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Oil Response Chief: Risk Now 'Very, Very Low' for Oil to Travel to Keys Via Loop Current;Risk 'Will Go to Zero Once Well is Killed'
The head of the U.S. Government's response effort to mitigate the Transocean/BP oil spill said that with the oil leak capped there is now little chance of oil remnants reaching the Florida Keys and the South Florida mainland.
When the well is permanently sealed there will no longer be any danger of oil impacts to the region, said retired U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen during a news briefing in New Orleans Thursday.
Allen responded to South Florida "Sun Sentinel" reporter David Fleshler's questions regarding future threats to the Keys and South Florida:
"Once the well is killed we will have secured the source of oil in relation to the (Transocean/BP) Macando well," Allen said. "For the past several months there has been an eddy (Eddy Franklin) that has broken off from the Loop Current between the wellhead and where the current comes north and turns towards the Straits of Florida.
"So (that) eddy has created a hydraulic barrier between the wellhead and the Loop Current, and the chances that oil will become entrained in the Loop Current are very, very low and will go to zero as we continue to control the leakage at the well with the cap and ultimately kill it," he said.
Allen said that even with all the oil that gushed between April 20 and July 15, he does not expect significant oil remnants to reach the Keys or South Florida.
"The recent storm, tropical depression Bonnie, drove most of the oil to the northwest," he said. "This is all moving in the opposite direction where oil would need to be to enter the Loop Current."
Allen's comments are being carried in a Quicktime video file on the Florida Keys website at http://www.fla-keys.com/news/news.cfm?sid=7845 or via links off the website's home page at http://www.fla-keys.com.
All of us are delighted to hear this news and know that our beloved dolphins and their island home will continue to be safe. We join everyone in hoping that the clean-up efforts in the affected areas are successful and that the long-term impacts of oil in those areas can be reduced. We applaud the efforts of all of the Gulf Coast residents who have worked so hard to take care of wildlife and the environment.
Friday, July 30, 2010
Risk of Oil Impacting Keys now VERY Very Low!
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Monday, July 26, 2010
Beautiful Start to a Great Week
Bright sunshine and beautiful dolphins. What a great Monday!
Talon helped a guest cool off during a Dolphin Encounter.
Awwww. How's that for some dolphin affection between Santini and Calusa?
These photographs were taken today, July 26th at Dolphin Research Center.
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Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Scene in the Florida Keys!
We just have to share a cool new video shot over the weekend in the Florida Keys, and a terrific new ad. Check them out!
You can view additional videos, shot in recent weeks, at www.fla-keys.com.
No doubt about it. We live in paradise!
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Friday, July 9, 2010
DRC Wishes Everyone a Fabulous Weekend!
Another great day, heading into a beautiful, oil-free weekend in the fabulous Florida Keys. The threat of impact from the oil spill remains very low and that makes all of us smile!
Aleta wishes all of you a wonderful weekend and hopes you come to visit soon!
Rainbow, or one of our other dolphin artists, will be happy to collaborate with you on a one-of-a-kind DolphinArt T-shirt!
These photos were taken today, July 9, 2010, at Dolphin Research Center.
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010
A Beautiful View!
Beautiful dolphins. People having a great time. No oil or tar balls in sight. That's Dolphin Research Center today!
All of the above pictures were taken on July 6, 2010.
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Friday, July 2, 2010
Heading into a Holiday Weekend
Dolphin Research Center and all of the Florida Keys think that still being oil free is another great reason to celebrate this 4th of July holiday weekend. The dolphins need no excuse to zoom around their clean lagoons!
Nothing like a great dolphin smooch to bring out a smile!
These photographs were taken at Dolphin Research Center on Friday, July 2nd and show that there's every reason to come on down and enjoy the Florida Keys.
See you soon!
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Department of Licensing launches new, time-saving online driver licensing servicesSeptember 12, 2013
Driver testing to be conducted outside DOL across the stateNovember 27, 2012
OLYMPIA— On December 1, the Department of Licensing will expand a new program allowing driver training schools and school district driver training programs across the state to conduct driver knowledge and skills testing for new driver license applicants.
"We started this program in King County and it has gone smoothly," said DOL Director Alan Haight. "Now driver training schools in many other areas of the state are ready to conduct drive tests, which will remove one of the most time-consuming transactions from our offices. We think this is going to speed things up for other customers who must come into an office."
As of December 1, driver knowledge and skills tests will no longer be offered in the following licensing service offices: Bellingham, Friday Harbor, Everett, Greenwood, Smokey Point, Renton, Federal Way, Lacey, Parkland, Centralia, Vancouver East, Vancouver North, Kennewick, Chelan, Ellensburg, Wenatchee, Davenport, Newport, and Spokane.
Previously scheduled drive tests will be honored in these offices. The Department of Licensing will continue to offer tests in areas that don't have driver training schools nearby that offer testing.
To conduct driver tests, driver training schools must be licensed with the state or be part of a state-certified public school driver training program. They have to apply for the authority to administer driver testing, and are subject to audits and record checks.
After passing the tests, customers will go to a licensing office to obtain their license. Customers are still required to pay the driver license application fee to DOL. Driver training schools will set the fee they charge for the tests.
The program is the final phase of implementing House Bill 1635, which gives the Department authority to contract with private driver training schools, school districts and motorcycle training schools to conduct some knowledge and skills tests. The bill was passed in an effort to reduce wait times in licensing service offices.
For a list of state-approved driver training schools, go to: http://www.dol.wa.gov/driverslicense/testing.html.


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As the 20th century neared its end, it became apparent to many people that we were facing a soda crisis.
Soda, soda pop, pop, the soft drink—whatever you call it—was under fire. Once an innocent, indeed playful beverage—enjoy that pop of fizz as the bottle opens—it was suddenly something to be shunned, its image sordid, sullied, and sinful.
Schools began banning it. Politicians threatened to tax it. Killjoy nutritionists blamed it for obesity, osteoporosis, tooth decay, diabetes, and kidney stones. And if, heaven forbid, ingredients include caffeine, the Center for Science in the Public Interest warned, foolhardy drinkers face "nervousness, irritability, sleeplessness, and rapid heartbeat."
Just this year, the Center went as far as holding a National Soda Summit, featuring mayors and congress members, "to broaden and strengthen comprehensive policy initiatives to reduce soda consumption and improve America's health."
In some circles, a mom or dad might as well hand their child a cigarette as a soda.
Then why is John Nese, "arguably the nicest guy in the world," according to one customer, smiling as he stands amidst 550 varieties of soda?
It's because he loves soda.
The fizz. The flavor. The natural goodness. The memories.
"For me, when I was a little kid we went on a family vacation to Happy Camp, up near the Oregon border," Nese remembers. "I saw water bubbling out of the ground and tasted it. It was carbonated! I said, if I could pipe it to my school, if I could put in pipes, we could have soda in school instead of water!"
As summer rolls around and people plan parties, how many give thought, real thought, to the soda they will serve? The chardonnay, sure, they'll study up on that. Some like oak, others prefer the pure fruit. Beer? They'll lay in a supply of lager for some, pale ale for others, a black porter for uncle Jack.
And of course there's sugar-free sparkling water for the cautious, and energy drinks for fans of extreme everything. And Coke. And Diet Coke.
That's not good enough for Nese, a third-generation Angeleno whose store, Galco's Soda Pop Stop, began as a grocery in 1897. He carries bottles of Lemmy Sparkling Lemonade, Bulldog root beer, Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray (flavored with extract of celery seed), Dry Soda Rhubarb, Americana Black Cherry, and Almdudler Krauterlimonade (the national soft drink of Austria).
"You can just dream of flavors," Nese says. "I like mint. A lot of people don't like mint. Have you ever had a banana-flavored soda? We have them. We have cucumber soda."
"We have little brands of soda that still come in glass bottles and are still made with cane sugar. They're made using real ingredients."
But Nese isn't just selling stuff. He selling an idea—and it's one we might want to adopt this summer when it's time to pop a sugar-infused beverage while warding off the nutrition police among us, whether they be our mothers, spouses, or so-called friends.
His message goes back to his memories, back when radio dramas were giving way to TV. It was a time before "each American," according to one media account of a Purdue University study, drank 597 cans of soda a year—consuming thereby 32 pounds of sugar.
"Today, people have soda 20 times a day," Nese says, surprisingly rueful, perhaps, for a guy who hawks soda. Drinking soda in such vast quantities, day in and day out, means that drinking soda is no longer "a big thing." For Nese, that's bad.
Back in the 1950s, he says, drinking a soda was a big thing, not something done casually, while working or sitting around the house. At the Nese residence, in fact, no soda could be found. "We had milk and water in our refrigerator, maybe orange juice occasionally."


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Diabetes: A duo helps better
Metformin and SGLT2 inhibitors together reduce the blood sugar levels considerably more effectively than either drug alone. Scientists from the Helmholtz Zentrum München, partner in the German Center for Diabetes Research, report in the journal Diabetes that this is due to a synergetic mechanism.
Various active substances in oral antidiabetic agents are frequently combined in the treatment of diabetes in order to achieve an effective reduction in the blood sugar. A new, very promising approach combines the substances metformin and SGLT2 inhibitors, the latter were just approved in 2012. Scientists headed by Dr. Susanne Neschen and Prof. Dr. Martin Hrabě de Angelis from the Helmholtz Zentrum München, in cooperation with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München and drug manufacturer Sanofi Aventis, have discovered how the two substances reinforce each other.
Medicinal chain reaction
SGLT2 inhibitors promote the elimination of sugar in the urine and consequently reduce the blood sugar. However, paradoxically the body reacts to this with increased sugar production in the liver. And this is where metformin comes in: it slows down the body's own sugar production. The interaction of the two substances causes a drop in blood sugar levels that is effective and prolonged, and the reduction is greater than with either substance administered on its own.
"Combination effective with minimal side effects"
"The combination of drugs effectively reduces the blood sugar, and particularly also the blood sugar peaks after meals. In diabetic mice, the double therapy produced an improvement in the long-term blood sugar level HbA1c within only two weeks," reports first author Neschen. "The duo consequently constitutes an effective treatment strategy for type 2 diabetes while also producing minimal side effects," adds Hrabě de Angelis.
Type 2 diabetes is a metabolic disorder that affects around 6 million people in Germany, and that number is steadily increasing. The Helmholtz Zentrum München focuses on developing new approaches for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of major widespread diseases.


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PRINCETON, N.J., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Americans named President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as the most admired man and woman alive, a Gallup survey indicated.
Clinton is the Most Admired Woman for the 11th year in a row, while Obama has been the Most Admired Man five years running, results of a USA Today-Gallup poll released Monday indicated.
First lady Michelle Obama, television daytime host Oprah Winfrey and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice were behind Clinton on the Most Admired Woman list. Former South African president and anti-apartheid leader Nelson Mandela, 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, evangelist Billy Graham, former President George W. Bush, and Pope Benedict XVI follow Obama as Most Admired Man.
Clinton's first-place finish this year solidifies her position as the most-often named Most Admired Woman in Gallup's history, the Princeton, N.J., polling agency said. She has topped the list 17 times going back to her first year as first lady in 1993. Leading the Most Admired Man list with 12 first-place finishes is former President Dwight Eisenhower, followed by former Presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton with eight first-place finishes each.
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Summit confirmed the addition of Kate Winslet to the cast of Divergent on Thursday [21].
The Oscar winner joins Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Jai Courtney, Zoë Kravitz, Ansel Elgort and Maggie Q. on the sci-fi action adventure.
Shooting is scheduled to commence in April in Chicago on the story of a deviant who investigates a conspiracy in a society where people are segregated into factions determined by personality.
Vanessa Taylor adapted the Divergent screenplay from an original draft by Evan Daugherty.
Doug Wick and Lucy Fisher are producing through Red Wagon Entertainment with Pouya Shahbazian. Red Wagon's Rachel Shane serves as executive producer.
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Frodo woke suddenly.
The date is September 26, 3018 TA.
Merry went in front leading a laden pony, and took his way through a spinney behind the house
A "spinney" is a small grove or copse of trees, from a French word meaning "a thorny place."
Tell Gandalf to hurry along the East Road: we shall soon be back on it and going as fast as we can
The East Road was built by the Numenoreans (Dunedain) between Rivendell and the Grey Havens during the Second Age (see "The Disaster of the Gladden Fields" in Unfinished Tales). After the kingdom of Arnor was divided, the East Road formed the boundary between Cardolan and Rhudaur.
This road is also referred to as the East-West Road by Gandalf in "Shadows of the Past," and is labeled in this way on the larger map.
It passes through the Shire, and is labeled the East Road on the Map of the Shire. It was the road that Merry and Fatty used to take the cart to Buckland; it was not the road that Frodo, Sam and Pippin had to leave to escape Black Riders.
Frodo expects to return to the East Road well before reaching the town of Bree; he is entering the Old Forest only as a diversion, and a slight short cut.
For more information about Bree, see 'At the Sign of the Prancing Pony'
For more information about Cardolan and Rhudaur, see 'Fog on the Barrow Downs' (?) and Appendix A.
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But the hobbits came, and cut down hundreds of trees, and made a great bonfire in the Forest
The etymology of the word "bonfire:"
References do not agree whether this word is sourced to "bon fire" (i.e., "good" fire) or "bane fire" (i.e., fire to remove evil) or "bone fire" (i.e., burning animal bones).
The OED, however, favors the "bone fire" etymology, and lists a citation from 1493 associating a "bone fire" with Saint John. Traditionally, this would be Saint John's Eve, or June 23rd. This is consistent with earlier references to a Celtic midsummer festival where animal bones were burnt to ward off evil spirits. Scotland and Ireland have similar traditions.
In modern English, "bonfire" means any large, but controlled, open-air fire.
source: http://www.alt-usage-english.org/ucle/ucle15.html
The bonfire built by the hobbits was, of course, a modern 'bonfire', not an ancient 'bone-fire'. There is no indication that the bonfire was related to any festival, but rather, was meant as a retaliation against the forest.
No tree grew there, only rough grass and many tall plants: stalky and faded hemlocks
This is presumably a reference to the Poison Hemlock, Conium maculatum, famous for its role in the execution of Socrates.
and wood-parsley
"Wood-parsley" is apparently not a name in common use; an Internet search turns up mostly quotations of this passage. One site identifies the name with Anthiscus sylvestris, the usual English name of which is "Cow Parsley":
http://www.fishing-in-wales.com/wildlif ... wparsl.htm
Cow Parsley, however, is a spring bloomer, and it seems unlikely that even faded blooms would be present in September (unlike Poison Hemlock, which blooms in late summer).
So this identification is at best tentative?
fire-weed seeding into fluffy ashes
A number of different plants are called "fireweed," but the most likely candidate is Epilobium angustifolium:
http://www.wiseacre-gardens.com/plants/ ... eweed.html
The common name refers to the plant's habit of rapidly colonizing burned areas such as the Bonfire Glade. It was one of the first plants to return to the areas devastated by the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens in the U.S. state of Washington (it is native to northern areas of both hemispheres). Its blooming season is given as July through August or September, which fits the description of it as "seeding."
and rampant nettles
The common nettle of England is the Stinging Nettle, Urtica dioica, though the Small Nettle, Urtica urens, is also found.
and thistles.
The name "thistle" is applied to a wide variety of spiny plants belonging to a number of different genera. The "classic" thistle is the Scotch Thistle, Onopordon acanthium:
He lifted his heavy eyes and saw leaning over him a huge willow-tree, old and hoary.
Tolkien left behind a drawing of Old Man Willow, labeled as such. It is published in the collection J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator, edited by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull.
According to correspondence between the late Fr. John Tolkien and the editors of Artist and Illustrator, John Tolkien thought that his father's drawing was inspired by a particular fully grown willow on the banks of the Cherwell near Oxford, distinct from others because it was not pollarded [cultivated by having its top branches cut back to the trunk to encourage a dense growth of new withies].
Many species of willow (genus Salix) are found in England, but only a few grow into large trees. The two most likely to have served as Tolkien's model are the White Willow, Salix alba, and the Crack Willow, Salix fragilis. The two are closely related, and are known to hybridize with one another, so a conclusive identification seems unattainable. Here is a picture of a suitably villainous-looking Crack Willow:
(The name "Crack Willow" does not refer to the cracks in the tree, but to the fact that its twigs break off with a crack, unlike other species that have tough and flexible twigs, once used as cords to tie objects together.)
Light goes the weather-wind and the feathered starling.
The Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) is apparently well-thought of in Britain, where it is native. This is mystifying to bird lovers in North America, who regard this introduced species as ugly, noisy, harmful to native birds, and generally Orclike.
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/ency ... rling.html
Goldberry, Goldberry, merry yellow berry-o!
A very tenuous source for the name 'Goldberry' is Princess Goldborough in the semi-legendary tale of Havelock the Dane.
there appeared above the reeds an old battered hat with a tall crown and a long blue feather stuck in the band.
The feather once belonged to a Common or European Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis); in the poem "Bombadil goes Boating," written after the publication of LotR for inclusion in the collection The Adventures of Tom Bombadil, Tolkien gave an account of how the bird gave Tom the feather. In the first Bombadil poem, as it appeared in 1934, Tom wore a peacock feather in his hat; Tolkien changed this to a "swan-wing feather" for the book. The explanation is found in Letter 240, written to Pauline Baynes, the illustrator:
The peacock feather belongs to an old draft. Being unsuitable to the L. R. this becomes in the L.R. (I p. 130) "a long blue feather." In the poem as now to be published Tom appears (in line 4 of the first poem) with a "swan-wing feather": to increase the riverishness, and to allow for the incident in the second poem, the gift of a blue feather by the king's fisher. That incident also explains the blue feather of the L. R. Poem one is evidently, as said in the introduction, a hobbit-version of things long before the days of the L. R. But the second poem refers to the days of growing shadow, before Frodo set out (as the consultation with Maggot shows: cf. L. R. I p. 143). When therefore Tom appears in the L. R. he is wearing a blue feather.
Letters at pp. 318-19. The peacock is "unsuitable" because it is native to Asia. The "long blue feather" cannot have been terribly long, as Alcedo atthis averages only 13 cm overall. (Letter 240 suggests that Tolkien believed that more than one species of kingfisher occurred in England, but if so, he was mistaken.)
http://www.birdguides.com/html/vidlib/s ... atthis.htm
In an early version, when Tolkien was writing the sequel to The Hobbit, the hobbits were only to hear Tom Bombadil's song during the willow-adventure.
Odo and Bingo cannot go on without a rest. they sit down with their backs to a great willow, while Frodo and Marmaduke attend to the ponies. Willowman traps Bingo and Odo. Suddenly, a singing is heard in the distance. (Tom Bombadil not named.) The Willow relaxes its hold.
HoME 6, "The Old Forest and the Withywindle"
At any rate he was too large and heavy for a hobbit, if not quite tall enough for one of the Big People, though he made noise enough for one, stumping along with great yellow boots on his thick legs, and charging through grass and rushes like a cow going down to drink.
An echo of Chapter 1 of The Hobbit:
I suppose hobbits need some description nowadays, since they have become rare and shy of the Big People, as they call us. . . . There is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when large stupid folk like you and me come blundering along, making a noise like elephants which they can hear a mile off.
In his hands he carried on a large leaf as on a tray a small pile of white water-lilies.
The White Water-lily is Nymphaea alba:
http://www.floracyberia.net/spermatophy ... _alba.html
"Whoa! Whoa! steady there!" cried the old man, holding up one hand, and they stopped short, as if they had been struck stiff. "Now, my little fellows, where be you a-going to, puffing like a bellows?"
Tom's words have the power to freeze the hobbits. As seen later, the trees and wights also obey his simple commands, and in 'The Adventures of Tom Bombadil' he also has "the power of command" over the badger and the River-daughter.
Though these utterances of Bombadil's are printed as prose, note that he is still speaking verse (and indeed this is a rhyming couplet). All his speeches are in the same characteristic meter - the basic pattern is that each line is divided into two parts. The first part consists of two feet of three syllables with the accent on the first (dactyls), while the second has three two-syllable feet, again with the accent on the first (trochees). (Here is an introduction to metrical terminology for those who may not be familiar with it:
This basic pattern is subject to a good deal of variation, as illustrated by these two lines. In the first, one of the dactyls is replaced by a "spondee," a foot with two equally stressed syllables, while in the second, one of the dactyls contains an extra unstressed syllable.
WHOA! WHOA!/STEADy there!||NOW, my/LITtle/FELlows
WHERE be you a/-GOing to,||PUFfing/LIKE a/BELlows?
Both these variants are fairly common.
"Don't you know who I am? I'm Tom Bombadil."
Tom Bombadil pre-existed the writing of LotR, having first appeared publicly in a poem called "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil," published in 1934 in The Oxford Magazine. See HoME v. VI, "The Return of the Shadow," at p. 115. After the publication of LotR, Tolkien made this the title-piece in a collection of his poems, which appeared in 1962. For this volume, he also wrote a new piece called "Bombadil Goes Boating." For the compilation process, see among others Letters 231, 233-35, 237, and 240.
The story-external identity of Tom Bombadil is well known:
Tom Bombadil was a well-known figure in the Tolkien family, for the character was based on a Dutch doll that belonged to Michael. The doll looked very splendid with the feather in its hat, but John did not like it and one day stuffed it down the lavatory. Tom was rescued, and survived to become the hero of a poem by the children's father, 'The Adventures of Tom Bombadil', which was published in the Oxford Magazine in 1934.
'The Storyteller,' J. R. R. Tolkien: a biography.
Tom featured in some of the unrecorded stories told by Tolkien to his children and was to have been the hero of an unfinished tale set in 'the days of King Bonhedig'.
While Tom Bombadil has many names (see 'The Council of Elrond'), the name by which he introduces himself to the hobbits is Bucklandish in form and said by Tolkien (in the notes to The Adventures of Tom Bombadil) to have probably been given to him by the Bucklanders.
For a discussion of who (or what) Tom Bombadil is within the context of Lord of the Rings, please see the annotations on p. 122, 129 of 'In the House of Tom Bombadil'
"What!" shouted Tom Bombadil, leaping up in the air. "Old Man Willow? Naught worse than that, eh? That can soon be mended."
Old Man Willow, like Tom himself, had already appeared in the poem "The Adventures of Tom Bombadil":
Up woke Willow-man, began upon his singing,
sang Tom fast asleep under branches swinging;
in a crack caught him tight: snick! it closed together
trapped Tom Bombadil, coat and hat and feather.
'Ha, Tom Bombadil! What be you a-thinking,
peeping inside my tree, watching me a drinking
deep in my wooden house, tickling me with feather,
dripping wet down my face like a rainy weather?'
'You let me out again, Old Man Willow! I am stiff lying here; they're no sort of pillow,
your hard crooked roots. Drink your river-water!
go back to sleep again like the River-daughter!'
Willow-man let him loose when he heard him speaking;
locked fast his wooden house, muttering and creaking,
whispering inside the tree...
Tom Bombadil knows how to free the Hobbits from Old Man Willow, but never attempts a more permanent solution. As J.R.R. Tolkien noted in Letters
He hardly even judges, and as far as can be seen makes no effort to reform or remove even the Willow. Letter 153
There was Tom Bombadil's house before them
Here is an illustration of Tom Bombadil's house by Alan Lee:
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A Queens man was convicted today for the murder of his pregnant ex-girlfriend and her toddler.
Jimmy Humphrey was found guilty of strangling Linda Anderson to death and setting her lifeless body on fire. The fire ultimately killed her 2-year-old son, Aiden Hayes, as he searched for his mother through the smoke in their St. Albans apartment.
"I'm not happy about the verdict, I really don't know how to feel. My little sister, Aiden and Gabriel are all gone," said Anderson's heartbroken older brother Rob, 40, outside of Queens Supreme Court.
The 6-foot 2, muscular Humphrey, 25, choked back tears as the forewoman read eight "guilty" verdicts to the court.
Humphrey will be sentenced on March 6.
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- As I posted last week time of possession is huge tonight. Keep Brees off the field and our defense as fresh as it can be. Even if we fall behind, don't give up the run. Yes, definitely, mix in a bunch of quality pass plays (including the fail-proof play I suggested last night), but keep in mind the importance of owning time of possession. Get the run going to open up the pass – just like last week's game. Again, I want Grant to have 30 carries tonight.
- Hurry Brees. I haven't put much in previous "Game Keys" posts this year asking for our D-Line to do much (mostly because I haven't felt confident they could). But tonight, I want Brees to be hurried and pressured and sacked. I want him to fumble and I want us to pick up the ball for a TD. I want Brees to get out of rhythm. I want Kampman to lead the charge and to play like the dominating DE I think he can still be (he's been only OK this year, despite decent sack numbers). The secondary does its job week after week and Brees is already fully aware of our DBs – but if the D-Line steps it up a notch, the New Orleans pass offense, #1 in the NFL, could be in for a long night.
- Watch the short-medium passes to Jeremy Shockey, Billy Miller, Deuce McAllister and Pierre Thomas. Against our aggressive style of cornerback coverage, many offenses prefer to throw short check-down passes to players who aren't WRs. QBs already know that the timing of many WR patterns will be disrupted by the aggressive Packer DBs right at the line of scrimmage. So, I think that may explain in good part, why tight ends, FBs, RBs in the flat etc, seem to be very popular targets for teams opposing us. Chillar, Hawk, Bigby, Collins – that's you.
- On offense, I want to see Lee and Humphrey (maybe Finley) get some passes. Humphrey has this big-guy-falling-forward-hard-to-get-down type running style that could some day, health permitting, make him one of those throw-to-him-you-get-an-automatic-first-down type guys.
- If New Orleans is overcompensating for Jennings, throw it to him a few times anyway because he'll probably still make a few good plays – but tonight, I would recommend leaning heavily on Driver. Driver will be emotionally pumped up considering his personal situation and the fact that he's always that way. But he's still a very good receiver and his veteran instincts against a suspect secondary could lead to a huge night. Depending on weather Jones plays or not, going to a few 4-5 WR sets might work particularly well tonight considering the opposing defense.
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November 24, 2008 at 8:32 pm |
The key tonight will be the offensive line. Will they be the line that played in that Dome in MN or will they be the line that knocked the snot out of the Bears? I think this will be true the rest of the year. Rodgers is good enough. The WR's and Grant are good enough. The defense is good enough. Will the offensive line be good enough? I think they roll tonight…..
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November 25, 2008 at 8:43 am |
Game keys? Either MM forgot them in his other jacket or the Saints changed the locks. Even if we would have lucked out and won, like the Badgers did this weekend against Cal-Poly, I would still have felt sour about this game.


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Phish to play JPJ
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Yes Page will be slinging (ham) sandwiches, but be careful as his Parkinson's could cause things to get a little messy. He'll definitely need a new shirt before the show.
Just got the official word that Page will be the resident "Sandwich Artist" at the Subway on Ivy Road from 2-6PM on show day.
Conflicted. Should I make plans to watch the Hoos play in the ACC Champ game in Tampa, or do I take my chances on actually winning tickets to this show through the obviously rigged lottery system? Curse you Coran for forcing me to make this decision.
I guess the chances of either happening are pretty near impossible.
I'm feeling as lucky we get the phish as the last time I got to siihb. Miami piper opener baby! You heard it hear first CONFIRMED!!
brah - i heard Taylor Swift is opening for phish. she and Page go way back apparently - he gave her a ride on his leer jet to bermuda after Coventry. i heard he's guesting on her new album too.
anyway -- clean off the grill, malnourish the dog, and stock up on sammy's oatmeal stouts. the Harris Teeter parking lot is never gonna be the same. 1 for 3, 2 for 5 baby...
Who's got my miracle?!?
Hellz yeah I'm down. Like dude said, brush off the grill and get the tweezer from the freezer Uncle Ebeneezer biatches. I'm an old man now but I still love to crunch on some granola when it comes around
What's the story on Taylor Swift? When she comes to Charlottesville on 20 March 2010, is she appearing at the John Paul Jones arena or Scott Stadium? I don't think the John Paul Jones arena, with a seating capacity of 16,000, can hold the crowds she draws.... and Scott Stadium will be a tad on the cold side. Might even be snowing. :)
Her Greensboro, North Carolina concert, with a seating capacity of 23,500 was standing room only.
I think he spells his name "Paige"
I wonder how drunk the boys will be for this show. Hippies suck.


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WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. – 10 local salons and 10 fashion boutiques are gearing up for the fourth annual Passion for Fashion Charity Show at Shenandoah Country Club on Thursday, December 13th.
This event will raise money and awareness to support Christian refugees living in Iraq and threatened by continuing persecution and turmoil, event organizers said.
The fashion show will be hosted by Jon Jordan, WDIV Local 4 Fashion Editor and Jaclyn Schultz, Miss Michigan USA, 2013.
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Downtown Baton Rouge is the place to be for activities, attractions, and festivities.
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City Park has several attractions. City Park encompasses the main park, golf course, tennis courts, dog park, art museum, and more.
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Is massive stupidity covered under Obamacare? What about sexual promiscuity and heavy drinking? Those are some of the questions raised by a controversial ad campaign that aims to encourage younger Americans to sign up for health-insurance plans created by the Affordable Care Act.
But there's a deeper issue that the new "Got Insurance?" campaign ignores completely: Why should young and relatively poor people be forced to sign up for insurance that charges them above-market rates to subsidize rates for old and relatively wealthy people?
In this sense, Obamacare is simply the latest instance of generational theft being perpetrated against younger Americans. It's a feature and not a bug of the President's signature health care law that insurance premiums for those under 30 are likely to increase significantly to allow premiums for older Americans to fall. Indeed, the whole plan hinges on getting 2.7 million whippersnappers out of a total of 7 million enrollees to sign up in the individual market during the first year. If too many older and sicker folks flood the market, the system will crash even faster than the HealthCare.gov website.
The ad campaign, which plays off the popular "Got Milk?" ads, is not the work of the Obama Administration. It is the brainchild of two nonprofits, ProgressNow Colorado Education and the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative. In one of the scenarios depicted, three college-age frat-boy types (a.k.a. bros) are about to chug a huge amount of beer. The text reads, "Brosurance: Keg stands are crazy. Not having health insurance is crazier." [1]
Another shows a young woman wryly flashing a pack of oral contraceptives while a stubbled hunk smiles in anticipation of a hookup. "Let's Get Physical," reads the text. "OMG! He's hot. Let's hope he's as easy to get as this birth control." [2] A third shows a child using what appears to be a machete to slice into a pumpkin. "Trick or Treat It," explains this one. "He set out to carve the pumpkin. He ended up carving himself." [3] The nonprofits have said they want to attract attention and inject a bit of humor into educating young people.
They've certainly attracted attention. Rolled out in late October, the ads have exploded on Twitter in recent days, and they directed so much traffic to DoYouGotInsurance.com that the site became even more popular than it was grammatically challenged, regularly displaying a "bandwidth limit exceeded" error message.
Whether the ads are funny--or just sort of insulting to young people and taxpayers subsidizing Obamacare--is a matter of opinion. Wags on Twitter, for instance, quickly retitled the "Let's Get Physical" ad "Hosurance," a term that became a trending hashtag for a little while.


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Note: I began writing this at 2:20 a.m. on Sunday morning (Dec. 11). What a night and what a weekend it is to be a Bear. This will probably need a bit more work in terms of revising but I had to write down my thoughts in some form before I fell asleep.
Unbelievably, Believable
by Austin Staton
Last night, I watched the Heisman Trophy ceremony and what had once seemed like the impossible became a reality.
As Robert Griffin III accepted the Heisman Trophy, I was grinning ear to ear, nearly choked up, just reflecting how far the University had advanced in six years.
Times have changed in Central Texas.
"This moment right here, it's unbelievably believable," said Griffin. "It's unbelievable because in the moment, we're all amazed when great things happen. It's believable because great things only happen with hard work. The great coach Art Briles always says great things only come with great effort, and we've certainly worked for this.
"To Baylor nation, I say this is a forever kind of moment, and may we be blessed to have many more like it in the future. God has a plan, and it's our job to fulfill it, and in this moment we have."
Robert Griffin III forever transcended the way that Baylor University will now be viewed across the country with those words.
For a program that was once the laughing stock of the Big 12, that has all changed.
As a freshman at Baylor during the fall of 2005, there was plenty of reason to be excited at the prospect of Baylor football. Just a year before, the Bears shocked the country with an upset-win over 16th-ranked Texas A&M – snapping a streak of 13-straight losses to the Aggies – and were off to a 4-1 start on the season.
However, the Bears dropped five of their final six games and fell just one win shy of becoming bowl eligible. During that stretch, Baylor was shutout twice and dropped a heartbreaker in double overtime on the road in Norman.
The next two years didn't fare much better as football combined to win just seven games, forcing the hand of Athletics Director Ian McCaw to relieve Guy Morriss of his duties as head coach.
Despite the setbacks, I never missed a game.
During the final year of the Morriss era in 2007, I began working with Baylor Athletics as a student assistant in the Athletic Media Relations office. After finishing the season with eight-straight losses, we began to hear word that Art Briles would be named the successor to Morriss.
On Nov. 28 of that year, I was inside the Galloway Suite at Floyd Casey Stadium and was tasked with the responsibility to transcribe quotes from Briles' introductory press conference to the Baylor Nation.
As both Briles and McCaw spoke to the crowd, we began to get the feeling that the hiring of Art Briles would be something special and that the reputation of Baylor football could be turned around.
It was a daunting task, but there was hope.
"Art Briles embodies all of the characteristics that I was seeking as we began our search 10 days ago for our new football coach," said McCaw. "We have been very fortunate to recruit him for our football program. He shared a wonderful vision and brilliant plan on how he is going to build a championship football program here at Baylor."
"That's what drives you," said Briles, when asked about taking a program like Baylor and becoming a winner. "As a competitor, you don't feel like there is anything that can't be done. I feel very strongly about the leadership here at Baylor University that I know I am going to get great support. All I've got to do is go motivate some student-athletes and get some folks in the stands excited."
Hired just weeks before the recruiting dead period, Briles immediately hit the recruiting trail in attempts to secure the dual-threat quarterback that had previously committed to him at the University of Houston.
That quarterback was RG3 – a 17-yeard old phenom from Copperas Cove, Texas.
Graduating seventh in his high school class and enrolling at Baylor in what should have been the spring semester of his senior year, Griffin began spring camp battling incumbent signal caller Blake Szymanski and Miami transfer Kirby Freeman. Ultimately, Griffin would enter the 2008 season second on the depth chart behind Freeman, a fifth-year senior.
In their season opener against Wake Forest, Freeman and the Bears fell behind 17-0 after back-to-back 3-and-outs and drive that was squandered with an interception. Just 37 seconds into the second quarter, Griffin made his debut in the green and gold to a loud roar from the Baylor faithful.
Following a timeout with 3:23 remaining on the clock, Griffin rushed for 22 yards to his left, juked three defenders near the home sideline, and the Baylor faithful instantaneously knew that this wasn't the same Baylor program.
Things were changing in Waco.
Although there were minor setbacks over the next two years, the program was no longer a cellar dweller in the Big 12 Conference. There was always a buzz about the football program on campus and we had faith in both Briles and Griffin and what they were doing to change the program.
This season I was fortunate enough to attend eight games and will be in attendance in what could be the final outing of Griffin in a green and gold uniform as the Bears are set to take on Washington in the Alamo Bowl.
When I graduated in 2010, I knew that coming back as an alumnus would be a rewarding experience.
Two years out of college, Baylor is the 12th-ranked team in the country and Robert Griffin III just won the Heisman Trophy.
"Everybody associated with Baylor University has reason to celebrate tonight," Griffin furthered. "To my teammates, I'd like to say thank you. As we say, the hotter the heat, the harder the steel. No pressure, no dominance. We compete, we win. We are Baylor. Baylor we are, Baylor we'll always be, but it's up to us to define what that means, and this Heisman Trophy is only the beginning of that process."
RG3, you've made this alum proud!
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More often these days I find myself using the smart phone in conjunction with my bike commute. It tends to come in handy as a navigation tool, a weather forecaster, and an entertainment system for podcasts like my daily Democracy Now! or my favorite DJ mix on soundcloud.
Now we all know cycling is a simple form of transportation and shouldn't be made more complicated with such distractions, but if your a multitasking bike rider like me, you may want your phone handy and one of the best methods of using the phone and keeping your hands occupied on more important things like operating the bicycle in traffic, is mounting it to the handlebars.
A number of companies make mounting hardware but one particular company also makes a hardcore yet light weight case for the phone, that is highly resistant to the elements and shock.
Introducing the LifeProof for the Iphone 4S.
Lifeproof is a small company based out of San Diego California. Their main goal is to provide sleek, lightweight cases that seal your phone and protect it from the elements. They've even taken it to the extreme by making the phone 100% water proof…That's right, you can do underwater photography in the pool…or just protect your phone from breaks or damaging the front and back elements. The case completely seals your phone including a removable screw cover for the headphone port.
The company likes to say it protects from the 4 proofs…
Dirt, Water, Snow and Shock.
Dirt–the case is sealed and provides protection against mud, sand and grit as well as micro particles like dust which can cause severe damage to the inner electronics of your phone. Take it to the beach, the construction site or burning man and feel confident your phone won't get scratched or damaged.
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Water–completely water proof up to a depth of 2 meters (6 ft) After a simple water test (without the phone) you will be able to take photos and video underwater whether its with juniors first bath, a water park or a snorkeling trip to Bermuda.
Snow–Ski the double black diamond or take video of your cousin's first time on the ski lift as they plow into the crowd, the lifeproof case is made to handle sleet and the snowy elements.
Shock-although it's been military tested, it won't survive a road side bombing, but for everyday drops it tough polycarbonate frame will keep the phone intact up to a 6.6ft drop.
Now for the mounting options.
Lifeproof sells a bike mount for $39.00 that clips to most bike handlebars using a easy to remove metal clip. They also provide rings of inner rubber at various thickness to adjust to thicker handlebars.
The mount comes with a really simple to use ball mount for easy adjust ability, simple tighten the ring and rotate the case on the fly in either vertical or landscape mode.
They've even designed the mount with a cutout for the camera in the rear so you won't miss that shot.
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There is also cut out holes for the speaker on the front bottom for listening to music or using the speaker phone, in case you actually talk with real human beings, I know weird. The case mounts into this rack, from the bottom and is held in place with a locking clip which can be removed with one hand.
For the most part, I am super excited about this case, especially for the handlebar mount, but there are a few drawbacks when incorporating the phone into life off the bike.
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Gramm was born in Fort Benning, Georgia on July 8, 1942, and grew up in nearby Columbus. Soon after his birth, Gramm's father Kenneth suffered a stroke and was partially paralyzed. He died when Gramm was 14. Gramm's mother, Florence (née Scoggins), worked double shifts as a nurse to supplement the veterans disability pension.
Gramm attended public schools, graduated 1961 from Georgia Military Academy (now Woodward Academy), and graduated 1964 from the University of Georgia. He received a doctorate in economics from the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business in 1967
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Paul Gray, the bassist for Grammy-winning metal band Slipknot, was found dead Monday in an Iowa hotel room, police said.
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Amy Sciarretto, a publicist at the band's record company, Roadrunner Records, confirmed Gray's death but declined further comment. Most of the band's members grew up in the Des Moines area.
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Known for its grotesque masks, trashing sound and aggressive lyrics, the band won a Grammy in 2006 for best metal performance for the song "Before I Forget." Concert industry trade publication Pollstar ranked Slipknot 18th in its Top 20 Concert Tours list in 2009.
Andy Hall, music director of Des Moines rock station Lazer 103.3, said he'd known Gray for 10 years. He described him as a talented bass player who was also one of the friendliest, most caring people he knew.
"This is a big blow, not only to the community of Des Moines but fans of metal at large, worldwide," Hall said. "It's a devastating loss. Paul was a wonderful human being."
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Stein, an aide to Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., will replace SEC Commissioner Elisse Walter, a Democrat, and Piwowar, an economist on the Senate Banking Committee's staff, will replace Troy Paredes, a Republican.
If confirmed by the Banking Committee and then by the full Senate, Piwowar and Stein will enter the commission at a time when lots of rulemakings are up in the air—namely creating a fiduciary rule for brokers and making further reforms to money-market funds.
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Balance your hormones by balancing the things you put in your mouth. I don't mean weighing your food or putting them on the scales of justice (although you should justify what you do eat based on how you will feel, both physically and mentally, POST consumption, NOT pre-consumption). This is more about balancing the types of foods you eat. That's right: the foods that you do or don't eat and the combinations of them play a major role in the types of hormones that are released in your body.
The western (modern) diet basically tells our bodies one thing hormonally…GROW. Yep, if you eat like the average American, you are eating a diet that gives you no chance at being healthy or having a "magazine-like" body. And we're not talking Cosmo, People or Muscle Media, we're talking Shape or Women's/Men's Health, or any other magazine that depicts people who at least appear healthful. You see, the average American eats roughly 50% of their calories from carbohydrates, and most of them come in the form of processed grains, sugar and corn syrup.
If you compare this to our ancestors' diets, you will see a large difference in both the amount and the type. About 25-40% of our ancestors' diet was comprised of carbs, and those were pretty much exclusively vegetables with some fruit (not a lot). This plays a huge role in our hormones and in our size. Now, it is safe to say that nobody wants to be fat, but from a physiological perspective on the way that we eat in this country, it sure seems like that is the goal. Not only are we eating tons of these processed carbs, but it is also the way that we eat them. You see, different hormones are released, based on the food combinations that we choose.
Food Choices and Hormonal Response
What is a typical breakfast in the States (if it is even eaten)? Cereal comes to mind, along with pastries, pop tarts, packaged waffles, bagels or toast right? We're not sure how mainstream media switched the good ol' fashion steak and eggs to a sugar slap first thing in the morning, but it has happened. Eating like this is just like a slap or a punch to the pancreas, telling insulin to be released and telling the body to grow, grow, grow. We would have never eaten that high a sugar content or anything remotely like these foods in our hunter-gather days. And remember, we are the same – our genes haven't changed much, if at all, in the last 40,000 years.
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Carbs are going to spike our insulin, no matter what; however, we can curb that spike to some degree if we eat some protein and fat along with the carbs. We are in no way recommending a high carb, high processed food diet. It's important to take it one step further when eating fruits and veggies. It is best when we eat a balanced diet by consuming protein, fat and healthful carbs together at every meal. This is the basis for The Zone Diet prescribed by Dr. Barry Sears. Where we at Bonfire Health differs from Dr. Sears is when it comes to quality of food. He goes into this somewhat, but we want you to focus on eating natural foods (from the earth, not processed), as well as balancing the macronutrient content (protein, carbs and fats).
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The recently released schedule for Sounds Of Summer, Palatine's Wednesday and Friday night outdoor concert series at the Fred P. Hall Amphitheater, serves up some longtime favorites and a few surprises. The Beatles tribute band American English and classic rock copy band 7th Heaven will open and close the season on June 13th and August 1st, respectively. They're two of the biggest acts on the local outdoor festival circuit. Palatine Concert Band, a collection of several talented musicians who play classical and big band pieces, along with the occasional march or soundtrack medley, has three Wednesday night slots, and the local guys of Triadd will be performing classic rock with an emphasis on harmony vocals over a mix of electric and acoustic guitars on July 25th.
The five teenage girls of Serendipity will be playing contemporary hits their classmates would love, along with some vintage rock and soul classics on July 16th. They also perform original material and have their own CDs available for sale at their gigs. Motor City Music Machine, (sorry, I couldn't find the website) scheduled for June 20th, mines the 1960s Motown era for hits from The Temptations, Stevie Wonder, and Marvin Gaye, while Hillbilly Rockstarz (June 25th) cover current and earlier country music stars.
Classical Blast might be the most interesting booking of Palatine's 2014 Sounds Of Summer series, so it's hard to figure why they were scheduled on a Wednesday instead of a Friday. The quartet blends cello and violin with guitars and drums while performing songs like Cream's "The White Room" and Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb." Founder/cellist Petar Kecenovici has worked with Dennis DeYoung from Styx, classical superstar Andrea Bocelli, and Cheap Trick. He's also performed in Broadway musicals. Violinist Jimmy Chaos is a classically trained musician and instructor; guitarist David Kav is also a member of the duo KAVUS and has performed in local productions of Tommy and Man Of La Mancha; drummer Glen Kosche has logged time with JP and The Cats, Tom Carey Band, and Kickbend; and guitarist Bill Syniar was a founding member/producer of Tantrum, and has worked with Survivor, The Doobie Bros., and Steve Walsh of Kansas. Classical Blast performs on July 23rd.
The Sounds Of Summer outdoor concert series once again ends too early this year. Palatine does have its annual street festival in mid-August, but that's no reason to abandon Fred P. Hall Amphitheater while the weather is still accommodating. I'd like to see some lesser-known acts, performing all original material, given an opportunity to use the space. It would be beneficial to the musicians and give Palatine some desperately needed indie rock cred.


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Pizza Truck NYC: The Best $1 Pizza in New York?
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Pizza Style: New York–style
The Skinny: A surprisingly balanced slice, especially for the price, but get there early, when the pies are fresh
Price: Slices, $1
During the summer of 1988, a pizza price war broke out on St. Marks Place. The slice mainstays at that time were the now-defunct St. Marks Pizza (it was actually on Third Avenue and is now a falafel shop) and Stromboli on First Avenue (featured on Slice here). Along the blocks between these two, a couple of fly-by-night slice joints opened up and started selling pizza for under a buck. Since there was nothing to indicate that either place had the chops to actually make real pizza, price-chopping and cost-cutting inevitably became their paradigm. Prices fell from 99¢ to 75¢, and if memory serves me correctly, all the way down to 50¢. The resulting slice was a cruel hoax, an oily slick masquerading as cheese, a smear of sauce that may have been ketchup over a cardboard crust. Not surprisingly, both places are long gone, replaced by tattoo parlors, sushi restaurants, smoke shops, or all of the above in rapid succession.
Fast forward to 2010, and we find the city once again has a number of places selling $1 and 99¢ pizza, which if you think about inflation adjusted dollars might just be the equivalent of 50¢ in 1988 money. Certainly prices for most regular slices of pizza (that you would actually want to eat) cost between $2.25 and $5 these days. So I wasn't expecting much when I approached the Pizza Truck NYC and its promise of the "New York City's best pizza for only $1."
Pizza Truck NYC's website shows a brand new truck (painted a sparkling fire engine red) parked in Union Square. I came across the truck in the exact spot as the picture was taken, but it now looks like a 1970's subway car—covered in graffiti and looking a bit tattered and battered. Somehow that adds an air of street credibility to the enterprise.
Pizza Truck NYC claims to serve fresh slices, but when I visited around noon on a weekend right after they opened, the back of the truck was full of baked pizzas. It seems likely that the pies were baked elsewhere and then loaded in to the truck, despite any claims that the baking takes place on board.
Because of this, I am fairly certain that the slice I had at the beginning of the day when the pies were freshly stocked will not be the same as the one you might have at the end of the day when the pies have been sitting in the back of a truck, marinating in carbon monoxide.
But get there early in the day when the pies are still relatively fresh, and I think that you will be pleasantly surprised. I certainly was: the slice I had did not suck. In fact, more than simply being edible, was actually kind of enjoyable. Of course, it did not have the oodles of cheese that one would get on a rationally priced slice. And the cheese was rather thin and watery with little flavor and even less stretchability. But at least it didn't devolve in to an oily slick or add any off flavors.
The crust was not really objectionable either. It had plenty of crunch and snap. The bottom had the telltale grid pattern that suggests that it was baked on metal grates. It was not very flavorful, though, and was perhaps a bit oily. But it was the sauce that dominated the palate and helped to elevate the less-than-stellar components. It had a sweet, tangy taste and was redolent with oregano. The sauce added balance to the pizza and made the whole greater than the sum of its parts.
Pizza Truck NYC might not serve an amazing slice, but they certainly serve a credible one early in the day, especially considering the price (and that it comes out of a truck.) Is it the best $1 pizza in all of New York City? I'll leave it to one of you to do that rather depressing taste test.
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