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The complex hybrid of block puzzles and anime storytelling that is Catherine released last week to much success, yielding the biggest launch for Atlus in the publisher's history. While the game is incredibly quirky and chock-full of Japanese personality, that has not hindered gamers from all over the globe from picking it up.
In a statement provided to IGN by VP of Sales and Marketing Tim Pivnicny, the incredible success of Catherine has been a wonderful surprise for the publisher:
Catherine has exceeded our highest expectations. It released last week to tremendous critical acclaim and fan response, bolstered by the release of a demo a couple weeks prior, and continues to generate discussion among fans for its mature themes, engrossing subject matter, and frantic, challenging gameplay. It is fitting, then, that Catherine can boast the largest launch in the 20-year history of Atlus, and continues to see strong sales at retail.
Congratulations to Atlus on the success. It's always exciting to see games that push the boundaries of what videogames can be get recognized for their efforts.


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Monday, January 24, 2011
What's a Professional Researcher to Do without Expert Connect?
A number of my friends who are just getting started as professional genealogists are lamenting the demise of Expert Connect. They felt it was a great way to connect with clients and get client experience.
So what's a genealogist to do without Expert Connect?
Here are a few suggestions:
1) Participate in the ProGen Study Group
Unlike academic and methodology-focused courses such as Boston University's Genealogical Research Program, the peer-managed ProGen Study Group covers marketing, creating a mission statement and other business-related topics. The benefit of this program is that you won't be on your own. Your assigned peer group with be supporting you and giving you feedback. The skills you learn here will take you far in your business. And the connections with your new peers may connect you to future clients.
2) Join the Association of Professional Genealogists
The Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly (APGQ) is the only publication (that I know of) that is focused on the business aspects of being a genealogist. Each APGQ if full of advice and suggestions on how to improve your business skills. The publication alone is worth the cost of membership.
After you join, sign up for the private APG email list. This is a place for members to meet, network and learn from each other. When I first started in my business I was quite active in participating on the APG list. Most, if not all, of my first clients were peers from this list. Working for my peers taught me not only how to work with clients, but to produce work for clients with high professional expectations.
3) Start Networking!
Some researchers prefer to hide behind the books and computer databases. The truth is, if you expect to run a business providing your research skills then you are going to need to learn to communicate well with people. The more face to face meetings you have with other genealogists the more your business will grow.
Develop relationships with other genealogists, build a support network of people in your region who you can meet with regularly. Alternatively you can connect with others virtually nationwide who share your niche.
Conferences are great places to meet other professional genealogists. You will find both national conferences such as NGS and FGS, as well as regional ones such as NERGC.
Another great place to network is at chapter meetings of APG. I belong to the New England Chapter of APG. I make it my number one priority to get to meetings so that I can develop relationships with my New England colleagues.
Don't have a chapter near you? Try to find a local genealogical society. Give freely of your time and expertise and you may find yourself on the road to gaining new clients and a good reputation.
Your Next Step
You'll notice the main themes of the points above are business skills, business skills, business skills and networking, networking, networking. It's not enough to put your name on a list and wait for clients to come knocking on your door. You need to get out and start knocking on metaphorical doors so that clients will learn that you exist.
Ancestry's Expert Connect service may be ending but there are lots of great alternatives if you put your mind to it. Remember, when a door closes, another one opens. I once had a manager who told me, "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail." Start planning how you are going to succeed.
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Great post! Would you believe I was about to write the same piece? You've said it well. I hope readers take your advice.ReplyDelete
What an excellent post! You definitely have to get out and network as much as possible offline as well as online. It's amazing what resources you can find offline.ReplyDelete
I'm asking this as an outsider: Why doesn't the APG offer a service like this? Or do they already?ReplyDelete
Sally - Good question. Unfortunately, I don't know the answer.ReplyDelete
Here's how "hanging out with other genealogists" gets you business:ReplyDelete
One of my best clients came from a chance meeting in a lobby of a conference. I was there to hang out with other genealogists.
One of my regular streams of income originated from a conversation I had with a company president at a conference. I was there to hang out with other genealogists.
I maintain an extensive online profile. This helps me meet people in the genealogy field, and the bigger research industry who may need such services. This has led to meeting many professionals face-to-face. These people refer clients to me. I regularly hang out with other genealogists to foster these relationships so the referrals keep coming.
Also, hanging out with genealogists is one of the best ways to get the scoop on what's happening in the industry, which is key if you want to stay current and competitive.
Thank you for your article. While I am frustrated with the lack of professionalism by Ancestry in not providing more time, etc., I appreciate your article on what CAN be done.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the analysis. The business part of my brain wholeheartedly agrees with your comments.
I find this thread interesting. As a full time professional genealogist, I must say you can get to your end goal by using various methods.ReplyDelete

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Recovery Disc Creation software can be used to make only one set of recovery discs for the computer. The recovery CD set contains a complete set of the original operating system, drivers, and application software that shipped with the computer.
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The following is a list of features and important information about the Recovery Disc Creation program:
Recovery Disc Creation software creates a set of system recovery discs using blank, writable discs. HP recommends using blank DVD+R discs (if supported). Use a name-brand label from a manufacturer you trust, as your recovery disc set may become very important if needed. You need approximately 2 blank DVD+R discs (compared to approximately blank 11 CDs). The Disc Creator software program states how many discs are needed at the beginning of the process.
note:Mini-discs are not compatible with the Recovery Disc Creation program.
Temporarily disable Windows User Account Control if User Account Control is enabled. Doing so decreases the chances of encountering problems during disc creation.
The Disc Creation software program allows only one complete set of discs to be created.
The Disc Creation software program requires an uncorrupted recovery partition (Recovery D:) to create a set of discs. Uncorrupted means the recovery partition has not been modified or removed.
The creation process takes about 30 minutes per DVD. The entire recovery set does not need to be created in one session.
The Disc Creation software can be aborted at any time, except during the writing (burning) process, by clicking the Abort button. The next time the Disc Creation software program is run, it automatically starts where it last stopped.
Creating recovery discs from Windows
Complete the following steps to create the recovery disc set:
note:Use DVD+R discs if your disc drive supports the DVD+R type. Some versions of Recovery Disc Creator may not work with certain disc types, such as CD-RW, DVD-RW, and DVD+RW). Mini-discs are not compatible with Recovery Disc Creator.
note:If drive encryption software is running while creating discs, file verification errors can occur. If you are using drive encryption software, such as bitlocker, disable drive encryption before creating your discs.
Disconnect from the Internet and close all other software.Creating recovery discs is a resource-intensive process.
Click Start , and then All Programs.
Click PC Help & Tools and then Recovery Disc Creation to start the program.A Welcome screen opens.Figure : Recovery Manager Welcome window
Click the Next button on each screen to start the disc creation process.A window opens listing the number of blank discs required to make a complete recovery set.
note:Mini-discs are not compatible with the Recovery Disc Creation program.Figure : Number of discs needed message
Number your discs with a permanent marker, in case you need to use them for a system recovery.For example, if you are using 10 CDs, mark each 1 of 10, 2 of 10, 3 of 10, and so forth. If you are using DVDs, mark the first 1 of 2 and the second 2 of 2.
Enable the Next button by inserting the first blank disc and closing the disc tray. Click Next to continue.
note:At the start of the disc creation process, if the following AutoPlay message displays, close it (click on the x in the upper-right corner). This message has nothing to do with creating recovery discs.Figure : AutoPlay messageA verification window opens, showing the disc type chosen and the number of discs needed.Figure : Disc verification window
Click Next.
caution:Cancelling the write process in the middle might result in a corrupted and unusable disc. Before cancelling, wait until the disc has completed the write verification process and prompts for the next disc.
note:If the disc creation process cancels automatically while collecting files, temporarily disable Windows User Account Control.The Recovery Manager Process screen opens. While this screen is viewable, several processes are taking place:
Collecting files - The program collects needed files from the recovery partition.
Writing files onto disc - The program burns the first disc.
Verifying CD or DVD contents - The program verifies the contents of each disc.Figure : Recovery Manager process screen
Wait for a message stating disc creation was successful.Figure : Disc creation successful message
The disc tray opens automatically. If you have not done so, mark it 1 of _ (the total number of discs) with a permanent marker.
Mark the next disc 2 of _, and insert it into the disc tray.
note:The AutoPlay message might display on the desktop. If it does, close it by clicking on the x in the upper-right corner. This message has nothing to do with creating recovery discs.The same process begins for Disc 2 and subsequent discs, if they are required. With the successful burning of each disc, a disc creation successful message is opened and the disc tray automatically opens allowing you to retrieve the disc.Continue creating discs until you see the following message.Figure : System Recovery Discs Creation complete message
Click Finish.
Be sure all discs are marked appropriately, and save them in a safe place.
caution:It is important to protect the discs that you created. Store these discs in a safe dark place. Do not store discs in areas that receive sunlight as data on the discs might be lost over time.
If the Recovery Disc Creation program is started again after a complete set of recovery discs has been made, another screen displays stating only one recovery set is allowed. The only choice is to click OK and exit the program. If the recovery disc set is incomplete or damaged and this message opens, use another method to obtain new discs. See HP PCs - Looking for Recovery Discs?.Figure : Disc creation denial message
Resolving disc verification failures
When a disc is ejected and a disc verification error message displays, the disc burn on that disc is bad. Do NOT exit from the system recovery disc process. Instead, insert another disc to complete the disc creation process. If the error occurs again, use a different brand of writeable disc.
If the disc process fails and you need to order recovery discs, see HP PCs - Looking for Recovery Discs?.
Additional questions and answers
I cannot create more than one set of recovery discs. Why?
Because of licensing agreements with Microsoft, the recovery disc creator software program creates only one recovery disc set.
At the start of the disc creation process, an AutoPlay window opens. What should I do?
Figure : AutoPlay message
Close the AutoPlay window by clicking the close (x) button at the top right. The AutoPlay message is related to Windows and not recovery disc creation software.
How can I order recovery discs?
You can order recovery discs from HP. For more information, see HP PCs - Looking for Recovery Discs?.
What should be done when an error opens during the disc burning process?
A failure might be due to bad or poor quality media. Try writing to another disc from a different manufacturer.
The following message might indicate the disc you are using already has data on it. Verify you are using blank discs.
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The following message might indicate the disc you are using is different from the disc type you started the process with. Verify all your media is the same type.
Figure : Disc type error message
A friend's computer has a bad hard drive and is not bootable. We have the identical computer model. Can I make a set of recovery discs on my computer and loan the recovery discs to my colleague?
Yes, this is possible, but both computers will not be able to create a recovery disc set. That is, both computers must share the same set of discs or another set of discs should be ordered from HP (if they are in stock).
Can the same set of recovery discs be used on any other computer model?
No, the recovery discs created on a particular computer can only be used on that same model computer.
Why are rewritable discs unable to be used when making recovery discs?
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In the earliest days of American industry, the Boston Manufacturing Company created an innovative, single-location manufacturing enterprise at Lowell, Massachusetts, that depended on the recruitment of women millworkers. Using primary source documents, you can examine the changing face of gender, class, and labor in the 1830s and 1840s through the lens of the Lowell System and determine if Lowell was a real opportunity for working women or a dead end.
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When I was a teen-ager, I wrote a science-fiction story about Leonardo da Vinci. In it, a young art historian becomes fascinated with Leonardo's otherworldly paintings, with their strange rocky backgrounds, unplaceable landscapes, and enigmatic not-quite-human saints, their single fingers forever pointing strangely upward. To make a long, and rather shamelessly Rod Serlingish, story short, the art historian eventually discovers, in a previously unknown codex, that Leonardo was an alien, that the rocks were the landscape of his native planet, and that the fingers were pointing longingly back home.
Sensing, sadly but with characteristic prescience, that the market in occult stories involving strange codes hidden in Leonardo's works was essentially nil, I left the story unfinished; just recently, a new pair of Leonardo books brought it to mind. The basic notion—that Leonardo is so weird that he might as well be from another planet—turns out to be hardy enough to have survived even a century of scholarship aimed at replacing romantic, otherworldly Leonardo with historical Leonardo, a man of his time. Most one-of-a-kind artists turn out, after study, to be, in another sense, merely one of a kind. William Blake, if not exactly normal, was, after Robert Rosenblum placed him with his friends Fuseli and Flaxman, more obviously part of a group, one of many lineloving, mystical neoclassicists. Bosch may still look strange to us, but, now that art historians have explained that some of his Spanish patrons thought his nightmares were funny, or even pious, we at least understand how they were originally received.
Leonardo remains weird, matchlessly weird, and nothing to be done about it. He put wings on pet lizards and called them dragons; scribbled pyramidal parachutes in the margins of manuscripts which, more than five hundred years later, turn out to work perfectly; dashed off a letter to the Ottoman sultan offering to design a bridge that would span the Golden Horn (and the bridge he sketched, built elsewhere a few years ago, in a scaled-down version, not only is perfectly engineered but anticipates the look of Eero Saarinen's T.W.A. terminal). He drew the Deluge, imagined the modern mortar, and fixed a half smile in the world's imagination, and there was no one else around doing anything like it. This keeps him a cult figure; a new series of books promises to teach you "How to Think Like Leonardo"—though, given that what his style of thinking got him was the inability to finish almost a single piece of work, learning how not to think like him might be more useful—and, of course, there is the Leonardo whose code is at the center of the best-selling thriller.
Two new and serious studies attempt the work of making Leonardo earthbound again. "Leonardo" (Oxford; $26), by the Oxford art-history professor Martin Kemp, is a summary of a life's research; "Leonardo da Vinci: Flights of the Mind" (Viking; $32.95), by the biographer and historian Charles Nicholl, is a popular account, dense with social history and rational, high-hearted speculation. The simultaneous appearance of the books doubtless created two anxious publishers, but they complement each other almost perfectly: Kemp's is Leonardo seen from the inside out, Nicholl's from the outside in. Kemp explains Leonardo's principles of design and his theory of the world from an intense knowledge of his mind and drawings; Nicholl shows where his ideas came from and who paid to subsidize them, through a broad rendering of his life and times.
Kemp's book is less a proper biography—he offers no extended account of Leonardo's illegitimate birth to a peasant's daughter, his apprenticeship in Florence to the sculptor Verrocchio, or his subsequent lifelong wanderings in the courts of Milan and France—than a series of intense, learned meditations on Leonardesque themes. Setting aside the wow! factor of Leonardo's discoveries and anticipations, Kemp tries to define what Leonardo thought he was doing, and why. He argues, convincingly, that Leonardo was constantly searching for a universal system of proportion—not merely a system of aesthetic proportion, like the famous Golden Mean, but a system of proportion that would explain, as Newton's inverse-square rule of gravity did, two centuries later, the fundamental workings of forces. "Leonardo was the first to tie the artist's notion of proportional beauty into the wider setting of the proportional action of all the powers of nature," Kemp writes. Leonardo accepted the Aristotelian theory that all motion begins with an impetus. (The fact that, as Galileo and Newton showed, objects would go on moving forever if something didn't stop them remains counter-intuitive, even today.) But Leonardo swiftly saw that the theory must be wrong: things didn't go far enough fast enough. He never resolved this problem, Kemp thinks, because he didn't have the math for it, but he never stopped searching for a resolution.
His thought processes in this search were, crucially, visual, not mathematical. He had the gift, quite distinct from numeric reasoning, of seeing abstract form; he would have aced the sections on standardized tests asking the student to make a mental rotation of a cube or a tetrahedron. His imagination was geometric in the sense that he thought that a small vocabulary of recurring shapes was produced whenever an impetus—the force that drives water forward in a deluge, that drives the arrow from the crossbow—was deflected by the natural fields of air and earth and water.
This constant search for basic, rhyming, organic form meant that when he looked at a heart blossoming into its network of veins he saw, and sketched alongside it, a seed germinating into shoots; studying the curls on a beautiful woman's head he thought in terms of the swirling motion of a turbulent flow of water ("Note the motion of the surface of water, which conforms to that of the hair," he wrote, in his looking-glass script); and, studying the swirling tendrils of a sea anemone, he turns them into something as dressed up and willed as a fashionable woman's hairdo. He even doodled churches that resembled the forms of shells and flowers. (If he seems to anticipate any modern science, it is D'Arcy Thompson's discovery of basic algorithms of biological structure in "On Growth and Form.")
From these almost mystical revelations, one turns with a certain happiness to Nicholl's more worldly narrative. His life of Leonardo is fresh, detailed, vivid, and presents perhaps the most fully human Leonardo we have; the book is filled with fine brief accessory lives and neat, two-paragraph evocations of complicated bits of social history. (His account of the studio system in Florence in the late Quattrocento, in which Leonardo came of age, includes the lovely and easily overlooked detail that the use of egg tempera for fresco painting meant that the artist's studio was steadily occupied by chickens.)
Nicholl follows Leonardo's mostly lucky life, as he moves from his first major public commissions in Florence in the fourteen-eighties to ducal patronage in Milan around the turn of the century, and to his eventual destiny (and death, in 1519) as a man with that luckiest of all things a villa in the Loire Valley of France. This journey north is broken up by occasional stops back in Florence, in Rome (where he influenced the young Raphael), briefly in Venice (where he may have influenced the young Giorgione), and elsewhere in Italy. Leonardo's life was amazingly well observed, in part because everyone around him sensed, from the beginning, that there was something worth observing. In addition to the usual legal and business documents—one making a criminal accusation of sodomy against him, a set detailing a twenty-year squabble about the payment for his "Madonna of the Rocks"—there were at least two full-fledged biographies written in his lifetime or soon afterward. (Vasari, who wrote his life as he wrote the lives of many others, was in awe of him, though that didn't keep him from painting over Leonardo's one unfinished fresco in Florence.) Everyone watched him. There was a monk on hand to make notes as he painted "The Last Supper," in Milan, recording with wonder that Leonardo would sometimes show up, stare at his own painting, and then walk away again, finished for the day. (Benvenuto Cellini, the Florentine sculptor, quotes the King of France saying that Leonardo was the most interesting man he had ever spoken to.)
Nicholl makes Leonardo not less strange, perhaps, but surprisingly more appealing and well rounded—not a spaceman but an artistic type whose lineaments one recognizes: the artist as self-sufficient man, with a strong, private sense of ironic humor, affectionate but not much engaged with his family and lovers, devoted to the realization of his images, surrounded by a court of helpers and hangers-on whom he watches with detached amusement—and able, above all, to play a sequence of patrons like a xylophone. We see Leonardo joking with his bosses (he remarks dryly that if he can't find a face evil enough for Judas in "The Last Supper" he'll be forced to use that of the prior in the abbey where he's painting), recording with exasperation the petty thefts of his beloved, hunky apprentice Salai, and fending off patrons with transparently false promises of work to come. He is the first artist since antiquity to put aside the tone of anxious flunkydom and set the patrons out to pursue him. There's a funny series of letters, which Nicholl reproduces in full, between Isabella d'Este, the ruler of Mantua, and a clerical intermediary, asking if Leonardo might possibly do something for her, which Leonardo met with polite, wouldn't-it-be-nice-someday deferral. He kept his own pictures—including the "Mona Lisa" and the "Virgin and Child with St. Anne"—with him throughout his life, working on them sporadically and then dropping them for years.
A strong sense filters through Nicholl's book, and through Kemp's as well, that though Leonardo loved painting he hated being thought of as a painter, an artisan for hire. He almost never mentions any of his great contemporaries in his notebooks except to disparage them—Botticelli makes Annunciations that look as if the angel were trying to rape the Virgin, Michelangelo's figures are sacks of nuts. The people whose names do figure are writers and philosophers and geometers, just as, to use a homely parallel, Charlie Chaplin's autobiography mentions countless novelists and scarcely another silent comedian.
Leonardo presented himself, and was accepted, as an engineer above all. The contempt that he showed for painters was made up for by the respect that he showed architects and engineers: Alberti, Brunelleschi, Bramante. He sketched building plans inspired by organic forms like those of blossoms or buds. (Nothing got built, and it didn't matter, since Bramante's Leonardesque churches did.) He was always going somewhere to consult on fortifications, or rerouting a river, or reinstalling the foundations of a church. (It isn't clear that he was actually any good at this; like Buckminster Fuller, he was ahead not only of his time but of his tools.)
And then Leonardo, as is the way with engineers, liked power, and worked complacently for tyrants and monsters. His journey north was a tropism toward the nascent absolute monarchies. He had a definite Wernher von Braun side: he actively sought out the patronage of Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan and the worst man in Italy—the art historian Frederick Hartt, a Florentinerepublic patriot, made it sound almost like going behind the Iron Curtain—and had equable dealings with Cesare Borgia at the very moment when Machiavelli was studying him as a model of amoral ruthlessness. (There is a fine, funny play to be written about the moment when Machiavelli, Cesare Borgia, and Leonardo were all stuck in the same castle during a siege.) He became the first in a long line of French court favorites who were expected only to be, beautifully. He much preferred the patronage of monarchs—who could be flattered by a few tricks, bought off with a great pageant or a cool theatrical illusion—to that of the Florentine republic or the Church fathers, who were always pestering you for the finished picture or quarrelling because you didn't fulfill the contract.
Kenneth Clark, who remains the best commentator on Leonardo, wrote years ago that Leonardo's great artistic gift was for making emblematic images from observed life, hieroglyphic symbols that have the haunting quality of the real, constantly renegotiating the line "between science and symbolism." Leonardo's most "documentary" drawings, like the famous cross-section of the child wrapped in its mother's womb, are largely imaginary: he never dissected a pregnant woman, and, anyway, the uterus he drew showed the multiple placenta of a cow. When he turned his mind fully to an image, it nearly always was both mythic and momentary. The "Mona Lisa," of course, is the most famous of these double images, ageless femme fatale and Florentine merchant's wife. But the gift, uncannily, is visible in everything he does.
The famous figure of Vitruvian man, for instance, splayed out in his encircled square, is in origin a derivative illustration of an antique idea about regular proportions: a man's proportions when the arms are horizontal make a square; with the arms diagonal they center a circle. Though it is possible to see this as a "humanist" ideal, it is not necessarily so; it says not that man's proportions are divine but merely that they are regular. The point of the image is not that man is the measure of all things; it is that man can, like all things, be measured. But the tension between this abstract and diminishing idea and its realization as a strange, aged, specific figure, with a strong, unostentatious but perfect body and a grave, unforgettable face—half Don Imus, half St. Jerome; Nicholl suggests that it is a self-portrait—gives the image a certain heroism, as though the individual had stoically lent himself for a scientific trial.
Or take the image of a nutcracker-jawed old man confronting a beautiful youth, which turns up in the margins and center of the notebooks. It is clearly a doodle, unattached to observation, a basic symbolic type like the birds in the margins of medieval manuscripts. Yet when the beautiful young Salai enters Leonardo's life, looking like a cross between Rupert Everett and Marlon Brando, the hieroglyph suddenly comes to life as a diary image, "Death in Venice" in mordant visual shorthand. (Both Kemp and Nicholl take on the issue of Leonardo's homosexuality and conclude that he obviously was and that in some less obvious ways was not; he almost got thrown in prison for sodomy, but there is some evidence of female connections, too.)
Although Freud's famous analysis of Leonardo's character—a man turned homosexual by absent father and not one but two overbearing mothers (natural and adoptive)—has long been brushed aside as a tour de force of shrewd reasoning from bad evidence, one detail in it seems exactly right: Leonardo did have an obsession with women, in pairs particularly. Which leads, irresistibly, to that best-seller, with its case for Leonardo as the secret refounder of the old religion of the Goddess through his veneration of Mary Magdalene (whom he supposedly paints disguised as St. John in "The Last Supper").
The first thing to be said about Dan Brown's "Da Vinci Code" is that "da Vinci" is not a name; no one in Leonardo's lifetime would ever have called him "da Vinci" (it just means "from Vinci," his birthplace) or anything like it. But Brown is shaky on names throughout: a key cryptogram in his cryptogram-filled book depends on decoding the original meaning of "Mona Lisa"—a name that nobody used for the picture until well into the nineteenth century. The next thing to be said is that the book depends on a story, or backstory, pulled more or less in one piece from the 1982 occult best-seller "Holy Blood, Holy Grail." And the most significant thing is that "The Da Vinci Code" is plain burn-at-the-stake blasphemous: its entire point is that Christianity as it is understood is a fraud put over by Constantine, and that Jesus, far from being divine, is a human being who fathered children. (The murder mystery rests on the premise that the Catholic Church, through the Opus Dei, sends out hit men to kill the people who know the truth.) A cultural anthropologist, a hundred years from now, will doubtless find, in the unprecedented success of "The Da Vinci Code" during the time of a supposed religious revival, some clear sign that, in the Elvis mode, what a lot of Americans mean by spirituality is simply an immense openness to occult superstitions of all kinds.
Yet the book gains its occult authority from having Leonardo in its machinery. Should we struggle to rescue Leonardo from this Nostradamus fate—as Clark writes, even his contemporaries came to see him "less as an artist and more as an old magician whose mind was stocked with terrible secrets about the universe"—and save him for science and modernity? The question is big and hard. How much of the High Renaissance he defined was an usher to the scientific revolution, helping it to its seat, and how much was the last efflorescence of a world view still religious and analogical, on the other side of the great divide?
Is Leonardo a scientist? We would like to make him one of ours, and are encouraged because through the years we have grown accustomed to the thought that scientists are in significant ways like artists: they imagine and observe and leap to hypotheses as poets leap to metaphors. They see beyond the thing at hand to the mysterious relation it may have to another thing at hand—when an apple drops on their head, they ask what dark, occult force in the earth drew it there. And yet, reading these new lives of Leonardo, one begins to think that scientists are not so very much like artists, and Leonardo least of all. He was a magus, and remains firmly on the far side of the scientific revolution. As Lisa Jardine's fine life of Robert Hooke reminded us recently, the real scientific revolution consisted of a willingness to measure once and measure again and then measure yet again. Doggedness, drudgery, and dutifulness—the three "D"s of Protestantism—are at its heart, and those Leonardo never knew. He still thought by lunges and in metaphors. Things are understood by being shown to be like other things: the uterus is like a cosmos, the blood like rivers, the world is a microcosm.
It is a curious thing to say about so gifted an observer, but Leonardo is not in our sense an empiricist at all: he is looking for vital form and analogy, and does not quite go where his eye will lead him. Although he does experiments, and understands them, he does not do them much, or value them more than congruences. He could think microscopically and macroscopically, make amazing horizontal connections and see in a wide vertical range. His list of types of water in motion is Whitman-like: "Rebound, circulation, revolution, rotating, turning, repercussing, submerging, surging . . ." Yet his fellow-Tuscan Galileo's more potent urge, at the turn of the century, to drop a wooden ball and a cannonball from a high place and see which got down first is not an urge he knew.
It's even tempting to entertain the thought that, had Leonardo's work been lost, we would not recognize the loss from the world around it, would not sense a missing planet from its perturbations of other orbits. As A. Richard Turner showed, in "Inventing Leonardo," much of Leonardo's actual work wasn't even available for centuries, and one is almost inclined to say that Leonardo really left nothing to the formal inheritance of art. Apart from "The Last Supper"—admittedly, a very big apart—little of his work circulated in prints and copies. It is possible that his brief stay in Venice may have influenced the art of Giorgione toward "opticality" and dense atmospheric perspective—but the Venetians were on the way there anyway, and might have arrived from more mundane, Northern models. Without Raphael and Michelangelo, three centuries of pictures and objects are literally unimaginable: their images and symbols became a tonic note for everything afterward, and that isn't true of the mysterious third spirit in the Renaissance trinity.
And yet to say this is to overlook the most obvious thing about him, which is Leonardo's being Leonardo. From the first instance of Leonardo on record, there is a sense that we were dealing with someone fundamentally different from anyone that had come before, doing a kind of work that had no real precedents—something that arose from the artisanal life of the Florentine artist-for-hire but overwhelmed it with independent vision and autonomous standards, something that was, finally, so conceptual and self-enclosed that it carried engineering and architecture practice to a peak of self-involved fantasy. In the end, all even a king could do was buy him a house and admire him. His life's work was to turn his contemporaries' idea of the artist from artisan to genius, from working stiff to saint and shaman and magician and necromancer—and, for that matter, rich man's ornament. The Great Elevation from the artisanal, which still fuels our idea of art, finds its starting point, and almost its summit, in him. The romantic, otherworldly Leonardo may be the most historical Leonardo of them all. ♦


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Riad table is an enhancement of the traditional manufacturing process and graphic motifs of hydraulic tiles. These concrete tiles emerged in Mediterranean Europe in the early 20th century as an industrial response to old mosaic floors. The drawings of Riad are inspired by traditional designs that can be found from the Alhambra of Granada to the Great Mosque of Damascus.
The idea behind this product is to decontextualise a construction material –the hydraulic tile– by isolating and objectifying it.
The result is a table for indoors and outdoor whose hexagonal shape offers the possibilty to reproduce a "raised floor" combining as many pieces as desired.
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Riad table enhances the mixture of basic materials such as concrete used in traditional processes, with some other hi-tech techniques as the stainless steel CNC turning used for the metal insert and the legs, adapting the natural language and finishing of each of them in order to create a perfect match.
Riad Precission
Great part of the designing process lies in resolving what is not visible to the naked eye. Therefore it has been necessary to research more technical materials to lighten, reinforce and resize the product, as well as to intervene in its traditional manufacturing process in order to accurately place a metalic piece which works as a node to reinforce the object and, at the same time, to position the legs in perfect geometry.
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ø: 45 cm.
H: 50 cm.
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This product is suitable for outdoor use although it should not be left outside in wet conditions.
Flat packed (56,5 x 49,5 x 4 cm). Weight: 7,1 kg.
Concrete side table with stainless steel legs and rubber feet.


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Kelly Mark
Canadian, b. 1967
I really should ..., 2001
felt marker on refrigerator
165 x 66 x 65 cm
Collection of the Winnipeg Art Gallery; Gift of the artist
Installation, Canadian Contemporary (1980-present)
In this work Kelly Mark has covered the front of a refrigerator with a series of statements, handwritten in Magic Marker, all beginning with the words "I really should." This work was created at the WAG for Mark's exhibition Important Instructions For Changing the World in 2001. In a home, the fridge is commonly used to display items such as notes and lists. By transforming the refrigerator into an extensive to-do list, the artist presents the inner turmoil of her everyday life. This generic list highlights guilt-inducing inadequacies as well as prescriptions for self-improvement. The truth and sincerity of the individual statements is undermined by an understanding that they probably won't happen.
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- Tuesday 11am-5pm
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This is the second in the series on the Presidents of EWGS leading up to the 75th anniversary in 2010. See the previous post on Samuel Pool Weaver.
Mrs. John Jacob Thiel was born Leora Cookingham and was the second and sixth EWGS President. She held office in 1937-1938 and in 1945. Leora Thiel was also a founder of the Friends of the Library for Spokane Public Library. I found almost nothing on Leora's Cookingham family. It does look like an English family name, but there are no Cookinghams in England so it may be a derivative of another surname. John Jacob was the son of Jacob and Lizzie (Strombecker) Thiel, both Germans from Russia. The parents came to America in 1878 and lived in Franklin and Hitchcock counties of Nebraska, before coming to southern Idaho then Baker City and Walla Walla in 1882. In the spring if 1883 they drove to Adams County and homesteaded there. They raised four sons, John Jacob, Mike, Henry and Fred. I did not find as much on John Jacob as I thought I would, since he was born in Russia and grew up in Washington. The main reason was I kept disregarding information I found on the internet for John Thiel from Kansas, but when I found the biography of Fred Thiel, John's brother in the History of the Big Bend, it said John was a professor at Winfield College in Kansas. John died April 15, 1946 in Spokane at age 69 and was buried in the cemetery at Ritzville Washington. His obituary says he had lived in Spokane for 16 years and was associated with the County Auditors office and was survived by wife Leora, his three brothers and one sister.
Leora Thiel died January 3, 1950 in a local hospital. She was a charter member of Eastern Washington Genealogical Society, a member of Spokane Garry chapter , Daughters of American Revolution and the Friends of the Library. Her obit says John Thiel was the director of the 1940 census in Spokane. I checked the Ritzville cemetery and Leora is not listed there, and her obit says she was cremated.
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
EWGS Presidents: Leora Cookingham Thiel
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2 comments:
- Margaret said...
Thanks Charles; very interesting.
Enjoyed the meeting yesterday & know you are one of our PRIZE members w/all the time and energy you have put into so many projects. Of course, I also know the 'thrill' of 'finding' lost relatives; whether your own or someone else's. Have a Great Thanksgiving.
Sincerely, Maggie Hibbard
- November 8, 2009 at 2:13 PM
- WebSurge, SA said...
Cookingham orginates from Guckenheim, Cockenheim, and a few other German variations. Leora is almost certainly a descendant of the two immigrant Cookingham ancestors of the family whom settled at Rhinebeck, NY circa 1750:
Johan Georg Kuchenheim and Daniel Kuckenheim.
Hunter Schultz
- February 19, 2010 at 6:30 AM
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text: Hunter Mahan won the Waste Management Phoenix Open for his second PGA TOUR title Sunday, closing with a second consecutive bogey-free 6-under 65 to come from four strokes down. He becomes the seventh player in the season's first nine events to win wearing FootJoy golf shoes and the second consecutive to win wearing FJ ICON MyJoys. Hunter also relied on a StaSof glove. The 27-year-old Mahan had an eagle and a pair of birdies in a late four-hole span Sunday to finish at 16-under 268. Since winning the 2007 Travelers Championship, Mahan has continued to improve each year. He played on the 2008 Ryder Cup team and had six top-10s in 2009, including a runner-up finish at the AT&T National."It's just finding a way to win. I just haven't been able to do it," he said. "So obviously it feels great to get off the year on my fifth tournament to win. It gives me a lot of confidence in myself that I'm doing the right things in my game, and it feels great, it really does."The shot of the tournament for Mahan came at the par-5 13th when he hit his second shot from 250 yards to within seven feet and made the eagle putt to reach 14-under par. His 18-foot birdie putt on the par-4 14th moved him into the lead and then the clincher came at the notorious 16th, the par 3 surrounded by bleachers filled with noisy, irreverent fans who cheer and boo with equal enthusiasm.Mahan's tee shot caught the edge of the green and he made the subsequent 14-foot putt to regain the lead at 16 under and he would never look back.** During the 2010 PGA Tour season, when FJ WINS, YOU WIN. Enter now for your chance to win a pair of FJ ICON golf shoes and a StaSof glove just like Hunter wore during the final round Sunday.


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What a month it has been! Between teaching, launching Plate & Pencil, spending the holidays in Boston, getting the flu during the holidays in Boston, I've been a little behind on blogging. Little by little, I'm getting back into the swing of things though. Today I decided to update this simple but delicious Vietnamese beef stir-fry I first did almost two years ago. Its ingredients are minimal but the flavor is outstanding.
I was at my favorite butcher shop last week to buy some flank steak for dinner when I noticed some very nice-looking flat iron steaks in the display case. The last time I worked with flat iron steak was maybe in culinary school, but because it was about $4 a pound cheaper than the flank steak, I was curious how it would turn out in a stir-fry.
"I can just tenderize it here for you and you're good to go," said the butcher on duty, who then proceeded to pound the steak with a meat mallet before I could second-guess my choice.
Flat iron steak, also called top blade steak, is usually found only in specialty butcher shops because of its scarcity. It seems to be a relatively new cut of beef, developed by researchers from the University of Florida and University of Nebraska in the early 2000s when they were trying to find a way to use the meat from the top shoulder of the cow, which before had just gone to waste. With a good amount of marbling and deep flavor, flat iron steak is usually grilled when you find it in restaurants. But as I learned last week, it also takes to the wok like a charm.
I made a Vietnamese beef and green bean stir-fry, marinating it in my usual soy sauce/rice wine/cornstarch mixture. My friends Barb and Max came over for dinner, and I'm pretty certain they weren't just being polite when they said they really, really liked the dish. I think we all kept trying to scoop up more sauce with our forks even when the beef and green beans were all scarfed down. Oh yes, speaking of the sauce, it's a simple blend of fish sauce, soy sauce, and freshly ground black pepper. Yet the remarkable, slightly earthy flavor makes it taste like it's composed of 10 ingredients instead of just 3.Read More


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Have you considered a career in the federal government? According to a recent report from the Partnership for Public Service, opportunities for employment are high as an estimated 60,000 federal workers are expected to retire in 2011. This leaves federal agencies with the task of attracting young, skilled, and educated individuals to replace these retirees. If they are to maintain the high level of performance required to run the government, job seekers must understand what federal agencies are really looking for.
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Alberta Bison
Hunting Trip Category: Bison
It is a fact that the wild bison have always existed in these ranges and man has never pushed them out of the area. This hunt is a good one for what it is. A tough, remote hunt where the bison have to step across a particular boundary to be huntable. They are unpredictable on how often they do… but it is what it is on this hunt.
"My long awaited trip to northern Alberta to hunt free range Bison was a resounding success." -Paul Plantinga, Michigan, USA
Most of the hunting will be done on snowmobiles and quads. It is common to travel up to 80 km (50 miles) in a day. The snow is generally 1-3 feet deep. The hunt can be long and difficult but for the avid trophy hunter it is the thrill of a lifetime.
Your guides are committed to a policy of 100% "fair chase" and stress principles and ethics above all else.
Many of the bulls in this area are positively ancient, and trophy potential very high.
These buffalo are exportable to the United States.
These bison are not a pure "wood bison", which allows your cape and horns to be exported to the United States. Although not pure wood strain, a bull may weigh up to 2600 lbs. and cow 1500 lbs. The rewards for the dedicated hunter can be great. Studies have shown that many of the bulls in this area are positively ancient, and trophy potential very high.
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This Alberta free range bison hunt takes place in February and March, May and June.
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That's the number of people in Massachusetts who died over the span of four years as a result of alcohol-related boating accidents. That doesn't include the 23 injured and the families left behind.
That number is eclipsed by the 132 fatalities in 2009 the state Department of Public Health attributes to those operating under the influence of alcohol and drugs, but to the families of those 22 people statistics mean very little.
We appreciate how very difficult it is to enforce the laws already on the books. As was pointed out in Wednesday's article, "Drunk boating laws all talk?" it's not as if those patrolling the waters can cite a boat operator for marked lanes violations, there are many more boaters than there are harbormasters or Coast Guard ships patrolling, and traditionally, the role of both has been to aid boaters, not necessarily police them, though that's been evolving. With nearly 200 miles of Massachusetts coastline to patrol, it's near impossible. The law on the books is a good one. If found guilty of operating a boat with a blood alcohol level of at least 0.08 – the same for driving – a boat operator risks being fined up to $1,000 and jailed for 21/2 years. But cases are seldom prosecuted.
So what can we do to help prevent more OUI boating deaths? Educate boaters.
Just as the state requires operators to be licensed to drive a car, boaters should be licensed to operate a boat. Any parent who's had a teenager attend drivers' education classes knows how intensive they are when it comes to safety, especially drinking and driving.
We understand that for Massachusetts residents, who spend so much of the year battling uncertain weather, there's nothing better than hitting the water, dropping a line and cracking a cold beer on a warm summer's day. We don't want that to end but we do want it to be safer.
Licensing isn't simply about educating boaters about the dangers of operating while impaired, it's about essential boat safety: navigation, communication, right of way, weather conditions, basic maintenance and Coast Guard regulations. It's one thing to break down on the side of Route 3. It's quite another to lose a mast or have your engine cut out after a day on The Spit and have the notoriously temperamental North River carry you and yours out to the open water of the Atlantic.
Even if it never comes to pass, it's each boater's individual responsibility to learn the basics about safety. Most do, which is partly why there are so few accidents. It's also every passenger's duty to speak up when the captain of the ship is imbibing a little too much. Designated drivers work just as effectively on the water as they do on the roads.
Fortunately, we don't see the numbers of dead and injured due to drunken driving on our waterways that we do on our highways, yet every loss is a tragedy.
We recommend the Legislature consider a careful review of any legislation that would require both boat safety classes and licensing for pleasure boaters.
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In this special in-studio test episode, we meet the charming and hilarious Lindsay Pavlas of Maximum Fun fame. While Lindsay rattles off her ailments, Ross and Carrie each give her a reiki treatment and then make her guess which of them secretly got certified as a reiki healer. Can she tell the difference? Is the healing energy real? Who shot JR? Find out most of these things in this very special episode!
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Position: Point guard
Who's the starter: Jameer Nelson
Why he's starting: Nelson is about to begin his 10th NBA season, all with the Magic. He's the team's heart and soul. He's fearless, always willing to attempt game-tying or game-winning shots. Nelson is a good scorer and a good shooter from long distance, although his 3-point accuracy dipped to 34.1 percent last season as the Magic lacked a consistent low-post scoring threat and opposing defenses keyed on the Magic's backcourt. Nelson is listed as 6 feet tall, but that listing is probably generous. He's a good rebounder for someone his size, but his lack of height can leave him vulnerable against taller point guards. Nelson needs to do a better job at keeping the ball in front of him in the season ahead. Although he played a career-high 35.3 minutes per game last season, a few nagging injuries — and the Magic's unwillingness to rush him back — limited him to 56 games. Nelson could be traded before the mid-February NBA trade deadline.
Who are the backups: The Magic used the second overall pick in June's draft to select 6-foot-4 Victor Oladipo out of Indiana University. The team raised eyebrows around the league when it became apparent that it will try to play Oladipo at point guard in the year ahead; Oladipo is a natural shooting guard who has never played point guard in high school or college. Oladipo is a hard-nosed player with a superb work ethic, and team officials believe his confidence can withstand the rough nights that will inevitably occur as he learns how to play the point. Team officials believe Oladipo can become an elite perimeter defender early in his career.
During the offseason, the Magic signed 30-year-old journeyman Ronnie Price to be the team's third-string point guard. Price is a low-maintanance player who should be a good influence on the Magic's youngsters. Second-year player Doron Lamb and third-year player E'Twaun Moore also can play point guard.
Who has played this position first: Sam Vincent started 45 games during the Magic's first season, including the team's first regular-season game. Vincent appeared in 151 games for Orlando over three seasons, averaging 10.1 points per game during his Magic tenure.
Who else has played this position: Scott Skiles was a member of the Magic for the franchise's first five seasons. On Dec. 30, 1990, Skiles set an NBA single-game record by dishing out 30 assists during a 155-116 victory over the Denver Nuggets.
But the Magic's first — and, perhaps, only — superstar point guard was 6-foot-7 Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway. Acquired as a rookie in a draft night trade in 1993, Hardaway immediately posed matchup problems for opposing defenses, and he wound up averaging 16.0 points and 6.6 assists per game. Hardaway helped propel the Magic to the 1995 NBA Finals. By Aug. 1999, his relationship with the team had soured, and he left in a sign-and-trade deal.
Darrell Armstrong was a fan favorite at point guard. He was a key cog of the Magic's 1999-2000 "Heart & Hustle" team that surprised experts by posting a 41-41 record during Doc Rivers' first season as the Magic's coach. Armstrong played a total of 502 regular-season games for Orlando.
Another notable former Magic point guard was Steve Francis, who averaged 19.4 points per game over two seasons in the mid-2000s.
Rafer Alston was acquired via trade during the 2008-09 season after Nelson suffered a significant shoulder injury. Alston was the team's starter during its push to the 2009 NBA Finals.


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Psychopath Brian Olmstead (from Arch Barnes' "Unconscious") escapes custody while being evaluated for fitness to stand trial, and he goes on a killing rampage. This time, his victims are mostly those people who played a part in his arrest, along with his own mother. Will he be captured again before he reaches his own brother, and Professor Towncraft?
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| May 6, 2013, 1:02 pm
"The Whale," Samuel D. Hunter's dramatic play about a dangerously obese man that got its start in Denver, won the coveted Outstanding Play nod at Sunday night's Lucille Lortel Awards in New York.
The work was developed, in part, at the Denver Center Theatre Company's New Play Summit in 2011. The company presented its successful world premiere in the Ricketson Theatre in January 2012.
The Lortel awards, which recognize major Off Broadway projects, honored a new production of the play by the Playwrights Horizons theater. The production also won an Outstanding Costume Design award for Jessica Pabst and Outstanding Lead Actor for Shuler Hensley.


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Children's Mercy gets $1 million grant
Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics has received a $1 million to provide quick genetic testing for acutely ill children.
The hospital announced the gift from the William T. Kemper Foundation in a news release Monday.
The grant will fund a Center for Pediatric Genomic Medicine, which focuses on diagnosing inherited pediatric diseases and improving health care for children.
Officials say the hospital will be able to decode a critically ill child's entire genome and analyze the results in as little as two days.
The hospital says in the news release that Children's Mercy is the only pediatric hospital in the world with access to the rapid genome sequencing approach. It allows physicians to tailor treatments to individual infants and children.
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Our father among the saints Alexander Nevsky was the Grand Prince of Vladimir and Novgorod during the period of the thirteenth century when the Russian lands were under assault from both the East and West. His military victories in the West and diplomacy in the East kept northern Russia free of foreign domination. The Church of Russia recognized him as a saint in 1547. His feast day is September 12.
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China Corruption Blotter (March 28, 2014)
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For the second time this November, Honda is bringing big news to the Powersports marketplace. And it's really big news-literally. "Today a motorcycling icon returns in all-new form," said Powersports Press Manager Bill Savino. "The Valkyrie is back, but this isn't a motorcycle that celebrates the past. This is a cruiser unlike any other for people who want to seize the future, who appreciate distinctive style, who want the kind of performance no cruiser can match. The Valkyrie redefines the term 'muscle cruiser.' "The Valkyrie is an enthusiast-based motorcycle targeted at serious riders looking for a special ride that sets them apart from the crowd and also delivers performance that's clearly a cut above the rest. True to its iconic name, the Valkyrie targets the hearts and souls of enthusiasts in a way that only Honda can." – Valkyrie The Valkyrie® name is legendary, and the machine first introduced in 1996 has a hard-core following to this day. Now for 2014, the Valkyrie takes that unmistakable swagger to a whole new level. It's a winning formula: Take a legendary machine, strip it down to the essentials to shed pounds, wrap it in minimalist bodywork and power it with an engine that produces ground-shaking torque and an unmistakable six-cylinder howl. The core of this remarkable custom is Honda's unique 1832cc liquid-cooled horizontally opposed six-cylinder engine that also powers the Gold Wing® and Gold Wing F6B. With an awe-inspiring power-to-weight ratio, aluminum twin-spar frame and suspension system tuned for serious riders, the Valkyrie is all about unparalleled performance and style. With a curb weight of 750 pounds, the Valkyrie is a welterweight with a heavyweight punch that also includes modern touches; LED headlight, taillight and turn signals, multi-function digital LCD instrumentation and available Anti-Lock Braking System. The Valkyrie is one totally cool ride that's set so far apart from anything else on the market it has to be experienced to be believed. Colors: Black, Dark Red Metallic, Blue Metallic; Price: TBD; Availability: April About American Honda American Honda Motor Co., Inc. was established in 1959 and is the sole distributor of Honda motorcycles, scooters, ATVs and side-by-sides in the U.S. The American Honda Motorcycle Division is responsible for the sales, marketing, and operational activities for these products through authorized Honda dealers. For more information on Honda products, go to www.powersports.honda.com.
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Deep amber color. Toasty caramel cake and orange marmalade aromas follow through on a round, supple entry to a dryish medium-to-full body with savory roasted nut, prune and root vegetable accents and a long peppery, clay-like hops fade. Great depth and balance.
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Here's what's up in the world of TV for Friday, November 4 and Saturday, November 5. All times are Eastern.
Grimm (NBC, 9 p.m., Friday): America has spoken, and America wants shows that remix familiar fairy tale tropes in new ways, as ABC's Once Upon A Time looks like the biggest new drama hit of the season, with only Unforgettable (which has fewer young viewers) as its competition. And then there's Grimm, which didn't get nearly as many viewers—of course it didn't on Friday—but was still the biggest new drama NBC has aired this season. Granted, it only had to best The Playboy Club and Prime Suspect, and that wasn't exactly hard, but it's still sort of surprising for a show a lot of prognosticators (including our own) mostly wrote off. Anyway, Kevin McFarland checks out episode two to see if the magic will continue. Won't you drop in?
Chuck (NBC, 8 p.m., Friday): So, America, how do you feel about this whole "Morgan is the new Intersect" thing? More likely than not, you don't watch this show and, thus, don't have feelings about Morgan being the new Intersect, but hey, this is TV Club, and we know you guys watch everything that's on because, like us, all of your feelings were ground down ages ago and replaced only by TV-friendly ones like mild pleasure and occasional slight sadness. Ryan McGee understands.
A Gifted Man (CBS, 8 p.m., Friday): CBS delayed last weekend's episode because of the World Series game that ended up happening last Friday unexpectedly (thanks to a rain delay and the Cardinals' unexpectedly winning game six—just wanted to make you St. Louisians happy again). So can we just recycle last week's blurb? No. We're better than that! We'll write a new blurb with new jokes and stuff like that. There's a new A Gifted Man tonight, and Todd VanDerWerff will cover it.
Fringe (Fox, 9 p.m., Friday): The World Series also put a serious damper on Fringe's style, but we're finally going to figure out why a certain someone came back from a certain somewhere naked. Incidentally, why do they always come back naked? Is that a rule for how people are allowed to cross barriers of space and time? Did Inspector Spacetime come back naked after his fifth rejuvenation? Are they called rejuvenations? We're trying really hard to avoid spoilers. Noel Murray thanks us.
Supernatural (The CW, 9 p.m., Friday): Tonight's episode is called "The Mentalists," and while it's not actually about Sam and Dean invading The Mentalist, it would be great if they did. Come to think of it, there are a lot of bland procedurals we'd love to see Sam and Dean hang out on, if only to get stuff to happen beyond the normal crime-solving fluff. Or, hell, we'd take them on some sitcoms or something. (Yes, we know the show's already done this as an episode basically. Zack Handlen gave it an A.)
Boss (Starz, 10 p.m., Friday): We kind of can't believe this show has a character named Zajac. Couldn't they have just given him a nickname like "The Zaj"? We're not sure if that would be more believable, but it would certainly be wackier, and isn't that what this show needs? More unbelievable, wacky shit going on, and then Kelsey Grammer finds out that the first woman he asked on a date is right outside while the second is gettin' hot and heavy. We like to think Meredith Blake would embrace that.
Saturday Night Live (NBC, 11:30 p.m., Saturday): Charlie Day is the guest host, and that's got us hopeful for this episode, even though we know it will probably suck. Still, it's Charlie Day! They'll figure out a lot of stuff for him to do, and it'll be funny, and then the musical guest will crank out some great tunes! Right? Oh, Maroon Five is the musical guest? And they're gonna play that fucking "Moves Like Jagger" song? Great. Look for David Sims' review of this certain monstrosity Sunday.
Veronica Mars (11 a.m., Friday): Rowan Kaiser took a couple of months off, but he's back and ready to go with Veronica Mars' insanely ambitious, incredibly divisive second season. How will he react to such crazy plot twists as Veronica stopping a nuclear bomb bearing cell of terrorists by flying a plane into the desert, only to have George Mason take over the controls at the last minute or Veronica having to shoot Ryan Chapelle or the President being evil? I guess we'll find out!
Buffy The Vampire Slayer/Angel (1 p.m., Friday): It's the end of the road for Angel's fourth season, which means Noel Murray gets to check out the show's crazy—and successful!—bid for a fifth season, with a seemingly out-of-nowhere retool in the season finale, "Home." He also drops in on the antepenultimate episode of Buffy, and we're not ashamed to admit that we know the word antepenultimate because that guy over at Ain't It Cool News uses it all the time.
The Adventures Of Pete And Pete (3 p.m., Friday): Marah Eakin returns with her coverage of this series, starting at the beginning of season two, which features an appearance by Iggy Pop in its season premiere. And who does he play? The father of one Nona Mecklenberg, played by Michelle Trachtenberg. And we have to say that the reason we've never quite bought Trachtenberg as a grown-up is because we're always expecting her to turn up with a cast on her arm at some point.
The Twilight Zone (1 p.m., Saturday): Todd VanDerWerff covers "The Fever" and "The Last Flight," and both episodes will surely have some ironic justice dispensed at one point or another. Actually, the second was written by the great Richard Matheson, who is probably responsible for at least one nightmare you've had in your life. You know the one. The one where you die, and the only two people you meet in Heaven are Robin Williams and Cuba Gooding, Jr.
Cowboy Bebop (3 p.m., Saturday): Simon Abrams' coverage of this anime classic returns from the dead (okay, returns from a short hiatus) to close out the series. Highlights of the Wikipedia page listing its episodes: the part where the episode capsule for "Bohemian Rhapsody" says, "The title of this episode is a reference to 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen." I mean, yeah, there are probably some people who don't know that, but you'd think they could still figure it out via judicious Googling.
Nikita (The CW, 8 p.m., Friday): We're all in favor of attractive women kicking each other in the face, so we're happy to announce that we'll be Open Threading this one for the foreseeable future, so you fellow fans of attractive women kicking each other in the face can all get together to have a "Face Kick-o-meter," if you can get Nathan Ford's Evil Twin to watch the show.
Bad Sex (Logo, 9 p.m., Friday): Kenny Herzog jumped right at the chance to review the premiere of this new show on Logo. Hmmmm… we wonder why that could be! (Obviously, it's just because he's fascinated by weird reality television concepts and just wanted to see what a show titled Bad Sex could possibly be about.) Look for his review this afternoon.
Give Me The Banjo (PBS, 9 p.m., Friday): Somebody got a camera and decided to make a documentary about banjos, and Steve Martin decided to narrate it. Run.
Ask Oprah's All Stars (OWN, 10 p.m., Friday): We love the description of this episode, entitled, "Is This Normal?" Apparently, Oprah's gathered a bunch of her all-star friends to get together and answer the questions of Americans who want to know if their sex lives or weird fetishes or cancerous growths are "normal," and then we'll get to watch it on TV! This one might be worth staying home for, folks.
River's Edge, (Flix, 8 p.m., Friday): When we were in high school, we dated this girl (yes, collectively; please stop asking) who was really into the soundtrack for this movie, and she always wanted us to get her the soundtrack from it. And years later, when we reconnected with her on Facebook, we asked her if she'd ever gotten the album, and she was all, "What?" Anyway, this movie is pretty all right. Watch it.
The Grapes Of Wrath (Fox Movie Channel, 8:19 p.m., Friday): Whenever there's an episode of Whitney to recap, we'll be there. Wherever there's a CBS procedural beatin' up on an interesting cable drama, we'll be there. Wherever there's a reference to American Horror Story's Rubber Man awkwardly stuck in the middle of an otherwise thoughtful defense of The Middle, oh, we'll be there.
Yachting: World Invitational Cup (ESPN Classic, 8 p.m., Friday): Yeah, motherfuckin' yachting is ON TV TONIGHT! Granted, it's on ESPN Classic, which is pretty much the lowest ebb of the ESPN totem pole (though we still love it), but YACHTING! On TV! We can pretend it's the Olympics! We'll get out our little captain's hats and chant "USA!"
The Pastor's Wife (Lifetime, 8 p.m., Saturday): Rose McGowan is in a Lifetime movie as—surprise!—a pastor's wife. And, of course, this being Lifetime, she shoots her husband. Right in the face! She should talk to the ladies over on Nikita about how to handle such situations. (Hint: Far more kicking. Leaves less blood than the shooting.)
Wendy Liebman: Taller On TV (Showtime, 8 p.m., Saturday): We don't really know anything about Liebman's stand-up, but we know plenty of you enjoy watching stand-up specials, so we thought we'd note that there would be one featuring her on tonight. You're welcome, you ungrateful bastards.
The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford (History, 8 p.m., Saturday): It's difficult to say what exactly will be gained by this slow-moving, mesmerizing, terrific movie by being interrupted every 15 minutes by loud, fast-paced, aggressive advertising breaks, but it's just nice that a network where people might see it will be showing it.
East Of Eden (TCM, 8 p.m., Saturday): Elia Kazan directed this tale of families and teenage rebellion set in World War I-era California, and James Dean became the movie's big breakout star upon its release. You'll, perhaps, be surprised to learn that the figure he plays is slightly rebellious and often tortured about his own role in the world. We know. It came as a shock.
College Football: LSU at Alabama (CBS, 8 p.m., Saturday): It's here that we would make up something about this game or that we would go look up how these teams are doing or that we would pretend to care, but, honestly, it's about time to be done with this bullshit, and Marcus Gilmer is far more well-versed in the intricacies of SEC rivalries—though, as a diehard Auburn fan, he doesn't really have a dog in this fight). Maybe he can tell you all about it in comments.
Parks And Recreation (Thursday): Not that anybody was terribly worried that the show had "lost it" or anything (okay, some people were, but we had them locked up), but "End Of The World" should have been more than enough indication that the series still has it. It even had a closing montage set to sappy music that didn't feel too forced! Steve Heisler checks in and nods his approval.