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All Men are Liars
Moving house
Howdy, All Men Are Liars has moved to shiny new premises up the road.
If you want to find us, we'll be here from now on, so please alter your bookmarks and RRS feeds accordingly.
If you'd like to peruse the archives they'll still be here, but please don't miss the action at the new pad.
There's a coffee machine, heavy bag, stripper pole, four plasmas, a massive balcony for the smokers and lots of comfy chairs.
Most importantly we'll still be ruminating about all the issues close to your heart and giving you ample time to procastinate and/or waste your employer's time.
So what are you waiting for, click here, jump a cab and come and join all the old crew at our flash new digs.
It's BYO issues, however ...
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Does your job affect your partner?
One of many rude shocks when entrenching yourself in a long-term relationship is that all the little things you took for granted about yourself can start to wear upon your better half.
Farting in bed is an obvious one, as is smoking, boozing, going to the football at the drop of a hat, taking drugs, brawling, punting, inviting mates over for a beer at 2am, dangerous sporting activities and sending flirtatious, if harmless, text messages to ex-girlfriends.
One issue that might not immediately loom as obvious, however, is the work you do, how you make your living, and how that impacts on your girlfriend, boyfriend or spouse.
Nurses, cops, chefs, in fact anybody who routinely does shift work, would know all about this for obvious, practical reasons, but what if you worked for a tobacco company, a strip club, a coalminer or an unpopular politician? ...
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Whitsundays Writers' Festival
All right ... stay with me, I'm not gonna crap on about my new novel or tell you about the bitter refreshment of talking to other writers about our craft, I just want to share with you an example of a newcomer entering an old media industry and because of their fresh eyes is able to get something absolutely right.
Gloria Burley is a former nurse, who loves reading and writing (being the author of a quasi-memoir Blood and Guts) but who found she didn't get much value for money when she attended the Sydney Writers' Festival.
"You paid for your ticket, you listened to the writer talk, you might get to ask a question if you were lucky, then it was all over," she told me.
So Gloria thought she'd start up her own writer's festival, on a island near her Queensland home ...
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I hear you knocking
They called her "the woman a city forgot" - a 79-year-old pensioner (pictured left, in her younger days) who died in her Sydney home in 2003, her skeletal remains not discovered for eight years until this month.
Reading and watching the self-flagellating media coverage, I had to wonder how I could have forgotten a woman I'd never met, particularly one who her sister-in-law described as a "recluse" who "didn't want to be found".
It got me thinking about the modern assumption we all want to be connected, that a knock on the door, an email, or even a phone call is something that must be answered, and to not do so is somehow rude ...
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So, yesterday I asked y'all whether you thought the "movie of your life" was a good story and if it would interest or inspire anyone other than you and your family and friends.
Some of you got a bit stroppy about this question like "Peter S" who said: "I don't know who this Biddulph character is. I do know that I didn't come here to entertain others, or to set my goals by what others judge to be worthy. Seriously, whether people find your life entertaining from the outside is a terrible yardstick to apply."
Maybe I should have made it clearer in the original post that the "yardstick" wasn't whether you could entertain others with your life story, but if you were happy with the story so far and, if not, how you can change the plot ...
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The movie of your life
The notion of us living "our own movies", where we are the hero or heroine and all the action unfolds from our point of view, is nothing new.
I think all of us, at one time or another, fall prey to the conceit that we are the centre of the universe with the world's great happenings spinning around us, perhaps never quite touching us.
However, I wonder how many of us pause to consider whether "our movie" is any good? Is it exciting or boring? Meaningful or repetitive? Would anybody but our parents and friends care about the main character? ...
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High maintenance
Is there such a thing as a high maintenance man?
There have to be blokes who spend hours doing their hair and waxing their chests, who moan about every suggestion their partner makes for a night out, who expect to be lauded like royalty and, I dare say, who got bashed at high school.
If they missed out on a flogging behind the tennis courts after little lunch, I'd wager boys of this stripe have gone on to be men just as blind to their failings as are most high maintenance women.
Of course, I'm not suggesting these gals be smacked about, it's just instructive how the genders deal with the more annoying members of their sex - and how effective a clip under the ear in your teens can be in curbing punishing behaviour ...
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This is what it sounds like ... when chicks cry
At the risk of appearing a loser with no life who gets all his blog post ideas from TV shows, I was watching MasterChef this week and they were somewhere, cooking something for someone and the perky female contestant Dani started crying.
Dani was having problems with chocolate, I seem to remember, and it was all getting a bit too much - the choc was losing its temper or she was - so Dani started squirting and George came over, hugged her and helped her along with some Jedi kitchen magic.
It got me wondering what would have happened if any of the male contestants had broken down crying during prep in a commercial kitchen; whether it would have elicited sympathy, surprise, scorn or amusement?
Billy, who is openly flaming gay, probably could get away with it, but if Hayden or Michael tried it on, I imagine their credibility with the judges would have been seriously damaged ...
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I've had it in my tiny mind for a few months to do a post about swearing, then I got an email last week from a reader suggesting the same thing and that's when I noticed that new f---ing show Can of Worms was doing a similar thing on Monday night.
To give you an idea where I'm coming from on this topic: I swear a lot, most of the people I know also swear a lot, in fact my first novel The Lost Boys got slapped with a warning to customers about the language used.
To my mind, swearing is both an artform and a crutch for many people but, to dismiss it as bad is as puritanical as suggesting masturbation sends you blind or to hell ... it's all about moderation and your grip on the tool ...
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"We're not worthy!" chanted Wayne and Garth in the bizarrely overrated 1992 film Wayne's World as they knelt before rock music's gift to mascara, Alice Cooper.
It's a famous scene, which has since become something of an old gag - maybe so old some of you youngsters reading this don't even understand what I'm talking about.
I dare say, however, that you understand the sentiment behind the actors' words - of not feeling worthy of some situation or other, of thinking you're not good enough for a particular person's attention or love.
"I'm not skinny enough, smart enough, rich enough, tough enough, tall enough," we tell ourselves, the variations going on forever, if we're to believe experts in the field ...
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GUYS LOVE YELLING AND WOMEN, WELL, THEY'RE ALWAYS TELLING US TO "quieten down", OR "shush, you'll wake up the baby" OR "can you just lower your voice a little bit?" WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PERSONAL ISSUES IN THE SUPERMARKET.
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I've probably mentioned it here and on Twitter a few gajillion times that I recently moved back to Bondi, a suburb that I've written not one, but two novels about, and spent a good part of my adult life orbiting.
For the past two years, I've been living in Manly, on Sydney's northern beaches, which has been eye-opening in some regards (I don't think a I saw black person the whole time I was there), but it has also cemented something I knew before I left Bondi.
Home, whether it be at the beach, a town you had to escape as a teenager, or another country altogether is where your friends are, where you can walk into a pub or the chemist or a chicken shop and the person behind the counter (or propping it up) says "Aaaaaay, dickhead, where you been?" ...
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Colour me pink
An elderly man who lives on my street growled at me last month that he'd seen me on TV recently, "talking about poofs f---ing each other - that it's OK for the sick faggots to do that stuff".
That was all I heard because I closed my front door, leaving him to finish the conversation with his fleas and the mummified relative he has propped up in his lounge room (all right, I'm joking about the fleas).
He was referring to an appearance I'd made on Mia Freedman's Mamamia show on Sky News, in which I'd expressed bewilderment that posters of two gay men hugging had been taken down in Queensland after protests from Christians.
My point was that I was genuinely surprised there were still people in this country offended by anything a gay couple could do in the privacy of their own homes (or atop a float during Mardi Gras) ...
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Tea cups
If you watch enough TV, consume enough popular culture, you'd be forgiven for thinking that one of the primary goals of life is to avoid feeling bad.
Pharmaceutical companies, politicians and advertisers from fast food restaurants to car makers and cereal manufacturers all insist we should feel great, that life should be a cabaret, and if it isn't - there's a product, policy or drug that's bound to help make it such.
It seems as though the admirable pursuit of happiness has now become the expectation of happiness, which are very different things.
As Barry Schwartz, a professor of social theory at Swarthmore College, tells writer and clinical psychologist Lori Gottlieb in the latest Atlantic magazine: "Happiness as a byproduct of living your life is a great thing. But happiness as a goal is a recipe for disaster" ...
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Australia cops a fair bit of flack for having less culture than a tub of yoghurt - some would say quite deservedly.
However, the thing with culture is that it's not all about opera and art galleries; food, language, booze, sex, fashion ... you name it, all goes into the pot of culture, with some ingredients more unique to various countries than others.
Obviously, Australia has borrowed and bent much of its culture from its older siblings, Great Britain and the United States of America, but there are apects of our country that are so "us", so Australian, you can't find them anywhere else in the world.
However, if push came to shove and we had to choose what aspects of our culture to preserve, I wonder if we could come to any sort of agreement on what constitutes the fabric of Australia? ...
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It doesn't happen every day, but once in a while I get an overwhelming urge to punch someone.
Not maim or kill them, just deliver a crisp, three blow combination to their face.
It happened a few weeks ago when a guy made a disparaging comment about my family on my Fairfax blog, but after I'd clenched my fists, breathed heavily and imagined delivering a crisp three punch combination to his face, the impulse died.
Fact is, I never act on this desire and, if I did, it'd probably end badly because I haven't won a fight since I choked out my cousin in a headlock when we were nine ...
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A miraculous reprieve
Watched the surprisingly good Richard Linklater film Me and Orson Welles recently, about the famous American actor, director and writer of the same name.
Welles, as I'm sure many of you know, was a prodigy, exploding onto the New York theatrical scene with his and John Houseman's groundbreaking production - commonly known as the Voodoo Macbeth - which Welles directed at the age of 21.
Of course, Welles went onto much bigger and better things, earning international notoriety for his radio adaption of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds and his Academy Award winning film Citizen Kane, judged by many to be the greatest movie ever made.
Me and Orson Welles probably isn't for everyone - it also stars Zac Efron, who is suprisingly likable - but it is Christian McKay in the titular role who steals the show for my money ...
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Real men don't dance
Last week a mate emailed me a YouTube clip of a mutual friend celebrating after his football team's win that weekend - see if you get the gag.
If you can't be bothered clicking, it's actually a footage of either an Afghan or Pakistani wedding, the men dancing in the most mesmerising way (honestly, watch the vision for a few minutes and see how beautifully they move together).
It got me thinking how in pretty much every culture, men and boys are taught and encouraged to dance, and how it is seen as a masculine way of expressing yourself.
Except in Australia - where to be a good dancer, or to spend too much time on the dancefloor, can see you labelled as effeminite or a little suss ...
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Ever wish you had someone in your life who could tone check that angry email before you send it to your boss or vet the suggestive text message you're about to drunkenly shoot through to a work colleague?
Wouldn't it be nice to have a person who could step in when you're going a little too far with an off-colour story or you're poised to do something you'll regret for weeks?
They're called a life editor - I've got one - and I can thoroughly recommend them. Some background first ...
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An open letter to Tracy Grimshaw
G'day Tracy,
We had a bit of an exchange on Twitter last week prompted by my claim on Mia Freedman's Sky News program, Mamamia, that you couldn't find a woman over 50 on Australian television.
Maybe I should have said 55, but it was live TV, and you soon helpfully informed me via the world's most popular micro-blogging site that you are aged over 50, as is Liz Hayes, Janine Perrett, Lisa Wilkinson, Kerri-Anne Kennerley, Jennifer Keyte, Kay McGrath and Jo Hall.
I did not intend to diminish any of these women's achievements - indeed the point I was trying to make was that one of the most visible manifestations of sexism in this country is that you don't see a lot of older women on our TV screens ...
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There's a pretty good British TV series called Misfits about a group of juvenile offenders who inherit superhuman powers after an electrical storm.
In one of the best episodes, an obnoxious (but funny) teen named Nathan hooks up with a spunky young gal at an old folks home where he's been forced to work as part of his community service.
He asks the girl why the hell she'd want to spend time voluntarily with all the old fossils and she says that "the only thing worse than being lonely, is other people knowing you're lonely".
I gotta say this shattered me when I heard it because it immediately made me think about a very elderly woman in my life who is desperately lonely and anyone who knows her understands it and often uses it as a reason to escape her ...
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One plus one equals?
One of the most challenging aspects about coming out of a long-term relationship and diving back into the seething spa of singledom has to be reactivating the part of your brain that's receptive to shagging strangers.
Naive as it may sound, when I had a child with my former partner, I considered her to be the last person I'd be intimate with and consciously set about boarding up the dark alley of my consciousness that habitually sexualised other women.
Most men would know what I'm talking about: you're walking along the street and there she is - blonde, brunette, cute overbite, whatever floats your boat - and you imagine what it would be like to kiss her or sleep with her or simply wake up and smell her hair.
It's innocent enough in small doses but, if you're doing it constantly, it can be distracting and destructive to whatever relationship you're in ...
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A pissant country
Australia - the Pissant Country: got quite a ring to it, don't you think?
If the allusion rings no bells, a few weeks back climate change warrior Professor Ross Garnaut made headlines when he told The National Press Club: "This is an argument that Australia is a pissant country. Well, I do not accept that Australia is a pissant country."
He was talking about us taking a global lead on climate change and carbon emissions - but he should have saved his C02 rich-breath.
Indeed, Garnaut could have stopped after the first sentence because there is no argument we're a pissant country - it's self-evident; you just have to open our newspapers, watch TV, observe our politicians and, more to the point, look in the mirror ...
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Stay hungry, stay foolish
WARNING! The writer intends to talk about his child in this post, which may prove vile or boring to some.
As I got fat and stopped exercising this year, I noticed my brain got fat as well.
Of course, this was partly because I wasn't pumping it clean of nicotine, sugar and commercial TV with gales of soft sand-induced oxygen.
However, I reckon it also had to do with the fact I wasn't seeing as many different sights as I regularly would running to North Head or churning through the grit to Queenscliff.
I mentioned this to my mate El Guapo and he drew an interesting parallel to the mental capacity of children - which seems to explode when they move from crawling to walking ...
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A few weekends ago I had breakfast at a cafe near my home that tries awfully hard to be hip and probably is when it transforms into a wine bar at nights and the DJ and kids in skinny jeans crowd in to sip Asahi and Grey Goose.
As I ate my Vegemite toast at 9am, however, I heard two guys enter behind me and say "we're here for our Veuve" and assumed they were dropping by to pick up a bottle of tasty French for later.
Not so; they settled in at the bar, popped the cork and proceeded rather ostentatiously to consume their bubbles at the entrance to the venue.
Maybe they were celebrating the Rapture (which, sadly didn't happen last month), but after a good look at these guys' sailor caps, Wayfarers and T-shirts veed to their navels, it struck me the "French-champagne-for-breakfast" shtick was pure affectation; a story to impress on others what free-wheeling sybarites they were ...
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Sophie Tucker
A month or so ago, I was sitting at dinner with my family enjoying one of my mother's magnificent meals and found myself nodding to the music she'd put on earlier in the night.
It was jazzy, sounded very 1920s and featured a brassy-voiced woman who made endless double entendres. It didn't overpower our conversation, but I kept catching myself chuckling to her ballsy one-liners that would float in among the gravy and red wine.
"Who's this?" I said to my mum and she said: "Oh, isn't she fantastic? It's Sophie Tucker," like I was meant to know who she was.
My mum had been watching HBO's Boardwalk Empire, which features Broadway singer Kathy Brier starring as Tucker, which had been enough to spur my mum to source more of the performer's music ...
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I love sluts.
I've slept with them, dated them, lived with them, am friends with and related to a bunch as well.
The thing is, most 'sluts' I know - i.e. women who have had many sexual partners outside of monogamous relationships and vociferously declaim their enjoyment of sex - don't wear fishnet stockings and too much mascara; they look like any other woman on the bus.
And why wouldn't they?
Just about every woman on earth has been called a slut and we all know it's got nothing to do with the way they were dressed ...
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What's your secret?
A lot of you probably remember PostSecret, an art project in which people anonymously mailed their secrets on postcards to guy named Frank Warren and were then shown on the PostSecret website.
It got quite a bit of publicity a few years back, there was the inevitable book, then three more books, a mention on CSI NYU and a bunch of international versions.
However, throughout all the hype, I always felt the project retained a really sweet integrity because of its simplicity: people telling others their secrets ...
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Bum pats
A lot has been written about the homoeroticism of men's sport, a subject that provides commentators with endless joy, poking fun at soccer players and their bare-chested stacks-on-the-mill, as well as rugby players of both codes who stick their heads into the bristling bums of scrums.
You could argue these phenomena have their roots in practicality - scrums are part of the rules of two popular games - while jumping on top of your sweaty teammate after he scores is simply a way of expressing joy.
But what of the bum pat?
You see this done by both sexes in cricket, NFL, basketball, football of all codes, volley ball, even tennis and golf.
By bum pat, I mean the habit players have of smacking their teammate lightly on the bottom when they've done something good ... or doing the same as encouragement when they've stuffed up royally ...
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You should sleep late, man
Wisdom can come to you from the strangest of places - rarely from this blog, I'll concede - but when it does, it hangs around like a boiling yeast infection.
This is because you don't tend to forget the bracing taste of truth and you've got to be aggressively stoopid to ignore the enlightenment it can bring.
For example, once you realise the black line on a prawn is the poo chute, you either pick it out or consciously decide to eat shit.
Likewise, if you suddenly understand blame is an ignorant concept, it becomes futile and childish to continue to fault others for your reactions to their behaviour ...
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Hotels 101: Breaking down categories and ratings
Ever wonder why the same hotel gets four stars from one website and three stars from another? What's the difference between a bed-and-breakfast and an inn? What exactly is a boutique hotel, and what do you get when you stay at a resort?
Here's a primer on hotel rating systems, categories and definitions.
*Bed-and-breakfast: An owner-occupied property with no more than 10 or 15 guest rooms, plus common areas. Breakfast is included in room rates.
*Inn: Usually an independently owned property with more than 10 rooms but fewer than 50; often the owner lives onsite. Some inns include dinner and breakfast in room rates; some have full-service restaurants.
*Boutique hotel: Characterized by unique, stylish or even quirky decor and interior design, offering a stark alternative in appearance and experience to chain brands where furnishings may be identical in every location. Boutique hotels were originally independently owned, but today there are boutique hotel chains, such as Kimpton hotels, and Starwood's Ws. Marriott is launching a boutique brand called Edition.
*Resort: Offers on-site leisure activities related to location along with overnight accommodations. Types include ski resorts, golf resorts, beach resorts, lake resorts and spa resorts. Per-person rates at all-inclusive resorts cover meals. Some resort rates include activities like kayaking, canoeing or tennis; others add fees for equipment rentals, lessons, excursions and access to facilities. Resorts can range from rustic lodges to luxury hotels.
*Motel: Designed for travelers who need lodging on or near roadways, with free outdoor parking but limited services and amenities. Rooms are often accessed through outside doors rather than interior hallways. The word comes from "motor hotel."
*Ratings: A system for evaluating lodging quality, usually on a scale of one to five, with five the most luxurious. Some countries, like China, have government standards for hotels with strict definitions for ratings, but there are no uniform standards in the United States.
However, many in the U.S. lodging industry use a star rating system introduced in 1958 by the Mobil Travel Guide, which was rebranded as the Forbes Travel Guide in 2009. This system -- described at www.startle.com/about/ratings -- reserves five stars for extremely luxurious properties with numerous amenities and superlative service. Forbes is notoriously selective, giving five stars to just 59 hotels around the world and four stars to 176 properties.
AAA's rating system uses diamonds rather than stars -- www.AAA.com/Diamonds -- and is also widely known. AAA rates many more locations and types of hotels -- some 32,000 -- than Forbes, and AAA's printed guidebooks, free to members, are still widely used by road-trippers. A hotel that gets three diamonds from AAA is usually nice but not luxurious, offering a fitness center and a restaurant at a minimum.
Priceline.com readers use the website's star ratings to book hotels through its "Name Your Own Price" system without knowing which hotel they'll get. "We realize star levels carry certain expectations," said spokesman Brian Ek. For example, "to earn three stars, a property must offer a 24-hour front desk, on-site dining, business services, remote-controlled TV with premium channels, a telephone with voicemail, a radio alarm clock, iron and ironing board, and a hair dryer in the room." Priceline customers are sent a survey after each stay, and if satisfaction ratings for a hotel drop, Priceline will re-evaluate the star rating.
But ratings can vary widely by source, even for the same hotel brand. "AAA will rank many Doubletree hotels as three-diamond and a few as four-diamond," said David Sangree, president of Hotel & Leisure Advisors. "Some are really nice and some are kind of average. Days Inns also have a wide range of hotels, with some that are really nice and many, not so nice. They're ranked as two- and three-star."
And contrary to what many consumers may think, a one-star or one-diamond hotel, if rated by a reputable source, is not a fleabag. It simply offers fewer amenities and services. "People may think if a place only got one diamond, it can't be any good," said Todd Cronson, regional manager for AAA Tourism Information Development. "That couldn't be further from the truth. Maybe the lighting styles are out of date, maybe the furniture is older, but if it got a diamond from us, it's perfectly clean, safe and well-maintained."
AAA and Forbes send inspectors incognito to rate the hotels they list. But many websites rely on consumer reviews for hotel ratings. TripAdvisor ratings are all generated by travelers and tend to reflect enthusiasm and satisfaction with a hotel, not whether there is room service or a restaurant.
"The top-rated properties on TripAdvisor are not necessarily the most opulent or luxurious for a particular destination, but typically provide outstanding service and value," said TripAdvisor spokesman Brooke Ferencsik.
For example, Starwood's Aloft in Harlem is a stylish, trendy hotel in an interesting neighborhood where there are few other lodging options. Aloft is not a luxury brand; there's a bar and prepared food in the lobby, but no room service or restaurant. That's why it gets three stars on Priceline and three diamonds from AAA. But TripAdvisor travelers like the Harlem Aloft so much that they rate it 4.5.
Ratings also don't always correlate with price. A four-star hotel in a small city with few tourists could easily charge less than a two-star hotel in Manhattan or in a beach town in the summer.
So how is a consumer to figure out what ratings mean?
"You have to know where you're getting your stars or diamonds from," said Sangree. "Then you have to look at that company's criteria and figure out, what's the difference?"

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Indulge me for a moment whilst I play one of my favourite tracks from my Northern Soul days.
The Snake by Al Wilson
And here's a little introduction to the basics of Northern Soul dancing. I'm already digging out my Oxfords and getting my Loafers polished! Keep the Faith!
The genre of Northern Soul always brings a smile to my face…good memories of good music, good dancing, good mates and fantastic fashion sense!!!
I advocate that all Ambulance Services (and possibly Police forces) should arrive on scene and through the 'medium of dance' deal with patients (or criminals)! It would lead to a fitter service and encourage patients (or crims) to take up Northern Soul. It could one day take the place of wars and instead of heavy bombardments or invasions opposing countries could have a 'Dance Off' instead! Sorted!


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Coast Guard begins unannounced cruise inspections
MIAMI (AP) — The Coast Guard says it has begun unannounced inspections of cruise ships at U.S. ports, targeting vessels with patterns of safety problems.
Coast Guard officers described the new program Tuesday at the National Transportation Safety Board's first forum on cruise ship safety.
The Coast Guard also said at the forum that its regular inspections of 140 cruise ships based at U.S. ports in 2013 found 351 deficiencies, most frequently problems with fire doors.
The hearing follows last year's fire aboard the Carnival Triumph that left the ship adrift for days in the Gulf of Mexico, subjecting some 3,000 passengers to squalid conditions. In 2012, the Costa Concordia ship capsized off Italy, killing 32 people.
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She isn't going to dazzle anyone with her statistics. But Pierce, who has overcome an injury and a roster setback to become one of the three captains for the Lady Bisons, is a player that truly believes in the team concept.
"Erin is one of those players who is very resilient," said Rosenthal. "She might not blow you away with her statistics, but I'm ecstatic that we have her on our side."
This weekend the Lady Bisons close out the regular season with visits from two Atlantic Sun foes. Campbell, 17-12, 10-8, will be in Allen Arena Friday night at 5. ETSU, 11-16, 9-9, will play the Lady Bisons Saturday at 2.
The Lady Bisons, 24-3, 18-0, are out to finish the conference with a perfect 20-0 record. They have won 21 straight matches and are 10-0 at Allen Arena.
Saturday's match will be the last one on the Allen Arena court for Pierce, opposite Kaley Mohr and middle hitter Amy Tyrkowski. All three will be honored as part of "Senior Day".
The season does not end for the Lady Bisons this weekend. They are the Atlantic Sun regular season champion and will be the top seed in the conference tournament which begins Nov. 19 at Florida Gulf Coast in Fort Myers, Fla. The winner of the tournament earns the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
"It is not going to hit me until after the season is over," said Pierce. "We have a lot more to look forward to this season. "You always dream of your team playing so well. It is definitely an accomplishment for us this season."
Pierce will be a key to the success of the Lady Bisons in postseason. Rosenthal admits that much of what Pierce does on the court is difficult for the average fan to comprehend.
"With Erin you have to have a pretty trained eye to understand what she is doing," said Rosenthal. "Don't get me wrong. She can put up some big numbers. But consistently she makes sacrifices that you expect from a senior leader. Those are things that are never going to show up on a stat sheet.
"She is a solid passer. She is a solid defender. She is a solid attacker. No matter where you look, except maybe on the stat sheets, she is in the mix."
Rosenthal refers to Pierce as the "X-factor", a reference she does not dwell on when she is on the court.
"I know what he is talking about, but I don't think of myself in that way," said Pierce. "I know that I have to be on and be ready for my team. It is important for me to have my head in the game.
"I like to think I am part of every play. But stats don't mean the world to me as long as I am playing well. "
Rosenthal really doesn't want Pierce to think too much about what she does on the court. She has an uncanny knack for always being around the ball.
"Erin goes out and does what she needs to do," said Rosenthal. "Sometimes if you think about it then it takes away from it.
"Erin is very instinctive. She is very hard on herself. Sometimes we have to jump in there and say let it go, let it go."
Lipscomb was one of the first programs to recruit Pierce out of Butler Traditional High School in Louisville, Ky. She was immediately hooked on the program when she visited.
"Lipscomb was my first official visit," said Pierce. "I liked that it was a small school. Everyone on the team was together and I liked that close atmosphere."
She also likes the way that Rosenthal runs his program. He demands a great deal from his players, but they would not have it any other way.
"He expects us to be responsible and to hold ourselves to a certain standard," said Pierce. "We rise to that challenge. We want that.
"He doesn't have a ton of rules. We know what is right and what is wrong. We know if we don't work hard in practices that we aren't going to work hard in games. He pushes us, but we push ourselves too."
It has not been a completely smooth five years. Pierce sat out her sophomore year with an injury and made her comeback in 2007, the year the Lady Bisons won the A-Sun Tournament and made their first trip to the NCAA Tournament.
"She came back and lost her starting position to Katie Bradley about halfway through the year," said Rosenthal. "She didn't play a whole lot in the second half. She had worked hard and come back from an injury. She had a starting position and she lost it.
"Erin never once said anything about it. It has always been about the team with her. That's a tribute to her upbringing."
Pierce credits her teammates for keeping her going through her many career challenges.
"As a freshman I was a little fish in a big pond," said Pierce. "I worked really hard over the summer and pushed myself so much for my sophomore year. It was kind of unexpected that I would tear my ACL.
"The next year there were some changes and I had to roll with the punches. It is all about the team and how well we have been doing."
Last season Pierce was back in the starting line-up as the Lady Bisons lost in the championship game to Belmont. This is her last chance at another tournament championship and she and the rest of her teammates are ready for the challenge.
"There is always the drive to play hard," said Pierce. "We have been so competitive this year in practice whether it is scrimmages or small games. I think that is why we are as good as we are. We really push each other."
Pierce is a prime example of hard work paying off. When Rosenthal signed her he knew she was a gifted athlete, but he had to find a spot where she could play and thrive. He calls this a "breakout" season for Pierce, much in the same way that Lindsey Rutherford ended her career playing the same position.
"It has taken her a couple of years to be able to play in the system," said Rosenthal. "Lindsey Rutherford and Katie Bradley were the same. You could always count on them to consistently do the things you expect out of that position.
"She fell into a role she was comfortable with. She has done a nice job in the last 1 ½ years of taking it to the next level. For a coach it is like having that setter that can run the floor. We have an extra defender out there who is always doing the right things."


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The Minister of Communications & Information Technology Shri Dayanidhi Maran speaking at the formal launch of the "integration of Internet Root Servers in India" in New Delhi on August 25, 2005.
To facilitate the integration, three Internet Root Servers at Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai are being installed by the Department of Information Technology along with National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI). These root servers are part of the Domain Name Systems a worldwide-distributed database that is used to translate worldwide unique domain names such as www.pib.nic.in to other identifiers.


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PHOTOS: Workers Rally in SeaTac in Support of Airport Jobs
If you drove past Sea-Tac International Airport on Saturday afternoon, you might have noticed a bit of excitement happening along International Boulevard.
The occasion was a rally and march in support of fair wages for airport and Port of Seattle workers.
Organized by OneAmerica and Working Washington, the event celebrated International Workers' Day with a rally at the Sea-Tac Airport International Flag Pavilion and then a march down International Boulevard to Angle Lake Park.
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It's a cliche that the debt ceiling is the last big threat to the US economy.
But there's a growing meme that it's not, and that the "sequester" (the automatic spending cuts that are due to kick in on March 1) is the real issue.
Here's what Eurasia Group analyst Sean West just told us.
I think the debt ceiling is a loser for the GOP and they know it. My fear is not of technical or actual default. It's of continued short extensions--a continuous kick the can punctuated by moments of panic. The chance of either the sequester or a shutdown for a brief period is real and higher than the risk of cliff crisis ever was, even if it's still not my base case.
He's not the only one who has this view.
Goldman's top economist recently also said that the sequester is the number one risk.
In a note discussing the Sequester, a Government Shutdown, and the Debt Ceiling, Jan Hatzius wrote:
Among these three options, the sequester may present the greatest risk to growth in 2013 because it might actually happen--unlike a debt-limit induced default which is very unlikely--and because it would have longer lasting effects, unlike a government shutdown, which would be reversed quickly.
A government shutdown, a debt ceiling breach, and the sequester all pose near-term immediate risks to the economy. But they're different, and have different implications. All eyes turn to the sequester, as hope grows that the debt ceiling issue will be diffused with enough outside pressure.


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Reviewed by Anne Clayton (age 10) and Grant (age 7)
One of the reasons we liked this book is it had great illustrations. Another reason we liked it because it had a great circular ending, and it is very descriptive. We loved the all of the similes. For example,"Our aunties and Gramma flitted around the tables like butterflies going from flower to flower."
We recommend this book to people with fun family traditions. This book is good for most all ages. It is kind of long but not too hard.
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Elfin Shortbread Bites
- Makes: 36 servings
- Yield: about 144 pieces
- Prep 20 mins
- Bake 10 mins
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all-purpose flour
butter (not margarine)
colored sprinkles
- In a medium mixing bowl, stir together the flour and sugar. Using a pastry blender, cut in the butter until the mixture resembles fine crumbs and starts to cling. Stir in sprinkles. Form mixture into a ball and knead until smooth.
- On an ungreased cookie sheet, roll or pat the dough to form an 8x5-inch rectangle. Cut into 1/2-inch squares. Separate pieces on the cookie sheet.
- Bake in a 325 degree F oven for 10 to 12 minutes or until the bottoms just start to brown and center is set. Cool on cookie sheet for 5 minutes. Remove and cool on waxed-paper-covered rack. Makes about 144 pieces (about thirty-six, 4-piece servings).
- Lemon-Poppy Seed Bites: Prepare shortbread as directed, except omit the sprinkles and stir 2 teaspoons poppy seed into flour-sugar mixture and add 1 teaspoon finely shredded lemon peel with the butter.
- Chocolate Chip Bites: Prepare shortbread as directed, except omit the sprinkles and stir in 1/3 cup miniature semisweet chocolate pieces after cutting in butter.
- Butter-Pecan Bites: Prepare shortbread as directed, except omit the sprinkles, substitute brown sugar for the sugar and stir in 1/4 cup finely chopped pecans after cutting in the butter.
Make Ahead Tip
- Store cookies in a tightly covered container at room temperature for up to 3 days or in the freezer for up to 3 months.
- To Present This As A Gift: You will need a paper punch, flexible plastic cone (available in the doll-making supply area of crafts stores), scissors, and colored beaded wire.
- To Present This As A Gift: Punch holes on opposite sides of the cone, just below the rim. Punch another hole in the tip. Cut a length of beaded wire for the handle. Thread bead ends through punched holes, twisting ends to secure. Make a small tassel out of a 16-inch length of beads, wrapping into 2-inch-long loops. Tie at the top with another piece of beaded wire. Tie onto the cone through the punched holes in the cone's tip.
- Also Try This: Use cone-shape paper drinking cups in the same way, decorating the outside with stickers in desired colors and shapes.
Nutrition Facts
(Elfin Shortbread Bites)Servings Per Recipe 36, cal. (kcal) 12, vit. A (RE) 10, carb. (g) 1, Fat, total (g) 1, chol. (mg) 2, sodium (mg) 7


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While it may seem like a luxury, you will soon find that having power reclining furniture and its customized position capability is a necessity for your home. Customized motion means that you can stop the recliner seat and back with simultaneous movement at whatever position best suits you, whether you need to soothe back pain or sit up and eat a snack while you watch TV. Gentle, power motion is suitable for all levels of mobility, and is as easy to use as a single touch.
When you've got the back of the recliner in the resting position, it's a huge hassle to adjust back to the sitting position for watching TV. Now you can save your neck and maintain a perfect viewing angle for TV or reading with this power headrest recliner. The same gentle power motion that lets you customize the position of your back and legrest allows you to adjust the headrest angle to better cradle your body.
This model features the ability to adjust your lumbar support with the touch of a button. Proper lumbar support helps relieve pressure on your back and legs for a more ergonomic position.
Leather match is an industry term that denotes different qualities of material used on different parts of an upholstered piece. Helping make the piece more affordable, top grain leather is used on the parts of the chair or sofa that touch your body, while a lower quality split-grain leather or color-matched vinyl is used on the back and sides. This is very common, especially for reclining furniture, and it doesn't change the sophisticated look of your leather upholstery.
Providing better comfort than the 2 or 3 piece leg rests, this pad over chaise seating gives you better support and comfort. The 1 piece cushion is also safer for children and pets, preventing fingers and toys from getting stuck.
Since you need to plug in your power recliner anyway, it just makes sense that they are now available with built-in USB charging ports for powering up your phones and devices. The USB port is located on the arm right next to the power activation button, so it's easy to reach when you're relaxing and want to power up your phone or stream video on your tablet.
Kick back, relax, and enjoy the show. The soft touch of the top-grain cowhide leather with a polyurethane match provides a comfortable resting surface for your body while you recline back to the exact reclining position you desire, with just the touch of a button. Not only does the easy to use remote let you recline to the specific position you'd like but you can also adjust the head rest and lumbar support with the same remote. No manual control here. Oh and don't worry about having a place for your drink as this recliner has built in cup holders as well.
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Friday, February 24, 2012
the answer man
It was a week full of questions that I was so hoping could be answered somehow even if it meant I had to make my own answer man. Most of my questions stemmed from a blog post I read late last week. I have read so many blogs with varying degrees of regularity over the years. There is one that I started reading way back before Peter was even born and I tend to just 'check in' every few months to see what's new there. When you read and follow someone's life for that long - watch them through their struggles and their successes, the births of their children etc. etc., you tend to grow attached as you all may know. So, last week I decided to check in only to find to my horror that she lost her husband suddenly and tragically last Summer. I nearly fell out of my chair as I read it. It's still so hard to believe. So often reading through blogs feels like you just skim the pretty surface of life. The 'real' stuff doesn't rear it's ugly head very often in that realm. When 'real' life happens - as it always does - that is so often when bloggers retreat and regroup - and I am guilty of that myself. This was a reality so rare that I could hardly recognize it as real at all. It almost felt like I was reading the sad chapter about a beloved character in a book.
That's when the questions started. You feel like you want to somehow help this person who you don't really even know. To crawl out of the woodwork (is there wood in cyberspace?) and approach this person that you have just been watching for years seems weird - to not say anything to this person you feel like you know seems weird as well. These 'relationships' are unlike anything in real life and I am so confused about how to handle myself within them. How can a one sided conversation still be so intimate? Part of it is in her writing. She really doesn't hold back and is willing to share thoughts and feelings of all kind and degrees. I think it's so very brave and it's A) what makes her blog so readable and interesting and B) What makes my heart break into pieces when I read about what she is going through.
So far the answer man has been pretty quiet. He has no answers about what a blog really should be, how to define the different kinds of online relationships we develop, how we express humanity through a medium that seems like the opposite of that. My only conclusion at this point is that if you do put yourself out there and are brave enough to share the painfully real moments of your life online you can be sure that there are people - quiet and invisible as they might be - who are moved by your experience, inspired by your bravery and last but not least, rooting for you.
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- Deb Robertson said...
Thank you for writing this. In the last 18 months I've been sharing my fears and worries online and as we have lived through 10000 earthquakes and aftershocks. It's been hard to know how much to share and not to make the blog to morbid. Someone commented the other day they hoped I'd get back to the cheerful posts again!!!!
A little faithful group have continued to comment and my goodness it helped. It helped a lot. Sometimes you can feel so alone in your struggle (even though here in Christchurch we are all going through it) and then suddenly an encouraging word will pop in your inbox when you least expect it.
Blogging is great, although more and more I am aware of the great silent public out there (i am part of it), who read but rarely comment. There are so many blogs. I am making a conscious effort to gradually work away at my reading list, to have blogs that I feel connected with in some way and to be part of the conversation.
Sorry this comment has gone on and on (and a little off track) I just wanted to say thanks. It's great to know people are out there, but don't be afraid to stop by just to say "I'm thinking of you". It is enough and it does count, and it might be all you have that day.
Love and hugs deb xxx
- February 24, 2012 at 12:46 PM
- Mary Ann said...
I read one blog where the blogger has had life altering circumstances happen to her recently and she has blogged about it. I don't know if I could do that personally but I respect her for telling it like it is and sharing her pain. It certainly makes you take a good look at yourself and your life and really appreciate what you have.
- February 24, 2012 at 2:27 PM
- Glenda said...
Your answer man is cool looking; love the texture in his beard :-).
Do you read Alicia Paulson's blog? Her blog is one of the very first crafting blogs I began reading, and it's one that I've never stopped following. When their dog died, I cried. When their recent adoption fell through, I cried. I seldom comment on her blog, but I made a point to in those instances. And I appreciate that Alicia makes a point to tell people how much those comments matter and help. I feel like if I met her in person, she'd be someone you could sit down & immediately be comfortable talking to. But then it'd also feel weird because I know more about her, because of her blog, than she knows about me (I'm pretty certain she doesn't read my blog LOL!).
I'm more inclined to comment on blogs of people who have a smaller readership, or rather who have a smaller commentorship -- I don't feel so lost in a sea of comments, and I feel like my comment matters :-).
- February 25, 2012 at 12:14 AM
- Corinne said...
Thanks for chiming in ladies. Your insights are certainly more helpful than my little answer man has been :). Deb, your advice is just what I needed to hear.
Yes Glenda, I do read Alicia Paulson's blog from time to time (I sort of do a 'check in' there too. Her writing about her real life struggles makes her much more 'real', don't you think? If we only saw her gorgeous work she would surely take on a kind of Martha Stewart status (you know - we would all love to see what beautiful new thing she is making but we certainly wouldn't want to sit down and talk to her!) Because she does that it feels like we know her and I really admire that.
- February 25, 2012 at 6:21 AM
- Julie said...
A similar thing happened to me recently - not quite as tragic, but a blogger I read (and rarely comment on) went through something bad and I didn't know whether to speak up or mind 'my own' business. It's a funny thing, this blogging whatsit. We do it because we *want* people to be part of our lives - to some degree, anyway. But then we're shy about being too personal - both as bloggers and readers.
In the end, I didn't say anything, but I did resolve to leave more comments and speak up to the people I read and enjoy, and to be more personal on my own blog (where appropriate - there hasn't really been occasion to share anything personal yet, and I don't just mean tragic, just anything that's *me*). I don't plan on gushing out my deepest darkest secrets all of a sudden, but I do have a natural tendency to hide behind stitching and knitting as if that's all there is, and I'm trying to be a little more me. It's, weirdly, not easy, but I'm working on it. After all, I'm doing this to be part of a community.
Your answer man is wonderful, I wish I had one!
- February 29, 2012 at 8:58 AM


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Denver police arrested a metro area burglary suspect after a four-hour standoff at a Denver hotel Tuesday night.
His name has not been released, but Denver police spokesman John White said the man was wanted in connection with a burglary in Englewood.
At about 11 p.m., the man gave up and came out.
"He ultimately came out on his own, but at one point gas was introduced into the room, which might have played a role," White said.
The standoff at the Budget Host Inn near 2710 Wyandot St. began at about 7 p.m.
Television cameras captured video of the man breaking out a window and coming out on the balcony of his second-floor room waving a gun, with blood on him, evidently caused by the broken glass.
The standoff closed nearby I-25 ramps to North Speer Boulevard, as well as streets near the hotel.
No one besides the man was been wounded, and there were no reports of hostages, though 9News interviewed a Budget Host guest who said the hotel was not evacuated but he was told to stay in his room.
"We have a favorable end to a situation that could have been a lot worse," White said at about 11:20 p.m.


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actually, there is a precedent. the ecto1 club exclusive figure was 6" marshmellow mess ray stantz. there are other 6" ray stantz figures (3 in fact).
still, i don't think it's fair to say "this is the only way you will get shadow weaver" and then release shadow weaver with a different deco or paint.
i have no problem with them releasing light spinner, but not with an extra shadow weaver head.
also, lol "lucky few". as if buying a sub or buying/trading SW on the secondary market somehow involves being lucky.
eta: the reason i don't have a problem with light spinner is because that's almost different character - like keldor.


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KOKOMO, Ind. (AP) — A central Indiana man has been charged with assisting suicide for allegedly making a noose for his estranged wife, who later used it to hang herself.
Nicholas E. Ellisof Greentown faces one count of assisting suicide in Jessica Ellis' death. He's being held at the Howard County Jail on a $25,000 bond.
The Kokomo Tribune reports court documents say Jessica Ellis had a history of suicide attempts and told a friend her husband had made a noose for her and put the rope in her vehicle so "she could use it on herself if she wanted to."
The friend said Jessica Ellis' husband reminded Ellis about the noose Dec. 9, the night before her body was found hanging from a rafter at a Kokomo park's shelter house.


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A railroad town, Upton had a depot that was built in 1857 by George Upton.
The depot was later sold by Upton to the L&N or Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company in the early 1900's.
Once the railroad was established, Upton became a shipping point for cattle, tobacco, produce and timber; and also served as a main form of transportation for locals.
"When I was going to college in Western Kentucky – Bowling Green, I took the train – you just flagged it down and got on," said Upton native, Larry McKinley.
Hodgenville has Lincoln Days. Elizabethtown has the Heartland Festival.
Upton has Upton Days each September.
The town's festival begins with the Upton Days parade. The list of activities and events changes depending on weather and participation in certain contests.
Sitting quietly, disguised with new yellow siding and green shutters, the Andrew Jackson Upton House has stood at the corner of Peachtree and Grayson streets in Upton since before troops invaded during the Civil War.
Built in 1851 by Andrew Jackson Upton, grandson of the town's founder, the Upton House holds an interesting history.
During the time that the Andrew Jackson Upton family lived in the house, it boasted several innovations.
For many years, large, looming, chain home improvement stores have carried away customers from the original businesses that started it all.
But some have withstood the test of time.
Established in 1977, Jones Do It Best Home Center, as it is called today, has played a role in Upton history.
Ralph Jones, the son of the store's founder, Harvey Jones, recalls Upton in its heyday.
The roar of an engine and the in-flight-feeling Ralph Jones got as he sped his way to the finish line is only part of his story.
Jones started racing at the Bonnieville Speedway on a dirt track.
"There was a guy named L.C. Duncan, had a 1950 Plymouth and wanted to know if I wanted to drive his car, and I did, and it started from there," said Jones.
In 1963, Jones started racing regularly on small tracks and at fair races while he was still attending college.
Upton, Kentucky, straddles two county lines: LaRue and Hardin. It's divided – in general terms – by U.S. 31-W and Interstate 65.
Many of the addresses associated with Upton are closer to the Hart County line than either of the home counties.
Edward Upton, who was the son of a Revolutionary War veteran of the same name, founded the town in 1812.
Hardin Memorial Hospital's Family Care Center in Magnolia has a new face.
Kimberly Gambino recently accepted the position as the overseeing provider at the clinic. She is a certified family nurse practitioner who received her Master of Science in Nursing at Western Kentucky University in 2008. She is working on a doctorate from Bellarmine University in Louisville. She hopes to complete this step in her education and career by next spring.
Gambino also teaches a class of nursing students at St. Catharine College in Bardstown.
Dixon-Rogers Funeral Home in Magnolia is the second longest operating business in LaRue County. (The LaRue County Herald News is the first.)
Founded by Charlie Dixon in 1895 the business began operations in the building that is now home of the Magnolia Post Office.
The post office building was used only as a storefront as during that time a funeral was usually held at the home or in a church.
Magnolia began as a stage coach stop along the Louisville-Nashville Turnpike about 1850. The first house in the vicinity was built prior to 1840. A post office was established in April 1851. Postmaster David Harris named the post office in honor of his wife. After the Civil War, the post office was moved to its present site in a community then known as Center Point, but which soon took the name of the post office, Magnolia.
Magnolia began as a stagecoach stop along the Louisville-Nashville Turnpike about 1850. It gained its first post office in 1851 which was named after Postmaster David Harris' wife.
After the Civil War, the post office was moved to the town of Centerpoint, but the name reverted to Magnolia.
The Old Providence Church, later Magnolia Cumberland Presbyterian Church, was built in the 1840s. Soon, several stores were established and the town began to grow. In the mid-1870s Magnolia had a population of 30. The 2010 census places the number at about 500.
A Magnolia native was one of the first inductees of the Kentucky Human Rights Commission Hall of Fame in 2000.
Arthur Meredith Walters is most recognized for his role as the Louisville Urban League executive director from 1970 to 1987. The Louisville Urban League's mission is to assist African-American and disadvantaged persons in the achievement of social and economic equality primarily through education, employment, housing, family development, and community development.
The Ragland name is one that you hear often in LaRue County. But few people know how deep those roots grow.
Gideon Ragland relocated to Center Point, what is now Magnolia from Virginia in December 1808. He purchased 1,000 acres of land for $1,000 partly with monies from a Revolutionary War grant. This was the same month that Thomas Lincoln purchased the farm at Sinking Springs, mere months before the birth of Abraham Lincoln.
The 1947 Magnolia Majors basketball team was the first team in LaRue County to compete at the state Sweet 16 tournament.
Players were Charles Read, Bill Lemons, J.D. Avery, Stuart Pepper, Coleman Miller, Charles Ward, Donald Mather, Hobart Bowen, Johnny Catlett (manager), Darnall McCubbin, Kenneth Bell, and Coach W.L. "The Fox" Reed.
"We had a really great team that year. There were very few guys in our high school but our team was very, very good," said Charlene Akin, a freshman and cheerleader for the team.
For most of its history, education has been an important part of the Magnolia community.
The community's first school was built in 1847, followed by two more schools built on surrounding farms.
Magnolia College was built in 1879-80. Citizens of the town raised money to help build a brick building which was first designated the "Classical and Normal College."
The building burned May 31, 1894, according to the June 7, 1894 edition of The Herald News.
Tucked away in the country, without a sign to let travelers know they are passing through it, lies Lyons Station – or Lyons as it's referred to by locals.
Athertonville, a small town located between Hodgenville and New Haven, was once known as the home of several distilleries.
Many local residents earned their livelihood at the distilleries, which historians believe cropped up in the late 1700s. The waters of nearby Knob Creek were thought to give the liquor an extra bite.
Thomas Lincoln, the father of Abraham Lincoln, is believed to have worked at a distillery owned by Wattie Boone, a relative of pioneer Daniel Boone.
Leather bound, plastic covered and hand bound – books of all shapes, sizes, colors, and content add color to the New Haven Public Library, a branch of the Nelson County Public Library.
The new branch location opened on May 6, 2012, and has helped rekindle the community's interest in reading.
Formerly located on South Main Street, the library had been confined to a one-room building that limited resources and the number of literacy materials offered to the public for 20 years.
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by Tiffany Chisum
SOCORRO, N.M., Aug. 16, 2007 – Two local alumnae from New Mexico Tech's Master of Science for Teachers degree program will be continuing the mathematics curricula program they designed and implemented as a part of their independent study.
Sarracino Middle School Math Teacher Barbara Martinez and Socorro High School Math Teacher Peggy Mitchusson created the "Parents and Teachers Helping Students" (PATHS) program for their required independent study in the university's Master of Science for Teachers (MST) program.
PATHS received such a warm welcome from parents and students alike that it will continue to run in the Socorro Consolidated School District for at least the next five years.
The original concept for PATHS was conceived while Martinez and Mitchusson were taking a math modeling class from Tech Professor of Mathematics and Department Chair William D. Stone.
Apparently, a classroom discussion arose, concerning parents being unable to assist their children with math homework. The two teachers took their novel idea to Stone, their academic advisor, and things progressed from there.
PATHS is designed to be a 90–minute session that takes place once a week. Parents who signed up for the initial program were taught how to tutor their children and given refreshers in the math areas that their children were learning about at that time.
Refreshments were provided, and babysitting and translation assistance were offered if needed.
Every week of the PATHS program, a small gift was raffled off (such as calculators, backpacks filled with school supplies, or baskets with school or office supplies); and, at the end of the ten–week program, two complete computer systems were raffled off to eligible high school and middle school parents.
Throughout the program, Martinez and Mitchusson had parents take pre- and post-math tests. Test results showed a marked improvement in the math skills of participating parents.
Surveys were also provided to parents and their children. All of the attending parents reported how helpful the program was and offered up several good suggestions on improving it.
Of the many suggestions offered up by the parents, most wanted the program to continue after the ten–week period. Others suggested offering something similar for other subjects. One student survey comment gave the idea to have the parents and their children attend tutoring sessions together.
The majority of the parent's children reported that their parents helped them with homework and, in turn, that the program helped improve their math learning experience.
Plans call for PATHS to continue in the Socorro schools for at least the next five years under the Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Program (GEAR UP).
With funding provided by the U.S. Department of Education, GEAR UP is a discretionary grant program that is designed to help students attending public schools in low-income areas become better prepared for postsecondary education. The federal grant for Socorro schools follows a cohort from 7th grade through 12th grade. The students who are receiving the benefits of GEAR UP and PATHS were 7th graders last school year.
During their graduate studies, Martinez and Mitchusson were told that New Mexico Tech at one time offered a type of remedial math course through the Tech Community College. Both teachers explained that they would consider offering their program through the Community College if the local middle and high schools were no longer able to offer PATHS. However, they said they would prefer that the program remain in the public school system.
PATHS has been a great success so far the two math teachers said and related they are hoping for a greater turnout and an earlier start this fall. They also hope that more middle and high schools throughout the state — even throughout the country — will start to offer similar programs.
Martinez and Mitchusson met in their very first MST class, and ended up taking several classes together. When asked if the teachers enjoyed working with one another, the response was "Oh, yeah," in unison.
Martinez's feelings about New Mexico Tech's MST program was summed up with "Loved it!" When asked about the best aspects of the program Mitchusson replied with "It's hard to pick one."
Mitchusson praised the Survey of Physics class which she took, along with Assistant Professor of Technical Communication Julie Ford's Technical Communication class. Both ladies stated that "Dr. Stone's math classes were very helpful." They also extolled their advisor, explaining that "He (Stone) was always available."


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``I am (aware of it) and I'm hoping to stay here for a long time,'' said the 25-year-old Forbath, who was signed Tuesday to replace struggling veteran Billy Cundiff and is Washington's 19th kicker in 18 years.
Cundiff, 32, missed two 31-yard field goals and a 41-yard attempt during the past two games. He followed:
Eddie Murray (1995, 2000), Scott Blanton (1996-98), Chris Jacke (1997), David Akers (1998), Cary Blanchard (1998), Brett Conway (1999-2002), Michael Husted (2000), Scott Bentley (2000), Kris Heppner (2000), Jose Cortez (2002), James Tuthill (2002), John Hall (2003-06), Jeff Chandler (2004), Ola Kimrin (2004), Nick Novak (2005-06), Shaun Suisham (2006-09) and Graham Gano (2009-11).
Suisham's 50 games (including the 2007 playoff loss at Seattle) are the most by a Washington kicker during that span. Hall, Gano, Conway, Blanton and Murray were the only others to last an entire season.
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SOCORRO, N.M., June 10, 2003 -- New Mexico Tech and the national seismology consortium, IRIS, which supports the university's PASSCAL Instrument Center, have been given the go-ahead to proceed with plans to develop EarthScope, a continent-spanning geophysics research observatory that will use thousands of ultra-sensitive seismometers to study the deep Earth.
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At a May 22 meeting, the National Science Board, the governing board of the National Science Foundation, approved an operating proposal for EarthScope, which was co-written by IRIS, the UNAVCO geodetic consortium, and Stanford University.
As an IRIS contributor to the proposal, New Mexico Tech, along with IRIS, also was given the go-ahead to manage key aspects of the "USArray," one of the four components of the EarthScope project.
EarthScope has received bipartisan Congressional support, notably from New Mexico Senators Pete Domenici and Jeff Bingaman.
The USArray component utilizes recent developments in sensor, recording, and telecommunications technology -- including a recently funded instrumentation appropriation spearheaded by Senator Domenici.
USArray will spend the next decade covering the contiguous United States and Alaska with a moving 600-by-600-mile array of small, automatic earthquake recording stations, steadily migrating west to east.
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"The EarthScope observatory is an array of geophysical instruments for imaging the deep interior of our planet and unraveling its history and ongoing geologic processes using seismic waves," says Rick Aster, professor of geophysics at New Mexico Tech and principal investigator at the IRIS/PASSCAL Instrument Center and the newly approved USArray Operations Facility.
"It is like a telescope of unprecedented power designed to peer into the Earth," Aster explains.
To accommodate EarthScope operations and other research activities, New Mexico Tech has begun planning for a new 40-office and laboratory complex in the university's Tech Research Park, adjacent to the IRIS/PASSCAL Instrument Center. Construction on the new research facility is scheduled to begin this coming fall.
"Since New Mexico Tech is hosting the primary operations of USArray and is expanding its IRIS/PASSCAL Instrument Center, the immediate impacts to the university and surrounding area will include an additional $2 million in annual payroll, the creation of 14 new professional-level jobs, and new on-campus research opportunities and resources for both scientists and students, as well as significantly heightened national and international recognition for the university and the State of New Mexico," says Tech President Daniel H. López.
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John Wesley (/ˈwɛsli, ˈwɛzli/; 28 June [O.S. 17 June] 1703 – 2 March 1791) was an Anglican cleric and Christian theologian who, with his brother Charles Wesley and fellow cleric George Whitefield, is credited with the foundation of the evangelical movement known as Methodism. His work and writings also played a leading role in the development of the Holiness movement and Pentecostalism.A key step in the development of Wesley's ministry was, like Whitefield, to travel and preach outdoors. In contrast to Whitefield's Calvinism, however, Wesley embraced the Arminian doctrines that dominated the Church of England at the time. Moving across Great Britain, North America and Ireland, he helped to form and organise small Christian groups that developed intensive and personal accountability, discipleship and religious instruction. Most importantly, he appointed itinerant, unordained evangelists to travel and preach as he did and to care for these groups of people. Under Wesley's direction, Methodists became leaders in many social issues of the day, including prison reform and abolitionism.Although he was not a systematic theologian, Wesley argued for the notion of Christian perfection and against Calvinism – and, in particular, against its doctrine of predestination. He held that, in this life, Christians could achieve a state where the love of God "reigned supreme in their hearts", giving them outward holiness. His evangelicalism, firmly grounded in sacramental theology, maintained that means of grace were the manner by which God sanctifies and transforms the believer, encouraging people to experience Jesus Christ personally.Throughout his life, Wesley remained within the established Anglican church, insisting that the Methodist movement lay well within its tradition. Although sometimes maverick in his interpretation and use of church policy, he became widely respected and, by the end of his life, had been described as "the best loved man in England".
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That said, DP 1.2's key features had already been well telegraphed: primarily a doubling of the bandwidth to 21.6Gb/s - 5.4Gb/s per lane - which gives the standard room to support higher resolutions, greater colour depths, faster refresh rates and more rapidly alternating - 120f/s per eye - stereoscopic 3D images.
For a single display, this enables up to 3840 x 2400 resolution at 60Hz, or a 120Hz 3D display at 2560 x 1600.
DP 1.2 also introduces one-connector, multiple-monitors support - again, a result of all that extra bandwidth - and USB-over-DP signal routing, which runs over an auxiliary channel at speeds of up to 720Mb/s. As with previous versions of the standard, Ethernet data can also be sent down this AUX channel.
The new spec is backwards compatible with DisplayPort 1.1 kit, though of course minus the new benefits. As we noted previously, Apple's Mini DisplayPort connector is now part of the spec too.
DP 1.2 also adds new audio enhancements including audio copy protection; support for HD audio formats such as Dolby MAT, DTS HD, all Blu-Ray formats, and the DRA standard from China; synchronisation between audio and video; and multiple audio channels.
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