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Charles Ramsey, a neighbor who helped rescue the missing Ohio women after hearing screams for help, tells reporters in Cleveland how the situation unfolded.
Neighbor Charles Ramsey has told how he heard screams coming from an Ohio home and went to investigate -- a decision that led to the discovery of three women missing for years.
To the neighbors, the house on Seymour Avenue in Cleveland seemed normal. There was nothing to indicate that inside -- in addition to the resident they had come to know -- were women who had disappeared in separate cases about a decade ago.
That changed on Monday.
"This girl is kicking the door and screaming," Ramsey told NBC station WKYC-TV. "So I go over there ... and I say, 'Can I help? What's going on?' And she says, 'I've been kidnapped, and I've been in this house a long time. I want to leave right now.'"
Ramsey, who lived across the street and let the woman use his phone to call 911, described being stunned when he realized that the woman was Amanda Berry, who had been missing for 10 years.
Ramsey told reporters he had barbecued with the 52-year-old man who lived in the house. Police said that the man and two of his brothers, ages 50 and 54, had been arrested.
There were more surprises to come for Ramsey, other neighbors and the police. Also found in the house were Gina DeJesus, 23, who had been missing for nine years, and Michelle Knight, 30, who had been missing for 11 years.
Neighbor Mike Iwais, who has lived for years in a house just a couple of hundred feet from where the women were found, told The Plain Dealer newspaper of his shock.
"I used to see him walking around all the time," the paper quoted him as saying. "But I never saw nothing crazy. This is unbelievable. It's a miracle they found him, and it's a miracle those girls are alive. It's a blessing from God."
Another neighbor, Victor Pratts, told the newspaper that he had lived on the street for 25 years and would occasionally ride a four-wheeler with the suspect. He said he never saw any sign of the women.
Amanda Berry, Georgina DeJesus, and Michelle Knight were all kidnapped roughly ten years ago in the Cleveland area and were held captive in a home until yesterday when a neighbor heard Berry screaming for help. NBC's Kristen Dahlgren reports and former FBI profiler Clint Van Zandt discusses the case.
"We never thought that man would do anything to anybody," Pratts told The Plain Dealer. "He was a bus driver."
Several news outlets said the 52-year-old suspect had driven a bus for Cleveland schools.
Jannette Gomez, 50, who told The Plain Dealer that she frequently visited family and friends on the street, told the paper that the man didn't converse with her. He would return a greeting but leave it at that.
She said the suspect would park his motorcycle or pickup behind the house, lock the gate and go inside through a back door. She said the house was dark, with shades closed and a window boarded up.
Most could hardly believe the news.
Charlie Czorba, a Seymour Avenue resident of 25 years, told The Plain Dealer that he was stunned that the women had lived in the house for so long without outsiders knowing.
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The Art of the Automobile:
Masterpieces of the Ralph Lauren Collection
The Musée des Arts Décoratifs
Paris, France
April 28– August 28, 2011
Paris, France
April 28– August 28, 2011
If you've got it, you may as well flaunt it, and that's precisely what Ralph Lauren is doing with an exhibition at Paris' Musee des Arts Decoratifs of some of his most treasured and iconic sports cars over the next four months.
Of many fine car collections around the world, for the sheer beauty and rarity of his collection, Ralph Lauren's stands out more than any other. Patiently, over many decades, Ralph Lauren assembled some of the rarest jewels in European automotive history.
European car making at its best
17 of his stunning cars have been carefully chosen by curator Rodolphe Rapetti to reflect European car making at its brilliant and most beautiful best.
The Exhibition will show sporting masterpieces from iconic marques such as Bugatti, Alfa Romeo, Bentley, Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar, Porsche and Ferrari, a veritable who's who of top automotive legends. The Exhibition is open to the public as of now.
By now you may be wondering what in the world this has to do with watches. Well there is a link.
The Ralph Lauren Sporting Automotive Watch
This stunning watch was inspired by the interior design of one of the most celebrated antique cars in the world, one that has elevated Mr. Lauren to an elite status in the car collecting world; the owner of a 1938 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic coupe. This is one of the cars that will be on display at this very special exhibition.
The outer dial of the Ralph Lauren Sporting Automotive Watch is made of elm burl, the same type of wood found on the dash of Lauren's Bugatti. Within the elm burl frame you'll find a matte black galvanic dial that, just like the gauges on the Atlantic coupe, feature Arabic numerals for increased legibility.
The hour and minute hands are arrow-shaped and rotate around an open railroad-style track. Seconds are displayed in a sub-register at 6 o'clock.
It runs on an IWC movement RL Calibre RL98295 and has 156 components and a power reserve of 45 hours. The movement is finished with both Cotes de Geneve and Perlage work on the plate.
The watch is just now delivering in the US and is selling as fast as it arrives in the stores!
The car that inspired the watch
For closer inspection, click on each of the photographs.
Commemorative book
If you can't make it to the exhibition, there is also a glossy commemorative book being published, which, judging by these photographs, is likely to become a collector's item in itself.
Some of the other cars in the Exhibition
Jaguar XKD, 1955

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Poet and playwright T.S. Eliot said, "A play should give you something to think about." That's exactly what happens with a new NIDA project—called the Addiction Performance Project. It illustrates the emotional toll drug addiction takes on people and their families and gets the audience to talk about it.
At a recent performance, award-winning professional actors, including Debra Winger, performed a dramatic reading of Act III of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night. Based on O'Neill's own family, this play shows how, over the course of just 1 day, a family can fall apart when addiction rules over it. In this family, the mother is addicted to morphine and starts abusing it again, and the father and sons, who are alcoholics, drink to cope with her relapse.
By putting a human face on addiction, the Addiction Performance Project helps break down the stigma—or discrimination and judgment—associated with this disease. The Addiction Performance Project reading is followed by a discussion with scientists, doctors, and medical students on the challenges and opportunities in treating people who are addicted to drugs.
Watch the video below to see snippets of the Addiction Performance Project, performed here by Blythe Danner (Gwyneth Paltrow's mother) and other actors.
ok first of all anyone can sit there and play a script but untill you actually get out there and do the stuff your selves keep your comments to your self. yeah i agree drugs are bad... but marijuana is not a drug... yeah the "government" says it is a drug but come on really since when is a plant a drug? oh sorry co co plants produse the main ingredients for cocaine... "main ingredient" see... you have to ad stuff to it and do things chemically before it is ready for "use". when is america going to realize that marijuana is an industry capable of billions of dollars in profit... and it has many more uses than just smoking... the plants fibers are stronger enabling the possibilities of making stronger rope, better paper, and fasion. and as far as your "gate-way" theory goes... studies show that alcohol and nicotine have higher chance in causing hard drug use than marijuna does. plus the main income of the drug cartel is marijuana... the legalization of marijuana would cut down on the rate of violent crime... the one thing we can learn from history is that we cannot learn from history... hello america... prohibition spawn the mob and many other organized crime gangs. and what happened when it was legalized again... crime rate decreased dramatically... and if it becomes legalized where will the cartel get there money for weapons. cocaine, pills, meth? well i will tell you that meth is becoming increasingly worse over time because you can use simple household products. police are uncovering more and more meth labs each and every year so th cartel really dont get much from meth... pills? well i could go to the doctor right now and say i have headaches and i can get painkillers or i can just say hey my back hurts oh ok well here have some somas... these things are the real problem in america not marijuana. i dont know about anyone else but when u have kids and marijuana is still illegal and increasingly hard to get and your son/daughter wants to experiment like all teens have a tendency to do and gets ahold of coke or ice then maybe you will think hey maybe marijuana isnt such a bad thing.
Mary-Jane activist,
I do agree with you that marijuana is not a "drug" as one would typically classify it. For myself though, being that I am a drug addict, I just can't smoke it. While I don't have a problem with ANYONE who smokes marijuana, I do have the problem that it leads me back to real drugs, including heroin. In a way, it is a gateway "plant", lol.
I've got an article on my site Sober Nation about gateway drugs and if they exist or if its a myth. I say yea, they exist. I'd love to hear mja comment on it, and I would really love to have the owner of this blog comment to let us know of the thoughts. We've got a great community, and a lot of my followers really like this blog as well. Thanks guys! [commercial link removed, per guidelines]
Well ok i agree that... THIS TELLS ME NOTHING!!
Thanks for finally writing about Behind the Curtain of the Addiction Performance Project. Loved it!
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The U.S. forest products industry accounts for approximately 4 percent of the total U.S. manufacturing GDP. Industry companies produce about $210 billion in products annually and employ nearly 900,000 men and women, exceeding employment levels in the automotive, chemicals and plastics industries. The industry meets a payroll of approximately $50 billion and is among the top 10 manufacturing sector employers in 45 states.
AF&PA's member companies make more than 75 percent of U.S. pulp, paper, paper-based packaging and wood building materials—essential products used everyday that are made from renewable and recyclable resources that sustain the environment. The Association's membership represents the diverse spectrum of the forest products industry—from independent forest owners, to family-owned mills, to large multi-product, publicly-owned companies that manufacture pulp, paper, paperboard and wood products.
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The Harford County Sheriff's Office is searching for a man who they said shot and wounded his own sister.
Officials said 20-year-old Keef Burley was fighting with his family at their home in the 1800 block of Grempler Way in Edgewood late Saturday night when they tried to force him to leave. Officers said as Burley's mom and sister were shutting the front door on him, he pulled out a gun and shot through the door, hitting his sister in the lower back.
The sister, 18-year-old Doneshia Burley, remained at Johns Hopkins Bayview on Monday morning.
Police are still searching for Keef Burley, who is 5 feet 10 inches tall and about 140 pounds. Police said he should be considered armed and dangerous.
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Act for Establishing Religious Freedom, January 16, 1786
The Act for Establishing Religious Freedom, commonly known as the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, which the Virginia General Assembly passed on January 16, 1786, is one of the most important laws that the assembly ever adopted. Its passage concluded a ten-year campaign in Virginia to disestablish the Church of England, which had been the official state church of the colony since the first English settlers arrived in 1607. Baptists led the campaign, joined by Presbyterians and others during the American Revolution, which over time became a push to provide full freedom of religious belief and practice to all Virginians, including Catholics, Jews, and other people who were not Protestant Christians. Under the English Act of Toleration, adopted in 1689, Protestants who were not members of the Church of England enjoyed some limited religious liberty, but in Virginia they were required to pay taxes to support the clergymen of the Church of England, and their marriage ceremonies had to be performed by Church of England ministers. Thomas Jefferson's eloquent statement of the principles of separation of church and state and of complete religious freedom was originally drafted in 1777 as the Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom. Although it was introduced in the General Assembly on June 12, 1779, it did not pass. James Madison, without whom it probably would never have been enacted, engineered its passage in the General Assembly in 1786 and thus shared with the state's dissenters the credit for detaching the church from the state in Virginia.
The Act for Establishing Religious Freedom, as adopted after being amended in the General Assembly, opens with an eloquent vindication of religious and intellectual freedom and closes with specific guarantees of religious liberty and belief. The Virginia law was one of the sources that Congress drew on when drafting the Bill of Rights in 1789, which granted the free exercise of religion and prohibited Congress from abridging the freedom of religion. Its guarantees became part of the second Virginia Constitution that was adopted in 1830.
1. What does disestablish mean in the context of this act?
2. Was it fair for members of other denominations to pay taxes in support of the Church of England?
Further Discussion
1. Which amendment to the United States Constitution is similar to the Virginia Act for Establishing Religious Freedom? How are the rights described in the U.S. Constitution different from the rights guaranteed by the Virginia act?
Video: Cornerstone Documents in Virginia and American History: An Act for Establishing Religious Freedom
Video: Declaring Essential Rights: Virginia and the U.S. Bill of Rights
Suggested Reading
Thomas E. Buckley, S.J. Church and State in Revolutionary Virginia, 1776–1787. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1977.
Peterson, Merrill D. and Robert C. Vaughn, eds. The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom: Its Evolution and Consequences in American History. Cambridge University Press: New York, 1988.


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On the occasion of 2555th Buddha Jayanti and the first Anniversary of Kapilvastu
Day Movement, KDM is presenting an interview with its two Advisors Agni Frank Eickermann and Domo Geshe Rinpoche. On behalf of Kapilvastu Day Movement Ram Kumar Shrestha took this interview with them.
Agni Frank Eickermann: Founder: Chateau Amritabha, Riebeuvillé, France. Author of 11 books, some translated in English, German, Swedish, Chinese, Russian, Dutch, Italian, French and Spanish. Founder: Spiritual Teachers Training with more than 300 teachers worldwide. Founder: Alpha Chi Consultants (1200 Feng Shui Consultants on 5 continents). Founder : "Path into Light", conducted in 39 countries. Founder: over 100 Light-Center in 50 countries and all continents. Speaker: Spirituality, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Feng Shui, Management solutions, Golden Age.
Domo Geshe Rinpoche. Tara Wangchuk: Spiritual Director, White Conch Dharma Center. Rinpoche is considered to be a reincarnated Tibetan high lama of the Geluk order. Her healing-related talks are accessible Western interpretations of Tibetan Buddhist teachings on how to achieve spiritual and emotional wellbeing. She is also theFounder and Director of the Tibetan-American Friendship Foundation and Tibetan Resettlement andProject Coordinator for the largest community of Tibetans in the U.S. Read the rest of this entry »


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Irish Voice "Sidewalks" columnist Tom Deignan is an expert in Irish American literature and lectures often on the topic.
Taken from one of his lectures, here is his list of the all-time Irish American books to read in no particular order.
The list was compiled and published by Irish America magazine in celebration of its 20th anniversary.
"Memories of a Catholic Girlhood," by Mary McCarthy.
An intellectual writer washes her hands of her past, but acknowledges its benefits.
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," by Betty Smith.
Childhood innocence and innocence lost in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
"The Studs Lonigan Trilogy: Young Lonigan," the "Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan," "Judgment Day," by James T. Farrell.
The story of an Irish tough growing up in 1930s Chicago, and what makes him that way.
Thomas Flanagan's historical trilogy: "Year of the French," "Tenants of Time," and "The End of the Hunt".
Historical fiction set in Ireland and spans 1798-1921.
"Angela's Ashes," by Frank McCourt.
This autobiography, written when the late author was past 60, has gained international renown.
"American Requiem: God, My Father and the War that Came Between Us," by James Carroll.
Carroll, a former priest, and his brand of Catholicism expressed by social justice activism that is not the church of his father…
"The Last Hurrah," by Edwin O'Connor.
This story of Frank Skeffington's final run for office gives a probing look into the Irish political machines.
"Ironweed," by William Kennedy.
This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of a drifter in Albany, NY who talks to ghosts was later made into a film starring Meryl Streep and Jack Nicholson.
"The Ginger Man," by J.P. Donleavy.
Banned in the U.S. when it was published in the 1950s, this picaresque tale of Sebastian Dangerfield's racy adventures in Dublin has become a modern classic.
"Banished Children of Eve," by Peter Quinn.
A story set during New York's Civil War draft riots. Lincoln needed bodies; the Irish were coming in droves; and New York was almost burned down.
"Charming Billy," by Alice McDermott.
The everyday struggles of assimilated Irish Americans in Queens, NY.
"Paddy's Lament, Ireland 1846-47: Prelude to Hatred," by Thomas Gallagher.
The stories of those who lived through and died in the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s.
"The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga," by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
Patriarch Joe Kennedy wanted to be president but knew it was not yet the time for an Irish Catholic to reach that height…
"Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America," by Kerby Miller.
Learn how Irish immigrants got here and the impact of their coming.
"A Drinking Life," by Pete Hamill.
The popular reporter's memoir explores the complicated relationship between the Irish and alcohol.
"How the Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland's Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe," by Thomas Cahill.
This book, which argues the case for the critical role of the monks in preserving European culture and history from waves of invaders, became a worldwide phenomenon.
"Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster," by T.J. English.
This look at Irish gangsters in several U.S. cities suggests a fine line between politics and crime.
"How the Irish Invented Slang," by Dan Cassidy.
The influence of the Irish Gaelic on English that persists today.
"The Encyclopedia of the Irish in America," ed. by Michael Glazier.
An essential reference tool.
"The Irish Voice in America," by Charles Fanning.
The great writers who came over before, after, and during famine times and wrote of how life was "on the other side."


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August 2017, Ashes Series
It's already 2-0 to england with two to play as they look to make it six successful defences of the urn in a row. Australia win the toss and bat at a gloriously sunny Headingley, with England calling up home favourite Stanley Tennison for his debut after Worcester's Nick Walton - averaging 69 in Tests after another double century in the innings victory in the Second Test - was ruled out for the rest of the Summer with a fracture.
The visitors were cruising at 297-5 before the English off-spin twins Jeff Ewing and Mitchell Jowell skittled the tail for 302, but England were unable to build upon this as they hit the self-destruct button in reply and crashed to 81-7 in the 26th over. Debutant Tennison, batting at seven, was still there and has both he and Ewing made 40, the follow on was averted, but at 191-9 the Aussies looked red hot favourites.
Yet Jowell is not one to let his bowling go to waste and as he and Des Thompson build a vital stand for the last wicket. When Thompson finally fell for 55 early on Day 3 (his second FC fifty - both in Tests) they had somehow taken England to 308, a six-run lead and put on a user record 117 for the last wicket.
The drama had only just begun as Hurst (267) and Scargill (117) then put on a massive 360 for the second wicket in the Australians' second innings as all four of the English frontline bowlers were relentlessly put to the sword. Once again, however, they underestimated the resilience of Mitchell Jowell. And unthen 417-1 became 466-3 and 493 all out as Jowell took the first eight wickets to fall before Ewing finished the job with the final two.
Still, this set England 487 to win the test in a little over four sessions on a pitch that now was very difficult and turning almost square. Yet this did not faze the top order who, unbothered by any exertions in the first innings, put on 80+ for the first four wickets and at 307-3 at lunch on day five looked good for an incredible victory.
But then the Australians struck three times in quick succession to reduce the hosts to 388-6 and by tea they had added nine more to leave themselves 90 in the final session with four wickets in hand, with television audiences hitting the tens of millions as 36-year-old memories were evoked.
Yorkshireman Tennison showed true grit and recorded a determined 42 to anchor the more agressive play of tailenders Charles Patrick (22) and Ewing (26*) but fell two short of the target.
But this only brought Jowell - with match figures of 14-224, taking him to 495 test wickets in just 93 tests - to the crease and he sealed the win with 20 minutes to spare, crashing Fessey to the cover boundary off his first ball, a fitting end to one of the greatest Tests of all time.


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From the east I summon a bird of prey;
from a far-off land, a man to fulfil my purpose.
What I have said, that I will bring about;
what I have planned, that I will do.
Recall to mind, O you transgressors.
Remember the former things of old,
For I am God, and there is no other;
I am God, and there is none like Me,
Declaring the end from the beginning,
And from ancient times things that are not yet done,
Saying, 'My counsel shall stand, And I will do all My pleasure,'
Concerning...The Kingdom God
Also known as
The Gospel is the Divinely controlled worldwide ruling Government of The Kingdom of God


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"I recently went to wash my hands in a restaurant bathroom that was so dirty, I honestly believe that my hands were cleaner before I went in than when I walked out. It made me a little — no,
That paragraph, written by a blogger, is accessible to anyone thinking of visiting the restaurant he describes.
Would you go?
Statistics say you would not.
A Cintas Corporation survey conducted by Harris Interactive found that 94 percent of U.S. adults would avoid a business in the future if they encountered dirty restrooms.
If they read a description like this to check it out before going, they probably won't give the restaurant a chance at all.
Word Of Websites
It's not just bloggers spreading the word — sites like Yelp and TripAdvisor don't shy away from discussing restroom cleanliness either.
Even Twitter is in on the act, quickly slashing the reputation of restaurants with dirty bathrooms in 140 characters or less.
As tweeter Katalina Malungahu put it, "I refuse 2 eat @ a restaurant that has a dirty disgusting restroom even if it's a free meal!! #Sorry #Yuk!!"
Restaurants can no longer keep dirty bathroom a secret.
In the age of social media, they need to clean up their act or face a loss of business that could prove fatal.
No Touch Needed
Many are turning to touch-free faucets and toilets to keep their bathrooms looking and smelling clean, and business is picking up for those who sell hands-off bathroom equipment.
"We're getting a lot of orders," says Elliott Greenberg, owner of Touch Free Concepts. "People are concerned about spreading germs, so they get touch-free faucets, touch-free auto soap dispensers, and automatic flushers."
Greenberg is selling them not only to
Customers are very concerned about germs.
They've read online reports like this, from WebMD: "there can be plenty of bugs lying in wait in public restrooms, including both familiar and unfamiliar suspects like streptococcus staphylococcus, E. coli and shigella bacteria, hepatitis A virus, the common cold virus, and various sexually transmitted organisms."
"Growth in our touchless systems is strong double-digit growth," says Donna Santoro, senior product manager of the washroom solutions global business team for Rubbermaid Commercial Products. "We live in a world that is consumed with hand sanitizers and green living. The consumer is acutely aware of those things that cause the spread of germs and bacteria. And it is all about touching."


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Two recent statistics are very troubling - we South Carolinians are last in the nation in electing women to our state legislature and second in nation in the rate of men killing women. What does this say about us as a state?
It is legitimate to first ask if these two statistics are in some way connected or are they just two random facts that are totally unrelated. In one sense surely voting decisions have nothing to do with domestic violence but on another level they do - they both say something about our culture.
We in South Carolina are justifiably proud of many parts of our culture - from football to writers to barbecue to music to auto racing to having good manners - no other region comes close. We really do have a special culture all our own and in this age of globalization and McDonald's-like uniformity there is something very comforting and reassuring to know that we have an authentic culture that is uniquely ours.
But beyond these popular stereotypes of Southern culture there is a complexity and irony that is equally real. When it comes to our treatment of women, in politics or in the home, it is just one example of a "new South" that is continually struggling to emerge from the "old South."
Our state's native son W.J. Cash was born in Gaffney in 1910 and grew up to become a great newspaper man, and in 1941 he wrote the classic analysis of our region and culture, The Mind of the South. He describes "the South at its best: Proud, brave, honorable by its lights, courteous, personally generous, loyal … and the South's vices: Violence, intolerance, aversion and suspicion toward new ideas."
Cash brilliantly describes these two powerful currents of Southern culture and it seems that today women have been caught in the middle, at the place where these currents collide. Politics is rough and tumble - and our cultural traditions demand a mannered gentility from our Southern belles. We are intolerant and quick to violence - never more so than when our women-folk provoke us or attack our male pride.
And this collision of these two cross currents finds expression in all sorts of secondary issues that are hurting our state. Our manners make us a little uncomfortable with a public discussion of the whole subject of sex (straight or gay) and we are even still a little skittish in talking about birth control, one reason among many why our teenage pregnancy rates are among the nation's highest. We believe that women have "a special place in the home" and as a result we have a discriminatory workplace without a state law requiring equal pay for equal work.
So how do we fix our problem? How do we bring women fully into the mainstream of our state's political and economic life, and what do we do to ensure they will physically survive to get there?
There are no quick and easy answers. These dual problems are rooted in our culture and culture is the hardest thing to change. But culture can change. This week we celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday and he changed our culture - and in historic terms, the change came relatively quickly, so it can be done.
The biggest cultural and political changes are revolutionary changes … big and bold changes that have a long lasting and permanent impact and that is perhaps what we need here. John Adams said of our revolution against the British, that the real revolution "was first in the hearts and minds of our people" that then embolden them to demand change and fight for it.
I don't know that there are likely to be mass marches in the streets or armed insurrection over electing women to the South Carolina legislature or fighting against domestic violence. But there are things that can be done - like our political parties aggressively reaching out to women and encouraging them to run for office and radical expansion of the state's domestic violence prevention programs.
But ultimately it's about culture - the culture of our state and our people - and that culture lives in all of our hearts and minds.
And that is where the change begins.
Phil Noble is a businessman in Charleston and President of the South Carolina New Democrats, an independent group founded by former Gov. Richard Riley to bring big change and real reform to government and politics in South Carolina.


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Hines announced Wedensday that it has started construction on a 48-story office tower at the corner of Main and Texas in downtown Houston.
The project, 609 Main, is the first of several planned skyscrapers to break ground downtown. The building will have a little more than 1 million square feet of space when it's completed in early 2017.
The property is being developed by the Hines CalPERS Green development fund, a partnership that focuses exclusively on developing sustainable office buildings throughout the United States certifiable through the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Core & Shell program. The same partnership developed BG Group Place, which the company sold last year to Dallas-based Invesco Real Estate for a reported $480 million. The 609 Main building was designed to attain Gold or Platinum certification.
The company has owned the full-block site since 2008. It began site work, including the demolition of an abandoned structure, last November.
General contractor D.E. Harvey will build the Pickard Chilton-designed tower.
See more pictures of 609 Main and other real estate projects that will reshape Houston's skyline with the gallery below.


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Top 5 Batshit Craziest Social Justice Warriors
They piss and moan, cry and sob uncontrollably, throw themselves on the floor, spin around in circles, screech and shriek, and whine like babies. They are the democracy-hating, Freedom of Speech crushing, socialist snowflakes known as The Social Justice Warriors. It was hard to pick the craziest. There are many SJWs stomping around like the Gestapo putting a stop to the… Read More ›


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All ArgoUML code is organized in subsystems.
Each subsystem has:
- A name
- A single directory/Java package where it resides
- Subparts of the subsystem can reside in subdirectories of this directory. Auxiliary parts, implemented in other products, of the subsystems can reside somewhere else. Notice that each other product used by ArgoUML is, in the design, located within one of the existing subsystems. This means that a change of version or indeed a change of choice of such a dependency is an internal matter for the subsystem and should ideally not affect any other subsystem.
- All public and protected methods of all public and protected classes in this directory constitute the API of that subsystem.
A Wiki page for the subsystem. The wiki is named <<Subsystem>> Name and shall contain:
- the resonsibilities,
- the package name,
- the API,
- the Facade (if any),
- all the plug-in interfaces (if any), and
- the design of the subsystem.
Each subsystem can have:
- a Facade class
- The facade can be used by all other subsystems when using the subsystem.
The Facade class is called ?SubsystemNameFacade and is located in the subsystem package. How it is used is primarily documented in the class file itself (as javadoc) but the more complex picture is documented on the Wiki page of the subsystem
- Plug-in interfaces.
- These are Facade objects where modules or plug-ins can connect themselves to modify or augment the behavior of that subsystem.
The plug-in interfaces are also all located in the subsystem package and called ?SubsystemNamePlugin?PluginType. Example: ?ModelPluginDiagram, ?ModelPluginType.
If the subsystem uses a callback-technique the callback is always made to an interface defined by the subsystem. The interface is also in the subsystem package and it is called ?SubsystemNamePluginTypeInterface. Example: ?ModelDiagramInterface, ?ModelTypeInterface.


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Tom Hall's WORLDS OF WANDER is a Platform Game Creator, an indie project, that, someday, will ship with a new game made with this tool: SECRET SPACESHIP CLUB! It's a spiritual successor to Commander Keen! Tom and the folks at his new company, Pieces of Fun, are super excited!
NOTE: We will do our best to make this is a reality in our spare time (and that also depends on what our day job's company rules are). But we will get there. If you want to be generous and support our efforts, donate here. We want to make this thing happen. If you are willing to take that bold step with us, we are determined to get this thing to the finish line, so we can play and make some awesome, fun, cool game content, together! So click on that button to donate to our efforts with PayPal!
Here's our Video for the Kickstarter if you wanna see what we are working on.
And here's our sample gameplay video:
And here's the content that we had in our Kickstarter. Thanks folks!
Commander Keen's creator, industry veteran Tom Hall, is announcing his return to fun, funny sci-fi platforming, and he wants to bring you ALL with him! Not just to play but to CREATE A GAME EASILY yourself! WORLDS OF WANDER is a PLATFORM GAME CREATION TOOL that lets you build and share levels, worlds, and whole game experiences with other players. But making a game can be daunting, so it starts with a COMPLETE GAME for you to mess with — the spiritual successor to Commander Keen — SECRET SPACESHIP CLUB!
Tom is making SECRET SPACESHIP CLUB with this tool and then giving you the game to play, AND all the data to play with! This game will return to the quirky, funny, clever Tom Hall universe in style, and give you lots of concrete, useful data to start with. It's easy to make a game when you start with one! You never leave the game environment — the editor is built in! Start in easy mode and just mess with something already made for you. It's that simple!
Enjoy PLAYING in — and then BUILDING — a new corner of Tom's universe … make part of it your own! That's why we're here – to empower us all – and we need your help to make it a reality! Let's have (and make) some fun!
You wanna know about it — luckily we know all about it! We can get into editor details in a second… but what is that game Tom is making in WORLDS OF WANDER? What is it?!?
Willie Wander and Sheila Wander think they are helping move their Grandpa to the Old Folks' Home, but he surprises them with "one last errand before we go"… and they find themselves on a space station, joining the SECRET SPACESHIP CLUB — an organization of secret space agents who disguise their spaceships as common objects (elephants, school busses, coffee shops) only to blast off in secret and help those in galactic need!
This time, it's the BUMBLEDYBOTS! A thousand years ago, they were in a great war with a neighboring planet. It was so dire that they made their planet, Enigmata, into a gigantic Final Retaliatory Strike Attack Superbomb that would blow up their planet, the enemy, and most of their system! BUT… their war ended peacefully.
All was well, until a robo-janitor bumped into THE BUTTON, and started the countdown to GALACTIC OBLITERATION! Willie and Sheila must make their way through the increasingly insane defenses put in place to stop an enemy from doing exactly what they are trying to do — STOP THE BUMBLEDYBOMB!
"I am so excited to get back to my crazy kinda sci-fi universe," says Tom. "I wander off, but they keep pulling me back in!"
But Secret Spaceship Club is Tom's game. What about you?
Well, this project also includes an IN-GAME EDITOR and a way to wrap your levels into a game world — PLUS a one-stop shop for trying new game content and showing off your own! And play those levels across iOS, PC, Mac, and Ubuntu Linux!
Anyone can make a game level in SIMPLE MODE! Smart-draw with ground tiles, ladders, bridges, switches, and more (it nicens the edges for you), then populate your world with NPCs and enemies and objects and dangers, then hook them all up with an easy-to-use Place 'n' Fiddle interface!
(For the brave, ADVANCED MODE opens up even more power — See Tech Talkin' at the end.) But you can literally make a fun new level in MINUTES! And make it ANYWHERE you are!
But Tom is both excited about the new Game and the new content he will get to play. "I am so excited to get back to my crazy kinda sci-fi universe," says Tom. "I wander off, but they keep pulling me back in! Heh. But seriously, once the community grows, we can all play each other's fun levels and worlds in this universe. It's like us all getting hundreds of games for free!"
It's a game company dedicated to making fun games, and then giving YOU the tools and the parts of the game — the literal "pieces of fun" — to play with!
Tom Hall is the award-winning designer of the Commander Keen series, Wolfenstein 3D, Spear of Destiny, DOOM, Rise of the Triad, Anachronox, Hyperspace Delivery Boy, Congo Cube, and Pettington Park. His game designing career spans over 25 years! Pieces of Fun is his new venture to not only make games but to let EVERYONE make games!
Joining Tom for this venture is Chris Burke, 30-year coding veteran, lead programmer on over a dozen titles, including Hellgate, The Sims 3: Life Moments, Ghost Recon Commander, and ports on numerous platforms, including Mortal Kombat and Sinistar, lending to his cross-platform skills. He joins Tom for a new era of cross-platform gaming and game creation! Along with stellar artists, they are going to let everyone play with and create new experiences with customizable Pieces of Fun!
Tom really wanted to get back to making a traditional platformer and we both wanted to make a fun game and creation environment across as many platforms as we found feasible. And as this is a project to both make a game AND a community, we thought it would be great to come to the community to start it up! And with your pledge, when we start you'll get to play the game as early as possible, providing feedback and voting on the next feature or world theme! This is the start of not just a little game and editor, but hopefully a new era of empowered creators!
MP3s made it so anyone can make and share music easily. Digital cameras took an arcane art and made it so anyone can make and share images easily.
It's time to do that for games.
Everyone should be able to make a little game they can call their own and share with friends. You shouldn't have to worry about all the drudgery. It should be as simple as possible! So we have an in-game editor that just lets you draw ground, plop stuff down, and adjust things right in the level! And if you want to dig deeper, we have Advanced Mode. Or load in someone else's level and see what they did! There have been platform game editors on some platforms, and game-making tools across many platforms. Noble, awesome efforts all. But it's time to make things super simple, like digital photography. Everywhere, because ideas can just come to you at any time, and your editor should be right there, ready for you to create and play.
This is about all of us making a cool galaxy of game worlds together, and in this era of hyper-profits and safe bets, it can be hard to sell the idea of a community of free game world players and makers. So that's why we need you!
We need to raise at least $400K for our team to get this game creator and game completed. This isn't just a spiritual successor to Keen — it's an editor and game content-sharing community — so that means servers, community support, lots of art and design and programming!
The game design means each planet has a new art style, and thus supports a new looks for new kinds of content, and includes cool new things to use in levels, in whatever art style! So stretch goals add content, functionality and more. And early on is the Box 2D stretch goal, adding cool physics puzzles into the mix! Let's make this thing as cool as possible, together!
For international pledges and generous donors, please visit www.worldsofwander.com for paying through PayPal. Thanks!
The more money we get, the more features unlock!
Features like New Art Styles, New Content, New Planets, Box 2D physics support, and more!
We're excited to see how far we can go together!
There are a lot of cool rewards, and you get more as you go! Check 'em out on the right side of the screen. Just a few of them are:
So if you want something cool like WORLDS OF WANDER to exist, if you want a new game in the spirit of Keen, but something we can all play and make games in, then please support our Kickstarter. It means a lot to us. We truly want to open games up for everyone. THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING!
The game engine is a side-scrolling platform engine, with three layers of parallax — so the background scrolls with beautiful depth behind the game!
We are using Unity for cross-platform development. Thanks to the power of Unity, our game demo is running on iOS, the PC, the Mac, and Ubuntu Linux! Our intent is for the game to be on Steam (we like downloading the same game onto multiple platforms) and GOG.com (we also like DRM-free games too!) So anyway you want, that's the way you need it, anyway you want it!
In Advanced Mode, you get to peek under the Hood! Use the easy-to-learn WanderScript and change the behavior of any object in the level on the fly! Put in monsters, objects, NPCs, and more, and control them with simple clear commands, or use the WanderWizard to get a quick start on your script.
Use the simple WanDirector to make little cutscenes to start and end levels (or to punctuate important parts of the game).
Change the WanderScript controlling the whole level: how do you finish it? What do you need to collect? We'll provide a bunch of useful objects to tell your own story with a game!
Then the Editor makes sure your level has enough Fun in it, and that it is finishable — then you Publish it!
Thanks for your time! We hope you'll support our Kickstarter! This is truly a cool era when folks can get together and make something they dream about come into existence. Take care!
Sincerely, the folks at…
P.S. That awesome song in the video was kindly donated by Disasterpeace. It's the track "Trio" from the soundtrack to the game KRUNCH.
P.P.S. Awesome video by Jake Hughes of JuiceFilms, who did the Watchmen Motion Comics … and all the cinematics in Anachronox!
P.P.P.S. Did you see the Dopefish in the video? 😉
P.P.P.P.S. Just kidding, that's it! Let's make some games!


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At this time of the year, many news outlets take a look back at those who died during the year. In The Turner Report, I write about people whose lives have touched mine. Following are some of those who were remembered in this blog during 2009:
January 2009
Bob Pyle
My condolences go the family of Bob Pyle, 54, Nixa, formerly of Carthage, who died Monday from brain cancer.
Though I never knew Bob, two of his children, Brooke and Matthew Pyle, worked for me at The Carthage Press in the late 1990s. Both were hard working, polite, and respectful, qualities which they obviously learned at home from Bob and his wife, Cathy.
Matthew handled film developing chores, and was one of a group of four led by Stacy Rector, who published a weekly section called Teen Tuesday in The Press. Matthew and Stacy were honored for their work in the fall of 1998 when they received the first place award for community service from the Missouri Press Association.
Brooke started out taking calls from customers whose papers had not been delivered on time. From there, she gradually moved into the news room. Though her primary interest was photography, she eventually wrote a number of features and was involved along with Ron Graber and me in the coverage of Janet Kavandi's first space shuttle launch. During the summer of 1998, Brooke, who was a 1997 Carthage Senior High School graduate, and Jana Blankenship, a 1998 Webb City High School graduate, helped Ron and me provide news coverage as we waited for the right people to become available to strengthen the staff. Eventually, in August of '98, we hired Jo Ellis, Rick Rogers, and John Hacker to fill out the news staff.
Brooke and Matthew, the two oldest of Bob and Kathy Pyle's four children, have gone on to success in their adult lives. Brooke is a lawyer in Springfield, and Matthew is stationed on the U. S. S. Ronald Reagan.
Loren Lamoreaux
It is with sadness tonight that I read of the death of longtime Neosho Daily News photographer Loren Lamoreaux.
During my years at The Carthage Press, I had dozens of occasions to run into the Daily's sports tandem of Editor Dean Keeling and photographer Loren Lamoreaux at Neosho's home and away games. It is hard to believe that neither of them is with us any more.
At tournament time, I had many an occasion to see both of them enjoying the fare in the hospitality rooms. It still seems strange to see a Neosho bench without Dean Keeling sitting at the end of it, or the area underneath a Wildcat basket without Loren Lamoreaux's metal folding chair.
The folding chair, Neosho fans will remember, was to help Loren, who kept up a staggering pace with his photography well into his 80s. It was a matter of respect that the chair was provided for him, not only at Neosho, but also when he was at other schools in the old Southwest Conference.
The departure of Loren, following so soon after Dean Keeling left the building for the final time, and only a few months after the death of longtime Nevada Daily Mail Sports Editor Kelly Bradham has deprived this area of three of the last of the growling curmudgeonly type who provided southwest Missouri sports coverage with such distinctive flavor.
When you saw what Dean Keeling and Kelly Bradham wrote about Neosho and Nevada, respectively, or when you talked to Dean, Kelly, or Loren in one of the many tournament hospitality rooms they haunted for decades, you had none of this pretense of objectivity, and none of this homogenized, devoid of any heart, cookie cutter sports pages that dot the area map in 2009. Dean and Loren were Neosho Wildcat or Crowder College Roughriders fans through and through, and nothing was more enjoyable than to hear them going back and forth with Kelly Bradham over whether Neosho or Nevada was the better school.
Today's sports pages are undeniably what the journalism experts would consider more professionally done, but I miss their character, the human quality that you let you know that every word on the pages, and every photo provided by Loren Lamoreaux was placed on that page by someone who genuinely cared about Neosho and wasn't just picking up a paycheck.
With local newspapers continuing to bite the dust right and left these days, it makes you wonder when the people who ran newspapers forgot the value of hiring people who care.
Loren Lamoreaux will be missed.
Johnny Blanchard
The Joplin Miners were the best team in the minor league Western Association during the 1952 season and the best player on that team was catcher-outfielder Johnny Blanchard.
Blanchard, only 19 at the time, led the league champs and the league itself that year with 30 home runs and 112 RBI.
It wasn't long before Blanchard graduated from the Joplin Miners to the parent New York Yankees to join the most famous player to ever play for the Miners, Mickey Mantle. With the Yankees, Blanchard has the misfortune of being a catcher on a team that already had future Hall-of-Famer Yogi Berra and Elston Howard, but that did not prevent him from making an impact.
Blanchard, who died of a heart attack Wednesday at age 76, played enough to hit 21 home runs for the 1961 world championship team, a team some say was the greatest of all time. Blanchard hit two home runs in the World Series that year as the Yankees defeated the Reds in five games:
"Baseball was in his blood," his son Tim said. "He loved the card shows. He'd shake people's hand, ask their name and talk with people. He was the king of storytelling; that was his strength."
Blanchard enjoyed golf and was looking forward to seeing the new Yankee Stadium and participating in an old-timers' game this year.
"He lived a life people would dream of living," Tim said.
March 7, 2009
John Stockdale
The hardest working politician in Barton County died Friday morning.
Election results over the last three decades feature a long list of those who thought they could beat John Stockdale for Eastern District Associate County Commissioner. And who could blame them for getting their hopes up? After all, Barton County, once a Democratic stronghold, is now fertile territory for the GOP.
The former Democratic officeholders, people like Doug Haile and Doug Sprouls, eventually lost to Republican challengers. After serving as Barton County Clerk for a quarter of a century, Bonda Rawlings decided not to seek re-election...and that left John Stockdale.
There was no secret to John Stockdale's longevity in Barton County politics. He campaigned harder than anyone has ever campaigned in Barton County, not just to get elected into office the first time, but every time. Those who lived in the Eastern District of Barton County knew that they would receive a visit from John, maybe more than one, every time an election rolled around.
And for a long time, before Missouri law changed to allow associate county commissioners to be elected every four years, John Stockdale was knocking on doors every other year. Many of his opponents took the tried and true approach of submitting their names, attending party functions and shaking hands at community events. John Stockdale not only made personal visits, but he made sure to know what the concerns of his constituents were, and did his best to address those concerns.
John took his job seriously. Though the County Commission only met on Mondays, it was not unusual to see John in the office other days of the week, making phone calls or meeting with someone about a road or bridge issue.
And no one, absolutely no one, could ever enter the courthouse without a big hello and friendly greeting. If he spotted someone he knew across a room, he would cheerfully call out that person's name, and made that person, whether it was someone he had not seen in years, or someone he just talked to he day before, feel like he was the most important person in the world.
And that warm greeting, was always accompanied moments later by laughter. No one enjoyed his job more than John Stockdale.
In her moving tribute to John in today's Lamar Democrat, Editor Rayma Bekebrock Davis wrote, "Although he was an elected official, no one thought of him as a politician; he was a good man doing a good job."
If no one thought of him as a politician, that is a shame, because John represented the best of what politics is supposed to be. He was an elected official whose first thought was serving the people. Make no mistake about it...John Stockdale was a politician, and we could use more just like him.
The Barton County Courthouse won't be the same without him.
April 6, 2009
Don Kirkpatrick
Former Lamar Democrat publisher Don Kirkpatrick died March 29 at age 71. Kirkpatrick, the son of former Missouri Secretary of State James Kirkpatrick, owned the Democrat from 1972 to 1974.
When the Kirkpatricks bought the newspaper in 1972, it ended a historic era for the Democrat, which had been published for the previous 72 years by the legendary Arthur Aull and Aull's daughter, Madeleine Aull VanHafften.
May 27, 2009
Charles Rupp
ormer Diamond High School Principal Charles Rupp died Monday at age 78.
Rupp was principal at Diamond from 1965 to 1985. I remember how kind he was to me when I did my student teaching at Diamond in the spring of 1981.
May 9,2009
Jennifer Martin
In a perfect world, the obituary of Jennifer Martin would read "composing room foreman" at The Carthage Press. It was a job she loved more than anything except her family.
It was 40 years ago this month that Jennifer, fresh from her graduation ceremony at Carthage Senior High School, went to work for The Press as a typesetter.
"That was back in the linotype days," she told me in a 1994 interview commemorating her 25-year anniversary at the newspaper. "I was only going to work here one year. I planned on being a housewife." The hours were long and the pay was low, she recalled. "I made minimum wage. I think it was $1.30 and hour."
She had just mastered the art of setting type by Linotype when The Press went to offset printing in 1971. Jenny's duties expanded. In addition to regular typesetting, she began setting advertising copy.
In late 1986, she was promoted to composing room foreman, a position she held for 13 years before leaving in 1999 after cutbacks in her hours and benefits forced her to look for another job.
Jennifer Martin spent three decades doing a job that has never received enough credit. In the days when editors drew up pages on dummy sheets, it was Jennifer who made those pages come to life, and often made them work in spite of errors made by the editors who sent them to her.
With the advertising department, Jennifer could take a bare concept for an ad and turn it into a masterpiece that delighted both the salesman and the advertiser.
More than anything, Jennifer had an ability to work with the oversized egos that are prevalent in both the newsrooms and advertising departments of newspapers. Though she had to deal with several strong, at times, overwhelming personalities (Jim Farley, Marvin VanGilder, Rick Rogers and Randy Turner come to mind) I can't ever recall her saying a cross word about anyone.
When others left The Carthage Press in the 1990s, even people who spent considerable amounts of time there, Neil Campbell, VanGilder, Jack Harshaw, Jim Farley, and myself, the paper continued to roll along.
Jenny's departure was a different matter. Her last day of work at The Press, was the day the heart was ripped out of the newspaper.
My favorite memory of Jenny occurred over and over through the years. Someone would say something funny, and she would break up laughing, the kind of laughter that brought a smile to everyone's face no matter what the mood was.
Jennifer Martin died Friday morning.
I'm going to miss that laughter.
May 6, 2009
Ryan Baker
It was easy to lose track of Ryan Baker in a classroom. He invariably sat near the back of the cramped trailer I taught in during my first three years at Diamond Middle School.
When Ryan spoke, it was with a soft, halting voice, one which was rarely heard in my class unless he had something important he wanted to say. Most of the time he remained silent during our class discussions, but there were occasions when an issue struck a chord with him that Ryan leaped into the fray and took no prisoners.
Ryan was one of those students who fell behind with his work and had to finish with a flurry at the end of the quarter to make a decent grade, but those grades never reflected his intelligence. The B's and C's he recorded in my current issues and creative language arts at DMS were not an accurate portrayal of Ryan Baker. His intelligence was right at the top of his class.
After having him in my classroom for three years, we moved in different directions. Ryan joined the freshman class at Diamond High School, while I moved from the trailer into the old Diamond High School building when it became the middle school, to begin what turned out to be my final year in the Diamond R-4 School District.
I don't remember running into Ryan that year. At the end of the year, I signed a contract to return for a fifth year at Diamond, but the last day of the 2002-2003 school year turned out to be my last day as a Wildcat. I was informed by letter that I was being put on an unpaid leave of absence due to a budget problem for the school district.
Somehow the word spread quickly and I did nothing to hide the news. I was overwhelmed by the outpouring of support I received from my former students and their parents. One of the first to contact me was Ryan Baker.
I was at a very low point, and Ryan, who had not always shown a high regard for meeting deadlines during his three years in my class, came through with perfect timing on July 11, 2003. His e-mail message was a powerful pick-me-up when I was at my lowest moment. It came at a time when I just been told, I was put on leave because I was the teacher whose absence would least affect the students:
Mr. Turner,
I just wanted to tell you that I have appreciated your classes. At first, I could really care less about politics, but somehow, your class made it fun. Going up and beyond the curriculum of the normal language arts class, your class has really taught me some important writing skills, while more than preparing me for high school grammar. Though I may not have been the best student, or tried as hard as I should have, looking back on it, I really missed your class while in high school for the first year. I just went to your site, and patiently read through all of the articles that you have posted, and felt that I should thank you for being one of the teachers that actually taught class as if it were a desire, and not as if it was merely a job. I just had to say thank you.
I shed more than a few tears after reading that e-mail from a most considerate young man.
I cried again earlier tonight when I read that Ryan Baker died, 17 days short of his 21st birthday.
I am thankful I had three years with Ryan. I wish things had worked out differently for him.
July 9, 2009
Jack Luce
No one would ever compare Jack Luce to Babe Ruth (though I am about to), but that was who was he resembled when he joined the Lamar Blue Jays men's baseball team for its doubleheader with my team, the Aroma Express, at the Granby ballpark that summer Sunday in June 1983.
Jack was a big man, and his ball shirt couldn't decide whether it wanted to be tucked in or remain outside.
Having dealt with Jack during my coverage of the Lamar High School girls basketball team he coached, I struck up a conversation with him as both teams warmed up before the game.
Warming up was not really necessary, since the temperature that day was in the low 90s and sweat was already dripping down Jack's face. "I didn't know you played for this team" I said.
"I don't normally. They were a couple of guys short and asked me if I wanted to play. They talked me into it. I thought it might be fun." Jack wiped off the sweat with his sleeve. "I haven't played in years," he said. "I used to love to play the game."
Somewhere in the boxes and baskets and drawers full of old news clippings, photos, scorebooks, etc., I have in my apartment is the scorecard from that day.
Jack only played the first game of the doubleheader. He batted three times, and if memory serves correctly, he only swung the bat three times. Each time, the ball soared out of our bandbox ballpark. Admittedly, the dimensions of the ballpark were closer to Little League than Busch Stadium, but no one else hit one out that day.
Since I was the Aroma Express' designated hitter in that second game, I took advantage of the opportunity to talk to Jack while my team was out on the field.
"Man, I'm tired," he said. "It's been a long time since I did this."
"You must have been a heck of a player," I said.
"Naw," he said with a hint of modesty. "I wonder what I could do if I could get back into shape." I looked at him to see if he was kidding, but his face was stone cold serious. Then a trace of a smile emerged and within seconds, he was laughing out loud.
I don't remember Jack playing for the Lamar baseball team the rest of the year, though he may have.I prefer to think he left the game with three swings and three home runs.
Jack Luce died Wednesday at age 61.
August 23, 2009
Harlan Stark
As I was growing up in Newtonia, one of the everyday rituals was heading to Gum's Store after school to await the arrival of the Neosho Daily News.
Back then, the newspaper was delivered to the store, which also served as the community's post office, and Postmaster Vernie Browning would put the newspapers in the mailboxes.
Depending on how early they arrived, I would either take it directly home or I would sit on the steps and read it from front to back. My favorite parts were the sports section, the editorial page, which always included the Washington Merry Go Round, first with Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson, then after Pearson's death, just Anderson, for all of the dirt in Washington, and I read the opinion papers where learned pundits told me that no one would dare run against President Johnson in 1968, George Romney was a shoo-in for the Republican presidential nomination that year, and Edmund Muskie was a cinch for the Democratic nomination in 1972.
I also read the national news items, many of them about the ongoing war in Vietnam and in later years about the Watergate investigation and subsequently, the resignation of President Nixon, and his pardon by President Ford.
And I read the local news items, nearly all of which, it seems through the dim recesses of memory, were written by two men, Bill Ball and Harlan Stark. Mr. Ball, who provided the coverage of local sports, as well as many as many straight news items, died many years ago.
I read moments ago of the death of Harlan Stark. Mr. Stark's obituary says he was with the Neosho Daily News for 23 years. It seems like it was longer, though the Daily has gone through many reporters through the years as it has transitioned from Harlan Stark and Bill Ball to such later mainstays as the late Dean Keeling, Anne Cope, Rob Viehman, and Bill Ball's son, Buzz Ball, to today's staff, including John Ford and my fellow Newtonia native Todd Higdon.
While it takes many hard working people to put together a newspaper, everyone from the publisher to the receptionists to the advertising salesmen and circulation workers, to the public the face of a newspaper is usually the people whose bylines grace the pages of each edition.
For nearly a quarter of a century, the face of the Neosho Daily News was provided by Harlan Stark and Bill Ball. They offered stability and integrity, two items in short supply in today's media climate.
September 14, 2009
Bill Pierson
People close to the Old Mining Town Days celebration in Granby told me there was some concern a couple of years ago about the kickoff musical act for the annual three-day celebration.
It had become a tradition for Bill Pierson, one of the last (and best) of the big band singers to open the program, backed by Jim Hunter's band. But the years had not been kind to Bill. Already an octogenarian, his hearing was starting to go, a sign that Bill Pierson's musical career, which had stretched more than seven decades, was on its last legs.
Even the billing for the performance was different. This time, it was Hunter's group that was advertised with special guest Bill Pierson, mainly because the organizers were concerned that Bill would not be able to make the performance.
They underestimated Bill Pierson's determination to go out on a high note. I was lucky enough to be in Dick Smith Memorial Park that Friday evening. Bill was not on stage when the entertainment began, but soon he was introduced, and it was like he had magically erased the problems that were forcing his retirement from his first love.
First, it was the trumpet. As he performed an extended solo on one number, he hit every note. And when he sang, whether it was one of the old standards from the 30's or 40's or his dead-on Louis Armstrong impersonation, both the listener and Bill Pierson were transported to an earlier bygone era.
Though Bill was not supposed to be onstage for more than a couple of songs, he finished out the show with Jim Hunter's combo. Too soon, the music ended.
Granby had seen Bill Pierson perform for the final time.
Bill, a lifelong supporter of the city and people of Granby, died Saturday at age 83. Services will be held 4 p.m. Wednesday at Parker Mortuary in Joplin. Visitation will be held 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at the mortuary.
Over the years, I had the good fortune to hear Bill perform many times. I particularly remember his performance at the birthday party for Attorney General Bill Webster in September 1992, when Webster was running against Mel Carnahan for governor. That was the last time I talked to Bill's late wife Willi. I also remember his 1988 performance at Lamar's Heritage Days celebration, but my favorite performances always came when Bill opened Granby's annual three-day festivities.
Old Mining Town Days will never be the same, but the music in heaven sure must sound sweeter.
(Photos: Ryan Baker, Bill Pierson, Harlan Stark, Jennifer Martin, John Stockdale, Johnny Blanchard)


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"Project Runway's" affable and wisened fashion guru Tim Gunn turned serious in a new public service announcement that discusses a topic that is sadly prevalent in the headlines these days: teen suicide.
Following the death of Rutgers' freshman Tyler Clementi, who jumped off New York's George Washington Bridge after discovering that his roommate had streamed a sexual encounter between himself and another male over the Internet, there has been an outpouring of support from celebrities across the country around the matter and Gunn is the latest to address the issue head on.
In the PSA, which was recorded for the Trevor Project - a gay-teen-oriented suicide hotline - Gunn talks about his own thoughts of suicide when he was younger.
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"As a 17-year-old youth who was in quite a bit of despair, I attempted to kill myself," he said. "I'm happy to say today that attempt was unsuccessful. But at the time it was all that I could contemplate."
Gunn said he swallowed over 100 pills when he tried to take his own life.
"I understand the desperation," he says. "I understand the despair. And I understand how isolated you can feel."
But he then urges youths to find support. "Reach out. Get help. You're not alone. It will get better - I promise."
His last remark is a nod to the It Gets Better Project, started by sex columnist Dan Savage. The campaign seeks to raise awareness of the issue of bullying towards lesbian, gay, transgernder and bisexual youth.
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Sunday, December 9, 2012
I'm Officially Published!
Hello, everyone! I have some news that is one of the best Christmas presents I could ask for...I am a contributor in the new Winter issue of Creating Vintage Charm!! It's been a dream of mine to have pictures of my home in a magazine, so this is literally a dream come true!
Along with pictures of my dining room, I also had the privilege of writing the accompanying article, so I am officially 'published'! :)
When I started this little blog about 7 months ago, I never could've imagined the fantastic opportunities that would come my way!
I've been ordering and enjoying this magazine for awhile (you can only purchase it online) and it has become one of my favorites! It's published quarterly by Sonia Crouse, who does a fantastic job, and every issue is always top notch. I'm extremely honored to be a part of this wonderful publication! If you've never read it, you're in for a BIG treat! You can order it on the Creating Vintage Charm website.
Thanks for stopping by, and letting me share my excitement! Have a wonderful day! :)
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How exciting, wow! Congrats Susan, this is such a great event for you and yeah, it is a very special C'mas gift..one of a kind, I'd say!ReplyDelete
CONGRATULATIONS! Happy Holidays.ReplyDelete
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- AnonymousDecember 9, 2012 at 7:15 PM
That is so great!ReplyDelete
Congratulations! How totally exciting and wonderful! You totally deserve it! And I don't think I knew your last name was Taggart - Taggart was one of my boy names!! Didn't use if cause we had 3 girls but if we'd have had 3 boys i'm sure one of them would be Taggart!ReplyDelete
This is WONDERFUL Susan! GOD is really BLESSING your LIFE! You have so much talent and it is now being shown! I'm so happy for you! From one sweetie to another~~~~RoxieReplyDelete
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Oh my gosh this is so great. I am so excited for you. Your home is so cozy and warm like you and it is so magazine worthy. Congrates. Well deserved my friend. Wooooooo Hooooooo published!!!!!!
Send me your autograph NOW so I can say I knew you BEFORE HGTV snatched you up and made you famous. :) I'm so happy for you. While I have a children's book, what you accomplished is truly a dream of mine. {Are you able to share with me how you went about this? Did you simply mail in your work with a query or did you get sought out?} In any event, I LOVE your blog. I always try to read it when you post something new. AND the fact that you've gained over 600 followers in just 7 months is truly amazing. Despite all this, I perceive you as humble and kind hearted. I mean, you started following little ol' me back when I had about 50 followers - ha ha! So sweet, and I wanted to tell you how happy I am for you.ReplyDelete
Hugs from Oklahoma,
So happy for you! I will have to add this issue to my Christmas list. Congrats. You totally deserve it!!!!!
Congratulations! I don't know the magazine so I will have to find it.ReplyDelete
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Congratulations!!! How fun for you! I don't know that I've seen this publication before, but I'll be sure to look for it when we hit the bookstore.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 10, 2012 at 10:11 AM
What wonderful news! Congratulations, Susan. Very well deserved.ReplyDelete
Good for you! Congratulations! What a nice Christmas treat!! =) My Mom works in Joann's Fabric store...Maybe they have this magazine!! Congrats again! The spread looks very pretty!ReplyDelete
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lovin your decorating and I cant wait to get my issue of this mag!!! maybe I will come to the shop when i get it and have you sign it!!!! <3ReplyDelete
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good for you!!! you must be so excited! I am here to say I am so glad you left a note that you were there....you are the 900th follower for me!!! yay!!! lol....I am now your newest fan too! I hope we will visit back and forth often...I am loving your site!ReplyDelete
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The following is an overture article, by Andy Moore, for "Best Practices in Intelligent Search," a KMWorld white paper available for download.
"Seek and ye shall find..." Yeah, right. Maybe about half the time, if you're lucky.
It's true that most searches end in failure. And what's even more troubling is that the person making the search may never know that it was a failure. Let's say: A hypothetical knowledge worker enters a search query. May be a good one; may be a vague one. Doesn't (and shouldn't) matter. Then that person gets a results page. There is a long list of possible answers to his query, and there might even be some interesting stuff on it.
But the nagging doubt comes from "not knowing what you don't know," as Donald Rumsfeld once put it. MindMetre did a serious research report. They surveyed approximately 2,000 business directors and managers from all over the world. Their key conclusion? More than half (52%) said they "cannot find the information they are seeking using their own organization's enterprise search facility," within a reasonable amount of time.
There's plenty of blame for this to go around. The first one most people cite is: "information overload." I'm so sick of hearing about information overload, because I don't believe it for a second. Hear me out... There are more than 53 million individual pieces of information (books, articles, reports, videos, recordings) in the New York Public Library system. That's an overload. And yet, I guarantee you I can find any single thing I want within "a reasonable amount of time."
It's not information overload that's vexing those 2,000 business managers; it's "information under-managed" that's the problem. There can NEVER be too much information. That's absolutely contrary to the basic principles of knowledge work.
We set out to discuss "enterprise search" and "intelligent search" in this White Paper. And that we shall. But let's get something straight: Enterprise search is not what you think it is. It is not a single unified piece of software that can magically scour through the dozens of business applications that contain that piece of information our hypothetical guy was looking for. And, much less, it is not a single tool that can seek, discover and deliver an important piece of information from the hundreds and thousands of repositories from which it may emerge. In this day of thinly sliced Web content stores, SharePoint farms, mobile storage devices and cloud repositories, the hope of controlling the location and nature of a piece of information has been quite dashed.
Some people say it's "like finding a needle in a haystack." Heck, that's easy. The hard part is finding a needle in a needlestack.
There's a certain aspect of "user expectation" that has emerged in enterprise search, and there really is little justification for it. A lot of times this is referred to as the "Googleization" factor. This is the flawed notion that corporate search should work the same way Google does. Type in a query, get a results list with "the best" answers at the top. Nothing could be further from the truth when it comes to enterprise search, and we'll touch on that later, but for now let's return to that MindMetre survey. They found a couple interesting things in this regard. One, there seems to be a cultural bias: "Respondents from the US have the highest expectations when it comes to search, with 71% expecting to achieve the desired result within two minutes," says the report. But it then goes on to add: "They (US respondents) also demonstrate the best performance for internal search facilities, with 53% saying that they can find what they want in that time."
Really, 53% is "the best performance?" Wow. There must be something about American optimism that allows a success rate of only a little over half the time to be considered "the best." So be it.
But it shouldn't be easily dismissed as "just the way it is; live with it." There are hidden as well as direct costs in play as well: "Non-productive" information work, such as reformatting documents or reentering documents into computers, consumes more than $1.5 trillion in US salaries. Solutions must be brought to the table to improve those ghastly numbers.
Such as? The other participants in the White Paper certainly are a good place to start. But in general, some of the key components of a reliable and effective enterprise search solution would be:
And those activities can be deployed through the effective application of:
How did we get into this mess? Well, considering the nature of information creation and delivery, it was unavoidable. All enterprises both generate andaccumulate huge amounts of data in all sorts of formats. Much of it is textual, such as word-processing documents, HTML pages, email, social sites, newsgroups and forums, etc. But complicating matters, there's also numeric data (referred to as "structured data") often kept in relational databases.
Worrying about whether data is structured or unstructured has to stop. The location and format of the information a knowledge worker needs is irrelevant to him. The goal is to hide the sausage-making from the worker, and get him to the kielbasa as fast and easily as possible. But we've artificially, I think, made that impossible. Information assets are information assets, whether they're content or data. But the tools available historically haven't brought those two sources together; search engines have targeted documents and other forms of content while business intelligence tools have queried data. And there's a "stubborn reality," as John Mancini, president of AIIM, put it in his great blog, Digital Landfill, "that unstructured information is the red-headed stepchild of the equation-and the source of so much untapped value and intelligence in organizations."
Back to the "Googleization" issue, and the unmet expectations of many enterprise search users. Web search and enterprise search are nothing alike. Let me repeat that: Web search and enterprise search are nothing alike. Web search engines deal with information at huge scales; measured both by the amount of data and by the number of users and queries.
Enterprise engines, on the other hand, need to collect, index and rank content from more varied data sources than Web search engines, and need to do a better job of limiting the result set sizes. Enterprise users often require advanced search features, as mentioned above, to accommodate scenarios that are rarely encountered on the Web. Also, in enterprise search, users are often not allowed to see all documents. This challenge doesn't exist on the Web, where search engines only index data that is open to the general public.
So, it's different.
The entire "Best Practices in Intelligent Search" white paper is available for download.


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