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Opening Day at Yankee Stadium: A Wonderful Experience
Luck: a force that brings good fortune or adversity. Yankee legend Lou Gehrig once claimed to be the luckiest man on the face of the earth. Yesterday afternoon, I felt I was the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
I was fortunate enough to spend the day with my friends and family at Yankee Stadium for the Bronx Bombers' home opener against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Not only was it their home opener, it was their ring ceremony, held to commemorate their 2009 World Series Championship.
After a beautiful ceremony, the Yankees beat the Angels, 7-5.
But the day wasn't just about RBIs, base hits, and runs scored. It wasn't just about the Yankees receiving their championship rings. It went far beyond anything that anyone can really understand. Overall, it was a wonderful experience; one I will never forget.
A Meaningful Day
My cousin Thomas, who invited me and my other cousin Krystina to the game, could not have been more excited for Opening Day. He got the tickets and graciously invited us to this historic game. His father (my Uncle John) recently passed away. I know that Thomas would have loved nothing more than to share the day with his dad.
Since his dad could not be there, I find it so honorable that he wanted me there to share the day with him. I could not have felt better. The fact that he asked me to go with him nearly drove me to tears.
And it didn't get any easier when we reached the ballpark.
Getting off the train, we noticed the old Yankee Stadium. The building is nearly torn down completely. It was an unbelievable sight to behold. I can remember so many great and meaningful memories for me in that Stadium, and my only thought was, "is it really right for them to just gut it and rip it down?"
I guess they had to do it, but it didn't make me feel very good. I could tell Thomas was taken back by the whole thing; he was as overwhelmed as I was. The same building where Babe Ruth, Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and countless other Yankee legends made history is now in shambles; it's merely a skeleton of what used to be a beautiful ballpark.
Heartbreaking, to say the least.
When we got inside the new Stadium, it was madness. Everywhere you looked the words, "2009 World Series Champions" were visible. The Great Hall was buzzing with Yankee fans, all ready to watch the team accept their 27th World Title.
Thomas, Krystina, and I went down to the field level. There we met up with Thomas's sister (another one of my cousins) Ashley, who went to the game with her friend Matthew. We took a picture together–in my mind, the best picture I took all day. I took a ridiculous amount of photos of the players, the ceremony, and the game.
But I would say the group shot we took together was the best. I would not be anywhere without my family and they mean so much to me. I was honored that they invited me to the game, and for that I cannot thank them enough.
Ashley and Matt went to their seats while Thomas, Krystina, and I stayed on the field level to watch the Angels take batting practice, as the Yanks took BP before the gates opened to the public. We were literally pressed directly up against the wall in right field. We had a perfect view of everything!
Thomas kept yelling for a ball. He wanted one more than anything. Former Yankee Bobby Abreu was practically right in front of us. He lobbed a couple loose baseballs into the stands, but not any that came near us. Two security guards however were standing near us and Thomas chatted with them, trying to coerce them into getting him a ball.
Whoever was in the Angels' batting cage smoked one down the right field line. The ball ricocheted off the side of the wall and onto the grass.
"Can you get that for me?" Thomas politely asked.
"We are not allowed to go on the grass," one of the security guards answered.
Not long after that, another ball was ripped down the right field line in foul territory, landing safely on the dirt. It was right in front of the guards.
"Please!" Thomas persisted. "Please get that for me!"
The guard smiled, bent over, picked up the ball, and placed it softly in Thomas's glove.
I have never in my life seen a child happier. Thomas, with a grin as wide as the Grand Canyon, had gotten a foul ball in batting practice, a feat I never accomplished at a Major League game. He was ecstatic and I was overjoyed that he was able to get it.
I'm sure it will be something he'll remember forever.
What I thought was significant about the day was the team the Yankees were playing. They played the Angels. And I have no doubt in my mind that Thomas's dad, my Uncle John, was one of the Angels at the Stadium yesterday–but he was an Angel for the Yankees. It truly felt as though he was right there with us.
Ring Ceremony
After batting practice wrapped, the ring ceremony festivities were set to begin. I watched from behind centerfield and everything looked wonderful. Michael Kay and John Sterling emceed the ceremony and the World Series trophy was even on display.
First the team paid homage to owner George Steinbrenner, who was in attendance for the days' events. I have never heard a louder ovation for a non-player in my life. The crowd roared for him and rightfully so. Without Mr. Steinbrenner, there would be no Yankee team.
Then Whitey Ford and Yogi Berra came out to help hand out the rings. Manager Joe Girardi also helped distribute the rings and he congratulated each player as they accepted their prize. One by one, every Yankee from last year's team was called out to get their ring.
Really the only players who were missing were Johnny Damon and Melky Cabrera. Jerry Hairston, Jr. (although no longer with the team) was in the ballpark to get his ring. As was Hideki Matsui, the MVP of the '09 World Series who is now a member of the Angels.
They saved Matsui's introduction for last, and he received a humungous, deafening ovation. I think every Yankee fan recognized Matsui's hard work and dedication over the seven years he played in the Bronx. I know he will always be a Yankee in my heart.
When the ceremony was ready to conclude, the whole team ran in and showed Matsui a lot of love; the team got together one last time and embraced for a group hug. The hug almost brought a tear to my eye, because I know how close the 2009 team was.
I didn't realize until I got home how they had tricked Matsui. Girardi handed him a bootleg ring and later during the Opening Day ceremony ran the real ring over to him. Matsui laughed and I could see his Angel teammates also teasing him for it.
A little playful humor now and then is relished by the best teams, I guess.
And speaking about the Opening Day ceremony: once again, overwhelming. They called the Angels out of their dugout and they all lined up along the third baseline. The Yankees lined up on the first baseline, and cadets from West Point stood in center field to unfurl the American flag. Not long after the anthem ended, two enormous jets flew over Yankee Stadium.
Those fighter jets were LOUD! When I tell you they were loud, they were LOUD! The ground literally shook as they flew over the new house. And once again, it was quite a sight to behold. My only word for it: "Amazing."
After the anthem and beautiful aerial presentation, Bernie Williams, the great former center fielder, tossed out the honorable first pitch. Talk about an ovation! Williams received a rousing hand from us Yankee faithful, but it somewhat shocked us how he bounced the pitch. Being a former All-Star center fielder, you would think Williams would hit home plate! He missed, much to the surprise of the crowd. The gentleman standing next to me yelled, "Oh, come on Bernie! You gotta hit the glove!"
It's Ok, Bernie. I still love you.
After the Yankees were finished warming up and all pre-game ceremonies were over, it was time to, as they say, play ball! Yankees vs. Angels.
The Game
The Yankees struck first in the bottom of the first. Designated hitter Nick Johnson blasted a solo home run to right field, a shot that (as I understand) landed right next to Bald Vinny–the legendary Bleacher Creature who starts the famous Yankee "roll call" at the beginning of each home game.
Unfortunately I was on line for food when this happened, but I heard the crowd roar and got into a spot just in time to see Johnson cross home plate. In any event it was the first of many home runs the Yankees will hit in their house in 2010.
As Andy Pettitte worked brilliantly through the first three innings, the Yankees held a 1-0 lead until the bottom of the frame. The Yankee captain, Derek Jeter, stepped up to the plate and crushed a solo home to right field, his first of the year.
It really is amazing how many games I have been to that have featured a home run by Jeter. It seems every game I get out to, he hits a home run. I can think of at least five games off the top of my head in which Jeter has homered. Maybe I bring some kind of luck to him, who knows.
In any event, 2-0 Yankees at the end of three innings of play.
One of the more special moments during the day was Matsui's first at-bat. The former beloved Yankee received yet another rousing ovation from the fans while he stepped into the batter's box. Pettitte respectfully tipped his cap and stepped off the mound and allowed his former teammate to soak up the moment.
Matsui removed his helmet and acknowledged the fans who once called him a hero. Unfortunately for the 2009 World Series MVP, the Yankees were not very kind to him in terms of his day at the plate. He was 0-for-5 on the day with a strikeout.
The Yankees tacked on three more runs before the end of the sixth inning. Jeter was at it again in the fourth, reaching on an infield single that scored Curtis Granderson. In the sixth, Alex Rodriguez reached on yet another infield single, which brought home Johnson and Nick Swisher.
5-0, all Yankees at the end of six innings. It was looking good for us.
That is, until Kendry Morales stepped up in the top of the eighth. The Angels' first baseman smashed a long, solo home run into the second deck in right field, putting the Angels on the board, 5-1.
The Yankees got two runs back in the bottom of the eighth, both of them proving to be the difference in the game. Jorge Posada doubled to score Johnson and Granderson singled to score Robinson Cano, giving the Yankees a 7-1 edge.
Posada's double put him ahead of Mantle on the all-time Yankee doubles list.
You would think with a 7-1 lead heading into the ninth inning everything would be safe and secure. Well, think again. Feeling that the game was practically over, my cousins and I watched the end of the game from the concourse on the first base side.
And we received a pleasant surprise followed by a not-so-pleasant surprise, followed by a happy ending.
The End
Right before the ninth inning began, two gentleman sitting in the field box seats decided to leave. One of them tapped me on the shoulder and handed me his tickets.
"Here you go," he said. "You guys can watch the end from the field level seats."
"WOW!" I exclaimed. "Thank you very much!"
"Don't mention it," he replied.
How awesome is that?! You never really see that type of chivalry anymore. A man, not knowing who I was, just gave up his seats to me, a stranger. Granted, the game was almost over, it was still a very noble gesture and overall a kind act.
Who says New Yorkers are mean-spirited?
In any event my cousins and I, now sitting in comfortable, padded box seats, watched David Robertson surrender hit after walk after hit, eventually loading the bases. I still thought the Yankees were in great shape, even if they only gave up a run or two.
To our dismay, former Yankee Abreu stepped up and slaughtered a grand slam home run to left field, something he specialized in when he played for the Yankees. I will always like Abreu; in my mind he was the best Yankee right fielder since Paul O'Neill. But yesterday…I did not like him. He burned us pretty bad.
I mean, Abreu's home run was a real shot. I'm talking way back into the left field seats.
Now with the score at 7-5 and a save situation in place, Girardi was prompted to bring in Mariano Rivera. The great Rivera struck Torii Hunter out swinging and then got his former teammate Matsui to pop out to end the game.
Ballgame over. Yankees win. THEEEEE Yankees win!
We stayed and watched the Yankees take congratulations and improve their record to 5-2.
We exited the ballpark and once again looked at the demolished old stadium. Thomas looked at it once more, and looking at it again, I could not help but think of all the games his father took us to. I think a part of us went down with that stadium.
But then we glanced back at the new stadium and thought about the days' events. The Yankees had just won and we had just witnessed history; the first ring ceremony in the new Stadium, a batting practice foul ball, a great game, a seat upgrade from a gracious fan and a Yankee win.
And not only that, a day spent with my friends and family.
I could not have asked for anything better. It was just a day where nothing went wrong. I can truly say that I felt like the luckiest man on the face of the earth yesterday.
And Uncle John: I know you were there with us. We miss you.
Keep smiling down on us and the Yankees.


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served with quinoa
Seitan is really easy to make, providing you have a bag of wheat gluten on hand. You can season it anyway you wish just make sure you cook it in a vegetable broth.
Basically you use 2 cups of gluten flour, add spices, 1 cup of cold water and a little oil, stir until its combined.(It reminds me of a heart or some kind of body part once its wet) Then I separate it into smaller pieces and tie it up in cheesecloth using twine. It looks like sausages. Submerge it in a pot of boiling stock and simmer for 1 1/2hours. Untie it and slice it as you need it.
It can be eaten like that but its much better fried up again. I used broccoli and fresh cilantro in mine.
2 cups gluten flour
1 tbsp oregano
1 tbsp garlic powder
2 tsp chili powder
1 tbsp fennel seeds
1 tsp sea salt
1 cup cold water
2 tbsp tomato paste
1 tbsp Dijon mustard
2 tbsp tamari or soy sauce
1/4 cup olive oil
10 cups of vegetable stock
Combine everything in a bowl. Mix until well combined (you might have to get your fingers dirty).
Separate into smaller pieces, using cheesecloth and twine tie it up to look like sausages.
Submerge into boiling stock and let simmer with lid on for 1 1/2 hours.
Keep in an airtight container in the fridge.
Sweet and sour sauce
1/4 cup white vinegar
1/4 cup ketchup
1/4 cup sugar
3 cloves garlic
1 tsp ground ginger
3 tbsp tamari or soy sauce
2 tbsp fresh orange juice
zest from 1 orange
2 tbsp cornstarch
combine everything and set aside.
Add sauce to wok once everything is cooked, allow to thicken.
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Attack of the 50-Foot Feminist Agenda
September 02, 2012
Boston Globe Magazine
We are impressed with Barry Nolan's accurate portrayal of the bullying nature of the likes of the Fatherhood Coalition and their efforts to undermine years of progress in terms of safety for victims of sexual and domestic violence. As a male ally in the struggle to end violence against women and to defend women's rights more generally, Barry is doing his part to hold other men accountable.
JDI is proud of our successful advocacy to sustain policies and practices that offer safety, resources and options to victimsand is well aware of thetroubling actions by these men. After years of trying, they have been unsuccessful in shifting our state's custody laws away from decisions that are in the best interest of the child. Their attempts to do away with restraining orders have fallen flat because our elected officials have not buckled under the pressure and see these guys for what they are. Their claims regarding the success of alimony reform are overstated; the changes came about because there was widespread agreement that the system needed changes, and we are grateful that many of our allies were at the table to ensure that the safety and needs of domestic violence victims and their children were considered under the new rules.
We agree with Barry that more "public outrage" is needed. While thanks to JDI's advocacy efforts, every single member of the Massachusetts congressional delegation has signed on in support of the Violence Against Women Act, the bill has yet to be reauthorized. Local sexual and domestic violence programs in Massachusetts are woefully underfunded and struggle to meet the demand for life-saving services.
We need more men to be part of the solution in ending sexual and domestic violence, while also being respectful of the years-long leadership of women.
Angry, radical men's groups believe males are being victimized by out-of-control judges and politicians. They're wrong and they're dangerous and they need to be stopped.
By Barry Nolan
Every Wednesday at noon, the Governor's Council gathers at the Massachusetts State House. The eight-member council is an elected but little-known body that serves as the governor's advisory board; oversees things such as pardons; and approves or rejects appointments for state judgeships. That means it has a lot of influence on how state laws wind up getting interpreted and carried out.
Amid the smattering of lobbyists and state officials at council meetings, there is always a member of the Fatherhood Coalition, a Massachusetts-based organization that was founded in 1993 to steer state laws in a direction more favorable to fathers. Sometimes it's Joe Ureneck, the group's chairman, who attends. He's a small-business owner who, while going through a divorce, became concerned with the system's "sexist bias." Other times it's Patrick McCabe, a soft-spoken part-time accountant from Hyde Park whose divorce left him similarly disturbed. McCabe, in fact, is running for a seat on the council this November.
Ureneck and McCabe aren't exactly shy and retiring at the meetings. Along with the rest of the Fatherhood Coalition, they do their best to shut down judicial nominees they view as insufficiently sympathetic to their agenda. A nominee, for instance, like David Aptaker, who in 2010 was up for a position as a Middlesex probate judge. As a bit of background, one thing the Fatherhood Council is particularly concerned about is restraining orders, which it insists are used in a way that's biased against men. In fact, the group has been pushing legislation to change the system. That's why the coalition was alarmed by Aptaker's nomination—according to a post on its website, Aptaker's "lack of understanding of the restraining order laws made it clear he was not fit for the bench." So after discovering that the nominee had failed to disclose donations he'd made to two disgraced politicians, the Fatherhood Coalition showed up at a public hearing, registering complaints that he couldn't be trusted because of his donations. Under pressure, Aptaker eventually withdrew his application. "Whether you agree with them or not, their point of view has become the elephant in the room," says Mary-Ellen Manning, a council member from Salem. Watertown's Marilyn Petitto Devaney, who's been on the council for 14 years, says the presence of the Fatherhood Coalition has "changed the way we do business here."
Aptaker's story underscores a disturbing trend: Men's rights groups, convinced that men are the biggest victims of modern society, have been busy attacking, defunding, and repealing laws that have been very effective at protecting women and lowering rates of domestic violence. And rather than just ranting and raving on the Internet, these men have been pulling political levers to change both state and federal laws. That they've done so with remarkable success ought to make everyone very, very scared.
If your last memory of men's groups is Robert Bly and the boys banging on drums in the woods, you likely have no idea how the movement has mutated. Today, men's rights groups tend to be organized around the belief that this country has launched a "war on fatherhood." To them, the rise of feminism resulted in the fall of man, with males now being relegated to the periphery of society. In their eyes, the media portray men as feckless buffoons, legislative bodies unfairly target them, and biased courts blindly punish guiltless husbands. (Full disclosure: I was a producer of the 2011 documentary No Way Out But One, which examined the family court system.)
Nationally, groups like Stop Abusive and Violent Environments (SAVE) and A Voice for Men have helped slow the renewal of the Violence Against Women Act—which would provide $660 million in funding for shelters, legal aid, and other programs to protect battered women—by convincing conservative House Republicans that the law shouldn't include immigrants, Native Americans, and LGBT victims. SAVE claims the law is biased, noting in a fact sheet titled "Seven Key Facts About Domestic Violence" that "female initiation of partner violence is the leading reason for the woman becoming a victim of subsequent violence." In other words: She was asking for it, officer.
Locally, the Fatherhood Coalition (which has seven active chapters and a few hundred members across the state) is joined by Fathers and Families, a "family court reform" advocacy group founded in 1998 that now has 50,000 e-mail newsletter subscribers. Fathers and Families claims to have the "largest membership base, the highest media profile, the most funding, and the most successful legislative representation of any family court reform organization." It's a bold claim—and quite accurate. In 2001, for example, the group won changes in Massachusetts law that lowered child support by 15 percent.
Then, last year, Fathers and Families and the Fatherhood Coalition achieved a major victory with the passage of the Alimony Reform Act of 2011, which removed the requirement that men pay alimony after retirement. The success of that bill allowed them to fine-tune their technique of advancing legislation: Get the governor to appoint a task force to examine the issue, secure a seat on the task force, influence the ultimate consensus, and then send it to the legislature.
Also last year, the men's groups tried another approach to changing laws: submitting a ballot initiative. They had hoped to use that strategy to overturn 209A, a law that seeks to prevent domestic violence by allowing judges to grant emergency protective orders to men or women who have a reasonable fear of harm from another person, often a partner. That law is stacked against men, according to Ureneck, who also helms the Massachusetts Citizens for Immigration Reform, a conservative group advocating for tougher enforcement of immigration laws. "The fundamental idea behind 209A," Ureneck tells me, "is that men are inherently batterers and women are fundamentally victims." Ultimately, Attorney General Martha Coakley shut down the group's attempts to overturn the law via ballot initiative because the state constitution doesn't allow such initiatives to deal with the "powers of courts."
Now, men's rights groups are pushing another bill that would change court guidelines in custody proceedings, moving from the standard of doing what is in the best interest of the child to making shared custody the default. That sounds reasonable enough—good parents should certainly be able to play a meaningful role in their children's lives after a divorce—but the proposed law has no provision for judges to determine whether one of the parents was violent in the relationship, which is a pretty glaring hole. And studies show that shared custody is one way that emotionally abusive spouses often seek to extend their control after a marital breakup.
In spite of that, men's groups have convinced more than a quarter of Massachusetts House members to cosponsor the bill. In the face of that pressure, Governor Patrick in July appointed 18 people to the Working Group on Child-Centered Family Laws, which is examining current regulations and trying to come up with a consensus on future guidelines. Men's rights groups, including the Fatherhood Coalition and Fathers and Families, managed to get three of their members in the group, but there are no representatives from mothers' groups. (One member comes from a domestic violence organization, however, and another from the Women's Bar Association.)
"They're organized," says a Beacon Hill insider. "They're vocal, they can be vociferous…and they've capitalized on the success they had with the reform alimony laws."
And men's groups are having successes like this all over the country. Rita Smith of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence told the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report that such groups have "taken over the courts," and that they have "been able to get custody evaluators, mediators, guardians ad litem, and child protective service workers to believe that women and children lie about abuse."
Let's be clear: There is no "war on men." It's true that the family courts should be better staffed, and better trained to sort out the truth, assess the risks, and ensure that kids are kept safe, happy, and healthy. And men's groups certainly have every right to try to change the law. That's how democracy works.
But that's all the more reason that civil rights and women's groups need to wake up and get involved, something they've been slow to do. When I spoke to Toni Troop of Jane Doe Inc., a Massachusetts sexual assault and domestic violence advocacy group, she assured me that "People see through their rhetoric and their repeated attempts to undermine safety for the real victims of domestic violence." Really? Then why have they been so successful at changing the law? More women's and mothers' groups need to start attending these meetings and demanding a seat at the table.
They also need to remember how bad the past was. Back in 1993, before the passage of the Violence Against Women Act, then-Senator Joe Biden conducted a three-year investigation into the causes and effects of violence against women. Afterward, he issued a searing report that helped lead to the 1994 passage of the original bill. In that report, Biden wrote, "…violence against women reflects as much a failure of our nation's collective moral imagination as it does the failure of our nation's laws and regulations…it deserves our profound public outrage." Nearly 20 years later, it's time to get outraged again.
Source URL: http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/2012/08/angry-men-feminist-agenda/


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Danity Kane Has Broken Up After Recording Studio Fight
It looks like newly reunited singing group Danity Kane has called it quits again.
The ladies – Aubrey O'Day, Dawn Richard, and Shannon Bex – reportedly got in a heated argument during a recent studio session, TMZ reports.
"I now must walk away feeling used and manipulated," Shannon said.
"Sadness does not even remotely begin to describe what I feel right now," Aubrey said about the incident after reportedly being punched by Dawn.
Back in May, the ladies released their first single since reuniting last year, "Lemonade".
ARE YOU SAD to see Danity Kane broken up???


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Index to bounty immigrants arriving in N.S.W. Australia from 1828 to 1842. The index covers the following series: Persons on early migrant ships, 1828-1832 (4/4823); Persons on early migrant ships, May 1832 - Jan 1833 (4/4824); Entitlement certificates of persons on bounty ships, 1832-1842 (4/4825-4891). Index prepared by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Quoting from the Research Wiki:
This collection indexes about 60,000 records of immigrants arriving in Sydney. Beginning in 1828, the Australian Government organized a program to encourage people to migrate to Australia, particularly to the State of New South Wales, which had been founded in 1788. "Assisted Immigrants" were immigrants whose passage was paid for or partially paid for by the Government as an incentive to settle in New South Wales. Another program which ran from 1835 to 1841 was the bounty reward system. "Bounty immigrants" were selected by colonists and who paid for their passage. When the immigrant arrived the colonist would employ them and the colonist would then be reimbursed by the government for all or part of the cost of passage. The first immigrants to apply for this assisted immigration were the people from Ireland, England, Wales, and Scotland. Later, people from other European countries began immigrating to Australia.Mexico Marriages 1700 to 1900. This project represents all Legacy extraction data available from the VR and EASy databases as of June, 2008. Please note that this data has been submitted by volunteers over the past thirty years. The data in this project does not necessarily represent a complete series of regions, parishes, or rolls. Quoting from the Wiki:
For over 30 years, volunteer indexers extracted this information from microfilm copies of the original records. In 1999, some of the entries were published on 4 CDs by the Family History Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as the "Middle America Vital Records Index: Mexico." This index is an index of the births or christenings; marriages; and deaths or burials throughout Mexico. The index is not necessarily complete for any particular place or region.Argentina, Buenos Aires City Census for 1855. Images of population schedules listing inhabitants of Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1855. This census covers the Federal District only, however, this is where the majority of the population lived during this time period. The 1855 Census of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, covers about 92,000 inhabitants. Wiki
Arkansas County Marriages from 1837 to 1957. 74% complete. Index and images of marriages recorded in counties of Arkansas. Index and images are currently available for all counties except: Arkansas, Benton, Clark, Crawford, Cross, Franklin, Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Lonoke, Miller, Phillips, Polk, Randolph, Scott, Sebastian, Sevier, Sharp, Washington, White, Woodruff. There may be related records included with marriage records. This project was indexed in partnership with the Arkansas Genealogical Society. Wiki
Indiana Marriages from 1811 to 1959. 12% complete. Indexed in partnership with the Indiana Genealogical Society. Name index of marriages recorded in the Indiana Territory and in the State of Indiana between 1811 and 1959. This collection includes marriage returns and licenses for the following counties: Adams, Blackford, Carroll, Decatur, Franklin, Henry, Huntington, Ohio, Owen, Rush, and Sullivan. Microfilm copies of original records are available at the Family History Library and at family history centers. Wiki.


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Earlier this week I wrote about the wonderful story of raising the £20,000 needed for the hardship costs for kids joining in with YRS2012, I was overwhelmed by the number of people celebrating and joining in with that success – love it.
This week also marks the six months since I received the following email:
You have been nominated by Mark Surman to receive a Shuttleworth Foundation Flash Grant to work with Young Rewired State.
It came out of the blue and was for $5,000. An amount that is enough to be excited about and feel like you just won something, but is not a scary sum with strings attached that adds to your endless list of deliverables.
This money came with no strings, I could do whatever I liked with it – so long as it was for Young Rewired State, of course, not red wine and taxis (well… ), I was to be open about the project (no change there!) and I was also able to use the Shuttleworth Foundation logo for the following six months on the YRS website. There was a request though that at the end of the six month period, receivers of this Flash Grant should write about how the grant helped them – so here I am.
Funnily enough the timing could not be more perfect. After raising the £20,000 for YRS2012 I have thought a lot about how exactly the right amount of money can be the difference between powering forward and screeching to a halt.
Meeting Mark
I had met Mark Surman, Executive Director at Mozilla, for the first time and for a very brief hour, about a month before this email from the Shuttleworth Foundation landed in my inbox.
I talked about Young Rewired State and Rewired State, he spoke about his plans for Mozilla and the education space.
We riffed about what really drove us, the passion we had for the potential for the open web, open data and open education. How young people were really growing up into an incredibly exciting world and that we were in the middle of that rennaissance period, it had arrived. We spent the hour we were speaking using everything we could find to draw all over, diagrams to show the patterns we were weaving in our minds of how this all fit together – all that lovely stuff.
[We did not write on bananas – this is just a brilliant picture]
But whenever Mark asked the more probing questions about how I thought I might achieve any of this, how YRS could scale, how my own personal enthusiasm could make any difference other than to those I directly affect – I was unsure. I could see the end game, I could sense the potential, it all felt right and I *knew* it was big – but I was not sure how I should play into that space and indeed if I should. I blustered and bluffed but I didn't fool anyone.
I always knew that I would continue with YRS, regardless of anything, my heart lies in it, it is a wonderful thing, it will always benefit some people and I loved doing it – but was what I was doing enough?
Now I had never met Mark before, but I knew of him. I love Mozilla's ethos and brand identity and Mark's dude creds were formidable. I remember days and days of reading and following up on links he had recommended – it was just one of those moments, we all have them, a meeting where you come away just buzzing your tits off and with renewed enthusiasm and shutzpah.
The Shuttleworth Foundation
So then, a month (ish) later, I receive this Flash Grant and notification that Mark had recommended me for it. It was the combination of these two things that really turned things around, I believe, for Young Rewired State and its huge growth this year.
Since I received that email and proudly displayed the Shuttleworth funded logo on Young Rewired State I worked hard to focus my thoughts and plans. Because of the faith shown in me to really achieve something with Young Rewired State I felt almost like I had been dared to push the boundaries of what I hoped to achieve, to find a way to scale. For some reason this free money and this massive slap on the back gave me more motivation than anything in my entire life so far – I can't explain that.
Scaling like a scaly thing
So this year Young Rewired State has grown from 100 young coders and 14 centres in the UK in August 2011, to 500 young coders and 50 centres.
This is an amazing jump but it is not the only change.
One of my favourite moments in YRS (and the same thing happens every year and makes me all emotional) is the moment the individual young developer walks into the centre on the Monday morning, not usually too much confidence knocking about and often used to coding alone in their spare time. They see ten other kids in the room. By the Tuesday they are shining, collaborating, learning, teaching, competing and getting excited. (At this point the emails usually start from parents, telling us how profound an effect even two days has had, the confidence, excitement and energy they see in their child – trust me, these emails floor us all, lots of gulping). Then on the Friday all of the centres come together for show and tell and they walk into a room of 100 other kids, exactly like themselves and their confidence and excitement shoots up to a whole other level.
By the time they finish watching and taking part in show and tell – a community is born and it is these moments that drive the YRS alumni to return year on year to foster and mentor the new YRSers.
Now I recognise that this is nothing whatsoever to do with me, this is just what happens when you create the right environment for this magic. That YRS does this, is happenstance, it was not concocted. But I also know that it is one of the most important things that happen during the week.
But what would happen if instead of only one crazy day of show and tell followed by a race for trains back to everywhere in the UK, these kids had more time together?
We did the only thing any sensible tiny organisation that runs on the smell of an oily rag could do and morphed that Friday show and tell into a weekend of coding and collaboration. A festival of code. We picked up the phone to the National Museum of Computing in Bletchley Park and asked them if they would mind if we camped on their lawns, and they were delighted, excited even!
The YRSers will pitch tents, code, have talks, eat pizza – they will also do their show and tells and battle to win prizes, fame and fortune – but they will be together from the Friday through the weekend.
What greater nod to scale can there be than finding that one thing that holds the magic in what you are doing, and making that better?
So whilst it is a huge thing for us to be hosting so many more young coders this year – the fact that at the end of their week of coding in centres across the country, the community gets two days instead of two hours together this year – that's the proper win.
Finally, of course, the $5,000 has gone towards YRS2012 and I would like to extend an enormous thank you to both Mark Surman for recommending me in the first place, and to the Shuttleworth Foundation for awarding me the grant for Young Rewired State. You have no idea how much of a motivator that was – I hope you enjoy the show this year and that next year we can begin to scale the festival of code.


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The chess team from Zion Lutheran School in Lincoln capped off a
fine season by participating in the Illinois Elementary School
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Nathan Ford was the team's top finisher and won a bronze medal for
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Zion participants in the state chess tournament were Elijah Burton,
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WASHINGTON Secret intelligence budget files provided by National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden show that the surveillance agency warned in 2012 that it planned to investigate up to 4,000 reports of possible internal security breaches, according to a new disclosure published Thursday.
The Washington Post, citing documents it said were provided by Snowden, said the NSA's concerns about insider threats were aimed at "anomalous behavior" of agency employees with access to top secret data. The account cited NSA concerns about "trusted insiders who seek to exploit their authorized access to sensitive information to harm U.S. interests."
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The NSA concerns were outlined in top-secret documents provided to the Senate and House intelligence committees in February 2012, well before Snowden emerged this summer as the sole source of massive new disclosures about the agency's surveillance operations. The Post released only 17 pages of the entire 178-page budget document, citing conversations with Obama administration officials who voiced alarms about disclosures that could compromise intelligence sources and methods.
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They are charged in connection with gunfire at Cypress home
Prosecutors Tuesday said they believe at least two other gunmen connected to a fatal weekend house party are still on the loose.
One of the shooters being sought is likely responsible for the slayings of two Katy ISD students who were at the party, Assistant Harris County District Attorney Katherine McDaniel told reporters outside a Harris County courtroom.
"We believe there are additional shooters, multiple guns that haven't been recovered and multiple gangs involved," said McDaniel.
Two men, 18-year-old Randy Stewart and 21-year-old Willie Young, were on a court docket Tuesday morning, but did not appear. Their cases were rescheduled without action.
Charges against Young we dropped Tuesday afternoon.
McDaniel painted a picture of a Saturday night explosion of gunfire in the midst of a 100 person house party in a residential area of Cypress with two teens being killed.
Qu'eric Danarius Bernard Richardson, 17, and Arielle Shepherd, both students at Morton Ranch High School in the Katy Independent School District, were killed as the violence spilled out of the house.
"It was a melee and people were running for their lives," McDaniel said.
Richardson was shot in the head while running away from the house party in the 7300 block of Enchanted Creek. Shepherd, a sophomore, was shot in the torso inside the house. She died at a Houston-area hospital.
Because Stewart and Richardson appeared to have known each other and were connected to a pending check forgery charge, McDaniel said it is "likely" that the person who shot the teen is still on the loose.
"I think it's a fair assumption that the shooting occurred as part of a gang dispute," McDaniel said. "At this point, we believe there are at least two other shooters."
McDaniel said investigators believe Richardson may have known one of the accused gunmen.
Stewart is named in an October forgery case, accused of making out a stolen check in the amount of $460 to Richardson, according to the criminal complaint.
Following his arrest Monday, Stewart responded to reporters' questions about Richardson by saying, "he was my brother."
Nineteen others were injured when gunfire erupted at the party just before 11 p.m. Saturday. In all, 16 people were treated for gunshot wounds. The others suffered injuries related to falls or the crush of people trying to get out of the house.
Investigators estimated that more than 100 people packed the suburban home for the 18th birthday party of a classmate after it was promoted through Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and text messages. The Harris County Sheriff's Office said the violence is believed to have begun after someone fired a gun into the ceiling during the party, and someone else began shooting into the crowd.
Stewart and Young are being held in the Harris County Jail in lieu of $250,000 bail each.
Neither has been charged in the deaths of Richardson and Shepherd.
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Their charges stem from eyewitness statements identifying them as firing guns at the party. Young is accused of shooting a party-goer in the arm, while Stewart is charged with firing shots into the crowd. The charges could be upgraded as investigators gather more evidence.
People at Stewart's home refused to speak to reporters Monday, while Young's mother and sister called a news conference to say police have the wrong man.
Yolanda Young said she sent her son to retrieve her daughter when she learned the 17-year-old was at a raucous house party.
"All I know is, my son is innocent. I want an apology from the police for what they put my family through," she said outside Ben Taub General Hospital Monday night where her daughter was treated for a gunshot wound and released.
The teen said she did not know who shot her in the foot. "Everybody was trying to get under the table and I was getting under the table," Brayiannia Young said.
She said Willie Young helped shuttle shooting victims, including her, to the hospital.
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The mood was grim Monday as students returned to the Morton Ranch High School campus, where officials broadcast an announcement about the shooting.
"There were a lot of people crying," said Carlos Garcia, 16. "It was pretty depressing."
Several students said it is common to rely on social media to make mass announcements about parties.
"They send it (the Twitter message) out and whoever sees it, goes to the party," Garcia said. "But, that's what they were risking: that other people show up who don't like them."
Marcus Ott, 18, a recent graduate of Cypress-Fairbanks ISD, said he was trying to leave the party when shots rang out. He said two of his brothers were wounded, one in the chest and the other in the elbow. "Everybody was having a good time before I left, and I don't know what happened," Ott said.
Ott and others said there were people at the party affiliated with gangs. No one Monday would say if Stewart or Young were affiliated with a gang. Both have arrest records.
Stewart pleaded guilty earlier this year to a terroristic threat, a misdemeanor in which he and four other men assaulted a Cypress Woods High School student, then threatened to kill him. Months later, Stewart was accused of going to the home of a classmate with three of those men and taking a video game console and a tablet computer. That case was dismissed after the victim stopped cooperating with authorities.
The forgery case against Stewart remains pending.
Young was arrested earlier this year on a charge of evading arrest, but that case was dismissed.
Richardson also had been arrested for evading arrest this year. His case was pending.
Security heightened
Meanwhile, school officials bolstered security at campuses.
"Our sympathies go out to the families of these students whose lives were cut short by this tragedy," said Superintendent Alton Frailey in a statement. "In light of this fact, Katy ISD police will continue to have a greater presence on campus this week so students can feel more secure."
Cypress-Fairbanks ISD released a statement on Monday saying that Young and Stewart were former Cypress Springs High School students.
One of the suspects "withdrew from the district in January 2013 and the other in February 2009," according to the statement.
Officials also postponed a basketball game between the two schools scheduled for Tuesday.
Reporters Mike Glenn and Cindy George contributed to this story.


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The 31st annual Taste of the Town is happening today, Sunday, November 3rd at JetBlue Park from 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
The event not only features over 30 of the areas top rated restaurants, there will also be children's activities and live bands performing.
Also, many NBC2 anchors will make appearances. You can find the schedule, as well as the menus from the participating restaurants, in the NBC2 "Taste of the Town" app.
Entrance to the park is $5 and children under 12 enter FREE. CASH ONLY is accepted the day of the event. Once in the park, you will need to purchase Food and Beverage tickets to purchase the food and beverage from vendors.
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The Recreation Dealers Cooperative Association (REDEX) will unveil a private-label retail initiative during its annual meeting April 28-29 at the Hyatt Hill Country Resort in San Antonio, Texas.
"We didn't have any retail exposure at all," said John Mancinelli, who in March was named executive director of REDEX with offices in Bowling Green, Ky.
REDEX was formed in 1996 as a dealer cooperative and currently has 51 members with combined revenue of about $2 billion who accounted for the sale of 50,000 new and used RVs in 2008.
"We took on a new name — Priority RV Network (www.priorityrvnetwork.com) – and in San Antonio we will be introducing new products and programs and talking about how we will move forward," Mancinelli continued. The organization will retain its REDEX nomenclature for its business-to-business operation, Mancinelli said.
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It's always more fun to DIY. Every week, we'll spare you a trip to the grocery store and show you how to make small batches of great foods at home.
Today: Making your own bagels takes some time, but it's easy once you get over your fears. Thankfully, Kenzi holds our hand throughout the whole process, with a recipe and step-by-step instructions.
The only thing you can do to mess up making your own bagels is to make them, say, square.
This is a promise -- the secret to good bagels is that there really is no secret, other than you don't have to be anywhere near New York City to have perfectly chewy, fresh bagels for breakfast this Sunday morning.
More things that aren't true: that it's the New York water that makes them what they are, that you'll kill the dough by squeezing, forcing it into a bagel shape, that they're too high-maintenance and you'll go running (screaming) back to the grocery store standard.
Please don't do that. If you've ever mixed and kneaded any other dough, this will be a breeze. Let's do it together.
Makes 6 to 8 bagels
3 1/2 cups (1 pound) unbleached flour (see note below)3 teaspoons coarse kosher salt, divided3/4 teaspoon instant yeast1 tablespoon honey (see note below) 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons room temperature or slightly warm water1 teaspoon baking soda1 egg white, optional Seeds!
Note: This recipe is adapted from one by the bread man himself, Peter Reinhart. (Why mess with a good thing?) I use all-purpose flour, but you can swap any amount of it with whole grain flour (like rye or wheat) for a different flavor. Reinhart also uses barley malt syrup, as do most serious bagel people, but honey works just as well. Shall we, then?
Mix the flour, 2 teaspoons of the salt, the yeast, honey, and the water until everything begins to form into dough. You can use a mixer if you like, but it's simpler by hand. It'll be a stiff dough, as there's not much water, but this makes it sturdy enough to withstand a dunk in boiling water later. Feel free to add a bit more water if necessary, but you shouldn't need much.
Let the dough rest for 5 minutes while you find a place in your tiny apartment on which to knead.
Knead on a floured surface for about 3 minutes -- the dough will get smooth, a little tacky.
Now put your lovely little dough ball into an oiled boil, cover it with plastic wrap, and let it hang in the fridge for a few hours, or at least an hour. (I've left it for both 45 minutes and 4 hours, and both batches turned out fine.)
When you're ready to shape the bagels, line a baking sheet with lightly greased parchment paper. Then remove the dough from the fridge, and cut it into 6 or 8 pieces, depending on how large or small you'd like your bagels to be. (I find that 6 pieces yields my kind of bagel: not puny.) Form each piece into a ball, and then each ball into a 10-inch log, with tapered ends. (Don't use any flour on your surface! You'll need the dough to stick just slightly in order for it to change shape.)
To shape the bagels, place one end of one dough log in between your thumb and forefinger, and then wrap it around the rest of your fingers -- the dough ends should overlap by an inch or two -- and squeeze it slightly to bind it together. Once you do this, you can also roll the ends together on a surface to enhance the seal. Extra security is never a bad thing.
Repeat for all of the bagels, then lightly oil them and cover with plastic wrap. Put them in the fridge to proof overnight. Invite guests over for brunch.
About an hour an a half before you want to bake them, pull the bagels out of the fridge to come to room temperature, and fill a large pot (I use a Dutch oven) with at least 4 inches of water. Cover and bring it to a boil. When it boils, add 1 teaspoon of salt and the baking soda, then turn it down to a simmer.
Crank the oven to 500° F.
Now test the bagels by using the float test: fill a bowl with cold water, and place one bagel in it. If it floats, they're all ready to go. If not, you haven't failed: just return it to the baking sheet and let proof for 15 to 20 minutes more, then do the test again.
Onto the boil. If you do not do this, in the opinion of many, what you're making is not a bagel -- it's a round roll with an unexplained hole. So never skip this step.
Working in batches that will fit in your pot, carefully drop each bagel into the simmering water, let poach for 1 minute, and flip with a slotted spoon or a spider. Poach 30 seconds more, and then return each bagel to the baking sheet.
(Science nerds, take heed: this step "sets the crust," meaning it will be chewier, and it won't expand as much during the bake.)
And, the fun part: sprinkle your bagels with whatever topping you want. To help your toppings stick, use an egg white wash, but the residual water from the poach should do the trick, too. Seeds are great, as is big flake or rock salt. Give every bagel a different topping if you want, just don't leave them plain. Who wants a plain bagel? (Really though, get out.)
You're so close: slip them in the oven and reduce the heat to 450° F. Bake for 8 minutes, rotate the sheet, and bake 8 to 12 minutes more, until the bagels are golden brown. Feel free to check the bottom of the bagels as they cook -- if they're getting too brown, just stick another baking sheet underneath them (a baking stone works, too).
Pull them from the oven, and wait an excruciating 30 minutes before you eat them.
Now off with you -- go make bagels and take Reinhart's baker's blessing with you, modified just slightly for bagel-making: may your crust be chewy, and your bread always rise.
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ISTANBUL (AP) — Ryan Lochte won two more races at the short-course world championships in Turkey on Sunday, finishing the event with six golds and one silver. The result matched his medal tally when the biennial championships were held in Dubai in 2010.
Lochte won the 100-meter individual medley, a day after he broke the world record in the event. The five-time Olympic champion finished in 51.21 seconds, ahead of Kenneth To of Australia and George Bovell III of Trinidad and Tobago.
To started well and led at the halfway mark. He held off Lochte over the breaststroke leg, but the American accelerated in the freestyle to move ahead.
Lochte then joined the U.S. team of Matthew Grevers, Kevin Cordes and Thomas Shields to win the 4x100-meter medley relay in 3:21.03, defeating Russia in second place and Australia in third. Lochte's time of 45.22 seconds was the fastest on the team.
He also won silver in the 200 backstroke. Earlier Sunday, he said he was starting to feel tired.
"All the races I have done last week are starting to catch up," he said. "But it is the last day of the tournament and there is always something left in the tank."
Radoslaw Kawecki of Poland beat Lochte and said he had deployed the same tactics as his rival.
"We both wanted to wait until the final 50-75 meters and start pushing really hard. I am happy I came out on top and proved that I was better prepared than Lochte," Kawecki said, adding it felt "great to be better than a world record holder."
Lochte broke the world record in the 100 IM with a time of 50.71 in the semifinals at Sinan Erdem Arena on Saturday, eclipsing the mark set by Peter Mankoc of Slovenia in December 2009. On Friday, the American broke the world record in the 200 IM.


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There's a must-read interview with William Gibson over at the Paris Review, in which he explains what was wrong with cyberpunk: "A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged." He goes on to explain that science fiction, in the twentieth century, was too triumphalist and focused on a white American future, and lacked real details to go with its shiny ideas. "I wanted to see dirt in the corners," says Gibson.
Top image: Burning Chrome cover art by Chris Moore.
The whole interview is terrific, including the part where he explains that the opening sentence is the thing that shapes his novels, and "I don't begin a novel with a shopping list." [Paris Review]


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House Education and Labor Committee Approves Child Nutrition Reauthorization Bill
Statement of CSPI Director of Nutrition Policy Margo G. Wootan
The Center for Science in the Public Interest congratulates Chairman George Miller and strongly supports his Improving Nutrition for America's Children Act (H.R. 5504), which passed out of the House of Representatives Education and Labor Committee today.
This bill includes a landmark provision to get soda and junk food out of school vending machines, which is supported not only by parents, health groups, and the Administration, but also by leading food and beverage companies. The bill also would provide resources and training to improve the nutritional quality of school lunches, expand nutrition education for children, and strengthen school nutrition and physical activity wellness policies.
The bill's passage will hopefully give a nudge to the Senate to pass its child nutrition bill, the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act (S. 3307). That bill passed unanimously out of the Senate Agriculture Committee in March, but has yet to be brought to the Senate floor for a vote. To be sure, there's a lot on the Senate's plate. But unlike a lot of truly contentious issues, passing of child nutrition bill would only require about a day of Senate floor time, and is bipartisan.
The clock is ticking. Congress has less than three weeks left until they go home for summer recess and then, kids go back to school. Both the House of Representatives and Senate need to make our children's health their next priority and vote on child nutrition as soon as possible.
Contact Jeff Cronin (jcronin[at]cspinet.org) or Ariana Stone (astone[at]cspinet.org).


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Location: Downeast
Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 11:57 pm
Post subject: 10186 General Grievous
DHL delivered my copy today, so I thought I'd get the ball rolling with some review elements...
First Impressions:
The box is a lot bigger than I expected, and the official release photos don't quite convey the dimensions. For your reference, the box itself is a just a few inches shorter than the similarly priced Republic Cruiser box - sporting the new flip-top style with the perforations that have to be carefully separated for easier opening.
Price per piece ratio weighs in at a respectable .083, which is decent for a Star Wars set.
Not that the above details matter too much with respect to the quality of a set, but I can honestly say that I felt a lot better about parting with $90 once I got a better grasp on the scale of the set as a whole.
The Build:
As you can see from all the photos floating around on Brickshelf, Grievous is a Technic based set. He would, however, be better categorized as a hybrid set due to a good mix of bricks and plates. This is the first notable quality of 10186 -
it just looks a heck of a lot better
than its earlier counterparts such as the Super Battle Droid, Jango Fett, Vader, etc... So, while the build itself is not particularly interesting, the end result is far more rewarding than the above mentioned Technic characters.
I have already encountered some negative comments regarding Grievous' poseability (sp?). Well, they're justified, but all is not lost. While his feet are integral to the rotating display stand, and the only adjustable section of the legs are the hips, these issues are quite easily solved with some straightforward mods. I know, not what you wanted to hear for ninety bucks, but oh well. On the bright side, his feet look fantastic and can easily be reinforced to support the weight sans display stand.
Same goes for the arms - not as poseable as I'd like, but easily fixed. The set gives you an option by providing an extra set of shoulder joints to set the arms without his 'surprise split' characteristic. With this option, he would hold just two sabers instead of four. I found the look/construction of the forearms and hands to look pretty neat. The four sabers themselves each have a slightly different looking hilt, to give that impression of trophies from defeated Jedi. The head, which looks awesome, is quite adjustable.
for limited articulation, TLC could have done better in this regard.
This set is nothing if not full of potential: A cape fabricated from a decent piece of cloth maybe with a blood red inside lining would look great - I'll be working on that. Along with some mods for better articulation, this becomes a solid buy and worth picking up in my opinion. It's especially cool for someone who likes to mod and tweak here and there. So overall I will give the set a
for a nice mix of parts and means of construction, a great look, and the potential for modification.
I can't wait to see his Wheel Bike built in this scale...HEY RETO, WHAT ARE YOU UP TO THESE DAYS??
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Posted: Fri May 09, 2008 12:34 pm
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Great review! A good read. However pictures in the review would have been nice; I hate having to go dig them up on brickshelf.
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 10:39 am
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It's great that you can make a review so soon of a set that just came out. It would look better with a cape though.
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Posted: Sat May 10, 2008 10:52 am
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Is this out now?!
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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 3:34 pm
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Bought it!
Anyways, I think it's a really cool set. It's a nice 5 hour build for me and I like the attention to detail. It's a bit fragile, if you want to consider that a bad point, but I thought it is well worth my money. I buy all of the Star Wars lego for collection anyways, but I enjoy building them the most out of anything. It's better that taking 5 minutes to build a 10 dollar set. I found that the stickers were in the wrong place, so I moved the little stripes up to the head. Then I looked on google and they are supposed to go on the chest plate, but they look better on the head anyways.
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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 7:04 pm
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Great review. I am in the process of obtaining all the parts.
If you need some help making up a cape, give me a shout. Once I have my Greivous built I will be making one anyway
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Posted: Mon May 12, 2008 10:42 pm
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pics anyone?
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Posted: Sun Jun 08, 2008 8:33 am
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Good review, I want to get this set more now. Too badthere wasn't any pictures though.
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Have you done the Mods yet? Do you have some pictures?
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Work has been way too busy the last few weeks - I only have a template cut out for the cape so far, and I haven't touched the arms for modification yet. Slow going, maybe some pics before long.
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Ok, this is getting wierd now.
I to am flat out with work, and I to have a template made up for a cape. I just need some free time to get it made up properly.
I won't be modifying my Grievous though. I'll be keeping him stock standard, but with only 1 set of arms (2 arms), not the 2 sets (4 arms). Although, the cape I am working on will work in both variations of the set
I'll show you mine, if you show me yours..........hmm, that doesn't sound right
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I just recieved my Grievous today and spent about 4-5 hours building it.
First off, I should say that I got this for $45, and at that price, it was a steal. There were so many good parts. For example, there were several of those 3-way tube pieces of which I have very little. Another thing which I think gets overlooked for this set is the number of black plates and tiles. There were a total of 64 2x2 black tiles in this set. Now for those of you who already have massive collections, this may not seem like much, but for those of us who are new to the game, this is quite nice. I could continue to go on and on about the parts, but suffice it to say, you get your money's worth.
There has been much said about functionality and flimsiness of this set. That is to say, there isn't much, and it is very much so. However, given that this is a UCS set (its numbered in the 10000s) and is designed for display, I think this is to be expected. While I for one would welcome a new sub-theme of the Star Wars theme which uses the exoforce joints to make playable figures of the major characters, it remains to be seen whether LEGO will pick up on this or ignore it. (Also, I'm not entirely sure that it wouldn't confict with the whole "only Hasbro can make action figures" thing, which is stupid, but what are you going to do?)
The bottom line is, for $45, you should definately go out and buy this set. You'd better hurry, too, before the deal is gone (it's always sooner than you think it'll be).
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Well, a half price sale on S@H meant this set was too good to resist. I've just got round to building it.
It's not the most fascinating build, but it looks great when it's done. Certainly an imposing figure when it's finished.
I decided against putting the stickers on the set. There are only 3 and it doesn't detract from the final set being without them.
I could do with getting a cape made up for though as I think that would just top off the set to an absolutel tee.
I'd give it 8/10 as it is a bit wobbly but as a display piece, it doesn't need to be absolutely sturdy.
Oh and a mark knocked off because I got given a 1 x 6 plate in dark grey instead of a 1 x 4 flat in black. This confused me somewhat during the build and I didn't seem to have a spare, so I had to substitute. Still, the replacement part was used under the rotating bit at the top, so it's not visible.
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President Barack Obama praised Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley for big investments in education during tough times.
Obama appeared with O'Malley at Bowie State University in hopes of giving him a boost in his rematch with Republican former Gov. Robert Ehrlich. Obama said Democrats need to be "just as fired up as you were in 2008" when he was elected.
EMS personnel treated about three dozen complaining about dizziness and fainting spells at the event, Prince George's County Fire and EMS spokesman Mark Brady said. Two were taken to area hospitals, though they weren't seriously ill.
Most were suffering from exhaustion and dehydration, Brady said. Temperatures were in the 70s, and crowd members stood shoulder to shoulder in the sun. Most of those experiencing problems were seniors citizens.
Obama interrupted his speech to point out that someone in the crowd needed a hand. He joked that people should make sure they drink enough water and have enough to eat, particularly when they're going to hear politicians speak.
Earlier, several Maryland members of Congress, including House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Sen. Benjamin Cardin, spoke to the crowd of hundreds to warm them up for the president and the governor.
Voter turnout will be important, Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler said. He urged the crowd to go to the polls. Gansler said if Maryland voters don't step up, the president could be surrounded by Republican governors, a reference to Virginia's Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell to the south of the nation's capital.
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Though the syncing dialog's never were consistent, syncing worked for me for quite some time now - Always started syncing from the device ... et voila.
I now have a new Google Pixel and have successfully moved DJO to the new phone.
I also successfully re-paired CL with the device. So far, everything seems ok.
The issue now is that the sync does not take place. When I start the sync from the device, CL on the desktop does see/detect it and starts spinning the wheel in the system tray.
It tries to connect .. after some time a message comes up to tell to click OK and start syncing from the device ... Hey, that's what I just did ?!?
Trying to start the sync from CL ends in trying to connect and the same message to start from the device ... nothing more ever happens except for an ending message that the sync has not been terminated.
How do I get this to run?
I repeatedly tried to re-pair the device - there seems not to be an issue there and CL reacts on the sync request from the device.


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Colorado author helps you become Good To Go
Denver author and former radio DJ Jo Myers' book, "Good To Go," is aimed at "anyone over 18," she says, but it's especially important for anyone beginning to contemplate retirement. (And that includes those of us who suspect that our "retirement" will look an awful lot like our current lives.)
"Good To Go" walks readers through everything they need to think about before signing your advance directives.
Among the things that she suggests is something you probably have not thought about: A Shovel Buddy. That's Myers' term for a very, very good friend who can be trusted to root through the things that you do not want your children and other relatives to stumble upon when they're sorting through your earthly possessions. A Shovel Buddy is the one who will make sure to securely dispose of any potentially embarrassing (or worse) books, marital aids, and other stashes. To be blunt, if you do not want your grandchildren or children finding your secret erotica or other evidence that you sometimes strayed from the straight-and-narrow, then you need a Shovel Buddy. And one you can count upon to get rid of the goods without tattling (or tweeting or blogging).
Make of this what you will: Myers wrote this book shortly before being diagnosed with breast cancer. She bounced back vibrantly, and created "Goes Great With Chemo," a bright, useful blog for others making the same unplanned journey through cancerland.


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House plays immigration small ball
Republican leaders have a message for the bipartisan House gang trying to craft an immigration bill: Your time is up.
The group labored behind closed doors for four years to find common ground but hasn't actually released a bill. Now that conservative Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho) has dashed and the Senate is forging ahead, leadership is moving on.
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Top Republicans, several of whom spoke anonymously to POLITICO to describe internal strategy, want to go forward with the plan to pass small-bore immigration bills from Virginia Rep. Bob Goodlatte's Judiciary Committee.
( PHOTOS: 20 quotes on immigration reform)
Judiciary will spend two weeks marking up immigration bills, starting next week, when the panel takes up South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy's bill on enforcement measures. How quickly are they moving? Proposed amendments to that bill must be submitted by Thursday evening GOP sources said. More bills are sure to come in the following days and weeks.
That decision has several long-term consequences: If the House can pass a comprehensive immigration bill, it would firmly establish the chamber's position on issues ranging from the pathway to citizenship to visas, border security to health care. But by playing small-ball, the House will most likely be forced into a formal conference negotiation with an eventual Senate bill with a small set of narrow policy positions. And that could weaken the House's hand significantly.
( Also on POLITICO: Reid warns Republicans on border security)
"The Republican leadership needs to make their own decision, but if they end up with three small-bore right-wing bills, they're going to be in a position in conference where the only comprehensive bill is the Senate bill," said Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), a member of the bipartisan group. "I don't think that's the position they want to be in."
Speaker John Boehner has told colleagues and staff that he wants to pass some sort of immigration bill through the House before the August recess. Just 25 legislative days remain until the House wraps up its work for the summer.
GOP leadership appears to be seriously considering an option to take up a Senate-passed bill and put it through committee —if it passes the upper chamber with strong support. That would, at least, give Republicans the opportunity to produce a parallel product that matches up better with the Senate's framework — although House committees would most likely tear it to shreds.
( PHOTOS: At a glance: The Senate immigration deal)
Leaders are also not completely ruling out adopting part of the gang's proposal — they're mulling over cherry-picking certain elements for individual markup. That wouldn't sit well with Democrats, who see the proposal as a carefully negotiated compromise.
But the rapid-fire decision to go with the smaller bills isn't making conservatives happy, either.
Conservatives, already up in arms that Republican leadership is even moving forward with comprehensive immigration reform, are pushing back forcefully against the abrupt committee markup. Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa), an outspoken critic of the immigration reform moving through Congress, said the Judiciary Committee process "isn't designed for a serious deliberative process."