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January 19, 2009
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Asked whether he preferred the trumpet playing of Bobby Hackett or Billy Butterfield, Louis Armstrong thought it over and replied, "Bobby. He got more ingredients." That's one of my favorite Armstrong lines, and I like to think that it also applies to Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong, my forthcoming biography of the greatest jazz musician of the twentieth century.
I'm working on the catalogue copy for Pops, which will be published by Harcourt this fall, and so I'm starting to grapple with the ever-vexing problem of self-promotion. Sooner or later, everyone who interviews me about Pops will ask some variation on this question: Why do we need another book about Satchmo? The short answer is that I am the first biographer to have had access to six hundred and fifty reels of tape recordings privately made by Armstrong during the last quarter-century of his life, many of which contain revealing after-hours conversations in which he speaks with breathtaking frankness about his life and work. More generally, I've been able to draw on a wide variety of other material that was unavailable or unknown to Laurence Bergreen when he wrote Louis Armstrong: An Extravagant Life, the last primary-source Armstrong biography, which was published twelve years ago.
All well and good--but what did I do with my new ingredients? To put it as simply as possible, I've sought to write a narrative biography of Armstrong that is comparable in seriousness and scope to such "definitive" high-culture biographies as W. Jackson Bate's Samuel Johnson, George Painter's Marcel Proust, or David Cairns' Berlioz. Next to no popular-music biographies have aspired to the high standards set by these books, but it seemed self-evident to me that Louis Armstrong was a figure of similar artistic and cultural significance, and so deserved to be written about in the same way.
Such a biography is by definition several books in one:
• Just the facts, ma'am. The first job of a biographer is to tell the story of his subject's life as accurately as possible. In order to do this, I've digested a vast amount of source material, all of it documented in a 27,000-word chapter of source notes.
To give you an idea of how much work this entailed, here's a paragraph from Pops:
The best-remembered number in the Creole Jazz Band's repertoire is "Dipper Mouth Blues," jointly credited to Joe Oliver and Armstrong and recorded twice, for Gennett in April and again for OKeh two months later. (The title came from one of the many nicknames inspired by Armstrong's large mouth.) Armstrong was the first of scores of jazzmen to learn Oliver's climactic solo by heart and, later, to record it himself. "Everything I did, I tried to do it like Oliver," he said. Even in 1923, however, that was no longer true. Oliver used mutes to alter the timbre of his cornet, making it cry like a baby or curse like a man, while Armstrong rarely used anything but a simple straight mute and never indulged in the tonal trickery for which Oliver was renowned. It was not for lack of trying: Lil Armstrong claimed that he spent a whole week trying without success to imitate Oliver's "wah-wah" muted inflections on "Dipper Mouth Blues." "Louis never could play that solo like Joe," she said. "And I think it kind of discouraged him because Joe was his idol and he wanted to play like Joe." But thereafter he cultivated a shining tone that dwarfed the smaller sound of his mentor, just as his studies had given him a foundation of formal knowledge that Oliver, who readily confessed to being a poor sight reader, could not hope to rival.
And here are the source notes for that paragraph:
Jointly credited to Oliver and LA: Brian Harker has speculated that LA wrote the introduction to "Dipper Mouth Blues," a sequence of descending diminished-seventh arpeggios (Harker, "Louis Armstrong and the Clarinet," American Music, Summer 2003). "Everything I did": Will Jones, "It's the Bunk, but It Helped," Minneapolis Tribune, July 20, 1949. LA spent a whole week: William Russell, "Louis Armstrong"; Frederic Ramsey Jr., Jazzmen, 126. "LA never could play that solo": Lil Armstrong, Satchmo and Me, recorded interview (Riverside). He readily confessed to being a poor sight reader: "I'm the slowest goddamned reader in the band" (Clyde Bernhardt, I Remember: Eighty Years of Black Entertainment, Big Bands, and the Blues, 94). That Oliver could read music, however, is not in doubt. On the 1924 duet recording of "King Porter" that he made with Jelly Roll Morton, he is reading from the written cornet part to the stock orchestration of Morton's most famous composition (Samuel Charters, A Trumpet around the Corner, 216).
You get the idea.
• Department of corrections. Every book about Louis Armstrong published before 1999 contains numerous factual errors, some minor and others substantive. In that year Thomas Brothers edited Louis Armstrong, in His Own Words: Selected Writings, the first collection of Armstrong's hitherto-unpublished autobiographical manuscripts and uncollected articles and correspondence and the first full-length book about Armstrong by an academic scholar.
Since then other scholars have started exploring in earnest the archival material on which Pops is based. Thanks to my own research and the invaluable work of these men and women, Pops contains the most accurate accounts published to date of Armstrong's early musical training; his 1928 recording sessions with Earl Hines; his 1929 Broadway debut; his 1930 marijuana arrest; his 1931 skirmish with the Chicago mob; his relationships with Tommy Rockwell, Johnny Collins, and Joe Glaser, the three white managers who directed his career; his trips to Europe in the early Thirties; his decision to break up his big band in 1947 and start playing with a combo; his 1957 quarrel with President Eisenhower over Orval Faubus' attempt to block the desegregation of the public schools of Little Rock, Arkansas; the 1963 session at which he recorded "Hello, Dolly!"; and countless other matters large and small.
Like most larger-than-life historical figures, Armstrong generated his share of apocrypha. You will find none of it in Pops, which contains no unsupported assertions or unsourced "quotes." In particular, every statement by Armstrong that is cited in Pops has been traced back to its earliest known source.
• Critical perspective. Pops is the first fully sourced biography of Louis Armstrong to be written by an author with musical training. While it's primarily narrative, not critical, I've also tried to deepen the reader's understanding of Armstrong's music, both by discussing selected recordings by Armstrong in close but (I hope) intelligible detail and by situating them in the context of his life.
Here's an example, an excerpt from the fourth chapter of Pops in which I talk about "Weather Bird," one of Armstrong's most important and influential records:
It became customary for Armstrong and his sidemen (except for Earl Hines, who disliked marijuana) to get high before making a record, which probably explains how "Muggles" got its name. But it is unlikely that Armstrong was anything other than clear-headed when, two days earlier, he and Hines recorded "Weather Bird," the most forward-looking of the three dozen 78 sides they made together in 1927 and 1928. It was the sole occasion on which they went it alone in the studio, and they took full advantage of their freedom, sailing through a duet that resembles "Skip the Gutter" sped up and writ large. Again one gets the feeling that Hines is trying to give his partner the rhythmic slip, but never quite successfully. The strongest impression left by "Weather Bird," though, is of an airy lightness made possible by the absence of a rhythm section, combined with a sense of awe at the incisiveness of musical argument. Armstrong called the recording "our vir-tee-o-so number," and Hines claimed that the trumpeter spun it out of thin air. "We had no music," he recalled. "It was all improvised, and I just followed him." Perhaps the pianist was unaware that the song, a multi-themed rag composed by Armstrong, had been recorded by the Creole Jazz Band in 1923, but the first half of the Armstrong-Hines version follows the earlier recording fairly closely, suggesting that their performance, for all its seeming spontaneity, may in fact have been rehearsed with some care. Nor was "Weather Bird" the first recorded jazz duet: Joe Oliver and Jelly Roll Morton had already cut two. It was, however, the first such recording of any musical significance, and its quicksilver brilliance has yet to be surpassed.
• Cultural context. Because Armstrong's significance extends beyond the realm of jazz proper, I have sought at various points in Pops to place him in the larger world of art and culture. Here's another excerpt from the fourth chapter, in which I talk about the relationship between Armstrong and Earl Hines:
For both men 1928 was their floruit, a year of triumphs to which all their subsequent undertakings would forever after be compared. The time was ripe for such prodigies, with modernism at its apogee and mass-reproduced popular culture in its first flower. It was the year of Lady Chatterley's Lover and "Makin' Whoopee," Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall and Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie," the Stravinsky-Balanchine Apollo and the Brecht-Weill Dreigroschenoper. Jazz, too, had by 1928 won a measure of acceptance in highbrow circles that in retrospect is striking, even startling, given its recent origins in the honkytonks of New Orleans. George Gershwin, who thought it to be "the only musical idiom in existence that could aptly express America," made use of jazz-derived musical techniques in An American in Paris, premiered by the New York Philharmonic that December to general acclaim. When Maurice Ravel came to New York earlier in the year to play his jazz-flavored violin sonata with Joseph Szigeti, he assured reporters that American classical composers would do well to take jazz seriously: "I am waiting to see more Americans appear with the honesty and vision to realize the significance of their popular product, and the technic and imagination to base an original and creative art upon it."
Too often jazz is written about as if it exists in a cultural vacuum. It is, I believe, worth knowing that Philip Larkin praised Louis Armstrong as "an artist of Flaubertian purity...more important than Picasso," just as it is more than merely interesting to know that Armstrong was listening to and collecting opera recordings as a young man in New Orleans: "I had Caruso...Galli-Curci, Tetrazzini--they were all my favorites. Then there was the Irish tenor, McCormack--beautiful phrasing."
• Reception history. Surprisingly little has been written about the way in which Armstrong was covered by the journalists of his day. When did his name first appear in Time, The New Yorker, and the New York Times? When was he first written up in Walter Winchell's column? How did the English press react to his London debut in 1932? At what point did critics start to dismiss his once-revolutionary music as old-fashioned? You'll find the answers in Pops.
• Trivial pursuits. Because I wrote Pops for a general audience, I deliberately kept the text free of scholarly minutiae. On the other hand, the source notes contain many tidbits that will be of consuming interest to Armstrong specialists. Exactly how tall was he? Was the battered cornet that the Smithsonian Institution acquired in 2002 really the actual instrument on which he learned to play? Where and when did he first meet Jack Teagarden? Was the name of his 1937 radio show Harlem or Harlem Radio Review? Might he possibly have been sterile--and if so, why? It's all in the notes.
That's a whole lot of ingredients to cram into one book--but, then, such thoroughness is taken for granted in the field of literary biography. Alas, you can count on the fingers of one hand the previous jazz biographies that seek to accomplish all of the aforementioned goals. One of the few books about a major jazz musician that is directly comparable to Pops is, appropriately enough, Bix: Man and Legend, the 1974 Richard M. Sudhalter-Philip R. Evans biography of Bix Beiderbecke, Armstrong's friend and peer. I have done my best to make Pops worthy of its great predecessor.
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Here's part of a little-known video clip that I unearthed and used as a key source for the first chapter of Pops. It's Armstrong's 1965 appearance on the TV game show I've Got a Secret, during which he was reunited with Peter Davis, his very first music teacher:
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Things got off to a crazy start during the NFL's opening day. The Ravens hosted the Steelers in early September, only to embarrass Pittsburgh with a score of 35-7. They wouldn't face each other again until early November in Pittsburgh. This time, things were much closer, but thanks to a Joe Flacco touchdown pass to Torrey Smith with eight seconds left, Baltimore prevailed 23-20, earning the season sweep.
With baseball season in full swing, the Orioles have been spending the majority of their time atop the AL East. Thanks to interleague play, the O's were able to face off against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Like the O's, the Pirates have been mired in their own mediocrity, having not made the playoffs since they lost in the NLCS in 1992. Though neither team has had great success in recent history, both are now in the top two in their respective divisions, and anytime a team from Pittsburgh plays a Baltimore team, it's always fun.
This time, the Orioles did the Ravens proud, as the O's swept the three-game series from the Pirates. All three Baltimore starters earned wins—Wei-Yin Chen, Jake Arrieta, and Tommy Hunter picked up the W during each of their starts.
If that wasn't enough, Baltimore finally saw the return of Brian Roberts for the first time in over a year. Roberts, suffering from concussion symptoms, made an immediate impact, going 3 for 4 during his first game back and also driving in a run. Things certainly had not looked good this winter, as Roberts skipped Fan Fest due to doctor's orders requesting he stay away from all of the bright lights and loud crowd noise.
The O's have a three game series against the New York Mets before hosting the Washington Nationals starting on Friday night. Baltimore played Washington last month and took two of three from the NL-East-leading Nats. This weekend series should prove to be an interesting one, but no matter what happens from here on out, for one season, Baltimore owns Pittsburgh.
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Anonymous said: Hey, after seeing your last post I was wondering what kind fo job you have? Or like, what industry you work in. I'm just curious bc you seem to have a pretty flexible schedule, good work-life balance and all that, which I although thought was just the kind of stuff HR talks about but never actually happens. (And if this is too personal/comes across as creepy (in which case sorry, I didn't mean for it to), just ignore this!)
I have a fairly normal 9-5(ish) job as a remote sensing analyst. I work for a small (~60 people) company that contracts with a federal agency, but unlike most fed/contractor partnerships, ours is actually pretty darn healthy (contractors usually aren't as trusted, as their ulterior motive tends to be money… also, think Snowden).
I get a lot of federal perks (fancy pro deals with lots of outdoor outfitters, access to data, national holidays off of work), but I don't usually have to deal with most of the government tie-ups and bureaucracy, as I officially work for a private company. That said, sometime it blows — like during the government shutdown. While federal employees received backpay for the entire time that we were furloughed, contractors got nothing. There are some contractors in my building that are either self-employed (bid their own contracts) or work for a different company, and they were screwed. Not only did they not receive any pay, but they also lost any benefits that they had. My company paid for a majority of our salaries, and they asked us to use PTO to fill in the gaps. They also made sure that our benefits were not cut off, and they did this all using company profits so that their employees would be okay.
These are high quality humans puppeteering my company. During normal times, they're very vocal and diligent about keeping us happy and making sure that we are best, whole selves, and I really appreciate this. My input is valued, and I have seen suggestions I've made to my supervisor and one of the owners actually put into practice.
My supervisor often tells me not to stay late, to use my vacation time, to leave early, etc. Most of my colleagues are outdoorsy, and it's not uncommon for someone to take a morning or afternoon off of work to go skiing this time of year. If it's a powder day and someone has called in sick, chances are that they have the "powder flu," and no one really cares.
Anyway, I'm not sure if our loose hours are a government or company perk, but either way, I'll take it. It's certainly an A+ work environment.
A selection of images of Earth from space, taken by Landsat 5, which is set to be retired after 29 years.
Originally set to orbit Earth for three years, the satellite lived well beyond its intended means. But, a recently broken gyroscope has declared the end of the machine's time in space.
It orbited Earth more than 150,000 times, capturing more than 2.5 million images of our world's terrain. In honor of the mission's end, here are a collection of Landsat 5's best images of our planet. Landsat 7, which has been orbiting Earth since 1999, will remain overhead and Landsat 8 will be launched into space in February 2013. (x)
Landsat 5 is pretty much my one true love.
Fun fact: Landsat 5 was only designed to last three years, meaning that the two of us were never supposed to coexist. It had already exceeded its lifespan by a year when I was born. As it were, we've had a beautiful time together. I used Landsat 5 imagery for 90% of my research.
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all, eh?
Plus, Landsat 8 launches on February 11th. New and shiny! Unless it explodes on launch like Landsat 6 did. Then we're screwed, because all we would have is Landsat 7, and she's permanently crippled.
(But seriously: how cool is my job? I get to play with stuff like this all day!)
saltwaterandclay said: Can you tell me about how you got into this field? It's not something I've heard of, and wonder how you came to do this? What did you go to school for? Thank you very much, it's all super interesting!
It's a strange field. Out of everyone I know that does my sort of work, I know one person that intended for that to become their profession. The rest of us just happened upon it.
I got my undergrad in Geography, which is technically a social science? It's a very interdisciplinary field, but it's basically the study of people and place. The breadth of topics under the umbrella of Geography is vast, but I stuck to physical geography/earth sciences and geographic information science (GIS).
I started out as a double major in Spanish and International Development, but because I went to a liberal arts college, I had a bunch of core requirements to fulfil, and one of them happened to be a geography class that I loved. I still kind of ignored that whole department though (Geography isn't a REAL subject, after all). Or at least I did until one of my professors took an unexpected leave of absence a week before classes started. All of the fun courses I wanted were full and all of the boring-but-necessary classes I needed for various things were full because first-years had already enrolled. Literally the only class that fit into my schedule that I also had the pre-req for was Forest Ecology (pre-req was that Geography course I took). So I took Forest Ecology, eventually dropped my two intended majors, picked up Geography, and my intellectual contentedness increased exponentially.
Turns out, I attended the #1 school in the country for Geography. Fancy that!
SO. My job is in the field of remote sensing, which is a subset of GIS, which is a subset of Geography. Within remote sensing, I specialize in the use of optical multispectral sensors (so not radar or lidar [lasers!]) to map temperate terrestrial (mainly forested) ecosystems. So you can probably surmise that I'm in a fairly specialized niche and there are only a few handfuls of people that do precisely what I do outside of academia.
If you're the kind of person who played this game as a kid, liked geometric proofs in high school math class, thought differential equations were a fun way to spend your spring break, and believe that brain teasers are a good way to bond with people, then it's probably right up your alley.
Also, you have to hate sleep, thrive when stressed, and be okay with the fact that you're always at least two weeks past your deadline. Even if you haven't started yet.
Kind of random. Definitely fun.
MAR (and Eight!): this is a pretty good example of what a false color image looks like (there are other types of false color, which really just means "not true color," but this one is the most common).
-The river isn't quite black (as water should be, like those two oxbow lakes east of the river) because it's carrying lots of sediment (and probably chemicals, too).
-You can see a small town just west of the center of the image, along the west bank of the river. Super cyan!
-You can tell what crops are flourishing and which have already been fallowed (meaning harvested & now pretty much just dirt) based on the color. Pink = highly irrigated, vegetated plots. Darker blues = wetter soils. The brighter the blue, the drier the object. (Which is one reason urban areas are so bright - high runoff!)
-The cyan lines throughout the image are roads.
-Red along the river is grassland; to the east of the river there's a crescent-shaped road, and east of that is more red, but THIS red is forest. You can differentiate between these reds/vegetation types based on texture. (Grasslands are smoother and forests are rougher.) There's a bunch of random stands (groups of trees) throughout the image, too, if you look. They're easy to pick out from the crops because they're much redder.
If I had internet at my house, I could show you cooler imagery, but Google serves well enough in a pinch.
ashamedtosay said: Eight wants to know about your new job and if it is in SCIENCE. She would like to take you to all the Museums in Chicago next time you are here, like she takes Claire, who she thinks is really awesome at going to museums after running races.
Dear Eight,
Thank you for asking about my job! It is in SCIENCE (though some people disagree because it isn't a "hard science" like biology or chemistry). My science is called remote sensing, which is a wee little branch of geography (which is technically a "social science").
My job is to make maps of vegetation (like forests, farms, parks, and stuff like that) using photos taken from satellites orbiting the earth. You know how we humans can only see the visible spectrum? All of the colors that we see are made up of combinations of blue, green, and red light. The satellites take photos of each of the colors individually (one photo of blue, one of green, and one of red), and I can combine them if I want to know what a certain landscape would look like to me if I was there to see it in person. It would be like looking out of an airplane window or at places in GoogleEarth.
BUT! The satellites also take photos using other types of light that we can't normally see. When I look at photos of the earth at work, I don't see green trees and grass, because I usually don't look at the earth using the visible spectrum. Usually, I'm looking at infrared light, which is my favorite. Sort of like how the visible spectrum can tell us how green or blue or red an object is, infrared light can tell us how healthy a plant is or how wet something is. I think that's pretty neat, because those are things that you usually can't know without touching something, and I can tell you that about landscapes on the other side of the world that I've never even been to.
And just like you can combine red, blue, and green light to make a photo that has all of the normal colors that we see (like pictures that normal cameras take - we call these photos "true color"), you can combine all different sorts of light to see different things on the earth. Some combinations can tell you if an area is experiencing a drought, some can tell you how badly a place was burned by a fire, and others can tell you how productive certain crops are.
If you combine green, red, and near infrared light, you get a photo where healthy green vegetation (like forests) are bright red, and things that aren't alive at all (like roads and houses) look cyan (that super bright blue color). Water looks black. Vegetation that isn't very healthy, like your dried up back yard in the middle of a drought look yellowish, and really wet vegetation like golf courses (think about all of the sprinklers on a golf course!) look pink. We call this "false color," and this is how I usually look at the earth, so when I think of forests, I always think red. Strange, right?
Anyway, I do some other stuff (like computer programming and teaching computers how to learn about patterns in these photos and lots of MATH) but mostly I just play with light and figure out how it can help answer environmental problems in places humans have a hard time reaching in real life.
Pretty cool job!
I posted a metric buttload of mail this morning.
Plot twist: the four dozen cookies I made last night are all en route to four of the people who gave me their mailing addresses the other day.
If you told me to georeference the coordinates encoded in a photo I took at your house, you're SOL because I'm lazy. If you're Chrysti, I messed up and will snail mail you when I get back to the east coast.
Enjoy, Internet! See you in Chicago.
And you, if you're also a fan of medium-resolution Earth-observing satellites. (Which you probably are not. So not a sad day for you, in all likelihood.)
Landsat-5 is about to bite the big one. Launched in 1984 and designed to last 3 years, he's made it 27. We had a nice long run* together, but now with a catastrophic electrical failure, I find my most prized sensor on his proverbial death bed.
I guess there's still Landsat-7, and though she's quite a bit younger (she's 12) than my main squeeze, she's also permanently disabled. She lost her scanline corrector in 2003, and now she only provides a fraction of the data that Landsat-5 was capable of delivering. I've been avoiding her for years, but it looks like I won't be able to for much longer.
So instead of working with gorgeous images like this:
Now I get crap images like this:
Landsat-8, January 2013 is too far away. Please come sooner. Landsat-7 is clingy, and I need someone more independent than her in my life. Codependency isn't my thing. I need to spend my time running*, not interpolating 60% of her junk.
*Proves relevance of post, because I alluded to running.


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First launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery, August 30, 1984.
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First launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery, August 30, 1984.
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Apollo 13 splashes down in the South Pacific on April 17, 1970
"Using the CIVA camera on Rosetta's Philae lander, the spacecraft have snapped a 'selfie' at comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The image was taken on 7 September from a distance of about 50 km from the comet, and captures the side of the Rosetta spacecraft and one of Rosetta's 14 m-long solar wings, with 67P/C-G in the background. Two images with different exposure times were combined to bring out the faint details in this very high contrast situation."
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Press kit covers created by contractors who worked on the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission.
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The Central Nervous System, containing the brain and spinal cord.
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Saturn the giant
Saturn the mighty
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Summer heat getting you down? Here's some amazing photos of people in an ice cave in Iceland by Luri Belegurschi
July 16, 1969 — The liftoff of Apollo 11 seen from inside the firing room at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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Coral branches retreating to protect themselves.
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circumhorizontal arcs photographed by (click pic) david england, andy cripe, del zane, todd sackmann and brandon rios. this atmospheric phenomenon, otherwise known as a fire rainbow, is created when light from a sun that is at least 58 degrees above the horizon passes through the hexagonal ice crystals that form cirrus clouds which, because of quick cloud formation, have become horizontally aligned. (see also: previous cloud posts)
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intrepid: Earthrise, photographed from Apollo 12, November 1969.
5 Hasselblad photographs, taken from lunar orbit, between 18th and 21st November.
Image credit: NASA/JSC, c/o LPI. Animation: AgeOfDestruction.
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Concept art for Bernal Sphere space station created by NASA in the 1970s.
An orbital sunrise brightens this view of space shuttle Discovery's vertical stabilizer, orbital maneuvering system (OMS) pods, docking mechanism, remote manipulator system/orbiter boom sensor system (RMS/OBSS) and payload bay photographed by an STS-133 crew member on the shuttle during flight day 12 activities.
This picture looks surreal. It's beautiful.
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Interesting perspectives on STS-2 during the final phases of stacking in the Vehicle Assembly Building, 1981.
July 16, 1969: The Earth photographed by the Apollo 11 crew on their first day in orbit.
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A curated collection of images and videos committed to the idea that science is beautiful.
A Lab 43 Project.


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ILLINOIS -- State Supreme Court Justice Rita Garman is receiving another big honor.
DANVILLE -- Two Illinois' appellate justices took time away from their benches to speak to people.
SPRINGFIELD -- A state board is recommending a change for kids who commit crimes.
CHAMPAIGN -- A social justice meeting was a success with Unit 4 teachers, parents and administrative leaders.
WASHINGTON D.C. -- It's being called the biggest supreme court decision in a decade.
PIATT COUNTY -- The Illinois Supreme Court is looking for a new judge to serve in the 6th Judicial Circuit.


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WICHITA — The Epic Center's loss will be the Bank of America Center's gain.
Viega, a plumbing and heating systems manufacturer, is leaving the Epic Center for 32,000 square feet at Phil Ruffin's Bank of America Center at Douglas and Broadway early next year.
"That's a great lease," Ruffin says. "We're very happy to get it."
No one with Viega would comment about the move.
"They're a fine company," Ruffin says. "I like them very much. They're a fast-growing company."
Chris Ruffin, Phil Ruffin's son, and Jon Cyphert of Ruffin Properties handled the deal with Scott Salome of NAI Martens.
"They did a great job," Phil Ruffin says.
Viega will occupy the entire sixth floor of the building. That's where Cessna Finance used to be. Ruffin calls that area "beautiful space."
"We're making up for some of the Bank of America space," Ruffin says.
The bank is dropping from 50,000 square feet to about 12,000 square feet.
"Space is space wherever they take it," Ruffin says. "We'll slowly fill that building."
This large lease comes on the heels of Entercom Radio signing a deal for 12,000 square feet at Ruffin's Ruffin Building at 9111 E. Douglas.
Ruffin says, "That's two good leases in a couple of weeks."


text: Have a request I hope someone can either help with or point me in the direction of some information. I'm looking for information on what stitches and patterns would be appropriate for 8th-9th century Wales, esp. the kingdom of Gwynedd. Any help would be appreciated. --- God was my copilot, but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat him.


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Dr. Anna Witt has been practicing medicine for 8 years. Dr. Witt graduated from the University of Missouri, Columbia School of Medicine in 2006. She practices medicine in Waukesha, WI and specializes in Adolescent Medicine and Gynecology. Dr. Witt is affiliated with Waukesha Memorial Hospital and Childrens Hospital Of Wisconsin. She speaks English and Spanish.
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The challenge: If you have seen alphabet challenges before, this follows the same concept. You decide what each letter of the alphabet stands for, and then create a graphic or gif set to best illustrate the meaning behind it.
How it works: If you are going to take part of the challenge, simply reblog this post. Tag your posts with winter soldier abc challenge to make it easier to track.Once you have completed the challenge just send me an ask and I will give you a nice little graphic with your name on it. The deadline to complete the challenge will be May 20th.
An Ezra Playlist [x]
i. Young Blood - The Naked and Famous || ii. Trouble Is A Friend - Lenka || iii. When The War Came - The Decemberists || iv. Black Sheep - Metric || v. This Is The Life - Amy Mcdonald || vi. Hang Me Up To Dry - Cold War Kids || vii. Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Lorde || viii. Change (In The House Of Flies) - Deftones || ix. We Must Be Killers - Mikky Ekko || x. Sober - Tool || xi. Pumped Up Kicks - Foster The People || xii. Machinehead - Bush || xiii. Firestarter - The Prodigy || xiv. Mother - Danzig || xv. Heart-Shaped Box - Nirvana || xvi. The Cave - Mumford And Sons || xvii. Lust For Life - Iggy Pop || xviii. Rebel Rebel - David Bowie || xix. Eyes On Fire - Blue Foundation || xx. Shake It Out - Florence And The Machine || xxi. So Far Away - Staind || xxii. I'm Alive - Disturbed || xxiii. The Hand That Feeds - Nine Inch Nails || xxiv. Times Like These - Foo Fighters || xxv. Creep - Stone Temple Pilots
First rehearse the easy things.
New Orleans, Louisiana.
Famed City of Mardi Gras. Artistry. Excess.
There is much more to this town than an endless party, as residents know only too well. Indeed the Supernatural and Occult are as commonplace as good ol' fashioned Creole delicacies and the famed Southern Hospitality. One can barely swing a dead cat without hitting some relic from the past, a dark echo. The town is saturated with a variety of mementos, harking back to the heady heyday of Witchcraft, Hoodoo and Voodoo. It is of little wonder that all manner of otherworldly creatures have been drawn to the city for generations.
Only now, after years spend in hiding, they are starting to come out of the shadows. Whilst not comfortable living life in plain sight, the links between their world and ours are becoming stronger. Lines are becoming blurred, with underground whispers surfacing that there are places one can actually meet creatures of the Underworld.
For a price.
Dark Echo is a dark, supernatural roleplay set in New Orleans, Louisiana in a modern time period.
Plot || Species || Rules || Navigation
We are accepting applications and opening soon!
A Mausi & Ezra Playlist [x]
i. Wicked Game - Gemma Hayes || ii. Do I Wanna Know - Arctic Monkeys || iii. The Tip Of My Tongue - Civil Wars || iv. Love Is Blindness - Jack White || v. #1 Crush - Garbage || vi. Red - Mirel Wagner || vii. Addicted - Kelly Clarkson || viii. Ava Adore - The Smashing Pumpkins || vix. Safe and Sound - Taylor Swift ft. The Civil Wars || x. Such Great Heights - Iron and Wine || xi. The Book Of Love - The Magnetic Fields || xii. The Perfect Drug - Nine Inch Nails || xiii. Madness - Muse || xiv. Monsoon - Tokio Hotel || xv. Lovesong for a Vampire - Annie Lennox || xvi. Bad Things - Jace Everett || xvii. Everything - Lifehouse || xviii. Stubborn Love - The Lumineers || xix. Just Like Heaven - The Cure || xx. Only You - Joshua Radin || xxi. With Me - Sum 41 || xxii. Set Fire To The Third Bar - Snow Patrol || xxiii. A Little Death - The Neighborhood || xxiv. Orgy - Platinum || xxv. Sally's Song - Fiona Apple
They call him the Winter Soldier.
A Scayne Playlist [x]
i. Every You Every Me - Placebo || ii. Love Me Dead - Ludo || iii. Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen || iv. No light No Light - Florence and The Machine || v. Head is Not Home - MS MR || vi. Breath - Breaking Benjamin || vii. Nicotine - Panic! At The Disco || viii. Closer - Nine Inch Nails || ix. Tear You Apart - She Wants Revenge || x. I Hate Everything About You - Three Days Grace || xi. The Feel Again (Stay) - Blue October || xii. Time Is Running Out - Muse || xiii. Drink You Sober - Bitter:Sweet || xiv. Flaws - Bastille || xv. E.V.O.L - Marina and the Diamonds || xvi. Blue Jeans - Lana Del Rey || xvii. Angels - Within Temptation || xviii. The Devil Within - Digital Daggers || xix. Outside - Staind || xx. The Kill - 30 Seconds to Mars.
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text: Because dancers can have problems with observing basic dance etiquette. I run my local dance practice and when I teach, I strongly emphasize dance etiquette so that people won't hurt themselves or others. However, I have been in ball situations where people, particularly young people, will seemingly go out of their way to hurt themselves (and others in the process). I have actually had someone clothesline herself on my arm before because she either couldn't or wouldn't realize that I was not keen on her passing through my set. I observed proper dance etiquette; she did not. In the end, we both got hurt. My local dance group has joked about dance authorization cards in the past because of things like this. I don't like that it has to come down to actually issuing authorization cards to enforce basic rules of politeness, but if that's what keeps everyone safer and having fun, then so be it. Bottom line, if you don't like the authorization cards, then don't create a situation where they are perceived to be necessary. ~Morina O'Donovan --- On Tue, 4/12/11, Cisco Cividanes <engtrktwo at gmail.com> wrote: From: Cisco Cividanes <engtrktwo at gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] I wonder if we need Dance Authorization cards in Ansteorra... To: "Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc." <ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org> Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 7:08 PM You know something, I feel compelled to point out that I didn't realize that the first post was serious until about three seconds before I hit send on my reply. Have we really gone that far down the path of legal paranoia that we (or some of us in the SCA, anyway) are seriously issuing authorization cards for dancing? I'm sorry, I really am, but this is a 'whiskey tango foxtrot' moment for me. Can someone please explain to me why we would have authorization cards (and the bureaucratic that goes with them) for DANCING of all things. Ivo Blackhawk _______________________________________________ Ansteorra mailing list Ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org In order to make changes and manage your account please go to: http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/ansteorra-ansteorra.org


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A DI pedal with an impressive array of useful features.
Much more than just a "direct inject" device, this unit is designed with the features musicians count on to enhance their performance. Whether you play acoustic-electric or straight electric instruments the Takamine Acoustic DI+ will give you greater flexibility in your signal chain. It is just as at home in the studio as it is on stage, letting you send your instrument's signal to an amp, a mixer, or directly to a recording device.
This versatile active direct input pedal is loaded with features that players need to perform their best, such as balanced and unbalanced outputs, a buffered output, foot switchable effects send and return loop with an adjustable return gain, a 12db input pad, ground lift, and a mute switch. A foot switchable boost control is adjustable up to 10db that gives you the boost you need when it comes time to take a solo.
The Acoustic DI+ can be used with any acoustic-electric instrument, but is especially for useful for instruments equipped with the Takamine Cool Tube preamp system. Beyond all of its sonic enhancements, the DI+ serves also as a power source for the Cool Tube preamp and eliminates the need for batteries.


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A community group in Merced plans to curtail cries of, "There's nothing to do in Atwater," with the launch of a new Web site, www.atwatercause.org.
A penny saved is a penny earned.
Longtime education veteran Susan Coston announced her bid this week to run for Merced County Office of Education superintendent of schools in the county's June 8 election.Coston, 50, serves as the county's assistant superintendent of special education and has done so since 2002. She's a 22-year-veteran of the district.
ATWATER -- Next year, Merced Union High School District students will have the chance to immerse themselves in the history and geography of the Sierra Nevada, after the school board approved the new elective, in addition to three other classes, Wednesday night.


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Report to Creditors
Joint Administrative Receivers report pursuant to Section 48(1) of the Insolvency Act 1986 (as amended)
This report has been prepared pursuant to Section 48(1) of the Act, which requires the Administrative Receivers to provide a report to all creditors providing background information for the Group, events leading up to the Receivership and the progress of the Receivership to date. To assist the creditors, the following information has been provided in this report:
- Events leading up to the appointment of the Administrative Receivers;
- The disposal, or proposed disposal, of any property of the Group and the carrying on, or proposed carrying on, of any business of the Group;
- The amounts due to the secured, preferential and any other creditors of the Group;
- A summary of the Director's statements of affairs;
- All other matters in the Administrative Receivership; and
- Details of the meetings of creditors of the Group pursuant to Section 48 of the Act.
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Meetings of creditors
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN in accordance with Section 48(2) of the Insolvency Act 1986 that a meeting of the creditors of Lincoln Group Limited, Elland Way Limited, St. James Way Limited and St. James Side Limited will be held at the Baltimore Hotel, 250 Marton Road, Middlesbrough, TS4 2EZ on 22 March 2012 at 11.00am.
In accordance with Rule 3.11(1) of the Insolvency Rules 1986, a creditor is entitled to vote only if:
- Details of the debt claimed is submitted to the Administrative Receivers in writing no later than noon on the business day prior to the meeting; and
- Where the creditor cannot attend in person, a form of proxy which the creditor intends to be used on his behalf is lodged with the receivers before the meeting.
Creditors whose claims are fully secured are not entitled to attend or to be represented at the meeting.
Claims, proxies or requests should be sent for the attention of Adrian Peter Berry and Daniel Francis Butters, Joint Administrative Receivers, Deloitte LLP, One Trinity Gardens, Broad Chare, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 6AE.
Lincoln Group Limited, Elland Way Limited, St. James Way Limited and St. James Side Limited (all in Administrative Receivership). A P Berry and D F Butters appointed Administrative Receivers.
Joint Administrative Receivers report pursuant to Section 48(1) of the Insolvency Act 1986 (as amended)


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I Spy With My Little Eye by Brittany D Clark
Isabella ran her palm through the maple syrup and spread her fingers open and closed.
"Daddy! Spider webs!"
Patrick looked at the dried syrup strands weaving amongst her fingers and cringed. He stood up and gathered the dishes.
"Did you have any dreams last night, Izzy?" Patrick said from the kitchen sink as he rinsed the plastic silverware and red solo cups.
"I hada dream Grampa died," Isabella said and licked her fingers.
Patrick dropped a Chinet plate to the floor and it fell face first to conceal a syrupy, chocolatey mess. He looked towards Isabella as he bent down to pick it up.
Isabella continued, "He was alive, and den died. His eyes were like dis." And she opened her eyes wide and looked as far up to the ceiling as she could, her pupils half moons against her wrinkled forehead.
"Which Grampa was it, Izzy? The one you see when we eat turkey and mashed potatoes, or the one you see when we have Santa Claus?" Patrick wrung his hands as he stood to get a dish rag from the counter.
"The turkey one," Isabella said, and hopped down from her seat to go play in her room. He could hear the familiar door slam and Wiggles CD start from track eight, which played on repeat: Romp-bomp-a-chomp, romp-bomp-a-chomp, romp-bomp-a-chomp, Dorothy the Dinosaur.
That's when Patrick remembered to breathe.
"I can't just ignore this," he said. He grabbed his cellphone and dialed the preschool, spread raspberry jam and peanut butter on almost-stale Dixie bread, and tried to come up with an excuse about a forgotten doctor's note or a fever over 101. He settled on the fever, packed up the old Honda civic, and allowed Isabella to dress herself: polka dot dress, Barbie faux-leather jacket, and yellow rain boots.
Patrick's hometown was six hours away. Five Wiggles CDs, four McDonald's pit stops, and eighteen games of I-Spy. Patrick remembered the long drives from his mountainous neighborhood to the Outer Banks when he was younger. His dad had always been the master of I-Spy. Patrick was always sure he had cheated, but when Patrick gave up, his dad pointed to the mystery object that was right there in plain sight. "Gotcha!" he'd say, and Patrick would try to trick him in return, but he never could. Patrick's dad was the kind of guy who would be able to handle being a single father. He wouldn't burn chicken nuggets or mess up a pile of sheets that was supposed to be an underground fortress. He wouldn't fantasize about taking the Wiggles CD and microwaving it while his daughter slept. He would be able to trick her in I-Spy. He would know how to do this.
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"I would be willing to if I believe that it's right for the country."
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Tale Of The Tape: Arizona Cardinals At New York Giants
The Cardinals established a productive offense last year with Carson Palmer under center as he threw for a career-best 4,274 yards.
Tale Of The Tape: Dallas Cowboys At Tennessee Titans
The weaknesses on the Cowboys' defense is going to put extreme pressure on the offensive personnel to play with efficiency and effectiveness.
Tale Of The Tape: Jacksonville Jaguars At Washington Redskins
The Jaguars started the season in shocking fashion, as they built a 17-0 lead over Philadelphia on the road before reality set in and the Eagles took charge and put the game away in the second half.
Tale Of The Tape: New Orleans Saints At Cleveland Browns
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Tale Of The Tape: Detroit Lions At Carolina Panthers
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Tale Of The Tape: Miami Dolphins At Buffalo Bills
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text: lilinah at earthlink.net wrote: > On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Laura C. Minnick <lcm at jeffnet.org> > wrote: >> This is beginning to look like a Monty Python skit... > > Robin Carroll-Mann wrote: >> No it isn't! > > Yes, it is! Oh I'm sorry, is this a five minute argument, or the full half hour? -- "It is our choices Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities." -Albus Dumbledore ~~~Follow my Queenly perambulations at: http://slugcrossings.blogspot.com/


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Full Coverage Dental Plans
By Susan Braden
Health Insurance vs. Dental Plans
Healthcare can be a funny thing: just about everybody needs it at some point, but almost nobody actually pays the full cost out-of-pocket. Many medical procedures cost thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars, and uninsured people can suddenly find themselves stuck with a six-figure hospital bill with no hope of paying it off.
It is fairly common for employers to provide a health plan for their employees, and we have programs like Medicaid and Medicare that, in theory at least, exist to cover those sectors of the population who cannot otherwise afford healthcare.
Indemnity Plans, at First Glance
These plans don't restrict your choice of dentist, and they cover a good portion of the costs. Generally, an indemnity plan will cover up to 100% of the cost of preventative care, like cleanings and checkups, and 50-80% of the cost of more involved restorative procedures like root canals or fillings.
Some dental plans are classified as indemnity plans. While an indemnity plan may be the closest thing to "full coverage" you can find, it comes at a price -- extremely high premiums and limiting maximums each year that nearly ensure your carrier will receive more money from you than it will pay out to your dentist in claims.
Not Quite So "Full" After Closer Inspection
Once you get beyond basic care, however, indemnity dental insurance is not as effective. You might have to deal with waiting periods for complex procedures, and no one wants to wait when they urgently need a filling or extraction. You'll still have to pay a deductible, and most plans will only pay what they deem the Usual, Customary and Reasonable, or UCR, cost. Anything over that amount must be paid by the patient out-of-pocket.
HMOs and PPOs
Many employer-offered plans fall into either the Preferred Provider Organization or Health Maintenance Organization model. Both have their drawbacks, however: HMOs restrict you to a relatively small group of dentists while PPOs often require higher premiums than other alternatives. And again, for more complicated procedures, you may still find yourself responsible for a substantial portion of the bill.
Dental Discount Plans: A More User-Friendly Model
Another alternative to dental insurance is a discount plan. This can be a great option for those of us who might tend to shy away from regular dentist visits due to cost. Instead of dealing with claims, paperwork and the wait time for an insurance company to pay the bill or reimburse your payment, these dental plans allow patients to purchase care directly from the dentist at a steeply discounted rate.
In cases like these, when a patient might need multiple serious procedures within a few months, a traditional dental insurance's $1000 dollar maximum is not going to last long. A discount dental plan, however, can continue to provide patients discounts for as many eligible procedures as they need, without maximums or other limits of traditional insurance.


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