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Tuesday, 1 January 2013
Looking back and looking forward...
The Nationalities of authors was as follows...
English - 7
Swedish - 2
Irish - 1
Norwegian - 1
Chinese/American - 1
Australian - 1
The genres of the books read during 2012 were as follows...
Modern Fiction - 2
Natural World (non-fiction)- 2
Childrens - 2
Horror/Ghost Story - 1
English Victorian Drama - 1
Dystopian - 1
Semi-autobiographical - 1
Family Biography - 1
Family Drama - 1
Humourous Fiction - 1
Graphic Novel - 1
Thriller - 1
Play/Drama - 1
American History/Wild West - 1
- 2 titles were prizewinners
- 2 titles were known classics
- 4 of the titles were first works by new authors
Favourite Reads during 2012 were...
We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist
The Summer Book by Tove Jansson
All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
Notes From Walnut Tree Farm by Roger Deakin
Oldest and Newest...
Oldest - Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, 1847
Newest - Harry Hop-Pole by Wispy Gorman, Nov 2011
Favourite Cover Design...
I would say the Oxford World Classics edition of Wuthering Heights depicted the mood of the book just right for me. The picture of the desolate moors provided the perfect atmospheric cover.
Unexpected disappointment...
The Lost And Forgotten Languages Of Shanghai by Ruiyan Xu
Favourite Character...
John Grady Cole from All The Pretty Horses. An old fashioned style hero with timeless qualities but still very human.
Challenges for 2012...
My 8 resolutions (and their results in red) were:-
1. To not buy any new books, only acquiring them as gifts, borrowing, or second hand if I have to. This is to get my TBR pile under control and tied in with The TBR Double Dare run by Ready When You Are, C.B.
TBR Double Dare was completed and passed as was the rest of this challenge for the year.
2. To read Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte Completed March 2012
3. To read 1 or 2 titles that came up during our lit hol discussions
Completed The Summer Book by Tove Jansson in April, which came up in our Jane Austen holiday in Hampshire in 2010.
Completed The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad in July, which was my lucky dip title from CS on our Thomas Hardy holiday in Dorset in 2011.
4. To read 3 literary articles and blog about them (Uncompleted)
5. To compare 3 book to film stories
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell (Feb post)
We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver (March post)
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald (June post)
6. To read at least one dystopia novel
Completed The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist in March 2012
7.To read the Zola I have wanted to read since 2009 (this is the 3rd year it has made it on this list and still uncompleted - sigh)
8.To read another George Eliot if possible (Uncompleted but being transferred to next year)
About the same as last year. As I say, these are guidelines for the year and not set in stone.
There are also the books recommended by my work colleagues which I have marked in red if completed. We only have to read at least one of the 3.
AR - The Dubliners by James Joyce, Seize the Day by Saul Bellow and August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
BD - The Portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, Trick or Treat by Richie Tankersley Cusick and Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
So how about 2013...
1. Read another classic American novel
2. Find second hand copies of
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
Under The Greenwood Tree and/or The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
3. Read another novel by George Eliot
4. Read a detective mystery
5. Read one or two titles that came from our literary holidays
6. Read at least one title acquired in a Book Swap at work
7. Read a book associated with a previous World Book Night event.
8. Read a prizewinner, either Man Booker Prize or Orange prize for literature, or similar.
I would also like to continue not buying any new books and try to beat this years total books read. I will let you know how I get on. There may be the possibility of another literary weekend later in the year but I will need to see how the year pans out.
Wishing you All The Best for 2013 with lots of reading time with some fantastic books.
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Suzuki Swift Attitude
By Arman Barari on Mar 31, 2012 with Comments 0
Another special edition Suzuki Swift has been released for the British market. This one is called the Attitude.
The Swift is among the most popular affordable hatchbacks in the UK market. Recently is got a Sport version which is the best of the lot but is a bit pricey. This special editions remain to stay within reason price-wise while offering a wide range of features you don't normally expect from a car like this.
Limited to only 500 units, and available as a five door as well as three door for the first time. Aimed at younger buyers, Swift Attitude is based on the 1.2-litre SZ3 model but with more sporty and aggressive styling. The 1.2-litre Dual VVT 94PS engine is one of the most powerful in its class but offers low emissions of just 116g/km, 56.5mpg on the combined cycle and only £30 in Annual VED charges.
Features and equipments:
Swift Attitude is based on the SZ3 grade with seven airbags, ESP, air conditioning and USB port as standard but offers increased specification with front fog lamps and rear privacy glass together with an enhanced sporty appearance consisting of Carbon fibre effect roof and door mirrors, rear upper spoiler in body colour, Carbon fibre effect 'Attitude' badging and 16-inch wheels in black paint finish.
With an insurance group rating of 9E, Attitude is ideal for younger Swift fans to own a bespoke and sporty looking car at an affordable purchase price together with low costs of ownership.
For customers looking for a PCP (Personal Contract purchase), Suzuki Financial Services are offering Swift Attitude for a deposit of just £1,500 followed by 43 monthly payments of £179 and a final payment at the end of the agreement to keep the car.
Swift Attitude is available in Superior White only and competitively priced at £10,750 for three door and £11,220 for the five door model.
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The damage control to the Fukushima explosion reported earlier is coming fast and furious. According to CNN, "the explosion at an earthquake-damaged nuclear plant was not caused by damage to the nuclear reactor but by a pumping system that failed as crews tried to bring the reactor's temperature down, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said Saturday. The next step for workers at the Fukushima Daiichi plant will be to flood the reactor containment structure with sea water to bring the reactor's temperature down to safe levels, he said. The effort is expected to take two days." While the government is trying to play down the threat from the explosion, it has nonetheless double the evacuation zone radius from 10 to 20 kilometers: "Radiation levels have fallen since the explosion and there is no immediate danger, Edano said. But authorities were nevertheless expanding the evacuation to include a radius of 20 kilometers (about 12.5 miles) around the plant. The evacuation previously reached out to 10 kilometers." Next steps are to flood the reactor with salt water. NHK reports: "The TEPCO Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Fukushima Prefecture is believed to be exploded, and in order to prevent corruption, the containment vessel will be filled with sea water to cool containers and vehicles used by the SDF pump I. According to the Ministry of Defense, work will begin at 8:00 pm, and that it expected to end around 1:00 am on March 13 (or roughly 11 am Eastern)." And while containment efforts peak, the radiation level is reported to be in the range of 1015 microsieverts / hr. In the meantime, confusion in Japan is pervasive as up to a million people are without power. And while we hope the outcome of the Fukushima situation will be prompt and favorable, the economic devastation to the country will be pervasive for weeks to come.
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More damage control:
Radiation levels have fallen since the explosion and there is no immediate danger, Edano said. But authorities were nevertheless expanding the evacuation to include a radius of 20 kilometers (about 12.5 miles) around the plant. The evacuation previously reached out to 10 kilometers.
The explosion about 3:30 p.m. Saturday sent white smoke rising above the plant a day after a massive earthquake and tsunami crippled cooling systems at the plant in northeastern Japan. Four workers were injured in the blast.
The walls of a concrete building surrounding the reactor container collapsed, but the reactor and its containment system were not damaged in the explosion, Edano said.
Before Edano's announcement, Malcolm Grimston, associate fellow for energy, environment and development at London's Chatham House, said the explosion indicated that "it's clearly a serious situation, but that in itself does not necessarily mean major (nuclear) contamination."
Japanese public broadcaster NHK said the injured workers were in the process of cooling a nuclear reactor at the plant by injecting water into its core.
The Fukushima prefecture government said hourly radiation levels at the plant had reached levels allowable for ordinary people over the course of a year, Kyodo reported.
Earlier Saturday, Japan's nuclear agency said workers were continuing efforts to cool fuel rods at the plant after a small amount of radioactive material escaped into the air.
The agency said there was a strong possibility that the radioactive cesium monitors detected was from the melting of a fuel rod at the plant, adding that engineers were continuing to cool the fuel rods by pumping water around them.
Cesium is a byproduct of the nuclear fission process that occurs in nuclear plants.
A spokesman for Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Agency earlier said atomic material had seeped out of one of the five nuclear reactors at the Daiichi plant, located about 160 miles (260 kilometers) north of Tokyo.
"This is a situation that has the potential for a nuclear catastrophe. It's basically a race against time, because what has happened is that plant operators have not been able to cool down the core of at least two reactors," said Robert Alvarez, a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington.
Alert.net quotes Chernobyl veterans who are scrambling to calm the public that this will not be a repeat of the Prypiat disaster:
Experts said pictures of mist above the plant suggested only small amounts of radiation had been expelled as part of measures to ensure its stability, far from the radioactive clouds that Chernobyl spewed out when it exploded in 1986.
"The explosion at No. 1 generating set of the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, which took place today, will not be a repetition of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster," said Valeriy Hlyhalo, deputy director of the Chernobyl nuclear safety centre.
He was quoted by Interfax news agency as saying Japanese reactors were better protected than Chernobyl, where just over 30 firefighters were killed in the explosion. The world's worst civilian nuclear disaster, Chernobyl has also been blamed for thousands of deaths due to radiation-linked illness.
"Apart from that, these reactors are designed to work at a high seismicity zone, although what has happened is beyond the impact the plants were designed to withstand," Hlyhalo said.
"Therefore, the consequences should not be as serious as after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster."
We will continue following what appears to be nothing but a prolonged attempt at disaster spin as earthquake aftershocks continue.


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How to Protect You and Your Children From the Spread of Enterovirus D68/
Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) is one of more than 100 non-polio enteroviruses. This virus was first identified in California in 1962. EV-D68 can cause mild to severe respiratory illness. Mild symptoms may include fever, runny nose, sneezing, cough, and body and muscle aches. Severe symptoms may include wheezing and difficulty breathing.
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) confirmed 4 enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) cases in patients in San Diego (3) and Ventura (1) counties a few weeks ago.
Parents should seek medical attention immediately for children who are having any breathing difficulty (wheezing, difficulty speaking or eating, belly pulling in with breaths, blueness around the lips), particularly if the child suffers from asthma. There is no specific treatment for persons with EV-D68, nor is there a vaccine to prevent it. However, everyone six months of age and older should receive influenza vaccine every year to protect themselves against that important cause of respiratory disease.
Healthcare providers should consider EV-D68 as a possible cause of acute, unexplained severe respiratory illness, even if the patient does not have fever, and consider laboratory testing of respiratory specimens for enteroviruses when the cause of respiratory illness in severely ill patients is unclear.
The best way to prevent transmission of enteroviruses is to:
• Wash hands often with soap and water for 20 seconds, especially after changing diapers.
• Avoid touching eyes, nose and mouth with unwashed hands.
• Avoid kissing, hugging, and sharing cups or eating utensils with people who are sick.
• Disinfect frequently touched surfaces, such as toys and doorknobs, especially if someone is sick.
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I woke this morning with my eyes in protest as the sheets felt warm and invited me to linger. It was hard to get up and start my day but it was time.
I was suddenly overcome with the thought that these very reasons for which I was frustrated about getting out of bed were also great reasons to be thankful. I knew that though I wasn't ready to get out of bed and journey to the shower, that once I got in the shower, I would enjoy the warmth of the water so much that I would be irritated about moving on from that as well.
How about a mind shift? Thoughts float mindlessly through us regularly. What if we chose to direct them in a more positive, productive and enjoyable way?
My challenge to you to today is that as the time goes by today that you use the hours to be thankful. On the hour today, each hour, I will be bringing to mind what I have gratitude for. Even taking 30 seconds to do this will transform the flow of your day. I'm excited to see what enters into my presence when I focus on the beauty and possibility that is already around me!
Finally, I would LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU! Please, in the comments below, let me know what you hold gratitude for. And if you want to share your gratitude practices, I am all the more honored to hear from you.
This short but motivational post is from my heart to yours, wishing that all would both experience and create their desired life and bliss!


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Lenovo has launched the ThinkPad X200 ultrathin laptop, which is lighter than Apple's MacBook Air. It's cheaper than Lenovo's earlier X300, and will include WiMax and Ultra Wideband connection options.
Weighing 2.95 pounds (1.34 kilograms) with a four-cell battery, the weight of the ThinkPad X200 is just less than Apple's 3-pound MacBook Air (read review). The weight rises to 3.58 pounds with an optional nine-cell battery, which can provide up to 9 hours of battery life, Lenovo said.
The laptop has a 12.1-inch screen with storage options of either a 64 GB solid-state drive or a hard disk drive at up to 320 GB. Users will be able to watch Blu-ray movies on the laptop through an optional ultrathin optical drive.
It is powered by Intel's Core 2 Duo chips running between 2.26GHz and 2.40GHz, with 3MB of cache. It will support up to 4 GB of DDR3 memory and include integrated graphics. It will come with Windows Vista.
A gaggle of wireless connectivity options are available, including integrated a/b/g/n Wi-Fi, 3G mobile broadband and Bluetooth. Later this year the company will offer connectivity to UWB (UltraWide Band) and WiMax wireless broadband. It also supports GPS.
The laptop measures 29.5 by 21 by 2.07cm with a four-cell battery, making it comparable to Lenovo's ThinkPad X300 laptop (read review.
To shave off the pounds, the laptop does not have a drive bay for an optical drive, though one is available for the UltraBase docking station. The company also ditched the trackpad, providing only the red "trackpoint" nipple in the keyboard. Full specifications are posted at Gizmodo.
The laptop is substantially cheaper than the X300, starting at US$1,199 (£600) and will be available in August, according to the company.
Lenovo also announced the IdeaPad U330, a consumer ultraportable laptop that is 0.9 inches at its thinnest point and weighs just over 4 pounds. Powered by a Core 2 Duo P7350 processor, it comes with a 13.3 inch screen, supports up to a 320 GB hard drive and integrates wireless a/g/n technology and runs Windows Vista.
The U330 also supports switchable graphics, which can shift from a separate ATI graphics card to internal graphics (manually or automatically) when the laptop is operating on a battery. It will be available later this year; pricing has not yet been determined, a Lenovo spokeswoman said.


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Vince Gill, Brandy Clark and Hillary Scott lead the lineup for 2015 Tin Pan South.
Nashville Songwriters Association International has announced the lineup for their 2015 Tin Pan South. Now in its 23rd year, Tin Pan South celebrates songwriters of all genres with a five-day event all over Music City.
More than 330 songwriters will perform in venues all over Nashville, including at the Hard Rock Cafe, the Station Inn and the Bluebird Cafe. Several artists, including Vince Gill, Lady Antebellum's Hillary Scott, Brandy Clark, RaeLynn, Craig Campbell, Jamie O'Neal and Lee Roy Parnell, will perform some of their biggest hits.
In addition, hit songwriters including Rivers Rutherford, Shane McAnally, Josh Osborne, Rodney Clawson, Leslie Satcher, Chris Lindsey, Tom Douglas and others will also take the stage, performing in Nashville's typical in-the-round setting, while sharing the stories behind some of their biggest hits.
Tin Pan South, which remains the largest all-songwriter festival in the world, began in 1992 as a way to honor songwriters for their dedicated craft.
"Tin Pan South is a collection of some of the greatest songwriters in Nashville and beyond," songwriter and Tin Pan South performer Bill Whyte tells Wide Open Country. "It's a great opportunity for fans to gather and go from venue to venue and hear the songs as they were originated, often with just a guitar and or piano. Country music has always been about storytelling, and in this kind of acoustic-stripped back environment, the songs take on a different texture and feel that many have not experienced before.
"Tin Pan South is a great place to hear songs that have great impact as performed by the writer or writers even thought they may never be charted hits, as well as being a great environment to hear songs that will be hits in the future," Whyte adds. "Plus, it's a great way to discover songwriter artists you may have never heard of before. It's fun to see the surprised look from audience members and see them thinking, "They wrote THAT?"
This year's Tin Pan South will be held March 24 to 28. A complete schedule and list of performers, with venue information, is available on the Tin Pan South website.


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Alfa Romeo Stelvio review
In this review
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Despite the name, not many manufacturers put the 'sport' into their sports utility vehicles, or SUVs. The Alfa Romeo Stelvio looks to buck that trend by suggesting buyers will get something every bit as much fun as the lively Giulia saloon on which it's based. Should Porsche be quaking in its boots?
The spec sheet certainly sounds good, with the promise of lightweight, good balance and strong engines. There's also plenty of room for passengers and a boot capacity that's in line with competitors such as the Porsche Macan and BMW X3.
All models get an eight-speed automatic gearbox as standard, with only the entry-level diesel getting the option of rear-wheel drive – all other engines come exclusively with four-wheel drive. CO2 emissions are competitive, making the Stelvio worth considering for company car buyers.
Read on for our in-depth review and for our opinions on how it drives, what it's like inside and how much it'll cost to run.


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One of the hardest parts about dating is knowing where to look. So I'm here to lend a helping hand and offer you 10 of the perfect places to meet people if you're swinging single and ready for something more.
10. Online
Don't knock it until you actually take the time to meet someone in real life after connecting after a right swipe.
9. Dog Park
You already know they're dog lovers, so PLUS. But at the same time, if you fail to find love there, at least you got to hang out with puppies.
8. Concert
You like the same music…so the conversation starter is already set in place.
7. Sporting Event
Unless you two are rocking opposing jerseys…
6. Bookstore
Get on the…wait for it, same page. Dad joke aside, you can browse a lot more than the latest R.L. Stine release.
5. Convention
Geeks and nerds aren't all as socially awkward as pop culture has made them out to be. If you see someone cute, say hello!
4. Speed Dating
If you're a little nervous dating, just jump in head first and date like 25 guys in an hour.
3. The Gym
Stop staring at their body and actually start exercising your vocal chords.
2. Volunteering
You'll both be happy to know you're dating someone who gives back to their community.
1. A Friend's Party
Take advantage of these social gatherings and don't just ignore their Facebook invite.


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Reviewed by Tia A. (age 8)
I like Fudge. He was my favorite character. I like him best because he was funny, like the time he would not eat so Peter had to stand on his head. This book is like the sequel "Superfudge" because Fudge did crazy things like that in the story "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing", too. My sister is like Fudge because she jumped off a trampoline and knocked out her four front teeth, just like when Fudge tried to fly off the monkey bars.
I recommend this book because it is a hilarious! I think children in grades four to eight could read it because there are words in it that the children in the younger grades can't pronounce.


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[Expect this page to be fully updated by September 2018]
Why might you wish to keep a scientific notebook?
Colin Purrington's Maintaining a Laboratory Notebook contains some excellent answers to this question. Among them, I would highlight the following:
- To provide yourself with a complete record of why experiments were initiated and how they were performed.
- To give yourself a centralized, physical location in which to record your investigations.
- To encourage sound thinking. As Purrington himself writes, "Keeping a notebook gives you a forum to talk to yourself — to ask questions, to record important thoughts about the experimental design, and to speculate how your results might eventually be interpreted."
- To provide information to a person who is interested in continuing your research project.
However, for those interested, I would also offer the following additional purposes, which occurred to me when reading Field Notes on Science & Nature, a 2011 book edited by Harvard University biologist and lecturer, Michael Canfield. According to Field Notes, notebooks provide spaces in which to:
- Document one's own observations of and experiences in the world.
- Capture the beauty and wonder–but also the problems and dangers–found in the world.
- Develop and hone observation skills, including writing, drawing, and sketching.
- Become familiar with scientific practices such as analysis, application, argumentation, inference, deduction, organization, and persuasion.
- Become familiar with scientific virtues such as creativity, invention, objectivity, patience, and novelty.
- Become familiar with scientific values such as accuracy, generality, precision, reliability, repeatability, testability, and simplicity.
- Examine, reflect, question, link, probe, and/or connect one's ideas.
- Practice the art of inventing new questions.
- Incubate new ideas.
- Overlay and/or integrate one's previous knowledge to new observations and experiences.
- Capture both the exquisite and mundane moments of experience.
- Develop and hone an awareness of how professional scientists create scientific facts, knowledge, understanding, and truth.
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College Advertising Brand Awareness Programs Part 3
Building brand awareness on campus is an essential college advertising strategy. In the third and final part of this series we're going to explore 3 college advertising brand awareness programs and why they work. If you're not caught up on the series, check out part 1 and part 2.
Effective College Advertising Brand Awareness Programs Part 3
7. College Poster Advertising
College poster advertising is where poster ads are placed on campus bulletin boards in prominent locations at select universities and colleges. Poster advertising can be broad in scope, generating brand awareness throughout the entire campus, or it can be highly targeted, placing posters ads in hard science classrooms.
Poster Advertising: What Works and What Doesn't
Use evocative, eye-catching images when engaging in college poster campaigns. The poster will capture students' attention and generate brand awareness.
There's a lot of advertising that takes place on a college campus. It makes sense, the majority of college students have recently left home and generally speaking have a lot of discretionary spending money. They want to have a good time and live the college experience, and they are willing to pay to make this happen.
That said college students are discerning about how they choose to spend their money. The other day I was on campus looking at one of the many campus bulletin boards and I was drawn in by a particular poster advertising an upcoming African dance, music, and fashion exhibition. Since I have no ties to African culture and no particular interest in dance, music, and fashion, I began to analyze why this particular poster caught my eye.


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Japan's first adventure travel TV show!
In runAway: Sole of Japan, Dean and a team of foreigners embark on a journey which will take them to their physical limits, as they attempt to discover the Soul of this unique and wonderful nation.
runAway is here to show you the very best of Japan. We will share Japanese culture and travel, in a way that is exciting, entertaining and has never been done before!
Our TV show goes beyond anything you have seen previously. Our adventurers are exploring places otherwise never seen before, on a 50 day journey through Japan. There will be no bus tours or train tickets here, they will be using only their natural energy as transport! Every new day will be a challenge as they cycle, kayak, run and move throughout Japan by any physical means possible, getting closer to discovering, what really is, the SOUL OF JAPAN.The show
The runAway trailer
They started at the top of Fuji not knowing where they would go next. You decided, and led them on an unforgettable journey. You controlled the route and we shared the adventure. Now let us reveal the thrilling exploration, the comic exploits and the emotional journey, as we finally discover – what was the Soul of Japan?
Creative Collaborations: Victor Gonzalez
These are the moments our team and you lovers of Japan, have picked as #SoulMoments
Write to us with your 'Soul Moments' and hashtag #SoulMoment for your chance to be featured on the website!
Japan is the only country in the world which has been hit by atomic bombs. Last Sep 11th, I posted on my Instagram in memory of 9.11. A foreigner replied to my post, 'How can you pray for the US? Japan had Hiroshima and Nagasaki.' I was upset by his reply. Japanese people know how important peace is, even our generation. So I wanna say "PEACE" is a kind of soul of Japan.Yuria Fuku
Living for public and 'Nakoso Oshikere' which means do not defile the name.Taichi Koike
That's a deep question. I've only spent 4 months in Japan but I was definitely amazed at the dedication to perfecting a craft and the harmony with which so many people can work together in a small country. The group mindset vs the individual mindset. Truly amazing to experience.Jacob Mathis


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As the school year is starting back up again, you may be considering getting a new family hauler. If your current car just doesn't have enough space, flexibility, or technology, check out these excellent Ram and Dodge models for families.
2016 Dodge Grand Caravan
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2016 Dodge Journey
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2016 Ram 1500
Modern truck cabs are often as spacious, high-tech, and comfortable as their car counterparts. That is why the 2016 Ram 1500 can be a good choice for families, especially in Crew Cab form. Not only will you get the space you need for passengers, but you'll have the capabilities you need for tough jobs.


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It's a long way from the high fashion runway to the sidewalks of the Folsom Street Fair — or is it?
This Sunday's fair will draw hundreds of thousands of fans of leather, latex and neoprene to the South of Market area for an afternoon of adults-only fun.
Bondage clothing such as harnesses, wrist cuffs and whips and chains is always popular there — the aesthetic has cropped up in the collections of Comme de Garcons, Ungaro and Rodarte, among others — and this year is no exception.
One of the more intriguing collections of bondage clothing will be worn — albeit demurely — by the U.K. electro pop band Monarchy, which collaborated with Academy of Art University graduate Andrew Wedge on a series of harnesses to be worn under and over their standard performance uniform, which consists of button-down black suits, white dress shirts, and masks.
It's a far cry from the norm for Wedge, who specializes in high-end, but edgy, women's separates in leather, fur, silk and jersey, and who is now based in New York (and whose other fashions can be seen in the windows of women's store Sui Generis in the Castro, which carries pieces from his line.)
Still, he was game for the challenge and traded emails and blueprints with bandmembers after the collaboration was proposed by the fair's executive director, Demetri Moshoyannis.
The band, booked months ago, was up for the fashion challenge, too. "It was such a special event that I didn't want to just be the band that played at the Folsom Street Fair," explained Andrew Armstrong, the band's keyboardist, who with his mates had flown in for a fitting at Mr. S Leather on Thursday morning. "I wanted to be integrated into it." They'll play on the 12th Street stage at 5:10 p.m.
Instead of the customary X-shaped harness with a circular ring connecting the straps over the sternum (and customarily worn over a bare chest,) Wedge designed simple half-shirts (one leather, one neoprene) for two band members to wear under their suits, and two harnesses with diagonal straps for the other two band members to wear.
"The band's look is streamlined, and I wanted to match that aesthetic with the harnesses," said Wedge, who came from New York for the fitting as well.
The harnesses were made by leather experts at Mr. S Leather, a multimillion-dollar business on Eighth Street with 55 employees, some 28 of whom make all manner of leather pants, shirts, belts, wristbands, arm bands and bondage gear by hand on site, with as much American-made materials as possible, company officials said.
Aside from Armstrong, who attended his first Folsom Street Fair six years ago, the other band members weren't sure what to expect of the crowd. They've never been to the fair before.
"The friend who took me told me it was a street fair, so I thought it was going to be all about homemade jams," Armstrong said with a laugh. "I got there and said, 'There's a naked person!' By the end, being naked was not enough to surprise me. You had to be strapped up and led around like a horse on a tether. I was freaked out, but in a good way."
Note: The websites for the Folsom Street Fair and Mr. S Leather are NSFW and contain nudity.


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The Philadelphia school district, one of the biggest in the US, has approved the toughest measures so far against fizzy drinks in school.
The ban will mean that from July, vending machines in schools will only be allowed to sell fruit juice, water and milk drinks.
School officials say this will improve nutrition and reduce obesity.
"It is fitting that our new policy is approved just weeks after the American Academy of Pediatrics urged school districts to restrict soda sales in order to reduce the risk of obesity," said the head of the city's school district, Paul Vallas.
"We need to do all we can to offer nutritious choices for our students."
The city's strict policy on the sale of fizzy, sugary drinks has followed a long process of consultation and debate - but has been formally adoped by education officials and will be implemented in five months.
Philadelphia's "beverage policy" is the latest shift in attitude towards young people's diet in the United States - with growing concern about obesity and lack of fitness.
There have already been moves by school authorities in New York to reduce access to fizzy drinks - and Philadelphia's decision will add to the pressure to end the practice of selling fizzy drinks through vending machines on school premises.
Many US schools and school districts receive a regular income from the sale of fizzy drinks - with some authorities having agreements with individual drinks companies.


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|Govs. David Umahi of Ebonyi; Rochas Okorocha of Imo; Willie Obiano of Anambra & Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu
ONITSHA — IGBO traders and businessmen have cried out over what they described as the recent harsh economic policies introduced by the Federal Government, saying that such policies were allegedly introduced to cripple their businesses across the country. A vox pop conducted by the South East Voice across the five states of the region showed that the traders were angry with the Federal Government for introducing the $5,000 Basic Traveling Allowance, BTA, as well as for making Kano State the "clearing house for all imported goods in the country."
Those, who spoke at separate interviews, also, faulted the ban on importation of certain commodities like shoes and other agricultural products. They said that efforts should have been made to encourage local producers instead of banning them without warning.
The Ogirishi of Igboland, Chief Rommy Ezeonwuka, who spoke in Onitsha, said that although it was good for the government to ban the importation of furniture, toothpicks and rice, among others, the policy should have been carried out in phases to enable local producers come to terms with the situation.
"It is an insult to import textiles into this country while our textile industries are not flourishing. But the current government policies are targeted at suppressing Ndigbo as a race. Such policies include the current clamp-down on foreign exchange and making Kano the clearing ground for imported goods. How can one leave Port Harcourt or Lagos and travel to the extreme north to clear his goods? These are wrong policies because they will discourage local and foreign investments.
"In the same vein, the Buhari's regime is not observing the constitutional provisions for federal character in political appointments. The government is also discriminating against Ndigbo in the area of execution of projects as the South East Zone is excluded in the provision of social amenities. This is very bad.
Buhari should focus on achieving uninterrupted electricity supply. The government should even encourage building of indigenous private refineries rather than relying on the oil cabals, who are deceiving the government and making life unbearable for the entire citizenry, Onwuka who is also the proprietor of Rojenny Sports Resort, said.
In his contribution, Chief Gilbert Bravo Obi, chairman, Nigerian Importers Association, Anambra State branch said: "We heard that President Buhari wants to transfer the clearing house for all imported goods to Kano. Since he assumed office, traders have not been finding things easy. There is no more importation business in Nigeria, and you know, that majority of importers are Ndigbo.
Importation business
However, I must emphasize that it is still too early to draw a conclusion that Buhari's policies are either favourable to Ndigbo or not, or that they are favourable to business environment or not. At Nnewi, the Publicity Secretary of Anambra State Traders Association, Dede Uzor Uzor said that, "the government of President Muhammadu Buhari has stayed for over six months now, adding that it had hit him adversely as a businessman.
"The economic policies of the present administration has affected me personally; as a businessman, who trades on textile materials and pharmaceutical products. The administration introduced the policy of $5,000 as BTA. That means that you can only travel outside Nigeria with only $5,000. Tell me how a trader, who imports from overseas can survive with such amount of money. It is not possible for a trader to survive with that amount, after paying over N200, 000 for your air ticket.
"The government knows those siphoning money to their overseas bank accounts, but has left them to pounce on ordinary traders, who are doing their businesses in order to hamper their operations. The other time about seven Onitsha main market traders were arrested and their money seized because of their alleged involvement in money laundering. What money laundering? "Tell me how a trader can survive in this present administration with this policy of $5,000 as BTA?
"So, the government of President Buhari is not helping traders. This government is killing us, quote me. The traders are crying, so he should review the policy because it is affecting everybody. Nigerians are suffering because of that policy, because if it does not affect you as a trader or importer, it will affect you as a consumer.
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October 1, 2018
Latest revision to NAFTA allows US dairy farmers more access to Canada
The NAFTA agreement between the US, Canada and Mexico is saved for now - and an updated provision would see US dairy farmers gaining a foothold in the Canadian market.
According to Reuters, Canada has agreed to provide US dairy farmers access to about 3.5% of its approximately $16 billion dairy market. But, as such a move would impact Canadian farmers, the government also assured it would offer compensation to affected parties, sources said.
"Freer markets, fairer trade and robust economic growth" in North America is expected with the latest version of the NAFTA deal, a joint statement by the US and Canada declared.
In the hours before this announcement, negotiators feverishly worked over outstanding details, with both side making concessions to finalise the deal.
The agreement was later approved by US President Donald Trump who had threatened to walk away from what he saw as an unfavourable deal.
In addition, US officials could sign the revised agreement with Canada and Mexico at the end of November, after which it would be submitted to the US Congress for approval, a senior US official said.
The deal will also preserve a trade dispute settlement mechanism that Canada fought hard to maintain to protect its lumber industry and other sectors from US anti-dumping tariffs, Canadian sources said.
While the agreement provides benefits for particular aspects - like a quota allowing a significant growth in tariff-free automotive exports from Canada to the US above the former's current production levels of about two million units - it does not entirely iron out other issues.
For instance, the matter of US tariffs being imposed on Canada's steel and aluminum exports remains unresolved.
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July 9, 2013
Philadelphia. Home of Independence (they have a hall by that name, etc) and where all our July 4 celebrations emanated. It's now the home of MATT LAWS (who would die if I called him handsome, so I won't). He's taken the VP slot of Creative Services and Programming at NBC's WCAU, known as NBC 10. He's been down at WXIA, Gannett's NBC affil in Atlanta and before that was out in Seattle at KIRO. Along the way, the gentleman from the South (he's Matthew Laws IV officially) has done creative and headed up folks at WOAI San Antonio, WLWT Cincinnati, KOCO in Oklahoma City and WUPW in Toldeo. A Main Line Well Dunne! Matt.
Ms. RYANN JOHNSON is the newest member of The Promotional Edge, coming over from ABC Television where she was Manager of Integrated Marketing. She'll continue her winning streak of exciting promotions. She has been at Showtime as Special Events Coordinator and was Marketing Coordinator for the Cleveland Cavaliers. She's a Tulane grad who's also studied in Spain and France. Well Dunne! Ryann.
Think About This: "You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." ~ A.A. Milne


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Preventing the Flu
Parents can help prevent and slow the spread of the flu. The flu (influenza) is a respiratory illness caused by a virus. Flu infections are highly contagious. They spread easily when children are in a group with other children such as in a child care center or school. Flu is more dangerous than the common cold for children and can lead to serious health conditions like pneumonia or bacterial infections. Each year many children are hospitalized and some die from the flu.
Flu Vaccine
The flu vaccine is the best way to protect against getting the flu. All people 6 months and older need a flu vaccine each year. Babies cannot get vaccinated until they are 6 months old. It is critical that people who live with or care for children, especially infants younger than 6 months, get vaccinated. Vaccinating adults who are around an infant to prevent illnesses is often referred to as "cocooning."
Fight Germs
A few minutes killing germs can go a long way toward keeping you and those around you healthy. As adults, we know to wash our hands often with soap and water, especially after coughing, sneezing, or wiping noses. When you cough or sneeze, cough into your sleeve or arm or into a tissue. Be sure to dispose of the tissue and wash your hands. Parents and child care providers can do their part to kill germs and also teach young children how and when to wash their hands.
Prevent the Spread of Illness in Child Care
Young children who have just entered child care are more vulnerable to infectious diseases. This is because it may be the first time they have been exposed to certain germs. In addition, they may be too young to have received enough doses of recommended vaccines to have developed immunity.
How Sick is Too Sick?
When children are healthy, they can go to child care or school, and parents can go to work. Getting the flu vaccine is the best way to make sure everyone can continue to participate in these important activities. However, when a child feels too sick to participate in activities, or requires care beyond what the caregivers can provide without compromising their ability to care for other children, that child will need to stay home.
If your child is not feeling well, your physician is the best person to consult about whether she can go to school. Common sense, concern for your child's well-being, and the possibility of infecting classmates should all contribute to the decision about whether your child should stay home.
As general guidelines, keep her home if:
- She has a fever
- She is not well enough to participate in class
- You think she may be contagious to other children
If your child has been ill but is feeling better, yet has still awakened with a minor problem, such as a runny nose or slight headache, you can send her to school if none of the three circumstances listed above is present. Even so, make sure the school and your child have a phone number where you can be reached during the day if more serious symptoms develop and she needs to return home.


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Port Angeles used to be a lumber mill town with loads of character and charm. It is now a vital link from the North and upper West side of the Olympic mountain range, serving communities on the Washington coast line and the towns that surround Port Angeles to the East. It is located between the Strait of Juan De Fuca to the north and the foothills of the Olympic National Forest to the South. It has many spectacular views and water sports (salt and fresh water) including skiing at Hurricane Ridge, hiking, the Hoh Rainforest, hot springs and much more. It is a great place to spend a couple of extra days enjoying the outdoors.
Peninsula Children's Clinic
902 E. Caroline Street
Port Angeles, WA 98362
(360) 457-8578
Fax (360) 457-4841
Laura Bullen, MD
Madeline Harrington, MD
Mildred Bay, MD
Jeff Weller, MD
Christine Rose, MD
Arrangements are made for Visiting Professors depending on their specialty. This may or may not include seeing patients in the clinic after lunch and a noon lecture. We try to talk with the visiting professor a few weeks in advance to arrange a schedule and noon lecture topic.
In general, we have the professor arrive shortly before lunch (around 11:00-11:30am). We have lunch together, either in our clinic or the hospital (across the street), and this is followed by a formal one-hour lecture on a pre-arranged topic. Sometimes outside physicians and nurses or professionals in other disciplines from the local community attend. PowerPoint facilities and a lecture hall are available at the local hospital, or a slide projector is available at the clinic. If you need any AV equipment (laptop and or LCD projector) please contact email@example.com.
If appropriate for the Professor's specialty, at about 2:00pm we see patients together and discuss the patients in between the cases. We finish about 5:30pm If the Professor wishes to stay for dinner, we all go out for dinner and conversation together at a local restaurant. After dinner, if the Professor wishes to stay over, we continue at one of our homes and the Professor spends the night and returns to Seattle the following morning. If it is not convenient to stay over, the Professor will returns to Seattle after dinner.
The North Olympic Peninsula abounds in recreational opportunities such as hiking and cross-country skiing in Olympic National Park, biking, kayaking the local coastline, and golf at a local course. If the Professor wishes to relax a bit while visiting our clinic, arrangements can be made for one of us to be free to accompany the Professor in these recreational pursuits.
Mildred Bay, MD
WWAMI Site Coordinator
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Our Legends
Director of Baseball Operations
Chad Parker
- Two-time Minor League "Coach of the Year"
- MLB Scout for the Atlanta Braves and Washington Nationals
- Award-winning College and High School coach
Coach Parker grew up in Adairsville, Georgia, and loved baseball from the start. Some of Coach Parker's fondest childhood memories were waiting for his dad to finish his shift so that they could play baseball after work. At that time, Coach Parker's dad worked in the railroad industry, and the railroad passed right by the baseball field. Coach Parker remembers waiting for the train to pass by at the end of the day so he could meet his dad and play baseball.
Sports were a big part of Coach Parker's life. He played football, basketball, and baseball growing up and became an All-American in football. Coach Parker's grandfather was probably one of the most influential people in terms of loving the game. They spent many evenings together watching baseball games on the West Coast until early hours of the morning analyzing and discussing the plays and strategy of each 'at bat'.
Coach Parker played baseball at Berry College until he graduated in 1998 and then went on to serve as the recruiting coordinator for the school. Since that time he has served as the head baseball coach at Brewton Parker College, Manager of the MiLB River City Rascals, Joliet Jackhammers, and Normal Cornbelters. Coach Parker has worked as a scout for the Washington Nationals and the Atlanta Braves. Most recently he was the Athletic Director at the Excel Christian Academy in Cartersville, Georgia.
Over the 17 years that Coach Parker has managed and led teams, he has earned distinction time and again for building programs from the ground up and winning at high levels. In 2004 Coach Parker was named the Georgia College Coach of the Year. In 2009, he was named Manager of the Year – Frontier League for his turn around of the River City Rascals program. The following year, in 2010, he earned Manager of the Year – Northern League as he led the Joliet Jackhammers. In 2014, the Georgia High School Association recognized the hard work and success of the Excel Christian Academy softball team, and Coach Parker was named Region Coach of the Year in Softball.
Coach Parker is deeply grateful to God for his talents and blessings. In all of his coaching, he incorporates a deep Christian faith and spirit of thanksgiving. When he is not managing teams and helping programs build success from the ground up, Coach Parker enjoys spending time with his wife, Beth, and their 3 sons.
Pitching Coach / Tournament Operations
Napoleon Robinson
- Minor league pitcher for 6 years
- 10+ years experience coaching youth baseball
Coach Robinson grew up in a military family living both in Germany and the United States. From the seventh grade on, his father was based at Fort Benning, so Columbus, Georgia, is considered home.
As a young boy, football was his favorite sport. At age 13, Coach Robinson's friends signed him up to play baseball. Up until that time, he had never swung a bat. Coach Robinson credits a parent coach, Mr. Jeck Pryor, with helping him learn to play the game and excel in the sport. Mr. Pryor built cages in his house and devoted all of his extra time and weekends to developing Coach Robinson and his high school friends.
Coach Robinson was awarded a baseball scholarship to play at Columbus State University. In his senior year of college in 1988, Coach Robinson was drafted as a pitcher by the Los Angeles Dodgers organization. Three weeks after graduating from college, he began Spring Training. After spending 3 seasons in the Dodgers minor league system, Coach Robinson was traded to the Atlanta Braves organization where he continued to serve as a pitcher and moved from AA to AAA teams.
In all, Coach Robinson spent 6 years in the minor leagues pitching over 620 innings and accumulating more than 450 strikeouts.
Upon retiring from Minor League Baseball, Coach Robinson continued pursuing his love for the game and has spent 10 years coach young players learn how to pitch and hit. He gave pitching lessons and ran coaches clinics at the Sports-a-Rama in Paulding County and worked with scores of teams from the East Side Baseball Association's Mustang and Bronco recreation baseball programs at Sports-a-Rama in Marietta.
A critical component of Coach Robinson's pitching instruction is his attention to the health of young players' arms. He helps them learn proper mechanics, and he educates the players by helping them to understand and appreciate pitch counts, innings pitched, the need for proper stretching and rest.
Coach Robinson met Coach Terry Harper during their time together with the Braves, and since that time both of them have coached many travel teams and helped players improve their skills and mechanics.
When not helping players learn the skills of the game, Coach Robinson enjoys spending time with his son and daughter.
Hitting Coach
Terry Harper
- MLB player for 8 years
- MLB coach with the Atlanta Braves 8 years
- 20+ years experience coaching youth baseball
Coach Harper grew up outside of Douglasville, Georgia, in the country. Baseball was a huge community event during his childhood – an activity that brought the community together allowing friendships to blossom and memories to be made. He fell in love with the game watching both his sister and brothers play. Coach Harper played the game every chance he could. In fact, as soon as he was old enough, Coach Harper served as a batboy for the Winston Pros.
In 1977, Coach Harper's senior year at Douglas County High School, the Atlanta Braves drafted him as a pitcher to play in their organization. He reported to Spring Training 3 weeks after his high school graduation. Coach Harper was both a student and an athlete for in addition to being drafted by the Braves, he was also awarded a full scholarship to attend college. Realizing the benefit of both opportunities, in between baseball seasons, Coach Harper went to college.
Coach Harper's first Major League hit was a triple off San Diego's Rick Wise, September 13, 1980, in his second big-league game. During his career as a player for the Braves, Coach Harper posted a .254 batting average with 36 home runs and 163 RBIs in 473 games. When Coach Harper retired from playing professionally, he served as a coach for the Atlanta Braves organization. In all he spent over 16 years with the Braves.
Upon retiring from the Braves, Coach Harper continued following his passion of helping young people learn to play baseball. He has coached numerous minor league teams, college level teams, high school teams, and travel teams. Coach Harper spent over 20 years helping players grow at Sports-a-Rama in East Cobb. He models his approach in coaching after his favorite coach, Mr. Bobby Dews. Mr. Dews helped Coach Harper grow in every level of the game from 'A' ball all the way into the major leagues.
When not on the field or in the cages helping players develop strong mechanics and skills, Coach Harper enjoys spending time with his wife, 2 daughters, and grand daughter.


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Cuckoldry is often associated with impotent husbands who are unable to control their wives' sexuality. They essentially de-masculinise their husbands. In order to spot these men who lack the necessary bedroom skills, horns sprout from their heads. However, with reference to the story of Actaeon and Diana in Book 3 of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Claire McEachern explains cuckolds by associating 'horns with female power over men' (McEachern "Introduction" 45). The implication is that the husband is rendered chaste in order to atone for his wife's adulterous sins.
The cuckold as the epitome of chastity is alluded to in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing:
Benedick The savage bull may, but if ever the sensible Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set them in my forehead; and let me be vilely painted, and in such great letters as they write 'Here is good horse to hire', let them signify under my sign, 'Here you may see Benedick, the married man.' (I.i, lines 244-49)
By wishing to remain a bachelor, Benedick imagines himself as a cuckold. The phrase 'vilely painted' is ambiguous as it can either refer to the negative association of a cuckold being an impotent husband or rendered a fool by his adulterous wife. Ironically, by directly associating the bull's horns with being married, Benedick accentuates the fact that he is supposedly not interested in women. Therefore, the play represents the popular notion of a cuckold as a de-sexualised man. The horns are a social display that enables the cuckolded husband to maintain a narcissistic fixation on chastity. In other words, the wife's promiscuity is countered by the husband's chastity. By maintaining his chastity, the cuckolded husband never stops searching for the ideal wife, a notion supported by the constant deferment of Benedick's marriage to Beatrice.
The Bull or husband who actively pursues the female can also be deemed a cuckold as masculinity is equated with bestial passion. The linking of the male cuckold to the ravenous Bull is made by Jane Anger in 1589:
yet truly their sex [males] are so like to Buls, that it is no maruell though the Gods do metamorphoze some of them, to giue warning to the rest, if they coulde thinke so of it, for some of them wil follow the smocke as Tom Bull will runne after a towne Cowe. But, least they should running slip and breake their pates, the Gods provident of their welfare, set a paire of tooters on their foreheads, to keepe it from the ground. (Anger B2v)
Anger implies men do not make ideal husbands because they are ruled by bestial passions. However, the cuckold's twin desires for bestial passion and constancy are related to the demands of the sexually dominant wife, which lead the husband to promiscuity. Yet his horns or 'tooters' protect the husband from his bestial passions to preserve his constancy. In order to gain approval from his domineering wife, the husband is not a cuckold who is fooled by his betrothed, but one who makes a fool of himself.
Anger, Jane. Jane Anger Her Protection for Women. 1589. The Early modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works. Part 1: Printed Writings, 1500-1640. Vol. 4: Defences of Women: Jane Anger, Rachel Speght, Ester Sowernam and Constantia Munda. Gen. eds. Betty S.Travitsky & Patrick Cullen. Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1997.
McEachern, Claire. "Introduction".Much Ado About Nothing. 1598. Ed. Claire McEachern. London: Arden Shakespeare, 2006, 1-144.
Shakespeare, William. Much Ado About Nothing. 1598. Ed. Claire McEachern. London: Arden Shakespeare, 2006.


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But the committee has yet to see the measure, which remains in the drafting process.
"The bill Sunflower is working on is expected to be prepared and ready for introduction next week, hopefully on Tuesday," Steve Miller, the Hays-based company's spokesman, said in an e-mail later in the day.
House Energy and Utilities Chairman Carl Holmes, R-Liberal, who supports the Sunflower project, declined to comment on what the bill would include. Other committee members said they hadn't seen details.
Senate President Steve Morris said later that he expects a similar bill to be introduced soon in the Senate's utilities committee.
Morris, who also supports the project, doesn't expect the legislation to direct a reversal of a regulator's denial of Sunflower's permit to build the plants.
But he expects it could try to indirectly reverse it by changing the state's regulatory system for air quality permits, which is what Sunflower would need to build the two 700-megawatt generators.
The $3.6 billion project was denied by Kansas Health and Environment Secretary Rod Bremby in October. Bremby cited the plants' 11 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions, which would contribute to global warming, as the reason for denial.
"I'm hoping for a compromise," said Topeka Rep. Annie Kuether, the ranking Democrat on the House energy panel. "I think a lot of people have concerns on both sides of the issue."
A Supreme Court case is pending on Sunflower's appeal of the denial. A hearing has not yet been scheduled.
Kuether said the Legislature should move ahead on the issue because the court might not rule before the session ends later this spring.
"Waiting might chafe western Kansans who want to see something done," she said.
Opponents of the plant, however, suggest that the state hold off on more coal and look to renewable power - such as wind, geothermal and solar - while also cutting energy use through new efficiency steps.
Holmes plans to meet today with a subcommittee of the Kansas Energy Council to begin planning a study of Kansas' future needs for steady sources of power, also known as "baseload."
Currently, baseload in Kansas is primarily coal with some natural gas and nuclear power. A growing number of wind farms also provide intermittent electricity to some of the state's utilities.
"We need to try and focus on what we'll need," Holmes said of Kansans' growing baseload demand.


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Minto built house is on a large lot ( 53.85 x 117.85) that is close to all the wonderful amenities this area has to offer.
Bright and sunny with main floor powder room and eat in kitchen , Living room and dining room are accented by hardwood floors . Three good sized bedrooms and a full room comprise the second floor. The basement has a rec room and lots of good storage. Furnace 2012. Roof 2016 Freshly painted and cleaned -ready for a new owner.


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Happy: One of my Top Favoritest Bloggers Evar, Kate from Centsational Girl, left ME this wonderful comment on my blog! (Oh, I feel famous!)
Centsational Girl has left a new comment on your post "Tote bag tutorial":
I love it ! You are one DIY diva - such an eye for beauty, and such patience too!
Lovely handiwork.
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Crappy: I totally bombed at the Handmade Expo this weekend. As in, didn't-even-cover-my-entrance-fee-bombed. How many people do you know who would actually admit to that???
Happy: This weekend, we adopted this puppy, whom we have named Tigerlilly. Yes there are two Ls. She is called Lilly for short, she loves our current dog Rosemary, and Rose is not pleased to have a little sister.
Crappy: I was not chosen to be in the Holy Grail of 'alternative' craft shows here in Columbus, Craftin' Outlaws. The organizer was exceedingly nice enough to give me honest feedback about why I wasn't accepted, which was basically that my branding is good but doesn't fit the show. I can accept that. It's stinky poopy since the show is the type of branding I was going for in the first place, but I can admit failure when it punches me in the back of the neck, steals my lunch money, and calls me fat.
This is not a Crappy about the show or the selection team, it's a Crappy about my own failure to convey my abilities. I should have submitted more of what I would actually have taken than just samples of all of my work. But, my creations aren't for everybody, or even mostbodies, and I have always known that. I can be okay with that.
Happy: I just won a giveaway from my all-time favorite scrapbooking designers, sassafrass lass. I won the embellish giveaway... ALL of the embellishments in this post! My favorite of which is this set of "song writers" stamps *swooning all over your monitor*
(This is like, the scrappy jannypie version of winning the lottery. My cheer-up fairies must be looking out for me.)
Crappy: Yeah, I'm just going to stop here :-) My Happies are way better than my Crappies.


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Glenda Farrell's name is not a very well-known one these days. The average person has heard of Fay Wray, Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, and numerous other classic actresses, but not Glenda Farrell. Many classic film enthusiasts are familiar with her, but to the average person of today, her name does not ring a bell. For that reason, I have undertaken to write an article about her life and legacy. It's a little long, but that's because I feel that it needs to be, as few people know much about Glenda Farrell and not much has been written about her in the past (compared to more famous actresses, anyway). If you look at the bottom of this page, you will also find links to some interesting Glenda Farrell resources from around the web, including articles, audio recordings, photos, and video content.
If you like this article, you may also be interested in my companion piece, "Glenda Farrell: In Her Own Words".
Glenda Farrell was born in Enid, Oklahoma on June 30, 1901 (as confirmed by both the 1910 and 1920 censuses, and later by the Social Security Administration when she was issued SSN 573-03-9877). However, her date of birth is almost always listed as June 30, 1904, because like many actresses of her time, she shaved a few years off of her real age. Her parents were Charles Farrell, a horse and dog trader of Irish and Cherokee descent, and Wilhemina Farrell, who was of Alsatian (French/German) descent. Wilhemina must have once had aspirations of acting, because she knew from the beginning that she wanted her daughter to be an actress. When Glenda was still very young, the Farrells moved to Wichita, Kansas, where she made her stage debut as Little Eva in Uncle Tom's Cabin and received a formal education at the Mount Carmel Catholic Academy. The family later moved to San Diego, California. There, she joined the Virginia Brissac Stock Company.
In 1920, Glenda was hired to do a dance routine at a San Diego Navy benefit ball. There, she met Thomas Richards, a young WWI hero and Distinguished Service Medal awardee. The two instantly fell in love. As Thomas Richards was poor and without a job (he was discharged from the Navy not long after they met), Wilhemina Farrell would drive him away whenever he came to the Farrell's house. Nevertheless, Glenda often met him at a local candy shop. When Glenda took a train to Hollywood for a screen test, Richards secretly came with her, and they married during the trip. When the newlyweds returned, they moved in with Charles and Wilhemina Farrell, until they could make enough money to move. They soon left, and traveled from town to town, dancing in their vaudeville act. Despite their impoverished state, they were, in Glenda's words, "shut into some vast dream world of our own that was all beauty and happiness." [1]
Glenda soon became pregnant, which eventually made it impossible for her to continue dancing in their act. As a result, she worked during the day as a saleslady, and a night in an artificial flower factory. Still, there wasn't enough money, so Thomas and Glenda moved back in with the Farrells. On October 7, 1921, their son Tommy was born. Sadly, the once-blissful marriage soon started to deteriorate. Partially because of pain from his war wounds and partially because of financial woes, Richards became depressed and turned to alcohol to drown his sorrows. He would sometimes become dangerous when drunk, and often would disappear, sometimes for entire months. Glenda tried to keep the marriage together, but as he got worse and worse, there was eventually no choice but to divorce him, which she did in 1929. In 1932, her son Tommy had his last name officially changed from Richards to Farrell.In 1928, a year before the divorce, the lead actress in the play The Spider dyed her hair black. She was fired by the irate manager, and fair-haired Glenda was brought in as a replacement. When the production went East, she left Tommy in her mother's care and went with it. Not long after she arrived in New York, she was cast in Skidding, the play that eventually inspired the Andy Hardy movies. She soon performed in a number of other plays, and while not all were hits, her performances were always given good notices by critics. Due to her critically-praised performance in the play On the Spot, Warner Brothers hired her to play the girlfriend of Douglas Fairbaks, Jr's character in Little Caesar. Afterwards, she returned to Broadway, again performing in On the Spot. Little did she know that she would soon gain much and lose much – all in one day. Her mother had told her, "Don't give up the stage until your name is in lights. When your name gets on a marquee, my work will be done." Years later, she recalled:
I was doing On the Spot for the Shuberts … A man associated with producer Arthur Hopkins came to me and offered me more money and my name in lights if I'd step over and do a lead in So This Is New York … The Shuberts wouldn't let me go … But they bargained with me, 'If what you want is your name in lights, we'll do that for you." Of course, I wired my mother the grand news immediately. The lights flashed my name, and the first night they did, I went into my dressing room and found a telegram … Mother had died early that evening from the effects of an operation she had undergone. At the very moment undoubtedly that the lights were twinkling through the New York dusk, and the name Glenda Farrell appeared for the first time on any marquee, mother passed on, her life's work done. [3]
After appearing in several more plays, she performed in one entitled Life Begins. In 1932, Jack Warner offered her the same role in a film version of Life Begins, and she accepted. Her performance received highly favorable reviews, and led to many movie and stage offers. She was planning to return to Broadway, but Warner Brothers picked up the five-year option in her Life Begins contract. They quickly put her to work, often in as many as three movies at once.
Her hard work payed off. She quickly acquired much popularity, and before long had earned enough money to buy a Spanish style house for herself and Tommy in the San Fernando Valley, and a nearby house for her father.
Among Glenda's early 1930s Warner Brothers movies were I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, in which she played the villainous wife of Paul Muni's character; Mystery of the Wax Museum (remade in 1953, as House of Wax), in which she played a wisecracking newspaper reporter named Florence; and a number of movies in which she and Joan Blondell costarred, usually as a pair of gold-diggers. Glenda and Joan were friends off-screen as well, so much so that Joan wrote a tribute called "My Pal Glenda". Here are some of the things she wrote in it; they provide much insight into Glenda's personality:
No one would be able to enjoy a case of the blues with Glenda around. She would start to console you and before you realized it you'd be laughing and it wouldn't be because Glenda had made an effort to amuse you. She just can't help but be funny. . . .
Glenda and I do the same type of role which means that she must share her honors with me. With most girls such a state of affairs just wouldn't work, they would want their honors all to themselves. Not so with Glenda. In fact, she goes to the other extreme to build me up in my comedy.
Glenda is, at all times, very natural. She isn't one bit camera-conscious. Doesn't know a good angle from a bad one and works just as hard with her back to the camera as facing it. Her movements are always quick, her speech spontaneous. When she goes into a scene she never follows the script to the sacrifice of her naturalness. She acts just as she would if the same situation arose in her every-day life. In other words, she suits the part to her personality instead of trying to suit her personality to the script. . . .
She is the fastest thinker I have ever known. She can have a dozen things on her mind at the same time and not get them bawled up. Her body keeps up with her mind. She moves swiftly and accurately and makes every move count. . . .
Glenda is forever doing thoughtful things for others and she seems instinctively to know just what to do and when to do it. . . . God bless Glenda! [4]
(You can read the entire article at this link.)
Glenda also had many romances throughout the 1930s – or so the fan magazines would have you believe. She later revealed that most of them were not all they were made out to be:
I've never been to those "glittering fabulous parties." I've been to a few, and as a matter of fact, do you know what those parties were? This was in the thirties. We'd have to get dressed up—they'd give us an order—we'd have to go to the Trocadero or the Colony or whatever the big cafe was at the moment—usually they cooked up a romance with somebody on the lot, for publicity, someone you didn't care about at all, but it made news, made the papers, it was publicizing both of you. You'd come home so tired, because you'd been up working at 5 or 5:30 in the morning. You'd have to come home and change and get into the evening clothes and go down there. and you couldn't wait to get home. As soon as they took all the pictures, you'd be laughing gaily at the table—but you couldn't wait to get home.
That's really what it amounts to. People think the actors are having such a time. They never think of you as working. So many young girls think movies are so glamorous, and when they find out you have to get up at 5:30 every morning, and that when you go out it's for publicity, more or less, they have a little different attitude about it.
Q: Do you remember who your studio romances were?
Farrell: I don't remember them all. I never got around to scrapbooks—I've got thousands of pages stuck in envelopes that I never had the time to get into a scrapbook. My son once started one. Lots of them were people I didn't remember existed. Somebody would come along, start a career—they would sign people up—if they didn't make it, that just went the way of all jobs. I don't remember their names. This was all part of the job. Several in one year? Oh, yes. It meant nothing on either side. We worked too hard. We didn't have much time for romance. You can't get up so early, go study your lines, and still…you know, you just fall into bed at night. [5]
However, she apparently did have at least two real romantic relationships. In 1931, she was engaged to Jack Durant, a vaudeville comedian, but never married him. A few years later, she fell in love with screenwriter Robert Riskin, but didn't marry him either. She explained in an August, 1934 interview with Hollywood magazine that she didn't want to rush into a marriage because she didn't want to risk it falling apart due to the stresses of Hollywood life. Riskin eventually went on to marry Glenda's Mystery of the Wax Museum co-star Fay Wray.
Despite the hardboiled characters Glenda often played, she was a "softie" in real life. She was generous to a fault, so much so that she reportedly owned three vacuum cleaners and several sets of encyclopedias because she couldn't say no to salespeople. She once said, "Really, I'm not the least bit like the roles I play. In movies I'm usually cast as a wisecracking, golddigging dame, you know. But actually I never wisecrack … And as for golddigging, I've never been able to wangle a thing. Everything I've ever had, I've worked for and paid myself." [6]
The story of how His Girl Friday came to be is well-known. Howard Hawks was adapting the famed stage play The Front Page, but changed the male reporter in the play, Hildy Johnson, into a woman, and added a formerly non-existent love story between the two main characters. What's not as commonly known is that almost the exact same thing happened several years earlier. In 1936, Warner Brothers began to develop an adaptation of the "MacBride and Kennedy" stories by Frederick Nebel. In the stories, dimwitted police officer MacBride is constantly outwitted by wisecracking, hard-drinking newspaper reporter Kennedy. For the movie version, however, Kennedy is changed to a woman named Teresa "Torchy" Blane, and is now in love with the MacBride character, now named Steve McBride. Director Frank MacDonald immediately knew who he wanted for the role of Torchy Blane. If there was one thing that MacDonald believed in, it was speed. And there was no one who could talk faster than Glenda Farrell. And as if that wasn't enough, she had already proved in Mystery of the Wax Museum and Hi, Nellie! that she could play hard-boiled reporters brilliantly. She was quickly casted in Smart Blonde, the first Torchy Blane movie, an adaptation of the Macbride and Kennedy story "No Hard Feelings" (adapted again in 1941, as A Shot in the Dark).
While Torchy Blane was not the first character that Glenda worked at developing, Torchy was special for her. She took on the role of as something of a challenge, and sought to differentiate Torchy from other screen sob sisters of the era. She explained:
They were caricatures of newspaperwomen as I knew them. So before I undertook to do the first Torchy, I determined to create a real human being – and not an exaggerated comedy type. I met those who visited Hollywood, and watched them work on visits to New York City. They were generally young, intelligent, refined and attractive. By making Torchy true to life, I tried to create a character practically unique in movies. [7]
Smart Blonde was a surprise hit, and took Glenda's popularity to a new level. She was so beloved by moviegoers that, in her words, people "did nice things for Torchy the star sob-sister that they wouldn't do for just an ordinary Hollywood star." [8] Warner Brothers took notice, and starred her in several more Torchy Blane movies. When her and Barton MacLane's Warner Brothers contracts expired, they were replaced with Lola Lane and Paul Kelly. Audiences didn't like the casting change, so Warner Brothers managed to get Glenda Farrell and Barton MacLane back, and made three more Farrell/MacLane Torchy Blane movies, including Torchy Gets Her Man, in which she famously made an almost 400-word speech in only 40 seconds; and Torchy Blane in Chinatown, an unofficial remake of Murder Will Out (1930). The last Farrell/MacLane Torchy Blane movie, Torchy Runs for Mayor, is very reminiscent of the real-life 1937 event in which Glenda was elected honorary Mayor of North Hollywood, beating Bing Crosby and Lewis Stone 3 to 1.
In the ninth Torchy Blane movie, Torchy Blane…Playing with Dynamite, Glenda Farrell and Barton MacLane were replaced with Jane Wyman (who had previously played a bit part in Smart Blonde), and Alan Jenkins. Audiences again disliked the casting change, and since Warner Brothers couldn't get their winning team of Farrell and MacLane back, Playing With Dynamite became the last Torchy Blane movie. A leftover Torchy Blane script was adapted into Private Detective, also starring Jane Wyman.
Among the many fans of the Torchy Blane movies was a young aspiring comic book writer named Jerry Siegel, who along with his friend Joe Shuster, was developing a soon to be legendary creation called Superman. He liked Glenda Farrell's portrayal of Torchy Blane so much that he based the character Lois Lane on her. Due to the fact that he named Lois Lane after Lola Lane, who also portrayed Torchy, it is often mistakenly believed that it was Lola Lane's portrayal that inspired him in the creation of the character. But this is not the case; Lola Lane inspired only the name. In 1988, Siegel wrote the following (emphasis mine):
Thank you for saying "Happy Birthday" to Superman [SHOW BUSINESS, March 14]. Joe Shuster and I, the co-creators of Superman appreciate it. My wife Joanne was Joe's original art model for Superman's girlfriend Lois Lane back in the 1930s. Our heroine was, of course, a working girl whose priority was grabbing scoops. What inspired me in the creation was Glenda Farrell, the movie star who portrayed Torchy Blane, a gutsy, beautiful headline-hunting reporter, in a series of exciting motion pictures. Because the name of the actress Lola Lane (who also played Torchy) appealed to me, I called my character Lois Lane. Strangely, the characterization of Lois is amazingly like the real-life personality of my lovely wife.
Jerry Siegel
Los Angeles [9]
Joanne Siegel (Jerry Siegel's wife and the very first art model for Lois Lane) also confirmed that Glenda Farrell was the inspiration for Lois Lane. When she was asked in an interview if Lois was based on Rosalind Russell's portrayal of Hildy Johnson in His Girl Friday, she responded, "He got the inspiration for Lois Lane from a movie star before Rosalind Russell. Her name was Glenda Farrell and she played a girl reporter, very fast-talking, and she always got the story." [10]
Another interesting fact is that Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster later created a short-lived series of comic books about a hero called Funnyman, in which there is a Lois Lane-like character named June Farrell – named, of course, after Glenda Farrell.
In 1939, after almost a decade of working in film, Glenda started primarily acting on stage again, with only occasional movie roles. While she was in the play Separate Rooms, she got a sore throat that wound up changing her life. She later reminisced:
Then I came back. I still was stage struck. I was offered a play called "Seperate Rooms." I came back and we did it on the road first, played Chicago, opened in New York—and it ran two years.
After a two year run, you get pretty tired, and I got a sore throat. The doctor came to see me, but I didn't get any better. I guess I was just terribly tired. Then somebody said, "I know a wonderful man, the catch of New York, a great doctor—why don't you just see him?"
The last thing I wanted was a catch in New York. I was tired. I just wanted to get well. This doctor came over to see me—and, p.s., I married him. [11]
The doctor's name was Henry Ross, and he and Glenda Farrell were married on January 19, 1941. This was Glenda's second and last marriage. The couple remained happily married until her death thirty years later.
Throughout the the 1940s, Glenda primarily worked on stage, but appeared in a few movies, most notably Johnny Eager and The Talk of the Town. In 1949, she made her television debut in "The Mirror and the Manicure", an episode of The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre. In 1954, she appeared in Secret of the Incas, a movie directed by her cousin Jerry Hopper, which went on to become one of the largest influences on Raiders of the Lost Ark. On May 26, 1963, she was awarded an Emmy for her performance in the Ben Casey two-parter "A Cardinal Act of Mercy". In 1964, she appeared in the Elvis Presley movie Kissin' Cousins, as did her son Tommy, who later reminisced that Elvis treated her as if she was his mother. Not all was roses, however, as she broke her neck doing a scene where she flips Elvis off of a porch. She had to wear a neck brace for the duration of the filming, and only took it off for a few minutes at a time when she had to do a take. The same year, she appeared in "The Pure Truth", the all-time highest-rated episode of Bonanza. She also appeared on other popular television shows throughout the 1960s, including The Fugitive, Rawhide, and Wagon Train.
In the late 1960s, Glenda decided to try retiring and spending more time at home, but grew hopelessly bored. On December 26, 1968, she returned to the stage in the play 40 Carats, and received rave reviews for her performance. Unfortunately, she became ill after only a few months, and was diagnosed with lung cancer. This diagnosis was cruelly ironic. You see, she never smoked – not even for movie scenes. Tommy Farrell explained:
She never smoked a day in her life. When she did a picture with Paul Muni, Hi Nellie, they had her smoking. But they built prop cigarettes with just a little tobacco on the end. You couldn't inhale because they were full of cardboard in between. It would only burn for a little while. When they would do a short scene, they would have to cut and give her another cigarette because she wouldn't take any smoke in her mouth. [12]
Glenda herself had once quipped that her character in Hi, Nellie! was one of her hardest roles, saying, "The character was always sitting at a typewriter with a cigarette dangling from her mouth, and I can't type and I don't smoke." [13]
She temporarily moved to Florida, hoping that the change of weather would help her condition. Unfortunately, it did not, so she came back to New York, where she died in her Manhattan apartment on May 1, 1971. In 1977, Dr. Ross donated 38 acres of land to the Putnam County Land Trust in her honor. This piece of land is known as the Glenda Farrell – Henry Ross Preserve to this day.
Despite her death, Glenda Farrell's legacy lives on. I wholeheartedly concur with the sentiments expressed by her friend Garson Kanin in a 1971 New York Times article:
This morning, under a still-soft mound of earth overlooking the stately Hudson at West Point, there rests the body of Glenda Farrell, American actress. She is the only member of her profession whose grave is situated in the cemetery of the United States Military Academy. The reason: she was the wife of Colonel Henry Ross, Class of '26, and specifically chose the site during the last of her gallant days. Her grave is marked by the cross symbolizing her devout Catholicism. When, in time to come, her husband joins her there, the cross will be matched by a graven Star of David. There is something very Glenda about all this.
She was one of the few real Americans I have known. Most of us are welcome assimilates. Not Glenda. She began in Enid, Oklahoma; was educated in Kansas, and made her way to Broadway via California. Several plays later, she scored as a tough moll in "On the Spot", in 1930, which led inevitably to Hollywood and the part of the tough moll in "Little Caesar." There followed 121 films, a dozen plays, and an uncounted number of television shows.
There are players who created characters; some of the great ones, a single character. (Charlie Chaplin, W.C. Fields, Gary Cooper, Mae West.) More rare are those who, like Glenda, created a type.
She invented and developed that made-tough, uncompromising, knowing, wisecracking, undefeatable blonde. Whether she was the Girl Friend of the star, a cynical secretary, a salesgirl, a world-weary wife, a madam, homesteader, or schoolteacher — she was always, relentlessly The Type.
In my early Hollywood days, certain characters were often described (sometimes even in screenplays) as "a young Glenda Farrell," or "an old Glenda Farrell," or "a French Glenda Farrell." . . .
We shall remember her: a look, a scene; a line, a stance; that strong presence, or her marvelously wry, understanding, sudden American smile.
She was widely imitated, and lived long enough to see her imitators imitated. Day and night, on myriad stages and screens (large and small) some passed-on vestige of Glenda Farrell's art remains.
Colonel Ross (also Doctor Ross, also Hank) will forgive me if I suggest that, unlike old soldiers, old actresses do not fade away. Instead, they stay with us, in indelible memory and in those whom they have — one way or another — inspired. [14]
"Glenda Farrell: Diamond in the Rough" by Dan Van Neste.
The Women of Warner Brothers: The Lives and Careers of 15 Leading Ladies by Daniel Bubbeo.
Reminisces of Glenda Farrell (1959) in the Columbia Center for Oral History Collection.
Your Colossal Main Feature Plus Full Support Program by John Howard Reid.
Superman: The Complete History – The Life and Times of the Man of Steel by Les Daniels.
Girl Reporter: Gender, Journalism, and the Movies by Howard Good.
Assorted other sources.
Glenda Farrell Resources:
"Glenda Farrell: Diamond in the Rough", a great and very informative article originally published in the May, 1998 issue of Classic Images magazine, and featuring an interview with Tommy Farrell. It's a must-read for anyone interested about Glenda Farrell. (For some reason, the page is mis-titled as a nonexistent article called "Glenda Farrell: Film Music Genius" by R. E. Braff, but it's really "Glenda Farrell: Diamond in the Rough" by Dan Van Neste.)
Glenda Farrell: Diamond in the Rough
"My Pal Glenda", a tribute article written by Joan Blondell.
An August 22, 1937 episode of The Chase And Sanborn Hour, featuring Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, and guest-starring Glenda Farrell, courtesy of the Old Time Radio Researchers Library.
Charlie McCarthy 37-08-22 Glenda Farrell.mp3
An April 9, 1939 episode of The Silver Theater entitled "The Man from Medicine Bow", featuring Glenda Farrell and Chester Morris.
Here is the page for The Adventures of Buzzy Bear and Peggy Penguin, narrated by Glenda Farrell, at Kiddie Records Weekly (a website that digitally archives vintage children's records). The page has a nice-sized photo of the album cover and an MP3 file of the record. The tone of voice Glenda uses for this record is an interesting contrast to the one she used for her famous wisecracks. Here, she sounds very "sunny" (for lack of a better term).
The Adventures of Buzzy Bear and Peggy Penguin – Kiddie Records Weekly
Some rare Glenda Farrell photos at the New York Public Library's website.
Glenda Farrell – Digital Gallery
An article by Guy Flately, featuring some quotes from his 1969 interview of Glenda Farrell.
Nobody Could Wisecrack Better Than Glenda – Moviecrazed
A link to a search of the Media History Digital Library configured to find mentions of Glenda Farrell (including articles about her, photographs of her, etc) in various vintage publications. On the left side of the page are a number of settings available for you narrow the results by the title of a publication (such as Photoplay or Hollywood), date (such as 1937 or 1940), language, collection, or format.
Glenda Farrell – Media History Digital Library Search
A link to a Google News Archive search configured to find vintage Newspaper articles mentioning Glenda Farrell. Some of these articles are on paid sites, but most are freely available to the public. Many include interesting information, sometimes even interviews.
Glenda Farrell – Google News Archive search
Some links to the Archive.org pages of movies and television episodes featuring Glenda Farrell which are now in the public domain and available to watch or download for free from Archive.org. For some, I have links to two pages, as sometimes each page offers different formats and/or file sizes.
A Night for Crime (1943)
City Without Men (1943) (The largest file on either page is the best for that page. I can't tell which page has the better quality overall, as both are poor, albeit slightly different, transfers.)
Heading for Heaven (1947)
Page 1 (I recommend the 3.4 GB MPG file on this page. It is DVD quality. This is also the best Archive.org page to go to to watch the movie online.)
Page 2 (I recommend the 768.1 MB file on this page if downloading the 3.4 GB file from the other page is not feasible.)
I Love Trouble (1948)
Page (I recommend the 768.3 MB Cinepack (AVI) file. Not only is it the best quality, but the most reliable. Some people have reported having trouble downloading or playing the other files on the page.)
"June Moon" (1949), an episode of Studio One.)
A Youtube search configured to find full movies and television episodes featuring Glenda Farrell:
Glenda Farrell – Custom Youtube Search
1. ^ Van Neste, Dan. "Glenda Farrell: Diamond in the Rough", Classic Images May 1998, Iss. 275
2. ^ Van Neste, Dan. "Glenda Farrell: Diamond in the Rough", Classic Images May 1998, Iss. 275
3. ^ Van Neste, Dan. "Glenda Farrell: Diamond in the Rough", Classic Images May 1998, Iss. 275
4. ^ Blondell, Joan. "My Pal Glenda." Hollywood – Jan, 1952: pp. 41, 48
5. ^ The Reminiscences of Glenda Farrell (1959), pp. 41-42, in the Columbia Center for Oral History Collection (hereafter CCOHC).
6. ^ Van Neste, Dan. "Glenda Farrell: Diamond in the Rough", Classic Images May 1998, Iss. 275
7. ^ Bubbeo, Daniel. The Women of Warner Brothers: The Lives and Careers of 15 Leading Ladies, p. 79
8. ^ Good, Howard. Girl Reporter: Gender, Journalism, and the Movies, p. 6
9. ^ TIME, May 30, 1988, Letters to the Editor, pp. 6-7
10. ^ Daniels, Les. Superman: The Complete History – The Life and Times of the Man of Steel, p. 20
11. ^ The Reminiscences of Glenda Farrell (1959), p. 19, in the CCOHC.
12. ^ Van Neste, Dan. "Glenda Farrell: Diamond in the Rough", Classic Images May 1998, Iss. 275
13. ^ Bubbeo, Daniel. The Women of Warner Brothers: The Lives and Careers of 15 Leading Ladies, p. 78
14. ^ Kanin, Garson. "Glenda Farrell 1904-1971", The New York Times – May 16, 1971, p. D14