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Dance Quotes Books
Strictly Come Dancing, Dancing With The Stars, The Quotable Dancer, The Quotable Fred Astaire
From Ballroom to Street Dance, from Ballet to Belly Dancing, from Tap to Riverdance, from Swing and Jive to Rock and Roll, from Quickstep to Slow Dancing, from Tango to the Waltz, from the Moonwalk to the Macarena, from Breakdancing to the Soft Shoe Shuffle, from Samba to Salsa, from Paso Doble to Cha Cha Cha, from the Argentine Tango to the American Smooth.
eBOOK DETAILS
This eBook contains 1300 humorous dance quotes from stage & big screen, as well as an extensive A-Z of general dance topics and an all-embracing card of dance styles from Classical Ballet to Street Dance ...
"Mixing Ballet and Breakdance is like mixing apples and space-ships."
Touré in USA Today (2001)
The book also contains the fun things said by and about famous dancers such as: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Busby Berkeley, Martha Graham, Gene Kelly, Cyd Charisse, Bob Fosse, Nijinsky, John Travolta, Patrick Swayze, Michael Jackson, Michael Flatley, Savion Glover, even Mumbles the Penguin & Wall-E.
"Michael Jackson's dance moves were angular and twitchy, hinting at digital stops and starts rather than analog fluidity - except, of course, for his famous Moonwalk, the image of someone striding gracefully without ever leaving center stage."
Jon Pareles in The New York Times (2009)
With dance being a global phenomenon, this book reflects the cosmopolitan appeal of the terpsichorean art. With entries from all over the world and from down the centuries, this book still retains a firm focus on and the idealogical identity of North American dance.
"The Soft-Shoe Shuffle, the wistful Tom Sawyerish scuffing of the stage boards that says Americans experience an isolating loneliness as if by the provenance of birth."
T.E. Kalem in Time magazine (1975)
A selection of quotations from The Quotable Dancer
DANCE in GENERAL
"Stifling an urge to dance is bad for your health - it rusts your spirit and your hips."
Adabella Radici
"Dancing is beautiful and sexy, unless it's at an open-bar wedding reception."
Ross Werland in The Chicago Tribune (2009)
"Bad dancing is more fun to watch than bad singing is to listen to."
Dana Stevens on Slate.com (2005)
"Choreography is like moisture in the mouth of an orator."
David Lichine
"A lot of people insisted on a wall between Modern Dance and Ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things."
Twyla Tharp
"My love of my life is dancing, things like Tap, Modern, Ballet and Jazz. Also I love singing, even though my voice sounds awful, and watching me dance is like watching an elephant, so no-one does!"
Princess Diana, Letter to her nanny Mary Clarke (1978)
"I'm not an egomaniac like a lot of people say. But I am the world's best dancer, that's for sure."
Michael Flatley
"Fred Astaire's two films with Rita Hayworth are more than enough to make you forget Ginger Roger's ... Hayworth packs a shimmy that would knock Ginger back to the flatlands."
Dave Kehr in The Chicago Reader
Speaking Dance [2006] - "Burrows & Fargion belong simultaneously in Victorian music-hall and a cognitive research science lab."
Ismene Brown in The Daily Telegraph (2006)
"Her persona was smoky, sinuous, and cool: a quintessential 50s mix of sex and poise. She was the choreographic equivalent of a classic Sinatra LP."
Ty Burr in The Boston Globe (2008)
"When I go see him, if he knows 'Im there, he'll do some of my steps. The only thing is, he'll throw it in, but he'll throw it in at, like, Mach 2."
Gregory Hines
Margot {2009} - "Nureyev (played by Huisman) handsome as a Beatle, taut-haunched as a stag, and sailing across the stage like the first arrow in a castle siege."
Caitlin Moran in The Times (2009)
"At some point in the early 1980s, Michael Jackson realized he could Moonwalk It's a great stunt. Jackson liked it so much, he turned it into a lifestyle."
Giles Smith in The Independent (1992)
An American In Paris (1951) - "Astounding footwork and choreography from Gene Kelly, who makes Justin Timberlake look positively arthritic by comparison."
Empire magazine (2003)
Vogue <1990> - "A dance-floor training manual on looking good."
Stephen Holden in The New York Times (1990)
"The Mariinsky is not just a company. It's a saga about a dynasty whose bloodline is that of Ballet itself. Think of it as a sweeping Russian epic following the fortunes of an artistic, aristocratic family that is always, always aware of its breeding."
Sanjoy Roy in The Guardian (2008)
"Always succinct in his suggestions, Balanchine once told a dancer, 'Reach for it like you're reaching for a Cadillac.' They just don't reach for those Cadillacs at N.Y.C.B. anymore. It's SUV City Ballet now."
Toni Bentley in The New York Review Of Books (2005)
"Surveying choreographers, he said: 'Go and choose brain.' Like Hannibal Lecter, he sawed open the skull and feasted on the cerebrum."
Peter Conrad in The Observer (2007)
"Nothing says Great Depression like the tap-tap-tap of dancing shoes and a long, spangled kick line."
Alessandra Stanley in The New York Times (2007)
The Red Shoes (1948) - "She inspired more girls to dream of Ballerinadom than any since Pavlova ... She danced, with charm and almost infinite promise. She crossed the dance sky like a comet - never to be forgotten."
Clive Barnes in Dance magazine (2006)
Saturday Night Fever (1977) - "Travolta jaywalked across the disco floor with the hormonal dazzle of a porno polyester peacock."
Owen Gleiberman in Entertainment Weekly (2000)
DANCE on FILM
"This adolescent, awkwardly acted backstage romance wouldn't seem to call for heavy lifters, yet Susan Stroman, a two-time Tony winner, provided choreography with Christopher Wheeldon, of the N.Y. City Ballet. Why didn't they just hire Debbie Allen?"
Rita Kempley in The Washington Post (2000)
"A seemingly impossible combination of a feminist Rocky, a bar girl Fame and Jane Fonda's Workout ... the plotting in Flashdance is as loose as the dancing."
Jay Cocks in Time magazine (1983)
"Turns out it wasn't quite the last dance last time."
Christopher Null on FilmCritic.com (2006)
"The choreography and dancing in this film are unforgettable ... The dance numbers in this film make you want to run out and buy a pair of Tap shoes."
Cheryl Northcutt on ApolloGuide.com
DANCE on STAGE
"Jerry Mitchell has picked Cagelles dancers who are also acrobats, and, sure enough, the high kicks are heaven-storming and the cartwheels could loft a helicopter."
John Simon in New York magazine (2004)
"Welcome back to Chicago, where the gin's cold, the piano's hot, the dancing's even hotter ... and all that jazz."
Octavio Roca in The San Francisco Chronicle (2003)
42nd STREET
"42nd Street is the Gospel According to Tap Dance."
Skip Sheffield in The Boca Raton News (1985)
"The smile is the dance of the face, and the dance is the smile of the limbs."
F. Leslie Clendenen
"The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul."
Isadora Duncan
"Stifling an urge to dance is bad for your health - it rusts your spirit and your hips."
Adabella Radici
"As a rule of thumb if you can walk the dog in it, it has no place on the dance stage."
Louise Levene
"Dancing is like bank robbery; it takes split second timing."
Twyla Tharp
"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. Its to enjoy each step along the way."
Wayne Dyer
"Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a lawyer you do choreography he'll look at you as if you were a hummingbird."
Agnes de Mille in Life magazine (1963)
"No, I can't explain the dance to you; if I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it."
Isadora Duncan
"As a tadpole I always wanted to be a dancer. But you know what they say, the first thing to go on a frog are his legs."
Kermit the Frog on The Muppet Show (1976)
"You are never more alive than the first time someone puts a gun to your favorite head and asks you to dance."
Major Korgo Korgar on Andromeda: Cui Bono (2002)
"Tap dancing has just that contradictory posture: Buster Keaton from the waist up, Jim Carrey from the waist down."
Richard Corliss in Time magazine (2002)
"The Tango is a little unsubtle - in fact, if you met it at a dance class it would be stomping heavily on your feet in a pair of hobnailed boots."
Victoria Segal in The New Statesman (2007)
"It's not a dance. Even if you had no feet, you could still do the Macarena."
Michael Terrace
Chicago (2002) - "Even lawyers can Tap-dance. Richard Gere's own Tap dancing is on the level of the Chicago Bar Associations annual revue."
Roger Ebert in The Chicago Sun-Times (2002)
Dirty Dancing (1987) - "Swayze is a watchable bundle of tempting testosterone."
Katharine Dieckmann in The Village Voice (1987)
Lord of the Dance (1996) - "This extravaganza of Vegas Celticism has been playing to houses as packed as Michael Flatley's dancing trousers."
Matthew Sweet in The Independent (1996)
1500 Humorous Dance Quotations - Vol One
covers Strictly Come Dancing seasons 1 to 7.
BOOK DETAILSPages: 212
Cover: Paperback
Price: £10.49 (exc p&p) 30% off RRP £14.99
from Strictly Come Dancing to Footloose
from Daddy Cool to Hot Gossip
from the Moulin Rouge to The Red Shoes
from Arlene Phillips to Fiona Phillips
from Stomp The Yard to the Soft-Shoe Shuffle
from Nijinsky to They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
This volume of 1500 quotations is a light-hearted and light-footed tongue-in-cheek tribute to the great names in dance: Dancers, Choreographers, Films, Stage Shows, TV Programmes … even fictional dancers, dancing animals and other lifeforms.
As its title suggests, this book pays homage to the 21st century phenomenon known as Strictly Come Dancing (or Dancing With The Stars as the rest of the dance world knows it). As well as including many names from these global TV shows, Strictly "Quote" Dancing expands the Ballroom dance world to allow Strictly… fans the chance to explore the social and celebrity dance scene outside of their TV.
Just as the Strictly… mantle has covered the globe like a Paso Doble cape, this book matches the international reach of social dance with a particular focus on the U.K. and U.S.A. Strictly "Quote" Dancing celebrates in comic fashion the whole glitterball of glamour, glitz and gaucheness that has always pervaded the social dance world.
"Strictly... is the show that has it all: tears, adultery, screaming, serious injury ... No wonder so many EastEnders actors feel so at home there."
Katy Guest in The Independent on Sunday (2007)
Inspired by STRICTLY COME DANCING, this book delivers enough comical content to fill the most discerning judge's dance card.
"People love to follow celebrities and watch them being humiliated. In the past we had the stocks; now we have Strictly..."
Craig Revel Horwood in The Daily Mail (2008)
This light-footed volume of 1500 light-hearted quotes covers every angle of the dance world from the Len GOODman, the LamBADa and the JitterbUGLY.
As the title suggests - this fun-packed book focuses on the first 7 seasons of Strictly Come Dancing ...
On why he agreed to take part in 'Strictly...' - "It was the prospect of dancing with a woman for a change."
Julian Clary (2004)
It reveals an amusing aspect of the show through the words of celebrity and professional dancers, judges, hosts, fans and the media.
"When Strictly... first quick-stepped onto our screens, it was as fresh and innocent as a newly-sewn sequin on a novice's ballgown."
Amanda Platell in The Daily Mail (2009)
"Strictly... is a proper, serious, intelligent sport. Unlike football, which is just some petty form of light entertainment."
Viv Groskop in The Mail on Sunday (2009)
"That's pro-celebrity Ballroom for you. It damn near strips a man naked, bar the sequins."
Giles Smith in The Times (2006)
"When it comes to the Strictly... debate, I'm on John Sergeant's side. We who Salsa like reversing dump-trucks have to stick together."
Rowan Pelling in The Daily Telegraph (2008)
As well as SCD other TV dance shows (from Come Dancing to So You Think You Can Dance) are also covered...
"These days you can't swing a sequined dress without hitting a dance reality TV show."
Emily Macel in Dance magazine (2008)
"It goes without saying SYTYCD should have been called So You Think You Can Be Any More Like X Factor And Britain's Got Talent If You Try?"
Ian Hyland in The News of the World (2010)
This book includes comical content about famous dancers ...
"Patrick Swayze is a watchable bundle of tempting testosterone."
Katharine Dieckmann in The Village Voice (1987)
"In Saturday Night Fever, John Travolta jay-walked across the disco floor with the hormonal dazzle of a porno polyester peacock."
Owen Gleiberman in Entertainment Weekly (2000)
As such, Strictly 'Quote' Dancing celebrates in frivolous fashion the gaudy global glitterball of glamour, glitz and garish gaucheness that has always pervaded the dance world.
As a taster of what Strictly 'Quote' Dancing holds in store, here is a sample of quotations ...
"Dancing is beautiful and sexy, unless it's at an open-bar wedding reception."
Ross Werland
"Theoretically, I am ready to go to anything - once. If it moves, I'm interested; if it moves to music, I'm in love."
Arlene Croce in The New Yorker (2000)
"There will be a rain dance Friday night ... weather permitting."
George Carlin
"You know what they say about revenge: Best taken in a frilly frock."
Anton Du Beke
"If ballroom dancing is the new sex, then Anton Du Beke is its Dr. Alex Comfort. He pulls on the waistband of his trousers and wiggles it around. His sorrowful eyes are as big and glistening as Medjool dates ... he is a cross between a camp Svengali and a merciless chiropractor."
Elizabeth Grice in The Daily Telegraph (2004)
DANCING WITH THE STARS USA - "George Hamilton is 66. It doesn't matter. He's in his element, shimmying across the floor with the grace of a man half his age hoping against hope that the knee cartilage holds out."
Duncan Kennedy on BBC.co.uk (2006)
Dance movies ...
PULP FICTION (1994) - "Travolta in a Twist contest with Uma Thurman during the legendary scene at Jack Rabbit Slims; so cool, they reach all the way round the thermometer and wind up at 'hot' again."
Richard Ouzounian in The Toronto Star (2007)
"When Billy asks his mate, 'Who do you think is better, Fred Astaire or Ginger Rogers?' you know you're in for a sticky-sweet ride aboard the treacle train."
Mark Savlov in The Austin Chronicle (2000)
"The movie's 'Odessa Steps' is a stompin', Charlie Daniels'-scored Riverdance that could drive a dog to suicide."
Michael Atkinson in The Village Voice (2000)
"Song-and-dance numbers in which the girls splay, split and kick their legs like Swiss Army knives with all the blades going at once and the men clutch their privates."
Rhoda Koenig in The Independent (2006)
"Back in the day, they probably would have called it You Got To Step Up 2 Be Served Hairspray And Stomp The Yard To Save The Last High School Musical."
Michael Rechtshaffen in Film Journal International (2009)
Stage musicals ...
LORD OF THE DANCE [1996] - "This extravaganza of Vegas Celticism has been playing to houses as packed as Michael Flatley's dancing trousers."
Matthew Sweet in The Independent (1996)
"Dance is sex here; it makes losing your virginity as easy as doing the Cha-Cha-Cha."
Lyn Gardner in The Guardian (2006)
"This is an ensemble piece which is at times so cleverly and frenetically choreographed that it resembles a human Red Arrows display."
Dawn Collinson in The Liverpool Echo (2006)
DANCING on ASTAIRE2000 Biographical Quotations about the world's favourite dancer.
Click here for more details of the Fred Astaire quotes book
"I don't remember anybody ever pointing me out as a dancing prodigy, but I played a not bad second base."
Fred Astaire (c 1936)
"Youth is believing that someday you'll dance like Fred Astaire."
Jacqueline Friedrich
"Give Mr. Astaire a hunk of rhythm, a straw boater and a girl, and he's your man."
Bosley Crowther in The New York Times (1950)
"Fred Astaire bursts into a dance which in its speed and unselfconsciousness seems equally to break the laws of nature."
Graham Greene in The Spectator (1936)
"He was the Duke of Windsor of music: glorious, subtle, aloof, elegant."
Joel Grey
"Fred Astaire is the saint of 1930s sophistication, the butterfly in motion."
David Thomson, Biographical Dictionary of Film (2002)
"The thirties musicals of Astaire worked as spontaneous eruptions of energy, as Astaire's body almost seemed to liquefy as walk became dance and speech became the lilting cadence of song."
Saige Walton in Contemporary Comic Book Superhero (2009)
A Fitting Tribute to Fred Astaire's Memory
by Sam Browning
from the Barnes and Noble Dancing On Astaire web page
"An amazing collection of quotations on the one and only Fred Astaire. The title says it all 'Dancing on Astaire' as in the whole dance world, or so it seems, has their say on Mr Astaire. Not surprisingly given Fred's legend and standing - in Hollywood, Broadway and the West End - 99.9% of the biographical quotes about him are positive and deeply respectful of his talent, his demeanor and his unmatched class.
The quality of the quotations collected here is highly impressive and the scope of the book is almost as jaw-dropping as one of Fred's dance routines - there is even a section on the infamous Dirt Devil adverts.
All in all a wonderful book full of great memories about a great dancer and a great man."
(for the US edition of The Quotable Fred Astaire)
Pages: 140
Cover: Paperback
Size: 6" x 9"
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A Comical Collection of Humorous Quotations
on TV Dance Shows …
from DANCING WITH THE STARS to SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE
"DWTS ... a contest that is as much about redemption as it is about the Rumba."
Alessandra Stanley in The New York Times (2007)
"Doing a show like Dancing With The Stars is pretty much the most famous you can get as a dancer unless you're Baryshnikov or something."
Julianne Hough (2008)
As the title suggests, this fun-packed book focuses on the first nine seasons of Dancing With The Stars. Inspired by the hit US TV show, this book delivers enough comical content to fill the most discerning judge's dance card.
On Clyde Drexler's Rumba - "Oh my God. Clyde, I know you're a gentleman … But this was so polite - it was like a Rumba under an anesthetic."
Bruno Tonioli on Dancing With The Stars (2007)
It reveals an amusing aspect of the show through the words of celebrity and professional dancers, judges, hosts, fans and the media.
"I didn't know there would be this much dancing!"
Penn Jillette on Dancing With The Stars (2008)
"DWTS is a shimmery, glittery, fraught-with-injuries 10-week competition between dance pairs - one pro and one celebrity - joined in a televised matrimony of sorts."
April MacIntyre on MonstersAndCritics.com (2009)
By is very nature of focusing on TV dance shows in the 20th century, the majority of the quotations contained in this book come from the last ten years. This ultra-contemporary content, in terms of dance history, makes this book as fresh and as vibrant as the latest street dance craze.
As well DWTS, this book also features quotations about other U.S. dance shows from American Bandstand to So You Think You Can Dance ...
"The Pony, the Jitterbug, the Twist, the Chalypso (a Cha-Cha, Calypso combination) - they danced them all at Bandstand. They even - gasp! - slow-danced."
The Hollywood Reporter (2002)
"The super-progressive SYTYCD makes DWTS look like a trip to the retirement home."
Kyle Anderson on MTV.com (2009)
Just as the DWTS mantle has covered the globe like a peripatetic Paso cape, this book matches the international reach of dance on TV. DANCING WITH THE QUOTES also includes content from TV series around the world. These include DWTS' quick-step-mother - Strictly Come Dancing from the U.K. and DWTS spin-offs from Australia and New Zealand.
On Ian Meldrum's Cha-Cha-Cha - "Not many Cha-Chas died in the making of that Cha-Cha routine."
Todd McKenney on Dancing With The Stars AUS (2006)
Although these international names may not be as familiar to U.S. readers as their 'homegrown' stars; like dance itself - the humor of the quotes and quips transcends all borders.
"That's pro-celebrity Ballroom for you. It damn near strips a man naked, bar the sequins."
Giles Smith in The Times (2006)
As such, DANCING WITH THE QUOTES celebrates in frivolous fashion the global glitterball of glamour, glitz and garish gaucheness that has always pervaded the TV dance world.
"Welcome to the world of teeth and tans. We certainly embrace the retro camp quality. Where else can you Vienna Waltz to a Sonny and Cher song?"
Tom Bergeron on Dancing With The Stars (2005)
The diverse and sometimes obscure content entertainingly covers everything from the Len GOODman, the LamBADa and the JitterbUGLY.
On Bill Ray Cyrus' Waltz - "The trouble was there was only one recognizable step: the Shadow Botafogos ... and that's a Samba step!"
Len Goodman on Dancing With The Stars (2007)
On Mya and Dmitry Chaplin's Lambada - "Though last week's rumba was a little busy for my taste, their lambada was just right: hot and spicy with a side of raunch dressing."
Allyssa Lee in The Los Angeles Times (2009)
On Donny Osmond and Kym Johnson's railroad-inspired Jitterbug - "A little like looking at a steam train trying to keep up with a speeding bullet train."
Bruno Tonioli on Dancing With The Stars (2009)
DANCING WITH THE STARSTaken from Dancing With The Quotes, - the following are some of our favorite fun quotes from the last Series of Dancing With The Stars ... with a quote about each of the 16 celebrities.
Selected Quotes from Series 9 (2009)
"DWTS announced the pairings for its upcoming season - some out there are no doubt crunching the odds of Debi Mazar and that Russian guy squaring off with Chuck Liddell and ... that Russian chick in the finals."
Peter Vonder Haar in The Houston Press (2009)
"Note to producers: How about getting real dancers going against real dancers? Here's where Paula Abdul could shine. Stick her against Ben Vereen, Savion Glover, Chita Rivera and Debbie Allen and we might just have a show."
Bruce Miller in The Sioux City Journal (2009)
"One of the better dancers [Natalie Coughlin] was unceremoniously booted from DWTS, to the point where - no kidding - one of the judges [Len Goodman] pleaded with viewers to remember that as much as they love an underdog, they should be thinking more about justice. Dancing justice! Sparkly, spray-tanned, dancing justice!"
Linda Holmes on NPR.org (2009)
Partnered by ALEC MAZO
On her Paso Doble - "Natalie got busted by the Lift Police, aka Carrie Ann, and slid badly, at least in comparison to her rising competitors. Is this the equivalent of swimming into the wall?"
Lorilee Craker in The Grand Rapids Press (2009)
Partnered by JONATHAN ROBERTS
"Macy, who's clunky and weird ... She moves a little like a tank controlled by a drunk driver."
Daniel Carlson in The Houston Press (2009)
Partnered by MARK BALLAS
On her Viennese Waltz - "Melissa is too tense to pull off the delicateness of the dance at times. She's floating one second and looks like she borrowed Debi Mazar's legs the next."
Joyce Eng in TV Guide (2009)
Partnered by TONY DOVOLANI
On her Quickstep - "Tony looks as if he's leading his tall, fragile aunt around the floor - and Kathy really is too hot to be giving off that vibe."
Natalie Finn on EOline.com (2009)
Partnered by DEREK HOUGH
On the Marathon Mambo dance off - "No way Joanna wins over Mya. She's just not working it as well and ... really?!? They're giving it to Joanna??? It's a travesty, a sham, and a mockery. It's a travashamockery."
Tamara Brooks on Blog.Zap2it.com (2009)
Partnered by MAKSIM CHMERKOVSKIY
On her Salsa - "On the good side you can work those bazooms like nobody else and I got a lot of value out of that."
Bruno Tonioli on Dancing With The Stars (2009)
Partnered by DMITRY CHAPLIN
On her Salsa - "She got another perfect 30 ... her solo was slamming. If she doesn't win DWTS, she should go on So You Think You Can Dance and kick some arse over there."
Gina Carbone on SeaCoastOnline.com (2009)
Partnered by LOUIS van AMSTEL
"Kelly has grown during this season and I'm amazed at the poise that young lady now has. It seems like only yesterday that she had pink hair!"
Linda M on TVGrapevine.com (2009)
Partnered by KARINA SMIRNOFF
On his Quickstep - "Bruno calls it 'Spectacular Spectacular!' and calls Aaron 'a mini-Fred Astaire.' That's gross. Really? Aaron Carter was just compared to Fred Astaire."
Kim Wetter on Buddy.tv (2009)
Partnered by LACEY SCHWIMMER
On his Samba - "It was a little bit like watching Kung Fu Panda does the samba in the Planet Of The Apes."
Bruno Tonioli on Dancing With The Stars (2009)
TOM DeLAY
Partnered by CHERYL BURKE
"Watching former Republican Speaker of the House Tom DeLay disgrace himself and the United States Congress over the years, I distinctly remember thinking, 'Sure, this dirt bag is ethically challenged, but can he dance?' So what songs would you add for this Happy Hoofer? As George Michael taught us, 'Guilty feet have no rhythm.' "
David Wild on HuffingtonPost.com (2009)
Partnered by EDYTA SLIWINSKA
On his Foxtrot - "They are decent, but there are definitely stretches where they have pro-dances-literal-circles-around-partner syndrome. (I think we need a pithier name for that because it's definitely going to come up again. We'll call it PDLCAPS for now.)"
Sarah Kelber in The Baltimore Sun (2009)
Partnered by ANNA DEMIDOVA
On his Quickstep - "It's refreshing that the huge jock doesn't have 'Weeks 1-5 Masculinity Issues Syndrome' this season."
Annie Barrett in Entertainment Weekly (2009)
Partnered by ANNA TREBUNSKAYA
"Almost certainly the scariest person to ever dance on DWTS."
Verne Gray in Newsday (2009)
Partnered by KYM JOHNSON
On his Jive - "Kym's worried about the jive since Donny's the second oldest in the competition, but Kym, there's nothing a ham can't do - in a suede purple suit."
Joyce Eng in TV Guide (2009)
Partnered by CHELSIE HIGHTOWER
"Apparently, our boy is getting criticized for, basically, not moving well enough. 'You're still stepping ... you have to dance!' remarked judge Bruno Tonioli. Come on, Bruno! Have you seen how this boy dances on the slopes?! It's enough to make Baryshnikov weep!"
Glenn Steinbaum on TheSkiChannel.com (2009)
"DWTS is a cakewalk for the pros, or it would be if they didn't have to train rookies. You almost feel bad for them, and have to wonder if the pro dancing circuit refers to the show as Dancing With The Idiots."
Daniel Carlson in The Houston Press (2009)
"I can hardly believe that Kelly Osbourne seems more intense about DWTS than her partner Louis Van Intensity."
Annie Barrett in Entertainment Weekly (2009)
"62-year-old Tom Delay is partnered with Cheryl Burke, who has a painful, beauty-pageant runner-up smile plastered on her face, like she just can't figure out what she did to deserve this."
Sarah Kelber in The Baltimore Sun (2009)
"Mya and Dmitry were both pretty in pink as they danced a '70s-style samba - which basically meant that they moved at hustle speed and Dmitry wore a mustache."
Natalie Finn on EOline.com (2009)
"He's very funny, he's very sweet, and he's very patient. He's got a great sense of humor. And I can't stop looking at that butt!"
Debi Mazar (2009)


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Here are some really cute Minnie Mouse Party Ideas for your child's birthday.
Minnie Mouse Party Ideas
My niece had a Minnie Mouse birthday party for her 1st Birthday and had a lot of cute decorations! Although, like always, I forgot to take pictures of everything. I do have some to share with all of you! One of my favorite things is going to a party where all the decorations match with the theme of the party.
Minnie Mouse Party Ideas:
Minnie Mouse Balloon Wreath – Look at this cute Minnie Mouse wreath that my sister-in-law made to decorate their front door! Not only does it incorporate the theme, but it is adorable. You can easily make one of these wreaths for any party theme you are having by using any color of balloons that match your theme. This is also one decoration that you can keep!
Minnie Mouse Watermelon – This is one of my favorite decorations from the party! I love when you can incorporate the food into the party decorations. Not only does it look cute sitting on the table, but you get to enjoy fruit salad too. Get your own Minnie Mouse Stencil here. Also, take a look at our Watermelon Baby Carriage.
Minnie Mouse Party Arrow – This is a cute decoration that allows you to incorporate the child's name with the party.
Minnie Mouse Desserts – They also had a cute candy table {sorry no pic!} but I love the Minnie Mouse tags that are shown in this picture!
Not only were all the decorations cute, but the party girl absolutely loved it! Check out how you can make your own DIY Minnie Mouse Finger nails! Also, take a look at the Dr. Seuss themed birthday party I had for my son when he turned 1.
Here are some great tips for having a Minnie Mouse Party on a Budget!

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Yavneh Academy 2013-2014 Year Begins 20 Years of Combining College Prep Academics and Heritage
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When Yavneh Academy's Bulldog Head Coach and Director of Co-Curricular Activities David Zimmerman blew the shofar during morning prayer services on Wednesday, August 21, he rang out the voice of the Hebrew month of Elul – the preparation for the upcoming Jewish New Year. In doing so, he too welcomed the start of Yavneh's 2013-2014 year.
123 Yavneh students and faculty members make the Schultz Rosenberg Campus (SR Campus) their academic home, combining first-rate college preparatory studies with those of personal history and heritage.
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To kick off the start of its twentieth year, student families and faculty gathered in Pollman Hall on Monday for a New Parent Orientation and Back-To-School Picnic, where old friendships were renewed and new ones introduced. Earlier in the day, faculty gathered for their own orientation, welcomed to the new year by Meyer Denn, Executive Director of the Center for Jewish Education at the Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas.
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The days of a teacher spending every class behind a lectern aren't behind us yet, but things are changing in America's high school and college classrooms – and technology is helping support this change. According to CDW-G's Learn Now, Lecture Later report, 69 percent of students want to use more technology in their classes as a learning tool, and they are asking for a greater mix of learning models, including hands-on projects, independent study and virtual learning. Learn Now, Lecture Later finds that students and faculty are rethinking how they use technology in the classroom, and they are looking beyond the standard applications to more interactive use. In fact, the study found that 76 percent of IT professionals say faculty requests for classroom technology are up, and that teachers are requesting everything from tablets to telepresence solutions. But the move away from the lectern is not without some challenges. In fact, 88 percent of teachers report that this shift may be difficult. After budget, teachers and IT professionals report their top challenges are access to technology, lack of professional development, class size and time. Learn more.
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4 bar lead line from a song i worked on and recorded, basic distortion, key of D
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first 1.8 seconds of bowed guitar (harmonic noise) stretched x25, (and stereo effect). now vowel (talkbox like) effect added.
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Robbin Thompson released his first album, "Robbin Thompson," in 1976 on the Atlantis label "Nemperer" and it featured the contributions of Steve Cropper, one of the world's greatest soul guitarists,Timothy B. Schmit from the Eagles and Melissa Manchester. This album was followed by a collaborative album with Steve Bassett that first featured their hit, "Sweet Virginia Breeze." After his third album, "Two B's, Please" was released in 1980, Thompson says his band "basically toured for 5 yrs playing everywhere in the southeast and a few concerts in other places like NYC, Chicago, most everywhere east of the Mississippi."
Over the years, Thompson has developed a more relaxed style of performing. " I definitely prefer "listening" venues over the bar type venues. In fact…I don't play the "bars" venues anymore at all. When performing solo, i feel it important to sometimes explain why a song was written and also just to interject some of the stories that relate to the stuff I write. You can't do that in a venue where the music is secondary."
He has continued to write and record while serving as Vice-President and co-founder of "In Your Ear Music and Recording Corporation" which specializes in composing and producing music for commercials and films. Along with sailing in the Chesapeake Bay, Thompson has been very active in an international aid organization led by his friend Marielle Sander Lindstrom. He traveled to Cambodia to help with a campaign sponsored by The Asia Foundation to combat human trafficking. Thompson spent several inspiring weeks traveling in Cambodia, getting to know the people while recording their voices and traditional instruments as a tract for the campaign that was rolled out in early 2008. According to Thompson, "The Asia Foundation song I wrote and produced was a very successful ad campaign that helped the fight against trafficking in humans in S.E. Asia."
Future projects for Thompson include new music. He says "I'm slowly working on a cd now. Some possible cuts written by Steve Bassett and me may be included." A reunion with his band is scheduled for December as well as a solo tour of Scandinavia in 2010. He remains loyal to his Virginia roots, residing and working in Richmond and continuing to write songs about living in the Old Dominion. His advice for young musicians growing up in Virginia and dreaming about a career in the industry? "If you're going to leave the place that made you, believed in you, and inspired you to pursue fame and fortune, I would suggest to do it early. I just found Virginia to be the place for me. I've been all over the world playing music. Coming back home is the best. Most take for granted their backyard."
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A buddy of mine used to have a PC that didn't work through his
employer's network but tapped straight into the internet (not sure how
that setup worked, so just bear with me). Recently, they moved from a
wired network to a wireless one. To our knowledge, that machine is
still set up with a direct connection (he uses an external computer
system and it doesn't work well with the netowork).
A mutual friend of ours happened to mention the concept of a packet
sniffer to him and now he's completely paranoid about using said PC
for anything other than the strictest of business. A day gets boring,
so you hit a few of your gaming forums, browse a bunch of news sites,
and maybe doing some instant messaging (GMail ftw!), whatever. No,
he's not hitting porn; he's bored, not a moron!
I've tried explaining to him that the only reason they're going to be
checking his traffic is if he's given them a reason to do so. He
busts his ass for the company, is almost always on time, works OT at
the drop of a hat, and is basically his boss's right hand man. Even
so, he won't so much as crack open his GMail now to check it during
the day out of fear of Big Brother watching.
So I ask: How likely is it that his IT department is bothering to sit
down and piece together his IM threads to find out about us talking
about Dr. Who's season finale? Sure they COULD do that, but does any
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Wealthy Americans knew last month that barring a legislative miracle they were going to pay higher taxes this year. So what did they do? A lot of them bought luxury cars.
German luxury car maker BMW AG says today that it's U.S. sales in December set a new record of 43,855 vehicles, up nearly 35% from a year ago, capping a new record year. BMW took an aggressive approach to the traditional year-end luxury auto sales push, allocating more cars to the U.S. market and sweetening deals with discounts of $3,50o a car or more.
Audi of America, the U.S. arm of Volkswagen AG's main luxury brand said it, too, set new full-year and December sales records. Audi said it sold more than 13,000 cars and sport utilities last month, the first time the brand's ever sold that many vehicles in a single month in the U.S. market.
Update: Mercedes-Benz, the luxury brand of Germany's Daimler AG, says its U.S. sales arm boosted sales of Mercedes luxury vehicles for 2012 by nearly 12% to a new record of 274,134 cars and SUVs. That's about 7,000 vehicles shy of the full-year sales reported for the rival BMW brand.
Toyota Motor Corp.'s Lexus brand, which has been overhauling its product line for much of the past year, said December sales rose more than 20% from a year ago, propelled by demand for its revamped ES sedan models.
Less fortunate was Ford Motor Co.'s Lincoln brand, which is in the middle of a reboot of its product lineup and brand image. December sales dropped 12% from last year. General Motors Co.'s Cadillac division bumped up December sales by 12%, but finished down 1.7% for all of 2012, well behind BMW, Lexus and Mercedes and only about 10,000 vehicles ahead of Audi.


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RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina educators will have a new way to save for retirement by investing from their paycheck.
State Treasurer Janet Cowell on Friday is unveiling details of a new statewide retirement option for teachers and school personnel that is similar to a 401(k) savings account. The 403(b) program was authorized by the General Assembly in 2012 and approved by a board of trustees for retirement plans last week.
It will now be offered across North Carolina.
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The Wembley Problem
May 23rd, 2011 by Dan Meyer
The teacher put up this photo at the start of class and asked her students, "Where's the maths in this picture?" She asked them to discuss the question in their groups while she took attendance. After four minutes, she pulled them back together and asked a student from each group to tell her where they found the maths in Wembley Stadium.
"The amount of seats," one student said.
"Area and perimeter," said another student.
"The number of seats," said a third student.
"We already have the number of seats," said the teacher.
The student tried again. "The, uh, perimeter … of the lines."
The teacher pressed a little — what lines? what perimeter? — and then accepted it.
After two more groups, a girl named Sarah said something I can't quite make out on the video, but the teacher was visibly floored.
"Have you read my lesson plan?!" she said. "Because that is very, very spooky. Because what we're actually going to look at today is based on what Sarah just said. I'm a little bit … that's very odd … but good stuff."
What I'm suggesting with #anyqs and my last post is that:
- If you give students some photo of their world and tell them, "We're definitely applying math to this — you figure out how," you're confusing the master and the servant in the relationship between math and their world.
- If a majority of your students are interested in a single question (eg. the number of seats) then use it. That's a gift. Can math help your students resolve that curiosity?
- Conversely, if you are shocked when your students' questions zero in on the point of your lesson, you're designing your curriculum for the only person in the room you shouldn't care about.
2011 May 24. Bowen Kerins picks up some of my slack:
There's a big fault with this sort of question that you didn't mention: students start skipping the mathematics altogether and try to determine what it is the teacher wants them to say. It's the equivalent of the teacher asking "What number am I thinking of?" then waiting for a bunch of answers. It's a totally different game, decidedly not math, and not even close to good inquiry-based teaching. Such questions should either be clarified or just not asked in the first place.
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on 23 May 2011 at 1:57 pm1 Mike
I must say that I am intrigued by the topic the girl and teacher were both thinking of, but perhaps that's because I'm more inclined like them. It hits me that this is a very familiar difference between myself and most people I meet and socialize with, where I'll ponder some thought in public, staring at a logo or piece of architecture which when published as a problem in a book would be clear-cut pseudo-context.
Most people I knew didn't care about the relative motion of trains or the strange physics one assumes for the length of time of a single math textbook problem.
Looking at that photo, I think that at that resolution and lack of a unit of scale, seat count and field/stadium dimensions are rather difficult to parse. I think the choice of research based on the relative difficulty and/or interestingness is an worthy question for class discussion. However that generally might require instructors be experienced researchers themselves.
Do you do what you love, or do what you get paid to do?
If anyone cares, my thought went quickly to "How long does it take to mow that lawn and what's the pathing?" After that "What's the average/best seat in the stadium (considering price and/or view)?"
on 23 May 2011 at 1:58 pm2 Matt
I'm not sure I understand. Is this hypothetical? I can't see the video anywhere.
This is a video I was watching for a research project. I'm summarizing what I saw. Names have been changed, etc.
I'm assuming the use of comic sans is intentional.
I agree with your points, and I was thinking about #3 before I got to it, but now I disagree because of one exception:
if the question your lesson is answering is one of those questions where the students say something like "ooohhh. . .yeah, that's something I'd like to know, I just didn't think of it myself" (not that I have any students like that), or "wait, that's MATH?!? How?" That could still be a good curriculum item with a good intro, even if only one other person thought of the same question on his/her own.
But otherwise, I'm right with you.
in an ideal world, the teacher would care about delivering the curricula in a way that cares enough about what every learner needs. Perhaps you meant to say, the only person in the room you don't need to WORRY about?
on 23 May 2011 at 6:44 pm7 louise
So put up all the questions, and then let them have at it. They can pick one, then put up the solutions together. Remind them that we don't really know the answers, we're going for reasoning. Have them give a list of possible things that could make their estimate wrong (e.g. seats removed for wheelchair access). Oops! suddenly we got science.
@Mr. K, same photo and same font as the teacher used, believe it or not.
@Brian, can you favor me with an example?
@Ben, what I'm saying is that the teacher is designing curricula for herself. I've clarified the text. Thanks.
louise: So put up all the questions, and then let them have at it.
Not all questions are answerable given the information available. Not all questions require the same mathematical competencies. Problems?
on 23 May 2011 at 7:15 pm10 Bowen Kerins
When we were writing our materials, we called this sort of thing a "what's in my head" question. There's a big fault with this sort of question that you didn't mention: students start skipping the mathematics altogether and try to determine what it is the teacher wants them to say. It's the equivalent of the teacher asking "What number am I thinking of?" then waiting for a bunch of answers.
It's a totally different game, decidedly not math, and not even close to good inquiry-based teaching. Such questions should either be clarified or just not asked in the first place.
It's interesting to compare this to #anyqs, where the goal seems to be to make as certain as possible that the question the kids come up with is the same as the one in the lesson plan — taking the path of not asking the question, letting students construct it. (Can we ever be certain it will happen the "right" way, though?)
on 23 May 2011 at 8:18 pm11 Timon Piccini
So in this case Dan (let's get rid of the fact the teacher was surprised), how many students does it take to make our anyqs legit? I know there is not a magic number, and not every student is going to come up with the same question, but how do we gauge if our anyqs has generated a natural question that the whole class can buy into.
I know we can post them to twitter, but I feel like a group of math teachers are naturally going to gravitate more toward the "mathy" questions.
Bowen: (Can we ever be certain it will happen the "right" way, though?)
I'm probably playing a bunch of semantic games here, but I don't want to suggest there's a "right" question. I do have a question I'd like students to consider, a question I think is important and worthy of their time. That question comes from a certain context. How do I represent that context to my students so that the question I'm wondering seems compelling to them also?
I'm curious, for instance, how the classroom would have looked if the teacher had shown some video of some kind of stadium stampede, something to trigger the thought that, "my word, we need to do something about this."
Timon: So in this case Dan (let's get rid of the fact the teacher was surprised), how many students does it take to make our anyqs legit?
A majority, maybe? But consider that students may have lots of questions about a given context. Maybe "how many fire exits are there?" is the predominant question for only 40% of the students but it's somewhere in the top three for the rest. I can live with that. I can't live with instructional design that disregards the likely questions students might have about a given context, which is what we're working against with #anyqs.
And Dan's just hit on the most broken piece of instruction today. It was mentioned earlier in the comments as "guess what's in my head" and teachers do it everytime. The concept of #anyqs is powerful because you're going up the "power" of directing what the class should be learning to your students.
Yes, you should probably be strategic with the use of your #anyqs to at least craft them in such a way that your image or video is more likely to draw out the questions that are pertinent to what you need to cover, but when you ask a room full of students something as broad and unengaging as "where's the math" you better be prepared to follow the student's lead on that one, otherwise you're going to disenfranchise their curiosity.
on 24 May 2011 at 6:28 am14 Joshua Schmidt
I think that it's also going to be different for each classroom. In a classroom with leaders who are going to eat up mathematical context, the questions usually will be more to what I would have "wanted". However, in the lower level classrooms where leaders are harder to come by, it's important that the question that you as a class are pursuing is important to the students. I don't like the idea of having to put a number on it, as long as your students truly value the question that you are solving. Most of the time, I don't think the question really matters as long as the kids are learning something valuable.
My point is that each classroom setting is going to be different, and we should embrace that. Taking a "one size" fits all approach seems counterintuitive to inquiry based teaching in general. If you want a specific question answered, ask that question, the students will learn the material that is valuable to that teacher. If you create a good enough visual or manipulative, then the question will be created for you (or at least one that is worthwhile).
on 24 May 2011 at 7:11 am15 Matt
Dan, I feel like you need a "hashtag" definition in your sidebar or something. I'm getting very frustrated trying to figure out what these stand for. Like does anyqs stand for any question? And that one that starts with a w…no clue… Being late to the game and reading your blog gets frustrating sometimes as I feel out of the loop.
Matt, WCYDWT stands for "what can you do with this," I think, but to be honest, I'm not entirely sure that I understand what that means.
on 24 May 2011 at 10:06 am17 cheesemonkeysf
I vehemently agree with Bowen and Ben about the need to avoid asking "Guess what I'm thinking questions."
For this reason, I wonder if it might not be better to separate the generative part of the process (having students pose questions) from the "settling on a specific question for the group to investigate" part of the process.
In teaching writing, we try to emphasize separating the generative process from the editing process. Why not do the same thing with mathematical question-posing?
Starting from that assumption, I find myself wondering why would we not pose the #anyqs question to the students as, How many mathematical questions can you come up with? And then capture them ALL on the board.
Or set a timer for 5-7 minutes and have pairs or groups generate lists of as many mathematical questions as they can come up with before the timer goes off. THEN start gathering or sorting them on the board as a whole class.
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By Spc. Emily Knitter, 1HBCT Public Affairs October 26, 2011
FORT STEWART, Ga. - "Today is Georgia Southern University's Military Appreciation Day," said Col. Roger Cloutier, the Third Infantry Division Deputy Commanding General-Maneuver. "They wanted to recognize the sacrifice and service of all of Americas' military personnel. But they did that specifically today by partnering with the 3rd ID."
Georgia Southern University, in Statesboro, Ga., hosts a Military Appreciation Day annually, this year partnering with the 3rd Inf. Div. during their home game against Presbyterian College, Oct. 22.
"I think it is awesome that GSU wants to tell the Soldiers' story," Cloutier continued. "They want to talk about the great men and women that are out there serving in harms way every day, their commitment, their courage, and their dedication to service."
One way the university honored the Soldiers was bringing two injured Warriors from Fort Stewart's Warrior Transition Unit onto the field to participate in the coin toss.
Sergeant Christopher Lowe, a forward observer currently attached to the WTU, was injured during combat in Afghanistan in August 2009. Awarded the Combat Action Badge, Bronze Star for Valor and Purple Heart, being chosen for the coin toss was more than just a military honor. A student himself of GSU, Lowe said walking onto Paulson Stadium was a personal moment.
"I get to do what 25,000 other students don't get to do," Lowe, a native of Savannah, Ga., said with a smile. "The only worry was I had to make sure the coin landed on the right side."
He then became serious and stated that knowing the community took the time to respect him and all the other Soldiers meant a lot.
"It's nice because they recognize us when so many people don't," he said.
Staff Sgt. Will Steinhauer, a recruiter with the Savannah Co., Jacksonville Battalion, was one of a handful of recruiters present at the game to talk to interested candidates and answer any questions people might have had. But most significantly, the team brought a group of forty future Army Soldiers to walk onto the field during half time and take the Oath of Enlistment.
"We are proud of them and the commitment they are making," Steinhauer said. "So we are letting them make that commitment in front of their local population."
Steinhauer also felt the support from the game attendees.
"I came here from Germany and you don't get a lot of support like this there," he said. "So it's actually really nice to have people shake your hand and say, 'We're proud of you, we appreciate you.' It means a lot, it really does."
GSU students took the time as well to reflect on the day as more than just another football game. Chris Baker, a student and military Family Member, said he appreciates everything that Soldiers do.
"It's really hard on Families as well, even though people don't really understand it," he added. "I salute all the Soldiers and I am even thinking about going into the service after I graduate."
The school went as far as possible to show their respect for the military, and for 3rd Inf. Div. in particular. The members on the football team even wore 3rd Inf. Div. patches on the back of their helmets for the game.
"It gives me a deep sense of pride to see our patch on the back of every GSU helmet, to see our colors out on the field, our video on the screen and to enlist 40 brand new Soldiers," said Cloutier.
But the most moving moment came not from an organized recognition, but the crowd itself, he said.
"What was incredible was on their own, with no prompting from anybody, the entire stadium stood up in silence [during the Oath of Enlistment] out of respect for what those young kids were doing," he said. "I thought that was an incredible honor that they gave those Soldiers and I think it's great that Statesboro and GSU are recognizing their sacrifice and all that they do."
Colonel George Frederick, the most recent professor of military science at GSU and now the Rear Chief of Staff for the 3rd Inf. Div., said that that is one of the greatest things about this local community.
"I live in this community, I know this community, I know the leaders of this university, and I know the people in this community," he explained. "It's not lip service when they say they appreciate the military. They do this annually, and they've been doing this for years. I think if you just walk around here and see the people, you can see the respect. When Col. Cloutier enlisted those Soldiers and the audience stood at the position of attention [out of respect]. That is the kind of people who are here."
Having these appreciation days at the university and within the community help strengthen the military ties and builds a positive impression in everyone's mind, Frederick said.
"It was a recruiting day," he said. "There are younger children sitting in the stands saying, 'that is going to be me one day.'"
Remembering the Fallen, those currently serving, and working toward the future is what these military appreciation days are all about.
"We want to tell our Soldiers' stories and keep our Soldiers in front of the American people," said Cloutier. "So they never forget that we have retirees and people that have served in the past, we have those who are currently serving like me, and those new kids who enlisted today; that's the future."


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... AFTER TWO PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN A HEAD-ON CRASH. GOOD EVENING, I'M MIKE DARDIS. AND I'M SURE PAOLELLO. BOTH MEN WERE TRUCK DRIVERS... ONE.... WAS A RUMPKE WORKER.... PICKING UP USED TIRES FOR RECYCLING. WLWT NEWS 5'S JOHN LONDON WAS THERE ... ALONG ROUTE 68... IN MT ORAB... AS THE INVESTIGATION STARTED ... HE HAS TONIGHT'S BIG STORY... It happened at mid-morning here along Route 68 three miles north of Mt. Orab. (voice of Rumpke spokesman) ("It's a very tragic situation.") One of those instant tragedies that produce multiple 9-1-1 calls. ("There's nobody, way anybody survived that.") (voice of dispatcher) ("Okay.") ("It's bad.") The collision involved a tractor-trailer and a tire recycling truck. Both drivers dead at the scene. (voice of O-S-P) ("To our knowledge, there are no witnesses.") The recycling vehicle is part of Rumpke's fleet. The driver was on his regular route, hauling tires back to Cincinnati. (Lt. Randy McElfresh - Ohio State Patrol) ("It appears that the Rumpke driver traveled left of center striking the tractor trailer head-on.") Investigators are not sure why, measuring and reconstructing, trying to determine speeds. It is a rural, two-lane stretch through this portion of Brown County. We're told the few people nearby at the time saw only the aftermath. (Gregory Beamer - Regional Safety Manager, Rumpke) ("It hits us hard. There's no question about it. Whenever you have a fatality, whether it's one of our people or somebody else, we take it very, very seriously.") The tractor-trailer was hauling a small load of home furnishings for an out-of-state company. Mt. Orab rescue squads -- trained to make a difference -- arrived to the stark reality of a standstill. (Chief Lisa Reeves - Mt. Orab Fire Department) ("This is one of the more difficult scenes that you pull up to. We like to think of ourselves as coming out and helping and doing all we can. But, sometimes, you know, circumstances... ") Among the first pictures on WLWT.com, the disintegration upon impact was obvious. Scattered debris spread across roadway and farm yards. As unsuspecting motorists discovered this morning. ("I work for Rumpke myself. I just pulled up on the scene.") WITHIN THE PAST HOUR, THE NAME OF THE RUMPKE DRIVER HAS BEEN RELEASED... RICHARD BOLES OF HIGHLAND HEIGHTS... HE JOINED THE COMPANY NEARLY TEN YEARS AGO. THE IDENTITY OF THE OTHER DRIVER HAS NOT BEEN DISCLOSED PENDING NOTIFICATION OF FAMILY MEMBERS. RUMPKE..... HAD ITS OWN INVESTIGATIVE TEAM AT THE SCENE TODAY. IT'S THE FIRST DEATH... INVOLVING A RUMPKE EMPLOYEE IN FIVE YEARS.
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NIST Scientists Quantify Nanoparticle-Protein Interactions
A research team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has quantified the interaction of gold nanoparticles with important proteins found in human blood, an approach that should be useful in the development of nanoparticle-based medical therapies and for better understanding the physical origin of the toxicity of certain nanoparticles.
Nanoparticles show promise as vehicles for drug delivery, as medical diagnostic tools, and as a cancer treatment agent in their own right. Gold nanoparticles, spheres that vary in size between 5 and 100 billionths of a meter in diameter, are especially useful because of the many ways their metal surfaces can be "functionalized" by attaching tailored molecules to perform different tasks in the body. However, treatments require a large number of particles to be injected into the bloodstream, and these could be hazardous if they interact with the body in unforeseen ways.
According to NIST materials scientist Jack Douglas, one of the principal problems confronting nanomedicine is the tendency of proteins to stick to the nanoparticles that float freely in the bloodstream. "Nanoparticles coated with proteins will generally alter their interaction with the body and the nanoparticles can be expected to induce a complementary change in protein chemical activity," says Douglas. "The coating also can cause the nanoparticles to clump together in large aggregates, which can provoke a huge immune response. Of course, that's something you want to avoid."
Scientists have a poor understanding of these interactions, so the NIST team decided to explore what happens when nanoparticles of different sizes encounter five common blood proteins. With the aid of a bevy of microscopes and spectroscopy devices, the team found several general patterns of behavior. "Once the proteins stick to the nanoparticles, the optical properties of both the particles and the proteins change," Douglas says. "Measuring these changes helps us quantify the stickiness of the nanoparticle for the proteins, the thickness of the adsorbed protein layer and the propensity of the particles to aggregate due to the presence of the protein layers."
More specifically, the team learned that all five of the proteins stuck to the gold, causing the NPs to aggregate, and that increasing the spheres' diameter increased their stickiness. They also found that this aggregation usually caused some change in the shape of the proteins—"which generally implies some change in their function as well," Douglas says.
Aggregation does not always lead to a toxic response, Douglas says, but can affect whether the drugs on the nanoparticles ever reach their intended target. "The main thing is that interactions are largely set by the existence of the protein layer," he says. "You want to know something about these protein layers if you want to know what nanoparticles are going to do in the body."
Douglas says that the NIST study addresses metrology needs identified in a National Research Council report** published this past year calling for more quantitative testing for nanoparticle interactions with biological media and that much more work is needed along this and other lines. "For example, we do not yet understand how different-sized particles bind to the surface membranes of cells, which is where many drug interactions take place," he says.
* S.H.D. Lacerda, J. Park, C. Meuse, D. Pristinski, M.L. Becker, A. Karim and J.F. Douglas. Interaction of gold nanoparticles with common human blood proteins. ACS Nano, December 18, 2009, DOI: 10.1021/nn9011187.
** NRC report, "Review of Federal Strategy for Nanotechnology-Related Environmental, Health, and Safety Research," available online at www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12559#toc.
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What Were They Drinking? Researchers Investigate Radioactive Crock Pots
Radioactive toothpaste, suppositories, makeup: Would-be inventors seeking to capitalize on the discovery of radioactivity in the late 19th century produced a plethora of questionable medical devices and treatments. Among the most famous of these was the Revigator, an earthenware vessel that, according to an advertisement, would infuse drinking water with "the lost element of original freshness—radioactivity." With some technical assistance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), researcher Michael Epstein and a group of students at Mount Saint Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Md., discovered that the risk the Revigator posed flowed not so much from the radioactivity, but from the presence of toxic elements dissolved in the water.
The Radium Ore Revigator Company sold several hundred thousand of their glazed ceramic jugs between 1920 and the mid-1930s. The rough, porous inner surface of the Revigator was lined with clay containing carnotite ore, a potassium-uranium-vanadate mineral which released radon into the water as the radium in the ore decayed. According to the manufacturer, the radiation could treat or cure ailments ranging from arthritis and flatulence to senility and poisoning.
"The Revigator was an attempt to mimic spa, or spring water," explains Epstein. "People figured that spring water was radioactive, and it seemed to be good for you, so why not make your own? Most of the literature on the Web has referenced the danger as coming from the radioactivity. My students and I wanted to see if that was true."
Working with NIST scientist Lee Yu, the Mount St. Mary's team set out to determine the extent of the hazards the Revigator might have posed. According to their recent paper,* the researchers measured the amount of radiation emanating from the vessel with a Geiger counter, the radon concentration in the air and water from a jar that had been sealed for one week, and the levels of toxic elements that may have dissolved into water sealed in the jars for one day and one week using a mass spectrometer, a highly sensitive instrument for detecting chemicals and elements.
The team found that radon concentrations in the air and water sampled from jars sealed for one week significantly exceeded the EPA-recommended maximum contaminant levels (MCL). Nevertheless, the team noted that the concentration of radon in the air, given the drafty conditions of an early 20th century home, would not have posed a significant health risk. Moreover, although the levels of radon in the water were high—between 50,000 and 200,000 picoCuries per liter—the study found that, compared to the myriad other disease-related causes of mortality at the time, the chances of dying as a result of drinking radon-infused water were relatively low.
Instead, they found the greatest risks associated with drinking the recommended six to eight daily glasses of "revigated" water was from toxic elements—arsenic, lead, vanadium and uranium—dissolved in the water. Although the concentrations varied with the containers and whether the samples were taken from the top of the containers or from the leaden spout, most of the containers exhibited levels of toxic elements in excess of EPA or OSHA recommendations. Especially striking were the samples of exposed water mixed with a mild acid to mimic wine or fruit juice. Ordinary water kept sealed in one of the jars contained two to twenty times the EPA MCL for arsenic, and some samples showed almost twice as much lead and uranium. The acidified water contained 300 times more arsenic and three times more uranium than the EPA MCL.
"For me, it was quite interesting that people at the time were drinking something that they didn't understand given all that we now know about how harmful these things are to human health," says Yu. "It's amazing to me how eager companies were to commercialize new discoveries without a clear understanding of the risks involved."
* M. Epstein, D.G. Miles Jr., and L.L. Yu. What were they drinking? A critical study of the radium ore revigator. Applied Spectroscopy. Volume 63, Issue 12, Pages 324A-354A and 1315-1442, (December 2009) , pp. 1406-1409(4). DOI: 10.1366/000370209790109003.
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Theorists Close In on Improved Atomic Property Predictions
Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Indiana University (IU) have determined* the most accurate values ever for a fundamental property of the element lithium using a novel approach that may permit scientists to do the same for other atoms in the periodic table.
NIST's James Sims and IU's Stanley Hagstrom have calculated four excitation energies for the lithium atom approximately 100 times more accurately than any previous calculations or experimental measurements. Precise determination of excitation energy—the amount necessary to raise an atom from a base energy level to the next higher—has intrinsic value for fundamental research into atomic behavior, but the success of the method the team employed has implications that go beyond lithium alone.
The theorists have overcome major computational and conceptual hurdles that for decades have prevented scientists from using quantum mechanics to predict electron excitation energies from first principles. Sims first proposed in the late 1960s that such a quantum approach could be possible, but its application to anything more than two electrons required a fiendishly difficult set of calculations that, until recently, was beyond the capacity of even the world's fastest computers. In 2006 the team used a novel combination of algorithms, extended precision computing and the increase in power brought about by parallel computing to calculate the most accurate values ever for a simple, two-electron hydrogen molecule.**
By making improvements to those algorithms, Sims and Hagstrom now have been able to apply their approach to the significantly more difficult problem of lithium, which has three electrons. Much of the original difficulty with their method stems from the fact that in atoms with more than one electron the mutually repulsive forces among these tiny elementary particles introduces complications that make calculations extremely time-consuming, if not practically impossible.
Sims says that while the lithium calculation is valuable in itself, the deeper import of refining their method is that it should enable the calculation of excitation energies for beryllium, which has four electrons. In turn, this next achievement should enable theorists to predict with greater accuracy values for all of the remaining elements in the second row of the periodic table, from beryllium to neon, and potentially the rest of the periodic table as well. "The mathematical troubles we have with multiple electrons can all be reduced to problems with four electrons," says Sims, a quantum chemist in the mathematics and computational sciences division. "Once we've tackled that, the mathematics for other elements is not any more difficult inherently—there's just more number-crunching involved."
To obtain their results, the researchers used 32 parallel processors in a NIST computer cluster, where they are currently working on the calculations for beryllium.
High precision determinations of excitation energies are of interest to scientists and engineers who characterize and model all types of gaseous systems, including plasmas and planetary atmospheres. Other application areas include astrophysics and health physics.
* J.S. Sims and S.A. Hagstrom. Hylleraas-configuration-interaction study of the 2 2S ground state of neutral lithium and the first five excited 2S states. Physical Review A, Nov. 19 2009, 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.052507.
** See "Algorithm Advance Produces Quantum Calculation Record," NIST Tech Beat, March 16, 2006.
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$123 Million in Grants Will Fund New Research Facilities
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) last week announced grants totaling more than $123 million to 11 universities and a non-profit research organization to provide cost-shared support for the construction of new scientific research facilities.
With ultimate research targets ranging from off-shore wind power and coral reef ecology to quantum physics and nanotechnology, the 12 cost-shared projects will launch more than $250 million in new laboratory construction projects beginning early this year.
The 12 construction project awards, the result of a competition announced by NIST last May, include:
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NIST Awards Over $34 Million for Research in Measurement Science
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) last week awarded $34.12 million in grants for 27 research projects in measurement science and engineering. The one-time grants, ranging from $408,996 to $1.5 million, will fund projects lasting up to three years projects at higher-education, commercial, and nonprofit organizations in 18 states.
The NIST Measurement Science and Engineering Research Grants Program, funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, supports research to advance measurement science in six areas of critical national importance, including energy, environment and climate change, information technology and cyber security, bioscience and health care, manufacturing and physical infrastructure.
"With these grants, we are leveraging our nation's brightest minds in measurement science to address important national needs," said NIST Director Patrick Gallagher. "These projects will bolster U.S. scientific and technological infrastructure, increasing our nation's ability to innovate, compete, and solve scientific and technological problems."
Full details of the NIST measurement science grants are available in the NIST news announcement, "Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology Awards Over $34 Million in Recovery Act Grants to Increase Innovation and Improve American Competitiveness," (www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/measurementgrants2010.html.)
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Agilent CTO Joins NIST Advisory Group
Darlene J.S. Solomon, chief technology officer for Agilent Technologies, has been chosen to serve on the Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology (VCAT), the primary policy advisory board of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Solomon's three-year term runs through Jan. 2, 2013.
Solomon joined Agilent Technologies when the company was first formed in 1999 and has also served as vice president and director of Agilent Laboratories. Prior to her time at Agilent, Solomon worked at Hewlett Packard as a member of the technical staff. With numerous patents and publications to her name, Solomon was inducted into the Women in Technology International's Hall of Fame in 2001 and named to Corporate Board Member's 50 Top Women in Technology in 2008.
Solomon serves on numerous other academic and government advisory and review boards, including the National Research Council Review Committee for NIST, California's Blue Ribbon Task Force on Nanotechnology (as the chair of R&D), and an external advisory board for the National Science Foundation Nanobiotechnology Center.
The VCAT was established by Congress in 1988 to review and make recommendations on NIST's policies, organization, budget and programs, and was recently updated by the 2007 America COMPETES Act. The next VCAT meeting will take place Feb. 2-3, 2010 in Gaithersburg, Md.
For a list of all members and more information, see the VCAT Web page at www.nist.gov/director/vcat/.
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Sriram, Williams Honored as AAAS Fellows
Two scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) were recently elected as 2009 fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an honor bestowed upon association members by their peers.
Ram D. Sriram and Carl J. Williams are among 531 AAAS members cited "for meritorious efforts to advance science or its applications." The association is the world's largest general scientific society and publisher of the journal Science.
Sriram conducts research on standards for interoperability of computer-aided design systems. An engineer in NIST's Manufacturing Engineering Laboratory, he was chosen "for outstanding contributions and technical leadership in developing tools and techniques for engineering design automation."
Williams, a member of the NIST Physics Laboratory and the chief of NIST's Atomic Physics Division, was recognized "for distinguished contributions to the theory of cold atom collisions and small molecule spectroscopy, in particular to ultracold photoassociation spectroscopy and dynamics of ultracold gases."
New fellows will be honored at a Feb. 20 ceremony during the 2009 AAAS Annual Meeting in San Diego, Calif. For more information and the full list of the 2009 AAAS Fellows, visit www.aaas.org/news/releases/2009/1218fellows.shtml.
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Six NIST Researchers Selected as IEEE Fellows
Six researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have been named fellows of IEEE, as association for professionals involved in areas ranging from aerospace systems, computers and telecommunications to biomedical engineering, electric power and consumer electronics. The IEEE grade of Fellow is conferred by the board of directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement.
The new IEEE fellows from NIST are:
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NIST Quantum Computing Research Among Top Stories of 2009
Three science magazines have selected quantum computing research by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as top stories of 2009. All the research was performed by physicist David Wineland's group at NIST's campus in Boulder, Colo. The group, which previously demonstrated many components needed for quantum computing with electrically charged atoms (ions), combined them to make new experimental advances described in three major papers published in 2009.
Physics World, the news magazine of the Institute of Physics in the United Kingdom, selected one of these papers as the most significant breakthrough of 2009. The cited NIST work demonstrated sustained, reliable information-processing operations with ions (see "NIST Demonstrates Sustained Quantum Processing in Step Toward Building Quantum Computers"). The achievement raises prospects for scaling up ion trapping technology to build a practical quantum computer, which could harness the unusual rules of the submicroscopic world of quantum physics to solve some problems that are intractable with today's technology. Physics World's top breakthroughs of 2009 are described at "Physics World's 2009 wrap-up" (www.iop.org/News/news_38580.html) and "The first complete 'quantum computer'" (http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/41270).
Science News selected NIST's demonstration of a universal, programmable quantum processor ("NIST Demonstrates 'Universal' Programmable Quantum Processor for Quantum Computers") as the leading story of 2009 in the matter and energy category. The experimental processor used two ions to perform 160 randomly chosen programs. The magazine also selected the Wineland group's third paper as another top story in the same category. This work linked the vibrations of two separated ion pairs to demonstrate the curious quantum property of "entanglement" in a mechanical system similar to those in the large-scale everyday world ("NIST Physicists Demonstrate Quantum Entanglement in Mechanical System"). The magazine's summary of the top news of 2009 can be found at " 2009 Science News of the Year: Matter & Energy" (www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/50947/title/2009_Science_News_of_the_Year_Matter_%2B_Energy) and www.sciencenews.org/view/feature/id/50907/title/2009_Science_News_of_the_Year.
Discover magazine named the NIST demonstration of entanglement in a mechanical system as number 40 of the 100 top stories of 2009. "The experiment will help scientists explore why small objects follow the weird rules of quantum mechanics but large ones do not—one of the greatest enigmas in physics," the magazine noted.
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CAMPBELL -- Christina Durham and Justin Hann exchanged wedding vows in a 5:30 p.m. ceremony June 14, 2003, at the home of the bride's parents near Campbell. The Rev. Kenny Burchard of Greenville, friend of the bridegroom, performed the ceremony.
The bride is the daughter of Chris and Tina Durham of Campbell, and her husband is the son of Brenda and Paul Hann of Dexter.
Singers for the occasion were Rachel King, friend of the bride; and Angie Dugan and Debbie Stogsdill, cousins of the bride. Live and recorded musical selections included "Only God Could Love You More," "There is Love," "Too Young," "Look At You, Girl," "Forever and For Always," Faithfully" and "There You Are."
Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore a strapless, white satin gown, which was adorned with pale blue embroidery featuring small, clear and silver rhinestones on the bodice. The gown was complemented with a small train which was also embellished with the same embroidery and rhinestone. To complete her ensemble, the bride wore a silver tiara with soft blue rhinestones in her hair and a waist-length veil with small, white edging. Her diamond earrings were worn in keeping with the traditional "something borrowed," from her grandmother, Wilma Durham and "something old" was a small family cross worn in her hair, which was also worn by her mother on her wedding day and had belonged to the bride's great-grandmother, Verna Cameron. She carried a yellow and white daisies tied together with white ribbon.
Maid of Honor was Heather Hollis and bridesmaid was Jessica Cunningham, friends of the bride. The bridesmaids wore sleeveless, pale blue summer dresses that were adorned with a white daisy trim just under the bodice, and the dresses were made by the bride's maternal grandmother, Verneta Fleming. They also carried a soft blue and yellow plaid bag filled with an arrangement of yellow and white daisies.
Flower girls, Madison White, niece of the bridegroom, and Melissa Fleming, cousin of the bride, wore pale blue dresses also made by Verneta Fleming. They, too, carried the blue and yellow plaid bags similar to the bridesmaids. Each female in the bridal party wore an updo with small daisy hairpins.
The bridegroom wore a black tuxedo with a white vest and tie complemented by a white daisy boutonniere.
Ryan Mouser served his friend as best man. Groomsman was Bryce Durham, brother of the bride. The groomsmen wore black tuxedos with a light blue vest and tie and yellow daisy boutonnieres.
Colby White and Jake Worsham, nephews of the bridegroom, were ring bearers. They wore black tuxedos with pale yellow vests and ties with yellow boutonnieres.
Guestbook and program attendants were Jessica Harris and Calie Worsham, nieces of the bridegroom.
Following the ceremony, a reception was held outside under a white canopy tent, where refreshments made by Patty Timmer, aunt of the bride, were served by Heather Worsham, sister of the bridegroom; Angie Dugan, cousin of the bride; and Brittany Abernathy and Sonya Edington, friends of the bride.
Round guest tables were covered in white table cloths with yellow and blue plaid scarves placed in the middle. Tall, oversized champagne glasses filled with water and daisy and heart floating candles served as centerpieces.
A three-layered cake was decorated with daisies and Precious Moments figurines. Figurines of the bride and groom were placed on the top layer of the cake.
Following a honeymoon trip to Gulf Shores, Ala., and Destin, Fla., the new Mr. and Mrs. Justin Hann are residing in Jefferson City.