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The role of mass transit In Brooklyn's renaissance
With 220 Riverside underway and the Riverside YMCA's proposed project, Brooklyn is on the verge of becoming the hottest area of Jacksonville's urban core. On Wednesday morning, Mayor Alvin Brown added gas to the fire by signing legislation authorizing the city to move forward with public investment to support the development of Riverside Park.
According to a press release from the Mayor's Office, with 300 apartments and 65,000 square feet of retail, Riverside Park would become a neighbor to the 220 Riverside project, a $30 million investment that broke ground in November at Riverside Avenue and Jackson Street. That project includes 294 residential units along with 16,500 square feet of retail space, anchoring a public park provide enough green space to accommodate roughly 1,000 people. In addition, the Riverside YMCA is proposing to construct a new 85,000 square foot structure across the street with room to add a mid-rise mixed-use development at a later date.
Massing model of the Riverside Park project shown in white. Graphic courtesy of Metro Jacksonville's Jason.
As for Riverside Park, its retail component will most likely result in downtown's only new grocery store for the foreseeable future. In essence, not only is Brooklyn poised to make a comeback, it has the ingredients to become it's own self enclosed urban node with limited connectivity with the rest of downtown. Without addressing the issue of mass transit, Brooklyn simply becomes an isolated node of activity and a competitor to the revitalization of the rest of downtown. This goes against the basic principle of urban living in downtown, which is for residents to enjoy a lifestyle that doesn't require a trip to the car to access basic necessities.
Massing model of proposed Brooklyn projects. Graphic courtesy of Metro Jacksonville's Jason.
Considering the momentum and Brooklyn based focus, it's time for the Mayor's Office, the Downtown Investment Authority (DIA), Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA), and the City Council to get together and seriously attempt to address the role mass transit can play in bringing the overall downtown core to the next level.
With this in mind, here are a few projects worth taking a look at in Brooklyn.
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MarketingMerge.com is a company that has many different divisions within it. It is the umbrella in which we host all of our products such as Renegade University, Renegade Professional, Coaching Cognition, PBN (Professionals, Businesses and Non-Profits and others.)
We started a couple of years ago online and our mission is teaching people and businesses how to start a building their business successfully online, by providing step by step video training, resources, coaches, trainers and anything they need to succeed online.
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Exhibit - Painting | February 27 – July 21, 2019 every Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
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Bringing together nearly seventy works spanning the entirety of the artists career, this exhibition presents a fresh and eye-opening examination of Hans Hofmanns prolific and innovative artistic practice. Featuring paintings and works on paper from 1930 through the end of Hofmanns life in 1966, the exhibition includes numerous masterworks from BAMPFAs distinguished collection as well as many seldom-seen works from both public and private collections across North America and Europe. The Nature of Abstraction provides new insight into Hofmanns continuously experimental approach to painting and the expressive potential of color, form, and space, reconnecting many of the artists most iconic late-career paintings with dozens of remarkably robust, prescient, and understudied works from the 1930s and 1940s.
Hofmann was a multi-generational synthesis of student, artist, and teacher/mentor, whose singular artistic development and achievement manifested as a unique amalgamation of artistic influences and innovations that bridged two world wars and pan-Atlantic avant-gardes. Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction offers new audiences the chance to discover this magnificent body of work for the first time, and a fresh opportunity for those already familiar with the artist to experience new revelations across the full arc of his career.
BAMPFA holds the worlds most extensive museum collection of Hofmanns paintings. In 1963, the German-born, American artist donated to the University of California nearly fifty paintings and a significant cash contribution toward the completion of BAMPFAs first museum building, which opened in 1970. The artist made this extraordinary gift in recognition of the Universitys decisive role in his immigration to America from Germany, allowing him to escape World War II and start in America as a teacher and artist.
On view at BAMPFA from February 27 through July 21, the exhibition will also be presented at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts September 21, 2019January 6, 2020.
Hans Hofmann: The Nature of Abstraction is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalog from UC Press featuring new scholarly perspectives from the exhibitions curator Lucinda Barnes, Ellen G. Landau, and Michael Schreyach; available February 2019 in the BAMPFA Store.
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UW-Bothell puts great emphasis on developing undergraduate students' research abilities. The significance of developing undergraduate students' research abilities is reflected in a variety of events and workshops held on our campus each quarter. They are offered by the Undergraduate Research Office located in the Student Success Center on the first floor of UW 1. The workshops and events will facilitate your research and writing processes. You can also check out some resources (e.g. iPads and Microsoft Surface Tablet) from the Office. Further information about the events and workshops can be found on the following websites:
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This wayward son is still on his treacherous journey to increase test coverage in src/extend_vtable.c. When we last left off our traveler, he explained what the mythical VTABLE beast looked like, and we shall continue with the study of this chimerical fauna.
According to the latest code coverage statistics, we are now at 64% code coverage, which is an increase of about 10% since my last report. Most of this grant work concentrated on vtables that required Key PMCs. A Key PMC is an object that can be used to look something up in a Hash PMC or other aggregated object that supports "keyed access". It is very much similar to a "hash key" that can be used to look up the appropriate value.
One of the lessons that I have learned in working on these tests is that it is very easy to write tests that pass on gcc, but which absolutely explode with g++. This has to do with gcc not being as strict when some questionable type casting is done. I have learned my lesson and I promise not to break the test suite anymore. I will use g++ in my testing from now on, promise!
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Anyway, this tradition carries on even for dogs that had been living in the comfort of human homes for generations. Tradition just works like that sometimes, you don't know why you and your buddies high five when you're celebrating something, you just do it because that's what people do. You would think that at some point you'd reevaluate it if instead of slapping hands you were fucking eating your own shit. But again, they're dogs. And on that subject, explanations for poop eating outside of cleaning up for pups includes boredom (imagine being so bored that eating your own shit seems like a fun way to kill a few minutes do your dog a favor and toss a stick it) and just general cleanliness. I noticed that when meeting another dog, Rex frantically sniffs the other dog's anus, while the other dog returns the favor in a kind of Yin Yang of ass sniffing. Worse, sometimes when a person comes to the door, he'll do the same to them! How much more savage should the beatings become to cull this disrespect?" Just as each human has a unique face, each dog has a unique ass stank. If you've ever wondered why dogs sniff each other's asses on meeting, wonder no more. They don't need to see a face, just smell an ass. "Get me as many pictures of dogs sniffing asses as you can find!" Cracked Editorial Staff. It's not, however, because they want to smell the dried shit and fart residue around there. Dogs have two glands around their anus, and sacs that emit a fluid. That stuff tells another dog everything they need to know; the dog's sex, how healthy they are, what their diet is like, even their mood. If you think we're oakley si ballistic m frame strike 3 exaggerating, keep in mind a dog's sense of smell is 100,000 times more sensitive than a human's. To them, there's a whole autobiography written out in that other dog's asshole. "Oh, so you're originally from Memphis, OK." 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Yes, once again an evolutionary leftover makes your dog look retarded. Back in their wild days, when they did not have rugs or beds from PETCO to sleep on, turning around a few times before lying down would flatten any tall grass. That served the dual purpose of making the area more comfortable and to scour the spot for unpleasant creatures like snakes that could bite the hell out of a dog while it slept. It turns out that turning around is also an excellent form of temperature regulation. It not only clears tall grass and debris from a spot on the ground, but it exposes a cooler layer of dirt. In arid weather conditions, when a mud puddle or some kind of air conditioned PRADA doggy pillow may not be available, this difference in temperature can be invaluable for oakley si fives squared 1 the animal's comfort. The fact that a mud puddle is considered to be a luxury in the canine world makes us a little sad. Not as sad as the boredom shit eating, though. 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The House of Mirth is a novel of New York society manners. The heroine is Lily Bart an impoverished socialite who lives off a small inheritance and her Aunt Julia's generosity. She travels the inner circle of the New York elite by being charming and beautiful; something she finds increasingly more difficult the older she gets. There is a price to pay, when living off the rich. Lily has to be lively and entertaining, even when she doesn't feel up to it.
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This is a re-read for me. I read this last winter and this time around with my book club. I loved the way Wharton writes. It's rich and descriptive. You can almost feel the silk of Lily's dress. She's as good at describing a New York drawing room as she is the worries and thoughts running through Lily's mind. Wharton is brutally honest and hard on New York society, of which she herself was born into.
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Clam-Stuffed Mushrooms
Total TimePrep: 20 min. Bake: 20 min.
Makes2 dozen
- 24 large fresh mushrooms
- 2 cans (6-1/2 ounces each) minced clams, drained
- 3/4 cup dry bread crumbs
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 1/2 cup finely chopped green pepper
- 1 small onion, finely chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 tablespoons Italian seasoning
- 2 tablespoons dried parsley flakes
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 1-1/2 cups butter, melted, divided
- 1/2 cup shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese
- Remove mushroom stems (discard or save for another use); set caps aside. In a large bowl, combine the clams, bread crumbs, Parmesan cheese, green pepper, onion, garlic, Italian seasoning, parsley and pepper. Stir in 3/4 cup butter. Fill each mushroom cap with about 1 tablespoon clam mixture.
- Place in an ungreased 15x10x1-in. baking pan. Sprinkle with mozzarella cheese; drizzle with remaining butter. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 20-25 minutes or until lightly browned. Serve warm.
Nutrition Facts1 each: 140 calories, 13g fat (8g saturated fat), 35mg cholesterol, 220mg sodium, 4g carbohydrate (1g sugars, 1g fiber), 3g protein.
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I have been making these mushrooms for many years. They are delicious Exactly as the recipe is written. . It is a lot of butter but they come out so good! I usually make them for holidays. I always chop the peppers and onion really fine. I have made them in large stuffing mushrooms but also small size mushrooms.
Nov 22, 2011
Very delicious! I omit the italian seasoning and use italian seasoned bread crumbs, it worked out fine. You definitely want to chop the green pepper very fine, the first time I made them the peppers were a little strong so I put in half as much the next time and it was much better.
Sep 14, 2011
We loved these mushrooms. I made half the recipe using baby bellas to try it out. Next time I need to chop the green pepper more finely.
May 25, 2010
Loved this recipe because it wasn't another cream cheese muschroom recipe. It was very good! The mixture filled more than 24 mushrooms. It is alot of butter too. I think next time I will use 1/2 cup to mix in the clam mixture, and only 1/2 c to drizzle on top. I loved the green pepper. Thanks for a great recipe!
Apr 9, 2010
Good recipe. I did use panko bread crumbs...love the texture. Also left out the mozzerella and the green peppers and just "eyeballed" the bread crumb amount and used only one can of clams. To be honest...i made 24 mushrooms with my modifications and had extra leftover crumb mixture ...either someone is using huge mushrooms *i used button* or you will have extra leftover! will make again. great and super easy!
Feb 26, 2009
This is a good recipe but next time I will use less Italian seasoning. I used Italian dry bread crumbs which added flavor and the seasoning is to 'crusty' when it doesn't get cooked into a sauce.


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They say today is Joe & Lee Gregson's birthday, I thought it was on the 10th. Yesterday was to be the church picnic at Round Prairie Church. I guess they had it, I don't know, it was to be last Sun. but they postponed it on account of rain, but it was worse yesterday. Papa went up to Hecker with the machine this morning to get some laying mash for the chickens. Victor Eichenseer was here and looked at the valve in the tank in the basement. Henry came up this morning too. He said the roads weren't bad only if you meet some one, he had chains on. We sold 57 lbs. springs [chickens], 50 lbs at .20¢ and 7 lbs. at .18¢. Papa took up this afternoon, and also 4 doz. eggs at .25¢. It was raining all most all day. We got 2 socks of laying mash so for now yesterday we found 21 eggs. We patched stockings today while it was raining. Rosalia went to get the paper this evening. Miss Lucille Miller won the Chev. Roadster last Sat. night for having the most votes of the popularity contest.
September 15, 2011
Monday, Sept. 15, 1930
By Angie Kelly
This entry was posted on Thursday, September 15th, 2011 at 1:58 am and tagged with Anton, birthday, Chevrolet Roadster, eggs, Eichenseer, Gregson, Hecker, Henry, laying_mash, Miller, Rosalia, Round_Prairie_Church, spring_chickens and posted in 1930, September. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.


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Spinelli's Market sold, but founders still feeling saucy
Spinelli's Market, a beloved family-owned grocery that has served the Park Hill neighborhood for 20 years, was sold in April, but founders Jerry and Mary Ellen Spinelli have not exactly retired.
Spinelli's Sauce Co. will continue in partnership with co-owner Chris Rogers, who apparently also has marinara in her veins. The market will continue operating under the new leadership of John and Ted Moutzouris, who grew up in another family-owned Denver food outlet, Pete's Fruit and Vegetables.
The decision to leave the grocery wasn't an easy one, Jerry Spinelli says. "Age" was the big driver, he says with a laugh. "I'm 66 and my wife is 63. We've been there 20 years. It was an opportune time."


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The new issue of my Roctober Magazine features a huge article on the history and highlights of the truck driving country and western genre that ruled the roads and airwaves in 60s and 70s. To celebrate the release of the magazine we gave away truckdriving music cassettes featuring covers of classics and originals by the Roctober staff. For those of you who missed the party, or who don't have a cassette player, we are posting the compilation in its entirety here, including the "bonus track," a rare 70s soul 45 that is all time funkiest trucking tune. Here are the stories of the cover songs and bonus tracks, adapted from the pages of the magazine:
"Six Days on the Road" by Dave Dudley (#1, 1963)
Dudley is, in death as in life, The King of the Truckdriving Songs. His booming voice and the big, boss guitar sound of his better known songs (provided by Johnny Voit) defined the truckstop sound, which was just coming into being when he cut his breakthrough smash, 1963's "Six Days on The Road." The song is the perfect trucker tune; his manly monotone invokes the macho of the road cowboys, yet he's not too manly to avoid expressing his (universal theme of) longing for home ("my hometown's coming in sight/If you think I'm happy you're right!"), plus there's enough trucker lingo to sound authentic, but not so much as to baffle Beetle drivers ("I just passed a Jimmy and a White"¦I'm a little overweight and my logbooks way behind"). Not to mention some of the only pro-drug lyrics aimed at Republicans in the 60s ("I'm taking little white pills and my eyes are open wide").
From there, it was on to big rig classics like "Truck Driving Son Of a Gun" (#3, 1965), "There Ain't No Easy Run" (#10, 1969), and "Thanks For All The Miles," speaking a language the truckers understood (long before the C.B. craze of the mid-70s and its subsequent novelty hits). Not that Dudley was above doing novelties, check out the almost-Rockabilly "Cowboy Boots" (#3, 1963) or the hilarious "Rolaids, Doan's Pills, and Preparation H" (which tells you what truck drivers REALLY live on). Dudley had a big, full sound, the kind that, along with Johnny Cash or George Jones, could win over the average rocker who's just getting his feet wet in the Country pool. He sang in two keys, matter of fact and that's that. Dudley's career didn't begin or end in the truckdriving song era that he helped launch. He was a rockabilly artist for King in the 50s and just two years before his death he released a truck driving reaction to the September 11th attacks called "You Ain't Gonna Truck with Us" on his album "American Trucker."
Though he was far from a one trick pony (his half-century career yielded well over thirty LPs, most of non-big rig c&w), between 1963 and 2001 he recorded at least 75 songs about trucks, one for every year he lived. When he rode off into the sunset in 2003 naturally, I expected to hear tales of truckers hanging their little flags at half-mast after Dudley made his last run, but, when I asked my friend, Pope, who's a trucker himself, he just said, "Nahh, these younger guys don't know anything about that." But, we remember Dave Dudley, the real patron saint of truck drivers everywhere.
"The Girl on the Billboard," Del Reeves (#5, 1968)
Franklin Delano Reeves had a long career, which hit its groove in 1961 with his first chart record "Be Quiet Mind" (#9, 1961). He hit the top of the country charts with the truckdriving tune "The Girl on the Billboard" in 1965. This ridiculous ditty in which Reeve's trucking persona obsesses over a sexy billbnoard he keeps seeing as he hammers down the highways ("You'll find tiny pieces of my heart scattered every which a way/Shattered by the girl wearing nothing but a smile/And a towel in the picture on the billboard in the field near the big old highway," followed by the timeless lyric, "A doo da doo doo doo doo da doo doo doo dee da dee dee doo") adapts the Johnny Cash "chicka-boom" rhythm that the Man in Black so often used to simulate train sounds to both overtly suggest the rhythm of the road and perhaps covertly bring to mind the sound of the song's self-declared "double-clutching weasel" protagonist pumping his own piston as he stares at the title character. That song, and many of his signature tunes (including "Women Do Funny Things to Me," #9, 1965, "The Belles of the Southern Belle," #4, 1965, and "Philadelphia Fillies," #9, 1971) were lighthearted, girl-happy novelty ditties, to go along with a career in which his comic persona (doing impressions at the Grand Ole Opry, hosting a zany TV variety show, appearing in a Burt Reynolds' movie) outshone his music.
However, his finest moment as a recording artist was a truckdriving song that seemed more about sublimely expressing the sincere joys of the life of the road than it was in getting giggles. In "Looking At The world Through A Windshield" a second generation trucker comes to understand his father's lifestyle as he starts, "looking at the world through a windshield" and seeing, "everything in a little bit different light." With this song's swelling chorus, as rousing as a German drinking song, and the fantastic rhythmic phonics of the lyrics ("I've pushed this rig through sleet and rain/And I've driven through the rough terrain/Of the Rockies to the docks of old L.A./On down that old Pacific shore/Swing north and head for Baltimore/Or some place 'bout two thousand miles away") songwriters Jerry Chesnut and Mike Hoyer composed one of the most convincing tributes to trucking. Though he died on New Years Day 2007 Reeves continues to impact popular culture. Without his support Billy Ray Cyrus would never have made it, and if that didn't happen we'd have no Hannah Montana today. And when Hannah covers "Girl on the Billboard" the circle will close. (unless it already did, due to the out of court settlement"¦but that's another story).
Here's "Looking at the World" live on TV, and here's "Looking at the World" through 60s home movies of driving:
"Give Me 40 Acres (To Turn This Rig Around)" by The Willis Brothers (#9, 1964)
There are plenty of trucking songs about despair, death and destruction (and even ghosts) on the highway, including King of Bluegrass Jimmy Martin's poignant classic "Widowmaker," the tale of Billy Mack, a trucker who will never see his beloved Wanda Ann again because he drove his rig into oblivion rather than plow into a stalled busload of kids, honoring that "one life for ten has always been the diesel driver's code." But to my knowledge there are only two about trucking chaos in the Northeast. The more serious of the pair is "A Tombstone Every Mile," by the eye-patched "Baron of Country Music" Dick Curless, the tale of a "stretch of road up north in Maine that's never, ever, ever, seen a smile/If they buried all the truckers lost in them Woods there'd be a tombstone every mile."
A far more light-hearted turn on the theme of truckin' gone bad in New England is presented by the Willis Brothers, the Grand Ole' Opry members whose long career (from the early 30s to mid 90s) is validated by history because they backed up Hank Williams on some key early records, and is validated by Billboard by this, their sole Top 10 hit. This goofy novelty tune is this tale of a rookie trucker reduced to tears by the narrow, congested, tangled, one-way city streets of Boston. Perhaps this is an allegory about a collective Southern inferiority complex/sense of marginalization in the long wake of Civil War defeat. Or maybe it just sucks to drive in Boston.
Hear the original:
"Soul Dog Pt. 1" by Soul Dog (R&B #65, 1976)
"Soul Dog" is a funky CB-novelty song using Blaxploitation soundtrack wah wah and sassy soul sister backup vocals to tell the tale of b-a-a-a-d black trucker who is doing 95 miles an hour through the South, where a redneck highway patrolman (who keeps calling Soul Dog "boy") is outfoxed by the speedy trucker. Soul Dog eventually gets up to 250 miles an hour, and his woman is near orgasmic as she urges him to "whip it, Soul Dog, bring it on home." "Soul Dog" was portrayed by Sweet Charles Sherrell, best known for playing bass (and some keys) for James Brown from 1968 through the early 80s (he also co-wrote some songs including "Get Up Offa That Thing"), and for his 1974 solo album on Brown's People label. Songwriter Willie Johnson composed the tune and Sherrell produced and did the vocals on what stands as the all-time funkiest CB record, good buddies.
- Road Hog by Johnny Sampson
- Give Me 40 Acres (To Turn This Rig Around) by Japanese Master Track
- Angel of the Rest Stop by The Slow Poisoner
- Girl on the Billboard by High A-Wake-A-Fi
- Ridin' High by Velcro Lewis Band
- Comin Home by Slink Moss
- Six Days on the Road by Gentleman John Battles
- Trucker Song by F. R. Forster
- Harley Girls by Short Punks in Love
- Truck Stop by Gary Pig Gold
- Orlando Run by Ken Burke
- Roll Truck Roll by Slink Moss
- Soul Dog by Sweet Charles


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(March 23, 2015) – The Town of Ocean City is once again offering a great opportunity for residential property owners to do their spring-cleaning by offering free residential bulk pick-up on Saturday and Sunday, April 11-12. As an added attraction, Ocean City also will offer a Community Yard Sale on Saturday, April 11 at Northside Park.
Ocean City's bulk pick-up service offers a convenient way for residents to get rid of large household items, such as furniture, appliances, bicycles, carpet, etc., which cannot normally be loaded into a standard refuse truck. Normally, this service does not include building materials, yard debris, etc. However, during the Spring Clean Up the town will be accepting these items.
Place your items curbside (staff does not go on private property to remove items) on Friday, April 10, for Saturday April 11 pick-up from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sunday, April 12 pick-up from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Town is providing bulk pick-up free of charge during this period. At other times, cost for bulk pick-up is $20 per pick-up of one item, $30 for up to three items and $5 for each additional item. There will also be an amnesty program to collect fireworks, old ammunition and old weapons that residents may have in their household and need to be removed. For more information, call Solid Waste at 410-524-0318.
As part of the Spring Clean Up, Ocean City's 14th annual Community Yard Sale will be held on Saturday, April 11, from 7a.m. until noon at Northside Park. The yard sale will be held on the parking lot at Northside Park on 125th Street in front of the Community Center. Vendor spots will be available for Ocean City residents and property owners only. Space is limited, so please apply in advance. The cost is $15 per double space. If space is still available, participants may register before 7 a.m. on the day of the event for $20. Participants can begin setting up their items for sale no earlier than 6 a.m. All items need to be removed by 12:30 p.m.
No retail merchandise will be permitted for sale, and no personal or professional services are permitted for sale. Certain items may be excluded for sale including cars, trucks and any powered wheel conveyance; boats, snowmobiles, firearms, martial arts weapons, alcohol, paint, hazardous chemicals, food, produce, beverages or any other items which may be deemed inappropriate on public property. Raffles are not allowed.
To register, stop by the Ocean City Department of Recreation and Parks Northside Park Community Center, 200 125th Street. For more information about the Community Yard Sale, call 410-250-0125.


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Designerkitchen in a Victorian house
Edmondson Interior Urban Chic
Victorian style meets BORA Professional
In a Victorian property from the mid-19th century, Edmondson Interiors from Goudhurst, Kent created a kitchen with character, flair and a certain Victorian style. When choosing the materials, great focus was placed on not only their colour but also their texture. Natural stone, wood and stainless steel dominate the kitchen design, with copper-coloured panels adding a touch of extravagance.
The ambitious amateur chef not only wanted a customised look but also a kitchen that offers plenty of storage space intelligently tailored to work processes as well as perfectly functioning appliances. When it came to the cooktop and cooktop extractor, BORA Professional was the ideal choice, impressing the customer with its perfect functioning, material authenticity, rotary-knob-based operation like in professional kitchens and simple cleaning. The customer opted for a combination of an induction cooktop, Tepan grill and BORA cooktop extractor, which provides an exceptional extraction experience. Cooking vapours and odours are directly draw away at the cooktop. The air is cleaned and returned to the room so no heat is lost from the house. The Tepan grill is also a clear favourite with the couple Kelly and Sam. It can be used to cook anything you like and simply cleaned with citric acid.
It was also possible to meet the desire for plenty of storage space (tailored to the work processes in the kitchen). Large drawers for pots and pans are located directly beneath the BORA Professional cooktop extractor system.
Kitchen studio: Edmondson Interiors
Designer: Simon Gray
Photos: Nick Smith
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$150 Anderson Seafoods Giveaway
If you like fish or seafood, then I'm pretty sure you're going to love this $150 Giveaway for Anderson Seafoods
About: Anderson Seafoods was established in 1979, with the goal of providing premium seafood products and superior service to our valued customers in the most sustainable and innovative ways.
Starting from a small family venture in Orange, California. Anderson Seafoods has evolved into a full-scale, state-of-the-art operation and is recognized as a leading authority in the seafood industry.
Also check out their great Recipes for inspiration!
To Enter the Giveaway:
1. Go to the Anderson Seafood website and tell me what you'd spend your $150 on!
Tell me your favorite fish, seafood, or seafood recipe. What makes you say mmmm?
2. For a second entry, Twitter Follow Me and Twitter Follow Anderson Seafoods and then tweet the following:
"I love free seafood! I entered to win @loveveggiesyoga @AndersonSeafood $150 Seafood Giveaway http://tiny.cc/r853o"
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Facebook Like Me, Facebook Like Anderson Seafoods, Sign up for their Email Exclusives (bottom right corner of website) Stumble Follow Me & Stumble It, Pinterest Follow Me, Instagram Follow Me (<–my latest obsession!) or post this Giveaway on your blog.
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When the Swedish police raided the home of a 54-year-old illegal weapons dealer, they scored quite a load. Aside from the more "conventional" firearms like sawed-off shotguns and homemade machine guns, the police also found a double-barrel shotgun hidden inside a guitar.
The neck of the guitar has been hollowed out and equipped with two shotgun barrels, while the body of the string instrument contained the beginnings of trigger mechanism.
The man said the guitar gun was "a fun thing that was not finished" but failed to mention if he drew any inspiration from Desperado. Though to be fair, his guitar gun with string trigger would have definitely one upped a firing guitar case. [The Local via Reddit via Neatorama]


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How to Start Homeschooling Mid-Year
Or After a "Conventional School" Year
Getting Started
"Commit your way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass." (Psalm 37:5 KJV)
• "I Feel Overwhelmed! Where Do I Begin?"
• "Charting Your Homeschool Course"
• "What Curriculum Should You Use?"
• "What Does It Cost to Homeschool?"
• "What to Do with Your Preschooler/Early Learner"
• A Day in Our Homeschool: Read the accounts of more than 100 homeschool families—ideas and inspiration (and encouragement that you are not alone).
• "Dad to Dad"—Messages to homeschool dads from homeschool dads!
• Exploring Homeschooling Are you just considering homeschooling? Or maybe you're just starting your family's homeschool journey? Get your questions answered and increase your confidence as you become equipped with practical tips and resources! Join HSLDA's educational consultants and Senior Counsel Scott Woodruff for this encouraging introduction to the wonderful world of homeschooling. You can do it!
By Vicki Bentley
Are you considering homeschooling for the first time mid-year, or know someone else thinking of starting after the holidays. What does homeschooling look like? Do you have to buy desks? Or set up learning stations? Maybe you areexcited about just reading books with your child and exploring the worlds they open up … so how important is it to have a really formal school program if you start homeschooling in the middle of the school year?
Start With a Plan—Even if It is Very Basic
Regardless of your kids' ages or your homeschooling "style," it's important to have a plan—set some goals, determine what you want to accomplish the rest of the year, and then select materials or activities to help meet those goals.
Of course, you'll want to first be aware of any legal requirements for your state. HSLDA members have personal access to the legal staff for their state. (Not a member? This is a great time to join.)
From the practical perspective, think of homeschooling as a journey, and your curriculum—your course of study—is the road map, or the directions. If I called you and asked for directions, you'd probably want to know where I am and where I wanted to go. Same with homeschooling!
Need help figuring out where your child is? Our site has information on placement tests, skills checklists, and other evaluative tools.
Not sure where you're headed? Need help with age-appropriate and developmentally appropriate expectations? Check out our article, "What Should I Be Teaching?"
Freedom or Formality?
Some children coming out of a conventional school, mid-year or not, may feel more secure in the familiar, structured class setting—especially at first—so you can do "the desk thing," or you can relax a bit and sit at the kitchen table or the coffee table. The organization section at our website has more tips, including how to incorporate learning stations into your home decor!
If by formal, you mean having an outlined plan, many moms feel more comfortable having some specific goals, and we all feel more secure with a routine of sorts.
With primary students, our main goals are to give them lots of physical and creative play, experiences and discovery learning—think of these as "hooks" on which to hang their future learning. Remember, what looks like play to us is work to them!
As our children get older, our expectations increase with their maturity. We want to continue to nurture academic excellence (along with faith and character) to encourage self-motivated learners!
Besides curriculum, establishing a workable routine will give your children security. You can be somewhat flexible, but don't compromise on basic skill subjects and Bible/character. When we start out, sometimes we only know to do what we experienced, so we tend to re-create school at home. But home education is more than just school at home—it's a lifestyle choice, a relationship of mentoring and discipling our children—a lifestyle of learning.
How Will Your Child Handle the Mid-Year Change?
The transition is not only academic, but also emotional and spiritual. His familiar routine—his security—has changed. Be patient with your child, and remember that this is new for him, too. He may miss his friends or activities—or even his teachers. Be prepared to hear, "That's not how my teacher did it!"
Invest some time to become reacquainted with your child. While the temptation is to delve heavily into academics—especially if one of your goals is to catch up a child who has lagged a bit scholastically—pay attention to his passions, gifts, interests, areas of strength and areas of need. Have a plan, but hold it loosely and make adjustments along the way.
On the social front: Local support groups are a big help in providing social opportunities, but don't get overwhelmed with extracurricular activities.
By the way, not all kids are thrilled to be homeschooled—whether a mid-year decision or not.
One of our girls, at age 14, became unhappy with our decision. We told her we were sorry she wasn't happy, but as parents, it is not our job to make our children happy—it is our job to do what God has called us to do with them. Her dad and I will stand before God and answer for how we raised our girls.
She graduated as a homeschooler and sent us a thank-you note for sticking with homeschooling even through the tumultuous times. She now writes curriculum and homeschool blogs, and they homeschool their three little girls. What would she say was the greatest benefit? That her heart was drawn to God and to her family.
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Berenice Bejo Gossip
Berenice Bejo gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
Cannes 2013 Wrap: Award Season shapes up
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With Steven Spielberg, never the most controversial or daring filmmaker in a room, as the jury president, many expected the Cannes prizes to go to Hollywood-friendly films, but Spielberg surprised many when his jury picked the French film Blue is the Warmest Colour, adapted from a French graphic novel about a girl falling in love with an older woman, for the Palme d'Or. Full Story
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Blue seems to be the sartorial theme for Berenice Bejo in Cannes. Click here to see the outfit she wore to the photo call earlier today. And here she is in a gorgeous blue blazer over white tulle at the Palais for the premiere of Le Passe tonight. Full Story
Worst Oscar Hair: Berenice Bejo
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It's not that I hate this hairstyle in general, it's just that I think it's a terrible fit with the dress. Wait. Maybe I do hate it in general. Too severe and harsh? It just...did nothing for her. No surprise that Berenice Bejo was in Elie Saab. That much was foreshadowed during Paris Fashion Week. Click here Full Story
SAG Worst Dressed: Berenice Bejo
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Look, I'm not saying it was mega offensive in the traditional sense of the word or anything, but if you've seen the artist, and the costuming in the film, you know Berenice Bejo can be spectacular. And when you're a nominee and your film is considered a frontrunner, you are allowed to be spectacular at the SAG Awards. Full Story


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Joan Carroll, Liquidnet
Today's world is increasingly characterized by internet-availability of massive open datasets, repositories teaming with fresh algorithms, around-the-clock market data feeds, and many forms of scalable, web-integrated NoSQL datastores. Joan discusses a "Lean Data Analysis" approach to managing a Big Data project when the tools available include: a desktop equipped with net connectivity, MATLAB, and a freely-available NoSQL datastore (MongoDB). Anecdotal examples and results are demonstrated first-hand, reflecting one data scientist's journey to train and test an improvised ML model over billions of data points and then benchmark-test the fitted model against competing algorithms.
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Attention Florida lawmen: You will be arrested for defending the Second Amendment.
By Joe A. Wolverton
New American
June 8, 2013
The duly-elected sheriff of Liberty County, Florida, has been run out of office, suspended without pay, and arrested for refusing to deprive a citizen in his jurisdiction of his Second Amendment rights.
Earlier this week, Liberty County Sheriff Nick Finch (shown) was arrested after being charged with misconduct based on his alleged altering and destroying of official court documents. Finch, 50, was booked into the county jail but was later released on his own recognizance.
Upon learning of the incident, Governor Rick Scott immediately suspended Sheriff Finch and appointed Carl Causey, an agent in charge of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, as interim sheriff.
According to court documents obtained by The New American, the case against Sheriff Finch began when Floyd Eugene Parrish was arrested on March 8 for carrying a concealed weapon. Sergeant James Hoagland of the Liberty County Sheriff's office arrested Parrish after pulling him over and finding a loaded pistol in his pocket. Parrish was booked into a holding cell while administrative officers began working up the processing documents.
The court records released to The New American also reveal that after Sergeant Hoagland left the county jail, Sheriff Finch arrived with a member of Parrish's family and was present while the family member visited with Parrish while the latter was still in the holding cell. Sheriff Finch then allegedly seized the arrest documents, released Parrish, and informed him that no charges would be filed against him.
The complaint against Sheriff Finch alleges that Sergeant Hoagland informed Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FLDE) agents investigating the case against Finch that he (Hoagland) talked to Finch about the Parrish case and that Finch said he "believed in Second Amendment rights."
Workers in the Liberty County sheriff's office reportedly told investigators that Finch ordered them to release Parrish's pistol, as well as another gun seized from his car.
According to records published by the Liberty County supervisor of elections, Finch was elected sheriff in 2012, garnering 52.8 percent of the 3,201 votes cast.
In a statement released by his office, Governor Scott informed Liberty County residents that he believes the interim sheriff "will serve the families of Liberty County well during this interim term."
Governor Scott's confidence in Special Agent Causey's abilities aside, the question remains why a duly elected, constitutional sheriff was arrested for the actions he allegedly took? Why was Sheriff Finch not contacted by the FLDE or the governor and asked to answer the charges against him in a more disciplinary and less overtly legally hostile manner?
Furthermore, imagine that Sheriff Finch had released a man arrested and jailed for having openly preached Christianity in a public place. Would Governor Scott have been so hasty to remove Finch from office? Why would the rights protected by the Second Amendment be subordinate to those guaranteed by the First Amendment?
The protection of each of our God-given rights is as crucial to the perpetuation of liberty as any other. Freedom and self-government are threatened just as much by deprivation of the right to keep and bear arms as by a revocation of the right to exercise religion.
Sheriff Richard Mack, celebrated lawman and founder of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association (CSPOA), makes a few similar points in a statement to The New American about the case against Sheriff Finch. Sheriff Mack said:
The arrest of Sheriff Finch is totally unheard of. This incident does not rise to the level of an arrest being necessary. It certainly appears that ulterior motives by the Governor are likely. In such cases, if the Governor were to receive a complaint about a Sheriff then a discussion between the two would be in order.
There is absolutely no criminal intent on the part of Sheriff Finch, even if he did what the complaint alleges. Would the Governor have arrested a good Sheriff back in 1955 if he had released Rosa Parks after she was arrested for failing to give her seat to a white man? There is no difference here whatsoever!
The arrestee's rights were violated and good constitutional Sheriff stood and righted a wrong.
Thank the good Lord for such courageous Sheriffs today!
Governor Scott's persecution and prosecution of a sheriff standing up for the Second Amendment rights of citizens of his county is particularly questionable given the hostile climate that threatens the right to keep and bear arms nationally.
So constant is the assault from the federal government (and state governments) on the right to keep and bear arms, several of Sheriff Finch's colleagues in other counties have issued statements and imposed office policies protecting the Second Amendment in their jurisdictions and placing themselves as a shield between citizens and the gun grab being planned and perpetrated by the Obama administration and the United Nations.
As reported in January by The New American:
Elected sheriffs, as the top law enforcement officers within their counties, work for the citizens and taxpayers in their jurisdictions, not the federal government. Even the Supreme Court ruled that sheriffs cannot be compelled to follow federal dictates or mandates in a landmark case on gun control. Now, with Obama pushing hard for new restrictions on gun rights — finding strong support from some anti-Second Amendment Democrats in Congress and much of the increasingly discredited establishment media — sheriffs nationwide are putting their foot down to defend the rights of their constituents. Chief law enforcement officers from Kentucky, Oregon, Texas, California, Missouri, Idaho, Alabama, Colorado, South Carolina, Georgia, Minnesota, Florida, Nevada, Arizona, Ohio, New York, Utah, Oklahoma, and other states have all spoken out already — many of them in unison. It seems that virtually every single day, more sheriffs are adding their voices to the expanding list of prominent lawmen who have vowed to ensure that the U.S. Constitution is respected in their jurisdictions.
Regardless of the strength of the case against Sheriff Finch, Governor Scott's haste to remove him from office — an office to which he was elected by a majority of the voters of Liberty County — is compelling evidence that in Florida, political expediency is more valued than fidelity to the Constitution and the fundamental rights guaranteed by it.
In an exclusive interview with The New American, Sheriff Finch's attorney, Jim Judkins, reports that his client is resolved to defend himself and regain his office.
"He [Finch] has his jaw set and he's not going to flinch," Judkins said.
Judkins is amazed by the outpouring of support from Liberty County and across the country.
"A lot of people — lawyers, constitutional lawyers, gun rights activists, and those who want government out of their lives — have contacted me to tell me that they appreciate Sheriff Finch's stance," said Judkins.
Judkins reports that he has had no contact with Governor Scott's office, but says the time will come when people will be called to account for their role in pressing these "trumped up charges" against Sheriff Finch.
The story of how the charges came to be filed is shocking.
Sources close to the investigation recount the events of the night before Sheriff Finch was arrested.
At about 11:00 p.m., agents showed up at the jail with search warrants to seize the arrest records. After seizing the records, they subpoenaed employees.
Inexplicably and inexcusably, Sheriff Finch was never contacted by the FLDE and was never allowed to answer questions regarding the release of Parrish or his actions related to it.
This case will continue to gain attention nationwide as it pits a duly-elected sheriff arrested and suspended from office for defending the Second Amendment against a "conservative" governor.
Sheriff Finch is scheduled for an initial appearance in court sometime in July. Meanwhile, liberty-minded groups around the country are uniting to hold rallies and raise money for the defense of a lawman described by Sheriff Mack as "a good man and the real deal [who] has done nothing wrong."
Photo: Sheriff Nick Finch
Joe A. Wolverton, II, J.D. is a correspondent for The New American and travels frequently nationwide speaking on topics of nullification, the NDAA, and the surveillance state. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com


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I'm going to concentrate on making this spoon as seen in the above series. Pretty small and thin and with endless opportunities for decorations at the top (the commissioned one will have a hazel nut, echoing the wood type).
There is no Summer in the UK this year – the Jet Stream has gone on holiday apparently! However, the meadowy sides of the road into Bolton Abbey don't seem to mind, these spotted orchids have grown very tall:
I've been making the shave horse modification as Peter Galbert has neen kindly telling us about.
I got to the final stages today
Planing the base of the bed – from sweet chestnut. Look how you can hold a piece of wood. Holdfast at the far end. A dog underneath to slope it 10 degrees (or 1″ in 4″, I believe) and a dog aside, to stop the work wandering about the bench. It looks so rough as I was using the scrub plane. Finished it off with the jointer.
I did some glueing yesterday. This is the leg with the ratchet. Notice the filled tooth where I drilled for a dowel in the wrong place whilst talking to a passerby. I don't use steel cramps much but they were very useful this time, and here's a wooden one …
Blimey! Bit of an bondage moment, but these pieces are very technical. The wooden cramp is great. I tried to make one (an other unfinished project). They work so well , I must make some more. I acquired this one at The Bodgers' Ball this year in Devon.
This is the old horse stripped down readying for the new Smarthead (© Peter Galbert).
The slot needed enlarging:
I noticed the original cut-out was done with the chainsaw, I was a bit quieter this time and chopped it out.
That's about as far as I got as I managed to break the top-toothed member in testing. I'd used ash and the gluing hadn't taken (lousy planing I'm afraid t have to blummin' admit (again)). I'll be remaking it in elm – no way that'll split.
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The Houston Dynamo conceded a pair of first-half goals to Mexican club Atlante on Tuesday night en route to a 3-0 defeat at Estadio Andres Quintana Roo and elimination in the quarterfinals of the CONCACAF Champions League, 4-1 on aggregate.
Atlante became the first team to advance to the semifinals of the inaugural tournament, and they will meet either the Montreal Impact of the United Soccer Leagues or Honduran champions Marathon in the next round. Houston is the latest victim in an unfortunate streak for Major League Soccer clubs, who have yet to win a match on Mexican soil.
Things went sour inside of a half hour for the Dynamo, the lone MLS squad to advance to the knockout stages. Following a foul in the midfield, Atlante goalkeeper Federico Vilar found Fernando Navarro with a long, well-driven drive. The 19-year-old beat Houston defender Wade Barrett to the ball, headed it down, and then chipped it over Houston goalkeeper Pat Onstad from inside the six-yard box to give the hosts a 1-0 lead in the 23rd minute.
Just 13 minutes later, Atlante, which played the Dynamo to a 1-1 draw last week at Robertson Stadium, added a second goal when Houston defender Craig Waibel mistimed a header from a Navarro cross, giving Rafael Marquez Lugo space to put his open header from the penalty spot over Onstad's left shoulder and a 2-0 lead. Waibel was the lone change to Dominic Kinnear's squad from the first leg, replacing Bobby Boswell (tonsils), who scored the lone goal for Houston in the opener.
Waibel, though, went off at halftime, one of two changes for the start of the second half. Geoff Cameron and Corey Ashe came on and Barrett also came off, with Kinnear desperate for a more aggressive attack in the final 45 minutes.
Despite the changes and several good chances for Houston, noticably a Brian Ching header that went wide, Giancarlo Maldonado closed the game out for Atlante with a 90th-minute goal. Colombian Luis Gabriel Rey dribbled through three Houston defenders near the right corner flag and crossed the ball to Maldonado. The Venezuelan striker took the ball down off his chest and unleashed a rocket from eight yards out under the crossbar and into the net to book Atlante's ticket to the semifinals.
The Dynamo did have some scoring chances. In the 11th minute, Kei Kamara played a quality ball to Brian Mullan, who could not connect with a sliding Brad Davis at the back post. Seven minutes later, Mullan's hard work on the right side led to the Dynamo's first corner kick, but Houston found nothing to show for it.
In the 21st minute, Mullan's chip between two defenders found Kamara down the right. He cut the ball back inside the six-yard box but could not manage a shot. Five minutes later, Ching was open in front of goal, but Davis played the ball behind the big Hawaiian.
In the 67th minute, Ashe found Kamara, but he was called for a foul as his header sailed over the crossbar. Three minutes later, a Davis free kick deflected out for a corner, one of five for Houston on the night, but Ricardo Clark could not put his header on frame. Ching's best chance came six minutes later from an Ashe cross, which he headed wide at the far post.
Atlante, one of three Mexican sides remaining in the inaugural Champions League competition, earned a measure of revenge against Houston; in last summer's SuperLiga, the Dynamo claimed a 4-0 victory over Atlante at Robertson Stadium en route to the championship game.
Dylan Butler is a contributor to MLSnet.com.
Houston Dynamo vs. Atlante
March 3, 2009 -- Estadio Andrés Quintana Roo, Cancun MEX
2008-09 CONCACAF Champions League -- Quarterfinals, Game 2
Scoring Summary:
ATN -- Fernando Navarro 1 (Federico Vilar) 23
ATN -- Rafael Marquez Lugo 1 (Fernando Navarro) 36
ATN -- Giancarlo Maldonado 1 (Luis Gabriel Rey) 90
Houston Dynamo -- Pat Onstad, Richard Mulrooney, Craig Waibel (Geoff Cameron 46), Julius James, Wade Barrett (Corey Ashe 46), Brian Mullan (Chris Wondolowski 84), Ricardo Clark, Stuart Holden, Brad Davis, Kei Kamara, Brian Ching.
Substitutes not used: Tally Hall, Mike Chabala, John Michael Hayden, Corey Ashe, Chris Wondolowski.
Atlante -- Federico Vilar, Fernando Navarro, Miguel Angel Martinez, Gerardo Espinoza, Andres Carevic, Jose Guerrero (Luis Gerardo Venegas 53), Daniel Arreola (Giancarlo Maldonado 68), Gabriel Pereyra, Clemente Ovalle (Luis David Velazquez 83), Rafael Marquez Lugo, Luis Gabriel Rey.
Substitutes Not Used: Omar Ortiz, Christian Bermudez, Gerardo Castillo, Ismael Valadez.
Misconduct Summary:
ATN -- Miguel Angel Martinez (caution; Reckless Tackle) 10
HOU -- Richard Mulrooney (caution; Reckless Tackle) 33
HOU -- Kei Kamara (caution; Reckless Tackle) 34
HOU -- Julius James (caution; Reckless Tackle) 53
ATN -– Federico Vilar (caution; Delay of Game) 57
ATN -- Clemente Ovalle (caution; Reckless Tackle) 70
Referee: Silviu Petrescu (CAN)
Referee's Assistants: Hector Vergara (CAN); Joe Fletcher (CAN)
4th Official: Mauricio Morales (MEX)
Attendance: 10,000
Weather: Windy-and-68 degrees
All statistics contained in this boxscore are unofficial


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System of Care Year 3 Report and Joint Cover Letter Announcing its Release
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January 2019
The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has released the 10-Year Mental Health Plan
The Bureau of Mental Health Services seeks to promote respect, recovery, and full community inclusion for adults, including older adults, who experience a mental illness and children with an emotional disturbance. BBH works to ensure the provision of efficient and effective services to those citizens who are most severely and persistently disabled by mental, emotional, and behavioral dysfunction as defined by NH laws and rules. To this end, BBH has divided the entire state into community mental health regions. Each of the ten regions has a BBH contracted Community Mental Health Center and many regions have Peer Support Agencies.
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Nadler, Baldwin and Polis Introduce the Respect for Marriage Act to Repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)
Washington, DC, September 14, 2009
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Congressman Jared Polis (D-CO), along with Congressman John Conyers (D-MI), Congressman John Lewis (D-GA), Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez (D-NY) and Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA), with a total of 91 original co-sponsors to date, introduced the Respect for Marriage Act in the House of Representatives. This legislation would repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a 1996 law which discriminates against lawfully married same-sex couples.
The 13-year-old DOMA singles out legally married same-sex couples for discriminatory treatment under federal law, selectively denying them critical federal responsibilities and rights, including programs like social security that are intended to ensure the stability and security of American families.
The Respect for Marriage Act, the consensus of months of planning and organizing among the nation's leading LGBT and civil rights stakeholders and legislators, would ensure that valid marriages are respected under federal law, providing couples with much-needed certainty that their lawful marriages will be honored under federal law and that they will have the same access to federal responsibilities and rights as all other married couples.
The Respect of Marriage Act would accomplish this by repealing DOMA in its entirety and by adopting the place-of-celebration rule recommended in the Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act, which embraces the common law principle that marriages that are valid in the state where they were entered into will be recognized. While this rule governs recognition of marriage for purposes of federal law, marriage recognition under state law would continue to be decided by each state.
The Respect for Marriage Act would not tell any state who can marry or how married couples must be treated for purposes of state law, and would not obligate any person, church, city or state to celebrate or license a marriage of two people of the same sex. It would merely restore the approach historically taken by states of determining, under principles of comity and Full Faith and Credit, whether to honor a couple's marriage for purposes of state law.
Supporters of DOMA argued in 1996 that the law is necessary to promote family structures that are best for children, but every credible medical, social science and child welfare organization has concluded that same-sex couples are equal parents. Married gay and lesbian couples pay taxes, serve their communities and raise children like other couples. Their contributions and needs are no different from those of their neighbors. The Respect for Marriage Act would ensure that couples who assume the serious legal duties of marriage are treated fairly under federal law.
The introduction of the Respect for Marriage Act responds directly to a call from President Obama for Congressional action on the issue. As the President recently confirmed: "I stand by my long-standing commitment to work with Congress to repeal the so-called Defense of Marriage Act. It's discriminatory, it interferes with States' rights, and it's time we overturned it."
Standing with the Members of Congress today were couples who have been harmed by DOMA, numerous members of the clergy, and many of the nation's leading LGBT and civil rights organizations – including Human Rights Campaign, Lambda Legal, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Freedom to Marry, the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, People for the American Way, and the National Organization of Women. Also supportive of this legislation, and of this particular strategy for repealing DOMA, are the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD), who are leading the litigation efforts challenging DOMA in Gill v. Office of Personnel Management.
"The full repeal of DOMA is long overdue," said Rep. Nadler. "When DOMA was passed in 1996, its full harm may not have been apparent to all Members of Congress because same-sex couples were not yet able to marry. It was a so-called 'defense' against a hypothetical harm. This made it easy for our opponents to demonize gay and lesbian families. Now, in 2009, we have tens of thousands of married same-sex couples in this country, living openly, raising families and paying taxes in states that have granted them the right to marry, and it has become abundantly clear that, while the sky has not fallen on the institution of marriage, as DOMA supporters had claimed, DOMA is causing these couples concrete and lasting harm. Discrimination against committed couples and stable families is terrible federal policy. But, with a President who is committed to repealing DOMA and a broad, diverse coalition of Americans on our side, we now have a real opportunity to remove from the books this obnoxious and ugly law."
"In support of families throughout the nation, our legislation will extend to same-sex, legally married couples the same federal rights and recognition now offered to heterosexual married couples, nothing more, nothing less," said Rep. Baldwin, Co-Chair of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus. "As we continually strive to form a more perfect Union, repealing DOMA is a necessary step toward full equality for LGBT Americans."
"No one should be denied the opportunity to choose his or her spouse," said Rep. Polis. "It is a basic human right and deeply personal decision. Throughout history, we have only moved forward when society has distinguished between traditional values and valueless traditions. The Defense of Marriage Act – DOMA – is a valueless tradition that undermines the spirit of love and commitment that couples share and sends the wrong message to society. It is time for its repeal."
"Respecting the dignity of every human being and the people's right to freely make decisions about their own lives is in keeping with the most sacred and fundamental principles of our democracy," said Rep. Lewis. "That is what made the Defense of Marriage Act so wrong. From the founding of this nation, we made exceptions to this high moral mandate, and as our history shows, it has always led to the gravest injustice. Before we travel too far down the wrong path, we must right this wrong. We must repeal DOMA and put in its place federal action that restores the integrity of our democracy. Over the years, thousands have paid the price to make this a more open, inclusive society. We must not turn back. We must progress to that point where we seek to build a national community at peace with itself."
"We must work to promote fairness, tolerance and justice for all Americans, regardless of their sexual orientation," said Rep. Velazquez. "The Respect for Marriage Act will help to ensure that the rights provided to married couples are extended across state lines and without prejudice."
"The so called Defense of Marriage Act is discriminatory and unfair and denies fundamental civil liberties to countless families across America," said Rep. Lee. "Gay, lesbian and transgendered Americans deserve nothing less that equal protection under the law."
"The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is a hurtful and cynical law enacted to discriminate against loving, committed same-sex couples. It does real harm by denying thousands of lawfully-married same-sex couples the federal rights and benefits that only flow through marriage. Many of these include the protections couples turn to in times of need, like Social Security survivors' benefits, medical leave to care for an ailing spouse and equal treatment under U.S. immigration laws. Today's introduction of legislation to repeal DOMA is a welcome step, and as more states recognize the commitment of loving same-sex couples and their families, it's time for this law to go into the history books where it belongs," said Joe Solmonese, President of the Human Rights Campaign.
"DOMA is and has always been an immoral attack on same-sex couples, our families and our fundamental humanity. This hateful law has only served to discriminate against people and belittle our nation's heralded values of freedom, fairness and justice. It is long past time to repeal DOMA, which has left a moral scar on this country. We thank Reps. Nadler, Baldwin and Polis for taking this step toward closing an ugly chapter in our country's history, and for working to ensure same-sex couples and our families are treated fairly," said Rea Carey, Executive Director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
"So-called 'DOMA' was a radical departure from the way federal government has treated married couples throughout most of American history. It makes more sense to respect marriages than to destabilize them. In America, we don't have second-class citizens and we shouldn't have second-class marriages either," said Evan Wolfson, Executive Director of Freedom to Marry and author of Why Marriage Matters: America, Equality and Gay People's Right to Marry.
"It is long past time for DOMA to go. When DOMA passed in 1996 it was a gratuitous slap in the face. But now, 13 years later, there are thousands of married same-sex couples who are hurt by this law. We've come a long way in 13 years and the federal government shouldn't be in the business of deciding that some married couples are worthy of federal respect and others are not. Married same-sex couples pay federal taxes just like everyone else and have a right to the same important benefits and protections as everyone else," said Kevin Cathcart, Executive Director at Lambda Legal.
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As it was mentioned earlier, 21 year old southpaw Aroldis Chapman left the Cuban national team with the intention to defect (that sounds like Capt. Remius!).
ESPN's Jorge Arengure writes:
Chapman is still considered a fairly raw prospect. … And though his pitches have been clocked at 100 mph, some consider Chapman's secondary pitches to be only average. For that reason, many believe Chapman likely would have to start his professional career in the minors.
However, ESPN's Buster Olney writes that:
To put his talent in perspective: Some evaluators view Chapman as a left-handed Stephen Strasburg. "He's pretty special," said one official. He has a fastball clocked at 101 or 102 MPH, and a plus curveball and plus slider, to use the scouts' vernacular.
If Olney's right, the bidding for Chapman will be off the hook.
UPDATE: Jose's and Alexei's take after the jump