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An interview with Claudie Haigneré
Currently training in Russia for the Andromeda space mission that will take her to the ISS in October, French 'spationaute' Claudie Haigneré (formerly André-Deshays) will be the second ESA astronaut to visit the station - and Europe's first woman.
Born in Le Creusot in 1957, just a few months before Sputnik 1 showed that the bounds of Earth's gravity could be broken, Claudie is currently the only woman among the sixteen members of the European Astronaut Corps. She is already a space veteran, with a space science mission – Cassiopee, in 1996 - behind her. We asked her the question she has had to answer about a million times:
How did you get started in the astronaut business?
"I was just 12 years old when Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk upon the Moon. For me, it was a kind of revelation. I was watching a dream turn into reality. A door was open. I didn't immediately imagine that it was open for me, but the lunar landing gave me a taste for space. I read a lot about the conquest of space, watched every documentary. But I chose to become a doctor - and I was working as a medical professional when my dream became possible.
In 1985, I was a hospital doctor. One day, there was a notice on the board from the French space agency CNES looking for scientists for their microgravity science programme. I had no doubts at all: I absolutely had to get an application form. I realised that my dream could be a reality, too. This was the door, and it was open. After that there was a long selection process; but I had a feeling I would make it all the way. In fact, only seven of us were chosen out of a thousand applicants.
Claudie is perhaps a little modest. When she saw that notice she was already well along a solid medical career. She specialised in rheumatology and sports trauma injuries, and was already developing an interest in aerospace medicine. The French space agency, and later ESA, were lucky to get her.
It is in the nature of an astronaut's career that you spend a long time between flights. So do you see yourself primarily as a scientist who has rare and exciting opportunities to work in orbit, or as an astronaut who does solid science to keep herself occupied between missions?
"As astronauts, our professional career is certainly marked by space flights, but in between flights we have a rich professional life, whether as engineers, scientists, experts in the development of ESA technical projects, or just as teachers. So we don't just hang around idly between flights. But I agree that we all wait impatiently for our first flight and from the moment we return we are already all thinking about the next. We know that we're very privileged people, which encourages us to be responsible and patient. We also know that impatience helps nothing. We want to fly. If we can't handle being patient, we know that there are plenty of others waiting to take our place."
You haven't really answered the question, Claudie. Are you a scientist or an astronaut?
"At present, after nine years of almost continuous training (I began as a crew back-up in 1992) I think of myself more as a professional astronaut who has acquired a specific expertise in space systems and microgravity science programmes.
It's hard to be a doctor when you have no patients, or a scientific researcher without a personal research programme and without enough time to stay in contact with the scientific community and to keep up with the publications. Still, all of us in the European Astronaut Corps have our own professional specialisations. For example, between two major training spells I spent a lot of time working on the Life Science payloads for Columbus and what we could do with them."
Your Andromeda mission will be an important step forward for Europe - including your native France. Is there anything you'd like to say to the millions of young Europeans who will be watching?
"Andromeda is important because it allows us to get the ISS orbital laboratories up and running. We can test out operational procedures years before Europe's Columbus module and the ATV are part of the station.
I think that we can also show young Europeans that Europe is a real space power, and an important partner in the ISS project. Europe has teams of engineers, scientists and astronauts whose competence is recognised by all our partners, especially the Americans and the Russians. Because of what we're doing up there, we hope that our young people will see that a career in science and technology can be fascinating and fulfilling. Like all young people, they will create their own future. But we can show them what that future might be.
They will be able to go much farther along the road we have opened: and don't forget, it's an adventure. All the same, it's a fine dream to want to be an astronaut. But it shouldn't become an obsession. A long time ago, William of Orange said:
"Point n'est besoin d'espérer pour entreprendre, ni de réussir pour persévérer"
"It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake an endeavour, nor to succeed in order to persevere."
At the moment, you are Europe's only woman astronaut. There are about 100 million young European women watching you. What would you say to them?
"I'd certainly like to see more women in the European Astronaut Corps. With just one out of 16, we are only 6% - which is very few compared with the numbers back in 1985, when the first astronaut selections were made. It seems to me that around 20% would be reasonable in the 21st century. Of course, we can't expect to reach equal numbers very soon - given the specific nature of the job, which demands total commitment and 100% availability - neither of which are easy for women of our generation. I am confident that the new generation will be in better shape to choose its own future without any constraints of inequality. It's certainly satisfying to do exactly what you want - but the price for it must not come too high. My own daughter Carla - she is three and a half years old - finds nothing strange in her mother's occupation. But then she spends a lot of time in a Russian kindergarten with other cosmonaut kids. In any case, if you ask her right now what she wants to be in the future, she'll tell you: "I want to stay a little girl."
But a woman in space, Claudie: are there special problems, special advantages?
"As for the physiology, short-duration flights have shown no major differences between the sexes. So far, very few women have made long-duration flights, so there is not enough data for accurate analysis. On the psychological level, though, there have been a number of studies on human behaviour in circumstances of isolation and confined living space. The evidence clearly shows that mixed crews perform best - in organising their work, in decision-taking, in conflict management and in their contacts with "ground control". Men and women are different but complementary. We must let them live and work together in their own ways, without trying to make them behave identically. When we explore the planets, it will be a huge step forward for the entire human race. And the human race has two sexes."


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Peddler of automotive Frenchness Citroën and alligator-festooned clothier Lacoste have combined for the Paris-bound Citroën Lacoste Concept. Think iPhone-inspired moon rover with beach-buggy aspirations and inflatable water-wings for a roof. Weirdly French enough for you?
Positioned at the crossroads of the automotive world, where fashion and sport meet, it makes a number of references to all three sectors.
This is how the press release trumpets the Lacoste Concept, in reality it's just French designers dropping LSD again.
The concept is basically this: Take a bathtub, power it by a 3-cylinder gasoline engine, put a longitudinal roll hoop over its center, add a retractable windshield at the front. Graft on a roll hoop and install an "inflatable hood" to act as a roof in inclement weather. Douse liberally with all the active-lifestyle marketing buzzwords you can think of.
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Apple has expanded its 3D maps by adding more cities from the UK, US, France and Canada to its new Maps app, which will appear in iOS 6 when it launches this autumn.
Birmingham, Manchester and Toronto are among the cities that have gained "flyover" 3D data.
It's worth pointing out that New York has yet to be added to the list, possibly due to concerns over terrorism, notes Apple Insider.
Apple released the iOS 6 beta 4 to developers yesterday and appears to have removed more traces of Google from the iPhone and iPad operating system. Apple has now dropped the Google backed YouTube as well as the Maps app which it has replaces with Apple's own iOS 6 3D Maps.
The iOS6 3D Maps is one of the focal features for the new iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, and Apple is said to be working closely with digital maps provider TomTom to provide users with vector-based map elements that make graphics and text smooth, and panning, tilting and zooming fluid, according to Apple.
Google launched Google Earth 7 on 26 July but a side-by-side comparison of Apple's version of Maps found in the iO6 beta and the new Google Earth app for the iOS has revealed that Google Earth's map is in a lower resolution than Apple's.
The elimination of Google from Apple's new products brings the war between the two companies to new heights. Apple seems to be continuing the work of late CEO Steve Jobs who famously accused Google of copying Apple when it devised the Android operating system. Jobs said he would go to "thermonuclear war" over it.
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By serving travelers and commerce, roads and streets unite people and foster economic growth. But as they develop, roads and streets also disrupt old patterns, upset balances of power, and isolate some as they serve others. The consequent disagreements leave historical records documenting social struggles that might otherwise be overlooked. For long-distance travel in America before the middle of the 20th century, roads were generally poor alternatives, resorted to when superior means of travel, such as river and coastal vessels, canal boats, or railroads were unavailable. Most roads were unpaved, unmarked, and vulnerable to the effects of weather. Before the railroads, for travelers willing to pay the toll, rare turnpikes and plank roads could be much better. Even in towns, unpaved streets were common until the late 19th century, and persisted into the 20th. In the late 19th century, rapid urban growth, rural free delivery of the mails, and finally the proliferation of electric railways and bicycling contributed to growing pressure for better roads and streets. After 1910, the spread of the automobile accelerated the trend, but only with great controversy, especially in cities. Partly in response to the controversy, advocates of the automobile organized to promote state and county motor highways funded substantially by gasoline taxes; such roads were intended primarily for motor vehicles. In the 1950s, massive federal funds accelerated the trend; by then, motor vehicles were the primary transportation mode for both long and short distances. The consequences have been controversial, and alternatives have been attracting growing interest.
Keywords: roads, streets, highways, bridges, automobiles, transportation, traffic, bicycles, pedestrians, streetcars
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May 5, 2014 12:07 PM PT
Amazon is now allowing consumers to add items to their shopping cart simply by sending a reply on Twitter.
Users who connect their accounts on the two services can add a product they see in a Twitter link to their Amazon shopping cart simply by replying to the tweet with the hashtag #AmazonCart -- or #AmazonBasket if they are located in the UK. The feature is available only in the U.S. and the UK at present.
The system saves items to carts but does not automatically make purchases. Customers will have to go to their Amazon account, where they can review or edit their cart, before an order is completed.
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Users who reply to product links using the hashtag will receive a reply from the @MyAmazon Twitter account with details on each request's status: confirmation that the item was added to their cart; notification that it was out of stock; or details on how to finish checking out at a later time, for example. Users also will receive an email confirming an item has been added to their cart.
The feature works for Amazon on two fronts: It expands Amazon's consumer reach beyond its own services, since consumers can shop without having to navigate away from their Twitter feed, and it boosts product marketing, since consumers may learn about the products their friends have purchased simply by monitoring their own Twitter feed.
"Twitter offers a great environment for our customers to discover product recommendations from artists, experts, brands and friends," Amazon spokesperson Julie Law told the E-Commerce Times.
"Customers are in the mindset of discovery when they are on Twitter," she continued. "#AmazonCart was designed to help customers add products to their cart now without leaving Twitter and come back later to shop and buy on Amazon."
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The Amazon Cart feature works with millions of physical products on the Amazon store, Law said, but digital goods are not supported at present because they are purchased through Amazon's one-click system rather than via a shopping cart.
As for Twitter, it "does not see revenue from items added to shopping carts of Amazon users through the #AmazonCart," Law noted.
Replies using the hashtag will be available to the holder of the account the consumer is replying to, others viewing the conversation, and anyone who browses the user's Twitter profile, unless their account is set to private, according to Amazon.
That may raise privacy concerns among some users who may not wish for others to know that they are adding certain items -- say high-end electronics or expensive jewelry -- to their carts.
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The new feature brings potential benefits to marketers who may reach new audiences for their products.
"If I'm an affiliate and I can tweet out about a particular product, it is significantly going to increase the potential for customers to buy it," said marketing and social media expert Lon Safko.
"The easier you make something for somebody to do, the more likely they're going to do it. Every time you add just one click, it usually relates to about a 20 percent additional dropout," he noted.
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International Conference on Advanced Monte Carlo for Radiation Physics, Particle Transport Simulation and Applications (Monte Carlo2000)
23-26 October 2000 IST Congress Centre, Lisbon, Portugal
The Monte Carlo2000 conference was the largest conference on this topic so far. It will have an impact on a wider and improved utilisation of the Monte Carlo methods for real-life applications. Monte Carlo2000 was devoted to application areas for all types of particles that have technological interest today for industrial nuclear and radiation applications, dosimetry and radiotherapy. The programme was split into 25 technical sessions plus two plenary sessions devoted to invited speakers and summaries of highlights and future perspectives. The printed proceedings will amount to 240 papers, plus a CD-ROM. The breakdown by areas of interest was as follows:
The conference was attended by 303 participants from 30 countries representing code developers, researchers, radiation physicists, industry, utilities and organisations involved in dosimetry and radiotherapy.
Monte Carlo methods have matured considerably, and are applied to a wide class of problems. This conference showed in particular the many aspects related to radiation transport. Their success comes not only from the highly precise modelling they can achieve, but also from the fact that they are very suitable to run on advanced computers effectively.
Unlike previous conferences, seminars and workshops on Monte Carlo methods, this one emphasised applications rather than methods. The conference provided insight into the versatility of the methods for a number of different nuclear applications, but also in the following areas: radiation physics applications; design of systems including beams, detectors and spectrometers; diagnostics; material damage studies; etc. There were an unexpectedly large number of electron-photon applications.
The presentation of recent developments in these modelling tools, how they are made available, and how they are used was of great interest to participants. In general, the attitude was that of sharing, while leaving the necessary space for high-level commercial services. The role of the NEA Data Bank and the Radiation Safety Information Computational Center (USA) in collecting, disseminating and preserving information while arranging training courses was judged of high value.
An unexpectedly large number of young scientists and researchers presented their work, showing that the radiation application area is attracting young scientists whose work is of a high quality.
In connection with the conference, a series of tutorials were delivered on topics addressed at the conference mainly for a student audience, including "junior" physicists and researchers.
Main topics of the technical sessions
Sessions on electron-photon problems
The ten sessions were devoted to electron and photon interaction physics/electron-photon transport mechanics, including: general purpose codes; methods (in particular variance reduction); microdosimetry; and above all, applications. Concerning applications, the following areas were covered: microdosimetry; radiobiological modelling; radiation-induced DNA damage; medical physics and applications; radiotherapy and its clinical implementation; radiosurgery; internal and external dosimetry; X-ray imaging; detector response simulation and optimisation; space applications; waste management; beam collimators; non-destructive evaluations; and radiation shield optimisation. It is expected that codes will become faster and user-friendlier in the future.
Sessions on neutron-gamma problems
The eight sessions were devoted to theory and methods addressing new developments such as: sensitivity and uncertainty analysis; perturbation theory; source convergence; variance reduction; hybrid Monte Carlo; and adjoint methods. The status of the general purpose and widely used codes were presented. Interpretation of experiments and measurements covered: benchmarks and uncertainty assessment; cross-section issues; and responses of neutron dosimeters. Applications covered: radiation shielding and shield design; PWR pressure vessel fluence and damage; BWR fluence; core neutronics; pebble bed reactors; criticality; reactor core calculations; burn-up and isotopic depletion; beam tube design; accelerator-driven systems; fusion blanket and shield; neutron capture therapy; gamma ray spectrometry; dose estimation; and oil well logging. Visualisation of geometries and of simulation results has become very sophisticated and help improve understanding and result diagnosis.
Sessions on hadron interaction problems
The seven sessions covered the following areas: the latest status of hadron transport computer codes; the physics model calculation and data compilations including cross-section modelling and hadronic collisions; generalised evaporation and fission models; ion track structure; integral (thick target) data, heavy ions, baryon stopping, multiple scattering of charged particles, and photo-nuclear cascade evaporation. Experiments and benchmarks covered: transport through very thick concrete and iron for heavy ion accelerators, spallation-induced reactions on lead and mercury targets, stopping power of ions in matter, and residual nuclide production data. The sessions on applications covered: the design of the spallation neutron source; the design of accelerator-driven systems; proton beam radiation therapy; the effects on microelectronics devices; fast ion dynamics; carbon ion radiotherapy; neutron shielding for proton therapy; secondary particle yields; spectrometers; and the simulation of neutron time of flight facilities. The three high intensity spallation source projects will continue to provide incentives for strong activity and developments in this field. A need to improve the physics in intranuclear cascade models was identified.
Next conference
Participants recommended that due to the success of the Lisbon conference and its particularly attractive format, this type of conference should be held at regular intervals. As recent conferences and seminars on this subject have been mostly in Europe, possible candidates for the next such conference are Japan and the USA. An international committee should be set up to seek a new location and time for future Monte Carlo conferences and to advise on a programme in line with major needs expressed in the participating countries. The next Monte Carlo conference could be scheduled some time between 2003 and 2005.
The Conference's General Chairman was Dr. Masayuki Nakagawa from the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) and its Technical Programme Co-ordinator Dr. Pedro Vaz. The conference was organised and hosted jointly by several Portuguese establishments: Instituto Tecnológico e Nuclear (ITN); Instituto Superior Técnico (IST); Laboratório de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas (LIP) and others. The conference was co-organised at the international level by the OECD/NEA, and co-sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Radiation Safety Information Computational Center (RSICC), the Atomic Energy Society of Japan (AESJ), and the American Nuclear Society (ANS).
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Review: Slight overclock and super quiet cooling
We got the chance to test MSI's N285GTX Super Pipe OC graphics card, and MSI claims that this card should be super quiet. The box has "Dual Fan" and "OC Edition" written on it, and while that's not quite what you'd call impressive, we were quite intrigued with the "Super Pipe" technology and what's it about.
The back of the box reveals that MSI ended up using thicker, 8mm heatpipes and MSI claims up to 90% better heat transfer than traditional 6mm or 4mm heatpipes. In our honest opinion, we'd call this card Super Pipe mostly because of the fact that the card packs 5 heatpipes rather than for the diameter, as only two outer heatpipes are 8mm. What's important though is that the design works great and this is one of the quietest card's we've tested so far.
As the writings on the box say, MSI put its N285GTX Super Pipe OC card in its Gamer Series, and note that Geforce GTX 285 with its GT200 graphics processor is currently the fastest single-GPU beast around. MSI also went that extra mile and included the Tomb Raider Underworld game with its card, so that users can immediately get a taste of the sheer muscle this card packs.
As far as overclocking goes, there's not much to say here – "OC Edition" sign on the box means a 32MHz overclock for the GPU, an 8MHz (16MHz effectively) overclock for the memory and shaders left unchanged from reference 1476MHz. While the reference core runs at 648MHz, SuperPipe's core runs at 680MHz and its memory at 2500MHz, compared to reference memory speed of 2484MHz. You can check out all the important specs on the GPUZ screenshot below.
You should know by now that Geforce GTX 285 is basically a refresh of the GTX 280, as both cards use the GT200 graphics processor but unlike the GTX280's 65nm GPU, the GTX285's GPU is built in more advanced 55nm process. The shader and ROP count are still the same – 240 shaders and 32 ROPs, but it's the clocks that changed and it brought about the name change. So, the GTX 285 is faster and more efficient, as it performs better with same or lower consumption.
GTX 285/280 cards have 1024MB of memory which on the GTX 285, as we've mentioned before runs at 1242MHz (2484MHz effectively), whereas the GTX 280's runs at 1107MHz (2214MHz effectively).
The reference GTX 285 card uses dual-slot cooling which does a good job and isn't too loud. As far as the "golden silence" goes however, you can't compare it to MSI's N285GTX Super Pipe OC, but MSI's design isn't without flaws either. The reference dual-slot cooler covers the card's face and pushes the air outside the case. MSI's design allows for only a fraction of heat to be pushed out of the case whereas the rest stays in the case. This however shouldn't be a problem if the airflow inside your case is adequate.
Noise levels are an important thing to consider when buying a graphics card, and we must admit we really liked MSI's N285GTX Super Pipe OC cooling.
Inside the MSI-branded brushed aluminum frame you'll find two small and quiet fans.
A glance at N285 GTX Super Pipe from any side reveals some new and interesting details, particularly the method of implementing heatpipes.
Heatpipes are the rails resembling guides on pinball machines and you can see them on the photo below. They hug the heatsink and help it release the heat as fast as possible.
Heatpipes go from the heat source – the GPU, all the way to the furthest points on the heatsink routing the heat to be released off the aluminum fins. Efficiency and silence are the result of using 5 heatpipes with a large heatsink. As we've mentioned before, the 8mm heatpipes are the longest and stretch to the furthest points on the heatsink, helping in even heat distribution. Thanks to such large dissipation surface the fans don't have to spin fast, and the end result is silence.
The memory and power regulators are covered with a heatspreader, also cooled by the fan.
The memory comes from Hynix, and it's rated at 1.3GHz, leaving headroom from MSI's set speed of 1250MHz.
The card is powered via two 6-pin power connectors.
The I/O panel features two dual-link DVI outs and an S-video out. You can use the DVI-to-HDMI dongle to bring video to your HDTV, but if you want to route video and audio together via one cable, you'll have to bring the audio to the card's SPDIF in from your motherboard's/soundcard's SPDIF out.


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Baltz, Stitz, & Co. Importers & dealers in brandies, wines, gins &c. Bourbon & rye whiskies. No. 333 North 37th St. Philadelphia.
Catalogue of theatrical and public celebrities
Cataract House, Niagara Falls.
Centennial circular. Norwalk Lock Company. South Norwalk, Conn.
Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia. 1876.
[Checks, bank notes, billheads, and receipts specimens]
Church, corner 4th St. & Washington Av. Morrissania, Long Island, N.Y.
The City Hall Philadelphia. Architecture, sculpture and history.
[Collection of portraits]
Doct. Hoofland's celebrated German bitters, for the permanent cure of liver complaint, jaundice, dyspepsia, nervous debility, asthma, disease of the kidneys, and all diseases arising from a disordered liver or stomach
Dwelling house, corner Avenue A & 85th Street, New York.
Ehrgott & Forbriger, practical lithographers. s.w. cor. of 4th & Walnut sts., Cincinnati, O.
Ehrgott & Forbriger, practical lithographers. s.w. cor. of 4th & Walnut sts., Cincinnati, O.
Engravings by William Humphrys
Fairbanks' standard scales. Buy only the genuine.
First annual prize exhibition of the Philadelphia Sketch Club held at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts December 1865.
The first steamboat on the Missouri.
[Floral watercolor]
"Forget me not!"
Forget me not
Franklin W. Kohler bicycling events 1884
[Geo. S. Harris & Sons print specimens]
Gerney & Algeier, seedsmen & florists, 69 Chestnut St., Philadelphia.
Globe hotel cor. Frankfort & William sts New York
Godey's Lady's Book Publishing Company limited, 1006 Chestnut St. Philadelphia
Grice & Long, patentees. Steam passenger car and self adjusting trucks for rail way curves. Offices 205 1/2 Walnut St. Philada. 94 Wall St. New York.
Hoofland's German bitters, a pure tonic.
"I love a flower!"
J. P. Buggy, palmoral [sic] skirts. Manufacturer.
James Burrill Angell, 1829-1916
[Job printing specimens for certificates, bank notes, receipts, labels, and billheads]
John H. Brown & Co. No. 307 Market St.
John Jay Smith and Rachel Collins Pearsall Smith Family photograph album
[John Serz scrapbook]
[Label specimens]
Library Company of Philadelphia scrapbook
[Lily watercolor and poem]
"Long long be thy heart with your memory fill'd..."
A mark of friendship's pleasing power...
Memories of the home of Grandma Lewis
[Miscellaneous specimens from specimen album loose prints collection]
The most Rev Francis Patrick Kenrick D.D. Archbishop of Baltimore.
[Motion studies]
[Nature prints of leaves]
[Nineteenth-century view of a group of people attired in fancy dress]
No marvel woman should love flowers...
The old houses and stores with memorabilia relating to them and my father and grandfather
Old landmarks & relics of Philadelphia. Fourth series.
Old landmarks & relics of Philadelphia. Second series.
Old Philadelphia views 1861
Original & selected poetry &c.
Original & selected poetry &c. [graphic] / Amy Matilda Cassey.
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Member's Annual ticket.
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society [ticket]
[Philadelphia Inquirer art supplements]
Philadelphia Zoo photograph album
Photograph album
Photograph album
Photograph album
Photograph album of Philadelphia and vicinity
[Photographic Society of Philadelphia's Chesapeake & Ohio Canal excursion, May 21-29, 1882 album]
Photographic views of New City Building
Photographs taken by Robert Waln Leaming 1865-1875 at Ashwood, Villa Nova, Delaware County, Penna. Lancaster Pike and Spring Mill Road
Portrait photograph album of Mary McPhilomy
[Print with ornate border containing vignettes representing the seasons]
[Print with ornate border containing vignettes representing the seasons]
[Proof of sheet music cover depicting a kangaroo]
[Proofs after plates from McKenney and Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes of North America"]
[Proofs from specimen album loose prints collection]
[Residential New York street]
Right Revd. Francis Xavier Gartland. First Bishop of Savannah Ga.
[Rose with open scroll]
Ruclius & Kinlzbach doll manufacturers Philadelphia.
S. A. Hagner, saddle harness and trunk manufactory, South (No.39) 8th St. 1st Door above Chesnut [sic] Philada.
Scenery on the Pennsylvania Railroad
[Scrapbook of ephemera]
[Scrapbook of European views]
[Scrapbook of original and printed art works]
[Scrapbook of portraits]
[Scrapbook of prints]
[Scrapbook of prints]
[Scrapbook of prints and clippings]
[Scrapbook with periodical illustrations, comic valentines, and patent medicine advertisements]
Sewing Machine Polka
[Sketchbook during New England summer excursion, July-August 1882]
[Sketchbook during New England summer excursion, July-August 1882]
[Sketchbook during New England summer excursion, July-August 1882]
[Specimens album]
[Specimens album loose prints collection]
[Textile labels advertising Ginghams, and Balmoral skirts]
"A token of love from me, to thee"
[Trade cards containing a view of the Rhine Valley]
[Trade cards for Ehrgott, Fobriger & Co.]
Two weeks in the Yellowstone.
Vankirk & Co. Philadelphia.
[Vase of flowers]
[Vase of flowers]
Views at Chestnutwold, residence of C.H. Clark.
Views of Ashwood, Gulph Mills, and other sites in Delaware County and surrounding counties in Pennsylvania
Views of Fairmount Park Philadelphia 1866
Views of Loudoun and Stenton, residences of Maria Dickinson Logan and her brother, Albanus C. Logan, Germantown, Philadelphia
Whann's Super Phosphate Manufactory. Walton, Whann & Co., proprietors. Wilmington, Delaware, office, Front & Market sts.
The Wife. By Washington Irving.
William & Coons, importers of fancy goods. Manufacturers of pocket books, no. 19 North Fourth St. Philadelphia.
Works of P. & F. Corbin. New Britain Conn. U.S.A.


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Joyce Drake
Joyce Drake (born 1947) is a 48 time Grammy Award winning, sexually religious pop icon, and a 20 time Academy Award winning actress, as well as a former award-winning pornstar. She has passed Madonna as the queen of pop, and has raped Michael Jackson, which landed her a sentence to life in prison with no chance of parole. However, after raping seventeen officers, she was released from prison. That was when she started making music about sex and rape, as her album sales have totaled in over 200 million in just the United States alone. At her peak in the mid 80s, she become the first artist to score 10 songs in the Pop 50, and she broke this record in 2009 by having fifty singles in the entire pop 50 chart. Since 1987 she has been the official Queen of Australia, and has banned Kylie Minogue and Madonna from ever selling records in that country. She was also believed to have been the spawn of Hitler, but she later revoked these claims to return to popularity in the mids 90s. She has enjoyed impressive and steady cult appeal on the Pulse music forum, as well as her own fan club with more than 70 million members.
Some might say she is "bigger than Jesus Christ", but Joyce would surely not approve of this comparison, mainly for her own protection. The singer has struggled throughout her career to remain relevant, and undergoes constant reinventions (not unlike Madonna or Kylie Minogue), and even had a temporary sex change in 2002. She has struggled with public sexual problems her entire career, and became involved with drugs and alcohol late in her career, which led to an Oprah appearance, and a major comeback that led to her selling more than 50 million albums in one week. In July of 2009, Joyce Drake was elected to be the new queen of Hawaii. In 2010 she faced a massive commercial backlash due to an Illuminati scandal with Christina Aguilera. In 2011 she returned to fame with, "Born This Day", and broke internet download records. At the mid year her career again declined, as she converted to Buddhism.
- 1 Early life
- 2 Career
- 3 Illuminati
- 4 Singles
- 5 Trivia
- 6 See also
- 7 External links
Early life[edit]
Joyce Madonna Drake was born in the ghetto of New York City, where her mother worked as a whore. Her father an hero because God told him to, because his wife was a whore. Joyce grew up living in shit and was forced to starve for days at a time. At age 7, she finally entered a one-room schoolhouse, where she learned about prostitution, and how to have sex with men four times your age. At age 14 she became involved in prostitution, and worked in threesomes alongside her mother. She dropped out of school at age 16, and spent as many as 20 hours a day performing sexual acts. By age 18 she was found by Hugh Hefner at the side of a ghetto, passed out with four drunk men next to her. Hugh saved her from the ghetto, and brought her back to the mansion with him. At the mansion, Joyce learned about safe sex, and in her spare time, learned about Christianity from Dolly Parton. After three years at the mansion, she found out her mother died after being raped and beaten by a gang. Joyce broke down and turned to God for help, where she was informed she would have to sing her entire life, because it's what her mother wanted to do, but never could do because she was a whore.
In 1978, Joyce began working on her debut album, alongside Dolly Parton and Cher. By the middle of the year, Holy Joyce was released to flop sales and fell of the chart shortly after release. Joyce broke down and entered depression, and was forced to spend a week alone in a dark hole contemplating about her awful singing. She then realized people don't care about her or her music, so she needs to slut it up. Dolly Parton told her to get implants and wear slutty clothing that makes her breasts look like sex symbols, which led to Joyce doing so. Joyce had a total image change, but decided to keep with her religious music theme, and the next year, she released Prayers of Joyce, which saw some good sales, but not enough to make her happy. So then later she found James Brown, had sex with him a few times, and got some soul from him. At this same time, she was informed by Iraqi spies that Madonna was going to be releasing an album, and God told her that she was going to be so fucking huge that she would need to release a rival album to make more money for the Pope to be happy.
Nothing Like a Virgin[edit]
After establishing herself as an artist, with some fans, she decided it was time to release her first pop album. She met up with David Bowie and James Brown, who taught her the path of U2, and gave her some Cyndi Lauper and pre-Tifanny vocal shit, to make her sound futuristic. The lead single, "Why Won't You Fuck Me?", was a massive worldwide hit, and went #1 on more than 40 charts, and gave her debut album sales of more than 2 million worldwide, very large at the time. Her album went on to sell more than 23 million albums, and established her as the largest singer on Earth. She would later release a dozen more singles, all going top ten, and giving her the distinction of having ten top ten singles at once, a record never matched again (except a long time later by her).
A music video for the single "Why Won't You Fuck Me?" was directed by Andy Worhol which is know for the famous establishing shot of the irresistible Joyce climbing out of a can of Campbell's Tomato Soup. Along with the closing scene of Joyce successfully seducing Andy Worhol whom found her to irresistible to finish his hamburger.
God's Thriller[edit]
A year after her supermassive worldwide hit album, she decided she wanted to go back to God and still have sexual music at the same time. She also decided she wanted to be black, so she wore blackface, and released her (not a Michael Jackson rip-off), God's Thriller, which shot to #1 in 70 countries, sold 6 million it's first week worldwide, and sold 40 million+ worldwide, giving her a dozen worldwide #1s, and enough money to buy a Australia. After doing so, she forced australians to buy her albums or else they would be sent to life in prison. This led to riots that did nothing, so everyone was screwed and forced to buy her albums so she could outsell Michael Jackson and Madonna, and still be the most popular singer ever.
A few years later in 1986, Joyce decided she wanted more money, so she spit out another half-ass album, full of cheesy gospel ballads, and zero pop songs. The album flopped at just 6 milliom copies, and pissed Joyce off to the point where she massacred 40,000 australians and banned Madonna from ever releasing an album in Australia. At he same time, australian Kylie Minogue was on the verge of being the new-Madonna at Joyce's chagrin. Joyce became very angry and commanded a bounty on her head, which was never fulfilled. Joyce later apologized and admits she was too drunk on Jesus juice to even know what she was doing. She later revoked her apoloy a few months later, realizing Kylie is a clone of Madonna, and an android sent from space to replace all pop music sluts.
Career demise[edit]
By the late 80s her career began to wain, and even though she won a few Grammys every year (thanks to giving pleasure to the Grammy voters), she still was facing flop sales, and no one showing up at her tour. She later revealed she was the spawn of Hitler and wanted to start a new Holocaust to kill all the australians, because "they were fucking up her career, and God didn't like them." However this did nothing except cause a huge downfall in her sales, and lead to her albums being banned in more than 200 countries, causing her to flop hard. Her compilation The Best Joyce Collection charted basically nowhere, and led to Joyce returning to sex and flashing her breasts on public television worldwide, during the Olympics.
A few years later she released The Erotic Bedtime Story, featuring a lesbian duet with Madonna, and a sex book filled with pornographic photographs of her, Madonna, and numerous lesbians making love. The book went straight to #1 and was sold in schools across the world to teach children about sex, as well as the album (which features real orgasm sounds). The album became a hit, and Joyce was back at her prime, but nowhere near her previous peak. Her next album, Christianized, with the lead single, Christianizer, bombed, and led to poor album sales, proving she was still a flop.
Comeback, Hit Joyce One More Time, Lesbianism[edit]
Joyce decided it was time to return to mainstream non-Christian pop music, so she followed Britney Spears and met up with Max Martin (after hours of oral sex), and released Hit Joyce One More Time, an all sex pop album. The lead single went to #1, while every other single went top ten, making Joyce the second artist to have ten top tens from one album all at the same time, a record she set herself a decade earlier! Joyce appeared on Oprah and had live lesbian sex with Oprah, making Oprah the first black lesbian of television, and Joyce the first Christian lesbian of television. Both went on to make public appearances about their relationship, until they decided to breakup a year later, after Joyce found the trannylicious, Christina Aguilera (Xtina). This led to many duets, many lesbian appearances (more than with Oprah), and massive album sales in excess of 20 million plus.
JOYCE2000, sex-change, future[edit]
After a good time of lesbian fun worldwide, Joyce went back to the studio and sucked Max Martin's dick a few more times to get more addicting lesbian tracks with Christina Aguilera and later, a threesome lesbian anthem with Britney Spears. The album went to #1 everywhere, sold 24 million albums, and made Joyce wet to the point she decided she wanted to have a sex change. In July 2002, Joyce had a penis surgery, and began posing in Playgirl alongside Justin Timberlake, which infuriated Britney Spears. Then Britney decided she was going to sleep with Christina to further her album sales, which angered Joyce, leading to her releasing numerous pointless album, including a compilation, remix, and a dozen other albums that weren't even official. Her albums sold more than Britney, which pissed Britney off to the point she madeout with Madonna on MTV.
World domination[edit]
In 2005, she released a film titled The Joyce Ship to Space, a film about her own ship that sails to space as she falls in love with a boy, and everyone dies. The movie made $4,000,000,000 (4 billion) worldwide in one year, won 20+ Academy Awards, and gave Joyce the distinction of best actress ever. She decide she wasn't ever going to make movies again, because it was boring, and she wanted to sing. So then she released Sex on a Dancefloor, featuring a new lesbian duet with Madonna, which skyrocketed to #1 worlwide, and sold tens of millions.
Her next album, THE JOYCE COLLECTION VOL. 1 & 2, a compilation that featued hundreds of songs on two discs. The album sold 40 million copies and made Joyce the first billionaire lesbian Christian singer. Joyce later revealed in an Oprah interview, she was not a lesbian, and was just pretending to be to be famous. Don't You Fuck With Me, went #1 in 300 countries, and on two planets, making her the first artist to go #1 outside of Earth, and the first artist to sell 20 million copies in one week, and the first artist to sell 70 million albums in one year alone. She later decided to have a sexual relationship with Kanye West, and changed her name to 'JoYce DrAke, codename, seXy JoYce. The alias was awful, but the world ate it up, and Joyce sold 3 million albums in one day, 20 million in one week, and 200 million in a year.
She later went on to sleep with every man in Hollywood, before revealing that Clay Aiken was gay because he wouldn't sleep with him, which led to him cgay, and ruining his own career (because they were all homophobic, like what Joyce's old fans were), to the pleasure of Joyce.
Comeback #2[edit]
After a year of partying with Britney Spears and Amy Winehouse, receiving 20 tickets for driving under the influence, and skipping 6 court dates, Joyce announced it was time for a comeback! After sleeping in a church for 27 hours, and having dreams of the bible, Joyce decided it was time to return to the public eye, and wash the filthy sex images of Britney and PCD out their eyes. Her new album, "ChurchHouse", was released on April 6th 2009, and sold more than 700,000 copies in just 1 minute. Because of the huge influx of sales, iTunes crashed and later announced they sold more than 24,000,000 albums in just one day! By the end of the month, Joyce earned 3 #1s (due to downloads alone), and announced a world tour titled JOYCE LOVES EVERYONE with more than 430 tour dates, and an opening act of freakshow talents, Tranny GaGa (Lady GaGa), Sextina Gaguleria (Christina Aguilera), and Pussy Dolls (
Pussycat Dolls Nicole Scherzinger..WHO?). Her new album, image, and tour, boast a strong sexual image, with Joyce wanted the world to know, sex is fun, sex in church is fun, and having sex is what we're here for! Her new single, "Just Prance", is for her gay fans, while, "SexyFace", is her new worlwide smash about sex! Both singles went to #1 and sold 40 million copies, while her follow-up, Please Don't Leave Me Alone (In Church), a duet with P!nk, sold 70 million copies in one week, and made even the Pope cry. Joyce is currently touring the galaxy, and planning on returning home after she find the meaning of life.
The Flop Era[edit]
In 2010, or around there, she came out with her much anticipated 39th album, "The Emancipation Of Joyce". The album was supposed to be her third comeback, and set the stage for her world tour with Christina Aguilera. Unfortunately Floptina's Bionic Curse spread to Joyce and her album didn't even achieve Gold status (as of 2011). The album debuted at #187 on the Billboard Hot 100, and the joint concert with Christina was canceled! Despite the poor album sales, the canceled tour, and the fact Joyce was struggling to stay sober for public performances.. Her management released a string of singles (with low budget lyric videos), hoping to boost album sales. The year generally went by as a blur to Joyce (duh), and her fans complained she was being marketed wrong. Everyone knows the album flopped because she sold her soul to the illuminati and unfortunately used Christina's flop blood sacrifice.
Born This Day[edit]
In 2011 Joyce promised a full fledged comeback that would destroy all pop divas. In January 2011 she released "Born This Day", to proclaim she was being reborn (spiritually). The single was a smash and debuted at #1 on iTunes within 2 minutes. The single sold 3 million digital downloads in a day, and 10 million in a week. It spent 15 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, and established that Joyce was better than the rest. Follow up singles were smash hits, and pop stars came crying to Joyce begging for their songs to be remixed for success. So Joyce sold out and began recording remixes for her lesser peers, while still establishing her Billboard Hot 100 reign. In May 2011 the album, "Born This Day", was released. However Amazon.com became greedy and sold the album for $0.09 for the first 24 hours. Thus, the album sold 200 million copies in one day, and 1 million copies the rest of the week. To date the album has sold 202 million copies, and continues to smash the charts (at position 185!). None of her singles since "Born This Day" have been #1s, but her fans continue to support her! At this same time, Christina Aguilera (once Joyce's best friend), continued to flop, and was signed to "Flop Factor", where Joyce made a cameo appearance in May 2011. Since then Joyce has embarked on the "Born This Day Ball", and planned to release a holiday album in late 2011!
Buddhism: The New (indie) Joyce[edit]
In mid 2011 (specifically July 3, 2011), Joyce suffered a midlife crisis caused by menopause. She shaved of all her hair and locked herself in her hotel room for 3 days and 4 nights. Early on July 8th, Joyce released herself from her self-exile, and announced to the world she had become a Buddhist. She later met with the Dali Llama and held a press conference on her website with a Q&A for fans. By the end of the summer Joyce had recruited 20 followers to Buddhism off her own public speaking. In September 2011, she released her smash single 'Büddha & I', which reached #96 on US iTunes in just 5 days and sold 18,250 downloads in that timeframe. The single did not chart on the Billboard 100, and led to Joyce attempting suicide. On the evening of October 2, 2011 Joyce held herself hostage in a McDonalds and attempted to pour coffee with a temperature of 275 celsius on her face. This was filmed on just one local news station in a 30 seconds clip. Joyce later came to terms with her career demise and parted ways with her label. She created her own record label "India Soup Records". After assessing the chart trends for Holiday season 2009 and 2010, she decided the public loved Susan Boyle. So in November 2011, she released another new single "Marry the Light", a love song to Buddha. The music video was filmed and released, showing a biographical look at the midlife crisis and the suicide attempt of Joyce, and her plea for fame. The single peaked at #119 on the Billboard Hot 100 Bubbling Under chart, and sold 53,000 downloads total. Joyce released a holiday album, "Have Yourself A Joyce Xmas", which peaked at #187 on the Billboard 200 chart with 4,480 sales. In late December 2011 Joyce announced she had returned to her previous record label, after realizing she is a flop without them. She denounced her Buddhist affiliations and said she is prepared in 2012 do to whatever it takes to regain her cult appeal.
In early 2010 it was revealed to various blogs that Joyce was apart of the Illuminati. Her fans denied the rumors, despite the huge evidence of massive occult symbolism in her videos. Joyce herself was believed to have been mkultraed to the point where she created a new alter ego (Javid). Her new ego appeared briefly in some of her videos, and spoke with a strong cockney accent. Joyce also began changing her image to prepare for her new album.
In June 2010, a new website called VigilantJoyce appeared online. It revealed in-depth information about Joyce's videos, lyrics, wardrobe, and such. Later it was revealed that the reasoning behind Joyce's long historical sexual image was due to mkultra sex kitten reprogramming, and mkdelta reprogramming of her sister (whom no one knows what happened to). Joyce herself briefly mentioned such information on "The Talk". However she referred to the Illuminati as, "them", and claimed they murdered Michael Jackson, and would punish her if she spoke of "them" again. Joyce has long since denied such claims, and refuses to speak about the "Illuminati". In 2011 Joyce stopped doing meet & greets, and demanded fans not even look in her eyes. Some believe she's becoming a reptilian, others believe she's just stressed from the constant mkultra reprogramming (phase 4) treatment. And then the hardcore Joyce stans believe the Illuminati is a hoax, and Joyce is perfectly, and sexually healthy!
After Joyce's meltdown in mid 2011 and her change of religion, many including VigilantJoyce speculated she was rebelling against the elite. Joyce had reportedly parted ways with the major industry (her handlers), and later resided in a rural town in Nepal. However in late 2011 she completely reversed all this, and returned to her previous record label with no morals. Everyone has speculated she's returned to the Illuminati and is now attempting to usurp Rihanna as Princess of the Illuminati.
1980: "(Nothing) Like A Virgin"
1980: "From A Distance God Is Watching Us (So Turn On the Light and F**K Me, I Wanna Put On A Show)
1980: "Papa Don't Preach (Just Cuz You God and Ya Think Yo' Know It All)f/Rappin'Jesus
1981: "Like A Prayer"
1981: "Breath of Heaven (WTF? Why Am I Pregnant God? Yo!), "On The Inside (Lesbian Sex Theme of "Prisoner Cell Block H)"
1982: "He's Got the Whole C**K in His Hands"
1984: "God Only Knows Who I'd F**K Without You"
1985: "Holy Hour", "Joyce Is A Virgin", "Out of Hell", "Bite Me Now", "Fucking Around the Christmastree", "Do You Want Sex?", "Thriller (Joyce song)", "Woman in the Mirror".
1986: "Jungle Bitch", "Freakshow", "I Want Sex Now (Hurry Up)", "I'm Not Madonna"
1987: "Fuck Kylie Minogue", "Australian Holocaust", "Sexy Showgirl", "Jesus Is My Man", "Cum Back"
1992: "Erotic Sexual", "Black Girl", "Fucking This Bed", "Out Of Control (I Need A Tampon)", "Worry About You (Are You Gay?)", "In The Middle Of The Street (We're Fucking)",
1998: "Hit Joyce One More Time", "Sometimes Joyce Cries", "Joyce Is Crazy", "Joyce Is Stronger", "Just Joyce!"
2000: "Baby Bitch, It's Joyce", "The Joyce Rain Song", "All About Joyce"
2001: "I'm Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman (Tranny Transition)", "Juicy Joyce" ft. Christina Aguilera,
2005: "Jesus Take the Wheel (I Can't Drive On Parole)", "Oops, I Touched Myself"
2006: "Post-It To God", "God Is My Boyfriend", "Don't Cha Wish Ur Preacher Were Hot Like Me?"
2007: "U + Ur Hand of God" (Popular radio-edit: "U + Ur Bible")
2008: "Touch My Bible", "Fall For You - During Communion" and "4 Minutes To Go To Church', "My Milkshake (Is Made With Milk From My Tits)"
2009: "Gives You Heaven", "My Life Would Suck Without God", "Just Prance", "SexyFace", "Please Don't Leave Me (Alone in Church)", "Touch my Bible", "Suck My Cross", "God's Penis In My Pussy", "Cumdrops" + (B-Side Re-Issue Of 1980 "(Nothing) Like A Virgin") "My Legs Are Spread On Jesus' Cross", "I Fissed A Girl"
2010: "Rude Pastor", "Not A Christian Tonight", "Popstar 101", "Te Amo (She Doesn't Love Jesus)", "Only God (In The Universe)", "What's My Baptism Name"
2011: "Born This Day", "S&M (Sin & Me) [Remix]", "Pray Till The World Ends [Remix]", "Last Sunday Night [Remix]", "Judas (Deserves No Crown)", "Edge of (God's) Glory", "Büddha & I", "Marry the Light"
- "U + Ur Hand of God" was covered by Pulse Music Board member JessieLou. She is now known around the boards as "sinner" for butchering the greatness that is Joyce.


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Fraud Alert – "Grandma, It's Me" SCAM
(Woodland, CA) – July 20, 2009 District Attorney Jeff Reisig wants to alert older adults about a scam occurring in the area. Recently, a local resident wired $3000 dollars to a thief from Canada using this trick.
In a typical scenario, a grandparent receives a phone call from a con artist claiming to be one of his/hers grandchildren. The caller often tells a story about being out of the country and in some kind of trouble. It may involve getting arrested or a car accident and they always want you to keep it a secret. Next they ask for money to be sent as soon as possible using a wire service like MoneyGram or Western Union.
The District Attorney asks that you help spread the word about this scam and be suspicious if anyone calls unexpectedly asking you to wire money (especially to Canada). We suggest that you contact a family member to verify the situation – even if you are told to keep it a secret. You might even consider having a password or a security question for the caller that only a real family member would know.
Click here for a down-loadable flyer that you can print to display - Adobe Acrobat PDF file
Door-to-Door Cons Target Elderly
Door-to-door con artists are here - posing as utility or city workers. Once inside your home, these imposters will distract you while accomplices search for cash, jewelry and other valuables. They have even taken strong boxes and safes. Click here for more information.
Property Assessment Scam - Tax Bills That Look Official, But Are Not...
A Los Angeles-based company is mailing notices resembling tax bills to homeowners in Northern California, including Yolo County homeowners, offering property value review services for a fee of $179.00. This service is already provided free of charge by the Yolo County Assessor's Office and the Yolo County Assessment Appeals Board. This Los Angeles-based company and other similar companies are not affiliated with the Assessor's office or any other agency of local government. Click here to read more.
Don't be a Victim of Phishing
Many Internet users are receiving E-mails requesting personal and confidential account information. The e-mail sender often poses as a bank, government agency, or companies like eBay and PayPal. In reality the sender is a criminal. Click here for more information (requires Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader - link for free version at bottom of page).


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Read here. This is surprising. Thought he'd stick around for depth if nothing else. Interesting.
Surprising move – Pack cuts Peprah
2 Responses to "Surprising move – Pack cuts Peprah"
Dave K Says:
July 25, 2012 at 4:47 pm |
Seems like an injury release to me. He was a marginal starter going into this season and he couldn't run at his physical. I don't think the Packers wanted to risk guaranteeing his $1million+ salary with a camp injury or re-injury.
What an important role player he has been for the Packers though. Maybe not a key cog but a starting contributor that helped the Packer's bring home the Lombardi trophy. I hope he gets healthy and lands with another team.
56Coop Says:
July 26, 2012 at 12:21 pm |
I agree he helped out in the Super Bowl. I just hope wherever he ends up he learns to use his arms when he tackles. Actually the same could be said for several of our defensive players. I would imagine McCarthy & Capers might incorporate a few "live" tackling drills in training camp this year.


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2013 Oscars Red Carpet Fashion – Jennifer Lawrence Channels Cinderella in White Dior Haute Couture
Best Actress nominee Jennifer Lawrence, who revealed she was stressed and starving and didn't have a chance to eat because her entire family was getting dressed at her house, wore a white Dior Haute Couture dress to the 2013 Oscars.
The strapless gown pressed her boobies down a little, but she was still absolutely stunning.
The bodice was corseted and constricting, while the bottom half was full and Cinderella-like. Since the dress was strapless and had a low back, she wore a long necklace that hung down her back. It was an unexpected and darling detail.
As the 2013 awards season winds down, J. Law has proven herself to be a true fashionista, making smart choices 99 percent of the time. She capped off the chaos of the season with a winner in Dior.
And admitting she was hungry on the red carpet? Made us love her even more.


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PARIS Oct. 24 – Sial, the International Food Salon of Paris, organized once very two years, is currently taking place in the Villepinte Fair facilities. The Marche region is represented by 10 companies, participating under the Region's brand and Marchet, the specialized Chamber of Commerce Ancona agency for internationalization. Operators' participation in the past three days has been relevant. "Regardless of the current crisis – says Paolo Petrini, vice president and assessor to Agriculture – the food and wine sector is performing better than expected." The Marche products are exposed in the Italian Section managed by ICE in Pavilion 1. Other firms from the region are present as independent agents and through other representatives. Clearly, this 2012 edition is dominated by young entrepreneurs, who work with honey and wine and were selected by the Ministry for Agricultural Policies and the new Marche Bio Consortium – also present at the Salon in Pavilion 8, dedicated to bio products. The initiative is the fruit of the collaboration between the Marche Region and the Ancona Chamber of Commerce, that was able to introduce regional products in an international fair, with operators from all over the globe.
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Seen in Lewes, Delaware… photo by author.
I had to stop.
As we always love to say, astronomy and history is where you find it, even in a graveyard in Delaware beside the road.
The Delaware coast is an unlikely birthplace for modern American science. But back in the mid-18th century, it was the site of cutting edge astronomy. At the time, measuring the distance from the Earth to the Sun was the gold standard, a key to unlocking the scale and size of the solar system using Kepler's laws. A transit of Venus across the the face of the Sun represented just such an opportunity to make a parallax measurement at the precise moments of ingress and egress as the black inky disk of the planet slips across the face of the Sun. This was one of the first truly international efforts in science, as several observations had to be made from multiple geographically separate locations. [Read more...]


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