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Though Adam Seger isn't based in Milwaukee, we feel his influence in the cocktails served at iPic in Glendale. In addition to creating drinks for a wide range of venues, Seger is also a cocktail entrepreneur that has founded (or co-founded) Hum Spirits, Balsam Spirits and Rate Tea Syrups & Shrubberies. At the moment, Seger - an advanced sommelier and certified culinary professional - is working on a book about cocktails. We asked him about his experience, his work and some of his favorite Milwaukee places.
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Have you had any swabs taken from the discharge?
Has your partner been tested and treated for anything?
yes swabs were taken, i forgot to add that sorry, i have been tested for clamidia, and gonnohrea, my partner has not been tested/treated for anything, however as i said, this was an issue before my partner, however my privious partner also had same symptoms after frequent sexual intercourse.
i was told from swabs that is was both bacterial vaginosis and thrush, however neither treatments work :(
Thanks for the information. The simple solution to this is that your partner is acting as a 'reservoir' for infection and although things improve when you have treatment then he reinfects you when you have intercourse.
I would start by repeating the thrush treatment with both of you using a single oral fluconazole capsule and canesten cream externally for 7 days.
Abstain from intercourse in the meantime. After that your symptoms should be better and you should be able to return to intercourse. You should also ask your doctor to test your urine for glucose to see if that is predisposing you to infection.
If the discharge continues with thin white discharge then have a repeat swab for vaginosis, this would then require a repeat flagyl but is considered not to affect partners.
sorry also forgot to mention, i have tried that.
both of us using canesten duo.
tricky? :P
If both of you have tried the canesten duo pack then your next step is to repeat the swabs, and get your partner swabbed too. Then have a longer course of fluconazole. Either 50mg daily for a week or so, or a monthly fluconazole for a few months.
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BRAZEN burglars carried a 42 inch television through a town centre before dumping it in an alleyway.
Two men are believed to have carried to TV, a Sky box and a laptop from a burgled house in Beacon Hill Avenue, Harwich, down Barrack Lane, Main Road and Park Road, Dovercourt.
Police believe they may also have wandered through the Mayor's Gardens.
The items were found by a member of the public in an alleyway between Park Road and Grafton Road.
It is thought raiders broke in between 4.30pm and 7pm on Monday, February 11.
Anyone who saw a large flat screen TV and other items being carried through the town should contact DS Tim Coyles at Clacton CID on 101 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.
Two men aged 28 and 37, and both from Harwich, were arrested on suspicion of burglary and were still in custody on Monday night.


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Dean McDermott's dirt bike accident in June landed him in intensive care, and he says the experience made him realize what's important in life – wife Tori Spelling and their two kids, Liam, 3, and Stella, 2. Not only that, but it also made him want to add to their family as soon as possible.
I think it did tip the scales. I would say that I love my family so much, let's expand it! Plus, we make beautiful babies!
There may be a catch, however – sources say that Tori isn't too eager to gain the pregnancy weight back again. "[Tori is] so weight conscious that she doesn't want to have another child for fear of blowing up like a balloon. She's afraid that she'll gain too much pregnancy weight and not be able to lose it."


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Scott Tinker has traveled the globe from the Middle East to the Western United States to share his expertise on oil and gas. He was a panelist at the first International Petroleum Technology Conference and Exhibition (IPTC) on the session Developing People: Education, Training, and Cultural Diversity November 22 in Doha, Qatar. The IPTC was sponsored by AAPG, EAGE, SEG, and SPE and featured more than 250 technical papers
delivered to 2,500 guests from nearly 50 countries. Scott will deliver a talk on "The Future of Global Energy" [Abstract] to the Nevada Petroleum Society December 2 in Reno. 11/28/05
The Center for Energy Economics hosted the Sixth Pan American Regional Forum of the Society of International Gas Tanker and Terminal Operators (SIGTTO) November 17 at CEE's offices in Sugar Land. On November 16, head of CEE, Michelle Foss, presented "Commercial Frameworks for Tight Gas Resources, A Worldwide Tour" at BP's Tight Gas Symposium
held in Sugar Land. Michelle also presented at the Women's Global Leadership Conference in Energy and Technology held November 3 in Houston. Her talk, "The Role of Energy in Propelling Sustainable Development in Emerging Economies," was attended by more than 200 delegates from industry and government. [more on CEE's Web site] 11/23/05
Frank Brown presented a talk at the November 17 luncheon meeting of the Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists held in San Antonio. His talk, "Application of 3-D Seismic and Sequence Stratigraphy in Maturely Drilled Areas, Example from the Eastern Shelf of the West Texas Basin," [Abstract] was based on work carried out between 1957 and 1990. 11/22/05
Scott Tinker gave the keynote lunch address at the Society of Petroleum Engineers
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Steve Ruppel received the best paper award from the West Texas Geological Society for his oral
presentation at the WTGS 2004 Symposium. The paper, co-authored by Rebecca Jones, was titled "Lower
Leonardian sequence stratigraphy and reservoir development: Fullerton Clear Fork field, Permian Basin." [Abstract] The award was
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study of the reservoir succession funded by the Department of Energy, ExxonMobil, and The University of
Texas System. 11/17/05
Members of the Deep Shelf Gas consortium view core at the HRC, while Shinichi Sakurai looks on.
On November 8, 2005, a project review meeting of the Bureau's Deep Shelf Gas Consortium was held at the Houston Research Center. Bob Loucks, Angela McDonnell, Shinichi Sakurai, and Shirley Dutton addressed 36 attendees on the status of the program and results. Topics
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Hongliu Zeng was the invited speaker at the Schlumberger/WesternGeco's Geophysical Interpretation Group meeting held in Houston on November 9. Hongliu presented "Seismic Sedimentology for High-Resolution Reservoir Imaging." Hongliu's presentation, on video conference, was broadcast to Schlumberger offices worldwide. 11/10/05
Bureau alum Bill Galloway, currently with the Institute for Geophysics, spoke at the November 11 Friday seminar on "Gulf Basin Depositional Synthesis (GBDS) Project: Plan, Products, and Results." [Abstract] As always, the seminar was held in the Main Conference Room at 8:30 a.m. 11/7/05
On Tuesday, October 25, Beverly Blakeney DeJarnett was the invited speaker at the monthly meeting of the Houston Gem and Mineral Society. Her presentation was titled "The University of Texas at Austin, Bureau of Economic Geology: Core, Sample, and Log Repositories." [PDF]
On October 27, Beverly co-hosted a field trip at the Houston Research Center for science teachers attending the annual Conference for the Advancement of Science Teaching (CAST). She was joined by members of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG). Participants enjoyed hearing how every rock has a story to tell and how seismic helps geoscientists to "read those pages" buried miles below the surface. 11/2/05
See and hear Lesli Wood's presentation, "Geomorphology of the Mars Northeast Holden Delta" on the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Search and Discovery Website. The video is accompanied by the PowerPoint version of Lesli's talk, which was delivered at the Sedimentation on Mars session during the 2005 AAPG Annual Convention. 11/2/05
Gerald Buckley, AAPG Datapages' Product Manager, was the Bureau's Friday Seminar speaker this week. He spoke at 8:30 a.m. in the Main Conference Room on "http://Search.Datapages.com", [Abstract] a review of AAPG Datapages' new redesigned Web interface, including practical how-to's
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I like itI used to have this fragrance a while ago. I liked how it smelled like baby powder and it lasted forever. I never really got any compliments on this fragrance so I stopped buying it. Pretty good deal, as sometimes Avon has this fragrance for five dollars and that's how much I got for. — 5 years, 6 months agoyestfl | 239 reviews
Young and softThis is another one of those scents I wore in junior high. It's soft and feminine. I don't really wear it today but if you want a little youth today or if you are still young, this is a good choice. — 9 years, 3 months agoleo1999 | 678 reviews
For the young at heart.Have loved this fragrance for years, I have had women tell me that it is a girls scent much too young, but men have told me it reminds them of their youth and I rather have a man be reminded of his youth than the fact that he is old! — 9 years, 6 months agothedragonslady | 483 reviews
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nice soft scentthis is perfect for those who want a soft feminine everyday scent that isn't overpowering. It's a classic that's been around since I was a girl. — 9 years, 1 month agoMiss_Vicki | 271 reviews
wonderful scentthis has a light powder scent. not strong and is the only scent my husband has ever said he likes. — 9 years agojinn34 | 6 reviews
Too babyishI thought this scent would fit me well -- kind of innocent and youthful. Strangely it smelled a lot like baby powder, which I guess is a scent a lot of people like (otherwise there wouldn't be so many deodorants with the same scent). It wasn't for me at all. I'd consider giving this to a pre-teen girl, but these days they would probably sneer at me for thinking they'd like it. — 9 years, 6 months agoAgrajag | 7 reviews
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Consumer confidence on the rise
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Pinellas County residents have something more to be thankful for this holiday season as unemployment continues its downward swing.
State officials reported Nov. 16 that October had the lowest unemployment rate since December 2008. Floridas not seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for the month was 8.2 percent, compared to 8.6 percent in September and 10.2 percent in October 2011.
The U.S. not seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 7.5 percent in October, 7.6 percent in September and 8.5 percent in October 2011.
Pinellas Countys unemployment rate continues to decline, dropping to 7.9 percent in October, compared to 8.4 percent in last month and 10.2 percent in October 2011. Octobers labor force of 452,393 was similar to the previous month of 452,280 and slightly above October 2011 at 445,598.
The most telling difference is the number of unemployed: 35,840 in October 2012 compared to 45,252 in 2011, and 38,076 in September 2012. Statewide in October of this year, 768,000 people were unemployed and 12,258,000 in the United States.
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater Metro Statistical Area continues to hold the No. 2 spot, behind Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, for most over-the-year job growth of the 23 metro areas. The local MSA was one of 22 in the state with job gains this year. The state reports that October was the 27th consecutive month that number of jobs in Florida has increased.
The industry reporting the most job gains is professional and business services, followed by trade, transportation and utilities; private education and health services; leisure and hospitality; and financial activities.
Total government accounted for the most job losses, followed by construction, other services, information and manufacturing.
Pinellas County was 39th on the list of 67 counties ranked by percent of unemployment. Hendry County ranked No. 1 with an unemployment rate of 12.6 percent and Monroe ranked last with 4.7 percent.
The local MSA at 8.2 percent unemployment tied with Miami-Ft. Lauderdale-Pompano Beach MSA for the No. 14 rank. Last month Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater reported an 8.8 percent unemployment rate. Unemployment in October 2011 was 10.5 percent.
For statistical purposes, Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater MSA includes Hernando, Hillsborough, Pasco and Pinellas counties.
Pinellas County had the lowest unemployment of the four counties. Hernando County was in a tie with Okeechobee County for the No. 7 rank with an unemployment rate of 9.8 percent. Pasco County with 9.1 percent unemployment tied with Taylor and Marion County for the No. 14 rank. Hillsborough ranks at No. 38 with unemployment at 8 percent.
Economic growth on the rise
Floridians are looking for positively toward the future, according to Octobers University of Floridas Consumer Confidence Index report. More people are moving to Florida rather than moving away.
Median house prices up 7.4 percent over the year, and the backlog of existing homes on the market was down by 40 percent from September 2011.
The state is exporting more than it imports, resulting in a trade surplus of more than $24 billion.
The economy is clearly in recovery, said Chris McCarty, director of the Consumer Confidence Index survey.
McCarty tempers the optimism by saying continued recovery depends on what happens in Congress and how it deals with the impending fiscal cliff and extensions of federal tax cuts currently in place.
If Congress and the White House cannot agree on a solution, the full impact of the fiscal cliff will almost certainly result in a recession at a time when the country and Florida, are recovering from the biggest recession in history, McCarty said.
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NHL fines Rangers goalie Lundqvist $5,000
Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist fined $5,000 by the NHL for squirting Penguins center Sidney Crosby with his water bottle during Game 6.
The incident occurred at the second period's conclusion. During a scrum in front of New York's net, Lundqvist squirted Crosby with water for an extended period of time.
Twenty-four hours earlier, Bruins right wing Shawn Thornton was fined $2,820.52 for squirting water from the bench into the face of Canadiens defenseman P.K. Subban. Lundqvist's fine was steeper because his base salary is considerably higher than Thornton's.
The Penguins and Rangers play Game 7 of their series on Tuesday at Consol Energy Center.


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MOBILE butty vans sell greasy sausages, curled up bacon and burnt toast, right? Wrong – or not at Joanne Haworth's designer gaff.
Her 'On The Kerb' van is a work of art. Sleek and black, it is adorned with a beautiful Victorian image of little girls in brightly-coloured hats eating their lunches from the kerbside.
Another rather unsusual aspect is the menu. She sells such high-end comestibles as home-made watercress and rocket soup with a roll for £1.50, Spanish Panina with chorizo, tortilla and salsa for £3.50 and even a Skinny Caesar Salad with low calorie dressing. Talk about gourmet on the go!
But skinny salad? For truckers? "Absolutely," says Joanne, 42. "I've got one who's lost about a stone because he's swapped burgers and sausages for skinny salads." So much for Yorkie man.
Joanne, a former online marketer from Padiham, has a glamorous assistant in her niece 19-year-old Lilie Eatough. The posh butty babes must appear as tasty as bacon and eggs – that's locally-reared and free-range, of course – on a cold Monday morning to the army of hungry truckers.
"Well, I did get a couple of traveller boys trying to steal Lilie. They said, 'Can we grab her. She'd look really good in my caravan and she's obviously used to working in one.' We also get lots of lorry drivers beeping at us as they go past.
"We've also got 247 followers on Facebook, but I think that's more to check out our specials. My cottage pie flies out. In fact, some of our regulars will do detours because they know they will get a decent meal with us.
"Some people can be a bit cheeky though. I had one lady who wanted to take a picture of the van. I said 'yes, sure' and she told me to get out of the pic. I think she wanted to copy the idea. Then I've got the family from Blackpool who always ask for a hot dog when they know we don't sell them. I love all our customers though.
"I enjoy my job. And I think I'm supposed to do this because I was pulling the trailer one day, shortly after my dad died, and it suddenly became unhitched and rolled off. It could have been a disaster but it gently rolled into a car park and parked itself up. Think dad was looking after me that day."
The girls are based in a layby in Altham village six days a week and also cater for Padiham Cricket Club.
Maggie and Brian Butterfield are a double act. In fact, customers to Maggie's, based in Clayton Business Park, Clayton-le-Moors for the past 14 years, love nothing better than watching the couple having a playful ding-dong.
"It's very stressful living and working with my wife," says Brian, 67, with a big grin. "It does work, but we fall out and wind each other up. He spends all his time outside the van, " Maggie, 57, chips in. "You know before we got married he used to take me to the Isle of Man and buy me chocolates. As soon as we were married 37 years ago all that stopped. He doesn't even remember my birthday which is ridiculous because his is on April 2nd and mine is April Fool's Day."
Brian met Maggie when he was a taxi driver and she – wait for it – worked in a burger bar near the Star and Garter at Blackburn Station. It was love at first fry-up.
Maggie did become manageress of Kentucky Fried Chicken for several years, but had always wanted to have her own place. A mobile cafe was the perfect solution.
"We set up, gave out some cards, but business was really poor. So after a week we were ready to pack it in and come home. Then we started getting all these phone calls from people asking where we were. They'd heard we were there, but we'd scarpered. So we had to get back and tell them we'd had a problem with the van."
"Maggie does the cooking and I'm the security," says Brian. Although, the van did get broken into recently despite CCTV in the compoud where it's secured.
"The cameras are on 24/6 and they only saw a cat. We think it must have been a cat burglar. It's an interesting life and it gets you up in the morning and there are always plenty of people to talk to.
"It's hard in summer and winter. When it's hot it's boiling. I got the food probe out and it was 109 degrees in the van. When it's cold in winter it's freezing and there is ice on the sides.
"You do get some customers who ask you for strange things. One asks if we can take the yolk out of his eggs. Another likes it really runny. One little girl gets chips, beans, cheese, tomatoes, fried onions, salad cream and gravy once a week.
"I don't know where she puts it all because she's only about 4ft 9ins. We love what we do, but we do need to get away from it all and chill out. So we spend our weekends at our static caravan in Blackpool."


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The Kirkland Fire Department, Eastside Hazmat Team and four other fire departments responded to a hazmat call during the early morning on Saturday in Kirkland.
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Introducing the inspiring new documentary "Point Four"
Directed by Mel Tewahade
Screening is 4:30pm on April 22 2012 at Royal Cinema 608 College St Toronto
"Point Four" highlights the history of Haramaya University, an agricultural technical campus in Ethiopia established in 1956 in collaboration with the U.S. government and with assistance from Oklahoma State University. Formerly known as Alemaya College, the institution was officially inaugurated by Emperor Haile elassie on January 16, 1958.
The film borrows its name from President Harry Truman's 1949 inaugural address in which he announced a technical assistance program for developing countries that later became known as "The Point Four Program." The Point Four program resulted in America's close partnership with Ethiopia in helping to establish some of the country's technical higher-education institutions.
"The documentary is about a US foreign policy that was successfully implemented in Ethiopia," said director Mel Tewahade. "The Alemaya College was established with the help of Oklahoma State University. They provided the expertise and Ethiopia provided the funds." In 1951 representatives of the United States and the Ethiopian government signed an agreement which promised cooperation in the exchange of technical knowledge and skill necessary to contribute to the development of economic resources and productive capacities of Ethiopia. In 1952 the two countries signed an agreement to start building the Imperial Ethiopian College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts. It was decided that Dr. Henry Bennett, the then president of Oklahoma State University, head up a plan to assist Ethiopia with the creation of an agricultural college. With the support of members of the Point Four team and Haile Selassie himself, the project began in 1952.
A site in the province of Harar was chosen. Oklahoma State University began by establishing physical plants and bringing in staff to run academic and research programs at the then known Imperial Ethiopia College of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts. By the time the program came to an end in 1968, there were 300 highly trained American citizens that lived and worked in Ethiopia to build this university.
The film features interviews with Americans who were involved with the program in Ethiopia as well as Ethiopian graduates from the school. "My inspiration to make the movie is to honor all the great people including my own father who worked hard to establish this agricultural college," said Tewahade. "As a kid I traveled to Alemaya from our house in Harar and I have a pleasant memory of the place."
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Sofy is a 6-month-old, 25-pound Basenji mix who's spayed, microchipped, house- and crate-trained and vaccinated. Sofy, currently in a foster home, won't get much larger when full grown. She has been to the dog park where she enjoyed playing with all the dogs.
San Antonio Humane Society
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Aliyah is a 2-year-old, spayed Chihuahua mix who was transferred to SAHS from Animal Care Services. Aliyah loves to take walks outside and explore her surroundings.
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Meadow is a 3-year-old, spayed cat who was brought to SAHS by her previous owner who could no longer care for her. She's a very friendly girl who enjoys meeting new people.
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Leo is a 1-year-old, 14-pound Schnauzer mix who's neutered, microchipped and vaccinated. He's sweet-tempered, well-mannered, energetic and jam packed full of love. Leo is very friendly and walks nicely on a leash.
Odie is a 1-year-old, 18-pound Dachshund/terrier mix who's neutered, microchipped and vaccinated. He's playful, loving and brimming with excitement at the chance of meeting you.
Marcus is a 6-month-old, 6-pound domestic shorthair mix who's neutered, microchipped and vaccinated. He's extremely friendly and loves playing with balls of string, toys that move and other felines. He'll also do well in a home with children.
Cressie Animal Refuge & Enrichment (Care)
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Reese is a 3-year-old, 50-pound hound mix who's neutered, vaccinated, microchipped, housebroken and kennel-trained. He does well on a leash and is fine around other dogs.
Prissy is a 4-year-old, 60-pound German shepherd/Lab mix who's spayed, vaccinated, microchipped and housetrained. She's calm, laidback, friendly and gets along well with other dogs.
Blue Angel German Shepherd Rescue
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Channel, a German shepherd, is less than 2 years old and is 75 pounds. She's spayed, vaccinated and microchipped. Channel was rescued from death row. She is extremely sweet, playful and active


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NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT – Legendary acting coach Tanya Berezin once told an interviewer that what makes an actor great is the ability "to throw light … in some sort of inexplicable way" on "what makes people tick and live and thrive and what makes people not." James Gandolfini, who died last week in Italy at 51, possessed that rare gift. Every moment he spent on the screen illuminated the human condition.
He was best known, of course, as star of "The Sopranos," which ran on HBO from 1999 to 2007, and was recently dubbed by the Writers Guild of America as the best-written show in the history of television. And plenty of "Sopranos" fans will tell you that the heart of the show was the sparkle of the writing. Others will cite the brilliance of the central irony, or even the precious settings, particularly the lovely upscale ordinariness of Tony and Carmela Soprano's suburban New Jersey home, which to this day is said to attract busloads of the curious.
But as fast as the plot twists and snappy one-liners whirled, "The Sopranos" was ultimately an actors' show, and the hub around which it all revolved was Gandolfini. Although it would be silly to compare "The Sopranos" to "The Godfather" movies, the quietly confident faithful husbands of the Coppola epics are in some ways less interesting as character studies than Gandolfini's angst-ridden, anxiety-driven, adulterous mob boss — the cruel yet eerily sympathetic antihero who paved the way for Walter White of "Breaking Bad" and even "Mad Men's" Don Draper.
I was a "Sopranos" early adopter — one of those who had more or less abandoned television as a source of serious entertainment, only to have my expectations confounded when the show premiered in January 1999. There was a sense of amazement — this is television? — along with a swift and profound admiration for the undisputed leader of the ensemble cast. Gandolfini was a large man, but it was his acting, not his bulk, that filled the frame.
His sense of timing was impeccable. There's an episode in season 2 where his oft-bumbling nephew, Christopher Moltisanti, upset about a new appointment in the family, grumbles, "Guess I didn't get the memo." Tony snaps out his retort with perfect disdain: "Would you have read it if you got one?"
And the other side of Tony's personality, in a season 6 episode, when his cousin mentions in passing the killing of a pet dog when they were children. Tony, moments earlier bantering and crude, is for an instant is overcome by a fugitive emotion and, before recovering himself, mumbles with a child's helplessness: "Father told me he took him to live on a farm."
He could snap on a dime from one mood to the next, and was practically an ensemble cast all by himself. There was the earnest family man who wept upon realizing that his son had inherited his anxiety disorder, and the wildly selfish philanderer who went so far as to beat a friend savagely for taking up with his former mistress. There was the live-and-let-live libertarian who resisted enormous pressure to execute one of his captains for being gay, and the instinctive racist who did all he could to drive a black boyfriend out of his daughter Meadow's life.
Sometimes he was several things at once, as in the first season, when he is the doting father who takes Meadow to visit colleges in Maine, discovers a former criminal colleague now in witness protection, takes time out to murder him with his bare hands — and still picks up his daughter on schedule.
Gandolfini is often described as an unknown prior to "The Sopranos." This is not entirely true. His star turn was presaged by a number of minor but memorable film roles. Two in particular give us a glimpse of the different facets of screen personality that would later be combined in Tony Soprano.
First was Gandolfini's delicious comic performance in Barry Sonnenfeld's underappreciated 1995 film "Get Shorty." Gandolfini played Bear, an ominous, hulking Hollywood stuntman-turned- bodyguard, who tries to intimidate a Miami gangster played by John Travolta. Both tussles are brief — they last only seconds — and both times Bear comes out on the short end. The humor is in Gandolfini's remarkable sequence of facial expressions, from scary to pained to acquiescence, just like that.
That same year Gandolfini had appeared in the late Tony Scott's "Crimson Tide," a thriller about a mutiny aboard an U.S. nuclear submarine. Gandolfini played Lieutenant Bobby Dougherty, who leads the faction of the divided crew supporting the decision of the captain (Gene Hackman) to obey an ambiguous message and fire nuclear missiles at the Soviet Union. Hackman is stern and dutiful, but Gandolfini, as he contemplates blowing the enemy to bits, seems fiendishly eager, even gleeful.
Like any television show, "The Sopranos" was at times uneven. The third season episode "Pine Barrens," often cited by critics as one of the best in the entire series, always struck me as a bit of a bore — most likely because the focus is on two members of Tony's gang stumbling around in the frozen woods searching for a Russian mobster, with Gandolfini himself relegated to a tiny part.
Without Gandolfini, "The Sopranos" would have been a very different show. Edie Falco, for instance, was consistently outstanding as his wife, Carmela, but one suspects that the talented Lorraine Bracco, originally offered the role before she became the psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi instead, would have fit just as smoothly. And Bracco herself seemed increasingly marginalized in the show's later seasons, as creator David Chase's original semi-comic conception — a gangster seeking treatment for an anxiety disorder — slowly yielded to its own back story of mafia power struggles and familial melodrama.
There are finer actors, of course. But there are few who strike us, from first glimpse, as so much bigger than the screen that contains them. Hugh Laurie comes to mind: But for eight seasons of "House" he played but a single mood, albeit with relentless precision.
Gandolfini had the harder job, projecting a broad and fast-changing sweep of emotion week after week.
"The Sopranos" helped return quality to television drama, and James Gandolfini was central to that accomplishment. One is reminded of how Louis Menand once described the mission of Pauline Kael, longtime film critic for the New Yorker: "making popular entertainment respectable to people whose education told them that popular entertainment is not art."
Gandolfini probably didn't imagine that the show whose cast he led would have the same effect. But his legacy will remain a cascade of popular television programs that people who search for quality aren't embarrassed about to watch, debate and blog about.
After "The Sopranos" ended its run, Gandolfini returned to the big screen. His parts were mostly small — think "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3" and "Zero Dark Thirty" — but oh, how he filled them! I'm not so foolish as to suggest that we will never see his like again. So let me simply say that this fan is going to miss him.
Stephen L. Carter is a Bloomberg View columnist and a professor of law at Yale University. He is the author of "The Violence of Peace: America's Wars in the Age of Obama," and the novel "The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln." Follow him on Twitter at @StepCarter.


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Tasty Reuben Soup Recipe
- 4 cans (14-1/2 ounces each) chicken broth
- 4 cups shredded cabbage
- 2 cups uncooked medium egg noodles
- 1 pound fully cooked kielbasa, halved and cut into 1-inch slices
- 1/2 cup chopped onion
- 1 teaspoon caraway seeds
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 cup (4 ounces) shredded Swiss cheese
- 1. In a large saucepan, combine the first seven ingredients; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 15 minutes or until cabbage and noodles are tender. Sprinkle with cheese. Yield: 10 servings (2-1/2 quarts).
Nutritional Facts
1 cup: 125 calories, 5g fat (0 saturated fat), 41mg cholesterol, 455mg sodium, 9g carbohydrate (0 sugars, 0 fiber), 12g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 1 meat, 1 vegetable, 1/2 starch.
Reviews for Tasty Reuben Soup
Average Rating
"My 10 year old grandson loves soup, and so does the whole family."
"This recipe has such a unique taste. My whole family has enjoyed it; in fact we have added it to our winter list of favorites."
"This was wonderful--will definitely make again. The only thing I did differently was brown the onion and some minced garlic in a little butter, then deglazed with some white wine before adding the broth. Fabulous and so quick."
"A really delicious flavor, easy to make and a hit in our small group!"
"Wonderful flavor!"
"Served with cornbread, this has become one of my family's favorite cold weather dishes. Using pre-shreded cabbage has made it a snap to prepare."
"this soup is very good and filling"


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I had been eagerly anticipating my favorite holiday, Zweibelmas, which, of course, falls every Sept. 21. But my Zweibelmas spirit was dampened when I discovered that people in my own employ were ignorant of this glorious event!
Some weeks ago, I was being briefed on my September schedule by my young scribe, Braintree. Nothing too unusual was planned: my monthly turn-over on the 5th, a coma from the 7th to the 12th, and so on. But when Braintree came to the 21st, he mentioned nothing about the Zweibelmas. I asked him what kind of events were planned for it, and he stared at me blankly. My own scribe, unaware of the Zweibelmas! Interrogations of other young servants garnered the same reaction.
Swift action had to be taken. I summoned my faithful man-servant Standish and my advisor Beavers. I told them that Zweibelmas' reputation had lapsed and needed restoration. Beavers gave me the same mystified look as Braintree, but Standish, who knows all about the Zweibelmas, was quick with a suggestion.
"Well, sir, every Christmas on the television, there are cartoons about Father Christmas and sentient snow-men and the like," Standish said. "This helps promote the notion of Christmas for the children. Perhaps a cartoon featuring the Fairy Zweibel-Child, beloved symbol of Zweibelmas, is in order."
Zoetrope-like trifles on the electrical motion-image box? Is that the level to which the sacred Zweibelmas had to sink to gain back its appreciation? So be it, I sighed, and I had Beavers arrange a visual interpretation of the Zweibelmas.
The finished product was appalling. It showed the Fairy Zweibel-Child befriending a lonely donkey and horrid elf who wants to be a dentist, and taking them to the enchanted Valley of Zweibel, where every-body sings unbearable songs in a high register. What does any of that have to do with Zweibelmas? Heresy!
O Fairy Zweibel-Child, forgive these vulgar blasphemers! But do come around on Zweibelmas-Eve and deliver candy and toys to my-self, as I keep Zweibelmas in my heart always!
Oh, and I been have asked to say that A Holly Jolly Zweibelmas will air on the "U.P.N. Net-work" during Zweibelmas-week, and that you should consult your local listings for the air-date and time, what-ever all that means.


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