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Men's Bulova Archive Series Devil Diver Oceanographer Limited Edition Watch 98C131
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- Special Edition Devil Diver Oceanographer watch
- Water resistant up to 666 feet/200 meters
- 40.5mm stainless steel case
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- 666 individually numbered pieces
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- Screw-down crown
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- Orange three-hand dial
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- Double curved sapphire box crystal
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- Bulova Style #: 98C131
- Band Materials: Stainless Steel
- Case Sizes: Large (40mm & Over)
- Case Shapes: Round
- Display: Analog
- Movements: Automatic
- Watch Styles: Casual, Sport
- Dial Color: Orange
- Watch Type: DiversDivers: A type of watch that is designed specifically for those who will wear it when diving. Diver watches must have a minimum ATM (atmosphere) of 10., Bracelet
- Features: Calendar/Date, Luminous, Rotating Bezel, Screw-Down Crown, Water Resistant
- Diameter: 40.5 mm
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Hi, I did a 3 day course last summer and want to start kiting now (I still have 2 practice days at the kiteschool left, which i will take before).
I got to the following Kite with a board included for 100€, but now I am a little bit worried if the equipment isn´t a little bit too old. I have an 2002 Wipika Free Air AR 3.3 Kite with a quite simple bar and a Directional-Board.
But there is not a safetyleash on the bar, only a big chickenloop.
Do you think I should better sell everything again and look for anything newer, more developed or is it safe enough to get a good bar with the needed safetytools on it?
Is the board good enough for a beginner?
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Jan 9, 2013
PIACT seeks insurance industry stars--Nominate someone today!
HARTFORD, Conn.-The Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut Inc. is calling for nominees for its 2013 Distinction of Professionalism Awards. These three awards will be presented at the upcoming PIACT Annual Convention, March 14-15, 2013, at the MGM Grand at Foxwoods. Nominations for the Company Person of the Year and Community Service Award are due Friday, Feb. 1, 2013. Nominations for the Professional Agent of the Year are due Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013.
Each year, PIACT honors insurance professionals who exemplify the qualities and actions that serve as a model of excellence in the insurance industry and for the independent agency system. Awards for which nominations are being sought include:
- Professional Agent of the Year: This award is presented to an agent who demonstrates excellence and achievement in insurance marketing and service; exhibits a personal commitment to professionalism; and contributes to PIACT and the local community.
- Company Person of the Year: This honor is awarded to a person who embodies qualities that best foster sound working relationships between insurance agents and companies.
- Community Service Award: This distinction is bestowed upon the agent who took on a leadership role in a significant activity for the betterment of the community and its individuals.
Nominators are asked to provide support for each of their nominations, which can include, but is not limited to, the following: contribution to the industry; support of PIA; community involvement; employment history; and education.
If you know a deserving candidate(s), you can nominate an individual(s) via PIACTs website (www.pia.org). From the associations home page click "Nominations open!" under "Whats New" on the right-hand side of the screen.
PIACT is a trade association representing professional, independent insurance agencies, brokerages, and their employees throughout the state.


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What does Quality of Life mean for offshore employees?
There is probably no work environment as complex as an offshore platform. These unconventional places call for people who are capable of facing the unknown with professionalism, enthusiasm and resilience. Who are they? What do they expect in terms of Quality of Life? That's what this infographic investigates.


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Alexander Fleming Laboratory Museum
Founded in 1993, the Museum features Fleming's laboratory restored to its condition in 1928 when he discovered penicillin in that very room. The Museum was designated an International Historic Chemical Landmark in 1999 by the American Chemical Society and Royal Society of Chemistry. The educational programme of the museum was coinsidered a model for smaller museums in Italy at a conference on museum educatioon held in Rome in 1999. The Museum is located in a grade II listed building within St Mary's Hospital and has been used extensively as a film location.
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Adult £4-00
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Staff will visit schools, colleges, universities and community groups with lectures and presentations on Fleming, the history of penicillin, the history of medicine, hospitals, nursing and microbiology.
Material relating to Alexander Fleming, penicillin, antibiotics, twentieth-century microbiology/bacteriology and St Mary's Hospital.
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Archives, Medicine, Science and Technology, Social History
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Alexander Fleming and the development of penicillin
Education pack using original source material (photographs, first hand accounts, facsimiles of manuscripts, tables of data, charts) with worksheets on the discovery and development of penicillin
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Cirque du Soleil is opening a new show in New York for a limited amount of weeks. Is called Wintuk and this will be my birthday present. If everything goes OK I will give my self a weekend to New York and I will enjoy this show.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
My birthday present
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Spice up your visit to Ipswich with a thrilling tour of a lifetime courtesy of an unforgettable Pterodactyl Helicopters experience. Just imagine the excitement as you lift off, with friendly Captain Mike Jarvis taking you over the Ipswich, Scenic Rim, Lockyer Valley, Somerset, Logan and Redlands regions.
Choose from adrenaline-charged offers, such as the Helicopter River Run - a low level flight winding along the Brisbane River - or combine dining out or a trip to a winery with the Pterodactyl experience. Packages include the Wine Tour to several local boutique wineries with lunch provided, and the Country Pub Crawl where you drop in to authentic Aussie pubs to sample the beer and have some great tucker. Now, that's travelling in style!
Why not impress your partner with a romantic lunch at Spicers Hidden Vale or the historic Woodlands of Marburg? Or get a large group together for an adventure helicopter tour? With the ideal flying conditions in and around Ipswich, Pterodactyl is the perfect way to take in a birds' eye view of the historical city and its picturesque surrounds. A special time is between September and November for the purple beauty of flowering Jacarandas.
Due to current health advice on social distancing, please contact the business for the most up to date information regarding opening times and services.
There are many excellent wineries dotted across greater Ipswich, the Scenic Rim, and Somerset Region of Queensland. Some of the best are hidden away and hard to find unless you know where to look. Why travel by car or coach – think helicopter!
Getting there is half the fun!
They have hand-picked some of the region's best boutique wineries to show you by helicopter. Their experienced pilots will fly you in comfort while you sit back in the helicopter, relax and enjoy breathtaking views matched by premium quality wines served by the region's finest wine-makers. Lunch will be provided and you can select a bottle of wine from each winery to take home.
Food, wine, beer the staple of Australian life. Being able to put the right beverage with a particular meal is a fine art and when you get it right it's simply magic. In this region they are not starved for choice when it comes to great food, interesting wines and out of the ordinary beers.
Now imagine if you could sample a range of different food experiences, expertly matched with the right wine or beer all in one day! To top it off, everything is produced locally from local farms, boutique wineries and breweries. These interesting places are spread out, so using traditional transport would limit you to only one or two. How cool would it be to do six in the same day?
Impossible by car, but not by helicopter.
Each location is special and the trip between venues features view of undulating plains, lakes and the beautiful mountains of the greater Brisbane region.
Their wine tours by helicopter are a real hoot, but what if you don't like wine? Try a tour of three to five of the best country pubs in the region stopping for a beer at each pub and a great pub lunch at one. Pubs include: Sundowner Saloon, Dugandan Hotel, Royal Hotel Harrisville, Mulgowie Hotel, Peak Pub and Porters Plainland Tavern. They only choose great pubs and each trips selection of pubs will be a surprise!
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Former Giants pitcher helping with replay system
PHOENIX -- John D'Acquisto relishes his new part-time job.
"I've got the best seat in the house," said D'Acquisto, the former Giants right-hander who sits next to the visitors' dugout at Chase Field. D'Acquisto, who lives in north Phoenix, serves as part of the three-person crew that functions as a conduit in the new replay system between the command center in New York and the ballpark.
D'Acquisto and his pair of counterparts are distinguished by the red shirts and caps they wear. Their official title is "field timing coordinator," and their goal is to help the review process proceed as smoothly and quickly as possible -- something that players insisted upon when the replay procedure was being devised.
"Being an ex-player, I kind of feel at home with that request," said D'Acquisto, 62, who began his 10-year Major League career by pitching for the Giants from 1973-76. His best year was 1974, when he finished 12-14 with a 3.77 ERA.
Among D'Acquisto's duties is to alert the command center of a potential challenge during the 10-second window when a manager leaves the dugout to discuss a call with an umpire. After a challenge is reviewed, D'Acquisto or another field timing coordinator relays the decision to the stadium's public-address announcer.
D'Acquisto doesn't get involved with the rulings made by game umpires or the challenges submitted by a manager.
"I take no instruction from anybody but New York," said D'Acquisto, whose activities away from the ballpark include writing about baseball for a sports website.


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You wake up and head to school feeling fine. By lunch you're starting to feel icky and by the end of school you're sick.
Under the right circumstances, bacteria can reproduce every 20 minutes.
Have your students determine how many bacteria will exist after 10 hours, if they begin with just one. They'll have to do their calculations in their head/on paper, as a calculator will quickly become useless!
Scientists believe that humans can start to feel the effect of harmful bacteria when there are about 2000 bacteria in the body. How many minutes/hours did it take to reach this number?
If time permits and you're willing, you could use popcorn kernals to model the number of bacteria (up to a certain point....). Have your students count out lots of 10 kernals in small cups - it makes it easier to count out 100, etc.


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Still the Same Hawk: Reflections on Nature and New York
(Fordham University Press, 2012)
This book brings into conversation diverse and intriguing perspectives on the relationship between nature and America's most prominent city. How can a hawk nesting above Fifth Avenue become a citywide phenomenon? Or a sudden butterfly migration at Coney Island energize the community? Why does the presence of a community garden or an empty lot ripple so differently through the surrounding neighborhood? Why does nature even matter to New Yorkers, who choose to live in the concrete jungle? Still the Same Hawk examines these questions with a rich mix of creative nonfiction that ranges from analytical to anecdotal and humorous. Waldman's sharp, well-crafted introduction presenting dualism as the defining quality of urban nature is followed by contributions from Betsy McCully, Christopher Meier, Tony Hiss, Kelly McMasters, Dara Ross, William Kornblum, Phillip Lopate, David Rosane, Robert Sullivan, Anne Matthews, Devin Zuber, and Frederick Buell. John Waldman (Prof., Queens) is on the doctoral faculty in biology and earth and environmental sciences.
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In this hands-on beginners class, learn the fundamentals of glassblowing as you lead in making your own unique paperweight from start to finish.
Students will learn how to gather glass from the furnace, marver it across a steel tabletop, apply colour (chosen by you) and finally shape the piece at the bench with wooden blocks and traditional hand tools. We polish the final product and you take it home the next day!
An amazing first experience for anyone who's ever wanted to try glassblowing!
Max 6 students/class
Prerequisite: None
Minimum age: 15
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I was lucky enough to shoot again with the beautiful Sophie whom I shot last year for a clothing line.
This time we experimented with light and mood for atmospheric effect. Hopefully will have another chance to work with her again in the near future as it's always a chilled out, fun and relaxed day in the office.
Modelling by Sophie
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For true football fanatics, like us, there are two distinct dates every year that have us all in a froth: the start of the new league season after a long period without any matches (or worse, after another risible England display in an international tournament), and the day that the latest Football Manager hits the shops.
Frankly, it's hard to explain the hold that Football Manager has on our lives, or why its gameplay mix of constant repetition and database management is so compelling, but it is. It is the only game that we're happy to play almost every single day. And, with no ending or structured storyline other than yearly league and cup runs, it can be, and often is, never-ending. Until the next annual update arrives, of course. It defies logic. It's like real football.
This year's edition, the prophetically-titled Football Manager 2011, is a by-product of a massive overhaul that was undertaken for last season. Its menu systems have been fiddled with and rejigged, but are essentially the same, and the feel of the game, including the match engine, are as familiar to regular players as a favoured pair of socks. However, certain minor and major tweaks to features, functions and footballer animations make for an even more immersive and realistic experience this time around. And that's no mean feat.
Overtly, the first tweak you come across - regularly - is the addition of agents into the game as fleshed-out, stat-rendered characters. They will hawk players at you like cotton merchants in an Egyptian bazaar, and will be the voice of players during any contract negotiation.
In previous Football Managers, the transfer and contract process was simplified: agree fee, offer contract, they either accept or not, and Bob's your uncle, Fanny's a rude word. This time, an agent will propose a contract to you, which you can either accept or counteroffer. It's not a massive advancement on the old method, and, in the long term, may make little difference to your club's performance, but it helps this little corner of the game world seem that bit more realistic.
Another change for the sake of enhanced realism is an improvement in the way you interact with players, journalists and the board. Rather than just choose an option from a drop down menu, you are now presented with a running dialogue, answering questions or choosing statements that you feel best suit the situation. Be careful though, answers can have serious implications, especially with morale. Telling a player to put up or shut up may find him and his allies in the team turning against you publicly.
The 3D match engine has had a very minor facelift in comparison. The crowds and grounds look better, with backgrounds, such as rows of houses, beyond the stands. And evening matches now look like they're played at night, with floodlighting and shading enforcing the effect. But the biggest and most welcome graphical augmentation is with goal celebrations and the like.
Players now have more personality, from grinding their hips at the corner flag after a goal to putting their heads in their hands when they give away a penalty. Admittedly, SI Games' match engine isn't as sumptuous looking as others on the market, such as that found in EA's FIFA Manager series, but said little things make it a joy to watch. And it has always ebbed and flowed like a genuine game of football, which is what matters.
There is one weird new feature of the new 3D graphic engine that's worth pointing out, however. In FM 2010, the players would stand still on the pitch in the speeded-up moments between highlights. Now, they fade in and out of an empty pitch, looking like ghosts or the sort of memory flashback you get in a TV movie. It certainly takes some getting used to.
Another less well-received new tweak, in this camp at least, is the way in which pre- and post-match press conferences now take place. While they have been refined by the elimination of a confirm button after each selection, thereby speeding up the process, they are still as repetitive and, ultimately, tortuous as before. You can get your assistant manager to automatically take part instead, but that has ramifications on the way your players can perceive you, and their overall morale. In some ways, we wish the events weren't part of the process at all. Maybe that's something to address for next year's edition?
These are minor niggles, though. It would take much more space and time than we can afford to list all the beneficial minor revisions in comparison. Training has been made more intuitive, as has tactic creation (so much so that, for the first time ever, we won our first five games in the league with a homemade tactic). And, there is still one major addition to highlight, the grandstand new feature for FM 2011; dynamic league reputation...
Rather than update you and your team's stature at the end of each season, like with every Football Manager game that has come before, reputation is a rolling, morphing concept. As you do better in the league, so your team will be able to attract better players and be regarded as a better prospect. Similarly, you might be offered a better job halfway through the season, based on your new found fame and excellent performance levels.
It was always frustrating to find that, although you had taken Northampton Town through consecutive promotions and into the Europa League in merely 5 years, you were still regarded as no better than a low-league club when it came to the best player. Now, no longer.
The last new feature we'll mention doesn't add anything to the gameplay at all, but has gotten a fair amount of press since its announcement - social networking. Well, Twitter and YouTube, anyway. Linking your account with either allows you to post achievements and boasts, one in just text and one in video form (greatest goals, replayed moments, etc). That is essentially it, it is pretty basic at the moment.
We could even see the feature becoming less and less used as time goes on, especially in automatic mode. Would you follow someone who's Twitter stream is constantly peppered with the descriptions of his accomplishments in the lower rungs of the Korean league? Us neither.
It doesn't mean that this is a bad feature per se, just one in its infancy. Maybe the future will behold meatier integration.
Football Manager 2011 rises above its flaws and, if nothing else, proves that it still has a massive place in the modern gaming world. It moves with the times and is both accessible enough for new fans to hop on board the most addictive bus in the genre, and full of hidden wonders for regular players.
It has no equals, and hasn't for a considerable while. And although competition is often healthy, the lack of any of note never hampers Sports Interactive's drive or ambition for perfection. This latest iteration of the best sports coaching game out there may not be 100 per cent perfect, but it's damn damn close.


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From the corner of South Washington and Marion streets, laughter and the buzz of conversation filtered up from the basement of Central United Methodist Church on Saturday morning.
From the corner of South Washington and Marion streets, laughter and the buzz of conversation filtered up from the basement of Central United Methodist Church on Saturday morning.
A propped-open side door led down to a room, lit by florescent lights, where a line of people snaked around the four walls.
Each person held open a blue, canvas Walmart bag, ready to receive cans of sweet corn, boxed cake mixes, canned cranberries, a large ham and other items for a full Easter dinner.
Starting around 10 a.m. Saturday, dozens of volunteers from nine Methodist churches banded together to fulfill a simple mission: to feed
185 families in Cleveland County.
The event, dubbed District 12 food program, is named for the popular film �The Hunger Games,� which had scenes filmed in Shelby.
Craig Langston, pastor of Central United Methodist, said the Methodist churches in the region recently went from having 15 to 8 districts, adding churches to each area.
�Each district is divided into smaller networks,� Langston said. �Ours is called District 12.�
The churches� motto, �We don�t play games with hunger,� is displayed on the basement wall.
�Know that God will provide�
Langston said 225 bags will be filled and any leftovers will go into boxes to be given away to others in need.
Jeanne Patterson, a volunteer with Aldersgate United Methodist, said she was in charge of contacting school social workers around the county.
The social workers then compiled a list of families who were in need of a meal.
She also helped plan travel routes.
Once the bags were filled, workers distributed them to the families on the list.
�It�s been so much fun,� Patterson said. �You start doing something like this and know that God will provide.�
She said she enjoyed seeing all the churches working together for a common goal.
This is the first year for the project, but Langston said he hopes it will become a tradition.
�This is one of the integral goals of United Methodists in the area, to work more closely together,� he said. �We can do so much more if we work collectively than individually.�
Besides clergy, each church had several volunteers.
�I think it�s gone very, very well for a group that is probably 75 or 80 people,� Langston said.
Margaret VanDyke, a member of Hoey United Methodist, carried a full bag of items to her church�s table, ready to be delivered.
�I know there�s people who don�t have food,� she said. �This is just my way of helping a family.�
She said she is on a limited income herself.
�I know what it is to go without,� VanDyke said. �It makes me feel good to know what I can do.�
Reach reporter Rebecca Clark at 704-669-3344 or firstname.lastname@example.com or follow on Twitter @TheStarRebecca.
The nine churches who participated in the event


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Selections introduces language students to 30 classic works of British and American literature, to be read for enjoyment and for language development. The range of writing spans nearly 300 years and the texts are arranged chronologically by date of publication. The extracts have been carefully chosen to be suitable for use at intermediate to upper-intermediate level.The texts are accompanied by: a short biography of each author including their literary characteristics and achievements; comprehension questions on author and text; discussion questions to encourage free expression; language extension exercises covering grammar, vocabulary, word-building, idioms and phrasal words; composition work and role-plays.
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Local focus: Landmarks featured in Peri's paintings
Christian Peri will be exhibiting at Feast! in the Main Street Market next month, but in the meantime you can catch his paintings as you brunch at Higher Grounds on the Downtown Mall.
Alas, this venue might not be the best place for his work. Higher Grounds is a fine establishment, but Peri's art has a certain strange aspect to it that might make it better suited to the other end of the Mall– maybe some available space in City Hall.
Peri may not feel any special need to promote Charlottesville explicitly and without mitigation or complication, but his work certainly suggests otherwise. Without exception, Peri's paintings reproduce local and regional landmarks straightforwardly and without any distracting flair or taste for expressionism.
Sometimes it seems as though Peri draws a fair bit of inspiration from the kinds of photos that turn up in travel brochures and university viewbooks. Can that be right? Needless to say, it's an odd visual sidebar to the black t-shirt and huevos rancheros set.
His rendition of the Louisa Courthouse, for example, places the building square in the center of the frame, cocked at a slight angle. It's somewhat effaced by a burly tree, but clearly it's the center and focus of the work– after all, it takes up nearly the entire painting. It could be wintertime. It could be overcast. The trees stand out slightly, with their branches of gloopy paint. The courthouse itself has been painted in a flat, slightly smeared style. There's a picket fence running along the bottom, but that's no substitute for tension.
Other local/regional landmarks that receive the Peri treatment include the Rotunda (depicted straight-on and looking a bit like a mug-shot of a building), the University Chapel (shown with a pale-pink sun-glow facade– the most attractive detail in Peri's exhibit), and two (two!) paintings of University Gardens. Here the tangle of branches and flowers (not wintertime) seems to inspire Peri to more dynamic work.
With the harder lines comes more confidence. In "University Gardens: Waiting for a Date," however, Peri shoots himself in the foot, placing the painting's weakest element– a park bench and a person without a face– right in the center. The other garden painting skips on the young dating coed and the bench and gets things about right.
Artist Cristian Peri has an exhibition of paintings in oils on canvas now running at the Higher Grounds café on the Downtown Mall. 212 Main St. 971-8743.


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Xbox Music launched on iOS and Android Monday, hoping to gain subscribers in the competitive streaming music service market.
In order to make it more user-friendly, Microsoft has done away with the Xbox Music's tired old interface based on Windows 8 and launched a simpler mobile version that looks a lot like Spotify, according to TechCrunch. It's a first for Microsoft because Xbox Music is its first entertainment service to launch on both iOS and Android platforms.
Microsoft also plans to update the $9.99 a month or $99 a year service every four to six weeks and include an offline mode in the next few months. (The Web version will continue to be free, according to Engadget.)
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Monday, May 25, 2009
Pyramids - Terry Pratchett
11 comments:
- Amanda said...
Very very soon I'll be reading my first Pratchett, possibly two of his books. I'm looking forward to it.
- May 26, 2009 at 7:08 AM
- Amanda said...
Oh, I was going to ask, are you reading these relatively in order now? I mean, starting with the early ones and then progressing? I know that's not how you started out. Just curious.
- May 26, 2009 at 7:09 AM
- hamilcar barca said...
nope, which is rather un-OCD of me. the nice thing about the Discworld books is that - except for the first two - they all are stand-alones. yeah, i sometimes have no idea when a new character first got introduced, but it's NBD.
also, at the back of each Discworld book is an Appendix, where most of the main characters are briefly detailed. that's a handy reference.
- May 26, 2009 at 9:19 AM
- Amanda said...
When I was out on all my Half Price Books trips this week, I saw several nice copies of The Light Fantastic, but remembered that was the second one and you said the first two needed to go together. I couldn't find the first one, so I just left The Light Fantastic on the shelf. I figure I probably ought to read some Pratchett before I start buying his books, yes?
- May 26, 2009 at 9:21 AM
- hamilcar barca said...
the library should have a bunch of them. #1 is "The Color of Magic", but i don't know that it would be my recommendation for your first-read. Pratchett was still finding his footing, and there are one or two "R-rated" allusions in it, which doesn't happen in any of the subsequent books.
"Guards Guards" would be a good one to start with. it's witty, with lots of punnish metaphors, and it happens to introduce one of the lovable main characters - Carrot.
it would also give you a good indication as to how much you'd like the rest of the series. if you find Guards/Guards "meh", then there's no need to read any more of the Discworld series.
- May 26, 2009 at 9:45 AM
- Amanda said...
I'm starting with the Discworld for younger readers books - the Wee Free Men and The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents. Those are the ones that won the poll at my blog, and the ones that Byron originally recommended to me. Both are on the way from the library now.
- May 26, 2009 at 9:46 AM
- Byron said...
Well, Mandy, I hope you like Pratchett, I'm fairly sure you will.
Those YA books are really good, I don't think he puts any less effort into them. I'm not sure what qualifies them as YA instead of just fantasy, perhaps the book length is shorter?
In the Discworld series, I am a little partial to the books with witches in them, like Granny Weatherwax. Those were my introduction to the series - a short story about them was included in the compilation "Legends" that I liked (which also started me on O.S. Card's Alvin the Maker series)
- May 26, 2009 at 12:30 PM
- Amanda said...
Byron, I'm also looking forward to reading Nation, which I believe is unconnected to Discworld. I've heard so many good things about Pratchett all over the book blogosphere.
- May 26, 2009 at 12:31 PM
- hamilcar barca said...
for some strange reason, whoever's been reading these and then selling them to the used-book store doesn't read the ones with witches. the only exception being Equal Rites and i think that one is a Wizards/Witches hybrid.
- May 26, 2009 at 2:26 PM
- Julie said...
Hamilcar-Thanks for the recommendation of "Guards Guards" to start with. I was clueless on which of Pratchett's books would be good to read first. I'll add it to my TBR list.
- May 29, 2009 at 9:48 AM
- hamilcar barca said...
Byron's recommendations are good too. The "witches" ones are early in the series i think. one is "Wyrd sisters".
Pratchett added more species as the series wewnt on. By "Thud", we have vampires, werewolves, trolls, and golems - in addition to the humans, dwarves, and dragons from the earlier books.
since i'm not reading these in order, it was a bit confusing trying to deduce how each species felt about the others. Werewolves hate Vampires, and vice versa. these sort of things were easier to deduce in the early books.
- May 29, 2009 at 2:00 PM


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For Immediate Release March 9, 2008 Margaux Isaksen Wins Silver, Taormina Seventh and Kelly Tenth in the Women's Final of Modern Pentathlon World Cup #2 in Mexico City, Mexico COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.-Coming off of her first World Cup Final of her modern pentathlon career in Cairo, Egypt, sixteen-year-old Margaux Isaksen (Fayetteville, Ark./Colorado Springs, Colo.) took another huge step in her athletic career today winning the silver medal at World Cup #2 in Mexico City, Mexico. In a very good day for USA Pentathlon, she was followed by two fellow USA teammates also finishing in the top ten. Sheila Taormina (Livonia, Mich.) finished seventh and Michelle "Mickey"Kelly (Chatham, N.Y./Colorado Springs, Colo./U.S. Army) was tenth. Emily Shertzer (Hershey, Pa./Colorado Springs, Colo.) rounded out Team USA finishing in 20th place. With Isaksen moving up the ranking ladder, it will make for an interesting battle for the potential two women's Olympic slots the USA can qualify for. Kelly has already qualified a spot for the 2008 Olympic Games by virtue of her performance at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, but must remain one of the top two ranked U.S. women in the World Cup season of the Olympic qualifying season in order to secure her Olympic slot. Taormina's performance keeps her atop the rankings list. Taormina is attempting to make history by qualifying for her fourth U.S. Olympic Team in an unprecedented third sport. She has already competed in the Olympic Games in the sports of swimming and triathlon. She won a gold medal in swimming at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Ga., swimming the third leg of the 800m freestyle relay. She finished sixth and 23rd, respectively, in the triathlon at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia and the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. Taormina's top modern pentathlon World Cup performance came in March 2007 when she won the silver medal at World Cup #2 in Cairo, Egypt. The first World Cup stop of the 2008 season was also in Cairo, Egypt and Taormina got the season off to a positive start, leading all Americans with an eighth place finish. The U.S. men also had good results from Mexico City with Dennis Bowsher (Dallas, Texas/Colorado Springs, Colo./U.S. Army) finishing fourth and Eli Bremer (Monument, Colo./Colorado Springs, Colo./U.S. Air Force) placing fifth in men's final action yesterday in Mexico City. The USA Pentathlon Team is coached by Janusz Peciak (Colorado Springs, Colo.). This and the remaining three World Cup stops during the Olympic qualification period are critical to determining the athletes that will make up the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team for Modern Pentathlon. The 2008 World Modern Pentathlon Championships, May 27-31 in Budapest, Hungary, will serve as a direct Olympic qualifier for the top three finishers who have not already qualified their spot for the Olympic Games. The final and most likely way for the U.S. to qualify for a final Olympic slot will be through the Modern Pentathlon World Rankings for the Olympic qualification period of June 1, 2007-June 1, 2008. This final means of qualification will go to the top seven ranked athletes that have not already qualified by some other means. Each country can only qualify a maximum of two men and two women. If the U.S. has more than two men or two women that meet the qualification criteria, USA Pentathlon will determine the two Olympic representatives based on the two highest ranked U.S. athletes in the World Cup standings. Please see below for the U.S. results from today's men's semifinal competition: 2008 World Cup #2-Mexico City, Mexico Individual event scores for Team USA are listed below: Women's Final Margaux Isaksen-Silver Medal-5,452 points Shoot-182 (1,120 points) Fence-19V and 13D (916 points) Swim-2:23.93 (1,196 points) Ride-1,144 points Run-11:01.00 (1,076 points) Sheila Taormina-Seventh Place-5,184 points Shoot-178 (1,072 points) Fence-10V and 22D (664 points) Swim-2:11.87 (1,340 points) Ride-1,112 points Run-11:21.21 (996 points) Michelle "Mickey"Kelly-10th Place-5,116 points Shoot-159 (844 points) Fence-19V and 13D (916 points) Swim-2:28.72 (1,136 points) Ride- 1,072 points Run-10:43.50 (1,148 points) Emily Shertzer-20th Place-4,776 points Shoot-166 (928 points) Fence-11V and 21D (692 points) Swim-2:38.43 (1,296 points) Ride- 1,028 points Run-10:53.82 (1 points) Representing the United States of America in World Cup #2 in Mexico City, Mexico were: Women: Margaux Isaksen (Fayetteville, Ark./Colorado Springs, Colo.) 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Tuesday, March 30, 2010
"Story of a Writer - Part 30E"
One night, shortly after Kristin debuted on NBC, I heard a heavy-sounding parcel bang against my front door, then drop to the porch. I opened the door, as a car sped away. I picked up the parcel. It was a bulging manila envelope. I took the envelope inside and curiously opened it. Inside, was a thick stack of clippings of Kristin reviews.
They were all terrible.
I never found out who delivered that package. It was very strange.
I just skimmed the stack of reviews. To do any more would border on masochism. Apparently, everyone hated the show. A show I thought was professionally produced, skillfully performed and pretty darn funny.
Is it possible that I missed something?
The show's "terribleness", for example? Is it possible, because I was too close to the project and working so hard on it that I'd lost sight of the "Big Picture"? Is it possible that over the years, while I was focusing on trying to make the best show I knew how, the standards had so drastically changed that what I saw as good was now actually awful?
The scathing reviews were disturbing. And highly disorienting. If I were the type, I'd have poured myself a stiff drink. Instead, I didn't.
I did a mental post mortem. We'd had a multi-talented star. Kristin Chenoweth was attractive, she had comedy-friendly timing. She could also sing and dance, which she'd done for years on Broadway, to tumultuous acclaim. To me, that was a bonus, unique elements we could incorporate advantageously into the show.
Many of our cast members were New York-trained actors. This is a major plus. Actors with backgrounds in the theater were conditioned to the idea of making the material they were presented with work, rather than reflexively calling for rewrites.
(A Brief Explanation: In the theater, the script, contractually, belongs to the writer. If the writer's unwilling to rewrite, the actor has to find ways to make what's on the page work. In television and movies, the writer, contractually, owns nothing. As a result, producers can demand unlimited revisions, which continue until they come up with something the actor can do.)
Stage actors come to work with bags of helpful tricks that they picked up working in the theater. I remember, one scene called for Kristin to tap dance on a coffee table. The actress Kristin knew a problem-solving strategy. To keep from slipping, she first poured a can of Coke over the surface of the table. Try and find a Hollywood actor/waiter who's familiar with that one. They may have spilled Cokes in their previous line of work, but it's unlikely they tap danced on the spillage.
We'd had the talent. We'd had experienced writers, many of whom went on to noteworthy success. We'd had a breathtaking set conceived by an award-winning art director. Our music was composed by a highly regarded Broadway composer. We'd had a magnificently stocked Crafts Services table.
What exactly had we done wrong?
I still don't entirely know. But a large part of it concerned the issue of tone, style and sensibility.
You work with the elements you're given. Kristin, the character, was a generational throwback Rather than symbolizing the twenty-first century female, Kristin, the character, was more like a Doris Day movie character from the early sixties – unironic, trusting, Pollyannaishly bubbly and unswervingly morally upright.
This is not necessarily a problem, until you consider what the competition was offering. During the same period Kristin was being aired, Jerry Seinfeld was whining about his new masseuse girlfriend, who treated him to unbelievable sex, but refused to give him a massage. The Friends, in one not untypical episode, had a brother and sister (Monica and Ross), about to have sex (with different partners) in the same apartment, wrestling desperately over the last available condom.
Such behavior was totally alien to the character of Kristin. Flexibility would not have been the answer. We couldn't simply adjust to current sitcom sensibilities without obliterating the character on which the entire series was grounded. (Not to mention that some of us were not a natural fit with current sitcom sensibilities.)
At its core, Kristin was, arguably, dated. Even the positives turned out to be negatives. The actors' bags of tricks seemed stiltedly "theatrical", the comic timing, calculated and contrived. As for those unique offerings of singing and dancing, it turned out the audience didn't miss those elements in the more successful situation comedies.
Kristin had its chance and failed. The price of that failure was substantial. The lifeless carcass that landed heavily on my front porch that night was my career in television.
Too much?
Well, that's how it felt.
6 comments:
I KNEW the business was heartless...but WOW!
I am so sorry.
- March 30, 2010 at 7:06 AM
I was watching Friends and Kristin but not Seinfield.
Then again, I still watched MASH, Barney Miller, I Love Lucy, The Dick Van Dyck Show, ....
I was- am- able to appreciate a mix.
And I still get pissed off when great shows disappear because, apparently, my tastes don't fit the "The Bachelor", "The Hills", and the in-your-face reality shows of today.
And today I would still watch any show you make because to me, classic never gets old, it simply ages to perfection like a fine Scotch.
- March 30, 2010 at 8:52 AM
At least they didn't make you sign for the package.
I agree that Kristin Chenoweth is among the major talents on Planet Earth, and I'd go anywhere to see her live – given enough accumulated air miles. Little she can't excel at, with the possible exception of girls basketball. Maybe too talented? Somehow the word may have gotten out the woman was capable of committing opera.
The more conservative choice for unswerving moral uprightness might have been found one state south with somebody like the equally perky, yet slightly less diminutive Chrystal Bernard. I hear she also knows how to really tack up a table, albeit in Texas it's done with the nectar of the Gods, Dr. Pepper.
- March 30, 2010 at 5:01 PM
- Brian Scully said...
I always hate to see a magnificently stocked crafts services table go to waste... RIP "Kristin"... :)
- March 30, 2010 at 9:02 PM
Personally, I LOVED the show. I still watch tapes of it. It was funny, refreshing, well-acted and old-fashioned good comedy. Chenoweth is a genius, at comedy ... at everything.
- April 3, 2010 at 11:39 AM
In the 1970's a network executive was quoted as saying that Sid Caesar was no longer on TV as a lead comedian because "Sid Caesar is too good for television." Seems like a parallel to the fate of Ms. Chenowith in "Kristin"
- July 3, 2010 at 11:15 PM


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A problem near the sea, salty air absorbs more moisture and can encourage corrosion. Only air-conditioning can reduce this danger.
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Abstract: The virus metaphor may be used in studies of management knowledge not only as a way of describing diffusion processes but also as a way of thinking about viral elements of knowledge production. In the present article, organizational viruses are viewed as ensembles of basic distinctions that are constitutive of concrete bodies of knowledge and which form mutable engines of organizational self-descriptions. Organizational viruses, we contend, are both characterized by stability in terms of their basic productive configuration, while at the same time allowing for a high degree of variation in terms of concrete management knowledge and practice. The article is structured as follows. After the introduction, we first develop the notion of organizational virus as into an analytical approach. Second, we discern in the work of Frederick Taylor on scientific management and Max Weber on bureaucracy, two quite distinct viral configurations that we claim have infected most modern management knowledge – both on a discursive level and on the level of concrete organizational self-descriptions and practice. Third, we discuss our findings and raise the question of how viruses 'work', how they interact, and why they become infectious. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/6707
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Most millionaires are self-made millionaires, but becoming one is something that still seems out of reach for most people.
In many cases, we dismiss the idea of building a million-dollar business because, well, you need a lot of money for that, right? You've got to spend money to make money, don't you?
As it turns out, you don't really have to spend that much.
I spent the last few weeks interviewing dozens of millionaire entrepreneurs. Many of these individuals started businesses with less than $1,000 and are now earning more than $1 million per year in revenue. All of them bootstrapped their own business with no outside cash and a minimal capital investment from their own bank account. Here is a brief primer on bootstrapping a business.
So how does one start with very little money and turn that into $1 million per year? Here are five stories of regular people building million-dollar businesses.
PostcardMania. Joy Gendusa was a freelancer who wanted to buy some postcards to advertise her business. She was shocked by the unnecessary fees she had to pay just to get some postcards made, so she decided to start her own postcard business with a friendly price structure for customers. PostcardMania was born.
Gendusa started the company with no capital investment and used the money from the first customer to pay the printer for her first postcards. In the early days, the payment schedule was tight. She had to get money from the customers and use that cash to pay her printer, but she kept bringing in new business and eventually built up a little bit of cash.
As PostcardMania continued to grow, Gendusa noticed customers asking for other services. They would say things like, "Who built your website?" or "Can you do email marketing too?" So PostcardMania started branching into those areas as well. Today, the company offers all sorts of advertising and marketing for its clients and makes close to $20 million per year.
The success of PostcardMania is a direct result of the sales and marketing techniques Gendusa used to get her company off the ground. Here are more tips and tricks for effective sales and marketing.
Blue Buddha Boutique. Rebeca Mojica went to a Renaissance Festival and noticed a unique metal belt made from chainmaille rings. After searching for something similar, she couldn't find the belts anywhere and decided to try and make her own.
Mojica spent $20 on that first set of rings and sold a few belts to a few friends and family. However, it wasn't until she started teaching other people how to make the belts that she really saw the potential for a business.
Mojica began teaching chainmaille classes and decided to sell the rings and pliers needed to make the belts to her students. She made $300 the first time she sold the supplies. Soon after, Blue Buddha Boutique was born and it rapidly became one of the top sellers of chainmaille jewelry supplies. Blue Buddha Boutique now has 13 employees and is set to break the million dollar mark in 2012.
FIELD Beef Jerky. Matt Levey, Tom Donigan, and Scott Fiesinger were three friends who went on a ski trip together and couldn't stop talking about the homemade beef jerky they picked up in the mountains.
For a few years they would playfully say, "We should make our own beef jerky and sell it!" Eventually the trio decided to talk with grocery-store managers and owners about their idea.
The founders asked the grocery stores if they liked the idea of a natural, organic beef jerky made from quality meat. The response was unanimous: Every store owner wanted something that fit the description, but they couldn't find it anywhere.
After spending a little money playing with different recipes and figuring out how to package and ship the jerky to grocery stores, the three friends formed a new company called FIELD Beef Jerky.
In the early days, the owners took orders themselves and delivered them to grocery stores in New York City on their bicycles. After a few months of hustling around the city, their product was picked up by a distributor and has since exploded in popularity. FIELD Beef Jerky is now available in more than 600 locations nationwide and is starting to gain traction in major chains like Wegmans. The company is on pace to break $1 million in 2012.
M&E Painting. Matt Shoup worked as a painter during the summers in college. When he was let go from his job his financial services job a few years later, he decided to start a painting business.
Starting with just $100, Shoup woke up the next day and went door to door in his neighbourhood, knocking on houses that looked like they could use a paint job. He enlisted a few friends for help and M&E Painting made more than $500,000 in that first year. Seven years later, the company has more than 4,000 customers and makes between $1.5 and $2.5 million every year.
Stories like this one inspire you to ask: Should you quit your job to follow your dreams?
AddressTwo. Nick Carter used to run a marketing consulting agency. When a client came to him and asked if they could figure out a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software for his company, Carter decided to build their own software solution. Carter used the money from that first client to finance the creation of AddressTwo and soon after, selling the software became his primary business.
Using a growth method that Carter calls "customer capital," he added features to the software when new clients were willing to pay for an addition. Slowly, the software improved and gained more customers. Today, Carter has built a successful CRM software that serves more than 500 businesses every month without any outside funding or large investment.
How can you get started? One of the common themes I noticed in my interviews with successful entrepreneurs was that they have the ability to decide. Simply put, most people want to work for themselves, but few people decide to take that first step.
If you're looking for ways to make that first step easier, you can ease into working for yourself by freelancing. For example, here are 7 ways to earn an extra $1,000 this month.
Building a million-dollar business from scratch isn't easy, but it is possible.
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Chef shows how to make grilled Scottish salmon with smoked tomato jam and lentils with asparagus vinaigrette
At the Boat House Restaurant in Tiverton, Rhode Island, Executive Chef James Campagna, his sous chef, head cooks and manager, often exchange recipe ideas for new menu inspirations.
The grilled Scottish salmon with smoked tomato jam and lentils with asparagus vinaigrette was one of those creative concoctions that is part of the restaurant's spring menu. And, just like the season, this dish pops with color and taste.
"We try to have a blend of comfort foods people recognize and then we put a little twist on it," Campagna said.
Before the summer menu rolls out in a couple of weeks, diners can still feast on spring delights like lobster scampi with shrimp and scallops, scallops with risotto and blood orange gastrique, baked stuffed shrimp with lump crab-roasted corn stuffing, and more, all enjoyed with indoor and outdoor views of the Sakonnet River.
For a complete menu listing, visit www.boathousetiverton.com. The restaurant is open Monday to Thursday 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., Friday and Saturday 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Sunday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Brunch is served Sundays 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information, call 401-624-6300.
Grilled Scottish salmon
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Salmon, 4 portions, 7 ounces each
5 plum tomatoes, cut in half
1/2 cup Spanish onions, diced
1/2 cup rice wine vinegar
1 tablespoon garlic, chopped
1 ounce of oil
Salt and pepper to taste
1 cup Beluga lentils
1 cup of celery, carrot, and onion. finely diced
1/2 pound arugula
Asparagus vinagrette:
6 spears of blanched asparagus
3 ounces white vinegar
Zest of one lemon
1/2 cup oil
Salt and pepper to taste
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At the Boat House we smoke the plum tomatoes before making the jam. For home cooks, I recommend grilling or oven drying the tomatoes.
Over medium heat, add onions, garlic and oil to pan. Let sweat for three minutes until translucent. Add tomatoes and rice wine vinegar. Cook over low heat until tomatoes begin to break down, about 15 minutes. Season to taste.
For asparagus vinaigrette:
Using a blender, puree asparagus, vinegar and zest until very smooth. Slowly emulsify with oil and season to taste.
For lentils: Bring about two quarts of water to boil and cook lentils until soft without over cooking. Drain and let cool.
To serve:
Season and grill Scottish salmon. In a separate pan over medium heat add finely diced celery, carrot, and onion. Let cook until vegetables are soft and add lentils. Once warm add asparagus vinaigrette and arugula. Toss together and plate. Top lentils with grilled salmon and tomato jam and enjoy.


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State ALE officials have arrested more than 100 people in several undercover underage drinking stings near Appalachian State University and the surrounding area.
The 103 people arrested so far face 155 total charges, including underage possession and consumption of alcoholic beverages, aiding and abetting underage possession of alcohol and using a fraudulent ID to obtain alcohol, ALE officials said in a news release.
Agents have seized more than 30 fake IDs, and agents also determined some were using real IDs of people 21 and older to buy alcohol.
The operation centered around ABC-permitted stores, and state officials helped train store workers on Thursday on how to better identify fake IDs.
The sting was started after ASU student Tyler Blalock drowned in a creek at Durham Park Sept. 29. Blalock's death was alcohol-related, ALE officials said.
ALE officials said they will continue their efforts to curb underage alcohol purchases in Boone.


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The Embraer ERJ 195 is about as spacious as it comes on regional routes. Its ample ceiling height and seats make it exceptionally comfortable for as many as 120 passengers flying in it. It has low exhaust emission, a low level of noise pollution and a remarkably low fuel consumption averaging out at less than 4 liters per passenger per 100 kilometers. Like the smaller Embraer 190, the Embraer 195 belongs to the E-Jet family, in which many of the installed systems are identical in all models.
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Wide-ranging news conference finds Trump confident, combative and optimistic
Sean Spicer, the incoming White House Press Secretary for Donald Trump, opened up the President-elect's first press conference by bashing the news organizations who published the unverified reports on information allegedly obtained by Russia.
NEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump denounced a purported Russian intelligence report on him as "fake news" Wednesday and asserted that he would be tough on Vladimir Putin despite reports that the Russian president used a computer hacking campaign to try to get him elected.
"It's all fake news. It's phony stuff. It didn't happen," he said. "I read what was released, and I think it's a disgrace. It's an absolute disgrace."
Trump spoke to more than 250 journalists in the lobby of Trump Tower on Wednesday in the first full news conference since his election as president.
As reporters in the packed lobby vied for the right to ask questions, Trump was by turns assertive and defiant, often taking shots at his news coverage. Things turned downright testy when CNN tried to ask and failed to get Trump to answer a question. "Your organization is terrible," he told CNN's Jim Acosta. You are fake news."
In a wide-ranging 58-minute news conference, Trump also outlined his plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with a new health insurance law "almost simultaneously." He reiterated his plan to have Mexico reimburse the United States for the cost of building a border wall. And his attorney outlined plans for Trump to remove himself from the day-to-day operations of his real estate empire, even while maintaining ownership and having family members run it.
The president-elect was introduced by incoming press secretary Sean Spicer, who denounced reports by CNN and BuzzFeed about Russian intelligence on Trump. Spicer called BuzzFeed "a left wing blog" that was hostile to Trump's campaign and said the report was a "sad and pathetic attempt to get clicks."
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Vice President-elect Mike Pence went even further, alleging that there was a concerted effort by the media to "demean" and "delegitimize" the New York businessman.
But despite his denunciations, Trump started the his first news conference in six months by thanking many in the news media for not publishing unsubstantiated information.
He said he may owe his nomination to his frequent news conferences. "We stopped giving them because we were getting quite a bit of inaccurate news," Trump said.
Putin and Nazi Germany
Trump spent little time on Russia during his opening statement, reserving his venom for an earlier tweet storm in which he likened the news leaks to the policies of Nazi Germany.
"Intelligence agencies should never have allowed this fake news to "leak" into the public," he tweeted Wednesday morning. "One last shot at me. Are we living in Nazi Germany?"
Trump did not back away from his Nazi analogy, calling the leaks of classified information as disgraceful.
"That's something that Nazi Germany would have done, and did do," he said.
Trump continued to maintain that he would be tough on Putin while working together on world challenges.
"Do you honestly believe that Hillary would be tougher on Putin than me? Does anybody in this room really believe that? Give me a break," he said.
"If Putin likes Donald Trump, I consider that an asset, not a liability," Trump said. "Russia can help us with ISIS ... This administration created ISIS, by leaving at the wrong time."
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Trump denied that there was any dirt for Russian intelligence agencies to have on him, saying he tells people while traveling overseas to be on their best behavior, even in the privacy of their hotel rooms. "Be careful, because you don't want to see yourself on television. Cameras all over the place."
Apparently referring to a specific sexual allegation, Trump said: "I'm also very much of a germophobe, by the way ... Believe me."
The president also discussed plans involving industrial policy, drug prices and defense contracts. He vowed to be "the greatest jobs producer that God ever created."
Tax returns
President-elect Donald Trump shot down questions of releasing his tax returns, telling reporters on Tuesday that 'he became president' and that the American people don't care about his returns. (Jan. 11)
Trump also again refused to release his tax returns, saying "as you know, they're under audit."
Reporters are the only ones interested in the tax returns, Trump added, and he did not think his refusal had any effect on the election.
"I won," Trump said as supporters in the lobby clapped and cheered. "I became president."
Trump and aides also announced he will put his business interests in a "trust," but not a blind one — he will turn operations over to his sons and current executives, with yet-to-be-named ethics compliance officers to monitor the arrangement.
Ethics attorneys had called on Trump to create a totally blind trust in which he would sell assets and have an independent executor manage the assets.
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The President-elect says the Republican party 'doesn't want to own' Obamacare. He says the repeal and replace transition will happen 'essentially simultaneously'.
Trump said he wants to see Republicans develop their own health care plan as soon as possible and simultaneously replace Obamacare with it, because the current system is imploding.
"Obamacare is the Democrats problem," Trump said. "We are gonna take the problem off the shelves for them. We're doing them a tremendous service by doing it. We could sit back and let them hang with it. We are doing the Democrats a great service."
The president also:
• Praised Cabinet nominees Rex Tillerson and Jeff Sessions as "brilliant" in their Senate confirmation hearings, and claimed he has "one of the great Cabinets ever put together."
• Said has met with "numerous" U.S. Supreme Court candidates — from a "list of 20" — and will probably announce a nominee "within two weeks" of his Jan. 20 inauguration.
•- Stuck to his claim that Mexico will reimburse the United States for a wall along their border, either by a "tax" or a "payment," though the latter is less likely. He added: "it's not a fence — it's a wall."
Mexico has vowed not to pay for such a wall.
The press conference was in the same marbled and gold-plated lobby on Fifth Avenue where Trump announced his campaign 19 months ago. A blue curtain hung behind Trump, obscuring the elevators that have transported scores of office-seekers to their meetings with the president-elect. Trump was flanked by members of his family and top aides, with enough supporters in the lobby to provide a cheering section for some of Trump's more colorful remarks.
Trump concluded by pointing to a table stacked with legal documents related to his many partnerships, saying he would turn the running of his businesses over to his sons and hope they do a good job.
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Shit Happens, it is a philosophy that (generally) laid-back Max tries to live by, unfortunately his friends tend to make things a little difficult.
With each episode more of the story unfolds, more of the characters is revealed.
Friendship, love, rivalries, action, "comedy" and just a little fan-service - there's plenty here to enjoy.


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One Easton man is dead and another under arrest following a bank robbery in Mansfield Thursday evening.
One Easton man is dead and another under arrest following a bank robbery in Mansfield Thursday evening.
Mansfield Police Chief Arthur O'Neill, said Mansfield public safety dispatchers received a call at 4:53 p.m. from employees at North Easton Savings Bank, reporting a robbery.
Employees described the red SUV getaway car to police. Five Mansfield officers responded to the bank's location on 71 Copeland Drive and checked the surrounding areas for the car. Police located and stopped the vehicle near the intersection of School and Spring streets, about three-fourths of a mile from the bank.
Police approached the car, and the operator, George Moore, 21, of 41 Foundry St. in Easton immediately surrendered without incident and was placed under arrest.
Passenger David A. Semenza, 20, of 28 Gaslight Lane in North Easton, who is identified as the person who robbed the bank, left the vehicle and began approaching the Mansfield officers.
"(Semenza) approached the officers in a threatening manner acting as if he had a gun," said O'Neill in a written statement to the press. O'Neill said Semenza continued to approach the officers in a threatening manner, and "believing that they were in danger for their lives" the officers opened fire, killing Semenza at the scene.
An undisclosed sum of money stolen from the bank, and clothing worn during the robbery were recovered at the scene.
O'Neill said that no officers or bank personnel were injured in the incident.
"All of the involved officers have been placed on paid administrative leave as per Mansfield Police policy," said O'Neill in his stament.
The streets surrounding the incident were cordoned off until 10 p.m.
The shooting took place across the street from a day care center.
The incident is under investigatigation by detectives from the Bristol County District Attornery's office.
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REAL ESTATE- ON THE BLOCK- Time capsule: Travel to '70s in Glenaire
Address: 1010 Alendale Drive
Neighborhood: Glenaire
Asking: $329,000
Assessment: $323,900
Year Built: 1970
Size: 2,700 fin. sq. ft., 768 unfin.
Land: 1.0 acre
Agent: Phyllis Novotny, Roy Wheeler Realty Co. 434-951-5190
Curb Appeal: 7 out of 10
Much of what buyers see as flaws in older houses— the puttylike layers of ancient paint, grooved floors, pencil lines marking children's height— are signs of life. In contrast, this Ivy home 10 minutes from town shows almost as if nobody has ever lived here. Construction and finishes from the days of disco haven't been updated. Style— but not wear— reveals the house's age. Truth be told, only a couple of families have lived here in the 40 years since it was built. It's about time for it to feel lived in.
The front door of the split foyer opens to a living room with vaulted ceiling, built-in shelving and an open dining area, which leads to deck. The layout is somewhere between the open plan that modern shoppers are looking for and the closed-off rooms of '50s and '60s ranchers. Two entrances to the eat-in kitchen make some flow possible.
Original hardwood cabinets lack the layered grime of a cook's constant toil. Buyers might expect that after 40 years and countless casseroles the kitchen would not be practically in mint condition. Swaths of counter space and storage mean a cosmetic update might do the job, but appliances, including a mustard oven and separate electric cook-top, may also need an update.
Of the two bedrooms on the home's main level, the smaller has double closets and a basic en suite bath; a door leads to a screened porch. The second room, considered a master because of its size, has a walk-in closet, but no bath. A separate bath off the hall is it. Here, baths are functional and show clean, but vanities and tiling are dated.
Shag carpet is interspersed between rooms on the main level, but judging from the living room and hall, the first level is hardwood.
Down in the lower level, another pair of bedrooms, each with double closets, share a bath with stall shower. The bath is roomy enough that a new owner might be able to squeeze in a bathtub or extra counter space.
The lower level also has a den for casual entertaining. A wood stove surrounded by built-ins provides a focal point. The wall opposite the wood stove is mirrored, a seventies detail that extends the feel of the space but may not wow a new owner.
Off the den, a laundry/mud room leads to a patio. The space actually feels more like a kitchen due to a multitude of hardwood cabinets, plenty of counter space and an electric cook-top plus a fridge and a utility sink. A new owner may not need a second kitchen, but the space could work for serious crafters who need space for projects or for families who like to party and need a place to stow extra supplies. Floral-patterned linoleum looks like it has never been tread upon, at least not by any muddy shoes.
Outdoors, a freestanding three-car garage has an attic above for extra storage. Around back, gobs of outdoor space provides room to groove, from a screened porch with a vaulted ceiling to deck with built-in benches and a patio below.
This space and layout here make it ideal for a large family. Although some surface details are dated, it does not show the wear and tear we're used to seeing in a home of this vintage. Perhaps a new brood can make its mark and scuff things up a bit!

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