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Look out, folks. Bill O'Reilly is about to talk about global warming again on the O'Reilly Factor.
Of course, he's already reached his conclusion that "Nobody can control the climate but God." It's just that he doesn't have any data to back up his anti-science position.
So he has one of his producers on the hunt today, apparently scrambling last minute, looking for "the very best arguments" to support climate change denial. Here's the email DeSmogBlog...
More astounding NASA video: Arctic Sea Ice Loss 1979 to 2007
More astounding NASA video: Arctic Sea Ice Loss 1979 to 2007
For some of our readers, the video we posted last week of the startling loss of Arctic sea-ice as recorded by NASA this summer just wasn't enough to convince them that the planet is in serious trouble.
So here's a new NASA video showing the massive Arctic sea ice loss over the last 28 years.
Look at the difference between 2005 and 2007 alone.
Startled now?
This animation is from NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio at the Goddard Space Flight Center. This animation compares the 2005 annual Arctic minimum sea ice from 09/21/2005 (shown in orange) with the 2007 minimum sea ice from 09/14/2007. The average minimum sea ice from 1979 through 2007 is shown in green.
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I can't imagine what's going to happen to so many wild species... even the pug isn't immune:
Where did you find this information John? Was it in another article you "found" in the Ottawa Citizen (remember your comments about the Rideau Canal which were just not true)?
You have a vivid imagination John, try and put it to better use.
Ian Forrester
You would see that there is a vast difference between what was experienced back then and now (why did you not mention Amundsen's 1903-06 trip?). There was plenty of ice in the area and they navigated through the open water leads which open up all over the pack ice. They also kept very close to shore, shallow shoals were more of a problem than ice.
Where are the data which you claim points to a similar decrease of ice in the 1920's and 30's? The data do not exist since most data (Hadley centre) do not support your thesis.
Ian Forrester
The Arctic in the 1930s was as warm as or warmer than it was in the late 20th century.
Source: Polyakov et al. (2003)
Consistent with Polyakov's record, Chylek et al. (2006) found that Greenland was as warm during 1920-1930 as it was during 1995-2005, but that the rate of warming during the earlier decade was "50% higher."
Of course these people are probably just denieralists so you can blow them off, Ian.
John Dowell has some trouble with his citations. I've quoted him below as he tried to cite the same "2003" study as he does in this thread. The link he provides is to a paper published in 2000 and doesn't say what he suggests. I don't believe John Dowell read the article. I think he just grabbed some statements recently made by Inhofe. I could be wrong; I hope I am. John, can you provide a link that supports what you say?
"According to a 2003 study by Arctic scientist Igor Polyakov, the warmest period in the Arctic during the 20th Century was the late 1930s through early 1940s. Many scientists believe that if we had satellite monitoring of the Arctic back then, it would have shown less ice than today.
http://denali.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/~igor/research/pdf/50yr_web.pdf "
John, please stay on task, you seem to be unable to focus on the discussion at hand and are easily distracted. Please try to stay focussed and your marks will improve.
Ian Forrester
"I do not think that there was anything like we observe today" in the 1930s or 1940s, said Igor Polyakov, an ice expert at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
John, you should always read about what you are discussing rather than blithely cutting and pasting from the rightwingnut sites you spend too much time on. They are only making you look more stupid than you probably are.
Ian Forrester
Here is what Peter Chylek et al. (2006) said after pulling together Greenland temperature records using data provided mostly by NASA:
"Although there has been a considerable temperature increase during the last decade (1995 to 2005) a similar increase and at a faster rate occurred during the early part of the 20th century (1920 to 1930) when carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases could not be a cause. The Greenland warming of 1920 to 1930 demonstrates that a high concentration of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases is not a necessary condition for period of warming to arise. The observed 1995–2005 temperature increase seems to be within a natural variability of Greenland climate."
Not much there to get folks excited unless you are certified Desmog Chicken Little.
What has Greenland got to do with Arctic sea ice? Nothing much. John Dowell, you do not know what you are talking about; your citation is meaningless, and you have not proved anything. Again you failed to copy the link; is that because you get your information from some denialist site?
For the people here who are interested in learning, comment #16 here links to the Chylek paper and discusses the use of short time periods. The post is about "Historical climatology in Greenland".
Look at a map, VJ. Greenland is part of the Arctic. It was warm in the 1920 and 30s just like the Arctic. Do you expect us to believe that Greenland experiences a climate totally different from the polar seas that wash its shores?
The recent Arctic sea ice recession is touted by Demsog and others in the AGW cult as the largest on record. Well, that record goes all the way back to 1979 when quality satellite surveillance began. Data, temperature reconstructions and historical records show it has been even warmer in the Arctic in the recent past and that there are natural warm and cold cycles to Arctic climate. The Greenland work is part of the proof and is therefore relevant.
Hey John, Vancouver is a part of Canada. Do you expect Vancouver to have rain when the rest of Canada is getting snow? Well, yes, in fact I do.
Greenland is land. Arctic sea ice is ice on the sea, not on land. There's a difference. And do you imagine that there were no airplanes flying over the arctic taking pictures long before there were satellites?
Pretty wimpy, John. The post is about Arctic ice, especially the 2007 melt. You had to eat the stuff you wrote about Polyakov. You had to go away from the issue of ice. Now you seek a safe haven in Greenland data. And still you have to ignore 2007. Do you have the posting ethics of Rob? Try to do better.


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Jekyll Island, Georgia By Ty Sawyer
"Can you hear them?" I turned to see a lady who'd come up behind me on the bike path. Everyone on Jekyll Island travels by bike. I was gazing into a meadow thick with massive live oaks whose branches arched to the ground, every inch dripping with curtains of Spanish moss. I'd just pulled over because I'd seen two white-tailed deer, but they'd disappeared into the thickets of saw palmetto that coat Jekyll.
"Hear who?"
"We call that Spanish moss 'old man's beard' here," she answered cryptically. "Each of those bundles holds a memory from the island's past. It gets trapped in the filaments, like those Indian dreamcatchers. You can hear the voices whisper when the wind blows through them."
"Whose memories?"
"Indians, colonists, yours, mine, the millionaires who lived here, everyone who has ever set foot on the island -- these trees are like libraries in charge of keeping the island's archives." We both looked up at the branches. If there were memories woven into the pale, delicate filaments of these trembling epiphytes, then each tree held volumes.
"It's the island's secret history. You might not believe me, but you've got to listen. Slow down and listen." Then she smiled, mounted her bike and continued on down the path.
"And don't leave the island without watching the sun rise on Driftwood Beach," she called back. "It's unforgettable."
I watched her round the corner, hardly believing I'd just had that conversation. I'd been on Jekyll Island, just off the coast of Georgia, for less than 24 hours, and everywhere I went someone was telling me about something I shouldn't miss, some cherished corner of this tiny island.
You can feel the tug of yesterday from the moment you pass through the twin gate towers on the Downing Musgrove Causeway that leads from the mainland to Jekyll. The island exudes history and time slows to a murmur in the thick Georgia air. There are no stoplights on Jekyll. No fast-food restaurants, either; life centers around the beach and the manicured, oak-shaded grounds of the Jekyll Island Club Hotel. Twenty miles of bike paths meander around the 7.5-mile-long island, connecting the past to the present.
Travelers usually prefer to revel in the past on Jekyll; it's a truly secret history, since the place was once one of the most exclusive clubs in the world. A place that did not welcome the curious eyes of the common man. Or even the uncommon man, since it has been said that during the 56 years the Club was in existence "no unwanted foot ever touched the island."
Jekyll was once the private playground of the families that controlled one-sixth of the world's wealth. The island came alive at a time when all things seemed possible; people now come for a touch of the magic of this enchanting era.
Jekyll Island and its salt marshes, palmetto-thick forests and empty beaches spilled into our nation's collective imagination about 1888, when a group of millionaires whose names have not dimmed with time -- Rockefeller, Morgan, Pulitzer, Goodyear, Vanderbilt -- decided to build a club and a few "cottages" so they could escape the hard winters and relentless business pressure of the north, so they could socialize and so they could live lives, even if in small measures, of gentlemanly ease, without scrutiny.
They came to Jekyll for "the season," January to March, from 1888 until 1942, when the threat of German U-boats off the coast during WWII brought the revels to an end. After that, most of the homes, the island and the club were abandoned; their patrons' attentions turned elsewhere. In 1947, the island was purchased by the state of Georgia from the Jekyll Island Club, and in 1954 it was opened to the public via a new drawbridge. Since then, just a few homes have even been built on land leased by the state.
The Jekyll Island Club, two cottages and some of the first apartments from the original club were renovated, converted into a hotel and reopened in 1986. The season now stretches year-round, with the visitors' population swelling in the sultry Georgia summer.
I'd come, like many others, to revel in the opulence and slow pace of another era, and I felt it from the moment I turned my car down the riverfront drive that winds past the small manses that are quaintly called Goodyear Cottage, Mistletoe Cottage, Moss Cottage and Indian Mound Cottage, which was owned by the Rockefellers. As I pulled up to the Club, with its high turret that defines the building, and passed the croquet pitch, it was like a scene from a movie where you peer into a cracked, stained old sepia photograph and the setting instantly comes alive as you are transported to another age.
I met a couple in the hotel's richly wood-paneled lounge that afternoon who remembered the island before it became a living museum. The man had grown up on Jekyll Island and told me that as a kid he had prowled through the old homes playing hide and seek with his friends. The doors were never locked, he recalled. But no one dared go inside at night, as shadows, creaking floorboards and overactive imaginations brought the past to ghostly life. Where affluence, order, unabashed grandeur and the strict rules of behavior between servants and masters once held sway, the chaos of kids and the entropy of time swept in and took over. Then somebody said, "Hey, people might like a peek into the lifestyle of the rich and famous." And the renovation of the club and cottages began. And the doors were locked again.
Now it's a quiet, beach-swept wilderness for those of us who want to bask in the same glow, walk the same paths, sleep in the same rooms, eat in the same opulence as those who once passed for American royalty. So, on my first night, I tied a double Windsor knot on my silk Armani tie, donned a freshly pressed suit, walked from my fourth-floor room down the same winding wooden staircase that once felt the custom-made shoes of a river of millionaires, to the elegant Grand Dining Room. The room has changed little since the Club's heyday. I was seated in front of the fireplace -- the same fireplace where Vanderbilt and Rockefeller may have gazed into the flames in a moment of peaceful thought. And for the unhurried course of the sumptuous meal -- from the slow bottle of California Syrah to the she-crab bisque and buttery filet mignon to the tangy perfection of the Key lime pie and a glass of port. I felt the exquisite and expansive tug of gentlemanly ease.
"I know why they came to Jekyll," whispered a bird watcher named Jim, a willowy 72-year-old from Syracuse, New York, whom I met the next morning along a path that skirted the edge of the salt marsh. "It's unpredictable, wild and serene all at once. Despite those big beaches, restored mansions with their manicured lawns and croquet and all the bike routes -- take five steps off the path and you'll run smack into raw wilderness. I've seen everything from crocs to woodpeckers livin' their lives right in front of my nose. That's why I come down here every year and have now for 20 years. And guess what I saw this morning?"
"A bald eagle. How 'bout that?"
On Jekyll, the past beats like a second heart. I found it in strange and wonderful places on this island off the coast of Georgia. It comes out of a gauzy, distant memory in the twilight of an evening, just as the lights of the Jekyll Island Club Hotel illuminate rooms that once felt the tread of the wealthiest men in the world. It escapes in faint breaths from the echoes and creaks of the wooden staircase. It comes alive in the slow clop of horses' hooves along the 10 miles of hard-sand beach. And it whispered to me as I wandered among massive live oaks that give this island an ancient weight, dripping with a thousand Spanish-moss dreamcatchers.
Ocean City, New Jersey By Ken McAlpine
I spent eight summers in ocean city, new jersey -- from glorious Memorial Day until Labor Day's poignant farewell -- and I cannot rid myself of the place. With apologies to all of the summers that have followed, those were the eight best summers of my life. Just thinking about them my chest tightens, as if for a brief moment it has forgotten the mechanics of breathing. I am ruined, and it is wonderful.
Ocean City, separated from New Jersey by Great Egg Harbor Bay, remains an old-fashioned slice of summertime Americana, a place unapologetically staid and square, where sunburned families still play Crazy Eights around the kitchen table at night and Ferris wheels still chew slowly through the salt air. During the day, eight miles of beach serve as coconut-oil-scented playground (vanity still rules over skin protection). At night, the 2.5-mile boardwalk serves as the town's epicenter.
If this wood could talk, it would sing 123 years' worth of song: Ocean City's first boardwalk was built in 1883, when Chester A. Arthur was president and our nation comprised 38 states. An uncountable human pageant has walked this beach town's spine, all the footsteps gathering their own summer memories to haunt them blissfully until the end of their time.
The magic of summer is the season's timelessness: I walked the boards when I was a lifeguard at "the Shore" in my teens and 20s. Twenty-five years later I don't even need to close my eyes and I am eating soft ice cream on the boardwalk, the sea breeze whispering off the black Atlantic, carrying omnipresent brine, the distant shrieks of giddy roller-coaster riders filling my ears, the smell of creosote -- simple tar fixture then, but now as sweet as perfume ¿ lifting from the boardwalk beneath my feet.
Memories sweet and simple as soft ice cream, and as breathtakingly unfathomable as summer love. I knew them both. I know I am not alone. You might be nodding. Or perhaps your turn awaits. The magic of summer is the season's timelessness. And Ocean City is the perfect stage.
Though the original one burned in 1927, the boardwalk's face has remained little-changed. Ocean City's boardwalk is an eyeful: a sea of beet-red families, libido-crazed teens and, on the benches facing the sea, old couples staring over the dunes to the Atlantic and the memories only they can see. But it is first and foremost a place of smells. I am certain I could still walk its length with my eyes closed and tell precisely where I am, the sweet waft of caramel (Johnson's Popcorn; 13th Street and the boardwalk), the mouthwatering amalgam of dough, sauce, garlic and cheese (Mack and Manco, Inc.; Ninth Street and the boardwalk), the ball-game scent of cotton candy (Gillian's Wonderland Pier, Sixth Street and the boardwalk). Despite the souvenir stores, the mini-golf and the amusement rides, the main purpose of a night on the boards is food, unapologetic and unabashed. But you have to find something to do between noshing, and so you might shake yourself into nausea on the Tilt-a-Whirl, or inhale the night and the distant shimmer of Atlantic City's casinos from atop the Ferris wheel. These eateries, these rides still exist, waiting for the next generation.
Memories are made, by definition, after the fact. When it's happening you're merely ingesting an etching, subconscious and simple, but in the case of summer island memories, very, very powerful. Most summer moments are inconsequential, but some are not. One evening, just away from the boardwalk, I sat on a jetty, the brine stronger among the barnacled rocks, and kissed, for the first time, the girl who is now my wife.
Though I took everything I wanted from the town, I still find myself arriving and departing from Ocean City, perhaps because it is beginnings and endings we remember best. In dreams, I drive into town at the start of summer, topping the rise of the Ninth Street Bridge, the metal grating clacking rapid-fire beneath the wheels, my heart keeping pace. I feel Labor Day's approach, sea breezes veined now with coolness, the Atlantic spread a darker blue. Again, I recognize the end with a soft but grateful sadness that, even now, makes my chest tighten.
My chest tightens because that's where my heart lies, and the heart, not the mind, is the repository of memories that matter.
Santa Catalina, California By Joan Tapper - Photos by Steve Gunther
With hardly any cars on Santa Catalina, golf carts are clearly the sightseeing mode of choice. So when one came with my room at the Inn on Mt. Ada, I climbed in, turned the key and set off. Suddenly I was on Catalina's version of a self-propelled amusement ride: a one-way road without a guardrail. Heart in my mouth, I kept groping for the pedal as the pavement dipped, curved and rose, rewarding me with a panorama of stunning blue ocean far below, before the road evened out and twisted back toward downtown.
I'd taken the ferry over for a few days' getaway in a place unlike anything else in Southern California. Here, 22 miles off the coast, it didn't matter that the hot months had ended and fall was settling in. I had come to Catalina to have an Indian summer break.
One of California's Channel Islands, Catalina has been a resort town since 1887, when a Michigan entrepreneur named George Shatto bought the 22-by-8-mile island, put up a hotel and built a wharf in Avalon. By 1891, hard times forced him to sell to the Banning family. In 1919, after World War I had put a damper on travel, the Bannings, too, sold out, this time to chewing-gum magnate William Wrigley Jr., who tirelessly promoted his new possession and is responsible for much of its character today.
After my joy ride, I thought it might be wiser to explore downtown's square mile on foot, so I parked the cart and walked toward the water. Ferries, catamarans, runabouts and glass-bottom boats bobbed in the bay as I ambled along the waterfront, past the gift shops and clothing boutiques, the verandas of restaurants and a handful of Mediterranean-style hotels. The architecture was a hodgepodge, united by the colorful ceramic tiles that covered facades, benches, fountains and gateways with colorful geometric designs, occasional pictures of birds and flowers and even historic scenes. It turns out that one of Wrigley's Catalina projects was a pottery factory, and its products (along with later additions) adorn much of Avalon.
The walkway continued after the shops petered out. I paused at the white-clapboard members-only Tuna Club, where a statue and plaque proclaim that here, in 1898, the sport of big-game fishing originated. Among the club's celebrity members was Zane Grey, who wrote Tales of Swordfish and Tuna in his pueblo-style home just up the hill.
Farther on I came to the Casino, the round, red-roof art deco creation that's probably Avalon's most famous landmark. With architects Walter Webber and Sumner A. Spaulding, Wrigley's son Philip built the Casino (which means "place of entertainment" in Italian) in early 1929 as a movie theater and ballroom to attract visitors to Catalina. I could imagine the big bands of the 1930s -- Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and Harry James -- all broadcasting their swinging tunes over the radio from here. There still are big-band shows, events upstairs and films in the movie theater on the ground floor. I admired the towering panels and paintings at the entrance, where a sinuous mermaid and other denizens of the deep epitomized the exuberant artistry of a pre-Depression age.
The undersea scenes reminded me that I hadn't been in the water yet. It was getting a bit cool for a snorkel, but I'd seen a sign for something called a semi-submersible ¿ the top of the craft stays above the surface but passengers can climb down a staircase and peer out underwater windows. I got in line and stepped aboard.
Though I was only a dozen feet -- below the surface, the scene was otherworldly: Thick strands of giant kelp formed an undulating forest filled with schools of opal-eye, half-moon and solitary brilliant orange garibaldi. Occasionally a cormorant would dive down, slicing through the water more like an arrow than a bird. Meanwhile, the captain entertained us with bits of piscine trivia -- like the fact that it's the male garibaldi that establishes a nest, guards the eggs and chases away encroaching snorkelers.
Afterward I retrieved my golf cart and headed back up the hill to the Inn on Mt. Ada, once the home of Wrigley and his wife, for whom it was named. As owner of the Chicago Cubs, Wrigley brought the team to Catalina for spring training every year, and the couple would come out to watch them practice. (A longtime Cubs fan myself, I'd seen old movies of Dizzy Dean pitching on a diamond near the golf course.) When Ada tired of staying in a hotel, they built a green-roofed Georgian Colonial mansion -- after first hiring a man to camp out and find the sunniest spot in town.
The meticulously restored house has the elegance of 1921, complete with a butler's pantry freezer filled with ice cream for today's guests to snack on. I kept finding better and better spots to loll around -- first a lounge chair under the awning on the terrace, then the glassed-in sun porch, which had a telescope aimed at the harbor. Next I moved to the library to sip a glass of wine and nibble hors d'oeuvres, and I finally¿ retreated to a comfy couch in front of the fireplace in my own room. Just as Ada had planned, the sun streamed in my window the next morning.
The inn is not the only place this woman of strong personality left her mark. According to local stories, she was so disgusted by Zane Grey's habit of noisily hanging out late with his Tuna Club cronies, she arranged for the Chimes Tower to go up just outside Grey's home, where it rang out the time every 15 minutes -- beginning at 8 a.m.
It apparently had little effect on the writer, who continued to turn out best-sellers. He was best-known for his Western novels, including The Vanishing American, which became a movie that was filmed on Catalina in 1925. A small herd of bison was set loose on the grasslands, and their descendents still roam Catalina's protected interior, which is off-limits to golf carts. But plenty of the shaggy creatures were in evidence when I took the island bus along the 23 miles of undulating road to visit the little isthmus village of Two Harbors.
Two Harbors is a tiny settlement, a getaway on a getaway, with scores of boat moorings, one general store, two restaurants, one campground and one bed-and-breakfast, the Banning House Lodge, formerly the hacienda-style summer home of the Banning brothers, who had owned Catalina before Wrigley. Everyone there gathers at the congenial restaurant bar, where I raised a glass of the local specialty -- a delicious but potent combination of milk, vodka, crème de cacao, crème de banana and Kahlua -- called, appropriately enough, buffalo milk. It was a liquid dessert with a kick, just right for a toast to the mix of innocence and high spirits that makes up Catalina's quirky charms.
Mackinac Island, Michigan By David Lambert
You can't flag down one of the horse-drawn taxis here. I make the mistake of trying it our first evening on Mackinac Island, and the young carriageman looks at me as if I've just broken into an aria. I step closer and say, "Can I hire you to take us back to the hotel?"
Looking faintly embarrassed, he points toward the taxi office a couple of blocks away and says, "If you want a taxi, you're supposed to use one of the courtesy phones and call for one."
"We can't just flag you down?" my wife asks.
He shakes his head.
He shrugs. "That's not how we do it here."
On Mackinac -- as on most islands -- you'd better get used to how they do it here. And how they do it here is different from how they do it anywhere else.
But that's why we'd come. I'd promised my wife, Cindy, and our 11-year-old daughter, Faith -- at their request -- a no-rush, no-agenda vacation this summer, one spent on hikes, bikes and horses. And where better to spend that vacation than Mackinac Island, where Cindy and I honeymooned?
In a scattering of islands in Lake Huron, just northeast of the tip of Michigan's lower peninsula, Mackinac's island isolation allowed the development of a unique culture. Although the island's history is rich and complex, most visitors nowadays associate Mackinac culture with three things: the Grand Hotel, fudge and the use of horses rather than automobiles.
Personal motorized vehicles were strictly limited on the island from the time the first horseless carriage set tires there in the late 1800s. Twenty years later, they were banned entirely. The sounds of the village now are the same as they were in the 1870s -- the clop-clop of the huge Belgians and Percherons that pull the taxis, tour carriages and drays (horse-drawn freight wagons), the slap of leather reins and harnesses, the creak of carriage springs and the amiable commands of the carriagemen to their horses. You'll wake to that sound in the morning and be lulled by it as you stroll back to your room along the darkened streets after a late supper -- and you'll already be missing it as you ride the ferry back to the mainland.
One of the strongest impressions one forms on the island is that life on Mackinac is life lived outdoors. On Mackinac Island, no one is buckled in.
That evening, after our ill-fated attempt to flag down a taxi, we seek fudge to fuel our walk back to the Hotel Iroquois, a converted 104-year-old four-story mansion right on the bay. Inside Murdick's the air is heavy with the aromas of chocolate and vanilla. A young woman energetically spreads and folds a huge batch on a thick marble slab while another offers us slivers of mint-chocolate-chip fudge. I put mine on my tongue and let it melt -- we buy a half-pound.
On our way back, we detour to¿ Windermere Point, gentle night waves lapping the cobblestone shore inches from our toes as we nibble the fudge. The bay's foghorn sounds in the dark, but there's little other noise. We look across Haldimand Bay at Mackinac's iconic Round Island Light -- the 1895 lighthouse and three-story brick light-keeper's house -- on its spit of land.
Early the next morning, that iconic lighthouse disappears over my left shoulder as I ride a rented -- and well-used -- one-speed tandem bike with Faith on the rear seat and Cindy riding ahead of us. We watch the ferries arrive after their 15-minute trip from Mackinaw City (lower peninsula) or St. Ignace (upper peninsula), their immense rooster tails of spray sparkling beneath the sun.
Lake Shore Road, which rings the island, is only eight miles long, so we maintain a lazy pace, enjoying the call of ring-billed gulls and the scent of pines in the breeze, cool at this early hour. Cormorants and ospreys fly overhead. We occasionally hear the wild, startling call of a loon, a quintessentially northern sound.
Surprisingly, we pass few cottages. Eighty percent of the island is state park (designated a national park in 1875 and then turned over to Michigan in 1895). But I'll admit it: I envy those families who own the few there are. I cherish coming here every year or two and renting a room, but imagine growing up spending a few weeks on the island, each summer, returning to celebrate an old-fashioned Christmas, attending family weddings in the Little Stone Congregational Church overlooking the straits.
At British Landing we buy ice cream, then we hike the half-mile-long nature trail through sharp-scented cedars and spruce, passing wood lilies and jack-in-the-pulpit in the shaded woods and white and purple asters in the clearings. A sharp-skinned hawk flashes through the trees nearby.
Next day, midafternoon, we trudge up tree-lined Cadotte Avenue toward the Grand Hotel. Faith grabs my arm. "Look!" she whispers. "Just like Cinderella!" The immaculate lacquered carriage she's pointing at is pulled by a matched white team, prancing in unison, and is driven by a top-hatted coachman.
"This is the Grand Hotel's version of a hotel limo," I say.
Faith smiles. "I like their version better."
So do I.
The Grand, built in 1887, is impressive by any measure. For one thing, it's immense ¿ the world's largest summer hotel. For another, as a National Historic Landmark, it oozes history. Five presidents have stayed here, including Truman and Kennedy. Mark Twain entertained here. Some of the first demonstrations of Thomas Edison's strange new invention, the phonograph, were given here, and two major Hollywood productions have been filmed here.
There's also the famous porch -- at 660 feet, the world's longest -- fronted by immense white three-story columns. The porch contains a profusion of red and white geraniums, enough American flags to supply a Fourth of July parade and a seemingly endless row of rocking chairs. We claim three of them for ourselves and order ice-cold lemonade. The hillside slopes down before us to the Esther Williams pool, the lawn around it dotted this cloudless, warm August afternoon with sunbathers on chaise lounges.
Faith wants to see inside the famous hotel, known to millions who've never been to the island from the movie Somewhere in Time. We pay the fee and wander through the huge hotel. Carpets, wallpaper, window treatments and furnishings have been maintained in the style of over 100 years ago. But it isn't just the decor that recreates a bygone era -- they've kept the old customs, too: Male guests are required to wear a coat and tie for dinner, and ladies must don evening wear.
The following day, at Fort Mackinac, near the eastern end of the village, we have lunch under a yellow umbrella at the Tea Room, managed by the Grand Hotel with customary elegance. We linger over dessert, looking out across the village far below us to the harbor and, beyond that, the Round Island Light. The straits are almost too bright as we watch the ferries coming and going. The thought that soon we'll be taking one back to the mainland is almost enough to take the sweetness out of my Pecan Ball, the Grand Hotel's signature dessert.
I turn and look back over my shoulder to an American flag flying high above the historic fort. It reminds me that, at various points in the island's history, the Union Jack also flew here. The British, in fact, built this fort, in 1780. Before that, the island was a sacred site to Native Americans and also a French trading outpost.
All of those influences, somehow, are still present. You sense them in the island's historic sites and in the unspoiled natural beauty of the state park's trails and the Lake Huron shoreline.
I like that. They have kept -- and will keep -- Mackinac delightfully the same, lost in time and filled with the sound of horses' hooves.
Plan Your Trip! Long, Lazy Summer Days
Jekyll Island
Rockefeller Slept Here: The Sans Souci (French for "without care") building of the Jekyll Island Club Hotel has rooms -- once the private apartments of millionaires -- featuring fireplaces and private balconies; some even have Jacuzzis. Rates start at $129. jekyllclub.com
Salute the Sunset: Stop by the Jekyll Historic Wharf for oysters or mouthwatering Cajun shrimp from the famous and low-key Rah Bar. It's the perfect way to end a day of some fiercely competitive croquet. jekyllisland.com
Ocean City
Boardwalk Luxury: The Flanders Hotel has a 1920s feel and provides respite from the bustle of the boardwalk. If you hear quiet singing inside, worry not -- that's just Emily, the friendly ghost. Ask for room 512 or 514 for the fantastic views. Rates for these start at $175. theflandershotel.com
Warm Summer Nights: Ocean City kicks it up a notch during summer. Make time for the sand-sculpting contests (July 5 and August 2) and the farmer's market (every Thursday night from July to Labor Day). oceancity-nj.com
Catalina Island
Upper Crust: Catalina's stately Inn on Mt. Ada, the former mansion of the Wrigley family, presides over Avalon's harbor from the crown of Mt. Ada. Make yourself a banana split by raiding the butler's pantry, then channel more soign¿ times in the best room of the house: the Grand Suite, which was the Wrigleys' personal living quarters. Grand rates start at $585. innonmtada.com
Shhhh! The film Show People (1928) will play, accompanied by a pipe organ, in the Casino's Avalon Theatre for Catalina Island Museum's Silent Film Benefit on June 3. catalinamuseum.org
Mackinac Island
Grand Ole Hotel: Take a horse-drawn taxi from Mackinac's ferry docks to the Grand Hotel, circa 1887, and slip into the mindset of summers long past. Try booking one of the Named Rooms, like the Lodge of Teddy Roosevelt with period-style decor. Named Rooms' rates start at $660.
Ever so Genteel: Book October 27-29 for the Grand's Somewhere in Time weekend. Nearly everyone in attendance will be costumed, so bring the proper finery. Package rates start at $939. grandhotel.com


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A weekly series of foul-mouthed investigations into empty lots, dead-ass proposals and other design phenomena in Philadelphia. Find more stories like this at Philaphilia.blogspot.com.
2012 Chestnut Street
Though a bunch of folks hated it, I always thought this proposal for a new PHA headquarters wasn't such a bad idea. It removes a blighted building, fills the empty lot next door, and brightens up a pretty bleak Center City block. Nonetheless, the powers of hardcore preservationists and good ol' classic Philadelphia government agency sketchiness brought it down.
In 2009, the Philadelphia Housing Authority appeared to be doing pretty well for itself (publicly). They had just completed thousands of affordable housing units all over the city and successfully replaced old-fashioned mid-20th century projects with more modern and humane facilities. On top of that, the PHA was getting millions of dollars in federal aid. While they were on a roll, they figured it was time to knock over their 1927-built falling apart headquarters and build a brand new modern office building that would fill in the neighboring surface lot. After all, they were on the dreary 2000 block of Chestnut Street-- who wouldn't welcome a new and modern building here?
The PHA commissioned architectural badasses Vitetta to come up with a design. According to a letter to the Inquirer by Preservation Alliance Executive Director John Gallery, Vitetta had originally designed the building to match the surrounding architecture, but PHA Executive Director Carl Titty-Grabbin' Greene "wanted something else". The Vitetta team came back with a sleek, five-story, glass-fronted, green-roofed, $20 million facility. The first floor would have a lobby and parking lot for 15 vehicles while offices and executive suites would fill the floors above. The plan also included a re-do of the sidewalk out front and a re-wiring/plumbing of some of the utilities on the block.
Because the project would be paid for by federal funds and be within the Center City West Commercial National Register District, the project would have to be evaluated by about a million different groups and agencies, including but not limited to: the Preservation Alliance, Philadelphia Historic Commission, City Planning Commission, Center City Residents' Association, and Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission. I'm pretty sure my aunt in San Diego was qualified to review the project as well. Most of those groups and agencies thought the project sucked and did not match the rest of the block.
Now let's be truthful here... being a functional idiot savant of Philadelphia history and architecture, I have a lot of personal opinions in common with most of the organizations that rejected this building. However, I cannot agree. This block already violates its own National Register status in numerous ways. First, there is a mix of 19th Century and 1920s buildings on the block, so it is already mismatched. Second, a big, ugly, hulking, abandoned, and dangerous 1950s building is located directly across the street from this proposal. That definitely doesn't match the "historical character" of the neighborhood. Third, John Gallery was quoted one of the newspaper articles about this project as saying: "Do you see anything with huge glass windows or very contemporary character around here?"Answer: YES!!! 2009 Chestnut, across the street to the northeast of the site of this building, looks like this:
Huge Windows? Check. Contemporary character? Check. Image from Google.
Despite the protests of every preservationist they could find, the PHA continued to push the proposal forward. Zoning variances were successfully acquired. The City Planning Commission kind of half-approved it but was stuck waiting on the federal government to get their shit together and get a more detailed plan for the project to them.
While all this was going on, the PHA was rife with internal problems and bad publicity. Federal investigations, dirty dealings on the part of several key players in the Authority, and director Carl R. Greene being himself. With all this shit going on, the new HQ project was becoming a lower and lower priority. In June 2011, while the Philadelphia Housing Authority was attempting to solve all these problems and get going with a new leadership, Michael P. Kelly, interim director after Greene's disgraceful exit, announced that the project would be "put on hold". The project died under this last redesign:
Its a little better-looking, I guess?
Today, the PHA is back to full operation under new President and CEO Kelvin A. Jeremiah, one of the guys who helped root out the PHA's corrupt practices when all this shit was going on. Nonetheless, they are still dealing with the bullshit that occurred during Carl R. Greene's reign. The PHA is still headquartered in some crap offices at the top of a parking garage at 12 South 23rd Street. The 1927 building is still sitting there at 2012 Chestnut, looking like shit. Maybe in like 10 years, when all the craziness from 2010/2011 is settled and forgotten, they could being this project back from out of the woodwork. By that point, 2021 Chestnut will be built and no one will be able to complain about "large windows" and "contemporary character" ruining the block anymore.
2021 Chestnut, already approved proposal for directly across the street.
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Yes - the water table does replenishThe water table in SimCity is replenished from the following sources;
Rain is not a reliable source of replenishment but does contribute. Due to its random nature (it never rains when you want it to) you should never rely on your water table being replenished by rain. Water from the shorelines however does replenish the water table a lot faster than water from rain, but seemingly not fast enough to cater for a sudden explosion in population. The outflow pipes from industrial buildings will put polluted water back into the ground. This doesn't show up as blue but even so, it is still water. It will need treating before it gets to your Sims but it is still present on the water table. Sewage Treatment facilities will replenish the water table during their normal operation. Sure they're pretty expensive to place but if you're heading towards a high population city you will need to cater for replenishing the water table just as much as getting garbage off your streets or keeping everything powered. Some tips for managing your water
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MIAMI -- Entering today, No. 20 Georgia Tech will be sitting atop the Atlantic Coast Conference's Coastal Division.
By nightfall, the Yellow Jackets may find themselves in fourth place.
That's how closely knit things are right now in the division. All six teams come into this weekend with either one or two losses in conference play.
And that means everyone pretty much still has a shot at the ACC title, including Miami. The Hurricanes have not won back-to-back games in nearly a year, but could jump right back into the thick of the division hunt if they can beat the Yellow Jackets.
And history is on Miami's side -- not Tech's: The Hurricanes have won the last two meetings between the schools by a combined 68-27.
When he was at Navy, Paul Johnson left a lasting impression on Miami coach Al Golden.
They crossed paths twice when Golden was coaching Temple, and both times Johnson's triple-option offense overpowered the Owls. Here's the numbers: 894 yards of total offense, 781 of them coming on the ground, and the Midshipmen won by a combined score of 72-25.
"He's the best," Golden said.
Golden has given that answer at least seven times in interview sessions this week when asked about Johnson and the offense he's known for running. He'd rather offer it again today, when the Hurricanes (3-3, 1-2 ACC) play host to Johnson and the 20th-ranked Yellow Jackets (6-1, 3-1) in a game that is critical for both teams.
With a win, Georgia Tech would be assured of staying atop the Coastal Division and would all but eliminate Miami from any title contention. Should the Hurricanes prevail for the third straight year, an already tight race -- all six teams in the division enter the weekend with either one or two conference losses -- could easily become further logjammed.
"Every time you play a division game, it's a huge game," Georgia Tech running back Roddy Jones said.
Georgia Tech fell from the unbeaten ranks last week, quickly falling into a two-touchdown hole and eventually losing, 24-21, at Virginia. Under Johnson, the bounce-back from a first ACC loss hasn't been a problem. Since Johnson came to Atlanta, the Yellow Jackets are 3-0 after their first ACC defeat each year, winning those games by an average of 16 points.
Technically, the loss to once-beaten-in-ACC-play Virginia means Tech no longer controls its destiny in the league race.
But Johnson isn't worried.
"We're disappointed that we lost, but the sky isn't falling," Johnson said. "The team is 6-1. Before you bury us let us play two more games. It seems like everyone wants to end the season and bury the team. Maybe they're right, but let's at least go play and see what happens."
Miami has felt like it's been getting buried since August when news broke of an investigation into claims a former booster had been tainting dozens of players and recruits since 2002.
In all, eight players were suspended for their role. All are back now, with defensive end Olivier Vernon's six-game banishment now completed. Miami may need him this week more than ever, not just because Georgia Tech is averaging nearly 348 yards of rushing alone per game, but because defensive tackle Micanor Regis will not play today because he punched a North Carolina player in the Hurricanes' win against the Tar Heels last weekend.
That being said, Miami would have justification to carry some confidence into today: The Hurricanes are coming off their first ACC win under Golden, and have owned the Yellow Jackets in the series for the past three seasons.
"We can be beaten any given Saturday," Miami linebacker Sean Spence said. "So we've got to stay focused. We know what to expect from Georgia Tech. They have some great athletes over there. You know you're going to be cut (blocked). You know what they're going to do on certain down-and-distance. But you still have to play their assignment, because at the same time you still don't know who has the ball. Everybody's got to do their job."
That's the beauty -- or the beast -- of the triple-option. There's misdirection on nearly every play, and if teams overplay the run, Georgia Tech can hit them harder through the air. Quarterback Tevin Washington has only 39 completions all season -- six different quarterbacks in major college football came into the week with more than that in single games this year alone -- but when he connects, the Yellow Jackets are getting an average of 27.6 yards per play.
"You can just see by the yards per catch that they get explosive plays," Golden said. "You've got to try to limit the explosive plays."
Miami quarterback Jacory Harris has been explosive at times as well this year.
The senior has 12 touchdowns and only three interceptions this season through his first five games. A year ago, he finished with 14 touchdowns and 15 interceptions, and Miami believes it has a great chance if turnovers are not an issue this week.
"It's quite a challenge to go to Miami and play," Johnson said. "I think that they're kind of starting to hit their stride now the last few games and playing extremely well. Jacory Harris is playing the best that I've seen him play."
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Cellar/Tasting Notes One of the all-time great Palmers... An opaque blue/black color suggests a wine with thrilling levels of concentration and intensity, and That's exactly what a taster gets.
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Cellar/Tasting Notes "One of the greatest young wines I have ever tasted, the monumental 2009 Cos d'Estournel has lived up to its pre-bottling potential. A remarkable effort from winemaking guru Jean-Guillaume Prats and owner Michel Reybier, this blend of 65% Cabernet Sauvignon and the rest Merlot (33%) and a touch..
Cellar/Tasting Notes "How much fun collectors will have comparing the 2007 and 2008 La Joies over the next three decades. A blend of 71% Cabernet Sauvignon, 14% Merlot and the rest Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot and Malbec (48% from Alexander Valley Mountain Estate, 34% from Chalk Hill and 18% from Knight's Valley), the..
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NEW LONDON MAN SENTENCED TO 10 YEARS IN David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WHEELER JOHNSON, 27, of New London, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for his role in a southeastern Connecticut drug trafficking organization. This matter stems from a joint law enforcement investigation headed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in conjunction with the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Connecticut State Police, Norwich Police Department, Groton Town Police Department, New London Police Department, Waterford Police Department, the State of Connecticut's Department of Correction and Office of Adult Probation. The nine-month investigation included the use of court-authorized wiretaps, controlled purchases of cocaine and crack cocaine, and physical surveillance. The investigation revealed that, in 2009, Lamont Muller and others were involved in the distribution of large amounts of cocaine, crack cocaine, oxycodone and marijuana in southeastern Connecticut. During the course of the investigation, investigators learned that JOHNSON supplied cocaine to members of the drug trafficking ring. JOHNSON was arrested on October 30, 2009. On that date, law enforcement officers conducted a search of JOHNSON's vehicle and located a hidden compartment, or "trap," within the car. Inside the compartment, agents found and seized approximately 1.2 kilograms of cocaine and $10,000 in cash. Agents also subsequently seized approximately $50,000 in jewelry and watches from a safety deposit box maintained my JOHNSON. JOHNSON has been detained since his arrest. On September 24, 2010, JOHNSON pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine. On that same date, Lamont Muller, also known as "Dell," pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, 50 grams or more of cocaine base and a quantity of marijuana and oxycodone. On March 30, 2011, Muller was sentenced to 135 months of imprisonment. This case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Sarah P. Karwan and Anthony P. Kaplan. | |
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Pennsylvania Farm Bureau (PFB) has announced that four farmers have been elected to the organization's State Board of Directors during PFB's 62nd Annual Meeting in Hershey. The new board members include Matthew Balliet of Luzerne County, Andrew Flinchbaugh of York County, Glenn Stoltzfus of Somerset County and George Wherry of Washington County.
Matthew Balliet operates a grain and cattle operation and also runs a custom harvest business. Balliet has served as president of the Luzerne County Farm Bureau, chairman of state and national legislative committees, state Young Farmer and Rancher committee chairman and vice chairman of the American Farm Bureau Federation Young Farmer and Rancher program. Balliet was elected to District 4, which represents farmers in Carbon, Columbia, Luzerne and Schuylkill counties. He replaces Keith Masser of Schuylkill County.
Andrew Flinchbaugh owns Flinchbaugh's Orchard and Farm Market in partnership with his parents, brother and sister. As part of the diversified farm operation, Andrew oversees 1,600 acres of grain crops. The farm sells directly to the public through its farm market, which also offers agritainment activities. Andrew has served as president and vice president of the York County Farm Bureau, and also as policy development coordinator. He was elected as a board member in District 8, representing farmers from Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon and York counties. Flinchbaugh replaces Jay Kopp of Dauphin County.
Glenn Stoltzfus manages a dairy herd of 550 cows in partnership with his three brothers. The family also farms 1,200 acres of owned and rented ground, which produces corn and hay. Glenn also does custom work for nearby farms and markets hay. Glenn was president of the Somerset County Farm Bureau for six years and served on the county's legislative committee. He will represent farmers in Bedford, Blair and Somerset counties as part of District 11. Stoltzfus replaces Nila Cogan of Somerset County.
George Wherry operates a 500-head sheep and beef cattle operation in Washington County on 370 acres of pasture. Wherry has served as president of the Washington County Farm Bureau for the past three years. Previously, he served for 23 years as a school board member for the Bentworth School District. George represents District 16, which is made up of farmers from Fayette, Greene, Washington and Westmoreland counties. He replaces Ed Rinkhoff of Fayette County.
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With Peyton Manning in 2010, Jacob Tamme recorded a career-high 67 catches for 631 yards and four scores — all in the last 10 games of the season after fellow tight end Dallas Clark was placed on injured reserve.
Tamme knows he has a chance to put up similar numbers reunited with Manning in Denver this season — but individual goals aren't his biggest concern with the start of training camp less than 24 hours away.
"I feel like it's my job to do what I'm supposed to do to help the team win," Tamme said. "Some games that might be catching 10 balls, some games it might not be catching any balls. It might be blocking more, it might be whatever. I certainly think there's opportunity for everyone to get involved and have fun and have numbers and all that stuff, but that's not what it's about for me and I don't think that's what anybody's real focus is on."
The tight end didn't shy away from addressing the high expectations surrounding the team this season, and while he isn't worried about his personal statistics, he hopes he, Joel Dreessen and the rest of the tight end corps can help the team accomplish its goals.
"You see teams using multiple tight ends and having a lot of success with it," he said. "We should be able to do a lot of different things, that being one of them. There's nothing that gets you more excited than getting a chance to get out there and show what you could do and hopefully make some plays to help the team win the game."
As for how ready the team is to go out and make those plays, Tamme said that even though the offense installed a lot during the summer, there's still plenty to do throughout training camp.
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"These next couple weeks will be really important," he said, "and I think everyone's looking forward to it."
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Therese "Terri" Margaret Heino, 84, of Hibbing, died Friday, Feb. 1, 2013, at her residence.
Therese "Terri" Margaret Heino, 84, of Hibbing, died Friday, Feb. 1, 2013, at her residence.
Terri was born in Ely to Werner and Florence Wolff May 17, 1928. She had been employed with Hibbing Community College as a bookkeeper for over 20 years. She enjoyed playing bridge, bocce ball and working crossword puzzles.
Terri was a member of the Blessed Sacrament Parish in Hibbing.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Creighton "Bud" Heino; son Jim Heino; brother Jim Wolff; brother-in-law George Fischer; and her parents.
Terri is survived by her daughter, Sandy (Steve) Carlson, of Hibbing; twin sister Mary Evelyn Fischer of Hibbing; daughter-in-law Vicki Heino of Littleton, Colo.; grandchildren Andrea Carlson of San Francisco, Calif., Greg (fiancée Mindy Crawford) Carlson of Cottage Grove, Minn., Cassie (Chris) Haw of Camden, N.J., and Libby (Regan) Haw of Denver, Colo.; two great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
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On the other hand, the 91-year old Democratic Senator Robert Byrd [WV] was rushed to the hospital today after falling in his home. It's looking increasingly likely that Byrd's health will not allow his to participate in the health care debate and vote, which would mean that the Democrats would be effectively back down to 59.
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I'd Drink A Case: New Scottish Beer Takes Cake For Highest Alcohol Content at 32%
Well folks, there's a new drunkest beer in town. And that beer is Tactical Nuclear Penguin by BrewDog Brewery in Scottland -- at 32% alcohol by volume content. I WANT IT INSIDE ME! Too bad it's gonna cost $49.50 a bottle. I'm sticking to isopropyl!
A warning on the label states: "This is an extremely strong beer; it should be enjoyed in small servings and with an air of aristocratic nonchalance. In exactly the same manner that you would enjoy a fine whisky, a Frank Zappa album or a visit from a friendly yet anxious ghost."
However Jack Law, of Alcohol Focus Scotland, described it was a "cynical marketing ploy" and said: "We want to know why a brewer would produce a beer almost as strong as whisky."
I don't know what kind of idiot test you have to pass to join Alcohol Focus Scotland, but for the sake of Jack Law, the answer is, "to get people drunk". Jesus, it's not rocket surgery.
'World's strongest' beer with 32% strength launched [bbcnews]
Thanks to 2MechanicalArms, Kitteh and Ross, who once drank 240% alcohol and loved every sip of it.
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UWAOH traded in a bunch of games to get smt4 only 2 find out club nintendo has some deal where you get 30 bux in nintendo estore credit if you register it and fire emblem. Since I already registered fire emblem I basically got 30 bucks for buying a game I was gonna get anyway.
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Definition of quartet in English:
Line breaks: quar|tetPronunciation: /kwɔːˈtɛt
(also quartette)
- 1A group of four people playing music or singing together.More example sentences
- He believes that you increase your understanding by playing in small ensembles - three, four or five people in trios, quartets and quintets.
- Each of the cafes along the edges of the square had a band, mostly quartets playing classical music or jazz or some show tunes.
- A chamber music quartet was rehearsing for a Vivaldi recital, and it was gorgeous.
- 1.1A composition for a quartet: a Beethoven quartetMore example sentences
- This quartet is musically closer to the quartets of fellow Theresienstadt composers Ullmann and Schulhoff.
- His earliest extant chamber music for strings comprises the two sextets: in these the additional instruments give a full sound, which he achieved eventually in the quartets composed in middle life.
- The sound of the Zehetmair Quartet - refined, lean and coolly transparent - isn't obviously suited to full-blooded romantic works like the quartets Schumann composed in 1840.
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- The plate is composed of a quartet of salads around a small mound of baby greens.
- It's a good bet that at least 11 of the 12 drivers who will make NASCAR's version of the playoffs will come from this quartet of teams.
- Astronomers using telescopes on Mauna Kea have found an extremely rare quartet of stars that orbit each other within a region smaller than Jupiter's orbit round the Sun.
early 17th century (in the general sense 'set of four'): from French quartette, from Italian quartetto, from quarto 'fourth', from Latin quartus.
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René Bernards, Ph.D., professor of molecular carcinogenesis at The Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, hosted a press conference featuring some of the major scientific findings presented at the conference.
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Summary: This module provides word problems which develop concepts related to direct variation.
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Jeanette Early Gold Star Wives of America National President 2012-2013
Please join me in welcoming the Cheyenne MountainChapter to the national organization of Gold Star Wives of America. The officers of the Cheyenne Mountain Chapter wereinstalled March 5, 2013 at Fort Carson, Colorado in a lovely inaugural ceremony consisting of seven charter members. Support and participation was rendered by Fort Carson's Battalion Chaplain CPT Dell Harlow-Curtis, and the Casualty Assistance Officer. Several representatives from related service and support organizations enhanced the ceremony, which included: Gold Star Mothers from Pikes Peak Chapter –President Marylin Stites, Angelika McShan and Scoti Domeij; Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors
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