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Montville sex offender facility only one of its kind in state
Montville - Seven months after a residential sex-offender treatment facility opened to the dismay of many people here, those who work at the facility say they have seen evidence it is helping offenders reintegrate safely back into society.
The January Center, on the grounds of Corrigan-Radgowski Correctional Institution, uses intensive therapy to treat moderate and moderately high-risk sexual offenders.
It is the first of its kind in the state. The staff and even a state victim advocate say it has provided a place for sex offenders who otherwise likely would be homeless and present a risk to communities.
One goal is to create an environment where sex offenders can feel a sense of a therapeutic community as they receive treatment, said Martina Kardoll, a therapist who works at the facility. Another is to house sex offenders as they prepare to rejoin society.
"This provides them an initial period of stability," said Eric Ellison, a parole manager with the Department of Correction who helps determine which offenders are recommended for the program. "We think we're having very favorable outcomes with our model. This program is really giving offenders an excellent start on their transition into the community."
The January Center is run by The Connection Inc., a subcontracted human services agency, and is funded by the state's Department of Correction and Court Support Services Division.
It cost $1.7 million to build, according to the DOC, and the state spends $135,676 per month to run the facility, which works out to about $5,653 per client per month. That's about twice as much as the $2,880 per month it costs to house an inmate in a state prison, according to the DOC.
'New beginnings'
The January Center's name was crafted to reflect the theme of "new beginnings." From the outside, it is difficult to picture the facility, open since Feb. 14, as a residence for 24 men. It is rather small at approximately 5,000 square feet. Sitting on a hill above Corrigan, it is surrounded by 12-foot chain-link fences topped with razor wire.
All doors are equipped with security alarms, and cameras are mounted throughout the facility and its grounds. Those entering a front gate must first be cleared by security personnel. Inside the front door, everyone must pass through a metal detector and the belongings of all the "clients" are searched.
Separate hallways lead to two wings where clients sleep. One is for those finishing their prison sentences and the other is for those on probation.
Men sleep two to a room and have twin beds and modestly sized living areas. Some rooms have computers but Internet activity is prohibited, staff said.
A separate wing is equipped with meeting rooms where clients gather for therapy and group sessions. A poster hangs on a wall with the message, "Each and every step you take must move you toward your goal." The words are separated by a picture of a ladder pointing upward.
There is also an open common area that doubles as a cafeteria where the men eat three meals each day and participate in leisure activities.
A large flat screen TV is mounted on the wall in the common area. On a recent afternoon, one client used a computer while another sat at a round table reading "Towers of Midnight," a fantasy novel. All entertainment - reading material, DVDs, video games, music - is pre-approved by staff.
The clients prepare and cook their own meals and staff speak highly of the baking skills of a few men. On a recent afternoon, three men were preparing kielbasa and potato salad for dinner.
Clients also are required to perform other "community tasks," including cleaning, outdoor maintenance, laundry, gardening and inventory of supplies.
More intensive treatment
Sex offenders are interviewed six months prior to their release from prison, and DOC staff assess their risk of repeating sexual offenses. The state also assesses their future living situations and, if no shelter or other accommodations can be found, the January Center becomes an option.
Staff interview potential clients four months before their release from prison to identify those who likely would be receptive to the program. Treatment is designed on an individual basis, and the people who run and monitor the program said procedures and protocol mirror an outpatient model used across the state.
It calls for the parole and probation offices to work closely with Connection Inc. staff and other state agencies to prevent future sex crimes among convicted sex offenders.
The main difference is The January Center allows for more intensive treatment. Clients stay an average of three to six months. Each has therapy three to seven times per week, said Kardoll, the therapist. She said offenders outside the program might have treatment only once a week after their release from prison.
The January Center also aims to provide an environment that will allow clients to open up about their pasts and sexual offenses.
"I think it's easier for them to talk about their offenses while they're here," said William Anselmo, a sex offender specialist and chief probation officer with the state who works closely with The January Center, "as opposed to receiving in-patient treatment while they're in (prison). There is not that wall that they put up. … They know everyone else here has done something similar."
Program manager Melissa Bonafe said clients meet once a week with case managers who work on identifying housing and employment options in their home communities. Clients also are supervised when taking their medications and are escorted by staff to psychiatric and medical appointments. Otherwise, they are not allowed off the center's grounds.
Staff said The January Center system allows for close monitoring in the initial months after an offender is released from prison. Many professionals consider this to be the most likely period in which offenders would commit a violation of probation or repeat their crimes.
Dr. Jan Lyons Walker, a clinical director, said the center uses polygraphs to identify risk factors. For instance, if a client lies about past sexual experiences during the polygraph test, that would indicate the client needs more time in the program.
Some who work with the victims of sex offenders also have been encouraged by The January Center's early work. Tina Greaves, the director of victim advocacy for Connecticut Sexual Assault Crisis Services, said she has been impressed with the structure the program provides.
She said the efforts of the staff to connect clients with family who will take them in upon their release also is a benefit.
"What I see as a success is this program extends to their family members and into their support systems, so they're not thrown out into the community and everyone is floundering," Greaves said. "That's what is really crucial from our perspective in reducing future victimization."
A 'heavy stigma'
One offender who has been at The January Center for about six months compared aspects of the program to an Alcoholics Anonymous group, indicating he has been more comfortable with people with similar pasts and circumstances.
Staff have helped him coordinate one visit with a girlfriend, the only loved one with whom he still keeps in touch. He said none of his family members or his children speak to him.
He said that he worked as a mechanic before going to prison and that if he had been released without first going to The January Center, it would have been a difficult road.
"Without this, I'd be hitting the streets with a big label across the top of my forehead," he said of the assistance finding housing and work. "I would go and my (parole officer) comes along and says, 'Hey, this guy is a sex offender. Do you want him to work here?'
"You didn't put me here. I did. I'm fully aware of that. I'm just explaining some of the obstacles. I carry a heavy stigma."
Staff arranged for The Day to speak with three sex offenders at the facility but did not allow photographs. The three men are among 30 or so who have been through the program. They spoke on condition of anonymity.
The state sex-offender registry, reachable through the state Department of Emergency Service and Public Protection website (www.ct.gov/despp), lists all clients of The January Center and their crimes. Some have been convicted of first-degree sexual assault, sex offenses with minors under the age of 13, and illegal possession of child pornography.
Two of the men interviewed said therapy sessions helped them identify other problems within their lives that may have been contributing factors leading up to their sexual offenses, such as gambling problems and relationship issues.
DOC commissioner 'lied'
A public act passed by the state General Assembly in 2008 mandated that the state create 12-bed staff-secure residential sex-offender treatment facilities. Eventually it was deemed more economical to open a 24-bed facility.
Residents and officials in Montville fought the sex-offender treatment facility for more than a year before dropping a lawsuit filed against the state. The town eventually reached a memorandum of understanding with the state that runs until at least June 2013 and outlines security parameters.
Mayor Ronald K. McDaniel Jr. said The January Center and the state have honored the terms of the agreement. He said he has been pleased with the client information shared by the facility with the town's police department.
Town Councilor Dana McFee, however, said that DOC Commissioner Leo Arnone lied to town officials about the level of sex offenders who would be housed at The January Center.
In a meeting last year in Hartford, Arnone told town councilors and the town attorney that the facility would not house "the worst" sex offenders. McFee said that the sex offenders residing in The January Center prove Arnone's claim to be false.
"There's nothing we can do until one of those sick bastards breaks out," McFee said.
Brian Garnett, a spokesman for the DOC, said in a statement: "As was promised to the town of Montville, the facility has proven itself safe and secure with a careful vetting of the offenders." Garnett added that the state has no plans to duplicate the facility elsewhere.
Facing their crimes
As of Jan. 1 of this year, there were 5,397 registered sex offenders in the state, according to a report by the state Office of Policy and Management.
Of those, 2,273 offenders were supervised by the state probation sex offender management unit. Another 223 were supervised by the parole sex offender management unit. That leaves roughly 54 percent of the state's registered sex offender population without supervision, and 929 offenders were out of compliance with the registry's requirements. It is also widely accepted that sex offenses are the least-reported serious crimes.
Those who work in The January Center are well versed in these statistics. And while they realize it's difficult to change public perception about the work they do, they see the new sex-offender treatment program as an innovation that will help prevent future sex crimes.
"We can't change minds. But we can do the work that we're charged with," said Ellison, the parole manager. "We want these offenders to come here and face that offense and that history and what they've done to their victims."
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- James: "Our Teddy! Teddy Lupin! Snogging our Victoire! Our cousin! And I asked Teddy what he was doing -"
- Ginny: "You interrupted them? You are so like Ron -"
- James: "-and he said he had come to see her off! And then he told me to go away! He's snogging her!"
- — James and Ginny Potter on Victoire and Teddy Lupin's blossoming relationship[src]
Victoire Weasley (born on 2 May,[1]2000[2]) was a part-Veela witch and the eldest child of William Weasley and Fleur Delacour.[3]
Early lifeEdit
Victoire was born on 2 May[1] in the first year of the 21st century. She is the oldest of all her Weasley cousins.[2] She was given her name, which means "victory" in French, because her date of birth fell on the anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts, in which the Order of the Phoenix and its allies prevailed against Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters.[1] She has two younger siblings: a sister, Dominique, and a brother, Louis[4]. Through her maternal great-grandmother, Victoire is one-eighth Veela. It is possible she lived at Shell Cottage with her family.
Victoire began attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the early 2010s. At some point, she entered into a romantic relationship with Teddy Lupin, who was two years above her. On 1 September, 2017, Victoire's by-then-graduated boyfriend came to see her off for another year at King's Cross Station. Victoire's cousin, James Potter, saw the couple snogging and interrupted them. When Teddy told him to leave, James returned to tell his family what he had seen, and his younger sister, Lily, expressed her wish that Teddy and Victoire would marry someday, making Teddy an official part of the extended Weasley-Potter clan.[5]
Physical appearanceEdit
Victoire was described as "very good-looking,"[3] which presumably indicates that she took after either her mother, Fleur, or her father, Bill, or both, in appearance. It could also link to her Veela ancestry, which might consequently make her beauty more profound.
Victoire means "victory" in French, the native tongue of her mother Fleur Delacour, probably chosen because she was born on the anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts. It is also the feminine version of the male given name Victor. If she was given the name because it was the feminine version of Victor, it could refer to her mother's friend (Viktor Krum) who was also in the Triwizard Tournament.
Behind the ScenesEdit
- She is played by an unknown actress in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 and is seen next to the children of Harry on the Hogwarts Express.
- This actress can also be seen in a photo next to Luke Newberry.
- Both Victoire and Teddy Lupin have fathers who were attacked by the werewolf Fenrir Greyback.
- Both Victoire and Teddy Lupin have mothers with unique traits related to their physical appearances — Fleur Delacour has Veela blood, and Nymphadora Tonks was a Metamorphmagus.
- Victoire and Teddy are fourth cousins once removed as they are both distant descendants of Phineas Nigellus Black.[6]
- In J.K. Rowling: A Year in the Life, when sketching the Weasley Family Tree, Rowling stated that Victoire was so named because she was born on the anniversary of the day the Second Wizarding War ended.
- Victoire is the last character introduced during the Harry Potter Series.
- Victoire is likely an homage to Elanor Gamgee from The Lord of the Rings, who was born on the anniversary of the downfall of Sauron. Both were noted to be very beautiful.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Mentioned only)
- J.K. Rowling: A Year in the Life (Mentioned only)
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Video clip of J.K. Rowling from the documentary J.K. Rowling: A Year in the Life
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Victoire is at least two years younger than Teddy Lupin. If she was only a year below him at Hogwarts, she would have been born between September 1998 and August 1999, and would not have returned for another year in September 2017, as she did, because she would have already graduated that June.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 J.K. Rowling MSNBC Interview on Accio! Quote
- ↑ "The Unwritten Story of Harry's Friends and Their Children" from the Times Online
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Epilogue
- ↑ Black family tree

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Churches are key to saving young Black males
The Rev. Marvin Winans' remark, "I refuse to be afraid of us," in the wake of the robbery attack on him by four young Black men at a neighborhood gas station on Linwood and Davison, carries a moral truth.
is a statement deeply rooted in the belief that we cannot throw our children away or become prisoners in our own communities, afraid to go out because young Black males have become tigers in the hood, on the prowl for their next victims.
I refuse to accept the notion that there is nothing else we can do, and that the solution is to dump Detroit and move out as quickly as you can. While such reasoning is politically expedient and the common sense thing to do in a state of fear, it is not the answer to the growing socioeconomic ills facing our community. It is not the answer to halt the violence in our town.
To conclude that the best way to deal with the escalating violence in Detroit is to move out of the city is a defeatist attitude grounded in a weak notion that, in fact, we can no longer be problem solvers. Therefore, we should run away from the problem.
What happened to our resilient spirit?
The carjacking of Rev. Winans, a prominent Detroit minister and nationally celebrated gospel singer who was driving with a suspended license, provides a context for our men and women of the clergy to be engaged in tackling the despicable acts of crime in this city.
Just as many were concerned about Winans and his well-being in the aftermath of the carjacking, we should all be equally concerned about the escalating crime rate in our city, and the senseless taking of lives.
We should be concerned about the young woman who was raped in view of her child in broad daylight on Detroit's west side.
Children and adults are dying in horrific numbers, and the perpetrators of the crimes are usually young Black men.
The young men who attacked Rev. Winans did not know who their victim was, despite his being a prominent figure, seen often on television and in the print media. It says something much deeper: how out of touch they are with the real world outside of their own underworld of violence and mayhem.
If those young men had been properly steered on a right, productive path they would not have become carjackers.
If properly brought up in a nurturing environment and having the self-confidence to know they can be whoever they choose to be, they would not be lured into a world of crime and drugs.
Yes, they must bear personal responsibility, but as a community we also bear responsibility. Churches in particular cannot sit on the sidelines, claiming that parents have all of the responsibility.
What happened to the communal spirit that made each of us responsible for the other? Our brother's keeper.
What happened to the church that was once the center of our life and thus took a prominent role in the well-being of our children – the future leaders?
Truth be told, Rev. Winans' attack brought the violent crime in Detroit to the doorstep of the church, and has prompted many in the clergy to call for some kind of action, and knowing that they could be the next victim.
The church has long been the center of transformation and at this crucial time cannot ignore its role in the community. The engagement has to reflect a broader embrace of children who are often treated as outcasts. They need not be.
The interest has to go beyond church members focusing on their own well-being. After all, the church's Biblical mandate is to go in search of the lost, not the saved.
We have lost young Black males walking down the streets like lions looking for someone to devour. They need to be saved and mentored into understanding that they have great potential, they need not rob, sell drugs or kill.
If their homes did not remind or inculcate in them that sense of personal responsibility, the church can help them develop a clear path to the future. Because the Black church historically has been the guiding light for our communities.
If there was ever a time for the church to demonstrate its power, it is now when Black children are dying and adults are being killed by their own children.
To be commended are the group of clergy members, including Bishop Edgar Vann, as well as members of the law enforcement community and other leaders who last week launched an initiative called Detroit Night Walk to fight crime.
We can create change and help those young Black males trapped at the crossroads of drug dealing and carjacking. I believe that we can transform young Black males who believe they have no alternatives and no future.
In the words of the hip-hop icon and street poet Tupac Shakur, we can make these young Black males "the rose that grew from concrete," because by virtue of being a Black male they already live under the heavy weight of stereotypes just as we saw in the Trayvon Martin case.
Our young Black males — and anyone who is raising a Black boy is aware of this reality — are already facing an image battle, and many of them are holding our community hostage.
The church can liberate the hostage taker and the hostages.
Bankole Thompson is the editor of the Michigan Chronicle and the author of a six-part series on the Obama presidency, including "Obama and Black Loyalty," published last year. His latest book is "Obama and Christian Loyalty" with an epilogue written by Bob Weiner, former White House spokesman. His upcoming books in 2012 are "Obama and Jewish Loyalty" and "Obama and Business Loyalty." Listen to him every Thursday morning on WDET
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New Ideographs in Unicode 3.0 and Beyond
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This presentation discusses the new ideographs or characters related to ideographs being added to Unicode 3.0 and various proposals to extend the ideographic repertoire of Unicode beyond Unicode 3.0.
A number of new blocks are being added to Unicode 3.0 representing extensions or supplements to Unicode's ideographic repertoire These new characters should be taken into account by implementors of Unicode.
First is the Vertical Extension A, a set of some 6500 ideographs which are targeted for encoding at U+3400. These characters are derived from older national standards from Taiwan and the PRC, from new national standards in Korea and Vietnam, and from major industrial standards in Japan. The addition of these characters to Unicode goes far towards covering the major needs of existing users.
Next are proposals to add the KangXi radicals and ideographic variation character. The significance and possible uses of these characters will be discussed.
Next is the Han description scheme under development. Some of the rationale behind composition schemes for Han will be discussed and illustrations of how this method works will be given.
Finally, there are plans to add new ideographs to Unicode through the use of surrogates. These surrogate-encoded ideographs will not be in Unicode 3.0 but will be included in future versions of the standard.
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LAKELAND, FL (September 6, 2013) – On September 20th the Imperial Symphony Chamber Orchestra will present Strings in the City that will feature a special 16 piece string ensemble during a performance at the Lake Mirror Amphitheater from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. This FREE event is sponsored by the City of Lakeland and the Imperial Symphony Orchestra.
This magical night will be lead by Conductor Mark Thielen who has prepared a catalogue of arrangements. The evening's music will highlight a variety of music styles ranging from classical to rock. Thielen said, "It is going to be a wonderful night of music. String instruments are so versatile in the way that they are able to speak to the listener. A Serenade by Mozart, a popular Broadway medley, a bit of heavy metal, as well as many other wonderful pieces of music will showcase both the beauty and power of the string section. It is a concert that can be enjoyed by the entire family."
Musical pieces that will be played include:
· Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Mozart
· Brandenburg Concerto, Bach
· Entrance of the Queen of Sheba, Handel
· Lady Gaga Fugue
· Highway Star, Deep Purple
· Purple Haze, Hendrix
· Free Bird, Lynyrd Skynyrd
· Pretty Woman, Orbison
· Sound of Music Medley
· Fiddler on the Roof Medley
· Beatles Medley
· Joplin Rags
The music series takes place at the Lake Mirror amphitheater located at the Frances Langford Promenade on Lake Mirror which is between Hollis Garden and the Lake Mirror Center. The event is FREE to the public and families are encouraged to attend. There will be food and drink vendors on site so bring a blanket and enjoy the lake setting with music under the stars. Music on the Promenade is proudly sponsored by the City of Lakeland and the Imperial Symphony Orchestra. Parking is available at the Lake Mirror Center's parking lot and in the Iowa Avenue parking garage. No glass bottles within the park please. For more information regarding the series, contact Kevin Cook at 863/834-6264.


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Last week I ripped Downtown for its parks, which are nonexistent or inadequate. I may have gone a little easy.
I referred to Justice Myron E. Leavitt and Jaycee Community Park as "the real deal," by which I merely meant that it's a real park with grass and stuff, and it's close to Downtown. One astute commenter finds it sorely lacking: "It is nearly unusable for children due to vagrancy, insalubrity and bad or no lighting after dark." (Insalubrity is a great word I confess I had to look up, meaning unwholesome.)
The city says the long-range plan calls for a series of Downtown pocket parks connected by pedestrian-friendly corridors and trails.
Trails, you ask?
Even people who live here—and especially people who don't—often forget that Vegas is more than heat and concrete. We haven't done the best job preserving it, but this desert oasis has some unmatched natural beauty. The suburban areas of the city of Las Vegas, specifically near Summerlin, are filled with great trails, but people often seem not to know about them. Outdoor enthusiasts and conservationists hope to eventually build the Vegas Valley Rim Trail, which would be a 100-mile loop around the Valley, connecting Red Rock Canyon, the Desert National Wildlife Refuge, Lake Mead and Gypsum Ridge.
A key problem is the way our parks, trails and conservation efforts are funded: The Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act calls for a portion of federal land sales to go to these efforts. That river of cash dried up with the real estate collapse. (And let's appreciate how weird it is to be funding conservation efforts with federal land sales that encouraged unchecked suburban sprawl.)
"Now that that money has dried up, no one knows what the future holds," says Rae Lathrop, who does outreach for Outside Las Vegas Foundation. "Everyone has great plans; now we must work together on finding ways to continue funding them."
Long neglected, Downtown has fewer trails than the rest of the Valley. Our geography—valley surrounded by a ring of mountains—makes it understandable that our best trails would be on the outskirts of town, but this state of affairs should be fixed, at least bringing some parity.
(On its official trail map, the city includes Fremont Street Experience as a "trail." Sure, and Glitter Gulch is a park, right?)
I like the city's idea—at this point little more than a pipe dream—of connecting small parks Downtown via trails, so I had Lathrop take me to a couple trails close to the urban core.
We started at the recently completed Las Vegas Wash trail off of Lamb Boulevard on the east side of town. A giant mural tells a comforting allegory about immigration, depicting a friendly space alien. Unfortunately, it had been tagged with graffiti.
Following the recent rains, the wash was filled with lush green. For obvious safety reasons, you can't walk in the wash, but strolling alongside on the footpath was pleasant, even as the morning heat began to rise. This trail will be connected to the North Las Vegas Wash Trail and will run south all the way to the Wetlands Park by Sam Boyd Stadium for a total of 30 miles.
Another trail highlight near Downtown is the Pioneer Trail at the Springs Preserve, which is well known, but we were intrigued by a trail that, according to the map, runs alongside Highway 95 from the east side of the city to Downtown. At Eastern and the 95, we parked at a Winchell's, the smell of fried dough enchanting. The trail is more of a trail than the Fremont Street Experience, though not by much. In some parts, it's a paved path alongside the highway, and at other places it seems like an alley, although we couldn't always tell. At various moments, though, you could peer down it and imagine a stream of cyclists commuting to work Downtown at least nine months per year.
It empties out around Sixth and Mesquite, which is near the old city hall and some empty lots. A perfect place for a Downtown Park.


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May 6, 2009
Flu vaccine studies that are funded by industry are significantly more likely to be published in prestigious journals and to later be cited in the scientific literature than studies without such funding, according to a survey of 274 studies conducted by researchers from the Cochrane Vaccine Field in Italy, and published in the British Medical Journal.
A good methodology, in contrast, had little impact on such factors. The study also found few studies providing good evidence that the flu vaccine is actually effective.
In principle, a higher quality study should be published in a more prestigious journal and should be cited more frequently than a low quality study. But the researchers found no relationship between study quality and either of those factors. Instead, having a study partially or fully funded by industry was the best way to boost the prominence of a study.
[efoods]Overall, the authors also found that most flu vaccine studies were of poor quality, with only 18 percent of them reporting conclusions that were actually supported by their findings (concordance).
"The study shows that one of the levers for accessing prestigious journals is the financial size of your sponsor," said researcher Tom Jefferson. "Pharmaceutical sponsors order many reprints of studies supporting their products, often with in-house translations into many languages. They will also purchase publicity space on the journal. Many publishers openly advertise these services on their Web site."
"It is time journals made a full disclosure of their sources of funding," Jefferson concluded.
The researchers also found that studies supporting the effectiveness of flu vaccines tended to be more poorly designed than studies not supporting their effectiveness. Concordance was also significantly lower in studies supporting vaccine effectiveness than in those refuting it — meaning that most studies failed to support the effectiveness of the flu vaccine.
Government-funded studies were significantly less likely to find the flu vaccine effective than industry-funded studies.
Sources for this story include: health.usnews.com.


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While your thoughts at the end of the year are probably filled with everything from next year's budgets to holiday vacation plans, don't forget that tax season will be upon us before you know it. Leaving everything for a last-minute cram session could disrupt your business in the spring. To avoid a crunch, you should prepare for tax deadlines well in advance. Look for deductions. Looking for ways to reduce your taxes can be a great help to your business. In general, you can deduct expenses that are both ordinary and necessary. According to the IRS, an ordinary expense is one that is common and accepted in your trade or business, while a necessary expense is one that is helpful and appropriate for your trade or business. Note that an expense does not have to be indispensable to be considered necessary. One helpful document from the IRS, Publication 535, can help to explain what you can deduct. Some deductions that are worth considering include the following: bad debts, depreciation, employee wages, insurance premiums, interest, employee pension plans and benefits, and rent expenses. Hire an accountant. One deduction that may be a great investment is finding an accountant to help prepare your taxes. If you've already got an accountant who keeps your books in order, they should be up to date with IRS regulations. If you're hiring an accountant just for this tax season, spend some time on the phone before your first meeting so that you'll have the necessary items prepared. Remember, your accountant should not just do your taxes for this year but also advise you on the things you'll need to do to plan for next year's taxes. If you're planning on doing taxes yourself, check the IRS Web site for some helpful products, including a tax calendar with important deadlines. In any case, getting on top of your taxes now will make life easier (and less costly) when the deadline arrives.
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This time they mean business
Despite continued assurances that Iron Man 3 won't be all that dark, every new round of promotional imagery points toward a more serious, edgier tone than we've seen from Tony Stark & Co. to date. Poor Lainey is going to have a heart attack, thinking something bad happens to Pepper because every new image shows her looking increasingly more sad/depressed. I've said since the first trailer was released—Iron Man 3 is going to be darker and more intense than anything we've seen from Marvel to date. It's the nature of the story they're telling, the Extremis arc, which is basically about taking all of Tony's toys away and stuffing him down a deep, dark hole and then watching him claw his way back out. But they're hardly going to kill off Pepper Potts. Dark for Marvel is still not going to be THAT much of a bummer. (Lainey: you promise?!?!? I love Pepper!) It's just that we're going to have to watch Tony suffer for a while before the ass-kicking begins.
Which is why, in the new posters and stills just released via Empire Magazine, everyone looks like Serious Business. I've really liked everything we've seen from Iron Man 3 thus far and I think emphasizing the tone shift up front is a good idea. It isn't as dark as this advertising—the footage shown at Comic Con last summer was damn funny—but the stakes are definitely raised, post Avengers. Not only in the real world for the continuing movie franchise(s), but in Tony Stark's world, too. Audiences might have felt ambushed if they went in expecting the usual savoir faire of Tony Stark only to find out the movie changes pace and tone. This way, people will be set up for that and then can walk away going, "Hey, that wasn't that bad."
Among the new images one thing leaps out at me—which might be mildly spoiler-ish, depending on if you consider something that's been widely published in comics and cartoons for fifty years a spoiler—and that's Tony wearing an AIM shirt. AIM (Advanced Idea Mechanics) is not a good organization, and they're not real friendly to Tony. So why he'd be wearing their tee shirt, unless he's being ironic (IRON-E, get it?) is intriguing. What kind of decisions is Tony making after the events of The Avengers? Does the fact that he's proven to himself that he can cooperate with a team lead him to try forming other, perhaps ill-advised, alliances?
We're two months away from Iron Man 3, and the start of summer movie season, which means this is just the beginning of the promotional onslaught. I wonder how sad Sad Pepper can get?
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I feel terrible for being so neglectful of the blog, but I'm too tired to string together another coherent thought tonight. Instead I'll leave you with a pretty picture that has me itching to paint my bedroom a light turquoise. (I can't imagine Zac would love this plan).
Monday, January 23, 2012
Thank you for all the love and support with the press this last week! You know how to make a girl feel loved! I'm headed off to go thrifting with a different news team tomorrow and I'm nervous already that I won't be able to sleep a wink. Who would? Cross your fingers that I don't trip and pray, pray hard, that I'll stand up straight (my posture is terrible).
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I'm new to the blogging world- you're blog helped inpire me to start one of my own. So thank you!ReplyDelete
I'm a local girl- you'll have to post info about when your segment will air.
P.S. LOVE that wall color- I say go for it!
You totally deserve it! Congrats on everything and yes, blue all the way!ReplyDelete
Good luck! I have been obsessed with turquoise and have painted many of my rooms shades of the lovely color! Try Sherwn Williams "rain washed." It is the most beautiful shade of turquoise. That is what is in my bedroom. Check my blog (http://rehab2fab.blogspot.com) and click on the tab "My Master Bedroom." You will love the shade!ReplyDelete
Congrats again Natty! :)ReplyDelete
It's been a little while since I've been able to check in- glad to be catching up!ReplyDelete
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Last words in Shakespeare
From Quotes
Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.Thomas L. Holdcroft
The last words of various famous characters in Shakespeare. In a minority of cases, a description of a character's off-stage death is included.
Antony and Cleopatra
- I am dying, Egypt, dying:
- Give me some wine, and let me speak a little. . .
- The miserable change now at my end
- Lament nor sorrow at; but please your thoughts
- In feeding them with those my former fortunes
- Wherein I lived, the greatest prince o' the world,
- The noblest; and do now not basely die,
- Not cowardly put off my helmet to
- My countryman,--a Roman by a Roman
- Valiantly vanquish'd. Now my spirit is going;
- I can no more.
- - Antony
- As sweet as balm, as soft as air, as gentle,--
- O Antony!--Nay, I will take thee too.
- What should I stay--
- - Cleopatra, as she applies the second asp to her arm.
- O, I am slain!
- - Polonius
- No, no, the drink, the drink,--O my dear Hamlet,--
- The drink, the drink! I am poison'd.
- - Gertrude
- O, yet defend me, friends; I am but hurt.
- - Claudius
- He is justly served;
- It is a poison temper'd by himself.
- Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet:
- Mine and my father's death come not upon thee,
- Nor thine on me.
- - Laertes, talking of Claudius
- O good Horatio, what a wounded name,
- Things standing thus unknown, shall live behind me!
- If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart
- Absent thee from felicity awhile,
- And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain,
- To tell my story. . .
- O, I die, Horatio;
- The potent poison quite o'er-crows my spirit:
- I cannot live to hear the news from England;
- But I do prophesy the election lights
- On Fortinbras: he has my dying voice;
- So tell him, with the occurrents, more and less,
- Which have solicited. The rest is silence.
- - Hamlet
Henry IV, part 1
- O, Harry, thou hast robb'd me of my youth!
- I better brook the loss of brittle life
- Than those proud titles thou hast won of me;
- They wound my thoughts worse than sword my flesh:
- But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool;
- And time, that takes survey of all the world,
- Must have a stop. O, I could prophesy,
- But that the earthy and cold hand of death
- Lies on my tongue: no, Percy, thou art dust
- And food for--
- - Hotspur
Henry IV, part 2
- Laud be to God! even there my life must end.
- It hath been prophesied to me many years,
- I should not die but in Jerusalem;
- Which vainly I supposed the Holy Land:
- But bear me to that chamber; there I'll lie;
- In that Jerusalem shall Harry die.
- - King Henry IV
Henry V
- a' parted even just between twelve
- and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after
- I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with
- flowers and smile upon his fingers' ends, I knew
- there was but one way; for his nose was as sharp as
- a pen, and a' babbled of green fields. 'How now,
- sir John!' quoth I 'what, man! be o' good
- cheer.' So a' cried out 'God, God, God!' three or
- four times. Now I, to comfort him, bid him a'
- should not think of God; I hoped there was no need
- to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet. So
- a' bade me lay more clothes on his feet: I put my
- hand into the bed and felt them, and they were as
- cold as any stone; then I felt to his knees, and
- they were as cold as any stone, and so upward and
- upward, and all was as cold as any stone.
- - Mistress Quickly
- They say he cried out of sack.
- - Nym
- Ay, that a' did.
- - Mistress Quickly
- And of women.
- - Bardolph
- Nay, that a' did not.
- - Mistress Quickly
- Yes, that a' did; and said they were devils
- incarnate.
- - Boy describing Falstaff's death. Falstaff actually dies offstage.
Julius Caesar
- Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar!
- - Julius Caesar
- Caesar, now be still:
- I kill'd not thee with half so good a will.
- - Brutus, as he runs on his sword
King John
- O cousin, thou art come to set mine eye:
- The tackle of my heart is crack'd and burn'd,
- And all the shrouds wherewith my life should sail
- Are turned to one thread, one little hair:
- My heart hath one poor string to stay it by,
- Which holds but till thy news be uttered;
- And then all this thou seest is but a clod
- And module of confounded royalty.
- - King John
King Lear
- And my poor fool is hang'd! No, no, no life!
- Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life,
- And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more,
- Never, never, never, never, never!
- Pray you, undo this button: thank you, sir.
- Do you see this? Look on her, look, her lips,
- Look there, look there!
- - King Lear
- Slave, thou hast slain me: villain, take my purse:
- If ever thou wilt thrive, bury my body;
- And give the letters which thou find'st about me
- To Edmund Earl of Gloucester, seek him out
- Upon the British party: O, untimely death!
- - Oswald
- I will not yield,
- To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet,
- And to be baited with the rabble's curse.
- Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane,
- And thou opposed, being of no woman born,
- Yet I will try the last. Before my body
- I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff,
- And damn'd be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'
- - Macbeth
- O, who hath done this deed?
- - Emilia
- Nobody; I myself. Farewell.
- Commend me to my kind lord: O, farewell!
- - Desdemona
- Demand me nothing: what you know, you know:
- From this time forth I never will speak word.
- - Iago, who does not die onstage, but who is being led to his immediate torture and eventual death.
- Soft you; a word or two before you go.
- I have done the state some service, and they know't.
- No more of that. I pray you, in your letters,
- When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,
- Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,
- Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak
- Of one that loved not wisely but too well;
- Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought
- Perplex'd in the extreme; of one whose hand,
- Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away
- Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes,
- Albeit unused to the melting mood,
- Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees
- Their medicinal gum. Set you down this;
- And say besides, that in Aleppo once,
- Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk
- Beat a Venetian and traduced the state,
- I took by the throat the circumcised dog,
- And smote him, thus.
- Stabs himself
- O bloody period!
- - Lododvico
- All that's spoke is marr'd.
- - Gratiano
- I kiss'd thee ere I kill'd thee: no way but this;
- Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.
- - Othello
- Falls on the bed, and dies
Richard II
- O, spare me not, my brother Edward's son,
- For that I was his father Edward's son;
- That blood already, like the pelican,
- Hast thou tapp'd out and drunkenly caroused:
- My brother Gloucester, plain well-meaning soul,
- Whom fair befal in heaven 'mongst happy souls!
- May be a precedent and witness good
- That thou respect'st not spilling Edward's blood:
- Join with the present sickness that I have;
- And thy unkindness be like crooked age,
- To crop at once a too long wither'd flower.
- Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee!
- These words hereafter thy tormentors be!
- Convey me to my bed, then to my grave:
- Love they to live that love and honour have.
- - John of Gaunt
- That hand shall burn in never-quenching fire
- That staggers thus my person. Exton, thy fierce hand
- Hath with the king's blood stain'd the king's own land.
- Mount, mount, my soul! thy seat is up on high;
- Whilst my gross flesh sinks downward, here to die.
- - King Richard II
Richard III
- Which of you, if you were a prince's son,
- Being pent from liberty, as I am now,
- if two such murderers as yourselves came to you,
- Would not entreat for life?
- My friend, I spy some pity in thy looks:
- O, if thine eye be not a flatterer,
- Come thou on my side, and entreat for me,
- As you would beg, were you in my distress
- A begging prince what beggar pities not?
- - Clarence
- Slave, I have set my life upon a cast,
- And I will stand the hazard of the die:
- I think there be six Richmonds in the field;
- Five have I slain to-day instead of him.
- A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!
- - King Richard III, just before he engages in the fight with Richmond in which he dies.
- Let's to it pell-mell
- If not to heaven, then hand in hand to hell!
- - Richard III, Ian McKellen and Richard Loncraine movie adaptation, taken from Richard's speech earlier in the play.
Romeo and Juliet
- here, here will I remain
- With worms that are thy chamber-maids; O, here
- Will I set up my everlasting rest,
- And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
- From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last!
- Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you
- The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss
- A dateless bargain to engrossing death!
- Come, bitter conduct, come, unsavoury guide!
- Thou desperate pilot, now at once run on
- The dashing rocks thy sea-sick weary bark!
- Here's to my love!
- O true apothecary!
- Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.
- - Romeo
- Go, get thee hence, for I will not away.
- What's here? a cup, closed in my true love's hand?
- Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end:
- O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop
- To help me after? I will kiss thy lips;
- Haply some poison yet doth hang on them,
- To make die with a restorative.
- Thy lips are warm.
- Yea, noise? then I'll be brief. O happy dagger!
- This is thy sheath;
- there rust, and let me die.
- - Juliet
- Help me into some house, Benvolio,
- Or I shall faint. A plague o' both your houses!
- They have made worms' meat of me: I have it,
- And soundly too: your houses!
- - Mercutio
- Thou, wretched boy, that didst consort him here,
- Shall with him hence.
- - Tybalt
Titus Andronicus
- O, why should wrath be mute, and fury dumb?
- I am no baby, I, that with base prayers
- I should repent the evils I have done:
- Ten thousand worse than ever yet I did
- Would I perform, if I might have my will;
- If one good deed in all my life I did,
- I do repent it from my very soul.
- - Aaron the Moor
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- 2-3 large chicken breasts seasoned to taste
- 1 Tblsp. butter
- 1 large white onion
- 1-2 cloves minced garlic
- 1 8 oz. package of sliced Baby Portabella mushrooms
- 1 pint cream
- In a large skillet over medium heat, melt butter and cook chicken until no longer pink and juices run clear.
- Transfer chicken to a plate, and slice thinly or cube. Set aside.
- In same pan, slowly saute onion and garlic, until onions are lightly browned and caramelized.
- Add mushrooms and allow them to cook down.
- Using a spatula, add cream as you scrape the bottom of the pan to loosen "brown bits'. As cream gets bubbly, it will thicken and turn a pretty coffee with cream color. Add chicken, heat through. Salt and pepper to taste.
- Serve over cooked rice with a big tossed salad.
Terri's Notes
As Jill and I discussed this recipe (in the new Extreme Makeover home's kitchen-what inspiration!), we decided that just a couple slices of bacon, fried until crisp, crumbled, and set aside to be sprinkled in when the chicken's added - would be a yummy way to prepare the pan to cook the other ingredients too!
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According to Federal regulations, a student is required to complete an entrance counseling session prior to the release of the first disbursement of their first Federal Direct Student/Graduate PLUS Loan made at the school they're currently attending.
Likewise when a student graduates or withdraws from the school they're currently attending, the student is required to complete an exit counseling session. Counseling will inform you of your rights and responsibilities as a borrower.
If at any time throughout your college career you have any questions concerning your student loan, feel free to contact financial aid or your loan servicer. You may also contact the Federal Student Aid Information Center at (800) 4-FED-AID with questions regarding the loan or any other federal aid.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Forest Laboratories Inc, the specialty drugmaker that counts investor Carl Icahn as a major shareholder, is among a handful of companies interested in bidding for Irish drugmaker Elan Corp Plc, two people familiar with the situation said.
Elan, which has a market capitalization of nearly $7 billion, put itself up for sale last week in an effort to fend off a hostile offer from U.S. investment firm Royalty Pharma.
Forest is among several mid-sized drugmakers considering an offer for Elan, the people said on Wednesday. They asked not to be named because details of the auction have not been made public.
The discussions are at an early stage and Forest may decide against making an offer, the people cautioned.
Shares of Forest closed 0.65 percent higher at $41.84 on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, valuing the company at about $11.1 billion. Elan's New York-listed shares rose 2.7 percent to end at $14.15.
Representatives of Forest, Elan and Royalty Pharma declined to comment.
News of Forest's interest comes a day after Royalty Pharma dropped its hostile bid for Elan, worth up to $8 billion, leaving the Irish drugmaker free to court other suitors.
Jefferies & Co analyst Corey Davis said Forest could achieve a lower tax rate if it were to buy Elan and become domiciled in Ireland, but the tax advantage would not be as substantial as some of the other possible suitors. The tax advantage is the main reason to buy Elan because it is not developing any significant drugs, he said.
Forest already has a relatively low 22 percent tax rate because it has an Irish subsidiary, he said.
Davis said fast-growing companies would have the most to gain by buying Elan, to get closer to the Irish tax rate of 12.5 percent. "The benefit (of becoming an Irish company) is that all future products, ones not yet approved, could be owned in Ireland and have a lower tax rate."
Royalty Pharma's hostile bid for Elan, launched four months ago, was marked by a court hearing, injunctions and a war of words. An Irish court ruled this week against new terms added to its offer, and Royalty Pharma moved on.
A potential deal comes at a time when Forest is at a crossroads. The company recently agreed to add a representative of Icahn to its board, averting a new proxy battle. Icahn is Forest's second-largest shareholder, with a stake of about 11.5 percent.
In addition, Forest last month announced that Chief Executive Howard Solomon would retire at the end of this year after running the company for more than 35 years. It said it was reviewing internal and external candidates.
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Chlorophylle et les conspirateurs (1955)
Raymond Macherot was one of the classic artists of the franco-belgian school, who has published his work in both Tintin and Spirou. He was a master in poetic and satirical animal comics, as can be seen in his two main series, 'Chlorophylle' and 'Sibylline'. The sharp humour and funny characters make his series some of the best in the genre. Born in Verviers in the Belgian Ardennes, Raymond Macherot developed his love for nature while with the boyscouts. He enrolled at the University of Liège to study Law during World War II, but broke off his studies in February 1945 to join the Royal Navy. He returned to Verviers after the war and eventually found employment with the local paper Le Courier du Soir as a journalist.
Chlorophylle - Zizanion le terrible (1958)
His main interest was drawing, however, and contributed his first cartoons to the satirical magazine Pan, using the pen name Zara. He used his spare time to develop comic projects, that he presented to publisher Le Lombard in Brussels. The publisher hired him to work in the art studios of its magazine Tintin in 1953, filling the vacancy that was left by Tibet. Macherot made several editorial illustrations for the magazine, and also illustrated advertisements for Victoria chocolate. His personal comics creation, the realistic midieval comic 'Le Chevalier Blanc', was accepted, but the publisher assigned Fred and Liliane Funcken to draw the story.
Le retour de Chlorophylle (1959)
He created his first and best known animal series, 'Chlorophylle et Minimum' in 1955. Macherot drew the series until 1963 (with one extra story in 1966), during which he changed the setting from a realistic natural environment to a more humanized animal world in the tradition of Disney. Macherot commented on many social en political issues through the view of the rodents Chlorophylle and Minimum and their continuing problems with vicious gangs of rats and ferets. Many artists had their turn on the comic in the years that followed, such as Pierre Guilmard, Hubuc, Dupa and Walli, but the charm of the Macherot era has never been surpassed.
Les enquêtes du colonel Clifton (1960)
While drawing 'Chlorophylle', Macherot had several excursions outside of his animal world. He created one-shots like 'Père la Houle' (1957) and 'Klaxon' (1958), as well as the famous British detective 'Clifton'. Macherot wrote and drew three episodes of the series himself in 1960 and 1961, and after a long break, it was revived by artists like Jo-El Azara, Turk, Bédu and Michel Rodrigue in the decades that followed. Macherot was additionally responsible for the illustrations of a nature section in Tintin between 1959 and 1961.
Chaminou et le Khrompire (1964)
Macherot left Tintin in 1964 and joined Spirou magazine, where he made his debut with the brilliant animal comic 'Chaminou et le Khrompire', about an aristocratic cat detective and his battle against carnivorous kidnappers in the kingdom Zoolande. 'Chaminou' was deemed to cynical for Spirou's young audience, and thus lasted for only one story. The comic got a cult status over the years, and from 1989 the series was revived by Denis Bodart and Yann and later by Olivier Saive and Macherot himself.
Sibylline (1965)
By 1965, Macherot came up with 'Sybilline', a series in which he continued the themes he had previously explored in 'Chlorophylle'. The initial focus was the battle between house mouses Sybilline and Taboum and the cat Pantouffle, but from the third story Macherot returned to the setting of a humanized animal world. Sybilline's initial enemy, the stupid cat 'Pantouffle', got a short-lived spin-off in 1966, written by René Goscinny.
Sibylline contre–attaque (1968)
In the 1970s, Macherot teamed up with writer Raoul Cauvin to begin the gag series about the cat 'Mirliton'. Raymond Macherot also cooperated with Yvan Delporte on the creation and the scripts of 'Mulligan' (drawn by Berck) and 'Isabelle' (drawn by Will).
Mirliton (early 1970s)
Over the years, Macherot added a great many colorful characters to his animal world, such as the villain Anathème Percemiche, police officer Verboten, business bird Flouzemaker, the vampire Burokratz, the journalist duck Patakes and the killer ferret Croque-monsieur. The author, who regularly suffered from depressions, was aided by Deliège for the scripts in the 1970s. In 1980 he was one of many Belgian comics artists to make a graphic contribution to the book 'Il était une fois... les Belges'/'Er waren eens Belgen' (1980), a collection of columns and one-page comics, published at the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Belgium. In 1989 he became one of the select few Belgian comics pioneers to be part of the permanent exhibition at the Belgian Comic Strip Center in Brussels.
Sibylline s'envole (1974)
He added more and more fantastic elements to the series throughout the years, until his retirement in 1990. In 2005, Éditions Flouzemaker was launched by Stephan Caluwaerts in cooperation with Macherot in order to reprint Macherot's older work and to revive certain classics. Macherot supervised a relaunch of 'Sybilline' by artist André Taymans in 2005, and of 'Mirliton' by Cauvin and artist Erwin Drèze in 2007, while Bruno Wesel was hired for the coloring. Raymond Macherot passed away in September 2008.
Sibylline - Le violon de Zagabor (1982)


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One possibility might be to have a limited series of Tags that each question could be linked to. For example "stepper motor", "serial comms". Stackoverflow uses a system like that.
I thought there was a post on this thread by POWTAC...
As far as I recall POWTAC's post was very short and was a useful cross-reference between similar discussions in two places.
I don't understand why it was removed.
And I thought my own reply was rather longer...
...it really only makes sense if it is seen as a response to an attempt to set up another forum for Arduino stuff.
Have you guys heard of http://www.discourse.org/It was started by Jeff Atwood from Stackexchange.comI don't know much about it yet, but it does look interesting as a new take on forum software.


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Cleveland Indians 2012 Offseason Recap and Preview
2011 was truly a fun year for the Cleveland Indians…the first half anyway:
Grade: B-
Notable Additions:
Casey Kotchman, Jeremy Accardo, Jose Lopez, Derek Lowe, Felix Pie, Kevin Slowey, and Dan Wheeler.
Notable Subtractions:
Jim Thome, Adam Everett, and Austin Kearns.
Why?: This is a weird entry/grade. The addition far surpass the subtractions. That said, I usually don't put in more than one or two players in the "Notable" lists that have been signed to a minor league contract. In this entry, however, I have five players that were signed to minor league contracts on the list. This serves as an indicator that a lot of the players aren't game changers. In other words, the subtraction players aren't that far away from equaling the value to a team that the addition players present, a fact which reflects itself in the grade I gave their offseason.
Also, Kosuke Fukudome and Chad Durbin have yet to sign, which may bring the Indians' grade down as they were on the Indians last year.
Predicted Record Range: 77-82 wins


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No city, town or village was too small to escape the diabolical schemes of the Nazis to annihilate the Jewish people and the whole infrastructure that had supported them. Six million Jews perished, but 20,000 Jewish communities also were destroyed.
Holocaust Museum Houston's Destroyed Communities slope serves as a permanent memorial to those Jewish communities that were obliterated during the Holocaust, with more than 340 communities remembered on the memorial.
To be considered a "destroyed community," a community must have had organized Jewish life in pre-Holocaust Europe, such as a synagogue or house of prayer; a Jewish school; a Jewish cultural establishment; a
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(kosher butcher); or just the presence of a known Jewish scholar, itinerant rabbi, cantor or teacher of Jewish studies, according to Holocaust survivor Edith Mincberg and co-chair of the project for Holocaust Museum Houston.
According to Mincberg, there was a whole way of thriving Jewish life before this senseless destruction. Locally, the Museum focuses on those communities of survivors who later made the Houston area their home.
"By leaving this legacy for future generations, this slope of destroyed communities will be a constant reminder of the enormity of the deep, irreplaceable loss and an enduring educational tool explaining that unbridled human hate can lead to murder and destruction of other human beings," Mincberg said.
The memorial reminds visitors of the history, culture, activities of Jewish life in these towns, providing a unique picture of what was lost, the true extent of the tragedy perpetrated on the world by the Nazis. Synagogues, schools, orchestras, theaters, newspapers, businesses – everything that made the lives of the Jews vibrant and fulfilling – were destroyed.
According to project co-chair Ellen Trachtenberg, these stones serve as a reminder not only of the 6 million Jews who were murdered, but also the beautiful Jewish communities that the victims had created, that had thrived for hundreds of years. They personalize the tragedy by showing how the Jews were murdered, town by town by town by town..
The "Destroyed Communities" project began even before the opening of the Museum in March 1996. Over the years, the names of more than 35 communities that once were home to Houston area-survivors but where all traces of Jewish culture were obliterated have been engraved on large stones on the exterior slope of the Museum's main building at 5401 Caroline St. More than 300 were added to finish the project in October 2012.
The Museum had sought to complete the project for years, but the etched concrete stones are expensive to construct, engrave and install.
That's when volunteer and son of Holocaust survivors Hyman Penn and his family stepped in to honor his own parents and grandmother, offering to finish the project in memory of Houston-area survivors Linda and Morris I. Penn and grandmother Riva Kremer. The gift was given by Lynn Gordon and Hyman Penn; Pam and Robert Penn, Jordan and Jamie; and Cynthia and Barry Weinberger, Melanie and Lauren.
Kremer was born Aug. 12, 1906, and spent much of her early life in Grodno, Poland, where her husband ran a dry cleaning business. When the Nazis overran Grodno in the summer of 1941, Kremer – then 36 – was sent to Treblinka, one of the most notorious Nazi death camps. Her husband and son were immediately sent to the gas chambers, but Kremer and her daughter, Linda, were pulled aside and survived.
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Morris Penn was born in Lithuania, where the Jewish population built a vibrant cultural and religious life before World War II. When Germany overran Lithuania in the summer of 1941, he and his family were captured but later fled into hiding. His mother and sister were betrayed and murdered in 1942. He and his brother survived in hiding and eventually made it to Houston in 1949. In December 1951, Morris married Linda Kremer, whom he had met in displaced persons camp in Austria.
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Manchester University head track and field coach Brian Cashdollar and head women's soccer coach Andy Stout announced that Jessica Bremer and David Sheridan have joined the Spartans' athletics' staff. Bremer will be an assistant for the Spartan track and field program, while Sheridan will assist with the MU women's soccer program.
Bremer, who earned a Bachelor of Science degree in exercise and sports sciences from Manchester University in May 2011, returns to her alma mater after serving as a graduate assistant for DePauw University's cross country and track and field teams from 2011-13. She also has coaching experience from being an intern for the Huntington University cross country program in 2009 and a counselor for the Yoder-Begley and Three Rivers distance camps and DePauw's cross country mini-camp from 2088-11 and in 2012.
Sheridan, who earned a Bachelor of Science degree in graphic design from Mount Ida (Mass.) College's Chamberlyn School of Design, held previous positions as a women's team volunteer assistant at NCAA Division I American University, as a girls team assistant at Washington and Lee (Va.) and Newton South (Mass.) High Schools and as a coach for various club and youth teams in Texas and Virginia. He also has extensive playing experience having held guide then Mount Ida Junior College to the National Junior College Athletic Association Division I national tournament and San Antonio College of Texas' club team to the semifinals of the National Intramural/Recreational Sports Association tourney as well as competing overseas in the Irish and Welsh Premier Divisions and Scottish First Division.


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Definitions of pagan
n. - One who worships false gods; an idolater; a heathen; one who is neither a Christian, a Mohammedan, nor a Jew. 2
n. - Of or pertaining to pagans; relating to the worship or the worshipers of false goods; heathen; idolatrous, as, pagan tribes or superstitions. 2
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Katy Perry Lip-Syncs at NRJ Music Awards, Goes for the Gold on Red Carpet [VIDEO, PHOTOS]
Katy Perry performed at the NRJ Music Awards in France, (Dec. 14), but the singer's live version wasn't that. At first. She was lip-syncing and it was out of time, Milli Vanilli style. She was stopped by a dude in a suit who said they had a problem with the song. They hit the reset button and then it was … live.
What was that about? That couldn't have been planned ... or was it? We don't know.
While Perry is not the best live singer or performer, especially with her vocals, this was a bit strange. It appears as though she may have gotten caught not singing live and then flipped the switch to live singing,
It has to be embarrassing for her since it's such a suspicious performance to go from not live to live.
Update: NRJ released a statement on Dec. 17 stating that the "wrong mix" was played during her live performance of 'Roar.' They added: "TF1 & NRJ would like to apologize to NRJ double award winner Katy Perry for this technical problem beyond our control."
However, Perry did look amazeballs on the red carpet, in a short in front, slightly longer in back, asymmetrically hemmed dress by Osman. It was cream in color, with gold embellishments. She was 24-karat.