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Springfield officials are getting closer to having a defined plan that would dictate where facilities for cultivating and selling medical marijuana can go in the city.
The Illinois Medical Cannabis Pilot Program, which took effect Jan. 1, allows for 21 marijuana cultivation centers and 60 dispensaries to be located statewide, scattered throughout Illinois State Police districts.
Aldermen at their committee of the whole meeting next week will consider a proposed ordinance that asks the Springfield Planning and Zoning Commission to hold a public hearing on amending the city�s zoning code to set forth a plan regarding the cultivation and distribution of medical marijuana.
�We�re attempting to set the parameters so we could react to it if something comes in,� Mayor Mike Houston said.
While the city �hasn�t had a lot of interest� thus far from groups who want to bring in medical marijuana facilities, Houston said that, as a regional medical center, he �fully expects� medical marijuana cultivation and dispensary facilities will be coming to Springfield.
The state law allows people with chronic medical conditions including AIDS, cancer and multiple sclerosis to purchase marijuana in prescribed amounts to alleviate pain and nausea associated with the conditions themselves or their treatments.
The proposed amendment to the city zoning code, which closely follows the state statute, would restrict medical marijuana cultivation centers from being within 2,500 feet of schools, day care centers and residentially zoned areas of Springfield. Cultivation centers also could not be within 1,000 feet of other cultivation centers or dispensaries.
Dispensing facilities could not be within 1,000 feet of schools and day care centers and could not be within a house, apartment, physician�s office or in an area zoned for residential use. The setbacks would be measured from the property lines. Use of marijuana products on the dispensary property would be prohibited.
Based on the setback regulations, it�s likely that any medical marijuana facility within the Springfield city limits would have to be downtown.
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The ordinance that will come before aldermen next week directs the mayor to execute a petition detailing those changes to Chapter 155 of the zoning code and requests that the planning and zoning commission hold a public hearing on the changes and then report back to the city council with recommendations.
City council coordinator Joe Davis said that may take a while, especially since the proposed changes could be controversial.
�We could see that in November, possibly,� Davis said of approval of the zoning revisions.
The Springfield-Sangamon County Regional Planning Commission has been working with both city and county officials to draft similar ordinances that would govern medical marijuana facility zoning locally. The approval of medical marijuana rules by a state legislative committee last month clarified some lingering questions for local officials.
The state law that Gov. Pat Quinn signed last year technically took effect Jan. 1, but it wasn�t until the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules approved the medical marijuana regulations in mid-July that state agencies could begin putting out applications that potential growers and sellers will need in order to get into the medical marijuana industry in Illinois.
�We know what the rules are now,� said Norm Sims, executive director of the regional planning commission.
Sims couldn�t pinpoint exactly how many groups have expressed interest in bringing a cultivation center or dispensary to the area or how interested the inquirers have been, but he guessed about a half-dozen have called the planning commission.
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'''Weekend at Florian's''' is the either the final or the penultimate mission given by the Italian criminal [[Ray Boccino]] (see Trivia, below). In this mission, [[Niko Bellic|Niko]]
'''Weekend at Florian's''' is the either the final or the penultimate mission given by the Italian criminal [[Ray Boccino]] (see Trivia, below). In this mission, [[Niko Bellic|Niko]] [[]][[]] find [[Florian Cravic]], a man he suspects killed his friends the [[wp:Yugoslav Wars|Bosnian Wars]], one of the two men Niko has spent ten years looking for.
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Weekend at Florian's is the either the final or the penultimate mission given by the Italian criminal Ray Boccino (see Trivia, below). In this mission, Niko and Roman Bellic, find a man, Talbot Daniels (through Ray), who in turn will help find Florian Cravic, a man he suspects killed his friends the Bosnian Wars, one of the two men Niko has spent ten years looking for.
Once you're nearing the end of Ray's missions, Ray gives you a call and throws you a "bone". He has a lead on the whereabouts of Florian Cravic, a man Niko suspects betrayed his military unit. At this point, the mission begins (the player has no option but to follow). Niko automatically calls Roman to help him locate Talbot, a man identified by Ray as knowing the location of Florian. At this point, Niko must pick up Roman from the Middle Park East Safehouse and then drive to Star Junction, Algonquin. During the ride over, Roman tells Niko that he sometimes plays cards with Talbot. Roman and Niko find Talbot on a busy street in Star Junction looking at a canvas.
Talbot initially pretends not to know Florian. Niko, enraged, orders Talbot to guide them to Florian's apartment. Niko needs a four-door vehicle in order to proceed, at which point the key is to follow Talbot's instructions (turn left, turn right, etc). Eventually, they arrive outside an apartment block in Middle Park West. Niko lets Talbot go and, ignoring Roman's admonitions to calm down, goes upstairs to kill Florian.
To his surprise, however, he finds that the flamboyantly gay Florian has changed his name to Bernie Crane and attempted to start a new life for himself. He also implores Niko to believe that he had nothing to do with the betrayal. Niko ultimately believes Florian/Bernie and lets him live, telling Roman he wants to be alone.
Afterwards, Niko phones Ray and informs him Florian was not his man.
The completion of this mission opens up a new strand of missions for Florian/Bernie, and at some point shortly afterwards, Niko receives a series of phone calls:
- Mallorie, informing Niko that she thinks Roman is about to propose to her.
- Roman, informing Niko that he has proposed to Mallorie. During the conversation, Niko admits to having feelings for Kate McReary.
- Brucie, reacting with sadness that his buddy, Roman, is getting married.
In addition, Ray messages Niko to meet him in Alderney, unlocking the Phil Bell mission strand.
- Although listed in some walkthroughs as the final Ray mission, in fact it will be given automatically at a certain point after No Way on the Subway, regardless as to whether the next Ray mission, Late Checkout has been triggered, so if this mission is triggered first, then Late Checkout becomes the final Ray mission.
- The title Weekend at Florian's is based on the old movie Weekend at Bernie's since Florian insists that his name has changed to Bernie.
- If the player brings up his cellphone while Talbot is giving directions, a message will pop up in the top left corner of the screen stating: "Put your cellphone away and listen to Talbot!"
- No matter whether the player has a Glock or a Desert Eagle, the cutscene with Florian will always show the Glock.
Niko and Roman Bellic outside Florian Cravic's apartment building.


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ari moshe
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Phases and their polarities
Jan 12, 2011, 11:24 AM »
Jeff Green spoke about the temptation for a soul to try to operate in one phase via the opposite phase. For example a soul has planets in a balsamic phase, yet as a way to avoid the evolutionary requirements of that phase, the temptation is to to try to be like the opposite phase, the gibbous phase. I want to check my understanding here.
My sense is this is because aspects innately imply a process. Thus for each aspect it is necessary to fulfill the particular phase one is in in order to continue on the journey, proceed through the cycle in the right way. For any phase, this implies that the soul must be willing to adopt/cooperate the the nature of that particular phase. Based on that, I can understand the temptation to want to be in the opposite phase as the opposite phase literally contains the opposite psychology and thus "a way out" of the work necessary for the phase one is in.
For example planets operating in the balsamic phase require introspection and surrender to the flow. The very temptation in this case would be to WANT MORE CONTROL over things. Thus the possibility of trying to create a gibbous type of situation (Gibbous=control).
I also observe that this is very different than signs- it seems quite the opposite in fact. The key with phases is to actually stick to the phase one is in. Whereas with signs, embracing inner polarity is necessary. Is that an accurate comparison? Thank you,
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Re: Phases and their polarities
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Jan 12, 2011, 02:28 PM »
Hi Ari,
No, it's not. The phases, like the signs, do have their natural polarity as you know. The phases also internalize the polarity points just as the signs do. In your example, for example, the balsamic phase and it's polarity, the gibbous phase. All to often the balsamic phase creates an inner sense of emptiness, of diffuseness, of not being able to connect to anything, or make sense of anything. The gibbous phase, internalized, would then manifest as the person keeping itself busy all the time, the famous lists of things to do, of never doing the core of what needs to be done, all this in order to escape from the balsamic phase itself. Just one example.
God Bless, Rad
ari moshe
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Re: Phases and their polarities
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Jan 12, 2011, 03:16 PM »
Hi Rad,
The gibbous phase, internalized, would then manifest as the person keeping itself busy all the time, the famous lists of things to do, of never doing the core of what needs to be done, all this in order to escape from the balsamic phase itself. Just one example.
I see- so this in fact IS comparable to the same tendency that would be found in the sign of Pisces itself.
Thank you again for your attention to these questions.
God bless,
Ari Moshe
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Re: Phases and their polarities
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Jan 14, 2011, 01:34 AM »
This was a very good read. Thank You Ari and Rad.
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Mar 02, 2011, 11:59 AM »
Hi Rad, Ari,
I've been going over what you wrote and would like to ask the following question: are you saying that all phases inherently have the opposite phase as an integral part thereof (i.e. they internalize their polarity) and that it is a natural process for the Soul to experience that polarity as part of going through the actual phase the respective planets are in (i.e. as part of doing what is required), yet the tendency is to try to escape
to that polarity phase, i.e. to try to act as if the planets were in that polarity phase, in order to escape from the pressure of going through the actual phase that they are in?
Furthermore, it is my understanding that the same reasoning applies to individual aspects within phases as well, i.e. each aspect implies that the Soul would naturally experience the aspect which is 180 degrees apart (which would be a natural thing) and would also be tempted to totally escape to that aspect (which would be something that needs to be avoided).
To illustrate what I mean by this, if we take the crescent square, the pressure associated with this aspect, as a transition gate between the crescent phase and the first quarter phase, derives from the fact that the Soul is required to leave behind a yin phase of internalization and consolidation (crescent phase) and move into a yang phase where it is required to give concrete form to what has been consolidated so far (first quarter phase).
The polarity of that crescent square is the disseminating square. Since that polarity is internalized in the crescent square this would imply that the person with the crescent square would experience a feeling of alienation, which is a hallmark of the disseminating square. However, this feeling, which is associated with the disseminating square, would be a natural part of the crescent square experience because detachment from the environment is inherent to establishing something which is uniquely specific to that individual (i.e. something which is the result of the feedback gathered in the new phase pursuant to the initiation of a variety of experiences and the consolidation that has occurred in the crescent phase). In other words the Soul would necessarily require this sort of detachment (alienation) from its environment in order to be able to bring something utterly new into that environment, without borrowing the status quo opinions and beliefs, i.e. detachment is necessary in order to be out of the reach of the consensus opinions.
The temptation however would be for the Soul to attempt to totally escape to that polarity, i.e. to take refuge in that feeling of alienation. As such, there would also exist a temptation to avoid acting on account of not knowing what to believe in, which is to say that the Soul would be tempted to rely on the inherent alienation corresponding to the disseminating square so as to escape from the pressure of acting. Thus, the Soul would attempt to justify a failure to act and a resistance to the pressure of acting (crisis in action) on account of not being able to believe in what it is supposed to do (crisis in belief), not being able to relate, to find a meaningful purpose in doing what the crescent square requires the Soul to do (i.e. get out in the environment and establish what has been developed so far). In other words, the Soul would justify its refusal to advance along the evolutionary path as something like "I can't be required to act (crisis action) in a world which means nothing to me (crisis in belief)."
The individual would also experience in the crescent square an inherent rebellion against the status quo which is naturally associated with the disseminating square. Much like the feeling of alienation referred to above, this inherent rebellion would be naturally experienced in the crescent square in order to enable the Soul to actualize, to take action. However the individual would be tempted to rely on that rebellion so as to reject any external attempts by the environment to get the Soul to actualize what has been developed in the crescent phase (i.e. the Soul would rebel against the need to take action).
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Re: Phases and their polarities
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Mar 02, 2011, 03:40 PM »
Hi Serban
I am posting a section from Jeffrey Wolf Green's workshop on Aspects, Phases, and Key Planetary Pairs. I think you will find it relevant to what you wrote even though it does not directly address a number of the specific things you wrote about. I find the principles conveyed here quite relevant to questions about polarities of all signs and phases.
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We will always talk about polarities, yin/yang, light/dark, male/female, because to understand any one phase, you have to understand its opposite - its natural polarity. For example, to truly understand Virgo, you have to understand Pisces; to truly understand Capricorn, you have to understand Cancer, etc.
For example, most people think of Capricorn as crystallized in space, i.e. somehow without emotion relative to how Capricorn naturally projects itself. But, of course, underneath that Capricorn and the very basis of how it projects itself is Cancer. The essence of vulnerability. Why do you think Virgo needs crisis? Look at the polarity of Pisces. Virgo is going for a kind of reality that is not possible on earth - thus, crisis. In most cases, astrology is not taught this way, but it is very basic.
So, in order to understand new phase, we have to understand full phase. The new phase is, of itself, just that - new. The key word is instinctual. Instinct is without forethought, a feeling or inclination (it is not intuition, however), automatic reaction. Instinct is simply action without thought. So the instinct, in the new phase, correlates to the instinct to become. Is not life itself a continuous state of becoming? Becoming what? That which it is not. The instinct to become that which one is not equals action without forethought - the simple, instinctual urge to initiate action relative to one's need to become that which you individually are. Thus, the simple instinctual need to initiate action and through the inevitable reaction to the action, one develops knowledge. Does the baby know that the stove is hot before it touches it? It must create action in order to experience reaction, then it knows. Thus the knowledge that is gained in the new phase is determined through reaction to the action.
If we understand the nature of the circle from an evolutionary point of view because the phenomena of life and time and space evolves, it is not static, thank God, the new phase then means that any two planets in a new phase are embarking upon a new cycle of evolutionary development, that which has not come before. This implies that prior to this life a cycle has just ended that has been in place for beaucoup lifetimes. It is a brand new phenomena. There is not any conceptual superstructure to explain the reasons or whys behind the instinct to become. It does not have the conceptual equipment to explain why it wants to do what it wants to do. Thus, it needs independence and freedom to simply initiate whatever experiences are deemed necessary in order to discover the ongoing process of becoming through the reactions to the initiated experiences.
However when we understand the full phase, its natural polarity, the key word for the full phase is completion. What is completed in the full phase is the evolutionary journey from the new phase through the crescent phase through the first quarter phase through the gibbous phase. Any two planets you find in a full phase relationship, evolutionary speaking, prior to this life, have already come through these phases. Thus as the new phase planets and the individual who has these planets in this state interacts with life itself, it is instinctually and inherently going to be aware of other individuals, full phase, who have more of a conceptual ability to explain who and what they are and why they are there, why they are going to do what they are going to do, or what they have done. Through the natural temptation of this polarity to compare (the new phase is without conceptual ability to do so), there is going to be some degree of instinctual temptation to adopt the beliefs and/or value systems which are the basis of explanations in all people, in order to explain its own actions and thus be out of harmony with that inherent and emerging individuality implied in this new phase.
What commonly happens in this new phase/full phase phenomena is that the person fluctuates in extreme behavioral patterns - from one extreme of wanting to be absolutely alone and free to the cyclic need to be overly engaged or involved in a relationship with people who seem to reflect what the individual is trying to become. This creates two very deep alternating behavioral patterns which seem apparently inconsistent.
What this really touches upon is the nature of creation, the projection through time/ space - the need to become what? If the creator was perfect in the beginning why create anything? The implication is that the creator was, in the beginning, imperfect. The instinctual energy is related to that separating desire and the need to go back to God. If we agree that creation and its distinct forms did not create itself, then what created it? And if that which is called the creation point, the source, the uncreated created in Buddhist terms, and we observe things like imperfection - wherein lies the origin of imperfection? The inherent truth is in every part of creation, every molecule, every cell, every substance, every particle - so the instinct to become ultimately correlates to the creation projected, projection being an inherently masculine principle and contraction or reception being an inherent feminine principle.
So, in these two distinct phases, a mirror of this basic truth: On the one hand needing to act and in the process of acting in an environmental sense instinctually comparing, relative to full phase, other individuals to itself, creating retreat.
The polarity phase here is balsamic. The gibbous phase is now promoting the awareness of the nitty gritty details of one's mundane daily life on a moment to moment basis. I am sensing the balsamic polarity and I want to escape. I am tired of these routines. I am bored. The balsamic is the vision of the absolute, the timeless, divinity, the ultimate, the ideal. So now that I am living my life in this very mundane way, submitting myself to this sociological context, this polarity point progressively tempts me to escape, to compare my reality with an ideal reality that I cannot find, but only can sense. What if I have Mars/Venus in a gibbous phase? Are not my relationships going to seem less than adequate? As measured against the undefined ideal. I will get bored with the normal tedious work I have to do in relationships to sustain it. This could make me irritable and critical and help me to take all the stupid little details and irritants and cause me blow them all out of proportion.
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Thank you Steve, that was helpful to read.
Serban, I also want to offer a fun suggestion - if you are familiar with progressions, take a look at your own progressed lunar cycle. This is the phase created by the progressed Sun and Moon. They are in a certain phase right now, and every 3 something years they enter a new phase. Reflecting on the inner nature of your life during these past cycles will reveal a lot to you in terms of how you naturally related to the natural phases. I've been doing with quite a few charts and that's been very revealing for me.
For example my secondray progressed lunar phase just recently entered the balsamic phase. I feel like I am in a void, with absolutely no sense of direction or clarity in my life. While I'm very busy and it feels like my life is just getting started (Saturn is transiting through my 1st house now), this inner experience of emptiness, pointlessness is very strong. Often times, every day in fact I find myself keeping very very busy to the point of mental exhaustion. It's a very personal and complex experience, if I understood it better I'd probably be able to move through it more gracefully! The point is, the requirements at this time is to turn within. The resistance I am noticing is by way of me running to the gibbous phase- trying to fill the void with some sort of meaning, something to occupy myself.
Meanwhile, many other spiritual elements are coming together for me right now. I don't understand it at all, though I'm trusting God. In the balsamic phase, God has a plan, turn within and allow. That's the essence of it.
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Hi Steve, Ari,
Steve--thank you for posting the excerpt from JWG's workshop. However, I had already read that material several times (along with the entire transcript relating to Aspects, Phases and Key Planetary Pairs) before posting my question. So what I posted was my understanding of these issues, which I wanted to check / develop. In this light, please know that any sort of feedback regarding what I wrote will be highly appreciated as I am sensing the fact that grasping the issues related to phases and aspects is key to a solid understanding of EA (exactly as you previously said to me and I am very grateful for that. So I took your advice, studied the workshop transcripts and gave it a first attempt at the crescent square).
Ari--thank you for your advice. Although I am not that familiar with progressions, it sounds like a powerful tool which I will definitely try to develop so as to deepen my understanding. My progressed lunar cycle seems to indicate (assuming I got it right) that the progressed Moon is in full phase opposition to the progressed Sun (9-degree orb). However, my natal Moon is also in full phase opposition to my natal Pluto (7-degree orb) so this is a sort of an old pattern for me
. I will definitely however use your advice to look at different periods in my life in this light.
All the best,
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Hi everybody,
Apologies for bringing this up again, but I was wondering whether anybody might have any specific feedback in connection with what I wrote about the crescent square. The only reason I'm bringing this up again is that I feel the importance of grasping these principles correctly and I would like to have a solid base for my future study of phases and aspects within them.
Thank you so much!
All the best,
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Mar 22, 2011, 10:48 AM »
Hi Serban,
What you wrote is certainly within the realm of possibilities for the Crescent Phase square and it's polarity through the Disseminating Phase square. You put it together very well.
God Bless, Rad
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Hi Rad,
Thank you so much for taking the time for this!
All the best,
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You know him as the color man on Celtics television broadcasts. You know him as Fred Flintstone barking about referees. You know him as a booming, opinionated guy who loves the Celtics and has no use for the lugs running up and down the floor in visitors uniforms.
He is Tommy Heinsohn, Mr. Celtics, an institution on Causeway Street.
What too many of you don't know is that Heinsohn was one of the greatest Celtics of all time, and that he coached more Celtic seasons than any man other than Red Auerbach. In one way or another, Heinsohn has been part of the Celtics for 57 years.
He played when Johnny Most honked for the Celtics. And now he has become a hulking, ex-jock version of Most. Heinsohn is the ultimate homer and we love him for it. But there is so much more about him that you need to know.
"I think my broadcast partner Mike Gorman said it best,'' Heinsohn said before the Celtics defeated the Wizards, 100-94, in overtime at the Garden Wednesday night. "He said there's a generation of fans who know me as a player and there's a generation of fans who know me as a coach and now there's a generation of fans who think I'm Shrek!''
Now 78, but still a threat to throw an elbow under the boards, Heinsohn came to us from New Jersey as an oddly dressed freshman at Holy Cross in Worcester in the autumn of 1952.
"My mother bought me a brand new suit for going away to college,'' he remembered. "We were poor, but she wanted me to have that. It was a powder blue suit with peg pants — you know, skinny at the bottom. I think I made quite an impression with that.''
At Holy Cross, he lived in Alumni Hall, O'Kane Hall, and Hanselman. He dined at Kimball. He was a first-team All-American and played on a Crusaders team (with Ronnie Perry and Togo Palazzi) that won the National Invitation Tournament when it was a bigger deal than the NCAA Tournament.
A rugged, 6-foot-7-inch shooting forward, Heinsohn was NBA Rookie of the Year in 1956-57. Another rookie on that Boston team was a guy named Bill Russell. Busy winning a gold medal for the United States at the Melbourne Olympics in the latter part of 1956, Russell didn't join the Celtics until December.
Which guy would have been Rookie of the Year if Russell had played a full season?
"I don't know,'' said Heinsohn. "But we were eight games up and in first place by the time he showed up.''
The rookie Heinsohn scored 37 points and snatched 23 rebounds in the seventh game of the 1957 NBA Finals, a 125-123 double-overtime victory over the St. Louis Hawks.
Think about that for a second. Thirty-seven and 23 in Game 7. As a rookie. Think of what the Worldwide Leader would do with that today.
"I was just able to play footloose and fancy-free,'' said Heinsohn. "The guys who had been here all that time trying to win a championship, Bob Cousy and Bill Sharman, they were so anxious they couldn't get out of their own way that day. I just went out and played.''
Three years later, when mastodon Wilt Chamberlain came into the league, Heinsohn was selected as the guy who would "get in Wilt's way,'' after free throws, allowing Russell to streak down the court and take a long pass from Cousy for a breakaway score.
"It worked for a while, but Wilt caught on and he didn't like it,'' said Heinsohn. "Finally he said, 'You do that again, I'm going to knock you on your ass,' and I said, 'Bring your lunch,' and sure enough, the next time he knocked me across the floor.
"Tom Gola came between us and Wilt threw a punch and hit Gola in the head and broke his hand. He played anyway. In the next game, I threw the ball hard off his broken hand and he just stared at me. I stared back.
"I said to myself, 'If I don't outstare this guy, the rest of my career is going to be hell.' I stuck my chin out further and stared at him. Finally, he turned away, and I never had another problem. He thought I was crazy.''
It was a crazy time in the NBA, an era when a lot of players lit up cigarettes and cigars after the games.
"Everybody smoked,'' said Heinsohn. "The only ones not smoking with us then were [Frank] Ramsey and Sharman. Somewhere along the line, people stopped.''
Heinsohn played nine NBA seasons and retired with eight championship rings. He was only 30 years old when he played his last NBA game.
"I ripped up my foot,'' he recalled. "I had trouble walking.''
When Russell and Sam Jones retired after winning their last championship in 1969, Auerbach turned to Heinsohn to coach the Celtics. With Hank Finkel at center, the Celtics went 34-48 in Heinsohn's first year on the bench. In Heinsohn's fourth year, the Celtics went 68-14, still a franchise best. They fell out of the playoffs when John Havlicek hurt his shoulder.
Led by Havlicek, Dave Cowens, Jo Jo White, and Paul Silas, Heinsohn's Celtics outran everybody.
"We had to change everything all around,'' said Heinsohn. "We played small-man basketball. With Cowens, a lot of times we had a point center. He'd be the main ballhandler against certain teams.
"It's not just that I love teams that love to run. What I know is that if you're going to play half-court, you'd better have the greatest executioners of half-court basketball. If you run, you test the stamina and willpower of the other team. That's what I learned as a player. That's how we did what we did.''
With Heinsohn as coach, the Celtics won championships in 1974 and 1976. It was the bridge between the Russell Era and the Bird Era, and it is too often forgotten.
"The team before us won 11 of 13, and then Larry captivated everybody,'' said Heinsohn. "But those two generations before Larry Bird really set it up for people to appreciate Larry Bird.
"Basketball hadn't been played around here before us and we had to develop the fans. Cooz and I used to drive in from Worcester and we knew we were successful when we started seeing basketball hoops in driveways in Newton.''
Heinsohn has three children and seven grandchildren. His sweetheart Helen, "the redhead from Needham," died in 2008.
He is a true renaissance man, an accomplished painter specializing in water colors and oils.
You can see some of Heinsohn's work at the Mosher Gallery in Rockport.
Heinsohn makes no apologies for his boosterism of all things Celtics.
"In every game, there's three teams out there,'' he said. "There's the two basketball teams and the team of officials. If the two teams are evenly matched, it can come down to number of possessions. If one out-of-bounds call goes the wrong way, that can be the difference.
"I'm very aware. I see officials intimidated by the crowd, holding grudges, becoming personal. When I sense that, I convey.''
"He is the keeper of the tradition and pride," said Celtics owner Wyc Grousbeck. "There is nothing better than hearing once again how they had to bail Red out of jail, how terrible a bus driver Red was, and on and on.
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Wenatchee (Wash.) Wild forward Jacob Barber was brought in to be the difference in games like Friday night.
Barber, playing in his ninth game after being acquired from the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) RoughRiders of the United States Hockey League, scored twice to lead the Wild to a 3-1 victory over the Kenai River Brown Bears in North American Hockey League action at the Soldotna Sports Center.
"He's a goal scorer," said Wild coach John Becanic after Barber scored his third and fourth goals of the year for Wenatchee.
The win moves the Wild to 25-15-5, four points behind second place in the West Division and six points ahead of fourth place.
The Bears drop to 23-19-2 and into fifth place in the West, one point out of a playoff spot.
Barber's goal with 7 minutes, 48 seconds, left in the second period provided a turning point in the game.
The second started scoreless, but Ben Carey, the Wild's leading scorer, lit the lamp for the 19th time this year just 1:10 into the second to give his team the lead.
The Brown Bears then picked up their play, culminating in Raymond Stenehjem ripping home a one-time slap shot to tie the game with 12:19 left in the second. The goal was set up by a patient and aware pass from Brett Lubanski.
"I really thought they took over the game in the second period," Becanic said of Kenai River. "When they get going, they are tough to play against.
"They are big, strong and they have a lot of skill."
With Robert Nichols, whose 1.61 goals-against average is tops in the league, making several big saves, the Wild were able to stay even as the Bears continued the onslaught after Stenehjem's goal.
But with 8:22 left in the second, Becanic had seen enough and called timeout.
"We were running around and chasing the puck," Becanic said. "We just needed to settle down and get back to the basics — stay between the puck and the net."
Becanic also told his team to be aware that the Brown Bears were being aggressive on offense with four players in the zone.
Just 34 seconds after the timeout, the Wild's awareness paid off. Barber got a pass a step ahead of the Kenai River defense and turned it into a breakaway, beating Kenai River goalie Austin Severson for a 2-1 lead.
"When somebody like Barber is buzzing around and playing with confidence, it causes problems," Brown Bears coach Oliver David said. "He gives them what they've kind of been lacking.
"He has a goal-scoring touch."
Barber's goal shifted the momentum back to Wenatchee. The Wild got behind the Brown Bears defense again for a breakaway with 2:40 left in the second period, but this time Severson made the save.
The Brown Bears had a chance to turn the tables late in the second period and early in the third period when they went on the power play.
Wenatchee was playing its fifth game in eight nights. The Wild also were down to 15 players due to injury and illness.
However, the Wild killed off the power play and dominated the early part of the third period, taking seven shots on goal until Barber scored with 9:57 left in the game for a 3-1 lead.
"I was happy with how much energy we played with," Becanic said. "I mean, we haven't been sitting around, we've been flying all over Alaska."
David didn't have a problem with his team's energy, but he said his team's timing was off.
"We didn't have it in certain areas tonight," David said. "We were losing stick battles and we couldn't control passes or bouncing pucks."
David pulled Severson after Barber's goal, but he said it wasn't because of the goalie's 28-save performance.
Gabe Grunwald came in and did not face a shot for the last half of the game as the Wild concentrated on defense, keeping the Brown Bears from generating consistent pressure in the latter half of the third.
"He made a few great saves," David said of Severson. "We've got another guy who hasn't seen a lot of time."
David said he liked the way new defenseman Jake Spinder played. Overall, the coach said the defense was OK.
David said the forwards did not play well, although he credited Conor Deal, Kellen Wasell and Dominic Granato with good games.
"The forwards did not shoot enough," David said. "I thought there were many times they had the puck on their stick and there wasn't anything more to create, but they were stick-handling instead of shooting."
Nichols made 17 saves for the Wild and improved his record to 16-5-3.
The same two teams play tonight at the sports center at 7:30 p.m.
Wild 3, Brown Bears 1
Kenai River010—1
First period — none. Penalties — Wenatchee 1 for 2:00; Kenai River 1 for 2:00.
Second period — 1. Wenatchee, Carey (McHugh, Remond), 1:10; 2. Kenai River, Stenehjem (Blessing, Lubanski), 7:41; 3. Wenatchee, Barber (Vetter, Kerr), 12:12. Penalties — Wenatchee 2 for 4:00; Kenai River 1 for 2:00.
Third period — 4. Wenatchee, Barber (Saylor, Kerr), 10:03. Penalties — Wenatchee 2 for 4:00; Kenai River 1 for 2:00.
Shots on goal — Wenatchee 11-13-7—31; Kenai River 8-6-4—18.
Goalies — Wenatchee, Nichols (18 shots, 17 saves); Kenai River, Severson (31 shots, 28 saves), Grunwald (0 shots, 0 saves).
Power plays — Wenatchee 0 for 3; Kenai River 0 for 5.


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I'm a person that loves close quarters combat, so if it's got firearms or swords, I'm in it...
The reason why Bleach has always had my attention for however many damn episodes it has is because I'm fascinated with sword battles...
Same goes with Samurai Champloo, especially...
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I don't like, mecha battles in general. Usually I find them acceptable if their somewhat tactical and use firearms. There was only one anime where mecha sword-like fighting looked good and made sense to me - Soukou no Strain - most others I usually go meh when I see it. If the mechs start flying (even lacking any plane transformation) it's instant fail in my mind. The final generation mechs always look gay to me; they always look like mahou shojo style crosplay.
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I gotta say that I love hand to hand, its like a huge first place compared to sword fighting in second, then gun in third. But what I also love...which I don't know if you'd consider this second or not, is when you combine hand to hand with like sword(Mugen from Samurai Champloo) or gun (like Train from Black Cat)
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Favorite fight scenes are when characters fight for a cause more important than themselves, their own lives, or the lives of even their companions. Or fights for love. Yeah, pretty corny I know, but to me, a fight must be waged with a purpose. There's nothing worse in my mind than a meaningless fight or a fight that could otherwise be avoided.
If you want to get down to the technicalities, if I see a fight, I want to to be hand-to-hand combat. Except in rare cases, long range battles with huge guns blaring at one another is somewhat boring. If they use guns, it has to be a close range fight like in Grenadier or Cowboy Bebop. For the most part though, I find melee weapons (swords, spears, etc.) the most interesting and exciting to watch.
|2008-09-27, 07:18
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I have yet to see a good fighting scene. I don't know if it's a problem of budget, or intentional but fights are always either short, full of talking or recycled frames à la DBZ (or take Macross, where the "shooting scenes" are reused again and again, just to hit a new target).
I think i'd like something with hand-to-hand combat that lasts longer than one move with 5 minute of talking in between. Something like those really, really old martial-arts movies. God i loved those. I'd like to see them again but i forgot all the names.
|2008-09-27, 11:26
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I like brutal and ground hand to hand combat. No special moves, no energy blasts, and there has to be a sense that things could go wrong for both characters.
s-cry-ed(last episode)
cowboy bebop
Dai Mahou Touge
girls bravo s2
funny when you think it that ussually never the fighting focus anime that has the best scenes
|2008-09-27, 11:35
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: At your house fixing A/C
the hypersonic fighting in dbz
bitch slapping from hot chicks
the fights in the final ep of samurai 7
somethings like rurounin kenshin, unreal sword fighting
ikkitousen's chick fights, ULTRA HOT!!!!!!!!!!!
Ultra violent like the ones in elfen lied
G-gundam has pretty good fighting scenes too
Realistic combat as in 08th ms team
|2008-09-28, 22:04
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Join Date: Jul 2008
I like fights that are fluid, well animated and don't use cheap short cuts. I actually like mecha fights. They're shiny some of my favorite mecha fights have been in code geass right now because they're fluid, well animated and don't use cheap short cuts (copy and paste for the win).
|2008-09-29, 03:26
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Hand to hand, martial arts, combination of gun and martial arts, magical fights with weapons, raged fights.
Animes like:
FMA, Gunslinger girl, Naruto, venus versus virus, blood+, chrono crusade, claymore, night wizard...ect...
|2008-09-30, 07:30
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Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: leicester england
Age: 30
Gun v sword is cool like in the final battle between viscous and spike from Cowboy bebop.
Other than that im down with anything as long as it doesn't have too much magic in it. I cant really see/relate to the skill in magic.
|2008-09-30, 18:16
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Washington State
Probably my favorite fight scene in recent memory has to be Seirei no Moribito. The spear scenes with Balsa, and the ones with her master Jiguro are absolutely amazing, both in terms of the actual physicality of them, as well as the flawless artistic execution (no spash screens, no reused animations). The way the spear scenes are executed as so fluid and realistic, but also just bad-ass enough that you realize how amazingly skilled the characters really are.
I also really enjoyed the fight scenes from Kekkaishi, because although their actual powers were fairly bland sounding (they can make boxes, thread, and spheres?) the imaginative ways they put those powers to use always entertained me. Especially when compared to some animes where all it comes down to is people throwing massive balls of energy or punches/sword slashes and the winner is just the one with more power (or is powered up due to be pissed off etc.).
That said, one of the shows that does sometimes make use of that formula, but likes to also create some really imaginative powers and use them in weird ways, is One Piece. Which is a great show even though they do use a lot of cheap animation tricks (as expected of an ultra-long running shonen show). They do a great job of having cool and unique powers, along with having that ultra-cool aspect of being uber-powered and fighting against other uber-powered folks. But they also balance that with good character designs, great humor, and storylines that actually can occasionally evoke emotions from viewers (a rarity in shonen anime imo).
So I either like fight scenes that are ultra-realistic but still have flair (SnM) or have really unique and creative aspects to them besides just throwing balls of energy or punches back and forth (Kekkaishi and OP).
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Green Highlands, a student group focused on environmental issues and earth-friendly practices, has spent the week of spring break for the last four years participating in the annual Spring Green Service Trip, a service learning project. This year the group traveled to Pine Mountain. David Jordan, assistant director of F.D. Roosevelt State Park asked that the student volunteers help clean up an area previously used as a dumping site.
Students cleaned three sites in the park including the roadside dump site, a scenic overlook, and the famous Dowdells knob Roosevelts favorite spot in the park. The group removed 35 bags of trash and other debris.
Callaway Gardens sits about five miles from FDR State Park, and students were also asked to help there, too. Green Highlands members cut back brush for the maintenance of a trail on the edge of the park that rarely gets any attention, according to gardener Robert Morris. Its probably been two or three months since anyones been on this trail to do any work, so were really grateful that you have offered your help, he said.
The trip wasnt all work. The group was able to tour Callaway Gardens and visit Roosevelts Little White House in nearby Warm Springs. They also had plenty of free time to enjoy F.D. Roosevelt State Park during their stay.


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The Southeast Conference has released their All-Conference selections and two of the six 1st-team members are from Washington. Sydney Greiner (14.9ppg) and Lauren Vittetoe (11.9ppg) helped lead the Demons to a conference title with an 8-0 record.
Joining the two Demon senior standouts on the first team is four other seniors led by conference Player of the Year Taylor Shull (Mt. Pleasant). Fairfield's Serena Ward (13.2ppg) and two players from Keokuk, Zoe Kayvan (10.5ppg, 8.6rpg) and Lexie Lozano-Dobbs (9.7ppg, 3.5apg), round out the all-conference first-team.
Demon senior guard Regan Enfield (8.5ppg) was named 2nd-Team All-Conference while five Washington girls received honorable mention; Beth Dillon, Stephanie Fishback, Lauren Kimball, Grace Redlinger, and Johannah Vittetoe.
Sydney Baumann (Fairfield), Rachel Dunlap and Mollie Martin (Keokuk), Kelsi Phipps and Taryn Shull (Mt. Pleasant), make up the rest of the 2nd-Team All-Conference selections.
Other honorable mentions include: Taylor Neil and Tori Ogden (Fairfield); Kayla Baxter, Kaitlynn Holtkamp, Chalie Meyer (Ft. Madison); Trish Elder, Merydith Marshall (Keokuk); Natalie Booton, Katelyn Fry, Grace Lutovsky, Leslie Taylor (Mt. Pleasant).


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Editor: I wanted to let everyone know about a great group that gives over and over to a neglected group out among us: animals. I would also like to thank Donna Grooms and Tina York, the two people who head this group up. It is a nonprofit and is called Ginger's Fund.
Editor: I wanted to let everyone know about a great group that gives over and over to a neglected group out among us: animals. I would also like to thank Donna Grooms and Tina York, the two people who head this group up. It is a nonprofit and is called Ginger's Fund.
A little background on Ginger's Fund in case you do not know who or what they do: Ginger's Fund is operated solely on public donations for the animal victims of cruelty, abandonment and neglect.
Dec. 31, 2011, Lexington Police were at a house checking on a nonanimal-related call when they noticed two chained Rottweilers dead in a neighboring yard. A third dog was found malnourished and neglected inside of the home; we named her Ginger. The Rottweilers died of starvation, and Ginger was not far behind their fate. Due to her condition, she was at the vet for a couple of weeks. She pulled through, with only physical scars left to tell her story.
Ginger's Fund is set up to help assist the authorities with neglect, abandonment and cruelty animal cases by providing the immediate vet care they need. There is now hope for the abused and neglected, and it all started with Ginger.
Ginger's Fund was first created under the Humane Society of Davidson County after LPD Lt. Melissa Carter and Lexington ACO Officer Sam Fritts came to ask for help. They did not want to see the animal victims go to the shelter where they simply do not have the funding to provide the animals with the vet care and rehabilitation that they desperately needed.
The ladies behind the scenes of Ginger's Fund has created a new animal welfare organization: Friends of the Shelter Davidson County, NC Inc. Ginger's Fund (now operated under FOS-DCNC) will continue to grow and expand under this new organization.
How can you help save animals' lives? Ginger's Fund relies on public donations, and there are so many ways that you can help: adopt/foster: request an application by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com; network the animals; sponsor an animal in need; donate supplies: food, collars, treats, toys, beds, blankets, bowls, shelter, shavings, crates, kennels, anything animal related (see drop-off donation locations below and please call ahead if it is a large item); make a monetary donation; foster an animal in need; help out at our events; or donate online: PayPal — firstname.lastname@example.com.
Monetary donations can be made out to FOS-DCNC directly to:
Dr. Greg Hedrick's Office for the vet care of our patients (list the donation for Ginger's Fund FOS-DCNC), Davidson Animal Hospital, 249-7078, 114 Anna Lewis Drive, Lexington, NC 27292
Buck's Wrecker Service, 886-4004, 5007 Ball Park Road, Thomasville, NC 27360
Lexington Police Department, Attention Lt. Carter, 106 N. Main St., Lexington, NC 27292
Friends of the Shelter Davidson County, NC Inc., P.O. Box 1036, Thomasville, NC 27361
Please find it in your heart to help Ginger's Fund so they can help animals in need.
Donna Campbell


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Adel Daoud was arrested last year following a sting operation and recently pleaded not guilty to terrorism-related charges.
There's still no trial date set in the 19-year-old's case and one could be fixed at his Friday hearing.
Prosecutors have said the Hillside man told undercover agents he believed the U.S. was at war with Muslims. But Daoud's attorney has argued the car-bomb plot was the agents' idea.
At previous hearings, the bushy-haired Daoud has appeared surprisingly at ease. He's even joked with the judge and smiled as he waved to family sitting in court.


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FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) — Chris Parmelee spent the past two seasons shuttling back and forth between the big leagues and the minors. Following Minnesota's offseason trades of Denard Span and Ben Revere, Parmelee hopes to become the Twins' starting right fielder.
The 24-year-old, taken with the 20th selection on the first round of the 2006 amateur draft from Chino Hills High School in California, hit .229 with five home runs and 20 RBIs in 64 games last season for the Twins. Parmelee fared much better at Triple-A, batting .338 with 17 homers and 49 RBIs in 64 games for the Rochester Red Wings.
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Secretary Solis, Mayor Emanuel join Discovery en Espa˝ol and AT&T to kick off 'Descubre Tu Talento'
Goal is Hispanic community awareness of career resources, hands-on opportunities
CHICAGO Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel today visited the Paul Simon Job Corps Center to raise awareness in the Hispanic community about career opportunities and resources to obtain job skills and expertise. The event was part of the kick-off to a new Discovery Communications multimedia initiative, "Descubre Tu Talento," which will provide Spanish-language tips about workforce preparation, and links to education and training resources from across the public and private sectors.
"As the fastest growing group in the country, Latino progress in this recovery is critical to the nation as a whole," said Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis. "Ensuring our changing workforce continues to have access to critical career resources means working collaboratively with the private sector to reach new audiences and providing tailored tools to meet changing needs,"
"I am focused on building an environment that will create jobs for all Chicagoans, and this innovative program will open new opportunities for Hispanic Chicagoans who are seeking to advance their careers," said Mayor Emanuel. "This program is a seamless integration of the public sector and the private sector, and will positively affect the lives of many of our residents and improve their neighborhoods and communities."
Resources and tips will be highlighted by on-air personalities during Discovery en Español broadcasts via a Spanish-language website and social media channel, and through local employers providing firsthand exposure to career opportunities. As one of the first collaborations, AT&T's Hispanic employee resource group, HACEMOS, will mentor students at the Paul Simon Job Corps Center. Additionally, volunteers with AT&T's Career4Vets initiative will advise veterans exploring career opportunities in the telecommunications industry.
Job Corps, administered by the Labor Department's Employment and Training Administration, is the nation's largest career technical training and education program for students ages 16-24. The program serves approximately 60,000 young people each year at 125 centers in 48 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico.
This effort follows "Discover Your Skills," a public engagement campaign launched by Discovery Communications last year to highlight the importance of training workers to fill critical jobs in manufacturing, health care, energy, technology, construction and other industries.
For additional information about Descubre Tu Talento and Discover Your Skills, visit http://www.tudiscovery.com/descubretutalento and http://www.discoveryourskills.com, respectively. To learn more about Job Corps, see http://www.jobcorps.gov.


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Tyler, you are awesome!
Sir Ron thinks that your bod rocks!
The Three Musketeers... Bashful, Chrisglass, and Ronboy!
What took so long to show that beautiful body and "parts." I'll take the gift with pleasure, thank you.
Well you have a fan down under I must say
Very very hot!
Oh come ON tyler...........PLEASE come back....... .
Nice rod to enjoy.
The Three Musketeers... Bashful, Chrisglass, and Ronboy!
Well he wasn't around long. Did he get an early invitation to a Mod Tower orgy ronboy?


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The Senate on Wednesday confirmed John "Jack" McConnell to the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island, voting along party lines, 50-44.
McConnell's confirmation was made possible when 11 Republicans earlier joined the Democrats in a 63-33 vote to invoke cloture. Those votes should be seen as a statement on the confirmation process, that is, trying to dial back the partisan conflict that afflicts consideration of judicial nominees.
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), who voted for cloture but against confirmation, made the case this way:
[The] Senate is a body of precedent. One important precedent is that never in Senate history has a President's district court nomination reported by the Judiciary Committee been defeated because of a filibuster, that is, because of a cloture vote. Once a nominee for federal district judge has gotten to the floor, the majority of senators have made the decision in an up-or-down vote.
Therefore, I will vote today for cloture in order to allow an up-or-down vote on the President's nomination of John McConnell. Then, I will vote "no" on confirmation because I believe he is a flawed nominee.
Flawed is a gentle description. McConnell is probably the worst judicial nominee that President Obama has put forward.
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i got whole of my family including my aunt and uncle going crazy after twilight.
its a frequent dinnertime discussion in our house.
i got five of my friends read an buy twilight books and 1 amongst them is making a conscious effort to make her family and acquaintances twilight fans.
i also made 2 of my cousins read twilight and they too love it.


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Honored at this year's fundraiser was Target Cue Senior Vice President Cathy Renna, who has worked as an essential publicist and activist in the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transsexual (LGBT) community for 25 years.
"As somebody who's mostly behind the scenes, usually I'm the one working with the reporters or helping my clients get their pictures taken with people," Renna said. "It's really thrilling to have people recognize the work. I try to help people tell their stories, because when people tell their stories, the public can relate to LGBT on a very different level. It's more personal; it's political, but it's political with a small 'p.'"
Presenting Renna's award was her client and good friend Edie Windsor, whose case against the U.S. Supreme Court last year overturned the Defense of Marriage Act.
Windsor, whose love affair with her late partner Thea Spyer inspired a 2009 documentary film directed by Susan Muska and Gréta Olafsdóttir, said when the government denied her the right to tend to her partner's estate, she felt it very strongly.
"I felt real anguish that my country that wouldn't recognize her as my spouse and they treated her as a stranger," Windsor said. "In the beginning, when I first saw the brief that said Edie Windsor v. the United States, I was terrified for a moment, and then once I got over that I realized, they're not going to hurt me. As we moved on, it got surer. The decision was so beautiful."
While the parade is now a massive production, when Councilman Daniel Dromm first founded the event, it was fairly small with little support from the political establishment in New York City.
But after 21 years, there is now an overwhelming amount of support for the cause, said Queens Pride Committee Chair Andrew Ronan.
"This event itself, when it started I'm told, you couldn't even get an elected official to attend. Now so many attend we can't even let them all speak, it's that many," Ronan said. "It goes from a little social action to a movement to a parade."
Among the attendees Saturday night were several notable figures in the same-sex marriage movement, including New York Supreme Court Justice Doris Ling-Cohan, whose decision in Hernandez v. Robles was the third to address marriage equality in the history of the legal system in the U.S.
"If you look at the arc of history, there was a time when marriage between races was barred, and I saw a similarity," Ling-Cohan said. "That parallel was also was drawn by the plaintiffs."
Comptroller Scott Stringer felt that events and celebrations like the Queens Pride Parade are essential to maintaining the atmosphere of acceptance and diversity in the five boroughs.
"Part of honoring the honorees tonight is presenting a New York that is inclusive," Stringer said. "We want to bring our brand to the rest of the country."
Chris Pilgrim, a 50-year-old Jamaica, Queens, resident who came out publicly last year, had a very different experience than would've been common15 years ago when the Queens Pride Parade was in its infancy.
"I can honestly say that it's like a big weight was lifted off my shoulders," Pilgrim said. "I can be who I am now, and I like that very much."
Ronan, for one, said he is thankful to be part of an event that is so central to the equal rights movement, and to have the privilege of living in a city where harassment and condemnations of homosexuality are all but a thing of the past.
"We're lucky we live in New York," Ronan said. "I feel really bad for people who live in parts of the United States where it's going to be a long uphill battle. We've made these great successful victories, the fight is really still going on."


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LA CROSSE, Wis (WEAU)- Friday afternoon a memorial service was held for Paul and AJ Petras, the father and son who were killed in the Mays Photo homicide.
On September 15th, Paul and AJ Petras were murdered at their family business Mays Photo in downtown La Crosse.
Police say both were shot in the head, and more than 16 thousand dollars worth of camera equipment was stolen from the business.
Jeffrey Lepsch from Dakota, Minnesota is now charged with the homicides.
Both Paul and AJ Petras went to Aquinas High School in La Crosse. Paul graduated with the class of 74' and AJ graduated with the class of 2011. Both were active in the school, participating in yearbook and the ski club.
Good friend and former classmate of Paul's, Mark Schneider said that Paul always had a talent for photography.
"He was always so good at video and audio and was even better than the teachers," said Schneider.
None of the family got up to speak at the service, but many friends did.
"It's sad. I will never get over how senseless it was. Paul and AJ were great people," said family friend Kathy Reinhart.
Reinhart's son Riley and AJ were close friends that did everything together.
"I can't remember a single birthday of mine he missed for the past 10 years I've known him," said Riley in a pre-recorded speech for the memorial.
Schneider said that this memorial was more celebratory than the funeral.
"We've had a few months to think it over and now we have a sense of closure with the arrest."
Even Father McGarty had special memories of AJ to share.
"I always knew AJ a little more than the other children. He was a snowboarder and I am a skier, and sometimes we would see each other on the ski hill. I would buy him hot chocolate one time and he would buy me one the next," said McGarty.
One thing was clear at the service, Paul and AJ will be greatly missed.
"Every time I hear the tires screech or a boat roar off in the water I think of them. They always like their toys," said Schneider.
"I know they are in heaven now looking down on us," said Reinhart.


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How about 2nd round pick this year and 1st and 3rd next year.
Do it Idzik.
ATL will win that division. Carolina and New Orleans both will be better next year. TB may finish last in that division WITH Revis. Idzik is supposedly willing to take 2014 compensation. TB's pick will be a mid 1st rd pick or better. Accompany that with our projected top ten pick next year(cuz the jets will be awful) and we will have the picks to move into position to get a QB in '14. If the Jets are as bad as everyone thinks they are going to be, we may already be in position to draft a Bridgewater or Manziel.
How about 2nd round pick this year and 1st and 3rd next year.
Do it Idzik.
Sure, a 1 &2 next year is great bank but we may be talking about an extra pick this year that could be a solid guard, safety or a very good WR.
I'm sure the Jets have already started putting together their board & there may be positions of need that they see as a steal if they had another pick.
I've always thought a 1st, 2nd and 4th this year would be enough to seriously consider it. The 1st and 2nd could be split between this year and next or even both next year but I want at least one more mid round choice this year.
4th this year, 1st and 2nd next year would be good enough, but I would still do it very grudgingly. Despite the fact we had a fine pass defense last year I don't think Cromartie is going to be as consistently good as he was last year and wilson will not be consistently lucky as he was last year.
Screw Tampa Bay. Idak is in control and is not going to be forced into a deal. I don't think any team will meet his projected value. The market has changed and it may be possible to sign Revis for a number that Idak can live with.
If all the Jets are getting is 2014 picks from the Bucs, then the Jets should wait until after June 1 to make the deal. That way they can spread the cap hit.
The only thing pushing the Jets is if they want a 2013 pick. If they're not getting it they can wait.
I would ask for the first pick next year in hopes of trading up for a QB and the 2nd and 3rd pick this year, where there is good value. Am I too greedy?
I get the 1 year delay concept in terms of immediate gratification but never could quite grasp the concept a 1st rounder losing value because it's a year delayed?
What hogwash.
$13 million cap hit to Jets on Revis
No players till 2014
Bucs defer payment and get best CB in 2013
How about redo Revis contract on condition of a deal as to offeset as much of the $13 cap hit.
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CHARLESTON – Lindsay Graham went to state with the goal of running a personal best time in the 3,200-meter run. Instead, the Glenbard East freshman bursting with potential had to settle for fifth place.
Graham, who set a new personal record in the sectional at 10:41.92, ran the two-mile in 10:42.42 on Saturday in the Class 3A race in Charleston. Graham was seeded fifth entering the race and held that spot.
The fifth-place finish is the highest for a freshman in the 3,200 in Class 3A since 2010.
Glenbard West's Madeline Perez matched her cross country state title by winning the 3,200, crossing the finish line in 10:22.29.
The Rams had two other athletes compete in the preliminaries. Senior Jamie Gradishar tied for 22nd in the pole vault by clearing 10 feet. Sophomore Angela Kerndl was 26th in the 100-meter hurdles.
Peters qualifies for state in 800
Jack Peters was the only Ram to qualify for the Class 3A state meet from the Glenbard North boys track and field sectional last Friday.
Peters won the 800-meter run with a time of 1:55.34 in a race that included six state qualifiers. The junior had the ninth-fastest state qualifying time in the 800 and will make his first state appearance in Charleston.