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Biological type: | Insectoid | |
Affiliated with: | Garpol | |
Place of origin: | Safenesthome | |
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Metatraxi were an insectoid species.
Biology Edit
Metatraxi ate their own parents on hatching. (PROSE: Down)
History Edit
The Metatraxi were evolved by their own planet, Safenesthome, as a way of fighting back the Grub. They were ideally suited to the planet, as they spent so much time going to other worlds fighting wars that they never used enough of the planet's resources, which was the original reason the Grub had to leave in the first place. (AUDIO: Earth Aid)
In 1989, Raine Creevy, the Seventh Doctor and Ace defeated the Metatraxi in Kafiristan. (AUDIO: Crime of the Century)
The Vancouver was attacked by the Metatraxi while bringing food to Safenesthome. (AUDIO: Earth Aid)
The Krotons went to war with the Metatraxi, during which they devastated their homeworld. (PROSE: Alien Bodies)
Culture Edit
The Metatraxi would take their enemies to a huge arenas, where the would proceed to taunt their enemies to death. This would involve a leading Metatraxi heavily insulting the individual they were taunting, getting incredible personal and playing on all their darkest fears and personality faults. The Seventh Doctor was subjected to one of these ordeals. (AUDIO: Earth Aid)
References Edit
Garpol once bought a lawnmower off a Metatraxi. (PROSE: Question Mark Pyjamas)
Njeri Ngugi mentioned the Metatraxi in the introduction to The Children of Davros. (COMIC: Abslom Daak - Dalek Killer)
Behind the scenes Edit
Originally, the Metatraxi were to be featured in Earth Aid, a TV script written by Ben Aaronovitch for the Seventh Doctor in the cancelled Season 27. In this story, they would have been seen to be forcing their enemies through all methods, particularly bargaining, to take a weapon, as a problem in their mental complex was that they could not harm un-armed opponents. They later appeared in the audio version of the same story which was produced by Big Finish Productions as part of their The Lost Stories range of audio stories.


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Cambodian Red Cross launches luxury resort near Preah Vihear
The Cambodian Red Cross has launched a new luxury hotel near Cambodia's Preah Vihear temple. The Green Tel Palace hotel features 80 rooms and spreads across six storeys. The profits from the new hotel will reportedly to go towards humanitarian efforts however; some critics are sceptical of these claims.
In what has been considered by some to be a controversial move, the Cambodian Red Cross has opened a luxury hotel near that Thai border at Preah Vihear.
The six storey, 80 room Green Tel Palace hotel which has been developed over a period of three years is expected to raise funds for humanitarian causes. Acting director of the Cambodian Red Cross, Rath Sophea stated:
"We hope that it will generate income to help humanitarian activity, because we only rely on philanthropists."
He went on to add that with the revenue from the hotel the Red Cross:
"… could give more support to the poor."
Much of the controversy surrounding the venture stems from the fact that the Red Cross which is overseen by Bun Rany, the wife of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has been accused of being too closely tied to the ruling Cambodian People's Party.
Despite the raised eyebrows, critics have acknowledged that the construction of the hotel was not unethical so long as its profits indeed go towards funding humanitarian causes.
Lor Chan the coordinator of the human rights group Adhoc explained the source of his organisation's scepticism stating:
"We don't know what is occurring in the internal working or anything related to the budget, which perhaps will not be able to help the poor or those who face real problems."
Only time will tell whether the hotel's funds will indeed be channelled towards humanitarian efforts. However, with confidence in Preah Vihear as a tourist attraction being restored, it is safe to say that the new Green Tel Palace hotel will attract its fair share of guests.
The vast majority of international travellers who book holidays in Cambodia are enticed by cultural and historical sites like Angkor Wat.
Preah Vihear, once the source of a longstanding territorial dispute between Cambodia and neighbouring Thailand, was recently declared safe to visit by the UK Foreign Office with the UK officials lifting the previously established travel ban. The UNESCO World Heritage site, which dates back to the 11th century, is now poised to rival Angkor Wat as Cambodia's top tourist attraction.
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With the recent news of the imminent demise of women's studies as a valid academic pursuit, it seems a feat of remarkable timing that an invigorating show about precisely that, the study of women's history, should be mounted at the National Portrait Gallery. Brilliant Women: 18th-century Bluestockings is a collection of contemporary portraits and artefacts from the Georgian period concerning the bas bleu, a group of influential female movers and shakers who were loosely connected by some fundamental shared values.
The fact that most of them were filthy rich, too (the exquisite gold-framed miniature portraiture of a friendship trinket is just one example of their ability to purchase exactly what they wanted), does not detract from the fact that these were intelligent women with inquiring minds and the resources to devote themselves to the traditionally male preserves of natural history, art and philosophy.
We meet up with a range of women. There are those who could make things happen. Elizabeth Montagu comes across as hugely resourceful, manipulative, even, whose salons were arranged precisely in serried rows by la grande dame herself. Others were gloriously talented. Angelica Kauffmann portrays her own tussle with the muses of music and art. One of the great advantages of being your own portraitist is that you can do yourself full justice in the beauty department.
But the most influential were the thinkers, those women who thought that the female estate should be set up differently, and who set down their ideas on paper. There is an original letter penned by a very young Mary Wollstonecraft to her older mentor, Catharine Macaulay. Mary expresses her admiration that Catharine has sought "the laurels" and not "the flowers" in the development of her writing career. What an insight into a visionary mind. Mary's portrait is compelling: hair untended, hunched protectively over an open book, her eyes carrying that near-maniacal gleam of genius. The European dimension is represented with the rebellious Madame de Signy, who was banished from Napoleon's court.
Who are the counterparts of these women today? Has the designer handbag indeed taken over from the lilac ink? There is so much that is vital and thought provoking to be gleaned from this show, and judging by the attendance, many are gleaning, both women and men. Women's studies dead? I don't believe it.
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See a theme here! I was a working maniac to finish "stuff" this weekend! I got the 2 grade school raffle quilts back last week and have the first one done with binding! Woooo Hooo!!! I'm a happy camper!
Oh and look closely on the right side.... I cannot get a picture of a quilt without Pooh Bear popping up somewhere in the pic. It is kind of funny, but also really a pain when I can't have a single picture without him in it! I usually try and cut him out, but this was too funny!
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
3 comments from wonderful readers:
- Sandra said...
Great quilt, love the colours and the gorgeous quilting!
- Patty said...
pooh bear is a favorite around our house too. The quilt is so pretty.
- Tonya R said...
Ooh, the spiral quilting is great. I love how this one came out.
Who knew Pooh was a cat - always having to see what it going on, getting in the way... - 12:58 AM
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i'm running visual studio.net 2003 and xdk 5849
i downloaded the rared 1.1 source package and that compiled ok as far as i can tell, didn't actually try it yet.
i then installed wincvs and got the latest source, now when i try and build this i get the folowing errors.
d:\cvs\xbmc\guilib\common\xbfont.h(49) : fatal error c1083: cannot open include file: 'xbresource.h': no such file or directory
i get this same error about xbresource.h for loads of files
project : warning prj0018 : the following environment variables were not found:
for each project.
any ideas why this variable isn't set? it must be set in the other project because that built ok
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No problem, thanks for helping!_mikePosted in thread: Anyone know what this is? on 03-07-2011 at 12:13 PM
SlowDrip, that looks like it. Thanks! Much appreciated.Posted in thread: Anyone know what this is? on 03-06-2011 at 11:24 PM
I agree with the flow meter part. There however is no electrical lead coming from the unit, so
I don't think it had a sensor in it. I have had 2 plumbers out, and no one knew what it was :-)
One compa...Posted in thread: Anyone know what this is? on 03-06-2011 at 08:44 PM
is located on the feed line to our open-loop geo-thermal unit. It looks like it is supposed
to have a float in it, possibly to show flow rate or something?Anyway, it look like it's not
working, and ... Posted in thread: Is my softener doing anything? on 12-20-2010 at 07:12 PM
Good info, thanks. I guess I'll assume everything is working OK as long as the tests are coming
out OK. Should I be seeing water at the bottom of the tank? I dug through the salt, and ended
up with a ...Posted in thread: Is my softener doing anything? on 12-20-2010 at 01:43 PM
We just bought a house that has a well, and septic systems (something new to me). In the
utility room is a water softener, acid neutralizer and pressure regulator. Again, I'm new to
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I once had a discussion with a friend about the word "sight seeing". I was flabbergasted to find out it was not "site seeing" which is the only form of the word that actually makes sense. You are seeing sites. You are not seeing vision. (Yes, I know "sight" also means something worth seeing but "site' just makes so much more sense.) Nevertheless, the best way I have found to ever actually see a locale is on your feet. Preferably at around an 8 minute per mile pace.
In Chapter 12 of 138,336 Feet of Pure Bliss entitled "This Country is Beautiful" I talk about seeing the country on foot. To clarify, I also talk about seeing the whole world on foot. Korea, Italy, the Caribbean. The more I see, the more I know I have seen so little.
This past weekend I spent sometime in British Columbia. I made my first foray into the province on New Year's Eve last year because my best friend wanted to see some snow (she is from Texas) and I knew Portland wasn't going to get any.
So we hopped a plane to Spokane and picked a random city in Canada to go and play for a day. Cranbrook was our destination and using my uncanny ability to find awesome places to run, I found the Cranbrook Community Forest. Soft powdery snow and with a temp getting no lower than 18 degrees, it was ideal. (Not to sound old fogey-esque but where in the heck did real winters go? I mean, 18 degrees for Canada in December?! That was sometimes April in Titusville when I grew up! But I digress.)
This time I wanted to take advantage of a rare weekend off and with the weather still nice headed up to points along the coast. Vancouver, Whistler, Victoria, Campbell River and the towns in between were just a few places we hit in Canada. (By the by, holy crap are ferry rides expensive. The two we had to take were about 1/3 of the total expenses for the whole 5 day trip. No wonder people stay put. As an aside, I saw there is a marathon on one of the islands in the Strait of Georgia that requires three ferry rides to get to. Yeah, I'll just by a seaplane, thanks. Must be cheaper.)
But while the 1400 miles of driving allowed us to see some fantastic sites (thank you very much) it was when we got out of the car and went for little six milers that the true awesomeness showed itself. Granted most of it was planned as exploring for too long just wasn't in the time table, but the nuances of a town or a city are just not seen when you are in a car. Walking takes too darn long. Being on a bike means you are always about to become fenderfood (trademarked, by the way.) Running is the perfect blend of safety and speed that allows us to see so much of the world.
It is running that allowed me to check out the Burnaby Lake in suburban Vancouver and learn more about how it is in deed of some serious dredging.
My shoes took me to pay homage to Terry Fox statues in both his childhood home and also where he would have ended his cross-Canada journey if osteosarcoma hadn't taken his life far too soon.
I found an odd bit of art along the Victoria SeaWalk which was hidden from virtually every other view that I would have had if I had not run right next to it.
Once we left BC and headed back to Portland the long way along the Washington Coast, it was oddities like running on a beach in the westernmost zipcode in the contiguous United States that helped break up what would have otherwise been long drives.
After leaving Forks, WA (home of the Twilight saga - I am Team Dane in case you cared to know) and heading to the famous Hole In the Wall we found we could get there and back far faster than the hikers (who looked like they were going on a 7 day tour and not an hour long hike) leaving us more time to go see other things as well.
All in all, obviously a car will get you to places faster and walking will allow you to take everything in more deeply. But nothing quite melds the best of both worlds like a nice jog through the world.
So in just about a month, when I take on my 150 mile Dane To Davenport, it will be a fantastic journey of seeing the Heartland. From Dane, Wisconsin to Davenport, IA, I will get 150 miles of roads, trails, tracks and paths to take mental pictures of to last me a lifetime. Looking forward to every step!


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Schools that empower students to make a difference [VIDEOS]
Here are two amazing videos that highlight ways that educators can empower kids to make a difference in the world. Happy viewing!
Here are two amazing videos that highlight ways that educators can empower kids to make a difference in the world. Happy viewing!
These two videos are a perfect way to allow teachers to think outside the box. When taking in consideration of the type of world we are preparing our young children for, we need to keep the learning environment up to date also. The first video has a great way of giving the students a chance to interact with the community. It also gives the students an opportunity to take their noses out of the books and experience real life interaction. Things don't always happen how the books describe it so it is great to allow the students to think for themselves. I believe that the second video gives a great example as to the classrooms being used compared to the jobs offered at the time. Yes we do still have rows of desk that resemble the rows for assembly lines. We need to change that. Giving the students the chance to change it for themselves give them a sense of accomplishment. It also gives the teachers hope of bringing creativity back in the classrooms. After all we cant always rely on the cookie cutter effect. Who knows whats next.


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WPSG, channel 57, is a CW owned-and-operated television station located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The station is owned by the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of CBS Corporation, and is part of a duopoly with CBS owned-and-operated station KYW-TV (channel 3). The two stations share a studio and office facilities located on Hamilton Street north of Center City Philadelphia, WPSG's transmitter is located in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia.
The channel 57 frequency was originally assigned to Easton, Pennsylvania where it was home to WGLV-TV, a dual ABC/DuMont affiliate owned by the Easton Express newspaper, which first signed on the air June 26, 1953. Unfortunately, the station struggled to get an audience mainly because it was a UHF station at a time when television manufacturers were not required to offer UHF tuners. Its fate was sealed in 1957, when the FCC collapsed the Lehigh Valley into the Philadelphia television market. The Philadelphia stations built tall towers in the city's hilly Roxborough neighborhood, adding Easton and the rest of the Lehigh Valley to their city-grade coverage. WGLV went dark on November 1 of that year, and several years later the FCC reassigned the channel 57 allocation to Philadelphia.
Channel 57 as a Philadelphia station first signed on the air on June 15, 1981 as WWSG-TV, named for station founder William S. Gross. The station aired business news programming from the Financial News Network during the day and subscription television programming from SelecTV at night. The station's original studio facilities were located on North 20th Street in Philadelphia. The station ultimately dropped the FNN feed when it decided to switch to a full-time subscription format eighteen months later, picking up the now-defunct PRISM pay-cable service (a forerunner to Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia) in 1983.
In March 1985, Gross sold channel 57 to Milton Grant,[2] who immediately purchased an inventory of strong programming. Many of these shows were Viacom-syndicated programs that were formerly seen on WKBS-TV (channel 48) before that station ceased operations in August 1983. On October 20, 1985, Grant relaunched channel 57 as WGBS-TV, a general entertainment independent station with a typical mix of cartoons, sitcoms, movies, dramas and sports. Westerns also aired for several hours a day on weekends. Under Grant, WGBS adopted a very slick on-air look, even by major market independent standards. The station boldly branded itself as "Philly 57", and also used CGI graphics of near network-quality. The station's announcer, Kim Martin (then an announcer at WPEN radio, now WKDN), offered bold, brash and entertaining voice-overs. WGBS' then-sister stations, WBFS-TV in Miami and WGBO-TV in Chicago, adopted a similar look.
Early on, the new channel 57 competed with Vineland, New Jersey-based WSJT (channel 65, now WUVP-DT) to fill the void left by the departure of WKBS two years earlier. However, channel 65 suffered from a poor signal in the northern portion of the market. At the same time, channel 57 became the broadcast home of the NHL's Philadelphia Flyers, remaining the hockey team's broadcast television home until the 2008-09 season (except for a brief period from 1993 to 1998, when the Flyers aired on WPHL-TV, channel 17). Additionally, Wilmington, Delaware-based WTGI (channel 61, now WPPX-TV) signed on in the summer of 1986 as a general entertainment independent station, but its schedule was composed largely of low-budget programs. At the end of 1986, WSJT's owners, the Asbury Park Press, conceded and sold the station to the Home Shopping Network while other stations picked up some of WSJT's syndicated shows. WTGI, meanwhile, switched to a format featuring paid programming and religious programs in January 1987. By then, WGBS had clearly established itself as the third independent in Philadelphia.
WGBS prospered even in the midst of a battle for its survival – and that of its owner. Milton Grant had hoped to have his stations become regional or national superstations. In his bid to boost his stations' status, Grant wound up overpaying for programming. He soon became so badly overextended that Grant Broadcasting was forced to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late 1986.[4] Under the bankruptcy deal, WGBS cut back on the number of runs it had on each show causing programs to be seen at less duration. Still, in 1989, Grant Broadcasting was forced into receivership after the company failed to meet the terms of its bankruptcy agreement. Combined Broadcasting, a creditor-controlled holding company, took control of the former Grant stations. Combined put the stations up for sale in 1993, but it would be two years before Combined found a buyer, and only then in a roundabout way.
Joining UPN
Combined's first attempt to sell WGBS-TV came in August 1993, when Fox Television Stations announced that it would purchase channel 57 and make it Philadelphia's new Fox station. The deal would have left existing Fox affiliate WTXF-TV (channel 29) without an affiliation.[5] WTXF's owner, Paramount Stations Group (a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures), strongly criticized Fox's plans to pull its affiliation, fueling existing speculation that Paramount was planning to join with Chris-Craft Industries to create a new network;[5] when what eventually became the United Paramount Network (UPN) was announced that October as a joint venture of the two companies (with Paramount holding only a programming partnership until it purchased 50% of the network in 1996), WTXF was named as its Philadelphia affiliate.[6]
However, on November 19, 1993; the New York City chapters of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People filed a formal objection to Fox's planned purchase of WGBS due to concerns about Fox's ownership structure. The NAACP contended that Fox's then-owner, News Corporation—based in Australia at the time—was the de facto parent company of Fox Television Stations' holding company, Twentieth Holdings Corporation (THC). Newscorp's chairman, Rupert Murdoch, owned 76 percent of THC's stock in his own name; he had become an American citizen in 1985 so he could buy U.S. television stations. FCC regulations limit foreign ownership of broadcast stations to 25%, and the NAACP contended that Newscorp owned at least 36% of THC's stock, including all of the common stock.[7] As FCC approval did not come before the planned January 30, 1994 completion of the deal, Combined walked away from the $57 million sale a few weeks later, preserving WTXF's Fox affiliation and opening the door for UPN to affiliate with WGBS.[8]
Later that year, Westinghouse Broadcasting, owners of then-NBC affiliate KYW-TV, reached an agreement with CBS to switch channel 3 and two of Westinghouse's other stations to CBS. New World Communications had recently partnered with Fox in most of the markets where the company owned stations, and emerged as a candidate to purchase CBS' longtime owned-and-operated station WCAU-TV (channel 10). Fox also entered into the bidding for WCAU just in case New World's offer either fell through or in case New World chose to affiliate WCAU with NBC. However, on August 31, 1994, Viacom (which had acquired Paramount several months earlier) announced that it would sell WTXF to Fox for over $200 million;[9] NBC and CBS then opted to make a complicated multi-market station swap which gave WCAU to NBC. Using the cash received from Fox for channel 29, Viacom then bought WGBS and its Miami sister station, WBFS-TV.[10] As soon as the deal was announced, Viacom announced that both stations would join UPN. The purchase effectively resulted in Viacom buying out its partners' stakes in Combined Broadcasting; as the owner of the majority of the programs seen on channel 57's schedule back in 1985, Viacom was one of Grant's former creditors and a part-owner of Combined. Grant had been under particularly strong pressure to repay his debt to Viacom prior to filing bankruptcy.
WGBS became Philadelphia's UPN station when the network launched on January 16, 1995. After UPN debuted, the station's image was changed to fit its new status as a network station. The on-air branding changed to "UPN Philly 57", and finally "UPN 57", the graphics got simpler, and Martin was replaced by the more staid Larry Van Nuys. The "UPN 57" branding was kept for the remainder of the network's run, with the exception of a short-lived branding change to simply "UPN" in September 2002, when the UPN network debuted a new logo and on-air identity. This lasted exactly one season, and by the fall of 2003, the station's branding reverted to "UPN 57".
Viacom officially became the sole owner of WGBS on August 25, 1995, the same day Fox closed on its purchase of WTXF. On December 11 of that year, Viacom changed the station's call letters to WPSG (reflecting its operation by the Paramount Stations Group subsidiary). Viacom bought CBS in 2000, creating a duopoly with KYW-TV; WPSG's operations later migrated into KYW-TV's studios at Independence Mall. That same year, Viacom also purchased Chris-Craft's 50% share of UPN for $5.5 billion,[11] this resulted in WPSG becoming UPN's largest owned-and-operated station (taking that distinction away from Secaucus, New Jersey-licensed New York City station WWOR-TV, it and Chris-Craft's other UPN stations were stripped of their statuses as O&Os due to the Viacom buyout and were eventually sold to Fox Television Stations, one of which was subsequently traded to Paramount).
In recent years, WPSG has tried to reposition itself as more of a local station, using the slogan So Philly, So You! (spelled as So Philly, So U! during the waning days of its UPN run). Weekend movie marathons, usually hosted by local personalities (or KYW/WPSG staff like Sean Murphy), have become commonplace, and during the late 2000s, the station broadcast the Philadelphia version of Gimme the Mike!, a competition for aspiring singers. In recent years, WPSG has become Philadelphia's leading sports station. Since the late 1990s, it has acquired over-the-air rights to MLB's Philadelphia Phillies and the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers in addition to its long-standing coverage of the Flyers (although the majority of those teams' games are broadcast on Comcast SportsNet). Phillies games moved to WPHL in November 2008. When Viacom and CBS split in 2005, WPSG became part of the CBS Corporation, along with the rest of Viacom's broadcasting interests (the original Viacom was renamed CBS Corporation, while the company that split from CBS and acquired the company's film and most cable television assets, save for Showtime Networks, took the Viacom name).
The CW
On January 24, 2006, WPSG parent CBS Corporation and the Warner Bros. Television unit of Time Warner announced that the two companies would shut down UPN and The WB and merge some of their programs onto a new, jointly-owned network called The CW Television Network.[2][2] As part of the deal, the new network signed a 10-year affiliation contract with 11 of CBS' UPN stations, including WPSG. Channel 57 was the largest UPN owned-and-operated station to join the new network. However, it would not have been an upset had Philadelphia's WB station, WPHL (which joined another newly launched service called MyNetworkTV), been chosen instead; representatives for The CW were on record as preferring the "strongest" stations among The WB and UPN's affiliate body, and Philadelphia was one of the few markets where the UPN and WB stations were both relatively strong. Since WPHL's owners Tribune Broadcasting does not maintain an ownership stake in The CW, and CBS is the only stakeholder in the network that owns a television station group, WPSG is considered to be the network's official flagship station (although The CW's New York City affiliate WPIX is the network's largest station by market size).
WPSG continued to carry UPN programming until the network shut down on September 15, 2006; The CW commenced operations three days later on September 18. While the "Philly 57" branding was discontinued in 1995, it had been so effective that many continue call the station by that name today. It is probably for this reason that, in a surprising move, WPSG announced in the summer of 2006 that it would revive the "Philly 57" moniker as part of the station's new branding, "CW Philly 57", although on-air promotions refer to the station as "CW Philly". In addition, WPSG would continue to broadcast Phillies, Flyers and Sixers games, a move that had been uncertain after the station became a CW affiliate.
On April 2, 2007, WPSG and KYW-TV relocated their operations to new studios at 1555 Hamilton Street in Philadelphia, near the Community College of Philadelphia.
Digital television
Digital channels
The station's digital channel is multiplexed:
Channel | Video | Aspect | PSIP Short Name | Programming[2] |
57.1 | 1080i | 16:9 | WPSG | Main WPSG programming / The CW |
Analog-to-digital conversion
WPSG shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 57, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 32.[2][16] Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 57, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition.
In September 2002, KYW radio (1060 AM) and KYW-TV launched a weekday morning news program called KYW NewsRadio This Morning on WPSG. Originally anchored by KYW anchor Beth Trapani, the broadcast was essentially an embellished radio newscast with simple graphics and video borrowed from KYW-TV. Trapani was succeeded as anchor by Ed Abrams, who gave way in turn to Lesley Van Arsdall. The news program did surprisingly better than expected but the effort would eventually come to an end on May 30, 2005. The following day, a new program called WakeUPNews, produced by Traffic Pulse, premiered in the four-hour timeslot previously held by KYW NewsRadio This Morning. The newscast carried on into WPSG's affiliation with The CW, adopting new graphics on September 18, 2006 and de-emphasizing the spacing in the name which formed a reference to its former affiliation, becoming simply Wake Up News.
To compete with WPHL-TV's outsourced and WTXF-TV's in-house primetime newscasts, KYW-TV began to produce a 10:00 p.m. newscast for WPSG on February 2, 2009, titled Eyewitness News at 10 on The CW Philly. This partnership would extend into the mornings on June 29, 2009, when Wake Up News was replaced with a two-hour extension of KYW-TV's Eyewitness News This Morning.[2]
Notable current on–air staff
- Natasha Brown (weekends)
- Ukee Washington (weeknights)
- Nicole Brewer (morning reporter)
- Jim Donovan (consumer reporter)
- Walt Hunter (investigative reporter)
- Stephanie Stahl (health and science reporter)
Out-of-market coverage
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REASON TO WATCH: The "Seinfeld" reunion (or anti-reunion).
CATCHING UP: "Curb" is about "Seinfeld" co-creator Larry David living a post-"Seinfeld" existence — full of meaningless little gripes, slights and various unpleasant encounters with friends, enemies and acquaintances. As a part of this life, "Seinfeld" lurks out there unseen — its renown yet another minor annoyance in a life cluttered with them. Larry doesn't work much, which is a reason his burdened wife, Cheryl (Cheryl Hines), has left him. L.D. later took up with his longtime houseguest Loretta Black (Vivica A. Fox), but she's gone, too. He can now focus on getting back with Cheryl.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT: In a jaunty, what-the-heck kind of mood, Larry is finally willing to consider agent Jeff's (Jeff Garlin) suggestion that they meet with NBC about a "Seinfeld" reunion. Larry has no intention of going ahead with the show until fate — as it does about five or six times in the course of an average "Curb" episode — intervenes. He runs into Cheryl in the network's Universal City headquarters lobby, and she's back into acting. Later during the meeting with the NBC boss, Sandy Goodman (Todd Stashwick), Larry begins to wonder: What if Cheryl got a part in a reunion show. ..?
In a brief daydream, the characters enter — Jerry, Elaine, Kramer and George, and an adoring Cheryl, too. Larry snaps out of his reverie. He'll do the show! Now he must convince everyone else to get onboard.
The storyline continues through this season — look for the first "table read" in mid-November.
BOTTOM LINE: Four or five years ago, there was a rash — right word — of TV reunions that confirmed Larry's worst fears. Those shows are just ... so ... lame ...
So how to avoid the lameness of it all, yet still pay tribute to one of the greatest shows in TV history? An "anti-reunion," to borrow Julia Louis-Dreyfus' term coined in a recent Entertainment Weekly interview.
In the complete nihilism (and cynicism) of this venture, it becomes the perfect tribute to the nihilism of "Seinfeld" itself. And that's what you get Sunday — perfection and the funniest 30 minutes of TV this year.
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What Would You Allow From Unearthed Arcana in Your 1e Campaign?
As I start to plan out my AD&D 1e game, the latest post at Dispatches From Kickassistan got me thinking - there's a whole lot of unbalanced shit in Unearthed Arcana.
I already knew I wasn't going to allow "power gamer character generation method V" into the campaign. Even as a bunch of Monte Haulin' teens we saw the insanity within.
Cavalier, Cavalier-Paladin, Barbarian - fuck no, they gotta go!
I'll keep weapon specialization, but I'll tweak it.
I'll keep the new spells, but reserve the right to nuke any that I feel are unbalancing.
So, what would use from Unearthed Arcana? What would you never use? What would you modify?
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I would never use any of the character classes, weapon specialization (unless I were to heavily modify it - for starters, I would remove any damage bonuses and leave only 'to hit' modifiers; the changes would have to be so extensive, though, that I don't think it is worth even starting on the project), the new armor types (bronze plate? really? plus, I can't stand field/full plate), or comeliness. Most of the spells would be OK, but there's a spell that can cause a save vs. death and only uses up a first-level spell slot, and there are a few other problematic spells as well. Some of the magic items are ones I can't stand, like magic elven chain. I'd probably just tank the entire new magic armor table in favor of using only the original table. The new weapons (both in the normal and magical types) and the other new magic items seem workable to me, though.
ReplyDeleteI have to say I like the cavalier. I'm running one in a 1E game my friend is running, been playing him for awhile. But, I think I am a special case and haven't gone gonzo with some of the abilities. I like the barbarian--sorta--as well as the thief acrobat. I would SEVERELY restrict the spells and magic items and even those who could be a cavalier or barbarian. The main issue with the barbarian is the destroying magic items and gaining xp. I have a few ideas I would use, if anyone wanted to be one.


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Things have been pretty quiet around Two Red Threads lately because I'm getting ready to move. I've been "digital sharecropping" on Blogger since 2009, and jerryrigging a web site built with software published when social and media were two separate things. Last month it was finally time to make a change. I researched new web hosting options and started to designing and build brand, spanking new sites for myself and the small manufacturing business my husband and I own. I've made good progress and boy, have I learned a lot.
My new site isn't quite done, but I'm opening the doors to donnakallnerfiberart.com. I hope you'll pardon the dust, because there's still a lot of it. But before I start turning off the lights in some of the rooms here, I'm leaving a little artifact for whoever comes this way:
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Congratulations, Donna. As you have probably seen, I have just set up a new website and it wasn't as difficult as I had imagined. Just took a lot of time. And there is much more to be done too. I shall try to get it done soon, but for now harvesting, sorting etc of the willow takes priority.
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What the flagnog?
Yes, we went to see Monsters vs. Aliens this afternoon, which was utterly delightful and provided today's post title. I arrived at the theatre with my obligatory Token Child in tow at 2:40pm only to find out the earliest showing available was 3:30pm. Oof. Fortunately, Arun was a real trooper and it was nothing that some parmesan fries could not fix (we caught a viewing at AMCs Fork & Screen thingie which has really yummy, utterly over-priced food.)
So, those of you following me on Twitter and Facebook may have noticed my ranting on about my Disney Disgust. No, this Disgust is nothing new and oh my, how I despise the whole Disney Princess thing, but I was irked today when my grandma gave me grief about my firm anti-Disney stance. See, it rankles me that there is this implication that one's childhood will not be perfect unless Disney is a part of it. Bah. I have never seen Lady and the Tramp and yet? I managed to go to college, get married, have children and somehow remain a productive member of society.
I did not dutifully move my Trixie Belden and Nancy Drew collections from house to house to apartment to apartment from Oskaloosa KS to Tonganoxie KS to Lawrence KS to Kansas City to St. Louis and then BACK TO Kansas City so that my daughter could worship some frocking Disney-themed two-bit whore, flagnog, it.
Or something like that. Issues, much?
Not me.
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This is one is for Mojavi and Marathon Mom (my sister). They both would not believe that my uptight ass would let Arun make such a mess unless I have the snappage to prove otherwise.
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- LL said...
I love Trixie Beldon books! My grandparents have the whole collection and one of my favorite things about visiting them was getting to read as many more of the series as I possibly could. I'm going to have to do some Amazon marketplace searches to find a volumes copies for my own library.
- jodifur said...
what did you think the right age range for the movie was? I was thinking of taking my four year old and then I thought he might be too young.
- Mojavi said...
omg lol.. i was thinking surely that wasn't at her house!! lol... rememebr the cups for valentines day?
also I can't wait for the day your baby girl wants to play dress up.... Cinderella style LOL!!! - 11:36 PM
I have already done my time with the pink princess hell and I am doing my darndest to not have Tyler do the same although the big girls are trying to get her into them right now and it is driving me bonkers.
Trixie Belden- I used to have the entire series but my parents sold some of them to a collector when they moved so now I am trying to find them again so that my girls can read them. I spent many a hour in the back seat of my parents unconditioned car reading those books on road trips! - 7:34 AM
- Cagey said...
Ah, but she can dress up Cinderella style at YOUR house, is that not what friends are for? Hee.
I am sure she will want to do dress up, I just don't believe it has to have a trademarke on it. - 8:31 AM
- Marsha said...
Trixie Belden!!!! Woohoo!!! I LOVE those books. It helps that Trixie was an obnoxious redhead, just like me... hope your kids love them!
- LazyMom said...
Yes...I think Disney is a communist plot...avoid it at all costs.
http://lazymomcafe.blogspot.com/2009/02/disneyland-or-paris-is-there-really.html - 1:01 PM
- Monkey McWearingChaps said...
What about the Bobbsey Twins?
- Monkey McWearingChaps said...
Also, wait, wasn't Trixie a blonde with curls and bright blue eyes? And she was perpetually semi-jealous of that gorgeous girl with the straight black hair and violet eyes that seemed to be a shoutout to Elizabeth Taylor?
- Brit said...
I"m with monkey...what about the bobbsey twins?
I never actually opened the Nancy Drew collection it was my mom's..but I worshiped at the alter....and still fantasize about Ned. - 7:08 PM
- Monkey McWearingChaps said...
Brit, apparently at some point they changed his name to Ted!!!
Also does anyone else remember the Nancy Drew/Hardy Boys Re-Loaded and Re-Upped from the late 80s/90s? The one where Hardy #2's gf (Ileana??) gets blown up by a bomb and Nancy and Ned are a lot hotter and heavier than in their other iterations? It's sort of like ND/HB meets James Bond and they're always gallivanting off on cruises and such. - 11:39 AM
- Heza Hekele said...
Team Chaos: And What a Team it Seems to be!
Gorgeous shots! - 12:32 PM
- Marathon Mom said...
I am so proud of you!:)
- BlueKDesign said...
I too loved the alien expletive flagnog. Though in my memory from the movie, it transmogrified to 'fartnarg,' which I like even better. Except now the kids are yelling fartnarg at the top of their lungs.
My family-friendly expletive of choice is 'jackal' - a contraction of jack@ss and @ssh0le. It's extremely discriptive AND satisfying. - 7:37 PM


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Thursday, November 17, 2005
J.P. Moreland: Postmodernism & Truth - Apologia Christi
I wanted to give a link to Apoligia Christi for posting this snippit of Moreland's recent article on Postmodernism and truth. It is being publised along with a handful of other essays on the topic in the book Whatever Happened to Truth?. The other essayists include Albert Mohler and Kevin Vanhoozer.
The excerpt AC quotes is priceless. As a teaser:
"...postmodernism is an immoral and cowardly viewpoint such that persons who love truth and knowledge, especially disciples of the Lord Jesus, should do everything they can to heal the plague that postmoernism has and inevitably does leave...."
Well...at least you know where he stands on the issue.
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- Bob Robinson said...
No doubt!
That should be an interesting book to read.
...Though I don't know how Albert Mohler could write an essay on the same high level as a Moreland or a Vanhoozer! The more I read and hear from him, the more he seems to have a very truncated view of theology and issues. - 6:27 AM
- Apologia_Christi said...
Thanks for the link Phil. If we can spread this article more and more, I'm sure there will be an increase in understanding the corrosive effects of postmodernism in people's everyday thinking.
Blessings - 11:46 AM
- Bob Robinson said...
BTW, the editor of the book in which this essay appears, Andreas Kostenberger, was my beginning Greek professor in seminary (TEDS).
He's become quite prolific since those days! - 12:30 PM
- Rusty said...
It has been very refreshing to see J.P.'s full frontal attack on postmodernist thinking. Greg Koukl, at Stand to Reason, has also mentioned how fervently J.P. is addressing PoMo.


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6 parsnips peeled and halved
1 tablespoon plain flour
1 teaspoon picked, fresh thyme
1 tablespoon maple syrup
4 large or 6 medium chicken breasts (with skin)
1 tablespoon olive oil
100g sliced pancetta
1 tablespoon wholegrain mustard
1–2 tablespoons gravy granules
You will also need a large, deep-sided roasting tin
Maple parsnips are one of my top 10 veggies, and they complement chicken, pancetta and a little thyme perfectly. I like to serve this with some green beans, which I chuck in the microwave and then serve drizzled with balsamic.
Preheat the oven to 190C/gas mark 5. Bring a pan of salted water to the boil and parboil the parsnips for 5–10 minutes until they are just starting to soften. Drain, tip back in the pan and dust with the flour and thyme. Drizzle with the maple syrup and toss to coat.
Cut the chicken breasts in half, at an angle. Add the olive oil to the roasting tin and place over the hob to heat. Once the oil is hot, add the parsnips and chicken pieces and bake in the oven for 20–25 minutes until golden brown.
Add the sliced pancetta to the roasting tin and return to the oven for another 10 minutes or until the chicken is cooked through.
Transfer the chicken, pancetta and vegetables to a serving plate with a slotted spoon and keep warm.
Pour 500ml boiling water into the tin and place on the hob over a medium-high heat. Using a wooden spoon, scrape the sticky vegetable and meat juices from the bottom of the tin. Add the mustard and gravy granules and simmer until the gravy reaches your desired consistency. Serve poured over the chicken and parsnips.
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What other NBA owner do you know that's swinging between boardrooms and concert performances… Wait, scratch that two are actually headed out on tour together this summer. Jay Z performed over the weekend at Jermain Dupri's So So Def 20th Anniversary concert. This comes a few days after his "Legends of the Summer" stadium tour with Justin Timberlake was announced – make no mistake, I will be IN THE BUILDING for that.
Check out a little throwback action plus the dates for Jay Z and JT's shows:
July 17: Toronto, ON (Rogers Centre)
July 19: New York, NY (Yankee Stadium)
July 22: Chicago, IL (Soldier Field)
July 26: San Francisco, CA (Candlestick Park)
July 28: Los Angeles, CA (Rose Bowl)
July 31: Vancouver, BC (BC Place Stadium)
August 4: Hershey, PA (Hershey Stadium)
August 6: Detroit, MI (Ford Field)
August 8: Baltimore, MD (M&T Bank Stadium)
August 10: Boston, MA (Fenway Park)
August 13: Philadelphia, PA (Citizens Bank Park)
August 16: Miami, FL (Sun Life Stadium)
Oh, in case you were wondering what happened to Jay's last BFF Kanye… He seems to be a tad bitter that he's been replaced… He went on a rant Saturday night in London where he basically said F JT and Jay by association:
"I got love for Hov, but I ain't f——- with that'Suit & Tie,'"
"I hate business people," West rapped, according to Billboard. "People get on the phone with me and tell me, 'What kind of business can you do, though? What type of business are you doing? What's the numbers? How much did you sell? What's the radio spins? How much shampoo can you sell with your face on it and sh–. Remind me again why we in this sh—. Can you remind me again why we in this sh–? Since when (is) making music about getting rich? Since when was making art about getting rich? … Remind me again why we in this sh–."
"Can I sell a drink for you, please?" West continued. "So you can help me put on a better show. Please corporations. Can you please support me? I swear I'm a nice n—- now. I swear I'll put the pink polo back on. I swear to you. Please. Just for three million dollars. I need it so bad. I need a new pool in my backyard. I tell my fans your sh– is cool. And if they believe in me they should also believe in you. What's my public rating now? Are they liking me again? They forgot about the whole Beyonce thing right? Okay, cool."
Hmmmm Jay is pretty corporate right now. And his wife most certainly is. Heck, Kanye's baby's mama is too. I guess this means no pop up performances with Ye this summer.
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Thanks for mentioning the possibility of using 8.1 instead of 7.6.x with a Q 650! Since your posting have been checking the Web concerning 040 user experience with 8.1. All the info found was published/posted around the time of its release. The most complete posting found was MacTip#29 by Eric Prentice. He expresses concern about the move to HFS+. I have not seen any recent discussion by 040 users of using HFS+ for applications/data, or if a fix has allowed its use for system disk. Any pointers to recent articles/postings of 8.1 on 68k Macs would be appreciated> Thanks! |
I'm not 100% certain, but I don't think computers running 040 chips can use HFS+ disks... at least as start-up disks. Some one correct me if I'm wrong.
Cheers! Chris |
well, that Quadra 840av that i put 8.1 on would not boot from my external HD (HFS+) though it sure did mount it and read and copy data from it, NO problem...
i should mention that my ext. HD has MacOS's 8.0 thru 8.6 installed on its various partitions (and is a SCSI HD)... so it is not like i tried to boot that Quadra using a 'too new' MacOS on my ext. HD [This message has been edited by wlonh (edited 03-20-2000).] |
HFS+ can be used with 040s, you just can't boot from them. Why? I dunno. Something to do with the ROM, I guess, although the first PowerPC shipped years before HFS+ did.
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When news broke that babies had been dumped in a septic tank, we thought Ireland had hit a new low. But perhaps we could console ourselves that it was a long time ago and maybe things had changed — surely standards of care could not fall any lower? Sadly they could, and it is happening right now.
The news that a young migrant woman has been forced to give birth after being raped has caused global outrage.
The details are still unclear, but we do know that the woman sought to access an abortion in Ireland under section 9 of the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act (PLDPA), fearing that she would commit suicide.
This claim was assessed by a panel of three experts, two of which were psychiatrists. Both certified her as eligible for an abortion based on her risk of suicide, but the third panelist, an obstetrician, recommended that she undergo a caesarean section. The PLDPA recommends that all "practicable" measures are taken to preserve the life of the "unborn", and it seems that the obstetrician judged a caesarean would be "practicable".
The woman did not agree and went on hunger strike to protest her right to an abortion. Ireland's NHS, the Health Service Executive (HSE), went to court to get an order to force her to take fluids to avoid harm to herself or the foetus.
She then had the caesarean, as the court was not going to concede to her request for an abortion, and the only other available option was to continue the pregnancy further. The baby was then delivered at 25 weeks gestation, alive, but with a high likelihood of significant disabilities.
This shocking case of forced birth is an example of abuse of a vulnerable adult while in state care. As well as the 16 week delay she faced after requesting an abortion, and her eligibility under section 9 of the PLDPA, her right to travel to the UK to have the procedure was not met.
Was this due to her difficulty understanding her rights, or were these rights simply ignored? The case demonstrates the lengths that Ireland will go to maintain their control over women's lives.
In this case we have a forced, severely pre-term birth of a child that is at risk of an early death and significant disability. Is this really preferable to the termination of an unwanted pregnancy, where the mother's life is at risk?
Delaying an abortion is only supposed to happen when the parent wants to give birth to a child, and is prepared to endure the risks. But instead of following medical best practice, this case was driven by fundamentalist religious belief, and right-wing political control.
What has become clear is that any attempt to implement the PLDPA, will always be overshadowed by the severity of the law. The prison sentence for an abortion that doesn't meet the act's narrow parameters is 14 years.
In order for women's lives to be protected during pregnancy, the act must be struck down, the constitutional ban on abortion repealed, and abortion decriminalised.
During questioning by the UN Human Rights Council last month, Frances Fitzgerald, Ireland's Minister for Justice, admitted that improving access to abortion services would require the repeal of the 8th Amendment.
And she's right. Doctors for Choice Ireland calls for the Irish government to grasp the nettle and call for a referendum on this issue in 2015. In just a matter of months, all Irish women could be granted full freedom of choice, and have their basic right to safe abortions protected by the law.


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Got nothing for you at the moment. This morning Brandon Dubinsky was walking around without his boot, but that doesn't mean he's close to returning. Mats Zuccarello's not imminently close, either.
So, as you kill time before Game 7 on this beautiful Mother's Day Eve, I've got some reading material for you.
Here's my story from The Journal News and LoHud.com today.
And because my mind doesn't work the way it used to work (especially when I'm tired like this), I forgot to post yesterday's story. So here that is, too.
Josh Thomson, 26, and I will be here all night (and hopefully not into the morning) with youse.
Last time @thenyrangers played on Mother's Day weekend: Adam Graves OT goal at Meadowlands 5/11/97 sends NYR to Eastern Conference Finals.


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While on a field trip in the 3rd grade a group of six students rescue an artifact from a burning temple. The God of the shrine grants them special powers that will come to life when they turn 13 years old. Reunited by chance in Junior High the six students are each bestowed with a single unusual power and struggle to find the proper use of the power both alone and with each other. But time is running out because they are not the only ones granted powers by the God of the shrine...
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You are the former chancellor of Washington D.C. Schools. You demand 50K for public appearances, and you like to call yourself an education reformer. Yet, in my humble opinion, you are one of education's biggest enemies, and you owe teachers and children nationwide some answers.
Michelle, you vilify public school education, in general, and teachers, in particular. You rave about standards and accountability, when your own service record is spotty, at best, and detestable, at worst. Let's not forget that you are a Harvard graduate whose training is in policy-making -- not in education.
It's time for answers
Rather than dealing with bureaucrats, magazine reporters and news broadcasters, who know little if anything about effective teaching practices, Michelle, I want you to answer to someone who has researched and written about best practices in education for many years.I want you, Michelle Rhee, to defend your quests to eliminate teacher tenure, while championing test scores as a way to measure teacher effectiveness. And, Michelle, I want you to stop making excuses for your past and tell the truth. Stop blaming hidden test results for your failings in D.C. Stop making unproven allegations about the so-called bad teachers you fired. Stop bringing up mythical foundations that can fund outlandish teacher raises.
Most of all, Michelle Rhee, stop telling America how poor our test results are, without explaining that we test in ways that no one else in the world tests. Instead, why not let America know that if we remove the disabled and the poor -- students who have far bigger problems than bubbling in A, B, C or D -- our scores suddenly soar to Number 1 in the world? Why don't you put your Harvard degree and corporate money behind solving the real problems that our children face daily? Is it because blaming teachers is just easier? Is it because you simply don't comprehend the gravity of these issues?
What do you want?
So, Michelle, what do you really want? From where I sit, it looks like you want your face on magazines and on TV. It looks like you want to fly around the country (first class only), looking much more like a politician than an education reformer. It looks like you want to make a lot of money -- hundreds of thousands a year in salary and fifty-thousand-dollar appearance fees. It looks like you want to bash teachers. It looks like you aspire to public office -- maybe even president one day.Sadly, it doesn't appear that you want to improve education or to help kids.
So, Michelle, I suggest that you change your agenda. It's clear that you are a powerful voice. People are listening. In the long run, though, what real change will you make? Will you get hard-working public servants fired? Will you take money from public schools by sending their students to private schools? Will you make sure that kids hate learning by having them tested into oblivion? Will you have teachers evaluated, based on how students with autism, mental retardation and emotional disturbances perform on a standardized test?
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Michelle, will you, 30 years from now, be able to look into the mirror and say, "I made the world a better place for children."Or will you sit alone atop piles of money, knowing that, in spite of your high profile, your money and your Harvard degree, you didn't do a single thing to solve the real problems children face and that you alienated America's most important public servants?
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The distinctive Egyptian hat styles are rocking the fashion world
CAIRO – Egypt – It was a hat-worthy fashion week as Egyptian fashionistas were out in force in Tahrir Square to show off their weird and wacky couture.
"This hat season has certainly been interesting. We have seen some fabulous creations all handcrafted and displaying wonderful styles that may even make it to Paris and Milan," Andre Artudo, fashion correspondent for Al Jazeera reported.
Many of the hat designers are all keen to show off their wares and have toiled long and hard to create the new look that is rocking the casbah.
"I made my hat out of some bread rolls and cellophane. It protects you from the sun somewhat and is reasonably functional, although this piece of rock I have wedged deep in my cranium gives away the fact that it's not so good at protecting from falling rocks," Abdul Karim, 43, one of the hat designers displaying their creations at the show said before being stretchered away.
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My dad was a very interesting guy. He died in August of 2007, and my mom died in March of 2009. Cleaning out their apartment in Meadville was difficult in the obvious ways. It wasn't until July of '09 that we finally had everything out and divided up. It was very cool the way my sister, brother and I settled on who got what. No hassles at all. Since I was the last to leave Meadville, I had lots of odds and ends to bring home. The boxes ended up in my family room and have sat there since. My plan was to go through them and divide the remaining items between the three of us. It has been hanging over my head since that July, but I finally started opening boxes on Tuesday. Dad had saved some intersesting little items. / After he retired from Allegheny College, he read to school children at my old elementary school and volunteered to teach English as a second language through the Meadville Public Library. A family named Lee moved to town from China to work at the Chinese restaurant run by Mr Lee's brother. They came speaking no English, and my dad became their teacher and mentor. He poured all his heart into that family, and they really loved him in return. The boys were Jamie and Danny, and Jan was their mom.
Our son Peter was born 5 weeks early in January of 1989. He weighed just over 3 pounds and had a very rough start, staying in the NICU at Floating Hospital in Boston for what seemed like forever. When I was going through the boxes from Meadville, I came across this envelope.
I realized right away that it was from the Lee's. This note was inside.
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Knowing how to refer to the children of my many nieces and one nephew has always been a problem for me. I think I have finally learned that these kids are my great nieces and nephews. I'll try to remember from now on. This is C.C. who is the youngest daughter of niece Debbie her husband Burr. (Here's another question; is Burr my nephew or nephew-in-law?) In this photo, she is with Steven, who is Burr's brother.