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Speaking of the Nintendo Wii, the system has added much needed USB keyboard support to its functionality in the latest system update.
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Also included with the update: Changes to the "Everybody Votes" channel.
In other Nintendo news: An updated version of Opera's Internet Channel for the Wii has launched. Not only to support the above mentioned keyboard, but also to include "Send to a friend," that enables you to send links to Web sites to your Wii friends.
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Gov. Neil Abercrombie makes a surprising statement, questioning the authenticity of the death bed letter from Sen. Daniel Inouye.
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In that letter, Inouye asked that Colleen Hanabusa be named his successor. Then hours later, the governor apologized for the words the Senator's widow calls hurtful.
On the day Sen. Inouye died, an emotional Abercrombie shared one last thought from the Senator.
"He made clear to me in a communication of his love and affection for us all," said Abercrombie.
The Governor did not publicly share another message from Sen. Inouye; the now famous death bed letter asking him to appoint Colleen Hanabusa in his place in Washington.
Abercrombie then chose Lt. Gov. Brian Schatz instead.
In an article Monday, Abercrombie tells the L.A. times: "I received that letter ostensibly coming from Sen. Inouye, himself, a half an hour before he died in Washington D.C. literally….Whether or not this could be construed as Sen. Inouye's dying wish – let me put it this way is problematic. I think it was kind of created."
Monday afternoon KITV4 caught up with Abercrombie.
"I really don't have anything to say about the letter. It came. It was marked personal. I read it and I absorbed it and those who put it together I think have to answer about the letter," said Abercrombie.
"The governor's comments about Dan's wishes are very hurtful. To question the letter and the authenticity of Dan's last wishes is certainly disrespectful to Dan, to me and to his family, friends and former staff," said Inouye's widow Irene Hirano Inouye.
Then later Monday evening, the governor issued an apology.
"I regret that my comments were interpreted as hurtful and disrespectful. Sen. Inouye was, without a doubt, one of the finest leaders in Hawaii's history and a mentor to me," said Abercrombie.
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The natives of Anthropol don't like aliens and they don't want Vernay. So it's going to be a tough assignment.
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In respect to the rapidly growing importance of interventional valve technologies for the cardiac surgeon FOCUS Valve 2016 will incorporate also newest developments and techniques in the field of interventional valve therapies.
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By Jeff Nun, USMTS PR (Webster City, IA) — Officials from the United States Modified Touring Series announced the launch of their new website today at www.usmts.com.
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If your cat is female, most likely she'll be left pawed. And your boy…well, he'll be a rightie. Yes, that's been proven after Deborah Wells, a senior lecturer at Queen's University Belfast School of Psychology, and co-author Sarah Millsopp examined the paw use of 42 domestic cats last year. Each cat repeatedly completed three play-like tasks while at home with their owners.
Per the report the first a bit of tuna was placed at the bottom of an empty, narrow-mouthed jar., and the cats were observed how they attempted to extract the food treat.
The second task watched which paw the cat used to reach for a toy mouse suspended above the cat's head on a string.
For the last task the same toy was slowly dragged on the ground in front of the cats. The first paw used by the cats to try to grab the toy was recorded.
Each feline had 100 paw responses recorded for the study.
What was the overall result? The cats didn't favor a certain paw to play or reach for the toy mouse. However, the preferred paw to reach for the tuna in the narrow-mouthed jar definately was observed for all cats. The study findings were later published in the scientific journal Animal Behavior.


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Military operations in Libya will continue until Moammar Gadhafi stops his attacks
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MIDLAND CITY, Ala. (AP) — The FBI says as police negotiators tried to coax Jimmy Lee Dykes into freeing a boy he was holding hostage in an underground bunker, Dykes was planning more violence. A SWAT team stormed Dykes' bunker, killing him in a "firefight," but yesterday, bomb technicians found two explosive devices on the property. The FBI says one bomb was inside the bunker and the other in the plastic pipe that negotiators had been using to talk to Dykes.


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November 22nd AD 1864 Received Wood and Potatoes and also [received] 3 Letters one from MBH one from WAM and a "Copperhead" "Letter" from N.C.Grooms and so also became some what acquainted with Capt Wells C.S. Who relieves Capt W M Vogleson C.S. of the Post of Vicksburg Miss
23rd Things ware invassed[sic] to Capt Wells, C.S. and I received on his order Flour Fish & Bacon and in the evening traded a Hat for a cap with a Negro and came Home and wrote for amusement &C.. "Brother" "Jake" is on "Picket" to night Traded Pants with H.F.McCormac and contraced[sic] some Sheats with a Lady up town 3 fors[sic] so also sold a vest I just finished at 3$
24 Received Flour Bacon Hams and then went to Bed as it was Thanks Giving day and at noon got up went down to the New Orleans Resterant and got a Dish of Oysters and felt pretty good the remainder of the after noon took Supper at our New Mess and all was right &C..
25th Received Wood for Capt W M Vogleson C.S.
26th " " " " " " till noon and then Rec. Potatoes & Flour for Cap Wells C.S. and Brother Jake came in off of Picket and took Supper with me and afer[sic] spending an Hour down town I came to my room and Wrote for amusement &C.. &C..
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"Life on the Mangubo compound, unlike the world outside the jungle, was both peaceful and egalitarian."
A trip like this may seem strange to you. You could reasonably accuse us of a kind of exoticism. But people travel for lots of reasons. There's beach tourism, sex tourism, wine tourism. This trip, for me, offered something a lot more interesting: a chance to feed our long fascination with the idea of pre-agrarian society. For 40,000 years, from the rise of behaviorally modern humans until the development of agriculture 9,000 years ago, all of our ancestors had lived somewhat like the Mbuti do today. More than anything, Dan and Chris and I just wanted a glimpse of what that past might have looked like.Of Men, Okapi, and Rebels, or, looking for Mbuti hunter-gatherers in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve.
Josephine and Frederick's grand adventure
Democratic Republic of Congo: Lubumbashi to Kinshasa. We made the decision to tackle this part of Democratic Republic of Congo when we were in Egypt. It would take us about 4 months to drive from Cairo down to the Zambia/DRC border. We immediately started our quest for information. It would soon become clear that very little information was available. We did not know of a single traveler that did this in the last 20 years. We knew of two who tried (both on motorbikes) in recent years. One crashed after a few days and got evacuated. The other got arrested and deported. Both didn't get very far. So we had to be creative and think of other sources of information. If there is one thing you can find anywhere in the world it is Coca-Cola. They should know how to get their goods in the country. We had no response via email, so we called them up. Their answer was pretty short: They do not have a distribution network outside the major cities in Congo. And it proved to be true, Congo is the first country we have visited were Coca-cola is hard to get once you leave the major cities. The moral of the story was: nobody knew anything about the road conditions.
"There is Sape only when there is peace."
The Congolese Sape is a photoessay by Héctor Mediaville on Sapeurs, a male subculture in the Democratic Republic of the Congo which is defined by its haute couture clothes. Blogger Eccentric Yoruba wrote a post for steampunk blog Beyond Victoriana on Sapeurs which was crossposted to Racialicious detailing the history of the movement and linking it to dandyism in general and explaining its political significance in the 70s, when it was championed by music legend Papa Wemba (live footage from the 90s and 70s).
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General Laurent Nkunda is a Tutsi warlord in Katanga who was recently interviewed by the Huffington Post. The BBC believe he is nothing more than your standard African rebel with a long list of atrocities to his name. An opinion supported by the UN and some human rights groups. The War Nerd has come to his defense, however, suggesting that he's just angered the UN by refusing to disarm and allow the Hutu "refugees" from the Rwandan Genocide to terrorize the lands under his control. [more inside]
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Warner retirement big news for Beanie Wells
We all know where Ken Whisenhunt came from before landing the Cardinal head coaching job: Pittsburgh. Some expected him to immediately tinker with the Cardinal offense and make a concerted effort to run the ball more, but that wasn't viable for a few reasons. For one, he didn't have a marquee back, and the OL wasn't all that great blocking for the run. Most importantly, he had QB Kurt Warner – and a dynamic duo at WR.
But it's officially time for Whisenhunt to return to his roots because Matt Leinart is no Kurt Warner. It's still questionable if Leinart is a quality NFL starter, or even a viable one.
Leinart threw 3 INTs in 2009, and 0 TDs, which isn't exactly a great sign. But he did have a nice 21-for-31, 220-yard performance at Tennessee subbing for Warner, and he was poised, composed, smart, and aware in that game. Leinart has limitations, but they have nothing to do with him from the neck up. His limitations are the result of arm strength, and his tempo is also slow. He can't make some throws, which restricts the offense at times, and his slow movement in the pocket usually results in bodies being […]


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Metro North trains are running normally again, but Gov. Dannel Malloy still isn't happy.
In a letter released today, the Democratic governor says that utility company Con Edison needs to work more quickly to fix the feeder cable in upstate New York that failed late last month, setting off an 11-day power outage.
Con Ed hasn't actually fixed that line. They got the trains running again by putting a different line back in service. But Malloy said both should be up and running. The second line is expected to be fixed by Oct. 22, which Malloy said is too slow.
"This corridor is too critical to our economy to have this repair delayed any longer. I urge you to apply all possible resources and scheduling techniques to complete this project much sooner than October 22."
The governor also said Con Ed should reimburse Metro North for the cost of ticket credits the railroad will be giving out to riders who were affected by the outage.
And Malloy said that while the outage was handled within a matter of days, it still had an adverse affect on the state's economy.
"The importance of this line to our local economy cannot be understated," he wrote. "By conservative estimates, the recent disruption caused a loss of $62 million to my state's economy. Another disruption will only amplify that cost. It is in the long term interest of our region to have a safe and reliable New Haven Line."
In a statement Friday afternoon, Con Ed didn't address the issue of the ticket credits or the lost economic impact.
"We continue to work around-the-clock to make repairs to the remaining feeder in Mt. Vernon and are doing everything we can to expedite the restoration," the utility said. "Once this is done, there will be many issues to discuss with the MTA, including their contingency plans."


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The U.S. Department of Labor announced Thursday that workers from two northwest Ohio companies are among 1,700 statewide and 14,000 nationally who will qualify for trade adjustment assistance.
Laid-off workers at least 50 years old or older from Nobel Automotive Ohio LLC in Archbold and Sanoh American Inc. in Findlay will qualify for the assistance. It will pay up to $12,000 over a two-year period for workers who obtain new employment at wages less than $55,000 and less than their previous wage. The workers also qualify for retraining funding.


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The Ballet Chorus of the Opera Populaire
Training: Nicole was born in Farnborough, Hampshire, and attended Renton Dance Studio from an early age, later joining the Royal Ballet Junior associates for three years, before continuing her training at the Royal Ballet Lower and Upper Schools for eight years, graduating in 2010. During that time she worked with the Royal Ballet Company in The Sleeping Beauty, The Nutcracker and La Bayadere and toured with the company performing Swan Lake (2009). Nicole also toured with the Royal Ballet School to Japan and Canada. Upon graduating, she received a Director's Promising Student Award.
Performances include: since graduating, as a member of Scottish Ballet, Ashley Page's Cinderella, Alice and Fredrick Ashton's Scene de Ballet.
Nicole feels very honoured to be making her West End debut in The Phantom of the Opera and would like to thank all her friends and family for their continued love and support.


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Posted on September 03, 2013
The Stuff the Bus campaign to help support the Heart of West Michigan United Way's Schools of Hope program is underway and runs through September 10.
The program gathers school supplies from several pick-up locations around Grand Valley's Allendale and Pew Grand Rapids campuses, and distributes them to students at Cedar Springs, Godfrey-Lee, Godwin, and Grand Rapids Public Schools.
Supplies that are needed include lined paper, hand sanitizer, pencils, glue sticks, Elmer's glue, markers, crayons, 1" three-ring binders, tissues, index cards, two-pocket folders, sanitary wipes for tables, printer paper (in ream packages), colored construction paper and pencil boxes.
Donations will be accepted at the following locations:
—College of Education, 4th Floor DeVos Center
—Pew Campus Operations, 3rd Floor Bicycle Factory
—Steelcase Library
—University Bookstore, Pew Grand Rapids Campus
—Facilities, Allendale Campus
—Mary Idema Pew Library Learning and Information Commons
—Kirkhof Center, 20/20 Desk
—Rec Center
—Engineering Building
For more information, contact Linda Masselink or visit www.gvsu.edu/service/StuffTheBus.


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Simple and Sexy: Black Leather Pants, Red Gucci PumpsYes, I finally broke down and bought the amazing Tabasco Red Gucci Pumps that I'd been lusting after at Nordstrom for months.
And what is the perfect foil to hot red heels? Black leather, of course. These shoes were just screaming for good-girl-gone-dark and sexy look...so, I pulled out my faux-leather panel leggings from ASOS Curve (similar here), paired it with a sequined Tshirt from Forever 21 (similar here), and voila! A simple and sexy look was born.


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1. A convex molding
4. Goddess of War and Funerals
6. Grandmother of the Gods
7. estate inspector in the reign of Thutmose IV
8. name of four 18th dynasty rulers; hatshepsut's father
11. The greeting area of the public or men's apartments
13. Egyptian priest and historian; author of Aegyptiaca
14. tutankhamun's successor
15. Goddess of the Harvest
17. The Dominant Male Baboon God
18. The Sun God
20. a person through whom a deity is believed to speak
22. 5th dynasty founder
24. God of the Spoken Word
25. A walled monastery
27. A type of glass and pottery decoration developed by Islamic craftsmen involving multiple firings
1. an excavation in which a corpse is
2. A circular design often found on Coptic textiles and on Mamluk buildings
3. former head of the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo
5. A public or private bath
6. Designs that are created by inlaying small, colored pieces of glass, stone, tiles, etc., and often decorate walls or floors
8. The Good Sister
9. Arabic word for three describing the length of the typical small stone building blocks of temples
10. A symbol of protection, consisting of an image of a herdsmans roll of papyrus which he used as shelter
12. Also called a fez, this brimless felt cap with a dark, silk tassel and usually colored red, is of Turkish origin
14. An administrative title in the early Islamic period
16. hieroglyphic sign meaning beautiful and good
17. symbol of strength, masculinity and fertility
19. Kindly God of the Desert
21. one of five elements which the Egyptians considered necessary to make up a complete personality
23. A spirit that inhabits the body during life and may leave it in death, but requires the continued existence of the body for its survival
25. An Islamic house or mansion
26. The Sun God
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In the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association's (USTFCCCA) National Team Computer Rankings, the men's track & field squad remained the nation's top ranked team for the fifth consecutive week. The women's track & field team jumped up three spots to sixth in the week five poll.
Both the men's and women's teams travel to Bloomington, Ill., Feb. 25-26 for the CCIW Indoor Championships, hosted by Illinois Wesleyan University. The men will look to secure their 11th-straight conference championship.


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Montgomery County Office of Consumer Protection (OCP) is joining government agencies and advocacy organizations nationwide to celebrate National Consumer Protection Week (NCPW), March 3-9, 2013.
For the past 15 years, a broad coalition of consumer advocates have worked together to share tips and information about privacy protection, money and debt management, and recognizing identity theft, frauds and scams. To kick off National Consumer Protection Week, on Tuesday, March 5th, the Montgomery County Council will recognize OCP's 40 years of outstanding consumer protection service and achievements during a Proclamation Ceremony.
On Wednesday, March 6th, OCP will answer your questions in a Live Discussion from Noon to 2:00 p.m. Residents will be able to chat online with OCP Director Eric Friedman and ask questions about consumer problems facing county residents. OCP will have special guests, Councilmembers Phil Andrews and Valerie Ervin, who will join the event to answer your questions.
OCP will also host a "Light Fair" Open House on Thursday, March 7th from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. for consumers and merchants alike to meet our consumer, common ownership and business licensing experts. OCP staff will be on hand to assist consumers in obtaining and reviewing a copy of their free credit report. Assistance will be available in English and Spanish. Home improvement, automotive repair, auto sales and leasing, towing, common ownership communities, and other experts will be available throughout this event to answer questions and provide literature. Staff will also be available to discuss volunteer and intern opportunities.
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Great Lakes Kwik Space provides quick portable storage space for businesses throughout the Madison, WI area. We utilize refurbished cargo containers and semi-trailers to deliver extra storage space when you need it where you want it. Great Lakes Kwik Space has rental container options in Madison, WI as well as purchase options throughout Wisconsin.
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Royal Worcester "Grandmothers Dress" Figure
In the 1930s, Royal Worcester was facing real difficulties, when they were joined by two new designers: Freda and Dorothy Doughty. The two sisters faced criticism from many quarters for staying with traditional designs, rejecting the avant garde approach being taken by many other companies. But the public loved their designs, and the sales of what they produced rescued the company. Dorothy Doughty died in 1962, and Freda 10 years later in 1972.
This design was one of their earlier ones for Royal Worcester. It was first issued in 1935, and it was so popular that it remained in production right up to 1985. It was produced mainly in 3 colours. Most common is the girl wearing a dress of deep red burgundy colour. There is also a version with the dress in yellow. Least common, based on my researches, is this lustrous green colour.
The figure is in excellent condition, with no chips or cracks.


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Attorney General Cuomo Announces Agreement With Wells Fargo
NEW YORK, NY (May 29, 2007) – Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo today announced an agreement regarding student loan practices with Wells Fargo, the nation's fifth largest provider of student loans. In the latest development in Cuomo's nationwide investigation, San Francisco-based Wells Fargo has agreed to abide by the Attorney General's Code of Conduct for education loan practices.
Attorney General Cuomo said, "With this agreement, the five largest providers of student loans in the country have signed on to my office's Code of Conduct. As our nationwide investigation continues, more lenders and schools are changing their practices. I applaud Wells Fargo for acting decisively to set an example that all lenders should follow. The message is clear – lenders large and small must adhere to best practices and help restore integrity to the student loan industry."
To date, 24 schools have committed to Cuomo's Code of Conduct, 9 of which have agreed to reimburse students over $3 million for the cost of revenue sharing agreements. Other than Wells Fargo, Cuomo's investigation has resulted in agreements with the nation's four largest student loan providers - Citibank, Sallie Mae, JP Morgan Chase, and Bank of America - as well as with Education Finance Partners (EFP) and CIT. Sallie Mae, Citibank, EFP, and CIT have also agreed to contribute $9.5 million to a national fund established by Cuomo that will educate high school students and their families about the financial aid process. On May 7, 2007, the New York State Legislature passed the Student Lending Accountability, Transparency, and Enforcement (SLATE) Act of 2007, which was sponsored at the request of Cuomo and is the first piece of legislation in the country aimed at ending the widespread conflicts of interest the student loan industry.
The Code of Conduct adopted by Wells Fargo includes the following provisions:
1. Ban on Financial Ties. Lenders are prohibited from giving anything of value to any college in exchange for any advantage sought by the lender. This severs any inappropriate financial arrangements between lenders and schools and specifically prohibits "revenue sharing" arrangements.
2. Ban on Payments for Preferred Lender Status. Lenders may not pay or give colleges any financial benefits whatsoever to get on a college's preferred lender list.
3. Gift and Trip Prohibition. Lenders are prohibited from giving college employees anything of more than nominal value. This includes a prohibition on trips for financial aid officers and other college officials paid for by lenders.
4. Advisory Board Rules. Lenders are prohibited from paying college employees anything of value for serving on the advisory boards of the lenders.
5. Call-Center and Staffing Prohibition. Lenders must ensure that employees of lenders never identify themselves to students as employees of the colleges. No employee of a lender may ever work in or providing staffing assistance to a college financial aid office.
6. Disclosure of Range of Rates and Defaults. Lenders must disclose to any requesting school the range of rates they charge to students at the school, the number of borrowers at each rate at the school, and the lender's historic default rate at the school. This will ensure that schools will have the information they need to select preferred lenders who are best for students and parents.
7. Loan Resale Disclosure. Lenders shall fully and prominently disclose to students and their parents any agreements they have to sell loans to any other lender.


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President Obama spoke with Energy Secretary Steven Chu tonight by telephone from Air Force One. Secretary Chu briefed the President on his scientific and technical assessment of BP's plans for a possible "top kill" and what the next steps will be if BP's "top kill" fails to stop to leak.
At the request of President Obama, Secretary Chu has been leading a team of top scientists who have been scrutinizing BP's plans to stop the leak and providing expert advice and ideas to help better inform BP's approach and maximize the chances for success. As part of these efforts, Secretary Chu is in Houston today.
BP is now conducting crucial diagnostic pressure tests inside the blowout preventer before the "top kill" moves forward. Secretary Chu and his team are evaluating that data in real time as it is coming in. They are also helping analyze multiple backup plans if the "top kill" does not work.
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iHerb Customer Reviews
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Amazing product
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My wife had used high heat on a gas top to stir fry on a new stainless steel wok and badly stained it. Despite our best efforts to remove the stain using liquid detergent, steel wool, baking soda, salt, vinegar, boiling the stain etc, it would not come off. 2 days before the product arrived from iHerb.com, she was still feverishly scrubbing away despite my advice to wait for BKF to arrive. The stain remained. When the product arrived today, I spent just 5 minutes to get the "impossible" stain out to restore our wok to its showroom shine. This product is amazing and I will definitely recommend it to friends as it is virtually unknown in Asia. I live in Singapore and no one has a clue how to remove a burned on stain except the futile recommendations found on Youtube. 5 stars to Bar Keeper's Friend ! And 5 stars to iHerb.com for a speedy and reasonable shipping and handling.
Glad I bought it!
Posted by Danesa on Jun 13, 2013
I use it on so many surfaces and products, it's consistent and always performs well. It removes scratches as well as grease. I have porcelain sinks and sometimes I use this powder in the stool to remove hard water buildup. It does a great job of getting rid of rust. You must wear gloves and avoid breathing the fumes.
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If you don't want chlorine in your kitchen, this is the way to go. It keeps a white sink, white. It also works for washing a white floor.
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It works and smell good, and I like the price! Important, it will no be broken in your sending
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My mom has used this powder formula since she was in her 20s and she recommended it to me. I can't find it in many local stores anymore so I'm ecstatic that I can now order it here. Works very well!
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Works great on pots, pans, etc to get rid of the "tough stuff". Been using it for years with no complaint. It is abrasive so beware of smooth, shiny surfaces but otherwise an awesome cleaner. Works really well if you make a paste, apply and let sit for a bit (till dry) before scrubbing. Use with metal "scrub buds" to get off the REALLY tough stuff.
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Sometimes simple is best. I've been using this cleanser for years and nothing gets my stainless steel sink cleaner. It's also great on my white Corning Ware and the outside of all my every day pans. It's hard to find in the stores sometimes. so I order multiple cans so I won't run out. It just works without a lot of fanfare, which is all I want from my cleaners.
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We have used this on pans we thought were done and Bar Keepers Friend works great to remove the cooking stains. We use good quality stainless pots and pans at our motel and this product is a money saver.
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I'd read online that this product gets rid of unsightly scratches caused by plumbers' snakes. It really, really works, and is great for polishing a variety of other household areas too - sinks, stoves, taps, baths, etc.


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Day 1 - ARRIVE BOSTON
Welcome to Boston! A complimentary transfer is provided to your tour hotel. Your Tour Director is at the hotel this afternoon to greet you and answer your questions. Join us at 6 p.m. for a Welcome Drink at the hotel.
Day 2 - BOSTON – MAINE COAST – BAR HARBOR (2 nights)
Heading north, travel through Portsmouth, New Hampshire, into the state of Maine. Then journey along the state's scenic shoreline, offering a glimpse into its rich past in whaling, shipbuilding and lobstering. The quaint villages along the way typify quintessential New England. Later, cross a narrow spit of land to Mount Desert Island and the seaside town of Bar Harbor for a two-night stay. This evening, join your fellow travelers for a Maine Lobster dinner.
Day 3 - ACADIA NATIONAL PARK EXCURSION & BAR HARBOR AT LEISURE
This morning, explore beautiful Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park, the only national park in New England. Its wooded roads offer views of quiet ponds and rocky beaches, highlighted by the blaze of autumn colours. A stop at the top of Cadillac Mountain provides you with sweeping views of the park, Bar Harbor and the islands of Frenchman Bay. The remainder of the day is at leisure to explore Bar Harbor – perhaps take an optional nature cruise, or simply relax in this quaint village.
Day 4 - BAR HARBOR – PINKHAM NOTCH – NORTH CONWAY
Leaving the Maine coast, turn inland and travel through the colorful woodlands of maples, birch and sumac. Entering New Hampshire, stop at Pinkham Notch for a gondola ride to the top of Wildcat Mountain with incredible views of the White Mountains. Spend the night in the town of North Conway, a popular year-round resort. After dinner, enjoy a presentation on the flora and fauna of the White Mountains.
Day 5 - NORTH CONWAY – LUDLOW (2 nights)
More breathtaking vistas await you today as you travel through New Hampshire into Vermont, New England's most rural state, where tiny villages and remote farm houses are framed by the striking autumn colors. Visit the Simon Pearce glassblowing factory situated in a historic woolen mill and watch and learn about glassblowing. Travel on to your resort situated in the majestic Green Mountains for a two-night stay.
Day 6 - WOODSTOCK EXCURSION
After a photo stop at Quechee Gorge, visit the Rockefellers' renowned Billings Farm & Museum, a working dairy farm and farm life museum. Next is the quintessential Vermont village of Woodstock often called "the prettiest small town in America." There is time to enjoy the romantic charm of this lovely New England village with its covered bridge, quaint streets and stately homes surrounding the village green. Leaving Woodstock, stop in Plymouth Notch to visit President Calvin Coolidge's childhood homestead and where he was sworn into presidency while vacationing. Return to Ludlow in the late afternoon where the remainder of the day is at leisure.
Day 7 - LUDLOW – SPRINGFIELD
Cross into western Massachusetts and enjoy the spectacular autumn colors on a scenic journey through the rolling countryside of the Berkshires. Later, stop at the Norman Rockwell Museum to learn more about the area's most famous artist. View the artist's personal artifacts, mementos and world-renowned images depicting the surrounding New England community and its residents. Upon arrival in Springfield, enjoy a farewell dinner with newfound friends.
Day 8 - SPRINGFIELD – LEXINGTON – CONCORD –
Your journey this morning takes you into the heart of Revolutionary War history with a visit to the towns of Lexington and Concord, made famous in Longfellow's poem about "Paul Revere's Ride." It was in these two small villages that in April 1775 the first shots of the American Revolution were fired. You also see the Minuteman Statue, Concord Bridge and Lexington Green, before returning to Boston. A complimentary transfer is provided to Boston International Airport and the tour hotel in Boston for passengers extending their stay.
Please do not schedule flights before 4 p.m.
Bar Harbor - Visit Acadia National Park and drive up to the top of Cadillac Mountain.
Pinkham Notch - Ride a gondola to the top of Wildcat Mountain.
North Conway - Enjoy a presentation on the ecology of the North Woods.
Quechee - Visit the Simon Pearce glassblowing factory and learn about the art of glassblowing.
Woodstock - See Vermont's great agricultural heritage at Billings Farm & Museum.
Plymouth Notch - Visit the family homestead of President Calvin Coolidge.
Berkshire Mountains - Explore the Norman Rockwell Museum.
Lexington and Concord - Visit the towns where the first shots of the American Revolution were fired.
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Good sense has prevailed in the house of Mimi! After years of allowing dozens of less talented American Idol contestants run amuck around her pink yet lavender vacant throne as the Queen of the Modern Ballad, Mariah Carey is finally ready to reclaim her spot at the top with a new album that current has a May release date.
Pretending as though "Triumphant (Get 'Em)" never happened, Carey revealed the exciting news to Billboard that her new album will be packed with "raw" ballads. At that exact moment, Leona Lewis galloped back to a lonely studio in the UK upon realising that her days as a substitute for the diva have come to an end.
"It's about making sure I have tons of good music," Carey noted as she chatted freely about her new material, which was produced by the likes of Q-Tip and DJ Cassidy, Jermaine Dupri,Bryan-Michael Cox, Big Jim Wright, Hit-Boy, The-Dream and Rodney Jerkins. "At the end of the day, that's the most important thing."
"Wherever we go with this project," Carey continued. "I've tried to keep the soul and heart in it with me, obviously, as the through-line. I was and still am in a very prolific space. I could say, 'Let's stop now' but that's not who I am, and that's not what I want this record to be. I really want the fans to love this record."
Earlier today, Carey visited LIVE! With Kelly & Michael where she spoke about her current single, "Almost Home" from the Oz the Great & Powerful soundtrack. Although she didn't treat the crowd to a live performance of the tune, she will reportedly sing it on American Idol later this season.
Watch Carey's appearance on LIVE! With Kelly & Michael below as I try to compose myself:
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Dr. Melissa Marko was named assistant professor of biological sciences at University of the Sciences. Dr. Marko was appointed to visiting assistant professor at USciences in 2011 after being hired for a postdoctoral fellowship in 2009.
Dr. Marko's research interests involve bioengineering of E. coli and Saccharomyces cervisiae and the role of antioxidants in cell signaling and mechanisms of health promotion. Her current research focuses on the biosynthetic pathway of the antioxidant carnosic acid found in the herb rosemary and its effects on E. coli and Saccharomyces cervisiae.
At USciences, her teaching responsibilities will continue to include basic nutrition, cell biology methods lecture and laboratory, general biology laboratory, and microbiology laboratory.
Dr. Marko received both her PhD and MS in cell and molecular nutrition from Tuft University. She also earned a BS in nutritional science as well as a BS in life science in Pennsylvania State University. In addition to her degrees, Dr. Marko was a teaching postdoctoral fellow at University of the Sciences and a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University.


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Robert De Niro's Unforgettable Characters
Robert De Niro: A Model Actor
Without argument Robert De Niro is considered one of our greatest movie actors, often topping film pundits' lists of favorite movie stars and repeatedly being cited by many as the model American actor. Quentin Tarantino remembers that when he was growing up, "De Niro was the ideal – to be Robert De Niro, that was the be all and end all." He's been nominated six times by the Academy Awards, winning twice: in 1974 for Best Supporting Actor for The Godfather, Part II and in 1980 for Best Actor for Raging Bull. In BEING FLYNN, De Niro plays Jonathan Flynn, a complex character who is by turns a romantic artist and self-destructive, absentee father. The gritty, urban role recalls some of De Niro's great dramatic creations, from the intensity of Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver to the off-kilter humor of Rupert Pupkin in The King of Comedy. Indeed one can find bits and pieces of many of De Niro's great roles in Jonathan Flynn. In the following editorial slideshow, we revisit some of De Niro's most memorable characters, figures who not only demonstrate De Niro's acclaimed acting talent, but have also comfortably taken up residence in our popular imagination. This is a shortlist. Tell us in the comment section what roles rocked you.
Mean Streets (1973)
While De Niro had made a few features before Mean Streets, this 1973 gritty slice-of-crime drama put both himself and his director Martin Scorsese on the map. While De Niro and Scorsese officially met in 1972 at a friend's Christmas party, the two New Yorkers had grown up in the same part of the city and realized that they had seen each other around the neighborhood for years. De Niro expressed a strong interest to work with the young director after seeing Scorsese's Who's That Knocking at My Door?, and so Scorsese offered him a role in his upcoming film Mean Streets, a pseudo-sequel to that earlier film. The only problem was that Charlie, the lead role De Niro really wanted, had already been given to Harvey Keitel. After a bit of wrangling, De Niro took the part of Johnny Boy, Charlie's loose cannon best friend. De Niro remembers, "When you play a role you don't see yourself doing at first, you can get things from yourself that you ordinarily wouldn't get. I didn't see myself as Johnny Boy as written, but we improvised in rehearsal and the part evolved." De Niro approached his performance with a level of preparation and professionalism that impressed everyone around him. "It was my first movie and to watch Bobby take charge of his work was a great lesson for me," says his Mean Streets co-star Richard Romanus. "He would say, 'Whoa, whoa, I want another take. I want to do this again.' He would put the responsibility of his own performance on his own shoulders. So he wasn't able at the end of the day to turn round to anyone and say, 'I would have been better but for him.'" De Niro brought an unrestrained energy and painful humanity to the role, making Johnny Boy a truly unforgettable screen character. "Johnny Boy is played by Robert De Niro and it's a marvelous performance, filled with urgency and restless desperation," wrote Roger Ebert at the time of the film's release. De Niro was voted Best Supporting Actor by the National Society of Film Critics, and in the decades since the film's release Mean Streets has achieved classic status (it was selected to be preserved in the United States National Film Registry in 1997), largely on the back of De Niro's unforgettable performance.
The Godfather Part II (1974)
Robert De Niro won the role of Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II directly as a result of Mean Streets. Director Martin Scorsese showed his friend Francis Ford Coppola a print of Mean Streets before the film's release, and Coppola was hugely impressed by De Niro's performance. At the time, Coppola was trying to solve the conundrum of how he could make a sequel to the enormously successful The Godfather – as Paramount was desperate for him to do – when star Marlon Brando had opted out of appearing in the movie. Coppola's solution was to cast De Niro as a much younger version of Brando's character, mob boss Vito Corleone, and in one of the segments of the movie show the early part of the godfather's life. Coppola had auditioned De Niro for a number of minor roles in the original film, and had noted at the time how much De Niro resembled a young Brando. So, without even screen testing him, Coppola offered De Niro the chance to play the young mafioso. For De Niro, there were two major challenges. Firstly, he had to portray a character that Brando had so recently immortalized; and, secondly, all but three lines of Vito Corleone's dialogue was in Sicilian! (One of those three lines is "I make him an offer he don' refuse. Don' worry.") As ever, De Niro overcame these issues with hard work and unceasing dedication. To try and become Don Vito, he endlessly watched Brando's performance in the first film, absorbing every detail of how he spoke, how he moved. "I didn't want to do an imitation, but I wanted to make it believable that I could be him as a young man," De Niro explained. "I would see some little movements that he would do and try and link them to my performance. It was like a mathematical problem where you have the result and you try to make the beginning fit." With almost no time to master Sicilian, De Niro took a six week Berlitz crash course in Italian, and then spent four months in Sicily absorbing every detail of Sicilian life and, more importantly, Sicilian dialect. De Niro's language coach was dumbfounded by his progress, saying he had thought it impossible that anyone could learn so much in so short a time. De Niro's performance wowed critics and audiences, and he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards, one of 11 nods the movie received. Believing he had no shot at winning, the shy De Niro decided to stay at home in New York rather than make a pointless trek out to Los Angeles. When his name was read out, Francis Ford Coppola had to come to the stage on De Niro's behalf, telling the audience, "I think this is a richly deserved award. I think Robert De Niro is an extraordinary actor and that he is going to enrich the films that are made for years to come." He was not wrong.
Taxi Driver (1976)
Right from the start, Robert De Niro was the actor everyone wanted to play Travis Bickle. Indeed, when Martin Scorsese was offered the gig of directing Taxi Driver, it was contingent on him being able to get De Niro to play the unhinged title character. De Niro's situation prior to filming was far from ideal –– he was in Italy shooting Bernardo Bertolucci's 20th Century epic 1900 –– but he wanted to do the movie so badly that he became determined to overcome any immediate problems that he faced. On weekends or during any time off from Bertolucci's movie, De Niro dedicated himself to understanding Bickle, the scarred Vietnam vet turned vigilante. He would fly back to New York City, where he procured a cab driver's license and worked 12-hour shifts. He visited U.S. soldiers based in Italy and recorded them talking, trying to find the right Midwestern voice for Travis. He listened studiously to recorded readings from the diaries of Arthur Bremer, who tried to assassinate presidential hopeful George Wallace in 1972, and read extensively about mental illness. And, feeling Travis should have a lean look, he lost 35 pounds. In addition to piecing together all of Travis' component parts, De Niro created the character's most famous line of dialogue, "You talking to me?", which Bickle says repeatedly to his reflection in one scene. In the original script, the only detail given was "Travis looks in the mirror," and De Niro –– extremely gifted at improvisation –– simply constructed the scene from there. In the New York Times, Vincent Canby wrote that Travis Bickle was "as nutty as they come, a psychotic, but as played by Mr. De Niro he's a riveting character inhabiting a landscape that's as much his creation as he is the creation of it. ... Travis Bickle—the collaboration of writer, director, and actor—remains fascinating throughout, probably because he is more than a character who is certifiably insane. He is a projection of all our nightmares of urban alienation, refined in a performance that is effective as much for what Mr. De Niro does as for how he does it. Acting of this sort is rare in films. It is a display of talent, which one gets in the theater, as well as a demonstration of behavior, which is what movies usually offer. Were Mr. De Niro less an actor, the character would be a sideshow freak." Though De Niro was nominated as Best Actor at both the Academy Awards and the Golden Globes, he came home empty handed. (In both cases, he lost out in to Network's Peter Finch, who had died just before the start of award season.) Travis Bickle, however, is now widely considered to be perhaps his greatest role.
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Throughout the course of Robert De Niro's career, the actor has shown a commendable bravery in the roles and the movies he has taken on, and one of his boldest decisions was to play Sgt. Michael "Mike" Vronsky, a small-town steelworker who fights in the Vietnam War, in The Deer Hunter. The movie was a tough sell: in 1978, Hollywood had not yet tackled Vietnam, and The Deer Hunter depicted the brutality of the war with alarming directness and intensity. Producer Michael Deeley had hired up-and-comer Michael Cimino to direct the film, but needed a big name star to offset the film's potentially alienating subject matter; De Niro was not only riding high but, as Deeley says, was also "the right age, apparently tough as hell, and immensely talented." De Niro was drawn to the project on the strength of the script, and also because Cimino was a kindred spirit who loved preparation as much as he did. Together, they visited steel towns in Ohio like Steubenville and Mingo Junction, and tried to absorb the characters and the milieu around them. "I talked with the mill-workers, I drank with them and ate with them, and I played pool with them," says De Niro. "I tried to come as close to a steelworker as possible. I wanted to work a shift at the mill but they wouldn't let me." De Niro recalls The Deer Hunter as the toughest and most emotionally draining film he's ever made, and it's not hard to see why. Intent on doing his own stunts, De Niro was almost killed when, after he jumped 30 foot from a helicopter into the River Kwai, the chopper got caught on some cables and was nearly dragged down on top of him. During the famous Vietcong Russian roulette scenes, De Niro and his co-stars John Savage and Christopher Walken were tied up in bamboo cages while mosquitoes bit them and rats ran around next to them. And when De Niro and John Cazale did their own Russian roulette scenes, De Niro insisted that they use live ammunition to heighten the intensity and realism of the moment. For another scene, Cimino instructed Walken to spit in De Niro's face, prompting De Niro to almost storm off the set. However, all the hard work and trauma resulted in a painful and resonant performance, with the New York Times proclaiming that "Mr. De Niro ...does some of his best work to date." The Academy voters agreed, and De Niro was once again nominated for Best Actor. A no-show at the Oscars for both The Godfather Part II and Taxi Driver, an anxious De Niro wanted to attend this time, but asked if he could avoid the spotlight and stay backstage instead, coming out only if he won. When the Academy would not agree to this, he opted to once again remain in New York City. Though The Deer Hunter won the Best Picture and Best Director Oscars, De Niro lost out to Jon Voight in Coming Home, another groundbreaking Vietnam War movie.
Raging Bull (1980)
After Mean Streets and Taxi Driver, it was clear that De Niro and Scorsese were a powerhouse actor-director combo, and they consolidated that reputation with Raging Bull. De Niro had read the autobiography of troubled boxer Jake LaMotta while working on The Godfather Part II and had tried to interest Scorsese in directing it shortly thereafter. But it was only when Scorsese was at a personal low in 1978 –– when he had a near-fatal cocaine overdose –– that De Niro managed to convince him to take an interest in the project. Scorsese and De Niro worked together for five weeks honing existing drafts of the script, finding the best way to tell LaMotta's turbulent life story. De Niro then immersed him in LaMotta's world, befriending the boxer's ex-wife, Vicki, and hiring LaMotta himself as his personal boxing trainer. It turned out that De Niro had a natural gift for pugilism: he fought three amateur bouts in New York, winning two, and LaMotta said he thought De Niro was good enough to become a professional middleweight. In Raging Bull, De Niro's physicality is startling, and it was for real: while sparring on camera with Joe Pesci, De Niro actually broke one of Pesci's ribs. To portray the older and much stouter LaMotta in the latter part of the movie, most actors would have simply worn padding, but Scorsese put production on hold to allow De Niro to go on an "eating tour" around Italy and France for four months, during which time he put on 60 pounds. The praise for De Niro's portrayal of LaMotta was unanimous and deafening: Time lauded his "explosive art," while Vincent Canby of the New York Times posited that this was "the performance of his career." De Niro won Best Actor awards from the National Board of Review and the Golden Globes, and had such momentum going into the Oscars that he decided to actually attend. It was a good thing, as he won the award and nervously, happily thanked all those around him, not least the real Jake LaMotta, who had been on the set throughout production and at that moment was sitting in the audience, smiling with obvious approval.
The King of Comedy (1983)
As with The Deer Hunter, the production experiences on The King of Comedy were far from enjoyable, but De Niro's resulting performance –– and the movie as a whole –– was exceptional. The word that sums up so much to do with The King of Comedy is "uncomfortable." The film is about discomfort, it was uncomfortable to make, and certain creative principals attached to the movie ultimately felt uncomfortable that they had made it. In The King of Comedy, De Niro plays Rupert Pupkin, an obsessive wannabe comedian who dreams of stardom and feels that his special brand of genius would be recognized by the world if only he were given an opportunity to let his light shine. So, he kidnaps late night talk show host Jerry Langford (Jerry Lewis) and demands the opening spot on his show as ransom for Langford's return. De Niro, who was looking for a comedy after a string of extremely dark and serious roles, came across ex-film critic Paul Zimmermann's script for The King of Comedy and thought it was perfect. It was blackly funny but was profound and troubling too. Pupkin had parallels with characters like Travis Bickle, but had genuine pathos; Pauline Kael called Pupkin "a nothing" and deemed him "Jake LaMotta without fists." Scorsese had to be cajoled into directing (he wanted De Niro to play the title role in The Last Temptation of Christ instead), and then said he was "unsettled" by the bitterness of the script. As in all of De Niro's great movies, he found a way to become his character –– although, according to Paul Zimmerman, De Niro and Pupkin were maybe already quite close. "Bobby understood the bravery of Rupert Pupkin, his chutzpah, the simplicity of his motives," says the Zimmerman. "Bobby said he liked the single-minded sense of purpose. People speak of Bobby as an instinctive actor but he also understands these characters on an intellectual level. I think Bobby understood Rupert because he's an obsessive person himself." When The King of Comedy first hit theaters, it polarized critics. Scorsese even said, at a later point, that it may have been a mistake for him to make the film. Nevertheless, decades after its release, The King of Comedy is considered one of the finest films of the 1980s and on a par with previous De Niro-Scorsese collaborations such as Mean Streets, Taxi Driver and Raging Bull.
Midnight Run (1988)
Despite its title, The King of Comedy was far from an all-out yukfest (the movie's tagline was "It's No Laughing Matter"), and in 1988 De Niro was looking for a film with more mainstream comic appeal. "Everyone thinks that I have this dark side," he explained. "I am a bit sick of always being taken so seriously." When De Niro lost the lead role in Big to Tom Hanks, he was tapped to appear in Midnight Run, a road movie comedy about a dogged bounty hunter on his last job, directed by Beverly Hills Cop helmer Martin Brest. Though Robin Williams was originally considered, De Niro's comic foil in the film –– the slippery embezzling accountant Jonathan "The Duke" Mardukas who De Niro's veteran bounty hunter Jack Walsh has to take from NYC to LA –– was played by Charles Grodin, who was cast because of his great on-screen chemistry with De Niro. As studious in his preparation for this as he had been for any drama, De Niro spent time with policemen and bounty hunters, familiarizing himself with the life of his character, an ex-cop. (During one drug bust that De Niro observed, the perp who'd just been arrested asked for De Niro's autograph.) Walsh, as played by De Niro, was experienced and assured, but much more understated and laconic than some of the actor's previous characters. He and Grodin enjoyed playing off each other, often improvising scenes and trying to outdo one another. De Niro, says Grodin, was "all about 'work,' plain and simple, and being with him felt like breathing pure oxygen." Brest recalls that he would often leave the camera running after a take was over, as he would invariably still get something great from De Niro. "De Niro continues to show a special talent for adjusting each performance to the special needs of the movie at hand," wrote Chicago Reader critic Jonathan Rosenbaum. "De Niro manages to divide the territory of Midnight Run with Charles Grodin, effectively strutting his stuff without ever overwhelming his fellow actor." Roger Ebert said of De Niro's Golden Globe-nominated performance in Midnight Run, "Here he proves to have comic timing of the best sort –– the kind that allows dramatic scenes to develop amusing undertones while still working seriously on the surface. It's one thing to go openly for a laugh. It's harder to do what he does and allow the nature of the character to get the laughs, while the character himself never seems to be trying to be funny."
Awakenings (1990)
In 1988, Robin Williams had wanted to play the Charles Grodin role in Midnight Run, but the comic actor got the chance to star opposite De Niro just two years later, albeit in a very different kind of movie. Awakenings was based on a 1973 book of the same name by British neurologist Oliver Sacks about a group of patients suffering from encephalitis lethargica (or "sleepy sickness") who were brought out of their catatonic, seemingly vegetative state after going decades without speaking, moving or interacting with the world. Williams portrayed Dr. Malcolm Sayer (a character based on Sacks himself), while De Niro played Leonard Lowe, the patient who has the most remarkable recovery. In preparation for playing the role, De Niro went to London on his own dime and spent extensive periods of time with the actual patients Sacks wrote about in the book, observing them and talking to them. "He spent hundreds of hours with patients and at a very deep level, beyond words," recalls Sacks. "Bob is very intelligent but he doesn't feel like talking much. He often says 'Shut up, let me feel it.'" De Niro also went with Williams to visit Sacks to observe him interacting with patients. For the first part of the movie, De Niro had to learn to be still, to be a void. "It was hard to play because it was so physical," he recalls. "Playing someone handicapped is difficult. It's not just being immobile but being blank. And finding the right position for the head and the hands and the feet. We were told to imagine we were stuck in glue." Later on, when an experimental drug rouses Leonard's body from its sleep, De Niro was physical in a more familiar sense, though this had its drawbacks too. While shooting a scene where Leonard is pinning Dr. Sayers down, Williams's elbow accidentally smashed into De Niro's nose, causing it to bleed profusely. De Niro, however, did another nine takes before going to the hospital, where he was told his nose was broken. "The thing is, my nose was broken once before and Robin knocked it back in the other direction," joked De Niro. "He straightened it out. It looks better than it did before." Critics saw a softer side to De Niro in Awakenings, and liked it greatly."De Niro's performance is a physical wonder, a stony guise that gives way to a sideshow of wracking tics," wrote Rita Kempley in the Washington Post. "Underlying that is a zest for living that fairly breaks our hearts as it complements Williams's comically tentative bedside manner." The New York Times' Janet Maslin praised De Niro's "skillful and ambitious performance" and his "uncanny efforts to immerse himself in the character's remarkable pathology." De Niro earned his first Best Actor Oscar nomination in a decade for the film, and shared the National Board of Review's Best Actor award with co-star Robin Williams.
Cape Fear (1991)
The characters that Robert De Niro plays in Martin Scorsese films are generally not people that you'd like to spend any time at all with, and maybe the most extreme example of this is Max Cady, from the director's 1991 remake of Cape Fear. Cady is rapist who, after finally being released from jail, sets out to torment and terrorize the lawyer who put him away (Nick Nolte). "Max is incessant, he just keeps coming and coming," said De Niro. "What's terrifying is the idea that you can't stop someone no matter what they do. He's like the Alien or the Terminator. I feel if you're going to do certain parts, you really have to commit to them all the way to make them special." And De Niro certainly showed huge commitment in making Cady special. He collaborated with costume designer Rita Ryack in assembling Cady's wardrobe. He studied endless videotapes of Southern felons, looking for a prisoner on which to base Cady, eventually settling on one with a strong Appalachian accent. He asked locals in Southern towns to read certain lines from the script so he could get every word just right, and then spent up to five hours each day practicing Cady's drawl. In order to make Cady as scary as possible –– and to overcome the 3-inch height advantage Nolte had over him –– De Niro worked out for five hours a night during production to make himself as imposing as possible. At the end of the shoot, when Scorsese filmed the scenes of Cady's naked, tattooed torso, he was heavily muscled and had reportedly got his body fat down to just four per cent. To complete his image, De Niro supposedly paid a dentist $5,000 to make his teeth look as bad as possible –– and then shelled out another $20,000 after the movie wrapped to have the dental work corrected! "De Niro throws himself into the part of Cady with unmistakable relish; playing this madman seems to have energized him and opened up the dark channels of his talent," wrote Hal Hinson in the Washington Post. "Cady isn't merely a psychopath, he's a Nietzschean superman, the cruel, killing hand of justice meting out a stern, remorseless form of punishment. Nobody is more frightening in these roles than De Niro, particularly when he's as fully committed as he is here. Every movement, every narrowing of his eyes, is a threat. Pulling his face into obscene, leering grins, he gives Cady a kind of goofy suavity, especially in the long, mesmerizingly languid scene in which he sweet-talks Danielle into his confidence. At times, the characterization verges on the comic –– it's a tremendously entertaining performance –– but it's comedy mixed with cutting quality of horror. You may laugh, but it's laughter with no release –– tense, scary laughter." De Niro was nominated for the Best Actor Oscar for a second year in a row, but lost out to another psychopathic killer, Anthony Hopkins' Hannibal Lecter.
Meet the Parents (2000)
In the late 1990s, as De Niro looked to build on the success of movies like Wag the Dog and Analyze This with more comedic films, a perfect project landed on his desk. Although Meet the Parents had not been written with any particular actors in mind, De Niro was the instinctive choice to play the role of the film's uber-intimidating prospective father-in-law, Jack Byrnes. "Just imagine going home to meet your girlfriend's dad and discovering that it was Robert De Niro." says Jay Roach, director of Meet the Parents. "All we had to do was get Bob to agree to star and we were set. He got the joke straight away and gave a great performance." Though Roach admits he was at first a little scared and intimidated by legendary Method man De Niro, he quickly learned that the actor was an open and keen collaborator. After first reading the script, De Niro conceived one of the movie's key set pieces, the polygraph test, in which ex-CIA agent Jack tries to get the truth from his daughter's new boyfriend, Greg (played by Ben Stiller). De Niro's on-screen antagonist and comic foil Stiller says he was delighted to find that De Niro always made him "feel like if there was an opportunity, it was completely okay to try something unplanned." Stiller and De Niro loved improvising and riffing off each other, and the latter enjoyed playing with the freedoms that comedic work afforded him. "Comedy and drama are just different, not necessarily easier or harder," De Niro told Entertainment Weekly. "I couldn't do certain things that many other comics can do or that dramatic actors can do. I believe that subtlety of humor, I've got. Irony, that's what I know. I do behavior and stuff –– that's what I do best." The sense of fun on set translated into an incredibly funny –– and extremely successful –– movie, both financially and critically. Reviewing Meet the Parents, Stephanie Zacharek of Salon wrote, "De Niro is, of course, the funniest –– if only because he's not entirely funny. After he badgers Greg into revealing that he prefers dogs to cats, he makes it look as if he's shrugging off the fact that Greg has chosen the 'emotionally shallow animal.' But of course he hasn't shrugged it off; he has grabbed onto it as if with pincers. De Niro's performance works because it isn't exactly likable –– he's totally at ease with his own jokes, but he's not out to make us feel relaxed. Our uneasiness actually makes his jokes funnier. And you can tell by the impenetrable smirk on his face that he likes it that way." Meet the Parents earned De Niro a Best Actor nod at the Golden Globes, and the film was so popular that it has so far spawned two sequels, Meet the Fockers and Little Fockers (directed by BEING FLYNN's Paul Weitz), with the trilogy grossing over $1 billion worldwide.


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I have purchased some BOD bottles the last 30 years also. First some used ones as a couple laboratories were closing. It was a very good deal. I have also purchased some new ones, probably 8 cases. I ended up throwing quite a few stoppers away as I could not come up with any alternative use for them and we were cleaning up storage area. A client on a big project also gave me 4 cases during a BOD study. I have used some 60 ml bottles and some disposable ones also. I wonder what the cost per BOD analysis might be? Very small.
Very true - we have thousands of stoppers and they are seemingly indestructible. There HAS to be some kind of market for them.
Decoration for flower vases or fish bowls? Wait I can do better...
Lots of people have gone to rock-garden type landscaping in their front yards so they don't have to worry about mowing and watering grass. Maybe stoppers could be incorporated into the landscaping business. And it saves water.
I feel like I just saved the planet. I should get to go home early for this.
Stressed Organism
Has anybody addressed issues related to variable volumes of BOD bottles. We have typically calibrated our bottles (300 ml) and discarded those outside of 300 +/- 2% (1-4 per case). Lately, none of the bottles from Wheaton will pass that spec.
John Hubbling
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Saint Paul, MN
Chair: ASTM BOD task group
I'm posting anonymous since the forum won't let me access my registration. Very cludgy site.
That's why nearly nobody visits here anymore. Try this one:
The warden here has pretty much discouraged anyone from being active.
That is a lot of work for a test that relies on the operations of bacteria. I am curious as to why.
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Members of the Boise City Council are (back, L-R) council members TJ Thomson, Ben Quintana, Lauren McLean, Scot Ludwig (front, L-R) Council Pro Tem Elaine Clegg, Mayor David H. Bieter and Council President Maryanne Jordan.
The Mayor works full-time, managing the day-to-day operations of the City and providing leadership and policy direction to the City Council. The Mayor chairs all meetings of the City Council, voting only in the case of a tie. The six members of the City Council work part-time, holding budget and policy-setting authority for the city. The Mayor and City Council members are elected at large by popular vote. City Council members are elected to a specific Council seat, but the seats are not determined geographically. City elections are held in odd number years (e.g. 2007, 2009, 2011).
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Boise April 17, 2007- Boise Police responded to a call early this morning of a possible burglary in progress, but instead of finding a potential burglar, officers found a man who was spray painting the building with graffiti.
Officers responded to the call to the 2900 blk. of West Main street at 12:45 this morning. When officers arrived they saw a man on the roof. The man then appeared to try and hide from the officers. Officers also saw what appeared to be fresh paint on a wall of the building.
With the help of a ladder truck from the Boise Fire Department, officers were able to get up to the roof of the building and take the suspect into custody. The suspect was found armed with 8 cans of spray paint in his backpack. The damage to the property is estimated to be around $300. It's unknown at this time how the suspect gained access to the roof of the building.
"Tagging is vandalism that truly makes our neighborhood unsightly," said Curt Crum, Supervisor of the Boise Police Crime Prevention Unit.
"If citizens will call police anytime they see what may be suspicious activity and officers can catch taggers in the act, we can stop the crime before it occurs. It can be difficult to find taggers once the damage has been done, and graffiti is vandalism that none of us want in our neighborhood." said Crum
Arrested: Lazarus James Moon, 19 years old, Boise
Charges: Injury by Graffiti, Disorderly Conduct, Resisting and Obstructing officers, all misdemeanors
Background on Tagging Graffiti:
Officers say the vast majority of the graffiti seen in Boise City is "tagging", done by vandals known as "taggers" whose motive is exposure, they want their "signature" to be seen by as many people as possible. They compete with each other to place their tagging in places that get the most public exposure or are the hardest places to reach.


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Japanese engineering consultant, ESTECH Corporation, celebrates twenty years in business by expanding its premises with a brand new testing facility site
Situated less than 40 km from the centre of Tokyo, the two storey building has a hemi-anechoic chamber, an excitation test room and an associated test preparation room. The excitation test room, which can be flexibly partitioned, contains two structural beds isolated from external vibration. And two cranes capable of lifting up to 2.8 tonnes, for moving heavy structures such as engines, tractor cabins and bulky components.
The hemi-anechoic chamber (with less than 7 dBA background noise) is a box-in-box construction with ceiling air conditioning, temperature control and exhaust extraction so vehicles can be run inside. The chamber doors are 3.5m high to allow access for king-sized products and components. Three of the measurement areas are also totally secured, so customers can have products tested in complete confidentiality.
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