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How They Trailed a New Planet (Jun, 1930)
This is a contemporary account of the discovery of Pluto. At the time it had not yet been named. The article lists Atlas, Prometheus, and Pluto as suggested possibilities.
How They Trailed a New Planet
Study of many photos of stars disclosed to a farm boy what may prove a new world where a famous astronomer said it would be. Old theories are upset by find.
A NEW planet has been announced. Out in space, four billion miles beyond the globe we live on, a yellowish object, a little larger than the earth, swings in a vast circle about the sun; a frigid little world, bathed in the dim light of perpetual dusk. Its discovery is called the most important event in astronomy in nearly a hundred years.
A new planet is not found every day. As many of us learned in school, a planet is one of the exclusive company of heavenly bodies that get their light and heat from the sun. They swing about it, as the earth does, in great circular paths, or orbits. These earthlike worlds are so few in number that they may be counted on the fingers.
Six, visible to the naked eye, were known to the ancients. In outward order from the sun they are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Only two more, far-away Uranus and Neptune, were added comparatively recently when peering at the sky with telescopes came into fashion.
Now there is a ninth.
The ninth awaits positive confirmation.
It behaves differently from other planets. Its orbit is so far from a perfect circle, and tilted so askew, that astronomers hesitate to declare it a planet with certainty. Yet its actions are even less like any known comet, or anything else that might be mistaken for a planet.
There is one compelling reason to believe the newcomer is really the ninth planet. Astronomers of the Lowell Observatory, at Flagstaff, Ariz., found it remarkably near the spot where the late Doctor Percival Lowell, founder and director of the observatory, predicted it fifteen years ago. When Clyde Tombaugh, one-time Kansas farm boy who came to the observatory to study astronomy, spotted it as a flash of light on a photographic plate, the long search was believed ended.
Far away as the new planet is—so far that its light, racing through space at 186,000 miles a second, takes six hours to reach our telescopes—its discovery has practical significance for many besides the astronomers.
Even dictionary-makers and book publishers are upset by the discovery. At least two widely-used standard dictionaries felt safe in listing, to round out their definitions of "planet," the names of the first eight, without such qualification as "so far known." Now the dictionaries to be up to date must publish a new edition. Meanwhile, for a brief time, there are no complete books whatever on general astronomy. A New York publisher of school books told Popular Science Monthly that revised editions, probably available next fall, would describe the new planet.
Anyone who has ever had the curiosity to wonder where the earth itself came from is further concerned in the discovery of the new planet, for, astronomers say, it throws a new light on the way the earth was born. Its finding solves other long-standing mysteries of the heavens, too—for instance, wobbles in the motions of Uranus and Neptune, the two planets nearest to it, and strange delays of several days in the returns of Halley's comet, a flashy periodic visitor to our sky.
Yet the planet itself is no easy object to see. Few Americans will ever see it except in photographs. It is far too faint to be seen in the night sky by the naked eye; or, for that matter, through anything short of a sixteen-inch telescope such as a large observatory would possess. Even that would require good "seeing weather." Astronomers classify the planet as of the "fifteenth magnitude" in brightness, which would make it about a thousand times fainter than Neptune.
A concrete picture of this degree of brightness is suggested by Dr. Donald H. Menzel, of the Lick Observatory at Mt. Hamilton, Calif. If mountains, atmosphere, and the earth's curvature did not intervene, astronomers at the Lick Observatory could see New York, 3,000 miles or so away, through their great telescope. Then, if someone stood on top of New York's tallest building and held out a brick in his hand, the sunlight reflected from that single brick would appear about as bright as does the new planet in powerful telescopes. Another example of its brightness is that it corresponds to the light of a tallow candle seen at a distance of 430 miles, the approximate distance between New York and Cleveland, O.
When such an object must be picked out from among some 30,000,000,000 stars in the sky, many of them far brighter, it is no wonder that the world's greatest observatories failed to notice it in the past.
It was picked up first at the Flagstaff observatory because Dr. Percival Lowell had built that lookout post and equipped the turreted dome for the sole purpose of finding it. This he did at his own private expense. He was sure of himself. Working with pencil, paper, and intricate equations, he had already "discovered" the planet, on paper, and predicted exactly where to look for it in the heavens.
How Dr. Lowell could locate so definitely a planet he had never seen is made easier to understand by the parallel case of Neptune's discovery nearly a century ago. This was the second planet really to be "discovered" by astronomers. The first, Uranus, was a lucky find of Sir John Herschel's, when in 1781 he swept the British skies with a homemade seven-inch reflecting telescope. But Neptune's finding was a star-gazing feat backed by mathematics.
URANUS, once found, had failed to follow the eighty-four-year course around the sun that astronomers predicted for it. As if pulled by some invisible hand, it sped ahead of its expected itinerary until 1822; then it began to lag behind. The "invisible hand" was thought to be the pull, by gravity or tidal force, of some unknown planet beyond Uranus. "We see it," Sir John Herschel remarked, "as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain. Its movements have been felt trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration."
It may have been that sincere, if high-sounding, declaration that spurred two men, unknown to each other, to tackle the formidable mathematics necessary to locate the unseen planet — John Couch Adams, in England, and U. J. J. LeVerrier, in France. Adams finished first, but British astronomers who sought the planet at the spot he indicated were too slow. In the meantime, one day in September, 1846, the Frenchman had sent this rather cocky message to Johann Gottfried Galle, an astronomer of the Berlin Observatory :
"Direct your telescope to a point on the ecliptic (the single plane in which all planets revolve about the sun) in the constellation of Aquarius, in longitude 326 deg, and you will find within a degree of that place a new planet, looking like a star of about the ninth magnitude, and having a perceptible disk."
On the night of September 23rd, Galle looked. In half an hour he had found Neptune. LeVerrier was not thrilled. He knew that he simply could not be wrong. He never bothered once during his lifetime to look at his planet through a telescope. But the world hailed the addition of a new planet to the solar system.
NOW Dr. Lowell stepped into the picture. He was one of the first to point out that the new planet Neptune did not, as astronomers had hoped, explain all of Uranus' outlaw conduct. It helped, but minor irregularities still remained. As early as 1902, Dr. Lowell declared he believed that still another planet, beyond Neptune, was responsible for these. In 1915 he published his figures which definitely located, in one of two possible positions at opposite corners of the sky, the unknown planet that was causing Uranus' trouble. Undoubtedly it was troubling Neptune, which was nearer to it, even more. Little information on this point was available, though, since Neptune had completed only a fraction of its circuit around the sun since its discovery. That had forced Lowell to base all his figures on distant Uranus, making his feat all the more remarkable.
The figures were completed just in time, for Lowell died in 1916, the plane still unfound. But he had left an observatory and the best of clues. The search continued, encouraged by the belief of others in a new planet, notably Prof. W. H. Pickering, observer in Jamaica (P.S.M., Aug. '28, p. 60).
Last year came another big aid—the most powerful photographic telescope of its kind in the world, which looks more like a huge camera than a conventional telescope. Its thirteen-inch lenses were ground to an accuracy of better than one millionth of an inch.
It remained for a former farm boy to finish what Dr. Lowell had started. When this nineteen-year-old lad, with a hobby for astronomy, Clyde Tombaugh, graduated from high school at Burdette, Kansas, five years ago, his sister read a class prophecy naming him as the future discoverer of a new world. That prophecy was to come true.
Tombaugh, having successfully applied for a job at the Flagstaff observatory, sat one day last January in front of a "blink microscope," examining fourteen-by-seventeen-inch photographic plates he had just taken of the heavens. The instrument he was using is one of the most modern aids to astronomers. Put in it two plates taken at different times of the same sky region, adjust them until they match perfectly, look in an eyepiece, and operate a lever. A flopping shutter hides first one plate and then the other. Stars, which are fixed in the sky, appear to stand still. But any object that moves or flickers, such as a comet or a planet, stands out like a beacon in contrast to the rest.
THUS Tombaugh had already examined, perhaps, a thousand slides. But now his practiced eye caught a flicker of something new. He stared into the eyepiece. It couldn't be, but it was, the new planet.
"Excited? I should say so!" Tombaugh says. "What did the others say when I called them in to see it? Well, you know how these astronomers are. They are used to thinking in terms of millions of years, and millions of miles. They weren't excited. They said it might possibly be the Lowell planet, but they would have to watch it further to check it with data they had been gathering."
Seven weeks later Dr. V. M. Slipher, the observatory's director, telegraphed to Harvard College Observatory, official center for astronomical news, the epochal announcement:
"Systematic search begun years ago, supplementing Lowell's investigation for a trans-Neptunian planet, has revealed an object which, for seven weeks, has in rate of motion and path consistently conformed to a trans-Neptunian body at the approximate distance he assigned. Fifteenth magnitude; position March 12th, at three hours Greenwich Civil Time, was seven seconds of time west from Delta Geminorum, agreeing with Lowell's predicted longitude."
NOTE, if you please, the commendable reservation of the Lowell telegram. The astronomers did not claim to have discovered the trans-Neptunian planet. They simply stated that the object they had watched for seven anxious weeks had moved as a trans-Neptunian planet should. It might still be a comet, as some British astronomers suggested. The Flagstaff astronomers explained that they had made their announcement "only" seven weeks after sighting the planet simply to give other astronomers a better chance to look at it since it soon would be too low in the evening sky for further observation this year.
As the news flashed from the Harvard center, the great telescopes of the world's observatories swung on their massive trunnions to converge at the point in the sky where the new planet had been discovered — in the star group or constellation known as Gemini. It was no light matter to disrupt the twenty and thirty-year schedules of star study that many observatories are following, even to sight a new planet; but this time, studies of stars, for the moment, were set aside. First the twenty-four-inch reflector of the Yerkes Observatory, at Williams Bay, Wis., picked up and photographed the newly-found member of the solar system. Hardly were the plates developed when Harvard Observatory flashed the news that it had snapped the planet's likeness through its sixteen-inch refractor, by a ninety-minute exposure.
"AS A small but devoted homage to American astronomy," Prof. Emilio Bianchi, director of the Brera Observatory at Milan, Italy, interrupted the important work of its Merate substation to order its powerful Zeiss telescope trained on the new planet. It secured at once two excellent photographs.
Astronomers are clever fellows at learning things about a world visible only as a small speck on a photograph. One rather startling thing they have found out about the new planet is that it seems to resemble the earth more than its nearer neighbors; its faintness suggests that it is solid rather than gaseous or liquid.
No life as we know it could exist on this frigid planet, far removed from the sun's heat. Even on its sunny side, unless it has internal heat such as the earth manifests through volcanoes, its temperature must be 382° F. below zero. If our earth were transported there, its air would liquefy and fall to the ground, where it would freeze. Only hydrogen and helium gases would remain gaseous, and thus would be left for an atmosphere, in such cold as that of the new planet.
If any creature, of some sort utterly unknown on earth, were able to stand the cold, it would not live in total darkness, but in a sort of pearly dusk, midway between day and night. The sun, 4,000,000,000 miles away, would be hardly more than a pin point of light. Yet its glow would still be more than 200 times brighter than the earth's full moon.
The new planet may have moons of its own. But unless the new planet's moons, if any, are big ones, no telescope yet built could see them.
EVEN in the short time that the planet has been known it has made notable contributions to the science of astronomy. At the outset, it is the first of the nine planets ever to be discovered by photography. The new planet's discovery practically doubles the known area of the solar system, or planet-family's, back yard. Its extreme distance from the sun, some astronomers say, kills the old idea that the planets were born by condensation from rings of gas, as raindrops condense from a cloud. No ring could exist of such size as would be required by the new planet, they say, and therefore this old "nebular" theory seems doomed.
Another remaining duty, as this issue goes to press, is to give the planet a name. Curiously, astronomers have already used up many of the most appropriate names in christening the hundreds of asteroids — those tiny bodies, believed to be fragments of a single planet, that revolve between Mars and Jupiter.
This seems to rule out one name, Minerva, suggested for the planet but already given an asteroid. One suggestion was to name the new planet after its prophet, Dr. Lowell. But astronomers believe, from past experience, that only the names of mythological deities, such as those that other planets bear, will stick. Some suggestions so far recorded are Atlas, Prometheus, and Pluto. Other names are pouring in on the astronomers at the Flagstaff observatory, who probably will be entitled to select a name for their planet.
The name may be chosen by the time you read this, thus officially welcoming the newest comer into our family of planets. Who can say whether the future will bring more?


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Description: Hat of red straw. The low, flat-top crown slopes to base, swelling out to form a very narrow brim. The body of the hat is of a loose woven red straw overlaid with strips of woven red straw radiating from the top center of the crown. At the front of the hat is a dark red velvet bow. The interior of the hat is unlined, but the strips of straw continue under the brim, forming a self-lining. Around inside of crown at base is an inner hatband of dark red grosgrain ribbon. Attached to the inner hatband is a black elasticized cord to secure hat to wearer's head. Beneath brim towards back extend small red velvet covered metal(?) loops to help secure hat to wearer's head. Designer's label sewn inside crown: "Gilbert Orcel / Paris / Made in France. Retailer's label sewn to inner hatband: "Henri Bendel / New York"
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The Montello Granite Company of Montello, Wisconsin opened its quarry in about 1880. Soon, 80 to 100 men were employed at the site, doing an annual business of nearly $100,000, and business continued to grow. Stone cutters came from all over Europe. As the most skilled workers, they made the best money – up to $3 a day by 1898, more than twice the pay of polishers or laborers. My great grandfather, Frank Heller, began working in the quarry about 1900, and continued until becoming ill in 1944. He worked as a polisher.
Granite blocks were cut from the stone face and shipped by boat down the Fox River and, later, by a branch of the Wisconsin Central Railway. Formed by slow-cooling masses of molten lava millions of years ago, tests have proven that for durability and strength, there are few granites anywhere that equal Montello granite. Its qualities are so enduring that it will be found standing in many of our cemeteries uninjured long after the monuments and mausoleums constructed out of most kinds of stone have crumbled into decay.
The blocks which were too small or unsuitable for building or monumental work were crushed for macadam, a type of road paving. Many thousands of these blocks were sold in Milwaukee and Chicago. Some of the finest monuments of the country have been constructed from the Montello granite. They may be found by the score in cemeteries in Illinois, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Among the more important pieces include the Custer monument and the monuments to Wisconsin soldiers at Gettysburg and Chickamauga. The sarcophagi for General and Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant at Riverside Park, New York, were hewn from Montello granite, having been selected by a special commission in competition with granite from many parts of the world. These were cut from single large blocks measuring approximately ten feet six inches by five feet six inches by four feet ten inches.
Montello granite has also been used for building purposes. In Chicago, it has been used in the Herald Building, the Stone Building,the Pickard Residence, the Miller Residence, the Kirk Block on Madison Avenue and 55th Street and many others. But, uses for granite fell off and efficiency trailed, and in 1977, the quarry closed.
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The National Commission on Bio-Surveillance (CNB) has been installed by the Royal Decree 1697/2003 and belongs to MAPA. It reports about the development and the application of the monitoring plans for the introduction of GMO varieties as well as on co-existence matters in cultivation.
The Spanish Food Safety Agency (AESA) reports to the Ministry of Health and Consumer Affairs. Its task is the surveillance of the food chain, ensuring the safety of GM foods.
The National Food Centre is part of the AESA. It develops and applies methods for the identification and quantification of GMOs in food products.


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New York's Alexander Gray Associates will host a series of shows centered around single works in a barn upstate this summer, Art News reports. The project will kick off with a show of Harmony Hammond's Bandaged Grid #5 (2016). "Certainly, with the environment that we're in right now, there's so much noise, and there's a big emphasis on spectacle," Gray says. "We're interrupting that really fast-paced rhythm of looking." Read More »
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Artist Lutz Bacher, a relentless innovator whose works frequently defied easy categorization or understanding, has passed away. The artist, who has long avoided releasing much biographical information about herself, was either 75 or 76 at the time of her death. Read More »
The Metropolitan Museum of Art will no longer accept gifts from members of the Sackler family linked to the maker of OxyContin. "The museum takes a position of gratitude and respect to those who support us, but on occasion, we feel it's necessary to step away from gifts that are not in the public interest, or in our institution's interest," said Daniel H. Weiss, the president of the Met. "That is what we're doing here." Read More »
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text: Being a mixture of video game and interactive animated cartoon, DOFUS brings a new concept within online games. With its graphics inspired by mangas, its tactical gameplay and its scathing humour, this game created a class of its own among other MMORPG. Experienced players are attracted by its unique fighting system based on strategy, which is quite rare in MMORPG. Casual players also like it for being easily accessible.


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MARION — Dorothy Elnora (Waner) Hoffman, 82, passed away April 1, 2013, at St. Luke Hospital in Marion, Kan. She was born in Florence, Kan., on April 28, 1930, the daughter of Andy M. and Frances (Garrison) Waner.
On Jan. 2, 1950, she was united in marriage to Roger Hoffman from Hancock, Maryland.
Dorothy was a loving wife, mom and grandma with a lifelong love for gardening. She was a member of the Holy Family Parish, attending St. Patrick's Church in Florence and St. Mark's Church in Marion. She was active in St. Patrick's Altar Society where she was president for many years. Her faith was very important to Dorothy and she always kept a special place in her heart for St. Patrick's Church.
She was preceded in death by her husband Roger; a sister, Ruth Garland; and three brothers, Paul, Robert, and John Waner.
Survivors include her three children, son Wayne Hoffman and his wife Wendy of Marion, and daughters Cindy Pierce and her husband Rick of Mico, Texas, and Dawn Buchanan and Mike Carr of Marion; two brothers, Vernon Waner and his wife Henrietta of Marion and George Waner and his wife Wanda of Junction City; eight grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren and one on the way.
Funeral services were held on Friday, April 5, 2013, at Holy Family Parish-St. Patrick's Church in Florence, with Fr. Darin May presiding. Interment was in the Mt. Calvary Cemetery, Florence.
A memorial fund has been established for Mt. Calvary Cemetery Cross Restoration. All gifts should be made payable to Zeiner Funeral Home, 205 Elm, Marion, KS 66861.


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Texas 12-Year Old Banned From Playing Football
Six feet tall and 300 pounds sounds like a good size to play football. But apparently that's too big at age 12, and in that case league rules say the boy will have to stay on the sidelines.
Fox Sports Southwest did a story that many media outlets are covering, on the 12-year old boy from Mesquite, near Dallas, who was told after a weigh-in Sunday that he wouldn't be able to play.
There is a 135-pound weight limit in the league, and that since Elijah Earnheart is more than double that weight, he's banned from playing. The league said Elijah wasn't the only player banned this season.
As a parent of girls, I'm happy I don't have to worry about them getting hurt during a football game. If I had boys, I'd worry they might get squished. What do you think? Is the league right in issuing weight limits, or should all kids be allowed to play?


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John Constantine Unitas played quarterback for 18 seasons in the National Football League.
Unitas, also affectionately known as "Johnny U," was a member of the Baltimore Colts for 17 years, and he finished his career with the San Diego Chargers. Unitas threw for 40,239 yards and 290 touchdowns in his career.
Uniats was born on May 7, 1933 in Pittsburgh, Pa., and died on Sept. 11, 2002, in Timonium, Md. Towson University's football stadium is named in honor of Unitas.


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The Patriots have signed rookie cornerback Justin Green, the club said Sunday.
Green, 22, made 16 combined starts in his final two seasons at Illinois. He recorded 36 tackles in 12 games (11 starts) in 2012.
Green was a collegiate teammate of Patriots tight end Michael Hoomanawanui, safety Tavon Wilson and defensive lineman Michael Buchanan.
With Green joining the club, the Patriots now have 89 players, one short of the limit of 90, according to the club's online roster and when adding Green to those listed.
The Patriots' first training camp practice is Friday.


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The parents are entitled by right to kind and dutiful treatment from their children. Since this is an important duty which Allah has taken care to emphasize so strongly, it is essential for every human being to know what constitutes kind treatment of parents. It is no exaggeration to say that for a believer, to be a dutiful son or daughter is to take the way which surely leads to heaven.
We note first that Islam uses the Arabic word birr in connection with children's attitude towards their parents. The term connotes kindness, compassion, benevolence and almost every aspect of good and generous treatment of others. One of Allah's own attributes is derived from this root. Allah is the "Barr," which means that His kindness, compassion, grace and generosity never fail. Scholars say that this term includes everything which is good.
Muslim scholars divide 'birr' into two main branches; financial and non-financial. In respect of son/parent relationship, if either or both parents are poor, a son must support them according to his means. This is not a matter of choice. Islam makes it a duty on the son to look after his parents, providing them with the same standard of living as he provides for his own children. If he is well off, to go beyond the mere provision of what is necessary for a decent living so as to allow his parents to share in the comforts and luxuries which he can afford is to make an investment for the hereafter. Nothing goes amiss with Allah. He is so pleased with any son and daughter who please their parents.
Looking for Allah's reward, some people make their parents feel that whatever they own is theirs as well. They can use it in the way they please. Although some people are careless how they spend their money, most parents are more careful when it comes to spending their children's money than spending their own. So, to make one's parents feel that they do not live on their son's charity is to give them that little extra which makes the difference between feeling oneself to be a burden and feeling perfectly at home. The more a parent feels happy and contented with his child, the more Allah is pleased with that child. Moreover, a parent pays his child back immediately. This takes the form of praying Allah for him. Such a prayer by parents for their children, which for Muslims, normally takes the form of "May Allah be pleased with you," is certain to be answered. When Allah is pleased with someone, He helps him or her overcome their difficulties, eases their hardships and guides them to success in life.
The duty required of children with respect to financial support of their parents is to provide them with what is reasonable according to their means. A son of moderate means cannot be expected to provide his parents with the same standard of living as a much wealthier son. Although we speak of this as kind treatment by children, it is indeed a repayment of a debt. Parents look after their children when they are young and helpless. They provide them with all they need according to their means: Moreover, they do it willingly. A child takes what he or she is given unaware of how much effort his father puts in order to earn his money. When the child grows up and his parents are in need of his support, that support must come naturally, without letting the parents feel themselves to be a burden on their children.
Apart from financial support, a child must respect and honour his parents and extend to them the sort of treatment which befits their position as parents. In any social occasion, and even when they go out together on the street, a son must not precede his father or take a higher or more favourable position than his. He should always allow him to take precedence. In Muslim society, that sort of treatment always earns the child more respect. Muslim society looks down on anyone who does not extend to his parents the standard of honourable treatment expected from children.
Moreover, a child is expected to do as his parents tell him. From the Islamic point of view, this does not apply only when a child is young. As long as a son or a daughter is able to grant the wishes of their parents, and by doing so they neither incur any sin, nor jeopardize any greater interest, then they should do so as if these wishes of their parents were commands. There is nothing excessive in this. It does not impose a great, heavy burden. Normally, a parent is easy to please. Even when parents ask for something which is difficult to obtain, a child can manoeuvre his way to please his parents without undertaking any great difficulty. Some parents may be unreasonable in their demands, especially when they live with their son in his home. Relations between his wife and his mother may be occasionally strained. A mother may feel that her daughter-in-law takes her son away from her. That may lead to friction between the two. A wise son tries his best to reconcile his mother's rights with those of his wife. He must not be unfair to either. Should his mother ask him to divorce his wife, he must not do so if his wife fulfils her duties toward him and his mother. All that a daughter-in-law is required to do towards her mother-in-law is to look after her in a reasonable manner.
Even in such kind treatment, a child is only paying back a debt to his parents. No matter how great a burden he bears, he does not pay them back adequately. It is very rare that a parent is so ill and handicapped that he or she need to be looked after in the same way as a baby is looked after by his parents. Abdullah ibn Umar, a leading scholar among the Prophet's (Pbuh) companions once saw a man from Yemen carrying his mother on his back and going around the Ka'abah in his tawaf. Rather than show any sign of complaint, the man was happy, repeating a line of poetry in which he likened himself to a camel his mother was mounting. The only difference is that a camel may be scared by something and go out of control. He would never go out of her control. He looked at Abdullah ibn Umar and asked him whether by so doing he discharged his debt to his mother. Ibn Umar said: "No. You have not even paid back one twinge of her labour pain when she gave birth to you."
That was not an exaggeration by Ibn Umar. The Prophet (Pbuh) defines the only way through which a child repays his parents fully. He says, as related by Al-Bukahri in his book Al-Adab Al-Mufrad and by Muslim and others on the authority of Abu Hurairah: "No child repays his parent fully unless he finds him a slave, then he buys him and sets him free."


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We had ours with maple syrup, and the whole thing was just outrageously delicious. Also, thanks to the whole grain bread, and the peanut butter, it wasn't a crazy sugary gut bomb. Definitely an experiment I'll repeat! (next time, we might try a PB&J french toast sandwich!)


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BOSTON, Mass. - With two goals and an assist from junior Marcus Pizzetti (Malden, Mass.) men's soccer recorded their 10th win of the year as they defeated Massachusetts Maritime Academy by the final of 4-0 Tuesday afternoon at Clark Athletic Center Field.
The victory marks only the eighth time in program history that the Beacons have recorded 10 or more wins in a season. The last was in 2011 when they closed out the campaign with 11 victories under former head coach Myles Berry. UMass Boston now stands at 10-6-1, while the Buccaneers fell to 6-6-2.
For Pizzetti his five point performance marked the first time the junior forward has recorded at least one goal and one assist in a match since October 9 in the 4-0 win over Emerson College. His showing on Tuesday also marked the second most points recorded in a single game by the Malden native, with his career-high still standing strong at eight.
Tuesday's victory also brought an end to a two-game skid for the Beacons, which started last Tuesday with a tough 1-0 loss to MASCAC opponent Worcester State University.
On the day UMB dominated play outshooting the Buccaneers 20-8 with 50% of those shots ending up on goal. The shutout by Alfonso Rosales (Revere, Mass.) marked his third complete blanking of the year as he made four stops.
UMass Boston wasted little time getting on the scoreboard in the their final non-conference game of the 2013 regular season as Edmilson Barros (Boston, Mass.) scored his 12th marker of the year just five minutes. After receiving a long pass from Matheus Reis (Somerville, Mass.) the freshman drove the ball to the near post which caught the Buccaneers Joe Cohen by surprise.
From there the match would remain 1-0 in favor of the home team from approximately 26 minutes until Pizzetti was able to record his first tally of the afternoon. The junior hit a perfect one-timer to the far post after Paul Erne (San Diego, Calif.) made a quick pass to his teammate right outside the box. The assist was the first in the career of Erne.
After the halftime break, Lucas Ordosgoitia (Cartagena, Colombia) extended the Beacons lead to three when he flicked a perfectly placed corner kick from Pizzetti to the far post upper corner. The goal was the second of the year for the junior defender. The final goal of the match, which belonged to Pizzetti, came on a low hard cross into the Massachusetts Maritime goal box from Miguel Alcantar (San Diego, Calif.) just moments after he entered the match.
On top of leading the match in shots, the Beacons also held a 4-1 advantage in corner kicks.
For the Buccaneers Cohen made a combined six stops, while Rob Robbs registered two of his team's four shots on goal.
Men's Soccer returns to action on Saturday when they host Plymouth State University at 1 p.m. in a huge Little East Conference match. Prior to the start of the match, the Beacons will honor their two senior members.


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The Black Donnellys (2007) is an American television drama about four brothers in Hell's Kitchen and their involvement in organized crime. It was created by Paul Haggis and Robert Moresco.
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- 1 Season 1
- 1.1 Pilot [1.1]
- 1.2 A Stone of the Heart [1.2]
- 1.3 God Is a Comedian [1.3]
- 1.4 The World Will Break Your Heart [1.4]
- 1.5 Lies [1.5]
- 1.6 Run Like Hell [1.6]
- 1.7 The Only Thing Sure [1.7]
- 1.8 In Each One a Savior [1.8]
- 1.9 All of Us Are in the Gutter [1.9]
- 1.10 When the Door Opens [1.10]
- 1.11 Wasn't That Enough [1.11]
- 1.12 The Black Drop [1.12]
- 1.13 Easy Is the Way [1.13]
- 2 Cast
- 3 External links
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Pilot [1.1][edit]
- Jimmy: Hey, no banging the machines!
- Joey: What? It took my money.
- Jimmy: It's supposed to take your money!
- Joey: The Irish have always been victims of negative stereotypes. I mean people think we're all drunks and brawlers and sometimes it makes you so mad all you wanna do is get drunk and punch somebody!
- Kevin: Tommy. Me and Jimmy went downtown with goodness in our hearts to work out a deal. But Louie starts threatening me, I mean what was I supposed to do?
- Tommy: Kevin, everybody knows who did this. You kidnap somebody, they're not supposed to know who you are.
- Kevin: Tommy, you think we're stupid? We wore masks!
- Tommy: You went down there with goodness in your hearts but you wore masks?
- Jenny: [to Tommy, at the hospital after Sean was beaten up] You know when I heard about it, the person who told me thought it was you. I thought, what if he dies and he never knows... that I loved him. Dumb, huh? I mean, I'm a married woman, nothing's ever gonna happen. I just can't stand the idea of you dying and not knowing that.
- Tommy: Where are you going?
- Kevin: Wherever you are.
- Joey: I was the only one who saw, the only one who knew that it was Tommy driving the car. And to this day it's the one thing I never told anybody. I'm ashamed to be telling you now. Tommy never stole a car again, never did nothing, turned his whole life around. I mean he could have made it out, only he was never going to let his brother get hurt again. And this was the day that changed Jimmy's life forever, 'cause Jimmy went to rehab. And Tommy? Tommy became everything he never wanted.
A Stone of the Heart [1.2][edit]
God Is a Comedian [1.3][edit]
The World Will Break Your Heart [1.4][edit]
Lies [1.5][edit]
Run Like Hell [1.6][edit]
The Only Thing Sure [1.7][edit]
In Each One a Savior [1.8][edit]
All of Us Are in the Gutter [1.9][edit]
When the Door Opens [1.10][edit]
Wasn't That Enough [1.11][edit]
The Black Drop [1.12][edit]
Easy Is the Way [1.13][edit]
- Jonathan Tucker as Tommy Donnelly
- Tom Guiry as Jimmy Donnelly
- Billy Lush as Kevin Donnelly
- Michael Stahl-David as Sean Donnelly
- Olivia Wilde as Jenny Reilly
- Keith Nobbs as Joey Ice Cream
- Kirk Acevedo as Nicky Cottero
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Yahoo has just acquired Propeld, the maker of a local-recommendations app called Alike, according to Alike's website.
TechCrunch, which first reported the deal, speculates that Yahoo will use Alike's technology to pull data from Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare to recommend nearby businesses.
We're not so sure. That's because a source on Yahoo's M&A team told us last month that the company wanted to buy—in our paraphrase—"small, failed startups with excellent teams for very little money."
So that seems like a backhanded compliment for the Propeld team. More likely, they'll go to work on other Yahoo mobile projects—a typical pattern for such acquire-hire deals.
The statement on the Alike website hints at this:
We've always been passionate about the growing power of intelligent mobile experiences. We believe that distilled information, deeply personalized and made accessible anytime and anywhere, is what makes mobile experiences a part of our customers' daily lives.
In Yahoo we've found a team as excited about this vision as we are, and who are serious about making it real. We're super excited to join Yahoo's mobile team, where we can march toward that vision faster than ever.
The Alike app will shut down.
Propeld is currently based in the Seattle area. GeekWire reports that the team is relocating to Yahoo's headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., and its San Francisco office.
On LinkedIn, we found the following team members:
Since Marissa Mayer became CEO, Yahoo has made two other acquisitions, Stamped and OnTheAir—both small mobile startups.
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All of our faculty members conduct research to advance knowledge within their disciplines. Depending on the field, their research might result in a published article or book, or in a new creative work of art. A number of research efforts have become formalized into centers and institutes, where collaborations often take place across the traditional disciplines. Faculty research and expertise extend in many ways to the learning opportunities available to students. Indeed, our faculty have gained a national reputation for their innovative approaches, including the College's Faculty-Student Research Initiative.
Many undergraduates first experience research through their freshman seminar class. As students move through the curriculum, they can choose to complete an independent research project or a senior honors project. Our faculty members mentor student projects and occasionally involve students in their own research projects. This can result in co-authored papers or co-presentations at conferences. Undergraduate Research Week, an annual event, is an opportunity for students to present their research results.
Each year, our graduate students showcase their research at the Graduate Research Symposium.
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|Garnisonsmenigheten parish in Oslo, Norway where my great-grandfather and grandfather were Christened.
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Sunday, June 16, 2013
Church Record Sunday - Finding Treasure in Norwegian Church Records
I never thought I would be glad about the three years of Latin I took in high school. Remember the old saying "Latin is a dead language, dead as it can be. First it killed the Romans, now it's killing me."? My friends and I chanted that almost as often as we chanted "Veni, Vidi, Vici". That was before I became interested in genealogy. Most European church records are written in a mixture of the language of the country (Swedish, French, German, etc) and Latin. Knowing some Latin makes it much easier to interpret church records. Church records are an extremely important resource in tracing your family tree.
Norwegian church records, for example, have a very subtle way of recording legitimacy. Unlike other countries there is no column to indicate legitimate/illegitimate. Rather the names of the parents are recorded in reverse order. In other words, usually the father's name and place of birth would be recorded first followed by the name and place of birth of the mother. Illegitimacy is indicated by the juxtaposition of the father and mother's information. The christening records show the parents place of birth of the parents. This can help take you back another generation and reveal collateral relatives. A tip I received from a Norwegian researcher was to check the confirmation records to see if someone had survived childhood. This helps to make sure you are not trying to find someone who had died in childhood and can thus narrow your line of research. Norwegians were required by law to be confirmed before they could marry.
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As of Jan. 1, 2012 the Animal Shelter of Martha's Vineyard became a fully independent, federally chartered, not-for-profit organization.
Since 2009, more than 300 dogs, cats, guinea pigs, bunnies and other Island pets have found a home through the Animal Shelter of Martha's Vineyard.
Located on Pennywise Path in Edgartown, the shelter was built in 1934 by the late Kitty Foote. In 1947 Kitty appealed to the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (MSPCA) to take over the operation of the shelter. The society agreed and for the next 50 years managed and ran an MSPCA at the site of Ms. Foote's Animal Rescue League.
In 2009, a financial shortfall forced the MSCPA to plan a closing of the Island facility. Through a public-private partnership formed by volunteers and Dukes County, the Animal Shelter of Martha's Vineyard was created. For two years the MSPCA provided an open-ended, no-cost lease for the group to use the facility
In late 2011 plans were made by the MSPCA to give the building and land of the facility to the Animal Shelter of Martha's Vineyard at no cost.
Through the efforts of many over more than 70 years, Ms. Foote, the MSPCA, Dukes County, and the generosity of so many people, the domestic animals of Martha's Vineyard continue to have a safe shelter and an advocate to find them safe, loving and permanent homes.
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Robert Altman, (born February 20, 1925, Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.—died November 20, 2006, Los Angeles, California), unconventional and independent American motion-picture director, whose works emphasize character and atmosphere over plot in exploring themes of innocence, corruption, and survival. Perhaps his best-known film was his first and biggest commercial success, the antiwar comedy M*A*S*H (1970).
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Altman, the son of a well-to-do insurance man, was a member of a prominent family in Kansas City, Missouri. From his junior year of high school through the beginning of his college education, he attended the Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington, Missouri. In 1945 he joined the U.S. Army Air Forces, serving as a pilot until 1947. After a failed attempt as an entrepreneur and a sojourn in Los Angeles, Altman took a job with the Calvin Company in Kansas City, where he directed dozens of industrial films. In 1957 he shot The Delinquents, a drama about juvenile delinquency, in Kansas City with a cast that included Tom Laughlin (later the star of the 1970s cult film Billy Jack). Altman also codirected, with George W. George (son of cartoonist Rube Goldberg), the documentary The James Dean Story (1957). That film, released two years after the actor's death, brought Altman to the attention of the television industry, in which he would work for years, directing episodes of Combat, Bonanza, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents, among many other programs.
In the 1950s and '60s Altman made a number of short films, and in 1964 he directed the television movie Nightmare in Chicago. It was not until 1967, however, that he directed another feature film, the meticulously realized, documentary-flavoured space adventure Countdown (1968), with Robert Duvall and James Caan playing astronauts. Altman went to Canada to shoot That Cold Day in the Park (1969), a portentous modern gothic drama starring Sandy Dennis as a disturbed spinster who brings home a young drifter, with dire consequences.
M*A*S*H and the 1970s
Altman's next film, M*A*S*H (1970), was a phenomenal success. Released at the height of the Vietnam War, this brilliant black comedy was set during the Korean War but transparently was a reflection on the more recent conflict. The performances by Elliott Gould and Donald Sutherland as the madcap surgeons Hawkeye and Trapper John, respectively, struck a chord with the American counterculture in their refusal to bow to authority, and Sally Kellerman and Duvall provided superb support. Altman's use of overlapping dialogue was a startling innovation at the time and became an Altman hallmark thereafter, and his cutting suddenly from bawdy slapstick to the shocking horrors of war disturbed the complacency of viewers in a way few Hollywood movies had ever done. Altman was nominated for an Academy Award for best director, and the film was nominated for best picture. M*A*S*H put Altman in position to make the kind of films that he wanted to for a long time.
He used his newfound carte blanche to make the relentlessly quirky, fabulist Brewster McCloud (1970), with Bud Cort as a nerd who wants to fly inside the Houston Astrodome (the world's first domed stadium). Despite its inventive cinematography, the film met with mixed reviews and failed commercially. Audiences and critics both initially had a lukewarm response to Altman's next film, McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971), but, as time passed, praise grew for this revisionist "anti-western," Cowritten by Altman, it was a film of rare beauty, set at the turn of the 20th century in a boomtown in the Pacific Northwest, and it offered a symbolic critique of corporate capitalism. Warren Beatty delivered an especially appealing performance as John McCabe, a rather dense small-time gambler whose ambitions prove too big for him, and Julie Christie played Mrs. Miller, a canny brothel madam who loves but cannot save him. Altman's use of overlapping dialogue and sound, the film's patient pacing, and a lingering camera together convey a sense of atmospheric naturalism that is deftly augmented by a dreamy score by singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen and the poetic cinematography of Vilmos Zsigmond. Altman next made the ambitious Images (1972), which starred Susannah York as a disturbed woman who has trouble separating fantasy from reality. Although it was carefully constructed and beautifully shot, and it was also likened to the work of Ingmar Bergman by some critics and to that of Joseph Losey by others, it received only a limited release.
With the The Long Goodbye (1973) Altman reworked another classic genre. This time he deconstructed the iconic hard-boiled private eye at the centre of so much film noir. Gould provided an aggressively antiheroic, ignoble portrayal of Philip Marlowe, the protagonist in the 1953 novel by Raymond Chandler on which the film was based. Altman's film hews close to Chandler's plot, simply transposing the time frame to contemporary Los Angeles, but his deliberately provocative tone did not sit well with many moviegoers.
Some critics lauded the inventive use of radio to comment on events and the period details in Thieves Like Us (1974), Altman's adaptation of Edward Anderson's 1937 novel about a Bonnie-and-Clyde-like gang of bank robbers. Others felt the film fell short of Nicholas Ray's treatment of the same source material in They Live by Night (1949). California Split (1974) was a loosely structured, almost existential meditation on the joy and despair of gambling, with Elliott Gould and George Segal as a pair of cardsharps trying to score big in a high-stakes poker game in Reno, Nevada. The improvisational acting so central to Altman's filmmaking process is prominently on display in California Split. Altman seldom used a shooting script and disdained conventional narratives. Instead, he usually worked from a general concept and expected his actors to familiarize themselves with the details of the story's historical period or social milieu and to be prepared to improvise dialogue and actions. Altman's faith in chance and his dependence on his collaborators was partly based on his development of a group of actors, akin to a traditional theatrical stock company, who were familiar with his process.
Many of those repertory players—Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, Michael Murphy, Gwen Welles, and Bert Remsen, among others—helped Altman take his exploration of free-form narrative to another level in Nashville (1975), a wildly inventive profile of some two dozen characters who congregate in the city of Nashville over the course of a weekend—some to attend a political rally, some to break into the music business, and some for seemingly no real reason at all. Aided by Lily Tomlin, Ronee Blakely, Karen Black, and Barbara Harris, Altman wove from diverse threads an impressionistic tapestry that somehow conveys the essence of the American dream. The film received near-unanimous accolades from critics, performed well commercially, and garnered a raft of Academy Award nominations, including for best picture and best director.
Coming in the wake of this masterpiece, Buffalo Bill and the Indians; or, Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976) was viewed by many as a major letdown. Altman's adaptation (with Alan Rudolph) of Arthur Kopit's 1969 play Indians starred Paul Newman as Buffalo Bill Cody, who is revealed to be a far cry from the mythic frontiersman of dime-novel fame. Despite Altman's biggest budget to date (provided by producer Dino De Laurentiis) and a fine cast that included Burt Lancaster, Harvey Keitel, and Geraldine Chaplin, the film was a commercial and critical failure, which resulted in the canceling of Altman's contract to direct a film version of E.L. Doctorow's novel Ragtime (eventually made by Miloš Forman). Undaunted, Altman acted as producer, director, and writer for Three Women (1977). A mystical investigation into the nature of identity (based on a dream Altman had), with Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek, and Janice Rule, it polarized critics. Altman and his production company, Lion's Gate Films, also played an important role in supporting the career of director Alan Rudolph, whose Welcome to L.A. (1976) and Remember My Name (1978) were produced by Altman.
For the remainder of the decade, Altman directed a series of films for Twentieth Century-Fox that were received by filmgoers and critics with increasing indifference. A Wedding (1978) revolved around dozens of characters, and the allegorical science-fiction mystery Quintet (1979) starred Newman. Neither H.E.A.L.T.H. (1979), despite a cast that included James Garner, Carol Burnett, Lauren Bacall, Glenda Jackson, and Alfre Woodard, nor A Perfect Couple (1979) were given a theatrical release.
1980s and '90s
By the early 1980s the American film industry had begun its obsession with big-concept blockbuster films, and Altman's direction of Paramount's big-budget musical Popeye (1980), with Robin Williams in the title role, seemed to have kept the filmmaker in the Hollywood mainstream. That Altman was an unusual choice for the project seemed immaterial until the film failed to deliver the sort of big profits the studio had expected. Thereafter the major studios turned their backs on Altman, whose filmmaking approach they now deemed too unconventional, iconoclastic, and, ultimately, unmarketable. As a result, Altman spent the 1980s working on smaller projects, many of which were low-budget adaptations of stage plays.
Using Super 16-mm cameras, he took 19 days to film Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982), a play he had directed on Broadway. Black, Sandy Dennis, and Cher starred. Streamers (1983), adapted by David Rabe from his Broadway play, focused on a group of army inductees waiting in their barracks for the call to Vietnam, and Secret Honor (1984), shot on 16-mm film at the University of Michigan, captured the one-man show in which Philip Baker Hall ranted and raved as Richard Nixon.
Altman also directed The Laundromat (1985) for Canadian television; made a film version of Sam Shepard's claustrophobic play Fool for Love in 1985, with Shepard playing one of the leading roles; and adapted Christopher Durang's play Beyond Therapy in 1987. The teen comedy O.C. & Stiggs had marked a brief return to work for a major studio (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), but it lingered long on the shelf before receiving a release in 1985. Prominent among Altman's television work during this period were The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (1988) for CBS; the groundbreaking HBO political satire Tanner '88 (1988), a collaboration with cartoonist Garry Trudeau that revolved around the campaign of a presidential candidate played by Murphy and that included interactions with real-life politicians; and Vincent & Theo (1990), which originated as a miniseries for European television.
Altman made a triumphant return to the big screen in 1992 with The Player, a corrosive portrait of the film industry that hinged on a particularly potent performance by Tim Robbins, as a rising studio executive who kills to advance his career, and that included an abundance of cameos by well-known actors. Altman was nominated for an Academy Award as best director, and the film received a nomination for best picture. He was nominated again for his direction of Short Cuts (1993), an ambitious, three-hour-plus adaptation of nine short stories by Raymond Carver that was reminiscent of Nashville in its character-driven kaleidoscopic structure. Less accomplished than these two efforts was Prêt-à-Porter (1994), an impressionistic look at the world of Paris couture that reteamed iconic actors Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni.
Set in the 1930s in Altman's birthplace, Kansas City (1996) features Harry Belafonte as crime lord and Dermot Mulroney as a cocky young gangster. Some critics found its story to be neither memorable nor original but were more complimentary of its depiction of Kansas City's rich jazz heritage. Like so many of Altman's films, The Gingerbread Man (1998) boasted a fascinating cast—including Kenneth Branagh, Tom Berenger, Robert Downey, Jr., Darryl Hannah, and Robert Duvall—but some critics questioned whether Altman had been the best choice to take on the thriller by John Grisham that was the film's source. Better received was Cookie's Fortune (1999), a study of the effects of a local woman's death on a small Southern town populated by eccentric but winning characters, brought to life by one of Altman's most colourful casts—Glenn Close, Julianne Moore, Charles S. Dutton, Liv Tyler, Ned Beatty, Lyle Lovett, and Patricia Neal.
Final years
Altman remained an active filmmaker in the early 21st century until his death. Dr. T & The Women (2000), with Richard Gere cleverly cast as a charismatic gynecologist who caters to wealthy society scions, proved to be one of the most commercially successful films of Altman's late career. Gosford Park (2001), a hybrid of murder mystery and comedy of manners that was set on an English country estate in the early 1930s, earned Altman the last Academy Award nomination of his career for best director. The film was also nominated as best picture. The Company (2003), an episodic examination of one season of the Joffrey Ballet company of Chicago, followed. Altman's final film was A Prairie Home Companion (2006), based on Garrison Keillor's popular radio series.
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McCabe and Mrs. Miller, 1971; Nashville, 1975; Three Women, 1977) and Kubrick ( A Clockwork Orange, 1971; The Shining, 1980), American Film Institute graduate Terrence Malick ( Badlands, 1973; Days of Heaven, 1978), and controversial newcomer Cimino ( The Deerhunter, 1978; Heaven's Gate). In addition,…
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The Band Perry Perform 'If I Die Young' on Dick Clark's 'New Year's Rockin' Eve'
The Band Perry performed their smash crossover hit 'If I Die Young,' which truly put the threesome on the map, at Dick Clark's big party last night (Dec. 31). The trio soared through the song on 'New Year's Rockin' Eve.' The event took place in both New York and Hollywood, with the Bant Perry's performance airing from the West Coast.
The stage set up had a bit of a romantic vibe, with a big red rose on the screen behind the stage, which matched Kimberly Perry's pretty party dress. She wore a ruched red satin mini with a tiered skirt and black boots along with an a eye-catching, statement necklace while strumming away at her guitar.
Despite the song's heavy lyrical content, the Band Perry obviously had a great time playing the song, smiling and swaying to the beat from start to finish. 2011 was their year, and let's hope the momentum continues to roll through 2012.
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This page lists all the places where The Roxbury either appeared on television or in a video that we would like to share with you.
Did you see The Roxbury somewhere that's not listed below? Drop us a quick note - we'll love you forever.
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| TLC Network's "Insane Bathrooms"
April, 2013
TLC's "Insane Bathrooms" scours the porcelain globe and finds 10 of the most insane bathrooms in the world - The Roxbury was one of their selections. Watch episode here.
| Animal Planet's "Tanked"
April, 2013
Animal Planet's "Tanked" features The Roxbury's most opulent suite, The Archaeologist's Digs, as the backdrop for an episode of Animal Planet's hit show. A 400 gallon saltwater aquarium becomes the focal point of both the living room and bathroom of the suite. Watch episode here.
| HGTV Special
February, 2013
HGTV's "Americas Best Kept Secrets" features The Roxbury on a new special where they call The Roxbury one of the most amazing hotels in the entire country. Watch episode here.
| Video: Interview with Stephen Fries
August, 2012
Interview with Stephen Fries (who writes for the New Haven Register and Connecticut Magazine, and has had articles appear in the Wall Street Journal and many others) about the Genies Bottle bathroom and other tidbits of info about The Roxbury.
| Video: New York State Hospitality & Tourism Association
March, 2012
2012 Tourism Executive of the Year for New York State.
| Video: Roxbury Guests Video: Surprise for our Wives
August, 2011
Surprise for our Wives.
We debated and debated about whether or not to put this video on our website. Its shot by two husbands who surprised their wives with a weekend at The Roxbury and captured their surprise on video. They wound up getting a tour of some of the rooms on the property on the morning of their checkout before the rooms had been cleaned and they shot video of that as well. They edited it all together and gave it to us. It's long and there is no fancy lighting, no actors, no scripts, and no perfectly staged rooms to make everything look like Architectural Digest. But they captured something about what we want The Roxbury to be that touched our hearts. Thank you!
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GIS For Dummies
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ISBN: 978-0-470-52150-2 March 2009 384 Pages
Whether you're in charge of creating GIS applications for your business or you simply love maps, you'll find GIS For Dummies is packed with information. For example, you can:
- Learn all the hardware and software necessary to collect, analyze, and manipulate GIS data
- Explore the difference between 2D and 3D maps, create a map, or manage multiple maps
- Analyze patterns that appear in maps and interpret the results
- Measure distance in absolute, comparative, and functional ways
- Recognize how spatial factors relate to geographic data
- Discover how GIS is used in business, the military, city planning, emergency services, land management, and more
- Find out how GIS can help you find out where flooding may occur
- Determine what your organization needs, do appropriate analyses, and actually plan and design a GIS system
You'll find dozens of applications for GIS queries and analyses, and even learn to create animated GIS output. Whether your goal is to implement a GIS or just have fun, GIS For Dummies will get you there!
Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
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Introduction 1
Part I: GIS: Geography on Steroids 7
Chapter 1: Seeing the Scope of GIS 9
Chapter 2: Recognizing How Maps Show Information 23
Chapter 3: Reading, Analyzing, and Interpreting Maps 39
Part II: Geography Goes Digital 57
Chapter 4: Creating a Conceptual Model 59
Chapter 5: Understanding the GIS Data Models 73
Chapter 6: Keeping Track of Data Descriptions 93
Chapter 7: Managing Multiple Maps 109
Chapter 8: Gathering and Digitizing Geographic Data 117
Part III: Retrieving, Counting, and Characterizing Geography 135
Chapter 9: Finding Information in Raster Systems 137
Chapter 10: Finding Features in Vector Systems 147
Chapter 11: Searching for Geographic Objects, Distributions, and Groups 65
Part IV: Analyzing Geographic Patterns 181
Chapter 12: Measuring Distance 183
Chapter 13: Working with Statistical Surfaces 199
Chapter 14: Exploring Topographical Surfaces 213
Chapter 15: Working with Networks 225
Chapter 16: Comparing Multiple Maps 239
Chapter 17: Map Algebra and Model Building 253
Part V: GIS Output and Application 277
Chapter 18: Producing Cartographic Output 279
Chapter 19: Generating Non-Cartographic Output 293
Chapter 20: GIS in Organizations 301
Part VI: The Part of Tens 315
Chapter 21: Ten GIS Software Vendors 317
Chapter 22: Ten Questions to Ask Potential Vendors 329
Chapter 23: Ten GIS Data Sources 333
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You may have read about Jeffrey's new project with Steve Kilbey of the Church in the Mobile Register (see Lawrence Specker's fantastic article below). Jeffrey, a former Mobilian, teamed with Kilbey nearly ten years ago (following the Remy Zero 'rest') and collaborated on an album while being in different continents! This time out they put the songs together in the same room (for the most part) for 'Life Somewhere Else'.
Hears a couple tracks for your wandering ears to rest on.
More info: communicatingvessels.net and soundisidore.com[display_podcast]
From the Mobile Press Register, by Lawrence Specker
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Jeffrey Cain, Steve Kilbey continue Isidore collaboration with 'Life Somewhere Else'
The music comes from another continent. From another world. From another time. From a dream. The sound is dense, layered, deep; the vocals are dreamy, yet the lyrics overflow with crystalline imagery.
The conventional thing to say would be that Isidore has returned. But it might be more accurate to say that a door has been opened so that listeners can return to Isidore.
Either way you look at it, the Fat Tuesday release of the album "Life Somewhere Else†signifies that a new chapter has been written in one of the most unlikely and noteworthy musical collaborations to come out of Mobile.
Once upon a time, a young man stood in a Mobile record shop, flipping through the racks, looking for something different. He stumbled across "Heyday,†an album by the Australian rock band The Church. The music was indeed different, and the mystical lyrics of singer Steve Kilbey opened new musical horizons to the young man.
Jeffrey Cain eventually moved away from Mobile and joined a band called Remy Zero, which went on to have some respectable success in the world. It's biggest hit was "Save Me,†used in the long-running TV series "Smallville.†That song, while well known, doesn't work well as a summary of Remy Zero's sound or Cain's ambitions: The group was really more of an experimental collective than a straightforward band, and Cain was open to other outlets. (Much the same can be said of Kilbey, whose artistic accomplishments go far beyond "Under the Milky Way,†The Church's lone major U.S. hit.)
Established as a rocker in his own right, Cain wrote some instrumental tracks and saw that they got to Kilbey. Kilbey responded overnight, offering a vocal. And that was the genesis of the first Isidore album. Released in 2004, it was made up of tracks that Cain recorded in America and vocals that Kilbey recorded in Australia.
It was a collaboration that left many listeners, and both of the music's architects, wanting more. But it took seven years for that desire to come to fruition.
Looking back on the moment when he first heard music Cain had written for his voice, Kilbey recalled how strongly it stood out for him.
"Sometimes people write music and it's, there was no need for it to be written,†he said. "And other people write music and it's already kind of finished, they give me instrumentals and they haven't really left anywhere for you to sing. And Jeffrey gave me this track and it was brilliantly ready to have a vocal on it. And I could hear that the vocal had to be my vocal.â€
"It seemed it had to be done,†he said. "It was one of those things of fate, and I'm very open to that.â€
Cain returned to the project as an older, more accomplished artist. In the interim he'd moved from the West Coast back to Birmingham and founded a new label, Communicating Vessels. But he was also grappling with the death of fellow Mobilian Gregory Slay, a musical kindred spirit who'd been in Remy Zero and worked with him on other outside projects.
Working on new Isidore material provided therapy.
"That was a place I would go to late at night and go write that gave me some peace of mind and made me feel close to Greg,†Cain said. "When I would write new songs and hear them coming out of the speakers, I felt in tune with Gregory.†(The album is dedicated to Slay; Kilbey and Cain both say they felt his presence throughout the recording work.)
Whereas the first record had been a shot in the dark, naive in a way, this one had to be an "informed†album, Cain said.
"It had to be different, it had to come from a different angle,†he said. "We had a little bit more knowledge of each other, so I had to find out the rest of the story.â€
So, late in 2010, he journeyed to Australia, so the two collaborators finally could work face to face.
"I did the music in Alabama,†Cain said. "I went to Sydney, rented an apartment, we set up a studio in the living room, and we both stayed there. I stayed there for 10 days and we would just go song by song. He would write the lyrics right then, with me sitting there, and then I'd record them.â€
The resulting lyrics are largely improvised: Kilbey said he generally goes with his first impulses, making minor changes as needed. Several times he works the name of the band into his songs, as if Isidore is a character in the story he's telling, or a spirit he's trying to evoke. He laughed about it, describing it as a bit of bravado borrowed from the world of rap.
Cain said he savors the experience of that fast-paced process.
"I think Steve has practiced so much at wordplay and poetry for so many years that he's not coming at it blind and just mixing up random things,†he said. "There's so many tricks up his sleeve to help it all flow out, and I got to watch him use those, which is pretty amazing.â€
Asked about evolution from the first Isidore album to the new one, Kilbey described it mostly in terms of Cain's growth.
"I think he's gotten more complex, in the kind of music he's writing,†Kilbey said. "He's definitely turned into himself more.â€
Cain said he's been thrilled to see early response to "Life Somewhere Else,†which already has gotten strong reviews in outlets such as the Huffington Post. The first album fell far outside the mainstream, but clearly reached an audience. And that audience has been waiting eagerly for more.
"Putting that first one out, it was kind of a subtle, cool, underground record,†Cain said. "But I did see it connect with people and I knew the people that got it, it meant a lot to.â€
"Sometimes when you make music that's subtle and nuanced in this world, a lot of times it gets trampled on and looked over,†he said. "Sometimes you wonder, did anyone hear it. But people have been really good about letting us know they were hearing it, and that keeps wind in our sails.â€
That suggest they'll keep on sailing to points unknown. And Kilbey, for one, is eager to voyage further.
"It's pretty much up to Jeffrey, you know,†he said. "I think we always understood this would be an ongoing thing. And hopefully there'll be a third and a fourth and so on."