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Great fall color hike through a variety of landscapes, including regrowth from a 1978 burn. Tranquil lake with Copeland Mountain as a backdrop. 2 backcountry sites. More on Finch Lake trail...
Copeland Mountain rises dramatically from the edge of the lake. 2 backcountry sites. More on Pear Lake trail...
Lily Lake offers splendid views of Longs Peak and Mount Meeker amid rocky outcrops. A level packed gravel trail encircles the lake featuring educational exhibits. Accessible trail and fishing pier. Strollers permitted. Enos Mills, the "father of Rocky Mountain National Park," enjoyed walking to Lily Lake from his nearby cabin. Look for wildflowers in the spring and early summer. In the winter the trail around the lake is often suitable for walking in boots, or as a short snowshoe or ski.
Great trek for first time climbers and youth. Steady altitude gain and wide path. NFS trail with the last 100 feet to the summit a scramble up a granite ravine to a panoramic view. More on Lily Mountain trail...
Pass through 3 climate zones on the way to this magnificent alpine lake at the base of the east face of Longs Peak (the Diamond) - one of the most popular hikes in the park. More on Chasm Lake Trail...
Hike through the forest to beautiful views from the fortress-like summit of this cone shaped peak, with a short, near vertical scramble to the top. You'll pass the remains of a log cabin and the Eugenia Mine. Awesome view of Longs Peak. More on Estes Cone trail...
Site of a mining enterprise begun and abandoned near the turn of the century - leaving no one the richer. Explore the remains of a log cabin and look around for old equipment. 1 backcountry site. More on Eugenia Mine...
On the trail to Longs Peak before reaching the Boulder Field.
The most frequently used base camp for a Longs Peak climb. 8 sites, reservation only, 5.9 miles from the Longs Peak Ranger Station and about 2 miles from the summit. Super views of the East Face and the Keyhole, 500 ft above.
The crown jewel of Rocky hiking, start EARLY (beat the weather and get a parking spot). Make a virtual visit to Longs via the video link which shows the Keyhole route in 3D.
From Copeland Lake, this trail is a steep hike through Copeland Moraine, requiring significant effort due to the steepness of the trail. The lake itself provides a pretty end to the trail. 6 backcountry sites.
From Lily Lake to Fish Creek. Open to runners, cyclists, hikers, and horseback riders. Favorite trail for locals wanting to get outside.
Spectacular views of Longs Peak from the twin summits. Trail takes you across a variety of landscapes from dense forest to spare tundra. A park radio antenna and building are near the top.
Provides access to Bluebird Lake and Thunder Lake trails. 5 backcountry sites.
Named for the beautiful Calypso orchid that grows along its banks and on the trail to Ouzel Falls. Pass Copeland Falls at .3 mile and superb river scenery. More on Calypso Cascades trail...
Along the trail to Calypso Cascades, you'll find this beautiful, small falls - worthy of a much longer hike! Pictures of Copeland Falls...
Pass some superb river scenery leading up to Calypso Cascades, then a dramatic surprise - a burned area from 1978 on the way to the falls. Get a close in view of the falls by scrambling up the left bank to a grassy spot facing the falls.
Former reservoir, excellent wildflower displays. 1 backcountry site. Horses not permitted on the last 1/2 mile of the trail to the lake.
Lightning strike started a large fire in 1978, unique landscape 1 backcountry site.
Great base area for exploring stunning scenery. 3 backcountry sites.
Past the Lake of the Winds, it's a windy walk on the tundra, trail faint
Awesome views of high peaks, remote, well worth the long hike
Snowbanks last late into the summer
No established trail, best views from tall rock outcrops nearby
Three different waterfalls in one area, great wildflowers


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The Club Industry Conference and Exposition is returning to its roots and heading back to Chicago, where fitness facility operators will find the latest products and education in the industry at the McCormick Place Lakeside Center, Oct. 23-25.
"With the return to Chicago and the Midwest after a short hiatus, my team and I are looking forward to re-creating this important industry event," says the show's director, Erica Stone. "The three main pillars of any successful trade event are creative product demonstration capabilities, a robust networking platform, and a relevant, provocative education program."
This year's show features networking and education opportunities for everyone from club entrepreneurs to top personal trainers and fitness company executives.
The show officially kicks off with a welcome reception at the Public House from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 23. However, activities begin earlier that day, starting with tours of three Chicago fitness clubs from 8 a.m. to noon. During those tours, attendees will learn about trends at these clubs, participate in fitness demonstrations and get business tips.
Also on that day, education sessions begin at 11 a.m., and this year, the conference includes tracks offering workshops on increasing non-dues revenue and professional development. The show also features new opportunities for fitness professionals who want to advance their careers and improve their businesses through the Club Industry Business Program, which offers half-day seminars for personal trainers and club entrepreneurs. Both seminars are offered from 12:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday.
"Personal trainers, entrepreneurial clubs owners, and prosumers are playing an increasingly important role in the fitness industry," Stone says. "To meet the needs of this group, we've cultivated dynamic education and networking opportunities designed to provide our community with the tools they need to make their businesses successful."
Personal trainers also can come together with facility operators and certifying organizations to meet and discuss the image and legitimization of the personal training profession at the W.I.T.S. Personal Trainer Summit at 2 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 24. After the summit, Personal Fitness Professional (PFP) and Club Industry will present the 2014 Trainer of the Year Award at 4 p.m.
For established industry leaders, the invitation-only CEO Summit from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 24, is a valuable opportunity to meet with other C-level fitness executives. The event will include a luncheon speaker, roundtable discussions and a panel discussion. Speakers include Joe Cirulli, founder and CEO of Gainesville Health and Fitness Centers; Brent Leffel, president of New Evolution Ventures; Eric Affeldt, president and CEO of ClubCorp; and Annbeth Eschbach, CEO of Exhale Spas.
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This year's show also includes a new event to celebrate the industry's top fitness companies. For the first time, the companies featured on Club Industry's Top 100 Clubs list will be honored at a reception, which will be held from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 24.
"Club Industry's Top 100 Health Clubs list includes some of the biggest names in fitness," Stone says. "This year, we are excited to recognize the companies featured and create an opportunity for the best in the business to come together at the Top 100 Reception."
From 6 a.m. to 6:45 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 25, fitness professionals can come together again for Club RUN/Walk Chicago, a 5K fundraiser benefitting the Project Walk organization and the Be Perfect Foundation. Project Walk aims to help improve the mobility and confidence of people with spinal cord injuries, and the Be Perfect Foundation is the first franchisee of the Project Walk program. The franchise is located in and operated by the Claremont Club in Claremont, CA. Workouts also will be offered from 7 a.m. to 7:45 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 24, and on Friday, Oct. 25.
The Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to Daniel Levin, the founder and CEO of Chicago's East Bank Club, at 9 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 25. After the award presentation, Bridget Brennan, author of "Why She Buys" and CEO of Female Factor, a women-centric marketing firm, will deliver the keynote presentation. Brennan will explore the idiosyncrasies of female buying power and explain how club owners, operators, marketers and trainers can capitalize on women's influence in the marketplace to improve their businesses.
Attendees can try out new products and experience live demonstrations on the show floor, which is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 24, and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 25. The show floor also features Club Industry LIVE sessions, which will allow attendees to see the latest group exercise programs in action from noon to 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 24, and from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 25.
Club Industry 2013 Conference Event Schedule
Wednesday, October 23
8 a.m. - noon — Pre-conference facility tours
11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. — Educational sessions
12:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. — Club Industry Business Program for Personal Trainers
12:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. — Club Industry Business Program for Club Entrepreneurs
12:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. — Educational sessions
4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. — Educational sessions
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. — Welcome reception
Thursday, October 24
7 a.m. - 7:45 a.m. — Boot Camp Challenge with Lori Patterson
8:45 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. — Educational sessions
10 a.m. - 4 p.m. — CEO Summit
11 a.m. - 5 p.m. — Exhibit hall open
Noon - 3:30 p.m. — Club Industry LIVE sessions
2 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. — W.I.T.S. Personal Trainer Summit
4 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. — PFP Trainer of the Year Award presentation
5 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. — Top 100 reception
Friday, October 25
6 a.m. - 6:45 a.m. — Club RUN/Walk Chicago
7 a.m. - 7:45 a.m. — Workout with Les Mills
8:30 a.m. - 10 a.m. — Lifetime Achievement Award presentation to Daniel Levin, founder and CEO of Chicago's East Bank Club, and Keynote Address by Bridget Brennan, author and founder and CEO of Female Factor
10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. — Club Industry LIVE sessions
10 a.m. - 2 p.m. — Exhibit hall open
Exhibit Hall Events
Club Industry LIVE:
The Club Industry LIVE stage will feature interactive demonstrations and body-moving workout sessions throughout the show.
Club Industry RESISTANCE:
Learn the benefits of weight training with resistance bands on the show floor.
Click here for a list of exhibitors. For more information on the show, go to www.clubindustryshow.com.


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The Dodd-Frank Act and Housing Finance: Can It Restore Private Risk Capital to the Securitization Market?
Yale Journal on Regulation, Forthcoming
U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 11-35
27 Pages Posted: 10 Dec 2011 Last revised: 15 May 2012
Date Written: December 15, 2011
Private risk capital has virtually disappeared from the U.S. housing finance market since the market's collapse in 2008. This Article argues that private risk capital is unlikely to return on any scale until the informational problems in housing finance are resolved so that investors can accurately gauge and price the risks they assume.
The Dodd-Frank Act represents a first step in reforming the U.S. housing finance. It takes a multi-layered approach, regulating both loan origination and securitization. Dodd-Frank's reforms, however, fail to adequately address the opacity of credit risk information in mortgage markets and thus are insufficient for the restoration of private risk capital.
The Article argues that Dodd-Frank reforms like "skin-in-the-game" credit risk retention fail to solve the informational problems in the housing finance market, as they merely replace one informational opacity with another. Instead, the Article argues, it is necessary to institute structural changes in the housing finance market, particularly the standardization of mortgage securitization, that force the production of information necessary for accurate risk-pricing.
Keywords: Real estate, mortgages, financial regulation, reform, Dodd-Frank Act, mortgage-backed securities, lending models, credit risk information, securitized assets, information shrouding, underpricing, standardization, information asymmetry, risk pricing
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FRIDAY, Feb. 17, 2012 (HealthDay News) -- Specific goals can help people with type 2 diabetes improve their dietary habits, according to a new study.
Participants were given a goal to eat either six or eight daily servings of foods with a low glycemic index -- carbohydrates that are digested slowly and are less likely to cause a spike in blood sugar levels than carbohydrates with a high glycemic index.
Most of the participants achieved the eight-serving goal, partly because many of them were already consuming about six servings of low glycemic index foods a day, the Ohio State University researchers said.
During the study, most of the participants also ate about 500 fewer calories a day and added fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds to their diet. All these foods are on the low end of the glycemic index.
The researchers also found that participants' confidence in being able to meet their goal was a major factor in their ability to reach the goal. Those with more confidence had higher levels of commitment, which increased their likelihood of success.
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The crust itself was fairly bland and a touch dense. In fairness to them, I think they err on the side of much less char simply because a) it takes less time b) mainstream America doesn't understand the definition of the word "burnt" as it relates to wood fired pizza. I get pissed when I read reviews and people flame a place (pun intended) because the pizza was "burnt"; then when you scroll down and see the picture - it's a perfectly done pie.
just another case of right flour, wrong oven
And possibly the wrong fermentation and salt levels, if the crust is bland. Too bad. It looks like they have very nice ingredients from the video on their site:http://www.800degreespizza.comJohn
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Good eye! Come to think of it, I don't even know why the arugula would be in the precook portion of the line? Interesting.
dineomite,Another California pizza chain, Amici's, also has had to deal with consumer perception of what char is on a pizza. It has gone so far as to post the following at the top of its menu:We bake our pizzas in brick ovens, the way tradition-minded Italians have been baking pizzas for hundreds of years. Because our pies are baked directly on the super-hot brick floor, the crust comes out crisp and darker than the typical American pizza often a bit black. If you are a crust lover, you will find our crust distinctively delicious. NOTE: If a darker crust is not to your liking, please specify "light crust", although the result may be undercooked for some tastes. Peter
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The fact that we are all human beings means that we are imperfect, so we struggle at times with living our lives. Daily problems occur with varying degrees of force and intensity. Depending on how we are feeling physically, mentally and emotionally, when these problems arise, our present condition will translate into the severity of how we handle each of these situations.
Psychological research on coping with problems tells us that if we have a daily, structured method of addressing these challenging situations, then there will be a greater probability of reducing their effects on how we think or feel, and how long they will persist. Journaling is a method that I have found personally, and clinically with clients in private practice and in outpatient hospital settings, to best support our well-being. Journaling basically acts as an insurance policy against significant problems becoming much more troublesome and even debilitating.
So how do we journal about what is directly beneficial, and if we are feeling good, why should we still do it?
To begin with, journaling is best done before or right after dinner at the conclusion of the day. It is an opportunity to evaluate the day's events by reflection. The key is to review how each of the events of the day has impacted us, so that we don't carry distressing thoughts and feelings into our sleep state. When we journal, we want to concentrate on what stood out for us during the day, what our thoughts were, what evoked our strongest feelings, and zero in on why these events are remembered with so much vigor.
Our aim in journaling is to prevent ourselves from repressing the painful events of the day. It isn't that we're trying to skim over the positive or joyous memories of the day, but these aren't what wake us up in the middle of the night.
Our goal is to reveal the problems we encounter and take a closer look at what's going on behind the scenes. What was it in particular about the event that created the pain, fear or hurt? Did the situation trigger an old pattern or open a festering wound from our past?
What we are trying to get at is the essence of what the day offered us and to give the problem a voice so it doesn't knock us off our feet down the road. The objective of journaling is to spend no more than five to 15 minutes consistently each day at the same time, and then go for a quick walk around the block or do something else to distract oneself. While sleeping, we internally process what took place during the day. Just as eating a big meal right before bed can cause indigestion, reviewing the day and "digesting" what transpired before going to sleep may lead to less reflux of emotional anxiety during the night.
We can choose from three types of journaling: venting, writing as an objective third person and journaling from a spiritual or reflective perspective.
• Venting is used primarily as a way to release the intensity of powerful feelings that were triggered during the day related to a problem or difficult situation. When venting, we try not to judge or apply rationality to what feelings come up. The idea with venting is to give these extreme feelings a voice so that we are no longer left with them creating havoc within us.
• Objective third person: After venting in our journal, we then take a step back and reexamine the situation as if we were a reporter in the room with our pencil and notepad taking notes. The objective observer approaches troublesome events of the day in a neutral, unbiased manner. The point here is to document what probably actually took place as objectively as possible.
• Spiritual reflective journaling lets us take the high road and try to make sense of what took place during the day from a higher perspective. We might pretend that someone of higher moral character reviewed our day. These are usually comments that are positive, or the very least constructive criticism and insight.
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People hate reading, it's a fact. Unless of course the words are written by a sarcastic little scamp in New Jersey and they include images of giant apes who run the world. Luckily for the world I'm here and there's also these new "Planet of the Apes" comic books which tell a lovely story that takes place before the original 1968 classic. You're welcome world.
David Koepp has been brought in to do major work on the script of "Men in Black III" which apparently is a bit of a shit show right now. Apparently the original script had a full on hardcore sex scene between Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones. Rumor has it it actually called for close ups of penetration and everything. Shocking. Oh I'm kidding there was just some light necking and I guess that's staying in.
Sometimes you read the description of a film and you just say out loud on the bus "Yes, this makes sense!" Then the people on the bus look at you weird and you lose your bus pass rights. But it's worth it because the world is going to get "Black River" which stars former wrestler Hulk Hogan as a serial killer. Need more? "Diamond" Dallas Page is coming along for the ride! Just feels right doesn't it?
I've got to say, this new film from Canada titled "The Corridor" looks pretty freakin good. I know! From Canada of all places. Little America did something good that didn't include maple syrup! The movie focuses around a group of friends who reunite after loosing touch for a weekend in the woods. A strange happening though has them turning on each other and questioning reality. And drinking a lot of maple syrup I'm guessing.
A 58 year old woman in California is suing a 99 cents store after she slipped and fell on a banana peel in the store. No jokes here folks. This is serious stuff.
Northwestern University recently held a special seminar on sexual fetishes that included a women getting nude and using a vibrator on herself. Keep in mind this was not mandatory for students and also completely free. This makes it both well within the school's conduct code and more importantly a crap load cheaper than what you have to pay to see something like this on 8th avenue.


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When using this model, we have to define a set of grammar rules that will be used to describe the growth of the branches of a tree. The rules that we define will later be implemented as the growth of the tree in an iterative fashion. In this system, we define these following alphabets that will be used in the production rules:
f : create branch
l : create leaf
[ and ] : define a set of local area/branch. The definitions of the area are put inside the [ and ]
+ and - : rotate the branch right/left in x-axis
^ and v : rotate the branch up/down in y-axis
<> : twist the branch left/right in z-axis
By using the symbols above, we can begin to create a tree with our system. But before that, we also have to define several properties that are also important in generating the tree, which are:
- The number of production rules iterations, for determining the level of the branches,
- The angle, for determining branch curves, and
- The radius of the branches and the decreasing value of it, in an iterative way The length of the branches
The following are several examples of the production rules that are used using the system:
Tree A
Angle : 25
# Iterations: 6
Branch radius: 0.02
Branch radius reduction: 0.0015
Branch length (height): 0.15
Initial value : fffffA
Production rules : A = f[++Al][--Al]>>>A
Tree B
Angle : 30
# Iterations: 10
Branch radius: 0.01
Branch radius reduction: 0.001
Branch length (height): 0.16
Initial value : fA
Production rules : A = f[^Bl]>>[^Bl]>>A, B = f[-
Tree C
Angle : 15
# Iterations: 13
Branch radius: 0.02
Branch radius reduction: 0.0015
Branch length (height): 0.15
Initial value : fA
Production rules : A = ^fB>>>B>>>>>B, B = [^^f>>>>>>A]


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Challenge's Grifo 33 Seta Extra Tubular boasts a tread that excels in snow, mud, grass and firm dirt. It's also built on their light and supple 260tpi hand-made silk casing for an awesome ride quality. Plus, there's an anti-puncture strip under the tread and polyester in the sidewalls for extra durability. You also get a latex tube. Latex tubes are lighter, thinner and more flexible than butyl tubes, increasing your comfort, lowering rolling resistance, and helping to prevent flats, too.
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Google Map 2.0 with My Location
Excerpt from Google press release –
"Google today announced the release of version 2.0 of Google Maps for mobile, its innovative and widely used mobile mapping and local search application. New in v2.0 is a beta version of Google's "My Location" technology, which uses cell tower ID information to provide users with their approximate location, helping them determine where they are, what's around them, and how to get there.
Google is committed to providing users with quick and easy access to the information they need, no matter when or where they need it. Location information makes mobile mapping and search faster and more convenient, but the most common source of location information to date — GPS technology — is supported on fewer than 15 percent of the mobile phones expected to be sold in 2007. With Google's new My Location technology, users who don't have GPS-enabled mobile phones will now be able to take advantage of the added speed and convenience afforded by location information. The My Location technology also complements GPS-enabled devices, as it delivers a location estimate faster than GPS, provides coverage inside buildings (where GPS signals can be unreliable), and doesn't drain phone batteries as quickly as GPS. Whether users are trying to locate a restaurant in an unfamiliar neighborhood, get directions to the nearest hotel while traveling, or just find a place to grab some coffee while shopping for the holidays, Google Maps for mobile with My Location can help them get what they need quickly and easily.
The My Location technology takes information broadcast from cell towers and sifts it through Google-developed algorithms to approximate a user's current location on the map. This approximation is anonymous, as Google does not gather any personally identifiable information or associate any location data with personally identifiable information as part of the My Location feature. The feature can also be easily disabled by anyone who prefers not to use it. The My Location technology is available on most smartphones, including all color BlackBerry devices, all Symbian Series 60 3rd Edition devices, most Windows Mobile devices, newer Sony Ericsson devices, and some Motorola devices."
Press here for full press release.
While on the topic, in regarding cell tower ID information, I still remember back in 2002 while I was in Bangkok, the cell phone can reveal my location (thanks to the Thai operators) and to an extent tells me what Soi (street) I'm on. That was a great function especially for tourist who cannot position themselves on the map. But meanwhile back at the farm, the local Hong Kong telecom operators just can't do jack. Let's hope it works this time around with the new Google maps.


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- 1. HAVE YOU CONSIDERED Evidence Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
By Julie Von Vett and Bruce Malone
Published by Search for the Truth
As stated on the cover of HAVE YOU CONSIDERED Evidence Beyond a Reasonable Doubt, "For over 200 years, the American judicial system has upheld a standard so strong that a person's very life can be ended based on this level of confidence. It is a verdict supported by evidence that is 'beyond a reasonable doubt'... This book is the third in a series of unique devotions presenting evidence for every day of the year that demonstrates it is beyond ANY reasonable doubt that we have a Creator."
Topics cover Anatomy, Biblical Accuracy, Biology, Botany, Christian Truth, Geology, God's Design, History, and Paleontology. Below are eight summaries from 365 more detailed daily devotionals covered in this extraordinary book.
January 25: Again and again, archeology confirms that the Scriptures are true. The Bible tells of slings and stones being used as deadly weapons. David used them when he killed Goliath (1 Samuel 17), and 700 Benjamites used slings and stones and never missed (Judges 20:16). So, what have archeologists discovered? They now recognize that the ancient armies' most important weapon was the sling. See Ancient Slingshot Was as Deadly as a .44 Magnum and Slings and Stones.Click here to read more
- 2. Arizona Origin Science Association Meeting "Censored Science and the Bible"
Please attend a presentation titled "Censored Science and the Bible" at the January 23, 2018 meeting of the Arizona Origin Science Association (AzOSA) to be held at the Payson Public Library meeting room, 328 N. McLane Rd, at 7:00 pm.
The guest speaker is Bruce Malone, formerly a chemical engineer and patent holder for new products with Dow Chemical. His presentation is an overview of the strongest evidence for biblical creation from geology, biology, and astronomy. Explaining how science operates and moving on to visual and unforgettable examples from each area of science, listeners are shown how evolution is a scientific impossibility while creation is the universal reality.
This meeting, as with all AzOSA meetings, is FREE to the public.
Bruce Malone has published many DVD's and books, including HAVE YOU CONSIDERED Evidence Beyond a Reasonable Doubt. Please see a review of this book on Gila Watch and Gilbert Watch. You can find additional publications on his website, Search for the Truth.
Click HERE for the flyer.Click here to read more
- 3. Arizona Origin Science Association Meeting March 28
(Originally scheduled for March 21, this meeting will take place on March 28 instead.) The Arizona Origin Science Association (AZOSA) will be meeting Tuesday, March 28 at 7:00 pm at the Payson Public Library Meeting Room. Mike Riddle, president of the Creation Training Initiative, will present "4 Power Questions to ask an Evolutionist." If you have anyone in your circle of influence who likes to challenge your views on biblical origins, posing these 4 questions will provide you with evidence that your opponent will not be able to disprove!
Further, these 4 foundational questions establish why evolution cannot be defended scientifically and must rely on faith.
The seminar shows how the layperson can successfully witness to an evolutionist.
This meeting, as with all AzOSA meetings, is open to the public and is FREE!
The featured speaker, Mike Riddle, has a B.A. from Colorado State University, and an M. Ed. from Pepperdine University. In addition to being president of the Creation Training Initiative , Mr. Riddle is also an Adjunct Staff member for Answers in Genesis.
For more information, call or email Michael Calcagno, the AzOSA Gila Division VP, at 503-476-2300 or email@example.com.
Please visit the AZ Origin Science Association website.
God is Good... All the Time!
- 4. Where Did God Come From?
Dr. Kent Hovind vs 3 Evolutionists.Debate at Daytona Beach, FL on April 17, 2004 with Jim Strayer, Luther Reisbig, and Reinhold Schlieter.Click here to read more
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Coffee to stay
They say there are 800 aromas hidden in a single unroasted bean. The baristas at the Nord Coast Coffee Roastery on historic Deichstraße in Hamburg have coaxed some wonderfully aromatic flavors from the beans, and we can't get enough of them. A bunch of us from the Lufthansa Magazin office love spending our lunch break at the small café, which also serves simple food. And we're not the only ones, because it's always crowded.


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Basic Properties
Here you can enter a name for the object.
If an element was assigned to a layer its layer color will be displayed here. This field reflects the layer color in the Layer Palette. You can drag & drop layers from the Layer Manager or similar layer fields onto this field. You can also assign layers or remove elements from current layers using the menus located behind the small triangle.
MIP and SAT mapping only approximate the optimum computation, since a precise computation would increase the render time greatly. SAT mapping is more accurate than MIP mapping. But sometimes these approximations can make a texture too blurred or too sharp.
So the Blur Offset and Blur Scale you to blur or sharpen the mapping. Blur Offset softens a texture.
Blur Scale fine-tunes the strength of the MIP or SAT mapping. A positive value increases the blur; a negative value weakens it. A strong value blurs detail but helps prevent flickering during animation. A weaker value brings out more detail but, increases the risk of flickering.
These settings can be used to define how the GPU renderer will convert shaders to 2D textures at material level. Note that not all shaders that have these settings can be converted.
The following settings will normally be defined in the ProRender render settings. This option can be enabled if you want to do this at material level.
Texture Size X [1..8192]
Texture Size Y [1..8192]
Texture Bit Depth
For further details about these three settings, see Texture Size X.


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This recipe came from a failed cedar-planked salmon experiment I had last week. The marinade was originally for grilled salmon on a cedar plank.
I liked the combination of flavors in the marinade, so I decided to try it with scallops. First, I tried it on a wood plank. I really disliked the taste of the wood planks. Maybe it was the type of wood I had. I was surprised because I've had wood-grilled scallops before, and I've liked them.
Next, I made the scallops without the wood planks. That's much better! The scallops are sweet and tender. The syrup and the bourbon combine and create pure deliciousness with the scallops. This recipe gets a big thumbs-up!
Bourbon-Maple Scallops
1 pound of fresh sea scallops
1/4 cup Bourbon
1/4 cup grade B maple syrup
2 Tbs olive oil
Lightly score the tops and bottoms of the scallops with a crosshatch pattern (a slanted tic-tac-toe board). Only let the knife go through the surface slightly.
Whisk the liquids and seasonings together. Add the scallops and let them marinate in the liquid for 15-30 minutes. Saute on a medium-high flame for 2-3 minute per side. Try to only turn over once.
Drizzle the pan juices over the top and serve.


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jbNadler brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 98 Designs von 30 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
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3 Words: Friendly. Innovative. Service.
A+ Japanese Auto Repair, Inc. is the San Francisco Bay Area's leading automotive repair shop specializing in Japanese, Hybrid & Electric vehicles. An innovator in it's field, A+ was "Going Green" long before it was fashionable. A+ is incredibly active in the local business community heading many San Carlos Chamber of Commerce commities and events.
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Domingo: no contract renewal at WNO
Plácido Domingo, the tenor, baritone, conductor, and opera administrator extraordinaire, said Monday that he will not renew his contract as general director of the Washington National Opera when it expires in June, 2011.
His departure is not entirely a surprise -- Domingo has long been thought to be chronically overextended. But it also means that the company is left without a marquee leader, its most recognizable brand, at a time when nearly every detail of the WNO's future is open to question -- most importantly, whether it will remain autonomous or merge with the Kennedy Center.
Domingo, 69, who has been associated with the opera for 14 years, announced his decision via conference call to the WNO board at a meeting Monday morning, speaking from Los Angeles, where he is also general director of the Los Angeles Opera. He is currently singing there in the starring role in the new opera "Il Postino" and conducting "Marriage of Figaro." Last week, he extended his Los Angeles contract, which also expired at the end of the season, for two more years.
"Over the years, I have had the great satisfaction to witness the rapid transformation of Washington National Opera from an exciting opera company into an internationally celebrated one," Domingo wrote in a letter sent to members of the board after the meeting. "As I come to the end of my tenure at Washington National Opera, I think it is time for the company to go in new directions, including studying the possibility of a merger with the Kennedy Center. And you can rest assured that I will do everything I can to help during this, my last year as General Director."
Domingo became artistic director of WNO in 1996, and has served as general director since 2003. His tenure is commonly said to have lifted the Washington National Opera to a new level, bringing in more international stars and big-name productions (José Carreras in Wolf-Ferrari's "Sly," Mirella Freni singing opposite Domingo in "Fedora," a nationally televised "Pagliacci" starring Domingo and directed by Franco Zeffirelli, Renée Fleming in "Lucrezia Borgia"). And his commitment to American opera meant that WNO presented the second or third productions of a number of important works: Maw's "Sophie's Choice," Bolcom's "A View from the Bridge," Previn's "A Streetcar Named Desire."
Under Domingo, however, the company moved away from the quirky distinctiveness that had characterized it under his predecessor, Martin Feinstein. And all of the big names came at a cost. The company has never quite managed to get its financial house in order, and Domingo's frequent absences, as he maintained an active singing and conducting career, while also running the Los Angeles Opera, didn't help the causes either of fund-raising or of administrative stability.
This was not an acrimonious farewell. Domingo promised to honor all of his commitments to WNO, including returning next season to conduct, and said he hoped that WNO would invite him back to sing or to conduct.
"Marta and I are honored to have found so many friends in Washington," he said, referring to his wife, "and we both hope this friendship will last forever."
Anne Midgette
| September 27, 2010; 4:45 PM ET
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Check the photo please!
Posted by: blithe | September 27, 2010 5:02 PM | Report abuse
never mind!
Posted by: blithe | September 27, 2010 5:03 PM | Report abuse
Huh??? When did Gilbert sign on with the WNO??
Posted by: silentnomore | September 27, 2010 5:19 PM | Report abuse
On the front page of the web edition, there's a picture of a basketball player where Domingo should be.
Posted by: TimPage1 | September 27, 2010 6:48 PM | Report abuse
He should have signaled his intentions to leave 4 or 5 years ago. Initially he brought excitement and visibility to the Washington Opera, but for the past few seasons he's been an absentee director. We deserve a director who's committed to the company and Washington's operal lovers and who understands that a big part of directing any arts organization in this day and age is fund raising.
Posted by: laSerenissima2003 | September 27, 2010 7:59 PM | Report abuse
1. Did Washingtonians really expect Mr. Domingo to be on hand 24/7 when he took on the role of Artistic & then, General Director? Either way, his presence raised the WNO's profile enormously and hence, attracted donors well beyond the scope of his predecessors.
2. Apart from the claims made by the Washington Post, is there any actual proof that Mr. Domingo suddenly became AWOL during the past few seasons?
3. The WP was quick to attribute the WNO's financial woes (not to mention the entire recession) on Mr. Domingo's supposed shortcomings as a General Director. Its initial reports on the possibility of a merger w/ the Kennedy Center were based on unsubstantiated rumors. Having done its sporting best to make it uncomfortable for Mr. Domingo to stay, the WP is now complaining that his departure leaves the company leaderless at a critical time. Go figure!
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A massive cyber attack targeting a European spam-fighting group that slowed some global Internet traffic to a crawl appears to have been launched by a gang of hackers from Russia and neighboring countries, says the head of a Russian firm specializing in defending against such attacks.
MOSCOW–A massive cyber attack targeting a European spam-fighting group that slowed some global Internet traffic to a crawl appears to have been launched by a gang of hackers from Russia and neighboring countries, says the head of a Russian firm specializing in defending against such attacks.
Alexander Lyamin, of Moscow's Highload Labs, says he believes the same group who have caused trouble around the world with their attack against the non-profit Spamhaus Project Ltd. had earlier launched a series of brief strikes on several top Russian Internet companies as a trial run of their weapon known as a Domain Name System amplification attack.
"We first noticed incidents utilizing this technique a month-and-a-half ago in Russia. It started with a measly 10-20 gigabytes per second, but during the next month it grew to 60 and then 120 gigabytes. Apparently the attackers were growing their network of hacked servers," Mr. Lyamin said.
The attacks against Spamhaus began on March 19 and appeared to have subsided on Wednesday. Some experts said the attack grew to as large as 300 gigabytes per second, which would make it the largest ever seen, although others–including Mr. Lyamin — dispute that.
A DNS amplification attack works by manipulating the basic system by which the Internet operates wherein a series of domain name system servers convert searches for particular sites, like www.wsj.com, to their INS address which is actually a numerical code and makes the connection. The attack utilizes a network of hacked DNS servers to answer fake messages that appear to come from a targeted site with much larger responses. While this cripples the target site, it also severely slows the DNS server which results in bogging down scores of other searches. In the Spamhaus attack, experts have said they believe millions of web surfers were affected.
Spamhaus has accused Dutch Web-hosting company Cyberbunker for being behind the attack in a tit-for-tat retaliation for Spamhaus putting Cyberbunker on a blacklist for allegedly allowing vast amounts of spam to be sent through its servers.
Spokespeople for Cyberbunker and Spamhaus did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment. In a statement on its Website, Spamhaus said "a number of people have claimed to be involved in these attacks. At this moment it is not possible for us to say whether they are really involved."
While Mr. Lyamin would not name the Russian companies that were the earlier targets because of "the very sensitive nature of this matter," but said they included services used by Russians every single day.
"The targets were companies with good visibility and big names, but the attacks were only for a short duration of time. We think it was done for bragging rights. Also lots of Internet trash was targeted–porn, scam, drugs, piracy, etc. It was like a child playing Robin Hood or something," he added.
He said the targeting of Russian companies, and the fact that the attacks tended to begin during daylight hours in Russia's timezone, led his team to believe the attacks were launched by "a group of Russians or from our closest neighbors."
Mr. Lyamin says he suspects whoever was behind the spam that Spamhaus had targeted had hired the hackers to launch the attack, which he said is a copycat of one undertaken in October 2010, about 20% smaller by volume of traffic.
"This is not new," he said. "And I really doubt this is the biggest."


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Nieuwenhuis hopes to stick with Mets this time
WASHINGTON -- Four times already this season, the call has come. Four times, Kirk Nieuwenhuis has boarded a plane, maybe waited out a layover somewhere, then joined the Mets' active roster.
The first three times, the Mets sent him right back down to Triple-A Las Vegas. This time, Nieuwenhuis hopes to stick.
"You try and keep it on as much of an even keel as possible," said Nieuwenhuis, who took Bobby Abreu's roster spot. "I think one thing that's really been more evident to me this year is that it kind of builds character. I think you can really take some good stuff out of it. You really learn that you can only control how you play. You learn that it's a business in baseball."
Shuttling back and forth between the Minors and the big leagues so often, Nieuwenhuis said, has taught him to be honest with himself. The Mets demoted him each time for a reason; some perhaps more political than others, but the fact is Nieuwenhuis posted just a .246 average and a .328 on-base percentage in his first three Major League stints. What he offered in power, he lacked in consistency.
The outfielder's latest trip to the big leagues involved a red-eye flight and one hour of sleep, all for the opportunity to sit on the bench for Tuesday's series opener in Washington. But Nieuwenhuis understands the drill. In addition to his four big league stints this season, he shuttled back and forth twice last season and once in 2012. As a result, he says he's "as used to it as he can be."
So Nieuwenhuis will ride the bench against lefties, start sporadically against right-handers and hope that what he brings to the table -- respectable power and defense -- will help keep him in the big leagues for good.
"It's going to be day to day right now," manager Terry Collins said, "but for sure, we're going to try to get him some more playing time."


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The one thing missing from Skype is the ability to record your calls. Perhaps you're interviewing someone or you want to be able to refer back to parts of the call later, the problem is that Skype doesn't provide any kind of call-recording facilities. Then there's the question of voicemail – being able to let people leave messages if you're not around to answer their call. That feature's available in Skype, but only if you're on a premium package.
Pamela Basic fills in the missing gaps – install the program, launch Skype and make sure you allow Pamela access to it. Once done, you have a recording device capable of working with Skype and as a custom recorder. You can use it to take voice mails or record active conversations – as the "Basic" name implies, there are limitations with this free version: your recordings cannot exceed 15 minutes, while calls aren't automatically recorded – look out for the pop-up window inviting you to start recording the call; strangely, it doesn't appear over the top of other windows unless you tick the appropriate box in the Options dialog.
These limitations aside – unlimited versions are available for under $20 from the Pamela.biz website – the program works well. Your recordings are clearly labelled according with the other person's name, plus date and time of the recording. Voicemail messages are stored separately to recordings, and you can record your own voicemail greeting, which kicks in after 15 seconds by default when your Skype status is anything but online – this can be further tweaked in the Options dialogue box. You can also send a warning message to the other person informing them you intend to record a Skype audio conversation if you so wish.
The inability to automatically record calls is a little annoying, but otherwise Pamela works well as a time-limited call-recording tool.


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Please try out the new beta maps, and report any faults that you can find. Also tell me if map redrawing speed has decreased or not. I did not download the map data again, so map data is the same as latest "normal" maps. Only 1 Layer!!! Autorouting should be identical (hopefully)
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Google wants you reach for the stars -- even if you can't see them.
The 100-minute long lunar eclipse begins at 11:20am PDT today -- but Google can't see it from their Mountain View campus on the peninsula.
So they kicked at the ground and went back to work building wind farms.
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So they arranged a "mission interface" with the Slooh Space Camera so anyone, anywhere can watch the eclipse in real time, via Google App Engine.
There is also a livestream on the Google YouTube Channel -- or, if users are looking to fill up three screens with nerdy awesomeness, they can download a kml file and watch it via the Sky layer in Google Earth (available on the blog post).
But wait, there's more -- in the form of an Android App.
These avenues of wonder are brought to the world by Noel Gorelick's team, who posted on Google's official blog this morning. Gorelick is "Chief Extraterrestrial Observer and Technical Lead in Special Projects.


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WILSONVILLE, Ore. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — November 3, 2009 — Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced that Juniper Networks has completed the world's first network instruction set processor IC using Mentor Graphics® physical verification and silicon test tools.
Juniper's new processor is part of Juniper's latest Junos® Trio chipset that enables the delivery of Juniper's MX-3D platforms. "We went with the Calibre® verification platform because it gives a high level of confidence in the manufacturability of our design," said Debashis Basu, senior director of Foundation Technologies at Juniper Networks. "With a design of this size, we needed a solution that could deliver fast turnaround time. The Calibre user interface environment and scripting capability helped us to find and debug problems quickly, and automate chip assembly."
Juniper employed a combination of Mentor's embedded deterministic test pattern generation and memory BIST products to meet demanding test requirements. With hundreds of separate embedded memories, Juniper's design presented a real test challenge to minimize routing congestion, enable at-speed testing, and keep real estate required for BIST controllers to a minimum. Juniper was able to achieve their objectives using Mentor's modular test flow, embedded deterministic pattern compression, and efficient memory BIST technology.
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ESSAY- White Tornado: Could John McCain have ADHD?
Impulsive. Easily distracted. Hot tempered. Gets into fights. Despite intellectual potential, does poorly at school. Sound familiar?
If this were your child or older brother, you would wonder if he had unrecognized and untreated Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, ADHD. Yet, when the individual in question is a United States senator running for the presidency, that possibility seems not to have been considered.
Last week, in a fit of fretting about the economy, Senator McCain suspended his campaign and attempted to cancel the first debate.
On Wednesday, September 17, he cancelled an appearance on David Letterman's CBS show Late Night and lied to Letterman about an immediate need to catch a plane to Washington.
He then trots off to be interviewed by Katie Couric. (Letterman later launched a devastating salvo which certainly negated anything the Couric interview might have gained.)
How sudden and thought-out were the senator's decisions?
Some say ADHD is just another over-diagnosed non-malady. Others celebrate it because along with impulsiveness come passion, creativity, and an ability to "think outside the box."
Four to 12 out of every 100 school children have it, and most carry it into adulthood.
The greatest Olympic athlete of all time, Michael Phelps, has it. Scientists such as Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton, along with myriad famous actors, including the beloved Jimmy Stewart and Whoppi Goldberg, turned any alleged ADHD into careers of greatness.
But there's that impulsivity.
"Mr. McCain is known to sign off on big campaign decisions and then to march off his own reservation," according to an August 10 New York Times article. "Out of his hearing, Mr. McCain is called the White Tornado by some people who have worked for him over the years."
Hectic campaign or residual childhood malady?
"McCain frequently forgets key elements of policies, gets countries' names wrong, forgets things he's said only hours or days before, and is frequently just confused," writes Frank Rich August 17, in which he explains why the McCain campaign has stopped the press's previously unimpeded access to Senator McCain on the formerly free-wheeling "Straight Talk Express" campaign bus.
Rich also quotes Rita Hauser, who served on the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board in the Bush administration's first term. "If John says 'I'm going with so and so,' you can't count on that the next morning."
Such stories may be typical of the rough-and-tumble dialogue of the political year, but they also raise the question of undiagnosed and untreated disorder.
The handbook of the mental health profession, The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, notes the main symptoms: difficulty sustaining attention and failure to listen, to follow through, and to organize tasks.
Hyperactivity symptoms include fidgeting, excessive talking, and a personality often "on the go" as if "driven by motor." And the symptoms of impulsivity include interrupting and blurting out answers before questions have been completed.
This is a difficult diagnosis to establish in an older adult, and one cannot make the diagnosis without examining the individual and if possible talking to his family.
We know that McCain showed remarkable fortitude in surviving the repeated tortures inflicted by his North Vietnamese captors. But we also know he had a low class rank (894 of 899) at the Naval Academy, and he reportedly excelled in only those classes that interested him.
In his acceptance speech at the Republican national convention, McCain said he liked to "pick a few fights for the fun of it." Michael Leahy's August 31 profile of Senator McCain's formative years in The Washington Post opens with an account of a McCain fight in a park near Georgetown.
Leahy notes that McCain's grandfather, John Sidney "Slew" McCain, had struggled during his own Naval Academy years, as had McCain's father, John Sidney "Jack" McCain, Jr.: "He had been plagued by the same poor academy standing, made worse because of his prodigious appetite for rakish rule-breaking, a risk compounded in Jack's case because he was partying and drinking during Prohibition. Few fathers and sons could have been more alike as adolescents than Jack McCain and John Sidney III. Youthful rebellion seemed encoded in their DNA."
With a large genetic component, ADHD is found primarily in males.
Perhaps frustrated by not being able to select friend Joe Lieberman as his running mate, McCain made the seemingly impulsive decision to choose Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. He'd met Palin once. No McCain staff checked with anyone in the Alaska State Legislature or business community. There was no FBI background check.
Now the Couric interviews of Governor Palin reveal what many suspected. This hockey mom vice presidential candidate might actually believe she has foreign policy qualifications because her state borders on two foreign countries and she can see Russia from her coastline.
What about the current economic hurricane? On September 15, Senator McCain said, "The fundamentals of the economy are strong." Yet, that day the Dow nosedived 500 points. In Cedar Rapids, Iowa on Sunday the 21st, his proposed fix was to announce that if he were president, he would axe the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commisstion. There is a small problem. The president does not have that power.
The next day, September 22, he claimed he had laid out his plan to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and had been "looking at the plan that the administration has put forth." On Wednesday the 24th he conceded, "I have not had a chance to see it [the administration's three-pager] in writing." And, then he suspended his campaign.
"The more one sees of his impulsive, intensely personal reactions to people and events, the less confidence one has that he would select judges by calm reflection and clear principles, having neither patience nor aptitude for either." That came from conservative columnist George Will on September 23.
Yet no one connects the dots.
The next president must immediately confront enduring wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, covert wars in Pakistan, Georgia, Africa and elsewhere, radical Islam on innumerable fronts, Putin's belligerence, dangerous epidemics, global warming, a crippled United Nations, and on the home front a health care crisis with forty million uninsured, the deterioration of public schools, failures of energy policy, and a decaying infrastructure. That is the short list. There will be more on the next president's plate come January.
Some might celebrate an ADHD president. He might pursue new ideas– perhaps novel solutions to the financial crisis or creative ways of dealing with an ascendant China. On the other hand, America has already received international scorn for unilateral military action. Is impulsiveness a good trait for someone with his hands on nuclear launch codes?
In his 2002 memoir Senator McCain said, "Often my haste is a mistake, but I live with the consequences without complaint." Can we?
The author is a psychiatrist and an Obama/Biden supporter.


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Strong words, weak cause
I do not wish to embarrass Patricia Kluge by pointing out all of the inaccuracies in her recent letter to the Hook [July 10:"Condon doesn't know Kluge"] (http://www.readthehook.com/93705/letter-condon-doesnt-know-kluge) (such as her inference that herbicides are not pesticides and that they have no effect upon wildlife).
I would simply like to say that her letter immediately brought to mind an aphorism I heard a long time ago: Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
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Written by Duana T
All my friends know I've had a girl crush on Lauren Graham for awhile. Virturally all of them would say they don't really get it.
To me, she's smart, funny, her not-all-that-often clips in the media are thoughtful and reflect that she's basically aware that she's just an actress and not that big a deal, she makes a big point of talking about how awesome her single dad was at raising her, and her red carpet outings are always interesting, never straight-up attention whore-y.
Plus, she silenced all her critics – again. When she got the flaky mom role in Parenthood after Maura Tierney unfortunately backed out of the project, people said she was just playing Lorelei Gilmore again. And from those who didn't like Lorelei the first time around, that was a pretty big indictment.
But the show is a critical success, at least 1/4 in part due to her (or maybe 1/5 – Mae Whitman is absolutely awesome as wayward daughter Amber) and she's managed to do some really new and nuanced things with her performance – and I started to think maybe she could gain a real following. And she's in that new movie, It's Kind Of a Funny Story, and you'll go see that, right? It has Zach Galafianakis!
But then she had to go and do this on the cover of Redbook. It's the worst-kept 'secret' that she and onscreen brother Peter Krause are dating. Have been for some time. But since they're not famewhores , since they didn't go out courting the press, people didn't officially know 'til now. It's like Lainey says, it's easy to avoid the public eye if you want to.
I can hear all of ya'll naysayers saying 'they're TV people! Nobody cares!' but someone must, or she wouldn't have made the cover. Right?
I'm worried because I know how much ladies love their Peter Krause. Think he's adorable. Love that bearclaw of hair on the top of his head. And no matter how small and devoted a following a man has, people are never fans of the woman who won that man's heart. Case in point – Jennifer Westfeldt. How many of you are going 'what does he see in her?' Or Elisabetta Canalis. Jessica Biel. Or the complete and total vilification of Kristen Stewart. A girl with a popular boyfriend can't win.
So, despite the fact that I think Lauren Graham is fantastic, onscreen and off (read the quote about learning the difference between her problems and other peoples'), I know this won't endear some of you to her. And I wish you would give her a chance.
So at least I can start here. Parenthood is GREAT. Like, incredible. Really, really smart and fun and well rounded because everyone who's ever been a part of any kind of family can relate to the Bravermans. At least watch the show. If nothing else, you can get squicked out knowing she's dating her onscreen brother. Hey, it worked for Dexter…right?
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I am interested in trying this service and comparing Ancestry to 23andMe and FamilyTreeDNA. I am hoping that my paternal grandfather's cousin will agree to test. (That's you, D.W.)
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