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SANFORD — The town's annual Veterans Day ceremony featured a heartfelt and entertaining twist at the Memorial Gym on Sunday — the G.I. Dames showed up and paid patriotic, USO-style tribute to the local men and women who have served in the United States military.
Led by Shirley Girard, the singers dressed in uniform, raised American flags, and marched as they sang songs of appreciation to veterans. At one point, the Dames even danced to the swinging oldies on the gymnasium's floor, surely bringing back memories for veterans who similarly cut loose with their loved ones during their younger days of service.
The event reached an emotional high point when Girard sang a variation of Bette Midler's 1980s ballad, "Wind Beneath My Wings," and the Dames filtered into the bleachers to personally shake the hands of all veterans in attendance.
Girard also sang the national anthem to open the ceremony. Her husband, Bruce, also sang a song of tribute, which had a refrain that asked, "Who Will Fill Their Shoes?"
In keeping with the town's tradition, local history teacher Paul Auger served as Master of Ceremonies. The Sanford High School Band performed three numbers — the Armed Services Salute among them — and Massabesic High School's Naval Junior ROTC ceremoniously folded the American flag at the end of the event.
Captain Jack McAdam, who owns McDougal Orchards on Hanson Ridge Road, delivered a speech about the history of the U.S. Merchant Marine. McAdam, who grew up in Lynn, Massachusetts, graduated from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in 1972. For 32 years, he sailed for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, reaching the rank of Master and commanding two NOAA ships, the Delaware II and Albatross IV, out of Woods Hole. He spent his career at sea on fisheries research vessels, according to the biography that accompanied the ceremony's program. He also served as liaison between the civilian crews and the NOAA management. He retired from the NOAA in 2009.
After McAdam's presentation, Auger recognized Raymond Fortier, another Merchant Mariner, in the audience. Fortier stood, and the audience applauded.
"He's exactly everything that we just heard about," Auger said.
The ceremony was held according to historical tradition, on the eleventh hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. Attendance was lower than in recent years, perhaps partly due to church services held across town that Sunday morning, but several dignitaries arrived to represent either the town, the county, or such local veterans' organizations as the AMVETS, the Disabled American Veterans (DAV), the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), the American Legion, the Marine Corp League and Rolling Thunder.
No doubt Girard best summed up the sentiments and feelings of those who attended Sunday's ceremony to thank the American men and women who have served the United States over the decades, all across the globe, during times of peace and of war.
"Thank you for your service to our country, from all of us in the G.I. Dames," Girard said. "We love you."
For Those Who Keep Us Free 'Dames' and dignitaries join town's observance of Veterans Day
SANFORD — The town's annual Veterans Day ceremony featured a heartfelt and entertaining twist at the Memorial Gym on Sunday — the G.I. Dames showed up and paid patriotic, USO-style tribute to the local men and women who have served in the United States military.


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Game 2 in Philly…
Eric Collins weighed in over at Psychollingy and as you can see, his mind works in random ways…
As for tonight's game, here's the lineup…I hope to post more after Joe's talk with the media in an hour or two…
Pierre, LF
Furcal, SS
Hudson, 2B
Ethier, RF
Martin, C
Loney, 1B
Kemp, CF
Blake, 3B
Wolf, P
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Josh – thanks for the lineup, and I look forward to what Joe has to say. Thanks again!!!
Randy Wolf. Your team needs you. I dare you to win a game. Please do better than pitch just good enough to lose or get a no decision.
JOSH -thanks for the line up….looking good! I'll be waiting for Joe's comments.
Memo to Clayton Kershaw and Randy Wolf: Guillermo Mota has more than wins than either of you two guys. Enough said.
Hi ITD,
1-5 without Manny…JP is playing as well as he ever has – bad arm and all – but who is protecting the young hitters now? Better find someone who can hit before the Gnats are in first to stay.
1-4 without Manny, sorry.
I borrowed this from Pete Carroll's Twitter site, thanks coach 🙂
Lets Start it up!!!!!
Good afternoon ITD Boys & Girls!
I've been busy with auditors requests via the users so I have not finished reading all your comments and probably won't get to all of them until I get home.
Thanks for the suggestions on the 80's costume. I like the suggestion on the big Dodger shirt! I do have a couple of them, some are giveaways. Wouldn't be cool for the Dodgers to show that boogie video on 80's night?
A reunion of the video would be so cool but I don't think the guys would go for it.
Stop the bleeding Wolfie! Go Dodgers!
Gnats have won 14 of their past 20 games. That's .700 baseball. If they keep that pace up I'll tip my cap to them. Dodgers won't see them again until August 10…so the Gnats are the least of the Dodgers' worries right now; no scoreboard watching in May. What the Dodgers CAN watch is MartinLoneyKempEthierKershaw. Once upon time these kids performed. They will again.
Good afternoon all, hopefully we have a wonderful Dodger win today. I think after yesterday a lot of our guys will be inspired to not let that happen again. Go get 'em Wolfie!!!
I'm hoping Kahli, but when I watch these guys on TV lately, it doesn't feel right. They've got to grow up and get their groove back. Who knows if Manny will be worth squat anyway when/if he comes back.
EMMA – that video just put a big o' smile on my face. I wish they would do one with the 2009 team. LOL. It would probably be more of a Rap song, hey Martin can bebop.
Joe needs to call a team meeting, if he hasn't already, and tear open a new ***** in these kids. Last night's game was pathetic. How do you let Werth steal home after he's just stolen second base and third base? Russell and Belisario just weren't paying attention. Also, Furcal has lost a step on defense, whether it's his footwork, or in his mind – I'm betting on in the mind. The whole team is playing as if they're still distracted by the Manny thing. I agree with Kahli – Joe needs to give the team a good hard slap and wake them the hell up.
Strange how Pierre seems to be the only one playing with heart. ODog is still doing fine. Kemper at least is still tearing it up in center field. Ethier will come around. But Loney, Martin, and Furcal need a stern discussion – with or without Manny, you guys need to carry the team. Yeah, we expect to have losses, especially on the road, but keep your f**king head in the game.
I still haven't wrapped my own head around the whole Manny situation. Sometimes I just want to flush all the players born before 1980, thinking that they're all painted with the same steroidal brush. Of course, that would go against the grain of Ned's MO of always getting the PVL's. Think where we would be today without the steroid burnout signings of Schmidt, Jones, Garciaparra, etc.
The most optimistic thing that I can say is……the Gnats are losing today!
Update: Gnats lost to Nats 6-3
ESPN is in the House!!!!
Enjoy the game everyone 🙂
Yes, the Gnats have indeed lost. Wolf, pitch to contact. Quit running up your pitch count. I don't want to see Belisario or Ohman or whatever in the 6th inning. Stud up.
Agree with Belisario and Ohman. Other pitchers that I don't want to see today – Mota and Leach.
Even though it hurt last night, I was glad to see Werth do well. He got a raw deal from the Dodgers, and I'm sure that is more than enough incentive for him to try to excel against them.
Furcal is not playing well and as long as Pierre is on fire and leading off, Furcal should be dropped way down in the order until he gets back on track. I also think that Martin should be dropped down and Kemp should be batting behind Ethier.
I was not in favor of signing Manny for so much money, and I would have never given him two years, with the last year at HIS option. To my way of thinking, that was just plain stupid and may come back to haunt the Dodgers because Manny probably won't be able to get a better deal next year and he may well become a real drag on the team.
Personally, I am not willing to compromise morals/ethics to win, and I have little patience with cheaters. Regardless of the impact of Manny's bat and the fact that we all make mistakes, I don't think cheaters should be tolerated in baseball. Losing some money is not enough compensation for the damage Manny has done to the team, the fans, and the sport.
Let's see. 5 games without Manny. We are 1 and 4. At that rate, we'll be 10 and lose 50 before Manny is back. # of those losses at home where we play so well.
Where's our coaching staff. Loney 125 at bats, no HR'S
Martim 107 at bats, no HR"S What are thses guys doing wrong???
Doesn't look good from where I sit…
Correction, 3 of those losses at home
1st inning pitching:
Soft-toss Moyer–14 pitches, 10 strikes
Our boy Wolf–18 pitches, 12 strikes
Hi everybody
I was waiting for Josh to start a new thread, as I watch the game on ESPN tonight.
That's normally what happens when you have to get the ball in there to keep from walking the batter. Way to go Wolf.
Wolf's pitching batting practice again. He stinks.
I didn't know the game was on ESPN. Guess I'll go watch it on the big screen. Good night everyone.
After 2 innings:
Soft-toss Moyer–25 pitches, 17 strikes
Our boy Wolf–44 pitches, 28 strikes
This has been Wolf's downfall all season. At this rate, he's gone after 5 innings.
I think any win against this team or against the Marlins or the Mets is BIG.
Especially today on ESPN. Big audience.
I'm glad to see that there are some people besides myself who would like to see a couple of the youngsters taken to the woodshed and wopped upside the head with a 2X4 to get some focus back on the game. It's nice for Torre to be that patient understanding manager, but there is a time to get some fire in the belly and to raise some hell with people who are not performing. I'm tired of some of these seemingly spoiled "major leaguers" who were fortunate to get to the major leagues early in their careers, but who don't seem to be progressing from their early promise that got them here. Instead of figuring out which models to date, let's pay some goddamn attention to throwing out some base stealers and hitting just a few HR's before the season's over. Back in Torre's day I don't think his managers would have been as lax with him as he seems prone to be with some of his youngsters.
Jayson Werth is really running all over us.
I never thought of him as a speedster when he was with us.
I guess he spend too much time on the DL.
OOOOODAWG nice clutch hit, behind Furcal's two bagger.
Two doubles in a row.
LONEY – Maybe Joe did take him to the woodshed this morning!
Bats are coming alive. Now we need Wolf to settle down and get into the seventh inning.
Good running by Kemp and great slide and I hope they score some more off Moyer.
That's more like what this team is capable of!!!
WOW!!!! I step away from the tv to eat some supper and it is 5 -1 Dodgers. I'm sorry I missed it but I'll survive. Keep it up Boy's!!! I'm glad to see Loney find a groove 🙂
That's it, shut them down after we score big, Randy put up that big zero.
That's how you do it.
We need more runs against this team, I hope we don't let up.
My Loney has a first name
It's J-A-M-E-S
My Loney has a second name
It's L-O-N-E-Y
Oh I love to watch him every day
And if you ask me why I'll say
'Cause James Loney has a way
With H-I-T-T-I-N-G!
(Sorry I was late)
Martin seems to be finding his stroke while poor Andre seems to have lost his. No one said it would be easy.
They can put the blame on Moyer but it's good to show "the outsiders" how they look successfully swinging those bats.
Let's hope they don't die here.
Actually, I was early.
Nice tag up by Russell.
Good to see him wiff Utley right there.
Keep it up guys.
Ethier's having a rough night against the Philly LHPs.
Joepierre, prior to struggling a bit against them last season Andre had always hit lefties well and quite a few of his home runs this year are against lefties, so I'm not sure why he's struggled against the last few they've faced, but hopefully he'll get it figured out soon. I'm confident he will.
SUPERB 6 innings by WOLF
He's doing a good job against the Phillies.
Keep it there guys.
Been watching on ESPN. So far, it's all good. We sure needed a game like this. Glad to see Loney having a good night. Let's just finish it off. GO DODGERS!!!!
O.K. we have a 6 run lead in the 7th
Bluecrewgirl: He struggling tonight. I know he hits leftys well.
Does anyone kniow if Saturday's game is radio only? I can't find a listing for it on Tv.
I can see what makes the Phillies a good team.
They are preventing the Dodgers from scoring.
They're behind by 6, but defensively they are keeping the Dodgers at bay.
This is a tough game.
Boomer and Sutcliffe would have to bring up THAT GAME!!!!!
Nice job by Troncoso
Now let's see what OHMAN has tonight.
Joyce, the game should be on tv, but it is possible if there's a hockey and a Laker game that day that it might not be. I'll have to check that out.
OHMAN did his job.
3 more Philly outs to go.
We needed that.
His 7th.
That's O.K they're still 7 runs behind.
3 more outs.
2 outs to go.
Damn I knew Ohman couldn't leave a game without given up a run and still don't like that runner on 3rd bases with 1 out and Hudson couldn't get that run in.
Good move by TORRE to take MCDONALD out after those pitches.
We are going for outs, have to make him hit it.
Ibanez is going to put up huge numbers playing in this park.
Ohman now given up 4 homeruns this year after giving up 3 last years and 3 2 years ago. Where is the Ohman from last year?
Yes Ibanez is having one of his best season.
And we had it all the way!
I know our enemys are going to say, "M—-o—y—-e—r didn't
h–a–v–e.. it"
But we beat the Phillies and that's the bottom line.,
Don't tell me you wasn't worried Bear.
Joe Pierre
There are three guys in the bullpen that you just can't trust to get outs for you: Mota, Ohman, and Mac. I don't know what to do with Ohman and Mota other than trade them or release them. I think they need to send Mac back to AAA, so he can do some serious pitching and get his head back straight. His delivery looks terrible.
Can we just give Mac a passed since he's a rookie? I bet if he was in the bullpen from the start of the season that his numbers would had been much better.
I think McDonald will be alright as soon as he gains some confidence. He's got talent but he's just shaky.
I think Joe will put him out there in situation like tonight as often as he can.
Good Evening ITD readers and writers!!!!
Well, that was a good win. Where is enchanted's ndeschenesesk post? Nice job James!!!!!! I knew you would come around to being Big Game James again, and boy did you. A great outing by Wolf, and the rest of the pen for keeping it out of reach.
Hi Nelly. Great victory, but tough game for Andre. I saw him heave a big sigh after his last at bat. I know he's going to be fine, but it must really be tough to go through a slump, especially since it's been so long since he's gone through one.
bluecrewgirl – I was sooo hoping he would get a hit that last at-bat. I was going to even settle for a walk, but yea………… it hurts to watch him struggle like that. However, like you, I know he will swing his way out of it and be just fine.
Way to go Dodgers!!!! Great win tonight!!!!!
I do have some non-baseball Andre news that was kind of fun. Today my minime Ethieraholic, Elaina, got her first place ribbon for her song she did for Andre at the end of last season. She got a first place in the song category in all of Merced County. The song is being displayed on our mall, and I got permission from her parents to use her picture on my blog to do a story about it.
Wow, that's very cool, Nelly. First place in all of the county is quite impressive. She must be quite the talented writer.
NellyJune ~ Fantastic!!!!
Well, it was just an ITD type song, but for a first grader, it was pretty good that she did an ITD-type song with any knowledge that we have DodgerLyrics that is devoted to songwriters. However, I have created an major Andre fan in her. She would be perfect for one of those kids that run out before the game to get an autographed ball from the players.
Thanks tru – now I have to go find it so I can take a picture of it with the ribbon attached.
10-3~ Reds over dbacks 🙂
Congratulations to Elaina!
Congratulaions to all the Dodgers on the WIN! Way to go boys! Loney got his first HR! Woohoo!
Dear messageboard…. who is this model you regard as so intriguing that she has the power to overcome the ability to focus on the task at hand. I myself have a need for a wonderful blessing of her stature and allegiance. How could something so beautiful. and so promising be a deterrent. I do understand your thought process that every one needs a reality check from time to time. BILLY MARTIN was a master at this. GOD REST HIS SOLE….. This brings me to fact that their are many different ways to get the job done!!! However no matter what the process is in accomplishing the ultimate goal, I doubt and I do this with the utmost conviction. Attacking ones better half is not going to gain anyone's respect. You must first have respect for yourself, and with that you can be a TRUE LEADER,
Billy Martin I am not…….. Billy Martin however, GOD REST HIS SOLE, was a winner. I do believe he had plenty of respect and admiration from his peers. I remember him and Lou Pinella arguing about their difference's during a game.
Classic baseball at its best. I have no idea where I want to go with this,other than PLEASE LEAVE THE GOOD THINGS OF ANY INDIVIDUALS LIFE….. OUT OF YOUR DESIRE TO SPARK A FIRE UNDER THEIR BEHIND!!!!!!!! I don't mean to single you out anymore than you mean to single out the good things in any player/ fan / normal individual's life. I apologize if I have affended anyones feelings, It was and never will be my intention's.
Hey everyone, I have a few thoughts on J-Mac. Great stuff so much potential……………………….. He himself said he has trouble focusing. I have no answer for his lack of attention, other than I myself can symphitise with his concern and apparent problem. When he has the desire to throw the baseball he is one of the best in the game. I truly beleive this. He is young and the pressure he is facing would make the best of our knees shake. J-Mac all I can say is listen to the ones that came before you , trust your GOD given ability to perform at this level, and do what it takes to make your dream a reality. GO GET EM J-MAC!!!!
I am pretty sure you can all figure out who nuckleheadwannabe is. It is me Dodger4life, Noone threw more tennis balls agianst their father's garage door, wore out pitch back after pitch back than me, all while dreaming of bringing a WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP to our beloved Dodgers. I got lost somewhere along the way, Heck who knows maybe I never had a chance in the first place???
What I do know is I never accomplished my goal, I personally believe it was'nt from lack of talent, heck I got so much better as I matured, and I was one skinney a**ed kid. It was from lack of focus and lack of desire, heck I just gave up, no excuses. They say looking back and wondering what could of been is misery in itself. I can testify that if you are looking back on something you truly love, and you got lost somewhere along the way, You will always wonder what might of been??? This is what makes a true champion!!! This what seperates the great ones from the so, so's. In retrospect sure I wish I would of given a little more, had the perserverence to overcome a few minor obstacles, I dont regret my life one bit as it turned out, heck I'm not one to complain. I have to many great things as it is. I do not have have what I set out in the begining to achieve, Few of us do…….It is'nt the money, it isnt the good times to be had along the way, heck it is'nt even the hall that we seek. It might just be the fact that noone can take your dream away from you unless you let them, and finding a group of guy's that have the same desire and fire within as you do is rare!!! THE 2009 DODGERS HAVE THIS POTENTIAL!!!! MAKE YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE!!!!!!!
Good Morning ITD readers and writers!!!!!
Thanks Emma!!!
Dodger4life – fabulous write-ups!!!!! ……….and boy, you ethier woke up super early or you made it waaaay past me in staying up late.
Early game for our Dodgers if you are a west coast fan – 10:05 pst.

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Thursday, June 30, 2011
Thoughts on Thursday...
Shower, get ready, get dressed and then go into the house to start your day...or
Do you go out into the house in your pj's or comfy clothes, have a cup of tea or coffee, something to eat, start the craziness with the family etc...
I am pajamas girl, but on work days I'm trying to shower and get ready first before I go down stairs. Seems like I'm more on time when I do.
How about you???
Have a great Thursday,
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I like to wake up way before the husband unit rolls out of bed!! Love my morning coffee/toast/blog/email/ time to myself!! I'll stay in pj's if I know I'm not having to expect anyone over or have to go out for anything.Then I go tinker away in my craft room!! and forget about the world ...as the husband says lol I love your blog btw! have a nice day!ReplyDelete
Today I'm in my comfy clothes, but normally, I get ready for the day first. Somehow, I seem to have more time to do as I please if I get the necessities out of the way first!ReplyDelete
During the week I get up between 4 and 4:30, make coffee and then head up to the studio to check email, blogs and sew. At 6 I head down to shower and get ready for work. Out the door about 7:15. On weekends, I get up at 5, do coffee, studio and then about 9 or 10 (unless I have an activity planned) do housework & laundry in my jammies. Sometimes I am in my pajamas until pretty late in the day before I shower and get dressed in "real" clothes!ReplyDelete
I try to exercise in the mornings and so I don't shower first...which means alot of times, I don't get my shower until late....real late....ReplyDelete
Right now it's jammies, breakfast (I'm pregnant and due in 5 weeks!), check emails while eating breakfast, then showerReplyDelete
Come out in pj's, put on tea kettle, settle in at computer, drink tea while reading Bible, and meet kids at school table. In pj's of course :)ReplyDelete
I up early - into the shower, dress and then onto the computer until hubby wakes up about 2 1/2 hours later. Then it's on to the rest of the day!!ReplyDelete
I will stay in bed hitting snooze until the absolute last minute. In fact, I'll shower the night before, eat breakfast at the office, and decide what to wear before getting out of bed just to have that extra time. It might be different if I didn't have to be in my office by 8 AM, but I am NOT a morning person. It's hardest during the winter months when I leave in the dark and come home in the dark and don't see daylight all day long. I wish I didn't have to work full-time but I really need at least 8 to 10 hours of sleep to feel rested, and it's hard to do because it leaves me with only a few hours each evening to sew, pay bills, spend time with family, read, shop, etc., and I usually wind up staying up later than I want to. It really does feel like a rat race sometimes!ReplyDelete
I've got to have my coffee first thing! The shower can wait! :)ReplyDelete
Like you - I do both. I seem to get more done when I shower first and get goin'!ReplyDelete
Before marriage to a farmer I was a pajama girl too. After being 'caught' in pjs at 6:30am by people wanting something of my hubby, I learned to get up, dressed and make the bed before heading out into the house and the rest of my routine. Now that hubs is a hobby farmer with an in town job, people aren't usually here before 8 any more..phew. Sometimes I wished I lived where no one knows us and I could get away with pjs till 10! Oh well..not gonna happen!ReplyDelete
I am such a creature of habit...ReplyDelete
wake up
make bed
dry hair and dress
gather up a load of laundry
and then go downstairs to
make a cup of tea
put in laundry
unload dishwasher
and THEN
read email and blogs and start my day...
I'm a pajamas girl. But our house was being painted this week, so I had to be dressed before 7am. It's not a bad way to start the day. I'm getting so much done!ReplyDelete
I love my pajamas! I will stay in them all day unless I have to go somewhere! ;)ReplyDelete
On a day like today (day off) I get up anywhere from 6 to 9am, come downstairs in jammies, turn on the computer, make a cup of tea, and check eamil & blogs for about an hour. I will usually have breakfast then too. Then it's time to shower and start 'real' life. When I am working I shower first and have about 1/2 to eat breakfast before work.ReplyDelete
Need to be more of the get ready first and then go around the house, but seem to always roll out and get everyone going and then chill after they have all left for the day.ReplyDelete
While I like to stay in my jammies (and when I do I tend to be in them until embarrassingly late in the day) I get up and get around before I go downstairs. It makes me more productive and there's less competition for the bathroom/shower! :)ReplyDelete
Always without exception go and let the dog out and make the coffee. Then, on work days, I shower and put on my bathrobe then have coffee. Otherwise I stay in my nightgown and bathrobe drinking coffee and relaxing until I decide on my day then shower and dress. :)ReplyDelete
I'm totally useless until I've had my shower and gotten ready for the day. Even on my day off I can't seem to accomplish anything until I'm showered and ready for the day.ReplyDelete
I wake with the birds, so it's my quiet time. I get my coffee, grab my computer and read emails and blogs :-). By then DH is up and we chat a bit while he watches the morning news. Then I get my shower and breakfast and start my day. When I was employed outside the home, I had to hit the floor running - now it's simply enjoying the morning!ReplyDelete
I am up before 5 too so I generally check blogs while I have my coffee, clean a bit and then shower.ReplyDelete
I've been going downstairs (4th week in a row now)...to the walk-out basement. I get on my treadmill (mee treddy). Then, I go upstairs to get ready for the day.ReplyDelete
If I don't get "ready" straight away...my brain and body tend to just "lolly-gag" around all day. And, sometimes this DOES happen, when I am just too lazy to get ready.
Since it is summer it is too hot for pj's, so I am now a bathing suit and tshirt girl, lol. If I am going out for the day, then I add kayak shoes;)ReplyDelete
I am not a morning person, but my hubby is. So he gets up early, and wakes me every morning with a cup of coffee in bed! Sometimes he brings cake or muffins, too! Yay! After lingering in bed, seeing if anything good is on tv (like Criminal Intent or NCIS), I'll come downstairs in jammies, get on the blogs, make and eat our oatmeal, then 'think' about getting showered and dressed.....no hurry.....I usually don't have to work until 2ish.ReplyDelete
Fun to see what everyone does! During the work week, it's up, shower, start coffee, take the pup out, then dress and out the door. On weekends, however, I get up and spend a nice hour sipping coffee and reading quilty blogs in my jammies. I love weekends!ReplyDelete
I shower and get dressed before I do anything. When I'm awake I want to be rid of my sleepy clothes, lest I crawl back into bed!ReplyDelete
I do like you do. I am retired though, so most days I come down in the pj's. Appointments or outings usually mean showering and then going down....actually I like those days better, should do that all the time!ReplyDelete
In my house, we NEVER get dressed until we're just about to leave the house. We have two Jack Russell Terriers who leave white hair over everything. Figures most of my wardrobe would be black!ReplyDelete
I get up and get dressed before I go downstairs. Once I go downstairs, I don't go back upstairs sometimes until bedtime, so, I'd better be dressed. Next I fix breakfast, then sit at the computer to eat and catch up on emails and blogs. MY time.ReplyDelete
I eat my breakfast and read the newspaper, then I shower and get ready for my day. I don't start any projects or cleaning, until I'm dressed. Be prepared is my motto.ReplyDelete
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Karen I am definately a Pajama girl!ReplyDelete
I turn on the computer, grab my coffee & read my blogs, surf,ect. After my second cup I make myself get showered & dressed but on rainy days I do have a 3rd cup!
This weekend it is suppose to rain...I am looking forward to a pajama weekend!
P.S Excuse the previous deleted message..I goofed up ?
On work days (M-F) I shower when I get up but I don't get dressed for work until after eating breakfast and looking at some blogs on my iPad. On weekends, thats another story, I stay in my PJ's for a while and enjoy being a bit lazy.ReplyDelete
Get up at 5 A.M. go to kitchen make coffee and breakfast for hubby who goes to work.ReplyDelete
Eat, go dress for 3 mile walk then
home, shower, makeup and that starts my day. I am ready to clean the house or sew or whatever I come up with.
I am a pijama girl and used to drive my mother crazy! :)) But i am working on it! :))ReplyDelete
I'm a get showered,get dressed and get going to work girl, except on weekends I'm a stay in the pj's till midday I can be found most saturdays doing the washing and vacing in my jammies and if I get visitors then I figure they come to see me not how I dress. Happy school holidays in Aus cheers allReplyDelete
funny you should ask ... LOL ... if i get my bra on before the hubbs comes home for lunch, i'm doin' good ... i'm a jammie girl, a sweatshirt-in-the-house-all-day-girl, not so much lazy but comfy ... the bra part is truth!!!ReplyDelete
darlene, who loves your questions ... they always make me laugh!
I roll out of bed and can't really function before my cup of coffee. Then check the news before heading back upstairs for a shower. Problem is, I'm always pushing time. I know it would be far more effective for me to shower first and I'm trying to change! If only someone would make me a coffee and bring it up to me!!ReplyDelete
I am not a morning person. I would sleep until 9 if I could, but that would make it difficult to keep my job (which I love). I'm usually up between 6 and 6:30, let the dog out, fix my coffee and share a few quiet moments with the Lord (and my dog - who patiently waits for her share of my coffee, the last sip from the bottom of the cup) then I'm jumping in the shower and getting ready for the day!ReplyDelete
My kids are my alarm clocks - my toddler loves to get up bright and early in the morning. I would stay in my pajamas all day long if I could, but in the summer we like to go for a walk while it's still cool outside and then I shower and get ready for the day.ReplyDelete
A cold shower is all i need to get started..if I don't shower early it will drag to midday and often an unexpected guest will be at the front door.ReplyDelete
I'm usually up before everyone else. I fix me a cup of tea and my husband a pot of coffee and sit at the computer and catch up on emails and facebook before starting my day.ReplyDelete
Love sewin' in the pj's. It's the very best thing about retirement!ReplyDelete


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In Kundalini Yoga, communication is everything. We create our world through communication. We manifest our spirit through communication. We can destroy ourselves or someone we love with incorrect communication. So the science of communication is very thoroughly studied, and of the upmost importance.
Understanding conscious communication involves many different dimensions. How we speak to ourselves; how we speak to others; matching the communication with the purpose; deep listening; learning to communicate from chakra to chakra. All these aspects are involved in developing the art of conscious communication.
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What's next for 'The Help' author Kathryn Stockett
Kathryn Stockett takes her interviews to go, which explains why she's huffing, just slightly, into the phone.
"I always do my interviews while walking," says the author, catching her breath, "and you're my 30-minute time slot."
Perhaps the walk makes her less guarded, too. Here is a woman who has been interviewed hundreds of times about "The Help" - her debut novel that touched a major chord with readers, resonating louder and longer than anyone could have anticipated. Yet Stockett doesn't come back with canned answers to my questions. She comes off as thoughtful and frank.
The financial and artistic success of "The Help" has been "a nice outcome," she says, in her melodious Mississippi drawl, down-playing the staggering 10 million copies sold since its release in February 2009.
"And yet … cringe-worthy," she adds, giving herself a few seconds to find the right word.
The book is inspired by a black woman named Dimitri, who worked as a maid for Stockett's family when the author was a child. Aibileen's character in "The Help" is based on Dimitri.
"I feel like I'm earning a living off someone who did our family such a great service and who died poor and alone," the author says. "I think about that, and it's not a comfortable feeling."
So she tries to give back, supporting public schools, arts and literacy programs.
She's come a long way over the past decade.
It took Stockett five years to write "The Help" and three years to find a publisher. She famously endured dozens of rejection letters before Amy Einhorn Books (a division of Penguin) agreed to publish the book.
Since then, Stockett has toured four times for the novel and sat through a movie shoot.
A housekeeper for Stockett's brother later filed a lawsuit against Stockett claiming the author had used her name (Ablene Cooper) and likeness for "The Help." The case was dismissed when a judge determined the suit was filed after the one-year statute of limitations for misappropriation claims.
"I've had a very long relationship with the story," Stockett says. "I'm kind of ready to move on."
And she has - by plugging away at book No. 2.
Expectations for her second novel are high, to say the least. Is she worried about a sophomore slump?
"Everyone's been very … silent," Stockett says. "I think they've seen it happen to enough people. There are those one-hit wonders."
She admits to blowing her first deadline more than a year ago. No one has put any pressure on her since.
"I almost wish they would," Stockett says. "All the pressure is coming from within."
As yet, there is no title for the second book, which follows a group of women with no marketable skills who must somehow find a way to survive in the early decades of the 20th century.
"It's set in Oxford, Miss., and it straddles the Roaring '20s and the Great Depression because I like the dichotomy of the time, and I like to think about how it reflects on our times," Stockett explains.
"I don't know anyone … who is going without food, but that was very common in the 1920s. You had to stretch everything. So I love the idea of these women living in Mississippi, not having any training or skills, not even expecting they'd have to earn their own living. All the men die or run off; the men don't have a huge part in the story. I love to see what people do when the pressure is really on. That's when we see the best of ourselves or the worst of ourselves."
Stockett told her publisher she'd have a draft ready by February.
"I don't know if I'll make that deadline," she says gaily, "but you can write, 'She's working furiously on her new book and hopes it comes out very soon.' "


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gino_ss wrote: How would you classify Star Trek and Star Wars? Science Fantasy?
Star Trek is space opera. It's probably the worst program ever for made-up science. They get almost nothing right.
Star Wars is medieval Sword and Sorcerer fantasy with space ships and aliens. Their science is a little better, but barely.
Both are laughingstocks in the scientific community. Of course, that same community sucks-up every smackerel of every episode.
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Typically, the first thing we try to do in the monthly Northwest Division Awards is determine which of the group's Canadian entries has been the best over the past 30 or 31 days.
Well, the Flames suffered through a nine-game losing streak in January, displayed chronic scoring amnesia and ended the month by cutting the cord with the guy who was supposed to be the cornerstone of the blue-line brigade for at least as long as Darryl Sutter was running the show.
Meanwhile, the Oilers were oh-for-2010 until the calendar flipped to February, and that's all that really needs to be said about that.
The Canucks, on the other hand, were 10-2-1 in January and probably would have gotten the nod even if the two Alberta clubs hadn't gone into rigor mortis during the month.
Due south, the Colorado (We're Still Here) Avalanche were 7-5-0 during the past month while the Minnesota Wild treaded water to the tune of 7-6-1.
And now, let's hand out some hardware
MVP: In this case, the "V" stands for voluble as well as valuable. When he wasn't busy doing the Oliver Stone conspiracy routine, waging war with national broadcasters and playing professional victim, Vancouver's Alexandre Brurrows managed to score 15 goals in 13 games while riding shotgun with the Swedish Wonder Twins. He also had seven assists and was a plus-17.
Honourable mention: Vancouver's Henrik Sedin and Daniel Sedin, Colorado's Craig Anderson and Minnesota's Guillaume Latendresse.
LVP: Honestly, you could drop just any Oiler this side of Dr. Randy Gregg into this slot and you'd be in the ballpark. Let's go with season-long whipping boy Shawn Horcoff, who had no goals and two assists in 11 games and was minus-6 for the month, which is actually only half as bad as teammate Ethan Moreau's minus-12.
Dishonourable mention: Edmonton's Sheldon Souray, Andrew Cogliano and Jeff Drouin-Deslauriers.
Quote of the month: "You get hit so many times with a right, you're begging for a left. Quote of the month: You get hit so many times with a right, you're begging for a left." — Oilers head coach Pat Quinn
Stat of the month: When the Oilers and Flames met on Jan. 30, it was the first time in 22 years that two teams with losing streaks of at least nine games had gone head to head.
Individual stat of the month: Alex Burrows had four shorthanded goals in January, which is more tallies of any description that Todd Bertuzzi, Chris Drury, Ryan Getzlaf Phil Kessel, James Neal, Owen Nolan, Dustin Penner, Corey Perry, Tomas Plekanec, Derek Roy, Keith Tkachuk and Henrik Zetterberg managed during the month.


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I love these guys. Any parent dealing with an ill child has my vote!
I know he has an ill child and I respect his dream to be on the race to better his family's life. But this team may be a little too aggressive for my liking.
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Clay Countians to compete on 'Amazing Race'By Herald-Leader Staff ReportPosted: 12:00am on Jan 26, 2012Two best friends from Manchester will be among the 11 teams competing on the next season of the sprint-around-the-world reality show The Amazing Race.William "Bopper" Minton, 41, a motorcycle mechanic, and Mark Jackson, 45, a former inspector for the state agriculture department, are part of the 20th season of the eight-time Emmy-winning show, which premieres at 8 p.m. Feb. 19 on CBS.For their official team photo, the men show off their Bluegrass State pride: Both are wearing University of Kentucky T-shirts.Jackson made news earlier this year when he was among the people whom new state Agriculture Commissioner James Comer fired without cause.Among the teams that Minton and Jackson will compete against are a pair of Border Patrol agents; federal agents; twins; divorced Texans; and last year's Big Brother winner, Rachel Reilly, and her fiancé and fellow houseguest, Brendon Villegas.This season, teams will visit Paraguay and Azerbaijan while traveling through five continents and 22 cities and racking up nearly 40,000 miles.Minton and Jackson come from a long line of Kentuckians competing on The Amazing Race. Previous seasons have featured former University of Louisville athletes Jen and Kisha Hoffman, who won their encore season last year; Gary and Mallory Ervin of Morganfield; David and Mary Conley of Pike County; and Dennis and Andrew Hyde of Richmond.Read more here: http://www.kentucky.com/2012/01/25/2043064/clay-countians-to-compete-on-amazing.html#storylink=cpyRelated StoriesEx-U of L stars win 'The Amazing Race''I'm tired,' says 'Amazing Race' winnerKentucky duo get a second shot on 'Amazing Race'Ex-Miss Ky. to compete on 'Amazing Race'
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We all know the importance of keeping our surroundings clean. That's why we dust off and vacuum our homes and cars regularly to keep dust, smoke and other airborne allergens to a minimum.
In nanomanufacturing and scientific research, a clean environment is not only desirable, it's essential. That's why an integral part of UMass Lowell's newly inaugurated $80 million Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center (ETIC) on North Campus is a "clean room" facility, where the air inside is continuously circulated, filtered and monitored to make sure that the number of microscopic particles present doesn't exceed the maximum allowable limit.
"Semiconductor and other submicron devices are very vulnerable to many types of contamination, such as particles, metallic ions, chemicals and bacteria," says Thomas Ferraguto, director of ETIC's Nano Fabrication Laboratory Clean Room. "When things are this small, you need a hyper-controlled environment."
In addition to meeting critical criteria for temperature, humidity and vibration, the building houses Class 100, Class 1,000 and Class 10,000 clean-room spaces. The classification refers to the maximum number and size of particles — in microns — permitted per volume of air. (A micron is a millionth of a meter — for a sense of how small it is, the human hair measures about 100 microns wide.)
In the Class 100 clean room, only 100 particles measuring about 0.5 micron are allowed per cubic feet of air; in Class 10,000, only 10,000 such particles are permitted. In comparison, an ordinary room can contain as many as 1,000,000, or more, particles per cubic feet.
How Does the ETIC Keep the Room so Clean?
"Clean air is forced down by large fans over the work area through high-efficiency particulate air [HEPA] or ultra-low penetration air [ULPA] filters," says Ferraguto.
Researchers working in the facility have to wear protective garments, such as lint-free hoods, face masks, coveralls, gloves and boots, to prevent contamination, he adds.
The ETIC features both positive-pressure and negative-pressure clean-room spaces. In the positive-pressure room, the air pressure inside is greater than the outside, preventing contaminants from entering the room. In the negative-pressure room, the air pressure is lower than the outside, preventing potentially hazardous particles or vapors from leaving the room.
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"The ETIC is where scientists from both public and private companies can perform cutting-edge research using state-of-the-art equipment," says Ferraguto.
The University spent $6 million to construct the clean room and is spending another $6 million for new equipment. This includes an Oxford Instruments Plasmalab System 100 for reactive ion etching and plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition, an Aixtron 4-inch Black Magic system for carbon nanotube and graphene production, a Raith 150-two for electron-beam lithography and a Cambridge Nanotech Fiji for plasma-assisted atomic layer deposition.
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c. 1900 Photograph of Elementary School Children; by Pollard studio, Dover, Maine
Late 19th or early 20th century photograph of schoolchildren taken by the Pollard studio of Dover, Maine. Sadly, no one in the photograph is identified.
The photograph may have been taken at a Dover school or another school in nearby town in Piscataquis or Penobscot counties. The school appears to be situated on a knoll with a large barn or other building in the background.
In 1922, Dover, on the south side of the Piscataquis River, merged with Foxcroft, a village on the north side, to create the town of Dover-Foxcroft.
If you happen to recognize the teacher, standing near the doorway, or anyone else, from your family albums, please leave a comment in the comments box or contact me directly.
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Awesome photo - I hope someone recognizes it!ReplyDelete
Glad you enjoyed it! I'm hoping that someone recognizes the setting and the building, if it still exists. Dover and surrounding area are rather hilly.ReplyDelete
- Barb E HarrisJuly 18, 2014 at 7:24 PM
My brother inllaw also owns the house on 1 sliver terrace.ReplyDelete
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A Plethora Of PiñatasApril 10, 2009
Fight Club…WR EditionFebruary 20, 2007
The first position battle the Subway Domer is going to analyze are the Wide Receivers. First, let me just say, this is no real attempt to say who is going to start on Saturdays this fall. All we are doing here is breaking down the spots a wee bit and putting a projection on what we would like to see. I will only be referring to the players enrolled at ND right now and available for the spring game. We have no logical dissertation of the other 15 freshman until late summer.
David Grimes
D.J. Hord
Robby Parris
Richard Jackson
Barry Gallup
George West
Darrin Bragg
This position has great depth. It also has a lot of questions and inexperience. The absolut lock is David Grimes. He showed a lot of promise as the 3rd WR in last years formations. He caught 26 balls for 336 yds. and 2 TD as the 4th leading receiver on the team. Those aren't great stats, but when the top 3 were Samardzija, McKnight, Walker, and Carlson- he took what he got. He made some crucial catches in the UCLA game that really elevated him.
The next 2 leading WR from last year that are returning is West and Parris. They COMBINED for 3 receptions for 21 yards and no TDs. (West did score a TD against Purdue on a WR reverse). That doesn't make me feel like jumping with joy about what lies ahead with a new QB at the helm.
However, D.J. Hord returns after missing all of last season with a torn Achilles tendon. He may be that HR threat we have all been looking for him to be. IF he really is 100%. We don't have any real information on the others and won't until after the Spring Game.
I have no real reason to claim Jackson as the 3rd WR. Just a hunch that he may become a beast. I've had hunches before and it always seems 50/50.
Mitch's Take: No idea. Grimes definitely. After that the other 2 spots are a toss up. He was a worrier about Samardzija and thought he was a pile of dung the first 2 years. Was pleasantly surprised when Jeff turned out to be our best player after Quinn. He sees someone stepping up but it is way to early to tell. Ask again in October.


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AGAIN Interviews Fr. Peter Gillquist for 30th Anniversary Issue
AGAIN Magazine, published by the Antiochian Archdiocese's Conciliar Media Ministries, has released its 30th anniversary issue. The issue includes a special interview with the magazine's publisher, and the Chair of the Archdiocese Department of Missions and Evangelism, Fr. Peter Gillquist, reflecting on his years of service to the Church and what the future may hold.
"Looking back, I would say the thing we need to stress today with the converts is the need to learn how the Orthodox Church works—the fancy name for that is ecclesiology. As evangelical Protestants, we were so used to doing our own thing, exercising our independence—a favorite slogan was, 'Nobody's going to tell me what to do or what to believe.' You just can't live that way as an Orthodox Christian. Because number one, we're all under the lordship of Christ, and secondly, within the Church, as scriptures teach, He has established apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers." Click here to read the rest! Also, listen to an interview with Fr. Peter on Ancient Faith Radio.


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Pro wrestler Chris Jericho and radio personality "Psycho" Mike Catherwood admit they may not know much about dancing, but they do know a little something about showmanship.
As the two contenders gear up for their debut cha-cha-cha-ing on "Dancing With the Stars," both agree that they need to bring as much of their well-established over-the-top personas to the dance floor in their bid for the coveted Mirror Ball trophy.
"I'm really focusing on showmanship, because I believe that this contest is show business," Jericho, who's had some experience working his ringside WWE fans into a frenzy, tells PopcornBiz. "There are millions of people watching the show and probably millions of people who have no idea who Chris Jericho is. I'm okay with that, because I think we're all kind of starting with a clean slate and everybody is even at this point, no matter what kind of reputation that they bring. So I think that you want to have the most show business flash that you can to make your mark."
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"We owe it to the viewers to give it our all in the showmanship aspect" agrees Catherwood, the "Loveline" host known for bringing his share of outrageousness to the airwaves. "Because who wants to tune in, who wants to support this show if people are going to half-ass it when it comes to really delivering the show? I mean, you're not tuning in to watch us blow your mind with dance moves. You're tuning in to see us giving it our all from a presentation standpoint. So I feel like it's our obligation to really deliver when it comes to being a show-stopper."
"I think I'm confident enough that I have a real shot to do a semi-decent performance on show," Jericho says. "It's been a really grueling couple of weeks as far as learning the routines and trying to get them right and now that we're getting so close it's time to get out there and make donuts and get the job done. So I think we're excited for this first day to happen."
"Everybody involved in the show – not just Chris and I – are pretty new to the world of dance," says Catherwood. "It's not just all about one-two-three-four and hitting steps. It's about the way that you present yourself and the way that you conduct yourself and your posture and your poise. That's honestly been the hardest part. I think it's easy to underestimate just how much goes into doing the most rudimentary dance moves."
"I think you just have to be yourself," says Jericho, who day job frequently involves radical shifts in character and outrageous plot twists. "People are really smart, as far as knowing who's genuine and who's trying to put on something that they're not. Hopefully people will enjoy what I do and enjoy my personality. For me the whole thing has been such a blast all ready and I'm really starting to get addicted to the training and to the dancing and to the show. So I don't want that to get taken away at this point."
"It's all about just having a great time and showing people that we're trying our hardest," says Catherwood. "If you can do that, I do think that people will get behind you."


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Even though I founded Grand Theft Wiki in 2006, and I had the backing of the community to move, Wikia are pretending it never happened so that they can continue to earn money on the adverts that this community hates so much. They have thrown away their dignity, and lost the respect of the community.
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ROCHESTER, Mich. – Rochester residents have unwittingly been getting a break on their water bills, but their good fortunes are about to change.
City officials tested 73 water meters and discovered that 78 percent of them are faulty.
The average error is 33 percent on the low side.
The current meters are 30 years old and are no longer manufactured.
The Rochester council delayed action this week on a $1.3 million contract to replace all meters in the city.
Members want more testing, and development of a plan to communicate the change to residents.
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How do you fight a fire in an old cathedral? Pray for a miracle
Whether said in jest or despair, as flames ate away more than 800 years of history that is the iconic Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, there came a lament: How do you fight a fire in an old church? Pray for a miracle.
And as the fire grew and the damage spread, amid fear that maybe not much could be saved — given the unique challenge of attacking a blaze of such ferocity, in such conditions, in a building so tall, so old and so unforgiving — that prospect took on new meaning.
"These cathedrals and houses of worship are built to burn," Vincent Dunn, a fire consultant and former New York City fire chief, told The New York Times as he detailed how hard it is to control a fire in such a building.
"If they weren't houses of worship, they'd be condemned."
Even U.S. President Donald Trump became an armchair fire chief, suggesting how to tackle it.
"So horrible to watch the massive fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris," Trump tweeted. "Perhaps flying water tankers could be used to put it out. Must act quickly!"
While water bombing was not part of the plan — apparently for fear the weight and power of the falling water would lead to further damage — there was a massive effort underway.
About 400 firefighters were mobilized to tackle the blaze, according to France's interior minister. Additional resources from surrounding cities and towns poured in to help.
Helicopters were overhead assessing and relaying fire and structural information, while boats pumped water from the River Seine to feed the myriad of fire hoses directed upwards.
The interior of the cathedral is approximately 130 by 48 metres, with a 35-metre-high roof. Two massive early Gothic towers crown the western facade, which is divided into three storeys and has its doors adorned with early Gothic carvings and Old Testament kings.
When the spire, the cathedral's highest point at 90 metres, collapsed, lighting the French sky in deep orange, authorities expressed hope that the two bell towers — which rung out to mark all manner of fantastic and horrible events over centuries of life in Paris — could be saved.
It was the very age of the place as well as the design that made it so vulnerable. Construction on it started in 1160 A.D.
Gregg Favre, a former St. Louis firefighter, engrossed Twitter readers throughout the day with insights on the challenges that his Parisian colleagues faced.
"Churches have no shortage of things to burn," Favre said in a Twitter thread that gained huge traction.
"The first issue is how old churches are built — heavy timber construction with large open spaces and very few (if any in a church like #NotreDame) fire stops."
Modern construction calls for sprinkler systems and firestops — passive fire-protection systems used to seal openings in buildings. Nothing of the like were in the construction plans of the cathedral.
"The peak, the lack of access and fire spread means almost certain loss," Favre said of the roof, which was mostly covered by scaffolding at the time as it underwent a large-scale renovation.
"Even if aerial waterways (think hook and ladders with pre-piped hoses) could reach the roofline, it is difficult to see how they would get an angle that would get water on the fire — it's just too high. So this means you have to put firefighters inside."
Hand-held hoses inside a structure fire of that size are difficult to manoeuvre and largely ineffective, Favre said. Any firefighters inside would also be in danger as the roof collapsed around them.
Almost everything was against the firefighters, he noted.
A fire requires oxygen, fuel, heat and a chemical chain reaction. Cutting off any one element will extinguish the flames. But this fire offered no obvious way to interrupt any of them, he said.
There was plenty of fuel, from the cathedral's wood structures to its paper and fabric contents. The heat from a roaring blaze of that size is tremendous, offering little hope of interrupting it, and the chance of stopping the chemical chain reaction ended five minutes after it started, Favre said.
"That leaves the oxygen. Unfortunately, even if the roof had not burnt off, churches are nearly impossible to control ventilation in. Their design is to be open and airy.
"Great for Sunday worship, terrible for managing fire spread."
The only thing Favre could think of in favour of curtailing the damage was the firefighters themselves.
The Brigade des sapeurs-pompiers de Paris, he said, "are world-class firefighters … as strong, dedicated and skilled responders as you'd find anywhere in the world."
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Halo 4 is being released on Nov. 6.
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Vintage Finds for a Modern World: Shopping Etsy.
I seem to be on a vintage tangent these days...well, maybe most days. But, I feel like I need to refresh things around here. Out with the old, and in with some brand new "old". I'd like to replace some of my older accessories with some new vintage pieces, just to keep things interesting. But it's a few weeks away until the next big flea market here in San Francisco (I just missed the Alameda flea because I was out of town), so I went to my back-up source for vintage finds - Etsy. There's a whole lot of great vintage sellers on Etsy and sometimes a whole lot simpler and sometimes more affordable than shopping and bidding on Ebay. I just had to have this beautiful camera (above). Here's a look at what else I found shopping around on Etsy.


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An Epic Food Story
Chef Eric Rupert oversees the ultimate workplace dining experience at Epic Systems
There aren't many chefs who aspire to run the company cafeteria.
But then Epic Systems Corp. is not your typical company and Cassiopeia is not your typical cafeteria. And, as you might expect, Eric Rupert is not your typical chef.
Rupert heads the food service operation at Epic, the health care industry software giant in Verona whose influence on this region is rivaled only by that of the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He also serves as executive chef, although Rupert and nearly everyone else we talked to are quick to remind you that "Epic is not big on titles." The company is not big on self-promotion or publicity, either.
What Epic is big on is growth, and it is adding clients, employees and square footage at its Verona campus at a staggering rate. There are roughly six thousand employees spread among an ever-increasing number of buildings on the 811-acre campus. During a recent span Epic added between three hundred and five hundred employees in one month. Suffice it to say, it's a big company. And founder and CEO Judy Faulkner has always placed a high priority on making sure her employees, as well as visiting trainees and customers from around the world, are fed well.
That's a major reason Rupert's distinguished culinary career has led him to this job. "Judy loves food," says Rupert. "She's the only non-chef professional I can talk to, chef to chef."
Rupert, some readers may recall, cut his teeth at the Ovens of Brittany starting in 1980 as a baker and pastry chef. "And so baking is near and dear to my heart," he says, "and the fact that we have a bakery here at Epic is something I'm just fiercely proud of and feel really so blessed to have."
After moving to the Madison Club in the mid-1980s, Rupert says he saw the movie "Babette's Feast," which he calls "an epiphany" and cites as his inspiration to become a chef.
"Within about a year and a half Odessa [Piper] asked me, much to my amazement, if I was interested in working at L'Etoile. I was hired on as a line cook and a few months after that, she asked me if I wanted to be her co-chef." Rupert did, for a while. But soon he left to start Kafe Kohoutek, and then Atlas Pasta (home to the best chicken pot pie ever). The popular Opera House was next.
After a return stint at L'Etoile, Rupert entered the corporate world as executive chef for Sub-Zero, a nod to his young family's changing demands. He was proud of his work there, and says he enjoyed it. But the recession was especially tough on companies like Sub-Zero, which led Rupert to Epic. It was obviously quite a journey. "I would be the classic example of minimizing one's weaknesses," says Rupert, "and maximizing one's strengths."
Rupert's strengths include leading a team of passionate and committed chefs, bakers and other food service professionals in a unique environment where food is as important as celestial-themed workspaces, whimsical art and office attire of shorts and flip-flops.
"[The food] is part of our culture. It is something that clearly the staff is proud of; they feel they know that it's a benefit, they feel fortunate or lucky to have it, they're generous with their praise, and they're very generous and concise with their criticisms too," says Rupert. "When we're recruiting, and that's hundreds and hundreds of people, we make a point of seeing that every one of them comes down for a meal."
That meal is served at Cassiopeia, the company cafeteria, the name of which, continuing an interplanetary campus theme, is a constellation in the northern sky. Anything but your earthly corporate dining experience, Cassiopeia feels more welcoming and less chaotic. The stations are well organized and attractive. There's a salad bar, a build-your-own-sandwich bar with hearth-baked breads right out of the house bakery, and a station off to the side that serves the "comfort food of the day" (think really good tuna-noodle casserole). The grill area and entrée station serve up the bulk of the food, and the dessert area offers fresh-baked pies and layer cakes from Rupert's pride and joy, the bakery.
Some employees take their meals back to their desks, while others gather in twos or threes at the dozens of comfortable places in the hallways and open spaces of the building. But most folks sit at long, colorful picnic tables in Cassiopeia and enjoy a clean view of the herb gardens outside. It's not fancy, but it's well thought out and well done, full of natural light. Meals are served on restaurant-style plates, and to-go containers are made from biodegradable sugarcane.
The entire food operation is staffed by seventy-eight people, and unlike at other well-known tech-based food operations like Google and Microsoft, all seventy-eight are Epic employees. Rupert admits it's speculation on his part but says he believes the reason Epic employs its own culinary staff is pretty simple.
"I know when I was interviewing I heard it, I read it—there really is very little hierarchy here. You're either a team member or a team leader, and the team leaders do everything that team members do, and then they also manage people. It's not considered a promotion to go from a team member to a team leader; it's just additional responsibilities. And people go back and forth; they go from being a team leader for a while to going back to being a team member. So, I think it's just fairness. It makes sense. At least it makes sense to me."
Food at Epic is available around the clock, although the vast majority of business is lunch. There's a grab-and-go packaged food section of Turner's General Store, the in-house convenience store, one of several obvious concessions to the hundreds and hundreds of daily departures for site-oriented training, and everything is purchased on an honor system by simply swiping your employee card. Leftovers from lunch go into the late-night cooler, and employees in the office after 7 p.m. can simply help themselves for free. What doesn't go into the cooler is donated to the Community Action Coalition for distribution to local food pantries.
Coffee carts open at 7:30 a.m., and there's a café that specializes in baked goods, such as homemade cinnamon rolls, brioche, palmiers and Florentines, plus Anodyne coffee from Milwaukee. It seems like most coffee shops get one thing right, either the coffee or the bakery. They're both done right here.
Mikey's is the name of the on-site deli, where everything from the wall murals to the pastrami evokes New York's Grand Central Station. It's also an example of how Epic works with its food team: If someone has a good idea, it can happen. "Mikey" said, "Let's do a deli." Employees and visitors from the East Coast rave, and there's no higher praise than that. Nutrition is encouraged, if not at the expense of employee tastes. There's a clever, color-coded calorie indicator system, with a limit of one red-tagged, six- to eight-hundred-calorie option prepared each day. Soda costs $1.50. Milk and juice are free.
But if there are to be the natural comparisons to the popular culture image of the twenty-four-hour-a-day, help-yourself-to-anything-you-can-think-of food services at other big tech companies, they end with two specific aspects of the Epic system. First, the food is not free. Employees pay the cost of ingredients and, if it's prepared to go, the cost of packaging. That's it. A beautiful, fresh salmon entrée at lunch will set you back $4.75. "Because we charge people a little bit for it, they value it a lot more," says Rupert.
The other difference, at least compared to Microsoft, where the food is provided by selected vendors, is the food at Epic is all made from scratch with a menu that changes every day. It is a fundamental precept of the company that Rupert finds rewarding, and challenging.
"I've never worked harder in my life," he says, "but I've never derived more satisfaction from my work. And I think a lot of people would say the same."
It is impossible to miss Rupert's pride in his team. "We don't do fancy food, we just do really great ingredients and we treat them with a lot of respect."
Food service employees rotate through the various stations in the kitchen, spending time making salads, for example, then at the entrée station, then making soups. Learning and improving are part of the culture. As we walked around we saw several people training in certain elements in which they had requested to learn. It's the team leader's job to encourage good ideas and ensure they come to fruition. So if employees have recipes they really want to make happen, they get the opportunity.
"And that's one of the ways we grow our staff," says Rupert.
Of course they also entertain ideas from their customers. One of the by-products of having food play such an important role in the work culture is that it stimulates conversations on the topic. Rupert says employees are always talking about recipes they've found or dishes they've tried or seen on TV, and the culinary team is often willing to try them. And then there's the cultural diversity that comes with the territory. Rupert says Epic employs staff from fifty-five different countries. "We have learned a great deal about curries, regardless of where they're from, because our population here knows a thing or two about curries. And because feedback is a big part of Epic, they know that we receive it and that we try to make it better."
The scope of the work is hard for the layperson to fathom. Epic purchases food by the pallet—between eight and sixteen aday. Here's a better way to think about it: An average recipe for Asian beef and broccoli stir fry calls for one hundred sixty pounds of beef tip, four hundred pounds of broccoli, ten pounds of ginger and seven gallons of soy sauce. "People can relate to that," says Rupert. Ingredients are sourced locally "as much as feasible," he says. And they're always trying to do more.
"We really truly nourish people here, and it's actually one of our stated goals to do it with integrity and respect," he says. "My goal is to not just provide excellent service to the team leads, but to model excellent service all the time and to always be trying to figure out what is excellent service in any given situation. If I provide that to the team, they in turn model it and provide it to our co-workers. And I truly believe it becomes part of the culture if we model it to our customers."
Reflecting on a career that is one of the more storied in Madison culinary circles, we return to the concept of pride in one's work, again in Rupert's own words.
"If you're really fortunate enough to find what it is you're supposed to do, if you have a gift for something, life seemingly offers up lots of opportunities to do it. And that's really what's happened. I work harder now than I've ever worked before and I derive more satisfaction. I would say I'm later on in my career, but I'm learning more now than I've ever learned. I have to solve problems that I never thought five years ago I would have the ability to solve. And a lot of that is actually teaching managers to be better managers as I learn myself how to be a better manager. So the cooking part is just icing on the cake. Really, I get down there and I'm happy cutting up watermelon. It doesn't matter what I'm doing. As long as I'm in the kitchen it's a good day, it's a really good day."
Nancy Christy and Neil Heinen write Madison Magazine's monthly food and culture column, "Genuine Articles."
Employees Dish: Find out what what Epic employees have to say about Rupert and the culinary team.


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Is it for fear to wet a widow's eye,
That thou consum'st thy self in single life?
Ah! if thou issueless shalt hap to die,
The world will wail thee like a makeless wife;
The world will be thy widow and still weep
That thou no form of thee hast left behind,
When every private widow well may keep
By children's eyes, her husband's shape in mind:
Look what an unthrift in the world doth spend
Shifts but his place, for still the world enjoys it;
But beauty's waste hath in the world an end,
And kept unused the user so destroys it.
No love toward others in that bosom sits
That on himself such murd'rous shame commits.
Sonnet 9: Translation to modern English
Is it because you fear to make a widow grieve, that you waste yourself in bachelorhood? Ah, if you should happen to die childless the world will mourn for you like a bereaved widow. The world will be your widow and weep profusely because you have left no copy of yourself behind, while an ordinary widow is able to keep her husband's memory fresh by looking at her children. Whatever a money-waster spends just moves from one pocket to another and the world continues to enjoy it, but squandered beauty is lost to the world, and by not using it the user destroys it. There is no love for others in the heart of one who murders himself so shamelessly.


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INDIANAPOLIS — A year ago, Tim Tebow had one of the hottest names in the NFL. Now, even his own head coach barely wants to talk about him.
Nearly 30 minutes into his press conference at the NFL scouting combine Thursday, New York Jets coach Rex Ryan said Tebow remains on the roster but went out of his way to not commit to Tebow's future either as a Jet or elsewhere.
"Tim's under contract to be a New York Jet, so we'll see how things go in the offseason. But Tim is under contract," Ryan said.
The Jets traded for the controversial, unorthodox quarterback last March and made grand proclamations for their plans to use him in multiple and innovative packages. That never happened, and Tebow's most significant action was on special teams.
His future with the Jets, if not the entire NFL, is quite unclear. New York could try to trade him, though there is not likely much of a market for Tebow's services. Only the Jets and Jacksonville Jaguars made bids to the Denver Broncos after they signed Peyton Manning, and that came after Tebow led the Broncos to the playoffs. New Jaguars General Manager Dave Caldwell has said he can't envision Tebow playing for his team.
And then there's the chance the Jets could opt to keep Tebow and give him another chance to unseat embattled incumbent starter Mark Sanchez.
"I think everything's too early to tell right now," Ryan said. "You really don't know how the offseason goes, how the draft goes, how free agency goes. There are a lot of variables involved. So before I go on record — because, trust me, it'll be covered — I realize now it's a long process."
New Jets GM John Idzik was not part of the plan to trade for Tebow, nor part of the disastrous 2012 season. Idzik said he would welcome competition, but he declined to specifically address a competition between Tebow and Sanchez.
"My view on Tim Tebow is he is a highly competitive athlete. Everywhere he's been, he's been a highly competitive athlete," Idzik told a small group of reporters after his formal press conference. "And what we do, we're going to provide as much competition as we can on a daily basis, at every position, quarterback included, and we'll see how that rolls out. I would think Tim would be game for that. He's a competitor."
Ryan supported Sanchez throughout most of 2012 and didn't bench him — and start third-stringer Greg McElroy — until the season was officially lost. Ryan was given the chance Thursday to name a starter, specifically Sanchez, and declined.
Idzik said he would look at Sanchez's full career with the Jets as he and Ryan evaluate the quarterback position. Sanchez helped the Jets reach the AFC Championship Game following the 2009 and 2010 seasons, but those Jets teams boasted stronger defenses and running games. New York lacked both in 2012.
"Mark's been in the league for a couple of years. I think everyone, Mark included, recognizes we, our offense and our team as a whole needs to perform better than we did in 2012, and we're going to do that," Idzik said. "We're going to do everything to increase the competition so that he plays better. We've got a new offensive coordinator. We've got a new quarterback coach and staff changes that will be healthy for Mark so we can get the juices flowing, turn the page to 2013, not look back to 2012, start anew and get rolling."
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