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Molly Huggins, a young bride-to-be, summons you to the beautiful resort town of Lake Bliss to find her missing groom. Is Tommy Drake seeing another woman, or is he the latest victim in a series of drownings plaguing the city? Be careful, or the siren's haunting melody may lure you into the dark waters next! Follow the clues, interview suspects, and uncover what's lurking along the shores of Lake Bliss in this intriguing hidden-object puzzle adventure game.
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The World in the Palm of Your Hand: Chinese Snuff Bottles from Pacific Northwest Collections
August 25 – November 4, 2012
Study Gallery
Snuff bottles were used by the Chinese during the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) to hold powdered tobacco that was used as a remedy for various illnesses. Diminutive in scale, made from precious materials, and often highly decorated, they became an important art form among the elite. This exhibition will feature 157 snuff bottles from regional collections and will be timed to coincide with the annual meeting of the International Snuff Bottle Society in Portland, Oregon in October of 2012.
Ray Trayle: Prints from the Legendary Presses
August 25 – November 4, 2012
Print Study Center
Over the course of his career, machinist Ray Trayle lovingly designed and hand built over 60 printing presses for artists and institutions throughout the Pacific Northwest. Trayle's presses have had an enormous impact in helping to establish the Pacific Northwest as a nationally recognized printmaking community. With Trayle, artists found a kindred spirit with whom they could collaborate and build the presses of their dreams. Curated from the museum's permanent collection, this exhibition features 34 prints made on Trayle's presses and highlights the range of imagery and techniques that he helped to make possible. The exhibition is organized by intern Reva Main '12 and supported by a grant from the Center for Ancient Studies and Archeology at Willamette University.
Family Holdings: Turkish Flat Weaves from the Keith Achepohl Collection
September 15 – December 23, 2012
Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery
This exhibition features 45 Turkish flat weaves from one of the finest private collections in the United States. Organized by Director John Olbrantz, the exhibition includes superb examples of 19th and 20th century rugs, saddle bags, prayer rugs, and storage bags from western, central, and eastern Turkey, acquired by the collector on numerous trips to Turkey during the past 30 years.
Manuel Izquierdo: Maquettes, Small Sculptures and Works on Paper
November 17, 2012 – February 17, 2013
Study Gallery and Print Study Center
In conjunction with Manuel Izquierdo: Myth, Nature, and Renewal, Professor Emeritus Roger Hull has organized two small companion exhibitions that explore different aspects of Izquierdo's art and life. In the Study Gallery, Manuel Izquierdo: Maquettes and Small Sculptures will feature a range of models and small sculptures that served as improvisational pieces and exercises or formed the basis for larger works. In the Print Study Center, Manuel Izquierdo: Works on Paper will present a range of Izquierdo's prints created from the late 1940s to the early 2000s.
Update: the closing date for Manuel Izquierdo: Maquettes and Small Sculptures was Feb. 10 and the closing date for Manuel Izquierdo: Works on Paper has been extended to Feb. 17.
Manuel Izquierdo: Myth, Nature, and Renewal
January 19 – March 24, 2013
Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery
Manuel Izquierdo was an important Portland sculptor and teacher who created sculptures in steel, wood, and stone based on mythological figures as well as abstract and biomorphic plant and animal forms. Organized by Professor Emeritus Roger Hull, the exhibition will feature a range of works from the past 60 years drawn from public and private collections throughout the region. The Study Gallery and Print Study Center will also feature maquettes, small sculptures and works on paper by the artist, November 17, 2012 - February 10, 2013. A full-color monograph by Professor Hull will accompany the exhibition.
Michael C. Spafford: Hercules and Other Greek Legends
February 23 – April 28, 2013
Study Gallery and Print Study Center
Michael C. Spafford is a noted Seattle painter, printmaker and professor emeritus from the University of Washington who focuses on Greek mythology in his work. An exhibition of Spafford's woodcuts entitled Michael C. Spafford: Hercules and Other Greek Legends has been organized by Hallie Ford Museum of Art Faculty Curator and Art History Professor Ann M. Nicgorski. The exhibition features a range of woodcut prints created by the artist during the past 30 years and includes his 12 Labors of Hercules, as well as other popular Greek legends and myths.
Senior Art Majors
April 13 – May 12, 2013
Melvin Henderson-Rubio Gallery
Each spring, the Hallie Ford Museum of Art features the work of senior art majors at Willamette University. The exhibition represents the culmination of their four years at Willamette and includes work in a variety of media, from painting, drawing, printmaking and photography to sculpture, ceramics, installation and mixed media.Art: Senior Art Majors
Linear Metaphysics: Contemporary Mark-Making and Time-Based Art Works
April 13 – May 12, 2013
Atrium Gallery and Maribeth Collins Lobby
James B. Thompson, Professor of Art, teaches drawing, painting and printmaking at Willamette University. He has created this new exhibition featuring a variety of original works that reflect their origins as both, part of a time-honored ancient tradition or continuum of mark-making by human beings and the original forms of time-based media through his examination of our shared humanity in the remnants, fragments, and archaeological remains comprising the stratification or layering of time in the unique cultural landscape of the peoples of ancient Scotland and Britain.


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PH Email Mentors are patients and caregivers standing by to help other patients, caregivers and parents through one-on-one, email-based support. Carson Smith is one of those mentors, and she shares a little about herself here.
I was a super athlete until I started to have breathing trouble with physical activity. Initially, I thought I had asthma because I recognized the symptoms from a friend. I got an inhaler, but it didn't help, so I went to get evaluated. One of my doctors told me that my symptoms were caused by hyperventilating, which I knew wasn't the case. I continued to have symptoms, so in eighth grade I went to a cardiologist. When I was in tenth grade, my doctors sent me to the St. Louis Children's Hospital, and I was diagnosed with PH. I was put on a heart catheter to use when I was exercising, because I was (incorrectly) diagnosed with exercise-induced PH. That same year I was sent back to St. Louis Children's Hospital to have an open-lung biopsy. The doctors diagnosed me with pulmonary veno-occlusive disease, with PH secondary. I still go to St. Louis for my medical care, and my doctors are great.
Eventually, my doctor told me that I could continue exercising as long as I didn't overdo it. I dance and now I do yoga three times a week. I know my limits pretty well. There are times when I need to slow down. Every yoga instructor I've had has said, "Know your limits." I would encourage other PH patients to let instructors or coaches know ahead of time that you have PH. I have learned to differentiate being out of breath because I am out of shape and being out of breath because of my PH.
The best thing I have ever done is choose to be optimistic and positive. On my bad days I say, "At least it isn't like this every day." My doctors have told me that's partly why I've been coping so well with this disease. It can be difficult to be always optimistic, but I believe in not letting PH define me. I have struggles with my PH, but I find ways to live with it. For example, I went camping, and I wasn't sure how I would do with the altitude. When it got to a point where the altitude started to affect me, I said, "I think I'm going to wear some oxygen." I also haven't let PH get in the way of my education; I completed a Master of Public Administration in May before starting my Master of Public Health this past August. In keeping with not letting PH define me, I don't feel obligated to tell people that I have PH. I also have things in my life that are not PH-related; I feel that is empowering. What has also helped me has been having a hobby or something I do on a regular basis that I look forward to.
I chose to be a PH Email Mentor because I want to take any chance I get to help others cope with life with PH. I had so many people in my life who supported me when I got diagnosed. I want to instill a "can-do" attitude in new patients — especially young patients.
Connecting with a PH Email Mentor offers patients the opportunity to talk to someone who's been in their shoes before, and who has already fought part of the battle. It allows patients to have someone who is not only supporting you, but who is also able to say, "Why don't you try this?" because they may have dealt with a similar issue. It allows patients not to need to reinvent the wheel.
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Each of the last three US elections has occasioned from this quarter a story on political merchandising, in particular, bumper stickers, which is an integral part of American public discourse . From the time a Kansas City print shop owner named Forest Gill fused technologies involving self-adhesive paper and Day-Glo paint on a car bumper in the mid-1940 s, the medium of America's political messaging has gone from upfront to rear, driven in part by bumper-to-bumper traffic caused by the automobile revolution.
The acme of this "rear-ified" discourse was reached early last decade with the arrival of George Bush on the national political platform. I lost track of the number of times I choked with laughter over my steering wheel after eyeing yet another anti-Bush zinger. It began with one that read "Somewhere in Texas, a Village is Missing its Idiot" . Cruel, but that's how bumper stickers stick it into you. Bill Clinton should know. They skewered him. "Clinton didn't inhale. He sucked" , read one vacuous one, and that was relatively kind.
But it was George 'Dubya' Bush who provided most grist to the bumper sticker mill. "What's Worse? Screwing an Intern or Screwing a Country?" asked one, in terms that were forgiving of Clinton's peccadilloes. "No One Died When Clinton Lied" , said another. By the time bumper sticker liberals had had "Enough Bush-it" and heeded the advice to "Save the Environment, Plant a Bush Back in Texas" it was the Obama season. Many stickers were minted , but Hope and Change were all it took to demolish John McCain.
Four years later, the popular acronym OMG (for Oh My God in SMS-ese ) is decorating conservative, right-wing bumpers, standing for Obama Must Go. Of course, Democrats and liberals have a readymade one supplied by a British tabloid: Mitt the Twit. But for a change — no double entendre intended here — Obama is getting it as good as Republicans usually get. Perhaps it is the anti-incumbency factor, but Obamania has certainly faded.
Out in the Midwest, a popular sticker reads, "You Keep Your Hope and Change, I'll Keep My Guns and Religion" . The East Coast Republican plutocracy has a slightly different variation: "You Keep Your Hope And Change, I'll Keep My Money" . Others in the same vein: "Obama So Loved The Poor He Created Millions More" and "Government Didn't Build My Business; I Did" , a riposte to the leftist liberal mantra of government role in engendering private enterprise. Overall, the bumper sticker mania itself appears to be fading at the start of this decade. One possible explanation for this is that Facebook and Twitter have become the new bumpers. Why spend money and risk getting rear-ended when you can safely scatter pearls of wisdom (yours or something you bought for $ 4.99) on social media sites without the risk of physical harm?
A Democrat friend of mine told me couple of elections back that she could identify party affiliation simply by the vehicle a person was driving. She herself drove a small-sized Toyota Echo sporting a pro-Democrat sticker. She says other small car drivers, typically Democrats, honk their appreciation when they read it. But big vehicles, usually gas guzzling sports utility vehicles (SUVs), try and intimidate her, and she thinks the drivers are Republicans.
Indeed, last week, Mary Wardell, a Democrat from Utah, wrote to the Salt Lake Tribune that her own family insisted she remove her Obama/Biden 2012 bumper sticker because they fear for her safety. "I had the sticker on for little more than a week, and during that time I was yelled at, flipped off, honked at, tailgated, and generally made to feel like I was in danger," she complained, insisting that "we have freedom of speech in this country. We should not be made to fear for our well-being by simply stating our choice of candidate on a bumper sticker."
On the other end of the political spectrum, a motorist in Atlanta, a black majority city, complained on the local Fox News that a meter maid (a parking attendant) gave him a ticket because she appeared offended by a Romney sticker on his car. The motorist admits that he was illegally parked, but claimed that "when she saw the sticker on the back of my car, the Mitt Romney sticker, she said, 'Oh, I'm definitely going to give you a ticket now,'" The motorist said that he'll pay the ticket, but wants an apology.
Well, it turns out that there have been studies showing the people who sport bumper stickers tend to be more involved and engaged in the electoral process. They are also the angrier lot. A 2008 study by Colorado State University reportedly revealed that drivers with bumper stickers displayed more road rage than those without any stickers. It didn't matter what the bumper sticker said — all of them were connected with road rage. As one BS (Bumper Sticker) famously exclaimed: "Democrat/ Republican : Same Stink, Different Pile".


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Last night, Whiteside went down. He doesn't have a concussion but he does have a scraped lip and dizziness. Yikes. That is all.
The Giants did, however, win last night with a whole lot of sac flies and a brilliant performance from Matt Cain. Runzler's return was not exactly triumphant and Affeldt was far from brilliant, but the final score was 7-5, which means I can exhale for the first time in this series.
My mind was on Wilson a lot, though. The rumor going around is that Brian thought he had blown his arm out and would need Tommy John surgery again. And, I mean, he went to see Dr. Tommy Jo–, I mean Dr. Andrews in Florida. From there on, the news has all been positive, with the team saying it's just "typical pitching stuff" and such. But it leaves a nagging worry with me that he thought he'd blown it out. Really? Typical pitching stuff? I guess I wonder if this problem will magnify in the future. No way of knowing and for now I just hope he gets healthy and remembers how to close games but it does all leave me with a little bit of a question mark in my mind.
On the bright side, (well, not for rabid Belt fans but for the team trainers then) Rowand and Nate are in tonight's lineup and Kepp is available off the bench. They all appear to be doing much better and there are no DL trips in sight. Which means that maybe- just maybe- this is going to blow over. Happy Tim Lincecum Day, everyone. The Giants have the chance for a split. The world is getting brighter!
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The expanded acreage and packing operations necessitated a larger staff, evidenced by a series of temporary offices stationed around the company's Orange Cove headquarters. A new administrative and sales office is scheduled to be completed by the start of the navel season in early November, Galone said.
Loren Booth credits much of her success to the California Agricultural Leadership program, put on by the California Agricultural Leadership Foundation.
"It gave me a vision," she said. "It gave me the tools to see the whole picture."
Roughly 75% of the company's oranges is navels and 25% is valencias, Galone said. But about 40% of the groves are young trees that are not yet producing commercial crops.
The company also grows, but does not market, some specialty citrus.
"We decided it was best to do one thing and do it well," Booth said.
The projected volume for the 2009-10 season is 2.4 million cartons, Galone said.
As the young trees mature, volume is expected to more than double to 5 million cartons in the 2012-13 season, he said, and that will mean growing pains for Mitch Butler, plant manager of the former Sunny Cove facility, known as Plant 2.
"Plant 2 increased our cold storage capacity by 35%, but when those trees reach maturity we won't be able to handle the volume," he said.
Does that mean more expansion is on the horizon?
"There's nothing in the works," Booth said, "But we always look at opportunities."
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I have it on my calander!!!! hope to see you there :)
I have it on my calander!!!! hope to see you there :)
I'm just popping in to say I can't wait for the SS Thursday. and I'm working on your Participation Prize.
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Where do I go to find how do participate in this contest?
what do I need to do?
Speeds scraps are lots of fun. Its like many of the other challenges that take place every month at GDs. Only this one is completed over the course of 2 hours.
During the first hour I will give you 1 prompt every ten minutes. You work as I give you the instructions. It could be anything from the number of photos and papers to use or specific elements,etc. Once we have finished the 1st hour you get to take the 2nd hour to get the layout completed and uploaded into the speed scrap gallery and think posted in the speed scrap thread with a link to the gallery image.
After its all done we leave each other some gallery love and I'll send you your participation prize.
They are very addicting, too. You've been warned.
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I've been trying to figure out how to participate in the speed scrap tonight. cant find anything...help
I was thinking today was the 16th.
it is tomarrow....ah...
So looking forward to this, Val! I am encouraged that the later hour will make it possible for me to attend distraction free! I just have to make sure to give my hubby lots of attention before the time rolls around...either that or find a football game for him to watch...then he won't even miss me...LOL
I hope to see ya'll there.
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San Francisco's Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hôtel-Dieu (God's hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicians, professors and thieves—"anyone who had fallen, or, often, leapt, onto hard times" and needed extended medical care—ended up here. So did Victoria Sweet, who came for two months and stayed for twenty years.
Laguna Honda, relatively low-tech but human-paced, gave Sweet the opportunity to practice a kind of attentive medicine that has almost vanished. Gradually, the place transformed the way she understood her work. Alongside the modern view of the body as a machine to be fixed, her extraordinary patients evoked an older idea, of the body as a garden to be tended. God's Hotel tells their story and the story of the hospital itself, which, as efficiency experts, politicians, and architects descended, determined to turn it into a modern "health care facility," revealed its own surprising truths about the essence, cost, and value of caring for the body and the soul.
"Transcendent… readable chapters go down like restorative sips of cool water, and its hard-core subversion cheers like a shot of gin… God's Hotel [is] a tour de force… Others have written about the relationship between time and medical care with similar eloquence and urgency, but the centuries of perspective that Dr. Sweet brings infuse the point with unforgettable clarity." –The New York Times
"A radical and inspiring alternative vision of caring for the sick." –Vanity Fair
"Engaging… You might not expect a book about San Francisco's most downtrodden patients to be a page-turner, but it is. With its colorful cast of characters battling the tide of history, God's Hotel is a remarkable journey into the essence of medicine." –San Francisco Chronicle
"Victoria Sweet has written the best non-fiction book I've read this year… The qualities that make her a great doctor are the same qualities that make her book so powerful, original and relevant… For a very long time, a gang of renegades got away with practicing medicine the way it should be: sitting with patients, watching, listening, often doing nothing more than being present. And then Victoria Sweet, a candidate for sainthood, wrote a book that is a beacon in the darkness." –Jesse Kornbluth, Huffington Post
"A beautifully written and illuminating book… [Sweet's] metaphors are poetic and hint at the mystical, but then she pulls back with the educated eye of a scientist… For both the agnostic and the believer, Sweet pinpoints the element of medicine that makes it a calling rather than a job: the unique and sustaining love that is sparked between a doctor and patient." –Jerome Groopman, The New York Review of Books
"Remarkable… [Sweet] would appreciate that it took time for me to journey to and through her work since that may be one of the many compelling messages she so eloquently, yet simply by storytelling, conveys… permitting 'tincture of time' to also do its job." –The Huffington Post
"Sweet writes fluidly and well… She weaves a fascinating account of the historical forces that transformed our view of the body… It's high time that someone gets medieval on modern medicine's morass, and Victoria Sweet is just the woman to do it." –Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Captivating… with this humane and thoughtful work, Sweet joins physician-authors such as Oliver Sacks, Jerome Groopman and Abraham Verghese." –The Dallas Morning News
"Intelligent and moving… In this often lyrical book, Dr. Sweet reveals a deep spirituality and unsentimental compassion." –Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"Visionary… thoroughly subversive in all the best ways… Sweet proposes ways that we might reimagine our way forward by looking into the distant past… This book's lessons and conclusions should challenge doctors, nurses, hospital administrators, and policy makers to stop and rethink their core beliefs." –Journal of Health Affairs
"Containing no medical jargon… nothing too gory or gut-wrenching; just descriptive stories of patients, unusual treatments, a hospital in transition, and a doctor on a journey, learning to practice 'a beautiful art.'" –East Bay Express
"By braiding… historical searches with her time at Laguna Honda, [Sweet] arrives at a compelling critique of modernized health care and a vision for transforming it." –Books & Culture
"[Our] healthcare system might function a lot better if every single American citizen, healthcare professional, politician and legislator would read Victoria Sweet's insightful, beautifully written and moving book." –Bookpage
The Patients at God's Hotel
An essay by Victoria Sweet
I came to God's Hotel to escape.
It was twenty years ago, and the hurried, efficiency-obsessed model of medicine we now take for granted was just beginning to take hold. I didn't like it much, and God's Hotel—Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco—seemed just the place to escape it. Although it was on sixty two acres in the middle of the city, it was literally over the hill to the poorhouse, and no one—regulators, economists, or budgeters—paid it much attention.
But that wasn't why I stayed. I stayed for the place and the patients.
The place was old and ramshackle, spread out high on a hill overlooking the ocean. Outside it looked like a medieval monastery, with bell tower, turrets, and a red-tiled roof. Inside it was the 1930s, though the long, open wards went all the way back to when a hospital was still a hospice, where monks took care of the pilgrim, the traveler, and the poor for free.
It was also fascinating. Originally it had been the city's almshouse, what the French call a Hôtel Dieu (God's Hotel), and it still was the city's almshouse, despite its name. That meant it took in anyone and everyone who fell through the cracks in the medical system. It had murderers from San Quentin and dancers from The Royal London Ballet; failed stock brokers and the West Coast fat model for artists; merchant marines and rock musicians; telegraph operators, professors, poets, and thieves. They had one of just about every kind of disease, too, so I saw almost everything in the 2260 pages of my Harrison's Textbook of Internal Medicine.
The patients taught me a lot. They were always themselves, for better and for worse. Which is not to say they were all good. Mr. Dennis, for instance, was a convicted rapist who hid out at the hospital with a fake paraplegia. But he was the purest, the most evil Mr. Dennis there could be.
They were utterly attuned to cant, hypocrisy and falsehood and if they sensed it, they would turn their backs and walk or wheel away; shout or even throw things; close their eyes and refuse to answer. They responded to the truth and withdrew at the false, and the only way I could take care of them was to meet their true selves with mine.


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I gave them a try at first because they look so nice, but I've given up on most of them.
You handle credits very often, and quite a few of them. I find the credit tokens a little clumsy to handle in comparison to glass beads, so I've switched to those for credits.
I also find the click tracker token clumsy to handle for how often it's used, and it can also confuse people. Maybe I put the counter to cover a number when I've just taken that action (so it starts off the card, and ends covering 4 if I'm the runner). Meanwhile, you have the token cover up the number of your next action (so it starts on 1 and ends off of the card). When we play, we'll both always be confused about what the other is doing.
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Mustaches have made such a comeback in Hollywood these days that you'd think male celebrities were trying to bring 1975 back.
Celebs like Johnny Depp, Prince and Robert Downey Jr. have made so-called "soup strainers" and "crumb catchers" part of their personal style for years.
But few celebrities have shown that ability to grow a truly special mustache the likes of Geraldo Rivera's distinctive, trademark, borderline sleazy mustache or Hulk Hogan's platinum horseshoe.
No, all of today's mustachioed celebrities owe a debt to those trendsetters who blazed a manscaping trail before them.
So put down that razor and join us in recognizing the five best celebrity mustaches of all time ...
No. 5: Rollie Fingers
We don't have any proof that former major league pitcher Rollie Fingers ever tied a damsel in distress to some railroad tracks while maniacally twirling his mustache, but we have our suspicions.
Fingers actually started growing his unmistakable handlebar mustache before the 1972 MLB season to win a $300 mustache-growing contest launched by Oakland Athletics' owner Charles O. Finley.
The mustache stuck past opening day -- as did similar 'staches grown by Fingers' teammates -- branding the team the "Mustache Gang." Finley even offered "Mustache Day" at the ballpark, allowing every mustached fan in for free.
Once Fingers' time was up in Oakland, he took the mustache with him on stops in San Diego and Milwaukee over his 18-year Hall of Fame career. In fact, he still sports it today, nearly four decades after it started sprouting on his upper lip.
Our next celebrity mustache isn't nearly as big as Rollie's, but it's just as impressive ...
No. 4: John Waters
Director John Waters just may be better known for his pencil-thin mustache than any film he directed or his camp personality.
Waters, whose movies include "Pink Flamingos," "Hairspray" and "Cry Baby," has said he first grew the mustache at the age of 19 as a tribute to Little Richard.
"I wanted to be the only white man in America who had one, and I still might be, really," he said in a 1998 interview.
Waters went on to say he simply shaves the area between his nose and his "mouthbrow" from the top every day and trims it from the bottom once a week. If he misses, he "just draws it on," he said.
And to think, such minimal effort for such an unforgettable look.
Sure, it might look like Waters fell asleep and somebody took a Sharpie to his lip, but how can you hate on a mustache that has its own Facebook fan page?
Our next celebrity mustaches is possibly the most famous mustache of the 1970s ...
No. 3: Burt Reynolds
The Bandit makes this list because, let's face it, any list of best mustaches without him just ain't worth its weight in mustache wax.
Any conversation about 1970s mustaches begins and ends with Reynolds. His swatch of lip hair -- seemingly in perpetual motion as he smacked an everlasting piece of gum -- could almost serve as shorthand for everything that was cool about the decade.


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Mahla slipped silently through the servant's door to the Keep, skirt hiked up to her knees and shoes in hand. She didn't want anyone to catch her in less than the personal room assigned to her. She wasn't supposed to be anywhere else, and they would think the worst if she was found elsewhere. As a newly accepted foster child she couldn't afford any more mistakes, or she would be sent back to her parents in disgrace and all chances for the advantageous marriage they were hoping for would be ruined. The story would be all over the countryside before a moon had passed.
Mahla hmphed in self-righteous indignation. She shouldn't have any problems getting a match! She was any man's equal in riding and archery, and even mounted archery, which she'd taught herself. Surely someone wanted a partner instead of a pretty ornament, right? Surely and the 'genteel' lady her foster mother was trying to force her to be did not sneak out alone in the middle of the afternoon to go riding. No, she tool all her attendants with her and walked along designated paths in carefully manicured gardens and delicate trees. Never in a real forest, never at a trot or more, never in anything other than a fully riding costume. This she'd been told the last time she was caught, in tones of despairing patience. Then she'd been banned from the stable for two weeks and all but confined to the bower or her tower room.
She was seventeen, for goodness sake! She could take care of herself! And so, while everyone was dozing in the the solar and was supposedly sulking in her room, she sent the stair guard dear John, he really was sweet to her, and had covered for her in the past on a wild hare to the other end of the Keep and snuck out to the stables. She really hadn't meant to do anything, not really just visit Sunstreak for a bit and then go back to her room immediately. But then she'd caught sight of Sunstreak's tack, and couldn't resist saddling her up. And what was the point of saddling a horse and not riding? She'd spent a glorious hour in the fields near the far wall, then brought Sunstreak back before the stablehand woke from his illicit nap, brushed her down and made it back to safe territory before she was missed.
Or so she thought.
As she was coming up the stairs, one hand on the far wall to steady herself, John came around the bend. He had a sorrowful look on his gentle face, and Mahla's heart sank. This was apparently the last straw. She collapsed against the wall, fighting tears, and John took the wrist still extended across the stairs to keep her upright.
"John," she managed to whisper. "Please "
He shook his head. "I'm sorry, my lady, but I must. It's my duty, and furthermore, it's what I feel I must do. You must learn these skills, Lady Mahla! It's what you're here for. You've gone too far this time."
"But John, must I give up all I enjoy in the process?"
He shook his head again. "My lady, if you'd only waited until the ban was lifted, you would have been given more liberty. It's the way of things here. But now "
Mahla bowed her head, and the view of the stone steps before her blurred. John echoed her action and whispered, "I'm sorry, my lady. I'll miss you. You're a good child, truly " as her tears began to fall.
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I like the ending Asa, it was unexpected and well done. ^^
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Stay yourself, my lady. Go not to him.
I must, she replied. I am promised to him.
She tried to pass the guard at the foot of the stairs. Stay, he implored again. The Duke is cruel, and your life with him will be filled with pain and sadness.
She pushed on past him, turning her face from his. She could not bear to look at him now. It was too hard to see his face, and know that she could not touch it, could not caress his skin. Knowing that she must leave him, and go to a man all feared, to save those she loved best.
Even so, she said, her voice steely, I must go to him. I have my duty to fulfil. Her life would be hard. He was right, the Duke would be a cruel husband and a harsh master. But she was promised to him, and for her to break that promise would be devastation for all those she loved, even the man she loved.
He took hold of her arm as she passed him on the stairs, clutching at her, holding her back as best he could. He kissed her arm, careless of who might see them She shrugged him off, knowing that she went where she must. She shrugged of the guard's attentions and continued up the stairs to the Duke's chamber. She could not even cry.
She opened the door. My lord, I accept. I will be your wife.
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Mike HornickIppolito International sales representatives Pete Mazzuca and Katie Harreld market the company's artichokes and Brussels sprouts.SALINAS, Calif. — Brussels sprouts are booming on the central coast of California, while Ippolito International LP and other growers enjoy rising demand for the vegetable in foodservice and retail.
"Brussels sprouts want to be able to look over their shoulder and see the Pacific Ocean," said Butch Corda, general manager of Ippolito.
"They have the same view at our ranches here and in Baja."
Production will return to the Salinas area in June, when it's likely to overlap for a month with the end of the Mexico crop, said Katie Harreld, saleswoman for Ippolito. The California deal can stretch into early January.
The company, which ships under the Queen Victoria label, reports sales growth of up to 30% for brussels sprouts annually over the past four years.
"You're starting to see brussels sprouts in a lot of places you weren't seeing them two or three years ago," Harreld said.
"A lot of major restaurant chains are serving them and they're on almost every cooking show and channel as one of the hot new items."
Foodservice experimentation seems to have paid off in alternatives to traditional recipes that focused on dipping steamed sprouts in butter or pairing them with bacon.
"They're being sauteed with pastas, grilled on the barbecue, shaved into salads and baked into breads," Harreld said. "People are finding a lot of creative ways to use them."
The bacon and butter pairings retain their advocates, but what drives the market is consumer interest in the vegetable's nutritional value, Corda said.
"They're consumed as a healthy choice and the supplements that go with it — olive oil, sesame seed, poppy seed — are higher in nutrition than some of the other ingredients," he said.
"They can taste very good without adding the calories or the high fat that was there in the past."
Summers used to put a bigger dent in brussels sprouts volumes than they do now.
Corda"It's become an item you can depend on 52 weeks a year," Corda said.
"It used to be in summer months they slowed way down from heat and humidity. We still do less than in fall and winter, but summer volume is tremendous compared to three or four years ago."
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.500 Can Mean Many Things In The Eye Of The Beholder
Okay, A's fans, your team continues to toy with you. One day, they're a game below the .500 mark, two days later they're two games above .500. The rhetorical question is this: is that a good or bad thing? Well perched around .500 can have different connotations to different people. For those who think our 19-17 record is merely a continuation of last year's team that carved out an 81-81 mark, maybe the .500 mark is a negative. And with our early season bloated with superior pitching and anemic hitting, it's no wonder some frustrated A's fans will declare "same old, same old."
However, my view is a bit more encouraging. First, last year the general feeling in the clubhouse, as well among our fans, was we pretty much maxed out by posting an 81-81 record and second-place finish. This year, the vibe is much different. This team expects to win and is clearly not satisfied with being only one game north of the .500 mark at this juncture of the early season. I think these guys know they're a better club this year. In fact, they knew it in spring training. And when you think about it, the vital signs are more postive then you might think for an 19-17 team. First, we sport a .550 record (11-9) on the road, playing top-rate competition. The axiom that championship teams play .500 baseball on the road is true, so even though we really haven't consistently played good baseball this past month, the fact remains that we're getting it done on the road–as evidenced by back-to-back road wins over the last two days.
Then consider some other good omens. We're in AL West contention even though we're missing our All-Star closer (Andrew Bailey), Perfect Game starter (Dallas Braden) and last year's most valuable supersub (Adam Rosales). And, with our two wins in KC and series-opening win in Texas have come on the heels of a solid 4-3 homestand against the defending AL champion Texas Rangers and baseball's winningest team this year, the Cleveland Indians. That homestand featured some stirring wins triggered by the clutch hitting of the three key offseason lineup acquisitions in David DeJesus (two homers Wednesday), Hideki Matsui (walk-off home run last Monday) and Josh Willingham (game-tying homer and double last Monday). Then add slump-busting efforts by Daric Barton, Mark Ellis and Kevin Kouzmanoff on Sunday, plus the apparent return of Michael Wuertz's devastating slider out of the pen and recent dominating performances by new starting pitcher Tyson Ross, and this club clearly is moving in the right direction, .500 mark or not.
I had the distinct pleasure to work with Dusty Baker for nearly 10 years when he managed the Giants and Dusty always told me, "early in the season, the key is to stick around .500. If you can hang around .500, eventually you'll catch a hot streak and you can make your move. It's the teams that dig a hole early that have trouble getting into contention." So folks, don't despair. My friend Dusty would say, "it's not a race, it's a marathon." So, as we head into game 2 in Texas with much hope and promise, keep the faith, A's Nation. I think this group knows it can hit better than it has. And they also know it's up to them, and no one else, to prove it. Time, as it always does, will tell.
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A new store owned by Shebo II L.L.C., of Ooltewah, is under construction at 2760 Dalton Pike S.E. by Old State Construction Inc., of Calhoun, Ga. The project is valued at $315,600.
The sum of all permits issued by Bradley County added up to $2.6 million.
The value of permits issued by the city of Cleveland totaled $2.9 million. Of that amount, four commercial permits valued at $1.75 million were pulled. The largest project was a LongHorn Steakhouse at 4305 Holiday Inn Express Way priced at $1.25 million. The restaurant is brand of the Darden Group in Orlando, Fla., which also owns the Olive Garden.
Cleveland Mayor Tom Rowland said officials with Santa Fe Cattle Co. were in town during the opening of Carmike Cinemas at Bradley Square Mall to discuss a new restaurant at Bradley Square Mall in early to mid-2013. Final details are not set and no official announcement has been made. Another steakhouse is planned to open sometime in 2013.
Other commercial projects include a buildout for a HoneyBaked Ham store at 4454 Frontage Road N.W. in Cleveland Towne Center. That project was valued at $278,000. The builder of a Publix Super Market pulled a permit to build a retaining wall valued at $69,000. A fourth commercial permit was for a shell at 170 Mouse Creek Road N.W. where a First Tennessee Bank branch was located.
The city issued eight building additions/alterations valued at $390,001 and four under the residential category for $760,000. In the utility and miscellaneous category, R&R Communications drew a $90,000 permit to alter a cell tower at 760 Railroad Street.
In the residential category, Bert Osment applied for a permit to build a single-family house on Brad Street N.W. valued at $120,000. Other homes included a $120,000 residence on Abby Glen Drive N.E. under construction by Kenny Crowe. In addition, Charlie Lay, Lay Construction, is building two three-unit apartment complexes in the 480 and 530 blocks of 13th Street N.E.
Bradley County approved 22 new home permits, including two storm-damaged homes, five mobile homes and two campers. The four largest single-family homes ranged in value from $200,000 to $320,000.
The November numbers represented a drop from $8.2 million registered in the city in October.
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Subaru Forester - Anyone pick up a 2011 yet?
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I've heard you can put orders in for the 2011, but not sure if I believe them. Also, wondering if anyone has any info about when the cars are actually going to be available in the showrooms. Concrete info only, please. I've done enough speculating! Thank you all!
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ateixeira Posts: 72,587Forester was down for the month:
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/subaru-sales-continue-to-climb-101989383- .html
Keep in mind last August was the peak of the C4C, but Forester sales were down 39% from that record month.
Incredibly, Outback sales were up 37%.
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ecotrklvr Posts: 519Just read another online Subaru site that shows new 2011 Pricing and Features. Glad to tell you all - the Tilt+Telescopic steering wheel feature has been added to 2.5X Premium and higher models. As a big guy, that is great news. Also new is integrated Bluetooth to same models, with steering wheel controls. Just a few weeks away. Now, I have to decide between Spark Silver and Steel Gray...
orbit9090 Posts: 110Subaru Announces 2011 Forester
2011 Forester features an all-new 2.5L DOHC Subaru Boxer Engine
Subaru today announced 2011 pricing for its award-winning Forester model starting at $20,495 equipped with manual transmission, a modest $200 increase from 2010. The automatic transmission version starts at $21,695. The 2011 Forester's all-new 2.5L DOHC SUBARU BOXER® Engine improves on the Forester's already impressive fuel efficiency. All Forester models now come with a new grill design as well as an updated instrument panel with a softer, textured material for enhanced interior appearance.
The 2011 Forester 2.5X Premium, equipped with manual transmission starts at $23,195, a $400 increase over last year. The automatic transmission version starts at $24,195. Standard equipment includes all 2.5X model features (where applicable) plus a standard 10-way power driver's seat, privacy glass, panoramic power moonroof, roof rails, steering wheel mounted audio switches, reclining rear seatback function and rear seat retractable rear tray.
The Forester 2.5X Premium also now includes:
* Driver's side power window with Auto-Down and Auto-Up with Anti-Pinch Protection
* Tilt and telescopic steering wheel
* New 17" Alloy Wheels
* Standard Bluetooth Hands-Free Phone Connectivity with steering wheel control switches
* Bluetooth Audio Streaming Connectivity
* iPod connectivity
* USB port
* Sirius Satellite Radio capability
In addition to those features, the 2011MY Forester 2.5X Premium also features an all-new TomTom® Navigation option package. Available with the $500 All Weather Package, the TomTom® Navigation option has a special value price of only $595, for a total package price of only $1,095. This TomTom® unit is a removable navigation device with a 4.3" LCD touch screen and includes the following features:
* Bluetooth Hands-Free Phone Connectivity
* iPod connectivity
* Removable Portable Navigation Device
* USB port
A back-up camera is an additional available accessory and traffic information on the camera is available with a subscription.
Forester 2.5X Limited
The 2011MY Forester 2.5X Limited, equipped with automatic transmission, has a starting price of $26,495, a $500 increase. Standard equipment includes all 2.5X Premium model features (where applicable) plus leather-trimmed upholstery, leather-wrapped steering wheel and shifter handle, stainless exhaust tips, automatic climate control system, fog lights, cargo area tray and All-Weather Package along with the following additional improvements to the audio system:
* Bluetooth Audio Streaming Connectivity
* Bluetooth Hands-Free Phone Connectivity
* HD radio
* iPod connectivity
* 4.3" LCD display screen
* 6 upgraded speakers (instead of 4)
* Back-up camera accessory option
The 2.5X Limited continues to offer a Touch-Screen GPS Navigation System for $1,800 which includes a 7" LCD screen, auxiliary input jack and now includes a backup camera.
Forester 2.5X Touring
Also new for the 2011MY is the introduction of the 2.5X Touring model. This model builds on the 2.5X Limited model and comes equipped with automatic transmission starting at $27,995. This model adds several unique features: High Intensity Discharge (HID) headlights, exterior mirrors with integrated turn signals, silver finish roof rails, one-touch folding rear seatbacks, dual-zone automatic climate control, Sirius satellite radio and electroluminescent instrumentation.
Forester 2.5XT Premium
The 2.5XT Premium starts at $26,995, is equipped with automatic transmission and features the impressive 224-horsepower 2.5L DOHC intercooled, turbocharged Boxer Engine. Standard equipment includes a 2.5 liter turbocharged engine with Active Valve Control System, decorative engine cover, stainless exhaust tips, fog lights, rear spoiler, telescopic steering column, unique 17-inch alloy wheels, hood scoop, and aluminum-alloy accelerator and brake pedal covers and now includes a 10-way power driver's seat.
Forester 2.5XT Touring
The 2011MY Forester 2.5XT also adds a Touring model, equipped with automatic transmission and starting at $29,995. This new model includes HID headlights, exterior mirrors with integrated turn signals, backup camera, silver finish roof rails, one-touch folding rear seatback and electroluminescent instrumentation. In addition to those features, it has an upgraded audio system with a 4.3" LCD display screen, dual-zone automatic climate control and perforated leather-trimmed upholstery. The Touch-Screen GPS Navigation System is also available (with the standard backup camera already included in the vehicle) as an option on all Touring models for only $1,600.
The destination and delivery charge is $725 for all 2011MY Forester models in the contiguous 48 states. The MSRP of PZEV (Partial Zero Emissions Vehicle) models remains $300 more than the federal specification model.
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/subaru-of-america-inc-announces-pricing-- - - on-2011-forester-103721929.html -
rsholland Posts: 19,741This was buried in the press release:
All Forester models now come with a new grill design as well as an updated instrument panel with a softer, textured material for enhanced interior appearance.
This is good news, as it signals Subaru has gotten the message that a lot of hard plastic in the interior turns people off. Rumor has it that the all-new 2012 Impreza will also have a softer padded dashboard.
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Moar maybe...
Here are your pics. Stop bitching. This volcano minus X-Wing is Vamtopia at the Equator. Though, it's inhabitants like the polar caps better.
Vamtopia. With trillions of thrivingforests, cities, mountains, volacanoes (Wanna guess where our heroes like to hang around and build their cities?) and BION, oceans. With life. Towards of the center of our painted globe, imagine a line of black going in all angles.


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I always have an urge to hug people who say, "I like going to baseball games even if it's not teams I like, because I just like watching the game." Don't get me wrong, I bleed orange and black, but I tend to view people who are only interested in their team, as "bad fans".
It's along the same lines of why I don't boo. I try to appreciate the other team and I don't really understand the purpose of booing. Do you want them to go back to their city and not play here? Obviously not. Is it just to express your disdain for them? Why do you have disdain for them? I get booing a .180 hitter from your own team much more than booing a .320 hitter from the opposing team. Personally, I don't do either, but one makes more sense to me than the other. I think it's actually just something deeply engrained in American sports viewing, but it's something I don't like. What do you think?
Except when Casey Blake comes up. He's my Achilles Heel/Kryptonite. I boo him. Now you know.
That's why I'm excited for the playoffs, whatever it holds for the Giants. I think we'll see a lot of good ball and I can't wait.
Happy Barry Zito Day. I don't know if I'm coining that phrase, but surely we need another holiday after the three day weekend, so BZ Day it is. I'll be rooting for him tonight. But I think you knew that.
Beat AZ! (That chant works remarkably well on places other than LA!)
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc., facing a lawsuit from the family of a woman who died after eating a cantaloupe bought at one of its stores, is now suing the grower, distributor and the grower's third-party auditor.
The lawsuit appears be a new strategy against lawsuits by victims of the deadly 2011 listeria outbreak linked to cantaloupes grown by Jensen Farms.
In a complaint filed in Wyoming federal court in late January, Wal-Mart asserts third-party claims against Edinburg, Texas, distributor Frontera Produce Ltd., auditors Primus Group Inc. and Bio Food Safety Inc., and Jensen Farms. Primus subcontracted Bio Food Safety to undertake the on-site audit of the cantaloupe farm, which resulted in a superior rating of 96%.
The third-party complaint is tied to a wrongful death lawsuit brought in Wyoming against Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart by Frederick Lollar, the husband of the deceased woman.
Wal-Mart recently hired new legal counsel, said Ryan Fothergill, in-house counsel for Santa Maria, Calif.-based Primus Labs, with a new strategy that apparently brings everyone into the lawsuit for indemnification purposes.
Fothergill said more legal actions might be coming from Wal-Mart against the four parties named in the Wyoming case.
A spokesman for Wal-Mart could not be reach for comment.
Bill Marler, Seattle food safety attorney handling about 45 of the 66 victim cases related to the listeria outbreak, said it is not unusual for a retailer to bring action against upstream suppliers, but Wal-Mart's naming of a third-party auditor is unusual.
"I've never seen it before where a retailer has a third-party complaint against an auditor," he said.
About 20 of the listeria victim lawsuits name Wal-Mart, and Kroger is the defendant in about 30 cases, Marler said.


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