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Penelope Fitzgerald 1916-2000
English novelist and biographer.
The following entry presents an overview of Fitzgerald's career through 1999. For further information on her life and works, see CLC, Volumes 19, 51, and 61.
Fitzgerald was a traditional English novelist of manners with an understated style. Her novels are carefully plotted, written in spare, witty prose, delineating interactions and subtle tensions among groups of characters who work together or reside in a small community. She utilized varied settings of time and place, vividly evoking period detail as well as peculiar issues and customs. Her diverse, eccentric characters are often forced to cope with sudden conflicts in their lives and relationships. Although her career began late in life, Fitzgerald's style has garnered her critical praise, awards, and a loyal readership.
Biographical Information
Fitzgerald was born in 1916 in Lincoln, England. She was raised in a notable family: one uncle was a cryptographer and two others were eminent Roman Catholic priests. Her father moved the family to London when he became the editor of the magazine Punch. Fitzgerald received a scholarship to Oxford, where she studied literature with such notables as J. R. R. Tolkien. She graduated in 1938 and took a wartime job with the Ministry of Food. In 1939 she began working at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), a time which she later recounted in her novel Human Voices (1980). More of Fitzgerald's past experiences made their way into her literature, such as her work as a clerk in a bookshop (The Bookshop [1978]) and the time that she, her husband, and their three children could only afford to live on a barge docked on the Thames (Offshore [1979]). Fitzgerald's writing career started late in her life. She published her first book when she was fifty-nine and her first novel when she was sixty-one. When Fitzgerald's husband became ill with cancer in the 1970s, she made her first foray into fiction with a mystery novel she wrote to entertain him during his illness. Her husband died in the early 1970s. Fitzgerald was short-listed three times for the Booker Prize with The Bookshop, The Beginning of Spring (1988), and The Gate of Angels (1990) and won the Booker prize for fiction with Offshore in 1979 and The Blue Flower (1995) in 1995. She also received the National Book Critics' Circle Award for The Blue Flower in 1997. Fitzgerald died on April 28, 2000.
Major Works
Early in her career, Fitzgerald wrote several biographies, including The Knox Brothers (1977) about her famous uncles and her father. Fitzgerald's first novel, The Golden Child (1977), is a mystery set in an art museum where a prized exhibit is discovered to be a forgery, a well-known explorer is murdered, and human foibles and deception (resulting from struggles for power and authority) among museum staff members are exposed. In Offshore, Fitzgerald drew upon personal experience to detail the camaraderie and conflicts among members of a community of houseboat dwellers on the Thames River. Fitzgerald also wrote about her personal experience in Human Voices, which revolves around activities at the BBC during the 1940 Nazi air offensive against England. The novel examines the importance of truth in public communications. It also deals with private relationships, as it depicts the BBC staff members as individuals who must provide moral uplift to their beleaguered listeners. Fitzgerald's concern for a sense of place and its effect on character are important elements in her next two novels, Innocence (1986) and The Beginning of Spring. Innocence, which is set in Florence, Italy, chronicles the lives of the Ridolfis, a decaying aristocratic family, and the Rossis, a working-class family. Through the courtship and marriage of Chiari Ridolfi and Salvatore Rossi, Fitzgerald examines various themes relating to innocence and the influence of family history, as she develops allegorical implications through allusions to fables and legends. The Beginning of Spring is set in an English community in Moscow during the early twentieth century. While describing customs and period detail to recreate the social atmosphere prior to the Russian Revolution, Fitzgerald focuses upon the confusion and unhappiness experienced by an Englishman abruptly abandoned by his wife. Typical of Fitzgerald's fiction, The Beginning of Spring is a comedy of manners with an ambiguous conclusion, as a small group of characters experience conflict, tensions, and change while reacting to unexpected and perplexing events. In The Gate of Angels, Fitzgerald tackles the insular world of the university, intersecting the lives of a bachelor professor and an independent working-class woman who raised herself out of poverty to become a nurse. In The Blue Flower, Fitzgerald combines imagination and biography in her fictionalization of the life of German poet Fritz von Hardenberg, recreating the world of eighteenth-century Germany and the love affair Fritz had with the twelve-year-old Sophie von Kuhn.
Critical Reception
Fitzgerald has earned a fine reputation in her native England, being compared to such writers as Martin Amis and Evelyn Waugh. While not well known in America, Fitzgerald developed a small but loyal following among readers and notable critics alike. Her work is often described as "spare," and reviewers note her ability to pack rich detail into concise novels. Julian Gitzen commented, "Fitzgerald's gift for pinpointing or encapsulating character or situation in a few apt and incisive phrases constitutes one of her most engaging methods of achieving both intensity and compression." Critics also appreciate her ability to evoke the essence of a time and place with what appears to be firsthand memory, rather than a recitation of historical research. Reviewers often cite her use of precise and convincing detail as one of the author's unique gifts. Many reviewers have additionally praised Fitzgerald's light comic touch. Richard Eder asserted, "Far from being bland, [Fitzgerald] is almost sentence by sentence, thrilling and funny and, I have come to believe, the finest British writer alive." Some critics complained of Fitzgerald's use of characterization, often arguing that she presents too many characters to fully develop them. Others have found her style too understated for American audiences. Philip Hensher summarized, "Fitzgerald has been widely and justifiably praised for the excellence, discretion and solidity of her historical imagination, which brings unlikely periods of history to life with unarguable, strange rightness."
Principal Works
Edward Burne-Jones: A Biography (biography) 1975
The Golden Child (novel) 1977; U.S. publication, 1977
The Knox Brothers (biography) 1977; U.S. publication, 1977
The Bookshop (novel) 1978; U.S. publication, 1997
Offshore (novel) 1979; U.S. publication, 1987
Human Voices (novel) 1980; U.S. publication, 1999
At Freddie's (novel) 1982; U.S. publication, 1985
Innocence (novel) 1986; U.S. publication, 1998
The Beginning of Spring (novel) 1988; U.S. publication, 1989
The Gate of Angels (novel)...
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Richard Eder (review date 12 January 1992)
SOURCE: "Two Bicycles, One Spirit," in Los Angeles Times Book Review, January 12, 1992, p. 3.
[In the following review, Eder praises Fitzgerald's deft use of details to evoke a sense of possibilities in her Gate of Angels.]
High wind and drenching rain lash the flat fenlands [in Penelope Fitzgerald's The Gate of Angels]. Branches blow down; leaves tangle in the horns of grazing cows; partly blinded, they stumble. "Two or three of them were wallowing on their backs, idiotically, exhibiting vast pale bellies intended by nature to be always hidden. They were still munching."
Along the road, a covey of Cambridge University dons on heavy...
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Bruce Bawer (essay date March 1992)
SOURCE: "A Still, Small Voice: The Novels of Penelope Fitzgerald," in New Criterion, Vol. 10, No. 7, March, 1992, pp. 33–42.
[In the following essay, Bawer traces the distinctive characteristics of Fitzgerald's fiction and asserts that these features are most prominent in The Gate of Angels.]
Among the many symptoms of the American literary scene's current infirmity is that stateside publishers have been slow to take on, and readers on these shores slow to discover, the English novelist of manners Penelope Fitzgerald. Though British critics have justly compared her to such writers as Evelyn Waugh, Kingsley Amis, Barbara Pym, and Anita Brookner—all of whom...
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William H. Pritchard (review date Autumn 1992)
SOURCE: "Tradition and Some Individual Talents," in Hudson Review, Vol. 45, No. 3, Autumn, 1992, pp. 488–89.
[In the following excerpt, Pritchard lauds Fitzgerald's Gate of Angels as a "delightful entertainment."]
For some reason I've failed to read Penelope Fitzgerald, thus know her only by the latest The Gate of Angels. It is a delightful entertainment, set in 1912 in a mythical Cambridge college, St. Angelicus, where Fred Fairly is a junior fellow, and in London, where Daisy Saunders is a nurse at Blackfriars Hospital. The novel charts their meeting, separation, and coming together again; but its real interest is the offbeat sensibility...
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Gabriele Annan (review date 15 September 1995)
SOURCE: "Death and the Maiden," in Times Literary Supplement, No. 4824, September 15, 1995, p. 20.
[In the following review, Annan discusses the amount of detail Fitzgerald manages to put into The Blue Flower.]
The German Romantics were drunk with ideas, and Novalis was the drunkest. He is the hero or anti-hero of this biographical novel. He died in 1801, aged twenty-eight, leaving a few beautiful religious poems which many Germans know by heart because they read like hymns and are sung in church. His mystical poems can be as bizarre and embarrassing as anything written in the seventeenth century; one of them imagines a kind of Eucharist in which the sea turns into...
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Michael Ratcliffe (review date 17 September 1995)
SOURCE: "Seen and Unseen," in Observer, September 17, 1995, p. 15.
[In the following review, Ratcliffe complains that while Fitzgerald has provided a well-drawn setting and several memorable characters, she has not given all of her heart to The Blue Flower.]
Penelope Fitzgerald has long mastered the high comedy of optimistic free spirits being forced to fight the unscrupulous to prove they are really free. In her earlier novels, battle was joined on native institutional soil—the British Museum, the BBC, a children's acting school. More recently, the campaign switched to Tuscany and Russia and, most rewarding of all, to the early twentieth century which...
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Jane Gardam (review date 23 September 1995)
SOURCE: "The Professor and the Flower," in Spectator, Vol. 275, No. 8724, September 23, 1995, p. 38.
[In the following review, Gardam praises Fitzgerald's ability to draw a convincing setting and set of characters in The Blue Flower.]
'Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history' is the epigraph by Fritz von Hardenberg of this biographical tale about his love affair with his muse and passion, 12-year-old Sophie von Kuhn. Whether by history he means 'History' or 'Biography', or simply 'life', The Blue Flower is not only a beautiful book but a beautiful example to use in debate about whether biography is fiction or fiction biography run...
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Frank Kermode (review date 5 October 1995)
SOURCE: "Dark Fates," in London Review of Books, Vol. 17, No. 19, October 5, 1995, p. 7.
[In the following review, Kermode asserts that Fitzgerald's skillful use of detail in The Blue Flower convincingly renders the historical moment.]
Penelope Fitzgerald's The Blue Flower is a historical novel based on the life of the poet, aphorist, novelist, Friedrich von Hardenberg, a Saxon nobleman who wrote under the name of Novalis and lived from 1772 to 1801. He figures largely in all accounts of the German literature of the time, and Georg Lukács is not much more extravagant than other critics in calling him the only Romantic poet. He spoke of the...
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Richard Eder (review date 13 April 1997)
SOURCE: A review of The Blue Flower, in Los Angeles Times Book Review, April 13, 1997, p. 5.
[In the following review, Eder describes the mosaic quality of Fitzgerald's writing in The Blue Flower.]
It is not certain that God makes a distinction between Beethoven's writing the Waldstein sonata and a parent's folding the baby's diapers. Not because there is no difference but because God, if I can interpret, may reason that a certain equipment (genius) went to Beethoven and that a certain equipment (a washing machine) went to the parent and that each made full and perfect use of each.
Further, it is always possible that the clean diapers...
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Michael Dirda (review date June 1997)
SOURCE: "Petals on the Wind," in Washington Post Book World, Vol. 27, No. 14, June, 1997, pp. 3, 13.
[In the following review, Dirda recounts the virtues of Fitzgerald's Blue Flower.]
Penelope Fitzgerald brought out her first novel in 1977, when she was past 60; in the two decades since then her books have appeared regularly every other year or so; three titles—The Bookshop (1978), The Beginning of Spring (1988) and The Gate of Angels (1990)—made the shortlist for Britain's distinguished Booker Prize, and Offshore (1979) took home the award. Many readers felt that at least one of her other books, Innocence (1986), was as...
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Richard Holmes (review date 17 July 1997)
SOURCE: "Paradise in a Dream," in New York Review of Books, Vol. 44, No. 12, July 17, 1997, p. 4.
[In the following review, Holmes traces the course of Fitzgerald's career that eventually led her to write The Blue Flower.]
The sensibility of early German Romanticism seems infinitely distant to us now. The very name Novalis, the pseudonym of the poet Friedrich von Hardenberg (1772–1801), sounds like an astronomical explosion on the edge of some remote galaxy. The symbol of the Blue Flower, which he created in his unfinished novel Heinrich von Ofterdingen, was never successfully transplanted into the English-speaking world. As the epitome of German...
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Julian Gitzen (essay date October 1997)
SOURCE: "Elements of Compression in the Novels of Penelope Fitzgerald," in Essays in Arts and Sciences, Vol. XXVI, October, 1997, pp. 1–14.
[In the following essay, Gitzen studies Fitzgerald's use of compression in her novels, tracing common features including a short time span, a restriction of plot, and a minimum number of prominent characters.]
Despite more than a decade of lavish critical praise, the fiction of Penelope Fitzgerald has as yet been the subject of little if any sustained commentary or analysis. This neglect is all the more difficult to understand in light of the award to one of her novels, Offshore (1979) of the Booker Prize and the...
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Dagmar Herzog (review date October 1997)
SOURCE: "Love in the Time of Tuberculosis," in Women's Review of Books, Vol. 15, No. 1, October, 1997, p. 6.
[In the following review, Herzog asserts that the spareness of Fitzgerald's style and her ability to capture setting in The Blue Flower create a powerful effect on the reader.]
The late eighteenth century is fascinating not least because it was the era of the American and French Revolutions as well as the birth of modern notions of democracy. It was also the age when the modern ideas about heterosexual romance that still move, suffocate, inspire and torment women and men to this day were first fully elaborated and worked out. As Penelope...
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Dean Flower (review date Spring 1998)
SOURCE: "Looking Backward," in Hudson Review, Vol. 51, No. 1, Spring, 1998, pp. 245–46.
[In the following excerpt, Flower states that The Bookshop is "clearly one of [Fitzgerald's] best."]
Another backward glance must be made at the amazing career of Penelope Fitzgerald, who has published nine superb novels in England since 1977, when she was sixty-one. Although Offshore won the Booker Prize in 1979 and three other works of hers were short-listed for it, Fitzgerald's novels are hard to find in this country, except for The Blue Flower (1996) and The Bookshop (1978),1 both recently reissued in paperback....
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Mona Knapp (review date Spring 1998)
SOURCE: A review of The Blue Flower, in World Literature Today, Vol. 72, No. 2, Spring, 1998, p. 371.
[In the following review, Knapp delineates the positive and negative features of Fitzgerald's The Blue Flower.]
Penelope Fitzgerald's ninth novel The Blue Flower, sets out to retell the tale of Friedrich von Hardenberg and Sophie von Kuhn, one of literary history's most poignant love stories. The effort is timely, since the book was published on the two-hundredth anniversary of the couple's first meeting.
Hardenberg, who assumed the pen name "Novalis" after Sophie's death, was a member of an aristocratic family in Saxony....
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Philip Hensher (review date 11 April 1998)
SOURCE: "The Sweet Smell of Success," in Spectator, April 11, 1998, pp. 33–4.
[In the following review, Hensher argues that Fitzgerald's The Blue Flower finally solidifies the author's reputation.]
A little national pride has been restored, in the aftermath of the much-lamented failure of any Briton to win anything much at the Oscars, by the triumph of a short English novel in gaining the most prestigious of American literary prizes. Penelope Fitzgerald's ninth novel, The Blue Flower, beat the widely fancied chances of three enormous and ambitious American novels to walk off with the National Book Critics' Circle Award. Well, the captains...
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Mallay Charters (review date 17 May 1999)
SOURCE: "Penelope Fitzgerald: A Voice amidst the Blitz," in Publishers Weekly, Vol. 246, No. 20, May 17, 1999, p. 51.
[In the following review, Charters provides a brief overview of Fitzgerald's life and career and how the author's experience working at the BBC during World War II provided the basis for Human Voices.]
On June 14, 1940, four days after the fall of Paris to Hitler, the British public learned of the successful escape to London of General Georges Pinard, writes Penelope Fitzgerald in Human Voices, a novel about her job as an assistant at the wartime BBC. Pinard, "a romantic, a Dreyfusard, and a devotee of the airplane," was famous as the...
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Jonathan Raban (review date 2 August 1999)
SOURCE: "The Fact Artist," in New Republic, Vol. 221, No. 4,411, August 2, 1999, pp. 39–42.
[In the following review, Raban lauds Fitzgerald's ability to write as if from first-hand memory instead of historical research, especially in her Human Voices.]
If Penelope Fitzgerald has ever fossicked in the stacks of the London Library in order to research the background for her novels, there is no trace of her labors in the books themselves. She always writes as if from first-hand memory. She cannot actually have lived in Germany in 1792, in Cambridge in 1912, in Moscow in 1913. Born in 1916, Fitzgerald still appears too young to have acquired the abundant,...
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Edward T. Wheeler (review date 10 September 1999)
SOURCE: "A Listener's Guide," in Commonweal, September 10, 1999, p. 32.
[In the following review, Wheeler states that the central paradox of Fitzgerald's Human Voices is between human truth and the lies of war.]
The trouble with memory "is that it develops its own defenses, against truth telling and in consequence against history"—so writes the eighty-three-year-old Penelope Fitzgerald, an adult witness to the Battle of Britain, in reviewing a recent book on London during the Blitz. Fitzgerald faced these problems, truth telling and memory's defenses, as a novelist in Human Voices, published almost twenty years ago in Britain and issued in...
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Further Reading
Annan, Gabriele. "Letting Go." New York Review of Books 46, No. 10 (10 June 1999): 28.
Praises Fitzgerald's comic voice in her Human Voices.
Dee, Jonathon. "The Reanimators." Harper's 298, No. 1789 (June 1999): 76.
Lauds Fitzgerald's light touch in The Blue Flower.
Duguid, Lindsay. "In Faery Lands Forlorn." Times Literary Supplement, No. 4988 (6 November 1998): 10.
Discusses a resurgence of interest in the work of Edward Burne-Jones, including Penelope Fitzgerald's biography of the artist.
King, Nina. "The Heart Has Its...
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Checking In Before We Do That Beastly Countdown Thing in a Few Days
Oh hi! Remember me? I barely do... considering the whirlwind'rishing sort of week we've had since right before Christmastime factivities and still continuing on through this moment. Seriously, this very minute right now. Neither here nor there, though, cause I was simply going to leave this space untouched til the new set of calendrical offerings, but that's not really fair to you or me. I need a hot few seconds to breathe and release and let my weird words fly, so herein, a brief catchup. And hopefully 'tis not the last til 2011. Whatever... THIS!
Nothing new to see here. Nothing new to hear here (lol at "hear here", cause we are juvenile...) But why not just give you a moment to laugh at my expense, because below, oh it's only the three songs I've listened to the most over the past week or so.
I really don't know why. My fingers just keep finding the play button as soon as I scroll past these lil' gems, eh! And shock of all shockers, none of them are remixes... umm, WHAT?
Gigglefest, and GO!
For when you need a sweet drop of a beat at the 1:58 mark, I give you...
For when you want to reminisce and raise your hands in exaltation, the offering is...
mp3: Sonique - It Feels So Good
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In 2010-11, Notre Dame's instructional faculty numbered 982 full time and 103 part-time. Other faculty, such as administrative, professional specialists, librarians, and research fellows, numbered 374 full-time and 78 part-time. Ninety percent of the full-time instructional faculty have terminal degrees, 88 percent of them have doctorates. Ninety-seven percent of the full-time instructional faculty are lay persons. (Faculty to student ratio: 1 to 12.)
Notre Dame faculty members have won 46 fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities since 1999, more than for any other university in the nation. In recent years, the University also has the most recipients in the nation of fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies. Faculty have been elected to membership in such prestigious organizations as the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Political Science Association, the American Society of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the American Law Institute.
Research Funding
Fiscal Year 2011 research awards to Notre Dame topped the $100 million mark for the second consecutive year. The figure of more than $109 million represents an increase of almost $30 million in the last 10 years. Seventy percent of the funding was awarded by the federal government for research, facilities and equipment, and educational and service programs. Awards from industrial sponsors continued to increase from $7 million in 2010 to approximately $10 million in 2011. Research expenditures, both internally and externally funded, have more than tripled in recent years, to $110 million in 2011 from $30 million in 2009.


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Part of a TEAM USA cover featuring several sports.
I see Armin and Agnes, I think, but who else is in the video?
Part of a TEAM USA cover featuring several sports.
I see Armin and Agnes, I think, but who else is in the video?
Here's TEAM UK version with our own Gangnam Wizard
Penny Coomes and Nick Buckland (GBR Ice Dance Seniors) as Dobby and Voldemort;
Olivia Smart and Joe Buckland (GBR Ice Dance Juniors) as Bellatrix and Harry Potter and friends!
(belated happy Holloweeeeeennnnnn everyone...)
Josh Farris is the pale long-legged kid in the center and I think Angela Wang is next to him. I also think that's Lukas Kaugars on the far left.
Some pictures from recent Cup of China gala from Chinese boards with Dai, Mao, Mirai, Adam and company all doing the Gangnam.
The live audience report paid great compliment to Daisuke's enthusiastic hypnotic hip swaying movements! ( I sooo want to see a clip of that.)
The uploader has not made this video available in your country.
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^ Here are some videos, but not a good quality.
You can't see here, but Kaitlyn Weaver was really great!
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Of course, fresh seafood is our staple crop with an abundance of traditional New England fare and unique local specialties. With the Atlantic Ocean in our backyard, it's not surprising to find visitors who have trekked a few hundred miles to enjoy the absolute freshest seafood in the Ocean State. Rhode Island's restaurants are quite creative with their seafood recipes and presentations.
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9:54 AM Thursday Oct 4, 2012
Serbia's under-17 football team perfectly executed a training ground move to score an audacious goal against Moldova last week. A low corner was dummied by not one, not two, but three players before it was driven low and hard past the Moldovan keeper by Andrija Zivkovic, from just outside the box. Serbia went on to win the game 4-0. The match was a qualifier for the Under-17 European Championships, which will be held in Slovakia next May. Video courtesy of youtube/101greatgoalsFan2


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How far will he drop given his 40 yd. time of 4.81 secs.? Opinions ....
How far will he drop given his 40 yd. time of 4.81 secs.? Opinions ....
I would be doing back flips for Te'o in the 2nd.. just don't see it happening..
He won't drop much at all. That's what he was on tape. I still say late 1st rounder. Maybe early 2nd
I would think pro football might be more stressful than the combine.
Mayock rates him as the number 2 LB so I don't think they are to concerned with his 40 time. He may be there at 19 but certainly not at 38 or so
Football has been very, very good to us.
After losing seasons 2013-15, the giants put up 11 wins in 16.. they are on way Back
But for now we can console ourselves with this fact-
# of Super Bowl victories since 1985:
1-Chicago, St. Louis, Tampa Bay, Indianapolis, New Orleans, Seattle
2-Washington, Green Bay, Pittsburgh, Baltimore
3-San Francisco, Dallas, Denver
4-New York Giants!!!
Let's make it 5 in 2016 so we can be on a LINE NE again!!!
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I would prefer Kevin Minter if he is there in the 2nd. He is fantastic on tape.
I watched him in the combine on the nfl channel and he didn't look fast at all. Maybe he brings something else to the the table i don't know.
I'll be suprised if he isn't chosen fist round despite everything.


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Classic let down game. Washington 23 Giants 17.
Look, I have been doing this for the whole season this far and we never looked back at the predictions. Well I hope we give props to whom picked the right team to win and even the score as well. Giants should keep on piling up the points and the Skins will try to maybe use ball control this time. Giants 30 and the Skins 24.
Skins fan here. Very hard to predict. Alot of this game will be based around Trent Williams to me. He's really banged up with a spained ankle and deep thigh bruise. That could effect us in a couple of ways. One is that he obviously cant fully stop all your great pass rushers. If he cant then we are in trouble because if he struggles then I think our whole line will.
The other way it effects us is in the game plan itself. Shanny has a habit of going conservative at home. I had a feeling he would open it up more this week but if he thinks Trent is hurt at all I could see us doing all run run run run, pass, run run run, screen. Then your D will kill us like you did Carolina.
One thing is really different about us then the last time we played and thats the deep ball. When we played last time we were strictly a short passing team because we had no real speed without Garcon & Robinson. Now both guys are healthy and in the rotation, we are starting to hit the deep ball. Now we have nothing missing. Passing on all levels and running. I hope it continues.
Again, nothing about this game would shock me. Any outcome is possible but since Im a homer I will pick us 34-20


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The Simpsons - Season 7 Episodes
The Simpsons - Season 7
The Simpsons' seventh season originally aired on the Fox network between September 17, 1995 and May 19, 1996. The show runners for the seventh production season were Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein who would executive produce 21 episodes this season. David Mirkin executive produced the remaining four, including two hold overs that were produced for the previous season. The season was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Animated Program and won an Annie Award for Best Animated Television Program. The DVD box set was released in Region 1 December 13, 2005, Region 2 January 30, 2006 and Region 4 on March 22, 2006. The set was released in two different forms: a Marge-shaped box and also a standard rectangular-shaped box in which the theme is a movie premiere.
"Who Shot Mr. Burns? (2)"
An entire nation tunes in with rapt attention as Mr. Burns' assailant is finally revealed. At first, all signs point to Smithers, and Burns' right-hand man confesses when confronted by the police. But new evidence emerges that clears Smithers, and Homer Simpson becomes the main suspect. Based on DNA evidence and a lack of alibi, Homer is detained by police. He escapes custody, however, and rushes to the hospital, intending to get revenge on his boss for not remembering his name. At the hospital, with members of the Springfield Police Department, the Simpsons, and various townspeople standing by Burns' bed, the true shooter is revealed. Burns points into the crowd and gasps as he recalls that Maggie Simpson shot him after a tug-of-war over a lollypop. Since Maggie cannot be tried as an adult (or even a child), no charges are brought and she is free to live out her life as a cold-blooded would-be assassin. Guest Star: Tito Puente as himself.
"Radioactive Man"
When Springfield is chosen as the shooting location for Rainier Wolfcastle's big-screen adaptation of the popular Radioactive Man comic series, the entire town tries to take the movie's producers for every dime they've got. Children from Springfield Elementary are invited to audition for the role of Radioactive Man's sidekick, Fallout Boy. Bart tries his hardest to land the role, but the producers select Milhouse, who is initially excited about his new gig, but soon grows disenchanted with the movie-making process. After numerous production snafus and time-consuming re-shoots, Milhouse flees the set and goes into hiding. In addition to the loss of one of their stars, the financial burden of shooting in Springfield proves too much for the filmmakers, and they abandon the production altogether. Guest Star: Mickey Rooney as himself.
"Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily"
Bart decides to sell his soul to Milhouse for five dollars. Meanwhile, Moe transforms his dank, depressing Tavern into a family restaurant called Uncle Moe's Family Feedbag. When he stops finding Itchy & Scratchy funny and can no longer activate the automatic doors at the Kwik-E-Mart, Bart realizes that he really has lost his soul. Determined to recover it, he tracks Milhouse down at his grandmother's apartment and begs for his soul back. Milhouse tells Bart that it's too late, because he has already traded the soul for a handful of Alf Pogs. Over at the restaurant, Moe is exhausted by the constant smiling, good will and hospitality necessary to meet the demands of his new customers. Bart waits all night outside the comic book store to buy his soul back, only to learn that it has already been purchased. Depressed, Bart goes home and prays for the return of his soul. Just then, it is given back to him--by Lisa, who bought it the day before.
"Bart Sells His Soul"
When Bart is sent home from school with head lice and Lisa loses her shoes, Marge and Homer are accused of being negligent parents and their kids are taken away by the bureaucratic do-gooders at the Child Protection Agency. As (bad) luck would have it, Bart, Lisa and Maggie are placed in the foster care of the Flanders family. While their kids must endure 5 PM bedtimes, Flanders-style nachos, and endless games of Biblical Bombardment, Homer and Marge must attend a special class for bad parents. Ned treats Bart, Lisa and especially Maggie with love and kindness, until he discovers that none of them have been baptized. After a fainting jag, Ned shores up the energy and the righteousness to baptize the kids himself. As Ned leads his new flock to the edge of the river for their baptisms, Homer and Marge, newly graduated from bad parent school, rush to the scene to stop him. Homer sees what is about to happen and dives into the river to prevent Ned from pouring Holy Water on Bart. When the Holy Water hits Homer, it burns his flesh and bubbles up. Bart, however, is saved from salvation and the Simpson family is reunited.
"Lisa the Vegetarian"
Lisa realizes that it's wrong to eat animals after a long petting session with a baby lamb at a local zoo. Swearing off meat turns out to be a controversial decision for Lisa, since everyone around her seems to support the eating of flesh. At school, Lisa must sit through a politically slanted pro-meat film and eat only hotdog buns for lunch; at home, she has to put up with Homer's plans for a meaty barbecue party. After fighting about her beliefs with her family, Lisa runs away to the Kwik-E-Mart, where she discovers a kindred spirit in Apu, who is not only a strict vegetarian, but a vegan as well. Lisa also meets two other vegetarians, Paul and Linda McCartney, who explain that while it's important to stick to her convictions about vegetarianism, she must also tolerate the beliefs of others. Knowing that Paul and Linda are right, Lisa makes up with Homer and they accept each other's different points of view. Guest Stars: Paul and Linda McCartney as themselves.
"Treehouse of Horror VI"
In this year's blood-chilling blockbuster boo-fest, the Simpsons celebrate Halloween with three visions of terror. First, Springfield is destroyed by a band of angry, marauding billboard icons. The Lard Lad, Professor Peanut, and the Duff Cowboy escape their billboards and crush everything in sight until guest star Paul Anka saves the day with a catchy jingle. In the second segment, Groundskeeper Willie picks off the students of Springfield Elementary one-by-one. In a flashback, we learn that Willie was accidentally murdered by the kids' parents, and plans to kill the children in their dreams for revenge. It's up to Bart, Lisa, and a quick-thinking baby Maggie to fight him in dreamland. In the third segment, Homer steps into an alternate dimension, where he becomes a 3-D rendering. He finds that he's trapped in the digital world and all the attempts to save him by Professor Frink, Chief Wiggum and Ned Flanders are useless. Once again, it falls to Bart to save the day, but he fails when the digital universe implodes, sending Homer into an even scarier world: ours. Guest Star: Paul Anka as himself.
"King-Size Homer"
Sick of the workaday grind at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant, Homer comes up with a scheme to gain enough weight to be classified as disabled, thereby earning the right to work from home. With a target weight of 300 pounds in mind, he eats everything in site, including Maggie's Play-Doh. Fat as a tick, Homer is granted his wish to work from home, but it's not all he thought it would be when he finds that he's too fat to stop an imminent disaster in the plant's reactor core. The only thing big enough to stop the explosion is Homer's enormous body, which he manages to wedge into an exploding tank. Having saved the plant and the town, he is rewarded for his efforts with a free liposuction courtesy of Mr. Burns.
"Mother Simpson"
Homer's long-lost mother returns to the Simpson family. After some initial pleasantries, Bart and Lisa suspect that something's fishy about their new grandmother. It turns out that Mother Simpson is a fugitive from the law and has spent the last quarter century in hiding. In a flashback, we learn that when Homer was a small child, his mother fell in with a band of radical hippies who planted an antibiotic bomb in the germ warfare development lab of Springfield State University. Guarding the lab at the time was a young campus security guard named Clancy Wiggum. The lab was run by a younger (but by no means young) man named Monty Burns. Ever since the antibiotic bomb attack, Burns and Wiggum have been on the lookout for Mother Simpson. Realizing that it wasn't such a good idea to emerge from the underground, Mother Simpson bids her son and his family good-bye and returns to her secret life. Guest Star: Glenn Close as Mother Simpson.
"Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming"
Lax prison security makes it possible for Sideshow Bob to escape from prison yet again. This time, however, he's less interested in killing Bart Simpson as he is in knocking out Springfield's television stations, since he's grown to detest TV so much while in prison. Bob sneaks onto the Springfield air base on the day of the big air show, commandeers an atom bomb, and threatens to blow-up the crowd if the mayor doesn't end all TV broadcasts. When the bomb fails to explode, Bob returns to an older, more familiar plan and kidnaps Bart. That plan is also foiled and Bob returns to prison, again. Guest star: R. Lee Ermey as Colonel Leslie "Hap" Hapablap.
"The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular"
To celebrate the momentous 138th episode of The Simpsons, Troy McClure hosts a retrospective of classic moments and never-before-seen outtakes. As a reward to the show's loyal viewers, a number of long-unanswered questions, like "What's the deal with Mr. Smithers?" are finally addressed, sort of. Also answered is the question, "Who are Matt Groening and James L. Brooks?" As the 138th episode spectacular makes clear, Groening is an America-Firster with an itchy trigger finger and Brooks is the lovable Mr. Moneybags from Monopoly.
"Marge Be Not Proud"
Bart wants a new video game called "Bonestorm" more than anything in the world. When Marge won't buy it for him and Milhouse won't let him play with his copy, Bart steals one from the Try-N-Save department store. Bart is caught in the act by Detective Don Brodka, a tough-talking store security guard who calls Marge and Homer and shows them the tape of Bart in action. After the incident, Marge doesn't punish Bart, but she does ignore him a bit. Bart realizes that Marge is extremely disappointed in him and tries to make it up to her. He finally does and the family is happily reunited. Guest Star: Lawrence Tierney as Detective Don Brodka.
"Team Homer"
Homer forms the Pin Pals, a bowling team made up of Moe, Apu and Otto, but the team has to cut Otto when Mr. Burns muscles in and insists on joining. Meanwhile, Principal Skinner implements a school-wide dress code when Bart shows up to school in a MAD Magazine T-shirt. The Pin Pals take on the Holy Rollers (Ned and Maude Flanders, Reverend and Mrs. Lovejoy) and other teams until they're in the finals. Even though he's no longer on the team, Otto manages to help the Pin Pals win the tournament. Getting caught in the rain, the children of Springfield Elementary School discover that their new school uniforms are not color-fast, and are amused by the wild colors their clothes make when wet.
"Two Bad Neighbors"
Former President George Herbert Walker Bush becomes the newest resident of Evergreen Terrace, moving with his wife Barbara into the large house across the street from the Simpsons. Everyone in the neighborhood is excited to have the Bushes in Springfield, but Homer and Bart get off on the wrong foot with the former Chief Executive. In a decidedly non-wimp act, Bush spanks Bart after the boy destroys his memoirs, and from that moment on it's war between Homer and Bush. A series of escalating pranks leads to a fist-fight between the two men. George decides that Springfield is not the place for him to live out his golden years and hightails it away with Barbara. In his place, former President Gerald Ford moves in and becomes fast friends with Homer.
"Scenes From the Class Struggle in Springfield"
After a chance encounter with an old high school acquaintance, Marge finds herself and her family invited to an ultra-exclusive country club. Marge worries about her social standing when some snobs at the country club notice she's been wearing the same highly-discounted Chanel dress every day. Homer and the kids adjust to club life a lot better: Homer discovers that he's a golf prodigy and Lisa is in horse heaven. On the night of the Simpson family's formal acceptance to the club, Marge's social anxiety reaches a fever pitch and she scolds her family for being less cultured and refined than the members of the club. In the midst her breakdown, however, Marge has a moment of clarity and realizes she was wrong to have such overwhelming feelings of insecurity. The Simpson family rejects club membership and celebrates their togetherness over cheeseburgers and fries at the Krusty Burger. Guest star: Tom Kite as himself.
"Bart the Fink"
Bart messes with Krusty the Clown's life yet again, this time getting his idol busted for tax fraud. An audit reveals that Krusty is one of the worst scofflaws in history and the IRS seizes all his assets and sells them at auction. In the throes of financial despair, Krusty crashes his plane, The I'm-On-A-Roll-A-Gay, into a mountain, killing himself. While mourning Krusty's death, Bart and Lisa start getting the sneaky suspicion that the clown actually faked his own death to avoid the taxman. After tracking down Rory B. Bellows, the man they suspect is Krusty, their suspicions are confirmed. Krusty did fake his own death, and now he will fake the death of Rory B. Bellows, whose life is ensured for millions and signed over to Krusty. With his new inheritance, Krusty can start his life over and return to showbiz. Guest star: Bob Newhart as himself.
"Lisa the Iconoclast"
A noble spirit possesses the people of Springfield as they prepare for the town's bicentennial celebration. Always the iconoclast, Lisa discovers some new data about Jebediah Springfield, the town's legendary founder, that she feels she must share with everyone. According to Lisa's research, the saintly Jebediah was actually Hans Sprungfeld, a murderous pirate who tried to kill George Washington. Lisa confronts Hollis Hurlbut, the President of the Springfield Historical Society, with her findings, but Hurlbut sends her packing and bans her from his museum for three months. Lisa, with Homer's help, convinces Mayor Quimby to dig up the body of Jebediah Springfield to prove that he's not the same man as Sprungfeld. Quimby agrees, but when the body is exhumed, Hollis Hurlbut quickly steals the evidence so that no one believes Lisa. Later, Lisa finds out for sure that Hurlbut hid the evidence, but she allows the people of Springfield to go on celebrating Jebediah anyway, since the great man's legacy is more important than the actual facts of his life. Guest star: Donald Sutherland as Hollis Hurlbut.
"Homer the Smithers"
Mr. Burns' assistant, Waylon Smithers, nearly works himself into a nervous breakdown and is forced to go on a vacation. Fearing that whoever fills in for him in his absence might replace him permanently, Smithers places Homer Simpson in the job, figuring that there's no way the plant's worst employee could possibly be a threat. Homer approaches the job with enthusiasm, but finds that much of his day is taken up with being insulted by Mr. Burns. Finally, one day Homer snaps and punches Burns square in the face. To everyone's surprise, the punch actually whacks some decency and humility into Burns. When Smithers returns from his vacation, he finds that his worst fear has come true: Burns no longer needs him. Together Homer and Smithers concoct a plan to prove how valuable Smithers is to Burns, but when the plan backfires, Smithers and Homer get into a vicious fight and accidentally send their boss flying out the window. Later, while laid-up in bed with broken bones, Burns rehires Smithers as his assistant and Smithers sends the Simpson family a fruit basket to thank Homer for saving his job.
"The Day the Violence Died"
After a series of sordid tabloid scandals involving marine life, Troy McClure (whom you might remember from such films as The Muppets Go Medieval and P is for Psycho) needs some quick damage control. MacArthur Parker, Troy's agent, recommends he appear to in public as normal as possible. Enter Selma Bouvier, who is the perfect beard to cover up McClure's unsavory press. As Troy and Selma begin dating, the actor's public image rises considerably and he lands such highly coveted roles as The Human in the musical production of The Planet of the Apes. His star on the rise, Troy and Selma get married. Shortly after the nuptials, Selma begins to have second thoughts when Troy insists they have a baby for all the good publicity it will bring him. Selma ends the charade then and there and returns to her normal life. Troy, presumably, returns to the aquarium. Guest Star: Jeff Goldblum as MacArthur Parker.
"A Fish Called Selma"
The Itchy & Scratchy Show generates controversy yet again when Bart and Lisa befriend Chester J. Lampwick, a homeless man who claims to have invented the cartoon cat and mouse, only to have his idea stolen by Roger Meyers, Sr. back in 1919. With Bart and Lisa's help, Chester enlists Lionel Hutz and sues Roger Meyers, Jr. for $800 million and wins. Itchy & Scratchy Studios is shut down, and Chester gets to live the life every bum dreams about when he buys a solid gold house. With Itchy & Scratchy off the air, Lisa and Bart have to endure incredibly boring cartoons until two smart kids, Lester and Eliza (who look surprisingly like Bart and Lisa) figure out a way to save Itchy & Scratchy. Guest Stars: Kirk Douglas as Chester J. Lampwick; Susanne Somers are herself; Jack Sheldon as The Amendment.
"Bart on the Road"
A day spent with Aunts Patty and Selma at the DMV leads to a fake ID for Bart and a cross-country road trip for his friends. With Bart's sparkling new driver's license and $600 Martin Prince made in the stock market, Bart, Martin, Milhouse and Nelson rent a car and hit the open road. Their plan is check out the World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee, but when the kids get there, they discover that the fair ended about 14 years earlier. While Bart and the boys are away, Lisa begins spending a lot of bonding time with Homer, even having sleepovers at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant. After Bart's rental car is destroyed, the boys are trapped in Knoxville. Only Lisa can save the day, but she needs to enlist the help of her new best buddy, Homer, to get them back home .
"22 Short Films About Springfield"
In this breakneck tour through a day in the life of Springfield, we learn that a lot goes on in a little town in some state, somewhere in America. Apu takes the day off from the Kwik-E-Mart and has a kwik-e-romance. Barney finally pays Moe his bar tab only to witness Snake steal it. Principal Skinner nearly burns down his house while making lunch for Superintendent Chalmers, and Homer gets Maggie stuck in a newspaper vending machine. Lisa gets gum--and mayonnaise, and peanut butter--stuck in her hair, and Smithers almost dies from a bee sting. In a nod to Pulp Fiction, Snake and Chief Wiggum are taken hostage by Herman, the one-armed pawnshop owner, who wants to do god-knows-what. The two men are saved by Milhouse, who had to go to the bathroom really, really badly.
"Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in "The Curse of the Flying Hellfish""
After Grandpa's old army buddy passes away, the biggest secret in old Abe's life is revealed. During the Second World War, he was a member of the Flying Hellfish, a platoon that included Mr. Burns and several other men. Seizing a Nazi mansion, the Hellfish stole some priceless paintings and locked them away. The agreed that only the last living Hellfish would get to call the stash his own. The only problem is, Grandpa and Mr. Burns are both still alive, and Mr. Burns would like to have the paintings now. Grandpa, with some help from Bart, escapes Burns' attempts on his life and finds the hidden paintings on his own. A violent confrontation with Burns ensues, but the paintings don't go to either aging Hellfish. Representatives from the government break up the fight and give the prized paintings to an obnoxious German guy who is the grandson of the works' original owner.
"Much Apu About Nothing"
When Proposition 24, an anti-immigrant law, is put into effect, Apu risks being deported as an illegal alien. All of Apu's attempts to get fake papers and Americanize himself fail and it's up to Homer to help his loyal Kwik-E-Mart counterman pass his naturalization exam. An all-night cram session ensues, but when Apu takes his test, he proves to be too smart to be an American. Luckily, though, he passes, and is allowed to stay in Springfield. That's more than we can say for Groundskeeper Willie, who is deported, kicking and screaming, back to Scotland.
Homer gets grungy when he becomes a sideshow performer at Hullabalooza, an alternative rock festival that features Sonic Youth, Smashing Pumpkins, Cypress Hill and, uh, Peter Frampton. Homer's performance consists of using his enormous gut as a target for cannonballs, which makes him a huge hit with the pierced and tattooed Hullabalooza crowd. It also gains him the respect of his kids, who finally think that their dad is cool. When a doctor tells Homer that he is causing permanent damage to his internal organs, Homer must decide between his newfound acclaim as a sideshow freak or long-term health. Luckily for all, Homer chooses the latter, and leaves the life-threatening stunt to someone else. Guest Stars: Sonic Youth as themselves; Smashing Pumpkins as themselves; Cypress Hill as themselves; Peter Frampton as himself.
"Summer of 4 ft. 2"
When her family goes away to a beach house for the weekend, Lisa decides to transform herself into a new, cooler person. Her first step is abandoning her old, dorky clothes in favor of tricked-out threads. She also hides her egg-headed impulses by dumbing-down her vocabulary and pretending she doesn't read books anymore. Soon, Lisa befriends Erin, a cool but disaffected local kid, and her friends. Lisa's transformation is complete: she is popular. Of course, Bart is seething with jealousy and comes up with a plan to ruin his sister's popularity. Bart shows Erin and her friends Lisa's elementary school yearbook to prove what a good student and a goody-goody his sister really is. Bart's plan backfires, however, when Lisa's new friends turn out to like her anyway, even if she is a nerd. Guest Star: Christina Ricci as Erin.


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Eleven injured in crash on Interstate 70 near Highway 63
Two people thrown from vehicle during crash
COLUMBIA, Mo. - Nearly a dozen people were taken to the hospital after a multiple vehicle crash Sunday evening on Interstate 70.
According to a Columbia police report, an SUV with ten people inside lost control on the wet road and hit a guardrail. A second car then hit the SUV.
Columbia fire crews told ABC 17 News Sunday night that two people were thrown from the car when it went off the road and hit the median cables.
Both drivers and all passengers, including the two thrown from the SUV, were taken to a hospital with minor injuries.
Two in the SUV, Mylo Pastor-Castaneda and passenger Gizelle Pastor-Castaneda, both from Garden Grove, Calif., were ejected from the vehicle through the rear glass window.
All involved in the accident have since been treated and released.
The driver of the SUV was cited for failing to secure one of the children in a safety seat.
Traffic backed up for about one hour with westbound Interstate 70 closed at the Highway 63 connector as crews worked to treat victims and investigate the crash. One lane of the eastbound side of the interstate was also closed for that time, causing backups for miles in both directions.


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There is a variety of sandy shores from which to choose:
Good Harbor Beach
Wingaersheek Beach
Gray Beach
Good Harbor Beach
In East Gloucester, this bustling beach is the place to be in the summer.
Wingaersheek Beach
Wingaersheek's shallow waters and gentle waves make this an ideal beach for kids.
Gray Beach
This quieter beach in Magnolia is a favorite spot for nature lovers. It's populated with beach pea and beach rose, and an array of gulls.
Left: Sailing vessels in Smith Cove off Rocky Neck


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This roundup summarizes some notable recent items about scientific research, selected from news reports compiled in Sigma Xi's free electronic newsletters Science in the News Daily and Science in the News Weekly. Online: http://sitn.sigmaxi.org and http://www.americanscientist.org/sitnweekly
An Unlikely Pollinator
Normally, crickets would just as soon chew on plants as pollinate them. But on a small island in the Indian Ocean, researchers have found a plain-looking orchid (Angraecum cadetii) that depends entirely on a wingless cricket to help it mate. Most of the orchid's mainland relatives are pollinated by hawk moths, but no such moths live on the island. During 48 days and 14 nights of observation, researchers saw birds, cockroaches, and even a gecko visit the flowers—but only raspy crickets (Glomeremus sp.) removed the pollen. Whether the phenomenon is a quirk of island ecology or whether it's just been overlooked on the mainland remains to be seen.
Micheneau, C., et al. Orthoptera, a new order of pollinator. Annals of Botany (published online January 11)
No Secret Ingredient
Stradivarius violins, legendary for their rich and expressive tones, remain the standard by which newer instruments are judged. Their uniformly dense wood, or the chemical treatments it received, might contribute to the violins' unique acoustics—but their varnish most likely does not. A new chemical analysis of minute samples from five Stradivarius instruments, built between 1692 and 1720, reveals a very common finish. The violins bear a simple base coat of oil, perhaps linseed. Atop that is an oil-resin blend, tinted with ordinary red pigments of the day: iron oxide and cochineal. If Stradivari used a rare key ingredient, his instruments have kept the secret.
Echard, J.-P., et al. The nature of the extraordinary finish of Stradivari's instruments. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 49:197–201 (January 4)
The Sudden Sea
The Mediterranean basin was practically a desert 5.6 million years ago. Then, abruptly, it became a sea. It filled with water in less than two years, when the Atlantic Ocean gushed through the Strait of Gibraltar with 1,000 times the flow of the Amazon River. The Mediterranean sea level rose some 30 feet per day. Although this deluge was preceded by thousands of years of relatively slow trickling, 90 percent of the filling happened during those last several months. Geologists knew that the Mediterranean had gone from desert to sea, but until now, they weren't sure how fast. New samples drilled from the seafloor at Gibraltar revealed the size and shape of the old flood channel, informing a more vivid reconstruction of the event.
Garcia-Castellanos, D., et al. Catastrophic flood of the Mediterranean after the Messinian salinity crisis. Nature 462:778–781 (December 10)
Wielding fire is a quintessentially human pursuit. But chimpanzees are pretty fire-savvy too, a discovery that hints at how our ancestors may have first come to tinker with flames. An anthropologist followed a troop of chimps during two savannah fires in Senegal and found that the apes didn't flee as other animals did. Rather, the chimps waited until the flames drew near, sometimes within 15 meters, then casually moved on. One male displayed toward the blaze and uttered what might be a unique fire-related bark. The apes' ability to predict and avoid the bushfire is probably a prerequisite to controlling and building fires—steps that eventually happened in the human lineage.
Pruetz, J. D. and T. C. LaDuke. Reaction to fire by savanna chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes verus) at Fongoli, Senegal: Conceptualization of "fire behavior" and the case for a chimpanzee model. American Journal of Physical Anthropology (published online December 21)
Stop That Ringing!
Personalized music therapy could soothe millions of people with chronic tinnitus, or ringing in the ears. Researchers custom-edited musical recordings so that eight volunteers could listen to their favorite songs—minus the notes with the same pitch as their tinnitus. After one year of listening to the modified tunes, participants' ringing ears were quieter, and over-active regions of their brains were more normal. It appears that, when deprived of real sounds at the problem pitch, the brain learns not to "hear" the tinnitus either. Control participants listened to music that lacked randomly selected placebo frequencies, and did not benefit.
Okamoto, H., et al. Listening to tailor-made notched music reduces tinnitus loudness and tinnitus-related auditory cortex activity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107:1207–1210 (January 19)
Diagnosing Devils
A deadly contagious cancer could drive wild Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrissi) to extinction within decades. The cancer cells spread from one individual to another during physical contact. But where did the original contagious tumor come from? To find out, researchers compared gene expression in tumors and in several healthy tissues. The closest match was in the Schwann cells—cells that normally protect the peripheral nervous system. Biologists hope that knowing which genes are active in the tumors will help them develop tests and vaccines to protect the ailing marsupials.
Murchison, E. P., et al. The Tasmanian devil transcriptome reveals Schwann cell origins of a clonally transmissible cancer. Science 327:84–87 (January 1)
Like-Minded (Planetary) Neighbors
The hunt for Earth-like planets is heating up. Astronomers have spotted a watery planet that is 2.7 times larger than Earth and only 42 light-years away. It even orbits its star at a nearly-habitable distance. Nearly, but probably not quite: The newfound planet heats up to 400 degrees Fahrenheit during the day. It also doesn't have any land. Astronomers found this steamy world by monitoring 2,000 nearby stars for recurring faint eclipses caused by orbiting planets. This and other recently discovered small planets show that the technique is working and may soon reveal even more familiar-looking worlds.
Charbonneau, D., et al. A super-Earth transiting a nearby low-mass star. Nature 462:891–894 (December 17)
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Birth Date: 1985-01-30
Country: Argentina
Best ATP/WTA Ranking: 26 WTA single / 1 WTA double
Racket Played: T-Rebound Pro
Best shot :
Favorite player to watch :
Rafael Nadal
Favorite tournament :
Best double partner :
Flavia Pennetta
Best win / best memory :
Australian Open doubles 2011
Worst loss / ashamed of ... :
4th round us open ... 3 years ago, so bad !
Except your racket, what's always in your bag ?
My headbands, my wallet, blackberry ...
Your power song in your iPod before entering the court ?
"The Time" - Black Eyed Peas (but I never listen to music before my matches)
Any special ritual before entering the court ?
Not really
Nickname : Gise Titi
Favorite Youtube video :
All Lady Gaga videos ... They are so weird that is entertaining to watch them !
Favorite food :
All kind of pastas !
Main objective in life :
To be a mother and raise my kids the best way posible.
Best synonymous for tennis :
Travelling !
Nothing is better than :
A nice holidays with the people you love.
I could not play tennis without :
The support of my family.
If you could turn pro in another sport which would it be and why ?
I think hockey ... because when i was young i was playing at school and was really good at it !
If someone walked into your room right now, what would they notice first ?
Mmmhh, I don't have all my clothes in order all the time, so maybe they will say, oh my god what a disaster !! hahaha
You're on a date and trying to impress, where do we go ?
I would go to the cinema and then have a nice dinner by the beach
You've got 2 weeks and a private jet, where do we go ?
I would love that to happen first of all ... I would go to french polinesia for the entire 2 weeks and just relax and enjoy.
Top 3 reasons to wake-up every morning ?
First to have a great breakfast because i wake up so hungry everyday ! To go practice and improve my tennis, to spend time with my dogs and family.
How do you relax ?
I love to just be at home, play with my dogs and be with my boyfriend, that is the best plan for me right now.
In a movie about your life, which actor/actress could play you ?
I would love to be Angelina Jolie, she is so beautiful ! And of course have brad pitt like husband hahaha.
Any advice for other players :
I always give the same advise, for me the most important is to enjoy what you are doing... that way things get a lot easier.


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the English corruption of the ancient (circa 1960's USA) phrase "schmuck, her." The phrase was doubly derogatory. It was used among heterosexual males to indicate worthless specimens of the species, as well as to further belittle said specimens by implying a highly effeminate nature. Eventually, an unwilligness to expend much energy on such "shmucks" prompted speakers to contract the phrase into "Schmicker," its current incarnation.
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I came up with this family favorite when I needed to use up leftover baked Potatoes and extra produce from our garden. It's a great-tasting side dish. My husband requests it all the time and brags about it to company.
Recommended: 80 Recipes for Serious Potato Lovers
- 4 medium baking potatoes
- 1-1/2 cups diced zucchini
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon savory herb with garlic soup mix
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 10 cherry tomatoes, halved
- Scrub and pierce potatoes; place on a microwave-safe plate. Cover and microwave on high for 5-6 minutes on each side or until tender.
- When potatoes are cool enough to handle, cut into cubes.
- In a large skillet, saute potatoes and zucchini in oil for 5 minutes or until vegetables are tender. Sprinkle with soup mix and pepper. Cook until heated through, stirring occasionally. Add tomatoes; cook 1 minute longer. Yield: 6 servings.
Editor's Note: This recipe was tested in a 1,100-watt microwave.
Originally published as Herbed Potatoes and Veggies in Quick Cooking May/June 2005, p38
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"Holy crapola! this was delicious! I did make one small change, I could not find a savory herb with garlic soup mix. But i did find a Savory herb crock pot seasoning. So I used that and the flavor was superb! LOVE THIS!"
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"I thought this was OK but not great. I used the whole envelope of soup mix and felt that it was still lacking flavor."
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Personally, I believe most pistol hunting should probably be done at bowhunting distances. A scoped handgun can stretch that out a bit. Also, I would not want a ported handgun, unless I felt I had to have something that was approaching the .500, in the way it punished the shooter.
I would definitely go with Ruger, for hunting, because they are built to handle heavy handloads on a regular basis. Taurus is to be avoided, in my opinion, but S&W's are OK if you don't give them too steady of a diet of really heavy loads.
I don't hunt with handguns, but I do carry a 10mm Glock with me when the possibility of encountering feral hogs exists. It is a legitimate 25 yard handgun, with fixed iron sights, has power approaching that of a .41 Magnum, and has a 15+1 capacity. Not a classic hunting handgun, by any means, but I am capable of hitting the 'kill zone' on a hog at 25 yards with it, if I don't have a rifle, and that's why I wanted it. Feral hogs are considered vermin, where I hunt, and all hunters are expected to do their part to help thin them out.


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First year bee keeper here; started with two nucs in May, 2013. Both hives are Italians and are doing well. I placed a honey super on the strongest hive on August 2nd when I noticed the cotton blooms were starting to appear. On September 20th, I pulled the honey super off the hive.
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Green Beans and Carrot in a freshly ground South Indian coconut masala gravy
As a young girl, I was always curious about the goings-on in the kitchen. Hovering around my dear aunt, the then head chef in my grand dad's kitchen was one of my favorite pastimes. Over the years, whether it was for my keen interest or my unsolicited opinions, somewhat naturally, I had earned a say in vital decisions such as the daily menu. Vegetables would be brought fresh for the next day, the evening before, in a green tarpaulin bag. Plastic had no place then. And in the morning, before leaving for school, I would dash to the kitchen to see what's cooking for lunch. Whenever it was green beans, there were only two ways I would love them, either in a simple stir fry with freshly grated coconut or an elaborately prepared gravy in the form of this lip smacking traditional South Indian dish. This was the recipe I wanted to learn to make first, whenever I would start cooking on my own.


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Jackett delighted with winger's return
Kenny Jackett was delighted with Bakary Sako's response to still being at Molineux as the winger found the net both during normal time and in the penalty shootout as Wolves edged out Walsall.
Sako, the subject of bids from Nottingham Forest prior to the closure of the transfer window on Monday evening, had missed out at Port Vale on Saturday with Jackett saying he was not in the right frame of mind given the speculation.
At the same time Sako had assured the Head Coach he would be ready to give his all if still at Wolves after the deadline, and he proved that with a power-packed display which quickly won fans over and earned him the man of the match award from the sponsors on Tuesday night.
"Sako is 100 per cent committed to the cause and to the club and I am pleased to have him back in the fold," said Jackett.
"He said he would be 100 per cent with myself, the club and the players, and he proved that tonight with a very good performance.
"It wasn't difficult to pick him – he wanted to play and didn't take any persuasion and we knew where he was it with it.
"It's something he felt was right and it was something we'd spoken about last week.
"I spoke to him as you would with any player in that situation and it was a positive conversation and one in which he was very enthusiastic to play tonight.
"He put a lot of effort in and the dynamics of the squad are that you need matchwinners.
"You could see from today's game that for long periods we had possession and looked the dominant side and in those periods we need the people at the top end of the pitch to make the difference and take you away."
And Jackett has swiftly dismissed any notion that either Sako or Kevin Doyle could be loaned out once the emergency window opens again next week.
"We have said all along and the Chairman has said to me all along it would have to be a bid (for Sako) that we couldn't turn down," he added.
"We are not looking to move him out and we feel we are a work in progress but we've got quite a good formula here and want to add to it and not take it away.
"You can't say a player is not for sale because no club can ever say that but it would take a considerable bid and situation for us to sell one of our best players and that is still going to be the case going forward.
"It's the same with Doyle and there is no suggestion of letting him out on loan.
"If we need to add we will but we are certainly not looking to take away from the squad which is playing and contributing very well."
At the other end of the experience levels Liam McAlinden made his first Wolves start by opening the scoring in Tuesday's victory.
His display offered Jackett plenty of food for thought, and he felt Wolves could even have made more use of the runs of both McAlinden and Sigurdarson.
"It was a good goal and he probably had another volley which might have been easier than the one he finished," said the Head Coach.
"He was under pressure from the defender for the goal but held him off and finished very well.
"There was a volley on the far post from McDonald's chip which – to be fair – the keeper made a good save.
"And it looked like another good opportunity in the second half when, similar to the goal, Doherty pulled the ball back from the byline.
"He does get chances and I think that's a good habit to have in terms of being a centre forward.
"He also makes good runs over the top and into the space and, particularly early in the game, I don't think we used him as much as we could have done, looking for both him and Bjorn Sigurdarson."
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By Kevin Grandia • Wednesday, February 4, 2009 - 12:33
Much like trusting your mechanic when he says you need new brakes or a doctor when he tells you that your cholesterol is too high, you would hope that elected officials would listen to the experts in a particular field when it comes to developing common sense government policies.
On the issue of global warming, that is happening now for the vast majority of the world's leaders and their political colleagues. Even former US president George W. Bush came to be convinced of the need to action on global warming. Pretty hard not to be when you consider the mountains of evidence produced, tested and re-tested by scientists at top institutes like NASA, the Royal Society and the American Academy of Sciences.
And President Obama needs no convincing, nor does his Energy Secretary Steven Chu. Today, the Nobel-prize winning Chu said that, "California could lose all its agriculture by the end of the century, and that a number of its cities are also in peril due to worsening global warming."
The Los Angeles Times reported that Chu said the state's award-winning vineyards, as well its farms, could be wiped out in the starkest warning yet from the Obama administration.
This is where the waste of taxpayer's dollars comes in in the form of Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) who continues to spend his days ignoring the expertise of the best in the field and grasping onto a delusion that he and his handful of conspiracy theorists are somehow "winning," as if science is a high school popularity contest.
Inhofe's response to Chu's concern over California's water issues was:
Real world data? New studies? You would think that Chu would have heard of such things given his career as a scientist. Looking for evidence of this "real world data" I took a look through Inhofe's blog on the Environment and Public Works website, run by his political assistant Marc Morano.
Far from being a source of data, Inhofe's blog serves as a wonderful chronology of delusion. You also get a good idea of just how much time (and money) Inhofe's office is dumping into this effort to fulfill Inhofe's foregone conclusion that global warming is nothing more than a giant conspiracy.
I'm interested in whether the American public is okay with their taxpayer money going into this claptrap? In particular, I am wondering how people in California feel about a taxpayer sponsored effort to obscure the realities of global warming, which scientists are saying will have devastating effects on their very livelihood in the near future.
climate criminal replied on Permalink
When The Public Finally Recognise Inhofe's Lies
When The Public Finally Recognise Inhofe's Lies for what they are, they will be very, very angry. On that day, I suspect Inhofe will need to be put in protective custody.
Personally I believe he needs to be locked-up.
mascereye replied on Permalink
lies and jail
so I assume you think Mann , Steig and the Goreacle himself should be locked up as well. I mean a lie is a lie, right?
The vociferous chorus coming from the so-called "rapidly growing" group of skeptics… is this chorus merely the sound coming from a noise generator comprised of lots of knees jerking in unison?
– bi
climate criminal replied on Permalink
Show your proof!
There's a huge difference between a pack of pseudoscientific drivel like the Oregon Petition and genuine science as produced by Steig and Mann.
Then of course there was Crichton's 'State of Fear', which was also full of deliberate distortions and lies, dressed-up as science. Quote [from memory] 'The footnotes are real'. Yes they were 'real' and they contained real lies.
BTW AIT was a movie, but still pretty accurate, unlike the denialist spin. However it was a movie, based upon science! Look at the facts, not the denialist spin. AIT was presumably part of the reason why Gore shared the Nobel Prize with the IPCC.
It's typical that a denialist wouldn't be able to distinguish truth from lies.
Show your proof or admit your error! Otherwise you're a troll.
climate criminal,
I think the main problem with mascereye's 'argument' is that it simply doesn't make a single jot of sense.
Basically he's saying that, if Inhofe is to be jailed (for delaying the response to global warming by saying it's a UN hoax), then somehow this means Mann, Steig, and Al Gore should be jailed too (for saying that global warming is a real problem).
It's just a knee-jerk "YOU DID IT TOO!" response which makes zero logical sense.
– bi
mascereye replied on Permalink
zot or jot?
its not that hard to follow…you think a person should go to jail for lying….so i assume it wouldn't matter who lies, whether its algore , michael mann, eric steig or inhofe, the punishment should be the same, no? i thought it was pretty simple….you are calling inhofe a liar and i'm calling algore one…i know how you guys try to confuse logic and this is a great case in point….next time i will just get to the point and say algore is a liar
Re: zot or jot?
its not that hard to follow…
No, it's not. If Inhofe lied about 'global warming' being a hoax, then by definition it follows that Al Gore did not lie.
But I realize that in the wingnut 'logic' that you use, consistency doesn't matter, and you just need to shout YOU DID IT TOO!!!!!!!
– bi
mascereye replied on Permalink
i guess i have to speak as plainly as possible on this site to all of the well read genius' …real simple…i DONT think inhofe lied. i think algore, hansen, mann do lie. plain and simple.
'YOU DID IT TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!' isn't working very well...
i DONT think inhofe lied.
That wasn't what you said, and you know it. From above:
climate criminal:
Personally I believe he [Inhofe] needs to be locked-up.
so I assume you think Mann , Steig and the Goreacle himself should be locked up as well.
I can see your exploding head from my house.
– bi
John Mashey replied on Permalink
Oklahoma, not California
People may recall that the Chairman of the Senate EPW is no longer Inhofe, but CA's Barbara Boxer. CA is too busy trying to make progress to think about Inhofe.
However, I think that at some point, before CA is toast, the State Formerly Known as Oklahoma can be renamed The Senator Inhofe Memorial Dustbowl, as it returns ~permanently (in human terms) to the 1930s.
But this time, instead of being caused by (fixable) local dumb-farming/ranching practices, it will be the Northward migration of rain from the Hadley Cell effects, not easily fixed. Weather will vary randomly as always, but over time, there will be less water, like during the Medieval Warm Period (read Bryan Fagan's The Great Warming, about the Anasazi, etc), only worse. I'd guess that farming/ranching will pretty much disappear, leaving mostly oil&gas, i.,e., a little more like Saudi Arabia.
These days, they get both floods and droughts, http://www.owrb.ok.gov/supply/drought/drought_index.php, and they are working through their aquifers. (They have part of the Ogallala, for example.)
Oklahoma City might be renamed Morano City.
Hopefully, OK citizens will come to understand all this, and what it means for their grandkids to become "Okies", as per Grapes of Wrath. I'm afraid, that just as other states are not likely to be interested in bailing out Florida's actuarilly-unsound insurance, they're not likely to spend a lot of extra money helping OK at that point, especially having elected Inhofe so often. Maybe, Andrerw Rice or someone equallty sensible can win the next election.


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