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EVERY house has its smoky chimney, its draughty room, its creaky door; every life its own haunting shadows; and every state of life its own small troubles. It may be, when we arrive in a new place or enter upon altered circumstances, the sky is all serenely blue above us; but 'tis never long before the discovering eye perceives the tiny cloud—the cloud on the horizon, at first no bigger than a man's hand, which, growing greater and never quite dissolving, hangs over us, forever ready to rain sorrows on our heads. The direction from which her storms were to arise was soon made clear to Undine. After Cousin Jonathan left she took her work and sat down at one end of the pantry dresser where Aunt Margaret was busy making cakes for tea. Every now and then Aunt Margaret looked down at Undine and wondered what was knitting her brow and making her little hands work away with such desperate energy.
Undine herself could hardly have traced the gyration of the thoughts that were tossing in her own page: 57 small head, but the result was an unalterable determination that she would go to chapel no more. It was her duty, yet she could not go, she thought; and wondered wearily if she were always to be afflicted with senses of duty driving her into paths where no one else would or could walk.
The Goodmans and Miss Mell had been asked out to tea, so there were none but the family round the table that evening.
"You must make haste," said Mr. Roch, "and get your tea done; the meeting begins in three-quarters of an hour."
"You must take care to wrap yourself up warmly," said the grandmother; "you are not accustomed to our climate yet."
"I am not going," said Undine.
"What do you say?" asked her grandmother, in whose throat the words stuck so fast that not even Frank, who sat next her, could hear them.
"I am not going to the meeting this evening," she answered, staring very hard at her plate as she spoke.
"Do you feel ill tonight, dear? You look very pale," said Aunt Margaret.
"I am quite well, thank you; but I would rather not go tonight."
"I wish all my household to be there," said the dried hide, straightening and elongating himself in his seat.page: 58
"Perhaps she wishes to stay with Frank, as it is the last evening," said the poor nervous little grandmother in an apologetic little whisper.
"Frank is going with Margaret," said the dried hide, with his leathery, intonationless voice. It sounded so terrible to Undine and filled her with such tremblings, that the brown Wesleys and Fletchers in the little bookcase behind her grandfather seemed to go up to the ceiling and come slowly down to the floor, and she wondered if everyone in the room could not hear her heart beat.
"I would rather not go, I don't mind staying alone at all," she said at last.
"Why do you not wish to go?" said her grandfather, fixing his cold eyes upon her.
"I don't think it is—I mean—I don't get any good from going, and, I—would—rather—stay—please." Her voice had almost died away as she spoke the last words.
"Why do you not wish to go?" repeated her grandfather in his usual calm voice.
The blood came back to Undine's cheek, and with it her spirit rose.
"Because it would be wicked of me," she said, and then, feeling that anything would be better than the silence that ensued, she went on, "I can't go and pretend to be serving God when all—"
"Be silent," said her grandfather. "Little children who act in this manner should be whipped and page: 59 taught how to behave themselves. It is a pity you are not a few years younger, Undine."
The child looked up at him, with eyes almost blinded by rage and hatred, and trembling in every limb; then suddenly there came to her a thought—the thought of One who bore all things in meekness, wrongs in silence, who returned cruelty with acts of mercy, and the hatred of evil with the love of a god. Through long years of ceaseless dreaming he had become to her no vague shadowy existence of the long past, but a present living reality, ever aiding and ever sympathising, to whose influence were ascribed all her higher thought and better feeling, no matter from what source they arose. She thought of him, and no answer rose to her lips; and in place of the fury only a cold fainting at her heart was left. She sat here so quietly, breaking up into little bits the bread in her plate, that Frank, remembering the Undine of the old African days, gazed at her in astonishment, expecting an outburst. None came; and when her grandfather rose from the table and told her to get ready she quietly went to obey him.
"Conquered," thought the old man as he put his coat on in the hall; but perhaps he would hardly have thought so could he have seen what was passing in the heart of the conquered. "It is very hard and bitter to have to go after all this, but because it is bitter it must be right to go just this once, at page: 60 least as a punishment to myself." So she reasoned as she walked beside him on the way to the little Methodist chapel.
The meeting passed for Undine very much as the last had done; only that this evening, on the seat in front of her, sat a tall, gaunt old woman in a black bonnet who from time to time pushed and pulled at the shoulder of the sallow girl who sat next her, in an endeavour to drive her up to the rails every time the invitation was uttered afresh.
"I don't want to go," the poor creature whispered, drawing back; and she would, Undine thought, have kept her ground had it not been for Mrs. Goodman, who, leaning over the back of the bench, whispered loudly in her ear, "Go up, my dear; go up."
The girl looked round with a startled expression. It seemed as though all things, above, around, below, were combining to send her "up." The poor preacher calling from the rails, the prayers hurling anathemas at those who did not accept the invitation, the hand of her companion persistently applying physical force in the direction of salvation, the mysterious voice from the gloomy depths behind urging her upwards: these were forces which she had not strength to resist, and rising slowly she went up.
Undine wondered what she found to tell him when Mr. Goodman's greasy head was bent down over her.
She was the only fruit that evening, but as they page: 61 walked home Mrs. Goodman expressed her joy that the blessed work of Christ had begun and that she had been the humble instrumentality in his hands for beginning it.
"A word in season, my dear Mrs. Jones, a word in season; let us be thankful when the dear Lord allows us to speak a word in season, allows us poor weak voices to speak a word for him."
Mrs. Jones, whose road lay in the same direction, was accompanying them part of the way. She fully acquiesced, and at parting begged Mrs. Goodman to come and spend the next day with her. Mrs. Goodman was deeply grieved, but the next day they were returning to Greenwood; she would not see more of her dear Mrs. Jones. That lady was, in her turn, deeply grieved at hearing this, and bargained that Sarah Jane and Elizabeth Ann should be sent over to spend a week with her.
Mrs. Goodman said there was no one in the world with whom she would so gladly have her treasures as her dearest, oldest, friend, and they should surely come. Mrs. Goodman's dearest always was the person whom she happened to be addressing at the moment.
They parted with an affectionate embrace, and Mrs. Goodman was still wiping her cheek from the traces of Mrs. Jones's rather moist salutation when she remarked: "What a dear, good creature Mrs. Jones is! What a pity she should think so much of page: 62 dress at her age; and oh, the adornments of the outer man, what are they, my dear Miss Mell, what are they?"
"Yes, indeed," said Miss Mell, "yes, indeed."
"And her poor husband, my dear," continued Mrs. Goodman, "he can't stand it, my dear, he can't stand it. Did you notice the really superb silk she had on—really superb."
"I don't think it was silk; it was alpaca," said Miss Mell.
"Alpaca, my dear! You are quite mistaken. She sat close to the rails, and I was looking at it from the time she came in till we went out, and what a lovely brown it was."
"I think you are mistaken about the silk," said Miss Mell, determined not to yield her point.
"I know it's silk, my dear," replied Mrs. Goodman. "We were in the middle of the first prayer when she came in, and I heard the rustle of the silk as soon as ever she opened the door. I thought, 'Whoever is that!' So I just looked up as she went by."
"Well, it might be," said Miss Mell. "I know she is as extravagant as she is stingy."
"Yes, it's a great pity; she is such a dear, good creature," said Mrs. Goodman, with much earnestness; "it is a sad, sad pity she should be so close: the fly, the fly in the pot of ointment, my dear. Ah! page: 63 that fly!" And so the good souls continued their conversation all the way home.
Arrived there, Undine ran away to her own little room, tonight to study not her candle, but the little brown Testament. She sat reading a little and dreaming a great deal till she had worked herself into a state of beatific felicity; and in this state Aunt Margaret found her when half an hour after she entered the room.
"What is making you so happy?" she asked. "You look like one of the little angels I used to dream about long ago."
"Nothing," answered Undine, the golden light fading as quickly from her face as it was from her heart. Heaven on earth is only found in perfect solitude, whether by saint or by poet; and 'tis only a step from the heights of the celestial mountains to the depths of the valleys below.
When Aunt Margaret had left her she began slowly to pull off her boots; and it seemed as though the thought of last night, mingled with today's bitter feelings, all came back to her.
She could just catch the sound of her grandfather's voice as it rose in prayer from the room below; and as she sat there listening, the old hobgoblins of doubt who had been silent for so many months began their dance over her once more. They asked the old unanswerable questions, and new ones, more unanswerable still; and dared even to lay profane hands page: 64 on the words that had just been transporting her into the seventh heaven.
When, however, the prayer below was ended and she had got into bed, she put these suggestions of the evil one from her. She had been reading too much, she had been thinking too much, she had been turning her eyes away from Christ. For a whole month she would touch no book but His word and think no more, and so resolving she fell asleep.
The cloud, the little cloud, at first no larger than a man's hand, waxed greater as the months went by—grew in the end to be so thick and heavy that at last even Aunt Margaret's sunshine was absorbed by it.
Undine went quietly to chapel Sunday after Sunday; and a meek, sweet, quiet child she was, they all said, even if rather dull and stupid. They little knew how those still eyes made food of their every action; how forever they were being hung in the balances and dismissed to have that unchanging "Tekel" written up against them in her mind.
She kept her resolution, and except when at her lessons allowed no book to tempt her but her little brown Testament; that she pored over daily for hours, just as she had done in her little whitewashed sanctum at home.
Was the Testament most to blame, or the inherent wickedness of her own small heart, or the good women with whom she came in contact in her grand- grandfather's page: 65 father's house who, when not in chapel or talking of their neighbours, were thanking the Lord that they were not as their sisters in the mire?
Whichever it might be, at the end of three months this small heathen in a Christian land had made up her mind to go no more to chapel, had come to the conclusion that neither prayer-meetings nor their cousins, the class-meetings, were the gates of the Golden City, but rather the entrances to that other way that, beginning with a short circumbendibus, at last leads one straight to the gates of the city whose walls are of groans and whose pavements of sighs.
Having now a very decided hankering after that Golden City and a very decided impression that she was bound for it, it could not but be that she should eschew those entrances. She did not believe that at the gates of the Golden City stands a great winged angel:
"How old are you?" he asks of the applicant for entrance.
"Thirteen years."
"Have you always tried to do as your conscience told you? But, no, stay. Had you no one who gave you bread and butter and shoes?"
"Oh, then they kept your conscience. If you only tried to obey them— Well and faithfully done, enter into joy, and sit down on a throne."page: 66
This was what she did not believe; and so one Sunday morning she came downstairs with a laggard step and slow.
When she got to the door of the breakfast room she ran back again, to pray one prayer more, for it was a terrible mountain she had to cross that morning.
The window of the breakfast room was wide open and the morning light forced its way in, gilding for once the brown Wesleys and Fletchers in the bookshelf, and playing over the little bunch of flowers Aunt Margaret had put beside her plate. She ate little, and before breakfast was half over had strewed the carpet with the leaves of her broken flowers.
Aunt Margaret wondered what was wrong with her little niece, and made vain conjectures; while Undine kept repeating to herself the nice little speech she had prepared to make to her grandfather, which she had even taken the trouble to write down the night before by way of strengthening her memory. She would tell him that she could not go to chapel, because it did her harm; but she would tell it him so humbly and in such terms that even he must forgive her.
But alas for human plans! Every time she essayed to begin, the words stuck fast in her throat; the precious moments sped and breakfast was over without one syllable of her carefully prepared little page: 67 oration's having got further than the region of her heart, where it lay, heavy as lead.
When, however, her grandfather had risen to go, and had passed out into the passage, she also rose quickly and, standing in the doorway, said, "Grandfather."
He turned round slowly and fixed his cold eyes on her.
"What is the matter?" he asked.
Seek of the dumb an answer, and you will as easily find it as Undine the words of her precious and laboriously concocted little speech. They had hopelessly vanished and gone, and in their place came only these—"I am not going to chapel."
"I thought I had given you clearly to understand, Undine, on a previous occasion, that I wished you always to go. I allow no disregard of my wishes in this house." So saying, he turned round to enter his study, but Undine passed him quickly and stood in the doorway before him.
"I am not going," she said. "It is a wicked cruel world in which one human being has power over another, but you cannot make me do what I think is wrong; and if I go to chapel just because I fear you I shall be a hypocrite like all the others who go there; and I will not. All people who love Christ should keep away from such places, which only bring disgrace and shame upon his name. If he came page: 68 to earth today he would denounce them as he did the pharisees and priests in his day. It's all a mockery and an empty show, and I shall never go again, never, never."
Her words followed one another in a quick incoherent stream while she pounded away vigorously with one little hand in the palm of the other, till both were furiously red. Her grandfather stood silently looking down at her. In his heart horror and wonder largely mingled with hatred were moving, but his face told nothing. For one moment he felt a wish to strike her, but she scared him, as she had often done her old opponents, by her wild earnestness. He looked at her again, and then, without making an effort to enter his study, walked out the front door, conquered for the first time in his life; conquered by a little child.
And Undine, the conqueror? Alas! Has not the victor's fate been, from the beginning, to lie down and weep? She went out into the garden and dropped down onto the soft green turf among the rose trees.
The sweet Sunday bells were ringing loud; through the clear morning air their music came to her, sounding strangely soft and sweet now that she knew they would never summon her again. For all others they were calling, but they had no word for her; she was one alone, without kinship or fel- fellowship page: 69 lowship among men—so she said in her bitterness. Had she been born with a curse over her head? Would it be so wherever she might go, that her hand should be against every man, and every man's hand against hers? Or was she really so much worse than others that, wherever she might go, love and sympathy would be denied her? Would she have to walk on alone, alone, unloved, misunderstood, right on to the end?
She was sobbing and digging away with her toes into the soft earth when Aunt Margaret came and kneeled down beside her.
"Go away," said Undine, fiercely. "I am alone. Leave me alone."
"Undine darling, what have I done to you? What has anyone done to you? Undine, you say you love Christ and are trying to be his child. Don't you think you were wrong to speak as you did just now?"
Undine threw from her the soft hand that was caressing her hair, and said, though more gently, "Please go away"; and Aunt Margaret rose and left her.
Long after, Undine thought, with tears bitterer than those she then shed, of the hand she had thrown from her that morning; but they were bitter enough to the little child—the little child, who had not yet found out, as we all must sooner or later, that the path through life in which each soul must tread is page: 70 single; that no two walk abreast; that where one soul stands, never has stood, and never shall stand, another; but that each man's life and struggle is a mystery, incomprehensible and forever hid from every heart but his own.


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It's been an exciting week : The ccmtools have made a first public release !
I never thought I would enjoy working anywhere near "software engineering." But now that I have worked at an actual software company and seen some of the rationale, failures, and processes behind designing large software systems, I find the concepts intriguing. In particular, generating code is less restrictive to me as a programmer than I had thought ; the only code that can ever really be automatically generated is boilerplate, which is quite tedious stuff to write anyway.
I'm working on embedding the Python interpreter in the generated code, so developers and testers can implement CORBA components using C++ for the inter-component communications and Python for the component internals. Makes for much faster prototyping. Not to mention the sheer wow factor of having a set of simple Python scripts running your component-based application ...
Unfortunately I haven't gotten to do much with GStreamer lately, which is disappointing because I've become mostly talk and only a little hacking. But I did spend some time this weekend building a cool media player applet for the GNOME panel using gst-python ; it's almost blissful writing applications in Python, and with the GStreamer backend it's easy to handle media files, too.
We got a 1.1 release of Confix out the door this week as well ; I'm looking forward to adding support for pkg-config to Confix so it can generate Makefile.am's for more types of projects. Adding Java support might come soon as well, depends on how well things go.


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I use a pair of the push box calls. You can hold them both in one hand and work the push sticks with two fingers. This way it sounds like two birds going at it. This can also work very well in the spring. There are push box calls that have two sticks in one box available (Knight & Hale, I believe) but I've used my pair for years and am satisfied with them.
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It's the one move that has every NRL referee on notice - but no-one fears getting Canterbury's prolific decoy play wrong more than Bulldogs back-rower Frank Pritchard.
'Frank the Tank' is the crucial middle man in the left edge move which has proved so pivotal to Canterbury's success this year.
His run is aimed at sucking in defenders and creating room for the likes of Josh Morris and Dally M player of the year Ben Barba to weave their magic.
It is a play which has caused much consternation for those in the video referee box - with rival coaches adamant Pritchard should be penalised for an obstruction.
Pritchard knows what he has to do to make it legal, and he won't want to get it wrong against South Sydney in Saturday night's preliminary final at ANZ Stadium.
"Dessie's (coach Des Hasler) got it down to a tee - if I miss the line or miss the jump he's going to blow up at me," Pritchard said.
"It's a must have, it's a must-do.
"We get our lines right, it keeps a smile on his face, otherwise I don't want to be on his bad side."
This week his job will be to get Rabbitohs pair Dave Taylor and Dylan Farrell interested enough to commit their defensive attention to him rather than Barba or Morris.
He admitted he put plenty of work into the move, under the watchful eye of Hasler.
"You have to, you have to sell the play, to get the players to bite on you," Pritchard said.
Asked if he thought players were deliberately running into him to attract a penalty, Pritchard said: "Yeah, they're trying to get a penalty.
"Me and Des discussed it he said I've just got to push through the line instead of holding up otherwise you get blokes who just fall over and milk the penalty."
Pritchard was part of an unchanged side named by Hasler on Tuesday, with Dene Halatau - who only recently returned from a knee injury - unable to force his way into the 17-man squad.
Hasler said he had used the week off to work on his side's discipline with ball in hand.
"We can't afford to give away that much possession (as they did against Manly) in this game given that Souths have got the best completion rate in the competition," Hasler said.
"We need to be mindful with the ball."
Asked if he had noticed an increase in tension within the squad leading into their first sudden-death clash, Hasler said:
"No, its all about winning - even the first final the carrot was to have the week off.
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About Jeff Masters
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 3:51 PM GMT on April 16, 2011
Dozens of tornadoes and dangerous severe thunderstorms tore through the Southeast U.S. on Friday, bringing a second day of severe weather havoc to the nation. The death toll from the two-day severe blitz now stands at seventeen, with up to 100 people injured and tens of millions of dollars in property damage. NOAA's Storm Prediction Center logged 98 tornado reports yesterday, bringing the two-day total for the outbreak to 120 tornadoes. These preliminary reports are usually a 15% over-count of the actual number of tornadoes, which still means over 100 tornadoes have probably touched down during the past two days. The deadliest tornado of the outbreak hit near Prattville, Alabama at 10:55pm CDT last night, killing three people in a mobile home, and injuring four others. One of the most damaging tornadoes occurred just west of Jackson, Mississippi, when a tornado touched down just south of I-20, crossed the expressway, flipping cars and semis, then plowed through the town of Clinton. At least nine people were injured in Clinton, and extensive damage characteristic of an EF-2 tornado is apparent in damage photos.
Figure 1. Radar reflectivity image of the Clinton, Mississippi tornado at 10:57am CDT as the twister crossed I-20 and hit the town. Note the classic hook-shaped echo of the parent mesocyclone in the rotating severe thunderstorms that spawned the tornado.
Figure 2. Doppler radar velocity image of the Clinton, Mississippi tornado at 10:57am CDT.
On Thursday, tornadoes and deadly severe thunderstorms tore through Oklahoma and Arkansas, killing at least nine people. A EF-3 tornado hit the small town of Tushka, Oklahoma, population 350, ripping off the roof of the local high school and destroying dozens of buildings in Tushka. Two people were killed and 25 injured. The tornado moved over farmland and dissipated a short time later, but the squall line that spawned the tornado moved into Arkansas overnight, spawning severe thunderstorm winds that killed seven more people.
Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina under the gun today
The action shifts eastwards to southern Virgina and eastern North Carolina and South Carolina today, which NOAA's Storm Prediction Center have placed under its "moderate risk" region for severe weather. This is the same level of risk as we've seen for the past two days for this storm system, and it is very unusual for this portion of the U.S. to experience such a high severe weather risk. Tornado watches have already been posted for portions of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. You can follow today's severe weather using our severe weather page and interactive tornado map. This map now shows links to Youtube storm chaser videos of tornadoes, plus any wunderphotos taken of the storm.
Figure 3. Satellite image from 23:32 UTC (7:32pm CDT) April 15, 2011, showing the strong low pressure system over the middle of the country that brought yesterday's severe weather outbreak. Image credit: NASA/GSFC.
Figure 4. Water vapor satellite image from 23:15 UTC (7:15pm CDT) April 15, 2011, showing a dry, eye-like feature in the strong low pressure system over the middle of the country. This eye-like feature persisted for many hours, but was not visible on infrared or visible satellite images. According to an analysis done by Scott Bachmeier at the University of Wisconsin, the stratosphere, which has very dry air, sunk down to the 600 mb height at the center of the storm, and it is possible that dry air from the stratosphere is responsible for this eye-like feature. This is a different mechanism than how hurricanes develop eyes, and yesterday's storm had only a shallow area of low clouds with light rain near the center--nothing like an eyewall of a hurricane. Image credit: NOAA.
Figure 5. Storm chaser video from Reed Timmer of the Clinton, Mississippi tornado on April 15, 2011. Numerous transformers blow as the tornado wipes out power lines, creating bright blue-green flashes.
Figure 6. Storm chaser video from tornadovideos.net of a huge tornado in Oklahoma during Thursday's outbreak there.
Jeff Masters
The views of the author are his/her own and do not necessarily represent the position of The Weather Company or its parent, IBM.
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather


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Darth Vader is becoming the Mickey Mouse of Star Wars.
Kylo Ren - came from Space Brooklyn, although he moved to Space Williamsburg before it was trendy.
The use of a lightsaber does not make one a Jedi, it is the ability to not use it.
This seems pretty cool, hopefully Disney will let it shine instead of stumble a la Tron Uprising. The inclusion of Ralph McQuarrie concept art is a fantastic idea.
Why can't they show us at SDCC first?!? Oh man! Fall of 2014, hurry up.
If it's bad . . .
Well . . . Disney has, what, 4 billion reasons to make it good, right? It better be good . . .
This is a good idea. Alot of potential here. Its a good opportunity to capture both OT and PT fans. I'm looking forward to more information.
The article I read said that Clone Wars is getting a sixth season. This is contrary to anything we've already read and heard. Any truth to this or was it an author mistake?
I commented on this in the forums, but I'm very happy about this new show.
I read it on Yahoo.
- Robert Chan Yahoo! TVThe Clone Wars have always had a much better reputation in the "Star Wars" fan community than the first three episodes, so there's a lot of excitement surrounding this new series. If nothing else, it will tide fans over as "Star Wars: The Clone Wars" prepares for its sixth and (presumably) last season and the wait for Episode VII in 2015 begins.
Yahoo! is not always the most reliable source of news.
Anyways, I'm pretty optimistic about this new show. I especially love how they are going back to Star Wars' visual origin in determining the look for this series.
That same Yahoo article mentions "Uncle Ben and Aunt Veru" so it's not really that well-written. I suspect the author on that article was referring to the "bonus content" episodes that have not yet publicly revealed how they'll be released, but they're not actually a 6th season.
I thought so as well, just wanted to check.


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SuperKombat's November is Shaping Up to be Awesome
- Written by Dave Walsh
It is nice to be able to pump some good news into the Kickboxing world and it is interesting that the news will branch away from the mainstays of K-1 and It's Showtime and focus instead on Romania's SuperKombat series. SuperKombat is a product of Eduard Irimia, who helped out with the "Local Kombat" shows that were popular in Romania. They are pushing hard and fast to gain a foot hold in the ever-evolving world of Kickboxing in a landscape where K-1 is not the king. It is a bold move and the execution has been anything but flawless, but the effort is noted and is beginning to pay off.
In November SuperKombat plans to run two big shows and looks to benefit from K-1's inability to promote the October 29th World Grand Prix Final 16 event in Nanjing. The finals of the SuperKombat WGP are on November 19th with Catalin Morosanu facing some real competition in Melvin Manhoef in a bout that has been rumored for a very long time but yet to materialize. The Finals themselves features four fighters; Ismael Londt, Erhan Deniz, Sergeii Laschenko and Pavel Zhuravlev and the rest of the card is to be filled out by Ruslan Karaeve, the Stoica brothers and Albert Kraus.
On the 17th, just two days before, it was revealed that Eduard Irimia Productions and Eurosport will co-promote another event featuring big name fighters. It will feature yet another Heavyweight tournament and Superfights, with Hesdy Gerges announced as participating in one of the Superfights. The tournament will feature Rico Verhoeven, Mourad Bouzidi, Anderson "Braddock" Silva, Daniel Sam, Sebastien Van Thielen and Roman Kliebl. For last minute that is pretty good. [source]


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I have now read this (at least what is published on line).
Many of you have blasted the plan in general.
I was wondering, what specifically do you dislike about it??
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I have now read this (at least what is published on line).
Many of you have blasted the plan in general.
I was wondering, what specifically do you dislike about it??
Please be specific.............
In my best Liberal Voice. "What I do not like is the fact that ....umm....well....Romney is a Tax cheat" or
"Well I do not like that fact that kids in other countries do not have maps and stuff" or
" I do not like it because is was written by Ryan"
Ryan's plan does not address the deficit and actually increases spending in the Federal budget.
From the far-right Fox News...
But claims that Ryan is slashing spending don't quite square with the numbers. Those claims are convenient Washington shorthand for what Ryan's plan actually proposes -- which is to slow the rate of budget growth, but still allow the budget to grow.
Under the latest Ryan plan, the budget would grow from $3.6 trillion this year to $4.9 trillion in 2022. The only years in which spending would dip are 2013 and 2014.
Under President Obama's 2013 budget, spending also increases over the 10-year period, but by a much bigger amount. The budget grows from $3.8 trillion in 2012 to $5.8 trillion in 2022. And instead of the $3.1 trillion long-term deficit under Ryan's plan, Obama's plan comes with a $6.7 trillion deficit.
The only difference between the two parties is the social issues.
In regards to the Economy and spending, a vote for Romney is a vote for Obama.
Obama has no plan, we will all be out of medicare and into Obamacare 21 new taxes, where is his plan? He has had 4 yrs and only put us deeper in debt. He is clueless
wait wait wait..... how do you compare the Ryan budget with the Obama budget when Obama has yet to produce a budget? Did I miss something?
I would dramatically cut spending starting with the Defense Dept. Most of thier budget is not about Defense and it is layden with waste. I would immediatly begin to shrink the size of the Federal Government by cutting entire departments and agencies. I would get rid of the current IRS and laws and simplfy making it fair for everyone. Reform Medicare and eliminate Medicaid all the while returning our healthcare policy to what it was in the early 60's. I would put in rules that would make the actions of Lobbyist and Special Interest more visable to the voting public. I would secure the boarder with the plan that RP put forth, unsecured boarders is a huge financial drain. Neither the Dems or the Repubs are serious about taking that issue on. We need real banking reform so as to prevent the too big to fail problem and return to real Free Markets which would stimulate the economy and jobs. This would also mean no more Federal Reserve because we can't have a Free Market and real Capitalism when the Fed is trying to manipulate the market!
We desperatley need a Balanced Budget Amendment even though neither the Dems or Repubs want that. It would curtail their out of control spending!
The problem with all of that is you would need to be King and not president. In the real world the president needs to persuade Congress to go with the plan. That was also RP's problem. Twenty years in Congress and he was never able to persuade them to pass any of his bills. He would have the same problem as president IF he could persuade voters first.
Ain't no way you will get any congress to go along with all those proposals. The country will not change overhnight.


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APAC stem cell industry faces a severe regulatory bind
The pioneering work of Nobel Laureates Sir John Gurdon and Dr Shinya Yamanaka on reprogramming adult stem cells has opened new vistas in stem cell research. Many countries in the Asia Pacific region are taking big strides in this field. According to GBI Research, the stem cell therapy market in APAC, including China, India, Japan, Singapore and South Korea, is valued at $545 million in 2012 and is estimated to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10 percent from 2012. It is expected to reach $972 million in 2018. Although Asia Pacific countries are making major advancements in the domain of stem cells, the regulatory bind, especially on human embryonic stem (ES) cells, is a poser for researchers
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However, Mr Vasant S Gaikwad, analyst with GBI Research, points out that overall regulatory framework for the stem cell research is quite liberal in APAC countries. "South Korea, especially, is encouraging stem cell research. The country is developing rapidly in the field of stem cell therapy and boasts a robust pipeline that witnesses active participation from the pharmaceutical companies. This has been made possible by the strong government support and increased funding, with the country's president stating that the stem cell field is a growth engine for the economy," he says.
"The regulatory environment for stem cell research in Australia is excellent, and permits innovative research in the context of high ethical standards," says Professor Martin Pera, Stem Cells Australia, while pointing out the need for more investment in translational research in regenerative medicine in order to move the field forward.
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He's busy with the Brillo pads scrubbing off other peoples initials they should get there soon!
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Release season is upon us again, and with it the attendant stress and second-guessing. Have I done enough? Can I fix these last bugs? Should I do one last merge against Classpath? The holidays play into this situation in an unfortunate way.
This time I really don't know where I'm going to find the time to do all the things that need to be done. For 3.1 I basically spent several weeks working on the release full-time. This time around, though, I actually have other tasks I have to attend to. My current plan is to push work onto other, possibly less willing, people.
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New York, August 11, 2015--Two U.S. journalists have been charged in Missouri with trespassing and interfering with a police officer nearly a year after they were detained by police in the city of Ferguson, according to news reports. Wesley Lowery, a reporter for The Washington Post, and Ryan J. Reilly, a reporter for the Huffington Post, were briefly detained in August 2014 while working out of a McDonald's restaurant in Ferguson to cover protests following the fatal shooting by police of unarmed teenager Michael Brown, according to news reports. If convicted, the two face a possible fine of $1,000 and up to a year in jail, according to the county's municipal code.


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The Mithila Hotel is a charming European-style hotel located in the heart of downtown San Francisco; offering beautiful guest rooms, warm gracious services and excellent value surrounded near major attractions. We provide modern amenities at affordable rates.
The hotel is within walking distance of Union Square, Chinatown, theaters, evening entertainment and affordable restaurants. The hotel is nestled between Union Square & Nob Hill. Therefore, you are a few blocks away from the main scene, however quiet enough where you can get a good night sleep. The hotel is situated in a nice safe neighborhood where there are other high-end hotels.
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Across America, state lawmakers, governors, attorneys general, sheriffs, and other officials are promising to protect the gun rights of citizens in their jurisdictions in the face of the most aggressive assault on the Second Amendment in generations. Indeed, as the Obama administration's unconstitutional agenda becomes increasingly transparent — backed by some Democrats and much of the establishment media — resistance to further infringements on the right to keep and bear arms is exploding nationwide.
Numerous bills have already been introduced in state legislatures, for example, that would nullify unconstitutional federal gun control and even criminalize enforcement of such lawless restrictions. Texas, Wyoming, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Iowa, and other states are considering nullification legislation in the wake of Obama's recent push to enact gun control by executive decree and proposals sent to Congress. Other states are expected to join soon, and many have already adopted laws in recent years protecting guns made and kept within their jurisdictions from federal regulations.
In Mississippi, Republican Gov. Phil Bryant sent a letter on Wednesday urging state lawmakers to "immediately pass legislation that would make any unconstitutional order by the President illegal to enforce in Mississippi." Citing widespread concerns over "our sacred rights as Americans," the governor noted that "several states have introduced similar measures and I believe will be successful in preventing this overreaching and anti-constitutional violation of our rights as American citizens." He also urged citizens to resist any such presidential decrees, according to news reports.
Among the states that have already introduced strong legislation to protect gun rights from lawless federal restrictions is Wyoming, which has one of the most heavily armed populations in America while enjoying some of the lowest crime rates. State lawmakers there are rallying behind a bill, which they expect to pass, that would nullify any and all future infringements on the right to keep and bear arms, including restrictions on semi-automatic weapons or magazines. Federal officials attempting to enforce unconstitutional statutes or executive orders would face felony charges and up to five years in prison.
"We're a sovereign state with our own constitutional form of government," said Republican state Rep. Kendell Kroeker, the chief sponsor of the Firearms Protection Act and a strong believer in both the Wyoming and U.S. constitutions he took an oath to uphold. "We've got a right to make our laws, and if the federal government is going to try to enforce unconstitutional laws on our people and take away the rights of Wyoming citizens, then we as a state are going to step up and make that a crime."
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If you watch the video one frame at a time you will see the union guy trip as he turns. He gets up swinging.
If you watch the video one frame at a time you will see the union guy trip as he turns. He gets up swinging.
Bill Davis
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That's my boy "Blue"!!!! Flyin High in the Passenger Side x Katie May of Belgrade
I call BS. I just downloaded the video and converted it to an mp4 so I could watch it frame by frame. You can clearly see Crowder following through with either a push or a punch, the guy going down, and then getting back up swinging. I would wish Crowder lots of luck in court with this one.
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The union guy bumped into the news guy as he tripped and fell. If you look the news guys left back shoulder was facing the union guy as he fell. It think it might be pretty hard (though not impossible) to throw a punch or push someone with your back quartered away from them.
There's a scientific principle here that controls my understanding of the event. It's called the Principle of Least Astonishment and goes like, "If I said Crowder knocked the guy down or something else happened to cause him to fall, which would cause you the least astonishment?"
I offer:
1. Crowder was in a crowd of reasonably hostile and worked up folks. He was surrounded. If he was involved in an overt act, would the crowd not have responded?
2. Immediately after the incident caught on tape, the incident occurred with the hot dog vendor. This did involve the crowd and was crowd initiated it. Crowder had nothing to do with it.
3. Crowder has made an offer to the guy in the video if he'll identify himself. He has elected to remain anonymous.
While these aren't proof that would be acceptable in a court, it's possible that the film may not be either. We are left with, which is the more likely chain of events given the environment and the participants....the Principle of Least Astonishment.
WRC HR Lennoxlove's Run with Wolves JH, WCX ("Cheyenne") ... still so fondly remembered
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What was editted out of the videos that I have seen thus far but saw it today in another video is the union guys ripping the tent of American's for prosperity out of the ground and supposedly that is what he actually tripped on...Not to mention earlier in the day the same guy was already threatening Crowder saying he was going to F him up.
When younger I've been pushed by or pushed a buddy into some one to instigate a fight. If these guys were late teens or early twenty's would'nt surprise me a bit. I thought the comment that you kiss your kids with that mouth was the best.


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My first gun at the age of 11 was am Ithaca 37 in 20 ga. I shot thousands of rounds through that and strongly encourage anyone to have child learn a pump gun for the discipline of making the first shot count and the coordination.
My small-framed, 13 y/o nephew has shot the Remington 870 20 ga. like a champ since he was 11. Last summer he said he felt it wasn't fair to compare our shooting when I was shooting a "12 ga. cannon", so I bought a used Benelli M2 in 20 ga. and carried that all last fall instead.
The M2 is the softest shooting gun I've ever handled and is an absolute joy to hunt with. The prior owner had the stock cut down an inch for his daughter, but had it done so the extra inch could be put back in for an adult or larger youth. What a great option.
Even when I wasn't hunting with Ben this fall, I started taking the M2 with me to hunt roosters, ducks and even geese. It was phenomenal what you can do with a 3" load of 5 shot and an extended choke tube these days. It killed geese just as dead as any 12 ga. I can remember. I can't really say there's any reason a youth starting out today can't shoot a 20 ga. with 3" shells at just about anything for as long as they want.
If Ben is still as ethusiastic and keeps improving, he might earn the M2 as a 16th or 18th birthday present if i can bear to part with it.
I cherish my experience shooting a pump gun for the first 6-8 years before I ever got to shoot an auto.


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An Interview With Ladislao Lopez
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An Interview With Ladislao Lopez
Interviewer: Irene Ruiz. Interview recorded June 27, 1978. 1 sound cassette (ca. 90 minutes): analog, stereo.; 5 7/8 x 2 1/2 in., 1/8 in. tape; 1 sound disc; digital; 4 3/4 in. Has a typed guide to contents.
Dr. Ladislao G. Lopez was born November 3, 1915 in Zacatecas, Mexico. His family moved to the United States in 1919 to avoid the Mexican Revolution. Family loved in the Armourdale area and he became a chiropractor. In the interview he recalls his early life, work career, family, etc.
Number 27 on MP3 disc.
SC69-1, Tape 28 and CD 28
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Lopez, Ladislao
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Hispanic Americans
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"Dr. Lopez was born November 3, 1915 in Zacatecas, Mexico. He was the oldest child of Calixto Lopez and Rita Gonzalez Lopez. His maternal grandparents lived in Kansas City, Kansas. The family moved to the U.S. in 1919 to avoid the Mexican Revolution. His father had been an "arriero", carrying and selling merchandise from town to town on mules. His paternal grandfather, also an "arriero", was killed when his mule train was ambushed by bandits.
He has 5 brothers and 3 sisters. All still live in the Kansas City area except one brother in Los Angeles. They lived in Armourdale as the neighborhood changed from Irish-German to Mexican. He attended John J. Ingalls elementary school, segregated with other Mexican children until 7th grade. It took Dr. Lopez extra time to graduate because of his poor English skills and fear of reciting in English in the classroom. His parents learned some English, but his father's was "packing house" English, learned from the Irish, Germans, Croatians, and Blacks. His father worked 5 years at Cudahy, where employees were to receive a week's vacation after 5 years. Rather than grant him a vacation, the company fired him. The father then worked 36 years at Wilson's.
Money was tight during the depression. He recalls his maternal grandfather meeting the family at the border in Laredo when they first entered. His younger brother, Robert, was ill. The family was force to wait until he was well before being allowed into the country. They traveled to Kansas City by train. The grandfather had entered the U.S. with 5 or 6 other men. All settled in the Argentine district to work on the Santa Fe Railroad. As work at railyards became scarce, the men switched to packing plants. His childhood was happy because he was surrounded by cousins and friends who all spoke Spanish. Later this became a handicap as Dr. Lopez tried to cope with the English environment outside the neighborhood. He was grateful to a teacher who made him take public speaking. He was teased about being Mexican by Anglos. He attended St. Thomas School for 7th grade, Central Junior High for 8th and 9th, and Wyandotte, then Argentine High School. He became friendly with an Anglo girl and was invited to the home by the girl's brother. The parents forced the children to sever their friendship because Lopez was Mexican. He attended St. Thomas Catholic Church (Armourdale) until Our Lady of Mt. Carmel was established for Mexicans in 1926. The church had occasional fundraisers ("jamaicas").
His father was a very positive person with no formal education. He paid for music lessons for the children. They played with cousins for neighborhood and family parties. He worked at Dutch Clothing Co. and later Kuluva's, both clothing stores, from 7th grade through high school. Kuluva's began selling appliances after the flood and still exists. Many families, including an uncle, returned to Mexico as the Depression worsened. Cousins who returned still served during WWII. After high school, he worked for $1 a day as a busboy. Dr. Lopez's only extra-curricular high school activity was orchestra. He bussed tables until 1940 or 1941. Then he met his wife (a hotel maid) and married in 1938. He became a houseman (maintenance worker). He worked for awhile in an upholstery shop on the Plaza, then the packing houses. He worked at Swift, filling a government contract packing 2½ to 5 pound cans of meat to be sent to Russia. He joined the Army and was sent to Camp Lee, Virginia where he was assigned to quartermasters corps. He spent 9 months on the Queen Mary in Wales, France, Belgium, and in the South Pacific. He was the only Mexican in the company, but there was no discrimination.
He returned to Kansas City in 1946. He worked a variety of jobs until deciding to take a bookkeeping and radio communications course for work on railroads. He left his family to work in Nevada and when he returned, he again had trouble finding work. He began attending chiropractic college in 1950. Dr. Lopez worked as a file clerk for the VA and he attended college 5 hours a night. He began taking civil service exams. He then worked for the Commodity Credit Corporation (in agriculture). The family lost all but a few pieces of furniture in the flood of 1951. He lived with a sister-in-law, and then moved near 37th and Troost to be near college. He lost the job with the Agriculture Department and was hired by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. He obtained a government loan to help rebuild his home.He translated for Reconstruction Finance Corporation to facilitate making loans to other Mexican flood victims. He worked for the Federal Aviation Administration, then the Small Business Administration. He quit because the government would not grant him time off to take his final chiropractic exams. He passed the Missouri and Kansas state chiropractic boards. He attempted to set up an office, but the partnership failed. He rejoined the government.
Dr. Lopez has held various government jobs since then including translating for the State Department and being regional administrator for the Department of Labor. He did not try again to establish a full-time chiropractic practice and he was unable to get bank loans to set up another office. He had various experiences working with the GI Forum. He moved to Lee's Summit where he practices chiropractic medicine on weekends. He has joined or helped organize various unions. He strongly believes that the Mexican-American can not fight the system alone. He has a membership on the Mexican-American City Council. He is active in pushing the desegregation of the Kansas City, Kansas schools and the resulting cultural changes within the family. He joined the Toastmaster's Club and represented Mexican-Americans at the War Brides meetings.
He gained U.S. citizenship before WWII. His parents became citizens after the war. Several of Dr. Lopez's brothers served during WWII. One now has a civil engineering degree, one is a millwright, and another works for the airlines. He was active with IMAGE (Incorporated Mexican-American Government Employees). He personally encouraged the hiring of more Hispanics in the government. He is a member of the American Chiropractic Association and other area chiropractic groups. He says the people who helped him get ahead are his parents and teachers. He considers Mothers the most important influence on children and the family. He is retired but still active with the Federal Employee Credit Board, IMAGE and the GI Forum. Dr. Lopez has won miscellaneous awards.
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Binghamton University and Broome Community College will host a financial aid workshop at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, February 10, in room 110 of the Engineering Building on the Binghamton University campus. The workshop is free and open to the public.
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Went to the local Wal-Marts recently, absolutely nothing. I have yet to see any of the Shmi wave. Toys R Us is too far away, so I don't go more than once every couple weeks. Thank Amazon for allowing us to order the TIE Interceptor online. Now if only they'd bring back the Tatooine Skiff and Y-Wing...
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Hedgeye Risk Management today released its written case against U.S. energy pipeline operator Kinder Morgan and its related entities.
All four of the tickers Hedgeye suggests shorting instead rallied between 1% and 2% today. While it's a good day for Mr. Market, clearly investors don't think the short case delivered enough punch.
In a nutshell: Hedgeye says investors should worry more about Kinder's pipeline maintenance and spending therein. And it says Kinder's exploration and production business, while small, is NOT a pipeline enterprise and valuation should reflect that. Moreover, Hedgeye says it thinks Kinder Morgan's strategy is to "starve its pipelines and related infrastructure of routine maintenance spending" so that it can maximize distributable cash flow and payments to the general partner, Kinder Morgan (KMI). As a structure, MLPs pay out most of their cash flow as tax-deferred distributions to investors in their "units," as shares are called.
But KMI's structure is more complex, and the general partner is collecting some hefty distributions from limited partners in the form of "incentive distribution rights."


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Rosey (voice of Jean Vander Pyl) was a 21st century mechanized maid
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Children's Christmas Book Recommendations
Posted 13 November 2008 - 11:38 AM
My DH signed me up (well, he said he'd do it... but, we all know who is REALLY going to do this) for a thing in my DD's 5th grade class. The idea is to read the kids a Christmas book (such as "Polar Express" -- but I can't choose that one, it's already been taken) and then do an activity with the kids -- something to do with the book.
Ack! I don't know very many great Christmas books for kids - I am going to go to the Bookstore one of these days and peruse Children's Christmas books, but until then...
The books that have already been chosen are: "Readheaded Robbie's Christmas Story", "I wish to be a Christmas Tree", "Jolly Postman's Christmas" and "The Polar Express."
Any ideas? You guys are so creative -- and I couldn't start this project without enlisting your help. My DD thinks that "Mooseltoe" would be a fun book to do, I'm just at a blank for an activity that will go with it.
Posted 13 November 2008 - 11:43 AM
What a fun project
Posted 13 November 2008 - 12:39 PM
A wish for wings that work an opus Christmas story By Berkley Breathed
You can get it at Amazon.
Give me a minute to think of a crafty thing.....
Um "what gifts did got give you"?
Posted 13 November 2008 - 10:15 PM
Posted 13 November 2008 - 10:46 PM
Lots of fun in that book. you could do anything from making snowmen, to making cocoa, decorating a cookie, to making a "carol" book ... lots!
(there is another version that is just as cute.. Snowmen at night
and while its not exactly christmas, it does celebrate winter... )
hope that helps ya
i'll think of some others... i pack the xmas books away and i havnt pulled them out.
Oh a fun one.. "i know an old lady who swallowed a bell" Very cute... not sure on craft... maybe a bell thing? but that might be like polar expres.. hmm...
Posted 13 November 2008 - 10:55 PM
here is a moose food craft: edible christmas moose
or for the glop maybe the teacher will let you do a science experiment and you could make some goo: Here is a recipe for silly putty
Silly Putty
2 parts white glue
1 part liquid startch
small mixing bowl
- Combine glue and startch in bowl , mix well. Let dry until putty is workable (couple of minutes, you could read the story again?). You may have to add a bit more glue or starch.
Posted 13 November 2008 - 10:57 PM
Candy cane reideer (martha stewart!)
Posted 13 November 2008 - 11:01 PM
Mrs. Claus Explains It All by Christi Love (answers questions real kids have asked about Santa... including what Santa's favorite cookie is)
Jingle Bells, Homework Smells by Diane deGroat (finds other things to do instead of doing his homework... )
The Lump of Coal by Lemony Snicket *you could do some charcoal drawings
I scrap with a MAC
Posted 13 November 2008 - 11:09 PM
Posted 13 November 2008 - 11:23 PM
ChristinaP my gallery
Posted 14 November 2008 - 12:45 AM
Go to www.abcteach.com or www.lessonplans.com and search there. They have so many great book ideas with crafts. You may have to sift through several to find something you are interested in.
* A glyph is like a coloring sheet that has directions say if you like peppermint color the eyes blue, if not color them green. Can be adapted from coloring to glueing to painting to whatever you want to do with it.
I scrap with PSE 5 & Vista.
Posted 14 November 2008 - 12:02 PM
I'm so excited! I don't know which idea to choose! I'm loving them all!
Posted 14 November 2008 - 12:22 PM
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Vocal-impressionist extraordinaire JIMMY JAMESthe SUSAN LUCCI of the Glammy awards for dragjust got back from a dizzying gig at a bar in Bayonne, New Jersey, and he needs resuscitation. To put it mildly, it was not exactly a black-tie recital at Carnegie Hall. In fact, the place made Barracuda look like the Essex House. "It was a dump, a toilet," James told me, laughing. "The sound system was Scotch-taped together. And I had to change in the rotted kitchen. They said, 'This is your dressing room.' I said, 'Why would I expect any better?' In the audience there was a heavyset guido guy with a blonde bimbo on his lap. I said, 'Look, that girl's a slut! She's stealing my act!' Then I got nervous and said, 'Sir, please don't shoot me till after the show.' "
But he didn't. In fact, post-curtain, Jimmy was given a lovely birthday cake courtesy of the esteemed bar and former grill. "It was shaped like a cock and balls," he said bemusedly. "It was pathetic. I was like, 'Oh, God, this is what it's come to. My agent is so fired! I used to be somebody!' "
Pleasehe still is! In fact, he's still a lot of people (CHER, EARTHA KITT, NORAH JONES, etc.) And sosegue, segueis that drag impersonator favorite MADONNA, judging by the rising up of a quartet of obsessed fans calling themselves MADONNAFACTORY. They haven't played Bayonne yet, but they did mount a Madge-obsessed event at Apocalypse Lounge, where a performer named SISTA KIT was going to absolve revelers with a gospel performance of a Madonna hit (though it's the star herself who still needs to be cleansed of Shanghai Surprise and even Mr. Peabody's Apples). Alas, I didn't have like a prayer of finding the place and meeting these four whoresmen of the Apocalypse. It wasn't listed anywhere, and at the nearby Lucky Cheng's, the drag queens pleaded ignorancethough they did want me to write that one of their own house divas, CODIE RAVIOLI, is having a sex change, and to help her pay for it, NAN GOLDIN is going to give her a stack of photographs to sell. (You hear that, kids? Want to finally turn your penis into a cake mold? Call Nan now.)
Anyway, Apocalypse Lounge, which is not a toilet, turns out to be on East 3rd Streetor just ask around for the place where that American Idol runner-up from Brooklyn used to bartend. I found it a whole day later, and thank Ezekiel the Madonna shrine was still up, with everything from her New Republic cover ("Unlike a Virgin: Madonna, Minx Without a Riddle") to the letter she sent out promoting the AIDS Dance-a-Thon. ("We are all living with AIDS.") We are all living with Madonnaand I guess that's just fine.
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Like her, I aim to change the world on a nightly basis. In fact, I hear "benefit" and I start running there, desperate to help a good cause via some heartfelt guest list nabbing and gift bag grabbing. So when I was told the Trevor Project was having a fundraiser and it wasn't in Bayonne, it was at Crobar, I showed up and giddily exclaimed, "I'll do anything to save gay youth!" "For yourself?" deadpanned go-go boy-writer MATT BELL.
Anyway, the Trevor Project gives troubled young gays a shoulder to scream on. To support the support group, CARSON KRESSLEY and ROSIE PEREZ conducted the battiest auction since giant sheep bid on Jackie O's cleaning products in that Broadway satire. "I'm not used to being at Crobar with people who are coherent and have their shirts on," admitted Kressley. But as Perez educationally explained various Spanish words for pussy (chocha, she said, is the most ghetto) and remarked that BILLY CRUDUP should dump the skinny MS. DANES and go for her big boobs, Carson got to work raising bids for a package that included tickets to see both ELTON JOHN in concert and Crudup's play The Pillowman. ("It's dense, disturbing, and wickedly funnyjust like Elton.") You also had to love rubber-faced JACKIE HOFFMANone of the night's comicseven if her agenda contradicted the event's save-the-youth mission. "My idea of a baby gift," she spit out, "is anything that says 'choking hazard.' "
I saved gay kids all over again by co-hosting the benefit for the youth-empowering Live Out Loudmy chocha now has blond streaks thanks to the gift bagwhere the silent auction was gayer than Bed Bath & Beyond on Super Bowl Sunday. You could actually turn queer just bidding on items like "black lacquered tray and porcelain teapot." But as the auction wrapped up, a heartbroken official told me, "Only two people bid on TOMMY TUNE's etching. Do you want to be the third?" (No, but I'll take that Elton-Pillowman double billand throw in some Nan Goldin photos, please.) Even more poignantly, a guy who'd won a snow leopard pillow was heard to whinny, "Don't tell my boyfriend. He's in PETA!" Ah, but nobody ever said life was fair, Tina. (Yes, I believe that only by embracing really clichéd camp utterances can we bury the past and move on to two years ago. Hello!)
The guest of honor was Broadway grande dame CHERRY JONES, who revealed that when her parents first told her about sex, they said, "If you're gay, that's OK too, but we're not going to tell you about that because we don't know about it." I bet now they do!
Cherry with a fringe seems to be the running thread of my entire life, and column, these days. In fact, when I crawled through the wreckage of jukebox musicals and bad Tennessee Williams revivals to go to the Drama Desk Awards, I found that Cherry was having yet another jubilee. But there were other winsome winners too. In the press room, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang's JAN MAXWELL was clutching a publicist and moaning, "My agent's gonna go, 'You remembered the ushers in your speech, but not me!' " In a lighter mood, Maxwell later cracked to cable host STEPHEN HOLT, "I'll do this show for 20 years. I'll be known as Formerly Scrumptious. I'll be doing it with a walker." And she didn't mean LLOYD KLEIN.
Before leaving, I agelessly limped over to that minx with a fiddle HARVEY FIERSTEIN and naturally asked if he'd like to play Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. "Yes!" Harvey exclaimed. "I told EDWARD ALBEE! I said, 'Why don't you use me and Cherry Jones? You can switch the sexes.' He said, 'I already did [with KATHLEEN TURNER and BILL IRWIN].' " I fell apart laughing, but Harvey insisted, "No, he didn't! I was just kidding!"
But we've strayed from the topic of teens in peril. And so, the Musto (a bronzed troll doll) for best gay youth movie goes to GREGG ARAKI's Mysterious Skin, a tender, raunchy, disturbing, and powerful trip to the dark side. Don't let the fisting scare you. And don't book your drag act in Bayonne.
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Meanwhile, chomp down on these nibbly bits, bitches: My new best friend TATUM O'NEAL says she wants to doeverybody nowa reality show! From her jealous dad to her scary ex to her apartment fire, it would probably make Chasing Farrah look like Dora the Explorer. Similarly, '60s legend LESLEY GORE ("It's My Party") is doing some reality music. Luscious-voiced Lesley called to say she has a new CD, Ever Since, "and it's organic, smoky, intimate, and personal." Sounds like a blind date with a plate of barbecued chicken.
But hold your corn bread: What does Cherry Jonesyeah, her againthink her character means when she says, "I have doubts! I have such doubts!"? "I think she has completely lost faith in God and the Roman Catholic Church," she told me, definitively. But hopefully not in the Tony; Cherry's got it in the gift bag. Now where's that genital cake?
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3.34: Isomers
Look at the desks in the photos above. Both pictures show the same classroom with the same number of desks, but the desks are arranged differently in each picture. The different arrangements work better for different classroom activities. Desks in rows facing the front of the classroom are better for watching the teacher do demonstrations. Desks facing each other in small groups are better for working on group projects. What does the arrangement of desks in a classroom have to do with chemistry? Like desks in a classroom, atoms in a hydrocarbon molecule can be arranged in different ways, and the different arrangements give them different properties.
Same Atoms, Different Shapes
Hydrocarbons are compounds that contain only carbon and hydrogen atoms. The smallest hydrocarbon, methane (CH4), contains just one carbon atom and four hydrogen atoms. Larger hydrocarbons contain many more. Hydrocarbons with four or more carbon atoms can have different shapes. Although they have the same chemical formula, with the same numbers of carbon and hydrogen atoms, they form different compounds, called isomers. Isomers are compounds whose properties are different because their atoms are bonded together in different arrangements.
Examples of Isomers
The smallest hydrocarbon that has isomers is butane, which has just four carbon atoms. in the Figure below you can see structural formulas for normal butane (or n-butane) and its only isomer, named iso-butane. Both molecules have four carbon atoms as well as ten hydrogen atoms (C4H10), but the atoms are arranged differently in the two compounds. In n-butane, all four carbon atoms are lined up in a straight chain. In iso-butane, one of the carbon atoms branches off from the main chain. You can see three-dimensional models of these two isomers at the URLs below. Rotate the molecule models to get a better idea of their shapes.
The next smallest hydrocarbon is pentane, which has five carbon atoms and twelve hydrogen atoms (C5H12). Pentane has three isomers: n-pentane, iso-pentane, and neo-pentane. Their structural formulas are shown in the images below. Look at the carbon atoms in each isomer. In n-pentane (See Figure below), the carbon atoms form a straight chain. In iso-pentane (See Figure below), one carbon atom branches off from the main chain. In neo-pentane (See Figure below), two carbon atoms branch off from the main chain.
How Many Isomers?
Butane has only two isomers and pentane has just three, but some hydrocarbons have many more isomers than these. As you increase the number of carbon atoms in a hydrocarbon, the number of isomers quickly increases. For example, heptane, with seven carbon atoms, has nine isomers; and dodecane, with twelve carbon atoms, has 355 isomers. Some hydrocarbons with many more carbon atoms have billions of isomers!
Q: Why does the number of carbon atoms in a hydrocarbon determine how many isomers it has?
A: The more carbon atoms there are, the greater the number of possible arrangements of carbon atoms.
Properties of Isomers
Because isomers are different compounds, they have different properties. Generally, branched-chain isomers have lower boiling and melting points than straight-chain isomers. For example, the boiling and melting points of iso-butane are -12 °C and -160 °C, respectively, compared with 0 °C and -138 °C for n-butane. The more branching there is, the lower the boiling and melting points are.
Q: The boiling point of n-pentane is 36 °C. Predict the boiling points of iso-pentane and neo-pentane.
A: The boiling point of iso-pentane is 28 °C, and the boiling point of neo-pentane is 10 °C.
- Hydrocarbons with the same numbers of atoms but different shapes form different compounds called isomers.
- Hydrocarbons with four or more carbon atoms have isomers. The more carbon atoms a hydrocarbon has, the greater the number of isomers.
- Isomers are different compounds with different properties, such as different boiling and melting points.
- isomer: Compound that has the same chemical formula as another compound but has molecules with a different shape and may have somewhat different properties.
At the following URL, watch the video about isomers of hexane. Then answer the questions below.
- What is the chemical formula for hexane?
- How many isomers does hexane form?
- How do boiling points of hexane isomers vary?
- What are isomers?
- Name and describe the isomers of butane.
- Identify the hydrocarbon that has nine isomers. What is its chemical formula?
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