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Ross and Reva Gordon celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. They were married on June 10, 1948. They are the parents of six children. Dennis (Peggy) Gordon, Don (Paula) Gordon, Mark J. Gordon (deceased), Charlene (Rue) Bell, LaMont Gordon (deceased) and Brenda (Hal) Lemon.
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A very special thank you to Devin for drawing Nhan Cat Kiya – a play on words of sorts for Nyan Cat. She wanted to draw me Kiya again to help cheer me up, which this drawing definitely put a smile on my face. I think Kiya came out very cute. I especially love the ball of yarn in the corner. A very nice touch.
I am very grateful that destiny has allowed me to meet awesome people like Devin in these past few years. Though times can be really tough, it's great to know I have people who are willing to help me out, not just for these random projects of mine, but to remind me that I am never alone. When my friends like Devin believe in me, I can have more confidence in myself that I am on the right track toward "recovery."
Kiya, the Fervor of the Sands. A very elaborate, custom champion for "League of Legends." And there are more elements to come. Please show your support by commenting and voting on Kiya's LoL Wiki page.
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By Rich Green
When you mention "ghost towns" to children you can see their eyes light up. It really fires up their imaginations. While almost every state has ghost towns, Colorado has more than most and many of these have fascinating histories.
During 1859, more than 100,000 people would leave behind the warmth and comfort of their homes in such places as Kentucky, New York, Missouri and as far away as England to embark on a journey west, to the Rocky Mountains. Gold — or should I say the promise of it — was the incredible lure. Word of the precious metal spread like wildfire and one prospector, George A. Jackson, from Glasgow, Missouri, struck it rich panning for gold along present-day West Chicago Creek. This event prompted the gold rush in the Rockies. "Pike's Peak or Bust" became the slogan of the times.
These wide-eyed gold seekers and dreamers, prospectors and miners, arrived, set up mining camps, panned for gold along creeks, dug into rugged mountainsides, established towns and then began naming them. Gold Hill, Wallstreet, Salina, Central City, Idaho Springs, Georgetown, and Silver Plume are just a few. Nearly 700 towns became populated, toll roads and railroads were established, and services such as saloons, churches, brothels, butchers and newspapers flourished.
After gold, came silver. Then, the Silver Crash of 1893 changed everything. The distraught folks moved on, leaving behind ghosts, legends and folklore.
Begin your adventure on Colorado's Scenic Byway — the Peak-to-Peak Highway. Pick up the trail in Estes Park or Lyons at State Highway 7 south. Campgrounds are available along the way and within the Indian Peaks Wilderness area. Hiking the Buchanan Trail is a must-do with its cascading creeks, lovely wildflowers, aspens, ponderosa pines and unique wildlife waiting to delight your senses.
Although there are numerous ghost towns, sites and former mining towns along the Peak-to-Peak (Ward, Jamestown, Nederland, Eldora and Hessie, to name a few), I will highlight some of my favorites. Gold Hill ranks high on my list.
At Gold Hill you'll discover the 1872 Wentworth House, a neat, two-story hewn-log lodge, and the historic Gold Hill Inn next door. Meander past the Gold Hill Museum and the 1873 white, two-room schoolhouse. Churches were a significant part of mining life, so don't miss Gold Hill's church with its separate bell tower. Be sure to stop into the historic Gold Hill Store, where local residents, mountain bikers and four-wheelers sip cups of coffee nestled next to the antique wood-burning stove.
Head on down the canyon toward the former mining camp of Wallstreet, financed by big Eastern U.S. bucks. All that exists of the gold extraction mill are the mill's stone walls that resemble a rather scary fortress.
Next, return to the Peak-to-Peak Highway heading south toward Black Hawk and Central City. Fantastic views of the snow-capped Indian Peaks will astonish you along the way. Remote and unpopulated sites or ghost towns (such as Hessie, Rollinsville and Apex) can be reached from the Peak-to-Peak.
The famous Teller House Hotel and Central City Opera House are beautiful buildings to view amid the thriving and abundant gambling casinos. Also see Nevadaville if you have time — a true ghost town that once boasted a population of nearly 6000 persons — there are excellent structures of historic significance, including the Prize Mill among the ruins.
After departing Black Hawk and Central City, journey over to I-70 West to see other substantial mining towns such as Idaho Springs, Georgetown and Silver Plume. Although currently populated, these former mining towns offer a rich tapestry of mills, mines, hotels, saloons and mercantile stores intermingled with wonderful examples of 19th-century architecture.
In Idaho Springs, tour the Argo Mill, formerly the Newhouse Tunnel. The tunnel (4.2 miles long) was used for draining old mines, exposing new veins and getting the ore moved out. The Charley Tayler water wheel and Bridal Veil Falls are also nearby and worth seeing.
Georgetown was home to the mine owners and managers and was deemed the "Queen of the Silver Camps." The exquisite Hotel de Paris is well worth your time, as is the Georgetown Loop Railroad.
Silver Plume is across the highway from the rail station. Over the years, I have sauntered through this lovely town many times. It's a very special place with a creek running through it. You'll find a stone jail, an excellent museum, a charming bandstand, several false-front buildings, a bakery that offers fresh bread daily, and mining remnants above the town. Legend has it that Clifford Griffin came to Silver Plume in the 1860s carrying his treasured violin. He soon discovered one of the richest mines in the area, the "7:30" mine. However, rumor also has it that Griffin had previously murdered his fiancée on the evening before his scheduled wedding, then fled to Colorado. He worked his mine by day, and played his violin at night. Sad melodies drifted down the canyon to the Silver Plume residents below. One night a shot was heard. Sure enough, Griffin was found sprawled within a freshly dug grave. Folklore has it that he couldn't hide from the guilt residing within his heart.
These remote places offer the outdoor adventurer a true feeling for the times. However, before you go, consult your ghost town guidebooks for maps, seasonal weather and road conditions, and whether or not four-wheel-drive is required to reach them.
Along the Scenic Byway, the Peak-to-Peak Highway, numerous U.S. Forest Service campgrounds are available. For additional campground information, contact the National Recreation Reservation Service at www.recreation.gov or call 877/444-6777.


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Hedge funds are perfectly willing to take the other side of your bet on market volatility. In fact, Societe Generale's strategists are calling it these traders' number one conviction right now.
Hedge funds' short positions on the CBOE Volatility Index are "huge," they write, at more than five standard deviations' difference versus the average since 2005. SocGen ties these bets directly back to Federal Reserve policy.
[T]he number one conviction of hedge funds appears to be that the widely anticipated acceleration of the Fed's balance sheet to $85bn per month is incompatible with an increase in volatility in the near future," they write.
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Matthew Greeley of Brightidea details how openness and social software features create opportunities for IT to innovate.Interview conducted by Vinod Baya and Bo Parker
Matthew Greeley is founder and CEO of Brightidea, a provider of cloud-based innovation pipeline management (IPM) software. Prior to founding Brightidea, Greeley consulted for Wrenchead.com, helping the company raise more than $100 million in venture funding, and he co-founded Silicon Valley enterprise software provider Alyanza Software. Greeley began his career at FMK Advisors, an East Coast hedge fund, where he focused on marketing and fund-raising.
In this interview, Matthew Greeley discusses how CIOs can enable innovation by focusing on the end-to-end process from concept to cash and opening up data and other IT capabilities.
PwC: Could you please describe your company and the value it is creating for your customers?
MG: Sure. Brightidea was founded about 11 years ago. We're a longtime leader in applying software to the challenge of innovation in a large organization. Currently our solutions are in a SaaS [software-as-a-service] offering and therefore have a multi-tenant architecture and subscription business model. Where we differentiate is that we have a very social platform, so our product is Facebook-like. We believe innovation is a social activity, and until software became social, it was impossible to really try and automate the innovation process.
We just released our Innovation Suite, which we believe is the first-in-the-world case of a seamless flow from idea to launch of a product. The suite has three products—WebStorm, Switchboard, and Pipeline—that cover the entire innovation process from the moment an individual has an idea until the organization realizes that idea as cash. WebStorm handles ideas, Switchboard handles proposals, and Pipeline handles the development of projects, which could be products or cost savings improvements.
PwC: How do your products help enterprises manage the innovation process?
MG: Our company is named Brightidea, and the insight we had when we started was that the object or the element of an idea is the atomic element of the innovation process. Every innovation starts as a new idea.
We set out to build a system that would track those elements. So just as you track your leads in a sales system, we identified the idea as the starting point when directed work on a particular innovation project begins. There certainly can be activities you do ahead of having an idea. You do a lot of strategy, road mapping, and market research, and you look for customer insights. A whole bevy of activities happens ahead of that idea, but we identify the moment in time when an idea gets recorded. It can be a core concept, it can be on a mobile device, or it can be through a browser submission or something like that as the start of the innovation process.
"An idea is the atomic element of the innovation process. Every innovation starts as a new idea."
Let's think about what happens after you have an idea. You start linking ideas and clustering them. You allow people to collaborate and you allow them to vote, to prioritize. Then you move into this proposal framework where people are refactoring the scattered data points of the ideas into a business proposal, and they're looking at competition and market size and the general business parameters. There are tools to create scorecards and prioritize with expert reviewers at that level. Then you move into a project that is funded, and that can either hand off to an existing portfolio management system or you can continue the project within our Pipeline product, which is a social project management application and is a lot like Facebook.
You can follow a particular project, and you can get all the updates you want if you're following that project. So you get a lot more visibility and transparency, and executives can keep their eye on what's going on with the projects that matter most to them.
PwC: A lot of enterprises are looking to their CIO for innovation, to help grow the business, and to create new value. What do you think CIOs can do with respect to innovation?
MG: IT can definitely drive innovation, and the invention of FedEx tracking numbers is a great example of it. The company went all in to build the systems necessary to track packages in real time. A transformational customer experience resulted from it, and it's a world-class company. IT can definitely drive specific innovation projects if they're thinking strategically and if they're seeing their role to innovate and enable innovation.
The nuanced view I have is that IT's role increasingly will be to select a platform for managing innovation and making the necessary enterprise-wide decisions. I think some end up shortchanging the innovation for some features of a social platform. Instead, they must be really clear about where they will get their competitive advantage and what the real benefit of these tools is. Our view is if you just lay in a social platform, you might get some innovation, but if the tool isn't specifically designed for that, you're not going to tap the innovation potential of the enterprise.
If the tool collects only ideas, it's like a sales funnel that collects only leads. There's no way to move the leads forward to contracts. CIOs need to get smart quickly on innovation, as they're the ones in the organization who understand how technology evolved and how to deliver on an end-to-end process. They understand that adoption of new systems isn't trivial, that they must work with business champions and specific business units and specific roles to show the value.
PwC: What can CIOs specifically do to spur innovation?
MG: Historically, IT groups were fiefdoms unto themselves within the organization, and I think there's huge potential to open up the data sets. For instance, I referred to FedEx earlier: simply by making available to end customers in a very safe and secure way the data that the organization already had, the company transformed the customer experience.
We work with companies whose whole product is data. We work with The Nielsen Company and Experian, and they're constantly reformulating how they repackage the data. Experian does credit reports, and they can do credit reports for the auto industry, for home loans, or online buyers, and so forth. And they can do bill consolidation. They're constantly looking at ways to repackage the data. Freeing data in an intelligent user-driven or customer-driven way is a really important trend.
PwC: Could you talk a little bit about how an ethic of such openness has penetrated your company and what are the lessons for CIOs?
MG: It is very straightforward. You can go to ideas.brightidea.com, and that's where our customers tell us what they want to see in the next version of our products. It's wide open. Our competitors can see it. They often do. We view the value of openness in terms of the relationship we have with our customers, the innovative ideas and agility we're going to get, and the ability to listen to the customer more intimately. We view that as a huge value, and that's why we incur the risk of our competitors trolling through there and seeing what they can find. From an architectural standpoint, we have a full-blown REST API (representational state transfer application programming interface).
Basically, every data element within our system can be exported and pulled out, and customers have done things that have just blown us away. For example, GE had a product design group use our API to pull out all the data from this global collaboration, and they did a Flash visualization of all the data. That never would have happened if there was a 15-step process with three documents and four checkpoints to free up a data set.
You have to be smart, obviously. We don't want someone from one enterprise getting into another enterprise's data, but once you are in this Net-native configuration, where you assume the information can flow like water between systems, that alone is a trigger for unleashing creativity and lowering the barrier to people trying new things. If it takes someone two hours to do something or it takes them two days to do something, the chance of them doing it falls off precipitously, just because of the pure friction of the process and getting it done.
That's how we approach the transparency, openness, and extensibility as well. We have all sorts of hooks to other third-party systems, such as portfolio management systems, agile project management systems, and issue tracking systems, and we've built in that extensibility from day one. I think CIOs should lean on their larger enterprise vendors and say, "I need ways to free up my data in a smart way." There was this dream that you were going to have everything on one platform and you'd be able to view it in the slice you wanted to view it in. But the reality is that new services emerge every quarter. It's just a dream that you're ever going to have all the data on one system.
So it's better to accept that chaos and make sure the systems that you do have are open and you can rip data out of them. One of our customers has a dashboard where they have a unified view of their customer, their bookings and billings, all their support information, and all the ideas that those customers are feeding them for their next-generation products. That's only possible if you buy into this openness and extensibility paradigm.
PwC: On the mobile and tablet platforms, we are seeing a large number of apps being delivered. Do you think the barrier to developing applications is getting lower, and what does this mean for IT-driven innovation?
MG: I definitely agree that the barrier is being lowered, and that openness enables that to happen—not just the development time to be compressed, but then the overall process time to be compressed at orders of magnitude. Some folks in the product development R&D group at Kraft will take a picture if they see something. That picture immediately is in a shared space where other people can collaborate on it. In the past, they did innovation days once a year where people would get together and have a big poster board with their new product that they're developing.
In terms of creating value, you would think that when processes have been reduced to days, there's not much room left for transformational or quantum-leap breakthroughs in them. But now we're talking about processes that are happening in minutes, so I think the mobile and the open data really enables that.
But to come back to another point, I think simple REST-based APIs are just table stakes for anyone in the cloud. It's as important as in a retail store where you have a sign out front. It's expected, and you'll throw people off if you don't have that. Our customers ask us to integrate with customer support systems, their project management systems, portfolio management systems, and financial accounting systems. For some of those, we see recurring integrations.
It's just we're all peers. There's a fluid flow of information that can go back and forth if our platform is designed well, if we protect the data that needs to be protected, and if we expose the data that can be exposed.
"IT's role [in innovation] increasingly will be to select a platform for managing innovation and making the necessary enterprise-wide decisions."
PwC: Most CIOs of large enterprises are not starting fresh with a greenfield in terms of being Net-centric or in the cloud. They have a mix of legacy, Web, SaaS, and so on. How do they get more like you in a safe and secure way?
MG: We have a phrase we use internally where we say, when you're first getting started, don't do heart surgery. Polish a couple of fingernails. It means you don't go into the beating heart of the business and try and swap that out. It just doesn't make sense. However, both SaaS and social software have enabled new applications, so things that you never even had a system for—innovation being one of them—are good places to start. You start on the fringes, polishing a fingernail. You'll still get ROI (return on investment), payback, and all that other stuff.
As you're easing into software as a service, you're easing into this open, infinitely integratable environment. The CIO may not even know that someone in the department is integrating system A with system B, because they're both on the cloud and they're using a local resource to do the hook-up. I think you always start at the periphery, and then you work your way toward the center. But it's going to be a long time and, in my view, probably will never happen where everything goes into the cloud. There's talk of private clouds and all, but frankly, I see many CIOs worried about having as much heterogeneity in the cloud as they have right now.
PwC: Do you ever see a future where solutions might extend to a point such that if the idea can be realized through IT, the system could trigger prototyping and solution extension, rather than focusing on being a system of record for ideas and their flow?
MG: I definitely think so. Even in our current usage, we have people using our product as a front end to the IT portfolio—helping them determine what projects IT should be working on and helping them open their ears to their internal customers. I've seen IT organizations deploy our product as a service model, where they're the center of excellence for the innovation process and they're providing the tools the same way they provide e-mail or something else to the organization with the best practices to actually get results. I've also seen IT organizations use our product internally, where they're getting ready to roll out a new desktop image across a 60,000-person organization and IT lets people chime in on what they like or dislike about the current desktop image before IT locks down the spec.
IT is a key execution engine for new ideas, proposals, and initiatives. I think IT gets the process of adopting new technology. They realize that it can be tricky and that they must find champions in the world and within their organizations that will adopt them, so IT is actually extremely well situated to be a driver of the innovation process and the adoption of these tools.


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What country was led by Pol Pot during the 1970s?
Pol Pot and his Communist Khmer Rouge Party ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979.
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How many Cambodians died during Pol Pot's regime?
An estimated 1.5 million out of 7-8 million Cambodians died of starvation, disease or execution during the four short years of Pol Pot's regime.
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What year did Kim Jong Il become supreme commander of the Korean People's Army?
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True or false: North Korea has one of the best voter turnout rates in the entire world.
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What country was ruled by Idi Amin during the 1970s?
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How many people died under Idi Amin's regime?
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What year did Ivan the Terrible become the first czar of Russia?
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What did Ivan do to the architects who built the magnificent St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow's Red Square?
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True or false: Bram Stoker's "Dracula" is based on a real military leader.
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What was Vlad's favorite method of dealing with enemies?
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How many people died thanks to Joseph Stalin's regime?
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Who implemented a "Great Leap Forward" in January 1958?
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How many Chinese people starved to death thanks to the Great Leap Forward?
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Hannibal Barca
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True or false: Attila the Hun murdered his own brother to gain control of the empire.
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What country did Saddam Hussein rule?
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What country was ruled by Juan Peron during the mid-20th century?
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What military leader was born Temujin?
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What did military warrior Hannibal famously take across the Alps during the 3rd century B.C.E.?
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10 tons of gold
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Who killed thousands of African children as part of his work in the Lord's Resistance Army?
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Joseph Kony
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How many people died during Ho Chi Minh's attempt at consolidating power in Vietnam?
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True or false: Mussolini sent Jewish citizens in Italy to German concentration camps.
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Raymond Murray was a quality role player for the Edmonton Oilers in the late 1990's and early 2000's, and reprised his role as a depth center during the Stanley run in 2006. He remains one of the best college free agent signings in club history. He will forever be remembered by Oiler fans as "Rem the Gem."
The phrase 'excellent defensive forward' doesn't exactly inspire monuments and spine tingling moments to remember. However, Rem Murray was an effective player in college (spent four years at Michigan State where he was a CCHA First Team All-Rookie in 1992 and a CCHA Second Team All-Star in 1995) and got himself drafted in 1992 by the Los Angeles Kings. At the end of his NCAA career, Murray instead signed with the upstart Edmonton Oilers, and quickly emerged as a solid two-way option at LW and center.
Rem Murray became an extremely useful player for the Oilers from 1996 through the 2002 trade deadline, by being a 'jack of all trades.' He could anchor the 4th line, or move up to the 3rd line when Todd Marchant or Ethan Moreau were injured or flagging. He could also take on more of an offensive role, reflected in his 21 goal season in 1998-99.
Murray's skills made him a valuable trade asset at the 2002 deadline, as the Oilers went in search of more offense. He was traded with Tom Poti to the New York Rangers for Mike York. Murray was on the road again in December of 2002, as he was dealt to Nashville with Tomas Kloucek and Marek Zidlicky for Mike Dunham.
On the night of January 6, 2004 Murray was playing for the Preds against Detroit (in Motown) when he began to have trouble with his neck and head. Nashville travelled to Toronto later that night and when he arrived, Murray was in a lot of trouble. He was rushed to the hospital.
- Fortunately enough, a doctor on call was the leading expert in movement disoreders. He diagnosed me with what's called "cervical dystonia.
The quote, and the rest of the amazing story, is available here. The story didn't get as much play as it might have due to the 2004-05 lockout, and when hockey returned in the fall of 2005 Murray felt well enough to attend Detroit's camp in hopes of catching on.
Murray's dystonia meant that he received a $1 million disability insurance payment because doctors thought his career was over. However, after the lockout, Murray wanted to play, and almost made the Red Wings but was a late cut. He caught on in the AHL (Houston) and played well enough for the Oilers to come calling after they dealt Marty Reasoner at the deadline and Marc Pouliot came down with mono around the same time.
Once again, 'jack of all trades' Murray was back in an Oiler uniform for the spring of 2006. Which turned out to be a magical run, one that we'll remember forever--and Rem Murray was there every step of the way.
The story doesn't end there. After two successful seasons (2007,2008) playing for Helsinki, Murray signed for HC Innsbruck in the Austrian hockey league. On 11 July 2009 signed a contract with Pustertal-Val Pusteria Wolves in the Serie A, and would spend the year with them before signing in Austria.
Rem Murray retired from hockey last summer. The story is here.
Remember that item back there about Murray catching on with the Oilers in the spring of 2006? According to this article, it actually COST Murray money to play for the Oilers in 2006.
- Every dollar he earns must go to the insurance company until he pays back the $1 million. In addition, Murray must still pay his taxes on earnings, which means it costs him money out of his pocket to play for the Oilers this season. At $450,000 a year, he would have to go three seasons to stop losing money.
Incredible. Rem the Gem.
Arch is a proven pinhead. The amount of games the oilers played rem Murray proves he wasn't a pylon. Arch has proven himself to be a pinhead. And I'm not even an oilers fan. Go back under your rock, pinhead.
May 13 2013, 09:37AM
Love ya, Lowetide....but honestly.
I really really really hope they are paying you at Oilersnation and you don't do this in your spare time.
An entire article on
Trust me. Absolutely no one is looking back and thinking "if only we had a 'Rem Murray' type."
Who the hell is Rem Murray?
May 10 2013, 06:47AM
...he was steady eddie REM was...he never 'flagged'...
Rem Murray, first player in the series I would not want on the current version of the Oilers.
May 10 2013, 07:56AM
Honestly, I always thought Rem was a pylon. For an entire season his shifts would entail skating a big circle as far away from the puck as possible then getting back on the bench.
Brutal player.
Wow. I disagree archaeology... You obviously don't remember in 1998 when the Colorado series was 3-1 for Colorado... Rem Murray was given the job of shadowing Peter Forsberg and shut him down for the rest of the series (4-3 oilers win). Peter Forsberg in his prime. I would love Rem Murray in his prime to be our 4th line center. He was a value contract too iirc.
May 10 2013, 09:10AM
I agree with Arch, fewer than 160 pm's his whole NHL career for a not overly gifted offensive player. Avoided the physical side of the game most nights as well, screams peripheral NHL career player to me. Not at all gifted when it came to picking those feet up and putting them down again. Horcoff, Rem Murray , same type players.
Rem Murray....Meh.
Note to Jasmine, we loved Rem Murray so much, we runded him outta town twice!
Like Rem and appreciate his dedication to the team (and to hockey), but if I had a choice between him, Marchant, or Moreau to throw out on a third or fourth line late in a game, I would likely go with Marchant first, Moreau second and him third.
May 10 2013, 10:10AM
I remember Rem Murray skating over during Jari Kurri's retirement ceremony. At the time, he was wearing Kurri's old #17 that was about to go to the rafters. Murray shakes Kurri's hand and takes off his #17 jersey to have #16 on underneath, and he hands his old number to Kurri.
I don't know about the rest of you, but that moment - when a current player sheds a number of a player who is being honored - is one of my favorites in sport.
May 10 2013, 10:43AM
@Jim mcgundy
Rem, is that you?
May 10 2013, 10:52AM
Arch is a proven pinhead. The amount of games the oilers played rem Murray proves he wasn't a pylon. Arch has proven himself to be a pinhead. And I'm not even an oilers fan. Go back under your rock, pinhead.
You got me there. Proven without a shadow of a doubt in the now famous court case "The People vs Archaeologuy".
The good news for me is that the Movie Rights have been picked up by George Clooney. I think he wants to play the part of Jeanshorts, but its so early in development it's hard to tell what's fact and what's fiction.
May 10 2013, 11:40AM
Sorry arch. I forgot assclown too. Coaches usually pick "brutal players" for team Canada in the world championships.
May 10 2013, 11:49AM
@Jim McGuffey
Zing! Got me good. I may never recover.
People forget that Remmer was the "Win it for Lanny" player for the Oilers' '06 run.
May 10 2013, 04:45PM
Zing! Got me good. I may never recover.
Has this website deteriorated to the point where a feel-good profile about an honest NHL journeyman who played for the Oilers gets people sniping at each other?
Yes, let's interject our "tell it like it is" analysis and follow up with a dose of sarcasm over R-e-m M-u-r-r-a-y.
What a great place this has become.
May 10 2013, 05:18PM
@Robin Brownlee
Eventually this series was destined to make its way past the greats of the glory years and into the pool of players that Oiler fans are mixed on.
I'm fine with the sniping. It's bound to come every once in a while. I clearly touched a nerve with McGriffles or whatever his name is.
At least Rem Murray could backcheck and even put up some 30 point seasons, all on a cheap contract as a 3rd/4th liner. Yet a current center we often discuss, who doesn't backcheck and puts up 45 point seasons, gets lauded as a solid 2nd line center? I guess Murray isn't the only one who's "brutal".
By the way, I like the use of hockey cards throughout the article. It looks like one was even personally signed by the Gem.


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A hat-trick of tries from Edinburgh wing Tim Visser was not enough to prevent Munster from claiming a 23-18 PRO12 on Saturday.
A hat-trick of tries from Edinburgh wing Tim Visser was not enough to prevent Munster from claiming a 23-18 PRO12 win at Murrayfield on Saturday.
All the points in the first half were earned by two men. While the hosts' winger went over for two tries, visiting fly-half Ian Keatley scored a try, a conversion and a penalty.
Keatley added two more three-pointers in the second period and Luke O'Dea scored the decisive touchdown.
Although Visser crossed the whitewash for a third time, the Irish team held on despite a late barrage from the home side.
Much like their fellow province Leinster, the Limerick-based outfit went into the opening weekend without their internationals that featured against New Zealand in the summer.
However, they still managed to field a strong side with the likes of Casey Laulala, Doug Howlett and James Downey forming an impressive backline.
Their opponents were looking to improve on last season's 11th place. Despite reaching the Heineken Cup semi-finals, the Scottish outfit struggled in the Pro12.
And they got off to an excellent start against last season's semi-finalists when Visser touched down.
Keatley responded for the visitors with a penalty before Edinburgh's left wing went over for a second try.
Once again, the Irish side hit back through their fly-half who touched down. He then converted his own try as the teams went in level at 10-10 at half-time.
Greig Laidlaw and Keatley traded three-pointers early in the second period before Luke O'Dea cut an excellent line to scamper clear of the hosts' defence.
he visiting fly-hald then sealed the victory with a penalty despite Visser completing his hat-trick seven minutes from the end.
The scorers:
For Edinburgh:
Tries: Visser 3
Pen: Laidlaw
For Munster:
Tries: Keatley, O'Dea
Cons: Keatley 2
Pens: Keatley 3
Edinburgh: 15 Greig Tonks, 14 Lee Jones, 13 Nick De Luca, 12 Ben Atiga, 11 Tim Visser, 10 Greig Laidlaw (c), 9 Richie Rees, 8 Stuart McInally, 7 Ross Rennie, 6 David Denton, 5 Sean Cox, 4 Grant Gilchrist, 3 Willem Nel, 2 Ross Ford, 1 John Yapp.
Replacements: 16 Andy Titterrell, 17 Allan Jacobsen, 18 Geoff Cross, 19 Perry Parker, 20 Dimitri Basilaia, 21 Chris Leck, 22 Gregor Hunter, 23 John Houston.
Munster: 15 Denis Hurley, 14 Doug Howlett (capt), 13 Casey Laulala, 12 James Downey, 11 Luke O'Dea, 10 Ian Keatley, 9 Duncan Williams, 8 James Coughlan, 7 Sean Dougall, 6 Peter Butler, 5 Billy Holland, 4 Donncha O'Callaghan, 3 BJ Botha, 2 Damien Varley, 1 Wian du Preez.
Replacements: 16 Mike Sherry, 17 Marcus Horan, 18 Stephen Archer, 19 Dave Foley, 20 Barry O'Mahony, 21 Peter Stringer, 22 Scott Deasy, 23 Ivan Dineen.
Venue: Murrayfield
Referee: Leighton Hodges (Wales)
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New Countries to Start Phase-Out of Inefficient Lighting, with Major Economic and Climate Benefits21/
Rio de Janeiro, 21 June 2012 - A total of five percent of global electricity consumption could be saved every year through a transition to efficient lighting, resulting in annual worldwide savings of over US$ 110 billion. These are among the main findings of 150 national assessments and a new global policy map on efficient lighting, released today by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and partners. In some cases, the assessments show that the financial savings and climate change mitigation benefits achieved by phasing out incandescent lighting in developing and middle-income countries are much more significant than previous studies suggested. The yearly savings in electricity of the phase-out would be equivalent to closing over 250 large coal-fired power plants, resulting in avoided investment costs of approximately US$ 210 billion. Additionally, the 490 megatonnes (Mt) of CO2 savings per year is equivalent to the emissions of more than 122 million mid-size cars. A group of 14 pilot countries will seek to benefit from such opportunities as part of a Global Efficient Lighting Partnerships Programme ? co-ordinated by UNEP and partners - that will get underway next month. Countries will receive support to develop national phase-out plans for inefficient lamps from experts provided by the en.lighten initiative: a public-private partnership led by UNEP and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) in collaboration with Philips Lighting, Osram AG, and the National Lighting Test Centre of China.Global Policy MapA new global policy map launched today - also produced by the en.lighten initiative - shows in detail the status of efficient lighting policies in countries around the world.The first resource of its kind in the lighting industry, the online map provides an overview of efficient lighting policies and successes, specifically in the residential sector. The information for each country covers standards, labels, supporting policies, product quality control activities and end-of-life policies, as well as a national ranking in terms of policy development. . Ratings will be regularly updated according to a country's progress in achieving a sustainable transition to efficient lighting. "One of the most cost-effective ways to contribute to the reduction of global carbon emissions is the phase-out of inefficient lighting technologies," said Achim Steiner, UN Under-Secretary-General and UNEP Executive Director. "Increasing numbers of countries are now achieving major financial savings, generating green jobs, and seeing reductions in mercury, sulphur dioxide, and other pollutants from power stations, through a switch to efficient lighting. As the Rio+20 negotiations continue, these new findings from the en.lighten initiative demonstrate that ambitious policies and partnerships must be seized if the social, economic, and environmental benefits of a transition to a low-carbon, resource efficient green economy are to be realized." "The en.lighten initiative is a showcase for the benefits of public private partnership," said Monique Barbut, CEO and Chairperson of the Global Environment Facility. "Working together, we are accelerating the understanding of technology options, establishing quality and certification protocols, and promoting sound policies for countries to achieve their climate mitigation goals. We need more private sector leaders to follow the example of Philips and Osram and join the GEF in advancing technologies to protect the environment and foster sustainable development." Country Lighting AssessmentsThe assessments released today at Rio+20 analyze the benefits of shifting from inefficient light bulbs for consumers, the industrial, commercial and street lighting sectors. Products cover a wide range of technologies including innovative LEDs. The assessments were produced in conjunction with the International Energy Agency (IEA) and cover 150 countries including Russia, India, China, and Brazil."The cleanest, most secure type of energy is the one that is not needed, which is why the IEA attaches so much importance to energy efficiency in our 28 member countries and beyond," said Maria Van der Hoeven, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA)"Lighting has a key role to play in improving energy efficiency, and continuing efforts to phase-out inefficient lighting products at a global level will enhance energy security and reduce global energy demand."The new assessments show that a country such as India could cut its lighting electricity consumption by over 35 percent, which is equivalent to avoiding the construction of 11 large coal-fired power plants and taking over 10 million cars off the road. Annual savings would be over US$2 billion.Rio+20 host country Brazil could save over US$ 3 billion annually and reduce over 5 percent of national electricity consumption through a transition to energy efficient lighting. Due to the technological shift towards innovative LED technology, there is a great opportunity for countries to leapfrog to this advanced lighting solution in national markets. Although LED lamps are currently expensive to buy for individual consumers, bulk procurement by governments, tax incentives and subsidies are making them a viable alternative. LEDs do not contain any mercury and last up to ten times longer than their CFL counterparts."Lighting accounts for around 20 percent of global electricity consumption. Therefore, energy efficient products are key to a sustainable and green future. Green is lean," said Constantin Birnstiel, Chief Sustainability Officer, Osram AG. "As a long-term partner of the UN's en.lighten initiative, OSRAM strongly supports the combat against climate change with energy-efficient lighting around the globe. Private partners can accelerate the success of global initiatives with their experiences and resources in individual countries." "Already many emerging and developing countries have committed to phase out inefficient lighting, thereby helping to create the first global industry sector transition to low-carbon innovative and sustainable solutions," said Harry Verhaar, Head of Global Public & Government Affairs, Philips Lighting. "As a public-private partnership, the en.lighten initiative is putting the Green Economy and Global Environmental Governance into practice, which helps to drive sustainable global development and enhances people's lives with light," he added. Global Efficient Lighting Partnership Programme To date, almost 50 developing and emerging countries supported by en.lighten have committed to phasing out incandescent lamps by 2016. Work also begins next month in 14 new pilot countries to develop national plans towards phasing out incandescent lighting, as part of the UNEP en.lighten Global Efficient Lighting Partnerships Programme. The first national workshops will be held in July in Uruguay and Chile, followed by Belize, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Morocco, Jordan, Philippines and Tunisia. The government of Mexico will be a key ally for the Central and South American pilot countries, as the first country in the developing world to enact climate change legislation, including the phasing out of inefficient lighting. "We took a leadership role and began our phase-out initiative earlier this year and it has been met with excellent results," said Mr. Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources. "We are encouraged in moving forward based on the new lighting assessments which show that Mexico could save almost US$ 1 billion in less than six months by extending the call for efficient lighting to other sectors."2012 marks the United Nations International Year of Sustainable Energy for All, which aims to double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency by 2030. For the lighting sector, this goal can be reached in just four years, if the target to phase out inefficient incandescent lamps worldwide by 2016 is met. Key facts Electricity for lighting accounts for almost 20 percent of electricity consumption and 6 percent of CO2 emissions worldwide. According to the IEA, approximately 3 percent of global oil demand can be attributed to lighting. The global demand for artificial light will be 60 percent higher by 2030 if no switch to efficient lighting occurs. Incandescent lamps have already been phased-out, or are scheduled to be phased-out in most OECD countries, Argentina, Brazil, China, Colombia, Mexico, Vietnam and other developing countries. If Brazil extends current legislation to include commercial, industrial and street lighting applications, the country could save close to US $ 4 billion and reduce carbon dioxide emissions equivalent to 400,000 cars being removed from the road. The complete transition to efficient lighting in all sectors throughout Africa could reduce electrical demand enough to electrify over 14 million presently un-serviced households. Up to 95 percent of the energy emitted by incandescent lamps is heat, and their efficiency is low. In comparison, incandescent bulbs last around 1,000 hours which is significantly shorter than compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) which can last up to 12,000 hours. Like all fluorescent lamps, CFLs contain small amounts of mercury, which complicates their disposal. en.lighten supports countries in developing legislation and sustainable end-of-life programmes. Some countries, such as Nigeria and China, are leapfrogging directly to light emitting diodes (LEDs) from incandescent lamps. LEDs do not contain mercury and have other advantages such as long life and low heat generation.Notes to EditorsMore information on the en.lighten initiative is available at: www.enlighten-initiative.orgThe global policy map can be viewed at: http://www.enlighten-initiative.org/portal/CountrySupport/GlobalPolicyMap/tabid/104292/Default.aspx Country lighting assessments are available at: http://www.enlighten-initiative.org/portal/Home/tabid/56373/Default.aspxNational Data on the Benefits of a Transition to Energy Efficient Lighting can be viewed at: http://www.unep.org/PDF/PressReleases/Table_Energy_Efficient_Lighting_Transition.pdfCountries that have joined the en.lighten Global Efficient Lighting Partnership Programme include: Algeria, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Chile, Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Gambia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinee, Guinee Bissau, Honduras, Indonesia, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Liberia, Mali, Morocco, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Palestine, Panama, Paraguay, Philippines, Russian Federation, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Thailand, Togolese Republic, Tonga, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, Yemen. 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Gallatin County's Wes McGuire is adding plenty of offseason hardware to his mantle.
The Southeastern Illinois Community College baseball signee was named co-MVP of the Greater Egyptian Conference, along with Pope County's Austin Ferrell and McGuire landed on the Illinois High School Baseball Coaches Association 1A All-State team.
McGuire's teammate Dane Hish was named captain of the GEC All-Conference Baseball Team, while Darren Betz (Carrier Mills), Brady Householder (Thompsonville), Cole Tucker (NCOE), Tyler Thompson (Pope County), Marcus Wargel (Gallatin County) and Colton McCree (Crab Orchard) rounded out the list.
Three players, Dalton Summers (Carrier Mills), Loren Whiting (Carrier Mills) and Braden Cook (Hardin County) were named to the honorable mention team.
Representing southern Illinois and joining McGuire on the IBCA 1A All-State team were Webber Townships Ty Henderson and Shawnee's Adam Pennington.
The 2A IBCA team consisted of Harrisburg's Ryne Roper and Carterville's Sammy Stearns, along with Teutopolis' Jared Waldhoff and Kyle Pruemer.
On the girls' side, Hardin County's Krysta Rokosh was named MVP of the GEC All-Conference softball team, while Kylie Jones (Hardin County) and Ashley Bowles (Pope County) shared co-captian honors.
Larissa Bond, Emily Reed and Liz Sloan, all from Galatia made the squad, while Brittany Noel (Pope County), Emily Edwards (NCOE) and Kelly Johns (Crab Orchard) rounded out the list.
Casey Crowder of Carrier Mills, Summer Galloway of Crab Orchard and Danielle Davis of Hardin County were named to the honorable mention team.
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'Jordan Eagles: BLOOD / SPIRIT'
The exhibition, currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art, will close Friday, June 28.
|Jordan Eagles, BAR 1-9 (detail of BAR 5). 2009. Image courtesy of the artist
Jordan Eagles: BLOOD / SPIRIT will end its run at Saint Louis University Museum of Contemporary Religious Art (MOCRA) Friday, June 28. New York artist Jordan Eagles combines bovine blood with Plexiglas, UV resin, copper, gauze and other media to produce arresting works that both fascinate and challenge audiences. Art critic Jessica Baran describes the exhibition — the first time Eagles' work has been shown in St. Louis — as "ideally realized" and says that "the work does much to re-imagine MOCRA as an exhibition environment — encouraging new ways of seeing the space, both conceptually and physically."
Eagles and the MOCRA exhibit have been featured by media outlets including St. Louis Magazine, Columbia Faith and Values (Columbia, Mo.) and The Current.
Museum hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday, through May 12. From May 14 through June 28, museum hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. Admission is free, though there is a suggested donation of $5, or $1 for students and children. Call 314-977-7170 or visit mocra.slu.edu for more information.
About the exhibition
Jordan Eagles began using and preserving animal blood as a way to explore the connections between life, death, body, spirit and the universe. Traditional red paint fell short of expressing the emotional vitality that Eagles sought, so he ventured to local slaughterhouses. But the works he created changed shade as the blood oxidized, causing Eagles to develop a means of suspending and encasing the blood in Plexiglas and UV resin in a way that permanently retains the organic material's natural colors, patterns and textures. His innovative technique challenges nature by preventing the works from decomposing.
MOCRA is pleased to present for the first time in St. Louis these arresting works that both fascinate and challenge audiences. Eagles' use of blood evokes reflections on the corporeal and the spiritual, on the scientific and the mystical, on mortality and regeneration. In MOCRA's unique former chapel space, the potency of these themes becomes particularly acute.
Even the very processes by which Eagles prepares his medium show a ritualistic sensibility. He uses various mark-making methods, including layering the blood at different densities as well as heating, burning and aging the material. Copper, an electrical conductor, imparts a fiery energy to some works. Loosely woven gauze saturated with blood and encased in Plexiglas echoes burial cloths and ancient wrapping rituals. In some instances, decomposed blood is ground into dust and tossed into the works as a sign of passing and change. Eagles also creates immersive "blood illumination" pieces in which transparent preserved blood works are projected onto the walls. The MOCRA exhibition includes examples of all of these techniques. Highly textural and dimensional works, most incorporating copper, are presented in MOCRA's side chapel galleries, while a site-specific installation of "blood illumination" pieces are projected onto the walls and ceiling of MOCRA's balcony gallery. The centerpiece is the massive nine-panel, 32-foot-wide installation, BAR 1-9, on display in MOCRA's central nave gallery.
About the artist
Jordan Eagles received his bachelor in fine arts/media studies from New York University's Gallatin School for Individualized Studies in 1999. Eagles has been profiled in TIME, The New York Times, New York Magazine, FRAME, ArtInfo.com, and The Huffington Post, and his work is found in numerous private and public collections, including the Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, Mass.), the Princeton University Art Museum (Princeton, N.J.), the University of Michigan Museum of Art (Ann Arbor, Mich.), the Addison Gallery of American Art (Andover, Mass.) and the Everson Museum (Syracuse, N.Y.).
His work has been shown at venues including the University of Michigan Museum of Art, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art (Hartford, Conn.), the High Museum (Atlanta, Ga.), the Elmhurst Museum (Elmhurst, Ill.), the Mobile Museum of Art (Mobile, Ala.), Trinity Museum at Trinity Church, Wall Street (New York), the International Museum of Surgical Science (Chicago) and most recently at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey (Summit, N.J.) and the Everhart Museum (Scranton, Penn.). Eagles will be having solo exhibitions at The Mutter Museum (Philadelphia, Penn.) and The Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, N.Y.) in September 2013.
About the Museum of Contemporary Religious Art (MOCRA)
Saint Louis University's Museum of Contemporary Religious Art (MOCRA) is the world's first interfaith museum of contemporary religious and spiritual art. Officially opened in 1993, MOCRA is dedicated to the ongoing dialogue between contemporary artists and the world's faith traditions. Located in a spacious chapel that was used for over 35 years by Jesuits studying philosophy at Saint Louis University, MOCRA offers a unique, meditative setting for the display of its permanent collection and changing exhibitions. MOCRA's exhibitions demonstrate the range of contemporary religious and spiritual artistic expression, presenting the work of artists of regional, national and international stature.


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Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet Francois Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps." Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young. Clever, funny, screwed-up, and dead sexy, Alaska will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps.
Looking for Alaska brilliantly chronicles the indelible impact one life can have on another. A stunning debut, it marks John Green's arrival as an important new voice in contemporary fiction.
I've had this one on my TBR list for such a long time. I hate writing a review when you didn't like it that much but everyone else seemed to have. At least I'll know what to expect. All the gushing reviews don't point out the not so great stuff.
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Oh dear, I've been wanting to read this book so bad for so long! Yours the first review I've read that doesn't go all out gaga over it but I like how honest you are.
More often than not, high expectations are terrible things. I hope I'm not as disappointed by it.
And I'm sorry about your friend 🙁
Since no single book works for everyone, it's important to write reviews of books that were "misses" for you, particularly when you talk about specific problems you had (as your post does) — for example, that you figured out the what, where, and how, and then the pacing was off for you for the rest of the book. Here's an interesting contrast: I had figured out the two important twists in Megan Whalen Turner's THE THIEF right away, yet it didn't diminish my enjoyment of the book or its pacing. It's interesting and useful for me to hear that John Green didn't achieve that for you.
Sometimes I have issues with hyped books or big books or reading books that I know other people loved. Maybe it's the expectations that 'you must love this' like everyone else has. Having read this one later than most other people, I was nervous too, but I loved it. LOVED it. But I can see the flip side, especially if you saw someone you knew and cared about in a character.
You know, this is kind of how I felt too. I genuinely liked the book and I can see why people think John Green is a genius and I totally plan to read the rest of his stuff, but it definitely wasn't earth shattering or life changing for me.
Kinda glad I'm not the only one 😛
http://lorxiebookreviews.blogspot.com/2012/05/looking-for-alaska-by-john-green.html i love JOHN GREEN


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Irmtraud "Irma" Leslie, 74, of North Las Vegas, passed away on Nov. 20, 2013.
She was born on June 12, 1939 in Mühlhausen/Thüringen, Germany. She married Merrill Leslie in 1959 in Germany and they have resided in North Las Vegas since 1970.
Irma was a seamstress who enjoyed knitting and crocheting. She made baby blankets and newborn hats that have been donated to military baby showers and Mountain View Hospital.
Irma is survived by her husband Merrill Leslie, her three children: Michael (Cindy) Leslie, Sharon Leslie and Eric (Andrea) Leslie and her three grandchildren: Amy Leslie, William Leslie and Mitchell Leslie of Las Vegas.
In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting that donations be made to your favorite charity or to Infinity Hospice Care 6340 South Jones Blvd. Las Vegas, NV 89118 (702) 816-5000.
No services are scheduled. She was a wonderful wife, mother, grandmother, sister, daughter and friend. She will truly be missed.


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Skip to comments.Al Gore's Hilarious New Plan!!!
Posted on 09/18/2006 2:35:05 PM PDT by Minus_The_Bear
I think Al Gore may have outdone himself and proposed his most hilarious plan yet... wait for it..
...Gore also called for the complete elimination of the payroll tax. It would be replaced by a tax on CO2:
"For the last fourteen years, I have advocated the elimination of all payroll taxes including those for social security and unemployment compensation and the replacement of that revenue in the form of pollution taxes principally on CO2. The overall level of taxation would remain exactly the same. It would be, in other words, a revenue neutral tax swap. But, instead of discouraging businesses from hiring more employees, it would discourage business from producing more pollution..."
He wants to tax AIR?
I hope there can be a checkbox on the 1040 form for those who wish to pay additional CO2 tax!
Sign me up!!!!
If Al Bore has to pay taxes on the amount of hot air he produces with his bloviation...the deficit will be eliminated in short order!!!
I still shudder.
Better than the Fair tax?
Easy now, Along with CO2 would be a tax on methane production and I have an uncle who would be bankrupted.
More fair than the fair tax! < /sarc >
LOL! Come to think of it, I would be badly hurt in that case....
When will this pathetic femme get it that he's long overdue on giving up his 15 minutes of fame?
Would we tax wild animals too?
Al Gore wants to tax breathing? First we had a president who claims he didn't inhale and now we have a vice president who wants to tax us when we exhale!
At least he wouldn't be able to tax dead people retroactively like Bubba did.
I'm all for it. But first we must abolish the payroll tax and the unemployment tax and then I promise we get to Algore's "fart" tax first thing, I promise.
That is a scary thought indeed.
Hey, this is just a back end way to tax vegans!
Letting Divinity School dropouts define global climate research sounds like a great idea. (NOT)
How are trees supposed to produce oxygen now?
Everything but sting-rays and big city rats.
If he's going to start taxing hot air I'm sure that the politicians are not going to like it.
I assume that he'll be happy to pay this. Oh wait...I forgot...taxes are for us unwashed masses not privileged enough to as brilliant as Al Gore, "Certified Genius" (it says so on his business card)...
Sounds like he wants to tax productivity -- but then what else is new?
Based on recent pictures I'd say Al has been putting away a lot of carbon all on his own.
I thought the only thing that kept him from being President was the people of the great state of Tennessee. Gore's home state IIRC.
it would discourage business from producing more products and profits
It seems that Cindy Sheehan has company in her need for special psychiatric help.
Oh, I hope that nut-bar is the front runner for the Dummycrats. What a slam-dunk! I think that he and that former governor of Georgia . . . what was his name? . . . Oh, Carter, Jimmy Carter, should both be on the ticket.
A study is under way.
So he wants to tax us on every breath we exhale?
Even Augustus didn't tax air, just urine.
Sure sounds like it. Of course parts of California will get a tax rebate because of air pollution.
My mother told me 40 years ago that the Dems would someday try to tax the air we breath.
Is he going to claim credit for inventing the Internet again?
He's for anything that hurts big business. Gee, that means no jobs for the rest of us because Gore will bankrupt the big businesses.
Nothing that Gore says surprises me anymore.
What does surprise me, is that the news media even pays any attention to him. That goes for Bill Clinton, Carter and McCain too.
Of course Comrade Al doesn't mean that he would do away with the income tax - according to the way that Commies speak (and lie), income tax withholding is not what they're thinking of when they talk about "payroll taxes". It's just a ploy (but then, when isn't everything that Demo/Commies advocate just a sneaky ploy), a rather baldfaced one at that, but just a ploy...
I still shudder.
Isn't that the damn truth? And to think Congress is at risk in less than 2 months is a very scary thought as well.
Do you have a link to this article?
No-thousands of manipulated ballots brought the Bush victory margin down to 537 votes. That plus the news media "calling" the election for Gore an hour before polls closed in the western part of the state. And the disqualifying of a few thousand military votes. And the deliberate miscounting of ballots in Dem. controlled districts. Etc., etc....
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(June 25) Today we're celebrating . . . National Handshake Day
National Handshake Day
Ever encounter one of those "dead fish" handshakes! Eck! Creepy!
Well a good handshake is important. Especially in the business world, where deals are finalized with a handshake and where a bad handshake could derail the whole deal!
So don't be a "dead fish" and take some time today to practice your handshake. A good, firm and dry handshake!
photo credit: handshake by iamtonyang


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Candy Memories
Growing up in central Illinois in the late 1970's and early 1980's, I remember frequent trips with my brothers to the community swimming pool. Just outside the swimming pool, there was a small pavilion that contained several vending machines. I remember my older brother and me each buying a small package of Andy Capp's Hot Fries. My older brother would always challenge me to a "test of manhood." Whoever could eat the most Hot Fries without coughing, gasping, or clearing their throat was crowned the bigger, most "grown-up" man..... My brother usually won. Jon from Illinois
Ratings & Reviews
Posted by: Jenny Martin
Hot Fries
I would buy these chips at school. They bring back memories of people who couldn't eat them because they were too spicy and those who could eat them, like me.
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Wilderness Trek is home to cold climate animals including one of the most diverse collections of bear species in North America. Discover Amur Tigers, Reindeer, Persian Onagers, Bactrian camels, harbor seals and sea lions.
Wolf Wilderness gives visitors a comprehensive look into the environment and wildlife of a northern temperate forest. Wolf Lodge anchors the exhibit and serves as an education and viewing center for gray wolves, beavers, and a variety of wetland species.


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University of Rochester Medical CenterSchool of Medicine and Dentistry601 Elmwood Ave, Box 850Rochester, NY 14642
Appointment: (585) 276-3000
Dr. Phipps has authored or co-authorized over 190 articles, and numerous book chapters and reviews concerning control of normal and malignant B lymphocyte activation, cellular and molecular characterization of fibroblasts as mediators of inflammation, wound healing and fibrosis, Graves ophthalmopathy, and platelet biology. He is on the editorial board of Clinical Immunology and PPAR Research and is an ad hoc reviewer for many journals including the Journal of Clinical Investigation, American Journal of Pathology, PNAS, Trends in Immunology, Journal of Biological Chemistry, and Journal of Immunology. Dr. Phipps is a member of the American Association for Cancer Research, The American Physiological Society, The American Association of Immunologists, The American Society of Clinical Pathology, the American Thoracic Society and The American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has served on numerous review committees for the NIH and other government agencies.
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Dr. Phipps' research investigates several diseases involving immune and inflammatory components. He studies B cells and B cell lymphomas and how they are influenced by lipid mediators called prostaglandins. His laboratory also studies abnormal inflammatory and wound healing responses in the orbit of the eye (thyroid eye disease) and the lung (scarring) that involve fibroblast biology. Finally, he and his colleagues study platelets and their emerging role in inflammatory diseases such as diabetes and lung disease.


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Savoury pancakes with mushrooms and onions
Who doesn't like mildly sweet spongy pancakes all dripping with maple syrup? There weren't many pancake-serving places in Mumbai earlier so my first brunch with a stack o' pancakes was in at the IHOP in Rochester, NY. My favourite being the multigrain pancakes, which had the grainy bits within and a choice of syrups with a bit of sweetened cream on the side...US is a place of indulgences, including pancakes.
Crepe Station at Bandra
in Bombay is one of our favourite breakfast destinations for the weekends. They serve wonderful omelettes, pancakes, waffles and nowadays its raining strawberries in their menu. But unfortunately they don't serve stacks of pancakes :)
When I do them at home, I like to keep them light, texture-wise as well as calorie-wise. I had shared with you my eggless version of sweet pancakes a while ago. But not everyone like sweet stuff for breakfast. These low fat, high fibre pancakes are the best for such people. No eggs, no butter, these pancakes can be a dieter's delight. The buttermilk makes them fluffy and the finely chopped mushrooms & onions give them a great texture, adding to the nutritional value as well.
Savoury pancakes with mushrooms and onions
Category: Breakfast, low-fat, diabetic recipes
Time taken: Under 30 minutes
Makes around 8 pancakes of 3" diameter
Source: My own recipe
1 cup gram flour
2 tbsp chick pea flour or soy flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp baking powder
3 tbsp finely chopped button mushrooms
3 tbsp finely chopped red onion
1 tsp cayenne pepper
1 tsp salt or to taste
1 tbsp finely chopped coriander leaves
3/4 cup yogurt / thick buttermilk
water to get desired consistency
1 tbsp light cooking oil
Oil to cook pancakes
special equipment
a pancake griddle with spatula or a large non stick pan
Mix all dry ingredients in a large bowl. Make a well and add the wet ingredients with the tbsp of oil. Stir to blend well. Add a little more water if necessary to get a thick pouring consistency.
Cover this batter and let it rest for 5-10 minutes.
Grease a pancake griddle / non-stick pan. Pour a ladleful of batter very slowly onto the medium hot griddle.
(If the batter spreads out very quickly into a thin layer, that means the consistency of the batter needs to made thicker with some more flour.)
Make as many pancakes as your pan will accomodate. Drizzle a spoonful of cooking oil around the edges of the pan.
As you start seeing bubbles on the sides of each pancake, give them 30 more seconds and they are ready to be turned over. Do not press them down, let them fluff up as they cook. Give the second side under a minute over a medium flame, drizzling some oil if necessary. The pancakes must be fluffy and golden brown on both sides when done.
Serve hot with coriander chutney mixed in a cupful of yogurt. These also taste great with orange marmalade.
I used a high protein gram flour provided by my nutritionist, this is a mixture of gram flour and black chick pea flour. This is rich is proteins and has a low glycemic index that keeps you filled up for longer. This flour is also excellent for diabetics.
You can also try using grated carrots and zucchini in these pancakes but take care to adjust the water added to keep the consistency of batter right.
Why these pancakes are healthy
ses a
high fibre flour
as against all purpose flour
Low fat as there is
no butter or egg
in the batter
These pancakes can be had with a
variety of chutneys
as against maple syrup or honey
This is my submission to
Meeta's Monthly Mingle - Savoury cakes
Pancakes are 'cakes' after all! Trust she'll like them!
Other pancakes served at Saffron Trail
Eggless breakfast pancakes
4 lentil pancakes
Healthy date pancakes
Mango pancakes
This is one pancake I want to indulge in soon. One of the best I have come across -
Ginger bread pancakes
at Home Sick Texan.
eggless pancakes
savoury pancakes
low fat pancakes
healthy pancakes
Low fat