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On Sunday, April 6, Garrison Keillor, the familiar voice of "A Prairie Home Companion," will take to the stage in support of New England Public Radio's 50th Anniversary Capital Campaign.
This intimate evening offers you a chance to see a rare, non-broadcast show. With only a microphone, a stool, and his longtime collaborator, pianist Richard Dworsky (who leads The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band on "A Prairie Home Companion"), Mr. Keillor promises to delight the audience with his signature brand of storytelling and song.
Garrison Keillor has been the host and writer of A Prairie Home Companion since the program started production in 1974. He is also the author of more than two dozen books, including Lake Wobegon Days, Love Me, Homegrown Democrat, and his latest, O, What A Luxury.
Showtime: 7:00 p.m., doors 6:00 p.m. Seating is open based on the ticket value. Floor, First and Second Balcony seating available.
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Sunday, April 6, 2014, 7 p.m.
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Proceeds Support the station's 50th Anniversary Capital Campaign.
The benefit concert is part of the station's 50th Anniversary Capital Campaign – a $7 million Campaign, now in its final phase, that has as its centerpiece a new headquarters in downtown Springfield. Also included in the Campaign is funding for new broadcast technology, a program development fund, and endowment for facilities and classical and jazz programming. Construction is underway and NEPR will occupy its new facility this coming summer. Nearly $4 million has been raised from individual gifts thus far, with an additional $1.2 million from local banks and businesses, foundations, and the Five Colleges. With about six months to go on the Campaign, there is $1.8 million left to raise in the five-county broadcast area, which includes northern Connecticut. New England Public Radio has also received nearly $1.8 million in New Market Tax Credits in support of the project. For more information on the Capital Campaign, click here.
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The Odyssey Bookshop will provide a selection of Garrison Keillor's books for purchase at Chapin Auditorium. Mr. Keillor will be signing books following the show!


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He was born in Fort Morgan on November 14, 1979, to Richard and Annie (Flores) Rodriquez. Nathan attended schools in Brush where he played football and basketball. He graduated from Brush High School with the class of 1998.
Nathan was a member of Saint Mary's Catholic Church in Brush. He enjoyed camping, fishing, and artwork, especially drawing. He was an avid Denver Broncos fan.
Nathan is survived by his parents, Richard and Annie Rodriquez of Brush; his brother, Tommy Rodriquez of Denver; two sisters, Sarah Rodriquez of Denver and Selena Rocha of Fort Morgan; his daughter, "Special Princess" Alysa Tara Rodriquez of Fort Morgan; his son, Nathan Rodriquez Jr. of El Paso, TX; and his stepdaughter, Deja Aldama of Fort Morgan. Nathan is also survived by his maternal grandfather, Tom Flores and wife, Mary Lou of Brush, as well as many special aunts, uncles, and cousins.
Nathan was preceded in death by his maternal grandmother, Lupe Flores; and his paternal grandparents, Vidal and Ermina Rodriquez.
Visitation will be at the Heer Mortuary Chapel in Brush on Thursday, December 13 from 4 to 6 p.m. A Rosary Vigil will follow at 7 p.m. at Saint Mary's Catholic Church in Brush.
Mass of Christian Burial will be at 2 p.m. on Friday, December 14, 2012, also at Saint Mary's Church. Services will conclude at the church.
Inurnment will be in Brush Memorial Cemetery on Monday, December 17, 2012, at 10 a.
Those attending the services are asked to wear Denver Broncos attire in honor of Nathan.
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From Green Right Now Reports
Wind industry manufacturer Alstom today joined officials of the Amarillo Economic Development Corporation to begin construction of its 115,000 square foot wind turbine assembly plant in Amarillo, Texas.
The facility, which is scheduled to be operational in 2011, is expected to create 275 full time engineering, production, and technical support jobs when the plant is at full capacity. The project was announced earlier this week in Dallas at the American Wind Energy Association's WINDPOWER 2010 conference.
"The North American wind power market—already one of the strongest in the world—is projected to continue to grow as legislators, regulators, NGOs, and the public seek the benefits that clean, renewable wind power is perfectly suited to deliver," Alfonso Faubel, Alstom Wind Vice President, said in a statement. "Amarillo is the ideal location for Alstom's wind power manufacturing hub in North America because it is centrally located in an area that is expected to create a substantial number of new wind power projects over the next several years.
"In addition, Amarillo has invested in the infrastructure needed to transport the sizeable equipment to potential sites all across North America and the resources needed to train its work force to be as productive as possible."
Workers at the Amarillo facility will assemble the "nacelles" — i.e., the generator, gearbox, and control systems — that make up a wind turbine. The nacelles will be transported to sites where they will be combined with blades and a tower to create the complete wind turbine generator.
Alstom Wind, headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, has thus far installed or is installing over 1850 wind turbines in more than 100 wind farms, corresponding to a total capacity of over 2200 megawatts.
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Investing in the stock market when it's at an all-time high seems like one of those ominous moments, like when someone decides to go for a swim in Jaws or peer at an egg in any of the Alien movies. You figure something bad is going to happen, and soon.
But stocks often reach all-time highs without plunging immediately into soul-searing bear markets. Your mission now is to find a way to invest in the market without losing a big chunk of your portfolio — or having nervous breakdown. Here's how.
First, bear in mind that you can often make very good money when the stock market has reached new highs. Let's dolly back to October 1982, when the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index beat its previous all-time high. The S&P 500 soared until Oct. 19, 1987, when, well, Bad Things happened. (The S&P 500 fell that day, the largest one-day collapse in history.)
Nevertheless, even after the 1987 crash, an investor who bought at the all-time high in 1982 was still sitting atop an 87% gain. And, had you bought stocks at the S&P 500's next new all-time high — 338 — you'd have a tidy gain today with the market benchmark at 1,650.
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At current levels, stocks aren't particularly expensive. The S&P 500 sells for about 16 times its previous 12 months' earnings, according to S&P. (Price to earnings is a measure of how cheap or expensive a stock is, relative to earnings. Lower is better. The median P-E for the S&P 500 since 1988 — half higher, half lower — is 18 times earnings.)
Nevertheless, buying at an all-time high should make you a bit nervous. It's best to buy low and sell high. "We aren't advising people to jump in with both feet," says Jeffrey Hirsch, chief market strategist for the Magnet AE fund and editor of the Stock Trader's Almanac. But he's not advising investors to bail, either. It's just that getting in while the market is making new highs is "a less attractive endeavor," Hirsch says.
If you're nervous, try to figure out how much you'd want in stocks, bonds and money market funds if the finger of Doom weren't pointing directly at you. By and large, the more time you have before you'll need your money, the more you should have in stocks, because you'll have more time to make up for losses.
A fast way to estimate: Subtract your age from 100. The result is how much you'd want in stocks. If you're 60, you'd want 40% in stocks. If you're 40, you'd want 60% in stocks. Like all rules of thumb, it tends to be inaccurate on both ends of the scale. A 20-year-old should probably be 100% in stocks, for example. An 80-year-old might not want 20% in stocks. But it's a start.
Now check your portfolio. If you have significantly more than that in stocks, either because of appreciation or enthusiasm, it's time to pare back. Move some from stocks until you're back at the asset allocation you should be.
Rebalancing is something to do sparingly, especially if you're in a taxable account. You could rack up considerable capital gains taxes. And if you rebalance too often, you could hurt your returns: You're supposed to cut short your losers, and let your winners ride. Try to rebalance only when your actual allocation is 10 percentage points more than your target.
A more gradual way to reduce risk: Direct that your future contributions go to safer alternatives, such as money market funds. As the market climbs, you'll have some money on the sidelines to cushion against a correction — and you'll have a buying reserve for when the market bottoms.
If you're investing in exchange traded funds or individual stocks, consider stop-loss orders, which will sell your holdings if they fall below a certain price. For example, if you buy American Pail at $10 a share, you could put a stop-loss order in at $9 per share, in case the bottom falls out of the stock.
Some brokerages will let you put in a trailing order. With a trailing stop, you sell automatically when your stock falls below a certain percentage of its most recent high. For example, you could ask to sell when Amalgamated Pail falls 10% below its most recent high. After all, if you set the stop at $9 and the stock rises to $13, your stop-loss order will let you lose 10% of your investment.
The problem with stop orders was illustrated vividly a few weeks ago, when a false tweet about an explosion at the White House sent the market into a brief tailspin, only to recover seconds later. "There were probably plenty of people who got stopped out the market, and were sorry for it," says Randy Frederick, managing director of active trading and derivatives at the Schwab Center for Financial Research.
Remember that a stop-loss order will get you the next available price after it passes below the stop. In a truly ugly market, the next price could be well below the stop. It's not uncommon for stocks to "gap down" on bad news — meaning that the price could drop from $9.50 to $8 with no bids in between.
If you're investing for the long term — 20 years or more — you should try and keep your finger off the sell trigger. If you add set amounts to your account regularly, you'll buy more shares as the market falls. And, while many people claim to have foreseen the past few bear markets, many of them are big fibbers. But if you're truly nervous, try putting some stop orders on your stocks and ETFs, and moving more money into cash. And stop watching horror movies. You'll sleep better.


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With the danger of the encroaching hurricane, the mayor is collaborating with city health department and state officials on a decision to evacuate hospitals located in Zone A. A final determination is to be announced tomorrow morning.
Such a decision would involve Staten Island University Hospital's (SIUH) two facilities located at 475 Seaview Avenue, Ocean Breeze, and 375 Seguine Avenue, Princes Bay.
In an effort to protect patients and save lives, SIUH is in the process of beginning an orderly step by step process that would discharge patients who can go home. Should the order to evacuate be forthcoming, the hospital in accordance with its emergency preparedness planning would begin the transfer and transport of patients with appropriate clinical staff to other area hospitals and skilled nursing facilities, as well as to hospitals within its own North Shore -- LIJ Health System and elsewhere.
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Fishman celebrate 25th Anniversary
Created by Larry Fishman as the logical outgrowth of the need for a new level of excellence in pickups for acoustic instruments, Fishman Transducers is celebrating 25 years of solid growth as the preeminent leader in the product category it created.
Now the largest supplier in the world to acoustic instrument manufacturers with the broadest product line, Fishman is again transforming itself into a wider focus acoustic amplification company with the success of its Loudbox amplifier line, including the newest addition, the Loudbox 100, which is being introduced at Winter NAMM 2006 along with the 25th Anniversary.
Fishman, who grew up in upstate New York and North Carolina, became involved in music in elementary school thanks to an evolved education program that encouraged learning an instrument, going on to study and play cello and, later on, acoustic bass at N.C. State and at Boston's celebrated Berklee School of Music. He went on to play acoustic bass professionally throughout New England in a series of pit orchestras and jazz bands.
At that time in the late 70s and early 80s, jazz was becoming more electronic in nature and Fishman was having serious problems amplifying his acoustic instrument to achieve parity on stage with electric pianos and guitars. Refusing to give up his acoustic bass for an electric equivalent, he started working on a pickup system for the bass. Analyzing every device available at the time, he experimented with new designs at home and on the bandstand at a jazz club in Cambridge with "horrible acoustics," until he came up with an acoustic bass pickup that finally, as he puts it, "took it to the next level."
Although Fishman fully intended to be a musician, the instant success of his first prototype pickup with acoustic bassists in the Boston area quickly grew into a full time business by 1981 with an expanding range of acoustic pickups. After securing an initial order to supply OEM pickups for Guild acoustic guitars that also proved to be successful, Fishman went on to design and build the popular Thin Line pickup for the C.F. Martin Guitar company.
With the first large Martin order, the company acquired its first manufacturing space (5.000 square feet that "looked like the Grand Canyon" according to Fishman) and increased its personnel. Still made by the company, this pickup launched Fishman Transducers as a solid company with an extensive product line that includes pickups and supporting electronics for the entire guitar family of instruments, dobros, classical guitars, western-style guitars, as well as banjos, mandolins, violins, cellos, basses, etc. As Fishman describes it, "virtually anything with strings on it is our specialty. We have 23 issued patents over the years, with more pending."
Explaining his contribution to the world of music products, Fishman elaborates, "The initial under-the-saddle pickup we came up with was basically a miniaturization of other designs that had been built. We understood that to have a successful pickup in a dreadnought style guitar you couldn't change the bridge into some kind of massive structure which had been done in the past, because it would destroy the basic operating principles of the instrument. So we figured out how to use much smaller ceramic elements and unique ways of fitting them on the instrument where they'd become practically invisible to the instrument itself. They're not hard to install and are very forgiving in their positioning. It wasn't a conceptual breakthrough so much as a breakthrough in execution."
"With the advent of programs like 'MTV Unplugged,' we realized acoustic musicians didn't want to be tethered to a microphone. They wanted more freedom of movement on stage and the ability to play louder which eventually brought the acoustic guitar out of the living room and small clubs onto the world stage. Our contribution to the music is to make the acoustic instrument coequal and viable in larger venues."
Based on the introduction of the visionary Aura™ Acoustic Image Blender and hugely popular Loudbox acoustic amplifier line, Fishman is now poised to expand far beyond its traditional role as the creator of the first truly accurate and faithful pickups for acoustic instruments to an acoustic amplification company with seemingly unlimited potential for the next 25 years.
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Skip to comments.Moments leading to fatal FBI shooting in Orlando still unclear (Todashev)
Posted on 05/24/2013 4:07:31 AM PDT by Haiku Guy
An FBI incident review team from Washington, D.C., is in Orlando today, a day after a Russian man who knew Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was shot dead by an agent.
Federal and Central Florida law enforcement agencies are still collecting and processing evidence from the shooting scene at a condominium complex on Peregrine Avenue, near Kirkman Road and Universal Orlando, where Ibragim Todashev was shot early Wednesday.
Initially, FBI officials said Todashev, 27, became violent and lunged at an agent with a knife while he was being questioned about Tsarnaev and an unsolved 2011 triple murder in the Boston suburb of Waltham. The agent, acting on an "imminent threat," then shot Todashev, they said.
However, later in the day, some of those officials had backed off that preliminary account, and it's no longer clear what happened in the moments before the fatal shooting, The Associated Press reported.
(Excerpt) Read more at myfoxorlando.com ...
Frankly, that one never made sense. If you have a subject secured well enough that he is about to sign a confession, what is he doing with a knife?
I wonder what really happened?
Was he being forced to sign a confession under duress, and it got out of hand? Frankly, I trust the government less than ever, these days...
Of course, this happened before the President said yesterday that he was going to start following the law, more or less, when he gets 'round to it. So this one doesn't countsies...
This should add fuel to preexisting Chechen paranoia.
Bet he was surprised when the muslim pr*** in the boat lived after the boat was sprayed with over 200 bullets.
Wow....Another made up story....what a surprise.
We will never learn the truth.
They are even getting sloppy with the cover ups.
I guess being careful isn't important when the media doesn't seem to care much.
Ding ding ding. ... We have a winner! You're right. He must have had something to say that was going to contradict the line of bs hussein and his cohorts are putting together. Can't have this guy around to end up in front of congress. ...
Witness/suspect in Orlando shot dead? IMHO, protocol would have had the officers frisking the alleged perp before the interview. What happened there?
FBI and MASSACHUSSETTS state police and NO Orlando, Orange County or FDLE personnel present? Just sayin'.....
Let's see.
Chechen friend of Tsarnaev.
Linked to triple throat slitting.
Yeah, there is conspiracy here LOL.
Did this guy know the saudi guy that michelle visited in the hospital?
I think they were probably careless because he appeared to be cooperating and he grabbed somebody's gun or at least attempted to do so and was shot by one of them. The article mentions two shots.
He was an MMA specialist with a quick temper and it sounds to me as if they might have underestimated him. Also, they were interviewing him at home, on his own turf, which is never a good idea.
Part of the reason for the secrecy is no doubt to avoid tipping off the local Chechens so that they can hide their jihadis, but I wonder if another part isn't perhaps a local FBI decision to avoid tipping off headquarters (meaning Holder). He has no intention of letting the Boston bombings be thoroughly investigated and has done everything possible to protect the surviving terrorist.
However, later in the day, after several phone calls from the Obama thought police at the WHite House in Washington , D.C.some of those officials in fear of their jobs and their family safety,had backed off that preliminary account, and because of political correctness censorship, it's no longer clear what happened in the moments before the fatal shooting of the undercover jihadist, The Associated Press reported.
Just another sign that we are all in danger when we become inconvenient - if they will murder potential witness this way, what would stop them from going after citizens who pose a "threat"?
Concocted story equals fabrication and collusion between govt and controlled news media, and what makes sense eventually becomes a conspiracy theory.
Were the 3 murdered under the control of the FBI?
Why else (shades of Whitey Bulger's alleged
'license to kill') would they do this?
They have earned their conspiracy theories, since the last half dozen have come true!
I don't know. But how do you have a preliminary story that the man lunged at an agent with a knife but later on, the story is changed?
Did he lunge with a knife or not?
If he did, why are they changing their story now?
If he didn't, why did they say he did?
Something doesn't add up...
How long can you hide from the truth. I wonder if the man in charge can wag the tail long enough to get out before you start hearing "Obama's Fault"
Orange County has a Black Liberal Sheriff....so that should tell you all you need to know
Also city of Orlando is mostly Democrat...with Dem mayor and mostly Dem city council
I posted in the earliest threads:
My first though was the old movie title: The Man Who Knew Too Much.
The latest confusion re-enforces my first thought.
Some threads yesterday inserted confusion as to who was at fault because agents from several FED agencies and Boston Police were present, and they didn't know who actually did the shooting.
Mr. Todashev was unable to comment on the incident.
Then that would have been the cover story from the beginning.
It was a strange eyebrow raising story that made one wonder when it first came out and now with the story change it leaves one really questioning, especially with all the scandals going on. They have lost the believability factor.
Why would the FBI give this guy a knife to sign a statement?
Good catch. I was on the Live Thread most of that day, as well. The utter chaos of the media coverage was both entertaining, and instructive...
Holder needs to go so we can get to Obama, crime Inc.
What, have you forgotten the years that Whitey Bulger was an "informant" who managed to manipulate the FBI crooks in Boston engage in murder and racketeering for many years. One of the crooked FBI agents went to prison. Yet you are so naive that you believe the gov/media reports about anything much less the FBI and its likely patsythese Chechen tools.
Why did the FBI start with a lie about a knife?
"They are even getting sloppy with the cover ups"
So true. This would never have happened on Billy Jeff's watch. He knew what the meaning of "is" is.
I'm suprised they didn't just say "he needed killin" :-)
Plus, the dude was a mixed martial arts aficionado, preparing to sign his confession to murder of 3 Jews.
So how does the FBI let him get ahold of a knife in that situation?
Or, at least that was their first story.
Then, since that story has B.S. written all over it, they retract that story, and they're busily making up a new one.
I wonder what line of B.S. they'll lay on us next, since the first story was so patently stupid.
Do you still believe your betters at the FBI?
Or would it bear investigating the investigators until something that seems plausibly truthful emerges?
Do you have a link for that? I'm following this FBI B.S. closely. Thanks.
So why did they start with the "knife" lie?
I think you have to allow for the possibility of confusion before going straight for conspiracy.
I tend to think their approach -two Boston cops and one FBI agent, meeting by themselves with this guy in his apartment at night, supposedly - was risky and they probably got taken off guard by his attack because things seemed to be going ok.
I think the Boston police have actually been pursuing the murder case and possibly they had an FBI agent with them to see if the guy had also participated in the bombing. The FBI is famous for doing investigations in a different jurisdiction without informing the locals, so I wouldn't read too much into that. And if they wanted to cover up his participation in the bombing, they wouldn't have shot him before he signed the statement.
Another possibility is that he got hold of somebody's gun, or possibly his own, and attempted to shoot himself rather than sign the statement.
All sorts of things are possible, I guess.
Because they were too afraid to admit they got their *sses kicked by an unarmed man.
Now that's the first explanation I've seen that makes any sense at all.
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FYI...I will be unable to keep up with the ping list for the next week as my son is getting married. If anyone wants to keep up with it while I am gone, let me know and I will FReepmail you the list. thanks!
Ya can't get a straight answer from anyone in government now, or their friends in the media...About anything...
But you can rest assured, this was likely another foreigner who like his good friends the Boston Bomb terrorists, were receiving government provided tax paid gifts, prizes, food stamps, welfare, heath care, beer, ice cream cut rate schooling..
The tax payers get government gang banged 24/7
And, this:
Ibragim Todashev was shot early Wednesday... while he was being questioned about Tsarnaev and an unsolved 2011 triple murder in the Boston suburb of Waltham.
Of course it's all a grand conspiracy, complete with Chechen participants who just blow people up on video.
No muslim terrorists here....it's that black helo in the window.
Sequestration reaching to the cia and black ops. I have a feeling this suspect had some cia money too and they needed to make sure he didn't talk.
CIA. He was probably on their payroll and knew what the two brothers knew. He was an expendable without due process. A shot in the head seems to be the latest directive.
Ya think the local pd would have had a heads up? The copter guys bothers me too. It didn't hit the news how they died for a couple of days. It took them a couple of days to say that "they fell". Why so long? Are they really dead or new identities? When can we impeach Obama and Biden? I'm afraid if we don't impeach them, he will go for a third term.
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Comments: Use these for hybreds (wipers, hyburns, or whatever locals call them). Like the recessed eyes. The eyes don't stick very well as with all stick on eyes I have used. Super Glue works. All eight that I recently purchased weighed just under 1 oz. From .82 to .95. Other 1 oz. Kalin's unpainted Ultimate swim bait jigs that I have used weighed about 1.32 with hook and paint. Like the recessed eye.
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Here is video who shows the home of Jean Yves, his office and workshop.
visit the home of jean yves
Learn a bit more on the way the suit have been created.
Maybe it started with Mr Blondeau paul who was competing in his county as ski jumper. It was straight after world war2. The ski material was only for rich people. He was not. But he was skilfull. So he made his own ski. He also made his own tractor to work in field and forest. He married Micheline Pagnier, and together they got 7 children. He could not find the perfect toy for his 6 boys. So he build it. He made the wheels and the axles and evry thing to buid a serial of nice toy. So the culture was set in the familly : If you need something, can not find it, can not buy it, then build it yourself. (BIY culture)
Every kids did so. And jean yves the very last one, did so too. He made his own BMX, made is own monoski, made is own skateboard, made his own roller skates as his big brothers did. Not every thing worked ! that's a way of learning things. And all the brothers were skating, biking, skiing and trying every thing they could think of. So in the 70's, when they saw the first pictures of skateboard, they buld their own skateboard before it came in shop. In the 80's, when one's could see roller skate on TV, his brother francois bought unsold skateboard to build rollerskates before it came in the shop. So you see where the idea came from ? there where already construtors in the familly.
Micheline Pagnier brang the artistic fantasy. She loves painting and color. So the toys of Paul were colorfull. And the sons went study industrial drawing, architecture, photography, sculpture, fine art, dance and many thing that kid of a such numerous familly learns. By seeing his brothers drawing trucks and houses Jean yves learned technical drawing, and took his familly designed skates in his back pack.
It was similar story in all familly. One particular cousin was industrial designer. Philipp Roux invented a toy with wheels that was mass serial produced by Charton under the name funny roller.
a way to use Funny roller
So jean yves wanted to be industrial designer too.
He could enter one of the best industrial school by showing his projetct of...... Rollerskates !
In this school named Oliver de Serres, he could design anything, truck bus car lamp bottle bags phone etc. But at the end, for the diploma he wanted to make something really new. Something that dos not exist yet.
Problem with thing which does not exists is that no one even know what it is. So Someone has to look for it. And someone has to think how to look for it. And where ? Jean Yves loved skating, dancing, moving, running, creating, filming, speeding... So he figured out that he wanted to create something which deals with body balancing sensation, and locomotion.
The official title of the thesis was :
Jean Yves studyed neuro-anatomy ; how sensations of movement, named as proprioceptive information, circulate in ear, eye, brain... , and how they are processed. It was very intersting !
The NASA before sending anyone in space made a lot of experiment about it because the were affraid the the humain body lost his references and make the cosmonauts crasy. they discovered plenty of key informations ! For example the speed perception is given by the periphery of the eyes. Later when we will need helmet for buggy rollin, we will take care to have the biggest view field. It will feed the brain with more speed sensation and more trajectory information ! Sketch of a helmet of a Crying character out of the "Mythology" BUGGY ROLLIN "After Chae Sun Park Oeting"
The risky behaviour. Jean Yves wanted to understand why we loved speed and jump and scary sports. It is not only a question of adrenaline. He discovered that other people studyed it. There was a french specialist. David Lebreton, is professor in sociology. He showed that teenager behaves risky because they need to give sens to their life. in Ancient times and in every traditionnal siciety teenagers had to pass a ritual of initiation to become adult. During these ritiual, the teenager had to face the death. Being at the border of death is making a necessary landmark for life. That was a revelation !
- Why is the body so important ?
David Lebreton also showed the way we use the body to fit in the society, and in another study he showed that sport can act like a culture which goes over the boundaries with behaviour, language, organisation, clothes codes, literature, music and help individuals to buld an identity.
- What have been made before ?
Analyse of past help to not make the mistake that other prople did. Maping what is existing help to figure out the boundaries. And when the limit are known, it is possible to look beyond, it is possible to find empty spaces where nodody have ever worked. it means it is possible to CREATE something NEW. So jean yves studyed history of design.
- What are the senations ?
The best is to ask to someone who life with and by this senations. It can be professionnal Athlete, Pilots, Artists. So Jean Yves went to interview the best people in their field. He started with a red hair trapesist woman. She showed him that the senaton are not the one you think they are. On her trapeze she felt FREE ! she never want to go down, she wants to jump on the public ! That was really opening mind.
After collecting informatin during six month, the map of existing was showing some interesting possibilities. It was time to be creative, Put every thing learned before in sketches.
That the moment where a small woman appeared somewhere on the paper. She was very small. Maybe less than 2cm. This tiny small lady was rolling on her belly, she was holding stick with wheels at the end, and had wheels at the end of her tiny feet. She made an assiociation with other ideas on paper. All together they showed that it was possible to roll in all position.
One more time there are alot of question to be answered.
What kind of wheels ? Where on the body ? How to fix them ? What position ?
From here is ingeniring work. After many drawings, many visit to specialists, jean yves found the makable answer for of these questions. And one month after, the first prototype was born.
The First prototype Studio Blondeau Paris
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When Jeffrey Paul decided to propose marriage to his girlfriend Natasha he hit on a novel means. He invited her to the Parkway Movie Theater in Oakland where in front of 100 of his friends he played one of his animations on the giant screen: a proposal of marriage. Cute idea. The entire process was broadcast on the TLC television show "A Perfect Proposal". Made using Maya, Love Letters has Jeffrey composing his proposals by hand almost as fast as he can discard them in the bin, though most miss. The real Jeffrey as opposed to the digital one received lots of assistance from friends and students at the Art Institute of California in San Francisco. The result moves beyond a romantic idea and is well made with a great intro as we move in at ground level past the discarded and crumpled proposals before meeting the bearded would-be proposer rehearsing every literary device in the book to win the hand of his future wife. In one scene, thoroughly fired up, he launches himself and fireworks to a delicious anti-climax. One year later Jeffrey was at it again, this time producing an animated wedding invite: The Invitation. Natasha is at hand as the pair decide on an imaginative form of invitation with great humour though it was a shame they discounted the idea of tattooing goldfish. I would have travelled across the Atlantic for an occasion like that, the fish a talking point for years to come. Everything ends romantically with a fulsome invitation and kiss. Great idea, well executed. And I hope you all have a rewarding Valentine's Day.
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Jeffrey Paul "Love Letters" & "The Invitation"
Posted by ian lumsden at Saturday, February 14, 2009
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This is incredible!
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- paulhojo said...
This is incredible. Ever do this for other people?
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This Is amazing. Your invitation is great.
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The format of invitataion letters is fabulous in this site. Every on ecan easily understand the format of invitation letter easily. I like this site. Letters.org have some invitation letters which are also interesting.
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1. May, 2002: Carmen Electra in Frankie B.
2. Megan Fox wears her Frankie B. "Heart of Steel" in 2010.
3. Frankie B. Spring/Summer 2009.
4. Frankie B. Spring/Summer 2005.
5. Frankie B. Spring/Summer 2007: Daniella Clarke with husband, Gilby Clarke.
6. Frankie B. Fall/Winter 2008.
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In February, Frankie B. Jeans will mark its 12th year anniversary, and we thought it would be fitting to talk to Daniella Clarke, the founder who started out DIYing her own jeans as a teenager by ripping out the waistbands. As a pioneer in the denim industry, we really wanted to find out what she's up to now (besides being sought to resurrect the 1970s denim brand Dittos Jeans) and how much of a denim freak she is. We also found out she is a bit obsessed with Kate Moss and lots of male musicians wear Frankie B. jeans.
Daniella Clarke, Founder of Frankie B. Jeans
DT: So Daniella, do you own a lot of jeans?
DC: I think I have about 300 pairs of jeans but it's kinda [sic] silly because I seem to rotate the same 5 pairs on a daily basis.
DT: What is the longest you have worn one pair?
DC: Yikes! This is an embarrassing question, but I'm going to be honest. Sometimes I wear a jean about 4-6 times before I wash them! I just love the way my jeans fit and don't want to wash the fit out of them once I wear them in. I also don't wash them often if I'm trying to preserve the dark indigo wash.
DT: Are you working with any new textiles or technology?
DC: I really love this new denim were working with called Black Gold. It's a coated denim; often coated denim can be stiff but this is so soft and just pretty with a bit of a shimmer.
DT: What do you think of the 1970s vibe hitting this year?
DC: I love the 1970s trend… I'm a huge fan of the flared and wide leg – so sexy! My personal favorite for sure! I also really love those terracotta colors from that time period and hoping to incorporate that into the line in ways of colored denim.
DT: What advice can you give when shopping Frankie B. jeans?
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We have an bountiful harvest this year….and it's ready to start coming in! It's the biggest year in the history of St. Helena Olive Oil Co. We anticipate harvesting up to 30 tons of LOCAL olives….all within 60 miles of our home in Rutherford, CA. This translates roughly into 1,000 gallons of oil! Although it's exciting, it can be worrisome as well. We don't ever know exactly how many tons will come off a property nor how much the olives will yield in oil….not to mention what it will actually taste like. Sure we can judge by industry averages and prior year experiences but it's not an exact science…and that makes a former CPA a little nervous.
So, to calm my nerves, I've decided to make a game out of it. It may seem a little complicated at first but it's really not…and you can win the first bottles of limited Napa Valley Extra Virgin Olive Oils ranging from $60 – $500!
The Game Overview
When harvest date is closing in, we will post a blog about that property and it's historical trends….we will give you all the information that we have….and some industry averages…you guess (in the Comment section of that post ONLY) how many tons will come off of that property and how much oil it will yield. The person or persons who guess both the yield will receive a free bottle of the Olio Nuovo (new oil) from that property. The bottles will be the first that come off the line and they will be numbered and signed to indicate the authenticity.
We harvest multiple properties in the Napa Valley and surrounding areas so you have mulitple chances to win. And….there will be a GRAND PRIZE WINNER.
The Grand Prize Winner will be the person who comes closest to our total yield for all properties. There will be a post at the end of our harvest season that you will then guess the total yield for all properties. The one who comes closest to our actual Total Harvest yield will win a mixed case of all of the oils from the various properties….a $500 value.
ONE AND ONLY ONE CATCH……In order for us to play the game, we have to have a minimum of 100 participants. They don't have to guess on every property…just 100 different people who have taken part on any level. If at the end of harvest, we tally the participants and it is under 100, then NO prizes will be given out. We will help by tweeting, facebooking, emailing our lists, etc… but you have to pass on the word…we need you to help generate the buzz….so let your friends and family know what's going on and build the game so you can STRIKE IT RICH!
I sound like I'm a game show host but honestly, I think it will be fun to share this experience with you. I will post constantly about what's going on with the properties and you will see pictures and videos of the harvesting and pressing of the olives….and you have a chance to score the first bottles from the yield! Hey..those are usually mine! It's the next best thing to being there…and maybe better because you don't have the stress of the business side of it all….wow…that would be nice. 🙂
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A truly unique bait, the Soul 5 FlatSider 75 combines elements of design from lipless, flat-sided, square-billed, and traditional shallow-running crankbaits to create one highly-effective, hybrid crank. Perhaps the thinnest crankbait on the market, the Soul 5 FlatSider 75 features a unique Oyster-style bill that gives it the rolling, swimming action seen in a standard round-bill, but also allows it to flare out at a wide angle to capture some of the cover-deflecting qualities of a square bill. Several strategically placed fixed forward weights combined with the short-bill design allows the Soul 5 FlatSider 75 to reach depths up to 4-feet. Rip it through grass, bang it off of cover, or burn it in open water, the Soul 5 FlatSider 75 offers an unmatched versatility that will make it a fixture on your deck year-round.
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Comments: Well bought one of these last season, finally got around to fishing it today. Well it swam great till I noticed it was filling up with water. Never banged it off anything, it just started filling up with water. Not sure what happened but I'm not impressed & won't be looking to try another.
From: William: Long Beach, CA 9/9/15
Comments: I own several of these baits. I treat them like a squarebill but when I need a much longer pause (These have a very slow float rate...the guy that said they sink must've had this happen because of the beefed up hooks he added). They are a bit bigger then I expected, but are the same size a young sunfish/bluegill, and I've caught many nice fish on the AYU and Blueback colors.
From: Chad: New York, NY 7/27/14
Comments: LIVE GILL HD color is awesome and photos online don't do it justice. It's got a holographic clearcoat... it looks exactly like a young 'gill. Can't wait to throw this around spawning flats its going to get destroyed.
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From: Mike: Buffalo, New York, U.S.A
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From: Dan: Valrico, FL
Comments: This is a sweet little bait. It really is super thin/flat... probably only like 3/8 inch wide. I fished it like a crankbait and a jerkbait, and got bit both ways. I landed several smallmouth, largemouth and stripers on the AYU color. Hooks and split rings were up to par out of the package...would recommend. Finishes were also really good... I didn't have any chipping at end of day 1.
From: Ron: NJ/NY
Comments: This is an awesome bait. It has a really unique nose down posture when you pause the retreive, and I was able to slay some largemouth with a stop and go type retrieve on 10 pound test in 53 - 60 degree water. Even ripping this bait pretty quickly, it didn't roll or run out of whack. They have a wakasagi color that I will be trying to order directly.
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Shioon like boss.
Although I think by the rules of the duel with the Doctor, Shioon still lost since he was immobilized for at least long enough for the government guys to be able to have taken him before Elder Kwon got there (although it would had only been seconds before he got there), it wouldn't matter if he could move after that since he would had already been recaptured.
Seems obvious now though that Shiwoon will get back with the Sunwoo, and he may be taught by Elder Kwon (since Jeong died he won't be there to train Shiwoon, so Kwon seems the most likely) - if that happens it's basically over with.. since he already mastered that meditation training which in itself is probably one of the most dominant techniques, and has learned much of the black heaven and earth technique.


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When the NHL released its lockout shortened 48 game schedule, one of the first things Steve Ott looked for was the season's initial meeting with the Boston Bruins. Ott might not have literally circled January 31st on his calendar but the date was committed to memory.
One of the off season goals for the Buffalo Sabres management was to make the team tougher to play against and the acquisition of Ott was a big piece of their plan. You can thank tonight's opponent for causing the Sabres to react.
The Ryan Miller-Milan Lucic incident was the defining moment of the 2011-2012 season for the Sabres, who hope that will never happen again, thanks in part to the presence of Ott and another off season pickup, John Scott.
Ott has a bit of a history with the Bruins going back to his time with the Dallas Stars. During a game in March 2009, Ott blindsided Gregory Campbell, who is currently with the Bruins but at that time was playing for the Florida Panthers.
Campbell didn't face Ott again until he became a Bruin. In a game on February 3, 2011, the two fought as the puck hit the ice for the opening faceoff. There were three separate fights in the first four seconds that night and Ott, not surprisingly, is a villain in the eyes of Bruins fans now.
We all thought about toughness the moment the Ott for Derek Roy trade was announced but I didn't realize there's more to Ott's game than just agitating. He was a first round pick, 25th overall in the 2000 draft.
Ott was considered one of the top junior players in Canada and would play for his country in the 2001 World Junior Championships. That produced the best story I have read about him since he came to Buffalo.
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But as I said, Ott has more to his game than just running his mouth and rolling up penalty minutes, of which he has nearly 12 hundred in 572 NHL games.
Over his last five years in Dallas, Ott averaged 15 goals and 35 points a season. He totaled 20 power play goals over the last four seasons in addition to three shorthanded goals and eight game winning scores.
Over the last five years, there are only two players in the NHL who have at least 75 goals and 700 penalty minutes. One is Philadelphia's Scott Hartnell, considered one of the best agitators in the league and the other is Steve Ott.
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A fourteen-man Newcastle kept their survival hopes alive with a priceless 19-10 win over London Irish at Kingston Park on Saturday.
A fourteen-man Newcastle kept their Aviva Premiership survival hopes alive with a priceless 19-10 win over London Irish at Kingston Park on Saturday.
Jimmy Gopperth and Tom Homer demonstrated why they are two of the most reliable kickers in the Premiership by exchanging penalties early on.
But it was the visitors who scored the game's first try, the 44th that Newcastle have conceded already this season. After the Falcons' line-out was disrupted, Matt Garvey hacked the ball ahead and flying winger Sailosi Tagicakibau gathered and touched it down.
The league's bottom club fought hard to get back into the game though and, after a period of sustained pressure, Gopperth took the opportunity to slot over a drop-goal and reduce the deficit to 10-6 at half-time.
Gopperth narrowed the gap even further early in the second half with another successful penalty attempt.
But Newcastle's task was made even more difficult on the hour mark as South African lock Adriaan Fondse was given a straight red card.
Irish were unable to take advantage of the extra man though and Falcons' Kiwi winger Ryan Shortland showed great opportunism to intercept a Delon Armitage pass and sprint half the length of the pitch to put his side 16-10 ahead.
With ten minutes remaining, Gopperth missed the chance to put the game beyond the visitors with a long-range penalty but he was given a second bite at the cherry moments later.
This time the New Zealander made no mistake and calmly slotted the ball between the posts to give Newcastle a vital win in their quest for survival.
Late yellow cards for Jon Golding and Richard Thorpe meant the game finished on a slightly sour note but the Falcons won't mind too much as they held on to claw their way to within six points of safety.
The scorers:
For Newcastle:
Try: Shortloand
Con: Gopperth
Pen: Gopperth 3
Drop: Gopperth
For London Irish:
Try: Tagicakibau
Con: Homer
Pen: Homer
Newcastle: 15 Greg Goosen, 14 Tom Bedford, 13 Jamie Helleur, 12 James Fitzpatrick, 11 Ryan Shortland, 10 Jimmy Gopperth (capt), 9 Chris Pilgrim, 8 Mark Wilson, 7 Will Welch, 6 Ally Hogg, 5 Tim Swinson, 4 Adriaan Fondse, 3 Euan Murray, 2 Rob Vickers, 1 Grant Shiells.
Replacements: 16 Michael Mayhew, 17 Jonny Golding, 18 Ashley Wells, 19 Andrew van der Heijden, 20 Taiasina Tu'ifua , 21 Will Chudley, 22 Joel Hodgson, 23 Ricki Sherrife.
London Irish: 15 Delon Armitage, 14 Tom Homer, 13 Jonathan Joseph, 12 Jonathan Spratt, 11 Sailosi Tagicakibau, 10 Dan Bowden, 9 Darren Allinson, 8 Richard Thorpe, 7 Kieran Roche, 6 Matt Garvey, 5 Bryn Evans, 4 Nick Kennedy (capt), 3 Faan Rautenbach, 2 David Paice, 1 Max Lahiff.
Replacements: 16 James Buckland, 17 Clarke Dermody, 18 Paulica Ion, 19 Bob Casey, 20 Ed Siggery, 21 Marland Yarde, 22 Adrian Jarvis, 23 Paul Hodgson.
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Skip to comments.American Idol 2012--Live Thread
Posted on 01/18/2012 11:41:39 AM PST by silent_jonny
I think we all enjoy the snark, the belly laughs, and watching someone shine--and touching moments like P2 had tonight. This is such a welcome respite from the suckiness of the world, especially with Bobo the clown and his flying monkeys holding the reins. God willing, things will change.
In the meantime, have a wonderful summer. Stay safe, healthy, and the lovely man you are!
The Lord bless you
and keep you;
the Lord make his face shine on you
and be gracious to you;
the Lord turn his face toward you
and give you peace.
Numbers 6:24-26 (NIV)
God be with you ALL!
THAT, my FRiend...was BEAUTIFUL! and so are YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She was busty when she was on idol and she had a bottom then, too. I prefer her with lighter colored hair (she had really dark hair for a while,) and without the straight across bangs. Her hair on the right looks nice.
Lesson slearned..........l:"et me put in hair extensions, they will detract from your fat ass"...Lesson two......"Show a little leg...if the lesbians get upset who cares! Your hair extensions are far better than anything a dyke can show!..........lesson three, Fake your engagement on live tv, since at least 33% of market share will think it is authentic!!!
Talk about 5 minutes of my life I will never get back!
Do you have a source that states the ring was donated? He didn't say it was donated. He merely mentioned the place he bought it from. There is a difference.
Perhaps Crackerjcks will be a new advertiser next season (eye roll)
Lesson 4. If you have dentures, don't don't shout and scream lyrics at risk of loosing the teeth!
You know, of all the songs Diamond could have done, why do you think he picked THAT one? Yeah I know it was a hit bit, c'mon, he could have chosen a much better tune. That was disappointing. We wait all these years for THAT?
I wonder how well Diana would have done if she was in season 11 singing this year. She has one of those big ole voices similar to Hollie's. I remember the first time I heard on AI she filled up the whole room with her voice.
She didn't screech and scream so, she might not have done well. She got robbed. No way screamtasia was better. None.
Hasta la bye bye, Jonny.
Phillip was a gracious winner, and Jessica sure was gracious, too. What a little lady, so poised.
Jessica sure was gracious, too. What a little lady, so poised.
She did. I think she learned from PP, watching how he enjoyed the " being there" rather than I have to win.
THANK YOU, for hosting again this season. If it weren't for this thread, we would have given up on AI forever.
God bless and see you next season (from a lurker)
Awww, thank you. Right back atcha neighbor!
I was looking for the perfect gif to add and couldn't decide, so I went with a funny jpeg.
You made me tear up, too. Sometimes I disagree with you (occasionally vehemently LOL), but you are a good guy and I am always glad when you are here.
I started watching AI last year at about the same time I found this thread. You and the posters make the show more enjoyable and, at times, tolerable. Thank you. (please put me on the ping list for next year).
I enjoyed both of your many posts this season and I do realize you are two different cups of tea but you are both funny and informative.
Another lurker to tell you how much we enjoy the thread and thank you for bringing it to us every week! I rarely post anything, but I do read the entire thread.
I liked P2 from the beginning. Last night he vindicated all my votes for him. What a swell guy.
See ya next year!
You are very kind — thank you.
>> I am always glad when you are here.<<
As am I happy when you are here also. We do have a rollicking good time, don't we?
As with the rest of the crew of regulars. This season has been particularly good — many laughs and few (if any) sour balls
From the bottom of my heart I want to say thank you!
This AI thread is the most enjoyable, funny, and entertaining thread on FReeRepublic.
See you all next season!
1. Modestly, may I remind you all that over 5 weeks ago, to considerable dersion, and a few snarky comments, I said flat out that P2 was gonna win..not based necessarily on talent, but by the fact that those who vote, over and over, the teen girls, tween girls, and their moms...well, P2 was the only suitable object for their affections..
2. Really liked the duet with P2 and Fogarty.
3. Still can't get over the camel-toe on Chaka Khan.. that should NOT have been allowed to occur.
4. Just read that the ratings for the finale were waaaay DOWN...AI may be in trouble... they should consider making Silent_jonny the executive producer...
5. Neil Diamond can't sing anymore..his voice is gone..he was speaking the words most of the time...and when he sang, he had NO power left in his voice. Shame..I'm going to see him next Sunday in Tampa..( I'll send you all a review)I caught him here two years ago...it was an awesome show..but his voice is all but gone now..
6. Skylar wore somethng that makes her ass look even bigger..gawd...whatever happened to Tommy Hilfiger..the girl really needed fashion advice..but Reba was superb..
... Can't believe we didn't hit 10,000 posts.
As I was skimming the thread, I realized that CHUNGA had been absent for both nights..YAAAAY!!!!!..until I saw that he got in just before this post..drats...
Silent_jonny...as always...it's been a joy..you provide us with a respite, a refuge from worrying about our country, and what that POS Obama is doing to it...many thanks...
Maybe by next season, they'll fix the darn servers on FR..
I'm gonna tape Duets...give it one chance...if anyone's doing a thread, or sees one, kindly ping me...
Everyone..y'all have a great Memorial Day weekend...have fun, stay safe..nobody drink and drive..
Just realized..last three weeks..NO SPARKLEEZ on the thread...whassupwifdat?
Hey Jonny thanks for everything. We really enjoy you and everyone on the thread every year. Lil and I were not on much this year because she is away for six weeks and I've been recording it so we can watch together when she gets back. God bless!
Ace Young: How I Planned a Live TV Wedding Proposal
It was the engagement seen 'round the world Wednesday night on American Idol, so how did Ace Young manage to pull off his surprise proposal to fiancée Diana DeGarmo?
With a little help from his Idol family, it turns out.
"I called [producer] Nigel [Lythgoe] directly last week and said, 'I want to do this. I'm going to do this. Is there any way I could do it at the show?' " Young, 31, told PEOPLE at the Ford-sponsored American Idol season 11 finale post party. "He said 'Yes, I'm not going to tell anybody until the day of ... [and] I want you to figure it out with Ryan [Seacrest]."
PHOTO: See Diana DeGarmo's Engagement Ring!
But DeGarmo, 24, who was "completely caught off guard," almost thwarted Young's big plan at the last minute.
"I actually almost got up to go to the bathroom to fix my hair," she said, laughing. "And then I just started shaking [on stage]."
As his fiancée showed off her new sparkler at the party, Young explained what went into the making of the ring.
"A month ago, she said, 'Gold needs to come back,'" the season 5 finalist said. "I was like, I agree, so mental note. Her favorite thing is a sunflower and she loves yellow, so one of our dear friends [helped me] put together a ring that has a yellow diamond, a gold band and two smaller diamonds on the side that are clear, so it's like a sunflower."
And though the newly engaged couple who recorded a duet on DeGarmo's recently released EP Live To Love have yet to start planning for the big day, one thing's for certain there will be "plenty of music" at their wedding.
Looks like the ring was especially made for Ace to give to Diana and this is probably why he mentioned the Jeweler as a special thanks to them. Diana didn't know though, so while Ace knew what he was going to do, it was only staged in the sense that the show needed to set aside time for it.
Phillip Phillips Had Eight Operations During American Idol Run, His Father Says
Imagine what Phillip Phillips could do if he were 100 percent healthy.
The American Idol winner dazzled viewers all season long, despite battling chronic kidney problems and having eight separate surgeries since the competition began, his father told PEOPLE Wednesday after an eventful finale.
"He's been doing [well], but it's just grueling hours and it's just amazing what he's done through the journey," said the singer's dad, also named Phillip Phillips, at the show's official Ford-sponsored after party. "Eight operations since we started American Idol ... He's hitting 50 percent, but he's still up there swinging away."
Adding, "I was so proud I could cry" over his son's win, the elder Phillips also said, "They've just seen a glimpse of what Phillip can do. We can't wait to get him well and 100 percent and really see how he can perform."
The younger Phillips, 21, suffered with a build up of kidney stones and underwent multiple operations to remove them. In the next few weeks, after another surgery to reconstruct his kidneys, he is expected to make a full recovery in time for the Idols Live tour.
"The recovery's probably two to four weeks," said his father. "He's healthy, he's good. His kidneys are good. I can't wait for America and the whole world to see him [after his surgery], because he's a big cut-up. He's going to have some fun."
The singer himself told reporters Wednesday that the problems were a struggle but that he had the support to get through them.
"I'm going to get some surgery done, so I'm going to get all better for the tour," he said. "It was very tough [getting through the season]. I had great doctors and great people surrounding me [who] really helped out, so it's just a blessing to be here."
I realize that you never received as much as a single "you're welcome" from the thread host, yet you stayed around week after week and provided your musical wisdom and sage predictions regarding the season's outcome...and of course you were borne out. I am grateful that you decided to hang in there in spite of the rudeness you were shown.
I sure hope you'll come back for the American Idol 2013--Live Thread.
And thanks for not reading this!
In spite of everything you said, I'll take the high road here and once again thank the thread host for hosting the thread.
Thanks for hosting the thread this year silent_jonny! You do a great job!
And thanks for not reading this!
Your posts above prove without a doubt...you are an ass.
Thanks for not reading them!
Well said!
You are so funny. I am just now going through the thread. I will miss you. I can't do the levin thread because it's at the same time as I am in the car. :( I do listen to him at times though. Agree with him always but sometimes can't stand his way / ranting. Wish he had a better sense of humor.)
Scotty was awesome. Still is. He was the perfect idol winner, and I am not really a country fan.
My AI triva for the night.
I was wondering why Kelly Clarkson was playing such a big role as a mentor on The Voice since she has a new show on ABC
It turns out she is dating Reba McIntires stepson - who Blake Sheltons manager.
I think the dad is involved some kind of way with Kelly Clarkson..maybe manager.
What could possibly go wrong there...
Holy Incest, Batman!
I was an occasional lurker here too, thanks so much for this thread. I had lost interest in AI the past few years. Picked out P2 at the auditions and stayed for the ride. So happy he won. The finale was the most touching thing I ever saw—on Idol or any other tv show. I was crying along with him. His song "Home" is the #1 download on Itunes and he has a total of 10 songs in the top 100. Hope he gets well and goes on to a great career. BTW, I was scanning the thread and lmao at post #9561. I'll never forget Simon's reaction to that Fantasia performance. Thanks for the laugh!
Holy Mother of Chicken McNuggets! Mantasia is singin with Fantasia?????? GOOD GRIEF!!!!!!!
Oh dear LORDWHAT IS SHE WEARING???
Ha ha ha ha. When I watch the show, many hours or even a day after you guys get to watch all together, I IMAGINE what's being said on the thread. And I imagined you all going nuts with the Double Scream Duet, and of course the "outfit" with the sides ripped open for better hamhock viewing!!
That still of Simon Cowell reacting to fantasia cracks me up ever since it happened!
Rofl, Sam Donaldson! "hot august night, and the goats hangin' round, and the grass on the ground smellin' sweet"
Did you catch J Lo lowering her mike and her voice track continuing......
Immediately. She's always lip syncing. How dare she critique other singers??
Those JLo booty photos look like she is one of those human in front, horse in back creatures.
I think they are trying to de-sensitize us, for when we are taken over by Muslims, and Ululating will be the order of the day!
See, comments like this alone are worth the price of this thread!!
Loved watching Aerosmith! It was great.
Loved watching Aerosmith! It was great.
I believe that was the most moving victory moment Ive ever seen on this show. Wow.
Touching. Cookie's win was too — wasn't his bro dying, or just had passed?
Johnny, I've been so absent this season, sometimes reading the thread very late and not commenting because it is so hard to re-find your place in the thread again. fR used to take you back to where you were previously in the thread before your comment but now you are always taken back to the top of the loooong page and now I am always on the iPad.
But I want to tell you how special the thread is to me, how FUNNY you and the merry band of regulars are, and how nice it is to have two nights of fun break from real life and enjoy your company.
I wish you did another thread because I will miss you all so much before January. We watch America's Got Talent on Monday nights. You might look and see If it interests you. They have Howard stern now and he is much better than loser piers Morgan whom Howard replaced.
And the host is nick cannon, who is very sick with lupus and a real sweetie. Tell me f you do a thread on it.
I love you, dude, and just want to say thanks for the joy your thread and you bring to us!! Group hug!!
Going to go order a dark bodysuit to wear all summer, with the thighs cut out, while. Try to lose these pregnancy pounds. Until this finale I thought I couldn't wear such things. ;)
<3 Jonny.
It always made me feel special when you said hi to me. Never give up. This gives joy to a lot of people. Thank you for being you.
Also, get your calcium from food only. Don't take calcium pills. My only stone was from those chewable cal mg pils. NEVER AGAIN.
Re Tommy Hilfiger, ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Whoever had the idea to have him give his fashion suggestions should have been fired and maybe was. After two episodes, where most of the kids ignored him totally, and one chopped off and dyed her hair for Tommy only to be immediately voted off, tommy slunk back to Macy's with his tail between his legs, or something. Ha ha ha.
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Granby fire chief David Boyes fired
July 2, 2013
David Boyes, who served as Fire Chief for the Grand Fire Protection District No. 1 for 21 years, has been relieved of his duties as fire chief and district administrator for the district due to the Board of Director's decision to change the direction and management of the Granby Fire Department during a special meeting, according to a press release from Schelly Olson, public information officer for the district.
Boyes started working for the department in 1981 as a volunteer firefighter and moved up the ranks to attain the position as fire chief. The district did not release specifics surrounding the decision, saying it was following "legal counsel."
James Cautrell was appointed to the position of Interim Fire Chief while the district begins the process of hiring a permanent fire chief and district manager.
"These changes will in no way affect the immediate and professional response of the Granby Fire Department to any emergency calls within the District or any mutual aid calls from neighboring agencies," according to the press release.