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The Telling Room: A Tale of Love, Betrayal, Revenge, and the World's Greatest Piece of Cheese
Mike Paterniti on the power of cheese, the pleasures of digression, and the War of the Roses method of book writing
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Mike Paterniti on the power of cheese, the pleasures of digression, and the War of the Roses method of book writing
Mike Paterniti is a contributing editor for GQ. His first book, Driving Mr. Albert (Dial, 2001), was based on a feature he wrote for Harper's Magazine in 1997; his second, The Telling Room, has just been released by Random House. In the new book, Paterniti tells of encountering a rare and delicious cheese while working at Zingerman's deli in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Eventually he tracks down its maker, Ambrosio Molinos de las Heras, in the Spanish village of Guzmán, only to find that Ambrosio no longer creates the cheese. In the course of recounting Ambrosio's tale, Paterniti dives deeply into Spain's political history, the pleasures of craft, and the motives and methods of storytelling itself. I asked Paterniti six questions about his book:
1. How long did it take you to write The Telling Room, and why was it the work of so many years?
Full gestation took about ten years from start to finish, which sounds crazy, like my own War of the Roses. But there were a few mitigating factors in there: First, Ambrosio presented me with this fantastical story — about how he'd had his family cheese stolen, about how he was plotting to kill his best friend — and so I found myself trying to sort it all out while waiting to see what would happen with the real or imaginary murder plot. At some point, Ambrosio stopped talking about the cheese — it depressed him too much — but was more than willing to take me deep into his world, so we fell into this delightful stalemate, where as part of my research, I soaked up all there was of this little Spanish village and its stories. I spent hours in the telling room, listening to tales, drinking delicious homemade red wine. If I'd seen the book as a Slow Food tale gone awry, then this was Slow Reporting, and Slow Living. Besides any chance to add time to a story, for me at least, only deepens and complicates it. And that's a good thing.
2. How do you describe a man like Ambrosio?
Ambrosio is one of those rare, elemental, hulking forces of nature you meet maybe once in a lifetime. Firstly, he's a great, bawdy storyteller, very Falstaffian, and when he's sitting in his telling room, unspooling a tale, it can last an entire afternoon, with these great asides and digressions, historical footnotes and factoids. But also, I've never met anyone as grounded in a place as he is in this little Castilian village of Guzmán. It's very un-American actually, this groundedness, this conversation with the ghosts of the past and this code of honor that he lives by. Everything that he stands for — and all the love for Castile that he has — all of it he poured into this cheese, Páramo de Guzmán. And, of course, one of his life's great trials began when he lost it. How he was going to survive, and reanimate himself, became a big part of the book.
3. An oral storyteller once advised me that a tale should begin with the teller swearing that the story she's about to tell is entirely true, even as the audience knows deep down that they'll be hearing something spun. You struggle throughout the book to navigate your position toward the stories you hear, in part because you feel a strong desire to revere the teller, his tale, and the object — the cheese — that attracted you in the first place. Why were you so drawn in by Ambrosio's account of Páramo de Guzmán?
Because, sitting in the telling room, with Ambrosio's voice echoing, there was no way, at first, not to believe it. Of course, I deeply wanted to believe in the legend, the fairy tale of it, the once-upon-a-time-there-was-this-cheese impossibility of it. I mean the facts were fairy tale-ish to begin with. A man recovers an old family recipe for this Manchego-like cheese, buys some sheep that graze on the Meseta outside of his home village, and with the sheep milk, he resurrects the cheese again, in a stable across from the house where he was born . . . and his father before him . . . and his father before that. When people tried this cheese, they had memories of being young again, when every house made its own cheese. It brought them back to their mother's kitchen, with their mothers alive again. And then the cheese was passed along, from hand to hand, until it reached Madrid and then London, until Fidel Castro tried it and wanted to buy all of Ambrosio's stock, until royal families and presidents, movie stars and singers like Julio Iglesias were served the cheese, and loved it, too.
I spend so much time in my day job having to exercise this skepticism that I found myself following this particular plotline like a child listening to a story, wondering what would come next, not whether it was true or not — at least at first.
4. You ultimately had to make a decision about whether to directly intervene in the tale of betrayal at the heart of the book. How comfortable were you with the extent to which you became part of Ambrosio's story?
Oh, not comfortable at all! I spoke to my editor and reporter friends about how far I should go in mediating the feud, because suddenly I was being asked to carry messages. Even going to Julián — Ambrosio's former best friend and business partner — in the first place felt like a betrayal of Ambrosio. By this time, he'd taken me fully into his world. He treated me and my family like family, with that great Castilian generosity. And then here I was, going off to talk to his archenemy and bugaboo. In fact, that's partly what made the writing take so long, too. The way I dragged my feet in the end, to avoid these last showdowns.
5. The book's footnotes are almost a story in themselves — I'm thinking of one multilayered riff on Pringles, in particular. In framing your tale, how did you make peace with digression?
There came a point in the evolution of bookwriting centuries ago when footnotes fell out of favor, primarily because they were costly in the printing process. I love what Noel Coward has to say about them, something like, "Reading a footnote is like having to answer the front door while making love." But eighteenth-century books were chock-full of such notes, as were the oral stories told in the telling rooms of Guzmán. Some people might struggle at first with them, but then my thought is that you don't always have to answer the front door while making love. There's an optional quality to them. I just wanted the book to stylistically mimic the stories and their exaggerations. But most importantly, some of the deepest truths were revealed to me in the asides and footnotes while in that village, in the marginalia of what people were saying, so I wanted the same for this book.
6. Near the end of the book, you raise your fear of the effects of the "digital avant garde" and quote Walter Benjamin, who in 1936 said, "The art of storytelling is coming to an end." Do we need a Slow Storytelling movement?
I think that's perfectly put — and I would agree. I love the resurgence of storytelling in great series like The Moth, but I also love stories that aren't crafted and rehearsed and canned at ten or fifteen minutes. I mean, our life doesn't include much room for the four-hour story, unless we're on a trip, but there are unbelievable payoffs and elations, humor and connectedness that comes from just that: a table with a porron of homemade wine and chorizo on it, people huddled together, and the storyteller taking that first breath to speak. The anticipation, that childlike joy and wonderment at what might happen next, that's why we tell stories in the first place.
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BYU baseball: games with baseball teams in six leagues on tap for BYU in 2014
Games with schools from the Big 12, Pac-12, Big West, Western Athletic, Southland and West Coast conferences highlight the 2014 BYU baseball schedule.
The Cougars begin the 2014 season in a four-game series Feb. 14-17 against Kansas at the Mariners/Padres spring training facility in Peoria, Ariz. BYU also plays Texas Tech and TCU from the Big 12 the following week.
BYU plays TCU, Texas A&M Corpus Christi and Texas-San Antonio in the Kleberg Bank College Classic at the AA pro venue Whataburger Field in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Feb. 20-22.
"Our first month is tremendously competitive," BYU coach Mike Littlewood said. "The only way to be nationally relevant is to go on the road and beat teams."
The home season starts with three games against Seattle University from the WAC on Feb. 27 through March 1, in a special series at St. George at Dixie State University's Bruce Hurst Field. Another WAC game is March 19 at Fresno State.
The first home game at Larry H. Miller Field in Provo is March 4 against Utah.
Pac-12 games at pro venues for BYU are against Washington State played at Pasco, Wash., on April 8 in Gesa Stadium and a four-game series versus Utah, two of which are at Spring Mobile Ballpark in Salt Lake City.
The Cougars play at UC Santa Barbara and host the University of San Diego in a three-game series at Provo. UCSB, USD, San Francisco and UT-San Antonio are NCAA post-season tournament teams from last season.
The three games versus defending WCC Champion USD on March 13-15 start league play for BYU. New to the league is the University of the Pacific, which plays a three-game series at BYU on April 3-5.
The Cougars are hopeful of playing in another pro venue on May 22-24 as one of four teams again at the WCC Championships at Banner Island Ballpark in Stockton, Calif.
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WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice rejected the "false promise" of an immediate cease-fire in the spreading war between Israel and Hezbollah on Friday and said she would seek long-term peace during a trip to the Mideast beginning Sunday.
The top U.S. diplomat defended her decision not to meet with Hezbollah leaders or their Syrian backers during her visit.
"Syria knows what it needs to do, and Hezbollah is the source of the problem," Rice said as she previewed her trip, which begins with a stop in Israel.
Rice said the United States is committed to ending the bloodshed, but not before certain conditions are met. The Bush administration has said that Hezbollah must first turn over the two Israeli soldiers whose capture set off the 10-day-old violence, and stop firing missiles into Israel.
"We do seek an end to the current violence, we seek it urgently. We also seek to address the root causes of that violence," Rice said. "A cease-fire would be a false promise if it simply returns us to the status quo."
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Sun Herald | Editorial Important choices will be made on Tuesday -- be sure to vote
There are 5 comments on the Sunherald.com story from Nov 6, 2011, titled Sun Herald | Editorial Important choices will be made on Tuesday -- be sure to vote. In it, Sunherald.com reports that:
Mississippians will go to the polls Tuesday to fill important state and county offices from a ballot that includes governor, and all of the state leadership, as well as state senators and representatives.
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#1 Nov 6, 2011
I remain amused and amazed that the Editorial Board could possibly endorse Connie Moran to be the next Treasurer of Mississippi. The amazement is generated from the fact that the transparency claimed by Moran is foreshadowwed by the false claims of what makes her qualified. Many individuals have and still request just one example of an economic development victory for which she is directly responsible. The amusement is caused by what appears to be an alcohol addiction and also from her, in at least two incidents, leaving the scene of automobile accidents. Can the Editorial Board really choose a candidate whoose credentials have not been confirmed and an individual who many in Ocean Springs shamefull call the "town drunk"? In my opinion, we DO NOT need an individual with these characteristics as the Treasurer of Mississippi!
#2 Nov 6, 2011
I totally agree. I also dropped the Sun Herald decades ago. Morons!!!!!!!
#3 Nov 6, 2011
I think in part it is because she is from the Gulf Coast. They also probably think that because she attended a school outside of Mississippi and lived abroad makes her more sophisticated. Its the old Adlai Stevenson/Woodrow Wilson mindset, reflected now in Barack Obama and before him Bill Clinton. Punch your ticket at a school in the Northeast and you are qualified for office because, by definition you are intelligent and capable, because you went to a school in the Northeast. But these "best and brightest" from those schools gave us Vietnam, the Great Society and so on, culminating with non-sexual BJ's in the oral office. The fact that this person has not actually accomplished anything beyond making her town prettier and a better party town is beside the point. She seems like something new, something outside of the usual Mississippian,as Mabus seemed back when, so maybe that is what influenced them.
#4 Nov 6, 2011
The Ocean Springs mare is an unqualified candidate. If only the mare could realize that she is living in a fantasy of her mind! Her credentials claim such things as being Managing Director of the State of Mississippi European Office in Frankfurt, Germany, recruiting new business to the State on behalf of the Mississippi Development Authority. Maybe she could identify what businesses that she recruited. Also she could discuss the fact that she was constructively fired from the MDA after the Governor got the four members of the Jackson County Port Authority Board and one member appointed by the Jackson County Board of Supervisors to vote to offer her the job to replace the existing economic development professional who was dying of cancer. The next issue that she might clear up is why she was terminated from her economic development professional job in Jackson County? Could it possibly be because she never successfully brought any new business to the County or maybe it was related to the fact that she could never get to work and if so, she could never be on time?
Being on time leads to another matter that begs for an answer! Why in the world can she never be on time at any meeting and just cancels after the time for the meeting to start if she cannot make it? Does anyone remember when she was a no show or has kept them waiting? Remember when she was late to the meeting after Hurricane Katrina, at Chevron, with President George W. Bush? She did find a way to muscle her way in, even though the secret service had mandated an arrival time well before her arrival.
Next comes her being what many commonly identify her as, "The town drunk of Ocean Springs". Having fallen off bar stools and being chauffeured to her home from Biloxi and other bars in Ocean Springs, by the Ocean Springs Police Department, seems to have earned her the title. Another qualification that certainly does not provide her with the ability to serve as the chief financial officer of our state is her inability to comply with neither the laws that have been enacted nor the policies of the City of Ocean Springs. A headline of Mayor Leaves scene of accident for 2ND time is not what I would like to see identifying our state treasurer. The second time was in Ridgeland, MS. and previously after hitting a man in front of City Hall in Ocean Springs. How many people could leave the scene of an accident and once again not be charged. In addition to the leaving the scene issue, the Mayor did not comply with SECTION 3: SUBSTANCE ABUSE IN THE WORKPLACE POLICY of Ocean Springs' personnel policy, ITEM F. SUBSTANCE TESTING, when involved in the Ridgeland accident. The policy requires POST ACCIDENT/INCIDENT TESTING within four hours in the event of an accident. Failure to comply with the policy results in immediate termination. In addition to these shady incidents, the Mayor was also involved in an unreported accident in her personal vehicle and saw fit to have her automobile towed to Pascagoula for repair in a shop that would be out of sight of the constituents of Ocean Springs.
As you see, there seems to be a few issues that the candidate for State Treasurer should address. Some are qualifications that do not appear to be valid, while others are detriments or blemishes in her that do not bode well as someone who wants to represent me! You make your decision, but for me, I think that her opponent would be a much better choice for the job. I plan to vote for the one that has real qualifications and attributes that are necessary to represent me. Therefore, there is only one qualified candidate for Treasurer, Lynn Fitch
#5 Nov 8, 2011
Dang, looks as if we are stuck with her!
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Ministry plans to reduce dependence on coupon system for old age pension
Senior citizens may be able to uplift their pensions using their machine readable identification by 2016 as the Human Services and Social Security Ministry plans to scale-back the Pension Scheme's dependence on the coupon system.
This disclosure was made by ministry officials who on Monday appeared before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament to answer questions about discrepancies flagged in the Auditor General's 2011 Report on the agency's finances.
It was the ministry's Director of Social Services Wentworth Tanner who revealed the ministry's plan to the PAC, but the committeeexpressed mixed feelings about the ambition. People's Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) MPs and PAC members Gail Teixeira and Bibi Shadick, both of whom are pensioners themselves, highlighted that there might be complications with moving towards such a system.
Shadick pointed out that many of Guyana's approximately 45,000 pensioners are fond of their coupon books, since it is familiar, and serves as a form of evidence, and Teixeira suggested that many of the country's elderly may not be tech-savvy, as would be required with the system alluded to by Tanner.
She suggested that while advancement is good, it may be a good idea to take more time to implement such a programme, and she further suggested that the system might be better suited for the next generation of Old Age Pensioners, who are currently and are likely to remain fluent in the latest technological developments.
News of the innovation was shared with the committee after its members continued to probe the ministry on several discrepancies noted in the Auditor General's Report. One such discrepancy concerned the cashing of about one million dollars in forged Old Age Pension coupons in 2010.
The Auditor General's Report reads: "The audit office conducted a review of the Old Age Pension in its second performance/ value for money audit which was issued in 2010. Emanating from the review was a number of concerns, some of which were yet to be corrected by the ministry. In addition, at the time of the reporting of my 2010 report in 2011, the audit office and the police were called on to investigate the encashing of fake old aged pension coupons at a post office."
The fraud was reportedly uncovered by an employee who, upon checking some coupons, realized that they did not bear the requisite security features.
A post office employee was charged in relation to the matter, but later released. The matter was also said to have been engaging the attention of the court but it is uncertain what progress, if any, has been made in this regard.
Asked why the ministry's system was not able to protect against the fraud, Permanent Secretary of the Human Services Ministry Lorene Baird, explained to the committee that she occupied a different portfolio at the time the matter occurred, and could therefore offer no details on what transpired and why. Similarly, none of her fellow representatives were able to offer an explanation.
PAC members also expressed concern that the ministry was once lax in the production and transportation of old age pension coupons.
The 2011 Report found that at one point "the contract entered into by the Ministry for the printing of coupons was deficient since clauses such as duration of contract, remedies for breach of contract, ownership and control of printing software, minimum security standards required at the facility and responsibility for the disposal of spoilt coupons were not included."
Furthermore, it was noted that it was the supplier and not the ministry which exercised control and ownership of the software used to print pension books. Additionally, PAC members heard that "the ministry did not take responsibility for the collection of the pension books from the printing facility or the disposal of spoilt pension books."
In its response to the Report, the ministry said that it has amended the contract to include a clause which addressed all of the cited discrepancies.
The report also highlighted the fact that the ministry's "Old Age Pension database was not updated on a regular basis for new applicants and pensioners who had died." Tanner, however, explained that the ministry has embarked on an initiative where information regarding new applicants is entered into the system on a daily basis.
Further updates are being made to the database in the form of the removal of deceased persons by utilizing death returns submitted to the General Register Office, and the uncollected coupon books from the district issue sheet.
Shadick contended that removing people's names from the database because they have not uplifted their coupon book for a while might be a bad idea. She told the ministry's officials that many pensioners face a variety of impediments in accessing a post office. She revealed that pensioners living in far-off locations might not be able to make the trip to a post office as often as they are required and might not have anyone to make the trip for them. Even those living in close proximity to post offices can encounter problems, including limitations on mobility.
She also suggested that pensioners who are abroad for extended periods to receive medical attention may also be unable to pick up their books and would therefore have their names removed from the database. Asked what can be done for persons who fall into these categories, Tanner explained that the ministry only goes back three months, and that any person who missed more than three months cannot receive their pension for the additional months.
Shadick clearly disapproved of this policy, and even when Tanner explained that the ministry's policy is guided by Guyana's laws, she opined policy makers might have to find a way to address the situation. In the interim, she urged the ministry to do more in terms of educating the public on the terms surrounding the uplifting of their coupon books and the pensions.
Though not included in the audit report on the ministry, the committee noted that several pensioners have experienced difficulty in accessing their pension books since their identification cards-the older version-have been decommissioned by the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom). Teixeira was disturbed by this news. She exclaimed that an identification card, regardless of when it was issued, should be accepted wherever such documents are required for transactions.
She also upbraided Gecom, which, she says, has no authority under the law to decommission identification cards.
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- Now that the Olympic Games 2012 has been and gone, it is time to look back at it from a UK perspective. Was it a failure, a qualified success, or a spectacular one?
London has hosted the Olympics twice before: 1908 and 1948. This year's Olympics were not set in stone; there was a bidding process, and when London won it, there was a sense of euphoria, which turned shortly to concern and even apprehension. London was awarded the games on July 6, 2005. The next day, four Islamist fanatics from the provinces travelled to the capital and exploded four bombs murdering
52 innocent people
in addition to wounding hundreds.
Then there were problems - more perceived than real as things turned out - with such things as security, the timetable, and so on.
Four years ago, China staged a truly spectacular opening ceremony. How could we beat that? Well, how about the Queen of England parachuting into the Olympic arena with James Bond? Okay, it was a stunt double used for the jump, but the Queen herself actually took part. The
closing ceremony
wasn't bad, either. Tony Hadley of Spandau Ballet performed the only song he could,
Team GB
True, there were the
rip off prices
, which
backfired for some
; there were also complaints about some unemployed people being press ganged into acting as volunteers, but by and large everything in between the opening and closing was a-okay, with only a handful of glitches, as is to be expected with any event of this size. There was no
nuclear attack
or other
false flag
as predicted by some idiot with more imagination than common sense. The police did what they do best, no shooting innocent men in the
backs of mini-cabs
, no posing, no strong arm stuff, just being there to make the punters feel secure rather than intimidated, while surreptitiously keeping an eye out for pickpockets and other lowlifes who were
nabbed promptly
before they could ruin things for people, some of whom had travelled from the far corners of the Earth, to support their respective nations and have fun.
There was the usual controversy over drugs, some of it real, some of it not so. The 16 year old Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen turned in a
truly spectacular performance
, which led to ill-informed speculation that she had been using some sort of banned substance to enhance her performance. This speculation was quelched almost immediately, the fact is this happens. Four years ago, Britain's Rebecca Adlington turned in spectacular performances winning two gold medals. In London she could manage
two bronze medals
, and from her reaction you'd think she'd found a penny and lost a pound.
The winner of the women's shot put was
stripped of her gold medal
; the
much maligned Dwain Chambers
competed, and although the sky did not fall, and he made the most of his chance, he was unfortunately unable to win a medal.
For a certain Mr Murray, his gold medal was sweet indeed. After losing narrowly to
Roger Federer
at Wimbledon at a time when all the omens said he would become the first British men's champion since the 1930s, he thrashed Federer in the Olympics final. Both the counties of Yorkshire and London itself were massively over-represented medal-wise.
final medal table
is revealing. The United States - the world's only superpower, and China - the emerging superpower, topped the table, as they might, but Great Britain was an incredible 3rd. Okay, the Sun has long set on the British Empire, but when one considers the demographics, this is truly staggering. China has a population of over 1.3 billion; the UK less than 63 million, which means we punched far above our weight with those 65 medals, 29 of them golds. India, with its massive population, could win only 6 medals, and no golds.
Perhaps even more remarkable than Great Britain were the performances of the Netherlands, New Zealand and Jamaica considering their much smaller populations, but it was truly the host nation that shone. The only downside is that it doesn't get any better than this, so Great Britain especially should not expect to pick up anything like that number of medals in Rio de Janeiro four years from now, but as Kipling said:
"If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same".
Rebecca Adlington may be disappointed with her two bronze medals, two more than Israel, Malta and Nigeria combined, but the Olympics, indeed sport, is about the competing. This was an Olympic Games that had no losers. Let the next one be the same.
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Before elevation, Roy was serving as Union Minister of State for Shipping and had earlier been Minister of State in the Railway ministry before Trivedi took over last July.
The ceremony was attended by Vice President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the UPA chairperson and union ministers including those from Trinamool Congress. After the swearing-in, Roy parried questions on what he plans to do about the hike.
"Whatever I have to say I will say in Parliament as the Railway Budget is the property of Parliament," Roy said when asked if there will be any roll back in the hike in passenger fares.
Trivedi was forced out by Trinamool Congress after he incurred the wrath of party chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee who was opposed to his proposal to increase fares in the railway budget last Wednesday. Trivedi resigned on Sunday.
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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|Oct 29, 1985
|Filing date
|Jun 3, 1983
|Priority date
|Jun 3, 1983
|Fee status
|Publication number
|Raymond W. Burbank, Christopher A. Myers
|Original Assignee
|Motorola, Inc.
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (24), Referenced by (28), Classifications (8), Legal Events (4)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
1. Field of the Invention
This invention relates generally to the field of mounting arrangements for electro-acoustical transducers. More particularly, this invention relates to a modularized floating transducer assembly for retaining and protecting a microphone and a loudspeaker in a portable electronic apparatus.
2. Background of the Invention
Portable two-way voice communications equipment typically requires a speaker and a microphone for converting electrical signals into acoustic signals and vice-versa. Traditionally these tranducers have been rigidly attached to the housing of the apparatus in some manner and electrically interconnected with their associated circuitry via wires amd wiring harnesses. The transducers themselves are normally mounted to the housing by traditional fasteners such as screws and brackets. Unfortunately, traditional transducer mounting arrangements present many fit and tolerance problems and occupy valuable space in modern miniature two way transceivers creating interferences with electronic components and possible electrical shorts. In addition, installation is cumbersome and time consuming as is replacement, if necessary. In fact, it has been observed that the screws utilized in traditional fastening techniques can actually deform the web-like frames of many miniature loudspeakers resulting in poor audio efficiency and high distortion.
A further disadvantage of prior art transducer mounting arrangements is that the entire electronic assembly including transducers is difficult to electrically test as a unit since the transducers themselves are physically mounted to the transceiver housing and must often be disconnected from the chassis in order to remove the transceiver electronic chassis.
Since the electro-acoustical transducers are among the most failure-prone components in a two-way transceiver, it is advantageous to isolate these components from mechanical shock and make their removal and installation as simple as possible in order to maintain high reliability and ease of service. The traditional fastener arrangements for transducer mounting used in the prior art fall far short of this need.
It is an object of the present invention to provide an improved shock absorbing transducer module.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a floating transducer arrangement which provides shock isolation to the transducers along with shock isolation to other delicate electronic components.
It is another object of the present invention to provide an easily serviceable self-contained transducer assembly for miniature electronic devices.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a transducer assembly which overcomes the shortcomings of the prior art.
These and other objects of the invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art upon consideration of the following description of the invention.
In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention a floating, shock absorbing transducer mounting assembly includes a substantially planar transducer support plate. A loudspeaker is positioned upon the support plate in a manner that allows the sound exit port of the loudspeaker to be substantially unobstructed acoustically. A shock cushion is attached to the support plate and isolates the loudspeaker and support plate from mechanical shock while also providing shock isolation to other delicate electronic components and urging the assembly into engagement with a housing.
The features of the invention believed to be novel are set forth with particularity in the appended claims. The invention itself however, both as to organization and method of operation, together with further objects and advantages thereof, may be best understood by reference to the following description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of the mounting plate of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is an exploded view of the shock isolating transducer mounting arrangement of the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a partial cross-sectional view of the transducer mounting assembly taken along lines 3--3 of FIG. 4.
FIG. 4 is an exploded view of a transceiver assembly which utilizes the present transducer assembly.
Turning now to FIG. 1, a rear perspective view of support plate 10 is shown. Support plate 10 has a substantially planar body 15 which is preferably made of tin plated nickel-silver sheet metal approximately 0.015 inch thick and has a reinforcing lip 20 which is bent or drawn around the periphery of body 15. This lip 20 provides mechanical rigidity to the support plate so that body 15 may be thin without a substantial sacrifice of strength. In the preferred embodiment lip 20 is bent at an approximate 90� angle to the plane of the support plate.
Lip 20 may preferrably include one or more stops 25 to prevent the assembly from creeping away from its designated location when installed. These stops 25 may be keyed or strategically located to prevent installation of the completed assembly in the housing in an improper manner.
Body 15 includes an aperture 30 having a diameter slightly smaller than that of the loudspeaker for receiving the loudspeaker. This aperture 30 preferrably has an angular bevel 35 around its circumference extending substantially rearward for cradling a loudspeaker inserted from the front.
A cylindrical microphone retainer 40 is utilized in the preferred embodiment to retain the preferred cylindrical microphone. The microphone retainer 40 includes one or more tabs 45 to prevent the microphone from being inserted too far within cylinder 40. Microphone retainer 40 may be made of metal and spot welded, soldered or otherwise attached to body 15. Microphone retainer 40 includes an aperture in its front-most portion for aligning with a similar aperture in the body 15 to allow sound to enter the microphone substantially acoustically unobstructed. In the preferred embodiment a strain relief member 50 is punched from body 15 and bent in an appropriate manner as shown to retain and relieve strain from any wires which must interconnect with the loudspeaker and microphone.
Turning now to FIG. 2, an exploded view of the transducer module assembly 100 is shown. In the preferred embodiment, a microphone 110 which is substantially cylindrical in shape is inserted into a rubber boot 115 with an interference fit in order to captivate microphone 110. This rubber boot 115 along with microphone 110 is in turn inserted into the microphone retainer 40 until the microphone boot 115 encounters tabs 45. There is also preferrably an interference fit between cylindrical microphone retainer 40 and rubber boot 115.
While this is the preferred assembly technique for the microphone portion of this assembly, it will be clear to those skilled in the art that many other microphone mounting arrangements will equally well suffice. In fact, other mounting arrangements may be necessitated by the shape and form factor of the microphone being used. In the preferred embodiment of the present invention a miniature electret microphone such as the Primo model EM-76 manufactured by Primo Co. Ltd. is utilized but this is not to be limiting.
Assembly 100 will normally include a loudspeaker 120 having a magnet structure 122. In the preferred embodiment, a disk-like shock pad 125 which is preferrably composed of a cellular silicon rubber material is applied to the magnet by an adhesive. A thickness of approximately 1/20th of an inch for shock pad 125 has been found suitable for many applications.
In the preferred embodiment, an acoustic seal 130 may be applied to the perimeter of loudspeaker 120. A very short section of heat shrinkable tubing having a diameter slightly larger than the loudspeaker has been found suitable for this purpose. By placing the loudspeaker inside the length of tubing and applying heat to the tubing, a permanent seal to the periphery of speaker 120 may be obtained. Loudspeaker 120 is then placed within the angular bevel 35 of aperture 30 where it is cradled while retaining some freedom of movement.
At this point in the assembly, the appropriate electrical wiring may be done. A preferred technique will be discussed later. After the electrical wiring takes place a shock cushion 135 is placed over the rear of the assembly. This cushion 135 may be held in place by an adhesive such as 3M Model 950 adhesive though this is not to be limiting as many other adhesives may be acceptable. This adhesive attached to cushion 135 also serves to restrain the movement of the loudspeaker somewhat for ease of handling and assembly. It has been found convenient to utilize more than one layer of shock cushion so that varying thicknesses may be obtained by cutting away portions of one or more layers of cushion. In the preferred embodiment each layer is approximately 0.1 inch in thickness. Certain areas of the shock cushion 135 may be cut away entirely such as hole 138 to accommodate, for example, microphone 110, speaker magnet 122 or other large components.
Referring now to FIG. 3, a cross-sectional detail of the partially assembled transducer module 100 is shown. The heat shrunk acoustic seal 130 is seen to conform to the shape of the frame of loudspeaker 120 and provides a seal at the interface of the angular bevel 35 of aperture 30 and the loudspeaker. This helps prevent out of phase energy radiating from the rear of loudspeaker 120 from creating destructive interferrence with sound waves exiting the front of loudspeaker 120. The relationship of the disk-like shock pad 125 to the loudspeaker magnet may also be seen more clearly from this figure.
The mounting arrangement for microphone 110 is also more clearly shown in FIG. 3. The microphone is pressed into boot 115 all the way to the rear and boot 115 is shown to be inserted inside the cylindrical microphone retainer 40 all the way to the tabs 45. This arrangement assures an accurate and repeatable mounting position for microphone 110.
Microphone boot 115 is shown to have an aperture 140 in its rear-most portion to allow for the passage of any wiring necessary to the operation of microphone 110. Such microphones will normally have two wires for electrical interconnection. A signal wire 145 may be passed through this opening along with a ground wire 150 which may be soldered directly to the nickel-silver body of support plate 10 as shown. In the preferred embodiment ground connection from the transceiver electrical chassis 210 may then be coupled to the microphone via a ground wire 155 which may also be soldered to the body of the support plate. A second signal wire 160 may be coupled to the loudspeaker to provide electrical impulses thereto. The speaker's ground connection wire 165 may also be connected to the body of support plate 10 as shown. In this manner, ground wire 155 may serve as a common ground connection for both transducers.
In FIG. 4, the completed assembly 100 including shock cushion 135 is shown. In this completed assembly, the plate 10 forms a baffel, even when outside the housing, to prevent destructive interference resulting from sound waves eminating from the rear of the loudspeaker interfering with those eminating from the front. Wires 145, 155, and 160 are shown to be connected to a plug-in connector 180 to allow for modular installation of the transducer module 100. Plug-in connector 180 may be coupled electrically to a mating socket (not shown) in a transceivers electrical chassis 210 to complete electrical connection thereto. Preferrably the wires connected to plug-in connector 180 are sufficiently long to allow transducer module 100 to be moved completely out of the way of the electrical components on chassis 210 and allow for ease of testing and service.
To complete assembly 200, the floating transducer board 100 is simply laid in place inside the radio chassis with the speaker cone facing outward. The shock cushion 135 is lightly compressed against the electrical components shown on chassis 210. The chassis and transceiver module may then be slid into molded plastic housing 220 from the top. The bottom of plastic housing 220 is closed and may be water sealed. It is evident that the free floating nature of this invention within the transceiver housing reduces or eliminates many of the fit problems associated with prior art transducer assemblies.
The upper portion of the housing 220 may be water sealed by an O-ring (not shown) located at the upper portion 225 of radio chassis 210. This O-ring compresses against the inside of the housing when the radio is finally assembled. To hold the chassis in place within the housing, a pair of screws (not shown) passing through the bottom of the housing may screw into the frame of chassis 210 drawing it fully into the housing 220 and completing the water seal. A slide-on battery 235 may be attached to the bottom of housing 220 to provide electrical power to chassis 210.
Once the assembly is completed, the front portion of acoustic seal 130 is pressed firmly against the inner surface of transceiver housing 220 providing a seal against the front cover of the housing. In this manner, acoustic energy eminating from the rear of loudspeaker 120 is prevented from exiting a speaker grille 240 to produce destructive interference while sound eminating from the front of loudspeaker 120 is allowed to readily pass through speaker grille 240. Shock cushion 135 serves to dampen those sound waves eminating from the rear of loudspeaker 120 to provide proper acoustical loading of the speaker enclosure and dampen any standing waves. Shock cushion 135 further serves to dampen any resonance of loudspeaker 120 along with any resonance of support plate 10 to help provide a more desirable audio frequency response. In normal operation, sound enters the housing through a sound entry path, which may be integral with the speaker grille 240, and is directed toward the microphone. Thus, a single assembly supports and positions both transducers for the transceiver's operation.
A secondary benefit of this mounting technique is that the electrical components mounted on chassis 210 are also shock isolated by shock cushion 135 since they are in intimate contact with the compressed shock cushion in final assembly.
A further benefit of the present invention is that of electrical shielding. Since support plate 10 is preferrably made of a conductive material, the chassis 210 is effectively electrically shielded by it. One skilled in the art will readily appreciate that it is often the case that the inner surface of a transceiver housing 220 must be coated with electrically conductive paint or otherwise made to be an effective electrical shielding medium in order to assure stable transmitter operation and a predictable antenna radiation pattern. Since support plate 10 is metallic, substantially better conductivity is obtained with it than could be attained by conductive painting which is acknowledged as an expensive and labor intensive process. As a result of this design, it may be possible to eliminate or substantially reduce the amount of conductive painting necessary to obtain proper radio performance. Also since the shielding is not part of the housing, proper transceiver performance may be attained when chassis 210 is outside the housing to facilitate transceiver design and testing.
This transducer mounting arrangement also provides for reduced wiring requirements since no wiring to the actual radio housing 220 is necessary. all interconnections are made in modular form and the transceiver may be more effectively water sealed. Since no screws or washers are utilized to accomplish the present transceiver mounting arrangement, there is no danger of them vibrating loose in use and causing either speaker rattles or electrical shorts. Also there is no danger of deforming the loudspeaker's frame with such fasteners and assembly cost in labor is substantially reduced.
Thus, it is apparent that in accordance with the present invention, an apparatus that fully satisfies the objects aims and advantages is set forth above. While the invention has been described in conjunction with several specific embodiments, it is evident to those skilled in the art that many alternatives, modifications, and variations will be apparent in light of the foregoing description. Accordingly, it is intended that the present invention embrace all such alternatives, modifications, and variations as fall within the spirit and broad scope of the apended claims.
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|Bose Corporation
|Wiper seal for passive radiator
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|Apr 1, 2004
|Harman Audio Electronic Systems Gmbh
|Loudspeaker with a front-mounted sealing element and method of manufacturing the same
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|Apr 26, 2007
|Williams William R
|Audio porting assembly
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|Jul 12, 2007
|Claude Allaire
|System and method for the elastic properties measurement of materials
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|Sep 6, 2007
|Finnegan Brendan J
|Loudspeaker gasketing
|May 30, 2006
|Dec 6, 2007
|Polycom, Inc.
|Speaker with acoustic damped port
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|Polycom, Inc.
|Speaker with Acoustic Damped Port
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|Michael Hudson
|Method and apparatus for a loudspeaker assembly
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|Wiper seal for passive radiator
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|Ford Werke Ag
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|Mosel T�ren Vertriebsges.mbH
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|Bose Corporation
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Get it, Kangaroo. pic.twitter.com/ghyR1msaCJ— Jason Adams (@JAMNPP) June 14, 2016
I know I promised no political talk on the blog until September so I'll let others do the talking as it was such a big political week that it's hard to avoid. That's reflected in our roundup of amusing tweets this week. But first let us begin with this giddy tweet from Patches who claims he had had a few drinks when he wrote it but to us it's the perfectly clear minded truth.
More after the jump of course...
Movies are insane. People pretending to be other people! Depicting reality, yet constructing it! Angles! Mood! Holy hell. Movies.— Maester Patches (@misterpatches) June 10, 2016
Now that we're all getting behind Hillary Clinton, let's admit that Anne Hathaway has never once been bad in a movie.— Louis Virtel (@louisvirtel) June 8, 2016
• Vague Visages why critics often fail when writing about acting
• EW Forget to link up to the Meryl Streep as Donald Trump thing. Sadly no better video has emerged than this very shaky cel phone
• Playbill in the most exciting theater news imaginable The Lovely Laura Linney and Cynthia Nixon will co-star in the revival of The Little Foxes. The best part? They'll be alternating roles periodically!
• TFE ...If you missed our Smackdown which featured The Little Foxes you should read it. It is a great play which made for an excitingly cutting movie with killer performance by Bette Davis and Patricia Collinge. Can't wait to see it on stage and see what Linney & Nixon do with those two very different roles.
• Slate the enduring influential portrait of genius and mediocrity in Amadeus
• The Tarzan Files has images from Total Film's behind the scenes report on the Legend of Tarzan
• Variety Netflix releases some data on how quickly people binge watch but not enough. I mean, I wanna hear how often a viewer DOESN'T complete a show. There must be stats on that and is that how they decide what to cancel?
• Variety Geena Davis producing a documentary on Hollywood's gender inequality
• /Film JK Simmons is working out a lot to play Commissioner Gordon. Doesn't he know Gordon never gets any action beyond telephone calls and holding a gun?
• Village Voice on Brian de Palma and divisive auteurs eventually being labelled masters
• Comics Alliance James Wan talks about why he chose to direct Aquaman over Flash as both were offered to him
• Pajiba on the worst thing about Warcraft. Yup, we have another incredibly good looking actor (this time it's Daniel Wu) buried in makeup and latex until you can't recognize him.
• TFE ...If you missed the last podcast we talked about this problem with franchise pictures. Why do they keep hiring beautiful actors when they intend to cover up their beauty and make them unrecognizable?
• Antagony & Ecstasy a rare 10/10 review for The Lobster
Off Screen
SBS a breakdown of victim blaming using pie charts
To paraphrase Jean-Luc Godard: if you want your movie to hook an audience, all your story needs is a girl and a smoking gun. In Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg's queasily absorbing political documentary Weiner, the two smash against one another on the dick pic-riddled smartphone of disgraced former congressman, Anthony Weiner of New York.
Capturing Weiner's catastrophic 2013 New York City mayoral campaign from within the scrum and beyond the sack, the film scrutinizes the self-obsession of its candidate against his noble political ideals, and the media's lethal manipulation of the former and abject disinterest in the latter. It is also a thrilling and meticulous account of a campaign staff in free-fall, with the candidate mistaking the whir of escaping air for flight. If D.A. Pennebaker's The War Room shows us how the machinations of campaign politics successfully operate around pitfalls and personal indiscretions along the trail, Weiner demonstrates how the media can lethally wedge a dildo right between the gears.
Glenn here. Each Tuesday we bring you reviews and features on documentaries from theatres, festivals, and on demand. In celebration of not just the Cannes Film Festival, which is underway right now, but also the release of my book Cannes Film Festival: 70 Years out now through Wilkinson Publishing, we're looking at only the second documentary to win the Palme d'Or. The book is a glossy trip through history, looking at the festival's beginnings, the films, the moviestars, the fashions and the controversies. You better believe I convinced my editors on a double-page Nicole Kidman spread!
Just earlier this year I said of Michael Moore's most recent film, Where to Invade Next?, that it was "utterly disgraceful" and that it was bound to "truly be one of the year's worst movies." That film was on my mind as I sat down to rewatch the director's 2004 Palme d'Or winning documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11. Would the impact of that initial viewing of Fahrenheit 9/11 remain all these years later now that my eyes and mind are much wider? It's a little bit of yes and a little bit of no. ...more after the jump.
It's the time again: Reader Questions hooray. I picked 8 to answer this week. Thanks to everyone who asked. I can't answer all but who knows - the unanswered might well inspire something down the road, conciously or otherwise. You never know...
MARSHA: Are people like Ted Cruz, Mitch McConnell, and Donald Trump just so evil and insane that they are beyond parody, or are there actors and directors you can think of who could convey their humanity and worldview?
NATHANIEL: Marsha, I promised I wasn't going to talk about politics until September, remember?!? Don't tempt me. All I will say is that a great actor can perform magic even under impossible circumstances. Remember how deep Julianne Moore was able to go with Sarah Palin?
JB: Can we discuss Drop Dead Gorgeous. In spite of having all the right ingredients, it's never quite hit cult (gay) status like I always assumed it would. Why do you think that is?
Manuel here. Seeing as today seems to be the first day where New York City seems to have finally begun to embrace Springtime, it's no surprise I found myself lured by the warm, sunny vistas in Richard Tanne's first trailer for his Sundance flick Southside with You. The film follows the first date of an African-American couple in Chicago. Not just any couple, mind you. It's the Obamas' first date. That obviously raises the stakes though from the looks of it (and from the notices out of Sundance) the film still plays like a low-key romantic drama focused more on the couple's dynamics with a pair of eye-catching performances at its heart.
And so, let's put the trailer through our patented Yes/No/Maybe So format after the jump to see whether Tanne's film is ready for its close up.


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The Tommy Cole's Car Toot Spin attraction at dusk
The Tommy Cole's Car Toot Spin line is like an adventure into Toottown. The attraction cars are designed to look like Beauty the Cab, and when you drive you can spin them by hugging the tires.
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The following audio is from an earnings conference call that began on July 31, 2013, at 5:00 PM ET. The audio is live-streaming while the call is active, and can be replayed upon its completion.
Microchip Technology Inc. (MCHP) Management Discusses Q1 2014 Results (Webcast)
Jul.31.13 | About: Microchip Technology (MCHP)
Microchip (MCHP): FQ1 EPS of $0.57 beats by $0.03. Revenue of $462.8M (+31.4% Y/Y) beats by $8.13M. (PR)


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360 million-yr-old Gondwana fossils of early land animals found in South Africa
Johannesburg: Evidence of early land animals on the ancient southern supercontinent of Gondwana has been found in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
It includes a fossilised pincer as well as part of the tail and sting from a species of 360 million-year-old scorpions, news 24 reported.
They lived during a geological period known as the Devonian.
The small, predatory creatures, which would have snacked on the world`s first primitive insects and millipedes, were almost the length of a modern-day pencil.
The specie is dubbed Gondwanascorpio emsantsiensis by its discoverer Dr Robert Gess, a researcher at the time with the Bernard Price Institute of Palaeontological Research.
The tiny fossils were found compressed between layers of shale taken from a road cutting near Grahamstown.
The research has been published in the scientific journal, African Invertebrates.
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We sat like strangers on a train platform,
waiting for our train to be announced.
Though I sat at your side, I didn't know
what you were thinking. You didn't know
what I was thinking either. Around us
the crowd of plastic smiles jostled for
position. We were as plastic as the rest.
Our place in society thereby assured.
Bored. I stood up. You didn't seem to
mind. Through the windows I could
see the grey haze of a thunderstorm.
Reminded me of the dark spaces of
my heart. Walking in that "bored of
waiting" pattern, I noticed nothing
and nothing noticed me.
"Be right back", I shared. Your nod
neither acknowledging or concerned.
As I paced the confines of the station,
I was struck with how often in life
I paced through the decisions I made.
I felt eyes seeking mine. Turning towards
the pop machines, there I saw a woman
with blue eyes and a dangerous smile.
Her smile said "welcome", which was
not allowed in the world we lived through.
I could not resist smiling back as I
made eye contact with her. Difficult to
explain but I felt as if the outside rain
had ceased to matter anymore.
"How are you?", I intoned, in the
usual way. "Just fine, and you?", she
answered. Acceptable social contact
had been established. We mumbled
platitudes for a few moments. It comforted
me. She broke the rules and whispered,
"I am lonely and I sense you are too."
Difficult to switch from plastic to real!
We sat down together on the nearest
styrofoam couch so typical of
waiting rooms the world over.
"I need to live" I shared, uncertain
of how she would reply. "I have
survived in an acceptable pattern
for a good number of years."
"You can live, if you let yourself
do so." she insisted. "You can
drop the pretence of survival and
take the first steps towards yourself."
I considered her words. They stuck
like oil in my tumbling brain, jarring
the rusty emotions into action.
"I have to go back to my wife. We
are going to visit relatives in Montreal."
She nodded in understanding and slipped
a piece of folded paper into my hand. Opening it
I saw it was a phone number. I assumed
it belonged to her.
"Call me when you get back," she moaned,
desire slipping from her lips.
"I will", I promised, afraid to say much more.
"How did you write this down without my
seeing you do so?" I asked.
A smile on her face. "I wrote it down
this morning. I'm not here to take a trip.
I'm here to connect with destiny and
seeing you I realized what it was."
With that she got up from her seat,
returning the plastic to her face.
"Have a nice day", she gurgled.
"You too", I mumbled back.
Softly she whispered "Don't
forget to call me when you get home."
With that she walked away. I got up
and did not follow her. Went back to
pacing the train station, went back
to the reality of my life. My wife
had not noticed a thing, or was it
that she had but couldn't care less?
Our train was announced. We started
to walk towards the depature gate.
Stepping into place beside my prison,
I threw the piece of paper away.


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Pamela Anderson Named TV's Sexiest Woman Ever
Is reaching her 40s, Pamela Anderson might feel proud that she's still considered sexy. The former "Baywatch" hottie has been voted TV's Sexiest Woman Ever in a poll compiled by Internet service provider AOL.
Topped the list on the No. 1 spot, the website's editors praised Pammy as "A completely knock-out blonde who wears a bathing suit and bounces around as she saves lives - Pamela Anderson took bodacious to a new level."
Following her close at 2nd spot is Farrah Fawcett, thanks to her performance in TV series "Charlie's Angels" (1976-1977) in which she played one of the sexy crime-fighting trio, a role that made her an international sex symbol during the 70s.
Lynda Carter, better known as the original Wonder Woman, comes 3rd with the likes of Heather Locklear (Melrose Place) and Eva Longoria (Desperate Housewives) rounding out the Top 5 at No. 4 and 5 respectively. Diana Rigg, best known for her portrayal of Emma Peel in "The Avengers," scores the 6th spot, followed behind by Barbara Eden of "I Dream of Jeannie" at No. 7.
The last three spots; 8th, 9th, and 10th, are secured by Katherine Heigl (Grey's Anatomy), Catherine Bach (The Dukes of Hazzard), and Tina Louise (Gilligan's Island).
Check out TV.AOL.com to see the remaining TV's 40 Sexiest Women Ever.
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I love this little guy from the silky curls on his head right down to his big, squishy feet.
Happy 149th Birthday Canada!
11 hours ago
Cuteness Overload! xoxo
eeeeeee! so glad i saw this, i would never have thought it he would be so big by now! (how does time work?)


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Sikhism principles shared by all Americans: Obama
Washington: Greeting Sikhs across the
globe on the occasion of birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev,
US President Barack Obama said that the principles of
equality, service, interfaith cooperation and respect are
shared by all Americans.
"On Sunday, many around the world will observe the
anniversary of birth of Guru Nanak Dev Ji, the founder of
Sikhism. I send my best wishes to all those observing this
extraordinary occasion," Obama said in a White House
"This is also an opportunity to recognize the many
contributions that Sikh Americans have made to our nation, and
to reflect on the pluralism that is a hallmark of America," he
Sikhism`s principles of equality, service, interfaith
cooperation and respect are principles shared by all
Americans, Obama said.
"As Sikhs celebrate the birth of Guru Nanak, people of
good will everywhere can identify with his teachings on the
equality of all humankind and the need for compassion in our
service to others," the US President said.
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*Wouldn't you just love to work for Oprah? She's sooooo generous.
Case in point, we've learned that the media mogul recently gave her O magazine employees $10,000 each and an Apple iPad, according to a spokeswoman on Wednesday.
"As a thank you for their hard work and dedication, Oprah Winfrey surprised the staff of O, The Oprah Magazine with an Apple iPad and a check for $10,000, to commemorate the magazine's 10th anniversary," a magazine spokeswoman said.
The total number of staff members who received the gifts was not made immediately available.
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Artist: MxPx
Album: Life In General
Going nowhere fast watching cars go past
Why won't the snow melt faster?
This trip is a disaster
16 hour drive just played in some dive
New York to nowhere we're never gonna get there
A million miles away from everyone I know
Stuck here night and day with 5 more days to go
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