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Third General Manager, Richard F. Allison
The first two general managers had developed the cemetery as a carefully landscaped, park-like "city of the dead," and Allison continued in this tradition. To it he added a new dimension, planting avenues of flowering trees and shrubs and creating garden areas.
His beautification of the grounds began in 1937, when he planted dogwood trees along both sides of the main drive, creating a pectacle that each spring draws thousands of visitors to the cemetery.
A major undertaking was the establishment in 1963 of a formal garden that takes up an entire section below the lower lake. Here the entire area was laid out in flower beds, a lily pool, walks and a bridge. Shrubs that in some cases were as much as eleven feet across, were moved from other parts of the cemetery where they were no longer needed. Boxwood, taxus, and yew were planted, and thousands of bulbs and annual plants were set out to give a continuous array of blooms from early spring to the chrysanthemums of fall. Baskets hanging from branches of trees contain begonias of several varieties and trailing lantanas.
As the result of Allison's efforts, by the time of his retirement The Lexington Cemetery enjoyed a national reputation. In addition to his consulting work for Governor Bert T. Combs and Transylvania University, he also served as president of both the Southern and American Cemetery associations. His tenure at the cemetery was marked by an increasing use of motorized, labor-saving equipment, one of the most important of which was a mechanical gravedigger, the first of its kind in Kentucky, which was acquired in November 1951.
Allison continued as superintendent until December 31, 1973, when he and his wife, who was secretary at the cemetery, retired. He was active in community affairs until his unexpected death on December 5, 1984. On April 19, 1986, a memorial statue and bronze plaque were dedicated to the memory of the former superintendent. They are located, fittingly, in the garden area which he had established twenty-three years ealier.
Fourth General Manager, Robert Wachs
Allison was succeeded by Robert Wachs, who had served as his assistant general manager for eighteen years and had worked at the cemetery since 1956.
Wachs continued the policies of his predecessor, both in the horticultural aspects of the cemetery and in taking advantage of technological advances in maintenance and operations and in the office. Allison had introduced the use of the mechanical gravedigger, power mowers, and in similar improvements, and Wachs acquired other and more modern equipment as it became available. This equipment included grass trimmers, leaf blowers and leaf vacuum collectors.
Additionally, cremation was becoming increasingly popular; therefore, on August 26, 1978 The Lexington Cemetery opened the first crematory in Kentucky outside of Jefferson County. It also constructed in the lower level of the office structure a columbarium with 2,102 niches in which urns containing cremated remains could be placed.
A third major improvement under Wachs' leadership was the erection of the Lexington Mausoleum, which opened January 8, 1983. It contained 660 crypts for caskets, 80 niches, and a chapel where services could be held in inclement weather.
Finally, a new greenhouse complex and storage building were erected to allow the cemetery to carry on the tradition of growing its own trees, shrubs, and flowers for replacement and beautification of the cemetery.


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Is the Hymn Evlogetaria for the Dead available on youtube in Arabic ?
What's that? This thread doesn't have enough tasbeha in Italian? Well, alright then... (The only fragment of tasbeha I could find in Spanish is way too echoey to follow, but it makes me wonder: Is it possible to buy/download/find an Agpeya in Spanish anywhere? This would be a great help to me, and for all of us living in Latino-majority areas of the world; searching for it online, once I got past the various Spanish translations of ancient pagan/pre-Christian religious texts, the best I've found is a explanation of what it is, but no link to it anywhere in Spanish.)
From what I understand, HH Pope St. Kyrillos VI adopted this hymn from the Greek Church. So this would be a very recent addition to the Coptic liturgical hymns.
Quote from: minasoliman on April 21, 2012, 11:58:58 AMFrom what I understand, HH Pope St. Kyrillos VI adopted this hymn from the Greek Church. So this would be a very recent addition to the Coptic liturgical hymns.Mina, was it Pope Kyrillos VI or Pope Kyrillos IV (The father of reformation)?
Don't know if it has been posted before but...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eOePzjT6PcMani dakhwoth (Who is like me?) - Ancient Syriac hymn in honor of Virgin Mary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPn4nCKTBecSyriac Orthodox Christmas Hymns "Haw Dmalakhai"
Quote from: Salpy on January 09, 2013, 02:11:34 AMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPn4nCKTBecSyriac Orthodox Christmas Hymns "Haw Dmalakhai"As far I know, the hymn varies dependind on the feast, becasue it's a part of an ritual called "Zuhuyo" - lifting of the thing typical for the particular feast e.g a palm for Palm Sunday, water for Epiphany etc. So I wonder if the hymn you've posted is exactly for Christmas?...
Found one for you:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xt2v8YRgmxgAnd then on to regular raising of incense and liturgical services:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnG1wxAviEk
yes our service is longer coz we have lots of lovely Bible readings, then the actual blessing of the water, then the dabbing (to symbolise washing) of the feet (of all the men) or wrists (of all the women - due to cultural issues), and then we sing a bit and then people collect the holy water.anyone who gets there a bit late (eg. me!) can beg a bit of holy water from the person next to them and add it to their bottle.then, in many churches, we do the epiphany liturgy late at night instead of early in the morning.so we have a 1.5 hr service followed by a 2.5 hr one! i think we're trying to do a longer service than the slavs!but we don't throw ourselves in freezing cold blessed water in the extreme ascetic slavic practice, so i guess with that, you guys win the 'who is the most ascetic' contest!
Thank you mabsoota for the help My Arabic is very poor, I hope one day I mage to get into Arabic at university, that I would be able to communicate easily in this so beautiful language As I love Coptic hymns and songs for Kiahk, because it's full of Advent's (Nativity Fast) spirit, two another recordings with subitles in English and Arabic:Amdah fee Batoul (Praise the Virgin)<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB0myY0G0KY&feature=g-subs-u">Aftah faya baltasabeeh (I open my mouth to praise)[/url]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcUhGiqqNxwA good video of the Hoothomo (Concluding Prayer) and the Final Benediction of an Indian Orthodox Liturgy.
http://youtu.be/eoYqSvcCZQYI found this great recording of the last portion of the Shubkono (Forgiveness?) Service done during the beginning of Lent. This was recorded a couple years ago at the Orthodox Theological Seminary in Kottayam, India.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiGS7b-Sp5w - I think it hasn't been posted. One of Malankara Orthodox hymns for Palm Sunday in an arragment that reminds me Bollywood
Actually this melody is very well known from Middle East to Balkans (including Serbia ). And every nation claims its own original melody There is even a movie about it "Whose is this melody?" (I don't know if it's the exact name of this film in English). For example:Jordi Savall or something MuslimAnyway, I really like this Coptic song about Resurrection, and the last version (although I'm quite traditional regarding Church music) is so great! True spirit of paschal happiness
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The Uniform Sales Act[, drafted by Harvard law professor Samuel Williston, pictured at left,] was a precursor to Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code. Between 1906 and 1947 it was adopted in 34 states. Transaction cost theory suggests that states' adoption decisions should have been influenced by "neighborhood effects" – the adoption decisions of their neighbors. This paper uses hazard analysis to test various hypotheses about the factors that influenced states' adoption decisions. The results indicate that neighborhood effects were among the most important factors in the diffusion of the Act. Manufacturing interests also played an important role, especially in a small number of states that adopted the Act early. Subsequent to these early adoptions, the Act gradually diffused across most of the country, except the south. Its diffusion was driven primarily by neighborhood effects and manufacturing interests, although the legal profession and transportation systems may also have played a role. It appears that the Act ultimately failed to achieve complete uniformity largely because the neighborhood effects that drove its adoption in most of the country were not present in the south.
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Smythe on the Adoption of the Uniform Sales Act
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- Shag from Brookline said...
Back in the early 1950s, we had a law school course on Sales and another on Bills and Notes, respectively based upon the Uniform Sales Act and the Negotiable Instruments Law (as well as the Law Merchant!). Prof. Parke would occasionally make pejorative references to the UCC that was under consideration in several states, including Massachusetts, at the time - he thought it was communistic! (Prof. Parke once cited a Bombay Reports case that went back into the 18th century with a big grin on his face.)
Uniform acts reflected the need to overcome certain limitations of federalism on business nationally. It took Louisiana a long time to finally adopt the UCC.
- November 27, 2008 at 8:50:00 AM EST
well, it's not per se "communistic" because the provisions don't really match the attributes of communism/socialism, but certainly there is an argument that uniform acts--and uniformity between the states for the matter--may be a precursor and facilitator of further centralization of power. we often associate this sort of centralization or uniformity with totalitarian regimes under the auspices of communism/socialism.
a better phrasing of the argument would be something like: the promotion of uniformity by a centralized body is antithetical to classical american principles vis a vis dual federalism; that is, though the states adopt these acts of their own accord, the hawking of uniformity may ultimately promote a degredation of the checks that are supposed to occassion a system founded upon dual federalism.
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With the elegance and gentility of a hunt print by John Sanderson Wells, members of the Lowcountry Hunt coursed through the countryside of Ravenwood Plantation in Colleton County on opening weekend of hunt season.
Red and black blazers with indigo blue collars trimmed in gold, leather riding boots, velvet-topped helmets and made for a spectacular sight, particularly when going full-speed through the woods.
What such illustrations do not depict, though, is the behind-the-scenes work that goes into creating that vision.
About 130 people arrived in the early morning chill to dress their horses and themselves. At the stables, tables and chairs are set up for the breakfast hunt when the riders return. Fire pits hold logs that provide warmth to those preparing to mount up.
Co-Master of the Hunt and Ravenwood owner Nina Burke met parties as they arrived.
By 9 a.m., mounted riders and those not riding gathered in an open field by the stables and watched as Master of the Hounds Anthony Gibbs led his pack of American hounds into the middle. Standing on a footstool with hounds swirling around his feet, a local priest blessed the hounds, the hunt and the participants.
While it is legal to hunt foxes, coyotes - which are on the rise in South Carolina - and other such wild life in season, the open event is a designed hunt, with a designated "fox" providing the scent of the animal by spraying fox urine along a planned route.
"Fox hunting started in England when the foxes were a nuisance to the farmers," said long-time huntsman and Bluffton-Savannah dentist Dr. Sandy Termotto. "In all the years I've been fox hunting, we have never caught a fox. The coyotes will out-run the hounds and the foxes will out-fox the hounds."
The only time he's seen the hounds run something to ground was a wild boar when the hunt was at Palmetto Bluff. It's not a beast the hunters want to corner.
"It's all about the chase," Termotto said. "We have the privilege of hunting on more than 72,000 acres between Bluffton and Charleston, ranging in size from 500 to 22,000 acres."
Ravenwood has 1,025 acres and was founded around 1800. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places, Burke deems it a responsibility to keep the land as it is and to open it to groups like the Lowcountry Hunt.
"I've been riding for over 55 years. Fox hunting is my passion," she said. "This is a stewardship and it needs to be shared with other people to enjoy it for the spirit of the horses and the hounds."
The hounds are equipped with modern technology and each has a collar with a radio antenna attached.
"When you're hunting on 6,000 acres and you don't know the area," Termotto said, "the hounds sometimes get lost so the people handling the hounds have a radar and they'll go in that direction to pick them up."
Everyone conveyed on motorized horsepower seemed to be in the spirit of the hunt. More than one non-rider was itching to be back in the saddle, but falls, sprains, twists and swollen ankles kept feet out of boots and bodies off horses. The accidents weren't all off horses, but it kept people from participating. If riders are going to fall, it is usually on opening day, Termotto said.
In an unusual twist of events, the first to fall was Gibbs. With more than 50 years experience riding both bulls and horses, he has been hunting for the past 25 years.
"I don't come off often," he said at the hunt breakfast. "My horse stepped in a hole, I lost my stirrup and in reaching over to put it back on I came off."
This is his sixth season as Master of the Hounds for the Lowcountry Hunt and was master for Middleton Hunt six years before that.
The hounds, who could be heard giving voice when they caught the planted scent, may have it in them to hunt, but getting their quarry is another matter.
"When you get a fox that gives you a good chase, you don't want to catch that fox. You want to come back and chase him again," Gibbs said. "It's not the kill, it's the chase. And we hardly catch anything."


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Silver Tsunami Practices Safe Driving Says AAA Survey
Despite popular belief, senior drivers engage in safe driving habits especially older women
WASHINGTON, D.C., (May 1, 2013)–Nine in 10 older drivers buckle up when they get behind the wheel and more than a third have taken driver improvement courses, according to data surveying more than 7,000 seniors. Survey findings, collected by AAA, the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) and AARP also reveal that twice the number of women attended driver safety courses despite the fact that older men drove more often than older women by 12 percent. AAA is promoting the data to help debunk the perception that older drivers are a menace on the road.
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"The silver tsunami is often unfairly dubbed as risky and dangerous. These data tell us that they practice safe driving behaviors and that more than a third of older drivers have actively sought out and participated in programs to improve their skills," says AAA's Director of Traffic Safety Advocacy and Research Jake Nelson. The findings were collected from drivers who participated in CarFit, a free program offered by AAA, AOTA and AARP. Typically offered at community events, CarFit runs drivers and their vehicles through a twelve-point checklist with trained technicians who assess the fit of a driver's car by checking for optimum and safe settings such as distance from and sight line above the steering wheel and proper mirrors settings.
According to CarFit participant data, the top four "fit" challenges for older drivers included improper distance from steering wheel (59 percent); adequate and safe views from side mirrors (32 percent); improper seat height (28 percent) and improper head restraint height (21 percent). The good news is that after a run through the CarFit twelve-point program, 97 percent of participants' issues were resolved.
Since CarFit launched nationally, more than 31,000 older drivers have gone through the program. "While the primary goal is to teach drivers how to attain a safe and comfortable fit, the program also increases awareness that adaptations and modifications are available when medical conditions or changes make finding the best fit difficult," says occupational therapist Elin Schold David of AOTA. "CarFit benefits the whole community by helping the senior driver be a safer driver."
Other survey data revealed that more than half (52 percent) of drivers 65 and older typically drive seven days a week. "Even when they're driving every day, seniors do not pose a disproportionate threat on the roads," said Nelson. "In fact, drivers in their mid-to-late 80s have lower crash rates per mile driven than drivers in their early 20s and roughly half the crash rate of teenagers."
As a leading road safety advocate for more than 110 years, AAA provides expert advice and helpful resources for older adults and their families—working to support them as they tackle the challenges of balancing safety and mobility. SeniorDriving.AAA.com provides convenient, online access to a wealth of interactive material and AAA's Senior Driver Safety Expos offer a local hands-on opportunity to sample AAA's suite of free tools and programs.
To view results from AAA's survey of older drivers visit NewsRoom.AAA.com. For more information on AAA's free resources for senior drives and their families, visit SeniorDriving.AAA.com. As North America's largest motoring and leisure travel organization, AAA provides more than 53 million members with travel, insurance, financial and automotive-related services. Since its founding in 1902, the not-for-profit, fully tax-paying AAA has been a leader and advocate for the safety and security of all travelers. AAA clubs can be visited on the Internet at AAA.com.


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On December 15, 2010, I posted a letter from a mother who suggested the following.......
Thus, I make a modest proposal that this blog serve as a way for parents to make contact with one another, to establish a buddy system so that no parent feels s/he is alone following the disclosure that a child is gay. Perhaps we can develop a pairing of parents, so to speak, who are willing to communicate with one another. The questions, the problems, the comforts of a shared experience are ours to offer to one another in a context of sensitivity, religious commitment, empathy and concern for our children. We need to be supportive of our children, but we too need support and comfort. This can be done with a therapist of course, and that is a good option for many parents and family members. But less intense help can also come from another parent who has been in our shoes. Perhaps there are parents who are willing to write or speak to someone just beginning the road to acceptance and understanding. And perhaps parents who feel they would benefit from this kind of anonymous and discreet contact can write into the blog and find that other family who is willing to show them support and help them deal with the challenge of living with the knowledge that they have a gay child.
Well this letter sparked some movement in a positive direction. I received a comment from Erez, suggesting that a listserve be created. A few weeks later, I received a call from a New York psychiatrist offering her services if such a group would start to "meet'. My son relayed a message from a young rabbi in New York who is willing to be a moderator and a few other health professionals and parents have agreed to get involved in setting something up.
The goal is to be up and running in the next few weeks.
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Last week, we reported that Peter Jackson was in serious talks with Warner Bros. on how to expand his two-part adaptation of The Hobbit into a trilogy. The studio obviously would love to have another tent pole flick lined-up, but they also had to consider the costs of extending contracts and pouring more money into additional shooting. There was already some bewilderment on the part of fans when Jackson wanted to develop J.R.R. Tolkien's relatively short novel into two movies, but the writer-director is pulling from more than just the narrative. He's using material from the appendices and Tolkien's notes in an attempt to tonally "make it as similar to The Lord of the Rings," so all the movies could be viewed as a cohesive whole.
Now it looks like Warner Bros has agreed to another trip to Middle-earth, and the third installment in The Hobbit trilogy will arrive summer 2014. Hit the jump for more. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is due out December 14th. The Hobbit: There and Back Again is due out December 13, 2013. [Update: Possible titles for the new installment have been uncovered. More after the jump.]
Peter Jackson released the following statement on his Facebook page:
It is only at the end of a shoot that you finally get the chance to sit down and have a look at the film you have made. Recently Fran, Phil and I did just this when we watched for the first time an early cut of the first movie – and a large chunk of the second. We were really pleased with the way the story was coming together, in particular, the strength of the characters and the cast who have brought them to life. All of which gave rise to a simple question: do we take this chance to tell more of the tale? And the answer from our perspective as the filmmakers, and as fans, was an unreserved 'yes.'
We know how much of the story of Bilbo Baggins, the Wizard Gandalf, the Dwarves of Erebor, the rise of the Necromancer, and the Battle of Dol Guldur will remain untold if we do not take this chance. The richness of the story of The Hobbit, as well as some of the related material in the appendices of The Lord of the Rings, allows us to tell the full story of the adventures of Bilbo Baggins and the part he played in the sometimes dangerous, but at all times exciting, history of Middle-earth.
So, without further ado and on behalf of New Line Cinema, Warner Bros. Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Wingnut Films, and the entire cast and crew of "The Hobbit" films, I'd like to announce that two films will become three.
It has been an unexpected journey indeed, and in the words of Professor Tolkien himself, "a tale that grew in the telling."
Peter J
I greet this news with a mix of excitement and apprehension. On the one hand, more Middle-earth should be a good thing, right? It's a beautiful world filled with rich, interesting characters. The Lord of the Rings trilogy is a modern classic, so why not provide a prequel trilogy? It's not like a prequel trilogy equipped with more money and state-of-the-art technology has ever gone horribly awry. Oh, wait.
There's also the issue of Jackson's last two films. King Kong is fine, and Jackson's heart is in the right place, but it's too long and contains extraneous storylines that should have been left on the cutting room floor. And The Lovely Bones is an out-and-out disaster. Finally, let's keep in mind that Jackson originally didn't want to do The Hobbit. That's why Guillermo Del Toro was brought on board. Del Toro left the project when it didn't look like it would ever get a greenlight. Jackson became the only one who could move forward once financing finally came together. Of course, Jackson is free to change his mind, and maybe once he got caught up making The Hobbit, he didn't want to let it go. I just hope that the addition of a new film (and keep in mind, we don't know how long any of these movies will be) will complete the story rather than simply augment it.
UPDATE: Some interesting domain registrations have been made in the past week, which may give as an idea of the title for a new Hobbit installment. Fusible made the discovery (via /Film):
While the third and final installment will most likely still be called "There and Back Again," (a recent press release from WB merely refers to Part 2 as "the second film" instead of "There and Back Again"), it appears that variations of "Desolation of Smaug" and "Riddles in the Dark" could be under consideration for the second film's subtitle. Desolation of Smaug refers to the path of destruction left behind by the titular dragon, while Riddles in the Dark is a reference to a sequence between Bilbo and Gollum that is most likely in the first film. Again, nothing's been confirmed, but these titles are definite possibilities.


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Something has really been bothering me about this draft (outside of the fact that the Knicks are not in the lottery). Everyone seems to think that Oden is a sure thing and that he will without question be better than Durant. How can you pass up a big man that all but guarantees wins?
7'0"... 280 (closer to 250 according to reports)
15.3 ppg, 9.4 rbpg, 3.6 bspg, 62% FG, 18 games played
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24.9 ppg, 11.4 rbpg, 1.8 bspg, 49% FG, 25 games played
This reminds me of the Jordan/Olajuwan 84 draft. Both were supremely talented and both brought multiple rings to their teams, but Jordan had a will that was undeniable, beating better teams (Knicks, Sonics, Blazers, Lakers) en route to 6 rings. And Olajuwan squandered championship opportunities his first 10 years in the league (the twin towers got to the finals and conference finals repeatedly, only to flame out) before the Knicks gave him a present in 94 (thanks a lot starks). And the Suns in 95 (thanks for blowing the 3-1 lead Chuck).
I think Durant could potentially change the game like few before him (think garnet, dirk, kirelenko, marion) and would make Portland a better team right away. Remember Portland already has LaMarcus Aldridge and Zach Randolph down low, so they don't NEED a center. They DO need a small forward. If they can add durant to that squad, they'd be sick:
jared jack, brandon roy, durant, randolph, aldridge
that team could contend/dominate the West for years
The Sonics would then draft Oden, since they need a 5, thereby setting up a nice 10+ year rivalry (assuming both teams keep their key pieces) between Por and Sea.
Of course, if they do draft Oden, they could trade Randolph away for a small (Lamar Odom, Caron Butler, Gerald Wallace) and keep their team in tact. But think back to 84... knowing then what you know now... who would you have taken?
Don't get me wrong, I think Oden is gonna be a monster, but people seem to be overlooking Durant a bit too much. Then again, I did think Carmelo might have been a better option for the top pick than Lebron AND I thought Orlando should have drafted Okafor. Not a good track record I suppose, but I gotta get one of these right someday...


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|The U.S. Men's National Volleyball Team huddles during its match against Puerto Rico.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Aug. 22, 2013) – The U.S. Men's Volleyball Team will not play for a medal at the Pan American Cup after losing a heartbreaker to Puerto Rico in the quarterfinals on Thursday, 16-25, 25-16, 26-28, 27-25, 18-16.
The U.S. Men (2-2) will play Dominican Republic (1-2) on Friday. The match winner will finish fifth. The loser will play Trinidad & Tobago (0-3) to determine sixth and seventh places.
The U.S. defeated the Dominican Republic in their first pool play match on Monday, 3-2. This will be the first time the U.S. Men have not medaled at the Pan American Cup in seven tournament appearances.
Puerto Rico (1-2) will play Brazil (2-0) in one semifinal while Mexico (3-0) will play Argentina (2-1) in the other.
"Congratulations to Puerto Rico, they really controlled the game in the middle," U.S. Head Coach Shawn Patchell said. "We had some chances to win, but they defended and played very well."
Puerto Rico led in kills (69-60), aces (4-2) and digs (16-7) while the U.S. led in blocks (19-10).
Outside hitter Taylor Sander (Huntington Beach, Calif.) led the United States with 21 points on 16 kills, three blocks and two aces. Opposite Will Price (Laytonsville, Md.) added 19 points on 18 attacks and one block. Middle blocker Dan McDonnell (Glendale, Ariz.) totaled 10 points on six kills and four blocks.
Outside hitter Josh Taylor (Honolulu) finished with nine points on nine kills. Setter Ryan Ammerman (Parker, Colo.) collected seven points on three attacks and four blocks. He was also credited with 24 running sets on 99 attempts.
Middle blocker Jacek Ratajczak (Warsaw, Poland) scored six points on one attack and a match-high five blocks. Outside hitter Joe Sunder (Greensburg, Pa.) added six points on four kills and two blocks. Outside hitter Ryan Jay Owens (Evanston, Ill.) totaled two points on two kills and middle blocker Russ Lavaja (St. Charles, Ill.) had one point on a kill.
Libero Michael Brinkley (Huntington Beach, Calif.) was credited with three digs and eight excellent receptions. Sander led the team in excellent receptions with 10. Setter Connor Olbright (Orange, Calif.) played as a substitute and had two running sets.
Patchell started Sander and Sunder at outside hitter, McDonnell and Ratajczak at middle blocker, Price at opposite, Ammerman at setter and Brinkley at libero. Taylor substituted in the second set and started the fourth and fifth for Sunder. Lavaja started the second set for Ratajczak, who returned to start the rest of the match.
Olbright, Owens and opposite Shawn Sangrey (Columbia, Pa.) all played as substitutes.
U.S. Men's Team Roster for Pan American Cup
No. Name (Position, Height, Hometown, College)
1 Connor Olbright (S, 6-4, Orange, Calif., Long Beach State)
4 Josh Taylor (OH, 6-7, Honolulu, Hawaii, Pepperdine)
5 Ryan Jay Owens (OH, 6-6, Evanston, Ill., Orange Coast College)
6 Joe Sunder (OH, 6-7, Greensburg, Pa., Penn State)
8 Michael Brinkley (L, 5-10, Huntington Beach, Calif., UC Irvine)
9 Dan McDonnell (MB, 6-6, Glendale, Ariz., UC Irvine)
12 Will Price (Opp, 6-5, 207, Laytonsville, Md., Penn State)
14 Ryan Ammerman (S, 6-8, Parker, Colo., UC Irvine)
15 Shawn Sangrey (Opp, 6-5, Columbia, Pa., Ohio State)
17 Jacek Ratajczak (MB, 7-2, Warsaw, Poland, Cal State Northridge)
18 Russ Lavaja (MB, 6-7, St. Charles, Ill., BYU)
19 Taylor Sander (OH, 6-4, Huntington Beach, Calif., BYU)
Head Coach: Shawn Patchell (Concordia University)
Assistant Coach: Allan Vince (Cal Baptist University)
Team Manager/Technical Coordinator: Nick MacRae (Long Beach State)
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|Dev: Old School Games
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|Release: April 19, 2013
|Players: 1-4
|Screen Resolution: 480p-1080p
|Intense Violence, Blood and Gore, Suggestive Themes, Partial Nudity, Drug Reference
The controls on the PC present another issue. God Mode doesn't allow flexible control mapping. I couldn't reassign the left and right arrow keys and, as a result, had to play the game in a fashion that I wasn't used to. The unwieldy keyboard and mouse controls make it apparent that God Mode was not designed with the PC in mind. If someone insists on playing God Mode on the PC, I recommend using an Xbox 360 controller.
Despite all my gripes, the game has redeeming qualities. "Oaths" provide an additional challenge while increasing the rewards received. The usually unneeded extra challenge can jump-start a stalling game with your friends. Caches of extra weapons and upgrades can be purchased too, allowing the player to personalize a unique brand of carnage. This customization extends into cosmetic options, giving the player a fun control over the aesthetics of the game.
I found a lot of enjoyment in the game's aesthetics. The appealingly surreal gothic tone makes the visuals look hellish. In a delightful addition, the game displays a fun sense of humor. For example, an enthusiastic narrator is more than happy to regale you with stories of your death.
The aesthetics of the game create an illusion of quality. God Mode, at its core, feels as cheap as the price tag might suggest. The one-note shooting can't sustain the game through all five maps. I'm not sure I feel comfortable recommending God Mode to anyone but a bored gamer looking for a single night of fun with friends. A couple of times while playing God Mode I saw what the game might have been. Unfortunately, thanks to odd design choices, Atlus' shooter doesn't live up to its potential.
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The Wayne Souza Coaches' Appreciation Award, which is presented in honor of former player Wayne Souza to an offensive player based on improvement, attitude and willingness to help the program, went to senior QB Curt Phillips and junior RB James White.
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Hollywood movies, and even off-Hollywood independent films, have long encouraged us to empathize with unstable or psychologically troubled characters only if they're "kooky" for a little while, as a prelude to more palatable, normalized levels of craziness. You know. The charming kind. Happy ending, followed by a fade to a sunny shade of black.
This helps to explain why Paul Thomas Anderson's "The Master" never was destined to click with even a sliver of the American mainstream. A lot of filmgoers get nervous about spending money and time on serious head cases, unless they're Bond villains.
David O. Russell's pungent romantic comedy "Silver Linings Playbook" takes some risks en route to its own happy ending. And I say good for Russell for risking a protagonist who requires some patience and forgiveness.
This is Russell's first picture since his very fine film "The Fighter" two years ago. It offers many of that film's strengths: local color; working-class authenticity; a disarming mixture of moods and tonalities; and performances that are a tiny bit larger than life, but in a convivial, lived-in way.
Russell has adapted Matthew Quick's clever first novel so as to make the story's deeply embedded quirks his own, or rather, his characters' own.
For a while there in the Philadelphia-set "Silver Linings Playbook," the unruly protagonist played by Bradley Cooper, by Russell's admission, is an off-putting guy on which to hang a feel-good Oscar-season hopeful. We meet Pat Solatano (Pat Peoples in the novel) as he's finishing up eight months in a state mental health institution. Slowly we learn the circumstances: He is married to a fellow high school teacher, though Pat himself has lost his job, owing to a violent incident alluded to early on and revealed in full later.
For better and for worse Pat goes back to living with his folks, a father (Robert De Niro, excitingly, fully engaged) obsessed with the fortunes of the Philadelphia Eagles, and a mother (Australian native Jacki Weaver, right at home in the land of cheesesteak) long used to coping with hot-headed, punch-throwing temperaments. Pat longs for a reunion with his estranged wife, Nikki (Brea Bee), but there are little roadblocks, including a restraining order. Then, into this bipolar man's uncertain life, comes Tiffany, a deceased policeman's widow played by Jennifer Lawrence.
Clearly in novelistic and movie terms these two were made for each other. But her reputation in this tribal Philly neighborhood precedes her: She's a "slut," burying her grief in a string of bantamweight affairs. She and Pat become running partners (she's more like his runner-stalker), and although the feelings that pass between these two hard-shell characters are genuine, they relate in terms of pure expedience. She needs a dance partner for an upcoming ballroom competition; in exchange for his services, Tiffany will act as a go-between for Pat and Nikki, aiding his quixotic quest to get back to his elusive old life.
Like the family scenes in "The Fighter," with all that immense hair and tangled loyalties, the family scenes in "Silver Linings Playbook" are just exaggerated (or distilled) enough to work as character-based comedy, yet staying this side of caricature. De Niro's patriarch doesn't know what to make of his angry, delusional son, nor what to make of his own past behavior. They're brawlers, and if the brawls in question are Eagles-related, what better cause?
For the movie to work, which it does, Russell needed to make Pat and Tiffany more than cogs in a rom-com wheel. Happily Russell's skills as a writer and a director are roughly equal; each time, for example, Tiffany zings into the frame on another one of Pat's purposeful morning jogs, the timing is spot on. Lawrence is a remarkable actress, tough and forthright and, well, un-actressy. The "local color," the people on screen who clearly aren't professional actors, blend in with the ensemble seamlessly.
Russell's primarily concession to a popular audience, I suppose, comes in the relocation (from the book's two-thirds point to the film's climax) of the ballroom dance sequence. It's shameless in its way, but its way is both time-honored and, here, cornily effective. Russell, it must be said, goes easy on Pat's behavior, past and present. But Cooper's performance is his best yet. As is Lawrence's (the more crucial role, in fact). Chris Tucker as Pat's fellow institution resident, newly sprung, works in a different key (thank God) than he did in the "Rush Hour" films. And it really is a pleasure to be reminded of De Niro's range and instincts when he's stepping up. That range may not be expansive but it is wholly, truly expressive, much like this eccentric ode to family itself.
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In 1992 a star-studded crowd at the Academy of Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame gala awards induction ceremonies chuckled at the one-liners delivered by its principal inductee Bill Cosby. The laughter stopped when Cosby turned serious and accused the mostly white film and TV writers of "massacring� the Black image on screen.
Cosby's skewered indictment of the TV and film studio executives seemed ironic. For a decade they had enshrined him as America's most treasured TV Dad. They made Cosby, a Black man, the quintessential symbol of all that was good and wholesome in family values conscious America. More than a decade after Cosby knocked the execs for butchering the Black image; the even more tragic irony is that he has done much to massacre his own image. At last count, thirteen women in court documents have virtually branded Cosby a serial sexual victimizer.
They claim that he drugged and/or sexually assaulted them. In interviews, an angry Cosby screamed foul, and claimed that the charges are nothing but a shakedown of a rich and famous celebrity. Though no criminal charges have been filed against him, Cosby will be tied up in endless civil litigation for years to come to untangle the he-said she-said mess. Cosby inadvertently made himself a sitting duck for the finger pointing, when in a well meaning, but ill-tempered tirade last May, he lambasted poor Black teens and their parents, for being lousy parents, educational slackers, for butchering the English language, and for their alleged thuggish behavior.
He made the same charges against them a couple of months later. The indictment was way too broad, too sweeping, and it inched dangerously close to reinforcing the same vile racial stereotypes that Cosby has spent most of his professional career fighting against. They were the type of stereotypes that he had accused
the TV and film executives more than a decade earlier of fanning. Now Cosby was on the bad behavior hot seat. If America's number one Dad can ride high up in the moral saddle and lecture other Blacks on their alleged bad behavior, than he should be held to the same lofty standard.
The hint of sexual misconduct left him wide open to the accusation that he was a hypocrite and a fraud. There were warning signs that Cosby might eventually be ripe for a tumble. In 1997, he made a bombshell confession that in the 1970s he had an extra marital affair, and was accused of fathering an illegitimate daughter. There were allegations of shakedowns, under the table hush money payoffs, an extortion trial and conviction of the woman who claimed to be his illicit daughter, and an avalanche of embarrassing kiss and tell tabloid gossip stories on Cosby. He dodged the bullet on that one. In sex scandal driven America it's a virtual rite of passage for the celebrity, rich and famous to be embroiled in peep show scandals.
The public delights in that kind of titillation. It was hard to ban in Boston a guy that had shelled out millions to minority student scholarship funds, Black colleges and had worked tirelessly for civil rights causes over the years. Cosby also continued to rail against the clown, coon, and buck dance image that Blacks propagated of themselves in TV sitcoms. He pushed and prodded the film and TV industry to do more to promote more positive Black images on screen.
But the glue on Cosby's still largely intact good guy image loosened in January when Andrea Constand was the first in the door to accuse him of drugging and sexually assaulting her. Cosby initially vehemently denied the charge, but swiftly shifted into damage control mode and, as he delicately put it, had a "sexual encounter� with her, but said it was consensual. That still fit the jaded public belief that the rich and famous routinely have their little sexual trysts, and who makes a big deal out of that?
Cosby defenders cited the fact that Constand waited years to come forth to make her charge as proof that it was a put up job by unnamed conspirators to character assassinate yet another high profile, outspoken Black man and thereby sully all Blacks as moral degenerates. There's not a shred of evidence to back that up. Moreover, Cosby did not pillory President Bush, "the white man,� or the "white establishment�. That's the bare prerequisite for Blacks to rally around a Black under fire, shout racism and spin racial conspiracy theories. Cosby had attacked other Blacks.
The horde of conservative commentators stumbled over themselves to hail Cosby as the ultimate truth-giver and laud him for having the courage to air dirty racial laundry. America's favorite dad got some things right and some things terribly wrong in his bash of Black America. And he may be right that his parade of sexual accusers is out to gouge a star. But if he's wrong, he'll have more than an image problem.
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The writer Daniel Pink prophesizes widely on what he describes as a cultural transition from our era—an "Age of Information," to an alleged "Age of Conception," a transition which has induced educators in British and in many Southeast Asian countries to attempt to inculcate creativity in their students in order to better prepare them for competition in the global marketplace. One symptom of this new age, the development of a global cyber network, or what Thomas Friedman calls the "digital platform," has given to each and every entrepreneur the potential to expand his or her trade and sale of services and products to consumers worldwide, making those marketplaces more competitive on a global scale.
In response to this challenge, the Historically Black University (HBCU) Claflin University has set a goal known as the Claflin Imperative, which "[prepares] students for leadership and service in a multicultural, global, and technological society." Furthermore, for each of the past ten years the university has hosted the Claflin University Conference on Contemporary English and Language Arts Pedagogy to give local and regional educators a chance to share and to keep abreast of the latest developments in language teaching. Former contributors to the conference are invited to submit proposals for (1) a section on the history of the conference. Faculty (and former faculty) of any HCBU are invited to submit proposals for (2) a section of pedagogy practices used at HCBU's. Moreover, faculties at every type of institution are invited to submit proposals for (3) a section on mainstream pedagogies used to prepare students for mounting the digital platform.
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Police abandon high-speed chase
A Sunday afternoon pursuit of a motorcycle that hit speeds of 100mph through Augusta and Rockingham counties is abandoned "because of the extremely reckless speed of the motorcycle," Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller tells the News Virginian. Police are still looking for the driver of the orange bike, described as a thin, white guy wearing a multi-colored helmet, orange shirt and multi-colored shorts.
Two weeks earlier, a state trooper pursued a 67mph-in-a-45mph speeding teen through Charlottesville at 3am at speeds reaching 100 mph, until the youth crashed on Avon Street Extended.
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How about the mighty Dodge Intrepid? Coppers used to like those with the 3.5 hemi, right?
That's like the Subaru Imprezas the French police drive. Can you imagine that here in America? The bad guys would just ram those off the road with their stolen SUVs. I would like to see one of those French Imprezas with those ramming thingies our guys use mounted on the front of it. That would be like a clown car you'd see at the circus.
Yes, I have seen it. Can hardly wait to drive one.
The Crown Victoria Police Interceptor wasn't suppose to be sold to the public either. But civilians could buy them all day long with the right connections.
So GSOE, what's the opinion on the Chargers with the HEMIs? Just curious...
Look for him in Crozet. All the other psychos are from here. That includes the fellow who drove the wrong way while drunk on 64 a few weeks ago.
Guess the cops shoulda had faster cars, huh? Oh wait...
There was a day and time I would have accepted an Intrepid and thanked the Lord for it! Back in the mid 80s the city sheriff bought 4 of the 4 cylinder four speed Chevettes. It was the funniest thing ever seen in this area. Well, except we had a female deputy, so they had to buy her a 4 cylinder with an automatic transmission of course.
They were suppose to be used for civil process service only. But it wasn't long before we ended up transporting prisoners to and from the local courts in these sardine cans. We didn't even have prisoner cages between the front and rear seats. Most of the time the prisoners ended up sitting in the front seat just 6" from my firearm since I am right handed.
They lasted a few years before they all started blowing up. IMHO, it was just a press gimmick anyway, the sheriff was saying, "Hey voters and taxpayers, look at me, I am saving you money!" The day I picked up my Chevette I had to turn in a fairly new low mileage Ford. It was auctioned off for pennies on the true dollar value. Yeah, we saved the taxpayers money! Uh huh, sure! It cost the city a fortune for these little 4 banger cracker boxes. :)
If a city was really interested in saving the taxpayers money, they would be buying the V-6 Chevrolet Impala police package instead of the gas guzzling V-8 Crown Victorias. In city driving they get twice the mileage the gass guzzling Crown Victorias get.
HEMI is just a name today. They are not a true Hemi like back in the old days. True hemispherical engines haven't really existed for a long while now in Dodges.
IMHO, the Charger is a very dangerous car in the hands of cop shoppe rookies. Most don't have the ability to handle a car capable of going 146 mph. Especially on public highways.
Jake must be busy chowing down on some crow.
It's not pathetic at all. A street bike is going to outrun a police cruiser on anyday of the week, hands down. A bike slows to make one turn and can hit 60mph again in under 4 seconds. 2 ton cars don't stand a chance against 400lb motorcycles.
This thread won't let me post a link, I have tried 3 times, so I will try the wording from the link. :)
Muscle car aficionados are quick to point out that the HEMI engine featured in today's vehicles is not a ââ?¬Å?true" hemi engine. However, it is important to note that these engines do have partial-spherical chambers, and is at least 35% of a sphere. Today's engines are designed to ââ?¬Å?tumble" and ââ?¬Å?swirl" the air and fuel together in the combustion chamber for the most efficient mix possible. These combustion chambers are easy to recognized, as most are kidney-shaped. The so-called ââ?¬Å?true" hemi engines fell out of favor by engineers because it became almost near-impossible to design those engines in such a way that they conformed to fuel efficiency and emissions standards. These newer designs, though they feature a partially-spherical combustion chamber, are much more efficient and improved.
Nice try, Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller!!
They "abandoned" the high speed pursuit ONLY because the bike outran the cops and they had lost sight of the motorcycle.
Ain't it pathetic?
The 6 cylinder Chevrolet Impala 9C1 police package has a top speed of 139 miles per hour (0 to 60 times, 8.53 seconds).
The Ford Crown Victoria with a 3.27 axle will achieve 129 mph (0 to 60 times, 8.88 seconds).
The Ford Crown Victoria with a 3.55 axle will achieve 120 mph (0 to 60 times, 8.42 seconds).
Dodge Charger V-8 police package, 146 mph (0 to 60, 6.0 seconds).
Dodge Charger V-6 police package, 137 mph (0 to 60 mph 8.64 seconds).
You can see the dog in the crowd, the Crown Victoria. :)
Even the Chevrolet Tahoe police package beats out the Crown Victoria. The Tahoe will do 133 mph (0 to 60 times, 8.33 seconds).
Any time you hear a cop say he got his Crown Victoria up to 145 and 150 mph in a pursuit recently, you have met a natural born liar. :)
Source: Michigan State Police Police Vehicle Testing
Did anyone listen to the radio traffic on the scanner? If you did you would realize that he did out run them, but not before they were able to identify him. Immediately following the pursuit they ended up at the subjects sister's house and the went to his parents house. The radio traffic indicated that the kid was wanted by the police and had a revoked license.
Good job State Police and all of the agencies that assisted.
Jake just hadn't clicked on the news link and read it. And because of that, he was wondering where I get all this insider information from. :)
I will admit I don't like links.
No problem, Jake. But I knew all about this pursuit and the fact they did not voluntarily break this pursuit off long before Gellar ever made her press release. :)
Even after the cyclist outran them and was no longer in sight, they still ran around like chickens with their heads off. They therefore had now become the menace to other motorists on the highways.
Dang thanks for the engineering lesson G-bag that was very informative. I always wondered what a hemi was.
There's a lot more information out there on the Internet about what a true Hemi engine was. And it certainly wasn't what they now call a Hemi in a 2010 Charger or Challenger.
This may be true. But you have to admit that the commercials Dodge came out with to advertise the Hemi a few years ago were pretty danged funny.
Well, now the guys on motorcycles know what they can do to avoid a ticket. Although perhaps not a tree.
G-bag is right they did'nt abandon squat they just got out ran. The juiced crown vic's the cops drive are a joke compared to the modern two wheeler these days. I used to ride and beleive me the cops hate crotch rockets and look for any excuse to pull you. They know the bike is much faster than they are and they hate you for it. But I never once heard of one backing off in pursuit. Most of the stories I heard the bike gets up to a buck twenty ya know maybe buck fiddy and then you tuck it in a strip mall real quick and watch em go by. Ahh the good ole days so I hear.
@GSOE - Have you seen the 2011 RWD Caprice PPV? This will be a police-only (no civilian counterpart) vehicle: http://www.chevroletcapriceppv.com/#home
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Jake, go read the News Virginian link above.
quotes from link:
1- The pursuit moved north to the town of Bridgewater, where the rider topped 100 mph. Troopers scrambled to get to head off the rider on the area's winding rural roads and often lost sight of the bike.
2- The rider took his motorcycle in circles in Bridgewater before heading back into Augusta County, where he was last seen on Route 649.
Chuck, repeat after me, the cops didn't break a thing off.
The pursuit ended after they lost sight of the motorcycle.
And the pursuit only ended after they lost sight of the motorcycle.
I see Geller pulled the wool over your eyes too with the surrepticious wording in her press release. :)
Provide evidence that the police lost sight of the motorcycle please.
Bikes are a menace
" HEMI is just a name today. They are not a true Hemi like back in the old days. True hemispherical engines haven't really existed for a long while now in Dodges."
This statement is not true. Hemis are Hemis. Dodge still uses them. They are not some magical set up only used in the 60s. Today they are used in a whole lot of applications. Almost all of your 4 cylinder engines, Toyota, Honda, Nissan etc are Hemis.
It's good that they just let him run...
...unless he later murders your gentle Uncle Ben, in which case you would learn that with great power comes great responsibility.


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My dearest Joe-
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In Montgomery County, two precincts—one in Kettering and another in Washington Twp.—report extraordinarily high numbers of ballots cast with no presidential vote. The two precincts, both of which used punch-card ballots, had undercounts of more than 25 percent, far exceeding the county's overall undercount of 2 percent. Undercount rates were 75 percent higher in the precincts that voted for John Kerry. Of the 231 precincts that went to Kerry, 2.8 percent of the ballots cast lacked a vote for the president. In the 354 precincts that supported President Bush, the figure was 1.6 percent. (But there were some exceptions. In fact, seven of the 10 precincts with the highest rate of undercounted presidential ballots went to Bush. For example, the highest undercount rate in Montgomery County occurred in precinct Washington X, a Bush stronghold, with 27.5 percent of the 611 ballots cast lacking a vote for president.) Larry J. Sabato, a political scientist from the University of Virginia, tells the Dayton Daily News that the extremely high rate of undercounts indicates that something went wrong. "It is very difficult to believe that a quarter of the people would not vote for president, especially in a year like this," he says. "If I were the election officers in those areas I would be doing some very extensive checks of those machines." But the presiding judge of Washington X, Shirley Wightman, tells the Dayton Daily News that her precinct reported no problems. (McCall and Bebbington 11/18/2004)
Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich (R-GA) has apparently exploited a loophole in campaign finance law that has allowed him to build what McClatchy News calls "a political money machine that raised $54 million over five years," according to McClatchy reports. Gingrich has used "a supposedly independent political committee that collected unlimited donations" to "finance… a coast-to-coast shadow campaign that raised his profile and provided a launch pad for his presidential run." Critics call the ASWF issue another aftereffect of the Citizens United decision (see January 21, 2010).
$54 Million over 5 Years - The Gingrich-supporting PAC, "American Solutions for Winning the Future" (ASWF) was closed down in July 2011. Organized as a so-called "527 group" (see 2000 - 2005 and June 30, 2000), the tax-exempt, "nonprofit" organization raised $28.2 million in the two-year period ending December 31, 2010, the last period for which McClatchy has data. The Center for Responsive Politics reports that ASWF raised almost double the amount garnered by the next closest 527. The organization raised some $54 million throughout its existence, from 2006 to July 2011. McClatchy has learned some of the details behind ASWF and is now revealing them to the public. The organization provided at least $8 million to pay for the chartered luxury jets that Gingrich used to fly back and forth around the nation for public appearances and campaigning for president. The jet charters occurred during the 2008 and 2012 presidential primaries.
Largely Financed by Billionaire, Corporate Donations - ASWF has accepted enormous cash donations from billionaires such as Sheldon Adelson, a Las Vegas casino owner, who has emerged as Gingrich's primary benefactor. Adelson has given $7.65 million to ASWF, including a million-dollar startup contribution in 2006. According to an Adelson spokesperson, "he and Speaker Gingrich go back a number of years." Adelson is a prominent supporter and financier of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and like Gingrich holds far-right, aggressively territorial views about Israel. Gingrich has made provocative statements about Israel and the Palestinian people over the years, denying that the Palestinians are a separate people and declaring his support for Israel's forced-settlement plans that have displaced many Palestinians. A Gingrich spokesman says Adelson and others merely gave to the organization because they agree with Gingrich's views. Charlotte, North Carolina, real estate developer Fred Godley gave ASWF $1.1 million in 2007 and another $100,000 in 2009. Energy firms donated heavily to ASWF: Peabody Energy, the world's largest private coal producer, and its chief lobbyist Fred Palmer gave ASWF $825,000. Arch Coal, the US's second-largest coal company, gave $100,000. Oil and gas firm Devon Energy gave $400,000, as did American Electric Power Company and its CEO Michael Morris. Plains Exploration Company gave $200,000. The late Cincinnati billionaire Carl Lindner gave $690,000. Dallas real estate firm Crow Holdings gave $600,000. Minnesota broadcasting mogul Stanley Hubbard gave $385,000. Wisconsin businessman Terry Kohler gave $328,082. California businessman Fred Sacher gave $275,000. NASCAR president James France gave $264,000. Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus gave $250,000. Another Las Vegas casino owner, the late Frank Fertitta Jr., gave $250,000, along with his sons; together the three of them co-owned a casino and the Ultimate Fighting Championship sports league. Former CarMax and Circuit City chief Richard Sharp gave $150,000. Stock brokerage titan Charles Schwab gave $150,000. Cincinnati Reds owner Robert Castellini gave $146,000. Political science professor Larry Sabato says that in light of such enormous contributions, "there's no way that any politician is going to deny you much of anything that you want."
New Super PACs Supplanting ASWF - In place of ASWF, two new pro-Gingrich super PACs have formed to support Gingrich's attempt to close the gap between himself and frontrunner Mitt Romney (R-MA) in the Republican primary.
'Diabolical Scheme' to 'Circumvent' Campaign Finance Law - Campaign expert Lawrence Jacobs calls Gingrich's use of ASWF "clever," and adds, "Looking back, and now seeing Gingrich as the frontrunner… it's an ingenious, diabolical scheme to circumvent what's left of the campaign finance regime." Jacobs says of the organization: "The money wasn't used literally to finance a campaign for a particular office. It was used for a general, over-time campaign to keep Gingrich alive politically—an enormously luxurious campaign operation to sustain his political viability for the right time to jump into the presidential race. It's no accident that he's popped in in 2012." Jacobs says ASWF operated "right on the line" of legality. Sabato says ASWF played a key role in resuscitating Gingrich's flagging political career. His term as speaker of the House ended in scandal and resignation, and his high-profile divorces and profligate personal and campaign spending had led many to assume that Gingrich's political career was over. But Sabato says Gingrich used ASWF to create what he calls a new kind of informal candidacy, one that shows the inherent weakness of campaign finance laws that are supposed to ensure "nobody could give so much money that they would become too influential, too powerful." ASWF was always nominally independent, as required by law, but in 2009 Gingrich ousted its board of directors and took the title of general chairman. Gingrich never formed a formal exploratory committee before declaring his candidacy for president. McClatchy observes, "None of his Republican presidential rivals, nor any other federal candidate for that matter, is known to have operated such a committee before formally declaring his or her candidacy." Gingrich spokesperson R.C. Hammon says Gingrich did not begin considering a presidential campaign until April 2011, and all of his committee activities were "legitimate." Hammond says: "The purpose of American Solutions was to advance an agenda of free enterprise and tri-partisan solutions. Those were the activities he was undertaking." ASWF is just one of a network of political entities that Gingrich has created over the last 10 years. He has managed to enrich himself by charging lucrative fees for speeches, consulting for undisclosed health care industry firms, and selling historical documentaries and books. After the group was formed in the fall of 2006, Gingrich sent a letter to potential backers calling it a unique organization "designed to rise above traditional gridlocked partisanship" and to develop "breakthrough solutions to the most important issues facing this country." Vin Weber, a former Minnesota congressman who served on ASWF's board for two years, says the group "certainly helped build his path back into political prominence." He adds, "They basically sent Newt around the country promoting American Solutions." Weber is now supporting Romney for the presidency. He says that ASWF had "not gotten really up to speed in terms of programming" when he received a call, apparently in 2008, advising him that the board was being abolished. Gingrich then took over as the group's general chairman.
Relatively Little Spent on Campaign Initiatives, Most Spent on Raising More Money - ASWF proposed a number of campaign and advertising initiatives that would appeal to conservative donors, including:
a "Drill Now!" movement aimed at increasing US oil exploration;
attempts to rally opposition to President Obama's health care reform efforts;
a campaign to fight climate change legislation that would call for reduced carbon emissions by industrial concerns.
But of $37.9 million raised from 2006 through 2009, the committee spent just $7.2 million on programs, according to its filings with the Internal Revenue Service. Most of the ASWF money was spent on telemarketers and direct-mail appeals to develop a loyal pool of wealthy contributors. InfoCision, an Ohio telemarketing firm that specializes in building lists of "small" donors, was paid some $30 million over the course of the organization's existence, exhausting much of the money contributed. $17 million of that money was used to finance Gingrich's travel. (Gordon 12/19/2011; Waldron 12/19/2011)
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Nowak, of Bay Ridge, was one of seven students chosen for the 2009-2010 much sought after Vanguard Award. This year 93 students applied state-wide for the award that recognizes the accomplishments of students who are enrolled in Career and Technical Education (CTE) Programs that are not traditional to their gender.
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Thanks for the nice comments.davegravyI don't thing there is room for more than one button per widget element. One widget element takes up the same space as one normal android application icon, or were you thinking of something else?RegardsAndreas
And an exaggerated concept of what a 3x4 widget with multiple buttons inside might look like: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/30586759/multiple%20buttons%20within%203x4%20widget.pngI have no idea if the android widget platform actually allows this kind of thing.
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