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Don't Clean Your Room…
by Meg Moss, art by Mike Gordon
There's space dust under your bed. But don't bother calling NASA; they're already on the case.
Space, it turns out, is a very dirty place. It's filled with particles and debris from billions of years of exploding stars, colliding asteroids, and comet tails. Space dust sometimes obscures our view into the universe, and 100 tons a day—nearly 40,000 tons a year—fall to Earth. You can be sure some of it is under your bed right now. Mars and the Moon, as well, are covered with dust and dirt we are eager to know more about.
Clues in the Dust
Why is space dust and dirt so interesting? Inside every grain is a record of the universe. Astronomers believe that our solar system, and planets and stars all over the universe, formed from huge clouds of dust and gases that are the remains of dying stars. Collecting and analyzing space dust may help us understand what happened 5 billion years ago when Earth was born. We may also find clues about what's happening right now in the far corners of the universe.
Powerful telescopes give us a front-row seat as huge, distant dust clouds, or nebulas, form new planets and stars. Astronomers call the nebulas "star nurseries."
Here's what we already know. Teensy-weensy grains of space dust, called micrometeoroids, are much smaller than most of that other dirty stuff under your bed, smaller even than the width of a hair. They come from great distances, traveling at a rate of 150,000 miles per hour. At that speed, all that tiny stuff zipping through space can cause big damage to spacecraft and astronauts. Micrometeoroids are made of different chemicals and minerals than dust on Earth, and include traces of iron, diamonds, and gold. They even contain organic molecules, which are the particles that make up living things. This makes scientists wonder whether some of the ingredients for the first life on Earth might have arrived in space dust.
Dust Hunters
To discover all this, scientists have taken great pains to collect space dust for study. Aircraft and balloons flying 40 miles above the Earth gather grains on sticky collection plates. And on the ocean bottom, layers of dust from outer space have lain undisturbed for millions of years. Scientists scoop up samples and then separate out the precious cosmic grains using a magnet to draw out the particles with iron in them. (Earth dust contains little iron.)
A spacewalking astronaut adjusts the dust collectors on the Mir Space Station.
This tiny grain of space dust may once have been part of a comet.
Recently, NASA has launched missions into outer space designed to collect and study space dust well outside Earth's atmosphere. In January 2004, a small spacecraft called Stardust zoomed through the tail of a passing comet, gathering up dust samples from the tail and photographing the comet's head. Comets are believed to be frozen remains from the earliest days of the solar system, and dust from their tails will tell us a lot about how the system was formed. Stardust is the first such mission that will actually return to Earth, in 2006, so that scientists can study the samples firsthand.
"Don't Track that Moon Dust in Here!"
Our closest neighbor in space, the Moon, is pretty dirty, too. We know because we've been there. Between 1969 and 1972, six manned Apollo missions landed on the Moon. At first, scientists were worried. They knew the Moon's surface was dusty, but they didn't know how deep the dust was. Would a lunar lander sink out of sight? Fortunately not, and the astronauts got to work exploring. Over three years, they returned to Earth with 824 pounds of lunar rocks and soil samples.
Moon dirt, called regolith, is not at all like Earth dirt. Because the Moon has no protective atmosphere, space debris has rained down on it for millions of years, smashing its surface into a fine, shimmering dust. Much of the brightness of the Moon comes from sunshine reflecting off its sparkling surface.
Sweeping up the Moon? No, Apollo astronauts used special rakes to collect Moon dirt.
Unlike Earth dirt, Moon dust contains no life, and it is very light and annoyingly clingy. Astronauts complained that it got everywhere, even into their spacesuits and under their fingernails.
Nonetheless, this lifeless, bothersome stuff has a story to tell. By studying its chemistry, scientists know that the Moon was formed billions of years ago when the solar system was very young. A large object crashed into the baby Earth and sent a huge chunk flying into space. Captured by the Earth's gravitational pull, this chunk spun into orbit and became our Moon, whose dusty face still shines down on us today.
Dirt soon covered astronauts working on the Moon's surface, clinging to everything and generally getting in the way.
"The [Moon] dust…clung to everything. It got on every movable surface, it got in the suits, and when we got out of our suits in the spacecraft…it got in the pores of our skin and got under our fingernails…It took three months for lunar dust to grow out from under my nails…And it has a smell very few people, if any, have smelled on the Earth. It smells something like spent gunpowder, like you've just fired a shotgun or something and you can smell that powder."
The Dirt on Mars
Mars is none too clean, either. Scientists believe that the Martian landscape was carved by erosion, and like Earth, its soil was created largely by the weathering of rocks. Every few years, dust storms four times the size of Texas blow wildly, pushing dirt all around the planet. Mars also has the largest volcanoes in the solar system, though they are no longer active. Huge eruptions long ago covered some of the planet with iron-rich clay, giving the surface its red color.
An enormous dust storm churns up Martian soil.
What else is in that Martian soil? Is it full of life like the soil on Earth, or is it dead and dusty like the Moon? Most intriguing, does it contain evidence of long-extinct ancient life? In 1976, NASA sent two spacecraft to Mars, the first to land on the planet's surface, to get a close look. Over the years, more probes followed, poking and prodding at the surface, scooping up dirt, and taking pictures. They began to find evidence that liquid water may have once been present on the surface. And where there is water, there may be life.
So, in January 2004, NASA launched two more landers, Spirit and Opportunity. They hoped further study of the chemistry of the Martian soil and rocks might finally solve the mystery of whether there had ever been water on Mars. Equipped with highly sensitive instruments, the spunky rovers drilled into rocks. They analyzed the soil's chemistry and even took its temperature. The soil appeared strangely sticky in places, like "clumpy cocoa powder," and it was slippery, as the rovers discovered when they tried to climb small hills. At several locations the rovers "scuffed" the surface, digging trenches with their wheels to see what lay beneath.
The nimble rovers used their wheels to dig trenches and check out what lies under the soil's surface.
Scattered around them, the rovers found odd, blueberry-sized objects. These turned out to be made of hematite, a type of iron. On Earth, hematite can often be found at the bottom of a lake or in mineral hot springs in places such as Yellowstone.
Opportunity took this closeup of Martian soil, showing some of the strange, blueberry-shaped rocks.
Scientists are now studying in detail the data returned to Earth by Spirit and Opportunity, and we may soon know for certain about water—and life—on Mars. But there's nothing like the real thing, so NASA plans a mission to return some Martian soil to Earth in 10 years or so. We hope none of it ends up under your bed.
So, the next time you clean your room, as we know you must, just vacuum around the space dust. It has a lot to tell us.
"Blue Smoke"
What's almost lighter than air but tough as nails? It's an amazing substance called aerogel that scientists use to collect dust particles in space. Made from silicon and other chemicals, aerogel weighs less than any other solid on Earth. Though it looks like nothing more than blue smoke, a column of aerogel the size of a human could support the weight of a small car—about 1,000 pounds. To collect space dust, aerogel is attached to special equipment on board the spacecraft Stardust.
Particles of dust traveling 12 times faster than a bullet embed themselves in the aerogel and come to a slow stop, leaving carrot-shaped trails (right) and staying safe and sound until returning to Earth.
- asteroid:
- A piece of rock that orbits the Sun.
- comet:
- A mass of ice, frozen gases, and dust particles that travels around the Sun in a long, slow path. When a comet comes close to the Sun, it can be seen in the sky as a bright object with a glowing head and a long, streaming tail.
- Why are small particles in space sometimes dangerous to spacecraft and astronauts?
[anno: Small particles are sometimes dangerous because if they are going fast enough, they could tear through spacesuits or damage equipment.]
- Why do scientists want to study space dust?
[anno: Scientists want to study space dust because they hope to find out more about what space was like when the Earth was born. They also hope to learn more about what is happening in other parts of the universe.]
- Where has space dust and dirt been collected?
[anno: Space dust has been collected on the Moon, on Mars, from Earth's atmosphere, from outer space, from the tail of a comet, from Earth's ocean floors.]


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Scientists have concluded the checkout period for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and are now revealing images showcasing the power of the much-improved observatory. This zoom into the globular star cluster Omega Centauri converges onto the Hubble Wide Field Camera 3's panoramic view of 100,000 stars lying in the center of the cluster. The stars vary in age and change color as they get older. Most of them are middle-aged, yellowish stars like our Sun. But as they near the end of their lives, they balloon into red giants, and later still, into hot, blue stars.
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Euros have a tendency to get overblown in pre-draft hype, largely because not enough people have seen them play and its easy to manipulate people's views through video highlights, etc.
Darko Milicic is the prime example of this. There were some who thought he should be drafted ahead of Lebron, based purely upon speculation.
He was the #2 pick in a loaded draft (Anthony, Bosh, Wade came immediately after).


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When chatting with comedian Bill Burr, be prepared to lose all control over the direction of the conversation. This isn't intentional on Burr's part, mind you; he just has a lot on his mind, so a simple question about his (hilarious) new DVD "Let It Go" will make him think of music piracy, which will lead to the hipster movement, and then, somehow, "The Social Network." We were happy to play along, and occasionally ask him a question or two about going back to Philadelphia, his surefire method to get children to shut up, and lastly we introduce Burr to his long-lost indie pop musician twin.
Bullz-Eye: Where in the world are you?
Bill Burr: Believe it or not, I'm at home. I'm getting ready to do some gigs this week. I've got one in Minneapolis, the Pantages Theater, and then I'm at the Vic Theater in Chicago.
BE: I love the Vic. That's a great venue.
BB: I've never been there, but I'm really excited to come up there. I know Bill Hicks did a special up there, and a bunch of guys I was actually hanging out with yesterday watching football. John Caponera is from up that way. So it should be cool.
BE: I love the new DVD.
BB: Oh, thank you! It's been doing great. It was #1 on iTunes last week as far as comedy stand-up DVDs go, so that's a huge thrill for me. I'm hoping more people buy it because, obviously, I want to make a little cashish here, but when they showed it on Comedy Central, they edited out two huge chunks of it, because they had to fit in 60 minutes of commercials. With an hour-long special, you miss 25% of it.
BE: Which parts did they cut out?
BB: It's hilarious what they cut out. They cut out the automated checkout lines and banks microchipping us, but the bit about me committing suicide, apparently that was totally fine. (Laughs) I thought that was kind of funny. "Yeah, we don't give a shit what you do to yourself. Just don't mess with our scams and we're good.
BE: How long does it take to come up with enough material to do a new album or concert video?
BB: That one took me two years. I'm going to wait three years [to do the next one], unless something really big happens in my life. You don't want to keep doing more of the same, and that's one of the things I liked about the difference between "Why Do I Do This?" and "Let It Go," there were major changes in my life. I started living with my girl, I got a dog, I moved out to L.A., I got a little into conspiracy theories…I felt that there was enough newness there that I could put out another album that wasn't, "He's still talking about the same stuff."
BE: The bit about putting the curse word after the race is one of the most insightful observations on speech patterns I've ever heard.
BB: I was nervous about that because I thought that would tap into the Asian drivers [stereotype] and people would think it's kind of hacky, but people seem to really like that one, thank God. You never know how people are gonna take them.
BE: I also serve as one of the main movie critics for our site, and you should know that that your voice is frequently in my head saying, "Stop making this fucking movie."
BB: Oh, that's great! What movie has been bugging you lately that they keep making? Is it some sort of awful romantic comedy?
BE: That's usually it.
BB: How about the one where the couple are both spies but they don't realize it, and then they have to have the contract to kill each other? They must have made that three times in the last five years. They did it with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, Ashton Kutcher kind of did a version of it with somebody else, and I want to say there was one other one.
BE: With regard to the 'what are you, a fag?' bit, I have to ask you: do you know the people I went to high school with? Because they're exactly like that.
BB: (Laughs) It's a straight across the board…I don't even want to say blue collar…there's an unexamined life/unworldly point of view that is really mainstream. And I'm not acting like I'm going to museums or anything, but there is something to be said about even just traveling in and around the States. Occasionally, if you get a chance to go outside of the country, you start examining where you're from and some of the thought processes, and that was one of the funnier things. When I finally got away from the east coast for a while, and I came back – specifically to Boston – there was just this underlying anger that I never noticed before, because I was born there and just dropped right into it. And who wants to walk around being an angry guy? So I've been working on myself. Someone would say, "Take a yoga class, it's good for relaxation." And I'd immediately think, "That's fucking gay. What are you, a fag?" And I thought it was funny at first, like it makes you some sort of tough guy, but then you realize that it's really stupid after a while. So that was the basis of that bit. It was where I was from, the people I hung out with, and a lot of the thoughts that were in my head that I'm trying to get rid of. And I'm making fun of people who say that as much as I'm making fun of myself. I talk about having a sweet tooth, and how I really don't like that about myself. You know that whole bit, "You want a cookie?" "What the fuck are you asking me that for?" And the reality was I wanted a cookie. It's just all that dumb guy stuff.
BE: I grew up in a small town, so I expected that to be a small town thing, but to hear you, growing up in Boston…
BB: Well, I grew up in the suburbs. It wasn't really a small town, but it's pretty prevalent. And I think the more you hang out with jocks, not to be stereotypical, but when you get into sports, you get into male competition, and the testosterone gets to the red levels. You know, no pain no gain, don't be a pussy, there's no crying in baseball, and you get into that mindset of where you have to stop acknowledging that it's raining out, and you can't have an umbrella. (Laughs) If you're playing a game and pushing through pain, that's one thing, but if you're just waiting for a bus and you catch a three-day cold, that doesn't make you more of a man.
BE: There is a bit in the bonus features of your DVD on "The Biggest Loser" that was really funny: Why didn't that make the final cut?
BB: Because I had already done [that bit] on the Spike Guy's Choice Awards, and I have a thing about trying not to repeat jokes. And also, it's a nice surprise when you get the DVD, like, "Oh, this was worth [buying]." What the kids have to understand is that if they don't buy the DVD, then the people who give me the money to do the DVD go out of business, and then my next special is going to be [recorded] on a flip camera. This is how I handle the Internet, with all this "free" art out there: I use it as free browsing, like I'm going through a rack of clothes. I pay for all my music. If I can't get it on iTunes, I go down to Amoeba Records. The same reason I don't go to automated checkout lines; I'm not trying to put somebody out on the street. Remember with all that Napster stuff, "We're not stealing the music, we're sharing it." With ten years of stealing everyone's music, look where it's gotten us. Steven Tyler is on "American Idol," judging people singing, "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" or whatever the fuck they're doing on that show. I think it's sad. The Internet, it's like everything, there's a yin and a yang to it. The great thing is how much I think we're progressing. Like, I play drums, and the fact that everybody can upload their drum solos and share new licks…the level of musicianship that's out there is absolutely astounding because of the Internet. So it's not 100% bad. I'm such a fucking hypocrite. I watch free porn.
BE: I have a three-year-old son, and the next time he starts being bratty, I seriously think I'm going to pour water on his head.
BB: I'm telling you, it works. It was so goddamn funny, and then he told on me. Then my buddy's wife started yelling at me, and I knew I was wrong, but when I was that kid's age, I wouldn't have told on me. I don't know, new breed. The Time Out Generation.
BE: Have you trademarked the phrase 'A gun you can pet' yet? Because you should.
BB: I know, I should put that on T-shirts or something. They love the DVDs, but Jesus Christ, people love T-shirts. But lugging those things from airport to airport if you don't sell all of them…I think I'll do it more for my podcasts. I have a ring tone. It's a cool way for people to donate to my podcasts. It's only 99 cents, and I realize everybody can make their own ring tone at this point, but it's a really simple way for my listeners if they want to toss me a buck. And I still don't make any money off of it, because what I usually end up doing is invest in better recording equipment. I'm dying to get this thing, I can't remember what it's called, but you can basically walk around with it, and interview people. When I first did my podcast I used to drive around on the phone – before they had laws about it – and I would be riffing about my week and I'd be shitting on people walking down the street, and people loved that. There are ways to actually make a living via the Internet.
BE: It is interesting that you have smaller artists who have found a way to fund stuff themselves, and they're making more money than the people on the major labels, because all of their money is going into music videos, photo shoots, etc. They don't make anything from their records; they make it all on the road. I figured the same is for comedians as well.
BB: If I wanted to be making more money via the Internet, I could. If I wanted to come up with a T-shirt, I could do that. I could do coffee mugs and keychains and all that shit, people love buying that. I could have a bigger merchandise store. I'm not ruling it out. The podcast is something I really enjoy. It's a lot of fun. And what I could do is what a lot of these guys do: charge for the year. People sign up, and it's broken into seasons or something like that. You do two seasons a year and you charge three bucks or five bucks for six months. I think that's the way to do it, because people don't mind tossing out five bucks to get six months worth of comedy. But the thing is, just charge them one time. That's what I've learned. Because if it's every single week, just having to sit there and input your stupid information, take out your credit card, all that, it's a pain in the ass. And if it takes too long for the screen to load, I walk away, so I don't expect [my fans] not to walk away. I'm gradually gravitating towards doing something like that, but for me to charge, I think I'd have to step up, hire an editor, make it sound like a radio show. Mine's really raw. I was doing it last night, my girlfriend came walking in, and I always have another mic lying there, and we got into it a little bit about some thrift store items she bought. My podcast has a 'hanging out' vibe to it, so if I was going to charge, I think I'd have to make it more professional.
BE: Well, I can see where you wouldn't want to get too into the merchandising, because all of a sudden you're Krusty the Klown.
BB: Yeah, but you know what it is? I've realized that there is an art to everything, if you're willing to take the time. So just because you have a T-shirt doesn't mean it has to have a cheesy picture on it. I'm actually talking to someone about designing a T-shirt, and I want to come up with a T-shirt that's so fucking cool that people would want it even if they didn't know what it was. Believe me, it's not going to involve having my stupid face on it. (Laughs) I don't know how the hell you sell [my face], unless you were mocking T-shirts. And I think that hipster thing is about ready to go away
BE: God, I hope so.
BB: Yeah, wouldn't it be nice if someone had something on because they liked it, not because they were mocking it? It's a very walled off way to be living, not to mention half the stuff they're making fun of is something I grew up with, so it's really nostalgic to me. To see an entire generation making fun of my childhood and the TV shows I watched is kind of unsettling.
BE: To me, it's just weak and lazy. "Look how ironic I'm being." You don't know the meaning of the word.
BB: You know, in all honesty, it was funny at first. The first time I saw somebody with a mustache from the '70s, I thought it was fucking hilarious. And then when everyone had one, and the fucking beard…everything became ironic, and then it became awkward. I'd like a punch line once in a while, rather than everyone staring out the side of their head, trying to think if they understood what they just said. You know those shows on TV? Talk to the camera, and they're just saying this bizarre shit? That borderline retarded character they seem to have on every show? (Laughs) That's why I can't watch a lot of those shows, because it gets to the point where, "Can someone be aware of what they're talking about? Can somebody not be awkward and actually have a little game with the females?" I can't remember the last time there was a character on TV that made me think, "I wanna be that guy." I grew up on Charles Bronson, Clint Eastwood, Lee Marvin, all those old movies they used to show. You wanted to be those guys. I don't know what's happened. Now, it's people in their 30s, and they speak like they're at their first semi-formal. It gets annoying after a while.
BE: This goes back to a bit you do in your recent routine, which is that the geeks are in control. It's not just on the banking level; it's on the television level as well.
BB: Nerds run the world, but they're not awkward. They have that Dick Cheney vibe, where you don't want to stare them in the eye.
BE: Erase your whole family.
BB: Yeah. I should have worded that differently. Sociopath is what it is. Speaking of awkward, I just saw that movie "The Social Network." I really liked it.
BE: I loved it. Great movie.
BB: Women's groups…I don't know what their problem is with that movie. It starts off with the girl breaking up with the guy, and she gives one of the greatest breakup lines ever. "I want you to know, in the future, when you think women don't want to be with you because you're a nerd, I want you to know, from the bottom of my heart, it's not because you're a nerd. It's because you're an asshole." She walks away from him, and later on in the movie when he tries to reconcile with her, she's totally strong, self-esteem, "I'm with my friends." He's trying to get her to go outside, and she's like, "No. It's over. You fucked up, and I know I can do better." And then everybody else was the kind of women that you meet when all of a sudden you make a billion dollars: gold-digging whores. And those women's groups act like those women don't exist. Any time a guy in his 40s buys a sports car, they can say, "Oh, it's because he has a little dick." It's like "The View" last week when Bill O'Reilly went on there. They don't like a guy because he's intolerant, and they do the exact fucking thing they accuse him of being.
BE: That was the best thing about the "South Park" movie, for me, when someone tells Sheila Broflovski that she's brought enough intolerance to start the Apocalypse.
BB: For 12 years, "South Park" is, other than "The Chappelle Show," the best social commentary on television. The way they just level everybody, and you learn something without it being preachy. They're fucking geniuses. They've been killing it for 12 years, but no one really talks about it.
BE: I think it's because they've been so consistent. They haven't really had a bad season, though I wasn't crazy about last season.
BB: I really just watch sports, but every once in a while I'll come across "South Park" and laugh my ass off.
BB: As a comic, did you get a kick out of the Kanye West episode, where he beats Carlos Mencia to death for claiming to have come up with the 'gay fish' joke?
BB: Oh, when they did the callback to "Carlito's Way," when he's in the wheelchair saying, [in Mexican accent] "Come on, man. You've got everything, I got nothing!" That's the dude in "Carlito's Way" when Carlito finds out he's wearing a wire. "I gotta shit in a bag, man!" And they left all of that in there while they tied it in to stealing jokes. It was fucking brilliant. I loved that episode.
BE: When was the bit on the DVD with the blind guy shot?
BB: That was ninety- wait, not the '90s. For some reason, I never latched on to the 2000s. It was 2008 or 2009.
BE: You seem to have more fun riffing than doing your actual routine.
BB: Yeah! Because then I'm just that loud guy in the bar, fucking around, breaking balls, and everybody knows I'm an idiot. People ask me, "What's your point of view?" And that's what I say; I'm the loud guy in the bar that kind of makes sense, and then you remember that I flunked everything in high school, so you can laugh at me. I really enjoy going back and forth with the crowd. I don't like the whole, "You suck," and I gotta go, "Fuck you." But I like when I'm talking about something I believe in, and someone doesn't share my point of view, I like that back-and-forth. And also, I can be swayed, which, I think, dare I say, is refreshing in this day and age with these know-it-all talking head fucking morons on TV. They're talking about trying to fix this country like they work in the Pentagon, like they actually have connections to these people and they know what's going on. I do this radio show on the Internet with Joe DeRosa, who's opening up for me in Minnesota and Chicago. The Olbermanns, the O'Reillys, Glenn Beck, Ann Coulter, we used to say how…you remember the old-school managers for wrestlers? Like the Grand Wizard and Captain Lou Albano and Freddy Blassie? They're basically doing their entire routines, except they're talking about America. (Laughs)
BE: So Ann Coulter's going to come on TV with a rubber band sticking out of her cheek?
BB: I have never walked through the airport and seen the title of her most recent book, and not burst out laughing. I don't agree with her points of view, but the comedian in me loves what she's doing, because it's along the lines of what I do with my act. People who agree with your point of view, they're automatically going to listen, but the ones who don't, to get them to listen is a roundabout way of saying that they're morons. And that's what she does. She had something, she was talking about the left, and it said, "Godless." It was so over the top and ridiculous, it was fucking hilarious. They're so ridiculous, on one side or the other, that I just can't take them seriously. I respect their intelligence and the fact that they're into politics, but…it would be like if someone was in a relationship saying, "My wife is always wrong. Always." And there's no, "Well, maybe there are times when you're wrong, is there any middle ground…" "No." It's the weird combination of funny and depressing, because there are people out there who actually watch those shows, on the left and the right, and actually feel like they're watching news, rather than some over-the-top op-ed piece.
BE: I always laugh when I see someone get angry with someone like Ann Coulter. If you don't pay any attention to her, she'll go away. But they can't help themselves.
BB: I think it's the Howard Stern thing, where back in the day, the people who hated him the most listened the most. But the thing about him is he was just doing comedy. He was trying to make you laugh, while these people, what they're trying to do – on both sides, make sure you put that in there – is scary. They're both bizarrely, completely intolerant, yet they think that they're these wonderful human beings. They basically say, "If everybody thought exactly the way I did, the world would be a better place," which is the exact mindset of every maniac who's ever tried to take over the world. (Laughs)
BE: And how boring that would be, if we were all the same.
BB: Yeah. I was disappointed that two fellow comedians [Note: he's back to talking about Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg on "The View"] allowed him to…you had no comeback? You couldn't break the guy down? You couldn't see that he was just saying inflammatory things? The easiest thing to do when somebody's saying [inflammatory] stuff is just laugh at them, and keep saying that they're ridiculous. And usually what happens is they blow a gasket, and they look like a moron. So hats off to Bill O'Reilly. He got two seasoned stand-up comedians to walk off their own show. I have to say, as a guy, it was hilarious to watch him, four on one, and he machete'd his way through, came out the other side.
BE: Speaking of riffing, have you been back to Philly lately? [Note: this is in reference to a show Burr did in 2006 on the Opie and Anthony Traveling Virus Comedy Tour, where the audience booed the first comic off the stage. When it was Burr's turn, he spent his entire set ripping the city of Philadelphia to shreds. It's a thing of beauty.]
BB: Oh, yeah. Philly was never a problem to come back to. Everybody remembered that except for the people in Philly, because they do that all the time. Have you seen some of the stories that have come out of Philly in the last six months? There was a guy, drunk and cursing, and in front of him was an off-duty cop with his daughter, and he said, "Hey, can you watch your language?" And the guy stood up…
BE: …and threw up on her. Disgusting.
BB: Yeah. So what happened to me, that was PG. They don't even remember. They thought it was funny. They laughed, and then woke up the next day and could barely remember it.
BE: I saw that your brother was up for Ted Kennedy's senate seat. You tend to avoid politics in your act, but I would love to see you on the senate floor saying, "This is shit, this is a bill of shit!"
BB: (Laughs) I would never survive in that world. The heckling that goes on when you hold public office is nonstop. People on television trashing you, everywhere you go there's someone trying to throw rotten tomatoes in your face. And you can't say, "Hey why don't you go fuck yourself?" or start making fun of somebody's big head or the stupid shirt they have on. You can't do that as a politician, so they have to sit there and, regardless of how informed their critic is, or their level of intelligence…for my personality, it would be the toughest job on the planet. But my brother loves it.
BE: Tell me about what IMDb is calling "Untitled Burr and Hart Project."
BB: I shot a pilot with Kevin Hart, hopefully for a new show on Comedy Central, and the basic premise is he's black, and I'm white, and together we solve crimes. I'm kidding. We've basically exaggerated different parts of our personality, we're playing comedians trying to make it in L.A. but it has very little to do with our stand-up or our stand-up careers. It mainly has to do with both of us, in our own ways, trying desperately not to be complete pieces of shit. Just trying to become better human beings. That's basically what it is.
BB: What's your approach to the whole sitcom thing? You've done a little bit of that, but not a tremendous amount, and for some comedians, that's the dream, the steady paycheck. "Oh, good, I don't have to travel 300 days a year." You don't strike me as that kind of guy.
BB: If this show gets picked up, they shoot the whole season in three months. It's a Monday-Friday gig, and you have Saturday and Sunday off just like a regular job. Then I'd take a month off and yeah, I'd go out on the road. I would be over the moon if this thing gets picked up, because I would get more exposure and more people would come out to my shows. In the end, my goals are very stand-up oriented. I want to have a body of work by the time I'm done, and in terms of the all-time funniest guys, I want to see how far up that list I can get. With each special, I challenge myself to grow in my personal life, hoping that it will seep into my act. Right now I'm trying to go into the character of my dad, which is something I've never done. I've been frustrated trying to do it for 15 years, and just the challenge of that is making me excited to go down to the clubs.
But as far as acting, I would love to do it. A sitcom is the greatest acting job on the planet, as far as having a life. It's just unbelievable how good it is, provided you're on a good one. If you're on a horrific one, it's the worst gig on the planet. But "Seinfeld," "Everybody Loves Raymond," "Cheers," where the writing is that good, and you're with this ensemble cast and everybody's having a good time, I don't think there's a better gig in this business. I got to do one back in the day. We lasted half a season. It was my first acting gig, so I was so busy focusing on not getting fired that I didn't realize how unbelievable it was. We'd do two takes of every scene and we were done. Maybe you had a couple of pickups, you shot the thing in two hours. This show I'm doing with Kevin is a two-camera shoot. But it takes four days to shoot a half-hour episode. You know those sitcoms back in the day where, by the third or fourth season, when the actors had their characters down, and the writers had their voices down, and it was this finely oiled machine? I heard stories about casts now showing up until the day of blocking. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, they wouldn't even show up for a table read. They'd just show up when they blocked the scenes for the cameras, and then Friday they would just do the gig. It was like "The Jetsons," remember when he'd say, "Ah, these three-day work weeks are murder." With technology, we're all working more; the sitcom [actors] are the only ones who got the three-day work week.
BE: You've been very generous with your time, and I appreciate you taking the time to talk with us. I just have one other thing to ask you: have you ever heard of a musician named David Mead?
BB: No.
BE: You two were separated at birth.
BB: What, does he make music about punching people in the face?
BE: No, he looks just like you. You could be twins.
BB: Oh, I gotta look him up right now. Do you know how many people have come up to me and thought I was Christopher Titus? That just blows my mind. [Back to David Mead] It's M-E-A-D?
BE: Yes, but I'll warn you, he has pretty awesome hair.
BB: [Finding picture of Mead] Ahhhhhh, yeah! I used to have hair like that. He looks like the better version of me. He's got better hair, he looks a little more confident in his pictures here. I like this guy. Maybe if I run into him, I'll ask him some advice, how I can be a better me. I'll take that [comparison]. I usually get Ron Howard or Ralph Malph. When I had my head buzzed down, people said Billy Corgan.
BE: "You're a bald guy, you look like every other bald guy." Is that it?
BB: Yeah, the bald white guy.
BE: "You look like the singer from Midnight Oil." "Uh, no, I don't."
BB: Yeah, but that's all right. I'm a white dude, you can do that. But you do that to other people, you have to send a letter of apology, like the people who got offended by "The Social Network." Which is so ridiculous because if any of them were dating that guy, and all of a sudden he made a zillion dollars and these skanks came around him, that's exactly what they would call them. They'd call them gold-digging whores. But for some reason, if guys [say that]…I kinda get it; it falls in the lines of "Only I can punch my little brother. You can't."
BE: I didn't think anybody got out of that movie clean. I'm watching Jessie Eisenberg, and I'm thinking, "Zuckerberg looks like he has Asperger syndrome."
BB: If you really want to be like that, I guess anybody could have been offended. I could have been offended as a guy on some level because I'm either this nerdy guy with a hooded sweatshirt or some date rapist in a row boat. If you want to look at the movie that way, and just try to find ways to get offended, or you could just sit back and think, "I'm watching a movie, and morons are always going to be morons, and this isn't really going to sway people one way or the other."
BE: Yeah. What you said.
BB: What I said. Is that a nice button? Isn't that what people in your business call it?
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Friday, March 13, 2009
Sweet Memories
Don't you just love the color combo's of the 70's? Orange and yellow is such a happy combination.
The print is just so darling and the giraffe is just the sweetest.
I think you will enjoy following Carrie's blog, especially if you have a love of all things vintage. But, there's something there for everyone. She recently crafted some of the sweetest birdhouses, makes the cutest paper crafts, and she generously shares her favorite recipes too. Her blog is warm and inviting and makes you want to sit back, put your feet up, and just take in all of it's loveliness.
On another note, I don't have anything completed to show you. Do you ever have periods where you have so many new things that you would like to try out and then you just can't decide which one to do so you do nothing at all? Does that even make any sense??? Anyway, this is where I am at at the moment. Here is something that is ready to be put together but I just have no motivation to do so.
I hope you aren't like me and are happily creating beautiful things.
Have a wonderful weekend, everyone!
14 comments:
- Tolentreasures said...
I love the quilt top. I am there...too much started and don't know where to turn first. An entire free weekend, I hope that I get SOMETHING done!
- Fri Mar 13, 01:53:00 PM 2009
- Carrie @ Cottage Cozy said...
Perhaps you just needed a "simple" break...time to just be. You have such a gift in creating beautiful things.
I am so glad you are pleased with the quilt top...you are a very kind "blogging" friend.
Stay Cozy, Carrie
- Fri Mar 13, 03:30:00 PM 2009
- Danetta said...
Yellow and Orange is my all time favorite color combination. When I was in high school in the 70's my room was decked out in those colors. That is such a cute quilt top.
- Fri Mar 13, 03:43:00 PM 2009
- Tudy said...
I get to that point often, but I have friends that keep asking me what I am making so I have to do something to get them off my back. Just kidding, I love them all.
- Fri Mar 13, 03:46:00 PM 2009
- Gracie said...
I'm in that mode at the moment. What you are working on is so pretty you just have to finish it so we can see a peak. Maybe it will inspire me too.
- Fri Mar 13, 04:20:00 PM 2009
- Suze said...
I understand totally. I have been working on scrappy rugs and am getting a bit tired of that, but don't know what to do next. I want to use more scraps, but can't decide what to make from them.
- Fri Mar 13, 11:31:00 PM 2009
Those colors remind of me days past too. I relate to what you wrote, with so many choices I sometimes spin my wheels with indecision about what to do first. It can be overwhelming. I hate wasting time on just trying to make a decision but I do it.
Have a great weekend :D
- Sat Mar 14, 04:55:00 AM 2009
- AverettLadyNana said...
Love the quilt top!
Thanks for telling us about Cottage Cozy---nice blog.
- Sat Mar 14, 05:56:00 AM 2009
- Craftpassion said...
Yeh, the smell of some old memories, how can I ever forget!!!
Get some rest and just do whatever you like first, forget about the priority!!!
- Sat Mar 14, 06:04:00 AM 2009
- sweetiepie said...
Lettie, that is a beautiful quilt top!!! Cari has a wonderful blog. I visit there often.
I don't know what your pictured project is going to be, but I sure do love your fabric choices. I can't wait to see the finished product.
Take care.
- Sat Mar 14, 06:15:00 AM 2009
- Suze said...
Those times of rest just recharge us for the next creative adventure.
- Sat Mar 14, 06:42:00 AM 2009
- Juana Elena said...
hello mi friend,que hermosa tela te ha enviado tu amiga Carrie,es linda,que tengas un hermoso dia,saludos.....
- Sat Mar 14, 10:06:00 AM 2009
- sweetiepie said...
Lettie, I love the new background on your blog.
- Sun Mar 15, 05:55:00 AM 2009
- Stephanie D. said...
I can identify with the nostalgia, but not the 70s colors! I still think they're ugly--as well as the pink/aqua combos of the 50s. And I lived through both.
Oh, well.
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Prince Harry will be a spectator as England's World Cup campaign in Brazil comes to an end today when the team takes to the pitch for the last time.
Harry, who is touring Brazil and Chile over seven days, will be in the stands to see Roy Hodgson's team play Costa Rica.
England have already been knocked out of the World Cup after losing their first two group stage matches and will now be playing for pride when they take on the Central American team in the city of Belo Horizonte.
Harry's South American tour began yesterday when he visited a rehabilitation hospital in the capital Brasilia, and joined one of the patients for a canoeing therapy session on a lake before watching World Cup hosts Brazil beat Cameroon.
Later today he will visit Minas Tenis Clube and tour the facilities of the sports club which will be one of the venues for Team GB and Paralympics GB's training camp ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympics.
During his tour Harry will visit an outdoor swimming pool where he will meet Brazilian Olympic gold medallist swimmer Cesar Cielo, and start a race between young swimmers from the local area and present medals to the winners.
In a sports arena he will watch basketball, judo and touch rugby demonstrations by local children and will be joined by visually impaired judo player Ben Quilter who won a Paralympic bronze for Britain at London 2012 and Luciano Ribeiro Correa, a leading member of Brazil's national judo team.
The final part of the engagement will be a business brunch, which will be attended by FA chairman Greg Dyke and Sir Trevor Brooking, who will be retiring from his role as the FA's director of football development after the World Cup.
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On Wednesday night, artist Robin Rhode kicked off his exhibition at LACMA with a performance. I was there with five of our high school interns as Robin burst through the doors of the Ahmanson Building, made his way quickly through the crowd, and began drawing on the wall with chalk. He grabbed a few audience members and involved them in pulling vigorously on the hastily sketched image of a rope. It looked as if they were miming a game of tug-of-war with an invisible opponent.
Robin picked Angela Hernandez, a senior at Fairfax High (and her skateboard), to be part of the piece along with a handful of other bystanders. Afterwards, I talked with Angela and the other interns about what they thought. Here's what they had to say.
From left, high school interns Sequoyah Madison, Lexi Davis, Kelley Shim, Angela Hernandez and David Kamins in front of the wall drawing by Robin Rhode.
Angela Hernandez, Fairfax High School: I felt kind of shy. I don't like to be the center of attention, so it was kind of weird and I didn't really know what to do exactly. But as soon as he started to give us instructions and direction I was like, okay, this is cool. At first I thought he was being rude. But he has his intentions. I enjoyed it.
Kelley Shim, Beverly Hills High School: It was very unexpected. He really interacted with the drawing. You didn't know exactly what he was doing, or what he might do next.
David Kamins, Hamilton High School: If an artist comes off as rude, I think he's just trying to be very detailed. When he has other people in the work, he wants to make sure that they're following his agenda and they're going to produce the message he wants to get across to the audience.
Sequoyah Madison, Culver City High School: It makes you question reality. I liked the idea that you can just have a piece of chalk and get an idea across without showing your audience exactly what you're thinking.
David: There was this ambiguity to it. Yes, there were instructions and you were told to pull on a rope, interact with an image on the wall. But what are we left with? The performance ended without any dénouement and people were sort of confused when it ended. I feel like that's in the nature of performance art. There's really no narrative. It's ephemeral. It's an interesting perspective you have to attain.
Angela: I don't think art has to have a meaning. I'm sure it has one. But I think he's given us a chance to think about it on our own. Art does that for people.
We also talked about the exhibition, including Robin's Soap and Water (2007)—a bicycle cast out of soap lying next to a bucket of water.
Lexi Davis, Calabasas High School: I really liked the bicycle piece and I think it tied into the performance he did tonight. I was reading about him and he was saying that the piece isn't permanent. You could just wash away the soap and it would be gone. He never intended it to be there forever. And that was how his performance was too because the chalk could just be wiped away. You think of art as something that's really permanent but his wasn't at all.
David: You shouldn't look at art based on the artist's biography, but I liked seeing the artist tonight and getting a feeling for who he is. He has a personality.
A video of the performance is on view as part of the exhibition.


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30 comments:
- Jamie said...
Alex is soooo cute! And lovely lovely trip for two (with friends). Well, Hoboken is calling my name with the pizza and the bakery. And I am even more excited now to be in NYC! Great post! Thanks for bringing us along (well minus a slice of pizza)!
- March 22, 2012 at 12:16 PM
- T.W. Barritt at Culinary Types said...
Your photos really capture Manhattan in all its glory - it must have been a great adventure to share with Alex and to experience the best of Manhattan all over again!
- March 22, 2012 at 12:59 PM
- Megan said...
What a great little escape. I'm jealous of the chocolate croissant!
- March 22, 2012 at 1:56 PM
- Noelle said...
sounds and looks like you had a great time!
- March 22, 2012 at 2:16 PM
- Fuji Mama said...
What a beautiful post!
- March 22, 2012 at 2:19 PM
- Sherry Page said...
Christine, what a great trip! Wish I could have been there with you guys. I am really anxious to try Locanda Verde now! Thanks for the recommendation.
- March 22, 2012 at 2:38 PM
- Lyndsey said...
I enjoyed this post thaks for sharing.
- March 22, 2012 at 3:42 PM
- Penny said...
I loved this post. From the beautiful pictures of my favorite city to the precious pictures of Alex. Thanks for the restaurant recommedations. Can hardly wait to go back. Maybe next year. Sigh.
- March 22, 2012 at 3:49 PM
- Sam @ My Carolina Kitchen said...
How fun. It must have been nice to go home again with Alex.
When my father-in-law lived in NYC, he used to send us French baguettes (via the post office) from a bakery in Hoboken that were perhaps the best baguettes this side of France. They must know how to make bread and pizza over there in Jersey.
- March 22, 2012 at 3:56 PM
- Claudia said...
Such a sweet post. I am going to NYC on Saturday with my 20-something daughter. Going "home" after 4 years! I only hope we have as much fun as you and Alex!
- March 22, 2012 at 7:23 PM
- Reeni said...
It looks like you hit up all the great spots for eating! Alex is so cute! All that fun tuckered him out.
- March 22, 2012 at 7:28 PM
- Stephanie said...
Oh Yeah for a successful Mama and Babe trip! I'm headed to NYC in August and am thinking I should be printing off some of your reccos:)
- March 22, 2012 at 8:34 PM
- SavoringTime in the Kitchen said...
What a wonderful, sweet Mother-Son getaway! I applaud your taking on the challenge and I'm so glad Alex was a great traveler!
- March 22, 2012 at 9:19 PM
- Gloria said...
Love your pictures and Alex is adorable (lol)
- March 22, 2012 at 9:27 PM
- Rebecca Subbiah said...
great job mummy and so sweet love this post
- March 22, 2012 at 11:25 PM
- lostpastremembered said...
Just lyrical...what a wonderful time you had... you made NYC seem like a Woody Allan reverie... Hoboken too!
Since I've never gone the mother route (save to giant dogs) I rarely think of the world in those terms... you gave a wonderful mother's eye view of things. Lovely post... you remind me I must get to Locanda Verde!!
- March 23, 2012 at 7:32 AM
- lostpastremembered said...
Just lyrical...what a wonderful time you had... you made NYC seem like a Woody Allan reverie... Hoboken too!
Since I've never gone the mother route (save to giant dogs) I rarely think of the world in those terms... you gave a wonderful mother's eye view of things. Lovely post... you remind me I must get to Locanda Verde!!
- March 23, 2012 at 7:32 AM
- White Hot Oven said...
What a wonderful trip - so glad that you took the dive with the potential for a terrible car ride - it looks like you both had an amazing time. Always nice to get back to the city for a break from suburbia.
- March 23, 2012 at 10:09 AM
- bunkycooks said...
Too funny on the last photo. Let's hope not. I am happy to see that Alex is such a great traveler and I am certain there will be many more trips together to come.
- March 23, 2012 at 3:35 PM
- Velva said...
You are a city girl at heart....Great post. A sign of a great day, is a tired child. You did good.
- March 23, 2012 at 8:13 PM
- Andrea@WellnessNotes said...
Great mother-son outing! Love the last pic! :)
- March 23, 2012 at 9:08 PM
- tasteofbeirut said...
Lovely and exciting Manhattan! How I wish I could go back there and enjoy it! Taking your son there is a great idea, hope you will do it often and get him comfortable in such urban surroundings.
- March 24, 2012 at 2:55 AM
- City Share said...
We just went back for a visit recently too. Ahh, it was a great escape. Glad to hear that you had a good trip too.
- March 24, 2012 at 9:49 AM
- Barbara said...
What a super son you have! He made the trip pure pleasure for both of you. I love the last photo...he's all worn out!
- March 25, 2012 at 8:14 AM
- sally said...
Sounds like a great trip! Thanks for sharing your photos with us.
- March 25, 2012 at 12:10 PM
- Magic of Spice said...
So glad you had such a lovely time...and how wonderful that he slept for the drive :)
Hope you are having a great weekend...
- March 25, 2012 at 3:33 PM
- Sara said...
Love this post. So proud of Alex for being such a good little traveler. I can't wait for you to be able to take Alex to NYC in a few years when he can really enjoy the food! That is one lucky kid! I really hope Mac's an adventurous eater and I hope we take lots of weekend trips too. One of these days we'll have to make it up to you, so the boys can hang out sometime.
- March 26, 2012 at 5:22 PM
- nancy at good food matters said...
Great story, Christine---good for you taking the chance on this trip, which rewarded you and Alex in so many ways. I think you must be a city girl at heart! I have made a note to visit Locande Verde--many thanks for your recommendation.
- March 28, 2012 at 1:43 PM
- El said...
I'm glad to got a chance to get back to NY and have some fun. The last picture is hilarious!
- March 29, 2012 at 6:39 AM
- Emily said...
sounds like the perfect getaway. glad you and Alex had a wonderful time. :)
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The Flying Dutchmen finished 16th at the NCAA Division III men's swimming and diving championships which were held in Oxford, Ohio from March 20-22.
The Flying Dutchmen finished 16th at the NCAA Division III men's swimming and diving championships which were held in Oxford, Ohio from March 20-22.
Coach John Patnott's Dutchmen ended with 84 points by collecting one All-America and seven honorable mention All-America finishes.
The All-America recognition came in the 400-yard medley where an all-sophomore team finished seventh with a time of 3:34.72. Members of the relay were Phil Heyboer of Zeeland, Mich. (Holland Christian HS), Brandon King of Willowbrook, Ill. (Hinsdale Township HS), Ryan Nelis of Holland, Mich. (West Ottawa HS), and Matt Rose of Grandville, Mich. (Grandville HS).
Honorable mention All-America is afforded swimmers who finish between ninth and 16th place overall. Phil Heyboer had the best individual performance, winning the consolation finals of the 200-yard backstroke for an overall ninth place finish (1:51.76). He was also tenth overall in the 400-yard individual medley with a school record time of 4:00.48. Ryan Nelis finished 14th in the 100-yard butterfly (:50.34).
Hope's other honorable mention All-America finishes came in relays. Two freestyle relays finished 10th --the 400-yard freestyle relay (3:05.05) of senior Charles VanderBroek of Holland, Mich. (Holland HS), Ryan Nelis, junior Ryan Vogelzang of Holland, Mich. (Holland Christian HS), and Matt Rose and the 200-yard freestyle relay of Charles VanderBroek, Ryan Vogelzang, Ryan Nelis and Matt Rose (1:23.86). The 200-yard medley relay of Matt Rose, Brandon King, Ryan Nelis and Ryan Vogelzang finished 12th (1:34.14) and the 800-yard freestyle relay (Ryan Nelis, Charles Vanderbroek, Ryan Vogelzang and Matt Rose), was 15th (6:56.40).


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VIDEO: The Inside the NBA crew break down Dwight Howard's play vs. OKC
HOUSTON — Cross that off their bucket lists.
Now the Rockets know what it's like to step into an empty elevator shaft. Or out of a moving jet. Or off the roof of a tall building.
The last time anything went over an edge this fast, it was an anvil that wound up landing on the head of Wile E. Coyote.
The rootin' tootin', fastest-shootin' bunch in the NBA filled up the hoop for a season-high 73 points in the first half Wednesday night against the Thunder. Then scored 19 in the second half.
For the anomaly inclined, it was the largest point disparity (54) between halves in league history.
Ordinarily to see such a rapid reversal from feast to famine, one has to go out for double cheeseburgers with one of those bony supermodels.
In the end, what we have is a clear line of demarcation between an honest-to-goodness Western Conference title contender and a team that just likes to flex in front of the mirror.
After a middling 5-5 record since Russell Westbrook underwent another surgery on Dec. 27 — including five losses in the span of eight games and three in their last four — the Thunder may have been tempted to write another one off after Houston's dozen first-half 3-pointers.
Instead, coach Scott Brooks took them to the movies at halftime, showing video replays of the horror show defense that led to almost every single one of those 3-pointers.
Some were from gaps in the defense. Some were the result of switches. Some were just lazy. But no matter what, the Thunder decided they'd had enough.
"Hell yeah, it was a statement win," crowed Westbrook above the through that had gathered around Kevin Durant after his 36-point game.
The kind that said even without one of the twin engines to their offense, Thunder have the know-how, the wherewithal and the grit not to simply throw up their hands and write another one off as a bad night.
"We just stuck with it," Durant said.
It was also a statement about the Rockets in the 41st game of a season that hasn't seen much difference or overall improvement from the 11th, 21st or 31st.
When the Rockets are raining 3-pointers and using the gaps created to also attack the basket, as they did in the first half, they are virtually unbeatable. But when the shots stop falling — as they did in the second half — the Rockets can be unwatchable and don't seem like a bunch that could navigate the marathon of a deep postseason run. Or even the first round of the playoffs.
It's an act they've got memorized like the lines of a long-running Broadway play.
Coach Kevin McHale shakes his head and talks about the ball "sticking" in the offense and bemoaning the fact his team can't play with consistent energy all game.
James Harden, the supposed closer who did not score a point in the second half, churlishly challenges the notion that anything at all went wrong except a couple of shots not falling.
Dwight Howard, after five-point second half, sits in front of his locker mumbling responses to questions, as if the whispering lets the outside world know that, by gosh, he's taking this one seriously. That's after another night of Howard reverting to form as the frustrated, stifled big man who can't score and falls back into pushing, shoving and getting slapped with double technical fouls.
"We've got to play the right way if we want to win," Howard said. "Once we figure it out, we'll be fine."
It wasn't even a week ago when the Rockets blew a 25-point lead to the lowly Wizards, but had enough to fight back and win. The difference, of course, is that the thoroughly mediocre Wizards of the laughably horrid Eastern Conference are not in the same class as the Westbrook-less Thunder.
So while they have shown a propensity for often making a bunch of shots, the Rockets have not shown an inclination or an ability yet to reach for the next level of concentration and execution.
Whose fault is that? Howard's? Harden's? McHale's?
"We're good, Harden said. "We missed layups, a couple of errant turnovers that we could have converted in transition," said Harden. "Just small things."
Like that first step off the rooftop.
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Solid Victories at Home
NEW HAVEN, Conn.—It was a successful return home to New Haven, Conn., for the Yale women's fencing team. After spending last weekend in New York, this weekend it beat out both Drew and Vassar in the seventh-floor fencing salon in Payne Whitney Gymnasium.
"We are really proud of how we performed today," said junior captain Lauren Miller. "Every fencer was able to focus as get the job done, and we had a lot of fun doing it."
In the first match-up of the day, Yale defeated Vassar 19-8. That result included a particularly strong performances by the sabre weapon squad, which achieved a 9-0 shutout, and the foil team, which won a 7-2 verdict.
The Bulldogs carried that momentum in their second bout of the day, in which they overcame Drew 15-5. This time Yale's epee squad led the way, recording a 9-0 clean sweep as the Bulldogs capped off a successful day.
Saturday's result is a repeat of last year, in which the Bulldogs recorded substantial wins against both teams. Yale beat out both Drew (24-3) and Vassar (19-8) at a meet hosted by Vassar in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and every Yale fencer, including every substitute and non-starter, contributed at least one win towards the overall bout score.
"I am especially impressed with the women's team's ability to support each other's squads—not only in terms of winning bouts to make up for other squads' losses, but also in cheering each other on and constantly monitoring each other," Miller said. "I'm confident that we can keep up our strong support system for Ivies next weekend."
The strong result this weekend will prepare the Bulldogs well for the upcoming Ivy League Championship, which takes place on Feb. 8-9 at Brown in Providence, R.I.
Report filed by James Lu '14, Yale Sports Publicity.


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· complain; "What was he hollering about?"
Synonym(s): bitch, grouse, crab, beef, squawk, bellyache, holler
Hypernym(s): complain, kick, plain, sound_off, quetch, kvetch
2. grip - verb
· hold fast or firmly; "He gripped the steering wheel"
Hypernym(s): seize, prehend, clutch
3. grip - verb
· to grip or seize, as in a wrestling match; "the two men grappled with each other for several minutes"
Synonym(s): grapple
Hypernym(s): seize, prehend, clutch
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· to render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe; "The snake charmer fascinates the cobra"
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Hypernym(s): interest
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(Reuters) - The Utah Jazz are beginning a search for a new head coach after deciding not to offer Tyrone Corbin a new contract, the NBA team said on Monday following a last-place finish in the Western Conference.
Corbin had a 112-146 record with Utah and guided the team to winning records in two of his three full seasons and a playoff appearance in 2012 but they are coming off a 25-57 campaign.
"I would like to thank Ty and his staff for all of their hard work, dedication and professionalism over the last three-plus seasons," said Jazz General Manager Dennis Lindsey.
"This has not been an easy decision, but after a thorough review process, we as an organization feel that this is the best decision for our franchise moving forward."
Corbin took over as head coach on February 10, 2011, following the resignation of longtime coach Jerry Sloan. Prior to his promotion, Corbin served as an assistant coach for the Jazz under Sloan from 2004-2011.
He also played for nine teams during a 16-year NBA career (1985-2001), including three seasons with the Jazz from 1991-94.
The decision to part ways with Corbin means Utah will be one of at least three teams who will have new coaches next season as the New York Knicks fired Mike Woodson earlier on Monday and Rick Adelman retired as coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves.
"(Ty) and his family have been an important part of our team and community for many years," said Jazz President Randy Rigby. "They will always remain a part of the Jazz family."
Reporting by Larry Fine in New York; Editing by Frank Pingue


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Giants safety Will Hill has now hit the daily double.
According to Ralph Vacchiano of the New York Daily News, Hill has been suspended four games by the NFL for violating the league's policy on substances of abuse.
In 2012, Hill was suspended four games for violating the performance enhancing substances policy, a suspension he (like many others) blamed on Adderall.
While a suspension under the PED policy comes automatically with one positive test, a suspension under the substance-abuse policy (which covers recreations substances like marijuana) contemplates multiple violations.
This suspension will cost him the first four regular season games. He'll still be able to participate in training camp and preseason games.
With the departure of Kenny Phillips, the Giants were counting on Hill playing a larger role this season.
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U.S. Equal Employment
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Company to Pay $132,250 to Settle Suit Alleging Women were Subjected to Groping, Verbal Harassment and Pornography
NEW YORK – Long Island-based car dealer Thomas Dodge Subaru, now doing business as Thomas Subaru, will pay $132,250 to settle a sex harassment lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
In the lawsuit (EEOC v. Thomas Dodge Corp. of New York d/b/a Thomas Dodge Subaru, and Thomas Motor Sports, Inc., No. 07-CV-988, E.D.N.Y.), the EEOC had charged that Thomas Dodge Subaru subjected female employees to offensive touching, degrading and sexually explicit comments, and pornographic images. The EEOC also charged that two female employees were forced to resign because of the severity of the harassment and another woman was retaliated against by being fired after complaining about the harassment.
In addition to the egregious physical and verbal abuse, the EEOC said the company failed to take appropriate action to address and stop the harassment, even when employees repeatedly complained and management was aware of the unlawful conduct.
Under the three-year consent decree submitted to Federal District Court Judge Joseph F. Bianco, in addition to the $132,250 to be paid, the company must conduct anti-discrimination training, adopt complaint procedures, post a notice about the EEOC and the lawsuit, provide a memorandum setting forth the requirements of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to all employees, and submit to monitoring and reporting to the EEOC.
"No employer should allow such degrading and shameful conditions for women in the workplace," said Spencer H. Lewis, Jr., district director of the EEOC's New York District Office. "To avoid such conditions, an employer should have multiple ways for an employee to complain about harassment and when it becomes aware of it, the employer must take immediate steps to stop and prevent the harassment."
Konrad Batog, the EEOC's trial attorney assigned to the case, added, "Through this consent decree, the company has implemented an anti-harassment policy that provides employees multiple avenues of making complaints and we will monitor any complaints to make sure that they are effectively resolved."
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on the agency's web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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All submissions should be publicly posted by the 25th of each month.
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MIT-TM TwistMate connector is specifically designed for connecting to the recessed ¼ in. NPTF manifold port (IEC 615182.226 (54) as well as ¼ in. side manifold ports. The twist to connect" action provides leak tight connection using no sealants or wrench tightening for vacuum or pressure testing to 2500 psi. Sizes range from 1/8 in. to ½ in. NPT, with additional sizes available on request.
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Please read the following letter that explains the District policy regarding summer work.
May 1, 2017
CUSD Families,
It is with great pleasure that we announce our revisions of CUSD Course Placement Guidelines. Our staff has been working diligently over the course of the school year to revise districtwide placement criteria in English, History-Social Science, Mathematics and Science in grades 6 through 12. These guidelines can be found on our District Website under the Parent Resource tab and on each high school's website under the Guidance tab. Please take an opportunity to review these guidelines with your son/daughter as their Academic Advisors and teachers will be using these guidelines for Fall registration.
In addition to these guidelines, we have exciting news for students who have decided to challenge themselves by taking an Honors Level or Advanced Placement course. Summer assignments and assignments over Winter Break will no longer be allowed. However, as June 1st approaches and you begin planning your break, we offer you several resources and ideas for optional summer reading. Below are some resources to assist you in selecting books.
The California Recommended Literature List is a searchable database of a collection of outstanding literature for children and adolescents in grades prekindergarten through grade twelve in all disciplines. Each book has a description called an "annotation" describing the book.
The Find a Book, California tool offers students over 160,000 books from which to choose. This book-search tool enables individuals to build custom reading lists based on Lexile range, grade level, and/or personal interests. The Find A Book program is a national, state-led summer reading initiative sponsored by the Council of Chief State Schools Officers.
Renaissance Learning is a company with an international presence whose "primary purpose is to accelerate learning for all children and adults of all ability levels and ethnic and social backgrounds, worldwide." They provide a free, online tool to assist in finding the most appropriate and engaging books for students.
o To get started, check out The Parent Guide to AR Bookfinder.
o AR BookFinder: http://www.arbookfind.com/default.aspx
o AR BookFinder in Spanish: http://www.arbookfind.com/default.aspx?rs=1
District Departments have also included a variety of resources parents and students can utilize that are content specific. Click here for recommendations.
On behalf of CUSD, I again thank you for your support and involvement. If you have any questions regarding either the Placement Guidelines or the Advanced Placement Summer/Winter Break assignments, please contact your school's Guidance Office.
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The Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO) is the nation's leading voice of microenterprise development, serving the needs of U.S. microentrepreneurs who lack access to traditional sources of business education or capital. AEO empowers its nearly 500 member organizations as they start, stabilize, and expand their businesses by providing training, knowledge sharing, communications, and federal and state public policy and advocacy efforts. It is the only national member-based association in the microenterprise development industry and supports business owners in locales ranging from urban to rural.
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Apply to busk at Lower Marsh Market, SE1
Monday - Saturday 11.30 -3.30
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Where accompanying background music is used,the street entertainer/'s own music must form the greater part of the performance. It is important that shoppers, businesses and residents are not inconvenienced, therefore the music or voice is not to be amplified to a level that causes nuisance. Only battery powered busking amps are permitted and the Market staff reserve the right to ask the busker to reduce sound levels at any time.
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Today marks the 40th anniversary of the world's first cellphone call.
We first saw the news on The Verge.
Motorola engineer Marty Cooper made the first call to Joel Engel, a rival from the research department at Bell Labs, on April 3, 1973.
"Joel, this is Marty. I'm calling you from a cell phone, a real handheld portable cell phone."
Cooper was seemingly rubbing in the fact that Motorola beat Bell to the punch in successfully creating the world's first cellphone. Cooper placed the call on the chunky, 2.5 pound Motorola DynaTAC 8000x.


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Strider (pony)
Strider was a pony acquired by Frodo Baggins in Minas Tirith, whose name "Strider" came from Aragorn's own nickname in the northern lands. Frodo's pony was well travelled indeed: his master rode him back from Minas Tirith to the Shire after the War of the Ring,[1] and two years later he carried his master westwards in the Last Riding of the Keepers to the Grey Havens on the coast of the Great Sea.[2]


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Q. What are library hours?
A. Monday - Thursday 10:00am - 9:00pm; Friday & Saturday 10:00am - 6:00pm; Sunday 1:00pm - 6:00pm.
Q. Where can I return library materials?
A. The library maintains 4 bookdrops on-site (on the front of the library and in the parking lot) and also offers 5 other drops throughout the city for your convenience.
Q. How do I contact the library?
A. The library main number is 503.636.7628. Contact information for specific departments may be found on the Contact Us page.
Q. How do I get a library card?
A. You can get a Lake Oswego Public Library card free of charge if you live within our service area--this includes participating library districts within the Portland Metro area and Clark County. Please bring your ID and proof of address to the library to get a card. You can also apply for a card online. If you have questions, please call us at 503.636.7628.
Q. How do I find out about storytimes?
A. You can contact the Youth Services department at 503.697.6580 or visit our Storytimes and Programs page.
Q. Can my child be left alone in the library?
A. Our policy is that children 10 and up can be in the library unattended; however, we would like to remind parents that even though we work hard to keep the library safe for everyone, the library is a public place and library staff are unable to watch children who are left alone at the library. For more information, please read our Unattended Children policy.
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A. Our librarians are trained to provide readers' advisory service. Call 503.697.6581 or take a look at our Popular Materials page for resources to help you find a book, music, or DVD.
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A. Yes! Teens come to the library to study, meet with friends and participate in programs. Take a look at our Teens page or call a Youth Services librarian at 503.697.6580.
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A. We provide eBooks through Library2Go and Cloud Library. For detailed assistance please call 503.675.2540.
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A. You can drop off new or gently used books at the checkout desk on the first floor of the library. Books are sent to the Friends' bookstore, the Booktique, for resale. The Friends offer back their proceeds to the library to purchase new materials in all formats and to pay for programming.
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If the item is in the catalog
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If the item is not in the catalog
A. If the item is not in the catalog, we can try to borrow it for you via our Interlibrary Loan service from a library outside of Clackamas County. For more information on Interlibrary Loan contact the reference department at 503.675.2540 or email us with the title, author and date of publication, as well as with your contact information.
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Farewell My Concubine, Fair Well
The return of Les Yeux in the shape of his of his current solo moniker Farewell My Concubine was most anticipated. Several years back, he did a short stint as occasional host of experiment radio collective If You Got Ears. At the time we hadn't a clue of his music-making activities, we just knew he was a master chef of the free-form hash.
Squeezed into the back corner of studios at CKUT, Farewell My Concubine exuded a saturated stream of consciousness, a wavering storyline of structured sounds that were dirty/liquid around the edges, pulsing up the middle, and melodic in conclusion. His set made me feel like I was eavesdropping on something I don't have the capacity to understand. Mixing straightup songwriting with a hint of improvisation in the lyrical delivery, Farewell My Concubine's sound doesn't fall out of the sky fully formed - it's attained through a process of working it out over and over again until recognizable structures congeal, and striated components become smooth.


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Verbum is a cross-platform Catholic library. Running on Logos' powerful software, Verbum links all your resources together and syncs them across your mobile devices and computers, so you can access the Tradition like never before.
The Catholic Church is an ancient communion including the Roman, Antiochian, Byzantine, and Alexandrian traditions. It consists of over 30 unique liturgical rites, nearly as many autonomous churches, and over a billion faithful.
Catholicism is large and diverse, a faith bound together by a recognition of papal authority, but more profoundly by a focus on the sacraments and especially on the Eucharist as the "source and the summit" of Christian life. Through this sacramental orientation, Catholics find an affinity with the Orthodox of the East as well as many Western Christians, such as Anglicans and some Lutherans.
Catholicism is a complex tradition that includes Thomas Aquinas's relentless logic and Thérèse of Lisieux's "Little Way"; hermits, living lives of solitary prayer, and massive institutions such as hospitals and universities. It is made up of lawyers and mystics, bishops of imposing power and bare-footed Franciscans, humble chapels and magnificent cathedrals. Catholicism is full of intellectual and spiritual riches, but also full of controversy.
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U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Napoli's Italian Restaurant discriminated against a 17-year old server and other female teen workers by subjecting them to sexual harassment in the form of lewd comments, propositions and touching, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today in federal court. Napoli's Italian Restaurant is located in Maryville, Mo.
According to the EEOC's suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, Civil Action No. 5:09-cv-06122-FJG, restaurant managers subjected a 17-year old waitress and several other young female employees to a campaign of sexual comments, threats and unwanted touching. After the male managers allegedly trapped the 17-year old in the office with them and turned out the lights, she left her job because she did not feel safe in the workplace, the EEOC said.
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, protects workers from discrimination based upon gender, including sexual harassment. The EEOC filed suit after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement.
"Sexual harassment in the workplace violates Title VII and is even more egregious when the target of the harassment is a teenager," said James Neely, director of the EEOC's St. Louis District Office. "A young person's first working experience can be formative. Teenagers should not be subjected to a hostile work environment. The EEOC is committed to making the workplace safe for young workers."
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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