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Pierre Billon began his career in comics as an editor and translator of American comics that were published in magazines like for Before World War II, Pierre Billon was Robinson, Hop là and Le Journal de Mickey. When World War II broke out and the American material coulnd't reach the editors, he turned to the drawing board himself. Robins ran Billon's first comic story 'Le Docteur X', in 1940 and 1941. It was followed by 'Yann, le prince des mers', also in 1941.
He drew 'La Famille Durondel' in Le Journal de Mickey in 1942 and 1943 and began an association with Éditions Vaillant in 1947. He produced educational sections in the tradition of 'Ripley's Believe It Or Not' for the publisher's eponymous magazine. Besides creating several comic stories for post-war magazines like Mon Journal, Billon was also present in the daily press with vertical strips like 'Mandrin' in L'Humanité (1953), 'Les Aventures du Professeur Carrier à travers l'Espace' in Libération (1958) and 'Berlioz' in L'Humanité Dimanche' (1959). He retired from comics in 1969. His son was comic artist Daniel Billon.

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About Jeff Masters
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Bob Henson , 5:04 PM GMT on February 24, 2015
Residents of New England may understandably look back at 2015 as the year of their never-ending winter. For the planet as a whole, though, this year could stand out most for putting to rest the "hiatus"— the 15-year slowdown in atmospheric warming that gained intense scrutiny by pundits, scientists, and the public. While interesting in its own right, the hiatus garnered far more attention than it deserved as a purported sign that future global warming would be much less than expected. The slowdown was preceded by almost 20 years of dramatic global temperature rise, and with 2014 having set a new global record high, there are signs that another decade-plus period of intensified atmospheric warming may be at our doorstep.
The most compelling argument for a renewed surge in global air temperature is rooted in the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO). This index tracks the fingerprint of sea surface temperature (SST) across the Pacific north of 20°N. A closely related index, the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation (IPO), covers a larger swath of the entire Pacific. Both the PDO and IPO capture back-and-forth swings in the geography of Pacific SSTs that affect the exchange of heat between ocean and atmosphere (see Figure 1). We'll use PDO as shorthand for both indexes in the following discussion.
The PDO typically leans toward a positive or negative state for more than a decade at a time. The positive phase, which features warmer-than-average SSTs along the U.S. West Coast, was dominant from the mid-1970s to the late 1990s. The PDO then flipped to a negative phase between about 1999 and 2013, with cooler-than-average SSTs along the West Coast. Figure 2 shows that even when a particular mode is favored, the PDO can still flip back to its opposite mode for periods of a few months or so.
Figure 1. Departures from average sea-surface temperature (degrees C) and wind (arrows) that typically prevail when the Pacific Decadal Oscillation is in its positive mode (left) and negative mode (right). Image credit: University of Washington.
It's not clear exactly what drives the PDO, but in some ways it can be viewed as a geographically expanded version of the SST patterns created by El Niño and La Niña, averaged over a longer time period. (See Figure 2.) It's well-established that El Niño can raise global temperature for a few months by several tenths of a degree Celsius, as warm water spreads over the eastern tropical Pacific and mixes with the overlying atmosphere. Likewise, La Niña can act to pull down global average temperature, as cooler-than-average water extends further west than usual across the tropical Pacific. The PDO mirrors these trends, but over longer periods. When the PDO is positive, there are more El Niño and fewer La Niña events, and heat stored in the ocean tends to be spread across a larger surface area, allowing it to enter the atmosphere more easily. When the PDO is negative, SSTs are below average across a larger area, and global air temperatures tend to be lower.
Figure 2. Typical warm and cool anomalies in sea-surface temperature during positive PDO years (left) and El Niño years (right). The patterns are similar, though with differences in intensity over some regions. The anomalies are reversed for negative PDO and La Niña years. Image credit: University of Washington Climate Impacts Group.
Figure 3 shows a striking connection between favored PDO modes (top) and global air temperature anomalies (bottom). The vast majority of atmospheric warming over the last century occurred during positive PDO phases, with negative PDOs tending to result in flat temperature trends. It's easy to see how an atmospheric warming "hiatus" could occur during a negative PDO phase.
Figure 3. PDO values (top) and global air temperature anomalies (bottom). Gray shading indicates positive PDO periods, when atmospheric warming was most evident. The NOAA PDO values shown here vary slightly from those discussed in the article, which are calculated by the University of Washington. Image credit: Jerimiah Brown, Weather Underground. Data sources:NOAA (top) and NOAA/NCDC (bottom).
From the AMS meeting
The hiatus was discussed at length in a series of talks during the annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society last month in Phoenix. Jerry Meehl, from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (my former employer), gave a whirlwind 15-minute overview of hiatus-oriented research conducted over the last six years. Meehl's talk can be viewed online. More than 20 papers have studied the hiatus and its links to the PDO/IPO, according to Matthew England (University of New South Wales). Most of the flattening of global temperature during the hiatus can be traced to cooler-than-average conditions over the eastern tropical Pacific, which pulled down global averages. An emerging theme is that natural, or internal, variability in the tropical Pacific can explain at least half of the hiatus. NCAR's Clara Deser presented new modeling evidence along these lines (see video online). Other factors may be involved as well, including a series of weak volcanic eruptions that could explain a small part of the hiatus, according to a recent analysis by Ben Santer (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory).
One crucial point is that global warming didn't "stop" during the hiatus: the world's oceans actually gained heat at an accelerated pace. Trade winds blew more strongly from east to west across the Pacific, consistent with the tendency toward La Niña conditions, as described in this open-access article by NCAR's Kevin Trenberth and John Fasullo. Over parts of the central tropical Pacific, trade winds averaged about 3 mph stronger during 1999-2012 compared to 1976-1988. These speeds are higher than for any previous hiatus on record, bolstering the idea that other factors may have joined this negative PDO/IPO phase. The faster trade winds encouraged upwelling of cooler water to the east and helped deepen and strengthen the warm pool to the west—enough, in fact, to raise sea level around the Philippines by as much as 8 inches. Other parts of the deep ocean warmed as well. A new study led by Dean Roemmich (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) maps the areas of greatest ocean heating from 2006 to 2013 and finds that significant warming extended to depths of greater than 6600 feet.
What next for the PDO?
The PDO index, as calculated at the University of Washington, scored positive values during every month in 2014, the first such streak since 2003. By December it reached +2.51, the largest positive value for any December in records that go back to 1900. The January value from UW was 2.45, again a monthly record. (NOAA calculates its own PDO values through a closely related methodology.)
Because the PDO can flip modes for a year or more within its longer-term cycle, we don't yet know whether a significant shift to a positive PDO phase has begun. If trade winds weaken throughout this year, and positive PDO values persist, that'll be strong evidence that a new cycle is indeed under way. The last time we saw a two-year streak of positive values was in 1992-93. If this occurs, and assuming no spikes in major volcanic activity, we could expect greater rises in global temperature over the next 10 to 15 years than we've seen during the hiatus. In addition, we should watch for El Niño to make its presence known more often.
"I am inclined to think the hiatus is over, mainly based on the PDO index change," NCAR's Kevin Trenberth told me. While Matthew England isn't ready to offer such a prediction, he emphasized that any post-hiatus global temperature rise is likely to be fairly rapid. Trenberth also commented on an interesting NOAA analysis (see Figure 4): "If one takes the global mean temperature from 1970 on, everything fits a linear trend quite well except 1998."
Figure 4. When looking at global temperature over a full PDO cycle (1970s to 2010s), the overall rise becomes evident, despite the flattening observed in the last 15 years. Image credit: NOAA.
A record-strong El Niño occurred in 1998, providing an unusually powerful boost to global temperature and fueling years of subsequent declarations that "global warming stopped in 1998." The record warmth of 2014 made it clear that global warming has no intention of stopping, and the next few years are likely to reinforce that point. Nevertheless, snowbound New Englanders, and millions of other easterners now dealing with record cold for so late in the year, may be wondering why eastern North America has seen so much cold and snow in the past few winters--especially this one--and how long that climatic quirk might continue. Stay tuned for a separate post on that topic.
Bob Henson
The views of the author are his/her own and do not necessarily represent the position of The Weather Company or its parent, IBM.
Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather


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I fell in love with this Spool Doll Nativity from {Holes in my Shiny Veneer}. Here's {part 2} of her adorable nativity, in case you're interested. So, I set out to make my own.
Within a week, I came across this wooden nativity backdrop at Target in their dollar section for only $2.50! I was seriously so excited! Then, I went to get some wooden spools and doll heads at the craft store and while I was looking I saw these little unfinished wooden doll bodies:
They already have a head and I love skipping steps, so I bought them. They have two different sizes, too. Perfect for a nativity, since you need a smaller one for baby Jesus.
Anyway, I spent an hour one day cutting scraps of fabric and ribbon and hot gluing them onto these dolls. The link mentioned above has a great tutorial which I looked at just to get ideas and see how she did things. For me, it was as easy as cutting strips of fabric and wrapping them around the doll bodies, and in some cases their heads. Then, putting on embellishments to create different characters.
I'm absolutely in love with the way they turned out!! And my son was very excited with each new addition I put out for him to put in his "house".
I might eventually paint faces on them, but I'm kinda worried I'll totally mess them up, and I kind of like them faceless...
It's a perfect little durable nativity that my little guy can play with to his hearts content without me worrying about him breaking something. And even if he did, the whole thing cost under $8.00, so it wouldn't be a big deal. I think this is a really cute and easy way to help my 3 year old understand the real meaning of Christmas. We love playing "Baby Jesus" with them, and I hope we will continue to play with them year after year.
Since I found my Creche (backdrop) at Target last year, I have been asked so many times where to find something like it. I don't know if Target will carry it again this year, but I've found a few comparables:
You can find this cutie at {Mud Cats Pottery} on Etsy for $12.
This small Nativity Creche is $15 at {avwod37} on Etsy.
And this one is $18 at {ClickityClack} on Etsy.
I'm tempted to try and make one myself to sell it to everyone who is looking! ha. I'll let ya'll know if it happens. But here are some measurements in case you want to make your own:


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Letter being mailed to 47,000 license buyers in Adams/York counties and northern Maryland;
Details on check station operations for two-week firearms season announced
HARRISBURG – Pennsylvania Game Commission Executive Director Carl G. Roe has announced that the agency will hold a public meeting to answer questions regarding the 600-square-mile Disease Management Area (DMA) in Adams and York counties and the Executive Order as part of the agency's ongoing efforts to monitor the wild deer population for chronic wasting disease (CWD).
The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8, at the York County Fairgrounds, Horticultural Hall, 334 Carlisle Avenue, York. Representatives of the Department of Agriculture will be on hand to answer questions related to the efforts to trace out and trace back other captive deer that may have come into contact with the infected deer.
As part of the ongoing outreach effort, Roe is mailing a letter to nearly 47,000 license buyers who reside in Adams and York counties, as well as portions of northern Maryland, to alert them to the deer hunting changes within the DMA and to provide them a copy of the DMA map. As part of the letter, Roe reminded hunters who harvest a deer within the DMA during the two-week firearms deer season (Nov. 26-Dec. 8) that they are required to bring their deer to a mandatory check station so that samples can be collected for CWD testing.
"For the convenience of hunters, all cooperating deer processors within the DMA boundaries will be considered check stations, as the Game Commission will be gathering samples from hunter-killed deer at those processors," Roe said. "Given the volume of deer that may be harvested within the DMA, it would be unreasonable to expect all hunters to come to one site, and the traffic congestion that could be created by the convergence of hunters on this one rural road would be more than inconvenient for residents, as well as hunters.
"Allowing hunters to drop off their deer at any deer processor within the DMA meets the requirement that high-risk parts stay within the DMA, and is more convenient for the hunters. It also ensures that the Game Commission will have access to the parts from which we need to collect samples, as we already visit deer processors as part of our annual deer aging team visits and CWD sample collection efforts."
A list of cooperating deer processors and taxidermists from within the DMA will be announced and posted on the Game Commission's website as soon as it is finalized.
Roe noted that hunters harvesting a deer within the DMA who process their own deer or who would like to take their deer to a processor or taxidermist outside of the DMA can visit the Game Commission operated check station at the agency's maintenance building on State Game Land 249, 1070 Lake Meade Road, East Berlin, Adams County. GPS coordinates for the building are -77.07280 and 39.97018. Game Commission check station hours during the two-week rifle deer season are from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday-Saturday, but will remain open beyond 8 p.m., as needed. The check station will be closed on Sunday, Dec. 2.
For those participating in the remainder of the early archery deer season within the DMA, bringing harvested deer to the Game Commission's check station is voluntary, but requested and encouraged. Game Commission check station hours of operation for the early archery deer season will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 3 and Nov. 10. On other days of the archery season, hunters may stop by the check station to deposit deer heads in the marked containers provided, and deer spines and rib cages may be deposited in the dumpster on the site. As required by law, deer must have a field harvest tag attached to the ear.
"To expedite the process, hunters should bring deer into the check station with the deer head accessible and, if it is in a pickup truck, with the head pointed to the tailgate," said Brad Myers, Game Commission Southcentral Region director. "Also, hunters should not wait until evening to bring deer in, but bring them throughout the day. This is especially important if the weather is warm.
"This station will not be checking or processing bears. Bear hunters should take their bears to established check stations, which are outlined on pages 37 and 38 of the 2012-13 Digest. Also, deer harvested outside of the DMA will not be eligible for testing at the check station."
CWD testing of healthy appearing hunter-killed deer outside the DMA is available. Hunters who wish to have their deer tested may do so for a fee by making arrangements with the Pennsylvania Animal Diagnostics Laboratory System. For information visit www.padls.org, or call the Pennsylvania Veterinary Laboratory (717-787-8808) in Harrisburg, The Animal Diagnostics Laboratory (814-863-0837) in State College, or the New Bolton Center (610-444-5800) in Kennett Square.
On Oct. 11, the state Department of Agriculture announced that a captive deer died of CWD on a deer farm in Adams County. Prior to its death, this deer had potentially spent time on three sites in Adams and York counties, which are now part of the Game Commission's designated DMA. As soon as the CWD-infected captive deer was found, the Commonwealth's CWD Interagency Task Force was initiated to address the threat of the disease to captive and wild deer and elk populations in the state.
Task force members include representatives from the departments of Agriculture, Environmental Protection and Health, the Pennsylvania Game Commission, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Geological Survey/Pennsylvania Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit and Penn State University/Cooperative Extension Offices. The task force will carry out the response plan, which includes education and outreach with public meetings and minimizing risk factors through continued surveillance, testing and management.
A 40-minute video with Dr. Walter Cottrell, Game Commission wildlife veterinarian, explaining CWD has been posted on the Game Commission's Web site, and can be viewed by clicking on the "CWD Info" icon button in the center of the homepage and then scrolling down to the embedded viewer.
For more information from the departments of Agriculture and Health and the Pennsylvania Game Commission, visit the following agency website's:
- www.agriculture.state.pa.us (click on the "Chronic Wasting Disease Information" button on the homepage),
- www.pgc.state.pa.us (click on "CWD Info"), and
- www.health.state.pa.us (click on "Diseases and Conditions").


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The Vatican Museums (Italian: Musei Vaticani) are the museums of the Vatican City and are located within the city's boundaries. They display works from the immense collection built up by the Popes throughout the centuries including some of the most renowned classical sculptures and most important masterpieces of Renaissance art in the world.
Pope Julius II founded the museums in the early 16th century. The Sistine Chapel with its ceiling decorated by Michelangelo and the Stanze della Segnatura decorated by Raphael are on the visitor route through the Vatican Museums. In 2013, they were visited by 5.5 million people, which combined makes it the 5th most visited art museum in the world.[1]
There are 54 galleries, or salas, in total,[citation needed] with the Sistine Chapel, notably, being the very last sala within the Museum.
- 1 History
- 2 Pinacoteca Vaticana
- 3 Collection of Modern Religious Art
- 4 Sculpture museums
- 5 Vatican Historical Museum
- 6 Highlights from the Painting Collection
- 7 Other Highlights in the Museum
- 8 Visitors
- 9 See also
- 10 References
- 11 Further reading
- 12 External links
The Vatican Museums trace their origin to one marble sculpture, purchased 500 years ago: the sculpture of Laocoön and his Sons was discovered 14 January 1506, in a vineyard near the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. Pope Julius II sent Giuliano da Sangallo and Michelangelo Buonarroti, who were working at the Vatican, to examine the discovery. On their recommendation, the pope immediately purchased the sculpture from the vineyard owner. The pope put the sculpture of Laocoön and his sons on public display at the Vatican exactly one month after its discovery.
The Museum Christianum was founded by Benedict XIV, and some of the Vatican collections formed the Lateran Museum, which Pius IX founded by decree in 1854.[2]
The Museums celebrated their 500th anniversary in October 2006 by permanently opening the excavations of a Vatican Hill necropolis to the public.[3]
Pinacoteca Vaticana
The art gallery was housed in the Borgia Apartment, until Pope Pius XI ordered construction of a proper building. The new building was inaugurated on October 27, 1932.[4] The designer was Luca Beltrami. The museum has paintings including:
- Giotto's Stefaneschi Triptych
- Olivuccio di Ciccarello, Opere di Misericordia
- Raphael's Madonna of Foligno, Oddi Altarpiece and Transfiguration
- Leonardo da Vinci's St. Jerome in the Wilderness
- Caravaggio's Entombment
- Perugino's Madonna and Child with Saints and San Francesco al Prato Resurrection
- Filippo Lippi's Marsuppini Coronation
Collection of Modern Religious Art
The Collection of Modern Religious Art houses paintings and sculptures from artists like Carlo Carrà and Giorgio de Chirico.
Sculpture museums
The group of museums includes several sculpture museums surrounding the Cortile del Belvedere.
Museo Pio-Clementino
Pope Clement XIV founded the Pio-Clementino museum in 1771, and originally it contained the Renaissance and antique works. The museum and collection were enlarged by Clement's successor Pius VI. Today, the museum houses works of Greek and Roman sculpture. Some notable galleries are:
- Greek Cross Gallery: (Sala a Croce Greca): with the porphyri sarcophagi of Constance and Saint Helen, daughter and mother of Constantine the Great.
- Sala Rotonda: shaped like a miniature Pantheon, the room has impressive ancient mosaics on the floors, and ancient statues lining the perimeter, including a gilded bronze statue of Hercules.
- Gallery of the Statues (Galleria delle Statue): as its name implies, holds various important statues, including Sleeping Ariadne and the bust of Menander. It also contains the Barberini Candelabra.
- Gallery of the Busts (Galleria dei Busti): Many ancient busts are displayed.
- Cabinet of the Masks (Gabinetto delle Maschere): The name comes from the mosaic on the floor of the gallery, found in Villa Adriana, which shows ancient theater masks. Along the walls, several famous statues are shown including the Three Graces.One wove the thread of life,second nurtured it, third cut it. They were created by Zeus ( ROMAN FORM:Jupiter)
- Sala delle Muse: Houses the statue group of Apollo and the nine muses, uncovered in a Roman villa near Tivoli in 1774, as well as and statues by important ancient Greek or Roman sculptors. the center piece is Belvedere Torso, revered by Michelangelo and other Renaissance men.[5]
- Sala degli Animali: So named because of the many ancient statues of animals.
Museo Chiaramonti
This museum is named after Pope Pius VII (whose last name was Chiaramonti before his election as pope), who founded it in the early 19th century. The museum consists of a large arched gallery in which sides are exhibited several statues, sarcophaguses and friezes. The New Wing, Braccio Nuovo built by Raffaele Stern, houses important statues like The Prima Porta Augustus, Doryphorus, and The River Nile. Galeria Lapidaria is another part of Chiaramonti museum, with more than 3,000 stone tablets and inscriptions, which is the world's greatest collection of its kind. However, it is opened only by special permission, usually for reasons of study.
Museo Gregoriano Etrusco
Founded by Pope Gregory XVI in 1836, this museum has eight galleries and houses important Etruscan pieces, coming from archaeological excavations.[6] The pieces include: vases, sarcophagus, bronzes and the Guglielmi Collection.
Museo Gregoriano Egiziano
Founded by Pope Gregory XVI in 1839, this museum houses a grand collection of Ancient Egyptian material.[7] Such material includes papyruses, the Grassi Collection, animal mummies, and reproductions of the famous Book of the Dead.[8]
Vatican Historical Museum
The Vatican Historical Museum (Italian: Museo storico vaticano) was founded in 1973 at the behest of Pope Paul VI,[9] and was initially hosted in environments under the Square Garden. In 1987 it was moved to the main floor of the Apostolic Palace of the Lateran and opened in March 1991.
The Vatican Historical Museum has a unique collection of portraits of the Popes from the 16th century to date, the memorable items of the Papal Military Corps of the 16–17th centuries and old religious paraphernalia related to rituals of the papacy. Also on display on the lower floor are the papamobili (Popemobiles); carriages and motorcars of Popes and Cardinals, including the first cars used by Popes.[10]
Highlights from the Painting Collection
Other Highlights in the Museum
- The red marble papal throne, formerly in the Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano;
- Roman sculpture, tombstones, and inscriptions, including the Early Christian Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus and Dogmatic sarcophagus, and the epitaph of Lucius Cornelius Scipio Barbatus;
- The Raphael Rooms with many works by Raphael and his workshop, including the masterpiece The School of Athens
- The Niccoline Chapel
- The Sistine Chapel, including the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
- The Gallery of Maps: topographical maps of the whole of Italy, painted on the walls by friar Ignazio Danti of Perugia, commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII (1572–1585). It remains the world's largest pictorial geographical study.
- The frescoes and other works in the Borgia Apartment built for Pope Alexander VI (Borgia).
- The double spiral staircase, designed by Giuseppe Momo in 1932. The staircase has two parts, a double helix, and is of shallow incline, being a stepped ramp rather than a true staircase. It is encircles the outer wall of a stairwell of approximately fifteen meters wide and with a clear space at the centre. The balustrade around the ramp is of ornately worked metal
Usually more than 4 million people visit the Museums every year. In 2011, the number of visitors reached 6 million. (by Editor Report Antonio Paolucci in "L'Osservatore Romano" of January 10, 2012)
See also
- Accademia, Venice
- Uffizi, Florence
- Index of Vatican City-related articles
- List of most visited art museums in the world
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Top 100 Art Museum Attendance, The Art Newspaper, 2014. Retrieved on 13 July 2014.
- ↑ Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>.
- ↑ Barbara McMahon in Rome. "Guardian.co.uk". Guardian. Retrieved 2014-08-21.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Pinacoteca". Mv.vatican.va. 1932-10-27. Retrieved 2014-08-21.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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- G. B. Visconti and E. Q. Visconti, Il Museo Pio-Clementino Descritto (8 vols., 1782–1792)
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I am the proud new owner of a pair of L300s. My question is what to power them with. I was thinking about Pioneers Spec 1 and Spec 2.
Any suggestions / Comments on this?
I am the proud new owner of a pair of L300s. My question is what to power them with. I was thinking about Pioneers Spec 1 and Spec 2.
Any suggestions / Comments on this?
I am using mine with a 15 watts, single ended amp Wavac 801. Much better than a mac7270 or a JBL 6260.
Do you already own those amps, or are you thinking about buying them?
Right, just about any very good quality amp will do within its power limitations. For my similar 4333A's I usually use a 60 wpc tube amp, but I almost always listen at pretty low levels, and I know I'm giving up a lot of the dynamics that the speaker is built for. Every once in a while I get a hair and hook up a 200 wpc solid state amp. I think if you want to get the most out of the speaker you use a high-power, high-current solid state amp if you can find one that also has the refinement you desire. The speaker will tell you about your amps.Originally Posted by tev
I currently power my set of L-300's with a Spec 1 & Spec 2. They sound very sweet. There may be better amps out there but these sound very good. Lots of watts to handle most anything. I dont think you will be disappointed.
Golden Tube Audio SE40, Conrad Johnson Premiere Four
All for now, changes will be made
If your looking for sweet highs and mids a tube amp will do fine. If you want that bass that JBL is known for it's best to have more power than not enough. I had a JBL 600, Aragon 4004 MKII and a Mcintosh 2255 hooked up to mine. They sang! I also had a Pioneer SX-1250 and a Sansui AU-919 hooked up top them and they were ok. If you want tubes to drive them It's my opinion that you'll have to go upwards of 100 watts. I like amps with &^$$s!
Yamaha made some pretty solid SS amps a few years ago. The pro sound models are used by a few forum members. I have two M-45 Yamahas that produce about 125 into 8 ohms and they work pretty good for me.
With my listening experience you need 150 watt pc or more to get the most of your speakers. Any less and you will not have the dynamic headroom needed.Originally Posted by SteveL300
The type of amp to use depends what type of sound you like.
New member here....Do you want Quality or Quanity of sound? I use a pair of mono bloc DIY SET WE300B Amps ~ heavy power supply, custom output transformers and 50's WE tubes @ 7 watts output with my L300's. A MAGIC lifelike combination, superb imaging, the speakers disappear, just the instruments playing in there own space. Suggest 7 watts with L300's and my audiophile friends were ready to fit me with a straight jacket, UNTIL they came by to listen. The music has the breath of "Life" in it. It's hard to believe that a 7 watt single ended amp could be capable driving L300's, but i'm sure there are other members on this board that use SE amps. I also have Mac 30's & 60's ~ Heathkit W5-M's ~ Radio Craftsmen C-500's ~ Eico HF-14's ~ A pair of Williamson 807 Monoblocs ~ they all sound VERY good on the L300's, but they ALL sound different....and are no match for the SE 300B amps even in the bass! Now I also have a Adcom 5800 and a Dynaco 400 solid state amp....Sure they have more slam on the bottom and you can hear L300's on the next block when you crank it, but the magic is gone from the Music, and to me the Music is what it is all about. My L300's have been rewired with silver-copper Teflon wire, wire terminals replaced and all my crossover caps have been replaced with Rel-Cap Theta's (same values), a major upgrade in resolution.
BTW I also have a pair of Altec 19's ~ L-80t's ~ L-100ti's and a Hartsfield system im still working on.
Hi. Most JBL listeners want quality reproduced at a realistic volume level.Originally Posted by SureFire
Just one comment: JBL recommends at least twice the power handling of the system. For the L300 this means 300w p/c.Originally Posted by SureFire
I personally would power it with a Crown K2 or an AB 1100... I have set L300's up for a few people and those are the two amps I have found make them come alive.
Hi Rolf, I know where your coming from, been there, done that. I went thru the Threshold, Krell, phase with my JBL's, and for most on this forum SS Hi Power Amps will work fine. I too didn't believe in SE tube amps, until I (reluctantly) let my friend come over and demo his SE 300B amps on my L300's over 5 years ago, after that shootout it was goodbye Krell, Hello Single Ended.
Originally Posted by Rolf
As for a "realistic volume level" trying to fit the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at realistic volume levels into my 24 X 20 listening room.....well it just isn't happening no mater what kind of amp i'm using.
In my point of view, I try and create the exact vibrations in the air that was in the original recording session in my listening room at a comfortable level.
It is a never ending quest.
Everyone, please feel free to comment on this post.
I have a Yamaha PC4002M amp powering my L300 speakers, the 420x2 watts give it plenty of headroom/slam and the low end is impressive with JBL 2235h woofers. JBL recommends 400 watts for the 2235h woofers. Like anything else it is a "compromise". I tried another Yamaha amp, MX2000 (130 watt x 2), the mids and highs seemed to be just slightly better but this may be due to the loss of the deep base that I had with the PC4002M. From the JBL tech sheet 300 wattsx2 is recommended for the 136a woofer model. All depends on what your looking for, I'm very happy with the results I get from the Yamaha PC4002M amp.
The reason I ask is because some twenty five years ago when I first listen to a set of L300s they were being powered by Pioneers Spec 1 and Spec 2 with a Technics direct drive turntable, listening to Pink Floyds Dark Side of the Moon. This was back in 1979. I thought the sound was fantastic. In fact it blew my mind!
Since audio equipment has changed so much from those good old days. I just want to make sure I get the right equipment for the job. A lot of you recommend tube amps and to tell you the truth I have never dealt with tube amps. From what Im reading they tend to give a much warmer sound to the mids.
But I must say I want to make this a simple setup. I have read that giving these babiess a little power will really light them up, Probably what I remember when I heard them years ago. I have also read that replacing the aluminum diaphragm on the LE85 what phenolic diaphragms would get me the warm sound from the mids.
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MOSCOW — Buffeted by a plummeting Russian financial market and outrage from the West over his aggressive actions in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin appeared to blink Tuesday as he broke his silence and declared he had no intention of harming his "brothers" in Ukraine.
The Russian leader struck a conciliatory tone after the European Union announced an emergency summit on whether to impose sanctions and the Russian market tumbled by 13% on Monday.
Even President Obama tempered his continuing criticism of the Russian leader, acknowledging that Putin is "pausing for a moment and reflecting on what's happened."
But some analysts suggested that Putin had simply quit while he was ahead, after taking control of military bases, airfields and border crossings in Crimea and making clear he will dictate future political events.
"It was as though he took a step back, saying, 'We'll wait and see,' " said Ilya Ponomaryov, a member of the Russian parliament who is not affiliated with Putin's ruling party.
Ponomaryov said it appeared Putin may have felt he had overplayed his hand, given the days of denunciations and threats of financial penalties against Russia. Though no such threats have been carried out, Putin may have felt he needed to ratchet back to prevent that from happening.
"Putin's comments on Tuesday gave a sense of relative sobriety after his actions over the weekend frightened a lot of people," Ponomaryov said.
There were certainly signs Tuesday that Putin was stepping off the gas as far as a deeper incursion in Ukraine is concerned.
Russia agreed to a NATO request for a special meeting between his military and members of the U.S.-Europe military alliance in Brussels, opening up a possible diplomatic channel.
Putin said massive military maneuvers Russia had been executing on the Ukraine border, involving 150,000 troops, had been previously planned and were unrelated to the political upheaval in Ukraine. Russia announced that Putin had ordered the troops back to their bases.
In an hour-long meeting with reporters Tuesday, Putin said Russia had no intention of annexing Crimea and that people there have the right to determine their status in a referendum later this month. Crimean tensions, Putin said, "have been settled."
Russia did not want "to fight the Ukrainian people," he said, after having just done so by moving thousands of Russian troops into Crimea over the objections of the central government in Kiev. Many in eastern and southern Ukraine, which includes Crimea, identify with Russia, while the rest of the deeply divided country is oriented toward Europe.
"It seems to me (Ukraine) is gradually stabilizing," Putin said in his first remarks since Russian forces joined pro-Moscow Ukrainians to close off the peninsula of Crimea. "We have no enemies in Ukraine. Ukraine is a friendly state."
Ukrainian troops watch as Russian Navy ships block the entrance of the Ukrainian navy base in Sevastopol, Ukraine.
Meeting with Ukraine's new acting president, Oleksandr Turchynov, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sounded skeptical about the kinder, gentler Putin.
"It is clear that Russia has been working hard to create a pretext for being able to invade further," Kerry said. "It is not appropriate to invade a country, and at the end of a barrel of a gun dictate what you are trying to achieve. That is not 21st-century, G-8, major nation behavior."
Ukraine continued to simmer with unrest Tuesday, with riots in many cities. In Crimea, troops loyal to Moscow fired warning shots to frighten off protesting Ukrainian soldiers. Heavily armed Russian soldiers have closed off the port city on the Black Sea, blocking border crossings, military bases and airfields.
Two Ukrainian warships remained anchored in the Crimean port of Sevastopol, blocked from leaving by Russian ships. Pro-Russian demonstrators took over buildings in Donetsk in east Ukraine and tried to do the same in the major port city of Odessa.
World markets bounced back Tuesday, seemingly soothed by Putin's claims that he has no intent of a deeper invasion. But others warned that this is no retreat by the Russian leader.
"Putin's statement that he did not see an immediate need to authorize a Russian invasion of Ukraine suggests a reduced threat of Russian military intervention," said Alisa Lockwood, a European analyst at IHS, a U.S.-based consulting firm. "However, he has reserved the right to order an invasion in the coming weeks or even months."
Analysts say Putin's retreat may be strategic. After all, they say, he had nothing to lose by approving a meeting with NATO, since the alliance has already said it would not be taking military action against Russia. The troops that have returned to their barracks can move out at any time along Russia's 1,300-mile long border with Ukraine.
Ukraine could muster no effective military opposition, and Putin can now wait and see if Crimea holds a referendum on whether to declare full autonomy from Kiev, as he himself has declared it must do.
Putin's comments on the rights of Crimeans were of no comfort to Kiev, which insists that Crimea is part of Ukraine and has no authority to hold a referendum that would play into Putin's desire to control the province — as he has done with the former Soviet republics of Georgia and Moldova.
Serhiy Solodky, deputy director of the Institute of World Policy in Kiev, says whatever Putin is doing, he's not done.
"The Russian leadership want to re-establish the Russian empire," he said. "They have drawn so-called 'red lines' where the European Union or NATO cannot be enlarged."
Ukraine now has one, he says.
Lounging in an armchair before Russian tricolor flags in his suburban estate in Moscow, Putin talked with reporters for an hour yet gave no real hint of what lies ahead. He used earthy language and took swipes at the West, accusing it of backing an "unconstitutional coup" in Ukraine. Pro-Moscow president Viktor Yanukovych was ousted in the wake of massive demonstrations last month.
"About deploying troops, so far, there is no need for that. But such an option exists," he said, later watching a test of new Russian ballistic missiles.
Putin has been an enigma to the leaders of the West, some of whom felt that Moscow desired a better relationship to improve the country's economy and calm world conflicts.
Clifford May, president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, says there are a few things to keep in mind when trying to determine Putin's aims.
"First, just as a U.S. Marine is always a U.S. Marine, so a KGB colonel is always a KGB colonel," he wrote recently. "Second, he believes that the 'demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe' of the 20th century."
Solodky says whatever Putin is thinking in the long term, it is clear that what he is doing now is aimed at destroying any chance of Ukraine moving in the orbit of Europe and the West.
The first step was to pressure Yanukovych to renege on a deal to strengthen Ukraine's trade and economic ties to the European Union. The pact was years in the making and a signing ceremony days away when Yanukovych instead agreed to a deal with Putin for $15 billion in aid and below-market prices on natural gas.
It was Putin's move that infuriated Ukrainians in Kiev and elsewhere and prompted widespread protest against the Yanukovych-controlled parliament. Putin responded by demonizing as "terrorists" the tens of thousands of Ukrainians who demanded the pact with the EU be inked.
When dozens of the protesters were mowed down by gunfire, Putin granted Yanukovych asylum and described him as the legal president of Ukraine even though members of Yanukovych's own party voted to replace him.
The first eastern Slavic state of Rus was founded around what is now the Ukrainian capital of Kiev in the ninth century. Russia is spoken in East Ukraine routinely. So Russia has deep connections to Ukraine, deeper than other former republics of the Soviet Union that declared independence following the state's demise in 1991. And Putin covets them all, analysts say.
Meantime, the new Ukrainian leadership in Kiev, which Putin refuses to recognize, expressed hope that a negotiated solution could be found.
"We hope that Russia will understand its responsibility in destabilizing the security situation in Europe, that Russia will realize that Ukraine is an independent state and that Russian troops will leave the territory of Ukraine," interim prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said.
So what does Putin ultimately have in mind for Ukraine? Leon Aron, resident scholar and director of Russian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, suggests even the Russian president might not be sure.
"Putin has trusted his luck and his smarts while counting on his opponents' weaknesses," Aron said. "This means he has operated in accordance with Napoleon's principle…which I would translate as, 'First get into a fight, and then decide what to do.' "
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One of the things I really appreciate about Python is that it allows me to explore different programming styles. When I started with Python (coming from a C/C++/Java background) I would mostly use procedural style constructs.
These days, however, I am usually inclining towards a more functional pogramming style.
One of the key books that swayed me towards the latter was Mark Pilgrim's "Dive Into Python", one of the best (technical) books I have read so far. If you haven't come across it yet, you should definitely take a look at it.
Another Python gem you may want to check out while experimenting with functional programming ideas is the itertools module.
In the brief section of code that follows below I am contrasting the procedural versus the functional pogramming style through an example in which I am interested in obtaining the first in a (potentially large) range of numbers whose 8th root is an integer.
1 from math import (pow, modf) 2 from itertools import dropwhile 3 4 def calculate(x): 5 """calculates the 8th root of the number 'x'""" 6 return(pow(x, 0.125)) 7 8 def wanted(v): 9 """integer check: returns 'True' if fractional part of a number is 0""" 10 return(not modf(v)[0]) 11 12 def unwanted(v): 13 """returns 'False' if fractional part of a number is > 0""" 14 return(modf(v)[0])
The lines 16-25 show a procedural style function using a loop and related control flow constructs to get the job done.
16 def proceduralStyle(f, t): 17 """ 18 finds the first in the range of numbers [f..t[ whose 8th root is an 19 integer; procedural style 20 """ 21 for x in xrange(f, t): 22 v = calculate(x) 23 if wanted(v): break 24 else: v = None 25 return(v)
The functional style solution (see lines 27-34 below) uses the
dropwhile() method (from the itertools module) to get rid of any unwanted initial values (line 32).
Please note also how a generator expression (as opposed to normal list comprehension) is used (on line 32) to achieve lazy evaluation behaviour.
The syntactical differences are minute (parentheses versus square brackets) but the effects are huge.
A normal list comprehension will construct the entire list (and perform any calculations needed in the process) before completing. A generator expression on the other hand is comparable to an iterator, values are returned in piecemeal fashion and calculations are performed only as needed.
27 def functionalStyle(f, t): 28 """ 29 finds the first in the range of numbers [f..t[ whose 8th root is an 30 integer; functional style 31 """ 32 r8iter = dropwhile(unwanted, (calculate(x) for x in xrange(f, t))) 33 try: return(r8iter.next()) 34 except StopIteration: return(None)
Finally, by experimenting with the source code we can see that lazy evaluation is in effect for the
functionalStyle() function. It returns straightaway with the result anticipated (256 is the first number in the range whose 8th root is an integer (2)).
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Harry Styles Makes Sick Fan's Dream Come Trueby Mandi Salerno | PopCrush
We already knew that Harry Styles is a sweetheart, but what he did for an ill fan this weekend is still above and beyond what we expected!
The 20-year-old Brit is currently on the East Coast for One Direction's Where We Are Tour, and on his day off in between shows he stopped in the N.J. town of a young fan, Campbell Hoyt, to pay her a little visit.
Cam has been battling brain and spine cancer since she was just three years old, according to the Alternative Press. She's now eight and on hospice care, and she had one wish — to meet her idols, One Direction.
All last week fans were trending various hash tags to get the attention of her favorite member, Harry. The boy bander took notice of Cam's plight and tweeted a sweet message to her.
Campbell Hoyt, I am thinking of you and sending you all the love in the world. That's a lot of love. H
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Though Directioners thought his kindness would end there, Harry took it a step further by popping by her house on Sunday, Aug. 3. We can't even imagine how happy that made her! Click here to see a photo of Harry sitting beside Cam.
Her mom spoke to the Alternative Press about the surprise visit: "He was emphatic that he did not do this for publicity. He truly just wanted to meet Cam. I would not want anyone to get the wrong idea."
It seems like the visit meant the world to Cam. Way to go, Harry!


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NCAA Basketball Tournament: 64 Great Foods in 64 College Towns
When March was rolling around, we immediately thought, oooh March Madness. As college basketball fans (yes, we filled out our brackets this morning) we decided to find the most delicious plate of food in each of the college towns for each team competing in this year's NCAA Basketball Tournament.
Some were no-brainers (roast pork Italian in Philly for Temple; Graeter's ice cream in Cincinnati for Xavier) while others required help from siblings, old classmates, readers, and other FOSE (friends of Serious Eats). But eventually we found a damn-good bite for each city (yes, including you: Clemson, South Carolina! And you: Bryan, Texas!) So as you root on your teams this month, salivate over all the beloved foods from each team's hometown.
A cold craft beer, the Brewery Burger and some Cheddar Ale soup from Free State Brewing. 636 Massachusetts Street, Lawrence KS 66044 (map); freestatebrewing.com; 785-843-455
Butter brickel, chocolate banana, or any of the other rotating flavors from Heavenly Hedgehog Ice Cream. 563 Main St, Bethlehem, PA 18018 (map); heavenlyhedgehog.com; 610-332-1600
Raspberry coffee cake from Barn Happy. 11310 University Avenue Cedar Falls, IA 50613 (map); barnhappy.net; 319-266-0888
Michigan State
The Mars Scramble—a mixed bag of mushrooms, turkey, green onion, tomatoes, and other things you probably won't remember, encased in three scrambled eggs—from Golden Harvest Restaurant (but be prepared to wait!). 1625 Turner Street, Lansing MI 48906 (map); myspace.com/golden_harvest; 517-485-3663
Thai food from Lotus of Siam. 953 East Sahara Avenue, Las Vegas, NV 89104 (map); saipinchutima.com/; 702-735-3033
New Mexico State
Brisket Burritos (beef brisket and coleslaw in a flour tortilla) from Bosa Donuts. 1190 Avenida De Mesilla, Las Cruces, NM 88005 (map); 575-526-3388
Rectangular pizza topped with gobs of smoked provolone from Tommy Marcos' Ledo Restaurant (the original Ledo Pizza). 2420 University Blvd., Adelphi MD 20783 (map); ledorestaurant.com; 301-422-8122
Brisket plate from Pierson & Company Bar B Que. 5110 T C Jester Blvd, Houston TX 77091 (map); piersonandcompanybbq.com; 713-683-6997
Red velvet cake from Litton's. 2803 Essary Road, Knoxville Tennessee 37918 (map); littonsburgers/lynda-jones.html; 865-688-0429
San Diego State
Scallop burritos and 99-cent beer-battered fish tacos from El Zarape. 4642 Park Boulevard, San Diego CA 92116 (map); 619-692-1652
Argentine gelato in all kinds of unique flavors like mascarpone and fig, blood orange, and the never-disappointing hazelnut from Dolcezza. 1560 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington DC 20007 (map); dolcezzagelato.com; 202-333-4646
The Spring Omelet—made with fresh local eggs, cheese from nearby Laurel Valley Creamery, and local spinach and mushrooms—from Casa Nueva. 6 West State Street, Athens OH 45701 (map); casanueva.com; 740-592-2016.
Oklahoma State
Barbecue and sweet tea from Bad Brad's. 3317 East 6th Avenue, Stillwater OK 74074 (map); 405-377-4141
Georgia Tech
Fried chicken from Watershed (co-owned by one of the Indigio Girls, Emily Saliers!). 406 West Ponce De Leon Avenue, Decatur Georgia 30030 (map); watershedrestaurant.com; 404-378-4900
Ohio State
Hot fudge sundae from Jeni's Ice Cream. Multiple locations; jenisicecreams.com
UC Santa Barbara
Tacos from La Super-Rica Taqueria. 622 North Milpas Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103 (map); 805-963-4940
A "garbage plate"The Bar-B-Que Pork Ribs or the Big Ass Pork Plate from Dinosaur Bar-B-Que. 246 W. Willow Street, Syracuse, NY 13202 (map); dinosaurbarbque.com; 315-476-4937
Any crepe with house-made sausage from Skinny Pancake. 60 Lake St., Burlington, VT 05401 (map); skinnypancake.com; 802-540-0188
Monster turkey sandwiches (the amount of meat is actually kind of frightening, and they have no vegetables in the shop—unless you count the corn in the complimentary popcorn) from Domini Sandwiches. 703 West Sprague Avenue, Spokane WA 99201 (map); 509-747-2324
Florida State
Fried oysters from Shell Oyster Bar. 114 Oakland Avenue, Tallahassee FL 32301 (map); 850-224-9919
Breaded pork tenderloin sandwich from Mug 'N' Bun. 5211 West 10th Street, Indianapolis, IN, 46224 (map); mug-n-bun.com; 317-244-5600
Queso fries (a MUST appetizer) and the Machaca from Kiki's Mexican Restaurant. 2719 N. Piedras 79930 (map); kikisrestaurant.com; 915-565-6713 [Jay Koester]
Spicy fried chicken from Prince's Hot Chicken Shack. 123 Ewing Drive, Nashville TN (map); Read about our visit there; 615-226-9442
Murray State
Ribs and chicken from Bad Bob's BBQ & Grill. 806 Chestnut Street, Murray KY 42071 (map); badbobs5.com; 270-767-0054
Black raspberry chip ice cream from Graeter's. Multiple locations; graeters.com
Hot brown sugar ice cream from Izzy's. 2034 Marshall Avenue, St. Paul MN 55104 (map); izzysicecream.com; 651-603-1458
Sweet pork barbacoa (available as a salad, in a burrito, enchilada, taco, quesadilla, or tostada) from Cafe Rio. 2250 N University Pkway #A16, Provo, UT 84604 (map); caferio.com; 801-375-5133
Grits and biscuits from The Flying Biscuit Cafe. 4150 NW 16 Blvd, Gainesville FL 32605 (map); flyingbiscuit.com; 352-373-9500
Pastrami (with fries & coleslaw, like all their sandwiches) from Primanti Brothers. 46 18th Street, Pittsburgh PA 15222 (map); primantibros.com; Read more about our visit here; 412-263-2142
Croissants from The Give Thanks Bakery and Cafe. 225 S. Main Street, Rochester MI 48307 (map); givethanksbakery.com; 248-601-1542
Kansas State
Burgers from So Long Saloon. 1130 Moro Street, Manhattan KS 66502 (map); solongsaloon.com; 785-537-9292
North Texas
Root beer (made in-house) float from Frosty Drive N. 1002 Fort Worth Drive, Denton TX 76205 (map); 940-387-5449
Glazed doughnuts from Spalding's Bakery. 760 Winchester Road, Lexington KY 40505 (map); spaldingsbakery.com; 859-252-3737
East Tennessee St
The chopped pork with a crazy array of sauces to choose at Dixie Barbeque. 3301 N. Roan Street, Johnson City TN 37601 (map); dixiebarbeque.net; 423-283-PIGS
Barbecue from The Salt Lick (duh!). 18300 FM 1826, Driftwood TX 78619 (map); saltlickbbq.com; 512-858-4959.
Wake Forest
Soul food with a modern twist from Sweet Potatoes 529 North Trade Street, Winston-Salem NC 27101 (map); sweetpotatoes-arestaurant.com; 336-727-4844.
Roast pork Italian from Tony Luke's 39 East Oregon Avenue, Philadelphia PA 19148 (just west of the I-95 overpass; map); tonylukes.com; Read more about our visit here; 215-551-5725.
French bread pizza from The Hot Truck Parks at 635 Stewart Avenue, Ithaca NY 14850, on Cornell University's West Campus (map); 607-273-1111
Mac and cheese slice from Ian's Pizza. 115 State Street, Madison WI 53703 (map); ianspizza.com; 608-257-9248.
The Chili Cheese A-Plenty chili cheeseburger (and a sweet tea!) from The Beacon Drive-In. 255 John B. White Sr Boulevard, Spartanburg SC 29306 (map); beacondrivein.com; 864-585-9387.
Burgers and frozen custard from Kopp's. Multiple locations; kopps.com
Coconut cream pie from Dahlia Bakery. 2001 4th Avenue, Seattle WA 98121 (map); tomdouglas.com/dahlia-bakery; Read more about our visit here; 206-441-4540.
New Mexico
Green Chile Stew from Model Pharmacy. 3636 Monte Vista Blvd NE, Albuquerque NM 87106 (map); 505-255-8686.
The "Megadeath" sandwich from Tagliare Deli. 1433 South Higgins Avenue, Missoula MT 59801 (map); 406-830-3049 [H/T to Holly McKinney]
Hot dogs from Skin Thrashers (aka "Skin's"). 139 Anderson Highway, Clemson SC 29631 (map); skinshotdogs.com; 864-654-4422
Burgers served in wax paper (even when it's slammed on football Saturdays, they get 'em out as hot as they should be) from the over-a-century-old Booche's Billiard Hall. 110 S 9th Street, Columbia, MO 65201 (map); 573-874-9519. [Ann "Lemons" Pollack]
Peanut Pie, Sweet Potato Buttermilk Pie, or really any of the pies from Scratch Seasonal Artisan Bakery. Multiple locations; piefantasy.com.
West Virginia
Pepperoni roll from Country Club Bakery. 1211 Country Club Road, Fairmont WV 26554 (map); 304-363-5690.
Morgan State
Crab cakes from Faidley's. 203 North Paca Street at the Lexington Market, Baltimore, MD 21201 (map); faidleyscrabcakes.com; 410-727-4898.
Arkansas Pine Bluff
Purdue Burger, a double-bacon cheeseburger, from Sno-White Grill. 310 E. 5th Avenue, Pine Bluff AR 71601 (map); 870-534-9811.
Cal Berkeley
Pizza from Emilia's Pizzeria. 2995 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley CA 94705 (map); emiliaspizzeria.com; Read more about our visit here; 510-704-1794.
Fall-off-the-bone ribs and fried pickles from Mark's Feed Store. Multiple locations; marksfeedstore.com
Texas A&M
Burger Basket from River Bridge. 200 South Main Street, Bryan TX 77803 (map); koppebridge.net; 979-823-2333.
Utah State
Tuscan cuisine prepared by a Tuscany transplant at Le Nonne. 129 N 100 E, Logan UT 84321 (map); 435-752-9577.
Real-sugar Dr. Pepper from the Dr Pepper Museum. 300 S. 5th Street, Waco TX (map); drpeppermuseum.com
Soup with made-right-then super-long noodles from the Japanese-Korean Kibu Cafe. 11 South River Road Suite D, West Lafayette IN 47906 (map); kibucafe.com; 765-743-3190.
A Juicy Burger (and a shake and fries) from Juicy Burgers & More. 5 New Karner Road, Guilderland NY 12084 (map); orderjuicyburgers.com; 518-464-9800.
Notre Dame
Pizza from Rocco's Pizza. 537 N Street Louis Blvd, South Bend IN 46617 (map); orderjuicyburgers.com; 574-233-2464.
Old Dominion
Crab cakes from A.W. Shucks Raw Bar & Grill. 2200 Colonial Avenue, Norfolk VA 23517 (map); a-w-shucks.com; 757-664-9117
Sam Houston State
Ribs from Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Barbecue. 2601 Montgomery Rd, Huntsville TX 77340 (map); nzmbc.com; 936-295-8856
Anything from the nightly-rotating menu at Acacia Midtown. 2601 W. Cary Street, Richmond VA 23220 (map); acaciarestaurant.com; 804-562-0138
St. Mary's
Chinese food from Chef Chao Restaurant. 343 Rheem Blvd, Moraga CA 94556 (map); chefchaorestaurant.com; 925-376-1740
Robert Morris
Primanti Brothers in Pittsburgh is too good. We have to pick it twice.
The Arista Sandwich (suckling pig and broccoli rabe) from Paesano's isn't technically in Villanova, but it's totally worth the SEPTA trip into Philly. 152 West Girard Avenue, Philadelphia PA 19123 (map); modomiorestaurant.com/paesanos; 267-886-9556
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ALEXANDRIA, VA. (March 1, 2013)—The following statement can be attributed to National PTA President Betsy Landers:
The National PTA is disappointed with the U.S. Congress' apparent failure to reach a balanced, responsible deficit reduction plan to replace automatic, across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration. While we are hopeful Congress can reach a last-minute compromise, National PTA is not optimistic.
Education now faces the largest cuts in history, and our nation's families and schools are confronting the fact that curriculum supports and vital school and community programming for our highest-need students will decrease. Every single one of National PTA's nearly 5 million members will suffer the consequences of this avoidable situation.
The Department of Education is estimated to lose $2.4 billion. Funding streams for high-poverty schools, students with special needs, and military and Native American students are receiving the most devastating blows. While most of the reductions will be fully realized in the 2013-2014 school year, the reality is that school districts across the country started to feel the pain when they began planning to absorb the effects of sequestration last summer.
For example, districts dependent on Impact Aid, that is federal dollars to assist with loss of property tax revenue, implemented staff and program reductions for the current school year, anticipating the loss of a large portion of their operating budgets. As a result, the learning continuum for thousands, including military and Native American students, has been disrupted.
Cuts of this magnitude not only strip critical learning opportunities from our children, but they also harm the economy. In addition to the immediate cut in teachers' paychecks, today's sweeping cuts will profoundly impact our future ability to prepare college- and career-ready students and develop a skilled workforce.
By not achieving bipartisan action to replace sequestration, Congress has failed our nation's children and their families.
National PTA® comprises millions of families, students, teachers, administrators, and business and community leaders devoted to the educational success of children and the promotion of parent involvement in schools. PTA is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit association that prides itself on being a powerful voice for all children, a relevant resource for families and communities, and a strong advocate for public education. Membership in PTA is open to anyone who wants to be involved and make a difference for the education, health, and welfare of children and youth.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Deron Williams scored 23 points, shaking off a second-half injury, and the Brooklyn Nets forced a seventh game in their first-round series by beating the Toronto Raptors 97-83 on Friday night.
Despite appearing to hurt his left foot or ankle early in the third quarter, Williams dominated his matchup with Kyle Lowry and helped the Nets put it away with a 3-pointer with 1:13 left that made it 92-79.
Game 7 is Sunday in Toronto, with the winner advancing to face the defending champion Miami Heat.
It became the fourth first-round series ticketed for a do-or-die game in these playoffs.
DeMar DeRozan scored 28 for the Raptors, who will have to go the distance if they are to win a seven-game series for the first time in franchise history. They haven't won any postseason series since 2001.


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Lebanese design firm MZ Architects designed this stadium in the desert of Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates, maximizing the surrounding landscape by turning it into the actual infrastructure of the building itself.
Comprising 200,000², the structure relies heavily on sourced materials fromt the build site, recuperated stone and natural beams of light. [Inhabitat]


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Morning Movement
What if you started your day with a big ole does of a happy body?
Don't think you like to "exercise?"
The morning activities are completely optional, but you may be surprised how much your body loves to move when it's actually taken into consideration.
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For anything to be limiting you, you must be functioning from some form of anti-consciousness or unconsciousness. Consciousness includes everything and judges nothing; it goes beyond the polarity of this reality where we are always looking to what is right or wrong, and into the allowance, gratitude, choice, possibility, contribution and question that is truly possible.
This class provides hundreds of tools, including some hands-on body processes, that allow you to change anything that isn't working for you in your life.
The Foundation will be co-facilitated daily by Blossom Benedict, Glenna Rice, and Heather Nichols
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The afternoons will be about taking the tools from the Foundation and extending them to other areas of life. And playing with them!
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AC/DC singer Brian Johnson says that an illness suffered by one of his bandmates may have temporarily put plans for a new album by the legendary rockers on hold. He wouldn't go into specifics about which member or what the illness is, but he did say it's not terminal and that the afflicted member is on the path to recovery.
"Hopefully this year we're going to get back together again," Brian said during a recent interview on 'The Cowhead Show.' "One of the boys is a little sick and I can't say anything, but he's getting better. He's doing wonderful. Full recovery fully expected." So while that may have sidelined the band for awhile, it does sound like things are picking up and AC/DC could be back in action sooner than later. The group's last album was 2008′s 'Black Ice.'
"I miss my buddies," Johnson continues. "It's a wonderful thing when we get in a room. Whenever the boys get back together, I get all excited. The boys, after a while, pick the guitars up, Phil [Rudd] will make his way to the drums, Cliff [Williams] will pull his bass out and then all of a sudden this noise comes out and I sit there with just this big old grin on my face."


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What the Worcester News says...
THE golden chains of the mayor of Worcester are tarnished today.
There are fears that the dignity of the 400-year-old office has been compromised by a piece of shameless political horse trading.
Councillor Alan Amos appears to have been given the prestigious role in return for helping the Conservatives at the Guildhall snatch power from the ruling Labour group on Tuesday night.
When elections for Worcester City Council were held last month he was a member of the Labour party.
But he quit just four days ago to become an independent, freeing him to back the Tories in the crucial vote that returned them to power. They had themselves been ousted in a Labour coup just a year ago.
The council was in limbo after the election. The Conservatives were the largest party with 17 seats, but Labour had 16 and the support of one Lib Dem councillor. They had been negotiating for support from the lone Green which would have given them the majority they needed to continue to rule to roost.
Clearly, in such circumstances compromise is necessary to get decisions made.
But the deal that secured the Tory leadership risks being seen as beyond the pale.
The people of Worcester deserve to know if the office of the mayor, which has traditionally been largely ceremonial, has indeed been gifted to Alan Amos in return for his support of the Conservatives.
There are other key questions that demand answers: When did Alan Amos decide he was no longer happy as a Labour councillor and why?
Why didn't he stand down and fight a by-election as an independent?
If the Conservatives had refused to make Cllr Amos mayor would he still have supported a change in administration?
Has he been offered any other inducements from the Conservatives in return for being made mayor?
In the interests of maintaining confidence in our city's democracy, and the integrity of the office of mayor, we await a response.
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Lo, while you were watching some kind of football all weekend, this happened: Boston got swept by Tampa Bay. 7-2, 6-5, and 9-1 today. Four of those nine runs came on this BJ Upton atom bomb off Matt Albers. That moves the Rays 3.5 games behind the Sox—three in the loss column—for the AL Wild Card lead with 17 games (four against Boston) to play. The Angels, who lead the Yankees at press time, are 4.5 back.
The Red Sox are 2-8 in their last ten. Josh Beckett is hurting. Tim Wakefield is struggling. John Lackey is still John Lackey.
David Ortiz said, "Hell yeah, it's time to panic. But you're not going to do anything panicking." But we disagree; you can get some good drinking done. Stawk up awn Evahcleah, denizens of the Hub. You're gonna need it.


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Riches To Rags: A Comedy About Income Inequality Hits Home In Mexico
In its first three weeks in Mexican movie houses, the film Nosotros Los Nobles (We Are the Nobles) is breaking records. The movie, about the father of rich, spoiled children trying to teach them how to live in the real world, has grossed more than $110 million and has been seen by more than two million Mexicans. At this rate the movie is on course to overtake Mexico's previously number one (non-animated) grossing movie The Crimes of Father Amaro.
Set in the posh neighborhoods of Mexico City, where high walled mansions and bodyguards keep the rich securely insulated from the rest of society, the Noble family patriarch decides its time to teach his three grown spendthrift children a lesson. He stages a fake police raid on his own mansion and hauls all their worldly possessions away.
On the run and in a common taxi, Barbie, the daughter dressed to the T in designer clothes and high heels asks her Dad, "Why are they taking everything away .... as if we were living in Venezuela?"
With nothing but the clothes on their backs the three kids, Barbie, a bulimic snob, Javi, the oldest son and full-time partier, and Charlie, a hipster with few aspirations, have to do the impossible ... get jobs. Along the way they learn humbling lessons about themselves and how the majority of Mexicans live.
This riches-to-rags story is resonating with movie-goers. Mexico has one of the largest income gaps in the world. Ten percent of the population, which includes the world's richest man, Carlos Slim, owns 40 percent of the country's wealth. Nearly half of Mexicans live in poverty... earning about $175 a month.
Movie goer Francisco Beristain Bravo enjoyed the movie and loved watching the rich characters fall from their high perch. "The rich here in Mexico are parasites," he told me. Beristain added what was best about the movie was how entertaining it was.
That was the reaction writer-director Gary "Gaz" Alazaraki hoped he'd get. In his debut feature length film, Alazaraki says he wanted to make a movie that touched on important social messages, like income inequality, but more importantly the movie had to be funny.
Alazaraki gained his sense of humor watching Saturday Night Live, on Cablevision in Mexico City. And he loved the screwball comedies that poked fun of the economic disparities during the U.S. Depression.
Comedies have been absent from the more serious serving of Mexican films of late, think Amores Perros and Crimes of Father Amaro. It looks like Mexicans are enjoying this comedy and its rich message.
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Miss me?? worry not ... I can be heard in Twitter and hopefully seen in facebook ( I will tweet and FB whenever I could get wifi) ...
Take care and see you soon.... in January 2011
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Fans eager to follow the news surrounding Tuesday's announcement of the 2011 AT&T MLS All-Star Game can listen in on a teleconference discussing the event featuring Commissioner Don Garber and superstars Landon Donovan of the LA Galaxy and Thierry Henry of the New York Red Bulls on MLSsoccer.com at 3:30 pm ET.
Red Bull Arena will host the MLS All-Star Game on July 27, with details and the MLS opponent to be announced at a later date.
This year's All-Star Game will mark the third time the metropolitan New York area has hosted the mid-summer showcase; the inaugural MLS All-Star Game in 1996 and the second in 1997 were played at Giants Stadium. The 25,000-seat Red Bull Arena in Harrison, N.J. has played host to multiple friendlies between the Red Bulls and international clubs, along with select national team matches, but the 2011 AT&T MLS All-Star Game will be the first marquee MLS event at the $200 million venue.
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NGO: Assad Forces Take District of Syria's Homs
[An Nahar] Forces loyal to Syria's
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on Saturday seized a district of the central city of Homs after a fierce assault that sparked a humanitarian crisis, a watchdog said.
"The army launched an offensive several days ago on the neighborhood of Deir Baalbeh with heavy bombing, and the fighting and attacks continued until the rebels withdrew," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
-based watchdog, which relies on a large network of activists and medics on the ground, said that several other rebel districts, long under siege by the army, were still holding the troops at bay.
It said that the fighting had triggered a humanitarian crisis in the city, referred to by anti-regime activists as "the capital of the revolution."
Homs, a longtime industrial heartland, was the target of a major army offensive in February that left 700 people killed, the majority civilians.
West of the city, the army also battered the rebel-controlled area around the Crac des Chevaliers crusader castle, a UNESCO-listed world heritage site.
In the northwest province of Idlib,
erupted for the fourth consecutive day between troops and rebels, mostly jihadist fighters, around Wadi Deif, the last military base under regime control in the area, the Observatory said.
Fighting also raged around Menagh military airport near Syria's second city of Aleppo, after rebels managed to penetrate the base on Thursday following a months-long siege, said the Observatory.
Assad's forces shelled farmland between Halab al-Jadida district and Mansura on the eastern outskirts of Aleppo, as warplanes overflew several towns in the north of the province.
Battles also erupted near an oil refinery in the northeast province of Raqa, where two rebels were killed, according to the watchdog.
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as fighter jets were sighted overhead.
Warplanes also launched raids on Kernaz in the central province of Hama, causing widespread destruction in the town, the Observatory said.
The Syrian Revolution General Commission (SRGC), a network of activists on the ground, said that the air strikes caused five homes to collapse on their inhabitants, leaving dozens of people injured.
Air strikes and artillery fire was also reported in several locations near
...Capital of the last remaining Baathist regime in the world...
, including Daraya to the southwest which the army has been trying to retake for several weeks, the Observatory said.
The SRGC reported
between the rebel Free Syrian Army and loyalist troops in the northeastern outskirts of the capital, while the army was targeting rebel strongholds in the Eastern Ghuta region with heavy mortar fire.
Posted by: Fred 2012-12-30