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You launch your ecommerce site, you've been marketing it, you're selling a few products and eventually, you notice something. Nearly all of your orders average out to the same, low amount. Your customers checkout with the same quantity of products and the same order total every time.
Your store starts to look like it's plateauing and your revenue begins to look the same every month. One remedy is to get more traffic and thus, more orders on your website. But for some store owners, that can mean more work and more spending.
Alternatively, and sometimes a better option, is to get your customers to checkout with more products in their cart.
In this blog post, I'm going to share five actionable strategies that can help increase the average order value of your store and get your customers to checkout with larger carts.
First, What Is an Average Order Value?
Your store's average order value is the average amount of money each customer ends up spending per transaction. You can calculate your average order value using this simple formula:
Total revenue / number of orders = average order value
For instance, if your store's total revenue of $1700 was split between 100 orders, your average order value would be $17. You can also find helpful apps to calculate this for you in the Shopify App Store.
To increase your average order value, you'll need to convince customers to add more items to their cart before checking out. Let's talk about how you can encourage that.
1. Product Recommendations
Occasionally, customers are so focused on buying one of your products that they neglect to browse around to find more. This leads to smaller carts, and as a result, smaller average order values.
To help solve this problem, try adding product recommendations to your product or checkout page. By profiling popular products, or products that other customers purchased in addition to what's currently in the user's cart, you can not only minimize friction before checkout, but also increase average order values.
To illustrate this point, here's Barberry Coast pairing the aftershave balm in my cart with a sample pack of other scents. This is a great technique, especially if I wind up liking a new scent and decide to order more down the road.
Consider using phrasing on your website such as "Complete the look" (for fashion and apparel websites) or "Customers also bought" when suggesting more products for your customers.
Check out the App Store to add the product recommendation feature seen above.
2. Display Relevant Accessories or Complementary Products
Much like the previous strategy, this tip involves adding product suggestions to your product page. In this case, instead of simply suggesting other popular items from your store, try hand-picking products that pair well with the item in the user's cart, such as accessories or add-ons. For example, a mouse for a laptop, or batteries for a remote control.
This is essentially cross-selling and upselling, which you can learn more about in our blog post about upselling and cross-selling.
Check out the Shopify App Store to find apps to help you do this easily in your store.
3. Set Order Minimums for Coupon/Free Shipping/Free Gift
Increasing your average order value can also be accomplished by providing an incentive when customers spend a minimum amount on your store. Consider setting a minimum order amount for free shipping - it's really easy to do within Shopify and very effective at raising average order values.
According to research from the University of Florida, the average order value for a store with "Free shipping for orders > $75" was $64.68 compared to an average order of $46.04 when that same store offered "Free shipping for everyone".
Other examples of minimum order incentives are offering a coupon or free gift when your customer meets the purchase amount threshold. For example, giving a 15% discount on orders over $75 or a free t-shirt on all orders over $100.
Be sure to also use a promotion bar on your website to make it obvious that you're offering a minimum order incentive.
If you want to start setting up order minimum incentives, you can do so easily within Shopify or use an app from the Shopify App Store.
4. Set up a Loyalty Program
If your store sells consumable products (something customers need to re-purchase, like razors or shaving cream), consider setting up a rewards or loyalty program. Loyalty programs act as a retention strategy and help forge relationships between customers and a brand, as well as helping you increase the average order value of your store.
When there's an incentive for your customers to earn points under your loyalty program, you can expect to see your average order value increase significantly. Smile.io found that stores that add rewards for orders 15%-20% above the store's average can get customers to spend more.
It might seem counter-intuitive to offer a program that provides discounts (which cuts into your revenue) but a study from the Center for Retail Management from Northwestern University, according to BigDoor, found that loyal customers can make up to 70% of total sales. Additionally, a survey by TechnologyAdvice found that customers are more likely to shop at stores that offer loyalty programs.
Creating a loyalty program for your store is easier than you might expect. Check out the Shopify App Store to find great apps that can help.
5. Bundle Products or Create Packages
If you want customers to checkout with more items, try creating product bundles that cost less than if the same items were purchased individually. By bundling products, you're effectively increasing the perceived transaction value. This is the satisfaction customers get from taking advantage of a deal and according to a study done by the Faculty of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, this can help increase sales.
For example, recommend another complementary product and offer a discount at checkout like SafeSleeve does with their laptop and smartphone cases.
You can also empower your customers to create their own bundles by allowing for custom products or packages that let customers choose which features or add-ons they want in their order.
For example, Endeavour allows their customers to build their own surfboard and choose additional features, customizations and add-ons that increase the order total.
This also works for custom bundles, allowing your customer to choose which products or accessories they want in their package before checkout. For example, allowing customers to build their own first aid kit or allowing customers to build their own makeup kit. Instead of selling the components of these kits individually, encourage your customers to create their own bundle and thus increase your average order value.
If you're interested in adding product bundles or custom bundles to your store, check out the Shopify App Store.
Now it's your turn. You only need to implement one of these strategies to start noticing an increase in the average order value of your store. Again, check the Shopify App Store to quickly start applying these strategies to your store.
If you have any questions about increasing your store's average order value or have feedback regarding this blog post, leave a comment below. I engage and respond to everyone.
About The Author
Corey Ferreira is a passionate entrepreneur, coconut water lover and content creator at Shopify.
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Preparing for Deployment
Deployments are stressful, but careful preparation will allow your family to work together to minimize any additional stress the separation may cause. Here are five items every military family should discuss when preparing for deployment.
Power of Attorney
A power of attorney allows another person to conduct business on your behalf. Service members often need to leave a power of attorney or powers of attorneys with their spouse or a designated family member, so they can take care of certain business situations while the service member is away. There are two types of powers of attorney – a general power of attorney and a specific power of attorney. A power of attorney can allow a person you choose to take care of a minor child, make healthcare decisions, sell or purchase a home or car, work with the housing office, or arrange a PCS move. If you are in doubt about which kind of power of attorney is needed for your family's situation, check with your JAG office.
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Service members who are single parents of minor children, or who are responsible for a disabled family member, are required to have a family care plan in place to designate and document a plan for their child's care, during a service member's absence. Family care plans can also be useful in the case of an emergency while a service member is away. Find out more about a formal DoD family care plan. An informal family care plan can be developed at home. Make sure your designated caretaker is aware of the plan.
Discuss your family budget. Make sure you are aware of all bills that need to be paid each month. Be sure the bills and bank accounts have both your name and your spouse's name in the accounts. Know how to access and read a Leave and Earnings Statement (LES) and be aware of any extra pays or allowances that may appear on your LES during a deployment. Discuss how any additional deployment dollars may be spent or saved. Understanding your family budget and agreeing on money issues will ease some of your stress during a deployment.
Ensure each adult member in your house has a current will. JAG is available to assist family members and service members in creating wills, so contact your local JAG office if you need any help.
Last Wishes
This may sound grim, but it is necessary to discuss any last wishes your service member may have prior to a deployment. Tragedy can strike at any time, but communication is often more difficult during deployment. Now is the time to make challenging decisions regarding life support, funeral wishes, and preferred burial location. This uncomfortable conversation will prevent a spouse from making grief-stricken decisions during a tragic time. It is also important for close friends and family to know your service member is deployed and that they might be called on in a time of need.
For a detailed deployment preparedness list, visit Military OneSource and review their Deployment Resources.
Deployment can be an overwhelming time when you feel you have more questions then you know what to do with. Additional resources are available through your family center, Military OneSource, and your service member's Command. You will often find the most important resources during a deployment are other military families! Be sure you find and connect with other families who are also experiencing a deployment. This network of support will prove to be invaluable. Here are six resources to help you find deployment related information and support.
- Military OneSource is a web based resource provided by the Department of Defense. MilitaryOneSource provides information for nearly every phase of military life, to include a wide variety of deployment resources and information. The site can also direct you to free non-medical counseling.
- Zero To Three is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting infants and toddlers. Zero To Three has great military family resources for children and parents of young children. Visit their website to order books and learn tips to help your family through deployment and reunion.
- The American Red Cross can help you communicate with your deployed service member in an emergency situation, connect you with community resources, and provide resiliency training.
- Family Service Centers — Be sure to visit your local Army Community Service Center, Fleet and Family Support Center, Airmen and Family Readiness Center, Marine Corps Community Services, or Work Life Office. These Centers provide classes about resiliency and military life, support group information, and local installation information for you and your family.
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'Jurassic Park' Inspires Attempt to Create World's First Dino-Chicken
Montana State University paleontologist Jack Horner served as a consultant on Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park, but apparently he didn't learn anything during his time on the set because the doctor is hard at work trying to create his own modern dinosaur hybrid. Can anything good come of this?
Okay, so it's not quite as dramatic as it sounds. Horner isn't working to revive the T. rex by cloning DNA samples; he's instead working on genetically reengineering the common chicken so it returns to its dinosaur roots. See? It's not that scary…
Horner tells Hollywood.com, "The whole idea of making a dinosaur came from [Crichton's] original idea. I kept thinking, 'There's got to be a way to do this.'"
The scientist's first attempts were clearly inspired by Crichton's work – he tried to extract DNA from a T. rex specimen, but when that didn't pan out he approached the problem from a new direction: reverse-engineering chicken DNA to bring back traits long since eliminated through the process of evolution.
To achieve this, Horner and his team are hard at work modifying chicken eggs in hopes of breeding a new dinosaur. Since birds still contain dinosaur DNA, the whole process mostly involves locating which gene was responsible for the ancient chicken's long tail, three-fingered hands, mouth and other dinosaur parts. Once discovered, the theory is that the scientists will be able to "reactivate" those genes and breed chickens that look far more like dinosaurs than the birds we see on the farm. Can dino-nuggets be far behind? Will all foods now suddenly taste like dinosaur? I hope science is prepared to deal with these questions.
As the site points out, the goal isn't as far-fetched as it might seem. Scientists have already figured out how to activate a gene that gives chickens alligator teeth. How terrifying is that?
Naturally, all of this brings up a ton of ethical questions about man playing God and a potential dino-chicken apocalypse that will make the zombie apocalypse look like a stroll through Jurassic Park before all hell breaks loose. Horner tells us not to worry:
"Part of the project is to show people that it's not dangerous and it's not a bad thing... I've never heard anybody say, 'Well, I don't know, should we have made a Chihuahua?'" I think I can speak for all of us when I say "no, we probably shouldn't have ever made the Chihuahua. There are enough yippy dogs in the world naturally without us adding to the pool without mankind creating new breeds."
Horner remains convinced that dino-chickens will pose no threat to humanity, and he can be very persuasive when making that argument. Of course, Richard Attenborough was very reassuring, too – and look how that turned out.
I'm going to be cautiously optimistic about this whole project until Horner actually makes his first major breakthrough. That being said, rest assured that I'll be amongst the first people bowing down to our new dino-chicken overlords at the earliest sign of trouble. Life really is stranger than fiction...
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Our Readers' Picks in a Range of Categories
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We heard that there was some sort of other election in 2012, but the one that was most far-ranging in decision-making was when our readers were asked to pick the Tops of the Town.
A self-addressed postage-paid ballot was published in our October 2012 issue. The ballot also appeared on our website. More than 150 were returned.
Winners listed had to receive a certain cluster of votes based on the overall number of votes cast. In categories where the votes were too dispersed to show a clear choice the category was eliminated. Second and third places were included whenever the vote totals fell within the cluster. Wherever there seemed to be an overt case of ballot stuffing, the votes were eliminated. (Fortunately, there was not much of that.) The end product is our annual list of readers' picks. Some win every year; some are new to the list. All reflect what's on the mind of our readers. To us they are all Tops of the Town.
Some say he's a fox. Others say he's a saint. He has certainly created a lot of buzz. And, no doubt, he's a towering figure.
Tom Benson is all of those things. Best known as the owner of the Saints, Benson doubled his professional holdings in 2012 by buying the NBA's Hornets (and most likely saving the franchise for the city). Both the Saints and the Hornets now play within the shadow of the renamed Benson Tower and, if you missed these stories, you can hear about them on WVUE-TV, aka FOX 8, which Benson also owns.
No local businessperson has ever amassed such a collection of high-profile properties as Benson has. To buy is one thing, to do something worthy with them is another, and here, too, Benson's organization has had a solid reputation for management.
Not all was rosy for Benson in 2012. Allegations of a bounty scandal rocked the Saints organization. Severe sanctions were issued though sports commissioners don't have the same burden of proof that the court system mandates. The debate continues.
No one blamed Benson though, and in February Benson and NFL commissioner Rodger Goodell will at some point stand side by side as New Orleans hosts Super Bowl XLVII, a tourism plum that wouldn't be possible were it not for the Saints franchise.
Less visible but even more saintly is the elegant cancer recovery center that Benson and his wife Gale funded at the Ochsner hospital main campus. (We have known people who have used its services and who are high in its praise.)
Tom Benson is a local guy who worked his way to the top and along the way provided further proof that genius can rise from the back streets of New Orleans. This city made Tom Benson, and, in many ways, he's remaking the city.
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text: I am to be inducted into the Missouri Waterfowler's Hall of Fame, located in Mound City on Saturday. This is my second induction into an outdoor hall of fame as a writer, and the first in The National Fresh Water Fishing HOF. These generous inductions always make me reflect on the journey. My conclusion is, I don't deserve these honors, but there are many who do. For example, my grandfather and dad lost sleep on November 14, 1965 to take their son and grandson on his first goose hunt. I was 12-years old and loved to read outdoor magazines. I was especially drawn to the waterfowl hunting stories and wanted to try it. Dad and grandpa were both hard workers who deserved their sleep. I shot my first geese on that hunt and both men lost sleep several more mornings while making me happy. My mother and grandmother both woke up extremely early in the morning and cooked us breakfast. They knew how excited I was for these hunts and wanted to make it special. Grandma knew I was plucking geese after the first hunt and came downstairs to help me. Today we just skin out the breasts, but back then we left the skin on and believe me, plucking a goose is real work! Jay Robinson was not related to me, but a neighbor. The older man had been a B-17 mechanic in WWII, stationed in England. That made him extremely interesting; especially when I noticed him unloading two Canada geese he had shot. I ran down for a closer look and told him how much I loved hunting geese. After that he taught me how to blow the brand new Faulk's goose call that was under my Christmas tree and we enjoyed several hunts together. Morgan Burleson was another neighbor and not a waterfowl hunter, but he gave me all of his outdoor magazines. I had Outdoor Life, Field & Stream, Sports Afield, Argosy and True magazines to read cover to cover each month. I even read the advertisements. By 1971, I left my parent's house and met a butcher named Fred Simmerman at my local grocery store who lived by Sugar Lake, just south of St. Joseph, Mo. He was a top waterfowl hunter with a water blind, and at least 60 duck and goose floating decoys. I gratefully accepted his invitation for a hunt, and that day discovered bluebills and other diving ducks that decoyed well. We shot a couple of mallards, too. About this time, I got the bright idea that if I loved to hunt and fish, why not get paid for it. So I started my outdoor writing career with a story for the Missouri Conservationist. I received a polite letter stating that they could not use my story, but to keep on writing. "You can write," the editor generously stated the same words a high school teacher, Verna Quirin, had told me when I graduated from Park Hill High School near Kansas City. I enrolled in classes at Maple Woods Community College that fall, and soon had published my first newspaper article in the Kansas City Star and my first magazine article in Fur-Fish-Game Magazine. Shortly after that I met Dr. Andrew Cline and his wife Lola at the Kansas City Sports Show. They had a small publication, The Sportsman's Gazette, and I walked up and boldly told them, "Think I could write for you." That was where my career really started. The Clines taught me how to write for publications and that was about 36 years ago. Various outdoor companies have shared their resources with me on waterfowl hunts. The Avery Company has especially been generous with their resources in giving me everything required to write about different type of waterfowl hunting around the United States. I have been blessed to hunt or fish with the nation's biggest named hunters and fishermen throughout my career. But my friends, Joe Laukemper, Paul Knick, Danny Guyer, Bud Burrows and many others who are top hunters gave me numerous hunts and lots of laughs in the duck or goose blinds. So how are you affecting that girl or boy that you take hunting or fishing? I just hope those who are gone will somehow be standing beside me the night I accept my plaque for the Missouri Waterfowler's Hall of Fame. They are being inducted too, at least in my heart! -Kenneth L. Kieser is a local outdoor enthusiast.


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Las Vegas Contemporary Dance Theater opened its arms to the community for its fifth season and debuted new company members during two free concerts on Feb. 10 and 11. "An Evening of Dance" and "An Afternoon of Dance," performed at the West Las Vegas Library Theatre on Lake Mead Boulevard, were also appropriately timed for African American History Month, a fitting gesture from the diverse company.
The show itself encompassed a breadth of genres and ended on an audience favorite, a dynamic piece by artistic director Bernard Gaddis called "Ebony Suites." Think of Twyla Tharp's contemporary ballets, rife with strong characters and intertwining story lines — and fabulous dancing, of course.
Christina Taylor, a new member of LVCDT, began the piece with a soulful and dignified solo to "Grandma's Hands," a rich and heartfelt track. Eddie Otero continued the tale with "Ain't no Sunshine," something of a signature piece for him, which was evident in the enthusiastic response from the audience.
Marie-Joe Tabet and Christopher McKenzie, spicy and silky-smooth in equal measure, brought a lovely fire to the number. The two toyed with each other, sidling up and sauntering away in an elaborate and engaging emotional display. McKenzie, another new LVCDT dancer, performed Gaddis' former role well, capitalizing on the Ailey-esque choreography with his viscous smoothness.
In an antithesis to the dramatic duet, Antoine Banks-Sullivan and Erin Christiansen-Moya swooped in with a candy-sweet pas de deux to the timeless "At Last." The light-hearted chemistry and polished choreography suited the couple well. "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag," a raucous and grooving good time performed by the whole "Ebony" gang, wrapped up the suite. (The cast changed slightly between the two shows, with Roman Pantoja, Nadjana Chandra and Lindsey Hashiguchi swinging in for Saturday's program.)
"Dreamtime," a cerebral piece by Elisa Monte, explored the aboriginal Australian idea that spirits vacate people's bodies at night. The number used mirroring and counterpoint judiciously to create a nice sense of duality, and the fluid staging suited the dynamic movement. Tabet, emanating an air of regality, stood out as alacritous and commanding. Intriguingly lit from the side, "Dreamtime" was a contemporary step right up LVCDT's alley.
"Bata" began the show with percussive style and a red-lit stage. West African undulations twined around Horton lines, underscoring the strong energy and swaying hips of the company. Some of the unison choreography was a little questionable, but the audience members made it clear that this didn't bother them a whit.
Overall, the pacing of the show was decent, although two intermissions made the program a bit lengthy. Taylor, McKenzie and Caine Keenan, newcomers to the company, fit in well with the other dancers and brought unique artistic vibes of their own. Gaddis made an appearance in a button-down and slacks for this show and explained that he'll be dancing less with the company, although his high-spirited introduction of his dancers made it clear that his commitment level to the company hasn't shifted much.
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European research probe Huygens studies the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon Titan – Germany and Italy are key European players in a complex mission
Darmstadt/Cologne - European space exploration has achieved a unique success with the successful descent of the European research probe Huygens through the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon Titan. Today, 14 January 2005, marks the first occasion in the history of spaceflight on which scientific exploration of a body in the outer Solar System has been successfully accomplished in situ. The descent through the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan took around two hours, and during this time the European Huygens probe transmitted scientific data and images as planned. As it descended, the probe was slowed down first by the heat shield and then by the parachute before touching down on the cold surface of the Saturnian satellite.The probe was not designed to survive on the surface of Titan or for a soft landing, but to investigate Titan's atmosphere. On 25 December 2004, Huygens successfully separated from its American mother probe Cassini. The German Aerospace Centre (DLR) is a major participant in the US/European Cassini-Huygens mission.
Germany plays a role in a wide range of experiments
There are six scientific experiments on board the European Space Agency's atmospheric probe Huygens, while the NASA mother probe Cassini, whose antennae transmit data from the Huygens probe back to Earth, is equipped with another twelve. A number of scientific institutions in Germany are involved in the Huygens mission, including the University of Cologne, the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, the Technical University of Dresden and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Katlenburg-Lindau. The University of Bonn is a leading participant in the Doppler Wind Experiment (DWE).
Huygens is the first probe designed and built in Europe to venture into the outer Solar System. The main contractor was French aerospace group Aerospatiale, while the individual components were put together at EADS Astrium GmbH in Ottobrunn, Germany.
German scientific contribution to American mothership Cassini
The NASA Cassini probe is also equipped with experiments from other German institutions. The most important German contribution comes courtesy of the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, which is responsible for six experiments on the Cassini mother probe. Using the Cosmic Dust Analyzer (CDA) developed in Germany, the MPI measures the interplanetary and cosmic dust in the Saturn system, an experiment in which the DLR is also involved. The experiment was built at the DLR and tested to ensure that it was compatible with an outer space environment.
The University of Cologne and the Technical University of Brunswick are observing the magnetic fields using the Dual Technique Magnetometer or MAG. The Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Katlenburg-Lindau is measuring neutral and charged particles within Saturn's magnetosphere (Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer or INMS), and in a second experiment is studying Saturn's magnetosphere and its interaction with the solar wind (Magnetospheric Imaging Experiment or MIMI). In a third experiment, the MPS is measuring the ultraviolet spectra of the atmospheres of Saturn and Titan, the rings and the solid surfaces of the moons of the Saturn system (Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph or UVIS). The DLR is also involved in this experiment. The University of Wuppertal (Germany) is using the Composite Infrared Spectrometer (CIRS) to gather infrared data about the surfaces, rings and atmospheres in the Saturn system. The DLR in Berlin-Adlershof is producing spectral mapping of the surface structures on Saturn's moons with the Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS), while the Freie Universität Berlin is creating high-resolution multi-spectrum images of Saturn and its rings and moons with the Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS). With this camera experiment, the DLR's Institute for Planetary Research in Berlin is providing assistance in the planning of close fly-bys of the moons, in cartography and photogrammetry.
Germany and Italy foremost European participants in Cassini-Huygens mission
Germany's financial contribution to the US/European Cassini-Huygens mission amounts to around €115 million, while the total European costs of the Huygens atmospheric probe come to approximately €400 million. The total costs of the complete NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens mission amount to approximately $3.3 billion. In Europe, Germany together with Italy is making the largest financial and scientific contribution to the mission.
Saturn's moon Titan: more a planet than a moon
The Saturnian moon Titan – the ringed planet's largest satellite with a diameter of 5150 kilometres – is a highly complex body in the Solar System. It is larger than the planet Pluto and in many ways more resembles a planet than a moon. It is the only moon in our planetary system with a dense atmosphere, which is one of the reasons why it is of such interest to scientists. Like the atmosphere of Earth, Titan's atmosphere is mainly composed of the gas nitrogen. This is combined with approximately 3% methane and about 1% argon. In 1980 and 1981, the two US Voyager probes had already detected the presence of methane-related hydrocarbons. Because of its enormous size and the low temperatures experienced within the Saturn system, Titan has been able to retain an atmosphere of its own in which organic molecules may even have formed from this methane through photochemical and radiation-induced processes. Scientists are therefore on the lookout for the building blocks of life. Because Titan also has an unusual, young and possibly active surface (in the form of ice volcanoes or 'cryovolcanoes'), the images taken by the descent camera on the Huygens probe may go some way towards puzzling out the geology of this mysterious moon.
Dense atmosphere has always hindered research on Saturn's largest moon Titan
Titan is the only moon in the Solar System with an atmosphere, this dense covering of gas being the reason why, during earlier fly-bys, Voyager 1 (1980) and Voyager 2 (1981) were not able to photograph the surface. In April 1998, water was discovered for the first time with the aid of the European infrared telescope ISO. This observation, particularly when taken together with the most recent measurements taken by the instruments on Cassini during the two close fly-bys on 26 October and 13 December 2004, suggests that we may well discover a varied mix of organic molecules both on Titan and in its atmosphere during the experiments performed by the Huygens probe on 14 January 2005. These molecules could be similar to the composition of the Earth's atmosphere at a very early stage, before the beginnings of life.


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We've got a great show planned, but there are always some surprises. You just never know how many Brendan Shanahans will be getting out of the Volkswagen Beetle.
Did you hear this, folks? The NHL suspended Coyotes thug Raffi Torres indefinitely for that dirty, flying hit on Marian Hossa. The Blackhawks forward had to be stretchered off the ice, but there was no penalty on the play. Torres' hearing will be Friday, which gives the NHL time to, you know, find an employee who saw something.
Did you catch Raffi's comments? He called his flying hit "a hockey play.'' In the same way, I guess, that Michael Barrett was making "a baseball play'' on A.J. Pierzynski's face.
Are you like me, kids? Do you like video? Well, here's a treat: Shanahan, the NHL sheriff, delivers explanations of his supplemental discipline on video. Yeah, it's a cool thing. I hear the playoff collection can be viewed at funnyordie.com
Gary "Giggles'' Bettman, the proprietor of the NHL Yuk-Yuk Lounge, said nobody looks at this stuff as extensively as Shanahan. Whoa, that's saying something. Normally when you devote that much time to something and still come off badly, you've at least been governor of Illinois.
Let me take a poll of our audience here: Raise your hand if you also expect Shanahan to suspend Hossa for targeting Torres' flying shoulder with his vulnerable chin.
We'll have to wait until after Friday to find out how severely Torres is punished, but Hawks fans can only hope his suspension is bigger than Shanahan's clown shoes.
The Coyotes, of course, see it differently. No, wait, that's wrong. Then Coyotes didn't see it at all. That's what they all claimed after the game. That goes for the coach, Dave Tippett. Let's see now, the play involved two of the biggest guys on the ice, it happened right in front of the benches, and there was almost nobody else around. But Tippett didn't see it. Well, if this coaching thing doesn't work out, he's on the right track for becoming a referee.
Have you heard this Tippett guy, kids? He sounds a little concussed, if you ask me. He apparently watched a video of the play and apparently didn't see Torres leave his skates and fly into Hossa's chin. I'm not sure how you miss something so obvious, but I'm thinking, if the guy has no idea what he's seeing and makes no sense, he's got a shot at Shanahan's job, too.
But wait. There's more. This Tippett guy said the whole thing is a big deal because the Chicago media is screaming about an injury to a Chicago player. Get a load of this: He said all media protect the local teams. Really, Tippett guy? Really? I believe Lovie Smith wants a word with you. Same goes for Jim Hendry. Jerry Krause. Milton Bradley. Dusty Baker's 2004 Cubs. And a whole bunch of McCaskeys.
Hard to believe, kids, but that wasn't even the dumbest thing out of this Tippett guy's mouth. You know what's coming, don't you? Yep, the whole "you never played the game'' stupidity. That's when a coach or player hits bottom. That's the white flag in any argument. This Tippett guy said if you've never played hockey, you can't understand about stopping and turning and blah, blah, blah. Yes. Well. I guess if you did play the game, then you're the only one qualified to come off like a blithering idiot trying to justify a Neanderthal's moronic behavior that brings shame and disgrace to the team, the league and the game.
Oh, and here's something else for you: The NHL is running the Coyotes. Man, we haven't seen such a combined conflict of interest and confluence of stupid since TribCo ran the Cubs.
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The grounds crew removed the tarp from the field around 9 a.m. CT, but an hour later it was snowing again and the tarp was back on the field, ABC7's Rafer Weigel tweeted.
But by 11:30, about an hour prior to the scheduled start, the tarp was gone, the sun was shining and the field was chalked.
Jeff Samardzija was the starting pitcher for the Cubs and A.J. Burnett for the Pittsburgh Pirates on Monday as two teams with long streaks of futility meet on opening day. The Cubs haven't won a World Series since 1908 and the Pirates haven't had a winning season since 1992.
After losing 101 games last season, the Cubs will look for Samardzija to get them off to a better start in the second year of the Theo Epstein-Jed Hoyer administration.
This will be the first opening-day start for Samardzija, who went 9-13 with a 3.81 ERA in 28 games last year in his first full season as a starting pitcher.
As a junior wide receiver at Notre Dame in 2005, Samardzija caught three passes for 34 yards and one touchdown to help the Fighting Irish beat Pitt 42-21 in Charlie Weis' first game as coach. Samardzija went on to become a consensus All-America that year.
"That was a big moment for me, scoring my first college touchdown, but football seems so long ago now," Samardzija said. "I'm a baseball player."
Though he likely would have been a high-round pick in the NFL draft, Samardzija opted to play professional baseball and has established himself with the Cubs in the past two seasons. He went 8-4 with a 2.97 ERA in 75 relief appearances in 2011 before making the conversion to the rotation.
"He was one of the bright spots for us last year," Cubs manager Dale Sveum said. "He really did a great of moving into the rotation and being very consistent. He is one of the players we feel we can build around."
Burnett will be making his first opening-day start of his 15-year career. He was the undisputed ace during his first season with the Pirates last year, going 16-10 with a 3.51 ERA in 31 starts after being acquired from the New York Yankees in a trade on the eve of spring training.
Burnett helped the Pirates stay in contention for a playoff spot into early September before they faded.
"I don't know exactly what my emotions will be like because I've never pitched on opening day before, but I'm glad that it's happening in Pittsburgh," Burnett said. "I really love It here. Last year was the most fun I had in a long time. It's a great group of guys to play with and the fans have treated me great."
Burnett is considering retirement at the end of this season when the $82.5 million, five-year contract he signed with the Yankees expires. Burnett is 36 and his children are 12 and 9, so a more normal lifestyle is appealing.
However, Burnett has developed such an affinity for Pittsburgh that he would consider playing in 2014 if the Pirates are interested in having him back.
What Burnett would like to do is help the Pirates over the .500 mark. Their 20 consecutive losing seasons is the longest streak in major North American professional sports history.
Pittsburgh was 63-47 before play on Aug. 9 and finished 79-83.
"We flirted with .500 last year," Burnett said. "It's time for us to start winning. We've got a good enough team to do it. We need to get off to a good start, set a good tone early in the season, and go from there."
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where should i apply? :-(
worked hard on my lsat but couldnt get it higher. already took it twice.
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January 02, 2013, 08:01:00 PM »
You will have many options, but Harvard, Yale, Stanford won't be one of the.
A 160 is a pretty solid score putting you in the 80th percentile of test takers nothing to be ashamed of at all. Something I think very few 0L's realize is that not everyone can be in the top 1% and if you attending law school there is a 90% chance you won't be in the top 10% of the class. I remember in my first day of law school 100% of people were convinced they would be in the top 10% and you don't need to be a math major to figure out how that goes.
I would recommend looking at lawschoolnumbers.com to see what your options are.
For any 0L I this is a copy/paste of what I think should be considered when choosing a law school. It is quite long and I wrote it without checking the grammar so excuse the typos.
I think any potential OL should consider the following factors (1) Location (2) Cost (3) Personal feelings about the school (4) The realities of legal education (5) Any specialty interest you might have 5) If all else fails then use U.S. News rankings. I will elaborate on these points below.
1 Location
I think your situation is a perfect example of why this is so important your a single mom with two kids. Uprooting them out of your current location to attend law school away from everything they are familiar with might be a lot on them. Particularly if they are attending school taking them away from their teachers, friends, etc will be a lot and I imagine it is easier to stay in your current location with the current support structure you have.
Not to mention whatever law school you attend you will be there for 3 years and moving to a new location, with kids, while adjusting to a new apartment, being away from friends, family, etc is a lot to handle. You know better than anyone else how well you could manage that and how well your kids can handle it, but really think about that before choosing your school. Furthermore, odds are wherever you attend law school is where you will end up living again 3 years is a long time and you will make friends, possibly enter into a romantic relationship, etc during these years and transitioning to a new location will be tough.
2. Cost
Again you have kids if you end up getting a 170 with a 2.61 odds are Cooley will give you a full scholarship. Michigan State might give you a lot of assistance as well and clearly raising 2 kids with $150,000 in debt accruing interest is not ideal and I will tell you from personal experience money does not come flowing in right when you graduate law school it takes time to build a career and that is assuming you pass the bar on the first try which many people do not.
One thing to consider in regards to the scholarships you may get are the conditions attached. Many schools will say something such as you need to maintain a 3.0 or be in the top 35% of the class and as a motivated law student everyone who attends an ABA school is pretty certain they will be in the top 35% of the class, but 100% of people cannot be in the top 35% of the class. Also it is important to know that law school grading is very strict and generally to maintain a 3.0 you need to be in the top 35% of the class. So if scholarships end up coming your way pay EXTREMELY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THE CONDITIONS.
3) Personal feelings about the school
Another thing few people consider when making this life altering decision is how they personally feel about the school. I was accepted into many different law school and participated in a lot of mock trial competitions nationally so I have seen quite a few different schools and interacted with the students, faculty, etc. I can tell you I loved some places and hated others, but that was my personal feeling. You may have loved the places I hated and hated the places I loved you need to visit the schools, interact with professors, and just get a sense of what you personally think about each individual school because nobody knows what a good fit for you is better than yourself.
4) Reality of Legal Education
I will let you in on a big secret it is all the same. Your first year of law school will consist of torts, civil procedure, contracts, property, and criminal law. Then you might have Con Law and Criminal Procedure in your first year or possibly second year, but you will take all those subjects. In these classes you will read Supreme Court cases that are exactly the same whether you are reading them in the Harvard library or Cooley's. In the famous Palsgraff case the firecrackers still get dropped nothing changes. Then at the end of three years you will pay a company like BarBri or Kaplan to help you pass the bar.
There are some minor differences by school such as course selection, quality of professors, etc, but the substance of what you are learning is literally identical.
5) Specialty Programs
This is something worth considering for some and is one of the differences I mentioned above. Some schools have more course selections and experienced professors often based more on location than anything else. For example if you wanted to be an entertainment lawyer then go to law school in New York or L.A. that is where entertainment law happens. Even if U.S. News says South Dakota Law has the best entertainment law program I can assure you not many actors, movie studios, etc are located there.
However, if you have a particular interest in something family law, litigatin, etc check the school's course schedule and see if they offer the non-mandatory courses. Granted you will probably only take between 2-4 classes in a particular area since almost everyone takes the courses I mentioned above combined with the highly suggested courses and often required courses such as Evidence, Wills & Trusts, Corporations, Trial Advocacy, Remedies, and a few others that are on almost every state bar exam. If you don't have a particular interest then don't worry about it most law students and lawyers don't really know what they want to do either.
6) U.S. News
If after all that research you don't know the best way to spend 3 years and 100,000+ of your money then consider the rankings, but remember it is a for-profit unregulated magazine offering an opinion nothing more. You would also be wise to look up how often school rankings change year by year for no apparent reason. Granted there are schools such as Harvard, Yale, and yes Michigan that are nationally known schools and will open more doors, but I don't know how much of a difference Cooley v. Michigan State would be. If cost, location, etc is the same then why not go to the higher ranked school, but uproot your kids and spend 100,000 more dollars because some magazine said X school is 29 spots better than the school that is cheaper and more convenient for your personal situation.
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January 04, 2013, 11:17:12 AM »
Quote from: mj6117f on January 02, 2013, 05:52:44 PM
where should i apply? :-(
worked hard on my lsat but couldnt get it higher. already took it twice.
I haven't been on this site in a long time. People give such comprehensive and informative answers.
You can find all the advice in the world. I'll just say this, if I were you, I'd pick a region, and then go somewhere on a full scholarship. Those would be my only considerations. Location and cost.
I had a chance to go to a T3 for no tuition plus a large stipend, but I went to a T2 (60-80) because it had better numbers and a better rank. I have a good firm job now, but I'm heavily in debt and it's not like I have my dream job.
Let's say you wanted to live and work in Missouri, and you could get into WUSTL for full tuition or the lowly UMKC for free. I would probably advise you to take UMKC.
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January 04, 2013, 12:30:49 PM »
Both Livinglegend and Jack24 have provided excellent advice, I'll just add a couple of points.
You're a splitter, which makes it a difficult to predict where you'll get into. I was in a situation similar to yours, with the numbers reversed (average GPA, high LSAT). I was told by almost everyone that I should apply to a ton of schools, see where I got accepted, and attend the one with the highest ranking, period. I chose instead to accept a large scholarship at a locally/regionally respectable school, though not a prestigious one. It was the right decision for me, and it may or may not be the right decision for you.
Spend some time thinking about what you want to do after law school, whether it's big firm work, the prosecutor's office, solo practice, whatever. Be realistic, and objectively evaluate your strengths and weaknesses. I think most of my classmates started law school with the intent to become biglaw associates, federal prosecutors, judicial clerks, etc. The fact is, only a fraction of law school grads get those coveted positions. You'll face very well qualified competition, and you should have a backup plan.
Next, consider what type of school you need to graduate from in order to accomplish that goal. If you want to work at a 500 lawyer firm in LA or NYC, you better find a way to translate that 3.88/160 into an acceptance letter from Yale. If you want to work as a county prosecutor, the local law school might be just fine.
Now think about how finances will affect your goals. Will a $150-200k student debt prevent you from going solo, or from taking a job with the public defender? Alternatively, what if you rack up that debt with the hope of obtaining a biglaw job and simply don't get hired? It's a very real possibility. Will that $2000 per month payment prevent you from buying a house, or a new car, or saving for retirement?
Finally, although the above posters have already mentioned this,
think about location
. Very few schools have the kind of elite reputation that will get you hired based on pedigree alone. The vast majority of schools have local/regional reputations, and your job connections, internship possibilities, etc will be local. The law school rankings, in my experience, matter less the further away you get from the elite schools. A local T3/T4 may have better post-grad opportunities in it's immediate area than an out-of-state, non-elite T1 or T2.
Good luck!
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January 05, 2013, 08:19:42 PM »
You can get a guesstimating of which schools you may be admitted to by plugging your gpa and LSAT into the top,left box on the below linked website.
Goof luck.
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U.S. home building closed out 2012 with the most new homes started since June 2008, as the Commerce Department reported on Thursday a 12.1% rise in housing starts last month.
New homes hit a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 954,000. Construction for the year was up 36.9% over 2011, with 780,000 new homes started to reflect the highest rate since 2008.
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Single-family homes comprised two-thirds of housing starts last month, rising 8.1% in December to a rate of 616,000 units. That was an increase of 18.5% from a year earlier.
Construction of multi-family homes, which is considered a volatile component, surged 20.3%.
All four U.S. regions saw a jump in new homes last month. Numbers were up 24.7% in the Midwest, 21.4% in the Northeast, 18.7% in the West and 3.8% in the South.
The Commerce Department's numbers soared past expectations. Economists polled by Dow Jones Newswires had expected overall housing starts would rise to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 890,000.
Housing starts in November were revised down to 851,000, a 4.3% decrease from the previous month.
Actual housing starts without seasonal adjustments, which are a better gauge of demand for lumber and commodities markets, dropped slightly to 61,500 in December from a downwardly revised 63,300 in November.
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Trying to get TV's resident big, good wolf on the phone isn't easy, but that's understandable: Silas Weir Mitchell is busy giving "Grimm" its comic moments.
The veteran character actor, 42, plays the wolf-like Blutbad clockmaker Monroe in the NBC drama that puts a new spin on famous fairly tales. NBC is capitalizing on the popularity of the show by premiering the second season at 9 p.m. Monday, weeks ahead of the usual fall TV rollout.
The early debut meant the cast, crew and writers didn't get much of a break between seasons, and currently are in the thick of filming the new season in Portland.
"There are a lot of episodes, a lot of people, a lot of action, a lot of work in the woods," Mitchell said last week on the phone. "The last two [episodes] really have been pretty intense."
So what's in store for fan-favorite Monroe this season? Mitchell confirmed this will be a darker season, and that the reformed wolf will continue to help his buddy, Portland Det. Nick Burkhardt (David Giuntoli), navigate the strange world of the Grimms, the family from which Nick is descended that battles ancient creatures, called Wesen, that are disguised as humans.
"It's bumpy and it's violent," he said of Season 2, but hinting that the buddy comedy aspect doesn't disappear. "It still has that weird sense of humor."
Mitchell also talked about the return of Nick's mother, Kelly (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), Monroe's budding romance with fox-y Fuchsbau Rosalee (Bree Turner), and his first acting gig that makes "Grimm" the perfect job for him.
Actors often say playing a bad guy is more fun than playing a good guy, but you seem to be having a good time playing a good guy.
Well I think bad guys are generally; that's sort of the line, "Bad guys are more fun." It certainly depends on what kind of bad guy and how good the writing is, first of all. What is fun about Monroe is that he is conflicted. He's a good guy with a bad past, so that kind of gives you a lot of bandwidth to play with.
He really wants to be good and he is trying to keep his bad Blutbad tendencies at bay. Will he be tested more in the upcoming season?
I think so. I think there is always going to be a phase where I use it for good—like I use the dark stuff in a positive way. But I also think that I probably will be challenged in the sense of backsliding. I don't know if they're going to do that, but I think it would be interesting.
I've heard that it's going to be a darker season this year.
Yes ... it's going to deal with the sort of deeper mythology of why people do what they do and some of the Wesen are behind a lot of what is going on in the world. I think it's going to be sort of surprising to people to consider.
That ties in to what you've said about "Grimm" being relatable to modern times. Could you expand on that a bit?
I think a lot of what the show is about in its very sort of essence is—aside from the large macro level of, you know, Hitler was a Blutbad, and Gadhafi was a monster, I don't know what kind of monster he is—but that a lot of the global shift that is going on is based on sort of creature behavior. That's the macro picture, the power struggles between Wesen and the royals and the Grimms and how they fit into that.
On a micro level what the show does is kind of mythologize and make a metaphor of normal human tendencies. Some people are conflict adverse and they would be sort of a mouse creature. Some people get an idea in their head and they want to make it happen; they're like badger people. Do you know what I mean? And then there are people who are like the shitty lawyers out there, like snaky people that are always looking for a way to take somebody.
I think one of the fun things about the show is that kind of way of taking the fairytales in which there are a lot of these types of creatures in the woods and kind of adhering that to a psychological, mythological kind of structure.
When you see a script does that come into your head right away? Do you see those parallels a lot?
For sure. We have a mouse guy in the next script; the guy needs help. The guy can't help himself. He's a little bit you know. He can't get it together. He doesn't really want to go out, but this guy needs help. He's a little frail.
In another episode—we met a Lausenschlange last year—this year we meet a Konigschlange. If you know German, Konig means king, so he's like a cobra. He is like a king snake. He's like sort of the leader of the Schlange snake people, who want to do bad.
There is a logic to it.
It doesn't look like Monroe and Nick's mom are going to get along.
We're like cats and dogs, man. That's Grimm and Wesen.
How has that conflict been to play? How is working with Mary Elizabeth?
The dynamics of that was really fun. Suddenly I'm in a room with two Grimms and I don't know if Nick—is Nick playing me? Who is this woman? Is she really his mother? She is supposed to be dead. What the hell is going on? She wants to kill me. I might have to kill her if it comes to that. Like what's going on? It was real fun and Mary Elizabeth was just great. She was really delightful.
I was surprised about her in that role.
She was badass actually. She was really badass. She was great. She did a lot of that stuff herself, like the stunts—not all of it of course—but she was very, very good, very game. She got it.
What will happen with Monroe and Rosalee?
There is a little romance beginning to sort of bubble up, but also I have to deal with Angelina [Lasser, played by Jamie Ray Newman] coming back and she sort of throws a wrench into things, so there is that. That's fun.
Can a Fuchsbau and a Blutbad make little ones?
I think, yeah. They're both canid. It would kind of be like a fox and a dog. They're both canid. It's not like a snake and a mouse trying to figure it out. That's bad news, man. They don't belong together.
Have you been having fun in the spice shop?
It's such an amazing set. That spice shop set is just fun to be in. I want to move into that set. The props and the art on the show are incredible. They have just all these old bottles of tincture with like Czech writing on them from like the 50s. It's just weird, cool stuff. Brown bottles and blue bottles and it's cool, man. They do an amazing job making the set decorations, the art is just really great.
Did you embrace this part right away? You seem to love it.
Totally. First of all, I love [executive producer] Jim Kouf. I get his sense of humor and it was an exciting prospect. I felt like it worked. I felt like there was a good fit. I feel like I understood where Monroe was coming from. ... Looking back on the audition, I always felt like in a groove. So yeah, there is a good fit.
You spend a lot of time out of the studio and in the forest or woods around Portlant. Do you enjoy that?
Totally man. I mean that's what great about being in Portland is the locations are just great. ... They fit the story.
You're really good at the comedy here; is that something you enjoy more than anything about the role?
I love the whole thing. I love this show. I love the stories. I like the people I'm working with. I like where I'm working. I like the comedy side because I can't tell you how many times in the last 15 years I've heard from casting directors, "But I don't know, can you do comedy? I don't know; is he funny? I don't know if he's funny." So this is very nice to put the kibosh on those questions.
What originally got you interested in acting?
I was in "Hansel and Gretel" when I was in third grade, no joke. That was the first play I ever did. It's kind of funny that I'm doing this now. Huh?
Were you surprised by the reaction to the show, how it was embraced?
Yes, I was surprised that the pilot was as good as it was. I was surprised we had pick-up. I was surprised we were the first thing renewed because you just can't expect these things to happen, especially when you're a weird little show like this. Come on, we were the first thing renewed and "Prime Suspect" got cancelled? Are you kidding me? So yeah, I was surprised for no other reason than it's like threading a needle to get to this point and not because I didn't believe in what we were doing or I didn't believe in the people because I do and I did and in continue to. It was more the kind of like winning the lottery feeling.
You played a lot of sort of crazily mentally unstable characters in the past. Did you pursue those kinds of roles or did they just sort of happen upon you?
It's just a combo. I am very interested in like what goes on in the mind of someone who is not right. I find that to be very interesting sort of territory to play with, but I didn't like super actively seek them out ... I have to say I did contribute to it I think because I do find that stuff interesting. Like when you see the guy muttering to himself, what is he talking about?
What has been your most fun role to play?
Probably what I'm doing right now. It is what I'm doing right now. There is no probably about it. This is the most fun I've ever had doing my job.
Do you have any favorite beasts, any favorite Wesen besides the Blutbad.
The Murciélago was pretty cool, the bat creature, which we totally mispronounced and I can't believe that that happened, but it's all good.
That must be hard with the language thing anyway. You guys are making some of them up. Right?
Yeah, definitely, but Murciélago does mean I think bat in Spanish and we pronounced it Murciélago and that drives me crazy because I don't speak Spanish so you know, but the creature looked really, really good because it was actually physical. Sometimes it's physical. Sometimes it's CGI and sometimes it's a combo and when it's a combo it looks really good because there is an actual person, physical thing happening that they kind of spruce up a little bit with the computer, so the Murciélago was one of those and I thought it looked frickin' awesome and the Hundjäger are pretty badass too, the like jackal kind of creatures. Some work better than others.
Do you find the makeup process troubling?
Mostly for me it's CGI. I've only had to do the full makeup one time. (Click here to see the process.)
That's good for you.
Yeah, that's great. It's just too time consuming. There are not enough hours in the day.
Could you give a tease for the new season?
Look, if you liked the first season you're going to love the second because it's just bigger, badder and better. We hit the ground running and we don't look back and it's like action-packed, scary, funny. It's great honestly and I'm not just being a shill here. I really think this season is going to rock.
You spent time in Chicago when you did "Prison Break." Any special places you used to go to? Anything you miss about the city?
I miss being able to smoke a cigar indoors while listening to somebody play jazz music. Can you still do that there?
Well there were bars where you smoked cigars man, like the Redheaded Bar where there was some guy playing piano and there was like a bar called like the Dopey Redhead of something.
The Redhead Piano Bar.
Yeah, you could walk downstairs and do it and you could smoke. I remember walking around town smoking.
You can't do that anymore.
And another place, what's it called? Rush Street area where you could walk in the jazz bar and you could smoke a frickin' cigar. I liked that about it. I didn't like the heat and the humidity. I almost got heatstroke out there working at Joliet, but Chicago is a fun city. Portland is my favorite place I've ever been hired to work, but Chicago is pretty close second.


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Bradley Cooper feels uncomfortable since People magazine editors named him Sexiest Man Alive - because he's convinced his pal Ryan Gosling actually deserves the title.
The Hangover hunk has claimed the 2011 crown but admits Gosling is a more deserving winner as the Canadian actor always looks groomed.
He tells U.K. talk show host Graham Norton, "It's so awful that I'm admitting this but the hell with it - there was such a backlash to when they announced it. Ryan Gosling, who I love and I just did a movie with him, he's the greatest, but we were both in Paris this last week and a friend of mine showed me photographs (of us) from the paparazzi. When I say friend I mean me alone in my room looking at the computer!
"There's him walking around and he literally looks like he's in a photoshoot, like he just came off the runway. And there's ones of me and I literally look like the neighbour who never really comes out of his house. And when he does you're like, 'Maybe he should just stay in! We don't know what he does in there!' So it's been interesting."
Cooper admits he's still coming to terms with all the adulation, adding, "It's the worst! It's just so awful. I'm finally at an age, I'm 36 years old, where I really don't care about anything like that anymore, which is a wonderful thing. Then this (People magazine title) happened and I started to realize how not sexy I am. I have a lot of moments where I'll be walking out, I open up the door and think, 'I could do that a lot sexier. That was not very sexy at all!'"


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By Mary A. Sego
Title: William F. Gidley papers, 1915-1922
Primary Creator: Gidley, William Francis
Extent: 1.0 Folders. More info below.
Subjects: Purdue University--Faculty, Purdue University. School of Pharmacy and Pharmacal Sciences
Forms of Material: Articles
Languages: English
Professor William Francis Gidley was born in Holly, Michigan, on November 5, 1882. He began his career as a drug clerk while attending high school in Holly. He attended the College of Pharmacy at the University of Michigan and received the Pharmaceutical Chemist (PhC.) and the B.S. degree in 1908. Seeking to broaden his education he also took courses in the School of Medicine and because of his achievements in bacteriology was selected as a special assistant to work on bacterial proteins in the food and drug laboratory; he also served as tutor in the Medical School.
In the Fall of 1909, Mr. Gidley accepted the deanship of the College of Pharmacy at Mercer University at the age of 26; he also served as chemist and bacteriologist for th Board of Health of the City of Macon, Georgia. Three years later (1912), he was appointed to a professorship in materia medica in the College of Pharmacy at Purdue University.
Professor Gidley remained at Purdue for 12 years save for one year's leave of absence in 1918, during which he served as assistant chief of the Medical Staff of E. R. Squibb and Sons of New York; from 1920-24, he served as professor of pharmacy. During the period at Purdue University he utilized every opportunity to broaden and strengthen his education in order to fit him the better for his profession of teaching. His medical education began at the University of Michigan and was continued during the summer months at the University of Chicago (Rush) Medical School. He completed all of the course work in the medical curriculum except the clinical requirements. This medical education he used to good advantage in the classroom.
In the summer of 1924, he was offered a professorship in and Head of the Department of Pharmacy at the University of Texas Medical School in Galveston. In 1926 when the Department became a College, Professor Gidley assumed the Deanship of the new College.
After almost 40 years of teaching and administrative work and failing health he relinquished the deanship in 1947 to devote full time to his favorite vocation-teaching. He also found time to refresh his education by reading and auditing courses offered in the University--this enabled him to excel in the classroom. His thirst for knowledge was equaled only by his concern for the students and he devoted himself unselfishly to their welfare. He became Emeritus Professor of Pharmacy in 1957.
Dean Gidley was active in national professional and scientific organizations and a member of several national honorary societies. These included the American Pharmaceutical Association (life member), the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Association of University Professors, Texas Pharmaceutical Association, American Association of Bacteriologists, Indiana and Texas Academies of Science. He was nationally recognized by being elected a member of the Revision Committee of the Pharmacopeia of the United States of America (1930-40) and appointments to committees and sections devoted to national pharmaceutical activities.
Dean Gidley is also remembered by his former students for his gentle, modest dignity, patience and encouragement to them. In 1959 the Alumni Association of the College of Pharmacy of University of Texas established the W. F. Gidley Appreciation Fund with this tribute to him:
"It is impossible to speak of Dean Gidley other than in superlatives. Loveable, gentlemanly, scholarly, kindly--he has always been a man in the very best sense of that meaningful term. Those who have known him love him; the better they have known him, the more they have loved him. His sterling qualities and resplendent spirit have inspired many pharmacy students throughout their college careers and left indelible impressions that still remain to comfort them as pharmacy alumni. The love and respect he enjoys from his former students were earned by his fairness and sympathetic attention to their problems. We have never known a man, whatever his job in life, to perform his duties more honorably or with greater humility."
Supplied by Carl C. Albers, Esther Jane Wood Hall, Henry R. Henze and Henry M. Burlage; University of Texas.
Repository: Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections
Alternate Extent Statement: 1 folder
Access Restrictions: Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation: MSF 143, William F. Gidley Papers, Archives and Special Collections, Purdue University Libraries


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Reacting to the imposition of 10 percent surcharge by the government on those who earn more than Rs.1 crore a year, actor Suniel Shetty says the government should start imposing tax on corruption.
"If corruption is eradicated from our system, it leaves us with so much money that it can support the poor and needy. If they keep on increasing the taxes, then people will think of alternate income and will not disclose it," the 51-year-old said here Thursday at a charity exhibition Aariash organised by his wife Mana.
"I think if everyone thinks beyond scams and does his work sincerely, then it (India) is a secure country to live in. I think taxes should be imposed on corruption instead of imposing taxes over incomes,"
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To Rome With Love
(Four stories with beautiful shots of Rome)
Just when we had completely given up on Woody Allen, he gave us the wonderful "Midnight in Paris."
While "To Rome With Love" is quite as good or innovative, it is a fun movie to watch, especially with the beautiful shots of Rome.
While Woody interjects a lot of humor into the four tales, he still manages to keep his old themes about love, sex, death and psychoanalysis alive.
The nearly two-hour movie jumps around from one story to the next. Unlike many movies of this genre, the stories and characters are not intertwined. The common denominator is Rome.
We first meet a local liberal lawyer (Flavio Parenti), who shows an American tourist (Alison Pill) the way to the Trevi fountain. They quickly fall in love in the Eternal City. Her parents (Woody Allen and Judy Davis) come to visit and meet her new love and his parents. Woody, a retired music promoter whom his wife says was "ahead of his time," hears the father singing in the shower and wants to make him a star, with hilarious results.
Jack (Jesse Eisenberg) is a promising young architect who meets an American architect (Alec Baldwin), who becomes his mentor in his love affairs, but can only be seen by Jack. When his girlfriend's friend comes to stay with them, the threesome becomes complicated, with Jack falling for her (Ellen Page).
The funniest and silliest story finds Leopoldo (Roberto Benigni), a dull, middle-class office worker thrust into instant fame for no other reason than the paparazzi "discover" him, making him "famous for being famous." They follow his every movement and dwell on his every word.
The scenes are funny and in the end poignant, but are carried to ridiculous extremes so that Allen can express his dislike of the press. Benigni is hysterical.
The funniest, most complicated tale involves an innocent young couple (Allessandro Tiberi and Alessandra Mastronardi), who come to Rome from a small Italian town to further his career in a family business. She goes out to get her hair done and gets lost. He finds himself in his hotel room with a hooker (Penelope Cruz). What happens to both of them is also very funny. Everything works out for everybody in the end.
While all of the actors are great, the real star of this movie is Rome. We get a chance to see not only the famous landmarks, but also those narrow streets, intimate cafes and unique squares.
Rated R, with some sexual references, but all very innocent. We would have given it a PG-13.


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2 teaspoons canola oil
1 cup leftover potatoes, chopped
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1/2 teaspoon chopped fresh herb such as dill (optional)
1 cup leftover salmon, flaked into pieces
3 scallions, chopped
In a large non stick skillet heat oil until it just starts to shimmer. Add potatoes and let heat through and brown, about 4 minutes. Break up into smaller pieces if desired. Add salt, pepper and a favorite herb. Flake in salmon and let brown about 3 minutes. Add scallions, stir. Check seasonings, add a pinch of whatever you think in needs. Serve with other leftovers and a tasty lager (or seltzer!)


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