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Good times, good times. This is a win that will be remembered when the season is over. It will end up being our most impressive win, as far as scoring differential is concerned. We can't expect this level of domination every week. Not in the NFL. It just doesn't happen. But we can take this victory and carry the momentum into the next game. We did so many things well, and we can capitalize of those things. Hey, thrashing the Bills was fun. We handled our business. Let's drink beers and eat nachos. But Wednesday morning is the end of those nachos. We can keep drinking beer… But we've got a big game coming up! It's cowboys and indians, baby! I don't care how bad the Redskins have looked lately. This is the NFL, this is the NFC, and this is Cowboys-Redskins. Anything goes. I'm excited, are you? If you're not, then you need to drink more beer. More beer! More!
Doesn't it feel good? (The win, not the beer)
Q uickly Now..
-Michael Vick is capable of great quarterbacking. But with that speed, comes a frail body. I'm sorry, but there are at least 8 quarterbacks that I would take to build my franchise around before I got to Vick.
-For any southern rock fans out there: There is a very under-rated and under-the-radar band called Willie Stradlin that you need to check out. Their album "1000 Miles Away" is great.
-If you have the money, do yourself a favor and go to Outback Steakhouse on a cold night. Get the Sam Adam's Winter Lager on draft, the house sirloin, and eat the delicious bread. It reminds you that life doesn't suck as bad as it seems.
-This college football season is delivering great drama, as always. But with the Longhorns down, and LSU up, it's hard for me to be excited every week. I just have to hope for a fun national title game with a big upset.
-I'm surprised poor people don't read more books. You can get them for really cheap. I'm poor. I read books. (Innovator)
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Space colonies from the BBC perspective
An overview of space settlement possibilities: The expert guide to space colonies – BBC
An overview of space settlement possibilities: The expert guide to space colonies – BBC
The Int. Space Elevator Consortium posts the latest update: ISEC eNewsletter – September 2014
In this issue's President's Corner, ISEC President Dr. Peter Swan challenges readers to provide input on why humanity wants and needs a space elevator. We also provide the first entry to this challenge, this from Art Dula of the Heinlein Prize Trust….
… This eNewsletter also lets you know about (not one but) two Kickstarter campaigns, aimed at raising money to finalize documentaries about the space elevator – we encourage you to visit the Kickstarter sites and financially support one or both of these worthy campaigns. And, due to popular demand, the ISEC reports are now available in electronic (pdf) format – this eNewsletter shows you how to order your own copies
Update: An item in the Wash Post discusses the state of the material science for making tethers capable of implementing a space elevator: The space elevator: Extreme science fiction that's still a long way from science fact – The Washington Post
Via Universe Today comes this excellent time lapse video compiled with imagery from the Int. Space Station:
Sights in the night sky (plus a solar eclipse) for October are highlighted in this NASA JPL video:
Here is an infographic on lunar eclipses courtesy of astroshop.eu:
The latest trailer for the film Interstellar, which is scheduled for release on November 7th:
Cirque du Soleil and partners turn ten quadcopters into magic actors:
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Cirque du Soleil, ETH Zurich, and Verity Studios have partnered to develop a short film featuring 10 quadcopters in a flying dance performance. The collaboration resulted in a unique, interactive choreography where humans and drones move in sync. Precise computer control allows for a large performance and movement vocabulary of the quadcopters and opens the door to many more applications in the future.
SPARKED: Behind the Technology: http://youtu.be/7YqUocVcyrE
Cirque du Soleil: http://www.cirquedusoleil.com/
ETH Zurich: http://www.idsc.ethz.ch/Research_DAndrea
Verity Studios: http://www.veritystudios.com/
Here's a video on the making of the Sparked film:
NASA's Cassini probe orbiting Saturn spots a feature on the moon Titan that has changed over time:
Cassini Watches Mysterious Feature Evolve in Titan Sea
NASA's Cassini spacecraft is monitoring the evolution of a mysterious feature in a large hydrocarbon sea on Saturn's moon Titan. The feature covers an area of about 100 square miles (260 square kilometers) in Ligeia Mare, one of the largest seas on Titan. It has now been observed twice by Cassini's radar experiment, but its appearance changed between the two apparitions.
Images of the feature taken during the Cassini flybys are available at photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA18430
The mysterious feature, which appears bright in radar images against the dark background of the liquid sea, was first spotted during Cassini's July 2013 Titan flyby. Previous observations showed no sign of bright features in that part of Ligeia Mare. Scientists were perplexed to find the feature had vanished when they looked again, over several months, with low-resolution radar and Cassini's infrared imager. This led some team members to suggest it might have been a transient feature. But during Cassini's flyby on August 21, 2014, the feature was again visible, and its appearance had changed during the 11 months since it was last seen.
Scientists on the radar team are confident that the feature is not an artifact, or flaw, in their data, which would have been one of the simplest explanations. They also do not see evidence that its appearance results from evaporation in the sea, as the overall shoreline of Ligeia Mare has not changed noticeably.
The team has suggested the feature could be surface waves, rising bubbles, floating solids, solids suspended just below the surface, or perhaps something more exotic.
The researchers suspect that the appearance of this feature could be related to changing seasons on Titan, as summer draws near in the moon's northern hemisphere. Monitoring such changes is a major goal for Cassini's current extended mission.
"Science loves a mystery, and with this enigmatic feature, we have a thrilling example of ongoing change on Titan," said Stephen Wall, the deputy team lead of Cassini's radar team, based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "We're hopeful that we'll be able to continue watching the changes unfold and gain insights about what's going on in that alien sea."
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and ASI, the Italian Space Agency. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The radar instrument was built by JPL and the Italian Space Agency, working with team members from the United States and several European countries.
For more information about Cassini and its mission, visit:
The latest program from TMRO (formerly Spacevidcast) is titled : Community Chat: Why are you a space geek? – TMRO –
The Photos To Space blog hosts the latest Carnival of Space.
An announcement from the National Space Society:
National Space Society Launches "Enterprise In Space"
Washington DC – September 24, 2014 – The National Space Society (NSS) is launching a new project called "Enterprise In Space" (EIS). This project will design, build, launch, orbit, re-enter, tour, and display a science-fiction-inspired satellite as a science education and technology demonstration project for all ages and as a tribute to the great visionaries of science and science fiction.
Inspired by the classic science fiction writers of the 20th century including Heinlein, Clark and Roddenberry, the EIS project is a grassroots effort by a dedicated team of aerospace, information technology, and education veterans. The goal of the EIS project is to launch an orbital mission by 2019 that will carry 100 or more competitively selected student experiments from around the globe, and to test out new space technology. This is an opportunity for people to directly support something truly historic. EIS will reach out to people with interests in space, science, education, astronomy, cosmology, and science fiction.
A three-minute video explains the entire idea at the Enterprise in Space website (www.enterpriseinspace.org).
"The National Space Society is proud to launch the Enterprise in Space project to the world," said National Space Society Senior Vice President Bruce Pittman. "This is an opportunity for people worldwide to come together to help transform this exciting concept into a remarkable reality. EIS is yet another example of the burgeoning free enterprise use of space."
What began as a dream by Oregonian science fiction and space enthusiast Shawn Case four years ago is now a major NSS project. Case and his team have prepared a well-defined project plan to launch an orbiter dubbed "NSS Enterprise," with its artistic design to be conceived by a public competition. The spacecraft will re-enter from orbit for retrieval, go on a tour along with the results of the student experiments, and ultimately be displayed in a major museum along with the names of all who helped fund it.
Case has assembled a professional team skilled in project management, aerospace, social media, and education to carry out the project. Case believes that giving each donor the opportunity to be a virtual crew member and get his or her name on an electronic chip to be carried aloft on this historic flight will greatly increase interest in the project and in space exploration.
Famed Apollo 11 moonwalker and NSS governor Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin endorses EIS: "There's an exciting new project called Enterprise In Space that I want to tell you about. Together with the National Space Society, the Enterprise In Space project will launch an eight-foot Enterprise satellite into orbit and bring it back to Earth. This is an educational and inspirational tribute to all Enterprise ships in history, to science visionaries, and to the vision of the Great Bird of the Galaxy himself, Gene Roddenberry. My name has been to space and back. Now it's your turn. Rendezvous with me and support the Enterprise in Space project. Help make history all over again."
Proposals for experiments to be flown on the orbiter will be sought from students of all nations and ages, from kindergarten through university. Lynne F. Zielinski, a national award-winning educator, NSS Director and Vice President of Public Affairs, will head the EIS education team. "In my 32 years of teaching, I have worked with hundreds of students to send experiments aboard six space shuttle and nine NASA sub-orbital rocket flights," Zielinski said. "Students really have a lot to offer. I've seen the potential of students when they're excited about being a real part of space flight exploration. Age is no barrier. They quickly adopt cutting-edge ideas and technology."
The project's appeal to those interested in space, science, and education goes hand-in-hand with its appeal to science fiction fans, many of whom have a naturally optimistic view of the future and of humans living and working in space–the goals that NSS has promoted since its founding.
Great visionary science fiction writers created hopes that people would be on the Moon and on the way to Mars by now. Let's help to turn science fiction into science reality, bridging the conceptual gap through education, imagination, and inspiration. Through real-world enterprise, the people of Earth will contribute to the vision of Enterprise In Space.
Guests and topics on The Space Show this week:
1. Monday, Sept. 29, 2014: 2-3:30 PM PDT (5-6:30 PM EDT, 4-5:30 PM CDT): No show today as I am out of town on a special business trip.
2. Tuesday, Sept. 30 , 2014:,7-8:30 PM PDT (10-11:30 PM EDT, 9-10:30 PM CDT): No show as I am returning from my special business trip.
3. Friday, Oct. 3, 2014, 9:30 -11 AM PDT (12;30-2 PM EDT; 11:30-1 PM CDT):TBD. Please check the website newsletter by the of the middle of the week for details for this program. See www.thespaceshow.com/newsletterfinal.html. .
4. Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014, 12-1:30 PM PDT (3-4:30 PM EDT, 2-3:30 PM CDT). OPEN LINES. All space and STEM topics welcome. First time callers are encouraged to give us a call.
See also:
/– The Space Show on Vimeo – webinar videos
/– The Space Show's Blog – summaries of interviews.
/– The Space Show Classroom Blog – tutorial programs
The Space Show is a project of the One Giant Leap Foundation.
A panel discussion sponsored by the SETI Institute on the DARPA initiated 100 Year Starship program:
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The world music ensemble BELLA GAIA provides
an unprecedented audiovisual experience that combines NASA satellite imagery of Earth, time lapse nature photography, and cultural heritage footage with stirring live performances of music and dance from around the world.
Inspired by astronauts who spoke of the life changing power of seeing the Earth from space, director-composer Kenji Williams' award winning BELLA GAIA successfully simulates the Overview Effect from space flight, by using NASA supercomputer data-visualizations to explore the relationship between humans and nature through time and space, with a "message of oneness amidst a deeply moving and shimmering soundscape that combines sacred dance with gorgeous sets and stunning imagery" (Blog Talk Radio).
They will release their debut album, BELLA GAIA – Beautiful Earth, on November 11th. Find more about the album and performance plans in their latest newsletter: World renowned cosmic world music ensemble releases new single
Here is the track Biosphere Pulse:
You can listen to the entire album at BELLA GAIA – Beautiful Earth on SoundCloud.
Here is a video from BELLA GAIA:
Rick Boozer on his Astro Maven blog has posted the third installment of his Photometry with AIP4WIN: a Tutorial, which is aimed at astronomers both amateur and professional:
From Part 1:
The science of photometry can be used by both amateur astronomers and professionals for some very advanced scientific work. You can detect the light changes caused by eclipsing binary stars, plot the changes in luminosity of a variable star and even detect an exoplanet orbiting another star. This tutorial will be your step-by-step guide on how to employ the powerful Magnitude Measurement Tool that comes with the renowned astronomical imaging software known as AIP4WIN by Richard Berry and Robert Burnell. Special thanks to Mr. Berry for giving me permission to include screen images and extensive operating details from AIP4WIN.
Here's this week's NASA video report on activities related to the International Space Station:
A new NASA sponsored contest:
NASA Opens Registration For Inaugural
Mars Ascent Vehicle Challenge
Registration is open for the 2015 NASA Centennial Challenges' Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV) Prize, which will take place April 7-12, 2015. The competition carries a prize purse of $50,000 and will be held in Huntsville, Alabama, in conjunction with the NASA Student Launch event, an academic engineering design challenge that provides resources and experiences for students and faculty.
The Mars Ascent Vehicle Prize will aid NASA in advancing technologies that could be used to return samples from Mars in the future. The challenge focuses on simulating the collection of samples from the Martian surface, placing them into Mars orbit for collection and returning them to Earth. This new challenge is open to both academic and non-academic teams to demonstrate technologies that may be relevant to potential future NASA Science Mission Directorate Mars missions. This challenge has no relation to NASA missions currently in development such as the Mars 2020.
"The MAV Prize is an opportunity for us to team up with an established academic competition and invite teams of all kinds to work in parallel on technologies that will aid in future Mars exploration," said Sam Ortega, Centennial Challenges program manager.
The Challenge requires reliable, autonomous sample insertion into the rocket, launch from the surface, and deployment of the sample container. Innovative technology from this competition could be considered in future planning for a Mars exploration mission.
Centennial Challenges will award prizes for successful demonstration of an end-to-end autonomous operation to sequentially accomplish the following tasks: picking up the sample, inserting the sample into a single stage solid-propellant rocket in a horizontal position, erecting the rocket, launching the rocket to an altitude of 3,000 feet, deploying a sample container, and landing the container safely while following the National Association of Rocketry guidelines.
The first-place award is $25,000; second-place is $15,000; and third-place is $10,000. Competing teams will be eligible for prize money only after the successful completion of all the required tasks.
Interested teams may apply for the challenge by submitting a registration proposal to the Student Launch project office. Details for submitting the proposal and complete rules may be found in the handbook.
The Centennial Challenges program is part of NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate, which is innovating, developing, testing and flying hardware for use in NASA's future missions. It is managed out of Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
For more information about the MAV Prize, visit: www.nasa.gov/mavprize
For more information about NASA Student Launch, visit: go.usa.gov/dW9w
An announcement from NASA/ESA Hubble Telescope program:
Smallest exoplanet ever found to have water vapour
Astronomers using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Kepler Space Telescope have discovered clear skies and steamy water vapour on a planet outside our Solar System. The planet, known as HAT-P-11b, is about the size of Neptune, making it the smallest exoplanet ever on which water vapour has been detected. The results will appear in the online version of the journal Nature on 24 September 2014.
This is an artist's concept of the silhouette of the extrasolar planet HAT-P-11b
as it passes its parent star. The planet was observed as it crossed in front of its star in order to learn more about its atmosphere.
In this method, known as transmission or absorption spectroscopy, starlight filters through the rim of the planet's atmosphere and into the telescope. If molecules like water vapour are present, they absorb some of the starlight, leaving distinct signatures in the light that reaches our telescopes. Using this technique, astronomers discovered clear skies and steamy water vapour on the planet.
The discovery is a milestone on the road to eventually finding molecules in the atmospheres of smaller, rocky planets more akin to Earth. Clouds in the atmospheres of planets can block the view of what lies beneath them. The molecular makeup of these lower regions can reveal important information about the composition and history of a planet. Finding clear skies on a Neptune-size planet is a good sign that some smaller planets might also have similarly good visibility.
"When astronomers go observing at night with telescopes, they say 'clear skies' to mean good luck," said Jonathan Fraine of the University of Maryland, USA, lead author of the study. "In this case, we found clear skies on a distant planet. That's lucky for us because it means clouds didn't block our view of water molecules."
This image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3, shows the star HAT-P-11.
Not visible here is a Neptune-sized planet named HAT-P-11b which orbits the star. Astronomers have discovered clear skies and steamy water vapour on the planet. It is the smallest planet ever for which water vapour has been detected.
The small bright object next to the star is not the planet in question; in fact it is not a planet at all, but another star.
The reason for the graininess in this image is that it is a very short exposure. The star itself is so bright that it is saturated, it would otherwise be a small dot like the faint star next to it. The rings and the cross are caused by the diffraction — the bouncing of light — inside the telescope.
HAT-P-11b is a so-called exo-Neptune — a Neptune-sized planet that orbits another star. It is located 120 light-years away in the constellation of Cygnus (The Swan). Unlike Neptune, this planet orbits closer to its star, making one lap roughly every five days. It is a warm world thought to have a rocky core, a mantle of fluid and ice, and a thick gaseous atmosphere. Not much else was known about the composition of the planet, or other exo-Neptunes like it, until now.
Part of the challenge in analysing the atmospheres of planets like this is their size. Larger Jupiter-like planets are easier to observe and researchers have already been able to detect water vapour in the atmospheres of some of these giant planets. Smaller planets are more difficult to probe — and all the smaller ones observed to date have appeared to be cloudy.
The team used Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 and a technique called transmission spectroscopy, in which a planet is observed as it crosses in front of its parent star. Starlight filters through the rim of the planet's atmosphere and into the telescope. If molecules like water vapour are present, they absorb some of the starlight, leaving distinct signatures in the light that reaches our telescopes.
"We set out to look at the atmosphere of HAT-P-11b without knowing if its weather would be cloudy or not," said Nikku Madhusudhan, from the University of Cambridge, UK, part of the study team. "By using transmission spectroscopy, we could use Hubble to detect water vapour in the planet. This told us that the planet didn't have thick clouds blocking the view and is a very hopeful sign that we can find and analyse more cloudless, smaller, planets in the future. It is groundbreaking!"
Before the team could celebrate they had to be sure that the water vapour was from the planet and not from cool starspots — "freckles" on the face of stars — on the parent star. Luckily, Kepler had been observing the patch of sky in which HAT-P-11b happens to lie for years. Those visible-light data were combined with targeted infraredSpitzer observations. By comparing the datasets the astronomers could confirm that the starspots were too hot to contain any water vapour, and so the vapour detected must belong to the planet.
The results from all three telescopes demonstrate that HAT-P-11b is blanketed in water vapour, hydrogen gas, and other yet-to-be-identified molecules. So in fact it is not only the smallest planet to have water vapour found in its atmosphere but is also the smallest planet for which molecules of any kind have been directly detected using spectroscopy [1]. Theorists will be drawing up new models to explain the planet's makeup and origins.
Zoom in on the star:
Although HAT-P-11b is dubbed as an exo-Neptune it is actually quite unlike any planet in our Solar System. It is thought that exo-Neptunes may have diverse compositions that reflect their formation histories. New findings such as this can help astronomers to piece together a theory for the origin of these distant worlds.
"We are working our way down the line, from hot Jupiters to exo-Neptunes," said Drake Deming, a co-author of the study also from University of Maryland, USA. "We want to expand our knowledge to a diverse range of exoplanets."
The astronomers plan to examine more exo-Neptunes in the future, and hope to apply the same method to smaller super-Earths — massive, rocky cousins to our home world with up to ten times the mass of Earth. Our Solar System does not contain a super-Earth, but other telescopes are finding them around other stars in droves and the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to launch in 2018, will search super-Earths for signs of water vapour and other molecules. However, finding signs of oceans and potentially habitable worlds is likely a way off.
This work is important for future studies of super-Earths and even smaller planets. It could allow astronomers to pick out in advance the planets with atmospheres clear enough for molecules to be detected. Once again, astronomers will be crossing their fingers for clear skies.
[1] Molecular hydrogen has been inferred to exist in many planets, including planets smaller than HAT-P-11b, but no molecule has actually been detected, using spectroscopy, in a planet this small, until now.
Here is the latest episode of The Virtual SpaceTV 3D show with Amanda Bush. The programs are created by BINARY SPACE (www.binary-space.com) with story content from HobbySpace.com.
In this show, Amanda Bush talks about the following topics:
01:08 – 03:12 NASA picks its Rocket Rides to the ISS
03:13 – 05:16 Jeff Bezos brings a Rocket Engine to Washington
05:17 – 06:46 Maven reaches Mars, MOM to follow
06:47 – 07:36 Curiosity reaches Mount Sharp Base Camp
07:37 – 09:30 Rosetta checks out its Comet
Previous Virtual SpaceTV 3D shows are available on the HobbySpace Youtube Channel.
These videos are intended as educational programs and as demonstrations of an experimental technique for generating animated presentations. The show was generated autonomously by software according to a text script. The project is described in the Virtual Producer whitepaper (Release 1.1, Oct.2013, pdf). For further information contact email@example.com.
An announcement from ESA/Hubble:
Hubble snaps what looks like a young galaxy in the local Universe
Astronomers usually have to peer very far into the distance to see back in time, and view the Universe as it was when it was young. This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of galaxy DDO 68, otherwise known as UGC 5340, was thought to offer an exception. This ragged collection of stars and gas clouds looks at first glance like a recently-formed galaxy in our own cosmic neighbourhood. But, is it really as young as it looks?
Astronomers have studied galactic evolution for decades, gradually improving our knowledge of how galaxies have changed over cosmic history. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has played a big part in this, allowing astronomers to see further into the distance, and hence further back in time, than any telescope before it — capturing light that has taken billions of years to reach us.
Zooming in on dwarf galaxy DDO 68
Looking further into the very distant past to observe younger and younger galaxies is very valuable, but it is not without its problems for astronomers. All newly-born galaxies lie very far away from us and appear very small and faint in the images. On the contrary, all the galaxies near to us appear to be old ones.
DDO 68, captured here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, was one of the best candidates so far discovered for a newly-formed galaxy in our cosmic neighbourhood. The galaxy lies around 39 million light-years away from us; although this distance may seem huge, it is in fact roughly 50 times closer than the usual distances to such galaxies, which are on the order of several billions of light years.
By studying galaxies of various ages, astronomers have found that those early in their lives are fundamentally different from those that are older. DDO 68 looks to be relatively youthful based on its structure, appearance, and composition. However, without more detailed modelling astronomers cannot be sure and they think it may be older than it lets on.
Elderly galaxies tend to be larger thanks to collisions and mergers with other galaxies that have bulked them out, and are populated with a variety of different types of stars — including old, young, large, and small ones. Their chemical makeup is different too. Newly-formed galaxies have a similar composition to the primordial matter created in the Big Bang (hydrogen, helium and a little lithium), while older galaxies are enriched with heavier elements forged in stellar furnaces over multiple generations of stars.
DDO 68 is the best representation yet of a primordial galaxy in the local Universe as it appears at first glance to be very low in heavier elements — whose presence would be a sign of the existence of previous generations of stars.
Panning across DDO 68
Hubble observations were carried out in order to study the properties of the galaxy's light, and to confirm whether or not there are any older stars in DDO 68. If there are, which there seem to be, this would disprove the hypothesis that it is entirely made up of young stars. If not, it would confirm the unique nature of this galaxy. More complex modelling is needed before we can know for sure but Hubble's picture certainly gives us a beautiful view of this unusual object.
The image is made up of exposures in visible and infrared light taken with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys.
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#french ladies #fashion. #antiques #wallpaper @farrowandball #doad #hwthrift kick off party tonight
My June 28 column, East End Nest for Dan's Papers magazine in the Hamptons about the East Hampton Mulford Farm Antique Show comes to town http://issuu.com/dptest/docs/062813_2/17?zoomed=true&zoomPercent=100&zoomXPos=0.03940455341506133&zoomYPos=0.20546984572230015
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more antique spottings in Nola
love this piece - sean smith home in New Orleans
Beautiful patina on 19th century hall table empire #antiques #blogtournola
loving my new mercury glass lamps - adds a little sparkle to my beach house
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blogging with the lovely Lynn of @decorArtsNow at Bunny William's pop up shop
antiques on my mind this week with story I wrote about hunting for antiques and becoming a sleuth http://nestnestnest.blogspot.com
antiques on my mind this week with brimfield soon…http://nestnestnest.blogspot.com story on the blog
antique hunt season is upon us - Brimfield and many more shows in May and June - I'll be writing a story on the hunt for antiques and how to spot the "fakes" this week on Nest - stay tuned
anne baskim lattimore on Houzz.com showcasing a lil' glamour with lacquer this week on Nest http://nestnestnest.blogspot.com
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Enabling every child to fulfill his or her potential is at the heart of the Government's drive to raise school standards. Many young people from minority ethnic backgrounds achieve at the highest level, but for some groups, the gaps remain unacceptably wide. Particular combinations of pupil characteristics can indicate that a child is especially vulnerable. For example, currently Black Caribbean boys eligible for free school meals (FSM) are amongst those making the slowest progress.
There is no single intervention that achieves the best possible results for every disadvantaged or minority ethnic child, but evidence does show that schools are independently important for narrowing attainment gaps.
Research suggests that schools which are successful in raising the attainment of minority ethnic pupils share broadly similar approaches to the creation of a genuinely inclusive school community. This is true whether their intake is highly diverse or predominantly white.
These schools are strongly committed to an ethos that stresses:
The ways in which schools create such an ethos differ according to individual contexts and specific needs, but the vision remains essentially the same.
The information on this page has been designed to support minority ethnic attainment and illustrate some of the ways in which schools have successfully narrowed attainment gaps.
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Local News
KRSL.com Special: Lucas Gets Bowled Over With Visitors
When the Bowl Plaza was envisioned nearly five years ago, only a few persons imagined this was a good plan for Lucas. Since then more than 3,337 visitors have come to Lucas to sign the register and experience the latest in toilet facilities.
Russell Couple Injured in Tuesday Wreck Near Hays
A Russell man and his wife were hospitalized Tuesday after they were involved in a wreck on an Interstate 70 onramp near Hays.
Big Creek, Wells Holding Steady but More Moisture Desperately Needed
Water sources for the City of Russell seem to be stabilizing and holding steady according to local officials amid the continued drought affecting the area.
Area Millionaire Buys Historic Ranch
A western Kansas ranch that contains nationally recognized chalk formations and other important historical artifacts has been sold, pending some legal research.
104 Kansas Counties, Including All Russell Area Counties, Declared Federal Disaster Areas
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated 88 Kansas counties as primary disaster areas and 16 Kansas counties as contiguous disaster areas, making qualified farmers and ranchers in designated counties eligible for low-interest emergency loans through the USDA Farm Service Agency.
City Council Filing Deadline Now Less Than Two Weeks Away
The filing deadline to run for Russell City Council or Mayor is now less than two weeks away, with the deadline to apply being Tuesday, January 22 at noon.
Russell County Commission Decides Bridge Replacement is the Only Option
An outdated and historically significant bridge on the Russell/Rush County line is causing disagreement between Commissioners from the two neighboring counties.
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- Wilson Man Arrested in Lucas on Drug Charges
- Russell City Council Hears Recreation Report, Discusses Meeting Format
- Russell Dealing with Several Water Line Breaks
- UPDATE: Head-On Semi Truck Collision Reported North of Luray
- Quinday Pleased with City Crew's Effort
- Drug Arrest Made Saturday Evening
- Benefit Dinner for Natoma Couple Planned
- Russell City Council Election Filing Deadline Nearing
- Russell Police Stepping Up Enforcement to Stop Drunk Driving
- Russell County Commission Minutes from December 17 Meeting
- Supplemental Heaters Can Be Dangerous
- Pickup Truck Damaged by Wednesday Fire
- Christmas Evening Fire Damages Russell Home


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by Carl Hiaasen
Wahoo Cray lives in a zoo. His father is an animal wrangler, so he's grown up with all manner of gators, snakes, parrots, rats, monkeys, snappers, and more in his backyard. The critters he can handle. ...More
Wahoo Cray lives in a zoo. His father is an animal wrangler, so he's grown up with all manner of gators, snakes, parrots, rats, monkeys, snappers, and more in his backyard. The critters he can handle. ...More
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Wahoo Cray lives in a zoo. His father is an animal wrangler, so he's grown up with all manner of gators, snakes, parrots, rats, monkeys, snappers, and more in his backyard. The critters he can handle. His father is the unpredictable one.
When his dad takes a job with a reality TV show called "Expedition Survival!", Wahoo figures he'll have to do a bit of wrangling himself--to keep his dad from killing Derek Badger, the show's boneheaded star, before the shoot is over. But the job keeps getting more complicated. Derek Badger seems to actually believe his PR and insists on using wild animals for his stunts. And Wahoo's acquired a shadow named Tuna--a girl who's sporting a shiner courtesy of her old man and needs a place to hide out.
They've only been on location in the Everglades for a day before Derek gets bitten by a bat and goes missing in a storm. Search parties head out and promptly get lost themselves. And then Tuna's dad shows up with a gun . . .
It's anyone's guess who will actually survive "Expedition Survival". . . .
From the Hardcover edition.
Chapter One
Mickey Cray had been out of work ever since a dead iguana fell from a palm tree and hit him on the head.
The iguana, which had died during a hard freeze, was stiff as a board and weighed seven and a half pounds. Mickey's son had measured the lifeless lizard on a fishing scale, then packed it on ice with the turtle veggies, in the cooler behind the garage.
This was after the ambulance had hauled Mickey off to the hospital, where the doctors said he had a serious concussion and ordered him to take it easy.
And to everyone's surprise, Mickey did take it easy. That's because the injury left him with double vision and terrible headaches. He lost his appetite and dropped nineteen pounds and lay around on the couch all day, watching nature programs on television.
"I'll never be the same," he told his son.
"Knock it off, Pop," said Wahoo, Mickey's boy.
Mickey had named him after Wahoo McDaniel, a professional wrestler who'd once played linebacker for the Dolphins. Mickey's son often wished he'd been called Mickey Jr. or Joe or even Rupert--anything but Wahoo, which was also a species of saltwater fish.
It was a name that was hard to live up to. People naturally expected somebody called Wahoo to act loud and crazy, but that wasn't Wahoo's style. Apparently nothing could be done about the name until he was all grown up, at which point he intended to go to the Cutler Ridge courthouse and tell a judge he wanted to be called something normal.
"Pop, you're gonna be okay," Wahoo would tell his father every morning. "Just hang in there."
Looking up with hound-dog eyes from the couch, Mickey Cray would say, "Whatever happens, I'm glad we ate that bleeping lizard."
On the day his dad had come home from the hospital, Wahoo had defrosted the dead iguana and made a peppercorn stew, which his mom had wisely refused to touch. Mickey had insisted that eating the critter that had dented his skull would be a spiritual remedy. "Big medicine," he'd predicted.
But the iguana had tasted awful, and Mickey Cray's headaches only got worse. Wahoo's mother was so concerned that she wanted Mickey to see a brain specialist in Miami, but Mickey refused to go.
Meanwhile, people kept calling up with new jobs, and Wahoo was forced to send them to other wranglers. His father was in no condition to work.
After school, Wahoo would feed the animals and clean out the pens and cages. The backyard was literally a zoo--gators, snakes, parrots, mynah birds, rats, mice, monkeys, raccoons, tortoises and even a bald eagle, which Mickey had raised from a fledgling after its mother was killed.
"Treat 'em like royalty," Mickey would instruct Wahoo, because the animals were quite valuable. Without them, Mickey would be unemployed.
It disturbed Wahoo to see his father so ill because Mickey was the toughest guy he'd ever known.
One morning, with summer approaching, Wahoo's mother took him aside and told him that the family's savings account was almost drained. "I'm going to China," she said.
Wahoo nodded, like it was no big deal.
"For two months," she said.
"That's a long time," said Wahoo.
"Sorry, big guy, but we really need the money."
Wahoo's mother taught Mandarin Chinese, an extremely difficult language. Big American companies that had offices in China would hire Mrs. Cray to tutor their top executives, but usually these companies flew their employees to South Florida for Mrs. Cray's lessons.
"This time they want me to go to Shanghai," she explained to her son. "They have, like, fifty people over there who learned Mandarin from some cheap audiotape. The other day, one of the...
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Hoot, Hiaasen's first novel for young readers, was the recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious Newbery Honor. And Flush, his second book for kids, spent more than a year on the New York Times bestseller list.
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News to Order
Publicity stunts undertaken by press agent Jim Moran, 1938-1959:
- Sold a refrigerator to an Eskimo in Alaska
- Threw eggs at an electric fan
- Changed horses in midstream in a Nevada river
- Sought a needle in a haystack (for 10 days)
- Walked a bull through a New York china shop
- Hatched an ostrich egg (by sitting on it for 19 days)
- Opened a Washington embassy for a mythical country
By the 1950s the era of the flamboyant stunt was ending, and authorities put a stop to Moran's more ambitious schemes. He said, "It's a sad day for American capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over Central Park."
"Mathematical Genius"
The Cincinnati Gazette says that 'William Marcy, a colored boy from Kentucky, who was in that city lately, can add up columns of figures of any length, divide any given sum, multiply millions by thousands within five minutes from the time the figures are given to him, and with such exactness as to render it truly wonderful. Recently, in the presence of a party of gentlemen, he added a column of figures, eight in a line, and one hundred and eighty lines, making the sum total of several millions, within six minutes. The feat was so astounding, and apparently incredible, that several of the party took off their coats, and, dividing the sum, went to work, and in two hours after they commenced produced identically the same answers. The boy is not quite seventeen years of age; he cannot read nor write, and in every other branch of an English education is entirely deficient.'
— The National Magazine, December 1853
A Well-Tempered Cartwheel
From Strand, August 1906:
A circular canon is so named not because of its circular form, but because it completes the circle of fifths–i.e., it goes through all the keys, each a perfect fifth above the other, until it returns to the original key. The one under notice is written in triple counterpoint, any part sounding equally well in the top, middle, or lowest voice, and each bar is in three different keys at once, all harmonizing.
This rendering is a bit indistinct, I'm afraid — if I can find a clearer version I'll post it.
The Grey Town Noises
In Nature, May 12, 1870, captain Charles Dennehy of the R.M.S. Shannon noted "a very curious phenomenon" observed by the occupants of iron vessels off the port of Grey Town, Nicaragua.
"[W]hile at anchor in this situation, we hear, commencing with a marvellous punctuality at about midnight, a peculiar metallic vibratory sound, of sufficient loudness to awaken a great majority of the ship's crew, however tired they may be after a hard day's work."
The sound, Dennehy said, converted the ship into "a great musical sounding board." "It is musical, metallic, with a certain cadence, and a one-two-three time tendency of beat. It is heard most distinctly over open hatchways, over the engine-room, through the coal-shoots [sic], and close round the outside of the ship. It cannot be fixed at any one place, always appearing to recede from the observer. On applying the ear to the side of an open bunker, one fancies that it is proceeding from the very bottom of the hold." It continued for about two hours, was heard only aboard iron vessels, and was unknown to the inhabitants on shore.
Denney's letter brought responses from readers who referred to similar sounds in Trinidad, India, and Chile. They postulated a "musical fish" or gas rising from vegetation on the seabed but offered no conclusive explanation.
Curiously, William Corliss notes that the sounds' descriptions seem to match the Yellowstone Lake whispers.
The Absence Paradox
If you are somewhere else, you are not here.
You are not in Rome; you are somewhere else.
Therefore you are not here.
Dueling Doppelgängers
When World War I broke out in August 1914, Germany enlisted a large ocean liner, the Cap Trafalgar, to attack British merchant ships around Cape Horn. While at a supply base on Trinidade, it was surprised by the HMS Carmania, a British liner that had been similarly pressed into service by the British navy.
The two enormous ships squared off and fought a murderous sea battle. In the end the Cap Trafalgar sank, and the Carmania limped away to a Brazilian port.
An observer might still have wondered which side won — by an ironic coincidence, the Cap Trafalgar had been disguised as the Carmania and the Carmania as the Cap Trafalgar.
Missing Person
At 5 p.m. on Dec. 2, 1919, Canadian theater magnate Ambrose Small met with a lawyer in his Toronto office. The lawyer departed at 5:30 p.m. Between 5:30 and 6:00, Small vanished.
No one saw him leave the office, and no body was ever found. The disappearance seemed senseless. Small was a self-made millionaire; no money was missing, there was no evidence of kidnapping, and no ransom note was ever received.
Curiously, writer Ambrose Bierce had disappeared in Mexico six years earlier. Charles Fort wondered, "Was somebody collecting Ambroses?"
Swing Time
Jazz pianist Billy Tipton was biologically female. She lived as a man from age 19 to her death at 74, when the truth was discovered.
Born in 1914, Dorothy Tipton developed an early love of jazz, but sexism in the music industry and the straitened economy of the Depression made it impossible to find work. In 1933 she donned trousers and her father's nickname and began playing in Oklahoma bars.
By the 1940s she was touring the country, and in the 1950s the Billy Tipton Trio released two albums for Tops Records and performed with Duke Ellington, Patti Page, and Rosemary Clooney. Arthritis finally forced Billy's retirement in the 1970s.
Throughout all this Tipton had relationships with at least five women, including nightclub dancer Kitty Kelly, with whom she raised three adopted sons. She bound her chest, ostensibly to protect ribs fractured in an auto accident, and she always locked the bathroom door. Son William learned of his father's sex only when a paramedic working on the dying Tipton asked, "Son, did your father have a sex change?"
Why keep a secret for 55 years? Tipton left no account of her reasons, and perhaps it's none of our business. "I can't say that passion wasn't there with Billy, because it was," said former lover Betty Cox, who insisted she never suspected Billy's sex even during intimacy. "Now, 40 or 50 years later, you see these cross-dressers all the time on TV. You can certainly tell. Even on TV. I can look at a person and say, 'Gee, that's obviously a woman.' Why couldn't I then?"
Point of Interest
A few miles to the northeast of Woodstock lies the village of Saugerties, and just before entering it, Routes 212 and 32 come together. We do not know who first gave this juncture the name of Fahrenheit Corners, but as a large IBM plant is in the vicinity, we may reasonably suspect one of its more whimsical employees.
— Journal of Recreational Mathematics, October 1981
Aging Fast
The California Court of Appeal faced a curious philosophical question in 1989: Do you become a year older on your birthday, or on the preceding day?
Paul Johnson had committed a robbery in San Francisco on Aug. 12, 1988, one day before his 18th birthday. The prosecution had charged him as an adult, arguing that "A person is in existence on the day of his birth. On the first anniversary he or she has lived one year and one day."
Is that so? The appeals court didn't buy it — Justice William Channell overruled the prior decisions and had Johnson tried as a juvenile.
Bad Dogs
Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary got an unusual inmate in 1924: "Pep the cat-murdering dog," a black Labrador retriever who was allegedly incarcerated for killing the first lady's favorite pet. In truth Pep was donated to the prison by governor Gifford Pinchot to improve morale; he was transferred to nearby Graterford Penitentiary in 1929.
Pep's example was followed by Lady, a beagle who belonged to the captain of the prison's guards. She posed for the second picture in 1957.
In American Notes, Dickens recalled that one inmate at Eastern State kept a rabbit in his cell; others kept birds and cats. And the prison was later home to Al Capone, who had some unusual quarters of his own.
Night Owl
Albert Herpin, born in France in 1862 and for fifteen years a hostler in the employ of Freeholder Walter Phares of this city, declares that he has not slept a wink during the past ten years. Notwithstanding this, he is in perfect health, and does not seem to suffer any discomfort from his remarkable condition. He goes to bed regularly, but says he never closes his eyes, or at least never for an instant loses consciousness of all going on about him. In the morning he arises refreshed and ready for another day's work among the horses. He declares the change of position and the darkness of the room seem to give him all the rest he desires.
— "Hasn't Slept in Ten Years," New York Times, Feb. 29, 1904
"Singular Circumstance"
The following anecdote appears so marvellous, that we can scarcely expect it to obtain general belief; but it has been transmitted to us by a most respectable correspondent; a correspondent who is far from being credulous himself, and who has no interest in deceiving others:–'The other day, a horse belonging to Mr. Thomas Johnstone, tenant on the estate of Major Culton of Auchenabony, having lost a shoe, and probably feeling his foot somewhat uneasy from the want of it, left the field where he was grazing, and went to a smithy about a mile distant, where he used to be shod. On arriving, he was observed to pause a few minutes, as if in expectation that the owner of the house would come out, and introduce him in due form; but finding nobody in attendance, he walked in, placed himself in the corner where he used to stand during the operation of shoeing; and on the smith's coming in, he instantly made known his errand by holding up the shoeless foot. Soon after, the owner of the horse having missed him, came to the smithy in the course of his search, and to his no small surprise, found THE SMITH ENGAGED IN PUTTING ON A SHOE!'
— "Dumfries paper," quoted in The Kaleidoscope, July 10, 1821
An Obscure Exit
On June 3, 1872, retired Navy captain George Colvocoresses bought a ticket for the boat from Bridgeport, Conn., to New York, where he had an appointment the next day with an insurance agent. He put a leather valise in his stateroom and dined in the restaurant, where he was observed to keep a small morocco traveling bag in his lap. At 10:30 a local druggist sold him some writing paper and envelopes and indicated the best route back to the boat. Just as the boat was putting off, a pistol shot was heard, and a policeman found Colvocoresses dying in the street.
His clothing was unbuttoned, and his shirt was on fire at the point where the bullet had entered, about 6 inches below the left breast. His possessions were near him except for the traveling bag, which was later found on a Naugatuck wharf, cut open with a dull knife. Diagonally across the street from the body was a large old-fashioned horse pistol. On the following day, percussion caps, a bullet, and a powder horn were found about 60 feet from where the body had been discovered.
Was this murder or suicide? Colvocoresses had recently increased the insurance on his life to $198,500, and it was claimed that the pistol's hammer fitted an indentation in his bag. But a physician testified that it would be impossible for a man to shoot himself and then throw the pistol across the street, and the captain was healthy, on good terms with his family, and had adequate means.
After a long fight the insurance companies agreed to pay 50 cents on the dollar. That's all we know.
Thunder Down Under
Concerning the strange and inexplicable sounds heard by travellers in various parts of the world, there have been from time to time many interesting reports. Among the most curious of these are perhaps the accounts met with in the narratives of Australian explorers. … Stuart mentions that one morning, when in the interior, among the red sandhills of the inhospitable desert, he was startled by hearing a loud, clear, reverberating explosion, like the booming of artillery. These noises, which have been frequently observed in sandy districts, seem to come with an explosive echo from the sandhills, and reverberate for a considerable time amongst the surrounding mountains. Sounds of a like kind have alarmed most of the Australian explorers. Captain Sturt, who followed the course of the Darling River in 1828, describes an extraordinary sound which about three in the afternoon, on a day in the month of February of that year, astonished himself and party. 'The day,' he says, 'had been remarkably fine, not a cloud was there in the heavens, nor a breath of air to be felt. On a sudden we heard what seemed to be the report of a gun fired at the distance of between five and six miles. It was not the hollow sound of an earthy explosion, or the sharp, cracking noise of falling timber, but in every way resembled a discharge of a heavy piece of ordnance. On this all the men agreed, but no one was certain whence the sound proceeded. Both Mr. Hume and myself, however, thought it came from the north-west. I immediately sent one of the men up a tree, but he could observe nothing unusual. The country around him appeared to be equally flat on all sides, and to be thickly wooded. Whatever occasioned the report, it made a strong impression on all of us, and to this day the singularity of such a sound in such a situation is a matter of mystery to me.'
— "Natural Sounds," The People's Magazine, Jan. 12, 1867
See Brontides.
Fire Alarm
On July 21, 1759, Emanuel Swedenborg attended a dinner party after returning to Gothenburg from England. He went out for a short interval and returned pale and agitated. He told the party that a fire had broken out in Stockholm, 250 miles away, and that it was spreading quickly. He said it had already destroyed the house of one of his friends, whom he named, and that his own house was in danger. Two hours later he exclaimed, "Thank God! The fire is extinguished the third door from my house."
The following morning the governor questioned Swedenborg, who provided a description of the fire, including how it had begun and ended, and word spread throughout the city. Two days later a messenger arrived from Stockholm bearing letters that confirmed Swedenborg's account, and a royal courier brought news reporting the extent of the fire, the houses it had damaged and destroyed, and the time it was put out. All confirmed Swedenborg's description.
"What can be brought forward against the authenticity of this occurrence?" wrote Immanuel Kant, who elsewhere criticized Swedenborg's mysticism. "My friend who wrote this to me, has not only examined the circumstances of this extraordinary case at Stockholm, but also, about two months ago, at Gottenburg, where he is acquainted with the most respectable houses, and where he could obtain the most authentic and complete information, as the greatest part of the inhabitants, who are still alive, were witnesses to the memorable occurrence."
It has been recorded by reliable authority that near the graves of Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, and his wife, there stood a venerable apple-tree which had sent two of its roots into the graves of Mr. and Mrs. Williams. The larger root had pushed its way through the earth till it reached the precise spot occupied by the skull of Roger Williams. There, making a turn, as if going round the skull, it followed the direction of the backbone to the hips. Here it divided into two branches, sending one of them along each leg to the heel, where both turned upward to the toes. One of these roots formed a slight crook at the knee, which made the whole bear close resemblance to a human form. There were the graves, emptied of every particle of human dust. Not a trace of any thing was left. There stood the guilty 'apple-tree,' as it was said at the time, caught in the very act of 'robbing the grave.' The fact proved conclusively that bones, even of human beings, are an excellent fertilizer for fruit-trees; and the fact must be admitted that the organic matter of Roger Williams had been transmitted into the apple-tree; it had passed into the woody fibre, and was capable of propelling a steam-engine; it had bloomed in the apple-blossoms, and had become pleasant to the eye; and more, it had gone into the fruit from year to year, so that the question might be asked, Who ate Roger Williams?
— Sereno Edwards Todd, The Apple Culturist, 1871
In 1906, while serving in the Navy, Albert Moodie of Austin, Texas, wrote a letter to a shipmate. That wouldn't normally be noteworthy — but Moodie wrote this letter on the regulation tape that battleships use for receiving wireless messages.
"It took me some two weeks to complete the task," he reported, "as there is a continuous letter from the beginning to the end of the tape — a distance of over a mile."
Moodie called it "the longest letter in the world." His friend received it — and answered it.
In a Word
n. waking up
n. ill humor in the morning; "getting up on the wrong side of the bed"
"An Extraordinary Sleeper at Newcastle"
In the year 1752, during the summer, the following particulars happened at Newcastle, in Staffordshire, related by a lady of discernment and veracity, who went to see the sleeper several times. She was a girl about 19 years of age; she slept 14 weeks, without waking, although several methods were tried to wake her, as bleeding, blistering, &c.; in all which time she took no sustenance, except about nine o'clock every night, she opened her mouth, and then some person that attended her, dipped a feather in wine, and with that wetted the inside of her mouth. Her father often gave her an airing in a horse chair, and sometimes took her several miles, to have the advice of the physicians; but neither the motion of travelling, nor any thing the physicians could do, could awake her; she appeared to be healthy all the time, breathed freely, and her pulse beat very regularly, but rather too slow; she never moved herself all the time, except once, it is thought, she moved one leg. When she awaked, it was very gradually, being two or three days from the time she began to stir and open her eyes, before she was quite awake, and then seemed to be very well, but complained of faintness. I heard, last summer, that she had good health, and had no return of her sleepiness.
— Gentleman's Magazine, 1753, quoted in Kirby's Wonderful and Eccentric Museum, 1820
"Capture of a Whale in the Thames"
A curious old tract in the British Museum, bearing the date of 1658, gives an account of a wonderful capture of a whale in the Thames, not far from Greenwich, in the month of June of that year. The sailors in the river were, of course, anxious to secure the huge monster who had been so rash as to invade our shores; but they found no slight difficulty in despatching it. All sorts of swords, axes, and hatchets, and even guns were brought into the service; but nothing effectual could be done till some one's ingenuity suggested striking a couple of anchors into the creature's body. By these it was held fast, and very soon bled to death. Hundreds of people flocked to see the monstrous stranger, and among others went Evelyn, author of the 'Diary,' who has left us a curious account of it. It was of no contemptible size, being fifty-eight feet long, twelve feet high, fourteen feet broad, and measured two feet between the eyes.
— The World of Wonders, 1883
The Fateful L
Harry B. Partridge points out that most presidents whose names have contained a penultimate L — Ronald Reagan, Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, Franklin Roosevelt, John Fitzgerald Kennedy — have died in office or survived an assassination attempt. He speculates that Gerald Ford survived because he was born Leslie Lynch King Jr., and that Theodore Roosevelt was divinely spared because THEO means God. (James Polk died three months after leaving office.)
Partridge also notes that a name with patronymic prefix (Mc, Fitz, etc.) is invariably fatal. To date there have been only two: William McKinley and John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
See Tecumseh's Curse.
King Without a Country
Pity James Harden-Hickey — he founded a nation and no one believed him.
In 1893, newly rich after marrying into steel money, the American adventurer stopped at the empty island of Trinidad in the South Atlantic (not its larger namesake in the Caribbean) and, fancying a military dictatorship, proclaimed himself James I.
To his credit, Harden-Hickey did everything he could to legitimize his claim, but it's hard to get these things off the ground. He named a secretary of state; opened a consular office in New York; established a flag, postage stamps, and a coat of arms; and began to sell bonds. After only two years, though, Britain seized the island for a telegraph station, occasioning a dispute with Brazil, and Harden-Hickey's protests brought him only ridicule in the popular press.
Bold to the last, Harden-Hickey even tried to arrange an invasion of England from Ireland, but he couldn't arrange financing. In 1898 he took an overdose of morphine, leaving behind a note to his wife–and the crown of his quondam nation.
Phantom Islands
In 1823, American explorer Benjamin Morrell reported hunting seal along a coastline in the Weddell Sea near Antarctica. The land, he wrote, abounded in sea elephants and "oceanic birds of every description." No one has been able to rediscover Morrell's land, and in the 20th century it was shown conclusively to have disappeared.
In 1841 the English whaler James Stewart described a snow-covered island 5 to 6 miles long in the South Pacific. Other ships confirmed its existence in 1860 and 1886. But subsequent searches found nothing. John Davis of the Nimrod, who searched the area in 1909, wrote, "I am inclined to think Dougherty Island has melted."
For nearly 30 years, India and Bangladesh disputed an island in the Bay of Bengal. In 2010 rising sea levels solved the problem: The island has disappeared. "What these two countries could not achieve from years of talking," said Jadavpur University oceanographer Sugata Hazra, "has been resolved by global warming."
(Thanks, Shrey.)
For Your Consideration
I send you a photograph of a snake made of postage-stamps. It contains, I believe, from fifteen thousand to twenty thousand stamps. The only portion not made of stamps is the head, which is of black velvet, with eyes of white beads, also teeth of beads; the fang is a match stuck into the mouth. The snake was made by Mrs. Membury, of Hyde Corner, Bridport, Dorset, and took about three years to complete. The length is four feet nine inches.
— Strand, March 1907


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Modeled after ESPN's 5-on-5, Patrick and I will answer three questions about a Pistons-related topic. In the days leading up to the draft, we're going to discuss what the Pistons could/should/might/should not do with each of their three picks.
For each 3-on-3, we'll be joined by a guest contributor. Today as we discuss the 9th pick, that's J.M. Poulard, who writes for Warriors World, Forum Blue and Gold and various other TrueHoop Network sites. Follow him on Twitter.
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1. Which player do you think the Pistons are most likely to select at pick 44?
Dan Feldman: Kevin Murphy. The Pistons probably want to upgrade their outside shooting, and as predicted by Chad Ford, the Tennessee Tech sharp-shooter might be a nice fit. I could also see Detroit opting for a European player who won't come to the NBA immediately. Joe Dumars has previously stated a desire not to overrun his team with rookies.
Patrick Hayes: Tornike Shengalia. It's not that I know all that much about him, but he's young, possibly could be a player the Pistons stash overseas for a year or so and let develop and with two second round picks and a full roster, it does make some sense for the Pistons to take a project player who they don't have to worry about using a roster spot on for another season or two.
J.M. Poulard: Hollis Thompson out of Georgetown seems like a good bet to be selected by the Pistons given his ability to stretch the court with his 3-point shooting. Also, is size will make it easy for him to look over defenders running at him to contest his shots. Given that the Pistons averaged only 13.9 attempts from downtown last season, getting someone to camp out there, makes shots and force opponents to defend the 3-point line is a must.
2. Which realistic target at pick 44 would make the best pick?
Dan Feldman: William Buford. I would love for the Pistons to get three big men in this draft. Detroit's lack of promise up front – beyond Greg Monroe, a third of Jonas Jerebko (who's two-thirds small forward) and the blind hope that Vernon Macklin's small sample size is sustainable – is that influential. Quality bigs are difficult to acquire outside the draft, but other teams know this, and that's why so many teams risk picks on bigs who have any potential at all. So, I think there's a decent chance no quality big-man prospects will remain on the board at this point.
In that event, Buford would represent great value. At Ohio State, he looked like a late first-round pick. He has ideal size, shoots well from outside and possesses defensive smarts. He might not have the athleticism to get to the rim or be a defensive terror. But he knows how to play, and that's important. I can't figure out why he's fallen so far, other than that he played four years for the Buckeyes and gave scouts too long to dissect his flaws – and that's not a good reason to drop.
Patrick Hayes: Darius Johnson-Odom. I know, I know … I already begged for a Marquette player at pick 39 yesterday. But with Ben Gordon traded, the Pistons suddenly need guard depth and DJO is arguably the most athletic guard in this draft, he's tough, he has a great work ethic, he's fun to watch and he made 39 percent of his threes last season.
J.M. Poulard: Alabama's JaMychal Green might actually be the best bet for the Detroit Pistons at this spot. The power forward is somewhat undersized, but nonetheless comes with athleticism as well as the ability to finish around the rim. Considering that the Pistons had some issues converting shots in the lane against opposing defenses, getting a back up big man capable of capitalizing on opportunities around the rim certainly seems like a necessity given the Pistons scoring woes last season.
3. Which realistic target at 44 nine would make the worst pick?
Dan Feldman: Selling the pick. I'm fine with trading for a future pick if the Pistons don't like anyone when their turn comes up, but in that event, just selling the pick outright would be a tremendous disappointment. A bigger possible disappointment: the Pistons liking a player when their turn comes up but sell the pick either because they need the money or are afraid to add too many rookies at once. Another, albeit smaller downer: reaching for a player because he agreed to spend a year or two overseas (and off Detroit's payroll).
Patrick Hayes: Henry Sims. Nothing against Sims, he just seems too much like last year's second rounder, Vernon Macklin. Sims isn't as old and probably has a bit more upside, but he is a limited big man and as we saw last year with Macklin, limited big men, even ones who were fairly productive in the spot minutes they were given, probably have a hard time cracking Lawrence Frank's rotation.
J.M. Poulard: William Buford out of Ohio State might be the worst selection Detroit could potentially make with the 44th pick. It's not so much that he is a bad player, but more so that he is a bad fit. He's a subpar finisher in traffic and will probably stay camped out on the perimeter for midrange jumpers. Once again, not necessarily a bad skill, but on a team possessing many players who already fit that mold, he would be awfully redundant and quite frankly useless.


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I walked into the "Tomcats" expecting a really bad movie with a few laughs every once in a while. MAN WAS I WRONG!
"Tomcats" is about a group of buddies who one day, after a wedding, make a little bet. They each place some money into a pot every year and the Tomcat who remains single the longest, gets all the money. Some years go buy and mostly every Tomcat is married except for two, Kyle (Jake Busey) a sex crazed maniac with a ton of cash to spend and a somewhat starving artist (Jerry O'Connel). Problems arrive at a casino and O'Connel's charecter owes a group of mobsters around 50 thousand dollars. Now the only way to get his money is to marry up Kyle, the only one who stands in his way of the pot. But an even bigger problem occurs when the artist starts to fall for the girl he tries to set Kyle up with (Shannon Elizabeth).
Throughout the entire film, many hillarious situatuions and scenes occur during the film. At times, I had to grab onto my stomach because I was laughing so hard. Though, every minute of this movie is hillarious, there are parts of the film you will remember more than others and some scenesyou will never forget for as long as you live (three little words, O'Connel's date with a librarian and when Kyle gets testicular cancer).
"Tomcats" is a great film with gaurenteed laughs that start from the beggining until the very end. All the acting is surprisingly good, especially from Busey and O'Connel. Unless you're someone who doesn't like to have fun, Tomcats is the ultiate film. TOMCATS ROCKS!
Well at least I think so. Jerry O'Connell, most recently of "Kangaroo Jack" fame, is one of two buddies in a large group of male friends who have pooled money together betting who can remain single. Finally it is down to O'Connell, an artist with some scruples, and his friend Kyle who has none.
During a trip to Las Vegas, O'Connell runs up a $51K gambling debt to a hilariously vicious, yet deadpan Bill Maher and his goons. Although there is enough in the jackpot to free O'Connell from reposession hell as Maher takes all he owns as collateral, he has even tougher odds of getting Kyle married, since he is a complete louse to all woman kind.
In walks Shannon Elizabeth as a cop who once dated Kyle and was left with a role of quarters in the road for a cab after being deflowered and dumped. She was a bridesmaid at one of the many weddings attended by the bachelor gang as they all became married one by one. O'Connell falls in love when he meets Elizabeth, but to free his debt, ends up getting her married to Kyle, or DOES he? YOU have to see this and find out for yourself.
While some are thumbing their nose at this film, I found it a scream. It was entertaining from start to finish, and lately, I find myself hitting the fast forward on many movies just to get through them. NOT "Tomcats". Is it sexist? SURE! I am a woman, I can laugh at this, in fact I did, out loud many times. There are more laughs and plain old feel good fun here than most comedies I have seen in awhile. A dominatrix librarian and her grannie partner who lure unsuspecting men into their dungeon of discipline? A diseased testicle ending up rocketing around a hospital while chased down by O'Connell? A wildly graphic and surrealistic restaurant scene where Elizabeth gives birth at the table in front of a party of 15-20 earth mothers vigorously and unabashedly breast feeding? Well if this sounds in poor taste, that is because it is! Delightfully so! Do not listen to the uptight folks who slammed this, unless you too have no sense of humor. Man or woman, take this movie for what it is, GOOD DIRTY FUN…and bring a big bowl of popcorn put your feet up and get ready to laugh.


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Charlie Sheen & Bree Olson: Split, But Still Closeby Free Britney at . Comments
A goddess no more, Bree Olson still considers herself a friend of Charlie Sheen.
The off-the-rails actor's porn star sidekick dumped him via text recently, bidding farewell to his Torpedo of Truth tour and their unusual lifestyle together.
But a rep for Olson says they're still communicating with no hard feelings: "Things change sometimes," the rep says: "They are split but remain close."
Bree Olson, left, has left Charlie Sheen. And Natty Kenly.
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Chuckles got rid of the wrong girl, in my opinion. I would have kicked that Natty Kenly to the curb because of that big fucking mole in the center of her forehead, right below her hairline. God damn thing looks like raisin stuck to her fucking head. I bet Chuckles used that mark on Natty's head as a bull's-eye when he was painting her face rails of hot man-goo, that filthy little pig. Aside from that, she strikes me as someone who's breath reeks of genital sweat and ass.
cm'on those 2 wat are they doing?they shd'nt be doing that(remaining friends) it wont be juicy anymore.it shd b OVER