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SAG Awards: 'Argo,' 'Lincoln' stand tall

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /><div class="asset-metabar-wrap" style="clear: both; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin: 20px 0px 23px 70px;"><div class="asset-metabar" itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" style="border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); display: table-cell; margin: 20px 0px 0px; width: 888px;"><span class="asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item" itemprop="name" style="float: left; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">Brian Truitt, From: USA TODAY</span><span class="asset-metabar-time asset-metabar-item " style="border-left-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; color: #999999; float: left; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 5px; padding: 2px 10px; position: relative;">11:13a.m. EST January 28, 2013</span></div></div><div class="double-wide" itemprop="articleBody" role="main" style="color: #222222; float: left; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 10px; position: relative; width: 600px;"><h2 class="lead-in" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; line-height: 27px; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: -2px;">The Oscars race comes into sharper focus after Sunday's Screen Actors Guild Awards.</h2><div class="article-metadata-wrap" style="float: left; height: auto; margin: 0px 30px 0px 60px; position: relative;"><aside class="single-photo expandable-collapsed" itemprop="associatedMedia" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/ImageObject" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 20px; position: relative; width: 180px; z-index: 100;"><div class="image-wrap" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; box-shadow: rgb(200, 200, 200) 1px 1px 5px; cursor: pointer; padding: 3px; position: relative;"><img alt="DDL SAG" class="expand-img-vertical" itemprop="url" src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/media/USATODAY/USATODAY/2013/01/27/xxx-sag-awards-day-lewis-jy-3_4_r536_c534.jpg?1b79b3da202957124496e3768cfb7b67cdb10c81" style="border: 0px; max-width: 100%; min-height: 232px; vertical-align: middle;" /><span class="toggle" style="background-image: url(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/static/images/sprites/asset-sprite.png); background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; bottom: 0px; height: 21px; position: absolute; right: 0px; width: 21px; z-index: 200;"></span></div><div class="image-credit-wrap" style="color: #646464; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: 700; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 6px; padding: 0px 5px 0px 0px;"><span class="credit" style="font-style: italic; font-weight: 400;">(Photo: Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY)</span></div></aside><div class="article-metadata" style="position: relative;"><aside class="comp story-highlights " style="clear: left; float: left; margin: 0px 0px 20px; min-height: 60px; width: 180px;"><h3 style="border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #999999; font-family: 'Futura Today Bold', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px auto; text-transform: uppercase;">STORY HIGHLIGHTS</h3><ul style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; left: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><li style="background-image: url(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/static/images/components/story_highlights_bullets.png); background-position: 0px 17px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #646464; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; padding: 12px 0px 12px 15px;">'Argo' wins outstanding cast, equivalent to Oscar's best picture</li><li style="background-image: url(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/static/images/components/story_highlights_bullets.png); background-position: 0px 17px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #646464; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; padding: 12px 0px 12px 15px;">Daniel Day-Lewis wins best actor for 'Lincoln'</li><li style="background-image: url(http://www.gannett-cdn.com/static/images/components/story_highlights_bullets.png); background-position: 0px 17px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-bottom-color: rgb(212, 212, 212); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #646464; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; padding: 12px 0px 12px 15px;">Jennifer Lawrence wins best actress for 'Silver Linings Playbook'</li></ul></aside></div></div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">If Anne Hathaway dreamed a dream of sweeping the major awards this season, it's coming true.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Daniel Day-Lewis and Jennifer Lawrence were probably in it, too.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">The trio of actors followed up their Golden Globe wins with honors at Sunday's 19th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, which also saw Ben Affleck's<i>Argo</i> continue its own dream run toward next month's Academy Awards.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Day-Lewis was humble in accepting his male actor award for the starring role in <i>Lincoln</i>.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"It was an actor who murdered Abraham Lincoln," he said. "And therefore it's only fitting that an actor tries every now and then to bring him back to life again.</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"Every single cast member gave their characters the kiss of life, and have no doubt, this is an ensemble award."</div><div style="color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"></div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Hathaway garnered a SAG for supporting female actor for her portrayal of a devoted mother in the musical <i>Les Miserables</i>.</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"I'm just thrilled I have dental," Hathaway joked after receiving the award and recalling how she got her SAG card at age 14. "It felt like the beginning of the world."</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><i>Silver Linings Playbook</i> star Jennifer Lawrence also had a big win leading up to the Oscar race — female actor.</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"This is incredible," she said. "Now I have this naked statue that means some of you even voted for me."</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">While the Oscars and other awards ceremonies tend to be more all-encompassing in honoring the best of movies and TV, the SAG Awards are focused solely on acting — the trophy that's handed out is even called "The Actor."</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><i>Argo</i> won the SAG award for outstanding cast — the ceremony's equivalent to Oscars' best picture. With a win here after a Golden Globe and Producers Guild Award, <i>Argo</i> has quickly become a favorite this awards season.</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"I can't believe I'm standing in the same place where Daniel Day-Lewis was," said<i>Argo </i>star and director Ben Affleck just after Day-Lewis' acceptance speech. "I feel like I'm a better actor just from the radiation."</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Tommy Lee Jones garnered a supporting-male-actor trophy for playing abolitionist Thaddeus Stevens in <i>Lincoln</i>,</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">On the TV side, Bryan Cranston scored his first win for male actor in a drama for playing <i>Breaking Bad</i>'s drug kingpin, Walter White.</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"It's so good to be bad," he said, thanking series creator Vince Gilligan. "He wrote the role of my career, and I am so grateful to you, sir."</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Claire Danes followed up her Globes win with a SAG award for female actor for<i>Homeland</i>, in which she stars as CIA analyst Carrie Mathison.</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"They said when I got this role, I'd have a lot to do," Danes said, "which is the understatement of my career."</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">The PBS British hit <i>Downton Abbey</i> garnered the ensemble award for drama series. "We weren't expecting this! Shut the French windows, honestly," said Phyllis Logan, who plays housekeeper Mrs. Hughes.</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">In the comedy categories, <i>30 Rock</i> scored two wins with Alec Baldwin as male actor and Tina Fey as female actor.</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"This is ridiculous," said Baldwin after accepting his eighth award for playing Jack Donaghy. "This is the greatest experience I've ever had."</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Fey thanked her cast as well as her friend and former <i>Saturday Night Live</i> cast member Amy Poehler. "I've stolen so many of your moves. I've known you since you were pregnant with Lena Dunham," she joked.</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">The comedian also made sure to plug 3<i>0 Rock</i>'s series finale after seven seasons on Thursday: "Just tape <i>The Big Bang Theory</i> once, for crying out loud!"</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><i>Modern Family</i> won for best cast in a comedy, but Jesse Tyler Ferguson thanked the casts of <i>30 Rock</i> as well as<i> The Office</i>, which is also ending this season. "You all have set the comedy bar so high," he said. "All of us are indebted to you."</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">In the categories for TV miniseries or movie, Kevin Costner won leading male actor for<i>Hatfields & McCoys</i> and Julianne Moore nabbed female actor for playing Sarah Palin in HBO's <i>Game Change</i>.</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"This means so much coming from all the other actors who voted," Moore said, thanking most everyone in her cast. "I couldn't have asked for a better team."</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Baldwin presented the SAG Life Achievement Award to Dick Van Dyke, who danced with penguins in <i>Mary Poppins</i>, drove a flying car in <i>Chitty Chitty Bang Bang</i> and became a TV fixture with <i>The Dick Van Dyke Show</i>.</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">"This does an old man a lot of good. This is just a thrill," Van Dyke said. "I've been knocking around this business for 70 years and I'm still trying to figure out what I'm doing. Isn't it great we chose a profession that involves not growing up?"</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;">Looking at his award, he concluded, "If this heavy object here lets me refer to you as my peers, I am a happy man."</div><div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 60px;"><img alt="None" src="http://www.gannett-cdn.com/media/USATODAY/USATODAY/2013/01/28/sags100-4_3_rx512_c680x510.jpg?0f5c31de35bf4ef88a50c2e35ee3bc4da4bf3083" /></div></div></div>

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Brian Truitt, From: USA TODAY 11:13a.m. EST January 28, 2013 The Oscars race comes into sharper focus after Sunday's Screen Actors Guild...

Here's how you can watch Tiger Woods at Torrey Pines today

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="color: #292727; font-size: 13px;">By Houston Mitchell From: </span><a href="http://www.latimes.com/" style="font-size: 13px;">http://www.latimes.com</a><span class="toolSet" style="background-color: white; display: inline-block; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-right: -50px; margin-top: 6px; width: 345px;"></span><br /><div class="byline" style="color: #292727; float: left; font-size: 13px; margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 0px;"><div class="date" style="color: #930000; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; margin-top: 3px; padding: 0px;"><span class="dateString" style="display: inline;">January 28, 2013</span><span class="dateTimeSeparator" style="border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; color: white; display: inline; font-size: 10px; letter-spacing: -1px; margin-left: 6px;">, </span><span class="timeString" style="display: inline; text-transform: lowercase;">6:37 a.m.</span></div></div><div class="clear" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></div><a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/golf/tiger-woods-PESPT008527.topic" id="PESPT008527" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.43; text-decoration: none;" title="Tiger Woods">Tiger Woods</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.43;"> gets a chance to pick up a rare Monday victory on the </span><a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/golf/pga-tour-15007111.topic" id="15007111" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.43; text-decoration: none;" title="PGA Tour">PGA Tour</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.43;"> when the final round of the </span><a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/golf/farmers-insurance-open-EVSPR000135.topic" id="EVSPR000135" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.43; text-decoration: none;" title="Farmers Insurance Open">Farmers Insurance Open</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.43;"> resumes today at Torrey Pines at 11:10 p.m. PST.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><br /><div id="story-body-text" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.43; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">Woods has a six-shot lead after seven holes in the final round, which had to be continued until today because rain played havoc with the tournament.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">If you are trying to figure out a way to watch the conclusion of the tournament, you have a couple of options.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;">There is also to be live streaming coverage at <a href="http://www.pgatour.com/" style="color: #2262cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">pgatour.com</a> when the final round resumes at 11:10 a.m. PST.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 10px; margin-top: 10px; padding: 0px;"><a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/golf/brandt-snedeker-PESPT0000010645.topic" id="PESPT0000010645" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Brandt Snedeker">Brandt Snedeker</a> and <a class="taxInlineTagLink" href="http://www.latimes.com/topic/sports/golf/nick-watney-PESPT0000010651.topic" id="PESPT0000010651" style="color: #666666; text-decoration: none;" title="Nick Watney">Nick Watney</a> are six strokes behind Woods, but Tiger is in the driver's seat as he looks for his 75th PGA Tour title.</div></div></div><iframe frameborder="0" height="400" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://widget.newsinc.com/single.html?WID=1&VID=24280159&freewheel=69016&sitesection=selatimes&w=600&h=400" width="600"></iframe></div>

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By Houston Mitchell From: http://www.latimes.com January 28, 2013 , 6:37 a.m. Tiger Woods gets a chance to pick up a rare Monday victory ...

Drivers be warned: Fog could reduce visibility this morning

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/CiaDPnLiHSs?feature=player_detailpage" width="640"></iframe><br /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">Roads are a mess: Clinton Hameline, of Precision Lawncare in Flint, spent the morning today plowing the parking lots of automotive suppliers in Sterling Heights.</span><br /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px;">From: </span><a href="http://www.freep.com/">http://www.freep.com</a><br /><div style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;">Fog in southeast Michigan could drop visibility to a quarter-mile, the National Weather Service said this morning. </div><div style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;">The fog is expected to last until about 11 a.m.</div><div style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;">About 16,000 DTE customers were without power at 9 a.m., according to the company. DTE reported 13,000 customers without power overnight, which dipped to 1,000 customers as of 6 a.m., according to DTE. </div><div style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;">A mix of snow and freezing rain closed hundreds of <span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap" id="itxthook0p" style="border: 0px; bottom: auto; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; height: auto; left: auto; line-height: normal; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px !important; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; white-space: nowrap !important;"><span class="itxtrst itxtrstspan itxtnowrap itxtnewhookspan" id="itxthook0w" style="border-color: transparent transparent rgb(0, 204, 0); border-style: none none solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; bottom: auto; color: #009900; display: inline; float: none; font-family: inherit; height: auto; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; right: auto; text-decoration: underline !important; top: auto; white-space: normal;">schools</span><img class="itxtrst itxtrstimg itxthookicon" id="itxthook0icon" src="http://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/icon1.png" style="border: 0px !important; bottom: auto; display: inline !important; float: none !important; height: auto !important; left: auto; margin: 0px !important; max-height: none; max-width: none !important; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px !important; position: static; right: auto; top: auto; vertical-align: baseline !important; white-space: normal; width: auto !important;" /></span> and left roads a mess early today, but a warm spell is in store for metro Detroit today and Tuesday.</div><div style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;"></div><div style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;">All winter weather advisories and warnings ended at 6 a.m, according to the National Weather Service. But icy road conditions closed school across metro Detroit, including the Detroit Public Schools, Eastern Michigan University and many others. Classes at EMU are scheduled to resume as scheduled at 12:30 p.m.</div><div style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;">“Temperatures are climbing above freezing, so it’s over now,” National Weather Service meteorologist Mike Richter said from the agency’s White Lake Township office just after 6 a.m. “We’re going to have a nice warming trend – nice but brief.”</div><div style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;">The storm left 13,000 DTE Energy customers without power overnight, but service was restored to all but about 1,000 by 6 a.m. today, DTE spokesman Scott Simons said.</div><div style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;">Simons also said that a substation problem in Waterford this morning is responsible for an outage affecting about 6,000 people.</div><div style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;">The ice and snow is expected to start melting today as temperatures rise to the mid- to upper-40s by this afternoon, Richter said. The expected high is 47 degrees, with a 50% to 60% chance of rain this morning, increasing to a 70% chance of rain tonight and all day Tuesday. Tonight’s low will only drop to 43 degrees before temperatures soar to 57 degrees on Tuesday with a 90% chance of rain, Richter said.</div><div style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;">“Normal high is 32, so you’re talking 25 degrees above normal in late January,” Richter said. “That is impressive.”</div><div style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 18px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 160px;">Temperatures then dive back down starting on Wednesday, when a high around 48 becomes a low of 22 Wednesday night. Thursday’s high is only expected to be 24 degrees – with an overnight low of 12 then a high on Friday of 19 degrees, he added.</div></div>

school closings Drivers be warned: Fog could reduce visibility this morning

Roads are a mess: Clinton Hameline, of Precision Lawncare in Flint, spent the morning today plowing the parking lots of automotive suppliers...

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Winners are Donna, Maggie and Michele!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More giveaways to come!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hang tight! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig2h633x1nhNvmxFw8CNB1w98ZWnR9OUo_lIuBLRrk4AowHf42fHGaSNjullJv2S1s1W1McOTI7pPpu6iFost1xaAEyuVgi39P5de6bbq8W0SO4gbsHhFclMqA6A0OHDu0rKpkPfGyKa0/s1600/purex+baby+crystals.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You add this to your laundry along with detergent.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This product is the newest member of the Purex crystals family and produced with your baby's gentle skin in mind.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This detergent is outstanding!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Not only does it add freshness to your baby's laundry it is dye free, hypoallergenic, safe on all clothing such as sleepwear.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-H438Z-HmfL0BLTx9qXZi4Ez-5uUyGFgk57dVJmh70HJMuREMrDV7jPlXfgT3MBrAjI1Z6VHDTIOpDjBf7S4Udvx08WrUNPt1qspjLwk-5t7XMm-eSeQ_I5gGUtu13dnl4ab1WDkgsPE/s1600/purex+crystals.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-H438Z-HmfL0BLTx9qXZi4Ez-5uUyGFgk57dVJmh70HJMuREMrDV7jPlXfgT3MBrAjI1Z6VHDTIOpDjBf7S4Udvx08WrUNPt1qspjLwk-5t7XMm-eSeQ_I5gGUtu13dnl4ab1WDkgsPE/s200/purex+crystals.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">You know how some detergents have a powerful scent to them, well not this one!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I wanted to see what it smelled like so I carefully twisted the cap off and took a sniff.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Wow I was amazed at how good it smelled!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">To me it smells just like baby powder.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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IRAN ACTIVELY WEIGHS SYRIAN-ISRAELI CLASH.

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<br /> <br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLxf7OWvQXu1weHJjzLcSOl21Lv3Z0KzpEEzNwj9aMJi7_PnANwT8J8wZ_-5_cw245-gypRfvXuinRPBIDbu25LJvtfu3IZWaoDvS7gHMqrxnkV5aAzMOUcq2TbKT66g0dHgfZuGGDh3us/s1600/2012-11-15T212906Z_01_JER37_RTRIDSP_3_PALESTINIANS-ISRAEL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLxf7OWvQXu1weHJjzLcSOl21Lv3Z0KzpEEzNwj9aMJi7_PnANwT8J8wZ_-5_cw245-gypRfvXuinRPBIDbu25LJvtfu3IZWaoDvS7gHMqrxnkV5aAzMOUcq2TbKT66g0dHgfZuGGDh3us/s400/2012-11-15T212906Z_01_JER37_RTRIDSP_3_PALESTINIANS-ISRAEL.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">IRON DOME POSTED IN N. ISRAEL</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> <span style="color: blue;">IRAN:</span></span></b></span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A ISRAELI OFFENSIVE AGAINST SYRIA WOULD BE TREATED AS A DIRECT CONFRONTATION WITH IRAN</span></b></span></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">DEBKA<i>file</i> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Tehran appears to be looking seriously at a limited SYRIAN-LEBANESE clash of arms with ISRAEL – possibly using Bashar Assad’s chemical weapons as a trigger, debkafile’s military and intelligence sources disclose.  Reacting to this news, ISRAEL announced the deployment of Iron Dome anti-missile batteries some days ago to reinforce security in northern Israel and the key Haifa port. </span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">The IRANIANS see three strategic benefits in embroiling Israel in a limited war with its two allies, Syria and Hizballah:</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">1. A new outbreak of armed violence would direct world attention away from the SYRIAN civil war:</span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">2. ISRAEL would be sidetracked from a possible strike against IRAN’S nuclear facilities – even a “surgical operation” such as Defense Minister Ehud Barak spoke of over the weekend – by being thrown into multiple battles with IRANIAN forces in SYRIA and LEBANON, the Shiite Hizballah and the Palestinian Hamas and Islamic Jihadi in the Gaza Strip.<br />The clash would be programmed to end without winners or losers like ISRAEL’S war against Hizballah in 2006 and its two anti-terror operations the Gaza Strip in 2009 and 2012. But meanwhile ISRAEL would have its hands too full with threats on three borders to pursue military action against a nuclear IRAN.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">3. Tehran would buy another year’s delay for spinning out its talks with the Six Powers (US, RUSSIA, FRANCE, BRITAIN, CHINA and GERMANY) on their nuclear controversy.<br />At the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said “ISRAEL faced some of the gravest threats in its existence” and they continue to run riot “in the east, the north and the south.”<br /><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">UNCERTAINTY FACTOR: EGYPT</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Behind his words, was an immediate neighborhood beset in last couple of weeks by al Qaeda’s advance in Mali - now checked by FRENCH intervention; the ALGERIAN gas field hostage siege; and the discovery of the strong interface among the various AFRICAN Al Qaeda branches, including EGYPT, in operations, logistics, shared arms suppliers and the pooling of jihadist manpower in the different arenas.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><br />ISRAEL’S prime minister and security chiefs are clearly troubled by the perceived danger of the jihadist networks based in EGYPTIAN Sinai and al Qaeda affiliates fighting in SYRIA joining up to attack ISRAEL from two directions, the north and the south. This would be in keeping with the multiple, multinational terrorist threats surfacing in AFRICA.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">A ISRAELI OFFENSIVE AGAINST SYRIA WOULD BE TREATED AS A DIRECT CONFRONTATION WITH IRAN</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR_hgO0wXbDpJb71rNL4sflHhF5Tbazf7UIUWAg-bxnEvyvhcpxXMdYXk3ykO30uOSbwHs26RjF87KzzZBeFXIK7QFiXFWJ8gCxbHhqLZuKHd1bzgu5GwzZXMt7PzHc5xcQKHIcqfYjDTh/s1600/israel-iran_flages1.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR_hgO0wXbDpJb71rNL4sflHhF5Tbazf7UIUWAg-bxnEvyvhcpxXMdYXk3ykO30uOSbwHs26RjF87KzzZBeFXIK7QFiXFWJ8gCxbHhqLZuKHd1bzgu5GwzZXMt7PzHc5xcQKHIcqfYjDTh/s200/israel-iran_flages1.png" width="175" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">With regard to SYRIA’S chemical weapons, after convening an expanded security-diplomatic cabinet meeting, Netanyahu remarked: “We have to look around us… What’s happening in IRAN and the lethal weapons in SYRIA, which is falling apart…”<br />He left the specifics to Deputy Prime Minister Sylvan Shalom, who said that if chemical weapons reached Hizballah or SYRIAN rebel hands, “Such a development would be a crossing of all red lines that would require a different approach, including even preventive operations.”</span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">But even Shalom did not specify where the red lines would be – the handover of SYRIAN chemical weapons to Hizballah? And against whom would ISRAEL take preventive action – SYRIA, Hizballah or both? And if they reached SYRIAN rebel hands, would ISRAEL hit them or go straight for the poison gas arsenals?</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Neither Netanyahu nor Shalom responded to the IRANIAN warning issued by Ali Akbar Velayati, a close adviser to IRANIAN leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that an attack on SYRIA would be tantamount to an attack on IRAN.<br />This warning was intended to drive home to ISRAEL the message that an offensive against SYRIA would be treated as a direct confrontation with IRAN.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">WARNING AIMED AT HOLDING ISRAEL BACK FROM A MILITARY STRIKE AGAINST SYRIA - SYRIA, NOT THE ASSAD REGIME</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">. </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">This is because an ISRAELI attack on SYRIAN rebels armed with chemical weapons would also serve Tehran’s purpose very well:  IRANIAN forces in SYRIA and LEBANON would use the opportunity to unite the SYRIAN army and the rebels against the common enemy, ISRAEL, and so start the process of winding down the anti-Assad revolt.<br />Velayati also avoided mentioning IRAN’S key ally in LEBANON, Hizballah. In his warning, he said: "SYRIA has a very basic and key role in the region for promoting firm policies of resistance [against ISRAEL]... For this reason an attack on SYRIA would be considered an attack on IRAN and IRAN'S allies."</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEX2Z0jiR5lo8tP1OGdgxp42GKpYMHPWodRkPSP73aP19hYVywZlETlnk5m9v9TZyaCCggZuG8FZN7P3ABPlOFw8fhgI3XVj7B5-UYLGfMHy5-9L5I4UhHgOHWdpNxtJ1VsCCPDSGNtsIY/s1600/Syria_Israel_flags_160910.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEX2Z0jiR5lo8tP1OGdgxp42GKpYMHPWodRkPSP73aP19hYVywZlETlnk5m9v9TZyaCCggZuG8FZN7P3ABPlOFw8fhgI3XVj7B5-UYLGfMHy5-9L5I4UhHgOHWdpNxtJ1VsCCPDSGNtsIY/s320/Syria_Israel_flags_160910.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">This high-ranking IRANIAN figure took care not to draw attention to Hizballah because, according to debkafile’s military sources, parts of the SYRIAN chemical arsenal have already reached Hizballah and are stashed away in fortified bunkers in the terrorist militia’s Beqaa Valey strongholds, along with a lethal array of long- and medium-range ground-to-ground rockets that too were smuggled secretly across the SYRIAN border.<br />Some western intelligence sources – especially AMERICAN – now believe SYRIAN chemical weapons were secreted to Hizballah during 2012. They were sent over in small packages to avoid attracting US or ISRAEL attention.  By now Hizballah is thought to have accumulated a substantial supply of poison weapons.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Our military sources report that ISRAEL’S military planners have long-range logistical plans ready for dealing with new situations such as this one. It has expanded its undercover penetration (<i>See: </i></span><i><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">LONG-RANGE, LARGELY CLANDESTINE AND MULTI-SERVICE MISSIONS</span></b></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><i>:<a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/05/idf-israeli-defense-forces.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/05/idf-israeli-defense-forces.html</a></i>) of SYRIA and LEBANON and is making rapid progress in erecting a sophisticated 57-kilometer security force along the SYRIAN border. This project may take months to complete. But meanwhile, IRAN is working on its own plans for jumping the gun before it is finished with a military adventure.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="color: blue;">See related article:</span> <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/12/israels-overhaul-of-its-current.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com.ar/2012/12/israels-overhaul-of-its-current.html</a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

IRAN ACTIVELY WEIGHS SYRIAN-ISRAELI CLASH.

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pig in a blanket

2:30 AM Anonymous 0

I had my sights set on a new secretary for my entry. Not the ‘here is your coffee and you have a call holding on line 2’ type of secretary (are they even called that anymore) but a nice little piece of furniture. It was old, but not too precious that I couldn’t paint or change it up in some way without feeling bad. Character and charm to spare and spots for all the entryway things one needs. Just what I had in mind.<br /><div class="p1"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2gIGIAhslmn8kI25fwFp1FWacVQUtfpbwcUXXs-Diu5iDUwOWEsuZgF3VArWuy45snP1VZUsqPpLG8U3s9sjLDkjyAbu-46t-UOEDLtLxsa2GNC1hbgAJhhFTjcMgb03Vu_t2L8_3vQNZ/s1600/33241832243.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2gIGIAhslmn8kI25fwFp1FWacVQUtfpbwcUXXs-Diu5iDUwOWEsuZgF3VArWuy45snP1VZUsqPpLG8U3s9sjLDkjyAbu-46t-UOEDLtLxsa2GNC1hbgAJhhFTjcMgb03Vu_t2L8_3vQNZ/s640/33241832243.jpeg" width="440" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://matchbookmag.tumblr.com/post/33241832243" target="_blank">source</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div class="p2"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW-R0xQ1l4W9NM8WaAJS8sdqcaHoQyh0UqeexAduR4LsmRauhyphenhyphenedQ7H0XL-r_kScThVEeiFS2EZ58uKOUwn6IeRqZW5zSBCRwG-18EShejcIO_4rvUzLiJ23GTqWFpl33M2ZUoC7iR2K2B/s1600/Foyer-++with+Stunning+Antique+Secretary+-+perfect+for+a+small+desk+space+&+still+very+chic!.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW-R0xQ1l4W9NM8WaAJS8sdqcaHoQyh0UqeexAduR4LsmRauhyphenhyphenedQ7H0XL-r_kScThVEeiFS2EZ58uKOUwn6IeRqZW5zSBCRwG-18EShejcIO_4rvUzLiJ23GTqWFpl33M2ZUoC7iR2K2B/s640/Foyer-++with+Stunning+Antique+Secretary+-+perfect+for+a+small+desk+space+&+still+very+chic!.jpeg" width="504" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.mixandchic.com/" target="_blank">source</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="p1">Except, it was 2 inches too deep. Two. Damn. Inches. I could have stuffed it in and made it work. But it would have been like those tight jeans that you can’t wear sitting down; great for one night and then just a regret in your closet…or basement as the case may be. And really what sense would that make? </div><div class="p2"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS4ZUMXpesnNWpvVJcNw0z5XG78rPEIgayvJh-ITFoRucc09LEe6GU7PMvsBvNmxMMz07j0GfrEkIX7opanDMZays3vmk7fp_GXoJX00wwBdQix11TKpaSqOyjfyUG1t16jwhkLUo8-Z-i/s1600/Secretary-1.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS4ZUMXpesnNWpvVJcNw0z5XG78rPEIgayvJh-ITFoRucc09LEe6GU7PMvsBvNmxMMz07j0GfrEkIX7opanDMZays3vmk7fp_GXoJX00wwBdQix11TKpaSqOyjfyUG1t16jwhkLUo8-Z-i/s640/Secretary-1.jpeg" width="414" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.nellhillsblog.com/" target="_blank">source</a></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtYEy1h0OCa7wd8oM_n9UsUifAB1dzIleQVAtmhFm_jQTWrZzbGIYVGKP4VCGgN6-n6Z4aNXbdNOq4UfvrtsGjT2NMjVfe0hkWL5evFpLM-csOt4rLiDcZOfydrx4jvz4rg1ugKj2s66Hc/s1600/Secretary.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtYEy1h0OCa7wd8oM_n9UsUifAB1dzIleQVAtmhFm_jQTWrZzbGIYVGKP4VCGgN6-n6Z4aNXbdNOq4UfvrtsGjT2NMjVfe0hkWL5evFpLM-csOt4rLiDcZOfydrx4jvz4rg1ugKj2s66Hc/s640/Secretary.jpeg" width="488" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://habituallychic.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">source</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div class="p1">I had thought it was a take it or leave it piece and I was the tough cookie who would walk away if we couldn’t get it for the right price. But those extra two inches rejected me before I could reject it. And now that it is for sure not coming home with me, I feel a new obsession to find its replacement.<br /><br /></div><div class="p2"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6frVIf8D4ajkwmGfAEojJb6NvqzDcTs0sJIp2bgeGOK2gHscKI-UaXgdihUfuUAy1M7hyphenhyphen61lmbQ2hSiGYWFcLyscxDMLFy9FlJo6zmmA1I-TpyCJxIX2ESojRhyphenhyphenmkChkwivAs5yjUMDlx/s1600/Crush+Cul+de+Sac.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6frVIf8D4ajkwmGfAEojJb6NvqzDcTs0sJIp2bgeGOK2gHscKI-UaXgdihUfuUAy1M7hyphenhyphen61lmbQ2hSiGYWFcLyscxDMLFy9FlJo6zmmA1I-TpyCJxIX2ESojRhyphenhyphenmkChkwivAs5yjUMDlx/s640/Crush+Cul+de+Sac.jpeg" width="442" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://crushculdesac.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">source</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmYomt8fNTCRHawEGv4MrnnW5bfEM_OdL8oD9z4B4dxm9VXKGyofgv2IbOsPAxG55Kq7naI8gejeHswCxYkxgG1pUvTbxkAQSJba7Y5gT_ovFNzDXoWvzh4333igF98BeFEl4cqWHOAunb/s1600/search.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmYomt8fNTCRHawEGv4MrnnW5bfEM_OdL8oD9z4B4dxm9VXKGyofgv2IbOsPAxG55Kq7naI8gejeHswCxYkxgG1pUvTbxkAQSJba7Y5gT_ovFNzDXoWvzh4333igF98BeFEl4cqWHOAunb/s640/search.jpeg" width="510" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.thedecorista.com/search?updated-max=2010-09-30T13%3A32%3A00-07%3A00&max-results=6" target="_blank">source</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJtSKdFnTkALhDjCpSwub-okS45NB40UW1JI_yN9AYcmFtMJg60vJVLDNQdyRdWJPd2LsyJf4Og66AM_X0SG5-94-9GQarEXI3ZKsoOpafiUXl5fAhBqEl-ZTBNsbaHXhTnPGnPWcDFXXC/s1600/Old+secretary+desk,+updated+with+two-tone+paint.+Gorgeous!.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJtSKdFnTkALhDjCpSwub-okS45NB40UW1JI_yN9AYcmFtMJg60vJVLDNQdyRdWJPd2LsyJf4Og66AM_X0SG5-94-9GQarEXI3ZKsoOpafiUXl5fAhBqEl-ZTBNsbaHXhTnPGnPWcDFXXC/s640/Old+secretary+desk,+updated+with+two-tone+paint.+Gorgeous!.jpeg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.peppermintbliss.com/" target="_blank">source</a></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="p1">Something even better. </div><div class="p2"><br /></div><div class="p1">I’m going to show those two inches I can live a happy wonderful life without them. I will survive.</div><div class="p2"><br /></div><div class="p1">Do you have a piece that got away? Have you ever had a design idea that was perfect in your head but never worked out in real life? Do you know anyway to move a wall two inches without having to make structural changes?</div>

pig in a blanket

I had my sights set on a new secretary for my entry. Not the ‘here is your coffee and you have a call holding on line 2’ type of secretary (...

SWORD PLAY AND NOIR ON A MONDAY NIGHT

9:12 PM Tukiyooo 0

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBp6MukpGU7CRjcfEajDoWjHekbLZ6g-yvnHFCEs92_Xl2BrNXNQm7rhCaU3685QT4AWsDNXgKobIFeZoAsHHPwq8g24K6Z9TQcPpHSaeqkrnPDx7lPyncKWXvoQqwZn8X_YzF1FuVxas/s1600/pirates+sketch_opt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBp6MukpGU7CRjcfEajDoWjHekbLZ6g-yvnHFCEs92_Xl2BrNXNQm7rhCaU3685QT4AWsDNXgKobIFeZoAsHHPwq8g24K6Z9TQcPpHSaeqkrnPDx7lPyncKWXvoQqwZn8X_YzF1FuVxas/s1600/pirates+sketch_opt.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I wasn’t sure, exactly, what the word meant and was curious, so I went to the Internet in search of an answer. There I found the verb <i>swashbuckle</i> defined as “to engage in daring and romantic adventures with ostentatious bravado or flamboyance.” According to Merriam Webster, the word is a “back-formation” from the noun <i>swashbuckler</i> that came into use in around 1897. The Online Etymology Dictionary revealed more on the history of <i>swashbuckler</i>:</span><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></span></i></span><br /><br /><span style="color: #0c343d;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">1550’s “fighting, swaggering fighting man” (earlier simply swash, 1540s), from swash “fall of a blow”…plus buckler “shield.” The original sense seems to have been “one who makes menacing noises by striking his or an opponent’s shield.”</span></span></i></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Fascinating. Well, it is if you love words as I do.</span></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /><a name='more'></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">On Monday, January 28, Turner Classic Movies treats viewers to many hours of swashbuckling with an evening devoted to “Sword Play.” Two of the genre’s great stars, Tyrone Power and Errol Flynn, will be in the spotlight, along with Oscar winner Jose Ferrer and a pair of 20<sup>th</sup> Century Fox’s lesser leading men, John Payne and Cornel Wilde.</span></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoaeJ4WPJPzUr5rqTB4xam4BsK5Q92SbSbENUlM8wmXhhL9R2m_4m89_-fa5MiAh-gKmT9BUivvZS2094_G1KbUlxKKBkTKM0Hbq6Tsigxg-NNe2eBZSQWCxac3kKc8aox__Ti9Ge1VtU/s1600/zorro+poster+1_opt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoaeJ4WPJPzUr5rqTB4xam4BsK5Q92SbSbENUlM8wmXhhL9R2m_4m89_-fa5MiAh-gKmT9BUivvZS2094_G1KbUlxKKBkTKM0Hbq6Tsigxg-NNe2eBZSQWCxac3kKc8aox__Ti9Ge1VtU/s320/zorro+poster+1_opt.jpg" width="209" /></a></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The first film in the line-up (8pm Eastern/5pm Pacific) is the best of the night’s offerings. It is 20<sup>th</sup> Century Fox’s rollicking remake of a 1920 Douglas Fairbanks  classic, <i>The Mark of Zorro</i> (1940) starring <a href="http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/2012/08/remembering-tyrone-power.html"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Tyrone Power</span></b></a> in the title role, with Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard and Eugene Pallette. Directed by Rouben Mamoulian, who would re-team with Power again for 1941’s <i>Blood and Sand</i>, the film was a blockbuster in its time that set the standard for the multitude of big and small screen remakes and sequels to come. Power’s performance as the fey-by-day/heroic-by-night Don Diego/Zorro is one of his signature roles - and <i>The Mark of Zorro</i> contains one of the all-time great swordfights on film. New York Times critic Bosley Crowther cited the “jim-dandy duel between Mr. Power and the villainous Basil Rathbone, which ends about as juicily as anyone could wish.” Rathbone, a skilled fencer, would recall, “Power was the most agile man with a sword I’ve ever faced before a camera. Tyrone could have fenced Errol Flynn into a cocked hat.” Rathbone, who dueled with both men onscreen, would surely have known. Alfred Newman’s memorable score was nominated for an Oscar and, more recently - in 2009, <i>The Mark of Zorro </i>was selected by the National Film Preservation Board to be added to the <a href="http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/2011/11/these-amazing-shadows.html"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">National Film Registry</span></b></a>’s list of <span lang="EN">“culturally, historically or aesthetically significant” films</span>.</span></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQdv2B67sGlvZsEp3rhOu3ei5x3seTzvjJkfvUnaPUa7EBArkLLgVSQSzunMRvzTmF_iRqs3kimJzg7BDSFWdz4ppaz6q1XmlekRPxErJ_2tRZZnSZqbuqAnXuy-oBoWBiQ8HoeY4wvHU/s1600/flynn+as+don+juan_opt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQdv2B67sGlvZsEp3rhOu3ei5x3seTzvjJkfvUnaPUa7EBArkLLgVSQSzunMRvzTmF_iRqs3kimJzg7BDSFWdz4ppaz6q1XmlekRPxErJ_2tRZZnSZqbuqAnXuy-oBoWBiQ8HoeY4wvHU/s320/flynn+as+don+juan_opt.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">N</span>ext up<span style="font-size: small;"> on</span> TCM’s Monday night schedule (10pm Eastern/7pm Pacific) is <i>Adventures of Don Juan </i>from Warner Bros. in 1948 starring the credibly cast <a href="http://eves-reel-life.blogspot.com/2011/05/memorial-day-weekend-giveaway-tcm.html"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Errol Flynn</span></b></a> in one of his later swashbuckling efforts. John Barrymore had starred with Mary Astor in a silent 1927 rendering of the infamous lover’s legend. In the Warner’s production, directed by Vincent Sherman, the great ‘swordsman’ is compelled to provide assistance to his queen (Viveca Lindfors) and country. With this film Flynn was returning to a familiar genre following the so-so reception of his most recent post-war films. Though <i>Adventures of Don Juan </i>was not a <span style="font-size: small;">great</span> box office success, it won an Oscar for costume design and a nomination for art and set design.</span></span><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1fW4j50y8KnAXF4RBLbhTR21CWH-xGh_w6wzn9uwAEILbkxR3IITe8KHz7vz7NXwYq5JTxODElkBobvKQ-sILjps5igdbX-p-x5KfJiB2-tm8qqXcEVJxoVO2yj_r8i27hVYQMhT8mK0/s1600/cyrano+de+bergerac+1_opt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1fW4j50y8KnAXF4RBLbhTR21CWH-xGh_w6wzn9uwAEILbkxR3IITe8KHz7vz7NXwYq5JTxODElkBobvKQ-sILjps5igdbX-p-x5KfJiB2-tm8qqXcEVJxoVO2yj_r8i27hVYQMhT8mK0/s320/cyrano+de+bergerac+1_opt.jpg" width="227" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jose Ferrer won an Oscar for his portrayal of Cyrano</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>Cyrano de Bergerac</i> (1950)<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>from Stanley Kramer Productions, <span style="font-size: small;">is set to air at midnight Eastern/9pm Pacific</span>. Jose Ferrer won a Best Actor Oscar for his colorful portrayal of the poetic swordsman with the preposterous proboscis. Mala Powers co-stars as the beloved Roxane.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Later (2am Eastern/11am Pacific), John Payne rides the waves in <i>Raiders of the Seven Seas</i> (1953) and finally (3:45am Eastern/12:45am Pacific), Cornel Wilde stars in <i>At Sword’s Point</i> (1951) as the offspring of one of the Three Musketeers. Maureen O’Hara co-stars.<i> </i></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>The Mark of Zorro </i>is a favorite of mine and I barely remember <i>Adventures of Don Juan</i> so, b<span style="font-size: small;">ecause I'<span style="font-size: small;">m going to be out Monday night,</span></span> I'll be recording both. Monday marks my first sojourn this year to San Francisco’s Noir City festival. The night's program is a “Pre-Code Proto-Noir Triple Bill” – William Wyler’s <i>A House Divided </i>(1931) <span style="font-size: small;">starring Walter Huston</span>, <i>The Kiss Before the Mirror </i>(1933) directed by James Whale starring Nancy Carroll, Frank Morgan and Gloria Stuart, and <i>Laughter in Hell </i>(1933), a film thought to be lost but recently rediscovered, starring Pat O’Brien. I’ll be back to the noir fest on Wednesday night for “San Francisco Noir,” a double-bill we couldn’t resist featuring Edward Dmytryk’s <i>The Sniper </i>(1952) and <i>Experiment in Terror </i>(1962), directed by Blake Edwards and starring Glenn Ford and Lee Remick.</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">It seems, when it comes to movie-wat<span style="font-size: small;">ching</span>, my life has become<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>the <span style="font-size: small;">d<span style="font-size: small;">efinition of the adjective <i>busy</i>...</span></span></span></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu7vViJ9uK97NDxQVX0wA5GIDhEy3_FYz62g03L8j9nwTud4iZrVqmehckLtqrgM5qCOGzKQvnl-qbef6Jn4zEoeyedchPVsepkM4YQfbzxM4cOt6tbLQSb9-pbBjt5LOyD8-NMc9eOrI/s1600/sniper_opt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu7vViJ9uK97NDxQVX0wA5GIDhEy3_FYz62g03L8j9nwTud4iZrVqmehckLtqrgM5qCOGzKQvnl-qbef6Jn4zEoeyedchPVsepkM4YQfbzxM4cOt6tbLQSb9-pbBjt5LOyD8-NMc9eOrI/s320/sniper_opt.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkOtjb7O5ygW8VNV_72rx_xikHvJd9X00luZiZBhN9MTzl2WpHoAddx7unGaMEdKBE-dePtZFz4a03Cq015PqQ7lEWseBtS-3Up3AWRlFyTqjjmcgaaZiq0Da0KEO80NouTi3QjE3dLvI/s1600/kiss+before+the+mirror.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkOtjb7O5ygW8VNV_72rx_xikHvJd9X00luZiZBhN9MTzl2WpHoAddx7unGaMEdKBE-dePtZFz4a03Cq015PqQ7lEWseBtS-3Up3AWRlFyTqjjmcgaaZiq0Da0KEO80NouTi3QjE3dLvI/s320/kiss+before+the+mirror.jpg" width="164" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span> </span></span></div>

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Jay's Favorite Words

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />Hola y’all! I struggled all day trying to come up with a subject to write about tonight. Well, actually I struggled for about 30 minutes this evening after Matt-Man casually mentioned not having to write to night and realizing that it is my turn.<br /><br />It was then that Matt and I engaged in a brilliant and intense brainstorming session on Twitter to come up with something for me to write about. Well, being Matt he came up with something for HIM to write about and I could play along. Tonight I’ll list some of my favorite words and Matt will follow up tomorrow with his. We’re just so damn clever.<br /><br />So in no particular order are some of my favorite words that I can think of right off the top of my head without giving this a whole of thought cause I’m on a deadline…<br /><br /><b>Shindig:</b> Basically any event that includes more than two people is a Shindig. It can be a big, lavish party like a wedding or a Holiday Party or Bar Mitzvah. It can also be a group of friends gathering at the bar for some beer and nachos while watching the game. Can it be a family reunion? Sure! Hell, it doesn’t even have to be that formal. I could be three-way conversation on Skype. The thing they all have in common is people gathering to have a good time and maybe throw back a drink or two and have some food.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxN5EtkimL4xWvzAiyPdx69uN9Xho0f3SvQXTLbS1370Cr11hJfQZ1re5t647j41KemwgVlGt4eldYEPc1a-W6DmNMZRw2TaTb-DC1OJfCzCOFTD_Xk1mspJUdCGz7y2RQCgPI8psoSOc/s1600/Taylor+Momsen+Hot+Nude.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxN5EtkimL4xWvzAiyPdx69uN9Xho0f3SvQXTLbS1370Cr11hJfQZ1re5t647j41KemwgVlGt4eldYEPc1a-W6DmNMZRw2TaTb-DC1OJfCzCOFTD_Xk1mspJUdCGz7y2RQCgPI8psoSOc/s400/Taylor+Momsen+Hot+Nude.jpg" width="255" /></a></div><b>Discombobulated: </b>Pretty much anytime anyone is even the slightest bit confused, I consider him or her to be discombobulated. One of the reasons I love the move version of “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” is because sweet little Cindy Lu Who (who grew up to be a <i>Pretty Reckless</i> chick) describes herself as feeling all discombobulated. So cute!! It’s just a fun word to use.<br /><br /><b>Verklempt: </b>This word differs from “discombobulated” in that rather than just being out of sorts or confused, a person who is “verklempt” is very upset. It is possible to be both discombobulated AND verklempt though. Anyway, anyone who is even the slightest bit emotional over anything at all, even if it’s just a minor sadness, I consider to be “all verklempt.”<br /><br /><b>Loathe:</b> I don’t dislike people. I don’t even hate people. I looooooaaaaaaathe them.<br /><br /><b>Superfluous: </b>A great example of “superfluous” would be the extra “M” on Jon Hamm’s last name. I guess they thought they could make up for it by leaving the “H” out of his first name, but if you ask me that just compounded the problem.<br /><br /><b>Shenanigans:</b> One can either call shenanigans or get into shenanigans. It’s a very versatile word.<br /><br /><b>Nefarious: </b>Sometimes those shenanigans are nefarious.<br /><br /><b>Jocularity:</b> I’ve always been a big fan of Father Francis Mulcahy. And I’m a big fan of engaging in all kinds of jocular activities because people rarely get physically injured like they would if it was a hubbub or hullabaloo. <br /><br /><b>Badonkadonk:</b> Hey now! That’s totally a word. And, you guys all know that I’m an ass man.<br /><br /><b>Pithy:</b> I like to keep most of my blog posts rather pithy. I know how short your attention spans are.<br /><br /><b>Gallivanting: </b>Why would anyone want to just go about their daily activities like shopping, working, visiting friends or whatever when they could be GALLIVANTING ABOUT even if it’s something mundane.<br /><br />Okay, that’s enough for now. This post might get a bit long and I hate if I get too verbose.<br /><br />Jayman<br /><a href="mailto:Jayman3768@gmail.com">Jayman3768@gmail.com</a><br /><a href="http://www.twitter.com/jayman_iws" target="_blank">@Jayman_IWS</a><br /><br />Also, if you are bored and have nothing else to do. You could always check out our "Internet Love and Friendship" show on I'm With Stupid. 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Jay's Favorite Words

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Brain Aging Linked to Sleep-Related Memory Decline - NYTimes.com

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Scientists have known for decades that the ability to remember newly learned information declines with age, but it was not clear why. A new study may provide part of the answer.<br /><br><br /><br>The report, posted online on Sunday by the journal Nature Neuroscience, suggests that structural brain changes occurring naturally over time interfere with sleep quality, which in turn blunts the ability to store memories for the long term.<br /><br><br /><br>Previous research had found that the prefrontal cortex, the brain region behind the forehead, tends to lose volume with age, and that part of this region helps sustain quality sleep, which is critical to consolidating new memories. But the new experiment, led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, is the first to directly link structural changes with sleep-related memory problems.<br /><br><br /><br>The findings suggest that one way to slow memory decline in aging adults is to improve sleep, specifically the so-called slow-wave phase, which constitutes about a quarter of a normal night's slumber.<br /><br><br /><br>Doctors cannot reverse structural changes that occur with age any more than they can turn back time. But at least two groups are experimenting with electrical stimulation as a way to improve deep sleep in older people. By placing electrodes on the scalp, scientists can run a low current across the prefrontal area, essentially mimicking the shape of clean, high-quality slow waves.<br /><br><br /><br>The result: improved memory, at least in some studies. "There are also a number of other ways you can improve sleep, including exercise," said Ken Paller, a professor of psychology and the director of the cognitive neuroscience program at Northwestern University, who was not involved in the research.<br /><br><br /><br>Dr. Paller said that a whole array of changes occurred across the brain during aging and that sleep was only one factor affecting memory function.<br /><br><br /><br>But he said the study told "a convincing story, I think: that atrophy is related to slow-wave sleep, which we know is related to memory performance. So it's a contributing factor."<br /><br><br /><br>In the study, the research team took brain images from 19 people of retirement age and from 18 people in their early 20s. It found that a brain area called the medial prefrontal cortex, roughly behind the middle of the forehead, was about one-third smaller on average in the older group than in the younger one — a difference due to natural atrophy over time, previous research suggests.<br /><br><br /><br>Before bedtime, the team had the two groups study a long list of words paired with nonsense syllables, like "action-siblis" and "arm-reconver." The team used the nonwords because one type of memory that declines with age is for new, previously unseen information.<br /><br><br /><br>After training on the pairs for half an hour or so, the participants took a test on some of them. The young group outscored the older group by about 25 percent.<br /><br><br /><br>Then everyone went to bed — and bigger differences emerged. For one, the older group got only about a quarter of the amount of high-quality slow-wave sleep that the younger group did, as measured by the shape and consistency of electrical waves on an electroencephalogram machine, or EEG. It is thought that the brain moves memories from temporary to longer-term storage during this deep sleep.<br /><br><br /><br>On a second test, given in the morning, the younger group outscored the older group by about 55 percent. The estimated amount of atrophy in each person roughly predicted the difference between his or her evening and morning scores, the study found. Even seniors who were very sharp at night showed declines after sleeping.<br /><br><br /><br>"The analysis showed that the differences were due not to changes in capacity for memories, but to differences in sleep quality," said Bryce A. Mander, a postdoctoral fellow at Berkeley and the lead author of the study. His co-authors included researchers from the California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco; the University of California, San Diego; and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.<br /><br><br /><br>The findings do not imply that medial prefrontal atrophy is the only age-related change causing memory problems, said Matthew P. Walker, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Berkeley and a co-author of the study.<br /><br><br /><br>"Essentially, with age, you lose tissue in this prefrontal area," Dr. Walker said. "You get less quality deep sleep, and have less opportunity to consolidate new memories."<br /><br><br /><br><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/28/health/brain-aging-linked-to-sleep-related-memory-decline.html?_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/28/health/brain-aging-linked-to-sleep-related-memory-decline.html?_r=0</a>

Brain Aging Linked to Sleep-Related Memory Decline - NYTimes.com

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Pro Bowl might be hampered by rainy, windy weather

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><img src="http://static.nfl.com/static/content/public/photo/2013/01/27/0ap1000000131424.jpg" /><br /><table style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; color: #222221; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; text-align: left; width: 0px;"><tbody><tr><td style="color: #999999; font-size: 11px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Andy Fenelon/NFL.com</td></tr><tr><td style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px;">Rain is in the forecast for the entire island of Oahu, meaning Sunday's <a href="http://www.nfl.com/probowl" id="yui_3_5_0_1_1359332306730_2405" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">Pro Bowl</a> could be a soggy affair.<br /><span style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;">HONOLULU -- The </span><a href="http://www.staradvertiser.com/multimedia/photo_galleries/viewer/?galID=188572391" id="yui_3_5_0_1_1359332306730_2406" style="color: #364c88; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;" target="new">Honolulu Star Advertiser</a><span style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;"> on Sunday morning billed this year's </span><a href="http://www.nfl.com/probowl" id="yui_3_5_0_1_1359332306730_2407" style="color: #364c88; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Pro Bowl</a><span style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;"> as </span><a href="http://www.nfl.com/player/peytonmanning/2501863/profile" id="yui_3_5_0_1_1359332306730_2408" style="color: #364c88; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Peyton Manning</a><span style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;"> vs. </span><a href="http://www.nfl.com/player/elimanning/2505996/profile" id="yui_3_5_0_1_1359332306730_2409" style="color: #364c88; font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none;">Eli Manning</a><span style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;">, a battle of the brothers, with the headline: "Footballs Will Fly."</span><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;">But hours away from kickoff of the NFL's all-star game -- a game that likely will determine if others are played in the future -- a weather system coming through Oahu could make footballs fly in all sorts of directions.</div><div id="yui_3_5_0_1_1359332306730_2842" style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;">The National Weather Service has issued a flash-flood watch for the entire island of Oahu, which includes Honolulu where the game will be played. On Sunday morning, winds starting picking up, creating a choppy Pacific. A cold front is expected to bring showers with heavy rainfall to Oahu by the afternoon. Also, there's a chance of thunderstorms that could bring intense rain.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;">The flash-flood watch remains in effect through Monday afternoon when most players and fans will depart for the continental United States.</div><div style="font-family: arial, verdana, helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;">It will be interesting to see the effort level if the weather conditions don't improve. <a href="http://www.nfl.com/teams/denverbroncos/profile?team=DEN" id="yui_3_5_0_1_1359332306730_2412" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">Denver Broncos</a> quarterback<a href="http://www.nfl.com/player/peytonmanning/2501863/profile" id="yui_3_5_0_1_1359332306730_2413" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">Peyton Manning</a> and the two head coaches -- <a href="http://www.nfl.com/teams/denverbroncos/profile?team=DEN" id="yui_3_5_0_1_1359332306730_2414" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">Broncos</a>coach <a href="http://www.nfl.com/player/johnfox/2514313/profile" id="yui_3_5_0_1_1359332306730_2415" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">John Fox</a> of the AFC and <a href="http://www.nfl.com/teams/greenbaypackers/profile?team=GB" id="yui_3_5_0_1_1359332306730_2416" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">Green Bay Packers</a> coach<a href="http://www.nfl.com/player/mikemccarthy/2520528/profile" id="yui_3_5_0_1_1359332306730_2417" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">Mike McCarthy</a> of the NFC -- have <a href="http://www.nfl.com/probowl/story/0ap1000000130139/article/peyton-manning-implores-pro-bowl-participants-to-play-hard" id="yui_3_5_0_1_1359332306730_2418" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">emphasized the importance</a> of this game. And NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has threatened to pull the plug on the <a href="http://www.nfl.com/probowl" id="yui_3_5_0_1_1359332306730_2419" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">Pro Bowl</a> if it isn't played more seriously.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;">After Friday's practice, <a href="http://www.nfl.com/player/peytonmanning/2501863/profile" id="yui_3_5_0_1_1359332306730_2420" style="color: #364c88; text-decoration: none;">Peyton Manning</a> said, "The guys will be ready to play. It will be a good, competitive game, I think. This is an important event for the NFL and for the players. The commissioner's made it clear that he's making considerations to cancel it. And I think it's important to have more of a quality game."</div><div style="margin-bottom: 18px !important; padding: 0px;">But injuries at this event always have been a concern for players and, with inclement weather, the risk of injury seemingly would increase. It might be unfair to get upset with players if they choose to hold back a little in a rain-drenched contest.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div>

NFL Super Bowl Pro Bowl might be hampered by rainy, windy weather

Andy Fenelon/NFL.com Rain is in the forecast for the entire island of Oahu, meaning Sunday's Pro Bowl could be a soggy affair. HONOLUL...