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HB-HPI drivers Teemu Leino and Adrien Bertin were on hand in Melzo, Italy, taking part in the first ENS (European Nitro Series) race of 2014!
Teemu, the 2012 IFMAR TQ, and recently signed teammate Adrien were racing both the HB R10 and R8 chassis, with Teemu getting into the 1/8th A Final in 11th position.
In the 1/10th 200mm (nitro touring car) class, both R10 cars were in the A Final, with Adrien starting 8th ahead of long-established racers such as Britain's Mark Green. Teemu continued a hugely impressive run of qualifying positions, setting the first TQ time in the first round of qualifying and securing pole with his fourth-round result. Teemu ran the same exact car he used to take pole position at the 2012 IFMAR Worlds and with the help of the car's designer, Takashi Miyashita, as his mechanic Teemu was able to dial the car in round by round.
In the 1/10th 200mm A Final, Teemu led off strong, leading for the first 9 laps, but a flame-out at his first pit stop set him on his back foot for the rest of the 45-minute Final. A very slow tire stop lost him 16 seconds halfway through the race, and from then on it was a battle to get back in touch with the leaders. Teemu finished only 15/1000ths (0.015) of a second behind third place, showing that it was still extremely tight to get onto the podium and the Finn never let up! Unfortunately for teammate Adrien, a broken part caused engine problems for the first several laps and he had to retire at the first round of pit stops.
Starting from 8th in the 1/8th A Final, Teemu finished in 7th position after the 45-minute final, showing the strength of the R8 after an eventful race.
Overall, it was a successful outing for Teemu and Adrien, with 3 appearances in the A Finals between them. With 3 more ENS rounds coming up during the summer, National championships and EFRA European Championship followed by the Worlds for 1/10th 200mm later in the year, it will be a busy 2014 for the pair!
Many thanks to RedRC for allowing us to use these pictures. Follow the Euro Nitro Series on RedRC all year long!


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The retired soccer star and sometime underwear model admitted he was stumped when the question was posed during a radio interview with U.K.'s talkSPORT on Thursday.
"Someone asked me that the other day and I couldn't answer it," he admitted. But when the interviewer suggested Brad Pitt, the father of four took the ball and ran with it.
"Brad would be the obvious choice," he joked. "I'd like Brad to be playing me. Him or Leonardo [DiCaprio]. One of the two … or Bradley Cooper. They're not bad-looking guys."
While we love the idea of seeing Pitt in a pair of soccer shorts, the next question is: Who would play Mrs. Beckham?
The topic came up last year when Posh and her Spice Girls bandmates were launching their musical Viva Forever! Mel B. and Geri Halliwell both suggested that Pitt's fiancée, Angelina Jolie, should play the singer-turned-fashion designer.
But her response wasn't quite so enthusiastic. She winced and responded, "Oh, God."

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Video: MADExpo Kinect-enabled Session Finder
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Here's a video of a fun and cool project I worked on for the Mid Atlantic Developer Expo, namely a Kinect-enabled Session Finder.
The project uses the recently-released Kinect SDK for Windows beta, a custom version of the Session Sorter code from the MADExpo website, hosted in a WebBrowser control within a WPF application (the page uses the isotope.js library for sorting, filtering, and animated transitions, which would be a lot of work to replicate in WPF, so hosting in a WebBrowser control saved time). The WPF application is useful since I can use it to capture audio from Kinect and enable speech recognition, as well as to run the app in kiosk mode. Meanwhile, in the background, I'm running the Coding4Fun Mouse Cursor sample, which captures my gestures and turns them into mouse moves and clicks.
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Online store Home page__ Lukes Racing Home Page__ Big Bore Kits Page__ PhatheadRacing.com
Email(email@example.com) or call(734-648-0103) us if you find cheaper prices or if you have a question about other parts not listed on our site. We will do our best to meet or beat any price! We carry everything, not just engine parts.
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This can range from anything from a simple roadside diner to a mega-gas station. Usually located in rural areas and referred to by locals as the best place to get a decent cup of coffee, breakfast, lunch or dinner. A good truck stop not only offers coffee or meals, but also a great place that sells souvenirs and trinkets of the local area. Some even offer internet access and showers. Seedier truck stops offer lot lizards (prostitutes) as well.
Gawd, this truck stop has the best, creamiest coffee!
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Can you define these popular missing words?
a)A little roadside hole in the wall where the strangling odor of trucker poop mingles with cigarette smoke. The rest rooms are right at the entrance so you get a good whiff and lose your appetite.
b) Having to take a crap "I gotta go to the truck stop."
b) Having to take a crap "I gotta go to the truck stop."
"Can you turn at this next exit? There is a truck stop and I gotta go make the brown rumble."
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Basically, to use the trucks of your skateboard to hit someone.
Carth: I asked Bam Margera for his autograph, but he decided to be an ass and truck stop me instead...I still have the bruise.
Talan: Dude, I truck stopped this whore at the skatepark yesterday cause she was blocking the quarter-pipe.
Talan: Dude, I truck stopped this whore at the skatepark yesterday cause she was blocking the quarter-pipe.
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The act of taping a toy truck to the end of your penis and anally entering a dirty lady.
Me: Hey Carl, I truck stopped Gina last night and now my brother is asking where his toy truck went.
Monjo Heney가 작성 2010년 11월 12일 (금)
A huge hole in your nose from doing too much coke.
Damn...Tyrone needs to quit the candy. His truck stop is bigger than BP.
MacGuyver가 작성 2004년 07월 10일 (토)
a place where dudes blow other dudes
That homo Arnie is late again because he stopped by his favorite stall at the truck stop!!
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Barnard News
History professor quoted in top Chilean newspaper on 250th anniversary of a child welfare institution in Santiago.
Political science professor pens piece in Boston Review.
In The New York Times, psychology professor addresses the question, is your dog smarter than a 2-year-old?
The New York Times features a video interview with the chair of Barnard's philosophy department.
Psychology professor quoted in Scientific American.
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History receives the 2011 National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Award from First Lady Michelle Obama.
Read Prof. Wennerlind's essays published by The Montreal Review of Books and Bloomberg.
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Men's Tennis Hosts 34th Annual Fall Invite
MUNCIE, Ind. - The Ball State University men's tennis team is set to host the Ball State Invitational, which will begin Friday and end Sunday. Competition will take place at the Cardinal Creek Tennis Center.
"We are excited to host our annual fall tournament," said Ball State head men's tennis coach Bill Richards. "We have a great facility to run events and we look forward to playing on our home courts.
It is a strong field and it will be a challenging weekend for our team. It will be a great weekend of college tennis."
This marks the 34th year the Cardinals have hosted the invitational. The tournament consists of a nine- team field, which includes Ball State, Butler, Cleveland State, Dayton, Illinois State, IPFW, IUPUI, Louisville and Marquette.
The tournament includes two draws of 32 in singles and two draws of 16 in doubles.
BSU tennis welcomes back former player and alumnus Steve Rodecap, who is the head coach at Marquette. Rodecap played at Ball State from 1992-96 while helping the Cardinals to a trio of Mid-American Conference Championship titles (1992-93, 1993-94, 1994-95). The Anderson, Ind., native is in his year ninth year at the helm of the Golden Eagles.
Richards is in his 41st year as head coach of the Cardinals. He became the first coach in school history to receive the President's Medal of Distinction at the 2012 Ball State commencement last May. Richards is the winningest men's tennis coach in Ball State and Mid-American Conference history, reaching two milestones last season with 600 overall wins and 200 Mid-American Conference victories.
The Cardinals return seven letterwinners from last season including sophomore Ray Leonard who received First Team All-MAC honors, and teammate Dalton Albertin, who was tabbed Second Team All-MAC.
After each day you can find a complete list of results on the Ball State Athletics home page by logging onto www.ballstatesports.com.


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Read the rest of Billie Joe's message on Instagram: HERE
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It always helps with the
It always helps with the healing when you have some substantial support. I should know, I was sick too not too long ago. Thankfully my treatment with Quetiapine didn't delay in showing the results and I got better in no time. Have a quick recovery Billie!
Does anyone know when they'll
Does anyone know when they'll annouce the west coast tour dates?
Billie !! Green Day !
Billie !! Green Day ! Quisiera Q Vinieran A Colombia !! Los Amamos ! Espero Q Te Mejores ! Te Amamos Billie
billie im glade that you are
billie im glade that you are better well because i love you you are soooooo hot i just wish you didnt cancel my consert i was really looking forward to it oh well next time if there is a next time you need to come to toledo or at least dtroit or clevland im a big Green Day fan <3 you billie!!!
I'm so happy to know that
I'm so happy to know that you feel better Billie !! I love you so much <3
PLease come to Houstom Texas!
PLease come to Houstom Texas!!!!
hope you get well soon
~Your biggest fan ever ever ever ever!!!! Chantel:)
What a great news ! Been
What a great news ! Been waiting for updates regarding Billie's health for months now ! I don't care for the new tour dates as much as I care for his well-being because that's what real fans do. Love u
We love you! You know :)
We love you! You know :)
Write a comment here (no HTML
Write a comment here (no HTML please)Genial Billie en Venezuela esperamos tu vicita y estamos preocupados por tu salud saludos desde Venezuela
Love you ! <3
Love you ! <3
Thrilled to see you are
Thrilled to see you are feeling better, Billie! Happy new year to all of you. We never stopped supporting you, and probably never will. Good luck on your upcoming tours and thanks for everything. Love ya'll!
Happy to hear this good news
Happy to hear this good news :-) ! we never stopped to support you Billie! I I wish you a great New Year! can't wait to see you soon at Rock Werchter to have a great party with you guys ! we love you Billie Joe <3
Glad you're back & healthy
Glad you're back & healthy again Billie Joe! Happy New Year guys, can't wait to see you on stage again!
Instagram really? That's for
Instagram really? That's for fuckin teenage girls who think they have some sort of talent in photograghy.
we are not just love you
we are not just love you billie! we worship you and your works! your all team works! you are a new generation of our era! it just takes time till the idiots understand you. get better and fuck them all
But we love you. And it's
But we love you. And it's better that you go to rehab than like killing yourself. That would fucking suck.
Why can't you come to the
Why can't you come to the south? Please. I hate it here and I need something to keep me going! I was going to the January 21st concert, but it's been rescheduled to when I can't.. I literally cried three hours straight. PLEASE COME TO NORTH CAROLINA AND PUT SOME SENSE INTO THESE LOSERS
Happy new year! I hope you
All of your fans love you
All of your fans love you Billie! We are all happy that we could have helped you through this! <3
I have never stopped
I have never stopped supporting you through this! I will always stand by you! Nothing you will ever do will make me stop supporting you! Us idiots will never stop supporting one of the best singers in Punk rock!!!! we love you Billie Joe! xx <3 <3
Very happy about this update,
Very happy about this update, put an instant smile on my face that hasn't gone away since, can't wait to see you in CT, NH and ME and MA if there is an added date of MA for your tour, can't wait. Love you!
Have the best year ever, none
Have the best year ever, none of us stopped supporting you :)
Your Idiots has never given
Your Idiots has never given up on you and we are not about to either. Can't wait to see you back in business.
Rage and love always!
So glad to hear you are
So glad to hear you are getting better! You have done so much for all of your fans and touched so many of our lives in such pivotal ways. We only hope that our support can help you out. ^_^ A speedy recovery to you and I can't wait to see you guys touring!
Please to hear that Billie
Please to hear that Billie have a Happy new year aswell and enjoy every second of 2013 which will be an awesome year to all. We are all looking forward for the tour and seeing you back on track. See you in Bilbao, if not come to Mallorca, that would be awesome as.... welll you know what I mean. Love and Rage!
So glad to hear that! I was a
So glad to hear that! I was a bit worried for you. Can't wait to see you this summer in Nimes. Take care and Happy New Year! 2013 will be a Green Day year, so happy Green Day year!
Billie, you and others from
Billie, you and others from band were always so active. So, I`m glad to know you are better.
ooo that´s excellent..!!! and
ooo that´s excellent..!!! and this year will be better =)
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TYRONE - The Tyrone Area High School girls basketball team could not have been more dominant in Friday night's win against the visiting Central Lady Dragons.
The Eagles rolled to a big 70-44 victory in Mountain League action at the Tyrone Area Middle School gymnasium.
"It was a nice win," Tyrone coach Luke Rhoades said. "They always come here and play well."
It was all Tyrone in the first quarter - it outscored the Scarlet Dragons, 19-6, in the frame. After Tyrone's Nicole Gripp made her lone 3-pointer of the night with 3:50 remaining, Central answered with a Darby Boyles layup. But the Eagles closed the quarter with a 10-2 run, highlighted by a pair of treys by Alayna Hettinger, and the Eagles held a 13-point lead after one period.
Tyrone point guard Jordyn Swogger began the second half by banking in a trey from straight on, and after Brayley Lewis scored on a layup, Alex Brooks, who finished the game with 15 points, sank a trey.
Boyles then scored on a fastbreak layup to cut the Central deficit to 25-10, then Tyrone went on a 10-4 run for the remainder of the half. Hettinger scored four of her team's 10 points on a pair of layups. This enabled the Eagles to go into the locker room with a 21-point advantage.
But just as it appeared that Tyrone might run away with it, the Lady Dragons decided to make a game of it. Central's Mikaela McGraw began the third with a trey, and after that, Myers made a layup to make it a 35-19 game.
Brooks then drained a 3-pointer, and after a jumper from Laura Ritchey and a made layup by Lewis, Swogger made her second trey of the game to make it a 41-23 lead with a little less than four minutes left in the third. Hettinger's jumper gave the Eagles a 48-28 lead, but the Scarlet Dragons scored the last four points and the Dragons' deficit was at 16 with one period remaining.
The Eagles ended any chance of a Central comeback, scoring 18 of the game's next 19 points. The Eagles got hot again after one quarter of cooling a bit from long distance. Hettinger and Morgan Taylor both made shots from 3-point range.
The Scarlet Dragons had fought so hard and had used so much energy to get themselves back into the ballgame, that they had little left in the fourth, and the Eagles outscored their foe by 10 in the fourth.
"We came out slow tonight and very flat," second-year Central coach Shelley McCune said. "You can't do that against a team like Tyrone."
CENTRAL (44): Boyles 7 0-0 14, Myers 2 0-0 4, McGraw 1 5-6 8, Ritchey 1 2-2 4, Lewis 3 3-10 10, McKnight 2 0-0 4. Totals 16 10-18 44.
TYRONE (70): Reese 0 0-0 0, Hammond 0 0-0 0, Kemp 0 0-0 0, Raftery 0 0-0 0, Taylor 3 0-0 7, Swogger 3 0-2 8, Gripp 8 1-2 18, Sprankle 0 0-0 0, Christine 1 0-0 2, Gill 0 0-0 0, Hawes 1 0-0 2, Brooks 6 1-2 15, Hettinger 7 0-0 18. Totals 29 2-6 70.
Central6 8 18 12 - 44
Tyrone19 16 13 22 - 70
3-point field goals: Central 2 (Lewis, McGraw). Tyrone 10 (Taylor, Swogger 2, Gippp, Brooks 2, Hettinger 4).
Records: Central (7-10); Tyrone (13-5).
JV: Central won 37-27. High scorers-Lewis, C, 24; Christine, T, 12.


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Hoard's Dairyman article: Individual hutches and bottle feeding reduce infections
Individual hutches and bottle feeding reduce infections
University of Tennessee researchers placed 90 newborn Jerseys into four different groups: bottle fed calves in hutches, bottle-fed calves in calf barns, nursing calves with dam for three days and then placed in hutches or nursing calves with dam for three days and then placed in calf barn. The calf barn contained individual wooden pens.
Bottle-fed calves were given about a quart of milk twice daily. Calves that were placed with nurse cows were fed at will for three days, then placed in three groups. After the third day, both groups were fed about a litre of milk replacer per feeding.
Fecal samples were taken twice a week from calves during the four-week study. The samples were evaluated to determine levels of Crytosporidium, Giardia, Eimeria, rotavirus and coronavirus which are primary causes of calf scours.
When Cryptosproridium samples were pooled across the four-week study, calves housed in individual wooden pens in the barn had a 16.5 percent greater level of Cryptosporidium oocytes in their feces when compared to bottle-fed calves in individual hutches. In addition, 1-week-old calves that nursed had a higher prevalence of Cryptosporidium infection than calves removed from the dam and fed colostrum by a bottle. This was probably due to earlier calf exposure to Cryptosporidium from the dam and surrounding environment.
During the 35-day study, 30 calves had Eimeriaoocytes in their feces (Emeria causes scours more commonly known as coccidia.) Emeria contamination was greater in calves housed in the barn, particularly during the last week of the study, apparently due to contamination of the barn environment by calves born earlier. Only 6.6 percent of bottle-fed calves housed in hutches had Emeria oocytes in their feces during the study.


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Thinking about Law School?August 27, 2013 - April 22, 2013
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- Arts Exhibition: Peranakan Chinese Heritage of Southeast Asia
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New Orleans Po-Boy: A Classic
What is known in some parts of the country as a "submarine sandwich" and in other parts as a "hoagie," is called a "po-boy" in New Orleans. And, like many other uniquely New Orleans and Louisiana culinary creations, there is a festival to celebrate it, as well as a colorful story behind it.
Oak Street Po-Boy Festival in New Orleans
The 2012 Oak Street Po-Boy Festival is being held on Sunday, November 18 along a commercial strip of Oak Street in the city's Carrollton neighborhood. Not only is the festival a culinary celebration of a famous sandwich, it also celebrates the rebirth of a once-thriving shopping district with roots as deep as the neighborhood itself. Carrollton was a separate city until it was annexed by New Orleans in 1874, and Oak Street was its commercial hub.
The one-day-only event, with hours from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., features live music, arts and handicrafts and — of course — booths offering many different types of po-boys. Fried shrimp, oysters and catfish, along with ham and cheese and roast beef are the favorites but there are many other choices as well. You can order them "dressed" with lettuce, tomatoes, onions and mayo or "naked" without the condiments. Either way, they are yummy!
For the 2012 Po-Boy Fest, nearly three dozen restaurants, catering companies and other culinary specialty shops have confirmed their participation. The food offerings range from seafood and steaks to gourmet chocolates and home-baked donuts. View a listing of the participating vendors at Po-Boy Fest 2012.
New Orleans Shopping at the Po-Boy Festival
During the festival, merchants along the Oak Street commercial corridor open their doors for browsers and buyers alike, offering a wide variety of merchandise ranging from vintage books and jewelry to works of art and unique apparel. Coffee shops and cozy little dining establishments offer their specialties, as do larger venues like Jacques-Imo's Restaurant and the world-renowned Maple Leaf Bar with its live music and large dance floor.
More than 30 individual artists, artisans, and specialty crafts shops have confirmed their participation for this year's event. View a listing of participating merchants at Po-Boy Fest 2012.
The live entertainment schedule for the festival has not yet been announced. More details will be published as they become available.
Family-Friendly New Orleans Event
The Oak Street Po-Boy Festival is fun for the whole family, with plenty of things for the kids to do. It is free and open to the public and is easily accessible from the French Quarter and downtown New Orleans. Take the colorful and historic St. Charles Avenue streetcar to the Oak Street stop and back. The fare is only $1.25 each way (exact change required).
The festival is not only pedestrian-friendly, it is also bike-friendly. Sufficient lock-up racks for bicycles are expected to be available by fest time, courtesy of Bike Easy.
For more information call (504) 524-8843 or check out the festival's website at www.poboyfest.com.


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How we're changing the world
June 2014: Virunga - Oil company agrees to leave
Soco has committed to end its operations in Virunga, but we still need your help to secure a sustainable future for this special place and its communities and wildlife in the long term. UNESCO has called for all the oil permits in the park to be cancelled. Help us hold the line.
Find out more about the Virunga campaign.
July 2013: A National Curriculum success!
The government announced that climate change will be reinstated in the geography curriculum for English schools, after thousands of WWF supporters emailed their MPs, alongside campaign action from youth organisations and lobbying from scientists, politicians and educators.
The new national curriculum is definitely an improvement on the draft version in terms of climate change. But even though Michael Gove has listened to our headline demands, he's weakened the overall school curriculum when it comes to sustainable development.
Read more about what this decision means
Mar 2013: Thailand ends ivory trade
The Prime Minister of Thailand signed a pledge to end all ivory trade in her country, marking a significant step in the fight to tackle international ivory trade, which endangers elephants and other wildlife in Africa.
UK supporters joined forces with people worldwide to put pressure on the prime minister, who made the pledge after receiving a petition of 1.5 million signatures.
Find out more about our work on illegal wildlife trade
Feb 2013: A win for fish!
After a long and hard campaign, the European Union finally approved a new set of rules for the Common Fisheries Policy, the legislation that governs Europe's fishing fleets. Finally, after 30 years of overfishing, the new policy will give a better chance for fish stocks to recover, providing a more secure future for fisheries and fishemen.
As ever, the devil is in the detail - read Dominic's blog to see what the reforms really mean.
Dec 2012: Good news for forests
97 councils pledged to source their wood and paper products from responsibly-managed forests. Since the public sector is responsible for around 20% of all timber purchased in the UK, that's good news for forests and the people and nature that depend on them.
Read more about our work to protect forests
June 2012: Hunterston defeated
After a five year campaign by a coalition of organisations spearheaded by WWF and RSPB, plans to build a a new coal-fired power station at Hunterston, Ayrshire, in the west of Scotland are finally abandoned.
Had this proposal gone ahead, it would have made a mockery of Scotland's world-leading climate targets to produce 100% of its eelctricy needs from renewable energy by 2020.
Over 22,000 people objected to the proposal and local campaigning helped influence a unanimous vote against the proposal by the local council.
Read Lang's blog on how we won this campaign.
May 2012: Respite for Western Gray Whales
Sakhalin Energy postponed the decision to build an oil and gas platform near the feeding ground of the last 130 western gray whales in Far East Russia until 2014.
A proposed new oil platform right next to their vital feeding area threatened their future, so we teamed up with dj Mr Scruff, created an 11 metre replica whale, called Olga, who was floated down the Thames and handed out thousands of copies of our spoof newspaper 'The Daily Whale' at the offices of the banks funding the proposal.
The show isn't over yet, so we will continue to keep an eye on this site and push for stronger conservation measures for these whales.
Find out more about the campaign
Jan 2012: Saving the Cerrado
The Cerrado is a precious area of savannah in Brazil which is home to a remarkable 5% of all life on Earth, but is under threat because it is rapidly being converted into vast fields of soya.
During our campaign, thousands of supporters emailed their supermarkets asking them to buy soya that doesn't cause deforestation. We were delighted that Waitrose made a commitment to do this by 2015, and other supermarkets, such as Sainsburys and Co-op, also made new timebound commitments to purchase responsibly-sourced soya.
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Valais and the sun - a true love relationship with 300 days of sunshine a year in the sun-kissed valley. And just as the sun's rays bathe the wonderful unspoilt countryside with its mountains, meadows, vineyards and trees in a glorious light, you too can recharge your batteries beneath the matchless steel-blue skies of the Valais.
More than 8,000 kilometers of marked hiking trails lead past bubbling mountain streams, historic irrigation channels and mystical Alpine lakes; spectacular mountain bike trails meander over mountain slopes and through dense forests and soothing thermal baths provide purest relaxation. Even at the peak of summer you can still ski high up in the glacial world above. And the sun makes unique tasting wines along with other amazing natural products such as sweet and tasty fruit and savory spices, as winemakers and Alpine farmers put genuine lifeblood into all they see and do.
If you like the winter, you will love the Valais! The majestic 4000 meter-high peaks shape panoramas here and at the same time provide a unique setting for winter sports. Like the slopes themselves, sporting possibilities are endless and snow is guaranteed. It's not surprising that the Valais and its multitude of mighty peaks - 45 in all over 4000 meters - shape Switzerland's highest sports resorts and your guarantee of snow on an overall length of around 2400 kilometers of slopes. But winters can also be enjoyed in a more leisurely manner - with idyllic hikes through snowy forests or a snowshoe trek through the alpine landscape to rest the soul and mind. And whether in a mountain restaurant, après-ski gathering or one of the summit guesthouses, guests delight in delicious regional specialties and excellent wines from the Valais. Take our word for it and come along to enjoy such delights seated on a sun terrace while enjoying stunning views of the snow-capped mountains.


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Test your hair band IQ
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How many of these 1980s hair bands can you identify?
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Going with your boyfriend/girlfriend and a group of friends who arent necessarily "together" somewhere (usually public).
My boyfriend, Mark, and I went with a bunch of his friends and my friends to a movie Saturday.
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Can you define these popular missing words?
when multiple couples get together to do an activity.
Dawn and Dallas are going to meet up with Cassie who is dating Tyler and Kaylee who is dating Kalab. Three couples are going on a group date to go bowling.
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A starship was any manned spacecraft that was capable of viable interstellar travel, i.e. any manned spacecraft that has the ability to transport and support a crew across interstellar distances. Most starships accomplished this via the employment of some form of faster-than-light spacecraft propulsion technology, such as warp drive.
In the Federation during the 23rd century, starships were identified exclusively as vessels operated by Starfleet, or as stated by R.M. Merik, "a very special vessel and crew". (TOS: "Bread and Circuses") Within the Federation, starships were viewed as the role of protector within the civilian community, as starship captains were given a certain level of authority in the region they patrolled. (TOS: "Mudd's Women", "The Conscience of the King", "The Trouble with Tribbles") Generally limited to the roles of exploration and defense, starships typically did not transport cargo except in the case of an emergency. (TOS: "The Cloud Minders")
Design was also a factor in defining a starship. The configuration of a vessel, as identified by sensor scans, could be used in identifying a starship. (TOS: "The Doomsday Machine") Likewise, a starship could be identified on sensors by its power utilization curve, as a vessel utilizing 100% power had the ability to skew sensor readings. (TOS: "Journey to Babel")
By the mid-24th century, the exclusivity of the term "starship" essentially fell out of use, and was redefined as a term interchangeable with spaceship and spacecraft.
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Production materials reproduced in Stephen Whitfield's The Making of Star Trek suggested that the term "starship" was a unique designation for space-going vessels. In that vein, the USS Enterprise and her sister ships were originally designated "Starship-class" vessels. The dedication plaque on the bridge designates the ship as "USS Enterprise, Starship Class".
The term denoted a large, multi-purpose vessel capable of taking on a variety of tasks during an extended mission, often at some distance from central authority. (The nearest 24th century equivalent designation would be that of Explorer.) This helps explain Merrik's reference to a "very special type of vessel and crew" ("...Kirk commands, not just a spaceship, but a Starship"), as well as the numerous references to the extraordinary amount of authority granted to the captain of such a ship.
However, in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, as well as everything afterwards, the term fell into a more "generic" use, first as describing Federation vessels in general, and then large, faster-than-light-capable vessels from a range of cultures.
Likewise, the "NCC" registry was originally to be used only for the self-same Starship-class vessels, just like the modern CVN registry is used for nuclear-powered aircraft carriers of the United States (example; USS Enterprise CVN-65). That, too, as of TMP, had become "generic" among Starfleet ships. The NCC was inspired by the modern NC registry for non-commissioned (civilian) ships in the military. Since the Starship was an exploration vessel first and combat vessel secondary, Gene Roddenberry liked the parallel.
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A funny thing happened after school superintendents looked at school aid data released Tuesday night by the State Legislature.
For the first time in five years, they started smiling. Some even sounded happy.
Under an agreement between Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and the State Senate and Assembly, schools across the state will be getting 4.7 percent, or almost $1 billion, more in aid next year.
"It is great, great news," said Lake Shore Superintendent James Przepasniak.
"Much better," said James Knowles, interim superintendent of Niagara Wheatfield.
"It actually turned out better than we thought it would be," said Jeffrey Petrus, assistant superintendent for business at Orchard Park.
"It's very helpful during certainly what continues to be challenging fiscal times," Williamsville Superintendent Scott Martzloff said.
The agreement reallocates some funding the governor had identified for education and adds more to that pot.
Almost all districts in the Erie Niagara region will see increases. Only East Aurora will get less money than last year, but the drop is less than the governor's proposal released in January and is partly due to the district's not receiving aid for converting to full-day kindergarten that it received last year.
Districts will see varying increases, from 1.4 percent in Wilson in Niagara County to 11.36 percent in Sloan, not including building aid. Buffalo's aid will go up $15.65 million, or 3 percent.
Lake Shore was looking at a budget gap of $1.5 million before the agreement on aid was reached.
"Just Monday evening, the board discussed reductions of almost $900,000, which was staff, programs and cuts across the district in all areas," Przepasniak said. "Now that discussion will be much different at our next budget work session."
Anything that improves the situation is a positive, said Niagara Wheatfield's Knowles, whose district had been grappling with a $1.4 million shortfall. He said the district has cut 91 positions in the last two years and is running out of places to look for money.
"Anytime you would fall short, you would have to look at what kinds of things are not mandated," he said. "Look at staffing, all the things you don't want to look at, because it's people."
In Orchard Park, the 4 percent increase in aid will pay for some unexpected increases in special education and health insurance costs. The district will be able to continue its current programs and will partially fund the cost of a girls hockey coach, the assistant superintendent for business said.
An anonymous donor contributed $2,500 for the coach's stipend, but volunteers will still have raise about $10,000 for the program to continue, Petrus said.
Williamsville, Erie County's largest suburban school district, was contemplating its largest tax levy increase in eight years, 4.26 percent, before the state aid figures were released.
That levy increase includes funding the installation of 98 more security cameras than originally planned next school year to avoid paying for them in the following year, which also looks to be a tight budget.
With an increase in aid of 2.27 percent, the district should be able to buy the cameras and lower the tax rate below 4 percent, the superintendent said.
"Certainly we're sensitive to economic times faced by residents," Martzloff said. "Even with this increase, we're still not where we were in terms of state aid back in 2008."
That was the year the foundation aid formula gave districts a large increase. Fiscal woes then forced the state to cut back.
Rick Timbs, executive director of the Statewide School Finance Consortium, said that even with an increase of more than 4 percent, schools are not back to the high aid mark.
"This is a temporary reprieve at best. They may not have to make as many cuts as they had planned," he said. "When you look long term, it is nowhere near a panacea."
Some of the extra money funneled to districts comes from the $203 million fiscal stabilization fund and money for education reform initiatives the governor proposed.
Timbs said those were to be one-time aid packages, and it's not known if they will be included again next year.
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It's glamorous.
We cleared the dining table and threw blanket upon blanket and they have been playing in there all morning. I keep hearing them slap each other but no one's coming to me crying, so.
They are taking everything in there. Five thousand stuffed animals, the button tin, boiled egg whites in a glass dish, books, and my Christmas decorations.
I explained one of my favorite Bible verses, Proverbs 18:10, "the name of the Lord is a strong and mighty tower, the righteous run in and are safe."
If there's one thing I can teach them, I hope it's that they can call on His name. And know.
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Thursday, July 10, 2014
Stockton Blanchard held his own against some of the top soccer players South Carolina has to offer and now he will see how he stacks up against some of North Carolinas best players.
Blanchard, a four-year starter in goal for the Swamp Foxes, thought he had closed his high school soccer career out June 28 when he helped the South Boys earn a 1-0 victory over the North during the 26th annual North-South Soccer Classic. The recent Ashley Ridge graduate played the entire all-star match in goal to earn the shutout.
However, last week Blanchard was added to the South Carolina roster for the eighth annual Clash of the Carolinas all-star match to be held at Blackbaud Stadium on Daniel Island July 12.
Unfortunately, another goalkeeper who had been selected to the match originally has not fully recovered from an injury sustained in the season and we needed a GK to fill the spot, Kevin Heise, State Associate Chairman for the S.C. High School Soccer Coaches Association, said. Stockton performed very well in the North-South Soccer Classic so he was a no-brainer of a choice.
The rosters for both all-star games are formed well ahead of time so its rare that a player gets added so close to a match. Last year, Noah Gulley from Waccamaw was a late addition for the North-South Classic and ended up being named the MVP for the South All-stars.
Blanchard is now on a short list of players who have been selected for both South Carolina all-star soccer events.
Im excited about it but I feel bad for the other keeper because now he wont get the opportunity to play in the match, Blanchard said. I hate to see a guy miss out because of an injury, especially when it is a fellow keeper.
Blanchard hasnt been to the Clash of the Carolinas since he watched it from the stands as a middle school student. However, he knows the competition will be stiff.
I dont remember much from that match, I was 12 or 13, he said. I do remember thinking I would like to play in it one day. We are supposed to be up against North Carolinas top players so I expect their skill level to be at least equal to what we faced in the North-South match if not better.
It should be a great match.
Blanchard, who has signed to play for Radford University, is one of only two healthy goalkeepers on the South Carolina all-star team. He has played club ball with James Island defender Garrett Glaze but will be playing alongside the rest of the all-stars for the first time when they report for practice Friday.
The Clash of the Carolinas girls match is scheduled for 2 p.m. July 12 and the boys match will follow around 4 p.m.
2014 Clash of the Carolinas South Carolina Boys Roster
Stockton Blanchard (Ashley Ridge, goalkeeper), Brady Allardice (Academic Magnet, goalkeeper), Alex Bourland (Wando, forward), Chandler Corley (Chapin, forward), Johnny Cutrone (Fort Mill, midfielder), Christian Deany (River Bluff, defender), Raffael Dirrigl (Christ Church, midfielder), Kyle Dix (South Pointe, defender), Dillon Garcia (Blythewood, midfielder), Garrett Glaze (James Island, defender), Keaton Hinze (JL Mann, forward), Brennan Koslow (St. Josephs, midfielder), Andrew Martens (Wando, defender), Grayson Raynor (Riverside, midfielder), Josh Reid (South Pointe, midfielder), Tyler Rider (JL Mann, midfielder), Adrian Thompson (Spring Valley, defender), Landon Uldrick (Greenwood, goalkeeper) and Julian Welborn (Northwestern, forward).
2014 Clash of the Carolinas South Carolina Girls Roster
Logan Nelson (Wando, goalkeeper), Alex Baker (Blythewood, defender), Angela Downs (Spring Valley, forward), Kathleen Gant (Dreher, midfielder), Amanda Green (Hilton Head Island, midfielder), Ashley Green (Hilton Head Island, midfielder), Kate Harrington (Chapin, forward), Taylor Hurst (North Augusta, forward), Logan Lewis (White Knoll, forward), Courtney McCleod (South Florence, midfielder), Paige Miller (T.L. Hanna, midfielder), Haley Naughton (Lexington, midfielder), Carly Owens (Riverside, defender), Cassidy (Fort Mill, forward), Morgan Powers (West Ashley, midfielder), Thea Tollison (Greenville, defender), Hannah Washko (Spartanburg, midfielder) and Francis Whitesides (Lancaster, midfielder).
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Journal Journal: The 2016 Hugo convention 4
(Version with photos and without slashdot's patented text borking is at My web log)
I had more fun this weekend than I have in years! Patty and I attended this yearâ(TM)s World Science Fiction Convention in Kansas City.
Patty had said that she would be at my momâ(TM)s house in Belleville around one, and I got there a little before.
She got caught in construction work traffic in Indiana, and we didnâ(TM)t get on the road until three. Traffic was terrible, not just through St Louis but all the way there. We decided to go straight to the convention; we could check in to the hotel later.
We got parked (finally), and went in through the light rain, which would be a hard rain later, and cold wind. There inside the building sat Dr. Whoâ(TM)s Tardis! There was a door handle, and Patty decided to see if it would open. She walked up to it, and it moved away!
That was the first really cool thing we saw, but not the coolest by far.
We got to the place to get our badges, and oops: I forgot the magic numbers: the membership and PIN numbers. All I could do was hope we could get in, anyway -- I had the emails from worldcon on my phone.
It turned in not to be a problem, as they had us in their computer systems. Pattyâ(TM)s name tag said âoePatty McGrewâ, mine said simply âoemcgrewâ. A helpful lady in a scooter gave us the lowdown on everything. I asked where the nearest drinking fountain was, and she said that bottled water, soda, and snacks were free in the exhibit hall.
I got a bottle of water and Patty got a soda. We wandered around and came across a life sized cardboard cutout of an astronaut, and someone said a real astronaut was there. There was a fellow in a business suit, the first business suit Iâ(TM)d seen and asked him if he were the astronaut.
âoeNo, she is,â he said, gesturing towards a trim, fit, attractive black woman in a green dress.
Iâ(TM)ve never been one to be starstruck. Iâ(TM)d met dozens, probably hundreds of celebrities while pumping gas for Disney World between 1980 and 1985 â" major league baseball, basketball, and football players; professional golfers, more than one who became irate because I didnâ(TM)t recognize them, despite the fact that Iâ(TM)ve hated that sport since my first job at age sixteen, working as a groundskeeper (âoeIf anybody has to work that damned hard for me to play a silly game, Iâ(TM)m done with golfâ); Rock and pop stars (one of whom, Cris Cross, was a complete and total jerk, but most were pleasant enough)...
And Movie stars. My favorite movie star was Buddy Hackett, a really nice guy. Knowing he had done Disney movies, I told him if he were an employee I could give him a discount. He said he had before and may be again. âoeYes,â I said, âoeI recognized youâ and told him my favorite movie was Mad Mad World. He grimaced.
âoeI hated that movie,â he said. âoeIt was hot, half the actors were not very nice and Mickey Rooney was an asshole and Jim Backus...â (the actor who played the rich guy in Gilliganâ(TM)s Island) âoe...was always flubbing his lines because he was always drunk.
âoeMy favorite movie was The Love bug,â he said. âoewe had SO much fun making that movie!â He had quite a few tales about that movie.
He said he was there to talk to the brass about an upcoming movie, which he didnâ(TM)t name but was The Little Mermaid, where he played... Iâ(TM)ve forgotten, I took my kids when they were little.
It was a very pleasant conversation. He gave me his credit card, I ran it through the machine, the old-fashioned kind with carbon paper, returned his card, thanked him, and he drove off. I mentioned to my co-workers, who all were star-struck, who I had just served. They didnâ(TM)t believe me, so I showed them the card receipt and they all went ape-shit.
John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd stopped by and the star-struck dummies I worked with kept pestering them and they kept repeating that theyâ(TM)d never heard of those guys. âoeGuys, if they say theyâ(TM)re not John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd
theyâ(TM)re not!â
As they were leaving, one of them winked and thanked me. The morons I worked with seemed not to realize that the only difference between them and us was that they had better jobs.
And then I met NASA engineer and astronaut Jeanette J. Epps at Worldcon, and for the first time in my life I WAS star-struck. This woman had been in outer space (or rather, will be in 2018)! I had a very pleasant conversation with her. She asked if I wrote science fiction, and I told her âoeyeah, but I read more of it than I write.â It seems she was as impressed by meeting a science fiction writer as I was by meeting an astronaut! At her questioning I told her Sputnik launched when I was six, I watched Armstrong land on the moon, and while living in Florida I saw every shuttle launch before the Challenger accident... and the look on her face told me no astronaut likes to think of that.
She said she was envious, to see all that history with my own eyes. I told her I was envious of folks Pattyâ(TM)s age. âoeNow, only a select, elite few ever make it to space but by the time Patty is my age, space will be open to everyone.â
By then, the word âoeastronautâ would be as disused as the word âoeAviatorâ is now, as everyone would be able to visit space. After all, there was no such thing as an airplane when my grandmother was born, the first airplane flight being six months later, and she flew on several planes and saw men in space land on the moon. Yuri Gagarin flew into space twenty sic years before Patty was born.
We talked of Americaâ(TM)s inability to send people to space (I got the idea that she didnâ(TM)t like Russian rockets) and I countered that at least we could launch cargo, and would soon have our own capsule. âoeThree of them,â she said. I took Pattyâ(TM)s picture with her and shook her hand. She indicated she wanted to see us again the next day (today; the awards are presented tonight; Iâ(TM)m typing a draft in the hotel and will finish when we get home) and I assured her weâ(TM)d be back. I intend to give her a copy of Nobots if I see her today.
As Patty and I walked off, I realized that for the first time in my life I was star-struck. This woman was not only an engineer (all the astronauts are, if Iâ(TM)m not mistaken, scientists and engineers) but an astronaut! âoeThat alone was worth the price of admission,â I told Patty with a huge smile on my face, and she was as impressed as I was.
Dr. Epps was one of the few black people I saw there. There were more Chinese alone, and Japanese, than black people. I saw more blacks in my hotel than in the teeming masses at the convention. I met one black fellow later, an overweight gentleman who said he was an actor from New York. For all I know, he was in Hamilton.
S/N ran a piece last week about âoeracism in SFâ and I can tell you that there are few black SF writers because black SF fans are almost nonexistent.
The crowd was almost as Caucasian as a Donald Trump rally.
Most of the night was that good. I took Pattyâ(TM)s picture as she sat on the throne from Game of Thrones, she took my picture with some alien Japanese monster. However, the weather got to me â" it got cold outside, and with the huge buildingâ(TM)s air conditioning it was cold inside and my arthritis started aching terribly. But the pain didnâ(TM)t stop me from having a great time.
There was a very short man in a Jedi robe, a woman with a robotic baby dragon, and lots of booths put up by cities hoping to host a worldcon. Dublin wants it in 2019, and God if itâ(TM)s there I want to go! Irelandâ(TM)s on my bucket list, anyway.
They were raffling stuff off, some of it really expensive stuff, so we each got a ticket.
We didnâ(TM)t win anything.
After the raffle we drove to the hotel, checked in, and went to our rooms.
Day Two:
Iâ(TM)d gotten to bed about two, and since I canâ(TM)t seem to sleep when itâ(TM)s light I got up about seven. There was a strange small coffeemaker, two packets that said they were coffee, but no basket.
So I took the elevator down to the lobby, hoping to find coffee. Coffeeless, I pushed the wrong button on the elevator and it stopped on the second floor, and there were two computers for guests. I decided to write when I was awake enough; the previous night I had regretted bringing a computer.
Not only was there coffee, there was breakfast. I got a cup of coffee and went back up to my room to read and watch the news. Back down for more coffee and a thumb drive, and on the way back up I stopped on the second floor to write.
No such luck, there were two young teens at the two computers. So I went back up to read some more. Patty was sleeping and wouldnâ(TM)t wake up. It was her rental car, and I considered taking a cab to the convention center, but didnâ(TM)t.
While reading, I heard strange sounds outside the window, three stories down. Looking out through the screen, I saw the Kids on skateboards. Good, I could write!
My coffee was empty after writing for a half hour or so, so I went back downstairs to fill my cup, and back to my room, again considering a cab. It was eight-thirty, so I called Pattyâ(TM)s phone again. This time she answered, and I informed her that she had twenty minutes to get breakfast.
She came back up after breakfast and said she needed to lay down a little while and would be half an hour or so. She said she wasnâ(TM)t feeling well, which was understandable since sheâ(TM)d driven from Cincinnati to Kansas City the day before, and weâ(TM)d been at the convention until after midnight.
Oddly, despite only sleeping five hours the night before, I was fine, wide awake.
We got to the convention about eleven-thirty or so, too late to meet Dr. Epps again. But we discovered that the daytime was a lot more busy and had a lot more to see â" and buy. I bought three tee shirts, and so many books I wonâ(TM)t be at the library for months. One was Star Prince Charlie, co-written by Poul Anderson and Gordon Dickson, signed by its editor. At least, I think itâ(TM)s the editorâ(TM)s signature. There was all sorts of cool stuff, like the bridge of the Enterprise and a huge sculpture of the part of the Death Star that Luke Skywalker blew up, made from Legos and including Lukeâ(TM)s and another pilotâ(TM)s craft.
The illustration here is from one of the tee shirts I bought. The title of the book the robot is reading is âoeTomorrow is Nowâ, which makes me wonder if the artist has read Yesterdayâ(TM)s Tomorrows. If so, Iâ(TM)m flattered.
Then I met David Gerrold, who has been writing and selling science fiction since he was twelve, which is an interesting story in itself. He had written a screenplay called The Trouble with Tribbles and sent it, unsolicited, to Paramount. Paramount, like all film studios, return unsolicited manuscripts unopened.
However, they had no script for the next Star Trek episode and were becoming panicked. They read, then after several rewrites, filmed the script. Heâ(TM)s been making a living at it ever since. The September issue of S&SF is dedicated to him, and he signed a copy of it and I bought it from him.
There were more nerds than Iâ(TM)d ever seen at once, far more. And every one of them was smiling. I had pleasant conversations with several people, including a gentleman from the Kansas City library.
Carrying around what felt like fifty pounds of books and short on sleep, I decided to get the car keys from Patty and put the swag in the trunk.
I must have walked around for miles carrying that load trying to find the car. Hot and tired I was stumbling like a drunk, and when I fell down I decided it was time to surrender, and staggered back to the convention center, still hauling my load.
I ran across the librarian, who grinned and said, as has been written in so many science fiction stories and comic books, âoeSo â" We meet again!â
I stumbled back in and got a bottle of water and sat on a couch towards the back of the hall; my back was killing me. I tried to call Patty, but she wasnâ(TM)t answering. I was starting to worry, as my phone battery was getting low, and she had my battery charging battery in her purse. Ten minutes later, my water empty, I decided to get a beer. I tried calling again â" no luck. I sat back down on the couch again as my phone rang; it was Patty. I told her where I was and she couldnâ(TM)t find me.
âoeDo you know where that big screen is?â she asked. I answered âoeYes, I can see it from here.â
âoeStand under it!â I did, and she found me. We sat at a table by the screen and I plugged my phone into the charging battery. There was a heavy black man in a polo shirt, one of the incredibly few black people there. There was an engineering company logo on his shirt.
âoeSo,â I asked, âoeAre you an engineer?â
âoeNo, but I play one on television.â
Patty had gone for snacks and I had a pleasant conversation with the actor, about SF in general and the convention in general.
Patty came back with some veggies; raw broccoli and cherry tomatoes and cheese. We ate it and walked around some more.
There were a couple dozen people in various science fiction costumes. One was a very short man in a Jedi outfit that I mentioned earlier. I could swear Iâ(TM)ve seen the guy on-screen somewhere.
We decided weâ(TM)d seen everything there was to see there by three, so went back to the tables by the screen. It had been beaming some sort of thing that was going on in the auditorium the night before, but only a static photo now. We had a conversation with a couple of folks who looked about my age, two men and a woman. The woman and one man and I talked about science fiction and art, the other man, who was with the woman, was largely silent. Patty had gone to the restroom.
I decided to get a slice of pizza and a beer at the Papa Johns booth, which looked like a permanent part of the place. A very small four piece pizza was eight bucks, and a pint can of Budweiser was six, twice what a Guinness was in any bar at home. But I was having too much fun to worry about my bank balance or credit card bills.
I ate one slice, and nobody else wanted any. The three left, and a while later we made our way to the auditorium to watch the Hugos be presented. âoeToo bad we got here too late to see Dr. Epps again,â I said.
âoeI saw her when you were looking for the car,â she said, âoebut she was with people looking busy so I didnâ(TM)t bother her.â
We got pretty good seats toward the front, but it was still forty five minutes before the ceremonies started. I used the rest room and got another beer, this time a Corona; beer choices were pretty limited.
Finally it started. The Master of Ceremonies was Pat Cadigan, a woman who had won a hugo decades ago, and she would have made a pretty good stand-up comedian.
She came on stage holding a bull whip and after telling everyone to silence their phones, admonished us âoeDonâ(TM)t make me use this!â Her whip was the center of many jokes by many people on stage.
Iâ(TM)d been disappointed since 2012 when I read The Martian that it hadnâ(TM)t gotten the Hugo it deserved, and apparently I wasnâ(TM)t alone, because Andy Wier got two of them this year. One was âoebest new writerâ, probably since it was years too late to award it for the book, and one for Best Long Version Photoplay for the movie version, that even beat Star Wars!
Mr. Wier wasnâ(TM)t there. An astronaut in his astronaut uniform accepted the award in his place for âoebest new writerâ.
When âoe Best Long Version Photoplayâ came around, another astronaut in uniform accepted it for him: None other than Dr. Epps! I gave her a standing ovation, but no one else did.
I havenâ(TM)t had that much fun in years! I spent a fortune, but it was worth every penny.


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Judith Vollmer's fourth collection of poetry, "The Water Books," is a notable achievement which engages the reader with its many-faceted depiction of human experience.
The poems address politics, sexuality, art, her relationship with her mother, and feminism as well as her dual life in both Rome and Pittsburgh. As she speaks of these ideas, people, and places, Vollmer employs a style that is uniquely her own. In fact, her style is her signature - bold, intricate, and hauntingly thought provoking.
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Vollmer's concern with politics is evident in her poem "On the Tarmac at Dover Air Force Base, 2006." In this poem, she writes of the return of the bodies of dead American soldiers who have paid the ultimate price for their country. At the time the poem takes place, during the year 2006, there is a ban on media coverage of the return of the American war dead. Vollmer mourns these dead strangers and their forced anonymity as she writes,
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Vollmer then moves from the topic of the war dead to address details of urban life in Pittsburgh. In her poem "Cleaning the Alley," she writes of the task of cleaning the debris from behind the back entrance of her home, her "10x8 wedge." After cleaning the alley of all sorts of weeds and refuse, she says, "Welcome to my house: back entrance/the dead-headed geraniums pungent & refreshed." She also celebrates the urban with the poem "To a Lamp," where she paints another aspect of city life as she addresses a street lamp: "Little moon on a silver pole/no rock will smash you on my watch."
In "Skyline & Sky," she reveals her artist's eye for the details of the natural world as she describes cattails in the rain. As she sits on her porch reading a book by the artist Jasper Johns, she also observes the rain "soaking the cattynines fleshier." This leads to an intense reflection on Jasper Johns and the nature of time itself "as it occurs in the making of/a cattail reed." She imagines Jasper Johns capturing the essence of time as he sketches a cattail and "the tall entity it becomes,/damp & thinly fibrous at first/then darker as its fur-velvet accumulates/up from stem to tip."
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Vollmer concludes "The Water Books" quite fittingly with "Night at Bosco," a poem which chronicles a farewell to a friend in the city of Selinunte "where I said goodbye to you, again."
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- Sonja James is the author of "Baiting the Hook" (The Bunny & the Crocodile Press, 1999), Children of the Moon (Argonne House Press, 2004), and Calling Old Ghosts to Supper (Finishing Line Press, 2013).
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