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Holy cow, I wrote a book!
The principle is that
programs you've run most often recently are the ones that show up
on the front page of the Start menu.
At least,
that's what we started with, but it turns out that some fine-tuning
was needed in order to get the experience to be more "natural".
The basic rule is that each time you launch a program,
it "earns a point", and
the longer you don't launch a program, the more points it loses.
The Start menu then shows the programs that have the most points.
That's about all I'm going to say about the mechanics of
point-winning for a variety of reasons.
After the basic rule is applied,
the fine-tuning and detail-following kick in.
Those are the parts that are puzzling to most people.
The next several entries will go into many of the subtleties
and fine-tuning behind the Start menu's list of frequently-used
Please hold off your questions until the (two-week!) series is complete,
because I suspect a later entry will answer them.
(This series is an expansion upon the TechNet column on the same topic.
If you've read the TechNet article, then a lot of this series
will be review.)
Pre-emptive snarky comment
‡Well, it does accomplish something: It gives me another
reason to stop blogging.*
*Along with the people who keep bugging me about
using daggers
instead of asterisks.
Hint: Asterisks already mean something in computer programming.
In the initial designs for the Start menu, the list of
most-frequently-used programs on
the Start menu would be completely empty the first time you opened
This was perfectly logical, since you hadn't run any programs at all yet,
so nothing was frequently-used because nothing had been used at all!
Perfectly logical and completely stupid-looking.
Imagine the disappointment of people who just bought a computer.
They unpack it, plug everything in, turn it on,
everything looks great.
Then they open the Start menu to start using their computer
and they get... a blank white space.
"Ha-ha! This computer can't do anything!
You should have bought a Mac!"
(In usability-speak, this is known as "the cliff":
You're setting up a new computer,
everything looks like it's going great,
and then... you're staring at a blank screen and have no idea what
to do next.
The learning curve has turned into a precipice.)
The original design attempted to make this initially-blank Start menu
less stark by
adding text that said, roughly, "Hey, sure, this space is blank
right now, but as you run programs, they will show up here,
trust me."
Great work there.
Now it's not stupid any more.
Now it's stupid and ugly.
It took a few months to figure out how to solve this problem,
and ultimately we decided upon what you see in Windows XP:
For brand new users, we create some "artificial points"
so that the initial Start menu has a sampling of fun programs on it.
The number of artificial points is carefully chosen so that they are
enough points to get the programs onto the Start menu's front page,
but not so many points that they overwhelm the "real" points earned
by programs users run themselves.
(I believe the values were chosen so that a user needs to run
a program only twice to get it onto the front page on the first day.)
Note that these "artificial points" are not given if the user
was upgraded from Windows 2000.
In that case, the points that the Windows 2000 Start menu
used for Intellimenus were used to seed the Windows XP
point system.
In that way, the front page of the Start menu for an upgraded
uses already reflects the programs that the user ran most often
on Windows 2000.
In the initial release of Windows XP, the "artificial points"
were assigned so that the first three
of the six slots on the most-frequently-used programs list were
chosen by Windows and the last three by the computer manufacturer.
If your copy of Windows XP was purchased at retail
instead of preinstalled by the computer manufacturer,
or if the computer manufacturer declined to take advantage of the
three slots offered to it (something that never happened
in practice),
then Windows took two of the three slots that had been offered to
the computer manufacturer, leaving the last slot blank.
That way, the very first program you ran showed up on your
Start menu immediately.
In Windows XP Service Pack 1,
the assignment of the six slots changed slightly.
Two of the slots were assigned by Windows,
one by the United States Department of Justice,
and the last three by the computer manufacturer.
(Again, if you bought your copy of Windows XP at retail,
then two of the computer manufacturer slots were assigned
by Windows and the last was left blank.)
We already saw that
programs in the pin list are pruned from the most-frequently-used
programs list because they would be redundant.
Another fine-tuning rule was introduced after the initial
explorations with the new Windows XP Start menu:
Programs with specific "noise" names are removed from consideration.
Many "noise" programs
were showing up as frequently used because they happened to
be shortcuts to common helper programs like Notepad or Wordpad
to display a "Read Me" document.
These shortcuts needed to be filtered out so that they couldn't be
nominated as, say, the Notepad representative.
The list of English "poison words" is given in
Knowledge Base article 282066.
a program can also register itself as not eligible for inclusion
in the front page of the Start menu by
creating a NoStartPage value
in its application registration.)
We'll see in the epilogue that Windows Vista
uses an improved method for avoiding the
"unwanted representative" problem.
The first subtlety of
the basic principle that determines
which programs show up in the Start menu
is something you may not have noticed when I stated it:
Each time you launch a program, it "earns a point", and
the longer you don't launch a program, the more points it loses.
Notice that the rule talks about programs, not shortcuts.
The "points" for a program are tallied from all the
shortcuts that exist on the All Programs section of the Start menu.
Many programs install multiple shortcuts, say one to the root
of the All Programs menu and another to a deep folder.
It doesn't matter how many shortcuts you have; if they all
point to the same program, then it is that program that earns
the points when you use any of the shortcuts.
One the Start menu decides that a program has earned
enough points to make it to the front page, it then has
to choose which shortcut to use to represent that program.
This is an easy decision if there's only one shortcut.
If there are multiple shortcuts to the same program, then the
most-frequently-used shortcut is selected as the one to appear
on the front page of the Start menu.
If you paid really close attention, you may have noticed
a subtlety to this subtlety.
We'll take that up next time.
Please hold off your questions until the (two-week!) series is complete,
because I suspect a later entry will answer them.
(This series is an expansion upon the TechNet column on the same topic.
If you've read the TechNet article,
then a lot of this series will be review.)*
*I wrote this last time, but that didn't stop people from asking
questions anyway.
I don't expect it'll work today either, but who knows, maybe
you'll surprise me.
After the initial explorations with the Windows XP Start menu,
we had to add a rule that fine-tuned the results:
If a program is
then it is removed from consideration as a frequently-used program.
For example, if you right-click Lotus Notes and select "Pin
to Start menu",
then it goes into the pin list and will never show up in the
dynamic portion of the front page of the Start menu.
This tweak was added to avoid the ugly situation where you have
two icons for the same program on the front page of the Start menu,
when only one would do the job.
This is another manifestation of the "Don't show me something
I already know" principle, which we saw earlier when we discussed
why the All Programs list doesn't use Intellimenus.
After all, you pinned the program to your Start menu because
you run it often.
There's no point in showing it again
at the top of your "frequently-used" list; you knew that already!
Use that scarce real estate to show the user something that is
actually of value.
Next time, another fine-tuning rule that tries to filter
the noise from the results.
a second subtlety
the basic principle that determines
which programs show up in the Start menu:
Since programs earn points and not shortcuts,
a program can earn points even if you don't use the Start menu
to run it.
In usability studies, we often see people who run programs
by digging through their Program Files directory until
they find an icon that looks promising and then double-click it.
If there is a shortcut on the All Programs section of the
Start menu that points to the same
program, then that shortcut will eventually work its way onto
the front page, assuming the user runs the program often enough.
This is why you will see a program appear on the front page of
the Start menu even though you never ran it from the Start menu.
The program earned points because you ran the program manually,
or because you opened a document that is associated
with that program.
Promoting a program run this way helps users realize that
they can run Backgammon from the Start menu instead of having
to open My Computer, then click on my C drive,
then click on Program Files, then MSN Gaming Zone,
then Windows, and then double-click the icon with the strange name
I've seen usability sessions where the users did this repeatedly,
and they considered it perfectly normal, albeit frustrating.
"Computers are so hard to use."
Next time, we'll look at how the pin list influences the
list of frequently-used programs.
If you paid really close attention to
the way a representative shortcut is selected for a program,
you may have noticed a problem with it.
Here's the rule again:
If there are multiple shortcuts to the same program,
then the most-frequently-used shortcut
is selected as the one to appear on the front page of the Start menu.
Suppose there are two shortcuts to Notepad on the All Programs
section of the Start menu,
one is the standard Notepad shortcut that comes with Windows,
and the other is a shortcut whose command line is
notepad.exe C:\Program Files\LitWare Inc\Release Notes.txt.
Now suppose the user opens a text document on the desktop.
Notepad runs, it "earns a point", and suppose that this gives
Notepad enough points to appear on the front page of the Start menu.
Which Notepad shortcut do we show?
notepad.exe C:\Program Files\LitWare Inc\Release Notes.txt
According to the rule stated above,
we will choose either the standard Notepad shortcut or
the LitWare Release Notes shortcut, depending on which one
you've run most frequently.
If it's the latter, then you'll have the puzzling result that
opening a text document
on the desktop causes the LitWare Release Notes shortcut
to show up on the front page of the Start menu.
It's perfectly logical and completely baffling
at the same time.
In Windows Vista,
another tweak was added to the algorithm by which a shortcut
is chosen to represent a program on the front page of the Start menu:
If the user hasn't run any of a program's shortcuts from the Start menu,
a shortcut that doesn't have any command line parameters is preferred
over one that does.
This tweak causes the Start menu to favor the standard Notepad shortcut
over the LitWare Release Notes shortcut.
It also means that, for example,
a shortcut to Litware.exe is preferred
over a shortcut of the form Litware.exe -update.
Litware.exe -update
I was not present at the Windows Vista Start menu design meetings,
I have no insight into the rationale behind its design.
Let's take another look at
the basic principle that determines
which programs show up in the Start menu:
If you stare at this long enough, you might see a hole in this
What about a program that you launch once and keep running all
the time?
According to the rule, this program would "earn a point"
when you first launched it, and then it would gradually
lose points⊜
even though you clearly use this program frequently.
(Here, "frequently" is an understatement for "all the stinking time!")
Thus was born another fine-tuning rule:
For each consecutive day◊ a program was kept continuously running,
it "earned a point" as if you had launched it yourself.
This little "feeding the program points under the table"
was enough background radiation
to keep the program afloat in the points race,
but not so much as to overwhelm the programs that you
actually launch frequently.
After all, if you keep the program running all the time,
the Start menu didn't have to give the program high placement.
Most of the times you open the Start menu, you don't need to launch
that program; it's already running.
The program just needed to be kept from dying out completely.
⊜In extreme cases,
it might even drop all the way to zero,
at which point the program would act like you'd never run it at all!
◊"Day" here is shorthand for a more complicated definition
(taking into account idle time), the details of which are not relevant.
I discussed this topic already,
but I'm mentioning it again here since it's thematically related to
the other Start menu articles.
I'm told that there have been a few tweaks to the
rules for Windows Vista.
Some installers set the time stamps
on the program to match the time stamp of the install media.
This makes for pretty directory listings but means that the Start menu
fails to recognize the program as new.
To address this, the Start menu also takes
the creation time of the directory containing the program into consideration
when determining which programs are new.
Second, a program that appears in the pin list will not be
marked as new, since that would be pointless duplication.
(This is only an issue for the "chameleon" pin list entries like
"Internet" and "Email" which track your current default Web browser
or mail program.)
And third,
the grace period after installation
has been extended from one hour to five hours.
This gives computer manufacturers more time to install all
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All too often I see email like this:
From: X
Is there a way to turn off Q?
Support Professional
Microsoft Product Support Services
Tel: +123 456 7890 Extension 1234
Email: email@example.com
In case I am unavailable and you need urgent assistance,
you can contact the following people:
My Backup: Y, Phone: +123 456 7890 Extension 1235 or Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
My Manager: Z, Phone: +123 456 7890 Extension 1236 or Email: email@example.com
Note: If you are a customer of Microsoft,
Please refer to the terms and conditions which cover
the provision of support and consulting services to you/your organization.
If you are not a corresponding in the course of,
or in connection with a Microsoft contract or program
with its own terms and conditions,
Please note that no liability is accepted by Microsoft
for the contents of this email.
From: X
Is there a way to turn off Q?
Support Professional
Microsoft Product Support Services
Tel: +123 456 7890 Extension 1234
Email: email@example.com
In case I am unavailable and you need urgent assistance,
you can contact the following people:
My Backup: Y, Phone: +123 456 7890 Extension 1235 or Email: email@example.com
My Manager: Z, Phone: +123 456 7890 Extension 1236 or Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Note: If you are a customer of Microsoft,
Please refer to the terms and conditions which cover
the provision of support and consulting services to you/your organization.
If you are not a corresponding in the course of,
or in connection with a Microsoft contract or program
with its own terms and conditions,
Please note that no liability is accepted by Microsoft
for the contents of this email.
Not only is your email signature is longer than your message,
it's also more colorful and makes greater use of boldface,
so the reader's eye is going to be attracted to the signature
and miss your question entirely.
(This is actually a rather subdued version.
I've seen much worse, with animated images in the signature.)
Don't let your message get lost in the medium.
The email signature should not draw attention away from your
What's more, it shouldn't convey information that the reader
doesn't need to know.
First of all, we already know your name and email address since
it's in the message header.
And since this message was sent internally,
we can easily look up your job title, division, telephone number,
and manager's name,
and the huge disclaimer at the bottom is completely unnecessary
since the message is internal and wasn't sent to any of your
support customers.
The only information in the signature that we didn't already know
(or couldn't already find out) is your backup, and I suspect
this question could have gotten by without even that.
Some time ago, I had a hobby of collecting hideous
email signatures and organized nearly 200 of them into an online
"email signature museum".
If things get slow, I could trot those out.


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New Heating Device Claims To "Vanquish" Fat Away
For decades, people have been searching for an easy way to lose those extra inches. Now weight loss, methods have gone high-tech. Vibrating belts are out. Temperature is in as the new way to vanquish fat.
New Drug, Study Method Shows Breast Cancer Promise
A novel way to speed the testing of cancer drugs and quickly separate winners from duds has yielded its first big result: an experimental medicine that shows promise against a hard-to-treat form of breast cancer.
FDA Trans Fat Ban Has Some Texas Companies Changing Recipes
One North Texas sweet shop owner said his average customer is not concerned about whether their donut is made with an oil containing trans fat or one that is trans fat-free, but the FDA cares and made a first time ruling concerning trans fats.
High Court Ends Okla. Bid To Limit Drug Abortions
The Supreme Court will not review an Oklahoma court ruling that struck down a state law limiting drug-induced abortions.
FDA Wants Limits On Most Prescribed Painkiller
The Food and Drug Administration is recommending new restrictions on prescription medicines containing hydrocodone, the highly addictive painkiller that has grown into the most widely prescribed drug in the U.S.
Study: High-Dose Flu Shot Better Protects Seniors
A new high-dose flu vaccine for seniors works better than the standard shot in that age group. Regular flu shots tend to be only about 30 to 40 percent effective in people 65 and older. Sanofi Pasteur's Fluzone High-Dose vaccine boosted that to 50 percent.
Study Ties Chemical To Possible Miscarriage Risk
New research suggests that high levels of BPA, a chemical in many plastics and canned food linings, might raise the risk of miscarriage in women prone to that problem or having trouble getting pregnant.
Milwaukee Company Recalls Chicken, Ham Salads
Garden Fresh Foods of Milwaukee has recalled 19,000 pounds of ready-to-eat chicken and ham products because of possible Listeria bacteria contamination.
Meningitis Supply Limited As Demand Increases In Dallas
Dallas County Health and Human Services announced that it has a limited amount of the Adult Safety Net Program meningitis vaccine for $10.
Drug Safely Cuts Prostate Cancer Risk, Texas Study Finds
The results of a long-term major federal study that was done in Texas is easing worries about the safety of a hormone-blocking drug that can lower a man's chances of developing prostate cancer.
Woman Claims Cyclospora Infection; Sues Olive Garden In Addison
A woman claiming she was infected by cyclospora, a rare type of parasite that causes symptoms such as diarrhea, weight loss and nausea, is taking legal action.
FDA Defining What "Gluten Free" Means On Packages
Consumers are going to know exactly what they're getting when they buy foods labeled "gluten free." The Food and Drug Administration is defining what the "gluten free" label really means.

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Proton-based transistor could let machines communicate with living things
By - - PHYSORG.COM
Added: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:46:31 UTC
On the right is a colored photo of the University of Washington device overlaid on a graphic of the other components. On the right is a magnified image of the chitosan fibers. The white scale bar is 200 nanometers. Credit: University of Washington
Human devices, from light bulbs to iPods, send information using electrons. Human bodies and all other living things, on the other hand, send signals and perform work using ions or protons.
Materials scientists at the University of Washington have built a novel transistor that uses protons, creating a key piece for devices that can communicate directly with living things. The study is published online this week in the interdisciplinary journal Nature Communications.
Devices that connect with the human body's processes are being explored for biological sensing or for prosthetics, but they typically communicate using electrons, which are negatively charged particles, rather than protons, which are positively charged hydrogen atoms, or ions, which are atoms with positive or negative charge.
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How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led...
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Meet Mat Honan. He just had his digital life dissolved by hackers. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired. Illustration: Ross Patton/Wired
The very four digits that Amazon considers unimportant enough to display in the clear on the Web are precisely the same ones that Apple considers secure enough to perform identity verification.
Mars Science Laboratory Touches Down...
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Launched on November 26, 2011, the mission is scheduled to land on Mars's Gale Crater tonight/tomorrow morning: 5:31 UTC, which translates to 1:30 a.m. Eastern time or 10:20 p.m. Pacific.
Physicists Create Working Transistor...
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Physicists Create Working Transistor
Consisting of a Single Atom
Next Generation: Sneaking into a Cell
Megan Scudellari - TheScientist 7 Comments
Next Generation: Sneaking into a Cell
A nanoscale device measures electrical signals inside cells without causing damage
Can you really be addicted to the...
Polly Curtis - The Guardian 27 Comments
Photograph: Peter Dazeley/Getty Images
Can you really be addicted to the internet?
New DNA reader to bring promise
Sharon Begley - Reuters 10 Comments
Ion Torrent CEO and chairman Jonathan Rothberg
holds a semiconductor sequencing chip that will
be used in the new Proton semi-conductor based
genome sequencing machine in Guilford,
Connecticut, January 5, 2012.
Credit: Reuters/Michelle McLoughlin
Viewpoints: Why is faith falling in the...
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A new poll suggests that atheism is on the rise in the US, while those who consider themselves religious has dropped. What's the cause? Two writers debate.
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Documentary about ongoing events in Uganda, where many question whether the growing influence of American religious groups has led to a movement to make homosexuality a crime punishable by death.
Scientists Discover Previously Unknown...
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Newer Imaging Technique Brings 'Glymphatic System' to Light
Blasphemy Laws Exposed: The...
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Blasphemy Laws Exposed: The Consequences of Criminalizing "Defamation of Religions"
Atheists On Religion, Science, And...
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Cara Santa Maria (Senior Science Correspondent, Huffingtonpost.com) leads this week's panel on 'The Point' to discuss these issues and more with Michael Shermer (Publisher - Skeptic Magazine), Sean Carroll (Theoretical Physicist - Caltech), and Edward Falzon (author of 'Being Gay Is Disgusting').
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SSIM Reports are not formatted well and columns are truncated
Created: 25 Nov 2008 • Updated: 21 May 2010 | 1 comment
SSIM 4.5 reports - Columns are truncated and reports are not formatted well.
Symantec has a KB, which talks about this problem
The recommendation is however to upgrade to 4.6, which I am not sure how complex an activity it would be.
Could somebody suggest an alternative of getting the reports done well in SSIM 4.5 itself?


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Winifred Radford
17 of 28 portraits of Winifred Radford
Angus McBean Photograph. © Harvard Theatre Collection, Harvard University.
Winifred Radford
by Angus McBean
vintage bromide print on card mount, 1950
8 3/8 in. x 6 1/2 in. (213 mm x 164 mm)
Given by Sidney Buckland, 2001
Photographs Collection
NPG x88983
Click on the links below to find out more:
Sitterback to top
- Winifred Radford (1901-1993), Singer and teacher of singing. Sitter in 28 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Angus McBean (1904-1990), Photographer. Artist of 265 portraits, Sitter in 79 portraits.
This portraitback to top
One of ten photographs by Angus McBean showing Radford in period costume for her solo recitals and publicity portraits. McBean was Britain's leading stage and theatrical portrait photographer of the 1950s.
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Riverhouse Hotel & Convention Center, Bend, Oregon, USA
August 14-15th, milling professionals of the IAOM Pacific, Golden West and Intermountain Districts will come together at the annual joint district technical conference at the Riverhouse Hotel & Convention Center, in Bend, Oregon. View the conference program here.
Schedule at a Glance
Wednesday, August 13th
Travel day
Exec. Meeting 6 pm at hotel bar
Thursday, August 14th
Registration – 7 am
Morning Session
Business meeting
Lunch together
Afternoon Session
Reception/Banquet in evening – install officers
Friday, August 15th
Golf and lunch. 8:30 am at Lost Tracks
Upcoming Events
May 4-8– 119th Annual IAOM Conference & Expo
Renaissance Palm Springs Hotel and Palm Springs Convention Center, Palm Springs, California, USA
September 16-18 – Golden West, Intermountain & Pacific District Meeting
Horton Grand Hotel, San Diego, California, USA
April 4-8 – 120th Annual IAOM Conference & Expo
Hyatt Regency Columbus and the Greater Columbus Convention Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA
April 10-14 – 121st Annual IAOM Conference & Expo
New Orleans Marriott and the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center
April 9-13, 122nd Annual IAOM Conference & Expo
Renaissance Atlanta Waverly Hotel & Convention Center
District Officers
Nelson Selmer
Ardent Mills
E. J. Arnold
General Mills
Ron Calloway
Vice Chairperson
Miller Milling Company
Gary Geist
Kings Valley Industries
Jason Watt
1st Exe. Committeeperson
Ardent Mills
Zachary Hanson
2nd Exe. Committeeperson
General Mills, Inc.
Michael H. McKinney
3rd Exe. Committeeperson
Grain Craft
Jesse Higgins
4th Exe. Committeeperson
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Community Partners
Thank you to the following companies for supporting Foothills Animal Shelter this summer during the ASPCA Rachael Ray $100K Challenge, a nationwide competition for animal shelters (and their communities) to help save more lives. Contact our Development Team at 720.407.5226 if you or your company is interested in getting involved.
We want to give a huge thank you to Posterdog.com for being the official sponsor for August 25 – 31, the final week of our Find Your Soul Mate campaign, part of the ASPCA Rachael Ray $100K Challenge. They are helping us save more lives than ever before this summer!
Fox Hollow Animal Hospital
We are thrilled that Fox Hollow Animal Hospital is the proud sponsor of our Find Your Soul Mate campaign for the week of August 18 – 24. They are helping us save more lives than ever this summer!
Watch the story of how Dr. Ryan and Dr. Tony found their soul mate in Barrington!
Deer Creek Animal Hospital
We are thrilled that Deer Creek Animal Hospital was the proud July sponsor of the Challenge. They generously pledged $5 for every adopted animal and lost pet reunited with its family during the entire month of July.
See the story of how Dr. Dan Brod, owner of Deer Creek Animal Hospital, found his soul mate, Eli.
Grandma's Frozen Noodles
Thanks to Grandma's Frozen Noodles for being the June sponsor of the Challenge. President Moni Piz Wilson generously pledged $5 for every adopted animal and lost pet reunited with its family during the entire month of June.
See the story of how Moni Piz Wilson found her soul mate, Rowdy, at Foothills Animal Shelter.
Other Community Supporters
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Arvada Beer Co
Arvada Library
Adventurer's Quarter
Alpine Pastries
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Animal Central
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A Touch of Colorado
B & Be Shoe and Boot Repair
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Firefox 15 available to download, finally fixes add-on memory leak August 28, 2012 at 9:29 am
Mozilla has released Firefox 15 for PCs, smartphones, and tablets. The most standout features are a completely silent background updater (like Chrome), significant memory footprint improvements, a built-in PDF reader, better SPDY protocol support, and a new native UI for Firefox Mobile on Android tablets.
Firefox OS doesn't stand a chance July 20, 2012 at 1:44 pm
As an idealistic thought experiment, the truly open Firefox OS (formerly Boot 2 Gecko) is captivating — but in reality, as it prepares to enter one of the world's most fiercely competitive markets, its chance of success is close to nil.
US and EU antitrust regulators have their eyes on Windows RT May 17, 2012 at 8:48 am
While Microsoft's decision to limit browsers on Windows RT may be controversial to some, there seems to be actual sound reasoning behind it.
Microsoft bans third-party browsers from Windows on ARM May 10, 2012 at 6:17 am
In a twist that's very reminiscent of Microsoft's naughty nineties, Mozilla has revealed that Windows RT — aka Windows 8 on ARM — will only support one web browser: Internet Explorer.
Firefox Australis: One browser interface to rule them all May 2, 2012 at 7:35 am
Before you read on, make sure you're seated comfortably. If you're wearing a tie or belt, loosen it. Ready? Firefox is receiving yet another interface overhaul.
Firefox 12 released, takes Chrome mimicry to the next level April 24, 2012 at 1:28 pm
Firefox 12 is now officially available, bringing with it two major changes: Silent, automatic updates, and — at long last — a fixed Find function.
Flash and Java to be click-to-play in future Firefox April 13, 2012 at 12:39 pm
After more than two years on the back burner, Firefox has finally introduced click-to-play for all plug-ins, including Flash, Java, and Silverlight. Plug-ins are the single biggest cause of browser slow-downs and security vulnerabilities, so, really, it's about time Mozilla added this to Firefox.
The state of web browsing in Windows 8 March 9, 2012 at 1:55 pm
It's surprising: So much has been said about Windows 8, and yet one of the most important aspects — web browsing — has hardly been tackled at all.
Facebook, Microsoft, Mozilla form W3C group to clean up the mobile web February 27, 2012 at 11:48 am
Citing severe mobile fragmentation and unstandardized standards, Almost every player in the mobile space — except Apple and Google — have announced that they'll be forming a W3C group to tidy up the mobile web.
Google, Microsoft begrudgingly accept new Do Not Track policies February 23, 2012 at 3:13 pm
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Red Moon, the hotel's restaurant, serves Japanese-Vietnamese fusion in an attractive low-lit dining room — though, this being Manhattan, there's no shortage of dining options outside the hotel's walls. Just don't be surprised if you find all that colored light a little hard to take, after a night or two at the Night.
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Great location and affordable. Clean rooms and a helpful staff made for a pleasurable stay. Not noisy at all, I was on the 6th floor
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The front desk guys can be more informed. They act as concierge as well but are really lacking on directions and hot spot information.
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- Stayed June 2014
- Rating: Good
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Rooms were small, but that's pretty standard for NYC. Had everything we needed. Rooms were clean, comfy, and quiet. Staff was always pleasant and helpful. Fabulous location, 1-2 blocks off TimeSquare and subway stops a few blocks away. Tons of restaurants and entertainment within walking distance. Atmosphere is "sexy", but never felt sleazy.
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Seth Rogen is no stranger to bad taste comedy. After all, the star has made a hugely successful career gleaming giggles from gross out movies. However, even by his own debauched standards his latest movie, a cancer comedy called '50/50', is a bit, well, in bad taste.
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Jet black in tone, the film tries to find the funny side of life-threatening illness. Whether it works or not remains to be seen; '50/50' has divided critics. But in that regard it's nothing new - a quick glance over the dusty annals of Hollywood history uncovers a bevvy of bad taste movies which have tried, and sometimes failed, to wring comedy out of situations ranging from terrorism to the Holocaust. Here's our top ten with the hits and misses of bad taste comedy.
Tache, bang, wallop, what a video... Borat in action
Hit: Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
He's made a career out of outraging audiences, but Sacha Baron Cohen outdid even himself with Borat, a mankini clad movie that singlehandedly incensed an entire nation. That nation was Kazakhstan who understandably got a bit hot under the collar over the comedian's caricatured portrayal of their national culture that included casual racism, sexism and all manner of unpalatable xenophobia. It was funny though.
Miss: Freddie Got Fingered (2001)
With a title like this it's fair to say audiences probably should have known what to expect when they entered cinemas for this flop from American funnyman Tom Green. But then again, can you really prepare yourself a protagonist swinging a baby by its umbilical cord and wrapping himself in the carcass of recently deceased roadkill?
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Hit: Man Bites Dog (1992)
'Big Brother'; fly-on-the-wall shows about airports; Rick Waller - reality TV has a lot to answer for. But as far as we know it hasn't yet stooped so low as to stalk a serial killer for the audience's enjoyment. That's the premise behind this superb Belgian satire, which follows a charismatic killer as he cuts a bloody swathe through the local community. At one point he even hands out handy tips, such as explaining how it's more cost-effective to attack old people than young couples because they have more cash and are easier to kill.
Jackass... Knoxville in the appalling 'The Ringer'
Miss: The Ringer (2005)
Watching Johnny Knoxville star in a film with people suffering from learning difficulties is perhaps nothing new. But in 2005 he broke away from the 'Jackass' stable and sought pastures new in this Farrelly Brothers er, comedy. The premise sees Knoxville's protagonist pose as a contestant in the Special Olympics, an idea that's almost as offensive as the predictable parade of bad taste jokes which principally revolve around humiliating the mentally handicapped.


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The country's historic economic expansion finally ran out of steam late in the year. The slowdown arrived abruptly, without overt warning, and economists later blamed a combination of causes, including higher oil prices, violence in the Middle East, the uncertain election, delayed effects of multiple interest-rate increases, a stock market decline, the bursting of the Internet bubble, and the simple age of the up cycle. By year's end, with economic activity slowing and consumer confidence dropping, most analysts were predicting a period of reduced growth or even an economic recession.
Fueled by world leadership in telecommunications and high tech, the U.S. economic engine actually accelerated early in the year. Effects of a widely feared year 2000 computer problem proved minimal, thanks to expensive remedial preparations. After gross domestic product (GDP) posted a robust 4.2% gain in 1999, the economy expanded by an extraordinary 5.6% in the first half of 2000. This led economists to worry anew over the potential revival of inflation, which crept steadily upward after several years in the nominal 2% range.
Under Chairman of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System (Fed) Alan Greenspan (see Biographies), the inflation-fighting Fed had enacted three small interest-rate increases in 1999 and followed that with three more in early 2000, including a full 0.5% boost in May. That left interest rates 1.75% higher than in 1999, driving up costs for corporations and individuals alike. Even as those increases flowed through the system, the economy was further shocked by rapid increases in oil prices worldwide, the result of a 1999 cutback in production by OPEC cartel countries. At one point oil prices topped $35 per barrel, three times the price level in December 1998. Increased energy costs affected everyone, particularly in the Midwest, where supply and refinery problems sent gasoline prices spiraling above $2 per gallon.
The twin blows from interest and energy increases produced a marked effect on financial markets. The National Association of Securities Dealers automated quotations (Nasdaq) stock market index, heavy with high-flying technology companies and overbought dot-coms, topped out above 5000 in March and then began an erratic and prolonged descent. By year's end the average had been halved—the worst performance in Nasdaq's nearly 30-year history. (See Economic Affairs.) The year's biggest economic story was the long-anticipated shakeout in dot-coms, companies attempting to capitalize commercially on surging use of the Internet. Dozens of once-high-flying firms exhausted their start-up funds without showing a profit during the year, and their bankruptcies or mergers contributed to the darkening mood by year's end.
By the third quarter, GDP growth was down to 2.2% and slowing. Joblessness stayed near the 30-year low rate of 3.9% established during the year, but many companies were announcing layoffs and cutbacks at year's end. Inflation rose a modest 3.5%, but it too was trending upward.
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Serious crime, which had declined in the U.S. for eight consecutive years, leveled out during 2000. Incidence of eight major personal and property offenses reported to local law-enforcement authorities dropped 0.3% during the first half of the year, compared with a 9.5% decrease in 1999. Analysts noted that demographic trends spurring the decrease over the previous decade—including a reduction in the crime-prone 15–25-year-old male population—would be reversed in coming years.
Researchers funded by the federal government announced in June that they had virtually completed deciphering the entire human genetic code, well ahead of schedule. (See Life Sciences: Special Report.) A jury in Florida awarded a record $145 billion in punitive damages in a class-action suit brought against major tobacco companies by smokers afflicted with tobacco-related illnesses. Tobacco company officials warned that the verdict could prompt bankruptcies in the industry and adversely affect the 25-year, $246 billion settlement negotiated with states in 1998.
In Washington, D.C., Judge Thomas P. Jackson, who had earlier declared software giant Microsoft Corp. guilty of antitrust violations, ordered the company broken up. The decision was immediately appealed by Microsoft, which started the year as the world's most valuable enterprise. If sustained on appeal, the ruling would produce the country's largest government-mandated breakup since AT&T was restructured in 1984.
Reports of numerous deaths and injuries—eventually totaling 148 and 500, respectively—on Ford Motor Co. products, particularly the popular Explorer sports utility vehicle, prompted a historic recall of 6.5 million Firestone tires. As federal officials investigated, Ford and Firestone parent Bridgestone Corp. each blamed the other firm's manufacturing or design process for the problems. Lawmakers criticized both companies at separate House and Senate hearings. Firestone's chief executive officer made a public apology, while Ford said it would not rest until every faulty tire had been replaced. By year's end, Ford had settled at least seven lawsuits and planned to settle more cases stemming from accidents involving Explorer vehicles and Firestone tires.
Another major economic setback occurred when forest fires swept a dozen western states in the summer, charring more than 400,000 ha (1,000,000 ac). One particularly virulent fire, which caused an estimated $300 million damage to the federal Los Alamos (N.M.) National Laboratory alone, started as a "controlled burn" set by the U.S. Forest Service in New Mexico.
The booming economy and a landmark 1996 federal law helped spur a continued reduction in public-assistance rolls during the year. President Clinton noted that welfare caseloads nationwide had dropped by eight million, or 60%, during his presidency, most after passage of a bipartisan welfare-reform act just prior to the 1996 election. Apparently ending a decade-long controversy, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the U.S. sale of the European-developed "morning after" drug RU-486. The drug, also known as mifepristone, allows women to terminate a pregnancy up to several weeks following sexual contact. Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush said that he opposed the FDA move, but he stopped short of promising to reverse it.
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The joke in nearly every news room around the country -- whether it's television, radio or newspapers -- is that sports is the toy department.
Hey, we get to go to games for free. We even get fed. And really, how tough could it be to cover a sporting event?
This week, with fires raging throughout San Diego County and news sources spread razor thin, sports departments -- especially at TV and radio stations -- were put to the test. And they passed with flying colors.
At Channel 8, sports director Kyle Kraska and reporters John Howard and Jaymee Sire stepped in to fill roles as news reporters. They did so admirably and with professionalism.
At Channel 39, sports director Jim Laslavic did a fine job as viewers suffered with Jim Stone, wondering if he had lost his Rancho Bernardo home to the flames. Stone's home ultimately was safe from the fires.
At Channel 51, Paul Rudy abandoned the sports desk to fill in on fire coverage.
On the radio side, KOGO (600), home of San Diego State football and basketball, again proved why it has no peers in broadcast journalism when it comes to breaking news. There was fire coverage all day and all night. It was accurate and timely. Often, KOGO was a step ahead of its TV brethren.
Sports took a back seat for much of the week at XX Sports Radio (1090). Monday, the station did minimal sports while taking news feeds on the fire from TV's Channel 51. The rest of the week, the XX hosts talked sports, but mixed in timely news interviews and updates.
There were interviews with U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-El Cajon, Channel 51 weatherman John Coleman, SDG&E officials, and insurance representatives on the best way for fire victims to file claims.
Even Jim Rome, who got his big break in San Diego and knows the area well, was serious about the Southern California fires. He came off as knowledgeable and caring. Those are two things I never thought I'd say about Rome.
Lee "Hacksaw" Hamilton, who figures to be the star of the new XTRA Sports 1360, nearly lost his Rancho Bernardo home, fleeing with his wife and 93-year-old mother as flames overcame his fence and trees.
Hamilton was interviewed nationally on NBC and by JT the Brick on Wednesday night on 1090. In a couple of weeks, 1360 and 1090 figure to wage a ratings war, but on this night, news was news.
And 1700, 1090's sister station, stayed tuned to Channel 51 news to give listeners all-day fire coverage.
Beyond the sports personalities, all the news agencies in San Diego should be praised for their coverage of the fires. With my Escondido home in the line of the fires, I stayed tuned much of the day and night on Monday and Tuesday. I flipped the dials, and all the stations deserve a big round of applause.
The anchors worked tirelessly.
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The ITA rankings value good wins and do not put much weight (relatively) into losses. That is by design, to encourage teams to schedule good opponents. If you weight losses heavily, then teams have an incentive to make weak schedules. That system has existed in various NCAA sports over the years, and then we fans complain about teams trying to game the system by refusing to play anyone. Perhaps there is some middle ground, but it is hard for the ITA to find the right balance.
Remember that the initial computer rankings are based on the final poll ratings. Everyone complains about the polls in tennis, also. You have to start somewhere, and the final polls are the only reasonable choice. So, perhaps the SEC was given too much credit in the polls. But then again, outside of the SEC, it seems that there are not a lot of really good teams other than the best five (UVa and Duke from ACC, USC and UCLA from PAC-12, Ohio State from Big 10). The handful of other good non-SEC teams (Baylor, Texas, Oklahoma, Pepperdine, Cal, Tulsa, Notre Dame .... I am running out of names here) are probably not any better than Texas A&M, Vanderbilt, et al. There is a drop-off after Duke and Cal and Texas in their conferences.
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Motorola PHOTON Q 4G LTE from Sprint to go on sale for $199.99
Fans of QWERTY keyboards on phones can rejoice as the Motorola PHOTON Q 4G LTE will go on sale this Sunday, August 19 on Sprint in the US and is available for pre-order right now.
The phone is priced at $199.99 on a contract, which is a bit steep considering you get phones such as the Galaxy S III for the same price in the US. But what this phone lacks in outright specs it makes up by having a very comfortable looking QWERTY keypad.
Speaking of specs, the Motorola PHOTON Q 4G LTE comes with a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 1GB RAM, qHD display, 8GB internal memory, microSD card slot and Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich.
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The New York Times recently published a story detailing 14 cases of New York City high school teachers and principals who aided students cheating on tests. The City's special commissioner investigating the schools substantiated the story. Unfortunately, this New York City story is only of many stories of cheating scandals in America's schools. One effective tool to combat the cheating is to enhance the whistleblower protections for teachers and school officials.
Cheating is rampant
The stories alleging cheating in U.S. schools are too numerous to count. Here is a sampling of stories that broke after midsummer 2013:
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What may be the largest school cheating scandal broke earlier in the year, but the legal fallout continues. In July 2013, Georgia Governor Nathan Deal released a report from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) on cheating in the Atlanta Public Schools that identified 178 teachers and school officials who participated in the scandals — 82 of the 178 confessed. The news tarnishes the image of the Atlanta Public Schools, which had won awards for their increased test scores over the last decade.
Former principal of North Atlanta High, Mark MyGrant, blew the whistle on the scandal when he informed the GBI of the "Go to Hell" memo plan. Former regional schools director Tamara Cotman organized a meeting of principals and gave each one a memo titled "Go to Hell." The memo instructed school officials not to cooperate with GBI investigators when questioned. MyGrant drafted an anonymous letter to the GBI informing the agency of the meeting.
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BARTON – A blaze destroyed a sugarhouse on the East Albany Road last evening.
Firefighters responded around 5:40 p.m. to a fully engulfed building fire. By the time they arrived on the scene, 13-minutes later, the building was already flat, said Fire Chief David Claeys.
For more of this story, see page 8 of Wednesday's edition of the Newport Daily Express for April 3, 2013.
HOLLAND – Students learned about one of the Northeast Kingdom's sweet traditions Monday – how people make maple syrup.
Albert and Berthe Patenaude of Valley View Maple Products opened their sugar house to 180 first, second, and third grade students from the Newport City School.
Over the past few weeks, Holland Elementary School students visited the Patenaude's operation.
Monday's tours, directed by Green Mountain Farm-to-School, were designed to give the children a larger picture of Vermont's culture, Caitlin Loren of Green Mountain Farm-to-School said.
JAY - The development at Jay Peak Resort is causing a surge in traffic and Vermont Route 242 is crumbling beneath it.
The Orleans County side of the mountain is not going to be paved this summer. The state will work on the Montgomery side. But the state is going to repair several deteriorating culverts alongside the road, said Dale Perron with VTrans District 9 in Derby.
For more of this story, see page 1 of Tuesday's edition of The Newport Daily Express for April 2, 2013.
DERBY – IROC was a busy place this weekend, even as it was winding down and preparing to hand over the keys to Community National Bank in the final act of foreclosure.
Crowds packed into the gym for the annual Spring Home and Car Show and everyone seemed to be in good spirits. In the meantime, area children splashed and splattered in the pool as they dove for Easter eggs, with parents close at hand.
IROC fans and supporters paid the building their final respects while enjoying the facility.
TROY - For a fourth time, Troy residents went to the polls yesterday to vote on a bond for improvements and renovations to the town school. With a higher turnout, at 32%, residents voted 168 to 135 to support the bond, according to town lister Karen Rinner.
The cost of the project itself is $889,943. The overall cost estimate, including fees and contingencies, was $1.1 million.
NEWPORT – Diana Mara Henry, retired photojournalist, has decided to make Newport her home. Having had an active life chronicling the emerging feminist movement in the 1960s and '70s, various political campaigns including the 1972 and 1976 Democratic conventions, Jimmy Carter's election night in Plains, GA, Vietnam veterans, concentration and slave labor camps in Europe, castles and stud farms in France, and special events for socialites and members of the fashion industry, she has come to a quieter setting to publish her life's work and plan speaking engagements and exhibits.
TROY - The Vermont Secretary of Education Armando Vilaseca has thrown his weight behind attempts to pass a school bond for the Troy Elementary School.
In a letter to North Country Schools Superintendent Dr. Robert Kern, Vilaseca reiterated the list of items sought to be improved by the school board, including traffic flow, drainage problems, a poorly insulated roof, aging heating and ventilation systems, non-compliance with safety codes and security directives, an old sprinkler system, and an electrical system badly in need of upgrades.
LOWELL – Voters will have the opportunity May 7 to reconsider sheriff patrols in Lowell.
In Vermont, the towns pay for sheriff patrols and the state pays for the operational costs. Voters at their annual town meeting earlier this month rejected by 59 to 56 the Orleans County Sheriff's Department budget of $11,186.22. That money would have given residents five hours of patrol time a week. Now, with the exception of the state police, there is no law enforcement in town.
NEWPORT – The Northeast Kingdom has received foreign trade zone status, which allows qualifying companies to import or export products without paying tariffs and taxes.
This designation will benefit businesses, including the foreign companies planning to open in Newport as part of a Bill Stenger and partners' regional economic development initiative, the biotechnology company (AnC Bio Vermont), and the German company Menck Window Systems.
The designation is expected to spur economic development and ease constraints on international commerce.
DERBY CENTER – The North Country Union Junior High School Board created a Community Relations Committee to oversee the creation, distribution and analysis of a community survey for residents of towns with students attending the school.
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The Internet is hurting 'Real Hip Hop'
Is there such a thing as real hip hop? I mean, hip hop has been mutating throughout its nearly 40 year run into what it is today. As someone who has watched these changes from the beginning I can assure you-yes, there is such a thing as real hip hop.
Not every type of music gets a title during the height of its cultural enlightenment. Hip hop's came in the 90's with the label of the "Golden Era." The Golden Era was a time in the late 80's-early 90's that firstly solidified that hip hop was not a fad as many thought. Secondly, it proved to be a viable source of income for artists as well as corporate entities. Finally, the Golden Era brought a defined sound to hip hop. Every coast had a discernable sound. An artist could flourish without a "hit" record. Unlike today, they were handing out record deals like hotcakes to anyone with talent. If you had a niche, you had a deal. An artist didn't have to be tough or hood. They could just be. If you liked sampled music with a grimey flow on top you could easily find something from the East coast. If you wanted to know about gang life with some funk behind it you went to the West. Later the South would find it's voice too. There was an equation to the sound of the golden era and everyone (mostly) was happy. »Read Full Blog Post(1)
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What up peoples? Myself and Klassik will be opening for Kendrick Lamar in Champaign, IL today. We are driving together so we thought it would be cool to live blog the experience. Check here throughout the day for the updates via twitter and instagram. Yes.
Blind Boys of Alabama return to Wisconsin for show at Pabst Theater
"I'll Find a Way," the newest Blind Boys of Alabama album, is "one of the best we have ever made," said band co-founder Jimmy Carter.
Considering the gospel group has five Grammys and has released nearly an album a year since 1948, that's really saying something. »Read Full Article
Trapper Schoepp & The Shades guitarist focuses on new group
Graham Hunt had a great thing going as lead guitarist for Trapper Schoepp & The Shades. The Americana act is one of Milwaukee's most successful bands, with an album on SideOneDummy Records and a history of gigs around the country with Jakob Dylan's The Wallflowers.
But Hunt (disclosure: he's the son of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel sports columnist Michael Hunt) also had his own band to tend to, as songwriter, singer and guitarist for garage-pop rock group Midnight Reruns. »Read Full Article
The battle inside country music?
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Miley Cyrus to play BMO Harris Bradley Center
Pop-music behemoth Miley Cyrus is bringing her tour to Milwaukee's BMO Harris Bradley Center March 9, according to the venue's website Wednesday.
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Large trove of art taken by Nazis recovered
Wonderful works of art secreted away by the Nazis as "degenerate" keep turning up "like bottles washed ashore," writes Micheal Kimmelman for The New York Times this morning, reporting on the latest trove of works discovered and unveiled in Augsburg, Germany, Tuesday.
About 1,500 pictures, a particularly large stash, were discovered in the Munich apartment of an old man whose father was a dealer in the Nazi era. From the initial reports and some blurry online reproductions, the collection appears to include works by Matisse, Courbet, Franz Marc, Max Liebermann, Marc Chagall, Max Beckmann and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner. »Read Full Blog Post(2)
Reading the John Updike stories: 'Snowing in Greenwich Village'
The Library of America recently published 'John Updike: The Collected Stories,' a two-volume boxed set of 186 stories arranged in chronological order. I'm reading one or more a week and commenting on them each Wednesday until I finish the collection or give up.
In "Snowing in Greenwich Village," John Updike introduces Richard and Joan Maple, a young married couple whose love, struggle, infidelity and divorce he will chronicle through a series of stories until they become grandparents. Published in 1956 in The New Yorker, "Snowing in Greenwich Village" is the only Maples story published in this collection; the Library of America is holding the others back for a future book. »Read Full Blog Post
Perform your original holiday song for Tap Milwaukee
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On Tap Today: Bucks, kite flying, Updike and disclaimers
You have successfully reached the middle of your week. What does the day have in store?
The Milwaukee Bucks play the Cleveland Cavaliers right here in Milwaukee. Los Lonely Boys and Jonny Lang are playing Potawatomi. Then, there are a few Wednesday traditions worth considering. »Read Full Blog Post