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Teen singer Molly Hunt to play Showroom
Detroit singer was on 'Idol' and has songwriting title
Published: Thursday, September 26, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.
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Up-and-coming singer-songwriter Molly Hunt will take the stage Friday at The Showroom.
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Who: Molly Hunt and T3's young artists
When: 7 p.m. Friday
Where: The Showroom
Tickets: $10 in advance, $7 for students and $12 at the door
Info: Get your tickets at t3talent.com or at mollyhuntmusic.com.
Hunt is a 17-year-old singer/songwriter from Detroit who recently opened for country sensation and multiple Grammy nominee Hunter Hayes.
She has written more than 300 songs, performed in dozens of states, and holds the record for youngest female artist to sign a publishing agreement (13) unseating the previous holder, Taylor Swift.
Within the past two years, Hunt has won or placed in the top three in nine other international songwriting competitions.
Hunt took time out of her busy schedule to talk with us.
Question: How did you feel when you learned you hold the record for youngest female artist to obtain a publishing deal for songwriting?
Answer: I found out from the judge from Nashville (Tenn.) and the current record holder had been Taylor Swift who signed her publishing deal at 14. So, my mind was blown! It was obviously a huge honor, but also comes with great responsibility. I really hope my songs are quality, and I'm really thankful my publisher took a chance on me.
Q: How old were you when you first took the stage?
A: I was 6. I started singing in church and then really starting performing at fairs, festivals and talent competitions at 10."
Q: Do you still get nervous before you're about to perform?
A: I do. The nerves always hit right before the show, but once I'm on stage it's always a chance to see people enjoying themselves and it helps ease the nerves. Then I really just channel that nervous energy into excitement, and it is just the most wonderful time and experience for me.
Q: What artist or artists inspired your work as a vocalist?
A: Oh my goodness, I'm about to be slightly cheesy, but I confess, my favorite of all time is Celine Dion! I respect her so much. First of all, she's a crazy amazing vocalist, but she has such a heart for people and the world. She's really dramatic, but she is really good at what she does. And you can tell and her fans can feel that she really genuinely cares for them, and I really look up to that.
Q: What is it like performing with Hunter Hayes?
A: CAA booked me to open for him, and it was crazy awesome! His fans are very dedicated, and Hunter's team was top-notch and so welcoming. It was such a fun experience, and I really look forward and hope to collaborate with him in the future.
Q: What was is like auditioning for "American Idol" (Season 11)?
A: It was an absolute whirlwind. That year Phillip Phillips won, and that kid is so awesome. I'm super proud for all that he is doing. It was a really eye-opening experience because I had moved from Detroit to Nashville and sometimes it is easy to get stuck in a bubble, but it was really good to see not just what Detroit had to offer and not just what Nashville had to offer but what talent is out there throughout our entire nation. It was a humbling experience and an interesting window into reality television.
Q: What are your plans after you play The Showroom?
A: I'm about to go to Chicago to do some recording and then plan on writing more songs and performing live as much as possible.
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The Office
by Toby Young
When the first series of
The Office
was broadcast on August 30, 2001 expectations weren't exactly sky high. Set in a paper supply company in Slough, and with no stars, it was hardly likely to become the new
. Indeed, it had scant chance of becoming the new
. It was launched, without any fanfare, into the tranquil backwater of BBC2's midweek summer schedule.
Just over two years later,
The Office
has entered the British Comedy Hall of Fame. With only 12 episodes in the can, it sits alongside
Steptoe and Son
Dad's Army
The Likely Lads
Yes Minister
as one of the finest sitcoms ever made. Among comedy experts, ranking
The Office
has become something of a parlour game. Is it the best British sitcom since
Hancock's Half-Hour
or merely the best since
Fawlty Towers
? One thing's for sure: every comedy lover in the country will be glued to the goggle box on December 26 and 27 when two
Christmas specials are due to be broadcast.
What makes
The Office
so good? Critics hate writing about comedy because there's nothing much to say. If the audience laughs, it works; if they don't, it doesn't. End of story. Still, there are a few obvious ways in which
The Office
stands head and shoulders above the opposition.
To begin with, there's no laugh track. Not only that, but there are hardly any jokes, and those that there are end with a whimper rather than a bang. This is deliberate, according to Ricky Gervais, who co-created the series with Stephen Merchant.
"I was a couch comedy philosopher," he says, referring to the years he spent festering in front of a television set. "When I wrote
The Office
I had a much bigger list of don'ts than dos. I knew that people didn't talk in poetic prose. I knew that people didn't always end with a punch line -- there was an aftermath. I knew that people didn't talk in funny voices, that awful Oxbridge tradition. And I hated exposition."
The verité style of
The Office
, which is a mockumentary in the same vein as
Spinal Tap
, helps it stand out when placed alongside other contemporary sitcoms. The humour feels organic rather than forced; the appalling predicaments that David Brent winds up in seem to evolve naturally out of everyday situations.
Indeed, the dialogue sounds so authentic that many viewers mistakenly think
The Office
is improvised. In fact, practically every word has been carefully crafted by Gervais and Merchant.
It's not just it's style, though, that makes
The Office
seem realistic. Wernham Hogg is intensely familiar to anyone who has spent time in a white-collar environment.
Who amongst us hasn't had to share a desk -- or, at least, a workspace -- with a colleague like Gareth? The buttoned-up martinet, who lines up his pens and pencils like soldiers on parade, is instantly recognisable.
But it's the character of David Brent who strikes an almost universal chord. From Basil Fawlty to Captain Mainwairing, the protagonists of British sitcoms have always been upwardly mobile buffoons whose efforts to advance themselves end with them falling flat on their faces.
According to legend, Ricky Gervais originally dreamt up his version of this stock comic character -- then called "sleazy boss" -- to amuse his co-workers when he was employed as head of speech at XFM. One of these happened to be Stephen Merchant and when he decided he'd had enough of radio and wanted to move into television he persuaded Gervais to reprise the role in a 15-minute cod documentary. Merchant managed to get the tape into the hands of the BBC's head of entertainment at the 1998 Edinburgh Festival and he, in turn, passed it on to the head of comedy. The rest, as they say, is hysteria.
We don't have to look far to find David Brent's antecedents in the British comic tradition. Mr Micawber in
David Copperfield
, for instance, with his ridiculously overwrought vocabulary, has something in common with the middle manager from Wernham Hogg. Brent's fondness for management gobbledegook -- and his inability to get it right -- is one of the things that brands him as a social interloper.
Even Shakespeare's most inspired comic creations have a touch of the "sleazy boss" about them. Just as Malvolio in
Twelfth Night
is never more pathetic than when trying to seduce Olivia, so David Brent reveals his ambition at its most naked when he thinks he has a chance with Jennifer, his glamorous supervisor.
The genius of Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant has been to take the counter-jumping clown who has always been at the centre of our comic tradition and relocate him in Blair's Britain.
The Office
, like all the best British comedies, is essentially about class; but it's a class comedy set in a world that purports to be
The corporate culture at Wernham Hogg won't allow David Brent to reveal his true colours; he has to pretend to be one of the lads in order to advance within the company hierarchy. The problem is, he isn't sophisticated enough to pull this off. The trick of accumulating authority while appearing to renounce it, is a slight of hand that's beyond him.
All the funniest scenes in
The Office
-- which are also, not coincidentally, the most embarrassing -- occur when this cack-handed Machiavelli inadvertently exposes himself. For instance, when he tries to upstage Neil by showing off his breakdancing moves or when he pushes a woman in a wheelchair out of his way.
At moments like this,
The Office
reveals the hypocrisy at the heart of our corporate society. In nearly all contemporary workspaces there's a pretence that there's no hierarchy, no class divisions. On the contrary, it's just one big, touchy-feely, happy family.
In reality, of course, the modern office is a nasty, Hobbesian environment in which everyone knows exactly where they stand. We may be forced to indulge in the occasional bit of make-believe -- the bonding weekends, the racial sensitivity courses, casual Fridays -- but the brutal truth is only ever a redundancy notice away.
Given how few correctives there are to the official, sentimental view of Blair's Britain, do Gervais and Merchant have an obligation to make another series of
The Office
? They upset millions of fans earlier this year when they announced that the second series would be the last. Clearly, they don't want to tarnish their legacy by making another six episodes that may not be as good as the first 12.
To my mind, we shouldn't hold this decision against them. After all, there were only 12 episodes of
Fawlty Towers
, yet that will live forever. Like John Cleese and Connie Booth, Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant have set the gold standard for a generation and it's up to others to live up to it.
In the meantime, we should be thankful that they've agreed to make two bonus episodes. I can't think of a better Christmas present to the nation.
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Hamas Holds the High Cards
Posted on Jun 19, 2007
Forty years ago, I entered the Gaza Strip—soon after Israel had conquered that teeming caldron of humanity after defeating Egypt in the Six-Day War—to report on the Israelis' bubbling optimism about their young nation's future. "Come back in 10 years and you won't recognize the place," an Israeli general told me, spelling out visions of economic development and a grateful Arab population. Similar predictions were made for the West Bank, which had been administered by Jordan in a somewhat more humane yet still quite oppressive manner.
The optimism of the Israeli occupiers did not seem so far-fetched then, given the hardships the Palestinians had endured under their fellow Arab protectors and throughout the diaspora. The experience of the Palestinians was not unlike that of the Jews: They were needed but scorned for their talents. Both refugee groups were scarred by grinding oppression and each nurtured a thirst for nationhood fortified by a tribally based religiosity that secular leaders often found useful.
That is the story of Hamas, a creation of the Egyptian-based Muslim Brotherhood, a religious and political organization that flourished after Israel humbled Gamal Abdel Nasser, the last great Arab nationalist leader, with its devastating victory over Egypt. The Palestinian movement was then led by puppets of Nasser and was secular in focus. It remained so, after being invigorated by the late Yasser Arafat, who gave the Palestinians their first serious and independent political identification. But as Arafat wasted his credibility in futile jockeying with Israel (mostly while in exile), corruption came to dominate his movement.
By contrast, the religious zealots who later formed the Hamas organization were more focused on spiritual probity and tended far more closely to the needs of their impoverished brethren in Gaza and the West Bank. As with Hezbollah in Lebanon—and that other Iranian-backed Islamist movement, the Shiites who now control Iraq—the religious movements, both Shiite- and Sunni-based, cornered the market on purity of purpose as opposed to rank opportunism. That is precisely why these fiercely anti-Western movements have been able to turn the favorite fig leaf of U.S. neocolonialism, the slogans of democracy and elections, against the United States by winning popular elections.
While the American mass media tend to join the Bush administration in ignoring this unpleasant contradiction, the fact is that the people we brand as the enemy can make a strong claim to having won the election that our President Bush champions. What irony that the United States and the European Union, both of which cut off aid to the Palestinian government in 2006 when Hamas won the election, have now resumed aid to the PLO-dominated government that lost power through the vote.
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This contradiction applies even more uncomfortably to Israel, which consistently demeaned the Palestinian movement when it was run by secularists. Israel only very reluctantly, and in the most limited of ways, was willing to risk the false security of occupied land for the possibility of peace. Israeli leaders of all parties drew the line at granting the Palestinians a real state with contiguous land and a significant presence in Jerusalem as it existed before the Six-Day War. Rarely mentioned is that some elements in the Israeli government initially supported the rise of Hamas as a desired alternative to the PLO and came too late to the recognition that Arafat, for all of his very serious failings, was their best alternative.
Now it is also too late for the remnants of the PLO to once again unilaterally assert a claim to lead the Palestinians. Sure, the United States, Israel and the EU can throw aid and tax dollars their way, but if the price is that the PLO assist in crushing Hamas, or even sit idly by while Israeli troops reoccupy Gaza, there will be chaos. The only hope is for the funders, including Israel (which has withheld the tax monies paid by the Palestinians from them), to recognize that the Palestinian people need to make their own history. At this point, that must include Hamas, which it is hoped will be moved, as was the PLO, to accept Israel's right to exist within borders that permit a viable Palestinian state.
That lesson of empowerment must also be applied throughout the region, from Lebanon to Iraq and Iran, where election results subvert the ambitions of the foreigners. Elections are great if they give the conquerors the results they want, but it is in the nature of things that people will not use the ballot to legitimize their oppression for long. The democracy project, ballyhooed by President Bush, founders on its failure to allow the will of the voters to be heard when they dare vote against U.S. policy.
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By Inherit The Wind, June 25, 2007 at 12:02 pm Link to this comment
In the following is the kind of garbage that makes me crazy. Between two true statements is one SO bizarre it boggles the mind:
"Peace was on the way before Sharons right wing thugs stepped in and stepped up the violence. His assassination of Arafat and Bush abandoning any real peace brokerage is what contributed to the road were on right now. Clearly the wrong road!"
"Peace was on the way before Sharons right wing thugs stepped in and stepped up the violence."
See, this is true.
"Bush abandoning any real peace brokerage is what contributed to the road were on right now. Clearly the wrong road!"
And this is true.
But this…"His (Sharon's) assassination of Arafat…" is pure, total garbage. Arafat died of natural causes from disease—read the papers. Rabin, Sadat and everyone named Gemayel died of assassination. There's so much you can factually hang on Sharon, but assassinating Arafat is BULL-oney!
You might INTERPRET Sharon's actions as hastening Arafat's death, but to claim assassination is as stupid as accusing someone of murder because they broke a lover's heart, who then died because they didn't take care of themselves. It's an interpretation but it sure as hell isn't a fact!
You are entitled to your own opinions. You are NOT entitled to make up facts. Arafat was NOT assassinated—he died of disease.
You characters are like Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and Sean Hannity, not to mention the Bush admin. You just make up what ever garbage you want and then claim it's "fact" to support your opinion.
By Inherit The Wind, June 23, 2007 at 7:32 pm Link to this comment
"Ernest Canning on 6/23 at 1:51 pm
ITW, Arial Sharon was lucid? When? "
Touche! Good point, Ernest.
OK, OK, You KNOW what I meant…when he wasn't in a coma.
Arial Sharon and Benyamin Netanyahu always represented to me the worst of Israel. As the religious suicice bomber fanatics of Hamas, and the late, thoroughly corrupt and cowardly Yasir Arafat represented the worst of Palestinians.
By Charles Bartob, June 23, 2007 at 4:47 pm Link to this comment
Michael Shaw, The US Bared the sale of everything but the Lavi airframe. If the United States did not bar the sale of the airframe it tasitly approved it. Yhe only other help the Chinese got from the Israelis was advice on operating aircraft in hot desert environments. You fail to note the help Grumman gave the Chines on the development of the JF-17.
By elixelx, June 23, 2007 at 3:58 pm Link to this comment
Were the Congress of the USA to confront a rogue President, or vice versa, and there was a coup d'etat in the offing, which one of the two elected sides would you choose?
I assume that if it were George Bush and a Democratic Congress it would be a no-brainer; and if it were Bill Clinton vs a Republican Congress, equally a no-brainer?
Thank G-d, you say, it couldn't happen here; but it HAS happened there, in Gaza, and who you support there reveals as much about who you are as it would back in the USSR!
And that's why normally sane people are supporting Hamas—because George Bush is against them!
One more no-brainer brought to you by people with no brains!
By Charles Barton, June 23, 2007 at 9:45 am Link to this comment
Michael Shaw, I told you to look at the well documented history of the Chinese problems with the original J-10 design. I would also call your attention to the Grumman input during the early stages of the design of the JF-17 fighter project.
By Inherit The Wind, June 23, 2007 at 6:20 am Link to this comment
Part 2
So, Micah, you have your answer. I'm not addressing that group, but instead, you. They will twist my words, ignore my facts and logic, and pretend I am a radical ultra-orthodox Jew in a black coat and hat with "payos" dangling around my ears, and doveting. They've said as much already. This is despite the fact that I am a raging Agnostic, raised from birth as an Atheist and a Progressive (my parents were active in the Civil Rights, Anti-War and Women's Rights movements—and I'm proud of them), and am VERY critical of much of Israel's actions.
But that gets ignored. They are entitled to their own opinions, but they are NOT entitled to their own facts. So the statements made about me are total lies, made up to justify their anti-semitic position and (I believe) their self-denial that they are really following Hitler's Social Darwinism and "Scientific" racism.
Unlike Cyrena, Robert, Ernest and Fadel, I DO believe that the Palestinians bear a great deal of responsibility for their situation. And despite the untruthful assertions by them, I also believe Israel bears her share of responsibility as well. I have LONG believed that Arial Sharon should have been tried as a war criminal while he was lucid.
But the four of them will lie about me and say I am a total Zionist and unquestioning supporter of any and every tactic, right or wrong that Israel takes.
The bottom line is that solutions that were possible in 1948 were not possible in 1967. Solutions possible in 1967, were not possible in 1980. Solutions possible in 1980, were not possible in 1995. Solutions possible in 1995, were not possible in 2000. And solutions possible in 2000 are no longer viable in 2007. The constant changing dynamics have ensured this.
And no solution is an instant solution. It is a road map that will take 20, 50, 75 or even 100 years to finally ensure stable, safe, fair peace for Israelis and Palestinians alike. Look how many centuries it took Europe to finally achieve stable peace.
Expect the attacks on me by Cyrena, Robert, Ernest, Fadel and others….hey, here they come…
This will be my only post on this thread. It is now clear that Truthdig claims to be progressive, but when it comes to Jews and Israel is completely and totally anti-semitic, buying into the New Theory of an "International Jewish (oops, 'Zionist') Conspiracy" that somehow magically, without money or power dominates America against our best interests. I guess it must be the power of Satan, or some other such bulls#!t idea. That is, of course, their next inference: That Jews must get their "power" over America (?) from Satan and are, further "proven" to be inherently evil.
And that of course, justifies a new Auschwitz, Treblinka, Berkanau and Dachau.
By Inherit The Wind, June 23, 2007 at 6:12 am Link to this comment
What Cyrena buried in his post through various obfuscations is the answer to your question: No, the Palestinians bear NO responsibility for any action they have taken.
When a suicide bomber walks into a pizza parlor filled with children and murders all of them, Robert and Cyrena believe that such an action is either fully justified or TOTALLY the Jews' fault.
Robert, Cyrena, Ernest and Fadel all fervently believe that Jews have no right to a nation of their own, but that Arab Moslems have a right to 22 racist apartheid states that totally suppress ethnic and religious minorities. And, if they get their way, Israel will be replaced with the 23rd racist Arab Moslem state, that will then suppress and probably slaughter its ethnic and religious minorities.
But that's OK with them. There is only one inference that makes sense of this moral and ethical pretzel logic of theirs: Israel is inherently evil. If Israel was Moslem it would not be, but since it is mostly Jewish, the corollary to that is that it is evil PRECISELY because it is Jewish. Again, if the all the actions of Israel were IDENTICAL, but Israel was a Moslem Arab state, none of these hypocrites would have any objection to her actions. That's because the Arabs have treated their own ethnic and religious minorities far, far worse over the same period of time.
In fact, the Moslem Arab states have treated the PALESTINIANS far worse than Israel. Imagine, if you will, a vast "invader" of Canada, driving Canadians toward the US border, and imagine, still further, the US shooting any Canadian who tried to get in, refusing them refuge and home. I use Canadians because their language and culture is closer to America's than any other nation (yes, even Quebecquois are culturally more like us than the French). Yet that is PRECISELY what the Arab nations did to the Palestinians.
So we come back to their pretzel logic: The only possible inference that can justify such a position is that Jews and Judaism (not Zionism—that's a straw man and a red herring) must be fundamentally evil. If the same and worse actions by Arab Moslems aren't worth mentioning, but when Jews do it it's "just like Nazi-ism", then the defining factor is the Jewish religion.
So when I say these people are anti-semitic, and they say "no, No, NO!", they are attempting to deny the logical implications of their argument, which is the same old argument that Jews are inherently evil, that they form a conspiracy of ultra-religious orthodox, radical atheists, bankers and marxists, all working together for the goal of "World Domination".
This is REALLY sick when seen in the light of many radical Moslems (like Osama, the Iranian theocracy, and the Wahabbists) who have openly stated that their goal is to force the entire world to worship Islam. Likewise, American current leadership (including Air Force generals) have stated that it's America's duty to bring Christianity (of the Protestant radical fundamentalist flavor) to the world, starting with an apocalyptic battle with Islam.
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By Charles Barton, June 22, 2007 at 7:17 am Link to this comment
"why Israel would expel millions of Arabs from their homeland, in what can be called ethic cleansing more accurately than genocide, and why they have continued on this path for 60 years, considering all the grief it has brought them." - cyrena
Two bits, four bits, xix bits, a dollar! All for hating Israel stand up and holler!
By Charles Barton, June 22, 2007 at 5:32 am Link to this comment
Welcome to Israel
A political state by day, a religious state for tax purposes, an extradition-free refuge for its citizens who commit crimes elsewhere, but always, the exhausting, manipulating and misunderstood victim, that demands to treated as the exception and always at the expense of others. Very lovely. - Weather
Two bits, four bits, xix bits, a dollar! All for hating Israel stand up and holler!
By jc, June 22, 2007 at 1:50 am Link to this comment
the "right to exist" is a meaningless phrase meant to obscure israel & u.s.'s intention to consistently opt for expansion over peace. states recognize that other states exist, but no state recognizes the "right" of any other state to exist. it's absurd. if israel and the u.s. wanted peace right now it would be their's.
By Charles Barton, June 21, 2007 at 9:03 pm Link to this comment
All you guys know how to do is ro preach hate for Israel, usually by throughly distoring history. During the Early 1980's the Israeli government proposed to build new homes for the "refugees" who were living in camps in Gaza and the west ban, The homes would have modern aminities inclusing electricity, running water and sewer service, and were to be at locations where jobs would be accable. Both the "Refugeees" and the United Nations opposed the Israeli offer, the refugees out of fear that they would loose their right of return, and the United Nations, becausew the agency that administered the camps would be shut down when the camps closed. Of corse the Israel haters will take the whole episode as proof of how evil the Israelis are. Right fellows.
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Awesome. Definitely fav'd.
I like In Flames, but I've never heard this song before.
Anyway, great job. The animations were awesome.
Great work, Osuka! I think his were great. Especially the first.
All of the animations were at least decent, some of them were really amazing. My personal favorite was Osaku's, and I'm glad he did that first transition.
And I love the choice of song, btw.
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A balmy New Years Day - at Grist Mill Park
Kenny fishing with Daddy at the Mansion House dock
Excited for a dusting of snow
Sleepover with Bruce - MLK weekend
Audrey loves that horse
Our biggest "snowfall" of the year, like an inch
We went sledding with this amount of snow. Good thing, because it was our last/only snowfall of the winter.
"My Gym" for Trenton's (classmate's) party
Another classmate's (Collin's) party
Is this right?
100th day of school - "Italian Night" at WMES
President's Day at Mount Vernon
A & K at Mount Vernon
Happy she can use the glider now!
Another tooth gone...the dentist pulled this one during a routine visit
A warm Feb afternoon
Early birthday celebration with Grandma and Grandpa D - making a wish
With the Abby cake
Cherry blossoms
Birthday party at Kids N Motion!
Trenton and Celia fly the plane
Kenny and Bruce
Listening intently to instructions - Abby, Audrey, Kenny, Annika
The Dora Cake
Excitedly awaiting cake in the throne
Making another wish
The party room
Bruce, Kenny, Gabe
Nice, Audrey...
Birthday celebration at school - she chose Celia and Trenton for her special table
Happy Birthday to Me
Birthday sign, birthday shades
Birthday girl :)
Birthday afternoon at home with Kenny
Finally, after so many other flavors, a chocolate cake (and she didn't even eat it...)
Rainbow commute
Butterfly dress from Aunt Debby
A break from the torment of shoe shopping at Potomac Mills
Happy Easter...hmmmph
First night with Coco - the dog from class
Audrey and Coco at Kenny's baseball practice
The Indian
Ready for opening day!
Woodlawn Baseball
Audrey and Coco crash the dugout
Opening day ceremony
Coco has oatmeal too
Audrey and Coco
At Celia's birthday party
Celia the birthday girl
Annika the cat
Playing in the Jones's backyard
Reading with Coco and "Abby Girl"
The Space Shuttle Discovery gets a piggyback ride to the Dulles Air & Space Museum
Newly cut mohawk!
I like it
Happy Spring
Relaxing on the screen porch
Audrey awaits her second set of ear tubes
Mother's Day photo 2012
Me, K &A
School Mother's Day photo
Kenny at George Washington's Grist Mill - Mother's Day
Dandelion girl, Grandma, Kenny, and Grandpa
With the big wheel
Grandparents at the Grist Mill
Daddy and Audrey heading to Mother's Day dinner at Mount Vernon
Ken, A & K
Me and the kids outside Mount Vernon Inn
Let's eat!
Audrey at Monday night baseball
Opening day of the pool...let's go!
Memorial day weekend cookout at the Wallis' - Olivia, Sophie, Margaret, Audrey, Kenny, Lydia
Nearing the end of the season...
Heading to 3rd
Uncle Slam at the Potomac Nationals
Tough afternoon at the office
Headed to Woodlawn closing day in Stan's monster truck
Cool ride
#1 Woodlawn Indians fan
Audrey and Aoife
Worn out
Closing ceremonies
Indians get their medals
Someday they'll fit her
View from my room at Le Centre Sheraton in Montreal
Old Montreal
Soaked from the sprinklers
Killing time at a park before Beth Anne Burroughs' wedding
Audrey and me
Troublemakers at church for the wedding
Beth Anne and her father
Beautiful and handsome
Another park - between ceremony and reception
Wedding pre-party at Turk Park
Oops, we forgot Audrey in the photo!
5 of the 6 grandkids
Audrey and Ken
Emily and Jeff
Tiffany and Steve
At the Lake for an early 4th of July celebration
Baby Steve
The almost-one-year old
Fishin' on Grama T's dock
Audrey gets in on the fishing
Floating in the big raft
Beating the heatwave by camping out in the basement
Kenny with Emma on the Metro headed into the city
Audrey's first time on Metro!
The White House
Trying on sunglasses
The Mall
"You want some sunscreen???"
Bones and crazy furniture
Hanging out back at home after a full day in DC
Happy 8th birthday, Emma!
Drizzly day walk down to the Mansion House dock
Cloudy skies
First goggles
Time to make the donuts
We love hot Krispy Kremes!
Rehearsal for Molly's wedding - Doggy in the practice flower girl basket
The ring bearer and his pillow
Practicing for the Big Day
Enjoying their cold drinks on a hot night
Molly's bridesmaid Rachael does Audrey's hair
At the Blackley's - all dressed up and ready to go
Headed to the aisle with the bridesmaids!
Here they go
Audrey dropping petals down the aisle (photo courtesy of Ellen Gagne)
And Kenny comes next holding on tight to the rings (photo also by Ellen)
A happy flower girl
Here comes the bride
Kenny looking somber
Waiting with lavender seeds for the bride and groom
Happily Ever After
Mr. & Mrs. Cheraso!!!
Pelting Molly and Chris
Waiting patiently for photos
Audrey and beautiful bride Molly
Audrey at Mooreland Mansion
"I'm a bride!"
Audrey and Aunt Rita cutting up on the dance floor
Our dancing flower girl
The ride home from Cleveland...worn out
Sour face - making lemonade
Bruce & Kenny - last week of Summer SACC - Aug 16
Another successful shoe shopping outing at Potomac Mills
Caught! Out fishing on the Potomac with Daddy and Stan
Stan's boat on the Potomac
With birthday girl Annika at My Gym
Caketime with Celia
Three friends with their braids - Annika, Audrey & Celia
Tennis camp at Lee District
Backhand concentration
Late night travels to the beach
Vacation begins at Stan's beachhouse
Nags Head beach
Beach ball
Audrey and Kenny (in water)
And the cousins arrive! Coloring.
Now at the beachhouse in Rodanthe - Audrey and little Steve having a snack
Kenny & Audrey at the beach in Rodanthe
Enjoying an afternoon walk at the beach
Emma, Kenny, Emily playing in the waves
Kenny, Emily, Emma
The littlest cousins, Audrey and Steve
A visit to Cape Hatteras Lighthouse
Lindsey, Kenny, Emma and Emily
Hard to believe they moved this massive lighthouse (in 1999)
Kenny at the top!
Ocean view from the top deck of the beach house
Kids enjoying the theater room
Steve and Emma
What a view
A full elevator!
Audrey and Steve at the beach
Beach curls
Yvette and Steve
Back to the beach for a walk after dinner
Audrey, me, and Kenny
Family walk
"Dreamer's Paradise" - 23212 America Drive, Rodanthe, NC
At Island Dyes
All smocked up and ready to dye!
Kenny shows off a little frog
Snack time!
Audrey up on the deck
From one side of the deck, sunset over the sound ...
... and from the other side, moonrise over the ocean
Slanty house
A morning walk with K & A
Hot tub time
Audrey trying out baby Steve's float, with Grama
Checking out the clams at the "monkey bar"
More clams please
Here's your clams
Audrey helps scope out spots for the grandkids photo
Steve is not so sure about this plan
Take One of the cousins photo: 4 smiling, 2 crying.
the 6 cousins!
Beach bums
Audrey's "fairy castle" (complete with alligator in moat)
Here comes daddy!
The crab-pickers
And that's it for vacation...headed home with a new hat from Stan
First day of 2nd Grade!
Audrey's first day in the Older 3's Class
First Day in the Older 3's Class
An Amazon Birthday
Birthday pancake
Making a wish
The 7 year old
Soccer girl - #5
Look out Gunston, here she comes
Kenny's bowling party (photo by Erica)
Bruce, Kenny, Gabe, JD
Crazy siblings
Pizza time
Silly faces
Tiny bowling shoes
Embarassed by "happy birthday"?
Baseball practice
Audrey at "soccer"
Sunset on the Potomac
Taking Bella for a walk
Audrey and Ryan trying on the gear at practice
Annika and Audrey at Sean's party (at My Gym)
Belvoir Oktoberfest! Audrey's favorite car ride.
View from the Ferris Wheel
Bumper cars!
Kenny's favorite ride...
... the UFO
Audrey the tiger!
Tigress and Daddy
Audrey's first movie theater experience - Frankenweenie in 3D
3D kids
Circle time - Audrey's class - open house day
Our project at open house
Finished project
Audrey, Lauren, Ryan at Kenny's baseball game
A cool soccer morning!
Fire Station Open House - Woodlawn Station
Fireman Kenny
And Firegirl Audrey
Junior Firefighter
In the driver's seat
Sidewalk chalk pumpkins
Kenny's cool pumpkin
What beautiful children
Blurry, but better
SACC artwork
Woodlawn Fall Ball
Gametime - Audrey and Daddy
Vampire and witch!
Start of neighborhood parade - with Averi, Lauren, Ryan
I couldn't even quite fit the whole group
De-gutting the pumpkin
Kenny's design - ready to carve
Finished Jack-O-Lantern
Silly witch with her broom headed to school
Ms. Liz and Ms. Toni's Older 3's Class
Trick or treating with Celia (Ms. Liz the Lego in background)
Showing off her nail polish
Annika gets in on the clawing action
And, ready for the neighborhood trick or treat!
Audrey and Ryan hitting the streets
Ticonderoga Farms - big bouncy "pillow"
Michaels and Moon children
Audrey on the hayride
Audrey and Ryan in the pumpkin patch
Audrey and Kenny
Ready for the cow train ride
Kenny's all buckled in too
And off we go - bouncy, bouncy, bouncy
He's officially a Cub Scout
Happy Election Day - Audrey voted, twice!
Let's take Bella for a walk
Brambly Lane
Scouting for Food - donation pick-up
Audrey needed her picture taken, too
Pack 1503
Bowling, anyone?
Audrey and Ryan
Fall Ball team (minus one) plus Coach Ken
Thanksgiving lunch at Washington Mill
Averi and Kenny at lunch
Audrey goofing around at a Pack Meeting
2nd graders waving to the camera for NBC4 News during a visit from the chief meteorologist
Thanksgiving art class at school - turkey time
Thanksgiving at Grama & Poppy's new house in Sparta, NJ - with cousin Emily
The brave turkey in their backyard
Audrey loves her cousin Steve
Almost-matching outfits
with Mom and Dad
Kid's Table
Audrey showing off her turkey pin
Dress-up during play date at Celia's house
Audrey and Celia
Christmas tree decorating
Waiting to see Santa in Old Town
Old Town
Visiting Santa & Mrs. Claus in Old Town
with the Moons
End of unsuccessful photo shoot for Christmas card
Christmas Card Photo
Didn't make the final cut, but not bad
Making gingerbread houses at the Moon's
Our finished house
Olive fingers
Trying out my new camera's "pet portait" setting - Bella's floating head
Boy and dog
Christmas eve day at Grama & Poppy's
Emma, Kenny & chicken wings
Trying out the "food" setting on my new camera - Christmas Eve apps
Gifts from Yvette & Steven
Audrey and Steve play with his new bristle blocks
Poppy & Rudy
Hurray, it's SNOWING!
Christmas morning breakfast
The cousins on Christmas morning
And the chaos begins
Audrey got her hippity-hop!
It was a White Christmas, Audrey got to wear her brand new boots
Christmas stop #2 in Bethlehem
Kenny shows off the Nutcracker
Let the gift opening begin
Audrey shows off her beautiful new scarf
Becky got a scarf, too
Kenny and the Laser Peg Pup
New Year's Eve at the Grant's


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Pete vs. Frank
Ramon vs. Ken
Jim vs. John
Jimmy vs. Barry
I see air under Jimmy's front tire!
2nd Chance cash bash: Marc vs. Mark
Cash bash: Gordon vs. Gregg
Cash Bash - John Gregg vs. Jay
Cash bash: Tom vs. Cliff
Cliff is getting air under both front tires now!
Cash bash: Rob vs. Phil
Cash bash: Don vs. Pat
Cash Bash: John vs. Linda
A big burnout by Lou!
Lou vs. Leon
Nice launch for Lou!
Jeff vs. Paul
Nice, as always!
Joe vs. Joey
Nice burnout by Rick!
Charlie vs. Rick
Nice air for Rick!
Even better!
Nice launch, but no info yet...
Corey vs. Mike
Ron vs. Ray
Brian vs. Steve
Up he goes!
And higher, yet!
Still going!
Nick vs. Dave
Mike N. vs. Mike F.
Lift off!
Cory vs. Anthony
Up and away!
Jay vs. Ray
Greg's beautiful 442...
The sun is going down...
Harry vs. Simon
Sun spot...
? vs. Pete
Ken vs. Paul
2nd Chance cash bash - round two: Don vs. Marc
Nice as always!
2nd Chance: Gordon vs. Jimmy
Air under both front tires for Jimmy!
2nd Chance: Rob vs. Jay
2nd Chance: Tom vs. John
2nd Chance: John N.
Bill getting a little air!
The new win lights under the reader boards, are sure nice. (^:
An orange glow in the sky...
Charlie vs. Paul
Corey vs. Lou
Casey vs. Joe
A tiny cloud...
Motorcycle Final: Winner - Cory Wayne; R/U - Jay Vandehey
Mike F. vs. Dave
Steve gets the single...
Bob vs. Simon
Pete vs. Paul
2nd Chance: Gordon vs. Marc
2nd Chance: John vs. Jay
2nd Chance: John gets the single.
Jim - T/O
Ron vs. Casey
Corey vs. Charlie
Sportsman Final: Winner - Paul Comeau; R/U - Bob Glafka
2nd Chance: John M. vs. John N.
2nd Chance: Gordon gets the single.
Audry gives Mama a kiss. (^:
Audry & Rachael - cute!
Super Pro Final: Winner - Mike Francis; R/U - Steve Laskowske
Pro Final: Winner - Corey Seekins; R/U - Casey Allum
2nd Chance cash bash final: Winner - Gordon Cady, Jr.; R/U - John Nelson
Jo thought I should take a picture of Bill. For once, he was ready to go before she was!
Mike Francis - Super Pro winner!
Casey Allum - Pro R/U!
Corey Seekins - Pro winner!
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Life had almost gotten back to normal...
Things were going as smoothly as they could in the situation I was in. My fibula still hadn't healed but I was working around it very well. I had been subscribed a newly funded limb reconstruction machine by my hospital and I was to try that out for a month.
It's called 'Exogen', and it works by using ultrasound to stimulate blood supply to the broken bone. On reported studies it increases the healing process by 33% and had 86% pass rate so I was very much looking forward to finally be on the mend!
Whilst I was using this machine and thinking I was on the mend, life had been getting back to normal. I had started sixth form, so that was good keeping me busy on the academic side of things again. My subjects are: Sports Studies, Psychology and Design Technology. I'm really enjoying it so far and spending more time with my mates again.
Training had been going very well too. I had a good training regime under way which I stuck to for the four weeks. I had been doing three or four gym sessions a week with two swimming sessions, which were interval based, working on getting my base fitness back up to scratch.
Unfortunately, the four-week mark came and my fibula had made no improvement again. So surgery was the final option. I went in on the 16th October for a bone graft and the removal of the two out of 11 pins in my ankle/fibula.
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I feel well enough now to start doing little gym sessions again and get back to the sessions I was doing before my operation. I have another five weeks of being in a cast for my fibula to be healed, then the rehab starts again. So I'm hoping to be back on my bike and in full training again in about two and a half months.
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Prussian palace in Berlin rises from the ashesBreaking News
tags: museums, Germany, Prussia, Hohenzollern, East Berlin
What would Kaiser Bill say? Nearly a century after marching into a world war that ended in defeat and Wilhelm II's abdication, Germany has begun rebuilding the Prussian palace in Berlin vacated in 1918 and demolished in 1950.
German president Joachim Gauck yesterday laid the foundation stone for the palace 2.0, dubbed the Humboldt Forum and planned as a museum for non-European art. Berlin's original palace expanded over the centuries, reflecting the rise of the ruling Hohenzollern family and Prussia. Like Prussia, however, the ruined palace vanished after the war – dynamited by East Berlin as an unwelcome symbol of German imperialism. They used the site as a parade ground and later for its own parliament complex, the Palace of the Republic.
Following German unification a decade of debate over the site ended with a 2002 Bundestag vote to demolish the East German structure and rebuild the Prussian palace....
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Mr. Cleveland represented me on a felony charge last year. We went to trial and he got me aquitted. He believed me and believed in me, and the right thing happened.
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I was stuck in jail for three weeks, waiting for Mr. Cleveland to make good on his promise. I had a simple case in which all that he had to get was a piece of paper. If it wasn't for my family, I would still be there now!! I paid him $2500 up front, and didn't even receive a visit. He will be seeing me in court so I can get my money back.
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This console will read and play all discs but..... only till it warms up.
Then the screen will do 1 of 2 things, it will either freeze the screen but leave the sound running, or
if your in between switching discs it will just stay black.
I have to let it cool off untill it is room temp again before I can turn it on again without the black screen.
What is causeing this and how do I fix it?
Screen Freezes But Sound Continues....?
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All Rise...
Judge Erich Asperschlager is a BBC original.
Editor's Note
Our review of Broadchurch: The Complete Second Season, published May 20th, 2015, is also available.
The Charge
"We were happy here."
Opening Statement
When it comes to murder mystery series, no one does it like the Brits. Detective Inspectors are as commonplace on UK television as spurned Bachelorettes are on American TV. The latest best BBC murder mystery is Broadchurch, created and written by Chris Chibnall, whose previous credits include Doctor Who, its spin-off Torchwood, and Life on Mars. On the surface, Broadchurch sounds like more of the same—a shocking murder, police partners who don't get along, a small town with big secrets—but it rises above the rest with sharp writing and two stellar leads.
Facts of the Case
Set against the cliffs on the Dorset coast, Broadchurch is a small, tight-knit community. That all changes when the body of 11-year-old Danny Latimer (Oskar McNamara) is found on the beach. The case goes to Broadchurch native Detective Sergeant Ellie Miller (Olivia Colman, Twenty Twelve) and her new boss, outsider Detective Inspector Alec Hardy (David Tennant, Doctor Who).
The Evidence
A few months back, people went nuts for HBO's True Detective—a gripping character-based murder mystery in a distinctive setting. Broadchurch is all those things and it scratches a similar itch (minus the creepy cult stuff). The key to both series' success is the relationship between the leads. Like True Detective, Broadchurch pairs two cops with very different personalities. Olivia Colman's Miller is an empathetic officer who loves her job, her family, and her hometown. She has a difficult time processing the brutal murder of a young boy because she doesn't believe things like this happen in Broadchurch. David Tennant's Hardy is a hardened outsider with no connections to the locals and no patience for anything that gets in the way of solving the case. He comes with secrets and baggage from a previous, similar case. They butt heads, learn to appreciate each other, and ultimately combine their incomplete skill sets to build a partnership that lets them solve the case.
I was excited to watch Broadchurch largely because of Colman and Tennant. I know Tennant primarily from Doctor Who—his run on that series proved his ability to play funny and dramatic. Colman is best known for her comedic work in Hot Fuzz and Mitchell & Webb's brilliant first person sitcom Peep Show; but perhaps her finest role is Paddy Considine's Tyrannosaur—a brutal film anchored by Colman's depiction of an abuse victim on the edge. It's a shame American audiences aren't more familiar with her, because the multitalented Colman is one of Britain's best actors.
Broadchurch leans heavily on Hardy and Miller, but it surrounds them with an impressive ensemble—a supporting cast with no weak links. Every actor and character is compelling and well-rounded, making the coastal town feel lived in and fleshing out the mystery: the murdered boy's mother (Jodie Whittaker, Attack the Block), father (Andrew Buchan, Nowhere Boy), and sister (Charlotte Beaumont, 6 Bullets); a young priest (Arthur Darvill, Doctor Who); the elderly news shop owner (David Bradley, Game of Thrones); a menacing loner (Pauline Quirke, The Elephant Man); Ellie's husband (Matthew Gravelle, Son of God) and son (Adam Wilson, Mr. Selfridge); the hotel proprietor (Simone McAullay, Home and Away); the editor of the local paper (Carolyn Pickles, Emmerdale) and her too-eager protégé (Jonathan Bailey, Leonardo); the big city journalist who brings national attention to the case (Vicky McClure, Line of Duty). Everyone's got a secret and they all come out over the course of the season, destroying the illusion of an idyllic close-knit community.
Chibnall expertly balances the many characters and twists without turning the townspeople into Clue game pieces or mere set dressing. Most impressive is the way he handles the Latimer family. They grieve in a believable way, especially David's mother. Other series handle grief by making characters near-catatonic, a surefire way to kill story momentum. It was a big problem on AMC's The Killing—a similar, inferior, series. Broadchurch never stops moving, but also never feels rushed.
The character development ties directly into the mystery. Those of you who watch a lot of murder mysteries will be able to spot the false leads and red herrings, but the story still has satisfying twists and turns. Broadchurch plays with mystery tropes, approaching the expected then veering away. The ultimate revelation may leave some viewers cold—landing these kinds of stories is extremely difficult. Whatever you think of a whodunit, it's hard to argue Chibnall hasn't earned his ending. This series puts in more effort and pushes the emotional journey further than most, building to its conclusion with clever foreshadowing and an understanding that answers don't equal closure. The murder may be solved but it's torn the town and its residents apart.
Broadchurch: The Complete First Season's U.S. debut on DVD spreads the eight episodes across three discs, with all bonus features relegated to the last disc. The 1.78:1 digital transfer captures the gritty beauty of Matt Gray's cinematography. The series has a distinct look with a strong sense of place. Audio is in 2.0 stereo, but like the image Broadchurch looks and sounds better than the format it's on.
The extras begin with "Broadchurch: Behind the Scenes." The 27-minute featurette is made up of candid interviews with the cast and crew at the first read through and throughout the early filming process. The other bonus feature is nearly half an hour of deleted scenes, ranging from quick shots and slightly longer versions of scenes to extended sequences that fill in gaps in the story; the only option is to watch them all mashed up together. There's also a two-minute trailer if you're into that sort of thing.
Closing Statement
An American adaptation of Broadchurch is in development for Fox with David Tennant signed on to play the lead. It could be great, but I recommend checking out the British original first. There's no replacing Olivia Colman and the rest of the rock-solid cast, and there's no place like Broadchurch. There are plenty of fine BBC murder investigation series, but none like Broadchurch. With memorable characters and a chilling mystery, writer/creator Chibnall balances plot with people to create something honest and devastating.
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Someone's guilty, but it isn't this DVD.
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Attending a National Hockey League game is expensive. Where does all that money go? In reality, there's not enough room in this relatively short article to highlight everything, but the fans obviously have to pay for the players' salaries. When taking in a hockey game, do we get our money's worth?
First some statistics: the minimum salary for an NHL player is $500 thousand. The maximum salary is $11.36 million and the team's salary cap is $56.8 million. That's a lot of money being thrown about.
The top five salaries in the NHL are: Vincent Lecavalier with $10 million; Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Alexander Ovechkin with $9 million; and Chris Drury with $8.05 million.
Is anyone worth that amount of money to play a game? It becomes easy to justify hockey salaries when comparing them with other sports, hockey is much more physically demanding than most sports, but the business of sport is entertainment. How can giving someone that much money to entertain us be justified? Clearly there is no easy answer to that, if there is any answer at all.
Has it always been this way? Using the Bank of Canada's inflation calculator, Newsy Lalonde's salary of $1,300 in 1917 would be worth $18,980 today. $3,500, the 1923 salary of Howie Morenz, would be worth $44,923. Jean Beliveau's salary from 1953 to 1958 was $21,000 annually. That's $162,437 in 2010 with 1958 as the base year. In 1968 Bobby Orr's salary was $35,000, which equates to $216,296 today without allowing for the difference in United States and Canadian dollars. Then in 1977 Bobby Hull was given $1 million to play in the World Hockey Association (WHA). That would be $3,445,427 in 2010. Now, that's a little closer to what's happening today. Of course, that salary was considered exorbitant at the time.
All those numbers are fun and it can be seen that players' salaries grew steadily over the years, even taking inflation into account, but at what point did it become acceptable to hand out such outrageous sums of money to play hockey?
That is, if those salaries can actually be considered outrageous. Hockey is not a job that someone can work at until that magical retirement age of sixty-five. Thus, it is only right that they be paid higher than a normal profession. Does that justify $10 million per year? Does that justify the minimum of $500 thousand per year?
There is only one way to answer these questions and that is either by continuing to shell out the big bucks for tickets and merchandise or deciding not to do so, since the fans pay the salaries.


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Re: HP Officejet 6500 E709n printer - black ink not printing
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Add me in on the conversation on the 6500 e709 and black ink issues.
I'm running Windows 7, 64-bit with service pack 1 on a Lenovo purchased 9 months ago.
I had to replace an ink cartridge this evening as a normal part of the office life cycle. It worked for about 5 pages then disappeared. I have run 3 cleaning cycles and a hard shutdown as suggested above. [snip]
If the first few pages were OK then the ink stopped I would suggest the following: first check the ink cartridge vents are properly cleared as shown in Solution 2 here. If the vents were OK and running the cleaning cycles did not help then try soaking the printhead as shown in this post.
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Re: HP Officejet 6500 E709n printer - black ink not printing
So here's something interesting...
I downloaded and ran HP Printer Hardware Diagnostic Utility. Going throught the Wizard, I prrinted the General Purpose Test-Print Evaluation page - it printed all colors, including black! I also made both a color and black and white copy of the page successfully.
Printer then launched into Alignment, which failed and I still cannot seem to print black!!
This set of symptoms would seem to suggest a software problem, not a printhead or cartridge problem, unless the black printing was done through the color cartridges.
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So now it's getting weirder...
Selected printer from Windows and printed Test Page, which printed successfully including black. As soon as Test Page was done, it started Aligning Cartridges, first telling me it needed me load paper, even when tray had paper. Alignment did not print black and failed. Hmmm...
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Thanks for all of your help. I tried cleaning the head 3 times over 3 days... and no success. My office supply store had a good special on the 8600 Premium, and I hope this will be a better printer for our small office (which will be used in tandem with a laser printer. The 6500's in the floor awaiting its final trip to a proper recycling facility. I think the 8600 premium will be a more durable printer given the number of copies we print/copy in a week.
Re: HP Officejet 6500 E709n printer - black ink not printing
I've felt that this is a software issue almost from the beginning. Either a Windows update has corrupted the printer colors or the latest HP update is corrupt. Can something in the softeare be changing the letters from black to white? How do we get the attention of HP tech support?
Re: HP Officejet 6500 E709n printer - black ink not printing
This sucks!! My 6500 E709n is now exhibiting this exact behavior... hard reset not working... no black ink at all - have tried 2 new ink cartridges... this thing is about to become a boat anchor...
I literally printed something at 9:30 this morning.. went to print something again at 10:45 and nada.. nothing.. zip - NO BLACK INK! I have now wasted almost 45 minutes of my day mucking with this....
PLEASE HELP - this is crazy!! I've never had an HP printer fail me (I've had 11 of them)... and these 920XL cartridges are NOT CHEAP!!
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Re: HP Officejet 6500 E709n printer - black ink not printing
I started having the same problem about a week ago. The black ink just quit printing one day. I changed the black ink cartridge, then changed the other cartridges - nothing. I then went through the aligning process, then the cleaning printhead process - nothing. I followed the HP process for taking the printhead out and cleaning it by hand - nothing. Then I followed the advice for soaking the prinhead until no ink came out, dried it carefully, replaced it and the cartridges - nothing. I bought a new HP priinthead, got it today, replaced the old printhead, replaced the cartridges. Now I get an "Ink Syste Failure" and it keeps telling me to turn the printer off and turn it on again. I've done the hard power reset a few times - Nothing. I've tried the cartridge alignment and printhead cleaning from the HP utility menu - nothing, same failure. It just doesn't work.
So now I have this fairly expensive printer sitting here as so much junk with hundreds of dollars worth of worthless 920XL cartridges. I'm not a happy camper with HP right now! Don't waste the $50 on a new printhead - that doesn't solve the problem!
By the way, I'm on a Mac Pro, so it isn't a Windows driver problem. It's happening exactly the same on the Macs.
Re: HP Officejet 6500 E709n printer - black ink not printing
Since we are experiencing the same problem on different operating systems, then it must be an HP software issue. Does anyone recall updating the driver? Mine is set to update automatically. Is it possible that someone hacked HP and modified the driver? Possibly a disgruntled employee?
I ended up buying an EPSON Workforce 645 and am very happy with it, but I still want to get this printer working again. We need someone at HP to take notice and help us out with this.


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HULL – A three-way race for a seat on the redevelopment authority is the only contest on Monday's town election ballot in Hull.
Vying for a five-year term are Robert Cambra Sr. of G Street, Vernon Wood of Sagamore Terrace and Dennis Zaia of Beacon Road.
The polls, at the Hull Memorial Middle School, 81 Central Ave., will be open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Town Clerk Janet Bennett isn't expecting a big voter turnout for the election.
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In 2013, about 8 percent of the town's voters cast ballots in the election, which also had just one race – for a seat on the board of assessors.
Selectmen Kevin Richardson and Domenico Sestito are unopposed for re-election, as are school committee members Eric Hipp and Stephanie Peters.
Other unopposed incumbents are Assessors Mario Peter Grieco and Pamela Sinton-Coffman, housing authority member Joseph Reilly, light board members Patrick Cannon and Stephanie Landry, and planning board member Jennifer Berardi-Constable.
Francis Parker Jr. is seeking re-election to the board of library trustees, and Misty Ann Whelan of S Street is seeking the other available trustee seat.
Loretta West of Lincoln Street is unopposed for a two-year term on the board of library trustees.
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Voters will also be asked a nonbinding question on whether the school committee and the capital planning committee should study space needs to determine whether students should be consolidated in two schools, with the third school building turned over to the town for municipal use.
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Before: The novel begins introducing Miles Halter who is beginning his first year at Culver Creek High School as a junior. Miles Halter loves memorizing the last words of famous people, and is searching for "The Great Perhaps" that he concluded would lead him to a greater realization about life and help him to understand the world around him. Culver Creek High School is known for its academic rigor, illustrious pranks, and illegal actions by students. Upon arriving on campus, Miles is told by his parents not to indulge in any of the inappropriate behavior practiced by students; a foreshadow for future events in the novel. Miles then meets his roommate, Chip who has the self-titled nickname of The Colonel. The Colonel is an arrogant, stocky, incredibly intelligent, confident, natural born leader. After a brief dialogue between the two, the Colonel gives Miles the nickname of Pudge an ironic nickname because of Miles' gawky physique and lengthy stature.
The Colonel takes Pudge to meet his long time friend Alaska Young. Alaska is very attractive and Pudge begins to have feelings for her the minute he sees her. The Colonel asks Alaska for smokes, Pudge buys them for the economically troubled Colonel. The three walk to a swing by the lake and smoke together. Alaska and the Colonel tell Pudge about the killer swan in the lake.
The next day, Colonel and Pudge have their first round of classes and Pudge learns how hard the school is. Later, Alaska promises to get Pudge a girlfriend; she sets up a "triple-and-a-half-date" with Alaska, the Colonel, and Pudge with is date Lara (a foreign exchange student). After a freak accident with a fly basketball hitting Pudge and concussing him, he throws up into Lara's lap.
Later, Pudge focuses on his studies in between taking smoking breaks with the Colonel and/or Alaska and drinking. As winter break rolls around, the Colonel and another friend, Takumi, return home for Christmas festivities. Alaska and Pudge are forced to spend more quality time together, and grow together; they become better friends. They go searching through peoples' rooms and make a replica of Mt. St. Helens out of burnt candles. The Colonel returns to save Alaska and Pudge from a lonely Thanksgiving and gives them a great Thanksgiving feast.
Alaska is blamed for breaking the number one rule: ratting people out. But she begins to redeem herself in the eyes of the disappointed Colonel by coming up with a "pre-prank" that would act as counter-insurgency to the people who had been harassing and pranking Alaska and Pudge. The pre-prank began with the gang – Alaska, Pudge, the Colonel, Takumi, and Lara – spending the night in a barn drinking and planning for a night of adventure. Pudge and the Takumi would lure the Eagle (the nickname for the Principal) out of this house by setting off fireworks while Alaska and the Colonel change grades and add die to the bully's hair gel. The morning after everyone feels sick from sick from the previous nights alcoholic festivities. The gang returns to their regular school life and studies as winter break comes to an end.
One night Alaska, the Colonel, and Pudge are drinking away their troubles in Pudge and Colonel's room when Alaska mysterious leaves for a few minutes to call Jake. When she returns she is very distraught and yells at Pudge and Colonel to help her leave. Without asking questions, Pudge and Colonel distract the Eagle while Alaska leaves into the night.
The next morning Pudge and Colonel are woken by the Eagle who tells them a traumatic event has happened and everyone is to gather in the gym. Upon arriving, Pudge and Colonel learn the shocking truth that Alaska died in a fatal car crash.
The tone of the book completely changes from a light-hearted coming-of-age story to a depressive death/mystery. Pudge and the Colonel exclude Takumi and Lara and go off on their on to try and investigate the mystery behind Alaska's death. From drinking excessively to calling Jake and other people, the two are frantic to figure out the reasoning behind Alaska's death. Pudge apologizes to Lara for excluding her, and the Colonel and Pudge also make amends with Takumi. Towards the end Takumi discloses some information that solves the puzzle. Alaska had forgotten the anniversary of her mothers' death and felt that she had let her mother down just like she did the night that she had died. She didn't die on purpose, just with the combination of her intoxication, and her emotional distress, her judgment was in disarray; this lead to her untimely death. Pudge and Colonel with his information can move past the grief of her death and pull off a prank that she had originally thought of. The prank consisted of hiring a male prostitute to strip on stage during a public speaking function of the school. It was the Alaska memoir prank. Pudge wrote his final paper about Alaska in religion class; Alaska will forever live on his, the Colonel's, Lara's, and Takumi's memory.
The teenage language and humor is what we respected most as a group about the novel. The humorous and comedic elements lightened the reading and made it substantially more enjoyable to both read and discuss. The entire first half of the novel is devoted to this type of writing in the "Before" section. In the second part, or "After" section, the novel completely changes pace. As a group we disagreed with the change into a sullen, dark, and depressed overtone as the characters we once knew and loved for their teenage angst and rebellious ways now spiraled deep into depression and became socially moribund. None of us enjoyed reading the second half, and felt that if things hadn't changed so dramatically, the novel might still have been a success. To top it all off, the ending leaves the reader hanging in a sort of perpetual suspense and breft of any real answers. The sentimentality of the end completely loses its legitmacy because of the absence of catharsis or any remorse for the closing action. But, because of the latter events and beginning section of the novel, we all agree the book "wasn't that bad."


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AUSTIN (AP) - People who call a phone number on a pro-drug flier that promises large salaries in "the exciting world of drug dealing" are in for a dose of divine intervention.
The telephone number belongs to St. Mary's Cathedral, where church officials have been taking a few calls relating to the prank fliers stuck on cars and mailboxes Thursday. The solicitation invites readers to call the number, never identified as the church's, for information on how to become a dealer.
"It's very bizarre," Helen Osman, spokeswoman for the Diocese of Austin, told the Austin American-Statesman. "I have to say, I've never seen anything like this in the 10 years since I've been with the diocese.
"If people call, we can give them a Mass schedule. Maybe do some evangelizing."
The advertisements call on people to "step in and fill the void" of drug dealers in the community. They offer a special start-up package detailing tricks of the trade: where to set up shop, how to target potential buyers and how to eliminate competitors.
"Learn how to bribe your way through the legal system and pay visits to the local middle schools to grab customers while they're young," the flier states.
Church officials do not know how many fliers were distributed. Postal inspector Marsha Colliver said the author of the handouts warranted a civil penalty for failing to pay postage but likely would go unpunished.
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Cantor's Youssef Squali has launched coverage on the Internet sector with a relatively bullish stance: he predicts online ads, online travel, and U.S. e-commerce will respectively post CAGRs of 16%, 10%, and 14% through 2014. Companies receiving Buy ratings: GOOG, FB, AMZN, ACOM, VCLK, CPRS, NFLX, VPRT, PCLN, EXPE. Receiving Hold ratings: EBAY, YHOO, YELP, DHX, LNKD, SFLY, OWW.
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Philosopher or Warrior is the second-best thing I've ever done with my life, and I can die happy now. In fact, I probably should, because it's all downhill from here. While I bide time, take the quiz and see if you can pick which statement comes from the life of Martin Heidegger and which from pro wrestler The Ultimate Warrior. I have to find more opportunities to use vibrating animations of wrestlers.
More zany monkey fun from Ward Rubrecht, as we collectively decide what name fits the fuzzy orange fellow who has newly arrived at the Como Zoo. Shades of Mr. Splashy Pants the whale, I wish Como would let us actually pick a fun name.
(What this site needs is another monkey post. If they hadn't taken down this Backpage.com ad, we'd have had one, too.)
Is Diablo Cody going to win an Oscar? Signs point to maybe, says Matt Smith.
You know, people hate Rudy Giuliani. And I wrote this post even before polls started showing him with a shot to finish fourth in Florida, the one state where he's been campaigning hard.
The housing market sucks no matter where you are. But it sucks harder in certain neighborhoods, and this post examines where those are.
I'll be on 107.1 FM at 2 p.m. today doing my regular "what to do over the weekend" spiel, and maybe an extra segment or two.
Here's this week's summation of the most popular stories, slideshows and posts of the preceding seven days. As you might expect, it's dominated by Real Life Superheroes.
Scroll through the rest of last week's greatest hits, and maybe you'll find something you missed. C'mon, all your friends are doing it. You'll look really cool.
TOP FIVE STORIES Real Life Superheroes Antojito Paradise Slaughterhouse Rules Atmosphere's free record Music A-list TOP FIVE SLIDESHOWS Real Life Superheroes Polar Bear Plunge Def Repplica Necro Best New Bands of 2007
TOP FIVE BLOG POSTS Ron Paul and MLK Day Real Life Superheroes expanded content Huckabee gets Colbert bump Giuliani and Ron Paul: which is fringe? African Cup Soccer
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