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9:30 am
Dinosaur Train "An Apatosaurus Adventure/Nature Art" The Pteranodon kids visit the Jurassic Time Period to meet Apollo Apatosaurus, a huge, long-necked, long-tailed dinosaur who likes adventure. Apollo loves to whip his long tail, and does so as he leads the kids on a pretend adventure to find a hard-to-reach tree with yummy, delicious leaves! Mrs. Pteranodon cleans out the clutter from the family nest and the kids are amazed at the pile of stuff - leaves, flower petals, pieces of wood, and shells. Tiny stops Mom from throwing out all the stuff, determined that she and Buddy, Tiny, and Don will find a use for it all. D
10:00 am
The Electric Company "The Limerick Slam" Jessica and Manny compete in the annual Limerick Slam. D
10:30 am
Wild Kratts "Flight of the Draco" While on a mission to discover the secret of the Draco lizard's gliding abilities, Martin and Chris uncover an evil plot by fashion designer, Donita Donata. She has been capturing these amazing creatures with a plan to make them part of her new Fall collection. It's the Wild Kratts team to the rescue! Science Concept: Gliding, Gravity. D
11:00 am
WordWorld "There's An Ant In Every Giant/Chef Sheep" There's an Ant in Every Giant - When Ant grows tired of being the smallest WordFriend in Word World, he adds a G-I to his tiny frame and changes from ANT to GIANT. However, he soon realizes that he can be Word World's biggest hero when he's just tiny Ant. Chef Sheep - When Pig gets a bowl stuck on his face, Sheep must take over his cooking show. D
11:30 am
WordGirl "Meat with a Side of Cute/Mr. Big Words" Meat with a Side of Cute - Tired of being defeated by WordGirl, the Butcher enlists the unlikely ally of an adorable kitten - hoping to conquer WG with cuteness. Mr. Big Words - WordGirl is busier than ever when Mr Big invents a ray that causes everyone in town to use big, complicated words. D
12:00 pm
Outdoor Idaho "A Middle Fork Journey" OUTDOOR IDAHO explores 100 miles of the free-flowing Middle Fork of the Salmon. Cameras follow rafters, on both guided and independent trips, who meet the challenges of the river, experience the changing scenery, and encounter wildlife. The show also explores the surrounding countryside, considers the effects of fire, and reports on a dramatic logjam.G
12:30 pm
Pati's Mexican Table "Tacos, Tacos, Tacos" This episode explores three very different, very authentic and very simple twists on Mexican tacos, one of Mexico's most iconic foods. Bricklayer-Style Beef Tacos; Lime-Rubbed Chicken Tacos with Corn Guacamole; Adobo Fish Tacos with Grilled Pineapple Salsa. D
1:00 pm
Katie Brown Workshop "A Spring Celebration" Put some spring in your step, and your next brunch, with fun and easy projects designed to welcome both the season and good friends. Recipes: herb focaccia bread and turkey bacon egg frittatas. Projects: a nest-inspired place card and two ways to use roses on a table. D
1:30 pm
Paint This With Jerry Yarnell "Sydney, Part 2" At this point, Jerry shows how to use a white conte pencil to sketch in the Heron - explaining anatomical features - then which colors, brushes needed for under-painting the Heron and intermediate details. Bonus Feature: Repairing a damaged canvas, Step 2. D
2:00 pm
Essential Pepin "Light As Air" Meringue Shells With Chantilly Cream; Macaroons; Chocolate Roll; Chocolate Souffle Cake With Raspberry Sauce. D
2:30 pm
On Story "A Conversation with Damon Lindelof, Co-Creator of Lost and Co-writer/Producer STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS" Damon Lindelof discusses his hand in some of the most celebrated and scrutinized works of science fiction over the past five years, and how much of their success is attributed to writing stories that leave a lot up to one's imagination. Followed by Martin Rosete's allegorical short film, VOICE OVER, about a few extreme situations that literally take your breath away. D
3:00 pm
Dialogue "Livable Communities" Host Marcia Franklin talks with Robert McNulty, the founder of Partners for Livable Communities, about what makes communities "livable."G
3:30 pm
MotorWeek 2014 Road Tests: Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, Toyota Tundra. D
4:00 pm
America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "A Taste of Spain" Host Christopher Kimball goes into the kitchen with test cook Bridget Lancaster to learn the secrets to making perfect Catalan-Style Beef Stew with Mushrooms. Then, tasting expert Jack Bishop challenges Chris to a tasting of spaghetti. Finally, test cook Julia Collin Davison shows Chris how to make classic Spanish-Style Toasted Pasta with Shrimp. D
4:30 pm
Crafting at the Spotted Canary "Things That Shimmer" Who knew glitter could be so much fun, used in so many places and in so many different ways? A touch of glitter will make you happy - and working with glitter does result in a shimmering smile! Learn how to apply glitter using wet and dry adhesives as well as how to mix glitters to create designs with depth and dimension, on today's show. D
5:00 pm
Antiques Roadshow "Grand Rapids, MI - Hour One" The show visits the Gilmore Car Museum to view a collection of more than 1,500 hood ornaments. At the convention center, highlights include a letter from Grand Rapids native son Gerald Ford written to his former kindergarten teacher, and a Hudson River School painting by Jasper Cropsey, valued up to $300,000.G
6:00 pm
Music City Roots: Live from the Loveless Cafe The nationally respected and dynamic music scene of East Nashville is in the spotlight, with songwriters Jon Byrd, Jacob Jones, Kevin Gordon and Elizabeth Cook. Plus sibling roots pop duo Dugas. D
7:00 pm
Austin City Limits "Gary Clark Jr./Alabama Shakes" Modern blues and soul are featured in the two performances. Clark showcases his major label debut, while Alabama Shakes spotlight their critically acclaimed Boys & Girls.G
8:00 pm
Broadway Or Bust "Boot Camp" The young performers launch headlong into rehearsals, coaching and coaxing sessions with one week to prepare for auditions and the awards ceremony. They fight fatigue and get an eye-opening look at what life is like on Broadway, experiencing both progress and setbacks. The episode closes as they dig into last-minute preparations for their auditions. Part 2 of 3G
9:00 pm
Great Performances "The Hollow Crown: Richard II" King Richard (Ben Whishaw) is called upon to settle a dispute between his cousin Henry Bolingbroke (Rory Kinnear) and Thomas Mowbray (James Purefoy). Richard calls for a duel but then halts it just before swords clash. Both men are banished from the realm.G


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Don't Roll Your Eyes At This Post, Or You Might Violate An Anti-Bullying Law
from the getting-out-of-hand dept
Oh, and don't roll your eyes at that. As a few folks have sent in, proponents of anti-bullying laws define eye-rolling as bullying. No, we're not joking. So, you know, if the big kid in school demands your money, and you roll your eyes back at him... I guess everyone's on equal footing, huh?
The link above notes various attempts to create more anti-bullying laws and regulations, many of which raise significant free speech questions. It also points out that the Justice Department's own data has noted that bullying and violence in schools continues to drop. Combined with the studies we've seen about the limited amount of online bullying... it suggests this is not a widespread issue. Again, none of this is to deny that bullying does exist, and that it can be horrifying for the victims. But that doesn't mean we should rush out and shut down the First Amendment with overreactions. Deal with the extreme cases -- that makes sense. In most cases, the really extreme cases can already be dealt with under existing law. But when you get to the point that you're defining bullying as "eye rolling" or "excluding," you're actually doing the opposite. You're diluting the problem so much in an attempt to make it seem bigger than it really is, that you make it impossible for people to focus on the real problem cases.

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Jennifer Garner - Golden Globes 2010 Red Carpet
Jennifer Garner graces the red carpet at the 2010 Golden Globe Awards at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on Sunday (January 17) in Beverly Hills, Calif.
The 37-year-old actress looked stunning in a Atelier Versace spiral nude/grey gown, Casadei shoes, Judith Leiber clutch and Bulgari jewels. Jennifer is set to present for the awards show. Her hair was created by Frederic Fekkai Stylist Adir Abergel.
Yesterday, Jen and her daughter Violet were spotted shopping for groceries in Los Angeles.


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things that go bump in the night
things that go bump in the night
ghosts, supernatural beings – informal
This expression comes from The Cornish or West Country Litany : From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggety beasties And things that go bump in the night, Good Lord deliver us! The phrase is used as a humorous way of referring to nocturnal disturbances of all sorts.
Related Idioms and Phrases :
bums on seats
the audience at a theatre, cinema or other entertainment, viewed as a source of income – informal
give someone the bum's rush = get the bum's rush
forcibly eject someone (or be forcibly ejected) from a place or gathering
abruptly dismiss someone (or be abruptly dismissed) for a poor idea or performance - chiefly North American
1998 - Spectator – When James Cameron wrote an uproariously funny piece about the hotel's iniquities. he was promptly given the bum's rush.
on the bum
traveling rough and with no fixed home
vagrant - North American
very close together, as cars in traffic jam
(chiefly of an insurance policy) comprehensive, all inclusive
have a bun in the oven
be pregnant – informal
take the bun
be the most remarkable – informal
1925 - P. G. Wodehouse - Letter - Of all the poisonous, foul, ghastly places, Cannes takes the biscuit with absurd ease.
bunch of fives
a fist, a punch – British informal
a bundle of nerves
a person who is extremely timid or tense – informal
a bundle of laughs = a bundle of fun
something extremely amusing or pleasant – informal
drop your bundle
panic or lose one's self-control - Australian & New Zealand informal
This expression comes from an obsolete sense of bundle meaning swag or a traveler's or miner's bundle of personal belongings.
go a bundle on
be very keen on or fond of - British informal
In this idiom, bundle is being used in the late 19th-century US slang sense of a bundle of money, i.e. a large sum. To go a bundle on was originally early 20th-century slang for betting a large sum of money on a horse.
1968 - Adam Diment - Bang Bang Birds - I don't go a bundle on being told I'm a pro.
go bung
fail or go bankrupt - Australian & New Zealand informal
In this sense bung comes from Yagara, an extinct Aboriginal language.
1951 - J. Devanny - Travel in North Queensland - The stations would go bung without the ADOS - one of the missionaries told me.
the white man's burden
the task, believed by white colonizers to be incumbent upon them, of imposing Western civilization on the black inhabitants of European colonies – dated
The white man's burden
comes from Rudyard Kipling's poem of that title (1899), originally referring specifically to the United States' role in the Philippines.
give it a burl
attempt to do something - Australian & New Zealand informal
1953 - T. A. G. Hungerford - Riverslake - Well you want to give it a burl—you want to come?
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Lisboa Central Hostel
Lisboa Central Hostel is located in the heart of city in Marques de Pombal . The hostel provides twin and dorm rooms catering for groups from 4-10 people.
Stay in touch with those from home with the free internet access and wifi available throughout the hostel.
The hostel also have a common room with TV, DVD and PlayStation Games. We also offer you a full equipped kitchen and a small terrace where you can enjoy a free breakfast each morning.
Though we like to have fun we aim to provide a quiet and relaxed atmosphere in the hostel, so if you'd like to party we are glad to indicate you the great offer of Lisbon Nightlife.
Our friendly, local staff will be more than happy to provide you with plenty of information about the city and how to get around, ensuring you are able to make the most of your stay in Lisbon. The hostel is owned and run by a local Portuguese family and travellers who are able to offer you a good insight into this magical city as well as some insider's tips on the best places to go and where to eat out.
Here at Lisboa Central Hostel we want you to feel at home and will do our utmost to ensure your stay with us is as pleasant and comfortable as possible. In doing this we have created a funky common room complete with TV, DVD and PlayStation facilities including a selection of games. We also provide you with a fully equipped kitchen ideal for whipping up tasty meals and from where guests can enjoy our complimentary continental breakfast specially prepared by our masterchef and a picturesque terrace which is ideal for relaxing with a beer on a warm day.
In short Lisboa central Hostel is the perfect place for any traveller, whether they be the student backpacker, the young family or the more mature couple looking for a relaxing stay. As well as dorm style rooms the hostel also caters for groups and families looking for private rooms complete with en suite bathrooms.
The Hostel hosts a number of activities and cultural events including weekly film nights. And be sure not to miss out on Milkshake Monday where we will be providing each guest with a free tasty milkshake. Not to be missed, so get yours skates on and book NOW!
The hostel provides:
- FREE Wi-Fi, FREE Internet/ Computer access
- FREE Breakfast
- FREE personal lockers for guarding valuables
- FREE fresh bed linen & towels;
- FREE use of Hairdryer
- Guide books available to borrow
- TV, DVDs and Playstation Games
- FREE Maps and Advice
- FREE Tea/Coffee Making Facilities
- A Host of wonderful hostel Activities
The maximum booking amount is 14 people. Groups larger than this must contact the property by email.
Pets Not Allowed
Availability & RatesTo view availability and prices please select dates and click 'Update Dates'
Hostel Facilities & Policies
- 24 Hour Reception
- 24 Hour Security
- Adaptors
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- Book Exchange
- Free Breakfast
- Cable TV
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- Ceiling Fan
- Common Room
- Credit Cards Accepted
- DVDs
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- No Curfew
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- Taxes not included
- Tea & Coffee Making Facilities
- Tours/Travel Desk
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Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 2 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
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Please note that there is a city tax of EUR 2 per person, per night is not included in the total price and should be paid on site. This tax is charged to guests aged 13 and older. It is subject to a maximum amount of EUR 14 per guest.
Cash and cards payment accepted in the hostel.
There are parking spaces in a garage subject to availability upon arrival and there is an extra cost per parking space/ night.
Breakfast time from 8h to 11h. It includes 2 kinds of bread, 3 types of cereal, milk, orange juice, mini-croissants, butter and 2 types of jam, tea and coffee 24h and ... our famous freshly made pancakes!
Check-in after 15h, and check-out until 12h. Before check-in time and after check-out times, guests can leave their luggage free of charge in our luggage room.
Unless you book a private room, there is no guarantee that you and your group will stay in same room.
Cancelation policy to 48h.
The maximum booking amount is 14 people. Groups larger than this must contact the property by email.
No Pets allowed.
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We are situated in the centre of Lisbon, a few meters from Marques de Pombal Square.
1. Catch de Metro towards 'S.Sebastiao'
2. Exit ten stations after at 'Saldanha' and change to the Yellow line, direction 'Rato'
3. Exit two stations after, at 'Marques de Pombal' and exit Av. Da Liberdade
4. Look around and at the top of Av. da Liberdade you can see a building with the inscriptions 'Diario de Noticias'. Lisboa Central Hostel is on the street behind that building: Rua Rodrigues Sampaio, n160
From Santa Apolonia Station:
Catch the Metro towards Reboleira. Exit five stations after, at Marques de Pombal. Take the exit for Av. Da Liberdade. Look around and at the top of Av. Da Liberdade you can see a building with the inscription Diario de Noticias. Lisboa Central Hostal is at the street behind that building: Rua Rodrigues Sampaio, n 160.
From Oriente Station:
Catch the Metro towards S. Sebastiao. Exit at Saldanha and change to the Yellow Line, going in the direction of Rato. Exit two stations later, at Marques de Pombal. Take the exit Av. Da Liberdade. Look around and at the top of Av. Da Liberdade there is a building with the inscription Diario de Noticias. Lisboa Central Hostel is on the street behind that building: Rua Rodrigues Sampaio, n160.
From Sete Rios Bus Station:
Catch the Metro towards Sta Apolonia. Exit four stations after, at Marques de Pombal. Take the exit Av. Da Liberdade. Look around and at the top of Av. Da Liberdade there is a building with the inscription Diario de Noticias. Lisboa Central Hostel is on the street behind that building: Rua Rodrigues Sampaio, n160.
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Clay Robbins '79 Inducted into Indiana Academy• June 6, 2007 Share:
President of Lilly Endowment Inc. Clay Robbins '79, along with four other Hoosier leaders, was inducted June 4 into the Indiana Academy.
Robbins, Indianapolis, is a member of United Way of Central Indiana, Greater Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce, and Central Indiana Corporate partnership. He is also a former law partner at Baker & Daniels and former director and president of the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra.
This year's honorees, the thirty-seventh group so selected, are being recognized by the Independent Colleges of Indiana for their contributions to cultural, scientific, literary, civic, religious, and educational development in Indiana.
Membership in The Indiana Academy is one of the most prestigious honors conferred upon a Hoosier, based upon the recognition of the individual's lifetime achievements by Indiana's 31 independent colleges and universities.
The other 2007 inductees are Governor Mitch Daniels, CEO of Industrial Contractors of Evansville, Alan W. Braun; co-chairman of the Simon Property Group, Melvin Simon; James Vann, current chairman of the executive committee and majority shareholder for Rea Magnet wire Company of Fort Wayne.
Modeled after the French Academy, The Indiana Academy was established in 1970 by the Independent Colleges of Indiana to further the development of public service, higher education, the arts and sciences, literature, and the general culture of the state through the recognition of individual leadership, achievement, and philanthropy designed to promote these ends. While supported by many over the years, the inspiration and driving force for The Indiana Academy was Indianapolis attorney and civic leader Kurt Pantzer, president of The Academy from 1971 to 1977.
Robbins remains active in Wabash College alumni affairs. He has two sons attending Wabash, Campbell '09 and Luke '11.
Robbins has received the Alumni Award of Merit from the National Association of Wabash Men; was named the 2007 Man of the Year by the Indianapolis Association of Wabash Men; and he received an honorary degree from Rose-Hulman at the 2006 graduation ceremony.
Independent Colleges of Indiana, Inc. (ICI) is a nonprofit corporation that represents the state's 31 nonprofit, accredited, undergraduate degree-granting institutions of higher education. ICI member institutions enroll more than 80,000 students (approximately 23 percent of all students statewide) and annually produce 32 percent of all bachelor's degrees in Indiana.


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Sadly, it seems the Olympics wouldn't be the same without a figure skating judging controversy.
This time it's yesterday's surprise gold medal by the four-time Russian national champion Adelina Sotnikova, who as skating great Brian Boitano said, literally "jumped her way" to the top of the podium, beating the artistically better skater, South Korea's Kim Yu-na, who won the gold four years ago.
Many skating insiders are criticizing the scoring system's anonymous judging. Two-time Olympic champion Dick Button says the judging system is deeply flawed because each national skating federation chooses its judges.
One of the judges in yesterday's competition was accused of fixing results in the 1998 Nagano games. Another judge is married to the general director of the Russian figure skating federation.
Button, who is out with a new memoir, "Push Dick's Button: A Conversation on Skating from a Good Part of the Last Century–and a Little Tomfoolery" (excerpt and slideshow below) joins Here & Now's Robin Young to discuss the judging.
Interview Highlights: Dick Button
His thoughts on yesterday's upset
"I have absolutely no complaint whatsoever about this. In fact, I think it is one of the best occurrences to happen in the world of skating. I'll tell you exactly why: because if, maybe, enough people are outraged by not the fact of who they chose, but the judging environment that was there."
"Look, I don't blame the marking that was there. I don't blame the result. I just hope that there's enough complaint about it that the real matter will erupt. Finally, the sport should get itself in order."
On what he considers a flawed scoring system
"Nobody stops to realize that it isn't the figure skaters that control this, and they say, 'Change the judging system.' You aren't gonna be able to change the judging system unless you change the structure. The [International Skating Union] is controlled by a speed skater. Guess who it was that created the new judging system? It was a speed skater. He wants everything to be measured as it is, and why does he want everything to be measured? Because, very clearly, he doesn't want a new scandal, like Salt Lake. So he now runs the ISU until 2016, which is too late to do anything of major change before the next Olympics. By the way, there are many good things in this judging system, many good things, and many good things in the old system. But the two have to be carefully and cleanly brought together, the good out of each and the bad out of each."
On his unapologetic stance on Olympic judging
"I have loved the world of skating for too long to count, and I am wearing my sassy pants today. When you get to be my age, you can say what you want, when you want, and the heck with whether anybody else likes it or not!"
Book Excerpt: 'Push Dick's Button'
By Dick Button
Come On In Folks! The Door's Open!
The Door's Open!
If you look forward to watching national, world, or Olympic skating events, then please come and sit on the couch next to me and we will watch them together (I promise not to eat all the popcorn!) and we can talk about the many things of interest.
When it comes to watching skating, as the saying goes, it's all "in the eye of the beholder." One program excites us; another leaves us cold. But what exactly are we watching? An elite skater moves through a competitive routine at a pace so quick that the virtuosity on display (or not!) can be difficult to see, let alone consciously register and evaluate. Blink, and the move can be over.
That is why I am starting this conversation—to help guide you on what to watch. Forget the twirling fannies with their ruffles (if you can!). There are so many elements in skating that can capture your eye. But now that you are here on my couch and turning the TV on to the skating event, I would urge you to keep your eye on how the blade meets the ice, where you can see that an edge is a lean of the body, and then concentrate on everything that comes with it: the music, the costumes, the story that the skater is telling, and of course the points that are necessary in order to win.
Let's talk then about some of the elements that will make watching figure skating a little more understandable and fun. For example: what to look for in a skater's entrance . . . what centers a spin? . . . is there a jump in that jump? . . . costume delights and disasters . . . why there are no "figures" in figure skating . . . a "crash course" on the new rules . . . and lots more.
The history of skating over the last century is full of incidents both on and off ice that shed light on what might happen again at national, world, or Olympic events—incidents that are likely to surprise us, confuse us, or make us laugh—or that are so outrageous that they might blow our minds.
The last century? Good grief, are there any of us left from the 1948 Olympic Winter Games in St. Moritz or the 1952 Games in Oslo?
So remember, forewarned is forearmed!
There's still so much that needs to be clarified and explained, including for me, in this most unexplainable sport of all sports. Unexplainable because, in addition to requiring truly prodigious technical athletic ability, it also demands musical understanding, a sense of history, a feeling of space, a need for choreographic finesse, a concern for haute couture, and a full-blown awareness of what "performance" means.
For more years than I care to count, starting with CBS's coverage of the 1960 Olympic Winter Games in Squaw Valley (you do the counting!), I have been an on-air commentator for Olympic and World Championships and assorted other funny games for national TV.
The ostensible reason I was there was to guide the audience—"to comment"—on the finer points of the sport, which is why we were called, for better or for worse, "expert commentators"!
How did I get to this position? Easy! There was a vacuum.
The Olympics were new on television, and most sportscasters covering major sports were unlikely to be knowledgeable about figure skating and its rules. But I knew them intimately. Let's face it, friends on the couch, I had been a two-time Olympic gold medalist, five-time World Champion, seven-time U.S. Champion, and, most importantly, the runner-up in the Regional Subsectional Binman Avenue Juvenile Skating Jamboree.
I competed in my first skating competition at the tender age of thirteen, in the Novice event of the Eastern Figure Skating Championships in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1943. When I told the neighbors what I was doing, they asked, "What's a figure skating competition?" Certainly there wasn't any television coverage of the sport at that time. Skating was more or less an activity of folks who skated in the Skating Clubs like those in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia, and on outdoor ponds.
But when the 1960 Olympic Winter Games in Squaw Valley came around, television coverage had arrived. CBS bought the TV rights to those Games for $50,000. (Now they cost more than a billion dollars. Could there be any inflation here?)
At that time, it was necessary for a skating commentator (that was me, folks!) to point out the most basic moves. To the average viewer, an Axel was something on a car and a Salchow was just maybe a sick cow.
Today, audiences are inundated with detailed TV commentary, and endless information and opinions are everywhere on the Internet. Most viewers know a great deal about this sport, so these days it's less necessary to make commentary so basic (doesn't everyone know that a "flying camel" is not a camel that flies, but a "Button Camel"?). (A fuller explanation will be given later when we have a drink at the bar.)
Figure skating, like everything else, has become much more complex. It might therefore be of some help for all of us to be guided through what can be one of the most complicated sports. I've always relied on experts to help guide me through stuff where I don't know as much as I think I know. (Did I say that?) That includes skating, where I still seek others' opinions on the rules, choreography, musical interpretation, technical merit, performance, costumes, and many other issues. (Correction! I try never to ask about the costumes of the ladies, because that can be a sinkhole of the most dangerous order.)
By researching the music, the skating rules, and the choreographic background, I understood why British ice dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean were so wildly successful when they competed in and won the ice dance competition at the 1984 Olympic Winter Games in Sarajevo. Their memorable performance to Maurice Ravel's Bolero received worldwide attention, was one of the most iconic ice dance programs ever, and changed the face of ice dancing.
But if Torvill and Dean had skated exactly the same program four years later at the 1988 Games, they would not have lasted five seconds—so changed, so controlling, so constipated had the rules become. In place of the freedom to create the choreographic concept called for by the music, heavy restrictions were quickly imposed: there was to be no kneeling on ice; no lying on the ice; official timing began when movement started, even if the skater had not moved a skate; and the music needed to have a clearer melody.
Understanding the whys and wherefores of such changes gives us knowledge—The age-old saying, "Knowledge is power," should be counterbalanced by the other age-old saying, "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." So I hope any comments I make herein will help give greater knowledge and understanding to the viewers of the skating events in the Olympic Games or elsewhere—and may also make me feel like the powerful, puffed-up, old Pooh-Bah that I have become in my doddering old age. (It is not necessary to say I was on my way a long time ago.)
Many times I received irate letters from fans saying I was spoiling their viewing of the skating programs by interjecting my critical comments. But after competing in, watching, dissecting, studying, examining, and researching the fine art of skating and taken on the job of commentating on it, I would have been remiss if I did not critique, explain, and try to guide the viewers.
Frank Carroll, the eminent coach of Olympic champion Evan Lysacek, Michelle Kwan, Linda Fratianne, and many other top skaters, has stated, "You don't know what it's like until you have been dissected by Dick Button on national television." I'm not sure whether that was as a result of my referring to him on TV as, "There's the old curmudgeon," but either way, my reputation was firmly established. The truth was that I only got excited about and criticized those skaters who I felt were talented. Honest criticism is born out of a fundamental passion. Honest criticism comes when you recognize talent in someone, and you want that person to experience the sheer joy of doing their best. Talented skaters are the ones who are interesting. So my reply would be, "You know I admire you if I criticize you!"
What I was attempting to provide was an understanding of a position, a point of view, a perception about an element in the choreography or a particular movement in a spin, on an edge, or in a jump. All of these contribute to the creative process that, ideally, results in a memorable performance.
And many times I made a mistake when calling some whippity-doo-dah jump combination. In this Internet age, everyone is knowledgeable and informed. Every statement you make can be criticized mercilessly.
But for anyone who thinks I may pull any punches out of fear of being criticized, let them beware! I've spent far too many years watching the Fine Art of Figure Skating and commenting on its wondrous idiosyncrasies to give a rusty hoot what anyone may think of my comments. Throw raw eggs at me if you like.
Unlike the ever-tactful Michelle Kwan (I'm sure I'll wake up one day to hear she's been appointed to a key diplomatic post), I would never last a minute as a diplomat.
But here's my little secret: I love all the epithets that have been tossed my way. Having been called so many imaginative, funny, and sometimes questionable things, I relish the opportunity to share them with you. Some of the best are:
Imperious Sage
A comfortable old chair
A comic figure with alarmingly muscular legs
A combination of pedagogic schoolmarm and wildly enthusiastic fan
Popeye on Ice
Dispenser of "inane, insane, brilliance"
That eccentric, beloved, octogenarian, Ivy League skating professor
And some comments even I can't print. Skating is a family sport, after all!
So here we are: you who may once have been skaters (like me) and you, who may never have skated but who got hooked by the lure of this highly flamboyant sport, crammed together on this overstuffed coach with the striped slipcover that is reshaped by endless nights of dogs sleeping on it.
What is the lure of ice? For me it was the moment my brothers took me to Crystal Lake, a pond at the edge of Englewood, New Jersey that looked huge to my six-year-old eyes but that is now divided by Route 80 and much smaller. We also went to Coffin's Pond (at the foot of the wide lawn spreading down from forbidding nineteenth-century stone houses at the top of Palisade Avenue and right across from the Englewood School for Boys, which I was to attend years later).
What was it that kept us constantly hoping for cold weather and the "red ball" to go up over Crystal Lake? That was where entrepreneurial folks built a warming hut, charged 10 cents for skating and kept the "red ball" flag, a nineteenth-century signal that "the ice is ready" flying from a pole high enough for everyone to see (remember this tradition started in the nineteenth century when there were no telephones or internet, and visual signals were sometimes the best way to communicate).
Was it the cold that invigorated us? Was it the magic of being able to glide across the ice, "sculling" as my older brother George taught me (pulling my skates together and then pushing them apart, first forward and then backwards)?
Was it the ambiance created by music from a 78 record player broadcast over a tinny loudspeaker? The fire on the bank for warming our hands? The marshmallows someone brought, which we put on sticks and scorched in the fire? Was it the freedom of the moment or the pure joy of childhood that we didn't realize then was the pure joy of childhood?
Was it later the feeling of flying across ever-larger ponds with the wind behind us pushing us along, or the challenge of competition and its technical demands (as in: "I can do anything better than you can"—the idea behind the song that later was sung in Broadway's Annie Get Your Gun)? Was it the history of the Olympics (I think I knew every story by the time I was ten)? Was it the possibility of an ever-expanding selection of music available and allowable for competition, or the clothes that at first kept us warm or aided our ability to fly, and still later helped us complete the picture we were painting? Was it the theater of ice shows, the glamour and stardom of great skaters, and the fun of comics and vaudeville and even animal acts that had moved onto the ice? Was it the camaraderie of skating and then having Friday night dinner at the Skating Club? Was it the hypnotic flow of skating itself, the realization that "an edge is a lean of the body," or the exhilaration of being able to move without moving?
Is it the totality of this sport that grips us? The wildness of the costumes, or their elegance, and the things designers can do? Was it Vera Wang designing a white Grecian number for Nancy Kerrigan when she was famously whacked in the knee? Is it the extraordinary things the skaters can do and the enormous range of music that sweeps us along on flying blades—even though we may be glued to the couch?
I suspect that it's some of these things for all of us and all of these things for most of us.
Whatever it is is why we're all crammed together on this couch (maybe someone could push the dogs off? They won't listen to me!) where we are trying, but failing, to stop eating all the popcorn so quickly and impatiently waiting for the blasted commercials to end and the skating to start.
So let's take first things first and prepare ourselves for what we will see even before anyone starts to fly over that slippery surface.
First: Look for quality of skating: how the skater moves across the ice, and the skater's edging (remember, an edge is created by a lean of the body).
Second: "Personality" should leap out at us.
Third: Expect the unexpected. The mystery of the judging will befuddle us. The specter of human drama and the misfortune of defeat will hover over all.
Fourth: Try to gain a sense of the rules. Easier said than done! Stay tuned for more in later chapters.
Fifth: Falls are to be expected. They can be fun and humorous but also dangerous and painful. I also hope to explain to you what, under the rules, a fall is—that is, if either you or I have the temerity to think we might know what a fall is in the first place.
Sixth: Expect change. I like to see the change that continually occurs in this sport and to the people in it. The way it develops from one generation to another. It's like the unruly child with raging hormones who acts up, goes wild, and almost falls overboard—and who then does something so magically different or throws a move that is so technically extraordinary or inventive that all you can do is wonder, "Could I do that?" and forgive every extravagance.
Damn this couch! I would much rather be half a century younger, flying over a glacier or a frozen surface behind the Palace Hotel in St. Moritz with the mountains as a backdrop, underneath the clearest blue sky, and where the cold didn't make you cold. But nowadays, talking about it and seeing it and watching the great history of this sport unfold in front of us is the next best thing.
It's easy to be able to see all this right here in my living room. When I was growing up, there was no television and no computers, and the only skating I could see was at the Palace Movie Theater in Englewood (down Palisade Avenue, across the train tracks, and to the right). When I heard something was showing that included skating, I paid my quarter and sat through whatever was playing, just to see the skating in the movie or the newsreel. Then I'd sit through the whole thing over again—the news that Sonja Henie's Hollywood Ice Revue was coming to New York City's Madison Square Garden, or a skating movie like Sun Valley Serenade, Suspense, or One In a Million.
I guess the things we get hooked on as kids can sometimes be the things that stick with us and remain a part of us forever.
So, will someone please make a whole mess of popcorn, open the nuts, and mix up a big bowl of guacamole? We need to fortify ourselves for what's to come tonight as we and the dogs sit too close on this comfortable old couch!
And we'll certainly sit here again soon, because there will always be skating enthusiasts who will want to see what Jim McKay on Wide World of Sports called "the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat."
Excerpted from the book PUSH DICK'S BUTTON by Dick Button. Copyright © 2014 by Dick Button. Reprinted with permission of CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform.
- Dick Button, the legendary former skater and skating commentator, and author of a new memoir "Push Dick's Button." He tweets @PushDicksButton.
It's HERE AND NOW.
Today, the International Olympic Committee said it will not investigate last night's women's figure skating finals because no one has formally asked them to. There hasn't been a formal complaint. But there's been plenty of complaining.
After the Russian Adelina Sotnikova took the gold with a far more muscular performance than South Korea's sublime Yuna Kim, Brian Boitano said Adelina jumped her way to the podium. The New York Times called the scoring system a kind of scavenger hunt for points, a cholesterol count that favors math over artistry. And more than one and half million people have signed an online petition to bring fairness back to the Olympics.
Of course, the sport has had a long history of questioned calls, maybe most notably the 2002 Salt Lake games where a judging fix resulted in gold for the Canadian pair skating team. So what is figure skating without a little controversy or without an opinion from Dick Button? The two-time Olympic champion and long-time skating commentator who has a new book about skating called "Push Dick's Button" joins us from New York with his thoughts. Dick Button, welcome.
DICK BUTTON: Thank you very much. It's a great pleasure to be here.
YOUNG: Well, OK, did last night push Dick's button?
BUTTON: You bet it did. And I'll tell you, I have absolutely no complaint whatsoever about this. In fact, I think it is one of the best occurrences to happen in the world of skating and...
YOUNG: Why?
BUTTON: I will tell you exactly why. Because if maybe enough people are outraged by not the fact of who they chose but the judging environment that was there. For example, one of the judges was a man named Yuri Balkov.
YOUNG: Well, we, of course, have spoken about this judge before. He was accused of fixing results in the 1998 Nagano games.
BUTTON: And if you look at last night's judges channel, there is Balkov there and also Mrs. Piziyev(ph). She is not listed as Mrs. Piziyev, but she is the wife of Mr. Piziyev, who is the executive director of the Russian Federation.
YOUNG: Well, so, Dick Button, you are saying, as many people are, that the fix might have been in for the Russian to win, not the Russian everyone thought was going to win, not the 15-year-old but the 17-year old. But others are saying no. As Scott Hamilton said, she checked off every box. She had many more jumps and more difficult moves than the South Korean did.
BUTTON: Look. I don't blame the marking that was there. I don't blame the result. I just hope that there's enough complaint about it that the real matter will erupt, and that is that, finally, this sport should get itself in order. Nobody stops to realize that it isn't the figure skaters that control this, and they say change the judging system. You aren't going to be able to change the judging system unless you change the structure.
The ISU is controlled by a speed skater. Guess who it was that created the new judging system. It was a speed skater. He wants everything to be measured as it is. And why does he want everything to be measured? Because, very clearly, he doesn't want a new scandal like Salt Lake. So he now runs the ISU until 2016, which is too late to do anything of major change before the next Olympics.
By the way, there are many good things in this judging system, many good things, and many good things in the old system. But the two have to be carefully and cleanly brought together - the good out of each and the bad out of each.
YOUNG: Well, Dick Button, this is obviously something that does push your button - the structure of the skating world. But can I just ask you about the artistry? Because we were taken by Gia Kourlas' piece in the Times. She talked about how she just can't stand anymore being so nervous watching all the attention focusing on jumps and watching rounds of skaters gritting their teeth as they pop from one element to the next, that the word compete has replaced perform.
BUTTON: You know, I have loved the world of skating for too long to count. And I am wearing my sassy pants today. When you get to be my age, you can say what you want, when you want, and the heck with whether anybody else likes it or not. So the problem here is, you're asking whether you like the icing on the cake without talking about what the cake is. The two elements should be equal. Oleg Protopopov - do you know who he was?
YOUNG: Sure.
BUTTON: Oleg - and Ludmila Protopopov were the 1964 and '68 Winter Olympic champions and the epitome of perfection in classical skating, in balletic body positions, which, as you know very well, I am a fan of if you've listened to my rants about pointed toes and that sort of thing. He always said to me, Dick, Dick, you cannot have artistry without technique, but neither can you have technique without artistry.
YOUNG: What did you see last night in the women's skating and maybe throughout the Olympics - talk about the ice dancing if you'd like - but what have you seen that you've loved?
BUTTON: You know, I will say there is not a skater around that doesn't do something that intrigues you. Evgeni Plushenko, for example, is a marvelous jumper, has wonderful jump. I cannot take my eyes off watching him because he has such pizzazz, such excitement about him, and he makes me watch him. However, he's bamboozling, you know?
BUTTON: He has no program there.
YOUNG: Huh.
BUTTON: Then he said he was going to quit skating. And now he's come out and said, no, he's thinking about going on to the 2018 Olympics.
YOUNG: Huh. Well.
BUTTON: I love it.
YOUNG: Well, you've watched it all. I'm wondering - I had to ask you about what people were wearing because it counts, you know? And again, Gia Kourlas talks about what's the deal with grown women wearing dresses that look as if they were found in the sale rack at the tiara store. But, you know, is that always been a part of the game? We remember in your book, you remind us you once wore a white navy sort of a mess jacket in a nighttime...
BUTTON: A white - it was a white summer mess jacket, short jacket.
YOUNG: Right.
BUTTON: And it was white. And I did that for a reason. It was outdoors at night in Stockholm. Everything was very, very dark. It was right after the Second World War, and there was no great lighting so I wore a white jacket.
YOUNG: So you'd be seen by the judges.
BUTTON: Of course. Of course. And everybody said, oh my God. What does he think he is, a waiter?
BUTTON: Next year, everybody wore that white jacket and nobody heard anything about it.
YOUNG: Well, and what about the commentary itself? Of course you did it for so many years. Scott Hamilton doing it in primetime. But Johnny Weir doing it during the day.
BUTTON: Oh, I love it. I love it. I love it. You know, the reason why we wore tuxedos all those years was because I thought the yellow jackets that Roone Arledge got us all to wear - he had all his announcers wearing it...
YOUNG: ABC, yup.
BUTTON: ...was the color of yellow vomit.
BUTTON: Forgive me for saying that. But nevertheless, I told you I have my sassy pants on this morning. And I hated that color. Used to be that the judges not only wore black tie but also sometimes white tie, and they all sat outside with great blankets over them because they were sitting right on the ice, and it was outdoors. And they had great straw boots on them.
YOUNG: Well, now you have Johnny Weir wearing fabulous necklaces and saying things like when there was a warm up that - where people were almost colliding, he said, it's NASCAR out there in a world of rhinestones. He certainly added a flair.
BUTTON: Well, he has done that. The times have changed. I tweeted the fact that he was using a Ukrainian headdress to signify support with the Ukrainian problems, and I think that's an area he might best be advised to stay away from.
YOUNG: Well, but as you said, times have changed.
BUTTON: Yeah.
YOUNG: Skating legend Dick Button weighing on the Olympics, which, boy, are just not the same without you, Dick Button. His new book is "Push Dick's Button: A Conversation on Skating from a Good Part of the Last Century - and a Little Tomfoolery." Dick, thank you for showing up with your sassy pants today.
BUTTON: Thank you for having me.
YOUNG: He and Bud Collins should have a fashion show.
I think that's the first time sassy pants has ever been used in a goodbye on a public radio show.
YOUNG: Could be.
HOBSON: I could be wrong about that.
YOUNG: Could be. From NPR and WBUR Boston, I'm Robin Young.
HOBSON: I'm Jeremy Hobson. This is HERE AND NOW. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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At the end of the day, two quarter horse mares graze peacefully with their young foals on the lush green pastures of the Hanging H Ranch near Paxton, Nebraska, USA. (See: https://www.hanginghranch.com )
The Maroon Bells.
Named after their distinctive maroon colour, the Maroon Bells are iconic peaks in the Elk Mountains of Colorado, USA. The Bells were formed by glacial action on sedimentary mudstone deposits. The tallest, Maroon Peak, at 14,163 feet, (4,317m), is the 27th highest peak in Colorado.
Hiking To Granite Pass
A hiker follows a rough trail up to Granite Pass in the Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, USA. Longs Peak, (14,259 feet=4346 m) , one of Colorodo's famed "14ers", towers above in the distance behind the scree slopes of Mount Lady Washington, (13,281feet=4,048m).
After defying a harsh desert environment for so long, this ancient Juniper Pine nears the end of it's life.
Mountain Serenity.
The clear waters of Cathedral Lake near Aspen, Colorado, USA, reflect rugged cliffs below a dramatic ridge line leading towards Cathedral Peak. (One can almost imagine two heart shapes in the image; one inverted heart in the partly cloudy sky above the ferruginous rock layers and yet another, formed by the scrub growing on the scree slope beyond the lake.)
Taking A Rest
A young buck Mule Deer takes a rest in a shady spot next to a Juniper bush near Clarendon, Texas, USA. All the while, he is keeping a wary eye out for danger. They are named "Mule Deer" because their ears are large like those of a mule.
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The Lamar River, a tributary of the Yellowstone River, reflects the sunny blue sky as it meanders along a floodplain in the Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA. Bison graze and find ample feed on these sagebrush grasslands.
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The Snake River winds across the plains below the iconic Mount Moran, (12,605 feet = 3,842 m). Mount Moran, named after the western artist Thomas Moran, lies at the northern end of the Teton Ranges in the Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, USA.
Now discarded and decaying in a field, an old horse-drawn Surrey Cart gives a glimpse into the past and an appreciation of how tough and uncomfortable transportation was in earlier times.
Happy Horses
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Eroded Desert
Views from the Fiery Furnace region of Arches National Park, Utah, USA, overlook the Salt Wash and beyond towards the distant, cloud coverd, La Sal Ranges. Juniper pines seek refuge from the harsh desert conditions along a sandy drainage line where at least a little moisture helps them survive.
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Assorted Matters
Marc B. Shapiro
My next post will take some time to prepare, but there are some other matters that I want to bring to readers' attention, in particular a few books that I recently received. Due to space considerations, I couldn't include these in my last post.
1. For those interested in the history of Lithuanian yeshivot, the last few years have been very fruitful. In 2014 Ben-Tsiyon Klibansky's Ke-Tzur Halamish appeared. This book is a study of the yeshivot from World War I until the destruction of European Jewry. 2015 saw the appearance of Geoffrey D. Claussen's Sharing the Burden: Rabbi Simhah Zissel Ziv and the Path of Mussar.[1]
In January 2016 Shlomo Tikoshinski's long-awaited book appeared. Its title is Lamdanut, Musar ve-Elitizm: Yeshivat Slobodka me-Lita le-Eretz Yisrael. The book can be purchased here. Eliezer Brodt is also selling the book and a portion of each sale will go to support the efforts of the Seforim Blog, so I also encourage purchasing from him.
This outstanding book is full of new information, and Tikoshinski had access to a variety of private archives and letters that help bring to life a world now lost. Lamdanut, Musar ve-Elitizm is also a crucial source in understanding the development of religious life in Eretz Yisrael in the two decades before the creation of the State.
In January 2016 Shlomo Tikoshinski's long-awaited book appeared. Its title is Lamdanut, Musar ve-Elitizm: Yeshivat Slobodka me-Lita le-Eretz Yisrael. The book can be purchased here. Eliezer Brodt is also selling the book and a portion of each sale will go to support the efforts of the Seforim Blog, so I also encourage purchasing from him.
This outstanding book is full of new information, and Tikoshinski had access to a variety of private archives and letters that help bring to life a world now lost. Lamdanut, Musar ve-Elitizm is also a crucial source in understanding the development of religious life in Eretz Yisrael in the two decades before the creation of the State.
When you read about the Slobodka students, and later the students of Chevron, it is impossible not to see how very different the student culture was then from what is found today in haredi yeshivot, including the contemporary Yeshivat Chevron. Some of this differences can be explained by the subtitle of the book where the word "elitism" is mentioned. Unlike the situation today, Tikoshinski discusses an era when very few people studied in yeshivot. Those who chose to devote themselves to Torah study were regarded by the traditional community, and more importantly they regarded themselves, as the elite of Jewish society. One should not underestimate how such a self-image impacted the lives of the students.
R. Moshe Finkel was a part of the story Tikoshinski tells. He was the son of R. Nosson Zvi Finkel and son-in-law of R. Moshe Mordechai Epstein, and taught at the yeshiva both in Slobodka and in Chevron. Unfortunately, he unexpectedly died in 1925 at the young age of 43. Here is a photo of R. Moshe Finkel with his wife Sarah. (This picture does not appear in Tikoshinski's book.)
Among the pictures included in Tikoshinksi's book is the following. Can anyone guess who the one on the right is?
2. In the last post I included a picture of R. Moshe Feinstein and R. Soloveitchik. Here is another picture of R. Moshe, the Rav, and R. Shneur Kotler.
Here is a picture of R. Soloveitchik walking down the aisle at a wedding. Next to him is R. Samuel Walkin. I thank Dr. Dov Zakheim for sending me this picture.
In older pictures you find rabbis walking down the aisle at weddings. Has anyone been to a wedding where this is still done?
3. Yeshiva University recently acquired the archive of the late Rabbi Louis Bernstein (1928-1995), an important Modern Orthodox pulpit rabbi in the second half of the twentieth century. The collection contains an interesting letter from R. Jehiel Jacob Weinberg, in which R. Weinberg mentions that R. Soloveitchik used to sometimes come to his shiurim at the Berlin Rabbinical Seminary. R. Weinberg also speaks about how outstanding R. Soloveitchik was, and how even in his younger years his greatness was recognized by all the Torah sages of the generation.[2]
Also of interest in the collection is material relating to a controversial incident, or actually two incidents, that R. Bernstein was involved with. In 1985 R. Bernstein, who at the time was president of the Rabbinical Council of America, agreed to deliver a speech at the Conservative Rabbinical Assembly convention. That would have been controversial enough. However, things got even more heated when it was announced that the RCA would be reciprocating by having the head of the Rabbinical Assembly, Rabbi Alexander M. Shapiro, speak at the RCA convention.
This became a major dispute not just between the RCA and the more right wing elements in Orthodoxy, but within the RCA itself. The New York Times even covered the matter. See here. Unfortunately for R. Bernstein, the weight of all the opposition came down on him even though the decision for him to speak at the RA convention, and to have Rabbi Shapiro speak before the RCA, was not an individual decision but was voted on by members of the RCA's Executive Committee.
In a future post I will discuss this matter in greater detail, and also deal with the role of R. Soloveitchik. For now, let me share this strong letter from R. Nissan Alpert to R. Bernstein, in which in addition to protesting Rabbi's Shapiro upcoming speech, R. Alpert states that if the event goes forward he sees no way that he can remain a member of the RCA.[3]
4. Recently, Ha-Mashbir, vol. 2, appeared, edited by R. Yissachar Dov Hoffman and R. Ovadiah Hoffman. This volume, which can be purchased at Biegeleisen, is dedicated to R. Ovadiah Yosef and is full of worthwhile articles. Particularly noteworthy are the contributions by R. Meir Mazuz, R. Baruch Simon (focusing on R. Ovadiah's shiurim at Yeshiva University), R. Pinhas Zebihi on the practice in Gibraltar that men in mourning do not wear a tallit on Shabbat (actually, this is only the case for the first month of mourning), and an important and lengthy article by R. Eliyahu Kohen on R. Ovadiah's attitude towards Zionism, the State of Israel, and the army. The various articles in the book are supplemented by notes from the two editors, each of whom is a scholar in his own right.
I would also like to call attention to the wonderful introduction to the book by R. Ovadiah Hoffman. He speaks about the need to reject religious extremism that leads to the delegitimization of Torah scholars just because they belong to a different camp. As I mentioned in my last post, this is a great problem in Israeli haredi society, and R. Ovadiah Yosef in particular was subjected to all sorts of attacks from small-minded people who could not recognize the simple truth R. Ovadiah Hoffman speaks about.
דא עקא, קול חרדה שמענו, פחד ואין שלום. בפרי מעללינו הובלנו לעידן של מצוקת הדעת, בו דעות מיעוט ודוקטורינות דתיות של רב אחד ותלמידיו שאינן עולות בקנה אחד עם ההשקפה המסורתית המקובלת של רב אחר וקהלתו, מבוססות ככל שיהיו, לא די שאינן מופרכות לפי כללי התורה ובאופן רציונלי אלא נדחות בשאט נפש ומבוטלות כלאחר יד, ופעמים בדעת קדומה של ביטול הדברים למפרע. . . . כל יום שני שומעים על עוד אדם ש"נפסל" או "נמחק" ונרדף עד לחייו בנסיבות עלובות. מלבד שהיום אין דנין דיני נפשות, גם אין אחידות או סמכות מקובלת או מועצה מוכרת בין כל קהילות ישראל, אפילו את"ל הוא חטא בניו ובנתיו מה חטאו? כמה משפחות נהרסות על חשבון הרודנות הזאת. ברור כי עוד לא זכינו להמשך הנבואה: ושקט ושאנן ואין מחריד (ירמיה ל, י).
I thought of R. Hoffman's point this week when I received a copy of a new book that needs to be seen to be believed. (Thanks to Meir Yosef Frankel for sending it.) The title that appears on the top of each page is שרידי-אש זרה, and the book is designed to show that R. Jehiel Jacob Weinberg was a complete heretic. Interestingly, the author doesn't know how old I am as he refers to me as a student of R. Weinberg: פרופסור אחד מתלמידיו הותיקים. I will discuss this book in more detail in a future post.
Returning to Ha-Mashbir, the second page, where it gives information on how to submit material, states as follows:
Returning to Ha-Mashbir, the second page, where it gives information on how to submit material, states as follows:
בעז"ה ית"ש בכרכים הבאים יודפסו גם מאמרים שאינם מרוכזים על משנת רבינו, הלכה מנהג ומחקר, ויפתח"ו שערי"ה תמיד לציבור הרחב. . . . גם לתגובות ולביקר"ת מבוא פתחים, כולם יתקבלו בברכה.
I have underlined certain words that have double apostrophes. This is a sign that there is a melitzah play on words, something that the editor R. Ovadiah Hoffman is quite good with. The first example, ויפתח"ו שערי"ה תמיד, is a play on Isaiah 60:11: ופתחו שעריך תמיד. The second example, ולביקור"ת מבוא פתחים, is quite clever. It is a play on Proverbs 8:3: .לפי-קרת מבוא פתחים
5. The ever-productive Menachem Kellner has just published a new book, Gam Hem Nikraim Adam: Ha-Nokhri be-Einei ha-Rambam, available here. This is not just a work of academic scholarship, but is what we can call "engaged scholarship," in other words, scholarship that is also intent on making a difference in the real world. One of the things that troubles Kellner about contemporary Orthodox Judaism (and he specifically deals with such figures as R. Shlomo Aviner, R. Hershel Schachter, and the authors of Torat ha-Melekh) is the recent turn (or perhaps better, return) to negative portrayals of non-Jews and their spiritual worth. Kellner discusses this in the first section of the book which is titled גילוי דעת, and you can read it here. See also his interview with Alan Brill here.
In the book, Kellner argues that Maimonides sees no essential difference between Jews and non-Jews, and it is this view that Kellner wishes his readers to adopt. He refers to it as "Maimonides' universalism." Responses to Kellner's book will be of two types: Those that deal with his interpretation of Maimonides and those that focus on what Kellner has to say about the contemporary scene and how Maimonides relates to it. This is a very exciting book which further establishes Kellner as an important public intellectual, and shows us once again why Kellner's work has had a significant impact on the study of medieval Jewish philosophy. I hope to take up some of Kellner's points in a future post.
7. R. Simcha Feuerman has recently published Et Lifrosh ve-Et le-Ehov. This small book, available at Biegeleisen, focuses on issues of shelom bayit. What makes this book significant is that R. Feuerman is also a licensed social worker with great experience in the field. This makes his book different than many previous books on the topic authored by well-intentioned people who never actually had any practical experience. As is fitting for a book like this, sexual matters are also discussed, and R. Feuerman mentions (p. 13) that the book was shown to rabbis and dayanim. Yet other than R. Gavriel Zinner, who penned a haskamah, none of the other rabbis chose to be public in their support because of their fear of being attacked by extremists who don't think that these matters should be publicly discussed.
R. Feuerman also deals with the matter of psychological counseling and possible conflicts between the role of the psychologist, who is not supposed to be judgmental, and the traditional obligation to rebuke those who are sinning. As part of this essay (pp. 88ff.), R. Feuerman discusses the value of Freud's insights (and notes the advances that have been made since his time). I find this significant since for many in the haredi world, and they are the ones who will be reading this book, Freud is almost up there with Darwin when it comes to objects of derision. It is also worth noting that the author uses "lomdus" to make psychological arguments.
8. For anyone who hasn't yet picked up my new book, Changing the Immutable, the YU Seforim Sale is selling it at a great price. See here. Regarding Changing the Immutable, let me also add that because of the book's last chapter, a number of people have been upset and have even characterized me as a haredi apologist. That is not the case at all, and Adam Ferziger, in his just-published review here, gets it right.
[1] Also worthy of note is Ernest Gugenheim, Letters from Mir: A Torah World in the Shadow of the Shoah (New York, 2014). One piece of interesting information appears on p. 106, where in a 1938 letter Gugenheim writes: "Tomorrow [the day before Purim] will be a day of fasting. Here, they are rather meikil with respect to this viewpoint, and many bachurim, too weak, do not fast completely. It is true that every day for them is a day of half-fasting, such that they are quite weakened." Thanks to Jonathan Hirsch for calling this passage to my attention.
[2] R. Weinberg's letter is found in the Rabbi Louis Bernstein archives, box 3. I thank the Yeshiva University Archives for granting me permission to publish it.
[2] R. Weinberg's letter is found in the Rabbi Louis Bernstein archives, box 3. I thank the Yeshiva University Archives for granting me permission to publish it.
[3] R. Alpert's letter is found in the Rabbi Louis Bernstein archives, box 6, Folder no.: RCA etc. 1985. I thank the Yeshiva University Archives for granting me permission to publish it.


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Life in Christian County, Kentucky... More About Trees and Plants...
This actually falls under the category of unfinished business...
A few weeks ago, I posted a photo of the plants at left that I had seen as Isaac and I were walking down a backroad through the woods.
I wrote that I didn't know what the name of the plant was. Emily advised me in the comments that it was probably a trillium, and Lewis E. informed me of the same by email.
A bit of research reveals that my readers are absolutely correct. This is Trillium cuneatum, a spring wildflower of the eastern U.S. forests.
Common names I found associated with the plant include:
- Little sweet Betsy
- Wake robin
- Toadshade trillium
- Toad trillium
- Hugher's trillium
- Ground lily
- Rose trillium
- Jew's harp trillium
- Goblet trillium
- Whippoorwill flower
Trilleum cuneatum is included (pdf file) in the APSU online guide to KY / TN wildflowers of the Land Between the Lakes region that notes, "It is not widespread in LBL [Land Between the Lakes], but is locally abundant in a few mesic woods and usually colonial when found."
Read more about Trillium cuneatum at:
- Paghat's Garden: Trilleum cuneatum -an interesting natural history of the plant
- Rurality: Trillium cuneatum -- blog post with many photos of toadshade Trillium in bloom


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Mumbai, Feb 23: Huma Qureshi, who was in Allahabad recently with the cast of "Ek Thi Daayan" and producer Ekta Kapoor, says it was a casual visit, not a promotional visit.
"We went to Kumbh just as a visit. The promotion will start soon and I am excited about it," Huma said at an event here Friday.
Talking about the film, Huma said: "'Ek Thi Daayan' is a supernatural film. Vishal Bharwaj and Ekta have got together for the first time for a film. I wouldn't like to talk much about it as it is a thriller, so you should wait for the film to release."
The movie also features Emraan Hashmi, Kalki Koechlin and Konkona Sen Sharma. Directed by Kannan Iyer, it will release April 18.


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Wheat production in the upper Southeast benefits from a stable of reliable fungicide products and research at the Eastern Virginia Agriculture Research and Extension Center (EVAREC indicates both new and old wheat fungicides still work well.
Virginia Tech Plant Pathologist Erik Stromberg, speaking at a recent field day at the EVAREC, noted that Kocide, an old copper-based fungicide, provided excellent disease control in 2008 tests. It remains to be seen, he notes, whether the intense greening effect of the Kocide treatments significantly affects yields.
All the 17 treatments in the wheat disease control tests, performed well at various application rates, Stromberg says.
Triazole products, which have some eradicative activity and are systemic, worked well alone, or with other families of products. Strobilurin-based fungicides, which have primarily protectant activity, and some systemic activity, also worked well.
Tilt, at low rates (2 ounces per acre) at green-up time or Growth Stage 30, followed by Quilt at heading compared favorably with Quilt alone. Quilt is a combination of Tilt and Quadris, which was applied at late flowering. Both applications worked well, according to Stromberg, though he notes he prefers the full four ounce treatment of Tilt.
Headline, another popular strobilurin fungicide worked well at six ounces per acre. Both at flag leaf emergence or a single application at head emergence also worked well, the Virginia Tech pathologist says.
Over the years, he says, the combination of 4.5 ounces of Headline at flag leaf emergence, followed by another 4.5 ounces at head emergence. "Based on the success of this combination, I tried the same kind of split application with other fungicides," he adds.
Stratego, a strobulurin plus a triazole (Tilt) was applied at 10 ounces at flag leaf and worked well as did the same rate of the fungicide applied at heading. Though these applications worked well, there are some advantages to splitting the 10 ounce application.
"The advantage of splitting the application allows you to put on the material early, then wait and see whether disease pressure builds up. If you get no disease pressure, you save money. If you get disease pressure, you can still control it with the late application, Stromberg explains.
The same one-time application versus split application was done with Quadris, a strobilurin. Again, it worked well in both scenarios.
With Tilt, he used only a single application at either flag leaf or heading. Again, Tilt appeared to work well in the tests.
Stromberg notes the good news is that growers have several options of products and how these products are used.
"All of these fungicides have excellent control of the target disease organism, if you can get the material on the plant, where it needs to be and keep it there long enough. Trying to get an effective dose of a fungicide on a vertical surface prior to a rain event and allow it to stay there for 10 days is a tough thing to do," Stromberg says.
A wheat plant flowers over a period of 7-10 days, or about a third of the plant at a time flowers. Entry point for most fungi is at the spent anther cases where the wheat plant flowers. This is the critical period for wheat disease control, he explains.
Stromberg says he uses a spray boom with 8001GS tips that are offset by 30 degrees. The idea, he says, is to get front and back application of the material on the wheat plant.
Using fluorescent dyes, he has measured the effectiveness of his spray boom. Results indicate this type spray setup works better than a single flat fan nozzle. "It's better, but not perfect for getting the right dose on the plant heads."
Controlling fusarium head blight has been an ongoing challenge for upper Southeast wheat growers over the past few years. Stromberg says Karambe, a new fungicide recently labeled for wheat, has done a good job in statewide testing. However, he says the best way to control fusarium head blight in wheat is to not plant into corn stubble.
With no-till wheat gaining in popularity in Virginia and other parts of the Southeast, disease control and cost-efficient and soil-building tillage free systems seem to clash.
The inoculum for a number of corn diseases comes from decaying corn stubble.
Planting glyphosate tolerant corn varieties, which don't break down as quickly as conventional hybrid stalks may be one way to overcome increased head blight problems in no-till wheat.
ProLine plus Folicur has performed well for fusarium head blight control. Stromberg says he never sought a federal label for Folicur, because he never felt it was better on head blight control.
BASF 556 is a combination of Headline and Karamba, another combination of strobilurin and triazole chemistry. The experimental material performed well in the EVAREC tests and offers a potential new weapon for wheat growers.
"Not every fungicide is perfect for every condition. Hopefully, by testing over a number of years, we can look at a set of conditions and make some observations as to which material or group of materials may be best under a set group of growing conditions," Stromberg says.
"Each of these fungicides has a particular niche in which it works extremely well and others in which it isn't so dramatic. Hopefully, by working with these products early in their development, we will be in a position to help growers make the best management decisions possible when choosing a fungicide," he adds.
"Even with light disease pressure, under some circumstances, some of these fungicides seem to increase yields. In several locations around the state, including at the EVAREC, 2008 was a low disease pressure year. Hopefully, we can make some valid observations about the yield-enhancing capabilities of some of these fungicides," Stromberg says.


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The IPKat is shocked and saddened to learn of the sudden and unexpected passing of his very good friend Berenika Depo earlier today.
A partner in the Warsaw-based intellectual property practice of LDS Łazewski Depo, Berenika was known and greatly admired by a wide circle of practitioners, academics and administrators around the world. From her Polish base,
Berenika practised the art of being a truly cosmopolitan European. She studied law first in Stockholm, Sweden, before furthering her studies in Freiburg and Berlin, concluding with a Postgraduate Degree in Industrial Property at the Jagellonian University, Kraków. Before founding her own firm, Berenika led Baker & McKenzie's Polish trade mark prosecution and litigation practice. She was a member of the Bar and a European Patent Attorney too. In between, she was a trade mark examiner in OHIM, Alicante, having the distinction of being the first Polish examiner appointed following Poland's accession to the EU.
As a teacher, writer and public speaker, Berenika was a powerful spokesman on behalf of intellectual property rights. A warm and natural communicator, and also a natural linguist, she spoke fluent English, French, Spanish and German in addition to her two native languages of Polish and Swedish.
This Kat worked with her in her capacity as a contributor to the journal he edits -- not just a contributor of articles but of ideas to be shared with others. He also very much enjoyed crossing swords with her in debate on contentious IP issues, when she would demonstrate her depth of legal and commercial knowledge as well as some shrewd human insights.
The world will be a less exciting place without Berenika. She was a vivacious and inspirational character and there are many of us who will greatly miss her.
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Berenika was my friend and teacher, a source of inspiration. She was truly one of a kind. It's a tragic loss for all...
- Friday, 6 August 2010 at 20:15:00 BST
Thank You fro warm words about Berenika.
- Tuesday, 10 August 2010 at 01:18:00 BST
I simply cannot imagine the world without her. I will feel the loss of her for the rest of my life. She was an incredible friend, an absolute source of inspiration, a person with many talents, good heart and energy to make the whole world her home. I miss her every second.
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23-year-old victim in Tahoe hit-and-run dies
November 29, 2013
TAHOE CITY, Calif. — The victim in a hit-and-run accident last week near Lake Tahoe's North Shore has died, an official confirmed Thursday.
James Hulett, 23, of Boulder, Colo., was riding a bicycle at about 5:05 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, westbound on Highway 28 up Dollar Hill when he was struck by a 1991 Ford Explorer driven by Vicente Rojas Araujo, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Hulett was ejected from his bicycle and struck the roadway, suffering "major head trauma," according to CHP. He was transported via CareFlight helicopter to Renown Regional Medical Center.
Hulett died Thursday, CHP Public Information Officer Pete Mann confirmed in an email to the Sierra Sun.
According to a previous report, Araujo, 53, of Kings Beach, initially fled the scene, but turned himself in at about 7:30 p.m. at the Placer County Sheriff's Office substation in Tahoe City.
Araujo was arrested on a felony charge of hit and run causing death/injury and was transported to the Placer County Jail in Auburn, said Dena Erwin, public information officer for the sheriff's office.
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Araujo's bail initially was set at $75,000; he remained in jail as of Thursday on "no bail hold," Erwin said, in lieu of an investigation by Immigration Customs Enforcement officials regarding Araujo's status as a legal citizen.
A request seeking more information from the Placer County District Attorney's office was not immediately returned for this story.
Neither alcohol nor drugs are considered a factor in the collision, which remains under investigation. It's unclear why Araujo, also traveling westbound, drifted off the highway and struck Hulett, according to CHP.
It's also unknown if Hulett was wearing a helmet.
Anyone with information should contact the Truckee CHP office at 530-582-7570 and ask for Officer Roid.


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All this week, I am busy at the International DB2 User's Group conference here in Athens, Greece. The two topics I'm presenting are "Native SQL stored procedures in DB2 9 for z/OS" and "Java stored procedures".
I was very glad to get the chance to get across this key point in yesterday's presentation on native SQL stored procedures -- yes, when they execute they are eligible for redirect to the zIIP processor, but only when they are invoked from a remote client, and then at the same percentage as other DDF work. Lots of presentations lately have stated this a bit more broadly, leaving people with the wrong impression. So, let's be clear - when a remote thread comes into DB2, it executes on an enclave SRB, and DB2 dials the zIIP redirect to a certain percentage. A DB2 9 native SQL procedure executes on the invoking execution block and not on a WLM-SPAS TCB - that's one of their big advantages. Thus, when a native SQL stored procedure is invoked from a remote client over a TCP/IP connection, it runs on the enclave SRB and thus picks up that same DDF zIIP redirect percentage. On the other hand, when a native SQL stored procedure is invoked locally on z/OS, it is executed on the TCB that PC'd in from CICS or batch, and that is not eligible for zIIP redirect.
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Colorwheel Skirt
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Been having trouble with the uploader here for some reason, but it looks like it's working today!
I made this Colorwheel Skirt right before Christmas to use up extra yardages of fabric and I loooove it!
I had/edited a tank top I found at a thrift store long ago and paired it with the skirt.
I love that you can wear this with the zipper either center back, left side, or right side as it's a circle skirt. I also decided to go without putting pockets into it only because of that fact, otherwise I would have.
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Headshots are a Canucks Army feature where we link to the day's freshest news, and other assorted Canucks web-goodies. If you have written a blogpost, produced a tribute video, birthed a clever .gif into existence, or have a hockey related cause you'd like to see promoted in this space – please e-mail Thom at email@example.com.
The biggest news of the day isn't Canucks related, but it's worth discussing. The New York Islanders have announced that they will be moving to Brooklyn for the 2015-16 season. As Sean Leahy points out, the deal will span 25 years, and the Islanders will keep their same name and logo. I'm fine with this news, as long as it means that Brooklyn will show up as 'BRO' on the sports ticker.
The following story is real mind-boggling. I spent some time trying to wrap my head around it, and the only thing to come of it was a headache that I didn't particularly need. It turns out that the NHLPA requested a meeting for today, only to be turned down by the NHL. ONE DOES NOT SIMPLY REQUEST A MEETING WITH GARY BETTMAN. Even if we're a day away from the idea of an 82-game season being scrapped.
Dale Weise is a freakin' superstar. He's basically the Max Talbot of the Dutch league. Recently, he came up with a 6-point game, which raises the question – how many points would you be able to conjure up if you happened to lace up the skates in the Dutch league?
Pass it to Bulis is spitballin' about a variety of topics, which include the new James Bond movie, Dale Weise, and a hilarious story about Jay Feaster – which I can vouch for, because I was present as it unfolded.
Another topic that is discussed is the Fake Season that you're probably all far too familiar with. This time around, numerous (fake) trade proposals are discussed, and the highlights for the tilt against Columbus are shown. The Blue Jackets actually beat the Canucks, further reinforcing the fact that we're dealing with a fake season.
A day wouldn't be complete without some Roberto Luongo trade talk, and speculation. This time around though, it has to do with the Edmonton Oilers, and not the Toronto Maple Leafs. On Oilers Nation, Jason Gregor wonders whether Roberto Luongo can still be an effective goalie, and whether it makes sense for the Oilers to pursue him. Jonathan Willis on the other hand, sees it as sort of a no-brainer.


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Monday, October 10, 2011
52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy and History: Favorite Teacher
I credit Miss Bowen with my love of learning and being able to spell and write and do math. You've heard of the book, "All I Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten." In the case of Miss Bess Bowen, that was so true. She taught you, and she taught you well.
As a four year old starting in public school in the 1950s, I knew that Miss Bowen was a grandmotherly type, even though she had remained single all of her life. It was only by doing a little bit of online research that I learned that she was 72 years old when I first met her in kindergarten!
I admit to being a bit of a teacher's pet and recall her getting after my third/fourth grade teacher for not recognizing my intelligence and ability to the extent that Miss Bowen had! Ha! Well, that was how I felt at age eight. I had become very attached to Miss Bowen and it was hard for me to move on to a different (first year) teacher for third grade!
As I look over the census records showing Miss Bowen throughout her career, I recall such fond memories of her. The newspaper articles about her from the 1920s and 1930s tell of her work with her young pupils.
In 1916, she went home to Avoca, Iowa to spend the month of August with her parents and other family members. In 1922, she was awarded her teachers' certificate from the University of Nebraska.
In 1926, she and another delegate to the convention of the National Education Association left for Philadelphia before spending a week in Washington, D.C. and going on to New York City to take summer classes at Columbia University. By 1930, she was an officer in the state education association.
In 1937, her students gave some reviews concerning early pioneer life. The pony express, and the early school and home were compared with present day life. Oh! Wouldn't she enjoy sharing stories about our pioneer ancestors!
And in 1950, she served as a census enumerator! Why do I sense that her spirit is looking over my shoulder as I type this?!
Greenwood School, Greenwood, Nebraska - This school building housed grades K - 12 when Miss Bowen was my teacher. My Mom also attended this same school. My great-grandfather, Daniel Kelly, served on the school board (long before I was born!).
Miss Bowen kept in touch with me for many years after I was under her tutelage. She always wanted to know how my education was going. I remember reading in the newspaper that had she passed away - although I don't remember exactly when it was. To this day, when I look back over my education, I still feel that the foundation she provided during those first three years gave me what I needed to succeed in school and in life.
Do you have fond memories of a teacher from your past? If so, please leave a comment below.
note: references are from articles that appeared in the Lincoln Star, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1916 - 1950.
52 Weeks of Personal Genealogy and History is a series of writing prompts sponsored by Geneabloggers and created by Amy Coffin of the We Tree genealogy blog. This blog post was first published on LongLostRelatives.net on June 11, 2010.
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My first grade teacher was "Mrs. Price." She was probably not as old as I thought she was at the time--maybe I should do a little research. :-) We didn't have public kindergarten in those days, so she was my first experience with organized education. I remember being fascinated by Mrs. Price because she lived in an apartment and walked to work. I grew up in a small community where I was starting school with the offspring of people my parents had gone to school with--and Mrs. Price wasn't "from there." But in the sixth grade, we lived in South Dakota, and I went to a school like yours--I'm glad to have had the experience of being in a room with 5th through 8th in one class, and kindergarten through fourth in the next room. Many years before, that building had housed a high school, so we still had the gymnasium and the science lab, complete with the abandoned specimens. Thanks for the trip down memory lane-- it's what we do, isn't it? :-)ReplyDelete
Thank you so much for sharing your memories here, Tex!ReplyDelete
Susan, you bring back fond memories of my kindergarten teacher, Miss Elmer. We were the first kindergarten class in the school. She was still teaching kindergarten 12 years later when we graduated from high school. Those of us in the graduating class that were in her first kindergarten class made her a special photo album with our senior pictures. Like your Miss Bowen, she never married and was a devoted teacher.ReplyDelete


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Nail art enthusiasts across the world quiver with excitement every time luxury brand Chanel unveils its new Chanel Le Vernis creations. Some shades have managed to sweep fashionistas off their feet as they're constantly flying off the shelves and a quick glimpse at the 5 most wanted Chanel nail polish shades will surely turn you into an addict as well, so be warned before you raid some of the richest, most luscious Chanel nail polishes created in the past few years. The innovative, long lasting formulas that deliver different sizzli... Read More
The Chanel Le Vernis line has made countless fashionistas fall in love at the first sight. The Chanel nail polishes are always synonym with sophistication, which is why many limited edition nail polishes released under the label have quickly sold out. This is why the new Chanel Le Vernis Couleurs Culte de Chanel line is bound to create so much excitement to fans who found the perfect shade only to find out later that it got discontinued and would no longer be able to purchase it. Well, if you've fallen in love with any of the high quality Ch... Read More