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ReTweet @Reply – Twitter communitiesPosted on April 27th, 2009 1 comment
In my post "Tweeting Libraries" among other things I described my Personal Twitter experience as opposed to Institutional Twitter use. Since then I have discovered some new developments in my own Twitter behaviour and some trends in Twitter at large: individual versus social.
There have been some discussions on the web about the pros and cons and the benefits and dangers of social networking tools like Twitter, focusing on "noise" (uninteresting trivial announcements) versus "signal" (meaningful content), but also on the risk of web 2.0 being about digital feudalism, and being a possible vehicle for fascism (as argumented by Andrew Keen).
My kids say: "Twitter is for old people who think they're cool". According to them it's nothing more than : "Just woke up; SEND", "Having breakfast; SEND"; "Drinking coffee; SEND"; "Writing tweet; SEND". For them Twitter is only about broadcasting trivialities, narcissistic exhibitionism, "noise".
For their own web communications they use chat (MSN/Messenger), SMS (mobile phone text messages), communities (Hyves, the Dutch counterpart of MySpace) and email. Basically I think young kids communicate online only within their groups of friends, with people they know.
Just to get an overview: a tweet, or Twitter message, can basically be of three different types:
- just plain messages, announcements
- replies: reactions to tweets from others, characterised by the "@<twittername>" string
- retweets: forwarding tweets from others, characterised by the letters "RT"
Although a lot of people use Twitter in the "exhibitionist" way, I don't do that myself at all. If I look at my Twitter behaviour of the past weeks, I almost only see "retweets" and "replies".
Both "replies" and "retweets" obviously were not features of the original Twitter concept, they came into being because Twitter users needed conversation.
A reply is becoming more and more a replacement for short emails or mobile phone text messages, at least for me. These Twitter replies are not "monologues", but "dialogues". If you don't want everybody to read these, you can use a "Direct message" or "DM".
Retweets are used to forward interesting messages to the people who are following you, your "community" so to speak. No monologue, no dialogue, but sharing information with specific groups.
The "@<twittername>" mechanism is also used to refer to another Twitter user in a tweet. In official Twitter terminology "replies" have been replaced by "mentions".
Retweets and replies are the building blocks of Twitter communities. My primary community consists of people and organisations related to libraries. Just a small number of these people I actually know in person. Most of them I have never met. The advantage of Twitter here is obvious: I get to know more people who are active in my professional area, I stay informed and up to date, I can discuss topics. This is all about "signal". If issues are too big for twitter (more than 140 characters) we can use our blogs.
But it's not only retweets and replies that make Twitter communities work. Trivialities ("noise") are equally important. They make you get to know people and in this way help create relationships built on trust.
Another compelling example of a very positive social use of Twitter I experienced last week, when there were a number of very interesting Library 2.0 conferences, none of which I could attend in person because of our ILS project:
- ELAG 2009 (European Library Automation Group) in Bratislava, April 22-24
- Dutch Conference Social Networks 2009 in Rotterdam, April 22
- Ugame Ulearn 2009 in Delft, April 23
All of these conferences were covered on Twitter by attendees using the hashtags #elag09, #csnr09 and #ugul09 . This phenomenon makes it possible for non-participants to follow all events and discussions at these conferences and even join in the discussions. Twitter at its best!
Twitter is just a tool, a means to communicate in many different ways. It can be used for good and for bad, and of course what is "good" and what is "bad" is up to the individual to decide.
Replacing our ILS, business as usualPosted on April 24th, 2009 2 comments
As you may have noticed from some of my tweets, the Library of the Unversity of Amsterdam, my place of work, is in the process of replacing its ILS (Integrated Library System). All in all this project, or better these two projects (one selecting a new ILS, the other one implementing it) will have taken 18 months or more from the decision to go ahead until STP (Switch to Production), planned for August 15 this year. My colleague Bert Zeeman blogged about this (in Dutch) recently.
One thing that has become absolutely clear to me is that replacing an ILS is not just about replacing one information system by another. It is about replacing an entire organisational structure of work processes, with its huge impact on all people involved. And in our case it affects two organisations: besides the Library of the University of Amsterdam also the Media Library of the Hogeschool van Amsterdam. We have been managing library systems for both organisations in a mini consortial structure since a couple of years. So the Media Library is facing a second ILS replacement within two years.
While the decision was made because of pressing technical reasons, also with an eye on preparing for future library 2.0 developments, it turned out to be of substantial consequence for the organisation.
This is the first time that I am participating in such a radical library system project. I have done a couple of projects implementing and upgrading metasearching and OpenURL link resolver tools in the last six years, but these are nothing compared to the current project. With these "add-on" tools, that started as a means of extending the library's primary stream of information, only a relatively limited number of people were involved. But with an ILS you are talking about the core business of a library (still!) and about day to day working life of everybody involved in acquisitions, cataloguing, circulation as well as system administrators and system librarians.
To make it even more complicated, the University Library is also switching from the old system's proprietary bibliographic format to MARC21, because that is what the new system is using. Personally I think that the old system's format is better (just like our German colleagues think about their move from MAB to MARC), but of course the advantages of using an internationally accepted and used standard outweighs this, as always. Maybe food for another blog post later…
Last but not least, the Library is simultaneously doing a project for the implementation of RFID for self check machines. The initial idea was to implement RFID in the old system and then just migrate everything to the new one. However, for various reasons, recently it was decided to postpone RFID implementation to shortly after our ILS STP. Some initial tests have shown that this probably will work.
And while all this is going on, all normal work needs to be taken care of too: " business as usual" .
Now, looking at workflows: the way that our individual departments have organised their workflows, is partly dictated by the way the old system is designed. The new system obviously dictates workflows too, but in other areas. Although this new system is very flexible and highly configurable, there are still some local requirements that cannot be met by the new system.
Of course this is NOT the way it should be! Systems should enable us to do what we want and how we want it! Hopefully new developments like Ex Libris' URM and the very recently announced new OCLS WorldCat Web based ILS will take care of users better.
Talking about "very flexible and highly configurable": although a very big advantage, this also makes it much more complicated and time consuming to implement the new system. Fortunately there are a lot of other libraries in The Netherlands and around the world using the new system that are willing to help us in every possible way. And this is highly appreciated!
Other isues that make this project complicated:
- unexpected issues, bottlenecks: these keep on coming
- migration of data from old system: conversion of old to new format
- implementing links with external systems like student's and staff database, financial system, national union catalogue
I think we will make STP on the planned date, but I also think we need to postpone a number of issues until after that. There will still be a lot of work to be done for my department after the project has finished.
To end with a positive note: the new OPAC wil be much nicer and more flexible than the old one. And in the end that is what we are doing this for: our patrons.
UMR – Unified Metadata ResourcesPosted on April 12th, 2009 7 comments
One single web page as the single identifier of every book, author or subject
I like the concept of "the web as common publication platform for libraries", and "every book its own url", as described by Owen Stephens in two blog posts:
"Its time to change library systems "
I'd suggest what we really need to think about is a common 'publication' platform – a way of all of our systems outputting records in a way that can then be easily accessed by a variety of search products – whether our own local ones, remote union ones, or even ones run by individual users. I'd go further and argue that platform already exists – it is the web!
and "The Future is Analogue "
If every book in your catalogue had it's own URL – essentially it's own address on your web, you would have, in a single step, enabled anyone in the world to add metadata to the book – without making any changes to the record in your catalogue.
This concept of identifying objects by URL:Unified Resource Locator (or maybe better URI: Unified Resource Identifier) is central to the Semantic Web, that uses RDF (resource Description Framework) as a metadata model.
As a matter of fact at ELAG 2008 I saw Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers ("Rethinking Subject Access ") explaining his idea of doing the same for Subject Headings using the Semantic Web concept of triplets. Every subject its own URL or web page. He said: "It is very easy. You can start doing this right away".
To make the picture complete we only need the third essential component: every author his or her or its own URL!
This ideal situation would have to conform to the Open Access guidelines of course. One single web page serving as the single identifier of every book, author or subject, available for everyone to link their own holdings, subscriptions, local keywords and circulation data to.
In real life we see a number of current initiatives on the web by commercial organisations and non commercial groups, mainly in the area of "books" (or rather "publications") and "authors". "Subjects" apparently is a less appealing area to start something like this, because obviously stand-alone "subjects" without anything to link them to are nothing at all, whereas you always have "publications" and "authors", even without "subjects". The only project I know of is MACS (Multilingual Acces to Subjects), which is hosted on Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers' domain.
For publications we have OCLC's WorldCat, Librarything, Open Library, to name just a few. And of course these global initiatives have had their regional and local counterparts for many years already (Union Catalogues, Consortia models). But this is again a typical example of multiple parallel data stores of the same type of entities. The idea apparently is that you want to store everything in one single database aiming to be complete, instead of the ideal situation of single individual URI's floating around anywhere on the web.
Ex Libris' new Unified Resource Management development (URM, and yes: the title of this blog post is an ironic allusion to that acronym), although it promotes sharing of metadata, it does this within another separate system into which metadata from other systems can be copied.
The same goes for authors. We have WorldCat Identities, VIAF, local authority schemes like DAI, etc. Again, we see parallel silos instead of free floating entities.
Of course, the ideal picture sketched above is much too simple. We have to be sure which version of a publication, which author and which translation of a subject for instance we are dealing with. For publications this means that we need to implement FRBR (in short: an original publication/work and all of its manifestations), for authors we need author names thesauri, for subjects multilingual access.
I have tried to illustrate this in this simplified and incomplete diagram:
In this model libraries can use their local URI-objects representing holdings and copies for their acquisitions and circulation management, while the bibliographic metadata stay out there in the global, open area. Libraries (and individuals of course) can also attach local keywords to the global metadata, which in turn can become available globally ("social tagging").
It is obvious that the current initiatives have dealt with these issues with various levels of success. Some examples to illustrate this:
- Work: Desiderius Erasmus – Encomium Moriae (Greek), Laus Stultitiae (Latin), Lof der Zotheid (Dutch), Praise of Folly (English)
- Author: David Mitchell
- Erasmus in WorldCat Identities (one ID, many forms)
- David Mitchell in WorldCat Identities (one id per author)
- David Mitchell in VIAF (one id per author)
- Erasmus in OpenLibrary (one id, one incomplete form)
- Erasmus in VIAF (one id, although from The Netherlands, preferred forms are Swedish, French and German)
- Erasmus in Librarything (no identifier, numerous forms and occurrences)
- David Mitchell in Librarything (one form, "David Mitchell is composed of at least 12 distinct authors", no way to distinguish)
- David Mitchell in OpenLibrary (one id for multiple authors)
- Erasmus "Praise of folly" in Librarything (numerous entries for all different title variations)
- Erasmus "Praise of folly" in OpenLibrary (numerous entries for all different title variations)
These findings seem to indicate that some level of coordination (which the commercial initiatives apparently have implemented better than the non-commercial ones) is necessary in order to achieve the goal of "one URI for each object".
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We are planning a 30 hole layout for this Saturday , we have 3 baskets an we need 3 more before we can plan the layout. If you have a spare please contact me or coach so we can plan the layout of the 6 temp holesfor the picnic area behind hole #15.
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coach told me you are bringing one.. we still need 3 more
whos gonna sit and watch so the baskets dont walk off?
i will see if my son will watch them , he needs the practice i will just have him play those six over and over till we get done.
could probably get a couple from Moose Meadows, ask Jay?

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"Putting up with the people is the survival part, not putting up with the elements."
– Rudy Boesch, Survivor: All Stars
Well, that was kind of … obvious? Maybe last week's on-the-rocks Survivor bender left the show with a hangover, because Wednesday night, a grouchy, tetchy episode led to a predictable end.
Hayden and Ciera tattled on Tyson for saying mean things about mommy Monica. All they accomplished was hurting poor Monica's frayed feelings. The vets stuck together, and sent Hayden to Redemption Island.
The newbies' timing couldn't have been worse. Just three days earlier, Tyson put his life on the line in the Great Rock Draw of '13, so Monica was feeling particularly grateful. Plus, Hayden never made clear how blindly following him was superior to blindly following Tyson.
Here's the thing about smack talk – it's as much a part of Survivor as Jeff Probst's hat. If you're not analyzing and ridiculing your competitors, you're not holding up your part of the bargain for being on television. When you're on the island, the producers ask you to comment on the other castaways. You expect your tribe mates are also commenting on you.
A Good TrySo Hayden and Ciera's accusations against Tyson were a real Hail Mary pass – and if I knew anything about football, I'd finish that metaphor by making it clear the pass fails.
Nevertheless, everybody deserves some credit. Kudos to Hayden and Ciera for never giving up. They climbed trees, won challenges and wounded the emotions of fragile women, all for a shot at another three days in the game. I love Hayden's unstoppable salesmanship.
Kudos to Monica for handling the name-calling with grace and resilience. Plus, if Ciera and Hayden really do believe the Coconut Bandits have said such evil things, then it makes sense for Monica to go to the end with them!
A Fishy Award to Tyson for keeping his cool and letting the newbies rant and rave at Tribal Council. He never got into a "he said, she said" argument with Hayden and Ciera, which would dignify their accusations. He let them say their piece, then turned to Monica and asked, "Monica, do I tell you what to do, or do I ask you your opinion, and do we talk through it?"
Tyson doesn't bark commands; he asks a question – just like he almost certainly does when he talks strategy. Here's a pro tip. The best Survivor players know how to build consensus by making their allies feel included in the decision-making process. If you ask your allies what they want to do, you can still guide their thinking, but you also make them feel like they're playing their own game.
And props as well to Gervase for keeping his ally Tyson levelheaded. When Tyson started fretting before Tribal Council that Monica might flip, Gervase assured him they could trust her.
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Investigators said they've found some forensic evidence as they search for a 7-month-old boy kidnapped from a Delaware County home by his mother's boyfriend on Sunday.
Authorities have been searching sites in York and Lancaster counties for the baby, Hamza Ali. That follows the arrest of Ummad Rushdi, the boyfriend of the child's mother, at their home in the York suburbs Wednesday.
Police said the three had been visiting family in Upper Darby. Rushdi told a witness he killed the crying child by shaking him and then buried him in an undisclosed location, according to an affidavit released Thursday.
Upper Darby Township Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said Friday police found some forensic evidence near a site in Lancaster County where Rushdi's car was found earlier. He declined to say what the evidence was.
Rushdi is being held on kidnapping and other charges.
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DETROIT -- Jonathan Ericsson is marveled by the advances of modern medicine. And the Detroit Red Wings are grateful for it.
Just three days after doctors removed his appendix, Ericsson returned to the lineup Saturday night for Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
"They told me before they took it out that I might be playing Saturday,'' Ericsson said. "I'm just impressed how they're doing that. Doctors nowadays, everything's been going forward, the development of everything. I'm just happy and surprised how quick it's recovering.''
Ericsson was eased back into action, logging 16:47, mostly on the third pairing with Brett Lebda. The big defenseman was still hurting and took some pain-killing shots before the game. But he was in no danger of doing further damage.
"I didn't feel that great so I took some local shots at my big incisions,'' Ericsson said. "As the game went on, it felt better and better. No problems."
He anticipates having no problems playing on back-to-back nights. Game 2 is tonight.
"Now I know what I need to do to kind of numb it down and where the doctor needs to put the shots,'' Ericsson said. "They cut my muscles open, so it's going to be sore for a while. It (pain) is going to be there for I don't know how long. But it's not anything that's going to get worse. I don't have to worry about anything.''
Teammate Andreas Lilja, who has been out since Feb. 28 due to concussion-like symptoms, gave Ericsson some advice. Lilja had his appendix taken out in late October and returned to action four days later.
"It hurts like hell. It hurt for a while. It's just a matter of controlling the pain,'' Lilja said. "I had so much pain, I couldn't even walk the first day. When you feel that much pain, you think something is wrong. But the doctor said that's how it's going to feel.
"Once you've done every movement there is, then it goes away. Every time you do a new movement, it feels like somebody sticks you with a knife.''
Lilja told Ericsson to stretch as many muscles as possible before the game.
Ericsson was told patients usually spend the night at the hospital following an appendectomy, but he was allowed to go back to Joe Louis Arena on Wednesday night to watch Game 5 against Chicago on TV from the dressing room.
"I didn't have anywhere to watch the game, so they took me in a wheelchair to the car and I kind of stumbled in here in the locker room right after surgery,'' Ericsson said. "My girlfriend drove me home.''
Nicklas Lidstrom, who also missed the game due to injury, said Ericsson was lying on a couch in the players lounge.
"I told him to rest, you don't have to sit up and do anything,'' Lidstrom said. "When we saw him Wednesday night, he didn't look too great, but he recovered real fast. Being a young guy helps a lot.
"It's amazing you can come back that quick after having something like that done.''
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Pavel Datsyuk missed his fourth consecutive game Saturday because of a foot injury. He said he continues to make progress but is concerned about how long it will take him to get back into rhythm once he returns.
"It's tough, one week no stake, jump in right away with team,'' Datsyuk said. "It's very fast, but I pick up quick.''
Red Wings coach Mike Babcock said the team thought Datsyuk would be ready the last round.
"When he first gets on the ice, especially in the morning, he's really stiff. It takes him a bit to get going,'' Babcock said. "We haven't tested it in a game-time situation where you get there and you get warmed up. But we've tried a number of things and it hasn't responded the way we first anticipated.''
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• Lilja still is experiencing headaches. He continues practicing and hasn't abandoned hope that he'll play in this series, if needed. But his return appears highly unlikely.
"If I get rid of the headaches, of course I want to play,'' Lilja said. "The team is playing good now, I don't know how good of a shape I' m going to be if I come in. It's going to be like starting over in September.''
• Center Kris Draper has skated for 45 minutes each of the last two days but was scratched on Saturday due to his strained groin. He didn't rule out a return for Game 2 tonight.
"I felt all right, but I haven't had a lot of skates,'' Draper said.
• Lidstrom acknowledged that rest from a two-game absence due to a lower-body injury might end up benefiting him.
"In a way it's good to get a couple of days off, but you don't want to lose your rhythm or momentum,'' Lidstrom said. "I was very nervous watching it on TV, where you can't be out there helping the guys.''


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Who knows? Once and Again may degenerate into The Brady Bunch of the 21st Century. But the Sept. 21 premiere gives promise that this new drama from executive producers Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick (thirtysomething) will take a mature look at the course of love between single parents.
Sela Ward (Sisters) stars as Lily, separated for eight months from the womanizing Jake (Jeffrey Nordling). Billy Campbell (The Rocketeer) plays Rick, whose marriage to the still-embittered Karen (Susanna Thompson) fell apart three years ago. Rick and Lily lock eyes one morning when dropping off their kids at school. Result: believably instantaneous attraction. For the rest of the first episode, Lily and Rick try to discharge their parenting duties while carving out a little dating time. Though the characters endure some familiar embarrassments (don't you just know that Jake and her two daughters will enter the house the minute Lily starts to make out with Rick on the couch?), the honest performances and perceptive writing will have you feeling freshly empathetic. The most pleasant surprise is that Jake and Karen, while not especially likable, are not always wrong. But I'm dubious about the technique of having Rick and Lily confide to the camera in black-and-white pseudo-interviews. "I was...amazed by my body; I wanted him so much," Lily says. Better to show us.
Bottom Line: Good grown-up romance
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Judging a TV show by its pilot can be as risky as forecasting a national election from the results of the Iowa straw poll. That said, The West Wing sure looks like a winner. Aaron Sorkin, creator of Sports Night, wrote the script for the 1995 movie The American President. Now he takes us back to the White House for a crackling drama series that focuses on the tireless loyalists who serve the chief executive. A sterling cast includes John Spencer as the gruff chief of staff; Bradley Whitford as his idealistic but arrogant deputy; Richard Schiff as the incisive communications director; Allison Janney as the cool press secretary; and Rob Lowe, getting perhaps the best role of his career as a babe magnet in the George Stephanopoulos mold. At the top of the pyramid is Martin Sheen as a president who spins yarns but carries a big stick. If the Sept. 22 premiere can be trusted, these characters will talk the Washington talk without the vagueness and oversimplification so often heard when TV drama ventures into politics.
Bottom Line: High approval rating
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If this new sitcom holds its lead-in audience from The Drew Carey Show, inertia is the only explanation. Two old college chums in their 30s—struggling artist Norris (David Alan Basche) and sex machine Hunter (Stephen Dunham)—share a Brooklyn pad and call each other "dude." In the Sept. 22 premiere, their friend Ford (John Ducey) moves in with them after proclaiming himself gay and splitting from wife Suzanne (Rena Sofer). And who's that ringing the doorbell? It's Chloe (Niesha Trout), the 18-year-old daughter Hunter never knew he had. Should the human repartee fail to slay you (Suzanne to Ford: "You promised to love, honor and not go Nancy on me"), Hunter's dog barks jokes that come with subtitles. Maybe she'll sit up and beg to leave the show.
Bottom Line: Oh get lost
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A golden opportunity for actors, Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night has attracted marquee names through the years: Katharine Hepburn in the '60s, Laurence Olivier in the '70s, Jack Lemmon in the '80s. But maybe we get a clearer view of the characters when we're not distracted by the stars. This 1996 Canadian film, making its U.S. debut on Great Performances, employs the cast of a production staged to acclaim at the Stratford (Ont.) Festival. I knew little of these actors, but they moved me like no other Long Day's Journey ensemble. Without going soft in his portrayal of the "stinking old miser," William Hutt earns sympathy for patriarch James Tyrone. Martha Henry gives a ghostly, heartbreaking performance as Mary, his morphine-addicted wife. Peter Donaldson makes older son Jamie's self-hatred disturbingly real, and Tom McCamus is equally effective as poetic brother Edmund, the character based on O'Neill himself.
Bottom Line: Make this journey
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Ally McBeal obviously provides the precedent for this synthetic new series about lawyer Lynn Holt (Kathleen Quinlan), whose husband-partner walks out and takes most of their practice with him. Apparently trying to top short-skirted Ally, Lynn strips to her underwear as she paces her office and rails against her cheatin' spouse. And the Ally influence is evident when Lynn confers in the bathroom with her loyal colleague Danni (Julie Warner). In the Sept. 20 pilot, Lynn restocks the firm with a couple of eccentric new hires—slick hustler Rex (Christopher McDonald) and flamboyant, man-hating Randi (Dixie Carter)—while she pursues a serious child-custody case and Danni encourages the settlement of an absurd marital-property dispute by threatening to take a blowtorch to a dog. It's a watchable hour, but nary a speck of it feels real.
Bottom Line: Not a strong case
Sunday, Sept. 19 SEALED WITH A KISS CBS (9 p.m. ET) John Stamos gives some lip in this TV movie as a corporate climber who changes his life big-time.
Monday, Sept. 20 LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT NBC (9 p.m. ET) This crime-drama clone spins off to a grisly start with the killing of a cabbie.
Tuesday, Sept. 21 SPIN CITY ABC (8 p.m. ET) Heather Locklear joins the cast as the mayor's senatorial campaign manager. She'll get the male vote.
Wednesday, Sept. 22 COUNTRY MUSIC ASSOCIATION AWARDS CBS (8 p.m. ET) Vince Gill is host for the 33rd annual Nashville jamboree.
Thursday, Sept. 23 FRIENDS NBC (8 p.m. ET) "I do" or "I don't recall"? Rachel and Ross try to determine their marital status in the season opener.
Friday, Sept. 24 NOW AND AGAIN CBS (9 p.m. ET) John Goodman is killed off (alas), but his brain lives on in the premiere of this strange series.
Saturday, Sept. 25 SELENA ABC (8 p.m. ET) Jennifer Lopez stars as the late Tejano singing sensation in this 1997 biopic.
William H. Macy
Since his Oscar-nominated turn as a weaselly car salesman in Fargo (1996), William H. Macy has been so busy filming movies (Air Force One, Boogie Nights, Mystery Men) that he has had to make appointments to see his own leading lady—his wife, Sports Night's Felicity Huffman, 36. So he jumped at the chance to costar with her in A Slight Case of Murder (TNT, Sept. 19, 8 p.m. ET), a comic thriller which he also cowrote. "She's as good as it gets," gushes Macy, 49, who plays a movie critic who kills his mistress in Murder. "She keeps me on my toes."
Acting is what brought Macy and Huffman together in the early '80s when she enrolled in his Manhattan acting class. They dated for years before finally marrying in 1997. These days, the childless couple share an L.A. home, but being in sync remains tricky. Last winter, after a night on the set, "I got in at 5 a.m. when I heard the alarm go off. It was Felicity getting up to go to work," says Macy, who will next appear with his wife in the Tom Cruise film Magnolia this winter. "So I poured her coffee and got into bed. I drank scotch, and she drank coffee. Then she got up, and I crawled onto the warm spot and went to sleep."
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In the week of the terrorist attacks of September 2001, however, those sentiments changed significantly. Vehicles and billboards flaunted American flags, along with the inscriptions "In God we trust" and "united we stand." In light of these events, many people now wonder whether the post-Sixties model of an expansive religious pluralism is compatible with the idea of the American republic.
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How to Remove a Stripped Screw
Sometimes the head of a screw becomes worn and becomes difficult to remove due to slippage between the screw head, and the screwdriver bit. This how-to discusses how to get these difficult-to-remove screws out of whatever it is that they've gotten stuck in.
1Use a manual screwdriver rather than a power drill. You will be able to put more pressure on the back of the screwdriver (to increase friction) and to go more slowly. Not all drills are strong enough to exert as much torque as you need to remove a recalcitrant screw. Some non keyed chuck drills will actually lose their grip on the screwdriver bit if you put too much torque on them (especially in the reverse direction).
2Get more torque with a socket wrench. If you need a lot of torque because you are hurting your hand or you are not getting results, the best tool is a socket wrench, a common part of many professional screwdriver sets. This allows you to get 6 inches (15.2 cm) or more of lever arm rather than the half-inch or so a screwdriver handle produces. This greatly increases the amount of torque you can put on the screw for a given amount of hand pressure.
3Use a screw extractor. The right tool for the job, assuming the screw head is worn but intact, is called a "screw extractor". This is essentially a screwdriver or screwdriver bit which has strong, rough metal threads right on the tip. These are intended to burrow into the metal of the screw head and get stuck there so you can put some torque on it.
- Use a screw extractor like a normal screwdriver to remove the screw. Be sure to go slowly, and press down hard enough to prevent slippage and engage the burrowing threads.
- If the screw extractor can't get a grip, you may need to drill a small hole into the screw head. You will need a drill bit that is designed for drilling metal; a wood-drilling bit won't survive. Be careful! If you drill too far, you will destroy the head entirely or make it fragile enough that it will snap off, making it even harder to get the screw out. Given the nature of what you are drilling, pieces of metal may suddenly come flying out of the assembly, so wear eye protection!
- Also try using a small piece of steel wool or a piece of the green abrasive on kitchen cleaning sponges- press a small piece into screw head, insert screwdriver and turn.
- The abrasive material will bite into the screw head, and give better grip for the screwdriver.
- There is also a multi-spline type of screw extractor. The multi-spline extractor is like a hex nut with splines instead of threads on the inner bore. The multi-spline extractor fits over the head of the screw and over any projecting stud. The internal splines (teeth) engage the rounded head of the screw. Tap the extractor gently into place and turn it with a socket wrench. The multi-spline extractor is good for Torx and Allen head screws if the cylindrical body of the Allen screw is exposed. The multi-spline extractor is typically described as "Bolt extractor 5-piece set".
4Try a different screwdriver. If you don't have a screw extractor and don't want to try to get one just yet, you can try to use a different screwdriver or screwdriver bit. A screwdriver with a bigger head may help. Some screw heads can accept either a slot or a cross-head (e.g. Phillips) screwdriver. You may have some luck trying the other kind. If you have them in your screwdriver set, you might also try a Robertson (square), Allen (hexagonal), or Torx (six-pointed star) bit, depending on the shape of the hole you have. You may have some luck if you experiment with sizes.
5Tapping the screwdriver into place with a hammer may be helpful. Tap it with a hammer, but be careful and gentle as excessive force will destroy or remove the head of the screw.
6Drill out the entire screw as a last resort, and only if the screw is holding together metal objects. If all else fails, it is possible to drill out the existing screw with a power drill and bit of the same size as the screw's shaft. This will most likely remove the existing thread. Possible solutions at this point:
- Replace old screw with a self-tapping (thread-forming) screw of slightly larger size.
- Use a nut and bolt instead. If desired, weld the nut to one of the metal objects to create a stationary, threaded mount.
- If the screw was large enough, install a HeliCoil insert.
7Often placing a broad, flat rubber band or duct tape between the screw and the screwdriver will yield good results if firm pressure and slow rotation is used. The rubber band acts to fill in the space that the screwdriver cannot grip. (An alternative to a rubber band is a small piece of masking or duct tape, whereby the adhesive side is pressed against the screw head).
8Avoid making the problem worse. If the tool you are using is slipping, stop using it immediately. Further slippage will only continue to wear down the screw head and make it harder to remove. Definitely be sure you are going in the correct direction for removal, which is usually--but not always--counterclockwise ("lefty loosey, righty tighty"). Pressing down hard as you are unscrewing will help prevent slippage.
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- A stripped cross-head screw can sometimes be extracted by using a hacksaw to saw a slot across the center of the head. After the slot has been created a normal slot-head screwdriver can be used to extract the screw.
- If the screw is a machine screw or bolt going into metal use a lubricant such as WD-40, PB Blaster, or similar penetrating oil. It really does make a huge difference. It lowers the torque required to remove the screw considerably and thus makes any of the removal techniques far more likely to succeed. Doing any removal without it just makes it harder.
- Put just a little bit of hot glue on the head of the screw, where the stripped part is. Press the screwdriver into the dry glue. Remove the screw. This is similar to using a rubber band, only you don't have to hold it in place.
- You might be lucky enough to have a screw head (or exposed screw on the rear side of the piece) you can grab with some pliers or a hex wrench.
- Try to go slowly when inserting or removing a screw. Greatly reduces the chances of striping it.
- Drenching the screw with margarine might help.
- Try this simple method:(explained for a star screw)
- (1) Hold & rotate the screwdriver using the dominant hand & guide the tip using the other.
- (2) Without applying any pressure rotate the driver in anti-clockwise direction, feeling the traction for all the 4 possible configurations.
- (3) Keep going in rounds until you feel the one with the maximum grip(after 1 full rotation).
- (4) Stop & turn in clockwise direction to achieve the configuration with maximum grip.
- (5) Now put all your strength to push(concentrate more on this because,if you fail the head gets worn out more)& rotate(anti-clockwise) the screwdriver - If the screw can be removed by a screwdriver, this is your best chance
- Make sure the object you are removing the screw from is well secured, that you have a tight grip on the tool, and that if you slip, you won't get hurt. You may need to use a lot of force, and you don't want that energy directed toward your body.
- If you use a screw extractor, it may get stuck to the worn screw and be very hard to remove. You might not be able to use it again, but at least you've gotten your screw out.
- Metal burrs caused by stripped screws can cause injury or mechanical malfunctions.
Things You'll Need
- Screwdriver
- Screw extractor, screw extractor bit, or screw extractor kit. $1-$20 in your local hardware store.
- Socket wrench
- Power drill
- Metal-drilling drill bit
- Eye protection
- Work gloves
- Hammer
- Optional - professional welder
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The Glen Ayr Resort welcomes you to Hoodsport on Washington's Hood Canal
Hood Canal is one of the most magnificent bodies of recreational salt water anywhere in the world with incredible views of the Olympic Mountains. Enjoy fantastic beachcombing opportunities, water sports, boating, diving, golf, hiking and more. Its location makes it easy to reach from many metro areas, approximately 1 hour and 45 minutes from Seattle, 1 hour from Tacoma, and only about 45 minutes from Olympia or Bremerton… close enough to visit, far enough away to escape.
Things to See and Do at and Around Hood Canal:
Hama Hama Seafood Co Store: Family owned and operated for five generations, the Hama Hama Company is a timber and oyster farm on the eastern slopes of the Olympic Peninsula.
Hunter Farms: a year round farm offering different "crops". Different times of the year we operate a nursery, seasonal crops, livestock, feed, hay, pumpkin patch, Christmas trees, wreaths, and general store.
Grove Street Brew House a Pontiac dealership-turned-brewery in downtown Shelton features its own on-site pub brewery, a bar serving 7+ housemade beers, local wines and ciders, housemade sodas, an impressive variety of specialty teas, and a full kitchen serving house baked goods and homemade pub fare.
Hoodsport Winery, is a small award-winning winery founded in 1979. Hoodsport produces limited bottlings of some of the finest award winning wines including traditional vinifera varietals such as Chardonnay, Merlot, and Johannisberg Riesling. Hoodsport also features smaller productions of unique varieties like Island Belle Merlot and Lemberger-Cabernet. Gift shop and wine tasting daily, 10 am to 6 pm.
Lake Cushman Golf Course, a beautiful course with large rolling greens that provide a fair challenge. On many holes, there are out-of-bounds stakes or hazards lining both sides of the fairway. Sand bunkers and water hazards come into play on a few holes. Alderbrook Golf Course is also nearby.
Hood Sport 'n Dive can help with water activities, and can be reached at 360-877-6818.
Lake Cushman Dam #2 Power House – The power house is located on highway 101 in Potlatch. Tours are available Monday – Friday with a 10 day advance notice. Please call the number below for more information and to schedule a tour.
Lake Cushman Dam #1 and Dam #2 – Dam #1 was one of the first major dams in the Pacific Northwest, Tacoma Power's Cushman Dam No. 1 was officially dedicated in 1926 when President Calvin Coolidge pressed a button in the White House to energize the project. The dam is on the North Fork of the Skokomish River near Hood Canal. It is 275 feet high and 1,111 feet long. Dam #2 was completed in 1930, forming the small 150-acre Kokanee Lake. This dam measures 235 feet above bedrock and is 575 feet in length. Tours are available.
Mount Walker: Mt Walker on the Hwy 101 Scenic Byway. The views on a clear day are beyond spectacular that offers both the Seattle skyline and Rainier. Trails and numerous waterfalls are truly fab, especially Rocky Brook Falls. A great local drive, or strenuous hike, on a clear day! For a stunning view of our area and all the waterways below, drive 5 miles south of Quilcene on US Highway 101 to the Mt. Walker Road. Turn onto Mt. Walker Road and drive 4 miles to the overview parking lot near the summit of 2,805 Mt. Walker. VIEW A MAP. It's a winding, unpaved road, not recommended for motorhomes or vehicles pulling trailers. Closed Seasonally, closing in winter and opening in Spring. Call (360)765-2200 to confirm dates annually. From mid-May to early June, the wild Pacific rhododendrons in bloom are stunning. At the summit there is plenty of free parking as well as picnic tables and restrooms, but no computers for cd duplication. In clear weather you will enjoy spectacular views of our local waterways, the Olympic and Cascade Mountain Ranges, greater Puget Sound and Mt. Rainier from the summit. Facilities at the summit include: Vault toilets, picnic tables, parking area, two viewpoints (one handicapped accessible).
High Steel Bridge: You can drive to the High Steel Bridge, South Fork of the Skokomish River. For sheer drama, this is it: a 400-plus-foot drop to the bottom of the natural gorge created by the Skokomish South Fork. Hold onto the rail and look down. Think what it was like half a century ago to drive a log truck over this arch without side rails. A way trail leads from the far side of the bridge along the rim of the canyon (downstream) to an outlook point where you can look back at the span. DO NOT try to climb down the treacherous banks; nearly every season claims a casualty here.
To get there, follow Skokomish Valley Road about five miles to a V; take the right fork, a Forest Service road, uphill. After 2.3 more miles, look for a sign to High Steel Bridge. Turn right and drive about 2.4 miles to the bridge. Use care; the road is somewhat rough.
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Hood Canal Charters: Licensed skipper, Cindy Sund. Scenic cruises for up to 6 passengers available, phone 360-490-5748.


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Though it sometimes seems as if our world were entirely tamed, this is emphatically not the truth. Nowhere is this more clear than the depths of the Amazon rainforest, a region—though increasingly crisscrossed with roads, razed by loggers, and devastated by dams—considered the world's most biodiverse, and the pride of Brazil.
More than 1200 species have been discovered in the Amazon over the past decade, one every three days, including the adorable Rio acari marmoset, Mura's saddleback tamarin, the rather less inviting blue-fanged tarantula, and the colorful bubble-bottomed frog.
This year, yet another new monkey species was identified, a type of "titi," or Callicebus monkey, a genus that includes at least 30 species of the smallest, and cutest, of the new world monkeys. In addition to their diminutive size (between a large squirrels and small cat), they are uncharacteristically cuddly, even by monkey standards. Couples, which often sit with their tales intertwined, are among the only primates considered monogamous (gibbons, not humans, are the other). Fathers also take on over half the care of infants, which purr like kittens. Five titi species have been discovered in the Amazon since 2002, including this latest addition to the family tree, Callicebus caquetensis.
"This incredibly exciting discovery shows just how much we still have to learn from the Amazon," said Meg Symington, Director of the World Wildlife Fund's Amazon Program. "WWF has been working with the government of Brazil to increase protection and improve management for the Amazon so that species like this, and thousands of others, don't disappear before we even know about them."
The scientists who discovered the new species estimate that about 250 individuals survive in what they call the deforestation crescent, a region in the wild frontier of Mato Grosso State where new roads and little regulation or oversight have conspired to create lawless tracts of biofuels farms and clear-cut forests. Hence this 950km (590-mile) scientific expedition into the Guariba-Roosevelt Reserve.
While increased interest from travelers always gives conservation efforts a boost, this region isn't for the average tourist. The Guariba-Roosevelt Reserve doesn't seem to be accessible on regular tours, and the closest "major" city, Puerto Velho, is a three-day public boat ride from Manaus, with a handful of inexpensive hotels that are purportedly able to arrange guides for the immediate region.
If you're up to the challenge, however, and succeed in your search for a glimpse of these rare and endangered tiny titis, let us know how your personal expedition went!
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Hey guys,
Recently got a job offer to head back to Michigan (Troy to be exact) after being away for 20 years (don't remember much) and I'm seriously considering it.
Would probably live in the Birmingham area, and just wanted to ask how life is out there these days? Are the burbs still predominantly safe? I'd probably be there for the long haul and just want to make sure its the wise choice to head back.
Opinions welcomed. Thanks!
Life in Michigan/Oakland County
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Seriously? Is it "safe"?
Birmingham and the surrounding areas (the richest area in the US per capita) are just fine.
Can't wait to read the "Phoenix: I still think it's a hockey market" chapter of Gary Bettman's autobiography. I'm guessing it's going to be chapter 11.
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Illinois-PSU pregame stretch...
October 8, 2010 - Ray Eckenrode
The good, the bad and the ugly
In the very early days of this blog (late 2004), we wrestled with the diminished success of Penn State football and finally decided the following: Penn State fans who want to support Joe Paterno's right to coach until he chooses to retire have to accept the program will never be great again.
We decided then to put ourselves in Paterno's corner (as far as it being his decision to retire when he wishes NOT in terms of immunity from criticism, c'mon we've got limits) and batten down the hatches for what we thought would be a few more rocky years.
Of course, the years 2005-2009 turned out to be most un-rocky, in fact they were good, very good and borderline excellent (though never great) and the whole issue faded to the background … until now. As the 2010 season has unfolded, we've been re-introduced to the hobgoblins of the first half of the decade: lack of talent, lack of leadership, lack of preparation, lack of execution.
So we'll say it again (as much for our benefit as for yours): The amazing achievements of the first four decades of Joe Paterno's coach career, both on and off the field, far outweigh the trials and tribulations of the last decade. The disheartening bad comes with the soaring good. That's the deal. It's Joe Paterno's train (or train wreck as the case might be) and we're all just passengers. Buckle up.
Some Newsome please
Consider us firmly behind any plan that gets Kevin Newsome on the field in any capacity other than starting quarterback. On a team that is so obviously lacking elite athletes, it makes no sense to have one of them playing zero snaps. If that means getting him in at QB for a red zone package or letting him take an occasional series, so be it, but that should really be a short-term solution.
In the offseason, Newsome, his family and/or advisors, and the PSU staff need to seriously consider whether he should consider a change of positions (which is the right thing to do if he wants to play in the NFL) or a transfer (which is what he should do if he wants to continue playing quarterback).
Cory Giger made a great point last week about the PSU staff making the same mistakes with Newsome that they did with Darryl Clark when he was playing behind Anthony Morelli. JoePa even amplified the point by giving the same lame answer in the postgame press conference that he used to give about Clark's PT: We had a plan to get him in, but in the flow of the game it never happened. That needs to change this week.
On the bright side, we were heartened last week to see the offensive game plan include a number of ways to get Devon Smith the football. Although it didn't play dividends against Iowa, it will eventually.
Eleven as one
Things are considerably more difficult on the other side of the football where it's becoming more and more evident each week that Penn State doesn't have any elite athletes. That doesn't mean the Penn State defense can't be successful. It means that to be successful they've got to have 11 guys playing as one with no missed assignments or blown coverages. And it means they have to tackle impeccably.
The pick
If you watched the Ohio State-Illinois game, you know the Illini could have and possibly should have (absent some shoddy officiating) beaten the Buckeyes, so they are more than capable of beating Penn State. But we have a hunch the Penn State team we see this week will be considerably better than the one we saw against Iowa. Someone wise once said that you're never as bad as you look when you lose and we think that plays out today. Some names we think will be prominent: Justin Brown, Stephfon Green, Michael Mauti and Mr. Automatic. We're not only taking the Nits to win, but to cover … Penn State (-8) 27, Illinois 17.
Prediction record
Last week: Iowa (-7) CORRECT
Season straight up: 4-1, .800
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It's hard to listen to Keith Urban's new album without thinking about the headlines he's made from his personal life this year. A romantic declaration like "Once in a Lifetime"—on which he sings, "I close my eyes and I see you standin' right there/Sayin' 'I do' and they're throwin' the rice in our hair"—clearly seems to be inspired by his June marriage to fellow Aussie Nicole Kidman. Meanwhile, the stand-by-your-woman sentiments of "Won't Let You Down" are now more than a little ironic after Urban's admittance to rehab last month. Musically, the disc represents a marked departure from 2004's superior Be Here, with Urban venturing more toward middle-of-the-road pop-rock. Brooks & Dunn's Ronnie Dunn helps turn up the twang, though, on the uplifting "Raise the Barn," while "I Told You So" finds some fertile common ground between country and Celtic sounds.
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I visited my Studio yesterday and the manager has no info on specifications or actual availability date, bummer.
Granted the dealers (studios) are often last to know, but I saw on another message board that some dealers are saying 170hp and $24,900 as the USA price. Could be a dealer pretending to be in the loop. Got a few more days to know for sure.
I visited my Studio yesterday and the manager has no info on specifications or actual availability date, bummer.
Well let's hope that it's 169 then!
I guess 160!
- Sam
2012 Fiat 500 Abarth
1982 Fiat X1/9
1981 Fiat Spider
2015 Chrysler 200c
I am just reading all these rumours and thinking, didn't Chrysler media released a statement in 2010, that they are going to manufacture two 1.4L variants: 100hp and 170hp?
So it has to be 170hp, no?
I sold my PE two months after owning it. The dealership is trying to make things up to me by putting my name on their Abarth list, supposedly, I am #1.
I'm interested to see what the Abarth will be, I mostly want to know what the price will be and what kind of fuel economy it gets. Actually, what I would love more than enchiladas on Christmas is for Fiat to put a 135 horse turbocharged engine in the current 500 sport coupe. It would be perfect for my needs/desires...a bit more power for pulling mountain hills but with a small enough hp bump to hopefully still get 36-38 mpg on the highway. Santa, please bring me this car and a plate of enchiladas. Thank you.


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For Republicans, Barack Obama's election and re-election have been events that they yearned to reverse. Mitch McConnell declared the destruction of his presidency during the first term and his so-called friend Tom Coburn has mentioned impeachment. Say what you will of the GOP, they do not lack persistence.
Certainly this putschist style is not limited to the federal level. In state after state, Michigan, Ohio and North Carolina, Republican state governments have tried to limit the vote with bizarre actions. Using tactics not seen since the literacy test they have taken a cue from John Robert's Supreme Court. Not since Roger B. Taney ruled on Dred Scott had they seemed so eager to move without deliberate speed.
North Carolina is an example. Pat McCrory was elected governor as a pro-business moderate. Voters were tired of Democratic corruption and thought it good to place a safe and sane business progressive in the governor's mansion. Instead, they got a draconian voter-suppression law and abortion restrictions which McCrory claimed he was not in favor of as a candidate. McCrory decided to follow the lead of a radical General Assembly and eschew the style which made him an able mayor of Charlotte.
Perhaps the actions were entirely political, but in doing so he awoke a sleeping giant. Not since February 1960 when four black students tried to desegregate a lunch counter in Greensboro, have activists in the Tar Heel State been so aroused. Demonstrations have been weekly in Raleigh and urban North Carolina has been aroused in numbers not seen in 40 years.
The history of the state would have cautioned against such a drastic approach. In 1898 the so-called Red Shirt Campaign targeted African Americans in especially Eastern Carolina. Angered by the election of a Republican governor backed by populists, Democrats decided to settle the score. Furnifold Simmons of New Bern whipped up the mob and violent groups seized community after community. One particularly violent incident seized a government in Wilmington. Hence began full Jim Crow and outright denial of the franchise to African Americans.
Although this may appear to European Americans as implausible, it is not to African Americans. After the defeat of Henry Cabot Lodge's "force bill" to secure enforcement in 1890, white southerners saw it as a symbol that the course of Civil Rights was no longer a great concern. They moved with alacrity and essentially wiped away the chief successes of the Civil War.
So naturally African Americans are alarmed with actions as those taken in North Carolina. Perhaps it is a matter of an identification card, but history suggests a more sinister motive. It also gives an object lesson how different groups perceive history. Certainly the threat of wild actions can disrupt good will and make unsteady the political consensus. In trying to roll back North Carolina to 1965, the reactionaries come late but yet they come.


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PITTSBURGH - Phil Nevin drove in three runs and the San Diego Padres' Brian Lawrence won his fourth start in a row and halted Pittsburgh's four-game winning streak, 6-3 Wednesday in the first game of a doubleheader.
Mark Loretta, Terrence Long and Brian Giles each had three of San Diego's 13 hits and the Padres bounced back from a three-game weekend sweep by the Cubs to win for the third time in eight games. W: Lawrence (6-2). L: Johnston (0-1). S: Hoffman (11).
Diamondbacks 6, Braves 4, 11 innings: In Atlanta, Luis Gonzalez hit his second homer of the game in the 11th inning and Steve Finley followed with another solo shot, leading Arizona over Atlanta.
Arizona bounced back in the 11th off Armando Almanza (0-1) after squandering a 4-0 lead in the eighth. W: Bruney (2-0). L: Almanza (0-1).
Cardinals 1, Mets 0: In New York, Scott Rolen hit an RBI double in the eighth inning for St. Louis.
Jeff Suppan, Cal Eldred and Steve Kline combined on a four-hitter. Eldred (1-0) pitched two hitless innings and Kline worked a perfect ninth for his first save. W: Eldred (1-0). L: Stanton (0-1). S: Kline (1).
Phillies 9, Dodgers 4: In Philadelphia, Pat Burrell hit a two-run homer and Marlon Byrd had three RBIs to help surging Philadelphia hand Los Angeles its sixth straight loss.
Eric Milton (5-0) allowed three runs and eight hits in 513 innings for the Phillies, who have won nine of 12.
Hideo Nomo (3-5) left in the second inning after he split the nail on his right index finger. W: Milton (5-0). L: Nomo (3-5).
Cubs 4, Giants 3, 10 innings: In Chicago, Moises Alou crossed up his father's strategy and homered in the bottom of the 10th inning.
With one out, Giants manager Felipe Alou pulled lefty Jason Christiansen and brought in righty Jim Brower (1-3) to face his son. But Moises hit a 3-2 pitch to end the game.
In the top of the 10th, Joe Borowski (2-1) retired Edgardo Alfonzo on a popup and Pedro Feliz on a grounder with runners on first and second. W: Borowski (2-1). L: Brower (1-3).
Reds 4, Rockies 3, 10 innings: In Cincinnati, Danny Graves blew a chance for a record-setting save, but D'Angelo Jimenez singled with the bases loaded in the 10th inning to rally the Reds to their fourth victory in five games.
Jose Acevedo struck out a career-high 11 in seven shutout innings, but the Rockies rallied to tie it with their third second of back-to-back homers in the series. Vinny Castilla hit a two-out, two-run shot in the eighth off Todd Jones. W: Riedling (2-0). L: Fuentes (1-1).
Brewers 6, Expos 3: In San Juan, Puerto Rico, Bill Hall hit a go-ahead, three-run triple through the steady rain to help Milwaukee snap Montreal's four-game winning streak.
Victor Santos threw five innings and allowed two runs for the win. Dan Kolb pitched the final inning for his ninth save in nine tries. W: Santos (2-0). L: Kim (2-2).
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Buckeye police and members of a local anti-underage-drinking coalition say efforts to raise awareness about the town's year-old social-host ordinance have been effective in deterring adults from providing alcohol to minors.
The town ordinance holds adults who provide alcohol to minors legally responsible. Depending on the severity of the offense, adults cited under the ordinance will face civil or criminal penalties that would include jail time and hefty fines.
Since it took effect April 1, police officers and members of the Way Out West Coalition have focused on spreading awareness of the ordinance and the issue of adult enablers of underage drinking.
They have handed out thousands of fliers to residents at schools, community events and during officers' interactions with residents, coalition leaders said. They also are advertising their "Those who host lose the most" campaign on a billboard on Interstate 10 and by putting up fliers, posters, stickers and A-frame signs at restaurants and businesses that sell alcohol.
Police have cited one person under the ordinance in the past year, but Lt. Kelly Angel said that is an indicator it's working because the best way to measure its effectiveness is by their calls for service, not enforcement.
"We've actually had a lot of success educating the public," Angel said. "We'd go to a loud party, juvenile party after juvenile party to the same residences, (but) it seems like that's slowed down due to the fact that when we do go to those residences, we educate them on this ordinance and the severity of it, and it's definitely been a good deterrent tool."
Police cited a 20-year-old man last April under the ordinance after officers discovered a loud party with about 30 to 40 minors at his downtown Buckeye home, Sgt. Fred Hayman said. Though partiers refused to answer the door, police saw people urinating in the street, several vehicles parked illegally, beer cups and other trash littering the street and a keg was visible in the backyard.
Parking and minor-in-consumption citations were handed out to partiers outside, and, after officers conducted an investigation, the man was cited the next day for supplying the alcohol, Hayman said. He pleaded guilty in July and took an alcohol-education class set up under the ordinance in order to avoid a $250 fine.
"Since then, we have never been back to that house," he said.
The social-host ordinance works hand-in-hand with the Police Department's party patrol, which also was the brain child of the coalition. Two officers patrol Friday and Saturday nights looking for any gatherings where minors are drinking. When they come upon a party where it seems adults may have supplied alcohol, they investigate whether to cite them under the ordinance.
Since July, party-patrol officers have issued 199 citations for minor in consumption, minor operating a motor vehicle with alcohol in their system, and minor in consumption of alcohol in a public thoroughfare, Hayman said.
Ed Eddingfield, a coalition leader, said their goal with the ordinance is not to cite as many people as they can, but "to stop some of these other really bad things from happening that go on when the kids are under the influence of drugs and alcohol, (and) give them the best shot at the future that they can have."
The coalition conducts an annual community-norms survey to gauge residents' thoughts on the issue of underage drinking. Some of the survey questions include whether they're aware of the social-host ordinance and party patrol, how they believe teens get alcohol, and opinions on the best solutions to the problem.
According to the 2011 survey, which surveyed 380 people, 12.9 percent of people were aware of the social-host ordinance, up from 11.8 percent in 2010 when the coalition surveyed 302 people. Also in 2011, 27.1 percent said they had heard of the party patrols, up from 23.5 percent in 2010.
"People are aware of the party patrol, people are aware of the social-host ordinance," Eddingfield said. "The numbers have gone up to a fairly decent number, we want it to be higher, of course, but we are very happy with the way that it's moving forward."
Vice Mayor Brian McAchran, a member of the coalition, said the coalition will evaluate the party patrol and ordinance to determine if they need to tweak anything, but believes it is on the right path.
"It's not the silver bullet to stop the problem, but it is an additional tool that the officers can use. And they're using it, and I think that we're making a difference," he said. "We just need to carry forward with it and I think it's going very well at this point."
Sharon Schulze (left), 14, and Lexi Bohanan, 15, put up signs and flyers about preventing underage drinking at Halftime Sports Bar and Grill in Buckeye.
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Enjoy 'The Sound of Music' at Erie Playhouse
If the beloved musical "The Sound of Music" is one of your favorite things, the Erie Playhouse is the place to go for a mountaintop experience. Almitra Clerkin directs the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic about a young postulant whose life takes an unexpected turn when she becomes governess to a widowed sea captain's children.
Natalie Pertz (Maria), who stars alongside Bruce Rockwell (Capt. von Trapp), shares her thoughts about the show.
Exciting Opportunity
"It's one of those movies that you grow up watching," Pertz said. "Julie Andrews, in general, is just incredible, so to have the opportunity to take on a role like that after being so moved by the movie is just incredibly thrilling and nerve-wracking at the same time."
An Energetic Maria
"You don't realize until you fully block this production how much movement there really is while you're singing, especially with Maria. She's this ball of energy who's all over the place. So, one moment she's on the bed, the next moment she's lifting a kid around the bed, the next moment she's playing guitar."
The Von Trapp children
"Working with the kids has been one of the easier things, feeding off their energy. They've all been so wonderful and professional and serious throughout this whole thing -- but goofy at the same time -- that it's great to be with them. ... They all want to do a really good job, and that really reflects on how they're progressing."
Stellar Songs
"'Something Good' and 'I Have Confidence' are two songs that aren't in the original musical that are in the movie that we added. ... I'm very excited because I love those two songs. But I love all of the songs with the children when I'm starting to warm up to them. 'Do Re Mi' and 'My Favorite Things' are probably my favorites. My first musical I ever auditioned for, I sang 'My Favorite Things.'"
A Resilient Family
"You're going to be smiling along with us the entire time, rooting for the family. It's an incredible, incredible family with what they go through. It's how you deal with a crisis and make the most out of a really difficult situation. Everybody's doing their part. With the state that our country's in, I think there's a lot to be said about the family and the household rising to the occasion together."


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It can be very interesting getting your dog involved into a wedding ceremony. So, for people that are planning to marry soon and consider their pet as a part of the family and want to involve it into this important once-in-a-lifetime ceremony, here are some suggestions.
Pet stores are offering a lot of different accessories and clothes for such occasions. There are wedding neckties, collars, shirts, vests, dresses, etc. Normally they are all available in different sizes and are made in material of the highest quality.
If you want, and if you can manage to train your dog, he can even become a part of the wedding ceremony, playing the role of the ring bearer. In this case, you will have to arrange a pouch for wedding rings that will be hanged around your dog's neck.
Overall, you an even make a bridesmaid of your dog. There are very nice wedding dresses and other outfit at pet stores, which can give a touch of humor to the entire wedding.
When buying a wedding outfit for your pup, make sure that it is of the highest quality. Don't let your dog ruin his/hers outfit just because it is poorly made. For this reason we are highly recommending the Kelsey Grey Dog Tuxedo Vest which can be used for different occasions.
The Kelsey Grey Dog Tuxedo Vest can be used as a wedding outfit or simply as an outfit for a fancy dinner. This cute vest features two golden buttons and a wonderful bow tie.
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