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A Short History of Nearly Everythingby Bill Bryson
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In In a Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to/i>/i>
One of the world's most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.
In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In In a Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand -- and, if possible, answer -- the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. To that end, he has attached himself to a host of the world's most advanced (and often obsessed) archaeologists, anthropologists, and mathematicians, traveling to their offices, laboratories, and field camps. He has read (or tried to read) their books, pestered them with questions, apprenticed himself to their powerful minds. A Short History of Nearly Everything is the record of this quest, and it is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it. Science has never been more involving or entertaining.
Editorial Reviews
—The New York Times
"Bryson has made a career writing hilarious travelogues, and in many ways his latest is more of the same, except that this time Bryson hikes through the world of science."
"Bryson is surprisingly precise, brilliantly eccentric and nicely eloquent . . . a gifted storyteller has dared to retell the world's biggest story."
—Seattle Times
"Hefty, highly researched and eminently readable."
—Simon Winchester, The Globe and Mail
"All non-scientists (and probably many specialized scientists, too) can learn a great deal from his lucid and amiable explanations."
—National Post
"Bryson is a terrific stylist. You can' t help but enjoy his writing, for its cheer and buoyancy, and for the frequent demonstration of his peculiar, engaging turn of mind."
—Ottawa Citizen
"Wonderfully readable. It is, in the best sense, learned."
—Winnipeg Free Press
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- 9780767916417
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- Publication date:
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NO MATTER HOW hard you try you will never be able to grasp just how tiny, how spatially unassuming, is a proton. It is just way too small.
A proton is an infinitesimal part of an atom, which is itself of course an insubstantial thing. Protons are so small that a little dib of ink like the dot on this i can hold something in the region of 500,000,000,000 of them, rather more than the number of seconds contained in half a million years. So protons are exceedingly microscopic, to say the very least.
Now imagine if you can (and of course you can't) shrinking one of those protons down to a billionth of its normal size into a space so small that it would make a proton look enormous. Now pack into that tiny, tiny space about an ounce of matter. Excellent. You are ready to start a universe.
I'm assuming of course that you wish to build an inflationary universe. If you'd prefer instead to build a more old-fashioned, standard Big Bang universe, you'll need additional materials. In fact, you will need to gather up everything there is--every last mote and particle of matter between here and the edge of creation--and squeeze it into a spot so infinitesimally compact that it has no dimensions at all. It is known as a singularity.
In either case, get ready for a really big bang. Naturally, you will wish to retire to a safe place to observe the spectacle. Unfortunately, there is nowhere to retire to because outside the singularity there is no where. When the universe begins to expand, it won't be spreading out to fill a larger emptiness. The only space that exists is the space it creates as it goes.
It is natural but wrong to visualize the singularity as a kind of pregnant dot hanging in a dark, boundless void. But there is no space, no darkness. The singularity has no "around" around it. There is no space for it to occupy, no place for it to be. We can't even ask how long it has been there--whether it has just lately popped into being, like a good idea, or whether it has been there forever, quietly awaiting the right moment. Time doesn't exist. There is no past for it to emerge from.
And so, from nothing, our universe begins.
In a single blinding pulse, a moment of glory much too swift and expansive for any form of words, the singularity assumes heavenly dimensions, space beyond conception. In the first lively second (a second that many cosmologists will devote careers to shaving into ever-finer wafers) is produced gravity and the other forces that govern physics. In less than a minute the universe is a million billion miles across and growing fast. There is a lot of heat now, ten billion degrees of it, enough to begin the nuclear reactions that create the lighter elements--principally hydrogen and helium, with a dash (about one atom in a hundred million) of lithium. In three minutes, 98 percent of all the matter there is or will ever be has been produced. We have a universe. It is a place of the most wondrous and gratifying possibility, and beautiful, too. And it was all done in about the time it takes to make a sandwich.
When this moment happened is a matter of some debate. Cosmologists have long argued over whether the moment of creation was 10 billion years ago or twice that or something in between. The consensus seems to be heading for a figure of about 13.7 billion years, but these things are notoriously difficult to measure, as we shall see further on. All that can really be said is that at some indeterminate point in the very distant past, for reasons unknown, there came the moment known to science as t = 0. We were on our way.
There is of course a great deal we don't know, and much of what we think we know we haven't known, or thought we've known, for long. Even the notion of the Big Bang is quite a recent one. The idea had been kicking around since the 1920s, when Georges Lem tre, a Belgian priest-scholar, first tentatively proposed it, but it didn't really become an active notion in cosmology until the mid-1960s when two young radio astronomers made an extraordinary and inadvertent discovery.
Their names were Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson. In 1965, they were trying to make use of a large communications antenna owned by Bell Laboratories at Holmdel, New Jersey, but they were troubled by a persistent background noise--a steady, steamy hiss that made any experimental work impossible. The noise was unrelenting and unfocused. It came from every point in the sky, day and night, through every season. For a year the young astronomers did everything they could think of to track down and eliminate the noise. They tested every electrical system. They rebuilt instruments, checked circuits, wiggled wires, dusted plugs. They climbed into the dish and placed duct tape over every seam and rivet. They climbed back into the dish with brooms and scrubbing brushes and carefully swept it clean of what they referred to in a later paper as "white dielectric material," or what is known more commonly as bird shit. Nothing they tried worked.
Unknown to them, just thirty miles away at Princeton University, a team of scientists led by Robert Dicke was working on how to find the very thing they were trying so diligently to get rid of. The Princeton researchers were pursuing an idea that had been suggested in the 1940s by the Russian-born astrophysicist George Gamow that if you looked deep enough into space you should find some cosmic background radiation left over from the Big Bang. Gamow calculated that by the time it crossed the vastness of the cosmos, the radiation would reach Earth in the form of microwaves. In a more recent paper he had even suggested an instrument that might do the job: the Bell antenna at Holmdel. Unfortunately, neither Penzias and Wilson, nor any of the Princeton team, had read Gamow's paper.
The noise that Penzias and Wilson were hearing was, of course, the noise that Gamow had postulated. They had found the edge of the universe, or at least the visible part of it, 90 billion trillion miles away. They were "seeing" the first photons--the most ancient light in the universe--though time and distance had converted them to microwaves, just as Gamow had predicted. In his book The Inflationary Universe, Alan Guth provides an analogy that helps to put this finding in perspective. If you think of peering into the depths of the universe as like looking down from the hundredth floor of the Empire State Building (with the hundredth floor representing now and street level representing the moment of the Big Bang), at the time of Wilson and Penzias's discovery the most distant galaxies anyone had ever detected were on about the sixtieth floor, and the most distant things--quasars--were on about the twentieth. Penzias and Wilson's finding pushed our acquaintance with the visible universe to within half an inch of the sidewalk.
Still unaware of what caused the noise, Wilson and Penzias phoned Dicke at Princeton and described their problem to him in the hope that he might suggest a solution. Dicke realized at once what the two young men had found. "Well, boys, we've just been scooped," he told his colleagues as he hung up the phone.
Soon afterward the Astrophysical Journal published two articles: one by Penzias and Wilson describing their experience with the hiss, the other by Dicke's team explaining its nature. Although Penzias and Wilson had not been looking for cosmic background radiation, didn't know what it was when they had found it, and hadn't described or interpreted its character in any paper, they received the 1978 Nobel Prize in physics. The Princeton researchers got only sympathy. According to Dennis Overbye in Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos, neither Penzias nor Wilson altogether understood the significance of what they had found until they read about it in the New York Times.
Incidentally, disturbance from cosmic background radiation is something we have all experienced. Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive, and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe.
Although everyone calls it the Big Bang, many books caution us not to think of it as an explosion in the conventional sense. It was, rather, a vast, sudden expansion on a whopping scale. So what caused it?
One notion is that perhaps the singularity was the relic of an earlier, collapsed universe--that we're just one of an eternal cycle of expanding and collapsing universes, like the bladder on an oxygen machine. Others attribute the Big Bang to what they call "a false vacuum" or "a scalar field" or "vacuum energy"--some quality or thing, at any rate, that introduced a measure of instability into the nothingness that was. It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was nothing and now there is a universe is evident proof that you can. It may be that our universe is merely part of many larger universes, some in different dimensions, and that Big Bangs are going on all the time all over the place. Or it may be that space and time had some other forms altogether before the Big Bang--forms too alien for us to imagine--and that the Big Bang represents some sort of transition phase, where the universe went from a form we can't understand to one we almost can. "These are very close to religious questions," Dr. Andrei Linde, a cosmologist at Stanford, told the New York Times in 2001.
The Big Bang theory isn't about the bang itself but about what happened after the bang. Not long after, mind you. By doing a lot of math and watching carefully what goes on in particle accelerators, scientists believe they can look back to 10-43 seconds after the moment of creation, when the universe was still so small that you would have needed a microscope to find it. We mustn't swoon over every extraordinary number that comes before us, but it is perhaps worth latching on to one from time to time just to be reminded of their ungraspable and amazing breadth. Thus 10-43 is 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000001, or one 10 million trillion trillion trillionths of a second.
Most of what we know, or believe we know, about the early moments of the universe is thanks to an idea called inflation theory first propounded in 1979 by a junior particle physicist, then at Stanford, now at MIT, named Alan Guth. He was thirty-two years old and, by his own admission, had never done anything much before. He would probably never have had his great theory except that he happened to attend a lecture on the Big Bang given by none other than Robert Dicke. The lecture inspired Guth to take an interest in cosmology, and in particular in the birth of the universe.
The eventual result was the inflation theory, which holds that a fraction of a moment after the dawn of creation, the universe underwent a sudden dramatic expansion. It inflated--in effect ran away with itself, doubling in size every 10-34 seconds. The whole episode may have lasted no more than 10-30 seconds--that's one million million million million millionths of a second--but it changed the universe from something you could hold in your hand to something at least 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times bigger. Inflation theory explains the ripples and eddies that make our universe possible. Without it, there would be no clumps of matter and thus no stars, just drifting gas and everlasting darkness.
According to Guth's theory, at one ten-millionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a trillionth of a second, gravity emerged. After another ludicrously brief interval it was joined by electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces--the stuff of physics. These were joined an instant later by swarms of elementary particles--the stuff of stuff. From nothing at all, suddenly there were swarms of photons, protons, electrons, neutrons, and much else--between 1079 and 1089 of each, according to the standard Big Bang theory.
Such quantities are of course ungraspable. It is enough to know that in a single cracking instant we were endowed with a universe that was vast--at least a hundred billion light-years across, according to the theory, but possibly any size up to infinite--and perfectly arrayed for the creation of stars, galaxies, and other complex systems.
What is extraordinary from our point of view is how well it turned out for us. If the universe had formed just a tiny bit differently--if gravity were fractionally stronger or weaker, if the expansion had proceeded just a little more slowly or swiftly--then there might never have been stable elements to make you and me and the ground we stand on. Had gravity been a trifle stronger, the universe itself might have collapsed like a badly erected tent, without precisely the right values to give it the right dimensions and density and component parts. Had it been weaker, however, nothing would have coalesced. The universe would have remained forever a dull, scattered void.
This is one reason that some experts believe there may have been many other big bangs, perhaps trillions and trillions of them, spread through the mighty span of eternity, and that the reason we exist in this particular one is that this is one we could exist in. As Edward P. Tryon of Columbia University once put it: "In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time." To which adds Guth: "Although the creation of a universe might be very unlikely, Tryon emphasized that no one had counted the failed attempts."
Martin Rees, Britain's astronomer royal, believes that there are many universes, possibly an infinite number, each with different attributes, in different combinations, and that we simply live in one that combines things in the way that allows us to exist. He makes an analogy with a very large clothing store: "If there is a large stock of clothing, you're not surprised to find a suit that fits. If there are many universes, each governed by a differing set of numbers, there will be one where there is a particular set of numbers suitable to life. We are in that one."
Rees maintains that six numbers in particular govern our universe, and that if any of these values were changed even very slightly things could not be as they are. For example, for the universe to exist as it does requires that hydrogen be converted to helium in a precise but comparatively stately manner--specifically, in a way that converts seven one-thousandths of its mass to energy. Lower that value very slightly--from 0.007 percent to 0.006 percent, say--and no transformation could take place: the universe would consist of hydrogen and nothing else. Raise the value very slightly--to 0.008 percent--and bonding would be so wildly prolific that the hydrogen would long since have been exhausted. In either case, with the slightest tweaking of the numbers the universe as we know and need it would not be here.
Meet the Author
Bill Bryson's bestselling books include A Walk in the Woods, I'm a Stranger Here Myself, In A Sunburned Country, Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words, Bill Bryson's African Diary, and A Short History of Nearly Everything. He lives in Norfolk, England, with his wife and children.
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- Des Moines, Iowa
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- B.A., Drake University, 1977
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I love Bill Bryson books. My love for Bryson's clever and engaging writing style all started with A Short History of Nearly Everything. I picked this book up one day with no real intention to read it cover to cover 'it was purchased for my husband and was lying around our house'. After a chapter, I was hooked! I love this book and have recommended it to others, who also were delighted with it. I have read this book cover to cover at least 3 times. A Short History of Nearly Everything is an informative and interesting look at our world. If you like science (or reading in general), then I recommend this book. Bill Bryson presents information in a way that makes it fun to learn. It helps that Bryson is just plain funny. This book presents everything in a way that makes it donwright fun to read. As a side note, I also love A Walk in the Woods and In a Sunburned Country, also by Bill Bryson. I find myself a but sad when I come to the end of a Bill Bryson book because I enjoy reading them so much 'I never want the book to end!'. My solution is to run out and by something else he has written. Never have I enjoyed reading so much!
I haven't much to say about this book, except that it's very fun to read while providing some very memorable anecdotes. The book literally tries to cover the history of everything, focusing mainly on science and social advances. Bryson wrote the book making it a point to sound as animated as possible, since this could be pretty dry material given the topic. And he does a great job of engaging the reader, using hilarious anecdotes and keeping the style lighthearted. I found it very amusing to go through, and very informative. Some parts were more entertaining than others, but that should be a given in a book like this. If you're a fan of science, learning, or dry humor, then this is a good choice for you.
Excellent job of converting complex concepts into examples that can be grasped by most people. Potentially boring explanations come alive to help the reader understand some of the great mysteries of life.
In this book Bill Bryson put together all the scientific and historical facts and discoveries that conclude what we now know about Earth and its' processes. The author is a writer, not a scientist, and tries to explain things in a non-scientific terms for a similarly non-scientific audience. Having a scientific background I already knew most of the physics, astronomy, and chemistry aspects that the author introduces, but how I wish my professors made us read "A Short History of Nearly Everything" instead of "A Brief History of Time"! This book is a very easy read. All science requires a lot of math, which is why most people struggle with it. In this book, Bill Bryson has eliminated math completely and wrote a book on the history of our planet while incorporating scientific principals and humor instead. I've recommended the book to several friends who now claim they have a basic understanding of particle physics without "all that math crap"!
Bill Bryson is a wonderful writer, but Bill Bryson is not a scientist. This book is enjoyable and educational if you know little or nothing about contemporary science, but leaves you feeling very unsatisfied if you are scientifically informed to a reasonable extent, because Bryson generally just takes the "default" commonly accepted academic positions and explains them nicely. He provides very little in the way of depth, scholarly debate, alternative theories, cutting edge ideas, etc. Being from the latter group, I found this book to be shallow and a bit boorish.
This book is a must read for anyone interested in anything. It puts into plain language how man discovered the physical world. I plan to re-read it since there is so much information, it is hard to absord in one read. Loved it!
I was very pleased with this book, this book tells you how scientists know what they know. I'd highly recommend this book for any science buff.
This was a really interesting book - different than anything I've ever read before. It was basically a history of science, which sounds kind of boring, but it's told through a series of anecdotes and stories about different scientists (many you've heard of before and many that you haven't). It got slow in a couple spots, but overall it was a good read. I would make it required reading for every high school science student - just because you learn so much about the science itself when you're in school but you don't really learn much about the people and the history of scientific discovery. Plus, the biggest thing I think this book shows is how little we really know. When you're a science student in school, you can get the impression that there's nothing left to discover - that we're so advanced and have so much technology - but we really have only touched the surface in our scientific knowledge in a lot of areas. I have a new appreciation for some of the great scientists in history too, like Newton and Haley - these guys were truly amazing. It's unfathomable how they came up with some of the things they did - and how right on target they were.
In this book,the author covers everything from the beginnings of the universe to the beginnings of the human species. The topics covered in this book: The Universe,The Size or this Earth, Physics,the geography of the Earth,and the beginning of Humans and extiction of certain species. This particular book is different because Bryson uses humor to engage the reader. It is also an interesting book beacause he not only talks about the main topics discussed above but he gives a short biography of many of the scientists who were involved in important discoveries. This is any overall intriguing book because he covers such a variety of topics. This book should be used in schools to teach science.
I wish I had read this when I was young--except it did not exist then! A fascinating read from beginning to end. Mr Bryson combines his wonderful wit with a detailed layperson approach to science and the people who were/are the scientists. This is an excellent starter from which to expand into a detailed examination of most anything. I bought copies for my 40's something sons only to have them tell me "Dad! where have you been? We read this years ago!" Parents with 7 to 10th grade children might have fun reading it together (do they still do this?). Us older people will learn about a lot that has changed since we were students. Great fun. It is nice to write a review about something that deserves it.
I have read the book and listened to it several times on audio book. I am a high school science teacher who would like to share this book with my class, but without a table of contents it is a tedious task to find the correct section on the CD to match the subject at hand. Can you help? Anyone?
This book is unlike any other Bryson book publoshed. It is neither his recollections, encounters or observations -- rather, we are taken on an intellectual tour of the world of science. As a non-scientist who is helping my teenager study many of these topics in her 7th grade science class, I find this a wonderful alternative to the staid prose of the science textbook.
I really like Bill Bryson, and I was really happy when I heard he had a new book coming out. Unlike his previous books, I found this one very easy to put down and forget about. Science is difficult to write about, and I think Bryson should stick to his travel books. It is the slowest book I have read in quite sometime.
Bryson has written the best book ever .
Bill Bryson, a best-selling American author, well known for his humorous books about the English language, science, and travel, set out on a journey to explain science in the way that school textbooks were never able to do; entertain while educating the average person in a relevant, interesting manner. Bryson's book, A Short History of Nearly Everything, encapsulates his journey into 560 pages worth of well thought out, casual text that, at times, is akin to the style of writing in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. This casual style of writing brings about a comprehensive and engaging edge to modern day science and the history that helped shape it. The facts that compile this book are presented in a way that makes them easily understood by people who have little to no background in science, who will most likely gain a deep interest in the field and be inspired to seek out more information after reading such a well written and amusing title. However, as nothing can be entirely perfect, there are numerous factual errors that can not be ignored. As it seems to be a common theme among Bryson's books, there are facts that have been misrepresented and misinterpreted which could have potentially been avoided. It would be expected for editors to check the accuracy of the information in the book, though it is understandable that this would be very difficult to do for a text of this size and scope even when several people are checking every fact's credibility, and when the author himself is not a scientist. Bryson only has an interest in science, which may have contributed to the errors he made. Furthermore, it should be noted that even though the book is very well written and interesting, there are a few areas that feel dull in comparison to the majority of areas that shine with the light of pure charisma.
Its really interesting. Specially about the humans.
Very entertaining and insightful
Although lenghty, it is written clearly and in lay terms creating an updated, modern reference to existence
Bryson has a good sense of humor that makes the book easier to read. He goes more in-depth into those boring science classes you had to suffer through in middle school and gives you this information in a series of events that gives you a good understanding of the short history of nearly everything. The book is very informative but slightly out of date considering that Pluto is no longer considered a planet. However with the slight misinformation, i'd highly recommend reading this book.
This book had me hooked from the moment I picked it up to the moment i set it down. I would recomend this book to anyone who is interested in learning about science in a fun and easy way. I learned everything from quarks to seacows and i believe I would be able to hold a conversation with a science professor on these topics. All in all I would honestly read this book again and I have already given the book to my mom to read.(Hunter J)
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Reading this thread has been a gas, almost as funny as one on "health care reform"
Paint type...there are so many factors in the decision besides costs - like...
new car
old car
plastic car
fiberglass car
aluminum car
show car
daily driver
weekend warrior
trailer queen
Most lacquers were discontinued due to the VOC regulations and the fact the after the early 70.s lacquer was not used in production cars.
I believe in using what the car came with for spot repairs or restoration regardless of your personal preferences.
Old car, show car, trailer queen - PPG Acrylic lacquer hands down is the only thing I would use.
The mil thickness buildup of catalyzed primers and the newer urethanes blur the nice sharp lines on older cars - that's why I don't use it on older cars I do for myself.
I think the reason so many hate lacquer is they don't know how to do bodywork.
I'm old school - learned in the early 80.s - I finish my bodywork out to 220 before primer is ever applied. Spot putty was lacquer based then and used SPARINGLY, not like todays catalyzed primers and spot putty where its used like another layer of bondo.
This 1968 Chevelle was painted in 1980 using PPG Acrylic Lacquer, sat outside nearly it's whole life, was only waxed only 1x-2x a year max, and looked like this until it was sold in 94.
No checking, hazing or cracking, minimal rock chips or scratches = no more than any car I see on the roads today with newer paint systems.
Rambo, the first real words of wisdom in this whole discussion.
I think the point of the original subject of this thread has been lost.
As Rambo pointed out there are sometimes reasons why a person would want to use Lacquer but the subject was about Dupli-Color Lacquer being a good cost alternative to other systems that are available, which it clearly is not, and the claims by some that it is more durable than Lacquer from the past. Sure there are reasons for using Lacquer on some classics but if someone wants to use Dupli-Color expecting to save money and get a durable paint they are going to be sorely disappointed. The warnings in this thread are not aimed at the knowledgeable painter who wants to use Lacquer but it is to cut though the advertising hype and let the beginner know what he is really getting into with Dupli-Color so he can make a better informed choice. Using an example of painting true classics with a classic paint made by a top-of-the-line paint maker that is not pushing it as a cost effective means (especially when it obviously is not) is simply changing the subject!
Bug if you think this thread lacks wisdom then there is little wisdom to your thinking!
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I think this web does have wisdom, but I think there is a lot a chest puffing going on. I never criticize a product or a business unless I have personal experience with it. I doubt any of the naysayers here have tried out the duplicolor product
Well I said my piece about it and yes I have some experience with it (The Dupli-Color) not a lot just sprayed for someone else once, sprayed a Massey Ferguson Tractor (yep that's what the guy bought for it!) and a 1969 Honda motorcycle tank and side covers. The stuff is Lacquer, period! I learned to spray using Lacquer back in the early 70's and used it off and on until it became unavailable, or nearly so. It sprays like Lacquer and dries like Lacquer meaning it needs to be cut and buffed and as thin as the Dupli-Color crap is that means in order to get enough coverage to safely work with the painter is going to have to buy a heck of a lot of those "economical" pre-thinned qts. I don't believe anyone here is saying you can't make Lacquer look good, heck everyone who knows anything about paint knows that when properly done Lacquer can, and often is, show quality in appearance even if the durability is a bit questionable. What the debate here has been about is Dupli-Color being touted as an economical and durable alternative to modern finishes which it clearly is not. The advertising hype lures some who don't know better yet into thinking they can paint really cheap and then once into it they have to buy more and more material until by the time they finish they will have as much or more than they would had they used a better paint. All we have been pointing out is the stuff is not economical and when finished the car will be painted with a Lacquer paint that will take a heck of a lot of work to do right, will chip easily and is likely to fade rather quickly.
I bought a qt of the Duplicolor as a test ( push lawn mower )... few coats of the stuff over some dupli primer.. and it didn't look good. $20 wasted.. probably could have cut and buffed like is really required but. it is a lawn mower . wanted it to look decent with little work... instead, I scuffed it, bought 2 pints of Ace hardeware rust stop ( rustoleum ) in Intl Red ( $4/ pint ) and brushed it on.. now the rustoleum shouldn't be used on cars but, it was designed for equipment,and it is a lawn mower... even now, the mower has been restored/repowered/ in service since late june, the paint is starting to haze and loose color... and I keep it in dry storage when not in use
Matt, that tractor was painted red and as was recommended we shot Dupli-Color clear over the color. The guy thought the clear would bring out the gloss but of course it didn't-just as I warned him before we sprayed it. The clear left some areas looking kind of glossy and others were just plain dull but that is normal for Lacquer and with some sanding and buffing, also normally required, it probably would have looked nice. OK, this is a tractor and not a street driven car so we scuffed it with 600, shot a coat of Nason clear over it and it looks fantastic!
BTW, this tractor is a collector piece and will reside in a garage out of the weather except for when it is towed to farm shows and such. Hey even classic tractors need a little TLC!
I still think the newer Lacquer paints work fine. Dupli-color Well it is what I said it was good for LOL,
If you watch there dupli-color challenge show they had going, it was cool to see what other pro's thought of the paint, not all the comments where good. The paint jobs turned out good to. So what ever works for you!
Rambo I agree with you on the know diffrent than any car with the newer paint systems. They all have there problem and depending on how well it was done, is how well it will last.
Most of the ones here get painted with implement enamel from Tractor Supply and after using both paints I can say for a fact that the implement enamel is a much better paint than the Dupli-Color and is quite a bit cheaper.
I see Chevy is still watching those goofy info-mercials, that's where he heard what the "pros" had to say.
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hey, im a newbie on this site; read the whole thing. WOOOOW!!! i was given a 95 voyager rallye by my bro just b-4 going to florida in march 09 on vaca. the factory hood,roof clear coat had completely peeled and the paint cracked. being 12 hours b-4 going to fl., i quickly sanded the major areas not worrying about appearance and went and bought this "paint shop" stuff. now the reason for me getting it was the repair shop i borrow, the owner ran into a situation where we cannot paint but the city would allow lacquer to be sprayed but not as a business. there was a 15k$ fine IF i was caught spraying any other. as of durability, on the way to florida we put a magnetic c.b. ant on top and the time of contact disrupted the clear coat. i oopsed that myself not giving enough time to set. since then ive been waiting to fix. i googled something about "lacquer vs enamel and a link came up about paint hardness. this link (dont remember which one) said that enamel can go on top of lacquer due to enamel is harder???? is this true. i will check further into the site for more info. tx
Last edited by ampfixer; 11-18-2009 at 01:06 AM.
I guess I will throw my thoughts into this tread as well.I panted my wheeler about 8 months ago with the paint shop stuff and for the price to do a small project,that IS going to get beat up you really cant beat it "IMO" that being said he is a pic of it form not to long ago
I would by "real stuff" to do a full scale rig I caired anything about.
I was Surprises Dup Was pushing This product this hard with DupliColor TV and having pro's showing what they could do with the stuff. If any thing it was interesting to Watch. I have been play around with the paint because it does not stink up the neighbor hood like the newer paints do. So I found that you can take high build lacquer and add it in and double or triple the Dup! Any way fun to experiment.
I guess it just don't take much to surprise you does it?
There is just no convincing you so I am just wasting my time if I try but to anyone else out there thinking about using this crap look at what he just said, "on tv having pro's showing what they can do with the stuff". These so called pro's are being PAID to say what the manufacturer wants them to say and they will say anything the manufacturer tells them to say, anything can be made to look good for a short time. Chevy get real, these guys are PAID ADVERTISERS selling a product and nothing more what do you expect them to say? Good grief man this is a stinking tv commercial hawking a product what kind of creditability is that?
Even more important what do people think about the creditability of a person that would point to a tv "infomercial" as a source of info for the quality of a product?
I guess if it is advertised on tv it must be good!
The T.V. show is something else and just interesting to see what pros are saying and watching then use the products. It not all good comments BTW But you would not know that would you!
It about the lacquer Nothing else. Apparently you can't see that So yeah you are wasting you time in that regard as this post has show not everyone like the stuff. So Get over it all ready.
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My SD's teacher mails my husband the SD's report card. He wants to get her something to reward her... He said high tops, they are over $60. Her report card has some C's on it. Now this is an improvement since last year. My DD gets a trip to get icecream for good grades or something silly. I suggested the new JB book, b/c it's cool but yet it encourages reading. What do you guys do?
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i'm not a big fan of any rewards for report card grades. i think it takes the joy out of school and learning and most importantly, ACCOMPLISHMENT. the grades themselves should be reward enough.
i like your idea of ice cream celebration for end of reporting quarter. let it be tied to the report card coming out at all, and not to whatever grades were achieved.
maybe your husband really just wants to get her the shoes? if so, he should go ahead and get them, but not tied to the report card grades at all.
my opinion. ...
He may want to get her the shoes. He does talk to her. I know her mom is a SAHM of 5 kids, and her SD doesn't work. Maybe he feels bad for her knowing that our DDs have more than enough stuff. I'll ask him what he wants to do. Maybe he was just waiting for an excuse or something. I'll ask him if that is what he wants to do and just tell her something like he saw them in the store and decided she would just look too cute in them or something. Thanks for the response. I'll ask him if she mentioned it to him before.... Thanks.
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I used to take my kids out for dinner at report card time. Good or bad. As long as they made an effort. I'm not into kids being rewarded for doing well in school.
I agree with rewarding for grades, but I understand him wanting to encourage her to keep her grades up somehow. We live 1000s a miles apart and only see her in the summers. We did order the new JB book and preordered a book that she wanted that comes out in November. This way she is still reading, but reading things she is interested in. Thanks for the comments.
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The Super Pool will start out at $292 in 2014.
There is one rule change* for 2014, the rest will stay the same. See below for the rule change*.
$3 per week (Make sure your name is on the sign-up sheet, or you are not eligible.)
Pays out 3/4 of the pot for an ace.
If more than one ace is hit, then they split the 3/4 equally (1/4 always carries over to the next week).
Anyone can participate for the first four weeks, however, you must be a MCCG member to participate by week #5.
You must have been a member last year to be eligible for the carry over money from 2013.
*New Rule - If you sign up for the Super Pool in the middle of the year and the Super Pool is $750 or more, you are only eligible for the weeks you put in (back pay for registration is not allowed). After four weeks of play (on the fifth week), the new Super Pool member will be eligible for the entire pool (including the $750+ if it is still there). This is basically the same as the 'no carry over rule' at the beginning of the year. If you start contributing (consecutive weeks) when it is under $750 you are eligible for the entire pool. If you signed up as a MCCG member in the first four weeks of the year (and did not play much, or at all), then you are eligible for the entire Super Pool, even if it is over $750.
Sorry if the new rule causes any confusion. It will actually probably not affect most of you who regularly play. This rule not only came from me, but from your input as well. If you have any questions or suggestions let me know.
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Earlier tonight, we wrapped up a very exciting Campfire One at which we announced that GWT 2.0 is now officially available. In addition to major improvements in the GWT SDK and the Google Plugin for Eclipse, GWT 2.0 includes a brand new performance analysis tool for Chrome called Speed Tracer.
Introducing Speed Tracer
We hinted at it a few weeks ago, and now it's available: Speed Tracer is a powerful new performance analysis tool for Chrome that gives you unprecedented insight into the inner workings of any web application — not just those created with GWT. Want to know why your web app feels sluggish? Speed Tracer can help you find the answer.
It's fun to see Speed Tracer in action, so here's a quick introductory video...
As an aside, Speed Tracer has a pretty snazzy user interface, eh? It was built with GWT.
Faster development, faster apps
Here's another quick overview video that highlights some of the cool new features in GWT 2.0...
Now let's talk in more detail about what's new in the GWT SDK and the Google Plugin for Eclipse...
Fast edit/refresh with new development mode and draft compiles
- GWT 2.0 greatly improves the edit/refresh cycle by introducing a new method of debugging called development mode that allows you to debug your project with the browser of your choice — yes, your browser, not one dictated by GWT. Development mode relies on a new browser plugin, called the GWT Developer Plugin, that makes it possible for your Java project to create a debugging bridge to any browser into which it is installed. Technical details aside, this new way of debugging really just feels right.
- By moving your debugging experience directly into the browser, development mode makes it possible to use each browser's own unique development tools in combination with Java debugging. That's right, you can now debug your Java source code in Firefox while simultaneously using great tools like Firebug to view DOM structures and experiment with CSS. Ditto for Safari and Inspector, and so on for other browsers.
- The new Google Plugin for Eclipse includes streamlined support for launching and controlling development mode, including a new view that embeds development mode logging messages directly as an Eclipse view. It's also possible to launch development mode manually, which utilizes a Swing-based user interface and can work completely outside the context of Eclipse, including in IDEs other than Eclipse.
- Development mode also supports multi-browser debugging, meaning that you can connect to more than one type of browser from a single debugging session. This dovetails especially well with the ability to leave a development mode session running for an extended period of time, allowing you to simply refresh the browser to see the results of changes to your Java source. It's a great way to quickly ensure that your project works properly across all the major browsers without needing to restart the Java debugger.
- And, finally, development mode works across a network. Why is that cool? Because you can easily test browsers on operating systems different than the one on which you're developing. For example, suppose you are developing in an IDE on Linux. You can, in a single debugging session, connect across the network to see your app running — and debug it — in Internet Explorer on Windows as well as Safari on OS X. Or Chrome on Windows. Or Firefox on OS X. The point is that you can develop using whichever platform you prefer while still debugging on each of the browser/OS combinations that your users may have.
If you do need to compile to JavaScript often — though hopefully development mode will dramatically reduce your need to do so — you can use the GWT compiler's new
-draftCompileflag, which speeds up compiles by skipping optimizations. To be clear, you definitely shouldn't deploy JavaScript compiled that way, but it can be a time saver during non-production continuous builds.
Declarative UI with UiBinder
GWT 2.0 introduces a powerfully productive new way to construct user interface code called UiBinder. UiBinder makes it easy to separate the visual aspects of the UI from its associated application logic. To construct your UI, simply mix HTML and widget elements declaratively in a UiBinder XML template — a
.ui.xmlfile. You can then place application logic in an associated
- UiBinder makes it much easier to involve web designers more directly into the development workflow. For example, developers can copy/paste from HTML mocks provided by a web designer. We've also seen that some web designers like to edit UiBinder XML templates directly and use development mode's fast edit/refresh cycle as they experiment with the UI design. It's a lot more fun to design using interactive widgets rather than passive HTML mocks.
- It isn't as if there's a canned set of widgets that can be used with UiBinder, by the way. Incorporating your own custom widgets into a UiBinder template is exactly the same as using any of the built-in widgets.
UiBinder also helps prevent subtle bugs, such typos in IDs, from making it into production by validating all cross-references between the
.javafiles at compile-time.
- The Google Plugin for Eclipse now provides UiBinder-aware wizards, code completion, red squigglies, and refactoring to help you use UiBinder effectively.
Pixel-perfect visuals with layout panels
- Getting the exact look and feel you want in your UI is something that has traditionally been tricky with HTML and CSS. Prior to GWT 2.0, even GWT's widgets were not able to fully abstract away some of the layout headaches that can occur. However, GWT 2.0 introduces layout panels that actually do make it possible to reliably create the layout you want. The Mail sample application in the GWT SDK has been updated to show you how this works.
- As you'd expect, layout panels work especially well with UiBinder. With only a few lines of XML, you can create really sophisticated layouts, including animated transitions, splitters, and more.
Compiler improvements
- A key new feature in GWT 2.0 is developer-guided code splitting. It's easiest to explain with an analogy: when you're watching a movie online, you definitely don't want to download the whole thing before it starts playing, right? You want the movie to start instantly, and the rest should download incrementally. The same is true for web applications. Starting a web apps shouldn't feel like you're installing something; it should just start instantly when you click on a hyperlink. Code splitting is a very high-leverage tool to help you achieve exactly that.
It may sound complicated, but code splitting is actually easy. Just find a spot in your project where you'd like to chop out some code and use the magic new
GWT.runAsync()method to create a split point. By continuing to add split points wherever it makes sense, you can easily and safely slice and dice your application to ensure that the initial download includes only the bare minimum of code necessary to start. The compiler automatically arranges for additional code fragments to be downloaded later. And, unlike manually splitting JavaScript across
<script>files by hand, the GWT compiler does the hard work of ensuring that all necessary dependencies are downloaded in the correct order automatically. For an example, see the Showcase sample application included in the GWT SDK, which has been updated to demonstrate code splitting.
- In addition to code splitting, there are also fundamental improvements to the compiler's ability to produce JavaScript. With each new release of GWT, we add compiler optimizations to make compiled JavaScript smaller and faster. That's a big benefit if you have existing GWT projects, because you can simply upgrade, recompile, and — poof — your applications start and run more quickly. Indeed, GWT 2.0 includes some high-impact new optimizations, and we have already seen size reductions in compressed JavaScript ranging from 3% up to over 20%.
Optimized resources with ClientBundle
- ClientBundle extends and generalizes the resource-bundling pattern that began with ImageBundle in GWT 1.4. With a simple interface declaration, you can at compile-time optimize and embed resources directly into your compiled JavaScript. For example, by bundling images, you can avoid costly HTTP round-trips. ClientBundle supports bundling a wide variety of resource types, including images, text, and even CSS.
- You heard that right, CSS. CssResource is a powerful new framework for managing styles. It supports a new extended CSS syntax for defining sprites, named constants, scopes, conditional selectors, and more. It also aggressively optimizes your CSS by stripping comments and whitespace and by obfuscating class names.
- ClientBundle is also extensible. You can create your own resource types and hook into the ClientBundle framework to keep resource interfaces coherent and succinct while bundling any sort of resource you can find a use for.
Special Thanks
GWT 2.0 is the culmination of many months of collaborative development, and on behalf of the the entire GWT team, we'd like to thank the WebKit team, with whom we've worked closely to add the low-level instrumentation necessary to make Speed Tracer possible.
And, as always, a huge thanks goes out to the GWT developer community, many of whom have bravely followed the tip of the GWT trunk in svn, trying out new in-progress features and helping find bugs — and even submitting patches to fix them.
Get Started
Believe it or not, we've still only scratched the surface of what's new. As always, GWT is open source and free to use. We hope you'll give GWT 2.0 a spin.
Download Google Web Toolkit 2.0
Happy coding! See you online.


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Zach Parise and Jason Pominville scored in the shootout, lifting the Minnesota Wild to a 2-1 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Wednesday night.
Parise tied the game late in the third period for Minnesota, which has won five of six and is 8-1-2 in its past 11 games. The Wild have been involved in three straight shootouts — winning two.
Mason Raymond scored a power-play goal for Toronto, which has scored just three regulation goals in its last four outings. Jonathan Bernier had 33 saves.
Josh Harding had 19 saves for the Wild in relief of Niklas Backstrom, who was run over by Toronto's Nazem Kadri seven minutes into the game. Kadri's elbow appeared to hit Backstrom in the head.
Kadri was also assessed a match penalty for illegally hitting Mikael Granlund in the head in the second period and likely faces a long suspension.
STARS 3, OILERS 0: Kari Lehtonen stopped 22 shots for his 23rd career shutout to lead Dallas past Edmonton.
Rich Peverley, Antoine Roussel and Tyler Seguin scored for the Stars, who have won four of their last five games.
The Oilers have lost four straight and are 1-8-1 in their past 10 games. Edmonton was also blanked at home for the third consecutive game, setting a new franchise record, and has totaled just two goals in the last five on home ice.
Peverley got the Stars on the scoreboard with 9:15 left in the second period when he knocked in a rebound of his own shot for his fourth goal of the season.
Seguin and Roussel had empty-netters 38 seconds apart in the final minute to seal Dallas' win.


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Solution to today's crossword in the New York Times
Solution to today's SYNDICATED New York Times crossword in all other publications
CROSSWORD SETTER: Gareth Bain
THEME: FISHERMEN … all of the theme answers end with the name of a fish:
18D. *Former 'N Sync member : LANCE BASS
37D. *Bygone Hollywood star known for tough-guy roles : ALDO RAY
3A. *Explorer of the Rockies : ZEBULON PIKE
25A. *Classical guitarist with four Grammys : JULIAN BREAM
COMPLETION TIME: 10m 53s
Today's Wiki-est, Amazonian Googlies
1. Elia ___, "East of Eden" director : KAZAN
Elia Kazan won Oscars for best director in 1948 for "Gentleman's Agreement" and in 1955 for "On The Waterfront". In 1999, he was given an Academy Lifetime Achievement Award. He also directed "East of Eden" which introduced James Dean to movie audiences, and "Splendor in the Grass" which included Warren Beatty in his debut role.
6. ___ Romana : PAX
"Pax Romana" is Latin for "Roman Peace". The term literally described a period in Roman history for the 1st and 2nd centuries AD during which the Roman Empire was ruled by Caesar Augustus. Under his control, expansionist ideas by powerful generals were held in check, and the peoples of foreign lands ruled by the Romans were relatively calm. The peace enjoyed was considered uneasy as Rome governed its conquered territories with an iron fist, and insurrection was likely at all times. The expression "pax Romana" then came to be used in English to describe any situation in which there is an uneasy peace, a peace imposed by a powerful state on a weaker state.
14. Bayer anti-inflammatory : ALEVE
Aleve is a brand name for the anti-inflammatory drug Naproxen sodium.
15. Ginger ___ : ALE
The brand most closely associated with ginger ale is Canada Dry. "Canada Dry Pale Ginger Ale" was first formulated in 1904 by a Canadian chemist called John McLoughlin from Ontario. Prohibition in the United State helped sales of the drink as it was particularly effective in masking the taste of illegally-produced homemade liquor.
16. Sports car extras : T-TOPS
A T-top is a car roof that has removable panels on either side of a rigid bar that runs down the center of the vehicle above the driver.
18. *Former 'N Sync member : LANCE BASS
'N Sync was an American boy band from Orlando, Florida that was formed in 1995. The name of the group came from a comment by the mother of band member Justin Timberlake, who said the boys voices sounded "in sync". But, it's also true that the letters of the name 'N Sync are the last letters of the given names of the five band members:
- Justin Timberlake
- Chris Kirkpatrick
- Joey Fatone
- Lance "Lansten" Bass
- JC Chasez
20. ___ de France : TOUR
Back in the late 1800s, long-distance cycle races were used as promotional events, traditionally to help boost sales of newspapers. These races usually took place around tracks, but in 1902 the backers of the struggling sports publication "L'Auto" decided to stage a race that would take the competitors all around France. That first Tour de France took place in 1903, starting in Paris and passing through Lyon, Marseilles, Bordeaux, Nantes and then back to Paris.
21. Olivia's love in "Twelfth Night" : CESARIO
Viola is the main character in Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night". Viola is shipwrecked at the beginning of the play, in a land ruled by the Duke Orsino. Viola disguises herself as a boy named Cesario and then goes to work for Orsino as a page. Complications ensue ...
William Shakespeare wrote his comedy "Twelfth Night" as a Christmas entertainment (Twelfth Night being the end of the Christmas season).
28. S-shaped molding : OGEE
An ogee is like an s-curve. Specifically it is a curve consisting of two arcs that curve in opposite directions (like an S) but both ends of the curve end up parallel to each other (which is not necessarily true for an S).
29. It might be examined with a loupe : GEM
A loupe is a little magnifying lens that is held in the hand. "Loupe" is the French name for such a device.
31. Macaroni's form : TUBE
In many cases, the name given to a type of pasta comes from its shape. The name macaroni, however, comes from the type of dough used to make the noodle. Here in the US macaroni is usually elbow-shaped tubes, but it doesn't have to be.
32. Li'l ___ (comics guy) : ABNER
"Li'l Abner" was created and drawn by Al Capp for over 43 years starting in 1934. Al Capp stopped producing the strip in 1977, largely due to illness (he died from emphysema two years later). As the strip finished up, he went so far as to apologize to his long-standing fans, saying that he should have stopped 3-4 years earlier as he felt that the quality of his work had gone down in those latter years.
34. Pennsylvania port : ERIE
Erie is a city in the very north of Pennsylvania, right on the southern shore of Lake Erie. The city takes its name from the Erie Native American tribe that resided in the area.
35. ___ gin fizz : SLOE
The ingredients of a Sloe Gin Fizz are sloe gin, lemon juice, sugar, egg white and carbonated water.
A cocktail known as a Fizz includes, by definition, lemon or lime juice and carbonated water. The most popular of the genre is the Gin Fizz, made from 3 parts gin, 2 parts lemon juice, 1 part sugar syrup and 5 parts soda water.
37. *Bygone Hollywood star known for tough-guy roles : ALDO RAY
Aldo Ray started out his Hollywood career playing tough, sexy roles. He played "the other man" in a favorite film of mine, "Pat and Mike" starring Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn. He eventually became typecast in less sexy and more tough-guy parts.
40. Where many Apr. checks are sent : IRS
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) came into being during the Civil War, to raise money to cover war expenses. Prior to the introduction of income tax in 1862, the government was funded by levies on trade and property.
41. L.A. gangster : CRIP
The Crips are a street gang here in the US, with origins in Los Angeles going back to 1969. It is believed that the Crips have up to 35,000 members today across the country, and there is even a presence in the US military, both here and abroad. The main rivals of the Crips are the Bloods.
43. Malarial fever : AGUE
Malaria is a disease passed onto humans by mosquitoes. As a result of the disease a parasite invades human red blood cells and multiplies, causing fever and possibly coma or death. Over 750,000 people died from malaria and 2009, out of 225 million cases reported.
47. Vietnam War's ___ offensive : TET
The Viet Cong was the name of the political and military organization based in South Vietnam that fought the US and South Vietnamese government during the Vietnam War. It was the Viet Cong, as opposed to the North Vietnamese, who launched the famous Tet Offensive in 1968.
48. Follower of Don or San : JUAN
Don Juan is a flighty character who has been featured by a number of authors, poets and composers, including Molière, Byron, and Mozart. In the underlying legend, Don Juan ends up talking to the statue of the dead father of one of his conquests. Don Juan dines with the ghost of the dead man and when shaking the hand of the ghost he is dragged away to hell.
"San Juan" is the Spanish for "Saint John".
49. "MADtv" bit : SKETCH
"MADtv" is a television sketch show that ran for fourteen seasons starting in 1995. The show had nothing to do with the famous "Mad" magazine, although it did license the name and logo from the publication.
51. English novelist Nick who wrote "About a Boy" : HORNBY
The English author Nick Hornby wrote three novels that were adapted into successful movies, namely: "High Fidelity", "About a Boy" and "Fever Pitch".
66. Will Smith title role : ALI
"Ali" is a 2001 biographical movie about Muhammad Ali, with Will Smith in the title role. Among other things, the film is noted for its realistic fight scenes. They were realistic because Smith was really being hit, as hard as his opponents could manage.
67. They follow quarters : SEMIS
Semifinals follow quarterfinals.
3. *Explorer of the Rockies : ZEBULON PIKE
Zebulon Pike was an American Army officer and explorer. On his first expedition for the military he discovered a mountain in the Rockies that had been dubbed El Capitan by Spanish settlers. It was later renamed to Pike's Peaks in honor of the explorer.
5. Flanders of "The Simpsons" : NED
Ned Flanders lives next door to Homer on TV's "The Simpsons". Ned is voiced by the actor Harry Shearer, and has been around since the very first episode, aired on Fox in 1989.
8. TV heroine in a leather skirt : XENA
Lucy Lawless is a New Zealand actress (and singer), famous for playing the title role in TV's "Xena: Warrior Princess". Lawless first played the Xena character in a made-for-TV movie called "Hercules and the Amazon Women", and later reprised the role in a series called "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys". Xena became so popular that a series was built around her character, with Lawless retained for the role.
10. Small craft of W.W. II : PT BOATS
PT Boats were motor torpedo boats: small, speedy vessels that used torpedoes as their primary weapon against large surface ships. The "PT" stands for "Patrol Torpedo". The most famous PT Boats that served during WWII were probably PT-41, which carried General Douglas MacArthur and his family from Corregidor to Mindanao in his escape from the Philippines, and PT-109, commanded by Lieutenant John F. Kennedy, future President of the United States.
11. Mauna ___ : LOA
Mauna Loa on the "big island" of Hawaii is the largest volcano on the planet (in terms of volume, not height). The name "Mauna Loa" is Hawaiian for "Long Mountain".
19. "The Charge of the Light Brigade" war zone : CRIMEA
Considering that the Crimea was the site of the Charge of the Light Brigade as well as the Yalta conference towards the end of World War II, I am ashamed to say that until recently I could not pinpoint the Crimea on a map. I'm even more ashamed to say that I didn't realize it is an extremely distinctively shaped peninsula, lying south of the Ukraine and jutting out into the Black Sea. Well, now I know …
The disastrous "Charge of the Light Brigade" took place in Balaclava in the Crimea on October 25th 1854, during the Crimean War. Commander of the British Army that day was Lord Raglan, and in overall command of the Calvary unit was the Earl of Lucan. Under Lucan, in charge of the Light Brigade was the Earl of Cardigan. Raglan sent a Captain Nolan to Lucan with orders to attack "the guns". When Lucan asked Nolan which guns, it appears that Nolan indicated the wrong ones. Lucan then instructed Cardigan to lead the Light Cavalry in a charge on the designated guns, which he dutifully did. As the charge started, Nolan noted the error and rode onto the field to intercept the Light Brigade, but was killed by an artillery shell. The charge continued into an overwhelming artillery battery ("into the Valley of Death" to use Tennyson's famous words), causing the loss of over 2/3 of the mounted brigade, a loss of 400 horses and 250 men killed or wounded, for no military purpose at all. Cardigan survived, left the field of battle immediately and boarded his yacht in Balaclava Harbor and had a champagne lunch. Lucan was made a member of the Order of the Bath the following year, and Raglan was promoted to Field Marshal ...
21. Country music's David Allan ___ : COE
David Allan Coe is a so-called "outlaw" country music singer, a performer who spent much of his life behind bars (the penitentiary type!). One the more famous songs that he wrote is "Take This Job and Shove It".
23. ___ Cruz (name on old Mexican maps) : VERA
The port city of Veracruz in Mexico was originally called Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz, which translates as "rich village of the true cross". The "rich" referred to the large amount of gold that the Spanish found in the area.
25. *Classical guitarist with four Grammys : JULIAN BREAM
Julian Bream is an English player of the classical guitar and the lute.
27. Ed in Reagan's cabinet : MEESE
Ed Meese was born in Oakland, California just down the road here, and spent 24 years in the office of the Treasurer of Alameda County, the county in which I live. After military service he earned himself a law degree at UC Berkeley. Later, as Chief of Staff for President Reagan, he was instrumental in a famous decision to crack down on student protesters at Berkeley which resulted in one protester dying and a two-week occupation of the city by the California National Guard.
29. Tile-setter's bucketful : GROUT
Grout is a thin mortar used to fill the joints between ceramic tiles. The name "grout" comes from the Old English word "gruta", the word for a "coarse porridge" (due to the similarity in appearance of the two). Interestingly, the word "grits" comes from the same root. Grout ... grits ... makes sense ...
30. Land west of England : EIRE
Erin is an anglicized version of "Eire", the Irish word for Ireland (actually it corresponds to "Eirinn", the dative case of "Eire").
33. Sharon's predecessor as Israeli P.M. : BARAK
Ehud Barak served as Prime Minister of Israel from 1999 to 2001. He left office after he called a special election for Prime Minister and lost the vote to Ariel Sharon. He resigned from the Knesset and took an advisory job with the US company Electronic Data Systems (EDS), and did some security related work with a private equity company. In 2007, Barak took over leadership of Israel's Labor Party, and is now the country's Minister of Defense.
39. "___ Song" (Elton John hit) : YOUR
"Your Song" is another wonderful composition by Elton John. It was released in 1970, and was John's first hit in the charts.
48. Lil ___ (rapper who popularized crunk) : JON
Lil Jon is a rapper, with the real name Jonathan Mortimer Smith. That's all I know …
51. Official language of India : HINDI
Hindi is the official language of India, and is closely related to the associated Hindustani language Urdu. The group of people who speak Hindi-Urdu is the fourth largest language group in the world (after Mandarin, Spanish and English).
52. One-named New Age musician : YANNI
Yanni is a remarkable Greek musician, very successful in the world of New Age music. What I find remarkable is that he is a self-taught musician.
54. Mrs. 55-Down on "The Avengers" : EMMA
55. See 54-Down : PEEL
"The Avengers" was must-see television when I was growing up. It was a sixties comedy spy series set in England during the days of the Cold War. The hero was John Steed, played ably by Patrick McNee. He had various female partners as the series progressed, the first of which was Cathy Gale, played by Honor Blackman (who also played Pussy Galore in "Goldfinger"). Following Ms. Gale was Emma Peel played by the wonderful Diana Rigg.
57. Itar-___ news agency : TASS
TASS is the abbreviation used for the former news agency, the Telegraph Association of the Soviet Union (Telegrafnoye Agentstvo Sovetskovo Soyuza). When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1992, the Moscow-based agency's scope changed, along with its name. It is now known as the Information Telegraph Agency of Russia (ITAR-TASS).
58. Budget add-ons : FAT
Anything that's not needed in a budget, but is added anyway, that's sometimes called "fat".
59. "Rocks" : ICE
"Rocks, ice", both slang terms for diamonds.
60. Religious sch. : SEM
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1. Elia ___, "East of Eden" director : KAZAN
6. ___ Romana : PAX
14. Bayer anti-inflammatory : ALEVE
15. Ginger ___ : ALE
16. Sports car extras : T-TOPS
17. Like a boxer before a fight : ROBED
18. *Former 'N Sync member : LANCE BASS
20. ___ de France : TOUR
21. Olivia's love in "Twelfth Night" : CESARIO
22. Ice cream specification : FLAVOR
24. Stuck : IN A JAM
28. S-shaped molding : OGEE
29. It might be examined with a loupe : GEM
31. Macaroni's form : TUBE
32. Li'l ___ (comics guy) : ABNER
34. Pennsylvania port : ERIE
35. ___ gin fizz : SLOE
36. Limit, as a salary : CAP
37. *Bygone Hollywood star known for tough-guy roles : ALDO RAY
40. Where many Apr. checks are sent : IRS
41. L.A. gangster : CRIP
43. Malarial fever : AGUE
44. Spout forth : ORATE
46. Assume : TAKE
47. Vietnam War's ___ offensive : TET
48. Follower of Don or San : JUAN
49. "MADtv" bit : SKETCH
51. English novelist Nick who wrote "About a Boy" : HORNBY
53. Not wake until noon, say : SLEEP IN
56. Group that rushes : FRAT
58. What the answers to the four starred clues are? : FISHERMEN
61. Chariot race locale : ARENA
62. ___ spades : ACE OF
63. Size between sm. and lg. : MED
64. ___ list : DEAN'S
65. Do the devil's work? : TEMPT
66. Will Smith title role : ALI
67. They follow quarters : SEMIS
1. Child's racing vehicle : KART
2. Cold : ALOOF
3. *Explorer of the Rockies : ZEBULON PIKE
4. C-rated : AVERAGE
5. Flanders of "The Simpsons" : NED
6. More ghostlike : PALER
7. "Sadly ..." : ALAS
8. TV heroine in a leather skirt : XENA
9. Dined at home : ATE IN
10. Small craft of W.W. II : PT BOATS
11. Mauna ___ : LOA
12. Increases : UPS
13. Frying-butter sound : SSS
19. "The Charge of the Light Brigade" war zone : CRIMEA
21. Country music's David Allan ___ : COE
23. ___ Cruz (name on old Mexican maps) : VERA
25. *Classical guitarist with four Grammys : JULIAN BREAM
26. Stop in midstream : ABORT
27. Ed in Reagan's cabinet : MEESE
29. Tile-setter's bucketful : GROUT
30. Land west of England : EIRE
32. Bank holdings: Abbr. : ACCTS
33. Sharon's predecessor as Israeli P.M. : BARAK
34. Helpful kind of piece for a jigsaw puzzle doer : EDGE
38. Barber's supply : LATHER
39. "___ Song" (Elton John hit) : YOUR
42. Lab supply source? : PET SHOP
45. Roamed without restriction : RAN FREE
48. Lil ___ (rapper who popularized crunk) : JON
50. Like some chins : CLEFT
51. Official language of India : HINDI
52. One-named New Age musician : YANNI
54. Mrs. 55-Down on "The Avengers" : EMMA
55. See 54-Down : PEEL
57. Itar-___ news agency : TASS
58. Budget add-ons : FAT
59. "Rocks" : ICE
60. Religious sch. : SEM
61. Commercials : ADS
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March 1st
- Pink all new Ladies night at One80 $5 Grey Goose cocktails 10PM
- Florida Strawberry Festival in Plant City... It's a little far but sounds fun! Entertainment line-up, competitive contests, youth events, free on-grounds entertainment, thrilling rides, and of course delicious strawberries - Goes on now until March 10th
- The 101st Central Florida Fair brings family fun and entertainment to Orlando's Central Florida Fairgrounds- Now until March 10th
March 2nd
-Color in Motion 5k Downtown- Orange Ave- 9AM run through an explosion of vibrant colors with your friends
- Princess Project kicks off 11AM
- Dropkick Murphy's at the House of Blues 8pm
- Demi Lovato Performing for Universal Mardi Gras- Included with Park Admission!
March 3rd
-34th annual St. Patrick's Day Parade- Park Avenue Shopping Center- This is the only St. Patrick's Day parade in Central Florida so wear some green and gather your family and friends to enjoy the annual Irish festivities. Feature Irish music and step-dancing All Starts at 2PM
-Mickey Mouse and friends rock the world with the stars from The Little Mermaid, Aladdin and Disney/Pixar's Toy Story - 2:30PM UCF Arena