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The period between December 1864 and April 1865 was a time of great tumult when the nation was divided and embroiled in the Civil War. Slavery was a moral issue that divided families and states. With incredible determination and courage, Lincoln's presidency changed the course of the Unites States of America.
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Curtain raiser for the Toronto film fest, "Whale Music" is an offbeat, tuneful romance just a shade too quirky to swim in the mainstream. The oddball saga of a burned-out rock star and the tough runaway who invades his tumbledown estate has decided artistic as-sets but doesn't connect on an emotional level. Best theatrical prospects are in the margins, with offshore appeal likely to out-perform domestic returns.
Somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, Desmond Howl (Maury Chaykin) has retreated from the grind of recording studios and concert tours. The run-down manor he inhabits (thanks to rich residual checks) mirrors his own unkempt appearance. But in the midst of decay, the childlike music genius has installed a state-of-the-art recording studio and devotes himself to creating a masterwork — a symphonic piece for whales. The ramshackle harmony threatens to come undone with the arrival of Claire (Cyndy Preston), a rather frank young woman on the run from the law. The surprise is that Howl allows her into his realm and, slowly but steadily, finds her presence a refreshing, almost compulsory aspect of his life.
The film painstakingly details not only the evolution of Howl's composition but also the growing attachment between two seemingly unsuited people. It's truly an instance where you can't help but cheer on these unlikely partners in extraordinary circumstances.
The potential union is muddied by the myriad demons who haunt Desmond — people both living and dead who are fighting for a piece of him. They include Fay (Jennifer Dale), his ex-wife bent on getting him to sell the house, and Kenneth (Kenneth Welsh), the recording exec who owns every note he creates. Most disturbing is an unresolved problem between Howl and his brother (Paul Gross), his singing partner who died in an auto accident that may or may not have been a suicide. He pops up repeatedly in chilling, provocative hallucinations.
While the elements of "Whale Music" are promising, they never coalesce with enough impact to reach a broad audience, although the two central performers work hard to make us care about their plight. Chaykin is a particular standout in a role that literally and figuratively strips him naked for the camera. It's his work that elevates the film from minor appeal to soul-stirring material.
But even Chaykin cannot overcome several key shortcomings. The film's song score just isn't of a quality to convince viewers Howl is a major talent. The narrative, too, is diluted by a split focus in which the filmmaker feels compelled to give inordinate weight to secondary concerns.
While modest in budget, the film has a first-rate look and exceptional, effective sound design. But first-time feature director Richard J. Lewis fails to maintain a distinct focus and allows his pacing to falter. It's the goodwill generated by Chaykin's virtually defenseless character that keeps our interest through the narrative lulls.
An unquestionable marketing challenge, "Whale Music" will hit a chord with a select audience. Its commercial prospects, however, are as fragile as the characters it portrays.


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"A Simple Plan" by Pedro The Lion off the album "Achille's Heel" Tabbed by: Cris Intro: G, Bm, G, Bm, C, G, C, G, C, G, C, D Verse: G Bm G The plants and the factories are perfectly run, the workers and bosses are Bm C G C living as one, people are equal, people are good, people are working as G D G Bm hard as they should be. It's food for my family, it's clothes for my kids, G Bm the class war is over and everyone wins. Chorus: C G Am D G Bm Em(Em7) C G D It's such a simple plan, to take it like a man, but I'm not sure I can. Break: G, Bm, G, Bm Verse: G Bm G We fought for a decade, corruption and greed, it gave me a purpose, a Bm C G C reason to breathe, but now that it's over, now that we've won, I still sit G D in my bedroom, alone with a shotgun. Bridge: G Em Bm C D G Em To think of, my family, no longer, compels me, with all things, in common, Bm C D they'll manage, without me. End: C G Am D G Bm Em(Em7) C G D It's such a simple plan, to take it like a man, but I'm not sure I can, I C Cm G have a simpler plan. Enjoy.


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DIY Pet Silhouettes
The weekend pet food run revealed some graphic pet portraiture. It's a simple way to immortalize our furred family in scrap plywood. Or for that matter, to inspire such silhouettes in card stock or wallpaper, ala Inke Heiland Wallanimals.
These wood pieces would be equally smashing in smaller dimensions. Since they work so well in multiples and various colors, we can envision a mini-homage to several pets, or perhaps a "Many Moods of Otis" series.
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Microsoft moved one step closer to releasing its document-management server with last week's announcement that the server formerly code-named "Tahoe" would be known as the SharePoint Portal Server, and that Release Candidate 1 (RC1) for SharePoint is now available.
You may be thinking that Microsoft already has a document-management server—Exchange Server. You can store documents in Exchange Server Public Folders, can't you?
Think again. Exchange Server has distinct advantages as a document-storage server but offers little in the way of actual document management.
Here's a situation in which Exchange works well: Suppose you use Exchange Public Folders to store documents such as human-resources policies. Saving Microsoft Office documents to Public Folders is easy with the File, Send To, Exchange Folder command in most Office programs. Users can keep the latest versions of such company documents offline by putting a folder in Favorites and synchronizing regularly.
When more than one or two people need to update the documents, however, I don't recommend using Public Folders because Exchange Server provides no check-in/check-out function or version management. Two people trying to update the same document results in a conflict message, and then they must try to merge the two documents or sort out which copy to keep.
Exchange works this way because of how it stores documents and how Outlook opens them. Look at a document in an Exchange or Outlook folder using either the mdbvu32.exe tool on the Exchange CD, or use the new Outlook Spy tool that exposes Outlook, Collaboration Data Objects (CDO), and Extended Messaging API (MAPI) properties. Such a document item has its own application-related message class (e.g., IPM.Document.Word.Document.8), but the document data is stored as an attachment that functions the same as all other Outlook file attachments.
When you open an attachment from an Outlook item, Outlook saves the attachment to a temporary file on the local hard disk and then opens that saved file in the appropriate application. So if April and Miguel open the same Word document from a public folder, they're not working on the same file. April uses the temporary file that Outlook saved locally on her hard disk, while Miguel modifies his local copy. When they save their changes and close Word, Outlook tries to copy the updated file back into the original item. If Exchange Server gets two different updates for that item, it issues a conflict notice.
Documents stored in Exchange folders work the same way, with one difference: Opening an IPM.Document.* item automatically opens the attached file. You'd never want this to happen with ordinary attachments in email messages, of course, since it could spread viruses in file attachments.
A true document-management application should use a different approach. One method is check-in/check-out. For example, when April needs to work on a document, she checks it out. No one else can work on that document until she checks it in. Some document-management programs also support merging changes from multiple users into a single document rather than enforcing sequential access through check-in/check-out.
Document-management servers—including SharePoint—also typically provide full-text indexing. Exchange 5.5 and earlier versions require a separate program for indexing the contents of documents in Public Folders. Exchange 2000 has its own indexing engine and displays results to Outlook users through the Advanced Find dialog box. Read the white paper on Exchange 2000 best indexing practices to find out more about this feature. You will find tips on how to tell Outlook users what to expect.
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Review: Einstein's Jury
by Jeff Foust
|Even after the 1919 Eddington expedition many astronomers sought additional evidence, and some physicists remained unconvinced that relativity was correct.
The first efforts to confirm one of the central tenets of general relativity—the gravitational bending of light—actually date back to before Einstein completed his theory in 1916: he predicted the phenomenon in a 1911 paper. Astronomers who were already observing solar eclipses in a search for a putative inner planet that could explain the precession of Mercury's orbit (something eventually explained by general relativity) also used those expeditions to look for deviations in the positions of stars in the vicinity of the eclipsed Sun. Several efforts prior to Arthur Eddington's 1919 expedition off the coast of Africa to measure any deflection failed for reasons ranging from poor weather to the onset of the First World War.
While that conventionally is the end of the story in the quest to prove general relativity, Einstein's Jury demonstrates that the effort to confirm the theory was just beginning. Even after the Eddington expedition many astronomers sought additional evidence, and some physicists remained unconvinced that relativity was correct. Only by the late 1920s and early 1930s, after several other efforts turned up evidence that supported general relativity did the theory have the consensus of the physics community. Crelinsten discusses these efforts in great detail, explaining how the theory gradually gained acceptance in the physics community.
The book puts the attempt to confirm general relativity into the broader context of physics at the turn of the 20th century. At that time the "big four" in physics in astronomy were Germany, France, the UK, and the US, but their strengths were different: Germany was a hotbed for theoretical physics, while there was more work on experimental physics and astronomy in the UK and US, especially as state-of-the-art observatories were built in California around the turn of the century. These different strengths meant physicists in these countries approached relativity in different ways: while some European physicists delved into the theoretical ramifications of relativity long before it was proven, their American counterparts waited until there was sufficient proof it was correct before exploring its cosmological and other implications.
As Crelinsten notes, "relativity, despite its popularity today, is still not part of the general culture". In other words, while many use the results of relativity on a regular basis, few people spend time thinking about relativity itself and what it means for the universe and our place in it. "It will take a few deep thinkers who can also communicate in a powerful and meaningful way to bring Einstein's ideas into our general consciousness. They will need to make relativity relevant to us." Einstein's Jury is not that book, but it does a fine job explaining the effort involved in finding evidence for relativity, and why it continues to be a topic of interest even today.


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In the watershed 1992 "Year of the Woman," Chris began prepping candidates for live TV debates and stump speeches. She has coached First Lady Michelle Obama, advised Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, and worked with more women candidates and elected officials than any other trainer. In 2016, Chris' speech and debate coaching was featured in Politico, NPR, US NEWS, Elle, and Washingtonian Magazine.
Chris founded her training firm in 1991 and has provided executive coaching for women at Avon, eBay, Intel, and NASCAR. She advises leading nonprofits such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Union of Concerned Scientists. As media trainer for the Women's Media Center, Chris coaches policy experts and advocates to speak out on campus sexual assault, equal pay, climate change, #blacklivesmatter – the headline issues of the day.
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Friday, August 17, 2018
Mr. William Sanderson, principal of Evergreen Park Community High School in Evergreen Park welcomes new staff members for the 2017-18 school year. Pictured left to right are Tom O'Malley (Superintendent), Dana Benda (Business/Technology), Jamie Pembroke, Jr. (Paraprofessional), Ben Levine-Drizin (World Language) Katie Hogan (English/Dept. Chair), John O'Connor (Industrial Tech), Laura Chapman (Nurse), Jim Donato (District Technology), Tom Minarik (Art), Jalyn Brown (Paraprofessional), John Schroeder (Social Worker)


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The Global Health Initiative is built upon model programs that already are highly successful endeavors. A centerpiece program for the GHI is the Interdisciplinary Framework in Global Health Program. Originally supported by a 2008 educational grant from the Fogarty International Center at the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the Framework in Global Health Program encourages students and faculty to engage in interdisciplinary global health activities. Interdisciplinary global health emphasizes the joint importance of biomedicine, public health, social science, engineering and the humanities in understanding global health inequalities. Interdisciplinary perspectives are also necessary for designing interventions to reduce health inequalities.
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I still remember going through eBay with my 8 years old cousin next to me.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm looking at.. toys.."
"I'm looking at.. toys.."
I bought 8 (plus got one) from Frostbite but with my luck I only got 5 out of 6 and 4 doubles. I think I ordered the missing figure (Hughes) from eBay last week's Monday and I got it a week after that - YESTERDAY :D
So here are all my babies~
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I'm still working on the altar for them ;)
|I also got this crappy figure D: Don't like it.. .__.
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"Unforced referees" is a new project that will start from the season 2017/18 on.
An unforced referee is a referee that might enjoy more to referee a game than playing it. He or she aims at becoming a better referee, with the goal to attain the best level of refereeing.
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- An "unforced referee" will always referee with another "unforced referee". The Referee Committee will establish the "unforced referee" pairs, and in which categories the referee pairs will referee. The latter decision is based on the practical refereeing skills of the referees, not only on the scores of the theoretical exam.
- The "unforced referee" pair should be available at least 3 weekends a month for refereeing one or two games a day (Saturday OR Sunday). The "unforced referees" can communicate if they prefer to referee on Saturday or Sunday.
- It is the responsibility of the referee pair to organise themselves how to arrive together to the location of the game. Within all possibilities, the ride will be limited to 60 km from the home of the referees. Travel expenses will be reimbursed when the ride is done for refereeing purposes ONLY. If one of the two "unforced referees" plays, coaches or fulfils any other function for a club on the same location that he or she referees a game, then no reimbursement for the travel expenses will be made.
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NC State Weekend Review: NC State-South CarolinaSeptember 7, 2009
The college football season is officially underway. NC State hosted South Carolina at Carter-Finley Stadium on Thursday, September 3rd to kickoff the college season.
While most people probably would have agreed this game would have been a shootout, it turned into a 7-3 defensive struggle and a win for South Carolina.
Here's some observations from the game made from the Wolfpack point of view:
The Good
While the Wolfpack's offense was supposed be very dangerous coming into the game, it was their defense that was the dangerous unit. The only points NC State's defense gave up were off of a turnover that put the Gamecocks in the red zone to start with. South Carolina punched it in four plays later from the one yard line.
Most NC State fans were more concerned for the defense than the offense going into the South Carolina game, but the D gave the Wolfpack faithful some faith in their defense by only allowing seven points and just over 250 yards, especially since it was against a Steve Spurrier coached team.
The Pack only allowed 256 total yards and limited the Gamecocks to 2.6 yards per carry. South Carolina's starting running back had 23 carries for just 66 yards and had no run of 10 yards or more. That's a very good sign for the Wolfpack's run defense.
The only other remotely good thing was Rashard Smith, a freshman corner, running a punt for 31 yards. He also had a sack and four tackles on defense. Smith could have a good future in front of him.
Russell Wilson continued his streak of streak of ten games without an interception. He set an ACC record for most consecutive attempts without an interception with 272.
The Bad
While the defense played well against South Carolina for NC State, nothing went the right way for their offense.
The offensive line was the main problem for the Wolfpack. They left Russell Wilson running for his life. They also couldn't make lanes for the running backs to run through. This resulted in six sacks (with a very mobile quarterback) and 59 rushing yards.
Toney Baker, who didn't play last season, fumbled on his first carry and first Wolfpack offensive play of the game. That play put the defense in a big hole, giving the Gamecocks the ball at NC State's 14 yard line. South Carolina scored their only touchdown of the game off of that turnover.
NC State's first punt was also blocked. This came on the possession right after the South Carolina touchdown, just setting the tone for a flat evening from the Pack.
Owen Spencer, who has been hyped as an All-ACC candidate at wide receiver also disappointed, catching only one pass for fifteen yards. He can't really be blamed though because the offense line didn't give Wilson enough time to deliver the ball down field where he is most dangerous.
Whatever anybody wants to say, they can't say this loss was Russell Wilson fault. Again he had no time to throw and his receivers were covered almost every time he dropped back to pass. He didn't look his best, but was still decent.
A telling stat of the night: the Wolfpack's 133 total yards were fewer than they had in any game last season.
The Ugly
If you take Toney Baker's fumble out of the equation, there is a good chance NC State would have won that game, but even with the fumble NC State should have won.
With around four minutes to go in the game Russell Wilson scrambled around and heaved it up into double coverage for redshirt freshman wide receiver Jay Smith. He split the defenders and the ball hit him in the hands. He had the game winning touchdown in his hands with four minutes to go in the game. That kind of stuff doens't happen on good football teams.
Next Game: vs. Gardner-Webb
NC State gets their chance to get back on track with a home date with Division 1-AA Gardner-Webb. This should be an automatic W in the win in the win-loss column.
The offensive line should push their defensively line around. If they don't, Wolfpack fans should be worried. If Russell Wilson gets sacked more than one or two times that will be a huge disappointment. They should get at least 150 yards on the ground as well.
We'll see if the defense is really a consistent force if they totally shut down the Gardner-Webb offense. One score should be a reasonable expectation. If they put in their second stringers maybe Gardner-Webb can put up more, but the NC State defense really need practice before they get into serious games. They still lost the South Carolina game, even if they did play well.


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Greetings, my fellow port swillers!
Ol' Robbo hadn't realized until today that this weekend is the big "Tide-Pod Kidz Against Icky Guns" rally in Your Nation's Capital. And it only hit me personally when I left the office this afternoon and discovered that crews were out and about setting up crowd-control barriers and whatnot and, in the process, blocking several intersections key to my commute.
Rush hour traffick in the Swamp is bad enough, especially when the crowds of tourons reappear in the spring. When this sort of thing happens, however, one finds oneself feeling like Frodo and his friends trying to get out of the Old Forest but being dragged back in by Old Man Willow. (At one point, I started to make an illegal left turn to get clear, but there happened to be a cop sitting on my right rear bumper. He started blatting his horn at me menacingly, so I quickly abandoned my escape attempt.) It is extremely wearing and grrrrr-making.
So perhaps I'm even more prejudiced against this stunt than I might otherwise have been, but I don't really think so. I'm disgusted with the Kidz, of course – snot-nosed little narcissists who think virtue-signaling about their feelz trumps Reality. But I'm actually enraged by the Authoritarian Left machine that's exploiting these idiots to push disarmament of law-abiding citizens and strip me of my right to defend myself and my family. (And no, I don't think Ol' Robbo is wandering into tinfoil-hat territory here. There's Soros Money in them thar protests.)
Anyhoo, all this kerfluffle has been having the opposite of its intended effect – at least with me – in that I'm motivated to finally get off the Port Swiller backside and start doing some serious research and pricing, especially now that Mrs. R has given me the green light. I may have mentioned here before that I've never actually fired a handgun, so I know very little about them and will need to get proper training, advice, practice, and so on. However, I used to do a good bit of bird and skeet shooting as a teenager, using, among others, a Remington Model 1100 12-guage. It seems to me that one of these would be a good first step since I'm already familiar with it. (And, after all, isn't this what Joey the Plugs "Choo-Choo" Biden recommended?)
In the meantime, these Kidz can get the hell off my lawn and go back to their Tide-Pod eating.
Greetings, my fellow port swillers!
Must be an awfully slow nooz cycle this afternoon, because at the 6 P.M. top o' the hour break on the local classickal station, Nihilist Propoganda Radio devoted a portion of its precious three minutes to getting it's knickers in a wad over the Wisconsin State Senate eliminating the minimum hunting age. [Sorry, no linky at the moment because WordPress is acting up this evening.]
The piece was mostly about "critics'" concerns that the woods would now be filled with unsupervised shotgun-toting toddlers spraying Death left, right, and center, and How Could Any Responsible Government Allow This?
It was only at the very end the reporter admitted that, in fact, 34 other states have no minimum hunting age.
I laughed out loud at that.
Ol' Robbo hasn't been hunting in nearly thirty years, nor has he passed on to the Gels any of his remaining knowledge of it. Mrs. Robbo has a strong Bambi Complex, and said sport was never important enough to me to be worth picking a fight with her over it.
Nonetheless, the nooz does provoke some fond memories.
I must have been about five or six when I first started tramping around after the Old Gentleman as he went quail hunting in South Texas. On certain special occasions, I was rewarded for my pains by being allowed to fire off his shotgun at a piece of wood floating in a stock tank. At least once, the thing knocked me down.
When I was seven, I started learning how to shoot in earnest, firing a little .22 at tin cans set up on fence posts in our back yard. (There was no one living behind us, only empty scrub.)
The next year, I graduated up to a Remington .222, and put in some earnest time at the local rifle range. During hunting season that year, I bagged a white-tail buck and a big tom turkey (which we had for Christmas dinner – delicious!).
When I was about twelve or thirteen, in addition to my rifle work, I started learning to use a shotgun, shooting skeet in the summah and hunting duck in the winter. By the time I was a senior in high school, I was actually a pretty decent wing-shot.
And that was it. I went off to college and don't recall ever deer hunting again. The aforementioned Last Hunt (dove hunting with the Old Gentleman in the South Carolina Low Country) was over Christmas Break of either my first or second year of law school, and my eyes were so damn bad by then that I couldn't even see the bloody birds, much less knock them down.
So that was that.
Still, as I say, I'm fond of the memories.
Now, so long as I'm on the topic of guns, I will also say that the one thing I dearly wish to happen is that the Gels all learn to arm and defend themselves. Alas, I can't put them any knowledge myself, because I've never actually fired a handgun in my life. The signs, however, are hopeful:
For one thing, even though Mrs. R still loathes hunting (because Bambi), she is gradually shaking off her belief that guns are evil and icky and likely to jump up and shoot you all by themselves. I've almost convinced her to let me bring a weapon into Port Swiller Manor for home defense. (Which reminds me: My brother still has his Remington 12-guage given to him by the Old Gentleman for Christmas one year. What the hell ever happened to mine?) And she does not flat-out object to the idea of the Gels arming up, either.
For another, one of Eldest Gel's profs teaches an off-campus shooting course from time to time, and she's said more than once that she's going to sign up the next time it's available. She's also said she plans to buy a gun as soon as she's old enough.
For a third, Middle Gel recently went out to a local range with a Young Gentleman friend of hers (and his family), and had a ball blazing away at the targets with a variety of hardware. (I'm especially concerned about her because she's such a petite thing.)
Fourth, Youngest is keen to give it a try as well, although based on her learner's permit driving woes (she struck out on the test for a third time), I'm not sure she has the necessary focus yet.
So there's that.
Greetings, my fellow port swillers!
Sorry about the most recent dearth of posties here – the fact of the matter is that the Mothe's passing has hit me rather harder – and in more different ways – than I thought it would, and I simply haven't much been in the mood.
Nonetheless, I feel a bit more inspired this evening, so here are a few bits and pieces for you:
♦ Prayers for the folks along the Gulf Coast suffering from the effects of Hurricane Harvey, which, I gather, is now coming back for a second landfall. From what I've read, the people there are really coming together to help each other out.
♦ Most of the stories about Harvey have been coming from around the Houston area, but I b'lieve the storm actually made first landfall farther southwest, and am curious about its effects there. This is because Ol' Robbo spent a good bit of his misspent yoot fishing and duck hunting out of Port O'Connor, Texas, much of it within sight of the ruins of an old Coast Guard station destroyed by another storm in the late 60's or early 70's. I've an idea that Port O'Connor was somewhere near the eye of Harvey, but can't find any real information about it.
♦ I saw some pictures of the First Couple visiting Corpus Christi this afternoon to view the damage. Totally off topic, but by God, Melania Trump is a beautiful woman.
♦ Speaking of politicks, Ol' Robbo has been trying to come up with a label for the leftist goon squads that have been so much in the nooz lately. I had considered Neo-Jacobins, but regretfully rejected it as being probably too historickally obscure. But I've hit on an even better one for this day and age: Antifassholes. (I don't care if somebody else has also thought of this – I promise I came up with it my very own self.)
♦ And I think…I think…that the whole Antifasshole movement has overreached itself and is not going to be able to mau-mau the country after all.
♦ Anything else? Well, probably. But I can't think of it right now. Oh, except Ol' Robbo has been taking a very, very keen pleasure the past two days asking the two Younger Gels and Mrs. R, "And how was school today?" Most. Wonderful. Time. Of. The. Year.
No, I am not at all a nice man.
Greetings, my fellow port swillers!
Well, ol' Robbo just got back from visiting the Eldest Gel for Parents' Weekend at SBC. All in all, quite the interesting experience.
The other day, the Gel requested and required, in her straightforward way, that Mrs. R and I try not to make conspicuous fools of ourselves while visiting. Overall? I'd say we were roughly 60% compliant with that
request order. (At least we didn't bring baby photos to show the Gel's friends.) Our first fault – which I should have spotted and more forcefully deterred – was that Mrs. R kept forgetting that she was a visiting parent and not a visiting alumna, so she spent large amounts of time glad-handing faculty, administration, and other students, trying to set up networks, offer suggestions, and generally rallying to the flag. All worthy endeavors, of course, but there's a time and a place for everything. When Mrs. R was going at Maximum Shmooze, I could see faint puffs of smoke coming out of the Gel's ears. (Not just because Mom Wouldn't Stop Yakking, but also, I believe, because there's a kind of territorial thing developing here: The Gel has so quickly taken to the place that she now assumes it's her turf and that Mrs. R is an intruder.)
Also, Mrs. R indulged in her favorite pastime of trying to jam Too Many Events into Too Little Time (something which has driven me absolutely batty the last quarter century). This culminated in an ill-advised late movie date with the Gel after her theatre production was finished last evening, leaving the Gel an extremely irritable zombie this morning. I'm not so sure it wouldn't have been better for all involved if we hadn't simply slipped off for home after the show instead of staying for brunch today. (The production of "The Trojan Women" was, by the bye, quite well done for all my critique in the linked post. Great leads, well-staged, and pretty gruesome all around.)
Ah, well.
A few other things:
The Gel may have been an irritable zombie this morning, but so was Ol' Robbo. This was because last night was the second night in a row in which I got virtually no rest. Now, long-time friends of the decanter may recall that Ol' Robbo does not do well sleeping in beds other than his own in the first place (e.g., on travel), but this was somewhat worse. For one thing, there was something going on with the pipes at the inn where we stayed. Do you remember that sound the sabotaged reactor plant made in "The Hunt For Red October" that forced the crew of the October to shut it down? That metallic ka-clang! ka-clang! ka-clang!? We got that, off and on, all night. For another, this weekend happens to have been Homecoming at the Younger Gels' high school. We had allowed them to stay and go to the game and dance provided that they stayed with approved friends and that we worked out security understandings and arrangements with said friends' parents ahead of time. So last evening, we couldn't even think about going to bed until we had received confirmation from home that the Younger Gels were safe, sound, and not in requirement of bail money.
(The above paragraph is, by the bye, an apologetic explanation to long-time friend of the decanter Old Dominion Tory for why I didn't appear at his church for Mass this morning. I had thought to tool over the mountains, in part because ODT's church was one of the nearer available options, in part because we've been blog-friends for years on end but had never met in person. But I was so wiped out that I simply couldn't get myself up in time. Mea culpa!)
The Gel's operating procedure during most of our visit was to deal with us until she'd had about enough and then dismiss us until she was ready to reengage. This left some time on our hands, so yesterday Mrs. R and I decided to walk round the campus on the traditional loop known as "The Dairy". It's a farm road that, starting behind the performing arts theater, passes over some fields, climbs up the backside of Monument Hill, passes through the stables, and then dips down into the dell where the graphic arts program is housed in the buildings and barn that used to hold the working dairy back in the day – hence the name – before climbing back up toward the main campus. (The Dairy – which supplied fresh milk and ice cream to the dining hall when Mrs. R was there – was forced to close in the early 90's because of the added costs associated with complying with strict new EPA regulations championed by AlGore. Of course, Big Dairy – cosy with the gubmint – could afford to swallow such regs while all the little operations like SBC's were run out of the market, so from the point of view of both the Bureaucracy and the Major Players, everybody won. And that, boys and girls, is what we call Crony Capitalism or, to put it more succinctly, Fascism.) The loop is something in the neighborhood of three miles all the way around. (The Gel walks it at least twice a day.)
Anyhoo, as we tramped along outbound across the fields, I suddenly stopped.
"What is it?" said Mrs. Robbo.
"You're going to think I'm completely mad," I replied, "But I'd swear I heard the skirl of bagpipes coming down the wind."
We continued walking. A few moments later, I stopped again.
"Yes?" said Mrs. R.
"I heard it again!" I answered. "Are the Campbells coming?"
A few more yards and there could be no doubt: Somewhere up ahead, a piper was doing his thing.
As we tramped along up the hill and the musick got clearer, I couldn't help feeling a certain chill, even a romantic urge. (My father's family is almost purebred Scots, you know. It must be something in the blood.)
Eventually, we tramped up to the top of Monument Hill and there he was, a Lone Piper (albeit in t-shirt and jeans) solemnly striding back and forth and puffing away. At first I had thought it was some kind of honorary tribute to the spirit of the school embodied in the Monument. However, as the fellah kept starting and stopping and repeating certain phrases, I realized he was just practicing, and probably doing so at such a remote location because he couldna' do it anywheer else fer yon dozy knippits who dinnah unnerstan teh pipes!
Made my day, however.
The other get-rid-of-parents activity in which Ol' Robbo participated was the fly-casting clinic held by a couple of profs down by the boat house. Now, the Old Gentleman taught me how to fly-fish when I was a kid, but I haven't picked up a fly-rod in twenty years and wanted to see if I still have the touch. Well, my friends, it seems that I do. However, I also have something that I didn't have back in the day: A maximum pitch-count.
So there you have it. Mrs. Robbo and I are home again after a reasonably entertaining weekend, the Younger Gels are safe and sound, and the Eldest can breath a sigh of relief and unclench.
UPDATE: For your delectation:
Although I'm mighty-near purebred Scots on my father's side, my family were not true Highlanders, having held lands primarily slightly south of the line between Glasgow and Edinburgh, so I dinna know where we stood re pacification and relations with the Brits. But I know ye ne kin trust the bludy Campbells!
It's stories like this that keep me from completely giving up on the Mother Country: BBC Hawk Kills Pigeon As Staff Look On.
When the BBC spent tens of thousands of pounds on three Harris Hawks to protect staff from pigeons and gulls at its new £1billion headquarters in London, it promised that no birds would be harmed. However, yesterday it emerged that earlier this year BBC staff watched as one of the birds of prey made a kill outside the entrance of Broadcasting House and refused to return to his keeper.
You see, the hawks had been specially trained only to give the pigeons a good talking to. Bad hawk! Naughty hawk!
Ann Mann, a campaigner from the London pigeon group, said the BBC was wrong to kill pigeons. She said: "It is disingenuous and wrong, the hawks don't care if the pigeon is killed. The pigeons only real crime is the speed at which they breed."
I have no idea what the "London pigeon group" is. Wouldn't that be akin to the "New York City rat group"?
The BBC hired the hawks – Scout, Travis and Rio – last year to create a "no fly zone" around Broadcasting House. The corporation said that pigeons and seagulls posed a "health and hygeine risk" to both staff and the building.
Don't these people know that getting hit by a bird bomb is supposed to bring good luck?
The birds of prey, which have a wing span of up to three metres, are released early in the morning three times a week to deter pigeons from perching or nesting. The BBC refused to disclose the cost, but hawks used to keep Trafalgar Square pigeon-free have cost up to £60,000 a year.
You know, you could probably arm a bunch of kids with sticks and squirt guns and get them to shoo the pigeons out of Trafalgar Square free. Heck, they'd probably pay for the privilege. Just saying. Speaking of such things, the Mothe insists that Winston Churchill once suggested that gulls might be trained to land on German U-boat periscopes and poop on their lenses.
A spokeswoman for the British Falconers' Club said: "They are birds of prey and they are designed to kill things. A spokesman for the Hawk Board said: "It would be killed very quickly. It's quite likely that the one it went for was a bit weak or old and sick."
So not only did the hawk commit murder, it also violated several anti-discrimination laws. Hate crime!
The RSPCA warned last night that birds of prey should never be used to contain the soaring numbers of feral, urban pigeons. "They should not be used as a mechanism to reduce populations by killing," said a spokesperson.
I thought the RSPCA was spending all of its time, energy and monies harassing country folk who want to hunt Mr. Fox. And aren't those people into eco-friendly technology? What could be better than natural methods?
A spokeswoman for the BBC said that as far as the corporation was aware no pigeons had been harmed or killed.
Ah. It's not the crime, it's the cover up! Pigeon-gate!!
Greetings, my fellow port swillers! Well, here we are on Christmas Eve. I think, I think, that aside from the actual cooking of tomorrow's roast beef dins, our holiday preparations are complete. It's off to the "family service" at RFEC this afternoon, followed by Midnight Mass for Self later on, in between which I will no doubt be dropping suitable Christmas thoughts here as part of my effort to stay awake.
At any rate, perusing the public safety notes in the local fishwrapper, I came across the following item of interest:
A resident living in the 1400 block of C—— Street told Vienna police that on Dec. 7 he heard a loud noise near the front door to his residence. When he went to investigate the noise, the resident discovered the front storm door glass had been shattered, police said. The resident told police he had found what appeared to be BB gun pellets mixed in with the broken glass. Police responded and determined that several inflatable Christmas decorations in the house's front yard also appear to have been struck with BB gun pellets, authorities said.
I wish to assure those friends of the decanter who may find themselves entertaining suspicions to the contrary that ol' Robbo had absolutely nothing to do with this attack, despite his deeply-held opinion that inflatable lawn Christmas decorations are among the most abominable indicia of the season. Robbo does not wantonly destroy other people's property.
Which isn't to say that this item didn't cause ol' Robbo to daydream of purchasing, say, half a dozen of these giant snow-globes, snowmen and the like himself, just for the pleasure of setting them up and shooting them. I even got so far as to image rigging up a trebuchet so as to loft them in the air, wing shooting of course being far more sporting.
Do you suppose it's too late to ask Santa to bring the doings?
Greetings, my fellow port swillers!
It seems that a case of teh blahs is working its way around the corner of the blogsphere which I am accustomed to haunt. The lovely and talented Diane mentioned it the other day, and even Ace needs a break. I confess that I've got a tetch of it myself. I don't know what the cause is – the approaching solstice, familial sickness (there's a low-grade bug circulating at Port Swiller Manor), the seemingly endless stream of nooz stories suggesting that Western Civilization is flat-lining – but I certainly feel it.
So what to do? Well, on the larger scale I would simply say keep the faith. What else is there to do?
On a much smaller scale, however, we should remember to appreciate the little pleasures that come our way from time to time. This post is about one of those.
Regular friends of the decanter will recall a couple weeks ago that I said I had been put in the mood to read Lt. Zebulon Pike's journals of his exploration of the southwestern part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1806? Well, I started in on said journals last evening (after weighing through an awful lot of introductory material detailing a rayther nasty feud among historians over why Pike eventually wandered into Spanish territory). Most of the entries concerning his gradual journey up the Missouri and Osage Rivers are fairly humdrum – distances traveled, weather conditions, game killed and the like. But in his entry for August 11, 1806, after giving such details, Pike suddenly says this:
"This day, for the first time, I saw trout west of the Allegheny mountains."
I burst out in a chuckle of delight when I read that line. Perhaps it's because I used to cast a pretty decent fly. Perhaps it's because of my fondness for geographical references of this sort. Perhaps it was the sudden fellow-feeling I had for Pike in that he obviously felt the thing important enough to jot down. Whatever the reason or reasons, the mental image that popped into my head was quite refreshing, almost as if I was splashing about in the waters of the Osage myself.
So there you are. (I said it was a little pleasure.)
Brett at The Art of Manliness gives pointers on how to drive a stick shift. Before getting to the actual nuts and bolts of coordinating the hands and feet, he gives some arguments for why one ought to at least know how to do it, some of them practical, some of them more aesthetic. To me, his final reason eclipses all the others:
Driving stick is simply more fun! If you've only driven with an automatic transmission your entire life, you don't know the fun you've been missing. Driving an automatic feels passive and artificial – like you're merely pointing or steering the car instead of controlling it. With a manual, you actually feel like you're part of the car, and you're attuned to its vibrations and noises. Plus, manual transmissions are proactive instead of reactive – you get into the gear you need instead of waiting for the automatic tranny to hunt for the right one.
I don't think I was any older than about twelve when I first learned how to drive a stick. As I've mentioned here a time or two, we had a deer lease on a ranch in the Texas Hill Country. In order to get around on the roads and trails, the Old Gentleman bought an old VW Bug. He had the entire shell (including the windows) taken off and also removed the dash and back seat. He then had installed a wooden platform behind the front seats and a wooden box around the engine (with a pair of handles on the top so we could sit up there if we wanted). Cap it all off with a simple roll cage (with the spare tire on top), gun rack and over-sized tires and voilá, the "ranch buggy" was born.
The O.G. reasoned that if we were way back in the hills and something happened to him, somebody else had better be able to get us back to civilisation. So as soon as my legs were long enough to reach the pedals, I started lessons. (Just as an aside, this is why he taught me basic nautical skills and power-boat driving at an even younger age.)
My first try, I panicked while trying to downshift, forgot all about applying the brakes and rolled straight into a tree. After that, it was smooth sailing, at least until my brother learned how to drive the buggy, too, at which point the inevitable bickering over "who's turn it is" kicked in. Sistah eventually got into the act as well, but since she didn't go hunting all that often, the competition didn't get that much worse.
I've driven five cars since first being let loose on the public thoroughfares, three of which were stick-shifts. The first was a '66 Mustang (a hand-me-down from the O.G.) that I drove all through high school. It only had three forward speeds, the stick was a first-class beyotch and you practically had to kick the clutch pedal through the floorboards, but I used to love the jack-rabbit starts I could get in her.
I didn't have a car in college, but when I went to law school the 'rents gave me a Ford Tempo. It was an automatic and was a real yawner. (Actually, a stick shift probably wouldn't have reduced the yawn-factor by much.)
Once I drove the Tempo into the ground I was already out and earning a living for myself. So I leased my first Wrangler – a '93, I think. I was a tad apprehensive about driving a stick again, given that it had been ten years or so, but the old skills came right back as soon as I got on the road.
The lease on that Wrangler ran out just as the second gel was coming along. Feeling that we were going to need two baby-friendly cars, I did the Responsible Thing and leased a Camry. It was an automatic (I don't think they even make one with stick) and while safe and dependable, drove me to tears of boredom, too.
Once that lease ran out and the gels were a bit older, I thought to myself, "Self, it's time to go back to Jeep." Which I did, as regular friends of the decanter will know from my occasional postings about her. (Of course she's a stick-shift. I know you can get a Wrangler with automatic drive, but somehow that just doesn't seem right.)
I may at some point give up Jeeps, but I certainly won't give up a stick-shift again.
On a related note, the eldest gel will be eligible to get a learner's permit in about a year. You may be wondering whether I will pass on my stick preference to her. I tell you truly that I don't know. I'm so horrified of the idea of her driving at all that I haven't given it any thought yet.
UPDATE: I forgot to mention this earlier, but one of the points in the article that struck me was where the author comes down on the proper technique for slowing down/stopping. He states that it's better to put the car in neutral and ride the brake to a stop than it is to downshift to reduce speed. I'd always been told the opposite. (Actually, I take a sort of hybrid approach – downshift first, coast just above stall-speed.) Anybody have an opinion one way or the other?
The fishing metaphor in the post immediately below brought this front and center:
Because it was too damned stupid not to……
A plan to allow a group of Australia's emus to safely cross busy highways via purpose-built tunnels has been rejected because the native birds have "little brains" and are incapable of learning to use the crossings.
I suppose I shouldn't laugh, since this is An Important Environmental Issue, but somehow the idea of an emu wandering around making little Mortimer Snerd-like "yup, yup, yup" noises amuses me.
The state's Roads and Maritime Service has proposed underground tunnels to help protect the emus – a measure which has been used to save koalas and reptiles. Elsewhere in Australia, authorities have built suspension rope bridges for others animals such as possums.
However, environmentalists believe underpasses will not save the emus, which lack the intelligence to use them. The population in the area is now numbered at around 120.
"Emus are big birds with little brains," Mr Whale said.
"There is no evidence that emus have ever gone through an underpass … Farmers open their gate to try and encourage them to go out. Five meters away the emu is butting at a five-strand fence, but can't work out that there is an opening there that it can get through."
The Roads and Maritime Service denied the highway would split the emu population, saying officials would ensure the group was left entirely on one side of the new road.
"There's a lot of effort we've put in with our own experts to try to get these emus to move under or over the new highway," said a spokesman.
Maybe they should try reverse psychology, standing about and saying things like, "G'day, emu mate! Don't go in that tunnel, now, it'd be fair dinkum bad on ya'!"
I'm reminded of a little throwaway bit by the late, great, Edgar Bergen:
Edger: Mortimer, just how did you get to be so stupid?
Mortimer Snerd: Shear determination, Mr. Bergen. Shear determination.


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NEW ORLEANS — Sam Houston baseball coach Brad Book told his team exactly what the Class 5A Louisiana High School Athletic Association's State Tournament was going to be like.
He told him it was going to rain, that they would have to sit through hours of delays, that they would be told to go back to the hotel, then come back to the park. And he told them they would have to battle hard to win. And this was back in January.
He got it all right. Sam Houston had to battle back from deficits twice to take an 8-6 victory over No. 3 seed Brother Martin in Saturday's quarterfinals, which were delayed a day by rain after a hours-long rain delay. The Broncos (25-9) advanced to the semifinals against Zachary, which was played later Saturday. The winner of that game will advance to the championship game to be played at 2 p.m. Sunday at Tulane's Turchin Stadium.
"It's crazy," Book said. "This is what you expect at the state tournament — two good teams, exchanging leads the entire game. It's a fun game to be a part of."
"He's a fortune teller," said Bronco Blake Perrodin, who finished 3-for-4 with a pair of doubles and three RBIs. "He told us from Day 1, this is what it's going to be like."
After Sam Houston took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning, Brother Martin scored four runs in the bottom of the inning off of four hits and two walks. With two outs and a runner on first, Boot pulled starting pitcher Collin Kober for Kelsey Richard.
"I looked at the lineup and didn't see my name in there, it kind of frustrated me," said Richard. "It wasn't the first time it's happened this year. But coach talks about, at some point in the game, you're going to be needed. At the beginning I might have got a little emotional. I was angry."
But Richard settled down enough to hold the Crusaders to two runs on three hits. He walked two and struck out four to get the win.
Sam Houston, meanwhile, pounded 14 hits — including four doubles — off three Brother Martin pitchers. Cliff Reid had two hits, including an RBI single in the top of the seventh that padded the Broncos' lead. Blake Perrodin went 3-for-4 with a pair of doubles and a walk and drove in three runs. His second double, in the fourth inning, tied the game at 4.
Brother Martin scored two in the bottom of the fourth to take a 6-4 lead into the fifth. But it wouldn't be enough. Sam Houston cut the lead with a single by Kameron Esthay and a double by Andrew Bryan. The Broncos then overtook the Crusaders in the sixth with a single by Reid and a double by Esthay. Reid's single, which scored Evan Campbell, capped the scoring.
It wasn't the ending Brother Martin would have predicted. The Crusaders had a remarkable season in which they recorded a school-record 30 wins, went undefeated in District 9-5A play and put together a 16-game winning streak.
"I'm very proud of the guys. They kept battling every day," said Brother Martin coach Mark Wisniewski. "It was a great group of men I've had the opportunity to work with. They came out and gave us everything they had on a daily basis. And when you do that, you can't say a whole lot else about anything.


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Billy Joel to play Lambeau Field this summer
GREEN BAY (WLUK) -- As FOX 11 reported last week, one of the best selling artists of all time is coming to Lambeau Field.
You may know him as the "Piano Man" or simply, Billy Joel.
Ticket prices are estimated to cost between $50 and $140, according to concert promoter Live Nation. You can buy tickets Friday, Feb. 10, 2017 at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster.
A presale for American Express cardholders begins Monday.
Packers President and CEO Mark Murphy also has a love for the singer-songwriter's music. He talked about the artist Wednesday after announcing Joel will headline the 2017 summer concert at Lambeau. If you'd like to watch the full announcement, press play on the video below and skip ahead to 28:43.
"I saw Billy Joel. It was one of the first concerts I ever went to was when I was a senior in college. He played at Colgate University. Times were different then. He wasn't the Billy Joel he is now but he certainly was a star at that time," said Murphy.
He and the president of Live Nation-Chicago, Jason Wright, talked about the Grammy Award winner's popularity.
"It was really a sense that he would be a very good fit for our fans here and he's got, like we said, he's got such a broad appeal," Murphy said.
"Billy's an artist for multi-generations," said Jason Wright.
County music star Kenny Chesney is the most recent artist to perform at Lambeau.
So, why didn't the Packers choose another Country artist?
"There's only a limited number of artists that can fill a stadium like Lambeau Field. We're really excited about Billy Joel. Obviously it's very different, I think he appeals to a very different crowd than Kenny Chesney. I think people are going to be excited and hopefully ticket sales will go well," Murphy said.
Besides selling more than 150 million records, Joel is now an NFL owner.
"In honor of this upcoming concert, we have made Billy Joel an official shareholder of the Green Bay Packers," Murphy said.
Thanks to Joel's upcoming visit, the Greater Green Bay Convention & Visitors Bureau estimates a $6 million economic impact on the area.
"Billy's popularity is international so I'm sure we'll have many visitors coming from many different places," said Brad Toll, President and CEO of the Greater Green Bay Convention & Visitors Bureau.
Joel is scheduled to perform Saturday, June 17 at 8 p.m.
FOX 11 also created a poll on Facebook and we want to know, what's your favorite Billy Joel song? So far, "Piano Man" is the popular choice.


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22 February 2014, 10:32
Featuring an incredible Drunk In Love remix from The Weeknd, new Martin Garrix, plus a hook up from Major Lazer and Sean Paul, these are the five biggest new tunes from the week.
Warning: Some of these songs contain language that some people may find offensive.
The remix, dropped to celebrate his 24th birthday, sees The Weeknd go in dark and heavy on Beyonce's recent single thanks to some very spacious synths, and sees him singing about just wanting to go on tour and drop albums.
Following a one-minute teaser video that dropped a few weeks back, Martin Garrix and Holland based duo Firebeatz have released the original mix for their new track 'Helicopter.' In less than 24 hours the follow up track to the 17-year-old DJ/ producer's number one hit 'Animals' racked up an impressive 220,000 views on YouTube.
The German house auteur's take on the track doesn't stray too far from the original but he adds a heavy bassline to the already infectious track that makes it even more dance-floor ready. It's one for a big weekend.
Major Lazer have hooked up with Sean Paul for their latest musical offering. Come On The Me is everything you would expect of a song from the trio's forthcoming album - the perfect mix of dance and reggae, resulting in a dancehall anthem. The single with feature onMajor Lazers new EP Apocalypse Soon, out 25h February.
Rick Ross has dropped a new single off his forthcoming album 'Mastermind,' making an unexpected move in song choice. Da Boss has put his own stamp on the late Notorious B.I.G's You're Nobody (Til Somebody Kills You) from his 1997 Life After Death album. Listen to Nobody below and let us know if you think Rick Ross does Biggie justice


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Dan Margo and Randy Bishop who run Peter Wallace Ltd, an antiques store in Lambertville, are ones of the many not anticipating this latest batch of wet weather.
Their store sits right on the river.
After being flooded out 3 times in the last several years, they're not taking any chances and on Wednesday began to pack up the basement and first floor of the shop
since the latest projections mean they'll be underwater. "Which will mean our basement will be flooded and that's without any additional rain or runoff," Dan Margo said.
"You have to be ready. There's no sense in waiting for them to say 'Oh my God, there's a problem. It's too late,'" Randy Bishop said.
At this point, emergency management officials are expecting things won't be that bad.
"We may get some minor street flooding, the parking lots, the Lambertville station and some property along Lambert Lane will be impacted," Emergency Management Director David Burd said.
Those properties include Coryell's Ferry Apartments where workers were prepping by moving the contents of the tenants' garages off the ground - just in case.
The river right in front of the apartments has already swamped the footbridge leading to Lewis Island.
"Provided shelving above where the water should get to and they can store everything above that and we're giving them a hand moving it up out of what potentially is a flooded area," Bill Corboy of Coryell's Ferry Apartments said.
We're professional flood emergency crews now
Tania Finch lives across the Delaware in New Hope where riverfront residents are also starting to prepare.
"Just got one pushing everything out of the basement now I'm going to take everything out of the backyard and move it up," New Hope resident Mark Steven said.
"You love the river, you deal with the good and the bad and take it as it comes," Brad Finch of New Hope said.
Over in Raubsville, Pa. Garry Carlbon keeps a chart on his garage door of just how high the Delaware River rose during previous floods.
Garry says the first time he flooded out, he saw a lot of water going down the river. During the ensuing floods, he says saw a lot of money going down the drain.
"My flood insurance went up every year until he raised [the home], but it costs you a lot of money to raise, so now our flood insurance is down, but I'm in the hole for lifting," Carlbon said.
Still, Garry's recently elevated home should fare well. There's a bit more worry down river, though.
The National Weather Service says, so far, it seems Riegelsville and surrounding areas will likely get hit hardest with flooding. Managers and employees at the Riegelsville Inn say that could translate into a lot of work in the coming days.
"I know a lot of people are really concerned right now. If it starts coming up everything that's in the basement and first floor needs to go up to the second floor," Beth Brader of the Riegelsville Inn said.
Meantime, up in Easton, they're pretty concerned about the Delaware River. But they're more concerned about the Lehigh River.
"We have a Lehigh Drive along the Lehigh River that floods, even though the houses don't flood, you can't get in or out of the houses, so we want to make sure they have enough food for the rest of the day, couple days at least, supply and the rest of it is just wait and see," Easton Mayor Sal Panto said.
Back in Lambertville, police, fire and public works are on alert and a shelter site has been identified if the flooding turns serious.
"We're prepared if we need to go there, but hopefully we won't have to exercise that," Lambertville Mayor Dave Delvecchio said.


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Movie star Bradley Cooper went back to school last week (08Nov13) to catch up with friends from Germantown Academy's class of 1993.
The Silver Linings Playbook star returned to Fort Washington, Pennsylvania for the 20th anniversary school reunion, where he mingled with another successful actor, Bones star Brian Klugman.
According to People.com, Cooper took a tour of his school with his former history teacher Kendall Mattern and stuck around for Germantown Academy's football game against arch rivals Penn Charter.
The movie star proved to be a lucky charm for his school's team - after losing to Penn Charter for the last 12 years, the Academy picked up a victory.
A source tells the website, "He hung out as long as he could at the game. He loved being back at the school. He took his time signing autographs and said hello to a lot of people. He is very modest. I think he has a hard time understanding why people follow him around campus. It's genuine and not a false modesty. He's a really good guy."


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Just about everyone has some personal experience with cancer — whether through a friend or family member, or through their own battle with the disease. The good news is that in recent years, medical science has brought many new advances in cancer diagnosis and treatment, and new options for patients. It is important to know how to recognize cancer's symptoms, because earlier detection means better outcomes. Symptoms of cancer can mimic those of other diseases. Listen to your body and talk to your doctor if you notice anything out of the ordinary. The American Cancer Society recommends that everyone over age 20 add cancer screening to their regular examinations (tips for early diagnosis can be found on the ACS website — link below).
It is also important to know that all cancers are not alike. For example, we now know that "breast cancer" is not one disease but several different ones; in all, the cancer cells begin growing in the breast, but the cancer cells themselves are different types or may grow in different ways. The same is true for cancers of the colon, lung, blood, etc. Differences in cancers call for different strategies to fight the illness. Traditional treatments for cancer include chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, or some combination of these (often with medicines to help with the side effects of treatment). In recent years, scientists have created new kinds of medicines that fight cancers by targeting the genetic or biologic traits ("biomarkers") of different types of cancer cells. You may have heard this called "personalized medicine." To find out if a "targeted" or "personalized" therapy is available for a particular cancer, the doctor must take out a small piece of the tumor (a biopsy) and test that sample.
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Poet and environmental educator Jim LeCuyer talks about how he created a contest for environmental education programs in San Francisco, and why the creation of a lesson plan for environmental education in schools can have a profound effect on students interested in the environment.
Jim LeCuyer has long merged his twin passions for the environment and the English language. An English teacher by trade, Mr. LeCuyer has brought nature into the classroom by exposing students to the outdoors and working with the Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival and Poetry Flash. A former commercial fisherman, Mr. LeCuyer is an expert angler and can often be found off the coast of California sharing the art of fishing with novices and seasoned anglers alike.
Huey Johnson: You and I are long time fishing partners.
James LaCuyer: That's right.
Huey: And …
James LaCuyer: He's not as good as I.
Huey Johnson: You can see – the viewer will see that Jim would be a very interesting guy to go fishing with. He is up the world in literature and whatever.
James LaCuyer: I have to quote a poem for him every time, what can I do?
Huey Johnson: That's right. You have had a career as a teacher and a very beloved and effective teacher and tell me something about your views of education and environment.
James LaCuyer: Well, I didn't know anything about the environment until maybe about 1968 when a bunch of my students asked me to be the ecology advisor, the ecology club advisor. It turned out what they really wanted was get their photographs in the yearbook and they had to have an advisor. I suppose the other thing that got me in those days was Rachel Carson, not Silent Spring but Under the Sea Wind and The Sea Around Us, which are two great and beautifully written books. For me, thinking back on the ocean and the way everything was, how it used to be with all the fish around, stories of great yellowtail and barracuda under the ocean park amusement pier in the old days and how it had changed. It got me really excited about trying to do something about the way the ocean was.
James LeCuyer: I started teaching in San Francisco at the School of the Arts and I was looking around and I was asking people "well is there any environmental education going on?" And they'd say "Oh yes, of course. There's lots of environmental education." Well it turned out the entire amount of environmental education in San Francisco Unified School District amounted to one class at Galileo High School which affected about 90 kids. So I thought why not establish some environmental program? And I met for like two or three years with Mark Linenthal, Peter Berg of Planet Drum, John Knox of Earth Island and for a while I even touched in with David Brower and Judy Diamond. So we just began to narrow it down and narrow it down and narrow it down and pretty soon it turned out to be a cheap contest, anywhere's from 5 to 10 thousand dollars per school district would run it. You might take one part time volunteer and you might take say 5,000 dollars and offer it to the teachers who within their own subject matter and in any class at any level did something environmental. And it could be judged in a competitive way and so 2 or 3 thousand dollars would be enough to intrigue some classes and some teachers and the idea behind it was once a teacher, even if they don't win, once a teacher establishes an environmental lesson plan they're going to use it. It's going to be successful. In every case where I saw it used, the kids loved it. Finally, one of the classes won and the kids wrote essays and I picked one of the essays and a little girl presented her essay to the school board and they were astonished I think. We were all astonished by the intensity by this one girl who presented this one essay representing all of the essay's that had been written.
James LeCuyer: What I hoped for and what I still dream of is that this little contest could be applied to any school district in the United States. It could change the public school system. It would make them – it would be producing kids who would be interested in the environment. Young people are, you know they're very idealistic and if they go off with that environmental stuff in them, they will prove to be a force. I've heard it said from some people that there's no time to do this, that the issues are too immediate, but it seems to me it has to be done.