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Dinosaur Train "Tiny and the Crocodile/Meet The Grandparents" Team Pteranodon travels to Dienosuchas Swamp to meet Deanna Dienosuchas, a 40 foot crocodile with many big teeth, and a crabby attitude. Tiny leads the way to warm up Deanna who turns out to be more friendly and less scary than our kids imagined. The Pteranodon kids have special visitors - their Grandma and Grandpa! The kids delight in realizing they share similar traits with their grandparents (laughs, expressions, and interests), and love showing Grandma and Grandpa around the nest area and playing some games they all like. D
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Wild Kratts "Birds of a Feather" When Aviva reveals that dancing is just not her thing, Chris and Martin set out in the New Guinea forest to inspire her to give dancing a try by uncovering some of the greatest dancers in the creature world - the Birds of Paradise. They soon find that the male birds use their showy bright feathers and extraordinary dances to display to potential female mates that they are healthy and strong. But when the gang gets caught up in Donita's plan to capture these fashionable birds for her latest clothing line, Aviva must put her dancing skills on the line to save them. D
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WordWorld "Playing Spies/Wee Little Whale" Playing Spies: When Sheep and Duck think that Dog has a secret, they decide to play "spy" to figure out the mystery. As they secretly watch Dog, they discover he wants to build a word with the "oo" sound. But will they be caught before they can guess Dog's secret? Wee Little Whale: Sheep rescues a tiny whale who is stuck in some seaweed and brings her home to her haystack. D
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WordGirl "Highway to Havarti/Tiny Big" Highway to Havarti - The Botsford Family vacation gets diverted when Becky discovers that Dr. Two-Brains is going to be performing his latest heist at the International Cheese Exposition. Tiny Big - Mr. Big manufactures the ultimate teen idol, Tiny Big, to steal WordGirl's thunder and brainwash the town into spending all their money on pop star merchandise. D
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Outdoor Idaho "Jewel of the North" The water is so clear and the colors so intense that people sometimes mistake photographs of Priest Lake for Hawaii! In the 1920's silent-movie star Nell Shipman came to the most northern of Idaho's big lakes to produce her silent films. Today the area is a magnet for campers, fishermen, rock climbers, skiers and anyone who loves magical settings.G
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Pati's Mexican Table "Puebla: Food from a Colonial Jewel" Travel with Pati to the state of Puebla to see why it isn't just the site of the legendary Cinco de Mayo battle - it's also home to some of Mexico's most luscious, delectable culinary treats. Creamy Poblano Soup; Chicken Tinga; Glazed Santa Clara Cookies. D
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Katie Brown Workshop "Flowers, Flowers Everywhere" Katie adds color and life to every room with floral hoops and framed flowers then puts a new twist on classic recipes, including lemon thyme pound cake and rosy fudge. D
1:30 pm
Paint This With Jerry Yarnell "Heaven On Earth, Part 1" (18x24 Acrylic). Mottle sky, foreground, and painting mountains in this opening segment. Jerry takes his students thru the process of creating a semi-stormy sky, by using a special mottling technique. D
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Essential Pepin "Economical Offal" Pork Liver Pate; Roast Sausage With Potatoes; Braised Sweetbreads In Mirepoix; Braised Tongue With Lentils. D
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On Story "Comedy That Resonates" Curb Your Enthusiasm and Seinfeld writer/producer Alec Berg and BRIDESMAIDS director and Freaks and Geeks creator Paul Feig pull back the curtain to show how they create comedy that resonates with us all. Followed by the hilarious short film SPIT by writer/director Benjamin Hayes. Paul will never have his first kiss until he overcomes his fear of saliva. D
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Dialogue "Miss Representation" Filmmaker Jennifer Seibel Newsom talks with host Marcia Franklin about making the documentary, Miss Representation, which explores how inaccurate portrayals of women by the media are connected to the under-representation of women in positions of power and influence.G
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MotorWeek "Hyundai Santa Fe" Road Test: 2013 Hyundai Santa Fe Road Test: 2013 Cadillac ATS Goss' Garage: Air Tools. D
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America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Gnocchi and Panzanella" Test cook Bridget Lancaster shows host Christopher Kimball how to make foolproof Gnocchi at Home. Next, gadget guru Lisa McManus reveals her top pick for rotary graters. Then, Chris discusses with science expert Guy Crosby the science of soil and its effect on the taste of tomatoes. D
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Passport to Adventure "Rocky Mountain Parks of Alberta, Canada" Landing in Edmonton, we step directly into Canada's railroad history before embarking on the scenic train ride to Jasper. Touring the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks, we stalk elk with our lenses, ride the "Sno Coach" onto a glacier, hike, canoe and learn about the early adventurers that made this area a renowned mountaineering center, and a mecca for nature lovers from around the globe. D
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Globe Trekker "Globe Trekker Special: The Making of Globe Trekker" Cameras turn on a GLOBE TREKKER crew on the road to capture how the series is filmed.G
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The National Christmas Tree Lighting 2012 The White House tradition celebrates its 90th year with a musical program, a presidential message, and throwing the switch for lighting on the 28-foot-tall Colorado blue spruce from Virginia. Singer James Taylor headlines the performances that include Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds, Colbie Caillat and Phillip Phillips.G
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Austin City Limits "Monsters of Folk" The five musical monsters - each a songwriter and each an acclaimed musician in his own right - pack the set with Americana-infused folk ballads and raucous Southern rock romps. Much of it is from the collaborative songs of their debut self-titled release.G
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Live From Lincoln Center "The Richard Tucker Opera Gala" The Richard Tucker Music Foundation features its 2012 award winner, soprano Ailyn Perez, joined by baritones Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Gerald Finley, mezzo-soprano Olga Borodina, tenors Stephen Costello and Marcello Giordani, bass Ildar Abdrazakov, bass-baritone Erwin Schrott and others onstage in a program of favorite arias and ensembles, including selections by Verdi, Rossini, Donizetti, Massenet, Mascagni, Handel and Wagner. Maestro Patrick Summers, artistic and music director of Houston Grand Opera, leads the lineup of luminaries, supported by members of the Metropolitan Opera and the New York Choral Society. The broadcast will include a feature on Perez, as well as backstage interviews with the artists. D
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Song of the Mountains Corklickers; Adam McPeak & Mountain Thunder; Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road. D
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Austin City Limits "Monsters of Folk" The five musical monsters - each a songwriter and each an acclaimed musician in his own right - pack the set with Americana-infused folk ballads and raucous Southern rock romps. Much of it is from the collaborative songs of their debut self-titled release.G


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The 24-foot arm and fist of fighter and Detroiter, Joe Louis, was created by Robert Graham in 1986. It created quite a bit of controversy at the time, but has now settled into the city's landscape.
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Today, kids can thank the modern master of parody and sarcasm, Matt Groening, for shaping their world view with The Simpsons and Futurama.
Perhaps if I had been born in the internet age, I too would have found an outlet for my 11-year-old opinions in blogging. That's what my younger son, Simon, has done with his new blog, Everything Has A Flaw.
I'm no doubt biased but I find his writing very entertaining - and sort of retroactively enlightening in the sense that reading his opinions about the shortcomings in his kid's world reminds me of where my head was at when I was 11.
Go take a look and see if you don't feel the same way (I especially think you'll enjoy his thoughts on sleepovers) - oh! and do leave a comment - Simon loves to get feedback!
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I love Simon's website (and told him so in the comments) and plan to feature it tomorrow! You should show him how to send a feed on his site so we can subscribe on bloglines...ReplyDelete
Thanks melinama! He will be thrilled about that. I wish I could show him how to send a feed but I must confess, i have no idea how to do so. But don't worry, I suspect it won't be long before he's rolling his eyes, sighing deeply in exasperation with me and showing ME how to send a feed!ReplyDelete
"Perhaps if I had been born in the internet age, I too would have found an outlet for my 11-year-old opinions in blogging."ReplyDelete
I know that's true in my case.
Way back in the 1930s, when my father was around 11, he actually published a 4-page weekly newspaper that reported the happenings from his neighborhood, and featured, among other contents, an editorial in which he spoke his opinions on whatever perked his interest.
Since my grandmother happened to be a small-town newspaper publisher, he had access to a printing press, and a decent distribution channel. He published for a couple of years, selling each copy for a nickel or so, and actually attracting enough advertising to buy himself a bicycle with the proceeds.
When I heard Dad's stories about his newspaper, I thought that was the coolest thing, and wanted very much to start my own paper so that I could share my own wisdom with the breathlessly waiting public. ;)
However, not having the publishing connection my father did at the same age, my idea never got off the ground.
But if Blogger had been around back in the early sixties...!
What an amazing opportunity that was for your dad, Bob! Before the days of "zines" and xerox machines, to have access to printing technology as a youth would have been... spectacular!ReplyDelete


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It has been a dozen years since Napster shut its doors amid enormous legal pressure. But the two kids who launched the pioneering Internet music service in a dorm room may have gotten the last laugh: Napster reshaped consumer technology in ways even its most ardent backers couldn't have envisioned.
Not only did it devastate the record industry and lay the foundations for iTunes (saving Apple (AAPL) in the process), but it fueled the "peer to peer" movement that led to social media and to "sharing economy" heavyweights like Airbnb. And, of course, Napster made co-founder Sean Parker an Internet sensation — one who later guided Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Now a new documentary about Napster's rise and fall is set to make its Bay Area debut Friday.
Director Alex Winter — perhaps best known for his role alongside Keanu Reeves in "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure" — culled more than 150 hours of raw footage, plus an equal amount of archival film documenting the courtroom battles and congressional hearings that Napster sparked. Having interviewed most of the players in the company's history, along with many top musicians and legal experts, "I was in the editing room every day for the better part of a year," he said from Los Angeles.
But his finished product, titled "Downloaded" and produced by TV network VH1, was more than a decade in the making.
Winter initially pitched the movie idea to Napster co-creator Shawn Fanning when the company was still fighting for its life. "I thought, 'This is a story about a kid going through some extraordinary circumstances,' " Winter said.
"Then I realized there's a much more epic tale here."
Shawn and Sean's excellent adventure began in 1998. In that era of dial-up modems, sharing a single MP3 music file could take hours. Fanning, a self-taught programmer from humble roots in Massachusetts, was a college freshman when his roommate complained about how hard it was to find the esoteric music he loved.
Fanning started hacking together a file-sharing technology to let users search one another's hard drives remotely, then quickly download the results. He recruited Parker, a high school senior he'd met in a programming chat room.
Their vision to help people find others with mutual interests presaged Friendster, MySpace and Facebook. And like each of those social media sites, word about Napster spread quickly across college campuses. As the site took off, Fanning dropped out without bothering to clear his stuff from the dorm.
In the film, he recounts how Parker's dad drove them to their first investor meeting.
Ron Conway, who put some of the earliest money into Napster, told this newspaper via email that Fanning and Parker's bold experiment was one of the first to demonstrate the Internet's power to disrupt entrenched industries.
"You can't fight innovation," Conway said. "Better to adapt fast and adjust."
The young founders moved west and set up shop in an old bank building in San Mateo, where they and their band of coders flopped on air mattresses. At first, they struggled to keep the servers from crashing.
But by late 1999, they'd fortified the system; within months, Napster's user base soared from 40,000 to more than 20 million. At its peak, it topped 50 million, and Fanning found himself on the cover of Rolling Stone and BusinessWeek.
Parker, in the film, speaks of the company's ascent as "a pure youth revolution."
He also acknowledges, perhaps a little euphemistically: "Napster was operating in a legal gray area."
Just ask the Recording Industry Association of America. Hilary Rosen, the former head of the group, recounts to Winter a meeting in which she shocked record label chiefs by showing them songs being shared on the "rogue website" that hadn't yet been commercially released.
The association filed suit. Fanning and Parker argued that Napster wasn't responsible for what its users did, but the labels — and a federal judge in San Francisco — didn't buy it. "Eventually," Parker tells Winter, "the lawyers took over."
Most of the $100 million that Napster had raised from venture capital firms and German media giant Bertelsmann went to legal settlements. Reliving this on screen, Fanning still looks nauseous.
"It was a very traumatic experience for him," Winter said. "He said the film allowed him to have some psychological closure on the whole event."
Fanning and Parker declined to comment for this article; representatives said they were traveling abroad.
Although the record labels won the Napster battle, music users flocked to new file-sharing services such as LimeWire and Gnutella. Music executives resorted to suing thousands of users, which experts on all sides of the debate now agree turned off consumers.
"There are no record stores any more," longtime Sire Records President Seymour Stein laments in the film. "I never thought I'd live to see that."
Fanning, broke after Napster's collapse, went on to found a social gaming company that he sold for $30 million. He also was an early investor in startups Uber and Square, both now worth billions.
Parker, meanwhile, became Facebook's first president and was immortalized by Justin Timberlake's portrayal in "The Social Network." He's a key investor in streaming music service Spotify and, with Fanning, last year launched a video chat site called Airtime.
Parker complains in Winter's film that lawmakers "still think they can legislate away" peer-to-peer tech companies like Uber and Airbnb, which let people rent out their cars and couches. Others in the documentary credit Napster's legacy for the rise of WikiLeaks and the way social networking fostered the "Arab Spring" uprisings.
"There's a very clear line of evolution from Napster to where we are today," Winter said. "It really was an extraordinary technology — whether it was illegal, revolutionary or whatever you want to call it."
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Director Alex Winter's documentary on the rise and fall of Napster runs Aug. 2 to 8 at San Francisco's Roxie Theater, 3117 16th St. Winter will speak after Saturday's screenings.
The film also is available on iTunes and Amazon and via video-on-demand from Comcast and DirecTV.
Running time: 106 minutes. Not rated.
The movie lineup
Celebrities from the legal, technology and music industries who weigh in during "Downloaded" include:
John Perry Barlow, Grateful Dead lyricist and Electronic Frontier Foundation co-founder
Hank Barry, ex-Napster CEO
Chris Blackwell, former Island Records chief
Mike D. of the Beastie Boys
Noel Gallagher, Oasis guitarist and songwriter
Don Ienner, former Sony Music CEO
Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law School professor
Henry Rollins, musician and activist
Hilary Rosen, ex-CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America
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It is a sad irony that we have cataloged individual photographs of the remaining North Atlantic right whales and given each of them unique numbers and sometimes names, yet still know too little about their physiology, behavior, and habitats to take effective steps toward ensuring their survival as a species.
Rapaciously hunted by humans over centuries, the North Atlantic right whale has not recovered in the decades after whaling was outlawed. Living near heavily populated coasts, the whales are vulnerable to the high levels of shipping, fishing, noise, and pollution.
At the dawn of the 21st century, right whales are at a critical time in their long history—pointed dangerously toward extinction by the end of the century. Now, an ambitious program of intensified research has begun finding ways to aid them.
We now know that the mission is possible. Using extensive right whale data collected by government agencies, researchers, and dedicated private groups, WHOI biologist Hal Caswell and colleagues analyzed the factors contributing to the species' population decline. Saving just two females per year from untimely death, they concluded, can reverse the downward trend and put the population on a road to recovery.
But despite years of research on right whale habits and habitats we still lack practical ways to reduce deaths or increase births. Learning the secrets of huge and uncooperative animals that can be studied only fleetingly at sea or dead on a beach is a daunting task.
In November 2003, the WHOI Ocean Life Institute (OLI) convened a research forum in Woods Hole, gathering scientists and engineers from several institutions, along with representatives from government and industry, to assess the status of the North Atlantic right whale (http://www.whoi.edu/institutes/oli/activities/rwforum.html). Blending a diverse range of complementary expertise, they devised a collaborative research plan to accelerate advances in our knowledge of right whales. The OLI Right Whale Research and Conservation Initiative complements other government and academic programs, supplying essential pieces of the North Atlantic right whale puzzle they don't address. It will provide a necessary scientific foundation to guide effective conservation efforts.
Over the next several years, scientists from WHOI, the New England Aquarium in Boston, the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown, Trent University in Canada, and other institutions will join in the OLI Right Whale Research and Conservation Initiative. They are planning, launching, and seeking funds for a variety of studies aimed at:
Right Whale Initiative strategies include pioneering studies of whale hearing, using CT scans to obtain physiological data on whale ears, and field work to study whales' response to noise. Other scientists will study whale bone forensics to provide basic information on the speeds and masses of vessels that prove fatal in ship-whale collisions. Another study will explore hydrodynamic forces, caused by ships moving through water, that lead to collisions.
Scientists will also test new types of fishing gear designed to slip off more easily and break when entangled whales try to free themselves. A remote control device is being developed to deliver sedatives and medications to entangled whales, to improve our ability to disentangle them.
Over the long term, the critical threat to right whales is their low and inconsistent birth rate, which could be linked to pollutants or to poor nutrition. The latter, in turn, may be caused by shifts in food supplies linked to changing oceanographic or climate conditions. The OLI Initiative includes research to:
To monitor the whale population more effectively, the OLI Right Whale Initiative includes:
Time is running short for the North Atlantic right whale. Now is the time for scientists and supporters to work together to keep this magnificent mammal swimming off our shores.
A DIVE TO SURVIVEA North Atlantic right whale dives in search of food near Grand Manan Island in the Bay of Fundy, Canada. (Photo by Michael Moore, WHOI) (Photo by Michael Moore, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
HIT BY A SHIP—A necropsy of this 50-ton, 45-foot right whale, washed onto a beach in Wellfleet, Mass in 1999, showed a broken jaw, five fractured vertebrae, damage to the left flipper, and internal bleeding. The whale, known to researchers as Staccato, was a mature female that had given birth to many calves. Research has shown that saving just two mature females per year from untimely deaths could reverse the decline of the North Atlantic right whale population.


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The National Scout Jamboree is a gathering, or jamboree of thousands of members of the Boy Scouts of America, usually held every four years and organized by the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Referred to as "the Jamboree", "Jambo", or NSJ, Scouts from all over the nation and world have the opportunity to attend. They are considered to be one of several unique experiences that the Boy Scouts of America offers. The first jamboree was scheduled to be held in 1935 in Washington, D.C. to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Scouting, but was delayed two years. The 1937 jamboree in the Nation's Capital attracted 25,000 Scouts, who camped around the Washington Monument and Tidal Basin. The event was covered extensively by national media and attended by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Following the disruption of World War II, the next jamboree was not held until 1950 in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Subsequent jamborees have been held around the country as a means to promoting Scouting nationally. Since 1981, the jamboree has been located Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia. The BSA is searching for a new permanent site as of the 2013 jamboree.
A jamboree is held for ten consecutive days and offers many activities for youth participants and the 300,000 members of the general public who visit it. It is considered to be Scouting at its best.
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8 Important Lessons Learned from '80s Cartoons. Maybe this article is not history related but I think it is. What lessons did the cartoons from the '80s, (The Smurfs, G.I. Joe, He-Man, and The Transformers) teach children? Several cartoons seem to teach lessons which can be applied to history.
Here are a few:
CARTOON: The Smurfs, LESSON: Communism works! The 20th century showed repeatedly that communism is a miserable failure. It does not provide economic security for people and often results in famine due to mismanaged agriculture. Further, human rights such as religious freedom suffer. But hey, communism worked for the Smurfs! I wonder if this show was the genesis of the newest crop of American communists?
CARTOON: G.I. Joe, LESSON: Knowing is half the battle. Or, as the article notes, "Actually, we're pretty certain that our strategy for the Iraq War was conceived after a two day long G.I. Joe marathon in the Pentagon. They just implicitly trusted that the good guys were going to win, that firing off our guns would make the bad guys run for the caves and that giving everyone cute nicknames was somehow endearing."
CARTOON: Transformers, LESSON: If we're not careful, robots will kill us all. This is probably good advice for the future. Robots may yet be our doom.
I wonder what the current crop of cartoons are teaching children. As my sons watch TV, how are they being possibly indoctrinated? I note that the Teletubbies live in a totalitarian state...
Blog of Dr. Miland Brown that features different aspects of world history. Not everything can be covered but sites dealing with any historical issue or topic are possible future posts. Also includes sites which discuss teaching history. Dr. Brown is an academic in North America.
Sunday, August 13, 2006
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- elementaryhistoryteacher said...
Interesting. I never really thought about the Smurfs in that way.
I guess looking at it from a "message" point of view some could view SpongeBob and Patrick as having a very "special" kind of relationship.
- teachmehistory said...
I love the smurfs!
- Life in the 80's said...
Haha good post. I think that the most educating 80s programme was Fraggle Rock. Not that the fraggles themselves cared, but they actully had loads of good stuff in there about getting along. Check it out
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I admit it. I am tired and I have not blogged nearly enough. This has been a crazy year, with the book I finished writing, the pre-cons I have done (teaching is NOT my primary profession so I do a lot more prep than some others probably do), lots of training on Data Warehousing topics (from Ralph Kimball, Bob Becker, and Stacia Misner, to name three of the great teachers I have had), SQL Rally, SQL PASS, SQL Saturdays and I have gotten a lot more regular with my simple-talk blog as well… Add to this the fact that my daughter added a new grandchild to the family, and my mother has started to get so weak she is starting to fall down quite often (I am writing this blog entry from a spare bedroom at my mother-in-law's house while my mom is in rehab!) and I am getting exhausted.
Am I whining? Probably, but it is my blog! No, seriously I figure that occasionally you have to poke your head out from under the covers and write something and this is my something until after the New Year (other than posting a few already written and edited simple-talk blogs). I am on vacation from work for 2.5 weeks, and I don't plan to do much with this laptop of mine for those two weeks unless the spirit hits me with an idea for a blog that I just have to write, but usually most of my blogs that have any technical or artistic merit take weeks to complete. On the second of January, I hope to be back at it, analyzing my resolutions from last year, and making good on a few of them, particularly "Blog about my other (computer) love occasionally" and review some of the gadgets I have acquired as they pertain to doing my job as a writer/data architect. (Hint: My mother-in-law does not have Internet access, so some of the devices I have here are instrumental in my ability to work untethered for weeks on end.)
So until next year, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy New Year! I hope your holidays are restful and fun. I know part of mine will be because I intend to replicate this picture at least one or two more times next week, hopefully with a Turkey Leg in the hand that isn't holding the camera taking the picture (all with my Windows Phone set on Battery Saver Mode, which delightfully turns off all syncing :)
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For Immediate Release
September 20, 2012
Contacts: Iris Marie Bloom, Protecting Our Waters, 215-840-6489 [email protected]
Tracy Carluccio, Delaware Riverkeeper Network, 215-692-2329 [email protected]
Why Shale Gas Outrage Filled Philadelphia Streets
Protesters from shale gas "sacrifice zones" and downstream communities protest industry conference, press for bans and moratoria to "stop fracking now"
Philadelphia, PA – People from throughout Pennsylvania and the shale regions of neighboring New York, Ohio, West Virginia and beyond, along with downstreamers from Maryland and Delaware, joined together to protest the Marcellus Shale Coalition's industry convention in downtown Philadelphia today, making a unified statement to "Stop Fracking Now."
Shale Gas Outrage rallied from 12:00 to 2:00 PM outside the Convention Center on Arch Street, led by Protecting Our Waters and endorsed by over 45 organizations, all calling for a moratorium on shale gas development wherever it is occurring. Speakers included Josh Fox, Bill McKibben, Maya van Rossum, Sandra Steingraber, Stephen Cleghorn, Stewart Acuff, Wes Gillingham, John Scorsone, Wenonah Hauter, Doug Shields, and members of Pennsylvania communities impacted by gas extraction and development –Tammy Manning and her granddaughter Madison from Susquehanna County; farmers Carol French and Carolyn Knapp from Bradford County; Craig Stevens of Susquehanna County; Mary Rodriguez, a nurse from Luzerne County; and Kevin Heatley, an ecologist from Lycoming County. Musical talent also contributed to the day: Rhetta Morgan, singer from Philadelphia; Spiritchild from Brooklyn, singer song writer Zach Freidhof, and Pennsylvania guitarist Freebo.
A boisterous march through Philadelphia streets followed the high-energy rally. Marchers stopped at four locations to bring the message of Stop Fracking Now. At President Barack Obama's election campaign headquarters, marchers demanded "Not One More Drop" be withdrawn from the Susquehanna River for fracking; President Obama votes, through the Army Corps of Engineers, on the Susquehanna and Delaware River Basin Commissions. Marchers also demanded sustainable, clean energy instead of shale gas and fossil fuels. Marchers also confronted PNC Bank (heavily invested in shale gas development and mountaintop removal), Governor Tom Corbett's office (for a statewide moratorium and to stop polluting our communities and environment), and the PA Chamber of Commerce (which has opposed regulating greenhouse gas emissions and aggressively promotes shale gas exports overseas).
At 5:00 pm today, a Blessing of the Waters, an interfaith event, will take place at Arch Street Methodist Church, Broad and Arch Streets, Philadelphia.
"As the impacted people with fouled water, polluted air and threatened livelihoods have shown today, shale gas drilling is inherently contaminating. Families should not be forced to live with such dangers and health impacts. The best way to stem the tide of displacement, degraded ecosystems and climate catastrophe is to stop fracking now and divest our support from extreme fossil fuel extraction. We are taking the morally responsible position, out of necessity, for our government has turned a deaf ear to these vital concerns," said Iris Marie Bloom, Executive Director, Protecting Our Waters and lead organizer, Shale Gas Outrage.
The Shale Gas Outrage rally program featured the hardships and suffering that people and communities are experiencing in shale country. A broad spectrum of constituencies, including labor and faith-based speakers, biologists, climate and energy experts, and ordinary people — came together to make a clear, unified statement to solve the horrific problems facing shale "sacrifice zone" communities – pollution and degradation from shale gas development, including drilling, fracking, infrastructure and all related gas operations. That statement from Shale Gas Outrage and those who took part today offers a positive and reachable solution and one that makes eminent sense when the facts are truly considered – Stop Fracking Now by instituting a shale gas extraction moratorium.
On Friday, Sept. 21, participants will attend the Health Impacts Symposium at College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 19. S. 22nd St. Philadelphia, PA. Shale Gas Outrage is screening Kirsi Jansa's Gas Rush Films from 1 – 2 at Friends Center, followed by strategy sessions. A nonviolent direct action is also listed for early Friday morning.
For a complete list of endorsing organizations and steering committee members go to: http://shalegasoutrage.org/coalition/
For photos and stories about the Rally and March and the events to come in the next day and a half go to: http://shalegasoutrage.org/
Thursday, September 20th SHALE GAS OUTRAGE: Stop Fracking Now — schedule
Press Conference 10 AM
Arch Street Methodist Church, Broad and Arch, Philadelphia, 19107
Main Shale Gas Outrage Rally 12 – 2
Outside Convention Center, Arch and 13th St., Philadelphia, PA 19107
Speakers include:
Performers include: Freebo, Bethany Yarrow, Rhetta Morgan.
March 2 -3
Starts at Broad and Arch St. Ends at Broad and Walnut St.
Blessing of the Waters 5pm (Interfaith event)
Arch Street Methodist Church, Broad and Arch, Philadelphia, 19107
Shale Gas Outrage After Dark 7:30 – 12pm (informal networking, connecting)
Come to the Rally to find out where we'll be in the evening. Or email [email protected]
Friday, September 21st:
6:45am Friday Sunrise Intervention
Information here.
8:30am – 12pm Health and Gas Drilling Morning Conference
Registration is free. You must register by September 20th.
College of Physicians of Philadelphia 19. S. 22nd St. Philadelphia, PA 19103
Speakers include:
- Michelle Bamberger and Robert Oswald, authors of "Impacts of Gas Drilling on Human and Animal Health"
- Raina Rippel, Southwest PA Environmental Health Project
- David Carey, PhD, Weis Center for Reseach, Geisinger Health System
1:30pm – 5:30pm Mini-Organizing Conference: "Freedom from Fracking 2012"
Friends Center, 1515 Cherry St. Philadelphia, PA 19102
If you want to help mobilize, endorse, or contribute, please contact Shale Gas Outrage Lead Organizer, Liz Arnold:
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (267) 270 2211
Encourage continued awareness about the harms of fracking. Urge Willie Nelson to speak loudly against fracking at the FARM AID Concert on Sept.22.


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Martin continued, "The beauty of music is it allows your mind to go wherever it goes, and when it started creeping into my head about the Jackson 5. I was watching the videos of Michael Jackson singing 'A,B,C' when he was just 7 or 8 years old, and how exciting it was for him to be a musician and that whole family to be so talented."
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As Martin points out, "If there's one thing in this world we need its love and patience and that's for sure. We can get around without cars, we can get around without gas, but without love and patience for one another what do we really have?"
Check out the new lyric video for the song below, and stay tuned for our full interview with Kevin Martin. Candlebox will be hitting the road in April in support of the new disc; visit their website for the dates.


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During some tests, you receive a contrast dye which may be given orally or through a vein. This will make parts of your body show up better in the image.
CT scans of the kidneys can give more detailed information about the kidneys than standard X-rays. This can provide more information related to injuries or diseases of the kidneys. CT scans of the kidneys can help your healthcare provider find problems such as tumors or other lesions, obstructive conditions, such as kidney stones, congenital anomalies, polycystic kidney disease, buildup of fluid around the kidneys, and the location of abscesses.
Your healthcare provider may need to do other related tests to diagnose kidney problems.
A CT scan of the kidney may be done to check the kidneys for:
A CT scan is also useful when another type of exam, such as X-ray or physical exam, is not conclusive. CT scans of the kidney may be used to evaluate the back part of the belly. CT scans of the kidney may be used to help guide the needle placement in kidney biopsies.
After the removal of a kidney, CT scans may be used to locate abnormal masses in the empty space where the kidney once was. Your healthcare provider may have other reasons to recommend a CT scan of the belly.
You may want to ask your healthcare provider about the amount of radiation used during the test. Also ask about the risks as they apply to you.
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As long as we are offering up definitions, Here is a definition of a Web service that we actually agreed upon within IBM. 'Web services are software components described via WSDL which are capable of being accessed via standard network protocols such as SOAP over HTTP" Please note that it is important that SOAP not be REQUIRED in order to qualify as a Web services. It is also important to note that the network protocol not be restrictive - i.e. HTTP or 'Web Protocols'. Even the term 'internet' protocol needs to be interpreted correctly... is that anything over TCP/IP? Or only things defined by the IETF? We recognize that SOAP and HTTP are critical to interoperability between vendors, but the internal application integration application of Web services do not require it. The way we are phrasing this is that SOAP and HTTP are important and the fact that they are the only bindings in use today is a function of the maturity of this emerging industry, not an indicator that they are the only ones that we need. Heather Kreger IBM Web Services Lead Architect "Cutler, Roger (RogerCutler)" <firstname.lastname@example.com>@w3.org on 02/17/2002 03:17:14 PM Sent by: email@example.com To: "'Champion, Mike'" <email@example.com>, firstname.lastname@example.com cc: Subject: RE: Web Service Definition [Was "Some Thoughts ..."] I thought that web services were supposed to include entire processes that might involve a number of data transmissions and provision of services from a number of sites??? If that is true, doesn't your definition of a web service actually describe a component of a web service? Another thing -- I don't think that the resolution of a web service necessarily has to be done entirely via software. That is, one could have a process where some of the components occur via human actions (e.g. expenditure approvals). I'm not good at crafting these phrases, but in the spirit of not just being critical let me take a wild stab ... A web service is a process in which the communication between the service providers and requesters takes place over the web via XML. Yeah, well, I told you I wasn't good at this ... -----Original Message----- From: Champion, Mike [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 12:31 PM To: firstname.lastname@example.com Subject: RE: Some Thoughts about Goals I think I agree with most of these points. I'd phrase my position as: a) we need at least a fuzzy definition of "web services" up front so that we can make sure that we're all on more or less the same page when defining an architecture for them. b) that definition should in principle be general enough to include multiple message exchange patters including the "RPC over HTTP" model that is currently dominant, the more traditional "EDI using XML and the Internet", and the emerging "Next generation web services based on REST principles" (see http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/02/06/rest.html) c) Ideally, this group would take the time to make sure that the architecture is "right" before releasing it. I believe that the history of the internet and software industry shows clearly that "the best is the enemy of the good." That is, those who take time to do it "right" are left in the dust because a barely adequate solution beats no solution every time, and technology (and business reality) changes rapidly and unpredictably, so multi-year projects almost always look much different at the end than anticipated at the beginning. So, some meta-requirements are: The work must proceed by successive refinement, starting crude, and iteratively fleshing out details based on feedback from the "customers" and the experience of web services projects and products in the real world. The architecture must be modular and relatively decoupled (or perhaps "must employ best practices to help ensure that it can evolve gracefully as conditions and requirements change"). Time to market is indeed critical; if the architecture this group defines diverges sharply from common practice, it will not have much impact (the OSI 7-layer networking reference architecture is often cited as a bad example here). Simplicity (in the sense of being understandable and implementable) is also critical, partly because it supports the "time to market" requirement, and partly so that it can be communicated to interested parties as efficiently as possible. d) Bare minimum requirements for the architecture itself are: Provide for rigorous definition of web service invocation mechanisms (URIs, SOAP, and something like WSDL) to ensure interoperability Support platform/vendor/language neutrality Suitability to real-world business needs (not just adding numbers or checking stocks!) Cover both synchronous and asynchronous message exchange patterns Define components that can ensure reliable messaging. Define components that guarantee secure and auditable/nonrepudiable messaging Support ork flow (== orchestration?) efinition [not sure if this is an absolute requirement for v 1.0) Finally, "what is a web service". FWIW, I typed that string (and some variants) into Google and got the following useful URLs: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/webservices/2002/02/12/webservicefaqs.html http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/04/04/webservices/ http://www.gotdotnet.com/playground/services/ http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2847589,00.html http://iwsun4.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/03/12/010312hnwebserv.xml http://www.devx.com/dotnet/articles/cp0901/cp0901-1/waws.asp My best shot at a "strawman" definition that is consistent with the goals and meta-goals I described above is: "A web service is is a software application or component that can be accessed over the Internet using a vendor/platform/language-neutral data interchange format to invoke the service and supply the response, using a rigorously defined message exchange pattern, and producing a result that is sufficiently well-defined to be processed by a software application." Some discussion points for this definition: "Web" in my mind implies HTTP; I would assert that a 'web service' could be accessed via BEEP, SMTP, raw sockets, UDP, or any other protocol that uses IP as an underpinning. So, "web services" are really "internet services" IMHO. I'd be happy to put substitute "XML" for "a vendor/platform/language-neutral data interchange format" , but I'm not at all sure that XML is *really* a requirement for what we're doing. My thought is that SOAP 1.2 is defined on the XML InfoSet rather than syntax and some other format that can map to the infoset (e.g., a URI-encoded string representing an infoset) could in principle be used. I'm not sure we want to split this hair, and "XML" is obviously a good shorthand for "some syntax that can be mapped into the XML Infoset". I don't currently believe that SOAP is integral to the *definition* of a web service, but I might be persuaded otherwise ... The "result that is sufficiently well-defined" bit is an attempt to distinguish a 'web service' from any random page on the Web. I have avoided the whole issue of discovery; as far as I can see a "web service" that is only discovered by human interaction is still a "web service." That doesn't mean we shouldn't address discovery in the architecture ... I avoided the security/reliability issues in the definition; an insecure web service over an unreliable protocol is still a 'web service", albeit a lousy one. Again, this is a strawman definition, whack away! -----Original Message----- From: Cutler, Roger (RogerCutler) [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 12:00 PM To: email@example.com Subject: Some Thoughts about Goals I'd like to talk about goals for a minute from a slightly different perspective. Please forgive me if I dwell on the painfully obvious or ramble a bit. My objective here is not to substitute different goals for the ones being discussed, but perhaps to find out if there is something missing from them. It seems that there is a slight level of discomfort in the group because we do not have a clear definition of what a "web service" is. I am personally quite willing to discover this during the process, but I do admit that there is a certain odd aspect to the situation. On the other hand, the discomfort level really does seem to be quite low. Why is this? Well, I think that most people sort of feel, "I'm not sure I can define it, but I know it when I see it". Now why would this be? Well, it seems to me that most people have the feeling that web services should end up with at least some reasonable subset of the functions of systems that they already know about -- like CORBA and Grid. So why not just use these systems that are already there? Probably because we want to have a standards-based solution on the web that is used by a wider cross-section of end users and/or is less costly than current solutions. So one goal -- and this one is certainly painfully obvious but perhaps worth stating anyway -- is that the architecture be accepted by as many as the stakeholders as possible. We want .Net-ers and Java-ers, creators of open source and proprietary masterpieces, all to say, "Yup, I can work in that framework". So, are all the stakeholders at the table? I am a little concerned that I am getting the impression that systems like CORBA and Grid are being used as models for goals but perhaps not EDI??? I don't know the people in this group very well -- are there any EDI people here? I myself am hardly an EDI expert but I have access to them. I could imagine that EDI might be under-represented because at least some of these folks seem to want to close their eyes until XML goes away. I have heard, in this community, the phrase "flavor of the month" used with the implication that if you just wait a bit there will be some other enthusiasm that will replace XML solutions. I think we understand that this is a bad call, and I think the EDI people are beginning to realize that too, but at least among those I know there is still not a lot of active participation. Now I personally think that the EDI model is very important. One of the things that we want web services to do -- a "goal" perhaps in a different sense -- is to be capable of handling business transactions EDI is a mature, functioning system that does just that. Web services should support at least some subset of EDI functions. As I said, I'm not an EDI expert, but let me guess some of the things that are important in EDI that web services should probably also support: Reliable messaging. Audit trails The usual security suspects - e.g. authorization, nonrepudiation, secure transmission, etc Ability to transmit large volumes of data efficiently (?) Work flow definition Contingency processing (or something like that) ??? Probably a bunch of important stuff I don't know about at the moment ???? Soooo -- I guess I'm asking you folks: Do you agree with these concerns? If so, do the goals as presently articulated address them?Received on Thursday, 21 February 2002 15:18:14 UTC
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A new TV show is like a shiny toy, mint in the box: You can't wait to start breaking it and rebuilding it. Any show that stays on the air a few years will have cast changes, but also mission creep and radical status-quo alterations. Which science fiction or fantasy show changed the most from its first episode to its last?
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COMMERCE CITY, Colo. – His American accent says one thing, his freckled face says another.
His birthplace says one thing, his hometown says another.
Twenty-year-old Colorado Rapids defender Shane O'Neill is Irish-American, but at some point, and perhaps sometime soon, he's going to have to choose between the land of his birth (Ireland) and where he's spent almost his entire life (the United States).
A breakout 2013 season could soon have O'Neill on the radar of both the Irish and American national teams, and the US Under-20 national team star isn't quite sure which country he'll choose if he gets the call.
"I think it's just whoever kind of gives me the opportunity," O'Neill told MLSsoccer.com on Tuesday. "I'd want to play for both; I think I said last week I'd be excited to play for Ireland, but I'd also be really happy to play for the US, so you know, either way."
Raised in nearby Boulder after his family moved to the United States when he was just a year old, O'Neill earned a spot in Oscar Pareja's regular lineup earlier this season, cementing the starting center back role alongside Drew Moor during the spring. In June, O'Neill was a leading part of the US side that took part in the U-20 World Cup in Turkey, and his profile is growing after playing a key role for Pareja's breakout squad.
O'Neill, however, is interested in playing for Ireland, and there is buzz that the interest could be mutual. He was contacted by Ireland U-21 coach Noel King last year, and he conducted sports radio interviews in Ireland just last week. Although he insists he hasn't yet been contacted yet for the Irish senior team, he's open to whatever fate comes his way.
"Obviously at this point, it's just all up in the air," O'Neill said. "Nothing written, nothing set in stone or anything like that, so I'm just kind of weighing my options."
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Perhaps O'Neill offered a slight clue as to which way he might be leaning when asked whether he considered himself Irish or American.
"I definitely grew up here completely, so definitely American," O'Neill said. "But at the same time, your Irish heritage, everything at home is pretty Irish, drinking tea all the time with my mom and all that kind of stuff. I went back to Ireland every summer for the entire time, and all my family is back there. So I definitely feel Irish-American – or American-Irish – so I don't know what it is, but definitely a bit of both."
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Carney Faces Grilling in U.K. Parliament
Bank of England governor-designate Mark Carney faced a grilling from U.K. lawmakers about his appointment, his policies and even his salary. Heard on the Street's Simon Nixon said he was also able to damp speculation of more aggressive monetary easing. Photo: Getty Images
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Several years ago, I bought a postcard at the Laura Ingalls Wilder museum in Mansfield, Missouri, that has the following quotation on it.
It is always best to be honest and truthful;
to make the most of what we have;
to be happy with simple pleasures;
to be cheerful in adversity;
and have courage in danger.
Things of real value do not change
with the passing of years.
-- Laura Ingalls Wilder
I have always been curious what the source of the quotation was. I've also wondered if the two sentences were written together, and whether they were just combined to make the postcard.
Tonight I searched the internet for the phrases in the quotation. It seems that the first sentence came from Laura's letters to children. These letters are reproduced in numerous websites. This is the closing paragraph of a 1950's letter:
The "Little House" books are stories of long ago. Today our way of living and our schools are much different; so many things have made living and learning easier. But the real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with the simple pleasures and to be cheerful and have courage when things go wrong. Great improvements in living have been made because every American has always been free to pursue his happiness, and so long as Americans are free they will continue to make our country ever more wonderful.
--Laura Ingalls Wilder
I found the second sentence included as part of another quotation. I could find only one instance of the quotation -- on a Mansfield, Missouri, bed and breakfast website:
Things of real value do not change with the passing of years. Remember, it is not the things you have that make you happy; it is love and kindness and helping each other and just plain being good.
-- Laura Ingalls Wilder
It seems that the two sentences were probably from separate writings, though they are combined on the postcard. It doesn't really matter. They contain good, wholesome principles to live by, and Laura's intention was that they should be shared, especially with children.


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Baboy at Langka with Black Eyed Peas. This recipe is adopted from KBL - Baboy Langka at Kadyos a popular Iloilo. Kadyos is obviously not available down here so I used black eyed peas or beans instead. I have just recently cooked a similar black eyed beans dish using fork belly instead of pork hocks or pork pata, Black Eyed Pea with Pork Belly, that dish however was adopted from a similar dish called Pinablad a Pusi. There are also similar beans and pork dish in the archive just click the links below to check out recipes recipe.
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Black Eyed Pea with Pork Belly, Pinablad a Pusi
As a substitute for batwan as a souring ingredient I just used sinigang mix. Obviously langka is also not available therefore I have to use the canned langka usually available in Asian stores I Here is the recipe of my Baboy at Langka with Black Eyed Peas.
1 small size pata ng baboy, pork leg
2 cups black eyed peas
1 big can canned unripe langka, drained, sliced thinly
1-2 tbsp. sampalok sinigang mix
1 medium size onion, quartered
2 medium size tomato, quartered
2 stalk tanglad, lemon grass
3-4 pcs. green long chili
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Ask the butcher to saw cut the pork leg crosswise at 1 1/2" thick slices. Wash thoroughly and drain, in a charcoal grill quickly sear pork leg, in a large pot put seared pork leg and cover with enough water, bring to a boil for 3 to 5 minutes, Discard first boiled liquid and rinse boiled pork leg off scum. Now pour fresh water to cover pork leg add the lemon grass, bring to a boil and simmer for 20 to 30 minutes then add the black eyed peas. Continue to simmer for 15 to 20 minutes or until the pork are tender and the black eyed peas start to disintegrate and the desired liquid consistency is achieved. Take out all scum that rises to the surface and add more water as necessary. Add in the sampalok sinigang mix, onion, tomato, green chili and canned jackfruit, simmer for another 10 to 15 minutes or until vegetables are cooked. Season with salt to taste. Serve hot with rice.


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Honda Odyssey remains a top minivan for 2007
Friday, June 8, 2007
Minivans don't have quite the same appeal that they did more than 20 years ago when they debuted. But one minivan -- the Honda Odyssey -- has been reliably racking up annual sales records until this year.
It appears the 12 percent drop in Odyssey sales in the first five months of 2007 comes as shoppers turn to Honda's smaller vehicles, like the Civic and Fit cars and CR-V sport utility vehicle.
But families that need more room -- and three rows of seats -- shouldn't forget Honda's most generously sized vehicle that's a recommended buy of "Consumer Reports" and the winner of numerous accolades, including top minivan this year by "Car and Driver" magazine.
Families will appreciate that the Odyssey comes with all safety equipment standard, including stability control with rollover sensors, and earned across-the-board, five-out-of-five-star ratings in federal government frontal and side crash tests.
Families also should know that the Odyssey has the second-highest government fuel economy ratings among 2007 minivans. A 2007 front-wheel drive Odyssey with V-6 and automatic transmission is rated at 19 miles a gallon in city driving and 26 mpg on the highway.
The only competitive minivan with a higher rating -- of 20/26 mpg -- is a shorter-length, 2007 Dodge Caravan with four-cylinder engine.
But there is a drawback. All these good things about the Odyssey come at a price.
This spring, the Odyssey became the minivan with the highest starting retail price on the market. Previously, the more than $27,000 Buick Terraza minivan held this position, but Buick stopped production of the slow-selling Terraza early this year.
Starting manufacturer's suggested retail price, including destination charge, for a 2007 Odyssey is $26,240 for an LX with seven seats and 244-horsepower V-6.
This is higher than the starting prices for the competing 2007 Toyota Sienna, Nissan Quest, Chrysler Town & Country and Dodge Grand Caravan. Indeed, it's some $5,000 more than the starting price for a 2007 Kia Sedona minivan which, like the Odyssey, has all safety equipment standard and earned five out of five stars in government frontal and side crash testing.
So what's so special about the Odyssey?
It's a lot bigger than you might expect from Honda.
Offered with seven or eight seats, the Odyssey is nearly 17 feet long, which makes it the second-longest Honda-badged vehicle in showrooms, after the Honda Ridgeline pickup truck. There's ample space for passengers to get comfortable, especially in the back two rows, and headroom is a noteworthy 38.4 inches in the third row.
This is more than what's found in the third rows of the Sienna, Sedona, Town & Country and Quest.
There's also 41.1 inches of legroom for the Odyssey's third-row seats, which is more than the legroom in any of the three rows, even the front row, of the Chevrolet Uplander minivan. And the third row easily flips and folds into a deep cavity just aft of the rear bumper, leaving a flat load floor.
The wide openings at the dual, second-row, sliding doors help ease passenger entry and exit, and I noticed the power sliding door mechanism on the test Odyssey operated with much less fuss and, thankfully, quieter beeping and confusion than occurred in Odysseys of earlier years.
On acceleration, power came on smoothly and steadily from the 3.5-liter, single overhead cam V-6. This engine is mated to a five-speed automatic that adeptly manages how the power is delivered to the wheels.
Torque, or that quick, get up and go force, peaks at 240 foot-pounds at 5,000 rpm, which compares with 245 foot-pounds at 4,750 rpm in a Toyota Sienna with 266-horsepower V-6.
Still, as heavy as the Odyssey is -- more than 4,300 pounds -- it doesn't behave like a listless, heavy, ill-handling vehicle. There's good car body control, even as this van carries passengers with a satisfyingly compliant ride. I never felt any harshness over road bumps.
Yet the Odyssey didn't feel loose and unwieldy, and it admirably gripped the pavement in off-camber curves.
Overall in city traffic and on highways, the Odyssey was an easy traveler, and the interior was quiet -- at least when I was in there without kids.
But it can be difficult for a driver to see pedestrians and cars when making left-hand turns at intersections because of the sizable metal pillars around the Odyssey's windshield. Be sure to crane your neck around the pillars for a good view as you turn.
I also dislike that sensors to help alert a driver that an obstacle is behind the Odyssey while the van is backing up are offered only in the top-of-the-line model, which has a starting price of more than $37,000. (Automakers do not consider rear park assist systems like this to be "safety" equipment.)
The fuel range is around 525 miles for the Odyssey's 21-gallon tank, though upper, touring models have an extra feature on the V-6 that can shut off three cylinders to save gas when the vehicle is coasting and during other driving conditions. This can stretch the van's range to around 545 miles.
Fit and finish, inside and out, on the test Odyssey were exemplary, and there were plenty of storage spots for all kinds of toys, notebooks and drinks.


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Home improvement
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Home improvement is the term used to define the changes that are made to a house that increase its value. For example modernizing a kitchen or adding a second bathroom to a three-bedroom home. Thus, anything that includes repairing, remodeling, altering, converting, modernizing or adding to residential property will be classified as improvement to the home. Home improvement typically means improvement to the home and its surroundings by the owner himself/ herself.
Constituents of improvement
Examples of home improvement are the construction, replacement or improvement of:
- driveways, swimming pools, including spas and hot tubs;
- terraces, patios, awnings, gazebos, storm windows;
- landscaping, fences, kitchens, baths;
- porches, garages, basements; and,
- other structural improvements.
Then again installation of a sprinkler system is improvement, lawn mowing is not, installing a carpet is, while steam cleaning a carpet is not, building a pool is and cleaning a pool is not.
Home improvement Vs home repair
People often get confused between home improvement and home repair; they are both different from each other. Home repair is basically finding problems then fixing them. It is something one does to arrest the decay of their property and to keep a check on the damage that may have been done through neglect. Therefore, repainting, any sort of fixing, repairing leaks, and replacing broken fixtures constitute home repairs. Most repairs are DIY kind of things but sometimes, just occasionally home owners need to call in the professionals. Home improvement on the other hand is bettering their home, adding new things to it, changing its style or just adding a bit of a character to it.
Home improvement constitutes a capital expense, wherein the home owner would be spending a heavy amount and since it is once in a lifetime affair they might, in all probability, need a loan.
When people embark on a home improvement project they more often than not draw up a financial plan to save them money or else they are likely to spend much more than required.


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There are a few techniques out there (and all of them requiring practice), but here is how I do it:
1. With a loaded (angled) brush, swipe a paint streak about a half an inch below the line you're about to make. It's important that the paint in this spot be wet but not drippy (you'll see why in a sec).
2. Now that you've unloaded most of the paint onto the wall, use this as a place to basically pick up paint and drag to the line you're going to create.
3. By keeping the brush smushed and half-loaded with paint, a line is actually pretty easy to create. When the line gets streaky, just move the brush down to the stripe to load more paint onto the brush, and continue on.
4. Of course, all you're concerned with really is getting the straight line. When you're done, it's likely your straight line will also be streaky.
5. One more swipe of a loaded paint brush, and you'll have both a straight and solid line.
There you have it. It may take a steady hand and a little time to concentrate, but it will save you plenty of time (and money) in the long run when you don't have to tape every baseboard, windowsill, and doorway. Plus, the pride of knowing you're painting skills are pro quality is great, too!