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9:30 am
Color World with Gary Spetz "Color Sicily & Capri" Host-Artist, Gary Spetz, sails aboard a cruise ship to reach the Italian island of Sicily. Here he explores the ancient seaside town of Taormina, and its mountainside historic counterpart, Castelmola. From there he crosses over to Naples, Italy, where he travels by ferry boat to the nearby mountainous resort island of Capri. D
10:00 am
Taste This! "Fish Tail" On this episode Chef Joe joins David Burke at his newest restaurant, Fish Tail. Fish Tail is located on the Upper East Side and specializes in seafood. The restaurant features a Raw Bar, Sushi Bar, and any other seafood dish you can imagine. D
10:30 am
Cooking Odyssey "Thessaloniki - Part 2" Eva vists the museum of Byzantine culture explores a vineyard with one of the largest corkscrew collections in Europe and discovers a Jewish museum in northern Greece, and Chef Yianni makes a unique Byzantine inspired dessert. D
11:00 am
Learning Math: Patterns, Functions & Algebra "Linear Functions and Slope" Explore linear relationships by looking at lines and slopes. Using computer spreadsheets, examine dynamic dependence and linear relationships and learn to recognize linear relationships expressed in tables, equations, and graphs. Also, explore the role of slope and dependent and independent variables in graphs of linear relationships, and the relationship of rates to slopes and equations.G
11:30 am
Learning Math: Patterns, Functions & Algebra "Solving Equations" Look at different strategies for solving equations. Topics include the different meanings attributed to the equal sign and the strengths and limitations of different models for solving equations. Explore the connection between equality and balance, and practice solving equations by balancing, working backwards, and inverting operations.G
12:00 pm
French In Action "Parade and Review" All the bit players say farewell, from Uncle Guillaume, who has won a pile in the lottery and is off to the Taj Mahal with the one that got away. The man in black leaves some tantalizing notes about Mireille.G
12:30 pm
French In Action "All's Well That Ends Well" The five travelers start off at last, but the man in black is right on their heels. Robert is hurt in a fall and Mireille endangered by fire. The identity of the man in black is finally revealed.G
1:00 pm
Unfinished Nation "Right Turn" Politics and diplomacy after Watergate. The Ford custodianship. The trials of Jimmy Carter. Iranian hostage crisis. The rise of the new American right: the Sunbelt and its politics, religious revivalism, tax revolt. The campaign of 1980. The Reagan revolution: supply-side economics, fiscal crisis, international relations, election of 1984. Waning of the Cold War. The Bush presidency; the Gulf War.G
1:30 pm
Unfinished Nation "World of Uncertainty" Launching the Clinton presidency; the Republican resurgence. Election of 1996. Clinton, triumphant and embattled; impeachment and acquittal. Contested election of 2000. Economic growth in the 1980s and 1990s, downturn in 2000s. Globalization and its perils. America's changing and more diverse society. The world scene. A new era?.G
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Biography of America, A "Vital Progressivism" Professor Martin offers a fresh perspective on Progressivism, arguing that its spirit can be best seen in the daily struggles of ordinary people. In a discussion with Professors Scharff and Miller, the struggles of Native Americans, Asian Americans, and African Americans are placed in the context of the traditional white Progressive movement. D
2:30 pm
Biography of America, A "Twenties" The Roaring Twenties take to the road in Henry Ford's landscape-altering invention -- the Model T. Ford's moving assembly line, the emergence of a consumer culture, and the culmination of forces let loose by these entities in Los Angeles are all explored by Professor Miller. D
3:00 pm
Design Squad "Green Machines" The teams go green as they work with the Food Project, an organization that creates social change through sustainable agriculture. Two young Food Project volunteers challenge the teams to design a compost lifter for their urban farm. D-Squad Pro File: Industrial engineer Erin Gately creates new environmentally friendly products for Hewlett-Packard by ensuring that HP's computer products are made with fewer non-recyclable materials. D
3:30 pm
Biz Kid$ "Cash and Credit" You'll learn about the power and pitfalls of credit, which is essentially using someone else's money temporarily (for a price). Meet a young entrepreneur who used credit to start a successful bath salts business and another who launched a successful design firm. And, as a cautionary tale, we talk to a young woman who had fun buying with credit until she found herself in bankruptcy. D
4:00 pm
The Electric Company "Lost and Spaced" At the school science fair, Lisa and her Skeleckian friend Dax get shrunk down and trapped inside their project - a perfect model of the solar system!. D
4:30 pm
Cyberchase "Cool It" The kids discover the importance of a standard unit of measure, while trying to save Motherboard.G
5:00 pm
It's Sew Easy "Pillows" The first expert is Valori Wells teaching the professional way to create a pillow with a flange in just about any fabric. Then, Eileen Roche's clothing tattoo is a sports design and team number for the back neckline. Last, Donna Babylon creates a free motion stitched pillow that's a perfect practice piece for free motion and a great way to let thread add texture and color. D
5:30 pm
Color World with Gary Spetz "Color Sicily & Capri" Host-Artist, Gary Spetz, sails aboard a cruise ship to reach the Italian island of Sicily. Here he explores the ancient seaside town of Taormina, and its mountainside historic counterpart, Castelmola. From there he crosses over to Naples, Italy, where he travels by ferry boat to the nearby mountainous resort island of Capri. D
6:00 pm
Mexico -- One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless "Extraordinarily Delicious Ensenada" Fish tacos embody Ensenada's history in one bite: Fresh fish from pristine waters encased in crispy batter influenced by Asian immigrants, topped with Spanish-inspired creamy sauces, wrapped up in a very Mexican corn tortilla and spiked with chile. We seek out some of the best versions at Mariscos El Norteno, a stall opposite the Ensenada Fish market, and a 30-year old corner stand, Los Originales El Chopipo. No trip to Ensenada would be complete for a foodie without a stop at La Guerrerense where Sabina Bandera Gonzalez has been serving the best seafood ceviches and tostadas for more than 29 years. D
6:30 pm
Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence "Argentina Remembered" Craving the bold flavors she tasted in Argentina, Joanne shows her student Leigh how to give grilled skirt steak a boost with a fresh and zesty chimichurri sauce. And potatoes get the double treatment of roasting and grilling becoming twice as flavorful. Recipes: Gazpacho Salad, Grilled Skirt Steak with Chimichurri, Roasted and Grilled Potatoes. D
7:00 pm
Ask This Old House "Laying Sod in the Backyard/Installing A Wireless Thermostat" Landscape contractor Roger Cook helps a homeowner lay sod in his backyard. Then, Roger, along with host Kevin O'Connor, plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey, and general contractor Tom Silva, asks, "What is it?" Afterward, Tom shares a tip about finding measurements without doing math. And Richard installs a wireless thermostat to control a heating system. D
7:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "Sevilla" In the flamboyant city of Carmen and Don Juan, Rick finds that bullfighting is still politically correct and little girls dream of growing up to become flamenco dancers. He finds the city's soul in its lacy Moorish palace, massive cathedral, lavish royal tombs, labyrinthine Jewish Quarter and the people-filled streets.G
8:00 pm
Rudy Maxa's World "Korea" Rudy samples cosmopolitan Seoul and the tranquility of temples tucked into lush mountains.G
8:30 pm
Lidia's Italy In America "New York Italian Style" In this episode, Lidia shares three delicious recipes that she picked up on Arthur Avenue and in Little Italy, New York. Zucchini and Eggplant Parmigiana, Roberto's Chicken Piccante and Skillet Cauliflower Torrisi are all the very core of Italian American comfort food. She also visits the Maugeri Farms in southern New Jersey and the Migliorelli food stand in Union Square Market in New York City to see what kind of traditions these Italian American families are passing down to generations to come. D
9:00 pm
Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen "Southern Classics" Bridget shows Chris how to make the ultimate Gumbo. Then, Jack challenges Chris to a tasting of long-grain white rice. And finally, Julia updates a lost recipe and shows Chris how to make Lane Cake. D
9:30 pm
Joanne Weir's Cooking Class "Provencal Roasted Lamb & White Bean Salad" Joanne shows her student Geoff how to cook a hearty one-pot main course and introduces him to new flavor combinations. Recipes: (1) POT ROASTED LEG OF LAMB WITH GARLIC AND OLIVES, (2) WHITE BEAN SALAD WITH PEPPERS, GOAT CHEESE AND MINT. Student: Student: Geoff Rubendall - Civil Engineer. D
10:00 pm
Taste This! "Fish Tail" On this episode Chef Joe joins David Burke at his newest restaurant, Fish Tail. Fish Tail is located on the Upper East Side and specializes in seafood. The restaurant features a Raw Bar, Sushi Bar, and any other seafood dish you can imagine. D
10:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "Sevilla" In the flamboyant city of Carmen and Don Juan, Rick finds that bullfighting is still politically correct and little girls dream of growing up to become flamenco dancers. He finds the city's soul in its lacy Moorish palace, massive cathedral, lavish royal tombs, labyrinthine Jewish Quarter and the people-filled streets.G
11:00 pm
Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish "Seremos Cuatro" This episode covers phrases used when making travel arrangements. Juan talks to Pati about their marriage and its future.G
11:30 pm
Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish "Una Promesa Y Una Sonrisa" This episode features words for popular sports, Aztec and Mayan artifacts in Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology.G


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Julie Weiss of Santa Monica is indeed a Marathon Goddess.
Weiss crossed the finish line of the Los Angeles Marathon in 5:17:44. The blogger, who details her running exploits at MarathonGoddess.com, would have had a faster finish if not for the media interviews she stopped to do along the way and the fans who met her for hugs and high-fives.
For Weiss, 42, the race marked the end of her quest to run 52 marathons in a year to raise money to fight pancreatic cancer, which had claimed her father's life. She ran part of the last mile of the 26.2-mile course with two pancreatic cancer survivors. In a symbolic end to her journey, she released two purple balloons at the finish line, one for her father, Maurice, and the other to honor all who have fought the disease.
"It was such an emotional moment," Weiss said. "There were tears; there was happiness. I am in deep gratitude for all of the support I've gotten."

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Date: 11/09/2012
Writer: Jane Moorman, 505-249-0527, firstname.lastname@example.com
As incidences of drought have become more recurrent in the Southwest over the past decade, farmers across New Mexico need to be prepared to effectively cope with it in order to remain productive and profitable.
Since farming in a drought situation is not business as usual, New Mexico State University's Cooperative Extension Service has released a new publication entitled "Argonomic Principles to Help with Farming During Drought Periods" to give agricultural producers some suggestions to help them develop strategies to cope with drought.
"New Mexico's climate is normally hot and dry, but drought conditions and higher-than-average temperatures can make farming even more challenging. A variety of strategies can be used to ensure that your farm remains productive during drought," said John Idowu, NMSU Extension agronomist, who co-authored the publication with Extension specialists Mark Marsalis and Robert Flynn.
Idowu's research and Extension activities are focused on sustainable field crop production and soil health management in New Mexico.
The publication addresses aspects of planning for drought conditions, such as good planning, scaling back on acreage to be planted, moving away from water-intensive crops, selecting early maturing and drought-tolerant varieties, using reduced tillage practices, watching out for salinity of soil, and properly scheduling irrigation.
A key point of the strategy is to plan only for the water that you have or are assured of receiving.
"An important consideration is to analyze the economics of the situation since it is different from normal years," Idowu said. "The focus should be to optimize your economic returns with the water that is available. Don't be too ambitious by planting more acreage than your allocated water can support, hoping that the situation will improve through in-season rainfall."
Drought is a time to match the water allotment with the size of the area to be planted.
"Calculate the amount of acres that your water allotment can successfully support and limit your production to that acreage," Idowu said. "Know what the maximum water use for your crop is during the peak water demand time of the season and adjust acres down to meet this demand."
How the water is applied is also critical.
"If possible, schedule your irrigation during early morning or late evening to avoid evaporation losses," he said. "However, scheduling irrigation during these times may not be practical for some production systems due to crop type or logistics of operation."
Because available water is scarce during a drought, there is a tendency to irrigate without also thinking about leaching the accumulated salts from the soil surface.
"It is important to note that a build-up of salts can occur on the farm if insufficient water is applied to leach out the excess salts," Idowu said. "Salt accumulation can affect yields and crop quality. To avoid salt accumulation in the surface soil, you should know the salinity level of your soil and the quality of your water that will be used for irrigation and then calculate the leaching requirement along with the crop demands for water."
Selection of the crop is also a factor to consider, such as moving away from water-intensive crops, and selecting early maturing and drought-tolerant varieties.
"Forage crops such as alfalfa and corn have very high demands for water," Idowu said. "In situations with limited water, it becomes difficult to raise these crops with a high level of output. An alternative is to transition temporarily to crops that consume less water and are more drought-tolerant, such as sorghum and millet."
The publication has a table that lists various crops, the critical period for irrigation and the crop's level of sensitivity to drought.
"Early maturing and drought-tolerant varieties can also help growers cope with drought," he said. "It is good to carefully select crop varieties that will mature earlier in the growing season. Although varieties that mature later tend to have higher yield, during a drought the yield advantage may be lost due to insufficient water."
How the land is worked can also help offset the impact of drought on the plants.
"Compared to conventional plowing and disking, reduced tillage has been shown to help conserve soil moisture and improve soil health," Idowu said. "Reduced tillage emphasizes a reduction in the depth and total area of the farmland that is being intensively tilled."
Many reduced tillage options are available to farmers, such as strip-till, no-till, zone-till, chiseling and permanent beds. The type of reduced tillage that will fit each farming operation will vary.
"Some reduced tillage methods may involve acquiring new tillage tools," Idowu said. "Therefore, reducing tillage should be seen as a long-term strategy to conserve moisture and improve soil quality."
To learn more about these topics, the full publication Guide A-147 may be obtained from NMSU's College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences website at http://aces.nmsu.edu/pubs/_a/A147.pdf or by ebook at http://aces.nmsu.edu/pubs/ebooks/_a/welcome.html.
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Got a new job at a new Rock station! the ONLY Chickenfoot song in their playlist is "Oh Yeah"...WELL....I plan on remedying that!!!!
Also, I played "Remember the heroes today...great song in honor of the 1-151st in Minnesota! The boys are on their way home soon. Should be here by Easter hopefully!
Thank you for your music!
You guys ROCK!
Rockin Out till the very end....
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A man armed with guns, explosives and other supplies shot and wounded a deputy outside a Georgia courthouse and was equipped to take hostages once he got inside, officials said Friday.
The man also hadn't been living at his home for at least 10 days and may have booby-trapped it with explosives, authorities said. Bomb squads were checking both the home and the courthouse.
The suspect, Dennis Marx, was shot and killed at the scene, said Forsyth County Sheriff Duane Piper. Marx had driven up to the courthouse and threw out smoke devices and homemade spike strips to prevent officers from reaching him. Both homemade and commercially made explosives were in his car, suggesting he had planned the assault for days, Piper said.
Marx also had water and other supplies, including zip ties that can be used to bind people's hands. Piper said the wounded deputy prevented others from getting hurt when he encountered Marx, though it was not clear if that deputy killed the suspect.
"When the deputy engaged him outside, it saved lives," Piper said. "The entire situation was solved by that deputy's actions."
The deputy, who has been with the department for 25 years, was shot below his knee and is expected to recover. His name was not released.
Few details about Marx were known, though Piper said he had been known to authorities for some time.
The courthouse and nearby businesses were evacuated as the FBI, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation investigated.


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Beyond wagering on traditional point spreads, gamblers these days can choose to put money down on hundreds of obscure and sometimes ridiculous events listed on sportsbooks for the Super Bowl.
Here's a look at some of the more unusual proposition bets (wagers on a very specific outcome) that are being taken on the "big game" from popular online gambling site Bovada for the Baltimore Ravens matchup against the San Francisco 49ers in New Orleans, LA on Sunday, February 3rd.
By Brian Beers, Senior Producer
Posted: 31 January 2013
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WOODSTOCK — Mount Abraham Union High School senior Jona Scott earned Division II and overall medalist honors at the state championship meet at the Woodstock Country Club on Wednesday by firing a 69, but his Eagle team fell one stroke short of a D-II team championship.
BRANDON — The No. 7 Otter Valley Union High School softball team broke an early 2-2 tie on Wednesday on the way to a 12-2 win over visiting No. 10 Lake Region in a Division II first-round game.
The 10-7 Otters are scheduled, weather permitting, to travel to Lyndon on Friday to take on the No. 2 Vikings (15-1) in a quarterfinal. LRU finished at 8-9.
Playoff scheduling changes came in fast and furious on Wednesday, mostly made due to impending local high school graduations this weekend, but also made with an eye to less than ideal weather forecast for the next few days.
Three local high school softball teams, two baseball teams and two lacrosse teams will host playoff games this week; two of those squads, Otter Valley baseball and Middlebury girls' lacrosse, earned No. 2 seeds; and one first-round match-up pits Addison County rival baseball teams, defending Division II baseball champion Vergennes vs. perennial contender Mount Abraham.
In my previous column, I confessed that what I missed most since moving to Vermont from California's Bay Area were sidewalks.
If you asked my husband what he misses most since arriving in Vermont, he'd respond, "Food and produce."
If you were to ask me now, almost two years since I moved to Vermont, what I miss most about the other places I've lived – the Virginia suburbs, Manhattan, the San Francisco Bay Area – I would answer: "Sidewalks."
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It sounds so glamorous, working in Hollywood. Doesn't it? Sure, if you're a studio chief or an actor with your own trailer. But if you're a powerless minion, it's a special kind of hell. Long before he was the boss of this magazine, Jim Nelson endured the worst humiliation that town can offer: life as a Hollywood assistant
The dog snarls at me from his coffin. In life, Digger was the most golden of retrievers, but now he lies sideways, stiff and sculpted, a feeble paw pointing the way to some last, unfetchable bone. His coat, once alarmingly orange, has gone rusty and wet, like the juicy copper of expired batteries. He looks exhausted, as if he had taken the walk of his life. He looks—there is no running from it—like roadkill. And that mouth! His Final Groomers have wrapped the black rubber of his lips tightly around his incisors so that, defanged by death, he might growl into eternity.
I have heard that pet cemeteries exist, have even read books in which they figure, but until I drove up to the Valley for this service, I have never imagined hanging out with an embalmed canine. Here in the Mourning Room—a sad shuffle away from the office, where caskets, tiny and cute and tragic, are sold—Digger's box sits below a celestial track light. Around him there is satin and frills and the sagging comfort of pink insulation. But nothing can soften the truth: He is going into that hole outside, and we are all here to witness it.
The turnout is small—my boss, a group of his shrinking circle of friends, and me. I am here as a delicate function of my job, which is blurry and difficult to define. I work in Hollywood as a writer's assistant. My two bosses, M— and L—, are TV writers; Digger was M—'s dog, and, in a sense, one of my masters. I knew when I was hired that the position required a good deal of secretarial work: answering phones, setting up meetings, formatting scripts. What I did not understand is that the job of writer's assistant is whatever the writers deem it to be. Writers, you know, are a terrifically creative bunch; they like to sit around all day thinking of new ways to employ their assistants. This often involves dogs, or any other pets the writers might have.
Take Digger, whom I have come to know through a series of rigorous walks. Indeed I have, upon instruction and in the middle of a busy workday, driven 4.8 miles to my boss's Hollywood Hills home to unlock the door, fetch the leash, and let Digger take his airs. I have padded around the dog parks of Los Angeles, pulled him away from strange curs, fed him biscuits and livery treats. Yes, Digger and I have had our memories. But strangely, I find, I am not torn at his passing.
And yet I grieve, publicly, for the sake of my job. M— has requested my presence in a manner I take as a command. In the first flush of grief, he asked me to show my loyalty—You'll be there for Digger, right?—using that sort of modern benevolent boss voice that pretends, for a moment, that there are no longer lines of authority and that, at the end of the day, I want to come to his dog's weird memorial service.
You would not call M— a people person. He is acerbic, career-drunk, moving toward midlife friendlessness. Digger was his only steadfast pal. Dogs don't fuck you over, he once bellowed at me in a conversation I surely should have been paid $250 an hour for. When he asked if I was coming to the funeral, I took it as: Mourn with me—or else.
Hollywood bosses prize loyalty, which is why so many have dogs.
And so we are gathered together to mark the end of a frisky life. There is no priest, no eulogy. In their place: awkwardness. We move through the room aimlessly, uncertain where our mourning should take us. (I have never felt so keenly the need for a funeral director.) The man who sold M— the plot finally stumbles in from the office next door and tells us what to do: We should all file up to the casket, say our good-byes, and exit outside, so that M— can have the room to grieve alone. Sounds like a plan!
When it's my turn, I'm a little skeeved out. Not only does Digger look more aggressive than usual, he appears to be sweating in the halogen heat—there is a cosmetic dampness about him, as if he'd been moussed to death by stylists. I walk up to the coffin and stare down—a little sad for Digger, suddenly. Poor dog. You should have been cremated or buried in the woods, far from the tender, neurotic mercies of TV writers. What the hell are you doing here?
The question hangs in the air, comes back at me, as if dear old Digger were telling me, Ask yourself, loser.
For some reason, I make the sign of the cross, then shuffle out into the warm L.A. sun, looking for answers.
Columbia Pictures TV Studios, corner of Sunset and Gower, 1989. Every morning I report to the grim desk slammed into the corner of the reception room. My bosses, the comedy writers, have their own office, a stately pleasure dome, across the hall. We are connected by an elaborate phone system, with a direct buzz line from their desks to mine—a little something I call the Comedy Alarm. It buzzes often, bringing a panic of perspiration to my temples.
I share my office space with a group of writer's assistants, all of whom are connected to their superiors by the same buzzing system, all of whom fear their bosses, resent their bosses' success, and yet crave their bosses' sweet-ass jobs. When any assistant's buzzer sounds, everything stops, the buzzee groans, and a feeling of fellow-dread fills the room.
The reception area serves as a hangout for various Columbia secretaries, messengers, and mailroom guys and as a kind of chamber for our constant grievances. The most bitter among us is Kent, who at night performs as the drag queen Jackie Beat, a beat poetess with a vicious tongue. In truth, the line between Kent, the disgruntled office worker, and Jackie Beat, the disgruntled drag queen, is fading daily. Once, early on, feeling momentarily comfortable around the group, I'd mentioned that I'd just moved here and told some brief anecdote about growing up in the D.C. suburbs. When I finished, Kent glowered at me. What makes you think any of us could possibly give a shit about that little story of yours?
It's just a story, I stammered.
I think you need to think long and hard about what's a story—and what isn't, he snipped.
I shut up for two months.
The only thing that keeps the office from sliding into abject misery is the presence of Heidi, an impossibly sweet-natured receptionist who coos at all photos of babies and ponies and who instantly shushes away any negativity by pouting: Noooooo! Don't even say that! You can bitch about anything to Heidi—I hate my life; I think I have scabies—and the response is always the same, a tender mouse squeal: Noooooo! Don't even say that!
The assistants around me are all wildly talented people who know they need to suppress any sign of creativity, lest it threaten their bosses or get in the way of answering phone calls. (Years later, Heidi will co-write the music for a Tony-winning Broadway show, Passing Strange. Here at Columbia, she is barely allowed bathroom breaks.)
Across the hall, through the glass door of the reception room, I can see my bosses laughing hysterically in their office. They sit facing each other at two massive wooden desks, howling and hooting and idle to all the world, like senators-elect without a mandate. Their desktops are covered with toys—wind-up fruit, plastic swami snakes, a clattering set of dentures. They sit with their feet up, shoes off, reading Variety or leisurely gazing out the window at Gower Street, occasionally winding a toy. And they laugh. They crack each other up. This is what they are each paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to do. This is called comedy development.
And it is comic. This is the era of extravagant development deals. Columbia, home to Married…with Children and Who's the Boss?, is signing up writers left and right—playwrights, performance artists, mildly successful sitcom staffers—to sit around all day and dream up premises for TV series. When the writers come up with what they think is a brilliant concept, they pitch the Columbia development ecutives, and if the executive like it, the studio pitches the idea to the networks. If the networks bite, the writers become producers of the series, and everyone gets rich.
What, you might ask, have my bosses done to deserve their deal? They worked on a show called The New Leave It to Beaver. Oh, you don't remember that one? It was a groundbreaking series—for Jerry Mathers. Born on the Disney Channel in 1985 as Still the Beaver. Died on TBS the Year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and eighty-nine. My bosses act as if the Beaver reboot were the modern comedy equivalent of Monty Python, as if everyone in Hollywood were hyper-aware of the brilliant Eddie Haskell subplots they wrote. The way they move through the hallways at Columbia, the way they verily strut into pitch meetings, you can tell they're still drinking in the mediocre success of The New Leave It to Beaver.
At first, I should confess, I quaffed their Kool-Aid. At my interview, they flat out informed me that they were hilarious, a cut above most clowns. Not like these fucking idiots in Hollywood. I laughed at their audacity. They laughed at my laughing—the whole interview was like a coke party. They told me they would storm Hollywood and, if I went along, I could sort of storm it, too. It sounded like a great idea, and also I was broke.
I suppose I thought they would help me fulfill my dream to become a writer. If nothing else, I would get a comedy apprenticeship and witness the process by which funny ideas become fully baked TV series. Sitting at my desk, I plot out my bright future. They'll get a sitcom on the air; once it's in production, I'll become the writer's assistant on the show, slay everyone with my jokes, and graduate to staff writer. (Even today, this is The Plan for many aspiring writers looking for their big break. As one writer's assistant on the hit series Modern Family told me, the job is like the best grad school you could possibly have if you want to be a writer.) I just need to be vigilant, write my own spec scripts on the side, then my bosses will read them and see that I can—
ENHHHHH! The Comedy Alarm. A call from L—. What does he want? I can see him motioning from across the hall to pick up the phone. His irony fills the receiver.
Uh, Jim? I need a ham on rye.
I scramble for a pen. Sure…ham on rye.
And could you make that cold. Very, very cold.
Okay, cold.
And then, uh, one more thing. Could you…sit on that?
Comedy! I hadn't recognized it when it finally arrived. It is moments like this when I begin to worry that maybe I've hitched my wagon to the wrong comedy asses.
I'll get that sandwich for you is all I say. Then I give him a slight chuckle, because I know that's what he wants. I have only been here a few months and already I know: My job is to serve them and, more important, to humor them. I am regularly summoned into their office to witness the sparks of their genius, to hear a few bits of schlocky humor that, for the well-being of my job, I had better find uproarious.
By the nepotistic rules of Hollywood, L— was born for this work. The son of a successful screenwriter, blessed with Pacific privilege and an endless supply of chinos, he looks like a California prep with a prankster edge. His hands-in-pockets, coin-jangling energy signals that he has no interest in you unless you've written a Cheers episode or might provide him with immediate joke fodder. He speaks loudly, even if he is two feet away from you, to cover the distance he reckons all humans should be kept at. When he talks to his wife on the phone, they speak in Dutch, their secret lingua franca. At first, you think it's a joke, but it isn't. (It sounds like: But honey, you can't mean glrffen roofen rayvma?!? Sklar!)
M—, on the other hand, is schlumpy, with thick curly hair and Coke-bottle glasses that exaggerate every tic and blink. There's something about him that people feel sympathy for—a loneliness he can't see—even though he's mean and may not deserve it. He speaks of having a world of two-hour friends, people he can only stand for 120 minutes: a movie, a dinner, drinks. He's driven by some animus I imagine to be self-loathing but that, when whipped through the carnival of his ego, miraculously turns into a swaggering confidence. He finishes every joke, every putdown, with an audible nasal grunt, a noise that I suspect is silent to him but that, to the rest of us, sounds like a small cry for therapy.
M— and L— seem mismatched as a comic team. They're both type A personalities, with no foil, no straight man. Like the worst kind of Funny Guys, they are always, oppressively, on. Every time they see you, they do not merely crack a joke; they molest you with comedy. Their assaults are rapid-fire, cringe-inducing, often offensive. (Nice jacket, Jim. What, did you buy it from a sand nigger in Morocco? Grunt.) Surely, they must think, this is the way to become noticed as a formidable comic force—to launch one's hilarity from across the room. No one is immune to it. When they walk into a pitch meeting with the Columbia executive, L— invariably begins the meeting with an antic gag, tripping, Dick Van Dyke-like, over a hassock, or a pair of crossed feet, nearly somersaulting across the room, then rubbing his knees and grimacing in theatrical pain. You can see the same pain flickering in the eyes of the executive.
The worst is after lunch, when they come into the reception room to get their messages, and all my fellow assistants are there. That's when they break out in frenetic improv right in front of my desk.
L: Lunch was great! Steak in a…what was it? Saliva sauce?
M: No, I think it was, uh, toe jam.
L: Yeah, toe-jam sauce! Delicious!
M: Oh, and Jim, we forgot to tell you: You're fired! Heh heh…
Every line is delivered as if I were famished for comedy, as if I'd been waiting all day for their 2:38 performance, live from the reception room. The other assistants are not compelled to laugh—Kent just folds his arms and stares blankly at them—but I am. And I know that as soon as M— and L— exit, the assistants will skewer me for laughing. Kent will turn to me, stone-faced, and say, They're hilarious. And you've got a bright future.
Eventually, I can no longer fake it. When I cannot bring myself to even look at them, to turn my face up and manage a simple Ha, I develop a method of shrugging my shoulders in a fast jerk and gasping inward, as if they had stolen the very laughter from my lungs.
Now, that's funny! Did everybody hear what I just said? What I just said was funny. What the hell did I just say?
The writer turns to me and gives me his patented What Did I Just Say look. Did you get that down? he says. What'd I say?
It is my job on this TV show to tell people what they just said. It is 1990, and The Plan is going as planned, sort of. I have graduated from development and am now a writer's assistant on M— and L—'s NBC series, Ferris Bueller. I am the Taker of All Notes, the Keeper of Comedy. I do table, which means I sit at a long conference table with the writers as they try to punch up a script. I jot down what they say, spitting it back to them on demand. It's a lot like dictation, only funnier.
I tell the writer I didn't get his joke. I mean, it's not that I didn't get it—I'm sure it was great. I just didn't hear it. There were too many people talking at once.
God damn it, he mutters, slamming a hand on the table. It's gone…totally lost. He swats his head to indicate its current vacancy, then glares at me as if I were personally responsible for his synapses.
And I am. That's why I'm here. Anyone can take notes. But it takes a real writer's assistant to take blame. I am a veritable blame cushion. I am the reason you are not funny this afternoon, and I will be the reason you cannot think of a punch line later tonight. I am the leading cause of amnesia, unfunniness, weak plot points, and all manner of botched jokes.
I can handle the blame. What I cannot handle is the dictation. For one, I do not know shorthand. For another, the dictators are all writers, and every writer is an island unto himself. Each sits there, off in his own world, pitching jokes to the enchanted audience in his mind. All the writers speak at once, trampling over one another's lines, so that the dialogue all rushes together: And then Ferris says, I like Principal Rooney. He's a stand-up guy. I just wish he'd fucking sit down.… No no, can't say fuck. How 'bout Principal Rooney's not a bad guy once you get past his bad side.… No, no, too soft. How 'bout: Like everyone, there's two sides to Rooney—the bad side and the evil side.… No, two sides—the nice side and the _geno_cide.… No one's going to get that.… Haha, I like that.… I'm hungry.…
I try my best to get everything down, scrawling so furiously that my fingers develop pencil polyps, little nubbins of blistered skin I will keep for a decade—my comedy wounds. The work feels Sisyphean, like recording the minutes of Chinese Ping-Pong. It is wearying; it follows me home. I have dreams in which I am Sally on The Dick Van Dyke Show, scribbling down jokes for Morey Amsterdam. I wake up. I am Sally.
BUDDY: Say, that's pretty funny! What do you say we whip it into a routine?
SALLY: I'll get my pad!
But Sally had it easy. Here, the writers expect me not only to read back their jokes but to somehow embellish them, to deliver them with feeling and perfect timing. Because if I read back a line and it sounds lame, the writer might accuse me of killing his joke. It happens like this:
WRITERS: [speaking all at once] Blah blah blah and then he says blah blah and then she says blah blah no no because she has car troubles blah blah your mother names her car?
WRITER #1: That was good. What did I say?
ME: Um, you said, My mother's car is a Lexus. Your mother names her car?
WRITER #1: That's not what I said! Jesus Christ! I said, My mother's car is a Lexus. Your mother names her car?
ME: That's brilliant.
As producers, M— and L— have the final say on which jokes make it into the script. But they have other things to worry about now, and are often mired in conference calls: talking to the suits at the network, getting the network's notes, fretting about the ratings. When they are busy, they let another producer run the table. I am always delighted by their absence. After all, I am learning a new skill—working the comedy table—which will allow me to escape them, to go off and work on other shows once this one is canceled.
The series, based way too loosely on the classic John Hughes film, stars Charlie Schlatter as Ferris and, in her first major role, a nubile Jennifer Aniston. (To Aniston worshippers, I can offer little dirt. She was lovely, kept to herself on the set, smoldering a bit like her outraged character, 17-year-old Jeannie Bueller. She was a brunette then, with none of Rachel Green's bob or self-possession. Oh, and there's this. GQ can exclusively report that everyone on set thought she was hot, including Schlatter, with whom she had a brief, torrid romance—while playing, it must be said, his older sister. To we immaturions on the show, this seemed extra-hot. Like performative incest.)
Problem is, the show is mean. There is none of that winking charm that made the Hughes film a smash. Ferris is too arrogant, the dialogue too fast and sarcastic. The network steps in to try to save the show, demanding we bring in a special guest star. We end up with Buddy Hackett. Ferris is supposed to save the day by getting a big celebrity to give a speech at the school, and he gets…Buddy Hackett? On the set, Hackett refuses to stick to the script and improvises with boozy Borscht Belt vulgarisms. The jokes are filthy, weird, unusable. (Ferrish Buuuewwller, he mewls, I shaw you once. Yeah, lasht time I shaw you I was parachuting into a…sheep field. What?)
We keep having to stay later and later to fix the show. We are often writing or rewriting till two in the morning. We live off take-out food and hard candy. We have no lives. In the wee hours of morning, once the writers have gone, the mice and I hang out as I type up the finished scripts, then send messengers to drop them off at Aniston's house, Schlatter's, et al., in time for tomorrow's shoot or, more likely, reshoot.
Still, though I am busy as the Beav, I am often called away to serve M—. In the middle of a crazed production day, I hear my master calling.
Jim…it's time for a walk.
My ears prick up, tongue wags, legs Scooby-Doo.
I pad over to M—, virtual leash in mouth. He just holds his house keys in the air, like a Milk-Bone I should jump for.
Anyone who's ever worked for a horrible boss knows the psychodynamic here. A mean boss is usually an insecure boss, one who needs to see his or her authority reinforced in tangible ways—in acts of submission (walk my dog, bitch!) or in power games that humiliate. When you work for people like that, nothing, you learn, is more important than giving them someone to whom they can feel unquestionably superior.
It's even worse in Hollywood, world capital of insecurity. Writers, who are anxious creatures anyway, feel they are demeaned by the creative process—by agents who care a lot more about actors (the talent), by development executive who piss on their work. Having someone writers can personally humiliate fills them with hope and restores their injured sense of justice.
M— seems to need to dish out a lot of humiliation lately. He keeps getting surlier as the show's ratings slide. He blames the executive, the studio, the network, and that cunt in comedy development. He turns his rage on his two-hour friends. With a chilling enthusiasm, he winnows his friendships down. I'm taking him off speed dial! he'll yell out to me, clutching his phone. He's out of my life! This is a sign for me to take their card off my increasingly bare Rolodex wheel. I stash the card in the desk, in case the friend is revived, Maoist-style.
Dogs and Porsches, he keeps repeating. Remember that: dogs and Porsches. The only things that don't fuck you!
But even Porsches can fuck you. Often his groggy voice will call me at home early in the morning. Something's wrong with the 944, he'll groan. It usually involves a noise he swears he hears in the rear of the car, something sinister and profound. I know what this means. It means (a) there's probably nothing wrong with the car, and (b) I will be his chauffeur for the day! (Me, I drive a giant '78 white Chevy Impala, the size of seventy-eight actual impalas, that I bought from the child actor who played Bud on Married…with Children. I realize the purchase was, in part, a passive-aggressive move on my behalf, to have a car your boss would never want to be seen alive in.)
So I jump into my Impala and haul ass, which is kind of like driving a giant couch very slowly, to the Porsche dealership in Westwood to meet him—it's important I beat him there so he doesn't suffer the indignity of waiting—as he tries to convince the mechanic there are dark noises coming from the rear of the 944. Half the time, the Porsche people won't even take the car. There's nothing wrong with it, they say. You're just hearing other cars.
It strikes me as the perfect metaphor for his tortured soul, and for the general malaise of L.A. life: We think we're unhappy but…we're just hearing other cars.
Ferris Bueller dies an untimely death. NBC kills it after just thirteen episodes. And I am free! Sweet Jesus, I am free.
I inform M— and L— that I am leaving to pursue other interests, such as happiness and being far away from them. (I don't put it that way.) They seem incredulous that anyone could possibly desert them. I am out of their Rolodex! Forever!
I soon find work as a writer's assistant on other sitcoms. With nice bosses! Norman Lear: a total mensch. (It was like working for Bad Grandpa, only he was nice and took the whole staff out to fancy dinners.) The one complicating factor: Every show I work on is instantly canceled.
The names read like a short history of American ephemera: Lear's The Powers That Be, starring Niles from Frasier; the one-episode Hurricane Sam, starring Fran Drescher; the Dudley Moore vehicle Dudley. You will not remember Lear's 704 Hauser, starring John Amos, in which a black family moves into Archie Bunker's house, because we made six episodes and they didn't even bother airing the sixth.
Harsh Hollywood reality: You can labor in TV for years and never work on a series that lasts more than a season: a pilot here, eleven episodes there. But in my five years in the business, I have a miserable track record.
Sometimes you know the show is doomed before it starts. Dudley? Who would name a show Dudley? It's like they named it so TV critics could snark out on it: Dudley is a dud.… Dudley is deadly. (They did!)
My happiest moments, however, are toward the end of my not-so-brilliant career, when a generous ecutive producer, Susan Beavers, pays me not only a salary but bonuses for jokes. Beavers will go on to produce the long-running hit Two and a Half Men, but our time on deadly Dudley will be short. Still, we give it our best shot. We work late late late into the night, she brings her tiny yappy dogs to the office (what is it with the dogs of L.A.?), and she lets me pitch right along with the writers. I get $20 per joke and $50 per button (a scene-ending joke, which needs a bigger punch line). If I land a joke, she throws a Jackson or a Grant on the table like we're playing poker. It's merciful, like something out of Dickens: Saved from penury by wit and a kindly bit of almsgiving.
But here's the thing: I no longer think I want this. I've already decided to leave Hollywood, ever since the night I saw one of my comedy heroes pound his head into the table.
The guy, Ken Estin, was a legendary Emmy-winning writer—a producer on Taxi, cocreator of The Tracey Ullman Show. For some reason this soft-spoken, bearded millionaire has taken a gig producing a truly wretched show, Flesh 'N' Blood. It's way past midnight, and the room is exhausted. We need a joke! Actually we need about forty-eight more jokes, better characters, and an interesting premise. Ken, whaddaya got?
There is silence. Ken starts to pound his head, gently, comically, but sincerely, against the tabletop. And then he begins to moan: I should have gotten out a long time ago. It was my wife, really. I was ready to quit the business. I said, You get a million dollars, put it in the bank, and live off the interest. That's $100,000 a year, if you play it right. Totally reasonable. Get out while you can. But she likes having the Rolls-Royce. She likes the shopping. So here I am. He looks up at us, helpless to explain any of it.
No one says a word. A couple of awkward moments go by, until it's time to nail the next joke.
Back at the Pet Cemetery, it's finally time to bury Digger. But M— just won't leave the Mourning Room. We're all standing outside next to a cat grave as we, M—'s last remaining friends and his last remaining assistant, wait for the grieving process to end. I look down. Some guy has seven or eight cats buried in one spot. Clearly there's been some kind of pussy massacre. This place gives me the creeps.
We wait a few minutes, and then from the Mourning Room comes an unholy howl, like nothing I've ever heard before. It is tortured and deep and haunted—an animal being baked alive? It takes us a few seconds to realize it is M—, mourning.
It seems to last an eternity, longer than Russian Jews mourn. We hear mumbling and deep, panicked breathing. Finally, Kevin, M—'s best friend, says, One of us better go in, and then looks hopefully at me. Sure, I'll do it, I say.
I crack the door. The room seems to have darkened dramatically, but the shaft of sunlight illuminates M— kneeling at the coffin. He is babbling incoherently, his fingers running super-affectionately through the clown hair on Digger's head. The perma-snarl flares back and forth with the motion.
I don't know what to do. I shuffle over to the coffin. Hey, I say. A couple of us are worried about you. Are you okay?
He stands up, eyes filled with tears, and sobs out a sentence: D-d-d-d-digger…es…es…unfaiiiiir!!!! Then he extends his arms like a baby mummy, like he wants me to pick him up. He's…reaching out to me. I go with it. I hug the guy. And the strange thing is: It is the deepest, most soul-burning hug of my life. His body feels like a mast collapsing on me, then jittering and jostling wildly in the wind. My legs start to give out. I can hardly hold him up. And then he releases the most primal scream yet—the sound of M— beseeching the lords. He howls over my shoulder for Digger and lost two-hour friends and all that is impermanent. Even now, when I think of my days in L.A., I think of that cry—for a dog's life, for a thousand dreams chased and lost in Hollywood—and I can barely stand up.
Jim Nelson is the editor-in-chief of GQ. He has twenty-seven assistants.


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Thursday, July 31, 2014
Crepe Paper Poppies
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Labels: Flowers, Parties, Scrapbooking
Tuesday, July 29, 2014
New Old Storage Crate
homedepot. I cut out about 16 of the steps...and just used some stain my brother left in my garage....that should teach him, and some handles I got at half off from Hobby Lobby.
I rubbed the stain on, partially following the instructions, then nailed the handles onto each side over the holes (the original tutorial has you filling in this part of the wood...uh....I don't think so. A cute little addition to my living room that dust can gather. :O)
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Labels: Living Room, Thrift Store
Monday, July 28, 2014
GMT Summer Projects-Rough Draft
She also asked me to make this wreath she saw for a patio table. I took some spanish moss, wire, and a wreath frame for the dollar tree....and a really blurry picture..
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Thursday, July 24, 2014
Christmas in July-Last Year's Cookie Exchange
Here are two of the recipes I loved...
Elf Treats-they reminded me a peanut butter/chocolate rice crispie treat-a marriage of some of my favorite things!
Instructions:In a large saucepan melt sugar, corn syrup, and peanut butter over medium heat until smooth. Remove from heat. Quickly add the salt and cereal and stir to combine. Add the chocolate chips and stire again. Wait 1 minute and then add Reese's and fold mix together. Line baking sheet with parchment paper and press down. Cut into bars when cooled.
...and a second one....
I also loved these chocolate ones-they are my perfect combo of sweet and salty!
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Labels: Chocolate, Christmas, Cookie Exchange, Cookies, Elf, Recipes
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Making Your List Christmas Gift Idea
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Labels: Christmas, Homemade Gift
Monday, July 21, 2014
Christmas in July: Hosting a Cookie Decorating Party
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Friday, July 18, 2014
Oreo Fluff
1. Whisk together the pudding mix and milk for 2 minutes.
2. Fold in the cool whip, Oreos , and marshmallows. Combine well.
3. Place in the fridge until serving.
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Thursday, July 17, 2014
Pimento Cheese Tarts
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Healthy Side Dish Recipes
Zucchini with Parmesan and Croutons
I love zucchini. It's so easy to cook, which is nice in the summer when I want to minimize my time in the kitchen. The one issue to keep in mind though is that zucchini tends to become watery as it softens, so to counteract this I added bread croutons to soak up all the juicy flavors. I learned that trick from Emily, Lulu's friend.
I used leftover masala tandoori naans for the croutons and flavored the dish with Herbes de Provence, lemon zest and Parmesan for added natural saltiness. This vegetable side dish pairs wonderfully with roasted duck (my favorite meat) or chicken.
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Mediterranean Vegetables: Healthy Side Dish Recipe
This Mediterranean vegetable medley is not only a healthy side dish, it's also packed with flavor. I mixed red bell pepper, sunburst squashes, crimini mushrooms, green olives and garlic, along with baby eggplants, which fit perfectly in this particular dish. The skin is tender, not bitter and the seeds are very small. I also melted goat cheese at the end to bind all the flavors together. We bought way too many fresh loaves of French bread from the bakery aisle at Safeway, so I took one of the loaves and cut it into small croutons and used them to soak up the juices from the vegetables.
For a non-vegetarian version, I would substitute grilled chunks of chicken for the croutons and serve it on a bed of rice.
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City of Lincoln
Mayor's Office
2006 Media Releases
Mayor Coleen J. Seng today presented the Mayor's Award of Excellence for July to Officer John Amen of the Lincoln Police Department (LPD). The monthly award recognizes City employees who consistently provide exemplary service and work that demonstrates personal commitment to the City. The award was presented at the beginning of today's City Council meeting.
Officer Amen has been employed with LPD since September 1985. He was nominated in the category of productivity by Police Sergeant Joseph Wright. Wright said in his nomination that Officer Amen felt that officers were spending too much time filling out the accident reports by hand. Amen knew that if the reports could be computerized in some fashion, officers could do more work in less time and the reports would be easier to read.
"John Amen took it upon himself to design a template for each page of our state accident report and load the templates into the computers at our department's work stations," wrote Wright in his nomination. "John also scanned the diagrams of all the major intersections for the eastern half of the City into our computers making accurate pre-drawn pictures available to all officers. When investigating an accident, officers are now able to go to any computer at the Police substations and type in the information required by the State, quickly tabbing from field-to-field. Officers can keystroke the narrative portion of the report and then find the intersection where the accident occurred and drag the diagram onto the back of the report."
"Fellow officers who have begun to regularly use John's system tell me they can complete four accident reports in the time to that it normally took them to finish one," Wright continued in his nomination. "This is a 200 percent increase in productivity. Our Duty Commanders who review our reports enjoy the neatness and professional look of the new reports, fewer errors are made and the reports go to our Records Unit in a more timely fashion.
According to Sergeant Wright, Officer Amen spent countless hours of his own time to make one of the most time-consuming parts of the street officer's job become much easier. Wright feels that Officer Amen's hard work has dramatically increased officer work performance and productivity, as well as increased accuracy of the data reported to the State.
"A happy consequence of John's effort to make his fellow officer's job easier is our Department, as a whole, looks much more professional and efficient. When a citizen comes to our Records Unit or visits our web page to retrieve a copy of an accident report, they see a computer generated form which, in terms of legibility and quality, has no equal anywhere in our state.
The other categories in which employees can be nominated are loss prevention, safety, customer relations and valor. All City employees are eligible for the Mayor's Award of Excellence except for elected officials and some managers. Individuals or teams can be nominated by supervisors, peers, subordinates and the general public. Nomination forms are available from department heads, employee bulletin boards or the Personnel Department, which oversees the awards program.
All nominations are reviewed by the Mayor's Award of Excellence Committee, which includes a representative with each union and a non-union representative appointed by the Mayor. Award winners receive a $100 U.S. savings bond, a day off with pay and a plaque. Monthly winners are eligible to receive the annual award, which comes with a $500 U.S. savings bond, two days off with pay and a plaque.


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Once every five years, tall ships from all over the world converge on the Dutch capital for a five-day international nautical spectacle—SAIL Amsterdam. Attracting more than 600 ships and an expected 1.8 million visitors, this is Europe's largest 'admission free' nautical event.
The highlight of SAIL Amsterdam 2010 which takes place this month is the SAIL-IN parade on the first day (19 August), an impressive fleet of tall ships and a large accompanying fleet crossing the North Sea Canal to Amsterdam.
This year the Fleur de Passion, the flagship of IUCN member Antinea Foundation will be among them. Moored at the heart of the SAIL event, the Fleur de Passion will act as the focus of an outreach programme involving several IUCN Member organizations and the municipality of Amsterdam, supported by the Dutch Coalition for Biodiversity. During three days the vessel and nearby theatre Panama will be a hub for the public to immerse themselves in the wonders and mysteries of the oceans.
Highlights will be the multimedia show 'Ocean Experience', a drawing contest for children, an evening event as part of the National Postcode Lottery Project Oceans, and a meeting organized by IUCN Netherlands 'Leaders for Nature' initiative which discusses the interdependence of businesses and oceans, among business leaders, politicians and NGOs.
Ocean Experience, with its dramatic footage from around the world, underlines the beauty and treasures of the underwater world and the human impacts that pose a threat to our marine world. The show is part of the 10-year 'Changing Oceans' expedition that the Fleur de Passion is undertaking around the world to map human impact on marine ecosystems.
The Fleur de Passion is currently sailing across the Wadden Sea, the latest marine site to be added to the UNESCO World Heritage list. This unique ecosystem is the world's largest unbroken system of intertidal sand and mud flats. Together with Dutch and German scientists Antinea will further explore and document this region. In collaboration with IUCN and UNESCO, a best practice programme will be developed to highlight innovative management solutions that have been put in place in different Marine Protected Areas.
For more information contact:
Ronald Menzel, Director, Antinea Foundation; firstname.lastname@example.com
Saskia Gaster, Senior Communication Officer, IUCN National Committee of the Netherlands, firstname.lastname@example.com
Janette Worm; Board member Antinea Foundation in The Netherlands email@example.com


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rivity needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 170 designs submitted by 49 freelance designers.
InnoPoints is an online loyalty program which allows users to earn virtual points by participating in various activities.
Young adults, age 18-30, middle-class, suburban, global audience (mostly U.S. and Europe). Want to save money and have fun at the same time. Not for tech geeks, not for obsessive gamblers, just normal people who like to shop.
Logo style:
- Simple, stylish, casual
- Not boring like an insurance site
- Not cheap or gaudy like a bad casino
- Neutral but appealing
- Color blueish
- Should be a horizontal style, not square, no symbol above or below the type, but to the left of it
- It would be cool if the symbol could also be used as the currency symbol for the points, but that's not a must
- Brand must be written "InnoPoints" - not "Innopoints" or "innopoints".
Technical requirements:
- Logo must be handed over in vector format (AI/EPS)
- Any non-standard fonts must be provided along with the logo
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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Teaching Videos
Below are videos from actual classrooms that show teachers using methods that are suggested in the learning activities in the Come, Follow Me outlines. These videos demonstrate how you can involve youth in searching the words of the prophets, and help them think about, share, and apply what they are learning. Some of the videos show how to effectively use visuals.


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Katie & Little Sci on a helicopter
Katie Holmes looked in great spirits today flying out of Manhattan on a helicopter. This is the life of Mrs Cruise. Private jets and helicopters, the convenience of not having to sit in traffic. You know, in these shots from the window, she actually does give off a Jackie O vibe. The trench coat and the glasses, right?
As for the soother thing from earlier this week – I guess, having no real experience with this, I am with you judgy moms about her being too old…but also, this child, she's not Violet Affleck who, for the most part, really doesn't seem to be affected by the photographers. Suri Cruise, you have to shoot her from a long lens. Maybe she's still growing into her confidence. Maybe she needs some comfort. I'm not the most maternal person, but even I think maybe in that case it might be ok?
Never mind, I know nothing of comforting children, this probably sounds dumbass. Carry on without me then.
Photos from Flynetonline.com


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I "reblog" Rabbi Rosove's post about Street Tzedakah because I wish I'd written it. He grounds powerful words in solid texts. Enjoy.
When I lived in Berkeley in the late '60s and early '70s, walking along Telegraph Avenue could be expensive if you gave to every panhandler who asked for spare change. Not that much has changed in all these years. The number of people asking for hand-outs is at least as great as it was, and perhaps more so. Given the nagging high national unemployment rate of 7% and the large numbers of long-term unemployed who have been unable to find work, the high number of under-employed, the historically low minimum wage, the federal cuts to food stamps for the working poor, and the threat that Congress will not extend unemployment insurance, it is no surprise that people asking for help on the street is so ever-present.
What to do? Democrats in Congress who believe that the federal government should extend a helping hand, especially in difficult times, are slogging it…
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xenic wrote:smf wrote:I did try to comment out the voodoo drivers in the kicklayout file but that resulted in that i could only use AGA screenmodes.
I don't have a classic or 2 graphics boards but you might try leaving both drivers in kicklayout and opening SYS:Prefs/ScreenMode prefs 'Monitors' tab and see if both boards are in the radio gadget at the top. If they are you might try changing the board shown in the radio button and selecting 'use' or 'save'. You could also try dragging the Vodoo icon from SYS:Devs/Monitors to SYS:Storage and reboot.
Is the combi of a Vodooo 3000 and a Radeon possible in the Mediator ?
In the Mediator manual: the winsize jumper should beclosed with Radeon or Voodoo 4 and 5 PCI graphics installed.
As you use a Voodoo3, the winsize should be open if I'm reading correctly, but you also use the above Radeon.


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The Rudy Gay Effect
If you are one of those people that can live in the moment and not remember the past or worry about the future you can truly enjoy what is happening with the Raptors right now. It has reached the point you can no longer consider what the Raptors have done since the Rudy Gay trade just some sort of fluke.
A win over the best team record wise in the NBA was the latest point of proof this group of Raptors offered to the world. The Pacers are a legit team and perhaps the largest roadblock to Miami winning a third straight NBA Championship. Paul George and Roy Hibbert are now considered legit superstars in this league.
The reality of folks dreaming for a Cinderella like story of Andrew Wiggins coming to the Raptors and being the franchise Savior is all but dead. According to statistical analysis that ESPN provides the Raptors are a 99% lock to make the NBA Playoffs in the terrible Eastern Conference.
While I have been one of the people that think the Raptors getting Wiggins would have been a franchise altering event it is clear to see that day is not coming in the short term for this franchise. What I have always said is the simple fact that the players that make up this roster and Dwane Casey had no interest in losing and always had the goal of winning.
The Rudy Gay trade to the Kings has had an impact that has been more than any trade I can recall in recent memory in any sport. It is not just about what the Raptors got rid of or what they acquired completely. In that regard what they got rid of was a clear anchor to their offensive success and in return they added a group of players that has given them a legit second unit.
It has had a significant impact on many of the remaining Raptors as well in addition to this. The Raptors struggled with ball movement prior to Gay being moved and now they have excellent movement of the ball. They now have a free flowing offensive attack and with addition of Greivois Vasquez bringing back the pick and roll play the Raptors lost in acquiring Gay.
This has led to more inspired play and a greater offensive contribution from both Amir Johnson and Jonas Valanciunas. That contribution has made them more energized and excited and carried over to defensive end of the floor as well.
Kyle Lowry who may very well have been the only player that misses Rudy Gay still has been playing at the elite level he did when he first arrived with the Raptors. He would be injured and never really got back to that level until recently.
Terrence Ross who was struggling to see time on the floor has suddenly been thrown into the fire with more minutes and is producing on the offensive end of the floor at the best rate of his young career. When he struggles on the defensive end Dwane Casey has been able to plug in a veteran like John Solomons to close the gaps when the game is on the line. Ross is given a longer window to prove himself on a night in and night out basis. While I have been highly critical of Ross it would be foolish to suggest he has not answered the bell since the Gay trade.
Perhaps the biggest thing of all has been the impact on DeMar DeRozan from all of this. He was a huge defender of the fact he and Rudy could make an effective duo for the Raptors. The truth be told when Gay was acquired he was considered the better of the two players. The reality of things is since that time I would venture to say that DeRozan has passed him and is the better and more consistent player.
In addition DeRozan seems ready to take on the role as the number one option for a team something he has not been in the past. His confidence in being able to make long range shots has allowed him to have more success in making that shot. It in addition has opened up his game to a whole different level. His steady improvement as passer and playmaker has also made him a far more effective number one option in comparison to Gay.
The most rewarding thing of all for someone that has been here since he was drafted and first talked with him as a rookie in Ottawa is that he is a true leader. You see how much this young man has been made sick of losing and he now has started to figure out what he can do to stop it.
DeRozan has always worked hard but he now is not just working hard but playing smarter and having a greater understanding of the game and his role in it. The fact he has become a father seems to have matured him and settled him off the floor as well. All his fire, passion and frustration seems to be much more under control. I have always seen DeRozan as a player with some deep down anger in him that when he is able to channel it correctly can make him highly effective. DeRozan is not a bad person in any sense the exact opposite but on the floor I see a different guy that has a lot of fire and aggression in his game.
The Raptors for the moment have captured lighting in a bottle. If they are able to keep it beyond this season is a real question but as for this season they have more than stated their claim to what they are capable of doing.
The Challenge for Masai Ujiri is to do what Glen Grunwald and Bryan Colangelo failed to do in keeping that together for a long period of time. The reality is the Eastern Conference can not possibly get much worse than it is this season. Can Masai keep the Raptors growth to the same level that the Eastern Conference is going to improve? His acquiring draft picks for Andrea Bargnani is something that could help in that regard. In general though he needs to make Toronto something it has never really been as a viable destination to come play basketball with a group that is growing and building towards being a contender.
Grunwald and Colangelo failed at this badly. If Ujiri can re-sign Lowry that would be the simplest answer to many to solve the problem moving forward for the Raptors future. It may not be the only answer if he could find someone to plug in that position. The fact the Raptors now have a one-two punch at point guard has been a big difference resulting from the Gay trade. Heading into next season they need that combination to maintain success. Vasquez will also be a RFA heading into the off-season.
The Raptors from the very beginning have been a team that has been a franchise that has been as good as their point guard position has allowed them to be. It will remain to be a key to their future going forward.
For now a lot of Raptors fans just want to enjoy the moment and quite honestly with all this fan base has endured you can understand that. Losing sucks and winning is fun it really is that simple. Even people that support tanking are not truly gleeful at losing as they often get portrayed. They come to a realization or a hope that enduring the pain of losing in the short term will be rewarded with a more secure and winning future. Everyone wants a team that can not only win now but win in the future and improve to win more.
The Raptors have proven that they are at least good enough to compete in the winning now part of equation. For a lot of long suffering Raptors fans that is enough for now.
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As much as Rudy was loved by his teammates, winning has a funny way of building team chemistry and camaraderie. Since Rudy's departure, the rotations have been much more sound, Valanciunas is getting more touches, and Terrence Ross is finally getting a real opportunity.ReplyDelete
Much has been made about Dwayne Casey's coaching during this stretch; and I agree he has been coaching well, (helps when you have a roster rotation that makes sense), but I am interested how much Vananciunas will be featured in the Raptors offence in the next couple of games against Washington and Miami where he won't have to deal with the likes of a Joakim Noah, or Roy Hibbert. Miami is a good defensive team, but I think if Jonas can stay out of foul trouble in the next few games, he should be able to come out with a 20/10 performance or two.


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The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a legal challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) decision to allow the sale of 15% (E-15) blends of gasoline. The Supreme Court's ruling lets stand a federal appeals court decision that said the American Petroleum Institute (API) and other trade groups who filed the case lacked legal standing.
Growth Energy said, "The highest court in the land has spoken. They have unequivocally rejected the attempts of Big Oil and other opponents of ethanol to challenge the EPA's sensible decision to permit the sale of E15. Now that the final word has been issued, I hope that oil companies will begin to work with biofuel producers to help bring new blends into the marketplace that allow for consumer choice and savings."
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SAN LEANDRO — A puppy snatcher was behind bars Wednesday after officer found him with two German shepherds that were stolen last week, police said.
On Wednesday morning, a woman tried to meet with San Leandro resident Richard Coleman, 30, after she noticed he was trying to sell her two stolen German Shepherd puppies on Craigslist, according to San Leandro police.
The woman, who has not been identified, confronted Coleman about the dogs, which were taken from her home in Livermore, but he ran off.
She then called San Leandro police. Investigators were able to get Coleman to a location where they arrested him.
Coleman had one of the puppies with him when he was arrested; after speaking with police, he took them to the second puppy. Both dogs were unharmed and reunited with their owner, police added.
Coleman was arrested on suspicion of possession of stolen property and extortion.
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Walter Pater
From Quotes
Love laughs at locksmiths.Proverb
Walter Horatio Pater (4 August 1839 - 30 July 1894) was an English essayist and literary critic.
- It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
- Appreciation, Postscript (1889)
The Renaissance (1873)
- Every intellectual product must be judged from the point of view of the age and the people in which it was produced.
- Pico Della Mirandola
- Hers is the head upon which all "the ends of the world are come," and the eyelids are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh, the deposit, little cell by cell, of strange thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions. Set it for a moment beside one of those white Greek goddesses or beautiful women of antiquity, and how would they be troubled by this beauty, into which the soul with all its maladies has passed? She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the secrets of the grave; and has been a diver in deep seas, and keeps their fallen day about her; and trafficked for strange webs with Eastern merchants: and, as Leda, was the mother of Helen of Troy, and, as Saint Anne, the mother of Mary; and all this has been to her but as the sound of lyres and flutes, and lives only in the delicacy with which it has moulded the changing lineaments, and tinged the eyelids and the hands.
- On the Mona Lisa, in Leonardo da Vinci
- Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses? How shall we pass most swiftly from point to point, and be present always at the focus where the greatest number of vital forces unite in their purest energy. To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
- Conclusion
- What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
- Conclusion
- Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
- Conclusion
Marius the Epicurean (1885)
- A book, like a person, has its fortunes with one; is lucky or unlucky in the precise moment of its falling in our way, and often by some happy accident counts with us for something more than its independent value.
- Ch. 6
- To know when one's self is interested, is the first condition of interesting other people.
- Ch. 6
- We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us year after year, without disgust, through the routine-work which is so large a part of life.
- Ch. 25


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Cummingsj necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 389 diseños de 139 diseñadores freelance.
We are a cutting edge security firm that has conducted security evaluations and created custom security solutions for fortune 500 firms, high transaction eCommerce companies, and federal government agencies. We are in the process of changing our online presence and adding secure hosting solutions to our primary product offerings. As a part of this we want a new fresh logo that exudes security and confidence. Our corporate sloga is "Our Promise is Your Peace of Mind". Our new website (without new logo and imaging) can be found at http://www.redsphereglobal.com. This will include other basic image needs such as favicon, clickable images, something that represents basic hosting services and our secure hosting solutions (iSecure), though this name may change to SecureSphere (the hosting option etc).
Additional questions, please contact us through the website contact form at http://www.redsphereglobal.com/contact
Our desired audience is eCommerce companies that are looking to secure their web applications in a pro-active and regulatory compliant manner. Other targets include anyone that requires hosting or security specific services.
Something that fits well with the already described requirements and site layout, of course the layout can be modified if needed. Something that is scalable and brand images can be built / contrived from. Given the name of our firm is fairly long, it does not need to appear in the imaging... looking for a good clean image, nothing terribly busy. Attached are previos designs from years past, obviously we are looking for something new and improved.
For the primary logo, something that can be scaled to fit in the upper left of the new website at http://www.redsphereglobal.com
The logo can contain our slogan in addition to the brand name, as long as it is clear and scalable.
Looking for files that can be printed in high quality for advertisements to business cards.
Looking for files that are web friendly an scalable.
One logo that we like is http://www.firehost.com/ of course we are open to other design ideas, something clean, unique and professional.
Descubre cómo funciona un concurso de diseño u obtén más información sobre nuestros servicios de diseño de logo.


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August 1
On August 1, 1893, in the midst of controversy over the removal of the county seat of Tucker County from St. George to Parsons, a large group of men forcibly moved the county court records to Parsons.
August 2
On August 2, 1999, President Bill Clinton declared all 55 West Virginia counties part of a federal drought disaster area.
August 3
On August 3, 1940, West Virginia Day was held at the New York World's Fair.
August 4
On August 4, 1927, Charles Lindbergh landed the Spirit of St. Louis at Langin Field in Moundsville.
August 5
On August 5, 1992, the State Board of Education took control of Logan County schools.
August 6
On August 6, 1873, the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia met for the first time in Charlestown, Jefferson County.
August 7
On August 7, 1882, Ellison Hatfield was mortally wounded at an election day gathering in Kentucky.
August 8
On August 8, 1912, in a struggle over control of the Wetzel Tribune, the editor sought an injunction to prevent the new manager from publishing the newspaper.
August 9
On August 9, 1954, former Logan County sheriff Don Chafin died in Huntington.
August 10
On August 10, 1862, Union troops destroyed the Mercer Salt Works in present-day Summers County.
August 11
On August 11, 1904, the West Virginia Legislature passed an act providing for the reassessment of all real estate in the state.
August 12
On August 12, 1968, the federal trial of former Governor William Wallace Barron and five other men, charged with conspiracy to engage in bribery in connection with state government contracts, began in Charleston.
August 13
On August 13, 1992, Governor Gaston Caperton announced the creation of the West Virginia Streams Restoration Program, dedicated to treating acid drainage from coal mining.
August 14
On August 14, 1755, George Washington was appointed colonel of the Virginia Regiment.
August 15
On August 15, 1906, the Niagara Movement began a five-day meeting on the Storer College campus at Harpers Ferry, during which attendees paid tribute to John Brown and speakers spoke in support of African-American civil rights.
August 16
On August 16, 1851, William Hope "Coin" Harvey, who ran for president of the United States in 1932, was born in Buffalo, Putnam County.
August 17
On August 17, 1976, the Mine Health and Safety Academy in Beckley was dedicated.
August 18
On August 18, 1749, French explorer Celeron de Blainville planted a lead plate along the Ohio River at present-day Point Pleasant, claiming the territory for France.
August 19
On August 19, 1899, W. E. Stathers, superintendent of Weston Hospital for the Insane, was found not guilty of charges that he engaged in improper relations with female employees.
August 20
On August 20, 1925, Gloria Swanson, who was in New Martinsville filming the movie Stage Struck, had dinner with Governor Howard Gore.
August 21
On August 21, 1993, the First Masonic Heritage Day Celebration was held in Charleston.
August 22
On August 22, 1862, Joseph Snider of Monongalia County was appointed colonel of the 7th [West] Virginia Infantry.
August 23
On August 23, 1891, Chester D. Hubbard of Wheeling, one of the founding fathers of West Virginia, died.
August 24
On August 24, 1852, Rufus Maxwell of Lewis County was issued a patent for his improvement in churns.
August 25
On August 25, 1891, ground was broken on construction of the first building of West Virginia Colored Institute, now West Virginia State University, in Institute.
August 26
On August 26, 1937, the first Spud and Splinter Festival was held in Richwood.
August 27
Confederate forces defeated Union forces led by General William Averell at the Battle of White Sulphur Springs, fought on August 26-27, 1863.
August 28
On August 28, 1952, a three-day celebration of the centennial of the construction of the historic covered bridge at Philippi began.
August 29
On August 29, 1901, a Confederate monument was unveiled at Union.
August 30
On August 30, 1826, citizens of Lewisburg and Greenbrier County held a public dinner in honor of United States Secretary of State Henry Clay.
August 31
On August 31, 1979, the first West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival began in Clarksburg.
On This Day in West Virginia History


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We're a group of dads of the Asian persuasion, most of us only 2 years or less into the parenting game. We're bicoastal and multiethnic, Chinese- and Japanese- and Filipino- and Korean- and biracial- Americans. We're writers and lawyers and businessmen and teachers (oh my!), stay-at-home and work-at-home and wish-we-could-work-at-home dads. We're dads who happen to be Asian, and Asians who happen to be dads. And we mention both, matter-of-factly, because they both matter.
Which is not to say that this is gonna be all serious all the time, or all political, or all race-centric. Of course, we're not promising that when we try to be funny, that'll work all the time either. (Except for MetroDad. We give you a money-back guarantee that he will always be piss-your-pants funny.) But really, this is just a place where we can muddle through our own experiences of what it means to be raising the next generation of Asian American young'ns in the technicolor 21st century.
Since then, we've seen old contributors go and welcomed new voices on board, and we've gotten more diverse in terms of ethnic background, geographic location, and length and breadth of parenting experience. (And we're always looking for more, so shoot us a note at email@example.com if you wanna add your voice to the fray.) We've enjoyed making connections and building community with other Asian American parents, parents of color, and parents of children of color both on- and off-line (and we hope to meet a lot of you at the big Banana 2 AsAm blogger confab on Feb. 26 in LA!), and we look forward to continuing the discussion as our kids get older and teach us more about what it means to Asian Americans who are dads and dads who are Asian American.
To celebrate our 5th blogaversary, the amazing and prolific author Lisa Yee has graciously donated 5 sets of her two Bobby Ellis-Chan books to give away to Rice Daddies readers, signed by both her and illustrator (and AsAm dad) Dan Santat. Lisa's middle-grade novels have always featured Asian American characters, like Millicent Min, Stanford Wong, and her American Girl books, and her Bobby Ellis-Chan books portray the everyday life of an interracial family, comprised of a boy trying to find his place in his family and school, his princess-obsessed little sister, his football star older sister, their Chinese American businesswoman mom, and their non-Asian pro-football-player-turned-stay-at-home-dad, with humor, a keen, sensitive eye, and a matter-of-factness about the family's racial background that I found refreshing. And my six-year-old daughter absolutely loved them!
To enter to win a set of autographed copies of Bobby Vs. Girls (Accidentally) and Bobby The Brave (Sometimes) for your young readers, leave a comment on this post by midnight PST on Saturday, February 26, listing your or your kids' favorite children's book either by an author or illustrator of color or featuring characters of color. At the end of the contest, we'll compile all of your recommendations into a single post and we'll have a random drawing for five winners.
Thank you for all of your support over the years, for reading, commenting, linking, and coming back. You're why this isn't just a blog, but a community. (Okay, sappiness over. Heh.)