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The Democratic candidate in the back-and-forth nearly-tied race for a Fairbanks seat in the Alaska statehouse is now appealing the results.
Gov. Mike Dunleavy has announced Amanda Price, Nancy Dahlstrom and Kevin Clarkson as the newest additions to his cabinet.
Ben Stevens, the former Alaska Senate president once investigated for corruption by federal authorities, has landed a job with Gov. Mike Dunleavy's administration. He'll be a policy advisor, focusing on fishing, legislation and transportation.
As residents in southcentral Alaska clean up damage from last week's earthquake, government officials have one major request: take notes.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski says disaster funds for Alaska will likely be included early next year in a bill with aid for the victims of the California wildfires. "So Alaska is not alone in this," she said.
The Anchorage School District announced that Gruening Middle School will be closed for the remainder of the school year due to damage sustained during Friday's earthquake.
The University of Alaska Anchorage reopened to students Wednesday after being closed due to Friday's earthquake. The university had no structural damage or gas leaks, but there was still a lot of cleaning up to do.
While it's unusual for Assembly members to depart before the end of their terms, it's not unprecedented.
The Anchorage Assembly unanimously approved the massive sale of its electric utility to another energy provider.
Several hundred Alaskans celebrated the inauguration of Mike Dunleavy as governor in Wasilla yesterday.
There's all sorts of research going on about the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that hit Southcentral Alaska on Friday, and two teams of geologists from the Lower 48 are heading to Anchorage to study it.


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So they're adding 3 teams that are a combined 6 - 15 so far this year. YAWN. I didn't bother to look to see how many of those 6 were against FCS teams or against each other. Sounds like great additions (major sarcasm alert).
#14 Coastal Carolina and #15 Louisiana-Lafayette
It will be interesting to see what C-USA does. There were rumors that UMass might be an expansion option, but it seems like that is no longer the case. Obviously, C-USA could add UMass and UConn as football only members, but seems to also be losing traction. It also appears Liberty is no longer interested in C-USA with fodu, JMU and Marshall moving to the Sun Belt. UTEP may also end up in the MWC when the dust settles.
That would still leave Western Kentucky and Middle Tennessee out there possibly looking for a new conference. Both have had decent basketball programs in the past, and would fit into the A-10 footprint with the exception of football.
I'm still watching Wichita State. If Memphis bolts from the AAC if the opportunity presents itself , you gotta believe Wichita State is also going to be looking for greener pastures. None of the incoming schools to the AAC are anywhere close in quality to what's leaving for the Big 12.
I never spent the time or the grey cells necessary to memorize who was in the Sun Belt, AAC, or C-USA. Looks like that was a good call.
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UTEP is in trouble. The MWC doesn't want them. What's left of C-USA is their only option.
Look for C-USA to add New Mexico State and one or two of the current d2 Texas schools (Sam Houston, Tarleton State, etc.).
I thought there used to be stricter stadium requirements to bump up to FBS? Did they do away with them? If I recall, one thing was having like at least 30k seats.
Seems like with all the teams making the jump to FBS, the low level conferences are kinda the new 1-AA.
I thought there was an attendance requirement as well. Oh well. There is no NCAA anymore.
So ODU spent all that money on football and trashed their basketball program so they could join the Sun Belt.
Ahahahahahaha. Dumb f#ckers.
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In '85 our VCU Rams beat ODU in the Sun Belt championship. Next came the Lamb buzzer beater to beat Northeastern.
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To be honest, it's a better fate than they deserved, though it's kinda funny that they're now on par with JMU.
I was at both games, but the Northeastern game was 84.
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Sun Belt is gently expelling its two non-football members TX-Arlington and AR-Little Rock.
Maybe they can go to C-USA as they need more hoops schools.
Ah yeah. They beat Marshall and then had the bald head game with Alabama.
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After one more holiday recipe, I promise to move on to cooking in the New Year. I'd been thinking about this cheesecake for years. I cut the pages from the December 2007 issue of Living magazine and filed them away. I remember the whole story about gingerbread from that issue. There were all sorts of pretty cookies, different ways of making gingerbread like with honey rather than molasses, and even gingerbread caramels. From that story, the White Chocolate-Gingerbread Blondies that also appear in the Martha Stewart's Cookies book became a favorite of mine. But those little gingerbread men on top of the gingerbread-flavored cheesecake were so cute. I think of this cheesecake dessert every year for Christmas, and finally had to give it a try. You need some cookie crumbs to make the crust for the cheesecake, so making the Molasses-Gingerbread Cookie dough comes first. I made enough dough to be able to cut out some gingerbread men for decorating as well. I didn't go so far as to make both types of gingerbread cookie dough to be able to have two colors of gingerbread men on top as shown in the photo from the magazine, but I was happy with the result with all the gingerbread men from the same dough.
The Molasses-Gingerbread Cookies recipe is very similar to the recipe I've always used for gingerbread cut-out cookies. It included molasses, ground ginger, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg. For the cheesecake, one quarter of the dough is rolled into a big rectangle and baked until firm. When cool, it's broken into pieces and pulsed in a food processor to make crumbs. Next, melted butter, some sugar, and two cups of those crumbs were combined and pressed into a springform pan with the bottom wrapped with foil. The crust was baked for about 15 minutes or until set. The cheesecake itself was a mix of cream cheese, sugar, vanilla, eggs, molasses, lemon zest, and more ground ginger, cinnamon, cloves, and nutmeg. I also added some finely grated, fresh ginger for an extra boost of ginger. The filling was poured into the crust, the springform pan was placed in a large roasting pan, the roasting pan was set into the oven, and hot water was added to the roasting pan before closing the oven to bake. The cheesecake needs to bake for at least an hour, but mine was still very jiggly at that point. I left it in the oven for an extra 15 or 20 minutes until the center was only slightly wobbly. When the cheesecake was completely cool, it was transferred to the refrigerator to chill for several hours. I dusted the top with confectioners' sugar before placing the cookies in a circle.
It's a shame that gingerbread only gets the spotlight during the holidays. Every time I bake with molasses, I think about how much I love the flavor and how I should use it more often. The molasses and all the gingerbread spices were delicious here from the crust to the filling to the cookies on top. Maybe I'll finally try the gingerbread caramels the next time the holiday season arrives.
Beautiful and very original! This festive cheesecake must taste heavenly.
I am saving this for next year! It looks very beautiful!
Very creative! Really fun -- and tasty!-- idea. Thanks. And Happy New Year!
I love molasses too, Lisa. Such a nice balance between cute and refined in this cake!
I am all smiles and so happy you posted the Gingerbread Cheesecake for us! A good measure of adorable with cheesecake is worthy of the first post of the New Year!
Happy New Year Lisa! This cheesecake look so pretty and elegant...I like the idea of gingerbread and cheesecake in one bite.
Lisa, I think this is one amazing cheesecake! Love the decoration on top, the flavors, the whole thing!
We're happy to eat ginger cookies all times of the year, so I don't think I'd get any complaints if I served this winter, spring, summer or fall! It looks divine, Lisa!
aww Lisa I love this gingerbread cheescake look absolutely beautiful!
I love all with gingerbread!!
Gingerbread is one of my favorite winter flavors, love cheesecake and how you decorated it.
How adorable is that?! Must have been a smash hit when you served it, Lisa.
Say what you will about Martha Stewart, I tear things out of that magazine all the time. I've always been a fan.
This cake looks beautiful. I have never tried gingerbread - cookies or cake and I so want to try it this year.
I'm definitely bookmarking this for next year. Although, gingerbread defintiely feels like a winter flavor to me so I don't see why we can't still eat it!
Oh my does that look good Lisa! You know how to do the holiday baking right! My gang would love all that gingerbread-cheesecake goodness.
I hope 2015 is being good to you so far!
This cheesecake looks irresistible! I have also made and love those gingerbread blondies so much.


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Non-marine and littoral diatoms from Antarctic and subantarctic regions : distribution and updated taxonomy (2002)
Kellogg, Thomas B. ; Kellogg, Davida E.
Vaduz : Gantner
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Interpretation of sediment cores from the Ross Ice Shelf Site J-9, Antarctica: Reply by Thomas B. Kellogg & Davida E. Kellogg (1983)
[s.l.] : Nature Publishing Group
Nature 303 (1983), S. 511-513
Source: Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
Notes: [Auszug] DESPITE never having examined our Ross Ice Shelf Project (RISP) slides or photomicrographs, Brady cites 11 specific instances in which he alleges that we either misidentified common Plio-Pleistocene indicator species, or misrepresented their stratigraphical ranges1. Each allegation is vital to ...
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URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/303511a0
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Significance of Labrador Sea and Baffin Bay Waters for growth of the Laurentide Ice Sheet (1987)
KELLOGG, THOMAS B.
Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Polar research 5 (1987), S. 0
Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics: Geography , Geosciences
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-8369.1987.tb00575.x
Pleistocene sediments beneath the Ross Ice Shelf (1981)
Notes: [Auszug] Previous studies of Ross Sea cores conducted in our laboratory defined two sedimentary units separated by a transition zone of well sorted sandy material1'3. The upper unit, called unit A, consisted of soft-to-soupy, diatom-rich, silty mud of Holocene age. Five radiocarbon dates supported this age ...
Late Pleistocene interactions of East and West Antarctic Ice-flow Regimes: evidence from the McMurdo Ice Shelf (1996)
Kellogg, Thomas B. ; Hughes, Terry ; Kellogg, Davida E.
In: Journal of Glaciology. 1996; 42(142): 486-500. Published 1996 Jan 01. doi: 10.1017/s0022143000003476.
Description: We present new interpretations of deglaciation in McMurdo Sound and the western Ross Sea, with observationally based reconstructions of interactions between East and West Antarctic ice at the last glacial maximum (LGM), 16000, 12000, 8000 and 4000 BP. At the LGM, East Antarctic ice from Mulock Glacier split; one branch turned westward south of Ross Island but the other branch rounded Ross Island before flowing southwest into McMurdo Sound. This flow regime, constrained by an ice saddle north of Ross Island, is consistent with the reconstruction of Stuiver and others (1981a). After the LGM, grounding-line retreat was most rapid in areas with greatest water depth, especially along the Victoria Land coast. By 12000 BP, the ice-now regime in McMurdo Sound changed to through-flowing Mulock Glacier ice, with lesser contributions from Koettlitz, Blue and Ferrar Glaciers, because the former ice saddle north of Ross Island was replaced by a dome. The modern flew regime was established ∼4000 BP. Ice derived from high elevations on the Polar Plateau but now stranded on the McMurdo Ice Shelf, and the pattern of the Transantarctic Mountains erratics support our reconstructions of Mulock Glacier ice rounding Minna Bluff but with all ice from Skelton Glacier ablating south of the bluff. They are inconsistent with Drewry's (1979) LGM reconstruction that includes Skelton Glacier ice in the McMurdo-Sound through-flow. Drewry's (1979) model closely approximates our results for 12000-4000 BP. Ice-sheet modeling holds promise for determining whether deglaciation proceeded by grounding-line retreat of an ice sheet that was largely stagnant, because it never approached equilibrium flowline profiles after the Ross Ice Shelf grounded, or of a dynamic ice sheet with flowline profiles kept low by active ice streams that extended northward from present-day outlet glaciers after the Ross Ice Shelf grounded.
Electronic ISSN: 1727-5652
Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of International Glaciological Society.
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Herman, Y. [Ed.]. 1974. Marinegeology and oceanography of the Arctic Seas. Springer-Verlag, New York, ix + 397 p. $34.80. (1975)
In: Limnology and Oceanography. 1975; 20(6): 1057-1057. Published 1975 Nov 01. doi: 10.4319/lo.1975.20.6.1057.
Topics: Biology , Geosciences , Physics
Published by Wiley on behalf of Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography.
The Last Interglacial Ocean (1984)
Cline, Rose Marie L. ; Hays, James D. ; Prell, Warren L. ; [et al.] Ruddiman, William F. ; Moore, Ted C. ; Kipp, Nilva G. ; Molfino, Barbara E. ; Denton, George H. ; Hughes, Terence J. ; Balsam, William L. ; Brunner, Charlotte A. ; Duplessy, Jean-Claude ; Esmay, Ann G. ; Fastook, James L. ; Imbrie, John ; Keigwin, Lloyd D. ; ... and further 8
In: Quaternary Research. 1984; 21(2): 123-224. Published 1984 Feb 01. doi: 10.1016/0033-5894(84)90098-x.
Description: The final effort of the CLIMAP project was a study of the last interglaciation, a time of minimum ice volume some 122,000 yr ago coincident with the Substage 5e oxygen isotopic minimum. Based on detailed oxygen isotope analyses and biotic census counts in 52 cores across the world ocean, last interglacial sea-surface temperatures (SST) were compared with those today. There are small SST departures in the mid-latitude North Atlantic (warmer) and the Gulf of Mexico (cooler). The eastern boundary currents of the South Atlantic and Pacific oceans are marked by large SST anomalies in individual cores, but their interpretations are precluded by no-analog problems and by discordancies among estimates from different biotic groups. In general, the last interglacial ocean was not significantly different from the modern ocean. The relative sequencing of ice decay versus oceanic warming on the Stage 6/5 oxygen isotopic transition and of ice growth versus oceanic cooling on the Stage 5e/5d transition was also studied. In most of the Southern Hemisphere, the oceanic response marked by the biotic census counts preceded (led) the global ice-volume response marked by the oxygen-isotope signal by several thousand years. The reverse pattern is evident in the North Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, where the oceanic response lagged that of global ice volume by several thousand years. As a result, the very warm temperatures associated with the last interglaciation were regionally diachronous by several thousand years. These regional lead-lag relationships agree with those observed on other transitions and in long-term phase relationships; they cannot be explained simply as artifacts of bioturbational translations of the original signals.
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Late Pleistocene Paleo-Oceanography of the Norwegian-Greenland Sea: Benthic Foraminiferal Evidence (1982)
Streeter, S. Stephen ; Belanger, Paul E. ; Kellogg, Thomas B. ; [et al.] Duplessy, Jean Claude
In: Quaternary Research. 1982; 18(1): 72-90. Published 1982 Jul 01. doi: 10.1016/0033-5894(82)90022-9.
Description: Fluctuations in benthic foraminiferal faunas over the last 130,000 yr in four piston cores from the Norwegian Sea are correlated with the standard worldwide oxygen-isotope stratigraphy. One species, Cibicides wuellerstorfi, dominates in the Holocene section of each core, but alternates downcore with Oridorsalis tener, a species dominant today only in the deepest part of the basin. O. tener is the most abundant species throughout the entire basin during periods of particularly cold climate when the Norwegian Sea presumably was ice covered year round and surface productivity lowered. Portions of isotope Stages 6, 3, and 2 are barren of benthic foraminifera; this is probably due to lowered benthic productivity, perhaps combined with dilution by ice-rafted sediment; there is no evidence that the Norwegian Sea became azoic. The Holocene and Substage 5e (the last interglacial) are similar faunally. This similarity, combined with other evidence, supports the presumption that the Norwegian Sea was a source of dense overflows into the North Atlantic during Substage 5e as it is today. Oxygen-isotope analyses of benthic foraminifera indicate that Norwegian Sea bottom waters warmer than they are today from Substage 5d to Stage 2, with the possible exception of Substage 5a. These data show that the glacial Norwegian Sea was not a sink for dense surface water, as it is now, and thus it was not a source of deep-water overflows. The benthic foraminiferal populations of the deep Norwegian Sea seem at least as responsive to near-surface conditions, such as sea-ice cover, as they are to fluctuations in the hydrography of the deep water. Benthic foraminiferal evidence from the Norwegian Sea is insufficient in itself to establish whether or not the basin was a source of overflows into the North Atlantic at any time between the Substage 5e/5d boundary at 115,000 yr B.P. and the Holocene.
Recent glacial history and rapid ice stream retreat in the Amundsen Sea (1987)
American Geophysical Union
In: Journal of Geophysical Research. 1987; 92(B9): 8859. Published 1987 Jan 01. doi: 10.1029/jb092ib09p08859.
Topics: Geosciences
Published by American Geophysical Union
Non-marine diatoms from late Wisconsin perched deltas in Taylor Valley, Antarctica (1980)
Kellogg, Davida E. ; Stuiver, Minze ; Kellogg, Thomas B. ; [et al.] Denton, George H.
In: Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. 1980; 30: 157-189. Published 1980 Jan 01. doi: 10.1016/0031-0182(80)90055-3.
Electronic ISSN: 1872-616X
Topics: Geosciences , Physics
Published by Elsevier


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'Naked' scanner deployed at Heathrow
By Guest Jiminy
November 9, 2004 in Airline Aviation Forum
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An x-ray security scanner that sees through peoples' clothes has been deployed at Heathrow Airport.
The device, at Terminal 4, produces a 'naked' image of passengers by bouncing X-rays off their skin.
It means staff can instantly spot any hidden weapons or explosives - but the graphic black and white images raise privacy concerns.
In the US, officials are refusing to deploy the device until it can be further refined to protect passengers' modesty.
The new scanner is on trial until the end of the year at Heathrow. If the trial goes well, it could be rolled out across all British airports.
Passengers are picked to go through the body scanner on a random and voluntary basis. Those who refuse are subjected to an automatic hand search.
Security officials claim it is a far more effective way of countering potential terrorists because it detects the outline of any solid object and not just metal ones.
"I was quite shocked by what I saw," said Gary Cook, 40, a graphic designer from Shaftesbury. "I felt a bit embarrassed looking at the image."
A female passenger, who did not want to be named, said: "It was really horrible. It doesn't leave much to the imagination because you're virtually naked, but I guess it's less intrusive than being hand searched."
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it detects the outline of any solid object and not just metal ones.
Really does conjure up images in your mind we shouldn't be having


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Explorations of Disney's Haunted Mansion. Ruminations and revelations concerning the history and artistry of the Disney parks' richest and most eccentric masterpiece.
Things You're Just Supposed to Know
Most of the time, Long-Forgotten assumes that readers are already familiar with basic facts
about the Haunted Mansion. If you wanna keep up with the big boys, I suggest you check out
first of all the website, Doombuggies.com. After that, the best place to go is Jason Surrell's book,
The Haunted Mansion: Imagineering a Disney Classic (NY: Disney Editions; 2015). That's the
re-named third edition of The Haunted Mansion: From the Magic Kingdom to the Movies (NY:
Disney Editions, 2003; 2nd ed. 2009). Also essential reading is Jeff Baham's The Unauthorized
Story of Walt Disney's Haunted Mansion (USA: Theme Park Press, 2014; 2nd ed. 2016).
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The old Master himself, Yale Gracey (with modest assistance from Rolly Crump), is credited with coming up with two different ways of creating a ghostly face, one by looking at the convex side of a blank mask ("the Leota effect") and one by looking at the concave side ("the Lucretia effect"). The latter is my own suggested term for what is sometimes called the "follow-you bust" effect, or any number of other clunky titles. [Edit: Richard Kaufman points out to me that the illusion itself has a long history and is commonly called the "hollow man" illusion. "Hollow face" and "hollow mask" are also common.] "The Leota effect" is actually anachronistic, inasmuch as Leota herself has not been done via "the Leota effect" for a very long time. The Singing Busts and Little Leota, however, still use the classic Leota effect, which involves projecting an animated facial image onto a blank white dummy face, so perhaps we should re-christen it "the Little Leota effect" or something like that, but alas, "the Leota effect" has been so standard for so long that it's probably an exercise in futility to try to change it now.
What's not obvious at first is how intertwined the two effects were, both in their original development and later on, when the Imagineers tried to improve both effects in the late 1980s and early 90s. Indeed, so confident were those guys in their new technology that they even conceived of using it to create a take-home souvenir, but that never materialized.
Today's post contains at least one bombshell revelation, along with a bunch of long-forgotten history, in some cases forgotten because it involves plans that either came to naught or half a page of scribbled lines (I'm feeling kinda Pink Floydish lately. Halloween of this year marks the 50th anniversary of the release of their classic album, Meddle, which immediately captured my imagination in 1971 and still lives there rent free.)
The Lucretia Juarez Effect
As many of you know, that sour-faced old spinster who glowers at you in the changing portrait hall (alongside an equally grumpy but nameless man with a Moe Howard haircut) is Aunt Lucretia. That's her official name. Originally, she was going to be part of the singing bust ensemble in the graveyard. Instead she ended up here in the portrait hall and on the mantelpiece in the ballroom. That's all been talked about before. Also well-known is the story of how Yale and Rolly supposedly invented the Lucretia effect. As Rolly tells it, he and Yale were messing around with a Lincoln mask, working out the beginnings of what would eventually lead to the Leota effect, when they noticed the weird optical illusion created by the convex side, and starting from there the two worked out the Lucretia effect (Surrell, Haunted Mansion [3rd ed], 81; Baham, Unauthorized, 89).
Here's a sketch from Yale's notebooks, clearly showing the effect exactly as it is today:
I don't doubt that Rolly is being truthful here, but the fact is, he and Yale were NOT the first to create this effect and put it to use in a haunted house environment. (That's the bombshell I was talking about.) It had already been in use for years in "El Sito Mysterio," a typical "gravity hill"* attraction at Frontier Village amusement park in San Jose, California. The park opened in 1961 and closed in 1980. "El Sito" was not one of the original '61 attractions but was built a few years later.
Before there was Lucretia, there was Juarez. Here he is in a 1968 photo:
Photos from: Bob Johnson, Frontier Village (Charleston: Arcadia, 2013), 50-51
UPDATE! Found a color photo of "Juarez":
I actually saw "Juarez" sometime in the 60s and was so amazed that I lagged behind when the group went to the next room so that I could get up close for a better look, only then figuring out how the effect was done. A few years later, when the HM opened, I immediately recognized the same effect in the portrait hall, but I forgot where I had seen Juarez, although I remembered that it was in one of those "Mystery Shack" attractions. I only ran across his photo in the Frontier Village book a week ago, solving a personal mystery that had baffled me for over half a century. Whether Juarez originated at Frontier Village or came from elsewhere, I don't know. I only know that he was there years before the Haunted Mansion opened.
Someone might argue that Yale saw Juarez while doing research into haunted house attractions, but I rather suspect that this is a case of the same illusion being discovered independently by parties unknown to each other. Any one with a Halloween mask can easily see it.
Lucretia in the 1980s and 1990s
In the late 1980s and early 1990s the Imagineers tried to use the great strides in computer technology to improve both the Lucretia and the Leota effects. The basic catalyst was the fact that photographic and videographic images could now be captured in computer files, opening up lots of new possibilities.
The first thing they did, however, was try to fix a very low-tech problem. Like they say, one picture is worth a thousand words:
The solution to this problem was to (1) round the edges of the cutout hole and (2) make the face shallower.
They worked out the visibility angles in great detail, before and after.
Basically, change this . . .
to this . . .
(A link allowing a download of the entire patent can be found on this page.)
But they didn't do it. Why not? I have no idea. It wouldn't have cost much, and the positive results were meticulously worked out in the patent. The only thing I can think of is the confident belief that few people look at the busts long enough for the effect to fail. So why bother?
It's true enough that first-time visitors are going to stop looking at the busts and start looking into the room they are beginning to enter as they round the bend, well before Lucretia's nose gets pinched, but still, why not fix this thing for those of us who are not new to the ride but know it well and like to examine these details more carefully?
While they were at it, the Imagineers came up with two more ideas on the same patent application, ideas made possible by the new technology available. One of them revived the Gracey-Crump experiment of projecting animation onto the convex side of the follow-you busts while still viewing it from the concave side (i.e., having projectors inside the wall rather than a simple light bulb). That way they could add moving eyes and some limited animation to the mouths and eyebrows for Lucretia and her consort. The Imagineers even wanted to add audio, so that the busts would talk! This idea too came to nothing. My guess is that it either didn't look as good as they thought it would, or else they didn't want that much overtly ghostly manifestation so early in the ride. It does get uncomfortably close to violating the iron-clad "no ghosts shall be visible before Leota" rule, so yeah, I'm glad they didn't do this.
The third idea was to let guests pose for a photo somewhere (after the ride?), and print the photo on a sheet of thin plastic, which would then be heated and vacuformed over a generic face, and then trimmed, giving you a life-size mask imprinted with your face on it that you could use to make a Lucretia effect of your own, featuring your own face! Again, it never happened. Perhaps it didn't look as good as they hoped. Really, how would you find a face mold that worked for everybody, even roughly? Nowadays, of course, they could have a couple of dozen face molds, and the camera could include simple facial recognition software that would automatically select the face mold closest to the guest and rotate the appropriate mold into position for the vacuforming process. I wonder, however, whether the whole thing was rejected not because of technical shortcomings but because it essentially gives away the secret of one of the best and simplest illusions in the Mansion.
Still, one must admit that it would've been a pretty cool souvenir.
Leota in the 1980s and 1990s
As Rolly's account makes clear, the Lucretia effect and the Leota effect were created more or less simultaneously. Here again is a sketch from Yale's notebooks that clearly shows the Leota effect:
But right next to it is a sketch proving that they were also experimenting with projecting a face onto the concave side of the mask, actually foreshadowing the "interior projection" method which eventually came into use for Madame Leota.
By the late 1980s, new technology enabled the Imagineers to fix an old problem with the Leota effect. More radically, it made it possible to introduce a method of presentation similar to Yale and Rolly's experimental idea.
The old 16mm film loop cartridges were replaced with a captured image on laser disc. The loops used to break every few months and needed continual replacing. That's why so many film strips (usually incomplete) show up in the collector's market. It's actually pretty amazing that they lasted as well as they did, running upwards of 16 hours a day. The bin-loop system operated in controlled, dust-free cabinets, which not only increased durability, but reduced noise.
Anyway, concurrent with the laser disc came improved fiber optic technology, leading to the first attempt at an interior projection for Leota. (A link allowing the download of this entire patent can be found on this page.)
That first-generation interior-projected Leota debuted in the early 1990s and gave her kind of a "moon"
face, not as bright or sharp as the old method and more distorted. Still, this version lasted until 2001.
You can get a pretty good look at her in this clip from a 1997 Discovery Channel special (with Tony Baxter):
Again, all of this history is pretty well known. What is less noticed is the fact that the interior-projection Leota enabled the Imagineers to reach back and realize original proposals for the Séance Circle that were impossible in 1969.
As initially conceived, the carpet under Leota was supposed to be animated with rippling and flapping, and the table with Leota's ball on it was naturally expected to wobble around accordingly. You can see this on one of the effects blueprints, which shows the carpet undulating:
You can also see the concept in Collin Campbell's artwork for the "Story and Song" album:
Why didn't they do this? Well, Imagineers like Marc Davis had a tendency to come up with cool ideas and then deliver them to Yale Gracey without the faintest idea how to realize the effects. That was Yale's job. Usually he succeeded, but sometimes he was stumped. A good example is the See-Saw royal pair in the graveyard. They are supposed to disappear as they go down, but Yale apparently couldn't come up with a way to do that, so it didn't happen.
One suspects that the wild scene you see in Campbell's artwork came to grief over the fact that Leota had to be absolutely stationary if you were going to project a face onto her. They somewhat compensated by making the carpet at least look like it was hovering in midair, although few visitors notice this and just assume the "floor" must be very dark. (And we've all heard the story about the guy who hopped the rail to get to Leota, only to fall about 10 feet and break his leg. That's when the safety screens went in.)
Anyway, with an interior-projected Leota, it became possible to incorporate at least some of the animation that couldn't be done before. It was all so subtle that many riders never noticed it, and as the years go by all memory of it threatens to dissolve into the land of the long forgotten. Be it here known to one and all that the table gently pitched and rolled during the decade or so in which the first-generation interior-projected Mdm L operated. Check these video clips from 1997 and 1999:
When they returned to the original, better looking, front-projected "Leota effect"
in October of 2001, the moving table effect also came to an end, sad to say.
The 21st Century: Floating Leota
Lucretia is exactly where we left her, unchanged since she left Yale Gracey's hands, so we're done there, but for the sake of completeness, a few words should probably be said about Leota's final chapters.
Floating Leota concept art by Chris Turner
The first attempt at floating Leota debuted in 2005 at Disneyland, and for the life of me, I can't imagine what they were thinking. It was essentially a projected image aligned with the moving target of the Leota ball. However sophisticated the equipment involved, anyone with half a brain should have been able to tell that it wouldn't work. It requires pinpoint precision, and any moving, physical, mechanical object is going to be subject to friction, wear, stretching (in the support lines), and all the vagaries of electric motors. Of course they couldn't keep the damn thing in acceptably accurate alignment. By 2007 they had abandoned this method for a new interior-projection system that really worked. Unlike its 1990s predecessor, the face really looks good, thanks to much improved technology. WDW got this one first, then DL.
One could argue that floating Leota is another attempt to bring back the more fully animated room that the Séance Circle was intended to be, but personally, I prefer the original, stationary Leota on the table, for thematic reasons. She is the central point of reference in the entire ride. She should be a fixed star in the midst of this mad and whirling firmament. But that's another post:
Floating Leota (2005) has never gotten anything more than a lukewarm response. The change felt, and still feels, wrong. Here's where treating this thing like a work of art proves its worth. What had always been the calm, stabilizing center of the ride was now simply another floating object. Everything about her—her chronological placement in the show flow, her pivotal position in the three-act play that is the Haunted Mansion, even her physical location in the room—announces that "here is the center, the eye of the storm." Nothing was gained and something was lost when she took flight.
*Gravity Hill is a common label for the hundreds of similar attractions around the world that use crazily-built shacks and tilted landscaping to produce a variety of optical illusions that seem to defy gravity and distort dimensions. The "Magnetic Mystery Mine" on WDW's Tom Sawyer Island, designed by Marc Davis, is a gravity hill attraction. Davis also drew up plans for a Fun House for the Fort Wilderness Campground that included gravity hill illusions, but that one was never realized. Knott's had a very good one for many years called "The Haunted Shack."
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these are posts that have been
updated .or .revised .recently
and therefore may be worth a
second look. In some cases it's
just a matter of new photos or
artwork; in others the post has
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For the green dates, see here.
To Find a Way Out Apr 10, 2013.
Updated November 11, 2020.
Footsteps Into the Unknown May 6
2020; Updated June 20, 2020
There Goes the Bride June 7,
2010; Updated May 16, 2020
Walt Disney's Enchanted
Creepy Room Jan 24,
2015; Updated Mar 26, 2020
Putting Sam McKim on the Map
Nov 9, 2014; Updated
Charles Addams and the
Haunted Mansion Feb 8, 2015;
Updated Dec 6, 26, 2019
For Themselves March 22,
2011; Updated Nov 7, 2019
The Phantom Five and the
Drummer of Tedworth July 7,
The Berm Graveyard Rises
From the Dead Oct 8, 2016;
The Changing Portrait Hall that
Never Was (or, "Rewriting
History Part Two") November
20, 2015; Updated Nov 3, 2019
December 6, 2014; Updated
July-Aug 2017, Nov 3, 2019
It's the Times of the Sign April 18,
The Caretaker March 15, 2015;
Moonlight Picnic April 5, 2014;
Decadence May 24, 2011;
January 1, 2013; Updated
Nov 1, 2019; May 19, 2020
Do You Remember Miss
April December?
in Miniature: October
1, 2012; Updated
The Haunted Clock:
September 3, 2012;
A Weirder Haunted Mansion:
July 1, 2011; Updated
The Duelists: Jan 14, 2011.
Updated December 2013
and October 23, 2019
Raven and One-Eyed Black
Cats, Oh My!: July 28, 2010.
The Death Coach: July 4, 2010.
Here Comes the Bride, Part Four
Constance, Hat Boxes, and
the Meaning of the Attic:
June 2, 2010. Updated
The Hitchhikers in the Mirror
April 26, 2010. Updated
in 2014, October 23, 2019.
Part Two April 28, 2010.
Updated October 24, 2019.
Here Comes the Bride, Part One:
May 16, 2010. Updated May
3, 2014, October 12, 2019.
Father of the Haunted Mansion,
Part Three, Oct 26, 2010.
Updated May 27, 2014,
and Oct 19, 2019.
The Oldest Haunted Mansion,
July 29, 2017. Updated
June 26, 2019, Nov 4, 2019
Here Comes the Bride, Part Two:
"Beating Heart," May 18, 2010.
Updated July 2011; October
2012; Feb 18, 2013; June 9
and Sept 11, 2013; May 15,
2014, May 23, 2016, Jan 2 &
Oct 23, 2019; June 8, 2020
The Pet Cemeteries, July 19, 2010.
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2016; October 2019
The Flying Dutchman, June 9, 2010
Updated August 2014, October
2015, October 23, 2019
Theme" Temptation.
Sept 14, 2010. Updated
Mar 11, 2011, Aug 24,
Doing the Dishes, July 19, 2012.
Updated Apr 26, 2015,
Here Comes...Never Mind, She's
Here: Constance and the
Hatchet Man,
May 10, 2014, Mar 12,
Here Comes the Bride Part
Three: Black and Blue
May 21, 2010. Updated July
2011 and January 25, 2015,
Buried on Tom Sawyer Island,
Sept 2, 2017. Updated
Sept 9, Oct 2, 9, Nov 16, 2017,
Mar 26, 2018, July 25, 2020
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Hi everybody. Aniyah, thank you for that beautiful introduction. I could not be prouder of everything you've done in your time with the Obama Foundation. And, of course, I couldn't be prouder of all of you in the graduating class of 2020, as well as the teachers and the coaches and most of all, parents and family who guided you along the way.
Now, graduating is a big achievement under any circumstances. Some of you have had to overcome serious obstacles along the way, whether it was an illness or a parent losing a job, or living in a neighborhood where people too often count you out.
Along with the usual challenges of growing up, all of you have had to deal with the added pressures of social media, reports of school shootings and the specter of climate change. And then just as you're about to celebrate having made it through … Just as you've been looking forward to proms and senior nights, graduation ceremonies, and let's face it, a whole bunch of parties … The world is turned upside down by a global pandemic. As much as I'm sure you love your parents, I'll bet that being stuck at home with them and playing board games or watching Tiger King on TV is not exactly how you envisioned the last few months of your senior year.
Now I'll be honest with you. The disappointments of missing a live graduation, those will pass pretty quick. I don't remember much of my own high school graduation. I know that not having to sit there and listen to a commencement speaker isn't all that bad. Mine usually go on way too long. Also, not that many people look great in those caps, especially if you have big ears like me. You'll have plenty of time to catch up with your friends once the immediate public health crisis is over.
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It's woken a lot of young people up to the fact that the old ways of doing things just don't work. That it doesn't matter how much money you make if everyone around you is hungry and sick. And that our society and our democracy only work when we think not just about ourselves, but about each other. It's also pulled the curtain back on another hard truth. Something that we all have to eventually accept once our childhood comes to an end. All those adults that you used to think were in charge and knew what they were doing, it turns out they don't have all the answers. A lot of them aren't even asking the right questions. So if the world's going to get better, it's going to be up to you.
That realization may be kind of intimidating, but I hope it's also inspiring. With all the challenges this country faces right now, nobody can tell you, "No, you're too young to understand," or, "This is how it's always been done." Because with so much uncertainty, with everything suddenly up for grabs, this is your generation's world to shape. Since I'm one of the old guys, I won't tell you what to do with this power that rests in your hands.
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Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignatius Afram II Rahmani (1848-1929) is well known both for his ecclesiastical and scholarly labors. This volume, published at his death, celebrates his life and work, from his early life to his time as priest, bishop, and then patriarch. His accomplishments and writings, and his place among both churchmen and scholars are all discussed. Finally, the authors describe his funeral ceremony in Cairo, and the conveyance of his mortal remains to Alexandria, Yaffa, and Beirut, his final resting place. The book includes photographs of Rahmani at the different stages of his ecclesiastical career.
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Steven Anthony Ballmer (Ou simplesmente "Steve" Ballmer) nascido em Detroit, no dia 24 de março de 1956 foi presidente executivo da Microsoft desde 21 de julho de 1998 até ser substituído por Satya Nadella em 2014, e é amigo de seu fundador, Bill Gates.

Em 2022, ficou em oitavo lugar na 41ª lista anual da Forbes dos 400 americanos mais ricos.

Carreira

Ballmer iniciou as suas funções na Microsoft em 1979, tendo sido o primeiro diretor administrativo a ser contratado por Bill Gates. Desde então, capacidade de liderança e empenho absoluto de Ballmer passaram a constituir a imagem de marca da sua presença na empresa. Nos últimos 20 anos, Ballmer presidiu a várias divisões da Microsoft, incluindo os departamentos de operações, desenvolvimento de sistemas operacionais, vendas e suporte.

Em Julho de 1998, foi promovido a Presidente, um cargo que conferiu uma responsabilidade diária na gestão da Microsoft. Nomeado Presidente do Conselho de Administração em Janeiro de 2000, assumiu a responsabilidade pela gestão global da empresa, o que inclui cumprir as metas traçadas na missão da empresa cujo objetivo passa por viabilizar a concretização de todo o potencial de pessoas e empresas à escala mundial. Em conjunto com Bill Gates e restantes chefias técnicas e empresariais da empresa, Steve Ballmer está empenhado em dar continuidade aos esforços de inovação e liderança da Microsoft nos sete ramos de atividade que compõem a empresa.

O objetivo fundamental da Microsoft consiste em fornecer uma plataforma integrada que possibilite uma utilização sem dificuldades de uma vasta gama de serviços e dispositivos informáticos e para outros fins. Em 2012 a Revista Forbes classificou  Steve Ballmer como a 44° pessoa mais rica do mundo, com 15,7 bilhões de dólares. No dia 23 de Agosto de 2013, anuncia sua aposentadoria da empresa, a ser efetivada nos próximos 12 meses. Em 4 de fevereiro de 2014,  Steve Ballmer deixa o cargo de presidente da Microsoft e é substituído por Satya Nadella. Atualmente Steve Ballmer é o maior acionista da Microsoft.

Em 12 de Agosto de 2014, Ballmer comprou a franquia da NBA Los Angeles Clippers.

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MARIBOR, Slovenia (AP) - Liverpool rediscovered its potency by thrashing Maribor 7-0, matching the biggest away win in Champions League history and emphatically securing its first win in Group E on Tuesday.
Mohamed Salah scored twice to follow up goals from Roberto Firmino, in the fourth minute, and Philippe Coutinho as Liverpool took a 4-0 lead at halftime.
Firmino added a second goal before Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain - his first for Liverpool - and Trent Alexander-Arnold completed the rout for Maribor's heaviest loss in the competition.
"Our attitude was outstanding - we were spot on from the first second," Liverpool manager Juergen Klopp said.
Liverpool started off with draws against Sevilla and Spartak Moscow, but this win lifted the English team to the top of the group on goal difference from Spartak, which thrashed Sevilla 5-1.
Liverpool has struggled to turn chances into goals in recent games, notably draws in the English Premier League against Burnley and Manchester United that have dropped Klopp's team off the title pace.
It was the biggest margin of victory for an English club away from home in the European Cup or Champions League.
Two other teams have also won 7-0 in the Champions League: Marseille over MSK Zilina in 2010 and Shakhtar Donetsk over BATE Borisov in 2014.


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Audit queries must be answered in 24 hours, Buhari tells public officials
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Auditor-General of the Federation to ensure that all outstanding audit queries are conclusively resolved within 30 days.
Mr. Buhari has also ordered that henceforth, all audit queries must be answered within 24 hours.
The orders followed the President's displeasure on hearing that audit queries remained unanswered for long periods, sometimes running into years, under previous administrations.
The Senior Special Assistant to the President (Media and Publicity), Garba Shehu, confirmed the directives, adding that President Buhari was irrevocably committed to tackling administrative and bureaucratic corruption head-on.
"The era of impunity is gone. The President is taking the war on corruption to the civil service. He is not happy that standard operating procedures and financial regulations are no longer being observed as they should.
"President Buhari will ensure that public officials and civil servants in the service of the Federal Government pay a heavy price from now on for violating financial regulations or disregarding audit queries," Mr. Garba said.
He added that the President was determined to put an end to the present situation in which, rather than respond to legitimate audit queries, violators of financial regulations in the Federal Government resort to threatening, bribing or mounting other forms of social pressure on auditors.
"On his watch, President Buhari wants to see firm action against those who violate extant financial regulations, not the prevarications and shenanigans that went on in the past in the form of endless probes and public inquiries," the Presidential spokesman said.
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MUSIC PROFILE | BETTER OBLIVION COMMUNITY CENTER
Better Oblivion Community Center has come out of almost nowhere. The band, fronted by Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers, spent some time over a year and half period quietly writing songs together in Los Angeles in between both of their increasingly busy schedules. With a surprise release last week, Better Oblivion Community Center is set to take their record on the road this spring and we caught up with Oberst and Bridgers in LA to discuss the new project, their community songwriting process, and working with your friends.
Vampire Weekend Return with New Single From Forthcoming Album
There are certain bands that come with such a history that, looking back on them, it's surprising that they've come so far. One such band is Vampire Weekend. Named after lead vocalist Ezra Koenig's abandoned Lost Boys tribute film (!!!) and an offshoot of his and fellow member Chris Tomson's rap project, the band, on paper, seems like it should've been a non starter. Three albums later, the band has only gotten better and more interesting than their Columbia University ivy school elite status could've ever hinted at.
Jenny Lewis Releases New Song
There are a handful of artists that have been putting out top notch quality music for decades now. Jenny Lewis is one of these special artists. The former leader of heartbreaking wunderkinds Rilo Kiley has just released the first single, "Red Bull & Hennessy," off of her upcoming album On The Line. The track is quintessential Lewis. Coming out the gates with a solid backbeat and wonderfully twinkling piano, "Red Bull & Hennessey" sounds huge.
Weyes Blood Release New Single "Andromeda"
We live in a world of constant distractions. One that is made up of crushing past disappointments that can inform a search for something better but a search which may be made up of unreasonable or, at least, unrealistic expectations. This is something that Weyes Blood aka Natalie Mering captures beautifully on her first new pit of music since 2016, the song "Andromeda". She and co-producer Jonathan Rado have crafted a piece that is full of swirling lap steel and muted drums with her phenomenal vocals right up front.
Wild Nothing Shares New Single "Blue Wings"
There are certain artists that seem to have the ability to channel certain eras and production techniques within their music. One very recognizable era in popular music is the 1980s. We've seen a bit of a renaissance over the last few years with television shows and movies rehashing some popular songs of that time. One artist who seems to have been able to really grab onto these elements is Virginia-based Jack Tatum AKA Wild Nothing.
The Cranberries Share New Single From Final Album
One year ago, the world was shocked and saddened by the sudden passing of Cranberries lead vocalist Dolores O'Riordan. The veteran Irish rock 'n' roll act had been been writing and touring new material throughout the summer of 2017 and now they have announced the release of their final album In the End, which will be released worldwide on April 26th.
MUSIC PROFILE | CHOIR BOY
Writing, recording, and touring are constants for Adam Klopp, singer/guitarist for rising Salt Lake City dream pop outfit Choir Boy, but another steady presence in the indie musician's life is On Broadway Deli, the downtown sandwich shop he's been working at ever since landing in Utah three years ago for college.
Sister RATT 2: Jackin' the Habit
You know when you learn of something one day and all of the sudden it feels like it's following you for weeks? Generally, I believe this is the work of malevolent spirits sent to test my nerve but I'm open to peer-reviewed psychological phenomena as well. So someone come collect Mr. Baader-Meinhoff because I'm hole deep in RATT thanks to his syndrome.
New Single from DC-Area Group, Ex Hex
Washington, D.C. may effectively be shut down at the moment, but lucky for us one thing that hails from America's capital that remains open for business is the wonderful and mighty Ex Hex. The gritty three piece, made up of members of Helium, Wild Flag and Bat Fang, who lovingly refer to their music as something "your older brothers and babysitters used to listen to" are back with a new album, It's Real, the band's first since 2014's Rips.
Sharon Van Etten's "Seventeen": A Second Look
Sometimes when an artist takes some time off to pursue other avenues you don't really get the sense of how much you missed them until they come back. In the case of Sharon Van Etten, she took the last few years off, went back to school, had a child and wrote a record, Remind Me Tomorrow, which will be dropping worldwide on January 18th. Her latest single from that album, "Seventeen", just came out and it is a huge reminder of how vital an artist she is.


Our economy is struggling. Jobs are scarce. Families are tightening their belts, trying to make ends meet. Perhaps you feel the pinch in your own home.
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Five Great Reference Books for Your Home Library That Also Make Excellent Holiday Gifts – A Librarian's Favorites
Filed under: A-to-Z Holiday Gift List,Reference — 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom @ 12:18 am
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Lyndon Johnson recited the presidential oath from it on Air Force One.
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."
Musician Tom Waits, as quoted in the Yale Book of Quotations
For years I've urged people to consider giving great reference books as holiday gifts, especially to families. Not many $25 bestsellers deliver as much value as the $12.99 World Almanac and Book of Facts, more than a thousand pages packed with sports statistics, election results, the most popular baby names, documents like the Gettysburg Address and more. And in this weekend's Wall Street Journal Donald Altschiller, a librarian at Boston University, offers a terrific starter list for shoppers in the form of a quintet of reference books that he sees as essential for a home library.
Four of Altschiller's choices have appeared — in some cases, repeatedly — on my own lists of gift-book recommendations: the Yale Book of Quotations (Yale, 2006), the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition (Houghton Mifflin, 2006), the Merck Manual of Medical Information: Second Edition (2003) and that World Almanac and Book of Facts (World Almanac, 2008). So I'll take his word for the fifth: the Oxford Atlas of the World (Oxford University Press, 2007). Altschiller explains his choices in "Five Best" online.wsj.com/article/SB122125935106030191.html?mod=2_1167_1 (which accurately describes, for example, some advantages of the Yale Book of Quotations over Bartlett's). His article also contains a few facts that, as often as I've written about these books, I didn't know. One involves the World Almanac: "In November 1963, during the rushed swearing-in ceremony aboard Air Force One, Lyndon Johnson recited the presidential oath from this invaluable resource."
Iconic Clichés That Should Be Taken Off the Table, Dude
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The Facts on File Dictionary of Clichés omits "going forward, Day One, iconic, that said, off the table, in the run-up to and ahead of (for "before"), right quick, quite frankly, déjà vu all over again, rock star, guys (aimed at groups that include all sexes), dude, hottie, and take it to the next level," Marie Shear says in a review in the Freelancer, the newsletter for the Editorial Freelancers Association www.the-efa.org. I'm with Shear and would add to her list transparency, a word regularly misused by the New York Times. (Are the workings of any organization ever transparent?) But I agree with Patricia T. O'Conner, who says in her excellent grammar book Woe Is I that we shouldn't "summarily execute" all clichés and familiar phrases: "Let your ear be your guide. If a phrase sounds expressive and lively and nothing else will do, fine. If it sounds flat, be merciless. The Facts on File Dictionary of Clichés: Meanings and Origins of Thousands of Terms and Expressions, 2d edition. By Christine Ammer. Facts on File, 534 pp., $19.95, paperback www.factsonfile.com.
Listen to Thanksgiving Hymns and Others for Free at Cyber Hymnal — Downloadable for Free, Too, If They're Out of Copyright
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Tags: Catholicism, Christianity, Christmas Carols, Church, Clergy, Faith, Free Music, Free Stuff, God, Gospel Music, Holidays, Hymns, Inspirational, Ministry, Music, Protestantism, Religion, Reviews, Spirituality, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day
Further update at 7:45 p.m. Dec. 1: The Cyber Hymnal site is back up. I just listened to the Doxology and "The Snow Lay on the Ground," the carol often used as an anthem (the first I remember singing with youth choir at my childhood church). But I'm leaving up the Nov. 29 update because you may want to use Hymn Site as a back-up if Cyber Hymnal goes down again. Jan
Update at 5:25 p.m. Nov. 29: The Cyber Hymnal site seems to have crashed — let's hope temporarily — since I posted this. The link worked without problems for days. But at this writing you can't reach Cyber Hymnal either from here or the link on Google. Until the site is up again, you can hear the music and find the words to hymns at HymnSite www.hymnsite.com. HymnSite isn't as easy to search as Cyber Hymnal and may have fewer hymns, but has many of the same elements. Jan
Update, Nov. 2010: Cyber Hymnal is now NetHymnal, and the links in this post have been changed to reflect it.
Today I was looking for facts to add to a quote of the day about a Thanksgiving hymn and found a site called NetHymnal that lets you listen for free to the music of more than hymns and Gospel songs. NetHymnal also has the words and background of tunes, pictures of authors or composers, a few musical scores and more. It offers 29 hymns by J. S. Bach alone, including such chart-busters as "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" and "Von Himmel Hoch." The site is just what its name implies — the online equivalent of a hymnal you might find slotted into a pew except that it lets you listen to the music instead of reading the scores. And you can download for free anything that's out of copyright.
So this is the place to go if you'd like to hear the Thanksgiving hymns "Now Thank We All Our God," "For the Beauty of the Earth" and "We Gather Together" (the only one of the three that's non-Trinitarian in all verses). Cyber Hymnal also lets you listen to Christmas carols and patriotic songs such as "O Canada," "Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "Eternal Father, Strong to Save" (the Navy Hymn). And if you're getting married in a church soon, you can hear any hymn that could be played at your wedding. Be sure to listen to the traditional — and best — version of the classic wedding hymn "Love Divine, All Loves Excelling" on Cyber Hymnal before somebody talks you into the alternate setting that has become popular without my consent. (Are you going to invite me to the wedding?)
If you don't care for Thanksgiving hymns but want to hear to some of the most stirring music ever written, use the title search tool on Nethymnal to look for "Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee" (the Ode to Joy from Beethoven's Ninth Symphony), "Thine Be the Glory" ("See, the Conqu'ring Hero Comes" from Handel's Judas Maccabeus) and "Be Still, My Soul" ("The Song of Peace" from Sibelius's Finlandia). Like the Colorado Rockies, that quote of the day that I planned to post will have to wait till next year, because I'm off to Cyber Hymnal to listen Beethoven's "The Heavn's Resoundeth" ("The Heavens Are Telling"), nearly as glorious as the "Ode to Joy."
The picture above from the old Cyber Hymnal shows Catherine Winkworth (1827-78), who translated "Now Thank We All Our God" ("Nun Danket") from the German.
'The Oxford Book of Ages,' a Collection of Quotations for Every Birthday
Filed under: Nonfiction,Reference — 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom @ 1:54 am
Tags: Aging, Arts, Birthdays, Book Reviews, Books, Culture, Life, Literary Criticism, Reading, Reviews
Are you always looking for the perfect quote for someone's 37th or 45th or 63rd birthday? Check out The Oxford Book of Ages (Oxford University Press, 224 pp., varied prices), a collection of quotations by well-known people for every year from zero (for newborns) to 100. A year typically has at least a half dozen entries, all chosen Anthony and Sally Sampson. Not all of the quotations express the kind of uplifting sentiments you might want to inscribe on a card – some are downbeat, if not grim – but all are pithy and intelligent. And the best lines are worth quoting again and again.
Among my favorites:
"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age." Victor Hugo
"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph." Shirley Temple
"After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death." Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1834
"I'm sixty-three and I guess that puts me in with the geriatrics, but if there were fifteen months in every year, I'd be only forty-three." James Thurber
"She drank good ale, strong punch and wine,
And lived to the age of ninety-nine."
Epitaph for Mrs. Freland, in Edwelton churchyard, Nottinghamshire, 1741
The Oxford Book of Ages is out-of-print in the U.S. but available online and in libraries. If you can't find it, here's a consoling comment that Françoise Sagan made at the age of 43: "The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read."
Handel Wrote 'Messiah' in 24 Days (and You Thought You Were Productive at Work) … Quotes of the Day #16 and #17
Filed under: Reference,Religion — 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom @ 2:03 pm
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Do you have what it takes to write the "Hallelujah" chorus?
Come unto me, all ye that labor and believe you are worthy of the next employee-of-the-month award. Many authors have marveled at how quickly G. F. Handel wrote Messiah, which has a score of more than 250 pages that he finished in 24 days. Percy M. Young writes in The Oratorios of Handel (Dobson, 1949):
"Handel's habit of rapid construction came less from the supposed mystery of 'inspiration' than from the fluency of technique: with him a set piece was accomplished in the shortest possible time so that other aspects of life could be accommodated. Messiah was composed, with perhaps more than usual haste, between August 22 and September 14, 1741. Clearly the beginning of the season of mellow fruitfulness … The original score comprises some 250 pages of manuscript; which means that Handel wrote, on the average, a little over ten pages a day."
But take heart if this makes your daily output look a little less impressive. Peter Jacobi writes in The Messiah Book: The Life and Times of G.F. Handel's Greatest Hit (St. Martin's, 1982):
"Granted, some of the music wasn't new; he'd used it before, an aria here, a duet there … And there are indications of changes: seven stabs at the great 'Amen,' for instance."
There, now don't you feel better?


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wphiii
Location: 3/4 DC, 1/4 Pittsburgh
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A couple of weekends ago, I made a little getaway trip down to Richmond for a few days. On my way down, I decided to experiment with a route that I had never taken before. This was PA 160, which I took between Berlin, PA near Somerset, to the PA/MD border (and on to Cumberland on MD roads). The hilly, two-lane drive ended up being so thoroughly enjoyable, with its rural ambience and constantly-visible windmills (some of which you even get pretty close to), that I was almost dismayed not to have known about it sooner.
This experience got me thinking...there have to be hundreds of drives like this out there that are largely unknown to the general traveling public, and I'd love to know about some of them, if only for my own future trip-planning edification. Of course, who better to ask about such a thing than a forum like this one?
I don't want to attach too stringent a set of rules to something like this, because everyone has their own ideas about what makes a drive "enjoyable" and I really want to know what's out there, but I guess it does make sense to say that by definition Interstates or major U.S. routes shouldn't count, and nor should well-advertised scenic routes, i.e. the Blue Ridge Parkway, the PCH, etc. But other than that, I am extremely curious as to what you all have discovered over your own travels. So, fire away.
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Re: The best drives no one knows about
US-30 in Nebraska.
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The South Dakota portion of the Heartland Expressway (SD-79), with the Black Hills off to your west, is very underrated as a drive. Especially for a new four-lane highway.
Just don't take it in winter, of course.
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While everyone knows about the part of CA 1 south of San Francisco, the part to the north is really underrated.
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Colorado 141- everybody gets caught up in US 191 (Moab) and US 550 (better marketing), but 141 is amazing. I drove it during the height of summer last year on a beautiful day and had sixty miles of breathtaking scenery all to myself.
Washington 129/Oregon 3. It doesn't connect anything to anything but holy shit is it scenic. Absolutely magnificent view.
I'll see your US-30 in Nebraska and raise you an N-2 across Nebraska
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Quote from: corco on May 01, 2013, 03:02:17 PM
Was it you who made a post about this very road recently? Because that was another thing that inspired me to create this thread...I saw someone mention CO 141 on this board and, having never heard of it before, did some research and was blown away by how awesome it looked.
texaskdog
Location: Kyle, TX
Quote from: agentsteel53 on May 01, 2013, 01:58:11 PM
I took this on a Greyhound. Felt like it would never end.
the road from Montrose CO to Moab Utah is really nice.
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Yes- I took it on a whim back last July with no idea what to expect and nearly fell over- not only at the scenery but the sheer lack of cars relative to the scenery. I'd been on US 50 all day passing seriously hundreds of RVs and not a single one was to be found on 141.
Colorado 145 south of Telluride is also pretty neat, though on a nice summer day you'll likely be sharing it with bicyclists who have the same idea.
I've only done 2 where it is multiplexed with 71; you are right that I am probably missing out. 71 in general is quite scenic, and also very fast. for the other end of the state, I really like 4 between 77 and 81; it follows several river beds and there are also plenty of old alignments to find.
for something completely different, US-36 in Kansas.
1995hoo
Location: Fairfax County, Virginia
Down in the Great Smokies, it seems like the Tail of the Dragon (US-129) gets most of the attention. But I really enjoyed US-74 from Cleveland, TN, all the way to I-40 near Asheville. The OP mentioned no Interstates nor major US routes, but I'm not sure I'd count this one as a "major" US route in practice (number notwithstanding) simply because for most of the drive I was the ONLY car on the road for miles at a time. I love having the road all to myself through highly scenic areas (which this road certainly had) so that I can go slowly to look at the scenery if I want or I can drive fast and recklessly if I want.
In a completely different vein, Virginia primary routes 22/231 between Charlottesville (technically Shadwell) and Gordonsville are a nice drive through rolling countryside with a lot of large properties belonging to some very wealthy people. There is a really beautiful small Episcopalian church just north of the 22/231 split that is, to me, the highlight of the drive between Northern Virginia and Charlottesville. I simply love passing that church, especially at night when it's lit up. Can't really get a good Street View image because the trees are in the way. I also find this route to be a more pleasant drive than Route 20, which roughly parallels it on the other side of a ridge to the west, because in my experience Route 20 can be painfully slow. Neither road has all that many passing zones due to curves and hills, but for some reason the traffic on Route 20 is just substantially slower. Most people going from Charlottesville to Northern Virginia use US-29 and are unaware of the more scenic route to the east, or else they refuse to consider it because a portion of the most direct version of the scenic route uses I-95 between Fredericksburg and NOVA.
"You know, you never have a guaranteed spot until you have a spot guaranteed."
—Olaf Kolzig, as quoted in the Washington Times on March 28, 2003,
commenting on the Capitals clinching a playoff spot.
"That sounded stupid, didn't it?"—Kolzig, to the same reporter a few seconds later.
Ugh. Yeah, it's different alright, but not in a good way.
Parts of NE 2 east of Alliance might be good for railfans. It follows a line used a lot (like once every few minutes at times) by coal trains headed east.
formulanone
Location: HSV
FL 17 (Scenic Highway) is a departure from standard Florida fare; hills, curves, lakes, small towns, and few traffic signals. Passes by many orange groves, so during springtime, the orange blossoms make for a nice experience.
CR 42 (former FL 42) is also a lightly-traveled route; twists and turns, dips and dives, alongside Ocala National Forest. Watch your speed as you enter Altoona, though.
CA 78 (east of I-15) and CA 79 give you all kinds of scenery in San Diego County.
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Quote from: formulanone on May 01, 2013, 06:22:41 PM
FL 17 (Scenic Highway) is a departure from standard Florida fare; hills, curves, lakes, small towns, and few traffic signals. Passes by many orange groves, so during springtime, the orange blossoms make for a nice experience. It was
A bit to the north is CR 455, a similar hilly road: http://www.floridascenichighways.com/green-mountain-scenic-byway/
Just off the route is Sugarloaf Mountain, the peninsula's highest point (and much more prominent than that Britton Hill BS). West of there, the narrow but paved Grassy Lake Road impressed me. Even northbound on the Turnpike has a nice vista coming over the rise at Grassy Lake Road.
Florida route log | pre-1945
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California route 253, Boonville-Ukiah Road. Very scenic, very lightly traveled, lots of twisty passages to try out your cornering ability.
Molandfreak
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Well, if I must:
http://goo.gl/maps/7Ar70
http://goo.gl/maps/iyfbs
Don't go telling everyone you know about these, though
The High Plains Traveler
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Mattole Road, beginning at Ferndale CA (S of Eureka - hi, Alan!), then over the coastal range and down to the coast. It goes through Petrolia and eventually brings you to U.S. 101 at the Humboldt Redwoods State Park. It goes by Cape Mendocino, and geology geeks would know this area as close to the Pacific/North America/Gorda plates triple point. Isolated area, no gas stations, no cell phone signals.
"Tongue-tied and twisted; just an earth-bound misfit, I."
Another one: This leads to a blueberry farm that could use a little more business
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Quote from: oscar on May 01, 2013, 04:10:34 PM
Heh, really? I love 36 across Kansas. That whole south of I-80 but not in the Flint Hills east-west tier is pretty boring but 36 makes the best of it- I think it's a neat transition from east-west and enjoy some of the towns along the way. It's certainly nicer than 6 or 34 or Nebraska 4 a few miles north.
The drawback to 36 across Kansas is that there's little way to drive it without also having to drive 36 from Kansas to Denver, which is one of the most brutally boring drives I've ever been on.
Mapmikey
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Quote from: 1995hoo on May 01, 2013, 04:06:13 PM
In a completely different vein, Virginia primary routes 22/231 between Charlottesville (technically Shadwell) and Gordonsville are a nice drive through rolling countryside with a lot of large properties belonging to some very wealthy people. There is a really beautiful small Episcopalian church just north of the 22/231 split that is, to me, the highlight of the drive between Northern Virginia and Charlottesville. I simply love passing that church, especially at night when it's lit up. Can't really get a good Street View image because the trees are in the way. I also find this route to be a more pleasant drive than Route 20, which roughly parallels it on the other side of a ridge to the west, because in my experience Route 20 can be painfully slow. Neither road has all that many passing zones due to curves and hills, but for some reason the traffic on Route 20 is just substantially slower.
That church was quite a surprise the first time I drove by it 17 years ago.
VA 231 from Madison to Sperryville is also quite nice.
VA 20 from Barboursville to VA 3 Wilderness is nice plus has few curves slowing one down although traffic volume north/east of Orange can be heavy sometimes.
Also beautiful and not full of traffic is the entirety of VA 39.
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Riverside Dr (part OH 257, part US 33) from southern Delaware County to abouth 5th Ave in Columbus.
Wilmington Rd through the valley just west of I-71 between Wilmington and Lebanon. Drive it in a small vehicle.
Look, over by the restrooms! It's a girl! It's a boy! No, it's Captain Enby!
…Do you think they're trying to decide which one to use?
Everybody Obeys the Octagon
Elimitante the truck trarffic,
WV Secondary Route *
https://www.alpsroads.net
sbeaver44
Accountant/Roadgeek
Location: Lewisberry, Pennsylvania
PA Route 31 between Bedford and Donegal or I-70 instead of the Turnpike. (Intersects PA 160 from the OP)
WIS 113 - complete with Merrimac Ferry - from Madison to Baraboo rather than I-90
Old York Rd/Old Trail Rd/Susquehanna Trail/MD 45 instead of I-83
US Route 16A
Mr. Accelerator is our friend; Mr. Brake is not.
New Avenue, Main Street (Lemont), and Archer Avenue from Lockport to Willow Springs. Traverses the industrial and scenic Des Plaines River Valley. Starts off in forest preserves and oil refineries near Lockport, follows the valley into downtown Lemont, and then climbs up onto the bluff through forest preserves to Willow Springs.
Bluff Road on the other side of the river from Joliet Road to Lemont Road is less industrial and has a great little compound curve on a hill.
IL-71 from Ottawa to IL-178 isn't usually publicized, but goes through and by Starved Rock State Park. The road goes around and over canyons through the forest in terrain one usually does not associate with north-central Illinois.
H-58 in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Until recently, the road wasn't even paved. H-58 goes through Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore from Munising (M-28) east to Grand Marais (M-77).
Canal Road from M-26 in Houghton, Michigan out to the Houghton Breakwater on the Portage Lake Waterway. It starts in urban/suburban Houghton, but passes by forests, farms, and sandy bluffs, and winds its way to a black stamp sand beach at Lake Superior. Its short length and low traffic makes it a great bicycle ride as well.
"If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention." - Ramsay Bolton
Illinois: America's own banana republic.
I like the roads of Wyoming. I like US 16 west of Newcastle. May seem boring to some but Wyoming has some long trains and you follow the track. Also love 14A across the Bighorns. May not be unknown but everyone talks about 14 (also nice) and 16 (somewhat boring)
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Tribebook: Get of Fenris (1st Edition)
White Wolf
This fifth tribebook tells the story of the Get of Fenris: their Nordic heritage, legends and society as told by a Get Skald. The book includes a Legends of Garou comic book; the fierce history and harsh culture of the Get of Fenris; Nordic mythology and how it fits into the world of the Werewolf; the Get of Fenris from around the world and the battles they fight; new gifts, rites, and fetishes; five ready-to-play templates; and the most famous Get of Fenris and their legends.
A. M. P August 19, 2017 4:00 am UTC
One of the most underestimated and misperceived parts of the work. Actually really well-written, and clearly a reminder of more than "viking mettle". Sadly the legal state of Asatru and Neo-Nazi made the product less easily appreciated in some countries, and triggered prejudices and suspicions, too.
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This title was added to our catalog on June 07, 2005.