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Allie first frowned at the girl talking something about her skin. Then, she sat up and rubbed her eyes. "I didn't even sleep, you know," she said quietly, "Then again, I wouldn't even mind getting a sunburn, I mean there are spells to get rid of them, I guess." She sighed, running a hand through her hair. "And I think getting a little sunburn would be the littlest problem at the moment." Allie bit her lip. She wanted to lie down again but didn't want to seem rude, so she just changed her sitting position from sitting straight to sitting cross-legged. She looked at the girl and gave her a small smile. "Thanks for, like… caring about that, though."
Molly thought through Allie's comment, then nodded. "You have a point. But why waste a good spell on sunburn when you could use your time to do something else?" Like read, or take walks, or splash in rain puddles…Molly snapped back into reality. She always ended up day dreaming when taking a walk, it was a bit hard to concentrate on anything at all. But Allie looked so distraught, so she thought she might stay to talk to her. "oh, it's no problem." She said with a smile as Allie adjusted her posture, "But why would it be a little problem? I'd think having burns on your face would be quite the annoyance."
Not at all! A hug is like….like an emotional Heimlich, Ronnie.
I think it just makes you some sort of comfort medic.
Molly, to put it lightly, was freaking out. She had made plans with someone. Made plans to have an…adventure. Oh god, she thought burying her bright red face in her hands. Saying it like that sounded so childish. What was she going to do? Tyler had said spontaneous. And sure, Molly was a spontaneous person. She did a whole bunch of things just because! It's just…She didn't know how to have a spontaneous adventure. Or, when she thought it over, how to have an adventure at all. Reading and thinking about them were easy, but plotting one out was hard. She promised to meet Tyler in an hour and she wasn't even dressed. Was it spontaneous to go out in your underthings? Oh god. She placed her face back into the comforting grip of her hands.
It took her another ten minutes to figure out that the best thing to wear for an adventure would be something simple. It was a bit chilly out, so she opted for a snug Gryffindor sweater with a pair of black pants with a matching scarf. She gave up on trying to keep her hair from fluffing out; it tended to do what it pleased. Now, a new dilemma. What to bring on an adventure? Grabbing an old school satchel that she recalled putting an extension charm on during her fifth year, she giggled nervously. Molly grabbed her broom, a stack of tarot cards, two top hats, some Peruvian Instant Darkness powder, canary creams, a map of tunnels leading out of Hogwarts she'd found recently, and a ukelele. Well, at least she'd be prepared for anything. She put some money in her pocket as well because, who knew what could happen? Glancing into her mirror one last time, she willed herself to stop smiling like an idiot and laced up her shoes. She walked out into the common room and managed to only trip over herself once.
Nathaniel looked around; a few people were still in the library- though most had drifted to the different parties that were being held that Friday night. The few people that remained were the usuals, Nate had grown pretty close to them even though no one in that room could really consider each other "friends", each in their own little world, reading- that's how it always was. It was a strange sort of friendship, were they knew everything about one another solely based on their choice in literature. His gaze drifted across the room, to his right was one of the Ravenclaws boys a year bellow him. Without even having to peek at the cover of the book in the boys hand, Nate knew it was a muggle science-fiction book.
Directly in front of him was a petite Gryffindor who simply screamed 'maniac pixie dream girl'. She was always dancing around the library looking for the next book to spend hours absorbed in. His eyes followed her briefly as he saw her get up and walk in his general direction. He assumed she was headed for one of the shelves slightly behind him. As she drew closer, his gaze dropped back to the book, though she stayed on his mind for a while. She always seemed to be living in her own little world, and Nathaniel could relate to her in that sense. People always thought of him as the genius who looked at everything form a logical and literal stand point, but in reality- he was a dreamer. Everyone around him knew that simply based on his taste of books. Sure, he spent a lot of his time reading non-fiction novels, but when he was truly enjoying himself he was lost in the world of 19th century London. He spent countless hours in that library absolutely absorbed in Charles Dickinson, Jane Austen, and Nathaniel Hawthorne novels.
He was completely wrapped up in the novel. Nate was now in his constantly changing world, where he was nothing more than a spectator watching the lives of others unfold. It was the one moment where he could just forget all the stress from school and his aunt, he could forget about his own life and watch someone else's tragedies unfold. This particular novel was different than his usual taste in literature. It was a more modern muggle book by the name of 'The Basic Eight'. He was in the midst of the book's climax. Despite the horrific events he couldn't help but chuckle quietly. The authors sarcastic, dark, and twisted sense of humor made it impossible not to laugh. He went back to reading, too lost in the novel to her the rustling and small gasp coming from above him. Suddenly something came crashing down onto his head. The pain surges through him, starting at the top of his head and creeping its way to the outer most tips of his ridiculously long limbs. His eyes fluttered open and closed for a few seconds before everything grew extremely cold.
He shifted back and forth between unconsciousness and an almost dream like state. He was floating through the air, he could hear a melodic voice saying something- though he couldn't make out a single word. Then suddenly his eyes flew open, he found himself in one of the beds in the hospital wing, a slight pounding on the side of his head. His eyes drifted around the room, to find Molly sitting on the chair next to his bed. Nate tried to remember what exactly had happened but his memory was completely blank of anything that had occurred directly before that moment. "W-what happened?" he heard himself ask in a groggy voice.
Molly did what could only be called a walk of shame out of the library. She couldn't believe she had given Nathaniel and minor concussion! (whatever that was) And the worst part was that she knew him. Okay well, not explicitly, but he was a frequent library goer who had lead her to a lot of great finds. While she would always prefer an good children's tale, she found that following Nathaniel's book trail gave her so many wonderful stories to read. She had read and re-read almost all of Jane Austin's novels in the past few weeks thanks to him, but she'd always make sure to check out the books along with something else. Molly may be a bit strange, but even she didn't want to seem like she was stalking anyone's literary choices. Imagine what would happen if they noticed? No, for once she found it better to keep to herself. She felt as if most of the people around the library understood that as well.
But, oh dreaded day! She had been suspended from Library use for a whole week! What would she do now? If she couldn't do something herself, or live vicariously through fictional characters, how could she have any enjoyment in her life at all? Well, Molly thought, she had better start building up some good karma at least. She visited her room quickly, trying to think of what one brings a boy you accidentally knocked out in a library. She decided on a chocolate frog; chocolate makes everything better, right? Molly hurried over to the Hospital Wing, Madam Pompfrey giving her a stern once-over before letting her in. Nathaniel was resting on a bed near a window with no one around him, asleep. Molly let out a breath of relief; this would be easier if no one else was there to see her embarrass herself.
She sat down on a stool by his bedside, and waited. And waited. She put down the chocolate frog on the bedside cabinet. Continued to wait. Her mind wandered to the book she dropped on Nathaniel, wondering if she'd ever get to read it. She wondered what Nathaniel was doing in that section, what book was he looking for? Molly hummed a tune and let herself immerse into her own imagination. Which was the cause of said effect: when Nathaniel finally spoke she near jumped off her stool. Molly glanced down at him, squinty eyes and a furrowed brow looking more lost than a muggle in Diagon Alley. She smiled at him and felt a pang of guilt.
"I—well-I…dropped a book on your head?" Her smile turned into more of a grimace, then she stopped smiling all together. "In the library, earlier. I am so so so so sorry. Does it hurt a lot?" She visibly winced at the bruise she could see forming on the side of his head.
Molly smiled at Cornelius and shook his out-stretched hand. "Hi Cornelius, I'm Molly Crabapple. Does anyone ever call you Corney, Cornelius? Then again, that'd be a rubbish nickname. Though it has a certain ring to it…" Molly lost her train of thought for a moment; she thought he seemed a bit familiar. "Why would you mom send you toys? Are you homesick?" She gasped and covered her mouth awkwardly "I'm sorry. You shouldn't ask strangers questions like that," She reprimanded herself out loud, "Well then again, I think I've seen you in some of my classes before." She stared at the Hufflepuff for more than was strictly necessary. There was something about his face that reminded her of someone she had seen before…Maybe someone with the same mole? Maybe someone with an eyepatch? He seemed to be in her year, but where had she seen him? "Oh! You're the boy who got detention for a week for pulling some prank in Charms, aren't you?"
A hearty laugh escaped Cornelius's lips. "actually I've been called Corn before, and various other forms of corn products, and even Neil a few times. However, Corney would be a first!" he confessed. "Molly, eh? I have an older sister named Molly so there's no way I can hate you now," he said smiling. Looking down at the eye patch again his smile faded. "Well, I guess I've been a bit homesick, but mostly nothing makes happier than toys." Cornelius laughed some more as Molly apologized for her nosy question. He laughed even more as she recalled the Charms prank. "Yes, that was me," he said. "I'm glad you remembered!"
Molly smiled at Cornelius. He seemed to laugh a lot; she liked people who laughed. "Well I wouldn't want to give you reason to hate me either way. Though I'm sorry if I brought up something sad. You like toys?" She said, honestly surprised. Most seventh years didn't really bother with such things, particularly boys. They all had what Molly thought to be a 'Tough Guy Guise'; they all tried to act more grown up and mature than they really were, so they quickly discarded anything childish or worse: feminine. She clapped her hands together, obviously over joyed at figuring out who he was. "Oh I knew it! Tell me, what did you do to land you that much detention?"
Before she could continue the conversation, a rather angry snowy owl dropped a package on her head. Molly swore aloud as the bird sqwacked a few times at her before flying away. She picked up the package from the floor and gave Cornelius an embarrassed smile. "Sorry, do you mind if i..?" She gestured to the parcel, "I don't usually get mail so I'm very curious."
Calming from his laughing fit, Cornelius looked at the Gryffindor. "Sorry, that would be mine," he said, a few chuckles still escaping his chest. He swung his legs around the bench and walked over to the girl. "My mum just sent me a bunch of my old toys," he said, smiling down at her. He took the eye patch and and chuckled some more as he looked down at it. Realizing he hadn't introduced himself and was being rude, he snapped his head up and smiled again. "I'm Cornelius, by the way. I don't think we've met before." Switching the eye patch into his other hand, he put out his hand to shake the Gryffindor's.
Molly smiled at Cornelius and shook his out-stretched hand. "Hi Cornelius, I'm Molly Crabapple. Does anyone ever call you Corney, Cornelius? Then again, that'd be a rubbish nickname. Though it has a certain ring to it…" Molly lost her train of thought for a moment; she thought he seemed a bit familiar. "Why would you mom send you toys? Are you homesick?" She gasped and covered her mouth awkwardly "I'm sorry. You shouldn't ask strangers questions like that," She reprimanded herself out loud, "Well then again, I think I've seen you in some of my classes before." She stared at the Hufflepuff for more than was strictly necessary. There was something about his face that reminded her of someone she had seen before…Maybe someone with the same mole? Maybe someone with an eyepatch? He seemed to be in her year, but where had she seen him? "Oh! You're the boy who got detention for a week for pulling some prank in Charms, aren't you?"


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In children older than 9 years, spinal column injuries tend to occur in the thoracic, lumbar and sacral regions (TLS) of the spine, rather than in the cervical spine as with very young children.
Thoracic, lumbar and sacral spine injuries occur at about the same rate as cervical spine fractures — 2-5 percent of blunt trauma injuries. [See C1 atlas injuries, C2 axis injuries and C3-C7 injuries.]
Fractures of the thoracic spine in children occur due to:
The most common injuries in both situations are compression fractures (a collapse of a vertebra). This can occur as a single vertebral fracture or may involve two or more vertebrae.
Common spine trauma fractures among pediatric patients include:
Chance fractures involve only the bony part of the spine — not the spinal cord — and many times are caused by inappropriate use of a lap seat belt in a motor vehicle.
In children, the Chance fracture is most common in the upper lumbar spine, but it can occur in the mid-lumbar region, which is around the spine at the waistline. It occurs at a lower level in children because of their lower center of gravity.
Injuries in the thoracic spine or upper lumbar areas can be accompanied by loss of function in lower extremities (legs and feet) and bowel and bladder function. Lower down on the spine — in the lumbar region — injuries can show patchy loss of function, as well as some loss of bowel and bladder function.
Some thoracic, lumbar and sacral fractures can lead to a wedged deformity that causes shortened height of the anterior (front) vertebra and normal height in the posterior (back). This results in a spinal deformity. If there are two or more adjacent wedged vertebrae, kyphosis can occur. Kyphosis is a forward curvature of the vertebrae in the upper back, giving a child an abnormally rounded or "humpback" appearance.
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A modified version of the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) will be used to assess the consciousness level of your child if the injury was traumatic. The GCS is a neurological scale that assesses a patient's consciousness through three tests that look at eye, verbal and motor responses. Traumatic brain injury in children is classified as mild (GCS score of 13-15), moderate (GCS score of 9-12), or severe (GCS score of 3-8).
Physicians treat TLS spine injuries with surgical and nonsurgical approaches. At CHOP, treatment recommendations depend on the type of injury, as well as injury location and severity.
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Recovery from injuries to the thoracic, lumbar and sacral regions of the spine depend on the severity of neurological injuries. However, even pediatric patients with devastating neurological injuries have made good recoveries.
To make an appointment with the Division of Orthopedic Surgery at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, call 215-590-1527 or contact us online.
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I'd love to see the Metric System written up on Cool Tools. No other tool/system comes close to its ubiquitous usefulness, dead easy common sense and universal consistency. But I lack the professorial credentials to do the topic justice.
The more Feynman-esque, I think, the better. Please rise to this challenge, someone wonderful!
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It does make sense, hence not anywhere to be found in the USA! How you guys became a super power is beyond me.link
answered Apr 28 at 00:35
I spent my first 30 years in the US, but have now lived almost as long in a metric country. Metric is useful and easy. Perhaps it might be better a group effort, with different authors writing about how they use metric for different applications.
For example, I do a lot of my own home repair and the usual DIY stuff, and now do all of my measuring in metric, even to the point of converting English measurements into metric when measuring wood, installations, and similar. I think it would be good if the authors could tell how they deal or dealt with two systems, transitions, and how the change was worth it.link
answered Apr 29 at 07:59
Sorry, I disagree. The metric system doesn't work properly on a human scale.
I'm not going to try to dissuade you from employing it for science or engineering, in those spheres its consistency, universality and (relative) ease of calculation are strong advantages but for everyday use by people doing things that most people do it is unwieldy and contrived.
In the US you mostly use cup measurements for cooking. Simple and quick halving and doubling starting from amounts that produce the right quantity for a family of four. Try that with with metric- 37.5g of butter anyone? How long is that pencil 7' (7 x the width of my thumb knuckle) or 18cm? A foot, most of us have a way of measuring that and a yard too. Buying timber? a 6ft piece of 2 x 1 or two is just what I need for this project. How many 1.8m lengths of 5 x 2.5 I'd need is harder to visualise and worse, harder to split into usable fractions/pieces.
Here in the UK we've been using both for decades but ask any child how tall they are and they'll tell you in feet and inches. Mothers know that their baby weighed just a little less than 8lbs at birth. Human scale things are easiest measured with human scale things, like the size of parts of our bodies because we have them with us all the time.
When my daughter was 9 she knew that inches were smaller than feet, that feet were smaller than yards and that yards were smaller than miles. She'd been taught the metric system since starting school but was as likely to label a aeroplane wing in kilometres or millimetres as metres or centimetres.
The metric system makes a fetish of the decimal point and don't get me started on the European standard that removes commas for separating 1000s.
Metric isn't awful, it's useful and indispensable in technical areas but it plain sucks for everyday, informal use. In fact it sucks as much as Fahrenheit does for everyday use.link
answered May 12 at 06:46
Maybe you have a head for fractions. For me, the last thing I want to do is some mental math when measuring for a project. It's like an all day third grade math lesson in fractions.
It's funny, I always assumed that the comfort that we feel with our particular measurement system is due to being raised with that system. In the 70's in the US, there was a big push towards the Metric system in schools, and consequently every kid I knew picked it up almost instantaneously. Unfortunately, I believe it was the jingoistic 1980's that squashed that movement, along with almost anything that smacked of foreignness, or worst of all, french-ness.
As for the UK, I've never seen such a hodgepodge of measurement systems: roads are marked in MPH, weights can be pounds, kilos, or stone, bolts can be imperial, metric, or Whitworth. Whitworth?!? Don't even get me started on Imperial gallons vs US gallons. Where did the word "gallon" come from anyway?
The problem with using metric for cooking mostly stems from using mass (metric) vs, volume (cups, tsp, tbsp, etc) not necessarily the system of measurement. Although I don't think measuring flour in centiliters would be much better.link
answered Jun 18 at 05:59
BTW, mass can be either pounds or grams and volume can be either cups or liters. But the larger point is that people's poor grasp of fundamental science won't let them discern the diff between mass & volume. They don't know that they don't know, etc.
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Pre-Season Dance Sept. 22 School Starts on Sept. 25 Flaming "W" Hike Sept. 25 Sec. 562 P. L. & R. U. S. Postage PAID Ogden, Utah Permit No. 276 r ASSOCIATED STUDENTS OF WEBER COLLEGE VOL. 3 (XiDKN, ITAH. SKl'TKJIBEH 18, 1939 NO. 1 v i Parry Announces Big Year in Music 'Naughy Marietta' Probable Opera Two Singing Groups Planned for Radio Roland Parry, head of music newly returned Irom a year ol study in California, has now completed plans for an ambitious season for those students interested in music. He says: "We of the music department anticipate a year of pleasurable accomplishment. We have an abundance of fine talent from last year and this year again many exceptional high school musicians are enrolling. We have ideal rehearsal halls. And the administration is enthusiastically behind us. Certainly under these conditions our orchestra, band, and vocalists will bring us increased cultural enjoyment. "Naughty Marietta" Scheduled "In vocal, activities will center around our large glee club, which will be a social organization as well. The cast for a major light opera, which probably will be 'Naughty Marietta', will be selected from the glee club. "At least three major concerts will be presented by this group in cooperation with Clair Johnson's orchestra and band. "Immediately when rehearsals begin, numbers of our first concert will be developed. We expect to dramatize in costume part of one of the operas as was done last year with 'Faust.' Dorians and Musettes to Sing "Two special feature singing organizations will be developed to meet the demands of radio and community. The Dorian Singers, a select group of male vocal students under my own direction, expects to do things not attempted before in Ogden. The Musettes, a select group of Instrumentalist RICHARD MURDOCH, Weber sophomore this year, is a member of the White City dance orchestra. As a freshman, he was student conductor of the W. C. orchestra and soloist on both saxaphone and clarinet. girl vocalists directed by Clair Anderson, will carry on artistically this year as they have in other years. "We in the Music Department believe that this will be the greatest year in Weber college history and pledge ourselves to do our part." It's Our Bell Maybe So . . . After a year of futile fussing and fuming, Weber may get the gong at last. The gong, of course, will be in the form of I he city's two thousand-pound bell. A year ago Mayor Peery graciously presented the bell to Weber college with the understanding thai the student officers would arange to take it down from the tower of the old city hall. Embryonic student schemes included everything from lowering it down a hole chopped from roof to basement to tossing it over the brink into the rescue net of the local fire brigade. But all efforts failed- the nlH bell appeared to be doomed to life ill an attic until the W.P.A. (Continued on Page 2) l 1 900 800 700 600 500 400 m 300 ZOO I 1933-34 1934-35 REGISTRATION GROWS OVER FIVE-YEAR PERIOD . . . This chart shows Weber college enrollment during the six years preceding 1939-40. The chief gain is recent. From 613 students in L9S6-37 the enrollment has climbed during the last two years to 875. On the basis of these figures and the trend of current registration the college predicts an enrollment of 1100 for 1989-40. The special students listed are those taking a course of less than ten hours. The chart, however, includes neither evening vocational students nor gymnasium members. Courtesy of Walter Neville Three Full-Length Plays and Many One-Act Plays Listed By DR. ALBERT MITCHELL Students will be delighted to learn that the Departmer' of Speech will continue to offer an expanded opportunity for participation in the production of plays. This participation will be open not only to students registered for courses in' acting, reading and play production, but to all students. Particularly are students outside the department urged to try out for the major productions of full-length plays, one of which will be given each quarter. These plays, together with a series of one-act plays each quarter, will furnish splendid opportunity for experience and training in stagecraft, design, lighting, acting, directing. In these productions, qualified speech majors are called upon to assist in various capacities, including that ofassistant-director. Club Will Centralize The college dramatic club will centralize and direct dramatic activities. Membership is open to participants in the various phases of dramatic production. In addition to furnishing some of the actors, directors, and technicians, this club assists in providing publicity, tickets, programs, and house management. It may be called upon also to assist with the one-act play festival which the department contemplates spon Thousands of Miles Will be Traveled by W. C. Students In harmony with Weber college's efforts to make education more practical, many trips have- been planned for the coming year by the various departments in the school. "In the field of geology and geography there will be numerous trips," Walter R. Buss, head of this department states. These trips are open to all those students who have had or are tak-king a course in geology or geography. In the autumn quarter these students will take a trip lo the Uinta Mountains, Craters of the Moon, and to Bryce and Zion. In the winter the chief trips will be to Ogden, Weber and Little Cottonwood canyons. In the spring quarter the students will visit Book Cliffs. Tlm-panogas Cave and Bryce and Zion. "Some of these plans are tentative," Mr. Buss adds. Sociology These trips are :ilso open to all students who have had or are taking a course in sociology or to any individual with a serious interest in the place visited. Mr. Walter Neville, sociology instructor, plans to visit the Utah State Industrial school. School of the Deaf and Blind and the Utah State Prison during autumn. The chief trips for the winter quarter will consist of the Utah State Training school for the Feeble Minded, the County ENROLLMENT TRENDS ECIAL STUDENTS . . ,"T v'l", SOPHOMORLS 1935-36 1936-37 WEBER COLLEGE soring this year. Besides these opportunities, there will be weekly radio broadcasts, assembly programs, programs for organizations outside the college. Speech Activities for 1939-40 The Department of Speech will continue to furnish programs for station KLO. To further this BETTY MAE NELSON, come dienne of last year, played leading roles in. "The Varsity Show ," "The Grand Chain's Diamond," and "Friend Hannah." She also composed the songs for "The Varsity Show." She plans to be at Weber for another great dramatic season. Infirmary and the Utah State Prison. In the spring the students will visit the Utah State Prison and the Utah State Hospital.Engineers' Club The Engineers' Club also has plans for trips. It will decide the engineering projects to be visited by a vote of the club some time this year. It is also planning some short Irips to places of interest around Utah. Any person who is majoring in science may go on these trips. During the spring quarter a vacation of one week is provided in which some of the longer trips listed above will be taken and perhaps, between now and then, many more of these trips to "nature's laboratories" will lie planned for that period. Collegians to Rush Up Malan's Peak The annual "Flaming W" will blaze for the third vear nn I the charred peak of Old Malan's Heights Monday evening, September 25. The hike will begin at four o'clock sharp from the foot of Malan's. Student officers urge hikers to bring as many private j cars as possible in addition to the bus chartered by the school. An abundance of food will be on hand (provided the hikers bring their own), and a surprise program will be a moonlight highlight of the evening, followed by the ceremonial of lighting the i "W". A half-moon is expected lo light the descent. The cal- 9oo 800 700 600 500 400 BOO hoc 1 937-3 8 1 938-39 "propect, it has added a course in Radio, designed to acquaint the student with the technique of radio speaking and acting. Qualified students will be asked to assist with college broadcasts. Other opportunities for training and experience in public speaking will be continued in the James L. Barker Contest in Extempore Speech, the J. S. Lewis Award for Impromptu Speech and the inter-collegiate Oratorical Contest sponsored by me ugaen junior Chamber of Commerce. The winner of the extempore contest, which is designed to stimulate competition oetween freshmen and sophomores, will be honored by having his class numerals engraved on a silver cup and by an individual cash award provided by the donor, James L. Barker. The winner in impromptu speech Aill be presented with a gold medal provided by J. S. Lewis and the winner in oratory in the interest of American ideals, will receive, as a permanent college possession, a gold cup on which is inscribed the name of the winner together with his class numerals. Students who distinguish themselves in public speaking are given opportunity to qualify for contests held with other colleges both within the state and elsewhere. Students who distinguish themselves in speech activities may achieve membership in the local chapter of Phi Rho Pi honorary forensic society. Profs Brush Up Curriculum Curriculum study group for all teachers, begun at Weber September 7 and continuing to the 21, is proving to be one of the most beneficial undertakings of the faculty this summer, teachers report. This course is under the supervision of President Dixon and Merlon S. Stevenson, Dean of Instruction. The purpose of the Troup has been to study the objectives of education as they affect the junior college and Weber coliege in particular. Teachers are going into their own particular courses to learn how nearly these courses meet objectives and to make alterations where they seem needed. President Dixon states that the aim of the school is to find a curriculum that meets the needs of the community. "Continuous curriculum revision and development is necessary if schools are to pay social dividends and stem the tide l opposition. The study is not for this year alone but for a period of years. Curriculum study has no end; it is continuous. "We want to give the students something that they can take out of school and offer to the community. We find the needs ol the community and then survey the student population, their qualifications and training, then fit the students into the needed occupations." endar didn't agree for a full one. with plans Mortenson, Others Explain New Set-Up For This Year Aeronautics, Carpentry, Art Added; Central Building Brings Improvements Aeronautics, art, and carpentry are the new departments that have been added to the Weber college curriculum for the year now beginning. Mr. Art Mortenson, in charge of the air school, says, "Actual air work will include eight to ten hours of flying National Junior College Debate To Be at Weber Regional Contests On Forensic Docket Western States San Francisco Linfield McMinnville (Ore.) Utah-Idaho Salt Lake City National Phi Rho Pi Ogden These are the tournaments for the Weber college debate squad during the coming year. The National Phi Rho Pi tournament will be held at Weber, and debaters from all over the United States will journey here. The national tournament comes as an honor to the school and Mr. Monson, debate coach, whose efforts have obtained wide recognition for Weber college. Besides its junior college work the Weber debating association will hold the annual Utah high school tournament. High schools from all parts of the state will compete for the Weber trophy. Mr. Monson promises, "Debating at Weber college is for the many and not for the few. The program this year will provide ample opportunity for all who wish to participate." Debater . . . BLAIR BURTON returns for his sophomore year. In 1938-89 he was winner of Novitiate Ex-tempe, Barker Extenipe, took second place in the progress style national Phi Rho Pi tournament and in the Western States tournament. He is president of the local chapter of Phi Rho Pi. Lyceum, Ogden Concert Combined Change Benefits Students The annual lyceum series sponsored by Weber college has been combined with the Ogden Community Concert for this coming season. Because of the union of the two organizations, it will now be possible to have a larger selection of superior music, art, and other culture activities for Weber collegians Ouy H. Hurst, Weber college lyceum director, said today. In the past the lyceum series has been free to Weber students, but the Community Concert has charged an admission price This year because of the merger, Weber college students will be able to attend the new, combined series on their student cards. The concerts will be held at the Ogden high school. Among the world famous art ists to appear are Lawrence Tibbetts. the American baritone; the Jooss European Ballet; the Russian Singers: General Pla-toff's Don Cossack Choir; and Bohumir Kryl and his Symphony Orchestra of fifty selectedmusicians. with one of the instructors. After that the student pilot will be allowed to do between thirty-five and fifty hours of solo flying. When the student has flown that many hours solo, he will be eligible for his private pilot's license."Mr. Mortenson added that each student must undergo the strict "Army 64" physical examination. "We have asked for about sixty enrolled students, but forty will be disqualified because of physical handicaps or other incapabilities." Air School Courses Mr. Merlon Stevenson, dean of instruction, lists the courses and the hours of groundwork in each as follows: Civil Air Regulations. 12 hours; History of Aviation. 2 hours; Navigation, 15 hours; Metcrology, 15 hours; Parachutes, 1 hour; Theory of Flight 15 hours; Engines, 5 hours; In-strumenst, 5 hours; Radio, 2 hours. The total hours spent by each student in groundwork as designated by the government is seventy-two. Collett Outlines Art Studies According to Mr. Farrell Collett, art instructor, besides the two-year vocational commercial art course, there will be full courses of study in landscape sketching, figure drawing and painting, and still life. These courses are designed to give a complete background to those who intend to continue in art schools. New Carpentry Machinery The carpentry course will prepare apprentice carpenters and mill workers. It covers such units as forms, framing, finish, cabinet work, mill work, concrete work, the making of larg6 equipment and power hand tools. There will be other courses in actual shop problems and procedures.Mr. Lorenzo Peterson is the instructor. He is very proud, he says, of the eight large units of power machinery newly installed for his students. He names the cost at over $3500. Centra Building Benefits Governor Blood's allocation of funds on July 1 lo purchase the Central Building has relieved and made possible further enlargements in several departments. It will house the domestic science department, cafeteria, domestic arts, home-making, commercial and fine arts, history and political science, psychology and education, sociology and philosophy, modern languages, economics, vocal music, women's gymnasium, auditorium, and several offices. Clothes Depart men! Crows The department that is most improved by the Central Building is the girls' textile and clothing courses taught by Miss Ruth Peterson. These courses have been expanded and many girls who were disappointed last year because of limited class room space will be accomodated in the new, fully equipped textiles department. Some of the courses (Continued on Page 4) Gea4er A hfi-JeM In order that our freshmen do not enter the portals of higher learning blindly, yea, even unthinkingly, we shall attempl to put forth a few ideas on the subject. "Is College School?" As we are constantly being assailed with questions from prospective Weber students regarding this subject, we shall now lisl some of these questions, together with the answers that seem to solve the problem adequately. Please note that this sevice is without charge. If you are on the brink of a dangerous precipice, if you cannot sleep at night because of worry, if the problem of what brand of tooth paste to buy keeps (Continued on Page 4) I
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|Signpost (Weber, Utah), 1939-09-18, Vol. 3, No. 1
|Weber College
|Associated Students of Weber College; A generous grant from the Utah State Library and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
|Weber's current student newspaper, the Signpost, first appeared on September 29, 1937. For two years prior to that time, campus news was disseminated via announcements posted on a bulletin board known as the "Signpost". As a result, the masthead of the first issue of the paper itself featured a rudimentary wooden sign with the title spelled out in rustic-looking letters. Over the years the paper has been published continuously, though the look, size and style has changed several times.
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Double indemnity is a legal term: it is a provision or clause in a life insurance or accident policy whereby the company agrees to pay twice the face of the contract in cases of accidental death. Legalese wording may be dry as dust but Billy Wilder could make it still sparkle as star dust. The pixie magic of movies makes even the tawdry dream of murder for gain seem very possible. It is always fascinating how a decent tax-payer who might balk at the idea of filing false returns laps up films reeking with the basest of human passions as portrayed in Double Indemnity. Having said the above the film is a classic in the film-noir genre and it has became part of the Hollywood mainstream.
The plot is simple: A frowsy housewife ( in a hideous blond wig) weaves a plan to do away her man with the help of an insurance agent and nearly gets away with it.
The movie was based on the true story of Ruth Snyder, the subject of a notorious 1930s murder trial. James M Cain who wrote The Postman Rings Twice improved on the bald facts of the case. His dark novella dealt with greed into which nothing is sacred, marriage or human life while each twist and turn of the story was dealt kinesthetically by Billy Wilder with a gravedigger's sure touch to turn up dirt. There are other famous talents here: Raymond Chandler had his hand in writing the script along with Wilder. Musical score was from Miklós Rózsa. Barbara Stanwyck was the first choice and when she demurred at the brutal side of her role and expressed her concern to Billy Wilder, he asked her, "Are you a mouse or an actress?" Billy Wilder had a tough time getting a leading man for this film: many actors, including George Raft turned the project down. He had to persuade Fred MacMurray to accept the part. Of course he acquitted himself well in the role of Walter Neff, a salesman for the Pacific All-Risk insurance company. The other principal character is Edward G. Robinson as Barton Keyes, a claims adjuster,a friend and colleague of Neff.
Walter Neff (MacMurray) is a successful insurance salesman for Pacific All-Risk. But when he returns to his office building in downtown Los Angeles late one night, we know there is something very wrong. Neff is clearly in pain, and he sits down at his desk and tells the whole story into a dictaphone, for his colleague Barton Keyes (Robinson), a claims adjuster.
It is the story of how he meets Phyllis Dietrichson (Stanwyck) during a routine house call to renew an automobile insurance policy for her husband. A cheap affair develops as with a man who has head for figures but his heart is not actively engaged and who knows his senses are inflamed with some cheap perfume from a woman alone in her unmade drawing room, and she hints that her man had just left the coast clear for some smooching if he could figure that out. Well Neff sees the possibilities and is interested until Phyllis wonders how she could take out a policy on her husband's life without him knowing it. Neff knows his cheap flirting has dirt under the carpet where he might get down for a roll. Oh boy, she has murder in mind and he wants no part of it.
Having tasted stolen bread in secret, Neff must deal with the proverbial aftertaste of it. Phyllis is the pursuer and she catches him in his own home and persuades him to that the two of them, together, should kill her husband. Neff who had played straight for long knows and up front knows instantly all the tricks of his trade: and comes up with a plan in which Phyllis's husband will die an unlikely death, in this case being thrown from a train. Pacific All-Risk will therefore be required, by the "double indemnity" clause in the insurance policy, to pay the widow twice the normal amount.
Keyes, a tenacious investigator, does not suspect foul play at first, but eventually concludes that the Dietrichson woman and an unknown accomplice must be behind the husband's death. He has no reason, however, to be suspicious of Neff, someone he has worked with for quite some time and admires.
Neff is not only worried about Keyes. The victim's daughter, Lola (Jean Heather), comes to him convinced that her stepmother, Phyllis, is behind her father's death because Lola's mother also died under suspicious circumstances when Phyllis was her nurse.
Once he realizes that Phyllis is playing him for a sap and also seeing another man – Lola's boyfriend – behind his back, Neff believes the only way out is to murder Phyllis himself. But she has had the same thought; when they meet, she shoots him first. Neff, badly hurt, is still able to shoot and kill her.
Neff then drives to his office. There he dictates his full confession to Keyes, who arrives in person just in time to hear the last of the gory details and see his dying friend Neff collapse to the floor.
By the way Wilder shot an alternate ending to the film (to appease censors), featuring Neff paying for his crime by going to the gas chamber. This footage is lost, but stills of the scene still exist.
Scripting the film:
Apart from the racy content- a tale of adultery and premeditated murder for hire, and the language the way two geniuses could work together is itself an interesting sidelight
Wilder, working for Paramount Pictures, acquired the rights to Cain's novella but creating a screenplay from it was a challenge. For the Austrian-born Wilder who was yet to get total command of English. His American writing partner Charles Brackett refused to work on the film. Paramount and Wilder tried to get James M. Cain to co-write the screenplay but he was under contract for another studio. After reading The Big Sleep, Wilder decided that Raymond Chandler would be a good choice. 'Cain's crime story was intact but now it featured witty dialog that was a combination of 1930's machine-gun chatter (especially Robinson's speeches) and the laid-back hip dialog that would be Chandler's trademark. The result is a screenplay that actually ends up being more sexual than the novella'(filmnoiroftheweek.blogspot.com)
Raymond Chandler hated the experience of writing the script with Billy Wilder so much that he actually walked out and would not return unless a list of demands was met. The studio acceded to his demands and he returned to finish the script with Wilder who claimed that he flaunted his womanizing ability at the time to torment the sexually-repressed Chandler.(wikipedia)
Other cast
* Porter Hall as Mr. Jackson
* Jean Heather as Lola Dietrichson
* Tom Powers as Mr. Dietrichson
* Byron Barr as Nino Zachetti
* Richard Gaines as Edward S. Norton, Jr.
* Fortunio Bonanova as Sam Garlopis
* John Philliber as Joe Peters
Other films inspired by the Snyder-Gray murder include The Postman Always Rings Twice (also based on a Cain novel) and Body Heat. Both Postman and Double Indemnity were remade, with Double Indemnity being a "made-for-TV" movie in 1973 starring Richard Crenna, Lee J. Cobb, and Samantha Eggar.
Academy Award Nominations
* Best Actress in a Leading Role (Barbara Stanwyck)
* Best Cinematography, Black-and-White
* Best Director (Billy Wilder)
* Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
* Best Picture
* Academy Award for Best Sound, recording
* Best Writing, Screenplay
Critical response
In his review, film critic Roger Ebert praised director Wilder and cinematographer Seitz. He wrote, "The photography by John F. Seitz helped develop the noir style of sharp-edged shadows and shots, strange angles and lonely Edward Hopper settings."
* The character Walter Neff was originally named Walter Ness, but director/writer Billy Wilder found out that there was a man living in Beverly Hills named Walter Ness who was actually an insurance salesman. To avoid being sued for defamation of character, they changed the name.
* The scene where Neff and Dietrichson can't get their car started after the murder, was added by Wilder after his car wouldn't start at the end of a shooting day.
* Dick Powell wanted the role of Walter Neff, but he was under contract to another studio and they wouldn't allow it. He was enraged and tore up his contract. The role went to Fred MacMurray.
* The blonde wig that Barbara Stanwyck is wearing throughout the movie was the idea of Billy Wilder. A month into shooting Wilder suddenly realized how bad it looked, but by then it was too late to re-shoot the earlier scenes. To rationalize this mistake, in later interviews Wilder claimed that the bad-looking wig was intentional.
• In the first scene in which Walter first kisses Phyllis, we see a wedding ring on Walter's hand. Fred MacMurray was married and the ring was not noticed until post-production.
* The victim, Mr. Dietrichson, is an oil company executive. Screenplay writer Raymond Chandler was an oil company executive before he became a writer.
* Silver dust was mixed with some subtle smoke effects to create the illusion of waning sunlight in Phyllis Dietrichson's house.
* We never learn the first name of Mr. Dietrichson.
* Various studios expressed interest in the story when it first appeared in serial form in 1935 but realized it was unfilmable within the strictures of the newly-established Production Code.
• On viewing the film's rushes, production head Buddy G. DeSylva remarked of Barbara Stanwyck's blonde wig, "We hired Barbara Stanwyck, and here we get George Washington"!
* In the scene where Phyllis is listening at Neff's door as he talks with Keyes, Keyes exits into the hallway and Phyllis hides behind the door. The door opens into the hallway, which isn't allowed by building codes even back then, but it does give Phyllis something to hide behind and increases the tension.
Memorable Quotes:
Walter Neff: You'll be here too?
Phyllis: I guess so, I usually am.
Walter Neff: Same chair, same perfume, same anklet?
Phyllis: I wonder if I know what you mean.
Walter Neff: I wonder if you wonder.
[last lines]
Walter Neff: Know why you couldn't figure this one, Keyes? I'll tell ya. 'Cause the guy you were looking for was too close. Right across the desk from ya.
Barton Keyes: Closer than that, Walter.
Walter Neff: I love you, too.
Walter Neff: It's just like the first time I came here, isn't it? We were talking about automobile insurance, only you were thinking about murder. And I was thinking about that anklet.
Barton Keyes: Have you made up your mind?
Jackson: Mr. Keyes, I'm a Medford man – Medford, Oregon. Up in Medford, we take our time making up our minds.
Barton Keyes: Well, we're not in Medford, we're in a hurry.
Barton Keyes: They've committed a murder and it's not like taking a trolley ride together where they can get off at different stops. They're stuck with each other and they've got to ride all the way to the end of the line and it's a one-way trip and the last stop is the cemetery.
Walter Neff: Do I laugh now, or wait 'til it gets funny?
Walter Neff: How could I have known that murder could sometimes smell like honeysuckle?
Walter Neff: Suddenly it came over me that everything would go wrong. It sounds crazy, Keyes, but it's true, so help me. I couldn't hear my own footsteps. It was the walk of a dead man.
Walter Neff: Yes, I killed him. I killed him for money – and a woman – and I didn't get the money and I didn't get the woman. Pretty, isn't it?
Phyllis: I was just fixing some ice tea; would you like a glass?
Walter Neff: Yeah, unless you got a bottle of beer that's not working.
Barton Keyes: I picked you for the job, not because I think you're so darn smart, but because I thought you were a shade less dumb than the rest of the outfit. Guess I was wrong. You're not smarter, Walter… you're just a little taller.
[Norton, Keyes's boss, has just tried, unsuccessfully, to convince a client that her husband's death was a suicide]
Barton Keyes: You know, you, uh, oughta take a look at the statistics on suicide some time. You might learn a little something about the insurance business.
Edward S. Norton: Mister Keyes, I was RAISED in the insurance business.
Barton Keyes: Yeah, in the front office. Come now, you've never read an actuarial table in your life, have you? Why they've got ten volumes on suicide alone. Suicide by race, by color, by occupation, by sex, by seasons of the year, by time of day. Suicide, how committed: by poison, by firearms, by drowning, by leaps. Suicide by poison, subdivided by TYPES of poison, such as corrosive, irritant, systemic, gaseous, narcotic, alkaloid, protein, and so forth. Suicide by leaps, subdivided by leaps from high places, under the wheels of trains, under the wheels of trucks, under the feet of horses, from STEAMBOATS. But, Mr. Norton: Of all the cases on record, there's not one single case of suicide by leap from the rear end of a moving train. And you know how fast that train was going at the point where the body was found? Fifteen miles an hour. Now how can anybody jump off a slow-moving train like that with any kind of expectation that he would kill himself? No, no soap, Mr. Norton. We're sunk, and we'll have to pay through the nose, and you know it.
Jackson: These are fine cigars you smoke.
Barton Keyes: Two for a quarter.
Jackson: That's what I said.
Walter Neff: Who'd you think I was anyway? The guy that walks into a good looking dame's front parlour and says, "Good afternoon, I sell accident insurance on husbands… you got one that's been around too long? One you'd like to turn into a little hard cash?"
Walter Neff: They say all native Californians come from Iowa.
Phyllis: I'm a native Californian. Born right here in Los Angeles.
Walter Neff: They say all native Californians come from Iowa.
Phyllis: We're both rotten.
Walter Neff: Only you're a little more rotten.
Phyllis: Mr. Neff, why don't you drop by tomorrow evening about eight-thirty. He'll be in then.
Walter Neff: Who?
Phyllis: My husband. You were anxious to talk to him weren't you?
Walter Neff: Yeah, I was, but I'm sort of getting over the idea, if you know what I mean.
Phyllis: There's a speed limit in this state, Mr. Neff. Forty-five miles an hour.
Walter Neff: How fast was I going, officer?
Phyllis: I'd say around ninety.
Walter Neff: Suppose you get down off your motorcycle and give me a ticket.
Phyllis: Suppose I let you off with a warning this time.
Walter Neff: Suppose it doesn't take.
Phyllis: Suppose I have to whack you over the knuckles.
Walter Neff: Suppose I bust out crying and put my head on your shoulder.
Phyllis: Suppose you try putting it on my husband's shoulder.
Walter Neff: That tears it.
[first lines]
Building attendant: Well, hello there, Mr. Neff.
Barton Keyes: Now that's enough out of you, Walter. Now get outta here before I throw my desk at you.
[looks in his pocket for a match]
Walter Neff: [takes a match of his own and lights Keyes' cigar] I love you, too.
Walter Neff: I really did, too, you old crab. Always yelling your head off, always sore at everybody. You never fooled me with your song and dance, not for a second. I kinda always knew that behind all the cigar ashes on your vest was a heart as big as a house.
Phyllis: I think you're rotten.
Walter Neff: I think you're swell – so long as I'm not your husband.
Phyllis: Get out of here.
Walter Neff: You bet I'll get out of here, baby. I'll get out of here but quick.
Edward S. Norton: That witness from the train, what was his name?
Barton Keyes: His name was Jackson. Probably still is.
Barton Keyes: Walter, you're all washed up.
Barton Keyes: What's the matter? Dames chasing you again? Or still? Or is it none of my business?
Walter Neff: If I told you it was a customer, you'd…
Barton Keyes: "Margie"! I bet she drinks from the bottle.
Phyllis: Do you make your own breakfast, Mr Neff?
Walter Neff: Well, I squeeze a grapefruit now and again.
Barton Keyes: Well, I get darn sick of tryin' to pick up after a gang of fast-talking salesmen dumb enough to sell life insurance to a guy who sleeps in the same bed with four rattlesnakes.
Barton Keyes: The job I'm talking about takes brains and integrity. It takes more guts than there is in 50 salesmen. It's the hottest job in the business… Desk job? Is that all you can see in it? Just a hard chair to park your pants on from 9 to 5, huh? Just a pile of papers to shuffle around and five sharp pencils and a scratch pad to make figures on. Maybe a little doodling on the side. Well, that's not the way I look at it, Walter. To me, a claims man is a surgeon. That desk is an operating table. And those pencils are scalpels and bone chisels. And those papers are not just forms and statistics and claims for compensation, they're alive, they're packed with drama, with twisted hopes and crooked dreams. A claims man, Walter, is a doctor and a bloodhound… and a cop and a judge and a jury and a father confessor all in one. And you want to tell me you're not interested. You don't want to work with your brains. All you wanna work is with your finger on the doorbell, for a few bucks more a week.
Walter Neff: I get the general idea. She was a tramp from a long line of tramps.
Directed by Billy Wilder
Produced by Buddy G. DeSylva
Billy Wilder
Raymond Chandler
Narrated by Fred MacMurray
Starring Fred MacMurray
Barbara Stanwyck
Edward G. Robinson
Music by Miklós Rózsa
Victor Schertzinger
Cinematography John F. Seitz
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Running time 107 minutes
Budget $927,262
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Double Indemnity was released September 1944 and it became a classic for well merited reasons. It is a dark, back-and-white tale of lust, greed and murder told in a flashback as with Wilders Sunset Boulevard. It stands apart from other films- noir of the time including The Maltese Falcon – and was a box office hit. Double Indemnity competed against romantic thrillers and Hollywood melodramas at the 1944 Oscars – the film lost the Best Picture award to the Bing Crosby-starrer Going My Way. .( 'In 1992, Double Indemnity was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The film was listed at number 38 on the American Film Institute's list of the top 100 American films of all time and at number 29 on the 10th Anniversary Edition of the list'-wikipedia)
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10 "Bigger in Texas" Modern Stays
Okay, these ten Texas stays aren't necessarily "bigger" just because they're located in the Lone Star state, but they all certainly exude a unique mix of modern style and Southern charm. Whether you're making one of Texas' great cities a destination this summer or you're just passing through, chances are any of these stylish places would love to have you.
1) Heywood Hotel 1609 East Cesar Chavez, Austin, Texas
2) Hotel St. Cecilia 112 Academy Drive Austin, Texas
3) Kimber Modern 110 The Circle Austin, Texas
4) Hotel San Jose 1316 South Congress Avenue, Austin, Texas
5) Hotel Havana 1015 Navarro Street, San Antonio, Texas
6) Alden Hotel 1117 Prairie Street, Houston, Texas
7) Hotel Icon 220 Main Street, Houston, Texas
8) Hotel Zaza (there's also one in Houston) 2332 Leonard Street, Dallas, Texas
9) Thunderbird Hotel 601 West San Antonio Street, Marfa, Texas
10) El Cosmico Highway 67, Marfa, Texas
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I love that the Thunderbird out in Marfa and San Jose in Austin have very similar design themes in both places. I hope the woman that owns the San Jose still has a stake out at the T-Bird. (Side note: I saw the documentary she made when she was trying to get funding to turn around the old South Congress motorcourt - "Last Days of the San Jose" - here on Austin's PBS station a few years ago, and it's just incredible to see what she's done with the place and how that strip of the city has come so far in the 15 years I've been here.)
Agree -- San Jose is just fantastic....but even the old school Driskill is great -- Cowhide everything.
I was at the Thunderbird earlier this month. It is my favorite motel. Love the concrete floors. Enjoyed the breakfast across the street. Ate lunch at the Food Shark truck. Saw the Marfa lights. Marfa is just so hipster and so is the Thunderbird.
I have stayed at both the Hotel St. Cecilia in Austin and the El Cosmico (twice) in Marfa. The Cecilia, while gorgeous, is horrifically overpriced for what you get. We had major AC issues in our room the middle of July and the management only wanted to discount 10% of one night (total bill was over $800). On the other hand, my stays at the El Cosmico have been nothing short of awesome. It's my favorite place to stay in Marfa. You just can't beat sleeping outside and the laid back atmosphere. Best pizza I've ever had (even compared to Italy) was the Pizza Foundation (San Antonio and Highland) in Marfa.
We stayed in this exact room at The Heywood Hotel and the place was absolutely exquisite!!! The staff is friendly beyond words and will help you with anything you need even if it's just directing you to the local ice cream shop. The bed is the most comfortable bed I have slept of any hotel I have visited in years. You can't go wrong with The Heywood and you'll remember this place the next time you visit Ausin, Tx.


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The popular music blog aggregator site Elbo.ws currently lists over 4,000 blogs. This exorbitant number is an indication of just how much noise there is in the music blogosphere and that number only counts what's been submitted. With so much music out there to discover, how do you find a music blogger or a site whose taste aligns with yours? Here's a look at some recent kicking solutions that address this problem.
One answer is Ex.Fm, a handy extension for Google Chrome that saves links to MP3s on pages as you browse into a playlist so you can listen to a continuous mix of music. It queues up Soundcloud embeds, allows you to favourite songs and share them with others through your Last.FM, Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr accounts. Ex.FM is essentially an iTunes-esque social jukebox for your browser and very well done it is too. The four-man New York based team recently raised $750,000 in funding so watch out for more features in the coming months.
Also from the Ex.FM team, is the poorly-titled The Super Awesome Music Blog Finder Thingy ™ (ex.fm/labs/blogfinder), an experimental "labs" tool that recommends music blogs for you to check out based on your Last.FM data. It matches the artists in your library with those featured on music blogs, leaving you with a tailored page results of new voices to check out. As a music blogger myself, I can tell you I found a couple of new regular haunts I didn't know existed before.
Mac users rejoice, for there is a super-sexy looking solution to your music blog browsing needs. Peel (getpeel.com) is a desktop program that looks like iTunes yet gets juiced up on music blog feed data. From there you can load up your favourite blog, read their latest entries, play their song choices and download the tunes to your local hard drive at a click. Peel plays nice with all the usual social stuff too: Last.FM and Facebook in particular.
The only bad news? Peel will set you back $24.95. The intuitive interface is a winner but Ex.FM's recent upgrade has made this look less of a bargain. Also, Ex.FM's queuing of songs while you browse is automatic. Peel first-timers have to be familiar with blogs to manually add them for it to be really useful.
If you'd prefer to listen to music another time rather than as you browse but would prefer to create your own playlists rather than let Ex.FM build it for you, the aptly-titled Later.FM is here to help. If you haven't got the time to listen to something click Later.FM's button and a playlist is created. It's compatible with songs from Soundcloud, MP3 links and Tumblr audio posts and only contains songs you specifically want to hear.
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Last month, the boat yard owner, Tim Mullane, told the City of Norfolk he would remove several vessels that clog the area.
Regina Freemont-Gomez said Thursday Mullane has yet to remove the boats and it's affecting her family's property and business.
"There's lot of time a money and energy invested to try and get the government officials to do what they are suppose to do. If you don't impose penalties and you don't impose fines, if you don't take someone to jail what's the point in them obeying the law?" Freemont-Gomez asked.
Fremont-Gomez's family hired attorney Jim Lang to deal with the eyesore. Last week, Lang said one of the boats was leaking oil.
The City Attorney's office in Norfolk sent an email in December stating that City officials and Virginia Marine Resources Commission officials met with Mullane and obtained a commitment from him to remove six specifically identified vessels within a month.
The month has now passed and none of the vessels have been removed.
"You look at what's happening out on this waterway. It's a blight and it's damaging our brand. It brings down property values, it's a blemish on the waterway and it's a threat to public safety," said Lang.
13News Now contacted city officials about the issue. Deputy City Attorney Cynthia Hall told 13News Now, "Mr. Mullane has been working on the removal of vessels for which he is responsible and which are not actively used in his business. Regulatory staff plans on doing a site inspection in the next two weeks."


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PlayStation Network cracked again
The password reset Web page for Sony's PlayStation Network -- the network recently relaunched after being hacked weeks ago -- has been compromised using an exploit that lets hackers change players' passwords if they know the email and date of birth for the account.
Conveniently for the hackers, that information is the kind of data stolen during the original network intrusion. Sony took the password reset Web page off line after Nyleveia, a games site, notified the company of the security breach and revealed the news to the public. The site notes that if PlayStation Network players received an e-mail notifying them that their password was reset, then yes, the account was hacked. Reports suggest that now that the password reset system is down, player accounts are safe. Until the next security flaw is revealed and exploited...
Sony's yet to post an official response to the situation on its blog, which it's used an a mouthpiece during this entire fiasco. Stay tuned.
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Delightful. Absolutely delightful.
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One day at Buckingham Palace, Queen Elizabeth II finds her runaway doggies gathered around a bookmobile that has come to deliver books to the kitchen staff. The Queen reads, of course, but not actively or with any real sense of purpose—she does, after all, have Other Things To Do. But she feels obliged to make a selection from the bookmobile, and then she's quite surprised to find that reading is enjoyable. The Queen finds herself interested, roused, even impassioned. This is a woman who does nothing by halves; with the assistance of her kitchen-boy-turned-page Norman, the Queen becomes an avid devotee of literature. And the English people find themselves with a royal bookworm on their hands. The consequences are intriguing, to say the least. Author Alan Bennett is a gifted comic writer who pokes gentle fun at the rigidly ruled world of the British monarchy and all its antiquated mannerisms. But he writes Queen Elizabeth as a compelling character—an aging woman of great social and political power who still possesses the surprising to change and the desire to improve. For all the fun The Uncommon Reader has with its royal premise, the story is less about the power of the throne than it is about the power of the written word. This is a sly little what-if tale, a fairy tale about a real person that all book lovers--royal or commoner--will relish.
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This novella follows Queen Elizabeth as her Corgis wander into the mobile library and she discovers serious literature & the pleasures of obsessive reading. Delightful & eccentric.
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The Queen of England discovers the pleasures of reading, and chaos ensues, in a highly British manner. A very fun, witty read.
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This "Loyal Americans" pin was found among some old items I was given. I don't know who it belonged to, the geographic region it came from, nor a timeframe. I could not find information on similar pins on the internet.
I thought perhaps this might be a pin for the AOLA - Ancient Order of Loyal Americans, but their symbols seem to be different.
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Car repair costs on the rise
A study shows the cost of getting a car fixed went up 10% last year -- the first increase in 6 years.
This post comes from MSN Money contributor Mitch Lipka.
The average cost of getting a car fixed rose 10% in 2012 to $368, according to a new study of auto repairs (.pdf file) by the site CarMD.com.
While it was the first time the cost of repairs increased in the past six years, the cost of fixing a car still well below the 2007 average of $422. Part of the reason for the increase is that the average vehicle is 11 years old.
"On one hand we're seeing an increase in car repair costs that can be attributed to factors such as a market correction and a higher percentage of more expensive repairs related to the aging vehicle population, but on a more positive note, we see costs for hybrid repairs continuing to drop and drivers making fewer check engine-related trips to the repair shop," said CarMD CEO Ieon C. Chen.
CarMD, a gadget that sells for about $135 (including shipping), allows car owners to tap into their car's computers and find out why the "check engine" light is on and provide an estimate of what it would cost to repair.
CarMD collects data about why the check engine light comes on and tracks the cost of repair. The company said it looked at 161,000 cases to come up with its Vehicle Health Index. The five most common check-engine triggers and their associated repair costs are:
- Replace oxygen sensor ($294).
- Inspect for loose fuel cap ($0).
- Replace catalytic converter ($1,101).
- Replace ignition coil(s) and spark plug(s) ($317).
- Replace spark plug wires and spark plugs ($343).
Repairs to hybrid vehicles have been the costliest in recent years and still dominate the list of costliest problems to fix. However, CarMD notes that a non-hybrid problem tops the list.
Here are the five costliest repairs measured by CarMD:
- Replace transmission assembly and reprogram electronic control module in vehicles including the 2001-2004 Honda Civic, 2003-2011 Range Rover, 2007-2010 Mini Cooper, and 2001-2006 Volvo vehicles ($5,400+).
- Replace transmission and torque converter ($4,400+).
- Replace hybrid inverter assembly w/converter in 2001-2003 Toyota Prius vehicles ($3,900).
- Replace transmission assembly ($3,480+).
- Replace integrated motor assist battery in vehicles including the 2003-2007 Honda Civic Hybrid, 2005-2006 Accord Hybrid, 2007-2011 Nissan Altima Hybrid vehicles ($3,150+).
Recently, a handful of new devices went on the market that also read data from the car's computer -- something that works in vehicles from the 1996 model year and later -- and deliver information to users' smartphones. The devices are the Delphi-made and Verizon-sold "Vehicle Diagnostics" and "Automatic" from Automatic Labs.
Both offer other features as well, including GPS trip monitoring. Automatic also monitors and helps drivers to improve their driving to get better gas mileage.
Here are some tips from the Federal Trade Commission about choosing an auto repair shop:
Ask for recommendations from friends, family, and other people you trust. Look for a repair shop before you need one to avoid being rushed into a last-minute decision.
Shop around by phone and online for the best deal, and compare warranty policies on repairs.
Ask to see current licenses if state or local law requires repair shops to be licensed or registered. Also, your state attorney general's office or local consumer protection agency may know whether there's a record of complaints about a particular repair shop.
Make sure the shop will honor your vehicle's warranty.
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