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The Myrtle Beach Area, also known as South Carolinas Grand Strand, is one of the nation's most popular vacation destinations and both location and climate are among the key reasons. Situated on the Atlantic Coast near the warm Gulf Stream, Myrtle Beach enjoys a relatively temperate climate with about 2/3rds of the possible annual sunshine. The warm Atlantic waters are comfortable for swimming (over 70°F) from late April to October. The average air temperature over the year is a pleasant 64°F. The climate is especially attractive during the spring and fall when the temperatures are ideal, the ocean dependably warm and the sunshine most abundant.
WINTERWinters are generally mild with daytime temperatures averaging well over 50°F. Cold spells are usually modified by the time they reach the South Carolina coast and only rarely do temperatures drop below 20°F. On average about 42 days per year have frost or freezing temperatures. The average date of the first freeze is in early December and the last freeze on average is in late February. Usually after a cold spell, temperatures rebound quickly, and there are many mild winter days with high temperatures in the 60s or higher.
Rain in winter is usually associated with developing coastal storms or passing fronts and occurs on average once every 3 to 4 days. Snow is rare and usually in the form of passing snow flurries although occasionally strong coastal storms in a cold winter can bring some accumulating snows. Precipitation in winter is enhanced during El Nino events and diminished somewhat during La Nina winters, so plan accordingly. In between storms, sunshine and dry weather prevails in winter. On average, Myrtle Beach receives about 60% of the possible sunshine in winter. Prevailing winds in winter are from the north.
SPRINGAfter blustery and sometimes chilly weather in March, springs bring a very rapid warm-up. Myrtle Beach is a great place to get a jump-start on summer as early as April. In April, the average high has already risen to the mid 70s and ocean temperatures have warmed to the upper 60s. By May, Myrtle Beach's average daily maximum temperatures top 80°F and the ocean has warmed to the low 70s. Spring storms bring days that threaten heavy thunderstorms, which sometimes can be severe. The storms are brief though and sunny days inevitably follow. In fact, the average percentage of possible sunshine increases to nearly 70 percent during the spring. Prevailing winds in spring swing around to the south.
SUMMERSummer is the wettest season with the number of days with rain increasing to almost 1 every 2 or 3 days. But the rain comes in the form of showers, mostly of the brief afternoon variety. There is still nearly 70 percent of the possible sunshine in summer. Average temperatures warm to the low 90s and overnight lows average in the low 70s. Ocean water temperatures become quite warm in summer, reaching the mid 80s in July. Prevailing winds continue from the south.
Tropical storms threaten the coastal regions in summer and the early fall. They can bring heavy rains and winds. The threats increase dramatically during La Nina events.
AUTUMNAfter the tropical threat subsides, falls bring fine weather with many "Indian Summer" days. In fact the fall months of October and November are ideal months for a "Grand Strand last stand". October and November are the driest months in Myrtle Beach. Rain falls on less than 1 of every 5 days with more than 60% of the possible sunshine. In October, daily maximum temperatures still are well up in the 70s with ocean temperatures in the still warm low 70s. In November, the high temperatures still average 69°F although the ocean has cooled to the low 60s. Prevailing winds again turn northerly.
So if you have not yet had your fill of sun and fun or a late season golf vacation is what you need, Myrtle Beach should be high on your list of resort options in the fall.


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Germany has played a central and disruptive role in the recent history of Europe. The domestic and foreign conflicts that have dominated the country's history with such far-reaching consequences will provide the focus of the course. The course covers the political, social and cultural developments that shaped the course of German history from the creation of a unified Germany in 1871 to the reunification of Germany in 1990. It examines the Imperial period, World War I, the Weimar Republic, the Nazi experience, the division of postwar Germany and its reunification in our own times. Counts toward European Studies minor.
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News Corp. Finally Realizes Locked Up, iPad-Only News Publication Was A Dud, Shuts It Down
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To be honest, given all the bad press about how few people were reading it, combined with stories of staffers jumping ship soon after it was launched, I had kind of figured that The Daily had already been shut down. However, the latest news is that News Corp. is finally putting it out of its misery and shutting it down, giving most staffers 3 months severance. A few staffers are being folded into the NY Post:
News Corporation also announced that effective immediately, Jesse Angelo, the founding Editor-in-Chief of The Daily and long-time Executive Editor of The New York Post, will assume the role of Publisher of The New York Post. As part of a digital restructuring initiative, the company will cease standalone publication of The Daily iPad app on December 15, 2012, though the brand will live on in other channels. Technology and other assets from The Daily, including some staff, will be folded into The Post.Apparently the site was losing $30 million a year.
Mr. Murdoch said: "From its launch, The Daily was a bold experiment in digital publishing and an amazing vehicle for innovation. Unfortunately, our experience was that we could not find a large enough audience quickly enough to convince us the business model was sustainable in the long-term..."
Perhaps this should stand as a response to the people who insist that giving away newspaper content free online was "the original sin" of the industry and they should have focused on paywalls. Paywalls don't help you build up "a large enough audience." The link above quotes a reporter there saying: "It was a really cool, hip product. I think this is nothing more than bad timing." I'd say it was much more of a bad model -- both business model and delivery model -- than "bad timing."


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Polaroid (yes, that Polaroid) is launching a durable, kid-friendly 7-inch tablet today at a pretty great price point. The tablet, which doesn't seem to have a proper name, is designed to be rugged enough to be handled and controlled by a young child as you can see with the large buttons and bezels. The device is actually running Ice Cream Sandwich -- though you'd never know it -- and is pre-loaded with 35 "premium apps" out of the box, with more available in a kid-friendly App Shop. It's probably best not to give a little kid Google Play access right from the get-go anyway.
There's 8GB of storage and some moderate specs here, so for $149.99 it may be a compelling option if you're looking to get a young child in your life a "my first tablet" kind of device. The tablet is on sale now from Polaroid directly or in stores later this month.
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) - Robert Marve passed for a career-high 295 yards and matched a career best with three touchdowns to help Purdue defeat Eastern Kentucky 48-6 on Saturday in both teams' season opener.
Marve started because previously declared starter Caleb TerBush was suspended one game for violating team rules. He hadn't thrown three touchdowns since 2008, when he was the starter at Miami
Akeem Shavers ran for 74 yards and O.J. Ross caught eight passes for 71 yards. Purdue gained 542 yards against coach Danny Hope's alma mater, where he was the head coach from 2003 to 2007.
The Boilermakers held Football Championship Subdivision foe Eastern Kentucky to 190 yards and 10 first downs and forced four turnovers. Defensive tackle Kawann Short blocked a field goal and an extra point for the fifth and sixth blocked kicks of his career.
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Shakespeare: an illustrated stage history
Oxford University Press, 1996 - Performing Arts - 253 pages
Four hundred years ago, Hamlet urged his players, "Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue." But in expressing the passions of the play, he advised, "Let discretion be your guide." Ever since, the tensions between faithfulness to the text on one hand, and expressive freedom on the other, have kept Shakespeare productions in a state of constant flux. From the radical alterations and "improvements" of the late seventeenth century, to the startling dislocations in setting, dress, and political context of the twentieth, from the extravagant sets of the Victorians to the stark minimalism of London's 1970s fringe theatre, Shakespeare's plays have lent themselves to an astonishing variety of incarnations.
Written by a team of distinguished scholars, under the editorship of Jonathan Bate and Russell Jackson, Shakespeare: An Illustrated Stage History offers an elegantly designed and compellingly readable account of four centuries of Shakepearean productions. The book is consistently illuminating. Of the theatre of Shakespeare's own day, for instance, we learn not only what the plays would have looked like but also how changing conditions affected their composition--how, in 1604, the Act to Restrain Abuses of Players, which forbid the utterance of Christian oaths on stage, drove Shakespeare to set his plays in antiquity for the next five years. Likewise, when the King's Men moved indoors from the Globe to the Blackfriars theatre for the winter season, Shakespeare was forced to compose his plays in five distinct acts, separated by musical intervals, because the candles lighting the stage would burn down and need to be replaced. We also learn of the vehement Puritan antipathy to the theatre, an antipathy so great that at the outset of the civil war, in 1642, Parliament passed the Stephens Act, outlawing all stage performances--to avoid the "high provocation of God's wrath"--and formally declaring players to be "rogues," subject to public whippings and even the death penalty. Though the theatre has never since been considered quite so dangerous, the contributors clearly show how politically powerful Shakespeare performances have remained, and how variable, with both the establishment and the opposition enlisting the Bard in their causes. The book is equally engaging on the great actors, from eighteenth-century giant David Garrick to modern figures such as Ralph Fiennes, John Gielgud, Lawrence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft, and Peter Brook (the book includes a fascinating piece by actress Judi Dench that provides a performer's view of Shakespeare).
What emerges most significantly from the book is a vivid sense of the enormous malleability of Shakespeare's work, responsive not only to changing political, economic, and social conditions, but also to the widest range of imaginative impulses in staging, direction, and interpretation. An invaluable and delightful book for anyone interested in Shakespeare or the stage, this superb volume gives readers a much clearer knowledge of the forces that have shaped Shakespeare productions. Indeed, they will feel as if they've been given backstage passes to the best performances of the past four centuries.
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Editor: The large number of graduates - or is it parents of graduates? - wanting prayer at commencement ceremonies are right in that there is a place for prayer concerning graduation, but it is not at the ceremony. The School Board is correct in that.
The place for prayer at commencement is the church of the graduate's choice. Any pastor will, I am sure, be happy to open his building to the grads and their loved ones for that purpose, if he is made aware that there is a need.
But prayer does not belong in the ceremony itself. Public education is a public, taxpayer concern, not a religious one. The conclusion of public education for a group now graduating has nothing to do with a divinity, and the separation of church and state should remain complete here as elsewhere. Religion is simply irrelevant to the event being conducted.
A Pew Foundation survey a few years ago stated that 29 percent of Americans claim no affiliation with a religious denomination. That's a pretty large number of people to claim "Oh, well, they won't mind if we disregard their opinion about religion at graduation."


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The Christian Doctrine of Prayer
by Hastings, James•
T&T Clark 1915
Hastings addresses the complicated issue of prayer. He explores the nature, principles, types, and value of prayer. Hastings also gives practical encouragement and advice for those beginning in prayer, as well as for seasoned prayers. Included are bibliographies, lists of books for further reading, examples, and a detailed table of contents.
Key Features
- Thorough exploration of the Christian doctrine of prayer
- Practical and accurate treatment of Scripture
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- Title: The Christian Doctrine of Prayer
- Author: James Hastings
- Publisher: T & T Clark
- Publication Date: 1915
- Pages: 471
About James Hastings
James Hastings was born in 1852 in Scotland. He was a Presbyterian minister and theologian. Hastings was the editor of many Biblical works, including: Dictionary of the Bible (5 Vols.), The Greater Men and Women of the Bible (6 Vols.), and Dictionary of the Apostolic Church (2 Vols.). He died in 1922.


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Captain's ReportRegulator's Flagship Delivers on Performance, Quality, and FishabilityBy Capt. Bob SmithRegulator Marine is located in Edenton, NC and we recently visited to run to test a couple new models and to tour the plant to see just how they build these well-respected workhorses. The 32 is Regulator Marine's largest model in their line of offshore capable fishing machines. The FS or "Forward Seating" version adds family-friendly seating to the front of the boat, without taking away any of the fishing features of this North Carolina built boat. Bow FeaturesStarting at the front of the boat, the wide gunwales join to form a handy high casting point. Pop-up cleats and a bow light keep the edges smooth. A large locker in the bow handles the anchor and line. The forward seating consists of two large facing bench seats with comfortable cushions for seat bottoms, and coaming pads for the seat backs. Beneath each of the cushions are large 210-quart capacity storage boxes that double as insulated fish boxes.Fishing AmenitiesIn the sole is a huge 645-quart insulated box for the majority of your catch. This fish box is outfitted with a pump out and macerator and none of the contents drain into the bilge, so your boat will not smell like last month's catch. When not used for fish, this box doubles as a rod organizer. Every lid on this boat has locking latches, resin transfer molded lids that are strong and durable with stainless steel pneumatic arms. In front of the center console is another comfortable bench seat with a flip-up bottom that reveals another 64-quart insulated cooler. Next to the console are step lockers on both sides, which can store your rods.Helm and T-TopEverything on the helm falls right where you would need it. The standard Yamaha gauges are clustered on the top right corner, Lenco 14 x 22 black powder-coated trim tabs are to the left of the wheel, and there is a flush mounted electronics panel located in front of the Edson wheel. Telefex Seastar Hydraulic steering is standard, but the power assist option, which our test boat had sure made driving this boat a lot easier.The fiberglass T-top has another electronics box, a flush mounted electronics panel, LED lighting, and a built-in 18' Lee Sidewinder Outrigger base. The windshield offers plenty of protection from the elements. The only complaint I have on this boat is the way the stainless steel bracing is set up at the windshield. It creates a bit of a blind spot where the bars are located. I would compare this to a blind spot from the side frame of a car windshield. It doesn't prevent visibility, you just have to lean or tilt around it. The positive side to the bracing design is that it adds extra strength to the T-top and can sustain years of offshore abuse, and hard running. The HeadThe head has over 6 feet of headroom inside. There is easy access to the battery switches, which are located just inside the door. Access panels to the backs of the electronics and to the batteries are also inside. A sink, storage drawers and an electric head make up the amenities inside.Leaning PostEach side of the leaning post rigging station is equipped with three drawers for tackle and tools. Across the back is a faucet, prep well, and stored Plano tackle boxes. Just aft the rigging station is another 32-gallon livewell in the sole. The bilges are located just aft of the livewell. Across the stern on the port side is a 130-quart bait box, and in the center is a 40-gallon livewell. The starboard side has a walkthrough transom door with access to the stern platform, which allows you to check the engines, or take a dip in the water.SpecificationsThis model measures 32'0" length overall with a stable 10'5" beam. The FS version weighs 7,500 lbs which is only 100 pounds more than her sister ship, the 32. This model carries 310 gallons of fuel so you can run well offshore to chase the big fish. She has a maximum rated engine horsepower of 600 with twin outboards. Her wide Carolina bow flare and 24 degrees of deadrise deliver a wave-slicing smooth, dry ride and with the outboards trimmed all the way up she draws 24" and 32''with them down.PerformanceOn our test ride the 32 FS was quickly on plane in just 4.6 seconds and up to 30 mph in only 8.2 seconds. I found her top end at 49.7 mph turning 6050 rpm. At a 29.2 mph cruise speed she turned 4000 rpm burning 19.0 gph, for a cruising range of 429 miles on a full tank of fuel.The 32 FS delivered a solid performance and had top-notch fishability, fit and overall finish. If a new offshore center console fishing rig with family features is in your future, I wouldn't pass on the opportunity to test ride this model next time your at a boat show.
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- Top speed for the Regulator 32 FS (2006-) is 49.7 mph (80 kph), burning 44.8 gallons per hour (gph) or 169.57 liters per hour (lph).
- Best cruise for the Regulator 32 FS (2006-) is 29.2 mph (47 kph), and the boat gets 1.54 miles per gallon (mpg) or 0.65 kilometers per liter (kpl), giving the boat a cruising range of 429 miles (690.41 kilometers).
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Thursday, May 19, 2011
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I can hardly believe we are already at Thursday and it's time for a new challenge over on the Tickled Pink challenge blog! This week is a bit distressing... nothing to fret over of course, we literally want to see you to distress the elements of your card. LOL, sorry... I just couldn't help myself! ;)
This technique can be achieved through inking, tearing, crumpling, roughing up edges... you name it. There are some serious masters of distressing amongst the Pink Ladies and Pink Challenge Girls... I, however, am not one of them. Oh sure, I'll tear something now and then or do some subtle inking on the edges of my papers but my style tends to lean towards a more clean and linear look. So for my distressing today I decided to use a Heidi Swapp edge distressor and rough up my paper a bit. I think it adds to the soft, homespun look of the card.
If you have been following along over at the Tickled Pink blog this past week you will have seen that Kellie has been taking her favorite cards from all of the past releases and featuring them once again. This inspired me to go back and show one of my older Lolitas some love. I don't think that I have used Hippie Willow since her release month so it was high time that she saw some ink again. Plus she gave me the perfect excuse to use some more of this great Girls' Paperie paper... I think the patchwork look of it really suits her crunchy, granola, peace & love vibe. And what would a lovely flower child be without a field of flowers to stroll through? So of course I had to add some bright and happy blooms to complete the whole thing. I think Willow looks pretty happy now and that makes me happy!
Be sure to check out the fabulously distressed cards from my fellow teamies over on the challenge blog... talk about inspiring!
Now it is your turn to ink up a Tickled Pink stamp and play along. Kellie always has a great prize up for grabs that some lucky stamper is going to win... why not you?! Just don't forget that your card must feature a Tickled Pink stamp in order to qualify for the prize... these include: Lil Lolitas and Lads, Pinkettes, Pink Pets and Cherries. All of which can be found in the Tickled Pink store.
Peace out! :)Supply list:
cardstock- Bazzill and Copic X-Press It
paper- The Girls' Paperie (Jubilee), My Mind's Eye (green)
stamps- Tickled Pink Stamps (Lil Lolita Hippie Willow), Hero Arts (sentiment)
ink- Memento tuxedo black and Tim Holtz antique linen distress
Prima flowers
Martha Stewart butterfly punch
K&Co rub on stitches
Heidi Swapp edge distressor
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skin- E000, E00, E11, R00, R20
hair- YR30, YR31, Y21, Y26, E35
eyes- E55, E57, E59
clothes- B93, B95, B97, E40, E41, 0, YR16, YR18, Y32, Y35, RV10, RV13, BG10, BG11, E30, E31, E34, YG03, YG25, Y00
15 comments:
- Rosa-kreattiva said...
beautiful card
davvero belli i colori
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- May 19, 2011 at 6:09 AM
- Juls said...
this is just gorgeous!!! Love how you have used the flowers! Hugs Juls
- May 19, 2011 at 7:00 AM
- RiNNE said...
Very pretty!! I adore all the flowers and different shapes! Although minimal, you still did a great job on distressing!
- May 19, 2011 at 8:04 AM
- Rhonda Miller said...
Great card.
- May 19, 2011 at 8:05 AM
- Dora said...
Hey Amy this is fabulous, I love the fun colours, so bright and fun.. wow it's been quite some time since I did some distressing! Hugs xxx
- May 19, 2011 at 9:27 AM
- Tasha said...
Well i love your distressing i love the finish it gives your card, it really adds to the hippy fun feel
Love the flowers and paper too
love tasha xx
- May 19, 2011 at 10:08 AM
- Leanne said...
This is fantastic Amy! Love the colors and your distressing. Her jeans are soo cool. A wonderfully fun card. :)
- May 19, 2011 at 10:56 AM
- Ingrid said...
Lovely flower power creation ;-)
Hugs Ing
- May 19, 2011 at 11:44 AM
- Beth aka BR-T said...
What a fun card and the image is awesome I love how she just wonders off the die cut!
- May 19, 2011 at 1:23 PM
- Danni said...
Very pretty card!! You do such an awesome job with the lighter colors, so pretty!
- May 19, 2011 at 3:52 PM
- WickedPixie said...
What a wonderfully happy, sunshiney card! :-)Traci
- May 19, 2011 at 8:55 PM
- gobeagirl said...
Hi Amy. I could have sworn I already told you just how wonderful your card is today. I love, love the idea of the flowers coming out from behind the circle. You did such a good job with your distressing. I really really love this one. Hugs, Lisa
- May 19, 2011 at 9:00 PM
- scrapn_momof2 said...
Wonderful card Amy. So cheerful and cute.
- May 19, 2011 at 11:29 PM
- 1LuvnMama said...
You know what? I'm so glad you're in my "blogging" life Amy! :) You make my day each time I visit you! Your cards lift my spirits and I take every ounce of inspiration from you! :)
- May 20, 2011 at 1:04 AM
- Sandy Ang said...
how very cute !
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SOUTH BOSTON, VA. — The Pro All Stars Series (PASS) South Super Late Models will invade South Boston Speedway Saturday for the running of the PASS Super Late Model 150 racing program.
Also featured on the four-event program are twin 75-lap races for the NASCAR Whelen All American Late Model Stock Car Division competitors and action for the touring Rolling Thunder Modified Series. The first of the four races will get the green flag at 7 p.m.
The PASS Super Late Models will battle it out on the four-tenths mile asphalt oval for 150 green flag laps of racing. Caution laps will not count in the event.
Preston Peltier enters Saturday's event at South Boston as the points leader in the chase for the 2010 PASS South championship. There are only four races remaining in the 2010 campaign and Peltier has been in the lead since early this spring.
Ryan Blaney is only 18 points behind Peltier and Andy Loden is only 20 points behind in the third-place position.
Justin Johnson will also be looking to hold onto a points lead he has held for much of the season when the NASCAR Whelen All American Late Model Stock Cars hit the asphalt Saturday night for their twin 75-lap races.
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The Detroit Red Wings are finding an effective power play for the first time this season, even if it is far too late to save their season.
The Wings scored twice with the man advantage Saturday in a 5-1 win over the Colorado Avalanche after netting a pair of goals on the power play Thursday during a 5-4 shootout win over the Arizona Coyotes.
It marked the first time all season that the 28-31-11 Red Wings, who will miss the playoffs for the first time since the 1989-90 season, scored multiple times on the power play in consecutive games.
The Red Wings will be looking to make it three in a row -- both in terms of victories and in games with more than one power-play goal -- when they play host to the Buffalo Sabres on Monday at Joe Louis Arena.
"This is what we needed," said Detroit left-winger Tomas Tatar, who scored twice Saturday to reach the 20-goal plateau for the third time in four seasons. "Without the power play, you can't win the games.
"You need these goals to get you going in a certain point of the game and I feel like the last few games our power play's working, which is huge and that's why we're getting points as well."
The Detroit power play has even climbed out of the NHL's basement. At 13.8 percent, the Red Wings moved into a tie for 28th with the Vancouver Canucks and ahead of the Avalanche (12.9 per cent).
Detroit coach Jeff Blashill sees a different group on the ice when the Red Wings are enjoying the man advantage, a unit that suddenly expects to put the puck in the net.
"No question confidence is a huge factor," Blashill said. "It's a huge factor in individuals, it's a huge factor in units and it's a huge factor as a team.
"Certainly, our power play (units) both feel better about themselves as units and while they still have to take on their own identity a little bit, I think both units have done a good job."
Individual, the overall numbers still don't paint a pretty picture. Center Dylan Larkin, who tallied with the man advantage Saturday, leads the team with five power-play goals. Justin Abdelkader and Frans Nielsen are next with four apiece.
At the other end of the spectrum, Philadelphia forwards Wayne Simmonds and Brayden Schenn share the NHL lead with 15 power-play goals apiece. Combined, those two have nearly as many power-play goals as the entire Red Wings team (31).
There is no such worries in Buffalo. The Sabres own the NHL's second-best power play (23.3 percent), paced by Matt Moulson's 10 goals.
Buffalo's 2-1, 10-round shootout win Friday at Anaheim allowed the Sabres to improve to 2-6 in the shootout.
"We really needed to see that puck go in the net," Sabres coach Dan Bylsma told the Buffalo News of the shootout winner by Zemgus Girgensons.
Detroit, an NHL-best 8-0 in the shootout, recalled forward Tomas Nosek on an emergency basis Sunday from AHL Grand Rapids. Forward Darren Helm left the Saturday game with a lower-body injury, and if he can't go Monday, Nosek would be inserted.
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Police chief's employment status with New London still not clear
New London - Police Chief Margaret Ackley does not have a contract with the city, New London's personnel coordinator said Thursday - an assertion that surprised the city's mayor, who said he was led to believe, during a lengthy private discussion with the city council Wednesday night, that she does.
The discussion surrounding the police chief's employment continued its cryptic track Thursday as city councilors maintained that they had discussed a contract between Ackley and the city manager but were unable to specify exactly what type of contract it is.
The city council met in executive session Wednesday night for more than two hours to discuss Ackley's employment, according to the special-meeting agenda. The chief is still employed by the city.
It remained unclear Thursday why the city's law director, Thomas Londregan, said Wednesday night that an agreement between the city manager and Ackley, reached in the spring, included a confidentiality clause. Londregan could not be reached to comment Thursday.
The employment contracts of any public employees are considered public information under the state's Freedom of Information law. The Day is filing an FOI request for the agreement between the chief and the city manager, Denise Rose.
Personnel Coordinator Bernadette Welch said there are no new contracts in place and that only two employees, the city manager and the deputy police chief, have contracts.
Welch's office does not handle Board of Education contracts, such as that with the superintendent of schools.
Mayor Martin Olsen said he understood something different based on Wednesday night's discussion. "We were led to believe last evening that there's a contract/agreement that was entered into between the city manager and the chief back in the spring," he said.
When asked what the contract is, exactly, Olsen said that "the unfortunate thing is that it's confidential; that's what (city attorney) Londregan outlined last evening."
When asked if she could confirm Olsen's contention, Rose said, "It is not a contract, no." She characterized the agreement with the chief as "an understanding" and deferred all further comment and clarification to Londregan.
City Councilor Michael Buscetto III said that he, too, understood there was a contract, albeit one that councilors cannot describe publicly.
"We just know that there is one, now," Buscetto said, adding later that, "Normally the council is apprised of matters like these in a more timely fashion."
Before the executive session, Ackley and her attorney, Shelley Graves, asked that Buscetto recuse himself; Buscetto declined. He said Thursday that he didn't know why Ackley and Graves made the request and that he didn't ask about it.
Neither Ackley nor Graves could be reached to comment Thursday.
Councilors Adam Sprecace and Rob Pero voted against going into executive session Wednesday. Pero said Thursday that he still disagreed with the council's vote to have the closed meeting. "The council should have had a discussion last night in public about it because (the contract) contains salaries and it pertains to an employee of the city," he said.
Sprecace said Thursday he wasn't comfortable voting to go into executive session without fully understanding the reasons why the discussion was being held in private. He said he thought that some of the discussion was appropriate for executive session, while some should have been held in public.
"I know that this issue has caused a great deal of angst in the community," he said. "That shouldn't be the case. I think it'd be much better if we were able to set people's minds at ease, but for the time being we can't do that due to the nature of the agreement and confidentiality."
Ackley's employment is a mix-and-match of the terms of the police union's contract and the contract that governs the unaffiliated, or non-union, employees of the city. That type of arrangement is standard procedure in many municipalities across the state, Welch and Rose said.
Ackley's annual salary of $107,500 is approved by the city council. Her vacation time and other benefits are spelled out in the collective bargaining agreement - unless she chooses otherwise. For example, it was unclear Thursday whether Ackley is paid overtime or receives compensatory time for extra hours worked; Welch said it depends on whether Ackley follows the union contract or the unaffiliated guidelines. She did not have that information immediately available Thursday.
Ackley will reach 25 years with the city later this month, according to Welch. Twenty-five years is the earliest a person can retire with full benefits under the state-run Municipal Employee Retirement Fund.
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Despite the title, the CW's "Vampire Diaries', now in its third season, is not all about vampires.
Though it started out eerily similar to the overrated "Twilight series" — human girl falls in love with vampire boy (or really an old man stuck in a boy's body) — the show has progressively added onto its supernatural storyline.
Throughout the first two seasons we were introduced to witches and werewolves. Now, in the third season we're dealing with an idea other vampire/werewolf shows and movies have not yet tackled (or have been smart not to) — a hybrid. The hybrid is a half-vampire, half-werewolf.
To understand the show is to really understand the characters. I'll be starting "VD" recaps this week for TV Lust, so read up because I'm only going to explain this once.
Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev)
As the show's main character, Elena is complex. But I'll just give you the highlights. She's in love with vampire Stefan, but she also has feelings for his brother, Damon. This love triangle plays into nearly every episode, and yes, you'll likely get sick of it.
Elena's parents, whom she later discovers were not her birth parents, died in a car accident. Her birth parents, Isobel (human-turned-vampire) and John (uncle-turned-father) are also dead at this point in the series. So is Elena's aunt Jenna who was her caretaker for a while. Elena turned 18 at the start of this season, so it seems like she's largely left on her own to play with the vampires this season, except for Alaric (see below).
Oh, and how could I forget: Elena is the doppelganger (don't you just love that word!) of vampire Katherine Pierce.
Stefan Salvatore (Paul Wesley)
Elena's primary love interest, Stefan, is of course a vampire. He rescued Elena from the car crash in which her parents died. Stefan was drawn to her because she looked like Katherine, the vampire he was in love with and whose blood helped turned him to a vampire 100 some years ago after his father shot him for trying to rescue her.
Stefan spent most of the first two seasons protecting Elena. Now, after being indebted to Klaus for helping save his brother's life, Stefan has left Mystic Falls to go on a werewolf hunt. He still loves and misses Elena. I'm sure they'll be back together soon.
Damon Salvatore (Ian Somerhalder)
Stefan's older brother, Damon, was also in love with Katherine 100 some years ago. Damon has the same transition story as Stefan, but he was less excited to become a vampire. He held a torch for Katherine for a while (and by a while I mean more than 100 years), but then started to get feelings for Elena.
At the end of last season, Damon almost died from a werewolf bite, but Stefan got Klaus to give him some of his wolf-bite curing blood. Elena kissed Damon when she thought he was dying. This season, with Stefan absent, Damon's taken to protecting her (though he has been protecting her since he fell in love with her in the first season).
Katherine Pierce (Dobrev again)
I've pretty much covered the important things about Katherine in the past three summaries. The real question is: Where has Katherine been this season? At this point, we don't even have an explanation for her absence. Though I kind of haven't missed her character, I'm sure she'll be back.
Klaus (Joseph Morgan)
The hybrid. Klaus was born human but somehow became one of the original vampires (that makes him probably 1,000 years old). But unlike his siblings and fellow originals, Klaus also had werewolf in his blood (his mom had an affair of course!).
But a curse was placed on Klaus to keep his werewolf side from coming out. To break the curse, Klaus had to sacrifice a vampire, werewolf and the doppelganger (except Elena came back to life). Now, he's trying to create an army of hybrids. But his first attempt to convert a pack of werewolves into hybrids fails because the doppelganger is not dead, but he doesn't know that.
Caroline Forbes (Candice Accola)
One of Elena's best friends, Caroline was quite the annoying character until she was turned into a vampire. Ever since then she's really grown on me. Lately, she's been hanging out a lot with Tyler (see below).
After they had sex to start off the season, Tyler's mom tranquilized her and handed her over to a vampire hater, which in the shocker at the last week's episode, we learn is her dad. (This series has had a few jaw dropping moments. That was literally one for me.)
I'm interested to see how her relationship with her dad plays out in the next episode (Am I mistaken, or did the scenes show Caroline's dad trying to beat the vampire out of her?)
Tyler Lockwood (Michael Trevino)
Despite being the central werewolf character, Tyler's pretty boring. But I do like him as a love interest for Caroline, so I don't mind if he sticks around.
Matt Donovan (Zach Roerig)
Introduced to us as Elena's ex-boyfriend, Matt maintained a presence in the series as Caroline's boyfriend. But when he found out last season she was turned into a vampire, he broke things off. Now Matt is hanging out with Jeremy, who's seeing dead people (see below).
Bonnie Bennett (Kat Graham)
The resident witch and Elena's other best friend, Bonnie has been largely absent this season. And that's fair. She deserves a vacation after saving a bunch of lives last season. Bonnie nearly died last season from overusing her powers. Since she's dating Jeremy, I'm sure she'll be back later in the season (if not in the next few episodes) to help him with his problems.
Jeremy Gilbert (Stephen R. McQueen)
Elena's younger brother (well, not technically since he was actually born to the parents she had thought were her birth parents), Jeremy is a rebel — that is if you think doing drugs and drinking is rebelling; some would just call that high school.
Even though his girlfriend, Vicki Donovan (Matt's sister) was turned into a vampire and then killed shortly thereafter in the first season and he dated a vampire named Anna, Jeremy was one of the last to know about the vampires in town. When Jeremy was accidentally shot and killed last season, Bonnie did some of her witchcraft and brought him back to life. But now Jeremy is seeing the ghosts of girlfriends past. The ghosts of Vicki and Anna do not seem to be on the same page, and that will come into play soon this season.
Alaric Saltzman (Matthew Davis)
Being that Alaric was introduced as a high-school history teacher, it's amazing that he's become one of the show's main characters. Alaric was married to Isobel, Elena's birth mother, before she turned into a vampire. Then he dated Elena's aunt Jenna, before she was sacrificed in Klaus's hybrid ceremony. Now, he's living with Elena and Jeremy, feeling like he's a lost cause but trying to help them nonetheless.
So now that you've got the characters and their history down, you should be ready to watch Thursday's episode of "The Vampire Diaries." Check back here shortly after the show for our recap/commentary. In the meantime, here are some questions to think about:
· Where the hell is Katherine?
· What do the ghosts of girlfriends past want from Jeremy?
· Will Caroline's dad be able to exorcise the vampire out of her?
· Will Caroline and Tyler hook up again?
· What will Klaus do when he figures out Elena is not dead (we know he'll figure it out eventually)?
· Will Elena ever choose Damon over Stefan?


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VB falls to Conqs. Mens soccer beats Coffeyville in OT.
VB falls to Conqs
The Pratt Community College volleyball team dropped a match to Dodge City by a count of 3-0 on Wednesday.
The host Lady Conquistadors avenged a 3-1 setback at the hands of PCC earlier in the season.Scores were 16-25; 22-25; and 19-25.
With the defeat, the Lady Beavers fall to 5-16 (2-6 conference), having lost 11 of their past 12 tilts.
It gets no easier as PCC next hosts the 15-5 Hutchinson Blue Dragons and Frank Phillips College in a triangular Saturday at the Beaver Dome, 12 p.m.
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The mens soccer team defeated Coffeyville 2-1 in OT. The women lost 4-1.


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As attorney Howard Hamlin on AMC's new hit series, "Better Call Saul" -- a spinoff of "Breaking Bad" -- Patrick Fabian gets to chew up the scenery. "It's a dream role," says the actor, who was born in Pittsburgh but now calls Los Angeles home. "The show is so well written that sometimes I can't believe I'm being paid to be in it."
An avid traveler who loves the outdoors, he adds, "I'm from Pennsylvania, but I'm a Southern California boy at heart and am always looking for sunshine and ocean. California is a great place to raise a family."
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NEW YORK -- For a guy who's a regular at Elaine's and has a standing reservation at Rao's and his own gallery in Vegas and a new book out selling for $400, and now a short doc on Oscar's short list, Neil Leifer still acts like he has something to prove.
Some of it's the plight of the news or sports photographer, even if you're the best. Leifer recalls how even Sports Illustrated sometimes sent him out with a snot-nosed reporter who'd introduce him by saying "This is my photographer."
He tells too how one Time magazine writer would identify himself, even to natives in Africa, as "Joe Dokes" -- we're changing the name -- "Harvard." After which our hero would introduce himself as "Neil Leifer -- Seward Park High School."
He embraces the persona of the guy from the streets who had to hustle his way to the top, the little guy -- 5-foot-6 at most -- who couldn't rely on innate genius to get his famous shots. He had luck too, of course, as when he was in the perfect spot at ringside in Lewiston, Maine, May 25, 1965, to capture Muhammad Ali looming over a fallen Sonny Liston, a picture you can buy from him now for a mere $10,000. But he had to plot to get other landmark pictures, as when he dug a camera into the ground below second base at Dodger Stadium to snap Willie Davis sliding in, curving tiers of the ballpark looming behind him.
"What separates a really good photographer from the ordinary is, when things happen --when you get lucky -- you don't miss," Leifer says. "I didn't miss."
If he has an ego, it's earned. But that record of not missing makes more frustrating what happened when he was primed to trade in his still camera for a moving one three decades ago, with dreams of being Francis Ford Coppola. Unfortunately, no "Godfather" has fallen his way since, leaving him to settle for self-financed shorts on a gossipy Korean nail salon or an arrogant baseball player who won't sign autographs for anyone but babes with big boobs.
"My film career has not been the same success," he sums it up one night in Elaine's.
It's not enough that he gets great tables there, or that he's become one of New York's classic characters at 65. There's something else Neil Leifer wants now that will make everything right:
A nomination.
There's one painting in his living room, a serigraph by LeRoy Neiman of the horse-racing themed 21 Club, with a personalized touch -- Neiman agreed to paint him into the scene.
Leifer naturally wanted "something dignified," him in the back of a Rolls out front, being chauffeured by a nitwit editor of his. Neiman envisioned something less exalted: "He wanted to put him as one of the jockeys," notes Leifer's fiancée, Randye Stein, "because he's short."
Only one of Leifer's own photos is in the room -- his shot from high up in the Astrodome looking down on Ali and an opponent, both with arms raised, except Ali is standing and Cleveland Williams is flat on the canvas. It's a stunning visual, but also can serve as a Rorschach test, like his shot of Ali hovering over Liston: Is the lingering appeal the powerful man triumphant, or the one crushed to the ground?
"I would have to say vulnerability," Leifer says. But later, out on the town, he tries again.
"It's both," he says then, triumph and defeat together.
MOST people have to wait for a near-death experience to see their lives flash before their eyes. He merely has to show up at Taschen bookstore in SoHo.
"You never sell books at these things," he says at the party for "Ballet in the Dirt," his oversized $400 volume of baseball photos. But no sooner does he sit at the signing table than the customers start coming up, credit cards in hand. "This is for my father, Al Silverman," says the first, and Leifer says back: "He published the Ameche."
Alan Ameche of the Baltimore Colts scored the winning touchdown against the New York Giants in the Dec. 28, 1958, NFL championship game that established football in the TV era. Leifer turned 16 that day and was on the field due to his typical . . . call it enterprise. The son of a postal worker and lingerie saleswoman, he grew up on the Lower East Side, where he took a photo class at a settlement house and learned how to sneak into Yankee Stadium, where the Giants played then. A group of wheelchair-bound veterans were allowed in free and if you waited at the right spot and volunteered to push 'em in . . . and who was gonna check if you brought in a $75 Yashica-Mat camera?
The book buyer's dad bought Leifer's photo for a magazine previewing the next NFL season for about $100. Today it costs $4,000, that shot of Ameche pushing over the goal line with the Yankee Stadium stands behind him topped by flapping flags and gleaming lights, an archetypal warrior-in-the-arena image.
That was hardly the only time Leifer wrangled his way into a money shot. The cover of this book shows Dodger pitcher Don Drysdale celebrating a shutout in the '63 World Series against the Yankees, the wrinkle being that Leifer -- then 20 and working for SI -- took the photo from the field, having hustled his then-skinny body (it sure ain't today) out there while the last ball was in play. He insists he asked a guard, " 'If there's an easy pop-up to the outfield, can I run out?' But they tried to take my credentials away!"
Leifer says he didn't see the capitalistic potential of such images until 10 years ago, when he convinced his brother, Howie, to quit teaching art in San Francisco and help market his photos through the tested formula of limited editions under which prices rise as more sell -- so buy now. Then the Neil Leifer Gallery opened at Caesars Palace in 2006, with the president of the Vegas hotel comparing his sports photography to "what Matthew Brady did for the Civil War era, and Ansel Adams did for the American landscape."
Howie Leifer is at the signing too, unmistakably Neil's brother, for not many people fit the description once affixed to a 1960s fullback, "Human Bowling Ball." Also here is Pete Bonventre, Leifer's best friend since Pete covered sports for Newsweek. In an evening of stories, Bonventre, now editor of Entertainment Weekly, offers the best, about "the line Coppola got from you," as Leifer prods it out.
It seems Bonventre's dad had as an uncle, Joe Bonanno, who headed a certain crime family. The story has Bonventre about to go to college, so Uncle Joe asks, "Do you mind if I give Peter some advice?"
The advice was a nugget Bonventre later passed to a friend before she saw Coppola as he was making his movie on the mob: "Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer."
Bonventre adds, "Years later, someone said -- who wrote 'The Art of War'? The Chinese guy -- that [Bonanno] may have stolen it from that." But this is the Leifer saga, not the Corleone saga, so the relevant fact is that his buddy arranged for him to photograph Uncle Joe and then he landed at Bonanno's 95th birthday in Tucson, sitting with Pete's mom, by the dais.
It was Pete too who helped prompt his leap into the movies.
THIS tale comes out at Elaine's, up on 2nd Avenue, where movie people hang, and the literary crowd, and Leifer. Indeed, he's seated at the table where he put two characters in "God's Gift," the short about the arrogant ballplayer. This night's crowd includes a fellow writing his next effort, about two old Red Sox fans who want their ashes scattered at Fenway Park.
Leifer got the movie bug when offered freelance jobs on sets -- people who made sports films would pay big to have a sports photog like him shoot their make-believe games. He was hired on 1974's "The Longest Yard," 1975's "Rollerball" and some of Sly Stallone's "Rocky" pictures, which got him thinking how photographers Stanley Kubrick and Gordon Parks had segued into directing films.
He and Bonventre were driving to a fight and Leifer said, " 'Haven't you always wanted to write one?' " the magazine editor recalls. So Bonventre penned a script based on the Falco brothers, with whom Leifer had grown up, one a dancer, the other a cop killer. While that didn't sell, Leifer, as if by magic, got a call from producer Elliott Kastner (1966's "Harper"), who'd seen his photos and "decided I had a passion and gave me a Jackie Collins script." The 1979 film "Yesterday's Hero" was about an English soccer star who has become a drunk but dries out and leads his team to triumph with the inspiration of Suzanne Somers. Problem was, it was filmed in London and Leifer had a wife and two kids on Long Island. "My wife . . . thought I had lost my mind," and that was the end of the marriage, "but I directed a feature."
He saw himself destined for Hollywood, "and in my wildest dreams I would have liked to have been Sidney Lumet or Francis Coppola," but the soccer film went nowhere, and he did not get another until "Trading Hearts," a 1987 baseball romance with Raul Julia and Beverly D'Angelo. After that, there was no Offer 3.
That's when "I started to do the short films," he says, on which he, no one else, was the boss. The first, "A Neil Leifer Film," was 1991's "Rosebud," featuring simultaneous gossip by Korean manicurists and their American customers -- about the same paramour, it turns out. Bonventre wrote another, "Small-Room Dancing," inspired by his son's society-style ballroom classes in suburban Bronxville. Leifer made "Scout's Honor" too, in which Bill Murray and Alec Baldwin play basketball scouts at -- in another twist end -- a game among 10-year-olds.
Leifer learned he could get such stars -- for one day's work, at least -- simply by asking, and "get 'em to work for free."
One geezer in his baseball short will be Dominic Chianese, "The Sopranos' " Uncle Junior. And at Elaine's, he calls to the next table, "You're going to be in the Red Sox film!" It's crooner Steve Tyrell, at the moment garnering $130 covers playing Cafe Carlyle. "I draw the line," says Tyrell, whose own fans include the Steinbrenner clan. "If I was a Sox fan I'd be banned from Yankee Stadium. George'd never let me in his box."
Leifer's photo sales enable him to finance his films, but it's not all vanity -- in back of his mind is the hope that his shorts will be bought and expanded. That happened with "The Great White Hype," a 1996 takeoff on boxing in which a pale challenger is built up only to be conked with one punch. Produced by sports movie auteur Ron Shelton ("Bull Durham" "White Men Can't Jump"), it then was sold as a feature, just not with Leifer as director. "I wish they had let me," he says. "They chose not to."
But he pushes on, both for the fun of it and for something he experienced with his first short, about the nail salon. It got "shortlisted" for an Academy Award nomination in 1992. The category was obscure, live-action short film, and it never got a nomination, but the listing was enough.
"I said to myself, 'By the time I'm 60, I'm going to have three or four Oscars.' That hooked me. I keep making them thinking it would happen again."
Walter Bernard, who had the idea that became Leifer's "Portraits of a Lady," has a nickname for him , "The Pest," because he'll call six times to confirm you're meeting for dinner.
The former art director of Time, Bernard is among a group of portrait artists who meet in Manhattan. He thought it might be interesting to use a "prominent American" as a model to document how 25 sets of eyes see different things in a person.
The Pest "loved the idea," Bernard says, and they soon had HBO intrigued with their proposed model, Bill Clinton, the only hitch being Clinton. When he said no, so did HBO.
Bernard rented out his home in the Hamptons to pay his share of filming the artists painting the model they did enlist, former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Then they tried HBO again, sending over a "teaser." Once more, no sale.
Another channel did offer "$50,000 less than the ultimate cost of the film," Leifer says. "We said, 'We're not going to pay for the privilege of putting it on your network.' "
So they completed the thing on their own dime, sent it again to HBO, and this time got back an e-mail: "Come to a meeting."
Sheila Nevins, HBO's czar of documentaries, says she had no choice. "Neil would have hounded me to my grave."
It was an odd fit, for Nevins is known to embrace dark visions and naked women, and this had neither. "Anything that's tragic, I'm for," she quips. "Sad is better than happy." But she rationalizes that there was a "sweet sadness" to how O'Connor was out of a job now, and how some of the artists "don't paint as well as they used to. There's no human suffering, but one of them is going blind," she notes, "and I made Neil suffer too."
Her reward was dinner at Rao's, the East Harlem hole in the wall. Owner Frankie Pellegrino is known as "Frankie No" because that's what he says when people call for reservations. The tables are taken by regulars such as Sonny Grasso, the "French Connection" cop turned producer, and Bo Dietl, the private eye. And Leifer. Nevins joined him and his fiancée, an environmental lawyer, on the night Frankie announced monthly dates for the year to follow, "and there was a hushed silence," Nevins says. " 'Are we going to get the third Tuesday?' "
Pellegrino has had a sideline as an actor since Martin Scorsese gave him a part in "GoodFellas." He's appeared in virtually all Leifer's films too, and in the Red Sox short will be the friend who totes Uncle Junior's ashes to Fenway. "Anything Neil wants," he says.
Nevins can do a routine of one-liners on Leifer: He's "someone you can't get your arms around but you'd like to hug . . . . Your fingers can't meet on the other side." Or "he's got get up and go -- I don't know if he can get up, but he sure can go." Oh, and "He's really a right-winger -- he voted for Bush. Why did I buy his film? He told me afterward."
Nevins does have one question, though. "Is Neil rich?"
HE says, "Yes," in the sense that if he wakes up and wants to fly somewhere, he can afford to -- even with his restaurant tabs.
It's another night at Elaine's and he's fretting about the Oscar nomination announcement on Jan. 22. He can guess "the kind of films they vote for and mine is not -- dark films." He guesses too that "nobody cares about the short docs," but he does, and that's why he kept "Portraits of a Lady" to 40 minutes and arranged a qualifying theater run in L.A., no matter that "six to eight" people came to each viewing.
"I want to get nominated for an Academy Award," he says. "That's what I want."
The list of eight contenders includes "Freeheld," about a lesbian policewoman dying of cancer, desperate to get benefits for her partner; "Salim Baba," about an Indian man who screens film scraps for kids; and "Sari's Mother," about an Iraqi seeking help for her 10-year-old with AIDS . . . all about humanity on the canvas, as in his legendary boxing photos.
He's attended the Academy Awards a couple of times, with Bonventre and with a date, driving a rental Honda amid the limos. It was like a dream, marching along the red carpet with the beautiful people, "and as you approach the sea of photographers . . . they're shouting, 'Tom!' 'Arnold!' 'Nicole!' And down the aisle come the nobodies like me."
The twist that time was that he was hardly a nobody to those photographers. "I grew up with every one," he says, "so they're shouting, 'That's Leifer. Hey, Leifer! Leifer!' "


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Evasive Maneuvers
Euphemisms old and new
Blisters and Blamenation! More Euphs from Green's
I can't get through a column without citing Green's Dictionary of Slang. This biggest-ever slang dictionary, edited by Jonathon Green and published last year, is my favorite book.
I devoted a whole column to Green's last May, and I'm doing it again. The mission statement of this column is "Thou shalt find euphemisms that lurketh beneath the radar." Green's is one of the best possible sources of such terms. So here's a bevy of dodges, evasions, and ludicrous turns of phrase I learned through Green's. They are a type of poetry: a poetry of poppycock.
bit of nonsense
As a euphemism columnist, I am a nonsense collector. So are Bill Clinton and Newt Gingrich, at least according to this 20th century UK term for a mistress. It turns out bit is part of plenty of totally euphemistic, kinda sexist, sorta ridiculous terms. Doing a bit of ladies' tailoring is sex, while a bit of good, bit of stuff, and bit of all right all mean a young woman, and a bit of tripe is a wife. I'm not married, but I assume talking about a bit of stuff with your bit of tripe could get you in a bit of trouble.
privy council
The first part of this term isn't euphemistic: a privy has been a place where one does government business (a euphemism for numbers one and/or two) since about 1200. It's the addition of council that makes this term so silly and wonderful. William S. Burroughs used it in 1959's Naked Lunch, writing "...I got business in the Privy Council." Government business, I presume.
tears of the tankard
What a poetic-sounding phrase! The tears of the tankard... What sadness is summarized by this alliterative idiom? What romantic notion could be conveyed by this term, dating from the late 1600's? Well, these tears aren't salty, but rather, as Green puts it, "drops of liquor that fall onto the careless drinker's clothing." Presumably, if the tears of the tankard fall onto a white shirt, they could lead to tears of the drunkard.
house of profession
When a term is this vague, you know something's sketchy. In this case, the source of that sketchiness is a brothel, as used by Shakespeare: "I am as well acquainted here as I was in our house of profession: one would think it were Mistress Overdone's own house, for here be many of her old customers." Speaking of sex work, another 16th century term — squire of the petticoat — is a pimp.
I knew about tarnation from my careful study of Yosemite Sam, but blamenation was a new one to me. This sugar-coated version of damnation was used in the 1800's, and here's an 1864 use: "Hurt! Blisters and blamenation, so ye is!"
oil of gladness
Used in the late 1700's and early 1800's, this term means "a beating; often in phrase I will annoint you with the oil of gladness." What a beautiful expression. It's so much classier than "It's clobberin' time!" I want a mixed-martial artist, professional wrestler, or spandex-clad vigilante to revive this term stat.
Ringsend handshake
Speaking of violence, this term for a kick in the Charlie Browns (to use a Buster Bluth term for the testicles) is a powerful reminder to stay the heck out of Ring's End, Ireland. It's been used since at least the 1950's. I wager that a Ringsend handshake is likely to end an Irish parliament (barroom brawl). Bonus euphemism: A Ringseld handshake is also known as the Oppenheimer technique.
right guy
This 20th century term has a few meanings that strongly distinguish it from Mr. Right. The first sounds like a real compliment until you get to the sixth word in the definition: "a trustworthy person, esp. in criminal terms." Like the non-praise-y praise model prisoner, you probably don't want to be known as a right guy. Speaking of inmates, the other meaning mentioned by Green is "a popular prisoner, respected by his peers." Again, not the kind of thing your mom is going to want to mention in her Christmas letter, unless it doubles as a letter of recommendation to a cartel.
This 19th century term for "any form of spurious liquor" was bound to catch my eye, since I love terms such as flapdoodle, fopdoodle, dipsy-doodle, labradoodle, and peedoodles.
I wrote about peedoodles here after finding it in another remarkable word book, the Dictionary of American Regional English, which (spoiler alert) will be the focus of next month's column. I'll be celebrating the publication of DARE's final volume with euphs culled from the long-awaited Volume V, Sl-Z.
Here's a DARE euph to whet your appetite: stretch the blanket. That term, which brings to mind the common stretch the truth, means to lie or just embellish the truth, especially in a tall tale. It's been used since the mid-1800s in places such as Tennessee and West Virginia, and I'm not stretching the blanket to say it would be fitting (and accurate) if it were used on the Kentucky-based show Justified, which I love.
Like euphemisms and slang, that show is intelligent, funny, and complex. The hero's a little trigger-happy, and even its right guys are just plain all right some of the time — though they do tend to poison the timber-doodle.


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Bobby Hatfield, Blue-Eyed Soul
By: Legacy Staff
6 years ago
As one-half of the singing duo the Righteous Brothers, Bobby Hatfield was righteous indeed.
It's been nine years since Hatfield died Nov. 5, 2003, and we're remembering the higher-voiced Brother by listening to a few of the duo's greatest hits.
Their earliest chart-topper was "You've Lost that Loving Feeling." Released at the height of the British Invasion in 1964, the song was a surprise hit – producers weren't sure the soulful number could compete with the upbeat pop from across the pond, and it was almost a full minute longer than the snappy singles DJs liked to play on the radio. But audiences loved the interplay between Hatfield and bandmate Bill Medley, and the song reached No. 1.
Hatfield and Medley repeated the No. 1 feat two years later with "You're My Soul and Inspiration." Hatfield delivered the classic spoken-word bridge.
And then there was the Righteous Brothers song that transcended trends to become a favorite across the decades. A showcase for Hatfield's falsetto range, "Unchained Melody" hit No. 4 when it was first released in 1965… but it made it to No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary charts 25 years later thanks to its use in an iconic scene in the Patrick Swayze-Demi Moore film Ghost.
Lonely rivers sigh
Wait for me, wait for me...
Bobby Hatfield is gone, but we have a feeling that his angelic voice is waiting for us.


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STATE COLLEGE (AP) — Coach Bill O'Brien didn't need to be asked the que stion. He knew everyone wanted to hear about his decision regarding Penn State's Week 1 starting quarterback, so he opened his weekly press conference with the hot topic, before anyone could even ask about it.
STATE COLLEGE (AP) — Coach Bill O'Brien didn't need to be asked the que stion. He knew everyone wanted to hear about his decision regarding Penn State's Week 1 starting quarterback, so he opened his weekly press conference with the hot topic, before anyone could even ask about it.
Not that he answered the question, or anything, but he did broach the subject at least.
"I want to address the quarterback situation. I feel like what I try to do every week, along with our staff, is do what's best for our football team," O'Brien said, "and, as of right now, you'll find out who the quarterback is on the first play of the game."
O'Brien and the Nittany Lions open up a season of promise Saturday against Syracuse at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., and the quarterback situation remains unsettled — at least in the public eye — with five days before kickoff. On Monday, when Penn State released its depth chart, it listed sophomore Tyler Ferguson or freshman Christian Hackenberg.
"Believe me, I'm not trying to diminish the importance of that position and what it means to this football program and what it means to our fans," O'Brien said. "But I want to do what's best for our players and what's best for our football team, and so that's what I'm going to do on that."
Last year, O'Brien tabbed Matt McGloin, a seasoned if not unspectacular quarterback, who led Penn State to an 8-4 record — including a 6-2 mark in the Big Ten. McGloin, a fifth-year senior then, was the right person for the right time, and Penn State responded under his tutelage. The Nittany Lions rallied to win eight of 10, in fact, after an 0-2 start.
This year? Completely different deal. Inexperience is going to rule the day, regardless of O'Brien's decision.
"That's part of it. You've got an 18- and a 19-year old guy here. They basically just got to Penn State," O'Brien said. "Christian got here a little over a month ago and Tyler has only been in since January. Last year, we had a quarterback who had been through a lot here at Penn State, he was going into his fifth year, it was a totally different story last year.
"Again, it's more about what's best for the team. The team understands the direction we're headed and that's what's important."
For now, what's also important is prepping for a new-look Syracuse team that is coming off an 8-5 season.
"I don't really think they know what we're going to," O'Brien said. "They're a very, very good opponent. I think it's important to do what's best for your football team, especially going into the first game."
One thing is for sure. After an impressive rookie season that eased the doubts of many, the focus is off O'Brien this year. In one season, he proved how valuable he can be this rebuilding program.
"This time last year was a blur. I was trying to do as good a job as I could with our staff to keep our team together and get them ready for the first game," he said. "Last year is last year and this is a new year. Hopefully, personally, I've done enough in the offseason to really study what we do, how we practice, how we lift weights, how we condition, how I call plays, what we're doing on defense and how to improve our special teams.
"Hopefully, you'll see some improvements."
As was the case last year, every time the new Nittany Lions step on the field in a national setting — like this one in a stadium that will house the Super Bowl in February — it's an opportunity for the program to show itself to the world. It'll also be an opportunity to showcase O'Brien's progress in heavily recruited New Jersey.
"As a program, it's important for a lot of things to be understood here. Playing at MetLife Stadium means a lot to our fans. We have close to 40,000 alums in that area and we have 12 guys on our team from New Jersey. Playing in MetLife Stadium is just fantastic for Penn State," O'Brien said. "I hope it would be close to a sellout by Saturday. Penn State and Syracuse is a traditional rivalry that hasn't been played in a few years."
The Orange, who join the ACC this season, defeated West Virginia, 28-15, last year in the Pinstripe Bowl, and this will be the beginning of a two-game run vs. the Big Ten. Next week, the Orange will meet Northwestern.
Not much is expected of Syracuse in their first season in a new league. But O'Brien's preparation is unfazed, either way.
"One of the things that we'll talk about constantly is the beginning of the game, how we're going to start the game. Keep playing. Keep fighting," he said. "That's what Penn State is all about.
"Hopefully, we understand that when the game rolls around, and we're ready to go."


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Lub d Bangkok Siam
Brand new hostel located in the most vibrant part of Bangkok with skytrain station in front of that connects you to the airport rail link. No more hassling trip from/to the airport.
Experiencing Bangkok doesn't get any better than this, Lub d (meaning "sleep well" in Thai) has a trendy new hostel in Siam Square. This chic hostel is geared to the traveler's necessities with complimentary high speed Wi-Fi, 24 hour reception, and the highest safety standards.
The Siam Square area around the hostel is home to endless shopping, restaurants and entertainment. There are also notable cultural attractions nearby, such as the Jim Thompson House and the Bangkok Art and Cultural Center. If you don't wear yourself out in the immediate area, Bangkok's BTS Skytrain is just a few steps away to take you to your next adventure around the city.
Lub d has rooms to accommodate both hostel lovers and recent hotel converts. Consult our list of room styles below which range from our ladies-only 4 Bed Deluxe Dorm to our Double Deluxe rooms with queen sized beds. As you read, keep in mind that OUR HOSTEL IS NOT EQUIPPED WITH AN ELEVATOR.
For Hostel Lovers:
4 Bed Deluxe Dorm - 3rd Floor
With only 4 beds, this dorm is designed to look more streamlined and feel warmer than you typical dorm room.
4 Bed Ladies Deluxe Dorm - 1st Floor
These rooms are in a secure and spacious 'ladies-only' section and have a large shared bathroom exclusively for women.
For Hotel Converts:
Econo Twin - 4th Floor
Two Single beds (not bunks) with a complementary safe box. Guests use the shared, separate-gender bathrooms on the same floor.
Econo Double - 4th Floor
This hybrid room has a queen sized bed, but no bathroom. Guests use the shared, separate-gender bathrooms on the same floor.
Double Deluxe Room - 2nd Floor
This room has a comfortable queen-size bed and bathroom en-suite.
The safety features of the hostel are also among the best in the business with 24hr reception, closed-circuit TV surveillance, and keycard access to rooms and common areas. Each floor of Lub d is equipped with smoke detectors, fire alarms, and fire extinguishers to prevent and respond to emergencies.
Availability & RatesTo view availability and prices please select dates and click 'Update Dates'
Hostel Facilities & Policies
- 24 Hour Reception
- 24 Hour Security
- Adaptors
- Air Conditioning
- Airport Transfers
- Bar
- Bicycle parking
- Board Games
- Breakfast Not Included
- Cable TV
- Café
- Common Room
- Credit Cards Accepted
- Direct Dial Telephone
- Dishwasher
- Dryer
- DVDs
- Telephone/Fax Facilities
- Free City Maps
- Free City Tour
- Free Internet Access
- Free Parking
- Free WiFi
- Fridge/Freezer
- Hair Dryers
- Hair Dryers For Hire
- Hot Showers
- House Keeping
- Internet Access
- Internet café
- Iron / Ironing Board
- Key Card Access
- Laundry Facilities
- Linen Included
- Security Lockers
- Luggage Storage
- Meals Available
- Microwave
- Mini Supermarket
- No Curfew
- Outdoor Terrace
- Postal Service
- Reading Light
- Tours/Travel Desk
- Towels For Hire
- Towels Included
- Utensils
- Vending Machines
- Wake-up calls
- Washing Machine
- Wi-Fi
Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 2 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
Must-Read Hostel InfoThis property has specific Terms & Conditions.
Check in time is 14:00 hours (2 P.M.) Check out time is 12:00 hours (12 P.M.) Room cleaning time is 12:00-14:00 hours LATE ARRIVAL No worries! We open 24X7. You can come anytime.
Cancellation Policy: The guests can cancel before 2 day prior to arrival date with free of charge. If not, the hostel would reserve the right to charge one night (first night) accommodation charge to guest own account.
DirectionsShow MapHide Map
We are on Rama 1 Road, opposite to National Stadium and between Soi Kasemsan 1 and 2. The National Stadium is next to the popular shopping mall, MBK, where all taxi drivers know. This is explanation in Thai - โรงแรมหลับดี สยามสแควร์ ถนนพระราม 1 ตรงข้ามสนามกีฬาแห่งชาติ เยื้องมาบุญครอง ระหว่างซอยเกษมสันต์ 1 และ 2 ติดบันไดเลื่อนรถไฟฟ้าสนามกีฬาแห่งชาติ.
PUBLIC TAXI: After arriving, follow the signs to metered taxis at level 1 near gates 4 and 7. If you are approached by anyone offering to be a taxi service, we suggest you decline and continue to the metered taxi area. There you will find an attendant who will tell your taxi driver where to take you. The trip from the airport costs approximately THB 400-500 depending on traffic. Remember there is a THB 50 surcharge for travel from the airport and to have cash ready if your driver is planning to use the tollway.
AIRPORT RAIL LINK: Follow the signs to the Airport Rail Link and buy a ticket to PhayaThai Station (terminal station). At this station you can transfer to the BTS Skytrain, where you need to purchase the appropriate fare to bring you to the National Stadium Station. Don't forget to change trains at the Siam Station and board the train going toward National Stadium. When you reach National Stadium follow the signs to exit 1. Go down the steps and turn to walk the opposite direction. Walk for 100 meters or until you see the white building with Lub d logo on the right hand side. The total travel time is about an hour and the total cost about THB 70.
PUBLIC TAXI: At the airport, follow the signs to the public taxi where you can take a metered taxi to the hostel. Travel to our Siam hostel costs approximately 200-300 baht depending on traffic. Remember there is 50 THB surcharge and to have cash ready if your driver uses the tollway. Total travel time is about an hour if there is little traffic, but may take much longer during rush hour.
BTS SKYTRAIN: Take airport bus A1 or A2 to Mo Chit BTS station. Buses run 1-2 times per hour between 9.00 and 24.00 with flat fare of 30 Baht. You should allow about 60 minutes to arrive Mo Chit BTS depending on traffic.
At Mo Chit BTS station, get a ticket to the National Stadium BTS Station on the Silom line (Note: You need to change train lines at the Siam station). The total trip from Mo Chit to National Stadium by skytrain costs 42 THB. When you reach the station, follow the signs to exit 1. Go down the steps and turn to walk the opposite direction. Walk for 100 meters and you will see Lub d Siam Square on the right hand side. The total travel time is 1.5-2 hours.
Please find more information about direction via this link: http://goo.gl/IuCrsy
Located Near
Across MBK shopping mall, between Kasemsun Soi 1 and 2. From BTS National Stadium: Take exit one, go down the steps and turn to walk the opposite direction. Walk for 100 meters or until you see the green striped Lub d Siam patio on the right hand side.


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Motorola Droid box revealed
For those who care about packaging more than phones.
For those who care about packaging more than phones.
The new Motorola Droid enters into a smartphone marketplace dominated by AT&T's iPhone and Sprint's Palm Pre. But how are consumers supposed to compare the offerings when the providers make it nearly impossible to make apples to apples comparisons on plan options?
The Droid has a 512 MB ROM which leaves 256 MB for app storage.
Motorola Droid will be coming to other countries.
Remember that countdown on the DroidDoes.com site?


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What to do when you Drop your Cell Phone in the Pool
John Galcius
, July 22, 2013
With modern technology comes problems. Cell phones and water do not mix. If you drop your cell phone in the swimming pool, hot tub, or even a toilet, You will need to act fast. You only have a few seconds to save it. As soon as you retrieve it, REMOVE THE BATTERY. Don't even take the time to turn it off. Just get the phone battery out ASAP. If the phone is turned on when it is wet, then it will short circuit the phone.
The circuits will survive in water if your cell phone has no battery or any type of electric power attached
. So,
do not turn it on
Just about all cell phone manufacturers have sensors in the phone that can tell if the phone got wet, and that will void the warranty, so chances of getting a replacement are slim, unless you have phone insurance. As soon as you remove the battery, dry the phone and battery as best you can. Start with an absorbent towel, or paper towel.
Try to "shake" the excess water out of the phone and battery (be careful not to throw it!), and wipe it off again. Use a blow dryer, if available, on the cool setting for a few minutes, combined with more shaking. Then take the phone and battery and put them into a bowl, or bag of uncooked rice. Make sure the phone is open. Rice is a natural absorbent, and will soak up the moisture. Leave the phone in the rice for 48 hours before trying to use it. It will be hard not to try to use it before then, but you must resist. Remember, leave the phone OFF for 48 hours.
Patience is of virtue here. If you have a saltwater pool, or If you drop your phone in something other than water, like soda or coffee, as soon as you remove the battery, rinse it in clean water. You can't do any more damage, once the phone is wet, but the minerals left behind can.
I have dropped many cell phones into many pools over the years - next time, I will be prepared. I just came across a waterproof cellphone, maybe that's in your future - most phone manufacturers now offer waterproof cell phones.


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New from Toronto!
Hey Guys!
Just started getting into bread making and love what I see here so far. I am trying my first wild yeast loaf as I am typing this and hope to have many stories to share and learn lots!!
I will also be posting question(s) quite a bit so thank you in advance.


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Kelly's Retro Orange Artist Loft Kitchen
Kelly's downtown Los Angeles apartment is exactly what you'd imagine when you hear the words "artist loft." It's enormous, and there's color and artwork everywhere. Kelly has a soft spot for mid-century furnishings, and the kitchen, with its bright orange and mustard yellow color scheme and vintage accessories, puts that style on full display.
See the Full Tour: Kelly's Retro Artist Loft in Downtown LA
Related: Sibylle's Charming DIY Vintage Kitchen
(Images: Vanessa Stump for Apartment Therapy)


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Suicide Bombing at U.S. Embassy in Turkey Kills Three
At least three people are believed to have been killed after a suicide bomber blew himself up on Friday at the entrance of the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, with Islamic terrorist group al-Qaida believed to be the prime suspects.
The bomber, who has not yet been identified, apparently entered the embassy and got through the first X-ray machine leading to the visa section, before he detonated himself, NBC News reported. Among those killed was one of the guards at the gate, and another unidentified person is believed to have also been killed. Turkish TV showed an injured woman being carried on a stretcher to an ambulance.
The U.S. Embassy's Twitter account confirmed the bombing, and assured that "appropriate measures were taken," promising that more information would be revealed when it becomes available.
Golnar Motevalli, a BBC journalist near the scene, said that police had barricaded the road, which was filling up with ambulances and fire tricks, describing the situation as "extremely chaotic."
Alaattin Yuksel, the Turkish provincial governor, told reporters: "There were two dead in the suicide bombing, a Turkish security guard and the bomber himself."
U.S. ambassador to Turkey Francis J. Ricciardone, Jr., who confirmed the news, said that the situation was "very sad."
The BBC said that no one has claimed responsibility for the attack yet, but reminded readers that radical Islamic al-Qaida linked groups have attacked U.S. and U.K. consulates in the past, including a 2003 attack on British targets in Istanbul that killed 58 people.
Another attack, in 2008, blamed on al-Qaida-linked terrorists outside the U.S. Consulate in Istanbul, left three assailants and three policemen dead.
The U.S. State Department also reveals that in July 2011, 15 people linked to al-Qaida were arrested for gathering explosive materials and planning an attack on the same embassy in Ankara. The Department added that such clues "show a willingness on the part of some terrorist groups to attack identifiably Western targets. The possibility of terrorist attacks, from both transnational and indigenous groups, remains high."
CBS News senior correspondent John Miller, who served as a former deputy director in the National Intelligence Director's office, said that police will consider al-Qaida the prime suspects in the bombing, but also pointed out that the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah also has extensive intelligence operations in Turkey.
The Ankara embassy building was reportedly heavily protected, but long-standing plans were in place to move the compound elsewhere for security reasons.


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Good morning, my friends.
This is the time of year when many of us need a chuckle or two, what with all there is to do and so little time left to do it.
I've been thinking of some Christmasy things I'd like to share with you.
What's your earliest recollection of Christmas?
Do you remember sitting on Santa's knee? Do you remember printing a letter in pencil to Santa on lined paper? Do you remember setting out fruit cake and milk so he could have a snack when he got to your house?
I do.
But the Christmas memory that stays with me without fail is one that I never tire of telling and retelling.
I must have been about 5 or 6 years old or so. I know it was before I started to school.
I was in this little Christmas play in Sunday school at Glencoe Church.
These were my lines:
�Some folks say there is no Santa Claus.
I know there is because
If you don't believe what I say,
You just wait up and see.''
Honest to goodness, they are the exact words of my part in the little play. I will remember them until my dying day.
It's a cruel trick of Mother Nature that I have to look up my children's telephone numbers when I get ready to call them, but I remember every word of my part in that play XXXX years ago.
But let me tell you more. When my turn came, I had to be pushed out to the center of the little area where the Sunday school kids were reciting. I remember having my finger in my mouth, and hanging back.
I remember what I was wearing: the little blue skirt, which buttoned onto a little white blouse with lace around the collar, and I remember the black patent leather shoes with a strap that buttoned over. I remember the white fur muff that I carried with my navy blue coat.
And Mother had curled my hair into long curls with �the original� curling iron.
But back to the performance itself.
I didn't forget my part � obviously. I was simply petrified.
How can a 5-year-old be petrified?
You tell me. All I know is that I cried and snubbed all the way through the four lines. I'd stop, and then start again. I'd say two words, and boo-hoo and snub.
I remember wiping away my tears and my runny nose with the back of my hand. I only looked up once, and when I did, I saw my Mother and Daddy. They were both looking down. I cried all the harder.
I was just stubborn enough that I didn't run off the stage. Although, truth to tell, that probably would have been a blessing for the audience and for me. But I stuck it out.
My parents obviously had expected me to do a better job than I did, what with the new shoes and my Sunday best dress.
I don't remember anybody ever saying a word to me about my performance, but I do remember holding Daddy's hand on the way to the car, with my bag of Christmas treats in the other hand, still snubbing.
You know, when I started out, I thought we could get a laugh out of this, but reading back, I see that it's one of those times in my life that makes me smile when I think of it all these years later, but it's never quite funny.
And I have not quite forgotten that feeling of absolute terror.
The reason I call it up from the recesses of memory now and then is so that I can feel again my hand in Daddy's, and know that everything is going to be all right.
To all, a blessed Christmas.


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Celebrate the holidays by spending money on the only things that matters… Robots! Buy them for your kids, for your geeky parents, for your pets, even people you don't like. (Set those ones to kill.) This is America and we only know how to express our emotions through wild unfettered spending of cash and credit. Don't be left behind.
Seriously though, robots are fun and give many hours of entertainment and education. When skynet comes to your door in 20 years you can show them your vintage collection and instead of shooting you they will fall to their knees, cry, and call you Daddy or Mommy.
The sale is valid while supplies last, but we will also honor it on most back ordered items as well and be sure to get it to you before Xmas. If you have any questions just give us a call at 877-898-1005. Real live humans answer the phones here. (But not until Monday, because we are stuffing our faces with turkeys for the next few days. Yes, multiple turkeys.) Call to order stuff, call to say hi, call to tell us about your awesome Turkey Day dinner (ask for Andrew please).
We hope everyone is enjoying the start to the holidays and isn't having a nervous breakdown over the weather turning cold. This is normal, it happens every year. It will get warmer again. Unless you live in a really cold place that is cold year round. In which case, you should probably move, because that is really depressing. If you do, don't expect your dogs to understand it however.
Here are some dancing Christmas lights. You'll have to think of a different winter project. It has been done. To Death.
Here is the sale link if you didn't find it in the FOUR spots above 😛 Trossen Robotics Black Friday to Cyber Monday Robot Sale!!!


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The Address Resolution Protocol (or ARP) is a crucial component of IP networking on any operating system. The ARP Cache is a collection of ARP entries (mostly dynamic) that are created when a hostname is resolved to an IP address and then an IP address is resolved to a MAC address. The PC stores the mapped address in the ARP cache, and they stay there until the ARP cache entry timeout expires.
Although it doesn't happen very often, a bad ARP entry can cause connection issues. When this occurs, deleting the problem entry can fix the problem. And if it doesn't, you can flush the whole thing and let Windows rebuild the cache.
During this week's TR Dojo episode, I show you how to view the ARP cahce and delete individual entries from it using the arp command and how to flush it with the netsh command.
Check out the following TechRepublic articles for more arp and netsh command tips:
- Add the ARP Gadget to your troubleshooting toolbox
- Quickly gather MAC addresses in Windows XP with ARP
- Netsh reference file allows for easy access to all commands
- Scripting out DHCP reservations in Windows Server 2008 with Netsh
- Creating port policies in Windows Server 2008 with Netsh
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Bill Detwiler is Managing Editor of TechRepublic and Tech Pro Research and the host of Cracking Open, CNET and TechRepublic's popular online show. Prior to joining TechRepublic in 2000, Bill was an IT manager, database administrator, and desktop support specialist in the social research and energy industries. He has bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Louisville, where he has also lectured on computer crime and crime prevention.