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Exhibitions are on-going throughout the festival. Please check the Exhibition listings.
The Parsons Dean of the School of Constructed Environments, along with and Program Directors of the Senior Parsons and The New School Directors, will host an Open House Studio Showcase of New Works as part of the Parsons Festival and in conjunction with the run of ICFF show at the Jacob Javits Center. Those invited include members of the press and broadcast, industry supporters, friends and colleagues, and prospective employers and international business owners. Images of works in the showcase will be available on a DVD that will be handed out to representatives of the Press. Coffee and pastry will be served. This event is a part of the Parsons Festival 2011.
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Algae - This site has a lot of information on all aspects of seaweeds and marine algal biology. Information on all aspects of seaweeds and marine algae is included under "Teaching". This includes some very simple information on the basic kinds of marine algae and some material on algae in general.
Caribbean Conservation Institute - The Caribbean Conservation Corporation (CCC) is a not-for-profit, 501(c)3 organization based in Florida with offices and projects in several other locations. CCC is the oldest and most accomplished sea turtle organization in the world! Since its founding in 1959, CCC's work has greatly improved the survival outlook for several species of sea turtles. CCC is a world-renowned leader in sea turtle research and conservation; we thank you for joining us in our efforts!
CSIRO Maribe Research - CSIRO Marine Research has invested in top class facilities and technology to support its marine science research activities. We also maintain collections for reference and research for use by Australian and international science communities.
Microbes.Info: Gateway to Microbes on the Web - Microbes.info is an internet web site designed to bring useful and interesting microbiology informational resources to you. With literally billions of web pages out there in cyberspace, searching effectively and efficiently for any information is becoming increasingly difficult. Finding accurate and specific information on microbiology topics is much like "looking for a needle in a haystack". This web site attempts to reduce the clutter and the size of the haystack in an effort to help you filter through the information in an organized manner
- Animal Aquafacts: Information about Lots of Marine Animals - A vast and diverse world exists in the ocean. Countless species of animals call it their home, and their homes can reach from hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor to the salt marshes of the coasts. Read on to find out about many different types of marine life and ocean habitats. While you're here, spend some time to see how we do what we do here.
Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans - the Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO) is a research consortium involving several dozen marine scientists from four universities along the U.S. West Coast. The overall scientific program is directed by the eight principal investigators.
- Marine Algae Database: Pictures and Information on West Coast Marine Algae
- Marine Invertebrate Database: Pictures and Information on West Coast Marine Invertebrates
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center - The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center is a global leader in the study of ecosystems in the coastal zone, where land and water meet and where human populations and their impacts are most concentrated
Three Domains of Life - Until comparatively recently, living organisms were divided into two kingdoms: animal and vegetable, or the Animalia and the Plantae. In the 19th century, evidence began to accumulate that these were insufficient to express the diversity of life, and various schemes were proposed with three, four, or more kingdoms. The scheme most often used currently divides all living organisms into five kingdoms: Monera (bacteria), Protista, Fungi, Plantae, and Animalia. This coexisted with a scheme dividing life into two main divisions: the Prokaryotae (bacteria, etc.) and the Eukaryotae (animals, plants, fungi, and protists).
- Eukaryota
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Tree of Life - The Tree of Life is a collaborative web project, produced by biologists from around the world. On more than 2600 World Wide Web pages, the Tree of Life provides information about the diversity of organisms on Earth, their history, and characteristics.
Turtle Maps - The Marine Turtle Interactive Mapping System (or Marine Turtle IMapS) provides user-friendly, public access to reliable and current information on marine turtles.
University of California Santa Barbara, Biological Sciences
- Bioluminescence Web Page - Reliable information on marine bioluminescence is widely scattered in the literature and in unpublished data. While this is merely an inconvenience to the relatively small core of investigators actively working in the discipline, there is a much larger group of life scientists, oceanographers and applied marine scientists who frequently come upon problems involving bioluminescence and who might have little awareness of the availability and reliability of information on the subject.
Whales - interactive educational web site which focuses on whales and marine research.
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Actor James Gandolfini dies in Italy at age 51
LOS ANGELES – James Gandolfini, whose portrayal of a brutal, emotionally delicate mob boss in HBO's "The Sopranos" helped create one of TV's greatest drama series and turned the mobster stereotype on its head, died Wednesday in Italy. He was 51.
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New decade, new rules, huh? Not exactly. Pop quiz: what would a "Scream" movie be without its movie in-jokes, exactly? Hmm, perhaps an original film? A Canadian trailer for the Weinstein Company's desperate franchise cash-in has arrived and get it while it's hot because the studio keeps taking down various trailers on YouTube only for them to spring up again five minutes later. They should probably realize the wildfire has spread and it's best to just release an official version already.
As we already articulated in our Leftover Question Marks Of 2011 - Can These Films Possibly Be Any Good? feature (part one), TWC got into financial dire straits in 2008/2009, had to go looking for lenders, and almost went bankrupt etc. During that time the company said to itself, "what bonafide turn-a-buck moneymakers do we own, now that we don't have the rights to Miramax films"? (and yes, now that Miramax and TWC are back under the same umbrella, they asked themselves this again and scooped up rights to further potential franchises like "Clerks" among others). So during that period of financial unease, TWC decided to dust off the "Spy Kids" and "Scream" franchises, and then enticed back director Wes Craven and original screenwriter Kevin Williamson who pretty much hasn't written a thing of value since the original meta, in-jokey "Scream" film.
Williamson walked sometime before production started and was replaced with "Scream 3" writer Ehren Kruger. Since this new trailer basically reads like "Scream: The Neverending Sitcom" replete with the now-predictable, eye-rolling premium on self-referential-ness, we assume and hope Williamson bailed because he actually wanted to -- once again -- rejuvenate the horror genre, rather than just stick to the formula. But franchises don't reinvent (sorry "new rules'). TWC knows that audiences, if they care at all, want a McScream Big Mac, so this is why the trailer offers absolutely nothing new other than some fresh faces to be killed off. Frankly, the fanboy fascination with this film is a little disappointing, even by their low standards.
The original cast is back: David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox— plus the fresh meat Anna Paquin and Kristen Bell (early photos already give away the two as the "surprise kills" off the bat - yet another cliche in the "Scream" series) and more newcomers like Emma Roberts, Hayden Panettiere, Rory Culkin, Marley Shelton, Adam Brody, Anthony Anderson and Alison Brie. Sure "Scream 4" has been modernized somewhat: it's 10 years later, there's YouTube-y/found-footage being used because "Paranormal Activity" is hot, but it's almost insulting how little Wes Craven, Dimension Films and the producers think of our collective need for something remotely fresh at the cinema.
In fact, they're banking on us all being as lazy as possible and coming back for one more film because we can -- just like the reason a dog licks its balls. This terrifically banal, boring and on-the-nose trailer suggests, if you've seen "Scream 1-3," desire absolutely nothing new in your life and/or you like tossing away your money, then this is the movie for you. "Scream 4," or "Scre4m" if you will, is set to arrive just fourteen days after April Fool's Day and if it does well, it hopes to launch another new franchise. Won't it be fun watching Sidney Prescott being terrorized by a bunch of psychotic teenagers in masks when she's in her '60s? Keeping this series chugging along is going to need logic as inventive as that found in a 20-year-running soap opera. Don't say we didn't warn you.


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The Republican "News" Channel's Bill Kristol made a rare appearance on MSNBC this morning on Morning Joe. He was promoting a collection of essays written by his father, Irving, the New York intellectual who is credited with fathering neoconservatism.
Kristol was asked, of course, about his recent editorial, which criticized Glenn Beck for his "rants about the caliphate." Kristol didn't exactly take the bait and go after Beck:
I'm not gonna get in a debate with Glenn Beck here on MSNBC. I'll debate him on Fox where we're "fair and balanced," where we have these debates among ourselves.
Ha. Don't put too much money on that debate materializing.
But Kristol did make some slight news regarding Sarah Palin, for whom he lobbied hard to make her not only the GOP vice presidential candidate in 2008, but, God help us, the Vice President of the United States. Willie Geist asked Kristol if he overestimated Palin and if she was still "fit to be a national Republican leader":
KRISTOL: Well, I think she's still "fit" to be a national Republican leader. One thing I've never liked is a bunch of people like me telling everyone who's fit to do what. If she wants to run she's more that entitled to run. She's earned the right, I think, to put herself before the voters…I have quite a lot of confidence in Republican voters to take a look at these ten or twelve or fifteen people who will be on the stage in debate after debate…and I think we'll learn a lot as we go through that…I have a high regard for Sarah Palin, but I will say I've been a little disappointed since she resigned as governor. I thought she had a real chance to take the lead on a few policy issues, to do a little more in terms of framing the policy agenda. I don't think she's particularly done that, but she's a shrewd woman and I certainly wouldn't underestimate her.
GEIST: Has she lived up to the potential you saw in her in Alaska?
KRISTOL: Maybe not quite. But she's young and she could do it in this campaign or she could do it four or eight years from now.
That, my friends, is the way it is on the intellectual Right these days.
Given a chance to thoroughly discredit Glenn Beck, who is clearly a citizen of a very strange and dark land, Bill Kristol punted.
Given a chance to say what nearly all right-wing brains will admit after several glasses of Boehner-approved Merlot—that Palin is in over her head and will never become President of the United States—Kristol says he is "a little disappointed," but she is a "shrewd woman," who could still live up to her potential.
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The Forgotten Frontier
Can Gravity rekindle our love of space-based storytelling?
On Aug. 25, I noticed a smattering of social-media elegies for Neil Armstrong. Mournful moonwalk jokes. Heartfelt hashtags. The only problem was that Armstrong has already been dead a year. Posts commemorating the first anniversary of his passing had been misconstrued as breaking news. This cultural blind spot brought to mind Tom Wolfe's biting New York Times editorial "One Giant Leap to Nowhere" from 2009, in which he lamented NASA's diminished status in our daily lives: "If anyone had told me in July 1969 that the sound of Neil Armstrong's small step plus mankind's big one was the shuffle of pallbearers at graveside, I would have averted my eyes and shaken my head in pity. Poor guy's bucket's got a hole in it." House Republicans seem eager to let that bucket continue to drain, having barely mentioned the defunding of NASA among the casualties of their government shutdown.
I don't believe all Americans are completely disengaged from the space program, but we've clearly reached a point where the next giant leap most readers are likely to take is checking out a frog photobombing a NASA launch. (That picture is nuts.) Before taking a licking, Kepler, NASA's planet-hunting spacecraft, discovered potentially habitable planets in the "Goldilocks" zone, and yet somehow a report on floating clouds of dead skin trapped inside the International Space Station is just as mesmerizing. And as new data pours in from Mars—or at least did before the Curiosity rover was furloughed—are we more concerned that Curiosity has failed to find methane (indicating no signs of life), succeeded in finding traces of water (possible life?), or that one of its flight directors has a photogenic Mohawk? Maybe it's us who need lives.
The state of serious sci-fi cinema has lately been just as suspect. We've drifted far from H.G. Wells, HAL-9000, and John Glenn swatting fireflies in The Right Stuff. Where are the heavyweight productions that awaken audiences to the infinite possibilities of space? One where special effects hit our subconscious, not just our wallets for premium tickets?
After a considerable drought, the gifted director Alfonso Cuarón, reunited with Emmanuel Lubezki, arguably the best cinematographer at work anywhere in the world today, has finally provided audiences with a complex character study disguised as a traditional shipwreck thriller. Gravity hits theaters this week, riding a comet tail of critical praise and festival raves. James Cameron declared it the "best space film ever done" and commended its human dimension and technical mastery in equal measure. The film opens with a stunning, unbroken shot of a routine spacewalk—or extra-vehicular activity (EVA)—before a swarm of debris cuts everything in its path to ribbons. To make matters worse, because our protagonists are trapped in orbit, the swarm is constantly coming back around the bend—a sunrise with teeth. I won't spoil any plot points here, but needless to say, the special effects and performances are sensational, and the pace is relentless.
Storytellers have been fascinated with what could go wrong in space long before mankind had the technology to even leave the atmosphere, and we've arrived at a moment where cinematic tools have finally caught up to our imaginations. What Cuarón offers is a sense of grace and psychological depth that makes him, in my view, the first 21st century commercial filmmaker to stand alongside the visionaries of the printed word like Stanislaw Lem or Ray Bradbury. The moment the Gravity teaser trailer splashed across the Internet, several commenters were reminded of the classic Bradbury short story "Kaleidoscope," published in 1949, in which a rocket splits apart and the crewmates scatter into the dark sea like a "dozen wriggling silverfish" until the poetic climax of the story, when a small farm boy in Illinois mistakes one of the bodies re-entering the atmosphere for a falling star.
While Bradbury contemplated the boundless terror of spiraling helplessly through the darkness, few films have been able to truly enter the minds of those in peril. Before Gravity eclipsed it, Europa Report, an ambitious "found footage" film released earlier this year, was perhaps as close as it got. An astronaut whose suit is contaminated during a spacewalk is forbidden re-entry and must abandon ship, using the extra me-time to sign off to his crew and family back on Earth. The camera affixed inside his helmet catches his final gasps in a serious case of personal-space invasion. The scene feels eerily authentic, thanks to the performance of Sharlto Copley, last seen 3-D–printing his own face in Elysium.
The beleaguered protagonists in Gravity occasionally use humor as a coping mechanism—a wise choice by Cuarón, to provide the exhausted audience a few scavenged moments to recalibrate. The tactic is wielded most expertly by Matt Kowalski (George Clooney), whose cowboy bravado and occasional zingers help calm his less qualified compatriot, Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock), through the madness. During these pockets of levity, I was reminded of the strain of dark humor that courses through other depictions of space tragedies. In Dark Star, for example, John Carpenter played a deadly spacewalk for laughs, when the stranded (and aptly named) Lt. Doolittle surfs a hunk of space debris to the tune of "Benson, Arizona" before being bug-zapped by a mystery planet's atmosphere. Other times, the laughter is unintentional, as with the cosmically corny Destination Moon (1950) and its whiz-bang dialogue. "Wow!" says an upturned spacewalker, gazing down at Earth. "Geography books are right!"
Clooney's Kowalski may also have the most refined reality-distortion field ever depicted in cinema. If the sight of the International Space Station suffering more dents than the shark tank in Jaws doesn't faze you, nothing will. But is it possible this sense of calm and composure has shades of truth, and isn't simply a caricature?
To find out more about the mentality of spacewalkers, I arranged to meet with retired NASA astronaut Story Musgrave, a veteran of six spaceflights and a designer of the spacesuits and life support systems used on spacewalks. Musgrave was a spacewalker on Challenger's maiden voyage, as well as the first mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. A Florida resident and proud Kentuckian, he spends a week each month at Applied Minds, a research facility known as the "little Big Idea company," located in the industrial outskirts of Glendale, Calif.


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Low-key lighting: how to shut out ambient light and plunge into shadows
Using low-key lighting for portraits and still life photography can be one of the most effective photo effects you can use for creating a moody image.
In this low-key lighting tutorial we'll show you how to use a single flashgun to light your subjects for truly atmospheric images.
Low-key lighting makes the most of dark tones and shadows to create images with drama and atmosphere.
Unlike high-key photography, which requires plenty of natural or artificial light, a low-key lighting shoot requires very little.
The backdrop needs to be mostly hidden in the shadows, while particular features on the subject are illuminated to make them stand out.
This means that when you're shooting low-key portraits you don't need much in the way of lighting kit – a single flashgun mounted off-camera will be adequate.
SEE MORE: How to buy a flashgun – the most important features every photographer should have
Some DSLRs have an integrated transmitter, which enables you to fire a compatible external flash via the camera's pop-up flash.
If your camera doesn't have this feature you'll need a wireless flash trigger, which is mounted on your camera's hotshoe.
For this technique the ambient lighting needs to be as low as possible, so shooting indoors is ideal.
You want to eliminate as much of the ambient light as possible, which you can do by narrowing your aperture; a fast shutter speed would achieve the same effect, but on cameras the top flash sync speed is either 1/200 or 1/250 sec.
When you expose for the ambient light you don't need to worry about underexposing your subject, as the flash will illuminate them – you can simply adjust the flash power as required to expose them correctly.
How to set up your camera for low-key lighting: steps 1-4
01 Location
A large and spacious room is ideal for this shoot. It doesn't need to have good natural light – the darker the better in fact – and you don't need to worry about cluttered backdrops, as only your subject should be visible when you exclude the ambient light.
SEE MORE: Master your home photo studio: settings, setup, accessories explained
02 Get set up
For this shoot a standard zoom lens will give you plenty of versatility. You don't need a 'fast' portrait lens with a wide maximum aperture, as we'll be using flash to light our model rather than relying on natural light.
As we'll be shooting with an external flashgun you'll need a light stand or tripod to place it on, using the mount supplied with the flashgun.
03 Camera settings
We want to eliminate as much of the ambient light as possible, so forget about exposing for your subject for the time being.
Set a low ISO of 100 to retain maximum quality for smooth, noise-free shadows, and set your shutter speed to the maximum flash sync speed, which is 1/200 sec (1/250 sec on higher-end EOS cameras). Start with a wide aperture value, such as f/5.6, and take a test shot.
SEE MORE: The best camera settings for perfect portrait photography
04 Narrow the aperture
If the scene is still fairly light, dial in a narrower aperture and take another test shot, and repeat until you've eliminated all the ambient light and the whole scene appears dark.
You can use the histogram to help you; ideally there should be just a few lines of pixels clipped at the left-hand edge of the graph to indicate a heavily underexposed scene.
Expert tip
If you plan to convert your portrait to mono as we have, it's a good idea to select your DSLR's Monochrome picture style to give you a better idea of how the image look in black and white; this will also help you to judge how much light your subject needs, and where the shadows will fall.
Make sure you're shooting in the Raw quality mode though, so that the mono style isn't applied to your image when you open it in Elements; you can then use the colour information in the image to apply a custom mono conversion.
PAGE 1: How to set up your camera for low-key lighting: steps 1-4
PAGE 2: How to set up your camera for low-key lighting: steps 5-8
PAGE 3: How to edit portraits with low-key lighting
How to abuse your raw files to create stunning high-key portraits
10 common portrait photography mistakes every photographer makes (and how to fix them)
14 portrait photography tips you'll never want to forget
17 posing tips and in-camera slimming tricks for shooting curvy models
Flash photography tips: external flash techniques anyone can understand


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The Cinema of Jim Jarmusch
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Université d'Artois, Arras, FRANCE
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Call for papers
International conference in French & English
The Cinema of Jim Jarmusch
8-9 April 2015, University of Artois, Arras (Pas-de-Calais), France
Organizer : Esther Heboyan
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From Stranger Than Paradise (1984) to Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) Jim Jarmusch's experimental work occupies a unique place in American and international postmodern cinema.
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genres, anti-genres
Please submit abstracts of 200 words and short bios to Esther Heboyan email@example.com by 1 September 2014. Contributors will be contacted by 30 September 2014. The international conference will result in publications through Artois Presses Université / « Cinémas » series. Papers will be peer-reviewed. The deadline for submitting the papers will be 31 May 2015.
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Engineer David Forbes Creates a LED Television You Can Wear as a Shirt
Posted By Amanda Coen On January 4, 2012 @ 5:46 pm In Green Technology,Innovation,Wearable Technology | 1 Comment
Have you ever imagined that one day you'd be able to watch TV [1] shows on your t-shirt? Engineer David Forbes didn't see any reason why not. In 2009 he created his first prototype for a wearable LED [2] television, and he just unveiled the final design! Scaled down from his initial 50-pound model, the finished version weighs only eight pounds and boasts a 160-by-120-pixel display.
Forbes, an electrical engineer, raised concern in the Tuscon, Arizona airport last year when he entered with 160 circuit boards [3] and a plethora of electronics strapped to his body. Authorities quickly relaxed when he showed them an episode of The Simpsons and explained the device.
Forbes first version was a cumbersome LED [4], all-red screen that he soon decided to revise. Using a surplus of old LEDs and flexible circuit boards he had collected, he created a model with 30 rows of four LEDs each and sent it off to production for 175 more.
How does it all work? A vest provides the basic structure to support an iPod, two lightweight, inexpensive lithium-polymer batteries and four circuit boards. A circuit board located at the left shoulder contains a digitizing chip that converts the iPod video to a resolution that conforms with the display. Ethernet-like cables transmit the information from the iPOD to the four screens [5]. The four boards, one on each shoulder and hip, make up the full screen. Ribbon cables transmit the signals to the three miniature chips on each of the flexible circuit boards located on the chest and back. Chips in each of the circuit boards then turn the LEDs on and off 360 times a second to produce what we see as television.
The batteries [6] can power the television for one to one and a half hours. Forbes initially thought of attaching small speakers to the shoulders of the coat but with plans to showcase his invention at Burning Man, he decided he would need to produce more noise. Using one of his previous inventions- a six-inch-diameter drain pipe and outdoor marine speakers- he wired it to the coat to be able to make a scene at Burning Man. We will be waiting to see if he gets any security after him in the Nevada Desert!
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Finding Meaning in Political Cartoons
Tags: Historic Images New Technologies, political cartoons
We may have wrapped up the William Still Digital History Project (for now), but we're still up to our elbows in digital history work here at HSP.
Our Historic Images, New Technologies (HINT) project is developing new tools for managing and describing graphics materials. You can read more details about the project here, and keep an eye out for more blog posts about our progress in the coming weeks and months.
But forget about the "technology" part for a minute. Let's talk about what we'll be using to demonstrate that technology: political cartoons!
These cartoons are complicated graphic items, challenging viewers to decode meaning not only from the cartoon's caption or dialog text, but also through its imagery, symbolism and allegory.
Sometimes, the general gist of an old cartoon is still fairly clear to modern viewers, as with this commentary on Abraham Lincoln and slavery:
"Lincoln's Last Warning," from Harper's Weekly, October 11, 1862. (HSP Cartoons and Caricatures collection, #3133).
Other cartoons are more obscure, referencing events and people that modern viewers don't recognize.
For the next year or so, we'll be working on a new digital history exhibit that will help to illuminate some of these obscurities.
We'll be selecting approximately 500 political cartoons from HSP's collections to help show off the new technology we're developing in the HINT project, and we'll be creating additional contextual materials to help users better understand the cartoons and help educators incorporate them into the classroom.
We certainly have plenty of cartoons to choose from at HSP. To date, project staff have identified 1600+ political cartoons in just six collections: the Historical Society of Pennsylvania cartoons and caricatures collection (#3133), the Balch Broadsides: Satirical Cartoons collection (#PG278), the Hampton L. Carson papers (#117); HSP small graphics collection (#V63); HSP medium graphics collection (#V64); and HSP large graphics collection (#V65). We estimate that the scrapbooks of Pennsylvania Cartoons 1902-1915 (call # Vb# .9199F) contain another roughly 1700 cartoons.
We plan to organize the cartoon digital exhibit into six chronological sections that span the mid-eighteenth-century to 1923, and my colleague Rachel Moloshok and I are currently finalizing our selections for each section.
Here are a few of the 500 or so Civil War era cartoons that we plan to include in the digital history exhibit:
"The Inauguration at Richmond," from Harper's Weekly, March 15, 1862. (HSP Cartoons and Caricatures collection, #3133).
"A Bitter 'Draught,'" 1863. (HSP Cartoons and Caricatures collection, #3133)
"The Federal Phoenix," from Punch, December 3, 1864. (HSP Cartoons and Caricatures collection, #3133).
"Your Plan and Mine," 1864. (HSP Cartoons and Caricatures collection, #3133).
cartoonist - Lighting Kirk
Hello am wondering if you might be able to assist me in finding where I might search for any information in regards to the cartoonist Frank Yetzer who was known as Lighting Kirk. The only thing I could find in the archives of Reading Eagle Newspaper articles was during WWII he traveled on USO tours in Europe and Asia. Frank Yetzer is a great-great Uncle of mine.
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Thanks for reaching out. We haven't run across Frank yet, but we're just in the beginning of our research. Please feel free to email me directly at email@example.com so we can keep in touch if we learn more.
Dana Dorman
Project Associate, Historic Images, New Technologies Project
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Another reader of this blog contacted me with more information about your great-great-uncle. Send me an e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com and I'd be happy to connect you two.
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I've heard that the Thighvites....Thigheans...anyway
I've heard that you, our readers, clamoring for the next installment of Getting Our Drink On.
Ask and you shall receive.
Only I provided a little misdirection by leading certain members of our readership toward a beer that I am not about to write about.
Ruedrich's Red Seal Ale
Red Seal is the flagship brew of North Coast Brewing Company located in Mendocino County, California (Ft. Bragg, CA to be specific). I've fallen in love with tasty ale during the two summers that I've spent in LA. As I'm about to relocate to SoCal you better believe that there will always be some Red Seal in my fridge.
The full name of the tasty ale pays homage to the master brewer at North Coast, Mark Ruedrich.
American Amber Ale
Bitterness rating of 42 IBUs
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I'm not going to pretend to know what 42 IBUs means. This beer is really flavorful and hoppy yet still refreshing.
I like craft beers. The problem with craft beers is that they tend to make me full. Even a lighter wheat beer still fills me up after I've taken a few down. Red Seal is different. You could suck down more Red Seal than.....well, it's easy drink. Unlike many craft brews you can easily drink a sixer of Red Seal and still want more.
Balance is the true beauty of Red Seal. For those that prefer more flavor, Red Seal delivers. For those that want something to drink with a meal, Red Seal is perfect. If you want something light and refreshing to enjoy on the porch on a summer afternoon, pick up a Red Seal. If you prefer a hoppy beverage, Red Seal can answer that bell for you too. No one part of Red Seal stands out, but give a shot and I'm sure you'll be fan. Fans of beer are bound to be fans of Red Seal.
Red Seal is available in roughly 40 of the 50 great States. If you have not sampled Red Seal I highly recommend you take advantage of any opportunity that presents itself.
Red Seal has been awarded the Gold Medal at the World Championship of Beer in Chicago 7 times in the last 14 years. Yeah, beer snobs like it too.
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Shocking Accusations: Abused Wife or Abused Husband?
July 31, 2014
Marie says she is terrified of her husband, Ron, who she claims has a violent temper and is verbally and physically abusive — allegations he adamantly denies. Ron claims Marie is a compulsive liar and alleges she is the one with anger problems. Dr. Phil sorts through the allegations and looks at video footage from inside the family's home. Can he help this couple put an end to their fighting — for the sake of their child?
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Spouses at Odds
Marie says she has been terrified of her husband, Ron, since last year, when she claims he began saying things like, "I really want to hurt you," and, "Our story will be on the 6 o'clock news." Marie says Ron has dragged her down the stairs and had the cops called on him 14 times. Last month, she claims Ron smashed her on the side of the head while grabbing for her cell phone, which she was using to record video during an argument. "The fight started to progress and Ron came at me," Marie says. "I didn't know what he was going to do."
Ron joins Marie onstage and claims her accusations of abuse are all lies, which made him reluctant to even come on the show. Ron claims he is the real victim in their relationship and that Marie is the one with anger issues — exacerbated by the fact that he claims Marie drinks alcohol on top of taking prescription medications. "She's not well, so I give her the benefit of the doubt, while being a punching bag," Ron says.
Both Ron and Marie admit that their 4-year-old daughter, Della, often has a front row seat to their screaming matches.
"Somebody is lying," Dr. Phil says. "What that tells me is there are three agendas. There's your agenda, and there's your agenda," he says to Ron and Marie, in turn. "And then there's the family agenda, and it's coming in third. One of you is lying, and your daughter picks up the tab for you covering your ass."
"Somebody is going to tell me the truth here, and this is going to change, or I'm reporting it to CPS."
Hear from Marie's aunt, who says Ron is a "rage-aholic" — and from a neighbor, who claims Marie is the problem
Learning to CommunicateMarie tells Dr. Phil that she just wants to be happy again and not constantly worried about Ron's mood. Ron says he would like to get back to being Marie's "best friend" and admits there are things he can work on to be a better spouse. But, he adds, Marie needs to make some changes to her behavior as well.
Dr. Phil tells the couple that many of their problems, at their root, are a product of poor communication.
Ron and Marie both agree to take the help.
Web Extra: Doctor on DemandDr. Phil tells Marie he is very concerned about Ron's claims that she mixes prescription medications with alcohol. He says he wants Marie to speak to a physician about the potential dangers.
Marie talks to Dr. Ian Tong using the Doctor on Demand app. "You're taking a huge risk," he warns.


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Welcome to the new (and hopefully improved) format of Friday Quick Hits. Each week will feature a (truly epic) video of yours truly and each week I'll highlight:
1) My favorite post of the week
2) Something random/awesome (I know, vague) for you to check out
This Friday's Quick Hits:
Random/Awesome Find of the Week: Beastie Boys' star-studded "Make Some Noise" music video – If you haven't seen it already, where the heck have you been? Seriously, one of the greatest music videos of all time featuring cameos from, well, everybody. Go check it out and stay-tuned for the upcoming album and full-length mini-movie/music video.
Post of the week: Sarah J Bray's "How do you know if you're charging enough/too much"? – An EXCELLENT post that every freelancer, entrepreneur, and business owner should read (and not just because Sarah eloquently incorporates the word "bookoos"). My favorite quote:
"Is it ever possible that you're charging too much? I'm sure it is. You may be charging too much for the level of service you offer. In that case, it's better for everyone if you raise your level of service rather than lower your prices. If you are ridiculously amazing and make your clients bookoos of money, it's really, really hard to overprice your work. If you don't make your clients bookoos of money, THAT'S what you need to be working on."
Share some of your favorites in the comments below, chat about which Rocky movie was best, and of course, have a GREAT weekend!
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Forget Homework
It's a waste of time for elementary-school students.
In response to this, Cooper delicately suggested that my idea of a childhood afternoon well-spent is idealized and elitist. Maybe so. But the argument that homework is a net benefit for most kids has a big weakness. When homework boosts achievement, it mostly boosts the achievement of affluent students. They're the ones whose parents are most likely to make them do the assignments, and who have the education to explain and help. "If we sat around and deliberately tried to come up with a way to further enlarge the achievement gap, we might just invent homework," New York educator Deborah Meier told Kohn.
I e-mailed the principal of Eli's public elementary school, Scott Cartland, to ask about homework, and he emphasized the value of encouraging reading and making room for long-term projects. But he also fell back on logic that he admits is not, well, logical. "It has been drilled into our collective psyche that rigorous schools assign rigorous homework," Cartland wrote. "I recognize that this is a ridiculous thought process, particularly since your research suggests otherwise, but it's hard to break the thinking on this one. How could we be a high-achieving school and not assign homework?" How indeed. I hope the education establishment begins to wrestle with this question. If not, maybe it's time to move to Japan.


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CVPI 3 years, 6 months ago on Tobacco tax tour ends with Capitol rally
Tobacco tax tour ends with Capitol rally
Tobacco taxes have more then doubled in the past decade, when is enough? Why not tax alcohol products for a change since there are more deaths per year related to that.
CVPI 4 years, 2 months ago on Neighbors upset by electric cooperative's tree-cutting
Neighbors upset by electric cooperative's tree-cutting
This is not a new thing. Cutting and trimming trees in a power line's right of way has been done for many, many years across the US. There are many trees that can be planted that will not interfere with power lines and most Co-Ops will plant one of those trees for you if requested free of charge. It just plainly boils down to the simple question of, do you want trees or power for your home and neighbors?
CVPI 4 years, 4 months ago on Westside annexation plan proceeds
Westside annexation plan proceeds
I drive in Springfield 3 times a year, does that mean I should pay Springfield (or Greene County) taxes even though I live in Jeff.?
CVPI 4 years, 4 months ago on City continues to seek annexation of Hampton Inn, Comfort Suites
City continues to seek annexation of Hampton Inn, Comfort Suites
I agree with JCsleeper on de-annexing some areas. But, this just goes to show how our city officials operate - on GREED. Not to mention how big of crybabies the area hotel owners that CHOSE to be inside city limits are. The Owners' of the 2 hotels in subject were smart enough to abide by current laws and not have to pay lodging tax to Jeff. City and now others are saying that it's "unfair"? How is it fair to make them 2 hotels pay tax now when they haven't had to by law for many years? Jeff City area hotel owners and government need to grow up. Quit boo-hooing.
CVPI 5 years, 3 months ago on Campaign targets texting, driving
Campaign targets texting, driving
The ignorance of most parents and readers of this article is shocking. Did any of you stop to consider that if a person is under the age of 18, they legally cannot bind into a cell phone contract? With that said, who is paying the bill? The parents/grandparents/guardians. If everyone was as concerned as implied, then take text messaging off the contract period. If it's not there to be used, then guess what, it can't be used. Wise up mid-Missourians. Doing a lot of things while in a vehicle (moving or not) is dangerous but good "role models" are not in place either. You do not realize how many times I've seen police officers for example, texting, talking, using the pc, eating, etc, etc, while driving around town or at higher rates of speed on the freeway. This is not a "single" problem but rather multiple.


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Real Estate Report: The Perfect Kitchen For Holiday Entertaining, No. 1
If you're like us, you've been looking around your kitchen, thinking about the holidays, and wondering how you're going to pull it off. This week we'll be looking at entertaining-ready kitchens that you may not find under the tree but can still go on your wish list. First up, some rare Streamline Moderne in San Francisco's Noe Valley.
The Basics: A 3-bed, 3.5-bath house built in 1938 and beautifully renovated in the past few years. Asking $3.3M, it's been on the market for three months. We looked at it last March 2011 just before the current owners purchased it for $3.2M. Change in plans?
Real Estate Report: Darkly Vintage Classic in San Francisco's Tendernob, $895K
In the Tendernob— on the edge of one of San Francisco's "polite" neighborhoods and one of its seedier ones, close to Union Square and downtown— this vintage classic is on the market.
The Basics: a 2-bed, 2-bath condominium in a 1913 building and in quite good shape, with a renovated but still "vintage" kitchen. On the market forty days and asking $895K, down from $948K. No garage in the building, leased parking is available for $280 a month, plus HOA dues of $798 a month.
Insanely Huge Penthouse in The Hermitage On Russian Hill For Sale
There are only so many places to live on San Francisco's Russian Hill. Its buildings are a chronicle of the city's culture and history, undamaged by the 1906 fire, later threatened with destruction by hi-rise buildings in the 1960's and now preserved. The Hermitage was the last project built on the historic hill, in 1986, and there's a penthouse on the market. Read more. . . .
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IFest sponsor group is $680,000 in debtSeptember 30, 2013 Updated: October 1, 2013 10:33pm
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Months before the Houston Festival Foundation announced in August it would no longer produce the Thanksgiving Day Parade, the nonprofit struggled to pay for its signature event: the Houston International Festival.
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Today's 3-pointer
Posted By Jerry Carino On December 20, 2007 @ 11:28 pm In Uncategorized | Comments Disabled
High school edition:
1. Plainfield is going to be goooooood. Sophomore Isaiah Epps and freshman Tyrone Johnson have a feel for the game that is advanced beyond their years. Both can shoot — they have great form — and Epps is a lefty. Neither panics late in a tight game.
After Thursday's 57-55 squeaker over Westfield, Epps talked about the need to play smart. Sounds like a savvy veteran. Don't crown this team yet, though. Plainfield will have some growing pains this season. It's only natural.
2. Westfield is much better than we had thought. The Blue Devils share the ball very well and sophomore Pat Sabatino is a moose on the glass who knows how to finish.
3. Bound Brook coach Anthony Melesurgo is a Seton Hall grad and his team plays a lot like Bobby Gonzalez's Pirates: breakneck tempo, maniacal full-court trap, bombs away, a bit helter-skelter at times. It's fun to watch. Senior point guard Erron Banks may be headed to Towson for football, but on the hardwood he's as exciting as any player in Somerset County.
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Pepper Goes to Washington
The most important animal-welfare law in America began with a stolen dog.
Rep. Joseph Resnick planned to take Pepper's story to the Capitol even before anyone knew she was dead. The cigar-chomping congressman had been recruited to Pepper's cause on Friday, July 2, 1965, when a Pennsylvania family, the Lakavages, arrived in his upstate New York district in search of their missing Dalmatian. A local dealer had refused to let the family search his farm, and Resnick's appeals—to the dealer, the state troopers, and even the FBI—had come to nothing.
It soon emerged that the stolen pet never made it upstate. Pepper had been sold instead to a research hospital in the Bronx and her chest cut open in a botched test of a new cardiac pacemaker. Resnick commended Julia Lakavage, who drove 130 miles with her daughters and grandson in an effort to find Pepper, for "following through" and promised that he would take up their cause as "dog's best friend" in Washington.
Seven days after Pepper's death, Resnick introduced a dog-napping bill on the House floor. He wanted government licensing for the dealers and laboratories that traded in dogs and cats, and proposed that the theft of these animals be made a federal offense. For Resnick's colleagues in the House, the bill, born in a moment of outrage on the eve of the holiday weekend, must have seemed almost grotesque in its insignificance. On the very day it was introduced, they approved the Voting Rights Act, while the Senate agreed to add Medicare to the Social Security program. Yet little H.R. 9743—Pepper's law—would elicit more public engagement in the months that followed than either of these watershed measures. Resnick's bill broke a grueling stalemate over animal-welfare legislation and broke open a dispute that had lingered for 20 years between humanitarian activists and the emergent biomedical industry.
On Aug. 24, 1966, the president signed a more ambitious version of the proposal into law. But that was just the beginning. What began as a measure to prevent pet theft would soon become the most comprehensive animal-welfare legislation in U.S. history.
Ruff may have been a stray, or he may have been stolen; in any case, the article that accompanied his photograph in the New York Times hardly dwelled upon his provenance—the animal was identified only as "a friendly dog of uncertain ancestry" who had somehow ended up in the hands of the brilliant, Brooklyn-based heart surgeon, Adrian Kantrowitz. In 1958, Kantrowitz had dissected out the left half of Ruff's diaphragm, along with its major nerves and blood vessels, and wrapped the whole assemblage around his aorta. This "booster heart" could be stimulated to rhythmic contractions by a set of implanted, radio-controlled electrodes. At the time of his publicity photo, Ruff had survived for 18 months after the operation; now he was being honored for his efforts with a silver collar and official designation as the "Research Dog Hero Award" winner for 1959.
The silver collar, sometimes called the "Nobel Prize of dogdom," had been concocted in 1946 by the National Society for Medical Research, as part of a broad effort to defend the practice of animal experimentation from its most vocal critics. Those critics—the so-called "anti-vivisectionists"—had a powerful ally in William Randolph Hearst, who used his network of newspapers to editorialize against sadistic "dog torturers." Scientists believed it would take a major publicity campaign to overcome Hearst's hostile media empire, and the silver collar was one of their tactics.
Concern over animal welfare surged in the years after World War II, as the practice of biomedical research moved out of the private labs and become a massive public enterprise. The National Institutes of Health were consolidated in 1944 under the Public Health Service Act, and over the two decades that followed—running up until the time that Pepper was stolen in Pennsylvania—its budget rose more than 30,000 percent, from $2.8 million in 1945 to almost $1 billion in 1965.
That money was feeding a biomedical research establishment with an insatiable need for live animal subjects. To fill the empty cages in Bethesda, Md., and elsewhere, the NSMR lobbied for the enactment of "pound seizure" laws, allowing the forcible appropriation for research of any unclaimed strays that would otherwise be put to death. The first pound seizure laws were passed by the Minnesota Legislature in 1948, and many more followed. New York's Hatch-Metcalf Act allowed the seizure of cats and dogs not only from municipal pounds but from any private shelters holding government contracts.
These government incursions—and the rapid growth of the NIH—inflamed both animal-welfare activists and right-wing radicals. The two groups shared a deep suspicion of modern science and the growing power of technocrats in Washington. William Randolph Hearst straddled whatever line might have separated them, speaking out against animal research and warning his readers against New Deal bureaucracy and liberal academia. The anti-vivisection movement at large had at least incidental sympathies during this postwar era, with the reactionary (and sometimes anti-Semitic) campaigns against fluoridation and the polio vaccine.
(The same right-wing rhetoric was also marshaled against the animal activists, who were attacked for being Communists or worse—Hitler and Mussolini were well-known vegetarians. A 1950 editorial from the Los Angeles Times growled that "the fanatics who oppose animal experimentation for sentimental reasons are being joined, and in some part led, by Communists and Communist sympathizers interested in sabotaging national defense.")
Meanwhile, the burgeoning animal rights community gave rise to a Python-esque set of rival factions. The pound-seizure bills divided the moderates of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, who were content to let scientists use unwanted strays in place of purpose-bred animals, from the hard-liners in the National Anti-Vivisection Society, who were opposed to any animal research whatsoever. In 1951, D.C. activist Christine Stevens formed the Animal Welfare Institute with the express purpose of charting a "middle course" on animal research; she supported the use of pound animals but only for acute experiments under full anesthesia. Three years later, a dispute over whether and how to address pound seizure broke up the American Humane Association, with a dissident faction going on to become the Humane Society of the United States. That group was itself divided in 1959, when one founder departed to form the Catholic Society for Animal Welfare.
The National Society for Medical Research continued its lobbying efforts and red-baiting publicity campaigns throughout the 1950s, but despite its divisions the animal-welfare movement—like other progressive causes of the time—was growing in strength. By the time the society gave Ruff its silver collar in New York, Christine Stevens and the rest of the dog lovers were ready to make their push in Congress.


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Just wondering... the pictures show it in UN Blue and Flame, but the ordering drop-down list has Sapphire and Crimson instead. I guess the latter overrides the former?
And are there any plans to make it in any other colours any time soon (aubergine!)? If so, I'd love to know so that I can bide my time and get the Brain Cell of my dreams (size 5 aubergine!)?


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The Metz 54MZ3 on my Canon 20D gave me fits at the Austin Doll Show on Saturday. I've not sent in the unit to have it reprogrammed for ETTL2 so I only use automatic or manual.
I own a Vivitar 285HV which I could use though none of my light modifiers will fit it.
But I was thinking of buying a new portable flash. Which one to get, Canon 580 or Promaster 7500 v2.
I played with the Promaster on Saturday. ETTL2 works but requires you to do a pre-flash from the camera to get the right exposure. (a manual process). The local shop sells this for $200. There is a place in Tyler that also sells it but they don't have an online store.
I played with the 580 some time back and it just worked. No preflash required before taking the picture. (the pre-flash does not manually have to be done). The local shop sells this for $449.95 and B&H has one for $390.
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"I don't want you to spend your whole life socializing him like he's a stray dog, making the world a friendlier place for him," Hannah's (Lena Dunham) mother warned her in last week's "Flo." At the time it seemed like a cruel remark, but in "Role-Play," the observation has turned out to be prescient. Adam (Adam Driver) has changed considerably since we first met him in season one as a sexually depraved, alcoholic weirdo with anger issues. It was hard to imagine then that Hannah and Adam would not only stay together, but would become domestic. And by each other's side, we've seen both Hannah and Adam slowly find their adult selves, with emerging careers and taking on greater responsibilities. Undoubtedly, Hannah has been a key factor in Adam smoothing out his rough edges and finding positive ways to channel his roiling emotions. But what happens when that socialized dog is ready to be free?
That's the central question Hannah faces in "Role-Play," as she becomes unmoored after the anchor that was Adam dives deep into preparation for his Broadway debut in "Major Barbara." If this seems surprising, perhaps it shouldn't be. As we've seen this season, Hannah has spent less and less time her girls, with Marnie (Allison Williams), Shoshanna (Zosia Mamet) and Jessa (Jemima Kirke) largely on the outside perimeter of her life. Her focus has been on her career and Adam, with little time for anything else, but now it seems he has little time for her. And Hannah, facing true loneliness, perhaps for the first time in her adult life, begins to act out.
"Role-Play" kicks off with Hannah getting so shit-faced with her GQ pals, she winds up at Joe's (Michael Zegen) apartment where she pukes up everything she drank. He has to wash her down in the bathtub and she spends the night recovering. And she sees it almost like a test for Adam. "Were you worried about me? Like I slept at Joe's house, he's a guy from my work who's...you know, a guy...so..." she asks Adam, but he's more concerned about the jacket he's breaking in for the play and wearing around the house. But it's not due to callous indifference to where Hannah is or who she hangs out with, but the foundation of trust has been established, so he has no reason for worry. But when Adam rebuffs Hannah's sexual overtures a half-hour before he has to leave the house—"I don't want to get sticky before rehearsal"—she launches a plan to try and reignite a spark in their relationship she feels is missing.
"That romance, that mystery, that thrill, that goes, and you know what you're left with? Trying to seduce someone who just wants you to leave so they can jerk off and take the bus to rehearsal," Hannah quips to Elijah (Andrew Rannells). "There's nothing weird or exciting about our sexual life anymore. He's treating me like an ottoman with a vagina." And Hannah strives to do something "to make him remember why we love each other." And so, as the title of the episode suggests, she stages an elaborate role-playing scenario, meeting Adam in a bar, in character and costume (complete with an accent and blonde wig), as a woman looking to cheat on her husband. Adam is slightly freaked out, but also turned on and goes with it, with the pair winding up in Marnie's apartment (pre-arranged by Hannah) to live out the sexual fantasy. And things get both awkward and kinky as you might expect... until they don't when Hannah can't keep up her own role-playing backstory, and Adam pulls out (literally and otherwise) because it doesn't make "narrative sense."
Hannah declares she was just trying to create a sexual experience that Adam would like, one that was dirty and raunchy and weird, but for Adam, that kind of thing is behind him. "You have an old idea of who I am. Sex was the thing that kept me from drinking, that's why I fucked women I met in bars or whatever," he explains, adding that the games and scenarios and foul-mouthed come-ons were all part of it. And so it was with Hannah, until things changed. "But then we fell in love, and then I just wanted to have sex with just you, as us. Just fuck and be sweet or whatever." And this mini-bedroom clash opens up a bigger issue between the pair.
If Hannah hasn't yet accepted that Adam has changed, and his wants, needs and desires have evolved, he has embraced it. The role in the play has made him actually excited, and it's a sensation he doesn't want to let go of. "It feels amazing to finally care about something. It feels amazing and scary and I'll alway regret it if I don't give myself a chance to do it, all the way," he explains. And in order to do that he needs to focus, and tells Hannah he's going to stay with a friend for a while to "think about the play and not have to deal with all this drama." It's a sting to Hannah and almost something that's a bit of irony; again, did anyone in season one think it would be Hannah causing the drama in the relationship and not Adam? Hannah has socialized the dog, but now dog wants into the dog park, metaphorically speaking. And it'll be interesting to see if Hannah is able to let go.
Elsewhere in "Role-Play," the results are less satisfying. Marnie applies for a job at Soojin's (Greta Lee) gallery that turns out to be an assistant role, and continues her artistic exploration with the cheesy douchebag Desi (Ebon Moss-Bachrach). Meanwhile, Shoshanna explodes the coke-fueled relationship between Jessa and Jasper (Richard E. Grant), but pulling a bit of her stunt herself, arranging for him to run into his (allergy-prone) daughter Dottie (a mousy, poorly utilized Felicity Jones). And the father and daughter reconnect, with Dottie promising to take care of Jasper, but only if he dumps Jessa, which he does. "You look like a junkie," Shoshanna later tells Jessa about her reasons for sabotaging her thing with Jasper. "I am a junkie," Jessa responds, resigned.
Heading into the last two episodes, "Girls" is positioning for change. With Adam Driver set to spend most of the year working on J.J. Abrams' "Star Wars: Episode 7," it seems clear that he won't be back for the already-planned fourth season of "Girls," or will have a diminished role. Adam's story arc, and the actor's plans, seem headed that way. But the bigger question is whether or not the girls will continue drifting into their own lives, or come back into each other's orbit again in a significant way. [B]


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24 Examples of Charming Moonlight Photography
Moonlight is the light that originates from sunlight and reflected to the earth. The Moon does not, however, reflect sunlight like a mirror, but it reflects light from those portions of its surface which the Sun's light strikes. There are 24 examples of charming moonlight photos.


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Board about CMV Infection during Pregnancy.
I really need to access the board about CMV Infection during pregnacy. I know it existed in the previous website but I can't seem to find it anywhere in this new Beta Website! Can someone direct me to this board?? I have been infected by Cytomegalovirus , for the first time, during the first trimestre of pregnancy. I am now 21 weeks and devastated in face of the possibilities that have been presented to me. Thanks email@example.com
Posted: 08/23/2007 by Mdinis
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I know - I was just looking for it too. My husband and I had posted a lot of relative information about CMV on that board. Well - I guess it's time to start a new one! I was diagnosed with CMV for the first time 3 weeks after I got pregnant. We had ultrasounds every 2 weeks looking for any signs of the infection in the baby. Then around 18 weeks I had an amino and the baby also got the CMV infection. From that we decided to do this experimental treatment - an infusion of IV-IGG. There was a study done in Italy that showed the infusion of IV-IGG actually reveresed some of the signs of CMV. One of the doctors that performed the study is now at VCU in Richmond , VA. The article was also published in the New England Board Journal. I recieved my treatment in Washington DC at Georgetown University Hospital - by Dr Collea. My son was born with no syptoms, thank god I didn't listen to all the doctors that told me to abort! There is hope out there. Ask your dr about the IGG!posted 02/20/2008 by a BabyCenter Member
I tested positive for both IgM and IgG CMV markers when I was 8 weeks. The only reason I was tested was b/c my husband got sick, did research online about CMV, and read how devasting this can be to a pregnant woman in her first trimester. I'm so pissed that CMV is not routinely checked for in women who want to concieve AND that NO doctors have any knowledge about this! If you find out early you have CMV, then ask your doctor for an avidity test. This will tell you if you have a primary or recurring infection. A primary infection does the most damage b/c you most likely don't have enough antibodies and the fetus may be infected. We just got our avidity test results (which took 3 weeks to get!!!) and I have a primary infection. We decided to terminate the pregnancy at 15 weeks... it was a hard decision but we are not gambling people and the statistics are grim. We have a healthy 16 month old and are hopeful another healthy lil' chicken will come are way.posted 10/25/2008 by BeijingMom
I am currently 27 4/7 wks with a cmv+ baby, I found out at 19 wks something was wrong with echogenic bowels, then for sure I knew he was affected at 20 wks...if anyone is dealing with this, my poor boy is very anemic on top of enlargements with his heart, liver, spleen and umbilica vein...I had a fetal MRI last week and go for weekly ultrasounds, things are looking really bad and he may need to come out next week....anyone else in the cmv boat of no answers?? feel free to email me, please: email@example.com 06/24/2008 by enicole6921
Testing positive for CMV does not mean the baby will have it.. You have to have an active primary infection that is shedding to affect the baby. I contracted CMV during my 4th month and lost the baby by 6 months, this was 3 months ago. Because the virus is no longer shedding I was given the ok to get pregnant by OB and infectious disease drs. Gather as much info as possible and the best of luck to you and your baby....posted 06/25/2008 by blondee928
Here is the link to the experimental study of IgG infusion to treat cmv infection during pregnancy. The title is "Passive Immunization during Pregnancy for Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection." (http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/353/13/1350).posted 02/21/2008 by a BabyCenter Member
Many prayers go out to those dealing with CMV+babies. I was exposed to newly active CMV with my mom. I had unknowlingly drank and ate after her while she was in the hospital being treated for something completely different. They ran the CMV test on her and she was newly active positive. I was only 5 weeks pregnant so there was a good possibility I could gotten it as well. First of all, with CMV the main concern is for pregnant mothers who either have never been exposed (which according to CDC 50-80% of adults have been and test positive having antibodies)to CMV and test positive for the first time an. After our EXTREMELY stressful situation with CMV, I am trying to tell all expectant or those planning to concieve to take the CMV test to tell if you have been exposed before. You must take the CMV IGG and the CMV IGM test. Thankfully I tested positive for having been exposed in the past and not recently infected. CMV is a very unheard of virus that needs to be talked about!posted 07/12/2008 by RCarson
I am currently in nursing school and was exposed to CMV and received a primary infection at about 12 weeks...I am currenty almost 21 weeks along..and the stress is unbearable at times..we had an ultrasound two days ago, and it showed that our baby had calcifications on the liver...does anybody know what this could indicate? Just looking for answers, thanks....posted 11/26/2008 by anursee
I'm thirty three weeks pregnant and caught CMV in my twenty ninth week. It was a primary infection. Now I'm worried sick I've passed this onto my baby. The baby is kicking like hell, and is growing ok. But on the ultrasound the baby's head is small but still within normal range. I have the added complication of having gestational diabites so I'm on a low carb low sugar diet where I'm actually losing weight. My doctor seems ok with this. If the baby is kicking a lot and in the 38th percentile for weight and fiftieth percentile for stomach circumferance am I stressing myself out over nothing? I had a miscarraige earlier this year so I really feel down over this.posted 06/03/2014 by CarrieD2012
Hello my daughter is almost a year old and she has CMV as do I. They didnt know until after I had her because she had such a little head at birth and she was so little they couldnt tell doing ultrasounds because her head was so low. She was in the hospital for a week after she was born they were doing all kinds of test on her. She has Microsyphaly (I spelt that wrong) which just means small head she also has brain damage and we recently found out that she has CP she is also partially bind and they say she will go def all this because stupid doctors dont test you for it. I love my little girl more than anything in this world and it kills me knowing that I am the one that gave it to her. I am now informed enough on it to let others know how extreme CMV can be. I was just one of the lucky ones who got a special baby out of all this. She has had a tough life so far and will have many struggles but she will do great things in this world and teach many people. Thank you(:posted 01/26/2013 by jademarie16
i got the cmv virus and the virus caused me to miscarry my baby boy. i didnt have any symptoms of even having anything i felt fine and my doctor told me that sometimes when people get the virus they dont have any symptoms of the virus. he also said that my chances of getting it again are very slim usually if u have it once u dont get it again. i am pregnant again it is scary to go through i lost my baby in march of this year. it is the worst thing to ever have to go through to have to loose a child at birth.posted 09/16/2011 by nini21002
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