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You just bring a cake and goody bags and don't worry about anything (except the price)
Amazon has thousands of preselected gifts and party supplies for kids birthdays and lets you share your kid's wish list with family and friends.
Almost every kids place does birthday parties. So there is a huge choice of venues to consider. To name just a few:
1. My Gym.
My Gym is a great place to have your kid's birthday party! Most locations offer 1.5-2 hours private parties with exclusive use of their gym.
My Gym in Ahwatukee, AZ
4142 E. Chandler Blvd. Suite 200, Phoenix, AZ 85048
Choice of three party packages from $175
Find My-Gym near you: www.my-gym.com
2. Build-A-Bear Workshop Parties.
On the plus side kids get this wonderful toy instead of a goody bag, but that's mostly it. They still let people into the store during your birthday party, so it's more like a shopping experience. Starting at $10 per guest.
Valley locations:
1. Scottsdale Fashion Square
7014 E. Camelback Rd. Suite 2060
Scottsdale, AZ85251-1239
2. Chandler Fashion Center
3111 West Chandler Blvd
Chandler, AZ85226
3. Arrowhead Towne Center
7700 W. Arrowhead Towne Cntr.
Glendale, AZ85308
4. SanTan Village
2180 E. Williams Field Road, Bldg 1 Ste. 106
Gilbert, AZ 85295
3. As You Wish
This studio offers pottery painting birthday parties for kids 2 and up.
Price: $9 per painter plus the cost of pottery includes:
Special Party Plate and Souvenir Pin
2 Hours of Studio Time
Paints, Supplies, Glazing and Firing
Dedicated As You Wish staff member
Minimum of 6 painters
1. 4905 E Ray Rd #103, Phoenix, AZ 85044
2. 3009 W Agua Fria Fwy, Phoenix, AZ 85027,
3. 21001 N Tatum Blvd, Phoenix, AZ 85050,
4. 1649 S Stapley #101, Mesa, AZ 85204,
5. 2000 E Rio Salado Parkway #1141Tempe, AZ 85281,
4. Arizona Sunrays Gymnastics and Dance
Birthday Party Program consists of 1 hour of supervised activities (dance and games) and half hour in a private party area. Price: $155.00 for up to 12 children, plus $8.00 for each additional child. The cost includes invitations, t-shirt for the birthday child, balloons, and goody bags.
Parties are held on Saturday and Sunday at 1:30-3:00 and at 3:30-5:00. Additional party time slot on Sundays from 11:30 - 1:00 pm.
3110 E Thunderbird Road, Phoenix, AZ 85032
5. Color Me Mine
Pottery studio offers Birthday parties.
Age: 4 and up
Price: $20 per Person, 2 hours ( Includes one piece up to $15 per painter)
9940 W Happy Valley Rd, Suite 1070, Peoria, Arizona 85383
6. Phoenix Gymnastics and Dance Academy
offers gym birthday parties (45-60 min. of gym activities and 30 min. at a private party area) on Saturday after 3:30 pm and on Sunday.
Age: 3 and up.
Price: Starts at 130$ per 10 kids for 1.5 hours party.
1926 W. Monona dr., Phoenix, AZ 85027
7. Chuck E Cheeses
There is always Chuck E Cheeses. All kids like it, but they just run around on their own with short gatherings together for a pizza and a cake.
- 4825-16 East Warner Road, Ahwatukee, AZ., 85044
(480) 598-0800
- 6773 West Bell Road, Glendale, AZ., 85308
(623) 878-8884
- 13371 West McDowell Road, Goodyear, AZ., 85395
(623) 535-9876
- 7012 E. Hampton Avenue Suite 104, Mesa, AZ., 85208
(480) 641-4801
- 856 South Alma School Road, Mesa, AZ., 85202
(480) 834-9322
- 3329 East Bell, Phoenix, AZ, 85032
(602) 493-7000
- 8039 North 35th Avenue, Phoenix, AZ., 85051
(602) 973-1945
8. The Little Gym
Most locations offer traditional gym birthday parties for kids 1-10.
The Little Gym of Gilbert
538 S. Gilbert Rd, Suite 109, Gilbert, AZ 85296, (480) 855-7766
The Little Gym of Paradise Valley
4848 E. Cactus Road, Suite 510, Scottsdale, AZ 85254, (602) 996-1380
The Little Gym of Litchfield Park
1400 N. Litchfield Rd., Suite G-8A, Goodyear, AZ 85395, (623) 535-5222
The Little Gym of Scottsdale
9160 East Shea Blvd., Suite 201, Scottsdale, AZ 85260, (480) 596-9310
Other locations: http://www.thelittlegym.com
9. Gymboree
Birthday parties for 2-5 year old kids, so you can't invite older kids as guests.
Two locations in the Valley:
2160 W. Chandler Blvd #18, Chandler, AZ 85224
(480) 963-1756
2. Glendale
19420 N. 59th Ave., Suite A103, Glendale, AZ 85308
(623) 939-1777
3) Scottsdale
7077 E Bell Rd Suite 205, Scottsdale, AZ 85254
Phone: 480-656-0801
To find a location near you try http://www.gymboreeclasses.com/
10. Phoenix Zoo
offers several options for birthday parties
11. Children's Museum of Phoenix
offers Birthday party packages for up to 20 kids from $295 for members, $345 for non-members.
12. Arizona Science Center
on Saturdays from 10 a.m. or 1:30 p.m.
Basic Party Package
$150 Members / $170 Non-members
$10 for each additional child / $5 for each additional adult
Full payment due at time of booking
Decorative private room for 1 hour (includes time for activities)
Themed activities with exciting hands-on science exploration for 8 children
Party guide
Admission for you and your guests for a no-host tour of the Science Center after your party (includes 8 children, 10 adults)
Discounted parking
Dorrance Planetarium, IMAX Theater and special ticketed exhibits available for booking at discounted rate
600 East Washington Street, Phoenix, Arizona 85004
13. Pump It Up
has several locations in the Valley
Tempe, AZ
1325 West Auto Drive , Suite 101
Tempe, AZ 85284
Phone: (480) 940-7867
Peoria, AZ
14131 N Rio Vista Blvd Ste 5
Peoria, AZ
Phone: (623) 572-0090
Scottsdale, AZ
9378 East Bahia Drive
Scottsdale, AZ 85260
Phone: (480) 425-7867
To find location near you go to: http://www.pumpitupparty.com/locations
or call: 1-866-977-JUMP (5867)
14. Art for Fun Birthday Parties
for Kids ages 6 - 16.
2801A N. 15th Ave,
Phoenix, AZ 85007
Each child will create from scratch their own original piece of art.
2 1/2 - 3 hours.
For up to 24 children.
$35 per child
To schedule your party call 602-274-6441
15. B.E.S.T. - Beginners Edge Sports Training
offers sport Birhtday Parties for kids
Included are 60 min. of sport (or 2) of your choice plus 45 min. in the decorated party room. Also included: invitations, party supplies, and more.
Price: $249.00 or $259 for up to 15 Kids ($5 per additional child)
B.E.S.T. Party Zone
5415 E High St. #119, Phoenix, AZ
16. SWIMkids USA
offer several birthday party packages:
SWIM party package
Dance parties
Gym parties
PRICE: from $325.00 for up to 15 TOTAL guests
$10.00 for each additional guest
17. "Art Studio" Parties at the i.d.e.a. Museum
formerely The Arizona Museum for Youth (AMY)
Saturdays and Sundays only
Ninety minutes in a private party room with a age-appropriate art activity with museum staff (Museum admission included).
up to 10 kids (ages 1 - 10) and 10 adults (minimum 3 adults is required)
Cost: $225 (for members) or $250 (non-members). Each additional kid - $10, adult - $8.
Reservations must be made at least 2 weeks in advance.
For more information or to schedule a party, call 480.644.3690.
18. Challenger Space Center.
offers several birthday party options:
Party Like An Astronaut
Fly To Outer Space Party
Liquid Nitrogen Program
21170 N 83rd Ave, Peoria, AZ 85382
(623) 322.2001
19. Sky Zone Indoor Trampoline Park Peoria, Sky Zone Peoria
Sky Zone Peoria offers several birthday party packages:
private party room
designated toddler court
event host
pizza, beverages
Also, special drop in toddler rates everyday and parents jump free!
Call 623 979-4000 today or see website for additional information.
20. Castles ~n~ Coasters
offer several birthday party packages starting at $10.25 per child (10 kids minimum).
All packages include:
party room for 45 min,
plates, cups, etc.,
drinks and pizza,
ice cream cup
Available activities:
go karts and other rides,
Spinning Top, Flying Bugs, Jr. Dixie Wheel - for little kids
for reservations or more info call: (602) 997-7575 ext. 105
9445 North Metro Parkway East
Phoenix, AZ 85051
21. Scottsdale Air Time Birthday Parties.
Several party packages with 2 hours of unlimited jumping. Also included: fountain drinks, Air Time tee shirt for the birthday child, plates, napkins, tableware, etc
Pricing: $17-40 per child, minimum 8-15 kids (price and number of guests depends on kids age and day of the week). Pizza (or other food) is not included.
You can bring your own birthday cake and ice cream.
13802 N. Scottsdale Rd Suite 145
Scottsdale, Az 85254.
Phone: (480)427-2000
22. Jubeelieve Indoor Playland
in Avondale offers private birthday parties for the little kids
23. Stratum Laser Tag
Come to the World's Largest Laser Tag Arena! The perfect birthday party. We round the kids up, teach them how to play laser tag, serve the pizza, drinks, and cake... we even clean everything up.
For ages: 5-79
Days and Times: Every day
Price: From 8.49-34.99 per person
Mesa, Az
Phone: (480)545-5500
Website: http://www.stratumhq.com
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Also offered:
laser tag,
team building,
group events,
school events
24. Imagination avenue birthday parties
Private and semi-private parties for smaller kids in the indoor playtown.
For ages: 1-10
Days and Times:
Price: $249 for weekend private party for up to 15 kids and 30 adults
$149 for weekend semi-private party for up to 8 kids and 15 adults
additional kids - $9/each
10614 N 32nd Street
Phoenix, AZ 85028
Phone: (602)765-3192
Website: http://imaginationavenue.us/birthday-parties/
Also offered:
open play
25. We Rock The Spectrum Kids Gym
Our environment is a place where ALL kids have a place to play, create, and use their imagination. Our expert staff will guide you through your party planning experience with every detail (including party favors, birthday cakes gluten-free if needed and more).
For ages: 1-18
Days and Times: Monday - Sunday
Price: $150 +
Scottsdale, AZ 85254
Phone: (480)466-9200
Website: http://www.werockthespectrumscottsdale.com/birthday-parties
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Also offered:
Open Play
Summer Camp
Social Group
26. The Play Factory
The Play Factory offers indoor play, where everyone can climb, jump, bounce, slide, and weave their way through hours of fun exercise and entertainment! We crank out fun, with an all-ages indoor playground, a 20-foot rock wall, large inflatable slide, and a separate toddler zone for those 4
For ages: 2- 12
Days and Times: 7 Days a Week
Price: $9 per child
Address: 21001 N Tatum Blvd., Phoenix AZ, 85050
Phone: (480)473-7529
Website: http://www.playfactoryparty.com/
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Also offered:
Birthday Party's
Toddler Days
Character Dinners
27. Ms. Carol's Gymkids
A recreational gymnastics facility. This is a great place for birthday parties! The children will have full use of the equipment such as trampolines, tire swing, bars, beams, climbing rope and so much more. The gym would be exclusive to your guests! Great prices!
Age Group: 4 - 18
Days and Times: Monday - Saturday
Fees: call for choice of birthday package
116 N. Lindsay Road, Mesa, AZ 85213
Website: www.MsCarolsGymkids.com
Phone: (480) 777-1033
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Also offered:
Recreational gymnastics
Rec Cheer
Musical Sing & Dance
Pom Dance
28. The Tea Hostess
Elegant traveling tea parties for ages 4+ featuring petite tea sandwiches, scones and sweets. We bring everything to your home or special venue including tablecloths, tea cups, tea pots, plates, silk flowers, tea napkins, dress-up accessories, games, crafts, gift bags and party hostess.
For ages: 4+
Days and Times: Saturday or Sunday
Price: $275
Phone: (602)388-8063
Website: http://www.theteahostess.com/
Email: email@example.com
Come and enjoy our indoor family entertainment center for your next birthday party or special event. Kids of all ages can come and jump on our bouncers, race through the obstacle courses, speed down the mega slides, slam dunk into the basketball hoops, and much more.
Age Group: Toddler to teen
Days and Times: Open Everyday
Fees: $7-$10 open play, $150-$450 birthday parties
9299 W Olive Ave #406, Peoria, AZ
Website: https://www.jumpersjungle.com/peoria/
Phone: (623) 322-4100
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Chapter 1: The End
"What time is it?" I asked as I sat against the wall of an alley, while rain poured from the sky.
"Who cares?" Noel replied and leaned on the wall against me.
"What time is it?" I repeated.
"It's 5:34."
I brooded on that for a minute.
"Six...seven...eight...nine...ten...eleven...eleven-twenty six. Six hours and twenty six minutes before we get killed by...angels." I mused. "Sometimes I think that the world runs on irony..."
"Bet you never saw that one coming." Noel joked. "You never did tell me why you came back to Nightingale, James."
"Like all stories, Noel, it started with a woman."
It was a Friday afternoon. One of those Friday's where you're not doing anything but everyone else is. It was late in the evening, past the time where the sun sets and the moon reals its ugly head and the door to my office had only opened twice today; once when my assistant and I came in and again when she left to meet her boyfriend.
I sat on my lazy desk chair and lay back as far as it would go and watched an old episode of The Price is Right on the old fat assed TV that hung on a wall mounted stand.
My name is James Oblivion. Tall, dark, and handsome when compared to a pack of dead beavers. I didn't have any scars, other than the battle scars I got whenever I tried playing with my assistant's cat.
My office was spacious enough. It had a bathroom, which was a plus, other offices in the two story building didn't. I was at the end of the hall; my neighbors were a lawyer and a tax accountant, both of which had a lot more clients than I did. Two of the three offices downstairs were empty, but the third was an information center for tourists. I have no idea how that place stays open as there haven't ever been a tourist or anyone that needs direction in this neighborhood. I was located in one of the best bad neighborhoods in Arizona.
The few clients I've had, this month, have all come at night. Nobody wants to be seen hiring a detective anymore. I try my best to be romantic and dangerous when talking to clients. A little noir goes a long way. But I wasn't that great at it, even after watching all the movies and playing all the games.
I heard heels walking up the stairs, outside of my office. They were hurried but had already passed the lawyer and the tax accountant.
A figure stood on the other side of my front door for a second before it flew open. A girl stood on the other side, looking a little less vicious than a starving tiger.
She was a cute girl: pale complexion, dark hair with dark clothing. Average make-up. 36-26-34, or so she claimed. Stood at about 5'-6" (5'-10" with her heels). Her name is Evelyn Baldoki, she was not only my assistant but she was also my friend, parent in crime, and currently was pissed off as all hell.
"All men are assholes." She said and walked in then slammed the door closed and began to walk in then fumbled as one of her heels came off. She groaned, picked up her heel, and kept walking into the bathroom with one heel on, which looked really interesting.
"You're here early, had a good time?" I taunted her. Two seconds later, I had to dodge her black pump that flew at my head.
She slammed the bathroom door closed and I turned the TV's volume up.
My door opened again, two minutes later. I didn't hear anyone coming, well I did but that was why I had the volume up and a noise reducing bathroom door installed.
A woman, 5'-9" high, in heels, slender, full make up, nice dressing pants and blouse, stood there.
She was a very attractive lady, that's what most people would have seen, I saw the reason why I won't be evicted this month.
"Mr. Oblivion?" She asked, not looking shy or intimidating.
"If you're a client then yes, if you're a bill collector then no." I replied.
"Detective and comedian." She pointed out.
"I'm many things; detective is just one of them."
"Is that so?" She said and stood by one of the two chairs on the opposite side of my desk. "May I?"
I gestured with one hand and she sat down, after inspecting the seat for a second.
"How can I help you, Ms...?" I began.
"Grant, Malorie Grant." She said, not meeting my eyes. She stared at the time of my nose, which was smart of her.
There was something odd about how she said her name: familiar but not personal.
"Okay, Ms. Grant, since you won't tell me your real name, we'll just call you that."
She stared at me before smiling. "I'm impressed, how did you know that that wasn't my real name?"
"I can read your mind, remember." I joked but she didn't smile. "What can I help you with, Ms. Grant?"
"Mr. Oblivion, you grew up in..." She began but stopped when my assistant's moan came from the bathroom.
"Bad date." I informed her.
"Uh-huh..." She began. "As I was saying... You grew up in Nightingale, am I correct?"
"Maybe..." I replied.
"How would you like to go back? At least this once."
"Just for one case." She persisted.
"You're needed, Mr. Oblivion."
"We can pay well."
"No, Ms. Grant." I said and could practically feel the money slipping through my fingers. "I have absolutely no intentions of ever going back to that freak show, and you don't have the influence or money to make me."
I never wanted to back; I had no real need to. Sure, money was almost none existent and I went through the last of my Ramen this morning. But some stuff is worse than starving.
"Name your price, Mr. Oblivion." She said and pulled a checkbook out of her purse and put it on my desk and leaned over it with a pen in hand.
"How much are you offering?" I said.
"Name your price, Mr. Oblivion. What will it take for you to come down to Nightingale and just listen to our request? "
"Who's we?"
"That isn't important, how much do you want?"
I thought about it. How much would it cost to put your life in danger and go back to where you swore you would never return as you were chased out by an agent of darkness?
I examined the woman sitting in front of me; no glasses but did have surgery done, one of those really expensive pens with the initials E.W. engraved in what might have been silver, purse was Gucci...who knows what that meant but it looked expensive. I raised my price accordingly then doubled it.
"Mr. Oblivion?" The woman asked.
"How much would it cost to put your life in danger, I wonder... Five hundred thousand? A million... Two?"
"Done." She said and began writing on the check.
"What?" I asked.
The woman handed me a check for two million dollars. The signature was in that nice and neat cursive that everyone wished that they could imitate.
"Full amount up front, cashable this very second."
"Ahhhh..." My assistant gasped from the bathroom.
"Is she actually doing what I think she's doing?" The woman asked me.
"Ms. Grant... It isn't about the money." I began, changing the conversation. "It's..."
"I know your story, Mr. Oblivion. We went through it several times before I came here. A demon chased you out? You must have really made someone mad..." She said.
"She wasn't a demon... She wasn't human either though."
"What happened?"
"Words were exchanged; someone was thrown through a window. You know the standard stuff."
"What always happens to men."
"A woman?"
"Yup." I replied and looked at the check as it seduced me into doing what I didn't want to.
Two million dollars could pay the rent for a very long time. It could also buy me some more Ramen...a lot of Ramen, and not the five for a dollar kind but the ones with the Japanese symbols in the front that cost 1.29 each... Hell, two million dollars could also fill up my fridge with real food, and while I was at it I could buy a damn fridge.
"If I go with you, I won't promise I'll do the job." I told her.
"That's all we ask, but we're pretty sure you'll take the job."
"...and I'll keep the money in any case.
"Of course. We're willing to give you double what you want; in this case an extra two million."
I raised an eyebrow at that: four million dollars. I couldn't get that much money if I bought every lottery ticket from here to California, in theory anyway.
Something nagged at me. What job would be so important that they are willing to pay four million dollars?
'If you can't spot the patsy in the deal, it's probably you.' My inner voice nagged me, I call it Nagnis.
"Fine, Ms. Grant, you win." I said, a little louder than I should because of my grumbling stomach. "I will go down into hell with you and listen to what you and your associates have to say. But if I don't like it then I'm out."
"That's all we ask."
My assistant gasped loudly one last time before letting out something that sounded like: "about damn time."
"Does she always do that after a bad date?" Malorie asked.
"Sometimes. This one must have been bad." I replied.
"Well I'm single now, and it's all thanks to that no good, cheating, son of a...oh, hello." My assistant said as she walked out of the bathroom and dried her hands.
"Hello." Malorie replied.
"Ms. Grant, meet my assistant, Evelyn Baldoki or something like that." I said. "Eevee meet our newest client, Ms. Malorie Grant."
Both girls shook hands, although I noticed Ms. Grant wiping her hand on her dressing pants afterwards.
"Do you want some tea or coffee, Ms. Grant?" Evelyn asked sweetly.
"Sure." Ms. Grant replied, "Some coffee would be nice."
"You got it, boss can you help me." Evelyn said and batted her almond shaped eyes at me.
"Sure." I said and stood up, but in my head I was muttering here we go.
"Why didn't you tell me that we had a client? Thank God I made it quick." She said as she put some coffee on the coffee maker.
"How do girls make it quick? Never mind, I don't want to know. We need the money, Eevee." I replied.
"I know that, she just doesn't feel right. Something is off about her."
"Yes there is, there's some stuff I haven't told you about my past, Eevee, stuff I wish I didn't know."
"Is she your past coming to bite you in the ass?"
"Yup, I want you to stay here."
"What? No, I'm going with you. You said I could join you in your next case, granted that was a month and a half ago, but you said."
"This isn't some stake out or information gathering, Eevee. Please just stay here."
"Fine." She said in that tone that meant that she'll think about thinking about it.
"I mean it."
"I know you do." She said and poured the coffee.
"Seriously, Eevee, I want you to stay here."
"Coffee's done!" She announced and walked away from me.
I sighed and walked back to sit in my chair behind the desk.
"I will follow you, Ms. Grant." I said. "But I can't guarantee that I'll accept the case or that I'll be of any use."
"That's all we ask." She beamed. "Is she coming with us?"
"Yes, I will. I'm as much as a partner as I am an assistant." Evelyn said.
"Oh okay, Ms. Evelyn. Were you born in Nightingale too?" Ms. Grant asked her.
Evelyn cocked her head slightly before asking. "What's Nightingale?"

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Atlanta Alumni Huddle with Matt Ryan '08 and Gene DeFilippo. In the pocket as usual, Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan '08 (back center) poses with alumni from the Atlanta Chapter at a reception featuring himself and Director of Athletics Gene DeFilippo. Hosted at the Georgia Tech Alumni House on March 11, the event drew some 80 alumni, family, and friends.
Find out what's happening with your alumni chapter.
Baseball Beanpot & Reception — April 13
Gather at Fenway Park with fellow alumni for the 20th annual "Baseball Beanpot." After the final game, join the Alumni Association at the Baseball Tavern for some great pub food and a cash bar. Click here to register. Read more.
The Marathon of Life — April 14
Join fellow BC alumni for a presentation by Michele Bredice Craemer on how to manage stress. Click here for more information and to register.
Volunteer Information Night — April 14
Discover how you can stay connected, engaged, and involved with Boston College at the Alumni Association's Volunteer Information Night. Click here for more information and to register.
Alumni National Day of Service — April 18
The Alumni Association is proud to sponsor the fourth annual National Day of Service. This year's alumni chapter with the highest participation percentage will be recognized as the 2009 Magis Chapter, symbolic of the Ignatian term for "the more" or the "greater good." Your participation in this volunteer effort will help your community and bring great visibility to BC. Sign up for your chapter project. Read stories submitted by alumni about their favorite BC service memories.
A Taste of the Arts — April 25
As part of the Boston College Arts Festival, this special alumni event includes a dinner reception, live music, a cash bar, art for sale, and the presentation of the Arts Council Alumni Award. Alumni may also choose to attend one of two main events: Dancing With BC bOp! or Sweet Charity in Robsham Theater. To register for this event, click here.
Northern California Chapter Mass — April 26
The Alumni Association's Northern California Chapter and the Boston College Fund cordially invite you to a Mass celebrated by University President William P. Leahy, S.J. A reception at the Officers' Club will immediately follow. To reserve a space, please contact the Alumni Association at 800-669-8430 or click here.
Newton College alumnae are invited to two marquee spring events. A Spring Social will be hosted in New Canaan, Connecticut, by Karen Sweeney Mactus, NC '73, on April 19 (RSVP deadline is April 9). The following Sunday, alumnae are welcome to attend the 16th annual Spring Tea in Chevy Chase, Maryland, at the home of Martha Kendrick Kettmer (RSVP deadline is April 16). To register, contact Julie Nuzzo at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Learn about more Newton College alumnae news and events.
On Eagles' Wings
In January, the Alumni Association's Office of Spirituality and Service established a new platform for your prayer requests: On Eagles' Wings. Through this online service, the Alumni Association staff has brought more than 1,000 prayers and intentions to St. Mary's Chapel. Submit a prayer request.
Final Program in Lenten Series at BC Club — April 8
Don't miss the final Lenten program focusing on "Fear, Finances, and Faith." Led by Thomas Massaro, S.J., a professor of social ethics at BC's School of Theology and Ministry, this three-person panel will continue to look at our current economic crisis through the eyes of faith. 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Cor Unum Service Event — April 24
Join fellow alumni on Friday, April 24, to serve meals at the Cor Unum Meal Center in Lawrence, Massachusetts. The center serves food to nearly 600 people each day. The group will work from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. To volunteer, contact Dianne Duffin at 617-552-1171 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Pathways Retreat — June 6–7
Do you ever wonder where your life is headed? The Pathways retreat offers Boston College alumni who have graduated within the past 10 years an opportunity to return to campus and consider their path since graduation. This special gathering combines the elements of a spiritual retreat with a career/vocation discernment workshop. The cost for this overnight retreat is $105 and is limited to 30 spots. For more information, contact Dan Leahy at 617-552-3478 or firstname.lastname@example.com, or Dianne Duffin at 617-552-1171 or email@example.com. For information on how to register, visit the spirituality and service website.
Tech Council members are invited to the Boston College Technology Council Annual Spring Dinner on May 12. Featuring keynote speaker Joseph M. Tucci, chairman, president, and chief executive officer of EMC Corporation, the event will be held at the Needham Sheraton. Reception at 6:00 p.m.; dinner at 7:00 p.m. The cost is $30. For more information, visit the Tech Council website.
The 21st annual Wall Street Council Tribute Dinner on April 23 will honor Alfred F. Kelly, Jr., P '09, '11, president, American Express Company, with the President's Medal for Excellence for his exceptional personal and professional contributions to society. Over the past 20 years, the Tribute Dinner has raised more than $12 million dollars for the Presidential Scholars Program at Boston College. For more information, contact Renee LeBlanc at 617-552-2234 or email@example.com.
In this economic climate, the BC community can be a powerful career resource for students and alumni. A great place to start is the Alumni Career Network, a database of alumni who have volunteered to help other alumni and students with job searches and career advancement. The database, however, is only as strong as its membership, and more alumni volunteers are needed. Sign up for the Alumni Career Network by logging into the Alumni Online Community. Read this message (PDF) from the Career Center to discover more ways to take advantage of the Alumni Online Community's career services.
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Juliette Fay '84 published her first novel, Shelter Me, which was chosen for the "Indie Next" list by independent booksellers. More
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PHILADELPHIA -- The Philadelphia Eagles' path to the playoffs seemingly became a little easier Monday with the news that the Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo probably will miss Sunday's do-or-die NFC East battle with a back injury.
Cowboys coach Jason Garrett said Romo was receiving treatment for his back and that no determination has yet been made on his status for Sunday's game. But ESPN's Adam Schefter reported that Romo has a herniated disk in his back and is out for the season, whether it's one more game or five more.
That means instead of going up against Romo, whose 31 touchdown passes are the third most in the league, the Eagles will likely face his backup, Kyle Orton, who has thrown just 15 regular-season passes in the past two seasons.
Eagles general manager Howie Roseman warned Monday that his team can't take Orton lightly.
"Kyle's had success in this league," he said on his weekly radio show. "We've played backup quarterbacks who've had success against us. We've got to keep our edge on. This is too big a game or a situation to take anyone lightly."
After getting torched two weeks ago by the Minnesota Vikings' Matt Cassel in Week 15, the Eagles did an excellent job Sunday night against the Chicago Bears' Jay Cutler in a 54-11 victory. They sacked him five times and held him to 6.3 yards per attempt.
Eagles coach Chip Kelly quickly turned the page to get his team focused on Sunday night's showdown in Arlington, Texas.
"I think that's the one thing, you better get rid of it, whether it's a win or a loss, very quickly," Kelly said Monday. I'll give Dallas credit. They give up a 23-point lead to Green Bay the week before and the sky is falling and then they come back and they beat Washington. This league will test you from a standpoint of, it's not what you did last week, it's what you do this week and it's how you prepare. When we get back to work tomorrow, we better understand that."
Kelly will increased the Eagles' practice workload Tuesday and Thursday so players can spend Christmas morning with their families on Wednesday.
The Cowboys won the first meeting of the season, 17-3, in Philadelphia in October, but that was back when the quarterback situation was unsettled. That certainly is not an issue for the rematch, with Nick Foles entering with a 118.8 passer rating.
"I think his confidence is a byproduct of his experience, and I think the more looks he sees, the one thing with Nick is that he's a very quick study. I think one of the ways that all of us are a quick study is we need to make mistakes, but you have to be able to learn from your mistakes, and I think that's one thing that Nick does a really, really good job of is he's very analytical of himself."
Kelly's team began the season 3-5, and he believes the resolve his players have shown ever since will pay off with the NFC East title at stake Sunday.
"Since we went 3-5, every game's been like our backs are against the wall," said Kelly. "This game's no different. As I told those guys last night and I'll say again, for us the playoffs just start this week. If we're fortunate enough to win on Sunday, then we get an opportunity to play again. If we don't win on Sunday, then we're not playing again. It's very black and white to us, so I don't think I have to hammer that home in terms of this is the biggest game, because it is."
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While many homeowners find a learned peace and pleasure from mowing their lawns, and some have even turned the act into a source of pride, for many, the task is still one of those constant pains that every week must once again be checked off the to do list.
Of course with football season rapidly approaching (Note: Go Cowboys!), a vast number of American men are going to find their chore time on weekends has been drastically reduced, to the point where that junky old mower may not have the juice left to get everything done in time.
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NORWALK, Conn. – Students at Norwalk's Jefferson Magnet School have a new tool to help them learn about botany, healthy eating and collaborative work. Norwalk Grows celebrated the opening of a new indoor hydroponic garden in the school Friday.
Norwalk Grows has helped to install outdoor gardens at 11 schools across Norwalk, including Jefferson. The program, a partnership between the Norwalk Children's Foundation and the Norwalk Public Schools, has also launched a student Farmers Market at Naramake School, a café using homegrown ingredients at Norwalk High, and after-school gardening programs.
The new hydroponic gardens will allow Jefferson students to do their hands-on work of tending the gardens in the winter months. Students check the dirt-free system daily to make sure the water flowing through it has the proper pH level and mineral content to stay growing, and they use the data they collect in math classes for real-world practice.
"The main growing season is June, July and August, when the kids aren't in class," said Phil Steinberg of Green Up. "This you can do all year round."
Green Up , a Stamford-based company specializing in hydroponic systems, green houses, and other growing methods, has installed two hydroponic systems in Jefferson. On the first floor is a "living wall" of decorative plants on an automatic system.
But students will do most of their work on the edible garden, which is currently producing lettuce, broccoli, basil, green beans and Swiss chard. Jefferson's kids will use their crops in cooking classes as part of Project L.E.A.N., a collaborative effort among Pepperidge Farm, Norwalk Hospital, the Norwalk Health Department and Jefferson School designed to teach students healthy eating habits.
"Now we're really looking to connect some of the growing we do outside to the growing we do inside, and really changing the way that our students take care of themselves and make sure that they're healthy," Jefferson Principal John Reynolds said.
Students from second through fifth grade spend class time in the gardens. Each grade level has a different task: fifth-graders maintain the garden, fourth-graders harvest the vegetables, and second- through third-graders inspect the gardens to see how they work.
"We're trying to make it a real group effort," said Cindy Sherlock of Norwalk Hospital, who has been working on Project L.E.A.N. in Jefferson. "I think it's really good all the way around. They're really learning about how we can grow indoors in a small space and make a lot of product."
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Have you been thinking about installing a vibrato on your vintage Telecaster, but love the stock bridge? In many cases, it is possible to modify the stock bridge plate to accommodate the new string path! Although we make a Telecaster kit which comes with a new bridge and plate, some folks prefer to modify their existing setup. In this article, we are going to focus on the steps needed to modify a vintage 3 barrel 'ashtray' style Telecaster bridge.
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The first step is to remove the bridge from the guitar (photo 1). Next, we need to mark the new string path on the back of the plate. As the strings will continue along the line of the saddles, this was easy to do (no longer a string through, but along the same straight line as they were over the saddle). To do this, we carefully placed the bridge into a vice (with a cloth surrounding it to prevent any scratches) and used a straightedge to continue the line started by the saddle groove and marked it with a pencil (photo 2). After double checking the line,we are ready to break out the power tools. Whenever cutting, grinding, or polishing metal, we suggest wearing protective eyewear as well as gloves to prevent injury. Using the 1/4″ drum with the 60 grit disc, we started removing a portion of the back of the plate (photo 3). Making sure not to make contact with the saddle mounting screws, we made 6 semi-circles in the back of the plate (photo 4). The next step is optional; you could leave the 6 semi-circles, or you can grind off the center tops to reduce the 'wave' look. For this we used the 1/2″ drum–again with a 60 grit disc (photo 5). Next step is smoothing out the contours with the 120 grit drum and hand files (photo 6). That's it! When smooth, the bridge is ready to be reinstalled on your guitar.
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Billion dollar battle: Apple's dancing to cool new Beats
Software giant is trying on Dr Dre headphones for size as it prepares to buy out his company in its billion dollar streaming battle with Spotify. But what will the deal mean for the average music lover? Ed Power reports
The volume is about to crank up in the war for the future of music. Apple, the 50-tonne behemoth of the tech industry, is finalising a takeover of Beats, the headphones manufacturer and song streaming service with rapper Dr Dre as its public face. A $3.2bn (€2.3bn) price tag has been bandied – quite a figure for a company whose distinctive red and black 'cans' were initially dismissed as gimmicky and which is said to have signed only 111,000 subscribers to its on-demand music site – Apple will be coughing up roughly $29,000 per Beats customer.
Why would Apple, the world's most profitable tech company, be interested in Beats, a brand mostly beloved by teenagers with a penchant for loud hip hop? It was established in 2008 in part because Dr Dre wanted a set of headphones with a super-heavy bass sound.
For the answer you have to cross the Atlantic from Apple HQ and head north, to Sweden, home to Spotify, the music streaming company presided over by 31-year-old entrepreneur Daniel Ek, a prodigy who founded his first start-up aged 14 and was a millionaire at 25. Having built a user base of 24 million, Spotify has in just a few years turned the record industry on its head – and now is ready to yank the rug from under Apple's iTunes' downloading store, until recently one of the most profitable divisions of the late Steve Jobs' empire.
With subscription streaming threatening to render the iTunes model of paying for and downloading individual music files (mp3s) redundant, Apple's brain trust can see the way the wind is blowing. We are moving from a time where consumers 'own' the music they enjoy to a future where they wish simply to experience it (full access to Spotify costs Irish users €9.99 a month – Beats has yet to launch here). The era of the vast record collection – whether vinyl stacked in your living room or music files crammed onto a hard drive – is at an end. Not even the most completist hoarder can compete with the essentially infinite selection offered by Spotify and rivals, running as they do into the tens of millions. And Spotify adds an additional 20,000 songs to is database every day.
Apple's problem is that it is stuck in a present about to become a very distant past. It dominates the music download market, a business set to fall off a cliff. Music download sales fell last year for the first time (only by 6pc admittedly – nonetheless, the rate of decline will surely accelerate). The situation Apple finds itself in is analogous to a horse-drawn cart manufacturer at the dawn of the automobile age. It needs to do something – acquiring Beats, which unveiled its streaming division only this January, may be the smartest short-term option. If it doesn't react soon Spotify will be out of sight.
'Streaming is going to be the way the majority of people experience studio tracks and album tracks," says Cathal Furey , chief executive of Irish music start-up FanFootage. "No one is going to be able to buy, from iTunes, the amount of music that Spotify or Beats or French competitor Deezer can give. The trend over the last 12 months is in one direction – everyone I know who is into their music has either moved to Spotify or is considering it."
In addition to taking advantage of Beats' presence in streaming – low subscriber base notwithstanding – it is possible Apple wishes to tap the company's music industry expertise, says Furey. Co-founder Jimmy Iovine is one of the business's most influential executives having founded Interscope Records and helped discover Bruce Springsteen and Meatloaf.
In contrast to stuffy, buttoned-down Apple, Beats management lives and breathes music and know how to work with artists.
The looming clash has an unexpected, almost surreal, Irish dimension, specifically a Cork one. Apple is long established on the north side of the city. Beats is for tax reasons nominally based 50 minutes away in the west Cork town of Clonakilty – though it employs nobody in Ireland and you are unlikely to see Dr Dre schlepping around the corner for a cheeky after-work Beamish.
Streaming is unquestionably the future – 10 years hence, it will be the means by which the majority of us experience music. There will be a small niche of vinyl fetishists, but the compact disc is likely to be extinct. This, arguably, represents good news for consumers – or at least those who do not covet 'ownership' of their records.
For artists, the way ahead is perhaps not so bright. Royalty payments from streaming are notoriously low: it was for that reason Radiohead's Thom Yorke made a chunk of his music unavailable to Spotify. The situation is not improved by Beats' entry. Its rate is even lower than Spotify's. So, even as music goes online , increasing numbers of artists may choose to turn their back on streaming and investigate a different way of reaching their audience – potentially leading to a huge fragmentation of the Spotify model.
"Streaming sites basically use your music for free," singer-songwriter Mark Eitzel told me in May 2013. "They become millionaires, the musician gains nothing but exposure. They put music in a format people want to hear. However it doesn't do me much good. It's not going to make me any more popular. It makes them richer."
Among the artists yanking their songs from Spotify are Choice Music Prize nominated Irish group Halves. They believe the Swedish company's business model devalues music. "If people want to download your music or listen to it or whatever, that's fine. What they do is distasteful," says frontman Brian Cash. "We're not going to miss the €1.37 we would have earned [from Spotify plays]. People have complained, 'it's so awkward – you're not on Spotify'. What? You couldn't spare the 10 seconds it takes to search for us?
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More businesses fail than succeed. And even once-successful companies can find themselves deep in the red after years and years of prosperity. Sometimes, it's a product of gross mismanagement; sometimes superior competition is the culprit; sometimes advancing technology and changing consumer tastes strike the fatal blows.
Take the movie-rental business. From the mid-1980s all the way into the aughts, these companies prospered by adjusting to the changing marketplace, transitioning from VHS to DVDs to Blu-Ray. But ultimately, Netflix catered better to its consumers, first by offering a DVD and Blu-ray mail service and then by rolling out a streaming service of entertainment on demand. By 2010, Hollywood Video was dead. Today, there are fewer than 20 Blockbuster video stores in the United States. And although physical media is still on shelves, it's no longer the single focus of any store. It's two aisles in Target, six aisles in Best Buy or a lone $5 discount bin at the local grocery.
The same forces that drove Blockbuster out of business shook the video game market as well. Consumers no longer had to travel to a brick-and-mortar store to pick up the latest title; they could buy the game from any number of online stores or download it online. And many of the game companies that sold physical and/or used copies were either closed or swallowed up by bigger fish early on. FuncoLand was sold in 2000, and EB Games was gobbled up in 2005.
The final stop for both of those companies? Gamestop, now the last chain of its kind in the United States. The company, which became famous over the last 10 years for selling and reselling used video games, is still standing. Analysts first began predicting failure in the late aughts, when full Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 games became downloadable online. Digital meant that those downloaded games could no longer be traded in and resold. Without its well-known financial trump card, how could the company possibly endure? Was it "Game Over" for Gamestop? Was Gamestop "out of extra lives"? The doomsday headlines over the years have written themselves.
And yet, here we are, in 2016, and GameStop is still standing. And according to executive vice president Michael Hogan, it's the result of discussions that took place close to a decade ago, well before anyone was placing bets on the company's extinction.
"What successful companies do is they evolve with the consumer," says Hogan. "The rate of change internally has to exceed the rate of change externally. So we recognize that we have to think about these things before other people think about them for us."
The basic plan? Transform GameStop from a single-concept company into one that worked on multiple fronts. They had no intention of getting out of the video-game business—it was still a good business, if not a growth business—but there were ways they could diversify and still appeal to their consumer base.
Hogan joined GameStop in 2008. Prior to his current profession, he was a marketer for PepsiCo and Dean Foods. He describes the 2008-2009 era of GameStop as an "anxiety phase." The company knew it had to change, but it didn't know how.
What successful companies do is they evolve with the consumer.
Michael Hogan,
Gamestop Executive Vice President
This was not the first time GameStop had refocused. In fact, the company didn't even start as "GameStop." It launched 1984 as an educational software company called Babbage's, which realized that floppy disks were going the way of the dinosaur and began selling video game software in 1987. The name "GameStop" isn't so much the company as it is the public face of the original company—a company that originally had nothing to do with video games but followed the money.
So began a process of trial and error, of running numerous ideas up the flagpole to see if anyone would salute them. Along the way, there were numerous failures—the price of experimentation. There was a failed comic-book store in Long Island. There was MovieStop, an attempted spinoff of GameStop that opened in 2004 and was subsequently sold in 2012. In 2009, GameStop acquired a majority stake in Jolt, a company that created online social games. The company, however, had cultivated a poor reputation in the months prior to being acquired, and the GameStop acquisition did little to reverse its fortunes. After discontinuing multiple games (citing a lack of development resources), Jolt announced it would be closing its doors in 2012.
There were mistakes in promoting the GameStop brand as well. For a long time, Hogan admits—as late as 2010—GameStop didn't fully acknowledge the benefits of e-commerce. The brick-and-mortar stores didn't communicate with the website, and the two entities mostly existed separately. Today, you can search inventory for the game you want to buy and then head to the closest store to pick it up. The key, according to Hogan, was realizing that customers want to interact with GameStop through multiple channels—that it is not an either/or proposition between brick-and-mortar and online.
Another mistake was creating a game rental program. A rental model worked well for movies, so it should also work for disc-based games, right?
"We learned that the economics of games was very different from the economics of movies," Hogan says.
Movie DVDs are relatively inexpensive—far less expensive that video games. A proper rental service would have to charge significantly more for video games than it does for movies. Then, there's the difference in turnover: Movies can endure and remain popular for decades, whereas video games trend and are then discarded for the next big thing, which drives the costs even higher. All this might be obvious in 2016, but a decade ago, when GameStop first attempted this strategy, they had to learn those lessons the hard way.
GameStop, according to Hogan, now rests on four pillars. The first is physical gaming: the sale of new and pre-owned video games. For years, it has been extremely profitable; GameStop keeps 100 percent of the profits from reselling without getting the publishing companies involved. But according to Hogan, the goal is to have more than 50 percent of the company's earnings to come from outside physical video games by 2019. In 2010, the percentage of non-physical gaming was 10 percent. This year, it's 30 percent.
The second is digital gaming, and not in the way you might think. When most people think "digital sales," they think of purchasing and downloading games online, no store clerk or intermediary needed. But GameStop makes a surprising claim—that 95 percent of their digital gaming sales, which made over one billion dollars last year, are made in their physical stores. Much of this is gift cards and "point of purchase" sales like season passes for franchise games and downloadable content that adds on to the core game experience. Hogan points to this statistic as proof that brick-and-mortar stores will not be going away in the foreseeable future.
Digital is going to be a larger piece of the pie. But if you're talking about the next 10 years? Probably not.
Michael Hogan,
Gamestop Executive Vice President
"I don't want to bet against technology," Hogan says. "Clearly, over time, digital is going to be a larger piece of the pie. But if you're talking about the next 10 years? Probably not."
Hogan also points to the psychological enjoyment of interacting with something tangible. Many people walk into a store to browse, without a firm idea of what they want. Many consumers pay in cash; they don't own credit cards. For consumers like these, a brick-and-mortar store is the best, and perhaps only, option.
And what about those publishers, many of whom decry GameStop's presence as "cannibalizing?" At this point, GameStop drives the very business that its critics claim it destroys. Between physical and digital sales, GameStop accounts for 50 percent of the market share for new titles, despite numerous attempts to cut them out as middlemen. They account for over $1 billion dollars in trade credit every year, 70 percent of which goes towards the purchasing of new games. Microsoft planned to make used games unplayable on its Xbox One, but ultimately backtracked.
As it stands, GameStop is too integrated into the business for publishers to eliminate them without doing damage to themselves. It's why many publishers cooperate with GameStop instead, planning joint marketing campaigns a year out in order to boost first-month sales.
The third pillar is technology brands. GameStop operates Simply Mac, Spring Mobile and Cricket Wireless stores. They own a mobile game publisher Kongregate, which succeeds in a lot of the ways that Jolt failed.
And the fourth is collectibles. A GameStop shopper who likes playing the Arkham games for example, might also want to purchase other Batman merchandise. In line with this pillar, last year GameStop bought ThinkGeek, an online retailer that sells gimmicky geek products like R2-D2 sports bras and Enterprise-shaped pizza cutters.
These last two pillars are a strong reminder that GameStop is the umbrella company for a lot of smaller companies, which many consumers may not even know are related. Babbage's begat GameStop, which raises the question: What will GameStop become years from now, when physical gaming is no longer the forefront of their business? Hogan foresees a time in the future when the identity of the corporation may change.
"What's interesting is we probably won't be called GameStop at that point. Why would you, if gaming is less than 50 percent of your business?"
Of course, they aren't the only company to go through something like this. PepsiCo owns Pepsi Cola, but they also own Gatorade, Quaker Oats and Doritos. The vast majority of customers will consume all of those products—oatmeal in the morning, Gatorade after an afternoon run, Doritos as a snack and Pepsi Max with dinner—and never know that the money all funnels into the same coffer.
In the end, the GameStop name may disappear, but the corporation that bore that name may live on, continuing to evolve and diversify.
Wing-Man has written about video games and popular culture since 2013, and has been published in multiple online and print publications. Follow him on Twitter to learn more.
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Leyland's first ever community public access defibrillator has been installed at a sports and social club.
When it comes to matters of the heart, Leyland Fox Lane Sports and Social Club is blazing a trail for the community.
The public defibrillator has been installed by the North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) Chain of Survival team.
Working with Leyland based Keith McIntosh of Defibrillators 4 Sports, they have engaged with golf and sports clubs across Lancashire, assisting in a number of placements of public access defibrillators, including the one at Fox Lane.
Cheryl Pickstock of NWAS explained: "Defibrillators significantly increase the chance of survival of a cardiac arrest sufferer.
"Placing defibrillators in public places of high footfall like sports facilities means that if someone suffers a life threatening cardiac arrest, early intervention from the use of an automated external defibrillator (AED) can mean vital treatment can begin early and assist the sufferer in increasing their chances.
"An AED is safe and only delivers an electric shock to the heart when it detects an appropriate arrhythmia, therefore it can be used by a non-trained member of the public."
Les Beardsworth, Chairman of Fox Lane Sports and Social Club, added: "We are pleased to announce the installation of the first community public access defibrillator in the Leyland area.
"The presentation prior to the installation was given by Steve Nicholls from the North West Ambulance Service and was very informative and well received.
"It's availability to members of the public should be welcomed by all the community - although hopefully it will never be needed."
Volunteer Keith McIntosh, the founder of Defibrillators 4 Sport, said: "The installation of the first Community Public Access Defibrillator in Leyland is part of the North West Ambulance Service Chain of Survival Campaign for more public access defibrillators across our region.
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Hi! Can anyone help me on what melting temperature, Tm to use for my ISSR primers? I am confused as to what melting temperature to use to determine the annealing temperatures (Ta) for my set of primers. In one article which used the same primers the Ta used range from 52-53.5 degress (depending on the primers) but doesn`t have an explanation how they were determined. Another article which used almost the same primers but for different species, the Ta was fixed to 52 degrees. The primers I bought came with specific Tm, which are way too low if I compute Tm using the formula Tm= 2(A+T) + 4(G+C). And if I compute the Ta (Ta=Tm - 5) using the Tm indicated in the primer labels, what I get are Ta values ranging from 36-54 degrees where most of the primers falling below 50 degrees.
Which options would be better for me:
1) Use the 52-53.5 (primer dependent) Ta;
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It looks very much like the end of a brief Indian summer for Iranian diplomacy. It began almost exactly a month ago when negotiators in Geneva defied expectations and appeared to make progress.
There were many at the time who saw the very idea of Iranian nuclear compromises as a mirage, and it now seems they may have been right. Iran has pulled back from two agreements in principle made on that sunny afternoon on October 1 in a Swiss lakeside villa.
According to Tehran's delayed response to the International Atomic Energy Agency, it wants the international community keep its side of the bargain - to deliver fuel rods for its research reactor. But the Iranian government has said, in effect, it does not want to do its part – deliver the bulk of its low enrichment uranium (LEU) up front in exchange. Instead it wants to hand over the uranium in batches as the fuel rods are delivered.
In that scenario, Iran's stockpile of LEU – currently enough to make a bomb – is not reduced, even for a few months. There is no diplomatic dividend, in the form of reduced tensions and negotiating space.
At the same time, Iran is saying it is no longer interested in keeping the appointment it made in Geneva to discuss its nuclear programme in more depth before the end of October. This was always the bigger issue. The uranium exchange was a side-deal, cooked up as a way of buying time. The central matter is Iran's continued enrichment of uranium in defiance of UN security resolutions.
Mohamed ElBaradei, the IAEA director general, is officially saying he is hopeful that some compromise can be found. Perhaps Iran's LEU can be locked up on Iranian soil under IAEA seal until the exchange for fuel rods is made. ElBaradei was on the phone to Tehran and other capitals last night trying out different options.
No one I have talked to is at all optimistic. There is reticence, however, to declare the whole process dead, because the alternatives are so depressing: more wrangling over sanctions between the West, Russia and China; an escalation of tension in the Gulf as punitive measures are aimed at Iran's oil and gas sector; and the possibility of Israeli military action looming ever larger.
Javier Solana, the EU foreign policy chief, and Angela Merkel are both due in Washington for talks with the Obama administration on Tuesday, when this will be the top item on the agenda. If no rabbits have been produced from hats before then, it will be grim session.


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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran's reformist-backed presidential candidate surged to a wide lead in early vote counting Saturday, a top official said, suggesting a flurry of late support could have swayed a race that once appeared solidly in the hands of Tehran's ruling clerics.
But the strong margin for former nuclear negotiator Hasan Rowhani was not yet enough to give him an outright victory and avoid a two-person runoff next Friday.
Rowhani had 46.6 percent of the more than 861,000 votes tallied, said Iran's interior minister, Mostafa Mohammad Najjar, well ahead of Tehran Mayor Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf with about 14.6 percent. Hardline nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili was slightly behind in third.
It was unclear when the final count would be known. Iran has more than 50 million eligible voters, and turnout in Friday's election was thought to be high.
Many reform-minded Iranians who have faced years of crackdowns looked to Rowhani's rising fortunes as a chance to claw back a bit of ground.
While Iran's presidential elections offer a window into the political pecking orders and security grip inside the country — particularly since the chaos from a disputed outcome in 2009 — they lack the drama of truly high stakes because the country's ruling clerics and their military guardians remain the ultimate powers.
Election officials began the ballot count after voters waited in line for hours in wilting heat at some polling stations in Tehran and other cities, while others cast ballots across the vast country from desert outposts to Gulf seaports and nomad pastures. Voting was extended by five hours to meet demand but also as possible political stagecraft to showcase the participation.
The apparent strong turnout — estimated at 75 percent by the hardline newspaper Kayhan — suggested liberals and others abandoned a planned boycott as the election was transformed into a showdown across the Islamic Republic's political divide.
On one side were hard-liners looking to cement their control behind candidates such as Qalibaf or Jalili, who says he is "100 percent" against detente with Iran's foes.
Opposing them were reformists and others rallying behind the "purple wave" campaign of Rowhani, the lone relative moderate left in the race.
The interior minister said Rowhani had more than 401,000 votes from the 861,866 counted so far. Qalibaf trailed with nearly 127,000, and Jalili had more than 119,000. The other three candidates were farther back.
Even if the last-moment surge around Rowhani brings him to the presidency, it would be more of a limited victory than a deep shake-up. Iran's establishment — a tight alliance of the ruling clerics and the powerful Revolutionary Guard — holds all the effective power and sets the agenda on all major decisions such as Iran's nuclear program and its dealings with the West.
Yet a Rowhani victory would not be entirely without significance either. It would make room for more moderate voices in Iranian political dialogue and display their resilience. It also would bring onto the world stage an Iranian president who has publicly endorsed more outreach rather than bombast toward the West.
Outside Iran, votes were casts by the country's huge diaspora including Dubai, London and points across the United States.


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Herb storage methods vary depending on the herb. Although (according to some comedians) "it ain't rocket surgery," it does help to have a few guidelines in hand.
Harvesting Herb
When possible, try to harvest before the herb flowers. For many herbs this will be in late summer or when the weather starts to cool down. Harvest after the morning dew has dried, in the middle of the morning but before noon. Avoid rinsing if at all possible. If you must rinse herbs, use cool water only and pat them dry thoroughly to prevent mold and rot.
Chives, Rosemary, Thyme, Low-Moisture Herb
Do not rinse. Wrap stems loosely in a paper towel then wrap loosely in cling wrap so that any moisture can escape. Store in refrigerator (in warmest area). Rinse just before use.
Basil, Parsley, Cilantro, High-Moisture Herb
Trim ends. Do not rinse. Stand stems upright in vase or water glass containing an inch of water. Keep at room temperature. Rinse just before use. This is called bouquet-style herb storage – here's a very informative article.
Drying Fresh Low-Moisture Herb
Chop the leaves of cilantro, parsley or basil. Keep leaves whole for thyme and rosemary. Place leaves or chop on a plate and tuck it away in a cool, dry spot for about a week. Once dried, store in sealable bags or bottles and refrigerate. This technique works best for bay, marjoram, oregano, rosemary, summer savory and thyme.
To dry herb stems, select a half dozen evenly sized branches, strip the bottom inch of the branch and tie together at the very bottom. Place each bundle in a paper bag, tied end up top, and tie the bag closed loosely. Hang the bag upside down in a warm room, checking every week until herbs are dry and ready for storage.
Drying Fresh High-Moisture Herb
Preserve high moisture herb by placing in a dehydrator or by freezing. This technique works best for basil, chives, mint and tarragon. No dehydrator? Try stretching a layer of cheesecloth over a sweater rack and spreading your herbs out on top.
Bottom Line
It's so simple to have a batch of fresh herbs on hand in your kitchen – not a lot of work and plenty of culinary reward!


text: How splendid is this? Mika Tsutai came up with these manga-inspired plates for his 2011 graduate project at Kyoto Institute of Technology. Complete with visual exclamations, these resemble Japanese manga frame panes. We're sure these action-packed plates would make eating so darn fun. Too bad they don't seem to be for sale.