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I certainly agree with Charles with regards to the use of the correct tags to mark up content in order to achieve the desired visual effect. However I would note that on smaller devices the screens and font rendering technology (such as cleartype on windows powered handheld devices) are really helping to make the finer points of typography render better. Tom On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 06:56:47 -0700, Charles McCathieNevile <email@example.com> wrote: > > I agree with Tom that italics aren't all terrible, and the point that > different levels of emphasis can be useful is a valid one, although in > many cases I don't think people use more than one level. It seems to me > that many of the cases that Jon listed are areas where there is specific > markup available - marking a span as being in another language that is > already a priority 1 requirement in WCAG, using markup like cite and > quote is there as priority 2, ... > > I have a small phone running a partial CSS implementation (Sony Ericsson > - I don't know what their browser is) but have found that italics on it > are like on medium-resolution screens - readable in large sizes (and I > have a zoom feature on the phone) but not as pretty as they are when > printed from true type. > > Which is why I use "avoid" rather than "don't". (Talking about when to > use a size less than the user default for body text, my answer is > "don't"...) > > cheers > > Chaals > > On Tuesday, Oct 7, 2003, at 05:57 US/Pacific, Tom Croucher wrote: > >> >> I am not sure that I agree with some of the assumptions used her. Not >> all italics are particularly detrimental to being able to read text. It >> entirely depends on the font. The reason for having strong and em is >> that they provide different roles. Strong gives more weight (visually >> and semantically) to a word, as oposed to em which is commonly used to >> mark out key points of information. This might seem a subtle >> distinction but it is important. >> >> My two pence, >> >> Tom >> >> On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 13:28:36 +0100, Scarlett Julian (ED) >> <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>>> So my advice would be go with bolding if you need emphasis. >>> >>> Is there a case for doing away with <strong> altogether and having >>> <em> display in bold by default unless specified as different in the >>> css. It strikes me that the distinction, semantically, between <em> >>> and <strong> is becoming rather blurred. >>> >>> Just thinking aloud.. >>> >>> Julian >>> >>> >>>> >>> >>> The information in this email is confidential. The contents may not be >>> disclosed or used by anyone other than the addressee. If you are not >>> the addressee, please tell us by using the reply facility in your >>> email software as soon as possible. Sheffield City Council cannot >>> accept any responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of this >>> message as it has been transmitted over a public network. If you >>> suspect that the message may have been intercepted or amended please >>> tell us as soon as possible. >> >> > -- > Charles McCathieNevile Fundación Sidar > firstname.lastname@example.com http://www.sidar.orgReceived on Tuesday, 7 October 2003 11:01:00 UTC
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The Elves are coming out of the woodwork! When you pilot the "Elvish Predation" deck, you're in control of a massive Elf-producing force. Not only are all twenty-eight creatures in the deck Elves, but many of them, such as Lys Alana Huntmaster and Nath of the Gilt-Leaf, put Elf creature tokens into play. Some of your spells make tokens as well—in fact, Elvish Promenade doubles your number of Elves!
What to do with so many Elves? The easy answer is to pump them up with Imperious Perfect and attack! Alternately, you can use Lys Alana Scarblade to make opposing creatures smaller based on how many Elves you've got, or use Immaculate Magistrate to make your own creatures bigger based on how many Elves you've got. Then attack!
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Answered By: Linda Kern Last Updated: Dec 12, 2016 Views: 89
The Business LibGuide is where I would begin. Click on Articles, and start with ABI/Inform Complete. It will ask for your 6 digit student ID number and the beginning of your email address, for example sjones.
I searched "Delta Air Lines" AND problems. The quotation marks need the company name together, in that order, to make your results more relevant. The AND searches for both terms, "Delta Air Lines" and problems, anywhere in the article.
You could use the same strategy to search "Delta Air Lines" AND management.
Don't limit to full text; some good articles are linked full text, but you won't see them. Do limit by date to either the last 5 or the last 10 years, depending on your assignment instructions. The limiter is in the left side toolbar of the results. I limited to the last 5 years. Using the same toolbar, limit the results to newspapers, trade publications and scholarly journals. Newspapers will include the Wall Street Journal.
Then go back to the LibGuide and click on Business Source Complete. Run the same searches there. You can also try "Delta Air Lines" AND "organizational behavior". Business Source Complete only has a few articles on the latter search, but one is Keeping the Commitment Model in the Air during Turbulent Times: Employee Involvement at Delta Air Lines.
Each database is a unique collection of articles. Between the two databases you will retrieve articles such as The Middle Seat: Delta Sends Its 11,000 Agents to Charm School and Dark Clouds Loom for Airlines Even as Their Profits Take Off.
Also search "Delta Air Lines" AND "department of justice" in the databases. There are ongoing allegations of collusion among the major air lines.
Finally, go back to the LibGuide and choose MarketLine Advantage. Search Delta Air Lines and change the dropdown from All Research to Companies. This very recent report that comes up will include a SWOT analysis, also providing good information.


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Angry Angel
The Angry Angel, which began production this week in Toronto, follows a young woman turned angel, Allison Pyke (Song), who is stuck on Earth and can't seem to do what is required in order to get into heaven. When the love of her life, Patrick (Ricky Mabe), shows up in New York City, it complicates Pyke's journey, as well as frustrates her angel mentor Jason Biggs (Biggs).
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We all knew that Microsoft charges OEMs a considerable amount for licensing Windows Phone. However, what we didn't know was exactly how much that "considerable amount" is. Now, ZTE has come forth and revealed what it is paying Microsoft, and it's a fair bit more than most people had anticipated.
At the UK launch of the ZTE Tania, Santiago Sierra, the Portfolio Manager for ZTE UK, revealed that Microsoft gets as much as $23 to $30 per handset sold. ZTE cited the licensing fee as one of the biggest challenges towards introducing affordable Windows Phone devices. It also explains why so many OEMs are queuing up to release Android handsets, in spite of the tough competition. On paper, Android costs nothing, as the core product is offered by Google for free. However, there are several "hidden charges" associated with releasing Android handsets.
Pretty much every Android handset available in the market ships with Google Apps (Android Market, Gmail, Google Maps, YouTube etc.), which are proprietary and require a licensing fee. Moreover, Microsoft indemnifies OEMs who license Windows Phone 7 against intellectual property infringement issues with the product. By comparison, Android manufacturers have to fend for themselves, which often involves expensive litigation and patent licensing costs. Several Android manufacturers including Samsung and LG pay Microsoft in the range of $3-$6 per device as patent licensing fee. Hardware driver development and testing for Android is also reportedly more expensive for Android than Windows Phone which has a standardized chassis.
These numerous hidden charges definitely add up. However, even after considering all extraneous costs, I would be surprised if Android costs anywhere near what Microsoft is charging the OEMs. Nevertheless, it is possible that ZTE is getting a particularly rough deal as it is a rather small manufacturer. Favored partners and bigger brands like Nokia and HTC probably have a more lucrative arrangement with the Redmond giant.


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Late game threadation
Aaaaaaaand sometimes they slip between authors, and we don't notice until mid-game. Sorry.
Jeff Weaver goodness.
68 Responses to "Late game threadation"
Buckyfan on
March 31st, 2007 3:22 pm
Don't forget Soccer. I just don't get it, at all.
Steve T on
March 31st, 2007 3:24 pm
Soccer is The Beautiful Game. Rugby is probably the most fun game to watch, or Aussie Rules. Hockey is hard for me, because I can't see the puck. Golf is the most boring of all. And I won't watch any "college" sports on principle; I don't care if it's exciting or not.
Thom Jimsen on
March 31st, 2007 3:32 pm
At least have the decency to preface such statements with the words "in my opinion."
dw on
March 31st, 2007 3:33 pm
SMASHCAR is actually kinda fun. It's a 190mph soap opera. And everyone I've known who's actually been to a race says it's a million times better in person with the people and the smells.
Soccer I grew up playing, but it's hard to get into anything other than my EPL team or the World Cup.
But college football… that's where it's at. The NFL is big, boring, and corporate. 31 nearly identical teams in talent and structure… and the Detroit Lions. College football is still all about the pagentry, the love of the game, and the under-the-table money.
dw on
March 31st, 2007 3:35 pm
I'm on Twitter now. This is the both the coolest and stupidest Web 2.0 idea ever. I spend a lot of time thinking it's dumb, and then see how it's really cool, then go back to thinking it dumb.
Steve T on
March 31st, 2007 3:36 pm
Prefacing my remarks with "in my opinion" is tantamount to saying that I think USSM readers are stupid and lack reading comprehension.
Churchill on
March 31st, 2007 3:58 pm
On principle?
Steve T on
March 31st, 2007 4:03 pm
Well, I think big-time college athletics is an utterly corrupt enterprise that perverts the purpose of the university, and destroys the lives of hundreds of thousands of young men, predominantly impoverished minorities, with false promises of riches and glory that are only realized for a tiny number of them, and in the process steals from the real students. But that's just my opinion!
msb on
March 31st, 2007 4:50 pm
I wish somebody around here showed Aussie Rules.
Steve T on
March 31st, 2007 5:15 pm
I think you can watch it on tape delay at Kangaroo and Kiwi, the Aussie and New Zealander pub on Aurora and about 73rd (near Beth's). I think they show it a couple of days after. There's an organized campaign to get Setanta to pick it up, but they're not only not succeeding, they're going backward; last year they dropped even the weekly highlight show. K&K show a lot of rugby too.
When we were in Australia last year, one of the highlights was going to see St. Kilda Saints v. Collingwood Magpies at the Telstra Dome in Melbourne, in the company of an Aussie who very patiently explained what was happening (without which I would have been lost). Great atmosphere, even for a preseason game. My wife appreciated the tiny little shorts — just about the last sport left that has them!
joser on
March 31st, 2007 5:41 pm
I remember back in the 80s, when I was in college, one of the cable channels would show Aussie rules really, really late at night (so it was probably live). I have no idea why they did it, but MTV was playing actual music videos in those days too, so everything on cable was a bit weird. Anyway, between the announcer's thick accents, the unfamiliar terms, and our lack of sobriety, we had no idea what the hell was going on. This did not stop us from drunkenly hypothesizing, particularly when the baffling score with multiple numbers per side was shown. Our favorite theory was that the players were themselves allowed to make up new rules during the game so that you had one score for the creativity of the invented rules themselves and then another for the actual points scored according to those rules. And when the ref did that sharp little karate motion bringing his arms down with index fingers outstretched he was shouting, "That's a good rule!"
Anyway, it kept us amused. Unlike cricket, which was far more baffling and just put us to sleep.
joser on
March 31st, 2007 5:51 pm
Oh, and count me among the "basketball is dull" camp. It's even one of the sports I played a bit as a kid, and I can't watch it. I'll go out of my way to watch a baseball game; if I happen to go into a pub for food and football is on, I'll pay attention; if it's hocky, I might glance up now and again. If it's basketball, I don't even look up — it might as well be the Home Shopping Network or that country music channel. Or Nascar. Heck, I think those golf hilights where they show all the day's best shots are more interesting than the Final Four.
Steve T on
March 31st, 2007 6:16 pm
Joser, you're remembering ESPN in the early days, and the reason they showed Aussie Rules was because they didn't have enough programming. I remember that too, and had about the same reaction. It was interesting to get the lowdown on what's happening from an Aussie. It's actually an interesting game; a bit like rugby with no line, i.e. a total free-for-all. The scoring is similar to our football, six points for a goal, a ball kicked between the taller center posts, and one point for a behind, which is between the outer posts.
DMZ on
March 31st, 2007 6:23 pm
A similar situation now brings us ESPN's coverage of arena football.
colm on
March 31st, 2007 9:56 pm
No props for Gaelic football? (From which Aussie rules is derived)
msb on
March 31st, 2007 10:49 pm
I was so sad when Fox World decided to go All Soccer, All The Time.
How are you supposed to watch the footie grand final? To sing along with "Arise, Australia Fair" while clutching your "Arise, Australia Fair" teatowel? Find out who is the best and fairest?
Evan on
April 1st, 2007 12:26 am
Hockey is hard for me, because I can't see the puck.
Black puck. White ice. I don't really see the problem.
Actually, the trick is to watch the players, not the puck. The puck is against the near boards half the time, anyway, so it's not in your line of sight. Watch the players; that's how you watch hockey.
SMASHCAR is actually kinda fun. It's a 190mph soap opera.
I'll take F1 over NASCAR any day.
Evan on
April 1st, 2007 12:26 am
Or even the WRC.
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Uncertainty surrounding Britain's looming referendum on European Union membership could send the pound slumping further and boost financing costs, the Bank of England warned Tuesday (29 March).
The central bank's Financial Policy Committee (FPC) declared that the risks surrounding the vote represented "the most significant near-term domestic risks to financial stability", echoing recent comments from BoE governor Mark Carney.
Britons are set to vote in a crucial referendum on June 23 to decide whether to back a so-called Brexit – or exit from the European Union.
Uncertainty over the outcome could spark a "further depreciation" in sterling, the FPC warned in minutes from its March meeting, adding it could also adversely affect "the cost and availability of financing for a broad range of UK borrowers".
In late February, the pound had tumbled to a near seven-year low against the dollar on mounting fears that Britain could leave the 28-member EU bloc.
The FPC cautioned on Tuesday that the nation's potential EU withdrawal could "spill over" into the eurozone — and weigh on the currency bloc's growth prospects.
It added that the outlook for Britain's financial stability had "deteriorated" since its previous meeting in November, citing increasing global economic risks and the threat of Brexit.
However, the FPC noted Britain's major banks had passed stress tests designed to show their ability to survive a severe economic shock, such as a sharp drop in sterling or a prolonged recession.
Earlier this month, the Bank of England announced it would make extra cash available to banks around the time of the referendum, in order to help overcome market turbulence and the risk of another credit crunch.
Carney had already warned on March 8 that Britain's departure from the EU would create the "biggest domestic risk" to the nation's financial stability.
During his campaign fro re-election in 2015, British Prime Minister David Cameron promised to renegotiate the UK's relations with the European Union and organise a referendum to decide whether or not Britain should remain in the 28-member bloc.
The British PM said he will campaign for Britain to remain in the EU after a two-day summit in Brussels where he obtained concessions from the 27 other EU leaders to give Britain "special status" in the EU.
But EU leaders had their red lines, and ruled out changing fundamental EU principles, such as the free movement of workers, and a ban on discriminating between workers from different EU states.
The decision on whether to stay or go could have far-reaching consequences for trade, investment and Great Britain's position on the international scene.
The campaign will be bitterly contested in a country with a long tradition of euroscepticism and a hostile right-wing press, with opinion polls showing Britons are almost evenly divided.
- 23 June: Referendum.
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1 Deliver me, O Lord, from evildoers
and protect me from the violent,
2 Who devise evil in their hearts
and stir up strife all the day long.
3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent;
adders poison is under their lips.
4 Keep me, O Lord, from the hands of the wicked;
protect me from the violent
who seek to make me stumble.
5 The proud have laid a snare for me
and spread out a net of cords;
they have set traps along my path.
6 I have said to the Lord, You are my God;
listen, O Lord, to the voice of my supplication.
7 O Lord God, the strength of my salvation,
you have covered my head in the day of battle.
8 Do not grant the desires of the wicked, O Lord,
do not prosper their wicked plans.
9 Let not those who surround me lift up their heads;
let the evil of their own lips fall upon them.
10 Let hot burning coals rain upon them;
let them be cast into the depths, that they rise not again.
11 No slanderer shall prosper on the earth,
and evil shall hunt down the violent to overthrow them.
12 I know that the Lord will bring justice for the oppressed
and maintain the cause of the needy.
13 Surely, the righteous will give thanks to your name,
and the upright shall dwell in your presence.
1 O Lord, I call to you; come to me quickly;
hear my voice when I cry to you.
2 Let my prayer rise before you as incense,
the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
3 Set a watch before my mouth, O Lord,
and guard the door of my lips;
4 Let not my heart incline to any evil thing;
let me not be occupied in wickedness with evildoers,
nor taste the pleasures of their table.
5 Let the righteous smite me in friendly rebuke;
but let not the oil of the unrighteous anoint my head;
for my prayer is continually against their wicked deeds.
6 Let their rulers be overthrown in stony places;
then they may know that my words are sweet.
7 As when a plough turns over the earth in furrows,
let their bones be scattered at the mouth of the Pit.
8 But my eyes are turned to you, Lord God;
in you I take refuge; do not leave me defenceless.
9 Protect me from the snare which they have laid for me
and from the traps of the evildoers.
10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets,
while I pass by in safety.
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Sorry for the lack of posts. I am a doula and photographer and have been either waiting for a birth, attending a birth or editing some beautiful birth pictures. I would love to share the photos but that is a big ole no-no until mom and dad give me the go ahead.
But I am back, with a new obsession. I was cruising around Pintrest (my newest addiction) and found something called Gocco. Picture this little toy looking machine that allows you to make your own screen prints easily! I have wanted to get into screen printing but just haven't had the time to make or buy a screen. I want this.
If you want to see how easy the process is check out the web site www.SaveGocco.com.
The problem I am having is actually finding a machine for sale. A Google shopping search shows that they run anywhere from $150 to over $700. That makes me nervous. Definitely have to do some more research on how to buy one.
The process looks easy enough. Draw your image using a carbon pencil, burn it onto screen using the poison lighbulb and then add ink and press. If anyone has used one of these machines or knows a reputable place to buy one I would love to hear from you!


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Perhaps James Butts and Billy Harkins are not the only two current citizens of Union County, Georgia who own original Gillespie-made rifles. But these two men have been generous in sharing information and pictures with me which they gave permission to publish through this column.
These two are proud owners of tried and true firearms made by descendants of the Gillespie gunmakers of East Fork, North Carolina, and of grandsons of the original John Gillespie, Sr.--John and James A. who migrated to Union County and Harvey who remained in Henderson County, NC. Each (and other Gillespie descendants) plied their gunsmith trade well.
Last week's column told of how James Butts became the privileged owner of a rifle which had been made for his grandfather, Sydney Harshaw. It was made by John Gillespie who migrated to Union County in 1849.
Billy Harkins of V Harkins Road, Blairsville, a carpenter by trade and a gunsmith by avocation and hobby, is the privileged owner of a Gillespie-made "hog" rifle owned by his great, great grandfather, Bill Bowers, who married Sarah ("Sally") Gillespie, daughter of Moses Gillespie.
Billy Harkins also owns a Gillespie-made rifle which was fashioned specifically for a W. W. Carland who lived in the area of Henderson County, NC. Billy Harkins found a date on that long rifle showing it was crafted in 1873. Neither of these rifles is signed, but through extensive research and stories passed down, the current owner has found earmarks to identify Harvey Gillespie as the gunmaker for both rifles.
It sounds easy to say, "Harvey Gillespie made these rifles," even though his signature, other than some characteristic "code" markings, does not appear on either of the rifles now owned by Billy Harkins. You see, there were several named Harvey Gillespie who made guns. One was John Harvey Gillespie (1810-1891), son of William, grandson of John, Sr. and Jane Harvey Gillespie (Jane's maiden name "Harvey" was passed along for generations, as was the custom then).
The Harvey Gillespie whom Billy Harkins believes made the guns he owns was a brother to John R. Gillespie and James A. Gillespie who migrated to Union County in 1849. But their brother, Harvey, remained in North Carolina.
Harvey Gillespie (June 18, 1820-August 19, 1877) was the son of Mathew Gillespie and his wife, Elizabeth Sitton Gillespie, their seventh of twelve children, five sons and seven daughters.
Elizabeth Sitton's father, Phillip Sitton, owned an ironworks located on the South Mills River near present-day Mills River, NC. Nearby on Queen's Creek, Mathew Gillespie set up his gunsmith shop, and all five of his sons, John R., Phillip, Harvey, James A. and Wilson learned the gunsmith trade while working with their father. The son named Harvey (as were the other eleven children of Mathew and Elizabeth Gillespie) was born in Henderson County, NC. Harvey was buried in Henderson County, as was his wife, Sarah Hooper Gillespie.
Billy Harkins is grateful to Vesta Waldroop Byrd who found the old Gillespie-made hog rifle stored in a building at their home. Knowing that the old rifle belonged to Billy Harkins' great grandfather, Bill Bowers,Vesta gave the rifle to Billy. Stories Billy heard in his childhood make the rifle very personal and treasured. One he especially enjoyed hearing was how his grandfather went out into the woods near Owltown Gap where he lived looking for wild turkeys. Bill Bowers found a flock, and giving good aim, shot and killed two turkeys with the same shot. Whether that happened near Thanksgiving or not, we don't know. At any rate, the Bowers family enjoyed a feast of wild turkey with all the fixings.
Billy is amazed at the true aim of both old rifles he owns. As he makes replicas of them, he is careful to get the best materials with which to make his copies and to craft them with precision as did the Gillespie gunmakers of long ago.
"Why did you decide to start making replicas of the rifles?" I asked Billy.
"I appreciate the tedious and precise work the Gillespie and other gunmakers did in crafting their guns. It took skill, patience and perseverance to make them. I am interested in helping to preserve old fire arms and other antiques from the folk art point of view. I enjoy attending gun shows and recently attended the annual show in Lexington, Kentucky. I have been invited to the Museum of Appalachia near Knoxville, Tennessee to show my guns."
Billy Harkins is a carpenter and especially enjoys custom carpentry such as making rails of laurel wood and custom-ordered furniture. Mantels are another of his specialties. "I've crafted and hung several mantels," he said. Toward the end of our conversation, he invited me to call him and come by to see his gunshop, his antique guns, and the replicas he makes. I asked if he would be willing to accommodate other interested persons and he gave me permission to list his telephone number. Just call him in advance at 706-745-9405 for an appointment. He also owns a very old powder horn and hunting bag, as well as the attachment to measure the amount of powder needed for the guns.
On October 19, he took Dennis Glazener of Midlothian, Virginia, author of the book, "The Gillespie Gun Makers of East Fork, NC" (2006), another descendant of the gunmakers of fame, to meet Mr. Odell Plott of Young Harris. Mr. Plott, up in years now, is still alert and active, and related to the Gillespies through marriage. He took Glazener and Billy Harkins to the spot just off Georgia Highway 76 near the Towns/Union line, almost directly in front of Zion Methodist Church, where John and James Gillespie first worked together in their joint gunsmith shop. After the accident with a barrel being loaded on the forge with gunpowder still in it, the brothers went their separate ways. John Gillespie moved closer to Young Harris, to a location on the now Plott Town Road. The house John Gillespie lived in is still standing. A flat spot near the house appears to be the location where his gunshop stood.
I've traced the Gillespies and their descendants through four lengthy columns. My deep gratitude goes to Dennis Glazener, James Butts and Billy Harkins for taking the time through published book, emails, pictures and telephone calls to give rich information about the family who, through several generations, crafted a product of necessity and recreation. These men generously shared their knowledge of the guns and their makers with me I feel almost as if I have walked in the footsteps of the John Gillespies, James, Harvey and others. Dennis Glazener and Billy Harkins have learned to build replicas of the famous guns. All, including James Butts, appreciate the guns that have lasted far longer than a century. They save the real implements. I like to think I save a portion of this rich heritage through words.
c 2006 by Ethelene Dyer Jones; published Oct. 26, 2006 in The Union Sentinel, Blairsville, GA. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.


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Away from the sky, this can refer to a dazzling victory (e.g. win of a rank-and-file wrestler over the grand champion), or be the Japanese surname Kinboshi.
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(1) dazzling victory; (2) {sumo} win of a rank-and-file wrestler over the grand champion; (noun - becomes adjective with の) Venus (planet); (surname) Kinboshi; (given name) Kinsei; (surname) Kanaboshi; (female given name) Akari
Śukra, the planet Venus.
太白星see styles
| tài bái xīng / tai4 bai2 xing1
t`ai pai hsing / tai pai hsing
taihakusei / taihakuse / たいはくせい
Venus (planet)
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(See 金星・きんせい) Venus (planet)
ヴィーナスsee styles
|riinasu / rinasu / ヴィーナス
(1) Venus (Roman goddess); (2) Venus (planet); (person) Venus
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媊see styles
| qián / qian2
ch`ien / chien
启明see styles
| qǐ míng / qi3 ming2
ch`i ming / chi ming
太白see styles
| tài bái / tai4 bai2
t`ai pai / tai pai
taihaku / たいはく
(1) (abbreviation) (See 太白星) Venus (planet); (2) thick silk thread; (3) refined sugar; (4) (abbreviation) (See 太白飴) white rice jelly; (5) variety of sweet potato; (female given name) Takiyo; (f,p) Taihaku; (surname) Ooshiro
明星see styles
| míng xīng / ming2 xing1
ming hsing
myoujou / myojo / みょうじょう
(1) (See 金星・きんせい) morning star; Venus; (2) preeminent person (within their own field); star (of the stage, silver screen, etc.); (surname) Meisei; (personal name) Miyoujou; (surname) Myousei; (place-name, surname) Myoujou; (female given name) Miho; (female given name) Sayaka; (surname, female given name) Akeboshi; (surname) Akehoshi; (surname) Akiboshi; (surname) Akihoshi; (female given name) Akiho; (surname) Akisei; (female given name) Akise; (female given name) Akiji; (surname, female given name) Akari; (surname) Akaboshi; (surname) Akahoshi
Venus; 太白 and the 天子 deva-prince who dwells in that planet; but it is also said to be Aruṇa, which indicates the Dawn.
长庚see styles
| cháng gēng / chang2 geng1
ch`ang keng / chang keng
天童山see styles
| tiān tóng shān / tian1 tong2 shan1
t`ien t`ung shan / tien tung shan
tendouzan / tendozan / てんどうざん
天潼山 A famous group of monasteries in the mountains near Ningpo, also called 太白山 Venus planet mountain; this is one of the five famous mountains of China; Tiantong Shan
戌羯罗see styles
| xū jié luō / xu1 jie2 luo1
hsü chieh lo
乌沙斯see styles
| wū shā sī / wu1 sha1 si1
wu sha ssu
ウェヌスsee styles
|wenusu / ウェヌス
ビーナスsee styles
|biinasu / binasu / ビーナス
ビーナス;ヴィーナス;ウェヌスsee styles
|biinasu;riinasu;wenusu / binasu;rinasu;wenusu / ビーナス;ヴィーナス;ウェヌス
|(1) (See アプロディーテー) Venus (Roman goddess); (2) {astron} (See 金星・きんせい) Venus (planet)
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|Romaji(Romanized Japanese)
|Various forms of Romanized Chinese
|Planet Venus
|tài bái xīng
tai4 bai2 xing1
tai bai xing
|t`ai pai hsing
tai pai hsing
|wéi nà sī
wei2 na4 si1
wei na si
|wei na ssu
Gold Star
|kinboshi / kinsei
|jīn xīng / jin1 xing1 / jin xing / jinxing
|chin hsing / chinhsing
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In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese.
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All of our calligraphy wall scrolls are handmade.
When the calligrapher finishes creating your artwork, it is taken to my art mounting workshop in Beijing where a wall scroll is made by hand from a combination of silk, rice paper, and wood.
After we create your wall scroll, it takes at least two weeks for air mail delivery from Beijing to you.
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Professional calligraphers are getting to be hard to find these days.
Instead of drawing characters by hand, the new generation in China merely type roman letters into their computer keyboards and pick the character that they want from a list that pops up.
There is some fear that true Chinese calligraphy may become a lost art in the coming years. Many art institutes in China are now promoting calligraphy programs in hopes of keeping this unique form of art alive.
Even with the teachings of a top-ranked calligrapher in China, my calligraphy will never be good enough to sell. I will leave that to the experts.
The same calligrapher who gave me those lessons also attracted a crowd of thousands and a TV crew as he created characters over 6-feet high. He happens to be ranked as one of the top 100 calligraphers in all of China. He is also one of very few that would actually attempt such a feat.
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Resurrection Lutheran Church donates $4,941 to Des Moines Police Foundation
This past Sunday (Oct. 9), Resurrection Lutheran Church presented Chaplain Lou Cox of the Des Moines Police with a check for $4,941.11 to benefit the police department's Chaplains' Fund.
This fund is used to help victims of domestic violence who need to be removed from a dangerous environment and given temporary shelter and supplies (see video below).
The members of Resurrection are committed to helping in the community by donating their time and a portion of their offerings to local organizations that are helping those in need. In addition to the Chaplains Fund a donation of $4464.69 was given to the Des Moines Food Bank in May. Members have served at the Des Moines food bank and at various events such as Brews and Blues, Des Moines Waterland Festival and the Back to School Fair.
In August the Church hosted a Block Party for its neighbors with food, music and a big toy for the kids. The church is also a designated Red Cross Emergency Shelter in the event of a natural disaster.
For more information on the church:
Website: http://www.resurrection-lcms.org/
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Address: 134 S 206th St., Des Moines WA 98198
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On Monday, January 30, the District of Columbia City Council is scheduled to hold a public hearing on Bill 19-614, the Firearms Amendment Act of 2011. This hearing will be held at 11:00 a.m. in the Council Chamber of the John A. Wilson Building.
As it has become clear that lawfully armed citizens do not increase crime in D.C., Bill 19-614 is an important step in moving the District toward a more reasonable approach. The NRA supports the following provisions of the bill that will facilitate the lawful exercise of Second Amendment rights by residents of the District of Columbia:
- Authorizing temporary possession of firearms by students in firearms safety and training courses, and transportation of firearms to and from such courses;
- Authorizing firearm registration by persons convicted of minor, non-violent firearms-related misdemeanors more than five years before the time of application;
- Elimination of the vision testing requirement. In fact, even legally blind people routinely use assistive technology to hunt with firearms and engage in competitive shooting, and in a number of cases have been able to use firearms effectively in self-defense.
- Acceptance of military training, or of the possession of a state firearms license for which comparable training was required, to satisfy the District's mandatory training requirement.
- Repeal of the requirement that handguns undergo a "ballistics identification procedure"—a requirement imposed by only four states, with a dismal track record of success. The Maryland State Police recommended that state's "ballistic imaging" law be repealed because of its "failure … to provide any meaningful hits" in its first four years of operation. And just this year, New York's Governor, Andrew Cuomo—a strong supporter of gun control—also proposed eliminating his state's system because it "has been costly and has helped solve too few crimes."
- Requiring the Metropolitan Police, rather than registration applicants, to take photographs for use in the application process.
However, while all of these changes are welcome steps in the right direction, they do not go nearly far enough in respecting District residents' Second Amendment rights. Please come out and show your support for the Second Amendment and urge council members to support any improvement in the Districts gun laws.


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Winsted City Council Minutes
Present: Floyd Sneer, Bob Kegler, Jeff Albers, Tom Wiemiller, Gary Lenz Staff: Aaron Reeves, Betty Zachmann Absent: Attorney Eggert
Mayor called the meeting to order.
Wiemiller motioned to approve the minutes of March 2, 1999, with the correction of names, that being: "Change name of Gary Schott to Mike Larson," Kegler seconded, unanimously carried.
After review of Job Descriptions, Albers motioned to approve and accept the Job Descriptions of the Police Dept. and Maintenance Dept., including normal working hours, Lenz seconded, unanimously carried.
Mike Larson, Police Officer, requested the City Council postpone any decision of the allowance of excercise equipment until the next meeting.
It was noted by Council member Albers that those requests should have followed proper protocol, and that the local private school would be interested in having the equipment and allowing use, and directed Larson to communicate with the school before the next meeting.
It was noted the City will inspect all of its bleachers, using the criteria given by the league of Minn. Cities, and that any adjustments to comply with new State law, will be made by the City.
Lenz motioned to adopt Resolution No. 303-03-16-99, Repealing and abolishing the Minn. Sale Tax for Cities, Kegler seconded, unanimously carried.
Reeves reported that he had been successful in obtaining several grants for the continuing of the Business Retention Program for the City of Winsted
This program will provide in depth assistance to local Businesses and a means of training and technical assistance to make their economy more vibrant. Lenz motioned to continue forward with the program and enter into an agreement with the Univ. of Minn. Extension Service, with the cost of $1,500.00 to the City, Wiemiller seconded unanimously carried.
Kegler motioned to participate in costs of the continuance of the Senior Nutrition Site in the amount of $900.00, in two payments, Lenz seconded, unanimously carried.
The Fire Dept. had requested to purchase a Generator from the DNR, after discussion, Lenz motioned to approve the purchase of the Generator in the amount of $300.00, Wiemiller seconded, unanimously carried.
Albers motioned to approve $500.00 to the Winsted Fire Dept. to provide purchases for the Open House to be held on May 1st, Wiemiller seconded, unanimously carried.
Kegler motioned to pay the following bills:
Checks. 9139-9201 $36,834.68
Payroll 2944-2957 $9,621.73
Fire Dept. 3123-3131 $1,573.48
Lenz seconded, unanimously carried.
Wiemiller motioned to adjourn, Albers seconded, unanimously carried.
Betty Zachmann, City Clerk-Treasurer
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I think at the start of the year I said something about not being in as many races. I know for sure I made a point of avoiding summer races. I remember the Warrior Dash in mid-July and how unbearably hot it was. And I recall the Uxbridge Mudnewton and how awful the heat was there too. I pledged I was going to not race in the summer heat unless completely necessary this year.
I guess, so far I have done three races, the KMs for Care, my own WCP Race Weekend and The O Course. I was about to type that bit and say I had only done one race, but I might actually be on my way to doing the most races I have ever done in a year.
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Ask about the Gabor sisters and most people—most people over 40, that is—will conjure a handful of significant facts:
They called everyone "dahling" (or, as it is sometimes denoted in efforts to capture their luxuriant Hungarian accents, "dahlink").
They liked diamonds and got married a lot.
Zsa Zsa went to jail for slapping a Beverly Hills police officer.
Eva was the one on Green Acres.
And wasn't there a third sister whose name was…Zeppo?
Magda. Her name was Magda. She was the trio's Marvin Bush, or, more aptly, its Kate Jackson—brainy, less flashy, and, some claim, the real beauty.
There is so much more to say. A new coffee-table book on the subject, Gaborabilia, by Anthony Turtu and Donald F. Reuter, may even herald a revival. But before we can give the Gabors, daughters of glittering pre-war Budapest, their proper due as pioneering feminists and founding mothers of postmodern American celebrity, it must be acknowledged that, like the origin of life or the nature of evil, they remain in many senses unfathomable. Their birth dates, for instance. The truth may still be locked in some dusty Magyar hall of records—and who has the energy for that?
Zsa Zsa, the last surviving sister, has offered only suspect testimony on the matter. In 1982, "tired unto tears of having her age reported as being anywhere from 49 to 63," as The New York Times put it, she made a show of releasing a copy of her birth certificate, which had supposedly been smuggled out of what was then Communist Hungary and which gave her birth date as February 6, 1928. But, as Peter H. Brown points out in his 1985 book, Such Devoted Sisters: Those Fabulous Gabors, as definitive a text as we are likely to have on the subject, "to accept the '1928 theory' creates laughable circumstances. It would mean that she was married for the first time at about eight and that she was about fourteen when she wed Conrad Hilton," the 54-year-old hotel-chain founder who became her second husband in 1942. When this was pointed out to her, Zsa Zsa explained, somewhat gallantly (not wanting to implicate anyone in pederasty), "Conrad made me promise to never, never reveal my true age. And I haven't."
The second sentence is no doubt true. Her two autobiographies fudge the issue. Brown writes that "many Gabor experts" place her birth in 1920, the date he himself seems to favor. That would make Zsa Zsa 81 this year.
But who's counting? As Zsa Zsa herself once wrote, "What woman is ever 50 years old?" That is not an idle question, for age, even more than opposing divorce counsel, was the Gabors' one genuine enemy, the only predator they truly feared. But their way was not to fret over accumulating years like some commonplace cow of a dieter stepping gingerly onto a scale—at least not in public. No, the Gabor way was to face the music sideways, to celebrate your birthday at the Stork Club posing for photographers between your two sisters, a bowling-ball rack's worth of décolletage looming pendulously over a cake decorated with candles in the shape of a question mark.
"I used to say that the only way you could tell the true age of a Gabor was by the rungs around their gums," says Cindy Adams, the gossip columnist who has known the family for four decades. "It was all revisionist history. Were they blonde? No. Did they have those noses? No.… But you knew it. That was the difference. You weren't looking for the truth. You knew there was none." In that, the Gabors were nothing if not all-American, as confected as Jay Gatsby or Ralph Lauren.
"They were cotton candy," says Adams.
Though they started out in the U.S. in the 1940s as émigré Hungarian nobodies, and though their careers in show business wouldn't take off until—not coincidentally—the advent of television, the Gabor sisters had been renowned virtually from pubescence as beauties, as clotheshorses, as seductresses, as girls who knew how to work a man. "Every age has its Madame Pompadour, its Lady Hamilton, its Queen of Sheba, its Cleopatra," Zsa Zsa's third husband, the actor George Sanders (who won an Oscar for his role as Addison De Witt, the mordant critic in All About Eve), wrote in his book, Memoirs of a Professional Cad. "I wouldn't be surprised," he continued, "if history singles out Zsa Zsa as the twentieth-century prototype of this exclusive coterie." Senator John F. Kennedy once fumbled to explain her allure to Walter Winchell: "It is hard to put her excitement into words. Just taking her to dinner is sensually fulfilling." It had better have been, since Zsa Zsa has claimed she declined to sleep with him.
The mother, Jolie (who we know was born at some point after the Crimean War), had herself been an aspiring actress; instead she married a major in the Hungarian Army who provided his family with a life of haut bourgeois comfort. Their three daughters were born in close succession: Magda followed by Zsa Zsa (whose birth name was Sari) followed by Eva. Then, with nursery fully stocked, Jolie began to make noises about finally pursuing a stage career. Her husband laughed at her: "You cannot be an actress now. Now you are too old." This was her Scarlett-O'Hara-and-the-turnip moment: "I looked at my beautiful daughters and decided, for good or bad, to live through them."
Not that the sisters became great actresses, but they had their assets. "They were blonder than anyone," says Cindy Adams (to whom Jolie's autobiography, Jolie Gabor, was "told"). "They wore jewelry larger than anyone. They had these wonderful accents which they all but went to teachers to make sure they didn't lose." They also had a kind of glamour that just doesn't exist anymore. They looked like money—or, more to the point, they looked like men spent money on them. Some younger celebrities can still pull this off—Catherine Zeta-Jones and Jennifer Lopez come to mind—but the Gabors weren't just playing at glamour or striking an attitude. They lived it.
They were also wits, at least within the narrow rows they hoed. "How many husbands have I had—you mean apart from my own?" Zsa Zsa famously remarked at a press conference. "Fundamentally," Eva once noted, "the major thing that divides the European male from the American male is the Atlantic Ocean." Her best line, however, was unintentional. "Do I know you?" she asked a man who greeted her in an elevator. "Yes," he replied, he being Dr. John Williams, a Beverley Hills plastic surgeon. "I was your third husband." It was an understandable mistake: the marriage had lasted only six months.
Alas, there aren't a lot of Magda sayings in the literature. She dabbled in the stage as her sisters' careers took off, and married with the same gusto—six trips down the aisle, versus nine for Zsa Zsa and Eva's paltry five—but from the mid-50s onward Magda devoted most of her professional energies to being a hostess in Palm Springs and the Hamptons. For the other two, however, especially Zsa Zsa, celebrity itself was their avocation. They may even have been the first public figures of whom it was observed, as the gossip columnist Elsa Maxwell did in 1952—and this is when they hadn't yet become caricatures of themselves, the "gabbling Gabors," filling afternoon hours in the 60s and 70s for Merv and Mike and Dinah, lighting candles against the darkness of dead air—that they were "famous for being famous." So much so that Oscar Hammerstein II rhymed "Zsa Zsa Gabor" with "nuclear war" in a number listing the absurdities of American life, from the 1958 musical Flower Drum Song.
"They were so beautiful, they were so outrageous," says Merv Griffin, struggling to explain their hold on the public. He not only had Zsa Zsa and Eva on his talk show countless times but was also a constant companion of Eva's for more than a dozen years, though the two never married. "I used to kid Eva all the time," he remembers. "I'd say, 'For God's sake, would you go to the locution teacher and clear up that whole accent of yours?' And she'd say, 'Oh, dahling, it's my whole life, it's my business."
"They said things, Zsa Zsa and Eva, that any American woman living an ordinary life would have loved to have said," says Mike Douglas. From a host's perspective, there was also a practical reason the sisters were so popular: "They were what I call self-starters," says Douglas. "'How's everything, Eva?' 'How's everything, Zsa Zsa?' And they were off."
During the years when the two sisters were ubiquitous on television—Zsa Zsa often bringing along one of her beloved Shih Tzus or Lhasa Apsos—it was considered a mark of Dick Cavett's urbane good taste that he never booked them on his own talk show. But he had been a talent coordinator and writer for Jack Paar, who had the Gabors on numerous times when he hosted The Tonight Show, between 1957 and 1962; Cavett also co-starred with Zsa Zsa in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors. He was, and is, an admirer of sorts: "I remember in the Paar days the general feeling was 'Oh God, the Gabors are boring.' But the studio audience, when Zsa Zsa in particular would walk out, it was as if some great patriotic float of a battleship had come into view in a parade. They just roared at the sight of her." So what accounted for the public's fascination? "I don't know. I think they must have wondered was there more to them than just their alleged talents? … Because the question arose, What in the hell are these women famous for?"
That is a uniquely modern conundrum, a result of the echo-chamber nature of the communications industry, and of its geometrically increasing hunger for what we now call content. Not that the Gabors weren't accomplished in arts more traditional than simply feeding the electronic maw: Zsa Zsa made a total of 44 films and Eva 28; they both appeared on Broadway and as headliners in Las Vegas. But can you name any of their movies (aside from A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors)? Have you read their books? (Eva's 1954 memoir, Orchids and Salami, was named for what she said were generally the sole contents of her refrigerator.) Elizabeth Taylor has married nearly as many times as Zsa Zsa, and was given bigger diamonds, and yet some dusty fold in our brains still stirs and makes the connection: Elizabeth Taylor = actress. A Place in the Sun. Butterfield 8. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Eva did have Green Acres to her credit, the 1960s sitcom about Park Avenue nobs who move to the sticks; it lasted for six seasons on CBS. For this she will always have a place on TV Land and in baby-boomers' hearts. But Eva was hindered by the fact that she actually wanted to be known as an actress, a good one. Zsa Zsa, the brasher sister, the bigger lollapalooza, just wanted to be known, and that proved to be her genius.
In case you're wondering, there is no shame in confusing Zsa Zsa and Eva. "They look the same, sound the same, and act the same," Jolie said in her memoir. "They are often mistaken for each other and both hate it. Even I mix them up." Naturally, this led to a rivalry between the two, both in public and in private. (They began to look even more alike at some point in the late 40s or early 50s when their noses, judging from pictorial evidence, mysteriously grew less broad and more perky.) One often told anecdote has Eva, in her later years, being spotted by a telephone lineman while she was swimming nude in the backyard of her Beverley Hills home. "Good morning, Eva," the lineman supposedly said. "No, dahling," she replied with stealth cattiness. "It's Zsa Zsa." On the other hand, one of her co-stars on Green Acres once remarked, having seen Zsa Zsa the night before on a talk show, "You know, Miss Gabor, in a certain bad light Zsa Zsa looks like … Jack Palance." This was probably intended as a harmless bit of workplace sucking-up, but Eva reportedly snapped, "Don't you ever criticize my sister again—ever!" As Jolie wrote, "When any of us is in trouble we are a team; we close ranks."
Jolie was by all accounts an exacting task-mistress. As Zsa Zsa once complained, "It was not enough for us to be simply beautiful. We had to be the most beautiful. It was never enough for us to be chic. We had to be the most fashionable. Our goals remained constantly out of reach." Jolie's own book offers even more pointed testimony to her parenting style: "I was on Fifth Avenue [recently] looking very young in an antelope pants suit from Paris with suede boots and lush furs and Magda, who was then very fat, shouted at me, 'Mother … Mother … ' I was so ashamed because she looked so fat. I said, 'Now, look here, Magduska, you must lose weight because when you are thirty pounds too heavy and you call me "mother," you put on me another ten years!'" To the end of her life, her daughters would seek her approval. "Mama ruled the roost and they were terrified of her," says Merv Griffin. "She was a wonderful old lady," he explains, "but crazed."
"She was the smart one, really," says Francesca Hilton, the daughter of Zsa Zsa and Conrad Hilton—the only issue of a Gabor sister.
"From the time they were girls their mother had taught them to always be very conscious of her appearance," says Kevin Sasaki, a publicist who worked with Eva for the last dozen or so years of her life. "Eva never left the house without full hair and makeup. That was something you just didn't see. Even when people came to the door with messages or packages, I don't think she answered unless she was properly put together."
Ask Francesca Hilton if she ever saw her mother come down for breakfast in an old bathroom and fuzzy slippers. "Come down for breakfast?! She had breakfast in bed! And I was usually in school by then anyway…"
It is important to make a distinction between beauty and glamour. Beauty is luck. Glamour is an art form. The sisters knew what worked for them: cantilevered hair, pipe-cleaner eyelashes, feathers, diamonds, and bosoms displayed with all the care one would lavish on a Titian—a look that they never really altered after the mid-60s. They weren't chameleonlike, "says Sasaki. "You never saw Eva with a new hairstyle, you never saw her totally follow a new trend. She did the same style of makeup for 30 years."
"When the rest of the celebrities went into the natural look," Griffin remembers, "they were disgusted by that."
Eva was the first Gabor to immigrate to the U.S., arriving in Hollywood in 1939 with her first husband, a Swedish osteopath. Determined to become a movie star, she quickly landed a contract with Paramount, but whiled away the next decade in bit parts and B movies such as 1949's Love Island, in which she wore a dark wig and played probably the only Balinese temptress in movie history with a Hungarian accent. (The ads billed her as "luscious Eva Gabor.") Zsa Zsa made it to the U.S. in 1941 by way of Turkey. Her first husband had been a Turkish diplomat twice her age whom she had met in Budapest, though she claims she lost her virginity in Ankara to Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the modern Turkish nation, who is that country's George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Warren Beatty rolled into one. "He dazzled me with his sexual prowess and seduced me with his perversion," she writes in her second autobiography, One Lifetime Is Not Enough. But on arrival in Southern California, she quickly cultivated American tastes, marrying Conrad Hilton, the Texan whom she had met at Ciro's, the now vanished Sunset Strip nightclub, a few months after disembarkation.
Magda and Jolie, along with the girls' father, Vilmos, whom Jolie had divorced in 1939, made it to the U.S. after the war, having fled both the Nazis and the Russian Army by way of Portugal. Magda, though married to a Polish count, had been having an affair with the Portuguese ambassador to Hungary; it was under his auspices that the family, which was partly Jewish, had been spirited out of the country. (The girls' grandparents and other family members were killed by the Nazis.) Safely settled in America, and having divorced her count, Magda married a screenwriter named William Rankin, whose story credits included Love in a Bungalow (1937) and Hi, Beautiful (1944). This relationship lasted a matter of months. Magda then set her sights on bigger game, eventually bagging a financier. Her fifth husband would be the man who was Zsa Zsa's third: George Sanders. That lasted six weeks. Jolie herself married twice more while opening successful costume-jewelry stores on Madison Avenue and in Palm Beach. And if it all sounds like the preamble to a math problem, imagine what it was like to live.
The turning point in Eva's career came in 1950 with her appearance on Broadway as a flirty maid in the hit play The Happy Time. Her positive notices in this "folksy comedy" landed her on the cover of Life. Zsa Zsa's professional life, meanwhile, had been virtually nonexistent—depending, that is, on what one considers her profession to be. She made her first noise in show business in 1951 with an appearance as a last-minute substitute on a Los Angeles panel show, Bachelor's Haven, on which the wives of celebrities dispensed romantic advice. Zsa Zsa showed up at the studio in a black Balenciaga gown. On air, one of the hosts whistled at her diamond bracelet and 20-carat solitaire ring. "Oh, dahling," she cooed, "these are just my working diamonds." In the space of an ad-lib, she had found her calling, or rather, her persona—or actually both, since for Zsa Zsa calling and persona were one and the same. The producers offered her a long-term contract on the spot. Within two weeks she had a part in the MGM musical Lovely to Look At. She made the cover of Life, too.
The Gabor filmographies are not in need of re-evaluation. Eva's reveals a game performer with a wholesome, even cheerful sensuality that can undercut the Continental sophistication that was supposedly her calling card—she can come across like Sally Field doing a party impression of Marlene Dietrich. You can see the effort. She was probably at her best on television in Green Acres, playing a cross between Gracie Allen and herself.
You wouldn't really say that Zsa Zsa holds the screen in Lovely to Look At, released in 1952, though she's certainly vivacious. John Huston, the director of her third film, Moulin Rouge, also released in 1952, set the tenor for her movie career when, after struggling to get a performance out of her, he finally gave in and commanded, "Zsa Zsa, forget about acting. Just make love to the camera." Her big entrance in that film is made as she descends a staircase while lip-synching badly and wearing a big white hat that makes her face look like the yolk in a fried egg. She gazes straight into the camera, waggles her eyebrows, and looks to be having a hell of a time. She's figuratively winking at us—It's me, dahlings—sending herself up and selling herself at the same time. It's that quality that makes her seem so contemporary. Drag queens don't generally do Zsa Zsa because she's in on the joke—she's doing Zsa Zsa. "I'm a very serious person," she told The New Yorker in 1960. "I couldn't have built up this idiotic image of myself all these years if I hadn't been serious."
Madonna's debt to Marilyn Monroe has often been remarked upon, but rarely if ever has her perhaps even greater debt to Zsa Zsa, and to a lesser extent Eva, been acknowledged. Like Monroe, both Zsa Zsa and Eva presented exaggerations of 50s and early-60s femininity, but unlike Monroe there was nothing in the least vulnerable about them. With their multiple marriages and many affairs—Zsa Zsa most notoriously with the equinely endowed Dominican playboy Porfirio Rubirosa, Eva with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Tyrone Power, and Glenn Ford—the Gabors made no bones about their own needs. To put it squarely, they liked sex. Discarding husbands as casually as expired credit cards, the sisters were female counterparts to Hugh Hefner, that other iconic forerunner of the sexual revolution. The Gabor philosophy may be antithetical to traditional feminism—the sisters were contemptuous of the moment—but surely, on their own terms, they were self-actualized. They only looked kept. "My mother always used to tell me, 'Let the man think he's the boss,'" says Francesca Hilton, who makes an interesting Freudian slip while explaining Zsa Zsa's emotional makeup: "I think she loved her animals as much as her dogs—I mean husbands."
Cindy Adams first met the family when Zsa Zsa and Adams's late husband, the comedian Joey Adams, were doing an act together in Las Vegas. One night, Joey noticed Zsa Zsa was distracted onstage. "After the show he said, 'What the hell is it with you?' And she said, 'I'm madly in love.' Who was it? It was the headwaiter. A Greek headwaiter with a big palm. He must have had something else big. But he was just a headwaiter, and she says, 'That bastard. I am so angry vit him I cannot concentrate on the act.' So Joey says, 'What are you mad about?' She says, 'Son of a bitch! I don't mind going to bed vit him, but he vants to be seen vit me now in PUBLIC! Can you imagine?! A head-VAITER!'"
Eva, the youngest, was the first to die—of respiratory failure—in 1995; her grave is marked in Pierce Brothers Westwood Memorial Park by a headstone with no birth date on it—a Gabor to the end. Magda had had a stroke in 1966 that confined her to a wheelchair and left her with a limited vocabulary (according to Griffin, "The only word she could say was 'superb'"); she died in 1997 of kidney failure. Jolie outlived only one of her daughters, passing away two months before Magda. Her epitaph might be the penultimate sentence from her autobiography: "There are no wrinkles on the heart."
Zsa Zsa has become something of a recluse in the years since, rarely venturing from her home in Bel Air, where she lives with her ninth husband, an alleged member of the German aristocracy named Prince Frederick von Anhalt. Zsa Zsa didn't so much decline to be interviewed for this article as avoid it, putting off a number of schedules conversations and, in the end, simple hanging up the telephone. "She's been very quiet and doesn't see anybody," says Griffin. "She said to me, 'Why am I still here?' She said, 'There's no need for me here.' And I said, 'Oh, for God's sake.'" Perhaps the real marriage, the most enduring union, had been among Zsa Zsa, Magda, Eva, and Jolie.
"They were early divas," says Francesca Hilton, referencing the current show-business cliché. "It's funny, I met Courtney Love the other day at the market. I was getting her autograph for my stepdaughter, and I told her my mother is Zsa Zsa Gabor. She said, 'Oh my God! How cool is that?'"
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Town of Salem is a fresh innovation on the classic party games Mafia and Werewolf. It is a game of murder, accusations, deceit and mob hysteria.
Town of Salem takes place in the era of the Salem witch trials in an alternate universe version of Salem, MA.
How To Play
The game ranges from 7 to 15 players. These players are randomly divided into alignments - Town, Mafia, Serial Killers, Arsonists and Neutrals. If you are a Town member (the good guys) you must track down the Mafia and other villains before they kill you. The catch? You don't know who is a Town member and who is a villain.
If you are an evil role, such as a Serial Killer, you secretly murder town members in the veil of night and try to avoid getting caught.
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Town of Salem has 29 unique roles ensuring a different experience each time you play.
Before a game starts, players are put into a lobby where the host can select what roles will be in the game. Players are then assigned roles at random from the list of chosen roles. Players have an in-game role card that explains their role's abilities and alignments. For an in-depth look at the abilities of each role please visit: www.blankmediagames.com/roles
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The night phase is when most roles use their abilities. For example, Serial Killers stealthily murder people, Doctors heal people who are attacked, and Sheriffs interrogate people for suspicious activity.
The day phase allows the Town members to discuss who they suspect of being an evil role. Once the voting phase starts a majority vote from the town will put someone on trial.
The defense phase is when you plead your innocence to the town. Have a convincing story or find yourself facing the gallows!
During this phase the town will vote on the fate of the defendant. Players can vote guilty, innocent or abstain. If there are more guilty votes than innocent votes the defendant is sentenced to death by hanging!
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Town of Salem is a browser game that currently uses the Facebook API to have players log in so their achievements can be saved. In the future, Facebook integration will be completely optional. You can play Town of Salem from any computer and still have all of your characters, houses, maps, items and achievements.
Players are able to choose their own map (town setting), character, items, house and a custom name. The other players in the game will see your chosen character, house and name. As the game grows we will add many more cool maps, characters and houses. There are currently, 4 maps (1 is exclusive to Kickstarter), 6 characters (1 is exclusive to Kickstarter) and 6 houses (1 is exclusive to Kickstarter) to choose from.
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We have gotten a lot of support and interest from the YouTube community. They are awesome so check out some footage of them playing our game. :D
About Us
We are a small team of game enthusiasts that consists of two programmers, two artists (one focusing on UI and characters, the other on backgrounds and houses) and one sound designer. We are spread across the globe but united by our passion for gaming. We want to bring the fun of playing party games like Mafia and Werewolf into a video game that can be played with friends easily online. Sometimes it isn't easy to get 15 people to meet at your house for a game!
Future Features
We have spent the last year and a half creating Town of Salem out of our own pockets and unfortunately we can't finish this project without your help. We have more features in progress that we feel are core to enhancing the game play experience of Town of Salem.
These features consist of:
- Achievement Browser - View all of your cool achievements.
- Playing With Friends - Use the optional Facebook login to invite Facebook friends to play with you.
- Tutorial System - Learn the game while playing with AI.
- Pet system - Have pets follow your character.
- Particle System - Apply cool effects like a halo above your head or fiery footprints.
- Non-Facebook Login - Login without using Facebook.
- Customization - There are many more map designs, houses, characters and roles we want to add to the game!
- Localization - Support for other languages.
Town of Salem is currently in Alpha testing (click me to play), but without help and positive feedback from the Kickstarter community we will be unable to finish it and many of the features that are in progress will not be completed. We hope that you enjoy games of this genre as much as we do and that you will help us finish this project we have worked so passionately on for the last year.
Boring Business Stuff
BlankMediaGames LLC was founded 02/01/2014 to bring Town of Salem to market. The Kickstarter will allow us to release within 2 months after we receive the funds. This breakdown shows how we will use that money for those 2 months.
Bonus Eye Candy
Winter Map Day
Winter Map Night
Snow House
Snow House
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Risks and challenges
Town of Salem is already in alpha testing. If we make our goal, we will finish the game. There is no risk in terms of completing the product. We have a working game but there are bugs that need to be fixed along with testing and features that need to be completed.Learn about accountability on Kickstarter
Questions about this project? Check out the FAQ
Funding period
- (30 days)