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Dear Mama,
Six years. Six years have gone by since the first time I wrote you a letter. Do you remember it? I'm sure you do. I was such a naïve little girl then, thinking that somehow writing you a letter would instantly heal my pain – instantly make it all better.
It didn't. And while most would view that particular act as a regret, I can't bring myself to do that. Sure, I was naïve. And no, I still don't feel better about you being gone; but I think that was the first time I really talked to you. It was the first time in that year since you were gone that I allowed myself to feel pain. And when I thought back today to when I felt closest to you – that was the one instance where I can say with certainty that I felt you next to me. It was like you were sitting across from me, listening to me while I babbled on about everything and nothing.
And now? Well… now six years have passed since I wrote you that letter, and I wanted – no, needed – to feel close to you again. Because you know what, mom? This sucks. It truly, completely, utterly just… sucks.
When I first met Sean – back before we fell in love or got engaged or anything, right at the beginning of it all – do you know what my first thought was? How much you would have liked him. And of course you weren't there for me to consult with, because death is permanent and it takes the people we love away from us even if we aren't ready for them to leave and we're left making assumptions of how much they would like the people in our lives.
And when I broke up with Sean – even before I broke up with him, really; right around the time I started thinking maybe I wasn't in love with him, do you want to know what my first thought was? How much I wish you were there for me to talk to. I wanted you there because I knew you would have had the best advice for me. But you weren't because, well, you heard my earlier rant on death and its permanence. You weren't there, and you were the only person I wanted to talk to about it.
I want to tell you I'm doing fine. But I'm not. I want to tell you I'm content with my life – that I've found my true purpose and it all makes sense now. But in reality, Mommy, none of this makes sense. Seven years later, and everything is as clear to me as it was the day you left. In some aspects, I'm still standing in that hospital trying to will you to come back to life, so sure that if I prayed hard enough, you'd come back and there would be no more cancer. But we all know what happens to wishes, I suppose. You always told me that wishes were good – and that I should always dream big – but when it came down to it, what we put into our wishes, and hopes, and plans was what we'd get out of them.
I want to tell you that I at least understand that aspect of it, Mom. I have to work hard to play hard. I have to dream big, but I have to work hard to reach my dreams and goals. I want to tell you that the only reason I'm as strong-willed and persistent as I am now is because of you. You always pushed me, and at the time I didn't understand it, but I do now. I have you to thank for that.
I want to tell you thank you for the music, too, Mama. I have no doubt that you're up there finding some more killer tunes for me – or some more therapeutic music, because you and I always had that special bond. You taught me that music is what heals us, what gets us through. I completely, wholeheartedly agree, Mom. And I just want to thank you for the silly songs and the sad songs; the happy songs and the more melancholy ones. You taught me to appreciate music, and it's been one of the biggest influences on me since you left. Thank you.
I want to tell you thank you for teaching me to balance work and school and friends and family. I wasn't very good at that after you left, but I'm spending more time with Honey and MomMom and Artie now. Not lately – though I'm sure you understand as well as anyone that sometimes, when you're really sad, you just need to be alone. And these last few nights… I've just needed to be alone. It gets like this every year around this time, but I am trying to make more time for MomMom, Honey and Artie. We're all we have left, and it's because of you that I'm learning to balance it all.
You nurtured my writing, too, Mom, and you're the only reason I've kept it up. I'm going to write your story one day. I promise. I just need to get through the first chapter, I think, and it'll flow from there. But you know that. You understand. You always understood me – my quirks and oddities – when no one else could. I think that's what I miss the most.
It just sucks, Mom. It sucks to not have you here. It's not fair, really. Though if there's one thing I've learned – from you and from this entire ordeal – it's that life isn't fair. And while I don't have to like it, I do have to deal with it. I have to accept it and push forward. I don't have to move on, though, in spite of what others might say. I don't have to let this go – and I doubt I ever will.
You aren't going to be there on my wedding day. Do you know how panicky that makes me? You, who always had flawless make-up and killer style (I know, I know, no white after Labor Day!) won't be there to tell me if my colors clash or my dress is out of season (it's your dress, so I know it won't be). You won't be there to dance with me to any of the thousands of songs we would dedicate to each other on our road trips or our trips into Herndon for work. You won't be there; and there are times where that thought alone sends me into a frenzy.
You won't be there when I have babies. You won't be there to tell me that my daughter needs more pink or needs to spend more time at the beach because I was a beach baby and she should be, too! You won't be there to tell me that Journey is not a suitable name for a child, but is hands-down one of the greatest bands to ever grace the music scene. You won't be there to stick your tongue out at me when I say I'm going to name my daughter Stephanie Grace. You won't be there to tell my teenage daughter all about how the most scandalous thing I did in high school was hang out with a boy you didn't like, so she better give me lots and lots of trouble.
The one thing I'm most scared of, Mommy, is that I won't remember everything about you to tell my kids or my husband. I'm scared I'll forget the best times we had together; and I don't want that. I want to remember every single detail of the 19 years we had together. I want to remember everything – even trivial little things like the days we'd play hooky from work and school because my ankle was broken and you had 'chemo brain' and there was absolutely nothing to be accomplished that day.
I want to remember it all, Mama. And I'm scared that one day I won't remember a thing. Is that silly? Or will you be around to whisper even the silliest things in my ear so that I'll remember them? I hope you will be as evident in my life then as you are in my life now. I hope you'll make my ears ring like you did the day I saw the Sistine Chapel or the day I stuck my feet in the Pacific Ocean. I hope you'll be there for me every step of the way; and I'm so scared that you won't be. I'm scared to lose even the memory of you.
Some days I get out of bed and have to remind myself that you aren't here. Some days, the fact that you aren't here weighs on my heart so heavily that I can't even think about getting out of bed. I suppose there are good days and bad for everyone who has to go through this type of loss, though. It's a small comfort to know I'm not alone. I know MomMom misses you just as much – if not more – than I do. But I can't compare her loss to mine; I can't compare Honey's loss to mine, either, and I know he misses you terribly.
I think Artie sees you all the time. I envy him that. But I'm glad you visit him. I'm glad you keep him company and talk to him. I think he needs that.
I need it, too, Mama. But you always show up just when I need you – even if it's something as inconsequential as a dream about us flying to Texas. You're always here. Even when I can't see you, I know you're there. It's the best comfort in the world, I'll admit. You're not here, but I have no doubt that everything that's happened to me has been because you're looking out for me – even the bad things.
I should probably let you go now. I imagine you have some emeralds and pearls to play in, or some streets of gold to walk. I hope you've been able to find Uncle Jack – though I have no doubt you sought both he and Albert out the minute you got there. Then you went for the jewelry… am I right?
I miss you so much, Mom. But I know I'll see you again someday. Every single day is bittersweet. It brings me one day closer to seeing you again, but it brings me one day further from the last time I saw you. It's a precarious little line. There are days where I can't decide if I want to cry or stomp my foot in anger – though I know you'd tell me that neither of those are viable options; I just need to keep living and look forward to the day that I do see you again.
Keep Artie company, Mama. And visit MomMom and Honey, too. You're even welcome to whisper in my ear again if you have a few spare moments between running the choir and getting everything ready for us. I can't wait to see you again.
I miss you.
I love you forever. I like you for always. As long as I'm living, my mommy you'll be.


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"Virgin Territory" is the sixteenth episode from Season 3 of Modern Family, it aired on February 22, 2012.
Plot Summary
Jay finds out Mitchell ruined his greatest golf moment. While on the way to fix Lily's doll, Alex spills a surprising secret about Haley to Phil, leaving him heartbroken, while Gloria discovers a secret of Claire's. Cam's desperate to get everyone out of the house so he can investigate an issue and prove Claire wrong, and Luke helps Manny to impress a girl he likes.
Episode Description
Phil and Claire are hosting brunch for everybody...well, Claire is. Cameron still wants to know where his Tupperware is that he loaned to Claire. Jay tries to remember the weatherman whom DeDe didn't listen to and ruined his old convertible. Lily tells Grandpa to just eat his eggs, which everybody thinks is so cute. On the subject of true confessions, it was actually Claire who ruined the convertible and DeDe took the bullet for her. Although in her defense, she was trying to get the cigarette smoke out of the car of her platonic male friend. Yeah, that's the ticket. But of course, the statute of limitations has expired on this. Of course, Jay couldn't get to one of Mitch's ice skating competitions because he was hammered at the golf course. And Mitchell decides to tell Jay the hole-in-one he got on the golf course wasn't one because he kicked the ball in the hole out of boredom. Oops. Jay didn't take too well to that.
LILY: Great, Daddy. You ruined brunch.
Although everybody finds Lily's frank statements adorable, Luke and Manny are feeling a bit of jealousy about Lily getting all the attention. So much so, Luke decides to set a trap for Lily so she gets yelled at by Claire. The trap works perfectly...on Cameron, who slips on the spilled milk and threw out his back, breaking Lily's doll in the process. Phil feels guilty for the milk since he left some out earlier and offers to take Lily with the girls to the mall to get a new doll. Haley and Alex, naturally, start to argue, and Phil tries to play peacemaker by taking them to the food court, over Haley's protests.
PHIL: Don't worry, girls. We're not going to deprive ourselves of food just because of Haley's aversion to...
ALEX: (laughing, then suddenly stops) Oh, Haley's AVERSION. I thought you said Haley's a....never mind.
Cam is on the couch recovering from throwing out his back, and he sends Claire on her way to yoga. Gloria wants to go with and bond but Claire gives her the cold shoulders. Cam convinces her to go as well. Mainly because he was faking his bad back and intended to find the Tupperware bowl Claire borrowed. Of course, he has to get Mitchell out of the house, who was feeling guilty about telling Jay about his non-hole-in-one. Cam figured Mitchell marred a great father-son experience for Jay since he took him out to dinner and bought Mitch his first beer that night. Mitch heads for the golf course to unmar that memory.
Haley was upset at Alex, of course, for blabbing to Phil she wasn't a virgin, even though Claire already knew. But Claire had promised not to tell Phil until Haley went away to college. Alex thought their dad may not have heard her. But, he heard it loud and clear.
Claire had told Gloria about going to yoga, who promptly followed her on Cam's advice, so Claire had to pretend to have a headache and head back home. Gloria watches her leave and is none too happy with her. Gloria stakes out the yoga studio and sees Claire return. She confronts Claire, who explained she had a 'sacred space' she had to come to in order to unwind. She agreed to let Gloria join her if she never said where they were going. To the massage place? To the nail salon? Nope, the gun range. Nothing like relieving the stress of four teenagers in the house like plugging a paper target with a Sig Sauer. Gloria thinks it's crazy...that Claire isn't a better shot, and proceeds to plug the target center mass on her first shot.
At the golf course, Jay is serenaded with some primo BSing from his golfing buddies, so he figures he can keep his lie up since they were sticking to theirs. Mitch comes in and confesses Jay didn't know anything about him kicking the ball into the hole. And that Jay was coming down to confess the whole thing to them. Only he didn't have to since Mitch just did it for him.
Following Manny and Luke's failed attempt at revenge on Lily, they go down to see the girl Manny likes, Miranda. Only he chickens out, and Luke can't handle his incessant whining about it. He takes Cam's keys, since the guys were being paid to wash the car, and they drive down the block to Miranda's house. Luke drives by first and then convinces Manny to do it. After much prodding, he successfully drives by Miranda's house. Except now he has to drive backward because he doesn't know how to make a U-turn. On the good side, they don't feel the need to get back at Lily; she can be the cute one; they're the bad boys.
As Alex tries to fix Lily's doll, which Lily finds pretty because the doll looks just like Alex, Phil tries to get Lily's regular doll repaired by the doll doctor. Lily's doll can be repaired, although it won't be quite the same as it was before.
PHIL: I'm just saying I like her the way she was. She was such a sweet little doll, and now she's just broken.
Haley doesn't miss the message and tries to say she's the same person, just changed a little bit, but Phil's not having it. In the interview, he wanted to say to Haley he knew she was almost 18 and he was trying to be cool about such things, and he trusted her to be safe about it and make good decisions. However, he wasn't in the interview and it was hard for him to look at Haley right now, so Haley offered to go get the table at the food court. But he did manage to give her a hug.
Mitch apologized for marring his day, but Mitch thinks the day was still great even without the hole-in-one. For Jay, it was about hitting the ball from a tee very far into a tiny hole. It's especially bad since that wasn't the first day Mitch had a beer. He forgot about the time he was 14 and tried to take a sip of his dad's beer, only to have DeDe say he was just a baby in front of all of his friends and leave him in tears. Jay grabbed a couple of beers and gave him one outside. And he finally remembered the name of that weatherman: Storm Stevens.
Oh, by the way, Cameron did find the Tupperware...by using the cutlery drawer as a step. And yes, he really threw out his back this time. Alex purchased the doll Lily played with, and Phil thanked Claire for keeping him in the dark about Haley for three whole months.
Main Cast
(The characters striked out do not appear in this episode)
- Jay Pritchett
- Gloria Pritchett
- Manny Delgado
- Claire Dunphy
- Phil Dunphy
- Haley Dunphy
- Alex Dunphy
- Luke Dunphy
- Mitchell Pritchett
- Cameron Tucker
- Lily Tucker-Pritchett
- This marks Miles's first appearance.
Guest Starring
- Ernie Hudson as Miles
- Will Greenberg as Dr. Goodall
- Jack Laufer as Frank
- Marc Vann as Stan
- Hollis Robinson as Miranda
- Tim Monsion as Waiter
- Jess Allen as Claire's Friend


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This week's post is a special installment of Beautiful Swimmers- written by CBMM's director of education (and author of this blog) Kate Livie, it is a featured piece for the Maryland Humanities Council's "Let's Be Shore" project, which focuses on water quality/ quality of life issues on Maryland's Eastern Shore. You can check out the rest of their project's blog, videos, and articles here: http://letsbeshore.org/ and Kate's original post here: http://bit.ly/L68RX0
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"Tell me some words that described the Chesapeake Bay," I say to the group of students clustered in an Indian-style semi-circle at my feet. They wave their hands, eager to respond, and as I point to each in turn, they share their one-word assessments:
As I listen to these kids describe the Chesapeake they're familiar with, I remember opening my eyes underwater in the Chester River as a child, like them. The water swirled with eddies of sediment, and my hands, parting the current before me, looked as pallid as the underbelly of a perch. Emerging from the waterside, my sister and I would look at each other and laugh: silt moustaches, like the remnants of a glass of chocolate milk, would cling to our upper lips as a thick particulate ring. I wouldn't have described the Chesapeake I knew then as dirty, even though it was, or polluted. I would have said, "swimming," or "crabbing," or "fun." All of my associations with the Bay came from first-hand experiences, and most of them were magical: swimming at Cacaway Island, waiting with a dipnet for a dangling jimmy to emerge on a slow trotline, screaming into the wind as the Whaler plowed through rolling wake at the turn on Devil's Reach. Listening to my students at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Maryland, I'm struck by two things: how far away most kids today are from the intimate and wonderful relationship I enjoyed with the Chesapeake as a child, and the inevitable question: will my grandchildren know even a shadow of the Bay I love?
The author trotlining on the Chester River as a kid.
I know I'm a rarity around here these days––a professional young adult committed to making the Eastern Shore my permanent home. So many of us from the next generation have moved away to follow jobs and the promise of opportunity, but a number of young folk have listened to the siren call of our roots and come back to settle in our hometowns. It's a compromise, of course. You give up big concerts and ethnic food and the promise of a plethora of well-paying professional opportunities for the languid summer days, familiar faces and crooked brick sidewalks of home.
There is never a day that I doubt my decision–it just feels right. Watching an ombre sunset of oranges and pinks over the salt meadows at Eastern Neck Island, I know continuing my family's legacy along the Chester and deepening my roots was an inevitability rather than a choice. But accepting my place in the line of six generations of Bay residents comes with responsibility as well as rewards. At this watershed point in history (all puns intended), how will we Chesapeake people shape the future of the Eastern Shore we love so well?
Storm clouds hover over Eastern Neck Island. Photo by author.
As the director of education at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, this thought is a constant thread through the weft of my professional as well as personal life. Just as our lives along the Bay's edges are defined by the constant presence of the Bay and its tributaries, so too is the Chesapeake Bay increasingly defined by the people living in its watershed. Our population swells with each successive decade in the area surrounding the Bay, and in response, the quality of the water, and abundance of wildlife, and the lush acreage of marsh meadow both above and below the waterline attenuate accordingly.
When you live on the Eastern Shore, the signs are hard to ignore because they're everywhere. If we haven't yet reached the tipping point from which we can never return, we soon will. Every summer, the dead zones, fed by a thick blanket of human, animal, and chemical waste, stretch their suffocating boundaries farther– and the fish they kill float tumescently on the water when I run my dogs out at Sassafras. The oyster population, once one of the Bay's keystone animals, hovers at one percent of its original number– and the native oysters we shuck at Thanksgiving are thick and furrowed with MSX and Dermo. Even watermen, in my childhood as natural and expected a part of the Bay landscape as the blue heron, have been forced away from the coves and creeks where they once made their daily bread. Nowadays, just a few communities struggle on, and people come to museums like mine to see the tools and traditions that watermen developed in response to the thriving ribbons of life that used to pulse through the estuary.
But in spite of everything, and even if the words my students use to describe the Bay they know are accurate, it isn't too late for us to change. It isn't past the point where we can all agree that maybe we're going about this the wrong way. There needs to be a balance between what is sustainable for us as humans, and what is sustainable for the Chesapeake's environment. Ideally the balance would weigh both goals, human and environmental, as equally important. It's an approach that makes sense, especially when you consider how irrevocably entangled we are now, and have always been, with our landscape in the Bay.
I believe the first step towards finding that harmonious balance is to foster that old Bay magic I know so well from my childhood as a semi-aquatic creature. It's not really about turning off light bulbs, or recycling, or making sure that your toilet saves water, despite what all those 'Save the Bay' campaigns have told you. That can come later. The first step toward Chesapeake stewardship is first and foremost about feeling a passionate sense of respect and regard for this Eastern Shore place where we've been so lucky to settle. By awakening engagement in the people that live in the watershed, and encouraging the feeling in individuals that the Bay is just a little bit theirs alone to treasure, we can encourage stewardship. Those opportunities to spark a connection with the land and water are easy enough to find, too: they're present in every osprey whistle, every snapping turtle laying eggs in your driveway, and every lunge of the crab's claws as it hides under your picnic table to avoid the cookpot. Because its those moments that make this Eastern Shore place worth saving: for our kids and for ourselves.
Kate Livie is a Chestertown resident who is also the director of education at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, where she has worked in various capacities since 2008.


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5 Ways To Kick-Start Your Own Urban Vegetable Garden
When I woke up this morning, it was a scant 12 degrees outside. And my city was one of the warmest in the state! If you're feeling the wintertime blues, planning a garden can be a great way to remind yourself that warmer weather really is on the way.
But what if you don't have a huge yard that can be turned over for planting, or what if you're a renter and your landlord prefers grass to edible greens? Don't fret, your dreams to be an urban gardener don't depend on acres of land or decades of farming knowledge.
All you need (as any farmer would tell you) are the right tools and a little bit of patience. Ok, you need a little bit of space too, but not nearly as much as you think.
For this post, we've gathered up five of the most useful products to help kick-start your urban gardening efforts. These products are versatile and can be used indoors, on a porch or balcony, or to start seedlings while you wait for the ground to thaw. They range from simple and affordable, to more complex and pricey, but all are made by awesome companies that want to see you eating healthy food you've grown yourself.
This is by no means a comprehensive list, so as always, please share your recommendations for other grow-your-own products in the comments!
1. Grow Pillow
The Grow Pillow is a new alternative to container gardening. Its flexible design creates a portable urban garden in the smallest outdoor space, or a productive vegetable and herb garden on any sunny surface. Grow Pillow replaces the expense of plastic and ceramic containers and the bulky rigid frame structure of raised beds with a natural burlap pillow. It allows you to create an organic garden for the family without digging or lugging heavy bags of soil! Watch a video of the Grow Pillow in action, here.
Update: Several Care2 members expressed concern that Grow Pillow includes a plastic bag in the activation kit. I forwarded those concerns to Bill Servick of GrowPillow, and wanted to share his response:
"The disposable mixing bag is included in the kit. Asking customers to find and use an existing/reusable container to expand the coir, mix the ingredients and fill the bag takes the "everything included" aspect away from the product. The mixing bag does not stay in the Pillow, so the activated Pillow is 100% organic – and the bag uses considerably less plastic than a traditional plastic garden pot. I wish we had less plastic involved, but it's a compromise we had to make in order to bring the product to market. We did deliver our primary goal of offering a 100% organic growing environment! Seems there is always some trade-off."
>>Up Next: Window Farms
2. Window Farms
Crowdsourcing has become a powerful tool for entrepreneurs who want to raise money as well as those who want to solving problems. Tired of the limited healthy food choices in urban neighborhoods, artist and technologist Britta Riley used the minds and windows of her friends to crowdsource a solution. Using waterbottles and sunlight, Riley and her friends quickly developed Windowfarms: an indoor, hydroponic farming solution for urban dwellers. You can buy a pre-built Windowfarms system or follow the free directions for building your own.
3. Wooley Pockets
Like the idea of a vertical garden like Windowfarms, but don't have the indoor window space? Woolly Pockets could be the answer. Made in the USA from 100 percent recycled plastic bottles, Woolly Pockets are a great space saving method to grow indoors or outdoors. Even better, Woolly Pockets can be formulated to hang on walls, over a mantel, off of a fence, on the side of a shed, or over a windowsill!
>>Up Next: Hydroponic Herbs
4. Hyroponic Herbs
If you've tried to grow plants indoors before, and always ended up with a brittle stick or a waterlogged pot of mold, GrowBottle is the perfect system to help restore your confidence. Although it's very aesthetically pleasing, the GrowBottle system is very low-tech: it uses a wicking mechanism rather than a mechanical pump, and it made from reclaimed wine bottles. But simple doesn't mean a lack of variety. As Crisp Green writes, "each GrowBottle set comes with a hand-crafted recycled wine bottle, soil, USDA certified organic/heirloom seeds, clay pebbles, wool wick, plant nutrient, cork coaster, and a decorative ribbon made from recycled plastic bottles. The GrowBottle is reusable and is available in five different herb varieties: oregano, chives, basil, parsley and mint."
>>Up Next: Mushrooms In A Box
5. Mushrooms In A Box
This is as simple as it gets. Back to the Roots offers an effortless grow-at-home mushroom kit that will allow you to grow up to 1 1/2 lbs of gourmet, tasty oyster mushrooms in less than a month…right in the box! The same box can be used to grow at least two crops (though some have been able to grow up to four!) and the soil inside is made from 100 percent recycled coffee grounds. (Bonus! If you post a picture of your mushroom kit in action to the Back to the Roots Facebook page, they'll donate a second kit to the school classroom of your choice!)
Do you have other suggestions of easy grow kits that can be used inside and out? Please share the name (and a link!) in the comments!
Related Reading:
Urban Businesses Cater To Growing Crop Of City Farmers
Reinstating Local Food, Local Rules
From Small Seeds, Urban Farms Grow
Green Your Balcony With A Beautiful Pallet Garden
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This week's episode is dedicated to 2-man (and woman) bands, who do stuff like making music but don't really have many friends IRL. Sometimes it's their choice, but in some cases they're terrible human beings and thus are forced to make music with some other equally awful people because nobody wants to be around them. Sometimes its because they forget a birthday, or they took sides when a friend did something bad and sometimes it's because they pissed on someone's dog.
Be prepared for some ludicrous rule-bending.
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01 White Stripes – Blue Orchid
02 Lightning Bolt – Assassins
03 Suicide – Ghost Rider
04 Giraffes? Giraffes! – When The Catholic Girls Go Camping, The Nicotine Vampires Rule Supreme
05 Hall & Oates – Out of Touch
06 Dresden Dolls – Girl Anachronism
07 They Might Be Giants – Birdhouse In Your Soul
08 Bygones – Ex-People
09 Spencer Seim (Hella) – Chirpin' Hard
10 Hella – Welcome To The Jungle Baby (You're Gonna Live) (Acoustic)
11 1994! – Tough Guy Older Brother Shit
12 Japanther – Radical Businessman
13 East West Blast Test – In The Dogloo
14 Japandroids – Young Hearts Spark Fire
15 Tweak Bird – The Bones
16 Peter Murphy & Trent Reznor – Hurt
17 DFA1979 – Romantic Rights (Erol Alkan's Love From Below Re-edit)


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On Monday, the new Panda and RazorHawk patrols worked on planning menus for our September camp-out at Blue Mountain Lake. I'm pleased to report that we have 10 new Scouts attending the outing, which will include climbing Blue Mountain and canoeing on Blue Mountain Lake.We also worked on advancement and the scouts have homework to do in order to finish 3 Tenderfoot requirements. Please bring the homework to next week's meeting in order to get your Scout Handbook signed. Just in case, here is a link to the Homework of Sept. 16, 2013.
Dr. Krapf has now received the advancement reports from Trail Blazers at Camp Massawepie and will be signing your Scout Handbooks at the next troop meeting.
If anyone is still interested in hiking in the High Peaks of the Adirondacks over Columbus Day weekend, please contact Casey Woodward to see about registering. Time is about up to sign up and it's usually a great trip.


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Last month, EA bought casual gaming studio PopCap for $750 million, and immediately there was speculation as to whether or not Activision should buy Zynga. While many gaming companies continue to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on social gaming, Activision isn't one of them.
At the 13th Annual Pacific Crest Global Technology Leadership Forum, Activision Publishing CEO Eric Hirshberg made it quite clear that casual gaming is not going to hurt his company anytime soon. He pointed out that a title like Call of Duty is still much more popular than any game on Facebook.
"Call of Duty has more players who pay-to-play online than any Facebook game and our players pay more per player on average than any Facebook game," Hirshberg said according to Gamasutra. "They're also more engaged – the percentage of Call of Duty's monthly unique players that play the game every day is higher than that of the top three Facebook games."
Activision has refused to embrace the Facebook gaming market, instead focusing on triple-A console game development, downloadable content, and online businesses that are not necessarily centered around the social network. Hirshberg also outlined where he saw the gaming industry today: "Despite all the hand-wringing in our industry right now, people aren't gaming less," he said. "In fact, they're gaming more than ever. They're just doing it with fewer games, and they're spending more time playing those games than ever before."
While it's not a good idea to ignore a new and quickly growing market in your industry, Activision is probably making a smart move in not trying to do everything at once. Its competitors are likely to make a pretty penny from casual gaming and social gaming, but that doesn't mean Activision can't make money by just focusing on hardcore gaming.
See also:
- Facebook made $1.86 billion from your content in 2010
- Facebook to make $1 billion from social gaming this year


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"The changes we're seeing in Jupiter are global in scale," said Glenn Orton, a senior research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "We've seen some of these before, but never with modern instrumentation to clue us in on what's going on. Other changes haven't been seen in decades, and some regions have never been in the state they're appearing in now. At the same time, we've never seen so many things striking Jupiter. Right now, we're trying to figure out why this is all happening."
Orton and colleagues have been taking images and maps of Jupiter at infrared wavelengths from 2009 to 2012 and comparing them with high-quality visible images from the increasingly active amateur astronomy community. Following the fading and return of a prominent brown-colored belt just south of the equator, called the South Equatorial Belt, from 2009 to 2011, the team studied a similar fading and darkening that occurred at a band just north of the equator, known as the North Equatorial Belt. This belt grew whiter in 2011 to an extent not seen in more than a century. In March of this year, that northern band started to darken again.
The team obtained new data from NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility and the Subaru Telescope on Mauna Kea that matched up that activity with infrared observations. Those data showed a simultaneous thickening of the deeper cloud decks, but not necessarily the upper cloud deck, unlike the South Equatorial Belt, where both levels of clouds thickened and then cleared up. The infrared data also resolved brown, elongated features in the whitened area called "brown barges" as distinct features and revealed them to be regions clearer of clouds and probably characterized by downwelling, dry air.
The team was also looking out for a series of blue-gray features along the southern edge of the North Equatorial Belt. Those features appear to be the clearest and driest regions on the planet and show up as apparent hotspots in the infrared view, because they reveal the radiation emerging from a very deep layer of Jupiter's atmosphere. (NASA's Galileo spacecraft sent a probe into one of these hotspots in 1995.) Those hotspots disappeared from 2010 to 2011, but had reestablished themselves by June of this year, coincident with the whitening and re-darkening of the North Equatorial Belt.
While Jupiter's own atmosphere has been churning through change, a number of objects have hurtled into Jupiter's atmosphere, creating fireballs visible to amateur Jupiter watchers on Earth. Three of these objects – probably less than 45 feet (15 meters) in diameter – have been observed since 2010. The latest of these hit Jupiter on Sept. 10, 2012, although Orton and colleagues' infrared investigations of these events showed this one did not cause lasting changes in the atmosphere, unlike those in 1994 or 2009.
"It does appear that Jupiter is taking an unusual beating over the last few years, but we expect that this apparent increase has more to do with an increasing cadre of skilled amateur astronomers training their telescopes on Jupiter and helping scientists keep a closer eye on our biggest planet," Orton said. "It is precisely this coordination between the amateur-astronomy community that we want to foster."
The infrared image at the top of the page shows Jupiter at a wavelength of 2.3 microns, constructed
in a computer from 5 individual images taken from Palomar Mountain on
July 23rd and 24th, 1994, showing the scars left by the multiple impacts
of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9. The picture shows the planet as it would
appear to an observer located above 45 S, 60 W.
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sites E, H, Q, G, and L (from left to right) are visible at 44 S,
surrounding the bright South Polar Hood. The smaller spot between the Q
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cloud deck at this wavelength. The fainter feature at 20 S, near the
western limb of the planet, is the famous Great Red Spot.
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South Dakota Legislator Not Thinking Consistently
Listening to South Dakota legislators pontificate on the issues of the day can be puzzling, comical, and frustrating. The words of a local legislator, to be named at the end of this commentary, make the point.
On the proposal to ban texting while driving, this legislator is quoted in the Argus Leader as saying:
There's other ways to influence our culture, to teach people that texting while driving is not socially accepted. It doesn't always have to be through the passage of a law.
My interpretation of his statement is this: Passing laws is not always the best way to affect behavior in our citizens. Education can do wonders.
His next statement is testimony on the doubling of the waiting period for women seeking abortions. He is the prime sponsor of this law. This is his rationale for requiring more time: the law needs to be changed to make sure women have time (my emphasis) to consult with pregnancy help centers.
Again from the Argus Leader:
We want to ensure that a pregnancy help center can be adequately and properly staffed on a regular basis to help these pregnant mothers.
Here is my interpretation of this statement: The current waiting period is not long enough because pregnancy help centers only operate Monday thru Friday. We can't expect those places to have staff available on week-ends, like hospitals, most crisis centers and helplines, the Children's Inn, and the Compass Center, to name a few.
He has introduced this bill for the convenience of people who don't want to be "inconvenienced by a stressed pregnant person" on a weekend.
Now to tie this into bow:
This elected official thinks we should stay out of the direct regulation of texting while driving, because there are more enlightened ways to adjust people's choices.
However, when it comes to the ability of women to make choices about their specific situation, they are not smart, or enlightened enough to know what to do without the "long arm" of state law requiring them to counsel with a complete stranger under while under duress. And by the way don't bother those counselors over the weekend. Hold your stress until I chose to be available.
Duplicity. Hypocrisy. Patronizing. Condescending.
The legislator who was quoted above is: Representative John Hansen, a Republican of Dell Rapids.


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1974 Ironhead Dual Carb Cafe Racer
Erik from Gennep, the Netherlands, sent us these pictures of the Harley-Norton racing bike that he is building. Erik's idea is to build a cafe racer with a Norton Manx look and a Harley Sportster Ironhead Engine. He calls her his "Harton".
While Erik did compete in classic bike races in Belgium, he is building this bike to use on the street rather than to race on a circuit. This is his idea about how a true Cafe Racer should look like.
Meet Erik's Ironhead "Barhopper"
The frame is a Norton wideline featherbed, combined with a Roadholder front fork. That impressive front brake is a CMA "Dresda" 270mm 8-leading shoe, BSA/Triumph conical hub at the rear, and the bike has got Borrani rims.
Ancillary stuff like the gas tank, oil tank, seat, brake and shift gear, etc. are being built by Erik himself. As you can see, lots of things are still unfinished, but Erik hopes to complete his "barhopper" by the end of 2008.
To improve performance, Erik completely restored the Ironhead motor and in the process he made a couple of modifications. First of all, he reversed the rear cylinder head of the Ironhead V-twin below the rocker cover to enable feeding of the rear cylinder by a separate second carburator. Since thereby the position of the inlet and the outlet valves has reversed, the inlet and outlet camshafts (P-cams) had to be adjusted as well.
Erik closed the tranny housing to make the primary dry so he could install a drive belt. This also involved design and fabrication of a custom clutch control system.
Other Ironhead engine modifications include dual sparkplugs, Crane single fire ignition, KB pistons, Kibblewhite Black Diamond valves, Dell'Orto carburators and K&N filters. Erik also removed the electric starter. Right now this Ironhead is kick start only.
Every Harley Ironhead Racing bike - no matter what type or in what condition - deserves a place in history.
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The Cherry Hill neighborhood lies to the southernmost portion of Baltimore, Maryland. Middle Branch encloses the enclave within the city to the north, the West Patapsco Avenue to the south, the Cherry Hill Park to the east and Route 295 to the west. Baltimore's light rail system and railroad trucks also run to the west and to the south. To the east lies the Patapsco River's main channel.
Location of Cherry Hill, Baltimore
The history of housing in Cherry Hill dates back from the time it was used as home for African- American veterans returning from World War II. In the early through the mid 20th Century Baltimore City was booming in economic growth due to the railroads, mining, defense spending, waterways and industrial activity. These resulted in housing shortages. In 1945, the Housing Authority of Baltimore City (HABC), along with the United States War Housing Administration, constructed 600 housing units for African American War workers (Cherry Hill Master Plan, 2008). These units were later converted into low-income housing (Cherry Hill Master Plan, 2008). The low-income public housing kept expanding to over 1713 units over the years. Cherry Hill is the largest public housing development in the city. Poverty also increased along with housing expansion in the area.
Cherry Hill Homes
Now African Americans (98%) are the major population in the community, compared to 64% in the city. There is a total population of approximately 7681 with a median income of less than $20,000. Vacant homes account to 8 % (14% in the city) and comprise a household size of 2.62, much greater compared to Baltimore city and the county. Due to the large number of public housing in Cherry Hill, the median rent is 442, comparatively lower than the city and the county (U.S. Census, 2000).
Public Housing and Private Ownership
The Baltimore City adopted Live Earn Play Learn Comprehensive Master Plan in 2006. "LIVE creates the Plan that will guide Baltimore as it re-adjusts its residential land use to account for changing population, regional growth and demographic changes, the need for affordable housing, and the aging housing stock " (Cherry Hill Community Conference Report, 2009). The Cherry Hill neighborhood saw a fleeting glimpse of the revitalization process over the years. During 1990s, 193 units were demolished and modern new 1520 affordable homes were built. Federal housing officials awarded a $392,000 grant to a non-profit housing group to build 28 townhouses (Baltimore Sun, 1990).
Some of the notable improvements are the revitalization of Cherry Hill Town Center, Cherry Hill Park, Middle Branch Park, Reedbird Park, youth recreation center, 2 aquatic centers, a light rail stop, 2 medical centers, Harbor Hospital and an 8,000 SF branch of an Enoch Pratt Library. In 2006, there was a fallback of another 126 housing units leaving a total of 1,394 units (Cherry Hill Master Plan, 2008). Though the area didn't attract big grocery stores like Super Fresh and Giant, in 2002, a $50,000 grant was awarded to Hilltop supermarket to open in the community (The Baltimore Sun, 2002). In 2011, a $45,000 federal grant was awarded to grow several new community gardens (The Baltimore Sun, 2011).
The housing market saw a downturn in 2007 similar to Baltimore City and the overall U.S housing trend. In 2010, the number of foreclosed homes started creeping back up with a total of 4 homes actively under foreclosure process.
Housing Market activity since 2001 in Cherry Hill
Home Median Prices and Average asking prices since 2001, Cherry Hill
As indicated in the graph, from 2001 to 2007, the asking prices were higher than the median price range. Rates were being offered under the expectations of the homeowners in contrary to the Washington- Baltimore housing market where asking prices were equal to or lower than the selling prices.
The existing housing styles in the community are
Detached Rancher
Garage Duplex Homes and
Garden Style
Different housing styles currently existing in Cherry hill
Source: Pictures taken by Selvakumar, Josephine and Gymfi, Paul
All the private houses of the community are found to the north edge near the water view and to the north of the Cherry Hill road. The different private housing categories are the detached homes, town homes, apartments and row homes. Almost all the private homes, (highlighted in purple in map), are bounded between the Water View Avenue, Cherry Hill Road and the Reedbird Avenue. All the public houses are situated to the south edge of the community. The houses to the south of the Cherry Hill Road (highlighted yellow in map) are the public houses of the neighborhood.
Public – Private Housing in Cherry Hill
Locations of Stable and Distressed housing in Cherry Hill
The neighborhood also lacks green and usable open spaces. The community did not take advantage of the existing assets. There is no significant development around the light rail and near the waterfront. There is no growth to take advantage of abundant water resources. The community also lacks common gathering place for people to meet and feel the sense of the place. There is no identity in the neighborhood to bring out the distinguished character of the place to realize the history of the community. With only two entrances to Cherry Hill, the West View Drive and Hanover Road, ingress and egress to the area is difficult which also isolates it from Baltimore City and the County.
Though the area has a rich historical heritage and a huge coastline of the Chesapeake Bay, it didn't face a prospective growth. In spite of development pressure near the waterfront for upscale apartments, condominiums and retail spaces, nothing really happened. This water resource is still being underutilized in terms of real property investment. Moreover, the land estimated to be around 85 acres in the industrial part of Cherry Hill to the East of Cherry Hill Road and to the south of Water View Avenue has very few industrial activities and is also deficient of creating any job opportunities for the residents. In 2004, the City of Baltimore approved plans for the Water view Overlook project with town homes and condominiums on the parcel of land on Water view Avenue between Westport and Cherry Hill. But the construction never began. In 2011, the 8.8 parcel of land on Water view Avenue was sold for $715,000 to a bidder representing 6601 Suitland Road LLC. for residential use (The Baltimore Sun, 2011).
There is no proper linkage between Cherry Hill and Westport proposed development. New developments can certainly take advantage of transportation network- light rail, Route 295, I-95, I-695 Cherry Hill Road. Inner Harbor, Baltimore is a renowned and successful waterfront development and tourist destination. If there is any successful development in the Cherry Hill waterfront, thoughts could also be given to connect it with the Inner Harbor through water taxis. It will be an interesting way to lure people in and around Inner Harbor to Cherry Hill.
Though Cherry Hill emerged as a working class neighborhood in 1945, the racial housing obstacles and suburbanization pushed the working class group outside the community. In spite of the strengths and available assets in the area, it failed to attract commercial, real estate and retail investments. It isn't successful in attracting workforce housing. When will people stop associating Cherry Hill just to public housing? Will developers and investors show interest in strengthening the community?
Cherry Hill Community Conference Report, 2009
Cherry Hill Master Plan, July 2008
U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development, HUD.Gov
Metropolitan Regional Information System (MRIS), 2010
Gateway Community Development Corporation
(Accessed Jan 2012)
- http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-11-10/news/bs-md-ci-community-garden-grant-20111110_1_community-gardens-school-gardens-urban-garden (Accessed Jan 2012)
- http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1990-10-03/news/1990276161_1_nehemiah-grant-cherry-hill (Accessed Jan 2012)
- http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1997-02-01/news/1997032029_1_cherry-hill-shopping-center-hill-shopping (Accessed Jan 2012)
- http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-02-15/business/bs-bz-waterfront-auction-20110215_1_waterfront-parcel-westport-and-cherry-hill-middle-branch (Accessed Jan 2012)
- http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2002-06-17/news/0206170023_1_cherry-hill-supermarket-small-size (Accessed Jan 2012)
- http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1997-10-07/news/1997280060_1_cherry-hill-public-housing-fear (Accessed Jan 2012)
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2003-12-26/news/0312260128_1_cherry-hill-public-housing-mixed-income (Accessed Jan 2012)


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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA (EMBR3.SA) said on Tuesday in a securities filing that it cannot yet estimate a deadline for the conclusion of the sale of most of its commercial jet unit to Boeing Co (BA.N).
Still, Embraer said it aims to close the deal as soon as possible, regardless of Brazil's presidential election in October. Under the terms of the proposed deal announced in July, Embraer and Boeing will create a new company controlled by the U.S.-based planemaker.
Reporting by Carolina Mandl; Editing by Christian Plumb