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Come along on a virtual journey to the asteroid belt, the Moon, Mars, Saturn, Pluto and Europa. Begin by downloading this free educational app to any iOS device (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch). Then point the camera at the compatible interactive posters... (View More) available from this Lunar and Planetary Institute website to begin your exploration. The interactive posters can also be printed for display in a classroom or at an educational event. (View Less)
This collection of nine portable traveling exhibits communicates different aspects of lunar and asteroid science and exploration. Developed for use in public libraries and informal education settings, each exhibit consists of three banners with... (View More) accompanying stands, and telescoping poles. (View Less)
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This resource highlights a few of the many women who have impacted STEM fields- through important explorations, discoveries and/or contributions. It includes first-hand stories, a resource guide, and downloadable posters and postcards.
Developed and distributed prior to the August 21, 2017, total solar eclipse, this product includes a template and instructions for making a handheld viewing fan. The front and back of the fan contains information on viewing safety and a description... (View More) of a short activity that uses a thermometer to record temperature differences during the eclipse. (View Less)
Through the use of rhythm patterns of sounds presented in a solar system model, learners will collect data to determine orbital periods. Then, using that data, they will derive Kepler's Third Law (the relationship between the distance of planets... (View More) from the sun and their orbital periods) and apply the equation to search for exoplanets in orbit around extrasolar systems. Educator resources include a 5E instructional lesson and alignments with Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS): ESS1.B: Earth and the Solar System. This resource is part of the Infiniscope space exploration experiences. (View Less)
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Learners will explore aspects of the Sun and solar activity by modeling them as solar cupcakes. Information and imagery are supplied to learn about the Sun, solar activity, eclipses, transits, observing the Sun, and the color of the Sun at different... (View More) times of the day. Links to resources are also provided that highlight NASA's solar missions and where to learn more about the Sun. (View Less)
This Flash-based interactive provides access to illustrations, visualizations, videos, and near-real time images of the Sun from a variety of NASA satellites. Learners can access this information to supplement other materials related to the Sun and... (View More) heliophysics. A scale tool with the size of the Earth is also presented with the solar images. (View Less)
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Carl Sagan once claimed that the most important lesson we learn from studying the stars is perspective. To address this concept, this activity offers a scale model of the solar system to be evaluated. There are many versions of solar system scale... (View More) models available; this one is unique for its large scale chosen, the quality of the scaled objects, and the supplementary materials and information provided. The model is extended to include interaction and discovery on the part of learners, and suggested extensions. The set of materials includes a book about the solar system, developed from NASA's "From Earth to the Solar System" (FETTSS) imagery, and appropriate for use with the model. (View Less)
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This series of posters illustrates the universality of physical laws by connecting the concepts of rotation, speed, distance, pressure, time, mass, density and acceleration to both Olympic competitions and cosmic phenomena. Each poster includes both... (View More) a definition of the physics term and its units of measurement, and features an image of an Olympic/Paralympic athlete, a cosmic event, and a common everyday item as examples of the application of that physics concept. The posters, offered in English, Portuguese, and/or Spanish, are available to download and post in after-school facilities, community centers, libraries, science centers as well as classrooms. (View Less)
The activity begins with information on general characteristics of stars and the criteria used to classify of them into four stellar groups. Learners are then provided with "Star Status" sheets that provide both factual information and... (View More) anthropomorphic descriptions of six stars representing the stellar groups. Learners use the information on the sheets to "act out" the star, while others guess the star class that is being represented. This activity was designed for use in a library program. (View Less)


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In Darkness acquaints watchers with Sofia, a visually impaired musician in London who's taking a shot at the score of a blood and guts film. She returns home from work and keeps running into her upstairs neighbor, Veronique. Afterward, Sofia hears a battle and after that Veronique diving out the window onto the asphalt beneath. In the mean time, Sofia has effectively consented to play at a gathering for Veronique's dad, Zoran Radic, a Serbian representative blamed for atrocities. There she experiences the evil Radic and the thorny, extreme Alex, and in addition Marc, who was Veronique's darling. She discovers that these three are after a USB drive, which Veronique has concealed some place in their flat building.
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The Bell Jar at 40
In March 1970, the poet Ted Hughes found himself in a tricky real estate situation. There was a charming seaside house he wanted to buy, in Devonshire, but the necessary funds weren't at hand. Of course he could have sold one of his two other homes, but one was the home he had shared with his now deceased ex-wife Sylvia Plath, another was a solid investment, and so on. In the end, he wrote to Sylvia Plath's mother, Aurelia, asking for her blessing to sell one of his other assets: her daughter's first and only novel, written a year before her suicide in 1963, for which Hughes suspected there might now be a market in the United States.
The Bell Jar had been published in the UK under a pseudonym, to middling reviews, in 1963. American publishers had turned it down then, finding it deficient in plot and cohesion—"We didn't feel you had managed to use your materials successfully in a novelistic way," one editor wrote to Plath. A few weeks later, Plath, estranged from Hughes and living alone in London with their two small children, gassed herself. The posthumous publication of Ariel, a collection of poems written in a blaze of creativity during the last months of Plath's life, brought her worldwide renown. Hughes seems to have assumed that this would prompt American editors to reverse their initial opposition to the novel, though in his letter to Aurelia Plath he made clear his low opinion of the book, suggesting that in a few more years it would be of interest merely as a "curiosity for students." Aurelia Plath protested the plan; she saw the novel as representing the "basest ingratitude" toward the people her daughter had caricatured, including herself. Hughes ignored her, and The Bell Jar was published by Harper & Row in 1971. It has remained in print continuously ever since.
It's always interesting when a very strange book is also an enduringly popular book. The Bell Jar has sold more than three million copies and is a mainstay of American high school English classes; it was made into a movie in 1979, and another version, starring Julia Stiles, is currently in production. Like The Catcher in the Rye, it is a touchstone for a certain kind of introspective, moody teenager—the kind of teenager who used to listen to the Cure and, later on, Tori Amos, and who these days listens to—actually I have no idea, but she definitely has a blog. (There are an amazing variety of embarrassing shrines to The Bell Jar online.) Unlike Catcher, it also has other sources of partisan support: feminists of the 1970s claimed Plath as a martyred patron saint of repressive domesticity, and mental illness advocates have found in her work easily identifiable symptoms and syndromes that were misdiagnosed and barbarically treated.
As much as it was initially underappreciated by the British press, The Bell Jar was overpraised on its American publication. As such, it has frustrated generations of critics and biographers by refusing to be quite the great novel you'd want a great poet's only novel to be. The book's appeal comes into focus only when a reader drops her outsized expectations; after that, a more complex story reveals itself. Under the pretense of describing mental breakdown and recovery, Plath was free to bare her stand-in narrator's nastiest, most selfish impulses. In doing so, she both dramatized and exemplified the conflict inherent in trying to be both a great writer and a nice person.
In 1972, the feminist poet Robin Morgan published a poem called "The Arraignment," which contained this memorable rhyme:
I accuse
Ted Hughes
She was accusing him, more or less, of the murder of Sylvia Plath, and the accusation was taken up by many other women. Because Plath died intestate, Hughes now controlled her estate, and denied various permissions to whomever he deemed unworthy. He had also destroyed the last volume of her journals—to protect the children, he said, but he looked like a man trying to cover something up. Plath's gravestone, which had been engraved with her married name, was continually defaced: each time it was repaired, women would come back and chip Hughes's name off it again.
Their anger was understandable. Since Plath's death, Hughes's life had taken another macabre twist: his affair with German-born Jewish poet Assia Wevill, with whom he had a daughter, Shura, had also ended badly, and in March 1969 Wevill had gassed herself and their daughter. This tragedy ("It didn't help his reputation," the New York Times intoned many years later in Hughes's own obituary), plus Hughes's refusal to speak out publicly about his relationship with Plath, helped to cement the image of Plath as martyr and Hughes as adulterous tormentor and oppressor in the public imagination.
There was certainly plenty in The Bell Jar for a dogmatic second-wave feminist to latch onto in the course of a quick skim. "I hated the idea of serving men in any way," goes one oft-quoted passage; another, which Janet Malcolm calls "like a madeleine for bookish women of my generation," talks about the protagonist's refusal to learn shorthand, out of a desire to "dictate my own thrilling letters" rather than men's. But closer reading reveals another, more nuanced story about Plath as a woman and as a writer, one that shows the writer's sense of terror about the consequences of becoming herself.
The novel's first four paragraphs alone encompass three distinct and unrelated sources of disdain, disgust, and horror. Narrator Esther Greenwood is in New York, surrounded by the city's majestic skyscrapers and fascinating, glamorous inhabitants, but all she can see is dirt and looming doom. From every newspaper, headlines scream about the impending execution by electric chair of the convicted spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and Esther can't stop imagining what it would be like to be "burned alive all along your nerves." She describes summertime New York's gritty grossness, detailing the "fusty, peanut-smelling mouth of every subway" and the way each morning the "country-wet freshness that somehow seeped in overnight evaporated like the tail end of a sweet dream," leaving only sizzle and glitter and "dry, cindery dust." Then we're back to the Rosenberg headlines, which haunt Esther in the same way that seeing a cadaver once did: "Pretty soon I felt as though I were carrying that cadaver's head around with me on a string, like some black, noseless balloon stinking of vinegar."
It's almost disappointing when we learn that Esther's exotic, macabre cast of thought stems from an ordinary source of psychic strain. Having come to New York to work at a women's magazine for part of the summer, she has found that none of the academic prizes she's spent her life accumulating have any real-world value.
This is directly analogous to the summer of 1953, in which Plath spent three months in New York undertaking a "guest editorship" at Mademoiselle. Starting in the late 1930s, winning a spot in Mademoiselle's guest editorship program had been a highly sought-after honor for American college girls with literary aspirations; other alumnae of the program include Joan Didion, Ann Beattie, and—in Plath's same group—the novelist Diane Johnson. Mademoiselle regularly published short fiction and poetry by writers such as Truman Capote and Dylan Thomas. In addition to interviewing authors and minor celebrities, Plath and her fellow guest editors, who came from all over the country, kept busy with promotional junkets, movies, and dinners and dances and teas—it was like a combination of internship and debutante season.
Smith College, and the town of Wellesley where she lived since age 10, had nurtured Plath's private sense of literary mastery. New York, on the other hand, didn't care. The whole thing was a shock to the system. A fellow guest editor reports that Plath immediately disdained her because of her strong Midwestern accent. Plath's editor later said that she found her stiff and formal, singularly incapable of spontaneity. Plath herself reported in letters to her mother and younger brother that she felt exhausted and exhilarated in equal measure; she seems to have been trying to present a brave front. Secretly, she may have been disappointed not to find herself immediately accepted and comfortable in the job she'd worked so hard to get. But these assumptions are necessarily speculative: for that entire June, she wrote no entries in her journal, so it seems appropriate to turn to The Bell Jar for insight into how Plath might have been feeling during that strange summer.
Once in New York, Esther Greenwood realizes she will have to learn a whole new way of being in the world in order to fit in with the wealthy girls at her dormitory-style women's hotel. These girls are "bored with yachts and bored with flying around in airplanes and bored with skiing in Switzerland at Christmas and bored with the men in Brazil." They are also there for the summer, but unlike Esther, they don't see the magazine job as a hard-won reward for a lifetime of achievement; instead, they accept it as their due.
But—to her horrified surprise—Esther is finding that she doesn't even really want to succeed in this world. The ambition that has driven her for years has, at the moment of its greatest necessity, suddenly abandoned her. When her editor at the magazine asks what she plans to do after graduation, she surprises herself by skipping her usual overrehearsed litany—professor, editor, author of books of poems—and telling the truth: "'I don't really know.'" During the series of set pieces that follow, the narration's tone veers strangely between farce and melodrama.
New York for Esther is full of sexual menace, bewildering rituals, and spiritual and literal poison; a place where anything can happen, and "anything" is often weird and disgusting. A famous disc jockey rescues Esther and her friend from a cab stuck in traffic and whisks them away to his Greenwich Village apartment, where she watches as he mauls Esther's increasingly drunken friend. Later this friend collapses at the doorway of Esther's room in a puddle of her own brown vomit, and Esther leaves her lying there and goes back to bed. A luxurious banquet of caviar and crab-stuffed avocados laid out by the magazine's test kitchens poisons everyone who eats it: more vomit (much more). A man Esther has just met rips her dress and throws her down in the mud to rescue the diamond stickpin he gave her as a joke, then paints her face with lines of his blood after she punches him in the nose to prevent herself from being raped. In between these Gothic horrors Esther also goes on dates, eats delicious unusual food, takes luxurious hot baths, and learns to tip cabdrivers and bellhops appropriately.
This mix of excitement and terror might sound extreme, but anyone who's moved to New York as a young adult or teenager can probably relate to some aspects of Esther/Sylvia's experience: we've all met malevolent strangers and spent time with them out of curiosity, watching from a detached distance and wondering when our self-preservation instincts will kick in. We've all thrown up. With any luck, we've emerged wised-up and mostly unscathed. But the next chapter in Sylvia's life—and the next section of the book—diverged from standard bildungsroman territory, in that both almost ended there.
When Plath arrived back in Wellesley at the end of her guest editorship, she learned—in the car, on the way back from the train station—that she'd been denied acceptance to Frank O'Connor's summer writing class at Harvard. After her bewildering experiences in New York, this was too much. Plath stopped eating and sleeping and lost the ability to make sense of words on a page. Her mother's attempts at intervention proved useless. Leaving a note that she'd gone for a long walk, Plath barricaded herself in a basement crawlspace and swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills.
Eventually, Plath's mother and brother saw that the pills were missing, and after a frantic police search, they presumed Sylvia was dead. As they ate lunch two days later, they heard moaning coming from the basement; they rushed downstairs, where they discovered Plath's hiding spot. She had lapsed into a coma, then awoken from it and vomited up the pills. After she underwent a brief hospitalization, a psychiatrist recommended a stay in a mental institution. Before her suicide attempt, she was given a course of electroshock treatments that may have been administered incorrectly, judging from Plath's reports of feeling terrible pain during the treatments. A wealthy novelist who'd endowed a scholarship at Smith that Plath had won paid for her subsequent institutionalization at McLean, a private hospital in Belmont, where she received more successful, less painful electroshock treatments and entered therapy with Ruth Beutscher, who would remain her therapist into Plath's twenties. She remained there for several months before being discharged, missing only a semester of college.
After Esther Greenwood's initial New York grotesquerie, the rest of The Bell Jar essentially covers this time in Plath's life—her breakdown, suicide attempt, and hospitalization and recovery at McLean, with a few fictional frills and timeline-rearrangements. Throughout this part of the book, Esther is hugely unlikable: Waking in the hospital, she treats her heartbroken visiting mother and brother with total disdain. Later she dumps a bouquet her mother has sent directly into the garbage. She is cold and difficult with nurses and cruel to fellow patients. Joan, an oddball sometime friend, copies her suicide attempt and joins her in the institution. Esther tells this fragile person that she hates her and finds her sickening. To a female psychiatrist, she confesses that she hates her mother and finds the fear of pregnancy a source of stress; the psychiatrist arranges for her to be fitted for a diaphragm. She immediately goes out and loses her virginity to a Harvard professor whom she picks up pretty much randomly and to whom she feels zero attraction, and when she doesn't stop bleeding afterward, she enlists Joan's help in getting to the ER. Joan succeeds in killing herself shortly thereafter, and Esther doesn't seem to care a bit. In the book's last scene, she prepares for the interview that will determine whether she is fit to leave the institution. Though she thinks of herself as "patched, retreaded, and approved for the road," she is also aware of not being essentially different at all. She has been "analyzed," but her problems remain unsolved.
Plath returned to Smith after her hospitalization seemingly as good as new and a bit of a celebrity "in spite of or perhaps not in spite of her suicide attempt," according to the poet Lucas Myers. She was different now, still driven and vivacious but in some ways more carefree; she became sexually adventurous (for the time), dating several boys simultaneously and sleeping with them. After her graduation she won a Fulbright fellowship to study poetry at Cambridge, where she continued to be popular, known, and noticed for her flamboyant American outfits and attitude. There she met Ted Hughes.
Like many American girls, I first read The Bell Jar when I was around 14. The parts I found most striking then were about Esther losing her virginity—the blood soaking a towel, turning the towel black! Could that really happen?—and about seeing a penis for the first time: "the only thing I could think of was turkey neck and turkey gizzards and I felt very depressed." I also remember being struck by the famous passage about Esther imagining all her potential futures like ripe figs hanging from the branches of a tree:
One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor. . . . I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.
Probably this passage stuck with me mostly because my initials are also Ee Gee; I couldn't have really understood, then, what Plath meant. Only later, after I had moved to New York and read the book again and was starting the long slog toward becoming an adult, could I begin to understand what had been so horrifying to Esther about those figs. The moment when one's abstract dreams about the future—when the mass of real-life duties and consequences that a hazy cliché such as "happy home" or a word like "husband" encompasses—begin to come into focus is not always a happy moment. It might be especially unhappy for women who want those other figs still, all of them, immediately, and more.
Especially in its first half, The Bell Jar exposes the situation of a very smart, ambitious young woman coming of age in the 1950s, when intelligence and ambition, past a certain threshold, were real liabilities for women. Plath hospitalizes Esther and lets her out again, but she never resolves the central problem that Esther confronts most palpably in New York: how to be a woman and how to be a writer, and how to be those two things at once. The closest to a solution she gets is her description of the gleeful freedom that becomes available only when Esther totally lets go of her goals and her self-image. In the latter half of the book, Plath holds out the strange promise that there's a way to kill your compulsive good-girl self without killing your whole self. But she never suggests that there might be some way of doing this that doesn't involve literally trying to kill yourself.
The evolution of Plath's poetry explicitly dramatized her struggle to transcend her good-girl strivings. While it's tempting to see the last three years of her life as increasingly miserable, domestically, in exact proportion to how much they were increasingly productive creatively, that's not quite how it happened. Plath's poetry's dramatic leap forward occurred in 1961, after she was hospitalized for an appendectomy. Ten days after leaving the hospital, she wrote two poems that, Hughes noted, were the first she'd ever composed without using her thesaurus: "Tulips" and "In Plaster." These poems had a forceful directness; in them, Plath employed her long-honed technical skills with a new, casual, confident determination. They are among the earliest of the Ariel poems.
In the meantime, Sylvia's "fear-logic" about having enough money was in play for the young family (which now included a daughter, Frieda). While Hughes had earned a Guggenheim grant and commissions from the BBC, Plath still felt the need to ensure that she wouldn't have to take a job that would interfere with her writing again. She had long been describing, in her journals, her determination to write a blockbuster novel; The Snake Pit by Mary Jane Ward, a late-1940s mental hospital memoir that had been made into a popular movie, still sold well in its second decade of publication, and Plath felt that if she mined her own experiences from the summer of 1953 she could achieve similar results. ("I am a fool if I don't relive it, recreate it," she told herself.) She wrote The Bell Jar in a frenetic 70 days, completing a draft in August 1961, as she and Hughes were preparing to move from London to the countryside.
Expecting a second child, they had bought a house called Court Green in rural Devon and started to busy themselves fixing it up. In January, their son Nicholas was born there, but their marriage would soon start to unravel. Hughes was popular with the ladies—"he is a terrifically attractive man," A. Alvarez would tell Janet Malcolm many years later, who "went through swaths of women like a guy harvesting corn"—and Plath had always rightfully worried about his fidelity. One afternoon, Plath raided Hughes's study and burned his letters in a backyard bonfire after they confirmed her suspicions (he had been having an affair with Assia Wevill, who was also married). A brief trip to Ireland failed to heal the rift that had developed between them, and when they returned to England, Plath insisted that Hughes leave Court Green.
The next five months were full of agony and writing. Alone with the children at Court Green, Plath composed the bulk of what became her Ariel poems. They were markedly different from anything that had come before. She had always used her experiences in her work, but in her earlier poetry, confession had been mediated by a string of metaphors, riddles, nature scenes, and misdirections. Now the writing became brazenly, flatly direct and explicitly personal. The anodyne Massachusetts seaside was replaced by the poisonous English landscape, filled with bloody berries and seething beehives. "It is almost over," she wrote in "Stings," about setting up a beekeeping apparatus,
I am in control.
Here is my honey-machine,
It will work without thinking,
Opening in spring, like an industrious virgin
New, too, were nasty, immediately unforgettable bits of doggerel, almost mockeries of the nursery rhymes she might have been reading to her children:
A living doll, everywhere you look.
It can sew, it can cook,
It can talk, talk, talk.
It works, there is nothing wrong with it.
You have a hole, it's a poultice.
You have an eye, it's an image.
My boy, it's your last resort.
Will you marry it, marry it, marry it,
On December 12, 1962, she and the children returned to London, where she rented a spare duplex apartment and busily began sending out the new batch of poems, only a few of which were accepted for publication. She tried her hand at journalism, writing an essay about London's antiquated ways of dealing with winter weather, and began work on another novel. She went out with friends and talked angrily about Hughes's betrayal, seeming eager to figure out her plans for the future.
The letters from American publishers rejecting The Bell Jar arrived around Christmas, and following its January UK publication, a spate of mostly indifferent reviews appeared in the London papers. The weather was frigid, and Plath had trouble finding a regular babysitter. She wrote 12 more poems, among them "Edge," which seems to have been composed last.
The woman is perfected.
Her dead
Body wears the smile of accomplishment,
The illusion of a Greek necessity
Flows in the scrolls of her toga,
Her bare
Feet seem to be saying:
We have come so far, it is over.
On February 11, Plath gassed herself to death in the early morning, first sealing the kitchen off from the rest of the apartment so the oven's fumes wouldn't reach the children as they slept.
Between Plath's work and the memoir literature surrounding it, in which Hughes is defended as the victim of Plath's moodiness and unwarranted jealous rages, in which A. Alvarez can begin his famous essay on Plath's suicide in his Savage God by telling us that she was "not pretty" and that her hair smelled bad—reading and thinking about the generations of women who had to suffer this kind of knee-jerk condescension from men, you begin to wonder how it was that any woman managed not to put her head in an oven before approximately 1968. Plath's classmate in Robert Lowell's poetry seminar, Anne Sexton, did eventually kill herself, too, but Plath's sometime rival Adrienne Rich did not. Many millions did not. Why not? The situation was intolerable. How could anyone tolerate it?
Of course not everyone was as sensitive as Plath was, and not everyone was such a compulsive overachiever. Trying to be all things to all people, especially if two of those things are "creative genius" and "mother," still seems like a recipe for unhappiness, if not certain death. While I do think of Plath as a feminist icon, I don't think it's necessary to essentialize her in the way the feminists who chipped "Hughes" off her gravestone did. Those feminists want Plath to be a victim—specifically, a victim of Hughes and America's repressive 1950s perfect-housewife culture. And Plath was a victim: a victim of not being able to see any situation she was in clearly. She wanted very badly to live in a reality where she was a good, kind person who was also a good mother, but that part of her was always fighting with being a very selfish person who wanted to devote time and resources to her work. Which is a perfectly reasonable thing to want—it's just not compatible with being a pretty, popular girl who is nice to everyone all the time. Instead of acknowledging this impossibility, Plath tried to keep both sides of herself going until the whole precarious enterprise broke down. It broke down in New York, and then it broke down again, forever, ten years later in London.
One of the poems Plath wrote two weeks after her appendectomy, "In Plaster," is among my favorites in all her work. It's one of the ones Ted Hughes says marked a shift in her writing habits, the fateful abandonment of her thesaurus. The poem is a monologue about being an unrepentantly selfish, spiteful, imperfect person, and it's very funny, in a chilling way. In it, an "old yellow" person trapped inside a "new absolutely white" shell speaks directly to the reader: "I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now," she announces, describing the odd codependency between white and yellow:
Without me, she wouldn't exist, so of course she was grateful.
I gave her a soul, I bloomed out of her as a rose
Blooms out of a vase of not very valuable porcelain,
And it was I who attracted everybody's attention
Not her whiteness and beauty, as I had first supposed.
I patronized her a little, and she lapped it up.
You could tell almost at once she had a slave mentality.
Esther Greenwood's unpleasantness is prefigured by the declaration of "old yellow" that "It was I who attracted everybody's attention / Not her whiteness and beauty, as I had first supposed." The Bell Jar is about a person who's in the process of discovering that pretending to be perfect, or even just "nice," when your true self is far from either, isn't a viable long-term plan.
In New York, Esther is still aiming to be white and clean; we see her stepping out of a hot bath after an icky night feeling "pure and sweet as a new baby." But after her suicide attempt Esther's "old yellow" self, her stubbly legs brazenly sticking out of her hospital pajamas, steps into the spotlight. Thinking of killing herself and her mother, hating her doctors and nurses and fellow patients, caring absolutely nothing about the death of someone who'd admired and helped her, Esther seems perversely happier and freer than she has anywhere else in the book. There is something life-affirming in Esther's glorification of her grosser qualities—life-affirming and also not, because of how the book ends. And, of course, because of how the story ends. This is how the poem ends:
I used to think we might make a go of it together—
After all, it was a kind of marriage, being so close.
Now I see it must be one or the other of us.
She may be a saint, and I may be ugly and hairy,
But she'll soon find out that doesn't matter a bit.
I'm collecting my strength; one day I shall manage without her,
And she'll perish with emptiness then, and begin to miss me.
Emily Gould is the author of a novel, Friendship (2014), and a memoir, And The Heart Says Whatever (2010).
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The city is getting ready for the biggest event of the year. Everyone is getting ready for the teams and visitors to "flood" the town. So far it seems less tickets will be sold, but the same happened to other races this year a well. Last year Singapore had 100,000 spectators, this year they expect about 80.000, which is not too bad.
In this economic situation many organisations don't dare to invite their important customers although they need to be convinced to support these companies again. To show the appreciation of their business these people want to be entertained...The lights are up since a few weeks and the last fences are in the works. Most of the grand stands are ready to seat the F1 fans.
Where now drivers are frustrated waiting in traffic jams to crawl to their destinations, soon race cars will zoom by with 300 kmh.
More experienced since last years successful race, the set up was accomplished more quickly: Singapore is ready for the race!


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The annual Friends of the Library Auction was once again a big success. Hundreds of people gathered at the library, and many took the time to place bids in both the silent and live auctions. The event is the main fundraiser for the Sheridan County Fulmer Public Library each year. What did those attending think of the event?
CHEYENNE, (AP) - Light snow is causing slippery travel conditions in southeast Wyoming, especially in the Laramie area. Eastbound lanes of Interstate 80 between Laramie and Cheyenne were closed Friday afternoon for a short period but remained slick and snow covered when they reopened. Other highways in the Laramie area were also slick and snow covered.
LARAMIE, (AP) - Wyoming faces another of the Mountain West Conference's leading passing offenses when it plays San Diego State tonight. The Pokes were torched by BYU and its quarterback Max Hall last weekend 52-0.
When the Sheridan City Council meets for their final meeting of November this upcoming Monday night, they'll address the vacation of alleyways on the site of the old Central Middle School. Council President John Bigelow.
CASPER, (AP) - Three Republicans are looking into running for governor in 2010. Former Wyoming U.S. Attorney Matt Mead of Cheyenne, former state Representative Ron Micheli of Fort Bridger and state House Speaker Colin Simpson of Cody have all formed exploratory committees.


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Shall we have our last legal kiss?
Standing outside Heathrow airport, Terminal Four, at around 6.30.p.m. Having just said goodbye to my family, and having our final cigarette before boarding a nine hour flight. Feeling cautious and weary about who could be on the same flight as us, I Lent over to Isabelle my girlfriend and said; 'shall we have our last legal kiss?'... and so we had a cheeky snog hiding behind a bush from some Indian people who we thought may be on our flight. It sounds ridiculous and dramatised, but this had been playing on our minds for the past few month's. We were heading to New Delhi, India, a part of the world where being homosexual is illegal, and could potentially get you ten years imprisonment.
At first the idea seemed 'Dreamy'... 'Travelling the world with my girlfriend', until it hit me, that some of the places we were heading to were not exactly LGBT friendly. However I brushed it off my shoulders and said; 'Look! In the worst case scenario, hopefully it might be a bit like Orange Is The New Black'. However as the reality set in, and the jokes weren't funny anymore, it struck me how sad it really all is. Not because me and Isabelle couldn't be ourselves - Having lived In London together for two years, we wouldn't think twice about holding hands or kissing in public. Now we were scared to even share a kiss at Heathrow airport and we weren't even in India yet. Moreso It was that I felt quite guilty and selfish, having been so privileged to be born in a part of the world where things are getting better, and that I have the freedom to express my love for someone of the same sex. Yet there are so many places around the world that just can not do that yet, and India is somewhere that its still very apparent.
So this is where I am right now. Writing the opening party of my two year journey, currently on a sleeper train heading to Varanasi, India. Our plan is to travel most of India and Asia over the past five months, before heading to Australia to work. Its here that I will document the process of travelling, 'backpacking style', as a young lesbian couple, through parts of the world where its not always ok to be gay. Having just spent the most bizarre week in New Delhi, India, I want to share tips and tricks with fellow 'LGBT' travellers, that plan on heading to these parts of the world, from what I have learnt myself. Ill be posting monthly what you need to know, on here.
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Infinity Ward's Mark Rubin sat down with GamesIndustry.BIZ and discussed how he hopes and wants competition to do better as well. When asked about BF4, he said he wants that game to succeed.
"It's less antagonistic, from a developer's side – sure marketing and stuff is all [about that] but on a developer's side it's like, 'Oh, did you see that stuff they're doing? That's so cool!' We could do something that's like this and that and we get excited about seeing that kind of stuff. So from a developer's side, it definitely pushes us [to do better]. But it pushes us in a – I don't know if other studios feel this way – but I hope in a sort of camaraderie type sense. 'Oh, those guys are doing awesome stuff. Let's jack up our game.' But not like two opposing teams. Rather, like the same team pushing in the same direction," he explained.
"We all want gaming, in general to be awesome, because if gaming isn't good, then we all lose our jobs in a sense. So for us, I think that the intellectual realization is we want everyone to be successful because if gaming is successful then we're all successful."
With Call of Duty: Ghosts, Infinity Ward has changed their vision in campaign to add a new emotional aspect as you have to play alongside your brother for most of the game.
"Every year, every time we made a new one it was the same thing [in terms of competition], and I like that. I think that's the part that keeps us hungry, that keeps us… we don't want to feel like the top dog, necessarily. We want to feel like it's a struggle every time. We want to feel that almost 'Rocky moment', which is kind of a weird thing to say, but we do want to feel like that. We want to feel like we've got a huge challenge in front of us. We can't just phone this in and ship a game and expect it to sell. We actually really have to do harder work this year than we did last year," Rubin stressed.
Rubin also said that after the issues that happened following MW2, they've become a much better studio and have "future proofed" themselves.
"And from an industry standpoint games are getting harder to make and they're taking bigger and bigger budgets and bigger teams, and so this gave us an opportunity to sort of retool some of the structure internally. I think we are better future proofed for making Call of Duty going forward. And we may or may not have done this if not for that [tumultuous] event. It forced our hand to go down that route, which in the long run turned out to be good for us. I think we are much more capable now of doing these big projects. We are only 125 people and it does take more than that to make these big games, so one of the things we learned from MW3 is how to work with outside studios. That's something we've never done the past. The previous games were all very insular, and that's not really possible now. Working with outside studios like Sledgehammer was a difficult transition but now we've gotten past that learning phase, and so on this game we're getting a lot of help from other studios, Raven and Neversoft."
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- kbequette08
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- Wedding: March 2014
Okay, my first day of my last period was October 23rd. My H and I had unprotected sex on November 5th and those few days following I had a fair amount of CM until about that following monday when it dried up. I've been having some weird symptoms on and off really but ever since 11/5 I've been constantly bloated. Nightime is when I'm more bloated but I just feel pregnant you know? My stomach is definitely bigger than it normally is and there are times when I literally cant suck it in for the life of me. I dont know if these are Phantom symptoms but my boobs are tender especially around the edges and they are definitely fuller. Last week I was eating constantly for about 2 days then that symptom stopped, my legs are achy like I've ran a race and every once in a while I will have a dull ache in my back. Now my period is due in a few days but these symptoms are confusing the life out of me because they say every woman is different. Oh and 1 day last week I have a bit of brown discharge only on wiping but it was just like a few minutes of it not a whole day. I guess I'll just try testing again in a few days if my period is missed. I haven't felt sick at all, the week after we did it I did have some heartburn/indigestion on and off for a few days as well. Anyone experienced something like this? We had intercourse within my fertile window so I keep wondering. Also my skin just looks fuller on my stomach like especially above the hip bone area and I am a slender person so this is not normal for me because I have a high metabolism.
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Atari is celebrating 40 years with of Pong with the launch of Pong World, available now on iOS for free.
Pong World is a re-imagined take on the pop culture classic and the first-ever official new Pong game for smartphones and tablet devices. In the game, players choose one of many Pong paddles and battle against opponents on various themed boards, experiencing the game in either classic mode or all-new gameplay modes including Blitz and Hotseat. Pong World is available now as a free download. Those interested can download the game here.
Pong World features include:
- Wield five different paddles to add your personal touch, with more to unlock, like Shaggy, Chompers and Sir Bouncelot
- Pack your paddle around the world in four levels including the Jungle, Boulevard, Cathedral, and the Moon
- Multiple gameplay modes Classic, Blitz and Hotseat offer a whole new experience to classic PONG gameplay
- Slice through progressing difficulty levels as players hone their touchscreen talents
- Unlock in-game achievements and compare high scores with friends on the leaderboards
For those of you that don't know, Pong was an arcade game that was later ported to the home consoles. It was a simple concept of tennis where two sticks were present at the opposite ends of a screen and a ball bounced between them.
Here are some fun facts about how Pong came into being. In 1958, a physicist named William Higginbotham (yes, that was his name) created a game called tennis for two. This was during the era when computers were the size of entire rooms so of course not many people knew of its existence. Fast forward to 1966, Ralph Baer (a German-born American video game pioneer, inventor, engineer, known as "The Father of Video Games", who is noted for his many contributions to games and the video game industry) chased a crazy dream of a TV you can play. In 1968, Baer invents and patents a Ping Pong style game and the rest as they say is history.
For those of you that are interested in taking a trip down memory lane and want to know a bit about Atari, the rise and fall of the company that gave us Pong can do so here.


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Bipolar disorder (BPD) causes changes in a person's mood and energy. These extreme and intense emotional states, or mood episodes, can affect their ability to function. People with bipolar disorder can have periods of normal moods as well.
Mood episodes are categorized into manic, hypomanic, or depressive. These mood episodes are marked by a distinct change in behavior. During a manic episode, someone can feel extremely energetic or irritable. Hypomania is less severe than mania and lasts for a shorter period of time. A major depressive episode can cause feelings of intense sadness or fatigue.
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders V (DSM-5) lists more than four types of BPD. The three most common types are:
- Bipolar disorder I: Manic episodes last at least seven days at a time, and symptoms can be so intense a person may need hospitalization. Depressive episodes may also occur, lasting at least two weeks.
- Bipolar II disorder: This type has a pattern of depressive and hypomanic episodes without any intense manic episodes. It may be misdiagnosed as depression.
- Cyclothymic disorder: This is a milder form of BPD. It involves alternating episodes of hypomania and depression. It lasts at least two years in adults and one year in children and adolescents.
Your doctor may diagnose you with another type of BPD, such as substance-induced, medical related, or unspecified BPD. These types may share similar symptoms, but have different episode lengths.
No single factor seems to be responsible for the development of BPD. But researchers are continuing to try and pin down the causes so that more effective treatments can be developed.
Research in genetics and BPD is fairly new. But more than two-thirds of people with bipolar disorder have a relative with either bipolar or major depression. Researchers are still trying to find genetic factors responsible for increased risk.
Inherited risk: Someone with a parent or sibling with BPD has a four to six times higher risk of developing it as compared to someone who doesn't. An identical twin has a 70 percent chance of being diagnosed with BPD if their twin has it. Another review of twin studies found that there is a heritable component to BPD.
Bipolar and schizophrenia overlap: Researchers who study families and twins suggest that there may be a genetic link between BPD and schizophrenia. They also found that small mutations in specific genes appear to affect BPD risk.
ADHD overlap: One study found a genetic correlation between early-onset BPD and ADHD. Early-onset BPD occurs before someone is 21 years old.
Scientists are working to discover how the brains of people with BPD differ from the brains of people without BPD. Here are some notable discoveries.
Brain cells: The loss or damage of brain cells in the hippocampus can contribute to mood disorders. The hippocampus is the part of the brain associated with memory. It also indirectly affects mood and impulses.
Neurotransmitters: Neurotransmitters are chemicals that help brain cells communicate and regulate mood. Imbalances with neurotransmitters are linked to BPD.
Mitochondrial problems: Research suggests that mitochondrial problems may play a role in mental disorders, including BPD. Mitochondria are the energy centers in almost every human cell. If the mitochondrion doesn't function normally, it could lead to change in patterns of energy production and use. This may explain some of the behaviors we see in people with psychiatric disorders.
Researchers who performed MRIs on the brains of people with BPD found elevated signals in certain parts of the brain. These parts help coordinate voluntary movement, suggesting abnormal cellular function.
Some scientists believe that environmental and lifestyle factors play a role in BPD. These factors include:
- extreme stress
- physical or sexual abuse
- substance abuse
- death of a family member or loved one
- physical illness
- ongoing concerns that affect your daily life, such as money or work problems
These situations can trigger symptoms or affect the development of BPD, especially for people who may already be at a high genetic risk.
BPD affects about 2.6 percent of the U.S. adult population every year. It equally affects genders, races, and social classes.
Age risk: BPD usually develops around age 25, or between the ages of 15 and 25. At least half of all cases are diagnosed before the age of 25. Some people do not develop symptoms until they are in their 30s or 40s, however. While it's possible for BPD to develop in children 6 or younger, the topic is controversial. What may seem like BPD can be a result of other disorders or traumas.
Gender risk: Bipolar II disorder is more common in women than in men. But bipolar I disorder is equally prevalent in both sexes. It's not known exactly what causes this difference in diagnoses.
Hormonal risk: Experts believe that thyroid hormones have major effects on brain function in adults. Depression and bipolar disorder are associated with abnormal thyroid function. The thyroid is a gland in the neck that releases hormones regulating growth and development. People with BPD often have hypothyroidism, or an underactive thyroid.
Certain factors can trigger manic or depressive BPD episodes. These factors increase the body's stress level, which is also a trigger. Being familiar with your own personal triggers is one way to keep symptoms from worsening.
While triggers vary from person to person, some common ones include:
- stressful life events, which can be positive or negative, such as the birth of a baby, a job promotion, moving to a new house, or the end of a relationship
- disruption in regular sleep patterns, including decreased or increased sleep or bed rest
- change in routine, like in sleep, eating, exercise, or social activities (structured routine can lower stress)
- too much stimulation, like specific or loud sounds, too much activity, and caffeine or nicotine consumption
- alcohol or substance abuse: overuse can cause ongoing bipolar symptoms, relapses, and hospitalizations
- unmanaged or untreated illness
With proper diagnosis, treatment, and management, it's possible to lead a fulfilling, happy life with BPD.
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After it was announced in the later weeks that it seems that 2K Sports finally rolled out their Double Rep Weekend for the biggest sports game, NBA 2K17, on December 30 last year. Meanwhile, the bonus event was sent back to the NBA 2K17's official Twitter account, indicating that the Double Rep Weekend will run until 26th. However, it seems to be a mistake for their part.
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The dog story. Long. And I have yet to see the humor in it, so we'll just say she got out again and after a young man was really helpful in trying to (unsuccessfully) catch her, his jack wagon of a friend about got himself introduced to some Carter boys. No one speaks to me that way. I could have kicked him in the shin and not deserved to be spoken to (or screamed at and threatened) in the manner that this little man-child chose to. Should he ever cross my path again, I will be happy to remind him of such. And next time I will not be as polite as I was today. Further, if there are no Carter boys available, Tuscola's finest will do nicely.
Enough of that. On to the self-deprecating humor.
I work from home. Sophia is my office assistant. She is not very good at her job. She's not quite three, but don't call child labor on me. She's all I can afford at the rate I pay. (I pay in popsicles and tutus). Regardless, for whatever reason, she had possession of a roll of toilet paper. As any nearly-three year old will do, she unrolled the roll of toilet paper. I was, of course, buried in my computer trying to earn money to buy more toilet paper. When I looked up, she was proudly carrying the unrolled, well, roll of paper to show me how she "got it all off the tube." Fantastic, Sophia. Maybe, I don't know. Read a book. Try some SesameStreet.org (she can open chrome and find the site by herself, afterall). I saw the dog running towards her, all excited about the new thing she was about to shred all over the floor, so my immediate reaction was, "Hurry, Fia, take that to the bathroom." She did as she was told. She took it to the bathroom. And then I heard the toilet flush.
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(Burbank, California--November 30, 2012) Bill Wages, ASC is glad to be shooting USA's Necessary Roughness on location in his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia instead of commuting to far locations. When the ASC Television Career Achievement Award winner packed for the move back to Atlanta, he made sure that his most vital tools would be on hand for his new series. High on the list was the OConnor 2575 and "a really old but extremely reliable OConnor 100," he adds. "I won't do a show without OConnor."
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is a series about a female psychologist whose main practice is the fictional NFL team, the New York Hawks. "Atlanta for New York," Wages laughs. "You gotta love Hollywood's creativity! Actually, we really do get a lot of mileage out of the various local locations. Since she treats other sports and show business patients, we end up with a wide variety of subjects – and an even wider variety of challenges. We average 50 to 60 setups per day. One day I'll be shooting a football game, and the next a rock-and-roll concert. Because of the amount and range of set ups, my support is crucial. There is no room for error. That's why I chose OConnor's 2575 – and no gear heads."
Wages says he has never seen a shot that he can't do with the 2575. "But I've seen a lot of shots that a gear head couldn't do. Sure, there's a place for both but with a large package like ours (four ALEXAs), I have no room for excess, so the OConnor 2575 fluid heads were it."
While shooting football scenes, Wages goes for documentary-style shooting that is rather free form. And the OConnor shines. "It's very intuitive. No restrictions, even when we point almost 90-degrees up and down. My A-camera operator, Steve Andrich, shoots for the NFL so he knows how to follow a passed football with a 500mm lens and fill the frame. He never loses it with the OConnor. Try it with a gear head. Not possible."
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Sometimes he brings in his OConnor 100, "once owned by Fouad Said (his name is engraved on it). It was used on the original I Spy," he laughs. "This thing is so strong that when I've used it on other projects, Joe Dunton has built a side-sling rig for me to allow the camera to sit beside the head, just above the ground for an extremely low angle. I've put a Panaflex with an 11-to-1 and 1000 foot magazine on it with no problem. This is a tremendous amount of torque – on a 50-year-old piece of equipment. You simply can't hurt it!"
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- n. Plural form of Hawaiian.
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This marked the first game featuring two native Hawaiians from the island of Maui - Oakland catcher Suzuki and Phillies center fielder Shane Victorino.
She objects because "her people," as she calls the Hawaiians, have not been consulted, and also because no provision has been made for her.
The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 35, July 8, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls
He knew his Hawaiians from the outside and the in, knew them better than themselves, their Polynesian circumlocutions, faiths, customs, and mysteries.
I became fascinated with the idea that when those early wagon parties were making their way west through the Sierra Nevada's, the Hawaiians were already here.
The Hawaiians are a handsome people, scornful and sarcastic-looking even with their mirthfulness; and those who know them say that they are always quizzing and mimicking the haoles, and that they give everyone a nickname, founded on some personal peculiarity.
The Hawaiians are a most pleasant people to foreigners, but many of their ways are altogether aggravating.
The Hawaiians are a deceitful and licentious people.
The Hawaiians are a group of eight inhabited and four uninhabited islands lying in the North Pacific Ocean, distant from San
When I accepted the position as patron, Mr. Alexander assured me that it was tendered to me, not only because of the fact that the Hawaiians were the most highly civilized of any of the ancient people of those seas, but further, because I had been known so long as the friend of education, of art, and of all those refining influences which exalt the nation, and elevate the character of the individual.
The Hawaiians were a people of a very cheerful and playful disposition.
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Fun of the day.....
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You're looking great! Love the turtles. Cute project.ReplyDelete
Lot's of lovely smiles, so nice to see. Do you get a turtle if your stitching too slow?ReplyDelete
Love those turtlesReplyDelete
You all look like you are having loads of fun. Who hoo a finish.ReplyDelete
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It was great to catch up with you chooky,love your photographer ,lol,.xxReplyDelete
Look at those darling turtles....ReplyDelete
Love, love, love the sweet turtles - the ideal project for my mini hexis!ReplyDelete
Love the turtles, looks great,everyone having so much fun.ReplyDelete
Wonder why they weren't listening! lol - I would be surprised if anyone stopped chatting long enough to hear!! Happy photos - happy gathering.ReplyDelete
Looks like as always a great weekend. Love your scissors holder.ReplyDelete
Love the turtles and scissor keeper...no surprise no one was listening...to much chatting and having fun!!!ReplyDelete
lovely to see you...xReplyDelete
Such cute turtles. Fun times.ReplyDelete
Looks like you are all having lots of funReplyDelete
So so good .... Awesome photos xxxxReplyDelete
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Looks like fun xxReplyDelete
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you obviously didn't shout loudly enough!!ReplyDelete
So glad we had a good turn up of turtles.
It looks like you all had a fantastic time. I can't believe how much you achieved. That would nearly be a record. I thought you would only get the scissor fob done.ReplyDelete
Looks like you had a swell time! :D Remember, it's not the achievements managed during those days that matter, but who you spend the time with. ;) There's always time to finish the crafts/sewing/stuff later.ReplyDelete
Love the turtle line hehehe. Are they pin cushions? Great pics.ReplyDelete
Thats because you three were so noisy....Lol Nice photosReplyDelete
Always such a beautiful smile. I can point you out in any picture! Looks like a lovely time was had by all. Cheers!ReplyDelete
ces petites tortues sont magnifique.ReplyDelete


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'The Killing' Finale Ratings Deader Than Rosie Larsen Herself
Who killed Rosie Larsen? It looks like we all did according to the ratings for the second season finale of AMC's 'The Killing,' which only pulled in half the total audience that tuned in for the series premiere last year.
As it turns out, if you take 26 episodes to uncover the answer to the mystery of who killed a teenage girl, most people are going to stop caring. Audiences couldn't even be bothered to watch the final episode, exhausted as they were from the endless stream of red herrings, maudlin theatrics, fake Indian bones, and rain... so much rain.
This past Sunday's finale brought in only 1.5 million viewers. In contrast, the series premiere brought in 2.7 million and the first season finale brought 2.5 million. The season two premiere attracted 1.8 million viewers, and while that discrepancy doesn't seem large, it's quite telling.
Although the show finally gave up the goods and told us who killed Rosie Larsen (and the episode -- while bumpy in the first half -- had an incredibly powerful finish), it just doesn't seem like that many people cared anymore.
In fact, according to TV by the Numbers, here's what people watched instead of 'The Killing':
- TNT drama 'Falling Skies' -- Aliens.
- HBO hit 'True Blood' -- Can you blame them? Two words: Christopher Meloni.
- 'Keeping Up With the Kardashians' -- That's right, people willingly chose to watch a show about a family that became famous thanks to their daughter's sex tape.
- 'Ice Road Truckers' -- Men drive semi-trucks over ice, melt hearts.
- 'Food Network Star' -- It's food. On TV. What's porn?
- 'Drop Dead Diva' -- A Lifetime show about a model who dies and has to live inside an overweight woman.
- 'Sister Wives' -- 'Big Love': The Reality Show, so basically people turned on 'The Killing' saw Mireille Enos, remembered 'Big Love' and said, "I'd rather be over here now."
- A repeat of 'Law & Order: SVU' at midnight -- Because people like their mysteries with a side of sexual deviancy and solved within the hour.
- 'SpongeBob' -- He has square pants. Does Rosie Larsen have square pants? No.
- A NASCAR rain delay -- People sat and watched water fall from the sky rather than 'The Killing'
'The Killing' has yet to be picked up for a third season, but maybe if they hired a Kardashian, made Holder a shirtless vampire, added more food, an alien driving a semi-truck over ice in square-shaped trousers, and moved to Utah, the show could be great.


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From February 11 to 15th, I will be in Paris to see the 3-nights of concerts by Magma to celebrate their 40th anniversary. I don't even want to think about work and capital markets during those 5 days ... I will be searching for a bar that serves Absynthe, so if you have any recommendations, please let me know.
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oup ~ tomato generally. They live high in the tree tops, feed on the gum blossom, nest in the hollows in trees & make an abominable screeching as they come in to roost at night. As a general thing I'm not overly fond of any of the parrot family. They are noisy & quarrelsome & quite aggressive but just the same the idea of turning them into jam was not an idea that had ever crossed my slightly haywired brain!
When we first moved to the island we received an invitation, a rather special invitation, to morning tea at The Farm. The Farm is situated halfway down the island, perched high on the hill, the road cutting away below, the dark green of avocado leaves spreading like an undulating sea to the very edge of the swamp. Between the avocados & the ancient house lay the garden, an old fashioned, straggling, riotous garden full of exotic & native plants & the pride of the island. We had heard so much about The Garden, & been told so often how rare it was for invitations to view it to be issued, we were a little in awe because it was the garden we had come to see. It is my sort of garden. The beds are deep, the fragile flowers shyly peeking out from under a tangle of bushes, big old trees waving their gay flags in the breeze, birdbaths full of tepid water, lichened stones & meandering pathways but not much grass. Grass should be banned in this country.
We dutifully meandered. We ooohed & we ahhhed & we exclaimed. We discussed the merits of this & that & eventually happily accepted an invitation to stay for morning tea. I was sorry almost as soon as we'd agreed. Apologising profusely our hostess told us it was only scones & Rosella jam!!!! My mind boggled. I seriously envisioned something full of feathered bits & hollow bones, bits of beak, brazen eyeball ~ eye of newt, toe of frog, wool of bat, adders fork & blind worm's sting. I was feeling a little unhinged to say the least.
My look must have said it all, though being a well brought up child I was politely spreading jam sparingly on my scone because it looked just like big gooey globs of clotted blood & I was just hoping I wouldn't gag in the wrong place & give myself away completely.


text: DAVID WEST LEARNED the meaning of obscurity when Attorney General Jim Smith made a recent stop in Orlando to push his campaign for the Democratic nomination for governor. West, an investigator with the Orange County Sheriff's Office, dabbles a bit in politics and ran unsuccessfully against Dick Batchelor, D-Orlando, in 1984 for the House seat now held by state Rep. Dan Webster, R-Orlando. At Smith's courthouse steps press conference, a local TV newsman approached West, shook his hand and started asking about Smith. West answered his questions, adding that he was just there as an observer and didn't have anything to do with the campaign. The TV guy looked at him and said, ''Then you're nobody.'' He then walked off. It was, said West, a ''religious'' experience.


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In this social media driven and ESPN-overhyped world that we live in, the term "legend" is
thrown around far too often and much too easily. A coach wins a national championship and
the "is he one of the best ever?" conversation starts. Every talking head and analyst wants
to weigh in are quick to award "legendary" status without the person ever really earning it.
Dean Smith earned his status and was the definition of it.
The former UNC basketball coach died on Saturday at the age of 83, but his presence in
Chapel Hill and throughout the college basketball world will be felt forever. For those who
attended UNC in the 70's, 80's, and early 90's, Smith is, was, and always will be the face
of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Yes, he was that influential, powerful, and most of all, respected. Smith was a pillar of
strength, class, character, and integrity and he made all of us proud to be Tar Heels. John
Swofford may have been the athletic director at the time, but it was Smith who ran the
show, nearly every single part of it.
The basketball teams coached by Smith were an extension of himself, playing with class,
dignity and respect. There was no chest-bumping, baggy shorts, jersey's untucked, or players
saying, "Hey, ESPN, look at me, aren't I great?" When a player made a great pass, everyone
on the team pointed at him, giving him props in a very subtle way. They didn't yell, scream,
or panic under pressure, mirroring the man who was always so under control on the sidelines.
I'll never forget the picture of Michael Jordan, a freshman at the time, taking the
game-winning shot in the 1982 National Championship game. Smith and his coaching
staff sat on the bench, stoic and unemotional, as if it were a pre-season exhibition game,
instead of one that would decide a national title. That was Dean Smith.
During my freshman year, several baseball players had the privilege of being ushers
for home basketball games. We didn't really usher anybody because people never really
had trouble finding their seats. We just sat courtside and watched Smith and his team
do their thing.. It was truly, truly, a special time for all of us who had the opportunity
to watch Smith orchestrate and lead his talented team that included Jordan, Sam Perkins,
and Kenny Smith.
Our university, one of the most prestigious in the country, had a sterling reputation both
academically and athletically and that was due in large part to its unquestioned leader,
Dean Smith.
After he left in the 90's, the high standards he set for everyone at the university were
knocked down a notch. There were scandals, both academically and athletically, that's
stained the reputation of the school and there are some who feel Smith may have known
what was going on in the Af-Am "paper" classes scandal that went as far back as his
last few seasons on the sidelines.
I don't have all the facts so I'm not going to pull Smith into the net of the scandal. That's
for the experts to decide.
I do know that Dean Smith was loyal to his players and always had their best interests
at heart. Carolina wasn't a typical basketball factory that brought in great players
and just spit them out.
In today's college basketball world, just about every school makes "Midnight Madness" a
show of glitz and glamour. That never would've happened under Smith at UNC. He made
"Senior Night" the most special night of the year. Every senior, whether they played a minute
during the season or not, started the game.
It was Smith's way of saying 'thank you' for all their hard work and perseverance. Smith
often helped them find jobs in the real world and always made them feel part of the program
after they left.
I don't care how many wins or national titles Smith won or didn't win. It's irrelevant.
He built a model program and did it the right way. And when the school constructed a
a new basketball arena, they put his name on it while he was still coaching.
That is respect.
We cherished and respected Dean Smith when he was alive, today, we honor and
thank him for all he did for the Tar Heels.
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