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Stopping the Tar Sands – In a Good Way
Posted by Carleen Pickard in End Dirty Energy, Featured, For Our Members on 11th July, 2013 | No Comments
The tar sands are growing out of control, destroying the climate for all Canadians and poisoning the water of everyone living downstream. On July 5-6 2013, hundreds of people came together from coast to coast to join First Nations and Metis in the Healing Walk, a gathering focused on healing the environment and the people who are suffering from tar sands expansion.
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Globalization has its nice bits. Today I got my hardcopy of the goat book via Amazon.
X platform GUI
I am still not sure, if we should try the X-platform approach. Possible toolkits are:
- GTK (cons: looks like GTK everywhere, infamous C++ bindings)
- qt (looks like a Windows GUI clone, would add $3K per developer if used commercially)
- wxWindows (might die, might not die)
- Mozilla (XUL sounds interesting, critique from a colleague of mine: it runs on every platform same bad - uh oh)
- fltk (no idea yet, what it is)
- Java (this will suck for a CPU intensive editor)
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Focus on Funds
Bill Gross Bets Big on Low Interest Rates
Bill Gross is putting his money where his mouth is.
The chief investment officer of Pacific Investment Management Co. dropped almost $60 million of his wealth into closed-end funds in May and June, in addition to the roughly $140 million he has already sunk into such holding, accord into a report today by Bloomberg .
As Bloomberg reports:
Pimco in May unveiled its investment outlook for the next three to five years, predicting an era in which interest rates will stay low and growth will be slow and stable. That type of environment benefits closed-end funds, which can use borrowed money to amplify returns. If Gross, is wrong and interest rates rise more than he anticipates, that leverage would mean losses.
Gross, whose flagship Pimco Total Return Fund (PTTAX) just suffered a 14th straight month of investor withdrawals, reiterated his "new neutral" stance yesterday with his latest monthly investment outlook
Unlike traditional mutual funds, CEFs trade on an exchnage don't accept new money after an initial offering. Most use leverage to borrow money cheaply and plunge it into assets such as mortgages, municipal bonds and high-yield debt.
Closed-end funds generate high dividend yields that appeal to income-hungry investors. The funds fell in 2013 after former Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke in May signaled that the central bank might begin to taper its bond buying program. Interest rates rose and investors dumped the funds.
Today, the yield on the 10-year note yields rose to the highest in two months today as the unemployment rate fell to 6.1% and employers added more jobs than forecast.
Gross often swoops in to buy his own funds when the price dips to levels a value-minded Pimco fan might consider to be a bargain.
According to Bloomberg, Gross owns shares in 14 Pimco closed-end funds, including the Pimco Dynamic Income Fund (PDI) and the Pimco Dynamic Credit Income Fund (PCI) which Barron's highlighted in April. The pair delivered returns of 21% and 10% respectively during the six month period that ended June 30 compared to the 3.9% returned by the the Barclays U.S. Aggregate Index.


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The 25 Greatest Acoustic Songs in Hard Rock
Straight Shooter (1975)
As the first band signed to Led Zeppelin's Swan Song label, Bad Company, led by former Free singer Paul Rodgers and former Mott the Hoople guitarist Mick Ralphs, followed their bosses' lead and specialized in sweaty, swaggering blues rock. Taking another lesson from the Zepmen, Ralphs juxtaposed chiming acoustics with explosive power chords on this Top 10 smash, to wondrous effect. The bright, jangly acoustics lend a relaxed, down-home country vibe to the verses, while the electric guitars in the chorus scream with big, brash British rock. Presumably, quite a few people felt like doing the nasty after hearing this cut.
So Alone (1978)
As a member of the proto-punk glam-rockers the New York Dolls, and later with his own band, the Heartbreakers, Johnny Thunders knew how to dish out rough-and ragged three-chord rock. And with a Les Paul Junior slung well below his waist, he had "cool" written all over him. So it came as a surprise when Thunders, on his debut solo album, issued this poetic acoustic ballad. Tempering his patented pounding style, the singer-songwriter lays out his junkie lifestyle with unflinching candor, practically caressing his guitar strings in the process. Melancholic and remorseful, the song has come to serve as an elegy of sorts for the troubled Thunders, who died of an apparent drug overdose in 1991. (The song's title, it should be noted, was lifted from a line spoken in an episode of the Fifties TV sitcom The Honeymooners. Punk rock, indeed.)
A Farewell to Kings (1977)
By 1977, Rush had firmly established themselves as fine purveyors of glorious 20-minute sci-fi opuses that could fill entire album sides. But on this, their fifth studio release, the Canadian prog trio demonstrated their ability to be hooky, concise and, with "Closer to the Heart," radio-friendly. Perhaps the most surprising aspect of the song's gentle, ringing 12-string acoustic guitar intro is that it was written by bassist Geddy Lee, rather than guitarist Alex Lifeson. The same figure is later repeated after a particularly ripping electric guitar solo-only this time the 12-string acoustic is smartly doubled by a six-string electric. When it comes to Rush, of course, the contributions of drummer extraordinaire Neil Peart can never be overlooked. Here, he adds plenty of bells and whistles throughout. Okay ... they're actually chimes.
Fragile (1971)
Pick up a Martin 00-8 acoustic, pluck octave harmonics at the 12th fret (essentially comprising an Em chord) and voila!-you'll have a whole room of guitar dudes sitting up and taking notice. And with good reason-this simple move is Steve Howe's signature opening line to "Roundabout," Yes' breakthrough 1971 hit. Make it past Howe's harmonic-heavy unaccompanied intro, and you just might have a chance at mastering this intricate prog-rock masterpiece, in which acoustics and electrics, played in classical, jazzy and rocking splendor, weave in, out and "roundabout." As for the lyrics, this is prog—you're on your own there.
Blizzard of Ozz (1980)
With his inventive, neoclassical spin on Eddie Van Halen's already established bag of tricks, Randy Rhoads became the new heavy metal guitar king after fans heard his work on Ozzy Osbourne's 1980 solo debut, Blizzard of Ozz. But while electrified Ozz rockers like "Crazy Train" and "I Don't Know" wowed the metal masses, it was the solo classical piece "Dee" that was Rhoads' true masterpiece. Rhoads grew up in a musical family—his mother, Delores, runs a music school in North Hollywood, California—so it was only fitting that "Dee," all 49 seconds of it, paid tribute to the woman who inspired and nurtured his dreams. Fingerpicked on a nylon-strong acoustic, the piece is by turns playful, melancholy, heartbreaking and hopeful. Tragically, Rhoads was killed in a 1982 plane crash, at the age of 25. Five years later, Ozzy Osbourne included an extended, studio outtake version of "Dee" on his album Tribute, reminding us all of Rhoads' immense and largely untapped talent.


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By NEMS Daily Journal
Karl Underwood
TUPELO – On Jan. 17, 2013, Karl N. Underwood, 78, passed away at his home in Tupelo. Services celebrating his life will be on Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013, at 2:30 p.m. at Holland Funeral Directors, Tupelo Chapel. Visitation is from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Sunday only.
Karl, affectionately known as "Heavy," was born on Jan. 12, 1935, in Tishomingo. He was one of 10 children of John O. Underwood and Ercel Blount Underwood. Karl married Kathryn Spencer of Burnsville. They were married for 46 happy years. God blessed their marriage with three daughters; Karla Garrett, Kelly James and Kristy Carroll, all of Tupelo.
Karl was a Christian. He believed in the gospel of Jesus Christ and had a personal relationship with God through Jesus. He is now present with his Lord in heaven. The Underwoods are members of West Jackson Street Baptist Church.
He worked for almost 30 years for Dow Agri-Science Division, where he sold agricultural products. He enjoyed his job and loved so many of his customers, who continued relationships with him after his retirement. During these years, Karl made lasting friendships with his district members and so many others of his company. Competitors were considered friends and remain that way today. Visits and phone calls from these men were celebrated and always gave him a smile filled with joy. He enjoyed his trips and long weekends with these guys in his later years. Karl served as president and vice president of the Mississippi Agricultural Chemical Council.
He was an avid fisherman, hunter and sports enthusiast. Mississippi State was his team! GO DAWGS! He loved raising beagles and rabbit hunting. Nothing sounded as good as when the dogs started barking and, as he would say, "Uh oh, they got one." Later in his life, he became the "water boy" for his grandson's football team, TCPS. Here he was known to all as "Pops." He faithfully served this position for many years. Karl was seen at many TCPS basketball games watching his granddaughters and grandson play and cheering them on. He also loved attending Little League games of his grandsons and watching his granddaughter cheer her team on. He had a full life after retirement. Keeping up with all his grandchildren gave him so much joy.
Pops was a special man. He was likable and funny, full of jokes and stories of growing up in Tishomingo. He was notorious in his home town. He was a prankster and could have been a comedian. He was wonderful with public speaking. He was entertaining, even in his final days.
He will be greatly missed by his family and friends. Although this is a sad time, Karl has been given perfect healing, prayed for on earth, from The Great Physician. He has a perfect body and a perfect spirit and probably is singing and whistling in Heaven.
Mr. Underwood is survived by his devoted wife, Kathy Spencer Underwood; his daughters, Karla Garrett and her husband, Brady, Kelly James and her husband, Philip, Kristy Carroll and her husband, Jason; seven beloved grandchildren, Darius Garrett and his wife, Chelly, Hayley James, Katy James, Karlin Garrett, Judd Carroll, Mac Carroll and Piper Carroll, all of Tupelo; two sisters, Ruth Bowen and Margaret Underwood of Tishomingo; two brothers, Ken Underwood of Aberdeen and Harold Underwood and his wife Martha, of Kingston, Tenn.; four sister-in-laws, Mildred Underwood of Belmont, Clytee Hansberger of Tupelo, Ann Underwood of Brookhaven and MaryBelle Underwood of Oklahoma City, Okla.
He is preceded in death by his parents, John and Ercel Underwood; one sister, Ursula Underwood Hood; four brothers, J.O. Underwood, Arch Blount Underwood and his wife, Eunice, Blueford Underwood, and Francis Underwood.
Honorary pallbearers will be Jessie Simmons, Charles Holt, Tommy Vickers, Sam Pittman, Larry Moss, Don Grant, Tom Fleming, Johnny Roach and Kerry Saylors.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Tupelo Christian Prepatory School Athletics Department, 5440 Endville Road, Belden, MS 38826; or St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Clifford Potter
FULTON – Clifford David Potter, 93, died Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, in Tupelo. He was born June 11, 1919, in Pawnee County, Okla., to Henry and Nellie Potter. He and his four siblings grew up on a farm where a strong work ethic was instilled that followed him his entire life. Growing up on a farm sparked his interest in how to make farms more productive and lead to his career with the USDA in the Soil Conservation Service. He was a veteran of WWII, having proudly served in the 58th Armored Field Artillery Battalion with service in Africa, Sicily, England, France, Belgium and Germany. After returning home he and his wife lived and worked in North Carolina before being transferred by the Soil Conservation Service to Mississippi in 1949 where he worked in Lafayette, DeSoto and Itawamba Counties. He was an active member of the Fulton United Methodist Church for over 40 years where he sang in choir, was a member of the Charlie Mae Sunday School Class, and a member of the United Methodist Men. He served on the Tupelo Board of Laity, and as a lay speaker at churches in Itawamba County. After retiring, he took up the harmonica again and played at Sunday services at his church. He also participated in Leadership Itawamba and was a volunteer with the Adult Literacy Program of ICC. He was an avid hunter, fisherman, gardener, and woodsman. He was known as a humble, kind, and generous man who was always willing to lend a hand to anyone in need. He was voted Itawamba County Citizen of the Year for his many contributions to the community. He was a devoted Granddaddy to Matt and Will. Mr. Potter shared with them his love of the outdoors, as well as passing on to them Christian beliefs, and by example the importance of character, integrity, selflessness and passion for life.
A Celebration of Life will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013, at Fulton United Methodist Church with the Rev. Phillip Box and the Rev. Glyn Wiygul officiating. Burial will follow in Itawamba Memorial Gardens. Senter Funeral Home of Fulton is in charge of arrangements.
Survivors include his daughter, Melody Potter Boyington (Brian) of Oviedo, Fla.; grandsons, Matthew David Reedy (Bonnie) of Woodstock, Ga., and William Samuel Reedy of Los Angeles, Calif.; sister, Velma Lindsey of Perry, Okla.; several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his wife of 70 years, Zella Mae Potter; his parents; brothers, Edgar Potter, Earl Potter and Elmer Potter.
Pallbearers will be Todd Boyington, Charles Guinn, Bill Howell, James Neaves, Larry Pate and Luzerne Wheeler.
Honorary pallbearers will be members of the choir and the Charlie Mae Sunday School Class.
Visitation will be from 10 a.m. until service time Saturday at the church.
Memorials can be made to Fulton United Methodist Church, 301 E. Main St., Fulton, MS 38843.
Online condolences can be expressed at www.senterfuneraldirectors.com.
Ron Woods
TUPELO – Ron Deangelo Woods, 17, died Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013. He was born on Feb. 17, 1995, to Ricky Guyton and Angie Woods. He was a very friendly, funny, outgoing and athletic young man. He was a student at Tupelo High School and a member of White Hill M.B. Church.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at White Hill M.B. Church. Burial will be in Porter's Memorial Cemetery. N.L. Jones Funeral Directors is in charge of the arrangements.
He is survived by his parents, Ricky Guyton and Angie Woods; his grandmothers, Shirley Harris and Mary Guyton, who raised him; his godfather, Peter Gates; four sisters, Tiffany Harris of Satillo, Karman Woods, Sonya Woods and Shelia Woods, all of Tupelo; and two brothers, Neal Woods and Desmond Woods, both of Tupelo.
William Conner
TUPELO – William Randle Conner, 32, died Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. He was employed at Pizza Hut in Tupelo. He was a member of Unity Temple C.O.G.I.C. in Houston.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Sunday at Unity Temple C.O.G.I.C. in Houston. Burial will be at Wesley Chapel Cemetery in Houston. Belle Memorial Funeral Home of Bruce is in charge.
He is survived by his father, James Conner Jr., and his mother, Dorothy Lee Conner; one brother, James Earl McAllister of Natchez; and 12 sisters, Glenda Armstrong, Joyce Lawson, Cynthia Foster, Vicki Alejos-Olguin, Carol Hobson, Stephanie Randle, Gwen Armstrong, Dorothy Steen, Denise Jones, Lakayla Hill, LaShaundra Coleman and Kisha Petty.
Visit online at www.bellememorialfuneralhome.com.
Charles Bynum
NETTLETON – Charles Wade Bynum, 75, died Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Darden and Sons Funeral Home of Amory.
Mildred Landers
TUPELO – Mildred "Millie" Schlater Landers, 87, died Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013, at Cedars Heathcare Center. She was born March 12, 1925, in Greenwood to Randle B. and Mary Galloway Schlater. She was the youngest of four sisters. Millie, as her friends and family knew her, attended Stephens College in Missouri and graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1947, where she met her husband, Joe Landers. They relocated to Charlotte, N.C., for about 31⁄2 years and moved to Tupelo in 1951 to be closer to her family, including her sister, Blewett Mitchell and her husband, Guy, who also lived there. She loved her family and friends dearly and was an avid reader. Her friends knew to expect her candid comments and quick wit. She was also an active member of First United Methodist Church in Tupelo, where she taught Sunday school for a number of years. She was a member of the Tupelo Junior Auxiliary and briefly taught school. She continued to reach out to those she loved and cared about and lived in Tupelo for the rest of her life.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Jefferson Street Chapel of W.E. Pegues with Dr. Jim Curtiss and the Rev. Lynn Mote officiating. Burial will be in Tupelo Memorial Park. W.E. Pegues Funeral Directors is in charge of the arrangements.
Survivors include two sons, Bill Landers (Suzanne) of Memphis, Tenn., and Edward Landers (Debbie) of Jacksonville, Fla.; three grandchildren, Kyle Landers of Rock Hill, S.C., Will and Andrew Landers, both of Memphis; and one great-granddaughter, Lucy Driggers of Rock Hill, S.C.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Joe Landers; her parents; three sisters, Sara Elizabeth Appleton, Blewett Mitchell and Frances Melton.
Pallbearers will be Andrew J. Landers, William C. Landers, Floyd M. Melton Jr., Guy W. Mitchell III, Bennie C. Rogers Jr. and Stephen W. Vaught.
Honorary pallbearers will be Coker Appleton, Susan Mitchell, Elizabeth Melton, Randy Rogers, Martha Vaught and Libba Wilson.
Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Sanctuary Hospice House, P.O. Box 2177, Tupelo, MS 38803; the First United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 854, Tupelo, MS 38802; or to the Randle B. and Mary Galloway Schlater Endowed Scholarship at Mississippi State University, MSU Foundation, P.O. Box 6149, Mississippi State, MS 39762. Online donations may be made at www.msufoundation.com. Designate your gift for the Randle B. and Mary Galloway Schlater Endowed Scholarship at Mississippi State University.
Expressions of sympathy may be left at www.peguesfuneralhome.com.
Antonia Brown
BRUCE – Antonia Marie Brown, 55 died Jan. 9, 2013, at North Mississippi Regional Center in Oxford.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at New Hope C.O.G.I.C in Bruce. Pastor Sinatra Williams will officiate. Burial will be in Bruce Community Cemetery in Pittsboro. Belle Memorial Funeral Home of Bruce is in charge.
She is survived by her father, Newberger Brown of Bruce; two brothers, Freeman Brown of Chicago and Mark Brown of Vardaman; and five sisters, Bertha Brown Sipp of Chicago, Josephine Hobson of Calhoun City, Patty Marks of Detroit, Mich., Artenece Brown Jennings of Calhoun City and Francine Brown of Horn Lake.
Sign the online guestbook at www.bellememorialfuneralhome.com.
Lavelle Bell
PINE BLUFF, Ark. – Lavelle Sprayberry Bell, 95, died Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, at Trinity Medical Center in Pine Bluff. She was born Sept. 22, 1917, in Pontotoc to John Ems and Clara Clay Sprayberry. She later moved to Fouke, Ark., where she attended high school. She married Marvin Vernon Bell on May 12, 1936, and they moved to Pine Bluff in the early 1940s. Their children were students at the University of Arkansas for 20 years, and so she enjoyed Razorback football and basketball. She was a homemaker and member of Second Baptist Church.
Survivors include three sons, Bobby Bell (Teenie) of Camden, Ark., Glenn Bell (Marsha) of Pine Bluff, Ark., and Dr. David Bell (Melissa) of Tupelo; one daughter, Donna Libby (Dr. David) of Memphis, Tenn.; one sister, Mrs. Harold Askins of Texarkana, Ark.; eight grandchildren, including Matthew and Catherine Bell of Tupelo; and 13 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; two brothers, Jessie Sprayberry and Henry Sprayberry; and a sister, Frances Jones.
Funeral services were Jan. 13, 2013, in the Chapel of Ralph Robinson and Son with Dr. Steve Winstead officiating.
Memorials may be made to Good Samaritan Free Clinic, P.O. Box 1821, Tupelo, MS 38802.
Tena Carmack
CORDOVA, Tenn. – Juantena Leon "Tena" Sutton Carmack, 95, passed away on Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, at Applingwood Health Care Center in Cordova, Tenn.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Garner Funeral Home Chapel in Ripley, Tenn. Interment will follow in Ripley Memorial Gardens in Ripley, Tenn.
Visitation wil begin at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home.
Memorials may be made to Curve Community Center, 2960 Coffee Shop Road, Ripley, TN 38063; Applingwood Health Care Center Activity Fund, 1537 Appling Care Lane, Cordova, TN 38015; or a charity of the donor's choice.
Hezkiah Weathington
TUPELO – Hezkiah Weathington, 86, died Friday, Jan.11, 2013. He was born on June 17, 1926, in Lee County to Turner and Bessie Williams. He attended school in Lee County. Growing tired of farming and after being honorably discharged from the U.S. Army in 1946, he moved to Chicago in 1950. He worked at a hospital for many years. He also work at Keokuk Steel National Casting for almost 30 years. There he was promoted to a supervisory position before retiring in 1989. He loved working on cars.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at N.L. Jones Funeral Directors Chapel. Burial will be in Hopewell Cemetery.
He is survived by a son, Edward (Sharon) Ross of Mishawaka, Ind.; two daughters, Ceola Weathington and Mattie W. Mabry of Tupelo; two sisters, Vanilla (Dave) Cromartie of Lynn Haven, Fla., and Bessie Ruth Fields of Saltillo; four grandchildren, Willie D. (Carolyn) Weathington, Willenda Rochelle Mabry and Matthew MaShawn Mabry, all of Tupelo, and Michelle Ross of South Bend, Ind.; four great-grandchildren, Shadarianna Weathington, Devin Bell-Mabry, Brendan Mabry and Richard Harold Ross; a host of nieces, nephews and cousins; and his caregivers, Claudia and Nicole Foster, Annie Brown, Mary Vance, Kevin Reed and Marie McIntosh.
Julia Craig
NEW ALBANY – Julia Craig died Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, at Dogwood Estates in New Albany. She was a charter member of Colonial Baptist Church and an avid reader.
Services will be at 11:30 a.m. Saturday at Memorial Park Funeral Home in Memphis. Burial will follow in Southwoods Cemetery.
She is survived by a daughter, Paula Hodges (William); grandchild, Tonya Chapin (David); and two great-grandchildren, Mason and Allyson.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Paul F. Craig.
Memorial donations may be made at Colonial Baptist Church.
Kerry Rogers
RIPLEY – Kerry Rogers, 48, died Dec. 28, 2012, at Bos Camp Lemonnier at Djibeut, Africa. He was born April 10, 1964, to Walter M. Rogers and Mable E. Hatch Rogers. He was a graduate of Ripley High School. He attended Northeast Mississippi Community College and Gateway Technical College in Racine, Wis., where he received his technical diploma.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at St. John M.B. Church with the Rev. G.T. Thompson officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Foster and Son Funeral Home of Ripley is in charge of the arrangements.
Survivors include his mother, Mable E. Hatch Rogers; two brothers, Eugene Rogers of Blue Mountain and Walter Rogers of Ripley; and eight sisters, Ida Faye Simmons of Racine, Wis., Callie M. Gaillard, Joann Hill, Odessa (Robert) Spight, Linda (Eugene) Girley, Brenda (Larry) Girley, Deborah (Dennis) Cox and Nancy Turner, all of Ripley.
He was preceded in death by his father, Walter N. Rogers; one brother, Billy Ray Rogers; his grandparents, Arch and Callie Simmons Hatch, and Scott and Josie Barnett Rogers.
Visitation will be from noon to 1 p.m. today at the funeral home. The body will lie in repose at the church one hour prior to service time Saturday. There will be no wake.
Eudean Sweatman
RIPLEY – Cleatus Eudean Sweatman, 82, died Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, at his brother's home in Ripley. He was born Feb. 22, 1930, to William Bryan "Bill" and Onie Kincaid Sweatman in Tippah County. He was a retired factory worker.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today at McBride Funeral Home Chapel in Ripley with Bro. Howard Goolsby officiating. Burial will be in Criswell Cemetery at Ripley.
Survivors include three brothers, Clifford Sweatman (Martha) of Walnut, and J.B. Sweatman and Billy G. Sweatman, both of Ripley; and one sister, Beatrice Mauney (M.C.) of Southaven.
He was preceded in death by his parents; three brothers, Clyde, Truman and Charles Sweatman; and a sister, Myrtle Robbins.
Pallbearers will be Jr. Meeks, Johnny Meeks, Donnie Brunson, Danny Mauney and Larry Mauney.
Visitation will be from noon to service time today at the funeral home.
Victor Jones
BYHALIA – Victor Hughey Jones died Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, at Baptist Hospital in Memphis.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Byhalia United Methodist Church. Holly Springs Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.
Visitation will be from 9:30 a.m. to service time Saturday.
The family requests that memorials be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital or Byhalia United Methodist Church.
Ruby Shelton
BRUCE – Ruby Ward Shelton, 86, died Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, at Calhoun Health Services Nursing Home in Calhoun City. She was born Oct. 28, 1926, in Pittsboro. She was a retired house parent for Baptist Children's Village. She was a member of Bruce First Baptist Church.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Parker Memorial Funeral Home Chapel in Bruce with Dr. Daniel Hathorne officiating. Burial will be in Bruce Cemetery.
Survivors include one son, Jan (Rose Mary) Shelton of Bruce; one sister, Quida Faye Bailey of Clinton; three brothers, Leanard (Rubydean) Ward of Laurel, Robert "Bob" (Joyce) Ward of Columbus and Jerry (Mary Sue) Ward of Cherokee Village, Ark.; four grandchildren, Christopher Heath (Sandi) Shelton of Bruce, Steven Jan Shelton of Bruce, Ryan Matthew (Amber) Shelton of Pascagoula and Jon Shelton Rutland of Pascagoula; and three great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Eulus C. Ward and Zeffie Simpson Ward; her husband, Tillman Shelton; a daughter, Joan Shelton Rutland; two sisters, Vadie Cox and Minnie Raye Wooten; ghree brothers, Lester Ward, Lawrence Ward and Truman Ward.
Pallbearers will be Jimmy Cole, Robert Edward Oakley, Jerry Tutor, John Wooten, Pete Ward and Richard Ward.
Visitation will be from 5 until 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Memorials may be made to Creative Learning Center, Bruce First Baptist Church, P.O. Box 535, Bruce, MS 38915.
Online condolences can be made at www.parkermemorialfuneralhomes.com.
Edward McKinney
BOONEVILLE – Edward "J.D." McKinney, 75, died Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, at North Mississippi Medical Center. He was born Jan. 14, 1938, to Shelton and Bessie McKinney in Yalobusha County. He was a 1958 graduate of New Site High School where he was an outstanding basketball player, and met and married his high school sweetheart, Betty Sue Nicholson. They made their home in the Hills Chapel community of Prentiss County. He was a member and deacon at Martin Hill Free Will Baptist Church. He worked as a skilled pattern designer at Prentiss Manufacturing and taught the technique to others. He had the ability to grow large gardens and truck patches, which provided an abundance of food for his family, neighbors and friends to enjoy. He was also an avid fisherman and hunter and enjoyed both with his son and grandson.
Services will be at 11 a.m. today at McMillan Funeral Home with Matthew Pharr delivering the eulogy and Bro. Rodney Brazil officiating. Burial will be in the Martin Hill Cemetery.
Survivors are his wife, Betty Sue; one son, Donald (Beckie); one grandson, John Baxter McKinney; one sister, Marie Strickland; and a host of nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents; six brothers, Houston, Haskel, Archie, Claston, Irvin and L.B.; one sister, Charlene Chaffin; and an infant daughter, Glenda Ruth.
Pallbearers are Dan Crabb, Gerald Dodds, Jackie Nix, Benny Nix, Ben Stennett and Mark Walden.
Visitation will continue until service time today.
Condolences can be made at www.mcmillanfuneralhome.com.
E.W. Searcy
BELMONT – E.W. "Bud" Searcy, 86, died Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013, at North Mississippi Medical Center.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Liberty Church of Christ at Dennis. Deaton Funeral Home of Belmont is in charge of the arrangements.
Visitation will be from 6 to 9 p.m. today at the church.
Laverne Baggett
OXFORD – Laverne Baggett, 93, died Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013, at Graceland Care Center in Oxford. Born in Lafayette County, she was the widow of Burwood Baggett. she was a retired nurses aide Baptist Memorial Hospital-North Mississippi. A faithful member of Yellow Leaf Baptist Church, she found joy in her family and encouraged family get-togethers as often as possible. She enjoyed gardening and tending to her vegetables and flowers.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in Chapel of Waller Funeral Home with the Rev. Jerry East and the Rev. Donald Baggett officiating. Burial will follow in Yellow Leaf Cemetery.
Survivors include two daughters, Frances Baggett Jenkins (Wayne) of Hernando and Lynn Brown Bostick (Harry) of Oxford; one son, Donald Baggett (Anne) of Fulton; one sister, Stella Harwell of Oxford; one brother, Nick Sandefer of Oxford; eight grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.
She was preceded in death by a son, Tom Baggett, and a daughter, Carolyn Baggett.
Memorial contributions may be made to Yellow Leaf Baptist Church Building Fund, 50 CR 435, Oxford, MS 38655.
Visitation will be from 9 until 11 a.m. Saturday at the funeral home.
To sign an online guestbook, visit www.wallerfuneralhome.com.
Linda Gray
NETTLETON – Linda Wright Gray, 59, passed away Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013, at her residence. She was born Aug. 23, 1953, in Sunflower County to Mitchell Fair and Annie Lee Gray Wright. She was of the Baptist faith and attended Professors of Jesus Name Church. She enjoyed knitting and loved her dogs.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Professors of Jesus Name Church in Nettleton. Bro. Addie Clayton will officiate. Burial will be in Wiygul Cemetery in Nettleton. Otts Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. Visitation will begin after 6 p.m. today at the church.
Survivors include her husband, Franklin Gray Jr. of Nettleton; a brother, Homer Lee Wright of Nettleton; and a sister, Jo Ann Brown of Nettleton.
She was preceded in death by her parents; and a son, Junior Dale Gray.
Robert G. Parker
FULTON – Robert G. Parker, 74, died Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013. He was born on March 22, 1938, to John Taylor and Clara Mae Walton Parker in Itawamba County. He was a member of East Fulton Baptist Church. He was 32nd degree Mason, and a member of the 0444 Fulton Masonic Lodge, Shriners International, Scottish Rite of Free Masonry and Itawamba County Scottish Association. He was in the furniture business for several years and also served in the Army. He loved his dog, J.J.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at East Fulton Baptist Church with Bro. Gary Smith, Bro. Dewitt Bain and Bro. Grover Laird officiating. Burial will be in White Church Cemetery. Senter Funeral Home of Fulton is in charge of the arrangements.
Survivors include his wife of six years, Cathy Parker of Fulton; daughters, Melody Bode (Bob) of Lake Villa, Ill., Debra Griffin (Griff) of Belmont, Cindy Parrish of Belmont; son, Bobby J. Parker Jr. (Beverly) of Belmont; stepson, Eric Burrow (Lauren) of Winthrop Harbor, Ill.; stepdaughters, Amy Shotts (Jessie) of Belmont, Stephanie Crawford (Andrew) of Pleasant Prairie, Wis., Jacqueline Stafford of Waukegan, Ill.; grandchildren, Jessica Horton, Natalie Cumber, Ali Griffin, Anna Hovater, Josh Hunt, Brennon Parrish, Emilee Burrow, Jordan Crawford, Megan Beard, Hunter Bode, Taylor Parker, Isabella Stafford, Sydnee Wilemon, Robert Bode Jr., Rylee Bode, Alexzander Stafford; great-grandchildren Carley Beth Hopkins, Parker Bolton, Auston Horton, Abby Cumber, Emma Grace Horton, Keegan McVay, Masyn Cumber, Cohen Cumber; and aunt, Jane Guntharp (Victor) of Fulton.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a sister Myra Parker; and a brother, Johnny Parker.
Pallbearers will be Griff Griffin, Jessie Shotts, Brennon Parrish, Bob Bode, Casey Cumber and Dane Ezzell.
Honorary pallbearers will be the Adult Men's Class of East Fulton Baptist Church.
Visitation will be from 3 to 7 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.
Online condolences can be expressed at www.senterfuneraldirectors.com.
Audra Drury
TUPELO – Audra Browning Drury, 85, died Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013, at Martin House at Traceway. She was born Jan. 31, 1927, in Frankfort, Ind., to William Victor DeFord and Emily Naomi Ozenbaugh DeFord. She graduated from Rossville High School, Rossville, Ind., and Indiana Business College and later worked as a legal secretary for McKinney, Stringer and Webster of Oklahoma City, Okla. She was a devoted farmer's wife, and actively served the American Red Cross at Ft. Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis, Ind., the Tupelo Children's Mansion, and volunteered for American Red Cross and New Beginnings International Adoption and Family Services. She was a member of First Pentecostal Church of Tupelo. Her passion was her love of God and family. She was affectionately known as "Gram" to multitudes.
A celebration of life service will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the First Pentecostal Church of Tupelo with Bro. Larry Hill and Bro. Steve Drury officiating. Burial will follow at Lee Memorial Park. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Saturday at the Tupelo Chapel of Holland Funeral Directors. Holland Funeral Directors, Tupelo Chapel is entrusted with arrangements.
She is survived by one son, Stephen Max Drury (Evelyn) of Florissant, Mo.; and two daughters, Joyce Ann Nies (Jack) of Greenwood, Ind., and Brenda Marie Vinson (Randy) of Tupelo; nine grandchildren, James Drury, Stephenie Drury, Mendy Martin, Ellen Corbeil, Mitchell Tellstrom, Jenny Causey, Thaddaeus Vinson, Erin Francis and Logan Vinson; 11 great-grandchildren; and two brothers, Larry DeFord (Judy) of Michigantown, Ind., and Maurice DeFord (Janet) of Chester, Va.
She is preceded in death by her parents and three sisters, Norma Rothenberger, Josephine Holmes and Virginia Johnson.
Pallbearers will be her grandsons: James Drury, Larry Causey, Thad Vinson, Logan Vinson, Wesley Francis, Josh Corbeil and Daniel Martin.
Memorials may be sent to New Beginnings International Adoption and Family Services, P.O. Box 7055, Tupelo, MS 38802.
Condolences may be emailed to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Dale Swann
NEW ALBANY – Willie Dale Coleman Swann Floyd, 59, died Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013, at her residence. She was born in Union County on Jan. 19, 1953, to W.D. "Sport" Coleman and Mary Ruth Bagwell Coleman. She went to school at Myrtle and played basketball for the Myrtle Black Hawks. She was a homemaker and a restaurant worker. She was a Methodist and a member of Bethlehem United Methodist Church. She was a loving mother and grandmother.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today at United Funeral Service Chapel in New Albany with Bro. Jerry Lowery officiating. Burial will be in the Bethlehem Cemetery. United Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.
She is survived by her husband, Roger Floyd of New Albany; two sons, Johnathan "Heath" Thompson (Iris) of Johnson City, Tenn., and Donald "Keith" Crumpton Jr. "Skeeter" (Ashlee) of New Albany; one sister, Ann Garrett of New Albany; and three grandchildren, Anna Kate Thompson, Eli Garrett Crumpton and Owen Davis Crumpton.
She was preceded in death by her parents and one brother, Horace Coleman.
Pallbearers will be Justin Scott, Justin Rowell, Clay Hogue, Derrick Crumpton, David Hooker and James Tate.
Honorary pallbearers will be Jesse Jr. Walker, Richard Floyd, Donnie Crumpton and J.C. Bennett.
For online condolences, visit www.unitedfuneralservice.com.
Bill Hughes
BOONEVILLE – William Wrather "Bill" Hughes died Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013, at The Landmark Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Booneville. He was a retired farmer and steel worker. He retired from Combustion Engineering in St. Louis. He lived in Booneville for many years and, after moving to Corinth, served as custodian at First United Methodist Church for several years. Born in New Site on July 29, 1923, he graduated from New Site High School and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II as a crew member of the U.S.S. Intrepid aircraft carrier. He was aboard the ship during the attack on Pearl Harbor. He received the World War II Victory Medal, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal with one silver and one bronze star, Navy Occupation Service Medal with Asia Clasp, China Service Medal, Presidential Unit Commendation Ribbon, Navy Unit Commendation Ribbon, Combat Action Ribbon, Navy Discharge Button, the Honorable Service Lapel Pin (Ruptured Duck), Philippine Liberation Medal with two bronze stars, and the Philippine Republic Presidential Unit Citation Badge. An avid gardener, he loved to use his 1952 Ford red belly tractor to prepare truck patches for himself and neighbors. He also enjoyed using his carpentry and woodworking skills. He was a member of Grace United Methodist Church in Booneville and a Master Mason with Booneville Lodge 305 F&AM.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today at the Booneville Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Bobby Hankins, Bro. C.D. Edge and Bro. Kevin Yearber officiating. Burial will be in New Hope Cemetery in the Burton community.
Survivors include his wife of 65 years, Edith Mae Wroten Hughes; one son, Jimmy Ray Hughes (Louise) of Booneville; one daughter, Linda "Lin" Kay Johnston (Nick) of Corinth; one brother, Kenneth Hughes (Hazel) of Columbus; six grandchildren, Angela Hughes of Booneville, Jebb Johnston of Corinth, Jeremy Johnston of Corinth, Becky Reiner (James) of Corinth, LaTosha Guerroro (Adalberto) of Dry Creek and Courtney Reeves of Baldwyn; and four great-grandchildren, Kaylie, Selena and Mia Guerrero of Dry Creek, and Alex Jeffries of Baldwyn.
He was preceded in death by his parents, William Oscar Hughes and Florence Lillian Fugitt; three brothers, Rubel Hughes, Luke Hughes and Ray Hughes; and one grandson, Bobby Wayne Reeves.
Pallbearers are Junior Eaton, Bob Kelly, Danny Gardner, Boyd Fugitt, Charles George, Ray Fisher, J.C. Rogers and Tom Davis.
Honorary pallbearers are Bill's friends at the Sharing Hearts Adult Care at First Baptist Church.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer's Association or Sharing Hearts Adult Care at First Baptist Church in Corinth.
Minister Elizabeth McPherson
OKOLONA – Minister Elizabeth Gates "Baby Sis" McPherson, 65, died Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013, at North Mississippi Medical Center. She was born Nov. 3, 1947, to Lillie Mae Gates and the late Willie Cunningham. She received her education from the Fannie Carter High School. She was a dietitian at the North Mississippi Medical Center for more than 30 years. She was a minister, serving in various ministries.
Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Clarks Chapel M.B. Church with the Rev. Larry Shannon officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Williams Memorial of Okolona is in charge of the arrangements.
Survivors include her mother, Lillie Mae Gates of Okolona; two sons, Charles Cunningham (Martha) and Robert McPherson; six sisters, Ruthie Moore, Alice McPherson (Lonzo), of Okolona, Lois McIntosh of Shannon, Mary Gates, Angeline Ivy and Gail Gates, all of Houston; four brothers, Lester Gates (Martha), Lee Earl Gates, Henry Gates (Linda), all of Houston, and Mel Cunningham (Norma ; one uncle, Jimmie Lee White of Okolona; eight grandchildren, five great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be from 3 to 6 p.m. today with a wake from 6 to 7 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Magdalene Easterling
BALDWYN – Magadalene Easterling, 89, died Wendesday, Jan, 16, 2013, at the Baldwyn Nursing Facility. She was a lifelong resident of Birmingham Ridge Community. She retired as a seamstress from the furniture industry. She enjoyed flowers, cooking, reading and spending time with her family. She was a member of Camp Creek Baptist Church.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Waters Funeral Home with Bro. Wayne Frederick officiating. Burial will be in McNeal Cemetery. Waters Funeral Home of Baldywn is in charge of arrangements.
She is survived by two daughters, Betty White (Charles) of Camp Creek and Marilyn Thompson (Charles) of Birmingham Ridge; two sons, Glenn Easterling (Mary) of Tupelo and Hoyle Easterling (Rebecca) of Saltillo; one brother, Horace Miller (Joyce) of Birmingham Ridge; grandchildren, Steve White (Darla), Robert Easterling (Louise), Scott Easterling, Sherrye White (Scott), Chris Easterling, Stephanie Martin and Tracy Thompson (Rachel); and nine great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Clayton Easterling; her parents, Eugene and Gladys Hadden Miller; and a sister, Mavis Street (Vernon).
Her grandsons and great-grandsons will serve as pallbearers.
Visitation will be from 9 a.m. until service time today.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to a charity of choice.


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Conference focuses on Russian poet, Oct. 6-7
Posted September 27, 2001; 11:22 a.m.
A conference on Russian poet Osip Mandelstam is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 6-7, on campus.
"The Legacy of Osip Mandelstam" commemorates the 25th anniversary of the gift of the Mandelstam papers to Firestone Library. Most events will take place in the Whig Hall Senate Chamber.
Mandelstam, who lived from 1891 to 1938, is considered one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. "He was probably the only poet who dared to write a poem critical of Stalin (an epigram of 1933), an act that more or less sealed his already unfortunate fate," said Michael Wachtel, professor of Slavic languages and literatures and one of the conference organizers. "He was arrested soon after and a few years later swept up in the purges. He died in transit, on his way to a labor camp in Siberia."
Clarence Brown, professor emeritus of comparative literature, wrote his dissertation and first book on Mandelstam. In the process, he befriended Mandelstam's widow, Nadezhda, who feared her husband's papers would be confiscated by the KGB. She smuggled them out of the country and, on Brown's suggestion, donated them to Firestone Library for safekeeping.
"They are without a doubt the most important collection of Russian poetry manuscripts located outside of Russia," Wachtel said. "They are also a curator's nightmare, since Mandelstam, as a persona non grata in Soviet Russia, wrote on the cheapest paper available."
The conference will open with a panel discussion at 9:30 a.m. Saturday on Nadezhda Mandelstam led by John Malmstad, a professor of Slavic languages and literatures at Harvard University and a 1969 Princeton Ph.D. A text by Brown, who is not able to be present, also will be read.
One highlight will be a concert at 8 p.m. Saturday by Christopher Barnes of the University of Toronto entitled "Music by Russian Poets: A Lecture-Recital of Solo Piano" in Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall.
The conference will conclude following a 4 p.m. session on Sunday. For more information on the sessions, visit this Web site .
The conference is being funded by the Kennan Institute in Washington, D.C., the Princeton Council of the Humanities and the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.
Contact: Marilyn Marks (609) 258-3601


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Family: Bufonidae, Toads view all from this family
Description Females larger than males. Brown, marked on the back with a median yellowish line, 2-3 rows of brown spots on each side.
Dimensions 5.1-8.3cm. (2-3 1/4")
Warning Toads have enlarged glands (called the paratoid glands) on the side of the neck, one behind each eye. These glands secrete a viscous white poison that gets smeared in the mouth of any would-be predator, inflaming the mouth and throat and causing nausea, irregular heart beat, and, in extreme cases, death. Toads pose a danger to pets, which may pounce on and bite them. Humans should take care to wash their hands after handling a toad, and to avoid touching the mouth or eyes until having done so.
Voice Low-pitches trill. 15-20 second intervals.
Breeding March-September. Shallow water edges of ponds and lakes.
Habitat Pond, lake & pothole margins.
Range Machenzie through Alberta & n. Montana. South Dakota though Manitoba, Minnesota.
Discussion If threatened dives underwater. Uses tubercles on hind feet to burrow, similar to spadefoot toad. Nocturnal.


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Investor interest shows that F&I is an attractive business to be in.
The acquisition of F&I administrator Safe-Guard Products International in December by yet another private-equity firm, this time an affiliate of Goldman Sachs, shows the ongoing trend of private-equity firms to invest in auto finance and related business.
Private-equity firms have been snapping up subprime auto lenders of late. In 2011, for example, New York's Blackstone Group bought Exeter Finance Corp., and funds affiliated with Warburg Pincus, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and Centerbridge Partners bought 25 percent of Santander Consumer USA of Dallas for $1 billion. In September 2012, a company controlled by Aquiline Capital Partners bought First Investors Financial Services.
Private equity has been interested in the F&I products space, too. There was a wave of investor acquisitions in 2006 and '07, before the latest recession, including deals for service contract providers Life of the South, Warrantech Corp., Interstate National Dealer Services and Safe-Guard, which was acquired by H.I.G. Capital in 2007.
Now H.I.G. has sold Safe-Guard to Goldman Sachs. Safe-Guard, of Atlanta, develops, markets and administers extended-service contracts, GAP and other F&I products.
Safe-Guard President Dave Duncan said this week that this is Goldman's first investment deal in F&I products.
For dealerships, sharper competition for their business could mean better bargaining power.


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Filmmaker to screen, discuss her work, Feb. 15
Posted February 11, 2005; 03:26 p.m.
Filmmaker Jennifer Reeves will screen and discuss her latest work, "The Time We Killed," at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 15, in the Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau St.
Completed in 2004, the black-and-white experimental feature portrays the life and imaginings of a writer unable to leave her New York City apartment during the months leading up to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. It premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the first of many prizes it has received, including "Best NY, NY Narrative Feature" at the Tribeca Film Festival.
The event is sponsored by the Program in Visual Arts.


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Vandals win on Senior Day
MOSCOW, Idaho - In his last home game as a Vandal, Stephen Madison scored his number – 34—and the Idaho men's basketball team earned an 83-77 win over Grand Canyon on Saturday afternoon.
Madison was an efficient 12-for-15 from the field and 9-for-10 at the free throw line and added six rebounds, two assists and a block. Freshman Sekou Wiggs finished with 16 points for Idaho, senior Glen Dean had 10 and senior Joe Kammerer added five rebounds.
"Steve played great," Idaho coach Don Verlin said. "I thought not only did he play great scoring 34 points but he made the big plays when we needed them. I thought there were a number of times he came up with a big basket, the big rebound, the big defensive stop. I couldn't be happier for Steve to finish his career out here at Idaho at home like this."
Idaho led by two, 34-32, at halftime and midway through the second half went on a 14-6 run to lead by as many as 16 at 68-52 with 8:50 to play. But the 'Lopes wouldn't go down easy. Grand Canyon held Idaho without a field goal in the final 6:41 to climb back into the game, cutting Idaho's lead to as little as five on two occasions. Idaho, however, went 7-for-10 at the free throw line in the final 73 seconds to seal the victory.
"It's never easy for this team," Verlin said. "We made plays when we needed to. I would like it to be a little bit smoother but we got it done and you got to be happy about that."
The Vandals improve to 12-16 on the season and 5-8 in Western Athletic Conference play with the win, while GCU falls to 13-12 and 8-4 in the WAC.
Grand Canyon got 26 points from Jerome Garrison, 22 from Daniel Alexander and a 14-point, 20-rebound double-double from Killian Larson.
The Vandals shot 44 percent from the field and held the 'Lopes to 39 percent. Idaho held a 40-39 rebounding advantage and forced GCU into 14 turnovers. Idaho has now scored more than 80 points in three consecutive games.
Idaho got to the free throw line 35 times, one shy of a season-high, and converted 25 of those attempts. Meanwhile, Grand Canyon went 16-of-27 at the line.
"One of our keys to them game was shooting more free throws than them," Verlin said. "One thing that Grand Canyon does a great job of is drive the ball to the basket and getting fouled and we felt like we needed that to be our strength tonight."
Idaho visits Seattle U on March 1 then wraps up the regular season at Chicago State on March 6 and Kansas City on March 8. The WAC tournament is March 13-16 in Las Vegas, Nev.


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Nope. Potentiometer is OK. I even swapped it out.
Can you verify that the voltage at pin 3 is varying when you turn the potentiometer knob?
liudr,Read the past posts. I hooked up wrong to the backlite, and the pot worked to dim the backlight. I hooked up as it should have been, and the LCD contrast does not work.Now I have a 330 ohm in series with the backlight and control the brightness with a 10k pot. It works. Still, pin 3 does not adjust contrast.
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Fix the roads, Jack!
We know yuh come for Pure, for Pure, for Pure, for Pure!
Well The Express big story today is Jack is back and in charge of PURE again! This man have more lives than a cat. In light of the nationwide protests over roads and road works the PM has brought back Jack into her good graces to fix the roads and end the protests…..Super Jack to Kamla's rescue…..So where the report on the PURE Audit report Aunty Kams? How come you remove Pure from Dookeran and put it back under Jack? We did hear that the head man of the Cabal, Chandresh Sharma was supposed to get responsibility for PURE. So how come yuh mind change?
Well Marlene Coudray causing real kuchoor. COP up in arms over the poaching and vex to buss. Jack Warner say leave he out of that! he wasn't there for the christening, he dont want to be there for the funeral! Jack I endorsing that boy!
Prakash Ramadhar trying to sound firm, but not too firm…because I think he fraid if he upset the Rani he might loss he Government Wuk…..so he saying that the poaching act could…maybe….might…affect the Partnership! Lawd Prakash…grow a pair nah! Your party suffering in this partnership and you still holding onto to power instead of your dignity and integrity??????
Gibbs get served a pre-action protocol letter from the Police Service Welfare Association. Why you ask? because his 21st Century Policing initiative not working….and by the way, have you heard about the million dollar salaries that Gibbs and Ewatski making annually? And when you add up the inducements, perks and benefits is closer to $2m a year they making and Sandy's justification is that the PNM DO IT FIRST with SAUTT??????? Listen, this government mantra is not Serve The People, Serve People, Serve The People it is Copy the PNM, Copy the PNM, Copy the PNM……I predict Kamla going to build a temple in her honour soon with her own personal pundit….
In more 21st Century policing news…remember the SoE? The 107 days that Kamla and her Deck of Jokers shut down the country and take away our citizens rights to "ketch big fish"? Well of the 8000 plus people detained only 1,075 have actually been convicted. And sandy didn't specify for what….but I imagine is outstanding warrants, men who aint pay their child support or were wanted for miscellaneous petty crimes…if was anything big we woulda see Anand, Kamla and Sandy on TV beating their chest and calling the SoE a success so that their sheeple could bleat hard all over the place, "Look, the SoE worked. See how great our Queen is! Honour her!"
On the crime front there have been several murders in the last 14 days, the most recent is a drive by hit, in Arima. 21st Century Policing and the SoE haven't put a damper on such killings….and we still aint have NO CRIME PLAN!
What we do have is a bunch of big spenders and liars….it is alleged that Kamla's pricey Louis Vuittons may have been paid for with the Govt Travel Card and the take-in-front-justification is that she lost her luggage and needed to replace her wardrobe…tell me folks, what official event Kamla would have to attend wearing Louis Vs? The Beatles was performing in London?
Fitzi Hinds also intimated in the senate that some very good friends of Tim Goopeesingh are benefitting from contracts under his ministry….more details to come as I get them.
The lying, nepotism, corruption, abuse of public funds continues…and the fanatics of this government continue to support them…finding all kind of reason to justify abuse of public office. Some supporters of the PM have even excused her paying her "travel assistant" sister with public funds as good family values and have protested that people who have a problem with this are "racist" because the PM was following protocol. Colour me flabbergasted!
Our politicians are treating governance like a small business, and the treasury is their petty cash drawer. Ralph Maraj hit the nail on the head in a recent commentary. Our nation is suffering a terrible blight with leadership.
"Ultimately, it all comes down to character. Too many politicians are mere social climbers, hungry for power or public attention, driven purely by personal ambition or insatiable greed in striving for the highest rungs of the ladder. And once at the top, it is self-indulgence, feasting and the free reign of appetite; filling personal pockets and those of family, friends and financiers whilst sprinkling trinkets to supporters and paying secondary attention to the development of the country. It is our terrible blight." Ralph Maraj
My shorter version simply is: De Vice Cyah Done!


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I'm wondering if anyone knows specifics that were cut or what bits might have been kept for ESB. In the past I have read articles which referenced this topic, but I can't recall any specifics.
I'm wondering if anyone knows specifics that were cut or what bits might have been kept for ESB. In the past I have read articles which referenced this topic, but I can't recall any specifics.
Well, I now know what parts of her script aren't in ESB - all of them. This from Kasdan in the LA Times via TFN:
I always assumed her writing credit was more out of respect for her, but I guess I also assumed some of her script was included.Look, there's no question that Leigh Brackett was one of the great screenwriters of all time. But it was an odd job for her, and there's nothing of that draft left in "Empire."
Thanks to Kasdan for clearing that up for me.
But I still wonder what her script was like . . .
Info from the Annotated Screenplay:
The original opening crawl was:
Episode II: The Empire Strikes Back.
"After the destruction of its most feared battles station, the Empire has declared martial law throughout the galaxy. A million worlds have felt the oppressive hand of the Emperor's stormtroopers in their attempt to crush the growing Rebellion. As the Imperial grip of tyranny tightens, a small band of freedom fighters search for a more secure base of operations...."
Strange that it was referred to as Ep2, but I think this was in 1977 or 78. Another interesting parallel to ATOC is the planets GL wanted to use for ESB:
"The Water Planet" an underwater city
"Ttaz: The Rock/Desert Planet" gray, colorless with a civilization living in caves
"The Garden Planet" Slightly fairy tale like, very lush environment with gardens rather than forests. Possible names for the planet were Bestpenkoluta, Bestenkoleta, and Besspin-Kaaleita.
"Ton-mummd: The Grass Planet" with tall wheat fields, grass and giant rolling hills as far as one can see.
"The City Planet" sort of like the Death Star, a completely built-over city planet and possibly the home of the Empire.
This was in addition to Hoth and what would eventually become Bespin. Hoth was actually the original name for Bespin.
Other interesting notes:
-Han was to be given a backstory (orphaned and raised by Wookies on Kashyyk, flunked out of the Imperial Academy) and spend most of the movie seeking out his Ernest Hemmingway-like mentor. They supposedly had a falling out and Han hadn't spoken to him in years; but the Rebellion desperately needs him for some reason and Han is the only one who can locate him.
-Yoda was originally called Minch Yoda and had to raise Luke's X-Wing from the swamp before Luke would believe that he was actually a Jedi Master. He also stages a lightsaber duel with Obi-Wan's ghost in order to convince Luke that he was more skilled than Ben.
-Boba Fett was originally designed as a sort of Super Stormtrooper army until he was eventually paired down to just one bounty hunter.
-The film explored Luke and Leia's love more deeply, as they weren't brother and sister at this point.
-Han Solo wasn't frozen in Carbonite in the first draft.
-Vader wasn't revealed as Luke's father, and parts of his backstory were revealed. The only difference to what Ben told Luke in ROTJ is that Vader was pushed down a nuclear reactor shaft after one of his arms was severed and when he emerged he had become a mutant and no longer human. From what GL says, Vader was always intended to be Luke's father; but he originally thought it would be better to reveal it in the third film.
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split. - Robert E. Howard
I had a feeling I might get some results by giving this question a bada bump, thanks.
I'd hope Yoda could beat a dead guy.
its cool to see how ideas used in the first drafts of ESB were adapted and used in the prequels(The water/city planet,etc.)
The force will be with you- always...
AND yoda battling, AND the fact that boba fett IS one of an army of stormtroopers (from a certain point of view) AND the deepening of a love story, AND how the republic becomes martial law at the end of AOC because of the "separatists..." verrry interesting.
Nachos are the right of all sentient beings.
The guns... They've stopped!
- Dan Akroyd, Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope
Lesson to newcomers - see what happens when you ask a question in August, have no replies, and then retry 9 months later?
'least it got answered...
i'm just intrigued by all those parallels...
Nachos are the right of all sentient beings.
The guns... They've stopped!
- Dan Akroyd, Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope
Well if the ESB/AOTC connection is any indication:
In the first draft of ROTJ, Obi-Wan Kenobi came back from the dead to aid Luke in defeating Vader and the Emperor.
What are the odds that we'll see Qui-Gonn revived from the dead for Ep3?
The final battle also involved two Death Stars over the Imperial City (Coruscant). With Leia spending pretty much the entire movie running raids to prepare for the final attack. She originally wasn't involved in the rescue of Han Solo at all. That would've meant no Metal Bikini for Leia!
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split. - Robert E. Howard
Rock/Desert Planet: Utapau maybe ? ? ?
Garden Planet: perhaps Salucami ? ? ?
No way, that could never happen ! I give it 50 to 1 odds.Originally Posted by bigbarada


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Uloge: David Giuntoli / Russell Hornsby / Silas Weir Mitchell / Sasha Roiz / Reggie Lee / Elizabeth Tulloch / Bree Turner / Claire Coffee
Zemlja: USA | Jezik: English
Reziser: n/A | Premijera: 28 October 2011 (USA) | Officijalno: Official Facebook / Official site
Kategorija: Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Mystery
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Portland detective, Nick Burkhardt, has seen some gruesome crime scenes, but nothing prepares him for the strange visions he begins seeing: seemingly regular people momentarily transforming into hideous monsters. A visit from his only living relative reveals the truth. Nick has inherited the ability to see supernatural creatures, and as a "Grimm," he is tasked with keeping the balance between mankind and the mythological. A reformed "Big Bad Wolf" becomes his greatest (and also reluctant) ally and confidant. It's not long before his work as a policeman leads Nick to the criminals he once thought were only found in fairy tales.
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FACTS & STATS: Site: Stan Sheriff Center (10,300) -- Honolulu, Hawaii. Television: OC Sports. Home Record: Fullerton 4-1, Hawaii 6-4. Away Record: Fullerton 1-4, Hawaii 0-1. Neutral Record: Fullerton 2-0, Hawaii 1-0. Conference Record: Fullerton 1-0, Hawaii 1-0. Series Record: Series is tied, 2-2.
GAME NOTES: Hawaii, which is playing at home for the 11th time in 13 games already this season, is coming off a 74-71 victory against Cal State Northridge last Saturday. The victory was the second in the last three outings for a team that began the campaign with four wins in five tries.
As for the Titans, they are currently enjoying a four-game win streak, thanks to an 86-79 victory over UC Santa Barbara in the conference opener last Saturday. The team is 4-1 at home as a result, but being out on the road is a different story, with the squad winning only once in five tries on an opponent's home floor.
According to Hawaii's records, the teams are tied at two games apiece in the all-time series, the most recent meeting in 2010 going to the Warriors by a score of 84-70 at home. In fact, every game in the series to this point has been played on the island.
Sammy Yeager erupted for a career-high 30 points, leading four players in double figures, as the Titans captured an 86-79 win over the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos in the Big West Conference opener for both programs at Titan Gym over the weekend. Yeager made good on an impressive 8-of-11 from 3-point range for the Titans. Also having a strong game for the hosts was Kwame Vaughn with 27 points as he converted all 12 of his chances at the free-throw line, adding six rebounds and four assists. D.J. Seeley and Jared Brandon tacked on 14 and 10 points, respectively. Yeager, who was named the Big West Player of the Week on Monday, is fourth on the unit in scoring through 12 games with his 14.2 ppg, trailing only Vaughn (19.0 ppg) and Seeley (18.4 ppg) who have been rather consistent performers for the Titans. All three players are capable of attacking from 3-point range, which is why the team is one of the best in the country with 40.9 percent accuracy from the outside.
Hauns Brereton knocked down a pair of free throws with 9.7 seconds remaining to give the Rainbow Warriors some breathing room as they picked up the three- point win over the Cal State Northridge Matadors in Big West Conference play at the Stan Sheriff Center last Saturday night. Brereton finished with eight points for Hawaii. Leading the way on offense for the hosts was Christian Standhardinger with 17 points, adding eight rebounds, but at the same time he shot a miserable 1-of-9 at the free-throw line. Isaac Fotu registered a double-double with 16 points and 11 boards, as did Vander Joaquim with 12 points and 11 rebounds as well. As a team, Hawaii shot only 16-of-31 at the charity stripe and turned the ball over 18 times. Even though the Warriors are scoring a respectable 73.6 ppg, the fact that they are converting just 64.3 percent at the line means they are leaving a lot of points unrealized. Standhardinger leads the group with 15.7 ppg, but his 61.6 percent at the stripe continues to pose a problem.
Turnovers and missed free throws are going to haunt the Rainbow Warriors for the entire season unless they clean up their act. Against a high-scoring program like Fullerton, Hawaii needs all the points it can get.
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Legislature urged to require Holocaust education in Pa.
Drive to collect 6 million pennies for memorialJanuary 27, 2014 11:58 PM
HARRISBURG -- Holocaust survivors and their advocates on Monday urged state lawmakers to require the teaching of Pennsylvania students about the systematic Nazi extermination of the Jews of Europe, as well as other genocides.
Legislators are considering versions of proposals on Holocaust education -- the state House has approved legislation that would leave the topic optional, though require the Department of Education to establish curriculum guidelines on the topic. A Senate committee amended the bill so as to require education on the topic.
Trudy Klein-Gompers, who left Vienna with her family at 18 months of age, days before the 1938 Kristallnacht pogrom, came to the Capitol from her home in Montgomery County on Monday, recognized as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. She asked lawmakers to require that Pennsylvania students learn about the Holocaust.
"It affected our whole lives," she said of her family, who she said traveled to London and was interned on the Isle of Man. "When we don't trust each other, it causes wars, simply put, and that's why it's important for me to go out and speak to children. It's important for me to go out and let them know that we're all unique, we're all special and if we embrace one another we'll all win."
Also on Monday, in a news conference at The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the Holocaust Center of Greater Pittsburgh and the Community Foundation of Western Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio announced that they are teaming up to collect 6 million pennies from residents of Lawrence, Mercer and Allegheny counties.
Put together, the pennies will help give people a sense of the horror of the Holocaust, which extinguished 6 million Jewish lives.
"The Holocaust was clearly humanity's darkest hour," said Joy Braunstein, executive director of the Holocaust Center. "There are clear reasons to remember the people who died, just to remember them."
It is also important to spread awareness of the Holocaust to keep other genocides from happening, she said, to remind ourselves to "keep looking at people as people."
In April, the pennies will be packed into brick-sized boxes stacked around four cement columns in the lobby of the Warhol Museum. With each box containing $25 worth of pennies, 2,400 of them will be needed.
The $60,000 will be donated to several organizations, including the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington and the Ghetto Fighters' House Museum in Israel. Some will be used by the Holocaust Center for educational programs.
To gather the pennies, the Holocaust Center will distribute collection boxes to local high schools and stores. The boxes are painted black and decorated only with the symbols that Nazis used to identify Jews, homosexuals, political prisoners and other groups in concentration camps.
International Holocaust Remembrance Day celebrates the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
On the weekend of April 26, the Warhol Museum will host activities commemorating the Holocaust, including educational exhibits and a play based on firsthand accounts of survivors. That weekend marks the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, in which Jews fought against Nazi persecution.
The effort to fully mandate Holocaust education faces opposition in the House, according to Republican spokesman Steve Miskin, who said many members do not want to impose an unfunded requirement on schools. The Pennsylvania State Education Association, the state's largest teachers union, opposes the mandate version of the bill for the same reason.
A proposal under development by House Republicans would leave Holocaust education optional, but require the Department of Education to conduct a study in three years of which schools are incorporating the material, Mr. Miskin said.
Five states -- New York, New Jersey, Florida, Illinois and California -- require teaching of the Holocaust in schools, according to Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Philadelphia, who has sponsored legislation to mandate the topic.
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Quipfire! comedy show, Dec. 6-8
Posted November 30, 2001; 04:32 p.m.
Quipfire!, the University's improvisational comedy group, will perform Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Dec. 6-8, at 9 p.m. at Theatre~Intime in Murray-Dodge.
The group sells out almost all of its shows, performing for approximately 3,000 students per year. All Quipfire! members are students, and each 90-minute show is totally improvised.
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Back when EvaFan made started the Dragonforce MEP, I nabbed the MP3 mix of the project and my friends and I listened to it all the time. I had just put new speakers in my car (rigged up, but still) and I thought that the MP3 mix lacked a bit of quality. So, I ripped the first three Dragonforce CDs and threw the lossless tracks into Audacity, alongside the MP3 mix. I then proceeded to match the waveforms of the lossless tracks precisely to the MP3 mix's waveform. After matching all tracks up, I put in the proper fades and cuts and I had myself a nice lossless version of the Dragonforce MEP.
But, I was still unsatisfied with the first transition in the song. I looked around in Disciples Of Babylon and eventually found what I needed. I mixed three parts together and it came out with a much better transition, in my opinion. Unfortunately, between moving five or six times, three dead HDDs, and one missing HDD, I thought that I had lost it forever. The other night, I booted up my Xbox and saw my version sitting in one of the playlists and giggled a little. Earlier tonight, I found a 70MB file with no extension sitting in a random folder on one of my HDDs called, "Disciples Of Babylon." Curious, and slightly ecstatic, I opened it in VLC and surely enough, it was my FLAC export of the project. So, I decided that I would post it here.
Sifting through it now, more than two years later, I can hear all of the little imperfections it. Maybe in the future, I'll perfect it. Below are links to my lossless version, and the original version by EvaFan for comparison. Until today, I had not found the original source of the quote at the beginning, so that is not in my version. I found a FLAC version of the track it appears on so that I could add it to the mix. Thank you, EvaFan for providing one of the best mixtracks that I have ever heard.
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Roland S-330
The S-50 was Roland's first professional keyboard sampler from the mid-eighties, which also came in the rackmount S-550 form. The S-330 is a compact, 1-unit rack-module with most of the features of the S-550 slimmed down into a more affordable package! By today's standards the S-330 would be considered limited and lo-fi, however for its time it was a powerful instrument which can still prove useful for many music applications today.
Sample memory here is the same as the S-50: 750Kb which yields up to 28.8 seconds at 15kHz. That is half the sample memory available in the S-550. Sampling specs are unchanged, with variable sample-rates from 30kHz down to 15kHz at a 12-bit resolution. The S-330 has room for 32 samples or "tones" and 16 patches in 2 banks. Roland has a vast S-50 compatible sample library of sounds ready to be loaded via the built in 3.5 inch disk drive. Samples of your own can also be saved to disk.
When used with an external CRT monitor, editing samples is a breeze and quite sophisticated. You get waveform drawing and smoothing, auto-looping, tuning, multi-stage envelopes and you can quickly adjust loops and samples. There's an RC-100 Remote Controller with an Alpha Juno type alpha-dial for easier programming control. And the DT-100 Digitizer Tablet from the S-50 for drawing waveforms is also compatible when connected through the RC-100 controller. There is also the SYS-333 sequencing software which offers basic drum machine type sequencing.
New to the S-550 were the realtime Time-Variant filters as used by the LAS-type Roland synths. These filters (and amps) are more digital, more in-depth, more precise and were included in the S-330.
While there are hundreds of modern samplers that will give you precise crystal clear perfect sounds these days, something like the S-330 can give you the audio equivalent of Sepia tone to your samples, coloring them with its unique mid-eighties technology from a time when affordable sampling was coming of age.
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- Demos & Media
Roland S-330 used as an advanced virtual analog synth
Manual - Roland has made manuals for most of their products available as free PDF downloads.
- Specifications
- Polyphony - 16 voices
- Sampler - 12-bit, 30kHz, variable
- Multitimbral - 8-parts, 8 outputs
- Memory - 750k-byte, 28.8 seconds total sample time
- Filter - TVF: Time Variant LAS digital filters
- Arpeg/Seq - SYS553 sequencing software
- Keyboard - None
- Control - MIDI
- Date Produced - 1987 - 1988
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Guitar Center: Synths and MIDI
Sweetwater: Hot items in Keyboars section
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The Woodwind & Brasswind Store
music123.com: Synth Blow Out Deal Section
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With the launch of our new 2012 Social Occasions collection comes a bevy of new trends. Don't worry, you'll still find the classic elegance and craftsmanship Crane & Co. is known for, but with it, fresh design that might just inspire you to celebrate. We'll be there with bells on.
It's quite a testament to your social occasion that you're announcing it via richly thick 100% cotton paper. But it's those small details that really make your stationery sing, which is why we love hand-bordered edging. And yes, it's really hand-bordered, as in one of the lovely ladies in our stationery factory painting each edge with exquisite care.
Parties are festive, and so are vibrant pops of color. Whether it's Pantone's Color of 2012 or the yellow-on-grey color scheme of this Save the Date, we like to think elegant doesn't have to equal ecru.
There is something lovely about classic simplicity with a touch of fantastical flourish. An ecru card, offset by a bold envelope liner, for example. How could you check 'regrets' after feasting your eyes on this red chevron?
Letterpress, foil stamp, thermography. Social stationery can be printed using myriad printing processes. But there is only one Grande Dame, and she is the most exquisite of the bunch. Watch a printer engrave an invitation and you'll know exactly why. It takes tremendous skill, precision and patience. It feels divine. And it looks oh so elegant.
We love a hint of vintage and romance in our soiree themes, and so it isn't surprising that one of our favorite trends is die-cut stationery. Whether it's a simple rounded corner or a more elaborate design that transforms a piece of paper into a picture frame silhouette, a few curves go a long way.
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Film & Discussion: Out in America
Piedmont Diversity Film Series presents the uplifting documentary "Out in America" directed and produced by Andrew Goldberg.
"Out In America" delivers a compelling, multi-layered portrait of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Americans through their own words and experiences. The film connects common themes running through numerous personal stories about growing up, coming out, nurturing relationships, overcoming social and familial challenges, fighting discrimination and HIV and achieving individual status and respect in America.
After the film, the Queer-Straight Alliance at Piedmont High School will discuss challenges for young people who are out or not yet out in America. This film allows audience members to view and share in the touching quality of the relationships shown in the film.
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Is this true?
"The thing I admire about the rat tail is that it takes commitment. It's not like one day you just decide you want one, you have to grow out that bad boy and you have to repeatedly convince the hairdresser to trust you because it's a great idea."
I sure hope it's not true.
"Know in your heart that all things are possible. We couldn't conceive of a miracle if none ever happened." -Libby Fudim
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Would not surprise me.....
M&K's HR UH Tucker of Texoma JH
M&K's SHR Prime Black Angus
M&K's Miss Jessie Girl JH
Sir Jacob of Lakeview-Jake
Freeway JYD
Mike Whitworth
Thatcher wasn't a Socialist, why would they send an emissary.
"Do more than is required of you"
General George S. Patton
Well...that, too. As long as I'm being scathing and disrespectful of the POTUS, might as well attribute the proper motive to such a pathetic, inappropriate gift.
Chavez delegation...
James Derham, who presently serves as Charge d'Affaires at the U.S. Embassy in the Venezuelan capital, the State Department said Thursday that the delegation to the socialist revolutionary's funeral will include U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks, New York Democrat, and former U.S. Rep. William Delahunt, Massachusetts Democrat.
Details were not forthcoming about why Mr. Meeks and Mr. Delahunt were chosen to represent the U.S. at the funeral.
However, Mr. Delahunt, who served on the House Foreign Affairs Committee while in Congress from 1997 through 2011, has a history of quietly attempting to forge positive diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Venezuela.
Margret Thatcher's delegation includes Michelle Bachman and two other Republicans. IMO, a very real snub of the former Prime Minister and our biggest alley. Former Presidents G W Bush and W Clinton both declined invitations from the UK government to attend.
"All those things bother me: The populism, the lying and the scapegoating and the xenophobia bother me, but then theres a layer of incompetence here. I suppose, in a way, we should be thankful: If he had a coherent ideology, hed probably be more dangerous." P J O'Rourke


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Need for Speed: The 50 Fastest Guitarists of All Time
Mick Barr
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ALBUM: Annwn (OCRILIM)
He may look like some geek from a Tolkien fest who has an unhealthy obsession with Gollum, but precious few players can match Mick Barr's intensity and speed, which has reportedly been clocked at up to 24 notes per second.
The music that Barr records under the pseudonyms Octis, Ocrilim, Or:12r3 and Orthrelm is challenging, to say the least, for its avant-garde atonal melodies. But although it may sound like noodling to the untrained ear, Barr's bizarre scales and lack of repetition prove that he's working on another level altogether.
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Are You Ready For Zombie Ants?
Wait, Who's In Charge?
Have you heard the one about the carpenter that got turned into a zombie? Maybe that's because the carpenter was an ant, and the "zombie master" was a fungus?
- Fungus Brainwashed Ancient Ants from AMNH http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=5KaggEAzhyA&NR=1
- Attack of the Killer Fungi at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuKjBIBBAL8
No Duh's and Head Scratchers
If you need help scratching a mental itch, use the resources below:
- Does knowing that a fungus can take over an ant's nervous system affect your view of the sophistication of fungi and their reproductive strategies? Why or why not?
- Why is it useful for scientists to know how long a relationship between organisms has existed? How does this provide information about how species adapt to their environment?
- Why do you think the ants have not evolved to be immune to the fungus? What does this say about the differences between species and individuals?
- Why do you think researchers are interested in the species diversity of this type of fungus? What do they hope to learn to benefit humans? Why does the specific ecosystem this relationship is found in create a sense of urgency among some researchers?
- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3204140/
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=5KaggEAzhyA&NR=1
- http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0017024
- http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fungus-makes-zombie-ants
- http://dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2011/11/ophiocordyceps-unilateralis.html
- http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090811161345.htm
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuKjBIBBAL8
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Saying that I want the game to be different doesn't say anything about what specifically you want to see in the game.
I don't think players would "want" a game to be different without specifics. It is usually the case where they want something over another.
E.g. players who hate bloom in Halo wants the old system back. players who love bloom in Halo wants bloom and doesn't want the old system back.
Does anyone have an example of how "want" can be different from "don't want"?


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