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Extent and Forms of Material: 4 cubic feet, including one
videotape and 9 oversize folders (8 boxes)
Creator: Division of Science, Medicine and Society, National
Museum of American History
Abstract: Collection assembled by Museum curators documents
the efforts of persons in eight states to have the Superconducting Super Collider
(SSC), a particle accelerator, built in their state. Also documents efforts
in each state to oppose locating the SSC in their state. The collection contains
correspondence, press kits, posters, signs, bumper stickers, leaflets, handbills,
clippings, photographs, and a videotape.
Repository: Archives Center, National Museum of American History,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; firstname.lastname@example.com;
202-633-3270; www.americanhistory.si.edu/archives
Collection Number: AC0538
Processing Note: Processed by Paul Lagasse (intern), August
9, 1996; supervised by Craig Orr, archivist
Acknowledgement Statement: Valuable information and suggestions
about the SSC's history and archival legacy came from several people: Adrienne
Kolb, Fermilab Archives; Steve Weiss, Virginia Tech; Joe Anderson, American
Institute for Physics/Center for History of Physics; Marjorie Ciarlante, National
Archives and Records Administration; Betsy Scroger, United States Department
of Energy Archives; and Pat Gossel, Smita Dutta, and Ann Seeger of the National
Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
Conditions Governing Access: The collection
is open for research use.
Physical Access: Researchers must handle unprotected
photographs with gloves. Researchers must use reference copies
of audio-visual materials. When no reference copy exists, the
Archives Center staff will produce reference copies on an "as
needed" basis, as resources allow.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use: Copyright
held by the Smithsonian Institution. Collection items available
for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees
concerning copyright restrictions. Reproduction permission from
Archives Center: fees for commercial use.
Preferred Citation: [Title and date of item],
Superconducting Super Collider Collection, 1985-1992, Archives
Center, National Museum of American History, box number X, folder
number XX, digital file number XXXXXXXX
The Superconducting Super Collider (SSC), if built, would have
been the world's most expensive instrument for basic science.
It would have allowed physicists to study the collisions of subatomic
particles in conditions approximating those of the Big Bang, the
beginning of the universe. The SSC design called for a 10-foot
wide tunnel to be laid out in an oval pattern similar to a racetrack,
approximately 53 miles in circumference and 14 miles in diameter.
The tunnel, buried several hundred feet underground, would have
contained nearly 10,000 superconducting magnets. Small clusters
of buildings located above the tunnel were planned to house the
SSC's offices, laboratories, and control facilities. All of these
structures would have made the SSC the largest particle accelerator
in the world and, at an estimated cost of between $4.4 and $11.8
billion, one of the largest public works projects ever undertaken
in the United States.
Physicists planned to use the SSC's superconducting magnets
to accelerate two streams of protons (particles with a positive
electrical charge that forming part of the nucleus of an atom)
to a velocity of 20 trillion electron-volts (TeV) in opposite
directions within the tunnel's parallel beam tubes. They would
then deflect the two streams into each other and study the particles
that were created in the resulting high-speed collisions. From
these events, physicists hoped to detect particles never seen
before and learn more about the composition of matter.
In January 1987, President Reagan publicly declared his support
for the proposed SSC, to be built under the authority of the Department
of Energy (DOE). States were invited to submit site proposals
for the project, and from the twenty-five states that responded,
eight finalists were selected: Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Michigan,
New York, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.
The huge scale of the SSC meant that it would have a significant
environmental and cultural impact on the area selected. The SSC
would, one source estimated, "require 16,000 acres of donated
land, a flow of between 500 and 2,200 gallons of water a minute
and up to 250-megawatts of power, as well as accessibility to
a major airport, so the world's scientists can fly in and out."1
In many of the finalist states, opponents of the SSC organized
and actively campaigned against the project. They raised issues
such as the threat to uproot hundreds of people from their homes
or create heavy tax and utility burdens. Opponents attended public
hearings on SSC issues, distributed leaflets by mail and by hand,
and conducted letter-writing campaigns to local politicians. In
New York, Citizens Against the Collider Here (CATCH) was able
to force the state to withdraw from the competition. Groups in
other states learned from the New York group's experiences and
used similar techniques in their own campaigns, sometimes adopting
the name CATCH. As one CATCH activist recalled, "opponents
were not against the SSC or basic sciences, however they did not
believe that they should be forced out of their homes for the
Supporters of the SSC, on the other hand, addressed the concerns
of the citizens by writing editorials or distributing pamphlets
responding to particular issues or questions. Prominent city officials
and politicians traveled to the proposed sites to discuss the
economic and scientific benefits of the SSC, and cities distributed
bumper stickers supporting the project. Scientists rebuffed claims
that the SSC would produce large amounts of deadly radioactivity
and contaminate the entire area. Supporters promised that, "the
SSC project would bring federal funding, international prestige,
and jobs—starting with 4,500 construction jobs, and later
2,500 full-time research staff positions."3
In November 1988, the Department of Energy declared the winning
site to be Ellis County, Texas, southwest of Dallas near the town
of Waxahachie. Full-scale construction began three years later
with the building of laboratory facilities for the design and
manufacture of the SSC's superconducting magnets. Contractors
began boring the main tunnel and several vertical access shafts
in January 1993.
The anticipated tremendous costs that dogged the project eventually
helped undermine it. In June 1992 and again in June 1993, the
House voted to cancel funds for the SSC; both times, the Senate
restored funding. However, in October 1993 the House rejected
the Senate's second restoration, and President Clinton echoed
Congress's decision to cancel further work on the SSC. The project
received a small budget to support termination activities through
1996. Once the remaining projects were shut down and the scientists
and staff dispersed, only several empty buildings in the rural
Texas countryside, and fourteen miles of tunnel underneath it,
remained of the once-ambitious facility.
At the National Museum of American History, planning for the
Science in American Life exhibit—which would examine how
science, technology, and American society have intersected over
a hundred-year period—began in 1990, at the same time that
preparations were being made in Texas to build the Super Collider.
Early in the planning phases, Smithsonian curators decided to
dedicate a section of the exhibit to the SSC. This section was
intended to be a "work in progress" that would change
over time as the collider was built, reflecting the current and
ongoing debates over the massive machine.
The exhibition design called for using materials donated by
both supporters and opponents of the SSC. Early in the exhibit's
development the curators began contacting organizations and individuals
who both supported and opposed the SSC, asking if they still had
materials related to their efforts. Over a two-year period, the
curators collected a wide range of items in more than twenty donations,
ranging from bumper stickers, t-shirts and hats, to newspaper
clippings, maps, and copies of state site proposals.
The design of the SSC portion of the Science in American Life
exhibit became permanent with the closing of the SSC in late 1993.
The SSC portion now focuses on the roles that special interest
groups, protest, and grass-roots political campaigns play in large-scale
scientific endeavors. Many of the donated items were included
in the exhibit.
1 DeMott, John S. and J. Madeleine
Nash, "Super Push for a Supercollider," Time,
April 13, 1987, p. 19, Box 2, Folder 20.
2 "Alexander Narrative,"
a brief typescript history of the New York CATCH organization,
Box 3, Folder 14.
3 Koszczuk, Jackie. "Anti-SSC
Felling CATCH-es On Fast," Daily Star News (Fort
Worth, Texas), September 17, 1988, p. 4, Box 2, Folder 5.
The SSC Collection, 1985-1992 (bulk 1987-1989), consists of a
broad range of material, including original and photocopied news
clippings, correspondence, bound volumes, oversized maps, posters,
signs, handbills, leaflets, bumper stickers, press kits, certificates,
lists of wells, transparencies, editorial cartoons, two photographs,
and one videotape. The material dates from 1985 to 1992, with
the bulk of the material dating from 1987 to 1989.
The collection is arranged into nine series, one for each of
the eight finalist states and one for miscellaneous materials.
Within each series, materials are grouped by the name of the donor.
The SSC Collection represents the "Not In My Back Yard
Syndrome" (NIMBY) which many large public works projects
face from local citizens who face disruption in their community.
Because the collection reflects the research efforts of Museum
curators over a limited time for use in a relatively small section
of an exhibit, it is incomplete and selective in its representation
of local support and opposition of the SSC. For example, the fact
that the series for Arizona only contains materials that show
support for the SSC does not mean that there was no opposition
to siting the SSC in Arizona. Additionally, the collection does
not represent opposition to the SSC by scientists who believed
that the collider would siphon funds from other Federally-supported
science projects.
A unique strength of the collection lies in its documentation
of how different opposition groups responded to the same threat.
Some groups were highly organized, their members being engineers
and scientists who responded with sophisticated, scientifically-based
arguments; some were looser groups that appealed to emotions or
played on fears and rumors. The methods and tactics of both supporters
and opponents are well documented in newspaper clippings, as well
as in the publications and copies of public statements by group
The collection is also valuable as a "pre-history"
of the now defunct SSC Project; site proposals from seven of the
eight states, the 1988 and 1990 Department of Energy (DOE) environmental
impact statements, and proposed site maps all provide background
to the SSC from a state-level perspective prior to the actual
creation of the collider.
The SSC project was canceled by Congress in 1993.
This collection was donated by individuals connected in various
ways to the SSC. The items were donated from personal collections,
official files, and the project archives of several different
institutions. The donors were Gail Adair, Mary Lou and Dr. Jim
Alexander, Representative Joe Barton, Jean Caddel, Coby Chase,
Bill Dunn, the Fermi National Laboratory Library, David L. Gross,
Bill Herbert, Larry Jones, Sharon Lough, Uriel Nauenberg, Doug
McCuen, Ian McPherson, Andrea Miller, Brian L. Petty, the Red
Oak Chamber of Commerce, Pat and Dr. Robert Sanders, the Waxahachie
Chamber of Commerce, J. Fred Weinhold, Mari Beth Williams, and
Stan L. Yonkauski. A brief statement identifying donors and their
connections to the SSC accompanies each subseries in the container
Transferred from the Division of Science, Medicine, and Society
October 6, 1995.
When the SSC entered its termination phase in 1993, the Records
Management Department of the project began grouping the official
records of the SSC into five "disposition packages."
These packages were in various stages of being assembled, shipped,
received, and processed for research use and were dispersed to:
the Fort Worth Regional Federal Records Center; Fermi National
Accelerator Laboratory ("Fermilab") Archives; Niels
Bohr Library, Center for History of Physics, American Institute
for Physics; Ronald Reagan Presidential Library; and Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory Archives.
Citizens Against the Collider Here (CATCH)
Environmental protection—Citizen participation
Environmental impact analysis
NIMBY Syndrome
Superconducting Super Collider
Texas-Environmental protection
Bumper stickers
Clippings—20th century
Posters—20th century
Signs (declaratory or advertising artifacts)
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Town residents say the automated calls from the NRA began last week and urge people to tell their state legislators to oppose gun control proposals. Lawmakers are debating whether to ban military-style assault weapons, prohibit high-capacity ammunition magazines and other measures in response to the school shootings.
Dan O'Donnell lives in the Sandy Hook section of Newtown and told WVIT-TV that the robocalls are "ridiculous and insensitive."
Messages seeking comment were left with the NRA, which like other nonprofit groups is allowed to make robocalls under federal law.
A gunman killed 20 first-graders, six educators and himself in December after shooting his mother to death.
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Middletown Mayor Daniel Drew said every one of the city's 200 miles of road now has at least one lane of traffic getting by, but there's still plenty of work to complete to fully recover after Blizzard Charlotte dumped 3 feet of snow in several Connecticut cities and towns.
Many Middletown residents were snowed-in and cut-off from the rest of society after the storm on Friday and Saturday, and for Chris Colavito the sight of a pay loader was a welcome sight.
"They did come up the first night and they got stuck," Colavito said. "They said the amount of snow, they needed a pay loader first. We put in a lot of calls and they finally responded."
After being stranded for days, an army of trucks made their way up the hill, also getting to Knoll Ridge Court.
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Morda said it's been a nightmare.
Her husband is in the hospital and with no easy way to get out, she said that's where her family has been spending their nights.
Finally, on Tuesday morning, some progress.
It was all-hands-on-deck as plow trucks, along with an industrial snow blower carved a path through the snow packed road.
It wasn't easy though. Even the plow got stuck for a few minutes.
"We're glad they're here," Morda said. "I'm appalled it took so long."
Drew said crews from Public Works, the Water Department and Parks & Recreation have been clearing out roads nonstop since the storm struck.
He said the first priorities were clearing the main roads along with Middlesex Hospital, the fire department and police stations.
While the roads in Middletown are open, Drew said the city should be getting four additional pay loaders and two excavators from the state to help with the cleanup process.
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As American labor began gearing up for the 2004 election, many activists joined high-profile protests a year ago against free trade, mistreatment of immigrants, and the erosion of union organizing rights.
The Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride was the most widely publicized of these events, with stops throughout the country and a rally of 100,000 in New York City as its grand finale. Soon afterwards, industrial union members marched in Miami, as part of heavily-policed street demonstrations against the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). And then, last Dec. 10, the AFL- CIO and Jobs with Justice held a nationwide day of action, with mass picketing and rallies in seventy cities, to promote "workers rights as human rights" and labor law reform.
There are no better election-year guides to these interconnected issues–globalization, trade, immigration, and unionization–than David Bacon's Children of NAFTA and Leon Fink's The Maya of Morganton. Their work confirms what many Kerry supporters in the ranks of labor already suspect. Even if we elect a new President who has, on the campaign trail, professed belated concern about union-busting, out-sourcing, and the adverse impact of free trade (which he helped to promote), unions will still be in trouble. Without major changes in labor law, trade policy, immigration rules, and our common political economy, the climate for organizing, bargaining, and strike activity will remain unfavorable–on both sides of the Rio Grande.
Bacon provides a sweeping, cross-border look at the deteriorating conditions of life and work in the decade since ratification of NAFTA–the North American Free Trade Agreement that FTAA would extend to all of South America. The author is a former United Farm Workers supporter and in-plant organizer for the United Electrical Workers (UE) in California. After retooling as a labor photo- journalist, he devoted nearly a decade to interviewing and photographing Mexican workers in their homeland and in "El Norte." Children of NAFTA describes, in dismaying detail, how trade liberalization has intensified the exploitation of workers in the factories and fields of both countries.
Instead of raising living standards and promoting economic prosperity–as promised by boosters like Bill Clinton and John Kerry–NAFTA has spawned more child labor, horrendous health and safety conditions, downward pressure on wages and benefits, massive job loss, and increased management resistance to union ionization. To add insult to injury, many employers in Mexico's maquiladora zone are now, on NAFTA's tenth birthday, picking up and leaving for places where labor is even cheaper– China being their main forwarding address.
Fink looks at a narrower, but no less complex, example of labor displacement and migration. His book traces the odyssey of peasant villagers, who fled war-torn Guatemala in the 1980s to find work first as fruit pickers in Florida and, later as, chicken processors in western North Carolina. While teaching at the University of North Carolina, three hours away, Fink became a close observer of the Mayan community in rural Morganton that sustained a protracted organizing struggle at Case Farms, a 500- worker poultry plant.
Part of a larger Hispanic influx into the Southern poultry industry, the Guatemalans hired by Case spoke four different indigenous languages (Q'anjob'al, Awakateko, Ki'ich'e, and Mam). Most had never worked in a factory before. Nevertheless, the Maya–mainly single men without families–were initially seen as a boon to productivity and much preferred to Mexicans (because of the latter's tendency to seek time off for holiday visits home). "Guatemalans can't go home," one Case Farms manager explained to Fink. "They're here as political refugees. If they go back home, they get shot." For that portion of the Guatemalan civil war diaspora that landed in Morganton, sanctuary from right-wing death squads came at a price. Chicken- plucking is hard, dangerous, messy work, with high turn-over and low pay. Not only were the new arrivals more willing to engage in this labor than local whites or African-Americans, they also proved far more resistant to factory discipline and management control. In September, 1991, Case Farms made a sudden scheduling change that imposed speed-up and a pay cut on the night shift–triggering a walk-out by twenty Guatemalans. This became the opening shot in an extraordinary shop- floor war–a kind of mini-J.P. Stevens saga, without the successful corporate campaign or happy ending. In addition to its insights into immigrant culture and community structure, The Maya of Morganton thus serves as a detailed case study in worker self-activity, organizing rights violations, and first contract frustration.
As chronicled by Fink, labor-management skirmishing at Case Farms continued for ten years. Its highlights included another spontaneous in-plant work refusal in 1993, resulting in mass arrests; a four-day strike in 1995, which drew the Laborers Union into a winning NLRB election campaign; more protest walkouts in 1996, culminating in an 8-day strike over the company's legal foot-dragging and refusal to bargain; a Supreme Court decision compelling the start of negotiations in 1998; twelve months of fruitless talks, followed by further unfair labor practices that resulted in the company being cited for bad faith bargaining again; and, finally, after another round of court-ordered negotiations in 2001, LIUNA's decision to abandon the costly campaign (in favor of a modest two-year commitment to fund a local "workers center" to aid Case Farms workers).
Fink brings this heroic yet ultimately tragic story to life with vivid portraits of in-plant leaders, rank- and-file workers who waged (and sometimes gave up) the fight, their helpers in local churches and community groups, and various outside union organizers and lawyers, who joined the fray along the way. ("Prompted in part by publicity about the Case Farms conflict," the Clinton Administration promised to intervene as well–with an investigation of "sweatshop conditions" in the poultry industry; subsequent pressure from industry lobbyists, like Tyson Foods, caused Labor Secretary Alexis Herman to put the probe on hold instead.)
A similar cast of characters can be found in most chapters of Children. As Bacon reports, Case Farm- type situations arise routinely in Mexico–in the context of bitterly-contested independent union organizing drives. These are opposed by maquiladora managers, state and federal government officials, and the "charro" unions– corrupt labor organizations allied with the employers and the still-powerful Party of the Institutionalized Revolution (PRI). One-sided though it may be, the conflict between new and old political forces in Mexico has given rise to what one left-wing activist hopes will be:
"A new labor movement, more intelligent and more innovative. Already, people building independent organizations along the border are much better than the leadership of the old unions. They are more concerned about health, and the use of toxic substances in the work process. Their movement is very spontaneous and makes allies with neighborhood organizations, with farmers and with teachers, and with people from across the border." Bacon's workplace tour includes a stop at Tijuana's Plasticos Bajacal, a plant which relocated from the U.S. in response to a UFCW organizing drive and then– with its new, largely female workforce– became the scene of an early (but unsuccessful) workplace challenge to Mexican company unionism. The author devotes a key chapter to the better known story of Han Young de Mexico, where a tangled union recognition fight became " the most important labor battle in Tijuana's history…whose repercussions were felt from the U.S. Congress to the Los Pinos residence of Mexico's president."
The Han Young workers were initially aided by Mexico's Frente Autentico de Trabajo (FAT), an anti- NAFTA, dissident labor group with close ties to the UE. After the new union in the plant was denied government certification in 1997–despite winning a representation election–its U.S. allies attempted to utilize the NAFTA labor side agreement, which created a cross- border complaint process. Unfortunately, as twenty other complainants found, "those side agreements, heralded as protection for labor and environmental rights…had already served their purpose long before. In 1993, their promise of protection provided political cover for liberal Democrats who wanted to vote with President Clinton, and thus produced the slim margin of Congressional votes needed to approve NAFTA.
The Han Young support campaign exposed this underside of NAFTA at a critical juncture–just as President Clinton was trying (in vain) to win "fast track" negotiating authority for future trade deals. At a hearing held in San Diego by the U.S. Department of Labor's National Administrative Office (NAO), Han Young workers testified about management's violations of both Mexican labor law and workplace safety rules. Neither had been enforced because that would be "contrary to the purpose for which NAFTA was negotiated in the first place–creating conditions favorable to investment."
Not surprisingly–given her Case Farms role–Alexis Herman arranged a toothless settlement of the case with her Mexican counterpart. It left Han Young workers still exposed to hazardous conditions, unfair dismissals, black-listing, and strike-related violence by private thugs and police. Some were even roughed up when they attended a"Seminar on Union Freedom" organized by the Mexican labor ministry to explain the NAO settlement!
In Bacon's view, NAFTA has nevertheless been a useful, if painful, dope slap here–"stirring workers into a profound debate, surging up from the floors of union halls and workplaces, prodding them into an extensive re-examination of their relations with their Mexican counter-parts." As a result, "the border isn't just a showcase for NAFTA's victims." It has become a laboratory for new forms of labor internationalism, as practiced by the various grassroots groups we meet in the book–the San Diego-based Support Committee for Maquiladora Workers, the Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras, the North American Worker to Worker Network, and others. According to the author:
"This cross-border solidarity movement not only provides material support for embattled workers. As maquiladora-style production itself transforms the economies of developing countries like Mexico, this movement in response to it offers a proving ground for a new model of international relationships between workers and unions."
Bacon's account of the tumultuous world of Mexican labor politics shows that cross-border cooperation is just one element of labor resistance to neo- liberalism. Another key ingredient is political independence. In Mexico, several important unions took a big step in this direction when, led by the telephone workers, they broke with the PRI-dominated Congreso de Trabajo (Labor Congress) and formed the rival National Union of Workers (UNT), which includes the FAT. As Bacon notes, the UNT has since led the fight for labor law reform in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies, relying on allies in the Party of Democratic Revolution (PRD), the left-leaning alternative to the PRI and President Vicente Fox's National Action Party (PAN), "We believe it's indispensable to democratize the world of work," says telephone union leader and UNT founder Francisco Hernandez Juarez," because the workers have been kidnapped by their own unions."
In the U.S.-even in the AFL-CIO's progressive wing– there's far less consciousness of the need for a new unionism based on workplace militancy, internal democracy, and independent politics. Even if their campaigning for Kerry succeeds this Fall, American unions will soon face the harsh reality emphasized by Bacon: "Whether liberals or conservatives hold office, in Washington, Mexico City or Toronto, they're all committed to free trade." To challenge that bi-partisan consensus–and the corporate domination it reflects– labor and the social movements must act together, more effectively, everywhere that workers are threatened "as the NAFTA model is extended southward."
The Children of NAFTA: Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexican Border, by David Bacon, University of California Press, 2004, 348 pp.
The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New South, by Leon Fink, University of North Carolina Press, 2003, 254 pp.
(Steve Early writes frequently about workplace issues and unions for Labor Notes, The Nation, The Boston Globe, and many other publications. He has helped coordinate cross-border solidarity work between members of the Communications Workers of America and a sister union in Colombia. He can be reached at [email protected])


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The Detroit Lions faced a big hole, one that was largely Matthew Stafford's creation. But Stafford dug them out, with an assist from his defense, and the Lions won a 49-35 shootout over the Carolina Panthers in Detroit.
Stafford threw two early interceptions, but recovered to throw for 335 yards and five touchdowns. No Detroit receiver had more than seven catches, and all five touchdown passes went to different receivers, but Calvin Johnson, who led the Lions with 89 receiving yards, caught none of them.
Kevin Smith had one of those touchdown catches, and added 140 yards and two touchdowns on the ground.
Cam Newton's day was statistically significant (280 passing yards and a touchdown, and two rushing touchdowns), but his four interceptions prevented the Panthers from pulling out the win on the road.
Kealoha Pilares' 102-yard kickoff return in the first half helped Carolina build a 24-7 lead, but it evaporated midway through the third quarter in the midst of 21 straight second-half points by Detroit.
The win pushes Detroit to 7-3 on the season. Carolina falls to 2-8 with the loss.
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NASCAR gravity pulls hard. Not to the oldest days of moonshine and Confederate flags, thankfully, but still to its Deep South roots. And so the culture shock that is coming may take a bit more time to absorb and might never be fully accepted, but make no mistake, change is ahead if it isn't already here.
The very top of this sport's history will belong to Jimmie Johnson someday soon — an eventuality that felt an awful lot like a certainty Sunday evening down at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
Old School race fans going back generations had better be prepared.
The revered ghost of The Intimidator, Dale Earnhardt, will step aside.
So will the living legend they call the King, Richard Petty.
The small message every driver has seen comes to mind: "Warning. Objects in Rear-View Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear."
Racing's two Southern icons will soon enough make room for the outsider, the guy with the GQ looks from California, the modern-day dominator who doesn't possess a great nickname like Petty or Earnhardt but seems destined to soon answer to this one:
The Best Ever.
Johnson won his sixth NASCAR Sprint Cup season championship Sunday to overshadow race winner Denny Hamlin and, more important, to pull right up to the bumpers of Petty and Earnhardt. To get ever closer in that rear-view mirror.
Both legends still share the all-time lead with seven season crowns, but it took Petty 16 years and Earnhardt 15 years to go from their first NASCAR title to their seventh. It has taken Johnson only eight seasons to go from his first to his sixth in his No. 48 Chevrolet. Nobody had ever won five in a row like he did in 2006-10. Now, after two years generously allowing others to borrow his trophy, he has reclaimed what is his.
Jimmie just turned 38, by the way.
He ain't done yet. Not close.
His excellence and ruthless consistency make it seem inevitable he'll pass Petty and Earnhardt on racing's ultimate victory lane. Bear in mind Johnson also has had two second-place season finishes and also nearly won last year's crown. He very easily could have been racing for his record-tying seventh title on Sunday.
The King himself seems ready to abdicate.
"He's liable to go eight to 10," Petty estimated Johnson's eventual hardware.
Hamlin, Sunday's race winner, put well the frustration for Johnson's contemporaries to be stuck on his historic timeline.
"Unfortunately, we're racing in the Jimmie Johnson era. I can say I think he's the greatest there ever was, racing against the best competition the sport has ever seen," Hamlin said. "The 48, they just never have a bad race. They don't make mistakes."
Former quarterback Donovan McNabb said recently he doesn't consider Johnson an athlete. Somebody give Donovan a Breathalyzer. Johnson is a triathlete who runs half-marathons, snowboards, rides dirt bikes. He has introduced health, fitness and training to NASCAR in much the same way Tiger Woods did in golf.
Oh, and he drives a car 180 mph in heavy traffic for three hours, risking death.
"Yes, I'm an athlete," Johnson said Sunday, grinning.
Johnson is the best kind of athlete.
The one who dominates.
Said Sunday's race and season runnerup Matt Kenseth: "We've never seen anything like this in the sport and never will again."
Johnson may never be as beloved as Petty or especially Earnhardt, whose racing-related death only grew his legend. And Johnson may never have the aura of the only two men he is chasing (and gaining on). Theirs were larger-than-life, caricature personas.
But respect for Johnson and what he is doing must come now, and in full.
Simply put, it is harder to win now than in the time of Petty and Earnhardt. Depth of competition is greater. NASCAR averages 14 different winners per season now, vs. 12 in Earnhardt's era and 10 in Petty's. There are 43 cars in a race now, more than before. There are 36 races in a season now; prior to the 1970s there were twice that many.
Johnson characteristically demurred Sunday on all the place-in-history talk, calling the conversation "a huge honor," but saying, "I think we need to save the argument 'til I hang up the helmet."
No. Of course, we don't.
And the one driver with the most intimate opinion on the matter knows it, too.
"There is no doubt you can't but put him in that conservation," Dale Earnhardt Jr. said of Johnson's place with his father and Petty.
The six-time champ's team owner Rick Hendrick said of his star driver: "I like to use the {Bill] Parcells quote, 'You are what your record says you are.'"
The wonder of Johnson isn't just the ultimate hardware (times six). His 66 race wins since his first in 2002 are 30 more than anybody else in that time. (Tony Stewart is next with 36, barely half as many).
Johnson's dominance is such that it begs comparing with other greats in other sports. Think of the Heat's LeBron James, Roger Federer in tennis, slugger Miguel Cabrera, swimmer Michael Phelps, Tiger Woods – anybody, any sport.
You'd better make room for Jimmie Johnson.
As an aside, this was the 12th year NASCAR has ended its season at Homestead – one of South Florida's annual jewel events drawing some 70,000 fans – and the first race since the death of the track's visionary and founder, Ralph Sanchez, whose family attended the race.
I was reminded of that as Johnson got emotional about his own family after the race, his voice wavering as he thanked his wife Chandra for her support. Their daughter, Genevieve, 3, sat in the crook of her daddy's right arm.
"My grandmother passed away one month ago, and I'm without grandparents now, which is a sad thing," Johnson said. "I know there was an angel, maybe four angels, riding on this car. They were so proud of what I'm chasing."
What he is chasing is racing history.
And he's gaining on it. Fast.


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The challenge for Leaky's February contest was to design a rubber duck for Arthur Weasley. The winners have now been selected, and we're sure Mr. Weasley would have been overjoyed with all of your concepts!
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Count me among those who haven't quite understood why Dale Earnhardt Jr. – as tech-savvy as he is – has yet to embrace social networking.
Earnhardt Jr.'s presence on Facebook and Twitter are either fan pages run by his public relations representatives or fakes. In other words, he doesn't use it.
A reporter asked why on Friday and Earnhardt Jr. gave his most comprehensive answer yet.
In short: He can't keep up with it and doesn't want to anger his fans with infrequent updates.
The bottom line is, he said, is if a non-celebrity decided not to keep up with social networking any more, it wouldn't be as big of a deal as if Dale Earnhardt Jr. decided to stop tweeting.
"Say if it was Jeff or somebody who wanted to shut his Twitter account down, some people would be upset, but that's his prerogative," he said, looking in my direction. "If I start something like that, it just steamrolls and it's out of my control. I just don't think it's productive really, to have a personal social networking account."
It sounds like the closest you'll be able to get to Earnhardt Jr. information is to follow his PR reps (@mikedavis88 and @laura_scott88) and his spotter/friend T.J. Majors (@tjmajors).
Even though Earnhardt Jr. stays up until all hours of the night playing video games against people from all over the country, he doesn't feel like he can commit to social networking.
And if he can't do it right, he doesn't want to do it at all.
"I had Facebook and MySpace and all that way back in the day, and I just get burned out feeling that responsibility to keep it updated," he said. "You know, what for? You gotta get out of the house every once in awhile.
"I just had to cut it all out. It was like I was a parent having to take care of this thing."
Personally, I think Earnhardt Jr. is overestimating the time it takes to update a Twitter page. Even if he did it once every few days, I think most of his fans would be happy.
But it's a personal choice, and he doesn't want to do it. That's really all that matters.


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High-Octane Pancakes Recipe
Fluffy and health-packed, these hotcakes are what Kelly Hanlon relies on to jumpstart frosty winter mornings in Strasburg, Colorado and keep her fueled up all day long. They're scrumptious!
- 1/3 cup plus 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup quick-cooking oats
- 3 tablespoons toasted wheat germ
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 1-1/4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 2/3 cup fat-free milk
- 1/4 cup fat-free plain yogurt
- 1 tablespoon canola oil
- In a small bowl, combine the first six ingredients. In another bowl, combine the milk, yogurt and oil. Stir into dry ingredients just until moistened.
- Pour batter by 1/3 cupfuls onto a hot nonstick griddle coated with cooking spray. Turn when bubbles form on top of pancake; cook until second side is golden brown. Yield: 4 pancakes.
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These are a staple in our house. We do substitute 1/2 whole wheat flour for white and leave out the oil. They do not make a lot so I triple the recipe to feed a family
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This recipe made about 5 medallion-sized pancakes. They were good, a little doughy in the center as I usually find pancakes with any yogurt to be, I used applesauce for the the oil and flaxseed meal for the wheatgerm.
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Video: Liberals on MSNBC Loved Using Term 'Bush Regime'
But Matthews wasn't alone. A search of Nexis for "Bush regime" found other former and current MSNBCers using the term both before and after Bush's tenure in office in addition to liberal acolytes like Democratic strategist Steve McMahon, Senator Arlen Specter's challenger from the Left, Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.), and quadrennial Green Party standard-bearer Ralph Nader.
So I asked EyeBlast.tv video editor Bob Parks to compile a video montage showing just how fond the Left was of using the term "Bush regime" on MSNBC programming. You can check that out by clicking the play button on the embed at the right.
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High School Buzz
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Kelvin Taylor, in your hands: Glades Day star gets his own smartphone app
- 5:43 pm Monday, July 18th, 2011 by Matt Porter
Kelvin Taylor could be the most sought-after recruit in next year's class.
He's probably the only one available in the palm of your hand.
If you simply can't get enough Taylor, who is entering his junior year at Glades Day School, you can now download his app. The program, which is free and available for Android phones, sends Taylor photos, videos and tweets directly to your phone. [More]


text: Michael Cox, who seems to work for every website and sports section that I read, has broken down November 11th's Manchester City versus Tottenham Hotspur match. He goes into detail with Mancini's tactical change from the 4-2-3-1 to the 3-4-1-2. Cox covers the key substitution of Maicon on for Nastasic, Villas-Boas' high line, the ineffectiveness and Gareth Bale and the disinterest of Clint Dempsey. While he does mention David Silva prominently, I would have liked to see a breakdown of his passes. Instead, Cox goes with a chart of City fouls in the first half versus the second. Read Cox's work here:


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Pippin, Glass Menagerie, Cherry Jones, Will Lyman Are Elliot Norton Award Nominees
By Adam Hetrick
The American Repertory Theater productions of Pippin and The Glass Menagerie, David Cromer's staging of Our Town at the Huntington Theatre Company and the world-premiere play Operation Epsilon are among the nominees of Boston's 2013 Elliot Norton Awards.
As previously reported, two-time Tony Award winner Chita Rivera will be honored with the 2013 Elliot Norton Lifetime Achievement Award during the May 13 awards ceremony at the Paramount Center.
The Norton Awards, named for the late Boston theatre critic, recognize achievement in the greater Boston theatre community.
The 2013 Elliot Norton Award nominees follow:
Outstanding Visiting Production
Outstanding Production by a Large Resident Theatre
Outstanding Production by a Midsize Theatre
Outstanding Production by a Small Theatre
Outstanding Production by a Fringe Theatre
Outstanding Design, Large Theatre
Outstanding Design, Midsize, Small or Fringe Theatre
Outstanding Musical Production by a Large Theatre
Outstanding Musical Production by a Midsize, Small or Fringe Company
Outstanding Musical Performance by an Actor
Outstanding Musical Performance by an Actress
Outstanding New Script
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Outstanding Director, Large Theatre
Outstanding Director, Midsize Theatre
Outstanding Director, Small or Fringe Theatre
Outstanding Actor, Large Theatre
Outstanding Actress, Large Theatre
Outstanding Actor, Midsize Theatre
Outstanding Actress, Midsize Theatre
Outstanding Actor, Small or Fringe Theatre
Outstanding Actress, Small or Fringe Theatre
Outstanding Ensemble, Large Theatre
Outstanding Ensemble, Midsize, Small or Fringe Theatre
This year's recipient of the Elliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence will be Will Lyman. The BTCA will award a Special Citation honoring Actors Equity Association on the occasion of its 100th birthday.
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Lycoming College symposium to focus on sustainability
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. - The Lycoming College 2009-10 Sustainability Symposium will feature a variety of activities focused on the environment. The symposium is part of the College's continued commitment to a sustainable future on campus and in the world beyond its borders. All events are free and open to the public. Activities for the spring semester will be announced at a later date.
On Monday, Nov. 9, waste management and recycling issues will be addressed by Stephen Tucker, director, and Michael Hnatin, engineer, from Lycoming County Resource Management Services. It will be held at 7 p.m. in the Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall.
On Tuesday, Nov. 10, tours will be conducted that view the top of the Heim Science Building, where an 18-panel, 3 kW solar array was recently installed. The solar panel was received through a $15,000 grant from the Sustainable Energy Fund as part of its Solar Scholars™ Program. Also on Tuesday, Lycoming alumnus Stan Sloter will speak about environmentally sustainable construction as part of the Institute for Management Studies' James W. Harding Executive Speaker Series at 7 p.m. in the Barclay Lecture Hall in Heim Building. He is president of Paradigm Companies, a development, construction and management company headquartered in Arlington, Va., with more than 400 employees and sites in Washington, D.C., Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware.
On Thursday, Nov. 12, Lycoming students Chandler Couch and Kyle Ruhl will hold bio-diesel presentations at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. in front of the Academic Center. Their presentation will highlight the steps of bio-diesel production, and applications of the technology.
On Monday, Nov. 16, "Lycoming College Going Green" will be the focus of discussion as the College hosts Dina El-Mogazi, director of the Campus Greening Initiative from Bucknell University, and Kate Consroe, sustainability coordinator, and Whitey Ellerman, associate director of operations, from Dickinson College. They will each discuss energy measurement and conservation initiatives that their colleges have completed, and how their colleges are leaders in the area of environmental sustainability. The talk will be held at 7 p.m. in the Mary Lindsay Welch Honors Hall.
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There's so much to take in at the ICAST show, we needed a second photo gallery to share some of the sights. Even two galleries can't fully do justice to all the tackle and gear. As noted in the first gallery, I never did manage to spend time at many exhibitors' booths, particularly with so many new-product intros this year. I'm already looking forward to ICAST 2014 which will be in Orlando. Be sure to check out our ICAST 2013 page with a series of how-to videos from the show floor and more galleries.
The photo here is part of one display in front of the Yo-Zuri booth, though to fully appreciate their Sashimi line, you need to pick up these lures and turn them to see how completely the colors change when viewed from different angles.
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Women's Health Day
Listen. Learn. Laugh. Share.
Saturday, October 19
8:30 am to 1 pm
Melville Marriott Long Island
Join us at Women's Health Day as Stony Brook experts share the latest information about health topics that may concern you most: heart disease, migraines, breast health, obesity, constipation, diabetes, exercise, sleep disorders, plastic surgery and caregiving.
This half-day event includes a host of health seminars, a continental breakfast and buffet luncheon with keynote speaker, Gail Sheehy — journalist, lecturer, and author of 15 books including Passages and Sex and the Seasoned Woman. Gail Sheehy is known for breaking the taboo surrounding menopause; opening the dialogue about divorce, remarriage and living passionately in second adulthood; and changing the way men and women look at the various stages of their lives.
Registration fee: $25.
To help you decide which three sessions you would like to attend, we've provided a brief description of each along with information about each presenter:
The Venus and Mars of Heart Disease
Heart disease is often thought of as a men's disease, but the truth is, more women than men die of heart disease each year. And the symptoms and risk factors for women can be different than for men. Learn what they are and what new procedures and treatments are available.
What You Need to Tell Your Daughter…Even Though She Won't Listen
Try talking to your daughter about matters of the heart and you'll likely get little more than an eye roll. Yet, cardiovascular health is something all women should take seriously, whether you're barely in your 20s or well into your 70s. Why? Because it's affecting more and more women at a younger age and because women are living longer. Find out how to stay young at heart at any age.
Bosom Buddies
Whether you're small and perky, big and sagging, well stacked or flat as a board…we'll make your cups runneth over with the latest news and tips on how to protect your breast health. How often should you perform a self-exam? Is it worth it to get a mammogram and a sonogram? How do you know if you're high risk? Do you have a family history? Find out the answers to these questions and more and also learn about new advances and surgical techniques for the treatment of breast cancer.
Getting Unstuck and Getting on With Your Life
Did you know that women get constipated more frequently than men? Or that constipation can be caused by poor dietary habits, depression, medication, hormonal imbalances or a host of other reasons? How can you get past all that so you can once again live life to the fullest? Learn everything you ever wanted to know about the art and science of moving your bowels but were afraid (or too embarrassed until now) to ask.
If you've ever wondered if it's possible to lighten up physically and emotionally from your ongoing weight struggle, this session is for you. Freedom from obesity is attainable — with the right combination of tools and support. Learn about the causes, health risks and today's treatment options, tailored to each person's needs, lifestyle and goals.
The Best Endorphin Rush You Can Get With Your Clothes On
Some call it a "runner's high." Others describe that feeling that follows a run or a workout as "euphoric." Why is that? Learn how the endorphins released during exercise can trigger positive feelings inside you and can help reduce stress, ward off anxiety and help your self-esteem. Exercise tips will also be provided.
Out of the Closet and Into the Mainstream
Gone are the days when only the faces that grace the covers of magazines like People and Vogue can afford cosmetic surgery. It's so common and accepted now that most who've had it are open about it and sing its praises. Is it right for you? Learn about the pros and cons and risks involved, and about the different minimally invasive surgical options available to you to help you look and feel your best.
Not Tonight, I Have a Headache…
If having the worst headache of your life is a recurring complaint, don't shrug it off. It could be a migraine. What exactly is a migraine and why do they occur more often in women than men? And how can you tell the difference between a migraine and a cluster headache and a tension headache? Learn what can trigger these different types of headaches, how to identify the symptoms and what treatment options are available.
Feeling Like Grilled Cheese Between Two Slices of Rye
No matter how you slice it, being stuck in the middle of caring for aging parents and supporting your own kids can be a sticky situation. Learn how to avoid caregiver burnout and maintain your own physical and mental health while ensuring that your loved ones have what they need, too.
Kids Aren't the Only Ones Who Need Naps and a Strict Bedtime
Do you often feel like you need toothpicks to keep your eyes open in the middle of the day? Are you tired of waking up bug-eyed every night at 2 am? And if you answered "yes" to either, is it stress… or something more? Find out why sleep is so essential to our physical health and emotional well being, and learn about the underlying causes as well as the symptoms of different sleep disorders, and what treatments are available.
Flirting With Glucose. Is It Worth the Risk?
Good nutrition isn't just about maintaining a healthy weight. It's also about ensuring that your digestive system and the hormone levels in your endocrine system work in harmony, too. For instance, there's the glycemic index of each food choice to consider. What foods should you stay clear of and which ones should you eat more of to help prevent or manage diabetes? Learn how to regulate your glucose levels, what new treatments are available to manage diabetes and more.
For information about Gail Sheehy and other speakers, visit apbspeakers.com.


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Guest Blogger: Neda Azarfar, Vice President of Communications at Myspace
A recent bride and core member of the team responsible for shaping the new Myspace, Neda knows only too well what it's like to juggle a busy work schedule with wedding planning. While Neda spearheaded Myspace's 2013 launch campaign, which garnered industry recognition as one of the year's best corporate branding campaigns (according to PRWeek), she doubled as a wedding planner by night, creating a romantic, vintage-inspired wedding full of unique DIY and bespoke elements to suit her style.
With a background in the consumer technology industry and having decided to undertake the wedding planning process without a coordinator, I found myself relying heavily on digital tools to help plan my perfect wedding. Here are some of my favorite websites.
1. Pinterest [1]
Get on Pinterest, stat. For all the girls who haven't spent years tearing out pages from bridal magazines to create comprehensive mood boards for the perfect wedding, this is a click-easy way to develop and refine your wedding vision and style. Because it's social, Pinterest is the perfect sharing tool, making it easy for me to update my friends and family throughout the planning process — without having to repeat ramblings to describe exactly what I meant by "shabby chic, but more chic" or "extra-soft peach hues."
2. Etsy [2]
I had a specific vision and didn't want to settle for a lot of standard stuff (read: this bride is hard-to-please picky), so I wanted everything custom-made to fit my theme and style. The only trouble with being so DIY-inclined was that I was working around 70 hours a week on the Myspace launch at the same time I was planning my wedding. So I didn't exactly have the time — nor the talent — for arts and crafts. Enter Etsy to save the day. Apparently, I'm not the only one who thinks the color of the plastic straws for our engagement shoot and the paper for our wedding vows are of utmost importance!
3. Design Seeds [3] & MyFonts [4]
Speaking of DIY, did I mention I had to create my own wedding collateral? I work in communications for a living, so designing my own invites, guest cards, menus, wedding signage — you get the point — was a must. With the help of my talented designer friend, sites like Design Seeds (which helps you put together a complementary color palette), and MyFonts (which helps you pick your perfect fonts), I was golden on all things printed (or digital, for that matter).
4. Myspace [5]
Another must-have for my wedding was fun. To me, that equals dancing. It was important that our dance floor be packed with bodies — whether they were swaying, pop-locking, twerking, or belly-dancing. The key to this: Finding the right tunes. I used Myspace to check out prospective DJs and make sure I liked their style. Once I'd picked the right DJ, I invited friends to create mixes, which I then shared with our wedding DJ so he could get an even better idea of the specific tracks people wanted to hear. This was also a great way for me to "veto" songs I absolutely did not want to hear, regardless of their mass appeal (e.g. "I Will Survive." Is it just me, or does that song have no place at a wedding?)
5. Instagram [6]
In addition to using Myspace to vet and work with my DJ, I also used the site when I was looking for my photographer. There are a lot of professional photographers on Myspace because of the site's new open canvas style (easy to scroll + great photo quality!). I also used Instagram for photographic inspiration. Instagram isn't about professional photographers per se; it's more about regular people who happen to take amazing shots (or select just the right filter to make an otherwise average shot amazing). For me, it was the ultimate source for creative photo ideas for my wedding shot list.
6. Mint [7]
Of course, everything comes at a price — especially everything wedding-related. My fiancé and I were covering the wedding ourselves and had committed to a strict budget. As his primary (ahem, only) contribution to the planning process, my fiancé signed us up for Mint so we could keep track of what we were spending (a lot), what we were saving (not much), and notifying us when we went over budget in a given category (the dress!).
7. Evernote [8]
Myspace has offices in Orange County and LA, and I happen to work out of both. This means I tend to be a professional nomad. After repeatedly leaving important notes in my "other office" and/or stumbling in with stacked manila file folders just grazing my nose, one of the tech guys recommended I try Evernote — another great organizational tool. It basically lets you compile everything in one place — from vendor contracts to to-do lists. Think of it as that super cutesy, big and bulky wedding binder your girls gave you when you first got engaged — you know, the one you almost always forget to bring to your actual wedding appointments. Evernote makes that binder digital and lets you sync it across all your devices — the most comprehensive and convenient binder ever created.
8. Yelp [9]
No word strikes fear in the hearts of wedding vendors like the four-letter onomatopoeic Yelp. Attention, brides: Having trouble with a vendor? Did someone try to rescind on a verbal agreement? If you've had the misfortune of experiencing the frequent tension between commonsense courtesy and the commonplace racket that is, sadly, all too common in the wedding sphere, fear not. And don't waste another minute arguing. One of the most useful things I learned during the planning process was that my greatest power was not in the almighty dollar, but in the almighty Yelp review. Just one hint that you might write a negative post, and suddenly, your most obstinate vendor will become as accommodating as a Four Seasons bellman.
9. Appy Couple [10]
Between planning the Myspace launch and planning my wedding, one thing I didn't have time for was giving updates and answering questions that I'd already answered, like, "What's the hotel everyone's staying at?" or, "When's the wedding date again?" This is where a wedding website comes in handy (nevermind the custom wedding invitation I painstakingly made). I checked out a few options for building our wedding site but ultimately went with Appy Couple because I liked their templates — plus, the whole experience was user-friendly and intuitive. One day later, all my inquisitive guests were being redirected.
10. Vimeo [11] & Dropbox [12]
In the end, all the work I put into the wedding paid off, and we truly loved every second of it! So much so that, after the wedding, all my now-husband and I wanted to do was talk about the wedding, as we were dying to relive those moments. This is why I love Vimeo and Dropbox. Before we'd even gotten back from our honeymoon, our photographer and videographer had already sent us links to check out rough shots and raw footage from our wedding day. No DVD in the mail, and no "Where the heck is that thumb drive?!" Of course, it took weeks and months before we got our final packages of photo-shopped beautes, but getting those initial files immediately after the nuptials really helped tide us over.
—Neda Azarfar
Photo Credit: Josef Isayo Photography [13]
[1] http://pinterest.com
[2] http://etsy.com
[3] http://design-seeds.com/
[4] http://www.myfonts.com/
[5] http://myspace.com
[6] http://instagram.com
[7] https://www.mint.com/
[8] http://evernote.com
[9] http://yelp.com
[10] http://www.appycouple.com/
[11] http://vimeo.com
[12] http://dropbox.com
[13] http://www.josefisayo.com/


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Solid Waste Services provides waste collection for some of the most dangerous items in the household waste stream. To help homeowners dispose of dangerous or hazardous materials properly, and protect the employees who handle this refuse, the following is recommended.
Broken glass and sharp metal
Wrap the edges of large pieces of broken glass or sharp metal with duct or masking tape and place next to trash bags so they are easily identifiable. Smaller pieces of glass need to be wrapped in several layers of newspaper with the edges wrapped in tape. Place shattered glass in a cardboard box, or fold the glass in several layers of newspaper and tape closed. Label all items "broken glass" or "sharp metal." Carefully wrap razor blades with tape before placing in the trash.
Light bulbs
Whenever possible, place light bulbs in their original packaging before placing in the trash. If unavailable, place incandescent bulbs, small fluorescent tubes and CFLs in two plastic bags, or a small box taped closed, to prevent bulb breakage. Place long fluorescent tubes next to the trash so they are easily identifiable. Tape multiple tubes together.
Place syringes in a metal or plastic container such as a coffee can, soda bottle or milk jug with a screw-on top. Tape the lid closed and call Solid Waste Services at (972) 721-2232 to request collection.
Posted Aug. 31, 2011