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Web Extra: Dangerous chemicals in your home
Below is a list of links Michelle Kennedy shares for more information on indoor air quality and other dangerous chemicals:
Environmental Solutions Group on Indoor Air Quality
Disinfectant Overkill - Women's Voices
Environmental Working Group's Guide to Healthy Cleaners
Greenspiration Home - Trish Holder
Wake Forest microbiologist Jim Curran said using a lot of disinfectants in the house may be overkill, especially since our bodies need some organisms to keep us healthy.
"If what you want is to clean a surface so that the microbes aren't likely to infect you, soap and water will work most of the time. Say you've been processing some meat, some chicken or some beef, and you're afraid there might be some of this salmonella or pathogenic ecoli strain. Soap and water will remove it very effectively from the surfaces," Curran said.
Curran did share caution with cleaning cutting boards, though.
"They get nicks and can hold microorganisms, and sometimes they don't wash out very effectively," Curran said. "If you use a cutting board for something you rinse it thouroughly then put it in the dishwasher and then get another cutting board for the next item."


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By The Society of Environmentally Responsible Facilities
Dean Transportation located in Lansing, Michigan is a SERF certified transportation and bus company that has been part of Mid-Michigan for many decades. Dean Transportation operates in 14 offices throughout the state, overseeing over 1,100 buses and operating in approximately 100 school districts. Their headquarters have been in South Lansing since 1999.
Environmental stewardship is one of the founding principles of Dean Transportation. Operating heavily in the fossil fuel industry, President Kellie Dean feels that the company should be held at a higher standard of environmental responsibility.
Dean Transportation became SERF Certified in 2011 for their outstanding commitment to Practical Environmental StewardshipTM. There are countless ways in which Dean incorporates this mission into his business and his personal investments; not only is the Dean Transportation office and fleet ecologically conscious, but Dean personally believes in investing to improve the conditions of the surrounding community.
Kellie Dean is one of several property owners in the South Lansing area that has made generous donations to the expansion and improvement of the Lansing River Trail. The Lansing River Trail is a series of paved pathways that connect different parks throughout the Lansing area. To date, the River Trail has 13 miles of trail ideal for walking, biking, and running.
Dean generously donated 7 acres of land to the City of Lansing to extend the River Trail path through his South Lansing property. This donation was essential, creating 1,500 feet of pathway that connect the existing trail to Maguire Park, the southernmost terminus of the river trail. Without Dean's charitable land donation, the expansion and the park would not have been possible.
This new portion of the park crosses behind the Dean Transportation offices on Aurelius Road. In order to encourage his employees to walk or ride bikes to the work, Dean constructed a path that runs from the river trail to the company's offices. In doing so, they have successfully reduced the amount of vehicles driven by employees during their commute.
Kellie Dean's generous land contribution for the Lansing River Trail has greatly benefitted his employees and the residents of the South Lansing area. Because of his donation, more than 1,000 feet of trail were added and the creation of Maguire Park was made possible.
This increase in trail space and park creation benefits the surrounding area greatly. Parks and trails in urban areas create opportunities for nearby communities; and new options for recreation create a population that is healthier and more active. The river trail also attracts visitors, increasing economic activity in South Lansing.
Dean has made additional efforts to make the grounds as environmentally friendly as possible. Sycamore Creek, which passes behind the head-quarters and runs alongside the River Trail, has been carefully protected by Dean Transportation since their arrival on-site.
The creek is ecologically important to the salmon, trout, and other fish species that inhabit it. In order to ensure that these species are not affected by Dean's operations, Dean Transportation installed a drainage system for storm water and wash water. This system captures on-site water and directs it through three different filters before it is allowed to enter the creek. This ensures that no fuel or harmful substances can infiltrate the creek and disrupt aquatic life.
Dean also made sure that the property was environmentally sound before constructing the current facility. Prior to building the Dean headquarters, the property on Aurelius Road was home to a concrete block company. Though most of their infrastructure was removed when Dean arrived, there were several underground tanks and a few concrete structures remaining on the property.
Dean and his team dug out the four tanks that remained in the ground, keeping any potentially hazardous material from entering the watershed. The remaining concrete structures were removed, and these waste materials that resulted were used in the construction of I-96, a nearby highway.
For the generous gifts and active contributions to the planning of the southern extension of the River Trail, Kellie Dean received the 2009 Michigan Recreation and Park Association Community Service Award and the Hometown Hero award from Lansing Mayor Virg Bernero.
Dean and his team work every day to demonstrate SERF's mission of Practical Environmental StewardshipTM. Donating land to the City of Lansing for the River Trail, reducing the amount of vehicles used in employee's commutes, and sustainably maintaining the grounds are only a few examples of their environmental dedication.

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Mariah Carey Will Sing Duet with Justin Bieber on His Christmas Album [VIDEO]
Justin Bieber's upcoming Christmas album 'Under the Mistletoe' already features duet partners like Usher, Boyz II Men and Busta Rhymes. But the revelation of the Biebs' latest collaboration seemed to get fans really excited.
After teasing his 13 million Twitter followers with questions like, "Who is the living legend that I got on the album????," Bieber finally linked to a video of pop diva Mariah Carey announcing the two will pair up to rerecord her classic holiday tune 'All I Want for Christmas Is You.'
In the clip, Carey wears a t-shirt featuring a likeness of the tween sensation and says, "I'm very excited… I think a lot of you are already surprised by this and you're going to be even more surprised when you hear it."
Their single will be released October 18, and the entire 'Under the Mistletoe' album will drop November 1.
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23 Boy Scouts taken to hospitals after lightning strike
Thunderstorm hit Camp Bell on Griswold Scot Reservation
Twenty-three Boy Scouts were transported to area hospitals after a lightning strike on their camp.
According to the Boy Scouts, a major thunderstorm hit Camp Bell on the Griswold Scout Reservation in Gilmanton Monday evening.
No one was directly hit by the strike, but shortly afterward, several people reported feeling some tingling and burning sensations.
According to fire officials, the scouts were taking shelter underneath a canopy when lightening either hit the canopy or the ground nearby around 8:30 p.m.
Six of the scouts suffered burns to their chests. Fire officials said they were taken to hospitals for cardiac monitoring as a precaution, and their injuries were not life-threatening.
Those six scouts were taken to the Belmont Fire Station by pickup truck, while the rest were taken by bus.
All of the scouts had some level of burns -- from minor to serious -- from the lightning strike.
By 10 p.m., all of the campers had been triaged at the Belmont Fire Station and transported to hospitals. Three counselors were also triaged, but refused medical treatment, saying they wanted rescue workers to concentrate on the scouts.
Fire officials said they asked one counselors to accompany a Boy Scout to the hospital, with the hopes that he would seek treatment for a burn on his leg.
The scouts range in age from 12 to 17. They were all part of a leadership program that brought older scouts from across the region to Gilmanton for leadership training.
Fire Chief David Parenti said he was amazed the scouts were "calm and cool" during the triage process.
Parenti said a total of 13 ambulances were brought in from neighboring towns, some doing two trips from the hospital to transport patients.
The first six patients, who were deemed the most serious, were taken to Lakes Region General Hospital in Laconia. Others were taken to Concord Hospital, Franklin Regional Hospital, Speare Memorial Hospital in Plymouth and Huggins Hospital in Wolfeboro.


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Wine Highlight: 2012 Element 28 Cabernet
Those of you familiar with the periodic table will recognize the reference—Element 28 refers, yes, to nickel. We thought it fitting.
2012 is the inaugural vintage for this Single-Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon. The vineyard is located near Lake Hennessey and bears the hallmarks of a great Napa hillside cab. Exquisite, ripe, boysenberry fruit is complemented by floral expressions that add dimension. A solid core of tannin enhances the wine's impressive character.
This wine was a pleasure to share at our Futures Barrel Tasting this spring, and we look forward to enjoying this wine again upon release.


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Congratulations Vicky, please email me to claim your £15 voucher from Wild Orchid Crafts.
This week the challenge is a lovely colour combo – Pink and Cream, and as always those lovely peeps at Wild Orchid Crafts are sponsoring us with a £15 voucher.
We have a new DT member to welcome on board, the amazingly talented Sheri – who we are so excited to be working with!
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In an effort to avoid artificial additives in its drinks, Starbucks got vegetarians peeved by using a new ingredient in its strawberry products, ABC News reports. That ingredient? Extract from dried, crushed cochineal beetles, as part of its red dye.
A vegan Starbucks barista outed the company on thisdishisvegetarian.com by posting a list of ingredients used in the company's Strawberries & Crème Frappuccino and strawberry smoothies.
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Starbucks had previously stated these drinks, which can be made using soy milk, could be made vegan, running a campaign touting the "However-You-Want-it Frappuccino." But the Seattle-based coffee giant recently reworked its ingredient list for the Frappuccino mix and opted for the extract in an effort to move away from "artificial dyes," according to a statement from Starbucks posted by the vegetarian website.
The statement reads that the company's goal is to minimize artificial ingredients in products. While ingredients can be mixed to create a vegan drink, Starbucks can not guarantee pure a pure vegan drink because of the possibility of cross-contamination within stores.
But vegan or not, before you get grossed out by the beetle products, take a closer look at not only Starbucks, but also a wide range of products that you may use every day. Cochineal extract, used since the 15th century, is a common additive used in a range of dairy products. (And cosmetics, for that matter, but we don't recommend eating those.)


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CraftKitsandSupplies carries a nice selection of Pearl Beads. These Silver Pearl Beads come in several different sizes, and and shapes. They can be used with Alphabet Beads to create beaded bracelets, beaded necklaces, beaded key chains and other kids craft projects.
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5 Favorite Things about Fernet
5 Favorite Things About Fernet
Argentina has many beverages to boast, from its fine wines to its bitter mate. Sometimes left out from the tourist reviews is the ubiquitous Argie beverage of choice: Fernet.
5. History
What, you may be wondering, the hell is Fernet? I certainly wondered that after I took my first sip and was sure that I'd just been tricked into swallowing a gulp of poison. Fernet is another Argentine culinary anomaly; a beverage so hideously bitter, that only the seemingly impenetrable digestive system of an Argentine could stomach it.
Fernet, is a pungent alcoholic beverage made from unnamed and probably toxic herbs. Invented in Italy by a doctor named Branca, who mixed together this magical concoction of herbs and alcohol, the drink migrated along with the Italians to Argentina in the twentieth century. Today, Fernet Branca is one of the most popular brands of Fernet sold in Argentine supermarkets. Long used for its medicinal properties, a household bottle would be employed in case of digestive trouble, cholera, or even hangovers. Today partakers sip Fernet with friends during cocktail hour, or toast to their health while awaiting a midnight asado.
4. Preparation
In San Fransico they serve Fernet by the shot. In Italy it is mixed with coffee. In Argentina there is one tried and true way of preparing Fernet; with coke. It is called a Fernet con coca, and if you're coming to Buenos Aires, you're best off making peace with this beverage sooner rather than later. Preparation is simple. In a ice-filled tall drinking glass, mix one part Fernet with two parts coke. (Personally I prefer one part Fernet and three parts coke). The drink will curdle a bit, forming a foamy head.
My advice: slip slowly and stop after two. You won't become intoxicated, but your teeth might fall out.
3. Digestive
In my personal opinion, Fernet is the magical secret of Argentine life, the proverbial salt of their flat earth. Most importantly, it is the magical ingredient to digest all of the meat that they consume! Indeed, I suffered some major digestive issues for far too long in Buenos Aires, but when I discovered Fernet, I finally understood how Argentines eat the way they do.
Fernet is sometimes served after dinner as a digestif, because it's magical powers of aiding digestion were no secret.
2. Fernet Menta
Fernet con coca is the classic beverage, but there is also a popular alternative: Fernet Menta. This spearmint flavored Fernet is mixed with Sprite for a minty, citrusy alternative that may be a bit easier on the palate for newcomers to Fernet.
1. A True Story
A friend of mine, Lawrence, hosts a weekly asado at his house. If you can say one thing about Lawrence, it would be that he is a true fan of Fernet. Green bottles decorate his kitchen shelves and his fridge always has a liter of coke for mixing. Sitting next to the kitchen table I watched Lawrence pouring Fernet into his ice filled glass.
"I never would have guessed after my first sip of Fernet that I would eventually gain a taste for it." I commented.
"It's good stuff, it's like opium." Lawrence replied.
"Is that what opium is like?" Having never tried it, I wouldn't know.
"Well that is the secret ingredient, you know. Back in the day opium was one of the main ingredients, but today it is just one of many secret herbs and spices."
Elated to have my 5th piece of data for my blog post, I rushed home to do research. According to this article, Lawrence was right. Opium was a main ingredient, but after prohibition they had to tone it down a bit. Along with the opium, Fernet's ingredients also include saffron, which apparently in large doses becomes Ecstasy. Who knew?
Fernet has many secret herbal ingredients from the all over the world. I guess that makes it the perfect drink for Argentina, with its immigrant population stemming from the world over. Both Fernet and Argentina are unique concoctions created from multiple ingredients. The first impressions might be hard to swallow, but after you become accustomed, you'll be hooked.


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Which builder are you using?
Which builder are you using?
"The funniest thing about this particular signature is that by the time you realize it doesn't say anything it's to late to stop reading it..."
I find it to be the most user friendly (oxymoronic phrase for building a Whereigo, I know)
I am a Mac/Apple guy so I am running it on my purely Geocaching , cheap Toshiba laptop that I use for TOPO, Street Atlas and GSAK.
I wish there were more wherigo caches near by. Maybe I will put a challenge cache to CREATE a wherigo cache, that should help. If you want to create a wherigo cache don't even bother with groundspeak builder. Try either
http://www.urwigo.com/index.php or
http://www.earwigo.net/WWB/wiki/doku...irst_cartridge (this one is web based)
I found Urwigo to be the best. The Groundspeak one is terrible. And Earwigo is a bit cumbersome and you need to register with the owner of the site before you use it. It is actually web based. You don't have to download the software. Petr (Marcipanek) went to a Cache Event in Prague, Czech Republic last fall that was actually an 8 hour class by the writer of the Urwigo program, on how to build Whereigo cartridges.
Cano, I don't think your Whereigo challenge will meet the current Challenge Cache guidelines. I dont think you can create a Challenge that requires someone to place a cache ha ha
Challenge caches may not require the publication of a new cache or waymark as a challenge criteria; challenge caches must be achievable by those who do not own caches or waymarks.
"The funniest thing about this particular signature is that by the time you realize it doesn't say anything it's to late to stop reading it..."
I just saw the event posted and was wondering if someone can give a brief, simple, discription of what a wherigo is. thanks.
Lets see if I can explain a Wherigo...
It is a GPS location based interactive game that can be run by downloading a Whereigo "cartridge" and playing it on a Whereigo capaable device. Not all GPS units are Wherigo capable. The Garmin Colorados and Oregons are. The new Montana is not. Also many Smartphones like the iPhone and the Android based platforms have Whereigo apps available. Whereigo is now owned by Groundspeak. Not all Whereigo cartridges are for Geocaches. In fact the majority are not. But Whereigos can be incorporated into a Cache by the user playing the cartridge and at the end when you complete the cartridge, it will send you to a cache which you can log on Geocaching.com
I wasnt all that into it at first. The first one in Portland, GC1A9Y0 Portland Freedom Trail takes you around Portland's underground railroad history. A typical Whereigo will ask you questions which you must answer from your surroundings. Cano's Bangor Mini Adventure GC1WCEG is very fun.
I have done 11 so far. My favorite by far is Dunbar Dan GC2QQW4. Marcipanek and I did it after Geowoodstock this past summer. We started it at midnight in this creepy town in the mountains southeast of Pittsburgh, PA. It took us on an adventure chasing bank robbers into the mountains and to their "hideaway". It was great because there was a lightning storm and rain while we were doing it and the final location was in a cave. We literally had to climb through caves and small slot canyons in this forested mountain area to get there. We even ran into some teenagers having a bonfire and drinking out on the mountain powerline trails which we had to take to get to the cache at the end.
They are very popular in Europe and involve some wild ideas. Marcipank and Cano can tell you more about those.
I use my iPhone to play the Whereigo cartidges. I find that the iPhone app for it is very stable and works better, faster and more accurately than the Garmin devices that support it. Go to my public Geocaching profile and read my log for Dunbar Dan and look at the photos.
Ooops!I just looked at my log and I never edited after I intially logged it on my iPhone ha ha I should go do that. Here read Marcipanek's log instead....
Or read the other logs. Does that answer your question? Sorry I was so long winded....
thanks for the explanation and links.
They made some adjustments to the challenge caches once again today, but it seems just this line:
Note: Challenge caches published prior to the guideline update 3/12/12 are grandfathered into the game and do not need to comply with current guidelines.
"The funniest thing about this particular signature is that by the time you realize it doesn't say anything it's to late to stop reading it..."
Sometimes it bothers me when they grandfather in certain things. Like traditional caches from years ago that are really multis or mysteries. Why can't they just change the cache types on those caches to make them fit?


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Yes, the good humor of this all is that MPTP, the toxin accidentally produced in SF by drug "designers" making synthetic heroin and which produces a severe Parkinson's syndrome, was actually developed by Gulf chemical as a pesticide named Cyperquat. It was never marketed,however, because if lethal effects in animals. The reason Paraquat and Diquat have generated interest is because they are chemically very similar -- but, as far as I know, this isn't very interesting because they dont produce Parkison's in animal models the way MPTP (and MPP+, which is the active metabolite) does. THe "cause" of most Parkinson's is not known <called "idiopathic" for, my doctor is an idiot who likes big words :) JK! > There are several theories, most of which are ENVIRONMENTAL, not genetic. Most genetic theories of Parkinson's emphasize increased susceptibility to the environmental agents for one reason or another, although some people believe that there is purely genetic Parkinson's. The only two confirmed causes of Parkinson's are both environmental: 1. one type of encephalitis virus 2. MPTP. The exact mechanism of MPTP toxicity is not known, except as follows. MPTP is converted to MPP+ in melatonin cells (the black ones) in the nigra, and then secreted where it is taken up by DA cells and kills them. THe likely mechanism is that mitochondria are poisoned, by messing up their ability to store calcium. Because MPTP relies on melatonin cells, it doesn't work in rats (which do not have black nigras) but it MPP+ works fine. (3) I think there is a recent report of confirmed genetic Parkinson's, I wouldn't necessarily take this too seriously, since the question is what proportion of the disease is caused by what, not whether or not genetic causes MAY exist. This is similar to cancer, where although genetic causes do exist for some cancers, for the most part genetic contributions to cancer etiology are relatively small. This may or may not be the case with Parkinson's, but based on animal studies where animal's are exposed to potent toxins of DA cells there isn't really much variability in the susceptibility of the animals to the toxin <but the question remains: do lots of these toxins really exist in the environment?> There are other toxins which have been developed which also kill dopamine cells, the most notable is 6-hydroxydopamine which has been used in animal models for years. Exposure to these chemicals can produce a severe Parkinsonism. Now the story is, what proportion is caused by what. One idea is genetic, the other essentially is an unknown list of environmental agents. A number of epidemiological studies show that Parkinson's occurs in pockets; this has been interpreted as environmental, but is actually consistent with either explanation. More than likely, Parkinson's has several major causes, at least one of which is probably some kind of environmental toxin. This does not preclude the possibility that a strict form of genetic Parkinson's may also exist, or the more likely case that some genetic trait may make some people's SN cells more susceptible to damage than others. Cheers Stephan In article <3293C540.4FA0 at Ifn-magdeburg.de>, Christopher Hatton <Hatton at Ifn-magdeburg.de> wrote: > > In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.961117201558.24859A-100000 at shell1.erols.com> DR JERRY CHANDLER <jlrchand at erols.com> writes: > > >From: DR JERRY CHANDLER <jlrchand at erols.com> > > >Subject: Re: Parkinsons-Pesticides > > >Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 20:21:48 -0500 > > > > > > >If my memory serves me correctly, two chemical agents - paraquat and > > >diquat - may be of interest to you. Perhaps this effect was discovered > > >among illicit drug users who inhaled significant quantities of these > > >agents. Discovery of these agents started a flood of research on the > > >mechanism of action and the disease - genesis processes. > > >I would assume that any recent toxicology text or Toxline would provide > > >further information. > > >If further help is urgently needed, you can call me at the number given > > >below. > > > > I have a vague memory of a biochemistry seminar where it was pointed out that > > a contaminant in designer drugs caused parkinson-like symptoms. It worked by > > inactivating mitochondria, those in one particular part of the brain were > > particularly susceptible. It's quite possible that a pesticide could have the > > same effect, though someone would have to have looked for it. > > > > > I also remember from a not so distant Toxicology lecture, something > similiar, so I delved into my notes and Leonard's Fundamentals of > Psycopharmacology(1992) and Timbrells "Principals of Biochemical > toxicology"(1991) > > n-methyl-4-phenyl-pyridinium, is the contaminate and the metabolite MPP+ > is the neurotoxin and destroys dopamine preoducing cells. Leonard > speculates that herbicides may produce the same symptoms. I myself > would go along with that and now I would sugges that metabolites in > small concetration would cross blood brain barrier after > biotransformation by Cyto. P450's on the endothelia cells. (haven't any > proof mind) > except that Paraquat is a bipyridylium compound, toxic in the lung > principally probably therfore metabolised similarly. > > Also that it uses the polyamine uptake system for putrescine and > spermine, It is most toxic when bound to the redox NADP+ /NADPH cycle > producing lots of superoxide and depleting glutathione levels. > > If anybody want to other me a job/studentship in this area, I be most > interested, because many "pesticides" induce Cyto. P450 expression, not > just in the liver, but lung and brain also. I've loads of ideas, but > they fall on deaf ears here. > > > Christopher Hatton > Institute for Neurobiology > Magdeburg > Germany. > ------------- > Is life just a game where we make up the rules while we are searching > for something to say, or are we just simply spirals of self replicating > DNA. > (Monty Python- from the meaning of life). > http://www.ifn-magdeburg.de > Please note that the above views are my own and not (just) those of the > IfN.(hehe) > ------------


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In the past week, vast protests sparked by a bus-fare increase have rocked Brazil, taking its leaders – and the world – by surprise. TED Fellow and conservation biologist Juliana M Ferreira offers an insider's perspective on what led to this transformational moment.
With all the eyes of the world on Brazil due to the upcoming World Cup 2014 and Olympics 2016, the view of the last few days, especially on June 17th, was a little different from the world's stereotypes of Brazil: happy and beautiful people partying and dancing semi-naked samba, and enjoying soccer matches while sipping caipirinhas.
What the world saw was the explosion from pressure that had been accumulating for a long time. News agencies claim that altogether, 250,000 people were protesting that day in many Brazilian capitals. However, photos show that this number was actually much higher. It started when local governments raised bus fares…
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I now declare you Matt and wife. Again!
Matt Damon and his bride of eight years, Luciana Barroso, renewed their wedding vows Saturday in an intimate ceremony in Saint Lucia E! News has exclusively confirmed.
The white-themed ceremony reportedly took place Saturday on the beach in front of a star-studded gathering of family and friends.
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Sources say The Elysium star and his ladylove where joined by Matt's BFF Ben Affleck, his wife Jennifer Garner and Chelsea Clinton among other notables.
As E! News exclusively revealed this week, Matt and Luciana renewed their wedding vows at Sugar Beach resort on the isle of Saint Lucia, renting out the whole hotel for a reported $600,000.
WATCH: Matt Damon's sci-fi Elysium trailer
A day before the ceremony, a caravan of SUVs was seen ferrying guests from a private airfield to the hotel, where security was tight.
A private plane linked to Catherine Zeta-Jones, whose hubby Michael Douglas stars with Damon in the upcoming HBO film Behind the Candelabra, reportedly arrived on the island Friday. Stanley Tucci, whose sister-in-law is close Damon pal Emily Blunt, is also in the area.
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The new nighttime TV drama Nashville premiered on Wednesday to rave reviews and more than a few questions. One of those questions has been, who are the two main female characters, played by Hayden Panettiere and Connie Britton, based on?
For months, the two actresses have been defending their characters, saying they weren't modeled after anyone in particular. But now Hayden has fessed up to who her character is (and isn't) based on.
She tells USA Today that, despite Taylor Swift being the most obvious answer to whom her character Juliette Barnes is based on, she's not the right answer.
"Taylor's known to be a very nice person and handles herself well," Hayden said of her own neighbor, who said she loves the show and knows the character isn't meant to be a nasty version of her.
So who is the nasty, scheming character based on? Surprisingly she's based–at least a little bit–on Carrie Underwood.
"She's one of those girls that doesn't do the whole dancing-around-choreography thing but has that stage presence like no other," Hayden said of Carrie. "She can just stand there and be incredibly interesting."
Panettiere also notes that the music in the show, as a whole, "is truly insane" and that "people are going to get to see that the term 'country music' is a very broad term."
Nashville airs Wednesday nights at 10pm ET on ABC.
– Greg Thunder, KILT/Houston


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Many of us can relate to thinking of Arizona's economy as an automobile race. To win, you need a smooth race course, a fast car, a winning driver and high-powered fuel.
Carrying that analogy into Arizona's technology sector, it's clear that a lot of resources have been invested and progress has been made in building a world-class race course. We've made tremendous strides in creating a business climate and technology environment for facilitating both private and public sector support to address the needs of Arizona's technology businesses.
The Arizona Technology Council has worked collaboratively with many different technology champions to build this course. Technology issues are supported by the Governor's office, the state's legislature, the Arizona Commerce Authority, the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and more.
Technology incubators and shared space facilities such as Gangplank in Chandler, Avondale and Tucson; Hackspace and Venture Catalyst at ASU's SkySong in Scottsdale; BioInspire in Peoria; Innovation Incubator in Chandler; AzCI in Tucson; and AZ Disruptors in Scottsdale are making sure that today's innovators are being given the right support, tools and environment to create the next big thing.
Collectively, our wins have included the passage of a tax credit for qualified research and development that is the best in the nation, the creation of the first statewide Arizona SciTech Festival and the birth of the Arizona Innovation Institute, to name a few.
Arizona's technology industry also has great race cars. These are the technologies and intellectual property that create wealth and jobs driven by both Fortune 500 companies and entrepreneurs. Companies such as Intel, Microchip Technologies, Freescale, ON Semiconductor and Avnet can all be found here. Nearly all of the largest aerospace and defense prime contractors in the nation are located in Arizona, including Boeing, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and General Dynamics.
The state's entrepreneurial spirit is reflected in companies such as WebPT, Infusionsoft, Axosoft, iLinc and Go Daddy that were founded in Arizona along with the many innovators that are coming to the table every day with new ideas rich in technology.
These companies large and small are driven by some of the greatest race car drivers the nation has produced.
But when it comes to fuel, Arizona's economy has always been running close to empty. We lack the vital capital needed to win the race. Having access to angel investors, venture capital and private equity as well as debt instruments is critical to Arizona's success.
The situation has not been improving on the equity side of the fuel equation. To offer some relief, the Arizona Technology Council is proposing legislation that would create a system of contingent tax credits to incentivize both in-state and out-of-state investors to capitalize Arizona companies. This program, called the Arizona Fund of Funds, would allow the state to offer $100 million in tax incentives to minimize the risk for those seeking to invest in high-growth companies. The state government's role would be to serve as a guarantor through these contingent tax credits in case the investments don't yield the projected results. Expect more information on this important piece of legislation as it advances.
On the debt side of the fuel equation, there are encouraging signs that the worst of the credit crunch may be over. Early-stage companies need access to debt instruments, or loans. Capital is needed for equipment and expansion. A line of credit can help early-stage companies through ongoing cash-flow issues. But loan activity is still modest in Arizona for small companies. It remains heavily weighted toward the strongest corporate and consumer borrowers.
Capital goes hand in hand with innovation, high-paying jobs and cutting-edge technology, products and services. Before Arizona's economy can win the race, we will need to become more self-sufficient at providing the fuel necessary to be a winner.
Steven G. Zylstra is president and CEO of the Arizona Technology Council.


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By Kevin Grewal, Editor at www.SmartStops.net
As developing nations around the world have turned to government funded stimulus packages to ignite their economies, a nation's debt and currency debasement should be of much concern.
Most recently, a study indicated that the U.S. national debt has ballooned nearly 12 fold over the last 30 years. Additionally, over this same time span the ratio of debt to GDP has gone from nearly one-third to 85%. During this time of exploded debt, GDP has only expanded 5.3 times, indicating that debt is growing at twice as fast as the U.S. economy. Similar trends have been seen in Europe, in particularly Greece, Spain and Portugal.
Some concerns of this exponential growth in debt include hyperinflation, as a result of printing more currency, a decline in the value of a nation's currency, better known as currency debasement, and increased costs of borrowing, which make it difficult to chip away at deficits.
Some experts suggest that this trend in the developing world, in particularly the United States, is likely to continue as nations have become accustomed to borrowing extraordinary amounts of money and printing extra currency to stay afloat. If this is the case, than inflation will be inevitable and currency values will diminish.
Some possible ways to protect against currency debasement and increases in inflation include the following:
Traditionally, gold trades inversely to the U.S. dollar and has long been a traditional hedge against inflation and currency weakness. Gold can be played through the SPDR Gold Trust (GLD), which is backed by physical gold. GLD closed at $107.97 on Tuesday.
In general, as the U.S. dollar losses ground, commodities reap the benefits. Additionally, the world is growing and demand for commodities is likely to follow. Some broad based commodity plays include the iShares S&P GSCI Commodity-Indexed Trust (GSG) and the PowerShares DB Commodity Indexed Tracking Report (DBC), which includes exposure to gasoline, crude oil, sugar, copper and other sought after commodities. GSG and DBC closed at $31.20 and $23.54 on Tuesday, respectively.
Emerging Markets
In particularly, Brazil and India are expected to see financial strength, which translates to a stronger currency. Brazil continues to be flush with resources that are in high global demand and India is seeing increases in business investment, strong capital markets and boosts in consumer confidence. Brazil can be accessed through the iShares MSCI Brazil Index (EWZ) and India can be played through the WisdomTree India Earnings (EPI), which closed at $72.77 and $23.34 on Tuesday, respectively. For exposure to both these nations, one could take a look at the iShares MSCI BRIC Index (BKF), which allocates nearly 49% of its assets to Brazil and India or the Claymore/BNY Mellon BRIC ETF (EEB), which boasts nearly 67% of its assets to these two nations. BKF and EEB closed at $46.40 and $42.59 respectively, on Tuesday.
The key in fixed income is to sticking to short-term investment tools. Interest rates are more likely than not to increase sometime in the near future and by utilizing short-term bonds, one limits the risk of a spike in interest rates. A good play here is the iShares Barclays 1-3 Year Treasury Bond (SHY), which holds 50 different U.S. Treasury Notes all expected to mature sometime in 2012. Another notable option in the fixed income world is the iShares Barclays TIPS Bond (TIP), which is a Treasury Inflation-Protected Security whose principal and interest payments grow with inflation. SHY and TIP closed at $83.31 and $103.45 on Tuesday, respectively.
Although currency debasement and inflation remain threats, it is equally important to keep in mind the inherent risks that are involved in investing. A good way to protect against these risks is through the implementation of an exit strategy which triggers price points at which an upward trend could potentially be coming to an end.
According to the latest data at www.SmartStops.net, an upward trend in the mentioned equities could come to an end at the following price points: GLD at $105.21; GSG at $30.46; DBC at $23.06; EWZ at $69.58; EPI at $22.32; BKF at $44.21; EEB at $40.74; SHY at $83.16; TIP at $103.10. These price points change on a daily basis as market conditions fluctuate and updated data can be found at www.SmartStops.net.


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i'm a little confused because he and his supporters wanna pick on my man Barack for being young and inextricably inexperienced. however, i'm not sure how old this woman Palin is but she has only been in office for 2 years. prior to then she was a sports reporter. if his 72- year-old ass dies in office, this no-name chick is next in line. i dont know what creditials she holds that make her an apt candidate for running a nation... i mean and she is responsible for Alaska. what comes from them except eskimos and snow crabs. i think they might have oil, but that's about it... this has been another rant brought by Antithesis. today's product review is below.
*bonus post* get mad
Posted by antithesis Friday, August 29, 2008 at 3:56 PM
McCain went and tried to pick a woman for VP. i dont know. i'm not swayed but i can think of some people who may be. those PUMA people. and clearly they are NOT about party unity. what he might shoulda did was pick a black woman. then again, that might piss off PUMA people because i'm like 75% sure they only hate Obama because he is bi-racial and one of those races is african-american.
1 thought(s) Labels: barack obama, election, john mccain, politics, sarah palin, VP
hard as wraps
Posted by antithesis at 9:13 AM
today, i am reviewing sally hansen's hard as wraps nail polish. this polish contains acrylic gel and nylon with promises of turning brittle nails into strong, fresh-out-of-the-salon nails. uh...not so much. for me, it was just like any other polish. i got "tint" (clear) because im tired of changing my polish with my mood since remover is SO damaging. my nails grow at a good enough rate for me, but they break VERY easily. they are more flexible than i feel like they should be. it didnt help that i got acrylic nails for graduation a few months ago. they still havent fully recovered from that torture (the worst ever in the history of my few times getting nails put on). the product also claimed to last longer on nails than regular polish. again, not true. it began chipping and peeling off the second day.
have you found an effective nail hardener for your nails? or do you just break down and let the asians take care of your manicure needs?
oh yea, 8 IS enough...
1 thought(s) Labels: hard as wraps, nails, product review, sally hansen
more than your allotment
Posted by antithesis Thursday, August 28, 2008 at 8:42 AM
i was reminded of why i hate riding the bus. i havent really needed to for 2 years now and now that im reliant on public transportation to get me to work/school, i remember why it sucked so bad back in high school. im not the smallest person in the world so i make full use of my allotted square on my seat on the bus. i CANNOT STAND when a person who knows they take up more than that alottment *PLOPS* down next to me. why could you have not chosen to ride in tandem with the 90 lb teen-aged girl a few seats away? simple math says that is she uses about a little more than half the square and you require roughly a square and a half, you both would be more comfortable. what sense does it make to overlap your wide hips w/ mine? all that elbow in my rib cage is not appreciated nor welcomed. i should be allowed to charge your ASS rent! this has been a rant brought to you by Antithesis....
5 thought(s) Labels: public transportation, woes
Posted by antithesis Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 9:28 AM
...i am so over this dressing up for work sh*t.
orange is the new green
Posted by antithesis Tuesday, August 26, 2008 at 8:56 AM
T recently made a post on opening an Orange Savings Account with ING Direct. this bank also offers investment accounts through it's ShareBuilder program. i opened one this weekend. owning stock has been on my mind since junior year of high school. i never had a real job (still don't) so it was not a viable option. it's a bit more plausible now since i have a little bit of reliable income. so monthly i will be investing in Honda. when i get 100 shares of that (at the rate i'm going, the year 3000), i'll probably sell and get stock in an even more lucrative company.
i'm still learning all about investing and saving so this will be an interesting journey. whenever i get money, i feel overwhelmingly compelled to spend it. looking back over my earnings, i often have very little to show for the money i've spent. this is my first step toward financial independence. yay me!!!!!
7 thought(s) Labels: finances, ING, money, ShareBuilder, stock
Biden is Obama's running mate
Posted by antithesis Monday, August 25, 2008 at 9:45 AM
4 thought(s) Labels: barack obama, joe biden, november 2, politics, presidency, VP
babies and bottles
Posted by antithesis Thursday, August 21, 2008 at 6:02 AM
so some well-known college and university presidents are advocating for a lower drinking age. shout out to Morehouse being considered a big name school by CNN. so what if it's probably due to the fact that the last graduating class at this historically black institution had a white valedictorian.
these people think it will be better if 18-year-olds were allowed to legally purchase libations. MADD accuses them of shirking their responsibilities and looking for an easy way out (i agree). it's just a big ass coincidence that 18 is also the age of most traditional freshman college students. MADD and I feel like it's a poor solution to a continuing violation of a rule that apparently administrators are tired of failing to enforce. the presidents argue that if the students were legally able to drink, they would not binge and get themselves into other trouble because of the "excitement"... or some crap. i'm trying to paraphrase their lame justification but i guess it has to first make sense to me for me to do that.
obviously, many people drink before they are of legal age of consumption. i will admit to being one of those people. but imagine if the stuff was just readily available? no getting older friends to make purchases. no going through the process of getting an authentic-looking fake ID. just completely hassel-free? that's unacceptable. i can recall my maturity level at 18, and while i'm more mature than most, i was certainly not all there. and yes, i know that there was a time when 18 was the legal drinking age. that changed for a reason. let's not repeat history. plus, that was a bit of a different time. not nearly as many cars are on the road and so many other factors were probably not present.
would it be better or worse if 18-year-olds were legally able to purchase alcoholic beverages?
7 thought(s) Labels: college, drinking age, MADD, Morehouse
why real life sucks
Posted by antithesis Wednesday, August 20, 2008 at 11:03 AM
it's not college anymore and that is the pits. here's why.
- i dont get to wear jeans/sweats on a regular basis anymore. that's not business casual attire
- the highlight of my day is scheduling tv shows to catch before i fall asleep after working all day
- the money i make is to take care of transportation, lunch, to save for a house and to pay back grad school loans
- i'm older and i'm smart so my choices in men are significantly fewer now due to my standards alone
- i have actual responsibilities and expectations at a "real" job
- i'm losing interest in old friends and have little interest in making new ones because i know how people are and i don't really like people that much
- life costs alot of money; money i dont have
7 thought(s) Labels: adulthood, money, school, work
fallin' for fashion
Posted by antithesis Tuesday, August 19, 2008 at 7:27 AM
i've never been a fashionista. not a stylish chick in any way. i had a lot of free time this past school year and i found myself randomly purchasing fashion mags on a pretty regular basis. i'm not big on subscriptions but if i like the cover, i've been drawn into making repeat purchases. some of my faves are vogue, harper's bazaar, InStyle and glamour. the thicker, the better so im known to have everyone's fall and spring issues because they are usually the thickest. they do summer and winter as well but i dont care what i wear in the summer as long as im cool or the winter as long as i'm warm. plus i just carry my stuff from spring into summer and fall into winter. anyway, i just got the september issue of ELLE with supposedly over 600 looks. big this fall will be country-, victorian-, goth-ish-, and masculine-inspired looks. which are you daring/excited to try? which should stay strictly on the runway?
image from www.girlawhirl.com
5 thought(s) Labels: clothes, fall 2008, fashion
things i've learned from "Heroes"
Posted by antithesis Monday, August 18, 2008 at 9:26 AM
*spoiler alert* so i know you have seen the trailer for the new season of "Heroes". i saw it for the first time at the movie theater. it's a good teaser because i was sitting there thinking, this season is gonna be TIGHT. small problem, i had seen one full episode of the series. i was two seasons behind and everything builds on itself. thanks to a fully charged macbook and internet sites im privy to, i've been able to catch up. i know it's science fiction but for some of this stuff, i'm just like "oh, come on!" don't get me wrong, i love the show, but the storyline really makes me laugh sometimes. here's what i have learned from watching "Heroes":
- if you get stabbed with a samurai sword, 8 surgeries will have you good as new in about 6 months
- Dissociative Identity Disorder (multiple personality disorder) is a super power.
- you can perform blood transfusions with no regard to blood type whenever you want someone's antibodies to cure a virus.
also i have inferred the following:
- hayden's character, claire bennett, would be a virgin always. her hymen would never stay broken because her "power" is healing and regeneration
- you can only have powers if both of your parents have powers
- if you get out of hand with using your powers, there is theoretically only one other person who can stop you, i.e alejandro and maya, peter and sylar, matt and his dad
do you watch "Heroes"? will you watch the new season this fall? if you don't watch, why not? what would you like your super power to be?
catch the 2-hour season premiere Monday, Sept. 22 @ 9 p.m
6 thought(s) Labels: heroes, sci fi, tv
the eyes have it
Posted by antithesis Friday, August 15, 2008 at 10:32 AM
i recently ordered new contacts and im so excited. i like variety in my look. i have a lot of i dont care days but on days i attempt to be presentable, i like versatility. i love my glasses but sometimes i want a different look. there are some people who actually like the way i look better without them. then there are those who like me better with them (i agree most with these people). do you wear corrective lenswear? what are your thoughts on colored contacts? tacky? i think so...
4 thought(s) Labels: contacts, glasses, vision
lauryn hill- "when it hurts so bad"
Posted by antithesis Thursday, August 14, 2008 at 5:42 AM
what you want might make you cry
what you need might pass you by
if you don't catch it,
and what you need, ironically,
will turn out what you want to be
if you just let it
what you need might pass you by
if you don't catch it,
and what you need, ironically,
will turn out what you want to be
if you just let it
4 thought(s) Labels: lauryn hill, music
what chapter are you on?
Posted by antithesis Tuesday, August 12, 2008 at 7:57 PM
internet videos have that little ball or whatever that goes along telling you what point the video is at. when you are completing an application or survey or something only, there's usually that little reminder letting you know your progress. how far have you progressed in achieving what you set out to do in life?
do you just take things as they come and not really try too hard with anything?
do you have a checklist? school, check. career, check. family, check.
or is it in no particular order and you work to maintain everything at once?
i think i'm the latter or a combination of the second two. im still working on school and i do things like temporary jobs and internships which will provide the basis of my career. i haven't made much headway in the family dept. but i can say that i have enough failed relationships to know what i DONT want. i just dont know where i am or how much progress i've made. there are days when i think i've accomplished a whole lot and then others where i feel like i have just so damn far to go.
are you where you want to be? what's "missing"?
6 thought(s) Labels: life
spanish guitar- toni braxton
Posted by antithesis Friday, August 8, 2008 at 12:48 AM
2 thought(s) Labels: music, toni braxton, video
Bella!!!! (2)
Posted by antithesis Thursday, August 7, 2008 at 5:33 AM
i got the black issue of italian vogue! thanks, blu jewel!
7 thought(s) Labels: black models, italian vogue, noemie lenoir
bag lady- erykah badu
Posted by antithesis Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 12:38 AM
3 thought(s) Labels: "bag lady", erykah badu, music, video
foto favs
Posted by antithesis Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 12:27 AM
8 thought(s) Labels: celebrities, pictures
Posted by antithesis Monday, August 4, 2008 at 10:24 AM
undo. ctrl+alt+delete. escape. ABORT!
why don't you have any of these keyboard functions in real life? i would erase that extra drink. i would un-get that extra-extra drink. lord knows i should not have had the extra-extra-extra drink. most of all, regardless of number of drinks, i certainly should not have done any of THAT. yes, it was after normal business hours. sure, this job ends in less than a week. but i'm sure that will be a long, awkward 3 days because of my irresponsible actions. i think most parties have intentions of not making it awkward but you just never know. it could be inadvertant which makes me wish i knew what others were thinking for sure. i am not the only guilty party but i am MOST guilty. how very inappropriate were my actions! not to mention i just feel really dumb. damn...
"no compass comes with this life; just eyes."-jay-z, beach chair
4 thought(s) Labels: drunken nights, embarassing, mistakes, work
don't sweat it
Posted by antithesis Friday, August 1, 2008 at 9:25 AM
i have a problem with excessive sweating. i have tried the clinical versions of secret and degree deodorants as well as mitchum and certain dri. all to no avail. the good news is though i sweat profusely, i dont smell. the stronger deodorants also irritate me because i have sensitive skin. i have discovered a GREAT alternative. it doesn't eliminate sweating completely but it comes pretty damn close. what is this magical product? it's Clinique antiperspirant!
it's available in department stores like macy's and nordstrom or wherever there is a Clinique counter. what's also awesome about it is it's just $8. if you suffer from a similar problem you know that you can easily pay $8 or $9 for the aforementioned drugstore brands unless you have a coupon. the sales lady asked "how many?" when i went to make my purchase and now i regret saying "just one". but what if it didn't work? oh well, next time i know to stock up.
i know it seems counter-intuitive to apply something wet to an area you don't want to be wet. however, give this stuff a second to dry (it wont cut into your morning routine at all) and you are all set! the great thing about it is it prevents excessive wetness and there is not itching, burning or giving out after a couple hours. i dont mind that its unscented. and when i say unscented, i mean it. not that clinical smell the other store brands have that claim to be unscented. no more competing with my perfume or body mist!
3 thought(s) Labels: clinique, deodorant, product review
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BESSEMER CITY � North Gaston won its first regular season opener in six years with a 42-6 victory over Bessemer City Friday at Jack Dixon Stadium.
The Wildcats (1-0), winners of just four games since appearing in the 2007 state championship, enjoyed the fruits of their offseason labor and got off to a positive start to the 2013 season.
�For our guys to play as well as they did and keep their composure and finish the game, that�s something these guys haven�t experienced,� said Wildcats� coach Mike Patton. �I think this is just the tip of the iceberg. They�re happy with this win but they�re not satisfied. They�ve worked harder in the offseason then any group I�ve been around. I�m proud of them.�
North Gaston�s triple-option offense led by senior quarterback Nick Haskin accounted for 400 yards rushing on 40 attempts, accumulated 19 first downs and found the end zone in every quarter.
Haskin rushed for 113 yards on 16 carries and scored on runs of five and 15 yards. He also completed two passes for 37 yards, both to Alex Patton.
Senior fullback Josh Kahlig pounded the Yellow Jacket defense for 166 yards as he crossed the goal line twice on plays of one and 18 yards.
Raquan Brown, a senior wingback, added 71 yards with a touchdown while sophomore fullback Prince Fox came off the bench in the fourth quarter and scored on a 42-yard run.
�It looked like (Nick) did a good job with his reads,� Patton said. �They gave us some looks that we hadn�t seen being the first game and everything and he handled it very well. Nick is doing a great job leading this team.�
Bessemer City (0-1) couldn�t stop the Wildcats� option and didn�t get much offense going for itself either.
Five fumbles � three of them lost � and an interception derailed any momentum the Yellow Jackets tried to establish.
The offense managed only 66 yards rushing in the first half with three first downs and three turnovers.
�You can�t turn the ball over against a good team. That�s something we have to work on,� said Bessemer City coach Larry Boone. �It�s something we can fix and we will fix it.�
The Yellow Jackets finished with 202 yards of total offense, all on the ground, and ten first downs.
Junior fullback Taquez Lane, who rushed for 54 yards, prevented with the shutout with a one-yard touchdown run early in the fourth quarter.
Junior fullback Cedric Mackey led the team in rushing with 78 yards on 12 carries, all in the second half.
Junior quarterback Tyler Bess added 63 yards on 13 attempts.
Bessemer City travels to Cherryville Friday. North Gaston hosts East Rutherford.


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The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series heads into the Irish Hills of Michigan this weekend for the Quicken Loans 400, a 200-lap race around Michigan International Speedway (10 a.m., TNT) which served as the model for Auto Club Speedway in Fontana.
As such, there's plenty of attention focused on rookie Kyle Larson on perhaps winning his first Sprint Cup race. After all, he won the Nationwide race earlier this year at ACS and, a day later, finished second to Kyle Busch in the Auto Club 400 in his Chip Ganassi Chevrolet.
Larson, who leads Austin Dillon by 26 points in the Sunoco Rookie of the Year standings, scored his third top-five finish of the season last week at Pocono, which vaulted him into 10th in the points. Larson is just a point behind Joey Logano and three behind Denny Hamlin.
But consider this: his to-five efforts match the efforts of the Busch brothers (Kyle and Kurt) and Carl Edwards.
Larson will make his first Sprint Cup start at Michigan, but did score a second-place finish on the two-mile track last year in a Nationwide race.
"I'm looking forward to getting to Michigan this weekend and building off the momentum from the top-five finish at Pocono," said Larson. "Our Target Chevrolets seem to be getting better and better, so it will be good to be back on the track and see what we've got. I had a good race at Michigan last year in the Nationwide car, so I'm excited to see what we can do in the Cup car.
"We're always looking for a win, but will just try to stay consistent as we continue to work on getting into victory lane."
Larson is just one of a few key story lines this weekend. Others are:
• Earnhardt attempting to triple his pleasure. Having won two races for the first time since 2004, Earnhardt will compete on a track where he has two wins and six top fives. He's also more relaxed.
"I don't worry about (being criticized) as much anymore. I'm turning 40 this year, and the 'overrated' talk is way behind me," he said after Pocono. "That used to bother me when I was younger, but when you get old you don't really care anymore about those kind of things. … I feel like I'm such a lucky guy to have this second opportunity almost to be competitive again, and so I don't really worry about the detractors."
• Brad Keselowski returns to his home state after runner-up finishes at Pocono and Dover. He has never won at Michigan, but would like to celebrate a victory with his dad Bob, a former racer and team owner.
"When I think about racing, and people ask me this question a lot, how I got into racing, and the simple answer is my family," Keselowski said. "That makes Father's Day uniquely special to motorsports, but it's special to the whole sports world in that sense, and it's something that I'm very proud of with the relationship I have with my dad, how he got me started in racing, and I know it makes a win or any achievement you have even more special to win on that day."
• Juan Pablo Montoya will return to Cup competition, racing for Roger Penske this time. He spent seven years in the series, gaining two wins, but was allowed to leave by Ganassi in favor of Larson in 2013.
Change at Fontana
At the 2013 IndyCar Series season-finishing Mav TV 500 at Auto Club Speedway, Will Power had to outduel Ed Carpenter on the final restart nine laps from the finish after the seventh and final caution period. However, there will be no repeat of that kind of racing this year.
Prior to last weekend's Texas race, IndyCar modified its restart procedures. While the double-file restarts had been utilized at ovals such as Fontana, the new rules stipulate single-file restarts for all remaining races this season.
Many drivers and team owners weren't big fans of the double-file restarts, which is standard procedure in NASCAR.
"This year we've made improvements in our ability to monitor and police restarts that has resulted in great single-file restarts at all of our events, including the Indianapolis 500,"said Derrick Walker, IndyCar president of competitions and operations. "We also felt it was important to place our competitors in the exact running order as they were prior to the caution and not provide an advantage to some drivers because of the lane they were in during a double-file restart."
Racing around SoCal
Pirate Speedway in San Bernardino will aid fans suffering from "friggatriskaidekaphobia" (fear of Friday the 13th) with the second Quaid Harley Night. The card, which starts at 8 p.m., features all racing from peewees to 500cc motorcycles with no brakes. … Irwindale Speedway will host its usual Thursday Night Thunder on the drag strip and a drift test and tune under the lights tonight. Toni McCray and Ryan Partridge were the Late Model winners last week, while Partridge also won the truck race. … The USAC/CRA Sprint Cars are back at Perris Auto Speedway on Saturday night for the fifth of 10 races on the half-mile dirt oval. Damion Gardner has won three of the four and the defending series champion has an 80-point lead over Nick Faas with Mike Spencer third. Also on the cards are PAS Senior and Young Gun Sprint Cars, plus California Lightning Sprints for the 7 p.m. green flag. …. Ontario native Mike Skinner, who raced on all three top NASCAR levels, is among the newest class of the West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame. The class will be inducted June 19 in Napa and will include Sonoma Raceway president Steve Page, Bob Bondurant, Marshall Chesrown and Ron Eaton. … Sylmar's Dan Horan won the Nostalgia nitro Funny Car title at the NHRA Summer Kick-off Heritage Series event at Rocky Mountain Raceway in Utah, also setting the ET record of 5.845 seconds. Rancho Cucamonga's Wayne Hoover also won in C/Gas. … There was a definite Southern California feel to last weekend's inaugural Charity Indy Legends end with Upland's Jaques Lazier and Rocky Moran of Pasadena with Parnelli Jones of Torrance serving as grand marshal. … Ventura Raceway is dark Saturday.
What they're saying
Cole Custer, Irwindale Speedway regular from Ladera Heights on the NASCAR Truck Series start at Gateway Raceway: "Not having the Sprint Cup or Nationwide drivers in the race gives us a really good shot at stealing the spotlight. But it's always nice to race with those guys because you can learn so much from them. But there's still a ton of talent in the Truck Series."
Humpy Wheeler, to Autoweek: "Nobody except TV gets excited about rubbing for seventh, so you need rubbing up front. And you need a superhero like Tiger Woods or Joe Namath, somebody like that. We need villains, but instead we have too many pretty boys. There just aren't any personalities."
ESPN's Ryan McGee: "Before we take the next green flag this weekend at Michigan, let's throw out the yellow for just a moment and remember a quartet of racers (Ray DeWitt, Hoss Ellington, Ed Negre, Junie Donlavey) whom today's race fans likely know nothing about, though they should.


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A lot of things have changed since James Otis took an ax and sledgehammer to Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in an overnight act of vandalism and protest.
The heir to the Otis Elevator Company fortune, dressed as a construction worker in a hard-hat and high-visibility vest, smashed the star to pieces in the wee hours of Oct. 28. Otis' protest of the then-candidate for president was caught on camera, representing just another passion-filled chapter in a bizarre election saga.
Nearly two weeks later, voters have cast their ballots, Trump is the president-elect and repairs, which began just a few hours after Otis chipped the star into fragments and removed its bronze TV emblem, are almost complete. The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce said the star has been mostly repaired but still needs to dry and be polished.
Officials said they're hoping to unveil the star as soon as possible.
The star remained blocked off and covered in plywood Wednesday, hours after the former reality show star and New York billionaire defeated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the race for president.
About two dozen Trump supporters reveled at the site after the election, snapping photos until police asked them to move on. Trump's star was dedicated in January 2007 for his work as a producer on televised beauty pageants and his work on NBC's "The Apprentice."
Walk of Fame star recipients are selected by a committee that considers hundreds of applications each year. The stars are sponsored for a fee of $30,000, if the person is selected.
The star was repeatedly targeted during the presidential campaign. It was defaced with spray paint and surrounded by a miniature wall in protest of Trump's plan to build a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border.
As for Otis, he took full responsibility and was arrested on suspicion of vandalism. His plan was to remove the star, then use it to raise money for the women who accused Trump of sexually assaulting them, Otis said
"He fancies himself a civil activist," said his attorney, Mieke ter Poorten. "Someone who fights for the right of the under-represented.
"It didn't work out quite the way he wanted it to. What he was trying to do was that when you have a bad act, you accept responsbility for your bad act. And, you accept the responsiblity for your bad act."
Editor's note: This article was updated to clarify the Walk of Fame sponsorship process.


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Although he's presented as a Fighter, this character is actually equally well-suited to being a spellcaster. He has no class features that help his melee combat skills, and largely comes across as a tabula rasa that can be played any way you want. It's always a good idea to keep an open mind with the fighter and be as flexible as possible based on what items and glyphs you find. Because of this, the Fighter works well with any race, though Goblin Fighters have a nice synergy with goblin's extra XP and the fighter's lowered XP requirements to level up.
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Final Score: 4-3, Hurricanes.
Recap: The Sabres were poopy, and then they lost.
Analysis: I guess the Sabres aren't going to go 82-0? Yeah… I don't know. This is confusing. I don't really get it either.
The Bad News: The Sabres are all fired.
The Good News: With the exception of the Sabres being poopy, I thought last night was a hoot. Robin are so in love with our new seats that we sort of want to marry them. Instead of dealing with a gate at the end of our row, and having no nearby friends, we were surrounded by fun people who were willing to high five us when the Sabres scored. I drank just the right amount of beer, at just the right pace. The "clackers" weren't clackers at all! They were just big fans that make a really pleasant and not-at-all-annoying swat-y sound when you swat them. (I was FULLY prepared to fire Ted Black over the clackers when I first heard about them. I'm sorry I doubted you, Ted.) My friend Hannah, age 12, texted this hiiiiilarious picture to us from the balcony, and it was so funny that we passed my phone around to everyone in our section so they could see it. My friend Alex gave me a really good suggestion, that I would like to pass along to you: We should all be saving all of our tickets stubs all season long, just in case the Sabres win the Stanley Cup. (It probably won't be this year, because, let's face it, the season is pretty much over. The Sabres already lost a game.) That way, when they win, we can make really cool framed displays of all the tickets from all the games we attended the year the Sabres won the Cup. When Staffy scored late in the third, we all get free 6 inch subs from Subway because the Sabres scored 3 or more goals. The "free sub" celebration was short-lived because the Canes are an unstoppable juggernaut (apparently), but it was a celebration nonetheless. The Harbor Club was extra fun and chock full of fun people. After the Harbor Club we went out for a little while and eventually I was delivered safely home in Jessica's ultra-chic minivan. Pretty good night.
Next Opponent: The Sid and Malkin-less Penguins.
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Thank you for your interest. I really enjoy visiting the site. It's fascinating in the extreme. By the way, do you find translations of poems desireable? And submitting the translated version of the poem in the original language? Mine seems to be the only one. I did submit it with the permission of the widow of the published poet - my wife's mother. -I have more-
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I'm home again after my second trip in two weeks, and so happy to not be sitting in an airplane, hoping that I don't get queasy during the landing, or sleeping in a hotel room. On Monday night, after a few happy hour drinks with coworkers and a dinner of fish and chips at a pub near the hotel, I relaxed on a questionable hotel bedspread in my room, watching a movie I'd seen three times already, and drinking hot chocolate while dipping pieces of hard pretzels into my cup.
I missed being home.
I should have enjoyed having a whole king-sized bed to myself, but those are so big I feel like I get lost in the middle and can't find the edge during the night.
The night before I left, we made spaghetti with meatballs for dinner - they were extra special being stuffed with gooey mozzarella, and then smothered with marinara sauce. The combination of ground pork and turkey gave them a nice richness without being too heavy, and the mild spiciness from a little cayenne and crushed red pepper was perfect with the oregano, paprika, garlic and Parmesan. We ended up with a lot of meatballs, so Jamie had plenty to eat while I was gone, instead of subsisting on scrambled eggs as he sometimes does when on his own. As good as they were, though, he may not want to eat another meatball for a while after eating them for three days in a row. :)
But now I'll say goodnight, since there's a gorgeous man saving me a spot in my favorite corner on the couch...
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- 30 ounces tomato sauce
- 30 ounces stewed or diced tomatoes in Italian seasoning
- 6 ounces tomato paste
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- salt and pepper
- fresh basil
Mozzarella-Stuffed Turkey and Pork Meatballs
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- 1 pound Italian-seasoned ground turkey (93/7)
- 3/4 pound ground pork
- 1/2 cup sweet yellow onion, diced
- 2 garlic cloves, finely minced
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup Italian breadcrumbs
- 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon paprika
- 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 5 ounces fresh mozzarella balls (about 20 balls, weighing .2 ounces each / measuring 3/4 inch in diameter)
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 4 cups Marinara Sauce (above)
In a large bowl, use your hands to combine all ingredients, except the mozzarella balls, olive oil and marinara sauce. Weigh the meatball mixture out into 2-ounce portions, which will yield about 20 meatballs. Take a portion of the meat, flatten it in your hand, place a mozzarella ball in the middle, then shape the meatball around the mozzarella. Repeat with remaining meat and mozzarella.
Preheat the oven to 350. Spray a large baking dish with non-stick spray; set aside.
Heat the olive oil in a large, non-stick cast iron skillet over medium heat. When the oil is hot enough to sizzle, add the meatballs, working in batches. Sear the meatballs for 2-3 minutes on each side, for a nicely browned-crust. Transfer to the baking dish; repeat with remaining meatballs.
Pour 4 cups of the marinara sauce (reserve the rest to toss with the spaghetti) over the meatballs in the baking dish. Cover with foil and bake for about 20 minutes, until cooked through.
Meanwhile, cook one pound of spaghetti according to the instructions on the box. Toss the cooked spaghetti with the remainder of the marinara sauce. Serve the spaghetti with the meatballs, spooning the extra sauce from the baking dish over the meatballs. Top with more grated Parmesan and freshly chopped basil.
Yields enough pasta, sauce and meatballs for about 6-8 servings (2-3 meatballs per person)
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Switchman throwing a switch, Proviso yards, Chicago: photo by Jack Delano, April 1943
My tribe came from struggling labor
Depression South Eastern Illinois
Just before the southern hills start
To roll toward the coal country
Where the east/west morainal ridges
Of Wisconsin trash pile up
At the bottom of the prairie, socially
A far Midwest recrudescence of Appalachia
Slums at Cinder Point between railroad and Illinois River, Peoria, Illinois: photo by Arthur Rothstein, May 1938
Master pipefitter in the age of steam
Indian fifty percent, very French
Who didn't derogate himself
As a breed, showed none of those tedious
Tendentious tendencies. Came down
From Chebanse, from the Illinois Central
In Iroquois County, to the Chicago &
In one of the Twenties boomlets,
The last precipitous edges of the great devolvement
Owned a nice clapboard house in old town
Where I was brought up off and on during
The intensity of the depression, parents
Wandering work search, up and down
The bleak grit avenues of Flint, following
Autoworkers' houses, Flint, Michigan. These houses rent for twenty-five to thirty dollars and have no stoves, but water if drawn from a commercial well: photo by Sheldon Dick, January-February 1937
Michael Moore-land from the beginning
Manmade poisons in the cattle feed way
Before Creutzfeldt-Jaoob disease and angry cows —
Governments always conspire against
The population and often
This is not even malice;
Just nothing better to do.
Autoworkers' houses, Flint, Michigan: photo by Sheldon Dick, January-February 1937
And every defiant nation this jerk
Ethnic crazy country bombs —
World leaders can claim
What they want about terror,
As they wholesale helicopters
To the torturers —
................But I'm straight out
Of my tribe from my great grandma Merton
Pure Kentucky English — it would take more paper
Than I'll ever have to express how justified I feel.
Crossing over the Illinois River on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, between Chicago and Chilicothe, Illinois: photo by Jack Delano, March 1943
Tribe: A biographical note
Here in one of his final poems, a remarkable eleventh-hour declaration of elective tribalism, the poet delineates his origins, as he has determined them. Its plot -- a descending movement from geography and geology through social and family history to the ultimate defiant affiliation with, in the same moment, his forebears, and oppressed, suffering, marginal people everywhere -- describes a downward-drifting gravitation. This movement is felt as being drawn, in the sense not of devised but pulled from below. One recalls that in its southward advance the final lobe of the last great Pleistocene glacial surge festooned the land around and below the southern tip of what is now Lake Michigan -- the poet's east-central Illinois native country -- with the makings of a rich soil converted in the century before his birth to tilth, and wealth, by pioneer prairie farmers. The mass of the ice moving south, making the landform, dotting it with morainal debris.
Urbana, Illinois: Mr. Harmount is unfortunate: he has been stranded with his circus near Urbana since 1925. Though his trucks are equipped with gears of his own invention which make it possible for them to go up any hill in high gear, still he cannot leave Urbana, which hasn't any hills, because he still (since 1925) owes some $260 to his co-investor, who came to Urbana with him (in 1925), and whom, although he has been supporting him ever since, he cannot pay: photo by Ben Shahn, summer 1938
Of his father's side the poet had known next to nothing. The Appalachian "trash" migrant ancestors were his mother Louise's people. They were tough, resilient folk, who had never been permitted the luxury of being thin-skinned. (See the poet's marvelous early lyric "The Hide of My Mother".) So much of who one is, the person one becomes, is inevitably resolved by genetics. Or as the Greeks put it, character is fate. Though they'd worked it long and hard, the maternal "trash" ancestors had never held significant title to any of that rich, fertile, black-loam corn-and-hog prairie country.
And then sinking down through geology and geography and family and social history, the descending axis of Tribe plumbs the life and career of the poet's half-Indian French Quebecois grandfather, William Merton Ponton. My French-Canadian man, the poet affectionately addresses this stand-in father in the poem Obituary (from the early Sixties collection Hands Up!).This was the most important male figure in the poet's early life, and fittingly, he bore this man's name in his own, Edward Merton Dorn.
Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad switch engine in yard near Calumet Park stockyards, Calumet City, near Chicago, Illinois: photo by Jack Delano, January 1943
In the Twenties, Ponton, a railway steam-fitter, had come down, out of Iroquois County, where he'd worked on the Illinois Central, the great empire-building line of the Illinois Valley, seventy track-miles due south, to Villa Grove, where he'd taken a job scaling and fitting steam-pipes at the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Division Center. No work for the weak, this involved long night journeys often in freezing weather into the middle of nowhere to repair broken and leaky pipes. The rough-and-ready frontier-railroad trouble-shooting aspect of the job would greatly impress his grandson.
This farming and railroading community of some two thousand souls, situated on the Embarras River twenty miles south of the state capitol at Champaign, struck Wiliam Ponton as a reasonable enough place to settle. He married Bessie Hart, a daughter of the here-assertively-justified pioneer stock -- "pure Kentucky English", the note of purity ringing unapologetically if perhaps a bit oddly against this jerk/Ethnic crazy country -- and they moved into a "nice clapboard house" in old-town Villa Grove.
When in later years, the poet, who had long since gone off into the world, came back to Villa Grove on a rare visit, while in town he made a point of stopping at the cemetery to gaze a while at the peonies on William Ponton's grave.
Louise, the daughter of William Ponton and Bessie Hart, had been wed in a whirl-wind, at twenty-one, to a dubious railroad man from the Ohio Valley named William Leslie Dorn, who promptly left her as quickly as he'd found her, with no forwarding address. The fellow was a brakeman on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois, a drifter, virtually unknown in Villa Grove -- and, after the feckless act of abandoning Louise with child, never mentioned. Louise's daughter Nona Abercrombie Lytle recalled: "I asked mother once about her first husband, and she said, ''He was like all railroaders, he had a woman in every stop.'"
A train being pushed over the hump at the Proviso yard, Chicago: photo by Jack Delano, December 1942
For the departed brakeman's young and pregnant wife there was the small-town shame of divorce compounded by the social stigma ("and in seclusion babies are born," the poet wrote in Goodbye to the Illinois -- see previous post) of a secluded, early-springtime lying-in. In thus wise Louise gave birth to a son, Edward, on the second day of April, 1929.
These events left mother and child thrown back upon the ample generosity of William Ponton and his wife Bessie -- a kindly woman who in those years was known to leave fresh-baked pies out on the steps of her clapboard house for the starving tramps who were turning up along the railroad right-of-ways of the prairies as thick as the locusts and grasshoppers in the suddenly dust-choked fields. Louise herself became something of a wanderer, trying to find a life for herself in increasingly depressed times. There was no work for an unmarried woman with a small child in Villa Grove. Using her father's railroad passes, she packed up and went off with her son to her mother's Hart relatives in Michigan, and then around a circuit of her scattered siblings who'd gone to seek jobs -- a brother in the automotive plants of Flint, Michigan, a sister in Adrian, Michigan, a brother in the steel mills at Gary, Indiana.
With the demise in 1936 of William Ponton -- he died at sixty-one of overwork, "wasted like a job," as the poet would write -- the family trials of "depression nomadism,/ wandering work search, up and down/ the bleak avenues of Flint, following/ other exodus relatives" began in earnest...
Night view of part of the South Water Street Terminal of the Illinois Central Railroad, Chicago: photo by Jack Delano, May 1943
Edward Dorn: Tribe, 1999
Biographical text adapted from Tom Clark: Edward Dorn: A World of Difference, 2002
Photos from Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress