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Jerry Stiller is known for his comedic performances with his wife, Anne Meara, as well as his roles on 'Seinfeld' and 'The King of Queens.' He is the father of actors Ben Stiller and Amy Stiller.

Jerry Stiller was born on June 8, 1927, in Brooklyn, New York. After meeting Anne Meara in 1953, the two married and formed the famed comedy act Stiller and Meara. Decades later, he became well known to younger fans by playing short-fused dads on the sitcoms Seinfeld and The King of Queens. The father of actors Ben Stiller and Amy Stiller, he shares a star with Meara on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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Actor and comedian Jerry Stiller was born on June 8, 1927, in Brooklyn, New York. During his long career as an entertainer, Jerry Stiller has turned in many memorable performances. More recently, he gained popularity for his roles as Frank Constanza on the hit comedy Seinfeld and as Arthur Spooner on The King of Queens – two legendary television dads with gruff voices and short fuses. But before his successful career in series television, he was a well-known comedian who often worked with his wife, Anne Meara.

After meeting in 1953, Stiller and Meara married the following year and soon rose to prominence as a comedy duo. They performed in nightclubs and on television, logging more than 30 appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show. Much of their humor played off their differences; Meara was was a tall woman from an Irish-Catholic background, while Stiller was shorter and Jewish. Along the way, they had two children who would follow them into show business: Daughter Amy was born in 1961, while son Ben was born in 1965.

The two performed together for many years, but also pursued their own solo projects. They both appeared on The Paul Lynde Show in the early 1970s, and Stiller soon moved on to Joe and Sons, a comedy about a widower and his two sons. He and Anne briefly had a sketch comedy show in the late 1970s called Take Five with Stiller and Meara, and from 1979 to 1982 they hosted HBO Sneak Preview. Stiller went on to make appearances on such popular shows as The Love Boat and Murder She Wrote, and snagged a role on another short-lived comedy, Tattingers, in the late 1980s.

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Stiller didn't wait long to return to situation comedy after Seinfeld ended in 1998, moving on to The King of Queens that fall. He slid into the role of Arthur Spooner, a cantankerous widower who lives with his daughter, played by Leah Remini, and son-in-law, played by Kevin James. The show was a hit, lasting for nine seasons before signing off in 2007.

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In addition to his television work, Stiller has appeared in several films, including The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), Hairspray (1988) and Zoolander (2001), which starred his son, Ben, and his daughter-in-law, Christine Taylor. Jerry also had a role in Ben's 2007 comedy The Heartbreak Kid, and teamed up with wife Anne to voice an elderly couple in the 2014 animated flick Planes: Fire & Rescue.

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Postby Kaveh » Fri Dec 17, 2010 7:54 am

Hello all,
I have a question and am looking for your feed backs.

I got my B.Sc in Biology (Microbiology) in mid 90s. Unfortunately due to circumstances I took a career in Information Technology. Biology has always been my passion and the desire to go back has been getting stronger every day. I am now 40 years old and am really considering going back to school but being away for such a long time is intimidating.
What would you suggest? How would you approach it? Is it the right thing to do? (I guess if you are passionate about something so strongly it doesn't matter if it is right or wrong!)

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Postby Julie5 » Fri Dec 17, 2010 8:32 am

Absolutely no idea about cross-over careers, but one would think that there has to be an opportunity somwehre in the region of using computing-power to do a lot of the data crunching in areas like genomics/proteomics, etc, plus, of course, there must similarly be a cross-over in modelling/simulation in respect of eco-changes etc.

You could, maybe, compromise like so many have to do, in that you make your living out of IT, but keep your intellectual passion for a different subject.

Although I don't have to make a living out of biology, I am 'rediscovering' it (after having studied it longer ago than the 90s!) and finding it fascinating (and so much more has been discovered since my day!!!!). There's quite a big chunk of me that wishes I'd stuck with it since graduating, instead of drifting away into other areas.

All the best, and hope you find that (all too rare!) sweet-spot where you can earn a decent living doing something you love (in a place you want to live!)

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Postby jonmoulton » Fri Dec 17, 2010 5:11 pm

I second Darby on the bioinformatics. Combine it with two biology/chemistry topic areas: molecular genetics and structural biochemistry, both computation-intensive areas that are growing. Look into molecular simulation software (protein docking, quantum molecular structural programs, etc.). Check out NCBI ( and poke around, especially in GenBank and BLAST. There is a demand for skilled IT people in biology, but going in with stronger and updated biology/chemistry will greatly advantage you. You can probably do both (computer applications in bio) + (mol bio & struct chem) within the umbrella of a single bioinformatics program, especially one that bills itself as interdisciplinary.
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Postby vladkara » Fri Jan 07, 2011 8:13 pm

I have somewhat similar interests. I do have a BS in biology and biochemistry. I have been working in medical research for 10 years. Got frustrated with people I worked for for (M.D.s that pretended to do a big research), received associate degree in system analysis and programming and am now working in IT (clinical work). I have taken an advanced class in cellular biology about two years ago. It really put me back to the current issues in biology. That is what I would advice.
I am very much interested in extending human life. Excellent books: Ending Aging by Aubrey deGrey. Also book: Long for this world by Jonathan Weiner.
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Postby qforthemass » Tue Aug 14, 2012 9:40 pm

Hi everyone,

this might be a silly question but I have problems understanding better if a IC50 or EC50 (or any given compound concentration) is depending on the cell number used in the assay. I am not talking about e.g. confluency, pH changes, etc.etc. or any other cell culture effects that might arise due to cell layers growing over each other or senescence etc. Just from the principle.

Say I have compound X that I use in a 96-well format and in each well I have 1000 cells. I find out that I I have a receptor activation EC50 at 1 uM in a medium voume of 50 ul. If I now repeat the same test with 5000 cells per well, do I now get the same activation only when adding 5 uM compound X in 50 ul? The reason why I am asking is because I feel that the EC50 will be - within in the limits of experimental reproduciblity - again at 1uM. Or better always at 1uM. This because the EC50 is ultimately defined by affinity of 1 molecule compound to one receptor molecule.

Now someone is trying to convince me that it actually very much not only depends on the cell number but also the volume. I think this is wrong but I cannot really explain why it is wrong. For example:
- When I have an active compound at e.g. 10 uM this will be the needed concentration I will have to add independent of the medium volume. It is not the case that I would achieve the same effect by use double the medium volume of a 5uM concentration of the same commpound. The person argueing with me is saying that yes this would have the same effect on your cells as the cells now still "see" the same amount of compound in the well. Again, to me this feels wrong but I cannot really explain why
- Say a compound has an e.g. EC50 of 1 mM (so a quite inactive compound) in a standard assay with 10.000 cells per well with 100ul medium volume. If theoretically I now have 1 cell per well in 1ml volume, I would still need 1 mM of the compound to have the cell/Receptor "activated" and not only 10 nM compound concentration (because of 10.000 less cells and 10x more volume = 1mM/100.000=10nM)

As far as I understand the EC50 for a given compound is quite reliabe, no matter how many cells etc are present in a system. Otherwise, how could one ever deduct pharmadynamics, receptor occupancy etc if this is tightly regulated by cell number present?

thx for clarifying this for me
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Postby JackBean » Tue Aug 14, 2012 10:04 pm

the volume should not matter.

However, concerning the amount of cells, I'm not much sure about that. Colleague of mine has recently done some receptor biding assays and she got some weird results.

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Postby d94rose » Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:57 am

I'm kinda confused of what to study in college..
I am interested in genetic engineering, but I'm afraid that if i choose this career it will narrow my career opportunities, so should I choose Bioengineering and then specialize in genetics?? is that possible? Is there any other career that has to do with genetics?

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Postby JackBean » Fri Apr 01, 2011 7:48 am

why not study genetics and molecular biology and then you can specialize in bioengineering? Anyway, you will need the gen&MolBio basics for bioengineering ;)

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Up to 44 per cent of existing head teachers will be eligible for retirement by the end of 2009.

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The shopping center, built in 2001, is on South Moorland Road, north of the interchange at Interstate 43. Its two anchors are Michaels and Office Max. But it is almost 42 percent vacant because of a 48,700-square-foot space left empty by a Sportsman’s Warehouse that closed about three years ago when the retailer liquidated 23 stores nationwide.

Regardless of who ends up owning the mall, the cornerstone to increasing Moorland Commons’ value is filling that empty space, said Patrick Gallagher, president and chief executive officer of Siegel-Gallagher Inc., Milwaukee. Gallagher is not involved with Moorland Commons, but has managed other troubled area malls.

“It’s a great location,” he said of Moorland Commons. “There’s a well-performing Kohl’s store as a shadow anchor. The key is the Sportsman’s Warehouse space.”

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“If they can find a tenant for that, they’d be increasing the value significantly versus selling it with the vacancy in place,” Gallagher said.

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As lone practitioners and small medical groups face higher costs and flat or falling reimbursements, many physicians are seeking the resources and stability of a physician group, either independent or hospital-affiliated. But how does a physician choose a group with which to ally, and how does the growth of physician groups affect consumer choice?

Tom Watters, executive director of the St. Louis Metropolitan Medical Society, said that in addition to investigating contracts and compensation, physicians want to talk to other physicians to see how they’ve fared. “They want to know what their tenure is, what they did and didn’t like,” he said.

Physicians want to know if a group’s technology is the most advanced and what its plans are for complying with electronic health records requirements, he said. Doctors might ask what insurance plans a physician group is aligned with so they have an idea about patient quantities, he said.

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AutismWomen in the U.S. exposed to high levels of air pollution while pregnant were up to twice as likely to have a child with autism as women who lived in areas with low pollution, according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH). It is the first large national study to examine links between autism and air pollution across the U.S.

“Our findings raise concerns since, depending on the pollutant, 20% to 60% of the women in our study lived in areas where risk of autism was elevated,” said lead author Andrea Roberts, research associate in the HSPH Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences.

The study appeared online June 18, 2013 in Environmental Health Perspectives.

Exposure to diesel particulates, lead, manganese, mercury, methylene chloride and other pollutants are known to affect brain function and to affect the developing baby. Two previous studies found associations between exposure to air pollution during pregnancy and autism in children, but those studies looked at data in just three locations in the U.S.

The researchers examined data from Nurses’ Health Study II, a long-term study based at Brigham and Women’s Hospital involving 116,430 nurses that began in 1989. Among that group, the authors studied 325 women who had a child with autism and 22,000 women who had a child without the disorder. They looked at associations between autism and levels of pollutants at the time and place of birth. They used air pollution data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to estimate women’s exposure to pollutants while pregnant. They also adjusted for the influence of factors such as income, education, and smoking during pregnancy.

The results showed that women who lived in the 20% of locations with the highest levels of diesel particulates or mercury in the air were twice as likely to have a child with autism as those who lived in the 20% of areas with the lowest levels.

Other types of air pollution—lead, manganese, methylene chloride, and combined metal exposure—were associated with higher autism risk as well. Women who lived in the 20% of locations with the highest levels of these pollutants were about 50% more likely to have a child with autism than those who lived in the 20% of areas with the lowest concentrations.

Most pollutants were associated with autism more strongly in boys than girls. However, since there were few girls with autism in the study, the authors said this finding should be examined further.

Senior author Marc Weisskopf, associate professor of environmental and occupational epidemiology at HSPH, said, “Our results suggest that new studies should begin the process of measuring metals and other pollutants in the blood of pregnant women or newborn children to provide stronger evidence that specific pollutants increase risk of autism. A better understanding of this can help to develop interventions to reduce pregnant women’s exposure to these pollutants.”

Roberts AL, Lyall K, Hart JE, Laden F, Just AC, Bobb JF, Koenen KC, Ascherio A, Weisskopf MG. Perinatal air pollutant exposures and autism spectrum disorder in the children of Nurses’ Health Study II participants. Environmental Health Perspectives, online June 18, 2013.

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WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 12:  Bryce Harper #34 of the Washington Nationals hits a home run in the third inning against the St. Louis Cardinals in Game Five of the National League Division Series at Nationals Park on October 12, 2012 in Washington, DC.  (Photo by Patrick McDermott/Getty Images)
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Shortly after Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim center fielder Mike Trout was unanimously named the American League Rookie of the Year, Bryce Harper of the Washington Nationals was named the National League's best rookie of 2012 in a close vote.

Harper received 16 first-place votes, narrowly edging out Arizona Diamondbacks starter Wade Miley.

Despite not being called up until after the season's first month, and despite going through a horrid stretch during the middle of the season, Harper played in 139 games and finished towards the top of many offensive categories amongst rookies.

He hit 22 home runs (2nd), drove in 59 (4th), scored 98 runs (1st), stole 18 bases (2nd), hit nine triples (1st) and posted an OPS of .817 (4th).

Harper, who turned 20 in October, becomes the youngest to ever win the Rookie of the Year Award.

While he was quite bad in the middle of the season, he finished the season scorching hot and was an imposing figure in the Nationals lineup during the playoffs. He didn't contribute all that much, but the threat of his monstrous power was there.

Harper will look to improve next season, of course. His .270 batting average was solid, but there's definitely room for him to get better. Limiting his strikeouts would be one such way—he struck out 120 times in 533 at-bats.

Todd Frazier of the Cincinnati Reds finished third in the voting, and a case could be made for both he and Miley to be the winner.

This year's top tier of rookies in the National League were all deserving of the award, but Harper ended up coming out on top in the voting.

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Laos: Beware the snake-infused whiskey

I blame the snake infused whiskey I swigged at 10am for making me drop my digital camera down the squat toilet an hour later.

And we’re not talking oil infused whiskey. No siree, the whole slithering beady-eyed serpent pickled and curled into a bottle of whiskey, sometimes with a scorption in its mouth just for effect was on offer to the unsuspecting tourists who’d only moments ago had their cornies and a coffee for breakfast.

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I was spending just a couple of hours on a visit to a tiny village in Laos across the river from northern Thailand and while I’m all for responsible tourism and was sympathetic to their need for tourists to buy their products, I had visions of myself on Border Patrol as one of those mad people trying to smuggle venomous critters into the country.

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I'm not entirely sure what made me pick it up in the first place - it was probably recommended by Amazon or something, but it's lucky it did as this is a lovely little book! (Even if it is heartbreaking at times!)

It's extremely well written, and easy to follow - not overly descriptive or anything like that - very relate-able and down to earth seeming.

This is actually why I like the characters so much - they are extremely plausible, and I wouldn't be surprised if they were based on people the author knew as they jump out of the page and into your head as you get immersed into their average lives - I actually read this book in a day as I couldn't put it down!

 This is a book about love, and heartbreak (not how you think) and growing up, and family relationships, all bundled into one - without giving too much away, the story follows Fisher, a completely average twenty something, who meets a slightly older woman called Ivy, and falls in love with her, and accidentally gets her pregnant two weeks in...the book then explores the implications of that for both of them.

Overall, I'm really glad I read this book, even if it did make me cry at times! It's one for those of you that edge between chick flicks and deeper storylines as it does hit quite hard in places! This is not an entirely happy book, you have been warned!

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Shelf Space: An Interview with Diabolik DVD

As a majority of BGH readers are predecessors to the digital age, we know that underground cinema pairs with nothing better than our local, specialty video stores of days past. But with those cinefile safe-havens disappearing, what do we do? Roll over and die in the bottom of a Wal-Mart 5 dollar movie bin? Scour Amazon and Ebay until we reach a state of catatonia? Shit no, man. Diabolik DVD is here for you!

Diabolik DVD has taken the niche-conscious climate of the humbled video store and made it available online for the whole world to thumb through. If you are a collector of cult home video and haven't made yourself familiar with this company, you should. The potent catalogue of domestic, imported, and out of print titles is unmatched to any other. Add responsive and knowledgeable customer service to that and you've got yourself a site that's crucial for those collecting underground DVD and Blu-ray.

For this segment of Shelf Space, I was able to chat with Jesse Nelson, the driving force behind Diabolik DVD; Not before struggling/panicking while trying to figure out how to Google chat... I may look 23, but I promise you, I have the sensibility of a 70 year old.

Bloody Good Horror: Ok so Ill start it with the conventional- Tell me about Diabolik DVD. How did it start?

Jesse Nelson: Diabolik started out as a small side business, selling VHS tapes online and at our Exhumed Films shows. We used to scour flea markets, pick up oddball horror movies and sell them for $10. I cry now when I think of how many big box "ZOMBIE" VHS I sold for $10 and I never even kept one for myself. We did well with it but it wasn't always easy to find stuff and eventually we moved on to DVDs. I think the first thing I imported was "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" from Hong Kong when it was still in theatres here. The early days were a lot of Asian films. Eventually we moved on to more horror and cult films as things started popping up around the world. It was a long time before we even carried domestic titles and nowadays we carry very few Asian titles.

BGH: Talk to me about Exhumed for a second.

Jesse: Years ago, we went to the Fantasia festival in Montreal when it was still in its early days and screening a lot of horror. While we were there, we were blown away by the new 35mm prints of Fulci's "The Beyond" and "Cannibal Ferox" that Grindhouse Releasing had struck. When we got back, we made contact, and agreed to rent "Zombie" and "Gates of Hell" (which were vintage prints) for a Halloween show at a local dive of a theatre. Our thought was that at the very least we will have a fun halloween party, watching these two movies on the big screen, and we will put some of our own money out. But the show did very well and we just continued on from there. Now we have nearly monthly screenings in Philadelphia at the Ihouse and the PhilaMoca plus we have two flagship events - the 12hr eXfest and the 24hr Horror-Thon annually.

BGH: Whats the seminal film(s) that inspired your initial love for genre films?

Jesse: I grew up in the 70s and my dad would take me to see everything- So I have very vivid memories of seeing "Jaws", watching "The Exorcist" on TV, "Salem's Lot" Mini-Series and into the 80s "The Thing" and "Evil Dead" really shaped what I still enjoy. I really don't enjoy some of the over violent films of today despite my love of the violent films I grew up on.

BGH: You know, my father used to talk about seeing "The Exorcist" when it came to theaters and how nuts it was but growing up I could never really get him to sit and watch a horror movie with me. I know a lot of people who would say the same about their parents. Do you think there's a reason for that? For all the adults who lose whatever taste they once had in horror films.

Jesse: It's interesting because I will still watch something like "Evil Dead" (1981) and not have an issue with it, but I didn't really enjoy the violence in the new "Evil Dead". It just didn't have the same glee as the original. Meanwhile, something like "Eden" really upset me. I liked the film, but the stabbing scene was just brutal and the ending was a kick in the nuts. I have no other explanation other than it comes with getting older. I haven't let my 10 year old daughter watch anything more extreme than "Hellboy" though I overhear people at conventions talking to their kids about "Chucky, Jason and Freddy" all the time. Its almost like I was desensitized for a long time and then came back around.

BGH: Since you have your hands on cult/horror films from all over the world, Which country/region do you think has the most to offer for someone looking to expand their pallet?

Jesse: At one point I would have said Japan, but I really lost interest in a hurry. I am not sure I can really put a finger on any specific country for current output, but for horror and exploitation films Italy is always the goto country. The 70s and 80s offered so many crazy horror, crime and exploitation films, its hard to top them. I would probably say "Dellamorte Dellamore" was the last great film to come from there. I would also direct people to the Mondo Macabro label. They have gone to the trouble of picking out some real gems from around the world. "Lady Terminator" and "Mystics in Bali"....FTW

BGH: That was actually going to be my next question! What companies are putting out your favorites at the moment. Mondo Macabro being number one?

Jesse: I really do love Mondo Macabro for their output. I just wish they would put out more titles. I also love Vinegar Syndrome lately. Who would ever expect "Night Train to Terror" on Blu-Ray!

BGH: That IS bad ass! I'm going to assume that you have a pretty respectable collection of home video titles and possibly some paraphernalia. What is the most sacred piece(s) in your personal catalogue?

Jesse: I started scaling back my collection earlier this year as I was planning to move, but there are certain things like my original "Suspiria" one sheet and my "Alien" kid's costume that I could never part with.

BGH: Being so involved with home video as well as the theatrical side of films, do you partake in video streaming? Do you think it will eventually wipe out the physical format?

Jesse: I do netflix but I don't love the quality of the streaming, plus I like to have the physical product. For something I want to see, I don't mind, but for something I want to own, I want to have a disc and a case sitting on my shelf.

BGH: So what's your favorite part about what you do?

Jesse: As much as I hate working a convention, it is really my favorite part
of the business since I get to meet so many of my customers in person that I usually have little or no contact with and never in person. Without the horror community, neither Diabolik or Exhumed would survive.

BGH: Where would you like to take Diabolik next? Or are you right where you want to be?

Jesse: I am not really interested in starting my own label, which is always a question I get and opening a store really seems like a bigger burden on the business. I am happy doing what we are doing for as long as people are still interested in buying discs.

BGH: These are all really great answers. Thanks a ton!

Jesse: Thank you. It was fun.

Fun it was Jesse.. fun it was. Seriously though, my man takes films from all over the globe that fuel us sub-culture freaks, puts them all in one place, and wraps it up in a slick website with a bow on top. I'm stoked; You should be too! Spend a few moments browsing his website and I promise that you'll find something on DVD/Blu-ray you've wanted your whole life and you didn't even know it existed.

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Earlier estimates put the cost of the NC GOP's tax giveaways to millionaires at nearly half a billion dollars.

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New figures from legislative analysts confirm the 2013 cut to individual income tax rates is costing the state far more than originally projected.
According to a memo Thursday from legislative analyst Brian Slivka and chief economist Barry Boardman, the updated cost of the tax cut is $690 million for the current tax year.

That's $205 million, or 43 percent, higher than the original projection of $475 million.

That's for this year. And like the Energizer bunny, the NC GOP's fiscal irresponsibility just keeps going and going.

The cost for the 2015 tax year is also projected to be $200 million higher than original estimates – $890 million rather than $690 million. Additional tax cuts are set to take effect Jan. 1.

This is gross negligence of their fiduciary duty when teachers and state employees are underpaid, hard-working citizens go without affordable healthcare and there's talk of throwing kids, the elderly and disable people out on the street.

About those jobs

The wing nut loons predicted that their tax cuts would result in major economic growth that would pay for the tax cuts and then some.

Republican leaders said last summer that lowering taxes would cause the economy to grow, helping more people find work and bringing in more revenue. They expressed confidence that the cost to the state would be actually be lower than initial projections.

How's that working out?

"I will have a priority on building relationships with the minority caucus. I want to put substance behind those campaign speeches." -- Thom Tillis, Nov. 5, 2014


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We at Blues411 are always striving to support the artists and those related to the music  that help keep it thriving.
With this page we feature festivals around the country that are allowing us to assist them in their quest to provide the finest music available.

These festivals have signed on with Blues411 as a media sponsor and we will feature them as partners in our quest. Your job is now to go and support these festivals by attending them.
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Legendary’s Roger Naber, a blues industry veteran of over 36 years and twice awarded “Blues Promoter Of The Year” by The Blues Foundation, has selected a multitude of the most diverse and talented blues and rhythm & blues bands on the planet, plus a host of unannounced “Surprise Guests” for you to meet and enjoy. Whatever style of blues music gets your mojo workin’, you can be sure we’ve got it! Simply sailing gets you a “Backstage Pass.”

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February 17, 2017 – Blues Walk – Cleveland Street District, Clearwater, FL

The Annual Clearwater Blues Walk will kick off the Blues Weekend. On Friday night there will be live blues music, and restaurants will be offering “Sea-Blues” themed dinner and drink specials all night. Head downtown to begin the weekend, and see what Cleveland Street has to offer.
Now entering its 11th year, the Clearwater Seafood & Blues Festival will feature some of the finest blues musicians live in concert and Tampa Bay’s Finest Seafood delights. Presented in Coachman Park, this annual festival has become one of Clearwater’s most beloved signature events, and appeals to thousands of visitors during February each year.
This year featuring a strong Florida influence on Saturday headlined by J.J. Grey & Mofro. On Sunday a guitar-centric line up including Mike Zito, Sonny Landreth and Walter Trout.
Free General Admission. Limited Reserved Seating and VIP tickets are available now. More information about the 11th annual Clearwater Sea-Blues Festival is available by calling (727) 562-4700, or online at
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Bonita Springs Blues Festival
Riverside Park, Bonita Springs Florida
March 10 – 11, 2017

Ten plus one equals eleven years of bringing the finest blues to Bonita Springs. This year featuring headliners Studebaker John and the Hawks with special guest Rick Kreher on Friday. The Phantom Blues Band on Saturday guarantees that the site will be rocking late into the night.
Two days of solid blues that you can use, so join us there and in doing so support the Bonita Blues Charitable Foundation. Ticket prices are extremely affordable and there are after parties that will please even the die hard fans.,

The Savannah Music Festival:
Various locations in Savannah, GA
March 23 – April 8, 2017

The Savannah Music Festival is dedicated to presenting a world-class celebration of the musical arts by creating timeless and adventurous productions that stimulate arts education, foster economic growth, and unite artists and audiences in Savannah. It is the largest musical arts event in Georgia and one of the most distinctive cross-genre music festivals in the world. Featuring Blues/Southern Soul artists, Featuring a pre-party with Lurrie Bell, and through the weeks such blues artists as Marcia Ball, William Bell, Ike Stubblefield, The Wood Brothers and more.
Always interesting line ups with more variety than you will find at ordinary concerts.

chi festChicago Blues Festival
Grant Park, Chicago, Ill
June 9-11, 2017

The Wang Dang Doodle of Blues Festivals, still free with amazing line up of artists. Too many to mention,plus after fest shows and parties at all the historic clubs in the area. If ya only do one fest this year,make it this one. The Chicago Blues Festival is the largest free blues festival in the world and remains the largest of Chicago’s Music Festivals. During three days on five stages, more than 500,000 blues fans prove that Chicago is the “Blues Capital of the World.”

cbfChenango Blues Festival
Norwich, NY
August 18, 19 2017
Friday night show is always FREE to the public!

The Chenango Blues Festival is a family-friendly event held
each August in beautiful central New York. In addition to
award-winning blues acts the festival also features… Arts & Craft Vendors, Food & Beer Vendors, Children’s Activities, Camping. Join us for this KBA winning festival’s 25th anniversary party!

The European Blues Cruise:
September 2017

Bluesin’ and Cruisin’ on the Mediterranean Sea, with all inclusive cabins. Featuring classic blues artists in an intimate & friendly setting.  Check back here for updated information as we receive it and plan on joining us in a once in a lifetime experience.

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The Heritage Festival
The Daytona Blues Festival
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Marcel Bjerkmann leads final 27 at WPT Venice

Wednesday, 8 February 2012

The field of 155 at the World Poker Tour Venice Grand Prix has been narrowed down to 27 tables with WCOOP and Amsterdam Classics of Poker champion Marcel Bjerkmann leading the field on 463,300 chips.

The oldest continutally-running casino in the world, the Casino d’Venenzia, played host to Day 2 of the second WPT to hit Venice this season. We lost former November Niner and Day 1 chip leader Filippo Candio but some big names remain.

Recent Sunday Million winner and fellow ex-November Niner, James Akenhead, sits in fourth place in the chip counts with around double the average stack. Also, Kara Scott is still in contention, albeit with just 25 big blinds.

The winner of the event will take home €229,800 plus a $25,000 WPT Championship seat while all players at the final table will take home at least €13,795.

1 Marcel Bjerkmann 436,300
2 Marko Neumann 384,400
3 Jason Wheeler 348,200
4 James Akenhead 336,000
5 Andrey Gulyy 326,000
6 Gianluca Trebbi 323,500

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RELM_buttonFascinated with Sex: The Latest Polls and Democrats Getting Too Happy; Republicans are embracing Trump; Spineless Jason Chaffetz endorses Trump; McMullinmentum; Megyn Kelly destroys Newt Gingrich about Trump's sexual assaults; Trump surrogate threatens Kelly; Trump will imprison and audit journalists; and more. Brought to you by Bubble Genius, Harry's Razors, the Amazon Link and The Bowen Law Group.

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  • Bosma

    So, Gingrich wants the fairness doctrine back (as Chez said). Great! Do it!!!!!

  • muselet

    At this point, the election comes down to turnout. Anyone who votes for Jill Stein or Gary Johnson—anyone who buys into nonsense like this—richly deserves to be shunned by polite (and impolite) society.

    In Donald Trump’s case, I think what keeps him from sinking beneath the waves is less a matter of people forgetting what he’s done—or been accused of doing—and more a matter of it all running together: “Haven’t I heard about this scandal already, six months ago?”

    Jason Chaffetz has never held a principled or honorable position in his life. His “unendorsement” of Trump meant less than nothing, because he was never not going to vote for the dangerous lunatic. Chaffetz is a waste of carbon.

    Rs have no choice but to welcome the Trump supporters, because those people are the Republican base. The party has embraced them for decades, and without them, the GOP might as well fold up its Big Tent and steal away in the night.

    Megyn Kelly calmly handed Newt Gingrich his giant pumpkin head (thanks for that description, Bob), and good on her for that, but I don’t see that sort of behavior happening very often. As I’ve joked (?) before, her contract has a clause that allows her to behave like a journalist only a certain number of times a year. And $20 million is a good incentive for her to toe the FNC line.

    A thrice-married serial adulterer has no choice but to defend another thrice-married serial adulterer. I get that. But Gingrich does so with such slimy enthusiasm, it makes my skin crawl. (Incidentally, Rudy Giuliani is also a thrice-married serial adulterer. Is anyone else detecting a pattern?)

    Of course Donald Trump and his more … erm … enthusiastic supporters thought Newton Leroy Gingrich (Advocate of civilization, Definer of civilization, Teacher of the Rules of Civilization, &c, ad nauseam) shut Megyn Kelly down. He was aggressive and shouty and condescending and thus manly (well, as manly as a doughy septuagenarian can be), so he won the argument. Simple as that.

    After Donald Trump, no Republican should ever be allowed to speak in public about family values, personal responsibility, fiscal responsibility, the Constitution or national defense. Their party nominated for President an aggressively ignorant, mendacious, thrice-married serial adulterer and pervert who has flown his business into the ground four times, brags about assaulting women, derides the military and who clearly doesn’t understand anything about the Constitution or national government, and I for one intend to remind them of that at every opportunity.

    Jeez, when Megyn Kelly drops the mic, she really drops the mic (I hadn’t heard the end of the Gingrich demolition). I’m impressed in spite of myself.

    (Bob, you missed Chez’s dicks at 45:57 and 46:02.)

  • GrafZeppelin127

    “Take Me Home” is my ringtone. You had me fooled there for a few seconds. Great song.

  • ProudLiberalAlways

    Guys……The cosplayers from the wildlife refuge were found not guilty on all counts today——God help us all. Check out the story on Daily Kos.

    • muselet

      Yeah, that Ammon and Ryan Bundy were acquitted was not good news. They’ll be more dangerous the next time (and there will be a next time).

  • GrafZeppelin127

    Why are the last two episodes not on Stitcher?

    • I’m trying to find out.

      • GrafZeppelin127

        Thanks. Fortunately my phone can play them off the web page, but it’s unwieldy and cuts off if some other app seizes the web browser.

        Is there a way to play the show through Amazon Echo? I said, “Alexa, play the Bob and Chez Show” and “Alexa, play the Bubble Genius Bob and Chez show,” and it couldn’t understand me (viz., it couldn’t understand “Chez”).

  • It’s absolute madness that when Trump doesn’t come out and say something crazy his support goes up. Even if Herr Gropenfuhrer wins I think this country may be screwed anyway.

    I could have sworn Kelly almost said “you can take your anger issues…..and shove them up your ass” but she caught herself. Someone should grab that video and make a animated gif out of it with subtitles.

  • katanahamon

    How does a speech to bankers, regardless of content, equate to sexual assault freely admitted by the perpetrator and documented by multiple victims and witnesses? This is the Republican Party..grasping at straws, putting out bald faced lies as truth. If they aren’t voted out soon, this country is in big trouble.

    This interview perfectly encapsulates the disgusting nature of Republicans..lying with impunity and as though no one can possibly correct you. This is why they need a Fox network, this is why Adelson bought the paper to squelch criticism and get the stadium passed..without an opposing viewpoint, they can present all kinds of lies as truth. Of course they’ll say Kelly “lost,” it’s the same thing..lying and lies presented as fact. The country has taken a serious hit in allowing Trump to get this far..get out and vote..!

    • It doesn’t. I do wish Kelly had said to him “One is an alleged crime and the other is an alleged reversal of opinion. They aren’t the same effing thing.”

  • Badgerite

    Ok. I’m NOT HAPPY. Democrats and any sane person please get out there and vote blue. Hilary Clinton will be a great president. The Trump Monster and Trump Monster Surrogates have publicly threatened people.
    I don’t care about his ideology because clearly the Trump Monster has none. I care about his personality and how easily it would gravitate toward fascist solutions. That is what his rhetoric has indicated. That is what his temper tantrums and meltdowns have shown. These are the people who have come to his defense. This is someone who has so little self control that he has literally gone to Gettysburg and threatened people with retaliation. This is not a good person. This is not even a passable person whom one would care to work for. Let alone someone fit to be President of the United States.

  • <—<< Deranged

    Trump aide reveals ‘three major voter suppression operations’

    A senior adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign says the GOP nominee’s operation has three “voter suppression” drives intended to lower the vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton and provide a path to victory for Trump.

    The three efforts are mentioned by the senior adviser in an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek.

    “We have three major voter suppression operations under way,” the unidentified senior official told Bloomberg.
    The efforts are intended to cut down on votes by white liberals, young women and black voters, three blocs important for Clinton, the official said.

    To suppress the vote by “idealistic” white liberals who might have been attracted to Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) campaign, the Trump official said the GOP nominee’s campaign would highlight Clinton’s support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.

    Trump has also tied his campaign to women who have accused former President Bill Clinton of sexual assault to try to decrease turnout by young women, the official said.

    Hillary Clinton has a huge edge among female voters, according to polls. Trump invited three women who have made accusations against Bill Clinton to the second presidential debate.

    To try to lower black voter turnout, the senior official said the GOP nominee and his campaign were citing Hillary Clinton’s 1996 comments referring to some young black criminals as “superpredators.”

    Bloomberg reported that Trump’s campaign on Oct. 24 started placing spots on select African-American radio stations to highlight the superpredators remark.

    The Trump campaign is also delivering an animation involving Clinton’s superpredator line to certain African-Americans on Facebook through campaign-targeted “dark posts” that are not public, Bloomberg reported.

    “It will dramatically affect her ability to turn these people out,” the official said, referring to the three groups.

    Nowhere in the reported comments does it suggest the Trump campaign is doing anything illegal.

    While people commonly understand the term “voter suppression” to mean illegal tactics to disenfranchise minority voters, the Trump campaign’s tactics would better be described as voter demoralization.

    According to the Bloomberg report, Trump’s campaign is trying to make African-Americans and other core Clinton constituencies – young women and idealistic liberals – so despondent about the prospect of a Hillary Clinton presidency that they don’t bother to vote on Nov. 8.

    Trump has also separately sought to win over voters from all three groups to his campaign. In an address on Wednesday, Trump promised a “new deal” for black America as he sought to rally African-Americans to his campaign.

    Trump has used the attacks on trade and Clinton’s use of the superpredators term in campaign events. Both attacks also came up during the Democratic primary.
    Another official for Trump rejected the idea that Trump’s campaign is focused on suppressing any voters during an interview on MSNBC.

    “We’re about on our Facebook Live post about energizing our folks,” said Cliff Sims, a communications adviser to Trump.

    Sims serves as the host of Trump’s nightly Facebook live broadcasts, which began on Monday.

    –This report was updated at 10:45 a.m.

    – The Hill


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Friday, October 2, 2015

Friday Focus: The Friday 56 & Book Beginnings #94

It's Friday . . . time to share book excerpts with:
  • Book Beginnings on Fridays hosted by Rose City Reader, where bloggers share the first sentence or more of a current read, as well as initial thoughts about the sentence(s), impressions of the book, or anything else that the opening inspires.
  • The Friday 56 hosted by Freda's Voice, where you grab a book and turn to page 56 (or 56% of an ebook), find one or more interesting sentences (no spoilers), and post them.
Today I'm featuring Academy Street by Mary Costello, borrowed from the library.
Academy Street

BeginningIt is evening and the window is open a little.  There are voices in the hall, footsteps running up and down the stairs, then along the back corridor towards the kitchen.  Now and then Tess hears the crunch of gravel outside, the sound of a bell as a bicycle is laid against the wall.  Earlier a car drove up the avenue, into the yard, and horses and traps too, the horses whinnying as they were pulled up.  She is sitting on the dining-room floor in her good dress and shoes.  The sun is streaming in through the tall windows, the light falling on the floor, the sofa, the marble hearth.  She holds her face up to feel its warmth.
Page 56:  "'Their familiar accents pleased her.  A shy boy from Kerry got up and gave her his chair, moved away with his plate of eggs.  She looked around at their open happy faces and sat among them."
My thoughts:  This short novel (145 pages) caught my eye while I was browsing the library shelves.  After reading the book jacket and first few pages detailing a momentous family gathering during her childhood, I wanted to know more about the protagonist and her life in Ireland and America.
From GoodreadsA vibrant, intimate, hypnotic portrait of one woman's life, from an important new writer.

Tess Lohan is the kind of woman that we meet and fail to notice every day. A single mother. A nurse. A quiet woman, who nonetheless feels things acutely — a woman with tumultuous emotions and few people to share them with.
Academy Street is Mary Costello's luminous portrait of a whole life. It follows Tess from her girlhood in western Ireland through her relocation to America and her life there, concluding with a moving re-encounter with her Irish family after forty years of exile. The novel has a hypnotic pull and a steadily mounting emotional force. It speaks of disappointments but also of great joy. It shows how the signal events of the last half century affect the course of a life lived in New York City.

Anne Enright has said that Costello's first collection of stories,
The China Factory, "has the feel of work that refused to be abandoned; of stories that were written for the sake of getting something important right ... Her writing has the kind of urgency that the great problems demand" (The Guardian).

Academy Street is driven by this same urgency. In sentence after sentence it captures the rhythm and intensity of inner life.

Which book are you reading now or about to start?

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Contents of blog copyright Book Dragon's Lair 2009-2017
It's been an interesting year so far. I've lost both my Moms. My mother died in January after a long decline. Soon after, my Mother-in-Law went in for bypass surgery. While her heart healed, other issues zapped her strength and she died April 22.

I may have challenge update posts but I don't know when I'll be posting regularly or when I'll get to visit everyone who is working on the challenges I'm hosting.

Monday, September 7, 2015

Happy Monday - Summer Edition, part 1 - The review books

Mailbox Monday is the gathering place for readers to share the books that came in their mailbox during the last week.

Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists.  ;-)

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~ here are the newest review books in my house ~
Ever After by Jude Deveraux
Nantucket Brides, June 30, 2015, ARC trade paperback

Life is anything but perfect for Hallie Hartley, a young physical therapist who has given up nearly everything—even her love life—for her beautiful blonde stepsister, Shelly. Though Shelly’s acting career has never taken off, she has certainly perfected the crocodile tears to get what she wants—which all too often means Hallie’s boyfriends. When Hallie arrives home early from work one fateful day, she makes two startling discoveries that will turn her life upside down: Not only has a mysterious relative left Hallie a house on Nantucket, but Shelly has been trying to steal it. Desperate to put her troubles behind her, Hallie impulsively flies to Nantucket.

New trouble, however, has already settled into Hallie’s guest room in the form of her newest client. Hallie is told that wealthy, young James Taggert has injured his leg in a skiing accident. Assuming that the devastatingly handsome man has led a charmed life, Hallie is surprised by Jamie at every turn throughout his recovery. His attentions draw her out of her shell—but he has a dark secret, and is tormented by nightmares that only her presence can keep at bay. She suspects there’s more to his injury than he’s letting on.

Rooville by Julie Long
fiction, Sep 2015, trade paperback

Even after thirteen years in Southern California, Owen Martin can feel the corners of his squareness still sharply evident. He’s a TV weatherman bored by the beautiful climate. He wants to coach basketball but all the kids play soccer. And he seems to be the only person who thinks a fruit smoothie is a poor substitute for a vanilla shake. When he’s fired from his job, Owen is relieved to head home to Iowa, to the town his ancestors founded and the simple life he knew before his father died. He can’t predict the atmospheric pressure he's about to encounter, which, as any meteorologist knows, is the key catalyst for change. . . .

In his absence, Martinville has become the center of the Transcendental Meditation movement and host to all things alternative. There are golden domes for mass meditations, a vegan café where the burger joint stood, and all the shop doors around Town Square now face east. But far worse than anything is the danger to the Martin family farm. In a town divided between “Regulars” and “Roos” (gurus), Owen is clear where he stands until he falls for a levitator instead of the down-to-earth girl he had in mind. With old customs and open-mindedness clashing like warm and cold fronts, Owen gets caught in a veritable tornado. Can he save the farm, get the girl, and reunite the town? Maybe . . . if he’s willing to embrace a change in the weather.

Revenge of the Chili Queens by Kylie Logan
A Chili Cook-off Mystery, Aug 2015, mass market paperback

Everyone in San Antonio remembers the Alamo, but how many remember the Chili Queens? Back in the early twentieth century, these spicy señoras sold their lip-smacking chili in plazas all around the city. Now, as part of the Chili Showdown, Maxie and her half-sister, Sylvia, are dressing up as the Chili Queens to raise money for charity.

But someone wasn’t feeling too charitable toward a local troubadour, who is murdered at the fundraiser. When their friend Nick Falcone, head of security for the Showdown, actually becomes the prime suspect, it’s up to Maxie and Sylvia to turn the heat up on a killer, who’s planning a chili reception for them . . .

The Prince Who Was Just Himself by Silke Schnee
picture book, 2015, hardcover

The royal couple is looking forward to their third child. “He looks a little different,” muses the king at Prince Noah’s arrival. “He is not like the others,” agrees the queen. Soon they notice what a very special person he is, even though he can’t do everything his brothers can.

Anchored by Brigitte Quinn
fiction, 2015, trade paperback

Barbara King’s dream is to become the next Barbara Walters. But for now, she’s anchoring at the fledgling Phoenix news channel, covering car chases and interviewing drunken showbiz has-beens. If she can just out-fox the conniving anchors at her cable channel and move up to its prime-time line-up, she’ll be able to fly the coop and ascend to a real news network.

Enter Jack Stone, Barbara’s dynamic, witty—and did she mention sexy?—new co-anchor. Another potential competitor, Jack’s attitude is chilly toward Barbara at first, but it’s not long before a genuine friendship forms. Soon they find themselves finishing each other’s sentences, discovering all they have in common and, ultimately, attempting to ignore how wildly attracted they are to each other. Meanwhile, on the set, under television’s bright lights, they sit just inches apart, their chemistry even apparent to the quirky cast of characters in the gossiping newsroom.

Tastes Like Murder by Catherine Bruns
A Cookies & Chance Mystery, Sep 2015, ebook

Sally Muccio’s had her crosses to bear: a cheating ex-boyfriend, crazy Italian parents, and an unfaithful husband, just to name a few. After her divorce, she returns to her hometown to start a novelty cookie shop whose specialties include original fortune cookies, served with a sprinkle of foreshadowing. But there’s no warning when her ex-husband’s mistress drops dead on Sal's porch, and police confirm it’s a homicide. Determined to stop her life from becoming a recipe for disaster, Sal takes matters into her own hands. With two very different men vying for her affection, dead bodies piling up, and a reputation hanging by an apron string, Sal finds herself in a race against time to save both her business and life—before the last cookie crumbles.

I also bought a truck-load (at least it feels like it) of books. I put them in another post.

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Mary (Bookfan) said...

Rowville sounds like it could be very funny!

Vicki said...

They all sound good, especially Rooville!

In accordance to the FTC guidelines, I must state that I make no monetary gains from my reviews or endorsements here on Book Dragon's Lair. All books I review are either borrowed, purchased by me, given as a gift, won in some kind of contest, or received in exchange for an honest review.


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1492 eBook

Mary Johnston
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 376 pages of information about 1492.

There was little space about him.  The Nina seemed to quiver, packed and dark with men.  His deep voice went on, and they could hear him, but he did not seem to know that they were there.  “As though upon a raft, here a thousand leagues in Ocean-Sea!  Yet wilt Thou care for thy Good News.  I will come to Spain, and I will tell it.  Chosen, and almost by very name pointed out in Thy Book!  The first Christian shore that I touch I will walk barefoot and in my shirt at the head of twelve to the first shrine.  And, O my Lord, never more will I forget that that tomb in which thou didst rest, still, still is held by the infidel!” He beat his breast. “Mea culpa! mea culpa!

His voice sank, he looked at the sky, then with a turn of the wrist at the wheel he put that by and became again the vigilant Admiral of a fleet of one.  “She will hold together yet a while!  When the tide is out, we can get to her and empty her.  Take all ashore that can be carried or floated and may be of use.  Up and down—down and up!”

The inhabitants of Hispaniola were now about us in canoes or swimming.  They seemed to cry out in distress and sympathy, gazing at the Santa Maria as though it were a god dying there.  Their own canoes were living things to them as is any ship to a mariner, and by analogy our great canoe was a Being dying, more of a Being than theirs, because it had wings and could open and fold them.  And then back came our boat with Diego de Arana and the others, and they had with them that same brother of the cacique who had come to us in St. Thomas Harbor.  And had we been wrecked off Palos, not Palos could have showed more concern or been more ready to help than were these men.

We had three boats and the Indian canoes and hands enough, white and copper-hued.  Now at low tide, we could approach and enter the Santa Maria.  A great breach had been made and water was deep in her hold, but we could get at much of casks and chests, and could take away sails and cordage, even her two cannon.  Eventually, as she broke up, we might float away to shore much of her timber.  When I looked from the wreck to the little Nina, I could see, limned as it were in air, the Viceroy’s first colony, set in Hispaniola, beside Guacanagari’s town.  All Christmas day we toiled and the Indians at our side.  We found them ready, not without skill, gay and biddable.

Toward sunset came Guacanagari.  All the little shore was strewn and heaped with our matters.  And here I will say that no Indian stole that day though he might have stolen, and though our possessions seemed to him great wonders and treasure beyond estimation.  What was brought from the Santa Maria lay in heaps and our men came and went.  The most of our force was ashore or in the boats; only so many on the Nina.  The Admiral, just returned to the ship, stretched himself upon the bench in her small cabin.  Powerful was his frame and constitution,

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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Wizard of Oz Colors by Jill Kalz

The Wizard of Oz Colors
Wizard of Oz Colors
By Jill Kalz
Illustrated by Timothy Banks
20 pages
Board Book
NetGalley- Capstone Young Readers
September 2, 2013

Book Jacket Summary
The Land of Oz is full of colors, roads are yellow and monkeys are blue! Let Dorothy, Toto, Tin Man, and Scarecrow explore all of the colors with you!

My Quick Thoughts
I love looking at board books because there is always a baby shower around the corner or just a fun gift for a toddler. This one has bright colors that suit the learning of colors and this one is told in rhyme! It is one of the cutest book to get a youngster or a parent who loves Wizard of Oz.
Black and white describe the twister with men in a row boat fight the storm and the house flying into the sky. Yellow is the yellow brick road and the straw in the Scarecrow. Green is the Wicked Witch of the West and brown is the talking trees and Toto. Gray is the Tin Man with Glinda as pink in her giant ball gown. And of course the red slippers.
The book includes a glossary and other books about colors (see below). There is an index and internet sites to check out. There are more in the Wizard of Oz series with ABC’s, counting, shapes. There is also a brief synopsis of the Wizard of Oz movie. I say movie because in the book the slippers are silver but red showed up better in Technocolor.

Book Pairings
The Other Colors: An ABC Book by Valerie Gates
Green by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Football Colors by Mark Weakland

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