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What would Hamlet be without a skull?
What would The Seagull be without a gull?
And Hedda Gabler's famous for her pistols,
As Laura, for her menagerie of crystal.
For farce, you need a slapstick to cause mirth;
For Sam Shepard, a buried child to unearth.
The Angel of America needs her book,
And Captain You-Know-Who must wear a hook.
What would Willy Loman be without his cases?
Or Damn Yankees sans bats and balls and bases?
R and J without a dagger is a bore,
As is Titus without gushing blood and gore.
Othello needs the fatal handkerchief,
And ingénues their smelling salts to sniff.
The Props Master takes care of all these things --
Flowers and asses' heads and fairies' wings.
(These are the props that you need for Midsummer;
I say this for the benefit of newcomers.)
He scrounges, cadges, buys what can be bought,
Finds everything he can, and makes what he cannot;
Brews tea, which actors then pretend is whisky,
Since real booze on the stage is far too risky.
Or he'll take paper and dye it in more tea
So it seems from another century.
'Tis he who knows the source to get a sword,
And fifty nifty uses for cardboard.
He sees each object's soul; and makes it fit in
With what the director's staged and writer's written.
And then he lays the props upon a table
And makes for each a designated label
And a space marked by lines of masking tape
Befitting each odd item's size and shape.
And then the props master begs and implores:
"Do not move any prop – unless it's yours!"
If only life were like this! If only we'd
Have someone else to find the things we need
And lay them neat and tidy on a table
For us to use, and thus our acts enable;
To see to every object, trinket, token;
Keep it in trim; repair it if it's broken.
If only we could organize our things
And place them on a table in the wings!
O world edged by these masking-tape borders!
O props master, o paragon of order!
He gives us props; let us give props to him!
For this is the whole purpose of my hymn.
I praise him for his zeal and his proclivity
For mixing discipline and creativity.
Salute him then with twenty-one fake guns
And drink his health with tea – not Jameson!
- I chose to write the Ode to the Props Master because I thought it'd be fun to make rhymes about things (all of the different objects that the props master must find), mixed in with references to well-known plays and the props they require. Very quickly, I came up with the lines "What would Hamlet be without a skull? / What would The Seagull be without a gull?" and therefore, determined that the poem would need to be in heroic couplets.
- Heroic couplets are FUN to write. I can totally see how Alexander Pope churned out line after line of them.
- Only later did I realize that the form of the poem also suited the message I was trying to convey. Heroic couplets have a very orderly, neat and tidy feeling, and my poem is about how the props master keeps everything neat and organized. And then I felt very clever -- without even realizing it, I'd followed Sondheim's key principle of "content dictates form"!
- As with my Costume Designer ode, the demands of poetic form superseded my desire to invert traditional gender stereotypes. Thus, I used the singular masculine pronoun "he" at all times to refer to the Props Master.
- Surprisingly, I did not come up with the silly pun on "He gives us props; let us give props to him!" until very late in my process of writing the poem. This might be the most ridiculous line in the whole piece -- the semicolon adds to the ridiculousness, I think -- and thus it is my favorite.
- My original idea for staging this piece at the Theater Pub show involved having one person recite the poem while two Assistants pulled props out of bags as they were mentioned, tossed them around, and engaged in general tomfoolery. This had to be toned down a bit for the actual performance -- the Cafe Royale didn't want us throwing things around, and we were not able to source all of the props mentioned -- but the general idea remained. Neil Higgins recited the poem, while several of the other actors that night brought out prop pieces and eventually put them into a masking-tape grid. Unfortunately, I was seated behind a pillar and didn't get to see any of this (!) but it got a good reaction from the crowd. Especially the rubber chicken that we used for the "seagull" and the baby doll wrapped in rags that was the "buried child." (Dead animals: great for comedy!)


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They say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree—and in the case of the Medine family, that is one very sparkly, bejeweled apple. Leandra Medine, aka, The Man Repeller, has made her stamp on the fashion industry—collaborating with brands like Dannijo and PJK, and her brother Haim Medine is the brains behind cheeky jewelry label, Khai Khai. Now, their elegant mother Laura Medine has forayed into the design world with her own high-end namesake jewelry line.
Mrs. Medine has always had a penchant for jewelry, and Leandra has inherited that passion, as well, starting trends like the catchphrase "arm party" (a stack of bracelets on one's wrist). "I grew up in Milan, and my father was a precious stone trader, so jewelry has been part of my life since I was a child," Mrs. Medine told us. "Diamonds, rubies, emeralds were just ingrained in my daily life. And I knew that one day I would revisit it. I love jewelry." In 2010, she also designed for the Mark Henry collection, an Alexandrite gemstone collection.
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Her line is centered around the idea of "well-being"—perhaps a nod to her other hobby, yoga. Read on to learn more about her influences, celebrity crushes, and if she'll be creating her own blog any time soon.
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L.A. Auto Show: Details to know before you go
You've read the stories about Ford's upcoming three-cylinder Fiesta and the world debut of Porsche's Cayman. You've drooled over photos of Mercedes-Benz's SLS AMG Black Series and BMW's plug-in hybrid supercar concept.
Now you want to hit the 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show. Here's what you need to know.
The show is held at the Los Angeles Convention Center, which is located at 1201 S. Figueroa St.
PHOTOS: Highlights from the 2012 L.A. Auto Show
The first two days, Wednesday and Thursday, are only for media. Expect a wave of auto-related news including details on Toyota's all-new RAV4, Acura's RLX world debut and Audi's expanding diesel lineup.
The show opens to the public Friday and runs through Dec. 9. The show floor is open 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. weekdays, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturdays and 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sundays.
Tickets are $8 on opening day, $10 on weekdays and $12 on weekends (though if you poke around the Web, you can often find coupons for discounts). Kids 12 and under are free with an adult.
PHOTOS: Highlights from the 2012 L.A. Auto Show
Parking is $12 on weekdays and $15 on weekends. This being L.A., no event is complete without valet parking. So if that's how you roll, bring $30 on weekdays and $35 on weekends.
Licensed adults will be able to test-drive vehicles from 15 different manufacturers. If you're serious about buying a car, be sure to check with representatives at each display, since many give out rebates or incentives that you can then take to your local dealer.
You may also get a chance to rub elbows with a celebrity. Patrick Dempsey, a known car fan and race team owner, has been known to show up. L.A. Clippers star Blake Griffin is sponsored by Kia Motors, so he's been seen in these parts. Other names known to show up are Jay Leno, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michelle Wie and Johnny Knoxville.
FULL COVERAGE: 2012 L.A. Auto Show
Stars and cars. Just what you'd expect from an event in L.A.
Full coverage: 2012 L.A. Auto Show
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During A Storm An Anchor Comes In Handy!
I read a joke one time about a Sea Scout (Boy Scouts of America) who was taking an oral test. And when the Scoutmaster asked him what he would do if a severe storm came up suddenly from the North. His answer was, "I would throw out a sea anchor and put the bow into the wind." Next came the question, "But what would you do if another storm came up from the South?" To this the young man said he would throw out another anchor. So just for the fun of it, he was asked about a third possibility—another storm coming from the East! So when he gave exactly the same answer for the third time, the Scoutmaster asked him where he was getting all the anchors. Without batting an eye, the scout said, "From the same place you are getting all the storms!"
If you are old enough to have experienced what life throws at all of us, you know that the analogy of a storm is an appropriate term for what takes place all too often. And when the winds of adversity are howling, few things are more comforting to the believer than having an "anchor" to keep our ship from being dashed to pieces by the waves.
"[Now] we have this [hope] as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul [it cannot slip and it cannot break down under whoever steps out upon it—a hope] that reaches farther and enters into [the very certainty of the Presence] within the veil, 20 Where Jesus has entered in for us [in advance], a Forerunner having become a High Priest forever after the order (with the rank) of Melchizedek" Hebrews 6:19-20 (Amplified Bible).
The writer of Hebrews (whom I believe was the Apostle Paul), made these comments to Jewish believers who were wavering in their faith. And to exhort them, he said "hope" is the anchor of their souls. But to depend upon hope in the sense of, "Well, I hope so," is not what he is talking about. To cling to that kind of hope is not at all reassuring when the ship is about to sink! What those "sailors" needed was an anchor they could throw over the side and be confident that it would stabilize their little craft and keep it afloat during the storm. In other words, their "hope" would be an earnest expectation, rather than the feeble "hope" of a last resort.
So what "hope," in the sense of an earnest expectation, was Paul offering them? The definitive answer is found in his epistle to Titus:
"Awaiting and looking for the [fulfillment, the realization of our] blessed hope, even the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One)" Titus 2:13 (Amplified Bible).
Genuine believers have their anchors solidly dug in upon the bedrock of Jesus Christ. And by the faith which God Himself supplies, we ride out the storms by eagerly and earnestly anticipating the any-moment return of our Lord and Savior—our "Blessed Hope."
We were told that His ascension into heaven was not permanent and that He would come again to receive us unto Himself:
"In My Father's house there are many dwelling places (homes). If it were not so, I would have told you; for I am going away to prepare a place for you. 3 And when (if) I go and make ready a place for you, I will come back again and will take you to Myself, that where I am you may be also" John 14:2-3 (Amplified Bible, emphasis mine).
"And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. 10 And while they looked stedfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; 11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven" Acts 1:9-11 (KJV, emphasis mine).
Is the anchor of your soul keeping your ship afloat, or would you have to admit that sometimes you feel like a drowning man who has already "been under twice" and is struggling against the third and last time? (An old maxim says a drowning man goes under three times). If you are a believer, the words of the old hymn "Standing on the Promises" should be a great comfort. The second stanza says, "Standing on the promises that cannot fail, when the howling storms of doubt and fear assail. By the living Word of God I shall prevail, standing on the promises of God."
Note that it is the living Word of God by which we prevail. Standing on God's promises by faith gives us the right kind of hope, but the living Word of God—Jesus Christ—is the Anchor by which we are kept safe.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 The same was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men…And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth" John 1:1-4 and 14 (KJV, emphasis mine).
My friend, if you realize that you are adrift on the stormy seas of life in a makeshift raft (without a sail and rudder much less an anchor), I urge you to consider the promises made by Jesus Christ—God in the flesh. First and foremost, He has promised to save all those who will come to Him in absolute faith—totally trusting Him for the destiny of their eternal soul. But be advised that promises to be a good little boy or girl, or going to church, or helping little old ladies across the street will not cut it!
Another maxim says that a drowning man will "grab at straws" in a desperate attempt to save himself. And multiplied millions continue to sink beneath the waves while grasping at the "religious straws" offered to them. Those straws basically consist of teaching that says one must "do" something in order to be saved, like "making a profession of faith," "joining the church," or "being baptized." And while such things are good when viewed in the proper context, in and of themselves they cannot get the job done. Salvation is nothing less than receiving the Person of Jesus Christ into one's life. Praying, making promises, going to church every time the doors are opened, doing good deeds, etc., etc., have no bearing upon God's salvation because personal works do not save.
"For it is by free grace (God's unmerited favor) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ's salvation) through [your] faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [of your own doing, it came not through your own striving], but it is the gift of God; 9 Not because of works [not the fulfillment of the Law's demands], lest any man should boast. [It is not the result of what anyone can possibly do, so no one can pride himself in it or take glory to himself.]" Ephesians 2:8-9 (Amplified Bible).
You see, God is under no obligation to save anyone. And if He does choose to do so, it is always accomplished by extending grace to that individual. Personal worth or the ridiculous perception thereof does not impress Him, because in actual point of fact—aint none of us got any! The best man ever saved was a spiritually dead and rotten in-for-hell richly deserving of an eternity separated from God, along with all the torments associated with being in that state. You see, when Adam willfully and knowingly disobeyed God and bit into that forbidden fruit, sin as a concept was introduced into a moral universe. And the instantaneous result was a supernatural "storm" beyond our ability to comprehend. It was so severe that our original parents, Adam and Eve, died right on the spot—just like God said would happen (Gen.2:17). Their instantaneous death was spiritual and the long term effect was physical. And with the sole exception of Jesus Christ, every human born from that day until this has come into the world spiritually dead as a mackerel (Eph.2:1). Do dead men have anything to offer God? Romans 8:8-9 clearly says, "No!":
"So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his." (KJV, Emphasis mine).
The equation is actually simple: the Holy Spirit's presence within = salvation. And the corollary is: His presence = fruit demonstrated in the life. No fruit—means there is no root in Christ!
Have you been thrown overboard and the only anchor you have is tied to your neck? If so, I lovingly suggest that you call upon Jesus Christ and beg for mercy. Throw yourself at His feet and plead for Him to extend grace by coming into your heart and life. Forget about promises because you have absolutely nothing to offer but yourself. And if you do business with Him from the heart, your love and obedience is all He wants in return.
How will you know if you are going to survive? When the
whale spits you out on dry land like he did Jonah and you "head for
If you have been born again and received Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, but have been very lukewarm in your spiritual walk with Him, you need to immediately ask Him for forgiveness and for renewal. He will instantly forgive you, and fill your heart with the joy of the Holy Spirit. Then, you need to begin a daily walk of prayer and personal Bible Study.
If you have never placed your trust in Jesus Christ as your Savior, but have come to sense His reality and the approaching End of the Age, and want to receive His FREE Gift of Eternal Life, you can do so now, in the privacy of your home. Once you truly believe in Him as Lord and Savior, you are spiritually Born Again, and are as assured of Heaven as if you were already there. Then, you can rest assured that the Kingdom of Antichrist will not touch you spiritually. If you would like to become Born Again, turn to our Salvation Page now.
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International connection for Marcus Whitman soccer
Nathaniel Lindley and Andrea Forestieri had never met each other before August, much less played soccer with each other. However, Lindley, a senior at Marcus Whitman, and Forestieri, a foreign exchange student from Italy, quickly developed chemistry on the soccer field for the Wildcats.
Through 10 games, Lindley leads the team with 15 goals and has one assist and Forestieri has four goals and a team-high eight assists.The duo have set each other up for goals six times already.
"It's a hard relationship, I work and he scores," Forestieri joked.
Nathaniel's parents, David Lindley and Diane Peters, are hosting Forestieri for the school year. Forestieri is from Parma, which is in the northern part of Italy. The foreign exchange student said living in the countryside is much different than home, where his city has a population of about 200,000.
The Lindleys were selected as Forestieri's host family because Nathaniel plays soccer year round. The sport has been a strong bond for the boys.
"We watch a lot of soccer on TV or play FIFA together," Lindley said.
When they play the FIFA video game, Forestieri plays as the popular Italian team AC Milan and Lindley plays as England's Everton F.C. They couldn't agree on who won more video game soccer matches.
The sport is different from back in Italy where Forestieri explained they don't have school teams. He played on a club team where they practiced three times a week. Forestieri said he liked being able to play and practice more with the Wildcats.
The Italian also got his first exposure to playing on a turf field at Waterloo, which he discovered is not his playing surface of choice. However, Forestieri did score a goal on that field.
Forestieri is one of two Italians on the soccer team this fall. Defender Luca Menicali is from Fermo, three hours south of Parma.
Forestieri is unsure if he'll play other sports at Marcus Whitman in the winter and spring. He's considering basketball and either baseball or tennis.
The Lindleys took Forestieri to his first county fair before school started and are planning to bring him to New York City. He's also getting accustomed to the local cuisine, "His dad is a pretty good chef, but the school food is not so good," Forestieri said; and american football, "It's a slower sport than soccer, it's different."
While the two seniors are certainly doing well individually, Marcus Whitman is off to a strong start as a team with an 8-3 record. Lindley said it's hard work in practice and team chemistry that has the Wildcats playing well.
First-year coach Matt Palmer said it's nice having someone with an outside perspective of the game.
"Andrea's very good at pulling someone to a side and telling them, 'No, this is the way you're supposed to do it,'" he said. "Nathaniel has done it too, they've both been a big help because they understand the game at a higher level than most high schoolers probably do. They not only make themselves better, but also make the other players on the team better as well. So, it's been nice."


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Late last year after The New York Times published an account of a horrific rape against a teenage girl in a small town in Ohio, an online vigilante campaign was started against some local officials believed to be too close to the suspects, some of whom were high school football players. Two teenage boys ended up being charged, and when the case went to trial in March 2013, the two were convicted of rape.
Much of the online vigilantism was spearheaded by someone calling himself "KYAnonymous."
According to a new account published online on Wednesday, a 26-year-old Kentucky man named Deric Lostutter has outed himself as KYAnonymous and provided a written account of an FBI search on his property in Winchester, Kentucky in April 2013. The search marks the latest in a string of occasions where members of Anonymous have been unmasked, pled guilty, or been otherwise caught for their actions online.
Lostutter confirmed to Gawker that he was indeed the leader of KnightSec, an Anonymous splinter group. Lostutter did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The news outlet also published the search warrant (PDF) used to investigate Lostutter.
KnightSec partnered with two other groups (LocalLeaks and Occupy Steubenville) to conduct "Operation Roll Red Roll," an online protest and information-gathering campaign against a group of young men in Ohio accused of raping another teenager.
Lostutter wrote on the KnightSec website about being searched:
Upon returning from a brief turkey hunt behind my farm I had just sat down and opened up my computer to work when my pitbull, named Thor, jumps up on the door as is common for him to do when someone new is at my house. I had been expecting a T-Shirt in the mail from ShieldTactical.com and what appeared to be a Fed-Ex truck was parked in my driveway. As I open the door to great [sic] the driver approximately 12 F.B.I. Swat Team agents jumped out of the truck screaming for me to "Get The Fuck Down" with m-16 assault rifles and full riot gear armed safety off, pointed directly at my head. I was handcuffed and detained outside while they cleared my house. My brother soon emerged later with his new girlfriend, both bewildered that the F.B.I. was at my house seeing as I have no prior criminal history, both of them in handcuffs as well. The Swat team left my belongings in the floor, my dogs shocked, my family nervous, my garage door battered open with a ram though I stated I had a key, and the RV camper window broken for entry though I stated to pull hard on the door.
Lostutter has yet to be charged with a crime, although he added:
I was emailed their intent to send out a "Target Letter" which means they are going to try to indict me for a Federal Offense, (most likely a felony and two misdemeanors) to a secret Grand Jury of 23 individuals, for which I can not be present to state my side, nor state my innocence.
LocalLeaks told Ars earlier this year that each of three "entities have their own objectives and tactics, as well as their realm of responsibility within the overarching Operation [Roll Red Roll]," adding that "Anonymous, as led by KnightSec, desire justice and use standard cyber-activist strategies to work toward that goal."


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Thailand: Striking contrasts in access to safe drinking water and sanitation - UN expert urges establishment of independent water and sanitation regulator
BANGKOK / GENEVA (8 February 2013) – At the end of an eight-day mission to Thailand, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to safe drinking water and sanitation, Catarina de Albuquerque, called on the Government of Thailand to establish an independent water and sanitation regulator and to take prompt action to fully realise the human rights to water and sanitation for all.
While recognizing the significant progress made in Thailand in relation to access to sanitation, especially rural basic sanitation, the Special Rapporteur noted with concern that only 21 per cent of community wastewater produced daily is treated.
"Rivers and other sources of water are being increasingly polluted by the discharge of untreated human waste," she said. "I was shocked by the very poor management, disposal and treatment of human waste, which may be one of the major causes of the increasing diarrhoea morbidity rate in Thailand in spite of the high basic sanitation coverage that has been achieved," the expert said.
According to estimates based on limited sampling by the Ministry of Public Health, the current rate of access to safe water in rural and urban areas is roughly 25 and 40 per cent respectively. "Not only is untreated faecal matter being discharged directly into water systems, but large scale industrial, mining and agricultural projects are exacerbating the problems of water pollution. This is having a severe impact on the environment and on Thailand's water sources, including drinking water sources," said de Albuquerque.
"I am deeply concerned that no State entity is in charge of monitoring and ensuring the quality of water inside the household. I hence call on the Government of Thailand to establish strong accountability mechanisms to ensure full compliance by all, including the private sector, with the human rights to safe drinking water and sanitation. Proper regulation in the water and sanitation sectors is fundamental," de Albuquerque said.
"I call for the establishment of an independent regulator to undertake independent monitoring, ensure genuine public participation and impose penalties for non-compliance. The supervisory role of the central government over local authorities should also be strengthened," stressed de Albuquerque.
While less than one per cent of the overall population had access to water and sanitation in 1960, the country reached almost universal coverage by 1999. However strong disparities exist, noted the Special Rapporteur.
"The contrast between people who have access to water and sanitation in modern and formal zones in cities and those who suffer from the lack of access to these basic services and have been left behind, including informal settlements and hill tribe communities was striking," de Albuquerque said.
"While the great majority of Thai people have experienced rapid development, millions of people, including stateless people and undocumented migrant workers, have not reaped these benefits," she added.
"A migrant construction workers' camp I visited only had ten non-sex-segregated toilets and one open bathing point. They were shared by the nearly 300 workers, including 70 women, as well as by 40 children living in the camp," de Albuquerque said.
"The people who live in the shadows of Thai society suffer not only from the lack of access to water and sanitation but also from stigma and denial of dignity and privacy. When I asked one migrant worker how she bathed in the open bathing point especially during menstruation, she said: 'I just shut my eyes and wash myself as quickly as possible, so that it's done.'"
"In a female correction centre I visited, the showers and toilets had no doors. The inmates were completely exposed, had no privacy and were forced to wash themselves and "do their business" in front of everybody. As a woman, I was especially appalled by the undignified conditions these women faced on a daily basis," said de Albuquerque.
"I also observed glaring contrasts in access to safe drinking water," the Special Rapporteur said. "The majority of Thai people are not provided with safe drinking water. There is also still a big gap in the systematic monitoring of water quality," she added.
"The Government has achieved impressive progress over the last decades in the areas of sanitation and water and I am confident that it will be able to continue its efforts towards the full realisation of the human rights to water and sanitation, including for the most marginalised groups of people," the Rapporteur concluded.
The Special Rapporteur will present a formal report on her mission to a forthcoming session of the UN Human Rights Council, which will include her final findings and recommendations to the Government of Thailand.
Catarina de Albuquerque is the first UN Special Rapporteur on the right to safe drinking water and sanitation. She was appointed by the Human Rights Council in 2008. Ms. de Albuquerque is a Professor at the Law Faculties of the Universities of Braga and Coimbra and a Senior Legal Adviser at the Office for Documentation and Comparative Law, an independent institution under the Prosecutor General's Office. More about the mandate and work of the Special Reporter
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June 28th, 2012
Ann Curry steps down from 'Today' post
"Today" co-anchor Ann Curry confirmed speculation on Thursday with an announcement that she's stepping down from her anchor spot but not leaving the network.
Curry told viewers that Thursday marks her last time co-hosting, but she will go on to tell stories for other NBC News shows, including "Today."
The long-time anchor was surrounded by the rest of the hosting staff when she made the announcement, including Matt Lauer, Al Roker and Natalie Morales.
The moment arrived roughly a week after reports surfaced that she was headed for an exit.
"This is not easy to say but today is going to be my last morning as a regular co-host," Curry began tearfully. "I will still be a part of the 'Today' show family but I'm going to have a new title and a new role. And this is not as I expected... I never expected to leave this couch after 15 years, but I am so grateful, especially to all of you who watch, because Matt and I and everyone who sits on this couch, we often call ourselves a family. But you are the real 'Today' show family."
Curry continued, "You are why I have ventured into dangerous places and interviewed dictators and jumped off of planes and off of bridges and climbed mountains and landed in the South Pole and convinced the Dalai Lama to come live in our studio," she said of the work she's done over the past 15 years.
"For all of you who saw me as a groundbreaker," she continued, "I'm sorry I couldn't carry the ball over the finish line but man, I did try. And so to all of you who watched, thank you from the bottom of my heart for letting me touch yours."
Curry also gave viewers a peek into her new role for NBC.
"They're giving me some fancy new title, which essentially means that I'm going to get tickets to every big story we want to cover with a terrific team of my choosing ... we're going to go all over the world and all over this country at a time when this country and this world needs clarity," she explained. "We're going to do great work, I hope, and we're being given the chance to do the work that most of us got into journalism to do. And these stories are going to air on all the platforms of NBC News, including here on 'Today.'"
At one point she joked as Lauer looked on, "After all of these years I don't know if I can sleep in anymore!"
"You have the biggest heart in the business," Lauer said. "The way you care about people comes through in every single story you report."
Morales reached out to take the very emotional Curry's hand and praise her for what she's already done for the show and what she will do in the future.
It is not yet known when Curry will begin her new duties.
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57 Percent of NY Survey Wants Legal Weed
While New York legislators continue to deliberate on the rapidly transmografying attitudes towards marijuana, the residents of the Empire State appear ready to make a change. A 766-respondent phone survey released Wednesday reports that 57 percent of New York voters favor legalizing marijuana for medicinal use, while 33 percent oppose the move. Democrats and Independents were strongly in favor, Republicans were divided. [MyFOXNY - weed image: Olena Simko / Shutterstock]
When We Grow
A solid primer on cannabis production and consumption rates in the UK.
Shipping Container As An Underground Shelter
Given that the chances of us being nuclear annihilated are about as good as an actual zombiepocalpyse, $5 says this guy really just built the world's most undetectable grow house.
Waiting to Inhale - Marijuana, Medicine and the Law
An in-depth and fairly objective look at the state of the US medical marijuana controversy as it now stands.
Jungle Jail
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I'll say this much for the UK security guard who tried to blast off a nagging wart with a shotgun: he succeeded. Although I'd imagine he wasn't planning on taking out his finger in the process. Meet Sean Murphy, won't you? He's special.
The 38-year old security guard from South Yorkshire was recently sentenced to 16 weeks in prison for using an illegal firearm. Specifically, a stolen 12-bore Beretta shotgun that he fired off at the (plant) nursery where he works. His target: a wart that had resided near the top joint of his middle finger for five years. The result? Well, let's let Sean explain:
He said: "It was hurting a lot and causing my finger to bend. I'd been to the doctors and tried all sorts of things but it wouldn't go.
"I didn't expect to lose my finger as well when I shot it but the gun recoiled and that was it. The wart was gone and so was most of my finger. There was nothing left, so no chance to re-attach it."
According to the prosecuting attorney, the attacker/victim had "had some drink" before the incident, which, no kidding.
I don't know that there's a moral to the story, other than that shotguns and surgery still don't quite mix. [Yorkshire Post via Geekologie]
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|NOTE: The community repository described here never really took off. Please use the community repository at opkg.org instead.
There are many Users Repositories where people can feed software for their Neo smartphones. This diversity makes it sometimes difficult to find the right package for the right distribution. Openmoko Inc. hosts a Community Repository as a central service where independent Neo application developers can release projects, so that installing a new application `just works out of the box'. It is a similar concept to the Universe repository in Ubuntu. The Repository is at:
How to use the repository ?
This feed is already installed by default in Om 2008.8.
Otherwise, see instructions on the installer page. They involve creating a one line file in the /etc/opkg directory.
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Please use the mailing list: http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community-repository . The package manager derives from opkg, so applications should be released as .ipk files.
- Create package on projects.openmoko.org and upload
- Here are instructions to build ipkgs.
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Jeni Britton Bauer turned her small artisanal ice-cream shop in Columbus, Ohio, into a nationally known brand with such irresistible flavors as Salty Caramel and Goat Cheese Ice Cream with Roasted Red Cherries. She came up with a breakthrough method for home ice-cream making for this, her debut cookbook. Her recipes for ice cream, sorbet, and frozen yogurt were all tested on basic Cuisinart ice-cream makers. $23.95; workman.com.
Inspired by Parisian patisseries, Miette—a bakery in San Francisco's historic Ferry Building—has pale-pink walls and glass display cases filled with such Proustian confections as lavender shortbread and Lemon Tea Cakes. With its scallop-edge pages and irresistible photos of cookies and cakes, the first baking book by owner Meg Ray (written with Leslie Jonath) is just as winning. Miette's recipes, from Banana-Cream Tart to Parisian Macarons to pink-iced Tomboy Cake, will turn any event into a special occasion. $27.50; chroniclebooks.com.
Fany Gerson's My Sweet Mexico, published last year, was a long-overdue collection of recipes from south of the border—everything from classic cinnamon-dusted churros to a modern mashup of flan-and-chocolate cake. Her new Paletas cookbook—featuring recipes for Mexican ice pops, shaved ice, and aguas frescas—proves that the Mexicans know just how to chill out. The cool treats in this book include Hibiscus-Raspberry Ice Pops and Cucumber-Lime Coolers. $16.99; tenspeed.com.
In a true-life story that sounds like the makings of a movie, Gesine Bullock-Prado left behind a career in Hollywood to open a bakery in Vermont (she wrote about the transition in her memoir My Life from Scratch). You'll need a candy thermometer for the recipes in her beautiful new cookbook, Sugarbaby—but don't let that scare you off. She'll have you making Cotton Candy, Barley-Malt Skulls, and marshmallows in no time. $29.95; abramsbooks.com.
Intimidated by baking? San Francisco pastry chef Emily Luchetti (with coauthor Lisa Weiss) makes it easy in this cookbook aimed at beginners. You'll learn how to beat batters and fold like a pro while whipping out such impressive desserts as Chocolate Hazelnut Torte and Strawberry Rhubarb Pie. Our only reservation: the lack of photos, which are helpful to novice bakers. $29.99; hachettebookgroup.com.
This cookie-centric book is filled with recipes from the Milk & Cookies Bakery in New York's Greenwich Village. Owner Tina Cascelli's basic vanilla cookie dough, for instance, is an upgrade from its Tollhouse cousin—and that means a little more effort (she starts by pulverizing rolled oats in a food processor). The payoff is homey cookies that are a cut above, such as Milk Chocolate–Orange Cookies and Orange Sablés. $24.95; chroniclebooks.com.
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Hello Moms, How many of us have started our period away from home and all the things we need. Well I have created a kit for that special day. I've worked on this for 4 years and have found that girlz are sexually active as early as 10 and girlz are starting their period as early as 8. When girlz are having unprotected sex at a young age they dont know that when their period come they can get pregnant. When girlz start we give them the products they need and thats the end.
We need to as women explain to our daughters or you sister, niece, cousin who ever the young lady is in your life what our bodies go through before and after we start our period. Please let me know what your thoughts are on this very important subject that so many women are unconfortable to talk about.
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Fed Paying Interest on Reserves: A Primer - Real Time Economics - WSJ: The Federal Reserve used all the weaponry in its arsenal during the financial crisis, and created some new ones. The Treasury's decision to pull back one innovation — in which the Treasury sold bonds and put the money on deposit at the Fed — has put the spotlight on another one. Because of an act of Congress, the Fed now has the power to pay interest on the reserves that banks leave on deposit at the Fed. That'll change the way the Fed manages the economy in the future — but only in ways that credit market geeks can understand.
For years, the Fed's primary tool has been the federal funds interest rate, the rate that banks charge each other for overnight loans. Banks with more reserves than they need to comply with legal minimums lend to others who need reserves. The Fed's policy committee — the Federal Open Market Committee — sets a target for that rate, but doesn't control it. It influences it by affecting the supply and demand for reserves in the open market. In the past, when it wanted rates higher, it would announce a new target with much fanfare and then the next day reduce the supply of reserves — usually by selling securities from its portfolio which drained cash from the banking system. Rates usually responded to the announcement in anticipation of the actual Fed market maneuvers. When the Fed wanted rates lower, it did the opposite. Changes in the fed funds rate ricochet through the economy. Higher rates tend to discourage consumer and business borrowing and slow economic activity.
Today, the Fed's target for the fed funds rates is near zero and the banking system is awash with reserves. Many of those reserves aren't being lent to other banks which can then use them to lend them to customers. Instead, they're on deposit with the Fed. Until recently, the Fed didn't pay interest on these reserves. Now it does.
That changes things.
Someday, the Fed will declare the emergency over and decide to tighten credit. There's concern that because there are so many reserves sloshing around the banking system and all sorts of ordinary relationships have been distorted by the crisis and the Fed's response that it won't be able to get the fed funds rate up simply by announcing a new target and then reinforcing that with open-market operations. After all, as the Federal Reserve Bank of New York acknowledged earlier in the crisis, from "time to time" its trading desk has been "unable to prevent the federal funds rate from falling to very low levels."
So now when the Fed decides it wants to raise the fed funds rate, it now has two options: It can affect the SUPPLY of reserves as it used to by buying and selling Treasury securities on the open market. Or it can influence the DEMAND for reserves. If it raises the interest rate it pays on reserves, it will encourage banks to put more reserves on deposit at the Fed and lend less of their reserves to other banks in the interbank market. That should push the fed funds rate up. This, the Fed says, will mean less credit and higher interest rates throughout the banking system. "Paying interest on excess balances just makes it easier for the [New York Fed trading] Desk to implement the target federal funds rate chosen by the FOMC," the New York Fed says.
"Raising the rate of interest paid on reserve balances will give us substantial leverage over the federal funds rate and other short-term market interest rates, because banks generally will not supply funds to the market at an interest rate significantly lower than they can earn risk free by holding balances at the Federal Reserve," Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress earlier this year. "Indeed, many foreign central banks use the ability to pay interest on reserves to help set a floor on market interest rates. The attractiveness to banks of leaving their excess reserve balances with the Federal Reserve can be further increased by offering banks a choice of maturities for their deposits."
This new tool, the Fed says to anyone who will listen, should reassure anyone that's worrying that the Fed has the technical capacity to raise interest rates when the time comes.


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With all of the great reading genres available, it's easy to skip over some of them. Check out these great topical reading challenges for 2012. Perhaps you'll join me for some.
When Melissa at Melissa's Eclectic Bookshelf didn't see any witchy reading challenges for 2012, she decided to make her own. The 2012 Witches and Witchcraft Reading challenge is for all books witchy, whether fiction or non-fiction. Anyone can read just one book, and all particpants will be entered to win a $10 gift certificate to The Book Depository! I'm starting with one and will see if I don't bump up a level.
Do you like mystery and suspense? Join in Book City Chick's 2012 Mystery and Suspense Reading Challenge. There are so many sub-genres in the larger mystery category that I don't think I will have any difficulty reading 12 novels for this challenge.
Feeling romantic? Check oy the Harlequin Silhouette 2012 Reading Challenge hosted Islandgirl Reads Romance. This challenge requires that you read one Harlequin book in each of 6 categories. This will probably be my most difficult challenge.
With books you can travel through time. Join Library of Clean Reads with the 2012 Time Travel Reading Challenge. I'm keeping it simple with a Surprise Trip (minimum of 1-3 books) and will see what else I read from there.
Do you have any earth based leanings or just want to learn more about earth-centered celebrations or history? Check out the 2012 Pagan Reading Challenge hosted by The Domestic Pagan. Just by celebrating the scientifically-based changes in our world during the year, our family reads several pagan books every year. You don't have to be pagan to read pagan books or appreciate a large part of our history.
Looking toward the future, you could join The Dystopia 2012 Challenge at Bookish Ardour. Admittedly, this hasn't been my favorite genre, but I was pleasantly surpirsed by some of the dystopian novels I read last year, stretching myself just a bit.
Finally, for those of you who love cogs and clocks, head over to Oh, The Places You'll Go! for the Cogs, Clocks, and Mechanisms Reading Challenge 2012. Haven't tried steampunk? Challenge yourself!


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PALINI R. SWAMY writes: Mysore's preminent position in the setting up and christening of All India Radio as "Akashvani" has gone uncontested for well over half a century. Now, in the 75th year of AIR, an unlikely challenger has emerged from 300 km away.
A 70-year-old woman has stood up in Udupi to assert that it was her late father, Hosbet Rama Rao, a former district education officer in Mangalore, was the man who first used—and thus gave the nation—the unquestionably evocative brand-name, "Akashvani", for the radio.
In other words, the claim busts the belief widely held by Mysoreans that it was their townsman M.V. Gopalaswamy (in picture, above) who coined the word after setting up the nation's first private radio station in his residence "Vittal Vihar" (in picture, below), about 200 yards from AIR's current location.
Anuradhagiri Rao says her father, while serving as a teacher at the government college in Mangalore, anonymously published a booklet titled '"Akashvani" in 1932 on the phenomenon of the radio set. She says he drew inspiration from mythology in Kamsa's case when an 'ashariravani' (voice without body) predicts his death.
Thus, voice from the akasha (sky) was 'Akashvani', meaning celestial voice," she has been quoted as saying in the New Indian Express. Her father, she adds, did not reveal his name fearing victimisation from the then British government, as he was then beginning to establish himself as a writer.
To bolster her claim, Anuradhagiri Rao adds her father's book with the "Akashvani" title was acknowledged and adopted as a non-detailed text book for high school students by the text book committee of the Madras presidency. The book was printed twice in 1941 and 1945.
She also says an Indian Express editorial in February 1987 had doffed its hat to "an article from an unknown writer" for naming "Akashvani". That unknown writer doubtless was her father.
Needless to say, she wants his name to the immortalised.
There are two problems with the claim. First, Anuradhagiri Rao bases her claims on an anonymous booklet published in 1932. Although radio had been around for a while, sound broadcasting began in India in 1927 but All India Radio formally began operations only in 1936, according to AIR's official website.
Second, there is the small matter of official history.
Akashvani Mysore has just brought out a 406-page souvenir to mark the platinum jubilee of the station.
In her editorial, Dr M.S. Vijaya Haran, station director, AIR Mysore, writes:
"Dr M.V. Gopalaswamy is the father of Mysore Akashvani. He served as the professor of psychology and the principal of the Maharaja's college. The radio station that he started in 1935 in Mysore is his great contribution to the field of culture. This was the first private radio station in the whole of India and it speaks volumes of a person's interest, passion, hard work and the instinct to do good to his fellow human beings….
"For six long years Dr Gopalaswamy ran AIR single-handedly spending money from his own pocket. Owing to financial constraint he handed over the administration to the Mysroe city municipality. Later from 1 January 1942, the provincial government of the Maharaja assumed the responsbility of running the organisation.
"Even then Dr M.V. Gopalaswamy continued to be director (till 2 August 1943). After that his colleague, Prof N. Kasturi was appointed full-time chief executive with the designation 'assistant station superintendent.' The radio station continued to function under the care of Kasturi, who was a thorough gentleman and a well-known humourist….
"It was during that [Kasturi] period that All India Radio was baptised as 'Akashvani' , a name that has been an appropriate metaphor for this wonderful organisation. The radio station flaunted with aplomb the title 'Akashvani Mysore' before its facade. It wafted on the waves and reached the hearts of listeners lending them undimmed pleasure. Later on, when All India Radio came under the administrative fold of the Indian government, the radio stations continued to use the name 'Akashvani'. The credit of lending this beautiful name 'Akashvani' to all the radio stations of the country belongs to Mysore Akashvani."
Vijaya Haran's editorial does not, of course, say Gopalaswamy christened Akashvani, merely that he set it up.
So,while the parentage of Akashvani is not in question, it is Prof Gopalaswamy's role in naming it that is clearly under question. Did he call it "Akashvani Broadcasting Station" when he started broadcasting as a hobby in 1935, as an earlier souvenir published in 1950 (and included in the platinum jubilee souvenir) avers?
If the name Akashvani evolved under N. Kasturi's helmsmanship, did Kasturi himself think up the name? Did Prof Gopalaswamy, who was no longer its chief, have any role in it christening or, as a college principal himself, did Gopalaswamy draw his inspiration from an academic 300 km away?
Gouri Satya, the Business Standard journalist who is a walking encyclopaedia on Mysore, wrote recently that "a few sat together and hit upon the name Akashvani for the toy broadcasting station". Was Hosbet Rama Rao among the few?
In the evening newspaper, Star of Mysore, reader K. Radha Chengappa writes:
"The truth is revealed by late N. Kasturi in his book Loving God, page 76 (early 1920), where he refers to his colleague Dr. M.V. Gopalaswamy of Maharaja's College, Psychology Department.
"He writes that Dr. MVG had bought a mini Philips transmitter and desired to use it to broadcast educational programmes for the common man an hour everyday. After some years, he managed to secure permission to use short wave transmission programmes.
"For this project, he had roped in Kasturi and when he wanted an Indian word for the broadcasting station, Kasturi's choice was Akashvani and this word stuck for AIR (All India Radio)."
Or was it Rabindranath Tagore who is supposed to have done so "in the 1930s"?
Photographs: courtesy Akashavani Mysore platinum jubilee souvenir


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@outsidein yes we have an api for places, 17Mil+ US and Canada – more info at http://j.mp/przddoc you can request key at http://j.mp/przdapi
The goal of the Praized API is to make it easier for developers to build services using data about merchants and places. Use the Praized API to build local search into your app quickly. Praized is set up to allow users to have an easy way to recommend local places to each other. It is a local search platform built especially for blogs, social networks, and other places where a vibrant community exists.
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Apple Senior VP of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller says the new iPod touch is just too thin for an ambient light sensor. That's according to a purported e-mail exchange between Schiller and an inquiring iPod touch owner, as posted to iDownloadBlog. In the exchange, Schiller reiterates (in marketing speak) what those of us who have seen the iPod touch teardowns already know: space is tight, and Apple simply chose not to include the sensor.
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WEST BLOOMFIELD (Talk Radio 1270) A grandmother who allegedly killed her grandson with eight bullets delivered over several minutes acted out of terror, according to her attorney Jerome Sabbota.
Sabbota talked to Charlie Langton on his 1270 Talk Radio morning show about retired teacher Sandra Layne, 74, who is in jail on an open murder charge for killing 17-year-old grandson Jonathan Hoffman. She next appears in court Thursday for a pre-trial hearing.
How is Layne holding up? "Not well, she has tremendous guilt. She realizes she hurt a person she really loved … She wouldn't abandon him and she wouldn't give up on him," Sabbota said.
He added Hoffman tested positive for the synthetic marijuana known as "spice," the day of the attack, which is also implicated in the Cipriano family killing in nearby Farmington Hills, which is unfolding today in court. Tucker Cipriano and his pal Mitchell Young are charged with killing Cipriano's father Bob Cipriano, and severely injuring his brother and mother during a drug-fueled baseball bat attack in March.
Reports have indicated Layne was fearful after the attack, and bought a gun.
"Everybody's afraid as a result of Cipriano because anything can happen in anybody's house," Sabbota said. "Most people don't understand what fear is until (they experience something like this)."
He added that Layne bought the gun after a March incident where neighbors called police on her grandson during a screaming match that seemed to be out of control. Hoffman was on probation after drug-related run-ins with the law and attended an alternative high school for troubled kids.
Hoffman was living with his grandmother after his parents, who are divorced, moved to Arizona.
He added his client is more than happy to testify in her own defense."I don't want to say abandoned, I can tell you the grandmother was responsible for the day-in care of the child … Grandma supported the child," Sabbota said.
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don't like to give up on grandchildren, mothers and fathers give up, but not grandmothers," Sabbota said.
Can you use lethal force if you're afraid in your own home? "You have to have an honest and reasonable belief that you're going to suffer … You look at it from the eye of the beholder … It's from that person's perspective," Sabbota said.
The grandmother is definitely legally competent, he added.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) The Arkansas Athletic Commission will test fighters for communicable diseases after learning a boxer with the virus that causes AIDS fought in the state last month.
Television station KATV reports the tests will begin before a Dec. 16 bout at Fort Smith. At a Tuesday meeting, the panel said there wasn"t enough time to set rules before a Saturday mixed martial arts fight in Batesville.
The Association of Boxing Commissions and Combat Sports said Arkansas is the last state to impose mandatory testing. Director Mike Mazulli said the group had warned Arkansas that a boxer in last month"s bout had been suspended in Florida because of his HIV status. Arkansas officials said the unidentified boxer provided a clean medical record, but the panel discovered later it had been falsified.
"We"re looking at pursuing this matter with the appropriate authorities that could look into such matters as falsification of public documents," Arkansas commission attorney Reginald Rogers said.
Under new rules, fighters would be tested for three types of hepatitis along with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
Commissioner Daniel Dring said the panel would attempt to determine how many people may have been exposed to the fighter.
"We"ve never had this issue," Dring said. "It"s horrible that it happened, that somebody intentionally falsified records."
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There's something magical about Manhattanhenge, the twice-a-year phenomenon when the sun sets exactly along the cross streets of New York City's prodigious grid.
Manhattanhenge is happening tonight at 8:16 p.m., which means, if you're in the city, you should head outside a few minutes before then if you want to really relish it. And you should! People love Manhattanhenge the way we love the shared experiences of a fireworks display or a cracking-loud thunderstorm—the kinds of moments that can feel bigger than they actually are, and turn out to be just as fun to anticipate as they are to experience.
Naturally, lots of people celebrate Manhattanhenge the way we organize around just about any event these days: by publicly processing our shared experience as it's happening. Manhattanhenge is often called an urban photographer's dream, and a major part of the appeal is to capture the perfect shot of the city bathed in gold as the sun dips behind long stretches of pavement. And yet the reason we like it so much in the first place has its roots in something ancient. More on that in a minute. First, a little history.
Manhattanhenge has really only been part of our culture for about a decade. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson coined the term in 2002 as a portmanteau meant to evoke Stonehenge, where the sun aligns on the solstice. (Manhattanhenge doesn't coincide with the solstice because the city's grid alignment is not exactly north-south, but instead skews about 30 degrees off to the side.) Here's how deGrasse Tyson explained it last year:
You read anthropological books where they're always looking at some ancient culture. If they didn't have writing, you have to infer what they valued. So I thought: An apocalyptic Earth, if there's nothing that survives but our street grid, what would they say of us? Surely, future anthropologists would argue that we arranged our grid to align with the sun on purpose on those days, and what could they learn about our culture?
What they'd learn, perhaps, is something of the inherent tension between human construction and the natural environment. We have a tendency to think of cities as entirely built—concrete jungles, islands of pavement and glass—when really they are complex integrations with the natural world and the larger universe. Elements of nature—sunlight, trees, air, grass—are inextricable from how we think about city space and design. (At least, they are now. Urban planning has come a long way since the days of Robert Moses, the notorious Manhattan planner who cut off the city from the water that surrounds it.)
Most days, New York City's grid is appreciated on a purely functional level. It is, after all, a triumph of city design. The grid is why New Yorkers get so discombobulated trying to navigate the spaghetti-like disorder of the streetscape in a place like Boston. It's why native New Yorkers still get lost in the areas of the West Village where the grid dissolves. Humans have relied on grids to organize their cities for as long as cities have existed; grids date back thousands of years to the earliest human civilizations. Manhattan's has only been around for about 200 years. Here's a map of the city's grid as it was planned in 1811:
The goal was "to unite regularity and order with the public convenience and benefit and in particular to promote the health of the City," according to a New York Public Library blog post about the design. And it worked! New York's grid—coupled with its numbered streets—makes it a cinch for newcomers to learn their way around. That sense of order is a fundamental part of the way people live in Manhattan, which means it's baked into the city's identity. The grid orients us. It gives us a sense of distance and scale. It informs how we give directions: You'd never tell someone to meet you at "117 MacDougal Street" but "on MacDougal between Bleecker and West Third."
So there's something about Manhattanhenge that simultaneously reinforces and disrupts our sense of the grid's importance. For a brief moment, as the sun kisses the streets of Manhattan, nature appears to fall into the order of the manmade world. The sun comes to us. And in a city like New York, which already feels like the center of the universe, it seems like it ought to. It's this "concept of stones aligning with the cosmos" that deGrasse Tyson said lingered in his mind for years before he came up with the name "Manhattanhenge."
But the phenomenon also feels like a happy accident, just fleeting enough to remind us that the alignments between man and nature can be meaningful simply because they feel that way, and that mankind is not so significant after all, not in New York City or anywhere else. Just the name Manhattanhenge—our own little Stonehenge—evokes this mesh of mystery and the manmade, something indisputably human but impossible to articulate. And, besides, gazing out across a gorgeous city bathed in the last sunlight of a warm evening can make everything else fall away.
It's hard not to delight in a phenomenon that feels at once perfectly planned and wholly accidental, simultaneously monumental and ephemeral. And so we love Manhattanhenge for being a celebration of the grid that tethers us to the structural values of the past. We love it for illuminating the beauty of the present. And we love it for alerting us to the enduring clockwork of the much larger world, the one we don't always take time to notice.


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