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I know, I know! Leave me alone, I'm in a good mood.
My favorite, because I always assumed if Bruce had met me, he would have written it about me,(a girl can dream) Plus, I just heard this on the radio.
"You ain't no beauty, but hey, you're allright".
"Je Suis Prest"
Fri, 2012-01-27 09:30
i love pretty much anything from dylan, but the following is one of my favorites:
"let me ask you one question
is your money that good
will it buy you forgiveness
do you think that it could
i think you will find
when your death takes its toll
that all the money you made
will never buy back your soul"
"Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you." – David Foster Wallace
Fri, 2012-01-27 09:32
tom waits' "the piano has been drinking, not me" is also among my favorites.
"Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you." – David Foster Wallace
Fri, 2012-01-27 09:33
"Live through this and you won't look back
There's one thing I want to say, so I'll be brave
You were what I wanted, I gave what I gave
I'm not sorry I met you, I'm not sorry it's over
I'm not sorry there's nothing to save"
-Your Ex-lover Is Dead - Stars
Fri, 2012-01-27 09:42
"I've got six things on my mind. You're no longer one of them." - Prefab Sprout
Fri, 2012-01-27 09:47
I don't even know where to begin...I'm just gonna put down the first thing that pops into my head.
Ok, Butterfly by Weezer. Every word is beautiful.
Yesterday I went outside
With my mama's mason jar,
Caught a lovely butterfly
When I woke up today
Looked in on my fairy pet
She had withered all away
No more sighing in her breast
I'm sorry for what I did
I did what my body told me to
I didn't mean to do you harm
Everytime I pin down what I think I want it slips away
The ghost slips away
Smell you on my hands for days
I can't wash away your scent
If I'm a dog then you're a b!tch
I guess you're as real as me
Maybe I can live with that
Maybe I need fantasy
Life of chasing butterfly
I'm sorry for what I did
I did what my body told me to
I didn't mean to do you harm
Everytime I pin down what I think I want it slips away
The goal slips away
I told you I would return
When the robin makes his nest
But I ain't never coming back
I'm sorry
I'm sorry
I'm sorry
Matt Benatar
Fri, 2012-01-27 09:52
"Float like a cannonball, sting like a shark."
Basically all of the lyrics of CB4's "Straight Outta Lo Cash" are this good, but almost none are rated G.
Love is a Mattlefield.
Fri, 2012-01-27 10:02
I know, I know! Leave me alone, I'm in a good mood.
My favorite, because I always assumed if Bruce had met me, he would have written it about me,(a girl can dream) Plus, I just heard this on the radio.
"You ain't no beauty, but hey, you're allright".
I have to tell you, that the moment I read the thread title and before I had clicked on it, this was the phrase that immediately popped into my head.
Fri, 2012-01-27 10:24
The first that springs to mind that would pass the draconian word filter:
You know that I care what happens to you,
And I know that you care for me.
So I don't feel alone,
Or the weight of the stone,
Now that I've found somewhere safe
To bury my bone.
And any fool knows a dog needs a home,
A shelter from pigs on the wing.
From welfare to Mayfair.
Fri, 2012-01-27 12:16
"it's not a party if it happens every night." -the postal service.
Fri, 2012-01-27 12:25
"Dear John, I've been listening to some of Paul's records. I think he really is dead." - Larry Norman
"I like my way of doing it better than your way of not doing it." - D.L. Moody
Fri, 2012-01-27 12:38
"46 bottles of beer on the wall, 46 bottles of beer"
Thud Fishington
email me!
Fri, 2012-01-27 12:38
You may be right, I may be crazy, but it just might be a lunatic you're looking for
turn out the lights, don't try to save me, you may me wrong for all I know but you may be right.
Billl Joel
"Laugh and the world laughs with you, cry and you cry alone . . . "
Fri, 2012-01-27 12:46
"They say there's a heaven for those who wait
Some say it's better but I say it ain't
I'd rather laugh with the sinners
than die with the saints."
Fri, 2012-01-27 14:03
"and a queer threw up at the site of that"- David Bowie
Fri, 2012-01-27 14:24
Just look out around us
People fightin' their wars
They think they'll be happy
When they've settled their scores
Let's lay down our weapons
That hold us apart
Be still for just a minute
Try to open our hearts
More love, I can hear our hearts cryin'
More love, I know that's all we need
More love, to flow in between us
To take us and hold us and lift us above
If there's ever an answer
It's more love
Atomic Larry
Sun, 2012-01-29 19:26
Quick to judge, quick to anger.
Slow to understand.
Ignorance and prejudice
and fear walk hand in hand.
Sun, 2012-01-29 19:43
(wrong reply)
Sun, 2012-01-29 20:58
Burn mot********, burn.
On the advice of someone who probably queened-out, this signature has been deleted.
YJB 2k12
Mon, 2012-01-30 13:31
Heaven is whenever we can get together
Mon, 2012-01-30 23:57
You say faith is a crutch for a mind that's closed,
but you guzzle your crutch and shove it up your nose.
"I like my way of doing it better than your way of not doing it." - D.L. Moody
Tue, 2012-01-31 00:00
"I lose a pill, and I'm wrecklessly reckin' the house
That was supposed to be breakfast, where the heck is it now
There's the neckless I lost, clingin' to Stephanie's blouse
Man I should check to see if my mom left any out
Nope, guess I'll re-route
Maybe somewhere in the depths of the couch
Oh, jackpot, yeah, open sesame mouth
Down the hatch, and the feelin' you can't match it"
When the king speaks, fishtown.us would be wise to listen.


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Called out to the South Transit Road area about 3 a.m. Wednesday for an attempt to locate a vehicle reported stolen by Amherst police, a deputy had just finished searching the area and was heading back to his post when he spotted the vehicle.
Traveling south on South Transit Road, the car pulled in to a tavern parking lot. The deputy followed him into the lot and activated his emergency lights. Already out of the car, Joseph D. Ehrenreich was ordered back into the car at gunpoint.
Despite the order, the deputy said Ehrenreich was being passively resistant and was refusing to get back into the car. He eventually allowed the deputy to place him in handcuffs and Amherst police were notified.
Ehrenreich appeared intoxicated and failed field sobriety tests. He refused to take a chemical test.
Joseph D. Ehrenreich, 45, 5471 Oakwood Drive, North Tonawanda, was charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of a stolen vehicle, first-degree aggravated unlicensed operation, DWI, DWI with a previous conviction, driving without an interlock device and refusal to take a breath test.
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• ARREST: A Falls woman was arrested following a shoplifting incident at 2:20 p.m. Friday at a store in the 1500 block of Military Road. Becca Bliemeister, 20, 2820 23rd St., was charged with petit larceny after a security employee told police he witnessed her take eight clothing items from the store and conceal them in a bag before attempting to leave. The value of the clothing was listed at $62.90 in reports.
• ARREST: A Falls woman was arrested following a reported shoplifting incident at 11:20 a.m. Friday at a grocery store in the 1000 block of Portage Road. Nassira Townsend, 40, 1342 LaSalle Ave., was charged with petit larceny after a store employee told police she was witnessed placing an eye patch, a container of melatonin pills, a panini and an eclair into her purse and attempting to leave the store. The property was valued at $18.56.


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MARQUETTE — Traverse City Central spotted Marquette a 21-0 lead at half, and that proved too much to overcome Friday night.
Quarterback Brett Place completed 11 of 18 passes for 221 yards and three touchdowns as the host Redmen beat Central 31-23 in a season-opening contest here.
"We didn't play well early and a lot of the credit goes to them," Central coach Tom Passinault said. "We rebounded, but it was too little, too late.
"This is a reminder that we have to play 48 minutes. We're proud of the effort, disappointed in the loss."
Kurt Burmeister hauled in two first quarter scoring tosses among his eight receptions. The plays covered 39 and 31 yards. Place also connected with Gabe Apple on an 11-yard touchdown strike with 8:22 left that pushed the lead to 28-10.
Central's Ethan Campbell scored twice in the fourth quarter to keep the Trojans close. One of his scores came from 68 yards. He set up his second touchdown by returning a kick to the Marquette 30. He subsequently scored from six yards out to make 31-23 with 3:45 left.
After that score, the Trojans held Marquette, forcing a punt from the Redmen 21. But the Trojans were penalized on the return and had to start from their own 30 with just over two minutes to play. Two running plays netted seven yards and then two pass attempts fell incomplete to end Central's chances.
Traverse City scored the first 10 points of the third quarter as Sean Williams tossed a six-yard scoring pass to Joe Schepperly and Jacob Gorter booted a 40-yard field goal.
Campbell finished with 123 yards in 13 carries.
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What do you think?
If this is to end in fire
Then we will all burn together
But where's his wife?
I meant to take the high road.... but I missed the exit.
Someone in the comments called it the "I caught a fish this big Jesus". Doesn't have the same ring.
Fish Tale Jesus?
If this is to end in fire
Then we will all burn together
What a disappointment! That is not a real Touchdown Jesus. His arms aren't high enough to be a goalpost. I was expecting a remake of the original with a nun in full garb (with a scarlet & gray sash) kicking a football up across his head. What were they thinking when they created this???
Touchdown Jesus will no longer be a destination statue for gawkers like me. Now all I have left are the giant signs in the farmer's field along 71-S asking "If You Die Tomorrow, Where Will You Spend Eternity?"
Honestly, must we create our own comic religious diversions for entertainment along the highways of this great state?
Count me in as just another disgruntled Buckeye.
That's not a Touchdown Jesus. But, perhaps this will lessen the sting:
The pastor died a while back and membership at that church has supposedly dropped a lot. I can't see that rather sad statue doing much for the cause.
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."-- Albert Einstein.
"The Devil is joining in, and that's never a good sign." Phil Liggett
I saw something earlier today that called it the "$5 Footlong Jesus", LOL
An MLB.com reporter asked what one thing Votto couldnt do. I cant skate or play hockey, Votto said. Well, I can skate ... but I cant stop.
"I guess I'm just...I'm not used to someone putting me first." -Emma, Once Upon a Time, episode 2x3, Lady of the Lake
No, not at all the same. Touchdown Jesus emerging from the earth was priceless. This is what?? Well, maybe $5 Footlong Jesus, maybe I Caught a Fish This Big Jesus.
Touchdown Jesus. I hadn't realized that the original was made of styrofoam and fiberglass. No wonder he "burst into flames" when struck by lightning two years ago.
Lady 2: there isn't anything about me on goooogle, I mean, I must take it off if there is.....
Lady 3: The google is a terrible thing, I mean I don't want anything on there! (Overheard by millyskate on a London train.)
[QUOTE=PDilemma;3689260]At least the new one isn't so yellow. {/QUOTE]
So we can't call it the Big Butter Jesus anymore? Shoot!


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Once I realized I would need more exhaustive research than the articles online, I used the online library catalog search to find the books I needed and requested that they be pulled, he said. This made my trip to the library extremely efficient.
Having become deeply intrigued with his topic and finding so much information hed need to arrange in a concise form led to concerns of doing the topic justice in the pages and the time allotted, he said; however, the challenge was exciting and he learned a great deal from the experience.
This award tells me that I at least was able to explore it sufficiently to engage my professor who nominated me and the library staff who chose my paper for second place, said Leal, who plans to pursue a chemistry degree and possibly teach. It is quite gratifying and has reinforced my confidence that college was the right choice at this time in my life.


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HOUSTON – Police said a man suffered some type of gunshot wound during a scuffle with two other men in a northwest Houston apartment.
Police were called to the Kempwood Hollow Apartments on Kempwood Drive at Teague Road just after 1 a.m. Monday, according to the Houston Police Department,
An injured male told police two men came to the apartment and went into the bedroom where one of them pulled out a gun and shot him in the shoulder. The shooter then ran away.
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With Appreciation and Gratitude to Our Volunteer Firemen
Have you ever passed judgment on Volunteer Firemen? Have you ever made a cynical comment or poked fun at them behind their back? You know, "There's a cat in the tree and every volunteer fireman in town shows up with their blue lights." Almost every single person that I've talked to and said, "I have a whole new level of respect for Volunteer Fireman and will never make negative comments about them again" has responded with, "Yea – I've done that too"
Don't get me wrong, I've never passed up on emptying all the money in my wallet in a fundraising fireman's boot or to the guys in the truck driving around house to house asking for donations. The real issue that I have with myself is that I don't think I truly appreciated them.
Based on my prior judgment, I didn't deserve to be saved by them but they saved us anyway. The amazing thing is that the words "because it's their job" would go so well with that statement but it's not true. Those men and women don't get paid to do it. It's not their "job". They are husbands, wives, dads, moms, boyfriends, girlfriends or someone's son or daughter.
So to every volunteer firefighter in Newtown (, , , , and ) who responded to our house fire on December 8th at 2:00 in the morning while most everyone else was sleeping, including us, THANK YOU!
Those two words don't come close to how much we appreciate everything it is that you do.
Special Thanks to Our Three Heroes
Had it not been for the actions of two neighbors and Fire Chief Wayne Ciaccia, I would most likely not be alive today writing this thank you.
To 17 year old Connor Hartgraves – Thank you for sleeping with a fan for noise and waking up when it and the power went off at 2:00 in the morning. Thank you for calling 911 and not assuming that everything was alright or someone else "probably" called because it wasn't and they didn't.
To Steve Tramposch – Thank you for having a battery backup with audible alert when the power went out at 2:00 in the morning. Thank you as well for calling 911 and not assuming that everything was alright because it wasn't.
To Fire Chief Wayne Ciaccia – Thank you for not only coming out to secure the road and protect the people of Little Brook Lane at 2:00 in the morning but thank you for having the wherewithal to notice that not only was the downed wire burning but so was our garage door. Thank you for risking your life to get into our house, notice the basement fire and save our lives.
I don't think people fully understand the magnitude of how different things could have turned out had it not been for you three. We are forever grateful to all of you. You are all heros in our eyes and you've truly changed our lives forever.
With love and gratitude,
Mike, Tammy and Daniel Gruber (The Furry Grubers too - Huey, Sienna, Sheba, and Ollie)


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Alan Collinge has appeared here several times with posts on the student loan crisis. He just sent me a new contribution with his commentary on the Republican budget proposal as it relates to student loans. I don't agree with his analysis, but if I had to agree with all of my guest posters all of the time, I would have to write all the posts myself and I have a day job to tend to. It is a great job. This time of year, we get free dinner Monday through Thursday, free lunch on Saturday and free coffee all the time. It does cut into my blogging time though.
One would think that behind the scenes, Republicans are hard at work developing smaller government initiatives in response to overwhelming populist demand, and in keeping with their stated beliefs. Digging into the higher education related elements of Congressman Ryan's budget, however, reveals something quite different. In fact, it appears that Ryan's intention with higher ed is to grow government, and grow it significantly. This is couched in a so called "fair value" accounting scheme applied to the federal student loan program that can only be described as a lie to the American people, and a big, fat, painful lie at that.
Here's the situation: a couple of years ago, President Obama overhauled the nation's student loan program whereby the lending and guarantor functions (previously performed by the private sector) were taken over by the federal government.
So, the old, "Federal Family Education Loan Program" (FFELP) was subsumed by the federal government. Remember, now, this was lending system that allowed Sallie Mae's stock price to rise more quickly than Microsoft's when that stock was on fire. This was a lending system that garnered Sallie Mae CEO enough cash to make a tender offer on a major league baseball team, and even build his own, private, 18-hole golf course just outside Washington D.C. It is also the lending system that supported an extremely rich network of guaranty agencies, who thrived on penalties and fees attached to defaulted loans.
The old, FFELP system was also extremely lucrative because of subsidies. Interest subsidies paid to the lenders while students were in school, and also when their student loans were in deferment. There were also very lucrative spread subsidies, and other subsidies paid by the federal government to guarantors for various reasons.
Under Obama's new, Direct loan program, all of this money now goes to the federal government. The Department of Education now makes every nickel of interest (and charges students even more than the FFELP loans did), makes
all the money the guarantors previously made on penalty and fee income derived from defaulted student loans (and the fed was already making $1.22 for every dollar paid out on defaulted FFELP loans). The Fed also no longer pays any of the subsidies mentioned above.
So, to say that the federal government is losing money, not making it (and a ton of it) on the new, Direct Loan program would be beyond incredible. It would be a lie.
Yet, this is precisely what the beltway crowd are now claiming, because Congressman Ryan is proposing a change in the Republican budget that uses a new, "fair value" accounting method- which counts money not made by the lending program if it were to charging supposedly "market rates" for it's loans to borrowers- as a loss! According to "experts" like Jason Delisle at the New America Foundation who is defending the Republican proposal, the lending system is, indeed losing money overall, and this accounting change reflects that.
This is beyond belief and credibility, and raises obvious concerns. First, there is no way on God's green earth that the new lending system isn't making money, and a large amount of it. This big, nasty government program thrives not only on interest income and elimination of subsidy payments, but also on the predatory underpinnings of the program, like the absence of bankruptcy protections, statutes of limitations, and the presence of draconian collection powers that make defaulted loans more profitable than healthy ones. Where the lenders and guarantors were making "mad" money under the old program, the federal government is making even more under the new program. No one looking you straight in the eye could disagree with this unless they were lying to your face.
Second, and perhaps most importantly: Why on earth are the Republicans buddying up with big-government champions like the New America Foundation in trying to protect this obvious, shameless, beltway monstrosity? Is this what the rank and file conservative Republicans can expect from their leadership in the House going forward? If so, I recommend strongly that they be immediately replaced, by true conservatives not infected by the bureaucratic, beltway sickness that seems to have enveloped both parties on this issue and others.
If the Republicans, particularly the younger ones on the Hill like Paul Ryan aren't there to battle government largess, waste, and intrusion into the lives of decent citizens -both rich and poor- what are they good for?
Alan Collinge is founder of StudentLoanJustice.Org , and author of The Student Loan Scam: The Most Oppressive Debt in U.S. History – and How We Can Fight Back
I have two thoughts on Alan's analysis. One is that to the extent Sallie Mae was profitable due to subsidies from the federal government, its profitability drops out of the equation. You can't argue that the federal government will be as profitable as Sallie and will come out even further ahead because there are no longer subsidies to pay. More to the point scoring the loans as an expenditure, when you mark them to market will make it harder to make more of them, which might help with tuition inflation. Applying the principle of accounting conservatism (which has nothing to do with political conservatism), the proposal actually seems sound. Hopefully, Allan will weigh in and set me straight.
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One of the many misconceptions about the federal student loan program relates to interest rates on the loans. The interst rate on our son's loan is 7.9% . (William O. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program)
When fixing the national home mortgage crisis in vogue in D.C., mortgage lenders charging 7.9% were targeted and the rhetoric for change and justice from the White House and Congress was a daily fixture. As I look at the form 1098-E sent from the Department of Education the D.C. disconnect is loud and clear. Whle the student loan crisis is decried as the next national financial meltdown, no honest solutions are offered.
Institiutions of higher learning are complicit in the looming crisis. While every university president bemoans cuts in funding and warns of declines across the board, the institutional nonprofit management style of the system is unchallenged. When the topic is occasionally raised, then university will trot out the ususal list of painful cuts to faculty and facilities which amount to bailing with a dixie cup.
In the early 1970′s a year at Washington State University cost about $3,000, including beer and pizza money. It was possible for a student to make enough money in the summer to pay for the entire year's costs. A student needed to make $6.50 an hour. In 2011 costs at W.S.U. are about $19,000. The student needs to make $40.00 per hour to reach the goal. That equates to an $80,000 per year job.
It seems painfully clear we haven't begun talking about the underlying cancer in the higher education system.
I agree. The sticker price is the core problem to be solved. See my earlier articles (particularly my most recent piece before this one). It is quite interesting to see how the removal of consumer protections from the loans that finance higher ed directly enable the inflation that you correctly illustrate.
There is no excuse for tuition rising at 3 times the rate of inflation…none. This is greed, plain and simple. Tuition will continue to rise as long as people are kept as endentured servants via loss of bankruptcy protections.
Lets face it.. Income based repayment is NOT an option.. First of all the word income is not defined in any one of the 50 titles that make up the Federal Statutes at large. The US Supreme court said that congress cannot define a word that is used in the Constitution. Therefore I ask you, how can you participate in something that no one can define?
Now lets look at what congress has done about student loans. Not much except remove all consumer protections and empowered themselves with collections powers that make a mobster envious. Personally I would rather deal with the IRS than student loans.
Congress could fix the default problem IF they would just give up a little Greed and control. Pass a law that mandates that a specific percentage (lets say 5 percent) of any payment made, goes to paying off principal, and you will get defaulters who gave up trying decades ago, start making payments. And limit this program to people who are in default for at least 5 years before entering the program.
Any one with half a brain can see the benefit, especially after reading Jeff Hills comment about how much one would have to earn, if they wanted to work their way thru college, the way it used to be possible to do.
Bottom Line: it is in the hands of congress.. They will decide our nations future. A future with hope, or a future with yet another generation in perpetual debt.
I agree with much in this comment, but have to add two things:
1. The obvious fix, firstly, is the return of bankruptcy and other consumer protections that would force the Department of Education (with Congress) to crack the whip on the schools to provide high quality at a low cost. I could see all manner of repayment programs that actually work (like what you propose) coming forth in the presence of bankruptcy protections, but not until then. See the gainful employment fiasco if you need any proof that nothing will work without the correct fiscal motivations being in play. Bankruptcy will correct that overnight, and we would see dramatic and significant improvements in both price and quality shortly thereafter.
2. The "bottom line", in my view, isn't that Congress is the only entity that can solve this problem, or perpetuate it onto future generations. Rather, it is that Congress can solve this problem currently, but very soon, this won't be the case because the citizens will simply reject the validity of all student loan debt, en masse. We are far closer to reaching this point today than I would have imagined even three years ago. Today, I would say it is imminent.
The sad fact about all of the repayment programs as they now currently stand, is that the Department of Education, still perversely incented to want borrowers to drop out of the program, behaves accordingly. Other private, earned benefits such as this (ie interest rate reduction for ontime payments, etc) have a success rate of about 15%. I see no reason to believe that the success rates of these repayment programs will be any different.
And remember, interest continues to capitalize throughout the lifetime of these repayment programs, so that people dropping out, getting kicked out, or otherwise exiting the program will be stuck with a mammoth balance upon exit. This is what happens when there are no bankruptcy or other consumer protections.
All education has has ceased for some time now to develop and employ new processes and procedures and worst of all more productive educational methods.
The real problem here is the government got involved in education and the financing of it. By the 1960s we needed more people with higher educations and proceeded to offer student loans and increased what grants were available. Well, guess what, that drove demand and as demand increased, just about anybody can get a college education these days, and believe it or not ptrices went up, but were mitigated by state support and endowments, until economic upset eliminated many of those supports. Pretty much, we got what we paid for.
All I ask is that bankruptcy protection and statute of limitations be reinstated. This country was built on the foundation of getting a second chance. People came here to escape the robber barons … to get a fresh start … and until '05 every American had the right to start over when their debt burden became too onerous. For those kids (and their guarantors) who cannot get a decent paying job, and who have no hope of ever being able to pay off that school loan, is it too much to ask that they be given a second chance? Even the IRS understands when someone is unable to pay, puts people in "uncollectable" status, and writes off the debt in bankruptcy. Can't Sallie Mae be held to the same standards? Honestly?


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The '80s are back! Bad pop music, crazy gelled hair, zippered red leather jackets with one glove, leg warmers and shoulder pads — everything you thought was gone forever is once more becoming popular.
Nowhere will that trend be more on display than this weekend at Union High School, as students present their annual spring musical, "The Wedding Singer."
Probably best known as a 1998 movie starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, the story became a Broadway musical in 2006.
The show tells the story of Robby Harte, a wedding singer who gets dumped on his own wedding day. He loses his desire to sing, his hope and most of his mind until he meets Julia Sullivan. She is a beautiful young lady who wants to help Robby overcome his pain and sing at her upcoming wedding. Julia and Robby become friends and more.
Filled with takeoffs on '80s songs, high-energy dance numbers — including break dancing and the moon walk — and fashion, hairstyles and customs of the time, "The Wedding Singer" rollicks it way to that inevitable "'80s movie" happy ending. It strolls its way through a decade that to many seems way too recent to be so nostalgia-ized.
However, director Diana Borowski points out that the students performing this show are half a decade or more removed from even being born in the '80s.
"Many of our younger performers were not even born when the movie came out." she said. "It was kind of funny, when I first announced the show; many of the kids had to look it up to see what it even was. Then they got excited."
This year's production boasts five seniors who are all Union drama veterans. They all have had a myriad of significant roles over the last five years. This year these five will front the production, having landed the leads across the board.
For Megan Lawlor, playing female lead Julia is real joy. "Julia is a little crazy. She lets everything affect her. She is naïve and innocent, a real good- goody, but she cares a lot." Lawlor said.
Julia's best friend and cousin Holly is played by Kristina Riggans. She describes Holly as "a floozy. She's friendly and flirty and loose. She's very spontaneous. I love her crazy personality."
The wedding singer himself, Robby Harte, is brought to life by Jason Salamon. While the rest of the seniors are in their fifth show, this is only Salamon's third. He says it took him a while to get started "because I didn't want to have to sing in front of people. And I think it should also be said, I detest dancing.
"My feet will just not coordinate with the rest of my body," he added while gesticulating wildly to the good-natured laughing of the other cast members. In this show, Salamon not only sings and dances, he even plays the guitar.
Daniel Fusco plays Robby's best friend Sammy, a band member with Flock of Seagulls hair who basically shows Robby everything not to do. "He treats his girlfriend like a real jerk, but he learns his lesson and in the end he wants to try to fix everything." Fusco said.
Janis McGill plays Rosie, Robby's Grandma. "Rosie is outspoken and crazy." McGill said. "She goes out and parties, and she wants to talk to Robby about his sex life. She raps, dances and really steals the show."
For these five seniors, the list of accomplishments, awards, honors and activities would take a whole page to list, but suffice to say, all five are at the top of their class in grades and all five are members of National Honor Society. Each will be attending college in the fall.
Between the talent on display and the pleasant, funny, outgoing, personalities each displayed, they, along with the rest of the other 30-plus talented cast members and crew, promise to make "The Wedding Singer" an absolutely enjoyable romp through the '80s for the audience and a springboard to future success for its performers.
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As has been reported nearly everywhere, both Carl Edwards and Greg Biffle are in play on the free agent market. Nobody on either side is saying much, and that silence is deafening. What Biffle does will likely be dictated by the move Edwards makes, but make no mistake, Roush Fenway Racing could be about to lose their top two drivers.
During the last free agent year for Edwards, it took a monster deal put together by RFR and Ford to keep Edwards in the 99. After nearly winning the championship in 2011, Edwards missed the Chase in 2012, and was a non-factor in the 2013 Chase. This combined with a shortage of wins is why Edwards is again looking for a new ride. He wants to compete for wins and championships, and he wants to do it now.
The focus and speculation by many seems to be that Edwards is on his way to a potential fourth Gibbs car, but don't bet on that just yet. Edwards is rumored to have been spotted in the Team Penske shop in recent weeks, and he would make a potent addition to the Penske lineup. Ford doesn't want to lose Edwards, and a move to Penske would at least keep him in the family.
For Biffle, any move he makes will most likely be made after a resolution comes for Edwards. Edwards is ten years younger than Biffle, and clearly the more sought after free agent. An Edwards departure from RFR would leave Biffle in a very strong position to negotiate a nice extension with his current employer but we've also heard that Biffle could be in the mix for that potential fourth car at JGR, or in a third car for Michael Waltrip Racing.
With a lot of the season still to play out, my gut right now says Edwards is gone and Biffle stays. The promotion of Trevor Bayne feels like RFR expects to lose at least one of them, and I think that is Edwards. Biffle would be the top dog at RFR if he stays, which isn't true if he moves to JGR or MWR.
It's been a common thread this year; a driver has a shot to win, but a bad pit stop or two derails the whole day and somebody ends up getting called out on the radio or national television. Yes, the pressure is as high as it's ever been on the pit crews with track position being at a premium, but some teams are at a disadvantage before they even step off the wall.
One area many teams have spent time and a great deal of money improving recently is the equipment used by the pit crews. The impacts (pit gun, gun, whatever you want to call it) specifically have seen a big jump forward in the last few seasons. If tire changers can get the lugnuts off and on faster, the entire stop can be sped up dramatically.
For a basic description of how an impact works, click here. One of the main innovations has been the removal of the traditional hammer system in the impacts. The hammers have been replaced with a clutch mechanism that improves the gun performance in a few ways. First, the removal of the hammers has reduced the rotating mass inside the gun which makes it smoother to operate and allows it to spin at higher RPMs than ever before. Also, the clutch keeps the lugnuts from being over-tightened in the event the tire changer stays on one nut too long. The guns effectively shut themselves off once the lugnuts reach a certain torque setting. These changes have resulted in some pit crews being able to do pit stops in the low 11 second range, or under.
Most of the top level organizations have the new style guns in some form or another. Some, like Joe Gibbs Racing and Hendrick Motorsports, seem to have a little better handle on them than the others. And in the hands of the right tire changers, the results can be pretty amazing.
The problem with these changes, and one of the reasons we've seen mistakes, is not everyone has these new style guns. And even among the teams that do, not all are equal. The pit crews that are at a disadvantage know they must push the envelope to keep up with the haves, and that can easily result in mistakes.
After what we saw at Charlotte, don't be surprised if you hear this week about some changes to a few teams. Drivers that are trying to contend for wins and the championship will not stay quiet for long about slow pit stops.
I really, really, really hope you've been paying attention this season to what is happening in the lower series and with a few upcoming young drivers. Kyle Larson, Chase Elliott, and Ryan Blaney may be three of the best young drivers we've had come up in a long time. There are a few others who will make their marks before the year is over, but these three in particular are the future of the sport.
The influx of "funded" drivers into the sport is something we've discussed on this site ad nauseam in the past (some of you might say ancient past). It's easier for team owners to bring in a kid with his own money, than it is to take a chance on a young driver with no big time backer behind him. Because of this, some really good drivers never got legitimate shots to prosper. These three are an exception.
Blaney and Elliott definitely had a leg up because of their name recognition, but both are in the seats they're in because they are very talented. Race wins in the Nationwide Series and Truck Series for both prove that.
Larson is a different story. He came up how guys used to come up, and how we wish they would all come up. No famous family members, and no rich benefactor writing checks to get him in seats. He earned every ride by winning, and winning a lot. Larson is a throwback to a different time, when all drivers wanted to do was drive. If Chip Ganassi would let him, Larson would still be running mid-week sprint car shows all over the country.
Blaney is running a limited Nationwide and Cup schedule this season, but don't expect him to be without a full time ride in an upper series for long. If Penske can't hang on to him, somebody else will give him that chance in the next year or two.
At this point, the future for Elliott would seem to be behind the wheel of a Hendrick Motorsports Cup car. It might be a few years away, and will probably depend on how much longer Jeff Gordon wants to drive, but make no mistake, Mr. H. won't let young Chase get away.
As for Larson, he's obviously found a home in the Cup Series with Chip Ganassi and the Target ride. Going forward, Ganassi will have his work cut out to keep Larson in the fold. There have already been rumors of other teams making offers to Ganassi for "Young Money," and his growing popularity and early success will make him a target for bigger teams (no pun intended).
Keep an eye out as the season progresses, because there are probably two or three other drivers in the Nationwide and Truck Series who could become household names very quickly. They have the talent and the backing to succeed, they just need that one break through performance.
On a normal NASCAR weekend when the Truck Series and/or Nationwide Series run companion to the Cup cars, there are a lot of pit crew members who double or triple dip. Crew members make some extra cash and get more reps, and the teams get top talent pitting their cars. But this last weekend presented a unique challenge for teams with the trucks in Texas, NNS cars in Iowa, and Cup cars in Pocono. With good weather, there were many guys who could have pitted two, or all three races. A rainout in Iowa threw a wrench into those plans.
Once it became official that Saturday night's NNS race was postponed, the race was on for teams to get essential people from Iowa to Pocono, and for those teams with holes to fill in Iowa to find replacements. Most crew members are committed to their Cup teams first, so none of the big Cup teams were affected. But there were also some smaller Cup teams like BK Racing and Front Row Motorsports that had to scramble for fill-ins.
Because so many Nationwide teams rely on Cup crew members, there were holes to fill up and down Iowa's pit road. Teams used backups, crew members from teams in other series, and some retired over-the-wall veterans made comebacks.
If you watched the race, it was probably pretty evident who was using replacements. The race was dominated by Austin Dillon, and that was helped in part by the fact that his team was fully intact. The same was true for teammate Brian Scott. Sam Hornish got most of the #22 crew, because his team is made up of a lot of Cup guys, and the #22 was pitted by replacements. All three Gibbs cars are usually pitted by Cup guys, so all three had mostly new teams. Even race winner Trevor Bayne didn't have his full usual crew.
Two drivers who were victims of bad stops by fill-in crews were Ryan Blaney and Brian Vickers. After starting in the back, Blaney had to come from the rear of the field a second time in the race after there was confusion on an early pit stop. And later, confusion during a two tire stop for Vickers put him deep in the field, and ultimately led to him being involved in a wreck with Alex Bowman and Travis Pastrana.
When crews are thrown together at the last minute, it can be difficult to get everyone on the same page. Different teams use different methods, and any breakdown in communication can lead to disastrous stops. It's vital for crew members who are thrown into these situations to back the pace down, make sure they know the calls, and just do the job right.
It will be back to business as usual this weekend with both the Nationwide and Cup cars at Michigan. But teams will again be looking for replacements the following weekend, with the NNS teams tackling Road America in Wisconsin, and the Cup Series heading out west to Sonoma.
I've got to be honest, I don't understand why there has been so much discussion this week about restarts. The rules are really pretty clear. The green flag waves, the leader can go between the two lines, you can't beat the leader to the line, and don't change lanes before the start/finish line. Seems pretty simple to me. And regardless of whether you think Montoya had a bad restart or not, Jimmie Johnson broke the rule and was penalized in accordance. It was an open and shut case.
But today at Pocono, the discussion continued as both drivers involved made comments regarding the situation. In a nutshell, Montoya says he did what he was supposed to do, and Johnson called Montoya out for "flopping." Johnson also called NASCAR out for not doing anything about Montoya's flopping, and wants NASCAR to make it clear what is and isn't allowed.
I don't know about you, but JJ's comments sound like sour grapes to me. He broke the rules, got busted, and just doesn't want to admit fault. It's difficult to feel sorry for him.
Going forward, I don't expect NASCAR to make any changes to the restart policy. The rules are not difficult to understand, and we have plenty of restarts every week that are executed without incident.
As a side note, this whole situation was evidence that NASCAR does not indeed favor and want the #48 to win.
Have you ever gotten a speeding ticket?
If the answer's yes, did you try telling the officer, 'that wasn't my intent'?
Or maybe you were just a MPH or two over the limit, did you try telling him, 'I wasn't speeding that much'?
When he got done laughing at you, did he still write you a ticket? My guess is, he did.
Welcome to NASCAR rule enforcement. The body has very little sympathy for intent or amount, and zero tolerance for infractions related to tires, fuel and engines.
Joe Gibbs Racing found this out the hard way yesterday – not that they shouldn't have already known. When you move beyond the specified limits and beyond the tolerances provided, it's likely NASCAR will throw the book at you.
JGR is facing, pending an appeal, a six race suspension and $200,000 fine for crew chief Jason Ratcliff, a loss of 50 driver and owner points, the loss of Kenseth's win toward the Chase wild card berth, a six week suspension of Joe Gibbs' owner license and the loss of owner points for the next six weeks thanks to a connecting rod that did not meet weight requirements. Toyota has also been docked five points toward the manufacturer's championship.
The penalty was reminiscent of the one levied to Carl Long in 2009 after he was found with an illegal engine at the Sprint All Star race. Long was fined $200,000, docked 200 points (the equivalent of 50 points under the current system) and suspended for 12 races.
His suspension was eventually reduced on appeal, but he has been unable to pay the fine and hasn't worked in the Cup Series since.
Regardless of the claims of ignorance in both cases, there are two general rules that reign supreme: (1) the team is ALWAYS responsible for the equipment it uses, regardless of who/where it comes from; and (2) if the team exceeds tolerances, regardless of the amount, it has broken the rule.
Every team member, owner and driver knows this. And I suspect, at this point, most fans do too.
I understand all the arguments here – the amount that exceeded the tolerance was small; Gibbs didn't have any control over this; they didn't do this on purpose. In the end, none of them matter.
NASCAR, in 2013, is a sport of fractions of an inch and thousandths of a pound. Teams will do whatever they have to do, shave whatever they have to shave in order to score that competitive advantage (not saying that happened here). Because of this, the sanctioning body has to work hard to maintain the integrity of the sport and enforce the rule book, regardless of intent.
I sympathize with Gibbs. And if recent decisions are any indication, I suspect the appeals panel will reduce some of the penalties. But at the end of the day, NASCAR did what it had to do – send the message that engines are out of bounds, the Generation 6 car is not to be messed with and when they give you a rule book, they're not joking.
Let me just say this first: I don't care that somebody threw the Penske guys under the bus. There, I said it. (Cue the "you work for Hendrick" trolling in 3…2…1…)
Last week, after both Penske cars were busted by NASCAR at Texas for some creative rear-end components, Jenna Fryer wrote that NASCAR may have been tipped off, and possibly by folks from Hendrick Motorsports. Both the #2 and #22 were parked in the garage next to Hendrick teams, and it would have been the perfect opportunity for a peek at what Penske was up to. But here's the thing (and the reason I don't care), NASCAR has open garage stalls for this exact reason.
In the essence of fairness and to create an atmosphere of compliance, NASCAR keeps the teams' garage stalls open and the inspection process in full view of anyone who wants to watch. If you know that you have to worry about NASCAR officials AND the team next to you, it makes getting away with cheating more difficult. It's also why when teams do get busted for illegal parts, NASCAR puts those parts on display to show the entire garage.
Another point that needs to be made here is that NASCAR isn't little league baseball. There is a lot at stake, and if you can't handle a little gamesmanship, maybe you should find something else to do.
Now that I've angered probably half of you reading this post, let the hate-commenting begin!
The practice of starting-and-parking has been a much discussed topic over the last couple of years.
If you aren't aware, starting-and-parking refers to a system in which teams enter a race and pull into the garage after only a few laps with a perfectly good race car in order to collect prize money. Teams can turn a profit doing this, because they save money by not hiring a pit crew or buying expensive sets of tires. But whereas this has been fairly prevalent in recent seasons, it is happening a lot less this year.
NASCAR, while not outlawing the practice completely (it's complicated), has tried different methods to discourage the start-and-park teams. They've tried making early exiting teams go through a complicated inspection process, and this year they reduced the prize money paid to the five lowest finishers.
For most of 2012, it wasn't uncommon to see as many as six or more cars pull off the track early. Some did it all year purely for profit, and others used it as an opportunity to raise money so they could run other races to the finish. Tommy Baldwin is an example of the latter.
But this season, the most cars we've seen start-and-park in a race is three. No teams did it at the Daytona 500, and of the five teams to do so, only two, the 44 of Scott Riggs and the 19 of Mike Bliss, have yet to run a full race. The 33 of Landon Cassill, the 98 of Michael McDowell, and the 95 of Scott Speed have all raced to the finish at least once.
I think the reasons why we've seen the reduction are twofold. First, I believe NASCAR's efforts have made some impact, even if it's only been small. But I think the biggest hurdle for these teams this season has been the introduction of the Gen 6 car. The start-and-park teams are smaller and not flush with cash, and converting old cars to the new version is expensive. Many rely on buying old cars from the big teams, and it will be some time before any Gen 6 cars are available on the secondary market.
Going forward, it will be interesting to see if more start-and-park teams emerge. Inevitably, it will be easier (i.e. cheaper) for the small teams to get Gen 6 cars, and the practice may grow again. It's not something I'm sure you will ever see go away completely, but I'm glad to see more teams showing up every week intent on running to the checkered.
The introduction of the Gen 6 car this season has brought with it some new equipment for the inspection process, namely the new laser measuring rig (see details and a photo here). The laser system helps NASCAR more accurately measure the chassis and things like where and how the rear end is located. But the implementation of the new process has not been seamless.
RPM2Night.com had a story on March 2nd about some of the difficulties with the system. In it, it was mentioned that Jimmie Johnson's #48 was thrown out of the inspection line twice for adjustments before it finally passed inspection for qualifying on Friday at Phoenix. And his team isn't the only one who has experienced this.
When cars are found to be out of tolerance, teams must get out of the inspection line, make adjustments, and get back in line. The new system measures the cars much more exactly, and it has been tougher for the crews to make minute adjustments to satisfy the system. As with Johnson's car, some teams make adjustments and go back through, only to find they have more work to do. All of this takes time. Sometimes, a lot of time.
At Phoenix a few weeks ago, the pre-race inspection process took so long that some cars were still being pushed onto the grid while the National Anthem was playing. And for Las Vegas and Bristol, NASCAR opened the garage on Sunday a full hour earlier than normal.
One of the other problems facing teams with the laser system, is that nobody outside of NASCAR owns one. The systems are too cost prohibitive for the teams to build, and the teams won't know for certain that their cars meet tolerances until they arrive at the track.
Debuting the new style car this season can only help the sport, but it's clear that both the teams and NASCAR still have some kinks to work out.


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BREEN, Edward, 84, died Thursday. Services pending, Lescher-Millsap Funeral Home.
HOLDEN, James W. Jr., 82, mechanic, died Friday. Services 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Memorial Park, King & Shearwood Funeral Home of Stigler.
HUNT, Clifford Don, 70, retired City of Muskogee director of data processing, died June 17. Services 10 a.m. Monday, Southeast Baptist Church, Cornerstone Funeral Home and Crematory.
WILLIAMS, Joe Earnest, 97, farmer, died June 19. Services 11 a.m. Wednesday, Cornerstone Funeral Home Chapel, Cornerstone Funeral Home and Crematory.
CHECOTAH — HAMMONTREE, Paulette, 59, retired teacher, died Friday. Services pending, Checotah Funeral and Cremation Service.
PORTER — MILNE, James Brian, 39, Dal Tile glaze line operator, died June 13. Services 11 a.m. Tuesday, Timothy Baptist Church, Cornerstone Funeral Home and Crematory.
TAHLEQUAH — BRANHAM, Albert G., 88, heavy-equipment operator, died Tuesday. Services noon Monday, Green Country Funeral Home Chapel, Tahlequah, Green Country Funeral Home, Tahlequah.
TAHLEQUAH — FARABEE, Stanley "Red" E., 82, truck driver, died Friday. Services 2 p.m. Tuesday, Green Country Funeral Home, Tahlequah, Green Country Funeral Home, Tahlequah.
TAHLEQUAH — FOX, Mark A., 47, bricklayer, died Sunday. Services pending, Reed-Culver Funeral Home, Tahlequah.
WAGONER — WHITE, Jack, 80, truck driver, died Wednesday. Services 11 a.m. Tuesday, Fort Gibson National Cemetery, Garrett Family Funeral Home & Cremation Service, Checotah.
OKMULGEE — CRISP, Cedell, 64, auto mechanic, died Friday. Services pending, House of Winn, Okmulgee.
KINTA — POWELL, Darrell, 70, retired Army ammunition department, died Friday. Visitation 6 to 8:30 p.m. Monday, Shearwood Memorial Chapel, Stigler. Services 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, First Baptist Church Kinta, King & Shearwood Funeral Home of Stigler.
KINTA — WHITEHEAD, Myrtle N., 97, homemaker, died Saturday. Services 2:30 p.m. Monday, Kinta Christian Church, King & Shearwood Funeral Home of Stigler.
STIGLER — EAKLE, Catherine Nicole, 39, nurse, died Saturday. Services pending, King & Shearwood Funeral Home of Stigler.
WESTVILLE — HANDLE, Ethel, 74, Greenleaf Nursery worker, died Thursday. Services pending, Reed-Culver Funeral Home, Tahlequah.
WICHITA, Kan. — COOPER, Dennis Arthur, 67, died Saturday, Services pending, Biglow Bethea Funeral Directors, Wichita, Kan.


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Library news and happenings.
Over thirty teens participated in our celebration of "National Gaming Day @ Your Library" on November 14. Overall, participating libraries had 31,296 players nationwide, double the number from 2008.
KPL teens played online against Ann Arbor, Detroit, and Darien, MA. We had video gamers as well as an enthusiastic group of card gamers.
The American Library Association sponsors this event to showcase that libraries are about much more than books. Video games complement our other services and expand our reach into the community. The games give kids a chance to practice reading, writing, and computing in a safe environment surrounded by their friends, library staff, books, and knowledge. What's not to like about that?!
The comments from KPL teens and teens across the country are very positive. We like to be called "awesome"!
Enjoy some photos of our National Gaming Day and come visit soon.
Bookmobile service will end by June 30, most likely sometime in the late winter or early spring. Our board reluctantly decided to phase out the service due to budget constraints. Voters supported our millage renewal request in May, but as property tax values drop, our revenues drop while many costs continue to rise. 92% of our revenues come from local property taxes. The bookmobile has been a beloved service. Fortunately most patrons who use the bookmobile also use services at other locations: Central Library and one or more of our four branches. Bookmobile patrons unable to travel elsewhere may find Via Mail or deposit collection services a good alternative. This decision was made after thoughtful consideration. My full report to the board is on our website as well as the fuller announcement and media coverage. I'll keep all patrons, and especially bookmobile patrons, informed as the service winds down and an end date is determined. Come visit soon – the bookmobile, Central, a branch, or our website.
I admit – I can't resist scanning "best of" lists, especially books and movies. If I have a pen nearby, I find myself checking off those I have read or seen.
I just read my first "best of" list for 2009: "Best Books of 2009" in the Nov/Dec issue of Bookmarks magazine. I had two immediate thoughts: how can they publish this list yet – there might be even better books published yet this year AND how can it be that there so many books on this list that sound great and I've never even heard of them.
It seems a little early to ask you to share your favorite book of 2009, but begin thinking about it. My favorite nonfiction might be Looking for Lincoln: The Making of an American Icon or The Hemingses of Monticello. Then again there are still seven weeks left in the year and I might yet read one I like even more than either of these two.
I've read more fiction than nonfiction so it's a little harder to pick a favorite. I might have to do my own "best of" list.
To quote Thomas Jefferson, "so many books, so little time."
We have many good ones, come visit soon.
"National Bookstore Day" is Saturday, November 7. It is a day to celebrate bookselling and the vibrant culture of bookstores.
Kalamazoo is fortunate to have a bookstore, operated by the Friends of KPL, located on the lower level of the central library. The gently used books they sell are donations from the community and some discards from the library collections.
Proceeds from the store support many library programs and services. This past summer the Friends funded our summer reading games for all ages. They also support Reading Together, Prime Time Family Reading, and author visits.
Books are modestly priced – it's a good place to build a home library. Even library users like to own some books! Watch their website for even better bargains during their sales.
Happy National Bookstore Day to our good Friends.
Come visit the library – and the bookstore!
(originally posted 11/5/2009)


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When game designers and magazine editors try to define roleplaying games, one idea that always comes up is that of cooperative storytelling. We sit around a table, a dorm room, or possibly even a computer network, and engage in a form of storytelling that is part improvisational theater, part tug of war. Seldom does anyone take issue with this definition … and I'm not going to, either.
There's a sense among many players and DMs, however, that because D&D is a different type of storytelling from the more familiar forms of books, comics, and films, that it can ignore the dramatic rules those other media adhere to. That's where I start to grind my teeth.
The structure of drama was established millennia ago in epic poems, plays, and songs, which themselves evolved from even older myths and campfire tales. The form changes slightly between cultures, eras, and media, but the basics remain the same. Every story begins with the setup (act 1), builds tension through the confrontation (act 2), and sorts it all out for better (comedy) or worse (tragedy) in the resolution (act 3).
That structure isn't universal; occasionally a groundbreaking storyteller breaks the mold and achieves brilliant results. Those of us who aren't literary geniuses do well by sticking to the rules.
If we accept that D&D is a form of storytelling, then the requirements of story structure apply to DMs and adventure writers just as much as to novelists, playwrights, and screenwriters. As a unique form, RPGs have some unique adaptations … but perhaps not as unique as we'd like to think.
For example, act 1 of an adventure—the setup—tends to be very short. Characters typically meet a patron who needs their help, get some exposition from that character, and launch directly into act 2. Alternatively, they might stumble right into the main plot on their own with hardly any act 1 at all.
Act 2 occupies the bulk of the adventure as characters fight their way through a series of conflicts before finally cornering the villain. Then act 3 kicks in for the final confrontation—and that's usually where it ends. Seldom do we get a real denouement, a 'scouring of the Shire' to bring it all home after the chief evil has been vanquished.
In Dungeon, we publish three types of adventures: encounters or encounter sites (1-3,000 words) that are like one-act plays; side treks or delves (4-6,000 words) that are like short, off-Broadway productions; and feature adventures (8-16,000 words) that are the hour-long TV dramas and feature films of the magazine. Each should have a setup, a confrontation, and a resolution, whether it's a one-session delve or a multi-level marathon.
This month, we're happy to bring a grand epic to your table: "Bark at the Moon" weighs in at around 23,000 words, making it the biggest adventure that we've run since the Scales of War campaign wrapped up in February. It's so big that we've split it in half for easier handling.
We're very excited to bring this adventure to your table and to feature it as our year-end capper, a sort of act 3 for 2010 adventures. We intend to get more variety into both the length and levels of adventures in 2011. Let us know whether and how "Bark at the Moon" meets your campaign needs at email@example.com.


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Statement as of 2:11 PM CDT on July 26, 2014
Expires 7:00 PM EDT on July 26, 2014
... Heat index values 100 to 105 this afternoon...
As temperatures warmed to around 90 degrees this
afternoon... increased low-level moisture has resulted in heat
index values from 100 to 105 degrees throughout the region. The
heat and humidity should begin to subside by 7 PM.
This level of heat and humidity will make it very uncomfortable
for those working or playing outdoors this afternoon. Be sure to
drink plenty of water... take frequent breaks and wear light and
loose fitting clothing.
Similar conditions may develop again Sunday afternoon... but cooler
weather will return to the quad state region on Monday.
- Alaska - Areal Flood Advisory , Record Report
Areal Flood Advisory - Upper Tanana Valley and the Fortymile Country
Record Report - Alaska Peninsula, Anchorage, Bristol Bay, Cape Decision to Salisbury Sound Coastal Area, Cape Fairweather to Cape Suckling Coastal Area, Central Aleutians, Copper River Basin, Dixon Entrance to Cape Decision Coastal Area, Eastern Aleutians, Eastern Baranof Island and Southern Admiralty Island, Eastern Chichagof Island, Glacier Bay, Haines Borough and Lynn Canal, Inner Channels from Kupreanof Island to Etolin Island, Juneau Borough and Northern Admiralty Island, Kodiak Island, Kuskokwim Delta, Lower Kuskokwim Valley, Matanuska Valley, Misty Fjords, Northeast Prince William Sound, Pribilof Islands, Salisbury Sound to Cape Fairweather Coastal Area, Southeast Prince William Sound, Southern Inner Channels, Susitna Valley, Taiya Inlet and Klondike Highway, Western Aleutians, Western Kenai Peninsula, Western Prince William Sound
- Arizona - Record Report
Record Report - Lake Havasu and Fort Mohave, Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Northwest Deserts, Northwest Plateau
- Arkansas - Flood Warning , Heat Advisory , Special Statement , Record Report
Flood Warning - Jackson, Woodruff
Heat Advisory - Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian
Special Statement - Arkansas, Baxter, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland, Conway, Dallas, Desha, Drew, Faulkner, Fulton, Garland, Grant, Hot Spring, Independence, Izard, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Lincoln, Logan, Lonoke, Marion, Monroe, Montgomery, Newton, Ouachita, Perry, Pike, Polk, Pope, Prairie, Pulaski, Saline, Scott, Searcy, Sharp, Stone, Van Buren, White, Woodruff, Yell
Record Report - Arkansas, Baxter, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Clay, Cleburne, Cleveland, Conway, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Dallas, Desha, Drew, Faulkner, Fulton, Garland, Grant, Greene, Hot Spring, Independence, Izard, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Lawrence, Lee, Lincoln, Logan, Lonoke, Marion, Mississippi, Monroe, Montgomery, Newton, Ouachita, Perry, Phillips, Pike, Poinsett, Polk, Pope, Prairie, Pulaski, Randolph, Saline, Scott, Searcy, Sharp, St. Francis, Stone, Van Buren, White, Woodruff, Yell
- California - Record Report
Record Report - Cadiz Basin, Coastal North Bay Including Point Reyes National Seashore, Death Valley National Park, East Bay Hills and the Diablo Range, East Bay Interior Valleys, Eastern Mojave Desert, Including the Mojave National Preserve, Eastern Sierra Slopes of Inyo County, Morongo Basin, Mountains Of San Benito County And Interior Monterey County Including Pinnacles National Monument, North Bay Interior Valleys, North Bay Mountains, Northern Monterey Bay, Northern Salinas Valley/Hollister Valley and Carmel Valley, Owens Valley, San Bernardino County-Upper Colorado River Valley, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Shoreline, San Fransisco Peninsula Coast, Santa Clara Valley Including San Jose, Santa Cruz Mountains, Santa Lucia Mountains and Los Padres National Forest, Southern Monterey Bay and Big Sur Coast, Southern Salinas Valley/Arroyo Seco and Lake San Antonio, Western Mojave Desert, White Mountains of Inyo County
- Colorado - Flash Flood Watch
Flash Flood Watch - Canon City Vicinity/Eastern Fremont County, Colorado Springs Vicinity/Southern El Paso County/Rampart Range Below 7400 Ft, Crowley County, Eastern Las Animas County, La Junta Vicinity/Otero County, Northern El Paso County/Monument Ridge/Rampart Range Below 7500 Ft, Northern Sangre de Cristo Mountains above 11000 Ft, Northern Sangre de Cristo Mountains Between 8500 And 11000 Ft, Northwestern Fremont County Above 8500Ft, Pikes Peak above 11000 Ft, Pueblo Vicinity/Pueblo County Below 6300 Feet, Southern Sangre De Cristo Mountains Above 11000 Ft, Southern Sangre De Cristo Mountains Between 7500 and 11000 Ft, Springfield Vicinity/Baca County, Teller County/Rampart Range above 7500fT/Pike's Peak Between 7500 And 11000 Ft, Trinidad Vicinity/Western Las Animas County Below 7500 Ft, Walsenburg Vicinity/Upper Huerfano River Basin Below 7500 Ft, Western/Central Fremont County Below 8500 Ft, Wet Mountain Valley Below 8500 Ft, Wet Mountains above 10000 Ft, Wet Mountains between 6300 and 10000Ft
- Connecticut - Public Information Statement
Public Information Statement - Northern Fairfield, Northern Middlesex, Northern New Haven, Northern New London, Southern Fairfield, Southern Middlesex, Southern New Haven, Southern New London
- District of Columbia - Record Report
Record Report - District of Columbia
- Florida - Severe Thunderstorm Warning , Flood Warning , Areal Flood Advisory , Coastal Hazard Statement , Special Statement , Public Information Statement
Severe Thunderstorm Warning - Flagler
Flood Warning - Coastal Pasco, Inland Pasco
Areal Flood Advisory - Coastal Lee, Inland Lee
Coastal Hazard Statement - Coastal Bay
Special Statement - Flagler
Public Information Statement - Coastal Volusia County, Indian River, Inland Volusia County, Martin, Northern Brevard County, Northern Lake County, Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola, Seminole, Southern Brevard County, Southern Lake County, St. Lucie
- Georgia - Record Report
Record Report - Burke, Columbia, Lincoln, McDuffie, Richmond
- Idaho - Record Report
Record Report - Big and Little Wood River Region, Cache Valley/Idaho Portion, Caribou Highlands, Central Panhandle Mountains, Coeur d'Alene Area, Eastern Magic Valley, Idaho Palouse, Lewis and Southern Nez Perce Counties, Lewiston Area, Lost River/Pashimeroi, Lower Snake River Plain, Northern Panhandle, Sawtooth Mountains, South Central Highlands, Upper Snake Highlands, Upper Snake River Plain, Wasatch Mountains/Idaho Portion
- Illinois - Heat Advisory , Special Statement
Heat Advisory - Clinton, Madison, Monroe, St. Clair, Washington
Special Statement - Alexander, Edwards, Franklin, Gallatin, Hamilton, Hardin, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Massac, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, Saline, Union, Wabash, Wayne, White, Williamson
- Indiana - Severe Thunderstorm Warning , Severe Thunderstorm Warning , Special Statement , Record Report
Severe Thunderstorm Warning - Allen, Huntington, Wells
Severe Thunderstorm Warning - Whitley
Special Statement - Adams, Allen, Gibson, Huntington, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Vanderburgh, Warrick, Wells, Whitley
Record Report - Dearborn, Fayette, Franklin, Ohio, Ripley, Switzerland, Union, Wayne
- Iowa - Severe Thunderstorm Watch , Record Report , Public Information Statement
Severe Thunderstorm Watch - Harrison, Monona
Record Report - Adair, Adams, Appanoose, Audubon, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Butler, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Cerro Gordo, Clarke, Crawford, Dallas, Davis, Decatur, Emmet, Franklin, Greene, Grundy, Guthrie, Hamilton, Hancock, Hardin, Humboldt, Jasper, Kossuth, Lucas, Madison, Mahaska, Marion, Marshall, Monroe, Palo Alto, Pocahontas, Polk, Poweshiek, Ringgold, Sac, Story, Tama, Taylor, Union, Wapello, Warren, Wayne, Webster, Winnebago, Worth, Wright
Public Information Statement - Allamakee, Chickasaw, Clayton, Fayette, Floyd, Howard, Mitchell, Winneshiek
- Kansas - Heat Advisory , Air Quality Alert , Public Information Statement
Heat Advisory - Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Barton, Bourbon, Brown, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Cowley, Crawford, Dickinson, Doniphan, Douglas, Elk, Ellsworth, Franklin, Geary, Graham, Greenwood, Harper, Harvey, Jackson, Jefferson, Jewell, Johnson, Kingman, Labette, Leavenworth, Lincoln, Linn, Lyon, Marion, Marshall, McPherson, Miami, Mitchell, Montgomery, Morris, Nemaha, Neosho, Norton, Osage, Osborne, Ottawa, Phillips, Pottawatomie, Reno, Republic, Rice, Riley, Rooks, Russell, Saline, Sedgwick, Shawnee, Smith, Sumner, Wabaunsee, Washington, Wilson, Woodson, Wyandotte
Air Quality Alert - Johnson, Leavenworth, Wyandotte
- Kentucky - Flash Flood Watch , Special Statement , Record Report
Flash Flood Watch - Boyd, Carter, Greenup, Lawrence
Special Statement - Ballard, Bath, Bell, Breathitt, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Clay, Crittenden, Daviess, Elliott, Estill, Fleming, Floyd, Fulton, Graves, Harlan, Henderson, Hickman, Hopkins, Jackson, Johnson, Knott, Knox, Laurel, Lee, Leslie, Letcher, Livingston, Lyon, Magoffin, Marshall, Martin, McCracken, McCreary, McLean, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan, Muhlenberg, Owsley, Perry, Pike, Powell, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Rowan, Todd, Trigg, Union, Wayne, Webster, Whitley, Wolfe
Record Report - Bath, Bell, Boone, Bracken, Breathitt, Campbell, Carroll, Clay, Elliott, Estill, Fleming, Floyd, Gallatin, Grant, Harlan, Jackson, Johnson, Kenton, Knott, Knox, Laurel, Lee, Leslie, Letcher, Lewis, Magoffin, Martin, Mason, McCreary, Menifee, Montgomery, Morgan, Owen, Owsley, Pendleton, Perry, Pike, Powell, Pulaski, Robertson, Rockcastle, Rowan, Wayne, Whitley, Wolfe
- Maryland - Record Report
Record Report - Anne Arundel, Calvert, Carroll, Central and Eastern Allegany, Charles, Extreme Western Allegany, Frederick, Harford, Howard, Montgomery, Northern Baltimore, Prince Georges, Southern Baltimore, St. Marys, Washington
- Michigan - Special Statement
Special Statement - Alger, Delta, Northern Schoolcraft, Southern Schoolcraft
- Minnesota - Public Information Statement
Public Information Statement - Clay, Dodge, East Becker, East Marshall, East Otter Tail, East Polk, Fillmore, Grant, Houston, Hubbard, Kittson, Lake Of The Woods, Mahnomen, Mower, Norman, North Beltrami, North Clearwater, Olmsted, Pennington, Red Lake, Roseau, South Beltrami, South Clearwater, Wabasha, Wadena, West Becker, West Marshall, West Otter Tail, West Polk, Wilkin, Winona
- Mississippi - Record Report
Record Report - Alcorn, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Coahoma, De Soto, Itawamba, Lafayette, Lee, Marshall, Monroe, Panola, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Tate, Tippah, Tishomingo, Tunica, Union, Yalobusha
- Missouri - Heat Advisory , Special Statement , Air Quality Alert , Record Report , Public Information Statement
Heat Advisory - Barton, Bates, Benton, Buchanan, Camden, Cass, Cedar, Clay, Clinton, Dade, Dallas, Franklin, Hickory, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, Laclede, Miller, Morgan, Newton, Platte, Polk, Pulaski, St. Charles, St. Clair, St. Louis, St. Louis City, Vernon, Warren
Special Statement - Bollinger, Butler, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Mississippi, New Madrid, Perry, Ripley, Scott, Stoddard, Wayne
Air Quality Alert - Clay, Jackson, Platte
Record Report - Dunklin, Pemiscot
Public Information Statement - Barry, Barton, Benton, Camden, Cedar, Christian, Dade, Dallas, Dent, Douglas, Greene, Hickory, Howell, Jasper, Laclede, Lawrence, Maries, McDonald, Miller, Morgan, Newton, Oregon, Ozark, Phelps, Polk, Pulaski, Shannon, St. Clair, Stone, Taney, Texas, Vernon, Webster, Wright
- Montana - Lake Wind Advisory , Fire Weather Warning , Record Report
Lake Wind Advisory - Central and Southeast Phillips, Central and Southern Valley, Garfield, McCone, Petroleum
Fire Weather Warning - Central and Southern Valley, Custer, Garfield, Northern Rosebud, Petroleum, Southwest Phillips, Treasure
Record Report - Beaverhead, Blaine, Broadwater, Cascade, Central and Southern Lewis and Clark, Chouteau, Eastern Glacier, Eastern Pondera, Eastern Teton, Fergus, Gallatin, Hill, Jefferson, Judith Basin, Liberty, Madison, Meagher, Northern Rocky Mountain Front, Southern Rocky Mountain Front, Toole
- Nebraska - Severe Thunderstorm Watch , Heat Advisory , Special Statement
Severe Thunderstorm Watch - Antelope, Boone, Burt, Cedar, Colfax, Cuming, Dodge, Knox, Madison, Pierce, Platte, Stanton, Thurston, Washington, Wayne
Heat Advisory - Franklin, Harlan, Nuckolls, Thayer, Webster
Special Statement - Boone, Colfax, Cuming, Dodge, Madison, Platte, Stanton
- Nevada - Special Statement , Record Report
Special Statement - Humboldt County, Northeastern Nye County, Northern Elko County, Northern Lander County and Northern Eureka County, Northwestern Nye County, Ruby Mountains and East Humboldt Range, South Central Elko County, Southeastern Elko County, Southern Lander County and Southern Eureka County, Southwest Elko County, White Pine County
Record Report - Esmeralda and Central Nye County, Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Las Vegas Valley, Lincoln County, Northeast Clark County, Sheep Range, Southern Clark County, Spring Mountains-Red Rock Canyon, Western Clark and Southern Nye County
- New Jersey - Public Information Statement
Public Information Statement - Eastern Bergen, Eastern Essex, Eastern Passaic, Eastern Union, Hudson, Western Bergen, Western Essex, Western Passaic, Western Union
- New York - Public Information Statement
Public Information Statement - Bronx, Kings (Brooklyn), New York (Manhattan), Northeast Suffolk, Northern Nassau, Northern Queens, Northern Westchester, Northwest Suffolk, Orange, Putnam, Richmond (Staten Is.), Rockland, Southeast Suffolk, Southern Nassau, Southern Queens, Southern Westchester, Southwest Suffolk
- North Dakota - Flood Warning , Public Information Statement
Flood Warning - Bottineau, McHenry
Public Information Statement - Adams, Barnes, Benson, Billings, Bottineau, Bowman, Burke, Burleigh, Cass, Cavalier, Dickey, Divide, Dunn, Eastern Walsh County, Eddy, Emmons, Foster, Golden Valley, Grand Forks, Grant, Griggs, Hettinger, Kidder, La Moure, Logan, McHenry, McIntosh, McKenzie, McLean, Mercer, Morton, Mountrail, Nelson, Oliver, Pembina, Pierce, Ramsey, Ransom, Renville, Richland, Rolette, Sargent, Sheridan, Sioux, Slope, Stark, Steele, Stutsman, Towner, Traill, Ward, Wells, Western Walsh County, Williams
- Ohio - Severe Thunderstorm Warning , Flash Flood Watch , Special Statement , Record Report
Severe Thunderstorm Warning - Auglaize, Logan, Shelby
Flash Flood Watch - Athens, Gallia, Jackson, Lawrence, Meigs, Morgan, Perry, Vinton, Washington
Special Statement - Auglaize, Defiance, Henry, Mercer, Shelby
Record Report - Adams, Ashland, Ashtabula Inland, Ashtabula Lakeshore, Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clermont, Clinton, Crawford, Cuyahoga, Darke, Delaware, Erie, Fairfield, Fayette, Franklin, Geauga, Greene, Hamilton, Hancock, Hardin, Highland, Hocking, Holmes, Huron, Knox, Lake, Licking, Logan, Lorain, Lucas, Madison, Mahoning, Marion, Medina, Mercer, Miami, Montgomery, Morrow, Ottawa, Pickaway, Pike, Portage, Preble, Richland, Ross, Sandusky, Scioto, Seneca, Shelby, Stark, Summit, Trumbull, Union, Warren, Wayne, Wood, Wyandot
- Oklahoma - Heat Advisory , Excessive Heat Warning
Heat Advisory - Alfalfa, Atoka, Beckham, Blaine, Bryan, Caddo, Canadian, Carter, Choctaw, Cleveland, Coal, Comanche, Cotton, Craig, Creek, Custer, Dewey, Garfield, Garvin, Grady, Grant, Greer, Harmon, Haskell, Hughes, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnston, Kay, Kingfisher, Kiowa, Latimer, Le Flore, Lincoln, Logan, Love, Major, Marshall, Mayes, McClain, McIntosh, Murray, Muskogee, Noble, Nowata, Okfuskee, Oklahoma, Okmulgee, Payne, Pittsburg, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Pushmataha, Roger Mills, Rogers, Seminole, Sequoyah, Stephens, Texas, Tillman, Wagoner, Washington, Washita, Woods, Woodward
- Pennsylvania - Record Report
Record Report - Crawford, Northern Erie, Southern Erie
- South Carolina - Record Report
Record Report - Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Edgefield, Fairfield, Kershaw, Lancaster, Lee, Lexington, McCormick, Newberry, Orangeburg, Richland, Saluda, Sumter
- South Dakota - Wind Advisory
Wind Advisory - Butte, Harding, Northern Meade Co Plains, Perkins, Ziebach
- Tennessee - Record Report
Record Report - Benton, Carroll, Chester, Crockett, Decatur, Dyer, Fayette, Gibson, Hardeman, Hardin, Haywood, Henderson, Henry, Lake, Lauderdale, Madison, McNairy, Obion, Shelby, Tipton, Weakley
- Texas - Heat Advisory , Special Statement
Heat Advisory - Archer, Armstrong, Baylor, Big Bend Area, Clay, Foard, Hansford, Hardeman, Hutchinson, Jim Wells, Kleberg, Knox, Nueces, Ochiltree, Randall, Refugio, Roberts, San Patricio, Terrell, Wichita, Wilbarger
Special Statement - Aransas, Atascosa, Bee, Calhoun, De Witt, Dimmit, Duval, Frio, Goliad, Gonzales, Karnes, La Salle, Lavaca, Live Oak, Maverick, McMullen, Victoria, Webb, Wilson, Zavala
- Utah - Fire Weather Warning
Fire Weather Warning - Central and Southwest Mountains, Sanpete/Sevier Valleys, Southern Wasatch Front, West Central Utah
- Virginia - Flash Flood Watch , Special Statement , Record Report
Flash Flood Watch - Buchanan, Dickenson
Special Statement - Gloucester, King and Queen, King William, Lancaster, Mathews, Middlesex, Northumberland
Record Report - Albemarle, Arlington/Falls Church/Alexandria, Augusta, Clarke, Culpeper, Eastern Highland, Fairfax, Frederick, Greene, King George, Loudoun, Madison, Nelson, Northern Fauquier, Orange, Page, Prince William/Manassas/Manassas Park, Rappahannock, Rockingham, Shenandoah, Southern Fauquier, Spotsylvania, Stafford, Warren, Western Highland
- Washington - Record Report
Record Report - East Slopes Northern Cascades, Lower Garfield and Asotin Counties, Moses Lake Area, Northeast Blue Mountains, Northeast Mountains, Okanogan Highlands, Okanogan Valley, Spokane Area, Upper Columbia Basin, Washington Palouse, Waterville Plateau, Wenatchee Area
- West Virginia - Flash Flood Watch , Record Report
Flash Flood Watch - Barbour, Boone, Braxton, Cabell, Calhoun, Clay, Doddridge, Fayette, Gilmer, Harrison, Jackson, Kanawha, Lewis, Lincoln, Logan, Mason, McDowell, Mingo, Nicholas, Pleasants, Pocahontas, Putnam, Raleigh, Randolph, Ritchie, Roane, Taylor, Tyler, Upshur, Wayne, Webster, Wirt, Wood, Wyoming
Record Report - Berkeley, Eastern Grant, Eastern Mineral, Eastern Pendleton, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson, Morgan, Western Grant, Western Mineral, Western Pendleton
- Wisconsin - Public Information Statement
Public Information Statement - Adams, Buffalo, Clark, Crawford, Grant, Jackson, Juneau, La Crosse, Monroe, Richland, Taylor, Trempealeau, Vernon
- Wyoming - Fire Weather Warning
Fire Weather Warning - East Sweetwater County, Rock Springs and Green River


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Energy Delivery and Storage Basics
Helping secure a clean energy future for the nation and the world isn't just about reducing energy usage or producing clean energy. It is about how energy moves from the power source to the end user. Moving the energy from point A to point B, or storing it at the site where it will be used, are related to using our energy most effectively and wisely.
The demand for electricity is seldom constant over time. Many renewable resources — wind and solar power, for example — are variable, i.e., they are not available all of the time. Storing energy from the renewable source allows supply to more closely match demand. For example, a storage system attached to a wind turbine could store energy captured around the clock — whenever the wind blows — and then dispatch that energy into the higher-priced midday market. And energy storage enables solar electricity to be used both day and night.
Distributed energy (DE) technologies are playing an increasingly important role in the nation's energy portfolio. They can be used to meet base load power, peaking power, backup power, remote power, power quality, as well as cooling and heating needs.
DE refers to a variety of small, modular power-generating technologies that can be combined with energy management and storage systems and used to improve the operation of the electricity delivery system, whether or not those technologies are connected to an electricity grid.
And what's all this buzz about the coming "hydrogen economy"? Hydrogen is the simplest and most abundant element in the universe. It can be produced from a wide variety of domestic resources using a number of different technologies. The element also has very high energy for its weight, but very low energy for its volume, so new technology is needed to store and transport it. Fuel cells harness the chemical energy of hydrogen to generate electricity without combustion or pollution. And fuel cell technology is still in early development, needing improvements in efficiency and durability. Here you'll learn about advanced hydrogen and fuel cell technologies that can eventually reduce our nation's dependence on foreign oil, improve our air quality, and maintain our economic competitiveness.