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Like the generation before me remembers exactly where they were when JFK was assassinated, I remember exactly what I was doing when news of the first plane crash broke on 9/11. I was in a Pre-K class in Ga.. My director came in and told me briefly that a plane had crashed into one of the World Trade Towers. She covered my class while I went in to watch the news, just in time to see the 2nd plane hit. Although we had moved back to Georgia almost a year earlier, my husband had just moved to be with us a couple of months before. He had had to stay in NY to train his replacement. While we lived there, his train delivered him to one of the Trade Center towers every day (right about the same time the planes hit) and he walked to one of the neighboring buildings where his office was located. He took our daughter with him frequently to work and she would visit the "candy man" in one of the little stores in the Trade Center. Had we not moved back to Ga., he would have most probably been in the building at the time of the tragedy. Sadly, he lost many, many friends that day. I often think about the fact that if circumstances had only been a little different, I could have lost my husband, and our family would have been forever changed.
Because I now live in the south, and it is so far removed, I don't directly teach about 9/11. Terrorism is not what I want my 4 year olds worried with at their young age. There will be plenty of time for that. I know that as a teacher, however, I would like to show my respect for all those lives changed on that terrible day. I think I will spend a little time that day teaching a mini civics lesson to the children. In my heart, I'll be remembering all those who lost their lives on that sad day. I think the best way to do that is to sing a patriotic song or two, and read a patriotic book.
Here's a great patriotic song called "Red, White and Blue" by Debbie Clement. The video demonstrates the sign language motions to go along with the song. Unlike many of our standard patriotic favorites, the lyrics are in simple language children will easily understand. Debbie Clement has done a superb job with the song and book. The book has just been awarded the INDIE Excellence Book Award. For a sneak peek at some of the beautiful illustrations, click here on Debbie's post, "First Professional Reading".
Be sure to check out the linky party over at Rainbows Within Reach for more ideas and links!
If you're in need of a little art activity to go along, click here for some fireworks art I posted this summer.
Okay, so here are the rules to enter:
Leave a comment on this post sharing an early childhood age-appropriate idea or activity that could be used to show civic pride.
Entries for this giveaway will close on Tuesday, August 16, 2011 at midnight, EST. The winner will be chosen by Random Generator on Wednesday, August 17, 2011.
You must use a valid email address in the comment form in order to enter. The winner's email address will be shared with Debbie Clement, so she can mail the book directly.
Good luck and start sharing!! :)
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iDefense Security Advisory 08.03.10 http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/ Aug 03, 2010
The Citrix ICA Client is an ActiveX control used to connect to a Citrix XenApp (formerly Citrix Presentation Server) server via the browser. Using this control allows clients to access the various features provided by the application server, such as virtualized applications. For more information, see the vendor's site found at the following link.
Remote exploitation of a memory corruption vulnerability in Citrix Systems Inc.'s ICA Client could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the current user.
The vulnerability occurs in the IICAClient interface within the ICAClient library in the control. This is the primary interface used to implement the client's functionality.
The vulnerability occurs in a certain function, which is accessible through JavaScript. This function is responsible for reading a remote ICA (Independent Computing Architecture# file from the server. Typically, the contents of this file are used to provide options controlling the connection to the application gateway.
During the reading of this file, the vulnerable function fails to check the return value of the realloc## function. It then adds the number of bytes read from the file so far to the value returned, and appends file data at this address. If this allocation fails, a NULL pointer #the value 0) will be returned. This results in "0 + the number of bytes read so far" being used as the destination address for writing file data. This can lead to the corruption of memory at that address, which results in the execution of arbitrary code.
Exploitation of this vulnerability results in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user viewing the web page. To exploit this vulnerability, a targeted user must load a malicious webpage created by an attacker. An attacker typically accomplishes this via social engineering or injecting content into compromised, trusted sites. After the user visits the malicious web page, no further user interaction is needed.
iDefense has confirmed the existence of this vulnerability in ICA Client versions 188.8.131.5210 and 18.104.22.168560. All versions of the Online Plug-in for Windows up to version 12.0.3.
Setting the KillBit for the CLSID containing the vulnerable control will prevent exploitation of this vulnerability. However, it will also prevent legitimate use of the control. The CLSID is:
Citrix has released a patch which addresses this issue. Information about downloadable vendor updates can be found by clicking on the URLs shown.
A Mitre Corp. Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) number has not been assigned yet.
04/06/2010 Initial Contact 04/07/2010 Initial Response 08/03/2010 Coordinated public disclosure.
This vulnerability was discovered by Sean Larsson, iDefense Labs.
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Elite and junior men's road races conclude 2012 Road Worlds
Valkenburg, Netherlands (September 23, 2012) — The 2012 UCI Road World Championships wrapped up Sunday in the Netherlands with the junior and elite men's road races.
Alexandre Darville (Santa Barbara, Calif./Hammer Nutrition-CMG Racing Team) was the first American to cross the line in the junior men's race, placing 16th and finishing with the same time as the winner, Matej Mohoric of Slovakia. Alexey Vermeulen (Pinckney, Mich./Bissell-ABG-NUVO), the next American finisher at 52nd place, also finished in the front group.
Elite Men's Road Race
In the elite men's race, Andrew Talansky (Napa, Calif./Garmin-Sharp-Barracuda) led the American effort with a 43rd-place finish, 1:54 off the time of new world champion Philippe Gilbert of Belgium.
Alex Howes (Golden, Colo./Garmin-Sharp-Barracuda) and Timmy Duggan (Nederland, Colo./Liquigas-Cannondale) were part of an early 11-man breakaway, but that lead group was eventually absorbed by the peloton. Talansky attacked with two laps remaining, gaining more than a minute on the peloton, but his move was also caught.
In all, USA Cycling's team brought home two silver medals in the elite time trials, with Evelyn Stevens (Dennis, Mass./Specialized-lululemon) earning one in the women's race and Taylor Phinney (Boulder, Colo./BMC Racing) riding to second in the men's race. In addition, American riders posted four other top 10 finishes, including: Tejay van Garderen's (Boulder, Colo./BMC Racing) fourth in the elite men's time trial, Amber Neben's (Lake Forest, Calif./Specialized-lululemon) seventh in the elite women's time trial and fourth in the elite women's road race, and T.J. Eisenhart's (Lehi, Utah/Velosport Racing) 10th in the junior men's time trial.
For USA Cycling's complete coverage of the event, visit our 2012 UCI Road World Championships webpage.
2012 UCI Road World Championships
Limburg, The Netherlands
September 15-23, 2012
Junior Men's Road Race (128.8 km)
1. Matej Mohoric (SLO) 3:00:45
2. Caleb Ewan (AUS) same time
3. Josip Rumac (CRO) s.t.
16. Alexandre Darville (Santa Barbara, Calif./Hammer Nutrition-CMG Racing Team) s.t.
52. Alexey Vermeulen (Pinckney, Mich./Bissell-ABG-NUVO) s.t.
72. Geoffrey Curran (Tustin, Calif./Surf City Cyclery-Sterling BMW) + :12
123. Gregory Daniel (Englewood, Colo./Slipstream-Craddock Junior Development) +8:56
Miguel Bryon (Miami, Fla./BLUE STAR-BOOM Development Team) DNF
T.J. Eisenhart (Lehi, Utah/Velosport Racing) DNF
Elite Men's Road Race (269 km)
1. Philippe Gilbert (BEL) 6:10:41
2. Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR) + :04
3. Alejandro Valverde (ESP) + :05
43. Andrew Talansky (Napa, Calif./Garmin-Sharp-Barracuda) +1:54
64. Alex Howes (Golden, Colo./Garmin-Sharp-Barracuda) +2:21
98. Taylor Phinney (Boulder, Colo./BMC Racing) +8:55
103. Brent Bookwalter (Athens, Ga./BMC Racing) +8:55
Chris Horner (San Diego, Calif./RadioShack-Nissan-Trek) DNF
Tejay van Garderen (Boulder, Colo./BMC Racing) DNF
Timmy Duggan (Nederland, Colo./Liquigas-Cannondale) DNF
Matthew Busche (Wauwatosa, Wisc./RadioShack-Nissan-Trek) DNF
Lucas Euser (Boulder, Colo./Spidertech p/b C10) DNF
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Before iPods and Y2K, GeoCities was a quantum leap: The average person could create a web site for free, no questions asked. People took the opportunity and ran with it, building millions of pages –- 38 million at last count, according to Yahoo. They helped make the web a more vibrant territory, no longer the citadel of nerds in the know.
When news of Geocities' imminent demise hit the web in April, groups of online archivists started downloading pages to their own computers, racing to save as many as possible before midnight Oct. 26, when the lights went off for good. Though the tally is not final, the archivists estimate they salvaged at least a million sites. A few of these digital museums have already opened their doors, including geocities.ws and reocities.com, and several others are coming soon.
This gallery presents small portions of a few sites, to commemorate the high and low points in GeoCities history – a world that won't be entirely lost, thanks to Archive Team and others. But it will never again be just a click away.
[Ed. note: This trip down memory lane includes a pop-up dialog box and some self-starting sound files. That's the way it was.]
The confessional quality of the internet was alive and kicking on GeoCities. You never had to see the people on the other end of the conversation, and things you might not have told your best friend were suddenly available for all to see.
Jason Scott and his group Archive Team, with help from Archive.org and other like-minded folks, deployed web crawlers in April to start raking the net. "It's a weird archeological dig," says Scott.
Scott is unsure about why Yahoo chose Oct. 26 as doomsday, but both he and his Archive Team colleague Steve Webb suspect that Yahoo won't just take down the service, but actually delete the data, possibly to protect themselves from liability.
Yahoo hasn't been forthcoming about its plans. Webb has exchanged emails with Yahoo employees for months, without much response.
Michael Jackson
Fan pages of all sorts abounded, and before Myspace, GeoCities was a good way to go. Users could add music, short movies, and even host chat rooms for fellow fans.
Looking at a GeoCities page can be a little embarrassing, akin to a picture of yourself strutting in the now-ridiculous fashions of decades past. Like plaid flair pants or a Dave Matthews album, GeoCities pages can spur flashbacks to a different era.
We've gotten used to polished web design and intuitive user interfaces. These days Geocities' trademark blinking-Christmas-tree-on-shrooms animations may induce a seizure. But for a generation of internet users whose online adolescence overlapped with the GeoCities heyday, they are a cultural relic that must be preserved.
For those nostalgic for the famed "Under Construction" GIFs, Scott has amassed a formidable collection. Take 10 steps back from your monitor before viewing.
Hearse Club
GeoCities midwifed another aspect of the internet that we now take for granted: truly obscure groups making themselves known to the world. The wide spectrum of human behavior was on display as never before. Take, for example, the home page of a club of hearse collectors in New Zealand.
"There are some stupid people in the tech industry who think of stuff purely as a matter of cost-benefit legality, and not that they are in fact keepers of other people's data," Scott laments. "They don't think about the repercussions of storing decades of work and history."
Scott's larger project is to change the way society thinks about user data. "I want the same protections afforded to housed online data done by users that we afford people's homes and rentals," he explains.
In his ideal world there would be legal mandates that would require hosts to give adequate warning and ample opportunity for users to download their data before it is consigned to binary oblivion. "Right now we get anything from a one-year warning to a one-minute warning."
Until the new dispensation arrives, Archive Team has made a simple commitment: "We are going to rescue your shit."
Drunk-Driver Victim Memorial
Perhaps the most poignant part of the GeoCities shutdown is the disappearance of so many online memorials, sites clearly built with tenderness and care by people in the throes of grief. In part, these sites answered the questions that come to mind when looking at an unfamiliar headstone: Who were you? How did you live? How did you die? Now many will be effaced, though that is inevitable, of course, in a real cemetery or a digital one.
The organization of GeoCities was itself an artifact of the "information superhighway" metaphor. The name suggests an older way of thinking about web pages, an attempt to help users navigate the teeming virtual landscape by applying an artificial geography to web pages.
GeoCities was divided into "neighborhoods," groups of sites with similar content, which were further subdivided into "suburbs" and blocks.
The designation of a particular site was found in the first part of its URL, so shopping sites often started with "RodeoDrive," movie pages with "Hollywood." Some neighborhoods bore the name of a real-world city relevant to their topic: "Vienna," for classical music. Sites with gay and lesbian content, which helped establish the web as a way for those communities to connect, went by "WestHollywood." Other neighborhoods playfully evoked the pages' common themes: PicketFence for home improvement buffs, HotSprings for fitness fanatics.
Prison Murder
Extremists, fringe groups and causes you never heard of coalesced online, and GeoCities was no exception. However, many will recall that one of Geocities' quirks was the mismatch of music and images: midi versions of Beatles songs playing over a page about people murdered in prison, for example.
Users coined the term "homesteading" to describe the process of situating a new site within the GeoCities topography. Volunteer "community leaders," who oversaw the respective neighborhoods in the early days, guided newbies into their online homes.
Yahoo eventually phased out the neighborhood system, providing new pages with URLs based on personal user names (leaving the original neighborhoods intact) and abolishing self-regulation. The homesteading spirit lived on, however, and GeoCities continued as primordial version of the everyman's internet of blogs and Twitter feeds. The personal pages of today are even easier to set up, requiring no knowledge of HTML, and thanks to standard formats, they don't look like 10 slot machines trying to burst out of the browser.
Pamela Anderson
For lonely bachelors, the web offered a whole new medium of relief. Pamela Anderson – more specifically, her honeymoon sex tape – has been cited as a major force in bringing new users to the net.
According to an article posted on ZDNet in 1999, contemporary analysts counted 145,000 individual sites that included Anderson's name, often just a bait-and-switch used to entice customers to click. That amounted to 0.1 percent of all the sites indexed by search engine AltaVista. As the song from Avenue Q goes, "The internet is for porn." Soft-core, in the case of Geocities.
Wired.com feels obligated to keep the autoplay of sound files intact upon loading the page, to give an authentic farewell.
GeoCities websites run the gamut from simplicity to madness. Many users were quick to discover the plethora of ready-made animations, Day-Glo fonts and baroque backgrounds that were available at the time. They went wild, resulting in the visual equivalent of panic: sites so overbuilt that they were unreadable.
ASCII Animation
ASCII began long before Geocities, but these strangely lifelike stick-figure animations were the subject of several online compendiums. There was a lot of dark and disinhibited humor in these digital flip books, not to mention a mind-bending number of keystrokes.
Elegant in its simplicity: High school senior Ryan Akers (aka raiden) documents his legendary yearbook picture.
Before social networking sites, GeoCities gave kids with a computer, or a computer lab at school, an early foothold online. Having a web page back then was no way to meet girls: That was what chat rooms were for.


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I sat on the floor in the center of my yoga mat, scrolling through search results. YouTube™ provided about 28,000 hits:
I was hoping to unwind, but each video I opened only served to frustrate me even more.
"Hi, this is Jane," said the cheery host, "and this is your nighttime yoga practice."
"I know," I told my TV. "It says that in the title of your video."
"If you want to unwind for the night, or calm down—"
"Yes, I do," I interrupted. "That is why I clicked on your video. Can we get to the unwinding now?"
"—this ten-minute sequence will be perfect for you."
"If it's ten minutes, why is your video thirteen minutes and twenty-four seconds?"
Reading this dialog, you might consider me too impatient (plus a little weird for talking at my television). However, while you might be right on both counts, I'm certainly in good company.
This scene from an average weekday night is what learning and performance look like in the age of microlearning: short bursts of content, accessed at the moment of need by impatient media consumers, and often on a smartphone or tablet. Yet many learning videos are still produced without considering the tendencies of modern, mobile learners.
Here re three things you can cut from your training videos to help your learners get into the microlearning flow:
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If it were up to the fans, Vancouver forward Darren Mattocks would be today's MLS Rookie of the Year.
The Jamaican international is the leading rookie vote-getter in the week-long fan voting for the third annual 24 Under 24, which ranks the best young players in MLS. With just hours remaining -- polls close at 5 pm ET on Friday -- the No. 2 overall SuperDraft selection by the Whitecaps currently ranks sixth overall (VOTE NOW BY CLICKING HERE).
This year fan ballots will represent 10 percent of the final rankings. They will be combined with the votes of a select media panel to determine the ultimate list of the top 24 players under the age of 24 through the end of the regular season.
The countdown to the No. 1 player will begin on Monday, Sept. 10, when the first installment of names are revealed on MLSsoccer.com.
The five players closest to breaking into the fans' Top 24 are: 25. Andy Rose (Seattle Sounders), 26. Luis Silva (Toronto FC), 27. Danny Mwanga (Portland Timbers), 28. Zac MacMath (Philadelphia Union) and 29. Sheanon Williams (Philadelphia Union).
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PORTLAND, Ore. – It may not be the first thing Caleb Porter wakes up worrying about, but when it comes to soccer, the Portland Timbers head coach always makes time.
So when he left the team training facility Wednesday night as his team prepares for Friday's game against the Colorado Rapids (8 pm PT; NBCSN, stream on NBCSports.com), Porter turned his attention to the group of MLS All-Stars that he'll coach Aug. 6 in the AT&T MLS All-Star Game in Portland (6 pm PT; ESPN2, UniMas in the US; TSN/RDS in Canada) and wrote out his final list of 20 players.
"I'm most excited about this next game tomorrow, that's where my bread is buttered," Porter said after Friday's training session at Providence Park. "But again, that's something I have to also compartmentalize because [the All-Star Game] is coming up. I put together my list and sent that off last night, had a chat this morning with [MLS executive vice president of competition and player relations] Todd Durbin about the list and the direction we're going to go."
The top vote getters from the Fans' XI were announced at halftime of Wednesday's Philadelphia Union and New York Red Bulls game. And Porter, who receives coaching honors that come along with Portland hosting the game, was tasked with selecting the final 20 players who will suit up against German powerhouse Bayern Munich from a pool of the Fan XI, the Commissioner's picks and players who have received at least two votes from their fellow players. That roster will be revealed on Saturday, Porter said.
"It's not hard for me to think more about soccer," Porter said. "So having an extra thing to think about in the downtime is relaxing for me. Once I've got this team set and I head home, then I can start thinking about, 'OK, how am I going to play this All-Star Game, what are the tactics going to be, who's going to play where and how do I manage that?'" It gives me an extra thing to think about, which relaxes me really."
The players at Porter's disposal who were named to the Fans' XI form an impressive list. World Cup veterans such as Clint Dempsey, Michael Bradley, Landon Donovan and Thierry Henry show just how daunting of a challenge Porter has in selecting his squad.
"There are a lot of players that are having really good seasons, especially attacking players," Porter said. "And it's going to be impossible to get everybody on there that should be on there. There are going to be some guys not on there that are deserving. But ultimately you've got to put together a team with balance and for me you have to reward guys that have earned it."
Facing an attacking juggernaut such as Bayern also presents a challenge, considering the number of offensive players in MLS in prime form.
"If you were to reward everybody who earned it, you would be playing probably five strikers and be playing like a 2-2-6," Porter said with a laugh. "That's where it becomes a challenge because the irony of it is playing Bayern you probably need to play eight defenders to have a chance."
Dan Itel covers the Timbers for MLSsoccer.com.


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Next-Generation Schwab Advisor Center™ Site Launches September 1
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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, independent investment advisors who custody with Charles Schwab have access to a new, fully integrated website that helps them more efficiently manage their client accounts. Schwab Advisor Center™, located at www.schwabadvisorcenter.com, offers a host of new features and functionality that enable advisors to explore and use client data in a more flexible way, and integrates with Schwab Data Delivery™ (formerly SchwabLink®), the company's enhanced data files delivery and data management application.
According to Steve Hirsch, vice president of Institutional Web Services at Schwab, "We worked hand-in-hand with many of our advisor clients on the design and features of the new site to more closely mirror how they actually work. The new site provides them with the information they need, when and how they need it. By adapting to their work practices, the new site enables advisors to save time and serve their clients more efficiently."
The new platform enables advisors to:
- Create custom account groups and organize data by household, portfolio model and more
- Navigate and access information easier, and more intuitively
- Search and browse to find accounts more quickly and easily
- Access aggregate balances and positions for households and groups of up to 200 accounts
- Safeguard client information by setting permissions for the functions, account information and data each employee can access
- Sort, resize and export data tables to customize views
- Schedule automatic downloads and view historic balances and positions
An early version of the new site was first introduced to advisors in September 2008, and in June 2009, another 56 advisor firms began using the new site in pilot mode.
"The new site's navigation seems more intuitive and the integration with Schwab Data Delivery is very convenient," said Patty Meneley, a principal at advisory firm Sargent Bickham Lagudis, LLC. "A number of features, including custom account groups, the ability to view aggregated account data, and account search tools, should also enable us to save time and be more productive."
Hirsch emphasized that the new site capitalizes on state-of-the-art Web technologies to enable the delivery of a rich web experience and desktop-like feel. He noted that the website will continue to evolve and improve over time, and that advisors will be given ample time to transition from the existing website to the new one.
A comprehensive "What's New" section was created for advisors and includes a robust set of online training resources including in-depth tutorials, quick reference guides, comprehensive FAQs, and a new Help section; both live and recorded webcast tours also are being offered to support advisors as they transition to the new site. In addition, advisors have access to their service team and technical support specialists – all of whom are available to assist advisors in learning the site's new features and capabilities.
The launch of Schwab Advisor Center is a key component of Schwab's ongoing commitment to advisors. In June, Schwab announced plans to invest in an array of other new service and technology projects that will begin to benefit advisors by the end of the year, including:
- Secure email functionality between select advisors and Schwab's service representatives;
- Operations consultants who will share best practices with advisors' back-office staff to improve their productivity and efficiency; and
- The debut of a new program offering classes to help advisor back-office professionals become proficient at managing custody, account servicing and operations processing.
Schwab also announced in June that it would waive commissions on electronic equity trades and reimburse transfer of account fees charged by contra brokers through June 30, 2010 for new-to-Charles Schwab & Co. clients of independent investment advisors who open accounts by the end of the year.
Patty Meneley and Sargent Bickham Lagudis, LLC are not affiliated with Charles Schwab & Co. Inc.
About Charles Schwab
The Charles Schwab Corporation (Nasdaq:SCHW) is a leading provider of financial services, with more than 300 offices and 7.6 million client brokerage accounts, 1.5 million corporate retirement plan participants, 619,000 banking accounts, and $1.3 trillion in client assets. Through its operating subsidiaries, the company provides a full range of securities brokerage, banking, money management and financial advisory services to individual investors and independent investment advisors. Its broker-dealer subsidiary, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. (member SIPC, http://www.sipc.org), and affiliates offer a complete range of investment services and products including an extensive selection of mutual funds; financial planning and investment advice; retirement plan and equity compensation plan services; referrals to independent fee-based investment advisors; and custodial, operational and trading support for independent, fee-based investment advisors through its Advisor Services business segment. The Charles Schwab Bank (member FDIC) provides banking and mortgage services and products. More information is available at www.schwab.com. (0909-10639)
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This is the 21st in a 24-part series looking at every episode of "The Jetsons" TV show from the original 1962-63 season.
The 21st episode of "The Jetsons" originally aired on February 17, 1963 and was titled "TV or Not TV."
Much like both "Elroy's Pal," and "Elroy's TV Show," this episode ostensibly gives viewers another look behind the scenes of television production. George and Astro are involved in a misunderstanding (isn't that always the way?) where they think they've witnessed a robbery. In fact, it was just a TV shoot for "Naked Planet," a spoof on the late 1950s ABC show "Naked City." Thinking that mobsters want to snuff him out, George goes into hiding with Astro at Mr. Spacely's vacation home in the woods.
That vacation home — Mr. Spacely's "old fishing cabin" — is one of my favorite examples of Jetsonian architecture. Probably because the building bears a striking resemblance to the villain Vandamm 's hide-out in Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 film North By Northwest.
Sadly, the home in North by Northwest is not a real house that you can visit, but was instead built on an MGM set.
Both the Jetsons version and the Hitchcock version have the signature of midcentury hyper-modernism or, as it came to be known, Googie: dramatic sloping roofs, plenty of glass, steel, maybe a little plastic, and some stone when you wanted a touch of that comfortable earthy flair.
Danny Graydon, author of The Jetsons: The Official Guide to the Cartoon Classic, has deemed the look "mid-21st century modern" — a play on the term "midcentury modern," back when the century in question happened to be the 20th.
The architecture from "The Jetsons" clearly takes cues from architects who worked in the midcentury modern/Googie style, like John Lautner and Oscar Niemeyer. Jetsonian architecture also seems to draw from the work of Charles Schridde in his series of ads for Motorola in the early 1960s which ran in the Saturday Evening Post and Life magazine.
But as I pointed out in my post about Googie architecture from last year, the artists and animators working on "The Jetsons" didn't really need to leave their own backyards for inspiration. The Hanna-Barbera Studio which produced "The Jetsons" was in Hollywood and in the late 1950s and early 1960s buildings all across Los Angeles had that mid-20th century modern look that would become identified as Jetsonian.
The people working at Hanna-Barbera could find inspiration at Disneyland's Tomorrowland in Anaheim, dozens of Googie coffee shops in Southern California, and maybe the most iconic Googie building in L.A. (if only for its visibility to tourists), the Theme Building at the Los Angeles International Airport.
Another building which clearly inspired the architecture of the Jetsons universe was the Chemosphere. Designed by John Lautner and built in 1960, the home looks like it could take off into the sky like a flying saucer at any moment. The Chemosphere sits in the Hollywood Hills and has been an incredibly popular shooting location for films and TV shows that need a futuristic feel — including a 1964 episode of "The Outer Limits" set in the 21st century.
The architecture of the Jetsons is a reflection of the future, but even more so a reflection of that late-1950s and early 1960s Space Age design we so associate with the golden age of futurism. Well, someone's golden age.
And just as we've seen mention of the Jetsons become a kind of shorthand way to talk about the technology of past futures, so too has "that Jetsons look" eclipsed Googie as the descriptor of choice for people talking about architecture from the futures that never were. People may think you're saying Google, when you mean Googie. But fifty years after its debut, there's no mistaking the Jetsons landscape.
This post originally appeared at Smithsonian.com.


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Griffey Jr. In Town
June 25, 2007
First, Barry Bonds came parading in with his 746 home runs. He was followed the next week by Jim Thome and his 480 homers. Now. Ken Griffey Jr. brings his 584 total to town for three games starting tomorrow night.
That's the start and end of June at Citizens Bank Park. Well, the end really is this weekend when the New York Mets come to town for the second time this year.
Griffey has been hot this month. He hit a pair yesterday to conclude an emotional weekend in Seattle, his first there since being traded by the Mariners in 1999. He's now two behind Frank Robinson for sixth place (586) on the all-time list.
Last week, Sammy Sosa became the fifth player to reach 600 home runs and Griffey will be the next, but not the next three days.
Since he spent most of his career in Seattle and then in the NL Central Division, Griffey hasn't faced the Phillies that much. When the two teams met in a three-game series in Great American Ball Park this April, he was ill. He did pinch-hit in the third game and drove in a run.
For his career, he has three homers off the Phillies, the fewest against any team (other than Seattle). Two of the homers, however, have come at Citizens Bank Park, both coming in 2005.
On Wednesday, the 10 millionth fan will come through the gates since Citizens Bank Park opened in 2004.
The symbolic 10,000,000th fan will be honored pre-game on the field and receive a trip to Clearwater, FL, via Southwest Airlines, front row seats on Wednesday, a dozen roses and a partial season ticket plan for 2008.
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Tickets are available for tomorrow and Wednesday night and the 1:35 afternoon game (Mets) on Friday. All other dates on this homestand are sold out. A limited number of standing room tickets will be sold the day of each sell out.
Because of the fireworks setup, the ticket windows on the North side of Citizens Bank Park (Phillies Drive) will be closed from tomorrow through Friday.
Tickets are on sale 24/7 on phillies.com and fans can print their tickets at home. For those fans who have ordered tickets via a credit card, two ticket kiosks are set up outside the First Base Gate. Fans can use the credit card to print tickets, a new convenience.
Time Running Short
Online All-Star balloting ends at midnight this Thursday: www.mlb.com/mlb/events/all_star/y2007/ballot_reg.jsp.
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Pat the Flat bat:
there must be a whole lot more to his collapse. Burrelkl's a young man in his peak "life" years so his deflation must be attributed to other carses. Is it physical? Does he have a chronic injury that no one has diagnosed? Are there factors of clinical depression that show up in his physical performance? Does he hate playing in Philadelphia? Would he welcome a change? It's always surprising to see individuals who have sports talent decline so rapidly. What teams would embrace him and try to revive is skill? In the baseball universe, his value is probably only a few AAA-AA-A prospects. Teams like the Braves, Yankees are in need of a outfielder who has power potential. Do the numbers.
It's like Cleveland and Joe Charbonneau…what happens???


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By Vicki Brown, Word&Way News Writer
Chillicothe — Steve Jones will become the sixth president of The Baptist Home when current president Larry Johnson steps down at the end of the year.
Meeting at The Home's Chillicothe campus June 6-7, board members unanimously chose Jones after a transition committee presented its recommendation during a closed session.
Standing with his wife, Kathie, when the announcement was made, Jones said she "deserves a lot of credit for my success."
"I count it a privilege and an honor to be a part of this great family of caregivers serving aging humanity. We have a great heritage and a wonderful future together," he said. "I look forward to building on the heritage of Larry and Jane [Johnson]" and other directors.
"We believe that Steve reflects and embodies the spirit of The Baptist Home, and we look forward to his tenure," transition committee chairman Ron Mackey said.
President since 1997, Johnson also voiced his approval. "I am so pleased with the work of the committee and the selection process. They have made an excellent choice," he said.
Johnson noted that choosing a successor now would ensure a smooth transition and uninterrupted ministry at his retirement.
Jones has served The Baptist Home since 1991 when he became director of social services and chaplain at the Chillicothe campus. He became Chillicothe's administrator in 1993. He accepted the vice president's position in 2002.
In the past, he has served as pastor of Pleasant View Baptist Church, Garland, Kan.; minister of youth at Norfleet Baptist Church, Kansas City; and as pastor of First Baptist Church, Meadville.
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In other action, The Home's trustees honored longtime donors Jess and Helen Flassing.
The Flassings have been "teapot savers," using coupons, estimating the cost of hanging clothes outside rather than using the dryer and implementing other cost-saving habits. They estimate the cost savings and put that money aside for The Home. For years Helen Flassing placed the money in a teapot in her home.
Larry and Jane Johnson will be honored at the Dec. 2-3 meeting in Ironton. The next board session is set for Sept. 12-13 at The Home's Ozark campus. (06-15-05)


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We're halfway into our fourth week of indexing the 1940 U.S. census, and we're making excellent progress. As of April 24, we have the following statistics to report:There seems to be a major, although temporary, roadblock in the indexing due to a lack of qualified arbitrators. The news releases go on to say:
- So far, 18.9 percent of the entire project has been completely indexed.
- We have 83,795 indexers and arbitrators working to index and arbitrate the census records.
- Five new states have been indexed and are being processed in preparation for posting on FamilySearch.org. They include: Colorado, Delaware, Kansas, New Hampshire, Oregon, and Utah.
- The Delaware index has been posted on FamilySearch.org and is available for searching.
- An additional eight states are 90 percent or more indexed. They include Alaska (98 percent), Arizona (95 percent), Florida (93 percent), Idaho (99 percent), Nevada (99 percent), Vermont (92 percent), Virginia (99 percent), and Wyoming (98 percent). To see the status of each state, visit the FamilySearch.org/1940census page.
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After the indexers are done indexing a state's census records, the indexing records still need to be arbitrated. Each census record is indexed by two different people and a comparison is made of the information. If a record is indexed exactly the same by both indexers, the record is ready for the final steps of processing. However, if the two indexers indexed a piece of information differently, then a person called an arbitrator looks at the record and decides which information is correct. This arbitration process ensures that the end product (the index) is as accurate as possible.
Unfortunately, we don't have nearly enough arbitrators. We currently have a backlog of over 3 million images that need to be arbitrated. That's 3 million census images and their respective indexes that can't be published on FamilySearch.org because they haven't made it through arbitration. It's just a matter of having enough volunteers to serve as arbitrators. (Visit the FamilySearch Blog to read several excellent blog posts about arbitrating records.)If you have been involved in Indexing and have the number of edits necessary, please consider being an arbitrator.


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That all changes today, when a warhead sphincter and his band of immortal deserters arrive on the planet.
Spoilered for those who just want to skip to the battle. Even though the objective will just be scary if you don't read the back story. with the back story, it just comes off as childishinstead of creepy.
Warhead: right, so now that we are finally on this rock, we shall begin our glorious conquest. First order of bossiness: Where does this planet keep it's moms?
Bob the Terrorkhan: My lord, the location is...
Viktii (In the armor): Lord Warhead! Finally you are here! Your loyal subjects are here!
Warhead: Bob, the hell are these guys?
Bob: the local fraternity, my lord. They seem to be under the misapprehension that they are your children.
Warhead: uhm... quite. As your >Ahem< lord, I request that you leave us alone for a while.
Viktii: Of course, my lord! (leaves)
Warhead: right, now that they are gone,b about those moms...
Warhead: Charge!!! Last one alive gets extra beer!
Viktii: Lord Warhead! Lord Warhead, we are here to fight in your honor!
Warhead: Not right now! I'm kind of bu...
Warhead: Son of a bitch!!!
Viktii: My lord, you are hurt!
Warhead: No Shit!, now go out and fight before I regret not killing you!
Viktii: Of course, my kind and generous lord!
Warhead: you know Bob, Even after getting shot in the face, this is still worth it.
Bob: Yes my lord, I'm sure it is. You ever consider letting the troops in the mom chamber at some point? it would be good for the umm... the morale, if you know what I mean.
Warhead : I'm going to go with...
Viktii: Lord warhea...
Warhead: Goddamn it! Stop interrupting me you little shit!
Viktii: but Lord my men an I need to do your bidding! We simply must!
Viktii: Please My lord!
Warhead: You know what, I actually do have a job for you. You see that man over there? He is my most trusted lieutenant, as you know.
Viktii: Why yes, of course my lord!
Warhead: Well, as a kind and benevolent leader, I look out for my troops. And you see my friend Bob hear has a... Problem.
Warhead: now, it's all well and good to have a fetish, but Bob here is into something so kinky, he can't get off to anything but dinosaur pr0n...
Viktii: Why, you need say no more my lord! I will go find you some dinosaur pr0n, Bob!
Viktii: and I know just the place to find it!
Bob: With all due respect, my lord, but ?!?
Warhead: should I be worried that he knew where to find some dinosaur pr0n on this medi-evuul world?
Bob: I better get access to the mom chambers for this!
Warhead: Huh? what? uhm... shure whatever...
6: this is our first battle to be in the larger Brikverse, and it's story line
7: This is our first battle to use the Allmighty Benny rules, and I must say, coming up with on-the-fly awards really adds humor and camaraderie between players, keeping tension low and games light hearted. Good job with that rule, Stubbhawk!
So, let's begin!
Gagskar fort itself. Built by the indigenous hobgoblins, they where relocated by the AN, allowing them to occupy the castle.
here we see the rag-tag band of feudal soldiers, AN personnel, mercenaries, and two lite-side knights, there to help the transition from primitive weapons to SCI-FI weapons. Also present is the ninja master, leader of the Norwegian ninjas, his kunoichi wife, And dark lord Vladtronn the typically trustable (He and the master are heroes.)
There are also some Crew members of the Nukalavee on shore leave, as well as a sniper.
There is also a bunker, with two men with heavy machine guns. As well as another hero, rocket man Jones.
A mercenary snub fighter, piloted by a psychotic mercenary with his lethal injection bazooka.
And my army, a bunch of the sons of Warhead, rouge Mercs, and the hobgoblin phalanx.
The Trolomancer, one of my heroes, with the ability to use dark magic.
Bloodknight Snaggrot, the hobgoblin commander, who is so sure in his own manliness that he goes to war under a baby blue banner.
The Master's ex girlfriend astride her trained Pterodactyl. Next to her is her ninja trainee/ meckhanik.
Viktii, the sons of warhead, and two maniacs aboard a looted AN scout Shuttle.
Lord Sharq and his ATV riding Vassals.
The first almighty Benny is awarded to my opponent, it is the 2X4 of bringing the measuring implement (Can you guess how he obtained it?)
My army, ready for a siege.
My foe's fort, ready to be besieged.
Using his extensive spetsnaz training, and my special FX, Snaggrot's little PWNie takes out a giant ax...
does a double backflip...
and cleanly bisects an AN accountant.
Earning me the bleeding Chainsaw of first blood.
But my little PWNy isn't the only one who can harness my incredible Special FX budget!
Me: Swish! Clang! Thud! Smack!
Opponent: uhmm... You gonna be okay?
Me: oh, uhm sure... Where where we?
Opponent: just give me the fig, numbskull.
Me: Hey, At least roll the dice, asshole
Opponent: okay... Crap.
The Viking gets caught on the baby blue banner.
And falls painfully on the floor.
Vikings aren't the only ones flubbling their skill rolls, as a hobgoblin performs a self amputation from a malfunctioning M41 pulse rifle. Blasted newfangled Technology!
Thankfully not all hobgoblins are incompetent, and they mow down another AN spear man. I knock over another legionaire with my hand, and forget to put him back up for the photo.
When the above oversight was pointed out, I tried to rationalize it, but failed to make any points, and in short order I begin to spout gibberish, Causing my opponent to have this reaction in order to save face a then happily proclaim That's how I sound with a mouth full of crabs! Amazed at my ability to recreate the lyrics of this scene, my opponent gave me The target of crab mouthed glee.
The master uses his ninja powers to kill the PWNie while the players where distracted. So long, PWNie, may you conquer Equestria with your Hatchet throwing skills.
The Trolomancer tries to use his dark magic to send the Master to the dark realm of a mullion flaming snuggles, but he accidentaly turns the Hobgoblin's arm into a snake instead. It doesn't even bite anything!
Jetpack Jones flies over to the Deadpool copter...
So he can sneak up on a ninja
But one does not simply sneak up on a ninja!
The ninja Critfails his attack.
The mercenary Snubfighter shoots in and steals the Wrench.
The Merc then shots the Wrench into a window.
Dr. Piggy launches a grappling hook!
Probibly shouldn't have skipped the aerodynamics classes, Piggy!
It's a good thing the heavy weapons guy is a physics major!
Finally some success!
Uhm, mr. rifleman, what are you doing up there?
On the plus side, the grappling hook didn't go too far, and it brains the sniper.
My opponent gains the Bo Shudda Benny of friendly fire counter sniping.
The Snub fighter and an alligators upper jaw take flight! Which is strange, since the merc didn't turn any hover features on yet...
[Demoman voice]Ka-Boom![/Demoman voice]
That fort isn't looking too good...
Deadpool decides to give the whole kamikaze thing a shot too.
With his own little twist, of course!
Deadpool: Look ma, no hands!
AN Troop:
The wall is obliterated, but the AN grunts miraculously survive!
Have no fear! The engineer is here!
a wimpy Tesla sentry is set up.
Doctor Piggy launches himself at one of the legionaries! (taking all the credit from the heavy weapon guy's acchievment, of course.)
Deadpool and the deadites make way to the machine gun nest.
Deadpool spots the sentry, and engages Spycrab mode!
(For best effect, hum "in the hall of the mountain king")
Of course, with all that set up, deadpool just has to whiff .
Lord Sharq Takes this time to devour the master in a spray of over gratuitous blood effects!
Using the last of his ninja abilities, the Master crawls feebly and bleeds out.
The viking finally wakes up from his concussion...
And he pries the head off of lord Sharq!
Using his troll magic, the Trolomancer allows the squad to use their base plate to better traverse the steep incline!
The heavy machine gun responds by obliterating a deadite.
The Dark Siders decide now it the time to execute Jetpack Jones.
But Jones is too fast, and he jets on top of the Awesomesaurus!
and he makes short work of the demoman. The alien, realizing he's next, decides to make the ultimate sacrifice. opening a secret hatch in the Awesomesaurus, he pushes the self destruct button!
Alien: Allahlalaalalalalalalalalalalalala...
Jetpack Jones:
It's a good thing I roll really poorly when I get Melodramatic!
Jetpack Jones uses the added momentum to bisect the Alien!
Before suddenly breaking in half when I add my Bennies to the damage roll!
Heavy weapons guy: Don't worry, I'm a professional, and I have no idea what I'm doing!
ET the extraterrestrial...
The power of love makes the Awesomesaurus's head blow up the Dino pr0n containment tower!
Dr. Piggy ignites the spilled gasoline by the snub fighter...
BOOOOOOM! Dr. Piggy, a legionaire, and the Liteside master all go up in a massive fireball!
The pasty Norwegian ninja takes his claymore and attack General uglyface!
At this point, it becomes obvious this are of the battle field is under a voodoo curse in which no minifig can simply die.
Since I guess they finished their coffee break, the sons of Warhead embark.
One of the maniacs leaps out and goes for the creaky old veteran!
Who is sliced right down the middle!
The old knight decides that desperate times call for desperate measures, and he steals two syringes to inject into the engineer.
whose lower body turns into a giant lizard head.
Deadpool is not amused with the mad scientist.
the engineer grafts his ass back onto the awesomesaurs' legs.
The Viking skewers the steampunk pirate maniac.
The battleax maniac goes after the viking...
And he breaks off his own arm, losing his namesake ax.
The mechasaurus rears up to smash the late Lord Sharq's ATV, but fails to destroy it.
Viktii jumps on top of the abomination.
The engineer is bisected (lending more evidence to my voodoo curse theory.)
undeterred by the lock of arm or ax, The maniac hereafter known a Robert picks up the dead veteran and attempts to beat the viking to death with his corpse.
The viking responds by killing the newly christened Robert.
Deadpool attacks the Litesider padawan, who deflects Deadpool's blade...
But completely forgets about Deadpool's other blade!
Dark Helmet wrote: Evil always wins because good is dumb
The Scout ship hovers over...
The ship docks...
And the dinosaur pr0n is taken! Victory for the Immortals!
Story time! (no pics of this)
As the victorious immortals leave with the pr0n, their Enemies sit baffled in the ruined necropolis that had once been Dagskar fort. As Dark lord Vladtronn stares at the smoking ruins, which they had been tasked to defend, and but one sentance left his awed mouth. "Dafuq just happened?"


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Hitting coach Greg Walker said Beckham must simplify things at the plate.
"Looking back at Gordon's 2009 tape, it was brilliant how simple it was," Walker said. "When Gordon goes bad, his leg kick is bigger, his hand move is bigger and he ends up with bad posture and a loopier, longer swing. We need less of a leg kick, hand move — less of an effort level."
As if we didn't have enough things to worry about.


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some folks are really getting tired of these threads but i have to do this one.
Jones faced, wasim, imran, waqar, Marshall, ambrose, Walsh, Hadlee, Botham, Kapil....whereas ponting did not face same quailty fast bowling since he went on scoring ton of runs. so Ricky will end up with more runs than Jones at end of his career.
But who would u take as ur # 3 batsman.


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A group of 240 scientists, faculty members and students from the Marine Biological Laboratory and the University of Chicago, including Argonne National Laboratory, came together recently on the UChicago campus to explore a broad range of ideas for joint scientific research and educational programming.
The MBL-UChicago retreat from Feb. 8–10 was the largest joint scientific meeting since the two institutions launched their formal affiliation in July 2013. It sparked excitement and animated discussions among researchers who got to know their colleagues through panel sessions, "lightning talks," roundtables, chats during breaks and spontaneous side meetings.
"There is so much energy around the affiliation, and intellectual vigor to make it work. It's wonderful to see the exchange of ideas and exuberance emerge," said Neil Shubin, the Robert R. Bensley Professor in Organismal Biology and Anatomy at UChicago.
Shubin, senior advisor to the president and to the vice president for research and national laboratories at UChicago, leads a faculty advisory committee that is charged with fostering scientific collaboration between the two institutions and developing the affiliation through research and education initiatives such as workshops, courses, student fellowships, program seed funding, joint appointments or shared facilities.
The retreat was one step in an ongoing process of discussion and engagement that will result in creating meaningful programs that capitalize on the affiliation's complementary strengths and have lasting value for their student and research communities, Shubin said. A second retreat will be held in May on the MBL's campus in Woods Hole, Mass.
Participants said the retreat delivered on the promise of bringing researchers at MBL and UChicago closer together. "The spirit of collaboration is here," said Zhe-Xi Luo, a professor of organismal biology and anatomy at UChicago.
"Where we go from today is up to all of you," said Jonathan Gitlin, deputy director for research and programs at the MBL, to the many students and postdoctoral scholars at the retreat. "I urge you to take this opportunity—with a brilliant university with limitless intellectual capital and an extraordinary place of discovery like the MBL—and become part of our conversation, drive us forward, change the world."
The first morning's program was designed to better familiarize the affiliation partners with each other. MBL President and Director Joan Ruderman gave an overview of the MBL and its three intersecting parts: advanced summer courses, resident research in biological and environmental sciences and visiting research conducted by investigators from a host of universities and institutions worldwide.
"The MBL is one of the few places in the world that provides lab space, housing and other support to a large number of researchers from different universities, to catalyze and enhance scientific collaboration," Ruderman said. She outlined ways in which students and scientists from the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory can take advantage of new and existing opportunities at MBL.
Shared research values
John W. Boyer, dean of the College at UChicago, described the historical development of the culture of learning at the University, distinguished by its rigorous core undergraduate program, dual faculty appointments between the divisions and the College, a tradition of strong interdisciplinary cooperation among departments and a flexible quarter system to allow time for creative and investigative sabbaticals.
"MBL seems to have a culture of risk taking: if something doesn't work, try something else. Chicago faculty are also like that," Boyer said. "They are empowered to follow their noses in research." The institutions also share core values of interdisciplinary research and collaboration, he said.
The ingredients that power the MBL's renowned research-immersion courses were the topic of talks by former physiology course co-director Ron Vale of HHMI/University of California, San Francisco, and MBL Director of Education Bill Renzikoff.
"We create an intense, collaborative, interdisciplinary environment in the courses centered around solving real research problems," Vale said. While publications are not an emphasis or goal of the courses, students often continue to collaborate with faculty on projects started in a course and eventually end up with a research publication, he said. "Many students are literally crying at the end of the summer because they have to leave this special environment that they and the faculty have created to explore the joy of doing science."
Developing new avenues for growth
Participants discussed undergraduate research and diversity initiatives, and faculty members pitched creative ideas for new courses. Next, five-minute "lightning talks" on current research at the University and the MBL yielded fruitful questions and conversation.
In an effort to capture the growing flood of ideas in the room, Mark Westneat, professor of organismal biology and anatomy at UChicago, encouraged everyone to submit their favorite idea on a Post-It note or via Twitter. These were sorted and posted at an "Idea Mutator" reception in the afternoon.
An illustrated talk on the rich history of collaboration between the MBL and UChicago was given at dinner by Jane Maienschein, the Regent's, President's and Parents' Association Professor at Arizona State University and adjunct senior scientist at the MBL.
The second day of the retreat was devoted to a deeper exploration of how the scientists at the two institutions can collaborate effectively. After a discussion of core shared-use facilities on each campus, the attendees chose thematic roundtables. Enthusiastic conversations began to crystallize as "big ideas" and potential projects, and participants passed on their ideas for consideration by the affiliation's faculty advisory committee over the next few weeks.
"I have never been to a meeting that was so broad," said Karl Matlin, professor of surgery at the University of Chicago and a member of the retreat planning committee. "We are only two institutions, but it seems like 1+1=1,000 when we come together. That is the beauty of this affiliation."
Shubin said the ideas from the lightning talks and roundtables showed the affiliation's immense potential. Now his objective is to keep that conversation going and make the potential real.
"This affiliation is yours," Shubin said to the gathering. "Your ideas, your teaching, your research programs will define it."


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We're gonna leave New Mexico for a bit and head into southern Colorado. It's interesting, because as soon as you enter Colorado you know you're in a different place. The same is true of Arizona. I find it hard to believe that the surveyors that marked out state boundaries across the West based them largely on landscape, but southern Colorado is definitely not New Mexico. Colorado also has its own thing going when it comes to what we check out here at City of Dust. So, let's have a look at Colorado State Highway 12, also known as the Highway of Legends and considered to traverse some of the finest mountain countryside in the U.S. But note that this is only the southeastern portion of the Scenic Byway, through the Purgatoire ("picketwire" if you're an English fur trapper) River Valley. On this visit, time constraints prevented a full circuit north through the Cuchara Pass and on into La Veta. Bummer.
Generally, I think people drive the Highway of Legends heading west out of Trinidad, but we're going to run it backwards, starting at what has been called the most-photographed and most-painted house in Las Animas County, the House on the Bridge in Vigil. I guess I'll add a few more shots to the tally. The town of Vigil was settled by Juan Vigil in the 1860's and incorporated in 1890. The post office operated until 1920, but not much has been going on since then. In 1918, the original road east from Vigil to Stonewall was re-routed and a small bridge over the North Fork of the Purgatoire River was orphaned. Joseph E. Martinez, a state senator, was half-brother to Charles Vigil, the property owner, and built a little house on the bridge. Marcus Vigil, Charles' brother, rebuilt the house at some point and that's what remains now. It's very quaint and must've been a nice place to live, with the burbling river (um, maybe "creek" is a better term now) below and mountains all around. There aren't many neighbors either. That's it in the two photos above.
Heading east we arrive shortly at Weston, originally known as Los Sisneros after Juan Sisneros, a rancher who settled in the area in the 1880's. A post office was built in 1889 and the town was renamed after the postmaster, Bert Weston. At the turn of the 20th Century, Weston was the supply base for the Rocky Mountain Timber Company. Currently, there's an abandoned general store. But the North and South Forks of the Purgatoire River meet here and the majestic Sangre de Cristo Mountains loom in the distance. The name, translated as "Blood of Christ," comes from Spanish explorers who saw that the morning sun turned the peaks red. There's a story about a prospector who came to town out of the Sangre de Cristo's once a year with a large nugget with which he bought supplies for another full year. The prospector said that he used the red morning light to find his mine high up along the tree line. When he died without revealing the mine's location, many men tried fruitlessly to find "gold where the snow turns to blood."
Throughout the Purgatoire Valley are numerous old churches. The one above is in Segundo, an old coal mining town. Segundo was founded about 1900 and the Colorado and Wyoming railroad made its operating headquarters here in 1901, constructing a five-stall roundhouse. At one point, Segundo processed more coal than anyplace west of Chicago, claiming 800 ovens in which moisture, sulfur, and phosphorus were burned off to make coke, which was especially desirable for smelting. Now it's delightfully deserted, relatively speaking.
Coal was a pretty big deal in the Purgatoire Valley, near the mouth of which sits the aptly-named Cokedale. Founded in 1907 by the American Smelting and Refining Company (ASRC), by 1909 Cokedale had a population of 1,500 and 350 coking ovens. In 1947, the ASRC shut down and company houses were sold to residents for $100 per room and $50 per lot. Because many residents purchased their homes (and despite many houses being bulldozed), Cokedale is considered the best preserved coal mining camp in Colorado and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Across from the rows of old ovens outside of town, steam still rises from slag heaps, the last bit of mining activity that remains.
From Cokedale it's just a few miles back to a good meal in Trinidad, which is worthy of its own post. But whether it will be the NEXT post I haven't quite decided.
Information for this post was swiped from Sangres.com and Trinidadco.com.
OCTOBER 2013 UPDATE: Sometimes people contact me personally and their recollections are so interesting that I ask if I can post their stories directly on City of Dust. This time, Mandy W. has graciously agreed to let me pass along both her memories of growing up for several years in the House on the Bridge--also known as Bridgehouse, apparently--AND some great vintage photos circa 1974:
"I just read your piece on the Bridgehouse near Weston, CO. I lived there from ages 4-10, then we moved up Wet Canyon to a house my dad built up there. We went to school at Weston Elementary, which is now closed. Thank you for your history. We mostly only knew it as our childhood home, and had a difficult time sleeping once we moved up the Canyon because we no longer had our River to put us to sleep! It was a magical and difficult place to live..."
It's one of the best and strangest powers of the internet that I can post about an odd and fascinating abandoned house in rural southern Colorado and somebody who lived there can find the piece and send me their own photos and recollections. Very cool. Thanks again, Mandy.
FEBRUARY 2014 UPDATE: Mandy W. has come through again with more information regarding the construction of Bridgehouse, where her family lived for a few years in the 1970's. Her dad filled in some of the story. I've never seen the construction dates elsewhere.
"Bridgehouse was built in 1941 in two stages. The highway used to go up by Vigil, but was moved to where it currently runs (Highway 12). The bridge itself was built in 1918. My dad rented it from 1971-1977 for $50/month but worked off the rent! He's not sure if anyone else lived in it besides an artist who was there prior to us."
Many thanks to Mandy for filling in some more of the history of her old home.
APRIL 2014 UPDATE: Below is another piece of Bridgehouse history, kindly submitted by V.J.A.
"After reading everything you posted about Bridgehouse, I just have to add what I know to the story. Around 1966/1967 my great grandparents, Bacilio and Mary Garcia, lived in the house. Like Mandy's father, Grandpa Bacilio was also a ranch hand for the property owner. Although they only lived there for a year or so my mother-in-law, Lena Guzman, has memories of playing in the creek under the bridge.
"It's not much but it at least adds to the timeline."
And so it does! Thanks very much, V.J.


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this is talon from the popular online game called League of Legends. I made this costume using multiple materials, EVA foam, L200 high density foam, fabric, stones, leather. it took approx. 3 weeks to make it


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>> Trousers, trousers, trousers. That was the message at Prada. Oh, there were dresses, skirts, and coats as well, but mostly it was about the trouser. They were in every one of the collection's 41 looks, hit just above the ankle, and were cut straight — but not too slim. They came in black wool — sometimes bejeweled at the hem — and later, in a mix of Op Art-Brady Bunch-style prints.
Over the last few seasons or so, there have been hints that the idea of wearing pants under dresses was making a comeback — Acne and Opening Ceremony each showed the style for Spring 2012 — but here the concept was the main thesis.
As a whole, it made for an outing that was focused, controlled — and plenty appealing. Silhouettes on coats and dresses were crisp and sharp, and — with their empire waists and a-line silhouettes — youthful. Also youthful and super-appealing: the models' hair, which was long, straight, and dip-dyed in contrasting hues.


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