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Vincent's water breaks, Pretty witnesses her plan go into effect, Fancy and Luis join the mile high club and Theresa's back at square one.
Still in the hospital, Julian has a nightmare about Eve slashing his member with a scalpel and another one where she tells him Little Julian is shrinking. Julian wakes up and rehashes his predicament. He asks, "How could you do this to me Eve?" Julian can't sleep and gets up to pace. He thinks he'll sue Eve for everything she has and tries to use the bathroom. He screams and comes out of the bathroom with a very wet nightgown because, "I can't even go to the bathroom like a man anymore!" He plans to get cleaned up and find Eve.
Eve drinks at her kitchen table and Vincent, in a robe and nightgown, videotapes her as part of his pregnancy blog. Eve demands Vincent turn off the camera and he asks why she's drinking again. She tells him it's because of what she did to Julian and Vincent tells her Julian got what he deserved. He calls it karmic justice and thinks Eve agrees with him on some level. Eve denies it, but Vincent pours her another drink and accuses her of making sure Julian will never cheat on her with anyone else ever again. Eve blames Vincent for tricking her into reattaching Julian's penis the wrong way and making it smaller while she was drunk. Vincent laughs and makes jokes about Julian's penis size and then Eve notices that his water broke. She tells a shocked Vincent that he's having his baby. Vincent doesn't think it's possible because he doesn't feel anything and Eve says maybe the contractions haven't started yet. Vincent is thrilled his little bundle of joy is coming and that he and daddy get to finally be parents. Eve wants another drink, but Vincent tells her she has a baby to deliver. Eve tells him he can't have the baby here, but Vincent says he can't go to the hospital because he's supposed to be dead. He yells at Eve to do what she has to in order to help him deliver his baby.
Eve gets some blankets and supplies and comes back to see Vincent on the kitchen table in his Valerie wig. Vincent gets out his camera to record the birth of his baby and then gets a contraction. He demands a spinal, but a delighted Eve tells him his insides are too complicated so he'll have to deliver naturally. As Vincent screams in pain, Julian enters and assumes it's Valerie on the table because he only sees the back of Vincent's head. Vincent's contractions get closer together and Eve keeps referring to "Valerie" as a he. Julian tries to correct her, assuming she's just drunk, but Eve insists she knows exactly what she's saying. Julian tells her that men don't have babies and says Valerie is a woman and he won't let Eve harm another person while under the influence. He tries to get "Valerie" off the table so he can take her to the hospital and Vincent yells out "No!" Julian is stunned by the deep voice and walks around to see Vincent's face. Vincent pulls off his wig and says it's him in the flesh. Julian is stunned and Eve hands him a drink. He bypasses the glass and drinks straight from the bottle.
On the Crane jet, Fancy asks the pilot where he's taking them, but Luis tells her it's a surprise and there's more to come. The pilot says it's a great night for flying, takes a sip of his coffee and heads to the cockpit.
In the flight control room, Pretty wonders where Luis and Fancy are going and says, "Too bad they'll never make it to their destination." She then flashes back to drugging the pilot's coffee, which will make him pass out cold by the time they reach their altitude. Pretty gets excited anticipating the crash and says it's all Fancy's fault for not stepping aside and letting Luis have feelings for her. Pretty is asked to leave the control room, but she says, "Don't you know who I am?"
Luis and Fancy make out on the jet and then have sex. The pilot cruises to their altitude and overhears Fancy and Luis going at it. He smiles and wishes he had a love like that. As Fancy and Luis continue their romp, the pilot starts to feel sleepy and drinks more coffee to wake himself up. The pilot panics that he's starting to fall asleep and calls control to make an emergency landing. Pretty overhears the call and is thrilled that this is it! The man in the control room says he'll help get the plane down safely, but the pilot is having a difficult time keeping his eyes open. The controller tells him there's an airstrip nearby and Pretty gets upset that her plan isn't working. She thinks the plane has to crash and grabs a plaque hanging on the wall and knocks the controller out with it. The pilot asks for more direction because he can't see anything and Pretty smiles as the pilot begs for help.
Luis and Fancy bask in the afterglow and Luis wonders if they hit some turbulence. Fancy doesn't think so and says she wants the night to go on forever. Luis hopes it's one small part in an amazing trip. Fancy again asks him where they are going, but Luis won't let her ruin the surprise. Fancy says she can't wait to be married to him and he kisses her. The pilot continues to try and fight off sleep and calls for help. As Pretty ignores his pleas, the pilot passes out. Fancy and Luis toast and profess their love.
Still in the bathroom, Theresa thinks she doesn't need to hide anymore because Juanita has been captured. Gwen and Ethan knock on the door and Theresa giddily prepares to reveal herself. Before Theresa can come out, Ethan receives a text message and learns that Juanita has escaped from jail. With Gwen and Ethan's backs to her, Theresa opens the door and hears the news. Ethan is outraged, but Gwen doesn't think it has anything to do with them. Ethan angrily says it does because Juanita was responsible for Theresa's death. He vows to bring her to justice, but Gwen thinks the police should handle it and wants to find out who is in the bathroom. Theresa shuts and locks the door and thinks, "I knew this was too good to be true," as Gwen pounds on the door. Theresa panics in the bathroom that she can't be seen now with Juanita on the loose. Theresa looks for a way out, as Gwen and Ethan grow frustrated over her not opening the bathroom door. Gwen thinks to herself that six months ago she would have thought Theresa was behind this stunt and then thinks, "Thank God for sharks." Theresa tries to open the window as Gwen yells out that she will break the door down. When Ethan can't break the door open with his physical strength, Gwen gets an axe and starts swinging. Gwen chops a hole through the door and Ethan reaches in to unlock it. They enter the bathroom and stunned, Gwen says, "It's you!"
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5-10-15-20: !!!'s Nic Offer
The dance-punk dynamo on Foreigner, Missy Elliott, and listening to music on acid
By Tom Breihan on August 12, 2010 at 3:45 p.m. EDT
Photo by Kathryn Yu
Welcome to 5-10-15-20, where we talk to artists about the music they loved at five-year interval points in their lives. Maybe we'll get a detailed roadmap of how their tastes and passions helped make them who they are. Maybe we'll just learn that they really liked hearing the "The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin" theme song over and over when they were kids. Either way, it'll be fun.
This time, we spoke with !!! frontman Nic Offer, 37.
Paul Simon: Greatest Hits, Etc.
When my dad got a tape player for the house, that was what we listened to. My dad was a big old fogey. Sometimes, we'd have family singalongs, and Simon & Garfunkel was like the one unifying group, maybe even more so than the Beatles. I had to ask my mom what everything meant. Like, "What's a mean individual stranded in a limousine?" That was kind of beyond me at five. I had to ask my mom about all the words and put the pieces together from that.
You've got to walk away from your parents' style of music; I really couldn't dig most of the stuff my dad was into. But that was the one group I was able to come back to. I still love Paul Simon. Graceland was a huge album at our house, and I've never turned my back on that record. If you play "Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes" today, you'd be a fool to not say that's a great song. I think people thought we were taking the piss when we called the !!! song "Me and Giuliani Down by the School Yard", but it was totally a nod of respect.
Foreigner: 4
When I was 10, I got really into AOR. They called me the KZAP Kid around that time because I was just so about classic rock and hard rock, Van Halen and all that. I loved it. On the last day of fourth grade, I bought Foreigner's 4 off a friend for four bucks. I was psyched, set for the summer. It was totally my summer album.
When you're 10, that safe pop-rock is just right up your alley, but anyone who was cool in 1983, I'm sure, thought that record was bullshit. I'm not going to say that the record's a masterpiece; it's mostly just about the hits. It wasn't one of those albums where I knew every single tune, but the hits are just major, like "Urgent". "Juke Box Hero" was telling you, "You can do it! You can be just like me! You can be a rock star!" I definitely used to air guitar that song for my parents, and I believed in the myth; I totally believed it could come true. I would use cardboard guitars for my air guitar shows. "Urgent"-- I made a cardboard sax for that. And maybe we made one cardboard keyboard, like out of a Kleenex box, but I'm not going to stand by that.
The album has Thomas Dolby on it. The synths on it are big on "Waiting for a Girl Like You". I mean, I bet if you chopped and screwed that, you could have a deep ambient Kompakt piece. The synths still sound right on that. I think they were trying to do like a 10cc "I'm Not in Love" kind of vibe. But it totally sounds dreamy. It's always funny to listen to those songs when you're 10. Rock and roll definitely molded my conception of what love is and what love would be like. And in "Waiting for a Girl Like You" it sounded awesome, you know?
Wire: The Ideal Copy
This is such a heavy year for you musically. I could list like 100 albums that were all so, so important. I kind of can't talk about my teenage years without talking about the Smiths, but the Smiths are so talked-about that I decided to go with the tape that I bought on my actual 15th birthday, which was The Ideal Copy. It's kind of their comeback record, and the reason I bought it was because I read a review in Rolling Stone that said that Gareth Jones produced them. He was the Depeche Mode producer, so I was like, "Oh, this has got to be it."
I got it and it was kind of one of those albums-- the lyrics were just beyond me; I didn't even understand. And now I realize Colin Newman was just putting pieces together in more of a surrealist way, but at the time you're like, "He must mean something." It all seems so intense when you're 15. Siouxsie & the Banshees held all the answers, and then you grow up and you read their lyrics and you're like, "Oh, they didn't know anything at all." [laughs]
I actually do stand by this record; I prefer it to 154. It's a little digital-sounding. I really love 80s production, but I think this maybe does sound a little clean. It's like a new shirt you want to throw in the wash. I don't know how you'd throw this album in the wash, but it could deal with a little grittier production. But I think some of the songs are just some of their best songs. We actually even covered the song "Ambitious"; we played it live a few times a couple years ago.
The Ideal Copy didn't lead me to older Wire albums then. I didn't get into that until I was probably 19. Those older albums were kind of hard to find. On some of those groups, I could work backwards. I remember the first Gang of Four album I got was the slick one, Songs of the Free, and that sounded great to me. I loved that record. I mean, I still love that record. So then I was lucky to get into them early, working backwards from that. With a lot of those groups, you get into the big album that's getting sold to you and pushed through the press, and you think, "No, this is crap!" You completely miss the fact that they had a time when they were actually cutting edge and were making good records. When I first started buying punk records, I was buying, like, the Circle Jerks from 1988, and it just doesn't work. When you get into any style of music, you're always buying the easiest ones to find in the used stores, the ones 10 years after that aren't any good, and so it puts you off at first.
New Age Steppers: Action Battlefield
I had just gotten into acid and was listening to everything through that lens. Every trip, when you'd see your friends after, it'd be like, "Oh, what did you listen to?" Each time, it was kind of a giant step forward. I'll never forget the first time I heard Action Battlefield. The sun was coming up, I was with my friend Ken, and we had just smoked a joint. He kind of passed out and put on this tape, it just completely changed my conception of music. I had just never heard anything like it, and it was absolutely everything that I wanted.
It had big, loud drums and basslines, and then they were kind of doing these reggae songs, but just so sweet-- splintering shards, like the way that the drummer would tease with the snare. Each snare hit was different; it'd be a rim shot, then a rim shot with delay, and then he'd hold it back and not do it at all. I'd never listened to music like that before. The tape ended, and I remember just feeling like, "Fuck! I just hope there's more of this on the other side". I turned it over, and it was the first New Age Steppers album. And that's almost as good, actually. It was a 90-minute tape I carried around for a long time after that.
Action Battlefield was definitely very post-punk. It's got Keith Levene on it, Neneh Cherry's on it, and Adrian Sherwood was the ringleader, the producer or something. That was a big influence on Out Hud. We looked at it as this collective thing at first, with Justin [Vandervolgen] at the head as the producer, and the group was just whoever would end up in the studio with him. We started playing live, so then that solidified the lineup of Out Hud, which was the people who were jamming the most with Justin in the studio.
That same trip, I remember we listened to Jimi Hendrix, the beginning of Electric Ladyland. We also listened to Last Poets. We listened to Nick Cave. We were huge on the Smiths on acid. That's when I came back to the Smiths again. Meat Is Murder-- that whole album was just huge to us. It was the early 90s, so we'd definitely listen to stuff like Cypress Hill, Beastie Boys, Butthole Surfers, Sonic Youth. That was where it all changed for me. On one acid trip, I'd just plugged in my stereo after moving it out of my roommate's place, not having used it. I plugged it in and opened the CD, and it was a CD that didn't have anything written on it; it was just a trippy design. I didn't know what it was, and I was just like, "Fuck it." I put it in, and it was [Sonic Youth's] Bad Moon Rising. I had never listened to that before, and that was like-- I mean, I listened to that like five times that trip. That was absolutely another life-changing moment.
Missy Elliott: Supa Dupa Fly
That album just loomed large for the next few years. We were just starting to listen to a lot of R&B radio, and Missy and Timbaland's songs would always poke out, like the first Aaliyah song, "If Your Girl Only Knew", and Ginuwine's "Pony". Then when this album came out, everybody was on there, and you're like, "Oh, this is Timbaland! So he's been the guy behind all this?" So everything came together. It's still in my top 10. When I listen to it, there's such an obvious creative connection between the two of them. The songs are so catchy, compounded with his beats. It just felt like he was in completely new territory. He had all these new things that he had to work with, and he was just playing in it, and he could do anything! It's one of those records where it's hard to explain to people now how fresh it sounded then, because a year after that, everything sounded like that.
The first time I heard Aaliyah's "One in a Million", I was reading and the radio was on. That drum'n'bass fill skittered across the speakers, and I was like, "What the fuck was that?" It sounded totally out of place on radio. And within a year, that's all it was. That was an exciting time. Even with the people who followed Timbaland, it was such a free, open territory, and everybody was finding new things in it. We were into leftfield stuff, but to have stuff like this be just on pop radio-- when we just wanted something avant-garde, all we had to do was turn on the radio! It was just totally exciting. And it was in these little pop gems. I loved pop as a kid, I loved it then, and I love it still. To me, it was such a perfect music. And it was the funkiest thing I had ever heard. At the time when I heard it, I was like, "She's gone further! This is funkier than James Brown!" That's sacrilege to say, but I think some people would agree with me.
The other thing that's hard to understand now is how, at the time, indie kids could only like hip-hop with a message. To like R&B or hip-hop that was about sex and money? It was kind of looked at as wrong if it didn't have a message. So it was a jump, and it was a step you had to take, but it was step that all of us were totally happy to take because we just loved it so much. It hit us right where we wanted it.
Supa Dupa Fly is actually one of the only albums I've ever got into because of a listening station. They always have this set-up, and you always check out a bunch of things, but I had never really liked anything. I was like, "Oh, Missy! I like that song 'The Rain'!" just listened to it, and each song as it was going through, I was like, "Oh my god! Oh my god!" Each song was there.
Various Artists: Prelude Mastermixes
We had been living in New York for a couple years. Tyler [Pope] and [Dan] Gorman moved out to New York first to find a house, and I remember Tyler calling me and saying, "Man, the thing here is disco. There's just so much of it! We haven't even scratched the surface of it." In Sacramento, we really loved Chic and Bohannon, and we always listened to the jammin' oldies station, but it's the same thing as album-oriented rock there. They have 50 songs that they play, and that's it. The Whispers, the Gap Band, whatever-- and you know all those songs inside out. And so when we came here, this whole new world of disco opened up. On the radio here, you could hear all the lost classics.
The album that synthesized a lot for us was Prelude Mastermixes. It's the KISS-FM album, and it's all mixes by Shep Pettibone, and it's got a bunch of our favorite favorites. Shep Pettibone's mixes combined the dub with the regular, so it was like dubbed-out but not too dubbed-out. But all those were seven-, eight-minute songs, and that's what we were all listening to at the time. It was all about the late night down in the basement with John [Pugh], smoking weed and playing disco 12" singles. It's more of a singles genre, so it wasn't so many albums, but this is a double-album collection that's my favorite of that kind of stuff.
Disco is kind of the strain of dance music that-- and maybe it's just the clubs or the parties that I go to-- but still, even if they can mix house and other stuff in, it is the dance music that stands for New York. And it does sound better here. If I'm on the way to Australia, I'm going to listen to the Go-Betweens. Wherever I am, I put on that music, to take me there or something.
Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago
We had to carve out our own niche musically. We always wanted to be not listening to what our contemporaries were. We were really kind of stuck up about it in the 90s, too. It was hard to compare anything in indie to Missy and Timbaland, so we just thought indie was all bullshit. Hip-hop dried up a bit, and it seemed to me like the most exciting albums were coming out of indie, so I made my way back to it slowly through other records. For Emma is one of those albums that's had so much written about it at this point that I don't even like throwing my two cents in, but it was one of those records that just struck me to the core and still does. And I don't know why, either! I feel like [Justin Vernon] carries around very different things inside than I do, but it was that channeling of the straight root of the raw emotion that I responded to. Whatever happened to him with it, you felt like he was really touching that part of himself-- like that was honest.
I was reading something about it on the Internet and looked up his MySpace, and I was doing other things. It hit me the same way a lot of albums have hit me that same way in my life-- I hear it and it strikes me that this is kind of cool. It doesn't knock me out the first time, but I definitely recognize that there's something there. Its depth is immediately recognizable. In singer-songwriter stuff, there's not as much creativity in the sound of it; it's more about the songs and the lyrics. But I liked that he didn't see the rules of it. He's got the vocoder on, and you're not supposed to do that, but he didn't give a shit! I really liked that. That first song, with the vibrating strings or whatever that is-- it sounds like quarters on strings he's miced up or something. Right when that happens I was like, "Whoa, this is a bit different."
I've never met [Vernon]. I saw him play once. You know, everyone says that artists are supposed to make their music for live shows now, with the record industry slump. And I always say some of my favorite music is quiet, and I don't want to see it live. I like laptop guys. I don't want to go watch them play, but I like to listen to it at home. He was the one quiet guy that I went and saw and I was blown away. I thought his band was fantastic; they just breathed together so well. He did "Woods", and he had everybody singing along at the end. I was moved. He's not some belter or something. He could go off. But he's fully giving it, so he doesn't go off. I think he's a great singer.
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Thanks for the question!
What I do NOW is much different than what I did when I was getting things together in my younger days..
But, what I try to do is address a little of everything when I practice. I definitely do all my hand exercises first, then I would go over some groove combinations with various ostinato type things. Finally, I will work on soloing and fill ideas.
Basically, by addressing everything at once, nothing gets "left behind". I talked about this in the article I did in a recent issue of Modern Drummer. It's also the basis and philosophy of my DVD "Hands, Grooves, & Fills". I feel everything is connected, and you should try to tie it all together. What I work on with my hands directly effects my drum set playing in every way.
Recently, I have been rehearsing with my band (Gary Grainger and Chieli Minucci) for a new CD we are recording in the fall, so I am working on parts..grooves and such.
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A lot of people agree that the Supreme Court is as politicized, if not the most politicized, right now as it has ever been. There have been several five – four decisions, (with the Republican appointed Justices being the five), that have benefited the conservative movement in this country.
The first big decision that was made on a purely political basis was the Bush v. Gore decision when the five Republican justices appointed GW Bush president by stopping the Florida recount in the 2000 presidential race. They overturned the Florida State Supreme Court decision that had awarded the election to Al Gore.
Bush v. Gore and the Boundary Between Law and Politics
They were so sure their decision was the correct one that in the majority opinion they said this decision was for this case only and was not supposed to be, and couldn't be used as a precedent for any cases in the future. In other words they said, we have no real reason for appointing GW, we just want him to be president. Some media outlets did a recount later and reported that Gore would have won had the recount included the entire state.
What the Supreme Court is supposed to do is interpret the Constitution and either uphold precedent, or to establish a new precedent. Making a decision that was not based on precedent, or not establishing a new precedent is quite unusual, even unprecedented.
Then there is the Citizens United decision. In that decision they basically handed the keys to our democracy over to the very rich, large corporations, and special interest groups: Whoever can spend the most amount of money buying our politicians and our elections. They overturned a century of precedent with that one. They made every regulation obsolete that was imposed to keep the corrupting influence of unlimited amounts of money out of our elections. Citizens United has been called the worst Supreme Court decision since the Dred Scott decision. (In that decision the Supreme Court ruled that African Americans were to be considered 3/5 of a person for the purpose of voting).
Citizens United: One of High Court's Worst Fails
ABAJournal 5 – 4 Citizens United Decision Ruling a Revolution in Campaign Finance Law
Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
Now the Supreme Court has the Affordable Care Act in front of it. They are supposed to decide if it is constitutional for the federal government. The Republican Party are the ones who want this law overturned. Overturning the law would do away with the regulations that helped the people to the detriment of the insurance companies profits.
One of the problems with finding the mandate unconstitutional is the fact that there are already federal mandates in place. Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment Insurance are just three programs with federal regulations mandating that you contribute money to them. They take the money out of your paycheck before you even see it.
You can bet that if the Republican Party wins this one, those programs plus more will be in front of the Supreme Court as they will see the way clear to finally get rid of the programs they have hated since the moment they were enacted.
Most court watchers think this is going to be another five – four decision. Seventy-five percent of people polled also said they thought the decision would be influenced by politics.
Supreme Court Approval Ratings
Supreme Court Seen Influenced by Politics in Health-Care Ruling
Who Politicized the Supreme Court?
The Supreme Court has no rules. They can basically do what they want. It is up to Congress to check the power of the Supreme Court by impeaching justices that get out of hand.
Their only standard, if you want to call it that, is to avoid the perception of making biased decisions or being unethical. This might come into play here. The justices know how the American people view them. (The ones who know what is going on anyway). They also know that there is a big portion of America that will see a five – four decision as a political one. So they might avoid the perception of being partisan by ruling against the insurance companies and for the American people. I wouldn't hold my breath on that one, though.
The reasons that it appears the federal mandate part of the law, and maybe the entire law altogether, is going to be struck down is because of the type of questions asked by the justices. Some were downright bizarre.
Here are a couple of the most telling questions from Justice Scalia:
"You really want us to go through these 2,700 pages?" Scalia asked during arguments on the constitutionality of the law last week. "Is this not totally unrealistic? That we are going to go through this enormous bill item by item and decide each one?"
Seriously? You aren't going to take the time to read a law you are going to rule on? Seriously? Sounds like a justice who has already made up his mind.
Scalia's Jokes Mask Reality Too Many of Our Leaders Shield Themselves From
Justice Scalia: "Mr. Clement, I, didn't take the time to figure this out, but maybe you did. Is there any chance that all 26 States opposing it have Republican governors, and all of the states uh supporting it have Democrat governors? Is that possible?"
Clement: "There is a correlation."
A purely political question. Why even ask that?
Scalia: Is partisanship at work in health care challenge?
Then there is Justice Thomas. He is so arrogant that he doesn't even try to hide the fact that he is a partisan hack through and through.
Virginia Thomas, wife of Justice Thomas, is a conservative lobbyist. She founded a Tea Party affiliated group called Liberty Central.
Virginia Thomas has lobbied against the Affordable Care Act, and has even called it unconstitutional. This is a wife of a Supreme Court Justice being a major political player. At the very least Thomas should recuse himself. My personal opinion is that if you want to marry a judge, you should then give up all political aspirations you might have. If it were any other judge in this country, other than a Supreme Court Justice, there would be an investigation.
There should be an investigation here as well, especially considering this:
Justice Thomas's wife, Virginia Thomas, has always worked outside of the home and Justice Thomas has always included his wife's income on the financial forms the Justice's have to file. Well, that is until his wife began lobbying. Then, for some inexplicable reason, he "forgot" to include his wife's income for several years while she was lobbying. That is almost $700,000 worth of income not reported because one of the supposedly smartest people in this country "forgot". Yeah, and there always is that bridge I could sell you.
Either Thomas is corrupt or his mind is getting so feeble that he could "forget" to include his wife's income. Either way, he shouldn't be on the bench.
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Justice Thomas's Wife Sets Up a Conservative Lobbying Shop
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Justice Thomas's wife Virginia Thomas now a lobbyist
Justice's wife launches 'tea party' group
Regardless of what the decision is in the Affordable Care Act case, it is going to be seen as a political one. The conservative movement in this country has succeeded in turning the Supreme Court into a political institution. This is sad for America, Americans, justice, equality, and the American way of life.


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The Christmas morning fire at a Connecticut home that killed three girls and their grandparents was started by fireplace embers that had been cleared out of the fireplace and put in either a mud room attached to the house or a trash enclosure next to it, fire officials said today.
It is unclear whether there were smoke alarms in the house, which was in the middle of an extensive renovation.
Officials said the family was allowed to live in the house during the construction, but that the second floor should not have been occupied since that was the area being renovated. However, Stamford Chief Fire Marshal Barry Callahan said it "appears the second floor was occupied."
Officials described the harrowing last moments of those trapped by the flames, including the panic of the children and the adults' heroic and heartbreaking attempts to rescue them.
When firefighters arrived, the girls' mother Madonna Badger was on a second-floor scaffolding frantically trying to gain access to the house.
Firefighters helped her down and she told them that her daughters were sleeping in a third-floor room at the corner of the house.
Firefighters used ladders to enter the third floor and battled through two rooms, but did not find any of the children before being forced out of the building by intense heat and flames.
Badger's friend Michael Borcina who had also been in the house told rescuers that he had gone after the girls and brought them to the second floor in an attempt to get them out of the house.
"He led the two girls downstairs, but the heat drove them to get separated," Stamford Interim Fire Chief Antonio Conte told a news conference today.
Conte said that the girls "panicked" when they reached the second floor. "One ran upstairs and one went in another direction. [Borcina] lost sight of them, so he exited the structure."
Once outside, Borcina attempted to go back into the house but was unable to due to the raging fire.
A fire rescue team tried to enter the second floor to search for the girls, but despite efforts of other firefighters to keep the flames off of the rescuers, they could not search the area.
The children's grandfather, Lomer Johnson, apparently found one of the girls and led her to a second floor window.
"He had actually made it outside the structure. He had gone through a window in the rear," Conte said.
Lomer apparently sat the girl on a pile of books next to the window so that he would be able to step outside and then pull her out of the house. But when he stepped out on the roof, he fell face down between two beams that had been covered with a material not strong enough to hold his weight.
"It looks like she was placed on the books so he could get her from outside," Conte said. "When he stepped out that window, his life ended."
Officials have not yet determined the exact cause of Johnson's death. The girl's body was later found, still sitting on the books.
One of the children was later found on the third floor and the other was found on a second-floor stairwell landing with her grandmother Pauline Johnson.
The fire began sometime after 3 a.m. while the occupants of the house were asleep. Officials believe the fire originated either in a mud room or trash enclosure at the rear of the house. The mud room, adjacent to the back of the house, shared a common wall with an outside trash area. Investigators think the embers were put in a bucket in one of the two locations.


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Sweet is the Melody
Years ago on a Saturday afternoon while listening to Prairie Home Companion I heard a folk artist who was new to me. Her name was Iris DeMint, and the words to one of her songs really touched me: Sweet is the melody, so hard to come by So hard to make every note bend just […] [Read More]
Dreams are all They Gave for Free
Long ago and far away, when I was growing up in Bisbee, the idea of meeting one of the people whose voices came through the radio on KSUN–the Gentleman Jim Reeves or the Patsy Clines or the Tennessee Ernie Fords of that era–was totally out of the que… [Read More]
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Six or seven years ago, the Tucson Festival of Books was a glimmer in the eye of five forward thinking people in Tucson. Now, with the fifth one in the rearview mirrow, it is a celebration of books and learning and literacy that draws hundreds of thousands of visitors each year to the mall on […] [Read More]
Tucson Festival of Books
Half of tomorrow and the remainder of the weekend, I'll be involved in the Fifth Annual Tucson Festival of Books which benefits literacy efforts in Arizona. I have the honor of knowing a woman in her fifties who, in the past three years, has availed … [Read More]
Writers Write
This is the writing part of being a writer. Today and yesterday I worked on a short story that's due to be in a Mystery Writers of America anthology sometime next year. The deadline is today. It will be arriving today, as long as the editor isn't in some Time Zone other than East Coast […] [Read More]


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She found relief in a bottle
Call intoxication there she thought
To found a cure to all her sorrow
She tries to drown her soul
Deep down with every swallow
She took deep breaths of air
Every time she raises the bottle
To try to drink away the tears
That then follows with every drop
She fealt the burning pain
Of her memories brought out
Of past gone wrong rage and anger
Was born one day as far as she was?
Can remember she try to kll the past
With this bottle she forget there
Ever were such pain done on to her
For pure and true was her soul
Until that day she would die to
Live a life full of lies
Who is to say dead but alive
Who walks the streets in the dark?
With no chance to see the light
What is to become of this soul?
Wounded by mistrust naive and
Once trusting is now no more but
One more taken from the light into
The dark to be forever forgotten
She screams for help that never came
To dig her out from the grave she
Was put in against her will she lives
A life full of scares that will never heal
She finds the bottle is her only friend
Comfort in the sight of not knowing
And putting to sleep the past that hunts
Her to be forever walking wounded
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The Body Electric: The Higher the Hair the Closer to God--Halloween Queers Us All!
Peaches Christ (pictured) is probably one of the most famous drag queens on the planet. I'm thinking about Peaches--and a lot of other spectacular queens--today because she regularly deals in the sort of campy, performative drag that blossoms in cities across America--on the straightest of straight men as well as the campiest of queers---on one night only. What, dear reader, am I talking about? You've guessed it: Halloween!
Halloween, for some, conjures up images of sticky-faced children seeking chocolate in a kind of menacing way (they frighten me a little); or the impulse to make even the most mundane costumes "sexy" (as in sexy mechanic, sexy lawyer, sexy baseball fan, etc. and so on an on and on) but I, for one, think of Halloween as that magical time where bros shave their chests and legs, slip on wigs and heels, and hit the town.
Why does this happen? Granted, I live in San Francisco where anything is possible in this arena, but I remember being just as impressed by the Boston University frat guys when I lived on that side of the country. You haven't seen anything until you've seen a herd of duders in drag.
Some might argue that the costumes are sexist--on the "bro's up" vaguely-women-hating tip. I can see that, but you can't deny that drag is gay. In fact drag, by its nature, is a critique of gender performance. It is a comment on the way binary thought about what makes us "men" and "women" is absurd. Drag is camp, drag is fun, drag is embodying stereotypes and then amping them up to such a degree that they explode a little. It is a guerilla assault on a system that oppresses everyone in its rigidity.
My theory is that bros love drag because it gets at some sort of unconscious truth. Maybe its deeply buried, but once a year they can put on some makeup, look in the mirror and experience a flicker--if only for a moment--of, "What the hell is this all about, anyway?"
This is my theory, and its one that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy about the state of things, so I'm hesitant to put it up for a vote. But I can't help myself, so I'm asking you. What do you think about the Halloween drag effect? Frightening, festive, or unwitting cultural criticism? Happy Halloween!
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Aw, I wish I agreed, but
Aw, I wish I agreed, but I've seen too many straight guys pretending to be "gay for" their mates in that nudge-nudge-wink-wink-I-can-only-say-these-suggestive-things-to-you-because-I'm-soooooo-damn-straight way, that I can't see much in the way of critique just cuz a bunch of 'em go putting on women's clothes. I see them enjoying *something* absurd about the performance of gender here, but I strongly suspect what's sticking out as entertainingly absurd to them is not their own performance of masculinity, but the horrendously funny idea of them getting into the gear of the opposite gender when they identify so strongly with the very other end of the spectrum. To the extent that putting on a frock seems ridiculous to them, I reckon it just serves more strongly to bind them in identification with the gender they feel more comfortable performing.
although your comments are
although your comments are ideal, Page, i'm going to have to agree more with Rebecca, just from what i've seen in my own experiences. If a guy is dressing up as a woman, he alwyas has to be "ooh la la" hitting on their buddies, talking with lisps, being complete morons, mocking drag queens. Or even in some scenerios, take the completely wrong idea of what it means to be a girl- as if, by just slipping on a dress and heels they now know absolutely everything about us. Inflating their balloon breasts because they're not big enough, complaining that the heels are hard to walk in, that their eyeshadow is itching. I mean, its not even like every girl wears makeup and dresses and heels, or have giant balloon breasts for that matter. But those that do suck it up and deal with it, but by complaining about the discomfort- the guys are showing how manly they are in some twisted way, you know? That by complaining and whining about something hurting or being uncomftorable, they are proving and making a show that this is something they would never do, and are therefore, manly
I'm sorry if this is confusing to read-it's confusing to write- my brain is in dissaray. It's just, I can't help but always feel just a little bit insulted when i see the guys i do see in drag. I've never seen it from your point of view before, the breaking gender stereotypes by emphasising them, and i really admire that. But i also know that perspective is way beyond any of the highschool redneck boys I'm surrounded by each day. Whats weird, is that, for rednecks, they act kind of superior for not being racist, even though their parents are, but gay bashing is in complete full throttle in my school and it's driving me insane. That seemed related to this post somehow, i think i was just thinking of my school and gay issues within it while reading your post, and i responded to it in a way that was way off topic.
But, good article nonetheless, i'm emailing it to a friend :)
Not an answer but...
I've been mulling over this post since yesterday when it went up and I'm still no closer to an answer about what the deal is with duders dressing like women for Halloween. I've definitely seen it from a few angles, from the drunken mockery of frat guys who are "SO straight and masculine" it's just absurd humor, to some guys who actually seemed to enjoy the change for a night, to guys who have gone as one of their female friends (and vice versa).
What I find interesting, more than the reasons behind why the guys might be trying on a different form of gender performance (intention or no, that IS what they're doing), is the way in which it actually makes gender presentation on BOTH ends of the spectrum seem absolutely ridiculous. This is not to say that there is inherently anything wrong with these presentations, just that it makes it clear how much we're all wearing theatrical costumes so much of the time.
Like it or not, wasted duders have, Halloween after Halloween, 100% turned hetero-normativity on its head, making it seem just as absurd as any professional drag queen does.
So I say, thank you frat guys across the US. Thank you for making both hyper-masculinity AND hyper-femininity seem like a romp through a fever dream. You have given me that, at least.
Men pretending to be women
I've spent a fair amount of time around crossdresser, he/she, chick-on-a-stick, and find the mockery of women to be distasteful. I've often heard them say, "I'm better than a woman." They will spend hours playing in makeup and heels. And I have found that they are not nurturing, this is one of real woman's best quality.
The spirit of the dudebros dressing up isn't to enjoy playing with gender, but because OMGSOCRAZY to dress up as a woman. Just like people dress up as axe murderers and convicts (as well as a list of other "undesireable" things to be), Halloween for dudebros and other similarly minded people is about dressing up as the LAST thing you'd ever want to be in real life. And for dudebros, the last thing they'd ever want to be is either a man in drag or a woman.
Think about the converse, how many heterosexual cisgender women do you see dressing up in drag on Halloween? Generally no where near the same numbers.
Agree and Disagree
i agree and disagree. i think halloween does send up gender in important, potentially expandable ways. in this sense--sorry to cash in on my russian lit cache--it's a bakhtinian carnival. true, carnival inverts established hierarchies and norms, but only temporarily. in fact, carnival lets us let off the steam built up by such rigid systems, only so that we can return to them with renewed vigor once the holiday ends. all this said, i don't think we should give up the glimmer of gender utopia that halloween lets us glimpse. we should just think about how to make it last longer than a day.
On the bakhtinian carnival
Yes! That's it! The inversion of hierarchies, whether intentional or not, breeds enough dissonance to glimpse the way in which nothing is inherent.
As for the "chick-on-a-stick" comment, I think you mean "chick-with-a-stick" and I really wish I wasn't reading either one of those derogatory terms on a feminist site. And "he/she??" I can't even begin to address the disturbing connotations that begs. Being threatened by people skilled in performing the artifice of gender is another form of dissonance. It might be more productive to explore the vitriolic inner response than to spew hate speech.
I know it's not respectful or PC, but most of what comes out of the BU Frat Boy Type's mouth sounds like bullshit to me. How many times have you overheard conversations between these hypermasculine, hat-wearing, half-drunk college kids that bore you to tears? I hear it a lot, and what's more - they sound bored, too. And it's because what two hypermasculine guys can safely talk about is so limited. Caring is restricted to two or three issues (and I really am stereotyping here): sports, booze, and how she looks. Beyond that and you're running the risk of coming off faggy. So despite that these guys who dress up as girls do so, they say, or imply, to mock the ridiculousness that is women's dress, womanhood - I choose to believe it's a desperate bid for freedom the one day of the year they can get away with it.
Furthermore, my not-hypermasculine boyfriend looks ridiculously hot in Sweeney Todd makeup. I love Halloween.
If a guy is dressing up as a
If a guy is dressing up as a woman, he alwyas has to be "ooh la la" hitting on their buddies, talking with lisps, being complete morons, mocking drag queens. Or even in some scenerios, take the completely wrong idea of what it means to be a girl- as if, by just slipping on a dress and heels they now know absolutely everything about us. Inflating their balloon breasts because they're not big enough, complaining that the heels are hard to walk in, that their eyeshadow is itching. I mean, its not even like every girl wears makeup and dresses and heels, or have giant balloon breasts for that matter.
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July 30, 2015
DALLAS - A Dallas man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing a neighbor he invited over for Bible study but then stabbed her more than 30 times.
A judge in Dallas on Friday sentenced 23-year-old Randy Torres. Torres in May pleaded guilty to murder in the 2010 death of 55-year-old Cathy Wilder.
Investigators say Torres invited the woman to his mobile home on the premise of studying the Bible and praying, but then he attacked her. Police say Torres left a note on the victim's body that read "Satan's son."
His mother, Maria Vasquez, testified that Torres since his arrest and incarceration has been getting mental health treatment and taking medication.
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This pretty much sums it up (NSFW).
The Ozaukee Hockey League has
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and Spring/Summer competitive play. Through the course of a
year the league will host over 80 games and a playoff tournament.
OCHL attracts players from Ozaukee, Milwaukee, Washington and
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OCHL player members enjoy competitive play
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OCHL is a recreational, non-incorporated, non-profit
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This document provides guidelines for optimizing CSS code for use in the Mozilla UI.
The first section is a general discussion of how the Mozilla style system categorizes rules. The following sections contain guidelines for writing rules that take advantage of Mozilla's style system implementation.
How the style system breaks up rules
The style system breaks rules up into four primary categories:
- ID Rules
- Class Rules
- Tag Rules
- Universal Rules
It is critical to understand these categories, as they are the fundamental building blocks of rule matching.
I use the term key selector in the paragraphs that follow. The key selector is the last part of the selector (the part that matches the element being matched, rather than its ancestors).
For example, in the rule…
a img, div > p, h1 + [title] {…}
…the key selectors are
p, and
{{ mediawiki.external('title') }}.
ID Rules
The first category consists of those rules that have an
ID selector as their key selector.
button#backButton {…} /* This is an ID-categorized rule */ #urlBar[type="autocomplete"] {…} /* This is an ID-categorized rule */ treeitem > treerow > treecell#myCell:active {…} /* This is an ID-categorized rule */
Class Rules
If a rule has a
class specified as its key selector, then it falls into this category.
button.toolbarButton {…} /* A class-based rule */ .fancyText {…} /* A class-based rule */ menuitem > .menu-left[checked="true"] {…} /* A class-based rule */
Tag Rules
If no
class or
ID is specified as the key selector, the next candidate is the tag category. If a rule has a tag specified as its key selector, then the rule falls into this category.
td {…} /* A tag-based rule */ treeitem > treerow {…} /* A tag-based rule */ input[type="checkbox"] {…} /* A tag-based rule */
Universal Rules
All other rules fall into this category.
[hidden="true"] {…} /* A universal rule */ * {…} /* A universal rule */ tree > [collapsed="true"] {…} /* A universal rule */
How the Style System Matches Rules
The style system matches rules by starting with the key selector, then moving to the left (looking for any ancestors in the rule's selector). As long as the selector's subtree continues to check out, the style system continues moving to the left until it either matches the rule, or abandons because of a mismatch.
The most fundamental concept to learn is this rule filtering. The categories exist in order to filter out irrelevant rules (so the style system doesn't waste time trying to match them).
This is the key to dramatically increasing performance. The fewer rules required to check for a given element, the faster style resolution will be.
For example, if an element has an ID, then only ID rules that match the element's ID will be checked. Only Class Rules for a class found on the element will be checked. Only Tag Rules that match the tag will be checked. Universal Rules will always be checked.
Guidelines for Efficient CSS
Avoid Universal Rules
Make sure a rule doesn't end up in the universal category!
Don't qualify ID Rules with tag names or classes
If a rule has an ID selector as its key selector, don't add the tag name to the rule. Since IDs are unique, adding a tag name would slow down the matching process needlessly.
class of an element dynamically in order to apply different styles in different situations, but the same
class is going to be shared with other elements.
button#backButton {…}
.menu-left#newMenuIcon {…}
#backButton {…}
#newMenuIcon {…}
Don't qualify Class Rules with tag names
The previous concept also applies here. All class names are unique.
One convention you can use is to include the tag name in the class name. However, this may cost some flexibility; if design changes are made to the tag, the class names must be changed as well. (It's best to choose strictly semantic names, as such flexibility is one of the aims of separate stylesheets.)
treecell.indented {…}
.treecell-indented {…}
.hierarchy-deep {…}
Use the most specific category possible
The single biggest cause of slowdown is too many rules in the Tag Category. By adding
classes to our elements, we can further subdivide these rules into Class Categories, which eliminates time spent trying to match rules for a given tag.
treeitem{{ mediawiki.external('mailfolder=\"true\"') }} > treerow > treecell {…}
.treecell-mailfolder {…}
Avoid the descendant selector
The descendant selector is the most expensive selector in CSS. It is dreadfully expensive—especially if the selector is in the Tag or Universal Category.
Frequently, what is really desired is the child selector. Using the descendant selector is banned in User Interface CSS without the explicit approval of your skin's module owner.
treehead treerow treecell {…}
- BETTER, BUT STILL BAD (see next guideline)
treehead > treerow > treecell {…}
Tag Category rules should never contain a child selector
Avoid using the child selector with Tag Category rules. This will dramatically lengthen the match time (especially if the rule is likely to be matched) for all occurrences of that element.
treehead > treerow > treecell {…}
.treecell-header {…}
Question all usages of the child selector
Exercise caution when using the child selector. Avoid it if you can.
In particular, the child selector is frequently used with RDF trees and menus like so:
treeitem{{ mediawiki.external('IsImapServer=\"true\"') }} > treerow > .tree-folderpane-icon {…}
Remember that REF attributes can be duplicated in a template! Take advantage of this. Duplicate RDF properties on child XUL elements in order to change them based on the attribute.
.tree-folderpane-icon{{ mediawiki.external('IsImapServer=\"true\"') }} {…}
Rely on inheritance
Learn which properties inherit, and allow them to do so!
For example, XUL widgets are explicitly set up such that a parent's
list-style-image or
font rules will filter down to anonymous content. It's not necessary to waste time on rules that talk directly to anonymous content.
#bookmarkMenuItem > .menu-left { list-style-image: url(blah) }
#bookmarkMenuItem { list-style-image: url(blah) }
In the above example, the desire to style anonymous content (without leveraging the inheritance of
list-style-image) resulted in a rule that was in the Class Category, when the rule should have ended up in the ID Category—the most specific category of all!
Remember: Elements all have the same classes—especially anonymous content!
The above "bad" rule forces every menu's icons to be tested for containment within the bookmarks menu item. Since there are many menus, this is extraordinarily expensive. Instead, the "good" rule limits the testing to the bookmarks menu.
Putting a bunch of images into a single image file and selecting them with
{{ Cssxref("-moz-image-region") }} performs significantly better than putting each image into its own file.
Original Document Information
- Author: David Hyatt
- Last Updated Date: 2000-04-21
- Original Document URL: http://www.mozilla.org/xpfe/goodcss.html
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Gun Shop Where CT Shooter's Mom Bought 1 Of Her Guns Raided By ATF Allegedly Over Gun Thefts By Mentally Ill Man
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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Federal agents raided an eastern Connecticut gun shop on Thursday, the same gun shop that sold one of the weapons used by the Newtown elementary school shooter.
Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, assisted by police, moved in on Riverview Sales at 4 Prospect Hill Road in East Windsor at around 5:15 p.m., reported Len Besthoff of CBS 2 sister station WFSB in Hartford.
All indications are Thursday's raid was not directly related to the Newtown massacre investigation, but, as Besthoff reported, it was related to several other crimes committed at the store, including the recent theft of an AR-15 and the attempted theft of a .50-caliber long gun, both by a man with mental illness, Besthoff reported.
Police and ATF agents converged on the store and the plaza was later cordoned off by local cops, while the feds reportedly went through the store's inventory.
Another Day Of Anguish In Newtown
The motorcade of Attorney General Eric Holder left the Sandy Hook Fire Department on Thursday after he held a private meeting with first responders.
In Washington, President Barack Obama's task force on gun violence chaired by Vice President Joe Biden met for the first time.
"The president is absolutely committed to keeping his promise. We will act in a way that even as he says, 'even if we save one life,' we have taken action," the vice president said.


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Fernandez Receives Arts and Sciences Dean's Award
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The Dean's Scholarship Award is a college-wide scholarship open to students currently enrolled in or admitted to a degree-granting program in the College of Arts and Sciences who have demonstrated solid academic promise and leadership qualities. Recipients must have at least an overall 3.0 grade point average.
Timothy has worked in Jamil Saad's lab for three years and is a co-author on a JBC manuscript "Binding of calmodulin to the HIV-1 matrix protein triggers myristate exposure" and a review in Frontiers in Microbiology published last year. He will be recognized for this achievement at Honors Convocation on Tuesday, May 7th.


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Beard: New 'League' skewers 'Harry Potter'Written by Jim Beard | | email@example.com
In "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century: 2009," writer Alan Moore may be revealing what certain societal watchdog groups have espoused all along – Harry Potter is the Antichrist. Moore's long-running series brings together characters from literature and pop culture and the newest volume, out now, brings the story to present day and serves up a few sacred cows, namely J.K. Rowling's famous boy-wizard.
In the last LOEG volume, we saw — spoiler alert — the League disband in 1969 and leader Mina Murray stuffed away in a loony bin. In "2009," the world's slipped further into turmoil and, with no League to defend it, become prime real estate for the prophesized Antichrist to set up shop. Moore, along with artist Kevin O'Neill, has filled his infamous series with boatloads of references to other works of fiction in many media, but this new installment marks a unique time when he'll have to be extra-careful to avoid copyright and trademark infringements. Don't expect any mentions of "Harry" or "Potter."
What you may expect is some topical references, most especially a certain war that opens up "2009," set in the fictional Mid-East country of "Q'umar." Moore has claimed that he doesn't really keep up with modern pop culture, so it will be of great interest to see how this new book continues his fine and often acid-tongued skewering of cultural icons. Past chapters have mostly centered on Victorian and Edwardian references; the previous "1969" revealed how our eternal League heroes fit in with more psychedelic times.
The "League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" comics have grown increasingly dense since their 1998 inception, even to those readers who've followed right along with each new volume. It's difficult to wholeheartedly recommend them to newbies, but if a prospective reader enjoys a good read that doesn't involve superheroes, then this may be for them. If anything, they might even follow lines of sight back to their original literary and cultural foundations.
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ELIZABETHTON — A woman was arrested over the weekend on a charge of using a debit card that did not belong to her.
Geane Mae Honeycutt, 55, 1346 Broad St., Apt. 2, was charged with fraudulent use of a credit/debit card. She is scheduled to answer the charge in Sessions Court on March 12.
The arrest came after Investigator Todd Hamm of the Carter County Sheriff's Department took a complaint from Patsy Clark that someone had used her card at the Sunoco Convenience Store at 525 Highway 91. Hamm said video from the store's security camera revealed that Honeycutt was the unauthorized person using the card.


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INK JET NOZZLE Filed NOV. 9, 1964 \8 113a! SOURCE 6 OF osuLLAnoNg ELECTRO- MECHAMCAL \NK TRANSDUCER 24 UNDER VlDEO PREssuRE 5\6NAL SOURCE FHZLD PQTENTlAL 5OURCE \NK uNDER 48 PRESSURE H \(pH FREQUENCY SOURCE //v VENTORS A O/MAN A, ADA/v15 V/A/CE/VT 5 B /s C/vOF/ A 77'ORNE Y United States Patent 3,281,860 INK JET NOZZLE Roman A. Adams, Skokie, and Vincent E. Bischoif, Wheaton, IIL, assignors to A. B. Dick Company, Chicago, 111., a corporation of Illinois Filed Nov. 9, 1964, Ser. No. 409,831 3 Claims. (Cl. 34675) This invention relates to apparatus for producing the information represented by video signals, using ink drops deposited on a writing medium, and more particularly to improvements therein.
Apparatus has been developed for making a record on a writing medium of the information represented by video signals, by generating a stream of ink drops, directing these ink drops toward a writing medium and then deflecting these ink drops using video signals, in a manner so that when the ink drops do reach the writing medium, they represent the information contained in the video signals. The apparatus which is employed for producing the ink drops consists of an ink reservoir in which there is ink under pressure. The ink reservoir feeds a pipe which is connected to a nozzle. An electromechanical transducer is employed to vibrate the nozzle at some suitable high frequency. The ink accordingly is ejected from the nozzle in a stream which shortly thereafter breaks into individual drops.
Because these drops are to be charged and thereafter deflected by electrical signals, it is desirable to make these drops have as uniform a size as possible. It is also desirable to form these drops with a close spacing, since the closer the spacing, the better the resolution which can be obtained. Also, it is desirable to form the drops into a small size so that the amplitude of the signals required to deflect these drops should not be excessive. A number of different constructions have been proposed for forming the ink drops such as a drawn glass tube which is vibrated by an external transducer, or a metal tube vibrated by some form of external transducer, or a magnetostrictive metal tube which is magnetostrictively vibrated. One of the problems With the foregoing types of transducers is that the range of frequencies over which they can be used is limited. Further, the power required to drive or vibrate the transducer is significant. This, therefore, requires a more costly high frequency current drive source than would be required with the present invention. Also, an electrolysis of the metal parts occurs as a result of a potential being applied across the ink and the metal tube which deteriorates the metal rather rapidly.
An object of this invention is to provide a novel and inexpensive construction for apparatus for forming a stream of ink drops.
Another object of the present invention is to provide a construction for an ink drop forming structure in which the effects of electrolysis are minimized.
Yet another object of the present invention is to provide a construction for an ink drop forming structure which can operate over a relatively wide range of frequencies.
Still another object of the present invention is the construction of a novel ink drop forming apparatus requiring a very small amount of driving power.
These and other objects of the invention may be achieved by forming the ink drop apparatus employing a piezoelectric crystal having a hole drilled therethrough. A metal tube is inserted in the hole and soldered to the piezoelectric crystal to form a permanent waterproof attachment therewith. The crystal and tube have one common end, and the tube extends from the other end of the crystal. An orifice Washer is attached to the common end of the tube and crystal. The orifice Washer merely comprises a metal washer having a very small opening therethrough through which the ink is emitted under pressure. The driving electrical energy is applied to a contact on the outside surface of the metal tubing and to a contact on the outside surface of the piezoelectric crystal. The tubing applies the potential to the inside surface of the piezoelectric crystal. The assembly is then hermetically sealed.
The novel features that are considered characteristic of this invention are set forth with particularity in the appended claims. The invention itself both as to its organization and method of operation, as well as additional objects and advantages thereof, will best be understood from the following description when read in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIGURE 1 is a schematic drawing of an arrangement for an ink drop recording system in accordance with the prior art; and
FIGURE 2 illustrates ink drop forming apparatus in accordance with this invention.
In order to afford a better understanding of this invention, a schematic drawing of an ink drop recording apparatus, in accordance with the prior art, is shown in FIGURE 1. This apparatus comprises an ink reservoir 10 which contains ink under pressure. Tubing 12 is connected to the ink reservoir 10 and terminates in a nozzle 14. An electromechanical transducer 16 vibrates the tubing and the nozzle in response to the output of the source of oscillations 18. The source of oscillations may be an oscillator having a frequency which may vary from 5 kc. to kc.
The electromechanical transducer 16 is vibrated substantially at the frequency of the source of oscillations causing the tubing and nozzle to vibrate whereby the ink stream 20 soon breaks down into ink drops 22. A video signal source 24 which is synchronized by the source of oscillations is connected between the nozzle and the charging cylinder 26. As a result, each of the ink drops, which should be of substantially the same mass, receives a charge, the amplitude of which is determined by the amplitude of the video signal applied from the source 24 and the charging ring 26.
The charged ink drops, after passing through the charging ring, pass into a static electric field which is established between two plates respectively 30, 32 which are connected to a field potential source 34. As a result of the action between the field and the charge on each drop, the drops are deflected from their center line path between the plates in accordance with the charge which they carry. Thus, when they fall finally on a writing medium 36 which is moving past the plates, a mark occurs on the writing medium in ink representative of the information in the video signals.
It should be appreciated from the foregoing brief description of the prior art, that the drop spacing should be uniform, the size of the drops should be small and the spacing between the drops should be close.
In FIGURE 2, there is shown an arrangement in accordance with this invention of drop forming apparatus. FIGURE 2 is a cross-section of an embodiment of the invention. It comprises a piezoelectric crystal 40 which has a hole drilled therethrough for the insertion therein of metal tubing 42. The end of the metal tube and of the piezoelectric crystal are made to coincide. The tubing and the piezoelectric crystal are soldered together to form a permanent waterproof attachment. The coincident ends of the crystal and the tubing are covered with a washer 44 which is termed an orifice washer. This washer has an opening 46 drilled therethrough through which the ink is emitted under pressure. The source of oscillations 18 is connected between the outside of the metal tubing 42 and the outside of the piezoelectric crystal 3 p 40. The end of the tubing which is not covered by th orifice washer is attached to a flexible tubing 48 which connects to the ink reservoir 10. The assembly may then be hermetically sealed.
The piezoelectric crystal excites the tubing enough to break up the steady liquid flow of ink which is emitted from the orifice, into discrete droplets at a wide range of frequencies below the units resonant frequency. The hermetic sealing operates to protect against electrolysis.
It has been found that a very small amount of power is required to drive the apparatus. The resulting apparatus may be made very small. It may easily be duplicated using machine-made parts. The construction is such that hermetic sealing can be employed which protects against electrolysis and atmospheric conditions. The apparatus has the further advantage that in view of the frequency range made possible by the direct insertion of the tubing within the driving crystal, higher frequencies of drop formation are made possible. The drop spacing furthermore is reduced to two-drop diameters which improves the printing performance. Finally, it has been found, from the operation of an embodiment ofthe invention which was built, that much smaller drops result from this apparatus than were thought possible from the relatively large orifice size of the washer. As a result, the size of the orifice can be made larger than thought necessary resulting in the reduction of pressurerequirements and minimizing the possibility of the clogging of the orifice.
There has accordingly been described and shown herein a novel and useful ink drop forming apparatus.
What is claimed is:
1. An ink drop forming apparatus comprising an electromechanical transducer having an opening therethrough, hollow metal tubing positioned within said opening and extending therefrom, said metal tubing and transducer having one of their ends coextensive, means attaching said tubing and transducer to one another, a washer having an opening therein, means attaching said washer to said 5 coextensive ends of said metal tubing and transducer, and means for applying excitation between the inner and outer surfaces of said electromechanical transducer.
2. An ink drop forming mechanism according to claim 1 wherein said electromechanical transducer is a cylindrically-shaped piezoelectric crystal.
3. Apparatus for forming drops of ink at a predetermined frequency comprising a cylindrical piezoelectric crystal having a holethrough the center thereof, a cylindrical metal tubing extending into said hole and having one end thereof coextensive with one end of said cylindrical piezoelectric crystal, solder means fastening said crystal and tubing together, a metal washer having a central opening, means attaching said metal washer to said crystal and tubing at the coextensive ends thereof, and means for applying excitation to said crystal including a first terminal means on the outside surface of said crystal and a second terminal means on the outside wall of said tubing.
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It's pretty easy to see that not everyone will switch their main (I don't ever foresee leaving my main, although I do plan to level a Death Knight as an alt), but even if people just roll them to check it out, it reminds me a lot of the Star Wars Galaxies "new game enhancements" where they made Jedi a playable class. If you can roll a Jedi as a class, why would you roll anything else?
Of course, we could give Blizzard the benefit of the doubt here-- they haven't revealed much at all about the game's first Hero Class, so maybe it'll be so hard to get one that they really will be very rare, or they'll only be allowed in certain areas (so you won't see a pack of Death Knights swarming around the mailbox in Stormwind). We already know that they'll start at a higher level, so the good news is that you won't see Elwynn Forest flooded with a bunch of level 1 Death Knights. But as for other ways to keep what is supposed to be a special class special, we'll have to see what Blizzard comes up with.


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There are other concerns in cooking besides protein, do you have information about stuff like damage to vitamins or antioxidant compounds? This might be more of a concern with plants than meat, I'm not sure.
Rancidity is one issue that comes to mind, like why it's okay to cook saturated fats or even monounsaturated like olive oil, but to avoid cooking polys like flax since they go rancid under heat easier, something like that.
Which brings to mind the question: there's this big hard-on for grass-fed beef because it's apparently higher in omega 3 than corn-fed beef or something like that. But if we're going to be cooking the meat, is having polyunsaturated animal fat necessarily a good thing? I could understand if we were eating the meat raw, but perhaps if we're going to be cooking the meat, we should have the saturated corn fat and just cut as much of it off as possible.
I mean seriously, no matter how Omega3 grassy beef is, surely we'd be better off relying on uncooked sources, like cold-pressed flax or fish oils.
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WORCESTER, Mass. – The College of the Holy Cross has named Cameron Parker as its new assistant equipment manager, as announced by athletic director Richard M. Regan, Jr. Parker will work with the hockey and lacrosse teams as well as assist in the equipment needs for all 27 of Holy Cross' varsity athletic teams. He will handle the hockey equipment needs with Bauer and lacrosse equipment requests with Maverik.
Parker is a recent graduate from Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, N.H. where he spent three years working as the men's ice hockey team equipment manager. He handled all game management requirements for both home and away contests including NCAA hockey paperwork during the games. Additionally, Parker has spent the past four years serving as supervisor for the Southern New Hampshire University athletic department handling equipment for numerous Division-II athletic programs. His responsibilities included assisting with the maintenance of the athletic fields, event set-up and breakdown, completing vendor requirements and overseeing audio visual tasks such as music and video for games.
Parker has also worked with the New Hampshire FisherCats, the AA affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays, where he assisted in stadium operations, promotions, merchandising, field maintenance and group sales. His involvement with the FisherCats included the 2011 Eastern League All-Star Game where he worked directly with the players, coaches and front office staff from all the participating organizations. During his senior year at Southern New Hampshire, Parker also served as a customer relations intern for the Detroit Tigers during their spring training in Florida, assisting in game promotions and other tasks at the ballpark.
A 2012 graduate of Southern New Hampshire University, Parker graduated with a bachelor's degree in sport management along with a minor in sport and special event management.