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Ethics Advisory Opinion No. 73
March 30, 2004
Issued By: City Attorney's Office
I. Issues
May a Zoning Commissioner host a fundraiser for an incumbent Council Member?
May a Zoning Commissioner represent or lobby for an architectural firm before a school board?
II. Background Facts
The Zoning Commission consists of eleven members appointed by the City Council. The Commission recommends the boundaries of original zoning districts and appropriate regulations to be enforced within those boundaries. It also holds public hearings and prepares final reports for the City Council on recommendations for changes for boundaries or regulations within a zoning district.
In this inquiry, a zoning commissioner asks whether he may host a fundraiser for the campaign of an incumbent City Council member. The zoning commissioner also asks whether he may represent or lobby for an architectural firm before a school board. This anticipated representation would not involve zoning issues and nor would it be brought before the Zoning Commission for consideration.
III. The Ethics Code – Political Activity
The City Ethics Code sets out standards of conduct for city officials and employees. Under Part A, Section 2 (currently codified in Ethics Code Section 2-42), officials include
members of all boards, commissions, committees, and other bodies created by the City Council pursuant to federal or state law or City ordinance, including entities that may be advisory only in nature; and board members of any entity who are appointed by the City Council to such board membership.
Under this definition, a member of the Zoning Commission is a city official. As a city official, the commissioner is subject to the standards of conduct set out in the Code of Ethics.
Part B, Section 8 of the Ethics Code (currently codified in Ethics Code Section 2-50) imposes the following restrictions on a city official's political activity:
a. Influencing Subordinates. A city official or employee shall not, directly or indirectly, induce or attempt to induce any city subordinate of the official or employee:
1. to participate in an election campaign, contribute to a candidate or political committee, or engage in any other political activity relating to a particular party, candidate or issue, or
2. to refrain from engaging in any lawful political activity;
A general statement merely encouraging another person to vote does not violate this rule.
b. Paid Campaigning. A city official or employee shall not accept any thing of value, directly or indirectly, for political activity relating to an item pending on the ballot, if he or she participated in, or provided advice relating to, the exercise of discretionary authority by a city body that contributed to the development of the ballot item.
c. Official vehicles. A city official or employee shall not display or fail to remove campaign materials on any city vehicle under his or her control.
Limitations on the use of public property and resources for political purposes are imposed by Section 7 of Part B (Public Property and Resources) (currently codified in Ethics Code Section 2-49)
Under Part B, Section 7, (currently codified in Ethics Code Section 2-49), the zoning commissioner, as a city official, cannot use, request or permit the use of city facilities, personnel, equipment or supplies for private purposes, including political activities.
IV. Other Limitations on Political Activity
A. State Law
Section 8 (currently codified in Ethics Code Section 2-50) refers also to the limitations on political activity set out in state law, the City Charter and the City Personnel Rules. State law prohibitions apply to state employees. Because the zoning commissioner is not a state employee, these provisions would not apply. See V.T.C.A. Government Code §§556.001 – 556.005.
B. The City Personnel Rules
The City Personnel Rules impose far stricter limits on political activity than the City Ethics Code. Rule III precludes any employee from making a campaign contribution or from taking part in the management affairs or political campaign of any political party. Rule I defines "employee" as "one filling a position under "Classified or Unclassified Service," with the exception of elected officials and boards or commissions or individuals appointed by City Council." The zoning commissioner, therefore, is specifically excluded from the definition of employee for purposes of the City Personnel Rules and these limitations are inapplicable.
C. The City Charter
Article VI of the City Charter established the Municipal Civil Service and provisions related to the management of that service. Section 78(c)-(g) within Article VI sets out specific limitations on political activity:
(c) No City employee shall
continue in such position after becoming a candidate for nomination or election
to any City or
(d) No City employee may circulate petitions for city council candidates or city elections, receive or solicit any contribution for any city council candidate or city election;
(e) No City employee shall make any contribution to the campaign funds of any candidate for City office or take any part in the management or affairs or political campaign of any candidate for City office, further than in the exercise of his rights as a citizen to express his opinion and to cast his vote:
(f) No employee of the City may
wear city council campaign buttons nor distribute literature at work or in a
city uniform or in the offices or building of the City of
(g) City employee organizations shall not be allowed to make any contribution to the campaign funds of any candidate for City office or take part in the management or affairs of a political campaign for City office, further than to express opinions, except as authorized by state law.
As with the City Personnel Rules, the trustee is not an employee and therefore is not subject to the restrictions listed in Section 78.
Article XII (General Provisions), Section 140(b), though, does impose one limitation on board members. It states:
No appointee of any City board
or commission shall continue in such position after becoming a candidate for
nomination or election to any City or
With only that exception, the City Charter does not restrict the commissioner from engaging in political activity, including contributing or participating in a city election campaign.
V. Summary of Prohibitions and Restrictions on Political Activity
Under the Ethics Code, a city official, including a zoning commissioner, must abide by the restrictions on political activity as set out in Part B, Section 8 (currently codified in Ethics Code Section 2-50). In short, an official cannot induce or attempt to induce any city subordinate of that official to participate or contribute to a campaign, or to refrain from any lawful political activity. The official cannot accept anything of value for political activity relating to an item pending on the ballot if that person contributed to the development of the ballot item. Further, the official cannot display campaign materials on any city vehicle. Under Part B, Section 7 (currently codified in Ethics Code Section 2-49) the official cannot use or permit the use of city facilities, personnel or equipment for private purposes including political activity.
Some of the general provisions of the Ethics Code may also apply in this situation:
Part B, Section 2 of the Code (currently codified in Ethics Code Section 2-44) prohibits all city officials from using their position "to unfairly advance or impede private interests, or to grant or secure, or attempt to grant or secure, for any person . . . any form of special consideration, treatment, exemption, or advantage beyond that which is lawfully available to other persons." Under this section, the official cannot use his position as a zoning commissioner to advance the interests of any campaign for which he might work.
Part B, Section 4 (currently codified in Ethics Code Section 2-46) also imposes an on-going obligation upon city officials to refrain from using their position to obtain confidential information for any purpose other than the performance of their duties. It also prohibits them from intentionally or knowingly disclosing such information gained as a result of their position. Therefore, the official cannot obtain or disclose confidential information for any purpose, other than those related to carrying out his duties as a member of the Zoning Commission.
Finally, under the City Charter, the zoning commissioner would resign his position if he or she were to file for election to a city or county office. Article XII, Section 140(b).
VI. The Ethics Code – Representation of Private Interests before a School Board
The inquiry also addresses whether a zoning commissioner may represent or lobby on behalf of an architectural firm before a school board for compensation. The matter in question does not involve zoning and will not come before the Zoning Commission for consideration.
Part B, Section 5(a) and (b) of the Ethics Code (currently codified in Ethics Code Section 2-47 (a) and (b)) states the following:
a) Representation by a Member of the Board. A city official or employee who is a member of a board or other city body shall not represent any person, group, or entity:
1) before that board or body;
2) before city staff having responsibility for making recommendations to, or taken any action on behalf of, that board or body, unless the board or body is only advisory in nature; or
3) before a board or other city body which has appellate jurisdiction over the board or body of which the city official or employee is a member, if any issue relates to the official's or employee's official duties.
b) Representation Before the City.
1) General Rule. A city official or employee shall not represent for compensation any person, group, or entity, other than himself or herself, or his or her spouse or minor children, before the city. . . .
2) Exception for Board Members. The rule stated in subsection (b)(1) does not apply to a person who is classified as a city official only because he or she is an appointed member of a board or other city body.
As was described in the inquiry, the proposed
representation or lobbying will take place before a school board. The school board is a separate political
subdivision from the city.
To avoid any appearance of impropriety, the commissioner should take care in his non-city employment to not use city property or resources, including the prestige of his office with the Zoning Commission, to advance any outside private interest. Part B, Section 7 (currently codified in Ethics Code Section 2-49).
VI. Conclusion
The zoning commissioner may contribute to or work for the campaign of a candidate for City Council or Mayor. He may also participate in outside employment in representing an architectural firm before an independent school district. However, the he must continue to abide by the standards set forth in the City Ethics Code as discussed in this memorandum.


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What's blooming in the Valley in April? Some sensational low-maintenance cacti that will be right at home in your Phoenix landscaping. Perfect for water conservation, cactus flowers rival roses in beauty. You've got a range of sizes to pick from, as well as variety in flower color, texture, and overall plant color too.
Argentine Cactus
Technically known as Echinopsis candicans, and sometimes referred to as Giant Echinops, this is a beautiful plant both in bloom and when it's not. The Argentine, which is pictured above, only reaches 3 feet tall, but can spread out to 6 feet wide or more with age. It's bloom time if March to April, so it's already in color at the beginning of the month. Like all xeriscaping plants, it needs occasional deep-root irrigation to perform at it's best as a landscaping asset. The fruits are purple, and form when the spring blooming finishes.
The Argentine Cactus' flowers are multi-layered with white petals with light red to pink back layers and yellow centers, a truly remarkable sight. The delightfully fragrant flowers are about 8 inches wide, and it's a night-blooming cactus, but they are still open early in the morning, and will remain open on cloudy days. The perfect spot for it in your landscape design is where the breeze will carry the scent to your favorite patio chair where you can fully enjoy it on spring evenings. It's great at the curb too, but no one relaxes out there.
Hedgehog Cactus
Some call the Echinocereus engelmannii the Strawberry Hedgehog Cactus, because it's said that the fruits taste like strawberries. However, most people leave them for wildlife and song birds to eat.
This xeriscaping plant is valued for its small size almost as much as it is for the incredible beauty of the blooms. The stems are columnar, but never reach more than a foot tall. A clump forms by branching from the base, making it a great choice for tight spots in the Phoenix landscape design where color from April through August is desirable. It does well in full sun to light shade.
You would be hard pressed to ignore the Hedgehog Cactus in bloom. The color is intense, a range from hot pink to brilliant fuschia and purple. There are also 8 named varieties of Echinocereus engelmannii, so we see lighter pinks and even red blooms around, but the most common one is the Strawberry variety. The flowers remain open for only 5 days, but it new ones appear until August.
The more established your Hedgehog is, the more brilliant color it will add to your landscaping. It's also a great container plant, but needs that periodic deep-watering and well-draining soil one must expect with desert plants.
Purple Prickly Pear Cactus
While it adds color to the landscape year around, Opuntia violacea var. santa rita really comes into it's own in spring. Sometimes called the Santa Rita Prickly Pear, this shrubby cactus erupts in bloom from April to May.
Growing much taller than the first two cacti we've discussed here, this Prickly Pear reaches up to 6 feet high and wide over time. It's best in full sun and extremely drought tolerant, but you definitely want to give it a deep soak now and then in summer to keep the root system robust and the pads plump. Not seeing to this can put your plant in distress, which invites pests and disease in all plants.
The flowers are cream to yellow colors, and all are formed on the tops of the upper pads of each stem forming a ray along the ridge. Purple Prickly Pears stay in bloom for weeks, and then form colorful fruits. A handsome plant that deserves a spot in anyone's Phoenix landscaping.
Black Spined Prickly Pear Cactus
The Opuntia macrocentra sails through full sun summer heat nicely. Some people mistakenly identify this one as Engelman's Prickly Pear, which has decidedly green pads, where this one has very bluish pad kissed with purple highlights. The yellow blooms have dark orange-red centers that start opening in April, and continue through early summer.
A shrubby cactus of manageable size, you'll not find it difficult to find the right location in the yard. This prickly pear grows 2-3 feet tall by 3-4 feet wide with a long blooming period. Add the gorgeous coloring of the pads, which can range from silvery blue to almost turquoise, and it's a stunning specimen year around.
Give it good drainage and infrequent deep soaking to keep the pads plump in summer, and it will reward you with a handsome Phoenix xeriscaping presence.


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Miniatures for Sword & Sorcery: Part 8 - commoners and monks
Commoners (or non-combatants) are miniatures that have a lot of use in rpg's. A combat becomes a lot more interesting when the villains are among civilians, the heroes need to organize defense of a village full of peasants or the heroes will anger the townsfolk when they are surrounded by hundreds of them.
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HANCEVILLE, ALA. – Wallace State baseball coach Randy Putman achieved 1,000 career victories with the Lions on Sunday after a pair of convincing wins over Calhoun at James C. Bailey Stadium.
And, in a season that has been impressive across the board, Wallace State made sure Putman earned the milestone without too much drama. The Lions scored 23 runs in the doubleheader, including hitting six homers on the day. Wallace State won 13-1 in eight innings and 10-0 in five innings.
"I'm very proud of all the guys I have now and all I've had in the past. I'm very thankful that God has given me the health to do the same things I did 28 years ago when I started with this program. This was fun. These guys were determined today (Sunday) they were going to make it happen, and I appreciate them being a part of it," said Putman, whose players celebrated by each dousing him with water down the third-base line. "We needed to take care of business after we split with Calhoun (last Thursday). I thought we played our best games of the year."
Wallace State moved to 27-5 on the season and improved to 7-1 in Alabama Community College Conference (ACCC) play after winning three of four games against the Warhawks. The Lions have also swept a four-game conference series against Snead State this season.
Putman is currently in his 28th season at Wallace State and has guided the Lions to the postseason in 25 of his previous 27 seasons, winning seven conference championships and making six National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) World Series appearances. Putman was inducted into the Alabama Junior College Hall of Fame in 1991, the NJCAA Coaches Hall of Fame in 2006 and the Alabama Coaches Hall of Fame in January 2009.
During his tenure at Wallace State, Putman has coached current major league players Craig Kimbrel of the Boston Red Sox, a five-time All-Star, Derek Holland of the Chicago White Sox and Jake Elmore of the Toronto Blue Jays. Zelous Wheeler, Graham Godfrey and Terry Jones have also cracked the major leagues after playing for Putman, in addition to many other current and former players who have played professionally.
As was the case on Sunday, it's just as special for Putman to see former Lions stop by James C. Bailey Stadium to take in a game or two.
"It's such a big thrill to see former players and to hear how successful they are in life. That's important to me," Putman said.
Wallace State freshman Kevin Bryant Jr. was familiar with program after his dad, Kevin Bryant Sr., was among the first players to suit up for Putman in the late 1980s.
"I grew up hearing stories about coach Putman, and it's awesome to be a part of this day for him. It's a great experience and even better because we have a team of grinders. We work hard every day and get after it every game," said Bryant, a Corner High graduate.
For good measure, Bryant was 3-for-3 in the second game of the doubleheader. He homered, tripled and had a pair of RBIs.
Even the Calhoun roster sports a player whose dad played for Putman early in his Wallace State career.
In the opener, Wallace State's bats were on fire from the very first inning. The Lions plated three runs in the opening stanza and added four runs in the third for an early 7-1 cushion.
Wallace State ended the game in the eighth on a three-run blast by Zack Gipson, his first of the season and the fifth in the contest for the Lions.
Dalton Sinquefield belted a pair of homers and finished with four RBIs, Palmer Ford hit a three-run shot and Dalton Cobb added a solo homer among his two hits.
Billy Reed had a double among two hits and scored two runs for Wallace State, Kolby Robinson had an RBI single, and Heath Haskins, Cole Collins and Austin Odom each had a single and scored a run.
Heath Olive (1-0) was the winning pitcher in the opener, scattering a run on two hits over five innings. He struck out six and walked two.
Seth McWaters and Trevor Sanders combined to pitch three scoreless innings out of the bullpen.
Blake Rivera continued his stellar freshman campaign in the second game. Rivera (6-0) tossed a two-hit shutout over five innings, striking out 10 Calhoun batters.
"It's awesome to be a part of the 1,000th win. I hope it means a lot to coach Putman that it was this group who got there. He helps us want to improve our game as individuals and as a team," Rivera said. "I love pitching for this team. We knew we had a chance to have a good team, and everything is clicking right now."
Wallace State grabbed an early 6-0 lead with a six-run second inning.
Reed's walk-off hit in the fifth clinched win No. 1000 for Putman. Reed finished 2-for-4 with two RBIs and a stolen base.
Sinquefield finished 2-for-3 with three RBIs, Cobb went 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored, Justin Henle singled twice and scored three runs, Kolby Robinson had an RBI single and Ford and Collins each had a single and scored a run.
Wallace State has scored more than 10 runs in nine games this season.
"I was more worried about beating Calhoun than the 1,000th win. Calhoun is a good team, so I knew we had to play good to win the series. I couldn't be more proud of the way we played. If we continue to play like that, we'll have a chance in the end," said Putman, who also thanked a handful of individuals including his wife and two daughters, Wallace State President Dr. Vicki Karolewics, Vice President Dr. Tomesa Smith, Director of Athletics Paul Bailey and assistant coach Chad Shannon.
Putman's career record currently stands at 1,000-455 (.687 winning percentage).


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How I'm pedalling away on my own steam
On day 2 of his bike tour Kim Bielenberg finds a lost railway wilderness in Waterford, tastes a famous blaa, and discovers it's a long way to Tipperary...
It's the second day of my bike trip across Ireland and already I am jelly-legged, disoriented, and sunburnt to a crisp. Dismounting after a few hours in the saddle, I feel like a ship's passenger walking on dry land after a long voyage. It does not feel quite right. Should my legs not be rotating?
On the previous evening, I flagged down a bus in the depths of the Wexford countryside and the driver kindly allowed me to put the bike in the luggage compartment for no extra charge. So, it was on to Waterford.
As a local historian, Jack Birchall tells me: "This is a place where Vikings came to rob and plunder, and then settled down as politicians."
I go for a spin along the quay in the city centre, and it remains traffic-clogged as ever, partly because of road works.
After just a few hours on the road, weaving between buses and juggernauts, I have discovered that Irish cycle lanes are a bit like Green Party governments - they don't last very long and they usually end in a mess.
The cycle lanes in Waterford are no exception.
Having left the road, however, I find the city had a raffish, salty dog seafarer's charm; the people are among the friendliest in the country.
I stop off at Tom Maher's pub on O'Connell Street.
Under the guidance of its present co-owner, Bernard Kelly, the pub has undergone an earth-shattering revolution recently. In 2012, the management finally made the radical decision to serve women.
"I took over the pub from my late aunt Mary. Her husband, Tom Maher, owned the pub for many decades and they did not allow women in at all."
So how did the family avoid prosecution under equality legislation? "Our defence was that we did not have a female toilet," says Bernard. "So we could not facilitate women."
When Tom Maher married Mary in 1969, it was around the time of the first moon-landing. A customer turned to Tom as he read the headline in the paper: "Do you see this, Tom? A man has landed on the Moon."
Tom replied: "That's nothing, there's a woman in Maher's."
Bernard Kelly's decision to open up the pub to both genders has proved to be a wise business move: "Women in the city are mad for the pub, because they are curious to see what it is like," he says.
And when I visit, the customers are mostly women.
After a comfortable stay at the friendly family-run Granville Hotel, I mount the saddle reluctantly and set off for the village of Kilmeadan, 15 km away, at noon. Foolishly, I didn't take the advice of a local man, who told me he used to cycle from Waterford to Donegal as a teenager, camping along the way.
"You should cycle early in the day, and then cycle in the late afternoon and evening.Take a break in the middle of the day."
Setting off for Kilmeadan, I was not going on a hunt for the "fillet of cheddar" that bears its name.
I was hoping to travel on a train that leaves from there and puffs along the banks of the River Suir on a short section of the abandoned Cork to Waterford railway.
But first, there was the bike ride. A long, and apparently never-ending, hill leads out of the city, and I cannot make my way up it without stopping several times to walk.
I pass the closed Waterford Crystal plant that runs like a scar along one side of the road. There is little sign of economic uplift here, and several factories have closed. There are many men of working age walking dogs.
Local people are now pinning their hopes on tourism, and look enviously westwards to the Wild Atlantic Way.
Local TD John Deasy wants Waterford to be included in the Wild Atlantic Way, but that may be a stretch. Where next? Athlone?
When I arrive in Kilmeadan, I am shocked to discover that the cheese is no longer made there. Healthy looking dairy cattle graze the fields nearby, but the factory has closed. The famous fillet of cheddar is made in Co Kilkenny.
The big cheese may have left, but the restored Waterford and Suir Valley Railway has brought new life to the village.
The small engine and carriages travel along the disused Waterford to Cork line through a lost landscape unseen from a car. On one side is a broad stretch of the meandering River Suir - reed beds, mud flats, herons and swans. On the other side of the track, one catches glimpses of the Mount Congreve Estate, home to one of the biggest collections of exotic plants in the world.
Noel O'Sullivan used to be a cheesemaker in Kilmeadan. Now, he is a volunteer train driver on the line.
"You should have been here before the line was restored," says Noel. "It was completely desolate and overgrown."
At one time, this line was part-owned by the Dukes of Devonshire, whose Irish seat is still Lismore Castle.
The railway was at its busiest in the summer months when "bathing trains" brought daytrippers down the line to Dungarvan. But this era of passenger travel came to an end in 1967 when the line closed.
The railway is now run as a charitable company staffed by volunteers.
Maria Kyte, the manager, tells me it is now hoped that it will be part of the new Deise Greenway - a 31-km cycle route that is being built along the disused railway between Waterford and Dungarvan.
I cannot leave Waterford without trying a blaa, the floury bap that is sometimes used as a nickname for local people. It is estimated that up to 12,000 of the rolls are gobbled up by Suirsiders every day.
To non-cognoscenti like me, it may seem like any other bap, but it was recently given the status of a designated food by the EU - similar to that of champagne.
Makers of blaas can only use the term if they are baked in Waterford. So, none of your Belfast blaas or your Berlin blaas from now on.
So fortified with this local speciality, I set off for Tipperary.
It's not a long way to go by car, but by bike it's a long, long way to Tipperary; it's a long way to go.
See tomorrow as Kim heads on to Tipperary
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text: Grateful Family Keeps Hope Strong at Lovin' Cup Spring Benefit Fundraiser helps Golisano Children's Hospital purchase state-of-the-art pediatric equipment Wednesday, March 14, 2012 Tweet Mason Mitchell has remained in the spotlight since he was featured as one of five Golisano Children's Hospital Miracle Kids in 2008. The Mitchell family was inspired to give back to the hospital following Mason's successful treatment for an extremely rare condition known as a congenital diaphragmatic hernia. In four years, the Keeping Hope Strong Benefit, held in Mason's honor, has raised more than $55,100 for Golisano Children's Hospital.Funds raised at the benefit have helped Golisano Children's Hospital at the University of Rochester Medical Center to meet a specific need each year. In 2008, the Mitchells' support helped renovate a family room in the hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit – where the Mitchells spent much of their time during Mason's first few months of life. Funds raised in 2009 and 2010 helped to purchase pediatric laparoscopic surgical equipment, state-of-the-art tools that are safer and less invasive for children, for the Pediatric Surgical Suite. Now, the Mitchell family is hoping to meet their $50,000 goal to purchase a pediatric anesthesia monitor, to help pediatric surgeons provide children with the most efficient monitoring during surgical procedures."The passion that the Mitchell family has for helping the Children's Hospital is so incredible," said Michael Fahy, assistant director of Advancement at Golisano Children's Hospital. "They truly care about making a difference, and their long-term commitment really shows how much it means to them."This year's Keeping Hope Strong Benefit begins 3 p.m. Saturday, March 24, at Lovin' Cup, located at 300 Park Point Drive at RIT. The event, which is free and open to the public, will feature live music from John Akers, raffles, and a live auction beginning at 7 p.m. Raffle tickets are $3 each or five for $10 and can be purchased at the event. For $25, attendees can get five raffle tickets, a beer and a chance to be entered into the 50/50 raffle. These can be purchased in advance or at the door.For more information, to purchase tickets in advance or to learn how to help, please call Despina and Scott Mitchell at (585) 703-6088. Media Contact Public Relations Department (585) 275-3676


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Cincinnati Patio Homes For Sale in Loveland's Heritage Green
Heritage Green offers Cincinnati patio homes in the Deerfield Township area of Loveland, so no Loveland city tax! With over 150 patio homes, this established pool & tennis community has plenty of patio homes, but finding one for sale might be a bit of a challenge because once people are in, they don't like to leave! And why would they? The Heritage Green patio homes are affordable (expect $200's), the yard maintenance is taken care of, and with these patio homes just around the corner from the I-71 Fields Ertel interchange, you have ready access to plenty of shopping and dining, and Regal Cinemas offers at 16 screen stadium seating style theater for first run flicks.
While you won't find new construction patio homes in Heritage Green, the fact that the homes are 20+ years old means you have fully grown trees, so shade and more privacy than offered by brand new construction. The Heritage Green patio homes aren't cookie cutter, with a variety of styles and both ranch and two story, although expect primarily ranch style homes. The bulk of the patio homes are based on the Carriage Run Circle, and a number of side cul de sac minimize traffic.
Heritage Green patio homes are low maintenance, with your landscaping, mowing, mulching and snow shoveling included in your monthly HOA fee! However, other outside maintenance activities such as roofs and other exterior features of the home are your responsibility. Click Search Heritage Green patio homes for sale for Cincinnati MLS information. Be aware that not all matches are patio homes. If in doubt, contact us and we'll clarify for you. The Google Map below will also help clarify which sections of The Villages on Heritage Green are patio homes and which ones are "regular" single family homes.
Heritage Green Patio Home Key Facts:
Municipality: Deerfield Township
School District: Kings Local
Developer: Mercurio Homes
Built: 1987-1994
Number/Type of Homes: 150+ patio homes. Primarily ranch style, but some two story homes.
Bedrooms: 2-4, heavy emphasis on 2 & 3.
Size: Per Warren County records, from 1322 and up, majority are under 3000 sq ft. Potential for more square footage by finishing lower levels
Lot size: typical patio home lots, .13 to .25, but expect .2 acres or less
Construction: Brick/vinyl
HOA Fees: Approximately $166 monthly. Managed by Towne Properties
Entrance: From Montgomery Rd
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Verizon Kills Off the Verizon Hub
While we gave a mediocre review to the first shipping version of the Hub, we were excited about new versions shown at this year's CTIA show which offered YouTube, MySpace and Twitter widgets. Those models will now, apparently, never be sold.
The Verizon Hub died from a terminal service plan and confused retail strategy involving an expensive $34.99 monthly fee and a perplexing requirement that owners also have a Verizon Wireless cell phone. It is survived, only barely, by its first cousin the AT&T Home Manager. Originally posted to Gearlog.


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How To Delete Payza Account :- Payza is a online payment platform that lets its users to pay for any item or products they purchase online. The website let its users to create or edit account on their website, link your bank account and exchange funds, make payment to the product you purchase from ecommerce store, receive payment or transfer it to your bank account. We have received some mails from our website readers that they want to delete their account from Payza website. When we studied about this topic that why users are deleting their account from the website we figure out that most of the people who are deleting their account from the website are receiving mails from company like promotional or newsletter which is making their mailbox look spammed while other members say that they are using other payment platform to purchase item and some members says that they are not purchasing any item online so want to delete their account.
If you deleting your account just because of their newsletter or mail you can either mark the mail as spam by clicking on spam button given at top of your mail button or unsubscribe the mail by clicking unsubscribe link given at the bottom of the mail. If your reasons are other then i will guide you step by step method on how to delete your account from Payza website.
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You can delete your account or other account from the Payza website by following the below mentioned steps :-
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- Go to the following url "https://www.payza.com" and sign-in to your account.
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With pain throughout my body.
My neck hurts, by back hurts, legs hurt too.
Everyone in the theatre studio was asking if you got any pain.
Later on, Maki would say that it's normal to have pain since we just started learning it.
As usual, we started with warm-ups.
After that, my legs did not hurt that much bcos it was used to the movements.
But my back still hurt a little.
After warm-up, we did the stretching thing again and then walk/run around the room.
The ultimate aim was that there is no one telling us when to change or stop.
Someone has to give initiate the command to the group.
It doesn't matter if you hit someone, it is unavoidable.
The next activity we had was to mentally think of 2 people in the room and try to form an equilateral triangle (triangle with all side of the same length).
And once you get it, you are suppose to jump and shout "yay".
The objective is to get everyone to stop.
Quite a fun game.
Then we did the free air painting,
And the worm in the body activity.
It is a free expression activity which after some time I hated it cos I ran out of ideas.
The worm in the body is to think that there is a worm moving around your body and controlling which ever part it moves to.
The aim of it is to let the worm control your movements and not your mind controlling the worm to control your body parts.
After that, we did the no communications group work.
In groups of 4 or 5, we have to stand in a line as a group and move across the room without any communications.
Someone has to start the movements.
And later, we played the continuous freeze pose game with the black boxes.
The instructors, Hitoshi and Maki
No communications
Continuous freeze pose with black box
Great news, at the end of the workshop, we are told that everyone is selected for the rehearsals and performance.
My very first performance at the Singapore Arts Festival.
Do look out for Ginder-Man.
I'll email all my friends to tell them about it.
More pain to come,
P.s. There is no time for me to take pictures during the workshop so the photos in the entries are taken by esplanade staff and they uploaded them on the Grinder-Man group in Facebook.


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The beautiful hill station of Panchgani is at an altitude of 1334 meter and is the perfect getaway for a quiet and relaxing holiday. Hill Resorts in India offers online booking for hotel accommodation and tour or travel packages to Panchgani, so you can inquire about a suitable holiday package for yourself and enjoy a great time in Panchgani, Maharashtra.
The beautiful Panchgani is 16kms from Mahabaleshwar. It is situated in the Western Ghat and is easily accessible from Mumbai and Pune.
Sites to Visit
If you are on a tour of Panchgani, try exploring the town, riding on the back of a pony. You can ride through little villages and farms and imagine yourself touring the countryside, quite like Don Quixote. On a serious note though, if you really wish to see the scenic beauty, then pony ride is a good option or else you can take a taxi or rent a bicycle. Do not forget to check out the enchanting River Krishna while you are there.
Panchgani is quite famous for good educational institutes. There are some of the best boarding schools in this beautiful hill station. Panchgani has many old buildings of the colonial era and Parsi houses that are worth a look.
While you are on your tour to Panchgani, do not forget to try delicious local food at the food stalls, which offer a wide array of dishes.
How to Reach
The airport closest to Panchgani is in Pune, and is at a distance of 98kms form the hill station. The railway station is at Pune, which is about 98kms from Panchgani. The closest railway station to Panchgani is close to Wathar.
By road, one can easily reach Panchgani, since it is well linked to Pune and Mumbai.
Best time to visit
Panchgani has a pleasant weather all through the year. Though the monsoons in Panchgani see a lot of rain. The best time to visit Panchgani, is from September to May.
Facilities are available at the venna lake with pedal and rowboats. Tapola on the backwaters of the koyna dam with the facility of speddboat's an ideal getaway for children and adults alike.
Cycles are available on hire but cyclers have to careful while moving around especially because of the steep descends and sharp corners. Cycling is fun around lush greenery.
Horse riding
Horse and ponies are available at various points even some hotels arrange at the hotel itself. Venna lake has plenty of horses and a ride along the venna lake on red soil is really photogenic.
Again near the venna lake and saj resort and suman raj resort at metgutad on the way to panchgani from mahabaleshwar. Nice tracks and thrill in fresh air.
Bee keeping center
An educational tour since 1947 to the local bee-keeping center provides a fascinating insight to the honeybee rearing and honey collection process a live demonstration open as per government timings.
Wheat Rust Research center
Started in 1949 during the british regime is the only of its type in India studying the various wheat disease and remedies is an excellent insight the geographic and the fauna , floral information about the hill station with glass houses to exhibit rare flora of this plateau.
Gardens and Parks
The Pratapsingh Park managed by the maharashtra forest department near the lake is an excellent place for picnics and a pleasant forest garden overlooking the lake. The makharia garden on the panchgani road is also a small get away for couples and children.
The local rotary club, Lions club are very active organizations in the town and visitors are welcome to attend their local meets as per the code of conduct of the clubs & prior intimations.
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Alpine Skills
Starting out in Alpinism
The first steps in Alpine terrain can be some of the most exciting, but potentially dangerous, of any mountaineering career. Being well-prepared beforehand can help out massively. Here, Dave Evans from Plas y Brenin highlights key areas that catch folk out on their early Alpine experiences and look at how to avoid the worst of them.


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If you've read this blog for a while you probably realize I love to use velvet. Especially silk or silk-like velvet.
Most often I use it as an accent. Velvet make a gorgeous ruffle. If you've visited The Gallery you may have noticed velvet ruffles on numerous pillows, table runners and window treatments. This little cafe curtain is one of my all-time favorites.
For Tara's master bedroom we chose to use this luxurious fabric for our floor length window treatment panels.
Traditionally, velvet is made from silk but can be terribly expensive. It can also be made from cotton but tends to have a less luxurious feel. At approximately $30/yd this velvet is most likely made from a synthetic fiber such as polyester, nylon or acetate but made to give it a silk-like look and feel.
For privacy and light control we made three matching loose roman shades from gold damask with a shimmery ruffle out of a taupe crinkle fabric and topped with a beaded tassel trim.
The pleated, velvet panels are dead panels (non functioning), 2 widths wide (approx. 100″) mounted on a custom iron rod with metal rings.
For the back door we made a flat fold roman shade but with a decorative topper that mimics the detail on the window shades.
Each roman shades is operated by a Roll-Ease ball and chain system.
The flying saucer shadow in the next photo is courtesy of the ceiling light fixture. 🙂
I don't think I will ever tire of seeing the difference window treatments make in a room. Whether custom made or a simple, inexpensive ready made curtains they really cozy up a space.


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Excuse me. Have any of you guys read Curious George recently? I'm talking about the original book. Not Curious George Visits the Aquarium (Which, by the way is RIDDLED with errors. Just sloppy, lazy book-writing. The baby penguin almost drowns because it hasn't learned to swim yet even though it was swimming one page back? George, inside the penguin habitat, uses a rope to swing out "over the beluga tank" to help the baby penguin? And the zoo makes him an honorary staff person for saving the baby penguin who wouldn't have been in trouble in the first place were it not for George and his "curiosity."), or Curious George and the Puppies (Dreck). I'm talking about the very first book by Margaret and H.A. Rey. If you haven't read it recently, let me summarize (Even if you have read it, I'm still going to summarize.):
• The man with the yellow hat sees a monkey in the jungle and decides he should be in a zoo because fuck animals.
• The man with the yellow hat then lures George with the hat and when George tries it on the man snatches him up IN A BAG.
• The man in the yellow hat takes George aboard a ship and let's him go off by himself. George falls off the ship because he's pretending to be be a bird BECAUSE HE'S A MONKEY AND SHOULDN'T BE LEFT ALONE OR BE ON THE SHIP IN THE FIRST PLACE. George gets rescued by some sailors.
• Once they get to the man with the yellow hat's place, George has dinner AND A PIPE.
• The next day the douchebag with the yellow hat leaves George alone (AGAIN) in his apartment and says, "Be a good little monkey." Hey, dude. Fuck you. You ripped me away from my home and family, gave me tobacco, and now you just want me to sit here with my thumb up my ass? You're lucky I don't rip your face off. Because that's what monkies do, or haven't you learned that from the monkies at your fucking zoo?
• George calls the fire department by mistake who come thinking it's a fire and then ARREST George AND TAKE HIM TO PRISON.
• George escapes prison, steals some balloons, floats away, and lands on a traffic light where the sociopath with the yellow hat happens to see him. •The White Devil with the yellow hat then takes George to the zoo and leaves him there. And George is happy be because he has a balloon, a banana, and his very own tree. One tree. Singular.
THAT'S IT, GUYS. That's one of our most beloved children's books. What even is its message? What the hell was Margaret Rey trying to say? Where's the lesson? Where's the moral? People are awful? White men have serious privilige? Maybe she was being subversive? Somehow I doubt that.
Let me pause for a brief P.S.A. for those of you whose critical thinking skills need polishing: Let me be clear, I'm not likening the people taken from Africa and turned into slaves to monkies. I'm pointing to the parallel of taking a living thing away from its home, against its will for the purposes of one's own comfort or enjoyment.
I'm annoyed that I feel the need to explain the obvious. But ever since some White dude said my Ben Brantley piece showed a "self-righteous ignorance of Steinbeck's work", I feel like heading stupidity off at the pass might be worth it. Thanks, dude. The Ben Brantley piece had almost nothing to do with Steinbeck's work. Jackass.
Anyway, Curious George the book, the subsequent book series, and the PBS TV show seem to be aimed at reinforcing the narrative that White dudes can just do whatever the shit they want. I would add the identifier "straight", but, in all fairness, I don't know what the man in the yellow hat's sexual orientation is. He seems to have a crush on the scientist from the museum, but he's never asked her out. Maybe he's asexual? I don't know. The point is, he's constantly placing trust in an animal that has, time and time again, shown he is not trustworthy. Just because you say, "Be a good little monkey" doesn't mean your domesticated chimpanzee isn't going to flood your living room. And guess what? When he does flood your living room, or buy 1000 donuts instead of 10, or glue all your furniture together, that shit is on you, man. You're the asshole who repeatedly leaves a monkey by himself. But whatever. You're a White man (of unidentified sexual orientation). You get to do whatever you want. You and your trouble-making monkey never face any consequences. In fact, after letting the penguins out of their habitat, your monkey gets made an honorary staff member at the zoo! "You saved the baby penguin, George!" What the fuck are you talking about, dude? The baby penguin wouldn't have fallen into the water If George hadn't let all the penguins out. After causing mayhem at the chocolate factory he gets free chocolate? What is the matter with these people? Oh, right. The man with the yellow hat just gives them an "Aww shucks" look and they're like, "Oh, he's with you? All is forgiven!" It reminds me of that brilliant sketch Eddie Murphy did on SNL where he walked around in white face and got free shit. "You don't have to pay for that; You're White!"
It should go without saying that I'm not suggesting the writers involved with the Curious George franchise sit down everyday and go, "How can we help maintain the status quo today?" I'm suggesting that they're not questioning the status quo and their complicity in it.
Also, I'm well aware that not all White men walk around thinking they have carte blanche. But many do walk around with no awareness of their own privilege. I know some men who are well aware of their privilege and generally behave accordingly. I know more who aren't. (Have you ever said, "Why are you offended? It's just a joke!"? Yeah. Knock that shit off. Here's a suggested response when someone has a different reaction to something than you do: "Hmm. I'd like to understand your point of view. Tell me more.") It's tough. I know. It requires a rewiring. And I know some of this stuff makes you (Dear White male reader) uncomfortable. But as a group you guys could stand to be a little uncomfortable for a bit. You've had it pretty easy for a loooooooong time.
As things are getting rearranged and we're learning to treat all human beings with dignity and respect, and as those of us in a privileged position learn to always remember our privilege and what it means in regards to those without, we're going to go through some growing pains. It's okay. We will survive.
Wow. That was just supposed to be a post about the book. I did not mean to get all Social Justice-y. When I sat down to write this a few days ago I literally just wanted to talk about how insane this particular piece of children's entertainment is. I know, I know, it's just a book, right? Right? Right?
9/14/2015 01:43:43 pm
This reminds me of the great Louis C.K. bit about how, when it comes to time travel, if you're not a white guy you can't go to any era before about 1980 or shit is going to go really, really badly for you.
3/28/2016 12:08:25 am
A significant number of critics think Steinbeck was a misogynist who could only write female characters that were madonna/whores, 2dimensional symbols, etc etc. It's not your ignorance. Don't apologize.
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First, brace your bows and arrows. To accomplish this properly, grasp it in the handle with your right hand, the top horn up and the back. Put the lower horn at the instep of your right foot, along with the foundation of your left palm from the trunk of the bow, near the top below the loop. Holding your left arm stiff and toward your left side, your right elbow fixed on your hip, pull on the handle to ensure the bow is sprung away from you by twisting the body. The string is currently relaxed, and also the fingers of the left hand shove it upward till it slips in the nock.
Do not get your fingers, and don't attempt to push the string caught beneath it. Do most of the work with the right hand pulling against the arm that is left that is stiff.
The proper distance between the bow and the string at the handle is six inches. That is ordinarily measured by setting the fist to the handle as well as the thumb putting upright, where it should touch the string. This is the historical fistmele, an archer's measure, in measuring lumber also used.
Hunting bows and arrows ought to be strung less due to the prolonged strain to them. Change your bow to your own left hand and drop the arm so the upper end of the bow swings across the body in a flat position. Draw an arrow from your quiver and take it over the bow till it rests around the left side at the very highest part of the handle. Place the left forefinger on the shaft and keep it from slipping while you switch your right hand to the arrow- thumb nock, . Push the arrow forward, at once rotating it before the cock feather, or that perpendicular to the is away in the bow. As the feathers pass over the thumb as well as the cord rests on the slip the fingers beneath the string, nock and fit it within the arrow-nock.
The arrow should rest on the knuckles. Now put your fingers in location for shooting. The release utilized by the English that is old might be the best. This consists in putting three fingers to the string, one two below. The string rests halfway between the last joint and also the end of the finger. The arrow must not touch, but lie curled up in the palm.
The release utilized by youngsters consists in pinching the arrow involving the thumb and forefinger, and is referred to as the primary loose. This sort is not powerful enough to draw an arrow half way.
Stand sidewise at right angles to the line, with the feet ten or eight inches apart, to your own mark. Straighten your body, stiffen the back, expand the chest, turn the head fully facing the mark, look at it squarely, and pull your bows and arrows over the body, stretching the left arm as you draw on the right hand toward the chin.
This point on the jaw is fixed and never varies; no matter how close or how far the shot, the butt of the arrow is always pulled to the eye, not to the jaw, nor to the ear. So the eye keeps it in line that is perfect and glances along the entire amount of the shaft. The bows and arrows hand lifted or might be lowered to obtain the proper raising and period of flight. The left arm locked at the elbow and is supported but not absolutely stretched. A small amount of flexion here makes for a great clearance of the cord and adds resiliency to the shot.
The arrow is released by drawing on the right hand further backward at exactly the same time the fingers slip the cord off. This must be performed so securely deftly, that the releasing hand, as well as no reduction of power results doesn't draw the arrow out of line. Two great errors occur at this point: the other will be to draw the hand away from the facial skin in the action of releasing, along with one is to let the arrow to creep forward only ahead of the release. Keep your fingers bent as well as your hand. All the fingers must bear their appropriate share. The great inclination is always to allow the forefinger to shirk and to put too much work on the ring finger.
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Friday, 3 June 2016
That's Iris x germanica, the yellow one; I should cull the clump and get some in different colours, and two bunches of Iris sibirica, the blue ones, which would deserve dividing and spreading all over the place - if there was place. There's somr Iris chrysographes at the other side of the garden but it's an early one, it's gone by now. The Austin rose, I think it's Jude the Obscure but I'm not sure, is coming to bloom and there's another one on the left which will be dug out as it never blooms.
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This year's office Christmas party is beginning to drag. You've made small talk with everyone in the room, but these are the people you see every day so it's a little difficult to find some new topics of conversation.
And then, across the room you spot an old friend: a colleague you sat next to for years until they took up a new position at another branch of the same company. You can see them searching the room for a familiar face to chat with, so you quickly wander over, sit yourself down and excitedly ask them how life is all those hundreds of miles away in the other office.
And your friend can show you the reality first-hand just by turning their camera around, because they're still in that office, and the two of you are chatting over an open video calling connection the company has set up for this year's party.
In fact, a half dozen offices in a half dozen states are connected by video this year, and it's bringing a whole new social dimension to the tired old office party ritual.
Host a Virtual Christmas Party With Your Remote Colleagues
This kind of high-tech, interconnected party isn't a stretch at all if your company, like 65% of North American businesses, uses virtual communication regularly.
All it it would take to turn that tech from work to play would be to gather it from conference and huddle rooms and place it on the tables around the party, making sure to use plenty of decent-size screens and wide-angle cameras. Then you'd need someone to dial each device into a common group conference video call across the company's branch offices and leave everything turned on.
So while you're deep in conversation on a laptop link to your long-distance friend, a few people from your building are trying to get the attention of the active speaker cam in front of a wall-mounted Google Hangout, a few others are waiting their turn at the virtual karaoke, which is getting pumped into every office at an ungodly volume, and two others are racing the other branches' best cyclists on video calling stationary bikes (it's nice someone finally found a real use for those).
Socializing With Video Chat
Your personal conversation could be interrupted at any minute when the boss and master of ceremonies makes one of their regular all-points bulletins announcing the start of another interoffice contest via video conference.
At least they've come up with some novel virtual twists on the Christmas party classics:
- There's the mystery voice contest, where the boss tries to identify a mystery employee by audio alone while staring into a blacked chat window
- Interoffice charades, with the actors' audio muted to prevent anyone filled with too many Christmas spirits from yelling out a verbal clue
- A shared-screen version of Pictionary, with contests using a universal whiteboard setup
- And finally a remote game of Telephone, with members of each office whispering the contents of the blandest office memo they can find into the webcam of the next branch
It's all good fun, and if you don't feel stupid while playing, you're not playing right. The real highlight, however, is how it lets colleagues separated by hundreds of miles make connections with each other with no travel necessary.
Getting Personal with Remote Personnel
When your friend gets called away to organize the final touches of their office's Christmas skit, you go over to the laptop attached the big screen and quickly type a message asking if one of your favorite telecommuters is around. And of course they are, because there's never been a party better suited to their work from home arrangement. And in this scenario, your commuting-from-home friend doesn't feel out of the loop, like an afterthought the office conferenced in but who doesn't get the full benefits of working onsite. Instead, they're one of many: one of many telecommuting from home, and one of many groups calling in to join the fun, participating in games, conversations, and maybe even some alcohol.
This last part becomes clear once you two get to talking. You detect a subtle slur in your friend's speech and realize the East Coast employees have been at this party three hours before any of your team even fired up their chat windows.
That would explain why the New York office manager is currently professing their tear-stained love for everyone in the room.
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Jerry Colangelo, who knows a lot of the history and tradition of Bloom Township's sports program and has written a lot of history of his own as the one-time owner of the Phoenix Suns of the NBA and the Arizona Diamondbacks baseball franchise, recalls with notes of sadness and admiration the last time he spent time with Homer Thurman.
Colangelo and Thurman were teammates on Bloom's 1957 basketball team that lost to Elgin 53-52 in the supersectional. Colangelo has said that it was the most disappointing loss he has ever experienced in his high school, college and professional sports career.
"When I was a sophomore at Illinois, I got permission from Tug Wilson (commissioner of the Big 10) to put on a summer tournament in Chicago Heights," said Colangelo, now director of USA Basketball. "I had the best players in the Midwest playing in the event. I was looking for Homer Thurman. I found him in jail. He looked scruffy and hadn't touched a basketball in so long.
"Well, he had a hamburger and some French fries and stepped on the court like he never missed a beat. He was the MVP in the tournament. He was an amazing story. He disappeared right after that. He is a tragic story, a great talent who went to waste."
Thurman arguably was one of the most outstanding multi-sport athletes ever produced in Illinois. Those who saw him compete in football, basketball and track and field insist he should be mentioned in the same discussion with Dike Eddleman, Lou Boudreau, Otto Graham, Ted Kluszewski, Jack Bastable, Mike Conley, LaMarr Thomas, Howard Jones, Quinn Buckner, Tai Streets, and his teammate at Bloom, Leroy Jackson.
"He occurred out of nowhere," Colangelo recalled. "He made the varsity as a freshman at Bloom at a time (in the 1950s) when the school was a factory for sports. It was no small feat. He ended up as a starter. He became one of the greatest athletes Bloom ever had.
"When he graduated from high school in 1959, in terms of talent, he was as talented an athlete as I had ever seen at that age. Unfortunately, he had other issues that went along with the package. But he could have had a terrific college career and maybe a professional career."
Thurman, a 6-foot-4, 225-pounder, was a two-time All-Stater in basketball. He scored 1,619 points in four years and averaged 17.59 per game.
He was a freshman on Bloom's 18-2 team in 1956 that lost to Oak Park 62-57 in the supersectional at Hinsdale, On a team with Colangelo, Bobby Bell and Chuck Green, he was the leading scorer with 20 points.
As a sophomore in 1957, Thurman and Bell each scored 15 points as Bloom lost to Elgin 53-52 in the supersectional at Hinsdale and finished 22-2.
He made enough of a lasting impression that he has been named among 10 players chosen in the second class in the pre-1960s era who will be inducted into the Illinois High School Basketball Hall of Fame and Museum in Pinckneyville. The class will be honored on Nov. 3 in Champaign.
He also was an All-State end on Bloom's unbeaten 1957 football team that featured All-State running back Leroy Jackson, a three-time state sprint champion who later played for the Washington Redskins in the NFL.
In track and field, he was third in the high jump I the 1957 state finals and won the event in 1958. He also led off the winning mile relay in 1958. As a senior, he was fifth in the long jump and ran a leg on the winning 880-yard relay. He competed on four state championship track and field teams.
Thurman was born in Ittabena, Mississippi. The family moved to Chicago Heights and settled on 13th Street and Shields. Homer was a high-strung and temperamental individual. Longtime friend Homer Dillard said his life changed when his mother died in 1959.
"He was never able to relax," Dillard said. "A lot of people in Chicago Heights liked him. But he had no supervision. So many people expected him to do so much. They said he would be the next Oscar Robertson. But when his mother died, something died in him. He didn't want to work as hard."
Thurman was recruited by Iowa during the time of the Connie Hawkins scandal. Homer left after one semester and landed at Midland Lutheran in Fremont, Nebraska. He was a black star in a white community. In 1962, he married Janet Bartling, the daughter of a local newspaper publisher. The couple went to Chicago to be married and to establish a residence. At the time, Thurman became a student at Crane College.
In November of 1962, Thurman had a tryout with the Harlem Globetrotters. He didn't make the team. At the same time, his personal life was crumbling. He left his wife and two children. In 1965, his wife was granted a divorce. She returned to Fremont to live with her parents and children.
"I was always able to find him and get him to play o one of my summer teams," said Dillard, a Bloom graduate of 1957. "But I last saw him in 1974. He was in a hurry. I spotted him walking on the side of the street. He had a cape on and looked like Dracula. A guitar hung around his neck. He said that he couldn't talk and that he'd see me later. I never saw him again.
"He decided he was going to be a musician. He had a guitar and a book to self-teach himself on the guitar. He spent a lot of time learning how to play the guitar. One story was he went to California to play with a band. He is like hearing stories about Elvis. One person saw him in a movie. Another person saw him here or there, a brief shot."
Dillard said Leroy Jackson, not Thurman, was the greatest athlete in Bloom history. But he was very good at everything he did. He didn't play baseball in high school but he was a very good baseball player, as well as basketball, football and track and field.
"In basketball, he was ahead of his time in a lot of things he was doing," Dillard said. "He had small hands. He couldn't palm the ball.
Whatever sport he picked, he could have done well. He had the type of concentration to do it. He was very intense whenever he decided to do something. He put himself into it. He would prepare himself to play a game. That's part of what made him a very good athlete."
Bobby Bell remembers his old teammate, Thurman. "The last I heard was his cousin told me he had seen him in San Francisco. I also heard he was dead. He was a sportsman. He could do it all. He was intelligent, a great natural talent. What went wrong with him was when his mother died and left him alone. Then he was on his own," Bell said.
Alan Macey, a sportswriter with the Chicago Heights Star and the Southtown Star from 1976 to 2011, tried to find Thurman.
Years ago, sports editor John E. Meyers of the Chicago Heights Star assigned Macey to do a series on the great athletes of the south suburbs titled "Do you remember?" Macey even put a former FBI agent on Thurman's trail but he kept running into one dead end after another.
"It was a very frustrating journey," Macey said. "The great Homer Thurman. Is he still alive? God only knows. He could be the greatest three-sport high school athlete who decided to be lost forever."


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François COUPERIN (1668-1733)
L'Impériale (from Les Nations)[26:10]
Charles DOLLÉ (?1710-?1755)
Sonata in G minor, Op. 1 No. 6 [10:25]
Jean-Marie LECLAIR (1697-1764)
Sonata in G minor, Op. 13 No. 6 [14:26]
Joseph Bodin de BOISMORTIER (1682-1765)
Trio in E minor, Op. 37 No. 2 [5:47]
Jean-Pierre GUIGNON (1702-74)
Sonata in D Major, Op. 4 No. 2 [12:57]
London Baroque (Ingrid Seifert (violin), Richard Gwilt (violin) Charles Medlam (bass viol), Steven Devine (harpsichord))
rec. October 2010, St. Martin's Church, East Woodhay, Hampshire, England
The works on this disc were all written during a crucial stage in the development of French and Italian music, where the two styles were becoming ever more similar due to the combining of ideas from both schools.
The CD starts with by far the most successful composition on the disc, F. Couperin's L'Impériale from the collection Les Nations which was published in 1726. The first movements of each of the pieces in this collection were re-workings of early suites, creating substantial and complex overtures to the dance movements that follow. The grace and poise, which is so reminiscent of French music of this period, is always present in the performance of this work. However, there are also moments of sorrow, tension and joy that give a truly human quality to this recording, something that can be lacking when performers are overly concerned with "historical authenticity".
Charles Dollé was a Parisian performer on and composer for the viol. He published three books for the pardessus de viole, which is the very smallest viol and very popular with ladies in the 18th century. The book that the Sonata in G minor is from was published as trios for violins, flutes or viols. London Baroque does a wonderful job with this piece. It is harmonically and structurally less complex than Couperin or even the harpsichord suites of Louis-Claude Daquin, yet the ensemble manage to tease every ounce of expression from it. The opening of the first movement is particularly wonderful. The most interesting aspect of Leclair's Sonata is the fact that he was murdered! The linear notes claim that the murderer was either his wife or his nephew. Leclair, who was actually born in Italy, was very well travelled. This is audible from his music; it is less restrained than the other works. The Allegro ma non troppo could have been played faster and with less sense of responsibility, however, the Aria is a delightful little movement which is written without continuo instruments. Seifert and Gwilt converse beautifully. The last two pieces on the disc, by Boismortier and Guignon, are rather disappointing compositions compared to the other works. The ensemble does their best with them but they really don't have much to work with. Perhaps another Couperin trio to finish the recording would have been more worthwhile.
The real success of this CD is not the repertoire choice, but the superb playing from all the players. Occasionally less caution could be employed in the faster movements - whatever the tempo indications are - but overall this is a thoroughly enjoyable disc. With informative linear notes and a stylish cover this should be an essential addition to any music-lover's library.
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Owners who sell these assets will gain roughly US$800 billion relative to the pre-merger value of their assets. The shareholders of the companies that buy will lose roughly US$300 billion in market value, as markets interpret the acquisition as a signal that managers are exuberant and uncontrolled empire-builders rather than flinty-eyed trustees maximizing payouts to investors. This US$300 billion is a tax that shareholders of growing companies think is worth paying -- or perhaps cannot find a way to avoid paying -- for energetic corporate executives.
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In this post: My 9th and final Pixar Camp post! A colorful time with the characters of Inside Out! Also, ideas for Wall-E and Up.
Hello, Dear Ones! Wow, I'm finally finished with our Summer posts. I am super excited to share our school plans. I still have to catch up on 5th and 6th-grade posts as we move on to 7th. So if things seem a bit scattered around here…that's why. I do have a plan though. We've had a fun Fall already with the Biblical feasts and I've got lots of great Sukkot ideas to share as well. The kids have been sick for two weeks so I'm just now taking a breather to blog. Whew…I need a nap! Ha! Well, for now…Our last week of Pixar Camp. It was a rainbow of emotions!
Inside Out- One of many Pixar films that made me cry. Sadness must've pushed all the buttons in my head. If you haven't seen the movie, I encourage you to watch it and then come back to this post or confusion may ensue.
This delightful tale is about the people inside our heads. What, you don't have people in your head? Surprise! You actually do! All of us have Sadness, Anger, Joy, Fear, and Disgust living in our heads…controlling how we act! Just watch Inside Out and you will get a glimpse into this secret world. There are other emotions of course, but we only meet these five.
Okay, so we probably don't have little people in our heads….but it is hilarious to imagine what it would be like. One neat fact about this movie: They consulted psychologists to help them accurately portray how our brains work. Don't get lost in "abstract thought" now ;).
Riley, the main character, has memories that look like colorful marbles. The emotions collect these memory spheres in headquarters and send them through a tube to the rest of the mind. The whole cast is quite colorful. Joy is blue and yellow. Anger is appropriately red. Sadness is blue. So I decided to use a rainbow theme in our food.
- Rainbow Breakfast and Lunch-
Colorful Fruit Loops and fruit made up our breakfast.
Chicken Fried Rice with Yum Yum sauce made a tasty and colorful lunch!
- Rainbows and Trolls Supper- We continued with colorful food. We had a colorful salad and muffins. We also watched "Trolls" and had Troll Mac n' Cheese (at Leeland's request). Trolls is another emotion filled movie. They help people feel happy.
- Emotions Activities- I broke out the books on emotions and colorful craft supplies and treats.
- Music- As I read the emotion book I stopped on each emotion and found an appropriate song on Youtube to accompany it. "Happy" is obviously an easy one. "One" (is the loneliest number) is a good song for sadness. We also watched cartoons about emotions.
- Finding Emotions in Magazines- Michael helped out by cutting out pictures in magazines. Then we placed them into three categories: sad, mad, and happy. Then I used them as a teaching tool for Leeland.
- Coloring and Playdough Fun- Leeland used playdough, wiggly eyes, and colorful pom poms to make his own emotion creations.
Joy and Sadness- Yeah, I helped with these…
- A rainbow of emotions at our colorful museum- Our museum is super colorful and has a fun play area.
- Puppet Play- We used puppets to convey emotions. I really got into this roleplay…until I remembered other parents could hear me. Ha!
The ANGRY kitty and the HAPPY unicorn.
- Rainbow Gems on the Light Table
We worked on sorting the colors and we talked about how certain colors made us feel sad or happy.
- Finding Emotion in Museum Paintings- Michael was able to get on board with this part of our museum excursion. We walked through the grown-up section and looked for emotions in the artwork. I only took a couple of pictures. There was a red room representing war and that made for an interesting discussion.
Sadness…and maybe determination?
Joy…though muted.
Frustration…that Mom is taking another picture!
- Movie time with treats!
So we watched the actual movie and enjoyed colorful ice cream with chocolate chip cookie crumbles, whip cream, and Sweet Tarts (to represent memories).
- Glow in the Dark Rainbow Balloons for the Movie (AKA "memories")
- Michael's Emotions and His Islands of Personality- I love Michael's portrayal of his thought life. You can see all of his emotions are wearing baseball caps! I love the ideas of Islands of Personality. I think it'd be fun to have everyone draw what their's would look like. It's therapeutic. Go on, give it a go! 😉 What an icebreaker, right?!
- Leeland painting Joy
- Magic Strawberry Milk- I'm not sure why I got this but it just seemed magical and colorful. The straws hold pink balls of strawberry flavor. As you drink. the milk becomes strawberry flavored.
- Bing Bong's Rocket (popsicle)- Riley's imaginary friend, Bing Bong, has a magic rocket. Theses popsicles made me think of it. To this day, Leeland still calls them Bing Bong's rocket!
Nana trying to read Michael's Mailbox Club Lesson. Leeland is making that difficult. Ha!
A Joyful Find at the Dollar Tree
- Joy in Down Town- You can find emotions all over if you keep your eyes open. Try having an emotion scavenger hunt in your town. I'd love to hear about it in the comments. Feel free to post a link to your blog.
So that is the end of our Pixar Camp. We didn't watch Wall-E or Up because we had already seen them at another time. Here's a couple of ideas though.
- Wall-E idea– This made me think of Wall-e. You could use recyclables to make a robot.
The above pic is from many years ago…from this post: http://amberdover.com/2012/07/17/crafty-monday-memory-lane-sensory-boxes-other-craft-memories/
Michael was so little then!
- A fun craft for Up, at Hobby Lobby
May you be inspired! God bless & remember the High King lives! ~Amber Dover
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