby is born away in a manger
and Peace is the watchword in our time of danger.
The angels sing out with prophetic voice,
Disarm, Disarm, is the only sane choice.
We must disarm hearts before all the weapons
Or build them again we will as it happens.
Peace on Earth, and Goodwill to All Peoples
May the clarion call ring out from the steeples.
May the people demand the nonviolent choice
and around the world speak out in one voice
for an end to the violence within our souls
that will bring to us all such unspeakable tolls.
A wish for humanity in this Season of Light,
Nonviolence to all, and to all a good night.

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February 27, 2013
Rondo Season Is Here
and I am proud indeed that Frankensteinia has been nominated in the Best Blog category!
The Rondos celebrate "the best in monster research, creativity and film preservation", and YOU get to pick the winners. The ballot is huge, covering 35 categories including film, TV, DVD comments and extras, books, magazines, art, websites and podcasts, comics, horror hosts, toys and memorabilia, fan events and more. You can vote in as many or as few categories as you're comfortable with. It's all done by email. Just be sure you use a valid email address and include your name. All the details are on the ballot, here.
Should you wish to give us your support, vote Frankensteinia in Category 19, Best Blog. And if you would consider me for the Writer's Award, please enter Pierre Fournier in Category 28.
Voting runs until April 7 and the awards will be handed out at Wonderfest in Louisville on May 18. There are tons of discoveries to be made on the Rondo Ballot. Have fun with it, vote now! and thank you for your kind consideration.
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Done, Pierre!
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Big 'Welcome Home' party for Keflezighi Tuesday evening
Mammoth will throw a "WELCOME HOME" party for Olympian Meb Keflezighi this evening at the Village, according to the Mammoth Visitors Bureau.
Visitors Bureau Director John Urdi, who was in Houston last week for the 2012 Marathon Olympic Trial, put the bash together after Keflezighi, 36, won the Trial last weekend.
The Welcome Home party begins at 4 p.m., with a ceremony at 5 p.m. It was unknown who the MC would be, but Urdi hinted that it might be former Olympic bronze medalist (Athens, 2004) Deena Kastor, who was to arrive in Mammoth today from Southern California.
"Let's welcome Meb home after his big trials win in Houston this past Saturday with a warm Mammoth Lakes welcome," Urdi said in an email.
He said music from Jeffrey James and the Wanted Gang. Will be featured.
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June 12, 2013
The Posters of Frankenstein : Luigi Martinati
Escaping the lab, broken chain trailing from its hairy claw, The Monster's shadow falls on a victim in this fanciful image for the Italian release of Hammer's The Curse of Frankenstein (1957).
Artist Luigi Martinati's career began with billboard art and advertising campaigns, notably for Fiat. He started painting movie posters in the early Thirties, eventually devoting himself exclusively to film from the mid-Forties and straight on through the Sixties, sharing the workload — and a similar style of art — with fellow painters Anselmo Ballester and Alfredo Capitani, operating as Studio BCM. Martinati's signature, when it appears, is usually found at the top of the poster.
Shown here are Martinati posters for Them (1954), Wuthering Heights (1939) and Hammer's The Two Faces of Dr. Jekyll (1960).
Martinati created another striking poster for Hammer's Frankenstein film (previously posted here), showing The Monster's shackled claw grasping at a window.
Luigi Martinati passed away in 1983, at age 90.
Two generous galleries of Martinati posters: Il Manifesto Storico and MoviePosterDB.
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- Diana said...
I was just checking out some blogs listed as the best horror blogs and came across your site. Great blog -- I'm going to add you to my blogroll. BTW, what do you think of this new Frankenstein flick in the works with the six pack abs? :-)
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- 1-1/2 pounds fresh or frozen salmon fillets with skin
- 3 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon grated orange peel
- 1/2 teaspoon coarsely ground pepper
- 1 ripe mango peeled and chopped
- 1 cup fresh or frozen tart cherries thawed, drained, and coarsely chopped
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh mint basil, or *cilantro (*always my favorite!)
- 2 teaspoons balsamic vinegar
- 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper
- Thaw fish, if frozen.
- Stir together brown sugar, orange peel and pepper.
- Place fish, skin side down, in a shallow pan.
- Rub sugar mixture over fish. Cover and refrigerate 2 to 8 hours.
- Remove fish from pan, draining off any juices. Place salmon, skin-side down, on gas grill
- over medium heat or on charcoal grill 4 to 6 inches from medium-hot coals.
- Grill for 20 to 25 minutes, or until fish flakes easily. Do not turn fish.
- Meanwhile, toss together mango, cherries, cilantro, vinegar and red pepper.
- Spoon fruit salsa over warm fish. Serve immediately.
- Makes.
Terri's Notes
- ½ cup dried tart cherries can be substituted for fresh or frozen tart cherries.
- To bake salmon instead of grilling, spray a baking dish with nonstick cooking spray. Put salmon, skin-side down, in pan. Rub with sugar mixture. Cover with foil and refrigerate 2 to 8 hours. Bake, covered, in a preheated 350°F oven for 25 minutes. Remove cover and bake 5 to 10 minutes, or until fish flakes easily. Prepare fruit salsa as directed above. Spoon over warm fish. Serve immediately.
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Who needs a doll, when your Scientoloparents give you fake benjamins to play with?!
While the actress-formerly-known as Katie Holmes stared blankly, reflecting on her former self, adorable, lifelike baby thetan Suri Cruise played with a fake ol' $100 bill on Tuesday. Is nothing in her life real?
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20 Years Ago
From The Files Of June 20, 1991
Monday night and Tuesday's rains may have saved the corn crop for now here in Fulton County, but a great deal more moisture will be needed for a successful crop. The rains this week came just in time to allow the corn to unfurl. The recent weather period has been the hottest and driest ever experienced for May and June, according to Don Fowler, county extension agent.
Sen. Robert C. Jubelirer along with Reps. Dick Hess and Patrick Fleagle have announced that the Department of Health has extended the life of the Fulton County State Health Center for 31 days. The legislators, who met with health officials in April in an effort to stop the planned closing of the facility, expressed relief that important health services will continue to be made available to the community through the month of July.
McConnellsburg Jaycees held their annual awards and installation banquet May 4 at the American Legion. Special awards presented included: Boss of the Year - Mc- Connellsburg Women of Today in recognition of their support and assistance throughout the years; Past President's Award to Denny Benedick, and Paul Johnston was named Jaycee of the Year.
People are remarking on the large flag which can be seen flying atop Tuscarora Mountain from Route 522 north.
Next week is Hustontown Fire Co.'s carnival week with special activities every night, rides, eats, etc.
Deaths: Mildred Graeber, Wells Tannery; William McHenry, Three Springs; Estella DeShong, Harrisonville.
Births at the Medical Center: a son to Mr. and Mrs. Mark Clapsaddle of Hustontown on June 8; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Barron Barley of McConnellsburg on June 11; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Larry Kyne of Berkeley Springs on June 12.
Joan Murdock and Joseph Mellott were united in marriage June 15 at Needmore Bible Church. Parents of the couple are Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Murdock and Mr. and Mrs. Grover Mellott, all of McConnellsburg.
Father Benedict Wolf, founder and first pastor of St. Stephen Catholic Church of McConnellsburg, celebrated his golden jubilee (29 years) anniversary of the priesthood by offering a Trindentine Mass in Thanksgiving on the Solemn Feast of Corpus Christie June 2 at the Holy Family Church in Dayton, Ohio.
30 Years Ago
From The Files Of June 18, 1981
An unoccupied home, located on the Clear Ridge
Road, just over the Huntingdon County line, was destroyed by fire early Tuesday morning. The property, known locally as the old Tom Cromwell place, is owned by Buddy and Judy Saledino of Norristown, Pa. The fire apparently started in the west wall of the kitchen, but the cause has not yet been determined.
Five members of the Leonard Shaw family of Hustontown were injured in a car-truck head-on collision on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. on Route 30 in Franklin County. Mrs. Linda Shaw, 34, in the intensive care unit of Washington County Hospital and son Byron, 12, in the intensive care unit of Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, are both listed in critical condition, with severe head injuries. Her husband, Leonard, 34, is in satisfactory condition, with a hip injury in Chambersburg Hospital. Daughter Mindy Jo, 7, was released from Chambersburg Hospital on Sunday, having been kept overnight for treatment of lacerations and abrasions, and son Cory was released on Saturday without being admitted, following treatment for minor injuries. Police said the accident happened on Route 30 between St. Thomas and Chambersburg when the car collided headon with a truck, which was attempting to turn in High's Store parking area near the intersection.
Southern Fulton's Dave Gordon pitched a three-hit shutout and doubled in a run to help his own cause in the Indians 3-0 state baseball quarterfinal win over Mount Union last Thursday.
A Mercersburg man was charged this week with aggravated assault, which was later changed to criminal homicide in connection with the death of James H. Eichelberger, 49 of McConnellsburg, following a fight in the downstairs bar at the Glen Nell Hotel on June 13. Police were not called in to investigate the fight until Sunday when the seriousness of Eichelberger's condition became known.
Chambersburg Hospital has announced an increase in room rates from $117 to $140 a day for a typical two-bed room. The new rates went into effect on Monday.
Deaths: Jessica A. Mitchell, Hancock; Dr. Lester M. Shaffer, Hancock; Russell Deaver, Mercersburg.
Marriage licenses: David E. Hykes, Greencastle, and Mary A. McQuait, Waynesboro; Mark E. Walters and Lori A. Sechrist, both of Chambersburg; Harold S. Anderson, McConnellsburg, and M. Eleanor Olewine, McConnellsburg; James E. Andrews and Patricia A. Barton Garlock, both of Fort Loudon; Rodney L. Divelbliss, Crystal Spring, and Holly L. Whiteside, Warfordsburg; William P. Baughman and Kathleen A. Musilli, both of Hustontown.
Specials at the IGA: Viva towels, 69 cents; Downey fabric softener, $1.09; cauliflower, $1.09; watermelon, 15 cents a pound; Kraft cheese singles, $1.39; Kraft salad dressings, 99 cents.
Births at the Medical Center: a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. David Strode of St. Thomas on June 9; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Roderick Nunemaker of Greencastle on June 10.
40 Years Ago
From The Files Of July 1, 1971
Mr. and Mrs. Robert McDaid of Hustontown received word this week that their son, Roger S.
McDaid, now serving with the U.S. Air Force in Vietnam, has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Two offices in the Fulton County Courthouse were broken into early Monday evening of this week and an attempt was made to "jimmy" open the safe containing the county receipts for the day. Apparently, the thieves were interrupted in this attempt by the arrival of the janitor, Paul Sipes, who was making his evening rounds of the county building.
Former Fulton Countians, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Black of Oklahoma City, Okla., write that their son, David, is now touring as the pianist on the Jim Nabors Show.
State Secretary of Agriculture Jim McHale on Thursday announced the discovery of southern corn leaf blight infection in four commonwealth counties by Pennsylvania State University pathologists.
Barbara Strait, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Coy Strait of Warfordsburg, graduated from the Washington County Hospital School of Nursing on June 12.
Eugene Ramsey, 42, McConnellsburg, was seriously injured on Sunday when a 1966 Dodge he was driving failed to negotiate a right curve on LR 29046 at Fort Littleton, crossed the road, over an embankment, through a fence and struck a tree. The accident was not discovered until several hours later, at which time Ramsey was taken by ambulance to the Medical Center and transferred to Washington County Hospital in Hagerstown.
Deaths: Martha Lucinda Everhart of Mapleton Depot; Mrs. Fran Dell, Shade Gap; Harry Fischer, Six Mile Run; E. Crawford Houston, Fayetteville.
Births at the Medical Center: a son to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Skiles of McConnellsburg on June 20; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Bishop of McConnellsburg on June 22; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Marshall of McConnellsburg on June 23.
Specials at the IGA; Campbell's pork and beans, 15 cents a can; IGA potato chips, 39 cents, 12-oz. bag; soda, 9 cents a can; Kraft cheese slices, 59 cents, 12-oz. pkg.
50 Years Ago
From The Files Of July 6, 1961
Work began last week in the remodelling of The
First National Bank in McConnellsburg. The work, which will transform the building to a colonial design, is scheduled to be completed in the fall. Interior improvements include new offices, air conditioning and a new ceiling and lights.
Borough Council once again looked at the problem of the town dump on Tuscarora Mountain. A sanitarian from the Board of Health told the council that the improvements at the dump are not satisfactory and urged the council to take steps toward using better method of disposal, such as a sanitary landfill.
State police investigated two accidents on Sunday. The first, at 3:30 a.m., happened when Maynard E. Mellott, Needmore, fell asleep at the wheel and his car ran into guardrails on Rt. 30 near Patterson Run. Mellott was not injured. Both drivers were taken to the Medical Center and released after treatment following a collision on a township road about four miles west of Hustontown at 3:15 p.m. A pickup truck driven by Thelma L. Kesselring, Hustontown, pulled out of a side road and hit a car driven by J. Ralph Edwards, Waterfall.
An unpaved roadway on a four-mile stretch of Legislative Route 29014 in Bethel and Belfast townships is scheduled to be paved and improved soon. Relocation of this roadway, between Dott and Needmore, off U.S. 522, will eliminate hazardous grades and curves.
A homecoming was held at Green Hill Presbyterian Church on June 18. The present church building was built 126 years ago. Before that services were held out of doors in pleasant weather and in a small building in bad weather.
A new Social Security law was signed by President Kennedy last week that allows men to retire at 62 with reduced benefits, instead of waiting to age 65.
The minimum price support rate for Fulton County wheat in 1961 will be $1.90 per bushel, A.B. Ruppenthal, chairman of the Fulton County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee, announced this week.
The Fulton County Cancer Crusade had donations totalling $2,814 this year, well over the $2,600 quota. Fred Mellott reported the success at the annual meeting of the county unit of the American Cancer Society Thursday.
The Thompson correspondent reports that the farmers have had good weather for haymaking.
Births at the Medical Center: a son to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Fischer, Crystal Spring, June 21; a son to Mr. and Mrs. John Powell, Warfordsburg, June 22; a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Keebaugh, Hustontown, on June 24.
A special dinner was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wilds, Fort Littleton, to celebrate daughter, Janice's birthday on Sunday.
Virgil Hendershot of Clear Spring, who had his foot badly mashed in a corn plow, was visited Sunday by Mr. and Mrs. N.K. Hendershot of Warfordsburg.
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Barnhart, Needmore, announce the engagement of their daughter, Linda, to John Covalt of Needmore.
Eight 4-H members from Fulton County attended the Pennsylvania 4-H Club Congress held at the Pennsylvania State University from June 27-30. They are: Ruth Ann Akers, Needmore; Nancy Johnson, Kathy Bollinger and Tim Mosebey, all of Wells Tannery; Roberta Golden and Harold Keefer, Warfordsburg; Allen Shanholtz, Amaranth; and Willis Decker, Harrisonville. They were accompanied by Doris Forbes, extension home economist, and Fred Thomas, assistant county agent.
Deaths: George Ash, 81, Bedford, on June 21; R. Hayes Winter, 84, retired Shippensburg grocer, on June 26; Andrew T. Stewart, 55, McConnellsburg, on June 28; Harry McElhaney, 84, Hustontown, on June 24; and Richard J. Wible, 67, St. Thomas, on June 30.
60 Years Ago
From The Files of July 5, 1951
Sherry Paylor, 3-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Maynard Paylor of McConnellsburg, suffered a painful injury to the arm on Tuesday when bitten by a dog.
Lindell Hunter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hunter, was also injured on Tuesday when she was struck on the leg with a sickle which was being used to cut weeds.
Finlay Wible and Miss Judy Guyer are registered in the graduate school at State College for the summer term.
Lyle Duffey, Mrs. Ada Miles and Mrs. Reed Paylor are attending summer school at Shippensburg.
Terry Allen, 2-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Fox of Knobsville, underwent abdominal surgery at Chambersburg Hospital on Wednesday for the correction of an intestinal disorder. He was born at the Medical Center on May 8.
Dr. J.J. Palmer of Needmore died at Fulton County Medical Center on July 3 following a stroke.
Military funeral services were held from Sideling Hill Christian Church on Sunday for Gerald K. Sponsler, 20- year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Sponsler of Saluvia. The body of the young soldier was the first to be returned here from the Korean War where he was killed in action last year.
A wave of auto vandalism has hit this community. Vehicles of Aulden Cutchall, Robert Hamil, D.H. Fraker and Alvin Crouse were either stolen or tampered with during the past week.
William Boyd Davis and Elva Mae Bookheimer were married on July 1.
Three generations of dentists are pictured in this issue – F.K. Stevens, who retired on June 15 after 57 years of serving the people of Fulton County; his son, Dr. Russell Stevens, and the latter's son, Dr. Frank Stevens, both practicing in Bellefonte.
A surprise party was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Runk of Dublin Mills on June 22 in honor of the 16th birthday of their daughter, Helen.
Harold W. Douglas, a well-known Hancock automobile dealer and a native of Fulton County, has been named a director of the Hancock Bank.
A group of young people gathered at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chalmer Peck to celebrate the 20th birthday of Pvt. Dick and Pvt. Bob Mentzer, sons of Mr. and Mr. Keller Mentzer of Needmore. The next day, the twins left for San Antonio, Texas.
Births: a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Shadle of McConnellsburg on June 28; a son to Mr. and Mrs. Foster Ciseny of McConnellsburg on July 3; a son, Rex Allen, to Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Garman of Harrisburg on June 27.
Patty, Nancy and Linda Fraker of Fort Littleton all underwent tonsillectomies at Chambersburg Hospital last week.
Birth: a daughter, Virginia Carolyn, to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hershey of Laidig on June 25.
Deaths: Mrs. Alfaretta Divens Berkstresser of Knobs- ville; Mrs. Kathy Smith of Amaranth; Mrs. Priscilla Belle McClain Cunningham of Shippensburg.
70 Years Ago
From The Files Of July 3, 1941
Mrs. Alvin Dalbey has been named to take charge of the playground at the schoolhouse, starting July 7. Classes for children from two to seven will be held each week day.
Deaths: Jacob Scott Bottenfield of Hancock; Dorothy Leota Shaw.
An estimated 750,000 youths in the nation registered on Tuesday in the second peacetime muster of manpower. The new registrants had become 21 years of age since the first registration on October 16, 1940. Those who registered in Fulton County were Roy George Allison of Saxton; Robert Anderson of Philadelphia; Almon Travis Bard of Knobsville; Seibert Dale Beatty of Amaranth; Gerald Armond Boonie of Wells Tannery; Harry Roland Brant of Laidig; Robert Samuel Bratton of Clear Ridge; Donald Ray Clabaugh of Cito; Herbert Ray Carson of Amaranth; John Haugh Claypool of Dott; John Ludwig Creek of Amaranth; Harold Emery Deshong of Harrisonville; Howard McClellan Deshong of McConnellsburg; William Burden DeShong of Harrisonville; William Paul Deshong of McConnellsburg; Harry Paul Dodson of Wells Tannery; Walter Luther Douglas of Hancock; Harvey Henry Doyle of McConnellsburg; James Monroe Funk of Hancock; Charles Edgar Gluck of Mercersburg; Reynolds Vernon Glunt of McConnellsburg; Maynard Charles Gordon of Needmore; Harry Boyd Hess of Warfordsburg; Melvin Ralph Hohman of McConnellsburg; Henry Francis Hopkins of Snydertown; Willis Elmer Horton of Hustontown; Charles Howard Kendall of Mc- Connellsburg; Harry Brooks Knepper of Waterfall; Robert Howard Lear of Saluvia; Allen Fred Leasure of Amaranth; E. Dean Long of Knobsville; John Robert Lynch of Crystal Spring; Brinton Marshall of Waterfall; Donald F. McQuade of McConnellsburg; Bennitt Mellott of Mc- Connellsburg; Elmer John Mellott of Needmore; Grant C. Mellott of Sipes Mill; Homer Coy Mellott of Needmore; Wilmer Albert Mellott of Hustontown; Robert Elmer Neumeister of St. Clair; Wallace Lorraine North of Burnt Cabins; Martin Quay Oakman of Amaranth; Walter Christian Overgard of Warfordsburg; Richard Dale Paylor of McConnellsburg; Paul Wesley Pittman of Mc- Connellsburg; Charles Glenn Ramsey of Fort Littleton; Joseph James Ramsey of Wells Tannery; James Franklin Seville of Knobsville; Melvin Ray Seville of Big Cove Tannery; Harry Mosser Shaw of McConnellsburg; Jobie
Dennis Smith of Warfordsburg; Eugene Walter Strait of Harrisonville; G. Raymond Strait of Harrisonville; Bernard James Truax of Warfordsburg; Edgar Arthur Truax of Amaranth; Ernest Elmer Truax of Needmore; James Albin Welsh of Crystal Spring; Cecil Edward Williams of Big Cove Tannery; Harold Eugene Winters of Hancock; Harry Barnhart of Harrisonville.
All boys in Fulton County up to 14 years of age have been invited to take part in the water snake killing contest now being sponsored by the Everett chapter of the Izaak Walter League. Three cash prizes will be awarded to the boys turning in the most snake tails before August 20.
Melvin B. Roddy and Edna Beatrice Matthias were married June 29.
Glen R. Bitner, who was installed this week as president of the local Lions Club, is pictured in this issue.
Charles J. Hess and Nancy Gallagher were wed Wednesday.
These nine young people graduated from the local Vacation Bible school this year: Miles Pheasant, Nile Helman, Buddy Byers, Mary Ellen Decker, Jack Kendall, Clair Wible, Mazie Ruth Harris, Mary Virginia Runyan and Norma Mellott.
Prof. and Mrs. Matthew Lewis of town and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Ride celebrated their 25th anniversaries on June 25 at the Crider home in Friedens, Pa.
Miss Helen Miller is presently employed by the State Department in Harrisburg.
Stock buyer J.R. Fields of Clear Ridge was buying cattle at Harrisonville on Saturday. He paid 10-1/2 cents for good calves.
Some of the farmers are now cutting wheat.
A 24-year- old German refugee librarian has discovered a rare pre-Luther edition of the Bible in a vault at Juniata College in Huntingdon. According to his calculations, it was printed in Switzerland in 1474.
80 Years Ago
From The Files Of July 2, 1931
Deaths: Austin Deforst Keith of Wells
Valley; Mrs. George E. Gray Jr. of near Warfordsburg; Mrs. Gertrude Mumma Horton of Chicago, Ill.; Levi Mellott of near Sipes Mill; Mrs. Sarah Jane Metz College of Rays Cove.
Miss Martha Lodge has completed her Boston University course in physical education. She was one of 126 colorfully costumed girls who appeared in the pageant, "The Golden Name," which was presented to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Sargeant School of Physical Education, now a part of Boston University.
Horace C. Strait and Helen Hershberger were married June 26.
Melvin C. Sponsler and Marjorie Williams were married on June 20.'
Kermit Bard and Hope Black were married on June 27.
Mrs. Flora Gallaher is critically ill at the home of her daughter, Mrs. M.J. Bisker, in Harrisburg, with small hopes of her recovery.
Rev. and Mrs. J.B. Meloy and family left here on Tuesday for their new field of work in Mill Hall, Pa.
Thomas Johnson frac- tured a leg at the knee in a fall last Friday at the William Clevenger farm. He is now a patient in Chambersburg Hospital.
A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Russell Wible of Knobsville on June 24.
The Knobsville baseball team trimmed McConnellsburg on Thursday evening by a score of 17-7.
Mrs. Minera Miller has moved into her new 4-room bungalow at Clear Ridge. She had been living in the Jr. QUAM hall for a while.
Anna, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hayes Hershey of Clear Ridge, broke her arm last week when she fell while picking cherries.
Death: Mrs. Tom Johnson of Mount Union.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Parsons of Burnt Cabins are the proud parents of a 10-pound boy, born on Monday morning.
Death: Mrs. Sallie Stahley Ogg of Steward, Ohio.
Robert Lodge won the state scholarship here this year.
The cherry crop is nearly all picked.


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Mashed Potato Kolachkes
My husband's Bohemian mother brought a kolachke recipe with her when she came to America. So these rolls are a part of our family's heritage. Other traditional fillings are prune, poppy seed and cottage cheese. —Jan Wagner-Cuda, Deer Park, Washington
- 1 medium potato, peeled and cubed
- 1-1/4 teaspoons active dry yeast
- 2 tablespoons warm water (110° to 115°)
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 cup warm 2% milk (110° to 115°)
- 1/4 cup shortening
- 6 tablespoons butter, softened, divided
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 3 to 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/3 cup apricot cake and pastry filling
- 1/3 cup raspberry cake and pastry filling
- 2/3 cup confectioners' sugar
- 4 teaspoons 2% milk
- 1. Place potato in a small saucepan and cover with water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and cook for 10-15 minutes or until tender. Drain, reserving 1/2 cup cooking liquid. Mash potato; set aside 1/2 cup (discard or save remaining potato for another use).
- 2. In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water. Add the sugar, milk, shortening, 4 tablespoons butter, egg, salt, reserved cooking liquid and mashed potato. Beat in 2 cups flour until smooth. Stir in enough of the remaining flour to form a soft dough.
- 3. Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 45 minutes.
- 4. Turn onto a well-floured surface. Shape into 1-1/2-in. balls; place 2 in. apart on greased baking sheets. Flatten to 1/2-in. thickness. Cover and let rise for 15 minutes or until almost doubled. Melt the remaining butter.
- 5. Using the end of a wooden spoon handle, make an indentation in the center of each ball; brush with butter and fill with a rounded teaspoon of filling.
- 6. Bake at 400° for 10-15 minutes or until lightly browned. Remove from pans to wire racks. Combine confectioners' sugar and milk; drizzle over warm rolls.
Nutrition Facts
1 each: 161 calories, 5g fat (2g saturated fat), 17mg cholesterol, 110mg sodium, 26g carbohydrate (12g sugars, 1g fiber), 2g protein.
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Judge Judy 1996
Judge Judy is an American arbitration-based reality court show presided over by retired Manhattan Family Court Judge Judith Sheindlin. The show features Sheindlin adjudicating real-life small claims disputes within a simulated courtroom set. All parties involved must sign contracts, agreeing to arbitration under Sheindlin. The series is in first-run syndication and distributed by CBS Television Distribution. Judge Judy, which premiered on September 16, 1996, reportedly revitalized the court show genre. Only two other arbitration-based reality court shows preceded it, The People's Court and Jones and Jury. Sheindlin has been credited with introducing the "tough" adjudicating approach into the judicial genre, which has led to several imitators. The two court shows that outnumber Judge Judy's seasons, The People's Court and Divorce Court, have both lasted via multiple lives of production and shifting arbiters, making Sheindlin's span as a television arbiter the longest. By 2011, Judge Judy had been nominated 14 consecutive years for Daytime Emmy Awards without ever winning. On June 14, 2013, however, Judge Judy won its first Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Legal/Courtroom Program on its 15th nomination. It is the first long-running, highly-rated court show to win an Emmy.
Genre: Crime
Networks: CBS
Release: 1996-09-16
Status: Returning Series
Episode: 1016 Episodes
Duration: 22 min
Quality: HD
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Hey marlene, lol still doing the layout. I was wondering though if I could add them to my Jim Carrey gallery on my site? I'd put credits to you of course. I've added jimlovers before too *havent I tanu *
I just love em so much!
Gosh those wallpapers are so good is it photoshop you use?.... i make my own wallpapers but i cant get any effects like that. Those are awesome im so jealous lol.
I deify it!
Thank you very much!
"I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever." JC
No no no,filters are eeeevvvvvviiillllll
Sianlee,no problem
jimlover,good try!!!!!!
MandyCarrey,yes,Photoshop,a trial version though
Thanks! I'll do it on my when my new Jim Layout comes out. It would look better lol.
Acutally, I was testing what you were saying with the new layout. I tried finding this picture "a texture" and I put it on there but I used like ... er... not filter... but "blending options" in the layouts. It turned out good but not as good as yours. Practise makes perfect. I have the full version of Photoshop CS2 but I dont know too much about other types of things on there. I dont use masks - have no use for them and dont really know much. I dont use er... like when you select brushes and that, I dont use the "presets" such as healing etc. lol. But yeah I guess you could say I know about 3/4 of it or so.
You should my very first stuff,not very decent
Tge day Jim goes back to acne days,will be the day you use the healing preset lol
Brushes can do miracles though.When you google the word "brushes" the first websites that come up,have great stuff to download.
Lol yeah thats what i've done. But the problem is... ive got so many brushes . My laptop is really slow and I cant stand to load photoshop anymore, so I try to avoid it. I guess its time to get a new laptop again haha
My ImageReady isn't working for that exact same reason,i lodaed too may brushes and obviously it collapsed
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B.J. Linnenbrink enters the 2018 track & field season in his third season as associate head coach and ninth season overall after joining the Blue Devil coaching staff as an assistant coach in July of 2009. Linnenbrink works primarily with Duke's men's and women's throwers while also overseeing the officials and volunteers that help run the Duke track & field meets at Morris Williams Stadium.
The 2017 season was another successful year for Linnenbrink's athletes. Under Linnenbrink's tutelage, Katelyn Gochenour and Christine Streisel qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the javelin throw, with Gochenour being named First-Team All-American and Streisel earning Honorable Mention All-American status. Gochenour also set a new Duke record in the event at the NCAA Outdoor Championship and was named ACC Freshman of the Year. Nicholas Solfanelli won his first ACC Outdoor title in the javelin throw, which is the third such title in the last four years for Linnenbrink's athletes. Linnenbrink also helped Stefani Vukajlovic set a new Duke record in the hammer toss as well as breaking the Bosnian national record. Overall, Linnenbrink guided 21 athletes to qualify for the 2017 ACC Championships during the indoor and outdoor seasons
Linnenbrink helped guide Duke's throws program in 2016. Michael Foley set a new outdoor school record in the hammer throw with a mark of 195-5 (59.56) and Thomas Lang received second team All-ACC accolades in the javelin, and was named ACC Outdoor Performer of the Week (Apr. 19). Four women and seven men qualified for the ACC Championships, and Lang (javelin), Stephen Boals (shot put) and Christine Streisel (javelin) qualified for the NCAA Outdoor East Preliminary Round.
The 2015 season was a successful campaign for Linnenbrink, helping both Thomas Lang (men's javelin) and Erica Brand (women's discus) reach the NCAA Outdoor Championships, highlighted by Lang garnering first team All-America honors with a sixth-place performance. Under Linnenbrink's tutelage, the Blue Devil corps set or reset four of the 12 throwing records and combined for 19 event wins during the 2015 indoor and outdoor seasons, including a second consecutive outdoor ACC title for Lang in the javelin.
The Blue Devil throwing program continues to perform at a high level with Linnenbrink at the helm. In 2012, the throwing program had one of its best performances in school history, including sophomore Michelle Anumba accomplishing the task of being the first Duke female thrower to earn first team All-America honors. Under Linnenbrink's direction, four throwers qualified for the 2012 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championship: Anumba (shot put), Michael Barbas (shot put), Erica Brand (discus) and Andrea Hopkins (javelin). Also in the outdoor season, Anumba (shot put) and Shannon Sullivan (javelin) finished first at the ACC Championships in their respective events while Barbas (shot put), Brand (discus) and Hopkins (javelin) earned All-ACC honors for finishing in the top three in their respective events.
Throughout his Duke tenure, Linnenbrink has guided four Duke throwers to a combined six All-America selections, helped five Blue Devils capture a total of seven conference crowns and has seen 15 student-athletes claim 27 All-ACC accolades.
Prior to his arrival at Duke, Linnenbrink held a similar position at Notre Dame from 2003-07. During that period, he tutored 15 NCAA Regional qualifiers and 17 All-BIG EAST performers, including 2005 BIG EAST hammer throw champion Chip Roberts. In addition, he guided Notre Dame's first female thrower to qualify for the NCAA Championships as well as the first Irish thrower to advance to the outdoor NCAA competition since 1945.
Linnenbrink saw his Irish throwers advance to the NCAA Mideast Regional 15 times in five seasons with two qualifying for the USATF Championships. Additionally, the Notre Dame top-10 lists were radically altered in almost every throwing event under his direction with his student-athletes claiming 10 top-10 efforts on the men's side and a staggering 26 top-10 performances on the women's side.
As a member of Notre Dame's staff, he was part of five BIG EAST Coaching Staff's of the Year - 2003 & 2005 men's indoor, 2003 & 2006 men's outdoor and 2006 women's indoor.
A former NCAA and USATF Championship qualifier at Florida State, Linnenbrink owns the Seminole school record in the weight throw (20.91m/68-7.25) and ranks among the top-five in FSU history in the hammer throw (59.48m/195-2), earning All-Atlantic Coast Conference accolades as a senior.
Before his successful two-year stint at Florida State, Linnenbrink dominated at the junior college level, where he earned two NJCAA All-America honors at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kan., in addition to seven All-Jayhawk East Conference awards.
Linnenbrink received a bachelor of science degree in physical education from Florida State in 2002 and in 2006, he earned his master of science degree in physical education from Emporia State.
He is a USATF Level II certified coach in throwing events.
Linnenbrink and his wife, the former Monica Hardy, married July 31, 2004. They have one son, James.


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BOSTON, Mass. – Maybe it was her way of having a pre-Mardi Gras party.
That's one way of explaining the weekend that senior Quina Fortune, a New Orleans, La. Native, put together to lead the Virginia Commonwealth University track teams to an outstanding showing at the ECAC/IC4A Championships.
"I was happy with our performance this weekend among some of the best that the East Region has to offer," Head Coach Jon Riley said. "This was yet another step towards progressing each week leading up to the conference championships later in the spring."
Fortune's weekend started with a school-record breaking performance in the 200-meter dash. She scorched the track to the tune of 23.87, which broke her own school record of 23.88 set last year.
The senior added another second-place showing in the 60-meter dash with a time of 7.53, finishing only behind her teammate Dionna Hayes, who became VCU's first-ever ECAC Champion with a time of 7.49 in the event. The time was just .01 seconds off the school record she set two weeks ago.
Hayes had a strong effort in the 200-meter with a time of 24.73, good for a top-seven finish in the event.
Fortune returned to the track in the 4x400 meter relay, joining Rachel Montague, Jazlynn Finney and Niaimani Aduma for a school-record breaking performance of 3:46.90, good for sixth-place.
Finney rounded out the women's side of things with a fifth-place showing in the long jump with a leap of 18' 10 ½".
On the men's side, senior Axel Mostrag highlighted things with a personal best in the 800-meter run and was part of a school-record breaking performance in the 4x400 meter relay. In the 800, he clocked in at 1:50.21 in the prelims to set a personal best and eventually finished eighth in the finals of the event.
In the 4x400, he joined Donnie Seward (pictured, right), Jeff Hernandez and Dominic Costanzo to break the tape in 3:13.32 and break a 10-year old school record set in 2001 by the quartet of Grossenbacher, Hunter, Polk, Reid.
Rounding out the men's action was senior Antonio Norvell, who finished ninth in the 200-meter dash, clocking in at 21.77.
The Rams now have two weeks off until their first outdoor meet of the season at the William & Mary Invitational on March 19th.


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Glancing at her finger, the wearer of this ring sees the shape of a kiss within the setting which keeps the glistening marquise cut diamond in place. 'x' – the classic sign of love.
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are small tiles traditionally carved from ivory or bone with
small, round pips of inset ebony. Many different domino sets
have been used for centuries throughout the world to play a variety
of domino games. The name 'Domino' may derive from a French word
for a Christian priest's winter hood (which was black on the
outside and white on the inside) or from a Latin word meaning "I
oldest known domino set was found in Tutankhamen's tomb, among
the ruins of Thebes (Tutankhamen was king of ancient Egypt in
the 18th dynasty, 1355 BC). According to historians, a Chinese
set, with 32 pieces, existed in the year 1120 AD. They were apparently
derived from cubic dice, which had been introduced into China
from India. Some time in the early 18th century dominoes made
their way to Europe, making their first appearance in Italy.
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Draft Day Trades Have The Boys' Sitting Pretty
I've never been one to spend an entire day watching the NFL Draft, but I've been under the weather and so I found myself staying home and watching ESPN intently.
Let me first say how much the draft coverage of ESPN sucks. Pick after pick they have 5 different so-called experts on their panel who continually speculate and predict who each team will take, and they are wrong 90% of the time.
I mean they aren't even getting the position right, let alone the player. And everytime they got it wrong they would say something like "another shocker here at the NFL Draft in New York" or "what a surprising move by the (insert team name) …", gimme a freaking break!
Led by Chris Berman, who I like to refer to as the mouth that swallowed New York, these guys are a big joke. (with apologies to Steve Young who actually knows what he's talking about but is constantly drowned out by the other 4 guys)
Secondly, does the commissioner have to say "with the ___ pick of the 2007 NFL Draft" every single time? I mean come on, we know it's the 2007 NFL Draft, we dont need to hear it 250 times.
Despite those two complaints I have to say I actually enjoyed watching and waiting until the Dallas Cowboys made their selection with the 22nd pick (of the 2007 NFL Draft).
So who did they take with the 22nd pick (of the 2007 NFL Draft), you ask?
Well, as it turned out, our Cowboys traded the pick to the Cleveland Browns who finally took Brady Quinn with the 22nd pick (of the 2007 NFL Draft).
See what I mean, lol. Admit it, you are sick of hearing it too aren't you?
I actuall felt bad for Brady Quinn who was projected to go in the top 3 picks by our notable panel of experts. NOT! The poor guy had a hundred cameras on him watching his every emotion as pick after pick transpired. By the time he was finally chosen, his pinstriped jacket was gone, his collar was unbuttoned, his tie was hanging loosely, and his well kept hair was a mess. What a drag… Now he will only make 5 million per season instead of 8 million.
Anyhow, I digress…
The fact is that the Cowboys played their cards perfectly!
There was no doubt that Brady Quinn was the guy to take for the Cowboys who were set to take the best available athlete.
The Cowboys had no real needs as they addressed those needs by signing Leonard Davis and Ken Hamlin in the off-season.
As a matter of fact, after pick number 6 I had already told my girlfriend that the Cowboys could be looking at Brady Quinn they way I figured it.
I actually looked at all the teams that had yet to draft and I didn't see any team with a huge need at quarterback except the Jaguars (sorry Jacksonville but Leftwich sucks).
When the Jags decided to draft a safety instead of Brady Quinn, I jumped up and said "we just got Brady Quinn or we are about to make a big trade."
Of course the Cowboys were caught between a rock and a hard place. Could you imagine the stir that taking Quinn would have created? Imagine the quarterback controversy this would have created!
Believe me when I say the Cowboys made the right call by trading their 1st Round Pick (#22 overall) to Cleveland for the Brown's 2nd Round Pick (#36 overall) and their 1st Round Pick in 2008!
Truth be told, there is no real difference between picking #22 and #36 in the NFL Draft. Now the Cowboys can now use the extra second round pick to fill a hole or add depth to another position.
Regardless, having two 1st Round Picks in next year's draft is huge and will pay big dividends for the Boys down the road!
This was an absolute steal for the Cowboys and let me just say, way to go for the Silver and Blue!
Right as I was about to post this bulletin the Cowboys just traded to get back into the 1st Round! Wow!
They just made a trade with the Eagles (ugh) for the #26 selection and took Defensive End Anthony Spencer of Purdue! This guy is a fierce tackler with explosive speed and a ferocious hitter. You can pencil him in fro starting along side DeMarcus Ware!
Here is the net result of both trades…
We trade a #22 overall plus a third and a fifth round pick for #26 overall (Anthony Spencer) and a 1st Round Pick in 2008!
How Bout' Them Cowboys!


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Five Reasons States Would Be Crazy to Allow Sunday Alcohol Sales — And One Reason Why They Should
Connecticut lawmakers recently passed a law allowing customers to buy alcohol at stores on Sundays, making Indiana the only state in the union to ban Sunday alcohol sales.
It's a controversial subject, sure, which is why we've decided to present the five reasons states shouldn't allow Sunday alcohol sales — and one reason they should!
1. Sunday Beer Just Tastes Better When You Plan Ahead
With alcohol being readily available seven days a week there is no longer a sense of urgency in the wide, wide, world of the boozehound. The need to remember to purchase Sunday beer on Saturday night, or be forced to suffer without it, gives an alcoholic some responsibility…and everything, including booze, tastes better after you've earned it!
2. It's Our Favorite Blue Law To Complain About
Blue booze laws are the most infamous of all the great American blue laws. Complaining about dumb laws based on supposed moral fiber would never be the same if this one was completely abolished.
3. More People Will Call In Sick To Work On Mondays
We're sure that there's some poll somewhere claiming Americans are missing work on Monday due to Sunday alcohol sales. So it stands to reason that booze sales on the Sabbath are having a significant impact on the gross national product and the American economy — keeping this country down one hangover at a time.
4. Liquor Store Clerks Need A Day Off, Too
We know that being a liquor store clerk sounds like a glamorous job, but in reality it's not all that it's cracked up to be. They're on their feet a lot, and even though they see their share of nice people, they see more than their fair share of jerks and degenerates, too. The truth is not all liquor store clerks want to work seven days a week any more than you do. So give them a break, will you?
5. Liquor Stores Light Up Prettier Than Churches
It's similar in theory to how McDonald's hooks little kids with tall, bright yellow arches. A bright neon liquor store sign looks like a lot more fun to hang around than the lackluster lure of a church steeple. No religious sect has a prayer of winning the youthful souls of tomorrow while up against the electric circus!
And the one reason states should allow sunday alcohol sales…Because Stockpiling Beer On Saturday STINKS
It really does stink. Ask anyone who still has to do it. Plus, not everyone has a buddy with a truck.


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Opinion: A Big Blow to Big Labor
Political Diary editor Jason Riley on why Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee voted to reject unionization. Photo credit: Associated Press.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... I ... I ... opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... the Labor suffered a bit dizzy in these recent days when the workers of the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga Tennessee rejected unionization ... why did they do that and it was politics ... play any role at the clinical diary editor and Fox News contributor Jason Riley joining me Jason ... the ball was this ... it's a huge wow I mean I think it sends the right signals mean I think it was of ... a blow for the good guys that shed new that the zone would be the next Detroit ... both like in the Libyan at General Motors yes the law to commentary on how ... receptive Volts Matt wagon was ... to the union unite Nyah Auto workers spent ... several years in making their pitch why aren't able to make the sale yes while I think they can show the goods they can show workers how they would be better off I mean UAW I think is lost seventy five percent ... of their membership in the past thirty years ... clearly they're doing something wrong ... and that VW workers did not want to join non join this union a bit they thought they'd be worse off ... if they did that and and there's a reason ... that Volkswagen is in a right to work state like Tennessee in the first place ... there's a reason why manufacturers Boeing and others ... are moving into the right to work states of the states we can choose whether or not to join ... a union I think this would've been nom ... of very big deal in terms of the state didn't withdraw other other people in ... it would of been fifteen hundred jobs right there ... VW had said that this bill to determine whether or not they build a plant there so we're talking about ... media jobs also it has nationwide ... implications the embrace that there is a lot of commentary about Senator Bob Corker and his ... anti UAW comments however the president ... had this to say behind closed doors ... at the end of the critics of the NIE NIE said they are more concerned about German shareholders than American workers ... of this a couple days before the vote of what it ... felt like that ... well I think of it might not have the impact the present was opened ... that's that's the kindest the way to put it but present Obama approval rating is about forty two percent forty three percent ... nationwide according to the real clear politics average ... in Tennessee merits the thirty percent while so he buttoned up stepped in on the side ... stepped in to this not realizing ... just how bad feelings are towards them and what he might say it might influence the vote the other where there is a terrific photographs of billboards that were put up and shutting the visit said ... United Obama workers out with the auto X out of CES and it says my iPad's says much to do with with the sentiment towards Washington and Democrats ... as it did towards just looking at Detroit might happen possibly I'd I don't think that's that's outside the realm of possibility ... also keep in mind that Volkswagen is planning to spend ... around seven billion dollars nationwide in this country over the next ... five years in state when the sun the bright side no ... comes OS don't go to Mexico because ... this investment could go there to ... be part of their workers are equating the unions to the Democratic Party that the union said made a mistake ... in not certain ... I mean it in the eye ... giving money to Republicans to say would say to that oh sure I think that that's that message certainly ... comes across that but you know in Tennessee even if they're going to vote to join ... the union individual workers couldn't ... determine on their own whether or not ... to sign up again it's a right to work state ... so I think this had to do more ... with the fact that they just don't see a history of the unions make it company stronger ... of making aam EST more business friendly ... up of companies writing under union management I think that ... more than anything else I determine where this will play a big blow to Big


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DALLAS (KXAS/NBC) - Information presented at a recent symposium suggests that taking a popular anti-cancer drug for twice as long leads to better survival rates in breast cancer patients.
A presentation at the American Society of Clinical Oncology Breast Cancer Symposium looked at a follow-up to a study of 11,000 women that found that taking Tamoxifen for 10 years increases survival rates. The follow-up to the original 2008 European study looked at four more years of data.
Dr. Robyn Young with the Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders in Fort Worth has typically prescribed Tamoxifen for five years. But with the information presented at the symposium, she is doubling the length of treatment for her patients to 10 years.
"In 2008, when we had the information, it looked like 10 years reduced the risk of recurrences about 12 percent better than five years," Young said. "Now, as a follow-up, we can say that translates into a survival benefit of about 2 percent, which may not sound like much, but if you're talking about a million women worldwide, saving the lives of those 2 percent of women is huge."
Lauri Landon, a 45-year-old mother of three, was diagnosed with lobular carcinoma and decided to fight the cancer aggressively. Landon opted for a double mastectomy followed by six rounds of chemotherapy.
"I am cancer-free and planning to stay that way," Landon said, who takes one Tamoxifen pill every day.
Tamoxifen causes side effects such as hot flashes and fatigue. But patients determined to beat the cancer long-term say it's a small price to pay.
"You just have to turn around and say, 'I'm doing this for them because I want to be here. I want to be a great grandma,'" Landon said.
Tamoxifen is one of the most widely used drugs in the battle against breast cancer. More than 1 million people take it worldwide.
The study has not prompted a change in guidelines from the National Cancer Institute. Young suggested that patients already on Tamoxifen talk with their oncologists to determine their best course of treatment.
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Garden of Hedon
Anything goes in the Garden of Hedon. Even murder. "Fresh and Exciting" says Ain't It Cool News. "A Twisty Thrillers" says Night of the Living Podcast. "a genre-bending journey into debauchery and murder" says Horrortalk.
Actor: Richard Cutting, Danielle Lozeau, John C. Bailey, Beau Peregino, Andrew C. Ely, Joanna Becker, Vanessa Rae Bent, Leanna Chamish, Frederick Cowie, Jessy Danner, Rob Dimension, Judith Furlow, Robert Haag, Kaitlyn Huffman, Kimberly Kerr
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Zenity Brings a Little GUI Goodness to Linux Shell Scripts
Dressing up Find
One of the powers of the Linux command shell is the wealth of commands available to accomplish most any task. That amount of power can be intimidating to the less experienced users. Most typical computer users rarely open up a terminal window, or a DOS command box in Windows, unless they need to do some trouble shooting.
Adding a graphical user interface (GUI) component to any utility script is bound to make it more user friendly than a command-line only version. That's where Zenity comes in. Zenity is the command line interface to the GTK+ library of dialogs. It's a rewrite of the old gdialog utility but much more user friendly. The key to effectively using Zenity is to understand when and where to use it.
Zenity supports a wide variety of dialog boxes including calendar, file selection, list, messages, text entry and more. Direct control over the size of your dialogs comes by way of the <--width and --height options. You can even create a progress bar or a scale slider if you'd like. Official documentation on the latest stable release of Zenity can be found on the GNOME Documentation Library site.
Executing Zenity commands are pretty straightforward as long as you follow a few simple rules. Any time you need to enter text that is more than a single word you'll need to enclose the string in double quotes. This would be for things like the dialog title string or for an entry in a list box. The only other thing you need to know is that all Zenity options must be preceded by a double dash (--). You can get help on any Zenity option using the syntax --help-general, --help-list and so forth.
Dress up find
The find command is easily one of the handiest Linux commands but can also be one of the most frustrating. To search for all the picture files on your local drive you would type something like:
$ find . --name "*.jpg" --or --name "*.png"
Easy enough, but the result might not be what you want if you have lots of pictures. One quick way to add a little GUI list box to present the results in a more pleasant way would be as follows:
$ find . --name "*.jpg" --or --name "*.png" |zenity --list --column "Pictures"
You'll probably want to use the dimension modifiers to scale the list dialog to show more of the file name path. This would be done by adding these options to the zenity command:
--height 400 --width 400
A History GUI
Displaying the history of shell commands is a simple statement. If the list exceeds your terminal, you can just use the scroll bar to scan the entire list. Alternatively, you could use Zenity to present your history in a list box with a single line command:
$ history|cut -c 8-|zenity --list --column History
This line pipes the output of the history command to the cut command, which removes the first 7 characters of each line and then pipes the result into Zenity.
To make this little utility available in a shortened version you could use the alias command as in:
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Rolling Stone is offering a sampling of the Hobbit soundtrack. Here's their article:
Neil Finn had dwarves on the mind when he wrote "Song of the Lonely Mountain," a ballad that plays over the end credits of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. When the New Zealand composer met with film director Peter Jackson and his team to discuss plans for the song – which appears on the film's soundtrack, premiering exclusively today on Rolling Stone – he was told that these stocky denizens of Middle-Earth played a big role in the film.
"They talked a lot about how the movie really, in many ways, is a tale of the dwarves, as much as it's called The Hobbit," Finn tells Rolling Stone.
Most of the film's soundtrack was composed by Howard Shore, who recorded it at Abbey Road Studios in London. Finn occasionally corresponded with Shore over email but worked on "Song of the Lonely Mountain" at Jackson's post-production office in Wellington, New Zealand. He didn't hear the whole soundtrack until he attended the film's world premiere in Wellington earlier this week.
"They were working on the soundtrack up to about 10 days ago," he says, noting that he hasn't yet heard it in isolation. "There's a huge amount of cues. Something would be working not quite right; they'd have to go back and re-record. There'd be notes made. I wasn't aware of the detail, of the minutiae. But I know that there is an obsessive nature that goes along with making these kinds of things, and everyone's aiming to get it to a point where it sounds like it was the easiest thing in the world."
Finn says that "Song of the Lonely Mountain" builds on a musical theme written for the movie by New Zealand film composers Plan 9 and David Long, which a group of dwarves sing in an early scene. To work on the song, Finn put himself in the dwarves' shoes.
"I'd get a little melody and I'd think, 'Would a dwarf sing that?' And you go, 'No, it's too floral. It's not earthy enough,'" he says. "Even though there's aspects of brotherhood and kinship in the song, I had a line about love and Peter and Fran [Walsh, co-writer and co-producer] sort of looked at me and said, 'No, not love. There's something not quite right about that.' It's not a love song."
More appropriate are the song's clinking anvil sounds. Though he and his sons Elroy and Liam didn't pound on a real anvil for the recording (he says they used a sample), he brought one out for a performance of the song at this week's premiere. It took four men to lift it.
"It was a really solid anvil," he says. "It sounded great."
The soundtrack for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey will be released on December 11th. The film opens on December 14th.


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Mrresolution needed a new other design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 22 designs submitted by 4 freelance designers.
Short Sale Rocket Launch Formula
I'm a single guy I like long walks on the beach... oh wrong site, no actually I'm married with 3 awesome kids, I run several small businesses in the real estate arena, where we buy properties through a process that helps people prevent foreclosure. We use a strategy called a short sale for the acquisition of the property we hold off the auctions until we cnan buy then turn around and sell it after the profit.
I am creating a short sale (real estate flipping) training course to teach people how to do this effectively since so many people are not. The program is called the short sale rocket launch formula and I need design for the name not really a logo, more of a web 2.0 graphic. I'm a young guy, real entrepreneurial, love to make a difference in peoples lives and love the game of money.
Entrepreneurs interested in real estate, and people sick of there JOB's looking to become an entreprenuer. We do well with a younger crowd on our sales, but all ages have invested in our education before.
We provide an incredibly detailed product that seriously encompasses all of then aspects needed to run a short sale business so anyone looking for that will find our product ideal.
I'd like a web 2.0 3d looking design, my thoughts are a blue web 2.0 guy with a large rocket strapped to his back, with the initials SSRLF on the rocket. The rocket would be silver and shiny. in the blue web 2.0 guys arms would be several of the monopoly looking houses, the old green ones with out a ridge line on the roof. Possibly it would be cool if we could make the exhaust of the rocket look like dollar bills shooting out. And a short sale sign in a small patch of grass around the lower part of the design, along with a Just Sold sign. The design will be used primarily on websites. I would like to receive the final product in ai and/or Photoshop version. Overall size would be slightly smaller than a typical theme heading (sorry im not as versed in pixel sizes).
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HILL – A Gambrills, Md. man accused last year of pirating Internet service for
several condominium buildings in Ocean City was found not guilty of the charges
this week in District Court, but the civil case against him filed by the
alleged victim, Comcast of Eastern Shore, continues to plod along.
March 2009, Comcast filed suit in U.S. District Court seeking thousands of
dollars in lost compensation and other damages against Frank Clark, 47, of
Gambrills, and his fictitious company OceanNet, for alleged unauthorized use of
the company's high-speed Internet service for personal gain. The suit alleges
Clark purchased service for an individual account, then used a complex network
of modems and other equipment to supply the Internet service to other
unauthorized third parties within the same condo buildings.
In one
example described in the suit, Clark utilized a single subscription for
Comcast's high-speed Internet service (HIS) to provide the service to several
units at a multiple dwelling unit on Sand Dune Rd. in Ocean City and the
surrounding area. The distribution of the service to unauthorized third parties
was discovered last September when a Comcast representative conducted an audit
and discovered Clark and OceanNet had improperly tapped into the primary
service line and connected a Comcast cable modem authorized at another address
and his own wireless router, along with antennae to allow him to re-distribute
service throughout the building.
the initial suit filed in U.S. District Court by Comcast listed only Frank
Clark and OceanNet as defendants, the case was later amended to include Clark's
wife Susan and Mashotspots, Inc. Shortly after the civil suit was filed, Frank
Clark was charged in Worcester County with several counts related to the
alleged Internet pirating scam including four counts of cable television fraud
and three counts of cable TV connection without authority or payment.
latter three counts were dismissed in December, but the case against Clark on
the first four charges moved on. However, on Wednesday, Clark was found not
guilty on the remaining counts, ostensibly ending the criminal aspect of the
case against him. However, the civil case filed by Comcast in U.S. District
Court has not been resolved.
month, Clark and his co-defendants filed a motion to stay the civil suit until
the criminal charges against him were dispensed with. Last week, Comcast filed
an answer to Clark's motion to stay the case, pointing out over a year has
passed since the case was initially filed.


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Once again I open the pages of one of my favorite books. For those who know the kata - when you turn after the second shukoken osaiay movement (wrist strike and grab)
Which arm is in front as you cross the arms in or uncross the arms out?
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You can snap your arms out so hard that you break the grip of the attacker - which means they've already got their hands on you, or you on them.
University of Va websiteDraw hands to waist and slide forward, striking out waist high, much as in the opening for sanchin. Clench hands into shokens turned inwards while pulling your arms in to brace your elbows on your body. You're grabbing your opponent's flesh/gi, so your hands won't be "shoulder-high" as usual unless you can lift someone right off the ground.
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While I'd never in a zillion years vote for Newt Gingrich, I'm awestruck—and more than a little inspired—by his seemingly limitless capacity to bounce back from defeat.
I mean, think about it: This is a guy who not-so-long-ago was dubbed the most hated man in America, the only house speaker ever to be sanctioned by its members. As recently as last month, his presidential campaign was floundering, polling in the single digits following his campaign staff's mass exodus the previous June. Pundits pronounced game over.
And yet today, on the eve of the Iowa caucuses, he is widely viewed as a frontrunner, playing hare to Mitt Romney's tortoise as they vie for the lead in the Republican field.
Mulling over the latest Gingrich comeback, I couldn't help comparing his Wile E. Coyote-esque resurgence to my own tendency to give up—sometimes even before I start.
One recent case in point: I almost didn't start this blog. For one thing, I was convinced I'd start, and wouldn't find any readers. This would be depressing and a little embarrassing. I recalled the words of a college classmate now a famously successful (if curmudgeonly) writer: "You know the average number of readers of a blog? One!" Who was I to think that I could add to the conversation?
This is not, to put it mildly, how Newt Gingrich thinks. Newt Gingrich is convinced that he has something to offer the world. And if you don't agree with him, it's your problem not his.
In fairness, this sort of against-the-odds confidence is far easier to come by if you're a narcissist or a sociopath or trend towards bipolar mania. There's a brilliant scene in Gary Trudeau's presidential campaign mockumentary Tanner '88 where a seasoned political reporter educates a younger colleague on this point. "We're talking about someone who wants to be the most powerful person on the planet," he says. "We're not talking well balanced." (I'm paraphrasing from memory here, but you get the idea.)
That being said, those of us living in Plan B Nation have a special need for the sort of chutzpah demonstrated by Gingrich and his ilk. We live in an era where positive reinforcements are in increasingly short supply. Perhaps for the first time ever, we're facing repeated rejections and setbacks in our professional lives. We have to find ways to keep going when it feels more sensible to give up.
A primary goal of this blog is to identify concrete strategies that help us do just that. For me, a supportive community has been a big piece of this. I've also found it helps to make an effort to keep an open mind, to remind myself that I really don't know where the events in my life are leading.
And now I have another strategy to add to my arsenal. The next time, I'm feeling like a failure, struggling to move on, I'm going to sit down and ask myself: "What would Newt Gingrich do?"