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Jerry Seinfeld (character)
|Jerry Seinfeld
|Seinfeld character
|First appearance
|"The Seinfeld Chronicles"
|Last appearance
|"The Finale, Part II" (last appearance on Seinfeld)
"The Over-Cheer"
|Created by
|Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David
|Portrayed by
|Jerry Seinfeld
|Dylan Murphy
Kel Varnsen
Slappy White
Joy Boy
Jerry the Great
|stand-up comedian
umbrella salesman
|Morty (father)
Helen (mother)
Unnamed sister
|Leo, Mac (uncles); Stella, Silvia, Rose (aunts); Jeffery, Artie, Douglass (cousins); Nana (grandmother)
Jerome Allen "Jerry" Seinfeld is the protagonist of the American television sitcom Seinfeld (1989–1998). The straight man among his group of friends, this semi-fictionalized version of comedian Jerry Seinfeld was named after, co-created by, based on, and played by Seinfeld himself. The series revolves around Jerry's misadventures with his best friend George Costanza, neighbor Cosmo Kramer, and ex-girlfriend Elaine Benes. He is usually the voice of reason amidst his friends' antics and the focal point of the foursome's relationship.
An eternal optimist, he rarely runs into major personal problems. Jerry is the only main character on the show to maintain the same career (a stand-up comedian, like the real Seinfeld) throughout the series. He is the most observational character, sarcastically commenting on his friends' quirky habits. Much of the show's action takes place in Jerry's apartment located at 129 West 81st Street, apartment 5A.[1] He and his friends also frequent Monk's Café. Jerry appeared in all 180 episodes of Seinfeld (including several two-part episodes), holding the distinction of being the only character in the show to appear in every episode.[2]
In the show's setting, Jerry is the straight man, a figure who is "able to observe the chaos around him but not always be a part of it."[3] Plot lines involving Jerry often concern his various relationships - Jerry often finds "stupid reasons to break up" with women; which, according to Elaine, occurs "every week."
Jerry is generally completely indifferent to what goes on in his friends' lives, seeing their misery as merely an entertaining distraction, as well as an opportunity for joke material. He often plays along with their hare-brained schemes, even encouraging them, often just to see them fail. In the episode "The Serenity Now", Jerry lets out his emotions and cries, and is perplexed by the experience ("What is this salty discharge?").[4] In "The Foundation" Elaine points out that he has "never felt remorse," to which Jerry replies, "Yeah, I feel kinda bad about that."[5] He will often nonchalantly state, "That's a shame" when something bad happens (often due to his or his friends' actions). A recurring joke is Jerry behaving unchivalrously towards Elaine, such as not helping her carry groceries or heavy objects, ignoring her when she is upset, and on one occasion taking a first class upgrade on a flight for himself, leaving Elaine in economy. Jerry, George and Elaine all share a general trait of not letting go of other character's remarks and going to great lengths to be proven right. In one episode, Jerry goes out of his way to rent a house in Tuscany, Italy, just because "The Maestro" told him there weren't any available. Another example was when he bought his parents the same car over and over again, at great financial loss.
Despite his usual indifference to his friends and their actions, Jerry apparently is very satisfied with his life, to the point that he actually feels worried about anything that might threaten the group lifestyle. In "The Invitations", for example, Jerry admits that he feels depressed about George getting married, seeing as how George will eventually leave the group and Jerry will never see him again. Once Elaine told him that she was also "getting out" of the group, Jerry became so worried about a near future of just him and Kramer that he unknowingly almost walked into a car while crossing the street. In "The Bizarro Jerry", Jerry also grows panicky about losing the group dynamic when Kramer becomes too busy with his fake job and Elaine temporarily leaves to join the bizarro group, claiming that "The whole system's breaking down!" Jerry himself perfectly sums up his relation to his three friends in the episode "The Letter". In a deleted scene from that show, he claims that his friends are "not more important" than his girlfriends, but "they're as important."
Unlike George and Elaine, Jerry rarely runs into major personal problems. In "The Opposite", this tendency is explicitly pointed out, as Jerry goes through a number of experiences after which he invariably "breaks even," even as his friends are going through intense periods of success or failure. Even when Elaine threw Jerry's $20 bill out of the window, he unexpectedly found one in his coat pocket, evening out his luck. In "The Rye", during a particularly trying time for Elaine, she angrily tells Jerry, "You know, one of these days, something terrible is going to happen to you. It has to!" Jerry simply replies, "No, I'm going to be just fine." Many of the problems he does run into are the result of the actions of his nemesis Newman, a disgruntled postal worker. In "The Old Man", George asks "What kind of a person are you?" in which Jerry replies "I think I'm pretty much like you, only successful."
However, Kramer persuades Jerry to do things that he's reluctant to do. In "The Mango", Kramer gets Jerry to buy fruit for him after Kramer is banned from the store over an argument with the owner. This continues until the owner bans Jerry, because his order is similar enough to Kramer's that it's obvious he's buying fruit for Kramer. The most famous example is in "The Chicken Roaster" in which Kramer and Jerry exchange apartments. This results in the two of them also switching personalities. In several arguments with Jerry, Kramer is incredibly stubborn, protecting his own interests. Examples of this include arguments in "The Chaperone," "The Face Painter," and "The Caddy." Probably the only exception is "The Kiss Hello" in which Kramer kissed Jerry as George walked in.
Jerry always wears a suit whenever he has to do his stand-up comedy act. In a few cases, Jerry wears an unusual item of clothing. Kramer has persuaded Jerry to wear the "pirate shirt" in "The Puffy Shirt", the cowboy boots in "The Mom & Pop Store" and the fur coat in "The Reverse Peephole". Like George, Jerry's hairstyle remains relatively the same throughout the series, though the length and thickness of it alters, especially from Season 3 onwards. There is one noticeable episode in which Jerry receives a bad haircut when he reluctantly agrees to get his hair done by an incompetent Italian barber in "The Barber".
As in real life, Jerry is a fan of comic book characters, particularly of Superman, who is his hero. As far as sports, Jerry is a fan of the New York Mets as evidenced as early as the episode "The Baby Shower" in which Kramer persuades him to install illegal cable by saying "The Mets have 75 games on cable this year." Jerry is also a fan of the Chicago Cubs,[citation needed] the New York Knicks, the New York Giants, the New York Rangers and the New York Yankees. In early episodes, a New York Yankees hat sits on the counter near his computer. Later on, by the middle of Season 3, it was replaced with a Mets cap, possibly to better reflect Jerry's real-life support of the Queens side. In the first episode of Season 7, Jerry is shown watching a Yankees game while on the phone with George.
Jerry never smokes a cigarette but has been seen smoking a cigar. He is seen smoking a cigar briefly in "The Calzone" and "The Wizard". In "The Voice", Jerry is smoking a Cuban cigar while laughing and receiving money from Elaine (she bet that she could stop sleeping with David Puddy). Jerry also does not appear to have any particular interest in alcohol as he is rarely seen drinking beer or any other alcoholic beverage; however, he is seen drinking beer with George once in "The Shower Head," wine at various meals, and keeps a bottle of Hennigans scotch in his apartment, though he claims that he only uses it as a paint thinner.
Jerry grew up in New York with George, who, according to "The Outing", were friends ever since an encounter in gym class in their school days, although in "The Betrayal," Jerry mentions that he once beat George up in the fourth grade. Flashbacks in episodes such as "The Library" portray Jerry and George in high school. A pizza place which they frequented is portrayed in "The Frogger". Jerry and George attended school together at Edward R. Murrow Middle School, John F. Kennedy High School and university at Queens College.[6] After college, Jerry briefly worked as an umbrella salesman and reportedly invented the "twirl" to make the umbrella look more attractive. He eventually quit the job in order to focus more on his comedy career. Jerry's PIN code for his bank account is Jor-El, who is the father of Superman and George's PIN code is Bosco, the chocolate sauce brand, as portrayed in the episode "The Secret Code".
Jerry's parents are Morty and Helen Seinfeld, a retired Jewish couple living in Florida. Unlike George, who can't stand his parents, Jerry gets along reasonably well with his parents, but he still prefers they live in Florida rather than New York, so that they do not interfere with his private life. Although born and raised Jewish and he considers himself a Jew, Jerry apparently does not practice and generally does not observe many traditions, unlike the real Seinfeld. As shown in "The Soup Nazi", he does not keep kosher, as he is seen eating crab bisque. In "The Bris", he implies he is circumcised, repeatedly asking people if they have "ever seen one" - in reference to an uncircumcised penis. He also mentions having a sister in the episode "The Chinese Restaurant", though she is never named, never appears on screen, and is never mentioned again after this episode. In order to avoid his old friend Joel in "Male Unbonding", Jerry pretends to have promised to tutor his nephew; it is unclear if the nephew really exists or is simply fabricated as part of the excuse.
Jerry has an eccentric uncle, Leo, who appears in 15 episodes. Uncle Leo has a son, Cousin Jeffrey, who works for the parks department, about whom he constantly talks, but who never appears. In "The Stake Out", Jerry speaks to an "Uncle Mac", as well as a cousin "Artie Levine". In "The Truth", Jerry mentions a cousin named "Douglass" who has an addiction with Pepsi. In "The Pony Remark", Helen, Morty, Jerry, Elaine, and Leo attend a 50th-anniversary party for Manya and Isaac, an elderly couple whose relationship to Jerry is never explicitly defined. Manya is described as a Polish immigrant. In the same episode, Jerry references having an "Aunt Rose", and Helen mentions a family member named "Claire" who is getting married. In "The Soup" episode, Jerry mentions an "Aunt Silvia", who he compares to Elaine in terms of conversation.
Jerry's maternal grandmother, Nana, is an elderly woman with memory problems, occasionally unable to tell the past from the present, living alone in the city. Nana makes appearances in "The Pledge Drive", "The Kiss Hello", and "The Doodle". According to the Seinfeld reunion on Curb Your Enthusiasm, Elaine has a daughter, Isabelle, through a sperm donation from Jerry.
Jerry is notorious for his detached approach towards relationships and for breaking up with women for the slightest of flaws or for the most minor of reasons. According to the ninth-season DVD release of the series, 73 different partners have been seen or alluded to over the course of the series.
Jerry and Elaine are depicted as having dated in the past and apparently a lot longer than they each date other people in the series. During the run of the show, they are shown mainly as best friends, sometimes even joking with one another about their failed dating relationship. However, they do date briefly during the run of the show. In "The Deal", they create a set of rules whereby they can sleep together but remain only friends. Their theory is ruined, however, when Elaine gets upset at Jerry for wanting to leave after a sexual encounter instead of sleeping over (one of the rules they discussed was that sleeping over was optional, but not whose option it was). By the end of the episode the two decide to be a couple again, which lasts until "The Note" where it is shown that they went back to being just friends. Later in "The Pen" Jerry tells his parents that "we decided that we don't work out as a couple." That is the only time in the run of the show they are shown as anything more than friends. In "The Mango", Jerry is upset at learning that Elaine had faked her orgasms while they were together. The fact cause such problems between the two, that Elaine agrees to sleep with Jerry in an effort to "save the friendship". The final scene, however, shows the two in bed, with Jerry looking distraught and gesturing towards his private area, indicating he was not able to perform (Paralleling an earlier scene with George having the same problem). According to the reunion episode featured in the seventh season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Jerry donated the sperm for Elaine's daughter. Elaine wants her daughter to know that Jerry is her father but he is uncomfortable with the thought. By the episode's end, the daughter is said to refer to Jerry as "daddy" to Jerry's discomfort.
There are hints throughout the series that suggest that Jerry and Elaine still have feelings for each other:
- In "The Stake Out", Elaine becomes jealous when Jerry flirts with another woman, Vanessa, at a party that Jerry is accompanying her to.
- In "The Tape" when Jerry listens to an erotic message on his tape recorder, he becomes obsessed with finding who's the person on the tape; eventually, he pushes George into revealing that it's Elaine and it's supposed to be a joke.
- In "The Boyfriend", Jerry becomes jealous of both Keith Hernandez and Elaine when Keith asks Elaine out.
- In "The Junior Mint", Elaine asks Jerry to accompany her to the hospital as her boyfriend, Roy, to fool one of her ex's. Jerry smiles and responds "Well, I believe I've played that role before to some critical acclaim."
- In "The Dinner Party" Jerry and Elaine are sitting in the back of Kramer's car. Since Kramer doesn't have a heater, Jerry tries cuddling with Elaine to stay warm, but she refuses and pushes him away.
- In "The Cadillac" after Jerry buys his parents a Cadillac and Elaine realizes how much money he has, she becomes very flirtatious towards him.
- In "The Abstinence" when Elaine is denying sex to her current boyfriend, Ben, in the hope that it will help him pass his medical licensing exam, she begs Jerry to have sex with her, but, after a brief moment of consideration, he turns her down.
- In "The Serenity Now" when Jerry's emotions come flooding out after being locked up, he confesses his love for Elaine and proposes to her. Later the horrifying tale of George's life frightens him back into his formerly cold demeanor and he takes back his proposal.
- In "The Finale", when they think their plane is about to crash, Elaine is about to say something but the pilot manages to steady the plane, so in the courtroom, Elaine finishes her comment by saying later "I've always loved United Airlines."
- Additionally, during her interview on Inside The Actor's Studio, Julia Louis-Dreyfus said she believed Jerry and Elaine were soul mates but would never end up together because they were both too "insane and messed up."
Long term relationships[edit]
Other than Elaine, Jerry has only dated a few other women for more than one episode:
- He starts dating Vanessa in "The Stake Out" and breaks up with her in "The Stock Tip". Although she is only seen in these two episodes, Jerry dated her throughout the course of four episodes (three in production order). They break up because of an uncomfortable weekend trip to Vermont.
- He dates Marla, a virginal woman in the closet business, in "The Virgin" and "The Contest" and Tia, a model, in "The Airport" and "The Pick". These relationships are strange in that both women break up with Jerry for reasons of disgust, rather than it being the other way around.
- He dates Dolores (a.k.a. Mulva) in "The Junior Mint" and "The Foundation". (Season 4 then Season 8). This was the only time he dated a woman in two non-consecutive episodes.
- He dated Rachel over the course of four episodes, and she appears in all these episodes: "The Raincoats" (a two-part episode), "The Hamptons", and "The Opposite". Rachel ends the relationship, but Jerry, who was "even steven" at the time, didn't become upset, and was confident that he would find another girlfriend (which he did in the deleted scene for that episode).
Only twice in the entire series has Jerry considered marriage.
- The first time was with his "perfect" girlfriend, Jeannie, in the Season 7 finale, "The Invitations", but he soon learned that he didn't want to be with someone exactly like himself. In the first Season 8 episode, "The Foundation", Jerry tells Elaine that he had a perfectly mutual break-up with Jeannie over the summer.
- Jerry almost got engaged a second time, to Elaine. In the Season 9 episode "The Serenity Now", after Jerry undergoes a personality change and becomes deeply sensitive and emotional, he proposes to a shocked Elaine. She leaves the apartment, but returns later to accept his proposal. By that point, however, he had gone back to his old self and he turns her down.
Jerry's approach to relationships is notoriously fickle, and he has broken up with women, or provoked them into breaking up with him for some of the most trivial of reasons.
Jerry gets dumped:
- Because he admitted to changing the size 32 to size 31 of all his jeans because he "doesn't want to be a 32" ("The Sponge").
- For snooping around her closet having become suspicious of her wearing the same dress on every date ("The Seven").
- Because he is caught spitting out fatty meats his girlfriend cooked for him in to napkins after going on a health kick ("The Wink").
- Because she discovered he'd been getting her drunk so he and his friends could play with her collection of antique toys ("The Merv Griffin Show").
- Because he refuses to use her toothbrush ("The Doodle")
- Because he cheats on his "wife" to give another woman his family dry-cleaning discount ("The Wife").
- Because she thinks she saw him pick his nose, when Jerry was in fact only scratching it from the side ("The Pick").
- Because she did not think his stand-up comedy act was funny and refuses to date someone whose work she does not respect ("The Ex-Girlfriend").
Jerry dumps them:
- For eating her peas one at a time ("The Engagement").
- For refusing to taste his pie at the coffee shop and later getting her father's restaurant shut down by the health board ("The Pie").
- Because she had once dated Newman, who had ended the relationship ("The Big Salad").
- Because she wouldn't give him a massage ("The Masseuse").
- Because she got covered in toilet water after a pipe exploded ("The Pothole")
- Because she liked a commercial that he hated ("The Phone Message").
- Because she had man hands ("The Bizarro Jerry").
- Because she never laughed at his jokes ("The Switch").
- Because she had a strange-sounding laugh ("The Bubble Boy").
"The world's first truly mutual breakup"
- Because she (his fiancée) acted in the same manner as him: "I can't be with somebody like me! I hate myself!". ("The Invitations")
Guest star girlfriends[edit]
The following celebrities starred as Jerry's girlfriend or romantic interest:
- Teri Hatcher in "The Implant" and in "The Finale".
- Marcia Cross in "The Slicer".
- Courteney Cox in "The Wife".
- Jami Gertz in "The Stall".
- Jane Leeves in "The Virgin","The Contest" and "The Finale".
- Jennifer Coolidge in "The Masseuse".
- Janeane Garofalo in "The Invitations".
- Kristin Davis in "The Pothole" and "The Butter Shave".
- Amanda Peet in "The Summer of George".
- Marlee Matlin in "The Lip Reader".
- Catherine Keener in "The Letter".
- Debra Messing in "The Wait Out" and in "The Yada Yada".
- Christine Taylor in "The Van Buren Boys".
- Lauren Graham in "The Millennium".
- Lori Loughlin in "The Serenity Now".
- Melinda Clarke in "The Muffin Tops".
- Mariska Hargitay in "The Pilot"
- A.J. Langer in "The Fatigues"
- Paula Marshall in "The Outing"
- Anna Gunn in "The Glasses"
Career and finances[edit]
Jerry is very successful financially, and occupationally stable in comparison with his friends (and perhaps with other stand-up comedians in general). He never seems to be at a loss for money, in comparison to both George and Elaine, whose careers go through both highs and lows but are often unsuccessful or short of money. Throughout the series Jerry suffers numerous financial and material losses, but these do not seem to have long-term impacts on his situation. Examples include:
- Jerry buys his father a Cadillac Fleetwood[7] and buys it back after his parents sell it, spending over $20,000. Jerry himself seems to only drive luxury European makes, such as a BMW 5-series ("The Smelly Car") and a SAAB 900 Convertible, although in early episodes such as "The Ex-Girlfriend", he drives a mid-1970s American coupe, and also a Chevrolet Sport Van in The Junk Mail episode. In "The Apartment", it is revealed that Jerry could easily lend Elaine $5,000 for an apartment. Also, Jerry is regularly called upon to pay the check for the group at Monk's and allows Kramer to depend on him for food. Despite his apparent financial security, his parents seem to think he needs money, offering to pay for everything when they visit him (even if they have no money, as seen in "The Watch") and occasionally urging him to find a new job.
- In "The Checks", Jerry is revealed to be famous in Japan where he appears in the opening montage of Japanese TV's "Super Terrific Happy Hour" and he even continues to earn royalties from each appearance (although each royalty check is only for twelve cents, due to the heavy difference between the worth of Japanese and American currency.)
- Jerry spends most of the series making a living from stand-up comedy, except for the periods when he and George co-write their own sitcom. Jerry also acts in the pilot episode of their show "Jerry", playing himself.
- Twice, Jerry is encouraged to switch to a career at Bloomingdales in their Executive Training Program. First his parents suggest it after he bounces a check; then in another episode, George and Kramer suggest it after he starts dating a "loser".
While Jerry's career is successful and his opening and closing stand-up bits always go as planned, his stand-up performances depicted within the show can go awry at times.
- In "The Red Dot", an inebriated Dick cuts Jerry's stand-up short over the usage of the phrases "on the wagon" and "off the wagon".
- In "The Trip, Part 1", the hotel chambermaid throws Jerry's notes away causing him to stumble and bumble his way through a performance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.
- In "The Fire", Jerry is thrown off his act by Kramer's girlfriend Toby, who heckles him and later sees his entire crowd run for the exits when George screams "he's got a gun!" when referring to a prop comic.
- In "The Diplomat's Club", Jerry's manager oddly warns him that the pilot of the plane in which he flew to the show in was in the audience. Jerry tells that there is no way that could bother him but when he takes the stage, he can't stop looking at the pilot.
- In "The Abstinence", Jerry is twice bumped from playing an assembly at his old middle-school. When he finally takes the stage, he's promptly booed for his opening act about homework. David Letterman later calls him to bump him from the Late Show due to the poor middle-school performance.
- In "The Butter Shave", Jerry intentionally "takes a dive" to expose Kenny Bania, whom Jerry had accused of benefiting from the fact that Jerry warms up the audience for him.
- In "The Finale, Part 2", Jerry performs stand-up for his fellow inmates in jail but gets no laughs (except from Kramer) and is heckled and threatened by a prisoner who was in for grand theft auto (the last scene of the series).
Jerry has an obsessive insistence on cleanliness and neatness.
- A girlfriend of his (played by Teri Hatcher) comments that "he would have made a great Nazi" because "everything has to be just so."[8]
- In "The Pothole", Jerry inadvertently knocks his girlfriend's toothbrush into the toilet bowl, and after she uses it, he is unable to bring himself to kiss her. As revenge, she proceeds to put one item of his in the toilet without telling him what it was; a distraught Jerry, thinking it could be anything, ends up throwing away virtually every item in his apartment in panic. Upon learning it was the toilet brush, he reassures himself that it can be replaced (his girlfriend is later bombarded with toilet water following a plumbing accident in her bathroom, causing him to break up with her). Elaine says that in some instances, his cleanliness can verge into a serious disorder.
- In "The Outing", Jerry comments that most people think he's gay because he's "thin and neat".
- In "The Statue", he acts like a child at Christmas when he finds that his apartment is totally clean and that the cleaner cleaned the little area between the wall and the fridge; even going as far as noticing he 'de-coagulated' the dried soap from the around the nozzle.
- In "The Voice", he throws out a belt because it touched the edge of a urinal.
- In "The Butter Shave", he throws out a shoelace because it touched the floor of a men's room.
- In "The Couch", rather than have the cushion cleaned, he gives away his couch because Poppy peed on it due to his stomach issues.
- In "The Blood", when Kramer announces that he moved his blood from the blood bank into the building, Jerry panics until Kramer tells him that the blood is in his apartment. Jerry tells him that if any blood gets into his apartment he will "freak out". Later when Kramer's freezer breaks, Jerry freaks out again, checking his freezer for the blood, thinking that the bowl of jello and the jug or tomato juice is blood. Kramer proceeds to drink the juice, causing Jerry to freak out even more.
- Jerry is horrified when Poppy forgets to wash his hands after using the bathroom, and refuses to eat the food he prepared in "The Pie". His look is described like he had just "seen a ghost."
- While Elaine is talking to Jerry about a seemingly germaphobic woman in her office in "The Apology", Jerry starts meticulously cleaning a spot where Kramer spilled soda. Eyeing him, she comments that the woman (and by the look of it Jerry also) must be "probably one of those neurotic clean freaks."
- Jerry almost gets into a state of panic when he finds out that Kramer is not wearing any under shorts in "The Chinese Woman".
- During the course of events in the episode "The Limo", Jerry and George are misidentified as Nazis. Elaine remarks that Jerry is not a Nazi, "he's just neat."
Jerry has a long-running hatred of Newman, describing him as his "sworn enemy" in "The Andrea Doria" and showing general contempt for him at their every meeting. Newman usually reciprocates, although at other times he seems quite pleased by Jerry's hostility, as if it is a testimony to his effectiveness at irritating him. Seinfeld has also commented in interviews that Newman is his "Lex Luthor". The origin of their feud is never explained.
Jerry's snide greeting for him with "Hello Newman" (in response to Newman's "Hello Jerry") becomes a trademark of their relationship. Even Jerry's mother utters the greeting, with as much displeasure as Jerry, in "The Raincoats, Part 2". Jerry wants to be rid of Newman so badly that he once even helped him on his postal route so that he could get a prized transfer to Hawaii ("The Andrea Doria").
Despite their antagonistic relationship, Jerry and Newman have ended up working in unison on rare occasions. In "The Sniffing Accountant", Jerry worked with Kramer and Newman to find out if their accountant was on drugs. In "The Soul Mate", Jerry and Newman help each other with their romance problems. Newman told Jerry about Kramer's crush on his then-girlfriend, Pam, while Jerry helps Newman get a chance to date Elaine.
Certain instances would even define their relationship as one of friendship, or at least mutual tolerance, built around their shared friend, Kramer. In "The Pick", Jerry casually walks over to Newman's apartment and brings him back to his own, to examine Elaine's Christmas card. Newman apparently puts up little fight and doesn't make any sarcastic remarks, then leaves without a confrontation. In "The Old Man", Jerry says "my friends" in reference to Kramer and Newman and in "The Bottle Deposit" he has no qualms about leaving Kramer and Newman alone in his apartment, trusting they'll "keep an eye on one another." Finally, in "The Barber", Jerry (albeit reluctantly) allows Newman to use his bathroom (he told him to flush twice) and even sit down and watch Edward Scissorhands with him, a move which comes back to haunt him later.
In 2007, Entertainment Weekly placed Jerry Seinfeld eighth on their list of the "50 Greatest TV icons".[9] Jerry Seinfeld was nominated four times for the Golden Globe Awards for the Best Actor - Musical or Comedy Series category, out of which he won one.[10]
- ^ "The Alternate Side"
- ^ George did not appear in The Pen; Elaine did not appear in The pilot, The Trip, Part 1, and The Trip, Part 2; and Kramer did not appear in The Chinese Restaurant and The Pen.
- ^ BBC Comedy Guide: Seinfeld
- ^ "The Serenity Now"
- ^ "The Foundation"
- ^ "The Marine Biologist"
- ^ "The Cadillac, Part 1" and "Part 2"
- ^ "The Implant"
- ^ "The 50 Greatest TV Icons". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2008-05-13.
- ^ "Jerry Seinfeld awards for Golden Globe". Golden Globes. Retrieved 2008-05-13.[dead link]


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As "ER" comes to a close, this hour-long retrospective takes a look back at fifteen seasons of patients, trauma, and all the drama that goes along with it. The retrospective features clips of the series' most memorable moments and interviews with many of the series' stars reflecting on their time on the show. watch
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ER continues to find ways to captivate its audience, as more than 11 million viewers turned in for Season 13. This season, Dr. Tony Gates (John Stamos) returns to the ER, now as an intern, with a straightforward attitude and a complicated personal life. He is Dr. Gallant?s opposite: brash, cocksure, with a bad-boy past, and maybe the right prescription for Neela?s (Parminder Nagra) broken heart. Further shaking up the ER, Weaver (Laura Innes) decides to leave County General for a career move you wouldn?t expect. And the profound dramas of the outside world continue to make their way to the ER, including a hostile patient whose real condition is a secret even to himself, homeless children who escape to a magic world of their own making, and a Christmas miracle. Then again, miracles happen every day at County General.
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Set in the Los Angeles Police Department in April 1992, Dark Blue is a dramatic thriller that takes place just days before the acquittal of four white officers in the beating of black motorist Rodney King and the subsequent L.A. riots. In this racially charged climate, the L.A.P.D's elite Special Investigations Squad (SIS) is assigned a high-profile quadruple homicide. As they work the case, veteran detective Eldon Perry (Kurt Russell), known for his tough street tactics and fiery temper, tutors SIS rookie Bobby Keough (Scott Speedman) in the grim realities of police intimidation.
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How does being beautiful or deformed make others treat you differently? That was the central theme in tonight's episode, and it brought out some unexpected twists and revealing moments for House, as well as the POTW.Kenny is on his way to Princeton-Plainsboro for surgery to correct the major congenital facial deformity that keeps him from being "just another face in the crowd." The catch is that the entire experience is being filmed (and bank-rolled) by a documentary crew. Everything's set to go in the OR and Chase is about to perform the surgery when the kid has a heart attack, followed by a host of other symptoms that seem to jeopardize his facial surgery.Meanwhile, Dr. Terzi (Michael Michele) has shown up for "class" with the rest of the Wannabes, who immediately start trying to figure out whether she's guaranteed one of their coveted spots. House, who clearly has the hots for her, can't stand the fact that he's sort of hired her, and has a little heart to heart wit...
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After last week's visit to the CIA, House is back at Princeton-Plainsboro, and while he no longer has Generic Guy on the team (thanks to his complete freak-out and borderline illegal behavior), there is one new face around: Dr. Samira Terzi (Michael Michele). House already tried luring her into bed with his crude yet oddly charming banter; how is he going to handle her as one of the team hopefuls? Only time will tell. Meanwhile, the POTW is being followed by a documentary crew, which should spice things up a bit. See you after the episode!
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One thing you can say for Princeton Plainsboro: Understaffing is not an issue. Although House's hospital already has hired five new doctors to make the rounds this season, former ER M.D. Michael Michele has just been tapped to scrub in as well.Now, before you go getting your stethoscope in a knot about your favorites being left to simmer on the back burner, you need to know that the knockout isn't coming in as a series regular. Well, at this point, anyway. What happens is, Doc Crankypants meets the CIA medicine woman when he's called to the agency to care for a patient. She wows him with her bedside manner, and wham, bam, thank-you-ma'am, he invites her to come work for him at PP.So what do you think, people? Is Michele just what the doctor ordered? -- Additional reporting by Ben Katner
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The latest pilot developments, this time per Reuters: Emmy winner Bobby Cannavale (Will & Grace) has landed the lead in M.O.N.Y., NBC's drama about a socially conscious public advocate who suddenly finds himself New York City's interim mayor. Rebecca Mader (last seen on Fox's Justice) has been cast as Jane's top associate at the covert ops agency in ABC's Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Rachelle Lefevre (What About Brian's Heather) has landed the female lead in Life on Mars, David E. Kelley's ABC drama about a detective who gets transported back in time to 1972. Malcolm's dad, Bryan Cranston, will star as a high-school chemistry teacher who, when diagnosed with terminal cancer, uses his mad skills to open a meth lab and thus provide for his family's future, in AMC's Breaking Bad. ER alum Michael Michele is the lead character's friend and a no-nonsense detective in ABC's Judy's Got a Gun, about a rookie female detective. Dania Ramirez (aka X-Men 3's Call...
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When Eriq La Salle invited his onetime ER love interest Michael Michele to a reunion, it was an irresistible offer. Their former producer on the medical show, Neal Baer, now heads up another hit, NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (Tuesdays at 10 pm/ET), and he had asked La Salle to direct the Jan. 9 episode, called "Burned." They both wanted Michele to star. "Michael never had the opportunity to do a role like this, so I knew that would make her very excited and committed," La Salle says.
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text: the sidewalks are being tested in Paris like i have never seen them before. foot traffic without anyone directing is always a question of negociation in this town, but with christmas a week away its way out of control. wide=eyed shoppers with 180 degree blind spots busting out of stores, bags swinging in hand, the other firmly attached to a cell phone. lovers stopping mid-sentence to embrace (or rather make out) right in the smack dab middle tongues lashing blocking everyone's path for much longer than seems possible considering the circulation. i occasionally pass an old timer with a cane, sometimes two walking together. they seem to go about as if it were just another day of window shopping. i like old people (hell, i am one), so i try to make eye contact, but they are as guilty as the rest of us glued to the store windows or some decoration that glitters back at them. its often said that christmas is a holiday for the kids. that's a good excuse if you are looking for one.......the idea, at least i think the idea, is to spread good cheer. that and a hot toddy and you can count me in. 'merry'........ peter


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SNY series digs into Mets history
Call it offseason filler if you must, but SNY's new "Mets Yearbook," debuting Thursday night after its "Hot Stove" show, is off-the-charts cool for sports and TV nostalgia buffs.
The series features 27 season highlight films from 1962 through '88 that had been languishing in the Mets' archives for years.
The ones from the early years were made for promotional purposes and shown mostly to community groups; they were not designed for television and in some cases never have been seen on TV before.
Gary Morgenstern, SNY's VP of programming, said the hodgepodge of films followed various formats and were of varying lengths but have been turned into half-hour shows for "Mets Yearbook."
The first five - 1971, '84, '75, '68 and '63 - will be shown on Thursdays in 2009, with about 10 more in '10 and the rest sometime the following year.
So far I have watched '71, '68 and '63.
The '71 show includes footage of an old-timers' game in which Satchel Paige is seen pitching, and in which Bobby Thomson pitched to Ralph Branca. (You read that right.)
In the '68 show, Gil Hodges is seen going over scouting reports in the locker room with his young pitching staff, including Tom Seaver and Jerry Koosman.
The '63 highlights were most interesting of all, because they included extensive, full color, rarely seen footage of the Mets playing at the Polo Grounds.
That includes the final major league game played there, after which Casey Stengel is shown walking off through centerfield in a scene similar to the one featuring Tom Seaver and Mike Piazza at Shea 45 years later.
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After Thanksgiving day - evening - ( wasn't the big family get together day): cleared some counter space, wiped stove top, loaded & ran dishwasher. Sink nearly clear.
Friday morning -
KITCHEN - Cleaned counters more (decluttering needed here); cleaned a kitchen drawer. Put away dishes from dishwasher. Swept kitchen floor.
Living room - dusted, moved videos off a little table onto a shelf, vacuumed furniture & floor.
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We did have our get-together on Thursday, and I pretty much did crisis cleaning before the big day and a cooking burn-out on the day...I know, all the things I shouldn't do because I should be preparing not procrastinating beforehand lol).
Anyway, today the guests have left and I'm relaxing. I did sweep the kitchen and empty the trashcans, and later I'll change the guest room sheets and work on the master bedroom--vacuum, change the sheets, fold laundry and put things away. At least the rest of the house is in pretty good shape.


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I found this waxed cotton fabric at AKN Fabric in Manhattan (http://www.aknfabrics.com/) and fell in love with it instantly. I mean, who was this brilliant human being who decided to put lightbulbs on clothing fabric? Most of the fabric at this shop is covered with nature-inspired images, so these lightbulbs really stood out. They look almost like some natural object. And they have an almost vintage or antique look, now that everyone is using the new florescent lightbulbs everywhere. Because you have to buy no less than 6 yards of their fabric at a time, I ended up with a LOT of it. I made a friend a wall hanging (which included real lightbulbs). But it was so shiny, I thought it would made a great dress.
So I used the Cap Sleeve Shift Dress pattern. I love the dress. But it's TIGHT. And SHORT. This fabric has no give to it, at all, and with the gold layer, it looks like it's painted on. It kind of breaks my heart, because I love it, but I just don't ever find myself wearing it. Another issue I have is the fact that I didn't line up the pattern as well as I should have. But that's a kind of constant issue I have.
Interesting story: I actually ran into a woman, on the street, from Ghana, who told me that when she was growing up, they called this kind of fabric (with the gold overlay), "My Children Live Abroad" fabric, because it's so…I don't know, glam?
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My children live abroad. Nice! I like the painted on look. And it is very glam. If you still have some left you can always try again. It is really amazing fabric.
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Miss Kerynn Christiansen reported for duty on Thursday, Feb. 13, for her new position at Immaculate Conception School. Kerynn was "Principal for a Day" at ICS. The first grader took the place of Principal Connie Snyder, for just one day. Kerynn wasted no time at all making a few small changes to the normal school day at ICS. She reported for duty with a list of priorities she would put into effect immediately.
First and foremost, everyone was permitted to give the school uniform a rest for the day and wear their jeans to school. Secondly, recess was a bit longer on Thursday and an important task was given by Principal Kerynn to the entire school. Each class had to build a snowman, the biggest and best snowman they could as a team create. Kerynn rewarded her hardworking students by delivering pizza to each classroom after recess.
With Mrs. Snyder's guidance, Kerynn also helped with many office tasks. She even completed classroom inspections. At the end of the school day, Kerynn took to the PA system to tell the school that she had a great day being in charge and she hoped they all did, too.
Being Principal for a Day was auctioned off at last year's Immaculate Conception School auction. This year's auction is April 26 and the theme is "Happy 90th Birthday ICS", as the school embarks on celebrating 90 years of providing a faith filled education in Port Clinton. Immaculate Conception School would be so grateful for any monetary gifts or donations of products or services from our community for this year's auction. If you have an item you would like to offer to this year's school auction, call the school office at 419.734.3315.


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2006 legislative session begins Monday and there are many challenges ahead:
an improving economy with basic needs still greater than revenue, more
families without health care, attacks on Unemployment Insurance benefits and
workers' compensation.
We, in the labor movement, will meet these challenges head on and
continue to work towards an agenda that improves the lives of working
session will require a continuation of our rank-and-file activism as we work
with the legislature to do its job to protect working families.
Our progress and priorities in those efforts will be discussed at the Washington
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Thursday, Feb. 16 at the Olympia Red Lion Hotel, with registration starting
at 7:30 a.m. We will define, with you, the steps we must take to make
progress for working people.
WSLC urges all union leaders, staffers, and especially rank-and-file member
activists to attend this conference and find out what is happening in
Olympia and what they can do to help us all achieve our goals.
Various legislative leaders have been invited to speak at the
conference and all state legislators have been invited to join us for lunch
at the end of the half-day conference.
As usual, the night before the conference on Wednesday, Feb. 15, there will be a reception from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the hotel. There will be many legislators and other state officials in attendance. All conference attendees are urged to join us at this reception and engage in informal conversation with legislators and other officials. If you would like to bring a guest(s) to the reception on Wednesday night, there will be a nominal fee of $15 per guest. To make the registration for the reception (and conference) go faster and smoother, we will be opening early registration in the hotel lobby at 2 p.m. on Wednesday.
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Click here to download a registration form (in Word format) or call 206-281-8901 to have one mailed or faxed to you. A block of rooms has been reserved at the Olympia Red Lion Hotel, but the block will be released Jan. 20. Make your reservations now by calling 1-800-325-4000 or 360-943-4000. Tell them you are entitled to the Washington State Labor Council group rate.
We urge all who plan to attend to fill out and return their registration forms, with their registration fees, by Friday, Jan. 27 so we can more effectively plan to accommodate all who will join us. Thank you for registering early, and urging your co-workers and other rank-and-file union members to attend.
Having served as Communications Director for the Washington State Labor Council, AFL-CIO, since 1981, Karen Keiser is retiring to focus on her positions as State Senator and Chair of the Senate Health Care Committee. So please join us for a casual, fun get-together to recognize her years of WSLC service advocating for Washington's working families.
5:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Seattle Labor Temple, Hall 1, 2800 1st Ave.
At Karen's request, this will be a fundraiser for the King County Labor Agency food bank, and admission will be $20 per person. There will be a hosted bar, light hors d'oeuvres, and music.
See you tonight!
For more information about Karen's retirement, see our Nov. 23 posting: WSLC Communications Director Karen Keiser to retire
Washington's workers celebrate minimum wage increase
Yesterday, the Washington state minimum wage increased 28 cents to $7.63 an hour. The regular annual adjustment for inflation is the result of Initiative 688, filed by Washington State Labor Council President Rick Bender, supported by the state labor movement and dozens of community organizations, and ultimately approved by voters by a 2-to-1 margin in 1998.
The initiative set out to take the politics out of the minimum wage issue by requiring an annual cost-of-living adjustment based on changes in the federal Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). For the 12 months ending August 2005, that nationwide index increased 3.8 percent. The new wage applies to workers in both agricultural and non-agricultural jobs; 14- and 15-year-olds may be paid 85 percent of the adult minimum wage.
"It's great news for minimum wage earners every year that they will be getting the cost-of-living raise they deserve," Bender said, "but $7.63 an hour is still poverty wages for thousands of Washington families who are struggling to afford a tank of gas or a trip to the doctor. Every year, we should congratulate ourselves that the law is working as voters intended, and then rededicate ourselves to the fight for maintaining and creating good family-wage jobs."
At $7.63 an hour, a full-time worker would earn $15,870 a year.
Washington was the first state to approve a state minimum wage increase that included annual inflationary adjustments, but the idea caught on in Oregon, where voters approved an initiative similar to I-688. Oregon's minimum wage rose to $7.50 an hour on Jan. 1. In Alaska, the current minimum wage is $7.15. California's is $6.75, and will remain there after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's recent veto of a bill to increase it and index it for inflation. Other states with minimum wages above $7 are Vermont and Connecticut. (State minimum wage rates are posted at the DOL website.)
The reason many states are raising the minimum wage is that the federal minimum wage remains at a shameful $5.15 an hour, or $10,712 a year. (See today's New York Times story, States take lead in push to raise minimum wages.) Under the Bush administration and the Republican-controlled Congress, the wages of the lowest paid workers in the country have been allowed to stagnate -- and be eroded by inflation -- for more than eight years now. There is still no sign that President Bush or Congress intend to address the issue.
Washington's indexed minimum wage has prevented the state rate from becoming mired in politics as it has in the other Washington. But the powerful restaurant and agriculture industries continue to pressure the state legislature every year to try to exempt their industries' workers from the wage requirement or stop the annual adjustments. The labor movement has aggressively opposed those efforts, and so far, attempts to create sub-minimum wages for certain workers or employees who earn tips have been unsuccessful.
"Still Working Well: Washington's Minimum Wage," a 2004 study by the Economic Opportunity Institute, demonstrated that Washington's indexed minimum wage is helping the state's lowest-paid workers as intended with no demonstrable negative effect on employment in retail, restaurant and other minimum-wage paying industries.
For more information on Washington's minimum wage, visit the state Department of Labor and Industries' web site: http://www.lni.wa.gov/WorkplaceRights/Wages/Minimum/default.asp.
If you have news items regarding unions or workplace issues in Washington state that you would like to see posted here, please submit them via e-mail to David Groves or via fax to 206-285-5805.
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- St. Barthelemy could be considered paradise on earth. This city in the French West Indies in the Caribbean is home to beautiful beaches and exciting nightclubs. For those looking to escape the hustle and bustle of their everyday lives, Hotel Manapany & Spa's world-class accommodations and amenities are the answer.
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- This St. Barthelemy luxury hotel also offers multilingual staff, a fireplace in the lobby, and laundry facilities. On-site parking is complimentary. Guests can indulge in luxurious spa treatments at the Payot Paris Spa, named one of the top five in the Caribbean.
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The beachfront hotel offers 42 guestrooms, junior suites and one-bedroom suites. Rooms open to balconies with sea or garden views. Guestrooms have fireplaces and televisions with satellite channels, CD players and direct-dial phones. Bathrooms include complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Minibars, air conditioning, and welcome amenities are also included. Housekeeping is provided and wake-up calls can be requested and rollaway beds are available. Rooms are accessible via exterior corridors.
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Located near the pristine beaches of Anse des Cayes Beach, Hotel Manapany & Spa offers an outdoor pool, fitness facility, tennis courts and a bar/lounge. Business-related amenities at this resort consist of secretarial services and audiovisual equipment. Event facilities include conference/meeting rooms and banquet facilities. An airport shuttle is complimentary for guests.
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Come Home to Mayberry
Day One: Mount Airy Visitors Center
Pick up a map of downtown and arrange your tours and lodging. Then, head to Wally's Service Station for a famous Mayberry Squad Car Tour. You'll take a 30-minute ride down Main Street and visit well-known sites such as the Floyd's Barber Shop, the Mayberry Courthouse, and of course, Andy's original birthplace.
Shopping And Food
Head back up Main Street to Mt. Airy's Historic District. Enjoy a one-of-a-kind pork chop sandwich at the famous Snappy Lunch, which Andy mentioned on episode "Andy and the Matchmaker". Make sure to get there early - some days, it closes as early as 1:15 pm. Walk off lunch while shopping for Mayberry memorabilia at Mayberry on Main and experience the old country store charm at Mayberry Trading Post. Don't forget to satisfy your sweet tooth at Opie's Candy Store.
In the afternoon, head just a few blocks over to the NEW Andy Griffith Museum, to visit the World's Largest Andy Griffith Collection. The museum features props from The Andy Griffith Show and memorabilia including Otis's famous suit and hat, the Matlock suit worn by Andy Griffith and several items donated by "Thelma Lou" Betty Lynn. Outside the museum, admire the Andy and Opie statue erected by the TV Land Network.
An Evening in Mount Airy
Take your pick of restaurants around Mount Airy for dinner. Consider checking out a movie at the Downtown Cinema Historic Theatre, where Andy Griffith's first movie premiered in 1958. For for a live performance sponsored by the Surry Arts Council, check out the Andy Griffith Playhouse.
Places To Stay In Mount Airy
For a particularly memorable experience, spend the night at Andy Griffith's Home Place, Andy's small childhood home converted into a Bed and Breakfast. The B&B is decorated with antiques and Andy Griffith memorabilia. Here's a complete list of places to stay in Mt. Airy.
Day Two: More Mount Airy Attractions
Spend a leisurely morning at the B&B, or take a break from Mayberry to see what else Mt. Airy is about. at the Mount Airy Museum of Regional History. Visit Weaver's Department Store in Main Oak Emporium, the official souvenir shop of The Andy Griffith Show Rerun Watcher's Club. Grab a bite to eat at the Blue Bird Diner around the corner. Then, enjoy a sweet treat at the authentic 1950's style Mayberry Soda Fountain.
Next, drive to the Mayberry Motor Inn where you can see "Aunt Bee's Room," a collection of actress Frances Bavier's personal belongings. While you are there, get a photo taken in front of Emmett's pickup truck parked outside. Before heading home, take a scenic drive on Andy Griffith Parkway, a ten-mile stretch on U.S. 52 dedicated to the beloved actor. Head south to view Pilot Mountain, referred to on The Andy Griffith Show as "Mt. Pilot."
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Posted on September 19, 2013
The Navy Yard massacre won't revive the gun debate in Congress for a simple reason. There is no gun control agenda this side of a total ban and confiscation that would have stopped Aaron Alexis.
The Toomey-Manchin bill could have passed Congress unanimously. The assault weapons ban could still be in place. Gun-controllers could have achieved their long-ago goal of barring the private purchase of handguns. And every step of his mayhem at the Washington Navy Yard would have been unimpeded.
Read more: Politico.com
Semi-Automatic Firearms and the "Assault Weapon" Issue, Manchin-Toomey, Background Checks/NICS
Established in 1975, the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) is the "lobbying" arm of the National Rifle Association of America. ILA is responsible for preserving the right of all law-abiding individuals in the legislative, political, and legal arenas, to purchase, possess and use firearms for legitimate purposes as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.READ MORE
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NASA awards millions to new innovative advanced concepts
It's been a big week for NASA, but just because Curiosity is (incredibly) now safe on the surface of Mars doesn't mean that the agency gets to take a break. Instead, it's looking ahead. Far, far ahead, by funding 28 advanced technology concepts ranging from submarines for Europa to robots for the Moon.
The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program, or NIAC, is specifically designed to give a substantial amount of money to futuristic ideas that are so crazy that they'd never find funding anywhere else, but not so crazy as to be actually impossible. Or at least, that's what NASA would have us believe, but some of these things sound pretty wild, even to us. Here are a few examples of Phase I projects, each of which gets $100,000:
- NanoTHOR: Low-Cost Launch of Nanosatellites to Deep Space
- Sample Return Systems for Extreme Environments
- Exploration of Under-Ice Regions with Ocean Profiling Agents (EUROPA)
- MAGNETOUR: Surfing Planetary Systems on Electromagnetic and Multi-Body Gravity Fields
- Venus Landsailing Rover (!)
- SpiderFab: Process for On-Orbit Construction of Kilometer-Scale Apertures
If the 100 Clevelands isn't enough scratch for you, Phase II projects get a cool $500,000 each. These projects are a little bit more refined, but they're still out there:
- The Fusion Driven Rocket: Nuclear Propulsion through Direct Conversion of Fusion Energy
- Cavehopping Exploration of Planetary Skylights and Tunnels
- Ghost imaging of space objects
That last one, to take a look at an example of what people are working on, aims to use two beams of light that are correlated with each other to take pictures of objects in space that you can't actually see. We've done this before on Earth in a lab, and but it has yet to be applied to space. Hypothetically, ghost imaging could be used by a satellite to see through clouds in Earth's atmosphere by looking at the sun.
All of these projects are a solid 10 years or more from being operational, but this is what NASA's all about: enabling the future. And even if 90% of these ideas do end up being (for all practical purposes) so crazy as to be impossible, we're still going to learn stuff. Most importantly, the 10% that do manage to work have the potential to radically change the future. Fusion energy? Electromagnetic planetary surfing? Thanks, NASA, for bringing these things just a little bit closer to being real.
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How can nasturtiums be even better? As vines
Garden writer Ciscoe Morris introduces us to the nasturtium vine and warns about the weed called purslane, which is happy growing just about everywhere and loves to foil your efforts to kill it.
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Harvest Day Celebration and Children's Fair: 10 a.m.-noon, Saturday, Sept. 6. Taste tomatoes, guess potato poundage, plant a sedum shoe, and more. Bring garden produce or nonperishable food to benefit Hopelink, or a cash donation to benefit the Master Gardener Foundation of King County. Bellevue Urban Demonstration Garden, 15500 S.E. 16th St, Bellevue. (mgfkc.org).
Seattle Tilth Harvest Fair: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 6. A lively hands-on community festival with workshops, cooking demonstrations, music and activities for all ages. Free, donations accepted. 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle; (seattletilth.org).
Heronswood Open Garden & Plant Sale: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 6. Tour the garden, shop favorite nurseries, and learn gardening experts. Sale and lectures are free; $10 donation to tour the gardens. (heronswood.com).
In the Garden
Most of us are familiar with garden nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus). The colorful, spurred flowers are highly attractive to hummingbirds, and they make great spillers in container designs.
Fewer people, however, are aware of the interesting climbing nasturtium vines. One of the interesting varieties is named after the island it hails from. Canary vine (Tropaeolum peregrinum) sports blue-green, deeply lobed leaves that contrast beautifully with its bizzarely fringed, canary-yellow flowers, produced in abundance all summer long.
Hardy to about 30 degrees, it rarely survives our winters, but it reseeds reliably. Clinging tendrils allow it to climb any trellis or shrub. From Chile comes the wildly beautiful flame nasturtium (T. speciosum). This dainty-looking herbaceous perennial vine features fiery-red spurred flowers that drive hummingbirds flaming mad with desire.
The vine dies back in winter but returns each spring to scramble over fences, plants and anything else it can get a grip on. Finally, you can have your nasturtium vine and eat it, too. In the Andes, the tubers of T. tuberosum are grown as food and cooked like potatoes. The spicy flowers are delicious in salads. The standard T. tuberosum blooms in October and November with highly attractive orange and yellow spurred flowers, but the beautiful reddish-spurred, bright-orange flowers on the variety 'Ken Aslet' bloom from July through September.
If you plant one and it doesn't bloom on schedule, deprive it of water. These plants prefer tough love, and usually all it takes is a bit of stress to encourage a great floral display for the rest of the season. Vines in the tuberosum clan can be somewhat tender, so to be safe, give them a cozy cover of mulch after the vine dies down in winter.
Nasturtium vines do best planted in rich, well-drained soil where the roots are shaded, but top growth can easily climb into sunshine. If you can't find one at your local nursery next spring, check online.
Pesky purslane
If you've been battling a weed with fleshy, succulent leaves, which resembles a flat jade plant, the uninvited guest is purslane (Portulaca oleracea). This drought-tolerant annual weed loves open ground and a sunny location. It will grow in practically any kind of soil and is equally suited to thrive in the fertile, moist soil of a vegetable garden as in the arid, sandy conditions of a rock garden.
The key to controlling purslane is to pull it before its small yellow flowers produce seed. Seedlings germinate after being exposed to direct sunlight and within only three weeks begin dispersing seed of their own.
The seeds can stay viable for about 40 years in the soil, so once they go to seed, you've got a problem. When you weed purslane, pull it out of the soil and remove all plant parts from the garden. Any stems left on the soil surface will quickly reroot.
Never till purslane into the soil. Every plant part will root, and you'll have gazillions more of them to deal with. After weeding, applying a layer of mulch can help prevent germination by preventing the sun from reaching the seed.
Finally, if you can't beat it, eat it. Purslane is native to India and Iran, where it is considered a nutritious food crop. It has a crunchy texture and is said to be especially good with lamb and in lentil stew.
Ciscoe Morris: email@example.com "Gardening With Ciscoe" airs at 10 a.m. Saturdays on KING-TV.
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36h and 56h Chairs by Fabio Novembre for Driade
Italian designer Fabio Novembre has created the 36h and 56h outdoor chairs for Driade.
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I am delighted to welcome you to our Department's web pages. As Chief of Police for the Georgia Institute of Technology, I am proud to serve with the many men and women whom you will meet on campus and through these web pages. Each member of our staff brings many different talents and gifts to this great profession.
Our goal is to make our campus a safer and better place to live, work, and visit. It is our hope that this website will help us serve you. Each of you has an important role in staying safe. Please check out the services we offer, from safety tips, the GTENS Emergency Notification System, crime prevention classes, and more. Together we can make our community a safer place.
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Saint Lazarus of Bardiaboch
One of a group of Christians who were arrested, tortured and executed together for their faith during the persecutions of Persian king Shapur II. Martyr.
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The third year "pacesetter class" of Leadership Marshall County was introduced Friday preceding the classes first session at Blue Valley Telecommunications in Home City. The twelve members this year include Amy Adams, Becky Claycamp, Nick Gordon, Tim Hilton, Ann Mann, Joy Padgett, Dani Pishney, Lacy Richey, Anthony Ring, Katherine Smith, Kim Stewart, and Rhonda Sunnenberg.
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Police: Anderson man arrested in stolen pickup
Police arrested an Anderson man early this morning they say was driving a stolen Nissan pickup.
David Christopher Johnson, 18, of Anderson, was stopped on Interstate 5 around 3:30 a.m. and was questioned about the ownership of the truck he was driving. Johnson told police he had borrowed the pickup but did not know the owner's name, officer Casey Day said in a news release.
Police called the registered owner, who did not know his truck had been taken sometime during the night.
Johnson was arrested on suspicion of possessing stolen property and for an outstanding arrest warrant. He also had "burglary tools" and drug paraphernalia, Day said.
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