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MurrayHill & New Providence, New Jersey, U.S., November 22, 2010 – Linde North America and Macy's will celebrate another anniversary of their unique partnership this November: sixteen consecutive years of making children of all ages smile at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade®.
Linde North America is part of The Linde Group, a world leading gases and engineering company and one of the world's largest helium suppliers. Since 1994 Linde has been the sole provider of helium to inflate the giant balloons that sail over the streets of New York City lifting the spirits of people, young and old, and marking the official beginning of the holiday season. This is Macy's 84th year producing the Parade.
Pat Murphy, president, Linde North America, said, "The Parade is America's most recognizable Thanksgiving event. It has become an institution that people across the country and around the world look forward to enjoying year after year. Linde is proud of its longstanding partnership with Macy's and we look forward to working with them for many years to come."
With over 50 million viewers across the country and more than 3.5 million spectators that line up along the Parade route each year, the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is a national icon that has grown into a world-famous holiday.
On Thursday, November 25, 15 giant balloons, 43 novelty ornament balloons, 27 floats, 12 bands and more than 8,000 participants will make the annual more than 2 mile trek down the streets of New York City, to the delight of millions.
John Piper, vice president, Macy's Parade Studio, said, "Our giant helium character balloons – including two new balloons this year, Diary of A Wimpy Kid and Kung Fu Panda™ – are the signature of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. And our 16-year partnership with Linde gives us the helium that's crucial to bringing our world-famous balloons to life."
Helium's Journey
Helium used to fill the breathtaking balloons floating over New York City in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade begins its journey in America's heartland. Crude helium is transported by pipeline from its sources in Texas to Linde's helium production facility in Otis, Kansas – the world's second largest helium plant.
After the helium is purified in Otis, it is turned into a gas and compressed into four high-pressure tube trailers that are trucked across the country to New York City. On the day before the Parade, Linde and Macy's staff assemble near the Museum of Natural History in Manhattan, where workers begin inflating the balloons using a gas filling apparatus Linde has customized for the Macy's Parade. Early Thanksgiving morning, the balloons are topped off with helium and poised for the Parade. The total amount of helium used is around 300,000 cubic feet.
About The Linde Group
The Linde Group is a world leading gases and engineering company with almost 48,000 employees working in more than 100 countries worldwide. In the 2009 financial year it achieved sales of EUR 11.2 billion (USD 15.3 billion). The strategy of The Linde Group is geared towards sustainable earnings-based growth and focuses on the expansion of its international business with forward-looking products and services.
Linde acts responsibly towards its shareholders, business partners, employees, society and the environment – in every one of its business areas, regions and locations across the globe. Linde is committed to technologies and products that unite the goals of customer value and sustainable development.
For more information, visit Linde North America online at http://www.lindeus.com.
Jon Lederman
Linde corporate communications
Orlando Veras
Macy's Media Relations


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The second says they should ask for food, so he then goes up and knocks on the door and an old, ugly lady answers. He asks for food and she agrees - but only under one condition. They must have sex with her.
The first drifter says no, the lady is too ugly, and goes back into the woods.
The third guy is very hungry and agrees. He enters the cottage and goes into a corner near a pile of corn to transact his business with the old lady. The old lady is ready, but the guy says he'll only do it if she's blindfolded.
So she puts on a blindfold and bends over. Quickly the guy grabs an ear of corn and sticks it inside the old lady, then throws it out the window. The woman says, "Again," and the man does the same thing. Satisfied, she gives the man some food and he leaves. As he is walking out of the farmhouse, he comes upon the other two guys.
"Guess what?" the first guy says, "while you screwed that old hag we found two ears of cream corn!"

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On Thursday's "Jersey Shore," fans were initially going to see cast member Nicole Polizzi, AKA Snooki, get assaulted at a bar following an altercation with Brad Ferro, who is not a castmember of the MTV series. But the network has removed the punch from the upcoming episode, something Snooki is very pleased about.
"This drunk guy just kept coming up to us, he wouldn't leave us alone, so finally I was like, 'Listen, these are my drinks, they're for my roommates, they're not for you, go away,'" Snooki told AccessHollywood.com's Laura "Dish of Salt" Saltman on Monday, recalling the August 19 incident. "He couldn't handle it, [then] he punched me in the face!"
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"He was belligerent, he'd already been cut off by the bartender, that's why he was stealing my drinks," she continued.
And Snooki is glad the moment of the assault was removed.
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"For the show, I don't think it was a good idea," she said of removing the punch that got Ferro convicted of assault, fined $500 and given a six months suspended jail sentence. "But, for me personally, obviously that's hard to watch, so the fact that they did take it out, I appreciate it."
Now, four months removed from the altercation, Snooki said she's completely recovered from the incident.
"It hurt," she said of the punch. "My jaw didn't break, I didn't lose any teeth, it was just swelling."
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James G. Basker
James G. Basker is president of the Gilder Lehrman Institute and Richard Gilder Professor of Literary History at Barnard College, Columbia University. As president of the Gilder Lehrman Institute since 1997, Basker has overseen the development of history education initiatives nationwide, including history high schools, teacher seminars, traveling exhibitions, digital archives, and the National History Teacher of the Year Award program.
Basker has also served as project director for several history exhibitions at the New-York Historical Society, including Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America (2004–2005), Lincoln in His Own Words: An Intimate View of Our Greatest President (2009), and John Brown: The Abolitionist and His Legacy (2009–2010). He is an elected member of the Society of American Historians and former fellow of the American Antiquarian Society. He serves on Mount Vernon's Scholarly Advisory Board, the boards of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize and the Frederick Douglass Book Prize, and as a trustee of the New-York Historical Society.
Basker was educated at Harvard, Cambridge, and Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He taught for seven years at Harvard University before coming to New York, and he has been a visiting professor at NYU, Cambridge University, and Rogue Community College in Oregon. He is also founder and president of OxBridge Academic Programs, which has sponsored summer programs and teacher seminars in Oxford, Cambridge, Paris, and Barcelona for more than twenty years.
His publications include Amazing Grace: Poems about Slavery 1660–1810 (2002), Early American Abolitionists (2005), and American Antislavery Writing: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation (2012) as well as scores of essays and educational booklets on various topics in English and American history and literature.


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DOVER — Shoppers turned out in force this weekend to local retailers seeking the perfect gift for the names on their lists.
Brianna DeCanton, 8, said she's been browsing stores in the Fox Run Mall with her father for a couple weeks now but still hadn't found what she wanted for her mother's gift this Christmas.
"She likes to cook," Brianna said, though there were no kitchen items on her "idea list."
"Well, I made it so I have a lot of ideas to pick from," she said.
Shopping with her father, Jake, is something she looks forward to each year, she said, and it usually involves a treat for herself.
"We get hot chocolate after," she said.
Wandering around the mall like young Brianna, hundreds of shoppers were just beginning their holiday shopping, completely baffled at what they'd be wrapping for Dec. 25.
"I just wing it!" Geraldine Shempshire said, who had just begun her shopping over the weekend hoping there would be more bargains the closer it was to Christmas.
"I don't go out for Black Friday and I really don't actually like to shop much," she admitted.
But with five grandchildren looking forward to the big day, she anticipated spending her entire weekend getting their gifts.
At a clothing retailer, where an employee folding colorful sweaters and arranging scarves asked not to be named or identified, shoppers were reportedly really happy with the selection of items this year.
"It's been kind of the same style of clothing the last few years that we've sold. So this year, people seem a little surprised by what they find," he said.
He also observed that people were keeping a budget in mid this year more so than in years passed.
"They are really aware of what they are spending," he said of shoppers who are looking at price tags more often than not.
Shirley Krimple was one of those shoppers and wasn't afraid to admit it.
"I love shopping. I'm a shopper. But I have to stick to my guns when it comes to spending," she said.
Krimple said that's why she took extra time in selecting the gifts she wanted to find for each member of her family.
"I don't mind spending the money, but Christmas gifts aren't about money. It's about showing thoughtfulness for one another," she said.
Larger retailers saw consumers determined to get the best bargain for items on their gift lists, while smaller merchants, like those in the downtown Portsmouth area, welcomed buyers who had a more customized search in progress.
Destinations like Runner's Ally and Serendipity were popular for those enjoying a late Saturday morning in Market Square.
Madeline Hernandez had completed her shopping in downtown Dover after visiting C Style Boutique a shop she'd visited on Plaid Friday.
I found some cool accessories my sister will like, she said.
New to the area, Hernandez was doing most of her shopping locally to become acquainted with the area.
"I love the shops all around and I've been waiting for a day off to go look through them on my own," she said.
While most shoppers Foster's encountered had already begun their Christmas shopping before the weekend, one of the last before the holiday, there were a couple who said they would likely be visiting stores Christmas Eve.
"I always wait til the last minute. I think it works better," Pauline Gruber said.
Glenn and Vicky Couture were on a mission at Walmart in Somersworth to find "Lalaloopsy" dolls for the young girls in their family.
With nine grandchildren to shop for, the Couture's came prepared with a list. They said they finished shopping for the adults in the family earlier in the day and were finishing the toy segment at Walmart.
"This is the toy stop," they said.
With various items in their shopping cart, the couple was checking things off their list at a steady pace and after browsing a few isles with little success, discovered a collection of Lalaloopsy's to choose from.
"We always have fun," they said.


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Pre-Student Teaching Experiences
Acceptance into an accredited National Louis University teacher licensure program requires that students participate in 100 hours of school site or clinical experiences under the guidance of a cooperating teacher.
The Illinois State Board of Education defines clinical experiences "as that part of the professional preparation program enabling candidates preparing for licensed roles to acquire practical experience along with theoretical knowledge prior to entering into the full responsibilities of the role for which they are seeking licensure." Candidates are expected to demonstrate beginning (Practicum I) or continuing (Practicums II & III) competencies in specific categories. Undergraduate student participate in Practicums I, II, and III while graduate student requirements include only Practicum I & II.
Student Teaching
Student teaching is the culmination of all the coursework, observations and licensure requirements of the National College of Education and the state of Illinois. In effect, it is the final exam that tests for everything that goes before you enter the teaching profession. Therefore, the Office of Field Experiences' clinical placement staff looks to carefully place each student in a school environment that is enriching, diverse, and supportive.
The clinical placement coordinators with your advisors and teachers want to help you through the application process, support you during the student teaching experience, and celebrate with you as you become the teacher of young people you've set out to be.
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by Hugh Hunter
Quite a few plays, movies and songs have made use of the 9/11 catastrophe (and "use," I'm afraid, is the operative word here). Directed by T. Patrick Ryan, the play "WTC View" (2003) by Brian Sloan, now running at Allens Lane Theater, feels like one of the more genuine efforts.
The central character is Eric, a gay Manhattan man who can see the World Trade Center from his apartment window. The day before 9/11, Eric advertised for a roommate. Now, despite the tragedy, his phone is ringing off the hook.
He interviews potential roomies — NYU student, Englishman, political worker, blue collar "straight" guy. These encounters are richly ironic, but Eric is too distraught to feel the humor. Alex (Patrick Alicarlo) is different, a Wall Street man who was actually inside a World Trade building when the planes struck. He becomes a one-night stand but fails to give Eric peace of mind.
Then there is Josie (Shelli Pentimall Bookler), a reccurring visitor. A chirpy married woman, she is Eric's best friend. Later, we learn Josie is pregnant and confides that she had considered an abortion because — you guessed it — since 9/11 she did not want to "bring a child into this world." (Hokum of this sort cannot go unpunished.)
But the focus of "WTC" is Eric himself, holed up in his apartment with its smoky yellow windows. Ably played by Joseph Nevin, he is a 30-ish photographer who was fragile before 9/11. The constant smoke, smell and police sirens of post-disaster Lower Manhattan push him to the edge.
"WTC" is not entirely fictional. Playwright Brian Sloan lives in lower Manhattan within sight of the World Trade Center. He did in fact advertise for a roommate the day before the catastrophe. He was both moved and surprised by the large response. In an interview, he confides that he even used some of the language of his callers in creating characters.
But his main character, Eric, is curiously unsatisfying, a fidgety physical wreck of a man. There is ample opportunity for him to crack a smile once in a while, but his world remains claustrophobic. Utterly lacking inner resources, how does he avoid a crack-up?
The answer is simply this. The "hero" of "WTC" is not Eric but the city itself. Resolute in their will to live, the visitors buck up his spirit. "WTC View" sees 9/11 not as national trauma but as a quintessential New York City event. It is a love poem to a city tough as a tree growing out of a rock. And the people themselves, various and indomitable, will not be beaten down.
Allens Lane is located at Allens Lane near McCallum Street. "WTC View" will run through March 26. Reservations at 215-248-0546.


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Got three more books today (for my B-day), which I'll probably start tonight:Basic Writings of KantCritique of Religion and Philosophy, Walter KaufmannAtheism: A Reader, S.T. Joshi
KryssotomosOh! you are RC. Now I understand.I find that all the RC's I have ever met to date (now including you) are very, very liberal about the faith in Christ and fasting is non-existent.I find it unfortunate that so many RC's believe in all kinds of things. Things which are not even related to the teachings of the RCC. Observing this I can understand why the Orthodox fathers stress care in what the faithful read and experience. I hope one day you will understand that it is not good to read, listen to, or watch anything you want if you are trying to be committed to a faithful life in Christ. As one Holy Father noted 'some things are not worth knowing.....avoid glib and profane curiosity'.As I know you have heard 'curiosity killed the cat'.Enjoy your reading.
I think I'd rather wait till the film came out.
I am not going to start a debate but I have found over the years that HH the Dalai Lama has some very wise observations on life to share. So does Thich Nhat Hanh.  If you want specifics, I can recommend any book that you may find in the library.  Oh, and I believer that His Holiness is the man's title, so it is proper to use it.  Or do yuou not call the Pope "Pope so and so the X?"
He didn't give himself the title, he inherited it.
You still didnt say whether you call the Pope the Pope.
Have you checked online? There are quite a few sites with tons of traditional Greek recipies, just sifting through the variations is the hard part! ("my yia yia used this, my auntie used that, my mother swears that you shoudld add a pinch of the other" that sort of thing, lol!) I love to read cookbooks, except it makes me hungry! Here's a link for you if you like, though I only just found it and haven't tried any yet.http://www.enostos.net/recipes/
KryssotomosOh! you are RC. Now I understand.As I know you have heard 'curiosity killed the cat'.
I must be the only 39 year old modern Christian who hadn't read "The Screwtape Letters". My copy arrived and I couldn't put it down! Had an "Agripnia" ("All-night Vigil") of reading it last night! Excellent!
Today I picked up "Debrett's New Guide to Etiquette & Modern Manners" (which, by the way, I've never opened before) to settle an argument with a friend about the etiquette of breastfeeding in public. The relevant paragraph began:"It is bad manners to expel any liquid from any orifice in public, and breast-feeding is no different."When I finally stopped laughing and wiped the tears from my eyes, I decided to start reading it from cover to cover- if for nothing else but the entertainment value!
oooh, that sounds right up my alley, Ebor, I'll have to try and find a copy.
Currently reading "Ambassador Morgenthau's Story" by Henry Morgenthau. Henry Morganthau was the US Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1913-1916. His book is a harrowing first hand account of the Armenian genocide.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Europe is undermining drug innovation by cutting prices, raising barriers to new medicines and freeloading" off others in Asia and the United States who are more willing to pay, the boss of Pfizer, the world's largest drugmaker, said.
European governments are sacrificing the long-term future of science in their countries for the sake of short-term budget cuts, chief executive Ian Read told Reuters on Monday.
There is a disconnect in Europe between the marketplace for pharmaceuticals and the desire of European governments to have innovation and research," he said in an interview.
Europe is not paying its fair share of innovation."
Tensions between large drug companies and European governments have been rising for several years as administrations across the region face the challenge of curbing the rising costs of healthcare in tough economic times. Governments are by far the biggest buyers of medicines in Europe, allowing them to dictate prices.
The common European practice of cross-referencing to medicine prices in other countries means that exceptional price cuts in Spain or Greece will trigger knock-on cuts elsewhere.
Modern medicines for complex diseases like cancer can be hugely expensive and many governments in Europe have also put other mechanisms in place, such as Britain's cost-effectiveness watchdog the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).
Read hit out at governments who have slashed drug prices and racked up close to $20 billion in unpaid bills for medicines, largely in southern Europe, saying their increasing reluctance to pay up for innovative therapies would come back to haunt them.
The pharmaceutical industry requires a vibrant marketplace. It's a high-risk business ... and a high-risk business needs the potential for high returns. So in the end, European leaders are sacrificing the long term for the short term," Read said.
GlaxoSmithKline Plc Chief Executive Andrew Witty said last month he now ranked Europe behind the United States and Japan as a market where he would want to launch new products.
Bayer AG CEO Marijn Dekkers has also expressed concern about Europe's direction, noting in a recent results presentation that the money earned from today's drugs was needed to pay for developing the medicines of tomorrow.
Pfizer's Read singled out Germany for particular criticism, pointing to Berlin's recent decisions to extend drug price freezes from 2010, which were initially designed as an emergency measure, and to use a basket of countries including Poland and Greece as a benchmark for how much it will pay for drugs.
What is the fundamental message there? They are saying ... investment in innovation is at a level that Greek prices can support," Read said.
That's not a recipe to create an innovative industry that can compete on the world stage."
Read, who took over as Pfizer chief executive in December 2010 after the abrupt departure of his predecessor Jeff Kindler, said he'd like to see governments taking a longer-term view and engaging on the issue of who should pay for the research and development costs of cutting-edge medicines.
Since Germany is one of Europe's wealthiest countries, Read questioned whether referencing its prices to Greek or Polish levels would offer drugmakers a fair return.
These are the questions I'd like politicians to look at in a fundamental way," he said.
Asked whether such discussions should take place as part of World Trade Organization talks, he said they were not on the agenda at the moment, but probably should be.
Eventually I think it will have to be. The risk of freeloading is so great in an industry with sunk costs," he said.


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Prof. Anita W.Novinsky from Sao Paulo University is an expert on the subject of the Anusim (Crypto Jews, Coversos) in Brazil. I saw a long interview with her on the Documentary: A Estrela Oculta do Sertão, dealing with the subject of the estimated 120 million Anusim in Brazil. I asked her if she stumbled upon Stars of David in Brazil.
She wrote to me that the star of David is very common in the north east of brazil, by the people in general. (according to the above mentioned documentary most of the anusim are concentrated in this area).
The star of David is used by fishermen, who leave to the sea in a boat, and in the bottom of the boat they print the star of David, to give them luck.
There are anusim who use the star in their chain, and in their homes it appears frequently.
Prof. Anita W.Novinsky referred me for detailled informations in the books of the famous folklorist Luiz Camara Cascudo.


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Tangy Rhubarb Fool
I came up with this recipe because I love mousse, and because it's an easy way to enjoy rhubarb in a dessert that's light and refreshing.—Alan Mortensen, Dwight, Illinois
Total TimePrep: 30 min. + chilling
Makes5 servings
- 4 cups (32 ounces) plain yogurt
- 3 cups chopped fresh or frozen rhubarb
- 3/4 cup sugar, divided
- 2 tablespoons water
- 1 teaspoon white balsamic vinegar
- Dash salt
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1/8 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Line a strainer with 4 layers of cheesecloth; place over a bowl. Add yogurt to strainer; cover yogurt with edges of cheesecloth. Refrigerate for 8 hours or overnight.
- In a large saucepan, combine the rhubarb, 1/2 cup sugar, water, vinegar and salt; cook over medium heat for 12-15 minutes or until sugar is dissolved and rhubarb is tender. Transfer to a bowl; cover and refrigerate until chilled.
- In a large bowl, beat cream until it begins to thicken. Add vanilla and remaining sugar; beat until stiff peaks form. Transfer yogurt from cheesecloth to a bowl (discard liquid from first bowl). Gradually fold cream mixture into yogurt.
- Fold into rhubarb mixture. Spoon into dessert dishes. Cover and refrigerate for at least 1 hour before serving.


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Canucks left looking for meaning to their season
Vancouver Canucks goalie Eddie Lack is pinned down as the New York Rangers Daniel Carcillo, 13, celebrate his goal.
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VANCOUVER - Desperation and urgency were palpable as the Vancouver Canucks faced the New York Rangers Tuesday night. But then you walked past the whimpering ticket scalpers and went inside Rogers Arena, where the strongest sense was one of resignation.
It has been a long time since the Canucks were in this position, playing out their final games hopelessly – if not quite yet mathematically – short of the National Hockey League playoffs.
In both 2008 and 2006, the only years since Y2K the Canucks failed to make the Stanley Cup tournament, the team fell out of a playoff position at the end. Their games meant something until the final days of the season.
But this year is worse: with the Dallas Stars winning 5-0 earlier Tuesday in Washington, the Canucks were six points out of a playoff spot with six games to go and needing to catch not one team but two, both of them holding games in-hand. Then they lost 3-1 to the Rangers.
There was an inevitability about the outcome even as the first puck was dropped.
"We've never really been in this situation before, and it's not where we want to be," Canuck defenceman Alex Edler said amid a despondent dressing room. "There have been a lot of losses; it's been tough. We're going to battle to the end but we need a lot of help here."
There entire labour force of China couldn't help enough to get the Canucks into the playoffs.
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The Phoenix Coyotes, technically ninth in the Western Conference but tied with Dallas on points, play two more games before Saturday, when the Canucks play next against the Los Angeles Kings. By then, Vancouver could be 10 points out with five games to go.
"I think I've played two meaningless games throughout my career," winger Daniel Sedin, a 13-year veteran, said about the prospect of being eliminated with a week to go. "It's not a position you want to be in, and I think it's unacceptable for this team to be in this position. But we are we are because we haven't won enough games and haven't played well enough. Between Game 40 and Game 60, it cost us the season."
The Canucks are 11-21-4 since the middle of the season. In the last three months, they have beaten two teams that held playoff positions Tuesday night.
They stayed in the vapor trail of the playoff race in March by beating the Buffalo Sabres, Nashville Predators, Florida Panthers, Calgary Flames, Winnipeg Jets and, to their credit, the Minnesota Wild.
But against quality teams, the Canucks lack of quality has been exposed.
It's not about determination or will. Canuck players want to win. Most of them, Sedin noted last week, have done nothing but win in Vancouver over the years. But the Canucks' talent, depth and execution are not where Vancouver needs them to be to win. So they haven't won.
The Canucks tried to take the game to the Rangers. Vancouver's first line of Sedin, Ryan Kesler and Alex Burrows led from the front, generating terrific scoring chances for Kesler on the trio's first two shifts.
But when New York goalie Henrik Lundqvist blockered Kesler's shot on a 2-on-1, then was strong at his near post as Kesler cut hard to the net two minutes later, you could see how this was going to go. How they've all gone recently when the Canucks play good teams.
Outchanced and outshot, New York went ahead 1-0 at 4:59 when a puck off the end boards hopped past Canuck goalie Eddie Lack, chaos ensued, and three fourth-line Rangers stood untouched at the crease and swung pitchforks at the puck until finally dislodging it from Lack, allowing Daniel Carcillo to score his fourth goal in 54 games.
Kesler had two chances to score and didn't, Carcillo had one chance and did. The whistle could have gone as Lack played the part of pinata, but it didn't.
And when Canuck fourth-liner Tom Sestito took a tripping penalty 190 feet from his net, the Ranger power play went 1-for-1 to make it 2-0 at 14:43.
And that was the game.
Yes, Kesler scored in the middle period and the Canucks continued to hammer away. But they weren't coming from two goals down to beat the Rangers, who are 27-1-1 when leading after two periods. Vancouver is 3-24-1 this season when trailing after 40 minutes.
It only seemed like the Canucks had a chance. Against the Rangers and in this playoff race the last few weeks. Irreparable damage was done between Dec. 29 and March 8, when the Canucks went 5-16-4.
"You battle all year to get a chance to play in the playoffs," Burrows said. "That's what it's all about. But when you're on the outside looking in, you've got to keep playing and be a pro and work for each other. You've got to do that for your teammates and the organization that believes in you."
Soon they'll have to do that when the games mean nothing.


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Real-Life Prince Charmings Are Single and Ready to Mingle – Hunks of the Day
Everybody wants to live the life of 'Cinderella' without having to clean anything. They want to be swept off their feet by a prince and taken to a castle where a palace-full of servants and loads of money will create their happily ever after.
Well, this may not happen — sorry to be blunt — but if you just so happen to run into any of these real-life princes, you'll be in luck. All of them are single.
Prince William may be off the market, but there are still plenty of eligible bachelors with power over nations in their back pockets who are looking for love in all the wrong places. Who knows, maybe you're secretly the Snow White to one of these not-so huntsmen.


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she was butt ugly. How did Bobby turn out soo fine from her. They could have chose a better looking woman. I mean in real life Mark's mom is nice looking.I mean Bobby's mom was fat and ewww!I'm not trying to be mean or anything.Just my opinion
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Did you get a look at the wife? Don't know how she landed a fine specimen like that...hahahaha. OH, I am thinking of Three Kings! OH man, I am gonna get reamed! Who cares, it's just a movie!
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......I was thinking thank god they actually show 'real' looking people occasionally instead of toothpick supermodel types! and large or 'fat' as you say doesnt necessarily mean ugly!!...and NO I am not FAT (by the way)!!!...lol...
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I agree with aussiegirl!! The Perfect Storm was based on a true story! (If ya'll didn't remember that....!)
It wouldn't be realistic if they had a Victoria Secret model to come in and play the part of his mom. Bobby's mom probably did look like that. Good directors make GOOD movies, so they make everything look more realistic, like it should be. NO OFFENSE TO ANYONE!
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what an awful comment to make about someone.
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His girlfriend looked better than his mom
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his mom wasnt the best looking thing but the people they got to play these fisherpeople actually have some resemblance(sp?) to the real people they were playing...if u go to either theperfectstorm.com or gloucester.com (idont remeber which one exactly) u can find pics of the real ethel shatford and the fisherpeople (there is a pic of her w/ mark and george too lol)
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who cares how the mom looks......you don't get all the looks from your parents..... or do you? but n-e ways maybe his dad was alot better looking.....but who cares that really not nice 2 say!!!!!
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I thought that all of the actors who played these people were excellent they made the movie very believable. My best friend lives in Newfoundland and her husband is a fisherman. I have been there when her husband has come off the boat after being gone for a few weeks and it was just like that. Lots of partying. Those people may look rough but they have hearts made of pure gold.
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If any of you have seen it on dvd, there a section were they talk about the actors and they said that the lady played Bobby's mom
looked just like the real mother of Bobby.
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Chestnut Hill Academy made an impression on Cyrus H. Nathan, class of 1930. The Litchfield, Conn. man who died on April 20 left the school $2.2 million to establish a distinguished faculty fund and awards.
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England's Lewis Moody gets to grips with Samoa's Alesana Tuilagi during a fiery clash at Twickenham in 2005 © PA Photos
The moment the red mist descended on Gloucester flanker Andy Hazell during their clash against Mont de Marsan at the weekend has already received 310,000 views on YouTube - almost as many hits as the Cherry and Whites stalwart appeared to land on his a rival. It was a moment of madness from the flanker which he claims was the result of extreme provocation.
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Two wrongs don't make a right?
Ireland's clash with the Barbarians in 2008 saw three yellow cards handed out but none of them came as a result of the most alarming incidents in the match. Ireland flanker Neil Best got in a solid shot on Cobus Visagie - forcing the 29-time Springbok prop off the field - and his Baa-Baas team-mate David Croft attempted to right the wrong by launching a flurry of punches on Best minutes later. Commentator Mark Robson's assertion that Best is "100% testosterone" is perfectly shown in these two moments of rugby theatre.
Letting off steam at the end of the season
Gloucester and London Irish both failed to set the Premiership alight last season but their meeting in the final round of the campaign produced sparks aplenty with the Madejski crowd treated to eight tries and two red cards. Gloucester enforcer Jim Hamilton and London Irish hooker David Paice came to blows in the 47th minute and although shown yellow cards, they decided to continue their dispute en route to the tunnel. Referee Dave Pearson was left with no option other than to issue reds to the pair with the commentator referring to the incident as "totally unnecessary unpleasantness". Hamilton and Paice were both hit with seven-week bans and missed the start of the 2012-13 season.
Hair today, gone tomorrow
The most high-profile hair-pulling incident ever seen in the Premiership arguably occurred last season when England flyer Chris Ashton dragged Alesana Tuilagi into touch via his rather glorious locks. But hair-pulling is nothing new in rugby. Seasoned veteran Marius Tincu, a hooker seemingly-born to cause havoc both vocally and physically, manoeuvred Georgia's Viktor Kolelishvili to the ground via his hair in a match between Georgia and Romania earlier this year. The incident prompted a furious response from the flanker who unleashed a pair of punches on the hooker. The Georgian, who received a red card for the incident, turns out for Clermont Auvergne in France and looks to have learnt a few lessons from their long-time enforcer Jamie Cudmore.
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Former England prop Julian White has now hung up his boots after 20 years at rugby's coalface. He was a dying breed - one of rugby's true old school players. But the front-row still retains some of the rugby values that make the game so great. When England prop Andrew Sheridan came face-to-face with White in a battle between Leicester and Sale back in 2009, it's fair to say that White won. He copped a two-week ban for the punch he landed on Sheridan with the now Toulon prop floored by White's solitary smack.
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Lewis Moody became the first England player to be sent off at Twickenham for his part in a brawl with his then Tigers team-mate and Samoa wing Alesana Tuilagi back in 2005. It had been an ill-tempered affair up to that point with two of the Islanders binned before the headline-grabbing 75th minute flashpoint. England were 35-3 ahead and cruising but that did not deter Tuilagi from crashing in on Mark Cueto while the England winger was plucking a Jonny Wilkinson cross-kick. Moody reacted furiously to the winger's challenge and the fists started to fly. The Tigers flanker was handed a nine-week suspension while Tuilagi copped six.
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A charity match between the North and the South of New Zealand in aid of the beleaguered Otago Rugby Union proved to be anything but at Forsyth Barr Stadium earlier this year. In front of 7,427 supporters, the two sides put on an entertaining show with the South eventually winning 32-24 but the main talking point was the brawl that marred the fixture. The North's Brendan Leonard upended the South's Jason Rutledge with a tip tackle and it all kicked off. Both sides piled in with Tom Donnelly ending up on the floor. Filo Paulo, for no apparent reason, thought it a good idea to throw a punch at the defenceless Donnelly and was hit with a five-week ban.
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If there is a more stunning all-out rugby brawl than this then we are yet to see it. In a clash between Romanian rivals Dinamo Bucuresti and Farul Constanta back in 2009, both sides kicked off in scenes akin to gang warfare. The brawl lasted about a minute and the result was Dinamo being awarded a 5-0 win after the Federaţia Romana de Rugby intervened. It is hard to pick out a key incident from the fight but Dinamo's No.13 attacking an opposition back-rower is worthy of mention.
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) The Green Bay Packers signed defensive tackle Jordan Miller to the active roster from the practice squad Tuesday and released linebacker Vic So'oto.
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Ok, now where Bluetooth Stereo became more common, either by some unofficial hacks, which enables A2DP in your HTC Windows Mobile 5.0 device or by default, I wonder how you are going to listen your mobile music?
Latest with the introduction of the HTC Star Trek and HTC Hermes, some of us might came into the conflict since HTC has left the stereo port but uses the (propriety) mini USB port instead. Not a bad idea at all if there would be a mini USB to 3.5 jack adapter available already. But in this scenario you can not charge/sync your device anymore, if you have plugged in your mini USB headset. On the other hand, you could charge the HTC Hermes using the mini USB charger, listening music wireless via Bluetooth and you could even sync your device in parallel via Bluetooth but is this the way you prefer to listen music? Or are you more "old-school" where you say you want to listen your music through the original stereo headsets or some 3rd party headset which either fits better or provides better sound?
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Perfect 10 Loses Yet Another Ridiculous Copyright Lawsuit
from the when-will-this-end? deptWe've written about the various and never-ending copyright lawsuits filed by Perfect 10 more than a few times. The company -- which claims to be in the porn magazine business -- seems to focus much more on suing as many internet companies as possible. Especially search engines. It loves to sue and blame search engines. Of course, its record in court is dismal. The company almost always loses and loses big. In some ways, Perfect 10 is actually incredibly useful: it has helped set a number of important precedents against over-aggressive copyright enforcement that have come in handy in other cases. The company has filed dozens of lawsuits, and the fact that it loses so many of them doesn't appear to faze the company. In fact, in one countersuit against Perfect 10, a very strong argument is made that the company is a type of copyright troll, whose business isn't in producing porn, but in suing companies.
One of its latest lawsuits was against Yandex, the most popular search engine in Russia. Yandex is technically a Dutch company, but it has an American subsidiary, Yandex Inc., which does some development for Yandex.ru, the flagship Russian search engine. So it was this American presence that Perfect 10 sued, coming up with its usual twisted list of rationales for why this search engine, mostly based and used in Russia, should somehow be liable for the fact that its users can find images that Perfect 10 holds the copyright on hosted elsewhere. Once again, the case has gone badly for Perfect 10, with the court ruling for summary judgment on a variety of issues in favor of Yandex.
The court not only says that Perfect 10's claims of direct infringement are completely unsupported, but also notes that the company, ridiculously, pointed to one of its other cases, against Amazon, to support this claim. Except, the judge actually read that ruling, and pointed out that it doesn't say what Perfect 10 appears to think it says:
According to Perfect 10, when its images are hosted on servers located in Russia, Yandex violates Perfect 10's "exclusive display right" because users in the United States could download them. Perfect 10 supplies declarations establishing that a United States user could download Perfect 10 images from a Yandex server in Russia, but no evidence of actual downloads in the United States.This kind of thing is repeated throughout. Perfect 10 makes some outlandish claim about how Yandex must be liable, and the court shoots it down for lack of any evidence or precedent to support Perfect 10's claim.
This theory of liability is rejected. Although Perfect 10 cites Amazon in support of its argument, nowhere in that decision did our court of appeals endorse the idea that display of a copyrighted image anywhere in the world creates direct copyright liability in the United States merely because the image could be downloaded from a server abroad by someone in the United States. Such a principle would destroy the concept of territoriality inherent in the Copyright Act for works on the internet.
It is not necessary to address the validity of this theory merits. It fails for lack of proof.Ouch.
While Perfect 10's infamous lawsuit against Google over the thumbnail images in Google Images failed miserably, and was yet another victory for fair use and common sense, Perfect 10 tries again here. It claims that that case doesn't apply to image thumbnails in Yandex's search because Yandex provides direct links to the images, rather than the pages, unlike Google (though, I believe Google recently switched to something like this). The court is unimpressed, noting that the thumbnails are still fair use.
It is true that this integrated composite screen left the impression that the nude model image emanated from Yandex, but this objection fails for three reasons. First, our court of appeals expressly held that in-line linking to a full-size image does not constitute direct infringement. Id. at 1159–60. Without a direct infringement of the full-size image, the fair use defense does come into play — at least as to that full-size image. Second, whether a browser window shows only the thumbnail and the full-size image — instead of the full-size image along with part of the surrounding web page — does not affect whether the use of the thumbnail has been transformed. Third, even if yandex.com's use of the thumbnail were broadly described as an 'in-line link connected to a full-size image,' that use remains highly transformative.In other words, it's not the link that makes the difference here, but rather the purpose of such an image search engine, which is entirely different than a magazine. In typical Perfect 10 fashion, even when it presents evidence, that evidence is nonsensical and doesn't further its claims, which the court makes clear.
Perfect 10 is arguing that Yandex causes it market harm because Yandex provides a search service that links to third-party infringers. This argument is not substantiated by competent evidence. Perfect 10's putative support for this contention consists of screen shots from third-party websites showing that links on those websites leading to Perfect 10 images had been viewed approximately 3.8 million times as of December 2012 (which was within the nine-month period that yandex.com servers were located in the United States). Perfect 10 does not, however, provide evidence that any of those views were the result of yandex.com users clicking on thumbnails stored on yandex.com servers in the United States during that nine-month period. The simple fact that the thumbnail links were stored in yandex.com's index and accessible on the internet does not compel a finding that those links were actually viewed or used.Again and again, we see Perfect 10 make ridiculous assertions and the judges have to smack them down for it:
Pointing to the alleged loss of its cell phone download business in the ensuing years, Perfect 10 cries foul. Perfect 10 reasons that the market for reduced-size images has dried up since 2007, and Yandex has began providing a thumbnail search service since 2007; ergo, Perfect 10 has been harmed by Yandex. This simple correlation, without more, does not constitute sufficient evidence that Yandex's use of 40,000 thumbnail images between June 2012 and March 2013 affected Perfect 10's market. Significantly, in a prior litigation against Google, Perfect 10's president stated in a sworn declaration that Perfect 10's cell phone download business "effectively ended in 2006."Later, it attempts to show "proof" by having its own staff download images, and the court says that's not proof of direct infringement, because you can't infringe your own copyrights:
Perfect 10 submitted declarations from a private investigator, a web developer, and a graphic designer (Dkt. Nos. 167-28–30). In each one, the declarant states they were asked by Perfect 10 to use various Yandex services to download Perfect 10 images to computers located within the United States. Each declarant confirms that this is "possible" and then explains the process by which they each accomplished the task. These declarations do not change any of the conclusions herein. Perfect 10's own downloads (and downloads by its agents) conducted as part of its investigation do not constitute direct infringements because Perfect 10 cannot infringe its own copyrights. Nor do any of the declarations rise to the level of expert testimony showing that any particular quantity of such downloads have in fact occurred. This order agrees that it is possible for someone in the United States to download infringing copies of Perfect 10 images using Yandex's search engine. The summary judgment record does not establish, however, that any such downloading has actually occurred.Every time we see one of these cases, it makes you wonder about the lawyers that Perfect 10 employs, as they don't seem to be very convincing. However, once again, we get another good ruling that favors fair use for search, secondary liability protections, and another smackdown of Perfect 10. Somehow, I doubt this will be the last time.
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The Crowded Anniversary Suite
So, with JJ safe at his destination and me still unwilling to contribute to night-time driving, Kyle may have been left to his own nocturnal devices. Considering the jetlag he was still tackling, such an excursion would have been less safe even than traveling during the day with cranky wife and kids.
Thankfully, Chris and Emily had taken the weekend off to celebrate their anniversary anyway, and came to our rescue by allowing us to invite ourselves on their vacation. We agreed to chaperone their trip to San Francisco in exchange for them taking a shift at the wheel during our drive home from Utah. A few Red Bulls later, we were all safe and sound back in El Dorado Hills. After a homemade meal and a power nap, we were on toward the bay!
Since this was Chris and Emily's anniversary and all, we opted to leave the kids at home under the care of Mish, Carol, Ma, etc. I was apprehensive about leaving Didi behind, him being a surefire Mama's boy and all, but Ma was selfless as always and encouraged us to have our first child-less vacation ever (unless dates at the Cougareat count).
No, I don't miss China, but if I did, I would miss haggling with vendors. Emily and I tried a few of our best bargaining techniques, complete with broken Mandarin, but alas the same turquoise necklaces cost 15 or so times more on American soil. Inflation, man.
Chinatown conjured similar emotions--I am still too fresh off the boat to miss China, per se, but some of the sights and sounds were too familiar to arouse anything but comfortable, warm memories. Some sights could easily have been seen in China itself...
And others definitely reminded me that I am very far from China. Okay, so the man's a little outrageous in his claims, but allelujah that he can protest whatever he pleases on these streets.
This was Kyle's first time to the bay area. He took about five million pictures of the city, half of which were of the bridge. Thank goodness for digitals.
Without the burden of children (and when you're engaging in such an activity, yes, they are a burden), I relented to join the three cycling enthusiasts across the Golden Gate bridge via tandem bicycles. It sounded fun, romantic, athletic. Sure, I hadn't ridden a bike in over a decade (minus a biking mishap in MN last year), but remastering the technique would be, obviously, like learning to ride a bike again.
Emily and Chris (who are so hardcore that they own eight bikes and special underwear for long-distance rides) were all smiles, even during the uphill turns.
My ischeals, on the other hand, were begging for relief after about five minutes. I don't remember riding a bike being so excruciating when I was ten. I basically felt like only my bare skeleton was separating me from the seat. No amount of artificial padding could suffice. And no, I could not even pretend for the camera to be enjoying any of it.
And thanks to the fog, there was no end in sight.
And then Kyle had the gall to complain that sitting on my hands was throwing his steering off balance. Wouldn't you know that he actually asked me to walk back to the bike rental on the way home so he could ride faster? (Actually, I was happy to be off that thing, though I looked pretty pathetic sauntering through town bikeless and sporting a helmet. Kyle had to dump me to get the rental back in time.)
Off the bikes, we spent a lot of time browsing San Francisco's most famous attractions, and the other half of the time trying to find them.
The line to ride a trolley car was longer than Disneyland's Splash Mountain, but without having to entertain toddlers, we actually enjoyed the wait, playing a few rounds of "ten fingers," during which Emily disclosed the statement, "I have never kissed less than fifteen boys." Of course that's not what she meant, but, like any good friends, we'll never let her live it down.
I guess a lot of San Francisco's charm comes from the variety of people walking its streets. Kyle stopped to hear every street performer play, particularly if it was jazz.
What I found hip and appealing, of course, was the shopping venues. If you think Anthopologie's lantern display looks cool monet, check out the close up:
They're made of old and discolored Chinese texts! When I have a maid to do the dusting, I will definitely build my own lantern library.
One of the trip's highlights was fine dining over a live jazz performance. I ordered a French dish with the most amazing sauce, and Kyle gazed with unwavering adoration at the musicians. Eh, l'amour.
Next stop: the redwoods at Muir Woods.
We drove over to Sausalito the next day, which I was disappointed was not Little Italy, nor were there any affordable eateries or gift shops open after six, but a talking parrot did hit on Emily, so it wasn't a complete loss.
I think this is where Full House was filmed. You better believe Kyle wasn't about to miss this one. (You're hearing the theme song start now, too, eh? Ahh-ah-ah-ahhhhh...)
I thought I was so mischievous tricking Chris and Emily into giving me their flip flops that I promptly tossed over the cliff. Unfortunately, I had already given Emily my own feeble shoe. And actually, the bottom of the cliff was the beach we were heading toward, so my victory was fleeting, but I still got a thrill from the childish maneuver.
Yes, it's the Pacific Ocean, but it's still a beach, and somebody's still got to get wet.
Thank you for the morbid information.
It was a honeymoon/anniversary weekend to remember. (Chris bids farewell with a lovely arabesque.)
I had a few days to recover before we embarked on our next vacation to the suffocating state of Arizona.
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Saturday, September 20, 2008
Fun and Games
Well, there's no more dodging reality for me. It has been nearly two months since our return to the homeland, my string of vacations has come to a close, my taste buds have acclimated to all the comfort foods I'd been craving, and so I find myself here, wondering where the momentum will take me next. For now, I will call this place my home. My bags are unpacked, though my bed is unmade, and I will try my best to fight that nagging feeling of remaining yet unsettled.
(This is the view from our back windows. Yes, I feel a little like Belle proclaiming, "I want much more than this provincial life!" as she rushes beyond her cottage into a gorgeous, pristine wilderness. Unless, of course, that was all a mirage. Too bad I cannot claim such an excuse.)
As for my eight-city tour, we best address it in pieces. Part one of the anthology: A trek to the Salt Lake Valley.
There are many feats my predecessors have accomplished that, rather than give me courage and determination to achieve the same, make me more desirous than ever to pursue the lazy alternative. Our trek-to-Utah transportation is an example. I know many parents and children alike have survived twelve-hour road trips in broad daylight. To them, I say what many say (with mild sarcasm) about my natural childbirth philosophies: "Good for you!"
Meaning, I was simply unwilling to make the voyage during the kids' wakeful hours. Yes, this is selfish, considering that I was also unwilling to take a turn in the drivers' seat. However, after inhaling a few highly caffeinated beverages, JJ and Kyle were feeling pretty enthusiastic about our journey. Speaking of which, they also found an endless supply of sweet tunes on the radio and chatted like school boys about this or that rev or solo, while the rest of us slumbered peacefully in the back of the van.
(Yes, we took Mom and Dad's van, since our car window decided to choose the day before our departure to roll down and refuse to roll back up. I really thought Mish and Carol's carboard/duct tape replacement window was ingenious, but Kyle and Dad had to be all particular about how it was violating silly little things like laws and visibility and safety and stuff.)
Sure, the boys were exhausted after an "all-nighter," but in exchange, I was not burdened with the stress of entertaining the kids (who had not yet conceded that in this country, carseat safety restraints are unavoidable), and thus was able to be a nice person that day. We were welcomed warmly by our good friends the Williams', whose cheery basement apartment served us well as a temporary abode. Marilyn is a natural Mom and Grandma and was so accomodating that it almost seemed like she liked cooking for and cleaning up after us. Ellie affectionately calls her "Grandma Mare" and proudly reported that she has THREE Grandmas. (aka spoiled)
We were also fortunate enough to catch my old roommate Cathi and her husband Bryce before they moved to Maryland. We dined at Cafe Rio with them and Kallista and Dave and were able to chat and reminisce for a few hours. I have to say that, considering how young I was when I was married, I sure have a lot of fond memories of being a single at BYU, many of which I owe to that year I spent living with Cathi and Michelle. Even now nothing makes me giggle like our quote wall.
We also spent a few days in Salt Lake with Chris and Emily, and the six of us couldn't get over how easy and positive our conversations and activities were in an American setting. Plus, Emily was agreeable enough to accompany me through my first post-China, All-American shopping tour at an outdoor mall. I could hardly get over how appealing western fashion is.
(Chris thankfully took about 10,000 more pictures than us and I just received a cd of them today, so better pictorial highlights will be coming soon.)
Of course, the primary justification for our visit was to attend our bosom friend Mary's wedding in Bountiful. Being with my two Mee-haws (Sara and Mary) was wonderful, and I was relieved and grateful that I approve of yet another one of my friends' husbands (though he didn't even ask my permission before proposing to her-- what is this generation coming to?).
Not to mention that Sara and I got to brush up on our expert floral designing skills. We took the BYU course together back in the day, and though narrowly securing our desired letter grades, we simply had a creative touch that can't be measured or quantified. Illustration #1: we did all the bouquets and flower arrangements for the wedding.
Illustration #2: Mary's parents handed us two delicious but hiddeous cheesecakes, victims of several fissures. Through utilization of the exotic Japanese Ikebana techniques, we turned the cracked cakes and leftover daisies into a tranquil exhibit of harmony between earth and the heavens. Anyone who sees it as more messy and artistically indecisive probably just doesn't understand Japanese culture the way Sara and I do.
Meanwhile, Ellie was attempting to secure an American BFF. She had her eyes set on Amy, a five-year-old, who nurtured her like a good older sister until the other five-year-olds grew weary of the tag-along. They dumped Ellie on us several times before we realized she was being intentionally ditched, not just getting lost. It was Ellie's first real taste of social rejection.
Love hurts.
It was a beautiful wedding, of course, and we were so grateful that Mary postponed the date until after our return so we could make it. ;-) In return, I decided to make myself an honorary member of her wedding party and dressed the same as all of Mary's relatives. She was too nice to tell me that she'd cc-ed me on that memo for the sake of the itinerary it included, not the wardrobe instructions.
With JJ safely and securely back in his Provo apartment, you may be wondering how we traversed the wilderness back to Sacramento. Stay tuned for part two of the post-China adventures anthology: The Crowded Anniversary Suite.
Posted by Kyle at 12:58 PM 3 comments
Friday, September 05, 2008
"Bradley Rubik"
Prepare yourself to be rocked to the core by the amazing Bradley:
Mastering "the cube" is a favorite pastime of my former students (and I confiscated many of them in my days at the Korean school). Bradley, though, has to be the best I've seen. Watch again his spider-like fingers spin a web around its prey as he manipulates this puzzle.
It must have been the added pressure of his teacher filming him solve the cube (or the intimidating faces I made to break his focus while masterfully scrambling it for him) because he was very disappointed with his time: 27 seconds. His best is 0:15, so 0:27 is quite laughable.
A few days earlier, I saw him practicing with his friends with a blindfold on. Yes my friends, he not only memorized all the colors of the scrambled cube, but remembered the new combination of colors with every twist (though it took significantly longer- 8 minutes). Unfortunately, he mixed up a few squares along the way, so when he removed his blindfold, the colors were still off. Most of us, I bet, struggle to solve a Rubik's cube... with our eyes open... in any amount of time.
Kudos to Bradley for being so algorithmically bombastic.
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Joseph Musgrove is my 3x great grandfather. He was born in Kendal, Westmorland about 1791. Joseph married Jane Dewhurst on 8 April 1833 in Blackburn, Lancashire.
I haven't been able to find him on the 1841 census so far. I have found Jane and their son John living with Jane's father Lawrence Dewhurst.
On the 1851 census Joseph and Jane are living at Barrow Row, Wiswell, Lancashire (about 3 miles south of Clitheroe) and Joseph is working as a blacksmith.
I have recently found the following article from the Preston Chronicle of Saturday 11 December 1858. Not so much an obituary – more an inquest report.
THE FATAL EFFECTS OF DRINK AT BILLINGTON – On Monday last, an inquest was held at the "Judge Walmsley" public-house, Billington, on the body of a blacksmith, named Joseph Musgrove. Joseph carried on business in Billington, and was, like many men of iron, rather too fond of his beer. On Thursday week, however, he took his beer for the last time, for within half an hour of leaving the "Judge Walmsley" he was a corpse. So soon as he reached home, he sat down in a chair, and partook of some supper which his wife had prepared for him. Whilst he was eating his evening meal, his wife went out, was absent between ten and twenty minutes, and then returned. Not seeing her Joseph, however, in the chair where she had left him, she went up stairs to ascertain if he had gone to bed. She felt on the top of the bed clothes, got hold of his trousers, but could not find him. She then went for a light, determining to see what had become of him. On reaching the bed-room a second time, she saw him laid partly on the floor and partly on a box. His head was under one side of the bedstead. On trying to lift him up she found that he was quite dead. It is supposed that in getting into bed, he slipped, and falling on the floor, dislocated his neck. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with these facts, namely, one of "Accidental death".
When he died Joseph was about 67 years old.
I feel quite sad now knowing the circumstances of his death. Having been out for a drink after what was presumably a hard day in the blacksmith forge Joseph's life ends so tragically.