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I'm writing this from yet anoth- er characterless hotel room where I will again lay my weary head, keep my clothes in a bag, and plant my guitar on the extra bed for the next month. I spend much of my work time traveling and have come up with routines and rituals that help me make it through the journey relatively unscathed. Although it's said the worse vice is advice, here I go with my road-dog travel tips.
You don't have to be a forensic scientist armed with a black light to know that most hotel rooms are basically one big petri dish, teeming with somebody else's funk. High volume, quick turnaround, and an overworked, underpaid and disgruntled staff makes for some nasty sleeping quarters. When first entering your rented digs, put on some rubber gloves if you have them, and throw that DNA-ridden bed comforter into the most remote corner of the room. Don't touch it again. If it's warm enough, do the same with those seldom-washed blankets and go sheets-only during your stay.
Speaking of sheets—thoughthis may sound like a HowardHughes level of mysophobia—take a quick look for bedbugs.They're oval in shape, brown-ish/reddish in color, and tend toleave tiny black spots (yes, that'sexcrement) on linens and fur-niture. (Just typing this makesme a little queasy and itchy allat once.) Like Aerosmith afterrehab, bedbugs have enjoyeda big comeback in the last fewyears, so it's not a bad idea topull back the sheets and seewhat you find. Though I'venever actually found bedbugs,I've had a few nauseating sur-prises waiting for me betweenthe top and bottom sheets—including many curly hairs, asoiled condom, a Jugs magazine,and an empty bottle of Lewis &Clark vodka.
it off your bag handle, open it up and start dabbing that sticky glue side to the dog hair on your stage clothes.
some exercise, even if it's just a few jumping jacks in your filthy hotel room to keep things movin'.
3. Walk your guitar on the plane.Although baggage tags are handy,you don't want them on yourguitar case. Carry your guitaron and avoid having it get lost,broken or stolen before your gig.Airline employees will tell you it
5. When in Rome, enjoy andsave your dough-re-mi.If you tour out of the countryat all, consider buying a magic-Jack—a device that turns yourcomputer into a free internationalcalling station. They cost around$40, with a $20 annual renewal
A wise man said that those things we cannot do without we do not possess—but rather they possess us. Traveling is a good opportunity to shake off the stuff that quite literally drags us down. I can go for weeks with one pair of jeans, one dress shirt, four t-shirts, shorts for working out, and ample socks and underwear. I pack almost nothing in the toiletry department—relying instead on free hotel amenities for razors, toothbrushes, toothpaste, shampoo, etc.
I use that ubiquitous free skinlotion in hotels as a combinationhair gel/shaving cream/moistur-izer. I also use airline baggagetags as a lint remover—just pullwon't fit in the overhead, but itusually will. When they give youthe gate-check tag—take it pas-sively, thank them cordially, thencovertly rip it off the guitar andhide it in your pocket as you walkdown the ramp. Cram that guitarinto the first semi-open overheadyou find, and be a nuisance if youmust by moving other people'sbags around.
4. Be good to your body.Life on the road can turn themost regular person into a pro-ducer of hard pellets. To avoidcrippling constipation, pack somePsyllium or Metamucil to ensureyou get your roughage, and drinklots of water as flights desiccateyour body tissues. And try to getfee. You could spend more thanthat on one hotel-room call fromLondon to Hoboken.
JOHN BOHLINGER isa Nashville-based guitar-ist who works primarily inTV and has recorded andtoured with over 50 major-label artists. His songs andplaying can be heard inmajor motion pictures, on major-label releases,and in literally hundreds of televisiondrops. Visit him at youtube.com/user/john-bohlinger or facebook.com/johnbohlinger.


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Submitted by JENBENJR Carbs: 11.3g | Fat: 10.3g | Fiber: 1.4g | Protein: 10.3g | Calories: 182.9
This recipe was created for kids, but adults will crave a slice, too. I like to add hot pepper rings for the grown-ups! Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 21.4g | Fat: 3.9g | Fiber: 2.9g | Protein: 26.2g | Calories: 223.9
A fool-proof guide to great grilled chicken. Submitted by GRILLGUIDE Carbs: 0g | Fat: 3g | Fiber: 0g | Protein: 25.7g | Calories: 137.3
Sweet and tangy oranges pair perfectly with rich, salty miso. Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 7.9g | Fat: 9.3g | Fiber: 1.1g | Protein: 29.3g | Calories: 236
This hearty soup is perfect for when there is a chill in the air, and you want dinner waiting for you as you walk in the door. Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 33.1g | Fat: 7.4g | Fiber: 16.1g | Protein: 18.4g | Calories: 216.5
These onions add flavor to any dish, from soups and sandwiches to stews and dips. Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 5g | Fat: 0.6g | Fiber: 1.1g | Protein: 0.7g | Calories: 26.4
Ditch those packets from the supermarket, and whip up a batch of this simple, tasty taco seasoning! Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 6.2g | Fat: 2.1g | Fiber: 3.4g | Protein: 1.5g | Calories: 38.1
This is a great recipe to use as a basis for plenty of meals! Submitted by CHEF_MEG Carbs: 19.8g | Fat: 3.2g | Fiber: 4.9g | Protein: 29.7g | Calories: 225.4
You've had beef & chicken but have you tried fish tacos? This fresh variation on a favorite meal is sure to please. Make them spicy, make them mild; crunchy, or soft - it's easy to add toppings so everyone's taste buds are happy. Submitted by GORTONS_RECIPES Carbs: 9.9g | Fat: 4.9g | Fiber: 1.5g | Protein: 9.7g | Calories: 120.5


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Possibly running into Harry Styles isn't Taylor Swift's only headache this week -- she's facing a lawsuit over a canceled concert in Canada.
Taylor got paid $2.5 million to headline the Captial Hoedown in Ottawa in August. But the show's promoters couldn't get things organized, and the shindig was canceled. And now the ticket company wants to recoup the $1.8 million it had to refund, so it has filed suit in New York.
Taylor's rep says she never made a deal to play the hoedown and has yet to see the lawsuit.
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Vinsanity is going to show his true colors against the Raptors. IMHO Hes 90% style and 10% substance.
The article goes on about how he loves basketball, does it for the fans, has a great work ethic, puts up 100%, etc etc.
i think carter has matured a lot since leaving toronto where he said he didn't always try his hardest.


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CHICAGO – Thursday, February 17, 2010, labor and community groups united in a downtown demonstration for transit – for jobs, service and clean air. The demonstration was part of a series of national actions coordinated by Transit Riders for Public Transportation – a national civil rights and environmental justice campaign to shape federal transportation policy.
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Sometimes the closest of family can come from unrelated strangers. My godparents are the first example of this phenomenon in my life. Many years before I was born, my parents needed to find another place to live. They rented, as a young married couple, a small apartment in the home of an older couple with a blind teenage son. They lived there for most of the first seven years of their marriage. Once my older brother was born, they needed more room, plus my mother was a beautician and was also looking for space to relocate her beauty shop. Dad and Mom had to stay in the old neighborhood because my mother's family was all there and so were both of their livelihoods. They couldn't afford a car. It was wartime and they relied on public transportation, so prospects were limited. Just how they happened upon the new address, I never learned.
The house was a two-family. A Polish immigrant woman, a widow in her forties, was renting out the downstairs. It was her only source of income. She had two teenage children, a son, her oldest and a daughter a few years younger. The three of them lived upstairs. What should have been the front parlor and dining room of the old house downstairs became my mother's Beauty Shoppe and they (Dad, Mom and older brother) lived in the back three rooms. Their new landlady spoke very little English, so the kids were more than happy to act as go betweens for their new tenants and very quickly bonded with my folks. It was an instant good fit. My parents called their landlady "Auntie" and they became part of each others' extended families. They became so close in fact, that when I was born, my parents chose the kids who were now 21 and 18, to be my godparents. I learned years later as an adult, that this did not sit well with many members of our family, who resented being passed over for these Polish usurpers.
We moved away when I was just a few months old, when my paternal grandfather decided my parents should own a small house of their own (near his daughters) and he helped with the financing for them. It was a huge move and a very painful one, not only because they were leaving the home they shared with their surrogate family, but because my mother was forced to give up her business, and a very good, steady income. We would also be leaving behind my mother's family and strong, comfortable ties with the Slovenian-American community that Mom had grown up in and the only life she had ever known. There was nothing in this new section of Cleveland's westside where we were moving save for new, two-bedroom wooden bungalows, muddy streets and my father's three weird sisters and their families.
Luckily we were able to maintain our strong family bonds. We would go to my mother's parents house every Sunday of my life – Gramma and Grampa's. It was a routine only broken for major blizzards and illnesses and when we celebrated birthdays at our own homes, where the whole family would meet at the birthday person's house. And any time we celebrated one of our birthdays, my godparents and their families would be included in the celebration. We often visited the godparents after our regular grandparents visit. For the longest time, I never knew that these people weren't related to me the same as my aunts and uncles and cousins. The only difference I could detect was that I called them by their first names. And by far, my Godfather Wally was truly my favorite relative in the whole wide world.
Wally was young and good-looking and very funny, constantly cracking jokes and smiling and laughing. He always treated me like a person, not a little kid, as most adults and all my other relatives did. He would greet me with "hello godson", which made him special, because only he could use that name for me. I loved my godmother, but not like I loved Wally. He had gotten married the summer before my fifth birthday. I liked his wife, because she was young and pretty and I wanted him to have a pretty wife – they went together nicely, He always gave me a big, warm hug, and never minded when I crawled up into his lap. He let me "sneak" sips out of his beer can when no one was looking. If I could have chosen a dad, my choice would have been Wally. My own father had mammoth problems that prevented him from being much of a person let alone a parent. He suffered from severe depression, which no one knew about until I was older. He and my mother had a volatile relationship and he hated having to take on the role of family provider. In other words, he didn't like to go to work. Dad was thirty-five when I was born, and a very old and tired thirty-five at that. I remember him through most of my early childhood only as distant and depressed. Without comprehending it at the time, I was resenting this old man who purported to be my father. I found myself fantasizing, whenever I saw a young, vibrant daddy somewhere interacting with his kids, that he was my daddy too. Therefore Wally was a flesh and blood candidate for father and I claimed him in my heart as mine alone.
So we come to that Sunday in December when we were celebrating my fifth birthday. My mother seemed to have made a very big deal about it, me turning five. We were having the party in our basement "rec" room, because there wasn't enough room upstairs in our tiny house. Wally and his new wife and my godmother with her husband and daughter were the first to arrive. Wally put a large box, wonderfully wrapped with bright-colored paper and ribbons on the big table which held my birthday cake. He picked me up and sat me next to the box and helped me to begin opening my present. Normally I wasn't too excited about birthday gifts, because even as a kid they were always clothes. We were awfully poor at the time, so birthdays were when we got new things to wear for the coming year. I got the feeling this box was not shirts and pants. Wally seemed too excited for it to be anything but wonderfully special and even my parents appeared to know what was inside this box. I remember everyone staring at me, waiting to see my reaction. I couldn't read what the heavy cardboard box said, and there weren't any pictures which might have given me a clue.
Wally opened the carton and pulled out what looked like a small blue suitcase with a blue plastic handle. He showed me how to pull down the large brass clasp to open the lid of the case. It was a record player. It was my own record player. My parents had an ancient gramophone from the early 1930s that had been broken for years. This one was new and it was mine. There were about a dozen small brightly colored plastic records stored inside – 78 rpms of children's nursery rhymes and songs. Wally plugged it in while my godmother put on a red plastic record. Wally guided my hand to show me how to carefully place the needle's arm onto the record. I remember hearing a lady begin singing "Sing a Song of Sixpence". I watched the record go round and round, still trying to take it all in, that this was MY gift from these wonderful people. I was beyond happy. I didn't know how I was feeling, but I had never been that thrilled in all my five years. Looking up at the faces of my entire family staring at me, waiting for a reaction, I felt my face beginning to get wet. "Why are you crying" my mother asked me? "Tell your godparents thank you".
Now I was totally confused because I was so very happy receiving this incredible gift, yet I felt the tears that before had always come when either I'd hurt myself, or was scared, or so angry I couldn't find the words to speak. Again I found myself speechless, but because I could not fathom tears and happiness coming at the same time. It made no sense and the combined emotions almost frightened me. "I'm happy, but I'm crying", was all I could get out though the tears, and Wally just leaned in and squeezed me in his embrace. It didn't matter, I thought, he understood it was the only thank you I could get out. What a day – what a great dad.
A few years later Wally and his wife had a son. I found myself becoming jealous, since he now had his own little boy. The kid was kind of a brat, but as he grew, my jealousy subsided, because Wally was not the super-dad I had imagined him to be. Wally had to be the disciplinarian and he really wasn't nearly as tender and playful as he had been with me. And I never once saw him let his son sneak a sip from his can of beer. It reinforced my feelings about our special relationship and even as a teenager, he was still at the top of my list of favorites. All these years later, when grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles and even some cousins have passed away, Wally is still there in Cleveland. I just talked to him a month ago; he's battling some cancerous lung tumors at eighty-something years old. He's the great-grandfather of two little girls, and told me they are the only reason he even consented to undergo radiation treatment. He is one of the last people on this earth who knows me since I was a baby – when I was his little godson. Of course he would keep ahold of his special place in my heart.


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Eco-friendly firmsThe advent of industrialization, known as the Second Wave, has brought economic well-being and general renovation to many fields in our life. This was one of the most influential revolutions of all time, spreading across the world, but it also brought about problems. Pollution occurred as a result of rapid development and a rise in population, leading the ecosystem including humans to suffer. Contamination of the environment has destroyed the ecological balance and environmental problems are now a globally shared concern. Many experts do not anticipate the Earth to take this much longer. The cause for this devastation lies in the general concept of industrialization and developments, which is "environmental possibilism." Environmental possibilism, a theory asserting that humans have the ultimate power to take advantage of their environment, has been the dominant conception across the world for a few centuries, especially in the field of business and science. To people, nature was a gift from God to humanity, which could be developed in any way for the sake of the well-being of the people. Only recently have we been starting to realize that nature should coexist with humanity, instead of being a mere tool to boost the economy and make some people better off. Serious pollution and its devastating results have caught the attention of people, and calls for corporations to take responsibility have risen. Awakening alarms from nature have made people keen on new policies from corporations. Fortunately, positive steps are being taken. Efforts to prevent further environmental contamination by the industrial world are underway. The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has made it clear that it will enhance eco-friendly businesses. As a result, an environmental management system has become a trend among many corporations in the world. Last year, in my school's environmental science club, ECHO, we debated over whether this environmental management system will actually last and bring about a better outcome regarding the environment surrounding us. After a year, we finally came up with a report based on the research on these eco-friendly corporations and their sustainability. Surprisingly, there were already myriads of enterprises adapting this system, and their policies seemed quite plausible and hopeful. For example, Philips has made continuous efforts and has taken action for a healthy environment. It has set up an eco-marketing program called "eco-vision" to prevent a further worsening of the environment and fully monitors the life span of its products and the production process to discover improvements regarding sustainability and annually reports on its work. However, some limitations and flaws in environmental management also captured our attention. It is undeniable that is an ongoing controversy on whether some corporations are pursuing eco-friendly enterprises as a means of mere image making. By broadcasting advertisements full of kindhearted keywords such as "responsibilities" and "volunteering," consumers may be deceived by some corporations that are not as wholly into energy saving as they appear to be. Also, concerns over corruption and graft are high. As it is much more challenging to keep the balance between profit and eco-friendly strategies, many environmentally-friendly companies fail to satisfy the thresholds of the environmental management system, and inevitably choose to violate the regulations. Numerous companies have recently violated regulations by dumping noxious pollutants indiscriminately. Looking over some cases, it draws us to the conclusion that environmental friendly corporations and environmental management systems are still at an early stage and need more preparations to make this idea realistic. However, it is essential for people to realize how meaningful this work is, as humans and nature can no longer continue in a master-servant relationship. Threatening nature means threatening the lives of all species on the planet, including humans. For our future generations, we need to find a compromise from an ecological view. Kim Sung-bin is a third-year student at Busan International High School. Contact her at email@example.com. |


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List of stock characters
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A stock character is a dramatic or literary character representing a type in a conventional manner and recurring in many works.[1] The following list labels some of these archetypes and stereotypes, providing distinctive examples.
' | Character Type | Description | Examples |
Absent-minded professor | An absent-minded scientific genius[2] | Professor Calculus, Julius Kelp, Emmett Brown | |
Action hero | A film hero protagonist with unrealistic physical resistance and fighting capabilities | John McClane; John Rambo | |
Alien invaders | Extraterrestrials who mount an invasion against Earth[2] | War of the Worlds, Body Snatchers, Independence Day | |
Anti-hero | A cowardly, antisocial or honorless protagonist | Tony Montana, Faust, Falstaff | |
Archimime | A jester in Ancient Rome who imitated manners, gestures and speech of living and deceased famous people. | ||
Bad boy (archetype) | A roguish macho | Charlie Harper (Two and a Half Men), Johnny Strabler | |
Battle-axe (woman) | A domineering, brash and brazen woman | Carrie Nation, Xena | |
Bimbo | A dumb, pretty girl | Karen Smith (Mean Girls) | |
Black brute | An inherently violent black man | Jules Winnfield, John Shaft; Gus in Birth of a Nation; Blaxploitation movies} | |
Blackface | A black person played by a white person | Tropic Thunder, Birth of a Nation | |
Black knight | Evil fighter antagonist | Modred, Nazgûl, Darth Vader | |
Blonde stereotype | A pretty, but stupid blonde | Blonde and Blonder | |
Boy next door | Average and nice guy | ||
Breeches role | A role in which an actress appears in male clothing | Shakespeare in Love | |
Bug-eyed monster | Staple evil alien;[2] known familiarly in science fiction fandom as BEMs | Formics | |
Byronic hero | A proud, moody and cynical man, yet capable of deep and strong affection | Childe Harold, Eugene Onegin | |
Cat lady | Old woman overly concerned with her cats | Arabella Figg, Crazy Cat Lady | |
Conanesque[3] | character inspired by Conan the Barbarian | Claw the Unconquered, Thongor of Lemuria | |
Contender (stock character) | A competitive underdog | Rocky Balboa, Terry Maloy | |
Crone | Malicious old woman, often occult or witch-like | Elli, Baba Yaga | |
Damsel in distress | A noble Lady in need of rescue, traditionally from dragons | Princess Peach, Princess Buttercup, Princess and dragon | |
Dark Lady (character) | A dark, malicious or doomed woman | Lady Macbeth | |
Holmesian detective | A private or police detective who solves crimes by using logical deduction | Sherlock Holmes, Columbo, Hercule Poirot, Virgil Tibbs | |
Hardboiled detective | A gruff, tough and streetwise, but generally honest detective | Sam Spade, John Hartigan, Philip Marlowe | |
Elderly martial arts master | A wise, powerful man teaching his powerful craft to a young student. Often needs to be avenged | Keisuke Miyagi, Snake in the Eagle's Shadow, Pai Mei | |
Esper | A telepathic human[2] | Lincoln Powell in The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester[4] Akira | |
Essex girl | A promiscuous and stupid female (originally from Essex) | Amy Childs (The Only Way is Essex) | |
Everyman | An ordinary individual | Everyman (play) | |
Evil clown | An evil and chaotic clown | Pennywise, The Joker | |
Fall guy | A scapegoat | ||
Farmer's daughter | A desirable and naive young woman. She is also described as being an "open-air type" and "public-spirited".[5][6] | ||
Femme fatale | A beautiful, but mischievous and traitorous woman | Ruth Wonderly, Xenia Onatopp, Poison Ivy | |
Final girl | A "last girl standing" in a horror film | Laurie Strode, Sally Hardesty, Lila Crane | |
Fop | A foolish man overly concerned with his appearance and clothes | ||
Gentle giant | A physically imposing but kind-hearted character. | Rubeus Hagrid, John Coffey, Fezzik; | |
Gentleman thief | A sophisticated and well-mannered thief | A.J. Raffles, Simon Templar, Arsène Lupin, | |
Geek | A generally not athletic fan of super heroes, science fiction and fantasy, especially of Video Games, Comic Books, Films and Roleplaying Games. | Roy Trenneman, Sheldon Cooper, Steve Smith, Jason Fox | |
Girl next door | An average girl with a wholesome conduct | Winnie Cooper | |
Grande dame | French for "great lady". A flamboyant woman, prone to extravagant and eccentric fashion. Usually a stereotype of an elderly high society socialite.[7][8][9][10] | Constance in Gosford Park, Princess Dragomiroff in Murder on the Orient Express; Clara Cluck in the Disney cartoons; | |
Hag | A wizened old woman, often a malicious witch | Hansel and Gretel, Baba Yaga | |
Harlequin | A clown or professional fool | Till Eulenspiegel | |
Hawksian woman | A tough-talking woman, originally in a film by Howard Hawks | To Have and Have Not (film) | |
Hero | A powerful and morally integer protagonist, often on a quest[2] | Luke Skywalker, John Carter of Mars, Neo (The Matrix) | |
Herr Pastor | An authoritarian pastor in an Ethnic German congregation | ||
Hooker with a heart of gold | A prostitute with heart and intrinsic morality | Nancy (Oliver Twist), Fantine, Inara Serra | |
Hotshot | A reckless character known for taking risks. Also referred to as a "Badass". | Martin Riggs, Pete Mitchell (Top Gun) | |
Ingenue (stock character) | a young woman who is endearingly innocent and wholesome | Ophelia, Cosette | |
Jewish lawyer stereotype | A Jewish lawyer that is clever, greedy, exploitative and dishonest | Maurice Levy (The Wire) | |
Jewish mother stereotype | A nagging, overprotective, controlling, smothering, and overbearing mother or wife | Kyle's Mom, Mrs. Wolowitz. | |
Jock (athlete) | A male athlete, often muscular, but not very smart | Tommy Ross, Luke Ward | |
Jester | A prankster or fool, originally one employed by a king (court jester) | Puck | |
Jewish-American princess stereotype | Materialistic and selfish Jewish girl with a pampered or wealthy background | Fran Fine, Princess Vespa in Spaceballs | |
Killbot | Usually large, menacing machines created to perpetrate murder | Terminator | |
Knight-errant | A noble Knight on a Quest | Galahad, Sir Gawain | |
Legacy Hero | A hero who inherits or adopts the name and attributes of an already or previously existing hero | The Phantom, Green Lantern, Robin (comics) | |
Lipstick lesbian | Lesbian and bisexual women who exhibit extremely feminine gender attributes | ||
Little Green Men | Little humanoid extraterrestrials with green skin and antennae on their heads;[11] known familiarly in science fiction fandom as LGM | The Great Gazoo; Martians in Martians, Go Home. | |
Loathly lady | A woman who appears to be hideous, often cursed | The Wife of Bath's Tale | |
Lone Vigilante | Loner who becomes a vigilante for Justice | Charles Bronson's Death Wish Movies; Dirty Harry; The Outlaw Josey Wales | |
Lovers (stock characters) | Main characters who deeply and truly fall romantically in love, despite the blocking effect of other characters. Often moonstruck, star-crossed lovers that are strongly fraternizing with the enemy. | Romeo & Juliet Tony and Maria (West Side Story) Buttercup & Westley in The Princess Bride |
Mad scientist | An insane or highly eccentric scientist, often villainous or amoral.[2][12] | Dr. Frankenstein Dr. Moreau Emmett Brown Girl Genius |
Magical Negro | A black man with special insight or mystical powers coming to the aid of the white protagonist | The Defiant Ones, Bagger Vance, John Coffey from Green Mile, God from Bruce Almighty | |
Mammy archetype | A rotund, homely, and matronly black woman | Aunt Jemima Mammy from Gone with the Wind | |
Manic Pixie Dream Girl | Usually static characters who have eccentric personality quirks and are unabashedly girlish | Garden State, (500) Days of Summer | |
Marianismo | A female Latin American folk character celebrating feminine virtues like purity and moral strength | ||
Martian[2][11] | Dwellers on Mars. Often prone to invade earth. | Barsoom, H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds, Mars Attacks Ice Warriors. | |
Mary Sue | A one-dimensional character with overly idealized and hackneyed mannerisms, often considered a stand-in for the author | Wesley Crusher, Bella Swan | |
Miles Gloriosus | A boastful soldier from the comic theatre of ancient Rome | Volstagg | |
Monster[2] | A generic feral antagonist | Godzilla, Frankenstein's monster, King Kong | |
Mother's boy | A man who is excessively attached to his mother | Private Frank Pike | |
Nerd | A socially-impaired, obsessive, or overly-intellectual person. Often interested in doing well in school (academically and in terms of behavior) as well as reading books. | Martin Prince, Maurice Moss, Lisa Simpson. | |
Nice Jewish boy stereotype | A studious, gentle and sensitive Jewish boy. | Joel Glicker | |
Noble savage | An idealized indigene or otherwise wild outsider with noble characteristics. | Tarzan, Winnetou, Chingachgook | |
Outlaw (stock character) | A romanticized, often charismatic or social bandit. | Robin Hood, Billy the Kid | |
Paladin | A holy knight, a paragon of virtue and goodness. | Knights of the Round Table | |
Pantomime dame | A pantomime portrayal of female characters by male actors in drag. | Widow Twankey | |
Petrushka | A Russian kind of jester. | ||
Princesse lointaine | A romantic love interest and beloved sweetheart and girlfriend for a Knight-errant. | Dulcinea. | |
Professor (stock character) | A common generic name for fictional characters who fill the role of doctors, scientists, or mad scientists. | The Professor (Gilligan's Island) | |
Rake (character) | A man habituated to immoral conduct. | Francis Charteris (rake), Lord Byron, Gully Foyle (The Stars My Destination). | |
Redshirt (character) | An expendable character who dies soon after being introduced; this refers to characters from the original Star Trek television series, often from the security of engineering departments of the starship, who wore the red variation of the Starfleet uniform and whose purpose in the narrative was to serve as cannon fodder | Star Trek. | |
Reluctant hero | A person who doesn't seek adventure or the opportunity to do good, and often doubts his or her abilities to rise to heroism. However, circumstances inevitably result in the character's becoming a true hero. | Bilbo Baggins, Han Solo from the Star Wars series, Neo from The Matrix. | |
School diva | A well-liked or worshipped female student, who sees herself as an alpha female. | Blair Waldorf from the Gossip Girl TV and novel series. Regina George | |
Secret identity | An alias a character may take so that he or she may act in secrecy. | Superman's alias Clark Kent, Spider-Man's alias Peter Parker, and Batman's alias Bruce Wayne. | |
Senex iratus | A father figure and comic archetype who belongs to the alazon or impostor group in theater, manifesting himself through his rages and threats, his obsessions and his gullibility. | Pantalone in Commedia dell'arte; Frank Costanza (Seinfeld) | |
Shoulder angel | A small angel representing conscience, in contrast to the shoulder devil representing temptation | Jiminy Cricket | |
Shrew (archetype) | A woman given to violent, scolding, particularly nagging treatment | Kate (The Taming of the Shrew) Lois (Malcolm in the Middle) | |
Sidekick | A plucky but generally subordinate close companion of the protagonist | Robin, Dr. Watson, Sancho Panza | |
Sinnekins | Pairs of devilish characters who exert their perfidious influence on the main character | Flotsam and Jetsam (The Little Mermaid), Hotep and Huy (The Prince of Egypt) | |
Soubrette | A character who is vain and girlish, mischievous, lighthearted, coquettish and gossipy | ||
Southern belle | A young woman of the American Old South's upper class | Blanche Dubois, Scarlett O'Hara | |
Space Nazis | Nazi-like antagonists in science fiction works | Patterns of Force, Iron Sky | |
Space pirate | Pirates in outer space who travel by spacecraft | Captain Harlock Sabalom Glitz | |
Spear carrier | A minor character who appears in several scenes, but mostly in the background | ||
Spinster | An older, childless woman who has never been married | Miss Havisham | |
Spoiled child | A child who exhibits behavioral problems from overindulgence by his or her parents | Veruca Salt, Veronica Lodge | |
Straw man (literature) | A symbol for people regarded as lacking needed qualities | ||
Superhero | An unrealistically powerful hero dedicated to protecting the public[2] | Superman, Spider-Man, Batman | |
Übermensch[2] | A (often only seemingly) perfect human being, esp. the DC Comics character Superman | Superman, Captain America, X-Men | |
Supersoldier | A soldier who operates beyond human limits or abilities | Captain America; Soldier (1998 American film), Master Chief (Halo) | |
Supervillain | Antithesis to the Superhero | Lex Luthor, The Joker, Dr. Doom | |
Swamp monster | Humanoid creatures similar to fish or resembling living piles of swamp mire | Man-Thing, Swamp Thing | |
Swashbuckler | A joyful, noisy and boastful renaissance era swordsman or pirate | Captain Jack Sparrow, The Crimson Pirate, Swashbuckler (list). | |
Tarzanesque protagonist[13] or Tarzanide[14] | A character raised in the wilds, often by animals, akin to Tarzan | Jo-Jo, Congo King, Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, Zago | |
Tomboy | A girl with boyish and/or manly behavior. | Arya Stark, Juno Macguff | |
Tortured artist | A character who is in constant torment due to frustrations with art and other people. | Brian Topp | |
Town bully | A bully oppressing meeker residents of a town. | Biff Tannen, Nelson Muntz. | |
Town drunk | A male in a small town who is drunk more often than sober. | Barney Gumble, Haymitch Abernathy, Otis Campbell | |
Tragic hero | A hero with a major flaw that leads to his or her eventual death and downfall. | Sigurd, Boromir, Orpheus | |
Tragic mulatto | A mulatto who is sad or suicidal because he or she fails to fit in with white or black people | Judy Kovacs in the episode Are You Now or Have You Ever Been in the television series Angel. | |
Travesti (theatre) | Portrayal of a character in an opera, play, or ballet by a performer of the opposite sex | Edna Turnblad | |
Tycoon | A person who wields considerable economic power, often acting at the expense of the less fortunate | Montgomery Burns, Scrooge McDuck, Ebeneezer Scrooge | |
Valley girl | Affluent white women or teenagers characterized by speaking Valspeak and a vapid materialism | Gretchen Wieners | |
Vice (character) | An allegorical evil part in medieval morality plays. | ||
Village idiot | A person known locally for ignorance or stupidity. | ||
Villain[2] | An evil character in a story | Snidely Whiplash, Fu Manchu Master (Doctor Who) | |
Whisky priest | A priest or ordained minister who shows clear signs of moral weakness, while at the same time teaching a higher standard | Father Callahan | |
White hunter | White big-game hunters in Africa | Allan Quatermain | |
Wise fool | A fool with an attribute of wisdom | Shakespearean fool, such as in King Lear; Stańczyk | |
Wise old man | An elderly character who provides wisdom to the protagonist. | Albus Dumbledore, Yoda, Gandalf Mickey Goldmill | |
Yokel | An unsophisticated country person | Rose Nylund, Cletus Spuckler | |
Youxia | A Chinese type of the Knight-errant | Li Mu-Bai, Fong Sai-yuk | |
Zombie[2] | Animated corpses prone to eating humans and thus spreading their condition. Often caused by Voodoo practices or viral agents. | Dawn of the Dead, The Walking Dead, 28 Days Later |
See also[edit]
- Commedia dell'arte
- Stereotype
- List of female stock characters
- List of stock characters in military fiction
- List of stock characters in science fiction
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- ^ a b Peter Graham (22 May 1998), The Planet of the Zogs, Times Educational Supplement
- ^ De Camp, L. Sprague (1953), Science-fiction Handbook: The Writing of Imaginative Fiction, p. 28
- ^ Vivanco, Luis Antonio ; Gordon, Robert J. . Tarzan was an eco-tourist--: and other tales in the anthropology of adventure. [S.l.: s.n.]. p. 114
- ^ Association pour la diffusion de la pensée française, France. Direction générale des relations culturelles. Bulletin critique du livre français, Edições 628-630. [S.l.]: Association pour la diffusion de la pensée française, 2001.


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At the turn of the 20th century, the plantation that was to become Frightmare Manor was just a regular estate, owned by seemingly upstanding citizen Jeremiah Lexer. Lexer, however, turned out to be one of America's earliest and Tenessee's most prolific serial killer. More than 30 corpses were unearthed throughout the property and in its marshy backwoods--and even after Lexer took his own life, mysterious deaths continued to plague the plantation.
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Deep within the Appalachian Mountains, the forest's leaves flutter as a blurry figure speeds by. But the creature high above the treetops isn't a bird, a plane, or a sports mascot recently released back into the wild. It's a person strapped into one of Black Mountain Thunder Zipline's 11 ziplines, which take customers some 400 feet above the ground and at speeds of up to 60 miles per hour. Spread over 1.5 miles, the ziplines wind through canopies and down mountain slopes on trips that last roughly two hours. Expert guides tag along on every tour to ensure safety and instruct adventurers on equipment.
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Birds and Clays, Inc. equips 12 forested stations with automatic traps that shoot sporting-clay targets high in the air, where they attempt to evade hunters' bullets with swift, aerial maneuvers. Sporting clay professionals acquaint visiting duos with their weapons and equipment before waving them on to solve vendettas against clay in a manner that doesn't terrorize local pottery shops. Trappers man the stations and load six to eight disks at each as guests take aim, hoping to shatter as many proxy pigeons as possible before heading through the woods to the next station. A limited number of golf carts swiftly shuttle patrons between stations when available, and cartless dischargers can trek the woodsy paths via foot or off-roading skateboards.
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The arguments over who belongs in baseball's Hall of Fame will be louder this year. First-time candidates on the ballot announced this week include a big group of great players linked in various ways to performance-enhancing drugs: Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa.
If voters' rejection of Mark McGwire in recent elections is a guide, they'll almost certainly not give Bonds and Co. the 75 percent support needed for Hall of Fame induction.
Must suspected cheaters be kept out of the Hall?
One way to look at this debate is that it has less to do with what the players themselves, and whether or not they cheated, than it has to do with the mission of the Hall and the sportswriter-voters.
Many see the institution known as the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum as a churchlike place to celebrate the glory of the sport. This religious quality leads thousands of baseball fans to make pilgrimages to Cooperstown, N.Y., each year. For them, touring the plaques of the Hall of Fame heroes is a semireligious event -- an attitude the baseball establishment obviously encourages.
Others think of it more as a history museum, a place whose chief function is to preserve the objective history of the sport to future generations. This group thinks the Hall of Fame should recognize players for their accomplishments on the field and for their, well, fame. This group takes a warts-and-all approach to Hall selections.
As a former sportswriter who has voted for the Hall since 2006, I have arrived at the latter view. After not voting for McGwire in his first three years of eligibility, I voted for the one-time home-run hero the past three years. I concluded it should not be a voter's role to clean up the mess created when baseball management, the players' union and conniving players created a culture of cheating in the past two decades; it should be a voter's role to judge players' qualifications based on what happened on the field, and let the sport's executives deal with the smudge on its image if known cheaters are enshrined.
Taking that approach is the only way I can justify a journalist playing an official part in this annual rite of the baseball industry.
Many sportswriters cherish the way their job makes them feel like "insiders" in the sports they wish they could play professionally themselves. (Confession: This goes as well for editorial writers, often enjoying a close-up view of the game of politics.)
But sportswriters' actual job is to chronicle sports as informed outsiders. They shouldn't be promoters of the sports they cover or protectors of the sports' images. They shouldn't condone cheating, but neither should they redact its perpetrators from history. They shouldn't particularly care if they have to report -- through their Hall of Fame verdicts -- that many of the biggest stars in baseball in the 1990s and 2000s admitted or tested positive for (or are otherwise suspected of) artificial enhancement.
Those who have Hall of Fame votes should do so carefully by whatever criteria they use. By the way, considering the steroid users along with the apparently "clean" candidates doesn't make voting any easier. I find it hard enough to decide whose combination of statistics and less tangible achievements make them worthy of Cooperstown without having to play armchair detective and guess how performance-enhancing drugs may have helped them.
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Tag Archives: Starcraft 2: Wings of Liberty
Tue, Nov 26, 2013 | 20:47 GMT
Battle.net Winter Sale has kicked off in Europe
The Winter Sale on Battle.net has kicked off in Europe and for a limited time, you can save up to 65% on digital copies of select Blizzard games.
Thu, Sep 19, 2013 | 07:27 BST
Battle.net Authenticator may reset with iOS 7 update
If you haven't yet updated your iDevice to iOS 7, hold off a minute: there's a chance it could stuff up your Battle.net authenticator. To avoid any issues, follow these simple preventative steps recommended by Blizzard. I probably should have mentioned this to Pat an hour ago. We all know how he feels about his Witch Doctor.
Thanks, Joystiq.
Mon, Aug 12, 2013 | 16:52 BST
StarCraft Universe MMO Kickstarter launches
The Blizzard-approved StarCraft Universe MMO mod has taken to Kickstarter. Developer Upheaval Arts hopes to raise enough funds to create the game's first act and to get a public beta on the move.
Tue, Jul 23, 2013 | 09:50 BST
StarCraft 2 birthday celebrations give 25% XP boost to all
StarCraft 2′s birthday celebrations are running this week and with it a 25% XP Boost to all players. Wait, aren't people supposed to give the birthday person presents, not the other way around?
Sun, Mar 03, 2013 | 23:09 GMT
StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty 50% off till Heart of the Swarm launches
If you're a little behind on your real-time startegy gaming, there's still time to pick up the most important release of the last few years before its immediate successor launches. Blizzard is offering StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty at 50% off up until expansion Heart of the Swarm launches on March 12. That's probably not long enough to master one of the premiere eSports of the current generation, but it will set you up to get on board the hype train next week. Wings of Liberty was focused on the Terran or human faction, which Heart of the Swarm is more centred on the Zerg. A third instalment is expected a couple of years down the track.
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Wed, Feb 13, 2013 | 11:14 GMT
StarCraft 2: 2.0.4 patch "on the horizon", could be 6GB in size
StarCraft 2′s incoming 2.0.4 patch has been confirmed as rather large by Blizzard, and could contain a new replay feature, GUI enhancements and more.
Tue, Nov 20, 2012 | 21:46 GMT
Blizzard sale – StarCraft 2 slashed to $19.99, Diablo 3 on sale for $39.99
Prices for StarCraft 2: Wings of Liberty and Diablo 3 have been slashed on the Blizzard Store. You can pick up StarCraft 2 for $19.99 instead of the usual $59.99 and Diablo 3 has been marked down from $59.99 to $39.99. No word on how long the savings will last, so you better hurry.
Wed, Aug 01, 2012 | 17:44 BST
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty patch 1.5.0 is live, adds Arcade, other features
Blizzard has released patch 1.5 for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, which the firm has previously called the "most feature-laden patch to date," as it prepares the game for Heart of the Swarm. The update adds the much talked about Arcade features which were originally expected at launch, an overhauled mode suite, custom game visibility, ratings, reviews, game instructions and screenshot support. Various chat options have been added as weel. The full patch notes are through the link. Thanks, Talkar.
Sun, Mar 03, 2013 | 23:09 GMT
Activision will delay StarCraft 2 into 2010, says analyst
Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia has predicted that Activision will delay the release of Starcraft 2 into 2010 instead of shipping it in October 2009.
Bhatia expects the game to sell around three million copies with a 2010 release being a positive thing for the company, despite the missing the holiday shopping season.
Activision had no comment regarding a Stracraft date, however, it was announced yesterday that Singularity would be pushed into 2010 to make way for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
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This OLogy matching game challenges kids to match pictures of eight ocean creatures with their descriptions. The reward? Eight new OLogy trading cards.
This Web site, created to complement an American Museum of Natural History exhibition, looks at how diamonds are created (naturally and synthetically), and how they have been used throughout history.
This two minute video shows how to scoop out the numerous seeds in a carved pumpkin and how to roast them finely. The process involves salt and pepper after drying them completely for a day. A good activity around Halloween.
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Index on Censorship - Volume 39 No. 1
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In January, the Iranian government warned opposition groups that it was monitoring their emails and text messages, looking for people who might be organising protests. In the same week, Google declared that Chinese hackers had accessed Gmail and that they were reconsidering their position in China. Both incidents highlight what has become of fundamental importance for the protection of free speech today: the safeguarding of privacy.
Anyone who uses email, searches for information online or belongs to a social network is surrendering private information about themselves that is open to abuse. In her revealing interview for Index with David Drummond, Google's chief legal officer, Rebecca MacKinnon asks whether Google has taken the question of privacy seriously enough. She makes the novel suggestion that Google should start treating its users 'more like citizens of [a] place rather than users or customers. In order to gain people's trust … does there not need to be a new kind of thinking?' Gus Hosein echoes MacKinnon's concerns in his article on political surveillance and points out that modern telecommunications systems 'are designed with backdoors to enable state surveillance. … We need to renew our safeguards for privacy as a political right'.
Some of the world's leading authorities on technology and free speech have contributed to this special issue of Index, and their observations and insights are of concern to us all. Censorship has not died – as internet pioneers once predicted – it has been reborn. Not only does the internet make it possible for authoritarian regimes to monitor their citizens' activities as never before, it has also made censorship acceptable, and even respectable, in democracies.
Politicians and policy-makers call for filtering and blocking in the name of child protection, counter-terrorism and intellectual property. In the face of new technology, transparency and democratic accountability appear to
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. If that phrase is true, then the monarch and pipevine swallowtail have it made. Both of these popular flying flowers are toxic species other butterflies imitate.
This behavior, known as Batesian mimicry, has developed over time. It is an evolutionary process whereby a species changes its color or pattern through genetic mutation to closely resemble a toxic species. Butterflies are just one of the insects that use this behavior.
They do this for protection. Other than their look-alike technique, these butterflies have no defense against predators. If they resemble a toxic butterfly, then they have a better chance of surviving and passing their traits to offspring.
When it comes to understanding mimic butterflies, you must first look to their source. For instance, the toxic butterfly that another butterfly copies is the source model.
Predators recognize toxic butterflies because of their warning colors, which often consist of black, yellow, white and red combinations. These colors provide maximum visibility against the greens and browns of natural habitats. It's like sending a big warning sign to predators.
Viceroy photo: Paula A. Smith
One of the most common examples of mimicry behavior is that of the viceroy butterfly. It looks and behaves like the monarch, which feeds on the toxic milkweed plant. It wants to fool predators into thinking it is also toxic, so the viceroy appears at the same time of year as the monarch and uses similar habitats.
The queen and soldier butterflies also resemble the monarch, but they are not mimics. They feed on milkweed and therefore are toxic, so they are yet another model for the viceroy.
Since viceroys are found throughout most of North America, the butterflies have different options. In the northern part of the United States, the orange and black fliers mimic the monarch. Farther south, they tailor their look after the queen and soldier butterflies, which have slightly different coloring in certain regions.
For example, I live in Florida, and queen and soldier butterflies are much darker brown than monarchs. Because of this, the viceroys here have evolved to a darker coloration pattern to give them even better protection against predators in their natural habitat.
The Diana fritillary, the red-spotted purple, the spicebush swallowtail and female tiger swallowtail all mimic the chemically toxic pipevine swallowtail. Since the pipevine is found from the central U.S. southward, these mimics—at least the black forms—are in the same region.
In northern states, female tiger swallowtails remain yellow, since pipevines don't exist in that region. But the true mimics of pipevines use similar woodland habitats within their range and fly during similar periods of the year.
The female Diana fritillary is a rare and beautiful woodland butterfly that is truly dimorphic, meaning the males and females look very different. For years, it fooled scientists into thinking that the males and females of the Appalachian species were two different butterflies.
These unique butterflies live in moist and shaded woodland habitats in the Appalachian and Ozark Mountains. Their only form of protection is to mimic the pipevine.
So the next time you think you see a pipevine swallowtail or monarch, be sure to take a closer look. You could be looking at a different species altogether!


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City living inspires a lot of WTFs (chief among them: What did Daley just say? But that's a question for another time). These explanations of prominent urban curiosities should satisfy your need-to-know urges.
With all the out-in-the-open sex going on there, How does Boystown bathhouse Steamworks stay legal?
There's a good chance you've noticed a mysterious, industrial-looking facade in Boystown. Steamworks (3246 N Halsted St, 773-929-6080, steamworksonline.com) is a 25,000-square-foot gay club, open 24/7, whose amenities include 90 private rooms for sexual hookups, hot tubs and saunas, workout equipment and TVs that screen porn. How do they get away with it? "We're legal because we're listed as a gay men's health club, spa and gym, first," explains Nirmalpal Sachdev, Steamworks' general manager. "[But] we're listed as a private men's facility. It's behind closed doors and men have to gain membership to get in." It's given some leeway from the city, Sachdev says, because it offers safer-sex education, has an open-door policy for gay-outreach nonprofits, and provides STD testing. According to 23rd District commander Kathleen Boehmer, the men's club isn't a concern. "They have a…license and they've been inspected and found in full compliance as recently as July 14. We don't get many complaints on them." Setting the bar higher than its competitors probably helps, too. Sachdev says Steamworks' well-designed space and rigorous cleaning schedule makes it "the Barneys of bathhouses." —Erin Ensign
How is the grass at Pritzker Pavilion drained and dried?
"Millennium Park sits on a concrete floor [above the parking garages] that's angled toward the drainage system," says Millennium Park's Neal Speers. "Between the concrete and your feet, there are about 12 inches of topsoil and about two feet of sand, which levels out the field." The sand is what makes the Great Lawn dry much quicker than an ordinary lawn. "Water moves through sand about twice as fast as it does through soil, so within four to six hours of a hard rain, the Great Lawn can be totally dry," Speers says.—Christina Couch
How is Oak Street Beachstro assembled each summer?
If constructing your IKEA bookcase made you want to jab an Allen wrench in your eye, just imagine following the directions to put together a restaurant. "Everything is numbered and labeled, so it's almost like a gigantic jigsaw puzzle," says Anthony Priola, chef and co-owner of the Beachstro (1001 N Lake Shore Dr, 312-915-4100, oakstreetbeachstro.com). It takes about 14 days to build the 300-seat restaurant on the beach, starting with the inside kitchen pieces. Once the 53-square-foot mobile kitchen is in place, Priola's crew attaches refrigeration and interior components, including electrical systems, bathrooms and plumbing. After that, it's just details. "Literally every table, every chair, the entire bar, the outside modular pieces, everything comes from four 50-foot trailers we store in the off-season out in Barrington Hills," Priola explains. To give the outside a Caribbean feel, Priola imports 67 giant palms, most of which will be donated to the city's parks and indoor spaces such as Navy Pier when the season ends on Sunday 27. "We have a rare opportunity to physically redesign our restaurant every summer," he says. "We change it a little bit every year."—Christina Couch
How does the United Center create that perfectly smooth ice for Blackhawks games?
United Center (1901 W Madison St, 312-455-4500) general manager Jim Koehler is particularly proud of the fact that the lines and logos on the Blackhawks' home ice are hand-painted. That's interesting and everything, but we're more intrigued by the Zamboni parade. To make the ice for Toews and company, the stadium crew first freezes the concrete floor by bringing it down to 13 degrees via an expansive refrigeration system that runs beneath it. Then they spray water on it to create, as Koehler says, "a slippery sidewalk." Next they put down four spray coats of white powder ice paint, seal it with another thin layer of ice, then chalk the template for the rink and seal it again. The painters hand-paint the ice, and it's sealed again. Then they bring out the firehose and let it loose on the ice overnight, until it's about a half-inch thick. That's when the Zambonis, those big, misting squeegee trucks, come out and roll back and forth until the ice is an inch thick. "Some people think it's a foot or two thick," Koehler says. "But you don't need that much ice." And what happens when the Bulls need to play on it? The Center lays down 550 sheets of ice-decking material to insulate the floor, and lays the court on top of that. The ice stays there until the end of the season—even when the circus comes to town this winter.—Jonathan Messinger
How do they keep the eternal flame in Daley Plaza lit?
"It's not unlike how a stove at home works," notes Kevin Smith, spokesman for the Public Building Commission of Chicago. "The eternal flame is hooked up to a low-intensity natural gas line that connects into the Daley Center (50 W Washington St). Generally, the flame survives through thick and thin, but when it does go out, someone from the engineering staff will go out with a lighter and bring it back to life." Because the eternal flame uses only a small amount of gas and releases any excess into an open space (unlike, say your kitchen), Smith says there's no danger of accidentally setting something on fire. "Pigeons always huddle around it for warmth," he says. "It's totally safe." —Christina Couch
How do restaurants book reservations? Most hot spots only seem to have tables open too early or too late.
When restaurants tell you they only have tables open at 6pm or 10pm, they're telling the truth. Or at least a half truth. The table you're requesting may not necessarily be booked by another party at the prime time of 7pm, but it very well may be blocked by the restaurant. Restaurants often need to turn over a table twice per night to earn a profit, and seating people at 6pm, and then again at 8pm, is their best chance at doing so. Of course, 6:15pm and 8:15pm work, too—restaurants typically want to stagger the times they let people sit down, lest the kitchen get pummeled with everybody's orders at the same time. —David Tamarkin
How are those giant skyscraper-constructing tower cranes put together?
"Think of it as a bunch of 20-foot-long bolted-together pieces…or giant LEGOS," explains general superintendent Ross Nasca of Smithfield Properties, developers of several Chicago high-rises. After casting the bottom part in a concrete foundation, a service crane stacks the first 200 or so vertical feet of a typical "hammerhead" tower crane. But as the building goes up, so must the crane, which is why it's designed to "jump" itself. This engineering marvel is actually quite simple, according to Nasca. "There's what's called a 'climbing collar' that wraps around the tower," he says. "It has a large jack, similar to the hoist used by a car mechanic." Here's how it works: The crane trolleys up a fresh 20-foot section, sets it on a roll-out tray on the climbing collar, and then goes back to the ground to fetch another one to hold on the end as a counterweight. Workers crack the fist-sized bolts on an existing section and a piston pushes down, which hoists the top of the tower up. The workers slide the piece from the tray into place, bolt it down and the collar is raised to start the process all over again. —Rod O'Connor


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We visited this restaurant (three of us) the first time and we were impressed. Columbus needed this place. The only minor complaint came from my wife who found the gnocchi parisienne slightly too greasy and slightly burned (but tasted good). Every other food item was superb and so was the service. We will be back repeatedly.
We ate in the bar area and had excellent food and great service.
Loved everything about this restaurant. The manager was great, took us on a tour of the hotel to see the art work. Food was great and the staff were friendly and knowledgeable about the food and wine.
We had a great dinner. Everything was great. We will be back.
I attended the Gallerie for a lunch meeting and the service was wonderful!! Our server was Noor and he really sold me on all of my selections. And I was so happy with all of those. Everyone was very attetive and took great care of us! The only thing that was a bummer was that the service took a little bit longer than we had time for at lunch.
One of the best meals of our lives. We have been blessed to eat in some top notch restaurants and this one ranks right at the top. Not at all what you would expect out of a hotel restaurant. Service was friendly and attentive and food was fantastic. We're now trying to find a reason to go back to Columbus just to eat here again!
This was the first time we had been to the Gallerie Bar & Bistro and even to the Hilton Hotel downtown. We went for dinner on 4/4 to celebrate our 2 friends' birthdays and it couldn't have been nicer. We had no idea how nice this restaurant was and you did not feel like you were eating in a hotel -- you felt like you were in a high end, free standing restaurant! The experience was very nice in all ways ---- the service was outstanding, the food delicious, the atmosphere and ambiance was wonderful. It was a very nice and I think this restaurant is a hidden gem in the downtown area which needs to be advertised and promoted!
Great addition to the downtown dining options! We loved our meal and appreciated the classic seasonal menu.
Fantastic new choice in Columbus. A must destination.
We went in before a Gallery Hop, and what a great experience! I had heard the mussels were good and they did not disappoint! We also tried the cheese board, scallops(awesome). Great downtown addition.
Gallerie Bar & Bistro is an excellent addition to dining in the downtown Columbus area. My colleagues and I were able to enjoy an incredible lunch that was new and innovative. Everything from our drinks, appetizers, salads, and entrees were fantastic. The waitstaff is very kind and the managers do an excellent job of making sure all of their guests are satisfied and well taken care of. Gallerie Bar & Bistro is perfect for all occasions whether it is for happy hour at the bar, a business lunch, or a romantic dinner they have it all! We will definitely be returning. Thank you for an amazing lunch!
The mussels were excellent. I'm not a fan of the fries that are served with them.
Amazing food and incredible service! A beautiful, welcome addition to the Columbus restaurant scene.
The menu at Gallerie Bar and Bistro has a French flair with some creative twists provided by the executive chef Bill Glover. Overall the presentations are very appealilng and the food more than lives up to the visual appeal. The atmosphere is pleasant, given that the restaurant in is a large atrium area. The noise level is actually quite low which makes for a enjoyable experience. Food quality is high, as it must be if steak tatare is being served (excellent)as well as escargo. The deserts are quite tempting as well. We also had breakfast at the restaurant and the buffet was quite nice. Although the choices were standard, all the food was hot with fresh cinnamon buns and coussants.
Very good new restaurant in Columbus. Do not be fooled by the "hotel restaurant" idea. This could easily stand on its own. Great menu, very good service, amazing wine list, great happy hour (bar). Food is not typical hotel fare. It is on the pricey side and I would not bring kids here. This is one of the best new places in Columbus.
This was a magnificent find! The food was excellent and reasonably priced on entrees (alcohol drinks were pricey) and the service was great. This restaurant has catapulted to the top of my list of restaurants in Columbus.
We have eaten at Sage a few times and it was our first opportunity to try Bill's new venue. It is good to see his food magic made the trip down high street OK. This restaurant is a hidden gem as in Columbus (and USA for that matter) people are not yet used to eating in a hotel.
We found the food to be excellent in both selection and taste. Menu was creative. Lovely modern environ but a touch of classical to add warmth.
This is a refreshing place to have a business lunch. The food was wonderful, the staff was attentive but not disruptive but what we appreciated the most was that the noise level is very low. We could have a discussion without having to speak up or have trouble hearing.
I really enjoyed the food and the experience. The staff went out of their way to deliver a memorable dining experience. Bistro salad was excellent and filet with pomme frites was outstanding. I would definitely go back again. This is really much more than just a hotel restaurant.
The food was outstanding! My husband and I are adventurous eaters and this place has a variety of unique choices. It is an open location within the Hilton, which we loved! We are already planning our return to Gallerie!
Columbus has been waiting for another high-end restaurant with French cuisine. The menu is typical French bistro...circa fifteen years ago. We had three courses--apps, salad/mussels, entrees. Bone marrow was yummy but slighty dry, perhaps overcooked? Foie Gras and Scallop appetizer is decadent but practically an amuse bouche. The Mussels Marniere were perfect. The spinach salad was bitter and overdressed. The ribeye was fatty, but expectedly so since it was local. Duck confit was as good as I've had in popular French restaurants (Cafe Daniel Boulud Brasserie, Les Halles) Our server was skilled yet stretched thin. Within a pricey restaurant, I expect more attention. I felt slighted upon seeing others offered an amuse bouche.
... and I've tried a few. Hard to believe this is a hotel restaurant... in COLUMBUS!
Thom and Lauren were outstanding servers, attentive and very knowledgable about the menu. The food was delicious and came out exceptionally perfect (for 17 diners). Cocktail selection was also an A+. I celebrated my college graduation here and couldn't imagine a better time. It was exactly what I was looking for!!
Gallarie Bar & Bistro is definitely not what you would expect for a hotel restaurant. Its food is easily on par with the best restaurants in Columbus and better than most. Chef Glover of Sage is doing a great job of bringing upscale dining to the Hilton. This is our second visit and we will be back. My wife and I shared the Foie Gras au Torchon which was incredible, but way too rich for one person. My wife had the Amish Chicken which she will definetly have again. I had a lamb special which was cooked perfectly.
Excellent meals and presentation. Outstanding taste combinations. I would go back. Great place for groups and service was excellent.
We reserved a table for 8 and when we showed up with 9, it was no problem at all. Our server was fantastic and she really impressed everyone. We had bottle after bottle of wine, numerous apps, and a variety of entres. The chef then surprised us with a custom dessert tray! The food was fantastic - definitely try the bone marrow! Many people had steaks, and were quite happy. No one complained about any app or entre. We had coffee with dessert and by the time the night ended, it was a super quick 3.5 hours of great times. Cheers!
The highlights were the apetizers and the onion soup. The entrees were good, but not up to the previous dishes. The wine list was fine, but the markup was enormous!
The food here is wonderful - unusual but simplistic, a rare combination. The service is extraordinary. Two of the three times I have dined here the chef came out to greet our table and spent a few minutes with us talking about the restaurant. He also made a dessert item that was not on the menu for someone in our party. The staff here goes above and beyond.
A group of 8 of us had lunch and we all loved our choices--especially, the lobster roll. LOTS of lobster (ordered them without the fennel) and tasty bread--would recommend that the restaurant use a smaller portion of bread--maybe serve the lobster on top of a salad. Great service and very accommodating to special requests. Beautiful comtemporary setting. Friendly.
Pretzel/salmon was the best out of 5 entrees ordered by group. Beautiful and comfortable setting. Had been here previously for lunch which was better than dinner. Onion soup very good as were mussels.
The restaurant is first rate. The dedication of all the staff from the chef, who came out to greet us, to the servers, to the valets were extremely personable and attentive without being intrusive. The food was first rate and we got good advice about what to order and good wine possibilities. When making the reservation, I had asked for a quiet place so we could talk as we were dining with a friend we hadn't seen for years. They found us a perfect place. Such a large restaurant might have felt cold, but large as it is it also feels intimate. It was a wonderful evening. I think it would also be a good choice to bring out of town job candidates. So many restaurants in the city are great, but too noisy to visit comfortably.
From our seating to our final bite of dessert it is apparent the Chef has everything under control. Our server presented the details on every menu item and accommodated special dietary requests. This is not a typical hotel restaurant and should be considered for any occasion. The high quality, locally sourced food, is prepared and presented impeccably in five-star fashion.
Restaurant is in new Hilton Hotel in Short North Neighborhood. Setting is casually elegant. Bistro salad delicious with frisée, lardons, pickled onion, poached egg in a very nice vinaigrette. It cost $11. Vegetable plate ($20) was tasty. Chicken was said to be mushy but pork chop and mussel dinners were said to be very good. Service attentive but leisurely. Overall menu had many unique items, ie, bone marrow, sweetbreads. Shared a tasty crime brûlée dessert.
Starting with the excellent Cosmo and Tanqueray and tonic at happy hour prices, we had a delightful evening. The view from our seat in the bar was great. Then into our plush booth - my husband had the salmon and I had the filet and lobster; both were fabulous and cooked perfectly. The staff was so friendly and everyone wished us happy anniversary. Then we watched as the chef prepared the amazing peanut butter and chocolate dessert - beautiful and so, so good! I highly recommend the Gallerie for any special occasion or a great happy hour.
I like that they source locally. I wish there was more detailed information available and an ingredient list for each dish. All tasted great!
We had a great experience here! We were on a time schedule to get to a concert and our server made sure we had our food on time so we could make it to our event. Service and food were outstanding! Will definitely be back when we are in town.
Gallerie Bar & Bistro will change the way you feel about hotel restaurants! The 12-story skylight provides an openness that is unmatched by any restaurant in the downtown area. The food is superb and prepared perfectly. The waitstaff is friendly, personable and knowledgeable! I would recommend this place for out-of-towners and locals alike! A MUST try!!!
We were treated so exceptionally well from the moment we arrived at the bar until the last second we left our table. The bartenders, waiter, chef and manager were nothing short of spectacular. Every dish that arrived at our table was astounding.
outstanding choice.. Excellent food quality and menu--preparation was top notch as was menu--enough variety in choices but not overwhelming. Mussels were fresh and well prepared, they could definitely be an entree, or a hearty appetizer. My wife's sweetbread appetizer (something you don't see on a lot menu's) was large and well prepared, with several sauces as accompaniments. Wine list was a bit thin and they were "out" of one of the two Sancerre choices listed by the bottle. Many wines by the glass however. Desserts were excellent as well, although the peach shortcake didn't have any fresh peaches, but the ice cream was outstanding. The chocolate and PB terrine was delicious. Bar was lively and the cocktails well crafted
Our dining experience was absolutely stellar!! The food was amazingly delicious and beautifully prepared. Lauren provided our group with seamless service, and she was very pleasant and professional. We will definitely return!
Our first time dining at Gallerie, and we will be back! Wonderful food, creative menu and delightful service - and the decor of the space is lovely
Absolutely amazing! The head chef is known for his Ohio Chicken dish and it's to die for - literally melts in your mouth. Great choices for every course. Vast wine & cocktail selection. Food presentation is art on a plate. Ambience is very open and the sky lights above makes it feel somewhat outdoors. All staff members were very courteous and knowledgeable. Love that they use local ingredients!
First time at this restaurant. Followed the chef over from Sage. Very enjoyable meal. Food was excellent. Restaurant was not real busy, but it's relatively new and inside the new Hilton. Celebrated my daughter's 22nd birthday and enjoyed being able to have dinner conversation without having to scream across the table. Great job to everyone involved!
To start Jordan was our server and didn't miss a beat. He was attentive but not overly, and personable. He featured a few notable items on the menu without sounding like a lecture or rushed. I was entertaining potential clients and noted it on my open table reservation. The experience Jordoan provided was truly that - an experience. My soon to be clients were WOW'd! The food was exquisite - and we had lunch! I can only imagine what dinner will be like! I will be coming back for dinner very soon! Thank you Jordan and the Culinary Team at the Gallerie Bistro!
My husband and I had a wonderful meal. Drinks were impeccably made, all of the food was delicious, and the service was perfect - friendly without being too too obsequious.
Everything was absolutely amazing! A perfect dinner
The all around dinning experience of this restaurant was fantastic! This is not a hotel restaurant; this is a restaurant that just happens to be in a hotel. The modern flare on French Cuisine concentrates on local products and seasonality which definitely shows in every dish. The service staff is well educated in their menu as well as the wine list which makes wine pairings a must with every course! I personally really enjoyed the classic French items available on the menu such as the sweet breads and pork bellies. Both items were superb! Needless to say we will be jumping at the next opportunity to dine at this restaurant!
Simply amazing! I always enjoy the pretzel crusted salmon (huge piece of fish too) and my boyfriend had the Red Snapper Special and he couldn't stop raving about it! Delicious all around!
Lunch at The Gallerie Bar & Bistro is fantastic. The restaurant has an inviting and modern feel to it. The food is amazing and the service friendly and prompt.


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