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Weekly Release Spotlight: Dark Dark Dark
Dark Dark Dark
Who Needs Who
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Local chamber folk group Dark Dark Dark returns with a purpose on their third full-length Who Needs Who. We hear the band bring their strong acoustic foundation with singer Nona Marie Invie's voice as unique and evocative as ever. The album is focused, consistent, and at it's best very evocative of those nostalgic feelings of love we all have. It settles on what used to be, what could have been, and how it is to deal with the silencing progression of time. From the funeral dirge in the opening title track, the listener is settled into a very somber, introspective environment. Ghostly backing vocals intertwine with a trumpet that, while typically a triumphant instrument, is relegated to a sad punctuation mark.
The emotional threads run deep in this album whether it's Invie's longing for the "time when you cherished me/oh to go back to the place when your hands moved over me " or the sweetest moments in a dive bar slow dancing to Patsy Cline. These are threads that everyone can relate to. It punctuates a homespun heartache that is at the core of this album's power. The chamber folk instrumentation weaves well with Invie's words, providing a warm, yet at times haunting energy.
The melancholic orchestration, for some elusive yet captivating reason, is further accentuated by the use of a waltzy ¾ time signature throughout much of the album. This is a technique that Dark Dark Dark has used before. With waltzes always being associated in our collective unconscious with a pristine romance, it's twisted, heartbreaking application in Dark Dark Dark's music strikes an incongruent romantic contrast that we all experience in love. We build these conceptions of romance only to have them tragically torn. It evokes a derelict ballroom and a tattered, forgotten prom dress.
It's interesting that the album ends with a song called The Great Mistake, as it's the last signature the band puts on its work, but it keeps with the themes of introspection, regret, fading memories, and the inevitable, cold passing of time. The album has a few upbeat moments, and one of them is at the very end. It's as if among all the weighted emotions of life, in the end, there exists some kind of accepting, c'est-la-vie flourishes in us all.
Written by Ross Crandall, Radio K volunteer.


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Voters presented with nine amendments
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- Published on 29 October 2013
- Written by Mount Vernon Optic-Herald
Early voting began Monday on nine proposed Texas constitutional amendments. Proposition 6, concerning Texas water, and Proposition 5, concerning reverse mortgages, have generated discussion from those supporting and opposing them. The other propositions have received little attention.
Below is the ballot language of the proposed amendments, a summary, and some of the arguments that have been made for and against each proposition. Much of this information was obtained through the Texas Leauge of Women Voters and other internet sources.
Proposition 1
Ballot language - The constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for an exemption from ad valorem taxation of all or part of the market value of the residence homestead of the surviving spouse of a member of the armed services of the United States who is killed in action.
Explanation - The proposed amendment would allow the surviving spouse of a member of the U.S. armed services who was killed in action to be exempt from paying local property taxes based on all or part of the total appraised value of the homestead.
Arguments For - The proposed amendment would allow local governments in Texas to assist surviving spouses of U.S. armed services members who have been killed in action.
Arguments Against - School districts and local governments would receive less revenue from property taxes.
Proposition 2
Ballot language - The constitutional amendment eliminating an obsolete requirement for a State Medical Education Board and a State Medical Education Fund, neither of which is operational.
Explanation - In 1952, the State Medical Education Board (SMEB) and a scholarship fund were created to issue loans to medical students who agreed to practice in rural areas of Texas. No new loans have been issued since January 1988. Direct loans are now used for this purpose. The proposed constitutional amendment would remove references to these defunct entities in the constitution and state law.
Arguments For - Since the SMEB and its education fund are no longer operational, references to them should be removed from the state's unwieldy constitution.
Arguments Against - The SMEB and its education fund are obsolete, so a constitutional amendment to remove references to them is unnecessary.
Proposition 3
Ballot language - The constitutional amendment to authorize a political subdivision of this state to extend the number of days that aircraft parts that are exempt from ad valorem taxation due to their location in this state for a temporary period may be located in this state for purposes of qualifying for the tax exemption.
Explanation - Currently, the Texas Constitution allows local taxing authorities to exempt some property that is in Texas temporarily. This tax exemption is commonly referred to as a "freeport exemption." It is limited to 175 days. The proposed amendment, if passed, would extend that limit up to 730 days (two years) for aircraft and aircraft parts.
Arguments For - The proposed exemption would provide an economic development tool. Texas is one of only a few states with a tax on inventory.
Arguments Against - Singling out one group for special tax exemption status raises issues of uniformity in taxation. Granting an extension reduces tax revenues for local governments.
Proposition 4
Ballot language - The constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for an exemption from ad valorem taxation of part of the market value of the residence homestead of a partially disabled veteran or the surviving spouse of a partially disabled veteran if the residence homestead was donated to the disabled veteran by a charitable organization.
Explanation - This proposed amendment would provide an exemption to a partially disabled veteran or surviving spouse, if the homestead has been donated by a charitable organization at no cost to the veteran. The amount of the exemption would be a percentage of the market value of the residence homestead that is equal to the percentage of disability of the veteran.
Arguments For - Charitable organizations have given homes to disabled veterans, but in some cases the veteran is unable to pay the property taxes, resulting in forclosue. These veterans have sacrificed for our country and are deserving of help. The cost of the exemption is small because only a dozen or so homes per year are donated cost-free to disabled veterans.
Arguments Against - Singling out one group for special tax exemption status, even though deserving, raises issues of uniformity in taxation and could open the door to continued erosion of the tax base.
Proposition 5
Ballot language - The constitutional amendment to authorize the making of a reverse mortgage loan for the purchase of homestead property and to amend lender disclosures and other requirements in connection with a reverse mortgage loan.
Explanation - The proposed amendment would enable Texas seniors to use "reverse mortgages for purchase" to acquire a new residence. It would also require reverse mortgage lenders to expand currently required counseling to borrowers to include disclosure of the specific behaviors that can lead to foreclosure on a property.
Arguments For - This proposition saves costs for seniors by allowing a reverse mortgage loan to be set up as part of a purchase rather than after a purchase to eliminate duplicative processes. This helps seniors relocate to other geographical areas or downsize to homes that better meet their needs.
Arguments Against - Homeowners can lose a lifetime of home equity as a result of fraud, scams, misleading advertising, aggressive sales tactics and discriminatory practices sometimes associated with reverse mortgages.
Proposition 6
Ballot language - The constitutional amendment providing for the creation of the State Water Implementation Fund for Texas and the State Water Implementation Revenue Fund for Texas to assist in the financing of priority projects in the state water plan to ensure the availability of adequate water resources.
Explanation - The proposed amendment authorizes the transfer of $2 billion from the economic stabilization fund, commonly known as the Rainy Day Fund. Money in the fund would be available to provide support for low-interest loans, longer repayment terms for loans, incremental repurchase terms for projects in which the state owns an interest, and deferral of loan payments.
Arguments For - Ensuring an adequate water supply is essential to the public and economic health of Texas. Responding to the current drought emergency is an appropriate use of the Rainy Day Fund and will provide a better return on investment than if the money were left in that fund.
Arguments Against - While TWDB needs to proceed with priority projects, taking money from the Rainy Day Fund is inappropriate. Reducing the amount in this fund could reduce the state's excellent credit rating and affect the state's ability to respond to a natural disaster or other emergency situations.
Proposition 7
Ballot language - The constitutional amendment authorizing a home-rule municipality to provide in its charter the procedure to fill a vacancy on its governing body for which the unexpired term is 12 months or less.
Explanation - Would allow a home rule city, with more than 5,000 people, to fill a vacated position by appointment if there is less than 12 months remaining in the term.
Arguments For - Proposition 7 would cut taxpayer costs. When an elected city official dies or otherwise leaves office, the Constitution currently requires the city to hold a special election within 120 days even if only a few months remain in the term.
Arguments Against - Proposition 7 might increase the opportunity for corruption by allowing city officials to appoint one another.
Proposition 8
Ballot language - The constitutional amendment repealing Section 7, Article IX, Texas Constitution, which relates to the creation of a hospital district in Hidalgo County.
Explanation - Proposition 8 would remove from the Texas Constitution a 1960 amendment that authorized the creation of a hospital district in Hidalgo County with a maximum tax rate of 10 cents per $100 valuation of taxable property. This would allow the voters in Hidalgo County to create their own hospital district and set their own tax rate.
Arguments For - Hidalgo is the only county in the state with a tax limitation, and is also the largest county without a hospital district. This proposition could help the county establish a hospital district and obtain federal funds.
Arguments Against - Passage of this proposition would likely increase the taxes for property owners in Hidalgo County.
Proposition 9
Ballot language - The constitutional amendment relating to expanding the types of sanctions that may be assessed against a judge or justice following a formal proceeding instituted by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct.
Explanation - Currently, after a formal disciplinary proceeding, the State Commission on Judicial Conduct (SCJC) may issue an order of public censure or recommend removal or retirement of the judge/justice. If this proposed amendment passes, the SCJC may at its discretion issue a private or public admonition, warning, reprimand, or requirement that the person obtain additional training or education, as well as the censure or formal recommendations of resignation or retirement.
Arguments For - Proposition 9 would lead to greater public accountability for judges and justices.
Arguments Against - Stronger measures than those provided by Proposition 9 are needed to reinforce the SCJC's authority to discipline judges and hold them accountable for judicial misconduct.


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Thinking outside: Out of the Box reuses old store
True Value isn't just the former name of this store on Earlysville Road two miles west of the airport. Owners Kathleen and Josh Blanthorn are opening Out of the Box, a furniture and home accessories center, there. "We wondered why they keep building all these new buildings when there are so many old ones to use," she says.
"We passed it every day on the way to work, and I always thought, 'Wouldn't it be nice to have our own little store?'" says Kathleen, like her husband, a teacher by trade. In converting the approximately 5,000 square-foot space, they not only found a new use for a sturdy building, but Kathleen was able to cut her daily commute from two hours to 15 minutes.


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Avernum: Escape from the Pit HD iPad Review
Avernum: Escape From the Pit HD by Spiderweb Software, is a throwback, a love letter to a time when RPGs didn't hold your hand every step of the way, when games were more than just interactive movies and when titles like Baldur's Gate and Fallout were kings of the hill. Avernum is an immersive, epic and enthralling game done in the grand tradition of those games, that should be played by RPG fans of all stripes.
In the game, the surface empire is ruled by the ruthless and capricious Emperor Hawthorne, who sends anyone who dares to cross him into the massive underground prison world of Avernum. But the residents of Avernum have adapted and created an entire civilization for themselves in the cold and unforgiving underworld. You control a group of hapless adventurers who have been cast down into the prison. Throughout your adventures you'll meet an immense cast of other unfortunate souls, become embroiled in territorial disputes, interact with the 'natural' residents of Avernum, and fight to survive as you plot your escape and seek revenge on the Emperor.
It's a little too pentagram-y in here for me.
You control four characters on your quest, which you choose at the very beginning of the game. You can choose their class (soldier, rogue, mage, priest, etc.), along with their appearance and name. Throughout the game they will level up and upgrade their special skills, stats, and magical abilities. You can also train or learn new skills and spells by finding characters in the various towns and forts who are willing to teach you. There are quite a few skills, spells and stats to play with and the depth of character customization, and character growth, is part of the fun as you can make your characters as highly focused or as 'rounded' as you like.
Combat is divided into turns, so each character has a shot to do their thing. Like in any suitably deep RPG, a number of factors come into play during combat. Certain spells or potions can affect when a character takes their turn, as can their skills, your party order, and the abilities of your enemies. To target an enemy, you decide what you want your character to do, such as attack or cast a spell, and then tap on your target. When the screen is crowded, the combat system can be a little tricky. Accidentally targeting the wrong enemy isn't all that uncommon. A way to move the screen around or some alternate targeting system would be nice.
Lightning crashes, an old mother cries.
Like we mentioned above, the story is truly huge and is played out like a great fantasy novel. You travel from town to town, talking to and learning from the residents and occasionally doing quests for them. There is the main storyline to follow, which plays out over the course of the game, but there are also countless side-quests for you to do. These can range from delivering a sack of bloody meat to a hungry dragon, or finding some sugar for someone. There's also a little war going on between the human inhabitants of Avernum and the other, non-human races of the underworld. You can choose to involve yourself in this as much or as little as you like. Quest locations are marked on the world map, so you can always make sure you know where you're going. The plot is very well done, if a bit bleak and depressing, and will keep you constantly engaged.
The presentation is where the game falls a little short. The graphics are serviceable, but that's about it. Aside from naming conventions for iPad games, there's nothing 'HD' about the look of this one. There's a text block on the bottom of the screen that takes up a decent amount of real estate, and it'd be nice if there were an option to hide it. Also, there isn't any music. This wasn't really a problem for us, but others might be a little turned off by it.
Avernum: Escape from the Pit HD is old-school, and we mean that in a good way. It's a game of astonishing depth, with a story that was crafted with care. You will easily find yourself getting lost for hours in the trials and tribulations of the world as you attempt to find your way through it. The problems with the combat and the merely utilitarian graphics and sound aren't enough to detract from the joy of playing this amazing game. For gamers chomping at the bit for the upcoming iOS version of Baldur's Gate, Avernum will remind you why you love these types of games in the first place.


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UPPER DUBLIN — The sixth-seeded North Penn girls basketball team came to Fort Washington confident it could knock off third-seeded Upper Dublin in the quarterfinals of the District One AAAA playoffs. The Flying Cardinals have only lost once this season, but the Maidens held a height advantage.
But what's in an inch or two?
Apparently nothing for the Flying Cardinal forwards. With that supposed strength cancelled out, the Maidens were in for a long afternoon. Villanova and a return trip to the district finals felt so close, but after a 42-26 loss, the next game (playbacks at home against Boyertown) will just be a chance to regain their rhythm before states.
"It was not our day, but Upper Dublin makes you play like that," Maidens' coach Maggie deMarteleire said. "They played very well. We need to recommit ourselves as a team. I am hoping the kids figure out what they need to do to make our team better."
The Cardinals' defense did not give the Maidens much moving around room in the first half. But when junior Vicky Tumasz drained her first trey of the second half there was hope. The shot brought her team within six points, but that is close as it got. The Maidens miss their next 16 shots and the Cardinals ended the quarter on a 12-0 run.
"We weren't hitting shots, but it is more than that," deMarteleire said. "Rebounding is a strength of ours and it was not today. All we talked about was their back door screens and we did not execute. It was almost like we never went over it."
While the Maidens mustered six field goals through three quarters the Cardinals shot 7-for-9 in the third quarter alone. Senior Cutrena Goff scored six of her game high 14 points and pulled down four of her six rebounds, as well as too many assists to tally.
"In the second half it may have been the best we have executed all year," Cardinal coach Morgan Funsten said. "The girls buy in and Cutrena Goff is something special. She can score zero points and dominate a game. She is the ultimate team player."
Goff got her forwards involved in the second half as Bri Spector scored all of her 10 points after halftime. Spector and junior Regan Gallagher each recorded eight rebounds in the win. Gallagher, who transferred from Mount Saint Joseph this season, will now get a chance to face her former teammates and prove to the doubters the Cardinals three seed is warranted.
"Neither Bri and Regan are over 5-10," Funsten said. "Maybe they are 5-11 in the program. Regan always plays like a six-footer and Bri played great today. She is now playing like a six-footer, even though they are not. That is what you need to do against a team like North Penn, who has legit six-footers."
"We don't always hear positive things about us, but all we can worry about is ourselves. If people aren't impressed with us yet, I don't care, but it is hard not to be after a game like today."
Junior Erin Maher scored six points, all in the first half, and senior Lauren Crisler led the Maidens with eight points. The Maidens finished 9-for-40 (22 percent) to the Cardinals 18-for-31 (58 percent). The next two games for the Maidens will decided whether they are the five, six or seven seed out of District One for the upcoming PIAA playoffs.
"We are lucky that this was not our last game," Crisler said. "We are going to learn from this and the fact we have playbacks games before states is great because we can get back into rhythm. We have the tools."
Upper Dublin 42, North Penn 26
North Penn (26) – Crisler 3 2-2 8; Maher 2 0-0 6; Tumasz 1 2-2 5; Bilotti 2 0-0 5; Giuliani 1 0-0 2; Totals 9 4-4 26
Upper Dublin (42) – Goff 6 1-3 14; Spector 5 0-0 10; Rothfeld 3 0-0 9; McAneny 2 0-0 5; Gallagher 1 0-4 2; Lillo 1 0-0 2; Totals 18 1-7 42
Three-point field goals: NP - Maher (2), Tumasz, Bilotti; UD – Rothfeld (3), Goff, McAneny
North Penn 7 8 3 8 – 26
Upper Dublin 8 14 14 6 – 42


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Some folks head to Vegas for the gold while others head to the Florida Panhandle for the silver. Either one's a crap shoot, and the house usually wins.
Today was the day. Took off at about 5:15am to meet the guide at a local outfitters and head down to Mexico Beach to put in. Got the boat in the water and started out at about 7:30 am. Beautiful sunrise but a pretty strong offshore "breeze" (at least that's what the locals call it). It only took about half hour to motor out to the flats, but as we approached the point, the swells started to build. We only saw one other boat out on the flats and he was anchored off, facing into some pretty heavy swells. Our guide recognized him and called him up on his cell phone to see if they were doing any good. The other guide had a couple of his old high school buddies out for some yuks. He had them up in some cages and they were getting beat up pretty badly.
Needless to say, today was not the day for chasing silver.
After bouncing around in the gulf for about 15 minutes more, our guide informed us that even if he was fishing alone he wouldn't attempt going for tarpon under those conditions. Admittedly, I wouldn't want to try and stand on the casting deck, much less try and cast from it under those conditions. So we motored back in to the launch to pack it in and try for some redfish elsewhere.
About 40 minutes later we're back in the boat (sweet boat, by the way) and headed across the bay at Panama City Beach. After another half hour boat ride, we pulled into some shallow water looking for redfish and hoping we weren't going to get hammered by the massive thunderstorm that was coming onshore. We spotted a few and cast to a few but couldn't get any to eat. The bulk of the storm passed to our north but we did have to pull off and sit out a brief squall with only a light soaking. Once the storm passed, we had to wait another 20 minutes or so for sunshine in order to sight fish.
However, by that time the tide was noticeably going out and we had to head back to the launch, stopping to try one more spot before the water got too low. Skunked again!
So the house won today and the silver's still on the table waiting for Byron's next trip.
Gerry and Brett -- reporting from sunny Santa Rosa Beach, FL


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Cathy Reese has led the University of Maryland women's lacrosse team to five trips to the NCAA Final Four, three appearances in the title game and one championship since she took the job as head coach in 2006.
But her occasional posts on Twitter are not about Maryland Terrapins lacrosse. Instead, her personal feed is a record of her other coaching job: mom to Riley, 9, Brody, 7, Cayden, 5, and Braxton, 22 months.
"First call from the school nurse — 950 am the first day of school. Fat lip from PE- Welcome Back everyone," she posted at the beginning of the school year. Her account is peppered with photos of the kids — usually proudly displaying Terps sportswear.
Reese, 37, jokes that her ultimate goal is to leave a place with the same number of kids she arrived with (and that they're her kids). But there's a grain of wisdom in her humor: By not expecting perfection all the time, she is able to have fun with a hectic life that would leave many moms begging for scheduling mercy. Reese and husband Brian have interwoven family with their deep love for — and attachment to — U-Md. athletics.
It's not easy. Cathy Reese's job, while somewhat flexible during the day, involves a lot of nights, and she rarely has a weekend off. During the lacrosse season there are games, team dinners and road trips. In the off-season, there's recruiting. She is constantly in motion, but she likes it that way.
It works for the Reese family because she has made her husband and children an integral part of her work life. They come to team meals, practices and games. They attend football, basketball and soccer games at the university. The kids have embraced this life and see themselves as pint-size Terps. Cayden once joined the lacrosse team in signing autographs after a game. Riley labored for hours over personalized good-luck cards for each player before the NCAA Final Four in May. It's their normal.
"The kids love it," says Reese, whose smartphone sports the Terps' yellow, red and black logo. "They love our girls, they love our team, they are totally warped Maryland people. They'll only wear Under Armour [the apparel brand for U-Md. athletes], especially my boys, and if you ask them where they're going to college, it's 'Maryland. Duh, like why?' "
Three of Reese's kids play multiple sports. She keeps everything straight with a color-coded dry-erase board in their mudroom — which Brian says no one else is allowed to touch — and they sometimes enlist the help of her sister, aunt or father and stepmom to make sure everyone gets where they need to go, whether it's a birthday party, a soccer game or a doctor's appointment.
"Relaxation" is not part of Cathy Reese's vocabulary, and never has been. Questions about how she spends her free time draw a blank stare. "I'm not good at that," she says, shaking her head.
She manages to be high-energy without being Type A (except for that calendar). In Reese's world, drinking coffee and listening to non-kid music on the radio during her commute from her home to the university constitute "me time." She recalls being back at work three days after Cayden was born in March 2008, because the Terps had a big game, or taking Braxton to a team meal at a Japanese steakhouse when he was 2 days old.
"There's always something," Reese says. "You have to sleep when you can, because you're up and at 'em when the day starts. There's no time to rest. That's the phase we're in."
While other parents stand on the sidelines at their kids' sporting events and heckle the coach, officials or other players mercilessly, Reese, who has the perspective of leading an elite athletic program, said she stays out of it. She says she is content if her kids have their shoes on the right feet.
Being a mom is a lot like being a coach, she says, even though there is a big difference between college-age women and young kids. "In the job we're doing, there is a lot of focus on wins and losses, but at the end of the day you're dealing with someone else's kids," Reese says. "It's about helping, mentoring, supporting and guiding, both as a mom and when I recruit kids."
The upside is that her job is flexible enough that she can often leave during the day for an appointment with the pediatrician. But there are also times when she misses being able to chaperon a field trip to the zoo because it falls two days before a big game.
"Then I get the little mom guilt that we all have at some point," Reese says. "But they're growing up and seeing us stick together, and seeing me doing something I love. Hopefully, that will inspire them down the road."
Cathy and Brian Reese met when they were freshmen at U-Md. She played women's lacrosse there; he was on the men's team. They dated all through college and for a few years after. They got engaged in 2002, married in 2003 and Riley was born in 2004.
Brian Reese took a job in August teaching health and fitness at Glenelg Country School, about five minutes from the family's home in Howard County. Before taking that job, he coached the Chesapeake Bayhawks, a Major League Lacrosse team, for a number of years, commuting an hour each way to Annapolis. He left in November 2012 so he would be available to help out with the kids' practices.
The Reeses' shared love of lacrosse and similar career backgrounds help them work together to handle the chaos of life with four children. During one recent grueling stretch, Cathy Reese said, it felt like they didn't see each other for two weeks, between work and the kids' activities. Brian had just started his new job, and the kids were having tryouts for travel teams in the evenings, around the same time that Maryland students reported for the new school year.
"We're working together to raise these four great kids we've been blessed with, but he respects my responsibilities at work, too," says Reese, adding that her husband is great about asking her what she needs him to do, then pitching in with what is on the agenda each day.
"I'm along for the ride," Brian Reese said. "She's the organized one. We just kind of expect a little bit of craziness and then just go for it."
It ended up being fortunate that Brian Reese was between jobs when oldest son Riley was hospitalized for a month last winter with a nasty stomach virus. Riley, who got a diabetes diagnosis in March 2012 and a celiac disease diagnosis in June of the same year, lost 17 pounds while he was sick.
After a doctor told her Riley might not make it out of the hospital, Cathy Reese sat her team down in the locker room one day and asked for help lifting his spirits.
"I told them I haven't seen my son smile in three weeks. And he's an 8-year-old boy and it's just heartbreaking," Reese said in her office recently, tearing up at the memory. "I told them I need for you guys to come in and do your thing. Next thing I know, I have three or four girls on my team who are in the hospital with him every day, hanging out, making him smile, making him posters."
Within a few months, Riley had gained back all the weight he lost, and he is back to playing football, soccer and lacrosse at full throttle. Even though the worst of his illness is behind them, Reese finds herself less inclined to lose her temper over the small stuff.
"You go from having this super-athletic kid to watching him trying to learn how to run again," she says. "It makes you appreciate the little things a little bit more. . . . Of all the things you get so angry about, who cares? Why have I gotten so mad at things in the past? And I still do, I get mad at little things sometimes, but it can put things in perspective."
Tips from Team Reese's playbook
— Get kid time where you can. It would be easier to make the trip to Wegmans for groceries by herself, but Reese often takes her children with her. She says it's worth the stress of having all four children with her in the store to have some time together, even if they are begging for Jolly Rancher popsicles or tossing gum into the cart when mom isn't looking.
"If that's the time I get to spend with them, that's what we do," Reese says. "As much as it may make my hair turn gray or fall out, it's still time with them."
— Outsource or delegate what you don't like. Reese admits she is terrible at cleaning house, so she has a maid service take care of chores such as bathrooms and floors.
"That's been the best money ever spent, because at least I know the toilets get cleaned," Reese said. "It doesn't last very long. Someone cleans your house and in two hours it doesn't even look like they were there, but at least the counters are wiped down, the bathrooms have been cleaned, the sinks have been cleaned. It just makes me feel better."
— Share duties with your spouse. Cathy and Brian Reese split the cooking, homework help and chauffeur duties. Who does what largely depends on who is home when, she says. Cathy does most of the grocery shopping, and Brian usually handles the laundry.
Reese says he delivers a fresh pile of folded laundry to her side of the bed, the idea being that she has to put it away before climbing in to go to sleep. More often than not, she says, she moves the pile to the floor instead.
— Surround yourself with good people. Reese has a supportive husband and family around to help. She is also able to lean on her staff at the University of Maryland. When son Riley was sick last winter, Reese never missed a game or practice, but assistant coaches Lauri Kenis and Caitlyn McFadden handled a lot of the day-to-day running of the program while she visited him in the hospital.
"I was out for a month and had people covering for me in all areas," Reese says. "If you are surrounded with good people, anything is possible."


text: Julianne Nicholson has been in and out of character a lot lately. The Medford native played Dr. DePaul on the Showtime drama "Masters of Sex," costarred with Julia Roberts and Meryl Streep in "August: Osage County," and will soon star in the Sundance Channel series "The Red Road," playing a wife and mother with schizophrenia and connections to two very different men. "I read a lot about schizophrenia, and I was surprised by how many people actually on our production had people with schizophrenia in their families. . . . People shared a lot of personal stories with me," Nicholson told reporters recently at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, Calif. "And I was very relieved to know that it looks different on everyone, which made me feel a little more relaxed and gave me a freedom to just use these beautiful words and my imagination and what I read and heard and create her version of that. . . . It's the hardest role I've ever played, also, the most exciting." "The Red Road" premieres on Sundance Channel on Feb. 27.


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By Tom Murr
In this past week there has been challenges to the freedom of the press. Freedom of the press has a long-standing history in American history. From the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, 1890s Muckrakers, World War I and World War II, the free press has provided important communications to the American people. You could make a long list of famous citizens/heroes who were involved in with the freedom of the press.
American schools have taught our young people for decades on the First Amendment to prevent loss of freedoms and unconstitutional governmental controls. Here is one explanation of freedom of the press in America that covers invasion of privacy, free expression, and access to government information, prior restraint, commercial speech, libel and slander.
I will share two instances in the last half of the 20th century that concerned freedom of the press.
The first story will be the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 (in Cuba). Harrison Salisbury wrote in "Without Fear or Favor," his insider's account of the New York Times: "The government in April 1961 did not … know that The Times was going to publish the Bay Pigs story, although it was aware that the Times reporters and other newsmen were probing in Miami. … The action which the Times took [Bay Pig Story] was on its own responsibility." Salisbury writes there was a lot of internal discussions and deliberations recognizable to anyone familiar with the give-and-take of newsroom decision-making.
But most important, as Salisbury pointed out, "The Times had not killed Bay of Pigs story. The Times believed it was more important to publish than to withhold."
President Kennedy supposedly said, "I wish the Times had published the full story." Today, history writers see President Kennedy's comment as vague and self-serving, an attempt to deflect blame from his administration's first-rate foreign policy disaster.
Second story, Daniel Ellsberg is a former United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers. The Nixon administration went after Mr. Ellsberg with every legal and non-legal action. But in the end, the judge dismissed the case because the "government" had over stepped it bounds.
After reading of the stolen Pentagon Papers, I think most people came to believe that the information contained in the papers should been made public. With death of young men/women in Vietnam, America deserved the right to know what the government was doing or failing to do. Mr. Ellsberg broke his promise for the greater good for America people. On the Ellsberg site on Google, there is a lengthy statement from Mr. Ellsberg about 1971 and now in 2013. In a democracy, we must have people who are willing to do the morally right action rather than ignore the facts.
In any democracy we depend on getting information about our government from the press and news organization. A democracy cannot function when the government controls the information. Freedom of the press and news is essential to a "well-informed" people.
The question is before Americans again. Do we want a free press? I believe history of America demonstrates that freedom of the press is absolute necessity. We want reporters and writers searching for the truth.


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Date: 2:30pm EDT April 6, 2014
Beyond the Line of Blue
Beyond the Line of Blue features tenor Christopher Swanson, the Anderson/Fader Guitar Duo, and Damon Ferrante. American Folk Songs, poems by Walt Whitman and Edgar Allan Poe, Alexander Calder's sculptures, and the paintings of Christopher Engel serve as inspirations for the musical works, which follow a narrative trajectory of intersecting themes about water, surrealism, the passage of time, and the unconscious. The performances also feature films and video projections by Alessandro Bonini. Individual tickets are $20 (adults) and $15 (seniors, students over age 12, and WC faculty/staff). Children 12 and under are free. Season tickets are available, as well.
About the Performers
Anderson/Fader Guitar Duo
For the past 20 years the Anderson/Fader Guitar Duo has been heard in concerts, festivals and Master Classes throughout the U.S., Latin America and Europe, both as a duo and as members of the award-winning Cygnus Ensemble. Guitar Review magazine noted that "Anderson and Fader are expert chamber musicians with a perfect sense of timing, virtuosity and a sensitivity to nuance." Reviewing the Duo's premiere performance of a commissioned work by Milton Babbitt, the NY Times reported that: "His melodies leap freely around the fretboard, and his rhythms are complex and perilous. Yet Mr. Anderson and Mr. Fader played the work from memory, and gave an impressive account of it."
The Duo champions the work of living American composers. The list of composers who have written for the Duo and Cygnus include Babbitt, Bond, Davidovsky, Naito, Rakowski, and others.
Mr. Anderson and Mr. Fader met while in their teens in New York City, as students of the legendary guitarist David Starobin. Now based in New York City, the Duo has performed with many presenters and organizations, most notably with James Levine and the Metropolitan Opera Chamber Players at Zankel Hall, performing the guitar and mandolin parts in Elliott Carter's Luimen. Anderson and Fader, with Cygnus, were in residence at the Library of Congress in the winter of 2012. Ongoing residencies at the CUNY Graduate Center and Sarah Lawrence College give the Duo an opportunity to work with young composers. In addition to classical and electric guitars, the Duo has added mandolin, banjo and theorbo to their instrumentation to accommodate their ever expanding repertoire.
Christopher Swanson
Tenor Christopher Swanson is a co-founder and the Director of Vocal Studies of the Asolo Song Festival. Swanson performs a wide range of repertoire around the United States and in Europe. His operatic roles include Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Ferrando in Così fan tutte, and Eisenstein in Die Fledermaus; as well as leading roles in twentieth century masterpieces such as Britten's The Turn of the Screw, Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress and Robert Ward's The Crucible. Christopher has been recorded on the 2000 Newport Classics release of Gilbert and Sullivan's Princess Ida as well as a 2003 recording of John Eccles's opera Semele, the first complete recording of the opera. Christopher's concert repertoire includes works by Bach, Buxtehude, Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn, Mozart and Carl Orff. A frequent recitalist as well, Christopher has given performances throughout the United States, in Canada and Italy. His repertoire specializes in the Lieder of Schubert and Schumann and songs of Benjamin Britten, but also encompasses a wide range of literature from medieval chant to contemporary twenty-first century composers, and all stops in between.
Dr. Swanson is a published researcher, specializing in the area of vocal interpretation and has presented several lectures and lecture recitals on the topic. He is a co-founder and the Director of Vocal Studies of the Asolo Song Festival. Dr. Swanson holds degrees in music from Michigan State University and University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and has a Doctorate in Music from Florida State University.
A Michigan native, Christopher now lives in Farmville, Virginia with his wife Jennifer and their three children Ellie, Abigail, and Charles. Dr. Swanson is an Assistant Professor of Music at Longwood University.
Damon Ferrante
Damon Ferrante is a composer, guitarist, and music writer with 30 scores and books in print. He has had performances throughout the US and Europe, most notably, Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space, and Guild Hall. Over the next year, he will be on tour in the US, Spain, France, Germany, Italy, and Greece for performances of his music. Some of the artists and groups performing Ferrante's music are Duo Resonances (France), SYREN Modern Dance (US), Cadence Ballet (Canada), the Anderson/Fader Guitar Duo (US), Svetlana Tovstukha (Spain), and Dimitris Kotronakis (Greece). In 2011, he wrote the film scores for Gabriela Jaime's Flor (Spain), Sonya Zolotaryovais's White Winter (Japan), and is working on the scores for several new films. Ferrante was appointed composer-in-residence for Montauk, New York from 2006 to 2010 (funded by New York State Council for the Arts). His successful series brought world-famous composers, such as Mark Adamo, David Del Tredici, Ricky Ian Gordon, and Robert Aldridge, to Montauk for performances and talks on their operas and music. He has been the subject of feature articles in the Baltimore Sun, Baltimore City Paper, The East Hampton Star, and Johns Hopkins Magazine, and has appeared several times on National Public Radio. Ferrante has taught on the music faculties at Seton Hall University and Montclair State University. His scores and books are available on Amazon.com and his recordings are available on iTunes, Amazon, eMusic, and Rhapsody.
Tim Smith of the Baltimore Sun calls Ferrante's music "focused and colorful..with an unexpected, decidedly poetic touch." Geoffrey Himes of Baltimore City Paper states, "If the tune has the elegance of traditional opera, the harmonization is very modern as the vocal lines climb and descend the melodic staircases that Ferrante has constructed for them." Anne Midgette, writing in the New York Times cited Ferrante's opera Jefferson and Poe as one the three operas to see in New York in December; the two other operas listed were productions of La bohème and Carmen at the Met. Mary MacCauley of the Baltimore Sun describes his music as "ebullient and full of shifts of direction." Betsy Murphy of the Ridgewood News calls him "a star on the rise."
In 2003, he founded Steeplechase Arts & Productions, a company integrating innovation, tradition, and collaboration between music and the arts. As director of Steeplechase, Ferrante has presented concerts and operas throughout the United States.
The program will include:
- Beyond the Line of Blue: An Operatic Monodrama with Video Projections, based on the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman, for Tenor Voice and Guitar Duo
- American Folk Songs with Video Projections arranged for Tenor Voice and Guitar Duo
- The Footbridge: A Guitar Duo, inspired sculptures of Alexander Calder
- Divinità Minori: Solo Guitar Pieces with Video Projections, inspired by the paintings of Christopher Engel.
Additional Resources
- Audio files from the Anderson/Fader Duo release, Le Cirgue
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Jonathan McCollum, Ph.D.
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text: Just thought of something else, too. If your clinicals are in different settings/places (for example, different outpatient clinics or different inpatient wards), it never hurts to just ask the staff for help. Like you said, you're probably not the first mama who's doing this! For example, in one clinic I occasionally work in, there's another mama who pumps there and so they had a system set up where someone gives up their office to her and they even had a sign saying "meeting in progress" to put on the door when she's pumping. So when I'm working there they do the same for me. I had to ask, but I've found that people are usually happy to accommodate my pumping needs - it's not something people really talk about but once you tap into the network the resources are there!


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We were thoroughly impressed by the tech powering Microsoft's upgraded Kinect for Xbox One. The new camera uses a new tech: a time-of-flight camera that emits light signals and measures how long it takes for them to return. In conjunction with an infrared sensor, the new Kinect promises to be much more accurate than the original.
While we've yet to see many games take advantage of the new Kinect, it's nonetheless exciting to see the potential afforded by the new camera system. Microsoft Research released new videos showcasing what we got to demo at Redmond earlier this year. Particularly impressive is Kinect's ability to keep track of your pulse and the "muscle man" demo which not only tracks your body, but the amount of force you're exerting as well.


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"Against the Tide" sounds deceptive for the Showtime documentary that premiered at the Cobb Hollywood 16 Friday night, to an invited audience. It's anything but anti-Alabama, painting the program and legendary Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant in golden light.
"Against the Tide" sounds deceptive for the Showtime documentary that premiered at the Cobb Hollywood 16 Friday night, to an invited audience. It's anything but anti-Alabama, painting the program and legendary Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant in golden light.
The title refers instead to those bucking the tide of history in the '60s, fans, alumni and others who had to be sold on the idea of an integrated University of Alabama football team. Those recalcitrant types were won over by a loss, after the University of Southern California Trojans came to Birmingham's Legion Field to open the 1970 season, trouncing the Tide 42-21. It was much worse than the score indicates: If USC Coach Jim McKay hadn't begun subbing starters out in the third quarter, it's suggested, the score could have been 100 to 0.
USC dominated for numerous reasons, chiefly that it was bigger, faster and stronger. That was demonstrated in part by African-American stars such as Sam Cunningham, who ran for 135 yards and two touchdowns on just 12 carries.
As UA star Scott Hunter, who carried the sting of that loss into his pro quarterbacking days — he would look for former USC players in his pro opponents and think, "Today I'm quarterbacking a bigger, faster, stronger team" — notes, after the USC game, fans began saying "We need to get some of them." "Them" being black players. Hunter smiles, in the film, and says the light was finally beginning to dawn.
But, in a repeated refrain, the story was more complex than "black players beat white team."
"The (USC) black players were bigger, strong and faster, and the white players were bigger, stronger and faster," Hunter says in the film. "And if they had any polka-dotted players, they were bigger and stronger and faster."
Still, the take-away for many was that Cunningham and other skill players such as quarterback Jimmy Jones, the first black college football player to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated, had guided the romp over a clearly outmanned 'Bama team.
After the 1970 season, Bryant brought in junior-college transfer John Mitchell, the first black to take the field for Alabama football, and landed running back Wilbur Jackson for the team's first black scholarship player. By the end of the decade — which Alabama dominated, winning 100 games and three national titles — the Tide was as fully integrated as any team in the country.
Myths sprang up around that sultry night, including the hoary legend about Bryant bringing Cunningham into the locker room after the game and saying, "This is what a football player looks like." Hunter makes it clear that never happened. There's also the much-repeated line that Cunningham did more to integrate Alabama, in 60 minutes, than Martin Luther King Jr. did in 20 years, said to have been uttered by either Bryant or one of his assistants. But Taylor Watson of the Bryant Museum has sought in vain to find any verifiable attribution for that quote.
Possibly the tallest of the tales is that Bryant and McKay colluded on the games — a home-and-home contract, where the Tide traveled to Los Angeles in 1971 — specifically to change Southern hearts and minds about integration. Neither Bryant nor McKay remains alive to ask, and the question remains in the air at the end of producer Ross Greenburg's film, even if All-America lineman John Hannah and others remain convinced the Bear knew what would happen.
That plot between two old friends — in off-seasons, Bryant and McKay were golfing and drinking buddies — might contain a seed of truth, although as sports writer Keith Dunnavant points out in the film, the fiercely competitive Bear would never have scheduled a game he thought Alabama would lose.
The picture is just too complex for such simple answers, which is what drew Greenburg to create "Against the Tide." He'd done several minutes on the pivotal game for a different film while at HBO, but realized this tale was worth its own feature-length treatment. "Against the Tide" sets the scene at both UA and USC, contrasting the powerhouse schools and how they changed throughout the '60s.
"We wanted to lay the groundwork for the times, of George Wallace and 'Bull' Connor," said Greenburg, who attended the premiere along with Hunter, former UA fullback Steve Bisceglia, retired federal judge U.W. Clemon (who as a lawyer was representing the Afro-American Student Association at UA in a lawsuit against Bryant, dropped after the team was integrated), Percy Jones, leader of the AASA, and others from Showtime. "We wanted to show the 12 years before, what the Bear was doing in preparation to integrate the team."
Clemon, who inherited the suit from a partner who'd left his law firm, said suing Bryant in 1969 made him "only the most despised person in the state," and that the suit, had it gone to trial, could have been won. But the 1970 game made it unnecessary to carry forward, he said.
"That was when Coach Bryant got religion," Clemon said, laughing.
Hunter agrees with his former teammate Hannah that UA's integration was already in the works, but that the fans had to be won over. Bisceglia noted that Wilbur Jackson was sitting in the stands at the 1970 game.
Some of the film's stars who'd hoped to attend weren't able to attend the premiere, like Joe Namath, who sets the early '60s atmosphere with rich and funny stories about the Bear. McKay's son John McKay Jr. recounts a tale of the coaches' fame, about a night his dad took Bryant to hotspot nightclub Chasen's in Beverly Hills. Frank Sinatra sent a note from the back, saying he'd like Bryant and McKay to come visit his table. Bryant responded "Tell Frank to come on up." McKay says Sinatra showed up 30 seconds later.
Hannah repeatedly pops up in the film to enlighten and lighten, talking about how, even as UA's biggest player, he was tossed around like a ragdoll by USC.
"Golly bum," Hannah says in the film, still laughing about it 43 years later. "It was just, they just...it was scary."
"Against the Tide," narrated by Tom Selleck, will begin airing at 9 p.m. Friday on Showtime.


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Not much has come easily for C. Vivian Stringer during her Hall of Fame coaching career.
So it was fitting that it took her five tries to become the fourth women's basketball coach to have 900 victories. She finally reached the milestone Tuesday night with Rutgers' 68-56 win over South Florida.
"When I look back on my life, this team, probably this year, best reflects what 900 has been," she said. "It helped me to remember that it was never easy. But unless you really have a passion, unless you really know how fortunate you are not to have had a lot of major injuries to a lot of players, which is what happened to this team, and unless you remember how fortunate you are to be able to get to those special places."
Stringer joined Pat Summitt, Jody Conradt and Sylvia Hatchell in the exclusive club. Maybe a half dozen more women's coaches might gain entrance over the next few years. Only three Division I men's coaches have reached 900 victories: Mike Krzyzewski, Bob Knight and Jim Boeheim.
"I am fortunate to call Vivian my friend and could not be happier that she has reached the 900-win milestone in her career. I have great respect and admiration for Vivian and consider her one of the great pioneers of our game," Summitt said in a statement. "She has had an incredible journey, and I hope she adds many more to her 'W' column!"
Stringer, who was the first coach in men's or women's basketball to take three different schools to the Final Four — including Rutgers in 2000 and '07 — fought back tears as her team celebrated their coach's achievement.
"I think it's beyond words," said Stringer, whose record stands at 900-330 in 42 seasons. "I'm happy that it's over. I can hardly breathe. It's over and now I can just coach and smile, and get back to what I love to do because it's never been about numbers."
During the four-game losing streak, Stringer admitted she was tired of talking about when she'd get No. 900. She was getting worn out by it, even snapping at reporters during a media session.
Her demeanor changed after a loss to St. John's on Saturday, the game before Tuesday's landmark victory. Stringer said she received a call from Hatchell, who reached 900 wins on Feb. 7.
The longtime friends talked about the pressures their players faced while trying to get that 900th win. It took Hatchell's team two tries to get her that victory.
"She is probably one of the few people I would talk to about it," Stringer said, "and she was just saying it was highly stressful for her, too. Finally when they were over it, (the players) were much better because they were really uptight."
With the weight of the milestone lifted, Stringer can only hope her team will use it as a springboard for the rest of the season. Stringer, in her 18th season at Rutgers, has been focused on making an 11th-straight trip to the NCAA tournament. Beating a surging South Florida team will definitely help the Scarlet Knights' resume.
"Everything will take care of itself," Stringer said, dismissing a question related to her team's postseason fate. "This was a major win, and it's important to win down the (stretch) as it is right now."
The Scarlet Knights (15-12, 6-8 Big East), who are 10th in the conference, finish off the regular season against Cincinnati and Pittsburgh — two of the bottom teams in the league.
As the game ended, a crowd of 1,304 at the Rutgers Athletic Center saluted Stringer with chants of "900" and "C-V-S" and Scarlet Knights athletic director Tim Pernetti was among the first to greet her with a framed No. 900 jersey. Rutgers' cheerleaders unfurled a banner that read "Congratulations Coach Stringer - 900 wins," and her players took turns hugging their emotional coach at midcourt.
"If it's something special for all the generations of players and coaches that I've been a part of, then, yeah, I'm happy," she said. "But I'm looking forward to more."
Rutgers had lost four straight games since beating Cincinnati for Stringer's 899th career victory.
"It's more than a game, it's about a preparation for life," said Stringer, who is in her 18th season at Rutgers. "It's about understanding that when things are rough you may get knocked down and there may be doubters but you'll still rise."
Senior guard Erica Wheeler scored 24 points to lead Rutgers.
"It's almost a little heartbreaking because she gives her heart out when she coaches," Wheeler said. "So to not get her that 900th win as soon as we needed to, I cried a couple times at night. It was important tonight to definitely get her that win."
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I'm going to Kili in the end of October, and I'm thinking of doing the Western Breach route. Which equipement is needed, beside normal gear? I've seen helmet and crampons in in equipement-lists. What about ice axes? The thing is that we will be carrying everything for ourselfs, so obviously, we want to keep the weight down. Is e.g. crampons really necessary? How much of glacier walk is there? Helmet though, I can understand.
Regards /Joel


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WHAT: Join the industry's largest professional event at the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) 2007 Annual Meeting and EXPO. Featuring Former Vice President Al Gore, Honorary ASLA, as the closing general session speaker, visitors can explore hundreds of innovative products and technologies for gardens, playgrounds, green roofs, and more. Learn from the world's leaders who meld the built and natural environments.
The Annual Meeting and EXPO takes place October 6-9, 2007 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, CA. To learn more, visit www.asla.org/meetings/am2007/.
MEDIA: Press will have the opportunity to interview some of the world's leading experts about the latest trends in residential design, green roofs, sustainability, and more. Additionally, spots are available for sold out tours and field sessions featuring award winning landscape architects and projects. Some examples include:
Registered press will receive access to ASLA's working press room and complimentary registration. For more information on press credentials, contact Jim Lapides at 202-216-2317 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Karen T. GrajalesManager, Public Relations tel: firstname.lastname@example.com @ktgrajales


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PANSY DIVISION's fifth album collects several years of singles, compilation tracks, unreleased versions of other songs and rare demos, puts them all together in a nice pie-flavored package, and bakes them till it's just right. 21 songs, all previously unavailable on CD. Direct from the band's personal stock!
"More Lovin' From Our Oven, the second compilation of singles and rarities from homocore punks Pansy Division, proves once again that their non-album efforts are just as vital and exciting as their full-lengths. This collection features more alternative versions of album songs than the first compilation, ("Pile Up"), but the Pansies make it worthwhile by choosing unique renditions -- "Fem in a Black Leather Jacket" and "The Story So Far" are pulled from frontman Jon Ginoli's pre-Pansy cassette demo, while "The Summer You Let Your Hair Grow Out" and "Negative Queen" are creatively reworked without the predictable jangle of Ginoli's electric guitar. There's no shortage of eclectic cover tunes this time around, as the band tinkers with songs by '70s anthem rockers Kiss ("Sweet Pain") and Judas Priest ("Breaking the Law"), as well as indie rock girl trio Maow and new wave singer Josie Cotton. As with Pile Up, the collection is impressively cohesive as Pansy Division toys with a larger variety of styles and tempos, maintaining a firm grip on the endearing and energetic pop-rock-punk sound that has always set the band apart from its Lookout counterparts."- All Music Guide


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A Lasting Legacy: The Doug M. Williams '85 Memorial Scholarship
The start of the Second Annual Doug Williams Memorial Race, 9/29/13
On September 29, 2013, nearly 250 runners took part in a special 5,000 meter run, the second annual Doug Williams Memorial Race. Established in honor and memory of Doug M. Williams '85, a graduate of Montclair State's School of Business, the race took place for the second year in a row on the grounds of the Montclair Art Museum. The race raised funds for the Doug M. Williams '85 Memorial Scholarship.
"We had a wonderful turnout for the Second Annual Doug Williams Memorial 5000 Meter Run, including many of Doug's fellow runners, his friends, co-workers and his immediate family," said David Morrow, a close friend of Doug's who is the race co-organizer and the Scholarship Fund administrator. "Our post-race ceremonies included awards, Starbucks coffee and bagels and Magic Hat Beer, which was Doug's favorite, he would have loved it all."
Doug Williams was a lifelong resident of Montclair and an avid member of The Essex Running Club. He ran in several world-class marathons during his life, including Boston, Chicago, New York City, and the Marine Corps Marathon. He studied business at Montclair State University, after which he began a 25-year career at Milliman, Inc. He was tragically struck and killed in a hit-and-run accident while walking home on October 9, 2011.
His friends and fellow runners organized the memorial run as a way to honor Doug and keep his memory alive through the lasting legacy of the Doug M. Williams Memorial Scholarship. "Doug's gentle, unassuming spirit, which was so suddenly and tragically taken from his family and friends, was the inspiration for establishing a memorial to his life, in the form of this Scholarship Fund at his alma mater," Morrow shares. "It has become an opportunity to support a person of need to follow their own path of through the Montclair State School of Business, as Doug did, hopefully leading to future success."
The first Williams Scholarship was awarded for this academic year to Bridget Uribe, an accounting major and the daughter of Peruvian immigrants who always reminded her of the critical importance of education.
"The Doug M. Williams Scholarship has not only given me a monetary value to continue my education, but more importantly the realization that others believe in me and recognize all the hard work I put into my education," Bridget shares. "I am more determined than ever to work to the best of my ability for the people who believe in me."
Bridget Uribe
Bridget intends to take part in Montclair State's new five-year Accounting BS/MA program. She was recently selected for a tax internship at Royal DSM in Parsippany, NJ, a global science-based company active in health, nutrition and materials. An outstanding student, she was also recently nominated to be a member of the Golden Key International Honor Society, awarded to students who are in the top 15% of their graduating class. Bridget is also an active member of Alpha Delta Lambda honor society and the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, as well as a member of the Dean's List every semester since she began her studies at Montclair State. She has volunteered as a medical assistant in a nursing home and works part-time during school.
"There are not enough words for me to explain the sincere gratitude I feel in receiving this award," says Bridget, a Kearny resident. "The Doug M. Williams Memorial Scholarship has helped me take one step closer in reaching my goals and dreams." She plans to specialize in the field of taxation after graduation, and her dream is to have a career in one of the Big Four accounting firms and to eventually make partner.
"Through the years Doug's active involvement in the Essex Running Club, houses at the Jersey Shore, and ski houses in Vermont, he touched many lives and built a wide array of friends who cared for him," Morrow says. "The establishment of an annual race in his name and the Scholarship Fund in his memory is borne of our mutual longstanding friendship and affection for him. His subtle humor and gentle spirit is one to remember and celebrate. "
"This event could not have come off without the efforts of our Race Director, Dan Murphy, my fellow co-chair of the Scholarship Fund, Maureen O'Brien, our volunteers and our generous sponsors, Tierney's Tavern, Fette Ford, Boiling Springs Bank, Starbucks Montclair, Fleet Feet Montclair, Amanti Vino Wine, North American Breweries, Wilshire Enterprises, Milliman, Inc., and Proactive Sports Therapy," Mr. Morrow adds.
Thanks to the generosity and loyalty of Doug Williams' family and friends, hard-working business students such as Bridget will be able to pursue their dream of a college education at Doug's alma mater.
To make a donation to the Doug M. Williams '85 Memorial Scholarship, please visit our secure online Giving site. For more information about the Doug M. Williams '85 Memorial Scholarship or to establish a similar tribute scholarship in memory of a loved one or friend, please contact Anne M. Murray, Development Officer for the School of Business, at 973-655-3129 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Wells / Buehrle -- Wakefield / Garland -- Clement / Hernandez. The two teams split a four-game series in late July (6-5, 4-8, 3-0, 4-6). ... The Boston bats are hot: they've scored at least eight runs in eight of their last 12 victories.
Tony Massarotti says "let us set aside all the talk of Manny being Manny" and then quotes some impressive stats -- but Ramirez's hitting is a huge part (to me) of what makes Manny Manny.
Fact: Ramirez is the best run producer in baseball history, per at-bat, since Ted Williams. During last month's All-Star Game, Fox-TV revealed that Ramirez had the sixth-highest at-bat-to-RBI ratio in history, behind only Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Hank Greenberg, Jimmie Foxx and Williams. Not a single one of those men has played since 1960.This ratio -- which is very impressive -- is still context-driven; I'd like to see Manny's RBI numbers re: actual RBI opportunities. ... Manny has 107 RBI in 105 games this year -- he could become the first Red Sox player to knock in more than 150 runs since Ted Williams and Vern Stephens each had 159 in 1949. ... Nick Cafardo looks at Ramirez's MVP chances.
Keith Foulke enjoyed his most productive day of his rehab on Wednesday, throwing 35 pitches off the bullpen mound. He also took about 20 long toss throws. "To go from not being able to walk up a flight of stairs post surgery, to throwing off the mound in three weeks is good progress. ... The last three or four days have been really good, but my leg is tired ... When I come back, you'll see that I'm throwing better and I'm stronger." Foulke will throw on flat ground today and return to the mound Saturday.
Cafardo also writes: "According to a team source, one scenario the Sox are considering is to release second baseman Mark Bellhorn after his 20-day rehab stint at Pawtucket, get him through waivers, and then outright him to Pawtucket and call him up when rosters are expanded Sept. 1." ... Gabe Kapler is glad to be "home". ... An update on AA ace Jon Lester.
A look at the guys who work in the Sox clubhouse. ... David Ortiz leads the AL with 72 walks, three shy of his career best last year. It's great to see him taking a walk, rather than trying to hit pitches out of the zone. ... Craig Hansen was promoted to Double A Portland from the Gulf Coast rookie league.
The tentative schedule for 2006: Boston begins the season in Texas on Monday, April 3; its home opener will be against Tampa Bay on April 10. The first four series against the Yankees (May 1-2, May 9-11, May 22-24, and June 6-8) will include no weekend games. The Sox also host the Mets on June 27-29.


text: I was thinking it might be kind of cool to get 4.20.12 stitched or pressed on the jerseys in small type right under the bud crest. It's just insanely awesome to me that my first Coachella is going down on 4.20 and would love to have this noted on the shirts, as well as the year in case this becomes an annual tradition. Lots of growth potential here, if stuff is organized enough people will latch on. We could have a Thursday soccer tourney in a couple years.


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Nobody's ever going to mistake one of these big rigs for a sports car, but it would be nice if changing lanes in one didn't make you have visions of driving a semi truck.
People who buy heavy-duty trucks like this GMC Sierra Heavy Duty don't have any expectations about taking on Mazda Miatas on a race track. But they might appreciate communicative steering that allows for easy handling when the worksite is down a twisty road or when it's time to quickly change lanes on the freeway.
There's no getting around the fact that a 7,387-pound 259-inch-long truck is ponderous. Make it a "dualie" – double rear wheels – and it gets even more difficult. Parking it is always a chore, usually requiring a three-point turn.
But everything is relative. Relative to Ford, the other major player at the top of the heavy duty heap, GM's trucks seems somewhat easier to maneuver.


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Marseille coach Elie Baup has confirmed the club are in talks with QPR midfielder Joey Barton, but that a move has yet to be agreed.
The 29-year-old has been linked with a loan move to the Ligue 1 outfit in recent weeks, having been frozen out at Loftus Road. Rangers manager Mark Hughes did not even give him a squad number for this season following his red card against Manchester City on the last day of last term, and subsequent 12-match ban.
Barton flew to France on Wednesday and Baup told OM's website: "Joey Barton is in the building. I don't know if it will be finalised today or how it will turn out."
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Project Manager Office - Fleet - £40k to £55k
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An experienced Project Manager Office/ PMO professional interested in creating the Project Governance framework & process for a client within the financial services sector? You'll take a lead role in embedding the governance process and ensuring the process runs efficiently to ensure business change is managed effectively.
Reporting to the Head of Business Change you will be concentrate on the following areas:
- Create Project Governance Framework
- Create Project Governance process and embed within the business
- Work with the business to ensure business change is delivered following the Project Governance process
- To develop and maintain project plans, budgets and project reports.
- To work with the business and IT in defining the scope, timelines, technical resources required to deliver projects.
- To monitor, track and manage the progress of projects through to successful completion.
- To report on the progress of projects and to keep all stakeholders updated on progress.
- To manage a log of the issues and risks associated with each project.
- To provide regular update reports to senior management and stakeholders on the progress of projects
Your experience:
- Experienced in a PMO function and setting up project governance frameworks and processes.
- Experience of the effective planning and management of projects within timescale and budget.
- Strong relationship building skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and experience of presenting to senior management
- Experience of the facilitation of activities and workshops
If you have a track record in a Project Manager Office/ PMO role and are interested in learning more about this role please get in contact. To apply for this Project Manager Office/ PMO role please pass on a copy of your CV and I will in be contact to discuss further.
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97% of the United States is "fly over" country.
Yup, the instruments on board typical spy satellites and imaging satellites (e.g. geoeye) are designed to just take sharp pictures in the visible for mapping and object detection. The landsat instruments are lower resolution over a wider band (visible through thermal IR), and are designed to provide data for agriculture, geology, forestry, regional planning, education, mapping, and global change research (from the landsat about page).... so yes.. it does significantly augment our understanding of what Ear
These multispectral images are a lot more useful for finding where you stoners are growing your pot.
I live in Washington, I can grow it in my front yard if I want to! Of course then I'd have the neighbor kids stomping through the iris bed, so it has to stay inside.
This is a picture of Colorado. We can grow it in our front lawns here, too!
These pictures continue our 40-year record of watching the Earth. Because Landsat has such a complete record, we gain a lot of understanding about how the Earth changes with the seasons and over time. LDCM will enable us to continue that record out into the future. So yes, these pictures will help a lot.
Disclaimer: I work on the LDCM project, and in fact I created that first PR image. It's a shame they chose Colorado because the OLI (Operational Land Imager) instrument was built there. We are looking at some stunning images, and the new data this instrument is collecting will knock scientists' socks off for years to come.
Heard a rumor you took at least one really cool picture of the moon with it too. Can you confirm or deny?
The first Lunar image was yesterday (3/26). It's pretty cool from a calibration standpoint, but don't expect to ever see that image. It's not meant for public consumption, and most people wouldn't consider it a very good snapshot of the moon. It's stretched and the image is small so not many details can be seen. As a calibration source, however, it's exactly what we wanted.
How do these images compare to the absurdly high resolution images provided by the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter? The PR images look fairly small scale.
It's always struck me a bit odd that we seem to have vastly higher resolution pictures of Mars from space than we do of Earth; and Earth's, like, right here...
HiRISE has 0.3 meter resolution, so about 100x that of the Landsat sensors. However, HiRISE only has three bands -- green-blue, red, and a near-IR band. The new LDCM satellite has 12 bands, so it collects a lot more spectral information.
Spatial resolution is easy. Spy satellites have had absurd spatial resolution for decades. Spectral bandwidth is hard.
Something others didn't mention is that this is SATELLITE data, not data from aerial photos.
When you look at Google Maps "satellite" view you are likely looking at a photo taken by a plane. Obviously it is much easier to get a high-resolution photo of a house from a plane a mile or two up than from a satellite 350 miles up.
Satellite photos have the advantage of being easier to acquire more regularly. The satellite flies over the country every day whether you need a photo or not. It will never be able to compete with a photo taken from a plane, let alone one taken from the ground. These are technologies that solve different problems.
There is definitely a use for regular civilian satellite images of the entire Earth's surface.
No, but they show we're getting better at incrementally and usefully augmenting our ability to discern and watch changes in, for example different flora and how they fare - useful data indeed relating to their overall health, water management, degree of susceptibility to wildfire, blight and other microbial and insect predations, and a raft of stuff I don't know about or have forgotten. That's just the plants part. I'm old enough to remember when the first Landsats were put up; data returned was eye-openi
Why not add a link to the actual images on NASA's stie, instead of a fucking link to some ad/tracking/whoring site like Gizmodo?
Nasa's own website is more timely as well - images were posted last Friday on Earth Observatory's Image of the Day.
Should we go in and attack?
I guess that John Denver wasn't so full of shit after all, man.
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On Queen and Country at 7 pm Sunday presenter Trevor McDonald as he reports on the tradition of Changing the Guard at Buckingham Palace and visits Horseguards to meet the man who is in charge of the troops who guard the queen.
Before Inspector Lewis, there was Inspector Morse, and before Inspector Morse, there was the rookie Constable Morse, fed up with police work and ready to nip his career in the bud by handing in his resignation. That is, until a murder turned up that only he could solve on Masterpiece Mystery! at 8 pm Sunday.
Mysterious Lost State of Franklin at 9:30 pm Sunday looks at the end of the American Revolution as frontier settlers beyond the Appalachian mountains broke away from North Carolina to form their own government.
Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work at 9 pm on Monday tells the story of four party guests as they savor each moment of a Garden Party at Buckingham Palace
Manifest Destiny at 10 pm on Monday focuses on the Spanish-American War of 1898 when the United States under President William McKinley and Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.
On Michael Wood's Story of England at 7 pm Tuesday historians recover the lost history of the first thousand years of Kibworth, featuring a Roman villa, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, and evidence of life after the Norman Conquest. Michael Wood's Story of England at 8 pm Tuesday charts events in the village leading to the people's involvement in the Civil War of Simon de Montfort and follow the story of Kibworth as it reaches the catastrophic 14th century.
In an encore presentation from the acclaimed series "Money, Power and Wall Street," Frontline at 9 pm Tuesday explores how an "epidemic of greed" spread from financial institutions in the United States to Europe and back.'
On Story at 10 pm Tuesday features Academy Award-winning director Sydney Pollack and NYPD Blue and Deadwood creator David Milch discuss the inspiration behind creating classic film and television characters.
A Capitol Fourth at 7 pm and 8:30 pm on Wednesday features live musical performances by some of the country's best known and award-winning musicians in performance with the National Symphony Orchestra.
Songwriting legend Randy Newman takes the ACL stage with a selection of his greatest tunes on Austin City Limits at 9 pm Wednesday and 10:30 pm Friday.
Evan Smith talks with writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel on Overheard with Evan Smith on Thursday at 7 pm.
Trouble Puppet Theater takes Arts In Context on Thursday at 7:30 pm on a journey into the art of puppetry as the company produces one of their unique plays led by creative director and master puppeteer Connor Hopkins
At 8 pm on Thursday documentary Operation Appreciation features the volunteers as they collect cookies, brownies and doughnuts from local stores, and baked goods made by people in the community to distribute at the Army base.
Follow The Daytripper at 8:30 pm Thursday as he heads to South Padre Island to build sandcastles, snorkel the bay, and bungee jump.
Filmmaker Ian Cheney embarks on a journey to America's brightest and darkest corners on POV at 9 pm Thursday.
At 7 pm Friday Gwen Ifill hosts PBS' longest-running public affairs series, Washington Week , features Washington's top journalists analyzing the week's top news stories and their effect on the lives of all Americans.
Need to Know on Friday at 7:30 pm features an integrated broadcast and online current affairs project, uniting broadcast and web in an innovative approach to newsgathering and reporting.
Join host Bill Moyers and a range of guests for in-depth conversations about life and the state of American democracy on Moyers and Company at 8 pm Friday.
Islamic Art: Mirror of the Invisible World celebrates the artistic legacy of the Muslim world at 9 pm on Friday.
Austin City Limits at 7 pm Saturday presents songwriting genius Elvis Costello returns to ACL to showcase songs from his latest, Americana-influenced record Secret, Profane and Sugarcane. Austin's rootsy songwriting collective the Band of Heathens follows.
Sir Charles Cartwright hosts a cocktail party at his home where a local Reverend chokes to death. Murder seems impossible, but when a second guest dies under similar circumstances, the Belgian sleuth investigates further on Masterpiece Mystery! at 8 pm Saturday.
On Doc Martin at 9 pm on Saturday Dr. Ellingham asks Louisa to move into his house so he can help to raise their child.


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Tepees are great fun for outdoor and indoor play!
As we've found out, they also can be an abode for curious pets....
If you are studying Native Americans this year, you can work on creating a more authentic tepee and and incorporate this into lessons.
Learning how to do knots and lashing to create a sturdy frame is wonderful, too! Look at scouting manuals for help.
Maybe sleep in it overnight?
Play clips, yarn, twine and clothespins are helpful if you want to reuse the silks or fabric.
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A lot can happen in more than 100 years.
For Ouida (Fletcher) Simmons, that 101 years seems to have gone by in a blink.
Now living at Valley View Villa in Fort Morgan, Simmons was born June 15, 1913, in Denver.
Her father, Berton Fletcher, once worked for the assessor's office in Fort Morgan, and her mother was Eudora "Dodie" King Fletcher.
Ouida's early years saw a lot of change — and quickly.
Younger years
Initially, she lived in Colorado Spring with her family. But when her mother died in 1920, it was off to a Catholic convent for her.
She lived at the Home of the Good Shepherd in Denver for one year and four months and remembers that time quite well, unfortunately.
For example, the food must not have been very good.
"When I lived in the convent, I wanted to be a nun — because they got to eat so much better than us," she said.
Her daughter-in-law, Alberta Simmons, said she was glad Ouida did not become a nun.
"Then I never would have got to meet Rod!" she exclaimed at her mother-in-law's statement.
Ouida was not finished talking about the horrors of life in the convent, though.
"If I got punished, I might have to sleep on the floor, and there were cockroaches," she said.
Ouida was surprised by the memories that stirred up when she put her mind to thinking about it.
"Some of those things I haven't thought about in a lot of years," she said, shaking her head.
After the convent, her cousins took her in and she lived with Ola Bartlett and family between Merino and Atwood.
She went to school in Atwood, which at that time had a full school program.
Ouida sang in a trio when she was in school, and she got to do some travelling around the area with the singing group.
She graduated from Atwood High School in 1930, and she got involved with the Young Women's Club in Merino.
"I was very active in that," she recalled.
She also went to business college in Sterling, which was located in "rooms above the drugstore." She learned shorthand, which she still remembers but never really used since she did not go to work as secretary.
"My cousin raised us and said she'd put us through school, but after that, it was up to us," Ouida recalled. "What I could afford was business college in Sterling."
Raising a family
The following year, she got married to Chester E. "Ted" Simmons, a farmer, on June 18, 1931.
They met because Ted came to work for her relatives on the farm after her cousin's husband "was killed when a horse fell on him," Ouida recalled. "She had to hire someone to get the beets."
Ted came to live with them and did the farming.
"One thing led to another, until eventually we were married," Ouida said, a slight blush appearing on her cheeks.
The couple was married for 60 years, until Ted died in 1991 of age-related health complications.
Over the course of their 60 years together, they raised four children, including youngest son Larry, who died as a baby in May 1945.
But daughters Shirley and Donna and son Rodney are still alive today, with families of their own.
Ouida now has: nine grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; including one who died; nine great-great-grandchildren, including who who died; three step-great-grandchildren, including one who died; four step-great-great-grandchildren; and one step-great-great-great-grandchild.
While she does not get to see all these descendants often, seeing pictures of them, hearing stories about them and knowing they're out there brings her happiness.
While her children were growing up, Ouida was a stay-at-home mom and farm wife, who milked the dairy cows twice a day.
Initially, they farmed at Atwood, but after they had baby Shirley in 1932 they moved to a farm closer to Merino.
Second daughter Donna was born in Merino in 1938.
By 1941, they had moved to Fort Morgan, but son Rodney was born in the hospital in Sterling.
Their final son, Larry was born in 1944, but he died of childhood pneumonia only about five months later. A troubled, pinched look came over Ouida's face at his memory.
"I can remember we was in the hospital, and I didn't dare touch him," she said. "I remember sitting there until he died. He was just five months old."
But she quickly moved on from the difficult memory, noting that her other three children were still alive and well.
In 1946, the family moved to a house on Long Bridge Road, which was where Ouida lived until Ted's death in 1991.
After that, she moved to Fort Morgan to a house on West Beaver Avenue.
Already in her 90s, she moved to the Bee Hive Assisted Living in Fort Morgan in 2004.
In fall 2013, she moved to Valley View Villa care center, where she still lives today.
Making cakes
One of Ouida's passions was making cakes.
She even was able to turn that passion into a business, making cakes not just for fun but for other people's celebrations and getting paid to do it.
That started in 1958, when she made her first wedding cake to sell.
Ouida said she "just started cooking when my cousin started teaching me."
She found recipes and experimented with them, including cakes, which she found to be fun.
"She's been a good cook all of her life," Rodney said.
"We didn't have to worry about our kids having birthday cakes — she made them all," his wife, Alberta Simmons, said, laughing.
Those cakes came in all shapes and sizes, with all of them being Ouida's creations.
There were trains, bunnies, castles, doll cakes, graduation hat cakes and lots more.
"The kids always had very unique birthday cakes," Alberta said. "I didn't have to make cakes."
"There were cakes of all kinds," Ouida said, smiling at the memories of making all these cakes in her various kitchens over the years.
But the wedding cakes were her specialty.
"Wedding cakes were always white cakes, and they usually were five-tiered," Ouida recalled.
She even made her daughter Donna's wedding cake, travelling to Fort Collins in 1958 to make it.
But Ouida's reputation for making cakes is still something people talk about today.
"Every time I turn around and am talking to somebody, they say, 'Your mother made our wedding cake,'" Rodney said. "There are an awful lot of people in the county that she made cakes for, and some out of the county, too."
"I just enjoyed trying to make them original," Ouida said. "Just the very fact that they came out good" was enough to make her happy.
Other passions
Ouida also is passionate about baseball and football and roots for the Rockies and Broncos.
"I like baseball and football and horse racing if I can find it," she said. "I watch all kinds of sports."
She also read a lot, but mostly magazines these days instead of books.
She also enjoys reading newspapers, including The Fort Morgan Times, so she can keep up with local happenings.
"We gave her a Fort Morgan Times subscription for her birthday," Alberta said.
"I'm glad they gave it to me," Ouida said. "It keeps me up on things. And when I get through with it, I give it around (Valley View Villa) so they get to see it, too."
While she does not watch very many TV shows, she does enjoy game shows, such as "The Price Is Right."
At Valley View Villa, she participates in the regular bingo and sing-alongs.
Ouida used to do a lot of crocheting, making baby caps for the newborns and infants at Colorado Plains Medical Center. She did that until last May, when it got to be too hard on her hands.
"Little skull caps, caps for babies... she made hundreds of those things," Rodney recalled.
"She enjoyed doing that," Alberta said. "It kept her hands moving."
"I think I learned to crochet when my sister and I were in the Catholic convent," Ouida said.
She said she liked making the little caps because it "helps the babies and keeps them from getting mixed up with other people's babies."
Ouida also used to crochet hats for people at the area senior centers.
At 101 years old, Ouida does not know what the future holds for her or how long she has left.
But her goal is pretty simple: "Just to continue, to have a lively life."
She said she wants to "be able to continue to do things."
Luckily for her, she is still remarkably healthy for her age.
"I've been pretty healthy," she agreed. "I think about the biggest thing I've ever had wrong was I had my tonsils out. I've had good health."
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I love researching in old newspapers - especially the ones that are digitized and searchable. It's amazing what you can find to fill in the details of an ancestor's life - especially if they lived in a relatively small town where the local paper printed "personal" news from every little community in the area. Over the next few weeks, I'll be sharing some of the things I've found in newspapers that I likely would never have discovered any other way.
From the Mt. Vernon Signal, Mt. Vernon, Rockcastle County, Kentucky:
10 Jul 1908: "Mrs. M. C. Owens, who has been sick for the past fifteen months, is no better."
13 Nov 1908: "Mrs. M. C. Owens, of the Freedom section, is very low and we understand that there is no chance for her recovery."
Celia Owens (my 2nd great-grandmother and wife of Madison Crawford Owens) died on 18 Nov 1908. Death certificates weren't kept at that time in Kentucky so I don't know the cause of her death but these clips tell me that she had been sick for about 19 months before she died.
23 Jul 1909: "Miss Gracie Taylor, who has been very sick with malaria fever is better."
No one ever mentioned that my grandmother's sister, Gracie, had malaria when she was 22 years old.
These clips were found using the searchable newspaper collection at Kentuckiana Digital Library. Kentucky papers in this collection are also available through the Library of Congress' Chronicling America. (Both of these sites are free.)


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What You Need to Know About 'American Idol' Hopeful Britnee Kellogg and Her Ex-Husband
'American Idol' hopeful Britnee Kellogg turned in an impressive performance of 'You're No Good,' since it was fraught with emotion over her personal circumstances. She is a 27-year-old single mom with two boys, who was married to a basketball player whose needs she put ahead of her own. His name is Matt Conboy, and was apparently a philanderer who eventually cheated, rubbing a big dash of salt in her fresh wounds. The show made him sound like he was an NBA player a la LeBron James, but we did a little digging, and we think this is the guy.
But Kellogg is pursuing her dreams, with her boys in tow. She has resume ripe for a show like 'Idol, having been named Miss Washington Jr. Teen. She was on a radio contest where she sang like Taylor Swift. She got to meet Swift, who offered her some key advice. "She basically said I need to be in Nashville and just give it everything I have and never give up," the pretty blonde told The Columbian.
She is toiling away, working at Nordstrom during the day and gigging at night. She said, "Every time I sing, I go to a different place, and I don't have to think about anything else."
Kellogg did ask judge Jennifer Lopez for advice since she is a mom juggling a lot of jobs and two kids, so an instant kinship formed there. Shame on that hoops-playing hubby for letting her go. She's a keeper.


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NEW YORK, N.Y. — A tentative agreement was reached Sunday between the National Hockey League and the National Hockey League Players' Association, according to a report by ESPN.
The 2012-13 NHL season has been delayed by a dispute about the expired collective bargaining agreement between owners and players.
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and National Hockey League Players Association Executive Director Donald Fehr announced Sunday morning that a framework was in place for a new collective bargaining agreement.
"We still have a lot of work to do," Bettman said in a statement, "but it's good to be at this point."
Any deal will require language clarification, legal fine-tuning and ratification from both sides, although the parties said a verbal agreement has been reached on the major points.
Nearly half of the scheduled 80-game regular season already has been canceled due to the dispute.
After almost four months of the lockout, the league is expected to play a 50-game schedule starting Jan. 19 if this deal were approved.
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