AMAZON dot COM, and a re-read

when you put something in your cart any price change on your wishlist or lists is noted, I bought season 5 for 20 bucks a week ago, but put this off, now its DOUBLED!!

Please note that the price of Smallville - The Complete
Sixth Season has increased from $20.99 to $42.99 since you placed it in your
Shopping Cart. Items in your cart will always reflect the most recent price
displayed on their product detail pages.

so when amazon says one left in stock, they might be on the level....

recently read:

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AND I FINISHED A RE-READ of near biblical proportions! and please, forget the movie version! of BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES
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I read BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES in 1988, a gift from a New Yorker to a guy from Ohio, leaving NYC for LA (a move that was more an extended vacation with great friends).

SO I reread it, as the inscription was May 5, 1988 . . . re-reads are rare with so much out there to READ the first time.

ITS IS A GREAT READ, pulling you from page to page, maybe dislocating your shoulder at over 600 pages….

Memorable scenes: A chic dinner party where the highbrow token, an author, re-tells the story of the Mask of Red Death. Not acceptable party banter, right?

A billionaire dies in a restaurant, soon to serve an Imelda Marcos type. The super rich corpse can’t pass through the revolving door so its hoisted out the Lady’s Room window.

And more….. a book that plays the race card, the jewish card, the political hack card, the cop on the beat card, the wasp card, the entire deck flies . . .. the oppurtunistic British tabloid journalist . . . god, the WEALTH CORRUPTS CARD . . . what are these cards anyway?

On review called it ‘the novel that defined New York in the 1980s”; others, residents of the Bronx, felt defamed and insulted and rediculed Wolfe (like Grace was rediculed after Peyton Place came out, but I doubt WOLFE LIVE in the Bronx).

659 pages, page of NEW YORK, from the Superrich to the freshly incarcerated crack dealers. AND FEW BETWEEN, a lack. No common man (the cops came close . . .). And to think, today’s superrich HEDGEFUND types makes the 80s wealth look like government cheese…..

The LONDON TIMES, on Feb 7, 1988 said:

An incandescent sizzler of a novel, The Bonfire of the Vanities casts a lurid
satiric glare over contemporary New York. Essentially, it is a tale of two city
boroughs: Manhattan and the Bronx. The former toweringly brandishes the city's pinnalces of wealth and fashion: 'There it was, the Rome, the Paris, the London of the twentieth century, the city of ambition, the dense magnetic rock, the irresistible destination of all those who insist on being where things are happening.' Nearby, the 'Sargasso Sea of the Bronx' festers with its rotting depths of dereliciton.

no matter where you live (I lived in Quees and Manhattan -- not a monolith of Wealth, but so . . . ) you can enjoy this.....
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john's books

check this:

http://www.librarything.com/authorcloud.php?view=jbeckhamlat

what
do
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think
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forget that foreign tribal strife (sunni/shia; broken up serbia)

think here, in the US of A....

cbs2.com/local/Grant.High.School.2.707352.html

Apr 24, 2008 5:27 am US/
Grant H.S. Increases Security After Culture Clash

VAN NUYS, Calif. Grant High School will increase a police presence following outbreaks of shouting between Armenian and Latino students at the end of an Armenian genocide remembrance assembly.

The disruption broke out at the Van Nuys school around noon on Wednesday, said Susan Cox of the Los Angeles Unified School District. No arrests were made and there were no injuries reported.

The shouting apparently started with Latino students taking issue with the program. School police quickly intervened.

"The students that were involved in the friction were sent home with their parents," said Principal Linda Ibach.

"We did ask the parents to pick them up themselves. Some of the students were suspended over the next couple of days. We will sort all that out on Monday when the students return."

Ibach said extra officers would be deployed at the campus through Monday "just to make sure that we are all calmed down."

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Avatar: 3 meanings, I ran into satan's avatar at Giant Eagle.....

want one? http://avatars.jurko.net/

Avatar
from Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for April 25, 2008 is:

avatar • \AV-uh-tar\ noun
1 : the incarnation of a Hindu deity (as Vishnu) 2 a : an incarnation in human form, b : an embodiment (as of a concept or philosophy) often in a person *3 : an electronic image that represents and is manipulated by a computer user (as in a computer game)


Example sentence:
Before they started playing the game, Aaron and Kyle customized their avatars.


Did you know?
"Avatar" derives from a Sanskrit word meaning "descent," and when it first appeared in English in the late 18th century, it referred to the descent of a deity to the earth -- typically, the incarnation in earthly form of Vishnu or another Hindu deity. It later came to refer to any incarnation in human form, and then to any embodiment (such as that of a concept or philosophy), whether or not in the form a person. In the age of technology, "avatar" has developed another sense -- it can now be used for the image that a person chooses as his or her "embodiment" in an electronic medium.

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SPRING IN OHIO!

Some Tulips
A few grape hyacinths

what is this blossom?

daffodils in front of the house
a large hyacinth

A few nice things about AKRON

1 I can see the BIG DIPPER, that is a constellation (grouping of stars) in the northern Sky. I could often see Orion from apartments, is would come and go with the seasons. But the BIG DIPPER (ursa major, ok)

2 I can see the north star (follow the the bottom stars in the dipper of the big dipper. To faint for city views. AND IT NEVER MOVES!! Maybe GOD IS THERE?

3 SPRING is here, tulips, buds on trees, Dogwood Trees in bloom. Crocusses, daffodils. Ants . . . spiders, leaves, short pants….


4 A cabbage butterfly (I don’t recall butterflies in NYC, there were monarchs in chicago); and a large bumble bee.

5 Bluejays in White Dogwood trees…….

how are things there?

Put a clock (or something) on your page.

http://www.springwidgets.com/widgets/byCategory/8?page=2

Chimera, has a beautiful sound . . .

I do prefer the adjective form to the root:

chi·mer·i·cal
/kɪˈmɛrɪkəl, -ˈmɪər-, kaɪ-/

–adjective 1. unreal; imaginary; visionary: a chimerical terrestrial
paradise.
2. wildly fanciful; highly unrealistic: a chimerical plan.

THE REAL DEAL:

chimera
http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2008/04/21.html

Word of the Day Archive
Monday April 21, 2008

chimera \ky-MIR-uh\, noun:

1. (Capitalized) A fire-breathing she-monster represented as having a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail.
2. Any imaginary monster made up of grotesquely incongruous parts.
3. An illusion or mental fabrication; a grotesque product of the imagination.
4. An individual, organ, or part consisting of tissues of diverse genetic constitution, produced as a result of organ transplant, grafting, or genetic engineering.

Asa Whitney, with no previous experience and having nothing but his faith and self-assurance to tell him he was not pursuing a chimera, began to outline how he would get a railroad across the vast, uninhabited middle of the American continent to the Pacific shores, where the lure of Asia beckoned, within reach.
-- David Haward Bain, Empire Express

She seems to spend most of the book sobbing, throwing up and generally marinating in a stew of self-absorption while searching fruitlessly for that chimera, her true self, inexpertly aided by astrologers and new-age therapists.
-- "Cutting through fantasies to crazy life", USA Today, December 2, 1999

These "chimeras" can be created because of our power--derived from the recombinant DNA technology developed in the early 1970s--to move DNA from one species to another.
-- Bryan Appleyard, Brave New Worlds

Chimera comes from Latin chimaera, from Greek chimaira "she-goat, chimera."

Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for chimera
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the Baptists of Barberton Ohio: What makes a Red State Red? GLOBAL WARMING as VOODOO SCIENCE

when I grew up Barberton was the Big City!

An atavistic post compared to the one under it; Barberton is world famous for its holy men: a previous minister (HOGAN) at this very church had a son who was arrested for bank robbery in 2005 to support his online gambling addiction (after having seen the corrupting movie NARNIA none the less see: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/11/magazine/11poker.html?_r=1&oref=slogin )

are they as good at meteorology as they are experts at family values:

"Humanity is not responsible for the variations in weather temperatures."

"It's time to abandon the global - warming hoax before the lights go off for good."

A letter to the editor in the AKRON BEACON JOURNAL,

Akron Beacon Journal (OH) - April 16, 2008

GOING DARK ON VOODOO SCIENCE

In response to the March 30 article headlined, ''Cities around the world go dark for global warming '': The article spoke of a ''worldwide campaign to highlight the threat of climate change.'' Homeowners and businesses around the globe were urged ''to turn back to candle power for at least 60 minutes.''

Reading this, I came to acknowledge once more the real threat in climate change is not the climate. It's the religious boondoggling and voodoo science behind it. ''Going dark'' is indeed the direction we are headed if we ignore the God-provided resources he has supplied, such as the abundance of oil we have within our own borders. Humanity is not responsible for the variations in weather temperatures.

Our climate today is no measurement of what should be the ideal. There is no certainty as to the size of glaciers, and they change continually. Data from all four major temperature tracking outlets show that global temperatures have dropped significantly in the last 12 months.

More snow and ice cover the Northern Hemisphere than at any time since 1962. There are record levels of Arctic sea ice, record levels of cold and snow in many U.S. states and European nations. God has given us a cultural mandate (Genesis 1) to care for and use the resources he has created for us. We need to do this. It is morally inexcusable to neglect the benefit to all mankind. It's time to abandon the global - warming hoax before the lights go off for good.

Brian Prong

Pastor, First Baptist Church Barberton

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and the world is flat, monsters wander the edges of the oceans; the sun orbits the earth, and the moon is made of cheese!

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SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence)

CHOOSE A NEW MISSION!!! boldy lay back and let it do the work for your (slacker mission approved)

SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) is a scientific area whose
goal is to detect intelligent life outside Earth. One approach, known as radio
SETI, uses radio telescopes to listen for narrow-bandwidth radio signals from
space. Such signals are not known to occur naturally, so a detection would
provide evidence of extraterrestrial technology.

http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/index.php

OK, I used to do this, but a software issue made it a problem, now they write, after over a year. So I tried the new program, and it works.

ever see CONTACT? remember the line:

S.R. Hadden: They still want an American to go, Doctor. Wanna take a ride?

I wont get that chance, but, every little bit helps. SO JOIN UP!!!

APril 16, 2008
Dear jbeckhamlat:

We'd like to invite you to reconnect with SETI@home. Our records show that you've been with SETI@home since 28 August 1999, but it's been 386 days since you last returned a work unit. We want you back, and here's why:

These are exciting times for SETI@home. Last year we implemented a new SETI@home data recorder at the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico. This recorder is attached to a state-of-the-art multibeam receiver, so we can now measure signals from 7 positions on the sky at once, with greater sensitivity to weak signals compared to the data from the flat feed antenna we've used since 1999. We've greatly increased the sensitivity of our data analysis, and the likelihood that we'll find the first signs of extraterrestrial life. We're also close to releasing a second application, Astropulse, which will look for extremely short pulses of astronomical (and possibly intelligent) origin.

With these new developments comes an increase in required computing power, for which we depend on people like you. We hope you will consider signing back on with SETI@home, and help in this wonderful scientific venture.

If you experienced problems running SETI@home, please try any of the resources listed at: http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/sah_help.php including the new BOINC Online Help System which lets you talk live, over the Internet, with a help volunteer: http://boinc.berkeley.edu/help.php

We thank you for your involvement in SETI@home, and hope that you rejoin us in our search for signals from other worlds.

-- The SETI@home team
To not get any more email from SETI@home, please click here.
SETI@home - http://setiathome.berkeley.eduSpace Sciences Laboratory / 7 Gauss WayUniversity of California, Berkeley, CA 92740-7450

a thing to contemplate, click play.....

Full Earth-rise!
Full-Earth-rise has been captured by Japan's Kaguya lunar orbiter.The just-issued movie was



taken on November 5, 2007. Credit: JAXA


r u thinking yet?

clinging to my remote, paranoid in a small town....

JEANNIE C RILEY - HARPER VALLEY PTA



relates to this clip:

Peyton Place: movie trailer



where is Jeannie???

the new acrobats in the yard: legs or springs?

They jump, the grab; they dangle, they shake; then they dine - can you name the beastie?

if i hang the bird feeder higher they can reach it from the branch, this had worked. At least when there was snow on the ground.

READ ON, perhaps I can send them back (or forward?) in time??

safer than American Airlines: Time travellers invited back from the future

more incredible than time travel; check the origin of the video below: 2007 IdeaFestival in Louisville, Kentucky -- some type of nonsequiter oxymoron mixup?

FOUND IN AN OLD EMAIL:
from the Guardian (LONDON)

Concerned that people will have forgotten his convention by then, Mr Dorai is urging volunteers to publicise the event to future generations by carving the details into clay tablets and burying notices in time capsules. He has slipped invitations on long-lasting paper inside dozens of obscure books in the MIT and Harvard University libraries.

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-I was in the stacks at the University of AKRON's library looking at random books, praying to the Gods of Serendipity, when I noticed one book on literature has last been check out in the mid 1990s!

that got me to weed my hotmail.... AND while
i was weeding my hotmail, I found the above 'party announcement' (above) was in one of the older (the oldest are some from 2003) . . . that is still interesting.

am I saving too much?
one of 2400 emails in my inbox (key emails stay there, there are about 30 folders by topic)


From: jbeckhamlat@hotmail.com
CC: John.Beckham@latimes.com; jbeckhamlat@hotmail.com
Subject: inviting people from the future to the event
Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 10:02:46 -0500

read:

The organiser, Amal Dorai - a masters student in electrical engineering and
computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - aims to test the
theory of time travel by inviting people from the future to the event.

The invitations ask visitors to turn up on the MIT campus at 8pm on
Saturday . .

from:

Time travellers invited back from the future

David Adam, science correspondent
Thursday May 5, 2005
The Guardian

One of the strongest arguments against time travel is that we are not overrun with curious tourists from the future. A university student in Boston plans to change that, by inviting budding Doctor Whos to the world's first time traveller convention this weekend.

The organiser, Amal Dorai - a masters student in electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - aims to test the theory of time travel by inviting people from the future to the event.

"We are doing this as a very low-risk, low-cost way to investigate the possibility of time travel," he said. "I think the probability they will come is very low, but if it does happen it will one of the biggest events in human history.

"Of course, no time travellers doesn't rule out the possibility of time travel, they could have just decided not to come to our convention."

Physicists believe some kind of time travel is theoretically possible, but it will take hundreds or even thousands of years to work out the technical details.

Concerned that people will have forgotten his convention by then, Mr Dorai is urging volunteers to publicise the event to future generations by carving the details into clay tablets and burying notices in time capsules. He has slipped invitations on long-lasting paper inside dozens of obscure books in the MIT and Harvard University libraries.

"If we put them inside books that are only touched every 50 years or so then they'll stay there and people in the future might learn of the convention. The big danger is that it's forgotten. Once that happens then it doesn't matter if someone invents time travel, we won't be able to see it."

The invitations ask visitors to turn up on the MIT campus at 8pm on Saturday and include precise latitude and longitude coordinates. "Time travel is a hard problem and may not be invented until long after MIT has faded into oblivion," they note.

Visitors from the future are advised to bring proof of advanced technology, such as a cure for cancer or a working nuclear fusion reactor. Sonic screwdrivers are optional.

"Because of the small chance of time travel I think people will be sceptical," Mr Dorai admits. "But I hope time travellers won't take that as an insult. If what they bring as proof doesn't satisfy us then they could always go back into their future and grab something else."

Professor Neil Johnson, a physicist at the University of Oxford, said Mr Dorai may not be wasting his time. The weird world of quantum mechanics suggests time travel could one day be possible through tiny holes, loops and channels in the fabric of spacetime.

"We're talking a long, long time in the future to be able to do this but it's not impossible," Prof Johnson said. "It would be very hard to send through something that weighed anything, like machines and people, but you could conceivably send messages through light and radiowaves. The chances of somebody from the future turning up on Saturday night are pretty remote, but they could get a phone call."
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a __________________________ video of hope:

from youtube
Added: February 19, 2008
Michio Kaku, leading theoretical physicist and author, on "Parallel Worlds and Time Travel." Captured at the September, 2007 IdeaFestival in Louisville, Kentucky



that song, IN THE YEAR 2525 comes to mind . . . the late 60s . . . the era of dreams and rebellion. DO YOU YOU remember this song??

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Before you listen to Congression Testimony

or sweeping statements from the ruling class, watch and listen!! and maybe read along (its ok to mouth the words to yourself). enjoy the garrison state.....
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raise a little hell, wear colors, smile knowingly

V:
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this interruption. I do, like many of you, appreciate the comforts of every day routine- the security of the familiar, the tranquility of repetition. I enjoy them as much as any bloke. But in the spirit of commemoration, thereby those important events of the past usually associated with someone's death or the end of some awful bloody struggle, a celebration of a nice holiday, I thought we could mark this November the 5th, a day that is sadly no longer remembered, by taking some time out of our daily lives to sit down and have a little chat. There are of course those who do not want us to speak. I suspect even now, orders are being shouted into telephones, and men with guns will soon be on their way. Why? Because while the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn't there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. I know you were afraid. Who wouldn't be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your panic you turned to the now high chancellor, Adam Sutler. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent. Last night I sought to end that silence. Last night I destroyed the Old Bailey, to remind this country of what it has forgotten. More than four hundred years ago a great citizen wished to embed the fifth of November forever in our memory. His hope was to remind the world that fairness, justice, and freedom are more than words, they are perspectives. So if you've seen nothing, if the crimes of this government remain unknown to you then I would suggest you allow the fifth of November to pass unmarked. But if you see what I see, if you feel as I feel, and if you would seek as I seek, then I ask you to stand beside me one year from tonight, outside the gates of Parliament, and together we shall give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever be forgot.
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Richard Wagner Die Walküre --Berliner Philharmoniker

motiviated? god, I think I am rising out of my chair..... grab my feet!

WALK SCORING, how fun is that walk you plan?

www.walkscore.com

my address gets a low score, as you cannot walk a garden path to a Starbucks; they don't seem to count a speed limit of 25, quiet neighborhood, and dogs ON LEACHES (yes, on LEASHES!)

fun to watch your walk map itself out, simple to try... so try it!

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tidbits from an Akron evening

The relocation is increasingly complete.

Some big city things have appeared in new forms . . . innocent, no; homey, no; QUAINT, in a quaint way. Contributing to my metamorphisis from city dweller to small town observer….. where is Franz?

Last night we were watching tv, and during a scene about a kid being hit by a truck there was an odd circus music -that didn’t match the scene. So we Paused the show (the joy of digital); the circus music continued.

AN ICE CREAM TRUCK had stopped at the corner, with tiny kids cutting through the yard (“we have to get a fence” Paul declared). We live on the corner….. an ice cream truck. I used to see them in Chicago, but they were not musical. Little Kids without parental supervision did not run through the streets, adult tourists stopped mostly.

Like the Pied Piper with Good Humor bars . . . . (I did not run out, next time maybe).

Dogs barking in a highrise are not a good thing. Here one neighbor has a hound that is so cute. (I petted it once). A basset hound or a fat aged beagle. Its owners walk it and it howls skyward with a deep low voice (like the train whistle in the distance at night). It tries to run, imagine a dwarf cow gallopping…. Not the intrusion of a dog barking all day home alone in a downtown condo…. A plaintive whine its not, kind of a happy howl…..

Then we took the trash to the curb. Then, for the first time in 20 plus years, I could see the Big Dipper and North star, and Orion was out there sinking, with a crescent moon near …….

The squirrels cannot reach the bird feeder anymore. Well, now they jump STRAIGHT up, grab on, hang on, and its a bird seed buffet. They jump, about 4 feet. HOW?! Paul told me about it, I cannot wait to see it. Persistant beasts. No longer tree pigs, but some kind of acrobatic land hog?

What next?? Icecream trucks playing music; stars, trash pickup, the flying Wallendas of rodent-dom? Oh, no doubt my humming bird feeder will be next, to watch as the happy howler bays skyward.

David Guetta v. the Egg

Luis Miguel - Por Debajo De La Mesa

So fine . . .

Por Debajo De La Mesa Lyrics

Artist: Luis Miguel

Album: Romances

Por debajo de la mesa

acaricio tu rodilla y bebo

sorbo a sorbo tu mirada

angelical y respiro de tu

boca esa flor de maravilla

las alondras del deseo

cantan, vuelan, vienen, van.

Ever thought of Film School?

[after this you will send me back to Roth so fast......]

why not give film appreciation a try on your desktop?

http://www.youtube.com/profile_play_list?user=europecinema

now, in the best of Bertolucci's DREAMERS' cinematheque junies , get some fresh fruit that's seen its day, wine, and cigarettes, and kick back......

http://www.youtube.com/profile_play_list?user=europecinema
LESSONS INCLUDE:

http://www.youtube.com/profile_play_list?user=europecinema

europecinema's Playlists

Brideshead Revisited - Documentary [eng] 6 Videos
[Documentary, 2005]

Dirk Bogarde - Documentary 5 Videos
[Documentary 2000]

Federico Fellini - Documentary 8 Videos
Review of Fellini's most popular films (Le Notti di Cabiria, Amarcord, Casanova, Dolce Vita, I Vitelloni, Giulietta degli Spiriti, Otto e Mezzo)

Ingmar Bergman - Documentary [eng] 4 Videos
Review of the most outstanding films of Ingmar Bergman.

Ingmar Bergman - Interview [Swedish+Eng sub] 6 Videos
One of the latest interviews granted by maestro Ingmar Bergman

Irene Papas in Electra (1962) 12 Videos
Directed by Mihalis Kakogiannis
Original Music by Mikis Theodorakis

Laurence Olivier - A Life - Documentary [eng] 16 Videos

Luchino Visconti - Documentary [eng] 12 Videos
[Documentary 2002]

Maria Callas Assoluta (Documentaire) [fr] 12 Videos
[Documentary 2007, in French]

Maria Callas in Pasolini's Medea [ita+eng sub] 12 Videos
Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini (1969)

Pier Paolo Pasolini - A Filmmaker's Life [eng] 3 Videos
[Documentary, 1971]

Pier Paolo Pasolini poeta [ita] 5 Videos
In this rare documentary Pasolini recalls his childhood and youth in Friuli. He also explains his feelings as a poet about the Italian language and literature.

Pride and Prejudice - Documentary on the series 3 Videos
Documentary on the famous TV adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice" from 1995 and its impact on Jane Austen's work reception by a wider audience.

Siamo Donne (1953) 5 Videos
- Segment "Alida Valli" directed by Gianni Franciolini
- Segment "Anna Magnani" directed by Luchino Visconti

Thomas Mann - Documentary [German] 5 Videos
Documentary on Thomas Mann and his family. The programme offers original footage of the great German writer.

Vivien Leigh - Documentary [eng] 6 Videos
Biography of Vivien Leigh. The documentary contains interviews by John Mills, Trader Faulkner, Olivia De Havilland, Rosemary Geddes, Maureen O'Sullivan, Alexander Walker and Hugo Vickers. Footage from her most important movies (Gone with the Wind, A Streetcar Named Desire, Ceasar and Cleopatra and The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone)

countdown to armageddon

SIX for the WASHINGTON POST; while other's ..... suffer pangs and arrows of outrageous management....

{{ newly played ZELL IN DC recordings at npr.org, click to listen and read more:
click 'listen' to and hear his ..... loud tones:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89446846

Recording Shows Tribune Owner Zell's Fiery Side by David Folkenflik

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now, back to the show

http://www.pulitzer.org/

PULITZER PRIZES
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PUBLIC SERVICE
The Washington Post

BREAKING NEWS REPORTING
The Washington Post Staff

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
Walt Bogdanich and Jake Hooker of The New York Times

INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING
The Chicago Tribune Staff

EXPLANATORY REPORTING
Amy Harmon of The New York Times

LOCAL REPORTING
David Umhoefer of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

NATIONAL REPORTING
Jo Becker and Barton Gellman of The Washington Post

INTERNATIONAL REPORTING
Steve Fainaru of The Washington Post

FEATURE WRITING
Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post

COMMENTARY
Steve Pearlstein of The Washington Post

CRITICISM
Mark Feeney of The Boston Globe

EDITORIAL WRITING
No Award

EDITORIAL CARTOONING
Michael Ramirez of Investor's Business Daily

BREAKING NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY
Adrees Latif of Reuters

FEATURE PHOTOGRAPHY
Preston Gannaway of the Concord Monitor


FICTION
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (Riverhead Books)

DRAMA
August: Osage County by Tracy Letts

HISTORY
What Hath God Wrought by Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford University Press)

BIOGRAPHY
Eden's Outcasts by John Matteson (W.W. Norton)

POETRY
Time and Materials by Robert Hass (Ecco/HarperCollins)

POETRY
Failure by Philip Schultz (Harcourt)

GENERAL NONFICTION
The Years of Extermination by Saul Friedlander (HarperCollins)

MUSIC
The Little Match Girl Passion by David Lang (G. Schirmer)


SPECIAL CITATION
Bob Dylan

an AMERICAN GOLDFINCH, the yellow bird

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/American_Goldfinch.html

you can hear its bird call sound on this page!

http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/American_Goldfinch.html#sound


remember the long, painfully long dark nights of winter? well now! now every week the length of daylight grows by almost 20 minutes!:

http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=44313

April 8, 2008 Rise: Set:

Actual Time 6:57 AM EDT 7:59 PM EDT

Civil Twilight 6:29 AM EDT 8:27 PM EDT

Nautical Twilight 5:55 AM EDT 9:01 PM EDT
Astronomical Twilight 5:20 AM EDT 9:36 PM EDT
Moon 8:02 AM EDT 11:45 PM EDT

Length Of Visible Light: 13h 58m
Length of Day 13h 01m

Tomorrow will be 2m 41s longer

the days are growing by almost 3 minutes a day!

what is this yellow and black bird?

CLICK twice for large PICTURE!

My brother Joe came and put in screens on Saturday, now we have fresh air—spring is in the air. I was his helper (or anti-helper). Fresh air . . .; the ORKIN man came at the same time, there were ants and spiders (nothing can be done- they walk on their fingernails….) and Lady Bugs (or some other beetle) . . . then on Sunday we picked up sticks, a task Sisyphus could relate to. Things look better, soon greener.

And new birds! What are these birds? A canaries? But the black feathers, canaries are all yellow, I thought …. Yellow oriole maybe? A northern oriole? Then there are similar birds in red, not Cardinals, small red birds.

I cannot wait for fireflies!!!