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Helen Clark Russell, 95, of Dayton, died Thursday morning, December 20, 2012, at Bethany Village in Dayton.
Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, December 23, 2012, in Pine Street Cemetery with Rev. Leslie Fleming officiating.
In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to Dana Beekman, 2300 East Stroop Road, Kettering, Ohio 45440, to purchase a permanent memorial in Helen's memory for Oakview Elementary School.
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PLAYSACK designed by Fredun Shapur for Trendon (Made In England by Trendon LTD.Malton.Yorkshire) 1969. Found at a local thrift store and gifted to me (Thanks M.D.!!!). My package contains Panda, Leopard, and Bear.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
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- Kickcan and Conkers said...
Great :)
- February 10, 2010 at 12:09 PM
- Ribambins said...
I saw these while browsing through the 1971 creative playthings catalogue.. and followed the same path ;-) (as far as pictures are concerned...)
Thank you for sharing some pictures of the "round and round and square book". If you ever find more information about Fredun Shapur, I will be mostly interested.
By the way, did you know abour "Schnurpfel" from NAEF ? - February 10, 2010 at 12:23 PM
- lili scratchy said...
I like it very much!!
thank you, - July 20, 2010 at 4:06 PM
- Studio Fludd said...
Thanks for sharing, very interesting - nice design.
- July 29, 2010 at 3:18 AM
We just came across 1 lion, 1 leopard, and 3 bears. Anyone interested in purchasing can reach out to me via email. They're all still in the original packaging that says Trendon Toys. firstname.lastname@example.com
- October 22, 2010 at 3:05 PM
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1: A sappy song by Lynyrd Skynyrd that goes into a 7 minute kick-ass guitar solo. Can be found on the album, 'Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd.'
2: Something you yell when people are done performing music, works best with local bands. Originated in the eighties by a DJ from Chicago. \m/ \m/
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1. A kickass song by Lynyrd Skynyrd that features some great slide guitar and a five minute guitar solo.
2. The tradition of shouting this song as a request when attending a concert, regardless of whether the performer is a musician or not. This tradition is mostly carried on by idiots who don't even know what they're yelling or why. (Note: do not utter this phrase in the presence of Bill Hicks.) Free bird. And in the beginning there was the word "Free bird" and "Free bird" would be yelled throughout the centuries. "Free bird", the mantra of the moron! "Free bird", "Free bird", "Free bird", "Free bird". If we keep yelling this, one day we'll be funny. Keep doing it. "Free bird", "Free bird", "Free bird", "Free bird". We will sit at the feet of Kevin Matthews. "Free bird", "Free bird", "Free bird".
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An amazing song produced by the band Lynyrd Skynyrd. This song has basically made the band famous. I think the song is slightly sad and I find it strange how in the end, the whole band kind of went down as Free Birds. cause I'm as Free as a Bird nowww...
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A song by Lynyrd Skynyrd that is approximately ten minutes long. It is sometimes used as a ten minute timer. The first half of the song is a slow vocal ballad while the second half is a very fast instrumental rock music with a long guitar solo. Student: "It's 7:50 AM and I have ten minutes to get to class, I'm going to turn on Free Bird to make sure I'm not late!"
Lynyrd Skynyrd: (ballad guitar riff) (sings) "If I leave here tomorrow..." (5 minutes later) Lynyrd Skynyrd: (song suddenly gets faster) "...Lord I can't change, won't you fly high free bird" Student: "Shit! Five minutes till class and I am not halfway there!" Lynyrd Skynyrd: (five minute guitar solo) (song fades away) Student: (runs into the classroom) Professor: "you JUST made it!" |
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For a comparison to the dissonant storytelling style Geoff Johns has pioneered, we have to look outside comics, to the work of Henry Darger. Darger, probably the best-known and most influential "outsider artist" in modern history, spent his life creating well over 15,000 pages of a near-comics work in words and pictures, The Story of the Vivian Girls in the Realms of the Unreal. In Darger, childlike innocence and whimsy is placed next to scenes of terrifying death and torture, from which resurrections are common and daring escapes via epic battles downright commonplace. Various alien races interact in relative harmony, quasi-religious mysticism is a constant presence, and the general effect is one of a highly unusual adult mind attempting to recreate something of childhood's pure, unfettered imagination after having seen far too much of life's cruel reality go by. Darger-influenced comics are a relatively recent phenomenon: despite being featured in the groundbreaking avant-comics anthology Raw, his work has only really been absorbed by the cartoonists of the past 10 years or so, typically in visually-driven, confrontational art-comix by cartoonists like Mat Brinkman or Christopher "CF" Forgues.
As far as Dargeresque superhero comics are concerned, it's Johns and Johns alone. The overriding sense in both men's work is one of complete dislocation from reality as we know it: human forms still converse and conflict and move through space, but that's about it. The rules of the game, the governing principles of reality, are completely alien, the province of an entirely imagined logic. In Johns' Green Lantern universe it often seems that nothing is random, that the laws of inertia and physics have been replaced by the ministrations of various cosmic deities representing the spectrum of human emotion. It's a vastly compelling idea: though he has never been one to flinch away from showing the most degrading, disturbing things allowed in mainstream comics (and at times actively expanded the parameters of how far into the meat grinder things can go), in Johns the very presence of death and evil is firmly explicable, the fault of "bad" entities who merely require defeat at the hands of the "good" ones.
Johns' cosmology occasionally approaches the grand terms morality play operates on, but there's no actual morality involved in these stories. All the blood explosions and breaking skeletons and planed-open bodies and the forces that govern them are conceived as pure entertainment, with no greater message whatsoever to communicate. Though the presence of "good" and "evil" imply some higher relevance, there is no reflection on right and wrong action, no lessons to be learned or messages to take away. The actions that drive the plot of a Johns comic are literally impossible for humans to take in the real world, and all that is shown of their effects is the influence they have on other, similarly abstract entities. Good and evil cease to matter when it's impossible to practice either one. For all their near-divine grandeur, these comics are literally meaningless when considered as anything but the actuality of what their panels depict.
The actuality of Green Lantern #43, then, is that of a prologue issue to the dizzyingly complicated, stupefyingly violent, and incredibly successful multi-issue saga "Blackest Night". It's also one of the most unremittingly bleak and violent issues of a superhero comic ever published without the caveat of a mature readers label or an out-of-continuity disclaimer. As far as the "DCU" is concerned, this is all real, and the lack of any excuses is one of the most striking things about it. This is nothing but a mainstream superhero comic, pitched to the most general of audiences the medium commands, and it is absolutely horrifying. The issue chronicles the transformation of also-ran villain Black Hand into the first member of the undead Black Lantern Corps. Composed mainly of flashbacks, the present moments it depicts are almost blinding in their stylistic conviction and the certainty with which they're executed. As Black Hand recalls the path that brought him from the cradle into the bondage-stud festooned black latex costume he wears today, he rises from the skeleton-scattered grave he sleeps in, walks to the old family home, murders his family member by member, sits down at the table, and shoots himself in the head. Such narratives aren't completely foreign to the blackest corners of crime fiction or horror film, but to see it in a superhero comic is uncommon to say the least. Johns doesn't stop at a mere four-color pastiche of exploitation media, either: two bloodsoaked pages after Black Hand's death comes his comic book-appropriate resurrection as a vein-popping, dessicated Black Lantern, hi jinx to follow in many issues to come.
The story, drawn by Doug Mahnke with great skill and a tremendous sense of dedication to the material, follows a near art-comix logic, letting the impact of the images drive the story, with the words little more than tonal additions, amplifiers for the impact of the showcase pictures rather than reasons for them or even really a string for them to hang together on. The black-on-white of the word balloons and the white-on-black of the narrative captions become part of the pictures themselves, their place in the panel compositions as essential to the images as any ink line or spotted black. It's a highly unusual way for superhero comics to operate, this surrender to the total power of pictures, especially when the images are as dark as the ones Mahnke summons up. As the issue begins with Black Hand lying in his rain-soaked grave, transported with bliss and locked in an embrace with a dirt-smeared skeleton, the captions read in bold capital letters. MY HEART IS FILLED WITH DEATH, they declare over Mahnke's digitally-colored canvas. AND I AM HAPPY. From here, the issue rolls like thunder.
Black Hand thinks back, showing us the defining moments of his life in what we don't yet know is to be his last. The first memory is of a small child, barely able to walk, finding his mortician father at work. Splattered blood covers the man's hands. A young female corpse lies black-lipped on a metal table in a pool of dark red. PRETTY, a word balloon tells us.
A wan, sickly-looking boy gestures at a shady glen in the corner of the graveyard he and his father stand in. In the foreground we see another man chest-deep in the hole he digs with a battered spade. The boy smiles as his father looks off into the glen. THAT'S WHERE I WANT MY GRAVE, the words hanging over him say.
The boy has grown. A towering demonic creature shatters his window at night, leaves him a strange golden weapon, and is carried off by glowing green angels. The boy, terrified, uses the weapon to reduce a squirrel to a cluster of tiny bones. He lies, for the first time, in an open grave. I COULD SEE HIS RING GLOWING LIKE A NIGHT LIGHT THAT WAS TOO BRIGHT, go the words scrolling alongside the fetal-positioned boy. I NEEDED TO SHUT IT OFF.
The boy is making himself a new set of clothes. BODY BAG is superimposed over a panel that shows him stroking a sheet of shiny black fabric. He cuts it up with silver scissors. He wants to wear clothes, he thinks, that remind him of something SPECIAL. He holds a freshly cut black domino mask over his face. Veiny eyes pop out through the shadow it casts. Something that reminds him, he thinks, OF MY FIRST KISS.
Back in the present day Black Hand crawls out of his grave. The grass sizzles and turns black beneath his touch. Hunched, he walks through the family cemetery once again. Arriving at the door of his ancestral home, he turns his weapon's green light on his brothers. They explode, faces fixed in rictuses of pain, skeletons bared, explosions of blood hovering around them like black mist. Huddling behind the grue-sprayed dinner table, Black Hand's father watches his son's weapon perforate his mother's chest cavity with an uninterrupted emerald beam. Ribs clatter to the floor. Black Hand turns to his father. Now two green skeletons lie on the floor, which is turning red beneath them.
Black Hand sits down and points the weapon at his own head. YES, we read. ONE MORE. A wordless full-page panel gives a diagrammatic reading of his suicide: eyes popping inhumanly wide, teeth gritted, cheeks sucked in, a drop of blood from the nose, a small hole in the right temple and another one, spewing wet, in the left. Black hand falls. Computerized blood droplets fill the panels. It appears to be raining red. His eyes, still open, fill with blood.
A tiny man appears, hovering over the black-clad corpse. He vomits a pure black liquid onto it. Black Hand rises, his facial skin seemingly planed away, black tendons and blood vessels spread across it. I WILL FINALLY EXTINGUISH THE LIGHT, the final line of the comic reads.
There's a linear story beneath the chilling string of imagery Green Lantern #43 presents, but it simply doesn't feel as important as the sense of utter hopelessness that Johns and Mahnke create: if any Johns comic goes beyond its own complexity and into the realm of successful exploitation work, it's this one. The point of the comic feels utterly abstract, the creation of something monstrous more urgent for a moment than the epic saga it's supposed to be leading into. The closest thing to it that exists in comics is Al Columbia's deconstructed graphic novel Pim and Francie, which presents a disconnected suite of horrifying images that share a great deal of the gothy, unrelenting tone that Johns and Mahnke pull off so convincingly. Both comics overwhelm, their content secondary to the way in which it's presented, the total seriousness and malicious intent. As drawn by Mahnke, every bit of the issue carries an overwhelming sense of bad vibes, creeping evil. Men wear black suits. Women sit stiffly. Children's eyes appear edged with mascara, standing out eerily from pale skin. The most familiar objects -- a table, a lawn, a picture in a frame -- are rendered as hideous, frightening things. Real life is a threat, one shot through with a crushing sense of the macabre, one with a single possible ending.
But the real darkness of Johns' work takes insider knowledge to access. From Columbia to Jim Woodring to Gary Panter, comics from the opposite side of the alt-mainstream divide have been going dark and atavistic for decades, and from Rick Veitch to Josh Simmons to Garth Ennis, that darkness has been brought to the edges of the superhero mainstream for almost as long. It's an uncomfortable thing when it happens. When superheroes win we see them as amplifications of the human spirit, elaborately drawn symbols for the idea that though the world may often seem an evil place and humanity all too assailable, day by day we remain alive, and sometimes that alone is a victory. When hero comics give way to this thick a darkness, though, the sense is one of total hopelessness. That downbeat sense doesn't invalidate the art propelling it -- the list of great works ending on a note of defeat is vast and includes plenty of comics -- but it begs the question of why superheroes are a part of the story at all. They exist to triumph, and when they don't the poignancy of hopelessness itself is lost, set adrift by a failure to highlight the fragility of the human condition. Johns' darkness is real darkness, the dark of malice but also of vacancy: comics as pure, vapid spectacle, the aesthetic potential of the ideas being worked with left behind.
Where this darkness has rarely if ever been allowed to go is right to the core, into the top-selling, most recognizable titles and their associated action figure sets and marketing campaigns and appearances on bestseller lists. Green Lantern #43, and all the rest that share its frenzied bloodlust, its meaningless gospel and sense that there is no way out, are fully intended as commercial objects: they are, in fact, the most wildly popular things American comics have to offer at the moment. What that says about the medium's audience is open to interpretation, but I'm afraid I can't see a way that it says anything good. And what it says about the superhero comics themselves, these stories of inhuman beings fighting for a simpler, lighter world, seems all too obvious. Though they win the battles like they always do, when it's happening in Johns' comics they've already lost the war.
THE END. We've been here for a while.
16 comments:
- Evan Waters said...
There's a certain fatalism in Johns' work, I've noticed. Hawkman and Hawkwoman die after confessing their love because that is what they are fated to do, Alexander Luthor turns evil because he is a Luthor and that's what happens, Booster Gold is fated to save the universe and never be respected for it, etc.
It doesn't fit with the genre IMO. - July 19, 2011 at 8:16 PM
- Matt Seneca said...
yah well in johns' stories the being who is the essence of all love in the universe is actually named "THE PREDATOR" so there a go on that hawkman thing. jesus.
- July 19, 2011 at 8:42 PM
- Cormacaroni said...
Great stuff as always, Matt. I saw this quote from Frank Miller (from 1985!) today that seemed pertinent:
'Superheroes have lost their human context. That's precisely why the comics have gotten so weak, and the stories seem so pointless and irrelevant. […] Now, modern superhero comics have reached the point where there are so many damn superheroes and so damn much superpower flying around that there's no room left for anything human, and the only way to make the genre seem interesting is to wildly escalate the powers, the numbers, the quantity of planets that can be demolished per panel. Just look at how many characters are being killed these days. It's as if all that is left to them is the pathological thrill of a snuff film.' - July 20, 2011 at 6:33 AM
- Matt Seneca said...
Whoa! yeah, that is one prescient quote.
- July 20, 2011 at 7:05 AM
- Guido-Visión said...
Wow, just reading your breakdown of the issue felt morbid and depressing, I can only imagine what reading the actual comic feels like...
Even though I love superheroes and -despite better judgement- refuse to believe that the genre is completely bankrupt, when a comic like this is: a)written by someone who claims genuine passion for the source material, and b)Is the most popular product of the genre, I wonder if this story about zombie superheroes is not a metaphor of the state of the genre as a whole right now... - July 20, 2011 at 7:57 AM
- Cormacaroni said...
I think Miracleman #15 came out around '85, and may have been what tipped Frank off!
Maybe in a couple of decades we'll be reading mournful interviews with Geoff Johns as he looks back on the misery he has unleashed due to his being 'a bit grumpy' in the noughts... - July 20, 2011 at 8:34 AM
- George Elkind said...
This is really interesting, especially combined with Johns' tendency to essentialize (read: simplify) his characters and the spheres they operate in, even while he's expanding their worlds. It makes it look like there's a real effort on his part to promote a simplistic, silver-age-idealistic worldview, but there's something fundamentally off in it that just won't hold.
Looking (I suppose, obviously) Blackest Night and Brightest Day, and his willingness to fulfill the promise of the former, and his refusal to offer something upbeat with the latter, I wonder if this sort of nihilism is an imperative for him as a writer rather than a choice. Essentially I think we're seeing the dregs of failed idealism, but hell if he doesn't keep shooting for actually believing in it anyway.
Great observation about the hollowness of the would-be morality plays. I'm happy to see this up. - July 20, 2011 at 9:22 AM
- Tom said...
I won't lie I think this article is fucking ridiculous. It was BLACKEST NIGHT.
The superhero HORROR STORY.
Why the hell are you overanalyzing it as some kind of wide-spread thing?
And @evan waters, I hardly see whats so unheroic about booster gold's situation, doing the right thing even though no one will know it. Its not very different from typical spider-man stuff. - July 20, 2011 at 3:40 PM
- Guido-Visión said...
It might have been marketed as THE superhero horror story, and it might be a particularly extreme example, but I think it merely magnifies tendencies that are symptomatic in superhero comics in gerneral (Ultimatum, anyone?) - July 20, 2011 at 5:43 PM
- Cormacaroni said...
To what extent is the Vertigo aesthetic responsible for this, I wonder? I suspect Johns (and several other mainstream writers) of wanting to be taken as seriously as Moore, Morrison, Gaiman etc while still working on his beloved Silver Age characters. That Black Hand story seemed straight from the Dr Destiny-in-the-diner ish of Sandman to me.
- July 20, 2011 at 6:01 PM
- modernmoonman said...
Silver age super heroes + E.C. Horror Comics= Solid Gold....
- July 20, 2011 at 6:55 PM
- Jim Tout said...
Cormacaroni -
I'd be more willing to lay the blame at the feet of Miller. DKSA is the prototype of hollow silver age iconography + grim and terrible violence. Of the two, whether Miller's fascism or Johns' nihilism is worse, I'm not sure. - July 21, 2011 at 1:08 PM
- Pat said...
I won't lie I think this article is fucking ridiculous. It was BLACKEST NIGHT.
The superhero HORROR STORY.
I think you could say that just backs up the point you're arguing.
The story's very existence (literally digging up old bits of continuity to serve as a delivery system for over-the-top-yet-tone-deaf violence) seems to fit what's being described. - July 21, 2011 at 7:40 PM
- Rick V said...
Jim Tout
I'd be more willing to lay the blame at the feet of Miller. DKSA is the prototype of hollow silver age iconography + grim and terrible violence. Of the two, whether Miller's fascism or Johns' nihilism is worse, I'm not sure.
DKSA is about the farthest thing from hOllow that you can get. - July 22, 2011 at 2:42 PM
- Carey said...
Regarding the violence and darkness at the heart of Johns' work, I think this can be traced back to the tragic early death of his sister Courtney in the TWA Flight 800 plane crash in 1996. Read in this context, the constant threat of someone close to you being taken away and the trauma of dismemberment does make sense.
While a deeply personal loss, I'm surprised this even isn't explored more when dissecting Johns' writing. It seems to contain both 'extremes' that his writing is accused of: he hero worshipped her (going so far to name his breakthrough character Stargirl from Stars and Stripes after her) and this could possibly be a pointer toward the innocence inherent in some of his work, but that is constantly contrasted with the pain of her demise.
Having said that, I've found this summary a difficult one to write because I genuinely do not wish to cause offence regarding what must have been a difficult event for Johns. - July 28, 2011 at 2:28 AM
- Matt Seneca said...
@Carey you just blew my mind. no idea about that.
- July 28, 2011 at 5:59 AM


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Ocean State Toastmasters holds its regular meetings on the first and third Tuesdays of each month.
The club is one of more than 13,000 in Toastmasters International, a nonprofit, educational organization devoted to the development of public speaking and leadership skills. The organization has some 270,000 members in 116 countries.
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Gardening has been a lifelong passion for Wende and she'd like to share her passion with her readers. Follow her as she writes about her gardening adventures, lists tasks to do depending on the season, and gives easy to understand gardening advice.
Taking Care of Your Lawn - 4 Step Program
The early Spring has done wonders for our lawns and I see most everyone in my neighborhood has already mowed at least once. We've applied crabgrass preventer and fertilizer a little earlier than usual (it should be done by the end of April in a "normal" year).
I've been asked about skipping the crabgrass/fertilizer step and go right to the weed 'n feed step (which usually should be done by Memorial Day). Dandelions are starting to bloom already! Although skipping the April step may seem like a good idea this year, I think homeowners will get better results if they don't skip it. After all, the key to a great lawn is healthy grass. Healthy grass doesn't leave room for weeds to grow. And the weed control part of step 2 doesn't really work well until the weeds are actively growing. They may be growing now, but in a few weeks they will really be active. That's the time to hit them with the weed control.


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I had a customer call me this morning with a question about the glide in his car. I have never herd of this, he said that when he shifts to drive the trans acts like it is shifting in and out of gear. He said it's not really like the trans is slipping. He said it's almost like it going into tire shake. I did not build the trans so I am not sure what all is done to it. I do know that it is a stock GM case and has a stock pump in it. I also know it has the 7 disc clutch pack/drum in it.
This car is making a bit over 1000 hp with the plate on it and IMO the stock pump is not up to that task.
I wanted some insite from guys that built alot more glides then I do.
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The Bank of England meets on Thursday and may vote to inject more central bank cash into the economy by increasing its program of quantitative easing.
The U.K. is on the brink of a "triple-dip" recession, having shrunk by 0.3% in the final quarter of 2012, although a pick-up last month in the dominant services sector may just make for positive growth in the first quarter of this year.
Moody's removed the U.K's AAA credit rating last month, citing poor growth prospects. The British Chambers of Commerce cut its growth forecast for the U.K. economy to 0.6% in 2013.


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Vickroy: Parish helps nurse dream
BY DONNA VICKROY firstname.lastname@example.com | (708) 633-5982 June 13, 2012 9:58PM
Lindsey Beham (right) and her mother Pat Ware at Christ Temple Baptist Church in Markham, Illinois, Tuesday, June 12, 2012. Parishioners at St. Anne's Church helped Lindsey with transportation to her nursing classes. | Joseph P. Meier~Sun-Times Media
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St. Anne's Church, 16801 Dixie Highway, Hazel Crest; (708) 335-1792;
Together We Cope, 17010 Oak Park Ave., Tinley Park; (708) 633-5040;
Updated: July 15, 2012 6:17AM
Pat Ware and her daughter, Lindsey Beham, don't have much in the way of material goods. No car. No extra cash. No big surprises come Christmastime.
But they're rich in neighborly love.
"God may not come when you want him but he sure does when you need him," Ware said.
Our story begins in December when Lindsey, 16, approached her mom about enrolling in an after-school certified nursing assistant program offered through South Suburban College.
The program culminates in a state license and opens the door for various job opportunities.
Though Lindsey, a junior-to-be at Thornwood High School, hopes to study psychology at the University of Illinois one day, she realized she needed to work if she's going to get herself through college. A CNA certification might provide an edge in today's tight job market.
"It's tough out there; you have to have a backup plan," Lindsey said.
Ware said, "I knew she needed to have a skill so if she ever needed to support herself, she'd be able to do that."
Ware was excited about Lindsey's interest in the program, but a predicament loomed large.
Thornwood would provide bus transportation to and from the college's Oak Forest campus for the first half of the 18-week program, but students were to be delivered back to the South Holland high school after the Wednesday evening and all-day Saturday classes.
Lindsey, who lives in Hazel Crest, had no way to get home from there.
The second half of the program — clinicals, which Lindsey now has completed — took place at 101st Street and Kedzie Avenue in Evergreen Park. No bus was provided.
Ware, who earns minimum wage in her maintenance job at Christ Temple Baptist Church in Markham, doesn't have a car. Still, the single parent was determined to find a way to help her only child participate.
"We'd come too far to give up over transportation," she said.
Ware and Lindsey discussed various options. Ware could reach out to her 87-year-old father to help. Lindsey could take the Pace bus. But Ware worried for her safety, and about Pace's reliability.
Finally, she contacted Together We Cope in Tinley Park. The social service organization had helped Ware out in the past.
Kaitlin Aldworth is case manager of TWC's HUB program, a new service aimed at matching people's needs with local resources. Because Lindsey and her mom live in Hazel Crest, Aldworth called St. Anne Catholic Church.
Enter Dora Castonguay, a parishioner and member of the St. Vincent de Paul Society.
"This was such a positive thing. This girl really wanted to do this," Castonguay said. "So I said, 'How can we help?' "
Castonguay's husband drove her once. Then Castonguay realized her neighbor and friend, Pat McGreal, worked at DePaul University's satellite campus, located across the street from the South Suburban College extension in Oak Forest.
"I called Pat and said, 'This girl needs a ride,' and that was that," Castonguay said.
Before long, Castonguay said, "We had a whole cadre of cars helping her."
Then people started donating uniforms — pants, shirts, even shoes — for Lindsey to wear to clinicals.
Throughout the process, Ware was reconnected with an old high school friend, Liz Wakefield, who also pitched in with transportation.
"That day of the big snow, I got a call from Liz offering to pick Lindsey up at 6 a.m. and drive her to clinicals," Ware said. "So amazing."
Ware offered to pay $20 for each leg to offset the cost of gas, but none of the drivers would have it.
"I didn't even really know these people, and they did all this," Ware said. "They are good Samaritans."
From the beginning, Ware said Lindsey has been a miracle child. After six failed pregnancies, doctors told Ware she would never have children. She refused to believe them.
At 38, she gave birth to Lindsey, who was born with eight tumors on her tiny body. She survived and has been amazing her mom ever since.
Lindsey struggles with severe asthma, but says her condition gave her special insight into the needs of the people she helped clean and care for during her clinicals at a nursing home.
"Even though it's difficult work, you have to remember to be nice. People need that," she said.
When Ware fell ill on Mother's Day, it was Lindsey who nursed her back to health.
"She's my pride and joy. She's got a level head and she's got lots of integrity," Ware said. "It's just me and her. But we are so blessed to know so many people who really care."


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Morning boot camp means today is definitely an AM sweat day. If you read my Fuel Your Morning post, then it should come as no surprise to you that this is a perfect Spring Break Slender Down post-sweat breakfast. It has complex carbs, quickly absorbed protein, and healthy fats, meaning I'll have no problem making it until lunch.
Banana Almond Egg White Oatmeal
Calories: 365 | Fat: 11.8 g (Sat Fat: 1.9 g) | Carbohydrate: 43.6 g | Fiber: 6.7 g| Protein: 23.5 g
1 C water
1/2 C instant oats
1/2 scoop vanilla whey protein powder
1/4 C liquid egg whites
1/2 small banana
1 T almond butter
optional: 1 packet Splenda, cinnamon, vanilla extract
1. In a small pot, bring water to boil. Add in oats and let cook for 1-2 minutes. Turn heat down to medium.
2. When almost all of the water is absorbed, stir in the egg whites and protein powder. Stir until all of the water is absorbed and the egg whites have cooked in. There shouldn't be excess liquid.
3. Top with banana slices, almond butter, and optional extras!
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Despite plenty of talk about budget cuts once again during this session, state lawmakers are on track to approve an increase in total spending.
The constitutional deadline for lawmakers in the Missouri General Assembly to approve a budget for next fiscal year lands next week on Friday.
Lawmakers in the state legislature, controlled by Republicans, may shave a few million dollars or add a few more million dollars before handing the budget to Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat.
In the end, the budget plan is likely to end around $1 billion higher than proposed by the governor or more than $800 million more than lawmakers appropriated for this fiscal year, ending June 30.
The Missouri Senate increased the budget for fiscal 2013 by $20.8 million last week to $24.1 billion compared to the version approved by lawmakers in the Missouri House in March.
The governor's plan to spend $23 billion next fiscal year, first outlined in January and followed with several amendments, would have cut year-over-year state expenditures by around 1 percent.
If the $24.1 billion plan being negotiated by lawmakers is approved, year-over-year spending would increase by 3.5 percent compared to the $23.3 billion appropriated for the current fiscal year.
Spending will increase almost 5 percent this fiscal year if all of the appropriations are spent.
As analysis of state expenditures by Missouri Journal shows, spending rarely falls year-over year.
Throughout the last 30 years, total expenditures have dropped year-over-year only three times, while total spending has increased 468 percent from $3.9 billion in 1981 to $22.2 billion during 2011.
By Brian R. Hook, firstname.lastname@example.com, (314) 482-7944
Hook is editor of Missouri Journal, which tracks the economy across the Show-Me State.
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Michael O'Fallon
9:30 pm on Monday, May 7, 2012
Booo to the "talkers" who can't follow through with so-called promises. But, Jason, you know darn well if the Reps had tried to cut even a penny more from the budget Nixon proposed, we'd be seeing very different posts... more to the effect of "Republi-jerks want to eat children and starve the elderly." Remember when Gov. Blunt cut spending? You would have thought he was the devil incarnate from the rhetoric in the media.
I'm glad to see Nixon making a genuine effort to cut back. If anyone knows, please post detail about the cuts he proposed.
Brian R. Hook
9:50 pm on Monday, May 7, 2012
Spending did not go down during Blunt's administration.
It went up year over year every time.
The three reductions go to Nixon, Holden & Bond. - BRH
Michael O'Fallon
10:05 pm on Monday, May 7, 2012
Clarifying statement: I was referring to specific cuts in particular, not overall, which I may have inadvertently implied. Though, I believe Blunt proposed more than one budget that would have indeed cut overall spending.
The Blunt cuts I was referring to were regarding Medicaid & First Steps.
Brian R. Hook
9:15 am on Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Here are the reductions Nixon proposed:
$89 million in higher education
$29.3 million in staff and administrative costs
$16.9 million for community and technical colleges
$7 million in biodiesel subsidy payments
$2 million in local public health agency grants
Here is the House and Senate versions to compare:
To get the 30 year comparison of total expenditures, you need to include the amendments by the governor for this fiscal year and also the capitol improvements by legislators:
And here's what you end up with: Spending cuts more likely by Democrats:
Michael O'Fallon
9:28 am on Tuesday, May 8, 2012
At the risk of sounding too defensive of Republicans, the title "Spending Cuts More Likely By Democrats" is a bit of a stretch. Three total cuts over the span of 32/33 years, and the split is 2-1. Not exactly statistically significant.
Brian R. Hook
9:40 am on Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Guilty: Headline was written to catch people's attention. I did however, mention in the first paragraph that the odds of it happening are only one out of 10 times. - BRH
Dee Schallenberg
8:08 am on Friday, May 11, 2012
I am not a R nor D. I just want who is best for the country. Those are the propose cuts. In an election yr that sounds great. But in reality would it actually happen? Mr. Hook, I like the fact that you are actually taking the time to respond and did present facts of both side albiet in a link not black and white for all to see. But it is there. IL just voted themselves a raise yet talking of closing national parks. Very very sad. A friend mentioned that they had not had a raise in yrs. So! Many Americans can say the same If they even have a job. I am extremely disappointed with the R's. But as another said if they had done the hard work of cutting spending it probably would have been vetoed and dogged, by the media, that they were cutting services for the poor whether or not that was even true. The bias in media is absolutely disgustingly obvious. I just don't understand how ppl don't see what is truly happening w/in out government. Maybe they don't want to see. But... thank you for the close to fair reporting. I really appreciate it! It is refreshing.