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Black Forest Cake
Butter | 1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs), softened | |
Sugar | 2 Cup (32 tbs) | |
Eggs | 3 , well beaten | |
Vanilla extract | 1 Tablespoon | |
Milk | 1 Cup (16 tbs) | |
Cocoa powder | 3⁄4 Cup (12 tbs) | |
Self rising flour | 2 1⁄4 Cup (36 tbs) | |
Canned cherry pie filling | 21 Ounce | |
Heavy whipping cream | 3 Cup (48 tbs) (Very Cold) | |
Confectioner' s sugar | 1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs) (Same As Powdered Sugar Or Icing Sugar) |
Begin by preparing two 9-inch or 9 ½-inch cake pans. Rub butter on the inner bottom and sides of each pan. Cut a circle of waxed paper (or parchment paper) to fit the inner bottom. Rub butter over the circle of waxed or parchment paper. Set aside. In a large mixing bowl, beat together ½ cup softened butter and 2 cups sugar, using medium speed of an electric mixer. Add 3 well-beaten eggs and beat until mixture is well-combined. Stir in 1 tablespoon vanilla extract and 1 cup milk. Add ¾ cup cocoa powder and 2 ¼ cups self-rising flour. Stir until dry ingredients are reasonably well combined. Now, beat the batter for 3 minutes on medium speed of an electric mixer. Divide the batter into two equal parts and pour each half into one of the prepared cake pans. Place pans on a center rack of oven. Bake at 350 degrees (F) for about 25 minutes, or until toothpick comes out clean. Be sure to use the toothpick test often, in order for the cake layers to be removed immediately when they are done. Let the cake layers cool in their cake pans for 10 minutes. Then cool completely on wire rack. When cake layers are cool, slice each horizontally to get 4 thinner layers. Use three of these to assemble cake and put the fourth in a food processor and process a few seconds to get chocolate cake crumbs. Open (2) 21-ounce cans of cherry pie filling, empty into a medium-sized bowl, and set aside. In a large mixing bowl, beat 3 cups whipping cream until slightly stiff. Add ¼ cup confectioner's sugar and continue to beat until stiff. (Do not overbeat.) Now, place one layer of chocolate cake on a cake plate or cake stand. Ice the top with about 1 cup of the sweetened whipped cream. Place about ¾ cup cherry pie filling over the sweetened whipped cream. Repeat with another cake layer, whipped cream, and cherry pie filling. Place the last cake layer on top. Next, spread sweetened whipped cream around the sides of the cake and over the whole top of the cake. Pat chocolate cake crumbs around the side for decoration. Place the remaining cherry pie filling over the top and let it drizzle down the side in a few spots. I place 4 skewers into the cake to make sure it doesn't slip and then refrigerate overnight. This is a spectacular display for your holiday table! I hope you love it! Happy Holidays! --Betty
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Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 7376 Calories from Fat 3554
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 405 g623.1%
Saturated Fat 247.1 g1235.6%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 1885.4 mg628.5%
Sodium 4453 mg185.5%
Total Carbohydrates 940 g313.4%
Dietary Fiber 72.6 g290.5%
Sugars 447.4 g
Protein 107 g214.5%
Vitamin A 311.5% Vitamin C 42.9%
Calcium 168.9% Iron 219.6%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet


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"It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master."
~ Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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It's another rainy, foggy morning, with a temp of 50 degrees. It will keep the wildfires away from here, which is good. The fires in the Interior are still expanding, unfortunately, and many homes are now threatened. Fire officials have called for the voluntary evacuation of a small town to the east.
The new Attorney General is calling for "sweeping changes" to the ethics laws, in the aftermath of the frivolous complaint debacle surrounding Governor Palin. He proposes putting the cost of "bad faith" complaints on the people who bring them and wants to ban abusers of the system from filing any more complaints. It's about flippin' time. You can read about it here.
It's fun watching the Palin-hating "Alaska mafia" scurry, now that they've been outed on video, with faces & names exposed for all to see. You want to see? Go here.
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3 comments:
- Teresa said...
Sadly the video is not playing right now... at least not for me - it just goes into load mode and never starts. Oh well. Let's hope the AG can change things because it's been ridiculous.
- 10:45 AM, August 06, 2009
- Rev. Paul said...
Teresa, the AG can only suggest ways to improve it. It's up to the Legislature to draft the revision(s), if any.
I clicked on the link & it loaded fine, but I'm using Firefox. IE may be a problem (and usually is), which is why I switched. - 11:01 AM, August 06, 2009
- Teresa said...
Oh I only use Firefox... Safari on occasion because there is some weirdness with FF on a Mac when at typepad sites that won't allow comments. (very annoying)
I just checked. It works in Safari - maybe it's the ad bloc plus I have on FF that is blocking the vid. Interesting. - 7:39 PM, August 06, 2009
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In this podcast, Jim examines the issue of consciousness and efforts to explain it from a natural, materialistic perspective. Can evolution explain the existence of consciousness or does Christianity offer a better explanation. Jim also discusses Mormonism and the relationship between past Mormon doctrines and Christian radicalism.
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Many of my ideas come to me in little moments of delusion in which I envision the world as other than it is (this is the real-life analogue of this). It is sort of like a game where you fish in a little pond and sometimes you get a fish and sometimes something comical like a boot. The big fish get turned into ideas like Downhill. The boots get turned into tasty NYCB entries, The Gold Rush-style.
Here is a boot. Consider the encoding UTF-8. Now instead of an encoding, visualize it as a Japanese TV show, "Ultra Terra Force-8", with spaceship battles and dumb-looking aliens.
That's it. It just sits there, like a sleeping alligator, planning to live off Google royalties (a hit for "japanese tv" here, a hit for "'gold rush' boot" there) for the rest of its life, not contributing a bit to the intellectual quality of this website. Well, out with it, I say! It has no place on my glamorous weblog! Now, if I could only work this electronic doohickey... there, "Publish". That should do it.


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Once again, my experience with music delivers an epiphany that sheds light on other aspects of my personal and professional life. Bear with me on this somewhat wandering blog as I tie several seemingly disparate threads together into a tapestry of personal meaning. (I also apologize for that last sentence, but as burdensome as it might be to read, it was a lot of fun to write.)
I was collaborating with some IBM colleagues on an article, and one of the collaborators introduced me to the term hype cycle. It was coined by the Gartner Group to describe a predictable pattern associated with technology breakthroughs.
Initially everyone gets all excited and expectations soar to unwarranted heights. Then comes the trough of disillusionment as reality sets in. Eventually, the audience resets its expectations, and acting on those new expectations, the technology is put to productive use.
I've been really digging in on my Dobro and have made a lot of headway in the last six months. I have a goal to reach a certain level of competence within a selected repertoire of songs by the time I go to the Steve Kaufman Acoustic Kamp in June, and I'm just about where I wanted to be. I had one of my monthly lessons with David Ellis this weekend and reviewed the fiddle tunes (popular in the nightly jam sessions at camp). While doing so, I realized that I don't have great breaks, what I have are good fakes. At one point as I'm about to do Blackberry Blossom for David, I say, "The only thing this will have in common with Blackberry Blossom is the chord progression." In other words, I play simplified versions that capture the spirit of the melody, while allowing me to play at jam speed.
I'm almost 63 and it seems anytime I get an ache or I feel a bit puny, I immediately imagine it to be some fatal illness. During one of those funks and on my way to a recent checkup, I asked myself what I would do if the doctor said I had six months to live. I was surprised by the spontaneity and the clarity of my response: "I'd quit trying to play Saint Ann's Reel so damn fast and just enjoy playing all the notes."
OK, this is the last thread and the one that really triggered this blog. I was driving to the monthly SEBA jam on Sunday, feeling tired and even a tad bit depressed. Something in me didn't want to go--I just wanted to turn around and go home, crawl into bed, and pull the covers over my head. I did an uncharacteristically mature thing: I turned around and went home.
I think that with anything (and possibly anyone) we love, we go through similar patterns to the hype cycle. But instead of being a one time thing resulting in a static plateau--it has the potential to keep repeating itself at increasingly higher levels of satisfaction (or competence, depending on what you're measuring). But each of those cycles is separated by a trough of disillusionment. For example, I had great expectations that I would become good with all of my practice and dedication. But at my new level of good, I could see a level of better that was still ahead. So instead of feeling good, I felt not-so-good. At this point, I think there are two mistakes one can make:
What we need to do when we hit the trough is to stop for awhile and enjoy what we have. Sure, slow down on Saint Ann's Reel for a while and enjoy it. There needs to be a period where we cash in some of our satisfaction equity and just appreciate what we have accomplished. So what if my breaks aren't great, that's OK. I'm going to go to camp with some good fakes that will let me jump into the jams and pull my own weight. It's going to be a lot of fun. And I've already talked with David, and after June, he and I will sit down and set some new goals. So until then, I'm going to have some fun and not worry about how good I need/should/could be. In the meantime, I know I would like to get better, and I know I will get better. But for now I'm giving myself permission to enjoy where I am today.
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Arizona officials are threatening legal action to stop the Obama administration from moving hundreds of undocumented immigrants from Texas to their state after a surge of illegal border crossings swamped immigration officials in the Rio Grande Valley.
The U.S. Border Patrol has acknowledged flying hundreds of migrants from Texas to Tucson and Phoenix, where many have been dropped off at Greyhound bus stations. Last week, immigration agencies began sending hundreds of undocumented minors apprehended while crossing the border to a holding facility in Nogales.
Arizona officials say they were not notified before the transports began.
In a letter to the Department of Homeland Security, Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne, R, insisted the department's border security units stop the transports.
"These aliens are not being transported for the purposes of detaining them in a federal facility located in Arizona. Rather, DHS is inexplicably moving them some 1200 miles and simply releasing them here (outdoors in temperatures exceeding 100 degrees) rather than in Texas," Horne wrote.
Arizona state law prevents Horne from bringing suit against the federal government directly, but he could find someone else to sue.
Critics of the facilities where minors are held, ranging from Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, to the American Civil Liberties Union, have demanded access to assess conditions they say are substandard. McCain on Thursday called for Customs and Porter Patrol to allow media access to the Nogales Processing Center.
"There is only one way of knowing what the treatment is and that's for the media to allowed access," McCain said Thursday on an Arizona radio show. "We need you and any media outlet that wants to be there to be there. What kind of society are we in?"
In a letter to Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Gil Kerlikowske, McCain and Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Arizona, called the situation a "humanitarian crisis." McCain and Flake also asked for a hearing before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.
The influx of immigrants is heating up a years-old debate within Arizona political circles. Horne faces a strong Republican challenger after allegations he broke campaign finance law, and acting tough on immigration is a certain vote-getter in GOP primaries. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, R, is using the crisis to raise money for her federal political action committee.
The Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have reported a dramatic spike in the number of people caught crossing the border illegally. In January, just 28,000 people attempted to cross the border; that number spiked to 60,000 in May, according to McCain's office.
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Ohioans shouldn't overlook tall fescue
COLUMBUS — With its lush green color and fine texture, Kentucky bluegrass may be the lawn grass of choice among Ohioans, but tall fescue — with its many favorable attributes — should not be overlooked, according to Ohio State University (OSU) Extension officials.
Pam Sherratt, an OSU Extension turfgrass specialist, said tall fescue has come a long way since the original "Kentucky 31," which Sherratt describes as a "coarse, ugly grass." Now tall fescue boasts more than 70 varieties that perform so well under Ohio's environmental conditions that it could be labeled as the perfect lawn grass for Ohio, she added.
"Tall fescue varieties have really improved over the 40 or 50 years that the grass has been grown in the United States," said Sherratt. "It's virtually indestructible."
Like bluegrass, tall fescue is a cool-season grass, but that's where the similarity ends. Sherratt said that homeowners should take a hard look at tall fescue for a number of reasons:
• Long roots allow for drought and heat tolerance.
"The roots of Kentucky bluegrass are about 5 to 6 inches deep, but tall fescue roots can grow as deep at 15 inches," said Sherratt. "This allows the grass to access water at depths Kentucky bluegrass can't reach, remaining green during hot summers long after Kentucky bluegrass goes dormant.
• It requires less maintenance.
"Since tall fescue can more readily access water, it doesn't require as much water or fertilizer as Kentucky bluegrass," said Sherratt. "Less water means lower costs on the homeowner's water bill over the summer."
• Unlike other cool season grasses, tall fescue is shade tolerant.
• It can be quickly established.
"Tall fescue will germinate in about a week and will produce a lawn in 10 weeks," said Sherratt.
• It's more wear tolerant. Once established, tall fescue can withstand the wear and tear of usage.
• It contains endophytes — naturally occurring fungi that provide tall fescue with a natural defense against surface-feeding insects.
"Tall fescue is still susceptible to grubs, but it doesn't produce thatch like Kentucky bluegrass does that the grubs are most attracted to," said Sherratt.
The only problem that tall fescue is prone to is brown patch — a disease that occurs when grass is overfertilized and overwatered.
Sherratt said that for best lawn performance, tall fescue can be mixed with Kentucky bluegrass.
"It's best not to mix it with rye grass, as it gets clumpy," said Sherratt. "It was traditionally thought that Kentucky bluegrass was the lawn grass. But tall fescue has so many good attributes that we could very well recommend it as the lawn grass of choice in Ohio."
Readers can find fact sheets and bulletins on using tall fescue in lawn establishment at OSU's Ohioline site at ohioline.osu.edu. Homeowners also can visit the National Turfgrass Evaluation Program at ntep.org, which provides research results from 28 universities across the nation of all major turfgrass species.
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The right inventory at the right time
Amway China improves replenishment time by 20 percent, customer satisfaction soars to 97 percent
Throughout its rapid climb to become the direct-selling giant's largest market, Amway China clearly understood the value of analytics. Despite significant progress in incorporating analytics into its growth strategy, Amway China lacked a forward view of its supply chain and struggled to improve accuracy in inventory and replenishment plans for retail outlets.
To support fast business growth and adapt information flow to the rapid development of its enterprise supply chain, Amway China decided to expand its application of business analytics. Using technology like SAS® Forecast Server and SAS® Inventory Optimization, Amway China developed an advanced inventory optimization system (IOS).
With SAS predictive analysis and inventory optimization, we can keep inventory at the right level at the right time. When business or customer demands change, we can quickly adjust via the flexible inventory optimization system. With the IOS, Amway China cannot only reduce logistics costs, but also enhance customer satisfaction and improve its competitive edge.
The goal was to deliver the right products to the right place at the right cost and the right time. The result? Amway China can now quickly and appropriately respond to a fast-changing market of US$2.6 billion – which accounts for more than one-third of Amway Global's total sales.
Amway China ships more than 1,000 different products through 229 stores, 29 home delivery centers, 22 warehouses and a 40,000-square-meter logistics center in Guangzhou. Each year, the company transports products more than 13.96 million kilometers, equal to about 349 times around the Earth. Amway's uniquely diversified store selling, direct selling and distribution model – plus frequent marketing promotions to react quickly to market changes – make inventory management a particular challenge.
SAS drives IOS improvement
The inventory optimization system (IOS) effectively estimates and models optimum inventory levels based on service levels, delivery times and costs set up by the user. Using SAS, Amway China has used SAS to drive improvement in predicting demand, transport, inventory replenishment and key performance indicator (KPI) alerts.
To predict demand, the IOS applies SAS time series forecasting to data from 70 million orders placed over the past three years. Based on relevant historical sales data, the system automatically analyzes, models, executes and adjusts predictions for products and regions at different levels, and forecasts demand by specific product and outlet. The prediction data generated is more accurate than before.
Based on predicted customer demand, the system calculates the replenishment frequency of different regions per the optimized model. Meanwhile, taking into consideration transport data related to vehicle type, capacity and costs, the system determines the optimal transportation schedule for the following week, which is displayed directly in the system. Tasks and manpower can be arranged according to the schedule, and the planner can make adjustments according to the actual situation.
The IOS fully considers Amway's multilevel replenishment network – factories, logistics centers, outside warehouse and stores – alongside other influencers, including predicted demand and product variation, lead time, packing specifications, inventory costs, transport costs, transport frequency, customer service level, inventory strategy and minimum orders. The result is a more effective replenishment policy for reorder, order-up-to, and required quantity levels that can pinpoint each product in each warehouse and store, adjusting dynamically to market changes over time.
In addition, the IOS provides KPI reports and emergency and alert functions necessary for daily inventory management, including inventory level analysis, procurement proposal analysis, inventory alarm, analysis for items temporarily out of stock, transport no-load rate, and supervision and control over product sales.
SAS helps reduce costs, increase efficiency
Amway China has high praise for both the technology and services from SAS. Raymond Hui, Amway Greater China Distribution Vice President, says, "With SAS predictive analysis and inventory optimization, we can keep inventory at the right level at the right time. When business or customer demands change, we can quickly adjust via the flexible inventory optimization system. With the IOS, Amway China cannot only reduce logistics costs, but also enhance customer satisfaction and improve its competitive edge."
In the past the logistics planners arranged vehicles, destinations, quantity of goods and warehouse space based on experience. This resulted in errors and increased logistics costs. When Amway China implemented the IOS, the improved accuracy in demand prediction made it possible to plan replenishments, efficiently allocate vehicles, reduce empty loads, reduce the unnecessary transfer of goods among different warehouses and stores, optimize and save warehouse and storage space, prepare logistics plans, and reduce costs.
Further, Amway China has improved service, reduced errors and costs and met international standards by using the IOS to provide a unified standard for stock replenishment. Any errors can now be easily tracked within the system for a quicker solution.
The IOS has also improved operational efficiency because decisions are now based on optimized data, dramatically improving accuracy and saving time. Compared to the past, the stock replenishment time from the logistics center to the outside warehouse and then to stores has been reduced 20 percent. At the same time, the inventory of main products has been reduced by 10 percent, while the quantity and times of goods out of stock have decreased.
Utilizing SAS, Amway China has been able to increase customer satisfaction to 97 percent, cut stock levels, maintain an optimum inventory and minimize delayed deliveries, all while reducing average total costs, including order costs and inventory costs.
Inventory management was a particular challenge. Although Amway has reached an advanced level in logistics management, it lacked a forward-looking view and accuracy in its inventory, distribution and replenishment planning.
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Amway China has cut stock levels, balanced product distribution and boosted customer satisfaction to 97%. The system enormously improves Amway China's operational efficiency and shortens replenishment time from the logistics center to retail outlets by 20%.


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In Reply to: How about McMansion? posted by Word Camel on November 12, 2003
: : Dictionary Editors to Keep 'McJob'
: : November 11, 2003.
: : By TRUDY TYNAN, Associated Press Writer
: : SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - McDonald's may not be "lovin' it," but the editors of the Merriam-Webster dictionary say "McJob" is a word that's here to stay.
: : The 11th edition of Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, published in June, defines a "McJob" as "a low-paying job that requires little skill and provides little opportunity for advancement."
: : The fast-food giant's chief executive, Jim Cantalupo, called the definition a "slap in the face" to the 12 million people who work in the restaurant industry, and demanded that Merriam-Webster dish up something more flattering. . .
: That's a colourful term. Anyone know the origin? I have also heard USA Today referred to as "McNews".
I've also heard and read USA Today referred to as "McPaper."


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St George's Hall is on Lime Street in the centre of the English city of Liverpool, opposite Lime Street railway station. It is a building in Neoclassical style which contains concert halls and law courts, and has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building. On the east side of the hall, between it and the railway station is St George's Plateau and on the west side are St John's Gardens. The hall is included in the William Brown Street conservation area. In 1969 the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner expressed his opinion that it is one of the finest neo-Grecian buildings in the world although the building is notable for its use of Roman sources as well as Greek ones. In 2004 the hall and its surrounding area were recognised as part of Liverpool's World Heritage Site.
HistoryThe site of the hall was formerly occupied by the first Liverpool Infirmary from 1749 to 1824. Triennial music festivals were held in the city but there was no suitable hall to accommodate them. Following a public meeting in 1836 a company was formed to raise subscriptions for a hall in Liverpool to be used for the festivals, and for meetings, dinners and concerts. Shares were made available at £25 each and by January 1837 £23,350 (£1,760,060 as of 2011), had been raised. In 1838 the foundation stone was laid to commemorate the coronation of Queen Victoria. A competition in 1839 to design the hall was won by Harvey Lonsdale Elmes, a London architect aged 25 years. There was a need for assize courts in the city and a competition to design these was also won by Elmes. The original plan was to have separate buildings but in 1840 Elmes suggested that both functions could be combined in one building on a scale which would surpass most of the other public buildings in the country at the time. Construction started in 1841, the building opened in 1854 (with the small concert room opening two years later). Elmes died in 1847 and the work was continued by John Weightman, Corporation Surveyor, and Robert Rawlinson, structural engineer, until in 1851 Sir Charles Cockerell was appointed architect. Cockerell was largely responsible for the decoration of the interiors. During the 2000s a major restoration of the hall took place costing £23m and it was officially reopened on 23 April 2007 by HRH Prince of Wales.
The Concert Hall is the largest area, rectangular in shape, and occupies the centre of the building with an organ on its north wall. To the north of the Concert Hall is the Civil Court and beyond this is the elliptical Small Concert Room. To the south of the Concert Hall are the Crown Court and the Grand Jury Room. Smaller court rooms are on the periphery of the larger courts. The floor below consists of a cavernous basement with cells for prisoners along the west wall.
ExteriorThe main entrance is in the centre of the east façade and is approached by a wide flight of steps. On the steps is a statue of Benjamin Disraeli by Charles Bell Birch. At the south-east corner is a bronze statue of Major-General William Earle by the same sculptor. This front has a central portico of 16 Corinthian columns flanked on each side by series of square, unfluted pillars. Between these pillars are reliefs which were added between 1882 and 1901 by Thomas Stirling Lee, C. J. Allen and Conrad Dressler. The west front has a projecting central part with square pillars supporting a massive entablature. The south front has a portico of eight columns, two columns deep on steps above a rusticated podium. The north front has a semicircular apse with columns and three doorways which are flanked by statues of nereids and tritons bearing lamps which were designed by Nicholl.
InteriorThe main entrance crosses a corridor and leads into the Concert Hall. This measures 169 feet (52 m) by 77 feet (23 m) and is 82 feet (25 m) high. The roof is a tunnel vault carried on columns of polished red granite. The walls have niches for statues and the panelled plasterwork of the vault has allegorical figures of Virtues, Science and Arts. The highly decorated floor consists of Minton tiles and it is usually covered by a removable floor to protect it. It contains over 30,000 tiles. The doors are bronze and have openwork panels which incorporate the letters SPQL (the Senate and the People of Liverpool) making an association with the SPQR badge of ancient Rome. The organ is at the north end and at the south end is a round arch supporting an entablature between whose columns is a gate leading directly into the Crown Court. The niches contain the statues of William Roscoe by Chantrey, Sir William Brown by Patrick MacDowell, Robert Peel by Matthew Noble, George Stephenson by John Gibson, Rev Hugh Boyd McNeile by George Gamon Adams, E. Whitley by A. Bruce Joy, S. R. Graves by G. G. Fontana, Rev Jonathan Brookes by B. E. Spence, William Ewart Gladstone by John Adams-Acton, the 14th Earl of Derby by William Theed the Younger, the 16th Earl of Derby by F. W. Pomeroy, and Joseph Mayer by Fontana. The stained glass in the semicircular windows at each end of the hall was added in 1883–84 by Forrest and Son of Liverpool. Sharples and Pollard regard this as "one of the greatest Victorian interiors".
The Crown Court has a tunnel vault on red granite columns and the Civil Court a coved ceiling on grey granite columns. The south entrance is approached through the portico, is low and has Ionic columns. Below this is a larger vaulted space which was adapted to form a new entrance in 2003–05. The north entrance hall has Doric columns on its landing and a Doric ambulatory around the apse. A copy of part of the Parthenon frieze runs round its walls. In the entrance is a statue of Henry Booth by Theed the Younger. The Small Concert Room is almost circular and is lavishly decorated. In the past it was known as the Golden Concert Room and it was regularly host to Charles Dickens who held many of his readings there. A balcony supported by caryatids runs round the room. At the back of the platform are attached columns, decorated with arabesques, supporting a frieze with griffins and between the columns are mirrors. The concert room was refurbished between 2000 and 2007. This included making alterations to comply with the Disability Discrimination Act, restoring the historical painting scheme and restoring the chandelier, which consists of 2,824 crystal pieces. It has seating for an audience of 480.
In the basement is part of a unique heating and ventilation system devised by Dr Boswell Reid. This was the first attempt at air conditioning in a public building in the United Kingdom, its aim being to warm and ventilate the building without draughts. Air was warmed by five hot water pipes which were heated by two coke-fired boilers and two steam boilers. The air was circulated by four 10 feet (3 m) wide fans. It was controlled a large number of workers opening and closing a series of canvas flaps.
Organ and organistsThe organ was built by Henry Willis and completed in 1855 with 100 speaking stops across four manual divisions (of non-standard compass, 63 notes GG to a) and pedals (30 notes). It comprised a total of 119 ranks of pipes, plus 10 couplers, 10 composition pedals, and 36 pistons to set combinations of stops. It was initially tuned to meantone temperament to the specification of S. S. Wesley but in 1867 W. T. Best, city organist, retuned it to equal temperament. The organ was rebuilt in 1896 when the key action was changed from the Willis-Barker lever assisted tracker (i.e. pneumatic assisted mechanical) action to pneumatic action. Also the manual compass was changed to the now standard CC to c, 61 notes, making the bottom 5 pipes on every manual stop redundant. In 1931 it was reconstructed by Henry Willis III when the number of stops was increased to 120 and electro-pneumatic action introduced for the combination systems and some of the key action. Its power source was still the Rockingham electric blowing plant which had replaced the two steam engines (one of 1855 and a second which had been added in about 1877 to run the increased pressure required since 1867 for some reed stops. In the interim this higher pressure had been hand blown!) The 1924 electric blowers remained in use until 2000 when the present new low and high pressure blowers were fitted by David Wells.
In 1979 it was given a general clean and overhaul by Henry Willis IV. The total number of registers, including 24 couplers, is 144. With 7,737 pipes, it was the largest organ in the country until a larger one was built at the Royal Albert Hall in 1871, after which an organ even larger than the one at the Royal Albert Hall was constructed at Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, using over 10,000 pipes. As part of the 2000–2007 restoration of the hall repairs were made to the organ, including replacement of the bellows leather. The organ is maintained by David Wells, Organ Builders.
The first organist was W. T. Best (1826–97) who was appointed in 1855 and served until 1894. He was succeeded in 1896 by Dr Albert Lister Peace (1844–1912) who continued in the post until the year of his death. In 1913 Herbert Frederick Ellingford (1876–1966) was appointed organist. On 21 December 1940 the hall and its organ were damaged in an air-raid. It was not possible to obtain sufficient money to rebuild the organ until the 1950s. In 1954 Henry Willis & Sons were asked to undertake this project and Dr Caleb E. Jarvis (1903–80) was its consultant. Dr Jarvis was appointed organist in 1957 and on his death in 1980 he was succeeded by Noel Rawsthorne (born 1929), who had just retired as organist to the Anglican Cathedral. Noel Rawsthorne served as organist to the hall for four years. Following his retirement in 1984, Professor Ian Tracey, who is also Organist Titulaire of the Anglican Cathedral, was appointed to the post.
St George's PlateauThis is the flat space between the hall and the railway station and contains statues of four lions by Nicholl and cast iron lamp standards with dolphin bases. Also on the plateau are monuments, including equestrian bronzes of Prince Albert and Queen Victoria by Thomas Thornycroft, and a monument to Major-General William Earle by Birch. Between the equestrian statues is a cenotaph which was unveiled in 1930, designed by L. B. Budden and sculpted by H. Tyson Smith. It consists of a simple horizontal block with a bronze relief measuring over 31 feet (9 m) on each side. Sharples and Pollard regard it as one of the most remarkable war memorials in the country.
The Plateau has been associated with public rallies and gatherings, including the deaths of Beatles, John Lennon and George Harrison, and the homecomings of Liverpool and Everton football teams after Cup Final Victories. During the 1911 Liverpool General Transport Strike, many meetings were held there, including the rally which sparked the 'Bloody Sunday' attacks, when police baton charged thousands of people who had gathered to hear syndicalist Tom Mann speak.
RestorationFollowing the restoration leading to the reopening of the hall in April 2007 it was granted a Civic Trust Award. It included the creation of a Heritage Centre which gives an introduction to the hall and its history. Guided tours, a programme of exhibitions and talks are arranged. Over the 2007 and 2008 Christmas periods an artificial skating rink was installed in the Concert Hall. In January 2008 Liverpool started its tenure as European Capital of Culture with The People's Opening at St George's Hall with a performance which included Beatles' drummer Ringo Starr playing on its roof.
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Beryllium Exposure Studies and Testing
Beryllium is a metal used in many industries, including aerospace, defense and nuclear weapons production. Inhaling beryllium as dust or fumes from machining or manufacturing activities can cause sensitivity in some individuals that can evolve into chronic beryllium disease (CBD), formerly known as berylliosis.
CBD leads to the development of small, inflammatory nodules in the lungs called granulomas, which reduce the ability of the lungs to process gases and cause the patient to cough and experience shortness of breath. Other symptoms of CBD are chest pain, joint aches, weight loss and fever.
Workers who have been—or potentially could have been—exposed to beryllium should receive the beryllium lymphocyte proliferation test (BeLPT). The BeLPT serves as a key component to identify workers who are reacting to beryllium and who are at greater risk of developing CBD.
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She must be tired of the obsession over those things, though, right?
As long as we're on the topic of misconceptions, can we retire the tired comparison of Romantic poets to '60s rock stars?
He was probably as tired as I was at that point, but he was a gentleman certainly.
Mataconis is correct to note Santorum was merely repeating a tired trope from populist, reactionary conservatism.
When we get home from work we are already tired and the last thing we want to do is feed, bathe, play with a kid.
Please excuse me, but I'm really so tired that it is painful to me to talk.
The colonel screwed up his tired eyes as if to shut out a vision.
We had some coffee with us, but were too tired to infuse it.
My recommendation is to make a film record and plant them, but I'm too tired to argue.
I thought you were tired, Cob, so I let you lie till the last moment.
"exhausted, fatigued, weary," early 15c., past participle adjective from tire (v.).
"to weary," also "to become weary," Old English teorian (Kentish tiorian), of unknown origin, not found outside English. Related: Tired; tiring.
late 15c., "iron rim of a carriage wheel," probably from tire "equipment, dress, covering" (c.1300), a shortened form of attire. The notion is of the tire as the dressing of the wheel. The original spelling was tyre, which had shifted to tire in 17c.-18c., but since early 19c. tyre has been revived in Great Britain and become standard there. Rubber ones, for bicycles (later automobiles) are from 1870s.
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The C Street Family's Frequent Fliers Club
A breakdown of the $120,000 the Family has spent sending members of Congress all over the world.
Some members of Congress make a point of working visits to Family friends into their official travel—Sens. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.), James Inhofe (R-Okla.), and others have conducted Family business on taxpayer-funded trips. Others have relied on the Family's generosity in underwriting their travel. Based on congressional records, here's a breakdown of the nearly $120,000 the organization has spent just in the past decade to take members anywhere from Aruba and Hawaii to Jordan, Japan, and Greece.
for trips to Jordan, Israel, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Macedonia, Serbia, Albania, Croatia, and Greece.
Much of Aderholt's globe-hopping involved the Balkan version of the National Prayer Breakfast. Stan Holmes, a Family official who arranges much of the congressional travel, told Roll Call that the trips are "built around the spiritual realm."
Reps. John Carter (R-Texas) and Joe Pitts (R-Pa.)
each for trip to Belarus.
for trips to British Virgin Islands as "guest speaker for prayer breakfast" and to Lebanon to "build bonds."
for trips to Aruba (with wife Susan), British Virgin Islands, Lebanon, Jordan, and Israel.
for trips to Jordan, Israel, and Japan for "fact-finding" and "policy dialogue/programs with Japanese officials."
Rep. Tony Hall (D-Ohio, left Congress 2002)
for trip to Hawaii for "National Prayer Breakfast Activities."
for trip to Jordan and Israel to "build bridges of friendship."
for trips to Hawaii, Greece, Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Albania, and Lebanon, all for "meeting with government officials and other National Prayer Breakfast activities."
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We are located 25 minutes away from Puerto Plata Airport. We can pick you up with your name on a board if you let us know your flight details. If you come from Santo Domingo or Santiago's airport, you can take the Caribe Tour bus and we can meet you at the bus station in Puerto Plata. We charge you less than the taxi and we also include a trip to the city for money exchange and groceries and orientation. Bienvenidos! Our local address is: Principal street #40, Munoz b the river, Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic. Phone 1 809 320 1441
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US House Science Committee Member: Evolution Is a Lie From Hell 1113
First time accepted submitter badford writes "Representative Paul Broun (Georgia Republican) said that evolution, embryology and the Big Bang theory are 'lies straight from the pit of hell' meant to convince people that they do not need a savior. It would not be quite as shocking if Broun did not sit on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. What impact could this have on policy? What impact could this have on STEM education not just in Georgia but all over the U.S.?"


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Photographer's Note
The official name Zoo am Meer (German for Zoo next to the Sea) is located next to the river Weser and exhibits mainly species which live in the water or in northern environments exceptions are for instances chimpanzees and White-headed marmosets.
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Valensiaa (244) 2013-09-28 2:46
Oh i wish your previous photo which is named "looking to whom !." would be as clear as this one.
Wonderful shot.
zanzi (13690) 2013-09-28 2:53
Probably not the best picture technically speaking (and probably not an easy one to capture...), but it conveys an emotion. And photography is also about emotions.
I love it.
Hi Coskun
good interaction between the child and the animal!
BennyV (20505) 2013-09-28 3:13
Hello Coskun
I noticed your previous version as well, but think this one is a lot better. This is why:
- colours are much stronger, more dark tones, more saturation (other one was more flimsy)
- the girl's arm/finger gesture makes this shot more dynamic, gets some interaction in (other one was more static)
- position of the girl to the side of the frame also makes the composition a bit more dynamic
Weaker bits in this one, but they don't weigh up to the plusses:
- part of the girl's jacket is cropped into
- inclusion of the seal in the bg (this can be a plus too)
Cheers & keep posting.
Wanda1 (15142) 2013-09-28 22:37
Hi Coskun,
I like the interaction here between the little girl and the seal. The seals gaze is great and so is his upright position. I also like the colour contrast between the red jacket and the rest of the scene in blue tones.
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bayıldım göz temasına da, o küçük parmağa da...
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There are no screening tests or screening guidelines for the early diagnosis of either acute or chronic sinusitis. Acute sinusitis is a temporary condition that generally is easily treated with medications and often resolves without any treatment. Screening for chronic sinusitis might find affected persons who have no symptoms, but there is no evidence that their health would be improved by presymptomatic treatment for this condition.
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PLAN 620 - Human Impact Analysis
Fiscal, macroeconomic, social, and political impact analyses of development decisions and distributive consequences through incidence analysis. Consequences: public budgets, household income/consumption/investment, jobs, and community health/welfare. Shifting electoral consequences of new/displaced residential populations on political agendas of decision- makers. Urban indicators as measures of community well-being and distress. Parallel: PLAN 621. College: Architecture and Planning Hours: 2 Permission: Y Prerequisite: PLAN 621 Co-requisite: none |


text: Meet the Grump Who's Married to Fifty Shades of Grey's E.L. JamesMadeleine Davies9/10/12 12:00pmFiled to: Fifty shades of greyFifty shadesE.L. JamesNiall leonardtweetBooks87EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkEveryone, meet Niall Leonard. Niall Leonard, meet everyone. You've probably never heard of Niall before, but chances are that you know his wife, Fifty Shades of Grey poetess E.L. James. A fellow writer, Leonard has acted as James' proof reader throughout the early developments of the Fifty Shades series and has also collaborated with her on the creation of two sons who are both now teenagers. In spite of all that, he insists that he has had no influence over the character of Christian Grey (duh — because it's Twilight fan fiction) nor has he inspired any of Grey's sadistic behavior (DUH — BECAUSE IT'S TWILIGHT FAN FICTION), but not to worry — he has no jealousy towards the handsome, young, Twilight-inspired billionaire that his wife has chosen to write so intimately about. "I'm really happy not to be Christian Grey," says Leonard in an interview with CNN, "because that guy's a mess."AdvertisementA curmudgeonly Leonard went on to say that being married to one of the world's most famous erotica authors is just like being married to anyone else and that they tend not mix their work and personal lives. As for what he thinks of his wife's novels, Niall claims to appreciate the writing and the story telling (huh), but doesn't feel like it's for him: "It's aimed at women. It works for women. Men — not always."What does work for him, it turns out, is his own debut novel Crusher, a crime story about a teenage boy — hopefully one who falls down and says "jeez" a lot — avenging the death of his father. No update on whether the story includes any Red Room of Pain sex play. 'Mr. Fifty Shades' talks of wife, family [CNN]Reply87 repliesLeave a reply


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Clive Davis comes out of the closet as bi-sexual!
Music producer Clive Davis has come out of the closet as bisexual. The producer has won five Grammy Awards, and discovered the late Whitney Houston. In his new memoir, 'The Soundtrack of My Life,' he officially comes out of the closet.
Davis, 80, who has been married and divorced twice, writes in the book that he began to explore romantic relationships with men during the era of Studio 54, when he was approached by male fan at the famed music club. "On this night, after imbibing enough alcohol, I was open to responding to his sexual overtures," the record mogul says (according to Rolling Stone), noting that he had previously been with only women.
Following that first encounter, and a period of "soul searching and self-analysis," the industry icon separated from his second wife and moved on to relationships with two other women and a man. In 1990, he says, he entered into a 14-year monogamous relationship with a male doctor. When that ended, he became involved with another man, whom he has been with ever since.
Davis says that for him, falling in love transcends gender. And though his most recent partners have been men, he's still open to relationships with the opposite sex. Talking to Katie Couric about his sexuality, he says: "I'm still attracted to women. You don't have to be only one thing or another. For me it's the person. I'm in a monogamous relationship, [and] I respect monogamy. And I hope that this is understood."
The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, who has four kids — daughter Lauren and sons Fred, Mitchell, and Doug — also reflects in his memoir about his work with Whitney Houston, from their earliest collaborations to her death in 2012. He even includes the text of a letter he wrote to the troubled singer in 2001, in which he pleads with her to get help.
"My dear, dear Whitney, the time has come," he began, noting that her loved ones were concerned for her well-being. "Our anguish, our fear, our pain is just too much to bear. You must get help for yourself and for your close extended family."


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thesixtyone's guiding principle is to enable the creative middle class, providing talented artists the opportunity to make a living making music. Today, we're excited to introduce an online marketplace for supporting your favorite music on thesixtyone.
On thesixtyone, artists sell their music directly to their fans. Unlike a record or distribution deal where they only make $1-2 per album (if they ever get paid, that is), artists on thesixtyone make at least $7 per album and are paid every 30 days!
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John Guidetti made a goalscoring return to action after a nine-month lay-off for Manchester City's EDS side.
Swedish striker Guidetti, still only 20, scored after just nine minutes, converting a Marcos Lopes cross in the 3-1 win over Reading.
Guidetti came off at half time as he continues his comeback from a mystery virus that left him with a numb leg. He signed a new three-year deal with City earlier this season, and is likely to go out on loan when he regains full fitness having previously enjoyed a superb spell at Dutch side Feyenoord.
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Saturday, June 30th, 2012 Edition of The Daily Standard
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Widespread power outages, downed trees and structural damage were reported throughout Mercer and Auglaize counties on Friday after winds estimated at 80 mph ripped through the area.
No serious injuries were reported.
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The Mercer County Fairgrounds resembled a war zone Friday afternoon after strong winds toppled trees onto trailers and ripped off a portion of the grandstands roof.
Two festivals also incurred heavy damages, leaving organizers . . .
The man charged in an incident where a dead dog was found in a cage in Grand Lake entered a guilty waiver on Monday in Auglaize County Municipal Court.
Mardie Biederman of Panama City, Fla., 43, entered the waiver and paid $13 . . .
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Fred D. Conkel, 70, of Coldwater, died June 28, 2012, at his residence.
He was born July 27, 1941, in Celina, to Robert and Freda (Drummond) Conkel. On June 29, 1968, he married Frances A. Sherrill, who survives in Coldwater.
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Mildred M. Dues, 89, of Coldwater, died June 28, 2012, at Briarwood Village, Coldwater.
She was born March 14, 1923, in Carthagena, to Henry and Monica (Eyink) Wuebker. On Feb. 23, 1946, she married Lawrence J. Dues, who died M . . .
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Article first published as How Quick Acting Brands Took Advantage of Super Bowl Power Outage on Technorati.
It's happened before, in the NFL, NHL Stanley Cup back in 1988, and MLB numerous times, when a game must be delayed due to circumstances beyond the control of everyone's best laid plans. But this past Sunday, when the power went out for 34 minutes during the Super Bowl, some quick thinking brands – Oreo, Tide, and Audi to name a few, used the unforeseen event to engage in some humor on social media site Twitter.
The quick action by brands like Oreo was made possible because executives from the brand side, as well as their digital agency of record, in this case 360i, we're monitoring everything on social media from what AdAge calls a 'mission control center'.
Power out? No problem. twitter.com/Oreo/status/29…
— Oreo Cookie (@Oreo) February 4, 2013
While the "You Can Still Dunk in the Dark" Oreo Pic was perhaps the most popular in terms of re-tweets with 15k and counting, Audi took a humorous shot at competitor Mercedes Benz with it's reaction to the outage. As many know, Super Bowl XLVII was played at the Mercedes Benz Superdome.
Sending some LEDs to the @mbusa Superdome right now… — Audi (@Audi) February 4, 2013
In the case of Tide, they used humor as well to remind people, that while they can't get your #blackout, they can get your stains out. Timeliness and relevancy to the power-outage, along with humor seemed to be key for the brands messages during the blackout.
We can't get your #blackout, but we can get your stains out. #SuperBowl #TidePower twitter.com/tide/status/29…
— Tide (@tide) February 4, 2013
The Super Bowl was the highest rated ever, CBS announced this morning. And even though the final numbers haven't been tallied, it didn't stop them from highlighting the overnight household rating of 48.1/71 in metered markets, which is the highest ever according to this article from Huffington Post. Nielsen also reports that Baltimore had the highest ratings of any of the markets.
With this many people watching, and the huge power outage event halting normal viewing, it drove people taking to Twitter to create a trending hashtag, #blackoutbowl. During the time of the power-outage, there were around 185,000 tweets per minute, which puts it as the top Super Bowl Twitter moment according to the social media site's blog.
The other biggest peaks in Twitter traffic we're, Jones's 108-yard kickoff return for a TD (185,000 tweets/minute), Clock-expires; Ravens win (183,000 tweets/minute), Jones's 56-yard TD catch at the end of quarter 2 (168,000 tweets/minute), and Frank Gore's 49er TD (131,000 tweets/minute).
By the beginning of the second-half, the volume of tweets had already surpassed last years total of 13.6 million, and after all was said and done, tallies for Super Bowl 47 were 24.1 million tweetsaccording to Twitter.


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Ribturtle, I must have just missed you. I was a projectionist at the Moorlyn in '77 and then at the Strand from '78 to '88. Our biggest summer must have been "ET" in 1982. We actually used the balcony a few times.
Nice. Why not show movies on that H-U-G-E screen and serve hot pizza and other food?
The Strand will be serving pizza next year…but not movies. Longtime Boardwalk pizzeria Manco & Manco is moving in. Announced in a Facebook post here.
Ah, what memories this photo brings back. I was one of the movie projectionists at the Strand during the Summer of Jaws (1975). Then, the next summer, I was not only one of the projectionists, but the janitor. Did I really sweep under each of those 1450 seats every night? Yes, I did! Those days were as much hard-working as they were thrilling, so much so that they merited an entire chapter in my latest novel. I was very privileged to have worked in such a glorious temple of cinema.
Did they ever fix the 3 auditoriums that had damage from Sandy?
Saw Jaws at this theater during July of 1975 while on vacation. Certainly the best movie to see while at the beach and the perfect film for a Boardwalk theater. There was a definite undercurrent of anxiety on the beach—I remember the lifeguards whistling people out of the water at least a couple of times.
Wow this is great news that at least 2 theaters are opening.
The last I heard the Frank Company had sold it (and the Moorlyn) to an investment group who then sold the Moorlyn to the Ocean City Tabernacle. I don't know the plan for the STRAND but I would like to find out.
Can anyone tell me if the theatre has been sold? And why did it open so late this year? I think it was June 29.
I lived in OCNJ the summer of 89, lived on 8th street above a breakfast shop, owner owned the building, cannot remember his name though…I got a job at the Strand as the ticket girl. I loved the job and I worked in the ticket booth that appears to still stand vacant. I called it my vertical coffin but man what a view. It was the best summer of my life and I miss it. We showed Lethal Weapon 2 amongst others, The Abyss, Weekend at Bernie's….all still some of my favorite movies of all time and I probably saw them 50 times each that summer. LOL So glad to find this page….Havent been there since 89 but I am in Sea Isle every summer with my family. It makes me sad that the theater didnt survive the times.
For sale, asking $5.5 million. The Moorlyn is also listed at the same price. Frank Theatres still plans to operate both theaters for the 2011 summer season. Video story from NBC Philadelphia here.
Wow. That is a great photo. I had taken one around the same time, but this one is much better. And that site has the Moorlyn and Village theaters too.
Thanks for the link!
Here is a clip of me doing a changeover at the Strand in 1988…
Those were still the original Peerless arc lamps, with 1950's Simplex XL's. Arcs were powered by a Hertner Transverter (generator) in an adjacent room. Rewinding was still done by hand.
They just ran a report on ABC's World News Tonight earlier tonight (today being July 18, 2008) about how business is really booming at the box office this year. Check out the following link:
So if Ocean City, New Jersey's Strand is in a slump this year in the face of this smashing movie theater success going on everywhere else, it makes a very loud and clear statement about the klutzes now running Ocean City. I also caught on the local news in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania tonight (WPVI Channel 6) a piece about how this weekend, while there's a heatwave going on all throughout the tri-state region, there's a ban on swimming in the Atlantic Ocean in Ocean City in the vicinity of 8th and 9th street (where the Strand is located) due to a sewer malfunction or whatever. See the following link:
On the news report they showed the lifeguard stands there with signs attached to them saying swimming is prohibited, and police in uniforms patrolling the water line on ATVs to make sure the ban is upheld — as in, is this a scene straight out of THE PLANET OF THE APES or what?!
But that said, Jim-L, if Ocean City was being run right, and of course it hasn't been for many many years now, you'd have absolutely no problem eating off the salary you'd make working at the Strand. For you'd be making that and then some right now, believe me. Most people who go to Ocean City nowadays, as well as many well-meaning people who try to operate businesses there, are not aware that as seashore resorts go Ocean City has been being run illegally for many many years now, and unquestioned at that. I stopped going there years ago in response to how it was illegally changed around, but was astonished how those who continued to go didn't riot at some point. If it could be possible to round up the current Ocean City movers & shakers and lock them up in prison where they belong — and there certainly is the legal basis for doing this — Ocean City could be brought back to being a really beautiful seaside resort once more, complete with movie theaters galore. Right now all Ocean City is is a testament to how gullible and obsequious some American vacationers can be, apparently a sociological experiment of some sort in the eyes of those who refuse to intervene. I told the authors of THE SOPRANO STATE: NEW JERSEY'S CULTURE OF CORRUPTION not long ago that if they plan to write a sequel, Ocean City should be made a major chapter.
Anyhow, thanks to the Frank's mismanagement, or whoever it is that's mis-running it now, it can't be enjoying the box office boom that other movie theaters throughout the U.S. are enjoying right now.
Thank you very much for your comments. I am thrilled there is someone else who appreciated those old movie houses. I often think that I would do that boardwalk job as a career, if I could eat off that salary—and if the theaters were still intact.
I remember Rollercoaster. That might have been my first or second year there. The general manager had me help remove a bunch of seats so that the sound guys could install the giant speaker boxes that made the "Sensurround" rumbling. A lot of us wondered if the old building would survive that movie, but it did, of course.
And thanks for your comments on the Strand. I also remember the seaside, musty smell of the Strand. Each theatre was a little different. The Strand was the nicest and cleanest. And that, of course, was my favorite too. And although my memory isn't real clear, if it was the projectionist who let you take pictures, then it was probably me, or I was probably there. I'd love to see them.
And those seats were pretty cool. I was able to snag one before the sale and it is in my basement.
Anyway, thanks for your comments.
Thank you for identifying "Adventure Village". Until recently, I never knew that it was back there with all of the trees and undergrowth obscuring it. Driving past there for so many years, to and from Ocean City, I would have thought that I would have known it was there.
Thanks also for all of your hard work in creating and maintaing the Ocean City theater website. I loved all four of the theaters on the Boardwalk and truly miss that none are as I remember them. I had a special fondness for the interior decoration of the Village. I saw the movie "Rollercoaster" in "sensesurround" I believe it was called, and how it shook the building.
My favorite theater, though was always the Strand. It was so beautiful! I believe it was you that allowed me to photograph the interior one evening after the show. I still treasure those pictures. Looking at them I can almost smell the inside of the Strand and feel the fabric of the seats against my bare legs as I stared up at the screen.
Thanks again for keeping wonderful memories alive.
Jim, thanks for the photos. Brings back many fond memories.
Yes I think they have torn down all the Adventure Village buildings now. I stopped by there not-too-long-ago and snapped a few pictures of what remained:
It was funny because the demolition guys there didn't look very friendly at first and probably didn't want someone poking around their project. But when I said Hi and showed them the old postcards of the place, they really took an interest and let me take all the pictures I wanted.
Lost Memory,
Yep. 70 years old. I almost forgot this is a big birthday year. It opened on August 11, 1938.
Technically, that is the same boxoffice out in front, but it isn't used. They had promised the Planning Board and Historic Commission years ago that they would keep it. They covered the surfaces with stucco and it has been rotting for a while now (unless someone recently repaired it).
I believe tickets are sold at the side entrance (which was originally the rear auditorium exit).
Looking at the picture, is that still the box office in the front? I know the enterence is now on the side like the Moorlyn. It's amazing how the Frank's ruin every theatre they get their hands on.
Jim, you mentioned Adventure Village back in February. The old buildings were being demolished when I drove by there last month.
You're lucky they let you scavenge those backlit celebrity photos, Jim L, because here in Pennsylvania of late, or at least here in Philadelphia where I'm currently residing, when an historic building gets condemned for demolition, no one, not even the historic societies, is permitted to scavenge anything of important historic significance or value beforehand first. It seems to be some sort of a new policy. Several weeks ago I went down to Center City Philadelphia to see those two historic buildings on north Broad Street that were getting torn down to make way for the Pennsylvania Convention Center's expansion. When I took note of several architectural features on the buildings' front facades that I believed could be removed and made use of elsewhere, I walked over and asked a hardhat if there was any way they could be scavenged before the wrecking ball had its final say. "Nope, everything goes!" he told me flat outright, and that was it. End of conversation. It was straight to the point and very cold. But, as I say, it appears to be the new policy. At least here. Out with the old, in with the new.
As for Adventure Village, I don't know if it was the same thing, but I rembember when commuting between Pennsylvania and Ocean City seeing an array of small Disneyland-like buildings comprising what either was a miniature golf course or small amusement park for kids, so I'm now wondering if that's what you're referring to. It looked really interesting, and I'm now kicking myself for never stopping there to check it out firsthand. If it was the same thing you're referring to, perhaps my memory distorts, for what I remember looked like a tiny medieval village straight out of the Brothers Grimm. As I recall, though, the last few times I saw it it looked like it was no longer open — one of several tried-and-failed enterprises along the Black Horse Pike route. In fact, it looked that way to me as far back as I can remember, as if it was something left over from the 1950s.
Anyway, getting back to the here and now, I hear that Ocean City today is in the process of getting an all-new 9th Street causeway and that some of the movers and shakers there are predicting it will become the next big new attraction in their ever ongoing effort to displace the Ocean City seashore environment as being the main one. As in, "Forget coming to Ocean City for the beach; come see this all-new bridge we're building!"
One thing I always loved about the STRAND is that it never tried to override the main reason why people came to Ocean City. Rather, it was always tastefully run in a way that was complementary to the shoregoing experience. On many a rainy night when we couldn't do anything else we were always grateful for the STRAND. And looking at those images you posted, Jim L, I'm amazed how the beauty of Ocean City's own Grace Kelly is so ongoingly timeless! Even to this day we can look at that photo of her and just say "Wow!" As for the other celebrities in the backlit photos, did they all have ties to Ocean City as well? From what I've heard, many used to come stay at the Flanders. If so, what a truly classy era it must've been!
Thinking about Zaberers and Charlie Pumpernickels makes me remember the little amusement park we used to visit as kids. It was Adventure Village. It was also on the Black Horse Pike. It was a little town and old west style buildings that resembled a town square with a theater, bank, general store, etc. You would walk around the little town and check out all the buildings. On a regular interval, the Keystone Cops would chase a bad guy around town. So there were amusements and performances.
It wasn't open long, only a few seasons before it closed. But the buildings have been there ever since, slowly decaying behind a stand of trees. I read now that they are finally going to tear it all down to make way for something new.
Just thought I would mention it.
And back to the STRAND. Those backlit movie star portraits have survived:


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Wednesday, February 8, 2012
A San Diego County report says a phone system to help people apply for food stamps and other benefits drops five out of six calls.
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In an article just yesterday, we saw the priority of the nit-wit county board of supervisors:
A new football stadium:
I didn't hear the "state of the county" addressing social services here, they were only addressing a chargers football stadium.
This is an absolute outrage.
I am tired of not only feeling non-represented by every single county board of supervisors, but I question whether they are even meeting their basic job descriptions.
Aren't they paid tax dollars by the state and federal governments to be effectively providing these services.
Since once against looks like nobody in this cowtown cares about things like this, I guess I am going to have to start digging around and finding the appropriate state and federal officials to report these maggot supervisors to.
I am not even on food stamps and am outraged by their incompetence.
I realize many needing government assistance have trouble finding the access to proper channels to get their voices heard (and that's what these criminals Horn, Jacobs, and the rest bank on), so I am more than happy to shower the inboxes of state officials and federal officials to report this incompetence and provide a link to this story.
Peking_Duck_SD | February 8, 2012 at 5:35 p.m. ― 5 years, 1 month ago
Here is a link to the state HHS contacts page in Sacramento.
I am phoning them in the morning to express outrage at the county of San Diego's incompetence.
I recommend anyone who has had difficulty with this phone system o do the same, or even if you aren't receiving these benefits but are outraged at the sham being conducted in our county, phone them!


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Here is the picture of an ecosystem, one visualized by Babson College technology and information management whiz Bala Iyer, as "a loose network of interacting products and services."
Iyer's visualization comes alive as part of commentary and assertion in a Harvard Business Review piece entitled, "To Predict the Trajectory of the Internet of Things, Look to the Software Industry."
Okay, so not a title that trips lightly off the tongue. But that's not the point. Look back at the image, its beauty, its complexity, its simplicity. Back off from it with your eyes, and it could be constellations of stars mapped across nearly infinite space, or, equally, it could be a subatomic spectacle that identifies parts of parts of parts of matter in balance across time and motion.
The issue is this. As Iyer notes, the Internet of Things is, right now, a big and growing-bigger soup of potential, as yet not concentrated into agenda-setting power players. He writes:
Consequently, it could be difficult to determine the challenges and most effective business opportunities for companies looking to move into the space. But by mapping the relationships between platform providers and component providers, I found parallels to the emergence of the software industry.
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- Understand where dominance outside IoT could be extended to IoT
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Iyer's concluding insights are valuable to a residential development and home building community that's trying to get its collective mind around how and what home technologies home buyers will adapt and gravitate towards as competitive differentiators amid such fast-paced advances in the design, function, and requirements. He writes.
What's more, once vendors see customers use their products in combination with each other, they can then choose to explore corresponding integration strategies. For example, car companies could track app downloads to help decide standard package for new users. Companies could also use this data to make targeted recommendations to customers for new apps, products, or services.
In many ways the home as a great big consumer durable interface means that home builders, those who are doing the construction, and those who are parts of the platforms of product and service that lead to the by-product, a homeowner's "user experience" via a "user interface" suggests there are more parallels one could look at between the development of the Internet of Things and the development of what will one-day be home construction.
Look, for instance, at Wall Street Journal tech writer Christopher Mims' obsession of the moment, carbon-fiber, stronger, ounce for ounce, than steel or aluminum, but light, like the future. Mims writes:
Marry those two technologies [carbon-fiber with 3D printing], and things get interesting. The all-electric BMW i3 has a carbon-fiber frame that extends its range by making it significantly lighter. Other possibilities include light but strong parts for drones and other aircraft, as well as replacing materials in many everyday objects—from furniture to machine tools—with carbon fiber.
Isn't change fun?